We couldn’t get Dallas to let go of the old STAIR code, which kind of sucks in the end, but at the same time I DID get my old dev. team back, meaning Gerhard and Jory are along for the ride again. It works out for the best anyway I guess, since the STAIR code won’t fit into the HL7 mold very well anyway, and it was going to be a hassle to cram it into a hole that didn’t fit (no, not your mom, sicko!).
Anyway, so Gerhard started last week, and it’s down to SDLC filings over the next few days to finish up the Touch Medical design. Agile is good. When we wrote STAIR, it was the infamous “one off” approach, which kind of makes it amazing we got anywhere at all (in the end, it turned out to be an exercise in pure will to haul the project across the finish line). The fucked up thing was that we had to do all the Agile/SDLC crap to file FDA, but because we wrote to describe a process we had already done, we saw very little benefit from the method. This time around, the 4 month drag of trying to buy STAIR gave me a good long time to review all the questions around our design and get them nailed down. I bet we save years with a roadmap…
C# still rocks, and with the sudden emergence of mobile devices this year (such as the ipad), it’s looking like the WPF/Silverlight evolution of the Visual Studio framework is a winner. With C# at the back of WPF, we are able to separate the design and code roles out giving us an easy way to allocate people’s talents. It’s going to be 4 apps, 5 utilities, a web portal, and 4 servers. We have 4 guys. The timer starts for real Nov 1. Another software project trip… here we go…
I had to eject the STAIR website (well … duh!), and it fucked up the links in my blog something awful. I refreshed the wordpress theme, and patched it all up to date, but some of the older links may be broken for awhile, so bear with me as I start to clean up the mess.