Sometimes it feels as though software development is a process of enfolding. You start out with a fairly simple system, and then you think “Hey, what if I try to add this cool feature?”<\/p>\n
So you build a demo of that feature using your system. But after you get it working, you realize that you want that capability to work everywhere within your system.<\/p>\n
So you move it inward. Instead of a demo, it becomes a core capability, implemented in one of your system’s internal libraries.<\/p>\n
What’s nice about this transition is that once something has become enfolded — made the transition from demo to core capability — it is then able to work together with all of your system’s other core capabilities. And that’s a lot more fun for everybody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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