use Perl

Scratch that, nothing *has* been done yet.

Okay, that's not exactly true.

I set up Apache again and made sure it worked. (Weirdness: saving the whole mess to CDROM apparently left it write-protected somehow, because when I copied the whole Apache Group directory back to the hard drive, that was the error I got: '...file "error.log" is read-only...' or somesuch. cleared it, cleared the other log, ran Apache, it worked.)

What else?

I wrote this function in my Works database:

#This is the rounding function. Where int would have had a
#big part of this program had Landry merely said, "Round
#down to whole dollars, and I won't want it any other way",
#instead, there is this. Rounding is what it does; to what
#values can be determined arbitrarily. For now, it's to
#the *nearest* dollar.
sub rounded {
if ($_[0] if ( ($_[0] return int ($_[0] + 1);
} else {
return int $_[0]; }
}

This function is going to have to be updated eventually, into a similar function that rounds to the nearest .25 cent value. (That is, 2.68 becomes 2.75, and 2.67 becomes 2.50.) No, it isn't a perfect system, but there's actually a reason for doing it instead of just rounding before storing these values in the STOCK file...

Eventually, the client wants to be able to decrement specific cards a specific value every time he updates the inventory. (That way, he can have card values going down every few days, or even several times over a single day, if he wants...but he doesn't *have* to.)

In the controls file, that behavior would be controlled by another value, tacked onto the end of the regular lines. A value from 0 to 1, expressing the percentage that specific card should go down.

During the transaction, there's no way for that value to change; but over the space of a few hours, customers might notice a significant change in the prices, or over a week or so. My client is convinced (as am I) that hits require a certain amount of variety; of believing you might catch a good deal; of believing that maybe it's still going down, maybe you can catch it before someone else, etc.

Oh, I know. Evil. Well, he's hoping to sell ad space on this thing eventually, so I get where he's coming from. (Desperation for money.)

Anyway, that's the function, why it's like that, and where it's going in the future.

I did a few other things, like pick up a FedEx package without knowing what building I was supposed to be at and driving aimlessly when I forgot I was going somewhere, but those are the things that I'll have documented evidence of tomorrow. I want to do a little more function stuff before I go to sleep, and then it's pillow time. Tomorrow is busy; gotta get SO to work, gotta get to the church bazaar my parents are involved in; gotta get Little Debbies.

I mean, I have Dew, but I don't have any Double Chocolate Swiss Rolls...no wonder I haven't been cranking any decent code out. :)