I have instances of Item that I would like to have in groups ItemGroup. But if an Item is moved to another itemgroup, I would like to keep track of the change for accountability reasons. E.g. I need to know if an Item was in one ItemGroup in October and another in September. How should I model this in the database? How should I model th...
My goal is eventually either contract out programming/engineering work and start my own business. I have a few ideas for programs or apps that others would find useful in engineering work. Right now, I have a full time job as an Aerospace/Mechanical engineer for an engine company. My current task requires me to do a bunch of iteration...
I'm working on a scheduling application that will schedule students and staff into classes (and do some other administrative work as well.) It's going to need a web-based UI, and unfortunately I'm not that good at UI design and artistic stuff, so I prefer to work with templates when I can. I'm looking for CSS templates (or just plain i...
I'm looking for a diagram type that lets me model applications, databases and their dependencies. Does such an diagram exist, or do people just use UML or something similar? ...
Hello, I've started using nHibernate some time ago. But after some time I saw that something goes in wrong way. The application is written in MVP pattern. Whole application is 3-tier. I have a Repository layer, Service layer and MVP. Presenter is providing a SessionWrapper to services and then it's provided to repositories. So the whole...
Hi, I have been working on a cool project and decided to release it as an Open Source Software. However, I am not sure what business strategy I can use to make money with Open Source. ...
Hi friends, Please introduce me some good consulting corporations oriented in IT business. Thank u ...
Recently I've been assigned a bug to fix, which from my point of view, was actually a change request. After some investigation it turned out that this bug was caused by a defect in business requirements, but it was still considered as a bug. I often see change requests being pushed forward masqueraded as bugs. I am just trying to figure...
I have a Silverlight navigation application in which I have a Frame for the main navigation and a sub-frame in a sub-page where i navigate from one customer to his details. How can I add the navigation history from the sub-frame to the parent navigation history eg. the web browsers history? ...
Hi, I am developing application having business objects created from EF 4.0. The application is layered with Data Layer having repository of classes. Above that is a business layer where business processes are mapped as per the requirements. Business layer is calling data layer. Business objects have complex associations. One scenario:...
Hi all, I have a dataset that contains many addresses (60,000-ish entries). I want to classify these addresses into either residential or business addresses. Does anyone know a good API/Service to get started doing this? -I don't think the google maps geocoder can do this at this time. -Fedex and UPS both seem to have API's but the...
Hello. We are writing an application hosted in Excel 2002 (groan). One requirement is that, during certain operations, we submit progress messages to the user from the business layer. However, these messages can be displayed at multiple sites, one being the Excel status bar, and another being a label on a form, and possibly others in ...