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I'm a bit confused about the whole NoSQL thing and such.
When would you choose to use something like MongoDB over something like Oracle or MySQL?
I don't really understand the "difference" as far as usage goes between them.
From my understanding NoSQL type databases aren't meant to replace RDBMSes, but what exactly are... |
When reading Programmers at Work (by Susan Lammers), they often refer to code as "listings". Why is that?
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What is the difference between building a .NET project to target 32-bit or 64-bit?
Are there computers that aren't able to run 32-bit programs and only 64-bit?
Do x64 programs run twice as fast?
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My day job is plain old software development. I am also doing my Masters in CS (part time, course based). I took a course on AI and found machine learning quite fascinating but like most courses it only offered a basic intro.
I intend to learn more about Machine Learning and if possible get a job in that field. When I ... |
Editing Question for Clarity
Thanks for feedback so far, very insightful.
I'm not sure how far along this part of the software community is, and what if any libraries exist for me to leverage from. Heres what I'm trying to do.
Problem:
Take an existing video of a game of rugby league.
The Rugby League field is 100 metr... |
What is the difference between a library, framework, and API? They all seem the same to me. I would like to hear peoples thought of this.
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I took up a small CSS challenge to solve for a client and I'm going to be paid on a hourly rate.
I eventually solved it, it took 5 hours but I spent roughly 25% of the time in the wrong track, trying a CSS3 solution that only worked in recent browsers and finally discovering that no fallback is possible via JS (like I... |
I've been working in embedded software development for this small startup and our team is pretty small: about 3-4 people. We're responsible for all engineering which involves an RF device controlled by an embedded microcontroller that connects to a PC host which runs some sort of data collection and analysis software.
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I have noticed that this is a frequent issue among younglings from technical areas such as ours.
In the beginning of our careers we simply don't know how to sell ourselves to our employers, and random guy #57 (who is a programmer, but not as good as you - technically) ends up getting a raise or a promotion because he k... |
With Scrum / user story / agile development, how does one handle scheduling out-of-sync tasks that are part of a user story?
We are a small gaming company working with a few remote consultants who do graphics and audio work. Typically, graphics work should be done at least a week (sometimes 2 weeks) in advance of the ... |
Why the Lucky Stiff removed most of his online profile on Aug. 19th, 2009. The author of Why's (poignant) guide to Ruby, Hpricot, and many other projects left behind many confused and upset users.
Zed Shaw called it a "dickhead thing to do".
John Resig called his work a "Sand Mandala".
Do developers have an unwritten o... |
As part of research for a user group presentation I'm looking for usage examples of certain code constructs.
I'm looking for online source code repository collections that allow me to search inside the source code across the whole collection.
GitHub does it but it's a bit light on the sort of code I'm looking for.
Sour... |
I'm doing my 3rd year CSE Engineering. I guess this is the right time to ask this question!
As in the next year, I'm going to do projects, "get my hands dirty". And there is only few days left out, as I know many people in Stack Overflow are working in Software field, I thought to ask these question.
Does the project ... |
Have you ever been developing something and just came to a point where you think that this is rubbish, the design is bad and although I will lose time it will be better to just start all over again?
What should you consider before making this step? I know it can be drastic in some cases, is it best to just totally igno... |
I have heard/read writing common pre-conditions for a large number of test cases is a bad thing, since this dependency may cause large number of test cases to fail if something changes . What are your thoughts on it ?
If this is so , then what exactly is the purpose of setUp() method in Junit that runs before each test... |
To me the ultimate beauty in working as a developer is the fact that given a nice CV, your are going to find a new job, everywhere at any time.
So I would like to ask if somebody here as experience in working while travelling for example. Or job-hopping from metropolis to metropolis every, say, six months.
For example ... |
I was interviewing with a "too proud of my java skills"-looking person.
He asked me "What is your knowledge on Java IO classes.. say.. hash maps?"
He asked me to write a piece of java code on paper - instantiate a class and call one of the instance's methods. When I was done, he said my program wouldn't run. After 5 m... |
Over on SO I came across a question regarding which platform, Java or Python is best for developing on Google AppEngine. Many people were boasting of the increased productivity gained from using Python over Java. One thing I would say about the Python vs Java productivity argument, is Java has excellent IDE's to speed ... |
Is it possible to have in eclipse 2 "team providers" for same project. E.g. svn and mercurial?
So svn will be used to commit to central repository, and mercurial only to work on my PC.
