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2009年06月10日

Building our own tools

As software engineers, we are in the enviable position to be able to build our own tools. At work one my subprojects involves writing a Web application that using HTTP::Engine and jQuery. This suits me fine because I wanted to learn these technologies anyway. To debug the Web app, I've installed FireBug. To see remote logs in the browser, I've installed the FirePHP plugin, then written a tool to send logs to FirePHP from within HTTP::Engine.

I have written more tools based on this one, and there are also lots of tools to help my workflow — shell and editor configuration files, distribution building tools, and so forth. And because we write software to help us write software, we can make that software available to help others, who also want to write software.

This is a nice way of working, and I think few professions, apart from toolsmiths, are able to make their own tools.

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