code and books and code! (and other stuff)

[yati]

Poor Mercurial. It got a (virtual) shoe thrown at it in a fit of frustration while I was trying to generate a patch. The whole idea of it seems deceptively simple, but when it throws error messages at me, I have no clue what it's saying.

I get the basic stuff, but it seems like there's a lot that I don't understand and I'm not even sure what it is I don't get. Oh well. More stuff into the reading list -- starting with this. The thing with things like this is I already know some stuff (or think I know some stuff) that I tend to skim through things very fast and end up missing stuff. You know. Stuff.

Oh well. It's not fun if you don't get thwarted every now and then.


Also in this week: first-times in a couple of things!

1. I ordered books online for the first time! Yeah, you would've thought I would have tried this sooner, but I am paranoid when it comes to credit cards. I was also paranoid that once I start buying books online, I'd be unable to stop, with all the choices and the books I had always wanted. Imagine! All those books! Mine! Muahahaha.

Uh. But anyway. I ordered the rest of the Niccolò books I didn't have (that would be this book and this one, plus this companion to the series) from The Book Depository. (The map they have that shows what people are buying is addictive.) Prices of the books themselves were cheaper on Amazon, but BD has free shipping! Free shipping! Also they ship the books as soon as the titles are available, and I ended up getting the Companion before the book I was wanting to read, but that's ok! I am willing to wait! I'll just have to read other books in the mean time, oh noes.

2. I submitted my first Dreamwidth patch! It's for one of the new layouts -- I ended up fixing its CSS and tweaking some accessibility-related things instead of just converting it, but it's worth it. (What can I say -- it's a very nice layout.) It's now in the review queue. Now that it's done, I feel vaguely unsettled because I don't know what to do next. Maybe I'll give bug-fixing a shot before going back to converting layouts. Not that there's much left in dreamscapes to convert. *_*


Other things:
* there's a readathon later this month.
* take a look at this slideshow of a mural Quentin Blake painted for Cambridge's 800th anniversary -- I especially love John Dee and Byron!
* I have ran out of shelf space for books, woe.

That's it!

Comments

[afuna]

Re: what to do next:

Wait for it to be committed, relax in the knowledge that you did *amazing* work (and also yay! and thank you!)

(If you were to pick up other things needing conversion in dreamscapes, that would be awesome, as well *grin*)

[afuna]

Oh yeah! Feel free to message me about the error messages that Mercurial throws. Or, if you're comfortable, try posting a message in dw_dev_training, where other people can respond too.