development

Development, repository and deployment organization

I'm looking for your advice. Initial situation: we (at the moment 5 developers, 1 quality guy/documentation, 1 projectmanagement/organization) plan to do a small startup we all earn our living with coding, but for better paid projects you'll have mostly no chance as one-man-show located somewhere mostly in europe we'll do clojure, ph...

I need to take screenshots and upload to a webserver, what technology should I use?

I am building a peice of software that needs to allow a user to take a screenshot of his/her computer which will then be uploaded to a web server. What technology should I use? I don't think js has access to the appropriate resources, but would like to keep it browser based. Help? ...

fread() on 6gb file fails.

Ok, I have been reading up on fread() [which returns a type size_t]and saw several posts regarding large files and some issues others have been having - but I am still having some issues. This function passes in a file pointer and a long long int. The lld is from main where I use another function to get the actual filesize which is 644...

Remote development tools/skripts for Linux?

Hi folks, I do some RTAI development. I have a Server which has a modified Linux-Kernel with RTAI. I'am not the only developer on this server. Are there some tools/scripts which support copying sources to the server and compile/run them? (using SSH/SCP maybe) I'am developing with a simple editor and scripts - so a solution which supp...

How to set the popup keyboard to only show certain keys?

How do you set the popup keyboard to only show certain keys when you type into a textfield? I know there are default keyboards but none seems suitable. Is there an alternative input option? Thanks. ...

Should logging be affected by Internationalisation?

Hi, We are currently looking into shipping our set of products to other parts of the world. We will be ensuring that all strings and date formats,etc in the user interfaces reflect the language and culture of the target country. Should our log files and error reporting also be changed in this way? Considering the customers may dip into...

How would you compare large amounts of data from a database?

For example. 2 Datasources, the 1 database you are allowed to meddle with, the other you are not. The 2 datasources contains Person records and you need to perform the following functions. Find matching persons from both data sources Run business rules on these matched persons (this might be to check whether the person has received a s...

How can I synchronize a live SQL Server 2005 server with a dev box?

We have a development box which is inside our network and a web server farm outside. What's the best way to keep the development database synchronized with the Live Server's [changing] Database and yet still keep it secure? Are there 3rd party tools that would facilitate this? Are SQL Server's built-in synchronization features good e...

module machine type 'THUMB' conflicts with target machine type 'ARM'

Hi, I had a windows mobile application running for ARMV4 (Pocket PC 2003) We got a new device XXXCE6 (ARMV4I), we need to compile the application for it, we followed these steps: install the Device SDK Build-> configurartion manager choose NEW from active solution platform for New Solutin platform we have chosen XXXCE6 (ARMV4I) , an...

How to develop Add-In/Extensions for Visual Studio 2010 [Source / Reference]

I'm thinking of developing a tool that runs under Visual Studio 2010 and am struggling to find sample applications, source codes, and especially handouts that help in this journey. I wonder if anyone would have any recommendation of material, or website. Thanks ...

Ensuring code coverage in unit testing?

We have noticed that even though we have a lot of doctests in our Python code, when we trace the testing using the methods described here: traceit we find that there are certain lines of code that are never executed. We currently sift through the traceit logs to identify blocks of code that are never run, and then try to come up with ...

Jquery/Javascript Animation: Interesting Question

How would I go about making divs appear and disappear in sequential order? My plan is to have a 6 different divs: 1-6 appear in sequential order. Then after a couple of seconds, they will disappear (6-1) and reappear in sequential order again. ...

Which RDBMS and development tool should I choose to re-write my character-based app?

I have a pawnshop CRUD app written 20 years ago with INFORMIX-SQL/SE (DOS) which is currently running on DOS 6.22 within Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 on Windows Vista. I would like to modernize this app with a GUI, SQL-based engine and retain its existing functionality. It doesn't require any networking or multi-user capability. I would pre...

What's difference between Apple developers account

If I login with university account and download xcode, installed it. After I got another enterprise account, do I have to login and download again? Besides that, what difference when using those 2 accounts? Thanks. ...

Thorough Sharepoint 2010 development books (no previous MOSS 2007 knowledge)

I'm looking for a developer's book that would be quite in-depth and works from the basics to advanced stuff without requiring previous knowledge of MOSS 2007. I would like the book to explain basics of the Sharepoint development framework and class library and then go off with all kinds of common development practices in Sharepoint. Inc...

What do you do when you get stuck in a project?

I find that as a beginner, it's common to get stuck in a project. Say it's something I have to do before I can move on... ...

How can I get voice recognition features into the Unity Game Engine?

How can I get voice recognition features into the Unity Game Engine? Is there a plugin or a framework (hopefully freeware) that I could use? If so, any ideas on how to install it? Also, how much of a problem would there be with background noises in the game interfering with the voice inputs into the game? Are there any examples of games ...

On changing imageview src based on sqlite string field

I've seen this question asked before but it seems that the answer may be outdated. I'm pulling a numeric value off of a spinner and storing it in a sqlite database as a string. I have an imageview placed into the row xml file. I'm sure creating some sort of adapter is involved. How do i change the imageview source based on the value o...

Developing a replacement for Sharepoint “Alert Me”-function

Hi guys I'm pretty new to sharepoint-development, so I thought I'd check real quick with the gurus in here. I've been given the task of building a replacement for the built-in Alert Me feature. The main reason for this is to allow for alerting members of a role with a forms authenticated sharepoint. This is where you guys come in. I k...

CoreData Entity Inheritance

Consider that i have two entities with following relationship: Entity A <-->> Entity B (one-to-many and inverse) Now consider that i have another entity Entity C that contains all the attributes of Entity B and some others, with following relationship: Entity A <-->> Entity C (one-to-many and inverse) Now i can improve the architec...