The Joy of Making Tools

10-minute lightning talk on making tools for software development. Presented at Booster 2014 in Bergen.

1. @sixty_north The Joy of Making Tools 1 Austin Bingham @austin_bingham
2. Who uses tools? 2
3. Who uses tools? ‣ Editors 2
4. Who uses tools? ‣ Editors ‣ Source control 2
5. Who uses tools? ‣ Editors ‣ Source control ‣ Indexers 2
6. Who uses tools? ‣ Editors ‣ Source control ‣ Indexers ‣ Profilers 2
7. Who uses tools? ‣ Editors ‣ Source control ‣ Indexers ‣ Profilers ‣ Debuggers 2
8. Who uses tools? ‣ Editors ‣ Source control ‣ Indexers ‣ Profilers ‣ Debuggers ‣ Refactoring tools 2
9. Who uses tools? ‣ Editors ‣ Source control ‣ Indexers ‣ Profilers ‣ Debuggers ‣ Refactoring tools 2 We all use tools!
10. 3 Copyright Seattle Municiple Archives, http://flic.kr/p/6LTb19, License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ We are experts in what our tools are made of
11. 4 We are in a privileged position Copyright LadyDragonflyCC, http://flic.kr/p/7xWi7w, License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
12. 5 Lots of great tools available already
13. 6 What are some good reasons to do tool development?
14. Necessity 7 “It is a poor craftsman who blames his tools.”
15. Learning 8
17. 10 “...if you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions - for the fun of it - then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!” - Richard Feynman
18. 11 Questions? Thank you! @sixty_north Austin Bingham @austin_bingham