Over complication
Live and learn I guess.
I was thinking tonight on some of my past projects and one of the things that came to mind is that some of my projects have been started with the wrong sorts of things in mind. At least partially. The catalyst for this was thinking on the application I wrote for Tony. I went out of the way to do everything asynchronously and via a web service so that I might eventually put a Silverlight client in instead. Tony doesn't care about that sort of things and it just made the whole thing more complicated than it needed to be.
The project had other value to me. It extended my knowledge of XAML which in turn is something I now use pretty much every day, but the project in retrospect seems a little like overkill.
I've taken a lot of time off doing my personal development lately, but I think I need to get back to it shortly. Starting to feel the urge to code for myself again. I think one of the things I want to focus on is improving Tony's application. Thinking a complete rewrite (database and Fluent NHibernate stuff aside) and do it up more like Veronica's original application with just a standalone application with direct access to the database. It should make things simpler and hopefully make it easier for me to enhance the model. Today it doesn't seem like Tony is using the application at all. Pen and paper is easier for him than my application.
And tonight I think I will get the ball rolling.
I was thinking tonight on some of my past projects and one of the things that came to mind is that some of my projects have been started with the wrong sorts of things in mind. At least partially. The catalyst for this was thinking on the application I wrote for Tony. I went out of the way to do everything asynchronously and via a web service so that I might eventually put a Silverlight client in instead. Tony doesn't care about that sort of things and it just made the whole thing more complicated than it needed to be.
The project had other value to me. It extended my knowledge of XAML which in turn is something I now use pretty much every day, but the project in retrospect seems a little like overkill.
I've taken a lot of time off doing my personal development lately, but I think I need to get back to it shortly. Starting to feel the urge to code for myself again. I think one of the things I want to focus on is improving Tony's application. Thinking a complete rewrite (database and Fluent NHibernate stuff aside) and do it up more like Veronica's original application with just a standalone application with direct access to the database. It should make things simpler and hopefully make it easier for me to enhance the model. Today it doesn't seem like Tony is using the application at all. Pen and paper is easier for him than my application.
And tonight I think I will get the ball rolling.
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