Automatic Code Documentation
For our Univex Business for the Web application, currently in development, we made a decision early on to write documentation in the code and have it parsed by a tool to produce some pretty HTML based...
View ArticleWhy Yii?
We use Yii as framework (a base) for our Univex Business Web application. It is one of many tools and processes we use to develop software. It was not a fluke that Yii worked out well. It was a...
View ArticleMonitoring the Monitoring System
Oops! We continue to roll out our monitoring infrastructure (see Monitoring With Zabbix) but made a mistake. We forgot to monitor the monitoring service itself! We have been alerting if the server it...
View ArticleNuoDB
NuoDB is a new database engine that is about to be released – and we are excited about it! NuoDB gives you a familiar relational / SQL database system on a platform that allows you to run it...
View ArticleMulti-core Processing
This week we released our December update for our back office and point of sale software. In addition to statement emailing that I wrote about last week, we are now exploiting features in the newer...
View ArticleMoving To Mercurial, Never Looking Back
Last week we moved our main web project from Subversion to Bit Bucket / Mercurial. I suspect this year we will be moving everything off Subversion on to a distributed version control system (DVCS) such...
View ArticleEmploying AngularJS
As part of our web system refresh (or rather restructure, or in blunter terms, fix up some things now to reduce the pain in the long run), we are employing AngularJS to do a lot of the front end coding...
View ArticleJasmine, Automated Testing, Usability Testing
After last week’s Employing AngularJS post I forgot to detail out how we are testing all of this rewritten Javascript! We already had automated systems that used Selenium and PHPUnit to test our source...
View ArticleWelcome Bootstrap!
We have added Bootstrap to our list of technologies employed in our new web systems. Like AngularJS this lets simplifies our code and do some pretty nifty GUI tricks in the browser. Things are starting...
View ArticleDesign Patterns
This week I finished reading Head First Design Patterns – a book that covers classic ways of structuring software code to solve real-world problems. It’s a great book, so much so it has made it on to...
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