practical-programming

Beginner practical programming problems?

Where can I find lists of practical programming problems for a novice? Something similar to http://www.projecteuler.net, but for practical problems. I am asking for problems even less complex than this question ...

What are some examples of LISP being used in production, outside of AI and academia?

Possible Duplicate: Lisp in the real world A search query on Google reveals that the search term 'practical lisp' returns a link for Practical Common LISP, which is a very nice starter book. However, this is not what I was looking for or had in mind when I set out to search those terms. ...

Can you make me understand dynamic, abstract event objects easily?

I've written C++ event-driven apps using MFC for GUI buttons, and I use HTML events like onmousedown to trigger some Javascript in a webpage. The idea of event-driven programming is intuitive when you are using the interface and events are hard-coded. I know how to use a function pointer in C, and I see how Windows uses them to run an ...

Where to get well designed and coded applications written in C# to learn from them?

I got into log4net code and Nunit. Both of them gave me something to think about and taught me something new. What other aps do you know, with source code open that worth reading their code? Also, what is the best way to get into the code, sure if you cant ask its creator a question? A little addition, I`d like to have sources read by y...

What was trickiest code you've ever written?

Hi, As a programmer, I know sometime all has to write some code which they think -"Thank God! It's done" or "Ohh, how did I write it?"... Do you have any such piece of code. ...

How do I know if I'm being truly clever and not just "clever"?

If there's one thing I've learned from programming is that there are clever solutions to problems, and then there are "clever" solutions to problems. One is an intelligent solution to a difficult problem that results in improved efficiency and a better way to to do something and the other will wind up on The Daily WTF, and result in head...

Subversion: good practices to administrate users and groups with the repositories

How should I administrate users and groups with the repositories? Until now users can access the server repositories through http. The tag configuration it inside /etc/apache2/mods-available/dav_svn.conf <Location /srv/svn/> DAV svn SVNPath /srv/svn/projecX #SVNParentPath /srv/svn #if I have more the one repository inside the folder Au...

Embed open source libraries or plugins in a jQuery plugin

When building a jQuery plugin, do you think it's bad practice to embed the source of another plugin or library that it depends on? It seems to me that it's a better way to go than requiring users to do multiple <script src="..."> calls or compressing the multiple source files themselves. ...