Blogging Pubbitch

I've been meaning to blog for a while, but have so many things that I want to blog about that it's been hard to decide what to write about first. Worse (or better, depending on how you look at it) I've now been given a complete weekend to spend as I want to; I've a nasty case of predator confusion kicking in.

So, what's on the list of things to do?

• Work on WebDriver
  • Work on the IE driver:
    • Finish the text handling work I started on Friday. It looks like it won't be perfect, but it should be pretty close to what I want it to do.
    • Figure out why adding an event sink to the driver slows it down so dramatically. To see it, take a look at uncommenting the lines to do with the event sink in the InternetExplorerDriver.cpp.
    • Dig into MSXML to see if it's possible to adapt the IE DOM and get XPath evaluation "for free". This would make it easier to port WebDriver to different languages, such as Ruby or Python.
  • Look at integrating appscript into the safari driver, which means:
    • Learning Objective C
    • Getting to grips with XCode
    • Finding out if it's possible to statically link a Framework into a dynamic library. This would avoid making a user install appscript. Of course, there could be another way to get round this, so perhaps it's just a case of sitting down and using Google effectively :)
    All of those would be fun.
• Play on the PlayStation --- I hardly ever use it, and that's just dumb.
• Write some blog entries. I've got one to write on Continuous Integration and Build Pipelines on huge codebases, and I should also write about progress on WebDriver.
• Walk around the neighbourhood. It's not dark yet, and I really want to feel more at home here. There's a nice park nearby, which has lovely views over the city.
• Do some work around the house. There's still a pile of things to do around here. I should do some of them!
• Do some cooking. I like it and I've got a huge box of veg to work through. There must be something nice that I could do....

I'm sure that there's still more things that I could add to that list, but the point is that so far I've been unsuccessfully trying to do a little of each. Time to focus, I think.