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Is there use for the Scroll Lock button anymore?

The scroll lock button seems to be a reminder of the good old green terminal days. Does anyone still use it? Should the 101 button keyboard become the 100 button keyboard? ...

Outdated coding practices

As I do my coding I sometimes wonder if I'm doing things the best way or just the way it's always been done. Does what I'm doing make sense anymore? For example, declaring all your variables at the top of the function. If I try to declare it twice or below where I start using it my IDE will bark at me at design time - so what's the big ...

Examples of outdated software development tools and techologies

I'm writing a paper on software process improvement. As i lack experience from actual software development companies, i made up a company that I'll use for the paper. However I need some examples on outdated tools and technologies they could use so that i have something to improve. I was thinking of CVS as the revision control system (...

"How to do a code review?" or "How to tell a co-worker that her HTML sucks?"

I just started working for a small web company that has one designer and one programmer. I'm kind of the person in between with experience in both worlds. The problem I see right now is that the designer seems to be setting the standards, even though her practices are sometimes wrong (such as invalid html: wrapping block level elements ...

OpenGL outdated version (can't find glMultiDrawElements on header)

I was trying to use the function glMultiDrawElements while studying OpenGL (using red book) but couldn't. I checked the header "gl.h" and the function wasn't there so I checked the version on top of the header and it's 1.1. I know I need at least 1.4 to use it, but I have no idea on how to update it. I tried Windows Update but nothing....

Pantomime = outdated. Sending and receiving mail framework

As I found out, Pantomime framework is outdated. I believe the newest realize came out in 2007. I'm getting a lot of compiling errors because of this. From the top of my head, I got about 1000 errors. So it's probably going to take a while to convert it to a newer version. What is another sending/receiving mail framework that is up to d...

Is elixir out-dated?

My sqlalchemy is 0.6.3, and elixir is 0.7.1 I created a model class which extends Entity: from elixir import * class User(Entity): pass And save the a user as: user = User() user.save() It reports Session has no attribute 'save' I looked into the code of elixir, found it invokes sqlalchemy.org.session.Session#save(), but ther...

Is Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X (3rd edition) outdated?

Hi Stack Overflow, got a quick question for you (pretty much the title): is the book Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X (3rd Edition) outdated? It's just that I read a little in it, until page 36 (in a .PDF ebook version) where I came across a problem. The chapter introduces you to Objective-C and Cocoa, and you already have to write a pro...