After All This, Octypus
So, in my most recent careering of things, I'm doing QA/Special Projects work for a startup in California. (Cytobank, if you're curious. I have rarely worked with more splendid folks, I have to say.)
Under the 'Special Projects' umbrella is a crusty little batch testing tool I'm cobbling together. Nothing spectacular (and in deep need of refactor already, I keep seeing stuff that needs work), but it's nice to get back into an editor and actually see code I wrote do work.
It's also pretty nice to think about the possible long-term implications. The mail monitoring system I wrote over a decade ago, Matriarch, is still in use as far as I know. Now, I've got Octypus: We have Sauce, we have Selenium, and Octypus gets tentacular in both of 'em. We tell it what to run, tell it what platforms to run it on, and it makes the runs requested happen. Boom boom boom.
I'm still working on the reporting features it needs, but oh, I have missed this stuff. I really, really have. It's good to be back in the text editor, y'know? Maybe I'm waxing a little too ecstatic, but it's the day after my nhhhhmpth birthday, and I feel the elation of ten years ago. That's something to remember, at least for me. :D
I'm Grace. I've spent the latter half of my life, off and on, doing Perlstuff. Seems unlikely that's going to change, except in degree.
Other than that, I'm just another Perl hacker, really. A queer, surreal, partnered, cinephiliac, etc. etc. etc., Perl hacker. ^.^
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