Archive for November, 2006

Grey Matter: Code Generation On A Budget

A large word document plonked into my outlook inbox with the specs for my latest project. After reading through I came across the database schema from hell.
It starts like this:

 
And ends merrily like this:

The fields are of a revealing nature so these are just substitutes.
The problem is that these are columns of a […]

Project Source Code Removal

The other day I ran into a slight problem.
It began simply enough — I was to deploy a complex asp.net project to a client server without any source code. The intellectual property of the company I worked for had to be maintained.
Simple enough, I thought. Just create a deployment package and specify only the content […]