This is the third post about software compatibility, the previous ones were talking about project management and bugs and this one deals with database schemas compatibility (I will deal with stored procedures in the chapters about code compatibility). First of all, what does backward compatibility means when talking about the database? Being able to retain […]
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This is my second post about backward compatibility in software, the first one was dealing with the project management aspect of software compatibility, this one talks about bugs and how, sometimes, correcting a bug can break compatibility. First of all, coming back to my previous post on the subject, deciding whether or not to break […]
I just wanted to share this piece of true goodness with my friends out there and those I will never meet.
For most software companies the ability to ship new versions of a product that will preserve clients’ data and customizations is a matter of market share. Still, this is often an afterthought and there seems to be little documentation available. This article is the first of a serie about managing backward compatibility in enterprise applications. […]
I just created my first “Vote for me” badge, with InkScape, sooooo cool :)
Take 10 minutes and think about the following: I am French, born in NYC the 24th of April at 3pm. What is my birth date on my passport? If was living in Thailand and wanted to open a bank account what birth date should I give (Hint: Thailand does not use the Gregorian calendar) ? […]
Despite statistics tell us that about 2 billion people are English Users in the world and that they represent about 30{5f676304cfd4ae2259631a2f5a3ea815e87ae216a7b910a3d060a7b08502a4b2} of the Internet users, I don’t think that English is the language of the web.
Have you ever tried to write Java code with non-ASCII characters? Like having French method names?
Last Saturday I was chatting with my colleague David about communication issues inside the enterprise.