An individual who is the first to explore or discover a concept, location or ideology is called a pioneer. Most likely you are a modern pioneer and don’t even realize it!
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November 3, 2013
Using the Command Pattern to Store Versionable Data
In the article, Create a Persistent Data Structure, we learned the fundamental theories to provide versionable data management within a database. Today’s article moves out of the abstract theory and into a working code sample demonstrating how to create a versionable database using the command pattern.
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October 19, 2013
Create a Persistent Data Structure
Occasionally I encounter a business need to track all changes allowing a user to view the data as it currently is stored or as it was stored. Having the ability to view the structure of a system from a previous point of reference is called a historical database or a persistent data structure. In this article we will review various strategies to create a persistent data structure. In the next article I will demonstrate how to create a persistent data structure.
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May 26, 2011
Software Review Checklists
The post, Software Reviews, demonstrated the value of basing reviews upon business quality expectations. The post, Software Principles, reviewed the foundational concepts found within solid software solutions. The Software Review Checklists in today’s post can be used as a starting point to validate the quality of the work product for each phase of the software development lifecycle.
May 25, 2011
Software Principles
Yesterday’s post, Software Reviews, demonstrated how to measure the quality of a software product based upon business needs. Before we can discuss how to review the software to measure its performance against the specified quality criteria we first must understand what makes a good quality program good in the first place. Today’s post will review foundational software principles that make possible the construction of solid software products.
May 24, 2011
Software Reviews
Reviews are a critical part of any process ensuring the quality of work created meets the expectations of the company and client. The challenge for any review is to ensure the focus is on clearly defined, measurable, value-added expectations. The next few posts will focus on how to construct an objective, team building review process complete with templates. (more…)
Larry Steinle 
Documentation for the Agile Team
Tags: Agile, Agile Manifesto, Business Analysis, Code Comments, Documentation, Project Management, Requirements, User Stories
The second point of the Agile Manifesto states, “We value working software over comprehensive documentation. That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more.”
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