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                   JOURNAL FOR THURSDAY 21ST NOVEMBER, 2013
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SUBJECT: More parsing
   DATE: Thu 21 Nov 21:24:39 GMT 2013

Spent time Tuesday and Wednesday working on the front end parsers some more
and actually managed to login, something I haven't done in quite a while since
pulling everything apart. Things are not working properly yet - logout is
broken so when you try to login a second time it thinks you are already logged
in :(

However as I keep on writing and rewriting the parser code it seems to be
improving in quality and simplicity. This is good as maintenance will be
easier and other people should find it easier to work with as well.

But...

There's always a 'but' isn't there? Where do they come from?

Having spent two long evenings coding I had a sudden thought. One of those
'Ahha! Oh bugger...' moments when you realise there is a better, simpler way
of structuring the code and making things work - but it means more reworking
again. Still I hope to have some spare time this weekend to do some extra
coding. In the meantime I'm carefully assessing my 'Ahha! Oh bugger...' idea
to see if there is an associated 'Aww crap...' moment close behind. This is
when you realise that after all the excitement your brilliant plan actually
has a subtle flaw that trashes the whole idea and you're back to square one
again.

--
Diddymus


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