I'm a very experienced Object Oriented developer. Which of the Functional Programming languages would be the best one for getting my feet wet? Keeping in mind: IDE Compiler Maturity Debugging Tools Which Functional Programming language would you recommend? ...
I have worked for the last 10 years in Networking & Web Development and always had an interest in programming. When I was in School I started in Basic, (To date myself) the other languages at that time were Cobol & Fortran, Where should I start in 2009? is C+ or C++ a good place? Is it better to Start Java or .net? I'm in need of some di...
I just heard of library for reading/writing excel files without COM, so I figured I'd go check it out. I downloaded jexcelapi_2_6_12.zip from this page http://sourceforge.net/projects/jexcelapi/files/ but I have no idea how to open it in Eclipse. I know it's a silly question, but I'm sure it's not the first time someone's asked it, how...
Hello. I have two question: I'm developing an iPhone application and I want to know when it is the first time the application is executed. I want to check some extended permissions from facebook the first time. How can I know that? (first question) Another way to solved this problem is to store the extended permissions granted in s...
Description I have used the code tip from http://www.reigndesign.com/blog/using-your-own-sqlite-database-in-android-applications/ to copy a pre-filled data file to the target and handled this in a asynch task Problem : On starting the application it gives error and shuts down first time, starting again without any change it works perf...
This is a very general programming question that I just want to put out there and see if anyone has any thoughts on it. It shows up time and time again: I have a function somefunction() which is called a lot, but the very first time its called I want it to behave just a bit differently. Here's an example: first_time = true; somefunction...