How many of you programmers (I assume almost everyone here at Stackoverflow is) has a blog on your website in support of your software? How often do you write? What do you write about? Do you talk about competitor programs? Do you give away plans of new features that you are adding? Are you worried your competitors will read you blog an...
When you are in a meeting or while you are talking to you boss, project manager, technical leader etc. or doing something similar to these actions what strategies do you have in terms of thinking? (Question can be expanded and strategies of -answering- or -asking- or saying -OK- can be asked but since all these actions are based on think...
Duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/42670/i-have-an-idea-now-what I'm not sure if is an appropriate question for Stackoverflow but since we're all programmers I think we've all have come across this problem once before and therefore I'm going to ask it anyway. Being a programmer I come up with lots of ideas for potential ap...
I want to develop something at home but I cannot think of anything at all. I do not want to write anything that has been written before... What is a good way to find ideas for projects? ...
This question arose from comments about different kinds of progress in computing over the last 50 years or so. I was asked by some of the other participants to raise it as a question to the whole forum. The basic idea here is not to bash the current state of things but to try to understand something about the progress of coming up with...
I am interested in improving my Functional Programming skills and I believe that the best way to do this is by working on a medium-sized project. In the past I have worked with Scheme and would like to continue to do so. Can someone please suggest some medium-sized Scheme project ideas? (Note: I am well-versed in C (ANSI C89/ISO C90), so...
I have two backend applications which provide the same functions and they are located on two separate machines (actually this is to make a load balance). So they handle the client frontend requests using the same manner. I want to collect some statistics about all the clients connected (i.e: what is the most used component in the client...
I always wondered why I have to write rich-text code comments a.k.a. pseudo code in a text editor (c'mon, bold, underline!) and come back to the IDE (integrated?) to write the actual program, not to mention ensuring these documents stay near the code. So the question is, What if IDEs allowed rich-text code comments. Would it help anyone...
I really need any programming project idea to implement (any language) that fits as an educational project. I'm the leader of a small programming team in a community aiming at teaching, so I need to use this project as a way of teaching them different stuff about programming and different techniques. But I can't think of any project tha...
I'm looking for a practical application to use a genetic algorithm for. Some things that have thought of are: Website interface optimization Vehicle optimization with a physics simulator Genetic programming Automatic test case generation But none have really popped out at me. So if you had some free time (a few months) to spend on a ...
I'm working on a number of different software ideas culminating in our product release later this year. Some of our ideas appear unique (nothing on Google, in the books etc), but I don't want the hassle or expense of a patent. In fact the opposite I'd like to make sure anyone else (large corporation name here) can't take my idea, reverse...
I often have one document that needs different levels of depth for different "viewers". Typically we end up with different documents that need to be kept in sync, or color/format-marking relevance to different users. I wonder if there's another way to deal with that, if I am the only one stumbling over that, and how you deal with it. ...
The idea of patterns originated in architecture back in 1977 The equivalent of TDD was being used in manufacturing industry as part of Just In Time and Total Quality back in the 1980s Paul Graham has famously linked Hackers and Painters My question is this, what are your favourite ideas and techniques that we can use from other fields...
I've always wanted to sketch all ideas I come up with in the computer instead of on paper, but everyone knows that sketching with good 'ol fashioned pen and paper beats the crap out of trying to do it with a mouse (or even worse, a touch pad). So I turn to stack overflow with this question: Does any one of you know a magic program that ...
I can imagine many ways of implemeting search features in an ASP.NET MVC application but since I can't find much documentation I was wondering if you have any common pattern, technology or common approach to implement search features in a ASP.NET MVC application (similar to stackoverflow). Some technologies that I have in mind are: SQL...
Hi, We are currently advertising for a team of programmers with in the society to develop an open source project, and we're hoping for a turnout of about 10 - 15 fairly good programmers. Although we need to see what type of a project our team would like to do, it would be great to get some opinions on what people feel is missing / incomp...
Are there any good (or at least interesting but flawed) analogs to regular expressions in two dimensions? In one dimension I can write something like /aaac?(bc)*b?aaa/ to quickly pull out a region of alternating bs and cs with a border of at least three as. Perhaps as importantly, I can come back a month later and see at a glance what ...
I had an idea and I wanted to run it by you to get some feedback. Please look the following over and let me know what you think, whether it's positive or negative. I've always wished that there was a way to embed certain pieces of data in Java code without having to follow Java's rules all the time. I've heard a lot of talk about Domain...
I'm looking for a personal project. One of the sort that "every programmer"* makes. The reasoning is that most developers have a tendency to work on personal projects that have particular traits interesting to all other developers. Software like: Bug trackers (made one) CMS (made one) Blog Engines (Haven't made one; don't want to) UI '...
I am working with an artist to make her personal website. She would like to sell her artwork from the website. The issue is, she would like to be able to add, remove and price the artwork herself. She would also like to use paypal as the payment method. Obviously design and coding is easy for me, that's all static. I am not sure however...