A few days ago Andrew Joseph Stack crashed his plane into a IRS building. The New York Times was quick to say that "NOTHING can excuse the murderous intentional plane crash into the Internal Revenue Services", and that that the four page suicide note was rambling, profanity filled and proved how unbalanced he was, that he was somehow mentally disturbed.

Although I have been critical of waterfall in the past I recently came to a realisation; that evolution is something that occurs in software development regardless of whether you intend it or not. Unless your software is dead.

In the past I have seen waterfall as a method diameterically opposed to evolutionary methods such as Extreme Programming. However, I now see that all software development is always subject to evolution. Even projects run strictly on a waterfall basis cannot escape from the process of selection which occurs in a free market.

Today was the first time I had my new boat on the water. Inside one of its hulls was a GPS device and a Linux based computer recording its position. Also running was the sensor board which enables monitoring of current coming from the solar cells and current consumed by the boat. It didn't exactly do very much however.

One year ago I posted an article about my new autonomous boat. Well it is now almost complete. The construction of the hulls is now mostly complete and I have finally got the new ARM based single board computer working. Over the holidays I plan to complete the prototype and have it in the water.