BirbaBot SQL Development

Author: roughnecks

Leading Actors: roughnecks, melmothX

Introduction

I'm going to tell you a story about code development: a simple one.

When melmothX started coding BirbaBot in perl i knew nothing about code: nonetheless he asked me to help him ..

"2011-10-03 15:09:16 <&melmothX> ti impari anche un po' di perl nel frattempo? :-P"
"2011-10-03 15:20:09 <~roughnecks> bah, mi sa di no"

and this way we started; then came sql for me..

The TRUE Story :D

I was not really interested in code, but we agreed that i could have been useful anyway: melmothX pasted me a link with the w3c's SQL tutorial and, don't ask how, i got into it as soon as i read. Then it was like me and mel discussing what plugins to code first, for the urgent need of the channel, obviously (we were still at irc.syrolnet.org/#l_altro_mondo and a bot i used to run in this very same machine was going mad after some recent update by it's author, dunk_ who i salute very much)... but plugins needed a sqlite database and we usually were deciding together what has to be done and how to do it.

If you've grabbed a copy of the bot you'll have seen some .sql files in the files/sql/ direcory: well, those file, written by me, were used in order to test the queries BirbaBot will have accomplished, once it would have been ready. Those files are a mix of English and Italian, they are surely messy and maybe they don't get much sense as seen by an outsider (me myself got stuck after the first halfpage of "sqlprototype2.sql"): i'm wondering now what melmothX thought about those files and if they really helped him so far.

So, the story ends, BirboBot finally had her sqlite database, she lived happily in some channels, not much really, but, "who gives?" and the one and half programmers kept going the same way, even if taking different roads ;)