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• What is the best URL strategy to handle multiple search parameters and operators?

  - by Jon Winstanley

  Searching with mutltiple Parameters In my app I would like to allow the user to do complex searches based on several parameters, using a simple syntax similar to the GMail functionality when a user can search for "in:inbox is:unread" etc. However, GMail does a POST with this information and I would like the form to be a GET so that the information is in the URL of the search results page. Therefore I need the parameters to be formatted in the URL. Requirements: Keep the URL as clean as possible Avoid the use of invalid URL chars such as square brackets Allow lots of search functionality Have the ability to add more functions later. I know StackOverflow allows the user to search by multiple tags in this way: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/c+sql However, I'd like to also allow users to search with multiple additional parameters. Initial Design My design is currently to do use URLs such as these: http://example.com/search/tagged/c+sql/searchterm/transactions http://example.com/search/searchterm/transactions http://example.com/search/tagged/c+sql http://example.com/search/tagged/c+sql/not-tagged/java http://example.com/search/tagged/c+sql/created/yesterday http://example.com/search/created_by/user1234 I intend to parse the URL after the search parameter, then decide how to construct my search query. Has anyone seen URL parameters like this implemented well on a website? If so, which do it best?

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• A strategy to troubleshoot/ fix application crashes in Windows?

  - by Manav Sharma

  All, Over a period of time I have observed that fixing issues related to application crash is a discipline in itself. Some people have this nice way of attacking such problems. Ranging from Viewing the 'Event Viewer' to running Static/ Dynamic memory analysis tools to some of their 'personal favorites', these people have developed this art. Can we share articles/ links/ personal approaches that we use to understand/ troubleshoot/ fix such issues? Thanks

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• Does anyone have a backup strategy for SQL Azure databases?

  - by Pete

  I'm using SQL Azure on a project and it works great. The problem is that the usual backup features do not exist. I have exported the database a couple of times using SQLAzureMW ( http://sqlazuremw.codeplex.com/ ) but this tool is now choking trying to download the database data with bcp. In any case, it's not as nice a solution as SQL Server backups. Is anyone aware of a commercial or open source tool, or other technique, for making reliable backups of SQL Azure databases? This is really a showstopper.

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• What is an efficient strategy for multiple threads posting jobs and waiting for response from a single thread?

  - by jakewins

  In java, what is an efficient solution to the following problem: I have multiple threads (10-20 or so) generating jobs ("Job Creators"), and a single thread capable of performing them ("The worker"). Once a job creator has posted a job, it should wait for the job to finish, yielding no result other than "it's done", before it keeps going. For sending the jobs to the worker thread, I think a ring buffer or similar standard fan-in setup would perhaps be a good approach? But for a Job Creator to find out that her job has been done, I'm not so sure.. The job creators could sleep, and the worker interrupt them when done.. Or each job creator could have an atomic boolean that it checks, and that the worker sets. I dunno, neither of those feel very nice. I'd like to do it with as few (none, if possible) locks as absolutely possible. So to be clear: What I'm looking for is speed, not necessarily simplicity. Does anyone have any suggestions? Links to reading about concurrency strategies would also be very welcome!

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• Is there a strategy to back-port C# code?

  - by ianmayo

  Hi all, I intend using the Argotic framework in support of a .Net Atom server. Unfortunately my target server (over which I have no control) only has .Net 1.1 - any the Argotic library is only in .Net 2 and 3.5. So, I now need to back-port the code to 1.1. Can anybody provide any strategic tips for this undertaking? I'm aware of the merits of using Unit Tests to verify the ported code (here). should I be looking for automated tools? should I just import the code into VS2003 .Net 1.1 project and work through the compiler warnings? Any tips appreciated. cheers, Ian

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• What is a good generic sibling control Javascript communication strategy?

