How have you implement Internationalization (18n) in actual projects you've worked on? I took an interest in making software cross-cultural after I read the famous post by Joel, The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!). However I have yet to able to take...
For anyone that is passionate about software development, I'm of the opinion that you should always strive to write beautiful code; however, is there a clear definition of what beautiful code really is? On one hand, I see elegant code being something that's easy to read while simultaneously solving the problem at hand in the most effici...
Is Amazon Web Services a realistic platform for Enterprise Development? ...
Assuming you can't use Linq for whatever reason, is it a better practice to place your queries in stored procedures, or is it just as good a practice to execute ad hoc queries against the database (say, Sql Server for argument's sake)? ...
After reading a bit more about how Gnutella and other P2P networks function, I wanted to start my own peer-to-peer system. I went in thinking that I would find plenty of tutorials and language-agnostic guidelines which could be applied, however I was met with a vague simplistic overview. I could only find very small, precise P2P code w...
How many of you prefer full screen for your applications? What are the advantages and disadvantages of doing this? Edit: I run all my applications full screen, that includes shell, browser, app etc. In this way, I feel less distraction and concentrate on what I am doing. ...
Are some programming languages, by their nature, easier to write programs with less bugs in than others? For a fair comparison, assume that the programmer is considered "skilled" in that particular language, however long that may have taken him. I'm mainly wondering about the influence of conceptual differences, like: manual memory ma...
Like children, programmers are often given the information that they need for their profession in the form of inviolable "rules". Like children, we often follow these rules unflinchingly until one day, by accident more often than deliberately, we don't follow the rule, and nothing bad happens. Maybe we even see that not following the r...
Inspired by What’s your favorite “abandoned rule”? What is the number 1 "rule" you know you should follow, but don't? ...
I have found the easiest way to learn a new language is to write something in it. Usually this works best when I find myself having to write a fairly involved application for my job, however sometimes you just want to pick up some new skills. So my question is what kind of "sample" applications would you write if your sole goal was to ...
Most of the programming that grabs headlines (the glamor programming) is either Web or game development. I'm thinking that these are not what most programmers work on for a living. Since I am considering making programming my career, I was wondering what programmers REALLY work on, and by extension, what are the most used skills that a...
Rep steps: create example .NET form application put a TextBox on the form wire a function up to the TextBox's Enter event When you run this application, the Control.Enter event fires when focus first goes to the TextBox. However, if you click away into another application and then click back into the test application, the event will...
How flexible should a programmer be if a client requests requirements that is not in the project scope? ...
i have robot and want to control it via internet using radio wave .. but still i dont know the best language to do that . with the need to build scure site to insure not any body can use it . i expect for site asp with c# but what is the language i'll need it to control from sender device to the recipt robot . also need to live video tra...
int main() { HandPhone A,B; A>>B;//overloading operator>> to simulate sending sms to another handphone(object) return 0; } How should I declare the istream operator to simulate sending sms to another handphone(object)? ...
Here, my boss, is asking me and the people at the office which Database engine could be the best for a very very huge amount of data. We have been discussing a while in the office and no conclusion came... But as I think that this is a pretty interesting question for discussing ...
We are a group of students doing our Master degree in field of computer science. This semester we should do a Software engineering project according to the following bottom explanation. we should exactly act and report as a real Software engineering Team. I have been chosen as a project manager of this group, I am good in writing java...
Hi, Which component is best to use for receiving HTTP requests in Delphi application? ...
What is the best way to convert a fixed length string array to a fixed lengh integer array in C++ ? ...
Hi, i am searching for a smart solution for this problem: A cancer ct picture is stored inside a unsigned short array (1-dimensional). I have the location information of the cancer region inside the picture, but the coordinates (x,y) are in superpixel (128x128 unsigned short). My task is to highlight this region. I already solved th...