Yes, it also helps me determine the state of my controllers in the
test server without straining my eyes reading the debug output. And I
have MyApp.pm system("say 'go' &"); also, which tells me that the test
server just reloaded the content and the server is ready for testing
again, each time I save a file and it auto-restarts. Before I would
have to change windows and watch it until I saw that it was ready.
Its actually quite pleasant :)
Russell Jurney
[email protected]
On Jul 1, 2009, at 10:20 AM, Ian Wells wrote:
2009/7/1 Russell Jurney <[email protected]>:
I just created a simple trait for the Catalyst::Log that uses OS
X's 'say'
utility to log error messages to audio, such that the computer will
say them
to you. My eyes tire of reading through 100s of lines of debug
output, so
now sometimes I will have the computer simply talk to me.
Top tip: making a noise is incredibly useful for test and
small-audience servers. Whenever anything goes wrong, make the
computer make a sound, and you can ask whoever has a problem straight
away what they were doing, etc. - before they forget, and often while
they're still trying to work out what to do.
(The server we had that did this coughed discreetly when a problem
came up. This was great until the winter cold season came on...)
--
Ian.
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