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While Liz took her exam today, I holed up in the hotel room (for the most part, I dislike NYC) and, freed from the distractions of house and work, busted out my inner geek and started getting traction on a TurboGears project I’d been meaning to start for the past year-and-a-bit.

I’m very pleased to say that things are starting to improve on the documentation front, and for many of the places that the docs are still a bit lacking, you can generally find answers or examples with a little well-targeted Googling. I’m (still) a little annoyed that the identity package ties visit tracking into the basic identity framework–I’ll probably end up hacking around that eventually, but for now the fact that it Just Works is pretty nice. Similarly, Patrick Lewis’s Registration for TurboGears was a very helpful find that simultaneously saved me a lot of annoyance and which will make some good example material to dissect and grok. Plus I can get back to writing the meat of the application instead of mucking around with a problem that has been solved over and over again. (I guess that’s sort of the TG philosophy, and I should not be surprised, but it’s nice to see it actually working instead of being just a nice idea.)

Additionally, I’m finding Bazaar to be a nice fit for my brain and available time. For some reason, getting a Subversion repository going always manages to sap any and all of my motivation for actually writing code. In contrast, Bazaar is just a few quick keystrokes away and without any tedious fiddling about figuring out how I want to structure things. Like the other things that have made me happy today, it Just Works.

Hopefully this means I can actually start to build some momentum, learn a few things, and eventually have something to show for it.

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