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'm getting frustrated with skype "emo-formatting" my code/commands that I want to tell others about. Is there a way that I can get skype to not convert my text to emoticons? e.g. so the person at the other end can copy the code block straight into their editor as well as see it correctly formatted in the chat window? ...
I want communicate between a parent and child process both written in C#. It should be asynchronous, event driven. I does not want run a thread in every process that handle the very rare communication. What is the best solution for it? ...
I have 3 classes in different files: X | ------- | | Y Z I will be creating several objects of inherited classes Y and Z. A specific function in class Z should be executed only if some flag variable is set by class Y. Where should I create this flag variable (which class) and what should be the declaration be like (sta...
We need to involve our customer development partners in our development process. We're more or less following Agile methodologies. Some customer partners are remote, others closer. We need to minimize travel costs. Our customers are in health care and tend to be busy, expensive, and hard to schedule. What practices and technologies hav...
Hi I'm a game programmer working in Korea I started Stackoverflow recently and I found it help me a lot. also I think communicating with other developers is good way to learnand improve myself but the Stackoverflow is the only site I know to communicate (especially in English). Any other nice place to communicate(ask/answer/talk) with ga...
I started a new job and we have a small IT department working for an insurance benefit. I was hired to help ensure the success of their conversion from a mainframe flat file system to a relational database with a client server setup. I want to get more involved in our decision making process. My question is how do you get yourself inclu...
My team leader has this terrible habit of mucking with the database schema, and making changes that would cause severe breakage on the code base (without really consulting me on how the changes would affect the code base). Normally, I would just live with it, but we have a deadline in 2 weeks and this has been happening ever since I st...
Recently we added a couple web service machines, and they couldn't successfully email out. We (IS) did not notice this, and the exceptions were being swallowed up and logged, but no-one noticed for about a month. Needless to say, many purchase orders, and retraction of purchase orders, were never sent out for the past month. While th...
I have a situation where there are 'n' number of users registered on Site A. After the user has utilized the services on Site A, he/she is re-directed to Site B to access the services hosted at Site B. How can the application on Site B ensure/verify that the user is an authenticated user at Site A and not a rogue re-direct request. Ther...
Hi, I need to implement a process where users punch in a few details into a web page, and have this information fired as some sort of an event to a Java rich client application (SWING) on the same host. One idea was perhaps implementing an applet that would initiate socket communication with a listener implemented by the SWING applicat...
I want to connect to a server using HTTP, send a string to it and recieve the response string from the server. Any ideas about how to connect to server by the url, send and recieve message from it? ...
I'm using the code from Apple's Document to do some HTTP communication.I can connect to the url sucessfully, but I failed to receive the data from my server. // create the request NSURLRequest *theRequest=[NSURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://..."] cachePolicy:NSURLRequestUseProtocolCachePoli...
I'm using Apple Document to create an app.I succeed in connection to the server, but I receive 0 bytes from the server(no response data). I take the following steps: 1) I create a view-based App and add a property 'receivedData': In ViewController.h: @property (nonatomic, retain) NSMutableData *receivedData; In ViewController.m: ...
Hi everyone, I have an interesting design problem and I was hoping you all could make some suggestions. I'm using C# and .NET 3.0 I have a very nice, extensible framework built on top of WCF that automates the setup of endpoints and the creation of contracts. The system I'm working in could be run in different ways - endpoints could b...
For a communication between two hosts, I need to send the IP address of my host to the other site. The problem is that if I request my IP address, it might be that I get back my local loopback IP addres (127.x.x.x) , not the network (ethernet) IP address. I use the following code: char myhostname[32]; gethostname(myhostname, 32); hp ...
Greetings all. I am looking for a way to communicate with RS232 serial COM port on windows. I have found 2 solutions on the net, one which is not totally free (introduces deliberate delays on the function) and another with limited capability on Windows. The latter can only write to a COM port on Windows, not read. I can't look at the c...
In The Pragmatic Programmer this term is introduced and "linearly independency" is used as an example for orthogonality. How do you explain the same thing to a non-technical person and why independency is a good thing to have? Are there "real-life" (i.e. non-geek) examples for this concept? ...
I work in an IT department that is divided into two groups. One group develops and manages applications, the other manages the company's infrastructure and servers. One of the problems we face is a break down in communication. I work for the application group and one of the problems I have is not being notified when a server is taken ...
Do you find that corporate buzzwords or heavy management jargon gets in the way of software project communication? for example using words such as Mainstreaming Holistic Contestability Synergies etc. Would you rather see a initiative within the industry to put a stop to jargon such as this to help people communicate better and keep p...