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My company has recently became a Microsoft Certified Partner and from a business perspective it helps us greatly as it provides the software licenses needed to continue development in a much more cost effective manner, and the added benefit of marketing abilities.
Now, I know that Microsoft Certified Partner status is important to many clients, but from a developers perspective, is it something that as a .NET developer you would look for when selecting an organization to potentially work for? Is it seen as a benefit where you know at a minimum that the organization will have access to the tools needed for the job?
Yes. As a partner, you not only get access to the software, but the company gets vouchers for certification testing, making it more likely that your employer would not only support, but encourage you to get certified. I work for a MS Gold Partner and every single developer here is MCPD certified.
If you enter the Empower for ISV program, the software kits are a godsend.
It's not a deal-breaker for me when accepting a job, but the perks sure are nice and if I were working for a company using the Microsoft stack I would try to push them towards MCP.
My current MSDN subscription increases my productivity greatly.
I'm usually less concerned about partner status, as long as they have a Premium MSDN subscription.
I am starting to work at a software company that is a Microsoft certified gold partner very soon, in terms of how that looks on your CV does it help that you have worked for a company that is certified ?
It is extremely useful if you're developing for Microsoft platforms. However, I do not think it's something I would require to take a job.
If I took a job that was not a Partner, I would probably look at spearheading the effort if I felt it was important enough to bring to the company/team. It really doesn't take too much effort to get the partnership as long as you have a real product for their platform.
There are great benefits to a company of being a Microsoft Certified Partner. It is not that hard for a company to become a Microsoft Certified Partner iff the whole company is willing to work towards it and is not just always chasing the next deadline.
So if a company is not Microsoft Certified Partner, I may ask why?
However so far it has never been a factor in deciding on taking a job, as other factor (like location) are more important to me.
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I have been trying to find an example some where on web on how to do translations in Tridion. I had no luck finding anything except mentioning of Translation Manager. Can someone point to a resource or best practices on how this can be done?
More details: I want to know how people send content for translations and then get it back into tridion. I saw some posts talking about event system. I am looking for a big picture start — localize — export — import — maintenance phases.
This is really the wrong place to ask this question, but I think it deserves a proper answer anyway.
SDL is (among other things) the "Global Information Management" company. Everything SDL does has a language/localization/globalization aspect to it. Including, of course, its translation tools and services.
As such, SDL has created and maintained (for many years) connectors to various CM platforms, and obviously SDL Tridion has a great integration story here. Good details about how it works here, courtesy of Robert Curlette.
If you're trying to integrate Tridion with other language vendors, I suggest you ask the language vendors for such a connector. The Tridion connector was available from SDL before the Tridion acquisition, I suspect that if other language vendors are serious about their connectivity to WCM platforms, they will also offer a connector to Tridion.
If you do not want to go with Translation Manager. I think the only solution is to localise your component in respective publication and do manual entry of publication/country specific content.
For translating your content only you can take help of any third party tools (search over Google).
even in that case also you have to do manual content entry in tridion cms.
In addition to the good comments from Ram and Nuno - You might want to investigate using the Workflow Engine from SDL Tridion. It offers the ability to write your own automated activities (e.g. Send or receive an item for translation via email or web service). This may be an effective solution for you, assuming there are no connectors available for the the translation services you intend to use.
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I would like to integrate music lyrics in my iOS app. Do you have a preference choice for an APi?
I am investigating : http://www.lyrdb.com
I have found this service: http://musixmatch.com
I don't have any specific recommendations because it depends on your willingness to tempt legality. The music industry is an unyielding beast. It is very difficult to legally provide lyrics. The way to go about legal lyrics also depends on your country and the countries you make the app available in. If this app is for your own use, you'll likely remain under the radar. If you make the app available on the App Store for free - eeehh perhaps you'll be unnoticed. If you charge, I say it's only a matter of time before you get a lawyer phone call.
As for an API providing legal lyrics, I don't think you'll find one for free.
Regarding #VokilaM's answer: MusixMatch is an Italian company so I doubt they have agreements with the MPA for US lyrics. (And if they did, they'd be advertising it.) Furthermore it looks like currently they only offer limited and non-commercial use lyrics as part of a "testing plan" option.
Further reading on wikipedia.
Musixmatch is a good API. It is licensed but if you want something that is free, you might want to try the following:
1. ChatLyrics
2. Lyricsfly
3. LyricWiki
I only tested Chatlyrics and it's working. It's API is very simple and easy to use.
