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Starting new job. How to get up to speed on existing design and code?

Possible Duplicate: How to understand the design and code flow of any product quickly? I am starting a new job in two weeks and would like to know of any suggestions you can provide. It's a C++ project, large team (30+), and I'll be the new guy. I know the first thing is to get the source and compile (after getting an overvi...

Simplest survey tool to integrate into a website

For a startup website. Should have this - 1.) What they would like to see/improved upon ? - Users can enter a one liner. 2.) Visitors can leave a remark. 3.) Consumers can vote on suggestions & hence the top suggestion bubbles up. 4.) Allows for anonymous input. I think I've seen something similar to this, but don't remember where. ...

Want to Join K&R Study Group?

Hello All, Someday I want to be a computer scientist. Right now I'm looking for a few good men, women, girls, boys, cats, dogs, fish ... anybody ... anybody? I've completed all the exercises in Chapter 1 of Kernighan & Ritchie's "The C Programming Language - ANSI C" (more or less independently) and wish to work through the rest of the ...

So I want to do a web app, where to start?

As a programmer my first instinct is to start coding, but then again chapter one of every programming book says that you should NOT sit down and code. So the question is, where to start? I've given the project some thought, it's going to be a fairly simple web app, kind of a time logging app, to give you an idea. Even though it's a sm...

Silverlight bestpractices

My team is starting a new project in silverlight. We are all experienced developers. It should be out of browser application with usage of public api's. We read about MVVM pattern... Are there some other guidelines/best practices for silverlight? ADDED: What we would like to know is: Is there some other patterns/guidelines for SL oth...

at91sam9rl arm hello world without os

Hi community, i want to run a simple hello world, written in c, app. on my at91sam9rl-ek. is it possible without an os? and (if it is) how do i have to compile it? -right now i try using g++ lite for creating arm code (In general which programms can the board start without OS, assembler, arm code?) ...

Should I develop my game idea in text mode first?

I recently came up with an idea for a simulation/strategy game. I've been sketching out a lot of my ideas on paper about the game mechanics as well as have a few of the basic classes and objects working. (I'm writing this in C# using XNA). One thing that is painfully obvious to me though is that I am not a graphic artist and trying to...

drawing circle in flex

I'm using flex sdk and trying to draw primitive geometry figures, what is wrong in following code? i tried without the trigger(placing) of button, but did not work. <mx:Script> import flash.display.Sprite; import flash.display.Shape; private function draw_circle():void { var myCircle:Shape = new Shap...

Good/Simple webservice which can be consumed using asp.net...

I was looking for Good/Simple webservice which can be consumed using asp.net but i can't a find a free webservice that can be used with asp.net.. ...

Where can I find a good mwclient introduction?

I'm just starting with mwclient. I'm going to create bots to query our MediaWiki database and make small revisions. But I cannot find anywhere a simple list of python commands like how to get ages of pages, contents of categories, contents of pages, etc. Does anyone know a good starters resource? ...

Building on top of Google Fusion Tables

How do you modify and build on top of Google Fusion Tables? I want customize the way that people can upload data, the way the data appears on the maps, and the results that search queries return. I know this question is general, but where should I start, and what should I look at first? (Don't tell me the fusion table documentation, beca...

iOS: What are the best resources for learning to use Interface Builder

I have been working on the iPhone development for three months now. I have a fairly decent understanding of Objective-C and iOS, but I have been putting Interface Builder on the back burner. I am looking for resources, preferably non-video as well as video (as my Internet connection is very slow) What's my best path to getting a han...

Our project contains 2600 class files - where and how should we start writing junit tests?

Our project contains 2600 class files and we have decided to start using automated tests. We know we have should have started this 2599 class files ago, but how and where should large projects start to write tests? Pick a random class and just go? What's important to know? Are there any good tools to use? ...

Setting Up Eclipse for Android SDK?

I'm having trouble setting up the Android SDK. I've set up Eclipse before but it didn't work, so I uninstalled it, but I'm trying again. Does Eclipse need to be extracted to a particular folder for it to work? Where should I extract to? Edit: I'm using Eclipse 3.5 on Win7 Ultimate x64 ...

Getting started with python development?

Possible Duplicate: How to learn Python? I'm looking for some good resources (books, tutorials, sites, etc) for getting started with Python development. Note, not web-specific like this question, just python in general. ...

Adding Core Data in Universal app?

I'm trying to add Core Data to an app that loads news form of an RSS feed so I can store articles offline. I am using ASIHTTP to load the data off of the internet as XML. I'd like to store the articles in Core Data so I have them the next time I start. My AppDelegate_shared already is set up for Core Data, based on the template, but I'...

Is doing pro-bono work a good way to start building a frontend portfolio?

I'm building a portfolio for front-end web development, and have been told that it would be best, starting out, to offer to build site pro-bono for people until I have an adequate level of experience and a large enough portofolio to get paying work. Where would be some good places to offer to make front-ends for free as I develop my ski...