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Good Ada IDE?

What would be a good (free) Ada IDE for either Linux or Windows? ...

best book to learn asp.net

So far in my 2 yr career as a programmer I've been purely a java guy. Be it groovy or struts...i've played around with them. I want to give .net a try and see how it is. Can the community recommend some good books for starting out with .net. Chapter on AJAX will be preferable. Thanks! ...

Is it better working on a single technology or working on different ones?

I have always worked on websphere commerce..and recently got an offer to work in a plain J2EE project. I am not sure if I should go ahead or not. Which is better in the long term?? staying in the technology you always worked on and mastering it or swapping technologies n languages every now and then. P.S. I have been around in this indus...

which book to follow to improve skills on algorithm analysis?

which book to follow to improve skills on algorithm analysis? ...

The best CSS tutorial/site/blog/book.

What would you recommend in this topic. I know basics of CSS but I need to expand my knowledge of CSS. It's always good to use good source. ...

Best programming novel to take on holiday

I am about enjoy a two week break in Spain where I expect to have lots of time for relaxing and reading. I normally read a lot of non-fiction so I'm looking for novel suggestions. If there is another Cryptonomicon out there I'd love to hear about it! UPDATE: In the end I took four books including Quicksilver. Quicksilver was fanta...

Can you recommend good reading on CAN and MOST protocols?

Can you recommend (any) good reading (books, links, etc.) on CAN and/or MOST protocols? ...

TTS Engine Recommendation

Can anyone recommend a reliable and cost effective TTS engine for use in a telephony application? Requirements are: Must support the Windows platform Must have rich language support including support for accents (ie US English vs GB English) Nice to have: Integration with the .NET platform Budget friendly Though the output will be...

Any free or commercial Blogging engine recommendations?

I've recently been thinking about moving from Live Spaces and hosting my own blog. I'm not keen to write my own blog engine from scratch (time constraints, etc). What kind of functionality should I be looking for in a free or commercial solution? Sitemap? RSS feeds? Tag support? Offline editor? Any recommendations? Edit: Also hap...

Recommended Hardware to Support Full Text Search in SQL 2005

What is the recommended hardware specifications to support full text search in SQL 2005? We are looking to go in production and I want to make sure the current hardware can accommodate it. To provide the context, We are expecting 2 - 3 million records to be searched by small subset of our users(probably in 100s).The user has the optio...

What Programming Book would you NOT recommend to Developers?

Like a lot of people on Stack Overflow I love to read books about programming, almost as much as I love to read the lists that people add onto their websites, Blog's and this very website. However, for every gem there are a thousand turds, and to one developer a gem could just be a shiny turd to another. Whilst there are hundreds of b...

What are the basic minimum set of Code Analysis rules that you would recommend?

What are the basic minimum set of Code Analysis rules that you would recommend for a 200K LOC solution? We're using unit testing but code analysis has been turned off. Ideally all rules would be turned on by default but I'd like to do this gently and turn on rules in batches so we do not have to deal with everything at once. So, what r...

Best way to run remote commands on a Windows server from Java?

Are there any existing solutions for remote execution of commands on a windows server from Java natively? psexec.exe is not an option since the java application has to be cross platform. Even a preexisting solution using Java RM would be sufficient. Currently, I'm using an SSH client library to ssh through java into a Windows server th...

Good Resources For Emacs.

So to give a bit of context, I'm a programmer and my work has me constantly switching between my laptop (Mac OS X) and Linux/Windows machines. I really would love to find a good text-editor for all of these, I've tried vi and it's a great editor for my basic tasks but since I'm doing programming I wanted something a bit more geared towa...

Language-agnostic properly-tabbing code editors for Linux?

I need a Linux text editor to replace Textpad 4.7.3 (a Windows nagware app), but all the alternatives I've tried are either bloated or incomplete. Here are the features I find most important, in descending order: Regex search, mark, and replace (across all open files, even), regex search in directory trees Tabbed editor with proper key...

Recommendations for ASP.Net development on a MacBook Pro

I have a new MacBook Pro and want to get set up to do ASP.Net development on it. So what recommendations can the Stackoverflow community give me (and the others that I'm sure are out there)? Is VMWare Fusion better, or Parallels? Or scrap VM and run BootCamp? Inside the VM (or BootCamp), run XP, Vista, or one of the Server OSs? Any ...

Anyone using a third-party Windows registry editor that they would recommend to others?

I work with the Windows registry editor (regedit.exe) on a near-daily basis, and occasionally find myself wishing it had more features. For example, it'd be nice if it had: a way to import and export favorites. an advanced search feature that lists all the keys it found, rather than a simple Find feature. It would be great if there w...

Best LAMP setup for PHP development

I'm a very novice Linux user, and am in the market for a new (virtual) machine after my last (physical) server has annoyed me for the last time, and threatens to die at any moment taking years of hard work with it. I need a LAMP server for web-development (thus require LAMP + SVN + (Trac + Python) at a minimum). Having trawled around th...

Can someone who does not like to look at the screen for extended periods of time work in the IT industry (as a programmer)?

I admit the person I'm talking about is me. As much as I enjoy programming, I find it kind of like a chore to look at the screen for long periods of time. My eyes become unable to focus properly after sometime. As I'm a student, I do not have as much code to write as a professional programmer does, and sometimes I just write my code on p...

Alternative site to Mike Gunderloy's "The Daily Grind" (Larkware)?

As a developer who is always looking for new resources and information, I loved Mike Gunderloy's blog "The Daily Grind" on www.larkware.com ("We get up early, so you don't have to.") Unfortunately (for me) Mike decided to discontinue the blog in December 2007. So, my question: is there a similar blog / site which provides such good link...