Archive for December, 2007
MVC Architecture
Thursday, December 27th, 2007Basic Stuff: The Model-View-Controller Architecture has three components used to partition and separate the processing from the display or GUI: The Model, View and Controller.
Basically, the inputs are mapped to the Controller and the outputs are mapped to the View. The Model maintains the persistent state of the Controller. Some MVC Architecture Diagrams […]
Not Invented Here — Time to Reframe the Development Process (Part III)
Friday, December 14th, 2007 Leveraging existing technology is always a difficult task. It’s more of a personal challenge to get over the mindset that you can do it better. Perhaps you can, but do you have the time and budget to accomplish the daunting task of building a component that someone already has built for you?
There’s […]
Not Invented Here — Time to Reframe the Development Process (Part II)
Thursday, December 13th, 2007Not Invented Here is a continuing series of articles to help you overcome the hurdles of reusing and leverage existing technology for rapid development. The decision to develop any product in-house takes considerable amount of effort and development time. Reusing components and integrating them with your product reduces the time to delivery and in […]
Not Invented Here — Time to Reframe the Development Process
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007“Not Invented Here” (NIH). This is one of the biggest hurdles developers have to overcome when reusing components, modules, functions or snippets in the production software. I’ve run across it my entire development career — developers simply do not like to use software that they don’t write and own — and of course, I’m […]
Life Span of a Mouse
Monday, December 10th, 2007Today was the first day I had to change the batteries in my Microsoft Natural Mouse. The two Energizer AA batteries that came with the mouse ran out of juice after about four months of use.
The mouse got a new life with some old 1800 mAh rechargeable batteries I found in the garage. (I […]