And as a related question, what factors determine how much of your programming is split up between development and maintenance? I know this is a highly subjective question, but I'm wondering where software application development tools can add the most benefit, on making the development faster or making the maintenance easier? Thank yo...
Like many people here, I started my programming experience with the good ol' green screen BASIC that you get when you booted an Apple II without a disk. I taught myself C++ in my teens, and even took a class on it in college, but as soon as I discovered .NET and C#, I dropped C++ like a bad habit. Now, (many) years later, I'm interested ...
So, I was wondering if you NEED to use the Peer Picker to find peers in the new iPhone SDK 3.0. I don't really want to use it but I do want to use the peer-to-peer bluetooth connection. Is there any sample code that demonstrates the bluetooth connection without using Peer Picker? The game GKTank that Apple provides utilizes the Peer Pick...
With intermediate knowledge of VB6, recently people have been suggesting to "upgrade" to a new language. I'm thinking about Lua - it's easy, simple and speedy. But there doesn't seem to be any infomation about creating applications similar to K3b, uTorrent, CCleaner and mIRC. ...
Hello, Someone knows how to put an icon in a eVB 3 application, because i hate that default icon for *.vb files, something like using the registry editor or using resource files. Thanks ...
I have an instance of UIViewController displaying a list of items. When the user selects an item I need to create a new instance of UIViewController (populated by a different list of items) and show it. At the moment I'm calling the constructor from within the didSelectRowAtIndexPath method RootViewController *rootViewController = ...
Hi, Wondering what are tools out there and which is better to use in GUI development that supports ARM and X86 arch applications. thanks in advance, T3nG ...
Hiya All, I am trying to come up with a "smart" and "secure" way of generating about 63million unique codes to be used in a competition. The codes will be about 10 characters long. Has anyone done anything similar or aware of any "hurdles" that might arise from this issues? How do we minimize the probability of someone being able to gu...
Hello, Here's my story, Sort of long - please bear with me :) I am currently the only programmer here, no much designing to do - yet. When I started, we had no source control, - files where edited directly from a "development" server - which used rsync to sync to production servers. I have not had much experience doing this kinds of...
Hi, I did a simple plugin to gedit. It changes some values in document. I would like to known how can I do a shortkey to call this plugin. Thanks! ...
I'd like to create a custom input form that collects employees hours. This data will be saved to a Access Web Datasheet in Sharepoint. How do I go about doing this? I have Sharepoint Designer and I've created a basic input form but need to link it to datasheet on Sharepoint. Any help is appreciated as this is my first attempt at SP devel...
I'm starting an open source Java project and I need a few bits of advice. Should I use an IDE such as Netbeans to create the UI (swing) or should I do it by hand. Is there an easy way to do GUI using the Eclipse IDE? What's a good way to do the file structure? workspace/PROJECT/? Like where should I place the main class? ...
Debugging a Firefox addon is a slow process: (1) edit source code in a JS editor (2) package into XPI using a build script (3) drag into Firefox to install (4) restart Firefox (5) open the JavaScript Debugger Can we speeden up the process? Like install it into Firefox without a restart, or configure the build script to install it into F...
Since I have a job, and I want to write some my own software at my spare time. So I want to know how you guys organize, plan and develop such small project. Since it is not a job, you may be interrupted by many other things, how can I make it keep going well? ...
Hey guys, I'm an absolute noob at iPhone development but I know a little C. I need to know how to execute an executable program (compatible under OS X) for an iPhone application. I know that in C system() can be used to invoke a separate program. The program has been tested on the mac terminal and works without any flaws. In addition, t...
Hello, It's possible to develop in .Net to build apps to a Palm OS device like a Palm T|X, because i'm a Visual Basic developer, not a .Net, but i'm studing to develop in .Net, because is a better language, but i'm using the Handheld Basic ++ and the NSBasic to develop for my Palm, but if i can develop in .Net it will be better, but if ...
Someone can post here a tutorial of how to develop a text editor in eVB (eMbedded Visual Basic 3.0), because I hate to use Microsoft Pocket Word to write my programs in Python, and I want to use the code to build a lightweight editor and in future build a developer editor for Windows CE. Thanks! Remember That The eVB Language is The Sam...
Here is a small example of my experience with that issue: I started to write code to initialize Java Objects out of an XML File. After a while one of my colleagues showed me Apache Commons Digester, which was the solution for my needs. How do you guys identify useful Projects/Plugins etc for your Project. For example: Google,Ask on S...
What would be the approximate cost to have an iPhone application developed similar to the USA Today and Sky News applications? Thanks! ...
Ignoring the obvious (version control, bugtracking, SO); What Tools Do You Think More People Should Use as part of their development process? Are there any utilities/methodologies that you feel should be given more attention? Are there any tools that you just couldn't live without, but people might not have heard of? ...