We have a number of customers that we have to send monthly invoices too. Right now, I'm managing a codebase that does SQL queries against our customer database and billing database and places that data into emails - and sends it. I grow weary of maintaining this every time we want to include a new promotion or change our customer servic...
Hi everyone. I'm study recommendation engines, and I went through the paper that defines how Google News generates recommendations to users for news items which might be of their interest, based on collaborative filtering. One interesting technique that they mention is Minhashing. I went through what it does, but I'm pretty sure that w...
I want to start develop mobile applications and sell it. There are many mobile platforms for which I can begin develop: Windows Mobile , Android, Iphone, Linux based Devices. I want to find out from people who has such experience which platform more comfortable and more profitible for me to use. ...
Hello I am working on a website that has a wide range of content. (News, FAQs, tutorials, blog, articles, product pages etc.) Currently a lot of this content is static or uses special-purpose scripts. I would like to move most of it under the wing of a single content manager. I have not used out of the box content management softwar...
I never use unitests in my apps . I know that exists many technologies for testing .NET based application. (For example NUnit). Which of this tools more comfortable and more understandable to use. Please can you show the good articles where can I find information about unitests and understand key situation where I must use them? ...
Two questions: 1) What's the best book for learning to program in Erlang? 2) And also what's the best reference book for the proficient Erlang programmer? Thanks guys! ...
Hello I am wondering what algorithm would be clever to use for a tag driven e-commerce enviroment: Each item has several tags. IE: Item name: "Metallica - Black Album CD", Tags: "metallica", "black-album", "rock", "music" Each user has several tags and friends(other users) bound to them. IE: Username: "testguy", Interests: "python", ...
Hi I was trying to use the pager plugin that comes with the tablesorter plugin but I can't get it to work as you can see from my previous post http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2836680/need-help-with-jquery-tablesorter-pager-plugin. I given up on this plugin as no one can seem to come up with a solution how to make it work and I kinda...
Up until now I've been using Scala 2.7.7 (with Programming in Scala as my main reference). But as I'm a relative n00b, and 2.8 seems as if it will be out soon, I thought it would be a good idea to start using 2.8 before I get into any bad/outdated habits. I've seen http://www.scala-lang.org/node/1564 as a list of key new features, but d...
Each time we add a new layer to our OpenLayers based website (data provided primarily by a GeoServer server), we discuss whether to use a single-tile or a tiled approach. Some of the parameters we evaluate are the following: Using the tiled approach we get: Slow but continuous buildup of the viewport Lots of small images Client sid...
I work with Apache, PHP, and MySQL for web development and local applications. For the past couple of years I have slowly been learning C++ and want to build an application this summer. Specifically, I want to make a "library" application in which I can store information about the books, CDs, and records that I own. I know this type of a...
I'm after a book to read whilst on holiday. Some criteria: The book has to be relatively short. < 500 pages. I'd prefer a book that changes your thinking, rather than reams of syntax to look at. So the last two years here have been my books: Last year, The Craftsman by Richard Sennet (Changed how I viewed career development, quali...
I'm a programmer, and have completely forgotten all the advanced engineering Math I studied ~20 years ago at school. I now have an urgent need to learn about Modelling and Simulation. Though the present context is Disease Modelling, I'm not sure if there's such a thing as 'general' modelling and simulation... with concepts / techniques /...
I've been a Ruby developer for the past 4-5 years, and prior to that coded in Perl and a language called ProvideX for years. As hard as it may seem, I've never written a Java application short of the basic Hello World app probably a decade ago. I'm beginning to start doing some Android development to port some iPhone applications we di...
Hello friends. I have WPF Application. Is it possible to quickly convert WPF app to Silvelight application, if not which technic I have to use to transform my WPF app to Silverlight. And also I want to know about limitations of Silvelight app. Thank you in advance. ...
I am using several months ReSharper 4.5 It's very powerfull tool but use a lot of system resources and VS working very slow with it. With which tool I can replace Resharper with the same functionality. Which refactoring tool do you use? ...
Hello. I am new to Silverlight. I'd like to use Silverlight 4 in my project. Can someone suggest me a book on Silverlight that can help me learn the technology fundamentals inclusive of Silverlight version 4? I fear that the Silverlight 4 books available in the market right now are incremental (they assume knowledge until Silverlight 3)...
I am looking for a free for commercial use classfields/ad portal script that would work either under apache + postgresql/mysql or under windows (asp.net + sql server express). Could you recommend something? Maybe I should use joomla with an extension like adsManager? ...
Some HTML1 closing tags are optional, i.e.: </HTML> </HEAD> </BODY> </P> </DT> </DD> </LI> </OPTION> </THEAD> </TH> </TBODY> </TR> </TD> </TFOOT> </COLGROUP> Note: Not to be confused with closing tags that are forbidden to be included, i.e.: </IMG> </INPUT> </BR> </HR> </FRAME> </AREA> </BASE> </BASEFONT> </COL> </ISINDEX> </LINK> </...
All my (home) CF learning has so far been done using Access as a database, and as far as the DB goes I "get it". There's no database server, and no need to log on to the database or anything, and setting up table relationships is easy and visual. Oh and its essentially free to deploy. However, I'm now working on an application that's li...