Coming from an IT background, I've been involved with software projects but I'm not a programmer. One of my biggest challenges is that having a lot of experience in IT, people often turn to me to manage projects that include software development. The projects are usually outsourced and there isnt a budget for a full time architect or P...
I haven't worked for very large organizations and I've never worked for a company that had a "Build Server". What is their purpose? Why aren't the developers building the project on their local machines, or are they? Are some projects so large that more powerful machines are needed to build it in a reasonable amount of time? The only...
Hi all I'm developing a website that will host some videos. The client wants control over the videos, so it will be hosted on the same server as the website. I need to know two things: What is the best video format to use for this purpose? I.e. what is the best compromise between bandwidth and quality? And then, what is the best way t...
I am coding in c++, gdi I use stretchDIBits to draw Images to dc. ::SetStretchBltMode(hDC, HALFTONE); ::StretchDIBits( hDC, des.left,des.top,des.right - des.left,des.bottom - des.top, 0, 0, img.getWidth(), img.getHeight(), (img.accessPixels()), (img.getInfo()), DIB_RGB_COLORS...
I have a the following; private String cronExpression = ""; private final String jobID = "MyJObID"; ... Scheduler scheduler = ServiceLocator.getInstance().getScheduler(); CronTrigger trigger = new CronTrigger(jobID , Scheduler.DEFAULT_GROUP, cronExpression); JobDetail jobDetail = new JobDetail(jobID , Scheduler.DEFAULT_GROUP, MyJob.clas...
... and if so how do I load high quality versions? cheers ...
Hi Ladies and Gentlemen, We've quite big project with own build framework, based mostly on Java (however other languages exist). We'd like to use Sonar Hudson plugin to graphically present various code metrics. How do we do this? Do we need to change project structure and bring it to maven or there is a workaround to just specify wh...
I use the following code to create a thumbnail on the site: $small_image = new Imagick($large_path."/".$pic['image']); $small_image->thumbnailImage(100, 0); $small_image->writeImage($small_path."/".$pic['image']); It sets it's own quality and I tried adding $small_image->setCompression(imagick::COMPRESSION_JPEG); $small_image->setCom...
I was wondering if there is a high-quality, (with open source software) listing of projects like the apache software foundation. How about one that groups projects into domains, i.e. web frameworks, messaging, etc? ( I was looking for something to help pick open-source technologies for a particular problem when developing projects from...
I`m reading the code of some open source project. I see that in one of the places code is not written well and could be changed a little bit to increase readability/design/anything else here that improves code and makes it easier to work with this code. Is there a common way to report such changes? I know you can become a contributor, m...
It is agreed by many that commented out code is a bad thing if you are using source control. (And it is agreed by many more, that if you are not using source control, that is even a worse thing). So the question is, do you know a tool that detected (too much) commented out code? Do you think such a thing would be a useful [[your-buil...
I am wondering what code or even output of a program people would consider as art. Are there any examples of a program artefact that should/could belong in an art gallery for the public or for programmers, or where one could say it was beautifully designed and/or produced something beautiful? ...
I have to develop a system with very little safety related issues. We would like to be compliant with SIL 1 safety level. What implications does it have to software development? Which techniques of QA (including documentation to be generated) must be considered? ...
In SOA(Service Oriented Architecture), service composition usually consider the QoS or the Quality of Service during the composition stage. If I am going to create a WCF-based SOA, how would I get the QoS in WCF context? ...
I'm writing a printing routing in C#, using the .NET PrintDocument class, handling the OnPrintPage event. I've managed to maximize the margins and print the Image in landscape mode, but it simply does not look as good as when I print the same image file from Windows Photo Gallery (formerly Windows Picture and Fax Viewer), the default im...
Hi, In the software 'Teamviewer', the quality from the images can be changed. It looks like the image comes from 32bit to 16bit (Or other values, like in the screen divece settings in windows). The image is realy smaller because you notice that the speed from the connection is higher. I don't want something like: "scale down, send and t...
What's the mobile streaming bit rate for pandora, spotify, rhapsody, imeem, last.fm, iheartradio, slacker dj? Bad reviews on these applications always point to poor sound quality. ...
Hi, Are there any good code analysis tools available for Groovy? I'm looking for something similar to FindBugs, PMD, CheckStyle, etc. I may even be able to use some of these tools directly if they work on Java byte code rather than source code. A feature that would be particularly useful is the ability to identify obsolete code, though ...
Hi, I have a toolbar in a VB6 editor program which has a 24*24 icons in 24bits color. I put in the photos in a res. resource file and load them into the program via loadImage. the problem is i can see the icon quality looks good running in debug mode but when i compile the program into an exe, there's a severe degradation going on. I h...
Hi there, This is a vast area within software development and it can potentially ends up in long debate :-) I've been trying to find the right model and metrics to assess the quality of our software under development (Who didn't at some stage ?). I've settled on a close variation to ISO-9126 as I thought it covers all important aspects ...