I've been doing some messing around with the cell processor on the playstation 3 and, having made a few small programs (finding distances between every point in two lists of points ,mandelbrot set generator) I'm looking for something a little bigger to expand my knowledge of the platform. I figured I'd look at what contests for the cell ...
I've been running a weekly "tech lead" meeting at our company for several months. It's become quite mundane, and more of a status update than anything else. I'm looking for ideas to make this more dynamic: These are the guys who I think can generate great ideas and vision They also have depth no one else has in a particular domain and ...
background info... When interviewing candidates we do the usual round up of questions (both coding and not) and we follow with a particular scenario where we ask the interviewee to code a given problem. We then follow the work with such questions as why did you do this, why not this, how would you handle the exception here, why did you...
I work in a group that does a large mix of research development and full shipping code. Half the time I develop processes that run on our real time system ( somewhere between soft real-time & hard real-time, medium real-time? ) The other half I write or optimize processes for our researchers who don't necessarily care about the code a...
Hopefully, I'm going to finish my undergraduate studies next semester and I'm thinking about the topic of my final project. And yes, I've read the questions with duplicate title. I'm asking this from a bit different viewpoint, so it's not an exact dupe. I've spent at least half of my life coding stuff in different languages and framewor...
Not sure if this word is used as commonplace, but "sloshing" was introduced to me as a student. It's that time where you consciously put a problem into the back of your mind b/c you can't immediately, while at your minds forefront, conceive an answer. Inevitably, a solution will come to you as you casually think about your problem wh...
Hi! I have a website (www.soltrago.com) wghere I use a .mdb microsoft access database to retrieve data when the pages loads. I use a dns less connection to connect to the database. My question is how many simultaneous connections can I have to my webpage? Like how many people per second can view my webpage? Thanks! ...
Having seen a recent increase in plugins aimed at integrating other services such as bug trackers and continuous integration server with IDEs, I'm wondering if Stack Overflow would be a candidate for similar work. Some thoughts that spring to mind would be notifications of responses within the IDE. Maybe some type of cross referencing ...
Is it allowed to use ideas from open source in closed source software? I've met people who say to not even look at open source (GPL and LGPL were mentioned) if you write closed source software. ...
Hi there, Im after some suggestions for naming a new assembly. The project is a multi-tier rich client app using WPF and we've got good names for all the assemblies (data and business layers) except for the front end. The assembly in question holds the actual user interface and classes for data binding. We want it to be something shor...
Im interested in doing a programming languages project using scheme. A couple that i have considered - A scheme extension interpreter in Scheme(metacircular) - The thing is that a lot of these already exist and its not too challenging. Implementing a Domain-specific language. This one is good, but I cant think of any domain which whi...
What kind of compensation should be given to a developer that comes up with a new idea or business unit for a business they work for? Should they get stock options, salary inreases, percent ownership in their product, etc.? I would like to hear experiences people have had with this as well as any ideas. ...
Remember Google's 10 to the 100 project? The page hasn't been updated in a while so I'd like to know what your (programming related) idea was? Let's use stackoverflow and vote for the winning idea. ...
I found a lot of questions and answers about how to protect yourself from the so called bad boys/ IP thieves and how to enforce rights. As a BSD guy myself I'm not particular interested in this and I somewhat want to turn the question around and ask exactly the opposite: How do you protect yourself from getting sued? In theory the answe...
I just finished and passed data structures and I need a good programming project for the summer to keep my skills sharp. ...
We all like to play games from time to time. Playing games is not only a way to spend time, but often is a good source of concepts related to various parts of life and science. Examples: importance of good resource management and parallel execution early in the game in resource-constrained RTS's (e.g. Warcraft); importance of good risk...
What do you care most in the loading process of your site Statistical Data ,Performance , ... We know that always we need to make a balance between Quality & performance , so for you as an architect-developer of a site , Which things do you consider for the loading process of your site , What do you care most ? I like to hear your id...
My job is to spread the word about this free SCJA (Sun Certified Java Associate) course at my school. I'm also receiving all subscribers information such as e-mail, name, an phone no. I already have almost 100 suscribers, and there'll be possibly more in these days. The problem is that the course has limited capacity for just 60 of them....
I'm wondering about an idea in my head. I want to ask if you know of any library or article related to this. Or you can just tell me this is a dumb idea and why. I have a class, and I want to dynamically add methods/properties to it at runtime. I'm well aware of the techniques of using composite/command design pattern and using embedded...
Javascript is an incredible language and libraries like jQuery make it almost too easy to use. What should the original designers of Javascript have included in the language, or what should we be pressuring them into adding to future versions? Things I'd like to see:- Some kind of compiled version of the language, so we programmers c...