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How to learn new techniques? How to practice new technique when there is no programming jobs related to that technique? Such techniques as sql/wpf etc.. Started by Jinx on Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 5 posts by 5 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Create a test/pet project and/or join/assist/use an open. Well, practice. :) For practicing new techniques... Join a local group.. Learn or practice? For learning new techniques it's important to communicate.

Poll of techniques used by SO developers to estimate the effort or time for a project or task There has been quite a bit of discussion about how to apply specific estimation techniques, or which estimation method is better than others. But it's hard to get a sense of which estimation practices people actually use. What I am interested in is an... Started by LBushkin on Tuesday, July 07, 2009, 9 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): I use COCOMO (COnstructive COst MOdeling) as an estimation.... I look at my historic work and look for actual effort from similar activities . I ballpark the numbers on gut feeling. I use function point analysis. I don't estimate - I just start developing.

What techniques can I use to always display user friendly error messages? What techniques can I use to always display user friendly error messages? I guess I'm looking for programming, testing, and management techniques that produce user friendly messages. Started by Zubair on Friday, February 12, 2010, 5 posts by 5 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Write tests that.... This is just one part of it, but I recommend using TDD (test driven development) . Provide clear exists if it is a dialog. Don't surprise the user. Not sure what you are aiming at, but if it is user friendly : Speak the users language .

What generic techniques can be applied to optimize SQL queries? What techniques can be applied effectively to improve the performance of SQL queries? Are there any general rules that apply? Started by Niyaz on Tuesday, September 02, 2008, 11 posts by 11 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): In Oracle you can look at the explain plan to compare variations on your query Use primary keys Avoid select * Be as specific as you can when building your conditional statements De-normalisation... . I think using SQL query analyzer would be a good start .

Limitations of comparison based sorting techniques Comparison sort is opted for in most of the scenarios where data needs to be ordered. Techniques like merge sort, quick sort, insertion sort and other comparison sorts can handle different data types and efficiency with a lower limit of O(nLog(n)). My... Started by Andriyev on Sunday, April 26, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Non-comparison based sorting techniques do not suffer from this limit they aren't as versatile as comparison based techniques.... Comparison based sorting techniques are limited to lower limit of O(n Log(n)). You answered it more or less yourself.

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What techniques do JavaScript compression libraries use to mimize file size? Please note that this question is intended to be a bit more on the theory side of the subject, but besides stripping whitespace what other techniques are used for JavaScript Compression ? Started by Rob on Wednesday, April 08, 2009, 5 posts by 5 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): You a character or two.) Most of the compressors use a combination of different techniques.

Books on Debugging Techniques? Are there any books on debugging techniques? A friend of mine is learning to code and he asked me this question. I told him I don't know of any. Is it that you just have to go through the School of Hard Knocks to learn? Started by zooropa on Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 12 posts by 12 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): It uses the methods of.... You can recommend this link also to your friend: Debugging techniques (Though it's not a book of debugging. If your friend works in a special problem domain. But in each problem domain different techniques apply.

Techniques for writing a scalable website. I am new in the website scalability realm. Can you suggest to me some the techniques for making a website scalable to a large number of users? Started by vipinsahu on Sunday, July 12, 2009, 10 posts by 10 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): You will need your site to be modular as not all performance bottlenecks . Using solid OOP techniques.