Ok as programmers we all follow programming standards (as in W3 standards, or C++ standard, etc...), and many of us consider these standards "sacred" and also many seasoned programmers can recite their choice of standards by heart when asked about a question in their field of expertise. You can see this last case a lot here on SO by the ...
I've got a couple open-source projects on Codeplex (I'll link if someone asks, but otherwise, I'm not quite that shameless ;)), but I'm not really sure how to go about spreading the word or getting people to take notice. Any suggestions for attracting users/contributors? See also: How to get users to your Open Source project How do...
What software/UI techniques can leverage our spatial memory? I think and remember in physical space, often the location of something is as important as it's content. For instance I keep an untidy desk, but I know where to find things, I use different parts of my (multiscreen) desktop for different windows/icons. I annotate books (with p...
As a programmer, what line of computer science or mechanism should I consider as the first step to constructing a program aware of its environment instead of blindly carrying out tasks? Or a program that convincingly simulates such to the degree its deemed useful by responding to its surroundings. Random goes against convincing. Awaren...
There are two questions to this: How can I best "spread the word" about my projects to interested users? How can I best "spread the word" to like-minded developers? I know this sounds easy, but it really isn't. I've participated in official mailing list discussions, establishing a presence on IRC, wrote articles for magazines, hoste...
Is there a way for a Java class to have an awareness of its instantiator? For example: public class Foo() { public Foo() { // can I get Bar.myInteger from here somehow // without passing it in to the constructor? } } public class Bar { private int myInteger; public Bar() { myInteger = 0; ...
Hi all, This has been sort of an annoyance for me for a while. I make pretty heavy use of partial views in MVC, and am using Visual Studio 2008 to develop. The problem is that when I give html elements a class in a partial view (<div class="someClass">), it will underline them in green like it doesn't know what they are. I realize this...