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• Getting Your Shopping Basket Right

  25/03/2009 16:29:39

  In this article I will discuss some common problems e-commerce sites have with their shopping baskets. This is clearly a key area of any internet shop, so it is crucial that it meets the needs of the users and works correctly.

  I, like most people, shop online and judging from my recent online shopping experiences many baskets could be improved. As a programmer I pick apart the websites I use. I keep a mental note of all the nice little design and implementation features websites have. I also keep a list of all the little flaws I encounter so I ...

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• Software Development Methodologies

  12/03/2009 17:11:00

  Hofstadter's Law: Any computing project will take twice as long as you think it will -- even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
  
  There are frequent newspaper articles and new reports of government or large corporate projects running late or massively over budget showing that there is some truth to Hofstadter’s Law.
  
  Why is this case? Software development is highly complex undertaking requiring skilled people to design, implement the application and to manage the process. It is also a relatively new field of engineering. In the early days of programming, programs were small and could be written in a ...

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• An Introduction Part II

  10/03/2009 17:37:00

  Continuing on from part one, I had volunteered to code an entire application single-handedly that a company one rely upon for its daily business activities. This of course was a massive undertaking since I was a complete beginner.

   

  I had to learn about the programming language, how to program a windows application, how to design an application, test it, query a database and manage the whole process. I had no other programmers to consult so it was entirely down to me if the project was a success. I was not intimidated, as I knew exactly what we wanted and ...

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• An Introduction

  06/03/2009 15:55:58

  Hello! I am Dominic Faraday and welcome to my blog. I am a developer here at Light Speed IT Solutions. In my first few posts, I will tell you a little about myself. 
  

  I did not start my working life as a programmer. In fact, my first job was in a freight company organising shipment of containers to and from every part of the world. When I joined this logistics company there was not even a single computer in the entire organisation! We were doing many hundreds of shipments per month, the business was growing rapidly and so the workload ...

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