…just another hippy blog

  The green way #2
Originally uploaded by dhammza.

It was grass mowing time this morning on the riverbanks next to my home. The smell of freshly cut grass and all that green (well it wasn’t that much actually) reminds me of my childhood in Germany.

I used to play with some of the neighbourhood children in a lawn next to where we lived and I regularly managed to come back home with green knees and my mother yelling at me

Maybe I have been kidnapped by a huge grass monster in that play field and this is the real reason for freshly cut grass reminds me of that place

Oh, there was also a [enter a couple of not so nice but not too bad words] old lady living next to the field, who would show up from a window and yell at us children, threatening us to call the police.

Obviously we didn’t care about her, ignoring or answering in a not too polite way (but still within a child’s vocabulary, of course). Now I would actually imagine myself the face of a lazy doughnut eating police officer who is being asked to arrest a bunch of snotty kids playing on a lawn

Ok. That’s all with my sick childhood memories. I just needed a break from XSD

Right now I am implementing WSDL and Schema import using a global Schema cache and some other nifty features. But it’s getting boring. I have also to deal with forward declared data types and other issues that make the whole code as overbloated as the XSD specs.

  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!!

“Fingers”
Originally uploaded by UnkArl.

Ladies and gentlemen,

I am proud to announce the incoming introduction of the Hippy Patriot Act in the USAss.

As of Monday 42nd February 2008 A.D., all foreign travelers and hippies arriving at Chicago O’Hippy Airport or any other damn US airport will have their hands cut of and then sent either to Guantanamo for 5 years or to Italian Parliament for 5 days. [The travelers, not their hands.]

Any passenger found of not being a terrorist at all after having served the “precautionary freedom limitation with fries”, will be provided with a free daily supply of Cheeseburgers and freedom fries for 20 years.