Consequently, it is not reasonable to expect us to make sound business or technical decisions on behalf of the customers, or to resolve conflicting requirements supplied by different end users, or to set priorities for the many requirements that might be collected.
We have finally reached the state where if no project champion can be found to see that the right system is built, we cancel the project.
The consequence of not explicitly discussing these quality tradeoffs is a surprise upon delivery, when the customer finds that his implicit quality attribute requirements have not been achieved
One way to reach an appropriate middle ground in the specification process is to conduct formal inspections of the SRS. A structured document like the IEEE SRS is readily inspected by the design team, the project champions, other representative users, and other software engineers who are not directly involved with the project
sadly, this is something that is always left to the end to 'clean up'. Meaning, the spec is complete when the project is delivered versus kept up to date and in sync with what we are delivering.
A prototype is intended to answer specific questions about functionality or interaction styles. If you don't have any questions, don't bother with a prototype
Even in a small software group, a focus on accurately and completely capturing, documenting, and modeling the user requirements is a major contributor to building high quality information systems
SheepShaver is an Open Source PowerPC MacOS run-time environment. That is, it enables you to run PowerPC Classic MacOS software on your computer, even if you are using a different operating system.
OpenMake's build tools work across multiple platforms and in multiple programming languages resolving corss-platform and cross-toolset dependencies and more. Really slick build system, with a commercial continuous build solution and more.
MetaBuild is a modular and extensible MSBuild based build system. It breaks monolithic build scripts into modules ("projects") and leverages the MSBuild 3.5 parallel build feature.
Update Checker will scan your computer for installed software, check the versions and
then send this information to filehippo.com to see if there are any newer releases.
These are then neatly displayed in your browser for you to download.
Windows' enterprise adoption declined 3.7 percent, going from 98.6 percent in January to 94.9 percent in December. Mac OS gained 3 percent, going from 1.2 to 4.2 percent in the same time frame. Linux gained 0.5 percent in 2007.
Apple, with its enterprise share growing threefold
Windows use in the enterprise (it's traditional stronghold) has declined almost 4% to about 95% in the last year ... It's just a tiny sliver, but the real question is: is it enough to make Apple start catering to their enterprise customers?
RRDtool is the OpenSource industry standard, high performance data logging and graphing system for time series data ... has interfaces in all the usual open source scripting languages
Micro pledge ... a system for putting pledges or bounties on code features that you'd like to see in your favorite software. Free for open source projects -- proprietary or closed-source projects have some fees associated with them (on the developer side).
Connect to WebDAV, FTP, Amazon S3, FTPS, or SFTP servers through a virtual drive which is a full file-system drive which works in DOS, PowerShell, etc.
If you're a Wordpress Content Management System user, and you would like to make your page titles SEO friendly without installing any plug-ins or modifying your website too much, then this article might be for you. All it requires is a few lines of PHP in your header.php file.
This documentation contains information about the version of WiX distributed with Visual Studio Team System code name "Rosario" November CTP. It contains information about:
* What WiX is
* Using WiX on the command line
* Using WiX in Visual Studio
* WiX Schema Reference
* Advanced WiX Usage such as patch building, custom actions, and extensions
* Additional help links and resources