03-VII-2013.

Around 11:30, Lena skyped me a question: how fast could she learn programming? And if so, where to start?

After thinking a while I opted for javascript, because you can get some results within minutes, and you don't need any tools apart from what you already have - a text editor and a browser. I ftp'd her (using, probably, sGradlj.com as the repository for the day) the js bible (the old one which mentions Netscape 4 a lot), plus some other stuff I had accumulated over the years (hamster I am).

Most of the photos for the day are the four kittens (Vanilla, Šanta, and I forgot the two other names) lazing or climbing the stack of planks on the terrace, or Donald with the seasonal wounds. This time he had a gash on top of the cheek near the right eye, and his left eye was almost fully covered in transparent goo (made a good shot but it's ugly to see). The eye healed in a couple of weeks. He's so thin and sleek, yet his tail is bushy as a squirrel's.

On the job, did some special handler for an interface in cryogenics, when a foreign machine would detect a RFID of a vial/straw/whatever and would serve us a xml file somewhere. Haven't heard about it later (writing this in may the year after). The guy did brag how this is a REST technology, i.e. we don't give a fuck about any sleazy database, we'll just scan the whole tank each time you ask for something, you get current data each time. Now if you want to make sense of that, or track the items, you may need to have a database on your side, we don't mind.

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Mentions: Donald, Jelena Sredljević (Lena), sGradlj.com, in serbian