Strategic eCommerce Technology and Architecture
Posted in code, Enterprise Development on Mar 30th, 2010
The Problem to Solve Many web applications collect financial information to submit as leads for loans, credit card applications, bank information or other purposes. To ensure that the submitted SSN is valid, a validation algorithm must be implemented against the submitted value. Many websites in their infancy check only for length and null, but there [...]
Posted in Dev process, Enterprise Development on Mar 23rd, 2010
Update from an article originally published by me in 2007 Alignment is everything For many years, managers in the software industry submitted budgets that were unrealistic to Business Unit managers that had no clue as to what to question, what to approve or where to cut. As business has grown up and increased its expectations [...]
Posted in Best Practices, code, Enterprise Development on Mar 20th, 2010
Django has wonderful unit testing functionality built into the framework. It is often ignored because Django gives so much functionality “out of the box”, but this doesn’t mean that one shouldn’t do “their part” when extending the framework to build your own applications. Tests are a great way to “figure out” what needs to be [...]
Posted in code, Uncategorized on Mar 5th, 2010
Django has become a friend of mine over the last year. I had previous experience with Ruby on Rails, and was always disappointed when it came to deploying and productizing the application, and the actual framework APIs and implementations underwent too many changes over the last few years to give me the confidence I needed [...]
Posted in Linux on Mar 4th, 2010
I recently upgraded my Dell Precision M90 Laptop to Ubuntu Karmic Koala. I’m running it standalone, no Windows anywhere. When I upgraded using ?apt-get upgrade? my touchpad didn?t work. Nothing. The touchpad was completely disabled. I assume that this is a problem on M70s, etc. Found a fix after searching for two days; ? in [...]
Posted in Best Practices, Enterprise Development on Mar 4th, 2010
Test Driven Development is mystical to any engineer that doesn’t have it as part of their development culture. ?Many shops don’t have the peer pressure and leadership that requires TDD in day-to-day operations. ?Others don’t see the need when working with Legacy Codebases. ?Some engineers have never written a unit test in their professional careers. [...]
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