What are Windows SVN+Tasks Management+Blog+Timeline free, opensource solutions?
What are Windows SVN+Tasks Management+Blog+Timeline free, opensource solutions(projects)? ...
management
Telling someone to "let the world judge their development practices" without being condicending?
There's a person in management on my team, that: Doesn't ask questions on Stack Overflow. Doesn't read development blogs. Doesn't use development best practices. This person is about to make some major decisions about the technology stack that will be used throughout the company. (I asked him what the technology stack was they were ...
How to audit code and database development?
Hello All, My management wants me to see if our development team is actually making the software and database design properly. they think that because they do not have any technical experience at such a detailed level that they would like to get a second opinion on if the current development management team is properly qualified to do a...
Annoyed by the expression "Moving Forward". Why do people use it?
What does “Moving Forward” mean to you? “Moving Forward”: A.To acknowledge the past but in essence, encourage a positive, professional environment to do our personal best in relation to issue that was criticized. B.To acknowledge the past and learn from case examples to develop continually updated and open sources of information....
Looking for a free CMS which allows content injection
Hi all, I was wondering if anyone could tell me of a free CMS that will allow me to change the basic content (text, image etc etc) of a website, without forcing it's own templates or designs. This is the scenario; I have already designed my website, already implemented it, and I just need a way for the actual User to edit the contents ...
Starting Objective-C, memory leak concerns
Hey guys, I'm starting to play around with Objective-C and I want to make sure I get memory/properties right. Suppose the following code: @interface Rectangle : NSObject { Vector2* origin; //[...] } Rectangle* myRect = [[Rectangle alloc] init]; myRect.origin.x = 100.0f; [myRect print]; myRect.origin = [[Vector2 alloc] init];...
How to choose database management system?
Basic requirements Fault tolerant (ex. has to work even when an entire data center goes down) Maximum number of records are about 1-5 billion Has to work properly and comparatively fast under high load Compatible with JavaEE Prefer relative DB but in general it doesn't matter Free of charge Do you have any ideas? ...
SQL Policy based management - Problem with ExecuteSql() based conditions
I have created a SQL condition using ExecuteSql() and enabled a policy based on this condition for Stored Procedure facets. When I evaluate this policy “On demand”, it runs perfectly fine and gives the desired pass/fail results. However, if I run this “On schedule”, the policy runs incorrectly and from the SQL Profiler, I am able to figu...
Users in database server or database tables
Hi all, I came across an interesting issue about client server application design. We have this browser based management application where it has many users using the system. So obvisously within that application we have an user management module within it. I have always thought having an user table in the database to keep all the log...
What can I do to improve a project if there is a no-listening situation. Developers vs Management
Hi all, I hope that I'm not the only one and I can get a answer from someone with more experience than me, so I can think cleaner and I don't get depressed with this developer's life. I'm working as developer for a small company three years now. In that three years I'm working in the same project and sincerely, I think this project cou...
Project management estimating time, budget and product pricing
I have been a software developer for a while but was not interested in the above topics, currently I am put in the position of wanting to learn more about them but don't have a clue where to begin. I have done task estimations and I can do decent ones, but have little/none experience in the field of budget/product pricing and would want...
What's the best way to clear the slate with your team
I work largely as an architect, and have developed a pretty big enterprise application based on SOA. Turns out my teamleader has been skilling up the indians behind my back even though I've been spending time and effort preparing a formal handover (to describe the design decisions and why). It just breeds lack of trust and sends the wron...
What arguments to use to explain why SQL Server is far better then a flat file
The higher ups in my company were told by good friends that flat files are the way to go, and we should switch from SQL Server to them for everything we do. We have over 300 servers and hundreds of different databases. From just the few I'm involved with we have > 10 billion records in quite a few of them with upwards of 100k new records...
Can somebody help me install this jBPM based workflow management suite?
Its a book Workflow Interface software available at sourceforge http://bookworkflowint.sourceforge.net/ Any instructions would be great especially in windows, however I can try Linux specific ones as well. I could not find any installation instructions. Thank you very much ...
How to properly manage a complex DB structure?
Let's say you have several systems using the same DB - each uses several schemes (sometimes same as the other). This structure of these schemes is somewhat very big and complicated. Now, how could you possibly manage such scheme structure? Obviously using some sort of "configuration" - the simplest would be SQL scripts, but a more reaso...
.net Artchitecture that works like - Cache everything, read from cache
Hi I want a sample that does following: Database <-> Data Access + Cache <-> Business logic <-> UI so basically everything you want from database should be accessible from cache, if it's not in cache, underlying data access layer will populate if and return it otherwise returned from cache is there any disadvantage? in what scenerios t...
Where do we find the best place to learn start-up bussiness models ?
every coder have a dream to see it's baby see the light and become a framework or even better a brand. So where do we find an information such as : The bad and Good of Facebook Facebook compare with others or any case study report on particular start-ups ...
Memory management technique for Objective-C iVars/properties
Is the following code doing anything unnecessary? @interface MyClass { NSArray *myArray; } -(void)replaceArray:(NSArray *)newArray; @implementation MyClass -(void)replaceArray:(NSArray *)newArray { if( myArray ) { [myArray release]; myArray = nil; } myArray = [[NSArray alloc] initWithArray: newArray]; }...
How much time do you spent on what task while working on a project?
How much time do you spend (in percent) in a project with writing actual code? writing unit tests? bug fixing? writing documentation? communicating with the customer? communicating with team members? setting up the project? integrating other parts? reviewing code from other developers? deployment? support? training? ... ...
One account, multiple users, multiple shopping cart in a web application
I received a somewhat unusual request (imo) for a transactional web site. I have to implement the possibility of having multiple shopping cart for the same user. Those really are shopping carts, not order templates. I.E: A store with several departments ordering under the same account, but with a different person placing orders for a ...