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Best linux editor for navigating source code [closed]

I like to download some source code off and on and to explore it. Usually I used Eclipse to work in a project if it takes a long time. But for quick source code explorations creating a project every ...
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In a legacy codebase, how do I quickly find out what is being used and what isn't?

I've been asked to evaluate what appears to be a substantial legacy codebase, as a precursor to taking a contract maintaining that codebase. This isn't the first time I've been in this situation. In ...
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2answers
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Question about ownership [closed]

I am a salaried web developer and I am about to start a small development business on my own as a second income. I want to know if there is a best practice in regards to avoiding infringing on the ...
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JavaScript a good more complex examples [closed]

I don't know much about real JavaScript except some really minor things like using some JQuery, reading JavaScript Good Parts book, but what I would really need is some application that I could dig ...
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2answers
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How do I encrypt the source code on the webserver?

I have a web application developed using Python, HTML, CSS & JavaScript. The customer installs it in any of their own Machine and uses it through their LAN. In short the customer sets up the ...
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Automatic sorting of class/module members and its possible impact on productivity and code quality

Recently I saw some possibilities of some IDEs (via plugins) to sort members of their classes/modules based on some criteria, sou you could have everything sorted automaticaly no matter where you ...
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5answers
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Example bad code project to motivate refactoring / good design [closed]

This is sort of the opposite of Is there an open-source project that can be an example of well-written code?. I am teaching software engineering to undergraduates and I would like a blob of object ...
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10answers
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Are chatty/humorous comments in source code acceptable or unprofessional? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: Humor in Documentation Throughout my professional career, I have often relied on chatty or humorous comments in source code (or source control commit messages) to help ...
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9answers
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Reading source code to learn

As you develop as a programmer, software developer, or coder, IMHO, you begin to see different (best or worst) practices, different algorithms, and "more than one way to do it". Seeing this code can ...
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7answers
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recommend C# source code for reading [closed]

I'm a C# programmer and I'm interested in reading well written C# code. I've read somewhere that reading good code is like reading a good book (and educational too!). My interests: Game programming ...
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1answer
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Include all php files in one file and include that file in every page if we're using hiphop?

I understand that in normal php if we're including a file we're merging the source of it in the script and it would take longer for that page to be parsed/processed but if we're using HipHop shouldn't ...
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7answers
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Shouldn't we count Chacarters of code / comments instead of Lines of code / comments? [closed]

Counting lines of code and comments is sometimes bogus, since most of what we write may be written in one or more lines, depending column count limitations, screen size, style and so forth. Since the ...
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Detecting Internet code leaks

I'm curious after reading today about a minor code leakage from a large project to some blogs & forums (to say it short: the guys forgot to anonymize the code before asking for help), all detected ...
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How do I protect my website (Codes, Database, FTP informations) from freelancer?

I'm developing a website using Joomla and many other 3rd party plugins and also I want to make some custom components so I'm hiring some freelancer developers and few are an online companies they say ...
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5answers
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Why do programmers use one-based indexing for line numbers in source code? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: Why isn't the line count in Visual Studio zero-based? Why isn't the top line in a source code file labelled line number 0? i.e. in a source file which was 10 ...

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