Support Forums: Message List - Is your code worthless? http://www.theserverside.com Most recent forum messages en Jive Forums Silver 5.5.30 (www.jivesoftware.com) Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:59:08 -0400 Re: Is your code worthless? http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=46356 Weather the code can be reused or not depends on what tht code is doing, if it has been written for a perticular business than one might have hardcoded business rules of the organization. business rules differs from organization to...]]> Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:04:05 -0400 Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:04:05 -0400 Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:04:05 -0400 Aug 12, 2007 John Brand 0 Re: Is your code worthless? http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=46356 Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:40:09 -0400 Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:40:09 -0400 Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:40:09 -0400 Aug 6, 2007 daringtakers 1 Re: Is your code worthless? http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=46356 Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:33:59 -0400 Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:33:59 -0400 Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:33:59 -0400 Aug 6, 2007 Roberto del Fuego 0 Re: Is your code worthless? http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=46356 Think about it. If everyone adjusts their business processes to fit the software tools that everyone buys, how would any company have competitive advantage over another?...]]> Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:14:32 -0400 Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:14:32 -0400 Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:14:32 -0400 Aug 2, 2007 John Brand 1 Re: Is your code worthless? http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=46356 Well, in my experience most of the problems comes from the desire of the business side to make every customization possible to the bought package. The vendor darent say no in fear of losing credit early in the contract....]]> Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:40:56 -0400 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:40:56 -0400 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:40:56 -0400 Aug 1, 2007 James Watson 2 Re: Is your code worthless? http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=46356 I guess the point I am trying to make is that there is a dogma in IT these days that says you must buy all of your software if possible. The result is that 'off-the-shelf' packages are bought even if they are not appropriate in order to...]]> Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:52:20 -0400 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:52:20 -0400 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:52:20 -0400 Aug 1, 2007 John Brand 3 Re: Is your code worthless? http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=46356
I had a huge issue recently on a project because there is verifiable way to track certain core entities through time. That is, there is nothing that links record A with record B even though they represent the same customer entity...]]> Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:42:30 -0400 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:42:30 -0400 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:42:30 -0400 Aug 1, 2007 James Watson 4 Re: Enterprise application scope is project/company http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=46356 When you develop an enterprise application for a company your main goal is to solve the business functionality. If you are an architect or designer or developer you will not think of building something so generic that it can be sold as that...]]> Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:07:10 -0400 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:07:10 -0400 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:07:10 -0400 Aug 1, 2007 James Watson 0 Re: Is your code worthless? http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=46356 I had a huge issue recently on a project because there is verifiable way to track certain core entities through time. That is, there is nothing that links record A with record B even though they represent the same customer entity at...]]> Wed, 01 Aug 2007 05:14:04 -0400 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 05:14:04 -0400 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 05:14:04 -0400 Aug 1, 2007 John Brand 5 Enterprise application scope is project/company http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=46356 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:32:49 -0400 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:32:49 -0400 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:32:49 -0400 Jul 30, 2007 Shabbir Hussain 1 Re: Is your code worthless? http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=46356
I really don't like that attitude in software vendors. The more one wants to sell a "solution" instead of selling "software," the crappier the software tends to be.

The end result is a house of cards with custom-built...]]> Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:22:47 -0400 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:22:47 -0400 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 17:22:47 -0400 Jul 30, 2007 Erik Engbrecht 0 Re: Is your code worthless? http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=46356 I really don't like that attitude in software vendors. The more one wants to sell a "solution" instead of selling "software," the crappier the software tends to be.

The end result is a house of cards with custom-built strap-ons to...]]> Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:02:09 -0400 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:02:09 -0400 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:02:09 -0400 Jul 30, 2007 Evan Oslick 1 Re: Is your code worthless? http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=46356
What I've learned at these is that everyone has pretty much the same problems as is solving them in pretty similar ways. Much of this is because they all buy the same crappy commercial packages, and hire the same...]]> Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:57:53 -0400 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:57:53 -0400 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:57:53 -0400 Jul 30, 2007 James Watson 6 Re: Is your code worthless? http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=46356
Successful Open source projects have far and away the best reuse in our industry. I'm 10x more impressed with guys who have successful open source than people who work on in house frameworks that are designed for...]]> Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:43:18 -0400 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:43:18 -0400 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:43:18 -0400 Jul 30, 2007 James Watson 0 Re: Is your code worthless? http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=46356
Accordingly, all Open Source would be worthless.

How much did Red Hat pay for acquiring JBoss again? ;-)


Unless you are able to sell a solution that the software solves, the software is in...]]> Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:39:14 -0400 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:39:14 -0400 Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:39:14 -0400 Jul 30, 2007 Jeroen Wenting 0