I have to develop a system to monitor Sensor information but many sensors might be added in the future. That said, the idea would be to develop a system that would consist of the application skeleton. The sensors (as each of them has its communication and data presentation characteristics) would be added as plugins to the system. My qu...
After downloading the free templates from Microsoft's site I want to combine some features of two templates together. For example, there is a "Contact Management" template and a "Marketing Site" template. Each template has its own "contacts section/form". Ideally, I want to use both templates on my SharePoint server while having them ...
Yesterday I had a team leader of another team say that they took a while to figure out something I wrote on a wiki page because I referred to obtaining code from source control as "checking out" which apparently confused them. They said that they were use to Clear Case and had only heard of the term "joining a project" and said that the...
Frequently I'm brainstormed with programming ideas that I would like to directly code. More or less like "Wow, that algorithm will rock! I need to write it now!". For this kind of "impulse" to write, I use http://www.jarte.com/ that is a cool portable text editor. If I'm near a cybecafe or a friend computer, I just plug the usb pen driv...
Can anyone offer tips on how to setup the ideal windows development environment? Contemplating on moving to vmware or virtual box setup for development and keeping the development tools off of my main system but then think that would cause a headaches if I want to just try something really quick. Just looking for suggestions from other...
Couple of year ago I when to work for company as web developer. It has my first Sirius web development job, (ASPx/C#) so it has very exciting and I learned a lot about that world, from the developer point of view. In that group we had a concept for the pages where loaded in the page UC’s (User controls), I don’t know if it’s the same in...
From time to time we get bugs on production that can be fixed by for example by changing a configuration, disabling some part of the logic, and such. I've argued with my manager that we should reproduce the bugs locally to ensure the fix works, and more importantly so developers and QA can include the check for these cases as part of th...
Most people have been here at some point or another - in your project, you get really small requests along the way that you're happy to take care of, but at some point the little things add up. Sometimes it takes less time to implement something than it does to re-negotiate the project plan. Providing the spec/requirements plan is decen...
I want to send an email from within my iPhone application, primarily because i don't want to quit my application. Is there ANY way to do that? Solution: 1) I found this open source API which does that: http://code.google.com/p/skpsmtpmessage/ Anyone can write their own smtp client for this purpose. (If you can invest that much time -...
I'm using sqlite as a datasource in an iPhone app. I have two questions regarding application upgrades. 1.) The data is all config/nontransactional. Meaning, it is readonly. When I update/add config data, I'll issue an upgrade for the app. When a user gets an updated iPhone app, does the original get uninstalled? If that is the case...
We have a really huge project with 20-30 modules, but it is mostly done. It's in a maintenance stage (mostly bug fixes and rarely new features). I am trying to come up with a number of developers that will be required to maintain the product. Is there a good way to measure this number? The project is mostly WinForm-based C# applicat...
I'm doing iPhone development on a PowerPC Mac. How do I get code signing to work properly so that I can build to my iPhone? The iPhone SDK doesn't officially support PowerPC, but with some fidgeting, it can be installed. See here. I've got the SDK installed and running fine in Xcode and the iPhone simulator works fine. However, I can't...
When designing a new object model I always start with the class diagram function in visual studio. Once I have drafted the first version, with a couple of tweaks based on gathering new info or a change in requirements I start working on the actual implementation. As development gets busy and targets have to be met the diagram goes by t...
I am researching iPhone image libraries. I am looking for a lightweight image library that will compile on an iPhone. Have any libraries such as ImageMagick been ported? What image libraries would be best suited for the iPhone? The image library should be suited to do black & white, sepia tone, saturation filters, and more sophisticat...
I'm looking for a best of breed book which will help me to get started with professional Mac development. I would expect that professional development is done with Cocoa, Objective C and/or XCode. But it needs to be a single excellent book for a professional coder who is new to Mac development. ...
I'm a java programmer, and if I see something that: I don't know about or just want to find a method description without opening an ide or am on support I type java [classname] into google, and there it is. If I try this crazy stunt for C# I'll come up with a whole heap of tutorials (how do I use it etc). If I manage to get to MSD...
Are there any sites where one can get sections of programming done for really reasonable rates? I'm looking for a "software" market. Somewhere where you can get someone to take over your code (and, in some cases, entire project) for a while to get a certain section coded for a pre-decided amount of money. Hopefully the developer and r...
I have always used TOAD by Quest to do my development and administration work in Oracle and MS SQL Server. However, I am trying not to be myopic in my choices. Are there other tools that you would recommend that will allow me to connect to the database(s) and perform my development and administrative duties? ...
Hey, so as per one of my previous questions, I'm brushing up on my C skills. My question is, what do people use for developing C? Lots of people use Emacs, and have done so for years, but is it better to learn emacs than just use an IDE such as Geany or KDevelop? Would also be interested to hear from those still using emacs, and why ...
How would you maintain separate production anddeveloper databases when working on one machine, which you can toggle transparently? I've seen some close subjects but none of them seem to match. ...