I want to know specifically how you deal with explaining a timeline to a non-technical boss or client, and why it takes so long to do something they feel should take a lot less longer. I hear "Why can't you just..." a lot, and I have trouble without getting into the deep technical details explaining why something might take a few days or...
Is your boss a "really good" programmer? A business manager that knows nothing about computers? Does he/she treats you well? When you write good code, does he encourage you or only bash on you when you write bad code? I'm really interested to know more about the kind of boss you have. On a side note, maybe you could add what you would li...
My boss was in the past not really interested in Open-Source. He always was fine, if we developers used a library or framework, that came at no cost. But he was never interested in details. But some customers talked about Open-Source and so he got the idea, that such a thing exists. Recently he surprised us, because he wanted to make a ...
I have been using Yahoo BOSS for little time .It is an easy API for search but spelling suggestion support is really not that robust .Do folks around here have any idea of getting better spelling suggestion on BOSS. ...
My boss is against requiring our users to have secure passwords, even going so far to request they be setup by default to have passwords the same as their username. What should I do in this situation? What would you do? Update - Some users have brought up the question of whether the application needs high security. This isn't credit car...
Developers and management tell me that they want to move away from using asp.net ajax because it is big and cumbersome. I kind of agree, but I don't want to do all the javascript heavy lifting myself. Eventually I also want to introduce jQuery. I'm guessing right now it will also be a problem. Is there a good post somewhere outlining...
Theoretically, if you were in a position where a senior member of the team had the authority to make bad decisions, which affected the business in a bad way, and kept implementing these decisions against the will of the rest of the team, and almost behind their backs, what would you do to deal with it? ...
I want to to include in my search results only parts of few different sites. eg. yahoo.com/blog/, yahoo.com/groups/ and live.com/developers/ How can I do that? I can't use &sites=yahoo.com/blog/,yahoo.com/groups/,live.com/developers/ because it will display results for whole yahoo and live.com domain. Any suggestions? Thanks! ...
If I'm building a commercial search engine to display results from Yahoo! search, should I use BOSS or the Yahoo Web Search API? What's the difference? ...
I tried to install the Yahoo BOSS mashup framework, but am having trouble running the examples provided. Examples 1, 2, 5, and 6 work, but 3 & 4 give Expat errors. Here is the output from ex3.py: gpython examples/ex3.py examples/ex3.py:33: Warning: 'as' will become a reserved keyword in Python 2.6 Traceback (most recent call last):...
I'd like to create a search engine for my photo sharing website. The search engine would just need to return results based on "tag" words. Photos would be sorted by popularity, newness, or a combination of the two. I was curious whether I could just use the Yahoo BOSS api to accomplish this instead of setting up my own search engine (us...
Hi I have a website that uses twitter api. The thing is that site becomes blank once the api limit is reached(I THINK) and then after a while it starts displaying the results. I am running on GAE appspot.Because I have the appspot subdomain, does this mean that I can never be blacklisted? Also what is the use of a twitter api, when I c...
I think the code is right, but I don't get any response in my second alert. When I go to the website given in the first alert, I get the text I want. Why doesn't it work? <script type="text/javascript"> function getimages(q) { bossimagesrequest = new XMLHttpRequest; var requri = "http://boss.yahooapis.com/ysearch/images/v1/"+esca...