Friends! Can someone point me to an explanation (subjective/ map) which untangles the complex mesh of technologies which kinda overwhelms a newbie who wants to get an understanding of what fits where in terms of software. Thanks Another way of asking the same question: "Can someone talk about the technology ecospace"? What are the set...
I am a student and I do freelance here and there when I have opportunity. I believe my strongest language is C#. I don't really know what is going on in real programming world, so I was wondering if WPF did take over WinForms? I know the differences between two and how two can be used simultaneously but, I just don't want to invest my ti...
Hello, I am interested in theory to scale web applications in a distributed nature, i.e. when there is some platform/stack can be extended by others applications running on different servers, etc. I am researching this field and feels the lack of the right keywords :) Interesting concepts found so far: opensocial through API aka web...
Recently Zed Shaw (a programmer who blogs) mentioned that ODBC references should be removed from the popular python book Dive into Python. I have never worked with ODBC and I just wanted to understand why ODBC is so "bad". What are the pros and cons of the technology? What alternatives are there? ...
Hello It seems the most common aproach to web design is to use HTML/XHTML & CSS in conjunction with other technologies or languages like Javascript or PHP. On a theoretical level, I'm interested to know what other languages or technologies could be used to build an entire site without using a single HTML tag or CSS style for styling/p...
My current job involves working with a huge number of technologies, most of which are very niche and unheard of. In some cases I have to write something about the technology, or with the technology, such as some lessons, examples, or tutorials, on behalf of the developer of that technology or someone that is backing it. When I get told ...
I am going to write a "file manager" which can be platform specific (windows) and i can choose between getting the data from COM object API or via REST API. The advise i need, is about which technology is the fastest learning and implementing for this kind of task? I hear a lot of buzzwords like GWT, Flex, Silverlight and others. Pers...
My question is very simple to expose: I have a few aplications that share data between then. I need a way to support that data sharing (cross several computers) and when one aplication changes data, others should be notified about that. My question is about what tecnologies could be usefull to me. The solution i realise at this moment ...
Someone just starting to learn a technology is referred to as a beginner. But what are the various levels in terms of experience. I have seen Beginner, Intermediate, Expert being used. But is there just these three levels, or there are more, that is further break up. Is there any agreed standard to quantify experience levels. ...
I am looking to start work on a brand-new project, something I've been thinking about for a while as my first independent sellable project. It's broadly speaking a web-based service application, and my first choice, server-language is quite easy... I know Java pretty well from working on Java web-apps in the past. However my experience ...
When ever I visit a website first thing that pops in my mind is, what language/framework/technology they used for developing this website. Most of the time we see things like .aspx/asp/php etc., but these days because of SEO the URL's are clean and doesn't have those extensions. so, what's the best way to find the technology behind tha...
Hello Everybody Always it takes time and some strong physiological effort to learn new technologies.It always makes me questioning to my abilities when i don't understand it at beginning. Physiological aspects,right strategies and good resources plays decisive role on learning. For examples: Expecting learn what u read in first step...
pls provide me sample code of 2d game using opengl in android ...
I have been pondering about this for some time. How do you pick a technology ( am not talking about Java vs .Net vs PHP) when you are planning for a new project /maintaining an existing project in an organization. Arguments for picking the latest technology It might overcome some of the limitations of the existing technology ( Think...
There are many Open source and commercial technologies are available today in the market. Which one best suits for our requirement is one of the main thing while choosing the technology. There are other major thing like cost and efficiency which are essential in choosing the technology. So, I want to know if there some sites or some jou...
I've made a pure PHP script that uses GD library to put text on an image, text entered from a HTML form. The problem is that i can't give the user the possibility to position the text properly. I've found this good example http://lolkot.ru/lolmixer/#1369, it allows users to play with the text very easily with the mouse ! How is this po...
As the title says, I'm interested in new programming languages and technologies (for example languages/technologies in beta testing) that you think are worth learning and can benefit in the near future. As this one can be rather subjective please be specific when answering, try to provide reasons as to why this and/or that. The question ...
I confess, I'm a greedy programmer. I'm easily excited by various languages/technologies/platform, and then want to learn and master them all. Well, it seems to be a good habit, but no one can learn everything, so I need to focus and concentrate on something most important. Here's the list of things I would love to learn: Python (scri...
Some quick background: This Fall, I'm heading into my second year perusing a BS in Software Engineering. I picked up programming in my first year of high school, learning languages like Basic and PHP. My senior year of high school was when I got much more serious. For the last two years, I've been reading for about two hours a day. I do...
I have been working in web-development industry for over 7 years as a designer, tester, project manager, developer (in order of experience). I already have a degree in linguistics, but now I am going for Master's in CS, 'cause I found it rather difficult to find a job in the industry without having a CS degree. However I do not want to ...