devlog

i decided to use Class::RDF as a small test case for what a more ‘literate’ project and programming behaviour might be. a small collection of files, rss feeds of cvs commit notes and code journals written on irc, a DOAP file, some beautiful code coverage reports made by Devel::Cover.
imagining a wiki-like interface, to code, to […]

Later i talked to dngnand about journalling, and he showed me a hidden blog where his cvs commit notes are made available in html and RSS. We also talked about literate programming, and his idea of using wiki markup as a way to write literate programs. i enjoyed reading knuth’s original article on literate programming, […]

bugfixing indyvoter drove me to crazed thoughts of conversational development methods: of consensus code generation without becoming a slave to formalisms or change control regimes. we all wander down paths of reasoning, change APIs, leaving no breadcrumbs on the onramp.
i didn’t have to invent a development methodology: i stole one from the preface to Tom […]