Hi, I would like to hear some opinions regarding working in small companies versus large corporations. So far, my personal experience has been that esp. for junior programmers small companies have given a more solid background, as follow-up is with experienced workers. In larger corporations on the other hand, the experienced have alre...
Quite a number of us (I guess) have the dream of an own software company. Me too, although I'm not sure, if this dream does not clash with my lovely family ... But what are the most important prerequisites for a startup? I'm sure some of you already founded a company and have some useful hints. ...
I'm looking for books or other resources that would help me bootstrap a small software company. If you have any recommendations, please post it. If someone else has posted it already, please upvote your favorites. ...
I used to work with VMS a lot, and accessing it from my PC was the pits, as the company supplied terminal emulator left a lot of keypad keys not accessible. I finally gave up asking for them to do something about it, and bought Kermit95. Problem solved for me. If you have ever been in this situation, what was the software package yo...
I am interested in trying to introduce a new methodology to my company. This new methodology is Correctness by Construction (CbyC). This would be using ADA SPARK. The company I work for is an Aerospace company that has used ADA on many projects. Another factor is I am pretty low on the company hierarchical structure (Software Engineer I...
One of the things mentioned recently maybe in the SO podcast or Joel was that the best way to succeed at business when you start out is to start specialised and concentrate on one thing only. If you say you're the jack of all trades; you're just another jack! If you say you're a specialist in - I think joels example was some type of fau...
I'm starting up a web design shop and hoping to also get into custom software development. So the problem I'm having now is coming up with a name for the company. I want something cool and funky, but I'm not sure where to go for ideas. Someone suggested that I name it after a fruit (well "Apple" is already taken :)), or a famous ship,...
What is the most typical structure of business where you want to develop several web services? Should one establish a company for each of them or keep under one? I would like to hear your experiences maintaining such situation, keeping in mind the global focus. ...
My boss was in the past not really interested in Open-Source. He always was fine, if we developers used a library or framework, that came at no cost. But he was never interested in details. But some customers talked about Open-Source and so he got the idea, that such a thing exists. Recently he surprised us, because he wanted to make a ...
Based on what criteria they choose the projects and what are the things based on which they choose a project...? ...
I'm just preparing a local Java User Group meeting to take place in a meeting room provided by my employer so that is how this question came up... Some companies sponsor conferences, some hire open source developers etc but are there any other ways of supporting local developer community? ...
I am planning to write .NET articles, start a forum and add blogs to build reputation and contacts within the .NET community. I have incorporated a business and have a company website. I am skeptical of blogging under the company name as I would rather not have my employer know about it. Some options I can think of: Publish on the comp...
This is going to be a bit of an essay. Here’s the background. We design content managed web sites for graphic designers as you can see at http://www.yart.com.au/Our-Work.aspx We code these sites from provided artwork, we don't graphically design them. For the last 7 years we have used our own ASP/ASP.NET hybrid CMS and it seems to be ...
.NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, WPF, Silverlight, ASP.NET MVC - there's really a lot of new Microsoft technology released / on the horizon to try out these days. (The examples I gave is all Microsoft technology but this can apply to any language or platform). I am curious how this is handled in the company you work for. A few examples: Do you have...
Does anyone know if it is difficult to change your company entity and tax id for an iphone app that has been submitted and approved? ...
Just a question that came up from time to time at my old job when we were considering fleshing out our development staff with additional bodies. Does it really matter, if you are a .NET development house, if your developers all code in one language vs another. I probably started out like alot of the 4million other folks there with Visu...
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...
How many LTE Chipset companies are out there now? ...
At the company where I am right now, there are a lot of places in the code where an OurCompanyRuntimeException is thrown (where OurCompany is the actual name of the company). As far as I can tell, this exception is described as "A runtime exception thrown by code that we wrote here at this company." I'm somewhat new to Java, but I thoug...
Say, one Employee is leaving the company in one week. What all we must demand from this employee before he leave? Documentation of Application/Module he was handling Source Code Source Code must be well commented Access details of Machines, FTP, etc. What else? ...