Updated: 10/3/2005; 9:34:11 PM

  Friday, April 01, 2005

Good Debug Code = Better Applications

I've been writing a lot of code lately, trying to improve the way Radio gathers, stores and displays information from the aggregator. In the process, I've had to write a couple of significant pieces of test code, sometimes with the test code larger than the parent script.

[Jake Savin](http://jakesavin.com/) has been a big influence, knowing just how to push and prod without being *too* discouraging.

Here's what I've completed so far:

-- a new script that deletes stories from the aggregator. It allows other scripts to request deletions

-- a new script that scans for new stories on demand. This will allow the xml.aggregator scripts to call it as a callback

More later today or Saturday