17 Sep 2000 Simon   » (Master)

It's time to start this thing up again.
Today was reasonably productive, although not much. I wrote some of the "Compleat Perl Internals" poem for the conference on Saturday, and thought a little bit more about my main talk.
Also did a bit of research on the Forking article, which is coming along nicely now. Spent most of the morning looking at a UTF8 bug unearthed by Gisle Aas, or rather, deciding whether or not it was a bug. In fact, it turned up a different bug, and when I looked into the source, I found that it would work perfectly fine if it wasn't for a && 0 on the end of one of the if statements. Do you get moments like that? When you think, "why the hell did I put that there? Did I put that there?".
The afternoon was spent looking for hotels in London for the weekend. God bless the Web.
This evening, I started writing a Perl/GNOME tutorial. Well, no, I didn't. I started off by wanting to write a nice application to collect all my recipes, format them out as TeX, and also give me the ability to say what ingredients I had in and get back recipes I could make. Then, for some bizarre reason, I decided it had to have a GUI. No, I don't know why. So, I started looking at Perl GNOME. Which didn't take long, as it has no documentation at all. Which meant I had to write some, naturally! I spent a while poring over the examples and a few applications already out there, and started piecing an article together. Don't hold your breath for it, though. And don't hold your breath for the recipe application, either. These sidetracks just roll on and on...

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