development

Ruby version control

Hi, Developing on a Mac and will host on Linux. Does any know of a good/reliable version control plugin or hosting platform I can us during development? Thanks, Eric ...

How to send data from AfterEffects plugin into the web?

So I'm creating a plug-in for Adobe After Effects. I want to establish connection between it and my server (for ex to send Ajax request for approving serial number, or just sending a short cut of a frame) how to do such thing? Any materials, blog articles would be wary grate. ...

Cost Factor in Software Development

For a single developer, who is developing a .NET application, what is the difference in cost between: Linux, using MonoDevelop, Mono Framework, and Apache, and Windows XP Pro, using Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2005, and IIS 6.0 [Note: Edited heavily. If I've changed the meaning, feel free to roll back. - Jon] ...

Do any software developers know what the General Systems Model or an Organizational Model is?

Apparently the General Systems Model and Organizational Model are part of requirements phase of a software development project using the waterfall model (according to my professor), but we did not learn about this in my software engineering course, neither of my two software engineering books mention them, and Google doesn't seem to know...

Access a facebook users photos and videos for the iPhone

Hey all, I was hoping someone can answer this question for me. I am trying to display wall posts, photos and videos for a certain user for example http://www.facebook.com/sony. I can see the wall posts, photos and videos without signing up for Facebook. Do I need to use the facebook connect API to access the photos and and v...

List of Languages, where to look for

It is not programming related but surely is development related. I need a list of Human Spoken Languages (Normally we see on every other site to choose from), required in one of our projects. would be great, if holds Language Codes information as well, and in .txt format or any other, extractable one. Is there a resource over the w...

Books on designing and implementing a Delphi application

Hi there, I would like to broaden my Delphi horizons by reading a book about creation of Delphi applications. So far I have read books about Delphi mostly from Marco Cantu (Delphi 6-2009) or The Tomes of Delphi Algorithms and Data Structures. But none of them describe the process of application creation from the beginning to end. Somewh...

XP vs Win7 for programming enviroment ::

Is there any difference between the two OS in terms of one being better for a development environment? ...

Starting a project with new technology or language

Have you got any best practices when starting to work on a project using technology or a language you have never worked with before ? Do you just go ahead with what you know and get to learn more as obstacles come or do you have any prerequisite steps you always go through ? The question is in fact what additional measures would you ta...

Do iphone apps in development run more slowly than once they are released?

I am new to developing iPhone apps and have been testing on on the simulator and on my 2nd gen iPod. I am seeing lag times in what I believe is simple code. I know that the simulator will always run faster than the hardware, and I know that when I'm debugging, that the physical iPod has to run the debugging program in the background wh...

detecting email account from within an iPhone application

Is there a way to know the email addresses to which the user has linked his iPhone to from within an iPhone application? ...

How to set up a development environment at home?

I would like to know how can I set up a development environment at home. I'd like to make a kind of simulation to imitate a real software development firm. I am learning Ruby and Java, and I have the necessary tools for small projects on my laptop (compiler, interpreter, IDE etc). However I'd like to experiment with some other stuffs suc...

Add drop shadow to PNG using Cocoa

I have some PNGs with transparent backgrounds that I would like to add shadows to programatically. I've seen examples of adding shadows to square objects, but haven't seen any with complex shapes. So the two steps I think I'd have to do would be: Isolate the PNG shape Draw a shape behind the PNG that is blurred, faded, and offset. I...

When evaluating an iPhone dev shop, best questions to ask?

We are currently in the process of evaluating a couple of iPhone development shops and we're putting together a list of questions/topics that we'll be asking them about when we meet. To make sure that we have the most relevant areas covered, what would you ask when evaluating an iPhone developer or development shop? Our main areas are:...

development tools for as400

Is there any development tools for as400? ...

Successful projects using agile methods?

I have been interested in agile methods of late and have found a lot of prescriptions and minute descriptions of a lot of practices. Still, I remember my best projects as run-to-completion spikes followed by some debugging and minimal testing before going live. I have been asking myself, did Flickr use agile methods? Does Facebook pract...

Which controller to get data for UITableViews in IPhone app?

I have a CustomersViewController with a table view of customers. Click on a customer (didSelectRowAtIndexPath) and a OrdersViewController shows a table view of orders for that customer. I have test data in a NSArray to test with for now. However, at some point I'll need to do a call to a web service to get the order data. In which contro...

What technology is involved in making Mozilla Firefox?

Programming Languages, Open source libraries and standards adopted to make Firefox works. ...

Android: Changing an ImageView src depending on database field data

Hi All, I'm quite new to Android development (started 2 days ago) and have been through a number of tutorials already. I'm building a test app from the NotePad exercise (Link to tutorial) in the Android SDK and as part of the list of notes I want to display a different image depending on the contents of a database field i've called "no...

Can anybody recommend a program that generates a graph the lines of code count?

I've found a lot of programs and scripts for counting the number of lines of code using Google, but what I'm looking for is something that graphs it in real time. I'm hoping this will motivate myself and other programmers. Any ideas? ...