development

KATO Resource Script Compiler

Hi, I'm new to Iphone game dev, Is there any thing called Kato Resource Script Compiler, used in iPhone game development or any other game development platforms, Thank you in advance. ...

Boehm’s Model - Explanation

I am reading through "Mythical Man-Month" and near the end in the updates for the 20th anniversary edition it talks a bit about Boehm's model and the optimal time to delivery based upon the exected effort in man-months of a project. His statement, when discussing Boehm's model, is: His results solidly confirm The MM-M’s assertion ...

Which is the best OS (Ubuntu, Windows, Mac, ...) platform to develop Flex Application without headache ?

I believe that OS is Windows or Mac to develop Flex application without headache. I'm working on Ubuntu. I try to use AXDT or Flex Builder 3 for linux to develop AS3. But everytime i change OS to windows when i develop Flex. What is your opinion ? ...

Is anyone developing in the cloud yet? (So basically using rdp to acces your devenv)

Hi, I was reading up on Amazon's ec2. And I think that apart from the usual uses: hosting stuff, servers, etc, it could also be used for hosting your development environment. Benefits: Being able to log on from any computer and start developing Works even on the weakest of atom notebooks. Easy options like making snapshots and clones...

Cost, schedule, quality: pick two

We have heard the adage, "Cost, schedule, quality: pick two." It has been my recent experience on big government projects that quality often suffers due in part to schedule constraints. In fact, sometimes project managers choose schedule with little apparent regard to quality and sometimes little regard to cost. Are you asked to compr...

iphone app UIAlert

I have an app that has a "store locater" in it. If there is no store within the range being searched there is a UIAlert that shows saying there is no store in that range. It works in simulator mode, but not on my iphone...any ideas? Here is the code: if([cities count] == 0) { UIAlertView *alert = [[UIAlertView alloc] initWithT...

WPF, Xaml and the future of MS Development

I am beginning to heavily invest in WPF and was wondering what those more knowledgeable than myself thought as to the wisdom of this decision. Is WPF the way forward? ...

List of all running processes

How can I get a list of the names of all currently running processes? (In C/Objective-C on Mac OS X.) ...

UI Development vs Server Side Development

I have recently been given the opportunity to move from large scale server development to UI development (applications on handheld devices etc) and am trying to find the pros and cons of each world before making a final decision. The general impression I get is that server development allows for a wider range of languages and technologi...

Stages in the application development process

I've heard terms like "deployment" and "production" applied to the development process. What are the usual stages and what do they involve ? ...

Where is the localhost development datastore for gae java sdk/eclipse plugin?

I am testing my gae java jdo routines in eclipse. The actual question is, how to clear/clean out the localhost development datastore so that I could start with a virgin datastore for a new cycle of tests? Addional info - For those who don't know: GAE = google app engine, google's "hosting solution" for java and python applications. ...

ASP.NET Application Development – Tools

Hi, We are building an ASP.NET website using C#.NET language and VSTS 2008. Would you please let me know which are all the third-party tools those can help us in the complete SDLC of this project? Thank you.. Regards, Karina. ...

How to have 2 divs next to each other and have one dynamically resize without dropping down.

Hi Guys, Im tryin to get two divs on a page next to each other. The one on the left has to be 100px wide and the one on the right has to take up the remainder of the page, and I want the tect in that div to wrap in it. I have tried <div class="video"> <div class="left"> left stuff </div> <div class="right" >right s...

Server Development Tool?

Hi, For my programming tasks I use about 2-3 remote servers to deploy and run my code against different conditions. This cannot be emulated locally as the server configuration requires powerful hardware. Most of time I need to stop service, update binareis, start service, view logs in realtime, download logs. Currently I'm doing this ma...

E-Commerce Development: Contracting with a talented developer vs. expensive larger company.

I'd like this post to evolve in to a general pros and cons list for contracting to upgrade a significant e-commerce site. (Let's say, 400-1200 hours of work depending on the talent and organization). What are the pros and cons of contracting with a small talented and experienced company or single developer? What are the pros and cons ...

Keeping Your Developers Up On Internal Practices

How do you guys manage keeping your dev resources in tuned with the latest patterns for an application. Example, somewhere on how to handle exception handling, dependency injection, model binding complex objects, etc. Do you use a big Practices doc? Or maybe you use an inhouse wiki. Maybe you have daily meetings for dev leads to pr...

Custom pin with title subtitle iphone

I have a mapview and i put an annotation which shows a custom title and subtitle pin. When the mapview starts the pin is visible but the title and subtitle are not. I have to press on the pin to show up the title and subtitle. Is it possible to show the title and subtitle without pressing the pin? ...

Which language would you use to write a ERP type of application

I need to develop an ERP app that is plugable and more modules will be added to it later. I will like to know, if someone has to develop an ERP ground up which language will be preferred. I reviewed these 3 languages but could not reach to conclusion 1) C: Pro- has survived long enough, easier to find developers. Cons- Memory leaks and ...

Debugging/Breakpoint-ing the Rails Core with Ruby-Debug?

How do I debug the rails gems? I've just found the beauty of ruby-debug and am real excited, but I want to step through the routing code in action_controller, but the debugger isn't set up at this time, it seems like it's just skipping over my "debugger" calls in action_controller/routing/route_set.rb for example. What am I missing? ...

Using c library in objective c

I'm having trouble creating this c struct in objective c. typedef struct huffman_node_tag { unsigned char isLeaf; unsigned long count; struct huffman_node_tag *parent; union { struct { struct huffman_node_tag *zero, *one; }; unsigned char symbol; }; } huffman_node; ...