Mando.org

It’s been a while since I’ve been up this late hacking for fun. I’ve done it for pay, but not just “for fun”. Granted, I’m one of the fortunate few that loves what he does, so even when it’s not “fun”, it’s still fun.

I probably should have apologized ahead of time for the incoherent babbling. Sorry.

But here I am, about to tuck in, and I’ve been hacking on a script to convert this blog over to MT for about 2.5 hours. I’ve got everything done except the comments, and I’m pretty sure that’ll work right out of the box. I’m just getting too sleepy to really test it.

Actually, the truth of the matter is that if it works, I know I’ll be up at least another hour or two installing MT and migrating the site. And I have to be at work tomorrow .

Once I get it working, I’ll put the script (and accompanying Export module) up here for perusal and mockery.

P.S. Okay, I’ve got to tell someone a little bit about how it works.
Class::DBI
107 lines of code (so far)

I swear, this shouldn’t be this hard.

We need a very simple project management tool for keeping track of our team’s resources. That’s it. Here’s the XP story for what I’d like to do with it:

I’d like to log in to the web app and, at a glance, see which developers are are working on which parts of the application. I’d also like to have a calendar view that can show due dates for mini-projects.

And that’s it. We don’t need a bug tracker or code revision tracker. We don’t need a wiki or a blog. We have all of those things right now, in one form or another. And yes, I suppose, it might be nice to have them all integrated into one product, but we can’t justify spending money or time converting and re-learning a whole new way of working.

One of these days, I swear I’m gonna write this thing.

Testing some syntax hilighting:

Edit: Yeah, so that didn’t work out so well. I’ll have to find a better way to post code, I suppose.

Of course, Movable Type has a plugin that does this: MTBeautifier. Maybe it’s time to get off my duff and finish writing that WP->MT conversion tool.

I know I’m 2 days late, but that’s just how I do, really. You’re a smart kid, so I’m sure you’ve already figured that out. You’ll probably figure out that I’m not really very good with the, um, words and stuff, so I’ll keep this short. Here’s what I don’t want to forget about Dominic: Year 1:

• How your personality is such a perfect complement to your big brother’s that he has no choice but to love you.
• That little ‘vroooooom’ sound you make when playing with your cars.
• How you seem to be in such a hurry to grow up so you can play with Aiden.

I love you, little man. Happy Birthday.

Testing registered html entities. Nothing to see here:

® or ®

Edit: Sorry for the testing, folks. For the curious, my budddy Steve at Revolution In The Corner was having an RSS problem which I tracked down to a rogue ® symbol. I didn’t know what he used to put that symbol in, but I wanted to make sure that the normal HTML entities of ® and ® both worked with WP.

And they do.

Seriously, tho. I just stumbled across ExtremePerl.org, a book about Extreme Programming and Perl. I’m not saying I’m drinking the XP kool-aid or anything, but there are a lot of really good ideas in the XP ideology, and you’d be remiss to dismiss them outright.

Of course, this only applies if you’re a computer programmer, and a Perl programmer to boot. Otherwise, well, I suppose that last paragraph didn’t make a whole lot of sense. Sorry about that.