March 23, 2007 - ElegantCode

23 Mar

2007

How Much Did You Code Last Week?

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: Agile, Management, Software Development:7 Comments

Each month am privileged to have an early breakfast with a group of very senior developer types, as the Boise Software Architecture Group. I enjoy the sincere dialog and earnest debate. ORM mapping seems to be a hot topic lately, along with measuring code quality, Agile methodologies, and VSTS. Few of us are exclusively developers anymore, sharing titles like Manager, […]

23 Mar

2007

Business Data Catalog

By: David Starr Category:UncategorizedTag: Microsoft, Software Development, Tools and Utilities:2 Comments

The Business Data Catalog (BDC) is a new subsystem within Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS). To the best of my understanding, the BDC wraps disparate data repositories from around your enterprise in a single, programmatically accessible object model. The functionality of the object model is apparently driven by meta data that describes the underlying repositories. The idea […]