Archive for the ‘Enterprise’ Category
Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
When my development team got started on our new product, we established a hierarchy based on product ownership. One developer “owned” a particular piece of the product. Bill owned Documentation, Mark owned UI, Victor owned the Financial module, and so on. This had its own advantages, as it let an ...
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
We are in the throes of development of our product, and while coding marches on, we’re asked on a near-daily basis: when will it be done? That’s a tricky question, one that has plagued developers and managers for years. There are countless books on how to estimate software development, ...
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Yesterday I had lunch with two colleagues. As we chowed down on pulled pork and spiced apples, we talked about what makes something "enterprisey" and the scenarios in which going with the "right option" isn't always the best option. It was a good lunch.
It seems like in every conversation about ...
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Yesterday I installed Service Pack 2 for WSS 3.0 and MOSS 2007 on the two servers in our Development farm. I purposely did not follow the guidelines for upgrading SharePoint as I wanted to see what happened when I ran the installer. Since it’s a dev environment, there was no ...
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Sunday, May 31st, 2009
I've been giving a lot of thought to Microsoft Dynamics lately. Microsoft Dynamics encompasses Microsoft's enterprise software for customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP). Microsoft developed CRM in-house, and bought the ERP applications from various companies so it could compete in the enterprise applications spaces held by ...
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Thursday, May 28th, 2009
I am not privy to the details of SharePoint 2010. But like an upcoming blockbuster movie or expansion to an MMORPG, it's fun to dream about what might come.
Now I shall look into my broken crystal ball and share you with my prognostications of SharePoint 2010 and beyond.
STSADM becomes a ...
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Monday, May 18th, 2009
Version control has been around long enough that even people who don’t work in IT are accustomed to it. A few weeks ago I was talking to a friend about “source control” and she asked what that meant. I explained how it works, and she said, “Oh, like SharePoint document ...
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Friday, February 20th, 2009
Business rules are the driving force behind every enterprise application, from the smallest (such as a Windows application to calculate bus-based shipping costs) to the biggest (such as an application that processes driver's license renewals). Yet so much attention is directed toward how we build software rather than why we ...
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Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
I love fatalistic blog post titles. I have been brewing an idea in my head for a couple of months, since early October. The idea has germinated in my mind, growing from high concept ("It's a site that does x") to more detailed ("It's a site that does ...
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
On a warm May afternoon in 2005, I sat in a conference room with some very smart people. We were discussing things like reference architectures, SOA, Solaris containers, and code generators. As members of a skunkworks R&D team at the company, we had to produce, and we made some great ...
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