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best micro-ISV/single developer blogs and sites recommendations

Hello folks can you please recommend me on good blogs or sites that talks about single man software developers or micro-Isv's (of course i know joel on software... ) ...

Book/documentation on iPhone SDK with little emphasis on InterfaceBuilder

I have been doing some iPhone app development for the past few weeks. I am not a big fan of the interface builder - I just don't like tools. I prefer writing code for what the IB can accomplish. I have been referring to various books, however most use Interface Builder to build apps. Can anyone recommend a good book which has little em...

How to recommend the next achievement

Short version: I have a similar setup to StackOverflow. Users get Achievements. I have many more achievements than SO, lets say on the order of 10k, and each user has in the 100s of achievements. Now, how would you recommend (to recommend) the next achievement for a user to try for? Long version: The objects are modeled like this in ...

What good biographies about people in IT are there?

What good biographies about people in IT are out there? I am thinking about people like Bill Gates, Linus ThorvaldsTorvalds, Steve Jobs etc. I find biographies to be very inspiring, and I have read a lot of them - but not about people in IT. Biographies Linus Torvalds - Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary Steve W...

Please recommend resources for experienced developer new to C

I'm looking for good websites, and possibly books, to help me improve my C (not C++). I've been coding for over 10 years, mainly in Java, but my experience of C is minimal. I don't need something that explains what an 'if' statement does, I'm more interested in best-practices, and common pitfalls, with an emphasis on the things likely to...

Recommend PHP or Java Opensource E-Commerce solution

A friend of mine was about to be scammed by a bunch of pseudo-programers that intended to sell him a opensource shopping cart as if it was developed by them. Luckly he was smart enough to ask his geek friends first. Now I'm committed to help him with this endeavor. But to be honest Im more into custom software development that into impl...

PHP Framework for existing database

We are developing a mobile version of our current site, and will prefer to read from the same DB as the main site. Given that this will be a mobile site, it will have only minimal (search + display) functionality. From what I gather, most framework make it very difficult to use an existing DB. Given the above, which PHP framework would...

A good open source Python project to read code?

What's the best open source Python project for reading code and seeing how Python should be written? I'm at a crossroads in Python; I've written a lot of good code, but I want to write truly exceptional clean and intelligent code. I feel like the best way to do this is to read the source for a good project (if there are other ways, I'm o...

Good IDE for Struts

MyEclipse may be a good ide for struts. But which is the best ide freely available for struts ...

What's the best iCalendar (ics, ical) library in Ruby?

I'm looking for a good library to output iCalendar formatted files. Good time zone support, or (better yet) UTC-only dates is a requirement. ...

Opensource projects using BOO

I am trying to learn BOO and think the best way to go about do it is to write some code :) I have searched high and low to find some OSS project in BOO, to which I can contribute. But it looks like the only type on software written in BOO are frameworks (developer oriented) and not end user oriented. Do you know of any open source BOO...

Design of the recommendation engine database?

i am currently working on recommendation systems especially for audio files.but i am a beginner at this subject.i am trying to design database first with mysql but i cant decide how to do it.İt is basicly a system which users create profile then search for the music and system recommend them music similar to they liked. which database ...

Palm Mojo / WebOS IDE Recommendation

I'm a developer coming from Visual Studio 2008 looking to get my hands dirty writing some Palm Pre applications. I've heard a number of options for developing Palm Pre apps and am curious for a recommendation. So far I have heard: Eclipse IDE Eclipse IDE with Aptana Plug-in Aptana stand alone Plain text editor Could someone make a ...

j2ee good and reliable books

Can anybody suggest some good books for starting J2EE? I have done Core and Advanced Java ( up to Swing). ...

Where can I learn Modern Fortran

I'm looking to do some physics computation and I'm kind of interested in exploring the fabled numerical powers of FORTRAN, but I'm not really wanting to dig through piles and piles of pages all about FORTRAN 70. Is there a good, clean, modern reference? Thanks in advance! ...

JDE Eclipse plugin or Blackberry JDE?

Just getting started with Blackberry development... I have used eclipse before and like it. What do you all recommend and why? Thanks! ...

Most suitable eCommerce system to build a rental component onto

I'm just looking for some advice on this - I've advertised on several service marketplaces but all I'm get is vague promises to create 'much suitable commerce sites to your specifications' In essence I need a site which has the standard commerce features, but onto which I will need to add the features required to run a book rental servi...

Drupal 6 module for program syntax higlighting

Hello, Can you recommend a drupal module that provides a syntax highlighting input filter? Good coverage of less known programming languages would be nice. ...

Books about Graph Databases

I was hoping I could get some recommendations or pointers to some books that could help me understand the internals about graph databases. When I say internals, I am interested mainly in Why graph databases are important, specifically what mathematical operations it excels at. Also, I would like to understand it's implementation, at le...

Book Recommendation: Writing WMI Provider Extensions using .NET 3.5

I'm looking for an in-depth guide on writing WMI Provider Exensions using .NET 3.5. I've spent some time searching, but so far I haven't found anything that meets this description. Is there such a book? I would prefer one that uses C#, but I'm not sure I can afford to be picky in this case. ...