in-house

What's a good way to train employees on how to use the software you've just created?

I'm working in a small company and weeks away from deploying a web-app that will be used a lot. Everyone at one location will have to learn to use it, and although I think it's pretty easy and intuitive I may be biased. I've written a help guide with plenty of screenshots that's available on every page, but I'll still need to train ever...

Is it worth to build in-house developer team vs. hiring freelance team workforce?

I'm a production director in a web design studio and we need to build a new team of developers for iPhone Apps. Can anyone help me with this? Should we get full-time or freelance people? What are the pros and cons of each? ...

In-House Development

The in-house system I develop and maintain (at a UK college) is always under fire from requests for new subsystems to be added, minor amendments to major overhauls and a steady stream of bug fixes from previous work. The current consensus is that because it's developed in-house, changes(regardless of size) can be made on a whim, and de...

Buy or build tool for Data Reporting ?

We have been asked to provide a data reporting solution. The followng are the requirements: i. The client has a lot of data which is generated everyday as an outcome of the tests they run. These tests are run at several sites and they get automatically backed up into a central server. ii. They already have perl scripts which post proce...

In-house Frameworks vs New C# Technologies

If we have developed our own ORM framework and the framework is working fine over the years then why should we learn and use brand new .net technologies like LINQ or Entity Framework or NHibernate or CSLA.NET for our upcoming software projects? Note : New frameworks need new effort to learn and teach. Note : This is just an analogy. ...

adhoc distribution with time limits

Is it possible to distribute an app via adhoc or inhouse distribution that will only run for a limited period? The provisioning profiles do not seem to allow a cut off date to be set. Thanks ...