Besides pay and benefits, what would you consider the pros and cons of these non-contractor jobs: Working for a company that creates commercial (shipping) software. Working for a company on software used internally. Working on software for the government. ...
Howdy, We are looking to publish a ClickOnce application to a large Active Directory network which has to abide by the FDCC (Federal Desktop Core Configuration) which is an OMB-mandated security configuration. Does anyone have experience with this security configuration and ClickOnce applications? The application requires the ability t...
Does the US Federal Government have a coding style guide for C# and or Java? If there isn't, I think there should be given the amount of time they put into the Federal Enterprise Architecture and Document Standards. ...
Is SQL Express 2008 available for corporate, business and government use? Are there restrictions I am not reading about? I know it is free, but I just want to make sure I am not stepping on any terms of use. Maybe I missed it when I clicked around Microsoft’s site, but I didn't see any terms referencing use restrictions specifically. I...
I work for a government contractor that is really picky about what software gets installed on their machines (US government laws). As part of a reverse engineering effort, I need to figure out what a certain set of .class files do. A decompiler would be really helpful, but I can't seem to find one that meets the standards set here. Basic...
I'm working on an app to provide an easy way for people to track the status of a bill [and various other political information]. I love the idea of OpenCongress, for instance, which surfaces summary information on legislation as it navigates the political process, but I'd like it if it had a tag-based search system and some other rich s...
I'm developing an "offline" application for a local government that will be used to collect sensitive information. The application will sync back up to the mothership periodically, but it will generally be used offline. It'll be running on Windows, written in .NET/WPF. I'll need a small "local" database, so I'm looking at SQLite. I c...
In one of my software engineering classes we are discussing the waterfall model and why it does not work. My prof was arguing that the waterfall model was used so much since the US government required it for all software projects. Anyone have any idea what percentage of software development is paid for by the US government or governmen...
Hello everybody. I am using the System.Security.Cryptography's TripleDESCryptoServiceProvider in the following manner: TripleDESCryptoServiceProvider CreateCipher() { TripleDESCryptoServiceProvider cipher = new TripleDESCryptoServiceProvider(); cipher.KeySize = 192; cipher.BlockSize = 64; ...