…just another hippy blog

  Lettres de Lou
Originally uploaded by Arslan.

This is another I-just-need-a-break-and-some-coffee post.
You have been warned. It’s not about raccoons or bikinis. I’m really sorry to disappoint you.

I’m currently working on “fixing” (read rewriting from scratch most of it) a WSDL parser in C++ and I had to completely rewrite the XSD type definitions parser and class hierarchy. And that sucks. It’s a pretty interesting task and I’m having some fun at it, but I’m finding it quite hard to understand the whole XSD specifications and just write a bunch of classes and a parser that will be used to both process 3rd part WSDL files and to generate WSDL files using a dummy-proof UI.

All the documents at W3C are quite  misleading, IMHO. I have been looking at some “tutorial” at w3cshools.com too, but that website really sucks. Most of the pages contain about 5% of actual contents and 85% of ads. The remaining 10% (I hate maths) is reserved for menus and other crap. No problem, if only the 5% of contents would have been more visually separated from the crap. And if only I was not forced to load another page after reading two sentences.

Nevertheless, there is a rather interesting document about complex types in XSD at xml.com: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/08/22/easyschema.html

It really helped me understanding complex types. Too bad it doesn’t cover many other topics that are part of the schema definition.

Well, that’s all folks. Back to </work>

 
Bad News!!
Originally uploaded by ®klydala3.

I have finally managed to write a post about the new blog. Yes, the blog has a new (work -in-progress) theme and it has been moved to a new server with a custom WordPress installation.

So this post is about PHP (it sucks), Wordpress (it’s php, thus it sucks), flickr (it rocks - but I worked hard and found a couple of things that suck), me going to marry wynona and lots of bikinis.

As to a recent poll, 50% of raccoons bent on world domination believe that talking about bikinis in a blog is a good thing.
As to the same poll, 99% of the raccoons that will actually be trying to take over the world tonight says that wynona should get married to the author of this post.

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omg run!
Originally uploaded by wonder wombat.

A small and kind note to Mr. B.G. and his employees: I don’t want to edit any f****** file of mine with your f****** Word!!

And leave your f******* hands off my f******* context menu!!