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rant | Wednesday
As I sit here waiting for firefox to compile and a bunch of other stuff to download...
Posted by Jason on Wednesday April 06, 2005 04:44 PM  |  Permalink

I'm reminded that it's been nearly 3 months since I posted anything! What can I say, the combination of a new job and a new baby takes all your free time.

Where to begin?

We'll Seamus and Mommie are doing fine.
Both are adorable and loved.

For years I was warned that little boys like to make water fountains when you change their diaper. That doesn't bother me. Instead I now have the non-gender specific FIVE MINUTE DIAPER rule: If there was a poopy or fart sound, wait AT LEAST FIVE MINUTES before changing the diaper - NO MATTER WHAT - DO NOT OPEN THAT DIAPER!
Why you ask? Well, did you ever play with play-doh as a kid? Did you or a friend have that play-doh fun factory? I will not say any more on the subject

Codeit (the new job) is doing fine. It's nice to work for a small - highly focused - single product - company.
There are so many cool things about this place - I'm not sure where to start

  • They have one product
  • I didn't have to explain what a beatdown was
  • my office mate HAS a GameSpy3D mug - that he won at a lan party
  • I'm learning Python, Mozilla, Firefox, Linux, XUL, Java, JavaScript, CORBA, and a whole bunch of other stuff.
  • Durring my 3 months I've seen the company nealy double in size to 14 employees.
  • I'm at work at 8am - sure it was hard at first, but it's easier to wake up in the morning when you don't hate the projects you're working on.

It looks like my firefox build is done. I've got to get back to it. But before I go, I just want to say that before coming to CodeIt I would bemoan the quality of MSDN and all it's little inacuracies that would allways catch you off guard. Well, after dealing with and trying to compile/build Firefox on a Win32 system using all the the documentation available - well, I just wanted to say to the msdn team, I'm Sorry for badmouthing MSDN all these years - I had absolutly NO IDEA how bad/scattered/inconsistant open source documentation is - you guys do one hell of a job.