Something's changed, and I cannot tell what. I have an IIS Web Farm platform with Dev, Test, QA and Prod environments. 7 servers in all. Dev, Test and Prod have all suddenly been overflowing with verbose security events from every website that uses RSA ClearTrust. The QA environment remains untouched. Something's changed. That much i...
I am reading books on middleware, Spring, Hibernate, etc., and am wondering myself why the developer invented a new name, i.e. "enterprise edition" for Java "web" or "internet" libraries? As I have a quite individual mindset, "enterprise" edition sounds almost like "socialist" edition... what do I need to know to differentiate better? ...
Duplicate of: What makes an application an “enterprise” or “enterprise-level” application? After reading Wolfbyte's answer on Enterprise FizzBuzz I have thought about what constitutes a program as "Enterprise". What makes an application or a software development process as Enterprise? EDIT: It seems like there is a lot of negat...
I've always felt lucky to work in a small programming team. I think the most I've worked with is 11 programmers. What is it like working on a project with hundreds of developers? Thousands? What does scale and what doesn't? EDIT: Thanks for all the responses! There seem to be very few positives: possible to work on mega-large codeb...
Are there video tutorials for Enterprise Java Beans with the same caliber as asp.net and windowsclient.net Learn section? ...
What are the major pitfalls that would make you think twice about using LINQ to SQL in an enterprise/non-trivial system? I know it lacks the power and flexibility of NHibernate, but I'm not clear on the major reasons why you wouldn't want to use LINQ to SQL in an enterprise app. ...
Hi, I have a combined authorization and menustructure system on our backend. For performance reasons EntLib caching is used in the frontend client (MVC rel 1.0 website, IIS 5.1 local, IIS 6.0 server, no cluster). Sometimes 'Cache.Contains' will return true, but the contents of the cache is NULL. I know for certain that I filled it corr...
What are some of the building blocks foundational to enterprise business applications? I'm thinking about re-usable components multiple applications share to: Scale up faster Speed development by eliminating re-building Provide a stable infrastructures by minimizing key points of failure Some examples of concepts I've seen success w...
Hi, I'm thinking of buying Martin Fowler's "Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture". From what I can see it seems like a great book, it an architectural book with bias towards enterprise Java -- just what I need. However, in computer years, it is quite old. 2003 was a long time ago, and things have moved on quite a bit since t...
Hi everybody. (I ask this here, waiting for the IT Admin StackOverflow to become reality!) The IT Operations Dept of our company (media, about 4000 employees), is searching for a scheduling/planning tool. Our requirements are: It should be Open Source software (highly preferred) It will be used by about 100 concurrent users, and the...
The company where I work for (1800+ Employees) is looking to enhance the personal relationships between its employees, allow a better collaboration and communication between departments and make it easier for the HR department to identify skills, experience and interests among the personnel (ex: we have some colleagues with deep knowledg...
My company has a large customer that has many regions/sites/offices. Each location can have its own set of servers with its own data. The users of the system are centrally administered thru a domain. The computers in this network are locked down with only http access to the internet. There is a company wide Sharepoint portal. All servers...
I am currently tasked with creating a documented, consistent Architecture guide for software development. We have a lot of smart people doing the right things, but just not consistently and repeatably. We are using Microsoft’s Application Architecture Guide 2.0 as a starting point. Hence coming up with an Application Architecture is fai...
Let's play the devil's advocate: what would be the reasons you would give management NOT to code a solution, but purchasing an expensive package? ...
I'm a homegrown programmer and have been coding most of my recent applications in C#. These applications are usually small tools that help me with my day to day tasks. I do tend to use good design patterns, but since my projects are usually on a very small scale, I just dump everything into one Visual Studio project (GUI, domain code, et...
We are shopping for Business Rules Engines. We want to make our core application customizable to different customers with slightly different requirements. The people who would actually do the customizations are analysts. I.e. non-programmers who are technically skilled (usually have a degree in sciences). What are the criteria to evalua...
When is a Business Rules Engine used? What is the difference between Business Rules Engines and scripting/configuration/customization ...
Hi folks, does anybody know if it's possible (or have experience doing so) to simply bundle the microsoft enterprise library components in a .net solution instead of performing the installation? I'm trying to avoid putting a customer through the installation step. Thanks for your response!! :-) ...
Imagine this: a prototype data entry system has been created using Microsoft Access and VBA. The entire application is the Access file; it holds the front-end forms implementation, the business logic and the backend data storage. A business meeting is being held where they are discussing the future of this prototype. Some individuals ar...
I want to be able to load up an Active Directory server with a realistic medium-to-large enterprise directory structure (groups, users) so that I can run performance tests on an application which makes use of that data. In my fantasy world, some big company would export their (anonymized) AD structure in a way I could import directly. ...