Well I know there are good topics about smart pointers, but since I'm starting to use them extensively I want to know some recommendations on bad or dangerous uses, e.g: Raw-pointer conversions Smart pointers to references/References to smart pointers etc. Thank you in advance. (Added) Suppose I've a class A with pointers to B as m...
Hey everyone, I just ordered Steve Krug's "Dont make me think" off of Amazon, which I'm looking forward to. I'm just curious to know what other books people have enjoyed on the topic of usability/design practices on the web. Thanks! ...
Hi, I have created an installation package using Wix which installs a Windows service on the user's machine. Currently, the files are being installed to [%ProgramFiles%\APLICATIONNAME]. Is this a future proof way of structuring an installation folder? Should I be installing to [%ProgramFiles%\APLICATIONNAME\VERSION_NUMBER] instead? An...
I am an experienced developer notably in C#. I need to help a non-programmer friend get thigns done with Excel VBA. What is a good book for me to quickly pick Excel Macros & VBA up so that I can help my friend? We're using Excel 2007. ...
Assuming a small off-hours development project that may or may not have market value but which the project owner does not want to open source (or at least not at the moment). What is the proper way to formally state this intention to potential collaborators? Is a non-disclosure agreement over board? I know many people are weary of sig...
I'm looking for software career opporunities in Europe. What career sites can you recommend? (They can be specific to a country.) ...
I need to use some heavy-duty numerical methods - quadrature, interpolation, ODE solution with expensive derivative terms, etc. What's the best book on the subject? I will be using packages where I can, but I can already tell there will be times when I need to write my own routines... ...
Can any one recommend any good primer books / resources on business intelligence and reporting using the Microsoft stack? As a business we currently use crude static Crystal Reports for our reporting needs but looking to overhaul it with a proper scalable BI stack that allows internal and customer facing reporting, analytics and KPIs....
Book, website, or whitepaper. Thanks in advance. ...
I'm looking for a book that introduces one to the various computing paradigms in existence and then goes in depth into each. What I'd like to take away from the end is a basic understanding of each and the ability to make a much more informed decision on which ones to get deeper into. ...
Duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/62251/where-can-i-find-good-asp-net-tutorialor-books-online http://stackoverflow.com/questions/282086/learning-c-aspnet-35-what-order-should-i-learn-in-what-to-skip http://stackoverflow.com/questions/50238/what-are-some-good-resources-for-learning-asp-net-aside-from-stackoverflow-of I ...
What desktop applications are there that sync with Lighthouse Issue Tracking site/service? Why? Desktop applications have infinitely better keyboard shortcuts, offline caching, and other things that absurd amounts of Javascript can only hope to achieve! I'm using Mac OS X, but answers for Windows/Linux (and iPhone, or cross-platform cl...
Have you done any work with ASN.1 to C# compiler? Can you recommend it? I have used Objective Systems ASN1C which I would recommend. I have also played a little with BinaryNotes. ...
Hi, I recently Graduated from uni in the UK but I only scraped through the Algorithmic and Mathsy units that I was made to do and am now finding that I'd actually like to know how to do some of the stuff that was taught. In particular I'm trying to follow the MIT lectures of the Algorithms lectures on Google Video. I'm finding it very ...
Can you suggest a good book or other resource on graphs and graph algorithms? Something that will cover some basics but also advanced problems and algorithms. ...
I know, Flex should be the answer to this but I not using flex for this project and you probably won't convince me to...it's just not needed here. Having said that - anybody have a specific actionscript layout manager that they use? I'm looking at the following 2 but I'm not sure but I'm not sure if I'm missing any others out there. I...
I have a lot of experience with C++ and have used many other languages (Java, Smalltalk, etc.). What is the best book to learn C# without having to be told what a variable is, what classes are, etc.? I'm specifically interested in C# 3.0 but books that only cover the older specs are also acceptable. ...
I am an experienced Java developer, used to all the nice features that Eclipse provides for Java development (in particular Ctrl+T to open type, Ctrl+Click or F3 to open referenced declaration, outline, ...). I really like this degree of comfort. Now I have a project, where I need to do some changes in the existing database (stored proc...
Is there any website that contains SQL puzzles, tips/tricks etc? Any version of SQL (Oracle, MSSQL etc) will do. Just want to solve some general SQL puzzles and want to learn more about SQL. Thanks in advance! ...
We're currently running MySQL on a LAMP stack and have been looking at implementing a more thorough, full-text search on our site. We've looked at MySQL's own freetext search, but it doesn't seem to cope well with large databases, which makes it far too slow for our needs. Our main requirements are: speed returning results simple upd...