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A-OK! The Wings of Mercury
Programming the Right Stuff
Issue: 2.4 (March/April 2004)
Author: Joe Nastasi
Author Bio: Joe Nastasi is the president of Pyramid Design, a software development firm and the developers of A-OK! The Wings of Mercury and FTP Suite.
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A-OK! The Wings of Mercury
Programming the Right Stuff
by Joe Nastasi
Joe Nastasi is the president of Pyramid Design, a software development firm and the developers of A-OK! The Wings of Mercury and FTP Suite. The first part of this postmortem (or is it postpartum?) is essentially a chronicle of the beginnings of A-OK! The Wings of Mercurcy (A-OK! WoM) through its current state of being. The current version's development has essentially been ongoing since REALbasic was commercially introduced, and I want to offer my perspective on creating and managing (and occasionally mismanaging) a huge, complex project like A-OK! WoM. The second part will finish the story and summarize the points and suggestions I'd like to offer to the REALbasic community on avoiding the mistakes I made during development.
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