Blind programming
During my 4h30m flight to Vancouver (to get to the Europa Build Workshop) I did something I hadn’t done in a very long time: Blind Programming. I’m in the process of modifying our Contribution Questionnaire to automagically feed Bugzilla bug entries as part of the IPZilla effort and wanted to get ahead during my flight, instead of staring at the clouds.
I guess I got too lazy to configure Apache, PHP and MySQL on my laptop before leaving, so I was stuck coding PHP and SQL without a webserver or a database. I discovered that nowadays I don’t code like I used to — testing is now so easy and quick that I test after every few lines of code I write. On the plane, without a running test environment, all I could do was (gasp!) read the code and try to figure out what was going on.
I’m pretty confident that the 2 hours of code I pounded out makes a lot of sense. It probably has a dozenbugs, but I’m sure all it needs are a few tweaks. I hope.
Posted September 16th, 2006 by Denis Roy in category: Uncategorized
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