Hi, Our team had a bad session with the management today regarding the total number of functional bugs that were coming up in our code. As for me, I have written around 6 K lines of code for this project and I am personally responsible for 4 functional bugs and 8 usability bugs (inconsistent CSS, page flashing on clicking a button, val...
For a while there seemed to be an aggressive trend towards outsourcing development jobs to India, Ukraine, et al. However, recently I have been hearing anecdotal stories from friends in the biz that it is falling out of favor for a number of reasons. I am interested in what the experience of the SO community shows on the topic. So here...
We've all hit those errors that take hours/days to debug, only to find it was because of a misplaced assumption, wrong input data, or some other unseemly error. As an example, I just spent 6 hours trying to find an error in a stored procedure. It fired fine in Query Analyzer, but failed in code. The end result was a space that didn't ...
I see there are a few. Which ones are best maintained and easy to use? Or should I just write my own? ...
What are your favorite git features or tricks, or even workflows? Post one feature, trick, or workflow per answer. ...
Bonus points for explaining how you improved it. ...
Lots of developers I know were self taught programmers including me. I was wondering how much of the developer community learned programming by taking a course in school or by experimenting, asking questions on forums, reading online articles, and just making it up as you go along? Post whether you were self taught or took classes, wha...
Hi All, What firefox plugins could you not live without, as relates to webdev? My list would be: DBGBar Dom Inspector Firebug Firecookie Google toolbar (useful for seo) Live HTTP ReloadEvery TamperData Web Developer I am always on the lookout for new ones though, so I wonder if anyone knows of any great ones that I may have missed?...
If yes, what's the hardware and software configuration (CPU/memory/disk/OS/server software etc.)? What kind of services the server provides (file sharing,backup,DB/Web/Streaming server,CVS/SVN server etc.)? ...
So where I work we approach our projects using Scrum. Recently we have all been bumping heads and interrupting each others work too frequently because of competing role interests (developers, QA, product owners, scrum masters, business analysts...) In order to fix this we want to implement a sprint "cadence" where blocks of time are de...
What is your favorite test case management system? Is it free or commercial, hosted, etc? ...
What technologies do you use for web application development? I'm presenting my approach and tools that I have been used as an example: Graphics Design (Adobe Photoshop) HTML Coding (Dreamweaver) Server side programming (Apache, PHP, MySQL, Smarty) Client side programming (JavaScript, Flash) I have not been creating web apps for a fe...
One song per answer please! We have discussed music you listen to while coding, but I looking for music related to coding and coders. It can be eclectic or mainstream, and even a bit of a stretch (just explain the connection). Vote for your favorite song or add it if it isn't already here. Link to lyrics, band, music, video, etc., ...
What was your objective/reason behind choosing programming as a profession.? ...
In case you didn't hear about it yet. Google Native Client is a way to run x86 native code in web applications, in a secure way. The concept and idea is quite opposite to the others(Java, .NET and Flash), bytecode + Just-in-time. ...
C# Open Source Project Of The Year Award 2008 Let us decide which project should receive the honor, from the Stack Overflow community. And as the best programming community, I think the community opinion matters. What's the best Open Source Project you've found, and loved in 2008? List it here, and let the community vote for the sa...
I believe people still write a lot of console applications, including interactive ones, especially small utilities and administrative interfaces. Mostly for sake of simplicity. Do you write interactive console applications? Do you think it should be even easier than already is? U: for clarity, let's define 'interactive console applicat...
Vote up the one you like best! Use comments to justify your choice. As I know there are two types of command line commands. If you can think of another one, post an example (as a community-wiki answer). ...
Stack Overflow has a pretty good Delphi community. I am curious however where else Delphi developers are hanging out. I am looking for programming related community sites. Obviously Forums.CodeGear.com is a popular place. Where else? One of the reasons I ask is I was looking at Refactor My Code and noticed there is no Delphi cat...
Can anyone recommend a good polling/survey solution for use on a .net web application? ...