What are the known cases where a programmer (just by programming) can become rich. A programmer that started a company, I think, doesn't count except if he/she was not the CEO but the leader programmer. This question, at first, may seems silly but its so fundamental as anyone else that you'll see in this site. In a given moment, a pro...
Most Internet companies are based in the US. Some start to appear in (eastern) Europe, Australia and Israel. What are the advantages and challenges of such 'foreign' companies, baring in mind that most of the Internet's activity, hype and bandwidth are still US centric? edit: Mind you, Israel has its own Paul Graham like startups hub. T...
In your experience (anecdotal or otherwise), what are some effective ways to introduce Agile into a non-Agile organization or company? UPDATED: Can anyone speak to cases where you tried to introduce Agile but you were "shot down"? Also, do you now have a retrospective understanding why you were "shot down"? ...
Hi, The application I'm writing is almost complete and I'd like people who speak different languages to use it. I'm not sure where to start, what's the difference between globalisation and culture in regards to programming? How does one take uncommon phrases such as "this application was built to do this and that" instead of File, Ope...
There are clear benefits to having foreign data centers- lower energy cost, lower human costs, less chance of a natural disaster wiping out the whole infrastructure, etc. Some countries even advertise to large companies. Still, I've always wondered how something like this would fragment a corporate culture- how does a manager maintain ...
I'm trying to convert a VARIANT from VT_DATE to an invariant VT_BSTR. The following code works on Windows XP: VARIANT va; ::VariantInit(&va); // set the variant to VT_DATE SYSTEMTIME st; memset(&st, 0, sizeof(SYSTEMTIME)); st.wYear = 2008; st.wMonth = 9; st.wDay = 22; st.wHour = 12; st.wMinute = 30; DATE date; SystemTimeToVariantTime...
Hi, I've found a similar question on stack overflow, but it didn't really answer the question I have. I need to make sure that my asp.net application is formatting the date dd/mm/yyyy the same as my SQL Server 2005. How do I verify the date culture (if that's what it's called) of the server matches how I've programmed my app? Are there...
I am trying to find the index of a substring in a string that matches another string under a specific culture (provided from a System.CultureInfo). For example the string "ass" matches the substring "aß" in "straße" under a German culture. I can find the index of the start of the match using culture.CompareInfo.IndexOf(value, substr...
currently i obtain the below result from the following C# line of code when in es-MX Culture Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = new CultureInfo("es-mx"); <span><%=DateTime.Now.ToLongDateString()%></span> miércoles, 22 de octubre de 2008 i would like to obtain the ...
how to set internationalization to a DateTimepicker or Calendar WinForm control in .Net when the desire culture is different to the one installed in the PC? ...
I need some information about localization. I am using .net 2.0 with C# 2.0 which takes care of most of the localization related issues. However, I need to manually draw the alphabets corresponding to the current culture on the screen in one particular screen. This would be similar to the Contacts screen in Microsoft Outlook (Address Ca...
hi I am working on a project and I have one page that displays a calendar extender in English and another extender in another page in Hebrew. How do I set up the culture of a control/page? The page that displays the calendar extender in Hebrew, also displays the File uploader in English, how is that possible? ...
I've been tasked with the awesome job of generating a look-up table for our application culture information. The columns I need to generate data for are: Dot Net Code Version Culture Name Country Name Language Name Java Country Code Java Language Code Iso Country Code Iso Language Code I have found the globalization name space, but ...
He want's to know our opinions on whether we should have flexitime, allow non-work related internet access etc. We've got about 200 people in the company, half are programmers half are sales. We all want the workplace to be productive and fun. What issues should I bring up? What are the arguments for and against them? And how should t...
I'd like to change the pricing column on my DataGridView based upon currency a user selected currency ComboBox. Currently, the price column is formatted to "C2". This defaults to look like "$1.00". However, if my user were to switch the currency to be Great British Pound, I'd like to display the Great British Pound sign ("£") rather ...
Attempt at objectivity: This is based mostly on my small amount of experience. I go through phases where I become dismayed and perceive that, ultimately, nobody really cares about writing good code. It becomes hard for me to care because I feel as if I'm the only one who does, and I see that as unnecessary concern. The problem seems lik...
Our application allows the user to change the Culture that they run it under and that culture can be different than the underlying OS Culture. The only way that I have found of doing this is by setting Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture and Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture for every thread. The only problem with this is that we mu...
In languages where the decimal separator is a ,(comma) the CSV (comma separated values file format) separator is a ; (semicolon). I know where to find this configuration in the Windows Control Panel, but I don't know how to find it progamatically in a .NET application. I guess that Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture has that informatio...
Hi. How do you think is really necessary to provide IFormatProvider in method String.Format(string, object) ? Is it better to write full variant String.Format(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture, "String is {0}", str) or just String.Format("String is {0}", str) ? ...
hi i would like to create a custom calendar, this calendar will have custom month names and day names it will contain 13 months with 28 days each do i need to create and entire Culture or can i just created my own System.Globalization.Calendar implementaion? ...