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The Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Philosophy
Service Oriented Architecture is a software design concept that packages small pieces of modular functionality into "services" through the software lifecycle. SOA separates functionality into a set of self-contained, modular units that can be...
Google releases web browser "chrome"
Google has done it again! In a completely unexpected (at least by myself) move they have released a browser into mainstream. Frankly, I am quite surprised! Google was such a fan of Firefox that I never thought I would see them in competition. It also...
Database Naming Conventions
Naming conventions are like arm pits. Everyone has them and they all stink! Well, at least that's the perspective of pretty much every developer an DBA alike. I will present my own personal philosophy for naming conventions on databases and hopefully...
Avoiding Circular Dependencies
The term "circular dependency" may be foreign to some programmers (especially if you do Java as it is a pretty common practice). However, anyone who has done some scripting for a referential database knows that you have to run scripts in a certain...
Unit Testing Philosophy -- Code Coverage is meaningless....
While I am a big fan of unit testing I often try to point out that Code Coverage tells us little more than “are there unit tests” not “are we unit testing”. The former indicates that the code is indeed being executed . The latter indicates that the code...