E.g. when I get updates from SVN, I commit to mercurial, then I work with mercurial. When everything is ready to go to central place, ... |
Lately I have been thinking of application security and binaries and decompilers. (FYI- Decompilers is just an anti-complier, the purpose is to get the source back from the binary)
Is there such thing as "Perfect Decompiler"? or are binaries safe from reverse engineering? (For clarity sake, by "Perfect" I mean the ori... |
I am hoping to find an easy tool or method, that allow's managing our code deployment.
Here are the features I hope this solution has:
Either web-based or batch file, that given a list of files, will communicate to our production server, to backup those files in different folders, and zip them and put them in a backup... |
What things should be considered in the license etc when you're using some open source projects/ tools in your application(in my case, specifically a web application/website) ?
What are the terms & conditions to look for in the license and in what ways can they impact my future business in technological, financial... |
When should I use the XML data type in Microsoft SQL Server?
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How do I identify a good Scrum Master?
Here are some possibilities:
The person is agile (doesn't just do agile). Indicators: Blog, volunteer activities
The person connects well with others at the level of emotions and needs (not just technical stuff).
The person is relentless and fearless when removing impediments
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Are there reasons other than budget for hiring "entry-level" programmers?
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While there is such operator - ** in Python, I was wondering why Java and C++ don't have one too.
It is easy to make one for classes you define in C++ with operator overloading (and I believe such thing is possible also in Java), but when talking about primitive types such as int, double and so on, you'll have to use l... |
I usually leave my email address as a courtesy in case someone wants to ask me a question about it later. Do other people leave more or less information than that? Does anyone leave a phone number??
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I am setting up a new RESTful web service and I need to provide a role-based access control model. I need to create an architecture that will allow users to provide their username and password to get access to the services and then restrict how they can use the services (which services they can use, read vs read/write,... |
In a code review, what do you look for to assess a developer's expertise? Given an opportunity to look at a developer's work on a real-world project, what tell-tale signs are a tip-off to carelessness or lack of experience? Conversely, where do you look in the code to find evidence of a developer's skill or knowledge o... |
What is the typical pattern regarding remembering users for a website? Do you offer to remember the user at login and when they register, or at login only, or either depending on what mood you are in :) ? Not interested in implementation details, just the recommended practice?
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When building an application should all validation messages have punctuation?
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I'm looking for some guidance on CASE tools and whether my concerns are valid.
Recently I was in a meeting between my employer and an external software company which have a CASE tool currently in beta. They demonstrated this tool to us, showing how you build a UML model in Enterprise Architect (or something like it) an... |
A common complaint I hear about Facebook, Twitter, Ning and other social sites is that once a comment or post is made, it can't be edited.
I think this goes against one of the key goals of user experience: giving the user agency, or the ability to control what he does in the software.
Even on Stackexchange sites, you ... |
Looking at the Friend Connect sites, documentation, example, I've noticed that:
there haven't been updates in a long time
many of the sites used as example sites are dead or abandoned
the community (forums, message boards, etc) is relatively silent
Is google's Friend Connect set of tools defunct/abandoned, or is it s... |
COBOL is still (heavily?) used for financial computing. It is an old language, and AFAIK most programmers hate, or at least dislike, COBOL. This brings a question: is the only reason COBOL is still used that legacy software uses it, or does it have any real advantages over other programming languages?
Just curious.
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I know (to some extent) a few languages, including C, Java and Python. I'm also (somewhat) familiar with Scala and Scheme, plus I can read (but not write) x86 Assembly. Say I want to learn C++, what is a good book which doesn't try to teach me what a class is, teach me inheritance, polymorphism or loosely coupled class... |
I've decided what I really want is to do game programming. So the question is, as a 18 years old who wants to learn self taught programming, what is the most suited programming language between C# and C++? (I should state that I don't care about Unix because I believe windows will be still the most used OS)
I know the... |
i heard that these(say for example Groovy) languages have the capability of changing the variable name or call methods dynamically in runtime! What you meant by dynamic languages? And what is the real need for changing any values during runtime? Is that doen't lead to confusion, because at runtime if you change any val... |
All programming languages are having their design flaws simply because not a single language can be perfect, just as with most (all?) other things. That aside, which design fault in a programming language has annoyed you the most through your history as a programmer?
Note that if a language is "bad" just because it isn... |
I am a small time web dev freelancer during my time off at university and I have some horror stories when it comes to designing sites for people (not that the sites are bad - just the clients DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEY WANT) this really grinds my gears.
