In part, I guess I'm curious to know how much time is taken up dealing with other things like responding to emails, attending meetings, and other overhead, as well as non-programming development tasks like designing UIs or designing other application aspects
@Lix so then, as a follow up, how structured is your work environment? (or, to measure it in a different way, how big is your programming/development team?)
minuscule team - on any of my projects I'm pretty much alone on the dev team... a little input from the CTO... other than that I'm on my own... And not much structure either - maybe I'm not the best test case :P
@Lix I agree in general, but my work isn't nailed down enough for me to really make much progress, so I end up spinning my wheels and not getting anywhere much of the time. And, as @minitech said, it's harder if the projects are boring
@pop -Hehehe - you don't even want to know the amount of times my account has been suspended because I was the administrator of an EXTREMELY spamy app...
They (Facebook) received so much negative feedback from users (blocks/removes/spam reports) that they closed down my personal account!
That an TOS violations coming out of client requests...
> @casperOne♦: You are shamelessly covering that teen moderator mistake twice in a row. It's my fault voting you in as moderator. Anyway, I will send my formal complain to your boss, SE Inc. – Karipap
So do we do this in SQL? Well, not really. We query to see if you're at the daily rep cap via SQL and make some decisions based on that, but we don't determine what reputation value you should have from that...it'd be a little crazy. If you want a detailed answer, keep reading.
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@cdeszaq I've changed my world view to accept all of the call outs as a thinly-veiled plea for my acceptance and love. That gets me through the days. =P
Most of the applications that I'm finding, inncluding LiveHelp and PHP Live Chat! feature terrible, un-commented, non-cross-browser compatible Javascript.
I'm looking for chat software that uses a Javascript framework to avoid some persistent and common bugs related to the DOM.
I'm pretty sure those notices are canned. I've seen them on other sites, but only very rarely on SO. I think they were started on Skeptics.
They fill a role roughly equivalent to similar notices that show up on Wikipedia pages, especially for things like "we want you to cite more sources". The mods on ux.se tend to use them fairly frequently
I have a Careers profile, but I'm extremely happy where I'm at now. I don't want to be contacted with any job offers at all.
How can I set my profile to not be contacted with job offers at all? Is deleting my profile my only option?
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Yes, I agree that it's a bit offensive on his part, but baring any evidence to the contrary, reasonable doubt lends itself to letting him have his "fun"
Although, I think that user name is in violation of the ToS (which was recently discussed on Meta). Specifically the part about posting things as someone else.
Ummm, the new blog misspelled the word "world" in the first sentence... I don't know how people meet up around a word. It must be one very giant word... Perhaps Jeff made it?
So...my work just started rolling out gigantic, ugly, (mandatory) JPEG e-mail signatures. Why would I want a 605 x 152px image at the bottom of my e-mails?
@jadarnel27 Blow it up to massive proportions, something like a 10MB image, host it externally, and change your email signature to an HTML IMG reference to it that sizes it as 605x152. That should make a fun protest.
@Lix A friend of mine once bombed an old forum many years ago (somewhere around 1999-2001) like that. After much participation, they revoked his ability to post. But he could still change his signature. So he changed it to a reference to a 26MB BMP panoramic shot from a mars rover hosted at NASA. Threads in which he'd previously participated were... broken.
@Moshe Good luck. Pointers are one of those "weed-out" concepts, and you either get them or you don't. Requires a certain brain to be able to wield them with ease.
@Jcole - I believe you once asked me to write up on pointers. This isn't an honest attempt, because I'm writing as he speaks, but there you go. I'll have to write my own later.
@jadarnel27 I'm appointing you substitute @RebeccaChernoff, to wave a stick menacingly when I don't take care of Data Explorer issues in a timely fashion.
@Moshe or, to be more wordy about it, you are saying "I have a pointer (ip), but I want you to get me the value of whatever ip points to instead of ip's value (like so: *ip)
@Moshe In general, when working with pointer arithmetic, pictures consisting of boxes with arrows are your best friend (much like when working with complex references in languages that hide pointers, like Java)
@cdeszaq Yeah, I used subversion in college. The last place I worked used Visual Source Safe (vomit). This current place, I am the only dev, so I get to pick =)
@jadarnel27 I personally prefer Mercurial, but Git is pretty much the same. Not having a VCS is better than source safe, and svn has it's issue with merges, etc., so I'd say you're moving up in the world. Well done!
