Introduction I've always been searching for a way to make Visual Studio draw a line after a certain amount of characters: Below is a guide to enable these so called guidelines for various versions of Visual Studio. Visual Studio 2010 Install Paul Harrington's Editor Guidelines extension. Open the registry at: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\So...
I would love tips on how to walk unfamiliar code with many objects. Before OOP this was still a difficult thing and I would do it with listings and have tabs and 8 fingers holding my place. With multiple monitors I have advanced my techniques so it's easier but still difficult. Eclipse does a pretty good job with letting you jump to ...
Having programmed through emacs and vi for years and years at this point, I have heard that using an IDE is a very good way of becoming more efficient. To that end, I have decided to try using Eclipse for a lot of coding and seeing how I get on. Are there any suggestions for easing the transition over to an IDE. Obviously, some will th...
Being stuck with a legacy database schema that no longer reflects your data model is every developer's nightmare. Yet with all the talk of refactoring code for maintainability I have not heard much of refactoring outdated database schemas. What are some tips on how to transition to a better schema without breaking all the code that r...
Some of us would invariably have to support 'legacy' code using Microsoft's Visual Studio 6.0 IDEs which - although opinions would differ - are generally regarded to be less user friendly compared to the later incarnations of the Visual Studio series of IDEs. So I'd like to hear about some of your favourite hidden/poorly documented IDE ...
Vi and Vim allow for really awesome customization, typically stored inside a .vimrc file. Typical features for a programmer would be syntax highlighting, smart indenting and so on. What other tricks for productive programming have you got, hidden in your .vimrc? I am mostly interested in refactorings, auto classes and similar productiv...
I have often enjoyed the use of analogies in understanding a software scenario or problem. For example, to understand the concept of public key encryption, the 'locked mailbox' analogy or similar is often used as an aid: An analogy for public-key encryption is that of a locked mailbox with a mail slot. The mail slot is exposed ...
I have a coworker who is looking to switch from InteilliJ Idea to Eclipse, and is concerned about not knowing the Eclipse set of commands. I was wondering - would anyone have a link to keyboard mappings that can set Eclipse commands to at least sort of match Idea? Have you made this switch? Any "gotchas", tips, or info we should be a...
Miscellaneous Creating an HTML Element and keeping a reference, Checking if an element exists, Writing your own selectors by Andreas Grech The data function - bind data to elements by TenebrousX The noConflict function - Freeing up the $ variable by Oli Check the index of an element in a collection by redsquare The jQuery metadata plug...
There are a lot of procedures and functions in the master database of SQL Server that provide handy tools for the database developer. For instance, sp_help [database object] will provide several results sets with useful attributes of the specified object; sp_helptext [procedure or function name] will return the body of a procedure or f...
Ok I need to make this program to display "cal" 3 month(one month before and one month after) side by side, rather than just one single month it displays in any Linux/UNIX. I got it working to display 3 calendar by using "system(customCommand)" three times; but then it's not side by side. I got some hint to use the following system cal...
Which tricks, hints or shortcuts do you use regularly when you document your sourcecode? What type of comment does help you most (or is most desired) when looking over a piece of sourcecode? For an example, we always use date, shortcut of name and a +, -, * (added, deletet/commented, modified) and then some description: // 30.04.09 PL...
Perl is really good for writing the kind of string/file parsing programs that I usually need to do. What I really love is the insignificant amount of time it takes me to write quick scripts and throwaway code, compared to C/C++/JAVA. However, I want to learn how to speed things up. For example, I would want to learn how to give hints to...
http://www.resumebucket.com/signup Is there a ready plugin to implement this? Should not be big in size. ...
Hello everyone, I want to create a dummy presentation website that would show my .NET webprogramming skills; I could put a link to this dummy website on my blog and show it at interviews. If you would need to create a presentation website that shows your web programming skills, what functionality would that website contain? Or if you w...
Possible Duplicate: show a message if the filename already exists Reading some answers with code samples I notice that those where this method mentioned are subjected to criticism. I'm using this method in my code. So I'd like to know if someone give me detailed response whuy this method is not recomemnded and what alternative...
I've noticed Visual Studio 2010 is a lot slower than my Visual Studio 2008 EDI, I've found several nice tips and optimization suggestions for VS2008, however I want to know if people have any tips for me and VS2010 ...
hi all! how can I remove the hint message when the mouse is over the row? ...