Well, it is not exactly 5 days, but iaffectTV was
built in the span of about 4 months with only 2 people
putting about 6-8 hours a week of coding into the
site.
Here is what Daniel and I did while building
iaffectTV.
1) Thought out the idea fully, flushed it through as
completely as we could
2) Prototyped the whole freaking thing. However, I
take the prototypes further than Hal in that I create
header and footer cfm file includes and also include
all of the 'content' pages. That way when it comes
time to start really coding, you already have your
basic setup done. So, teach your HTML people how to
use cfinclude!
3) Tweaked the PT's several times.
4) Ran thru the PT's and documented out all of the
functionality that all of the sections would have. We
did not use Fusedocs for this (although I wish we
would have). We just made a Word doc detailing it all.
5) Pieced out apps into as small of sections as we
could.
6) Divided up the work.
7) Coded like hell.
Then comes all your testing, etc... which we are in
the throws of right now.
It was not only the most well built site I have ever
been a part of building, it was the fastest too.
The only thing we did not do as good of a job on as I
would have liked is in the IA. That is, deciding what
folders to use and how to interlink modules that are
shared across the site.
Everything still works very well together, but it is
not as clean as we would have liked. That gives us
something to do for build 2 though =;>
--- David Huyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Actually the 5-day code-a-thon works well if the
> specs don't shift. I am
> in
> > Day 3 of my 5 days on a new project. It is very
> cool to sit down and just
> > write code...the challenge I am having is the
> client is calling and asking
> > about adding or changing functionality AFTER the
> specification has been
> > written. I guess that is one definition of
> Heaven...all of the projects
> you
> > want with no clients or users to "get in the way".
> :-)
>
> Clearly you didn't read the 5-Day Development rules
> very carefully-- not
> only are you reading and replying to e-mail (which
> you shouldn't be able to
> do because you were supposed to disconnect your
> internet), but you are
> letting the clients call you with feature-creep (not
> only a no-no because
> your phone should be unplugged, but also because
> feature creep should have
> been disallowed to the client in the first place).
>
> Anyway, it is interesting to see that people are
> actually making a go of the
> 5-day dev cycle! Cool! :-)
>
> David Huyck
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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