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• What is the C:\Documents~\[Account]\Application Data\Original\IETemply directory used for?

  - by quantity

  I want to retrieve all the pictures viewed on the web, and I was told I can find them in the C:\Documents~[Account]\Application Data\Original\IETemply directory. I have a question. Does the directory mentioned above include all the pictures viewed on the web? What is the relationship between the directory and C:\Documents~[Account]\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files?

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• Idempotent Powershell word search/replace across documents with headers, change tracking, etc.

  - by user61633

  I've found one or two guides to doing a word search and replace across multiple documents with powershell. They work well on simple documents. However, the script ignores text in headers and footers; and if "track changes" is enabled, it replaces text which has already been replaced, resulting in multiple copies of the new text if I run the script more than once on the same file. Any clues as to how I can avoid these undesirable behaviors and make this script robust?

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• How do you fix issues with the debugger for the Android plug-in for Eclipse not attaching?

  - by user279112

  I have been trying to program something for the Android mobile phone, using Eclipse and the Android plug-in for that IDE, and my debugger used to attach just fine. But then it has suddenly started having consistent issues attaching. I just get that message about how the process is waiting for the debugger attach, and then it just won't. What determines whether the attachment glitches so seems to have something to do with what the code is that I'm trying to debug, as it seems to be drastically more of an issue with some versions of my code than with others (on the same app). How do I fix this? Now before you answer, please understand that I have researched this issue already. I have found a couple of solutions that have worked with other people, but which do not work for me. One of which is setting the debuggable property in the main manifest file as true, and the other is going into Dev Tools and into some settings menu, and from there selecting the process and essentially saying to the fake phone, "Debug this process". Neither has really worked. Any other ideas? And just in case...I've run into one blasted technical issue like this after another trying to program for that stupid phone. And I'm not the only one who's having these issues; when I go online to research these issues, it is always very easy for me to find many people who have the same issues, and who are having to use the shottiest, sloppiest, most "ghetto" solutions to work around these issues. I know that many people have created good applications for that phone, but I don't see how I'm supposed to do that when the SDK and the plug-in just don't work half the time. Does anybody know how I may put all this trash behind me, once and for all? Thanks for your answers to either question!

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• uninitialized constant Encoding rake db:migrate

  - by Denis

  Hi, My RoR App use rails 2.1.2 When I run rake db:migrate --trace I get the following error, Any idea? ** Invoke db:migrate (first_time) ** Invoke environment (first_time) ** Execute environment ** Execute db:migrate rake aborted! uninitialized constant Encoding /Users/denisjacquemin/Documents/code/projects/BmfOnRails/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:278:in `load_missing_constant' /Users/denisjacquemin/Documents/code/projects/BmfOnRails/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:467:in `const_missing' /Users/denisjacquemin/Documents/code/projects/BmfOnRails/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:479:in `const_missing' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-0.0.8/lib/sqlite3/encoding.rb:9:in `find' /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/sqlite3-0.0.8/lib/sqlite3/database.rb:66:in `initialize' /Users/denisjacquemin/Documents/code/projects/BmfOnRails/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/sqlite3_adapter.rb:13:in `new' /Users/denisjacquemin/Documents/code/projects/BmfOnRails/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/sqlite3_adapter.rb:13:in `sqlite3_connection' /Users/denisjacquemin/Documents/code/projects/BmfOnRails/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:292:in `send' /Users/denisjacquemin/Documents/code/projects/BmfOnRails/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:292:in `connection=' /Users/denisjacquemin/Documents/code/projects/BmfOnRails/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:260:in `retrieve_connection' /Users/denisjacquemin/Documents/code/projects/BmfOnRails/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_specification.rb:78:in `connection' /Users/denisjacquemin/Documents/code/projects/BmfOnRails/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/migration.rb:408:in `initialize' /Users/denisjacquemin/Documents/code/projects/BmfOnRails/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/migration.rb:373:in `new' /Users/denisjacquemin/Documents/code/projects/BmfOnRails/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/migration.rb:373:in `up' /Users/denisjacquemin/Documents/code/projects/BmfOnRails/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/migration.rb:356:in `migrate' /Users/denisjacquemin/Documents/code/projects/BmfOnRails/vendor/rails/railties/lib/tasks/databases.rake:99 /Users/denisjacquemin/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:636:in `call' /Users/denisjacquemin/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:636:in `execute' /Users/denisjacquemin/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:631:in `each' /Users/denisjacquemin/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:631:in `execute' /Users/denisjacquemin/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:597:in `invoke_with_call_chain' /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:242:in `synchronize' /Users/denisjacquemin/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:590:in `invoke_with_call_chain' /Users/denisjacquemin/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:583:in `invoke' /Users/denisjacquemin/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2051:in `invoke_task' /Users/denisjacquemin/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2029:in `top_level' /Users/denisjacquemin/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2029:in `each' /Users/denisjacquemin/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2029:in `top_level' /Users/denisjacquemin/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2068:in `standard_exception_handling' /Users/denisjacquemin/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2023:in `top_level' /Users/denisjacquemin/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2001:in `run' /Users/denisjacquemin/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:2068:in `standard_exception_handling' /Users/denisjacquemin/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/lib/rake.rb:1998:in `run' /Users/denisjacquemin/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/rake-0.8.7/bin/rake:31 /usr/bin/rake:19:in `load' /usr/bin/rake:19 My database.yml development: adapter: sqlite3 database: db/development.sqlite3 pool: 5 timeout: 5000 thanks

