Agile & Lean Software Development Management

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Browsing Posts published in October, 2009

Now it is time to generate some business entities from a model. Suppose we have a simplified model with just one entity called Course. It has an unique identifier CourseID and a searchable and displayable attribute called CourseName. To generate source code the model is injected into the following template. The resulting generated code will [...]

The Search-Engine pattern is a simple, but powerful pattern. The user provides some sort of search phrase and the search engine returns all matches found in a data store. Next, the user browses the results to select the one she is looking for. When selected details are shown. This is exactly how Google (and other [...]

O/R mapping is a programming technique needed for converting data between relational database records and an object-oriented programming language. Of course, there are plenty of O/R mapping tools, but I guess that a fool with a tool… So, lets look at O/R mapping then. As you can see in the next picture there are subtle [...]