I belong to a group of small business owners. We meet every month and talk business (global and our own), support one another and share good and bad news. A great group. Our last meeting, a week or so ago, was the first time in many months when each of our companies could look up and see the world getting better on the economy front. The retail guys were …

If you are one of those people who remember everything from your high school trigonometry class, then you don’t need to read this, but for the rest of us who only remember that SIN and COSINE had something to do with circles and a thing called PI , then this should be helpful. For a recent project I had to create an animated rotator in Javascript that needed to …

I remember everything about the day when the stock market dropped 700+ points. I couldn’t believe it. I thought that it could not happen again. Well, it did… a few more times. Panic was spreading like a virus in one of those movies that stars a monkey. It was chaos. Companies were cutting budgets, stopping projects, and doing everything they could to save cash. People were being sent to …

Need your data organized into a good looking PDF report? Many websites now include reporting pieces, or places where you may just want data exported… and what better format than a PDF, which is a widely accepted format for documents to be opened and viewed on any operating system thanks to Adobe Reader. But, how do these PDF reports get made? iTextSharp is a free tool that can be …

WDDinc was founded in 1993 by three partners, Alan Wlasuk, Reed Delporte and John Davis to provide software development expertise to a variety of clients. Our focus has always been custom development of high-quality software for clients with unique needs, ranging from data center infrastructures to multi-national call centers. Our clients span the United States and our software can be found throughout the world. Our software development teams provide …

One of the most baffling issues in the world of software development is the seemingly magical way a software development project tends to grow beyond its time and cost bounds. The following White Paper outlines a development technique that we have used with success to bound software development projects and deliver viable products at a projected time and expense budget. The technique we will discuss is known as the …