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Naming products

Choosing a name it's difficult... at least for me, it's agonizing. I've been know for using names of animals and characters of sci-fi series for the internal code name of a project... but the public name of a product it's very difficult for me. So how did you choose the name of the product you're working on? ...

What are some common things to consider when developing a web-based application to be sold

I'm developing an application for an internal customer. One of the requirements is that it be developed in such a way that it could potentially be sold to other organizations. The application is a tracking application for a fund-raising organization that will manage their donations, donors, participants, and events. I already know tha...

query: cross product instead of join

I have two tables that I would like to join but I am getting an error from MySQL Table: books bookTagNum ShelfTagNum book1 1 book2 2 book3 2 Table: shelf shelfNum shelfTagNum 1 shelf1 2 shelf2 I want my results to be: bookTagNum ShelfTagNum shelfNum book1 shelf1 1 book2 shelf2 ...

Should software development be separated from software design & usability?

In most of the commercial jobs I've had to date, my role has mostly been confined to "writing the code", whereas the reason I wanted to get into development in the first place was because I enjoyed usability and design aspect of software. I feel a bit dissalusioned now, because now, pretty much all my working day is spend "plugging thin...

What is the best solution to do Reporting on Object data for .NET ?

Hi, Our projects are using objects as the data source to reports. Our business layer is returning single objects or IEnumerable. Our reports (quite complex) need to display value-type properties of the object, and its related objects. Typical case would be, from a List, display a master report with category data, then a subreport with ...

High performance product catalog in asp.net?

Hi, I am planning a high performance e-commerce project in asp.net and need help in selecting the optimal data retrieval model for the product catalog. Some details, - products in 10-20 categories- 1000-5000 products in every category - products listed with name, price, brand and image, 15-40 on every page - products needs to be listed ...

Product Support - Did You Build Your Own Software?

I'm in the process of working out Support for a small Product. I'm using GetSatisfaction, and although I'm concerned about it's speed of use, for this very small Product it's more about learning the methods and wotnot involved in Supporting. Did you build your own Support System software? If YES, what did you use to build it? ...

Testers in Software Development

In my company we develop a software product. Until now we haven't had any testers, so basically the developers were the testers, and of course the customer and users (not good). Our team now consists of 4 developers and we work mainly with Cruisecontrol, Flex, ASP.NET, IIS, MSSQLServer and WebORB. I am urging the managers to hire a test...

How to do version numbers?

My company is building a product. It's going to be versioned by SVN. It's a webapp so basically there will never be a version out which doesn't have some features in them and thus could always be labeled as beta. But since it's going to be a corporate product I really don't want the "unstable watchout" on there. So how would you go about...

implementation for product keys

Hi there, I'm implementing a small application in C, which I would like to sell as shareware for a reasonable price later on. It will start of with a 30-day trial, which I am already quite certain of how to implement it. The problem I have, though, is that I am not quite sure how to implement the product key verification. What I have i...

What kind of database do product based accounting packages use?

Hello, What kind of databases do product based accounting packages such as MYOB in Australia and Tally & Wings in India use? They don't seem to use SQL SERVER or Oracle. Their storage file appears to be totally different. Without using any third party database package...I'm amazed at how they manage to rapidly grow by adding features. ...

How do people create re-usable databases?

Hello, How do people make reusable databases that can be used for many products? For example,if we have a database designed for a school...Can it be easily modified to be given to a college? What is the way to create a database that can be used as a product to give solution to many customers with coding just once? Thanks ...

How to promote a new product/service?

This is often a bit of a problem for lone developers working on a product or a service. How can they get the word out about their product? I recently finished a project of mine and I'm struggling a bit to spread word of it. What do you think is the best way to promote your new product/service? Although this question isn't strictly pro...

[Eclipse Intro] Make my own welcome page.

Hello everyone. I am facing difficulties to make my own Eclipse Intro Page (as shown here). It seems that I have some probleme with my product ID but I dont know how to get a product ID, I have tried to extend org.eclipse.core.runtime.products but when it asks me which application I want to register I dont know what to answer and it se...

Record Management and wiki

I have a requirement where master data need to be maintained and workflows to be initiated when a change to this master data is attempted. Also any discussions/ conversations on the change to be tracked and stored. any offshelf products will provide this need? ...

Is it better to have 1 page or many for a website listing a small number of products?

I have a small website for a company that have 40-50 product. The site will be in french and English. Each product will have 2-3 different price (based on shipping) So the standard approach, will be to do 50 (100 in both language) different web page done with an template engine, maybe pure HTML and css coding The other solution, make 1...

Membership products data schema

I'm trying to model my organization's membership products for accepting and recording membership purchases in our business database. Someday we hope the purchases will be made online and automatically put into the business database. The problem is that our membership products are all over the place. We have 4 types of organizations th...

Getting an iPhone app's product name at runtime?

How can this be achieved? I would like to get the name so i can display it within an app, without having to change it in code each time i change a name, of course. ...

Naming product editions/versions

I'm working on a software product (time tracking tool) which will be available in 2 flavors: a free version and a commercial version. I was thinking of naming them as "Free version" and "Professional version". At some point I will also have a 3rd version called "Enterprise" - for companies rather then individuals. Can you suggest any be...

LINQ Product of two fields in aggregated query

Hi, I need to calculate a sum of product of two fields. This will be used for average weighted price. avgPrice = sum( price*volume) / sum(volume). Both price1 and price2 return error "Specified cast is not valid." var result3 = from sym in dataTableAsEnumerable() group sym by new { symbol = sym["symbol"] } into ...