Hey, I've had a lot of good experiences learning about web development on w3schools.com. It's hit or miss, I know, but the PHP and CSS sections specifically have proven very useful for reference. Anyway, I was wondering if there was a similar site for jQuery. I'm interested in learning, but I need it to be online/searchable, so I can re...
Please suggest and/or vote for your favorite ASP.NET E-Commerce Solution. I'm looking for a full-featured asp.net E-Commerce solution. The solution needs to be easily extensible as I need to extend it to integrate with a custom Flash based personalization engine. It should also have a great administrative back-end that handles inventor...
Post your favorite book about Microsoft SQL Server (single book per comment please) or vote it up if someone has already listed it. Edit: Please include a small review or overview of subject matter and the reason for its applicability. ...
I'm thinking about purchasing DnGuard, a .Net Protection tool. Judging the cracking community it seems to be on of the stronger solutions. Link: DnGuard Here are my personal pros and cons so far: cons: very expensive (at least for me). The professional version I'm interested in costs $1,299 at the moment. Their Site is often slow a...
I'm looking for a website that can help me find the best new hardware options to build a new computer. I'm looking for reviews and features. Edit: Thanks for all the good advice. I went with ars technica for most of the hardware advice, it lead me to NewEgg products. I'm looking for a good idea for a fairly cheap custom case for the ...
After reading about code reviews on the web I started to wonder, are there any sites or communities out there that provide reviews of documentation and technical articles? When working as the only author on a (hobby/open source) project or a (blog) article, I often wish I had someone to read over my work and provide some feedback. This...
When reviewing requirements specification (that includes functional, non-functional requirements, constraints etc) however small or large it is what are the "deadly sins" committed by authors to look out for? Please list not more than 7 most essential things (in order of decreasing severity) that being done (or not done) in requirements...
I have a web application that requires a server based component to periodically access POP3 email boxes and retrieve emails. The service then needs to process the emails which will involve: Validating the email against some business rules (does it contain a valid reference in the subject line, which user sent the mail, etc.) Analysing ...
Guys, I need your help. In our company, we are to discuss every detail of a finished project with our project manager, phase by phase, code by code, output by output. He is brilliant, arrogant, and a complete asshole. Every time I am done with my module/task it has been approved by QA pain-makers, it's the "time" to meet the manager. I...
My 2-year anniversary with my current company is coming up. In the past, I've been a bit of a job-hopper (work somewhere between 1 and 2 years, then go to another company). I kind of like my project and team... so if I bomb in asking for this, it will cause me some hardship (if only mental/emotional). That said, I've worked very hard ...
I know there are couple 3rd party collection libraries out there (C5, PowerCollections and I guess loads more of other not so complete libraries) as well as the System.Collections.Generics classes. I am however quite unsure which library use to when. I have tried the C5 collections, but some sources claim that they are slower then the de...
As a Programmer or Software Engineer, how do you best prepare for a Performance Review? If the organization doesn't have pre-defined annual objectives, what type of things do you do to prepare? How does one translate programming productivity and skills into a review? When a supervisor isn't hands on, what has worked well to demonstrate ...
Let's say I have a requirements document in MS Word, and someone else reviews it an provides a list of issues found using the "Track Changes" feature. Is there a way to extract "how many major/minor issues were found during the review?" using an automated script - for metrics purposes? I see CodeCollaborator has some MS Word integratio...
Can anyone point to a good unified comparison of various AJAX libraries? I've read about a dozen different ones, I'm about to start a project, and I'm just not confident I've explored the space of possibilities yet. PLEASE NOTE I'm not asking for "I think XXX is great" -- I'm looking for good thorough comparisons. Oh, and the probabil...
I'm looking for a free bug/issue tracking system that has a desktop client. It can run on any server type that doesn't require SSH/RemoteDesktop or be hosted Client should run on windows. And it needs to support more then 1 developer Does anyone know of something like this, if there is have you used it and how did it work for you? ...
Is there any site for technical books reviews and comments. So that it is very useful before reading the book. ...
We are developing a product which provides an API interface, so other developers can use some functionality of main product. This is already implemented and documented. But I'm not sure that this is very useful, and documentation is very clear for developers. How we can find people to review this feature? What type of person should it...
I'm trying to come up with a checklist or set of questions/criteria to assess and evaluate proposed or emergent architectures (perform architectural reviews). What are the most important questions you ask when trying to plan, assess or review an architecture? I know this is a large topic so I'd like to constrain it to a single end-to...
I apologize for this silly question but is ISBN-10: 0596527314 Rails Cookbook 2009 or 2007? Amazon has it listed as 2009 but I can't confirm as everywhere else it seems to be 2007: http://www.amazon.com/Rails-Cookbook-Cookbooks-OReilly-Orsini/dp/0596527314 Is there a new version available on pdf or something? ...
I've recently checked out some reviews of potential employers on sites like JobVent, Telonu, and Glassdoor. The reviews tend to skew negative as might be expected, so I'm wondering how useful they are for job expectations and a metric of morale in the company? What I've seen in a couple different interviews seems to be very different th...