Pipes experiment
I decided to have a little play around with Pipes a few days ago for the first time. I had a little problem that I thought would be relatively easy to solve using Pipes.
First of all let me say I love pipes, I love the whole idea of feed mashing and have been fascinated with the concept for a while. Pipes however make such feed mashing child's play, no code involved (OK you can insert some regex). I was not going to go to deep in this particular session however as the problem I had set seemed simple enough. But in implementing I learnt an important lesson about taking such a high level graphical view, one I had perhaps forgotten. With all of this simple drag and drop connecting of the pipe components, my brain actually forgot to engage on the normal analysis I would undergo during even the most simple programming task. As a result I completed the design within 10 minutes and set it running. Only several days later did I realise the fundamental error in the design, one which any casual pipes user could easily make.