[TheForge] Re: guardrails and handrails

[Gladish Family]

Isn't it great when the purpose of all this running around gets clearly
stated?
Years ago I apprenticed with a high priced old fashioned house painter. A
real one of a kind character, but very successful.
First day, when I started stirring paint, he said I was doing it all wrong-
instead of stirring round and round, he wanted me to stir it in an s-curve
with two lines down the middle, like this..   $
Said, "Never forget what we're doing here!"

Andy G.

>
> 	When I designed AT&T's ALLIANCE teleconferencing system, I
> 	prototyped it usong an object-oriented tool called PTech.
> 	It employed a top-down approach, which is the only really
> 	good way to prototype non-trivial systems.  You begin with
> 	a "goal", which is to answer the question of what the system
> 	ultimately does.  This is sort of a stupid approach in that
> 	things are not that simple, usually, but I had to work within
> 	the constraints of the tool.  So I had a problem defining the
> 	goal.  Was it to establish a conference?  To conclude a
> 	conference?  To schedule one?  Then one day Max came to me
> 	and said the answer was easy: the goal is to generate a bill.
> 	And so it was true.  Without the bill, it is as you say,
> 	nothing more than a hobby.