The previously mentioned Development Death March is nearing the end. We’ve made it… I think. Tomorrow we have a live demo to give for the clients (all the departments in the hospital) and it looks like the application is plenty solid, and certainly complete enough for an awesome demo. Yea! We’re slowly creating and working through punch-down lists, and working on what we’re going to do tomorrow. We don’t have any optimizations in place yet, which makes some of the more complex views a bit slow to produce, but we’ve got ideas of ways to make this thing stellar in the near future. We’ve been more concerned with getting it working. Which it seems has been accomplished. Hats off to the other guys working on this one while I was on vacation. Bravo!

But the really good thing about this winding down is that I’ll have time to work on other things again when I get home, and won’t be burnt up from a long day of coding and being stressed out about deadlines. I decided to do a clean build of the Java port on my laptop today, it’s been running for about five hours now, which means I should have about another three hours to go. (800Mhz P3, 324MB RAM, 20GB TravelStar HD — the cause of it being so slow to compile)

The rest of my Thanksgiving vacation went much more smoothly, the flights getting back to Mississippi from Ohio were mostly on time. Although when you’re scheduled to leave at 6:00 AM, there isn’t a lot of air traffic before you to get things backed up. Early morning flights are definately the way to go. Especially if you can sleep on the plane as well as I do.

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