Re: Strange Coding Tales

[rozallin]

While I was working through the exercises in the Llama, I used to try and think of ways and tricks to improve my answers in the spirit of TIMTOWTDI, And I seemed to get inspiration and insight in places where I was nowhere near my computer, as you can see below:

• An attempt at Exercise 5 of Chapter 7 was sketched out on notepad and paper while I was leaning against the tallest stone of the Callanish Standing Stones, while my parents were showing some tourists around.
• I managed to get my head around hashes while on a 12 hour bus journey, travelling down the M1 at the time.
• I've played solo Perl Golf on the Northern and Central lines of the London Underground too; I had to wait until I got the near 900 miles back to my computer at home to see if they actually worked though :-)
• I've also coded on paper by candlelight when I've had a powercut due to bad weather, so that when my computer rebooted I could type in my code and check to see if I managed to get it right.

Surely a case of have Llama will travel? :-)

-- rozallin j. thompson
The Webmistress who doesn't hesitate to use strict;

[sch]

The mountain that I mention in Re: Strange Coding Locations was Cairngorm in the Highlands of Scotland - some would argue that trying to sysadmin was more productive than skiing there :)

For anyone unfamiliar with it, Scottish skiing often consists of trying to ski downhill on solid ice, rather than snow, against a gale that's blowing you back up the hill, in fog with visibility of about 10 feet and all the time being pelted with marble sized hailstones - can't wait to get back though, when you get the good days it's fantastic :)

But today you took me walking, Through a land that we have lost,
While our children sit at websites, With no access to the cost