From: Jason Stewart <jstewart@...>
Date: 2010-06-21T21:39:44+09:00
Subject: Re: App with lots of business logic

Hi Josh,

It's a Microsoft book, but reading Code Complete a couple of times has
given me a good grasp on how to deal with challenges of any size in
software design. I cant think of any other single book that covers the
same material in a better way. In fact, before I read this, I was
thinking about re-reading it again.

Cheers,
Jason Stewart


On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, starting basically my biggest project to date (a Rails app). I wasn't
> initially intimidated, but the more we talk about the process of how we get
> from A to B, the more I realize that it involves tons of conditional,
> overridable, partially applied until approved but maybe gets rolled back or
> overridden, messy rules, and very large (for me anyway) domain of
> information being collected, generated, queried and acted upon.
>
> I'm usually pretty confident, because I work hard and I reflect a lot, and
> am able to anticipate and overcome quite a few hurdles due to that. But
> right now I'm really worried that any small mistake or poor decision in how
> I design or implement it could reverberate out and have an extremely
> negative impact on the project. Done right it will probably be very
> convoluted, done wrong it will be a nightmare.
>
> I want to do it the right way, so that I can learn good principles, have
> something I enjoy working on and am proud of, and gain the confidence and
> capacity to continue to work on projects of this magnitude in the future.
>
> What resources (especially books, but I'm open) would you suggest I read to
> prepare myself to handle the scope and complexity of this project?
>