I'm wondering which books a non technical manager has to read to get a good understanding of software development, without an overrun of technical terms. Thanks in advance Edit The question is mainly about books which do not explain much technical, but more the general flow and common pitfalls that occur when executing a software proj...
I wonder if people would share what they feel is best practice for development environments. For example, Production, Testing and Development environments over multiple servers using multiple different programming languages - PHP for Web Interface with a Java API, with several developers. We are in quite a mess right now and we are tryi...
I want to build a mobile app that has the ability to receive an audio file and then play said audio at a time previously set by the user. Does anybody know if it is possible on the iPhone to build such a function or is there no way around the user having to run the app and accept the audio file manually?. ...
This is a non technical question. I am a Delphi developer so I have met many developers from the community , but only a few have said they know a programming IDE called Delphi and only a very very few know Delphi. I am very comfortable with Delphi and I always prefer Delphi for windows development(but I know many developers on the inter...
In his book "The Productive Programmer", Neil Ford references Dave Thomas' famous Angry Monkeys anecdote. I feel like it might not be easy sometimes to tell 'angry monkey' behavior from common sense or practical wisdom (as it appears during code reviews or implied by coding standards), because latter might not be backed by clear reasoni...
I need to look into syncing data between Windows and the different cellphone platforms (Blackberry, iPhone, Android, etc.). Can you recommend a good forum to discuss cross-platform software development for cellphones? Thank you. ...
I'm discovering python, and I want to create a plug in application, I guess this is simple using python, but it will be nice create a generic start point application. To be more specific, it could be a file.py that reads a XML or INI file to get the plug in's directory path, then load all .py files as plug in Any Ideas? ...
I have 2 years of experience in Software Testing. I have worked on both Manual as well as Automation forms of testing. But, this time I have a got a chance in my company to become a Software Developer. I know opportunities like these rarely come in life and I want to make use of it. I could not get any job early in my career in the field...
I have been a developer for many years and have used several different programming languages. However, the one I love the most is C#. I think it and the .Net framework make development quick and enjoyable. With that said .Net works, with MS full support, only on windows machines. I would love to natively use C# on android, iPhones, and ...
Dear friends I develop a software with Oracle form builder for my final thesis. I want to prepare some of software development document for my final thesis report. as you know oracle forms blow ver 8.0 is procedural base... I use oracle form 6... I need to prepare Software Requirement Specification (SRS) and Software design document (...
Hi, i'm about to create an app for my client. Multiple clients of him (of my client) will login to that app and do the same thing. So in that view, we have a 'generic app': written once, suits every clients needs. But, before the first line of code is written, we have offcourse the first exception: when client A does action A, you have...
A large set of code analysis rules is defined within Visual Studio and FxCop but which one do you find to be the most important and most critical to conform and why? Retrospectively, could any of the rules have saved you a lot of time/money if you had enforced them from the start or at least before your product was released? ...