I'm a C++/C#/.NET developer. I'm looking for something new and fun. Also I want to develop some web applications. So my question is: is it worth to jump into Python (what is so good about it?), or you recommend me something else (what is so good about something else)? ...
I am looking at updating a program that currently uses DirectShow for video capture. While DirectShow seems to work well, I was wondering if there were any more powerful or up to date SDKs or APIs that I should look into. Some features that would be helpful would be ones that will: Provide a consistent framerate (33ms between frames ...
I would like to give a presentation for my co-workers that will show off some amazing things that Perl can do, things that would make programmers and non-programmers alike say to themselves, "WHOA you can do that?!" I really want to turn heads, since many are of the mindset that Perl is a dying language, but also be fun and entertaining...
I have a list of airport names and my users have the possibility to enter one airport name to select it for futher processing. How would you handle misspelled names and present a list of suggestions? ...
The language does not matter I just want to know what do you look at when you search for an IDE? Do you look for great debugging tools, do you look at the screenshots or do you download it and testrun it for a week? Do you look at videos of the product or do you ask on Stackoverflow what IDE you should look at? ...
Hello, everyone. Suggest me a book on Oracle Application Framework, please. OAF is not Oracle ADF. ...
I'm making a website http://www.simplyfy.co.in, it currently hosts my wordpress blog alone. I stay in india, and there has been a huge rush for people to adopt technology. I have a huge base of people whom i help in technical and non technical issues, over phone or via mail or in person. So i thought of making a website where i can tell ...
I am the lead instructor of web & internet related courses on a private post high-school institution. My current classes include introductions to HTTP, TCP/IP, (X)HTML/CSS/JavaScript and generic SQL. Next year we will deal mostly with PHP / Java. What, in your opinion, are the most important aspects of web development in contrast and rel...
I am a volunteer for Let's Talk Science, an organization which places science graduate students into elementary school and high school classrooms to present short, fun, yet educational demonstrations or experiments related to their particular field. Physics, Chemistry, and Biology have an abundance of such demonstrations, however as a co...
I am going to be giving developers at my company a crash course on design patterns (after coming across some scary code recently). One of the most important things I want to put across is that they save time in both the long and short term (which they really do!) - as developers here are put under quite a bit of time strain. All in all ...
I am looking create small simple applications that are fun social toys. They won't be complicated, usually a one-type CRUD type deal. For example, Generate a random sentence (from source/algorithm) Store this in a database Present this sentence to the user Present a text box to allow them to enter their own sentence. record sentence...
Hi All, I need some suggestions on following code: Scenario: Its like a Opinion poll, You have to choose Yes/No and the data will be stored on DB.But I think this code can be optimized,can some body suggest proper way of doing this. <form id="form1" runat="server"> <div> <asp:radiobuttonlist id="RadioButtonList1" runat="server...
I am writing a program which will tokenize the input text depending upon some specific rules. I am using C++ for this. Rules Letter 'a' should be converted to token 'V-A' Letter 'p' should be converted to token 'C-PA' Letter 'pp' should be converted to token 'C-PPA' Letter 'u' should be converted to token 'V-U' This is just a sample...
Hi, I'm looking to build an app on the iPhone using PhoneGap. The app is an extension of another app which has a REST API. The easiest way I can think of getting data from the remote app is using CURL. Is this possible? Or is there some other recommended method for this? The app I am pulling from is using a standard REST model and requ...
I am trying to read a directory which consists of hundreds of files. For every file in the directory, I am supposed to access(edit) an another file and replace a particular string 'information=filename' in that file by file names 'information=' present in '/home/test/test_these_files' directory. This is followed by executing the file '/h...
Can somebody recommend, if there is any, of course, a project management plugin for Vim (GVim actually, if it makes any difference). I'm not looking for anything extravagant, just something which will keep my files under one project name, and some sort of buffer which will display what files go under what project. You know what I mean,...
I tend to finish my work related tasks pretty quickly, and I get to have some free time on my hands. What should I write in order to become a better developer ? I'm familiar with c++/java/perl/python/ruby. I wrote the following stuff on my own: simple web server simple web clients (different languages) DSLs, internal and external some...
Hello everyone, This is my first post on Stack Overflow and I'm just wondering on the options of making a system tray application. The application would run primary from the system tray while still operating, and could be brought up into a window when clicked on. It is also needed to have some support for global keystroke tracking, to b...
I am great fan of book like "Java Puzzler". I want to know about other book titles which provides similar contents like "Java Puzzler" (Mostly for java). Same time looking for good general puzzle book also. Please suggest some titles. ...
Idle for more than two weeks! all my team is idle! no more coding, just editing few lines of code, no real development, what shall I do? if(idle){ // Please advise ... } ...