Matt Holthe's Fleeting Thoughts

I have been working on an application for the past several weeks. It's an application that I thought of but will be used by myself and others. I keep using it and finding little ways to improve it. I am up to the 4th major release of it now. Each major release has turned up some things in the documentation that need to be changed (more tweaking) and some things that no longer work (more tweaking) or have been replaced with newer features (delete the old stuff; more tweaking). If I would be tracking minor version numbers, I have no idea where I'd be - 4.45.23 or something stupid like that. Version 4 has been out for a couple weeks now and I think every day I have made about 10 changes (some very minor, some a little more major, but none enough to go to "version 5"). Ah, the life of a software developer....

The Illinois golf team finished their season yesterday. The NCAA golf tournament sounds like it is really grueling. It is 4 days of stroke play, then the top 8 teams get seeded based on the stroke play results and play a match play tournament. Illinois after day 1 of stroke play was in first, then 2nd after the 2nd day, then 5th after the 3rd day, and moved back up to 1st after the last day of stroke play. In the quarterfinals of the match play event, they had to come from behind to beat #8 UCLA. The seeding doesn't really mean much as #3, #5, and #7 were the other seeds that one quarterfinal matches. The same day they played the semifinals and lost to #5 USC while #7 LSU beat #3 Georgia. Today is the finals and they are about half way through with LSU leading. That's 7 rounds of golf in 6 days if you make it to the finals. Meanwhile, the baseball team has set a record for wins with 50 and is in the super regionals for the first time ever. If they can win 2 out of 3 again...