What are you guys using, what has worked for you? I'm talking about, version control, testing, automated build, code coverage, basically all things ALM. The cheaper the tools, the better. We are not looking for VSTS. For profit, commercial application and custom software development in C#. Programming is primary skill. ...
Developers can learn a lot from other industries. As a thought exercise, is it possible to build a passenger aircraft using agile techniques? Forgetting cost for now; how feasible is it to use iterative and incremental development for both the hardware (fuselage, wings, etc) as well as software, and still come out with a working and saf...
When in school it was often a requirement to flowchart the little programs that we wrote line for line. Those flow charts tended, due to the size of the pictures, to be very large and were often tedious to draw. It was always to such detail that you were essentially writing code anyway. I use flowchart/UML style techniques to develop ...
In preparation for a blog post about programming, I'm gathering ideas around areas of programming and software development that are actual, new, fresh, cool, interesting and are potentially profitable in the near future. I've gathered these ideas: apps for Facebook and Twitter apps for other API based websites (social apps) cell phone...
After putting together an assessment form for developers which scores them on things ranging from Analysis to Unit testing, it seems possible that someone could get a mediocre score but still be a great developer. Why? Because they get “stuff” done, and they get it done well. I feel like I can’t quite put my finger on exactly what that e...
I can find the technical explanation of what data mining is in a book or on Wikipedia, but I'm wondering what sort of development does it exactly involve? Is it more about using tools or more about writing tools? Is it really any much different from other domains when it comes to R&D? ...
I have exactly 1 month until I start a web app project (standard 3-tier) using Java. I can probably decide on the frameworks and (frontend) technology used. The app will most likely be contained in Websphere. I am coming from a .NET (mostly) backend development world (SQL Server, basic NHibernate, basic ASP.NET). If I can spend all my ...
Hi, I'm using the three20 project for my iPhone app. I've narrowed my problem down and I'm now just trying to re-create the 'Web Images in Table' example that comes with the project. I've copied the code exactly as in the project, with the exception that I do not use the TTNavigator (which the example does) but I am adding my TTTableVie...
Hello, first of all I searched for similar question, there are many, but does't fit my requirements or are outdated (for example Assembla seems to not be free anymore) We are two developers that would like to work on some common small projects during our free time. Our mainly need is to have a SVN repository that allows possibly to ha...
I have inherited a project with a local development environment that has code specific to that machine, and which is different for the production server. Even though the majority of it is contained in constants and the rest is in the tests, every time I commit from development and update in production I'm going to have to make the same ...
So, we just bought the Iphone Development license, but we are looking for some good 3d/2d opengl es game tutorials. Does anyone know any good tutorials for this? Thank You -Techy ...
I'm learning C++, and know a little bit of Visual Basic and an Delphi. But I want to know, is there some program like Delphi, but for C++. Something where you can drag a button to a form, double click it, the like in Delphi and VB: opens a code editor and you edit the code of the button, but with a similar code of C++? I'm using Windo...
I'm involved in a development project that is using freeglut (based on the long defunct glut) for it's client. The client will eventually allow full interaction with a large-scale 3d environment. Should I let the development continue with freeglut (is it even possible) or should I advise they use another alternative such as libsdl, open...
Hi all, I just wanted to ask you guys if you have some idea about which API's or techniques were used in iBeer and iMunchies applications? These applications are not useful (in my personal opinion), but does have some cool effects. Theories are welcome :). Just trying to gain some knowledge. Best Regards. ...
What arguments are there for and against homogeneous and heterogeneous development environments, especially for a Java dev shop. Is your shop and most of the shops you know about heterogeneous or homogeneous? Extended explanation. I just had a long discussion with my Manager regarding our development environment. I work at a small ...
Hi all, Note: I'm using iPhone SDK 3.0 Final Version for Leopard. I need to prepare a table listing similar to the one used by iPhone's Photo Album application. There are two new styles for UITableViewCell: UITableViewCellStyleValue1 UITableViewCellStyleValue2 I thought i can use these instead of creating a custom cell class...
I am starting iPhone Development, I have already made 1 app with c and objective-c, but the reason why i started was to make games for myself... What is the best language for beginners to make iphone games? I know there are a bunch of options, but which would you suggest for a beginner? Thank You -Techy ...
We regularly convince our clients of the values of having a good quality intranet and systems, but within my organisation it doesn't seem that we're "eating our own dogfood". We have really lacklustre intranet systems - a hastily thrown together sharepoint install that no one really oversees. An additional cobbled-together legacy intran...
Judging from my knowledge of the history of firmware engineering tools, practices etc. It has consistently lagged behind the software engineering field by several years. For example, as far as I can tell there is still a fair amount of debate in the firmware world as to whether C++ is actually worth using for our applications, and some...
I am using Rational Application Developer v7.0 that ships with an integrated test environment. When I get to debugging my webapp, the server startup time in debug mode is close to 5-6 minutes - enough time to take a coffe break! At times, it so pisses me off that I start cursing IBM for building an operating system! instead of an app s...