… Two important additions to the basic data model have been introduced: Enhancement of the view with an interface that is better suited to the needs of the user; and introduction of process information (the project labels) to provide more relevant information to the
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File versioning should be easy, but it quickly gets complicated. Let me tell you about the easy scenario, and then I’ll add in the complications. The easy scenario is a file (actually it could be any discrete artifact, but we can talk about files for now) that you create one day, then change the next day, then change the next day, and so on. Not too bad, we’re talking version 1 on the first day, version 2 on the next
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… While much of the information is generated or acquired once and never modified afterwards, a significant portion of the data is used, modified and reused. Many times, even! Or at least, that’s what you
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In an information architecture, requirements are connected to design documents and test cases. Design documents are connected to test cases and sometimes to source code…. The information is organized as a web, whereas in a data warehouse the information is organized into one or more
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The “v1″ at the end of the URL indicates you want the first version of the post. Why would anyone want to do this? On the internet, where you publish only what you want people to read and you don’t want anybody going back through previous drafts, the answer is pretty clear: You want everybody to see only the latest copy. But believe it or not, there’s more to the world than the blogosphere and the
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