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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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 .
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What techniques can be applied effectively to improve the performance of SQL queries? Are there any general rules that apply?
Started by Niyaz on
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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 .
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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
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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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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
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You a character or two.)
Most of the compressors use a combination of different techniques.
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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
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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.
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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
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You will need your site to be modular as not all performance bottlenecks .
Using solid OOP techniques.
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Debugging is the most time consuming activity of programming. So using appropriate tools and techniques is paramount to efficiency and productivity.
What are your favorite debugging techniques, and in which cases do you apply each of them?
There are many...
Started by Vinko Vrsalovic on
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It's a unique....
Stuff that needs of better ways:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/91527/debugging-techniques
Your essential multitasking/multiuser environment.
Some techniques I use for debugging field issues (e.g.
The code in question.
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Some years ago I was on a panel that was interviewing candidates for a relatively senior embedded C programmer position.
One of the standard questions that I asked was about optimisation techniques. I was quite surprised that some of the candidates didn...
Started by Andrew Edgecombe on
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In some circumstances condition checking can also techniques, one that I ....
Most common techniques be minimised with techniques like loop-unrolling.
Where the bottleneck lies, no tricks and techniques are going to help you.
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