Web hacking or something
I spent a very enjoyable evening yesterday in the company of Olle and Fredrik (who blogged it while we were there, but whose link I never got). It was supposedly web hacking, but the closest anyone got to the web was Olle, who tried to build a PHP extension. (So it’s suitable that it’s now changed name to hackmeetup.) Me, I bashed my head against Python for Series 60, building a simple script that would beep once every five minutes if I have any unread SMS messages in my inbox. The actual script that I wanted to write took me approximately an hour, after already having installed PyS60 on my phone but never actually having tried writing anything for it before. The remaining four hours, I spent on trying to build it into a standalone application that could run in the background.
I must have been really tired at the end, though, because when I tried it again this evening all I had to do was to fix one syntax error in my script and then everything worked.
