the corner office

Right. Eclipse. I'm not sure if the Eve market app is really such a good candidate (but I'm letting the idea stew), but there a few other desktop apps I could tinker on. Eclipse RCP, here I come!

I've been dipping my toes in the water the past few weeks, but again, not getting far. The reason is that I'll sit down, starting reading the introductory help docs, and after a page or two I'm starting to wonder about what obscure bands I could find on Youtube. The Eclipse help documents are comprehensive, but they make for dry reading. Playing with real code is a far better way to learn, and so that's what I've started doing now. As with any new API or platform, it's frustrating when you don't know what you're doing and you're battling to see the wood for the trees and obscure classes. I'll get there, but it's all still a bit confusing.

I'd said that I would talk about my progress, and even though I don't have much to report right now, it will be an interesting milestone to jot down some notes about where I am now, and what I know and don't know. That'll come tomorrow.