November 17, 2005

We went live this weekend

The system I've been working on for almost a year went live this weekend. Hooray!

We had a few changes to make on Monday, which we turned around within the day, and since then (touch wood) no show-stoppers. The changes have mainly been to do with discovering effects on downstream systems that we haven't been able to spend enough time with. The really hard part about Enterprise Systems is finding the end in "end-to-end".

We had to shed some ballast to make the date, but it works, is sufficient, is covered by unit and FIT tests, and we're already working on enhancements. We got there without last-minute crises or desperate hacking.

Perhaps this XP stuff can get a bit dull sometimes...

Posted by stevef at November 17, 2005 12:11 AM
Comments

Is TS Elliot's "The Hollow Men" a poem for your project?

We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed
filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
....
This is how the world ends
Not with a bang, but with a whimper

(see http://www.cs.umbc.edu/~evans/hollow.html)

Another poetic thought from a man at a fairground on the ends of an Enterprise system: "Round and round she goes, where she stops nobody knows"

Posted by: John Nolan at November 17, 2005 9:46 AM

I always like John Cooper Clark's version, talking about our fast-food way of life:

This is how the world ends
Not with a bang, but with a Wimpy

(for non-UK readers, Wimpy is a burger chain)

Posted by: Steve Freeman at November 17, 2005 1:22 PM

Adrenalin junkie :)

Posted by: Andy Mulhearn at November 20, 2005 9:07 PM

Adrenalin junkie :)

Posted by: Andy Mulhearn at November 20, 2005 9:07 PM