Programmer-CEO
I spent some time this weekend working on a client project that required spidering the USPTO website and parsing 51,882 patent numbers out of 1,038 pages of search query results. I used Perl, of course, to do all this, my favorite language to date, especially for large text processing jobs like this one.
As I get more removed from the nitty gritty programming in my career, I forget that I’m a half-way decent programmer. But I am pretty darn good, thank you very much. Or maybe Perl just makes it really easy. Either way, I felt a good sense of accomplishment when my little script completed its task in under 3 hours.
*pats self on back*
