I am looking for a good resource that teaches JEE while also explaining how the same code, concept, and 'mindset' would have been handled in the older, J2EE era. I need the material to cover all the API and developer-architect mindsets that have (significantly) changed in JEE, with EJB and Persistence being two that I know of. Does ther...
Hi, I'm looking to create an aggregator using Yahoo Pipes. I want to add as many feeds I like and then transform output to custom format with basic elements like title, desc, url, pubdate, imageurl etc... Is it good thing to add large number of feeds to one pipe? or should I create separate pipe for each feed? Is adding more than one f...
There are lots of well known programming and development blogs, but could someone recommend some refference blogs about software quality assurance and/or testing? ...
I will have to set up ecommerce application. It will be ecommerce with high traffic (thousands views per day, few thousands orders per day, 30000+ products). I’m looking for ecommerce software written in PHP. I have checked: Oscommerce zencart Magento (http://www.magentocommerce.com/) PrestaShop (http://www.prestashop.com/) + OpenCart ...
My .NET application needs to decode 2D bar codes in DataMatrix format. I originally used a commercial library called Tasman.Bars, which had great royalty-free licensing terms, awesome performance, and supported many different bar code types... except that on certain images it would crash. These images were very rare, but this was still ...
Hi, I am asked to find a load testing tool, which will load test an AJAX based asp.net web application. Please let me know whether Selenium is suited for this situation, or there are another tools to automate load testing? ...
given my input data in userid,itemid format: raw: {userid: bytearray,itemid: bytearray} dump raw; (A,1) (A,2) (A,4) (A,5) (B,2) (B,3) (B,5) (C,1) (C,5) grpd = GROUP raw BY userid; dump grpd; (A,{(A,1),(A,2),(A,4),(A,5)}) (B,{(B,2),(B,3),(B,5)}) (C,{(C,1),(C,5)}) I'd like to generate all of the combinations(order not important) of ...
Many moons ago I started storing my music as MP3’s. I downloaded like mad and just dumped them all into a folder. After collecting thousands of songs I had a big mess. After two years of organizing all music in my free time I have made it to “D” section of my library. I am starting to write code on a daily basis and I would like to k...
I intend to do a little programming using mono touch.. but need a book [eBook, since searchable, preferred] that gets me started. This pagehttp://monotouch.info/MonoTouch/Books has some recomendations, which title should I get. ...
What is a really good Windows, C++, UI library, framework, or tool that will allow me to very simply and easily add a slick look & feel to my native C++ win32 application? Also; Slick means skinnable with window background images, fancy buttons, shadows, all that jazz. This is non-MFC Supporting Windows XP and beyond Royalty free lice...
What do you think? What is the ideal programming language learning sequence which will cover most of the heavily used languages and paradigms today as well as help to grasp common programming basics, ideas and practices? Edit: You can even suggest learning sequence for paradigms rather than languages. ...
I've been trying to learn dynamic programming but it's been hard. The books and lecture videos I've come across so far usually talk about specific problems in dynamic programming but don't really enable me to grasp it. They're sort of like books that when introducing recursion, give examples of problems like towers of hanoi and printing ...
Hello there...I was wondering if you can make the opization of my code. Because, when I aplied in localhost the running is about "17 MINUTES" ( calculation with 100000 query) For data is like this : $data[UserID][ItemID] = Rating ==> $data[1][1] = 5; This is my code : <?php include "......."; set_time_limit(0); ...
I am looking for datasets that can be used for implementing recommendation system usecase of Apache Mahout. I know of only MovieLens Data Sets from GroupLens Research group. Anyone knows any other datasets that can be used for recommendation system implementation? I am particularly interested in item-based data sets though other datase...
Hi, I started using GraphViz yesterday in order to visualize the relationships between some things—a project I’ve been wanting to tackle for quite a while now. So far, I’ve gotten it pretty well done, but there’s a few things I’m struggling with, specifically getting the chart to look good and how long it takes to process the DOT file—...
I'm a .Net developer by trade, but have done open source development in the past for fun. I need recommendations on which open source languages work particularly better (or even better yet, stable) than others. At home I'm developing sites on LAMP servers and prefer PHP and Python. Are either of those well suited for remote data/method...
Hi I am looking for a SL DataGrid to buy that deals with a few main issues that I found annoying in the regular toolkit control. I am not using RIA or WCF Data services. I intend to perform the actual paging in the SQL query. I just Need a control that will let me override the functionality of its pager.In other words - let me insert ...
I'm looking for inputs into how I can manage the upgrade process itself of a homegrown php/mysql application. Meaning, if we have a 'stable' version of our php/mysql application working on our production server, and we now want to upgrade it to the next version that we've worked on - how do we go about doing that elegantly? What practice...
This is more a system architecture preference/recommendation question: (yeah yeah, it looks like an exam question but i'm just aiming to make myself a better developer) Requirement: You have a raw data source needs to be exported to a proper data store through a batch process (running at regular intervals). Assume you have a reusable p...
We have a large site (2000 static pages and a lot of .Net-based dynamic pages), all hosted in IIS7. Currently we are using Dreamweaver templates (and server-side includes for repeated content). It works ok, and allows our designers a lot of flexibility on a page-by-page basis. However, we struggle with workflow, site organisation, depl...