A couple of people have noted that I haven't posted much to this blog. Don't know whether that's a good or bad thing, though. 
The truth is, I've been extremely busy with everything else in my life that I haven't had a huge amount of time to write on the blog.
So here's what I've been up to:
- After a 3-week break, I'm back at work at Atlassian. Luckily, I was able to stay on at the company for my 3rd work placement! That's keeping me pretty busy, as I'm working full time.
- I'm still plodding along with Mat at The Little App Factory. I've moved us across to use JIRA as our bug tracking system, and aim to also use it as a support system (I guess that's a plug for Atlassian). It's not public at the moment, but that's something I am looking at doing in the future. On top of that, I've been working on the next version of Connoisseur (long overdue). I've taken a different approach this time, and have tried to follow the TDD approach as much as I can, and it's worked quite well. (I plan to write about testing user interface code, such as NSTableViews, using OCMock in the future.) I've had to rewrite much of the table code we were using, but I'm glad to say it's much cleaner and reliable now.
- To top all of that, I've started research for my thesis. I initially wanted to cover agile development methodologies, but have found myself gravitating towards XP and TDD in particular. A friend suggested an interesting angle for my thesis, which I'm also investigating. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to dedicate as much time to this as I had hoped. By the time I've done some programming and the support, it's 1-2am and I REALLY don't want to have to read and make notes on research papers. Ick.
That's about it, really. I've been trying to do more exercise, as I sit in a chair all day and night, and that can't be healthy. Soccer is great, and I hope to play a game of squash each week with a friend.
I would also like to do more with my time. I don't feel that I'm very socially responsible, and would like to be. I live a pretty peachy, comfortable life, and I want to help others who haven't had the opportunities I have been given (yes, it's cliche, deal with it ). How I'm going to do that, I'm not sure, yet.
