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How do i identify improvement areas for software development in my team?

hi guys, i just joined this new group and basically haven't even really done any heavy lifting development but just some basic web store migration stuff. and i've been given the challenge of coming up with improvement areas for the development process. I'm thinking of using Joel's list as the basis for determining what can be improved in...

beginning web programming

I've been programming in the classic way: read input, process data, print output, for 4+ decades. Web programming is not quite like that... I've done some HTML and created some pages. But where do I get information about where to place things on the web, how to call/reference them, what permissions do my files need, how do I protect pro...

MySQL/Rails Version Control for CMS - How is it usually done?

How do projects like BrowserCMS for Rails implement version control for a CMS? What is best practice for version control with database content? How does it relate to git/svn? ...

copy file from unix system to windows using ant

can any one help me how to copy file from unix Windoes system to windows UNIX using ant? Thanks in advance EDIT Let me explain in detail what I am looking for I want to copy file from windows to unix machine (correcting my previous question not from unix to windows) using ANT. I thought of using ftp task. Before that as a check I ...

Quick question about open_basedir

Hello, On my server, I have following setting: open_basedir /home/ :/usr/lib/php :/usr/local/lib/php :/tmp/ :/usr/local/ :/usr/bin Now, I am little bit confused about ending / in the / home / setting, does that mean that all subfolders inside home have same rights? or does it mean that only home files can...

How to make column'd UITableViewCell like Tweetie 2

I would like to re-create a cell similar to Tweetie 2's Profile view. where it says"following", "tweets", "followers" and "favorites" ...

How to add how-to videos tutorials to iPhone app?

I am working on an update to my iPhone app and I would like to add very quick video tutorials on how to do things in the app, e.g. how to back up & restore. What's the best way to do this? I could link to online tutorials but I don't want to kick any of my users who lack multitasking out of the app. I am thinking about including the vide...