A while ago another question referred to the (possibly urban tale) statistic that ... the average lifespan of software is about 3 years At the time I came up with the following reasons (and I'm sure there are more possibly better ones): A new major system (ERP, CRM, etc.) is implemented and it has an "integrated" module to repla...
I maintain a couple libraries for other people. After having gone through a couple releases for each of them, there are some things I would do differently, if I had to do them over again. The question is: Should I do them over? I guess we all face that dilemma - how to balance the helpfulness of the maintenance activity versus the d...
Summary questions: Do you know of a lightweight application that can save files in RTF Version 1.6 format? Do you know what version of RTF Abiword's "Rich Text Format for old apps" corresponds to? Do you know a way to inspect an RTF file and determine what version of RTF it's encoded under? Do you know which DLL describes the RTF forma...
According to an answer from here, artificial neural networks are obsoleted by Support Vector Machines, Gaussian Processes, generative and descriptive models. What is your opinion? ...
I'm certain that I'm not the first person to run into this scenario, so I figured I'd throw it out there and see what the SO hive has to say. As a disclaimer, the person on which I base this question is not someone I currently work with. What is a tactful but effective way of showing someone that some of their "old dog" habits have fall...
Anyone successfully able to install Compaq Visual FORTRAN 6.x on Vista? Tried the other day, but did not have any luck, so just wondering if obsolescence is upon this ol' compiler. Thanks again. ...
As a passionate opensource developer, I produced a lot of software during the years. In some cases, this software became obsolete due to the fact that I moved to another project, and the platforms changed. I frankly don't have time to maintain my past projects anymore, and I don't have many chances to find a maintainer, as my projects ar...
I have a project that was allegedly working when compiled with Visual C++ 6.0. Where can I get Visual C++ 6.0, so I can add one more feature (hopefuly a relatively small change) and recompile? (There doesn't seem to be a good reason right now for "Migrating a big project in MFC from Visual C++ 6.0 to Visual Studio 2005" or "a total rewr...
I'm trying to support a rickety old system until the new intranet is built. The previous programmer somehow got PHP4 and MySQL 5 to work together by doing option 1 and I need to do the same to make a dev environment so I can stop messing directly with the live server. I currently have a test server running PHP4 and I can't connect to my...