The power of the Internet is its ability to reach across mountains and oceans into the heart of remote towns and villages. This is even more emphasized by the popularity and availability of mobile phones and other devices that are Internet enabled. A business through its on-line presence will have the world as its market by the flip of the switch. The only barrier becomes that of communication rather than distance and physical limitations. An e-commerce site entering a new market will now have to communicate its value proposition, the quality of its products, support information and specifications and many other communication pieces that have to be delivered in the language of the potential buyer. This is, of course, in addition to the basic e-commerce fundamental requirement of currency conversion and fulfillment issues.
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Archive for August, 2009
Multi-Language E-Commerce
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009Solving ASP.NET Compiler Issues with Unrecognized VB.NET 3.5 Feature Syntax
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009The Issue
I recently encountered an issue with an ASP.NET 3.5 solution after converting it from ASP.NET 2.0. The issue I’m going to be describing only pertains to the older web site projects (and only web projects — class libraries, etc. do not have this problem) as opposed to the newer web application projects. I believe this to be true because the conversion wizard built into Visual Studio has rarely ever had trouble converting web application projects, while I’ve never successfully been able to automatically convert a web site project. (more…)
A Mini Tutorial on Regular Expressions
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009I thought I share this mini tutorial I put together on RegEx. It is meant to get you started under 5 minutes. hope you find it useful.
Rugular Expression (RegEx for short) is a way of specifying a certain amount of textual data. For example, “^X” means “a line that starts with the letter X”.
The simplest regular expression is the literal expression. The expression “Where are you?” matches the test “Where are you?”. Any literal, letter or digit, will match itself with few exceptions that we will talk about below. There is a certain set of literals that have special purpose in RegEx and it is those literals that give RegEx its power. These literals are called meta-characters. (more…)
How effective has IT outsourcing been?
Thursday, August 6th, 2009I am very interested in knowing how outsourcing helped companies save money. Furthermore, I would like to know how much of that saving was passed on to consumers; If there was saving did it happen at the cost of software quality and customer loyalty? My company has an offshore office in Palestine that is meant to serve the Middle East. The question is: should we offer offshore development services to our clients in the US? Our industry has been notorious for under delivering. I can’t help but being very skeptical when I hear positive examples of outsourced projects, and yes there are few of them. Adding social, political and physical barriers to the development of software is not going to help the industry as a whole to produce software on time and on budget.
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