You don't state what types of bugs that you are finding.
Generally speaking, developers are good at testing functional issues - for example, if they are asked to code a "print report" function, they typically will be able to test the "print report" function so that it works as expected. What developers are poor at testing are use-case issues, where you are integrating a function within the larger scope of program. They test to make sure that the "print report" feature works, but not check to see if it handles cases where someone logs out before printing or if someone edits the data right before printing.
You have 3 choices.
1. Hire a separate tester who tests from a use-case perspective.
2. Pay for your contractors by the hour, instead of per-project.
3. Pay for a full-time employee.
As others have mentioned, developers are notoriously bad testers, especially since it sounds like that you are hiring developers for one-off jobs. A lot of development knowledge comes from working and refining the same code. Hiring one-off developers will generate more bugs than having a single person working and re-working the same code.
I see what you are saying about a fraudulent merchant abusing the system, but what is happening now is that the credit card company is abusing the merchants. If I accept a counterfeit $20 bill within a transaction, I'm out $20. The government (to my knowledge) doesn't take extra.
If a merchant processes a transaction that is later found to be fraudulent, why should the merchant be punished if the order was approved by the credit card company? The current situation has led the credit card companies to be lax on security. If credit card fraud cost the credit card companies more money, I strongly suspect that the security problems would be less of an issue. This is what we are seeing now. It's just not a big enough issue for them.
What I don't understand is why the big merchants all don't get together and form a non-profit (or profit) entity to offer a third party card with much better security. If Visa/MC is going to charge high transaction fees and not be responsible for their lack of security, it would be more profitable for the merchants to form their own third party credit card processor.
The credit card companies don't care because they get their money either way.
If someone places a fraudulent order and the merchant ships the the product(s) even if they receive authorization from the credit card company, the credit card company will debit the merchant for the entire order, including the transaction fees.
Not only did the credit card company not lose any money on the bad transaction, they will also charge the merchant a fee for the fraudulent order. So the merchant is out the cost of the goods that were shipped, plus shipping, plus a fee.
The credit card company makes money on the fraudulent transaction.
Sorry everyone, it's my fault. You know how you get some directive from management and you just throw it on your desk and forget about it? Well, eventually it gets buried under everything else I was working and quickly forgotten about. (Didn't we just have a previous post about how 95% of software projects are late?) Anyway, I was doing some spring cleaning last week and found it.
I have a similar setup at home. I'm glad to see it works.
I use:
A windows box. A logitech quickcam pro webcam. Conquercam webcam software (www.conquercam.com) An ftp account on a webserver not at home.
All you need to do is setup the software so that when you are not home, it takes motion activated pictures and sends them to your ftp server. Because the ftp server is not at your house, if your computer gets stolen, you can still get the pictures.
ConquerCam software is great and only $10 USD. No affiliation, just a happy customer.
I agree as well. My son is type 1 and we don't use the graphing capabilities of a meter. A paper log does just fine. While being a computer geek myself, I just haven't seen the need for graphing the data. If I don't see the need for something like this, I can't imagine there are many other people who would use it.
My wish list would include a cartridge type loading for a meter for test strips with a way for the meter to know what code it is without a manual entry. Shouldn't the meter know what code the test strip is? Also, the faster reading meter, the better.
I agree, however, I do have the third edition of the book (2000), and I didn't get the impression from reading it that if you weren't in the channel, then you can't be successful. The book has been around for a while and I'm sure it was initially geared toward channel marketing, however, the information has been updated and does contain much useful advice.
My recommendation: Join the ASP first, then buy the book.
Disclaimer: I'm also an ASP member and I don't get any money for telling people to join either....
This song is my song, and it's not your song I did not write it, but now I own it You can not sing it, I wont allow it This song can only be sung by me.
You can not change it, I wont allow it Unless you pay me a million dollars My greedy lawyers will sue your ass now This song can only be sung by me
Too bad Woody Guthrie isn't among the living His views on copyright were more forgiving He would allow it and probably sing along Copyright law protects all parodies.
If you follow the link (and read it) there are two paragraphs that explains (sort of) why they ruled in favor of guinness.
"There is no evidence before this Administrative Panel that the Respondent intends to use the said domain names as the addresses or links to any sites which could be described as "complaint sites". For this reason the issues canvassed in any of the decisions relating to free speech are not relevant in this case.
