strategies

Strategy for Fixing Layout Bugs in IE6?

Generally, what's the best way to tackle a layout bug in IE6? What are the most common bugs or problems that one should look for when trying to figure out why your page suddenly looks like a monkey coded it? ...

.NET enterprise application platform (same as JBoss to Java)

As a .NET developer I'm asking whether JBoss alternatives exist to be "more suitable for .NET development" as an enterprise application platform. Please do not make any suggestions, such as "make JBoss to expose WebServices"... Thanks. ...

Best generic strategy to group items using multiple criteria

Hello, I have a simple, real life problem I want to solve using an OO approach. My harddrive is a mess. I have 1.500.000 files, duplicates, complete duplicate folders, and so on... The first step, of course, is parsing all the files into my database. No problems so far, now I got a lot of nice entries which are kind of "naturaly groupe...

When would you use the different git merge strategies?

From the man page on git-merge, there are a number of merge strategies you can use. resolve - This can only resolve two heads (i.e. the current branch and another branch you pulled from) using 3-way merge algorithm. It tries to carefully detect criss-cross merge ambiguities and is considered generally safe and fast. recursive - Thi...

Strategies for Developing Multiple Products from One Codebase

I'm working on a project that will (soon) be branched into multiple different versions (Trial, Professional, Enterprise, etc). I've been using Subversion since it was first released (and CVS before that), so I'm comfortable with the abstract notion of branches and tags. But in all my development experience, I've only ever really worked ...

website downtime control strategies

Could someone pointing out what is the best way to control the website downtime; especially when having many sites running? ...

Multiple websites running on same codebase?

Hi, We are developing an application that would be offered as a hosted solution. I am struck with understanding how can i use multiple sites with same code without duplicating base code. eg: website 1: www.example.com and website 2: www.sample.com will run on same code, but would have different configuration settings, and different them...

Are there any Debugging Patterns?

Hi, I know there are many popular and useful Design Patters. Are there something like them for debugging scenarios? Maybe not patterns but methodologies which are categorized and that can be used repeatedly for similar cases. Any idea? thanks. ...

Program comprehension strategies

If you were assigned to a very large project, with sparse documentation/comments and little access to previous developers, and tasked with fixing some tricky little bugs, how would you go about: Learning how the project works Locating the source/cause of the bugs Fixing them, hopefully without causing (too many) new problems I know i...

Clojure for trading strategies

Is anybody using closure for developing automated trading strategies? What is your experiences? I am anticipating learning clojure and wanted to know if i could use it in this context, if there are any resources to using it in this context pls provide a link. I am currently only using ruby and javascript for web development. Kind Regard...