  - by James

  I'm building a webpage that is composed of several controls, and trying to come up with an effective somewhat generic client side sibling control communication model. One of the controls is the menu control. Whenever an item is clicked in here I wanted to expose a custom client side event that other controls can subscribe to, so that I can achieve a loosely coupled sibling control communication model. To that end I've created a simple Javascript event collection class (code below) that acts as like a hub for control event registration and event subscription. This code certainly gets the job done, but my question is is there a better more elegant way to do this in terms of best practices or tools, or is this just a fools errand? /// Event collection object - acts as the hub for control communication. function ClientEventCollection() { this.ClientEvents = {}; this.RegisterEvent = _RegisterEvent; this.AttachToEvent = _AttachToEvent; this.FireEvent = _FireEvent; function _RegisterEvent(eventKey) { if (!this.ClientEvents[eventKey]) this.ClientEvents[eventKey] = []; } function _AttachToEvent(eventKey, handlerFunc) { if (this.ClientEvents[eventKey]) this.ClientEvents[eventKey][this.ClientEvents[eventKey].length] = handlerFunc; } function _FireEvent(eventKey, triggerId, contextData ) { if (this.ClientEvents[eventKey]) { for (var i = 0; i < this.ClientEvents[eventKey].length; i++) { var fn = this.ClientEvents[eventKey][i]; if (fn) fn(triggerId, contextData); } } } } // load new collection instance. var myClientEvents = new bsdClientEventCollection(); // register events specific to the control that owns it, this will be emitted by each respective control. myClientEvents.RegisterEvent("menu-item-clicked"); Here is the part where this code above is consumed by source and subscriber controls. // menu control $(document).ready(function() { $(".menu > a").click( function(event) { //event.preventDefault(); myClientEvents.FireEvent("menu-item-clicked", $(this).attr("id"), null); }); }); <div style="float: left;" class="menu"> <a id="1" href="#">Menu Item1</a><br /> <a id="2" href="#">Menu Item2</a><br /> <a id="3" href="#">Menu Item3</a><br /> <a id="4" href="#">Menu Item4</a><br /> </div> // event subscriber control $(document).ready(function() { myClientEvents.AttachToEvent("menu-item-clicked", menuItemChanged); myClientEvents.AttachToEvent("menu-item-clicked", menuItemChanged2); myClientEvents.AttachToEvent("menu-item-clicked", menuItemChanged3); }); function menuItemChanged(id, contextData) { alert('menuItemChanged ' + id); } function menuItemChanged2(id, contextData) { alert('menuItemChanged2 ' + id); } function menuItemChanged3(id, contextData) { alert('menuItemChanged3 ' + id); }

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• Data access strategy for a site like SO - sorted SQL queries and simultaneous updates that affect th

  - by Kaleb Brasee

  I'm working on a Grails web app that would be similar in access patterns to StackOverflow or MyLifeIsAverage - users can vote on entries, and their votes are used to sort a list of entries based on the number of votes. Votes can be placed while the sorted select queries are being performed. Since the selects would lock a large portion of the table, it seems that normal transaction locking would cause updates to take forever (given enough traffic). Has anyone worked on an app with a data access pattern such as this, and if so, did you find a way to allow these updates and selects to happen more or less concurrently? Does anyone know how sites like SO approach this? My thought was to make the sorted selects dirty reads, since it is acceptable if they're not completely up to date all of the time. This is my only idea for possibly improving performance of these selects and updates, but I thought someone might know a better way.

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• Large scale Merge Replication strategy - what can go wrong?

  - by niidto

  Hi, I'm developing a piece of software that uses Merge Replication and SQL Compact on Windows Mobile 6. At the moment it is running on 5 devices reasonably well. The issues I've come up against are as follows: The schema has had to change a lot, and will continue to have to change as the application evolves. There have been various errors replicating these schema changes down to the device, uploads failing due to schema inconsistencies. Subscriptions expiring (after 14 days) and unable to reinitialize with upload - AKA, potential data los of unsynced data up to that point. Basically, the worst case scenario is data loss, and when merge replication fails, there seems to be no way back to get the data off. My method until now has been to drop and create the subscription on the device. I don't hear many people doing this, though it seems to solve everything. The long term plan is to role this out to 500+ devices. Any advice on people who have undertaken similar projects, and how to minimise data loss and make it so that there's appropriate error handling code to recover from sync failures would be much appreciated. James

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• Core Data strategy using in memory cache, or no core data at all?

  - by randombits

  I have a user interface where the user can check off a bunch of items from a tableview, almost like a todo list. The items are populated from a Core Data stack. I need to be able to take all of the items they're clicking through and put them into a "temporary" shopping cart. Once they're in the shopping cart, users can go through the list and remove the items, or just submit them to a server. The thing is, the selected items are temporary just like an internet based shopping cart. It's nothing something that gets persisted once the application closes. Once the view is no longer in display, I can assume that the shopping cart is safe to discard. What's the best way to approach this? Since the user is essentially clicking on instances that map back to a Core Data entity .. should I setup a different persistence store such as in memory and add that store to my managed object context?

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• Hyper-V snapshot backup strategy appropriate for production SQL server?

  - by Chuck

  So SQL Server 2008 in Hyper-V is a supported configuration, and should perform well as long as you use fixed or pass-through disks and increase your processor/memory settings appropriately. My question is can I use snapshots as a reliable backup mechanism, or should I use the tried and trusted maintenance plan to do my backups?

