TAOTS, Alter Egos, and other mumblings:

I finally got into The Art Of The Start. I would have to say that the book is worthwhile reading and has plenty of useful pointers. I specially liked the chapters about positioning , bootstraping, and BP.

In fact I am working on the market research and analysis sections of the BP, I am enjoying thinking exclusively in business/marketing terms.

A couple of days ago I was exchanging some ideas on usenet and one of these extreme programming (XP) evangelists attempted a Karl-Rove like attack on my views. He should be more thorough with his thought process. I am still waiting for the counter reply. Anyways, he is like the alter-ego of somebody I knew a while back.

I particularly think that the MS and Nokia delays should put a big "NOT VIABLE ANYMORE, please rethink" stamp on XP and outsourcing.

The current way QA is handled reminds me the way native polynesians dealt with the diseases misionaries brought with them: the natives dug themselves in the beach shores to reduce the the fever (efect) but did not elimnate the diseases (cause).

The eclipse/java product is coming along. I am working on array data generation. It will go through the GUI also, even for multidimensional arrays...