I will be starting on a new job as an entry level programmer.I researched and found some important things to do like spending some time with boss,interacting with colleagues,managing expectations. Please advice me as to what my strategy should be in the first 30 days . Because in these rough market conditions without sufficient project...
Hello, I am considering about what is the difference between JRuby on Rails and the original Ruby on Rails for my product? How does it difference in development activity, deployment, support between its original, or scalability? I have read many article. They said JRuby is the same function like Ruby. Does it mean we can use Ruby gems ...
I have a program which gets commands as a string. Each character in the string represents a command. An example of command is given below OBIPC O - Open a file B - Make the text in Bold I - Make the text in italics P - Print the text C - Close the file My program has to parse this string and do respective job. Each command is exe...
Just an idea: example (in PHP): to set name: $object->name('name'); to get name: $object->name(); If no argument: the method is used as getter, else as setter. For simple getters/setter. Stupid, whatever, maybe? edit: to follow up on the answers: I don't really like get and set because I prefer to have the interface as explicit as pos...
I've heard about web frameworks like Rails, Django, CakePHP and others, that help programmers to quickly create dynamic websites which are basically a web GUI to interact with a database. I was wondering if there are ways to "generate" these Admin Panel GUIs pretty much automatically, something like a Microsoft Access for the web? Where...
What should I name my class that stores costs/prices/amounts of money in CAD/USD as separate longs for dollars and cents? I has "PriceInDollars", but I don't really like that, and I always forget it. Any ideas? EDIT: Apparently I should use BigDecimal, not reinvent the wheel. I guess I'll just use that. I did learn a lot trying to make ...
Hello, I am a little bit lost. I haven't got ideas for a new projects. If I get a task or already written specifications of project, then I can develop it from the scratch. But when I have to come with idea. I have none... How do developer should come with an idea? Maybe someone has a tactic or some great approaches to overcome this "lac...
I was wondering if anybody has seen a technique for adding Maven dependencies to Ant. I thought that Ivy was meant to do this but then I realized that it is only an Ant-style tool for dependency management. It seems to me that if somebody extended Ant to be able to reference Maven dependencies (perhaps only for open source libraries) A...
Would it be any practical benefit to write a cloud-based compiler, that would spread compiled units of code on different machines in the cloud? Could there be a benefit from obtaining a software-as-a-service architecture right within the app just after compiling, or would the inherent latency make such an approach impractical? ...
I currently use stumbleupon, delicious, are there others? ...
I am planning to make a Bubblet game in Java, because I simply love the game. What can be used as a heuristic for the game? I will make it 30x30 or bigger, and I cannot figure out how to make the computer play the game efficiently... Can you suggest some idea? Thanks ...
I was thinking whether it could be possible to track cursor movement through eye. Depending on which part of screen , the eye looks the curson will move. Can this be achieved? Thansks everyone for replying!.I am just looking for some new idea that can be implemented and which have not been implemented.Any ideas/suggetions are welcomed. ...
Hi: I'll have bursts of programming-related ideas that I wish to keep track of. Usually, there are two scenarios: I'm using an open-source application, and there is something about it I'd like to change. This could be fixing a bug, improving a feature, or adding a new feature. I have an idea for a useful program. This could be a ...
As the title says, what would you guys like an a complete CMS? Both as a user and as a developer. My current idea is to implement the whole thing in C#/ASP.NET MVC 2 and use StructureMap to load new componentes/plugins during runtime, so people can drop a pluginaName in the ~/Plugins catalog and have that loaded. But what I want you to...
Hi, everybody I am senior student in computer engineering. I am going to take project course on these my last two semester, the thing is I want to do project either in Database programming or Network Programming. Besides, I am also taking networking programming on this semester using java so is it cool to select project on networking. Ho...
I'd like to start messing around programming and building something with an Arduino board, but I can't think of any great ideas on what to build. Do you have any suggestions? ...
Hello all. I have come upon another class where I need to find an idea for a project, and since my last posting on SO for a project idea was so successful, I've decided to ask here again. I'm taking a class titled Computer Vision for Human-Computer Interaction, and we need to come up with a few ideas for a project that we will have abou...
I am looking for a project to use most of my java se skills (oop,java api..),i searched but i can not find good project to dive in and start.It doesnt have to be new one , projects that done before can be solution too.Any advice would be appreciated. ...
I'd like to learn how to build a website, say using .Net (Monorail comes to mind). I'd like a pet project, something that: Will take a fair yet reasonble amount of time I can I can build on my own Will be actually cool or useful, Hasn't been done to death already (e.g. ... writing a blog engine is not what I'd consider as interesting,...
Top k problem - searching BEST k (3 or 1000) elements in DB There is fundamental problem with relational DB, that to find top k elems, there is a need to process ALL rows in table. Which make it useless on big data. I'm making application (for university research, not really my invention, I'm implementing and trying to improve origina...