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Volity and happiness.
Aug. 30th, 2007 12:32 amWebGamut, as I've been calling it, is very close to demoable. I've got it integrated with my local copy of the volity.net website, and it works on both Safari and Firefox. (Haven't tested on Opera or any MSIEs yet.) Remaining obstacles largely involve irritating session management issues, more in the realm of general web programming than anything specific to Volity. Still, I won't announce it until I'm fairly certain that people can play with it without getting stuck.
This post was originally going to be a longish ramble about my elusive hunt for happiness, based on the fact that Volity progress pleases me, but performing contract programming work literally makes me happy, happy enough to whistle and chirp from the satisfaction of good work being done, as well as from thoughts of the money a-rolling in.
But it's not really much of a conundrum; Volity is a long long project and, unlike my contract work, there's no external force telling me explicitly what my goals are, so there's no way to feel good about meeting these goals. The best I can do is feel momentarily satisfied that I am digging in the correct direction.
And so I drag this project into the year's final trimester. The web client is ahead of schedule, which is good, but there's still so much to do. Can you blame me for looking over at a certain neglected pillar and wishing I could just make art instead, work on projects which have a definitive final draft? Projects which, in other words, are not software? At least for the time being I can take genuine pleasure from the contract work, which I conveniently enough must do if I wish to continue eating (without mooching).
This post was originally going to be a longish ramble about my elusive hunt for happiness, based on the fact that Volity progress pleases me, but performing contract programming work literally makes me happy, happy enough to whistle and chirp from the satisfaction of good work being done, as well as from thoughts of the money a-rolling in.
But it's not really much of a conundrum; Volity is a long long project and, unlike my contract work, there's no external force telling me explicitly what my goals are, so there's no way to feel good about meeting these goals. The best I can do is feel momentarily satisfied that I am digging in the correct direction.
And so I drag this project into the year's final trimester. The web client is ahead of schedule, which is good, but there's still so much to do. Can you blame me for looking over at a certain neglected pillar and wishing I could just make art instead, work on projects which have a definitive final draft? Projects which, in other words, are not software? At least for the time being I can take genuine pleasure from the contract work, which I conveniently enough must do if I wish to continue eating (without mooching).