To set the context this is what I want to avoid:
I had a client last y... |
I am working on a project and my task is to evaluate quality of that project by quality metrics. I found three types of metrics namely product, process & project. On some websites I fount other types like Defect Detection Percentage, Defect Removal Efficiency, Defects Find Rate, Escaped Defects Found, Function Points, ... |
Eventually you need to depreciate parts of your public web API. However I'm confused on what would be the best way to do it. If you have a large 3rd party app base just yanking old versions of the API seems like the wrong way to do it as almost all apps would fail overnight. However you can't keep ancient web api's ava... |
What is the main reason that made Facebook need to use C++ beside PHP? I am wondering if I make a website with alot of vistors would I need to use C++ as well?
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I'm interested in ways and means for learning (a) programming language(s) efficiently. I believe that using Unit Test concepts and infrastructure early in that process is a good thing, even better than starting with "Hello world".
Why: To write a decent program even for a toy/restricted problem in a new language, you'l... |
I'm not a game developer or anything, but I know that Java is not very widely used for game development. Java should be fast enough for most games, so where's the catch? I can think of some reasons:
Lack of game developers with expertice in Java
Lack of good game development frameworks
Programmers don't want to accept... |
I have been asked "What are SDLC and OOP?" many times in job interviews but I am still not sure how to answer this question. I am a web developer for quite some time but I still have problem with explaining OOP and SDLC (System Development Life Cycle) .
Can someone help me to explain what these are to another person?
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When I was working as a website designer/engineer I primarily used databases for storage of much of my dynamic data. It was very easy and convenient to use this method and seemed like a standard practice from my research on the matter. I'm now working on shifting away from websites and into desktop applications. Wha... |
I'm looking into real-time web applications using websockets and node.js. I'm interested to see what are some technical challenges with scaling such a setup.
One such problem I've heard is that each socket requires a Unix file descriptor, and epoll/select takes time linear to the number of open file descriptors.
Anyone... |
I'm writing an experimental iPhone app to learn about the MVC paradigm. I instantiate my Model class in the ViewController class. Is this stupid?
I'm asking because storing the id of the Model class, and using it works where it's initialized, but referring to it later (in response to an interface action) crashes.
Seem... |
The same question goes for | and ||.
Why would one overload or 'use' the & and && operator? The only use i thought of are
Bitwise Ands for int base types (but not float/decimals) using &
logical short circuit for bools/functions that return bool. Using the && operator usually.
I cant think of any classes that use tho... |
One of the major regrets in life is that I didn't do something with my introversion. I didn't manage to get past the first year of college because of that. I have chosen the path where there are no video games and other time sinks, all I have is the internet to quench my thirst of learning the ins and outs of the field... |
I am looking to start an experimental project using a functional language
and am trying to decide beween Erlang and Haskell, and both have some points
that I really like.
I like Haskell's strong type system and purity. I have a feeling it will make it easier to write really reliable code. And I think that the power o... |
In our development group there is currently discussions around agile and waterfal methodology. No-one has any practical experience with agile, but we are doing some reading.
The agile manifesto lists 4 values:
Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Cu... |
What is the best way to implement this:
1.iphone/webBrowser user selects some products (a,b,c) to buy
2.the chosen products most appear on the iPad located in the Store. using a UITableView perhaps.
3.The store staff then decide if the products are available in 10, 20 or 30 minutes for pick up.
4.When the store staff ... |
I try to teach myself a new programming language in regular intervals of time. Recently, I've read how Lisp and its dialects are at the complete opposite end of the spectrum from languages like C/C++, which made me curious enough to know more about it. However, two things are unclear to me, and I'm looking for guidance... |
When designing an API, consistency often aids usability. However, sometimes they conflict where an extra API feature can be added to streamline a common case. It seems like there's somewhat of a divide over what to do here. Some designs (the Java standard library come to mind) favor consistency even if it makes comm... |
I've been developing Java EE web apps with Eclipse for about a year. My employer doesn't use Maven, but the more I read about it, the more convinced I am that Maven + Hudson will be greatly beneficial for us. First, though, I have to become comfortable with those technologies in my spare time, so that I can create a pr... |
I am working on a product that I don't feel is completely ready but I have a set of users that are very interested in using it now as "alpha" testers. I would like to give them the product now for free as "alpha" testers, but I would like to later license the software.
Is this possible? Can anyone point me to any lin... |
Every once in a while I'm asked in interviews which I like the best- low level or high level. It seems to me that the implicit message is that they are both a specialty and they want to know which direction I'm heading. The trouble is, I seem to like both. Low level is extremely challenging and often requires a great d... |
Is it possible to programmatically trigger the Windows's Hibernate without actually Hibernating, just to take snapshot of the OS at regular intervals? So that the system can return to the previously saved state in case of any failure.
