Yesterday (Saturday, 19-August-2006) was a very productive day for me.

During the morning, I was able to fix the "Website Meta Language" (WML) site. This gave me enough time to package wml-2.0.11 and announce it on Freshmeat and on my use.perl.org weblog.

A little after midday, Sagiv dropped by my house, and we both downloaded Joomla! and played with it. Despite a few glitches that were easily resolved, we were able to achieve everything we've tried and we were very impressed. The only fly in the ointment was the fact that the stable version does not support UTF-8 yet, and as such all the Hebrew characters we entered were automagically converted to Unicode SGML entities. Sagiv also ate lunch at our house, and while they were eating he and my mother exchanged some cooking tips.

I also started working on Test::Count and was able to get release 0.01 on CPAN. Test::Count is a module to extract meta-comments like # TEST:$num_iters=5 and # TEST*$num_iters*3 out of a test script and update the test counter, so one can always make sure he has an accurate count of the tests.

After all that, I became a bit hungover (which implied I wasn't very productive), but eventually found something good to do with my time: learn XSLT (from the tutorials at w3schools and zvon.org), and start working on an XML grammar for home-site syndication of various products (such as books, CDs, movies, etc.). At the moment, I only have a work-in-progress DTD as well as several XML files as test cases for it. So I'm in a lame but hopeful condition.

Well, enough blogging for now. Either gvim or my bed (or both) await me…