I've been tasked with creating a fun and relaxing environment, one thing I know that I want is ergonomic mice and keyboards, others have suggested exercise balls and bands. What is it that every programmer needs while working? What might not be necessary but would be nice to have anyway? ...
Hi, I have a rails 3 app (which I upgraded). It runs on passenger and nginx but on my production server it also starts with the environment set to 'production'. I know I am missing something really basic, but I just can't figure out where to set the environment instead of in environment.rb. Thanks for helping! UPDATE: ok, I learned I c...
For an application that uses a number of environment variables, is there some kind of a convention or "best practice" when it comes to grabbing environment variables and putting them into either a struct or a bunch of const's? Obviously, I want to fallback to a default value for each and every environment variable. Right now, using the f...
Update I am designing an experimental programming language and the question is wether to include closures or just use first-class-functions. To decide this i need realistic use-cases/examples that show the benefit of closures over first-class-functions. I know that you can achieve everything that you can achieve with one of the two with...
Hello, I want to know how to create a simple desktop environment, such as KDE, Gnome and LXDE, for Linux, or specifically, Ubuntu/Kubuntu, but I do not know how to begin and how complex it is. I want to create a simple, efficient and lightweight desktop and to reproduce some good features from KDE, Gnome and Windows XP. I do not want to...
My iPhone app consumes a Java web service in order to get data. At my company we have 3 environments - development, testing, production. Each environment's URL, that points to the web service, is different. Thus, each time we promote the project to the next environment I must change the hard-coded URL in the iPhone code to match that of ...
pulled down a repo from git. For some reason I need to do ./script/rails.rb s where on the rails 3 ap I started on my box, I can just do the rails server can anyone help me set up my environment so I don't have to do this? I'm still trying to figure out what I need to type to do a migration... ...