For our April monthly meeting, we have two presentations planned which you will find below.  The meeting will start at 6:30 in the Paladin Inc offices.  For meeting directions and info go to the Meetings link above.

• Tom Woestman  - Application Logic Management:   While developing an internal travel application servicing over 14,000 trips a year, we found we needed to manage a complex web of roles and states to determine whether a particular user may perform operations such as: submit the travel request to the next approval step, cancel a travel request, send the travel request back for more information, etc.  After initially creating the complex web of logic to manage this complex set of criteria, we developed an alternative approach that moved handling the logic of this from the programmer to the business analyst and made updating this logic trivial.  I would like to share this approach with you and hope that you find it as useful as we do.
• Robert Gatti - Database Indexes:  One of the too often overlooked performance bottlenecks with database driven applications comes from either the lack of use, or the misuse of database indexes.  Robert will be showing some examples of how proper database indexing can benefit your systems.  The examples will be using MS SQL Server, but the principles apply to most DBMS.

I look forward to seeing you all there.