Hi guys, I've worked for some time(few years) for my company. As time passed, the important tasks with new technologies started to be given to my colleague although I've asked several times for more challenging projects. I believe this could be because I asked a few times for a raise when I had more responsibilities for the projects and...
Technology has brought the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) a faster way to do things and not necessarily a better way. Many messaging platforms have been created. Many programs and systems have been build. A lot of information is now available at an instant. Perhaps the three most important contributions are the email and instant...
At our company we charge by the hour, which is actually broken down into 6 min chunks. At the end of the day you end up recording 8 HRS, 8.1 HRS (i.e., 8 HRS 6 min), etc. to a task, where the task is allocated a certain number of HRS. In our group we typically develop analytical code for a customer, and then perform some analysis. ...
Recently i faced with such problem - what is the continuity and how it can be measured? Usually, this term is used simultaneously with Accessibility. For example - our server was accessible for 22 hours this day, then accessibility equals 22/24 = 91.6%. But how to measure continuity? ...
As a professional programmer I work daily with a species known as the "PM". While they usually go by that common acronym, it seems there are actually several discrete varieties: product managers, project managers, and program managers. There may be other species yet undiscovered. Through years of close observation and study, the subtleti...
Ok, so you've got an idea for a potentially successful online start-up. You know that you'll never set the thing up yourself, you prefer the stability of your permanent job. Then you think, "Hey maybe my boss would be interested in backing this as an internal project. Obviously I'd want X% of the profits for coming up with the concept in...
Stackoverflow is really amazing. Last year when I joined the community was a little sceptical because there were already a lot of sites with similar content (although the concept wiki-forum is new to me) but it outpassed almost all (or just all) similar pages and the investment for the development in financial and technical sense probabl...
I'm looking to generate a SLA (Service Level Agreement) agreement between my team (developers, business analysts, techs) and various business units (accounting, purchasing, human resources). This SLA will cover what is to be expected by both parties for support functions such as bug fixing, troubleshooting, etc.. I believe generating...
I have 2 main dlls.....one which has my user interface (windows form) and other which has the business logic.....I have a requirement in which the user interface has to be launched from the business logic with arguments......and on click of a button in the user interface, I need to send data from the user interface to the business logic....
I am looking to integrate some dynamically generated BI reports into a web app. The requirements are: Able to view report based on JSON RPC XML, or some similar streaming data source (therefore, not requiring direct access to the DB). Why? Because many users have access to different copies of similar data. I.e. 3 companies, 5 projects....
There have been certification-related discussions on SO before, pertaining primarily to one's own career. My question is a bit different - I'd like to know your opinion on whether or not certifications of your employees have any way of influencing whether your company gets a contract or not. Specifically, I'd like to know the following: ...
I'm looking for some sort of survey service, like http://surveymonkey.com but focused on start-ups and user polls. Is there anything out there better suited to collecting user opinion for the sake of business/product planning? ...
GetACoder is one of this freelancer job auction web sites. And everytime im looking there i see ridiculous low prices. I mean even a good programmer from india gets more then 500US$ per month and i found people bidding to "i need a clone of " at 1000$. Am i such a bad and slow programmer that i don't think i can't do this carefully in...
I've done some silverlight2 apps that access a database. I did some clunky stuff so that i could use some custom classes on both the webservice end and also in silverlight. I want to use these custom classes because it houses all the business logic. With silverlight 3 i see all these demo's where they are using RIA services. These al...
My project has some rather open-ended requirements in terms in file size limits and performance. In the end, the performance varies by platform and typically execution time is the only issue. Faster platform equals faster execution. Our business guy says we should find our current maximum capability, make sure we exceed the previous lega...
I'm joining a new venture, and we're selling a software product that we're going to create. We need to create a website that will: Handle customer orders Take credit card payments Distribute serial keys Handle support queries All the other misc stuff But here's the thing, we can't really spend a lot of time on the site, and we can ...
Hello This question has probably been asked before, but I don't know what keywords to use to find previous answers. When writing code, I tend to get lost in details, and would like some editor that I can use to be able to move from the little picture (actual code) to the big picture (big blocks of logic). Ideally, it should integrate ...
I've been using CSLA in anger for some time on a long standing project. However I would like to use it on a new project and need to develop a sound business case in order to get buy-in from senior management. Can anyone offer suggestions for this? So far I have: It's quite widely adopted so it's easier to find experienced developers T...
I have recently become interested in the field(s) of data mining and machine learning. The idea of going through huge datasets and trying to correlate hidden patterns and trends is fascinating. So far I have done the following Used Weka to load simple data sets and generate decision trees Continously read books, wiki's, blogs and SO on...
I have a good job as a software engineer at a well established software company. Life is good. But I could be laid off, etc. What is a good way to make $$$ on the side to build up some extra savings? I love writing software but I need ideas: web app to sell advertising or sell? Subscription based service? Where is the demand to app...