In the circumstances, this Administrative Panel is satisfied that Complainant has established a prima facie case that the Respondent has no rights or legitimate interest in the said domain names or any of them."
Basically, the guy's a cyber squatter (3000 addresses) and because he didn't do anything with the addresses, and didn't respond they ruled in favor of guinness.
It still does not seem appropriate that they were taken away. Just because you're cybersquatting does not mean that his (or any) interest is better than the company in this regard.
And guinness, geez, trying to get all of these suck sites only encourages more creative ones....
I believe I will patent shipping and force Amazon and other business method patent holding weenies to pay me huge royalites.
Here's the patent:
A method of using moveable devices such as "ships" or "trucks" or similar technology to "transport" or "move" objects such as "packages" or "data" from one geographic point to another completely separate geographic point.
I will call it "shipping". Now when companies charge $10 shipping and handling to send a $2 package, they get to pay me too.
By keeping the wording so completely vague, it works for bits as well as physical object, so don't hit reload or it will cost you twice!
Some have mentioned that the book download is not similar to shareware, however, the distribution method is very similar to shareware distribution and this does not bode well for a 75% registration rate. Registration rates on shareware are very low. I just recently attended the Shareware Industry Conference in Tampa last week, and the industry average for registrations to actual purchases is 2%! As a shareware author, this is in line with what I see with my own software. I think Stephen King will do very well to get 10%, but I'd place good money on him not even reaching that.
I was thinking this would be a bad game. You start out as with a small cube and slow computer. You have to steal office supplies and equipment in order to do your job. As you move up in the game you get better cubicles, better computers, and maybe even a window view. The game ends when you finally die or steal enough office supplies to start your own dot.com and force other sims to work for you.
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You don't state what types of bugs that you are finding.
Generally speaking, developers are good at testing functional issues - for example, if they are asked to code a "print report" function, they typically will be able to test the "print report" function so that it works as expected. What developers are poor at testing are use-case issues, where you are integrating a function within the larger scope of program. They test to make sure that the "print report" feature works, but not check to see if it handles cases where someone logs out before printing or if someone edits the data right before printing.
You have 3 choices.
1. Hire a separate tester who tests from a use-case perspective.
2. Pay for your contractors by the hour, instead of per-project.
3. Pay for a full-time employee.
As others have mentioned, developers are notoriously bad testers, especially since it sounds like that you are hiring developers for one-off jobs. A lot of development knowledge comes from working and refining the same code. Hiring one-off developers will generate more bugs than having a single person working and re-working the same code.
I've recently been teaching my 12 year old twins how to program with Scratch from MIT.
http://scratch.mit.edu/
It's fun, there's lots of examples, and they seem to really enjoy it.
I see what you are saying about a fraudulent merchant abusing the system, but what is happening now is that the credit card company is abusing the merchants. If I accept a counterfeit $20 bill within a transaction, I'm out $20. The government (to my knowledge) doesn't take extra.
If a merchant processes a transaction that is later found to be fraudulent, why should the merchant be punished if the order was approved by the credit card company? The current situation has led the credit card companies to be lax on security. If credit card fraud cost the credit card companies more money, I strongly suspect that the security problems would be less of an issue. This is what we are seeing now. It's just not a big enough issue for them.
What I don't understand is why the big merchants all don't get together and form a non-profit (or profit) entity to offer a third party card with much better security. If Visa/MC is going to charge high transaction fees and not be responsible for their lack of security, it would be more profitable for the merchants to form their own third party credit card processor.
The credit card companies don't care because they get their money either way.
If someone places a fraudulent order and the merchant ships the the product(s) even if they receive authorization from the credit card company, the credit card company will debit the merchant for the entire order, including the transaction fees.
Not only did the credit card company not lose any money on the bad transaction, they will also charge the merchant a fee for the fraudulent order. So the merchant is out the cost of the goods that were shipped, plus shipping, plus a fee.
The credit card company makes money on the fraudulent transaction.
This is where the good twin/bad twin comes from.
Wikipedia should now claim that they came in second in a ranking of online accuracy, while Brittanica came in next to last.
Ummmm....I bought a lot of doughnuts for my research.
Sorry everyone, it's my fault. You know how you get some directive from management and you just throw it on your desk and forget about it? Well, eventually it gets buried under everything else I was working and quickly forgotten about. (Didn't we just have a previous post about how 95% of software projects are late?) Anyway, I was doing some spring cleaning last week and found it.
