I'm pretty sure most of us are familiar with the concept of a project's requirements changing after it starts, this becomes more and more of an issue the less the client knows about how things work and the closer you work with them. How then can I design a system (specifically a website but general advice will probably be best here) so ...
I'm currently working as a developer at a web development agency, but I've long aspired to run my own business. I disagree with present management, and feel I could do infinitely better. I've done many business-like things before - organized events, run a very large and successful website, some publishing. I've been saving up, and have ...
I've asked everyone I know. I've gone to all the shops near where I live, asking if they'd like a website, and even an online ordering facility, to increase their sales. I've even offered to do websites for free. All I get is either: A) We already have a website B) We don't need/want a website C) We'll get back to you (which they neve...
Hi, At a first meeting with a client who has expressed interest in hiring you on a freelance basis what would you bring up? Should you focus on the project in question or your skills or their more general needs or something else? Advice/comments appreciated :-) ...
In a rather large .Net application I have a web services layer that I use both as an external API and also in my own web pages. I am thinking about implementing another layer, a client layer that will communicate with the services and to use these client objects in my pages. Since each web services corresponds roughly to a functionality ...
Hi all, I am using a tv tuner (hauppage 1600) that is shows up as a character device (/dev/video0). I normally open this device using VLC and it displays cable TV. 1st problem) I would like to have an application access this device, read the stream, and distribute it to multiple clients. I have tried to use a java filereader to re...
Hello, I am working on web application .net 3.5,asp.net,C#. In that i need to provide list of available printer at client side. I have knowledge of how to get server side printers using [1] System.Drawing.Printing.PrinterSettings.InstalledPrinters [2] System.Management.ManagementObjectSearcher [using query "SELECT * FROM Win32_Prin...
Hello there, My WCF service library is hosted as a Windows Service and is supposed to handle requests from multiple clients. One request that clients are going to make frequently is pretty resource intensive. I have two doubts pertaining to above scenerio: How a WCF service handles multiple client's request? Is there any WCF configur...
Do major web and desktop email clients support the font-face feature? It would be only logical to assume that they don't but thought I'd ask anyway. Has anybody tested? ...
I'm a beginner in Java and I have an assignment to build P2p File Sharing Java application. I started by creating server and client. Client can send messages to server and server responds. I believe the next step should be inserting the Thread into the server class. I read all about it and tried it bud I just can't pull it off. I hope so...
Hi, I have a scenario where during the system install time, a few services were deployed on to the OSGi container and these services will be listening for other bundles that provide data and are dynamically installed and uninstalled at runtime. These data providers do not expose any services and should not even invoke services; my id...
Hi all. Let me explain a bit the app i'm doing. I'm creating a central UDP (needs to be UDP) server for multiple and concurrent clients that also "talk" between them. I do a check into a dict of known clients addresses and create a client handler thread if "i dont know" the client. Else, the thread receives the data ad does its job. Th...
Hi there, I am working on a site and just published it to the client's domain, but when I try to access the root or subpages, they download to my computer rather than displaying as the pages. Could it be the fact php is not installed (the server is managed by my client so I don't know if PHP is installed)? Thanks, Elliott ...
I do a lot of freelance work and clients often have me build apps from existing packages and applications (i.e.: Wordpress, Magento, Firefox [extensions] etc.). Six or seven months down the line, an update is usually available for the package which I built the apps from. With Wordpress, it's likely that it's a security update; sometimes ...
Hi I seem to have a blocking issue with WCF. Say I have two users and each have created their own instance of a class exposed on a WCF host using net.tcp with endpoint something like this "net.tcp://localhost:32000/SymHost/". The class is PerSession context and concurrency is reentrant. The class exposes two methods Alive() which retu...
Hi, I hope somebody can help me out on this question. I'm using a SQL database and I'm writing a VB.NET client application. This application is used on multiple computers at the same time. If one of the clients makes an update to the database I would like to have the other clients to be aware of the update. Has ony one already done th...
I am using Thunderbird mail client for gmail accounts. Its works fine, enjoying functionality too. I have problem with this mail client. In client inbox it has a list of unread mails and once viewed it becomes read mail. That's not happening on the gmail servers. If I login to gmail I'm still finding unread mails which I read in Thunder...
It's common that clients have lots of difficulty (and take a long time) to provide their files. Delivering files seems so simple, but it usually adds a bottle neck to any project. As a solution for this... My goal is to make a form that client's can use to deliver all the files needed to build their website, such as: Excel Spreadshee...
Hypothetical situation: You are doing a software/web development project for a client, but you know that you will not be able to make the deadline. As the deadline approaches, you can clearly see that you will not be able to make it. How do you tell your client this, in a professional way, without upsetting the client too much. Do you...
I'm just starting out with a friend creating iPhone apps and the biggest hurdle other than finding clients is knowing how to structure proposals for clients. Is it the norm to write a 1, 2 or 3 page proposal? Obviously I don't want to bore the client just with the initial proposal (sales pitch with quote). How should I break down the p...