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I wrote this article because I was confused about what ‘Controller Inheritance’ actually was. First let’s look at $scope inheritance. Example1 - $scope inheritance Note) The ChildCtrl is nested within MainCtrl in the html. AngularJS responds to this by ensuring that the $scope passed to ChildCtrl inherits properties and methods from the $scope passed to and decorated by MainCtrl. Also Note) AngularJS does not introduce any inheritance (prototypical or otherwise) between the actual controllers themselves. ...

I was writing out some conditions of satisfaction today and was about to write one about code modularisation. Some rubbish like As a developer, I want to be able to independently release my code so that I can fulfill my obligations….. As an Agilist, the ‘As a developer’ bit immediately rang an alarm bell, so I decided to recast this with the dicipline of thinking about real users.. do they care. ...

The software is still under development but the brochure site is up :) http://www.RuleClarity.com

I’m very excited about this new video. It previews new technology that I have been working on. Feel free to comment good or bad. I apologise in advance for my abuse of clip art and slide transitions ;).

This is one of those truths that just hit me on the train this morning. You put a solution in front of a user, its the interface that gets them excited. All of the clever, performant and robust backend processing in the world won’t impress them one bit. The backend is just ‘stuff that can go wrong’. For a case in point, . I build applications for the financial services industry. ...

Building software is a bit like building a house with bricks (please, for a moment, forget my brilliant cake analogy described earlier in blogtime). For a long time I have been using Visual Basic to build software. Building with VB is a bit like building with leggo bricks. The pieces are colorfull and easy to snap together. You can build almost anything but if you try to build anything too big, people will either say ‘wow, i dont believe you managed to build a 2 story villa with lego! ...

If you are like most people, you will be reading this humble blog post from within a browser application. If you are like most people, you are probably taking for granted many of the utilities and functions afforded to you by your browser, the toolbar with its convenient visually indicative images, the menu with its comprehensive and logically arranged functions. You are also probably entirely comfortable with the way you are interacting with this blog post. ...

After performance, the second best way to mess up your solution design is the decision to make something Generic. Get it right and you have built a future time saver, a well understood answer to future questions. Get it wrong and you can end up with a monster. Before you build it Generic, ask these questions. If you answer ‘No’ to any of these, maybe you better design a tight, clean, focused - for purpose implementation. ...

A completed software solution is like a cake, it has many layers. Rich spongey layers of relational schema and business logic and topped with oh so sweet GUI icing, yum :) Unfortunately, because software is so much like cake, it is tempting to try and make it like a cake. First Ill design my schema, then Ill do all the business logic stuff then, last of all, Ill build the GUI. ...

Being risk averse, un-agile and tragically unhip, my workplace labours under a ‘Project Delivery Framework’, essentially a formalised waterfall process attached to a clunky document workflow solution. Recently, while reviewing a detail design document, an interesting point was raised :- Who should sign off the Detail Design document? The first and most obvious answer was the AD Manager. He has to sign off that the design is ‘doable’, robust, fits with and re-uses existing architecture. ...