I have been developing basic web sites for awhile now with some PHP thrown in for getting dynamic stuff done. However, I recently decided that it was time I got my hands a little dirtier so I wanted to start to play with the underpinnings of Wordpress and other such apps. I work on a Mac at home and have been using Coda for most of my ...
Sight is one of the senses a programmer take for granted. Most programmers would spend hours looking at a computer monitor (especially during times when they are in the zone). I know there are blind programmers who can program (such as T.V. Raman who currently works for google). If you were a blind person (or slowly becoming blind), ho...
After installing a third-party SDK, it very discourteously makes one if its templates the default item in "Add New Item..." dialog in Visual Studio 2005. This is also the case for all other similar dialogs - "Add Class...", "Add User Control..." etc. Is there a way to change this behavior? ...
I am trying to mock-up an API and am using separate apps within Django to represent different web services. I would like App A to take in a link that corresponds to App B and parse the response (json). Is there a way to dynamically construct the url to App B so that I can test the code in development and not change to much before going...
I've got several modules containing functions, classes and templates that I keep in a directory called (hah!) 'reuse'. I know the content reasonably well, so to find a particular class or bit of code doesn't take too long, but it is slowly growing in size and I need some sensible method to store them for easy search & retrieval. How sho...
How have you tweaked the MATLAB environment to better suit your needs? One tweak per answer. ...
I work for a small web development company (only 2 to 3 developers) that work on a wide range of projects for different customers (everything from CMS's to eCommerce sites). Usually we work on our own projects but occasionally we need to work together on one. We use subversion as our source control software and sites are developed in ....
Looking at learning some C since i saw in another SO question that is good to learn for the language and for the historical experience. Wondering about what IDE's professionals use and what other tools are useful while programming in C? ...
Is it possible to assign a global hotkey to a specific feature in an Adobe AIR app, i.e. the app feature responds to the hotkey whether the app is active or not (it must be running of course, but only in the system tray). ...
I use eclipse for quite a lot of work, including: multiple "utility" projects that include code that most of my java work makes use of various plugin-related projects that I sync and use periodically (eg: the Git plugin) plugin projects I'm actually developing the occasional pydev / non-java project etc... It is becoming quite diffic...
Can anyone recommend good simulation software for mobile devices? I am most interested in Nokia smart phones. ...
I'm aware that a similar question has been asked before here but this is more of question of which is better of a departmental scale. At my last job Code monkeys were given desktops and project managers were given Laptops. The reasoning being that project managers went to more meetings so needed to take thier computers with them. Becaus...
I am trying to plan a way for 5 developers to use Visual Studio 2005/2008 to collaboratively develop an ASP.NET web app on a development web server against an Oracle 8i(soon to be 10g) Database. The developers are either on the local network or coming in over a vpn (not a very fast connection), I evaluated the latest Visual SourceSafe...
How do you go about doing a daily build and striving for a zero-defect environment? Does it mean I never get to go home until I've killed all the bugs in my new code? Or does it mean I just don't check my code back in until I've fully tested it, which leaves the code effectively branched for a much longer time? I'm working with a handfu...
I recently build myself a semi beef up PC (Q9450, 8GB DDR2 1066, 1TB HDD, Dual 8600GT, Vista Ultimate and Dual 22' Monitors) and I'm evaluating whether i should develop on a VPC/VMWare session on top of Vista or not? One benefit i can see is that i can run the same VM on my Vista laptop so my development environment is the same on any o...
We've all had that moment when we realize that we have just spent hours fiddling with .conf and .rc files, adjusting keymaps, recompiling/emerge world'ing our entire system, hunting down .dll's, slaying dragons and saving lusty wrenches, and occasional wizardry, in order to do a few minutes of actual coding. I wonder, what is the most ...
I'm not a full-time software guy. In fact, in the last ten years, 90 % of my work was either on the hardware or doing low-level (embedded) code. But the other 10% involves writing shell scripts for development tools, making kernel changes to add special features, and writing GUI applications for end-users. The problem is that I find m...
After Visual Studio 2005 displays the splash screen it locks up on me. No error, no cpu utilization, just a frozen splash screen. I've tried it in both /safemode and /resetsettings I'm sure it's one of the services on my machine, just wonder if anyone else has had the problem and can help me with the hunt? BTW, it's works in a VM in ...
Curious to know how people set up their personal and/or work development environment, in terms of: Do you just have all of your developer tools (for example Visual Studio, SSMS, etc.) installed on your main operating system; Do you use Virtual Machines to have a separate "clean" dev environment that consists only of the OS and one compi...
I've used NUnit before, but not in a while, and never on this machine. I unzipped version 2.4.8 under Program Files, and I keep getting this error when trying to load my tests. Could not load file or assembly 'nunit.framework, Version=2.4.8.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=96d09a1eb7f44a77' or one of its dependencies. The system cann...