May 2005
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Here are the articles that were published in May 2005.
Cabaret is awarded Best Musical
published: Fri, 20-May-2005
Wow, this is bloody beautiful. Back in February, with three
performances every weekend, the Rep at the Fine Arts Center produced
Cabaret, the musical. I directed it, and it was my first time at
directing a musical. Today the Gazette (the local paper) published its
"Best Of" for the period June 2004 to May 2005 and Cabaret was awarded
Best Musical. Yay!
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General admin notes
published: Fri, 27-May-2005
I've decided to make some changes to my blog here on boyet.com. The
first one is that, starting 1-June, I'll be publishing entire blog
posts on my RSS feed. The second one is that I'll be attempting to
categorize (tag, in other words) my blog posts and then providing
pages that list blog posts for a particular category. The last one is
that I'll be posting updates about my articles in
The Delphi Magazine.
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New thoughts on writing database applications
published: Wed, 18-May-2005
Over the past few weeks, we, the Architecture team at
Configuresoft, have been
involved in designing the Next Generation architecture for our
product. My area of responsibility is the "middle tier", which ranges
from the layer that accesses the data from the database engine, all
the way up to the presentation layer, the bit just under the UI. Yeah,
lotta work. Read more...
Using TDD when you don't know the technology
published: Mon, 2-May-2005
This came up in a discussion at work. "We need to write code to access
technology X, which uses COM. How do we do it using TDD?" Technology X
is very deep and rich and looking at the API is an exercise in
frustration: how to we get to where we want to be? The task seems
overwhelming. Read more...