I've recently been involved in a project in which Software Configuration Management has played a crucial role. However, I believe my skills in SCM are lacking. What reading (books,articles, etc...) would you recommend on SCM Best Practices? I'm not looking for books on SCM tools. I've already got that skill set covered :) ...
I have more graphics than StackOverflow, but less than CNN. What should I know about the graphics files I am uploading? Should I process my graphic with some utility before I add them to my web site? What formats should I avoid? I want the graphics to look great but load fast. Thanks. ...
Hello all, I'm about to start a new project in C. I'm currently investigating a library for C data structures. I've found plenty of them. But which one would you recommend? I'm currently considering to use gdsl or glib . The important properties of a library for me is: Robustness and reliability of the code. Documentation. Readabilit...
Hello. Could anybody please tell me which is the best software to do GUI programming in Linux and some books for it? ...
We have a legacy app that needs to be rewritten, and due to its size, we can only do it bit by bit over several years. The idea is to keep developing new features for the new app while still providing access to unimplemented features via the legacy app. We're looking for recommendations for ETL tools that provide a GUI for the actual in...
I'm in the process of designing a website that is built around the concept of recommending various items to users based on their tastes. (i.e. items they've rated, items added to their favorites list, etc.) Some examples of this are Amazon, Movielens, and Netflix. Now, my problem is, I'm not sure where to start in regards to the mathema...
I'm looking for a tool that would allow a small team to build out on-line help content for our web application. Ideally, the tool would allow us to grow the help content very easily, so something like a wiki or a CMS would work well. I have no real experience with any of these types of tools, so I need some opinions. These are my idea...
Do you know any good resources where I can read and learn about ontology, semantics and web mining? It could be a book, a website or any other resource. ...
I'm looking for a complete java development infrastructure with an integration of: an IDE like eclipse, a build system like Maven, a version control system like subversion, a continuous integration server like Hudson, a repository manager like Nexus, an automated release plugin like Maven Release Plugin. Further I'd like to have: a...
I couldn't seem to find a similar question to this. I am currently looking at the best solution solving a grid computing problem. The setup: I have a server/client situation where there clients [typically dumb of most logic] and recieve instructions from the server Have an authorization request Clients report back information on sp...
hey any one suggest me good book for to learn objective-c Thanks ...
I am curious with the current api of some major social networking sites such as (facebook, twitter, myspace etc) and the willing of the user (for instance user allows a site to inspect his/her profile and giving enough privilages) would it be possible to do data inspection inorder to inspect user behaviours, patterns and thing they like...
Hi, I am an ETL developer by profession that just started reading The Pragmatic Programmer by Dave Thomas & Andrew Hunt. I have been meaning to learn more about bash & command line in Ubuntu for a while but reading this book made me realize how essential it is for me to start learning it. Therefore, I would love to get some recommendati...
Looking for a recommendation on a simple newsletter plugin for Wordpress. It needs to have a signup box with email, name, etc.. and then a back-end for viewing these email addresses and sending mails. Everyone I've looked at is trying to send pages or posts as email. Any help is appreciated. ...
It's not a problem but i don't know how to do this; let's say that I have a sign up form with some fields: username, password, email, as you know the user clicks on the BUY BUTTON and pay's up. Well, how can I know the username that just made the payment, I mean how can I link those two things together, one idea it's to use the email ad...
Hi, i'm done quite lot searching, but just to be sure, is there any modern ASP.NET eCommerce solution? Almoust all solutions i've found are ASP.NET 2.0 based, use no ORM, have no clear separation of layers. And i've searched mostly for commercial packages, hoping that commercial products will offer more, that open source ones? I mean the...
What naming conventions do you use for everyday code? I'm pondering this because I currently have a project in Python that contains 3 packages, each with a unique purpose. Now, I've been putting general-purpose, 'utility' methods into the first package I created for the project, however I'm contemplating moving these methods to a separat...
I'm taking over a colleague's GWT project soon and I've never coded in it before. However as I come from a Java background, I'm sure I won't be banging my head too much or be too overwhelmed when I open Eclipse! What would be the best book to pick up, or tutorial to go through? What particular packages / tricks do you recommend I look ...
Hi, I'm looking for a good book to read on HCI over the xmas holidays, is there a particular book you would recommend on this topic? Thanks, ...
Here's a fragment of code I'm prototyping that should, by all accounts, never see the light of day. I'll refactor it and clean it up before I merge it into my project. However, it seems to be working and I happened to be listening to Arlo Guthrie when I was working on it. #!/usr/bin/env python import re expr = re.compile(r'\[[0-9][-0...