A Making-App UI | #114

Once armed with the idea of a shipping app and a making app, a whole range of possibilities open up. Among the most powerful: give your making app a UI just for making. A "making app" is when we take the same sourcecode from the program we're shipping, and use it for another program at the same time. That program is one we develop and tailor expressly to enable us to work more effectively on the shipping app. We tend to overlook it, but when we run our unit tests, for instance, we're actually running a making app. Whole great swathes of the code are exactly the same code we ship, just put together in a different way. But there's no reason to have just one making app, and no reason to limit its capability to only running our microtests. We can do all sorts of cool things in a making app. --- You can read the full transcription of this podcast over on GeePawHill.org. Any feedback, you can always tweet @GeePawHill on Twitter, or drop a voice message via the voice messages link here on Anchor. If you are interested in becoming more involved in the Change-Harvesting community, click here to learn how to join GeePaw's Camerata.