management

What software is available to organize software department with multiple products, people, projects?

Our department develops a lot of different software programs by a lot of different people in the department. The problem is that we want some solution to: Make it more visible what software program is maintained by which person. See the state of a software program (maintained/obsolete/etc). Attach some kind of charactistics (maybe tags...

Document management for Drupal 6?

Hi there, Can anyone tell me if there is a similar module for document management for Drupal 6 like docMan for Joomla? I want to be able to manage documents from one place (upload etc) and then be able to link to those documents from within a page. Thanks in advance, Ben ...

What to choose for article management website

Hi Guys, I have some questions regarding article management system. I am thinking of making a website where people will become members and write their articles, they can publish them, rank them etc. And i have been googling for past two weeks that which technology is best. And how to store the article so that search engines (like googl...

game server management for windows open source :D

hey, I was thinking of starting to develop a gaming server manager type thing similar to http://www.gamepanelx.com/ but for windows as I haven't found anything in the open source community. Has anyone? some ideas i had: release it under some open source license ... haven't quite decided Multi level user authentication + authorizati...

Implementing AGILE methodology in ERP?

We have a huge debate in our organisation to use AGILE in ERP projects. Can anyone give an example of a successful implementation as such? ...

creating a user management using php mysql

I am trying to find a good example that can help me to understand user registration and then management system. User management should show the items from the db and give the option to delete/modify and also create a new. I would like to use php and mysql . can any one please point me to the right direction to learn and try this.i searc...

Task Management Options

I have a need in an application for task management and was looking for open source or third party customizable software that has a robust API that I can plug in. Platform is .Net but willing to look outside of that platform if needed. Any suggestions because I rather not reinvent the wheel and build it. ...

Programmatically change system color profile?

Windows 7 seems to unload my monitor's color profile and fall back to some default one whenever certain things happen on the computer. It can be fixed by going into Control Panel, opening the Color Management application and twiddling the ICC profiles (changing the default profile to some other one and then switching it back to my own). ...

Maintaining the state in load balanced server?

What are the ways to mainatain the state in load balanced servers? I am using one application which is hosted in two different servers. Now I want to check a record about whether it has already been taken by somebody to edit or not. How to maintain a state inorder to accomplish my above requirement. ...

Where to start managing transactions in java SOA application

Hi, i'm starting to work with Services in Java, and i've been googleing for a while but i still have no clue when is need to handle transactions y several services, e.g. if creating a client uses 3 services, and the third service crash, how can i roll back the 2 previous services? any link, or explanation could help ...

SEAM Transactions in Weblogic

Hello, I am trying to use SEAM managed transactions in my application (using in components.xml) deployed in Weblogic 10.3. The application deploys succesfully but when I load the start page it is never loaded. Does anyone have a clue why this is happening? Thank you. ...

Can anyone recommend an existing java file repository

that will allow my users to edit word documents locally in Word and have them saved back to the server when finished. The project will be Grails based and I'm looking at things like WebDav but I would need security features that won't allow one user to access another users documents. And unfortunately the test I ran opening a word docu...

Release message to a UINavigationController object

Hello, I am relatively new to Cocoa programming, and some aspects of memory managing are still troubling me. In this case, I am creating a UINavigationController using the alloc message, and initialising it with a UIView controller. Then, I am presenting the view modaly by passing it to the presentModalViewController method. Below is ...

Scrum Project Planning

Our projects are done in a Scrum way. However, I am always open to find solutions on how to be more efficient. I would like to have input on how you plan a project for creating a product that will be sold to company customers. I would like to keep this discussion quite open and not narrow anything, but of course it should include thing...

How much effort should be assigned to requirement specification within a project?

Assuming the global development effort is known (from a preliminary work structure breakdown), what percentage of that effort should I add in order to allocate enough manpower for requirement definition and refinement? ...

Minimum requirements for a development environment

I have been tasked to provide an overview of requirements for the setup of a development environment for a relativity new business unit within a financial services institution. I had initially put together some aspects that focussed on doing some Requirements analysis and focussed on Infrastructure, Software and Processes and Procedure...

iPhone, passing object to method(s), memory management

Hey guys, I know there are a lot of questions on this topic already, but it is just not clear to me yet. So, what I am still wondering about is, if I call a method and pass it an object, do I then have to retain this object inside my method to use it there. And if I retain it, where do I release it. Lets make a bit of a more complex exam...

Android : how to delete account from database which are displayed under "accounts and sync" from my own application.

It may be wrong place to log my query, but its urgent. can anyone please help me how to delete google accounts from "accounts and sync". I'm trying to call this line my app: AccountManagerService.getSingleton().onServiceChanged(null,true); whereas onServiceChanged() method is defined in AccountManagerService.java. ====================...

Doctrine schema changes while keeping data?

We're developing a Doctrine backed website using YAML to define our schema. Our schema changes regularly (including fk relations) so we need to do a lot of: Doctrine::generateModelsFromYaml(APPPATH . 'models/yaml', APPPATH . 'models', array('generateTableClasses' => true)); Doctrine::dropDatabases(); Doctrine::createDatabase...

What's your leadership style in IT?

I recently got promoted to be the Project Manager/Supervisor. What do you think the leadership style a managerial role in Programming Dev't should have? What's your style? ...