Still Unpacking...

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Well we still have about 60% of the boxes from our move left to unpack but it is fair to say we are starting to settle in. The summer of stress, as we now call it and not just because of the house move, is now over. It was having a massive affect on the amount of code I produced at home.

I would not say I am anywhere near back up to reasonably productivity levels in part because I don't yet have a place to sneak off to when I want to code.

I am now working on a small android app. A To-Do list manager of sorts. Yes this has been covered many time on the market place. It is something I have had in the back of my mind for a while. So I consider it a purging of wanting to write to-do list manager and a get my skills back up to speed with android programming again.

I have been using Android Studio as my IDE. Even though it is still a beta it is pretty easy to use. I am not a power user of it but I think I prefer IntelliJ approach to UI design over Eclipse. I reserve the right to change my mind on that one. As usual Java still feels quite verbose but is fairly enjoyable at the moment.

I expected to have quite a learning curve when I decided to get back into android programming. I remember struggling a bit the first time round. Now it seems a lot easier than I remember. Partly the documentation has been massively improved. YouTube seems to contain a tutorial on nearly every aspect of it. When I was learning to code in android the first time round the nexus one had not been released and version 1.6 was considered new.

My other learning task is Scala. Well the task it learn enough to be productive and then very slowly learn rest while using it to explore other topics. Sounds a bit grandiose doesn't it. I would like to use it as I work through the Coding the Matrix book, or other technical books I come across.

This probably means I will code in Scala like it is some sort of super Java.

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