Re^2: Hoss'ss Last Words

[cavac]

Six weeks from now, even your own work will have become the work of a stranger.

Words of wisdom, indeed. Just today i had to bugfix a project a colleage of mine based on some old, alpha-version of my web framework.

My reactions where something like this:

• Why has this file a timestamp of early 2010? Has it really been this long? Oh god, i'm getting old...
• Why wont this jQuery command work? Whoops, that was before i started using jQuery...
• How the f..k do i install this? Where is the Makefile.PL? Oh, yes, that was before i made it into a module...
• Uhm, i managed to accidently kill the running instance. Now how do i start it again???

On the plus side, i realized that all the hard work in the 2 years since then really paid off. I even managed to document all uhm most of ok, well part of some of my codebase. And the double-plus side, nowadays hardly any configuration file requires misspelling keywords for the program to actually work...