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Older PHP v/s newer PHP version
My company is building a website with database. Programmer's used PHP 5.0. My Service Provider (shared) in the meantime upgraded to PHP 5.3.0.
Fixes have been on going and seem endless...
Do I move ...
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Understanding already existing complex code base [closed]
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What is the most effective way to add functionality to unfamiliar, structurally unsound code?
Till now, all I have worked on is with Java projects that I build from ...
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Is there any way of getting attributes of an audio file? [closed]
Let's say you have an .mp3 file. A few of the attributes I would like to find out is like the bass, when the bass is loud, quiet, strong, soft and when it is all those things.
Is there any way of ...
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How often do experienced programmers have trouble getting their code to perform its intended purpose?
I'm kind of inexperienced with programming (ie less than a year) and I have recently been getting discouraged, mostly from not being able to solve problems with my own code (Not forgetting parentheses ...
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Are there code reviews in opensource projects? If so, what tools are used to do this?
I know there is a big push for code reviews in commercial development. However, are code reviews used in open source software or is based on trust? If so, then how are they performed? [Is it a delayed ...
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Are there any actual case studies on rewrites of software success/failure rates?
I've seen multiple posts about rewrites of applications being bad, people's experiences about it here on Programmers, and an article I've ready by Joel Spolsky on the subject, but no hard evidence or ...
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It takes me hours to completely understand solutions to 1000-pt problems on TopCoder. Should I get discouraged?
Sometimes this applies to the 500-pt ones too. I sometimes start feeling I will never improve enough to code them with ease like the others. Should I just quit? If not, why? It is extremely annoying, ...
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how to find out if spelling mistakes in source code are a serious issue or not?
I find very troubling amount of spelling mistakes I see everyday in our codebase, from which I will reproduce a very short but representative example:
ArgumnetCount
Timeount
Gor message from queue
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Writing recursive functions
I am having a lot of trouble writing recursive functions related to trees. I can't just use google for these functions as they are not general and I won't be able to use google in an exam setting!
Is ...
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How-to convince company to start documenting for legacy software
It has been less than a year since I joined my current company. Their majority of sales have come from a single product that has been alive since the last 10 years. However, there is minimal (if at ...
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What should be the “depth of design”?
We all know that the process of creating a design and the whole architecture of the software is very important before writing the code. But how deep should be dive into the design stuff - should we ...
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How to quantify benefits from a programming training?
I'm conducting a programming training for 3 months. Details in this link - Programming Training Details.
My question is "How do we quantify benefits from such training?".
I think the two important ...
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Are there any opensource APIs that help analyze code?
As an example, let's say that I need to check for a certain usage of C# code and warn the user that that is a bad pratice. There are multiple usages that I want to detect, such as:
Resource not ...
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On the frontier between work and home
I think we've all been there:
You hear of someone say "hey, wouldn't it be nice if platform X had feature Y?" You look around (on SO!), the feature really doesn't exist, even though it probably would ...
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Does slicing a design in PS create horrible CSS?
I am a beginning programmer and I really want to have good habits and practices. I have yet to slice up a PSD and code it. Is this a bad practice? I have heard it creates bad code that had to be ...
