by Alex Shapovalov | Software Development
When developing software, there are usually two types of requirements: functional requirements, which are what your application is supposed to do, such as solving a business need or providing business functionality, and non-functional requirements, which may include...
by Alex Shapovalov | Business
Does a small business company or an independent IT consultant need an accountant? It is a tough question when you just opened a business, and every dollar counts. In the beginning, you know nothing about bookkeeping, accounting or taxes, and at least some advice would...
by Alex Shapovalov | Software Development
On my current contract, I have to develop and support SSIS packages for multiple versions of SQL server and in order to work with multiple versions, I am running a virtual machine. The problem with virtual machines they are not connected to the active directory, and...
by Alex Shapovalov | Software Development
Windows Azure user management is a little bit complicated, and unfortunately, there is no way to add users to the existing database using the Microsoft Azure management portal. To add a new user to the existing database in windows azure you have to do the following:...
by Alex Shapovalov | Software Development
Local development for ASP.NET websites over HTTPS protocol is much easy with the IIS Express development certificate, which is pre-installed with IIS on Windows 8. But anyway when a web application runs the first time in any browser, a message similar to the...