Sunday, October 05, 2008

My autophobia

No, it doesn't mean that I don't like automobiles. Autophobia is another word for self-loathing or self-hatred (and the only purpose of its addition to the English dictionary is to enable one to be more puffed up ) .
Of the many things that nature has bestowed upon me to fall into the trap of this fancy state of mind, laziness tops the chart. Body's ability idle around for long periods of time is simply astonishing. Mind wanders towards getting more productivity out of all this flesh but somehow, things just don't work out.
By the way, this entry is the first step towards making this 'virtue' fade away. While going through the usual grind of the programmer's life, in the last couple of months, at times, work stuck a dead-end. When the official documentation didn't seem to tell you the 'right' stuff and some saintly help was urgently required, bloggers came to my rescue and bailed me out. When the first time it happened, I decided to publish my own list of such tricks-of-the-trade and to share the wisdom acquired in the process of scouting through the net. No prizes for guessing - I didn't actually get to do it. Blogging kept on getting postponed and the idea started to wane away. And then came abother roadblock (DOM parser are indeed tricky). And in the process I reched another blog that again showed the right way to do it.
Enough is enough. I have finally decided to post a blog sharing my 'hard-earned wisdom' with the outer world. The first one will be about XPATH and DOM Parsers.

Of course, not right now. But sometime soon in the near future.