Versus Software   game + free time = duck

I was having a chat with my good friend this afternoon. He was having some trouble getting the XML parser on the iPhone to work and I tried to help him out where I could. I gave him the tip to always check for the xml error parser code, when something goes wrong, even if most likely nothing will.

He said that he was doing this project solo, and that such verification wasn’t necessary. That’s when I remarked “Two months from today you will be another person working on this project.” He got the joke and we both laughed.

You see even when you are working alone, as projects evolve, change focus or simply take time, you will forget about different assumptions you had previously taken. You will also forget about previous remarks you had in your code, which functions should be called, by whom and so on.

A solo project is still being developed by a team of individuals. They’re just separated by the 4rth dimension.