I finished my undergraduate work in computer science about five years ago. I like programming, and I'd like to continue doing it, but I'd also like to start getting into project- or people management. What things should I do at work to make this transition (a) easier and (b) happen faster? It seems to me that it's hard to get upper ma...
After not having much luck with writing to the Python mailing list, I've been on a search for the appropriate place to post my project to and receive developer support. I don't want to blacklist it by posting it to a general site and make it appear as spamming, but I also want to make sure it gets seen by as many developers with experie...
Say your company is willing to sponsor the fees for taking programming certification examination. What is the best aproach to implement this? I would say if the programmer passes the exam at the first try, it shoud be fully sponsored. If the programmer doesn't pass the first try, the 2nd exam should be 50% sponsored. If failed 3rd tim...
My 2-year anniversary with my current company is coming up. In the past, I've been a bit of a job-hopper (work somewhere between 1 and 2 years, then go to another company). I kind of like my project and team... so if I bomb in asking for this, it will cause me some hardship (if only mental/emotional). That said, I've worked very hard ...
Personally, although the powers that be claim it is, I do not believe so! What do you all think? If so, how? ...
I've got a framework for PHP that I've developed for about 3 weeks total, but it's quite ready to be released ... if I choose to do so. In this economy I cannot just take what I have done and release it for free and feel just (because I need the money it could garner), and yet I am torn by my appreciation for open source projects. I wa...
This is often a bit of a problem for lone developers working on a product or a service. How can they get the word out about their product? I recently finished a project of mine and I'm struggling a bit to spread word of it. What do you think is the best way to promote your new product/service? Although this question isn't strictly pro...
Setup I have a few questions about the default argument promotions when calling a function in C. Here's section 6.5.2.2 "Function calls" Paragraphs 6, 7, and 8 from the C99 standard (pdf) (emphasis added and broken into lists for ease of reading): Paragraph 6 If the expression that denotes the called function has a type that do...
Hello By using python language, what would be a clever / efficient way of generating promotion codes. Like to be used for generating special numbers for discount coupons. like: 1027828-1 Thanks ...
Hello! Please let me know what is the best way to determine composition of young generation memory promoted to old generation, after each young GC event? Ideally I would like to know class names which are responsible say, for 80% of heap in each "young gen -> old gen" promotion chunk; Example: I have 600M young gen, each tenure promo...
Apple doesn't offer promotional codes for in-app purchases. What's the best way to let users try the features or content unlocked by in-app purchases for free, while complying with Apple's Developer Guidelines? The idea is to allow a special set of users (reviewers, key fans, etc.) to access the content or features offered as in-app pur...
If not... let's start one here? Please add below! StreetApps Challenge Adobe Open Screen Nokia 1 million API-based contests ConstantContact API Daylife API (Profit Share) And more? ...
I wonder if anyone tried promoting a website on a country-specific domain for the wrong region? I know there is no reason to do that (unless you're crazy), but I just became curious after my client said he'd prefer to keep an old .us domain while promotion is needed for a different country I advised him to get a .com or .net and set up a...
Hi All, Don't laugh but I'm a Lotus Notes (non-relational database!) developer trying to work with SQL and, although I have the basic concepts nailed, I'm stuck on something I'd consider to be "advanced". Imagine a user reaches an online checkout having added a set of products to their basket. I need to apply promotions to the basket....
#include "stdio.h" int main() { int x = -13701; unsigned int y = 3; signed short z = x / y; printf("z = %d\n", z); return 0; } I would expect the answer to be -4567. I am getting "z = 17278". Why does a promotion of these numbers result in 17278? I executed this in Code Pad. ...