Microsoft has announced they are raising the limit of free applications a developer can submit from 5 to 100. But what does that really mean? First, lets look at the reason for the limitation. The iTunes Store and the Android Market both have a lot more applications available than the Windows Phone Marketplace. But…
I have a website that doesn't have/need a favicon.
Is there a way to instruct the browser not to waste a request looking for /favicon.ico ?
I don't mean filtering logs, but something client-side, like this:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="about:blank" />
That appears to work, but I'm not in a position to do comprehensive…
I am using lucid lynx with this USB adapter and drivers rtl8187.
When I start a download, it starts at 1500kpbs (if i use "iwconfig wlan0 rate [more than 11MB]" it starts at a lower speed), it transfers a few kbs but then the speed starts to drop constantly and nothing is being transferred.
I've also tried the driver r8187, but I…
If you are in Minneapolis on Thursday May 20th please join us for the Twin Cities Connected Systems User Group Meeting. The meeting takes place at 6:00 p.m. at the Microsoft offices at 8300 Norman Center Drive, Bloomington, MN 55437. Scott Colestock will be speaking on Everything you wanted to know about Velocity but were…
It's been quite a few years since Code Complete was published. I really love the book, I keep it in the bathroom at the office and read a little out of it once or twice a day.
What developments in computer software... development need to be added to Code Complete 3e, and for the sake of reductionism, what should be removed…
I'm new to Android development, and was wondering how the following could be achieved within the confines of the Android market as a distribution channel:
One main application, which handles the main menu, networking, high scores, etc.
Several games which can be launched from the main menu, which all work within the same…
I'm tasked with getting a legacy application under unit test. First some background about the application: It's a 600k LOC Java RCP code base with these major problems
massive code duplication
no encapsulation, most private data is accessible from outside, some of the business data also made singletons so it's not just…
Még a Sun Magyarország gondozásában, akik korábban is vitték ezen rendezvényeket újabb Java Roadshow esemény lesz.
A sok külföldi eloado mellett hazai is lesz. A témák pedig meglehetosen aktuálisak:
-Java at Oracle
-Java in Embedded (SE, ME)
-Java For Business
-What is New in Java - Java FX, JDK 7
Szóval tessék jönni és…
I've been working hard on trying to develop a general solution to my problem, but I cannot seem to formulate a proper algorithm for it, at least one that doesn't take a ton of inaccurate grunt work building a lookup table.
I have a solution already for the specific requirement, but it requires the software's…
I have been very remiss in posting lately. Unfortunately, much of what I do now involves client work that I cannot post. Fortunately, someone asked me how he could get a formatted list (e.g. tab-delimited) of files with GPS data from those files. He also added the constraint that this could not be a new piece…
So... I am using a digital voice recorder to record anything I see important, ranging from business to private, from rants to new business ideas.
Every finalized idea is one wma-file. I wrote a program to sort the wma-files into folders. From time to time I listen to the wma-files, convert them to…
I'm interested in a domain name that expired August 9, 2012 and backordered it a few months ago. When I check the status of the domain name, it is listed as "autoRenewPeriod".
It has a new expiration date of August 9, 2013, but a Google search indicates that "autoRenewPeriod" means the registrar…
I was reading (err listening) to The Servile State by Hilare Belloc this morning and pondering whether or not I possessed the means of production, as did the peasant of the middle ages; as did not his descendants after the oligarchs of England forced him into servility.
The means of production…
Hi guys,
Today I checked in a change on some code which turned out to be not working at all due to something rather stupid yet very crucial.
I feel really bad about it and I hope I finally learn something from it. The stupid thing is, I've done these things before and I always tell myself, next…
I just started using Gamemaker Studio and so far it seems fairly intuitive. However, I set a room to "Room is Physics World" and set gravity to 10. I then enabled physics on my player object and created a block object to match a platform on my background sprite.
I set up a Collision Detection…
When I start the compiz fusion icon Application from the shell I get the following output but no icon and no GUI:
$ fusion-icon --no-start
* Detected Session: gnome
* Searching for installed applications...
Checking if settings need to be migrated ...no
Checking if internal files need to be…
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I'm unsure as to the definition of knowing a programming language, so I'm picking C++ as an example. How much does it take to someone to be qualified as knowing C++?
Should they just know the basic syntax?
Template and generic-programming?
Compiler flags and their purposes (Wall, the…
We are building a multithreaded game engine and we've encountered some problems as described below.
The engine have 3 threads in total: script, render, and audio. Each frame, we update these 3 threads simultaneously. As these threads updating themselves, they produce some tasks and put…
Libxml2 is the faster, stable and most popular "open DOM engine"... And the "XML C parser and toolkit of Gnome".
The initial release of Libxml2 was September 1999, 13 years ago. XPath v1.0 was also released at 1999.
XPath v2.0 became a recommendation on January 2007, 6 years ago.
We…
I recently changed my Wordpress category structure a bit, changing some of the names and placing some under different parent categories. I don't use category name in my post URLs, so that's not a problem. But my category archive pages are indexed and have page rank I don't want to…
I've been looking into in state online degree programs 'to fit my busy lifestyle' (i.e. three children, wife and hour and a half commute).
One interesting one I've found is that Master of Engineering in Professional Practice. It looks more useful and practical than a MBA in…
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