Funny how life always gets in the way- As soon I decide to focus on a language to learn, a reason to learn another one for something specific pops up. This isn't the first time this has happened, by the way. I dove into an VOIP-provider implementation last week, one that interfaces the in/out connections to the plain old telephone system with your own code using web services run on PHP. I hadn't touched that in a while, so I dusted off my web server and played around with that. Very interesting indeed. The company is called Twilio, and for around $20, you can get voicemail, phoneline and automated call trees going very quickly.
However, the real question is "Did I work on C this week?". Answer: Yes. I did. I've been plodding though the intro chapters of a fairly thorough book, which I can review later, once I get into the meat. Didn't make the required 4 hours a week though. Mostly I've been working through the various gotchas on the primitive datatypes. Either most of the languages I work with account for this, or I just instinctively don't do it, but I'd forgotten that integer division returns an integer and not a double, and is inherently inaccurate because of this. Live and learn.
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