Discovering new people
Trendy Furrow is a dead good weblog. Sean is a VBScript/ASP guy, which will get him nothing but brickbats rather than bouquets from a pretty reasonable proportion of the tech weblogger community (and me on bad or hypocritical days), but I do ASP stuff all day (Python stuff all night). Not only can I sympathise with his struggles with MSXML and the like, he certainly has the hacker nature (he’s ported Textile to VBScript, which I was just abot to do myself for a project here at work, for a start: this is not the act of some MS-obsessed droid), his writing creases me up in places (”I fucking hate XML schemas. That was a waste of a few hours I could have spent punching myself in the face”), he’s Irish, and I think he lives pretty close to me (I’m really close to the border with Warwickshire). Added to blogroll and RSS subscriptions. It’s always nice to discover new people.
thank u
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The Textile port is close enough for government work, as the saying goes. It seems to be working OK in the application I’m putting it to; if I come across any errors I’ll hack on it and wing back changes. Sorry about the Irish thing; I’m similarly of Irish descent, so it’s nice to see other people around.
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Well thank you. Two things.
1) The Textile port is kind of broken; it seems to be something to do with vbNewLine not being the same as \n in a regular expression.
2) I’m not Irish, just of Irish descent.
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