WoWInterface - Tullamods

Dogfood
By: Tuller - 12-12-2009 11:59 AM
I think for development of addons, it is especially important to eat your own dog food. To me, this involves the following: The developer must actually be an active player in World of Warcraft, and actually use his or her own addons. If the developer does not use the addon in question, there's a good chance of bugs and usability issues remaining present for a long time. If there's a configuration setting in the addon, the developer must use it. If the developer does not use the setting, there's a good chance it'll be bug prone, or have some usability flaw. I'm sure there are outliers to this idea, but I think it works in general.

Bagnon GuildBank
By: Tuller - 11-26-2009 02:15 PM
I got my stuff back, and am slowly working on Bagnon_GuildBank: Fun times.

Hacked, and Bagnon_GuildBank
By: Tuller - 11-22-2009 09:05 PM
So, my WoW account was hacked sometime early Saturday morning. It sucks, but I'm hopeful that Blizzard will set things right with it. Prior to this, I was working on Bagnon_GuildBank. I expect to resume working on it in a week or so. Until then, I'll be playing Dragon Age :P

The future
By: Tuller - 11-18-2009 10:54 AM
Here are my immediate future plans for my stuff. I've actually tried to fill out everything both on my roadmap and issue tracker. I've also revamped the wiki a bit. Anyway, here are my current plans for things: Bagnon: My priority for Bagnon is saved searches. After that, its guild bank support I'm after. Dominos: My priority is to write a new totem bar that functions more like the stock totem bar. After that, I'm probably going to explore more esoteric things: like infinite macro buttons and state based layouts. OmniCC: The next update is likely going to be a rewrite. I want to try and reduce CPU usage, and also try and merge pulse and shine into the main pack. Combuctor: I'm currently favoring Bagnon over Combuctor at the moment, but the bank viewing bug bugs (haha) me. Hopefully I'll begin work on it at some point again.

Looking backish

By: Tuller - 11-16-2009 10:30 PM

I wrote the following a few weeks ago as a response to a person on Curse asking about Bongos_Minimap, and thought I would share:

Quote:

I'm a crazy person, I know this. The end result is I end up doing the following:
* Use some addon, or come up with an idea, and think, "hey, I should make this"
* Create something
* Release it.
* Get it to a point of stability
* Work on something else
* Decide, "hey, there are things I'd like to do over"
* Rewrite the entire thing.
* Release it.
* Repeat

This is why Bongos, the Dominos betas of Bongos (tabbed bars), Bongos2, Bongos3, and Dominos. Each one is the result of me trying an idea, then something happening (either me not liking the end result, or a patch breaking everything). Bongos2 existed because of wow 2.0. Bongos3 existed to try and resolve common issues people experienced with Bongos2, Dominos exists because I felt I was doing too much with Bongos3.

Bongos_Minimap was the end result of me thinking, "Wouldn't it be great if I made it possible to move anything using the Bongos frame system?" Eventually another user expanded upon the idea and created Cornucopia. I ended up dropping support for the minimap module because I felt I had increased the scope of Bongos too much. (Bongos/Dominos is strictly limited to only modify things that it needs to as a result of breaking up the main action bar into movable parts).

Bongos_Stats existed because Bongos disabled the ping display, I did not feel like running Titan Panel to get one :P I dropped it when blizzard added a ping display to the menu bar.

Anyway, here are my two crazy ideas that could ever lead to another Bongos:
* An unlimited actionbars that you draw on the screen type addon. (think a simpler, easier to use macaroon).
* An addon with per _state_ layouts: Your interface will be able to completely change when in bear/cat/holding down alt/etc.

I just went and read through all of my blog posts here, too.