https://github.com/neilb/whipupathon

A whipupathon is a focussed hour spent creating something, focussing on creating something useful that works
https://github.com/neilb/whipupathon

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A whipupathon is a focussed hour spent creating something, focussing on creating something useful that works

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/neilb/whipupathon
• Owner: neilb
• Created: 2014-06-08T13:12:29.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2014-06-08T13:44:45.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-06T00:45:21.568Z (2 months ago)
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• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Whipupathon - an hour to get something done

A whipupathon is an hour spent creating something. The term came from the

Perl programming language, and specifically from Perl's *whipupitude*,

but you can have a whipupathon in any programming language.

It's basically [time boxing](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeboxing)

to give yourself some focus, and force / encourage you on the deliverable

without getting too hung up on how you get there. That can come later.

I created the first version of the

[CPAN Regular Releasers](http://neilb.org/cpan-regulars/) (CRR) script

in a whipupathon, and will use that to illustrate some of the points.

* Give yourself an hour, with no distractions

* Don't try and do too much. Pick a specific thing and just focus on that.

  My goal with CRR was to create a script that could generate the top 10

  for "once a week", similar to [CJM](http://www.cjmweb.net)'s

  [once a week, every week](http://onceaweek.cjmweb.net/current) competition.

* Focus on getting something working as quickly as possible.

  The first version of my script had weeks starting on Monday, and just

  spat out a text list to STDOUT.

* Aim for smaller and complete rather than larger and incomplete.

* If you ship something within the hour, for example releasing a module

  to CPAN, that's a *shipupathon*!