Possible Duplicates: How to convince my boss to do refactoring? How can I convince skeptical management and colleagues to allow refactoring of awful code? How do you justify Refactoring work to your penny-pinching boss? I have been an independent software contractor for a couple years now, straight out of university. The c...
I have to do this project for school, and the theme is "A successful business". And I'm really stuck because I have no idea where to start from. Initially the project was supposed to be some sort of educational thing, but the theme changed after 2 months of work on the previous project so now I have to start again from the beginning. I...
Hi everybody. What is the best way to implement business processes without writing code? I want to implement about 200 forms and workflows without writing a line of code because I want our customer to be able to extend the software without our help. What is the best way to generate forms and then add business processes to them? Thanks ...
What are the pros and cons about going open source with a piece of software? is it benificial for the development of my appliation? will people likely be inclined to help? will people rip me off, steal my code, and use it for themselves? etc ...
EDIT I've just started skimming Codd's famous 1970 paper that started it all, that Oracle was based on (A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks [pdf]), and was amazed to find that it seems it will answer this SO question. It talks about databases in the market at that time ("hierarchical" and "network" - like NoSQL?), the...
I need to view my "BO report SQL" in database rather from web through edit query. How can I achieve this? Please help me out and provide me the steps. It may be in BO repositry OR ...
I am writing an application which produces invoices. Yes, it sucks. I was wondering it there was any agreed upon DTD for invoices? It seems like everybody has their own format. Perhaps there is a collection of XSLTs for tranforming a common standard into lesser known formats? ...
I am not sure if this is the right portal, But i believe many entrepreneurs are available here. I wanted to know how can someone get in to business development. what are the factors that are necessary if the person has no MBA degree. is it possible to get into such profession. I mean is it just the fact you must know how to write RFP, or...
Not a programming question as such, but a bit more business oriented question about software product development. We have just released a small app, and is offering a free, fully functional trial which lasts for 15 days. I have the gut feeling however, that to reach any kind of penetration on the web, we'd need to offer a version which...
We're about to make data transformation from one system to another using SSIS. We are four people people who will continuously be working on this for two years and therefore we need some sort of versioning system. We can not use team foundation. We're currently configuring a SVN server, but digging into it I've seen some big risks. It s...
Do you know if there is anything out there like Chilton's for cars for programming quotes: http://chilton.cengage.com/ Looking for a programming book or sites that may be like it, or about process. I am trying to get a better grip on quoting jobs and wondering if there is anything like this. ...
When evaluating the success of products such as the iPhone, iPad, Google, Twitter, YouTube, etc. are there objective criteria for determining the importance of the programming language(s) used to construct them? ...
where can i learn how to design business solutions / services that can be sold ? are there any tools or software that can help draw flow charts and such ? ...
What does it mean to be an "evangelist" in software houses/companies? ...
We have a number of AS/Flex components that we've built over time and improved upon. They've been turned into components so they can be reused in different projects and save us time. So you can think of them as part of an in-house framework of sorts. We're now realizing that it doesn't make sense to release the source code for these com...
Is there anyone out there that used these two technologies and could give me some comparison in the form of advantages and disadvantages of both? I'm currently working with BO and I have heard that open source Pentaho does pretty good job as well. Thanks in advance! ...
I understand the concept of open source, but I just realized now that I understand it from only one view: when I open source my own code. I don't really understand what benefit I'm getting from receiving the same thing. As a regular developer (like the majority of us here), I did not spend the past 4 years of my life working on "develop...
I like Yelp but I've never liked putting all of my eggs in one basket. I am about to launch a site this year (hopefully before July) that will rely heavily on Yelp for local businesses, restaurants, reviews, etc. Are there any other noteworthy competitors out there with API's? Basically, if my user is going to be in Tampa, I simply wa...
Hello all. I am a newbie to PHP and I've gotten my first project, but I don't have any designer with me. How can I manage the project without a designer? Please help..... ...
I am new to start the freelancing I need to buy a hostname/Domain to deploy the project.. Should I ask client to buy it? how much does it cost? for how much time is it valid? for how much time its good to buy the domain? Please help... ...