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Moving from Junior Developer to Mid-Level

After teaching myself coldfusion for around three years and doing a few sites for friends, I was lucky enough to get a role as a junior coldfusion developer. I have now been here for about six months, and have learnt alot so far about svn, project management, stored procedures etc etc. And have also been learning Jquery, CF9 ORM whilst ...

Apple iPhone Developer Program

How long does it usually take for individual developers to be accepted into the developer program? I paid my pittance today and I'm feeling impatient. ...

Do Programmers Create Bugs?

Recently I had an unfriendly discussion with a client with him stating that "he can't pay for fixing the bugs in the application that I built for him". His reason is simple: I can't pay for bugs that you actually create. He thinks that a bug in an application originates from the author so it should be the author's responsibility to ...

Why is IE developer tools so slow?

I've used the developer tools on Chrome, FF and IE, and on IE, it's extremely slow. I was trying to debug iGoogle and it took about 3 minutes to even open the tools page. Can anyone confirm that it's that slow? It works fine on small websites though. ...

FB Developer: How do you get emails now?

I'm sure it has already been asked. It's just that every couple of months, facebook changes their APIs and the question becomes new... What is the current way? (I got the user to accept the extended permission thingy). The FB help, claims I have to use getInfo().contact_email which doesn't exist in the .net toolkit. ...

iPhone's Unique Device Identifier (UDID) instead of Developer Key?

Hi.I want to run my app on my Iphone instead of simulator.But I want to ask that is UDID enough for this?We want to get Developer key and I will make my UDID registration and then can I test my apps on my device?Or 1 developer key for 1 device? ...

What does a Software Engineer do?

Does a man that develops like a POS system can be called a Software Engineer? ...

the usage of VB command in word 2007

The thing I have problem in Word in Developer tab which you have to add it, in XML group there is schema command and it has some tabs in it which I don't know anything about them and in Code tab visual basic command ...

Training new employees on undocumented code

Our company has a large codebase (2500+ classes/interfaces in just the core alone, many more in other projects) for our flagship software product. We've never really hired more than one developer at a time, so we don't have a real training process. We're going to be bringing in 2-5 more developers now, and probably more in the near futur...

how to make invite friends button in an iframe application made using facebook developer toolkit

I made an iframe application using the facebook developer toolkit. It has a flash game on it which uses AMF to comminucate with the server. I want to implement a invite friends button, which pops up a lightbox(and maybe publish - like buttons) inside flash, how can i do that? ...

Can't install gwt developer plugin for IE 7 or 8

I want to install gwt developer plugin for IE (I already installed it on chrome and firefox without any problem). When i want to install it for IE7 (on both vista with sp2 & windows server 2008 with sp2), it says that plugin installed sucessfully, but it does not work & nothing adds under add-ons section. I upgraded my ie to latest 8 ver...

What should a Java/SOA developer be able to do?

Hello community. I got assigned the task to list the activities a Java Developer should be able to perform and create an estimate about the time it would take. I've came up with the following: Create JDBC CRUD backend ( S=1d, M=5d, H=10d ) Create JSP/Servlet frontend for a CRUD app ( S=1d, M=10d, H=20d ) Create Swing desktop fron...

Multiple computers with a standard iPhone developer program

I have enrolled on the standard iPhone Developer Program and I've successfully created a provisioning profile for my iMac. But I also have a MacBook Pro that I use to work while I'm traveling. But with the standard iPhone Developer Program there seems to be no way to have 2 computers to work, unless I spend time revoking and re-creating/...

Crawling within a pdf

Hi, I'm developing a tool that searches the keyword entered by the user on a given site. My problem is, it searches the keyword only on html/web pages but not on the PDF/MS-Word files found on the site. Can anyone suggest me some api/tool or provide the code that can search text from the given online PDF/MS-Word/Text file? ...

Android Notepadv1 Tutorial - Persistent mNoteNumber?

So I did the Notepadv1 tutorial. It worked great. No problems. I would however like some explanation on why the mNoteNumber remembers the last number of the item I created. So the class starts as follows: public class Notepadv1 extends ListActivity { private int mNoteNumber = 1; That's fine, I understand that. The only other ...

SQL Developer and SQL Programmers same?

Are SQL Developers and SQL Programmers same people? I have basic knowledge about SQL and want to improve it. plz help me? ...

Facebook Image Upload in ASP.net using Facebook Toolkit

Hi, can we upload images(photos) to facebook using the FacebookToolkit There seems to be a method in the Api Master.Api.Photos.ExecuteApiImageUpload, but when i use a FileUpload in my page, the Request.Files is empty. I understand this is because facebook strips out files tags. Any ideas or workarounds? Thanks ...

Anyone know how you can get a Google dev phone to make Android apps?

Hi there, I am thinking about converting my web apps into Android apps to reach the Android market. I do not have an Android phone. Can someone tell me how I can possibly get a Google developer phone (other than going to Google I/O, etc)? I realize this is somewhat of a ridiculous request but I have read blogs of people being enticed by ...

Financial Market Developer Dilemma

In the no-so-distant future I plan to work for a corporation in the financial sector as a software developer. I have a few of options as right now: Learn and focus on .NET since (presumably) it is widely used in the financial industry. Study the programming concepts, learn algorithms, learn a little bit of C/C++, C#, JAVA, Objective-C...

How to inspect elements inside Iframe using IE Developer toolbar in IE7

I have a web application, which uses Iframe. When I try to inspect element in IE developer toolbar, the Iframe node gets highlighted and it stops there. I can see an expand icon near the Iframe node. But when I double-click it, nothing happens. After getting annoyed after many trial and errors, I tried testing it by creating a sample i...