Aren't you tired of writing programs the same old way, knowing you should take more care with the code, feeling that they need to be tested more, experience "deja vu coding" -- writing something you know you or someone else must already have written? "This Old Program, These Old Programmers" aims to help you jettison the old way of writing your applications, and help you establish new and better patterns of programming. This seminar presents crucial guidelines for high quality development (including new ideas on error handling) and then focuses on three main topics:

• Guidelines for high quality development: key elements required to ensure that the code you right meets user requirements, works efficiently and is very maintainable.
   
• Doing it right the first time: Steven steps through the development of a utility, demonstrating best practices that help you keep your code readable, manageable and (relatively) free of bugs.
   
• Fixing it right the second time: No matter how disciplined we are, there is always room for improvement. This portion of the seminar introduces the concept of refactoring for PL/SQL developers. You will learn how to more rigorously apply best practices and sound programming techniques to existing code, improving its inner design, structure and overall robustness.