In the first article in this series, I sketched out some of the basic design ideas for the wordpress plugin licensing system. The next step is to come up with some more concrete details about how the application will work, what information it will manage and what the interfaces will look like when accessing it. I really like using the UML as I flesh out a design. In particular I find the class diagram and activity diagram useful. I frequently make use of stereotypes to extend the meaning of my classes. I’m not......
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Programming has evolved in very significant ways over the last few decades. There have been some significant strides forward in terms of language structure, reduced complexity and programmer productivity. One of these shifts was from procedural style programming using a language like C to object oriented programming using a language like C++. Most modern languages support objects, inheritance and other object oriented constructs. However, not all programmers use these the right way. As a matter of course, most introductory material in programming is procedural in style (a linear sequence of commands). It’s important......
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