Re: Giving an application a window icon in a sensible way

Patricia Shanahan wrote:
nebulous99@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Patricia Shanahan wrote:
...
I learned ssh tunneling for my current project. That is not particularly
significant because some project was first for every single tool,
technique, programming language, API etc. that I have ever used.

I'll bet the same one wasn't first for an overwhelming number of them
at once, though. :)

Well, there was the day I switched from working on an NCR proprietary
operating system working on a UNIX-based operating system:

C, make, Bourne shell, C-shell, UUCP, UNIX e-mail, USENET, RCS, ed, vi,
emacs, find, grep, sort, awk, lpr, troff, ...

In a *single day*?

I felt like a kid in a candy store with so much fun stuff to learn.

If you actually had something pressing you needed to get done and were
floundering in a morass of unfamiliar tools with no guide, I can't
imagine any other "feeling" besides the one commonly known as "panic".
I can only assume that either you had weeks to fool around with stuff
and no stronger immediate goals, or you're highly atypical of other
human beings (or even software developers).

The sample programs I write for answering messages in newsgroups usually
don't go under revision control, because if I messed up a change I could
throw the program away with zero cost.

You write sample programs just to respond to newsgroup messages? But
the overhead of creating a new project, main class, etc. ... It doesn't
seem worth it. Or are you talking about quick jots in things like BASIC
or Smalltalk that lend themselves to such uses?

.

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