A Year of BEER

Programming is pretty cool. It's one of the only disciplines where the tools are made of the same stuff the products are. In fact, the only other one I can name is blacksmithing and really, it's best that I don't try that one.


As of a couple weeks ago, the BEER engine is officially a year old. Sadly, I didn't notice until I went to update numbers for September. A good 35,000 lines and more than 200 hours later, I have to say that it's everything I wanted it to be and more. It's hard to say in objective terms how much I've learned in this endeavor and the (so far) three projects it's enabled, but I can say without hesitation that it's been a substantial amount.