industry-standard

The Definitive C++ Book Guide and List

Provide QUALITY books and an approximate skill level. Add a short blurb/description about each book that you have personally read/benefited from. Feel free to debate quality, headings, etc. Books that meet the criteria will be added to the list. Books that have reviews by the Association of C and C++ Users (ACCU) have links to the revie...

What programming language is used for video games?

What kind of languages and IDEs are used to develop video games? like Xbox 360 games? Are they OOP? Thanks. UPDATE: Great answers guys, I am sorry I can only mark 1 as answer, you have all provided great feedback! ...

What is the industry standard database modeling language?

Before anyone votes to close this as a dupe, know that every question I found so far was a question about specific programs that are good for database modeling. My question is what is the industry standard language (if there is one) for modeling a relational database? I know UML is very popular in general, especially for OOP modeling, ...

How to code for Alternate Course AKA Rainy Day Scenary?

Alternate course is something when user doesn't do what you expected, e.g. key in wrong password, pressing back button, or database error. For any programming project, alternate course accounts for more than 50% of a project timeline. It is important. However, most computer books only focus on Basic Course (when everything goes fine). ...

What documentation is "standard" before developing an application?

I've been tasked to write alot of documentation recently. I know it's the kind of thing some developer's probably cringe at but I don't really mind too much. My question is, what are some of the standard documents that should be written before starting development? I'm familiar with the following: Some sort of proposal (What the proble...

Is Log4j being abandoned in favor of Slf4j?

It seems that log4j has some class loading issues (among others) and it seems to me the trend is to move out of log4j toward slf4j. (Hibernate stopped using the first in favor of the latter) Is it true? What are the main issues in log4j that slf4j solves? Is slf4j the final word or is there even a better "the next next log4j" industry ...

How and when is something considered industry standard?

Hey all, I'm currently working on a proposal for my organization which includes a shift from waterfall development methodology over to a Scrum framework. As I work for a university, citations for all of my work is extremely important. As I was looking to add a citation for my statement of Agile being the industry standard, I kind of h...

why use com.company.project structure?

Does anyone know of the practical reasons for the com.company.project package structure and why it has become the de-facto standard? Does anyone actually store everything in a folder-structure that directly reflects this package structure? (this is coming from an Actionscript perspective, btw) ...