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Impressing Your Significant Other IIIby Limbic~Region (Chancellor) |
on Jun 23, 2009 at 17:53 UTC ( [id://774123]=perlmeditation: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
All,
In the spirit of Impress Women and Impress Women II, I am wondering what you have used perl for that has impressed your significant other. I have chosen Meditations for this post because Where should I post X? suggests one of the topics appropriate for this section is 'life as a programmer'. This fits my story nicely since I didn't set out to impress my wife - it just happened as a result of a couple of the 3 virtues (laziness and impatience). So after reading my story, I welcome you to share your own. Your significant other may or may not be a geek and you may or may not have set out to impress them - what is important is that they were impressed. Shortly after the birth of my first daughter, I created a family website. Despite going with a very user friendly WYSIWYG CMS, my wife doesn't help keep the website up to date. This can be a very time consuming process as we sometimes go more than a month without downloading pictures from the camera. A typical session goes like this:
This process only got longer after my second daughter was born. Not too long ago I became sufficiently frustrated that I wrote code heavily leveraging WWW::Selenium and Image::ExifTool so that my process is now:
Simple right? After announcing to my wife that I was going to update the website, she took the kids for a walk. When she came back I was sitting on the couch watching TV. She asks "I thought you were going to update the website?" to which I replied "I am". She looked over and the computer, all by itself, is pointing and clicking and updating as if by magic. She was so impressed that she sat there watching it telling me I was "amazing". Cheers - L~R
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