Codin'
Goals:
1. Have the rest of the application interact with the data sources only through an interface
2. Make it so the rest of the application doesn’t have (even can’t) to know how the data sources work
3. Make it easy to change the DAL without affecting anything else
4. Keep all of the relevant information together where possible [...]
Published in Codin' on Tuesday, November 2nd, 2004
I just discovered another benefit of writing unit tests: I can get my database code actually working before I try to integrate it into the website code.
I actually used to do this when I was writing my JSP-based asset database because it was easier and faster to test things automatically using a command line program [...]
Published in Codin' on Tuesday, October 19th, 2004
I feel like such an idiot. :) I spent the morning getting upset about a dll reference problem. My solution: lunch, my current favourite web comic and chocolate. When I came back I remembered it was exactly the same problem I had on Friday and I fixed it in about five minutes.
Published in Codin' on Monday, October 11th, 2004
Kind of distressing, kind of fun to look at my old PHP blog script and feel good about how far my coding has come since I wrote it. Ironically I have spent the best part of the evening stripping things out of the scripts, making them easier to maintain and possible to actually use. Still [...]
Published in Codin' on Wednesday, September 29th, 2004
