Just yesterday I was talking to a friend of mine by the name of “Zero Tolerance” pretty known vBulleting/IPB programmer. He was explaining to me why free forum software shouldn’t go the “noob route”.

UPDATE Clause Locks the sql table

He was telling me how vBulletin works and was explaining to me that when a user views a topic they don’t update the topics table because thousands of users visit the topics A LOT when on a big community specially like vB support forum. They instead of using UPDATE clause they use INSERT clause because its a less priority towards the sql server. So picture 300 members viewing a topic the sql table is Updating Locking the table and unlocking the table constantly just to add +1 to the total views. This could terribly kill your sql server resulting in a db shut down.

So try avoid using the “UPDATE” clause at the wrong times. Everyone don’t edit their post at the same time, but I’m pretty sure a lot will view a topic at the same time on a big topic or announcement.

Step Two: Taking Your Ideas off Paper

When one works on a project it’s either unorganized or badly planned, not always because some people plan there projects ahead of time :). This can and will hurt the programmers because when someone develops a project and its not even planned out correctly, then they will lose time off their project.

Projects Need to be Like Recipe’s.

What is organization? Organization is basically putting something in a orderly fashion. In other words, To Organize or Keep Clean.
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There comes a time when anyone, maybe you or me, will want to create a fantastic project. You might have a few ideas and the concept of the project, but you don’t know exactly where its going or what is going on because you didn’t plan or organize that project.

Why Humans Plan Stuff?

We plan things because we want things to be perfect, even though no one is perfect we want things to be as perfect as they can get regardless of the flaws or what we have to do to get to that stage. For example take Microsoft and Windows Vista. They wanted to be perfect yet they released to early and has the most bugs, thats why I stick with windows xp :).

Why do I plan things?

Great question, I plan things because I hate being in the position where I have a feeling I won’t finish the project it self. It’s bad practice to make up ideas as you code because anyone can do that. Doesn’t mean you’ll come out a success, then again there are some people who can do that and develop great software.

So I’ve been writing a series of articles related to this topic. It’s called “Long Term Project Planning” (Part 2 releasing today). It’ll get you started on your Journey to planning a great and successful project for the future.