@David Yup, it's just about the only [non-D]VCS that's worth using. But Hg and Git are both better than SVN, and can be essentially interchanged from a workflow standpoint. (ie. dvcs's are simply more flexible)
@cdeszaq Ha, thanks! I agree, Visual Source Safe is disgusting. I thought about trying the new Microsoft solution, but that doesn't make me feel like a hacker (while Git does).
@cdeszaq Agreed. They both have their pros and cons, and usually I prefer Git. Though I like the idea of going with Mercurial in a work environment with the possibility of moving to Kiln someday (another product I've yet to have an opportunity to really try out).
@jadarnel27 You are better off using OSS solutions than MSFT solutions, in my experience. Only in rare circumstances is the MSFT solution the better answer.
@cdeszaq I think that's good advice. I just got a new laptop. I was very close to buying Office, but have been on the fence. Thinking about making the jump to OO.
TFS is certainly worth a real look if you want to use all of its other features. If all you want is source control, Git/Mercurial are leaps and bounds better.
@jadarnel27 For "general population" tools, msft is fine and works pretty well, but their developer tools just don't have the flexibility for my taste and make me feel boxed in (most of the time)
If you want some stuff beyond source control, there are still other best-of-breed options that integrate easily. I personally like using TeamCity (free edition) for a CI/build server, Ruby Rake scripts for builds, and pretty much any extensible ticket tracking system for work tracking. (FogBugz?)
@David What else does TFS do besides versioning? I think it does some build management and issue tracking, and perhaps a bit of project planing, but are there other elements I'm missing?
@cdeszaq Most of the benefit is the all-integrated work tracking. You can create custom templates for various work items (though some decent ones are provided out of the box), manage most of the agile process within it, expose through a built-in portal various progress and reports to other business members, etc.
@David That is more the route I tend to prefer. I usually opt for Jenkins and Gradle / maven, + fogbugz, but same idea: Use the tool you find best for the job.
One feature I do particularly like about TFS (though I imaging some tweaking can add it to other systems as well) is "gated check-ins." When you perform a check-in, the server can be set to force a run of the automated tests. If any of them fail, the check-in is disallowed. (Never shows up in the source history on the server, etc. The developer is forced to "fix it" before checking in.)
@David Yes, that sort of workflow is fairly easy to set up using a dvcs that supports easy branching/merging like git or hg and a CI server. It isn't particularly "works out of the box", but it's doable.
But personally, I'd rather see the bad code get checked in, and then shortly there after see a bug-fix get checked in as well. Much rather that than to not be tracking all the changes or have much larger checkins
@jadarnel27 There were a lot of great suggestions made to that hash tag that day. My personal favorite was "TFS: Making Your Files Read-Only Since 2005"
@PopularDemand It really, really is. And the tutorials I started with were hard to follow (or out of date). I have a repository set up on my local PC for now. Haven't tried to use GitHub.
@PopularDemand Heh, I wouldn't call myself an expert by any means (can't speak for any others to that point either), but I have done a fair bit of research into VCSs and I'm always more than happy to share what I know with anyone who will listen
In next week's "ripped from the headlines" CSI: a middle-aged software developer was found dead last night with a sizable hole in his torso. No murder weapon was present at the scene, but a chip from a unicorn's horn was embedded in the wound.
So do we do this in SQL? Well, not really. We query to see if you're at the daily rep cap via SQL and make some decisions based on that, but we don't determine what reputation value you should have from that...it'd be a little crazy. If you want a detailed answer, keep reading.
First, credit...
Most of the applications that I'm finding, inncluding LiveHelp and PHP Live Chat! feature terrible, un-commented, non-cross-browser compatible Javascript.
I'm looking for chat software that uses a Javascript framework to avoid some persistent and common bugs related to the DOM.
I have a Careers profile, but I'm extremely happy where I'm at now. I don't want to be contacted with any job offers at all.
How can I set my profile to not be contacted with job offers at all? Is deleting my profile my only option?
MY PROFILE
Your profile is 131 / 210 complete
blocked employer...