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• Strategy for animation a lot of LED's - thread?, UIView animations? NSOperation? (iPhone)

  - by RickiG

  Hi I have to do some different views containing 72 LED lights. I built an LED Class so I can loop through the LED's and set them to different colors (Green, Red, Orange, Blue None etc.). The LED then loads the appropriate .png. This works fine, I loop over the LED's and set them. Now I know that at some time they will need to not just turn on/off change color, but will have to turn on with a small delay. Like an equalizer. I have a 5-10 views containing the 72 LED's and I would like to achieve the above with the minimum amount of memory/CPU strain. for(LED *l in self.ledArray) { [l display:Green]; } I simply loop as shown above and inside the LED is a switch case that does the correct logic. If this were actual LED's and a microController I would use sleep(100) or similar in the loop, but I would really like to avoid stuff like that for obvious reasons. I was thinking that doing a performOnThread withDelay would really be consuming, so would UIView animation changing the alpha and NSOperation would also be a lot of lifting for a small feature. Is there a both efficient and clever way to go around this? Thanks for any inspiration given:)

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• Incentivizing Work with Development Teams

  - by MarkPearl

  Recently I saw someone on twitter asking about incentives and if anyone had past experience with incentivizing work. I promised to respond with some of the experiences I have had in the past so here goes... **Disclaimer** - these are my experiences with incentives, generally in software development - in some other industries this may not be applicable – this is also my thinking at this point in time, with more experience my opinion may change. Incentivize at the level that you want people to group at If you are wanting to promote a team mentality, incentivize teams. If you want to promote an individual mentality, incentivize individuals. There is nothing worse than mixing this up. Some organizations put a lot of effort in establishing teams and team mentalities but reward individuals. This has a counter effect on the resources they have put towards establishing a team mentality. In the software projects that I work with we want promote cross functional teams that collaborate. Personally, if I was on a team and knew that there was an opportunity to work on a critical component of the system, and that by doing so I would get a bigger bonus, then I would be hesitant to include other people in solving that problem. Thus, I would hinder the teams efforts in being cross functional and reduce collaboration levels. Does that mean everyone in the team should get an even share of an incentive? In most situations I would say yes - even though this may feel counter-intuitive. I have heard arguments put forward that if “person x contributed more than person Y then they should be rewarded more” – This may sound controversial but I would rather treat people how would you like them to perform, not where they currently are at. To add to this approach, if someone is free loading, you bet your bottom dollar that the team is going to make this a lot more transparent if they feel that individual is going to be rewarded at the same level that everyone else is. Bad incentives promote destructive work If you are going to incentivize people, pick you incentives very carefully. I had an experience once with a sales person who was told they would get a bonus provided that they met an ordering target with a particular supplier. What did this person do? They sold everything at cost for the next month or so. They reached the goal, but the company didn't gain anything from it. It was a bad incentive. Expect the same with development teams, if you incentivize zero bug levels, you will get zero code committed to the solution. If you incentivize lines of code, you will get many many lines of bad code. Is there such a thing as a good incentives? Monetary wise, I am not sure there is. I would much rather encourage organizations to pay their people what they are worth upfront. I would also advise against paying money to teams as an incentive or even a bonus or reward for reaching a milestone. Rather have a breakaway for the team that promotes team building as a reward if they reach a milestone than pay them more money. I would also advise against making the incentive the reason for them to reach the milestone. If this becomes the norm it promotes people to begin to only do their job if there is an incentive at the end of the line. This is not a behaviour one wants to encourage. If the team or individual is in the right mind-set, they should not work any harder than they are right now with normal pay.

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• Go for the Deep Dive on Oracle Products and Technology

  - by Oracle OpenWorld Blog Team

  by Karen Shamban Oracle University gives you more learning for your conference investment. It’s easier than ever before to get in-depth Oracle product and technology training if you’re attending any of the Oracle conferences this fall, including Oracle OpenWorld, the Oracle Customer Experience Summit @ OpenWorld, the Oracle PartnerNetwork Exchange @ OpenWorld, and MySQL Connect. Why is it easier? Because Oracle University preconference training takes place on Sunday, September 30 from 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. And you’re going to be in town for the conference anyway, right? The training ends early enough in the afternoon that you’ll still be able to get good seats for conference opening keynotes and get psyched for the welcome reception that follows. Each session will be taught by an expert Oracle University instructor and will be fact-packed with demos and tips to help you do more than ever before with your Oracle product and technology investment. The training sessions being offered include: Applications:·             PeopleSoft Test Framework Script Creation and Optimization·             New Integration Technologies for PeopleTools 8.52·             Oracle Fusion Applications: Security Fundamentals Database and Systems:·             Certification Exam Cram: Oracle Database 11g: New Features for Administrators·             Exadata Database Machine Administration Workshop·             Introduction to Big Data·             Using Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c·             Using Java - for PL/SQL and Database Developers Fusion Middleware:·             Developing Portable Java EE Applications with the Enterprise JavaBeans 3.1 API and Java Persistence API 2.0·             Developing Secure Java Web Services·             How The Latest Java EE and SOA Help in Architecting and Designing Robust Enterprise Applications·             Oracle Business Intelligence 11g: Overview to Analyses and Dashboards·             Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g: Build Applications with ADF I·             Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Administer Forms Services·             Oracle SOA Suite 11g Administration·             WebLogic Server Administration Essentials Don’t miss this great opportunity to maximize your Oracle OpenWorld experience and investment. Learn more about Oracle University training sessions.

