Month: November 2007

Last night I presented at the Tampa IASA meeting on a topic called “Getting Unstuck: Working with Legacy Code and Data”. It was basically a combination of Working Effectively with Legacy Code and Refactoring Databases for Software Architects. The presentation went really well – especially because so many of the points hit close to home….

Next week I’m speaking at a Tampa IASA meeting about approaching legacy code as architects. In getting ready for it, I was rereading some articles by Scott Ambler when I came across the following quote: An interesting observation is that when you take a big design up front (BDUF) approach to development where your database…

Here in the US, Thursday is the day we celebrate Thanksgiving. It seems to be a great excuse to have the family over, overindulge in food, and then have good conversations (or listen to the football broadcaster’s conversation). For us, we’ll be having lots of family over, and it should be a good time. But…

11/14/07 – Updated to fix a problem where Windows Live Writer didn’t upload the whole article At the end of the last post, we had automated tests in place that showed our business logic correctly triggered a window to open, and that the UI implemented the logic correctly. However, that window didn’t do much of…

So we demo’d the application for our customer, and he liked the direction so far. It wasn’t much functionality, but it did confirm that it was what he wanted. He would like to see the Account screens finished so that he can try out entering accounts with all of their data. So that’s what we’ll…