This may be an eminently closeable question, but I'm the type that sees what sticks to the wall. For all of the benefits of memory and lifetime management afforded by a garbage collected runtime, have there been any notable cases of program indeterminacy caused by race conditions between an application and its garbage collector? Has a ...
As a developer I had a slew of shortcuts and applications used daily. Visual Studio 6, 2003, 2005, 2008, SQL Client tools, WinMerge, Notepad++, Synergy, VMware (and lots and lots of VMs, multiple browsers, and on top of all that about 20 shortcuts to important directories, servers, test environments etc... The Vista start menu is a lif...
Bear with me on this one. Consider an iterative cycle of a developer. Make Changes Run Test So my question: is the elapsed time for the "Run" phase tending to zero the most efficient? Or, at some point, does a lower "Run" time result in less efficient iterations, and less efficiency overall? Clearly, a smaller "Run" time is a sup...
Okay, basically... i am trying to store the dates and month name from my database in this format. I am aiming store the month and then count the entries in that month and then store the count. This is my loop, but I have trouble formatting the array properly. while ( $row = mysql_fetch_assoc($res) ) { if ($row['Date'] != $prev_date) {...
Very often, I just create a new folder and test things out in there. I use remote upload and then edit and refresh the page to see if it works. Now, one time when I was asked to work on a friend's website, he told me to change the IP for his domain in my HOSTS windows file. He had a clone of his website on another server, so I could edit...
I have to put my database's data in this format (values will differ, obviously), I think it's called an associative array (I'm horrible with terminology). $values=array( "Jan" => 110, "Feb" => 130, "Mar" => 215, "Apr" => 81, "May" => 310, "Jun" => 110, "Jul" => 190, ...
Currently, I need help with my loop. In each div, I want it to show two sets of FirstName and LastName instead of just one set, but I don't know how can I do that because of the loop. Also, the point of setting different font sizes is to create a visual look which is a funnel like shape. My question is, how can I add another set of name ...
The classic and brilliant Programming Perl reference book has a section in which the authors provide a list of advice for how to write Perl that is maximally computationally efficient, followed by a list of advice for how to write Perl that is maximally programmer efficient, followed by more advice for maintainer efficient, porter effici...
Hello i am coding in dreamweaver for a change. I was wondering if there is a way to place reminders in your code, for example in the form of a todolist or another way. I know eclipse has this option. You can place //TODO before the line of code. And this is placed in a list. You can view this list every time and conveniently go back to ...
Hi guys , I'm getting my feet wet with developing my order management applications for integration with google apps. However there are certain aspects I need to take into consideration prior to proceeding any further. My application is such that it would upload documents to google documents and store contacts in google contacts. It requ...
How do you cope with deadline pressure on a coding job? ...
This is not a direct programming question, but a little help from the programming community would be appreciated. I am suffering from an overgeneralization disease. I can't stop spending valuable time with making my code most general and abstract. I could also call it the toolkit/library disease. I tend to turn every programming task i...
Possible Duplicates: is else if faster than switch() case ? What is the relative performance difference of if/else versus switch statement in Java? I am just wondering if one is better (i.e. more efficient). To me the seem to be the same other than the syntax. ...
I've been developing with WPF for many months now. It's a great framework and I'm able to do fancy, elegant stuff that would have been a lot more difficult with WinForms. However, I do have the feeling that for normal "line of business" type of applications without any special UI requirements, it still takes me longer to code the UI in ...
Hi, Having the code: [Test] public void ShouldDoSomethingMeaningFull() { Assert.Fail(); } I often need to overwrite the line (3) Assert.Fail();. What I currently do is this: Go to that line 3G. Select everything starting from first non-whitespace ^v$. Change it - c. The whole sequence is: 3G^v$c. While this works for me but ...
List 5 things you wish you'd known/done/emphasized differently now that you're in the workforce (in the context of your college software development). Thanks from KY for your wisdom. ...