CompuSight

Microsoft Platform Ready is Delivering Partner Success

Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:21:01 GMT

CompuSight writes "[by Adi S]...We have been a member of the Microsoft Platform Ready (used to be called “Front Runner”) for over a year now and it is a fantastic program...benefits are obvious...Last but not least MPN has been giving us hints of the upcoming Gold Windows Azure Platform Ready certification for our products running in the cloud. I wonder if that test will also be administered using the Microsoft Platform Ready program?..." more

How to Implement Scrum for Distributed Teams

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:04:14 GMT

CompuSight writes "..One of the biggest challenges to overcome when implementing Scrum within a distributed team is that of communication. Within a formal Scrum environment, everyday person-to-person conversation is a valued part of the process...during those crucial planning phases in order to achieve the design consensus and gain that initial momentum based on a common project understanding. Even during..." more

Scrum for Distributed Teams

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 19:04:12 GMT

CompuSight writes "...companies can obtain significant cost savings if they work within a distributed team environment...it is important to have that face-to-face time during vital points in the project - such as the planning and design phase of..." more

Hybrid Pricing Models for IT Outsourcing

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:36:21 GMT

CompuSight writes "...well defined requirements are implemented based on the fixed cost. The requirements unknown at the start or that come up during the initial phases are implemented subsequently based on the time-and-materials pricing model. This hybrid model allows for the both sides to hedge their risk. Interestingly enough..." more

Code Sample Intro to OO Javascript

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:32:47 GMT

CompuSight writes "...There are various types of javascript OO implementation, the most popular and accepted of which is the employment of the prototype property. By this most of the OO logical properties can be emulated/applied...However, the implementation of this type of logic is hard to keep track of, you cannot have..." more

Hybrid Pricing Models for IT Outsourcing

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:19:49 GMT

CompuSight writes "...Recently a hybrid model that combines the two has become popular where the initial, well defined requirements are implemented based on the fixed cost. The requirements unknown at the start or that come up during the initial phases are..." more

WCF Percall Service Implementation

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:19:47 GMT

CompuSight writes "InstanceContextMode enumeration can take 3 different values...PerSession...Singleton services...[and] PerCall service instances are created and destroyed with every method call on the server side...One important fact about the per call services is that, the connection between the client and the server is not severed even..." more

Examples of Optional and Named Parameters in C# 4.0

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:44:07 GMT

CompuSight writes "...Optional parameters are useful to replace overloading. Often by overloading methods, we would do several version of a method just to call some other version with passing some default parameter...for example:...This feature comes [in] handy when interacting with COM types that have large signatures, mostly with optional parameters. Beside this it improves the readability of the code..." more

Localizing SQL Server Reporting Services

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 21:34:03 GMT

CompuSight writes "Localization is a normal requirement for any project accessed around the world, and although Microsoft has not provided a way to add a ‘resx’ fileinto SSRS in order to localize the report , they have provided a way to use custom assembly and through it import the .resx files. After you have created your original report, to localize it you need to do several things..." more

TechEd 2008 Count-Down Gadget Download

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:03:09 GMT

Adi Saric writes Gadget development turned out to be the most development fun I have had in a while. Even though it is fairly straightforward there are several exceptions to the standard Web page development....in order to save you research time in the future...Make sure to use both pairs of tags when specifying the location of your script file ....Opening a flyout window with another one already open creates this weird "loss of focus" effect. In order to avoid this...Code below demonstrates this

SQL2008 to the Rescue: User Defined Aggregate Solution Recovered

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:32:47 GMT

Adi Saric writes....The Merge() method is called any time SQL decides to split up the workload, process it on separate threads, and eventually merge all of the results. It seems perfectly desirable to be able to maximize the use of computer resources....SQL Server has to be able to serialize UDAs in order to communicate/pass them between the threads. In fact, native serialization only supports following data types for native serialization....The next issue that comes into play is that the maximum size of a serialized object cannot exceed 8000 bytes in SQL 2005. That does not allow too many double type values....

SQL User Defined Aggregates

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:53:57 GMT

CompuSight writes "...Statistical calculations are quite important in the implementation of financial applications. Surprisingly SQL Server does not support many unless the process is running within the Analysis Services framework....While I could have used SQL approach....I would have to replicate the same piece of code in numerous stored procedures....Instead I decided to write my own median function using CLR that can be used similar to the AVG built-in aggregate. Visual Studio makes things easy....There are four methods listed below that the aggregate requires" more

My First Vista Gadget

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:18:06 GMT

CompuSight writes ".....Interestingly enough creating a gadget is a very straightforward process. Technically it is nothing more than a combination of HTML/XHTML, CSS, and image files accompanied by a manifest in a form of a XML file. My gadget was simple enough that I decided to embed the JavaScript directly into the HTML file representing the timer counting down the seconds...." more