A reply to another question made me remember a project from some years ago when it turned out that Java was not the right tool to use. I typically only learn a new language when I have a problem that it solves better than the ones I already know. [...] Then I write whatever program I wanted to learn that language for in the firs...
AOP is an interesting programming paradigm in my opinion. However, there haven't been discussions about it yet here on stackoverflow (at least I couldn't find them). What do you think about it in general? Do you use AOP in your projects? Or do you think it's rather a niche technology that won't be around for a long time or won't make it ...
Aside from Startup.com, are there any (relatively recent) good documentaries of a tech nature, such as about programming, tech start-ups, notable people in the industry, etc. ...
I work in a consulting services firm. We do most of our work in the Microsoft tech stack. Over the last 5 years I feel like my team as REALLY been inundated with new technologies. These days we need competencies in not just a few, but MANY technologies and it really helps to be deep in them too! I feel like we could all use a little hel...
I was wrapping my head around C# lambda expressions yesterday and a question popped up. What's your way to Stay informed of new things in the market / new features in, say, .NET Framework etc? Decide what to invest time on learning? Actually learn the new feature / technology / methodology? ...
With text-recognition improving and CAPTCHA-breakers using Mechanical Turks to break otherwise unbreakable keys, what's the next technology to keep scripts from spam-botting a site that relies on user input? ...
Navision is also known as Microsoft Dynamics NAV. ...
Hi If you were given a web project from your manager to implement and you were given free choice as to what technologies to use? I know alot of companies have their standard technologies that they use and are very against trying out new things ...
Which reporting technology would fit for the best situation/type of product? I am now thinking of 3 technologies: Embedded Reports (Crystal Reports;MS Reporting services) Server reports (MS Reporting Services) OLAP Databases (MS Analysis Services) Which report technology would you use for an off the shelf product? Is it possible to...
What is the name of the technology behind Google Maps which allows the server to send only the part of the map requested from the user to enhance the performance, and is there any library to handle this? ...
I am hired in one of the electricity providers in our country and will start next month. There are three existing programmers, and each of them are assigned in the different departments. They do have an IT department but no head. The result is that the development of the software systems is not centralized because each programmer is on h...
This question arose from comments about different kinds of progress in computing over the last 50 years or so. I was asked by some of the other participants to raise it as a question to the whole forum. The basic idea here is not to bash the current state of things but to try to understand something about the progress of coming up with...
Lately, Microsoft keeps coming out with new technologies Linq, WF, WPF, etc... Seems to me that they are presented like technology inovations that completely change the way your applications are designed and coded. Yet,they are based on the same underlying framework (2.0) If I look at Java, there are a lot of libraries that provide crit...
I spent most of 2008 staring at Visual Studio, MSSQL, FlexBuilder, and PHP. What new hotness did I miss? ...
Have there been any (programming!) technology changes that you've made (platform, language, version) that you never, ever want to have to reverse? What is the main reason why you would not want to go back? Ones that come to my mind include C -> C++ (OO) .NET 1.1 -> .NET 2.0 (Generics) .NET 2.0 -> .NET 3.5 (LINQ) Addition It would ...
This is tangentially related to my previous question regarding using a "fringe" technology. I am the "IT Manager" (read: sole IT person) for a tiny company with 5 other employees including the owners. As such, I'm in charge of everything that goes on as it relates to technology. I am in the process of initiating a complete, ground-up ...
What technologies/languages/applications do you think have hit their peak on Windows platforms, those that are or should be slated for obsolescence? My votes, might be wishful thinking in some regards: VBScript Microsoft Access ODBC Flash I ask because we are in the process of setting future directions for technologies and applicati...
When is it appropriate to use AJAX? what are the pros and cons of using AJAX? In response to my last question: some people seemed very adamant that I should only use AJAX if the situation was appropriate: Should I add AJAX logic to my PHP classes/scripts? In response to Chad Birch's answer: Yes, I'm referring to when developing a "stan...
I can imagine many ways of implemeting search features in an ASP.NET MVC application but since I can't find much documentation I was wondering if you have any common pattern, technology or common approach to implement search features in a ASP.NET MVC application (similar to stackoverflow). Some technologies that I have in mind are: SQL...
I'm splurging for my personal system that I've wanted a while so in choices between these for programming and other uses.... (home) 28 in main center monitor (HDMI) with 2 surrounding 19in widescreen 3 seperate 19 or 21 in monitors, no large one in the center, all equal size. What would be ideal? 28 in is huge, seems like might be a ...