https://ronaldbradford.com/categories/practices/ Recent content in Practices on Enterprise Data Architect | Principal Data Strategist | MySQL Subject Matter Expert | Author | Speaker Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Mon, 22 Nov 2021 22:47:53 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/moving-to-using-dash-as-a-delimiter-2021-11-22/ Mon, 22 Nov 2021 22:47:53 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/moving-to-using-dash-as-a-delimiter-2021-11-22/ Spaces or tabs. Using 2 spaces verses 4 spaces. Defining variables as lowercase v InitCap, environment variables UPPERCASE or not, using underscore ‘_’ or dash ‘-‘ as a separator. These are all un-winnable discussions among your friends and colleagues. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/tdd-for-infrastructure-2020-09-15/ Tue, 15 Sep 2020 21:10:16 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/tdd-for-infrastructure-2020-09-15/ Test Driven Development (TDD) is an important principle for producing quality software. This is not a new concept. The Extreme Programming (XP) agile methodology (1999) outlined the concept before the acronym became more widely accepted as “Another requirement is testability. https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-agile-software-development-lifecycle-responsibility-2016-07-06/ Wed, 06 Jul 2016 15:38:20 +0000 https://ronaldbradford.com/blog/the-agile-software-development-lifecycle-responsibility-2016-07-06/ The eXtreme Programming (XP) methodology places emphasis on a number of core principles for agile software development. These include (and are not limited to) the planning game, short and frequent iterations, testing, frequent refactoring, continuous integration, ownership and standards.