Quick answer to the guy who used yesterday’s Form Experiment to ask what’s happening with SdiDesk …<\/p>\n
Here’s the status report :<\/p>\n
1) In the last couple of weeks I quit my job and moved back to the UK … which has been taking up quite a lot of my time and energy.<\/p>\n
2) Once we’ve settled in, I hope I can get some time to focus on my projects … including SdiDesk (and GeekWeaver, MTC etc.) The good thing, no more distractions from my previous demanding day-job. The bad thing, after a brief holiday I need to find work in the UK. (Offers, tips and suggestions are, of course, welcome)<\/p>\n
3) SdiDesk was converted to VB.NET this year. And the source-code in progress is available on Google Code.<\/a> <\/p>\n 4) I am NOT a VB.NET programmer, and frankly, from the little I’ve played with it so far, I’m not very excited about getting more involved. I admired VB exactly because the combined language + IDE made Windows programming mindlessly easy. Throw away that virtue (as VB.NET seems to have done, and I’m blaming the new, incredibly sluggish and cluttered VS2008 as much as changes to the language) and it has little to recommend it against other languages.<\/p>\n 5) On the hand, I’m a pragmatist and often able to find something interesting<\/a> pretty much anywhere. I also know that in a recession I may not be able to be too fussy when it comes to getting a job. So I will be spending a bit more time over the next month or so tidying up the VB.NET codebase, fixing some egregious issues, and making an installer. It’s going to be useful to me to be able to say that I can operate in the VB.NET world, and produce working products.<\/p>\n