In the interest of brevity, it's really a yes or no question. If you would like to elaborate I am interested in knowing why you attend user groups and what benefits they have over participating in online communities. EDIT: For clarification, I am using the term 'User Group' to mean any periodic meetings that you attend. For instance,...
I'm asking this question since SO isn't particularly well suited for this kind of task since it was designed for asking questions like this one. Therefore I neither ask it relative to SO. I ask whether there is a tool better suited for programming-related discussion than old-mannered forums, mailing lists, wikis, IRC, or afk chatting. A...
PHP 5 came out back in 2004. PHP 5.2 hit the net in late 2006. Since then, there's been nothing but incremental bug releases and beta releases of PHP 5.3. It's been two and half years since then, and even though PHP 5.3 does contain some new interesting features they're not that revolutionary. I've used PHP for seven years now, but late...
I make a lot of simple single executable applications for various things at home and at work. Icons always seem to be a problem for me I am not a designer. Like most I can do a little here and there with photoshop, gimp and paint.net. However I should not be trusted if things need to look "good". The question is how do you deal with ico...
I have often fought the urge to ask questions that I know aren't appropriate on SO, because I personally haven't come across another online group who's opinions I would trust as much. What sites do you frequent that you have found good participation from a smart group of people where you can ask questions that are related to software, ...
I'm looking for non-standard answers. Contributing to OSS projects and posting on StackOverflow are obvious. I'm thinking more along the lines of volunteering to judge a high school programming contest. I made this a community-wiki because I don't want people viewing or answering this question through the lens of reputation gained/los...
which is the best framework to develop a community web site. For the MVC architecture, is there any disadvantage while using frameworks. or is it better to develop that in a pure php with OOPs concept? thanks in advance!! ...
Hi, Windows PowerShell is out a quite long time now. In comparison to the the good old windows shell it's much more powerful. Are there any scripts you use to speed up and simplify your every day work as an developer? If you can do magic with PowerShell -> please share it with us! Update Not really a script, but also very useful are Po...
Any blogs to follow? Any news group to join? Any actions to take? ...
CodeBetter.CommunityServerExtensions.dll allows to add captcha control and KickIt! button to Community Server 2007. I configured captcha control but have no luck with KickIt! button. The related web page is here but there is no description how to use it and library is not downloadable. Please advice how I can configure KichIt! butto...
For an aspiring theatre actor, making it to broadway probably represents success. For a karate newbie, achieving a black belt, probably means everything. As a passionate programmer who just doesn't code for a living... for whom life without computers (I guess programmer is the wrong word here - a geek maybe?) is unimaginable - What shou...
I work for a company that is using Microsoft Visual Foxpro 9. Since Microsoft has abandoned us, we no longer get fresh driver updates (the last was for ODBC was built for VFP version 6.) Clipper and Foxpro aren't too different, from what I understand. So if they are producing drivers, then that might be a good place to migrate to. Howe...
Hi, I'm looking for some forum/mailing list where can I find active SynEdit users community? Official forums on SourceForge looks like dead... ...
I have been trying to use the dotfuscator community edition. I created a simple component with 1 method. I run it through the dotfuscator community edition in .net 2.0 by basically just choosing the .dll and clicking build. It appears to run. But when I use ILdasm to look at the .dll, I can still see the method name. I see several items ...
I've been looking on Github for a Rails project that allows anyone to sign in and add a blog entry. Has anyone seen something like this? ...
Hi guys! Im new to drupal (just finished my first web site with it), i found it very simple and powerfull to use. Recently, i've been asked to build a community with Zikula. They prefer to use zikula becose it is the 'evolution' of phpnuke, that is the cms that they currently use (i have 'restayling and rebuild' it). Moreover, I want...
I'm looking for advice on the current best forum/community/bulletin board system written in Rails for integration into an existing Rails app. I'm also open to non-Rails forums that can be integrated with my Rails app & authentication without too much trouble. Any advice? I did a bit of research and found answers from more than a yea...
My company is looking to create a few development projects and run them in an open-source community manner (over seeing committer-body, patch submission process, etc). We're looking for a Sourceforge, Codeplex, or Google Code like platform that we can host in-house. We're a .NET shop using SVN for version control, CC.NET (soon to move ...
I want to award points whenever someone edits a wiki page. Not all changes are equal, however. Creating the first revision of a document from a blank page is surely more valuable than inserting a missed comma. What are the mechanism that I can use to determine when a change between two document revisions is significant? Would a percent...
Is there a community blog site for programmers like LiveJournal does for general users? I can think of Artima. Are there anything else? ...