I noticed that the web.config of iMIS 15 has the Membership and Profile providers setup along with the corresponding tables in the database. How much are these providers used in native iMIS? Are these providers that we, as developers, can use? If so, what features are supported and what are not.

Thanks,

Neil

Mike Wethington posted Martin Fowler's article on lessons learned in doing agile with overseas teams. Many of the points struck me as relevant for the problem of telecommuting teams as well:

• Bring distributed developers onsite for critical first iterations of new projects, to get going
• Expect to need more documents than with a collocated team: it's the price of being virtual 
• Extend conference calls with video, especially for project background lectures 
• Extend instant messaging to group-based messaging, such as with Campfire

Our family made a road trip to west Texas for the Open Source Symposium, held on Saturday April 26 at Angelo State University, in San Angelo. Its mission is to introduce open source to those working in college environments, which was why UT Austin was pleased to have my husband, Adam attend and report back to them. STC Austin's own Janet Swisher presented on how to participate in OS projects.

There is a continuing need for a SQL Function or equivalent to decrypt credit card information from iMIS.

Of course there is an overall security concern, but there still are frequent requirements by customers to have a method to decrypt credit card info, beyond the standard reporting in iMIS.

I have done a little research on this. There is just a little info on it in www.imiscommunity.com.

I typically find myself typing actual code into many emails, and get annoyed when Outlook replaces my single and double quotes with the curley "smart-quotes"... as this makes cutting/pasting without syntax errors painful. So after a little digging, I found out how to turn smart-quotes off in Outlook 2007:

1. In the main Outlook window, on the Tools menu, click Options.
2. In the Options dialog box, click the Mail Format tab, and then click Editor Options.

Hi all,

I was wondering if there is an option to enable E-mail redirecting to a single account to prevent Customers in the database from receiving test E-mails?

Thanks.

Does anyone have a way to set up the home page/dashboard for iMIS 15?

I'm not sure how to get to it now that none of the Framework pages are available.

These are the TFS rules that Microsoft turns on for their development.

http://blogs.msdn.com/fxcop/archive/2007/08/09/what-rules-do-microsoft-have-turned-on-internally.aspx

Microsoft have just announced that Expression Web and Expression Blend will now be available at no extra charge to all MSDN Premium Subscribers (this includes customers with the "VS Professional with MSDN Premium" subscription). This means many more developers will have these design tools for building ASP.NET, WPF and "WPF/E" solutions.

http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2007/04/03/listening-to-your-fee...

Anyone who has read "Rapid Development" or "Code Complete" by Steve McConnell will know he is an excellent author and writes from a lot of experience in the computer industry.

His latest book is "Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art" and is a great read, full of important insights and ideas. McConnell argues that whilst the average software organization can struggle with project costs that run double their original estimates, some of the more sophisticated organizations achieve results with estimation errors as low as 5-10%. However these best-in-class organizations use scientific techniques that are not cost-effective for most software development organizations.