Author Archives: mchu

Simplicity Wins

This is a short testimonial from one of our clients.  We really appreciate feedback (good and bad…errr constructive) so we can keep the product running in the right direction. ______________ I wanted to thank you all for the part you played in getting our system upgraded.  We still have a few issues to work out, [...]

Rewriting and Venture Capitalization

All software has it:  evolutionary programming in code blocks that are eventually deprecated, features and processes that the market no longer wants, and those few complexities that even a hydraulically-adjustable pavement roller cannot iron out.   This is an inevitable part of having a product that walks the software life cycle and molds itself to customer/market trends. There is [...]

Support Policy Change

A letter from our Support Manager __________ Dear Sir or Madam, In a effort to better serve your support needs, we are making the following change to our support policy: As of March 8, 2010, we will assign higher priority to tickets submitted through the our support website at http://support.conarc.com/ . The ticket submission form [...]

Subversion is Rocket Science Without Requiring A Rocket Science Degree

After using Microsoft’s Visual SourceSafe for the greater part of 10 years Conarc has had code to track, we converted to Subversion.  We made the switch almost a year ago and have been happy ever since.  I too had used VSS for the majority of professional career and just accepted the flaws, code destruction, and administration [...]

Get Your Head In the Cloud

I’m a geek.  I admit it without a single shred of embarrassment.  I have 14 computing devices at home ranging from a  hand-me-down PCs to the latest iPhone and virtualized servers.  They run on operating systems from Windows XP to flavors of Linux and Apple’s OS.  The best part of this is that I don’t care [...]

3 Solid Reasons to Not Bother with Unit Testing

Feel free to argue with me, but for the return on invested time, money, & resources, Automated User Interface Testing (AUIT; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUI_software_testing) is a far more accurate measure of how software will perform in the field especially when developing a web application. Unit Testing (UT) does great at ensuring all methods (individual software actions) have proper [...]

Blogging Our Ideas, Goings-On, and Killer Findings

Conarc has been so focused on vetting and converging architectures of best of breed technologies for more than 10 years that we haven’t spent time on giving back to the wealth of information on the Internet.  Thus, the birth of this blog.  Here, we’ll write up and/or video some of our favorite technologies, processing/work-flow ideas, developed platforms, best practices [...]

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