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How do you define a polyglot programmer?

What is your definition of a polyglot programmer? ...

Example Projects

I have been looking around for example projects to do. Not something big, but something that could help me learn a programming language more. Something to act as the next step after learning the basics and being able to make small nifty programs. For example, i have been learning Python and C# and using Project Euler to teach myself, si...

Design of Assertion Checking System

Hi All, Coming to the point I am wondering if anybody could comment on the design of a "Performance Assertion Checking" system. The idea is that a developer makes some assertions about his code and use these to test the evolution of the performance of the code.Has anyone has similar experience. My current block is "Whats a better way ...

Functional body of a program

Sorry if this question is too "silly"... But I need to know what the "functional body" of a program is, and I can't find it in the web.. Can any body help me? I thought it was its functions' prototypes, is it? Thank you very much! alcuadrado ...

Calculating duration for traveling to international countries

I want to calculate the allowance for a consultant traveling to overseas countries. I have to take into account that I can gain a day or lose a day travelling to international country. Different country has different set of allowance. How can I adjust my code to know whether I will gain a day or lose and adjust in my calculation? Please...

How To Properly Create Domain using Zend Framework?

I asked this question a while back but now I'm looking to implement an actual separation between my database access layer and the domain layer. I am also going to be working to move business logic into the domain where it belongs and out of the controller scripts. I'm using Zend Framework which implements the Table Data Gateway and Row ...

Time of day best code is written

Duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/211234/best-time-of-day-to-code-closed What is the time of day that you write your best code? Early morning? Late at night? In the afternoon? ...

What year of UNI is the MIT lectures called Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Hi, I have been watching the video lectures named in the title by Abelson and Sussman and was wondeing what level they are at? Malcolm ...

Psychological programming help site?

I am looking for some sort of site that focuses on the Psychological side of programming. I have always thought that like any sport programming also has psychological side to it. I am not referring to the logic and intelligence one uses while programming, but (dare I say) the emotional side of it. Back to my analogy, with sports, a lot o...

Should I use methods or constant flags?

If I have a database table containing a flag that can have multiple states, should I do this if ($Object->isStateOne()) { // do something } else if ($Object->isStateTwo()) { // do something else } else if ($Object->isStateThree()) { // do yet something else } or this switch ($Object->getSomeFlag()) { case ObjectMapper::STATE_...

How to make a C program load store intensive?

How can the program be made intensively load-store so that there is maximum memory references and negligible computation(not even looping overheads!) ...

Sigma Grid control

I am using sigma grid control2.0 with grails for my project.I have three buttons save ,add n reload.Trying to show the french button images when the locale is french. Added button to image & in css. but still cant get it on screen. Please specify the steps. I think i m missing register process. Kindly help. -singh ...

What was your first programing language?

Exact Duplicate: What was your first programming language? What was your first programming language? I have started learning perl and batch, but find that it's hard to learn anything without having a project. What project forced you to learn it? What would you suggest to a newbie? ...

Where can I find nice Dark ReSharper (with Color identifiers = on) Themes?

I haven't come across any decent dark Visual Studio 2008 color themes with support for ReSharper's Color identifiers turned on. Have any been published? ...

Can I have a function with Zero arguments and no return type

Hi friends I'm new to programming. Can I have a function with Zero arguments and no return type if the answer is yes then where to use these kinds of functions, and also my doubt is what does void function returns a null value or Zero value I am confused. Thanks in advance. ...

Creating an online judge from scratch

I've participated in a few online programming contests and found the online judges used quite remarkable in functionality. Coming to the point of the topic, my college is also about to hold an online programming contest and I'm in charge of the event. I was evaluating my options for implementing an online judge. Sure I could make use of...

Container which checks for the uniqueness of the content

Is there any datatype /container in any language which checks for the uniqueness of the content than the value or index before inserting the item? ...

easy language

hey any one familiar with easy language here....it is programming language for traders ...

Detect which site is written in which language

How can we detect the programming language and technologies which are used for a site ? Is a site written in asp.net or php ? ( the extensions of pages are hidden for sure ) e.g StackOverflow -- Edited 1 -- As it seems most of the methods are logical , or by thricks related to the intelligence & guess and everyone have the same i...

How does a senior developer maintain his skills?

I have been programming for almost 12 years (i.e. employed as a programmer) and am used to C++ / VC++ / Windows programming. However, after moving to a project that uses C# and .NET, I find that I am no longer the 'senior' guy. In fact, a lot of the younger folks just out of school who doesn't know anything about C++ knows about Spring, ...