Being a software developer

My father has hired me to develop a database application for his company. I don't have much practical experience, so development has been slow, but these last days I feel like I'm really getting somewhere. For the geeks reading this blog: I decided to use XML for the data, because it's more flexible than eg. an SQLite database. I decided to write my own XML parser from scratch. That way I'd probably learn more than by using an existing XML library. It took me a while to write, but it's almost done now and it saves and loads simple XML files. For the GUI I decided to use wxWidgets, because it's cross-platform and because it supports printing, unlike eg. FLTK. The only major downside of wxWidgets at the moment is the long compile times.

It's getting late, so I'll continue this later. Hopefully there won't be so long between updates in the future :-)