by Unlicensed Unknown user
I've been to a ton of conferences and heard a lot of keynote speeches, and I don't remember many of them. Nick Petreley's Clarion keynote of many years is one I do recall, but mainly because of the cool Pinky and the Brain clip he showed and not because of what he actually said. And Hank Asher's Clarion keynote has stuck with me because a few years later I was contacted by a lawyer interested in my recording of that event.
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Use ClarionTest or CWUnit to unit test your business logic, or set up your own testing framework/coding convention. As much as possible, be able to test your business logic apart from the user interface or the database. This will make development, maintenance and even design easier. Once your business logic is right you can write it into the UI and/or the database. And now that I have you thinkigg thinking about unit tests...
Subscriber content: Many-to-many checkboxes revisited
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Align procedure and method return values with ABC
It took my me years to get comfortable with ABC's standard for return values, but I'm fully on board now. It was the above mentioned Hanson Loop that finally pushed me into the Level: zone.
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