The right way to approach a legacy code base

Andrea Angella shares what he learned from attending Michael Feather's workshop on working effectively with legacy code.

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Some "Laws" of Software Development

Despite all the advances in software tools, there seem to be several enduring truths about software development. By understaning these 'laws', Ziv’s law, Humphrey’s Law and Conway’s Law for example, you can remove some of the mystery of the process. Al Noel discusses these and other laws that seem to apply generally to the art of programming.

Implement Continuous Integration In Your Software Project

Continuous integration, or CI, brings developers closer to delivering error-free software flawlessly. Find out how to implement it.

Continuous Integration for SQL Server Databases

When it comes to the subject of putting databases into source control, Troy Hunt is no shrinking violet. “Database source control is no longer negotiable”. In this article, published originally in his Blog, Troy explains how to do Continuous Integration from a database that is in a Version Control System (VCS).

Supporting Large Scale Team Development

With a large-scale development of a database application, the task of supporting a large number of development and test databases, keeping them up to date with different builds can soon become ridiculously complex and costly. Grant Fritchey demonstrates a novel solution that can reduce the storage requirements enormously, and allow individual developers to work on thir own version, using a full set of data.

Writing Nearly Codeless Apps: Part 5

In this next installment of the series on writing codeless applications, David Ziffer looks at the querying of data from the database.

Writing Nearly Codeless Apps: Part 4

Part four of this series on rapid application development looks at the CRUD routines that are needed for almost every application.

Writing Nearly Codeless Apps: Part 3

As we continue in this series, see how auditing tables are used to track all changes that are made to the main data tables.

Writing Nearly Codeless Apps: Part 2

In this article, learn why it makes sense to build a more standarized, more robust database based on rules and see how data modeling works in the RAP software.