The Google Borg Assimilated Me
Sometimes development projects just drag on and on… and sometimes resistance is futile when it comes to NIH. I swear that the Borg got me the last six months when I started switching over to Cake PHP and an MVC Architecture.
It’s not that I like or enjoy assimilation, but every time I analyze the [...]
MVC Architecture
Basic 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)
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
“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 [...]
