I've temporarily suspended my humanity.
In case anyone has noticed that I've been rather uncommunicative lately (i.e. I haven't blogged for almost two weeks) it's because I've gone away. To Geekland.
My Girlfriend has certainly noticed. She's basically given up on me. Once in a while, through the haze of variables and conditional statements that fill my inner eye, I notice that she's in my office.
"How long have you been home?" I'll say.
"About an hour and a half," she'll say, without apparent expectation of further chat. She's a very patient person.
It's all I can do to spare her the few seconds of acknowledgement before I swivel my chair back around and press
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to see if the DIV's are lining up yet. This week I've learned how to design HTML layouts without tables, using only CSS2 rules. I'm hoping to be able to modularize my HTML and PHP to maximize code reuse and minimize development and maintenance efforts, maybe even drive the HTML output parametrically...
Whoops!
Sorry, I lost you there. This is me again. It's first thing in the morning and I haven't started coding yet so I'm taking the opportunity to communicate with you. Just like a regular person. Don't worry about my ...condition, it's nothing permanent. At least nothing a weekend of dancing on the streets can't fix.
But today is Friday. I still have a good 18 hours of delicious coding time ahead of me. There still some Chinese food in the fridge and last night I got the Smarty template engine running on my Localhost. Today I'll have to figure out how to install it on the remote server. Then I'll get down to figuring out how to parameterize those...
Sorry!
I have to go now.
If you live in Toronto, maybe I'll see you tomorrow on St Clair Ave grooving along with me to the Latin beats.
Yes, only Salsa can save me now.
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