I am currently my software engineering degree and as I am in my second year I need to select a topic for my project. I am totally confused on how to pick a good project topic, which I could use in my final year as well. I have specialization in the following areas, java, vb.net, sql server 2005 as well as artificial intelligence. I ca...
The boss is out sick for a week, and so it has fallen to myself and a coworker to get the initial requirements and start planning for a new project. Neither of us has any experience in gathering requirements (I'm an intern), so we are scrambling to get our act together and come up with the right questions to ask to elicit the requiremen...
Has anyone of you done evaluation of a django project and how to improve/refactor it's code base? A pet project in company I work at is becoming more widely used and it would be good to improve its quality before further development. Are there any techniques or methodologies of analyzing django projects before we start putting more and m...
Hello friendz, I have a new project with 4 users and some tasks which is only allowed to certain users. Since the users and tasks are fixed i thought no need of using ACL. is my decision is correct?? Then can i have multiple prefix for each users if yes how can i achive it?? I need to restrict the task of user A from user B how ...
Hi, We've had a number of projects where the costs have been scrutinised recently and one thing that has come out is that people believe there is too much time allocated to the project managers' role. For example, we have a development project which will take 10 days of development time, 5 days for testing, 3 days for technical documen...
I am beginning a new ASP.NET project soon, and although I have worked fairly extensively on ASP.NET projects in the past, I have never started one from scratch, or been solely responsible for the entire thing (Aside from personal projects). What are some good questions or resources that would help tease out need to know info durring the ...
What all points should I consider while making asp.net application for torrent ? The application would allow user to browse, upload, download torrents. Further is there any particular standard for making torrents. Kindly share and enlighten. Thanks in advance. ...
Hi, I'm not sure if this an appropriate question for stack overflow. If not, I apologize. I was wondering if there is any tool for keeping track of different uncompleted tasks in different modules of a project. I'm currently interning at a company and I feel like everytime something cannot be solved immediately, someone asks me to put ...
I have built a drupal site that will contain over a 2500 nodes (real estate listings). I have a feeling that a standard shared webhost will not be sufficient but I really have no way to know. Neither do I know how many hits the site will get, but I expect search engine traffic to be more than humans! The site itself isn't that complex b...
Dear stackoverflow: What would you suggest would be a good challenge for a programmer to show us her/his skills? I'm thinking of a small demo implementation of a GUI program which would not take too much time to do. Here are the circumstances: (this should not imply the intention to find programmers here, I think there'd be other forums...
Hi, If you are given a small programming deliverable at work (Say, nothing more than 2 weeks work), how would you plan the task to ensure you don't rush in before understanding everything (including an existing codebase)? I would write a brief document explaining what I think each class/method does and how, how I would modify each clas...
how complicated is it to develop a web service which works with matlab's functionality? As my project has a limited time frame, i need to know if there will be any blocking issues. or is it better to work with openCV? ...
There are lots of texts on how to plan software projects (with user stories, etc), but they usually assume you have a large budget, liberal timeframes and/or a real dev team available. While they sound fantastic, they never seem to account for solo devs working on a short deadline. There is also a lot of talk about test-based methodolog...
It's just a question, because I've looked through an old Software Engineering textbook and one of the things it talks about is measuring effort. But, what I am unclear on is what exactly is "effort" and how does that relate to time it takes to complete a project? I have no experience in dealing with effort estimation because this wasn't...
Hi there. I'm looking for something, like MICROSOFT PROJECT, for tracking projects comprised of complex series of events, most of which occur within a single day. I was thinking "project management software" because I still need to track dependencies, predecessors, etc. All of the apps I've tried recently have no capacity for dealing...
I am about to embark on a project for android that will have a free version and a premium version. In VC++ land you would do this by adding preprocessor tags around the premium sections (or where the code would enter a premium section). I could have two projects with separate source trees, but a bug in one would require a fix in the ot...
Hi there, I'm searching a software (web-based, php/mysql) that allows users to (anonymously/with registering) write suggestions or ideas on a project. The project itself does not necessarily have to be software-related, I also want to use it for some IRL projects I'm working on, but that may well need some suggestions from the people in...
When starting a new piece of software, do you find it more helpful do plan the interface and use cases first, or outline the objects that will need to be built? I can see an argument for the former in that you have to know where you're going before you can get there. But when I say 'interface use cases', I mean VERY SPECIFIC applicatio...
I am a "one man shop" and am expected to develop databases and interfaces to those databases. Developing online front-ends using web frameworks is time-consuming, and it adds opportunities for error in my code due to the sheer number of layers I am dealing with (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python (Mako + SQLAlchemy) , Postgres). Do other peop...
I am creating a web hosting service for gaming communities (similar to GuildLaunch or GuildPortal). I am having some trouble with getting ahead of myself, and things such as: Coming up with better ways of doing things later, after the original idea is already implemented Realizing a feature won't work (but coded 90% of it) for an...