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Memory monitor in Java using Swing and AWT

I need code for the memory monitor using Swing which displays the memory pool contents such as code cache, eden space, survivor space, perm gen, temred gen, tenured space and plots memory usage graph. ...

Examples of icons which don't travel well?

I was taught that certain icons do not translate well. For example a tick (check-mark) has no meaning in some cultures, etc. In practice I haven't seen many instances of icons which don't travel well. It may be that the problem was overstated or that culture has globalised. Do you have any examples of icons which have been missundersto...

Moving from technical leadership into management?

Is there a career path for moving from a 'Technical Lead' position to a more management-focussed role, such as that of a project manager? Are there any skill-sets common to both that can be leveraged? Is a developer with experience as a technical lead any closer to becoming a project manager than a developer without that experience? ...

File management tips

I'm working on a solution that assign tags (five ones) to scanned documents (who vary on page number, maybe 1, 2 or even 100). I'm using a Scanning SDK to get (from visual c#, Wpf) a set of images the user want to scan, that SDK have a method (SaveToTiff) that saves all the scanned images into disk. The problem is that I need to store t...

Setting up team and development processes

Based upon your experience If you was given the opportunity to set up the development processes for a small development team. Please detail The things you would implement, tools, documents, methodology. And how you would implement these? I wish to implement the following: Source Control Bug tracking database Formal Spec template...

dynamic Information management policy

Is it possible to create custom Information Management Policy using code with Sharepoint 2010 and assign it to the existing documents? ...

Help on content management integration

Hi. I was wondering if I could implement a content management system for the site I am designing. I don't want something front end like joomla, as i've designed and coded the site myself. To illustrate what I want my website is; www.nclgolf.co.uk user: admin pass: shank123 I want a very basic CMS to store and call articles in the News ...

Are there any good free file management components for asp .net?

Hi, I'm looking for a decent file management control for ASP .Net that I can integrate into an existing website. The requirement is that the user should be able to upload / download documents of various file types as well as edit / delete them. I've seen the Telerik FileExplorer and it looks ideal. However, I would like to determine wh...

Lead management system

Hi Can any one tell me Best asp.net open source for "Lead management system" with source code Regards Vairamuthu ...

manage user permissions in php

i am creating a marks management system using php & mysqlwhere the concerned faculty will be able to login and enter the marks of the students. i can go with a simple table but the problem is there are 288 different subjects for which marks must be entered. So creating a mysql table with so many subjects does not look good for me. please...

Is there a way to estimate time/effort overhead due to team growing?

A team with say 100 people will be less productive (in terms of productivity per each one of them) than a team with just 5. So the question is, is there a way (a formula, a standard, or at least a hint) to estimate that overhead? ...

file permissions in php

I have created a file called config.php and it is as under <?php $dbUser="test"; $dbPassword="123456"; $dbName="testDatabase"; $dbHost="localhost"; $dbPort="3306"; $tablePrefix="test_"; ?> Now i have set permissions of this file to 744, so that i can make connection any time i need. but what would happen if anyone else will try to rea...

How to make my MySQL databases available at all times? Some expert DB advice needed!

I've been doing a lot of research, reading on replication, etc but just not sure as to what mysql solution would work. This is what I'm looking at: when my mysql fails for some reason or there are certain queries that are taking really long to execute and locking some tables, I want the other insert/update/select queries to still func...

How to get practice leading people?

Mastery comes from practice. If a software developer wants more experience with a language, a tool, or a platform, there are many ways to get this experience, like joining or starting an open source project. However, if a software developer wants more experience managing and leading people, it is less obvious how to do this. Has anyone ...

Microsoft Project Link a task inbetween another task

I am using MS project 2007. I know I can split a task to delay it when interuptions happen. But what if a task is intentionally delayed by another task during certain periods of the week before returning back to the main task. In other words task 1 ------------ ----------------------- task 2 --------- I could just...

How Do You Manage Your Eclipse Installation

How do you manage your Eclipse installation, i.e. the basic installation, plug-ins and workspace settings with regard to consistent updates (including major ones, 3.5 => 3.6) and usage on two or more computers (desktop + notebook). My current setup is to basically manage the installation on several installations in parallel, i.e. manual...

Is there any way of preventing application from crashing when heap is corrupted? - C programing language

Hi, Sometimes in execution I get this error message in VS2010 when trying to free memory: Windows has triggered a breakpoint in [APPNAME].exe. This may be due to a corruption of the heap, which indicates a bug in [APPNAME].exe or any of the DLLs it has loaded. This may also be due to the user pressing F12 while [APPNAME].e...

Efficient way to manage the relations between two database tables on the front-end using checkboxes ?

Quick background info: of the three database tables that are relevant for this question, one holds devices info (d.id, d.name), the second one holds accessories for the devices in the first table (a.id, a.name) and the third table handles relations between the first two (d.id, a.id). By selecting one of the available devices from a drop...

Support team / client services

Hi all, I work for a growing company and we are now advertising for a dedicated support team. As this team it has been given to me as the development manager to employ the staff. However the client services manager is kicking up a fuss saying they should be under her control. I was wondering two things, how is support handled in your ...

Open source Task Management modules for OpenACS/TCL

We are about to build a standard task management (collaboration enabled) feature on top of our TCL/OpenACS based website and I would like to know if there are some open source modules we could leverage for this purpose. ...