development

Best Language/Tool To Develop GUI on Windows

I reviewed the answers provided to the "GUI Programming APIs" post and wondering if these answers still apply. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/610/gui-programming-apis Specifically from that thread it appears that QT is the one that was most referenced with wxWidgets and Shoes a close second and third. I just wanted to make sure ...

Firefox extension: how can I pass user selected text as variable to Javascript?

Hello, When writning very simple and basic extension for firefox, what event (I don't know if this is the right word) should I use if I want to process user selected text? To be more precise: when user selects some text (for example when ALT is pressed), I want to pass this text to function, grab some data from the web (based on select...

Suggested Agile SDLC book(s)?

I’m interested in picking up a book or two discussing in detail Agile software development life cycle. Does anybody have any suggestions? ...

Good resources for agile development

What are good resources for agile development. Books, blogs, links ... will be great ...

When will the iPhone NDA expire?

I am currently writing iPhone Apps using the SDK 3.0 beta 5, which unfortunately comes with an Non Disclosure Agreement. This agreement doesn't allow developers to talk about internals of the SDK freely, they can only use the Apple forums. Does anyone know when the iPhone NDA will be over? That date will be remarkable: developers will ...

What are prime commercial choices for iPhone game development kits/platforms?

I'm looking to get into (as everyone else) the iPhone game development business. I've been programming for a while but have only recently forayed into the Mac development world, although since I've been working with Java for a while learning Objective-C wasn't that big of a deal other than learning memory allocation. From this, you can...

What is your top motivation to program for or use Windows as development platform?

Microsoft has great technology, but core assets, such as code, remain closed. Developers likes to have control over their development environment (and eventually on the deployment platform as well) - so what is your top motivation to develop for a closed source platform? ...

Old Developers - any future ?

I'm 44 now and I just love code! And software and programming. And MSDN, and Communication of the ACM and Programmez (French magazine) and Stack Overflow and McConnell, Cwalina/Abrams, J. Skeet and J. Spolsky and... every great post ever made about software development ! Call it a passion... Well, I really love my job and I still don'...

Does Liferay require the Jikes compiler?

All Liferay docs seem to suggest that it is necessary to install the Jikes compiler in addition to the JDK. Is this really needed, to do Liferay portlet dev, or can I just suffice with the JDK. ...

Has anyone used the BUG?

I just read another Stack Overflow post about the BUG from Bug Labs and I was wondering if anyone here has used it before? I think it looks like a cool platform to develop on, but I'd like to see what other people think first. ...

Game development on iPhone using Unity engine

Hi, Im very new to game development on the iPhone... And I have a question: If I was to unity, how would that work... Would I use objective-c in unity? or is all of it like just click it, and add properties, no code (that may be a stupid question, but im just wondering) And once your done with the unity app, does it automaticly complil...

Blackberry Development - Any suggestions on references and tools?

I'm looking for good reference materials and open to recommendations about good IDE tools that I can use to develop for the Blackberry. I've been to RIM's site and experimented with their IDE however as of my last use it had issues with Vista and user access control. Any direction on this would be much appreciated. ...

Windows 7 - What to expect from a developer's standpoint?

What features can I look forward to in Windows 7 that will: Make my job easier as a developer. or... Make my job "different"(harder) as a developer. I've been hearing a lot about performance improvements and a few UI effect enhancements, but nothing really about what development on Windows 7 will be like. Thanks. ...

How to deal with Libraries which are needed in many projects (+ svn)

Good morning! We have a SVN-Repository, which holds a VS-Solution. In this solution are many web-projects and each of them is using a JavaScript-Lib which is atm developed in an extra project (let's call it DemoWeb) and deployed manually to the other Web-Projects. This construct has many disadvantages: You can forget a project to copy...

General pitfalls when moving to 64-bits Vista?

Well, to begin with, I'm using Visual Studio 2008 on a 32-bits Windows XP system. I have a second 32-bits Vista system but that's not used for development. I just ordered a new development computer which will use 64-bits Vista. (Don't want Windows 7 just yet, but will probably upgrade to Windows 7 in two years from now if it has a good m...

NSBasic/Palm 4.4 Tutorial

Hello, Someone can please post a link or a attachment to a very good tutorial of NSBasic 4.4, because i've came from the Handheld Basic and then i've thinked to use an other IDE, then i've got this version from my friend that have the NSBasic, but my friend develop in Handheld Basic. Sorry About My English. ...

Background Div Not 100 % in FF or IE7

I have 2 divs - one semi transparent bg div and one opaque one over it. Here are the CSS snippets. ... Short version - the bg div will not stretch 100% of the way in FF or IE7 though works in IE8, IE6, Safari (Windows), and Chrome. I'm pulling my hair out because I have the html, body, parent divs etc all streching 100% of the height. PL...

eVB Good Tutorial

Hello, I have an Jornada 720 and i've just started to see some tutorials about the eVB(Embedded Visual Basic) in Pocket PC Developer Network: http://www.pocketpcdn.com/sections/evb.html and in the DevBuzz: www.devbuzz.com/Default.aspx , but i want a good tutorial that talks about all, because i didn't found something like this, and some...

How to get the output classes path of the project in the eclipse plugin

Hi, I want to get the absolute path of the output folder. It may be a link to a folder outside the workspace. Thanks in advance ...

Using sleep within iPhone apps (esp. with UINavigationController)

Hi, I'm pretty new to iPhone development but I'm close to releasing my first app (related to a website I run). The app requires a very large database and as such I've decided to store only the most commonly used data locally, retrieving the other data via a JSON web service call from the database my website runs off. Whilst performing O...