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• Factory Girl: Automatically assigning parent objects

  - by Ben Scheirman

  I'm just getting into Factory Girl and I am running into a difficulty that I'm sure should be much easier. I just couldn't twist the documentation into a working example. Assume I have the following models: class League < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :teams end class Team < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :league has_many :players end class Player < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :team end What I want to do is this: team = Factory.build(:team_with_players) and have it build up a bunch of players for me. I tried this: Factory.define :team_with_players, :class => :team do |t| t.sequence {|n| "team-#{n}" } t.players {|p| 25.times {Factory.build(:player, :team => t)} } end But this fails on the :team=>t section, because t isn't really a Team, it's a Factory::Proxy::Builder. I have to have a team assigned to a player. In some cases I want to build up a League and have it do a similar thing, creating multiple teams with multiple players. What am I missing?

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• Building a formset dynamically

  - by vorpyg

  I initially wrote code to build a form dynamically, based on data from the DB, similar to what I described in my previous SO post. As SO user Daniel Roseman points out, he would use a formset for this, and now I've come to the realization that he must be completely right. :) My approach works, basically, but I can't seem to get validation across the entire form to be working properly (I believe it's possible, but it's getting quite complex, and there has to be a smarter way of doing it = Formsets!). So now my question is: How can I build a formset dynamically? Not in an AJAX way, I want each form's label to be populated with an FK value (team) from the DB. As I have a need for passing parameters to the form, I've used this technique from a previous SO post. With the former approach, my view code is (form code in previous link): def render_form(request): teams = Team.objects.filter(game=game) form_collection = [] for team in teams: f = SuggestionForm(request.POST or None, team=team, user=request.user) form_collection.append(f) Now I want to do something like: def render_form(request): teams = Team.objects.filter(game=game) from django.utils.functional import curry from django.forms.formsets import formset_factory formset = formset_factory(SuggestionForm) for team in teams: formset.form.append(staticmethod(curry(SuggestionForm, request.POST or None, team=team, user=request.user))) But the append bit doesn't work. What's the proper way of doing this? Thanks!

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• How to define a collection in a POCO in Entity Framework 4?

  - by Stef

  Lets say I've a Team class which contains 0 or more Players. The Player class is easy: public class Player { public long Id { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } public Team Team { get; set; } } But whats the best to define the Team class? Option 1 public class Team { public long Id { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } public ICollection<Player> Players { get; set; } } Option 2: public class Team { public Team() { Players = new Collection<Player>(); } public long Id { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } public ICollection<Player> Players { get; set; } } Option 3: public class Team { public long Id { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } public IQueryable<Player> Players { get; set; } } Option 4: public class Team { public long Id { get; set; } public string Name { get; set; } public ObjectSet<Player> Players { get; set; } }

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• Going for Gold

  - by Simple-Talk Editorial Team

  There was a spring in the step of some members of our development teams here at Red Gate, on hearing that on five gold awards at 2012′s SQL Mag Community and Editors Choice Awards. And why not? It’s a nice recognition that their efforts were appreciated by many in the SQL Server community. The team at Simple-Talk don’t tend to spring, but even we felt a twinge of pride in the fact that SQL Scripts Manager received Gold for Editor’s Choice in the Best Free Tools category. The tool began life as a “Down Tools” project and is one that we’ve supported and championed in various articles on Simple-talk.com. Over a Cambridge Bitter in the Waggon and Horses, we’ve often reflected on how nice it would be to nominate our own awards. Of course, we’d have to avoid nominating Red Gate tools in each category, even the free ones, for fear of seeming biased,  but we could still award other people’s free tools, couldn’t we? So allow us to set the stage for the annual Simple-Talk Community Tool awards… Onto the platform we shuffle, to applause from the audience; Chris in immaculate tuxedo, Alice in stunning evening gown, Dave and Tony looking vaguely uncomfortable, Andrew somehow distracted, as if his mind is elsewhere. Tony strides up to the lectern, and coughs lightly…”In the free-tool category we have the three nominations, and they are…” (rustle of the envelope opening) Ola Hallengren’s SQL Server Maintenance Solution (applause) Adam Machanic’s WhoIsActive (cheers, more applause) Brent Ozar’s sp_Blitz (much clapping) “Before we declare the winner, I’d like to say a few words in recognition of a grand tradition in a SQL Server community that continues to offer its members a steady supply of excellent, free tools. It hammers home the fundamental principle that a tool should solve a single, pressing and frustrating problem, but you should only ever build your own solution to that problem if you are certain that you cannot buy it, or that someone has not already provided it free. We have only three finalists tonight, but I feel compelled to mention a few other tools that we also use and appreciate, such as Microsoft’s Logparser, Open source Curl, Microsoft’s TableDiff.exe, Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool, SQL Server Cache Manager and SQLPSX.” “And now I’ll hand over to Alice to announce the winner.” Alice strides over to the microphone, tearing open the envelope. “The winner,” she pauses for dramatic effect “… is …Ola Hallengren’s SQL Server Maintenance Solution!” Queue much applause and consumption of champagne. Did we get it wrong? What free tool would you nominate? Let us know! Cheers, Simple-Talk Editorial Team (Andrew, Alice, Chris, Dave, Tony)