This is much like System Restore, which backups system files; but the idea is to back... |
I have been into freelance business for more than 2 years. While doing projects for other people, I've build a compilation of common tasks that I implement in projects and put them into code. It's kind of a library with some functions that I can reuse without having to rewrite the same thing dozen times. I'm talking ab... |
There are times when just one bug that keeps eating away your time like hell ... for example this one. I generally end up wasting hours and realize I've gone terribly behind my schedule and not completed other tasks. With n number of tabs open in the browser, I end up posting the question in stackoverflow as a last res... |
Just ran across this, and wondering if anyone has a way to prove or disprove this statement:
Something to keep in mind ... what's
the half-life of knowledge in high
tech? It tracks with Moore's Law: half
of everything you know will be
obsolete in 18-24 months.
SOURCE: Within answer by Craig Trader to this que... |
Do the following scenarios count as "reinventing the wheel" in your book?
A solution exists, but not in the language you want to use, and existing solutions can't be interfaced with the language you want to use in a clean, idiomatic way.
In principle you could get an existing library to do what you wanted with heavy m... |
There are a lot of great explanations for what the Model-View-Controller design pattern is, but I am having trouble finding good resources showing how to use it in practice.
So, when you are starting a new application (doesn't matter what it is), what is in your toolbox?
For example, it was suggested that using UML col... |
I know this is a very basic question, but I sometimes find myself struggling to figure out when to split a single object method into multiple methods. For example, I am trying to set up an ACL using Zend_Acl and Zend_Auth, as shown in this tutorial: http://devzone.zend.com/article/1665. However, I am wondering if the... |
In order to view system performance, I have been asked by management to give page response times for a few key pages. I want to make sure I am giving a good picture of the overall health of the system, and not just narrowing in on a single measurement.
So my question is: When developing software, what metrics would you... |
In theory, customers should be able to feel the software performance improvements from first-hand experience.
In practice, sometimes the improvements are not noticible enough, such that in order to monetize from the improvements, it is necessary to use quotable performance figures in marketing in order to attract custo... |
Do we have to learn Mathematics to be a good Programmer?
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I'm reading a chapter on jQuery in a ASP.NET book. To be honest I'm finding it quite boring.
How important is it to learn jQuery? And do many ASP.NET developers use it for their pages?
Regards
TDG
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First of all, I apologize if this is the wrong section of network to post this question. If it is, please feel free to move it to more appropriate location...
Question: I would like to hear your ideas regarding the ways of open source projects being started and run. I have an open-source content management system proje... |
Note: I am aware of this question. This question is a bit more specific and in-depth, however, focusing on reading the actual code rather than debugging it or asking the author.
As a student in an introductory-level computer science class, my friends occasionally ask me to help them with their assignments. Programmin... |
i want to establish Android in our company. Since our company doesn't want our future internal Android Apps distributet to the Google Android Market i would need to setup an internal market. But i can't find any resources. Maybe someone here knows more!
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What is the best way of managing minutes of meeting on daily bases ? Do we have to manage the documents in a repository like VSS or it can be maintained in a excel sheet itself.
Kindly share your experience for the same and guide.
Thanks in advance
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I want to write (and have starting outlining) a physics textbook which assumes its reader is a competent computer programmer. Normal physics textbooks teach physical formulas and give problems that are solved with pen, paper and calculator. I want to provide a book that emphasizes computational physics, how computers c... |
I chanced to see some job requirements of Oracle SQL programmer or C# developer jobs, who want a person who can handle terabytes of data in ETL or data migration.
I have worked on data migration to move data from one system to the other. As a C# developer or Oracle SQL programmer, I am not able to understand how thing... |
So I have this problem, it may be my OCD (i have OCD it's not severe.....but It makes me very..lets say specific about certain things, programming being one of them) or it may be the fact that I graduated college and still feel "meh" at programming. Reading This made me think "OH thats me!" but thats not really my main... |
I am developing high volume processing systems. Like mathematical models that calculate various parameters based on millions of records, calculated derived fields over milions of records, process huge files having transactions etc...
I am well aware of unit testing methodologies and if my code is in C# I have no proble... |
Which do you like better? Class #1:
public class SearchClass
{
public SearchClass (string ProgramName)
{ /* Searches LocalFile objects, handles exceptions, and puts results into m_Results. */ }
DateTime TimeExecuted;
bool OperationSuccessful;
protected List<LocalFile> m_Results;
public ReadOn... |
I am a true believer in Model Driven Development, I think it has the possibility to increase productivity, quality and predictability. When looking at MetaEdit the results are amazing. Mendix in the Netherlands is growing very very fast and has great results.
