not falling down

I put in probably eighteen solid hours of work on the Centosite this weekend. I’d be alarmed by that, if I weren’t me, but I am and so I’m not. I’ve finallylearned to do schoolwork in a regular, paced fashion, but because of THAT I can’t do seriousfree-time work except in binges.

At any rate, the framework is even more industrial-strength than that of this site, and that’shardcore. The backend interface is negligent–that’s a project for next weekend–but I did write aPHP function that converts decimal numbers into Roman numerals, and I’m proud of that. (It probablyexists somewhere already, as PHP has predefined functions for about everything there is, but Iwanted to see if I could do it myself. This is a common problem.)

I’d like to include that in my PHP library, if I had a PHP library (or software map). I will one day, if Iever get around to writing all the code I want to–packaging the engines for Xorph and NFD, portingRobotfindskitten, and publishingSolBrowser, the quickie webcomic-display frame I wrote for next year’s Solitary Confinement. Ithink I could write an HTML-to-XHTML converter, too, but I’d probably have to do it in C++, becausea web interface for that would just be ugly.

That’s another thing–the Cento site is not only entirely in valid XHTML 1.0, it’s displayedentirely with CSS positioning. Adjusting to a lack of tables and typing all my markup in lower caseis strange, but I guess it’s a step forward. How you like me now, ALA?

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