For years I have been trying to find an organizational scheme which works for me. I've tried digital calendars (Google Calendar, My WebCal at work, Chandler, Sunbird) to no avail as of yet. I've played around with Remember the Milk (which is a pretty cool app in and of itself...) but I never quite got in the groove of actually using ...
I’ve got a lot of PDFs/CHMs and they are getting out of control. So I’ve decided to do something about it. First I hit Google and didn’t get very far - the range of programs are very naff. Then I hit metafilter and got a lot more results. From there I learnt there is a lot of programs that do exactly what I want, look stylish and some ar...
Reading up on some of the answers to another question I found a tip about a book I wanted to take a closer look at. The provided link goes to amazon.com, but for historical reasons I have my wish lists at amazon.co.uk. I have quite a few titles on my various lists, so I prefer to add all new books to the same site, making it easier to ke...
I'm starting a new C project, which is largely OSS-based. It'll also be on SourceForge, and I'd like to take this opportunity to learn established best practices for organizing this kind of code. I'm using libraries like libcurl and libz, and I'll compile it using MinGW and MSYS. I'll be distributing copies the source of all libraries I...
What's the best way to organise my personal TODO list? and what tools are available for organising team TODO lists? Should I still be thinking in terms of TODO or are there better ways to manage my time and projects? See also this question on Organization which is similar ...
With SVN, I had a single big repository I kept on a server, and checked-out on a few machines. This was a pretty good backup system, and allowed me easily work on any of the machines. I could checkout a specific project, commit and it updated the 'master' project, or I could checkout the entire thing. Now, I have a bunch of git reposito...
I'm currently working on a quite large library (5M lines of code, in C++ under VS2005, 1 solution and close to 100 projects). Even though we distribute compilation, and use incremental linking, recompilation and relinking after small source modifications takes between a few minutes (usually at least 3) and close to one hour. This means ...
Let's compile a list of tips. (Understandably there will be some subjectivity involved, but some pointers would be useful to someone overwhelmed by tackling a large project within the Flash framework.) ...
My background is primarily as a Java Developer, but lately I have been doing some work in .NET. So I have been trying to do some simple projects at home to get better at working with .NET. I have been able to transfer much of my Java experience into working with .NET (specifically C#), but the only thing that has really perplexed me is n...
Simple question - As I get more and more namespaces in my solution, the list of using statements at the top of my files grows longer and longer. This is especially the case in my unit tests where for each component that might be called I need to include the using for the interface, the IoC container, and the concrete type. With upward ...
I'm not talking about how to indent here. I'm looking for suggestions about the best way of organizing the chunks of code in a source file. Do you arrange methods alphabetically? In the order you wrote them? Thematically? In some kind of 'didactic' order? What organizing principles do you follow? Why? ...
Can anyone suggest or recommend a great online/hosted calendar system that is, hopefully, free, but if not then less than $10 per month? Anything other than Google? Must be accessible via any web browser. ...
In a not-so-small program, when you have not-so-few entities, in order to maintain code readability, common terms, and otherwise improve mutual understanding between team members, one have to define and maintain program vocabulary. How do you (or your company) deal with this task, what discipline do you have, what arrangements do you in...
I ran into a problem a few days ago when I had to introduce C++ files into a Java project. It started with a need to measure the CPU usage of the Java process and it was decided that the way to go was to use JNI to call out to a native library (a shared library on a Unix machine) written in C. The problem was to find an appropriate place...
As a contractor, out-sourcer and shareware author,I have about 5-10 projects going on at any one time. Each project has a todo list, requirements need to be communicated to other outsources and employees, status needs to be given to clients, and developer's questions need to be answered. Sometimes it is too much... but then I realize th...
I almost feel embarrassed to ask, but I always struggle with how to organize exception definitions. The three ways I've done this before are: Use the file-per-class rule. I'm not crazy about this because it either clutters up my directory structure and namespaces. I could organize them into subdirectories and segment namespaces for ...
This question is about organizing the actual CSS directives themselves within a .css file. When developing a new page or set of pages, I usually just add directives by hand to the .css file, trying to refactor when I can. After some time, I have hundreds (or thousands) of lines and it can get difficult to find what I need when tweaking...
Specifically, when you create an interface/implementor pair, and there is no overriding organizational concern (such as the interface should go in a different assembly ie, as recommended by the s# architecture) do you have a default way of organizing them in your namespace/naming scheme? This is obviously a more opinion based question b...
When it comes to organizing python modules, my Mac OS X system is a mess. I've packages lying around everywhere on my hdd and no particular system to organize them. How do you keep everything manageable? ...
Howdy. I'm a converting mainframe programmer with less than a year of PC programming experience (same company) with VS 2K5. I'm digging the new 'freedom' to try new tools on my PC and have become maybe what you'd call a utility packrat. I have all sorts of open source utilities, freeware utilities, VS plugins/add-ins/snippet collectio...