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David Pitt

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David Pitt is a Sr. Solutions Architect and Managing Partner of Keyhole Software with nearly 37 years IT experience. Recent projects involve speaking, writing, and training developers in enterprise JavaScriptโ€‹/single-page applicationโ€‹ development best practicesโ€‹, as well as the development of GrokOla, the Q&A-based wiki softwareโ€‹ for development teams.โ€‹

Build vs. Buy, Creating a Report Writing Framework

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Attention: This article was published over 14 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.During one of my engagements, a requirement arose for the production of numerous financial audit reports in PDF format. These reports currently existed and …

Code Design Decision โ€“ Protecting Delegate Access?

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Attention: This article was published over 14 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.I ran into a design decision on one my engagements. Consider an abstract class implementation that references another (delegate) object. Convenience methods areย in theย primary …

Spring/JPA Java SQL Scalar Function Utility for Layered Applications

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Attention: This article was published over 14 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.Most Java applications interact with a relational data source through a POJO object model that is mapped with an object relational (OR) mapping framework.ย  …

Making Java EE Software Development Agile, Overcoming the Disconnect

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Attention: This article was published over 14 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.If you want to go surfing but you live smack dab in Kansas, it could be a challenge. (Unless you want to go paddle …