How did I ever learn how to program properly?
I spent forever several excruciating
pleasant hours going through old paperwork and old course notes to
try desperately to reduce my moving bill see what I no
longer needed. Among other gems, I found my Ch3a lab book, piles of notes
for chemistry courses, and a small mountain of reference papers in subjects
I will likely never explore again. Hello, recycling bin...
After that strangely nostalgic period spent filtering through my
notes task, I decided to take a break by seeing how hard it would
be to revive the old TUNNELbase code. Erm... so, it turns out this code was
written back in 1997... back when I had just learned C++... and didn't
really know what I was doing with respect to "code portability" or "bounds
checking", or for that matter "sane security policies". Given this was a
CGI script, it's a minor miracle my systems were never compromised through
this script. I'd put it up, but given the circumstances I think it needs a
serious code audit before I can even consider opening access to it. As a
result, TUNNELbase remains private for now... but at least I have a map of
the tunnels to refer to for my own uses.
I can't believe I wrote this mess... when did I suddenly learn
how to properly program?
(Does anybody remember xpaint? I'm pretty sure that's the
program I used to manipulate the tunnel maps. Wow, that brings back
memories... I was still using olvwm in those days, too...)