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Short entry today, and, thanks to the wonders of editing, I can tell you now that most of it’s about programming.
Yesterday’s musings about content management led to a bunch of investigation on XSLT, which just doesn’t look practical in Perl on my server right now. That’s a mix of opinion and fact, and I guess either could change at any time. I’ve seen some rumours that PHP has some XSLT support, has anyone tried it?
I don’t know why I’m hot to do something in XML, it just seems like something that won’t have to be 100% rewritten when I change my mind. AngelA‘s site has a fair bit of XPath stuff going on, which I don’t regret, but I also wouldn’t necessarily do again… In the meantime, I’m starting to code some Perl packages. I did one for VP, but it was working from an existing package and adding functions. It’s amazing how much harder things can be when you try to understand what you’re doing. For example, did I work on a package or a module? I don’t even remember. All I know is that I was supposed to go to sleep around 10 and I didn’t.
All this extra-curricular coding is an attempt to get away from the world of work, where VB date functions have bit me again. Kryptonite, I tell you. It would appear that assigning a Date variable to a Long drops the time information, since dates are stored in the integer and times are in the decimal. This makes it difficult to calculate elapsed seconds. Why did I assign them to Longs? I didn’t. This is the joy that is someone else’s code. On the bright side, I discovered VB’s regular expression support today, and life became good again. In case you haven’t guessed, I don’t really code a lot of VB…
In other news, I just made some deals at the gym that I’m sure had both parties walking away chuckling “sucker”, which I think is win-win. It works out so that my fees get cut in half and I get towel service, but due to some up front charges I won’t be laughing all the way to the bank until next year. Not bad overall.
Gotta go to that ball game now, assuming our free tickets are any good. All I know is it’s scheduled in such a way that I don’t have to cook. Yay!