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The past 3 days

March 1, 2006 on 7:34 pm | In Computing, Life |

For those who don’t know, I’m currently having a week long holiday, which means that I have been doing relatively little stuff.
Yet, at the same time, I’ve also done quite a lot of stuff if you compare it to the summer holiday.

On Monday I played some games (Tycoon City New York, Star Wars Empire at War), and I went to see the doctor as I described in my previous post.

On Tuesday I did some PHP coding and I spent some time trying to understand mod_rewrite. I’m not new to apache or php, but there are still a lot of things I have never touched before, simply because I never needed them or because I never thought of touching them (that’s usually my problem; not knowing what to make or do). It turned out to be pretty neat (I already knew what it was, but still).

And today I went to see the doctor again. He fixed my nail, which was interesting. At first I was a little bit anxious, mainly about the sedation. Not because I’m afraid of needles - because I’m not - but because I wasn’t sure if it would truly sedate me. My experiences with that other guy in white, the dentist, haven’t been very good; I’d generally still experience a lot of pain when teeth got jerked out of my jaw.
But this doctor (in training) was a pretty nice guy. He sedated me (which did definately hurt quite a bit because toes are rather full of nerves) and then he did some poking around asing me if I felt anything (which is of course standard procedure, but he promissed he would not start doing anything before I was certain that I wouldn’t feel a thing). To my relief, the answer to his question was no.
Afterwards he admitted that the places he poked around in were rather ‘mean’, (probably under my nail and into the wound - with a scalpel…) so I felt quite good about the whole operation.
When I got back home it started to hurt a little bit, but nothing a painkiller or two couldn’t solve.

So, “what did you code in PHP?”, I hear you ask.¹
Well, firstly, I rewrote a script I wrote in JSP, but in PHP and, in the process, made it better. In this particular case I rewrote the tree menu that was I also writing for my school project. After showing the code to SpComb he immidiately wrote a similar tree menu, but better (because it can get the various treenodes from either a database, an array or an XML file. Afterwards he put his script on his website without even giving me a shoutout as a thanks for all the great inspiration (*ahem*). How rude!

¹ Disclaimer: This may have been is a blatant lie.