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                    JOURNAL FOR WEDNESDAY 3RD APRIL, 2013
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SUBJECT: A squandered Easter bank holiday
   DATE: Wed Apr  3 21:47:38 BST 2013

So, the Easter bank holiday is behind us and I squandered it visiting family
and mostly sleeping. I did some WolfMUD coding and sorted out a few more
issues - nowhere near as much as I was planning on. I know people are itching
to get their hands on the latest code and I'm sorry :(

So what did WolfMUD Wednesday[1] bring? Actually I think I've finished sorting
out most of the outstanding issues I had. Tests are broken and need revisiting
as they haven't kept up with the developing code[2]. I also need to document a
lot of the new code[3] and clean it up.

But it is working! ;)

Now, do I prolong your agony and fix tests, clean up and document before
releasing? I know the code should be released early and released often. In
these early stages I'm also aware of the danger of releasing 'rubbish' which
becomes peoples first impressions - one look never to return.

I think I'll do what I can between now and the end of the weekend and then
release - whatever state things are in as long as it's all still working...

--
Diddymus

  [1] I always *try* to set aside Wednesday evenings after work to code on
      WolfMUD as I have a free pass while the rest of the family is busy with
      their own things.

  [2] When making sweeping structural changes in the early stages of a project
      I have a nasty habit of testing the code by running it rather than
      writing tests :(

  [3] See [2] above. Documentation doesn't have a chance of keeping up either.


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