Steven Black

Steven Black

Steven Black is a software architect who has written a wiki and uses them extensively in project work.

Articles Authored

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.