Eating Frogs: A Short Case for Incremental, Risk-Driven Software Development
“Eat a live frog first thing in the morning, and nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day.” -Mark Twain If you have ever been a software project manager, business analyst, developer, or purchaser of software development services, how many times have you encountered a project with the following characteristics: All … Read more
Building New Bridges into NRC and USDA
Counterpointe is pleased to announce two new contract awards with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. NRC and IWMS NRC intends to implement an intergrated workplace management system (IWMS) with the ARCHIBUS facilities management system. Counterpointe will provide services that include: Analyzing an existing and heavily customized ARCHIBUS instance already … Read more
Customizing ARCHIBUS Intelligently
One of the key strengths of ARCHIBUS as an integrated facilities management tool is its flexibility. The product offers a nearly limitless level of personalizations and customizations, allowing users to perform the simple (e.g. adding a new piece of data to a building) to the complex (adding entire new components and subsystems). ARCHBUS’ flexibility is a tool, … Read more
Recruiting Software Developers at UMD
Counterpointe visited the University of Maryland, College Park’s Fall Career Fair on September 28. Our expanding business is allowing us to recruit more talented individuals as software developers, business analysts and project managers, and UMCP lived up to its reputation of providing a large pool of highly qualified candidates. We had the pleasure of speaking … Read more
Counterpointe in the Community
Counterpointe Solutions recently became a corporate sponsor of a Project: AK-47 children’s home in the Golden Triangle region in Southeast Asia. Project: AK-47 is dedicated to fighting the use of children in armed conflict, with a particular emphasis on child soldiers. Learn more about this organization’s incredible work at http://www.projectak47.com.
Saying Goodbye to Sharepoint Folders
Allowing the use of folders in document libraries is one of the more unfortunate decisions Microsoft made with Sharepoint. Our love of folders is born of familiarity; they’re something we’re used to, comfortable with, and unwilling to let go of even if there’s a better alternative. But for anyone that’s ever tried to backup a document … Read more
The Joy of Continuous Integration – Episode 1
This is the first of a multi-part series on continuous integration, featuring Hudson CI, by Counterpointe Solutions’ Michael Kim. I recall a quick conversation I had with a friend and former colleague, Paul Duvall, who wrote a book about continuous integration (CI) a couple of years ago. I was not well versed in CI at the time, but … Read more
Is Sharepoint Matching Your Needs?
About a week ago, I came across an organization suffering from the ‘collaboration blues.’ It was looking for a way to automate document processing, search for and contribute to documents across multiple team members, create team workspaces, associate metadata with its documents, and expose all this functionality over Intranet and Extranet. This set of requirements … Read more
Java EE Unit Testing Made Easier
The concept of unit testing has been around for some time and is considered a good practice for all developers. Frameworks for unit testing abound in the Java EE landscape, including such options as JUnit and TestNG. These and other frameworks are best utilized with POJOs, in which functionality to be tested can be isolated … Read more
Counterpointe Wins Six Federal Awards in September
Counterpointe is pleased to announce that it will experience record growth after being awarded six Federal awards in the month of September. Much of the work is coming from the Internal Revenue Service, which has awarded: A 2-year contract to provide administrative services support for the Graphic Database Interface (GDI) system, which includes preparing investment portfolio … Read more
