What is the .NET equivalent of JMX?
Hi, Is there a .NET equivalent for monitoring and management - similar to JMX? ...
management
What is a good software development plan?
Whilst browsing through answers on SO I came across something that is, in my view, one of the more frequent software development management misconceptions: "[software development] plan is a reasonably detailed description of all the activities you need to undertake". Hence the question: what is good software development plan? Can it be ...
Managing a difficult manager
I have a situation here at work. We are redeveloping our basic architecture across the entire company. Currently we have the following hierarchy; SQL Database <= Stored Procs not allowed. nHibernate Classes to convert nHibernate into our own objects Web Service <= for all external and [internal] calls. Class...
How to make sure person can handle new project?
You are hiring. Some person passed interview and answered most of your questions. But imagine your project is a complicated one. Is there a way to make sure person will handle it? What can I do to help one to get into the project and start to contribute asap? What are your steps to get into the code quickly? ...
Minimum number of attributes in a primary key?
If the degree of an entity is 8, what is minimum number of attributes required to form the primary key? ...
If you had a "Wall Of Truth" to educate non-programmers, what would you post?
At one organization, we didn't have offices or cubicles. We had tables in a conference room. All conversations were public. Some folks would notice the repeated themes in some of the conversations, which lead us to put big posters on the "Wall of Truth" so we would not have to repeat ourselves so often. Here are two examples: No Dat...
Best suggestions for handling micromanagement?
Looking for suggestions as to how to handle micromanagement of development, in the form of: code in exactly this way (algorithmically - perform the actions in this exact sequence) don't fix that right now, even if it's indirectly related to the bug we're asking you to fix. Fix only the thing we want you to fix. what are you working on ...
Tracking Programming Design Efficiency
How can the progress of designing a large programming project be measured to assure managers that employees are in fact moving forward? ...
What companies are using ROWE in a software development environemt?
Anybody working in a ROWE? What do you think? Anybody that's been around long enough to see a variety of management styles, that's now in a ROWE? Anybody have a list of genuine ROWEs? ...
Hiring a Boss: Looking For The Right Attitude
My current boss has been promoted and we're currently looking for a technical manager to replace him. We (the remaining team) are being given the opportunity to interview the replacement and have a say in whether we hire him/her or not. He/She will be managing a small team in the US and a small offshore team (Java and C#). What are so...
How can we teach managers how Software Development works?
In my current company the management does not understand how software development works. You may have heard the quote: "But why can't we develop this from a external company? Ferrari does not produce their screws themselves!" Which is somewhat correct, but does not apply to Software development. I am getting tired to explain ...
How do I hire a really good build / install engineer ?
I'm a big fan of giving candidates practical tests during the interview process. It's relatively straightforward to give a developer candidate a programming test or a tester candidate a sample app to see how they would test it, but I'm not so sure what to do with a build engineer. Added to this difficulty is the fact that I've come acr...
service / subscription manager engine
Is there a good opensource service/subscription manager engine that contains things like service dependencies (i.e. if I choose service A, I also need Service B and Service C), subscription types, start and termination etc... I'm building a site that sells various services and subscriptions and would prefer not to have to write that cod...
Asp.net User Roles Management: Where to Begin
I'm new to User Roles Management. I was reading my Wrox Programming book on asp.net 3.5 user role management...but it was hard to follow along, as I do not have a local server set up to test on (I do...but...thats a separate question), but rather currently test on a remote server (where the website is hosted, theres not enough hits wher...
Best way to deploy user defined functions to multiple databases in SQL 2005
Hi, I manage a server with around 400+ databases which have the same database schema, i wish to deploy a custom clr/.net user defined function to them all, is there any easy way to do this, or must it be done individually to each database? Best Regards, Wayne ...
magento stock management with external inventory management program
Hi magento users, Is there any possibility for connecting an external inventory management program with magento? Our customer wants to keep magento's stock synchronized with the "real" stock of his products. ...
Developing Online multiplayer management game
Hello, I wish to create a college project on a simple online multiplayer management game which will involve players setting orders for the day/week and then obtaining profits. Being a relative beginner I am unable to figure out the architecture required for this task. As far as I am concerned I would be needing the following things: ...
Translation process
Before you start to read, here is a related question, however I am afraid it lacks details... My situation is very simple, I am working on website which is translated in a number of languages. We have variants of the website customized to clients needs and they opt for the languages that best target their intended audience. However, we...
Using Resharper -- is it really a "personal decision"?
My team lead recommends that all the developers user ReSharper but he does not "enforce" this recommendation. As a result, whenever I open some code it immediately jumps out to me whether the developer who wrote it used ReSharper or not. Tell-tale signs are unnecessary nesting, use of redundant type declarations and generic parameters,...
Win32_Printer ManagementObjectSearcher Error (VS2008 C#)
First, this code worked in VS2005. The code in VS2008 crashes with an UnauthorizedAccessException whenever I try stepping over the foreach loop and assign a ManagementObject. public static List<string> GetPrintersCollection() { if (printers == null) { printers = new List<string>(); string searchQuery = "SELECT * FROM Win32_Pr...