We are currently developing carrier grade telecom applications in C++, Rational Rose and Java to run on an embedded platform based on Enea OSE which provides interfaces for the above three languages (actually C, Rose and java). I'm interested in increasing the productivity by choosing other more productive languages. I would like your...
We have been developing a workflow based .net web application for the last two months, my team had been working like donkeys. Its almost complete and we are sure of getting the next project from the client. My project manager went for some workflow product demo (K2), came back and asked me: What tool you wish you had to increase your pr...
Hello, at my company we have a really annoying problem with our linker (ld 2.17). It links very very slow on a relatively fast system (Core Duo, 2GB Ram) and i don't really now how to fix this. It takes about five to ten minutes to compile a relatively big project (which takes about 5 seconds to link on my Gentoo system). Personally i ...
There is a feature in Delphi IDE (Borland Developer Studio 2006) which allows to edit some variable in "sync mode". For example if you have a code snippet like this: 2qdo8sz.png You can select the text you want to modify (in this case the complete procedure) and start editing a variable name. It will be edited at all the places (except ...
G'day, This question is being asked from a programming/work point of view rather than from a lifestyle/general point of view in this question "How do you pull yourself out of a programming ‘slump’?" I'm just finishing a nice two week holiday which was taken after working on a project that needed some serious hours. During my holidays I...
I have been using Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 for a long time now, but now I'm consulting somewhere that has all ASP.NET 1.1 apps, so I need to use Visual Studio 2003. Can anyone recommend some good add-ins, settings, general tips, etc when using VS2003 to make it a little more like...well...VS2008? Note: I've heard about MSBee, but VS...
I initially started off with a small project, editing php files and such in notepad++. It used to be easy to think of a feature, and add it on as a separate file onto the project. As the project became larger, my productivity began to decrease because I couldn't remember all of the functions I made, and where they were stored etc... Then...
Hello, when you (or your company) comes to the point to choose a technology for a new product to develop: What are your basic steps/approaches to evaluate it's use? To make it more clearer: Which factors should an architect/cto consider (e.g. costs, integration in exisiting system...)? Which methods are available (e.g. prototyping)? ...
I have multiple monitors. I use these utilities to help with window management: UltraMon - a taskbar on each monitor Taskix - click and drag to reorder taskbar buttons GridMove - middle-click and drag to resize/reposition windows to half the screen But they don't really play well with each other: Taskix doesn't allow me to move bu...
Lately I feel like learning new ideas about programming has become form of procrastination. It's easier for me to learn a new framework, language, paradigm, field, algorithm, etc, than to sit down and stay dedicated to finishing a large project. It's very easy to justify the time spent learning because it feels productive -- and it poten...
As a student, my available time slots for programming range from all night sessions to all weekend events for personal projects, homework, etc. Generally for my coding session to be successful, I'll need at least a block of a few hours. I've found that programming for extended sessions lasting longer than 8 hours can be fairly draining....
I am using visual studios 2008. My laptop has the max screen res of 1366x768. What can i do to get more reading space? i was thinking of making the font smaller but it would be more helpful if i can make everything smaller (toolbar icons, text, etc) The only improvement i done so far was remove a bunch of things under the toolbar so i h...
It seems to be an article of faith that top-flight programmers are several times as productive as mediocre programmers. Can anyone point to studies or reports which support this with hard data? ...
In Visual Studio, when you rename a variable name in its definition, there's a little underline in the last letter so if you hover that, you'll get the option "Rename OldVaribleName to NewVariableName" and so rename all entries in that procedure of that variable. Is there a shortcut for that and not use the mouse? ...
I find when I writing non UI code on a project I can be relatively productive (working in a top down manner from the service layer), following a TDD approach, Im nearly always out of the debugger until integration, not perfect but happy enough. FYI, I work in C# with R# enabled in VS2008. However when I switch to stick a web interface ...
I would like to create a template for new stored procedures for our development team. However, I can't seem to create template items for Database objects. I know for DLL/C#-related items, it's as simple as "File > Export Template ..." How can I add new SQL templates to my Database project? Here's my template: IF EXISTS (select 1 fro...
After struggling with a particular problem or bug in some part of my code for hours, without getting anywhere, I often get a sudden revelation as soon as I try to explain the problem to one of my coworkers, or while formulating it in writing for posting to some forum. Does this kind of experience have a name? Where can I read more abou...
Possible Duplicate: How Many Hours per Week on Average do you put in for your Workplace? Can everybody concentrate on doing the good development 8 hours / day ? As I found it is really difficult if you don't do something to relax yourself, and do you even still do some extra reading after 8 hours day time work ? Thanks for sha...
Im using Reshaper keyboard shortcuts all the time and it helps a lot in everyday development. But i constantly need to create new folders in my Visual Studio projects so this means -> move the mouse from keyboard, use the mouse, right-click the desired project, choose menu Add->New Folder, type folder name etc. Its tedious! Is there ...
I recently just started my first gig as a professional programmer as part of small development team. At my work developers have two machines, a "web machine" for internet access and a "dev machine" for programming tasks. Our dev machines are completely sand-boxed to the point of not even having a CD drive access. At first this was not a...