Back to the Black Board with Tech Plans: Boxing Technologies
Nine boxes, drawn in chalk… each in three columns:
From left to right, the first column holds the “client-side” technologies for my focus. The second holds the servers. The last column represents the “persistence” (storage) technologies. When I find myself spending hours working on something not in these chalk boxes then surely I’m expanding into:
- Finding a future-facing production pipeline for that old thing called “desktop publishing”—that German thing, Scribus, is free and open but very rough around the edges (I’m using 1.3.3.11).
- Playing with texmaker. I’ve got one copy for Windows and another for Linux.
- I’m writing C# code for a SoundForge script. I’ve been waiting years to have the time and privilege to do this.
- I’m strengthening my very weak scene building skills—3D scenes for my long-awaited manga moves.I’m the kind of weird guy that will spend years struggling with the subject of structural engineering and architecture just to be a happy, secure interior designer. When I was a kid in college I had a colleague who also was a poet—but this guy made his own paper for his poems. Clearly, something about that resonated with me…