Articles Authored

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  Wiki Technology for Teams

  Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025

  Published in: CODE Magazine: 2002 - July/August

  Lauren Clarke and Steven Black explore how wikis serve as dynamic, web-based collaborative tools that enhance software development teams by providing a shared, easily editable knowledge repository. The authors highlight wikis’ topic-centric nature, accessibility, and simple text-based editing, which foster continuous peer contribution and project continuity across distributed teams. They discuss the technical underpinnings of wikis, their benefits for managing diverse project artifacts, and the potential for extending wiki capabilities through structured content and parsing. Ultimately, Clarke and Black argue that wikis offer a practical, low-cost solution for effective team knowledge management and communication.

  • Project Management
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  Collaborative Development Part 1 - Source Control

  Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025

  Published in: CODE Magazine: 2002 - March/April

  Lauren Clarke argues that effective collaborative software development—especially for distributed teams—requires robust source control: she explains core versioning concepts, practical benefits (rollback, diffs, branching, sharing, deployment), and gives a how-to for Visual SourceSafe while evaluating SourceGear’s SOS Collab for remote access and integrated project tools, concluding that adopting automated version control is indispensable for team productivity and reliability.

  • Development Process
  • Source Control
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  Static Content in a Dynamic World

  Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025

  Published in: CODE Magazine: 2001 - Issue 2

  Web applications are essentially made up of functions that map inputs (requests) to outputs (responses).This article looks at a way to store the relationship between request and response and pre-generate responses, thus reducing the resources needed fulfill requests.

  • Visual FoxPro
  • Web Development (general)