Maia Ayame Escamilla
Born: 12/21/2005
Weight: 7 lbs. 15 oz.
Height: 20 in.

An exhaustive search is currently underway to find a more beautiful baby girl, but nothing is turning up.

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)

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.

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.

• 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.

® 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.

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.

Requirements:

• Must know Perl and in particular, OO Perl.

  You should know how to create a Perl module and use it in a non-sucky way. I don’t mean that you need to be able to map-grep-sort your way through solutions to problems. In fact, gratuitous use of said functions will probably hurt your chances.

• Must know Unix.

  We develop on debian-based distros and deploy on RedHat, so you’ll need to be able to get around and work on Unix.

• Must know CVS.

  You don’t need to be a CVS nerd, but you need to know how to checkout a source tree, modify files, and check them back into the repository.

Nice to haves:

• HTML::Mason experience would be a plus. A big plus, actually, since all of our frontend stuff is in Mason.
• CORBA, specifically ORBit, experience would be a plus, but not necessarily a huge one. If you don’t have it, don’t sweat it. Just understand that there is such a thing as CORBA, and that it’s an evil, evil thing .
• vi. Actually, that’s neither a plus or minus, but I’ll like you more if you’re a vi-person.

So, if these apply, well, apply . Just drop me your resume and I’ll make sure it gets in the right persons hands.

BTW, this is in Austin, TX. If you want to move out here for the position that’s fine, but I don’t think there’s any relocation bonus being offered.

Grace and mercy in picture format. Thank you, Cindy, for the pictures.