i'm interested in picking up silverlight as another tool to use when appropriate, and i'm looking to get some suggestions on the best way to get started. i have visual studio 2010, and can purchase expression blend if necessary (is it out of beta?), though i haven't quite been able to grasp the relationship between them. are there an...
I know iPhone development fairly well. From personal experience, how hard would it be for me to get into Android. I am concerned less about code than I am about distribution of my software, given the fragmentation of the Android OS on compatible devices. EDIT: Thanks for all the great input so far. I just have one more point to clarif...
Is there any good tutorial on how to get things installed and working on Mac OS X Snow Leopard? Also which tools do you use? TextMate? Or something else? I am trying my first steps with RoR after years of ASP.NET development on Windows platform but I am getting curious to learn other things as well to become a better developer. ...
One of my client wants to track his cars/cabs from his own house... So i thought of getting help from our fellow users of SO... Is it possible to integrate GPS system in an asp.net web application? If so,How to get started... EDIT: Any webservice that does it for me? Should i use google maps api? I dont know where to start.. Any sugges...
When should i go for spring.net framework in asp.net mvc web application? A simple example which could explain its usage in a web application... Any suggestion.. EDIT: Why spring is used? What is the use of it? ...
The pthread_* manpages are really, really sparse in lots of areas; for instance, for all I can tell, the various pthread_attr_set* are completely undocumented — that is, I can’t figure out what each of the various types of attributes actually do! The only other useful sources of information I’ve found, than the manpages, are the famous ...
What are the steps for getting started with the Java Eclipse SDK? Just the preliminary steps to reach the editor. ...
I am looking for a good sample/simple wpf project to get started.. Any good tutorials out there.. ...
How do you start a WCF client when using the service is only available on net.msmq - when you use the "Add Service Reference", you get an error ... The MetadataExchangeClient instance could not be initialized because no Binding is available for scheme 'net.msmq'. You can supply a Binding in the constructor, or specify a configurationN...
I want to use SSL in my cross platform program. I decided to use OpenSSL. I have OpenSSL installed, and at this point I am looking through the code and documentation trying to figure out how to use the library. Do you have any resources or simple programs or tutorials that will walk me through integrating OpenSSL with my program? ...
Is there any good/simple asp.net mvc application that uses NoSQL database(cassandra)... Any suggestion... ...
Back in the 90's I used to develop websites using Cold Fusion. We also still used tables for most of our page layout, hehe. I just started getting back into website development again seriously. I'm getting a pretty good handle on the basics with CSS and starting to add Javascript. I'm guessing that I will eventually add PHP as a mode...
I'm totally new to Perl but I'd like to try it out. I read about two rival distributions available for Windows platform (I guess there's just Perl on other OSes :). Wikipedia says that Strawberry comes with additional dev tools to compile CPAN modules if necessary. Sounds pretty good to me. It also says that ActivePerl has a lot of pr...
I've tried searching for similar questions here and I don't think I've found anything that matches what I'm looking for. I would like to know where to start in developing a (most likely) database-driven Java application that could keep track of customers, invoices, and quotes for my dad's auto shop. There will be a couple computers in th...
Hello, I am just starting to use a web framework. I have decided I really like python and started looking at web frameworks. I don't really like django for a few reasons, but from what I have tried so far I found I really like pylons. The problem I have is that I can't find that many articles/tutorials about pylons, especially 1.0 art...
I'm looking to broaden my horizons and develop some apps for the iPhone. I have 15 years of software development experience, starting with C++ and then transitioning to C#. Nearly all of my experience is developing for Microsoft platforms (Windows, ASP.NET, etc), with a brief stint doing some Java/Oracle stuff. Does anyone have any sugg...
I am using google maps but i can't get map marker for these kind of lat and long values. Tirunelveli Latitude:8.44 N Longitude:77.44 E. How to convert these to values which can be used by google maps? I used this but there is no place in the map view area, function initialize() { if (GBrowserIsCompatible()) { var m...
I have learned programming by both at recognized school and self-studying. If there's a sample, I can develop similar thing easily. But I don't understand any single purpose there. For example, I haven't learned and done any j2se coding & today at work, I have told to make a screen and validate and so on. I just studied the similar scre...
I have been googling all day for a good tutorial to help me start with a basic setup for a Java based web application on Amazon Web Services. The popular ones are outdated and the new ones are unclear. Here are a few doubts I have. Primarily I'm looking for a good "Getting started" tutorial. What to choose to create my custom AMI and w...
Does anyone have a link to a good, working tutorial or book on how to get started with adding the DBUnit layer to my PHPUNit tests? I've tried following the code in protected function getDatabaseTester() { $pdo = new PDO('mysql:host=localhost;dbname=test', 'user', 'pass'); $connection = new PHPUnit_Extensions_Database_DB_Defau...