So far I just use the SAP Developers' network at sdn.sap.com but I would love something a bit more grassroots with bleeding-edge social features. Blogs and forums and any opportunity to seek help and critique outside of my immediate team would be great......
Whenever I'm explaining what I do for a living (software developer, for example on a party and they had to ask), people tend to make a strange neuro-link: He does something with computers I do not understand --> I have a computer --> My computer is broken --> I do not understand why --> He should be able to FIX IT. When did I say I fix...
I dislike the fact that people use h3 rather h1, or skip a level just because of the way it looks. IMHO, headings signify document structure, rather than layout. The layout is just a side effect, customizable through themes. Having "wrong" heading levels also makes it more difficult to generate proper TOCs and/or export to other formats...
What single piece of advice would you give to a programmer who can write decent code, but has trouble communicating relevant details of his work to colleagues and users? ...
There are clear benefits to having foreign data centers- lower energy cost, lower human costs, less chance of a natural disaster wiping out the whole infrastructure, etc. Some countries even advertise to large companies. Still, I've always wondered how something like this would fragment a corporate culture- how does a manager maintain ...
I would think that in this age of social software that it would be easier to network socially around a software conference. Here's the particular problem I'm trying to solve: In past PDCs I've run into a large number of my fellow Orthodox Jews and it turns out everyone is praying in his own hotel room because nobody ever organized anythi...
Not being a web developer myself, but having idea for a cool web site, how does one create such a web site? [The web site idea] I need to build a simple social web site where people can upload pictures, comment on the picture, and most importantly, log the actual location of what is in the picture with a google map view of it. Upon en...
I'm curious how other developers "got into" developing. I'm sure for some of you it was something you knew you wanted to work with all the time. I know there have to be people out there who had some sort of life experince or epiphany that turned them towards the light! My event was during an internship as an Occupational Health & ...
If you are trying to position your web application as "social" (or Web 2.0), what are the top features you should implement? A decent starting point is this page, but even this perhaps goes a little too far (I think the bar is likely lower). ...
That is something that literally affects any engineer in a bigger organization. You have a project that takes longer than expected, but for a good reason. Project you depend on did not ship on time. In the meantime you discovered that infrastructure you planned to use is going to be deprecated and when you have finished coding someone ...
What has been your best programming experience so far? Was it the first time you compiled hello.c? Was it the first time you made your name fill your fathers TV with that 80's home computer? Was it the time you saved the day by fixing that bug no one else understood? Let's share our good moments! (This is not a question of when you ...
I've always been wondering if there are differences between the way to code, let's say, in Germany and in India. Of course, human relationships are completely different and fit the social context. Hierarchy, management, pay amount, working time or religious practices entirely change a lot of things. But does this affect the way you cod...
Programmers as a group have a not exactly ill-deserved reputation for thinking little of others work/opinions and thinking a great deal of our own. I know that, I see it in myself all the time, and I consciously let such things slide on that basis when I see them. But... I'm in the unfortunate position where I'm working in an environme...
Stack Overflow has a pretty good Delphi community. I am curious however where else Delphi developers are hanging out. I am looking for programming related community sites. Obviously Forums.CodeGear.com is a popular place. Where else? One of the reasons I ask is I was looking at Refactor My Code and noticed there is no Delphi cat...
It's quite some time that I'm trying to figure out this problem and from googling around many people have similar problems. I'm trying to model a User in a Social Network, using Hibernate, and what is more basic to a social network than to map a friendship relation? Every user in the system should have a list of it's friends and I thoug...
I'm often thinking of which company would be the "best" ones to work for. Best working conditions, best payment, personal responsibility, freedom, and so on. Is it a pure software development company or is it automotive, medicine,... what else? Would it be a big company like Google, Microsoft or SAP or could it even be a very small co...
How many projects are people doing based on the Bro Bono publico ideals versus working for the highest wage or potential for a cash-in-buy-out payday? For years lawyers have been called out for excessive gathering of wealth from high bill rates and huge settlement deals, hiring out their knowledge and skills to the highest bidders. Peop...
For community websites like Facebook, myspace, etc.. They have a feature called "Friendship", means you can add friends, send "add friends request", etc.. How to structure it in database? I means, what tables required? What are the columns for each table required? ...
What is the best method for adding social links to each blog entry? I could use sample code of adding links to the ascx files or I am even able to pay a little for a module that will do it. I will have parent and child portals. edit: I've updated the module and checked the social bookmarking options. However it did not appear? Am I...
Hi. I've worked in IT, mostly as developer, besides school and full time for a couple of years now. And no matter whether the team was using an agile approach or just somehow "simply do it", mental stress seems inevitable. Every team member reacts differently to stress, some get sick more often and whatever. How to manage stress, or bet...