After wrapping up my last Task for my server migration yesterday, I was left with my first actual totally free night in more weeks than I can count. Honestly, when did my life get this busy? I sure don’t remember stepping through that door.
Since I’ve been getting more and more in to Wordpress lately (hacking, plugging in, etc.), I decided I would pop by the #wordpress chatroom (on irc.freenode.net) and see what went on in there.
I’ve been considering it for quite some time now as I’ve slowly learned my way around while developing plugins, and with the recent 2.0 launch (and the impending 2.0.1 or 2.1 launch we all know is coming) I’m thinking it may be time…
This actually started as a follow-up comment to Abdul’s comment on my The PowerBook Showdown post, where I went through a list of the PHP editors I’d tried on Mac OS X. Since I’d done a post about the Mac-based prospects, and since my comment was getting quite lengthy, I decided I should also do a PC-based post, so here it is:
For the first time in quite a while, I got to write some PHP for an actual work-related project. We’re receiving some address-correction data (you know, zip+4 here, wrong city spelling there, that kind of thing) back from the guys who actually mail out all the checks for claims we pay, and I wrote a quick batch of PHP functions to import, parse, and load these corrections into the database.