Programming is hard! Let’s go shopping!
So: Wicker’s up, friends are signing up for accounts although mysteriously not goofing around and editing things, life is lovely. I decided to start writing Wicker’s first pagetype: a page with E2-style softlinks. From the very first draft of the very first script I wrote for Wicker, pagetypes were intended to be quite straightforward: if you see that a page has a type, include a script named after that type just before you display the page.
Obviously, I was destined, in the very first pagetype I wrote, to discover that I needed to touch more code than that. That, in fact, I needed to touch several scripts with special-cased code, just to do something incredibly simple.
I am so very, very lame compared to real coders.
But it’s okay, because really, the whole goal with Wicker right now is “make it work.” Not make it work fast, not make it work well, not even make it maintainable. Make it work, then consider it a prototype.
Then, once somebody who can actually code thinks Wicker might be good for something, I make them do the hard work! Yay!
March 26th, 2004