Designing a Workflow Engine Database Part 4: States and Transitions

Let's design what States and Transitions mean for our Workflow Engine database (Part 4 of 8).

Designing a Workflow Engine Database Part 3: Request Details and Data

What makes a Request, and how can we store data that is unique to each Process? Find out in this post! (Part 3 of 8)

Designing a Workflow Engine Database Part 2: The Process Table and Users

This is Part 2 of an eight-part series describing how to design a database for a Workflow [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workflow] Engine. Check out Part 1 here: Designing a Workflow Engine DatabaseWhat is a Workflow Engine, and what does it do? Let’s find out and set off

Designing a Workflow Engine Database

What is a Workflow Engine, and what does it do? Let's find out and set off on a Database Design adventure (Part 1 of 8).

Explain Yourself!

A few days ago I was summoned to a meeting where one of the most basic ideas a web programmer can have wasn't obvious to our non-technical customers. Something had gotten lost in translation, and now I had to try to explain myself. Our customers (let's call them Kate and