delivery

What's the best CDN for image hosting on a high-volume web site?

Akamai is way too expensive. Photobucket is not reliable. Is there a great content delivery network that I can use just to host my images? We deploy images programmatically via FTP, so there is some programming behind the scenes. Having some sort of reporting about the reliability of the service, whether it's raw logs files or a web-...

How to react when the client's response is negative on delivery?

I am a junior programmer. Since my supervisor told me to sit in with the client, I joined. I saw the unsatisfied face of the client despite the successful (from my programmer's perspective) delivery of the project! Client: You could have included this! Us: Was not in the specification! Client: Common Sense! As a programmer, how do you ...

Methods of deliverying information to customers?

We have a shipping department, and we are implementing some cubing software to tell us what box our products should get shipped out in. I naively thought that the selected box name should be displayed on the monitor running the software. I was told that our shippers never look at the monitor, because they simply scan the invoice, then p...

Report subscription for email delivery in SSRS

Hi, I have an SSRS report . I tried to create a subscription ansking an email delivery of the report to my mail account. but it fails giving this error message "The email address of one or more recepients is not valid". I am having a Browser role. Could any one tell me the reason. Thanks, Anna ...

When must you use poor design to finish a project?

There are many different bad practices, such as memory leaks, that are easy to slip into a program on accident. Sometimes, they might even be able to jury-rig your program together. I'm working on a project right now and it works if I deliberately put a memory leak in my code. If I take the leak out, the code crashes. Obviously this is...

The effects of design on application delivery time

Some developers when given a task go straight into the IDE and start coding with very little design. They may have an idea of where the application is going as they are coding. I am 1 of these developers. I do this because I feel that if I spend a lot of time designing my application delivery time will be much higher as compared to if I ...

How To Test Email Deliverability - % In Junk Folder

Does anyone know a good tool to test whether your emails are going into spam folders? My web app generates emails to users, and I've been getting a lot of reports back from people saying "hey, no one ever responded to my message". I have SPF rules in place and functioning correctly (email header shows an spf pass). I've also run my me...

Open source alternatives to Port25 (PowerMTA)

I'm trying to find some open source alternatives to PowerMTA - specifically a mail delivery backend that handles email delivery, inbound bounces & replies, reporting & load balancing. I'm interested in building an open-source front end of top of one of these systems. I haven't had much luck locating a suitable open source system. Does ...

Custom Delivery Extension DLL not loading - Why?

To all, I have deployed the Printer Delivery Sample and another FTP Delivery Extension. Neither one are showing the WebControl HTML table as it is defined in the custom assembly DLL. When I attach to the browser and access the subscription html content Visual Studio 2008 fails to attach to the DLL and allow walk through of the code. Th...

Clearcase UCM - Cross delivering vs. delivering upwards?

We have two Clearcase UCM streams in a hierarchy at the same level (i.e. same parent stream). If the two child streams are both rebased to the same parent baseline, does that mean that Delivering the activities of both streams up to the parent (one, then the other) Would be equivalent to: Delivering the activities of one child str...

How to prove my stakeholder and manager my software works?

What do software engineers encounter after another stressfull release? Well, the first thing we encounter in our group are the bugs we have released out in the open. The biggest problem that we as software engineers encounter after a stressfull release is spaghetti-code, also called the big ball of mud. The time and money to chase ...

What is better pratice for error notification by email

This question is language independent. I have an application that handles requests in a loop. During this loop for each request multiple actions are taken. These actions are sitting inside try / catch / log blocks. I am now extending this to notify administrators of severe errors via email. This is all very easy, except for 1 thing....

WDSL - at what stage of the project would you expect delivery?

Hi, I'm working on my first project using an external supplier, who will develop some web services for the company I work for. My question is - at what stage of the project lifecycle would you expect the WDSL (and any associated Schemas) to be delivered? Personally, I think it's a service contract, so I wouldn't expect it to be unre...

Symfony sfMail not delivering emails

Hi, somehow sfMail doesn't want to send emails and I can't find the reaseon why. send() simply returns 0, here is my code: $message = $this->getMailer()->compose("[email protected]", "[email protected]", "test", "testing"); echo $this->getMailer()->send($message); factories.yml: all: mailer: class: sfMailer param: logging: ...

Openx Ad Delivery Issues

My System Apache 2.2.9 PHP 5.2.9 MySQL client version: 5.1.28-rc Openx v2.8.5 I am using the javascript single page call to serve my ads. I am running an in house CMS where everything is processed through a template.php file. My Issue The success of an ad being served seems to be very hit and miss. The placement or type of the ad ...

updating an existing asp.net website kicks off users

When I update an ASP.NET Website [note: it's not a Web Application] running on a customer server by overwriting it with the latest version it currently kicks all the users off. I'd prefer to be able to deliver a new version of a site without kicking off users - is there a way to minimise the chance that users will get kicked off? [apart...

Cost of using PowerMTA

I'm considering using PowerMTA to deliver emails, handle bouncebacks etc. I have a multi-client CRM solution and I want to offload the complexity of the email infrastructure. Does anyone have any feedback on the specific costs and quality of support from Port25? Difficult to define volumes because it all depends upon how many emails t...

How to display failure message if the mail is not delivered to recipient using c#

I am sending a mail using SMTP server in C# from my application. Whether the mail is delivered or not to the recipient, i need the response to our application. How it can be done using C#??? ...

dynamically changing ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method

Hi all, I need some of my emails to go using "smtp" and some others using "sendmail". Is there a clean way to switch between delivery methods depending on the mailer method? Thanks! ...

How can I recieive confirmation for delivered email with JavaMail API?

I'm writing a program, that sends email messages and want to know when the receiver receives the email message I've sent to him. How can I do this using JavaMail API? If I use SMTPMessage, how exactly to deal with the result after I've set the notify options? SMTPMessage smtpMsg = new SMTPMessage(msg); smtpMsg.setNotifyOptions(SMTPMess...