Hi A friend directed me to this Question "What is the best PHP programming book?" and from there suggested that "PHP in Action" is the book for me (me been a born again programmer that hasn't coded in 7 years but wants to re-code a project i got outsourced). The question i ask, "is it still one of the best books to learn php or has php...
I dont know if this is off topic. A friend is requesting work but i dont know if i want to take his offer. I imagine i need to tweak eCommerce software? maybe not? His job is Get a decent to great look site which 'should' be skin able through CSS Work with paypal to sell products Products are only TShirts. Should be able to see multip...
It's been 18 months since the same kind of question was asked. This is an update. I've been searching around for free Code Review Software but couldn't find a definitive answer to find a good tool that would be easy to setup for our team. My list includes: reitveld, running on Google App Engine. Review Board, from VMWare. Codestriker,...
I'm looking for writing a GUI client for a existing application in my job, this application is CLI and because this is not widely used. This is the first time I'm writing something similar, the I ask you for recommendations, books, techniques, methodologies, advices. My first approach is to create the interface and to make calls to the ...
I have been using Visual Studio 2008 for the past one and half year, only plugin I'm using is Ankh SVN. I heard that there are lots of interesting plugins out there, which help to accelerate and ease development. Please recommend some plugins. I'm using VS2008, C#, SQL Server 2005 for developing Web Applications. ...
I thinking of using SQLite with win7 phone for development of my app. I looking for an ORM mapper which will work with Windows 7 phone and SQLite. ...
I'm using Quartz Scheduler v1.8.3 and is integrated into Apache Tomcat v6.0.10, and hence scheduler is initialized from within servlet container. Jobs are also added/scheduled to scheduler from within Apache Tomcat. I'm designing a JSP web front end page (quartzAdmin.jsp) from where I only want to see scheduler information like meta-da...
Could you recommend some easy-to-follow tutorials on mediawiki? Thanks. ...
hi, i'm new to ubuntu and wanna choose my php/javascript IDE. there is two options for download: Standalone Version and Eclipse Plug-in Version the performance and not being too hight-weight is important to me. which one shall i download? what's the benefit of downloading it as a Eclipse plugin? does it help me to use it be...
I have been playing around with wf4 for a while. I found various articles, videos(channel 9), blog posts and sites about wf4, but couldn't able to organize it in a proper way. I look forward to create a Learning Catalog for Windows Workflow 4 with VS 2010 and IIS 7 (without AppFabric ) Windows Workflow 4 with VS 2010 and IIS 7 (with ...
As my first programming language, I decided to learn Haskell. I'm an analytic philosophy major, and Haskell allowed me to quickly and correctly create programs of interest, for instance, transducers for natural language parsing, theorem provers, and interpreters. Although I've only been programming for two and a half months, I found Hask...
I'm looking for an easy solution to allow users to book a holiday house. The best I've found so far is BookWhen, but I find its more targeted for events rather than renting. Originally I thought I could use google calendar but that's not the most elegant solution. Can you recommend a service/solution that's free? ...
Hi all- I am currently using the Acts_as_recommendable plugin available here. It is using the pearson correlation coefficient to find recommendations, which is pretty much exactly what I want. The problem however is scale. With more than 2000 or so items, the plugin slows considerably (with 5000 items, I see load times of about a min...
Hi, In Silverlight, How can we persist data between different pages and controls. In our application, we plan to have central data object which is to track the user changes from different pages and controls. How many ways can we have to achieve this? And What's your recommended one? Thanks, aghein.ng ...
Currently I'm using an old and patched version of sorl.thumbnail, which kind of works, but I'm afraid of touching it any further. I'm looking around for a proven, working with django 1.2, south-compatible, sorl.thumbnail-like-configurable (ie. multiple thumbnails for a single image) ImageWithThumbnailsField. Any recommendations? edit: b...
Hi, Is it good idea to use WCF to connect to SQL server in my silverlight application? This communication layer deals only with the database (SQL Server) and will return a large dataset most of the time. I am trying to speed up my silverlight application. I was using aspx pages and the client wants something flashier and faster. Any r...
So yes, the problem has been raised in parts multiple times already. Still I'm looking for a keyboard layout that has the following features: Easy on fingers (Dvorak-like layouts welcome) Easy for coding Includes german characters (typing ä with AltGr-p is not ok). Works well with web-browsing (Ctrl-t and Ctrl-w on one hand, left one v...
In his book "The Productive Programmer", Neil Ford references Dave Thomas' famous Angry Monkeys anecdote. I feel like it might not be easy sometimes to tell 'angry monkey' behavior from common sense or practical wisdom (as it appears during code reviews or implied by coding standards), because latter might not be backed by clear reasoni...
Possible Duplicate: The Definitive C++ Book Guide and List I have finally got round to reading K&R, and it is by far the best (programming) book I ever expect to read. It is compact and lucid. It is nectar for my logic centre. The examples are concise, and useful. Moreover they do not contain the words 'boss' and 'employ...