I don't even

Ah, now this is a development. Or, less endearingly, a blockade thereof. I sat myself down for a solid evening of development only to be greeted with discordant shouts from Eclipse as I tried to add a class. Not encouraging. The logs showed a null pointer exception, but one whose source eluded me. Uninterested in a long night of tracking down the exact cause, I elected for a brute force approach.

Removed and re-added the project. Tinkered with project files. Tweaked the C/C++ plugin. Uninstalled and reinstalled. And here I sit now, my IDE cleanly installed - notably barren of the plugin mentioned above, the same plugin whose name I totally forgot to take down beforehand - and yet, my dear imaginary reader, my only gain is errors of a different nature.

Well. Vexing.

I might be inclined to hunt down the root of the problem - lord knows it'd be a "character building experience" - but salvation may lie waiting in the wings. There's a hope I might get my hands on my new laptop this weekend, thereby sparing myself hours of fruitless digital spelunking on this machine. Yes, I'm taking the quitter's way out.

And in the mean time? I might try to import the project into a different IDE. Code::Blocks, maybe? The thing with an IDE though is it is, at its best, the electronic half of a developer, the closest to androidhood programmers have yet achieved. I have my workflow - and my custom syntax colouring - and it's hard to voluntarily set that aside. I mean, my work environment was much removed from my personal counterpart at home and I was more than content to use it too, but this is my space.

I could write more, but none of it would be very interesting. This certainly isn't the subject I'd intended for today, so sparsity is perhaps permissible. Hey, it's a setback, but not the end of the world. I haven't planned exactly how the immediate future will play out - another IDE, gedit, VIM, or hey, even trying to fix my buddy Eclipse - but things will happen. Developers gotta develop.