Taking a Breather
I didn't write anything last Sunday because I felt pretty tired. I assumed that I would have a week to recalibrate and perhaps feel a bit more refreshed, but unfortunately that didn't happen. I really should stop thinking/saying "what (more) could possibly go wrong."
This weekend, I didn't open IntelliJ at all, and decided to give myself permission to just do nothing. I think I've gotten better at this, because I don't really feel all that guilty. I assume that the feelings of guilt over not doing anything remotely productive this weekend will hit me tonight as I try to fall asleep. Well, I guess that's a bit of a lie. I did take a look at Alison's related work section, and I'll be finishing up my comments for that throughout today. It feels good to have a writing partner, and have at least one set of eyes do a once-over before I send my draft to Gail.
Last week, I got a surprisingly large amount of work done at the start, and my productivity took a steep nosedive as the week progressed. One thing that I'm particularly proud of completing is the metrics/analytics collector for my plugin. I initially thought that this would be one of the more difficult aspects of developing my tool. It just turns out I needed to extend a preexisting event listener for UI events on the IDE, and filter for the events I wanted to target. That said, it is definitely going to be annoying sifting through a lot of the logs that are already generated by IntelliJ, but I guess I'll cross that bridge when I get there.
Later this month, Marie and I will be flying to Pittsburgh for ICSE. This is my first academic conference, so I'm not sure what exactly to expect. I'll probably ask some folks in the lab and Gail about what I can expect. I'll already be meeting some folks I met on Twitter + the University of Washington Software Engineering Reading Group, so it won't be like I'll just be there alone doing nothing.
It's May 1st, and I'm a month closer to finishing up my time at UBC. If all goes (miraculously) according to plan, I'll be done by early October. Whatever happens, I'll try to enjoy the time I have left with the people in the lab who've made the past few years so great.