What do you do when, connecting to Oracle 9 using standard DB client from .Net, an error message informs you that at least Oracle version 8.1.7 or higher is needed? We did encounter such a problem while working on a project. Thankfully, after some searching and asking, a solution could be found — read on if you are looking for an answer too.
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Birth of an icon, steps
As we posted earlier, after looking for another company that could redesign our site, we decided to do it ourselves. Developing HTML/CSS, configuring a CMS (Joomla, in the case of this site) was not a problem for us. Yet this also involved development of visual style and graphical elements, which we, being a mostly software development and QA team, don’t do too often.
Yet it seems that with the right ideas, boldness and perseverance, anything becomes possible.
This article explains the thinking behind the icons used on the frontpage of this site, as well as the steps of creating such an icon.
Feedback with !JoomlaComment added
Our company is improving its outward communication, and as one of the steps, we are allowing commenting of all the articles on this site. Read on to see our goals described, as well as the steps we took to enable the feedback feature on a Joomla site.
Pricing, estimation: How NOT to
Last December, we decided to redesign our website, and, due to lack of resources, wanted to hire and external shop to do it for us. After the requirement discussions and resulting budget calculation, we decided to design and implement our website ourselves. Yet some lessons were learned, which I would like to share below.
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PPMLite announced
PPMLite finally enters free public beta stage, and, since it allows import of projects from Basecamp, there has been a corresponding announcement over on the 37 Signals’ site. More links and reviews to follow as the application gets more adoption.
PPMLite is a simplified project portfolio management tool developed by TechWire for CloudPatterns LLC.
New design
Please visit the new site, design totally reworked to represent our company better. As a bonus, check out the “TechWire site museum” beneath the cut.
Trading Science Ltd
Trading Science Ltd is a partner and a joint owner of TechWire, as well as a customer on a number of products, with successful cooperation in analysis, design, development, testing and support. Team of Trading Science is an integral part of our management team. Continue reading
TechWire UK
Goal of TecWire UK is to provide its clients with professionally developed but affordable custom WEB applications and Mobile applications to improve their business processes and increase profitability. TechWire UK uses a ‘best of both worlds’ combination of UK analysts and project managers with overseas development resources based in Ukraine. By providing the management and support of experienced UK staff along with talented and well qualified overseas software engineers we provide a fully managed service that guarantees quality and ensures best possible value for money. Continue reading
CloudPatterns
CloudPatterns LLC is our reliable USA partner and customer, who collaborated on several web-based products with our team over the past years.