On Principals and Reality
Published on October 11, 2004 By Judge In Software Development
So the long road of development continues. Same old same old. Too many ideas, not enough time.

I'm a big proponent of agile development. Of course, in my own project I've not applied that methodology and, of course, the project is suffering as a consequence. If I had my code under source code control, if I had unit tests and if I had code documentation development would probably progress a little faster.

The issue, really, is that for this project (SysStats) I was learning a whole new set of things, like:

  • Visual Studio 6.0
  • COM
  • Windows APIs
To have used agile techniques I would also have had to found and learnt:
  • An API doc toolset
  • A source-code control system
  • A unit testing library
I want to implement all of this build environment, but I also want to implement a whole bunch of other functional improvements to SysStats. Its difficult, when you're one person, to prioritise all of these tasks.

Oh. And I also want to fit in a family life, and my day job (I'm a systems architect).

Comments
on Feb 07, 2006
Hi Judge,

How can I contact you for to make you some questions?
Thanks.

darioarnaez@hotmail.com