morrowlife

Here’s another picture I took at Hopewell Furnace during a family camping trip this summer. I like this one so much it’s now the desktop image on my work computer. As usual, click to enlarge.

I’ve been fooling around with an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) called Eclipse. It’s a cross-platform environment that uses the Gnu family of compilers and debuggers. I have mine set up to recognize Java, C/C++, and Fortran. Sadly, I can’t get the Fortran environment to launch the debugger, so I can write Fortran programs, but then I have to go outside of the IDE to execute them. I could fool around with it a little more and try to get it to work, but I think I’ll just switch to C instead. I have lots of documentation and some experience (certain more recent experience with C than with Fortran!). I just thought it would have been cool to write some Fortran code again.

Why, you may ask, am I using Eclipse rather than Xcode, the wonderful Mac OS development environment that comes free with OS X? I dunno – I just don’t feel like climbing the Mac (or Windows, for that matter) GUI learning curve just to do some programming for fun. So, it’s command line for me, and that means Eclipse. Besides, Eclipse also seems to be a good platform for writing Java Widgets. That might be fun. I just need to get a good Java book and a good idea and go wild.

Anyway, stay tuned for a simple little program or two.

Amazingly, I now have two readers – Andy and Mark! And don’t let the fact that they’re both members of my immediate household lead to you believe they’re reading morrowlife out of any sense of obligation. To the contrary – they know quality content when they see it.

Now searching for number three.

The title above is from a book about the early days of the Soviet space program. Well, the president of the Khrunichev State Production and Research Center, Alexander Medvedev in Moscow was fired on Tuesday of this week, according to news reports, by the President of Russia, no less. I’m just guessing here, but I’ll bet all of his many pictures have already been taken down from the production facility, which I’ve visited many times. I know somebody who is at Khrunichev in Moscow this week, and I’ve asked him to check out the picture situation for me. I’ll report on the findings when they get here.

I hope Mr. Medvedev can console himself with the knowledge that, even if he has become a non-person in Russia, at least they’re not likely to shoot him.

I’d like to give a big thank you to my reader. And thanks for identifying yourself. We do it all for you!

Now that I’m off to a blazing start, I’m going all-out for reader number two. Let me know when you get here!