I'm working on getting my first server up and running and my dad is trying to convince me that Gentoo is the way to go. Is it worth the compile? I was just planning on using Ubuntu.
Why is C# suddenly so popular? There's been like a repeat explosion in the blogs lately about it; It reminds me of the earlier part of this decade when all of those frameworks for Java came out like Spring, JSF, Hibernate, Struts, Struts2, Tapestry etc...
I've actually been thinking about learning C#, and it seems to contain a lot of qualities…
Very possibly very related:
What PHP framework would you choose for a new application and why?
Zend or CakePHP?
Which one is better?
Some people say CakePHP is better for php 4, what do you think?
In my case, I would like the following:
Lesser code to write, have really strong library and plugin base. Always have new library etc added in…
Backstory: Hi all, I just spent a lot of time reading many of the LINQ vs Nhibernate threads here and on other sites. I work in a small development team of 4 people and we don't even have really any super experienced developers. We work for a small company that has a lot of technical needs but not enough developers to implement them (and hiring…
Hello I'm trying to improve my ruby knowledge by reading The Ruby Programming Language book. Reading Coders at work I saw that lot of the interviewees suggest to dive into a project source code
to learn best practices
to be aware of bad habits
and of course to take new inspirations for how to do things.
I decided to pick a project as more…
I have the feeling that Flash-based ( or Silverlight-based) websites are generally frowned upon, except when you are creating games or multimedia-content rich applications. Why this is so?
Stackoverflow members,
How do you currently find the balance between javascript and code behind. I have recently come across some extremely bad (in my eyes) legacy code that lends itself to chaos (someHugeJavafile.js) which contains a lot of the logic used in many of the pages.
Let's say for example that you have a Form that you need to…
When using MySQL 5.1 Enterprise after years of using other database products like Sybase, Infomix, DB2; I run into things that MySQL just doesn't do. For example, it can only generate an EXPLAIN query plan for SELECT queries.
What are the other things I should watch out for?
Everyone has been telling me to learn C++. Without bashing languages right and left, can someone please state some relevant reasons as to why I should learn C++ today?
Note that in no way am I saying anything harsh about C++. I just want to know why I should master it as a programmer instead of the other powerful languages out there.
What do you think? What is the ideal programming language learning sequence which will cover most of the heavily used languages and paradigms today as well as help to grasp common programming basics, ideas and practices?
You can even suggest learning sequence for paradigms rather than languages.
N.B. : This is port of the question I…
What do you think? What is the ideal programming language learning sequence which will cover most of the heavily used languages and paradigms today as well as help to grasp common programming basics, ideas and practices?
You can even suggest learning sequence for paradigms rather than languages.
N.B. : This is port of the question I…
This is a question in two parts, the first is the most important and concerns now:
Are you following the design and evolution of C++0x? What blogs, newsgroups, committee papers, and other resources do you follow?
Even where you're not using any new features, how have they affected your current choices?
What new features are you…
This is a question in two parts, the first is the most important and concerns now:
Are you following the design and evolution of C++0x? What blogs, newsgroups, committee papers, and other resources do you follow?
Even where you're not using any new features, how have they affected your current choices?
What new features are you…
Well, I'm often tired of the basic functionalities of terminal provided as is when installing a new distribution.
What is the best console in a graphical mode?
For now, all I want to is:
Tabs management
Easy copy/paste (^C/^V support)
UTF-8 support
Should be available for both KDE/Gnome environnement
Please be argumentative,…
When I was in school, I had a difficult time getting into programming because of a catch-22 in the learning process:
I didn't know how to write anything because I didn't know what keywords and commands meant. For example (as a student, I would think), "what does this using namespace std; thing do anyway?
I didn't know what…
What are the advantages and limitations of dynamic type languages compared to static type languages?
See also: whats with the love of dynamic languages (a far more argumentative thread...)
Hi,
I've heard of Coldfusion being a server side technology for web app dev.
Are there any statistics as to how widely it is used as opposed to PHP, Java Servlets and JSP or ASP.NET?
Are there any special features in coldfusion that make learning it worth the while?
Thanks,
jrh
PS: please don't close this question as…
The Guinness Book of Programming Records. It is very interesting to know what we and our colleagues are capable of. I welcome you to tell us what is your best result/achievement and what are you most proud of as a programmer.
PS. There are over 6000 subjective and even more argumentative questions on stackoverflow:…
I know: You and me hate COBOL. I took a look at a lot of code examples and it didn't take me long to know why everybody tries to avoid it.
So I really have no idea:
Why was COBOL ever used?
I mean: Hey - there was Fortran before it, and Fortran looks like a jesus-language compared to COBOL.
This isn't…
Do we still need to bother with vcredist.exe when distributing windows native applications ? Does any of these come bundled with Win-7 ?
If not, are there any technical reasons these are not shipped to people via e.g. windows update - insteadof letting us burden the customers with…
How common is it for coding style guidelines to include a requirement that all functions include a return statement (including functions which return void)?
To avoid being subjective or argumentative, I'd like answers which can name specific companies or open-source projects which…
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What is fastest and less memory draining way of searching a key-value pair? I will be storing items in a key-value like relation and I need to access them quickly. Should I use a SQLite database? A Map? A…