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How agile methodologies can be applied in a typical " services " company?

- by AlfaTeK

My company is a custom software services company for external clientes, which means our typical project is one in which the contract already states the full budget of the project. Our typical project starts by defining requirements (improving the proposal high-level requirements), then we code the project, test it and ship it. We have an acceptance phase were the client tests the software and in that phase we can usually implement small changes asked by the client, or we charge extra for change requests. In some projects we have intermediate releases so the clients can check the progress of the project and give feedback on it. In summary: something like waterfall... I've followed the "agile" movement for a bit now and I always see it being a good match for a "product" company, or a company building software for an internal client. But are there good stories / advantages on using agile methods in my kind of company/projects? What are your experiences, what do you think about this?

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Install ssh support in CVSNT in Cent OS ?

- by AlfaTeK

I have a CentOS box where I installed cvsnt ( 2.5.03 (Scorpio) Build 2382) but now I'm trying to access a server with the SSH protocol (:ssh:) and it tells me that " the :ssh: access method is not available on this system" How can I install the support to ssh? (following some tutorials I have the $CVS_RSH configured to point to ssh executable file)

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java bytecode editor?

- by AlfaTeK

What's a good free bytecode editor? I want an editor, something with a GUI... I tried jbe-0.1b with no luck (can't save the bytecode changes).

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How to use Windows live contacts api to allow users to import contacts

- by AlfaTeK

I can't find a good, simple tutorial on how to achieve this in PHP / Javascript. Basically the same thing FB has where the users specifies their hotmail account and then gives permission to FB to access their contacts. As the API seems to have changed most tutorials simply don't work like: http://livecontactsphp.codeplex.com/ which doesn't get the contacts (but authenticates and gets permission from user)

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How can I force overflow: hidden to not use up my padding-right space

- by AlfaTeK

I have the following code: <div style="width: 100px; overflow: hidden; border: 1px solid red; background-color: #c0c0c0; padding-right: 20px; "> 2222222222222222222222111111111111111111111111113333333333333333333</div> (XHTML 1.0 transitional) What happens is that the padding-right doesn't appear, it's occupied by the content, which means the overflow uses up the padding right space and only "cuts off" after the padding. Is there any way to force the browser to overflow before the padding-right, which means my div will show with the padding right? What I get is the first div in the following image, what i want is something like the 2nd div: image

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Facebook php client

- by AlfaTeK

I'm trying to use facebook connect in my site so users can register/login with it and I'm having a little bit of trouble understanding all the tutorials around the web. My question is simple, does the facebook php client lib work in my use case or only to develop facebook applications that run inside fb ?

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Import Hotmail contacts "the right way" ?

- by AlfaTeK

I have a website where I want to allow the users to invite their friends, by getting their contacts in hotmail/msn. Google has the google contacts API for these purposes, does MSN publish a similar javascript API? Please note that I do not want to ask the user for their username/password like http://openinviter.com/ . Also, if anyone can provide some tutorials / examples I would appreciate it, as Microsoft docs are usually hard to understand :)

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Commercial Java LIB / API to read and write Word 2007 docs

- by AlfaTeK

I need a simple to use / good docs / good support java lib to read and write word documents, namely word 2007 support (and word 2010 support planned). As the project I'm in has budget and time-constraints I don't mind buying a commercial lib :) I know they are XML files in a somewhat open format but I really don't want to waste time understanding the XML specification. Any good recommendations from happy customers? (Right now my choice is going to Aspose.Words for Java)

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What's faster to parse lots of data (5Mb): eval or json?

- by AlfaTeK

I want to get, via ajax, a collection of data objects and parse them into JS data. Currently I have 2 choices: - Server returns valid javascript code and then I eval it. - Server returns JSON object and then I eval the json object What is the fastest of these in Firefox? (I only care about the "parsing" performance, not server or data transfer)

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Javascript array best practice to use [] instead of new array?

- by AlfaTeK

I read at many tutorials that the current best practices to create a new javascript array is to use "var arr = []" instead of "var arr = new Array()". What's the reasoning behind that?

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