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Entries for January, 2009

Version control and bug tracking

In my years of developing software, I come to realize that what every software development department needs is: some sort of IDE with a compiler version control and bug tracking. Usually you get stuck with IDE with a compiler. Everything else is up to you. But how are things in Lotus Notes?

Got sick :(…

… so there will be no post this week. Sorry.

Design patterns – Part 5: Adapter pattern

Another quite useful pattern is Adapter pattern. Adapters represent an interface between two different classes. For example imagine being a continental EU citizen travelling to UK. For you to plug in to UK power plug, you need an adapter that will take the interface your connector has and output the interface UK power plug demands.

Web Services on ND8 vs ND7

One would think, creating and running web services on ND8 should not be incompatible with ND7 process. Wrong. There are a few quite important differences when creating web services on ND8 instead of ND7. You can now create clients. The one we’ve all been waiting for since ND7 came out. Web services created/built on ND8 [...]