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• Has anybody here helped fake-create technical details for the movies / TV shows?

  - by none

  This is based on another SO question: Have you ever recognized any source code visible in a movie? where we were discussing some of the cheap tricks to add technical "details" to a scene (e.g. showing HTML/java script code or hexdumps and mockup GUIs). Which brought up the question: Has anybody here helped create "computer effects" (e.g. as a technical consultant) for movies/TV shows to add some pseudo-technical details to a scene? If you can, please do provide details - what exactly were you supposed to do, and what did you end up doing? Were your proud of your contribution to the final product? What was the pay like?

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• using a Singleton to pass credentials in a multi-tenant application a code smell?

  - by Hans Gruber

  Currently working on a multi-tenant application that employs Shared DB/Shared Schema approach. IOW, we enforce tenant data segregation by defining a TenantID column on all tables. By convention, all SQL reads/writes must include a Where TenantID = '?' clause. Not an ideal solution, but hindsight is 20/20. Anyway, since virtually every page/workflow in our app must display tenant specific data, I made the (poor) decision at the project's outset to employ a Singleton to encapsulate the current user credentials (i.e. TenantID and UserID). My thinking at the time was that I didn't want to add a TenantID parameter to each and every method signature in my Data layer. Here's what the basic pseudo-code looks like: public class UserIdentity { public UserIdentity(int tenantID, int userID) { TenantID = tenantID; UserID = userID; } public int TenantID { get; private set; } public int UserID { get; private set; } } public class AuthenticationModule : IHttpModule { public void Init(HttpApplication context) { context.AuthenticateRequest += new EventHandler(context_AuthenticateRequest); } private void context_AuthenticateRequest(object sender, EventArgs e) { var userIdentity = _authenticationService.AuthenticateUser(sender); if (userIdentity == null) { //authentication failed, so redirect to login page, etc } else { //put the userIdentity into the HttpContext object so that //its only valid for the lifetime of a single request HttpContext.Current.Items["UserIdentity"] = userIdentity; } } } public static class CurrentUser { public static UserIdentity Instance { get { return HttpContext.Current.Items["UserIdentity"]; } } } public class WidgetRepository: IWidgetRepository{ public IEnumerable<Widget> ListWidgets(){ var tenantId = CurrentUser.Instance.TenantID; //call sproc with tenantId parameter } } As you can see, there are several code smells here. This is a singleton, so it's already not unit test friendly. On top of that you have a very tight-coupling between CurrentUser and the HttpContext object. By extension, this also means that I have a reference to System.Web in my Data layer (shudder). I want to pay down some technical debt this sprint by getting rid of this singleton for the reasons mentioned above. I have a few thoughts on what an better implementation might be, but if anyone has any guidance or lessons learned they could share, I would be much obliged.

