enterprise

Know of a Django / Rails enterprise level support services?

I am starting a new project for a client from the academic sector. We are trying to choose the right technology for the project and I am interested in hiring Django or Rails developers to work on it (as there will be some custom module development involved). The client wants to be able to sign up with a reliable service package after lau...

Enterprise Library - configuring exception handling

I'm having some problems configuring the exception handler the way I want it. What I want is to log the warnings and above in one file (errors.txt) and everything (including the warnings and errors) in a file named all.txt. The problem is that I can't get the errors to be logged in all.txt, I only get an entry in errors.txt and a separa...

One ERP vs. Quality software applications + service oriented architecture?

As a modern large company, is one ERP system better than hundreds of highly specialized applications which are service oriented? To provide a little bit of background, we are providing consulting for a client who wants to invest their resources in a monolithic ERP system which will manage everything! What are the pro's and con's of this...

What is an Enterprise Java Bean really?

On the Tomcat FAQ it says: "Tomcat is not an EJB server. Tomcat is not a full J2EE server." But if I: use Spring to supply an application context annotate my entities with JPA annotations (and use Hibernate as a JPA provider) configure C3P0 as a connection pooling data source annotate my service methods with @Transactional (and use A...

Regarding Creating Business application using Silverlight

Hi, We are in the conceptual phase to create a relatively medium size enterprise business product application using Silver light 4.0, Entity Framework and WCF. 1. Is it adivceable to use Silverlight 4.0 for this enterprise business application development or should we go in for MVC.NET / ASP.NET? 2. We have planned to use REST based WCF...

Using Django Admin for a custom database solution

A client wants to have a simple intranet application to manage his process. He runs a Quarry and wishes to track number of loads delivered per day and associated activities. Since I knew about Django's excellent Admin interface, I figured I could define the "Schema" in models.py and have Django Admin generate the forms. I did exactly t...

Glassfish appication server + application client on ipad

I have written an enterprise application on glassfish v2 application server with java application client. This application client is running on PCs with windows/linux OS. On server side I'm using EJBs. The task is to adopt additionally the client on ipads without/with minimal backend changes. And there are some options for that purpose. ...

How to create a "dependency graph" for IT assets

One of my customers is trying to create an interactive "matrix" of interdependencies for the various applications used in their company (it's a travel&leisure company with around 2500 employees). The idea (still at the prototype stage) is to create a sort of Map, based on Visio or similar tool, which traces the communication and interde...

Once again, Is Silverlight 4 Enterprise ready?

Does Microsoft use or plan to use Silverlight in its own web applications like MS CRM? Is there any known risk for Silverlight LOB applications instead of ASP.NET? Silverlight 4 still does not has wsHttpBinding. Is this a stupid question? ...

Caching Application Block

Hi, Can someone tell me whether i can use the enterprise library caching library on a website which is load balanced its contained in a server farm which has 4 dedicated web servers. thanks ...

iPhone Enterprise Development

Hey guys, I am currently looking into developing a project for an enterprise environment and I have a couple of questions: Question 1: I was wondering what are the server requirements for this can it be done on any server or can this be done through IIS? Question 2: Currently the criteria is 500 employees and a Dunn and Bradstreet num...

Publish apps for iphone enterprise developer program

if i'm on the iphone enterprise developer program for companies with >500 employees, do i still need to publish my app on the app store for clients to install the app? ...

Application Configuration File not showing up

Hello, I created a new project to test the Microsoft Enterprise Library 5.0. It asks me to select the PROJECT - ADD NEW ITEM - APPLICATION CONFIGURATION FILE. For some reason, I don't see the Application configuration file option. Please let me know how to fix it. Thanks. ...

Does an iPhone Enterprise provisioning profile need to specify phone UUIDs like an ad-hoc provisioning profile does?

We are an iPhone Developer Program member. We've got a DUNS number but not the 500 employees necessary to join the iPhone Developer Enterprise Program. Therefore I can can't see how things exactly operate for the Enterprise level. But we have customers that are big enough to be Enterprise developers and we could distribute our applicatio...

Deserve dynamic typed languages all the criticism?

I have read a few articles on Internet about programming language choice in the enterprise. Recently many dynamic typed languages have been popular, i.e. Ruby, Python, PHP and Erlang. But many enterprises still stay with static typed languages like C, C++, C# and Java. And yes, one of the benefits of static typed languages is that progr...

Enterprise Architect (Sparx Systems) - add parameter name and type in parameter list

I cannot get the name of the parameter to show up in class diagram generated by 'Enterprise Architect' (Sparx Systems). I am trying to add a operation below + delayFight(numberOfMinutes: int) : Date but after I add the parameter name and type, the operation is displayed as this + delayFight(int) : Date Does anyone know how to for...

Is it possible to export Visual Studio UML diagrams to Enterprise Architect?

Working with Visual Studio 2010 and having all the UML diagrams in the VS solution, I wonder if it is possible to export those diagrams (classes, workflows) in Enterprise Architect to benefit of its tools. In brief, I would like to define in Enterprise Architect test scenarios for all these classes and workflows but I would like not to ...

Android/iPhone to have full access of Enterprise Information System?

We continue to build our fairly small applications on Android, iPhone and other mobile operating systems. This is fine and fun in the beginning of a new era, but when mobile OS matures, gets to be the preferred device for business people in motion, they want something more. One would guess they want the same access and capability to ER...

Which implementation of Ruby will survive?

From what I've heard there was IronRuby and Ruby.NET and a few other variations. I've also heard that Ruby may not be supported anymore by Microsoft as they started to lay of much of that development group. I'd like to know which implementation(s) of Ruby is likely to survive, and which one will be adopted into large enterprises. It w...

CTI Integration: What products are popular, and how can I invoke them? i.e. Cisco Call Manager?

I have a list of contacts on my webpage, and I'd like to offer the option to "call contact"... but I bet there are a dozen non-standard approaches to get dialtone, then there are all the variations of prefix dialing (Dial 9 to get outside line) What standard should I code to? Some of my clients do use Cisco Call Manager... ...