I attended GECCO (conference about evolutionary computing) in Portland two weeks ago, very interesting experience. Firstly it was my first trip to the US, secondly I got some great input from various talks, sessions and speakers which I am currently processing. I have also decided to go the first steps of the long journey to building an own company and talk to many people about possibilities to make this dream come true The most important step was to put that long-term idea into my head and believe in it and write down a plan for the next 12-24 months. This way my brain works subconsciously day and night creating new ideas

Technology-wise I’ve already decided on a set of tools I will use the next few months. Most importantly is the new hardware coming next week, switching from a netbook to a real PC with SSD and 8GB RAM will hopefully improve my situation I got some new ideas about how to improve my code and code stability (i.e. improving my unit tests), with >50k LOC this becomes important.

Take care and be happy