Again, my apologies. It won't happen again.
I have a similar setup at home. I'm glad to see it works.
I use:
A windows box.
A logitech quickcam pro webcam.
Conquercam webcam software (www.conquercam.com)
An ftp account on a webserver not at home.
All you need to do is setup the software so that when you are not home, it takes motion activated pictures and sends them to your ftp server. Because the ftp server is not at your house, if your computer gets stolen, you can still get the pictures.
ConquerCam software is great and only $10 USD. No affiliation, just a happy customer.
I agree as well. My son is type 1 and we don't use the graphing capabilities of a meter. A paper log does just fine. While being a computer geek myself, I just haven't seen the need for graphing the data. If I don't see the need for something like this, I can't imagine there are many other people who would use it.
My wish list would include a cartridge type loading for a meter for test strips with a way for the meter to know what code it is without a manual entry. Shouldn't the meter know what code the test strip is? Also, the faster reading meter, the better.
We currently use the One Touch Ultra.
It's an O'Reilly book by Scott Fulman
Definitely fits the topic.
I agree, however, I do have the third edition of the book (2000), and I didn't get the impression from reading it that if you weren't in the channel, then you can't be successful. The book has been around for a while and I'm sure it was initially geared toward channel marketing, however, the information has been updated and does contain much useful advice.
My recommendation: Join the ASP first, then buy the book.
Disclaimer: I'm also an ASP member and I don't get any money for telling people to join either....
This song is my song, and it's not your song
I did not write it, but now I own it
You can not sing it, I wont allow it
This song can only be sung by me.
You can not change it, I wont allow it
Unless you pay me a million dollars
My greedy lawyers will sue your ass now
This song can only be sung by me
Too bad Woody Guthrie isn't among the living
His views on copyright were more forgiving
He would allow it and probably sing along
Copyright law protects all parodies.
The preceding comment is actually funnier when you realize I pressed Submit when I meant to hit Preview. It also doesn't help that I'm in Florida.
A) 1 year B) 2 months
C) Pat Buchanan D) 2-3 weeks
E) 5 days F) tomorrow
G) 10 minutes from now H) yesterday
"There is no evidence before this Administrative Panel that the Respondent intends to use the said domain names as the addresses or links to any sites which could be described as "complaint sites". For this reason the issues canvassed in any of the decisions relating to free speech are not relevant in this case.
In the circumstances, this Administrative Panel is satisfied that Complainant has established a prima facie case that the Respondent has no rights or legitimate interest in the said domain names or any of them."
Basically, the guy's a cyber squatter (3000 addresses) and because he didn't do anything with the addresses, and didn't respond they ruled in favor of guinness.
It still does not seem appropriate that they were taken away. Just because you're cybersquatting does not mean that his (or any) interest is better than the company in this regard.
And guinness, geez, trying to get all of these suck sites only encourages more creative ones....
I believe I will patent shipping and force Amazon and other business method patent holding weenies to pay me huge royalites. Here's the patent: A method of using moveable devices such as "ships" or "trucks" or similar technology to "transport" or "move" objects such as "packages" or "data" from one geographic point to another completely separate geographic point. I will call it "shipping". Now when companies charge $10 shipping and handling to send a $2 package, they get to pay me too. By keeping the wording so completely vague, it works for bits as well as physical object, so don't hit reload or it will cost you twice!
Some have mentioned that the book download is not similar to shareware, however, the distribution method is very similar to shareware distribution and this does not bode well for a 75% registration rate. Registration rates on shareware are very low. I just recently attended the Shareware Industry Conference in Tampa last week, and the industry average for registrations to actual purchases is 2%! As a shareware author, this is in line with what I see with my own software. I think Stephen King will do very well to get 10%, but I'd place good money on him not even reaching that.
Doh. I stand corrected. I guess I should have looked a piano keyboard instead of a computer keyboard.
I was thinking this would be a bad game. You start out as with a small cube and slow computer. You have to steal office supplies and equipment in order to do your job. As you move up in the game you get better cubicles, better computers, and maybe even a window view. The game ends when you finally die or steal enough office supplies to start your own dot.com and force other sims to work for you.
Nevermind, it's just too damn real....