Brainstorming: Requirements of a Swing Replacement
What is required of an updated and legacy free Graphical User Interface API for Java? //TODO: Add your ideas below. ...
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Other online card walls besides Mingle?
Are there other tools besides Mingle that would let my team create an online "wall" of post-it-like text notes? In the ideal world each note would have an associated author, tags for searching, be editable, and could be duplicated and moved around for clustering like we do with actual post-its during physical brainstorming. I like how ...
What will you be able to do with the dynamic binding in C# 4.0?
So the next version of C# will support dynamic binding through the dynamic keyword. Microsoft has especially talked about how this will make the syntax for COM interop nicer and it is of course necessary for interop with the dynamically typed .NET languages. But what else do you think we will be able to do with this new feature? ...
Suggest me Mindtools or Process - For developer BRAIN.
While discussing with my co-developer, I understood most of the time we spent on thinking about minor and major decisions. And 25% of our mind seems to be occupied with plenty of issues which are not directly related our current coding, while coding/design. Few days later, he informed me that he is using Freemind for managing his task, ...
What (not yet existing) iPhone apps do developers wish to get more productive?
What (not yet existing) iPhone apps do developers wish to get more productive? Let's do some brainstorming ;-) ...
Database VIEW does not reflect the data in the underying TABLE
Input: The customer claims that the application (.NET) when querying for some data returns data different from when the customer looks into the data table directly. I understand there could be various reasons and in completely different places. My purpose is not to solve it here, but rather to ask experienced DBAs and DB developers if:...
Browser and external app communication? (Chrome's current url and referrer on Windows?)
How might an external program communicate with a browser? Hopefully this will be of some use to others: I'm listing off a number of options I've seen or tried while unsuccessfully getting this to work. If you know of others, please post them. If Mac, use AppleScript (info/solution at q.263741, try this search) Use or create an extensio...
Algorithms to create a tabular representation of a DAG?
Given a DAG, in which each node belongs to a category, how can this graph be transformed into a table with a column for each category? The transformation doesn't have to be reversible, but should preserve useful information about the structure of the graph; and should be a 'natural' transformation, in the sense that a person looking at t...
Modify nautilus source code, where to start?
I have a simple starter problem to change an open source project. Let me first explain the situation: I want to make some changes on an open source project (NAUTILUS) , The change is to work on This idea(Progress window for file operations) , The fist step is to download the source , done (using git) The next step is to read the ...
What are some of the possible or practical applications for thin-client applications?
I am currently in need of help for brainstorming for some ideas. I have seen the following applications for thin-client: some of the web servers providing services such as video conversion an iPhone app that simply connects to a website, and send a text string in which the server will synthesize a voice file that will be streamed bac...
How do programmers brainstorm and approach new projects?
What is the best way, you have developed, to approach / brainstorm / look at new assigned projects? read relevant books, blogs? discuss problems with fellow programmers? ask questions on StackOverflow? :) search for similar open source projects? What are your first lines of code and how much time does it take you till you fire up you...
TXT messaging or Email Autoresponder with dynamic or queryable response-?? Rails, .NET, Java, C++??
Hey guys, I wanted to write something that could receive text messages and respond with data queried information from my database. I have been playing around with this and discovered that you can send/receive text messages to email addresses. What would I need to write to have the a program to constantly check for new messages to an ...
Algorithm design, "randomising" timetable schedule in Python although open to other languages.
Before I start I should add I am a musician and not a native programmer, this was undertook to make my life easier. Here is the situation, at work I'm given a new csv file each which contains a list of sound files, their length, and the minimum total amount of time they must be played. I create a playlist of exactly 60 minutes, from th...
Mindmapping as a Documentation Tool
My team has recently begun using XMind to organize development projects. It seems to be a pretty powerful brainstorming software. I'm just wondering if other developers have employed similar techniques to aid in documenting software design. ...
Java classes with dynamic fields
I'm looking for clever ways to build dynamic Java classes, that is classes where you can add/remove fields at runtime. Usage scenario: I have an editor where users should be able to add fields to the model at runtime or maybe even create the whole model at runtime. Some design goals: Type safe without casts if possible for custom code...
Favorite Mac App, that you want for Windows?
Hey, I'm trying to figure out which next spare-time application I should develop for Windows. What do you think is missing on Windows of small beautifully designed apps? The reason I ask this way, is because I focus on graphically appealing Windows applications, and usually Mac apps has great interfaces in general. As an example, I w...
Sending telnet commands and reading the response with Java
I work for a large organization that supports many different sites on a nation wide network. Our vendor supplies diagnostic tools for the hardware we use at each site. The diagnostics and reports are accessed via Telnet. The problem is we want to monitor all sites simultaneously and currently we can only check them one at a time (via ...
Why do we use graph paper?
Question just occurred to me today. So many folks in computer science/engineering and related disciplines always seem to be drawing/writing on graph paper. As I write this, I have 3-4 pads sitting on my shelf. It's something I've always done, but I can't say why. (I also can't remember the last time I drew a graph that required graph...