When I started this blog, I told myself that I'd be updating it every few days, or at least once a week. I said once a month at the absolute worst. Who would have thought it would be a whole year? Not posting any updates for a year is how not to write a blog.
I'm going to change the way I go about writing. I'll be focusing more on brief postings on a specific subject, such as a programming technique or bug that needed fixing. By writing shorter posts, it should be easier to write more often.
Even though I haven't been updating my blog, I have been working on this or that. A lot of my effort has been spent on IRC Tools, my framework for .NET that will make writing IRC bots and clients a breeze. That's the goal anyway, hah.
What have I been working on and what do I plan to work on?
So apparently I've been busy lately and haven't moved beyond the "infant blog stage" in my blog life. Lucky for me (and you too?), some of the things that have been keeping me busy are relevant to this blog. Recently I've been putting a lot of work into IRC Tools, specifically the client library.
The core of the client library is there and working (parsing messages, handling them, and sending commands). Currently I'm implementing various classes to handle different incoming message types (e.g. the MODE message, or various numeric replies) and classes for outgoing commands. While working on these classes, I've come to the conclusion that the IRC protocol is terrible. It is vague and inconsistent, with different server implementations often creating contradictions in the way certain circumstances should be handled. Let's proceed with a small example.
Hey! I'm Caleb Delnay and you're reading my blog. Who am I? The brief version is: I'm a web developer with a passion for "the front end", meaning HTML, CSS, JavaScript, web standards, semantics, and whole bunch more. Check my about page if you're curious to learn more.