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• Inside Red Gate - Project teams

  - by Simon Cooper

  Within each division in Red Gate, development effort is structured around one or more project teams; currently, each division contains 2-3 separate teams. These are self contained units responsible for a particular development project. Project team structure The typical size of a development team varies, but is normally around 4-7 people - one project manager, two developers, one or two testers, a technical author (who is responsible for the text within the application, website content, and help documentation) and a user experience designer (who designs and prototypes the UIs) . However, team sizes can vary from 3 up to 12, depending on the division and project. As an rule, all the team sits together in the same area of the office. (Again, this is my experience of what happens. I haven't worked in the DBA division, and SQL Tools might have changed completely since I moved to .NET. As I mentioned in my previous post, each division is free to structure itself as it sees fit.) Depending on the project, and the other needs in the division, the tech author and UX designer may be shared between several projects. Generally, developers and testers work on one project at a time. If the project is a simple point release, then it might not need a UX designer at all. However, if it's a brand new product, then a UX designer and tech author will be involved right from the start. Developers, testers, and the project manager will normally stay together in the same team as they work on different projects, unless there's a good reason to split or merge teams for a particular project. Technical authors and UX designers will normally go wherever they are needed in the division, depending on what each project needs at the time. In my case, I was working with more or less the same people for over 2 years, all the way through SQL Compare 7, 8, and Schema Compare for Oracle. This helped to build a great sense of camaraderie wihin the team, and helped to form and maintain a team identity. This, in turn, meant we worked very well together, and so the final result was that much better (as well as making the work more fun). How is a project started and run? The product manager within each division collates user feedback and ideas, does lots of research, throws in a few ideas from people within the company, and then comes up with a list of what the division should work on in the next few years. This is split up into projects, and after each project is greenlit (I'll be discussing this later on) it is then assigned to a project team, as and when they become available (I'm sure there's lots of discussions and meetings at this point that I'm not aware of!). From that point, it's entirely up to the project team. Just as divisions are autonomous, project teams are also given a high degree of autonomy. All the teams in Red Gate use some sort of vaguely agile methodology; most use some variations on SCRUM, some have experimented with Kanban. Some store the project progress on a whiteboard, some use our bug tracker, others use different methods. It all depends on what the team members think will work best for them to get the best result at the end. From that point, the project proceeds as you would expect; code gets written, tests pass and fail, discussions about how to resolve various problems are had and decided upon, and out pops a new product, new point release, new internal tool, or whatever the project's goal was. The project manager ensures that everyone works together without too much bloodshed and that thrown missiles are constrained to Nerf bullets, the developers write the code, the testers ensure it actually works, and the tech author and UX designer ensure that people will be able to use the final product to solve their problem (after all, developers make lousy UI designers and technical authors). Projects in Red Gate last a relatively short amount of time; most projects are less than 6 months. The longest was 18 months. This has evolved as the company has grown, and I suspect is a side effect of the type of software Red Gate produces. As an ISV, we sell packaged software; we only get revenue when customers purchase the ready-made tools. As a result, we only get a sellable piece of software right at the end of a project. Therefore, the longer the project lasts, the more time and money has to be invested by the company before we get any revenue from it, and the riskier the project becomes. This drives the average project time down. Small project teams are the core of how Red Gate produces software, and are what the whole development effort of the company is built around. In my next post, I'll be looking at the office itself, and how all 200 of us manage to fit on two floors of a small office building.

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• Reporting defects in Agile

  - by user3728779

  I am working in sprint. At the end of sprint I need to send a defect report per sprint. Considering the below scenario please let me know your views. Two teams(A & B) are working at different locations in Sprint-2 and I am a tester from Team-A and report the defects for the items developed by Team-A in each sprint Question 1. I reported few defects in Sprint-2 for the functionality developed by Team-B in previous sprint. Do I have to consider this as observation or defect and report to Team-A? 2. I reported 5 defects of Sprint-2 for the functionality developed by team-A. All the defects are fixed and closed by me in the same sprint. Before the end of sprint I observed 2 defects got reopened for some reason. Now the defect count should be 5 or 7(5+2) should be considered for this sprint? Thanks Khan

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• How to guide stakeholder(s) not to get far from the scrum vision?

