As it says on the tin - why do managers care what time I start work? I want to try to understand this, so I can accommodate them better. As far as I am concerned, as long as the person does the job by the deadline, there is nothing to worry about. ...
Somehow I've got the feeling that many projects become heavily overengineered so every possible change-request can be tackled with the effect that the change-requests that occured are very hard to implement. Somehow I get that feeling in nearly every project I'm currently working on. It is like everyone is thinking "which cool api, fra...
With webapps being more and more common in business, it has not gone unnoticed by customers that you can roll out fixes and upgrades fast. I think there is increasing pressure to answer "will be done ASAP" to every request, especially to bug reports. For programmers, ASAP work sucks. It takes self-control out of the work. In the long ru...
At my workplace we don't often discuss design patterns, best practices, common pitfalls, etc. You're just expected to know what to do and avoid mistakes without much direction. This might be because we're an overloaded group of four full time developers however I feel in a shop of any size you should be actively discussing topics to im...
I have heard that they are mainly similar and competing technologies, and it is mostly an issue of skill and manpower availability. Do you agree or are there technological differences in: Performance Ease of development Open source components availabilty Tools availability Community support Hardware/Software compatibility Other factors...
Throughout my university career I used Java to code projects until I started working which is where I had to delve into the C# realm. Though the .Net library is fairly extensive I can't help but feel that there is something missing in C# as compared to Java. I would like to know if Java is any better than C# or vice versa from the expert...
I have a little problem implementing in this company that I work in, We have 3 .NET developers (me included) and a Delphi (pascal) guy that we have a lot of big programs/applications and I need to pass 2 of them to a Web Application. My idea is to divide the core functionality of the already existing windows applications so, using ASP.N...
This is just a general discussion on what is the best occasion to use stored procedure! Personnally i have very low opinion on stored procs becouse; 1. they tie you to one particular database enviroment and 2. the idea of shuffling back and fourth between your interface code and the back-end enviroment for the stored procs its a nightmar...
C# 3.0 introduces implicitly typed variables, aka the "var" keyword. var daysInAWeek = 7; var paul = FindPerson("Paul"); var result = null as IPerson; Others have asked about what it does or what the problems with it are: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/527685/anonymous-types-vs-local-variables-when-should-one-be-used http://stac...
We've been using Mantis for some time now at my shop and it has performed well. The powers that be have decided we'll be using a commercial tool called SpiraTeam from this point forward. Has anyone had experience with this tool? I noticed that it has import ability from Jira and a few other systems but didn't see one for Mantis. I'm ...
What coding style for error checking is better and why? (leave Exceptions away, imagine we do not have them) int foo() { int errCode = some_system_call(); if (errCode != OK) { return myErrCode; } // continue doing foo stuff return myOK; } Or: int foo() { int returnCode = myOK; int errCode = som...
What do you consider the most important aspects of Intellisense (in any IDE)? Reduced effort remembering and typing class/method/property names being the most obvious, but what are some less obvious forms of assistance that help you with your job? ...
I would like to know the difference between a programmer and a software developer. From what I understand a programmer is someone who codes a solution whereas a software developer finds a solution to a particular problem and then designs the application. Is this correct? ...
If you would think about participating in the opensource - java, where you would look at? what would you choose? I've tried to participate to one project which need to sign a contribution agreement, they haven't responded to me and I cannot participate even though I think I knew about one bug and I could improve a component at least I ...
I don't mean scripts or tools for your work project. I mean actual software for your personal use, such as party organizer, CD administrator, whatever. ...
I am new to iPhone development and have no idea how fast or what percentage of the user community will upgrade to the v3.0 iPhone software release scheduled for mid year. This question is motivated by the new push feature slated for the new release. Push would be great for my current App in development but if there is no mechanism emplo...
Soon Delphi 2010 "Weaver" will enter in beta. (See http://www.embarcadero.com/products/beta_programs.php) Which would be your most wanted features for the next release of Delphi? Mine (from top of the head): tooling for synchronizing the representations of DB schema (aka. DB metadata) in code and in database language enhancements: ...
Hi Can anybody provide me with a good explanation for the following : What are the main differences between a software architect and a software analyst ? Thanks ...
I seem to see a number of people who seem to overcomplicate things both on here and even when I'm coding. I'm wondering if people have a facination with the latest features and attempt to incorporate these into their coding to help them learn more or use the 'funky' latest features at the expense of performance or complexity. I think a ...
I was wondering what's the point of using Ruby (or even Python) in Cocoa application development other that not learning Objective-C (which is pretty simple language and will not take to more than few days to learn). I'm new to this and I'm interested why people do this? What are Pros and Cons. ...