I also know there are a lot of problems
versioning of gene... |
I am working in an environment wherein we have many projects with strict deadlines on deliverables. We even talk directly to the clients so getting the jobs done and fast is a must.
My issue is that i'd always write code for the first solution that comes to my mind, which of course I thought as best at that moment. It ... |
In most companies that do programming teams and divisions consist of programmers who design and write code and managers who... well, do the management stuff. Aside from just not writing code, managers usually do not even look at the code the team develops, and may even have no proper IDE installed on their work machin... |
I have now written my last line of code and I am ready to publish my application to the Android Market, what disclaimers should I add to protect myself as a developer from customers who purchase my application, to prevent being sued by stupid people?
It might be a harsh question, but how does developers protect themsel... |
I have recently read Miško Hevery's pdf guide to writing testable code in which its stated that you should limit your classes instanciations in your constructors. I understand that its what you should do because it allow you to easily mock you objects that are send as parameters to your class. But when it comes to writ... |
I have a chrome extension that I think is fairly useful. It's already been posted and is free. How can I start charging for it with the Chrome webstore?
$.99 or some such.
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A question asked many times before but with a specific slant twds mvc development.
I've been a very good boy and have been coding all my controller actions with corresponding unit tests which has been great (if a little [read a LOT] repetitive at times). To be honest, I've actually created a little T4 template to writ... |
At what point should one give up?
I've tried helping them out by having them shadow me. We agree to break a minute, and then they go missing in action for a while...then just go back to their desk. Even when I know they've done this, part of me feels like I shouldn't have to go get them but that they should be showin... |
I have a client right now requiring me to develop a school enrollment system. Now this is the first time im having this kind of challenge. Most of the past software that i created are not that complex.
I know most all of you have created complex softwares, i just want your advise on this. Should i design first the fron... |
Should Whitebox testers be involved in the software design process and why?
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So I have this old C++, KDE project for QT 3.3.x. The IDE's version is 3.0.0-10, the one that comes with Linux RedHat 7.3.
I'd want to get rid of the dependency to this environment, in other words I'd like to manage the project throught Makefiles. Alternatively, it would also be acceptable if I could port this KDE proj... |
I'm working on a piece of code which is free to use, but when a license code (or serial key or any other term like that) has been bought will remove some advertising.
The code will be freely available as open source, probably under a GPL license, but of course I would rather not have people messing around with the cod... |
What defines a standard like HTML5, C++0x, etc.? Is it just that you hand something in to W3C/ANSI/ISO/..., they produce a couple hundred pages long document and suddenly it's a standard?
Can't I, as an individual, create something and standardize it by myself? I surely could produce a couple hundred pages long documen... |
I am writing an article about both programming language locking primitives (which are really wrappers for OS primitives) and database locking primitives. Are there any short wide-spread titles for these two types of locking? For example, "code locking" and "database locking"?
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A typical solution is to have a CI (Continuous Integration) build running on a build server: It will analyze the source code, make build (in debug) and run tests, measure test coverage, etc.
Now, another build type usually known is "Nightly build": do slow stuff like create code documents, make a setup package, deploy ... |
To many of you this will sound like a ridiculous question, but I am asking because I have little to no experience with ASP.Net Webforms - I went straight to ASP.Net MVC.
I am now working on a project where we are limited to .Net 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005.
I liked the clean separation of concerns when working with AS... |
Not long ago I started an internship at a company that supplies SharePoint consultancy, hosting and development. While their consultancy seems to be pretty good and solid, I feel their development department lacks direction. The reason for this, most likely, is that they stopped outsourcing not too long ago.
One thing ... |
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How to grasp functional programming concepts?
I'm looking for some resources on functional programming subject. It seems to be a paradigm which is gaining visibility and I wanna know a bit more of it.
What are the books/ebooks/articles do you recommend?
Note: I'm not necessarily looking for a sp... |
I want to express the below events in an activity diagram:
An alternative flow, such as "at step x of basic flow, user clicks cancel instead of ok".
An alternative entry to the use case, such as "instead of click the bold button, use can press Ctrl-B".
An error, such as "when user clicks save, the system is unable to ... |
I'ld like to create a very basic directory where user can enter their social network profiles and pick a username. From that data a little website gets generated.
The sign in process should be managed via Twitter or Facebook.
Where do I start with this? Are there any frameworks, api's or something like that available?
... |
Do large corporations and product companies follow any standard quality models/processes at all?
For example, I have seen that many large organizations have proprietary processes in IT and software development. Back in the days (even before Motorola's Iridium project,) I remember many IT companies scampering for SEI-C... |
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