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...
Hello All, Is there are way / online service / database available to convert a domain name such as maxmind.com to the company name "Max Mind Inc." ? If not, can someone suggest a logical programmatic way to approach the problem? I was thinking on the following lines: Take Domain name Visit the website - try to find company name (n...
We plan on changing our company name starting October 1st. All of our namespaces, projects etc use XYZ.ComponentName. My question to you would be, on October 1st, what would you do? Change all the old components to ABC.ComponentName? Leave the old ones but any new development becomes ABC.ComponentName? Just stick with the old name? ...
Hello, given the URL of a well known company (eg http://mcdonalds.com/), how would you automatically and reliably find the company name (in this case "Mc Donalds")? Thanks Edit: someone voted to close this question, so maybe I need to explain the motivation. I have a large list of company URLs and I want to find data about each compan...
I'm working in a small company that runs an online product. The product works so far, but they want to add a lot of additional features to it. They're using reasonably current technology (ASP.NET, C#, .NET 3.5), but the developers are resistant to moving into more cutting edge stuff like, say, ASP.NET MVC or Silverlight. Basically it's...
I am using the Address Book frameworks in an iPhone app, and I would like to get the items Company Name. I can't find this info in the AddressBookUI_Framework.pdf, can someone shed some light on this. Regards AddressBook/AddressBook.h AddressBookUI/AddressBookUI.h ...
I'm looking for a web service similar to StrikeIron Zacks Company Profile. In particular I'm looking for company headquarters based on company name or stock ticker. If anyone knows where Google, Yahoo, or StrikeIron find this information, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance ...
I would prefer if those who answer this question state whether or not they have experience developing in an Agile Environment or if they are speaking from a theoretical standpoint. Backstory: Let's say there is an opportunistic company that develops technologically innovative products (multi-touch interfaces, speech recognition devices...
English isn't my native language but my dream is to work for international company as a PHP (ZF) programmer. Please tell me, how good I need to know English to work without any communication problems? ...
Link to logo/favicon: http://img818.imageshack.us/img818/7258/cmslogo.png Been trying to hunt down the name of this product / software / company for... maybe the past year! (not actively hunting of course) Thought some of you experts here on stackoverflow would know the answer right away. What product reps. this logo above? Looks lik...
Hello, I am asking a quesiton related to marketing and branding of software. I'm looking for some answers from people who have been in the industry for a while regarding the name Neolapis for a software company. Most people don't know what it means which is New Rock in latin but regardless when you hear the name Neolapis does it sound ac...
I always wonder how these two stand against each other: community-driven and company-driven projects. Both being open source in this case. I feel that community-driven projects tend to not having a clear vision and risk to feel very bloated over time. They add features but no one is caring about to keep it simple and remove obsolete stu...
I am gonna start a startup on dotcom. Since I had usually been working freelance alone (from back-end to front-end) and have no experience in working with other developers on web development, I want to know what are the tools, environment, development process, etc. to start a software/ web development company. Machines - Will use Mac. T...
I've been doing some research on things we need to do during the process of setting up a startup company, and reading through "The Web Startup Success Guide". Where are good places to get information about venture capital funds, and other possible sources of raising funds such as grants or other sources? ...