Say you were born before modern computing was invented or even though of. What would you have chosen as your profession or field of study? Did you have any backup plan in your life that would be what you would have done, or have you always known you wanted to be involved in software. Any hobbyist programmers? What would you do with y...
Hello, This isn't quite a technical question, but I've noticed a lot of job postings that ask for experience writing production level code. I assume this is just opposed to testing code for instance. Is this just a buzzword I should be looking out for, or does this mean anything specific? Thanks! ...
I've been learning Spring 3.0 MVC. However, from the few Spring 2.x examples I have seen, there are significant differences in earlier versions of Spring. I have two questions about getting a job working with Spring: If I am reasonably confident with Spring MVC 3.0, what would I need to learn to get a job working with a version of Sp...
I am looking for an iPhone developer for a consulting job. The job is a single project and will have a well defined set of requirements. The problem is I don't know where to go to post for something like this. The developer would of course have a contract and get paid. What are some sites i can post a job description to for iPhone devel...
Hi, This is a non-programming related question, but it's a programming career question. Probably everybody who travels in this site wants to have a good career in software engineering, so I think this is a good question for everybody and I did find any question or answer that fits. What was the shortest period of time you had in a job?...
I want to make a comparison between RR and MLFQ in terms of waiting time, response time, turnaround time in 3 cases: a) More CPU-bounded jobs than I/O jobs b) More I/O-bounded jobs than CPU bounded jobs c) When only a few jobs need to schedule. Could you help me to clarify or give me some sources for reference. Thanks ...
I have some jobs for example : job1, executing every 2 minutes job2, executing every 10 minutes job3, executing every 15 minutes now there is a problem. jobs may occur simultaneously and cpu usage go to 100%; is there a solution? remind that I need jobs to run approximately in their appropriate period. thanks. ...
Hello StackOverFlow, I am at my wit's end here after spending most of this week tearing my hair out and swearing at TFS so I hope someone can help :) We have recently migrated to TFS 2010 using the MSF For Agile process template and we make use of such reports as the Burndown, User Stories progress etc. Up until 13/10/10, our warehousi...
So Im really wanting to do Database working as a job when I graduate. I've Gotten Books/CD's. Video Tutorials/Learning (Nuggets) and everything. I've had prior experience with MySQL for a Databases class and I absolutely LOVED it. Anyways I know there are 2 types, Database Admins and Database Devs. I assume the Admins manage them where...
Dear developpers, I need your help ! I want to know how do Hudson generate a job's config.xml? I explain: I want to add in my application a hudson-like build tool, to do this, a user will have, like in Hudson's GUI, define some parameters like path to jdk, where the pom.xml is stored, etc... and then the config.xml for this job is gene...
I have a secure offer from Booz Allen Hamilton for a cybersecurity developer position that looks to be pretty interesting work. The BAH offer only pays a few hundred more than my current job at Lockheed Martin, but has a sizable clearance upgrade from my current clearance level. I have about three years of served time with LM though and ...
Here is the scenario: We have a database in SQL Server 2000. The application that connects to this database randomly times out with different errors. We have run traces, but were not successful in catching the time out issue. Strangely, whenever we run the trace, the app does not time out. The plan is to setup a job to run traces. Cons...
Briefly, my background is in manual black box testing of websites and applications within the Agile/waterfall context. Over the past four years I was a member of two web development firms' small QA teams dedicated to testing the deployment of websites for national/international non profits, governmental organizations, and for profit bus...
Hello, I'm finishing up my Computer Science degree within the next year. For the past couple of years I've been doing Web Development on a freelance basis. I'd really like to be able to get a decent job doing Web Development after school. My "professional" experience so far has been with PHP, MySQL, and various frameworks. I live in t...
hi lets assume i have a simple programm in python. This programm is running every five minutes throught cron. but i dont know how to write it so the programm will allow to run multiple processes of its self simultaneously. i want to speed things up ... ...
I have an app in Android Market which is a standalone app that's essentially a full conduit to an SQLite Database(add, change, delete, inquiry). Some of my potential clients have asked to see a sample of my work, but they don't have an Android device. Other than just showing them screenshots etc., is there a way I could have them go to ...
I am freshly graduated, and I consider myself good at Python and Java unluckily I can't find companies in my city that works in Python , most of them work only in .Net and VB :( So I decided to work as a freelancer for a while, but I don't know where to start ? I am so lost , I wish if there is some website that "match" developers with...
Hello Everyone, I have make one cron job as below <?php echo "HI"; ?> When i ran it using cron job it give me error "?php directory not found" Please help me regarding this. Thanks in advance. Kanji ...
I am currently looking into the possibility of using a hosted email environment and dropping my in-house exchange setup. My tech-consulting company has used an internal Exchange server for mail since we started. At that time it was a business advantage to maintain your own Exchange server. With the introduction of infrastructure and sof...
Both Java and C#, maybe particularly Java started out as elegant and as far as OO goes almost cobolesque appeal. Nowadays C# has lambdas, int? and all kinds of paradigms included in the language. Java is going down a similar path with frightening Generics syntax. Even in the Collections API one can find nightmare-inducing examples of ex...