By the way, your question, I think, is related with this post: Iphone - Writing a media player with lyrics
For a private app lyrdb.com is fine. The web site practices mass deletion of lyrics if a rightsholder contacts them, so it tends to stay up but it varies what lyrics are available. For a commercial app I wouldn't use it. It's not very fast and legally dubious. I've seen similar services being shutdown without notice (lyricsfly.com).
There are a few commercial options out there worth exploring if you are serious about things and have got money to spend:
- Gracenote
- LyricFind
This is more of a web service question rather than ios/iphone sdk, though. Maybe retag your question for a better response.
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Closed 9 years ago.
In my company we want to use Scrum lifecycle, we are using Team System 2010.
Team System is great to manage projects developpment and Scrum lifecycle.
However we are looking for a solution in order to take care of customers requirements.
A tool which give the ability to customer to send us their requests so we can plan it for next sprint.
Should i use TFS Web Access ? but which type of Work Item ?
I think TFS in general (not only Web Access) is for developpment team, not for customers ...
Any idea ?
Thanks in advance.
Take a look on UseResponse (PHP/MySQL, self-hosted). To be released in December, full sourcecode available on purchase, live demo available on USWebStyle (UseResponse authors) website.
If you're looking for something very customer oriented, what about uservoice or getsatisfaction? I also like Jira very much (best issue tracker in my opinion) but again, it may be too developer oriented.
You can find a list of tools specialized on requirements management here: http://www.softdevtools.com/search.php?query=requirements+management&action=results
We were always giving our clients access to the project backlog in our scrum tool. They could edit it there and we were always trying to get them to become Product Owners, usually with success. I see no reason why a client should not have access to the backlog the team is working off.
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I'd like to know about software development teams that use twitter (or yammer or laconica) in their process.
What are you reporting? Do you have automated tweet e.g. from build or test machine?
Thanks a lot for your answer.
Our development team all individually tweet, but we also have a Twitter account which represents the team as a whole. Usage is not completely settled yet, but so far we've tried:
Announcing deployments ("just pushed 2.0.2737 to production. details at http://tinyurl.org/12345")
Automated updates for long-running tools ("Phoenix migration is 23% done and currently averaging 13s/unit. Expect to finish 5-7-09"
We've tried to focus on information that our customers care about. A useful Twitter service has to strike a delicate balance of too little and too much information. For things that happen frequently, like continuous integration builds, we just email internally. That's something every team member needs to know and the audience is well-defined, so we can push that. Things like production pushes have a much broader audience with a wide range of interest level, so a passive service like Twitter is ideal for providing that information to the people who care, at their convenience.
Russ Fustion (of Microsoft) presented a session at the Orlando (Florida) code camp where a sample to tweet when a automated build is completed was presented. You can watch the video.
Basically the idea is that for teams that have a build server that re-builds the entire application periodically, the build server can send a tweet notifying all team members that the build is complete and the sucess/failure status.
I started using Laconica on our Intranet to capture events from scheduled batch jobs and updates from Subversion commits. I use a simple batch file that uses curl. I've posted examples here: SVN Post-Commit to Laconica
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are there any free Team Foundation Server sites we can use for our private development? Please don't say CodePlex (which I love) because that means the code is all opensource.
Lastly, I also understand that some people might raise the issue of having their private code hosted somewhere by people they do not know, etc.. so please don't raise any security concerns.
I'm guessing there are no free services because of licensing reasons?
Microsoft are currently providing their next generation cloud hosted TFS service at tfs.visualstudiow.com - private repositories are free for up to 5 users but they have indicated that they will be charging for the service when you in the future when you have more than 5 users in your account.
If you are a small start-up and wanted to use TFS inside your firewall, then take a look at the new BizSpark program from Microsoft. This provides basically everything you need to start up a Microsoft technology based company for free (apart from the hardware) - including TFS and Visual Studio.
I would find it doubtful that there would be a free one. Team Foundation Server was very expensive for us to implement so I would be surprised if someone was hosting for free. Other than the CodePlex type options.
There are services where you can pay per user per month like this one or this one>
I find it doubtful you will find free though.
None are free, but there are four TFS hosting options discussed in this Simple Talk article, covering:
PRAKTIK Hosting
TeamDevCentral
SaaS Made Easy
DiscountASP
Microsoft's own TFSPreview is now rebranded as Team Foundation Service, which is free for up to 5 users.
We're running a pilot program on our TFS Hosting services, so for a short period of time it's free. After that we'll have the best prices on the full TFS suite.
http://www.tfsserver.com