Its been a while since I posted anything not Apple related… time to fix 
Work has been extremely busy. I have been working on moving most of our eMags and eBooks into cloud storage. This may seem quiet trivial but it is rather complicated, in that existing links must still work. The code inside all the books had to be changed to allow for the fact that all files for the eBook must be inside a single container (unless you want to complicate things by using pseudo directories).
To do all this I had to write a script that did the following:
- interact with our database to get book locations on the server
- gathered files from existing structure and convert to another
- edit code within said files to allow for new structure
- upload new directory (effectively the container) onto the cloud
- update database records to give details of where the book is now on the cloud server
This was achieved with the use of PHP, PHP executing a couple shell commands and PERL. I must say working with PERL was easier than I expected and is something I would like to work more with in the future. I don’t know exactly what to do with it, but simply learning the basics of the language could be fun (I am sad to think that, I know). In terms of the main things I learnt I guess the main thing was how our eBooks and eMags have evolved over time. By that I mean the code has been changed to allow additional functionality. This made editing the code from a script slightly tricky (Hooray for regular expressions). I feel I can confidently say exactly how a particular eBook works in the backend.
This weekend is going to be eventful. I am going to see Toy Story 3 on Saturday at roughly midday and then out for dinner at 7. On Sunday I am going out with a friend for a cuppa tea in a coffee shop.
Originally I planned to stay in all weekend but plans often change. Hopefully this change will be for the best I shall have to post my thoughts on Toy Story 3 if I get a moment.
Looking to next week, not a lot going on. Just work. Very boring. Then again if I make that the plan then it will most likely change….
