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Sunday, January 09, 2011 9:46 PM

Simple Accounting Software

Being in Software Industry; I am often contacted by people who are looking for a “simple accounting software” (or some time simple retail software) and often say they need very simple thing which might need 1 to 2 developer month time of development…Some
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007 1:20 AM

Developer's Productivity Data

I am looking for developer's productivity data from local software development organizations. I dont need "complete data"; averages / max /min would work too. Any software metric being used for this would work. Anyone from CMM / CMMI appraised organization
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Friday, May 19, 2006 2:45 PM

Access To Your Old Code

When you (as a single or as a team) are done with your project and move on to the next project; what do you think about? The code you written for the previous project should remain with you on your workstation The code should remain available on some
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Wednesday, November 02, 2005 2:51 PM

Lack of Documentation

This problem is very common; and is seen even in medium to large teams. For the small teams; its understandable; you usually don’t have enough resources (human, time, finance) and to cover this; here are few suggestions Requirement Gathering & Analysis
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Friday, October 28, 2005 11:11 PM

Characteristics of Good Portal Framework

So what a good portal platform should provide you? Add new things and vote listed item on scale 0 (no need) to 10 (it will not be a portal platform if it does not have this) User Management System Security System Extendable Mobile Support Online help/documentation
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Tuesday, October 04, 2005 11:07 AM

Naming Convention

I have often observed, that software developers and architects in small to medium teams don’t care much about naming conventions, which ends up creating lot of confusion among team members during development and testing but also increase maintenance cost.
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Thursday, September 29, 2005 9:30 PM

Refactoring

I wonder how many around consider “refactoring” a full fledge activity to consider it and allocate time for it in software project plans? I have seen people making statements, “let us complete it this way, once it will be done, we will re-factor it” and
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Thursday, August 25, 2005 7:24 PM

It works here on my computer

Disclaimer: I am not expert on Crystal Reports or PHP, correct me if I am wrong anywhere. I see commonly attitude of “It works here on my computer”. Many developers/programmers don’t consider limitations when their developed applications are deployed.
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Thursday, February 03, 2005 6:19 PM

Open Source is Not a Career Path

From http://blog.informationweek.com/002186.html "If you're getting into open source because you see it as a career path, you're doing something wrong." It's not that Linux creator Linus Torvalds thinks open-source programmers should work for peanuts
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Saturday, January 15, 2005 6:53 PM

Developing Software for Medical Professionals

I am supposed to develop a small payment/receipt/accounting system for the hospital. The in-charge of the unit (department) of hospital is sponsoring this experiment from his own personal pocket to streamline the “money” issues. (Personally
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Thursday, December 16, 2004 2:25 AM

Industry Frameworks

Consider yourselves as a typical dynamic web site developer, how many times you have implemented user authentication and authorization system? You might have used certain “reusable techniques” to get some benefit in terms of effort, but still,
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Sunday, June 13, 2004 10:12 PM

Will it be okay to talk about alpha and beta software?

Is it okay to use alpha and/or beta software and talk about them here? Can we talk about Yukon (SQL Server 2005) and/or Whidbey (Visual Studio 2005)? I am dieing to use C# in SQL’s stored procedures. Is there anyone feeling the same? J I have plans
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Thursday, April 29, 2004 10:01 AM

Scripting Languages

Savior to Administrators and Programmers Every time, one needs to tweak things in application, he needs to contact the vendor/developer who coded the application. If scripting technology is used affectively, it can be savior in such scenarios. End users
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