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• Unrecognized configuration section httpHandlers in Web.Config with Microsoft Visual Web Developer 20

  - by FatboyFudge

  Hi all, I am in need of some help with an error message I get with Microsoft Visual Web Developer 2010 Express. I would like to create a gallery for my site so I downloaded the NotesForGallery from codeplex. I have added the reference into the project like it told me to in the installation instructions. The instructions then say Register the ThumbnailHandler in the Web.Config file (httpHandlers section): <httpHandlers> … <add verb="*" path="ThumbnailHandler.ashx" type="NotesFor.ThumbnailHandler, NotesForGallery"/> … </httpHandlers> So I open the web.config file in my solution and I add it in. When I try and start the website (clicking the play button in Web Developer) I get the error message: Unrecognized configuration section httpHandlers. The complete list of errors I get are: Message 1 Could not find schema information for the element 'httpHandlers'. C:\Documents and Settings\adam\My Documents\Visual Studio 2010\WebSites\FatBoyFudge\Web.config 38 4 C:...\FatBoyFudge\ Message 2 Could not find schema information for the element 'add'. C:\Documents and Settings\adam\My Documents\Visual Studio 2010\WebSites\FatBoyFudge\Web.config 39 8 C:...\FatBoyFudge\ Message 3 Could not find schema information for the attribute 'verb'. C:\Documents and Settings\adam\My Documents\Visual Studio 2010\WebSites\FatBoyFudge\Web.config 39 12 C:...\FatBoyFudge\ Message 4 Could not find schema information for the attribute 'path'. C:\Documents and Settings\adam\My Documents\Visual Studio 2010\WebSites\FatBoyFudge\Web.config 39 21 C:...\FatBoyFudge\ Message 5 Could not find schema information for the attribute 'type'. C:\Documents and Settings\adam\My Documents\Visual Studio 2010\WebSites\FatBoyFudge\Web.config 39 50 C:...\FatBoyFudge\ Error 6 Unrecognized configuration section httpHandlers. C:\Documents and Settings\adam\My Documents\Visual Studio 2010\WebSites\FatBoyFudge\Web.config 38 Warning 7 C:\Documents and Settings\adam\My Documents\Visual Studio 2010\WebSites\FatBoyFudge\Gallery.aspx: ASP.NET runtime error: Unrecognized configuration section httpHandlers. (C:\Documents and Settings\adam\My Documents\Visual Studio 2010\WebSites\FatBoyFudge\web.config line 38) C:\Documents and Settings\adam\My Documents\Visual Studio 2010\WebSites\FatBoyFudge\Gallery.aspx 1 1 C:...\FatBoyFudge\ The project I created was a website if that helps any. The complete web.config is as follows: <configuration> <connectionStrings> <add name="ApplicationServices" connectionString="data source=.\SQLEXPRESS;Integrated Security=SSPI;AttachDBFilename=|DataDirectory|\aspnetdb.mdf;User Instance=true" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/> </connectionStrings> <system.web> <compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0"/> <authentication mode="Forms"> <forms loginUrl="~/Account/Login.aspx" timeout="2880"/> </authentication> <membership> <providers> <clear/> <add name="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider" connectionStringName="ApplicationServices" enablePasswordRetrieval="false" enablePasswordReset="true" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false" requiresUniqueEmail="false" maxInvalidPasswordAttempts="5" minRequiredPasswordLength="6" minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0" passwordAttemptWindow="10" applicationName="/"/> </providers> </membership> <profile> <providers> <clear/> <add name="AspNetSqlProfileProvider" type="System.Web.Profile.SqlProfileProvider" connectionStringName="ApplicationServices" applicationName="/"/> </providers> </profile> <roleManager enabled="false"> <providers> <clear/> <add name="AspNetSqlRoleProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlRoleProvider" connectionStringName="ApplicationServices" applicationName="/"/> <add name="AspNetWindowsTokenRoleProvider" type="System.Web.Security.WindowsTokenRoleProvider" applicationName="/"/> </providers> </roleManager> </system.web> <system.webServer> <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true"/> </system.webServer> <httpHandlers> <add verb="*" path="ThumbnailHandler.ashx" type="NotesFor.ThumbnailHandler, NotesForGallery"/> </httpHandlers> </configuration> Any help you could give me would be handy because I'm not sure what I am doing wrong

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• Technical Article: Oracle Magazine Java Developer of the Year Adam Bien on Java EE 6 Simplicity by Design

