Wish me luck :)

I had some really long days. At telerik we are doing some nice but hard to do stuff, I have some university things to do. Some exams to take, some mathematics (Oh, my JustGod :(. My day is about 15-19 hours long (with few short breaks my brain is working all those long hours :).

But I don't write this post to complain. Exactly the opposite - I am writing to share how happy I am to be so busy those days as the bars are getting green, one by one, constantly they are getting green :).

I know I have some amount of tasks to do and I am trying to make all of them green (it is my code for "deliver what was expected", the green bars are "deliver more than expected").

Today for about 40 minutes I did 3 counters at the university - one which was counting up to 5, 1 - that was counting up to 10 (BCD code) and one that was having 10 states but wasn't actually counting :). (3 tasks - yellow :).



Few days ago I managed to fix about 200 comments on the chapter I am writing for the Introduction to C# programming book (seems kind of stable now, should be in CTP state ;).

I actually started this post to inform you about something that happened yesterday :).
This summer (I think it was July or somewhere around July) I was involved in a very interesting project - I was asked by a friend to write a software that will manage a machine.

The machine was having a printer (not simple printer but M600 Advanced printer, it has 4 heads, very hard to work with API and a TCP interface that was blocking the printer if two threads are sending command at the same time).
It was about printing something. So the program should check if the printer heads have enough ink, check some other sensors if everything is OK, and if not - it should stop the machine ...

Nice task that gave me some insight on how the OPC things work (don't ask :).



It appeared that OPC Servers aren't something to easilly deal with.
The main reason - not enough information, some closed standards - the paradise for a developers :)
Anyway we managed to finish most of the things.
Then I got a job at telerik and almost forgot about this adventure :).
Yesterday I heard from that friend and he told me that the machine was at Hannover and that it performed well (means no crushes :).

Now to finish - the nights while I was writing the code for that machine were as long as now. I didn't have time to sleep much. Now I feel happy with the result.
I wonder will I be feeling so happy once again after I manage to finish my sessions at the university ;).

Hopefully yes ;).
Sorry for making you read all this crap :).
Just remember - when you are so tired and is so hard to continue - recall your last victory and the next one will come ...