Do you see yourself ever retiring?

ecchi · 2005-02-18, 01:43 PM

RE - "I would like to get to where everything just runs itself " I doubt if Jim needs to know this but for anyone who read his comment and felt the same, learn Perl. You will be amazed how many tasks you can automate with Perl scripts, both on your site and your own computer. For example, I had to change a sponsor link on 100+ pages once (plus find these pages among the thousands I have), think how long that would have taken. Took me about 20 minutes to write a Perl program that searched all .html and .shtml files on the hard drive that I keep my websites on, search out the dead sponsor, and replace it with a new link. I cannot remember how long it took to do this job, but it did it in the background while I did other things, so effectively all the time I spent on the job was 20 minutes. And that was back when I was learning Perl, if I had to do it again it would probably only take 10 minutes.

2005-02-18, 01:43 PM	#12
ecchi Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: About to be evicted!!!! Posts: 4,082	RE - "I would like to get to where everything just runs itself " I doubt if Jim needs to know this but for anyone who read his comment and felt the same, learn Perl. You will be amazed how many tasks you can automate with Perl scripts, both on your site and your own computer. For example, I had to change a sponsor link on 100+ pages once (plus find these pages among the thousands I have), think how long that would have taken. Took me about 20 minutes to write a Perl program that searched all .html and .shtml files on the hard drive that I keep my websites on, search out the dead sponsor, and replace it with a new link. I cannot remember how long it took to do this job, but it did it in the background while I did other things, so effectively all the time I spent on the job was 20 minutes. And that was back when I was learning Perl, if I had to do it again it would probably only take 10 minutes.