Greetings FME’ers,
You might remember a blog article from last year entitled “Code Smells and FME Golf” for which the FME golf part was a workspace challenge that had occurred to me. You all rose to meet the challenge and submitted a series of entries, but I put them to one side for a while and never did get back to them (sorry).
Anyway, a train journey from Vancouver to Winnipeg is an excellent time to do some FME golfing so, while watching the scenery pass by, I finally worked on the problem myself and reviewed what you had all done.
This post is the first of two; in this post I’ll talk about the concept and what I did to achieve the goal, in the second post I’ll list all of the strategies users came up with and who had the best result!
The Contest
So FME golf comes from the concept of Code Golf the idea of which is to write the smallest amount of code to carry out a given task. For example this snippet of code:
!(y%100
Anyway, a train journey from Vancouver to Winnipeg is an excellent time to do some FME golfing so, while watching the scenery pass by, I finally worked on the problem myself and reviewed what you had all done.
This post is the first of two; in this post I’ll talk about the concept and what I did to achieve the goal, in the second post I’ll list all of the strategies users came up with and who had the best result!
The Contest
So FME golf comes from the concept of Code Golf the idea of which is to write the smallest amount of code to carry out a given task. For example this snippet of code:
!(y%100