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How should I name a method that does this...?

I have a method that receives two range endpoints - start of range and end of range and an integer. It checks to see if the integer falls between the two end points and returns either the integer or the corresponding end point if the integer falls outside the boundary. Example 1: RangeStart = 0; RangeEnd = 10; Value = 5; Returns 5 ...

Where to learn right skills for selling software product/service?

Stackoverflow is really amazing. Last year when I joined the community was a little sceptical because there were already a lot of sites with similar content (although the concept wiki-forum is new to me) but it outpassed almost all (or just all) similar pages and the investment for the development in financial and technical sense probabl...

Getting a grasp of how many people use my software

We have a very small, specialized user base. No community. My boss wants to find out who is using it. And his approach is to simply make a hidden connection, maybe an auto update function, enabled by default WITHOUT notification when there is no update ... I don't really like the idea and try to come up with something different. There i...

For those whose programming job is their "Dream Job"

What exactly do you do, and what do you love about your work? P.S. Im looking for technical stuff like an interesting domain, challenging problems and not non-technical factors like being self-employed, work-life balance, flexible hours etc. ...

flash webcam streaming technology

may i know is there requirement to have flash server/red5 server inorder to flash webcam streaming facility? any open source project would mentioning? ...

javascript with() function

is this part of the native javascript lib? which browser support it? ...

Best resources on how to teach computing ?

I always saw myself as a great pedagogue. Before being a freelance trainer, I used to teach my colleagues, and before that, I used to set up courses for my classmate to help them before the exams. But I know that you can not improve with the attitude of thinking you are great. I already ask my students to give me feedback (after the cou...

Exceptional Programmer in bodyshop environment

Hi, My thought around being a good programmer entails a lot of abilities. Not just being good with code. I want an opinion and view to how others feel about this. What is an exceptional programmer taking the following into consideration (Not always strictly related to development and might sound silly): Customer relations? Do progr...

How to explain source control and best practices to non-technical managers?

My manager recently asked, "Is there a standard procedure or process that is typically used by businesses to ensure the file integrity of files -- maintaining their separateness from those that are involved in work-in-progress projects -- yet permitting all necessary users to gain access to the most up-to-date and accurate files?" Of co...

what happens to older software engineers?

Possible Duplicate: Old Developers - any future ? Hi I have been programming most of my adult life, but as I get closer to the dreaded 40's people around me keep telling me that there is no such thing as an old software engineer, you either become a manager (pointy haired ??) unemployed or finish you career in a slow ag...

non-technical Internal Billing

Hi, This is a non technical question, but I am quite interested to see how other software houses do this. We have two functional departments, Development and Support. Development make the stuff, support will install / maintain. From time to time support have technical issues that are beyond them, and require the assistance from develo...

Is there any Lightweight IDE for java [ windows ]

Possible Duplicate: Light weight Java IDE At present i am using Eclipse, which i think is the best IDE for java. But in terms of memory consumption , it is really a big memory hogger. Do you know any IDE for java, which is the light[est] weight? Today i have downloaded DrJava IDE. It seems promising. Other than this if you know...

Boundaries of an Open Source clone of proprietary software

Let's assume we have a program A that is shareware and closed source. Albeit it being the most popular of its kind, it suffers from a lack of updates and some annoying, yet long-outstanding bugs. This prompts developer M to start an open source clone B of said program A. To make switching from A to B as easy as possible, M is going to m...

MVC Storefront - Kona - Where are they?

I am looking for a full-blown shopping cart example for ASP.Net MVC. I found plenty of links pointing to MVC Storefront (1) (Apparently not being developed anymore) and other articles which talk about Kona, a separate project based off MVC Storefront. Too bad, MVC Store Preview 1A had me pretty happy. Are there any "production ready", o...

I need an interesting computer science topic

I'm competing in a public speaking competition. It is about communicating scientific ideas to non-scientific audience in only three minutes. What computer science topic might make an interesting 3-minute presentation? The competition is famelab ...

What is the best euphemism for a non-developer?

I'm writing a description for a piece of software that targets the user who is "not technically minded", i.e. a person who uses "browser/office/email" and has a low tolerance for anything technical, he just "wants it to work" without being involved in any of the technical details. What is the best non-disparaging term you have seen to d...

How to explain to a non-technical person what source code is in a few words?

I'm writing a bit of open-source propaganda and I need to explain what source code is to a non-technical audience in ten words or less without them losing interest. I've tried things relating to recipes and the like but I'm not an English major so I'm having a really hard time with this. Any ideas? ...

What is the best way to explain refactoring to non-technical people?

We have a project on at the moment where we are refactoring an application that works fine for the moment but under the hood is beyond help. We need to rewrite it so that changes and maintenance can be achievable. The problem is that after the project is done, the application will look and feel cosmetically and functionally the same. ...

Programming / scripting language aimed at non-programmers.

Does anyone know of any scripting / programming languages that are targeted at (or would be suitable for) use by non-techies? I have an application that I want non-technical users to be able to extend with simple scripts, however I'm struggling to find a suitable language to use, in particular: It should be forgiving to users (for exa...

Keeping updated on Java Technologies

Possible Duplicates: What is the best blog for Java development? Good sources to learn about Java trends. dear all, I work as java engineer, job profile is r&d. I would like to keep myself updated with latest/emerging/new Java based Frameworks or any other new technologies build on/around Java. How would i accomplish this? ...