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What are the factors that have made Java a success as a programming language in enterprise computing?
What are the factors that have made Java a success as a programming language in enterprise computing?
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Does UX matter for enterprise software?
I've come to notice that a lot of software that companies use for managing things like time, expenses, setting up phone systems, etc is very non-intuitive from a user experience point of view. I know ...
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Should internal code be shared with non-developers in an organisation?
Where I work, we have a lot of developers and an awful lot of code running our proprietary applications used by staff & customers alike.
We also have a lot of smart support staff that like to ...
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Is Ubuntu workable as a laptop for an IT consultant?
I work as a consultant programmer, typically in large businesses. I use a Windows Laptop, and many of my colleagues use a Mac.
My personal preference would be to run Ubuntu if I could have complete ...
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How to break the “php is a bad language” paradigm? [closed]
PHP is not a bad language (or at least not as bad as some may suggest). I had teachers that didn't even know PHP was object oriented until I told them. I've had clients that immediately distrust us ...
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Asking my employer if I can open source a project I'm working on for the company
I'm an intern working for a company for the summer. I've been warmly received and I manage to impress my manager a lot (I guess I'm more experienced than the other people he interviewed). Recently ...
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How does Ruby, Python, PHP manage without Spring?
I write enterprise Java applications and web services at work (Spring, Hibernate, Maven, RESTEasy) and PHP (CakePHP) and Python (Django) for my side projects.
While I do see the value that Inversion ...
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What are the great unsolved challenges (or recent promising breakthroughs) of enterprise programming?
My experience with programming came from a field, computational linguistics, where there LOTS of unsolved problems (computationally modeling natural language, or having effective statistical ...
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What are requirements for a successful SOA?
I’m an EA in an organisation with 10000+ employees. Strategically we are heading towards SOA. Currently I’m researching about SOA’s and creating a road map and I have come over many blogs that talk ...
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How does enterprise level Flash development work?
I started working at a PHP shop and occasionally we have to go and tweak some legacy Flash and actionscript code. It's a small shop; we have about six developers. It seems almost every time we pull ...
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Why there is perception that VB.NET is good for small to medium size application and not for enterprise class project? [closed]
I love VB.NET very much. Coding VB.NET with Visual Studio is just like typing messages. Smooth, fast and simple. Any error will be notified instantly. The OO capability of VB.NET is good enough.
But ...
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Dev vs Stage environment vs Prod Environment
I work for a company where we build enterprise applications, and we maintain three environments: dev, stage and prod.
The meaning of dev is intuitive: it's the environment used during development of ...
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What is the easiest and cheapest way to distribute apple iOS enterprise app?
I work as a developer in a company, The company I work with has to deploy the app I made to their client. Number of clients are 3 and each client has around 100 iPads. Now my question is,
What ...
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Are there any “enterprise ready” functional programming languages? [closed]
By "enterprise ready" I am referring to availability of tools: dependency management, build management, message servers, databases, application platforms and servers, and are secure and scale well?
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Large enterprise application - clients wish to use duplicate e-mails addresses?
I'd like to know people's opinions, reactions to clients and technical work arounds (if applicable), to the issue of an enterprise application where a client wishes to use duplicate e-mail addresses?
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Is there an Editor that I can run code using SSH
I need an editor where I can edit my code client side, then highlight part of it and run the highlighted code on the connected server.
An Example of this would be SQL management studio, but I need it ...
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Is there a source for user opinions on commercial enterprise software?
It seems like a lot of my clients get roped into buying less-than-adequate enterprise software then dumping it on us (as consultants) to implement. I've seen some of these slick vendor demos where ...
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Java/C# - When should AOT be considered if reverse engineering is a concern?
Long and short is really in the question title. For a language which compiles to an intermediate language like MSIL or Java byte-code, if there's concern about something like reverse engineering or ...
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What makes a component or product “enterprise” software vs non-enterprise ready? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is enterprise software, exactly?
What does “enterprise” means in relation to software architecture?
What makes a component or product "enterprise" ...
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What IDE(s) or editor(s) do companies like Google, Apple, IBM, etc. use? [closed]
Even though I have quite some experience in using various tools, I still can't make up my mind whether I prefer using IDE or a simple editor for code editing.
