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Business Inventory Management Software With Source Code
Business inventory management software with source code provides the highest flexibility to software developer when comes to customization and integration. Although there are many different powerful business inventory management software around, but it takes more time to integrate and customize, and the solution provider needs to purchase each license from the vendor, greatly lowered the profit margin.
If given a choice to integrate inventory tracking software with the minimum effort and resources, the source code based system will be the one! Passing inventory data is the easiest part in integration, but what if developer need some special modification or enhancement to the inventory software? They can only create a separate entry screen without touching the original system! And my opinion, this is ugly…
The source code based system is gaining popularity over the years, although there are many people turn to open source solution, but the commercial source code based system still gets the highest credit when it comes to support and competitive advantages!
Commercial source code based system received better support, bug fixes and provides higher quality coding with RAD tools! RAD stands for Rapid Application Development. These are powerful tools that allows developer to “draw” their application in the visual way, instead of coding the software through the development life cycle.
Another great feature from commercial source code – Object oriented program in visual way! Object oriented programming is well known, but many business software developers didn’t know the power of visual inheritance! They can define the shared component in the parent and the vary components in the child, by just using RAD tools to “draw” their code!
Back to the inventory features. A good inventory tracking software should support these features:
Feature #1 – Tracking inventory by multiple warehouses.
Feature #2 – Allow adjustment and stock take updates.
Feature #3 – Allow remote query with web interface or windows thin client.
Feature #4 – Allow at a glance view of all warehouse / outlets inventories.
Feature #5 – Fast processing of month end closing.
Feature #6 – Auto distributed multiple outlet stock.
Feature #7 – Auto double entry on outlets stock transfer. (Even with Delivery Order Out at one store and Receiving in at another store, all automated without the needs to double entry!)
All these features are just the tips of the iceberg, and different business inventory management software has different features and emphasis, but all down to the customer’s needs, and only the source code based system can provide such a flexibility for developer to customize their own needs.
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Author: Kok Choon Kow
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5 Types of Programmers – Which Type Are You?
There are many different types of programmers that perform software development. Or is it computer programming? Or is it coding? These are all labels or boxes we use to classify people and their skillsets. Much like we distinguish between testers, coders, managers, architects, designers, CLO etc only these are much more obvious. So what exactly makes a coder a coder or a programmer a programmer? We may loosely use them interchangeably to mean the same thing but from an outside perspective I like to think of them as badges or stripes. Something you earn with time, patience, wisdom and experience.
Some people just have certain qualities about them that make them good, bad, better or worse than the next person. In order to simply determine what these might be, I propose five boxes or labels.
- The tool user
- The hacker
- The programmer
- The developer
- The architect
The tool user is the least experienced of them all. He has enough knowledge to poke around tools like Visual Studio 2005 and whack together a GUI simply by dragging and dropping widgets onto a form. To somebody that doesnt know better, because he produces results that often look compelling (brought about by the efforts of the tool and not his own doings), they think highly of him and/or his constructions. Why the term construction and not production or development? Well he doesnt really develop anything. He constructs things with the use of ever increasingly sophisticated tools. Good management that is cluey or tech savy will see past this but unfortunately (or fortunately for the better programmers of the world) he still finds his place.
This is the worst kind of software developer. When something under the hood breaks or he/she needs to modify behaviour to do anything substantial, forget it.
Languages of choice: Would it really matter? Its all gibberish
Software of choice: Any and all RAD tools that provide rapid development of clicky interfaces
The hacker has moved beyond the notion of expecting tools to do all the work for him. He possesses basic or rudimentary development skills. No knowledge of compiled languages but understands scripting languages well enough to piece bits and pieces together. He can usually copy and paste scripts and tweak variables and functions. He doesnt usually understand the big picture of developing anything but he can hack at something he is given with pot luck. He trolls the web an forums looking for code snippets to do what he wants and pieces them together.
Languages of choice: Javascript, html, css, maybe limited php understanding
Software of choice: Simple text editors, maybe text editors that provide syntax highlighting
The programmer has a good understanding of what it is to code and write software. He doesnt rely on tools so much as his own understanding of the languages. He isnt so phased about the tools he isues as he realises the tools arent going to do the job for him. This oversight however blinds him from realising the benefits they can provide to a more experienced programmer.
This unfamiliarity with tools and libraries; a result of limited exposure and experience in the wider field, over shadows him from the bigger project environments that require versioning control, many developers and larger environments. Hes just not familiar with it. Similarly, whilst a capable programmer, he doesnt necessarily think about how others will use what he writes and as such, doesnt really fit into the team building environment. He is a skilled lone programmer. He might have skills, but nobody can work with him because he doesnt think above or below the line of code he writes.
Languages of choice: C++, Java, C#, Visual Basic
The developer is an experienced programmer who understands there is much more to developing software than the lines of code it consists of. He possesses a much better understanding of software design concepts and principles than the programmer and thinks about a problem in its entirety. Whilst he has a good understanding of this problem and is open to seeing it from most angles, he doesnt necessarily understand the entire domain to which it applies.
With experienced programming skills he doesnt rely on tools but uses them to increase productivity.
Languages of choice: Generally prefers managed code over unmanaged code as he realises the productivity boost that comes with it.
Software of choice: The big development IDEs; anything that provides intelligence, syntax highlighting, code snippets, templates, formatting etc.
The architect is the crme of the crop. Hes a primed software developer with ten plus years of experience under the belt. Hes passed well beyond just the technical side of developing software and understanding good solution design. He can walk into a business domain and connect up the dots people inside the domain couldnt. Leaning on many years of experience on what works and what doesnt, hes often hired out as a consultant for his valued expertise.
This much broader, yet specialised skill set puts him in high demand. When a company wants to bring in the big guns and call in a consultant. This is the guy.
Languages of choice: Programming was something left to his youth, his consulting services require him to write very few lines of code.
Software of choice: Modelling tools, metric tools and tools for comparative purposes.
What types of programmers have you met/worked with in your walk of life?
Author: Joshua Hayes
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