Fractured Foundations

Everything to do with this project can be summed up with “if I’d just done it like that from the start.”

I spent most of this week going back to what had been my rough research papers.  I am rereading them with a good deal more perspective in what I am doing and why.  Where originally I tried to ignore what some of the papers had done as I wanted to do it, I am now finding a lot of gaps and areas that appear to be fairly untouched.  I’m not under the dellusion I am the first, but it definately seems my area of choice is growing and under a lot of research so my goal and approach may turn out to be something worth while.

I don’t think my time was miss spent over the last month or so, it’s just that I’m now on my third ground up build and would prefer to have done it properly the first time.  There’s a lot of work I’ve put in that will never see the light of day because it was trying to be a global problem solver rather than a focused piece of software.

My current itteration of the library entitled “ProcLib” is quite light weight and while there’s still a fair bit to do, I think it’s certainly benefited from the previous attempts.  Some parts of it are better designed now, such as my eventual implementation of actual node links will be threadable.  The way developers extend the nodes is a lot more elegant as well as much more abstract.  Still bits to do but it’s the most complete version yet.  It’d just have been nice to be here 4 weeks ago and have loads of time to do clever stuff.  At the moment I’m just driving to create the specific demos I’d had in mind and whether I have the time to finish them and a write up is very unilikely.

Tommorrow, if I get enough done I think I’ll put up a blog with the papers I am most interested in using in my report or as a basis of a demo.