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From Scratch
Day 1: The Mission
Designing and building a complete application from scratch.
Issue: 1.1 (August/September 2002)
Author: William Leshner
Author Bio: William Leshner has been programming for twenty years and programming Macs for ten. He has spent a good deal of the last several years working in REALbasic and has come to the conclusion that REALbasic is the best development environment available anywhere.
Article Description: Follow the process of building a program from start to finish.
Article Length (in bytes): 7,907
Starting Page Number: 40
RBD Number: 1012
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Thank you for coming to this staff meeting. We don't have a lot of time, so I'll get right to the point. Our marketing department has come up with a product they want us to design and build from scratch, and management has given us only six days to do it. In a nutshell, this new product helps developers release software by automatically generating the various documents usually found in a release, such as a readme, a user's guide, a web page describing the software, and an email announcing the software to mailing lists. These documents all share information about the software being released. For example, the name of the product, the company name, copyright information, and a brief description of the product are some of information you might find on the documents included in a software release. It is a tedious and time-consuming job to keep this information up-to-date in all of the documentation for every release. Our new product solves this problem by gathering and maintaining release-related information and using that information to generate release documents from templates. We are calling this new product ShipIt!.
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