  - by janice.heiss(at)oracle.com

  Java Champion and Oracle Magazine Java Developer of the Year, Adam Bien, offers his unique perspective on how to leverage new Java EE 6 features to build simple and maintainable applications in a new article in Oracle Magazine. Bien examines different Java EE 6 architectures and design approaches in an effort to help developers build efficient, simple, and maintainable applications.From the article: "Java EE 6 consists of a set of independent APIs released together under the Java EE name. Although these APIs are independent, they fit together surprisingly well. For a given application, you could use only JavaServer Faces (JSF) 2.0, you could use Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3.1 for transactional services, or you could use Contexts and Dependency Injection (CDI) with Java Persistence API (JPA) 2.0 and the Bean Validation model to implement transactions.""With a pragmatic mix of available Java EE 6 APIs, you can entirely eliminate the need to implement infrastructure services such as transactions, threading, throttling, or monitoring in your application. The real challenge is in selecting the right subset of APIs that minimizes overhead and complexity while making sure you don't have to reinvent the wheel with custom code. As a general rule, you should strive to use existing Java SE and Java EE services before expanding your search to find alternatives." Read the entire article here.

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• Technical differences between square and hexagon for a grid?

  - by Marlon Dias

  I'm developing a 2D city-building game and trying to decide on the type of grid. There will be vehicles, so the unit movement is important too. I know there are visual differences for using Squares or Hexagons, what I want know is: What are the issues for programming each type of grid regarding implementation and performance? Is there a tradeoff or specific benefit for using one of them in a game context?

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• How do I manage the technical debate over WCF vs. Web API?

  - by Saeed Neamati

  I'm managing a team of like 15 developers now, and we are stuck at a point on choosing the technology, where the team is broken into two completely opposite teams, debating over usage of WCF vs. Web API. Team A which supports usage of Web API, brings forward these reasons: Web API is just the modern way of writing services (Wikipedia) WCF is an overhead for HTTP. It's a solution for TCP, and Net Pipes, and other protocols WCF models are not POCO, because of [DataContract] & [DataMember] and those attributes SOAP is not as readable and handy as JSON SOAP is an overhead for network compared to JSON (transport over HTTP) No method overloading Team B which supports the usage of WCF, says: WCF supports multiple protocols (via configuration) WCF supports distributed transactions Many good examples and success stories exist for WCF (while Web API is still young) Duplex is excellent for two-way communication This debate is continuing, and I don't know what to do now. Personally, I think that we should use a tool only for its right place of usage. In other words, we'd better use Web API, if we want to expose a service over HTTP, but use WCF when it comes to TCP and Duplex. By searching the Internet, we can't get to a solid result. Many posts exist for supporting WCF, but on the contrary we also find people complaint about it. I know that the nature of this question might sound arguable, but we need some good hints to decide. We're stuck at a point where choosing a technology by chance might make us regret it later. We want to choose with open eyes. Our usage would be mostly for web, and we would expose our services over HTTP. In some cases (say 5 to 10 percent) we might need distributed transactions though. What should I do now? How do I manage this debate in a constructive way?

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• I'm scared for my technical phone interview for an internship!

  - by Marie

  [EDIT 2.0 ]Hello everyone. This is my second phone interview for a development internship. My very first one was okay, but I didn't get my dream internship. Now, I'm facing fears about this upcoming interview. My fears include the following: I'm 19 years old. The thought of 2 lead developers interviewing me makes me think that I'll know so little of what they'd want me to know. Like they will expect so much. I'm a junior having these panic attacks that I did not get in the other internship. I have a little voice saying "You didn't get the other one. What makes you think you'll get this one?". I'm scared that I'll freeze up, forget everything I know, and stutter like an idiot. I'm still traumatized by the last one, because I really really wanted that internship, and I even studied very hard for it. When I was in the interview, I was so nervous I couldn't think clearly. As a result, I didn't do as well as I know I could have. The minute I hung up, I even thought of a better solution to the interview question! Any tips for a soon-to-be intern (hopefully!)? Thank you! P.S. I'm preparing by using this guide for phone interviews.

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• What packages do I need to compile .tex documents using XeLaTeX?

