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Saturday, June 14, 2008 - 02:54 SGT
Posted By: Gilbert

A Month Gone

Just coded my first functional module in Drupal, a content management system (CMS) the kind of which I might have used for this blog had I not written the almighty glolg myself aeons ago. I think I've more or less gotten the hang of it, though if I had any choice in the matter I would have hammered it out in pure PHP (or Perl, for that matter).

This job has led me to some insights about myself:

  1. I don't really like content management systems that were not written by myself.
  2. I don't really like Linux, so sue me. Evil greedy bloated Windows for me, every day of the week.
  3. Emacs is a pain. Yes, I said it.
  4. I can't code in the morning, which may be entailed by the fact that I am usually not fully awake before noon. Night owl here.

In support of point one above, let me pull out a little tale about another CMS, Joomla. The files I pulled from the project CVS didn't work, and I was tearing my hair out trying to figure out why, when I was belatedly informed that it was because PHP short open tags weren't configured on my home server. True, it could have happened with a pure PHP implementation too, but having such a thing occur on my first encounter has coloured my perspectives somewhat.

Tried my hand at badminton recently after not touching my racket for many months (the multipurpose racket photo-op notwithstanding). The purple dye came off the grip rather messily. Same thing with the soles of my army-issue New Balance sneakers, on other occasions - the conventional wisdom about not keeping shoes around for too long without wearing them seems to have something behind it. Came across Choo, ex-platoon mate, playing basketball at the NUS courts after the badminton session. The guy's back from studying Economics somewhere in the States or the U.K., I forget.

It's Euro season, but I've resisted the urge to subscribe so far. For one, there's no England to back and tumble with this edition (though the uncharitable could say that they just saved themselves the effort), and secondly the opening match between the Swiss and the Czechs was dire (by my spoilt Man Utd standards). The scrolling subscribe-by-SMS instructions nearly did it for me, but I refrained ten minutes into the match. Goal highlights on ESPN and the finals will do, thank you very much. On the other hand, missing the ten-goal Singapore vs Uzbekistan spectacle still riles me a little. Oh, and here's a tangentially relevant explanation on how stars choose who to swap their shirts with.

And perhaps the best Onion News Network video I've seen so far:


'Warcraft' Sequel Lets Gamers Play A Character Playing 'Warcraft'


And another Onion gem I don't believe I've linked to.



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