Comments on: New Approach http://semantici.st/archives/107:new-approach Adventures in technology Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:54:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Semantici.st - A quick technopagan tool http://semantici.st/archives/107:new-approach/comment-page-1#comment-1920 Semantici.st - A quick technopagan tool Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:29:25 +0000 http://semantici.st/?p=107#comment-1920 [...] kind of goes against my earlier post about not keeping learning projects around for too long, since a play-around with RMagick turned into something that’s living on my deployment VM, [...] [...] kind of goes against my earlier post about not keeping learning projects around for too long, since a play-around with RMagick turned into something that’s living on my deployment VM, [...]

]]> By: Craig Webster http://semantici.st/archives/107:new-approach/comment-page-1#comment-1855 Craig Webster Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:55:33 +0000 http://semantici.st/?p=107#comment-1855 This sort of build-it, scrap-it, test-drive-it cycle is very common when you're unfamiliar with the technologies you're working with. Normally you'd time-box these development spikes so you don't wander off too far without adding value to the code - I tend to set my limits at about 2 days for a spike, but you'll probably have a different value that'll work better for you. Abdel wrote about prototyping which looks at some of this stuff: http://kords.wordpress.com/ This sort of build-it, scrap-it, test-drive-it cycle is very common when you’re unfamiliar with the technologies you’re working with. Normally you’d time-box these development spikes so you don’t wander off too far without adding value to the code – I tend to set my limits at about 2 days for a spike, but you’ll probably have a different value that’ll work better for you.

Abdel wrote about prototyping which looks at some of this stuff: http://kords.wordpress.com/

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