  - by maria

  Hi I'm aware of the existence of similar threads on this forum. But any of replies mach to my problem. I'm using Ubuntu 10.4 and I hadn't problems with fonts till I've decided to use XeLaTeX instead of LaTeX (cf http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/12347/typesetting-a-document-using-arabic-script/12358#12358). The problem is that I'm not able to compile any .tex document using XeLaTeX, as well as properly display XeLaTeX documentation. As I've learn thanks to mentioned thread, XeLaTeX uses the fonts availables in general in the system. I was trying yo read fontspec documentation, but it opens in pdf with a lot of white gaps and terminal output (quite long) consist mostly of errors. This are just few lines of it: Error: Missing language pack for 'Adobe-Japan1' mapping Error: Unknown font tag 'F5.1' Error (24124): No font in show Error: Unknown font tag 'F5.1' I was trying to compile simple XeLaTeX file: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{fontspec} \setmainfont{Linux Libertine O} \begin{document} Hello World! \end{document} without succes. This is terminal output of compilation: This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.2 (TeX Live 2009/Debian) restricted \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (./ex.tex LaTeX2e <2009/09/24> Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh yphenation, polish, loaded. (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xelatex/fontspec/fontspec.sty (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/ifxetex/ifxetex.sty) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/tools/calc.sty) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/xkeyval/xkeyval.sty (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/xkeyval/xkeyval.tex (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/xkeyval/keyval.tex))) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xelatex/euenc/eu1enc.def) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xelatex/euenc/eu1lmr.fd)) fontspec.cfg loaded. (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xelatex/fontspec/fontspec.cfg))kpathsea: Invalid fontname `Linux Libertine O', contains ' ' ! Font \zf@basefont="Linux Libertine O" at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) fi le or installed font not found. \zf@fontspec ...ntname \zf@suffix " at \f@size pt \unless \ifzf@icu \zf@set@... l.3 \setmainfont{Linux Libertine O} ? I can't find Linux Libertine O. Searching for otf- by aptitude gives as result: maria@maria-laptop:/etc/fonts$ aptitude search otf p emdebian-rootfs - emdebian root filesystem support p libotf-bin - A Library for handling OpenType Font - utilities p libotf-dev - A Library for handling OpenType Font - development i libotf0 - A Library for handling OpenType Font - runtime p libotf0-dbg - The libotf libraries and debugging symbols p libpam-dotfile - A PAM module which allows users to have more than one password p livecd-rootfs - construction script for the livecd rootfs p makebootfat - Utility to create a bootable FAT filesystem p otf-ipaexfont - Japanese OpenType font, IPAexFont (IPAexGothic/Mincho) p otf-ipaexfont-gothic - Japanese OpenType font, IPAexFont (IPAexGothic) p otf-ipaexfont-mincho - Japanese OpenType font, IPAexFont (IPAexMincho) p otf-ipafont - Japanese OpenType font set, IPAfont p otf-ipafont-gothic - Japanese OpenType font set, IPA Gothic font p otf-ipafont-mincho - Japanese OpenType font set, IPA Mincho font p otf-stix - the Scientific and Technical Information eXchange fonts p otf-thai-tlwg - Thai fonts in OpenType format p otf-yozvox-yozfont - Japanese proportional Handwriting OpenType font p otf2bdf - generate BDF bitmap fonts from OpenType outline fonts p robotfindskitten - Zen Simulation of robot finding kitten So font in question is not just uninstalled, but not available, if I'm not wrong. Does it mean that I lack some repositoires? I was trying also to apply solution from the thread How do I reinstall default fonts?, but the result is: maria@maria-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts [sudo] password for maria: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Note, selecting ttf-mscorefonts-installer instead of msttcorefonts ttf-mscorefonts-installer is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. maria@maria-laptop:~$ It seems that is not a usual problem for use of XeLaTeX; nobody in the mentioned thread suggested instalation of anything else than TeX Live. Thanks in advance

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• Why do I have to choose between "management" and "technical" tracks in my career?

  - by Stephen Gross

  I was recently laid off, and although I found a new gig I'm a bit frustrated with how career tracks work in the land of software development. I really love doing a bit of everything: coding, testing, architect(ing), leadership/management, customer contact, requirements gathering, staff development, etc. Software companies, however, want me to fit into a niche: I'm either a coder, a tester, or a manager. When I try to explain to them that I'm best when I'm doing all of those at once, they seem very confused. I'm sympathetic to their interests, but at the same time frustrated that the industry works this way. Any advice? Do I just need to get with the program, so to speak?

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• Any technical references for game-oriented icons and symbols?

