15 Good Programming Habits by Syed Feroz Zainvi
1. Before sitting down for coding, you must have formal or a paper-napkin design of the solution to be coded. Never start coding without any design unless the code is trivial one. 2. Good code documentation is as important as good knowledge of a programming language. ... Write brief logic for each major block of your code as comments in source code file itself. ... If your project contains multiple source files then maintain a README file stating purpose of each source files, data files, intermediate and log files (if any).

Managing Your Source Code Effectively by Gijo George
Managing software source code in a large software development environment is not an easy task, especially when number of people working on different modules of a large project. If you have not employed a powerful system to organize your source code, then it will result in big chaos inside the... There are several tools available in the market which make the task of managing source code an easy one. ... This tool enables the organization of source code of different projects on a single server and developers can work on a particular file after doing checkout from the server.

Great Plains Dexterity: Customizations & Source Code Programming by Andrew Karasev
Great Plains Software Dynamics, Dynamics C/S+, eEnterprise were written on GPS proprietary programming language and development environment – Great Plains Dexterity. When Microsoft bought Great Plains Software, Dynamics was renamed into Microsoft Great Plains, but Dexterity is still the... • Source Code Program Closing. ... Microsoft had to plan its newly acquired products integration and synergy • Source Code Program. ... In this small article we’ll try to give your Dexterity source code programming options and directions.

Why Should You Worry About A Malicious Code? by Johan Tengstrom
A malicious code can be a program. It can also be a part of a program. Further a malicious code can attach itself to a good program. In that way the malicious effect occurs first when the good program runs. The last time you installed a large software, let us say a photo program, you just... The only way to prevent an infection by virus is to avoid sharing an executable code with an infected source. ... A malicious code is an undesired effect in a program or in a part of a program, caused by an agent intent on damage.

Escrow Software by Sandro Azzopardi
In a software scenario there are normally two main parties involved; the software programmer or the software company, and the end-user or the company purchasing the software package. Escrow software is a means by which a third party is involved, called an escrow agent, with the responsibility of... The client can easily supply the code to a third party which can then change the code or use it to develop something even more elaborate which will then compete, or worse, make obsolete the origin piece of work.

Open Source Software (OSS) and Its Uses by Scott Morris
What is Open Source Software? Open Source Software (OSS) is software that is available under a special license that allows everyone to access the program code as well as the executable program. This means that anyone is able to edit the program code and therefore customise the software for their... In Closed Source only the creator of the application has access to the source code, and therefore, only the creator is able to modify the application. ... One of the side effects of allowing any user access to the source code is that the cost of acquiring the software in the first instance is...

Following the Movement to Open Source by Aaron Wittersheim
When it comes to security, versatility and stability, there is no better solution in information technology than open source. From operating systems to Web development to just about any common application, the open-source revolution finally has taken hold. ... Many open-source-based solutions like RedHat, Ubuntu and Suse are becoming down-right mainstream, drawing offers for proprietary partnerships from hardware giants like Dell, HP and IBM. ... It is used to describe initiatives and collaborations ranging from software projects to enterprise environments with source code that is...

Software Open Source Dilemma by Lance Winslow
Presently the European Union is requiring Microsoft to allow for more Open Source Code in its operating system so that software programmers can build add on products and continue to make money building software. Indeed this sounds like a very good idea for their businesses, which wish to build... Open Source Codes for operating systems are indeed a problem and Companies like Microsoft want to protect you, while the government who cannot protect you demands that they leave holes so they and well, so anyone else who is savvy enough to figure it out can get into your system.

Microsoft Great Plains Customization Recovery & Upgrade for Large Corporation by Andrew Karasev
At the end of XX century, in the late 1990th Great Plains Software eEnterprise was recognized as one of the leader on the midsize to large corporate ERP market. Due to the nature of eEnterprise architecture - it is Great Plains Dexterity based application and Dexterity imposes some specific to... The nature of Dexterity makes the developer to produce so-called Dexterity chunk from this DYNAMICS.DIC with the source code, in the chunk itself the code is stripped off. ... In this small article we will describe you the main steps and options to upgrade Dexterity customization: • DYNAMICS.DIC...

Contributor License Agreements, and the "Effects of the Devil" aka SCO by Kalle Alm
What? Contributor License Agreements -- or CLA's -- are a fairly new phenomenon in the Open Source world. IANAL, but I am going to make an attempt to explain what a CLA is, and why it is necessary today, where it previously was not. The most commonly used CLA is that of the Apache Software... If I help you out and patch up your code to make it run better, or submit documentation that makes your code more useful, or whatever, you and I both presume that I didn't steal the code from someplace and handed it to you in evil.