We don't teach children calculus first. We first teach them arithmetic, then algebra, then geometry, the analytical geometry, then finally calculus. Why then, do we teach our computer scientists frameworks and IDE first. Some curriculum do force students to learn computer science fundamentals, but the vast majority of graduates that I...
As a follow-up to my question at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/269812/how-to-quickly-get-started-at-using-and-learning-emacs It's trying to find out how to do something like this which should be easy, that especially stops me from getting more used to using Emacs and instead starting up the editor I'm already familiar with. I use ...
How can I find out if pictures on my page are loaded from browser's cache or from a remote server to which their <img src=.../> points to? ...
Does anyone have any good examples of a go-live plan template? I have a project plan nearing completion but I want to create a simple to follow and visual representation of the remaining tasks and responsibilities as well as task inter dependencies. I'd prefer to have something in an excel style burndown format. Tasks involved are virt...
What software products do you use at work that cost money and are totally worth it? Anything from dirt cheap (regex buddy) to expensive (Rational Purify). I'm at windows shop. My manager asked me what tools we might need next year. Anything from development related tools, to productivity tools, to software that just makes you happy. ...
What are the best free software that helps you become more productive or helps you code? ...
We happily use SVN for SCM at work. Currently I've got our binary assets in the same SVN repository as our code. SVN supports very large files (it transmits them 'streamily' to keep memory usage sane), but it makes everything SLOOWWWWW. I'm ok with slow asset versioning, but slow text operations isn't really acceptable. Right now a...
While developing products, we often need to create proprietary tools to test some of their unique features or diagnose problems. In fact the tools can be at lest as interesting as the products themselves, and some of our internal groups have asked for copies of them. So, aside from the obvious business-driven rules (e.g. don't retrieve...
I wonder what options there are for .net (or C# specifically) Code Coverage, especially in the Lower Priced segment? NCover Seems to be very popular and looks quite good. Supports statement coverage and branch coverage. $299 for the 64-Bit Version. Older Beta-Versions available for free. Visual Studio (2008 Pro) | (2005 Team System (...
Most programming houses / managers i know of can only define quality in terms of the no of bugs made / resolved in retrospect. However most good programmers can innately sense quality once they start meddling with the code.(right?) Has any programming houses that you know of, successfully translated this information into metrics that...
Are there any free tools to help simplify working with an NHibernate project in .NET 3.5? Primarily, I'm looking for some kind of code and config file generator to automate some of the more tedious parts of working with NHibernate. ...
The new Vista Audio subsystem is set up to be a chain of devices starting with the inputs, going through all the various controls (like mixers and volumen controls) and then ending up at various endpoints (like speakers or headphones). My question is: Is there a tool out there that will show all the endpoints devices in the system, and ...
Hi All, I know there has been previous talk on here about screencasting tools/apps, however I thought I would be more specific in what I am after in the hope that it can help me and others :) I am looking at trialling some screencasts on my blog. There are numerous reasons for this (hopefully being more helpful to readers, improving my...
Our windows deliverable has different sets of config files and binary assets for different customers. Right now the configuring is done by hand before packaging and its error prone. What do you think of using branches for each customer, and having the package build/script automerge the customer's branch with trunk? I'm less concerned ...
There are a lot of procedures and functions in the master database of SQL Server that provide handy tools for the database developer. For instance, sp_help [database object] will provide several results sets with useful attributes of the specified object; sp_helptext [procedure or function name] will return the body of a procedure or f...
I currently have Apache HTTP Server, but I'm guessing I'll need Tomcat (and then have to configure it in a way that makes it not open to the public), a Java JDK (which I already have, but should probably update), and an IDE (I have Eclipse). But what else should I have or know before starting? ...
After reading The Pragmatic Programmer, I became quite accustomed to VIM. When in Visual Studio I have ViEmu (http://www.viemu.com/) to provide me with VIM functionality. Is anyone aware of a similar program/key binding/workaround to integrate VI/VIM key bindings in CodeGear Delphi 2007? ...
There are Hibernate tools for mapping files to ddl generation; ddl to mapping files and so on, but I can't find any command line tools for simple DDL generation from JPA annotated classes. Does anyone know an easy way to do this? (Not using Ant or Maven workarounds) ...
Does anyone know any Ajax-based UML Modeling tool ? If this isn't clear enough, I'm looking for something like WWW SQL Designer for UML Modeling. ...
Hello Guys, I am looking for a tool that let me have a flattened view for my folders on a windows xp without actually changing the file/folder architecture example: file/folder structure is : RootFolder : folder1,folder2 folder1 : file1,file2.. folder2 : file3, file4 i want to point that software to root folder and see file1 --> fil...