I'd like suggestions for a small project to work on this fall. Something I can work on a few hours a week that will keep me entertained and help me learn new things about a particular language, coding style, etc. I like to program in PHP and Java but am very interested in coding something using Python or Perl. Any good ideas?...
I've been asked to join in with a project and there is no actual leader (it's not a business setting), worse still there are about 8 members and because of this, there is no actual action plan. I'd volunteer myself as the leader or manager but I don't have the time or inclination to do so, should I just watch it struggle (and possibly ne...
Hi everoyone, Yesterday, a friend of mine asked me to suggest to him an interesting Ajax based project to do in his spare. I first thought that it'll be an easy task but no idea came out! So is there any interesting idea out there? The difficulty level wouldn't be a problem as he is willing to learn Ajax and for me, nothing better tha...
I have created a custom dialog for Visual Studio Setup Project using the steps described here: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/install/vsSetupCustomDialogs.aspx?fid=419622&df=90&mpp=25&noise=3&sort=Position&view=Quick&select=2640482&fr=26 Now I have a combobox in one of my dialogs. I want to populate the combob...
I have a setup project created by Visual Studio 2005, and consists of both a C# .NET 2.0 project and C++ MFC project, and the C++ run time. It works properly when run from the main console, but when run over a Terminal Server session on a Windows XP target, the install fails in the following way - When the Setup.exe is invoked, it imm...
I'm currently looking at the following stack: Apache Tomcat and Apache HTTP Server for web interfaces Chandler for time tracking and coordination and Chandler Server for bringing everything together. Trac for bug tracking and user feedback management (eg - dumping user feedback into the wiki, adding bugs, SVN tie ins) Subversion for ve...
We are a small (20 people) yet growing Internet Agency and we have decided it is time for a operations director. Most of the heavy lifting operationally has been handled by the Tech Director and one project manager (who is moving out of project management into product development) What personality type is best? Should they have a tech...
Hello, I have a solution in Visual Studio 2005(professional Edition) which in turn has 8 projects.I am facing a problem that even after i set the Command Arguments in the Project settings of the relevant project, it doesnt accept those command line arguments and it shows argc = 1, inspite of me giving more than 1 command arguments. Trie...
Right now, I keep all of my projects on my laptop. I'm thinking that I shouldn't do this, but instead use a version control system and check them in/out from an external hosting repository (Google Code, SourceForge, etc). I see several benefits here - first, I don't have to worry about losing my code if my computer crashes and burns or m...
Do you follow a process at all? If so, which ones? If not, how do you manage the development cycle? ...
This is not a question with a precise answer (strictly speaking the answer would be best captured by a poll, but that functionality is not available), but I am genuinely interested in the answer, so I will ask it anyway. Over the course of your career, how much time have you spent on greenfield development compared with brownfield? O...
What's the best way to get involved in an open source project? There are several projects I'd be interested in, and others I'd be happy to look into if just to keep my skills sharp in languages I don't currently use on a day to day basis. However, I'm not sure how to get started. ...
I have played with the idea of using a wiki (MediaWiki) to centralize all project information for a development project. This was done using extensions that pull information from SVN (using SVNKit) and by linking to Bugzilla to extract work assigned to a developer or work remaining for a release. Examples: <bugzilla type="summary" use...
When you are starting a personal programming project, what is your first step? I'm trying to start a project thats just an idea at the moment. I get lots of these and I dive right into the code and after a while just completely lose interest and or just forget about the project. When you are starting, what is your first step? do you pla...
Just wondering what projects you would recommend to a beginning programmer who already understands the basics of programming, but has little experience actually creating large or practical projects. If possible you could also mention the reasons you chose the project and some advise and common pitfalls. This question isn't really langu...
I want to find a way to develop database projects quickly in Visual Studio. Any ideas? ...
Basically, I have recently started a "pet project" (side project/whatever) working with RESTful APIs that are on the Internet. I have never done this before, and I have found that it has really rekindled my love for programming.. I want to stay up late with it, take it out to dinner and spend more time with it than my friends.. Which is...
Hi If you were given a web project from your manager to implement and you were given free choice as to what technologies to use? I know alot of companies have their standard technologies that they use and are very against trying out new things ...
I have been learning and using Python for the last several months and I am interested in getting involved in open source projects using Python so as to be exposed to good implementations of Python in the real world. What are some that folks recommend? (If at all possible please try to provide just one project per answer.) ...
A lot of what I am working on is changing the mindset of a community of developers. Moving them from one tool to another, or to picking up a new tool. What are some of the suggested or recommended ways to get a community to pick up a new meme? While we can mandate tool usage, this is a last resort. I would rather have the developers m...