Solo programmers can practice good programming habits that will help them with group work (good commenting, coding styles, basic communication skills, version control system use) but there are some skills you rarely develop or bother dealing with until you're working on a single project with several people. What are some of the habits y...
Duplicate What is a good way to drum up interest in my open source project? What is the best way to raise awareness of an open source project you're working on? For example, you've developed a program/tool you think will make the lives of developers easier and you want to share your work. Are there websites that are good for sha...
I have been ask to create a kind of family web site where a relative can publish essays and photos of various family members (mostly ancestors). Confronted with a mass of personal information such as birthdate, place of birth, date of marriage etc etc, it got me wondering just how much of this should be made readily available on the web...
Better programmers than me can write in essays about walking around with a coffee mug and call it programming. And it's perfectly accepted at a place that knows the business. Or see what Gregory House (TV show "House M.D.") does when he is thinking. But what about the other places where you are the only programmer? If you don't stare a...
Hello everyone, I am building a web site like Facebook. Not a competitor of a Facebook, just a mid-sized internal school alumni web site. :-) Features I like is, each grade/class could organize itself as a group and have group administrator, each person belongs to one grade/class group, and there is a whole system administrator to mana...
What is the "non-software" development aspect in your environment that has helped you in making your software more usable, secure, robust, and resilient (apart from it doing its job)? I will elaborate on my experience. I am a developer in a country where electricity failure is a common place. I worked in a research lab at a local Un...
I hope this isn't OT. I've got an idea for a social site where the content is provided by the users. I see two problems: You open the site, it has very little data to start with You've attracted a few users, how do you encourage them to add content? I'm imagining something like yelp.com, where the utility really comes from the user ...
I noticed that there is a growing community in Australia for Ruby on Rails developers called RORO. It boasts monthly meet ups where developers discuss new ideas, new technologies and techniques over pint of beer. I did a search to find a similar community for ASP.NET developers to no avail. Is there a community like RORO for ASP.NET ...
I have the following form: http://fuzzysiberians.com/app4.cfm when there is no social security number, my error message is being displayed after each text field. Is there a way to group these error messages so that there will be 3 text boxes next to each other and then display only one error message? ...
From http://banbuilder.com/: Why BanBuilder? BanBuilder is designed to allow you to customize your banned-words list, and is constantly evolving. As people find new ways around the banned words (using symbols instead of letters, for example), they get added to the database. And its all free! The idea sounds great, ...
As you all know, there is nothing more fun than writing software. I guess we all remember occasions where we had to force ourselves to get up from behind our monitor to get something to eat or to go to bed. The odd thing is, non-programmers (mere mortals ;-)) often see programming as the most boring thing a man can do for a living. They ...
How might I implement a system where everybody can add/remove tags to every item, but still protect it from spam/tag-vandalism? I'm thinking it would probably need to store the tags that each person's tags for an item, and then somehow coming up with an aggregate/"top" tags for the item. I think Slashdot has a tagging system like this--...
Hello everyone, I have some social network development related question, not sure whether I can ask here. My quesiton is I want to develop some social network applications, but since I am new to social network, I want to get some easy to read/learn ppt file (I am not patient to read long documents. :-)) which describes the technical cha...
Hi, So what I'm looking for is something like a free version of 37signals Basecamp thats less project/todo based and more community based. I want somewhere people can collaborate. At the moment we use google docs/forms, a forum and IRC. Does anyone know of any such web applications that bring these features and perhaps other under one...
My question is how do you exclude certain networks from using facebook connect on your website. I mean if you want FB connect on your site, can you limit say only people with NYU.edu Emails or people in the NYU network? ...
Do you refactor when you see things like this? Or do you just plug your nose and move on? public Collection<DataValidationRuleBase> GetFieldValidationRules(String key) { Collection<DataValidationRuleBase> found = null; try { this.mRules.TryGetValue(key, out found); } catch (Ar...
I am developing a social networking website using asp.net 3.5 and sql server 2008. I need reference links, sites or reference books which help on knowing what are the best practices, code patterns and best third party tools to integrate and work on. Any suggestions from you people will help me greatly. T Thanks ...
I would like to get your opinion on this topic : I'd like to build some social/collaborative app : not much media sharing, but mainly tagging, collaborative text content (as wikis), user profile, tagging and some points system (digg/hackernews-like ?) ...
As many APIs provides access remotely to their data through the user/password combination, I was wondering wich was the best way to store those value, highly secure way (even if 100% is impossible), in order to connect them directly without asking everytime for those. ...
Hi, In my OpenSocial application i have stored the orkut user id, user name, thumbnail url to my db. I can show the user profile by using these fields. Is there any way to show the user profile by using the stored user id only? ...