Mark J Cox

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01 Apr 2002: Webcasts

Found myself giving a webcast about Stronghold which brought back memories of actually coding Stronghold back in 1995 or 1996. For the last 6 months or so I've been trying to resist coding on Stronghold, and for the most part I've managed it, although its tempting to dive in - it's so much easier to measure productivity when you're actually coding. After a couple of years in production it will be great to see it finally released. I'm probably off to N+I in Las Vegas in May which should be fun.

22 Feb 2001: Fizzy Sour Candy Sweets

Back from the UK armed with fizzy sweets (US translation: sour candy) which seem to be popular in the office. When we got bought by Red Hat last year I gave a short presentation on Stronghold to all the developers. There was a large collective groan when they found out bits of it were Perl based and that all our developers knew Perl and that we didn't like Python. Actually, I shouldn't have said I didn't like Python until I'd actually read about it because after spending the flight learning it I think I'd prefer it for most of my scripting needs. So I'm back in the North Carolina snow for a little while, although I don't think Tracy back in Glasgow is too pleased at that thought.

Meanwhile I converted my photo album scripts to output XML (index.xml) with stylesheets (index.xsl) as the old system wasn't very flexible

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