quality

How do you encourage fellow programmers to care about code readability?

I've noticed some programmers do not seem to have much desire to write clean, organized, and readable code. What are some good ways to encourage consistent indentation, good naming of variables and functions, organized file structures, among other things? ...

How can I visualize changes in a large code base quality?

One of the things I’ve been thinking about a lot off and on is how we can use metrics of some kind to measure change, are we going backwards or not? This is in the context of a large, legacy code base which we are improving. Most of the code is C++ with a C heritage. Some new functions and the GUI are written in C#. To start with, we co...

Change Flash Player stage quality in AIR apps

How do I change the stage quality to improve rendering performance in Flash Player AIR? StageQuality doesn't seem to have any effect at all. Is this a known bug or am I doing something wrong? I'm using this in the Main() app class constructor: stage.quality = StageQuality.LOW; Edit: I found the answer in the Adobe Livedocs: For...

Integrating Team Foundation Server with external quality/configuration mamanegement systems

I'm evaluating Team Foundation Server and am interested to know as much as possible about integrating it to external systems in particular the (custom) ones we use for source control and issue management. Has anyone got any experience/insight/links to share on this topic? ...

PHP JPEG Crop : Loss of quality?

Hi all, I'm developing a web-to-print, poster printing application. I'm considering using PHP to crop user-uploaded images, and we will ultimately print the PHP-cropped image. My concern is there will be a difference in 'quality' between the original user uploaded image, and image after it is cropped by PHP. Will PHP affect the quali...