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Starting a new project brings waves of emotions as I ebb and flow from optimism to pessimism and back.  I await for first growth in the code base until I feel firm in the direction and progress.  The general scope has been made but the details, oh the details.  They lay around like building a house from Ikea parts.  They are all small and minor by themselves but they all have to be put together in to a form where the project breaths to life in a not-too-scarry form, waiting to be prettied up later.

With each new project is the opportunity to learn some bit of new technology that I've not used before.  Coming from decades of professional experience I get to look at the new technology, little impacted by the hype and blessings that may be heaped on it by numerous web pages and developers.  What I find is what can this technology do for my project knowing that jettisoning it is always an option for my 2nd or 3rd choices.

Never get too burdened down with non-core technology, I'm not going to marry it, I only want to date a bit and maybe, just maybe become friends.

I've done this so many times before.  I always estimate tight and then come in tighter (sweating a bit along the way).  The progress will come and the details in my mental vision become clearer.  It all takes time.

I've done this all before.

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