For a week or two now, I have been trying to get back to programming, starting with a language I once used back in 1999: Perl. I started watching this Lea Verou video of reg-ex and then referred to this tutorial to trigger some memories and get back to the basic Perl syntax. Normally, I can complete this in a few hours and then do some practice apps and I would have the syntax down after a few more days or a week of practice.

This time it was challenging and I still didn’t finish the video or tutorial after 2 or so weeks! Why? Because there is a baby in the room! I wouldn’t have believed it if someone told me this prior to this year but it is nearly impossible to do any kind of work that requires deep mental concentration and focus when there is an infant present. People say babies sleep all the time — so not true! They sleep in 10-15 min intervals …. maybe 30 mins if you are lucky! Who can get any good learning or programming done in blocks of 10-15 mins?!

I am going to have to table this review for another time. I’ve had these 2 link tabs opened forever on my machine and just not getting the time to dive it. I have my perl program started but it has not gotten too far.

$userstring =~ /baby!/