Steven Black
Steven Black is a software architect who has written a wiki and uses them extensively in project work.
Articles Authored
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Wiki Technology for Teams
Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2002 - July/August
Software development is a collaborative process.This article is the second in a series focused on the tools and techniques developers use to effectively work in concert. This time, we look at a Web-based phenomenon, known generally as wiki, which has the potential to arm your distributed team with a fluid, open and low-noise forum for building and managing project artifacts as well as foster a collective knowledge and project continuity.
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Server-Side XML and XSL Merging
Last updated: Friday, October 28, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2000 - Fall
Data in XML format will play a significant role for the foreseeable future.Moreover, it's clear that XML and XSL will play a significant role in most, if not all, of my future applications. Why is it, however, that almost everything we read talks about merging XML+XSL on the client side, which requires IE 5 or higher browsers? In this article, Steve shows how to apply XSL transformations on the server to get around this problem.
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Some Pitfalls of Inheritance
Last updated: Thursday, December 9, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2000 - Summer
Inheritance is one of the fundamental facets of object-oriented programming. In this article,Steve looks at inheritance, and in particular some of the mistakes that many developers make when applying inheritance.
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String Processing With VFP
Last updated: Thursday, December 9, 2021
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2000 - Spring
String processing is an important aspect of today's applications.Web applications in particular, rely heavily on string transformations and special formatting of data, as well as generating strings for output to the Web dynamically in the form of HTML, XML or even binary data. In this article, Steve demonstrates and compares performance of some of the powerful string functions in Visual FoxPro.