I thought it would be interesting to know how people's tool preferences evolve. Mine was like this (Web development): Dreamweaver (or Expression Web) -> I realized that WYSIWYG sucks -> Textmate (or E Text-Editor) -> I got sick of paid software becasue they are generally heavier and updates are harder to get -> Eclipse (Aptana) -> I go...
What is the most painful programming mistake you have done and what lesson you have learn after? I guess mine was making a release to production on the development code which was not tested yet. The lesson-learned: Delete any projects that can trigger a release on the live application from CCTray. I only add them when a relea...
I would like to know which is the "best" book to get started learning about SCRUM. This is a poll, so one book per answer, please. ...
This "Top 10 JavaScript (jQuery) Powered Sites", posted about 2 years ago, was the one that invites me (after seeing the list) to use jQuery. All the sites in that list made me realize how cool it is to build sites powered by jQuery. And now more and more sites are being powered by jQuery. More and more developers are learning jQuery. T...
What is your favorite non obvious feature of mercurial? ...
Hi, i'm studying zend. Now i have the following idea: i have a page users/index that contains all users and users/view/id/5 that shows info. Also i want to make some kind of rating users. That means, that user can click smth like user/rulez/id/5 and give a vote to user#5 and that must be redirected to page user/index(or user/view/id/5) ...
Looking for some implementation ideas here. I am trying to design a custom polling system for my school, to allow teachers to give students polls to take. I have a Poll model, Question model (with a foreignkey to Poll model), and Choice model (with a foreignkey to the Question model). What I need to be able to do is allow whoever is ad...
I've searched for a while and can't find this option. In Drupal 6.15 I'm trying to setup a Poll that will allow me to upload an image for each option to vote on, and have the image inline with the radio button. Also I'd like to have a text field for each option to describe the image. thanks ...
Given two dimensions, time and target, forming the following learning-matrix, what would you put (anything related about being a developer) in the following four regions? limited time continuous with 1 2 target without 3 4 target for example, b...
This latest Herb Sutter trip report on the C++0x standardisation process indicates that the committee has decided to completely drop the "export" concept for templates, and to deprecate exception specifications. I think these are both good moves, but I'm interested if anyone out there has a code base where these changes will cause them...
What is the maximum number of type parameters you used in a java class? Example for 4: class MyClass<A, B, C, D> { } ...
I want to make a little php poll. The script should ask the users a question they can only answer by numbers from 0-999. After pressing the submit button the data should be stored into mysql. So I just want to know how much users choosed the same number (in percent). It's a simple poll but I don't want any output to be shown. ...
Hi all, I'm hoping to pick one of the many assisted theorem provers (rather than automatic ones) but there are rather a lot to choose from! Does anyone have any you prefer and may I ask why? Thanks! ...
I am working through the Django tutorials, and now I am at creating a poll. The code below works fine until I want to create choices, where for some reason I always get this error message: line 22, in __unicode__ return self.question AttributeError: 'Choice' object has no attribute 'question' What am I doing wrong? Here's my code...
Can anyone please tell how to add the following kind of poll in a facebook business page... http://www.facebook.com/hm?v=app_60082431253 It shows in the wall as well as in its own tab.. I can vote from the wall, comment and Like.. excellent feature it is.. but no information about it anywhere :( ...
I am new to the language and I need to know what are the top things that are absolutely necessary to know in order to make a fully functional website or web app using the Ruby programming language? Mainly Ruby on Rails with Rake and other tools that mainly use Rake. Update: I know many other languages like C++, Java, PHP, Perl, etc, et...
I want to add a 4 sets of polls that each have around 4 radio buttons each for answers - then i would like to add an 'enter your email address' field below these polls. Finally I would like the submit button after the email field to 'submit' the data from the polls and the email address entered - so only one submit button. Just to make...
Most Delphi developers have a list of Delphi components they wouldn't live without. Not including anything that ships with Delphi (standard VCL or included third-party software like Rave or Indy), what are the components you can't live without, be they commercial or open-source? One component or product name per answer, please. Please d...
Hi, in the last five years, there has been a rise in the use of GPU and CBE for parallelization of applications. Around 2005-2007 verything seemed to be programmed by hand, C, etc. Afterwards new unifying alternatives emerged like CUDA for GPU and lastly OpenCL. What do you think will be the programming paradigm for GPU/CBE in the for...
Hi guys, I am try to create a JSP page that will show all the status in a group of local servers. Currently I create a schedule class that will constantly poll to check the status of the server with 30 second interval, with 5 second delay to wait for each server reply, and provide the JSP page with the information. However I find this w...