software

Software free trial and using software in open-source and commercial development

For example I found great uml tool (http://www.architexa.com/start/pricing) that is free for 30 days. Can I use screenshots from it in open-source and commercial website? since its mine for 30 days, I should be able to do whatever I want with it, right? ...

Funny software metrics that have a relevant value

As a software developer, I've seen lot of different software metrics, mainly about code quality and bug-tracking. I have heard of a "Dilbert metric", which is "how many people read and laugh at Dilbert comics in your team", which shows how bad your company/organization is. There is also the "WTF per minute" during code reviews : http:...

I want to develop billing and inventory software in java

Hi all i want to develop a desktop based billing and inventory software for my Retail FMCG store.I know how to program in java so will develop in same.are there any tutorials,book,guide,sample projects on Billing and inventory software in java. Can u tell me how to proceed about it.i know how to do database designing.also which is best ...

What are the risks in using Rational Team Concert?

What are the risks in the use of the Rational Team Concert in software development? Thank you for your reply. ...

Good examples of dynamic error messaging ?

Yesterday I came accross an interesting blog post describing the need for stronger user interface design for software error popups, they use apple as an example - thought i'd share: http://bit.ly/9qBZLM This got me thinking - could you build something like this dynamically to handle a variety of exceptions / errors? Any examples of ot...

Distribution Nokia aplication

Hi all, I making application for nokia phone using J2ME.. i want to know types of method for distribution Nokia application .. plz tell me .... Thanks & Regards, Nilesh ...

software architecture book

Does someone knows good book that describes 3 layer architecture, data transfer object, business object, domain object model ... Please do not reference Martin Fowler (I have already read Patterns of Enterprise application Architecture. I would like to read some other books as well). ...

Who Uses Software Watermarking?

I'm a PhD student looking at software watermarking techniques and I always get asked 'who uses it?' The answer to which I don't know. There is a large amount of academic work on the subject (most notably from Collberg et al.) but very little indication of it's prevalence in industry. Software watermarking involves embedding a unique iden...

Protecting Applications using online lookup service

Hey All I was just wondering if there is any service available online that allows you to protect your applications by requiring your customers to enter a username and password into your application to activate it and the application looking up those details through this online service? I don't know if this is a real thing, or do I have...

i need to assign decimal values from database to repeater text box

am getting my data from database. i need to assign decimal value to textbox of repeater. but it is taken as round value automatically when i.e may 2.25 it takes as 2 only. am getting values into datatable then through dararow like this dr["RCC_Rate"].ToString() thanks in adv ...

need help for planning software development , database design

I have been doing a coding in for last 7 months. Most part of it has been the updations to the very poorly coded software in asp. Now I am going to redevelop entire software in asp.net. I want it to be very efficient. I need some tips and guidance about how to plan project and design a good database. Thanks in advance for help. ...

Calling (or running) a simulation software from Matlab

I have run simulations on software (named CMG) using command prompt. The command prompt works well in all respect of running the software as well as generating reports and output files. To generate an ouput file (.rwo format) containing the desired result, we have to run the executable of the report program which uses a parameter file (....

Is there a software license for this combo?

our software is free to download the source comes with it, so you are free to edit the code for your own use we (the authors) own the rights to the code ...

mac version control software?

anyone know any good mac version control software? if so why is do you reccomend it, dont mind paying a little money for the software edit: thanks everyone for the information so its come down to Mercurial vs SubVersionsapp (SVN) ...

Shelf packing problem

I'm faced with a Shelf Packing problem and am currently conducting some preliminary research as to which algorithms/heuristics are currently yielding the best results. Since the problem is NP hard I do not expect to find the optimal solution in every case, but I was wondering: 1) what are the best algorithms? 2) what are the best heuri...

An Ideal Source-Code Editor that support Internet Share and Chat

I am going to co-develop src with friends on internet. Is there such a source-code editor that have these features: Shares Code Real-Time showing who is editing the code ( or in other words I can see another person's code and he can see mine...and we can make change to one another's code) Shares file through internet Have Side-bar Chat...

Matlab unable to open the .dat file as data file when calling a software using 'system'

To generate an ouput file (.rwo format) containing the desired result, we have to run the executable of the report program which uses a parameter file (.rwd format). The output file is ReportBHP1.rwo, this file will contain the variable exported. Now to implement this in Matlab, below is a small script giving a gist of what I am trying ...

How much money does one usually charge for writing freelance software?

Possible Duplicate: How do I charge for self contracted jobs? My friend and I were offered to write some software for a local research center. We wrote a simple test program in Java that took about a week or so to finish. Now, with some new requirements, the center purchased a library for .NET we requested and will write the...

Software to Improve OCR Results Based on Output from Multiple OCR Software Packages

Is there an already-existing piece of commercial or academic software that can overlay results from multiple OCR packages (Abbyy FineReader, Adobe Acrobat Professional, ReadIris, etc.) provide fully automated improvements based on accumulated knowledge from multiple sources allow for use of additional external tools setup at runtime (d...

How to: SQL or NOSQL?

I haven't been confronted with this yet, but this is what i think (very superficial and simplistic imho) If you have a key value kind of storage and all you accesses are key lookups use the NOSQL solutions. If you want lookups based on values (and subvalues) or have something more complicated like joins you would go for a relational sol...