I know, it's been a while since I last posted and my avid reader is upset. I'd like to say I've been busy with work, family and school, but I think we can all agree, we're all busy in our own different ways, so that's not an excuse. I'm not sure what led up to my lack of posting, but whatever it was, hopefully it won't happen again.
I found something dhoss said on IRC to be thought provoking,
it's interesting (to me) that someone would perceive me as getting a lot done. At the end of the day, I always feel like I'm scrambling to finish something. I guess my ADD (this ADD, not this one) plays into all of this, as I'm everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
I'd also like to stake claim to IDD, or Idiot Driven Development. I don't follow the mantra of TDD by any stretch of the imagination. Take a look at my SQL::Translator repo. (I'll wait, it is on github after all). Notice anything? Sure, it's not complete yet (what software ever is), but there are absolutely no tests. I'm anti-test, in that I don't enjoy writing them, but ever since I've become involved with Catalyst, DBIx::Class, Moose, etc, I've come to value their existence. IDD's ideology (methodology?) stems from hammering on the keyboard until you meet your end result. How do you know it meets your end result? It does what you wanted it to do. Then I'd write tests. Perhaps this puts me into writing tests that potentially concede to my already written horrible code, but it works for me. Just today through my many, many, many revisions of SQLT, I found a caveat for MooseX::Declare,
Sure, you shouldn't be doing 'sub foo' while using MooseX::Declare, you should be using 'method foo', but when you're throwing stuff together, some things fall through the cracks. (I did write a failing test for this earlier)
All in all, as I said in my JFDI post, do what works for you. I know what works for various other perl folk I interact with does not work for me. But yet, I still manage to keep up the appearance that I get things done.
Justin: you just have a great work ethic. Although I was hassling you, you really do JFDI. That's the only way things get done in this world and especially this community.
++ to you good sir :-)