I'm currently swamped under a double-workload, which yields little time to write about the interesting side effects, projects, and findings that go along with all of said work. The
SCS Framework, an in-house component/compound document framework, is yielding a mixed bag of results that - ultimately - is for the better. It's made me understand further the need for
ZCML (The
Zope Configuration Markup Language, a large part of Zope 3), although I still find the syntax regrettable.
I've also noticed that since skimming through books like
Extreme Programming Explained and
Refactoring, my programming style has changed. The designs are more complex (factored - usually - into smaller classes and objects and interrelations), and the physical code is usually clearer (real variable and method names, etc). It's been this way for a while, but I only took notice of this recently. What's contributed to this, I think, was the finding of M-/ in
XEmacs - Autocomplete!
This weekend, if there's time, I plan on updating the
SCS design outline, which hasn't been touched in a couple of months.