What if we had no walls at all?
Incidentally, it struck me that my use of CGI::Ajax referred to
in my previous
post is an example of where Perl's loose object-orientation works
with the programmer, not against it. I'm sure some anal-retentive,
secretive paranoid that writes in Java or C++ would have made most of
those methods private, and thus would have forced a major
re-engineering of my code to fit in with their own personal way of doing
things. Perl naturally tends toward letting you see all the methods,
not just those publically declared, but to me this is a general argument
for letting people have a bit more control of your object than you think
is good for it.
posted at: 13:18 | path: /tech/perl | permanent link to this entry
Too much time on their hands
Who decided that November was
(National) Blog Posting Month?
It's already
(National) Novel Writing Month,
where you need to put in at least 1,250
words per day in order to achieve their goal. And now we're supposed to
blog every day about something? Does the name of this blog, Too Busy
For Words, not mean anything to them? Fat chance of that happening.
Most of us have lives, and don't feel the need to comment on inane bits
of them every day just to fulfill some arbitrary challenge.
I've been working on improving the documentation for LMMS - in other words, writing documentation for it; turning earring holders for my nieces so that they can give them to their friends; trying to find a new job to replace the old one that runs out at the start of December; tending the vege garden - in other words, finding water to keep it alive; trying to find our old household budget and/or make a new one; and more. I don't have time to just witter on about anything in order to make someone else's arbitrarily set quota. I'll probably write a good portion of that 40,000 words in the documentation anyway, it just won't be a work of disjointed fiction like some of the worse NaNoWriMo contributions and software manuals I've seen.
(Thanks to Steve Hanley for reminding me that NaNoWriMo is in November.)
posted at: 12:38 | path: /personal | permanent link to this entry
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