  - by willc2

  To make localizing easier, I'm using icons to show in-game information like achievements and bonuses. Coming up with good designs isn't easy, especially when it has to be integrated into the rest of the game's art style. Can I do better than looking at some random selection of existing games? Are there any reference books or sites that cover game graphics specifically? I'm looking for more theory and best-practices rather than pre-made graphics.

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• Is there an official Ubuntu free technical support team?

  - by João Pinto

  I have found that there is an "Ubuntu Support Team" at https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-helpteam but I am not sure it's official or active. Please note that I am not referring to bug fixing support, I am referring to the broader OS support, with people available to engage users needing support with a problem and drive it to a proper resolution. Is there an official team for this purpose with a clear scope and activity plan ?

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• How to convince a non-technical client that their application spec needs to be simplified?

  - by Ryan

  Often times I am faced with the situation where a new client comes to me with an application that has literally 100s of unnecessary features and it is quite clear that things need to be drastically simplified for the project to have any chance of succeeding. How do you convince the client to take a more MVP approach and simplify? edit: So the current top answer is to provide the client with a time/cost estimate for the huge application. I'm not too fond of this answer because it doesn't address the real problem with this situation. And that is - it's a bad practice to spec out a massive application and then try and build it from the get go. I feel much more comfortable initially building a small, simple MVP foundation. And then adding small features to that foundation one by one. So how do I convince the client to approach building software in this way?

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• What should a programmer's yearly routine be to maximize their technical skills?

  - by sguptaet

  2 years ago I made a big career change into programming. I learned various technologies on my own without any prior experience. I really love it and feel lucky with all the resources around us to help us learn. Books, courses, open-source, etc. There are so many avenues. I'm wondering what a good routine would be to follow to maximize my software development skills. I don't believe just building software is the way, because that leaves no time for learning new concepts or technologies. I'm looking for an answer like this: Take a new concept sabbatical/workshop 2 weeks per year. Read 1 theoretical and 1 practical programming book per year. Learn 1 additional language every 2 years. Take a 1 week vacation every 6 months. Etc. I realize that the above might sound naive and unrealistic as there are so many factors. But I'd like to know the "recipe" that you think is best that will serve as a guide for people.

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• The Oracle Architects Training: 40 training sessions for our EMEA partners to build their Oracle Applications and Technical skills

  - by Richard Lefebvre

  There is a lot more to Oracle technology than meets the eye. Sure, you already belong to a small circle of our most experienced and committed partners. But are you making the best use possible of our technology solutions? Put it to the test. Join the “Oracle Partner Architects Training”. It is aimed at providing your experts, architects and consultants with in-depth architectural knowledge about Oracle technology. Here is your chance to learn from the best. Seasoned speakers, exclusive content and no product marketing. Oracle technology beyond the obvious. Mark your calendar The Oracle Partner Architects Training is an online training program. Sign up for the live Webex sessions (scheduled from January 2013 till April 2013) or watch replays as they become available. Feel free to follow training sessions at your own pace. Also, last year’s sessions are still very accurate and very available on architects.oraevents.eu NOTE: Looking to get your consultants Oracle certified? One more reason to join the Oracle Partner Architects Training. It is the fast track to getting their expertise validated with an Oracle certificate.

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• Many user stories share the same technical tasks: what to do?

  - by d3prok

  A little introduction to my case: As part of a bigger product, my team is asked to realize a small IDE for a DSL. The user of this product will be able to make function calls in the code and we are also asked to provide some useful function libraries. The team, together with the PO, put on the wall a certain number of user stories regarding the various libraries for the IDE user. When estimating the first of those stories, the team decided that the function call mechanism would have been an engaging but not completely obvious task, so the estimate for that user story raised up from a simple 3 to a more dangerous 5. Coming to the problem: The team then moved to the user stories regarding the other libraries, actually 10 stories, and added those 2 points of "function call mechanism" thing to each of those user story. This immediately raised up the total points for the product of 20 points! Everyone in the team knows that each user story could be picked up by the PO for the next iteration at any time, so we shouldn't isolate that part in one user story, but those 20 points feel so awfully unrealistic! I've proposed a solution, but I'm absolutely not satisfied: We created a "Design story" and put those annoying 2 points over it. However when we came to realize and demonstrate it to our customers, we were unable to show something really valuable for them about that story! Here the problem is whether we should ignore the principle of having isolated user stories (without any dependency between them). What would you do, or even better what have you done, in situations like this? (a small foot-note: following a suggestion I've moved this question from stackoverflow)

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• How can I defend Ruby on Rails against customers' not technical opinion?

