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March 21, 2005

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Happy 27th to my bestest fwiend, Steven! I tried calling him 3 times today to wish him a happy birthday, but got the voicemail on every call. Hopefully he got one of the messages.

~out...

Posted by ed at 10:55 PM | Comments (0)

Perl rawks my werld

I've been messing around with Perl since Kyle and I first got into the Web hosting business back in 1997. My first major step into Perl came by the way of CGI scripts and making modifications to scripts I found on the Web. Matt's Script Archive, although small at the time, really helped me learn my way around Perl by deconstructing the free scripts he made available. It's nice to see that he's still around.

Over the years, I moved on from Perl to other languages. After Perl there was VB, then Java, then came PHP. I've pretty much stuck with PHP over the past 6 years or so mostly because I haven't ventured out from the Web side of things much. I do tend to venture back into one of the forementioned languages from time to time based on a project that I'm working on at the time. I recently refreshed my VB skills while working on an Access database while at WHAS.

Since starting at SkyWay, I've had to make myself re-learn Perl. It's been roughly 6 years since I really put any effort into trying to make anything happen with the language. It's taken me a few weeks to get my feel back for it, but I've definately been making some headway the past couple of days.

It's amazing what you can remember after putting some effort into doing something that you haven't done in a while. I guess in a way it's like that old cliche of riding a bike. You never really forget how to do it, it just takes you a little bit to remember exactly how you did it. That's exactly what's happened here with me and my Perl scripting. I started off slow, with alot of "now, how did this work?" kinds of questions to today, where I was more like "oh yeah, I can do it this way." It's a great feeling remembering the things that I used to be able to do and to have them come back to me like they have. Just had to brush away the cobwebs a bit.

I'd love to say what exactly it is that I've been scripting on, but that's still hush hush for the time being. I'm thinking though that I may write up a couple of Perl how-to's, if for anything, to serve as a reminder for me in the future when I forget how to do things in the language again.

Oh yeah, this comic also rawks my werld.

~out...

Posted by ed at 10:41 PM | Comments (0)