the eureka moment
i love that feeling when, after hours of staring at cryptic PHP error screens warning about missing parentheses (always at “line 1” no matter where the error really is), you’re almost ready to give up but you don’t, you make one more little change… and the code starts working! the regular expressions are expressing themselves, the file pointers are pointing at the files, and the loops are … well … looping … as loops are wont to do …
if you’ve noticed a bit of a slowdown in journal entries, it’s because i’ve been learning a lot about PHP and Javascript this week.
one thing i’ve learned: error messages emitted by the PHP parser are almost entirely useless.