Little triumphs

[denise]

Today I was doing an annoying and tedious (DW-accounts-support-related) repetitive task. I started in on it, got partway through, went "HEY WAIT A MINUTE, THERE ARE TOOLS FOR THIS", and twenty minutes later I had a stupid little simple perl script that took the input file, munched on it a bit, and wrote to an output file! I didn't need to copy and paste eight billion things, and I got to read from and write to files in perl for the first time.

I was laughing at myself for being so proud of it (it really is kinda silly -- something like 20 lines total) but then I stopped and thought, no! I should be proud! I am a tool using mammal and I selected the right tool for the job and made it do the tedious and repetitive work for me (okay, after like 10 tries, but still).

So, I wanted to share that (I scripted something! ALL BY MYSELF! AND IT WORKED!), and invite the rest of y'all to share some small programmatic triumph you've run into lately on your DW work. Because dammit, even if it's "little" by more experienced peoples' standards, it is still a damn great feeling and it should be celebrated. :)