Architecture
First of all, the folks I used to work with will be glad to know that Panda Express is selling their Orange Chicken sauce at their restaurants. Unfortunately, it does not come in 2 liter bottles or six packs. On topic, the posts I've made here lately have gotten me thinking about the idea behind standards and/or best practices. I noticed a refrain in many of my posts, although it was unintentional - the idea that a given situation dictates the best solution as opposed to taking a pre-determined solution...
Posted On Monday, September 28, 2009 2:20 PM | Feedback (0)
My first actual project with regard to our systems was to write a new Proxy. I'm going to have to be a little ambiguous, once again, because I don't want to give away any proprietary or quasi-proprietary information. One of our major systems serves as a sort of brokerage for Flumphs (I'm going to compensate for being ambiguous by being completely ridiculous about it). Flumph providers constantly feed our system with information about new Flumphs. Flumph-consumers have given us their criteria they...
Posted On Tuesday, September 22, 2009 9:51 AM | Feedback (0)
The first bug I was asked to fix, here, was a bug in the Q Framework. Our websites use a little pop-up, calendar datepicker (I believe it's the jQuery datepicker, but I'd have to check). The problem we were experiencing is when we added a UK client. As most of you know, the UK displays dates in DD-MM-YYYY format as opposed to the US MM-DD-YYYY format. This trivial detail actually has a wide range of implications. First of all, any US-oriented datepicker is going to have a conniption if you pass it...
Posted On Monday, September 21, 2009 1:16 PM | Feedback (0)
One of my friends read my last post and, after an analogy involving candy stores and Japanese wrappers (or was it Japanese rappers? I think both would have worked), I decided it might be a good idea to put up some sample code to demonstrate some of the things I was talking about. I'm going to use some test code from the MVC module - mostly because I'm the most deeply into that code right now, but also because writing my own MVC framework makes me look like a total stud. At least to people who consider...
Posted On Tuesday, September 15, 2009 1:18 PM | Feedback (0)
All right, so it may have been a day or two since my last post. I was hoping I'd have the option to post-date to make it look like I was a much more diligent blogger than I really am, but oh well. Apart from just wanting to look like I blog more regularly than once a quarter, there's actually a lot of material to cover. I'm not sure exactly how I want to accomplish this, so there might be a spate of blogs close together just to cover all the things I've worked on so far and the challenges involved....
Posted On Tuesday, September 15, 2009 9:58 AM | Feedback (0)