As a database architect, developer, and consultant, there are many questions that can be answered. One, though I was asked recently and still can't answer good, is... "What is one of, or some of, the best methods or techniques to keep database changes documented, organized, and yet able to roll out effectively either in a single-deve...
There are a lot of programing languages these days. Fine. Not interesting for this question. There are quite a few programming methodologies, like modular programming, Object Oriented, Agile, etc. Now, is there somewhere a good diagram on the Internet that shows how these methodologies are related to one another? Preferably something wi...
Hi, i would to know if somebody knows a methodology or whatever that be capable of estimate the length of unforeseen tasks. Many times i have to leave some task and attend many others, i have read about the context switching, but my problem is that i can't, becouse i don't know, how to estimate the lenght of unforeseen task. It's possi...
Sorry if this seems like a hazy question but it's something that's been bugging me for a little while. In my day job, some of the code I write gets pretty complex. Not that it's usually very technical but the problem domain itself is a complex matter dealing with spacial data amongst many other things. I'm pretty sure my NDA would proh...
I'm developing a game for my dissertation, and I'm using the spiral method approach. I'm having a bit of difficulty structuring my dissertation, specifically the design and implementation section. My solution was designed as much as possible initially, and then after each prototype implementation, the design was refined and extended an...
I used to be a developer in Java, PHP, perl and C/C++ (the C++ bit badly - the others not too badly, I hope). This was back in the Java 1.3/1.4 days. We used raw JDBC, swing, servlets, JSP and ant (sometimes even make). Eclipse was new. Then I joined a deployment team and became a deployment engineer and then after the deployment engin...