Attention: The following article was published over 13 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. Please keep that in mind as you read the post.What does a consultant with Keyhole Software do? Do we do heads-down coding on software? Do we design new systems? Introduce new tools and techniques? Do we help with process? Testing? Gathering …
Attention: The following article was published over 14 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. 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 were being produced by COBOL applications, and since …
Attention: The following article was published over 14 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. Please keep that in mind as you read the post.As a software consultant, I very rarely end up in a situation where I am asked to implement something new from scratch, and even rarer is the request to come in and …
Attention: The following article was published over 14 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. Please keep that in mind as you read the post.With the addition of new team members to Keyhole Software this week, I began to contemplate the type of person that thrives in our organization. Considering the number of skilled candidates considered …
Attention: The following article was published over 14 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. 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 are in the primary class that are called by concrete classes. This …
