vendors

Best SSL certificates provider?

Hi there, I am going to switching SSL onto a Rails site of mine pretty soon and was wondering if anyone has thoughts or suggestions as to who is the best provider? Does anyone have any happy stories or horror regarding certain vendors?? Thanks Kent ...

Microsoft Visual Studio License

I developed a small winforms application for myself in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition at my workplace, the Visual Studio is licensed to the firm I work at. If I want to sell that application, what are my license options? EDIT: The issue here is not my relationship with my employer (the code was written after hours, w...

What are some useful criteria for deciding on which software package to go for?

How does one go about choosing a software vendor after having seen many presentations from many software vendors, from a user preference perspective? I ask this question on behalf of a friend who has been put in charge of making such an evaluation, without any prior experience. I thought the experience of the SO community might generat...

Correct way to develop a large application

We are developing a very large web application in .Net 3.5. Two separate vendors are involved having expertise in different areas. Both the vendors are located remotely and working on separate functional area of the same web application. I was wondering what is the best way to handle the development of UI. The UI have a master structure...

Are Telerik WPF controls worth the money?

I'm currently looking around for control library for some WPF development and the "Telerik RadControls for WPF" certainly look the part although they are very expensive at $999 for a full developer license with support. My question is, has anyone out there used them in anger on a real project and what has their experience been like? If ...

Java - Reference implementations vs 3d party vendor provided ones

Dealing with Java - which the option you prefer in the most cases - reference impl. of some technology or another one, provided by any other vendor? Some examples - there is Glassfish server, which is basically official reference implementation of the JEE. However, i really seldom see people use that. Jboss, some free Apache projects re...

Typical Pattern for multiple providers/vendors?

I'm building a software product, in which the customer will be able to configure their system to use any one of 3 or 4 pre-integrated payment gateway vendors. (eg: PayPal, Authorize.net, etc). The customer will log into the application, navigate to settings, select which vendor they have an account with, enter the relevant account infor...

Is there an RSS / notification to MS KB's?

There seem to be many interesting KB relevant for us developers. For example: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971842/en-us Is there any way to get these updates by rss / mail? ...