(Michael Sorens) Test-Driven Development (TDD) relies on the repetition of a very short development cycle Starting from an initially failing automated test that defines the functionality that is required, and then producing the minimum amount of code to pass that test, and finally refactoring the n
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(Henrik Loeser) Wow, what a title for this article. Today I will describe exactly that, nothing more. Recently I created a SQLDB service (DB2) in my IBM Bluemix account. Looking at the documentation for the SQLDB service, it describes how to use DB2 for programming languages like Java, Ruby, and Nod
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(Steve Endow) In the last year, I’ve had two customers request Dynamics GP integrations packaged up as COM DLLs so that their internal applications can call the DLL to import transactions into GP.
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