Part of our application is a fairly extensive plugin development kit allowing third parties to write extensions and add-ons that can be added to the product. In addition to the standard libraries, project templates etc, there are a number of tools that are shipped that speed up development. For instance a custom resource editor that al...
I'm looking at working with a neuroscience team next year. Some of the applications will involve signal processing, image processing, and data-mining. (I do know there will be some MATLAB work, but otherwise, much is left uncharted.) What development experiences have you had in these areas and what techniques, domain-specific terms, met...
Hello! I have a project I am stuck with because the customer always tells me "Hey, I just forgot to tell you one LITTLE thing..." Now, I don't really want to abandon the project after so much work, on the other hand my customer will never be able to tell me in advance everything, he will always have more changes. The question is if th...
I'm from an AS/400 (iSeries) background and have no idea about how a team of programmers work within the .Net environment. Lets say a company purchases a new button control. Now, in that company they'll have 5 or 10 developers working with that new control. Its my understanding that even if the control is in the GAC, it must still be co...
One of my most common operations in textmate is to encapsulate a block of text in a <div>. How can i create a keyboard shortcut for this? I do not really feel like learning anything complex, so simple solutions would work best - thanks! ...
hi, In my embedded project am using JTAG interface to download the code and to debug the downloaded application.But i don't know what is happening inside the JTAG set up. Can anyone please give me basic idea/flow(high level view) of the JTAG set up wich will really help me to understand my development system better. __Kanu ...
What is the proper way to set up Capistrano to deploy a Rails app to multiple environments with different permissions required for each environment? In other words, imagine a typical scenario where a developer makes changes to code and pushes the changes to a testing environment. After testing, a release manager pushes the changes to pro...
I need Virtual PC (VPC) for testing my Visual Studio 2008/2010 applications, and I want to test and debug it using VPC running a clean install of WinXP (nothing else installed). Back when I was running WinXP, I could launch a VPC session, do whatever I needed to (install my application, run it, debug scenarios, etc.), then exit without ...
What is the best development environment for PHP? I use Notepad++ with Vibrant Ink style and Windows Explorer for ftp. very amateurish ...
I have a batch script on an EC2 instance that I would like to be able to edit directly from my desktop's text editor. What is a good method of doing so easily? ...
I want to do some home development with SharePoint 2010. This requires a 64 bit computer, and hence a new computer for me. I also like to do my development in VM's - I've found that VS 2010 on a VM runs nicely, and keeps down the amount of "clutter" in the development environment. So, on my new computer I would like to run several ser...
What I want is as small, as light and as powerfull as this for C# development environment for developing my AS3 RIA's on my EEE PC. On Windows. In general I need codehinting (at least like FlashDevelop has) And UI designer-builder (as similar as possible to one I have in Flash Builder at work,.. at leat like this but for Flex framewor...
I recently asked a question on updating programming packages (on systems that provide programmer tools via packages) for which there has been no response. This leads me to ask the following question. As a software developer over the years, I've encountered enough bugs in tools that lead me to want to keep at the most recent stable rele...
Main concern is that when I try CentOS I see that GCC is out of date. Is there a distro that is geared towards developers? ...
Why does SSMS (MS SQL Server Management Studio) continue to increase the appending numbers to windows and queries even if I open a new one after closing all previous? For ex., the window header of a newly created query is shown as "SQL query6. sql - localhost.databasename (ComputerName\Administrator (52))". How one can reuse these "help...
I need dev and beta sites hosted on the same server as the production environment (let's let that fly for practical reasons). To keep things simple, I can accept the same protections in place on both dev and beta -- basically don't let it get spidered, and put something short of user names and passwords in place to prevent everyone and ...
Subquestioning [2] While copying Resource.mdf [1], I noticed that: 1) It is possible to copy Resource.mdf without stopping SQL Server instance (I attached one having copied from running instance and it works after attaching) . 1a) Should I understand that it as general possibility for all read-only databases or is it only in some v...
Hello, I am a person who is completely new to the Ruby on Rails coding language. A friend and I were going to get our feet wet, but instead now want to jump right in. What would be the best development environment for Ruby on Rails? I am on a Windows machine and my friend is on a Mac. I have the Eclipse development environment for Ja...
I use Visual C++ (7.1 and 8.0) on huge C++ project. The solution contains thousands of files. Visual Assist helps in jumping to function and class definitions. The problem is that it sometimes becomes too slow. I just can't edit a single letter without delay. Is there some alternative to this environment? I mean something that may read ...
Hi I want to create another instance of magento for development purposes. I've copied the site and the database and changed the connction string for the database. However, when I go to log in to magento it re-directs to the live site www.example.com rather than going to the test url test.example.com. Both instances exist on the same ...