Hello,
I saw this article in the November 15 2005 issue of CIO magazine (an extremely valuable issue I might add!) and realized that I needed to share the information in this issue. The article linked below is on requirements analysis. There are other articles in that issue on testing and quality assurance as well which are very good articles which address those areas from the CIO point of view (which in my opinion is good for anyone to at least be aware of).
For anyone who has ever been involved in a software project, this is the kind of information that CIO's need to help software development move out of the quagmire of failure that the industry has seen.
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CIO Magazine
NOV 15, 2005
How to Fix the Requirements Mess
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Some CIOs are rewriting the rules for deciding what should be included in software.Some CIOs are rewriting the rules for deciding what should be included in software.
Complete article online:
http://www.cio.com/archive/111505/require.html?CID=14295
Finally, industry heads are getting things right!
Hospitality Industry Information Technology
I have been thinking of some ways in which the hospitality industry information systems could be better accessed and utilized by the general public to reduce the number of times that itinerary information is entered and re-keyed and to improve the way in which a person of the general public would be able to locate housing in a foreign city with a minimum amount of time.
Web Service Tips and Tricks
One of my professors from my graduate program asked me about some information on developing web services in an environment that does not include Visual Studio .NET .
One of the great benefits of using Visual Studio .NET 2003 is that you can get automatically generated proxies to the remote web service without really lifting a finger.
Unfortunately, this is not a built-in feature of #develop. However, not to worry, it is a built-in feature of NAnt Contrib a sibling project with the NAnt project that creates additional functionality for use with the NAnt tool.
You say, but wait, I don't want to use an NAnt controlled build process! Don't fret, its not as hard as it used to be. #develop has integration with NAnt (and NUnit) that really works well. You can either use the #develop VS.NET 2003-style build manager or you can use your own custom NAnt script.
One last thing, if you have ever wanted to upload large files via a web service, you might want to check out this bit of code: http://www.codeproject.com/cs/webservices/DimeBufferedUpload.asp.
That's about it for now! Happy Coding!
Norman
