contracts

Should a company prevent employees from publishing an app in an appstore in their free time?

My company is trying to pass a policy forbidding distribution of any application (even free) in any appstore for all developers. Their reasoning is that "outside work activities create a conflict of interest". They don't want that "you use your spare time to work on your app, and once it takes off you quit your job" (quoting the Head of...

Domain Model and Contracts

I am modelling a DVD Rental Store: A Client gives its clientNumber to the System. The System checks whenever the given clientNumber is valid. The Client gives the name of the DVD he wants to rent. ... ...I will later have to form an association between a new instance of Rent DVD class concept to the current Client c. My Domain Model ...

What's the reason the static analysis wasn't made available to VS 2010 Pro?

Is it so that the regular developers focus on writing their Contracts locally and then submit them to be analysed globally? Or is there a way to get something comparable to this experience? Maybe as a separate download? Also if a library have Contracts, then would the intellisense tooltips would include the Contracts no matter what ver...

Time Estimate for a Contract PHP/Mysql Web Application Job

I'm debating contracting the development of a web application but don't want to insult a professionally experienced programmer with my budget if it's unrealistic. Can someone with expertise here comment on how much time you'd spend or payment you would expect to program the following type of project from scratch? Project is basically ...

want a domain name registrar who doesn't require I have read thousands of words of contract

I do not like checking a box that not only do I agree to a contract but I "have read" it when (1) in fact it is thousands or tens of thousands of words long and (2) incorporates many other documents "by reference" which I am also supposed to claim I "have read". Does anyone know of a registrar that does not require this? GoDaddy is rea...