  - by Saeed Neamati

  Consider this scenario: Stakeholder(s): Let's build a web application to manage user's financial data. Scrum team: Ok, let's do it. . . . After 3 sprints Stakeholder(s): Let's also implement a mailing system, so that when user's financial status is not good, (s)he would be warned. Scrum team: Ok, it's not that hard. We'll do it. . . . After 5 sprints Stakholder(s): Let's become a mailing provider. Here, how should scrum team guide stakeholder to stay inside the scope of scrum vision? Maybe a more fundamental question is, should the at all? Update: Of course there is a product owner. But by scrum team I meant PO, SM, and Team.

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• AJI Software is now a Microsoft Gold Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Partner

  - by Jeff Julian

  Our team at AJI Software has been hard at work over the past year on certifications and projects that has allowed us to reach Gold Partner status in the Microsoft Partner Program.  We have focused on providing services that not only assist in custom software development, but process analysis and mentoring.  I definitely want to thank each one of our team members for all their work.  We are currently the only Microsoft Gold ALM Partner for a 500 mile radius around Kansas City. If you or your team is in need of assistance with Team Foundation Server, Agile Processes, Scrum Mentoring, or just a process/team assessment, please feel free to give us a call.  We also have practices focused on SharePoint, Mobile development (iOS, Android, Windows Mobile), and custom software development with .NET.  Technorati Tags: Gold Partner,ALM,Scrum,TFS,AJI Software

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• Pair programming and unit testing

  - by TheSilverBullet

  My team follows the Scrum development cycle. We have received feedback that our unit testing coverage is not very good. A team member is suggesting the addition of an external testing team to assist the core team, but I feel this will backfire in a bad way. I am thinking of suggesting pair programming approach. I have a feeling that this should help the code be more "test-worthy" and soon the team can move to test driven development! What are the potential problems that might arise out of pair programming??

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• The Birth of SSAS Compare

  - by Red Gate Software BI Tools Team

  Noemi Moreno, Red Gate Business Intelligence Specialist Software vendors – even Microsoft – tend to forget about the needs of business intelligence developers. We are a rare and rather invisible species. For example, BIDS remained in VS 2008 until SQL Server 2012. It took until this release before we got something as simple as an “undo” function. Before I joined Red Gate as a BI specialist, I worked on SQL Development. I’ll never forget the time I discovered Red Gate’s SQL Compare tool and how it reduced the task of preparing a database release from a couple of days to ten minutes. When I moved to SSAS, MDX and cubes, I became frustrated with the deployment process because I couldn’t find a tool that made Cube releases as easy as they are with SQL Compare. This became my quest. I pitched the idea to a few people in Red Gate’s regular Down Tools Week, when everyone puts down their day-to-day tasks and works on their own projects. My task was to reason with a roomful of cynical developers, hardened to the blandishments of project managers, for help to develop a tool that would compare two different SSAS databases and create the script to process only the objects that needed processing, thereby reducing release time to only a few minutes. I walked to the podium and gave them the full story of the distressed BI specialists, doomed to spend tedious hours preparing deployment scripts. A few developers recovered from their torpor to cast a languid eye at my presentation. It wasn’t enough. In a sudden impulse, I blurted out a promise to perform a flamenco dance for just the team if the tool was able to successfully compare two SSAS databases and generate a script by the end of the week. I was lucky enough that some of them believed me and jumped in: David Pond (Dev), Matt Burton (Dev), Tilman Bregler (Dev), Shobana Sekar (Test), Ruchija Raj (Test), Nick Sutherland (Product Manager) and Irma Tanovic (BI). They didn’t know that Irma and I would be away on a conference in Amsterdam and would leave them without our support. But to my surprise, they had a working tool by the time we came back – basic, and with a few bugs, but a working tool nonetheless! Seeing it compare a very basic SSAS database, detect the changes and generate the scripts was amazing! Something that normally takes half a day was done in under a minute. Since then, a few months have passed and a BI Tools team has been created at Red Gate to work full time on BI tools for BI developers, starting with SSAS Compare. How cool is that? So download the free beta and give us your feedback. And the flamenco? I still need to deliver that. Tilman reminds me every day! I need to get the full flamenco costume.

