Losing my groove, one line of code at a time
Finding myself having to reference functions and routines more often nowadays. It may be that I am a little bit out of practice. I do a bit of programming at work for our internal department sites but my days are usually spent playing OS detective or battling spyware. Don’t get me wrong – I still have the programming theory down but having to google how to best implement something that seems simple enough is next to pathetic, right? I honestly do not expect myself to memorize every single function and its parameters nor do I expect to remember the best ways to implement things that I have coded a month ago. This morning I was trying to figure out how to reference the DOM using vbscript since I usually use javascript to do so. I thought it was done the same way but it just was not working as the server was spitting out an error about the document object didn’t exist or some garbage. Needless to say, I ended up tacking in some javascript to do the task instead.
Maybe I’m losing my touch. Maybe I need more practice. Maybe I’m just getting older and forgetting things is natural. Maybe I do have vCJD like the CBC said I may have, and that I am slowly losing my mind (I know, not funny – too disturbing to think about actually). Either way, I may just have to put up a flag outside my cubicle that says, “Sorry but I may suck today.”
