Hi All, I'm getting very confused with memory management in relation to vectors and could do with some basic concepts explaining. I have a program that uses big vectors. I created the vectors with the new operator and release them at the end of the program with delete to get the memory back. My question is, if the program crashes or ge...
I believe that software decisions should be reached only if excepted and agreed by the team. But most cases it varies. How would you describe the way that decisions are being made in software development cycle in your company? Is it Democracy? / Is it Dictation? / Is it Anarchy? Here is what I heard from one of my friend: "This is no...
Hi, I am trying to investigate the behaviour of the Windows Kernel with respect to Memory Mapped Files / Virtual Memory. Specifically I am interested in determining how frequently the contents of a memory mapped file are flushed (by Windows) to disk and what criterion Windows uses for deciding it is time to do so. I have done a bit of ...
As soon as you start using PowerShell, you are likely to start collecting small, useful scripts. Managing them well is tricky. Where do you keep your PowerShell scripts? How do you track versions & do backups? How do you synchronize between machines? How do you integrate new versions of other's scripts? (Including dealing with brea...
What questions would you ask a candidate applying for a software project or development manager position? Please could you submit one question per answer (with multiple answer if necessary) or a sequence of related questions. This way eventually all questions will get ordered by how good we all think they are. Please also provide a sho...
Questions How do you know when to make the move from a programmer into a manager of programmers / projects? What are some risks to make the jump to manager and can you go back? NB: I'm looking for some specific bullet point questions that a developer can ask himself/herself to help in the decision making process. ...
I have a small business that sells website solutions to clients. The websites serve the same purpose; to allow the customer to send and schedule SMS messages. Each website is slightly different. For example, 1 site has mandatory information such as address details and group name while the other has different requirements such as logging...
I am a first time intern at a large corporation and I created a GUI tool that lets my coworkers visualize the log file that their product produces. The tool, known as MRI, is nearing completion and I face a conflict. One party, (Two ambitious Indian guys that live in California) want me to adapt MRI to a new format and to display much ...
When having discussions with superiors and other technical co-workers it is always a good idea to remind them to think about the "what" instead of the "how" when gathering requirements for a new software project. This in itself can be quite a challenge especially when you're dealing with technical folk. Being part of a team of programm...
What is the most professional way to break it to a developer that they're not very good? I haven't been a developer for as long as some of the others out there. But I have already had to deal with some really crazy people. What is the best way(s) to stay professional and critique a developer who really is horrible at his/her job, kee...
I'm looking for a (preferably) free software to install on a dual NIC box to shape badwidth and/or introduce packet loss, latency, etc. Now I know dummynet and similar software but I need an API to control it. Maybe a simple RESTful http or SOAP based one. Preferably something more manageable than command line. It may not be a producti...
Its coming up to review time where I work and I have the responsibility of conducting appraisals. The company appraisal template unsurprisingly has large parts of it that are useless when appraising a programmer and so I would like to alter it to more suit the role. The section I am most interested is a section which is designed to mark...
Hi, I have code that uses Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo. (Built in Visual Studio 2005 SP1) It works fine on SQL 2000 & SQL 2005 machine. But when it is run on SQL 2008 machine it throws an exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo, Version=9.0.242.0, Culture=neutral, Pu...
I have been a developer for a majority of my career in both business intelligence and pure software development environments. Over the past 3 years I've taken on a manager role and now manage a team of 30+ managers, technical consultants and architects (a handful of these are direct reports). I try to do some self-study, side projects, ...
What goals and resources can I give to a developer who isn't working at the speed we'd like? We hired three developers at the same time that we considered to be at the same skill level. At this point, about a year in, one of the developers has lagged significantly behind in research & production speed. The projects they complete are do...
I'm having a hard time managing my memory in flash lite. are there any pointers i should care about ? or best practices? ive been reading every 60 seconds the garbage collector runs. i'm deleting my objects/movieclips like mc = null; delete mc; and making sure every listeners is deleted on it. still nothing seems to happen.. ...
What is your experience with weekly status meetings for a development team? How can they be made useful? ...
I've been looking for a small program/script to run on Apache that can manage user access to several folders on my website. The issue is that it's not one block of content that will require "member" status but several different folders. User 1 may have access to folder A, but not B and user 2 maybe both folders or only B. Looking for a...
It seems to be an article of faith that top-flight programmers are several times as productive as mediocre programmers. Can anyone point to studies or reports which support this with hard data? ...
Is there a book or an article online somewhere that can explain all the perils of programming without any technical jargon for non-programmers? The managers in the company I work for know nothing about what it takes to write a good program. I want them to understand why best practices like DRY and encapsalation are so important, and tha...