Category Archives: Workflow

Event Aggregator And/Or/vs Mediator: A Tale Of Two Patterns

Posted on March 18, 2013 by Derick Bailey

Design patterns often differ only in semantics and intent. That is, the language used to describe the pattern is what sets it apart, more than an implementation of that specific pattern. It often comes down to squares vs rectangles vs … Continue reading →

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Workflow In Backbone Apps: Triggering View Events From DOM Events

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Derick Bailey

In my previous blog post, I talked about modeling an explicit workflow in JavaScript and Backbone application. The last code sample I showed had the implementation of the workflow object itself, but omitted all of the details of the views … Continue reading →

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Modeling Explicit Workflow With Code, In JavaScript And Backbone Apps

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Derick Bailey

A long time ago, in what seems to be a previous life at this point, I wrote a small blog post about modeling and creating an explicit return value from a dialog form in a Windows application. Fast forward a … Continue reading →

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Git and our friction points and beginners mistakes

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Gabriel Schenker

Introduction A couple of days ago I posted an article talking about our migration from SVN to Git. During our first handful of days working with Git our team found several friction points hindering our daily work flow and we … Continue reading →

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Migrating to Git

Posted on June 15, 2010 by Gabriel Schenker

This weekend our development team migrated to Git. As any other migration this migration introduced some friction at the very beginning. But all in all I think it went rather smooth. Disclaimer This post is mainly thought as a self … Continue reading →

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Managing Bug Fixes Across Multiple Releases With Git Cherry-Pick

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Derick Bailey

One of the problems I’ve faced in my software development career is managing bug fixes across multiple releases. If there are multiple versions of the software in development, test, production, out at client sites and deployed to internal servers, it … Continue reading →

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Coupling Is Your Friend

Posted on April 12, 2010 by Derick Bailey

My SOLID article in Code Magazine talks about the concept of coupling as one of the object oriented principles that we are striving to get right. “Coupling is not inherently evil. If you don’t have some amount of coupling, your … Continue reading →

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My ‘Decoupling Workflow’ Presentation Was Accepted For #LSSC10

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Derick Bailey

I was notified yesterday that my ‘Decoupling Workflow’ submission for the Lean Software & Systems Conference in Atlanta was accepted! This will be a complete re-write of the presentation, by the same name, that I gave at the 2009 Austin … Continue reading →

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Understanding The Application Controller Through Object Messaging Patterns

Posted on December 23, 2009 by Derick Bailey

Earlier in the year, I posted a few times on the Application Controller pattern that I was implementing, including some workflow service related posts, all leading up to the presentation on decoupling workflow from forms that I gave at Austin … Continue reading →

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A Kanban Board Is A Production Leveling Task Board

Posted on September 3, 2009 by Derick Bailey

In the lean manufacturing world heijunka – production leveling – “is a technique for reducing the mura waste and vital to the development of production efficiency […]. The general idea is to produce intermediate goods at a constant rate, to … Continue reading →

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