Despite all being a series of sidetracks, I am
writing this to give permanence to the learnings of today. Mostly
sparked by browsing through used retro IT books postings of one
store
Found out some information about the Portable Word Ink format
that the Notes app emits on the Windows Mobile 6.5 HTC Touch
Pro2 I've got myself recently, posted links
I have ended up reading up some more on the HTC Touch Pro2.
Bookmarked some stuff about ActiveSync and about Missing Sync
and SyncMate if I would want to sync it with OS X 10.4
Opened the e-commerce portal to seek Xperia X1 and X2 s.
Then ended up seeking books on writing apps for Windows Mobile 6[.5].
Then ended up finding one first for 19PLN, then for 17PLN, cheaper.
Then ended up seeing other books I previously wanted to order from that vendor.
Ended up reading up on modern Perl, that maybe "strict" and "warnings" might be default now, and there is the deprecated -w
Learned about Moose, implying these by default, and the Task::* module collection
Learned about local::lib and cpanm, and about the ~/perl5
directory, and about PERL_HOMEDIR and seeked out information
on how to make it at least ~/.perl5 (with a dot), and on what
does it imply when I don't want local::lib but want cpanm
--no-sudo
Learned about Task::Kensho A Glimpse at an Enlightened Perl findable through cpan.org/modules/INSTALL.html
Proceeded to not buy an old Perl book, moved on to the dollar-range positions, found a bunch of J2SE books and grabbed several including one on JMX, stumbled agan upon a book on Clipper 5.2
Learnt a bit on the web on Clipper on xBase, Harbour Project and xHarbour, decided to get the book
Decided to not grab two XML books but read up a bit on stuff
they had in their ToCs online, one was the Flash and XML one
Also getting an old Apache (server) lexicon, a second-of-two tome on expert Delphi 3, a book on process control software development environment like LabVIEW, …
… Jennifer Vespermann on CVS, some old concurrency lecture from '88, two on "new" programming methodology, one "Organization of databases", one on Win NT, one on RSS-for-email-somehow (??), one "Unix operating system"
One on WinQSB software for business decision making which I think will help me make out my way of what I want to do with Prolog and also learn how to apply computer assisted optimization problem modelling in small but repetitive real life cases…
…Ended up reading up a bit on how WinQSB looked like and it
seemed that the Polish books needed to focus quite much on
translating the UI to a user so that suggests the book will be
a very thorough demo of all available parameters to each mode
of problems the program supports
Grabbed a very old neat book on data structures I have and saw a bit through it
Skimmed through a bunch of chapters in the CompSci Discrete Mathematics book from same very old neat series that I have, probably refreshed myself something useful, in graphs and some other stuff
Read some bits from Zimmer's Abstraction For Programmers
Grabbed my copy of Getting Things Programmed by Michał Bartyzel and read quickly through some parts with an even newer outlook on things from last time I did
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