I know this questions maybe are a little "sensitive", but I hope to see some answers to it anyway. And yes, I know it doesn't have an unique answer, but based on the voting on the questions, I hope to see some trends. Anyway; the questions is: What is your motivation for doing free stuff? By that, I mean doing work that doesn't generat...
How do you keep your mind from racing late into the night, thinking about programming problems, keeping you awake? My sleeping disorder / computer addiction has impacted my personal life in a very negative way and I'm having a hard time doing anything about it. Taking pills won't help because part of me wants to stay awake. I keep on te...
For photos, I use Flickr. But for other documents...Which web based online application (hosted or to install on your personal web site) do you use for PDF or word files ? If there is a user management it would be also great (for example you decide that some persons, or everyone, can see some of your documents...). ...
I am currently studying as a student of physics, chemistry, math and computer science. I am very passionate about computer science especially programming. The unfortunate thing is that the others are taking a blow because of me dedicating a lot of time to computer science and the others are necessary for my final score and selection into...
What are your favorite personal projects? What I mean is a project that you designed and worked on without getting paid for it - but had fun developing. If you had a team of other people working on it as well, that is OK too. This can be in any language; or a program you wrote that did something another one did. Multiple posts are welc...
I run a small php/mysql website for a camera club where users can upload photos. I have recently started storing email addresses for doing password resets. My question is what is the best practice for dealing with users' personal information: are there any laws/legislation regarding what I can do with personal information? Do I need to...
I'm curious how other developers "got into" developing. I'm sure for some of you it was something you knew you wanted to work with all the time. I know there have to be people out there who had some sort of life experince or epiphany that turned them towards the light! My event was during an internship as an Occupational Health & ...
Some days I feel a grand sense of accomplishment when I'm able to help a business improve what they do and capitalize on new opportunities. So what's your favorite part of being a programmer? I'm going to supply another answer, and it's sincere: Having such a rich community of programmers such as StackOverflow and not once have I se...
I'm a developer and have very much fun at nearly all stages of software developent, from gathering requirements, deciding on language, libraries and tools, sketching the architecture to implementing. Even bugfixing is fun. Unit testing is not. Writing a unit test is not that bad, I can get over it. But the quantity of work involved in t...
What is the biggest project you've handled yourself in terms of lines of code? What, in general, defines a project that is too big for one person? ...
Hy everyone, I use Axis 1.4 and I need to use classes gathered in a JAR. I do not want to extract them. I try to put it in : /usr/share/tomcat5.5/webapps/axis/WEB-INF/lib/myjar.jar /usr/share/tomcat5.5/webapps/axis/WEB-INF/classes/myjar.jar /opt/axis/lib/myjar.jar /root/myjar.jar but I still have an error. myjar.jar is in my $CL...
I need to sign a pdf file with my own e-signature using a certificate where can i get one pfx file. ...
I am trying to find some public UDDI registries to interact with, for learning purposes. But it seems there are none available. I popped the following question on SO to see if someone knows about any public registry still hosted, but got no answers. The IBM, Microsoft and SAP public registries were a test of the UDDI technology. I quote...
Hi I've created a facebook fbml/api page that returns some content and it works. I need to ensure: That no-one can add the app to their own page. This is because the app only works for me - content behind the scenes is purely for me and not anyone else. The content is served from my own server of course. The content however is visibl...
Hi guys i'm with a doubt in asp.net webforms I'm creating a new user control "MyGrid" and i want a pager more dinamic than have: - 1stPage - prevPage - dropdown (with indices of the pages) - Label (telling the total of the pages) - nextPage - lastPage The user control is dont and implementation too, now i have the next problem: ...
I'm trying to find a simple wiki like script to setup a personal directory, browser favorites simply doesn't do anymore and i have lots of small files on my flash drive Desired features file upload not bloated works on a common webhost (aka php) Thanks in advance ...
A while ago I was given the task of updating and extending the functionality of a software project. I was given a year to make the needed changes working solo. A month into development I came to the conclusion that it would take longer to change the existing product than to rewrite it from the ground up (a decision I now regret). I'd ne...
We run a website that has a number of public content makers that represent the public faces of our project. One of the people has a previous online stalker who has found her at our site and has immediately started commenting on her posts and content. Aside from tracking and blocking his IP what sort of technical solutions can I be imple...
After having written thousands and thousands of lines of code in a given language, you end up having your own personal templates. This is, code structures that you repeatedly use to address the same problems, or express the same ideas. Most of these "personal templates" are polished versions of simple solutions, cleaner or easier ways t...
I want to set up a local wiki for my personal notes. My requirements are: very good math support (I think mathjax like on mathoverflow should be fine) good search function (in particular regular expressions) easy to setup active user community active development it should run under linux good emacs support (i.e. it should be comfortabl...