A project I'm working on requires serializing a data structure before shutting down and restores its state from this serialized data when it start up again. Last year, we were building for .NET 1.1, and ran into a tricky issue where our code ran on .NET 2.0 a customer upgraded with some software that somehow set 1.1 as default our cod...
Well this migh get urgent soon. My experiences with web-frameworks was that they are relative "unstable". Not that they crash but that there are quite a few changes which then force one to reprogram ones code. I wonder what web developement packages you've used and how much work it was/is to maintain that code... ...
I read somewhere that Ruby is the love-child of Smalltalk and LISP, with Miss Perl as the Nanny. I have a lot of respect for Ruby's parents, but I'm not sure I like the influence Miss Perl had on the child. Specifically, I don't like the predefined variables: I need a cheat sheet to know what they mean. You could say "just don't use t...
Hi Everyone, I know that this subject has been done to death on news groups and there are forum posts for Africa - but I wanted the option of you experts on stack overflow :) Our VB6 app occasionally just vanishes while the user is doing things and doesn't give any sort of error nor is it in the PC's error log! I was wondering if any...
We currently facing some stability issues with our develop web application product. This product was built in part by our partner contractor, and we want to have a good standard metric for stability. The issues we have been facing is constant crashing. The web application is unable to identify when there are more request than it can h...
I'm having trouble with stability in the xaml editor. Restart VS 25 times a day has become tedious. Are there strategies that would minimize the problem or an open source alternative that provides a visual display? Any help would be sincerely appreciated! I don't want to jump out the window but I will... I WILL! ...
Is the June 2009 WPF Toolkit safe to use in applications that will be shipped out to customers? I'm seriously concerned that my application will crash three days prior to release. This concern stems from the fact that that the WPF Toolkit does not seem to be endorsed by Microsoft, even though it appears to be developed by established ...
In may Daily Job i come across this Dilemma : "Stable System Vs Better Design" In routine job when i am fixing some module, When i see bad design -> Badly written code -> Badly Written Algorithm -> Optimization possible I would prefer to fix these also along with issue i am fixing But many people opposes my changes a few support...
I m very curious, why stability is or is not important in sorting algorithms? Any ideas? ...
Would you use it to build a project? (C++, in particular) Is it at all legal? ...
Dear community. I am about to develop a Network measurement tool. The objective is to make a tool, which can measure the responsetime in between a client and a server machine (from the client side). It is s side-application to a main application - If the main applicaiton experiences that the responsetime from the server is above a certa...
I'm talking about VS 2010 Professional/Ultimate RTM (not express versions). Google doesn't show much other than stuff about the beta 2 and RC versions. Will it run OK on a Core 2 Duo E6550 2.33GHz with 3GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS? Edit: How does it go with R# 5.0? ...
I have a web service in Java, contained in Jetty. I'm using Sun's Java 6 with the default ParallelGC, and I have the following command-line options turned on: "-verbose:gc -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps --XX:+PrintGCDetails". When my process is out of memory, I see loglines like this, back-to-back: 66872.846: [Full GC [PSYoungGen: 932534K->93...
I am trying to convince management to switch from SQL Server, to MySQL on Linux. This is very much a windows house, and management seems very wary of using Linux. Can anyone provide hard facts showing Linux is more stable, higher performance than windows for running a DB server? And any other advantages? Also, nobody here knows how to...
Hi, i need to sort the following list of Tuples in Python: ListOfTuples = [('10', '2010 Jan 1;', 'Rapoport AM', 'Role of antiepileptic drugs as preventive agents for migraine', '20030417'), ('21', '2009 Nov;', 'Johannessen SI', 'Antiepilepticdrugs in epilepsy and other disorders--a population-based study of prescriptions', '19679449'),....
I had a thought earlier today regarding nested HTML tags and how browsers render them: <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" {or whichever html version} xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> </head> <body> let n = 1 <div> recurse div n times until maximum (browser fails) </div> </body> </html> what will n be when the browser cann...
InterBase had an architecture that caused disk-writes to leave the database in an always-consistent state -- 97 things every software architect should know, p87 Is this property finally common in 2010 ? Is there a study about database stability/reliability in presence of disk errors ? ...