Archive of July 2006
July 20
Bullet Points of Wisdom.
Haven't written on here for a while. Anytime I have looked at a computer for the last 2 -3 months I have been knee deep in source code for the project I am working on here at work. While I definately couldn't be bothered going into depth about what this has involved (I will one day for my own reference), I will offer a few bullet points of wisdom that I have picked up along the way.
- Perl has a certain charm kind of like a loaded gun. You can do a lot with it, but you know you can hurt yourself.
- WMI is a pretty cool technology. I have used this alot to automate tasks across an entire enterprise.
- VBScript just plain sucks. What you can do with it is cool (ADO , ADSI, the whole Win32 and COM thing etc.), but the language itself bites.
- LDAP programming is really cool, but the API differences between languages can hurt.
- DON'T use bleeding edge Oracle versions.
- Version control and issue management are a must for any software endeavour.
- perldoc is cool.
- Software complexity grows exponentially.
I have learnt heaps more working on this project, so much so that there is no doubt I have already forgotten it.
Two weeks to go live. Its going to be a long two weeks.
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