This is how I roll
I've been working on installing a new product at work that involes multiple servers and annoying application server software, and my boss asked me to keep a log of what I did, for whenever we roll it out for real, we can follow the same steps..
So, in my typical fashion, instead of just opening a text file and typing in things that I'm doing.. I've spent the past 2 hours over-engineering a perl script, complete with command line options and sanity checking, to keep track of the commands I am running, what machine I am running them on, and specific notes pertaining to each step.. If I was crazy, the next step would be to make it ouput xml and generate a RSS feed, and/or maybe keep tack of elements in a database.. but we won't go there quite yet.
This is much like my penchant for scrolling through command line history for 5 minutes rather than just re-typing a command (this is before I realized the beauty of ^r in bash, that is).
Not to mention the 10 minutes or so I spent posting about this, rather than actually getting to work.
Indeed, this is how I roll.
So, in my typical fashion, instead of just opening a text file and typing in things that I'm doing.. I've spent the past 2 hours over-engineering a perl script, complete with command line options and sanity checking, to keep track of the commands I am running, what machine I am running them on, and specific notes pertaining to each step.. If I was crazy, the next step would be to make it ouput xml and generate a RSS feed, and/or maybe keep tack of elements in a database.. but we won't go there quite yet.
This is much like my penchant for scrolling through command line history for 5 minutes rather than just re-typing a command (this is before I realized the beauty of ^r in bash, that is).
Not to mention the 10 minutes or so I spent posting about this, rather than actually getting to work.
Indeed, this is how I roll.