Most of my software is made for my own use. I write tools that help me test software. For instance, I wrote a tool that tells me how many simultaneous users I

Most of my software is made for my own use. I write tools that help me test software. For instance, I wrote a tool that tells me how many simultaneous users I need to simulate X number of real users who are hitting the server only intermittently. If you write tools for your own use, unless they are really big you tend not to bother with coding style conventions. The important thing is being able to code it up quickly. I used to write everything is Perl, but I’ve switched to Python. It’s a great rapid prototyping language, and basically everything I do is a prototype.