There are numerous text files that are always included in common downloads such as rails plugins: LICENSE, ChangeLog, Rakefile, etc. I know these files are plain-text, but Mac OS X refuses to acknowledge this automatically. If I hit the spacebar in Finder to activate "quick look", the icon becomes huge but the contents of the file are n...
I've been programming in Delphi for a little over two years now, and I've only got maybe 5 custom templates, I feel as though I should have more. If anyone has any particularly useful ones it would be great to have a nice repository of them here on stackoverflow. I don't care whether you use the Delphi 2009 syntax or Delphi 7, but if t...
I am currently working in an office where the developers are not very social therefore don't discuss their work very much. So I feel that we are not using each other's skills as much as we could. What are some good ways to stimulate healthy development discussion in the workplace without looking like you are just socialising and not w...
I am 6'6" (2meters) and of course have fairly large hands. I have read through the various mouse and keyboard posts here but none of them suggest hand size as a factor(on the large side). Are there any other LARGE programmers out there and what mouse and keyboard have you found suitable. I have a LogiTech MX 5000 and it has started givi...
I use a lot of eclipse shortcuts, but for some tasks there arnt any convenient ones. For example I frequently look at the subversion history for java files. I see these icons next to the right-click menu items that I assume I should be able to place on the eclipse taskbar so that I can save a couple of mouse clicks. But I havnt been ab...
How do you grow from 6 to 20+ developers and maintain the same productivity? When I started at my company there were only 6 of us doing development. There were no communications issues. Each developer knew the system from top to bottom and was capable of implementing any feature. At the start of each release cycle each feature was estima...
I have a coworker who's struggling with some of our newly adopted technologies. In the area of this technology I would regard him as "gets things done" but not "smart". He is really trying and really not getting it. He's extremely valuable in other areas of our technology stack so getting rid of him would not only be cruel but detrime...
Hello, Does anyone know what the keyboard shortcut to scroll a method's overloads that appears in the tooltip is? I presently have to resort to using the mouse to click the ^ and v labels in the tooltip, which isn't particularly effective. Thanks! ...
We are looking at writing a site using Lucene.Net to search our Subversion repository but before we do that has anybody else already tackled this problem? Something like google for our private source code would be great. Thanks ...
Everybody always says that they can beat the "10 lines per developer per day" from the "Mythical Man Month", and starting a project, I can usually get a couple hundred lines in in a day. But at my previous employer, all the developers were very sharp, but it was a large project, over a million lines of code, with very onerous certificat...
I use the java IDE IntelliJ IDEA and one of the features I like is that there's no saving. Everythings's always saved and you just use history navigation. I tend to have both editors open and I'm always forgetting to save in VS. I'm running vs 2008 with resharper 4.5 but as far as I can tell this isn't achievable or configurable (with...
How to bring the taskbar on top of Visual Studio 2008 when in "Full Screen" mode? I often go full screen, but the task bar will become hidden. How can I keep the task bar from hiding? The rationale behind this is: - We use google talk, for our quick communication in our office. So, when I go full screen, I am not able to see the IM no...
I recently came across the Pomodoro Technique as a way to increase productivity, get in the zone, and in general feel a sense of accomplishment at setting some short programming goals and achieving them. So far I have enjoyed it and the sense of accomplishment I get after seeing a bunch of short goals add up at the end of the day to a l...
In my .zshrc, I use the following snippet to integrate the shell's clipboard and my primary X11 clipboard. Thanks to this integration, I can cut-and-paste text to and from emacs, firefox, and the terminal without having to use the mouse. kill-line() { zle .kill-line ; echo -n $CUTBUFFER | xclip -i } zle -N kill-line # bound on C-k yank...
We've got a software engineering intern coming in who's fairly competent and shows promise. There's one catch: we have him for 3 months full time and can't count on anything past that. He still has a year of school left, which is why we can't say for sure that we have him past 3 months. We have a specific project we're putting him on. ...
This question is directed more for the users who have experience in many different work environments. My boss's brother works for a large oil and gas company, and I have heard stories of some weird ergonomic policies that they have in place like having adjustable cubicle desk heights, forcing breaks after a certain amount of time, etc. ...
I have an issue where a different number of man hours is being worked during each sprint. This is messing up my velocity. How do you account for new team members being added and people spending time working on other projects when planning for Scrum? ...
I could get a MacBook or an iMac for about the same price but with obvious differences. For iPhone development which one would be best considering these main points. Stationary iMac versus portable MacBook: As an iPhone developer which one is more important taking into consideration performance. I am not as concerned with screen size...
Can anyone recommend a desktop search product that specifically targets the development community? I know that Google Desktop Search, Copernic Desktop Search and Windows Search can all search through source code (PHP, C#, VB, C++, SQL, etc) with some tweaking. However none seem to handle programming fundamentals very well (like .NET name...
I find UML hard to create quickly. I'd like to put my ideas more quickly, especially for small open sourced projects. If it was big enough I'd bother with UML but the project is too small for this kind of thing. I don't want yet another tool that will make me think "nehh I'll do it later". Any suggestions? ...