Virtuous Code

In our last episode we were augmenting FMTP::Message classes to deal with messages split across multiple packets. As is often the case, fixing one problem revlealed another. What with the unstable weather patterns in Oz – you never know when a spacetime-ripping tornado will appear out of nowhere – our flying monkeys sometimes get […]

Sure, monkey patching is great and all. That period of disbelief, followed by increasing exasperation as the victim maintenance programmer discovers that an object is behaving differently than it’s source code says it should, is satisfying. But sooner or later he or she wises up and greps through the codebase, discovers where you […]