Monday, February 24, 2014

Notes on Software Testing

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It seems software testing is one of those really hard things to get right.  I find very often I run into projects where the testing is inade...
Thursday, January 23, 2014

PGObject on CPAN: NoSQL Ideas for PostgreSQL Applications

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One of the legitimate points Martin Fowler has argued in favor of NoSQL databases is that expecting application to directly manipulate relat...
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Saturday, November 23, 2013

Reporting in LedgerSMB 1.4: Part 5, Conclusions

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I hope many of you have enjoyed this series.  We've tried hard to avoid inner platform syndrome here by making reporting something that ...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Writing Reports in LedgerSMB 1.4: (Mostly-) Declarative Perl Modules

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So far we have talked about getting data in, and interacting with the database.  Now we will talk about the largest of the modules and cover...
Tuesday, November 12, 2013

On CPAN, Community, and P: A Case Study in What Not to Do

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I am going to try to do this piece as respectfully as I can.  I understand people put a lot of work into developing things and they submit t...
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Monday, November 11, 2013

Writing Reports in LedgerSMB 1.4, part 3, Stored Procedure Conventions and Best Practices

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The stored procedures/UDFs form the heart of the LedgerSMB reports. Everything else basically is there to handle input to the stored procedu...
Friday, November 8, 2013

Interlude: A cool PL/PGSQL trick

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I will be getting back to the report writing in LedgerSMB next or the week after.   I have an open source, PostgreSQL-based point of sale pr...