My current project is a rewrite of a legacy system. The client wants to be able to start leveraging the new system as we complete certain features, so this means that we need to integrate with the legacy data store. In this case, the legacy data store is a Pervasive SQL database. Prior to this project, my knowledge of Pervasive was limited to the fact that it was a btrieve database. Needless to say, it’s been quite a learning experience working with Pervasive. I was pleasantly surprised to find that...

Recently I started on a new project, with a new client. As the project is new and the client doesn’t have an established .Net development group, we’re finding out that some things which we would often take for granted just aren’t in place. One thing that came to light early on was the lack of a repeatable deployment process. We’re scheduled to have a dedicated build and deploy person on our team in a few weeks, but in the meantime, I find myself in the undesirable position of having to manually deploy...