I need to give a brownbag to my dev co-workers. The team is a typical Java/J2EE team, mostly using the current technologies (Grails, Spring, Hibernate, EJB, Caching, Webservices, Messaging). I want to talk about something that we aren't using yet. Part of my reason for giving the presentation is to learn it myself too. And I don't care...
I noticed from various SO questions that some shops ban the usage of open source software, like Subversion for example. What are the reasons for doing this? EDIT: Just to be sure: I'm not asking about linking to open source libraries but the usage of compiled open source tools, like Subversion, Mozilla or OpenOffice. Something which nor...
I need to get a graduate up to speed as a asp.net c# developer (with some sharepoint lucky him). I’m thinking on creating a list of a web casts and putting some incentives in place to become certified as Microsoft web developer. Also chalk talks on friday with yours truly on TFS and real world databas design. Any other thoughts? It ...
Is there anyone out there whose company has migrated from a medium to large Subversion repository to Git? If so: What were the pitfalls you had to overcome? How easy was it for your developers to make the switch and learn Git? Is it a good idea for companies to migrate at this point or should they wait for Git to become more mature (e....
Out of nowhere, everyone on the development staff just received an email telling us that we are going to be calling customers and asking them survey questions. We have never done anything like this before, and in every job I've ever had I've been in a position where I do not talk to customers directly. We are being told this is a polic...
I finally plucked up the courage to go and formally complain to the heads about my boss. What's really scary is that the claims I have made are serious enough to be taken to the CEO in a couple of weeks. I've been asked today to procure some documents referring to some points I have outlined and wanted some real-world developer input o...
When a dev shop (or any other organisation) is registered as ISO 9001 what impact can this have on a programmer's day-to-day experience? Are any special requirements made of a developer? Is an organisation which conforms to this standard likely to be a better place to work than one that isn't? Is the quality of code/coders proportionally...
What are the pros and cons of developing for a customer driven vs a product driven team? I have only had experience with a customer driven team, and although the grass always looks greener, it is probably just as hard to mow. So I would like to know from some experienced people what the difference really is. For clarification I am aski...
In chapter 15 of The Deadline by Tom DeMarco working extra hours is discussed. One of the characters says she forces the developers out of the office every evening so that they can't work extra hours. She says this makes people concentrate on their work, use time more productively and lets them get more things done. The way she does tha...
There are some major issues in my company regarding practices, procedures and methodologies. First of all, we're a small firm and there are only 3-4 developers, one of which is our boss who isn't really a programmer, he just chimes in now and then and tries to do code some simple things. The biggest problems are: Major cowboy coding ...
How do I get my co-workers to stop their excrutiatingly annoying noises such as whistling, knuckle-cracking, hyena-like cackling, etc.? ...
Hello, I am trying to get user token and build the URL so that user need not login everytime they click the file. below is my code. My question is do I need to pass whole of the token value shown below or?? The token value I am getting is symmetric:algorithm:QUVT:keyid:NTZkYTNkNmI=:data:7P9aJHzkfGTOlwtotuWGaMqfU9COECscA9yxMdK64ZLa298A3t...
Possible Duplicate: Is there a reason to not use Boost? In my distaste for over-re-using small libraries that I had designed for different purposes (filesystem, network etc) for each project I had become to like the taste of using a larger general purpose library such as Boost. If it saves time (and money depending on the ge...