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• "Mega Menus" for SEO [duplicate]

  - by Thought Space Designs

  This question already has an answer here: How do I handle having to many links on a webpage because of my menu 4 answers I'm using the term "Mega Menus" loosely here. I'm redesigning my WordPress site (it's going to be responsive), and as part of the redesign, I was debating incorporating some sort of descriptive menu setup. For example, normal navigation drop down menus come in the form of unordered lists of links like so: <nav> <ul> <li> <a href="#">Link1</a> </li> <li> <a href="#">Link2</a> </li> <li> <a href="#">Link3</a> <ul> <li> <a href="#">Sub Link1</a> </li> <li> <a href="#">Sub Link2</a> </li> <li> <a href="#">Sub Link3</a> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <a href="#">Link4</a> </li> </ul> </nav> What I'm looking to do is build my drop down menus with more information than your standard menu. For example, I have a top level link named "Team", and under that link, I want to make a large drop down that contains head shots, headers (in the form of styled p tags) and brief (<100 words) descriptions of each team member (only 2 currently). I want to accompany this with a "Read More" link that takes you to their actual team page. This is just one example, of course, and the other top level links would also have descriptive drop downs in the same fashion. On mobile, I was planning on hiding the "mega menu", and delivering a standard unordered list of links. Here's what I was thinking for overall structure and syntax: <nav> <ul> <li> <a href="#">Home</a> </li> <li> <a href="#">About</a> </li> <li> <a href="#">Team</a> <ul> <!-- DESKTOP --> <li class="mega-menu row"> <a class="col-sm-6" href="#"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-sm-4"> <img src="#" alt="Team Member 1" /> </div> <div class="col-sm-8"> <p class="header">Team Member 1</p> <p>Short description goes here.</p> </div> </div> </a> <a class="col-sm-6" href="#"> <!-- OTHER TEAM MEMBER INFO --> </a> </li> <!-- END DESKTOP --> <!-- MOBILE --> <li> <a href="#">Team Member 1</a> </li> <li> <a href="#">Team Member 2</a> </li> <!-- END MOBILE --> </ul> </li> <li> <a href="#">Contact</a> </li> </ul> </nav> Can anybody think of any potential SEO ramifications of doing this? I'm not going to be loading these menus full of links, so it shouldn't hurt page rank, but what are the effects of having a good bit of text and maybe even forms within nav elements? Is there such a thing as overloading nav with HTML? EDIT: Here's an example of what the menu would look like rendered on desktop. I'm currently hovering the "Team" menu, but you can't see because my mouse went away when I took the screenshot. EDIT 2: This question is not a duplicate. I'm not going to have "too many" links in my menus. I'm wondering how having images and text inside of header navigation will affect my menus. Also, I don't just want "yes, this is bad" answers. Please cite your sources and be specific with reasoning.

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• what should be limit to use for IPTABLE rate limiting for a webserver

