Don't Believe What They Say About Old Dogs...

Caught this comment Sean left on Ben Nadel's blog:

This is very timely. I've found myself increasingly using regex lately to elegantly solve problems we're addressing in our Broadchoice Web Platform! Hardly a day goes by now without me concocting a regex to paste into a Trac ticket to show our offshore team how to perform complex matches or replacements on text, especially related to URL patterns. I always used to think regex was a bit of a hammer and that regex fans thought all problems were nails but as I've become more fluent with it, I've seen the light :)

I had that same experience with XSLT.

And then later I found this one on Ray Camden's blog:

I'm an idiot for not using ColdSpring and Transfer.

That's it. Nothing meaningful here. Just a big, giant, virtual slap to my own face for avoiding these tools for so long. They are in use at my current contract and I can't believe I avoided learning them for so long. It's like I've been using my hands to drink for all my life and just discovered the amazing invention known as "cups". Not just useful - but kinda stupid to avoid using.

It's possible you might see me saying something like these about IoC (ColdSpring / Lightwire) in the not too distant future... maybe... ;)