Thanks to everybody who came to Troma Night to celebrate my birthday on Saturday: that was fab. And special thanks to Hayley for baking a cake, and Jon for suggesting the decoration.
Troma Night was fun, and so was Geek Night (despite being just Andy, Claire and I) – a three-player game of Munchkin is actually sensible and bearable, without too much endgame backstabbing! The rest of the weekend I’ve spent playing with pyDance – a free, open source dance machine game (I’ve been trying to get the hang of composing steps in it), playing Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (which is pretty cool) and reading Half-Life 2: Raising The Bar (a birthday gift from Claire).
Speaking of which, have any of you usual folks not seen Claire’s blog-post about the concert in Cardiff yet? Who’s coming? Tickets are reasonabley-priced but selling fast.
I’ve just realised that the code on the cake is missing a semicolon (;)… you can tell Jon‘s a Python programmer… =o)
That cake looks tasty! Happy B-day Dan :)
Yes. It was. =oP
Isn’t it missing a “php”, too, after the “
Eh? Where’s the rest of me post gone?! Here it is, anyway:
Isn’t it missing a “php”, too, after the “
Ah; that’s why. Oldest trick in the book. All the CompScis laugh at the physicist.
Isn’t it missing a “php”, too, after the “<?”?
I only ask because I’m jealous that I can’t eat any, and no-one ever bakes me geeky birthday cakes.
I think I’ll ask for the my next one to be decorated with the heat diffusion equation in cylindrical polars. Which, for all the non-geeks out there, is the coordinate system you’d use when calculating cooking time with the heat equations for a cake, coz it’s a cylinder, see. Unless some smartarse bakes me a cartesian cake…
The ‘php’ after the <? can be configured to be optional (and most folks set it that way) in your php.ini/php.conf file. By default, it is optional from PHP 4.1 upwards, and PHP 5. This makes it marginally more similar to languages like ASP and JSP, but poses a slight problem when producing XML headers (which have those two characters in that order at the beginning of the document), to which there are several satisfactory work-arounds.