  - by Registered User

  I see on my webserver some logs as follows 203.252.157.98 - :25:02 "GET //phpmyadmin/ HTTP/1.1" 404 393 "-" "Made by ZmEu @ WhiteHat Team - www.whitehat.ro" 203.252.157.98 - :25:03 "GET //phpMyAdmin/ HTTP/1.1" 404 394 "-" "Made by ZmEu @ WhiteHat Team - www.whitehat.ro" 203.252.157.98 - :25:03 "GET //pma/ HTTP/1.1" 404 388 "-" "Made by ZmEu @ WhiteHat Team - www.whitehat.ro" 203.252.157.98 - :25:04 "GET //dbadmin/ HTTP/1.1" 404 391 "-" "Made by ZmEu @ WhiteHat Team - www.whitehat.ro" 203.252.157.98 - :25:05 "GET //myadmin/ HTTP/1.1" 404 391 "-" "Made by ZmEu @ WhiteHat Team - www.whitehat.ro" 203.252.157.98 - :25:06 "GET //phppgadmin/ HTTP/1.1" 404 394 "-" "Made by ZmEu @ WhiteHat Team - www.whitehat.ro" 203.252.157.98 - :25:06 "GET //PMA/ HTTP/1.1" 404 389 "-" "Made by ZmEu @ WhiteHat Team - www.whitehat.ro" 203.252.157.98 - :25:07 "GET //admin/ HTTP/1.1" 404 389 "-" "Made by ZmEu @ WhiteHat Team - www.whitehat.ro" 203.252.157.98 - :25:08 "GET //MyAdmin/ HTTP/1.1" 404 392 "-" "Made by ZmEu @ WhiteHat Team - www.whitehat.ro" 203.252.157.98 - :27:36 "GET //phpmyadmin/ HTTP/1.1" 404 393 "-" "Made by ZmEu @ WhiteHat Team - www.whitehat.ro" 203.252.157.98 - :27:42 "GET //phpMyAdmin/ HTTP/1.1" 404 394 "-" "Made by ZmEu @ WhiteHat Team - www.whitehat.ro" 203.252.157.98 - :27:42 "GET //pma/ HTTP/1.1" 404 388 "-" "Made by ZmEu @ WhiteHat Team - www.whitehat.ro" 203.252.157.98 - :27:43 "GET //dbadmin/ HTTP/1.1" 404 391 "-" "Made by ZmEu @ WhiteHat Team - www.whitehat.ro" 203.252.157.98 - - "GET //myadmin/ HTTP/1.1" 404 391 "-" "Made by ZmEu @ WhiteHat Team - www.whitehat.ro" and some more as follows 118.219.234.254 - - [19/Oct/2010:22:57:41 "GET /pma/scripts/setup.php HTTP/1.1" 404 399 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)" 118.219.234.254 - - [19/Oct/2010:22:57:41 "GET /scripts/setup.php HTTP/1.1" 404 397 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)" 118.219.234.254 - - [19/Oct/2010:22:57:42 "GET /sqlweb/scripts/setup.php HTTP/1.1" 404 401 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)" 118.219.234.254 - - [19/Oct/2010:22:57:42 "GET /web/phpMyAdmin/scripts/setup.php HTTP/1.1" 404 408 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)" 118.219.234.254 - - [19/Oct/2010:22:57:43 "GET /web/phpmyadmin/scripts/setup.php HTTP/1.1" 404 408 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)" 118.219.234.254 - - [19/Oct/2010:22:57:44 "GET /web/scripts/setup.php HTTP/1.1" 404 400 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)" 118.219.234.254 - - [19/Oct/2010:22:57:44 "GET /webadmin/scripts/setup.php HTTP/1.1" 404 403 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)" 118.219.234.254 - - [19/Oct/2010:22:57:45 "GET /webdb/scripts/setup.php HTTP/1.1" 404 401 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)" 118.219.234.254 - - [19/Oct/2010:22:57:45 "GET /websql/scripts/setup.php HTTP/1.1" 404 401 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)" 118.219.234.254 - - [19/Oct/2010:05:38:51 "GET /admin/phpmyadmin/scripts/setup.php HTTP/1.1" 404 407 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)" 118.219.234.254 - - [19/Oct/2010:05:38:52 "GET /admin/pma/scripts/setup.php HTTP/1.1" 404 404 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)" 118.219.234.254 - - [19/Oct/2010:05:38:52 "GET /admin/scripts/setup.php HTTP/1.1" 404 401 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)" 118.219.234.254 - - [19/Oct/2010:05:38:53 "GET /db/scripts/setup.php HTTP/1.1" 404 399 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)" 118.219.234.254 - - [19/Oct/2010:05:38:54 "GET /dbadmin/scripts/setup.php HTTP/1.1" 404 402 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)" 118.219.234.254 - - [19/Oct/2010:05:38:54 "GET /myadmin/scripts/setup.php HTTP/1.1" 404 403 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)" 118.219.234.254 - - [19/Oct/2010:05:38:55 "GET /mysql/scripts/setup.php HTTP/1.1" 404 401 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)" 118.219.234.254 - - [19/Oct/2010:05:38:55 "GET /mysqladmin/scripts/setup.php HTTP/1.1" 404 405 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)" 118.219.234.254 - - [19/Oct/2010:05:38:56 "GET /phpMyAdmin/scripts/setup.php HTTP/1.1" 404 405 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)" 118.219.234.254 - - [19/Oct/2010:05:38:56 "GET /phpadmin/scripts/setup.php HTTP/1.1" 404 403 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)" 118.219.234.254 - - [19/Oct/2010:05:38:57 "GET /phpmyadmin/scripts/setup.php HTTP/1.1" 404 404 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)" 118.219.234.254 - - [19/Oct/2010:05:38:57 "GET /pma/scripts/setup.php HTTP/1.1" 404 399 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)" 118.219.234.254 - - [19/Oct/2010:05:38:58 "GET /scripts/setup.php HTTP/1.1" 404 397 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)" 118.219.234.254 - - [19/Oct/2010:05:38:58 "GET /sqlweb/scripts/setup.php HTTP/1.1" 404 401 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)" 118.219.234.254 - - [19/Oct/2010:05:38:59 "GET /web/phpMyAdmin/scripts/setup.php HTTP/1.1" 404 408 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)" 118.219.234.254 - - [19/Oct/2010:05:38:59 "GET /web/phpmyadmin/scripts/setup.php HTTP/1.1" 404 408 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)" 118.219.234.254 - - [19/Oct/2010:05:39:00 "GET /web/scripts/setup.php HTTP/1.1" 404 400 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)" 118.219.234.254 - - [19/Oct/2010:05:39:01 "GET /webadmin/scripts/setup.php HTTP/1.1" 404 403 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)" 118.219.234.254 - - [19/Oct/2010:05:39:01 "GET /webdb/scripts/setup.php HTTP/1.1" 404 401 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)" 118.219.234.254 - - [19/Oct/2010:05:39:02 "GET /websql/scripts/setup.php HTTP/1.1" 404 401 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)" I have 2 questions 1) When such an attack happens on my site then while such scanning is going on how do I detect it? (In a very less time) 2)I have decided to rate limit the IPTABLES so as to reduce such DOS attacks by some script kiddies (to scan for vulnerabilities in phpmyadmin or some other script) to some extent.So how much should it be limited so that genuine users do not get kicked out.What is the best practise for question 2?

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