Perfect Start

I'm never satisfied, regardless of where I may find myself working, with the current state of our process. I.e. its xp-ness. From time to time, this manifests as a weird desire to go off and try to implement the perfect project from a process point of view (where's Peter piper when you need him...). I pick a simple domain (something which won't get in the way of focusing on the process while interesting enough to me that I don't lose interest entirely (which is what usually occurs)) and start implementing while focusing on perfecting the process.

That time is now (minus a day)! So I started to write some code with the process in place. After 2+ hours you won't believe what I ended up with. And since you won't I'd best tell you, eh?

I ended up with a subversion project with a decent sized ant file and a few libraries (cobertura, junit and maybe a few others that I'm not remembering right now) and no code. The ant file with build a fully tested and code covered application (once it's written). All tested (OK, so I wrote one test case and one implementation just to test it, but I threw them out in the end).

And it was all very satisfying...