  - by okeen

  My customer, a translations business owner, just told me that he has been reading about Ruby on Rails and told me that "there are more PHP guys around there" and "it seems the community prefers it". What would you, as software engineer and freelancer, say to the customer to achieve these goals: Sell Make him see that the technology is my expert decision and Rails is as good or better than PHP (+ whatever framework) for this particular project. UPDATE: Thank you all for the suggestions! Tomorrow I've got another meeting with him, let's see how it goes, I will update again :) UPDATE 2: Finally I told him to read this thread and the result has been fantastic: He gave me the project and we are going to start right now. Thank you all for the help, you have free beer in my charge if we see someday :) BTW: I learned the lesson: be as transparent as possible, because if you believe in yourself and your work, there is no question compromising enough to beat you. regards

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• Allow users to view Word documents only and not be able to edit, copy or save them.

  - by Alexander

  Hello In a traditional Windows Server 2003 environment with AD, we have shared a folder for our policy documents (MS Word). These documents get edited/updated now and then by the administrator(principal of college). Users only have read-only access to the folder, but they can still save-as and then change the content. Sharepoint is a possible solution but not easy to implement. We also thought of using a CMS on Linux and installing Joomla to let users only view the docs with a document management system... but is it possible to automatically retrieve the policy folder on the network and convert or put it in a format that users can only view and not copy? We also thought of saving the docs to secure pdf format but the principal wants an automated system. Basically she just wants to work in Word and the policies must be available to staff members on the network. Any ideas? Much appreciated.

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• What's a good way for organizing PDF documents on windows?

  - by Ivan

  I'm looking for a good way to manage a lot of pdf documents (e.g. papers, ebooks) on windows. Ideally I'm looking for a windows version of the great mac app Yep. I've looked quite a bit and haven't found any windows app that provides and organized overview of your pdf documents. I've considered just tagging the pdf files, but there don't seem to be any apps to simply tag and search tagged files easily. I've found TaggedFrog, but the tags are kept in the app's internal DB and are associated with the filename. So if you move/rename a file it looses all its tags. In a nutshell: Is there a good windows app to organize/efficiently tag files?

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• Is there a way to send personal documents on Kindle for Mac app?

  - by Sid

  I have the Kindle App on my Mac, and an android phone. When I email documents to my [email protected] id, I am able to see it in my library, and subsequently send it to my Android device. However, I'm not able to send it to the Kindle App for my Mac. The Kindle for Mac FAQs clearly state that Magazines, personal documents, etc. are not supported. However, I came across here that there is a workaround to this, although I've not been able to figure out what it is.

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• Searching documents by tag using the Scribd API is no longer returning expected results.

  - by George

  Recently I have encountered an issue with Scribd where searching via Scribd API (docs.search) for documents by tag is no longer working. This has been working (for over 6 months) to return a number of documents that I have tagged with "fdsafetyandprevention" (accessible here http://www.scribd.com/tag/fdsafetyandprevention). Just recently my search via the API has stopped working. Note that test searches such as @tags "selfhelp" as described in the Scribd documentation DO work. Could my issue be related to caching or the age of my documents and Scribd choosing to not return them in search results? I have been using scribd.php (http://www.scribd.com/developers/libraries) to interface with the API using $scribd-search(@tags "fdsafetyandprevention", 20, 0, "all"). I am following the Scribd documentation for docs.search and advanced help (http://www.scribd.com/developers/search_help). Help greatly appreciated. George.

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• How can I "undelete" a set of documents in CouchDB?

  - by radicand

  I have a large set of documents in a CouchDB database that were just accidentally bulk deleted using _deleted:true. I also have a backup for this set of data that includes their last known good revision and metadata. I need to maintain the same _id, so simple restore with a new _id is not an option. Compaction has not been run and I can access any of these documents via the &rev= url parameter as well as their attachments (which are needed). What I need to do is "restore" these documents to the revision I have on file. Surprisingly, I have come up empty with any queries on how to achieve this. Tips or hacks appreciated.

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