There are clear benefits to having foreign data centers- lower energy cost, lower human costs, less chance of a natural disaster wiping out the whole infrastructure, etc. Some countries even advertise to large companies. Still, I've always wondered how something like this would fragment a corporate culture- how does a manager maintain ...
I'd like to know the estimation for the supply of professional software developers globally, and, wherever it's possible, regionally. Although weird, I hope this question to shed some light on the global availability of software development services, or, at the very least, realizing just how much of a commodity we are. Edit: by "profes...
I've been working with a small group of people on a coding project for fun. It's an organized and fairly cohesive group. The people I work with all have various skill sets related to programming, but some of them use older or outright wrong methods, such as excessive global variables, poor naming conventions, and other things. While t...
We have an intermediate developer who is really good at what he does, but there is one rough edge to this diamond. He's really insistent that every method have only one entry and one exit point. The approach that I'm taking is to not make too big a deal out of it for code that he writes (except when there is a serious clarity issue). Wh...
I'm currently hired on a temporary basis at a company to help out with some low-level integration with certain IM services. Their current programmers are all C# programmers relying heavily on that framework, without a lot of knowledge about low-level concepts like the Win32 API, pointers, assembly, and the likes. They hired me because I'...
Furthering this meaningless question, basically we get in touch with a programmer, personally, and we send him informal requirement descriptions, (not contracts) and when he sends back working code we pay him via credit card/online. Trust? When he sees that we do pay him, he'll do more jobs. This is not an employment model for millions,...
I'm at a business college where we're doing a unit on presentations. Everyone's been asked to pick a topic and do a 2-minute presentation on that topic. I believe I'm the only programmer in the place, so I was thinking of doing a very simple presentation in which I write some very small programs and run them to show the output on the pro...
Hi Can anyone tell me how to allow anonymous SharePoint MOSS users to view people search core results web parts? When they try to access pages containing this web part, they are prompted to login. All the best ...
Recently due to organizational change, the management is inducting a senior engineer from another group who has no experience in programming. Obviously the work is nothing but programming. There is no time for mentoring, how do one politely explain that experience is a must and programming is hard, without hurting anybody. ...
It is complex, I'll trying to describe it here. If the user and his group have no access rights to anything on the SP site, the user will get a proper "Error:Access Denied" SharePoint page upon logon. If the user has some access to something through his group membership, then a. If the user is listed in the All People list, then the ...
Hi All, I am Team Lead for development and systems admin within a small company. I answer directly to the Director of the company. She is fairly difficult to work with as she almost always knows best, regardless of her level of technical expertise. She changes her mind on what should be a priority and consistently comes up with new grea...
Looking for suggestions as to how to handle micromanagement of development, in the form of: code in exactly this way (algorithmically - perform the actions in this exact sequence) don't fix that right now, even if it's indirectly related to the bug we're asking you to fix. Fix only the thing we want you to fix. what are you working on ...
I need to automate installation of SSL certificates using scripts. I have been able to import server certificate from .pfx file using: certutil -user –p 123 -importpfx "C:\Users\test\Desktop\ISServer.pfx" However, it stores the certificate in Personal folder of Current User. I need to store it in "Trusted People" folder. Is there a wa...
I am trying to customize the advanced peoplesearch, the particular field I want to change is Department, at our client these departments are set and I already made a content type which is a dropdown containing all the departments, I don't see a way to change the departmen field in advanced search from a textbox to a dropdownbox,... This...
Let me clarify the title first. Most of the people around me are just normal computer users who never heard of C++, Pascal and other programming languages. I've noticed that these people tend to think that programming is just "creating something on the computer", they never bother thinking about what it is really about. I see it as a ki...
I have been to so many sites and documentation pages trying to access the myspace search function via an API call. This function is located at http://searchservice.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=sitesearch.friendfinder. With MySpace's extensive APIs for everything, I can't seem to find a way to access a simple search in code! Whats mo...
Hello, I've moved from one team to another in same company. In old team (hardcore c++) we did lots of unit testing. In my new team (also c++) they do functional testing instead. During review they reject my code because of unit tests. Most of the team is interested in learning something new but not the guy who is VIP and has legacy devel...
I'm writing an app using sms as communication. I have chosen to subscribe to an sms-gateway, which provides me with an API for doing so. The API has functions for sending as well as pulling new messages. It does however not have any kind of push functionality. In order to do my queries most efficient, I'm seeking data on how long time ...
I followed the directions in this *link and the while the "all sites" search is working, the "people" search is not working. Do I need to configure a content source (nothing seems to make sense: sharepoint sites, web sites, file shares, exchange public folders, line of business data, custom repository)? Under the search central admin > s...
Im trying to insert a new contact into androids contact list. Adding a name and phone numbers works fine, but adding an email address doesnt work. My code: //name is a string //phone and email are string arrays ContentValues values = new ContentValues(); values.put(People.NAME, name); Uri newPerson = People.createPersonInMyContactsGroup...