Basic Synopsis As I decided earlier, I want to make my next step forward the development of new satellites, based on the XML REST Interface that was added in Version 1.8. I want these satellites to first, work with mobile … Continue reading
Diagramming Now, the purists and software development academics (read: people who don’t actually have to write software for a living, and solve all their problems in less than 1,000 lines of code) will say that we need to develop UML … Continue reading
Starting to Write the Class Okay, we have the file created, a source code repository set up, the beginning of the header established, We’re ready to start working on the code itself.
Unit Testing One of the most important things to remember about testing, is that it should be “woven into” development. Many software developers leave testing until the end. This is a terrible mistake. I’m an extremely experienced professional software engineer, … Continue reading
How Do We Set Up Queries? OK, the basic way to query the REST connection, is explained in this page, which will then refer you to the syntax specified in this page. However, asking users of this class to provide … Continue reading
The Parameters As Objects If you are experienced in Object Programming, and you look at our decision to establish server transactions as “setup/execute,” then you will immediately see the potential for applying OOP to the problem.
Once upon a time, in a kingdom not far from here, a king summoned two of his advisors for a test. He showed them both a shiny metal box with two slots in the top, a control knob, and a … Continue reading
The Parameter Storage Has Been Added In this revision of the class, I have the two parameter storage arrays in, and all the accessors up and going. I know they are up and going, because I have written unit tests … Continue reading
Making A Big Change Remember when I said that we need to be careful how much work we put into documentation? Well, I want to make a fairly substantial change to the way this class will work. If I had … Continue reading
The Satellite Controller Class Is Gonna ROCK! I spent the last couple of days working out a very good system of interacting with the root servers to load the Controller class with some data that is specific to the server. … Continue reading
