{"id":43,"date":"2009-12-21T17:33:12","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T17:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/?p=43"},"modified":"2009-12-21T17:33:12","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T17:33:12","slug":"tis-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"Tis the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To be busy.\u00a0 No matter how much I try,\u00a0 I never achieve the goal of having very little &#8220;business&#8221; programming to do this time of year so that I can play.\u00a0 I always look forward to the break in the business action so that I can play with some of the ideas\/projects that have accumulated during the year.\u00a0 So what does that list look like?\u00a0 Here are a few (in no particular order):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>GWT &#8211; I really want to take a look at GWT but I haven&#8217;t gotten to it.<\/li>\n<li>Andriod &#8211; Yet another Google tool that needs to be explored.<\/li>\n<li>tn5250j &#8211; This needs some attention and although it isn&#8217;t my project, I have wanted to get in an clean it up a bit.<\/li>\n<li>Ruby (JRuby) on Rails &#8211; the www.roroni.com site has been down for over a year.\u00a0 I have tried a few things over the past couple of days but I am still running into the odd issue here and there.\u00a0 Andrea Ribuoli has been working on a native port of Ruby to i that won&#8217;t require the DB2 Connect bit, but I haven&#8217;t had a chance there either.<\/li>\n<li>Updates to the ASAAP, Valadd, Open Source for i and helgren.com web sites.\u00a0 I got Joomla installed to do this but haven&#8217;t done anything since.<\/li>\n<li>Updates to web5250<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The list goes on.<\/p>\n<p>The reason I am not accomplishing what I set out to do is not for lack of effort, it is simply that I am a lousy estimator.\u00a0 Things are taking 5-10 times as long as I *think* they will.\u00a0 If I could just reverse that ratio, I&#8217;d be rocking and rolling.<\/p>\n<p>Before I forget, I wish you all NOT a &#8220;Happy Holiday&#8221; (bland, benign, worthless expression as THAT is) but a heartfelt &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221;.\u00a0 May the wonder and love of this season bless you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be busy.\u00a0 No matter how much I try,\u00a0 I never achieve the goal of having very little &#8220;business&#8221; programming to do this time of year so that I can play.\u00a0 I always look forward to the break in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/?p=43\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petesworkshop.com\/blog_wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}