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Smooth screen recording software

Hello everyone, I am preparing for my senior thesis presentation. I'd like to back myself up in case there is no internet connection available. Therefore I want to record a video showing the functionality of my software. I have tried Camtasia but all the smooth and slick animations I've created, do not look that appealing. Is there an al...

indian calender needed

i want a 100 years calender which shows the indian days like amavasya and poornima? if someone knows any program/software let me know i would be grateful to him.. thanks. i want to find the day from poornima or amavasya for example - in the year 1936 when was shivratri aur janmasthami.i want to find day according to these specification...

What is the biggest/ugliest hack you've used?

Duplicate: What programming hack from your past are you most ashamed of? What is the ugliest hack you've used in your code? You've not proud of using it, but it works, and you haven't found another way to do it? The ugliest one that I've done was writing some music in Lilypond. I wanted a horizontal bracket over my notes, so I hac...

Colleboration/management software.

I am looking for a tool to help me design and describe projects such as website, which I need to develop with other people over the internet. Here is a description of a typical workflow for a small website project which I would like some tool support for. The web site consist of 5 pages, so first I make a description of the features ...

What kind of database do product based accounting packages use?

Hello, What kind of databases do product based accounting packages such as MYOB in Australia and Tally & Wings in India use? They don't seem to use SQL SERVER or Oracle. Their storage file appears to be totally different. Without using any third party database package...I'm amazed at how they manage to rapidly grow by adding features. ...

How do people create re-usable databases?

Hello, How do people make reusable databases that can be used for many products? For example,if we have a database designed for a school...Can it be easily modified to be given to a college? What is the way to create a database that can be used as a product to give solution to many customers with coding just once? Thanks ...

Autonomous Software

Has anyone written any code where the application in its lifetime learn and improve itself (using observed data stored in a KB),are there any frameworks for this? ...

Do you follow the ideas from "Getting Real" by 37 Signals?

"Getting Real" is a book by 37Signals, describing their ideas on how to develop successful web applications. If you've tried applying these to your own work, how was your experience? ...

Is one required to have ECCN for the softwares installed when travelling to a different country

@Moderators, please don't close this topic. Though it is not directly related to programming, I think it makes sense to have the community reply this question as it is related to software & many would benefit from this. Now the question. We are publishers of a desktop software. One of our user says that he requires a ECCN for our softw...

Free Visual Database Design Software?

I am planning to build a web application that will require a relatively complex database. There are several tables involved with many relationships, enough to make it very difficult to keep it straight in my head. I need a simple and easy way to summarize the tables and illustrate the main relationships so that it visually makes sense ...

where to find statistics on applications people are buying

im looking for information and statistics on how much and how many applications from type x people are buying or any such data . i need it for my research on what is the best application industry ...

Architectural design documentation strategies

I am trying to document a software project up to the current stage. The readership would involve myself (in a future time), other developers (currently and in the short-term future), as well as end users. Therefore, the documentation has descriptions of design requirements, architecture/design (data structures, architecture, user interfa...

Who do you hire and why?

You are conducting interviews for a few (3) hypothetical software engineer positions that have just opened up in the company for which you work or own. The position involves a small team environment and implements leading edge technologies and methodologies. You have a stack of roughly 100 resumes. How do you pick your 20 phone intervi...

Top down and Bottom up programming

Hi all, Why do we say language such as C is top-down while OOP languages like java or C++ as bottom-up?. Does this classification has any importance in software development? Thanks. ...

Tips for getting SE job with CS degree?

I am a new Graduate with a CS degree and I have a big interest in Software Engineering(Not programming but Project Management). My CS curriculum only consisted of one SE class and I feel a bit unprepared compared to those who had pure SE degree's. I am asking for some tips on what I can do to even the playing field over the summer(befo...

software testing job

I am about to go for an interview for a software testing summer job. What questions should I ask the professor about this + I have never done software testing before, any good reference material you can recommend will be appreciated. thanks ...

What is the value of software

It seems the value of most technology has depreciated to 'nothing.' Is it that the cost of developing supposed "technology" has been drastically lowered to where it is a commodity for the taking? Is it that the sum of all human knowledge is now readily available for study (Internet)? The software I write at work seems to be valuable i...

Where to find a configuration file for SourceInsight?

Where to find a configuration file for SourceInsight? The default configuration of the software makes the code even unreadable. Thanks. ...

Importance of community recognitions and credits of a developer in his career

Hi, Many fellow developers and software engineers largely participate in developer communities like stackoverflow, codeproject, msdn forums and many more recognized ones. Communities like stackoverflow and many other have recognition and credit programmes for the contributing end-users. Do you think when you next time apply for a job, ...

Any cool third party donation application?

I am looking for a third party applcation that can be use as a donation tool for website and has to be hosted on its own.... ...