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Comment Don't do it!! (Score 1) 168

Don't fall into that trap.. I did. Here is what I learned: 1) There is no complete answer to how to document a project. anyone that tells you otherwise probably doesn't code or support someone else's work. 2) Learning project management takes time and experience. A book won't help.. I have several and all are equally useless. 3) Project management doesn't sound like what you are looking for (like the other person above said, PM is for Middle Management). what you need to do is look at it from the outside. if you had to come in to support someone else's website/database, what would you need to be able to support it successfully? inputs, outputs, timings, schedule jobs, maintenance jobs, etc. Document what those are and how they run. Then create some basic flows to describe how the system integrates together. Being the only IT developer will make the documentation more difficult and you aren't going to get it right the first time (or first dozen times). Just be ready to add or remove information from your documentation as you go. Also, every time you have to research something, create a document that defines what the problem was and how you fixed it.. you or someone that follows you may need it to resolve future problems. And don't trust what I tell you to be true or final. You will find a better way as you go through it.

Move Over AJAX, Make Room for ARAX 409

sasserstyl writes "eWeek reports that Microsoft's Silverlight platform will support Ruby client-side scripting, enabling ARAX — or Asynchronous Ruby and XML. Would be cool to have the option to script client-side in something other than Javascript. 'In essence, using ARAX, Ruby developers would not have to go through the machinations of using something like the RJS (Ruby JavaScript) utility, where they write Ruby code and RJS generates JavaScript code to run on the client, Lam said. "Sure, you could do it that way, but then at some point you might have to add some JavaScript code that adds some custom functionality on the client yourself," he said. "So there's always that sense of, 'Now I'm in another world. And wouldn't it be nice if I have this utility class I wrote in Ruby...' Today if I want to use it in the browser I have to port it to JavaScript. Now I can just run it in the browser."'"

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