Password: password Favorite pet, children’s birthdates, or last movie reference you remember. For a list of your co-worker’s passwords, just look at her sticky-notes on her monitor. Partial Class: Classless by half. Pattern: Nervous habit typified by repetitive actions. Persistence Layer: The magician’s hat where programmers reach in and data come out. Where old data […]
Author: george jeffry
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Object: n. abstract representation of a physical entity. v. first reaction to any management suggestion. The lowest hierarchical application structure in an object-oriented language that can stand up and say, I instantiate! The first O in Oh-oh. Object Orientation: The predictable result of choosing a language that requires everything to be an object. When all you have […]
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n-Tier: A confusing design guaranteed to require more resources. Over-engineered by reducing the problem to its meaningless parts. Non Disclosure Agreement: Big red flag that a company thinks it has found a new way to do business, like the Dot Com Startups, or Enron. Non-Trivial: This is going to be really expensive. Normalization: The work necessary […]
Bidniss
In Dynamics Business Central, Bidniss[1] is the first domain. Programming is the second. Bidniss confers Dynamics BC with all its raison d’être. A.L.L. First came the accountant. Then came the accounting software. Then came the bidniss software. Finally came the Enterprise Resource Planning[2] software: the solution to all known and unknown bidniss problems. Except… not. […]
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MVC: Model-View-Controller… which is wrong because it is rightly Model-Controller-View. A study of separation in systems that don’t do anything if you separate them. See n-Tier MVVM: Model-View-View-Model… which is also wrong because it is rightly View Model-View Model. The new way to say MVC. Wiring the UI to the Model in a way that its persistent […]