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Suggestions for an open source Final Degree Project

Note: I'm not completely sure if this question really belongs to StackOverflow so feel free to vote for closing if you think not. In Spain we have to undertake a final project when we end the computer science degree. The project must not be trivial and can relate to any computer field from Software Engineering to Computer Architecture, ...

Who judges and keeps the quality of the code within a team of programmers?

Hi, Even there are some coding conventions in a software development team, if there are more than 7-8 people coding on the same solution, who or what mechanism assures the standardizing and keeping the quality of the code? How do they handle this in large projects, so that when a new programmer joins the team won't feel like Alice in ...

Reasons to start a new project in COBOL

Are there any feasible reasons to start a new project in COBOL? What benefits of this language one would find convincing enough to start a new project in it? I'm thinking more about viewing the language in terms of Behavior Driven Development, something related to the steps involved in using a framework such as Cucumber, only that ...

Recommendation for the Java SE project to use all java skills?

I am looking for a project to use most of my java se skills (oop,java api..),i searched but i can not find good project to dive in and start.It doesnt have to be new one , projects that done before can be solution too.Any advice would be appreciated. ...

Visual Studio: Add same project or reference to different solutions

Hello, I am trying to set up my Visual Studio projects. I have a generic project (say SharedProj) that has all the constants, common classes. SharedProj will be referenced by two other solutions (say SolnA, SolnB), but potential more in the future. There are two ways I can think of: I can add SharedProj to both SolnA and SolnB. Or I c...

Software Project Management systems

Ok, so I've only recently started getting serious about learning how to program, and I've started using Mercurial to manage my projects. I chose Mercurial over SVN because of it's ability to commit changes to a repo while not connected to the internet (these days I find myself in areas without internet access). I'm looking for a piece of...

[C++] Anyone know of some projects that'll help me learn?

I'm just starting to learn C++, and I was wondering if anyone could suggest a few small projects that I could work on that'll help me learn more about what I'm doing. So far the most complex thing I've written is a program that runs when I first log in to my computer (yay auto-run) and writes the date/time to a .txt file. So I'm looking...

Sharing a single cocoa framework copy across plugins

I have a set of plugins, a plugin framework for common code and a host app. These are each in separate Xcode projects (including separate projects for each plugin). In the end, I need to be able to click build and run on the host app project to build all the plugins, the framework and host app, package them up and launch the app. I kno...

Has using an acknowledged anti-pattern ever been proven to actually solve a problem, or be beneficial in any other way?

Has using an acknowledged anti-pattern ever been proven to actually work in a certain specific case? Did you ever solve a problem or gain any kind of benefit in one of your projects by using an anti-pattern? ...

XCode Project Details?

At the top of all the files in a project, it has that comment block with the programmer information and whatnot. How do you change that? I remember setting it once. Somewhere. ...

is it necessary to learn java for contributing to an open source project?

I am more into c/c++. But many of my seniors here in college ask me to learn java if I want to contribute to an open source project.. I m in dilemma. what to do?? Can't we do a design project in c/c++?? ...

Project Ideas for medium level Java/Python developer

I am a Python and Java developer with about 1.5 years of coding experience and I am looking for a fun but challenging project to engage myself in. What are some fun and interesting project ideas that are challenging enough to be note-worthy and useful enough to put into a portfolio? Thanks ...

Do .NET projects in Visual Studio always compile into a single file?

This is one of those things that is so simple that no one ever just comes out and says it in any of the tutorials I've read. I've been creating a few stand alone .NET applications as well as a few DLL based plug-ins for other programs. I've noticed that a project in Visual Studio, at least with Windows applications and class libraries,...

tfs copy projects on same server

i have 1 tfs server with 2 different team projects - Project 1 and project 2. Project 2 is completely empty. i want to copy some asp .net project 1 folders into project 2. How do i do that? ...

Beginner Java Applications?

I have learned that the best way to learn a language is by finding a good project to start on, and working out how you would create it. I've been programming for 4 years as a hobby, and it's only been in PHP, so I decided that I should learn a "real" programming language. I have tried C++ in the past, however I was never able to find a p...

Making yourself familiar with projects

Today i did a checkout of some open-source projects just out of curiosity. So after a while i was looking at the code of OTTD (http://www.openttd.org/), i just didn't know where to start looking or how to understand the project. I know you cant get familiar with such big projects in one or two days, but how do you guys handle such things...

Can you use Eclipse's .Project files variables for Code Style variables?

I want a way to have my code style do something like this.. this comment is in PHP but the concept should work for any eclipse compatible language. /* * @author ${user} * @version ${version} */ I would want to update the version variable once, then commit to the repository. So, now when others add comments it would include the Versi...

Ideas for Web Development class project

Hi, Soon my team (5 students total) is going to start our big project for our Intro to Web Development class and I'm wondering if you guys have good ideas for a project? We can use : XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP. I'm not too sure if we are allowed to use a framework like JQuery. Would that limit options? I'm thinking about a very...

Neural Networks Project?

I'm looking for ideas for a Neural Networks project that I could complete in about a month or so. I'm doing it for the National Science Fair, so I need something that has some curb appeal as well since it's being judged. It doesn't necessarily have to be completely new and unique, I'm just looking for ideas, but it should be complex eno...

Project I'm on was just outsourced - compiling handoff materials

Hello all, I've been working on a project that has just been outsourced about 1/2 into SharePoint integration. My role is UX/design and all front-end development (HTML/CSS/JavaScript). This outsourcing is a first for me and I'm wanting to compile some handoff materials that will help the new folks doing the integration. I'm imagining th...