Ok I have been looking for some good examples of Line of business apps implemented in silverlight. I have come across a few bits on the net but nothing with any substance to it. The MS silverlight samples are cool for eye candy and stuff kind of like you see done in Flash but nothing that is true LOB lets actually make something useful ...
My question is not exactly about programming per se, but I think SO has already overgrown its "programming-only" scope... For those who don't like to read long introductions, here is my attempt to formulate the question without any background - the chances are some of you could understand right away what I am asking about: Q: When deve...
Thanks everyone for all the great answers. I collected all the advise into a single post. Here is the original question, answer below: Hello this is not a direct programming/development question, its more business of software. I've been talking with 2 entrepreneurs who want to create an iphone application. They are putting ...
When I approach any new web application projects now, I like to offer up the idea of using Silverlight to the client. Often if it is a public facing application I meet a dead-end when the argument of "downloading the Silverlight plugin is an inconvenience to the user". I can use the argument that it would be cheaper to the client to im...
There are a number of sites where you can post programming tasks. The general view I have picked up from other questions is that these sites are not very good at delivering successful results. But it seems to me that it must depend greatly on the type of task, and I suspect the success rate of outsourcing to rent-a-coder, elance, etc. wi...
I'm putting together a presentation aimed towards entrepreneurs on the present state of industrial AI development, titled "The business of AI"; however, what little resources I have found on Google seems awfully outdated. So I turn to the nice folks on Stackoverflow: Of the present day used systems, which products do you consider good b...
I always have debate with my Architect / DB team , on having a hybrid model to move partial business logic into the SP, like give the results based on few flags like Status , Date and logged-in USER ID ROLE( might also have some basic business logic) for a huge volume of DATA. If we can do this in SP then we could improve the performance...
I am entering into a venture between myself and 2 other people: A) Programmer - Me B) Business guy 1 - long time former client and somewhat of a friend, lots of industry contacts....it was his idea initially. C) Business guy 2 - wealthy, industry insider, MBA. I have only met once at lunch. The application can be most simply described...
I just got hired as a web developer for a marketing company (though they do lots of things, development is the bread and butter). I'm a self taught developer with zero experience as a programmer other than my own freelance stuff. I've always been in the sales/consulting side of business, never been paid for being a geek really. And so ...
I would like to start a software company. It is just myself and a business partner to start, but we would eventually like to grow beyond that. We have a plan already, but want as much advice as possible on the topic. We have not filled out the legal paperwork yet because we are not yet sure of the best type of company/state to start i...
I'm just starting out on a freelance project after several years as an employee. Currently, I'm negotiating a short contract with my first customer, and its proving to be quite difficult. Edit: I have not started any work for them yet, we are still negotiating a contract. The main problem is simply this - the client is rarely availabl...
I know "Getting Real" from the 37signals? What else? ...
Hi, I'm considering to add "hard" email verification to my website(s). I.e. require users visit a link with a verification key sent by email before they can post content. This will add an extra step in the registration procedure and I'm concerned that it may keep some users away. In practice how does this affect the rate of new people...
Gravatar is linked to email address. If I enter somebody else's email - I can use his/her photo as avatar and that someone won't like it. So the obvious solution is - validate email - which some other people will not like either. The question is - is it worth setting up email validation for the purpose of making sure that stealing avat...
Ok, I'm a lowly developer just minding my own business. Suddenly, I'm thrust into the crazy situation where I'm being handed a piece of paper, consisting of hastily written point notes from a client meeting. From this, I'm supposed to estimate development time on a short software project (3 - 6 weeks). The notes range from fairly useful...
They're hiring me as their "lead programmer" as they call it, but it's really a project manager position. I will be doing little or no programming, they want to outsource the programming to an Indian shop. (their call, not mine) "The Mythical Man Month" comes to mind, given their interest in outsourcing, but I'm sure there's quite a few...
I keep hearing stories of developers having an endless summer on the back of their iphone fart apps and such. do you have any stories of a development style thats let you set your own schedule more. I tend to contract for 8 months and work on startups from home for 4 months over summer. This seems to just take me out of a cubicle. ...
We've been toying around with the idea that some of the reason we're not getting a higher caliber of client is because we've made it known that one of our primary partnerships is with an open source application vendor that provides a product built on PHP. Some clients we've talked to that don't even have the budget for "enterprise langua...
Are there any good open source expression engines for java? I am not looking for a rules engine (which implement conditionals and logic). I want to be able to define a number of "facts" and dynamically generate expressions based on these facts. For example: Say I have facts such as: Lemons=$5 IceCubes=$1 Cups=$2 ...
Where do you host your customers' ASP.NET sites? I am about to develop a few sites, and I am looking for a good place to host (cheap, fast, good bandwidth, good storage, updates, service packs, etc.) I have also thought about earning revenue for the hosting/domain, even though I am not actually hosting it (kinda sounds bad when you put ...