Team. We are still on schedule although I raised a few development issues yesterday. We are not interested in "gold-plating" our product or being overcome by "feature creep"; however, the issues which I raised yesterday might lessen the required development tasks.
For those of you who are not familiar with engineering vernacular, "gold-plating" is the process of adding a number of unnecessary "bells and whistles" when programming. "Feature creep" is the gradual introduction of extra features in feature baseline of the product. Writing is a creative process which generates ideas. It does not matter whether one is writing novels, poems, sermons, weblog entries or software products. As a result, we often have ideas for new features which we should place in the final product or replace features which we already have. We must control this creativity balancing between the process of improving the final product and the useless process of adding frivolous features. In engineering, this task falls in the category of change management. For, we could ever be "adding new features" and never be "finishing the product".
The current state of the general-purpose servlet with exception handling will be on the "javacaboose" weblog in the morning. Enjoy your day, and remember ... Hunt... Peck... Think...! His eye is on the sparrow. La-La.
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