David Freeman david_freeman@rocketmail.com writes:
[...] We are analysing a system here and we need to maintain an implementation specific view of things until we get into the design stage. As I can see things, we skipped the feasibilty stage and also the analysis and Design stages, and thus we have arrived at the implementation phase with some major lack of designs.
ARRRRRRRRRRGH -- another "big design" fan?
Do the phrases "you aren't gonna need it" and "do the simplest thing that could possibly work" mean anything to you? http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ExtremeProgrammingRoadmap
I mean, yes, let's design this thing, and the start of this thread is a good starting point, but let's not waste time procrastinating and drawing pretty pictures of the system. Good code is written code, before anything else.
[...] Can we get anything on the alug.org.uk hosts in the way of either mysql or postgres?
I don't know, but I'd expect so, or at least a hostname pointed somewhere that did.