So basically I am looking for good templates for writing both technical and functional specs on a project or work request. What do you guys use? How in depth do you get while writing the specs? Any additional general tips you could provide would be appreciated. My company needs these badly. I work for a contractor and right now we do...
Ofcourse, there are Google Books, Wikibooks, Project Gutenburg & iBiblio. What other libraries would you recommend on the internet? ...
I am an engineer with c, c++ back ground. And am mostly interested to work in data structures and algorithms kind of work. So, obviously asked those kind of questions? Is there any best resource where can I found the best interview questions? Like to know sites/books: which discuss about general or HR kind of questions? which discuss ab...
I am preparing a technical presentation for my team. Audience : Our team Topic : Introduction to a new technology So I want to know about the primary necessary things for a good technical presentation and also DOs and DON'Ts for the same. some of my concerns are, 1. Whether to have slides or not (if needed then how many of the...
I have always wondered how people make time to read technical books. Because after working for 8-10 hrs a day (sometimes even 12 hrs) first thing I want to do is to keep myself away from the technical details. Even if I try to read the technical books, I can't put my 100% in to it (with out that reading is of no use, I believe). I read a...
How do you approach writing documentation that both, future developers, and non-technical audiences will have to use? Do you write two separate documents, or try to write one with enough information for both groups? Any other ideas? What are the advantages of doing it your way? ...
I'm applying for grant to fund part of the development of a web app, one question I'm stuck on says to describe the: Tasks and full technical details and risks relating to your project, including detailed technical work plan Any guidance on what specific topics should be covered would be very gratefully received There is a separate q...
I've been lately trying to learn more and generally test Java's serialization for both work and personal projects and I must say that the more I know about it, the less I like it. This may be caused by misinformation though so that's why I'm asking these two things from you all: 1: On byte level, how does serialization know how to match...
Folks, What is the best way to go about researching and presenting for a technical whitepaper? I dont mean the format, overview, sections and such stuff. I've never written one - and I wonder if a white paper needs to be very very generic (conceptual) or specific (for instance favouring a particular tool/methodology) And if your ans...
I need some guidance and preferably some examples of a web application technical documentation. What specifically do I need to include in the Technical Document? I have created a web application. Do I document all the pages, classes, dlls, etc? I hope someone can give some good examples of technical documents they have done for their...
Bit of a random question (and I know a lot of the technology invovled is not described) but are there any networking gurus out there that can answer what is probably a simple M$ networking question that has me baffled? Connected my laptop to the corporate network today in the same manner I do eveyday. I was allocated an IP address as pe...
I've seen a few questions around here saying that there's no need to write a beefy Technical Specification if the Functional Specification has all of the functionality. What about situations where the client has provided a Functional Specification and you need to turn around a Technical Specification from that document? I understand tha...
I'm writing a technical book (plug - all money goes to charity so it's not so evil). Though I'm half done, I'm still constantly trying to figure out what makes a technical book really good. I don't aspire to be in the realms of a K&R or Peter Norvig or Charles Petzold or Larry Wall. But when I pick up Adam Nathan's WPF book or any of J...
I've been asked to work on a technical product road map for a suite of products. Can anyone provide recommendation as to what this should include and how I should present it? I'd probably need to cover some lines that will disappear and convergence between other products. I'd also like to find a good way of presenting this in a diagram...
As a Technical Team Lead, I've been finding it very difficult to stay involved in development while delivering on my responsibilities of documentation, design decisions (architecture), meetings and the like. As a consequence, I've really started to notice a decline in my programming skills and a marked inability to learn and develop new...
My application writes some bytes of data to an alternate data stream. This works fine on all but one machine (Windows Server 2003 SP2). Instead, CreateFile returns ERROR_DISK_FULL when I try to create an alternate data stream (on the root directory). I don't find the reason for this result, because... There's plenty of space on that d...
after some googling-fu on making subscript text in crystal report, i found this, this and numerous others. my question is, how can you know if a problem(or lack of feature) on a certain software is a business case or technical one? a part of me tells that this is a business case(Business Object(SAP?)), they want to squeeze money from ...
I have to rebuild a website. The website has a custom build CMS and this CMS has different modules. All modules should be taken to a Sitecore project since the website has to be rebuild in this CMS. I am finding it hard to write a good Technical Design document for a project in Sitecore. This is because this is the first project that I w...
Hello Everyone, Is there something called as Technical Library where technical\programming books can be borrowed? Buying books becomes too expensive, given the fact that I start reading a book and keep it aside after couple of days. Borrowing technical\Programming books would be the best bet for me as it would reduce the expense of bu...
Hi All, I am going to work on a Web Application which I have to start with Gathering the Business Requirements up on which I need to develop Functional and Technical Documents. I have not developed Functional and Technical design documents on my own, could you let me know how to start and what are the things I need to take in to conside...