Friday, January 13, 2006
Spiralling out...
Why is that then when you set out to do something simple it always spins out to something more complex.
I started writing a small python app two days ago. It needed a database to store multiple records, each with the same three fields. To avoid mucking around distributing something like PostgreSQL I made use of python's anydbm library.
So there I am at 1AM this morning writing unit tests for queries framed as the intersection of sets of keys returned from an index mechanism of my own design. How did I get there... I don't think I'll ever know. I wasn't even drinking - or perhaps that was the problem?
