Thursday’s are optional work from home days at UA and the weather was reporting a huge rainy awful storm coming. I still remember getting stuck downtown for several hours during a snowstorm in February so I figured I should just stay safe at home. Andrew decided to stay home as well.
I was already up and dressed so ended up being able to start work an hour earlier than usual. Other people were already on Slack so I mentioned my plans and Mele said that was fine. I got to work finishing up my ticket so I could get it submitted and reviewed. I was adding some code, writing tests, updating documentation and sending test push requests. This took me until lunchtime but I finally pushed it up and submitted a pull request. I immediately got comments from Mele with some things to fix up. Mostly small except for missing completely that I was to add another device type to the library. Oooops!
Well I’m learning anyway. I got busy fixing up the stuff I missed and then looked over the current device types to see how to implement the new one. I made some progress but could not figure out how to write the payload function for the device. Each device has its own unique set of keyword arguments and I couldn’t find any documentation for this device! I looked and looked and looked and finally asked Mele about it. I’m glad I did! She didn’t realize the documentation was only in a place where I had no access. She quickly sent over just what I needed and I was on my way again.
I worked on getting it all done and it took me until about 18:00 but I pushed it all back up to the repo. Everyone was done for the day so I won’t know what stuff I have to fix up until tomorrow but I feel like I accomplished a LOT. It’s not really ready to be merged in though until I can actually do some testing on a real device.
Andrew came downstairs just as I was done working and reminded me that there was a Perl Mongers meeting. Ugh! It was so windy out and staying inside sounded like a great idea. He really wanted to go though so I asked if we could skip hanging out at the Lucky Lab after. He said sure! So we headed to the meeting. We were late but there were only a couple of people there before us. We said and waited a bit until more people showed up and then the organizer gave a talk about Test More. I don’t know Perl at all but his talk was very interesting! After the talk he let me know that his company was looking to hire some junior developers. I’m definitely going to be needing a job soon so I will have to send them my resume!
We came home and had delicious not-chicken noodle soup and bread with Jason, Alice, Lauren, Sean and the five of us. Jordan wasn’t feeling well so didn’t join us.
Today I learned that the indentation of a comment took down most of CPAN.