>>>>> "JM" == John Macdonald <john-Z7w/En0MP3xWk0Htik3J/w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> writes:
JM> We had Damian give that talk in Toronto a couple of years ago
JM> (amongst others).
JM> In the 24 hours he had to prepare for the keynote, he wrote,
JM> tested and documented (to the extent necessary for the keynote
JM> slideshow, not for a formal release) 24 different modules.
many fewer than that. but i tried to not give so much away! :)
JM> The first step was to write a module for producing slides,
JM> since his normal use of PowerPoint required far more than 24
JM> hours to produce and tune a presentation to the extent that
JM> he normally does to get the well polished result we've come
JM> to know and love. It continued on from there. IIRC, none of
JM> the modules in that 24 hours involved an opportunity for him
JM> to sleep.
JM> As you might expect, the modules produced under those
JM> constraints ranged for cute items that filled out the target
JM> of 24 to powerful concepts worthy of full development (and a
JM> number of them had been further developed).
the talk is as much about his process and the story as it is about the
actual modules. and IIRC a couple or so of them were developed far
enough to be covered in perl best practices. rather an amazing batting
average considering how they were initially created.
uri
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