After working on a program for some while, pieces of code tend to end up on the place where they were first conceived - not where they would logically belong. Also, the ways some problems are solved may be obsoleted by new...
Our enterprise customer corrspondence management product ITP/CCM uses a database to keep track of things. Of course, we try to optimize the performance of our database design: it's very easy to create a...
Teams have had stranger mascottes. But alas, these shoes aren’t mascottes: they are the sad and lonely remnants of one team member’s attempt at getting a driver’s license. The driving lessons took place mostly during work hours,...
With software development comes a myriad of things to keep track of. Each of these can be done the high-tech, low-tech, and/or the blu-tack way. Within our R&D department, we have to keep track of bugs, planned features and...
When we started developing ITP/CCM, our enterprise customer correspondence management solution, we chose to use the Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework as a database persistence layer. This has given us lots of advantages. For...
English is the language of software. Apart from unpronounceable punctuation (!.?), sexy curves ({}), or plain bad language (#$%&*), keywords in programming languages tend to be in English. System programming languages mostly...
At Aia Software, we have ample experience modeling the document output business rules of our customers. However, when designing ITP/CCM, we explicitly chose to assume that we cannot possibly know all of the business rules that...
As mentioned in an earlier post ITP/CCM ‘weight’ 7.730.245 bytes: roughly 7MB. This is quite small compared to most other applications that are around these days. In most modern applications a large portion of the size is related...
Anyone who has created complex documents, whether in Microsoft Word of by developing ITP models, had to make design decisions in regards to the output infrastructure: Layout may differ if a document will be printed in duplex or...
Yesterday afternoon ITP/Customer Correspondence Management formerly known as ITP/Envelopes was born.
We will call her ITP/CCM for short.
Date: 30th september 2009Time: 16:50 pmWeight: 7.730.245 bytes
The parents will be...
