Re: Where do you turn for programming inspiration?

[jlongino]

My three sources of inspiration are geekish at best.

Perl occupies a small percentage of my daily duties. Answering stupid questions on the phone day-in and day-out can dull the mind. When I get enough time between calls, I'm ready to start/continue/finish one or more of several Perl projects.

I've had alot of doctor appointments lately, and seeing as I can't stand to sit around in the waiting room reading 3 year old issues of Newsweek or Sports Illustrated, I've taken along my O'Reilly Perl Cookbook and some small postit notes. Now I have 14 postits in place for snippets that contained interesting and potentially useful projects.

The last but sometimes most compelling source is my todo list of applications that I've wanted to convert to perl for ages. Having to maintain code in Fortran, SAS, Pascal or Quick Basic provides plenty of incentive.

If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong. -- Norm Schryer