Today's office hours were slow - a much needed break. I fixed two little portability issues with my thesis project, and spent the remaining time planning for the next phase:
porting the project to everything that has a CPU. *grin*
Linux will be first, with more or less a simultaneous step into Windows. I have never been a fan a Windows programming. I stopped using Windows for programming after they discontinued DOS. It is time for my return. I am installing VC++ on my freshly reinstalled Virtual PC. I want to understand all of the intimacies of creating a portable project and this project is about the right size for it, big enough to be nontrivial and small enough to be feasible.
I have tons of unanswered questions this project is helping me answer. I never knew how to do multi-threaded programming in C/C++, now I know. I wasn't experienced with Socket programming before this project, and now I see it is nothing to fear. I had never included a library written by someone else until this project, the power and convenience of a well written library is something to be marveled. A never considered using Automake before, now I'm planning on diving into it.
Growth is good.
A slower day, and the realization of personal growth.
