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I work as a Programming tutor and course developer, in Dot Net using VS 2013 /15'
Owing to college policies I have lost local admin rights to my work machine resulting in many calls to help desk to for install simple actions such as updating Visual Studio (even the extensions!) configuring and updating SQL Server Management Studio, new software, etc.
As a professional programmer, does your employer have such draconian regulations? I have seriously thought of walking away from a job I love over it, its too restrictive for no reason.
I need to make a case that this is an unacceptable working condition.
To be honest, if your employer is providing the hardware, it's theirs not yours and they have the ultimate say on what's on it and what's not. Anyone working for a company using their hardware or their network will always be doing so under an acceptable use policy. Even if the company supports a Bring-Your-Own-Device policy, there will be some form of stipulation that you have certain levels of security on the device.
I think what your argument, though, is about the impact to your productivity. It's less around the unacceptability of the working condition, and more about the waste that comes into play for you to achieve the tasks you are given. If you work as part of an R&D organization, the "Research" part of the job description usually entails installing new packages in order to determine their suitability for the product being developed. If you need to lose an hour / a day / a week waiting for these packages to be installed, there is a bottom line to the company that these policies are causing. But, you have to be able to show it. Otherwise it just falls into a he-said/she-said finger-pointing exercise.
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I have a ticketing system (lets say JIRA or similar) for my application to file an issue of my application. Now my requirement is to build a knowledge base in a way so that I can predict the solution of any similar issues in future by churning that knowledge base.
To explain further, the knowledge base would give me how many times this kind of issues have arisen in past and what have been the root cause of it in most of the time (lets say 80% time). This way the repository should have an analysis of each and every issue and its possible root cause plus many other relevant information about the issue.
Just to start off to build such a knowledge base, I need to know following things:
What is the most commonly used technology/mechanism available to achieve this ?
How do I need to architect/design a system to be able to serve this kind of requirement?
Does it require to learn any particular language/database ?
I request community experts to enlighten me with the required information and pointers to give me a starting point at least in this direction.
Thanks.
I would suggest against a ‘reinvent the wheel’ approach.
There are perfectly good tools out there that achieve your required use cases. Look at ServiceNow or Desk.com as CRM for tickets, or if you just want a Wiki that integrates with Jira, look at Atlassian’s wiki.
You can also generate reports from Jira itself, not sure why anyone would want to build his own when there are such great tools out there.
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I have a Windows Desktop application that is written in C++/MFC/COM technologies. This application relies heavily on CHTMLEditView (MSHTML Editing platform) and extensively uses IHTMLxxx COM interfaces.
It seems to be working fine on Windows 10 right now, but I want to know if MS will switch to EdgeHTML anytime soon. If that happens, will IHTMLxxx interfaces stop working with EdgeHTML?
I am not an official MS representative. But I may have some helpful insight.
Edge is a Universal Window App. As far as I know, this makes it generally inaccessible from COM, or even managed code (.NET). Consequently, you won't be able to use COM interfaces to interact with the underlying rendering engine (might be WebKit? I'm not sure).
On the other hand, IE uses the Trident rendering engine, which is completely built with COM. Trident is an integral part of the OS, so I really doubt it will go away anytime soon. It's used for so many UI parts (including Windows Explorer) that I don't think Microsoft will have a compelling reason to obsolete it, at least not for a long, long time.
And, there isn't really a good interoperability story at the level of COM for working with Edge. Universal Apps interoperate via contracts, and to some degree, URL protocol handlers, command line arguments, and other "safer" ways of isolating the app. I suspect that it won't be long before actual containerization technology is used for UWAs.
So, no, I wouldn't hold my breath on IHtmlXXX being implemented using EdgeHTML in any timeframe that could be useful for you. Stick with Trident. While Microsoft will probably make sure Edge has the very, very latest in web standards compliance, I don't think they will let IE languish so far behind that you find it unusable.
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I have a few C++/DirectX games that I want to start selling from my website. What's the best way to protect my games from being copied/shared? I don't really want to use a classic DRM and the games aren't well suited for the ingame purchase/freemium model.
I don't think revealing the download link after the visitor pays a fee is the correct answer...
If DRM is the only way - even if I don't like it - is there a lightweight DRM solution used by other game developers? (Something with minimal protection)
Thank you!
It's easy if the games are meant to be played online only... perform part of the game calculation only on the server, and use logins. But if you have a single-player mode...
A good "minimal" protection would be to use a hardware fingerprint and a matching HMAC downloaded from the server. When the user moves the game to a different computer, they have to use their credential to generate a new HMAC. The game itself doesn't contain the private key necessary for HMAC generation, only the public key necessary for verification. This will prevent accidental unauthorized copies, and there's very little you can do about skilled crackers anyway.
It's probably a good idea to include sunset logic, in case you shut down your server someday, you don't want your paying customers left with no way to reinstall. The likelihood you'll still be seeing significant income from sales more than 3 years after release is miniscule. You could also release an "update" with the license checks removed at some point in the future if you get tired of checking licenses.
For some extra information on why you don't want to join the arms race, see this answer of mine: The #1 law of software licensing
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I consider to use Mantis or Redmine to manage projects. (Issue Tracking)
I know both are really good.
For now, I won't connect it with SVN or Git.
(It may happen later)
The main purpose is issue tracking on business with co-workers.
Please recommend one of them, or you can recommend the other one.
Thanks.
I can recommend redmine. I've been using it for more than 2 years, with 25-50 simultaneous users and more than 50 projects.
I went through a lot of updates without ever having any problems.
The database is properly normalized, so if you ever need to retrieve any data, you will be able to do so.
Numerous plugins exists which may cover special needs if there are any.
Edit: In the meantime, I had to change over to Jira, but I'd go back to redmine anytime if I could.
Never used Redmine, but we've been using Mantis for about 7-8 years for many projects for our distributed team. One of the benefits is its simplicity. We've even wrote a couple of our own extensions, e.g. widely used in our process Kanban board (one of the Agile approaches).
Sometimes I think it looks slightly outdated among other modern tools but it really works for us and we can extend it with our own PHP code.
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How does Staff web service framework compare to others for c++?
I cannot answer your question in all details, but I'm searching for C++ SOA / web service frameworks for a year now.
My favorites (all OpenSource and platform independent - not ordered) are currently:
GSOAP - http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~engelen/soap.html
pros:
proven, reliable, very fast
big documentation, many support
still maintained - releases every 3-6 months
contras:
WSDL/client generators are not free
programming and embedding into existing apps isn't so easy
seems to be more C than C++
Apache AXIS/C++ - http://ws.apache.org/axis/cpp/index.html
pros:
proven, already in use in big projects
(nearly) good documentation
up to date, maintenance is ensured by Apache Foundation
better/nicer C++ API
contras:
heavy weight SDK / too many functionality for me
not easy to implement it / many work to embed it into own app
maybe not as fast and bigger footprint as GSOAP
Staff - http://code.google.com/p/staff/
pros:
very small footprint
easy and fast to integrate
contras:
future maintenance is not clear / it's (only) a Google summer of code project
very early stage
support party only in cyrillic
If I have to decide for a framework right now, I would take Apache AXIS -
it's proven and reliable and thus ready for productive use.
Further it's future maintenance is guaranteed by the Apache Foundation
and I'm free to uase, modify and integrate AXIS as I want - even for my
commercial applications.
I hope that helped a little bit.