Feels like naught but fitful dreaming.
Oct. 11th, 2009 07:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsidheOn Saturday we all — the four of us and Ninna — trooped up to my Nanna's place.
Poppa was the gardener, but he was slowed down in his last years, and Nanna is not very mobile, and so the garden Poppa spent most of his life in is starting to degrade. Various members of the family have been dropping in to help with it, and on Saturday we made our contribution: cleearing up the side path so that Nanna can traverse it, and weeding the front garden and lawn. Even the girls pitched in.
That evening,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mimdancer went to dinner and a movie with her mother and sister. I watched The Dark Night... finally.
Today was an odd day. We wanted to sleep in, but the girls put paid to that thought. (Why is it that we can't get them out of bed on school days, and can't keep them in bed on weekends? It's killing me.)
We got lunch on Glenhuntly rd, M went shopping, then we went to a concert in a park put on by the local council. It was a lovely string quartet, playing Bach, Handel, Vivaldi. It would have been lovelier if I had been able to hear much over screaming children making as much noise as possible.
As we came home, it slowly started to rain. So we spent the rest of the day inside. The girls calmed down a bit with some blood sugar and Looney Tunes, but still. I feel like the weekend hasn't started yet, and am looking forward to a sleep-in, and a restful day.
At Thorfy's recommendation, I've been building a test suite for some of my Perl code, and running perlcritic and perltidy over it. With mixed success. As far as perltidy is concerned, the only thing it does is ruin some quite careful formatting, to no useful point. So I've decided to keep the formatting rules in mind, but not leave it to an automated tool. Perlcritic is more entertaining. For a start, the criticisms it makes are all referred to pages in Perl Best Practices, an O'Reilly book which I do not own. Luckily, I can usually figure out what is meant, and as often as not I have broken this rule or that for specific and explicit reasons. This bit is exec over a string instead of a block, because I want to generate code on the fly (and on investigation, that exact technique is shown in a perlmongers advanced tutorial). That bit uses ‘use constant’ because the recommended ReadOnly simply does not work with Perl::Gtk2. And constants are clearer in any case.
Writing the test suite, on the other hand, is being very helpful in seeing what is there, what is not, and where various holes are in my modules' capabilities.
Tomorrow, back to the salt mines. Back to trying to hold back the tide with a sponge. Oh, joy.
Poppa was the gardener, but he was slowed down in his last years, and Nanna is not very mobile, and so the garden Poppa spent most of his life in is starting to degrade. Various members of the family have been dropping in to help with it, and on Saturday we made our contribution: cleearing up the side path so that Nanna can traverse it, and weeding the front garden and lawn. Even the girls pitched in.
That evening,
mimdancer went to dinner and a movie with her mother and sister. I watched The Dark Night... finally.Today was an odd day. We wanted to sleep in, but the girls put paid to that thought. (Why is it that we can't get them out of bed on school days, and can't keep them in bed on weekends? It's killing me.)
We got lunch on Glenhuntly rd, M went shopping, then we went to a concert in a park put on by the local council. It was a lovely string quartet, playing Bach, Handel, Vivaldi. It would have been lovelier if I had been able to hear much over screaming children making as much noise as possible.
As we came home, it slowly started to rain. So we spent the rest of the day inside. The girls calmed down a bit with some blood sugar and Looney Tunes, but still. I feel like the weekend hasn't started yet, and am looking forward to a sleep-in, and a restful day.
At Thorfy's recommendation, I've been building a test suite for some of my Perl code, and running perlcritic and perltidy over it. With mixed success. As far as perltidy is concerned, the only thing it does is ruin some quite careful formatting, to no useful point. So I've decided to keep the formatting rules in mind, but not leave it to an automated tool. Perlcritic is more entertaining. For a start, the criticisms it makes are all referred to pages in Perl Best Practices, an O'Reilly book which I do not own. Luckily, I can usually figure out what is meant, and as often as not I have broken this rule or that for specific and explicit reasons. This bit is exec over a string instead of a block, because I want to generate code on the fly (and on investigation, that exact technique is shown in a perlmongers advanced tutorial). That bit uses ‘use constant’ because the recommended ReadOnly simply does not work with Perl::Gtk2. And constants are clearer in any case.
Writing the test suite, on the other hand, is being very helpful in seeing what is there, what is not, and where various holes are in my modules' capabilities.
Tomorrow, back to the salt mines. Back to trying to hold back the tide with a sponge. Oh, joy.