Most IDEs I have experienced are ...
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What is the reporting function?
When dealing with an enterprise application, I often heard the requirement of "reporting function" "run reports", "generate reports", etc. What is it referring to?
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Is Spring + Hibernate prefered instead of EJB 3?
It is my perception that whenever new JEE projects start (where these technologies would be applicable), people prefer to use a combination of Spring + Hibernate instead of EJB 3.
It seems junior ...
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Design Pattern for enterprise application
I read few articles about composite pattern and I want to know whether its applicable in following situation,
I found that "A Composite Entity object can represent a coarse-grained
object and all its ...
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How does production server and staging Server actually work in production
I have one Linux VPS server for my company and we develop PHP sites.
What i normally do is just make the subdomain of main site like test1.mainsite.com and work on that till it finishes. and then ...
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User intentions analysis
I'm going to work on some project that would do a user-action recognition based on what he/she does in the system.
As far as I understand there are two main parts here:
Intercept the user actions ...
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what is exactly an enterprise app store
My idea of an enterprise app store is that there is a page on the company's website where all the apps that that company developed for its employees are listed so they can use them. And access to this ...
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What does “enterprise” means in relation to software architecture?
I see the term "enterprise" being thrown around software developers and programmers a lot and used loosely it seems.
en·ter·prise/ˈentərˌprīz/
Noun: A project or undertaking, typically one ...
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Re-writing a large web application - alternatives to LAMP
We have a very large, 10 year old LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) web application that is out of control and poorly written due to a large number of patches and possible hundreds of programmers.
If ...
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Ruby and Enterprise. Any future? [closed]
After Heroku acquisition by SalesForce, is there any chance for Ruby being adopted in enterprise development?
If you know any good examples already, please point to them.
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Will taking up a job in the enterpise s/w domain reduce my chances of later shifting to consumer software? [closed]
I have been offered a job from campus in the Enterprise s/w domain. I'm at loggerheads with myself deciding if I should take up the job, since I'm generally interested in consumer s/w esp in companies ...
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Apple Enterprise Developer Account Query
My employer is looking to purchase an enterprise account in the belief that it will enable us to develop and distribute apps for large clients of ours - however online it clearly states that the ...
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What's the best way to implement a browser-based SOAP client?
We have an existing architecture of enterprise SOAP webservices based on JavaEE 6 that transfers large payloads of data.
We want to develop a browser based front end for these sevices, and I would ...
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How you handle security/permission in enterprise app nowadays (mid 2011)?
what you people use to handle security issues, different security rules, permissions etc.
Possible answers:
1) Security framework like Rhino security or any other. (pros/cons?)
2) Custom solution ...
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Enterprise Architecture Certification
I want to make the step up from developer to enterprise architect. I have 13 years experience in various environments, from SME line of business apps to investment banking enterprise systems. I'm ...
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What are the most commonly used enterprise Java technologies, and what would you want a non technical audience to understand about them?
I have been asked to give a presentation to a non-technical audience on what Java technologies are currently being used in the enterprise world. The goal is to give this non-technical audience the ...
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Is it appropriate to run a complex enterprise-system configuration and migration project in a similar way to a Scrum development project?
I'm just starting out on the implementation of a large enterprise-wide system, which has complex requirements and many stakeholders.
The company has been through high-level evaluation and tender ...
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Do big software companies develop their business process management solutions (ERP) in-house?
I was looking at the customer list of a few ERP vendors like SAP. The companies in the list are mostly non IT companies. So, I'm wondering as to how IT companies approach the business process ...
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Why are some languages (e.g Visual Basic) considered more enterprise ready than others (Python) [closed]
Reading about various techie sites, there is often a feeling that Microsoft Languages / Oracle etc. are considered "enterprise ready", while there seems to be more doubt about languages such as Python ...
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Which iOS developer account should I sign up for [closed]
I am currently working on an app for a local hospital. The hospital wants a rough version of my app to test on their employees before committing to full application development.
I am currently ...
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What is the canonical resource on multi-tenancy web applications using ruby + rails
What is the canonical resource on multi-tenancy web applications using ruby + rails. There are a number of ways to develop rails apps using cloud capabilities with real elastic properties but there ...
