Hi I use AS3 quite a lot for work, but I come from a Java/C/C++ education and find the language quite restrictive. There seems to be two fundamental camps in the AS3 world: The non-technical creative camp who want to get things working without to much trouble and computer science forced on them The Technical camp (possibly coming fr...
I've already developed some simple applications in Rails(just to test) without any knowleadge of Ruby, but now I want to change my life, I'm going to start learning Ruby(and never learn Rails for some personal reasons) and focus only on it, but before doing this I need tp know some things: How can I build GUI applications with it? It'...
I love the SciPy library and many others which I cannot yet name. The thing is that most Python libraries are compatible with Python 2.5 / 2.6. When will be a good time to start using the latest and the greatest for: A) Hobbyist B) Semi-professional projects When is Python 3.2 coming out, and will the 3.1 libraries work against Python...
Hello, How much the HTML5 and CSS3 are going to elevate the time and effort used by both designers and developers using their current incarnations? Will it be a child's play? ...
i am currently a mainly web developer, but is quite attracted to the performance and great integration with the OS (eg. Windows 7, Jump Lists, Taskbar Thumbnails, etc) something like WPF/C# can provide to the user, improving workflow and productivity. privacy and performance seems like a major downside of web/cloud apps compared to deskt...
I've just stumbled upon the websockets feature coming in HTML 5, here. At first glance it seems that once Firefox and IE get on board with the spec ajax may be redundant. My question is, in your opinion will ajax (using jquery $.ajax() or even with straight XMLHttpRequest/other) be replaced by this new ws:// protocol? If so, when shou...
object orientation was the last big paradigm shift I remember. What do you think will be the next big thing in programming paradigms and programming in general? Edit: I was actually listening to Jaron Lanier interview and he was talking about how in the future we would stop worrying idiosyncrasies and the little tidbits about programmi...
As the title says, I'm interested in new programming languages and technologies (for example languages/technologies in beta testing) that you think are worth learning and can benefit in the near future. As this one can be rather subjective please be specific when answering, try to provide reasons as to why this and/or that. The question ...
I have the following struct which will be used to hold plugin information. I am very sure this will change (added to most probably) over time. Is there anything better to do here than what I have done assuming that this file is going to be fixed? struct PluginInfo { public: std::string s_Author; std::string s_Process...
Does anyone know what is the Microsoft perception for the .NET future? Being mostly based on Delphi microISV shop I know that Delphi's future is uncertain but a few milestones are already announced in their roadmap: support x64 bit building native executables for Mac building Linux native executables QT bindings for VCL replacement Da...