Bill,
Thanks for the reply, I thought I had lost that book, but I just found it buried under a stack of old R:Views and R:Base Exchanges. Second edition July 1995. I'll take that book to lunch with me. I have been trying to firm up and improve my coding standards for years, preparing for this situation. The main thing is trying to add lots more comments to explain my (fuzzy) logic :-) Kenny From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Downall Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 12:32 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Team Programming RBase Kenny, That was an enormously long time ago. Any handouts we wrote were probably done in WordStar, or the Describe word processor :-). I'll see what I can find. Do you happen to have a copy of the book "Inside R:BASE?" by Anne Gillihan? It has several pages on "Programming Standards" in chapter two, and the presentation you remember probably stole a lot of material from that book. And Anne's book, in turn, stole a lot of that section from Kevin Collins, a one-time independent R:BASE developer, and then for a while a Microrim honcho, before he left for Microsoft. Both the book and the presentation would be a bit dated, because they were done before the days of EEPS, which should get their own new set of standards, dealing with efficient use of Custom Form Actions, Component ID naming conventions, etc. The key is not any particular set of standards, but that you work to the same standard, so that you can understand and maintain each other's work. And since you are the guy who has been there, your own standard should be based in large part on your own past practices. (At least, the best ones! :-) ) Bill On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Kenny Camp <[email protected]> wrote: Hello list, The owner of the main company I work for have asked me to hire a second programmer to help speed enhancement requests and new applications for our Rbase databases. While I would prefer working with an experienced RBase developer not necessarily located in OKC, the owners are not, hoping to have someone on site in order prepare for the worst if something were to happen to me. I have trying to prepare myself for working with another programmer but I would appreciate any input you guys might have. I appreciated the talk Bill Downall gave about the programming competition that he and David Blocker entered into and the adjustments they had to go through preparing for the competition. But that was a long time ago and I don't remember all of his talk. My applications are the result of 21 years of programming and networking support as the company grew from 4 million to 50 million per year. I have trying to prepare myself for working with another programmer but I would appreciate any input you guys might have. I really appreciated the talk Bill Downall gave at a developer's conference about the programming competition that he and David Blocker entered into and the adjustments they had to go through preparing for the competition. But that was a long time ago and I don't remember much of his talk. Any input is appreciated and this can move off-list if that is more appropriate. Kenny Camp IT Manager/Applications Developer Electro Enterprises, Inc. Oklahoma City, OK 405-427-6591 [email protected] [email protected]
