pebkac thoughts

Maybe I only find this funny because it’s late…

Subject: Re: project almost done

On Dec 3, 2007, at 11:56 PM, Maarten wrote:
>Hi!
>
>Cristóbal and Maarten here. I (Cristóbal) have stolen Maarten’s
>keyboard because he’s exhausted. We’re almost done!
>
>We discovered (long story) that we needed mysql to be thoroughly
>utf8-ified for our project to work. This turned into a bit of a
>project-within-a-project, since we had to build mysql-server from
>source to get this done. The fact that the debian source package
>lacks the Doc/ directory (something to do with the DFSG) meant that
>THIS became a project-within-a-project-within-a-project. Ack! Hours
>gone!
>

Ouch. Database character encoding issues are one of my least favorite
problems. You have my deepest sympathy.

>
>
>Finally we have an XML file that was produced using a .php page with
>the help of some pear modules. Next step is to use some XSLT and
>AJAX-y fun to make our search suggestion box.
>
>Can we say Thursday for getting this to you? We think it will be
>relatively quick for us, but we both have classes tomorrow and
>Wednesday, so Thursday would be helpful.
>

Thursday is cool.