I'm in the process of starting a User Group in my area related to .NET development. The format of the community will be the average free food, presentation, and then maybe free swag giveaway. What would you, as a member of a user community, look for in order to keep you coming back month to month? ...
What features do you think can help foster creating an online community. From my own observation i think what is needed: community involvement (let people contribute to the community by giving them control on the community, for example able to vote stuff up/down) low entry barrier (for example, stackoverflow allow you to do stuff witho...
Dijkstra once noted that a programmer can reasonably expect to have to work within a range of at least thirty orders of magnitude- from dealing with individual bits all the way up to gigabyte-sized units. Let's test this. In your career, what was the smallest level of data manipulation you have worked on, and the largest? In which direc...
Stacker Nobody asked about the most shocking thing new programmers find as they enter the field. Very high on the list, is the impact of inheriting a codebase with which one must rapidly become acquainted. It can be quite a shock to suddenly find yourself charged with maintaining N lines of code that has been clobbered together for who ...
What aspects of a site (such as SO) make it addictive? I'm looking to build features into one of my own community sites that get people hooked - something to bring them back for more each day and to help drive participation (posting, commenting, etc...), and I'm trying to get a consensus as to what types of features can help achieve this...
What was your objective/reason behind choosing programming as a profession.? ...
if can choose a platform to work with , when you build a new application would you prefer to build it from scratch or use platform like Community Server ? ...
Hi guys, I've been looking into PHP security for over a month, after all the posts, tutorials, comments, replies to comments, making fun of comments, and then some more comments, I'm left pulling out my hair, while I admit I have really thick hair at this rate I'll be bald in no time. It seems that there is NO GOOD GUIDE to security, pl...