I am trying to call php-cgi.exe from a .NET program. I use RedirectStandardOutput to get the output back as a stream but the whole thing is very slow. Do you have any idea on how I can make that faster? Any other technique? Dim oCGI As ProcessStartInfo = New ProcessStartInfo() oCGI.WorkingDirectory = "C:\Program Files\Applicati...
I might be an exception here but I have never worked on a team with more than three developers and / or five people. Still we could manage to get the job done (somehow). Is there a software development process which fits this "extreme" scenario? And, if you work as a standalone programmer is there something you can adapt to your daily l...
I'm interested in data/information/knowledge management, so I am building an application for this purpose in an effort to understand the concepts better. However, since I'm building this for myself (and perhaps for others in the future), I have to play the role of customer/client as well as requirements analyst (in addition to software e...
In the earliest stages of planning the development of a new system, which development model to follow seems paramount. I've always held onto the belief that a classic waterfall (or hybrid waterfall/iterative prototyping) is the best approach for medium to large projects. It seems that once a project gets to be a certain size, the Agile...
After reading E-myth Revisited, I realize that I can do a better job at making my company less reliant upon me... I spend a tremendous amount of time answering silly questions (silly to me, but necessary for my developers to get the job done). I need to write a set of operating manuals for what to do in certain situations... For insta...
I suggested the testing and functional teams to use Freemind map for jotting the functional flows and test steps. There was some paranoia but our module took it up and the QA teams were surprised to see near zero review comments. There was misconception among the team that there are doing more work. I assured them that by the time others...
How to start a process, such as launching a URL when the user clicks a button? ...
I need a very accurate way to time parts of my program. I could use the regular high-resolution clock for this, but that will return wallclock time, which is not what I need: I needthe time spent running only my process. I distinctly remember seeing a Linux kernel patch that would allow me to time my processes to nanosecond accuracy, ex...
Problem: I would like a "system" that monitors a process and would kill said process if: the process exceeds some memory requirements the process does not respond to a message from the "system" in some period of time I assume this "system" could be something as simple as a monitoring process? A code example of how this could be done ...
I am experiencing some weird behavior with localized messages reported from my background worker process in my windows forms application. The application is a setup application with windows forms. The application launches a background worker to perform and IIS reset and then install MSIs. The first time I run the application on a Spani...
I would like to track metrics that can be used to improve my team’s software development process, improve time estimates, and detect special case variations that need to be addressed during the project execution. Please limit each answer to a single metric, describe how to use it, and vote up the good answers. ...
How to stop java process gracefully in Linux and Windows? When does Runtime.getRuntime().addShutdownHook gets called, and when it does not? What about finalizers, do they help here? Can I send some sort of signal to java process from shell? I am looking for preferably portable solution. Thanks, ...
I was wondering if it is possible to generate a "core" file, copy if to another machine and then continue execution of the a core file on that machine? I have seen the gcore utility that will make a core file from a running process. But I do not think gdb can continue execution based on a core file. Is there any way to just dump the he...
Java process control is notoriously bad - primarily due to inadequate support by the Java VM/JDK classes (e.g. java.lang.Process). I am wondering, are there any good open source libraries out there that are reliable. The requirements would be: OSS Start/Stop processes Manage STDIN and STDOUT cross platform (at least Linux, Windows, S...
We have some problems at our production code, my main problem is that we have some process that growing too much, as I think connections that someone forget to close. or maybe a communication error that causes them to be orphans. I am looking for a good tool to explore those process (also threads). I already know the Process explorer, ...
For my Java apps with very long classpaths, I cannot see the main class specified near the end of the arg list when using ps. I think this stems from my Ubuntu system's size limit on /proc/pid/cmdline. How can I increase this limit? ...
Is it possible to show other processes in progress on an Oracle database? Something like Sybases sp_who ...
We are currently thinking of building a cache-system to hold data pulled out of an SQL database and make it available to a couple of other applications (website, webservice, etc). We imagine the cache to be running as a windows service and basically consist of a smart dictionary which holds the cache entries. My question is, is there a l...
What is the technical difference between a process and a thread? I get the feeling a word like 'process' is over used and there is also hardware and software threads. How about light-weight processes in languages like Erlang? Is there a definitive reason to use one term over the other? ...
I'm running a console app (myApp.exe) which outputs a pseudo localized (unicode) string to the standard output. If I run this in a regular command prompt(cmd.exe), the unicode data gets lost. If I run this in a unicode command prompt(cmd.exe /u) or set the properties of the console to "Lucida Console" then the unicode string is maintaine...