Re: Design advice for hotel availability program

2012-02-21 Thread Andrés Tello
Verify the regulation that a Hotel should submit, read the part of the occupation reports, information gathering, ask management for their currents report... Remember the data output should came from the data stored... On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Chaim Rieger li...@up-south.com wrote: On

Re: Design advice for hotel availability program

2012-02-20 Thread Jan Steinman
Where are your domain experts? You *are* consulting with them, no? If you don't know the answers, and don't have access to domain experts to help you, I would design for the most general case, and factor out exceptions as they prove to be so. Pre-optimization for exceptions almost always turns

Re: Design advice for hotel availability program

2012-02-20 Thread Claudio Nanni
Hi, Nobody answers because this is a very wide question about software engineering, Trust me, It seems like a simple question but it is not. The only advice I can give you is to try to imagine all possible scenarios/use-cases before starting the design. Cheers Claudio 2012/2/20 Jan Steinman

Re: Design advice for hotel availability program

2012-02-20 Thread Neil Tompkins
Hi I am trying to get some background information with regards the design. I have a fair idea but would like advice from anyone that has previously worked on similar projects. On 20 Feb 2012, at 17:22, Jan Steinman j...@bytesmiths.com wrote: Where are your domain experts? You *are*

Re: Design advice for hotel availability program

2012-02-20 Thread Chaim Rieger
On 2/17/2012 4:01 AM, Tompkins Neil wrote: Hi, I'm in the process of starting to design a hotel booking system that will eventually consist of over 10,000 hotels all with different room types, rates and availability for different dates. My question is does anyone have any experience with

Design advice for hotel availability program

2012-02-17 Thread Tompkins Neil
Hi, I'm in the process of starting to design a hotel booking system that will eventually consist of over 10,000 hotels all with different room types, rates and availability for different dates. My question is does anyone have any experience with regards the best way to store the daily rates. Am