Background: Some time ago, I build a system for recording and categorizing application crashes for one of our internal programs. At the time, I used a combination of frequency and aggregated lost time (the time between the program launch and the crash) for prioritizing types of crashes. It worked reasonably well. Now, The Powers That B...
For a while, I thought I'd host stuff at home because I can do whatever I want. However, hurricane Ike knocked out my power for a week, and I've finally realized this situation won't work. I have extremely low traffice websites (20 visitors/day), so I don't need tons of CPU or bandwidth. What cheap options are there for VPS hosting th...
If you have $100 in your hand right now. And have to bet on one of these options. That would you bet it on? The question is: What is the most important factor, that determents the cost of a project. Typing speed of the programmers. The total amount of characters typed while programming. The 'wc *.c' command. The end size of the c fil...
What does it indicate to see a query that has a low cost in the explain plan but a high consistent gets count in autotrace? In this case the cost was in the 100's and the CR's were in the millions. ...
I've recently been working on a C# GUI. We used a third party graphical controls library (that I won't name). Some people really like this library and get all excited with "hey look its got a control that looks flashy, let's use that on this screen". My experience was that we compromised the usability of our GUI by putting some flashy co...
I was wondering, if there is any generalities (among all the javascript engines out there) in the cost related to execute a given instruction vs another. For instance, eval() is slower than calling a function that already has been declared. I would like to get a table with several instructions/function calls vs an absolute cost, maybe ...
I've used both and I've found MySql to have several frustrating bugs, limited support for: IDE integration, profiling, integration services, reporting, and even lack of a decent manager. Total cost of ownership of MSSQL Server is touted to be less than MySQL too (.net environment), but maintaining an open mind could someone point out any...
I am just curious. ...
One thing that I keep hearing in reference to ASP.NET and MSFT technologies is that they cost money to use. Often when they are being compared to open source languages someone will mention that one factor in favor of open source is that it's free (to an extent). My question is, when does ASP.NET actually cost money to use in terms of u...
Having at least one virtual method in a C++ class (or any of its parent classes) means that the class will have a virtual table, and every instance will have a virtual pointer. So the memory cost is quite clear. The most important is the memory cost on the instances (especially if the instances are small, for example if they are just m...
Right now I have two fields for cost. One for dollars and one for cents. This works, but it is a bit ugly. It also doesn't allow the user to enter the term "free" or "no cost" if they want. But if I only have one field, I might have to make my parser a bit smarter. What do you think? On the server side, I combine dollars and cents t...
What is the most efficient solution when you need to record some data on every page view in your application - should you write to a file or write to the database? Or maybe neither - perhaps you should cache the data in memory or a file and only write it to the database (or file system if you use a memory cache) occasionally? ...
hi, lately I've been asked to do a UI or UX audit and to be honest I truly don't know how to charge people for this... The story is that I've used some portal X and I've started complaining about how unfriendly it is and they asked me to do a full audit for them... so I did... It took me 8h of writing a doc about what things are good an...
I'm wondering what the cost is in tools to work with and deploy a website like stackoverflow with asp.net mvc. I have just checked and it seems like visual studio professional has suddenly got a lot cheaper, infact almost too good to be true price. But if they are working with SQL enterprise, the cost of this seems around £10,000 for t...
I want some inputs/tips on quoting the cost to a Client. If I am developing a web site with medium level of complexity and time to develop is say 2 months and 1 resource is required. What is the difference in pricing when the Client 1)does and 2)does not require ownership of the code. ...
I have been curious to what other developers with popular and somewhat to highly optimized apps have been paying with relation to the amount traffic generated in general. I am aware of the unit cost for the resources and that resource requirements per app vary. What is your insight into the cost/traffic/resources of yours or others App...
I am looking for studies about applied code quality, comparing costs before and after. They should show a clear benefit in cost (or maybe a negative effect of too much cost). I need hard facts like (entirely fictional): After we added static code analysis to our build, the number of defects reduced to half. So we saved approx. 10 dev...
Thinking about signing up for $100 Windows 2008 Virtual Machine Hosting Account I am going to be running a Web Server (IIS) and ASP.NET site that taps into a SQL Server what license am I supposed to buy? Never had to pay for SQL before. Always been paid for by my company. How do CALs get factored into the situation when you are running a...
There is a reference table that shows the execution cost of every php function? I know that the time execution is boundet to many factors and is impossible to determinate an unique value, but im looking for a 'ideological' table. For example, is_dir() = cost 3 is_file() = cost 2 (take it JUST as an example ;) If i dont remember bad...
I am looking for a method to decide on the price for a J2EE project that we developed. I know of COCOMO model but dont know if there are any tools/plugins (preferably on eclipse) to calculate the cost. A very naive method of deciding the cost of development would be to associate a price to every Kilo Line of Code. If this is right, how m...