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Identifying Potentially Valuable Custom Applications
Without fail, in my experience as a developer any potentially valuable custom application project has been the result of identifying some area of operation which: Has become unwieldy, requiring too...
View ArticleData Normalization – Know Your Data
A post here in these ITKnowledgeExchange blogs that recently caught my eye was this one written by Stephen Harris entitled “Data Challenges Can be Solved With Business Intelligence“. It is a rather...
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Beware of the “By the Way”,s
They often start with the statement “By the Way…”, or another flavor is the “While you’re here…”, or maybe the “I was thinking…” flavor — they are in a class of communication sometimes laced with...
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Changes, Users and Resistance
Let’s face it, software development and design is complex – even when it’s simple There are some areas where it seems that no matter what is done there will be unhappy users – at least for a while. I...
View ArticleRambling Thoughts on These Times
Yesterday I had the opportunity to exercise my Massachusetts civic responsibility by reporting to a county courthouse for possible selection as a trial juror. Having been before I knew something of...
View ArticleData Rot
Here in the Northeastern U.S. it is snowing outside and I found myself starting my day browsing through the myriad of industry emails I watch regularly. Now, I’ve blogged previously regarding my...
View ArticleApplications – Why User Documentation?
I’ve stated before that my goal with applications I create is to provide an application so intuitive that if one knows the job for which the application was designed that the interface be so intuitive...
View ArticleLegacy Applications – What Keeps Them Running?
It can be a huge leap from the highly customized legacy application (which for many have been in use double digit years), to the newer graphical point and click or web based AJAX type application. So...
View ArticleCustom Application RFP Process Approaches
My posts last month generally consisted of comments, suggestions and difficulties with preparing cost estimating of legacy applications. Recently I had the opportunity to come accross an interesting...
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