I work for a very small company (~5 employees, 2.5 coders). We have gotten away with no code or document management for several years, but it's starting to catch up with us as we grow a bit. Any suggestions for a management system. Free is better, but cheap is acceptable. We just don't want to spend more time on installation/configur...
I work for a very small company (~70 total w/ 10 actual programmers) with a relatively large (1M LOC in C++) application that is in need of some serious TLC. Because of the size of the company we are driven primarily by what we can sell to customers with literally no time given for maintenance of the code other than fixing the bugs that ...
I've asked everyone I know. I've gone to all the shops near where I live, asking if they'd like a website, and even an online ordering facility, to increase their sales. I've even offered to do websites for free. All I get is either: A) We already have a website B) We don't need/want a website C) We'll get back to you (which they neve...
Duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/409026/software-marketplace I'm interested in selling software (mostly enterprisey libraries) online but I'm not interested in handling the money/shopping cart/etc so I'm on the lookout for a third party that can handle all my payments/downloads for a fee (a bit like Google Ads, but for so...
I've been a bit stressed out about this for a while, and figured I'd post here to see what other developers think. I'm with a startup company... a very small one. In fact, it's just me, my boss, and his son. I'm the only Software Engineer, as our only other Engineer (understandably) left for a much better job at an established company...
We are a small businesses with limited time to do this ourselves. Can anyone recommend a good (cheap, preferably) hosted solution for simple bug tracking? Right now we have three products that needs bugtracking. All we need is Allow customers to submit bugs Assign bug Show status of bug Automatic send email to customer when bug status...
I currently sell a small software program and we use Paypal to handle receiving payment via Credit Cards. Its fees are really high and some of their policies are a little overreaching. What alternatives are there that still have a robust API? For example, when we make a sale we have Paypal notify our server when the payment clears so ...
How has the current economic downturn affected the way you/your team works ? I am tending to do more enhancements, compared to brand new development a year or so ago. This question came about during another pub conversation where we were discussing if it's good to work on supporting applications or working on new projects - which is ...
I'm applying for the iPhone developer program, and it mentioned they may need business documents, possibly including a seller's permit. I have all of the other documents in order, but I was looking on CalGOLD and it says "All businesses selling or leasing tangible property must obtain a Seller's Permit." Does software count as tangible ...
I manage 80 sites of varying sizes. Small brochure to large scale eCommerce. I have a way of charging for support and assessing a monthly fee for this time and it's currently "adequate" but I don't know if there's an industry standard for this. How do other people assess the support needs and cost for a client. The other part of this...
My small business is just about to start a program of work. The 2 of us have been in the same industry for many years and believe we have come up with a simple solution to a VERY common problem. We will know we have succeeded when it becomes a no-brainer to use our software and we can continue to solve the various problems encountered by...
Can it support a small business? Do people recommend MySql + Php set up or a Java server to support a business with say 2000 editors accessing the data at the same time? ...
I am evaluating my options of starting my own software company and I am wondering if anybody can recommend any good books about the subject. I am busy reading "Eric Sink on the Business of Software". Any other suggestions very welcome! ...
My employer is considering releasing two versions of the same Windows Server-based product; a cheaper "small business" edition and a more expensive "enterprise" edition. There will be a number of differences between the editions, but ideally we'd like to restrict the "small business" edition to only install on Microsoft Small Business S...
Thanks everyone for all the great answers. I collected all the advise into a single post. Here is the original question, answer below: Hello this is not a direct programming/development question, its more business of software. I've been talking with 2 entrepreneurs who want to create an iphone application. They are putting ...
The title might really sound like another "this is beaten to death" topic but bare with me please. I've been a Java Web Developer for 6 years now. I don't see Java just as a profession. I'm really into the language its related technologies and OO principles and methods. I really love coding in Java. However as freelancer, I feel like i...
I'm presently doing about 10 programmers jobs, this is typical recession type fun. I have many clients asking me "When? When will you have my request completed?" Considering the other requests that I have to fulfill it's a real balancing act. So how should I answer these clients questions, when the real answer is "When I get to you"...
So I find myself working for a few weeks in a small team of four, including me. Quite a change from my last job at a 300+ developer shop where I'd been part of the adoption of an agile methodology. I've been sneakily introducing useful tools like a continuous integration server and am surreptitiously starting test-driven development. ...
For a client, I developed a web-application and took responsibility for the hosting of the site. They squeezed the price really low (fixed-price contract), but I wanted the project so took it anyway. The system just records sales details and generates reports off this data. The information is sensitive to some extent, but not mission cr...
I'm using Yahoo Small Business to host my website. I use an FTP client (FileZila) to upload my files. However at the end of every page is these few lines: </html> <!-- text below generated by server. PLEASE REMOVE --> <!-- Counter/Statistics data collection code --> <script language="JavaScript" src="http://us.js2.yimg.com/us.js.yimg.co...