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...