2 Bit Hacker

Since I switched over to MT for my journal and started using the Textile plugin with the SmartyPants plugin, I’ve been kindof tossing around the idea of using the same Textile markup to write the rest of the pages for my site. Currently the pages are either static HTML, or generated out of a MySQL database. The static pages are somewhat messy to update in some cases, and the SQL stuff, while being a good exercise at the time, is really not terribly useful.

So I’ve been thinking of writing a Mason component to do Textile filtering, and another to do SmartyPants filtering, and combine the two to generate my pages. Recently I got to thinking, “Hey, if I’m going to mangle them into Mason, I might as well just make normal Perl modules out of them to benefit the general community.”

It turns out that the author of MT-Textile is already working on a module for his stuff, to be released whenever he gets around to it, which I’m basically happy to wait for.

The author of SmartyPants on the other hand, had been tossing around the idea, but feels it would be annoying to maintain both the module and the plugin. So, that’s kindof where I fit in, I guess, to update the module when he updates the plugin, which works out just fine for me. I plan on getting to work on it once I get home tonight. Should be a fun exercise in module writing, and I’ve never tried to get anything submitted to CPAN before, so this should be interesting.

Trying counts for more than success.

(I’ve decided to start posting my fortune cookie quotes whenever I get them.)

I had forgotten about the fortune I got from the cookie when Matt and I went out for chinese food last week. I thought it was kindof ironic at the time, and although some irony has probably been lost since I didn’t post it when I got it, I would like to post it now.

An aura of glamour and mystery surrounds your events of the week.

Matt had something meaningful as well, but I no longer remember what it was.

Found out why my futon hasn’t been delivered yet. Apparently they guy who was supposed to deliver it was out last week because he (and his wife) had a child. Supposedly he returns to work tomorrow, and should get around to delivering the futon sometime this week. Then my apartment will be complete! (at least furniture-wise)