I wrote a small tool in C# the other day…

I haven’t really written any code since 2001 or 2002. Back then I had written some code that ended up shipping in Office X for Mac and a small app that displayed IP addresses that was for my use only. Recently I’ve only had time to futz with PHP to make changes to this blog. I did a lot more coding in college in Java.

Recently I needed to process some log files at work, and I had been using Excel but that would take literally 2 hours. I figured it wouldn’t be too hard to write an app in Java to do this kind of stuff, after all I did a lot of that at Hopkins. Being that I had Visual Studio 2008 installed, I thought I’d try it out in C# instead. Boy, Visual Studio sure made it easy with all that intelli-stuff. And my little app now processes the logs in 20 minutes instead. Sweet.

It sure was fun to write some code again, hit compile, and a build the product. You get the results instantly, unlike writing a great spec. But still, I think I’ll stick with being a Program Manager and writing great specs for great features.