I'm interested in knowing if there is an actual difference between a developer and an engineer. More recently, I've become indifferent to the language I am using versus the problem I am solving. Is this a key characteristic of an engineer? What are some other characteristics? Is there even really a difference? Is it wrong to suggest a di...
Hello! I want to ask you if there is a place where developers could implement a project I have rough conception of. I know there is "Google code" and "Sourceforge" but is it the right way? The implementation itself can take a big amount of time if I happen to do it myself, so I guess the help is really needed. The ideal solution would...
For developers team leads/management, What are the key discussion points when performing a developer's performance review? How will you measure how well a developer has performed? Which areas should one focus on? Which areas not to focus on? ...
As I am new to asp.net mvc I would like to get the list of developers or software experts who use or developed asp.net mvc ... It would be very useful for budding developers like me to know about their articles and ideas towards devlopement... I know a few Scott Guthrie Stephen Walther I want some more authors and their blogs becau...
How do I 1. get multiple developers working on the same wordpress blog or the same code for another type of website 2. be able to preview those changes 3. have control over which and who's changes are implemented 4. and have the ability to undo the changes if they break something? ...
Background - There are two teams, a team of developers and a team of css/html desingers - We're using sharepoint to build their website - TFS is our source code respository - The designers have their own Sharepoint dev site to test their HTML/CSS if needed Problem I'm in the developer's team who's main responsibility is to receive H...
I listen to podcasts quite a bit. Two of the best that I listen to are: Python411 StackOverFlow What are the other 8 essential podcasts that I need to be listening too? ...
The appstore does not allow your app out of a sandbox or allow it an interpreter. But is there any issue with distributing open source iphone apps that have scripting capabilities ? ...
Why would developers need the latest or best in software and hardware? When this came up in discussion in my team, I thought we need things more stable than "the latest" can provide, even if that means sacrificing some measure of "best". ...
Just like any other software development company, we use white boards a LOT. We use it for a wide range of activities — design discussions, project scheduling, brain storming, interviews etc. However, after we're done with the discussions, we end up spending a lot of time just copying the stuff for notes. Very often we run into two issu...
I got into a discussion a while back. The company I work at develop under Linux and does so in ANSI C. A lot of benefits could come from moving to C++ as far as design goes I think. Our existing code would just have to get rid of all implicit type casts since C++ is a bit stricter about that and it would compile and run as usual. But I w...
I read over this post. If I plan to hire php developers to help develop my site, how do I distinguish between the great and "bad" programmers? I plan to hire on craigslist, and I'm sure there are tons of bad coders(such as clueless about security, bad design, no OOP, no framework, code all jumbo) but there are also those with amazing s...
I am looking for some statistics about .net developers which works with vs 2008 and language c#, worldwide. Is it possible to find such specific information? If someone has actual information, at least 2 years young, please help me. And one thing more: I preffer to have charge free information:)! ...
I'm a part of a software market startup, building an upscale version of hotscripts / code-canyon and its ilk that allows developers to sell components / complete applications for web development (mostly framework oriented). We have some varying opinions on how much commission to charge developers for a sale, and we would very much apprec...
hello, i have a bunch of about 10 developers who already have skills in c# and sharepoint 2007. i would like to break them into sharepoint 2010. does anyone have a basic development plan/roadmap that i can use to break them in? thanks ...