Multi-core Processing
This week we released our December update for our back office and point of sale software. In addition to statement emailing that I wrote about last week, we are now exploiting features in the newer...
View ArticleMoving To Mercurial, Never Looking Back
Last week we moved our main web project from Subversion to Bit Bucket / Mercurial. I suspect this year we will be moving everything off Subversion on to a distributed version control system (DVCS) such...
View ArticleProgramming For Exceptions
Possibly the wisest piece of programming advice I ever received was to program for exceptions. Any random guy with one eye and one finger can hack out a program, but our job as a software professional...
View ArticleEmploying AngularJS
As part of our web system refresh (or rather restructure, or in blunter terms, fix up some things now to reduce the pain in the long run), we are employing AngularJS to do a lot of the front end coding...
View ArticleJasmine, Automated Testing, Usability Testing
After last week’s Employing AngularJS post I forgot to detail out how we are testing all of this rewritten Javascript! We already had automated systems that used Selenium and PHPUnit to test our source...
View ArticleEmbrace The Log File
As a programmer how much information are logging to disk about your program’s operation? If you are like most people, probably very little, maybe none at all. Perhaps you have an exception handling...
View ArticleWelcome Bootstrap!
We have added Bootstrap to our list of technologies employed in our new web systems. Like AngularJS this lets simplifies our code and do some pretty nifty GUI tricks in the browser. Things are starting...
View ArticleA Load Off Our Shoulders
Have you ever completed a major undertaking and finally thought whew! that’s a massive load off our shoulders! For us that came last week with the final version of our software to run on Windows 2000...
View ArticleChecklists
I think you will find a lot of software developers, and engineers in general, like making lists. It is in our DNA. Systems are complex, and systems talking to other systems can be diabolical....
View ArticleDesign Patterns
This week I finished reading Head First Design Patterns – a book that covers classic ways of structuring software code to solve real-world problems. It’s a great book, so much so it has made it on to...
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