This morning I had a wonderful 4 hour flashback to my early computer science courses while developing a small web application. Sure the application was in PHP instead of C, C++, or Java, but the code was beautifully simple. sscanf() to parse some text, assert() to test for exceptional conditions, and lots of print()/echo()s to finish it up.
It was quite a nice break after weeks of writing a functional spec. and other fun management tasks… ugh…
I guess if anyone in Illinois is interested in a PHP app that parses JULIE ticket e-mails, let me know.
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[...] So I was hacking on a little PHP project to parse JULIE Ticket e-mails. I mentioned it before, and while I’m still having fun with simple string parsing functions, being able to use PHP5’s file_put_contents() function in PHP4 would be nice. [...]