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• Friday Fun: The Rise of Atlantis

  - by Asian Angel

  The best day of the work week is finally here, so take a few minutes to have some fun while waiting to go home. In this week’s game you set off on a campaign across ancient Mediterranean regions to acquire multiple artifacts in a quest for success. Special Note: This flash version of the game allows you to play through three areas (Phoenicia, Babylon, and Egypt) of the overall campaign that is available in the full version. Even in its limited form it still provides a good amount of game play. How to See What Web Sites Your Computer is Secretly Connecting To HTG Explains: When Do You Need to Update Your Drivers? How to Make the Kindle Fire Silk Browser *Actually* Fast!

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• Forget Black Friday: Today is Update Your Parents’ Browser Day

  - by The Geek

  Hopefully you aren’t reading this after a long night of sitting in the cold, fighting with other people to acquire a device that will be out of date in a month. Instead of shopping, it’s time to give the gift of less sucktacular browsers. Over at The Atlantic, they proposed that today be Update Your Parents’ Browser Day, and at How-To Geek, we couldn’t agree more, especially since many of you are probably over at your relatives right now, recovering from eating too much of their food. It’s time to upgrade your parents’ browser, and while you’re at it, make sure that they have anti-virus installed too. Want to be really awesome? Setup CCleaner to run on a schedule, and if they are using Windows XP, setup an automated defrag job. Might be a good time to setup CrossLoop or TeamViewer or some type of remote desktop application so you can easily gain control at a future date when you get that inevitable phone call. How to See What Web Sites Your Computer is Secretly Connecting To HTG Explains: When Do You Need to Update Your Drivers? How to Make the Kindle Fire Silk Browser *Actually* Fast!

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• Quels cadeaux de Noël recommanderiez-vous pour initier les enfants à la programmation ? Livres, jeux, applications, etc.

  Quels cadeaux de Noël recommanderiez-vous pour initier les enfants à la programmation ? Donnez-nous vos idées de livres, jeux, programmes, applications, etc. Le détail ne vous aura pas échappé. Les publicités pour les jouets ont fait depuis quelques jours leurs retour en force sur les écrans de télévisions. Le calendrier de l'avant a pris ses quartiers dans les supermarchés et votre boite aux lettres, la vraie, celle pour la correspondance papier, se remplie de catalogues pour enfants. Ces signes ne trompent pas, Noël est de retour. Pourquoi en parler sur Developpez.com me direz-vous ? Tout simplement parce qu'en me rendant dans une librairie spécialisée m'est venue ...

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• Team Foundation Server : Microsoft organise un WebCast gratuit sur comment structurer son contrôleur de source avec TFS le 1 décembre à 10h

  Team Foundation Server : Microsoft organise un WebCast gratuit sur comment structurer son contrôleur de source avec TFS le 1 décembre à 10h Team Foundation Server 2010 (TFS) est un outil de travail collaboratif accompagnant la suite Visual Studio Team System(VSTS) L'outil automatise le processus de livraison des applications et met à la disposition du développeur, des ressources dont il a besoin pour gérer efficacement les projets informatiques et leur cycle de vie. TFS permet entre autre : la gestion des sources, celle des builds, le suivi des éléments de travail, la planification et l'analyse des performances. Microsoft organise un WebCast gratuit en direct, dénommé « T...

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• Maps API payante : Google s'explique, environ un site sur 300 sera concerné après 90 jours consécutifs de dépassement de quota

  Maps API payante : Google s'explique Environ un site sur 300 sera concerné après 90 jours consécutifs de dépassement de quota Mise à jour du 25 novembre 2011 Google entend facturer aux sites le surplus d'utilisation de l'API Google Maps (lire ci-devant). Son annonce laissait toutefois plusieurs zones d'ombre que nos lecteurs n'ont pas manqué de signaler. Un nouveau billet du blog Geo Developers vient apporter quelques clarifications, avec quelques informations clés : Des sites peuvent dépasser épisodiquement les 25 000 chargements de cartes quotidien sans être concernés par le paiement. Ils doivent en q...

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• GoingNative 2012 : Microsoft organise une conférence C++ de 48h, animée par les pionniers du langage, y compris son créateur

  GoingNative 2012 : Microsoft organise une conférence C++ de 48h animée par les pionniers du langage, y compris son créateur Microsoft accorde une place de choix au langage C++ au sein de son écosystème et de ses outils de développement. La firme organise une conférence de deux jours pour le développement natif avec la nouvelle norme C++ et ISO C++ le 2 et 3 février 2012 dans son campus de Redmond. GoingNative 2012 est décrit par Microsoft comme un événement technique de 48 heures, pour ceux qui repoussent les limites de l'informatique à usage général, en exploitant les capacités de la machine réelle. L'événement sera animé par des éminents conférenciers C+...

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• SkyDrive : Microsoft fait une auto-évaluation de son service de stockage Cloud et souhaite renforcer celui-ci

  Skydrive : Microsoft fait une évaluation de son service de stockage Cloud et souhaite renforcer celui-ci SkyDrive, la solution de stockage des données en mode Cloud de Microsoft, bien qu'ayant subir plusieurs mises à jour et adopter le HTML5 pour son interface utilisateur, afin d'améliorer l'expérience d'accès et de partage des documents, présente encore des limites. Omar Shahine et Mike Torres, tous deux gestionnaires de programme pour Skydrive analysent dans un billet de blog l'univers des services Cloud en général, et Skydrive en particulier avec ses manquements et les futures améliorations qui seront apportées au service. Microsoft distingue tout d'abord trois types de...

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• Linux : Ubuntu n'est plus la distribution la plus populaire d'après DistroWatch, la faute à Unity ? Montée fulgurante de Mint

  Linux : Ubuntu n'est plus la distribution la plus populaire d'après DistroWatch La faute à Unity ? Montée fulgurante pour Mint La distribution Linux Ubuntu perd du terrain selon le rapport annuel de DistroWatch mis à jour cette semaine. Sur les 12 derniers mois, c'est Mint Linux qui domine le tableau des distributions les plus populaires. Ubuntu y arrive deuxième, mais son déclin s'accélère au dernier mois pour se classer quatrième derrière Fedora,

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• La documentation de Qt 4.7 en Français, bien commencer avec Qt Quick et QML

  Mise à jour du 24/11/2011 par johnlamericain Bonjour à tous, Je suis heureux de vous annoncer une nouvelle publication de la traduction de la documentation Qt. Pas moins de 60 nouvelles pages ont été publiées aujourd'hui sur Developpez.com. Vous serez content d'apprendre que l'équipe s'est concentrée sur Qt Quick et QML. Nous avons traduit tout ce qui est important pour faciliter les débuts d'un nouvel utilisateur de Qt Quick : Pour commencer Introduction au langage QML

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• GlassFish Downloads - Where? (reminder)

  - by alexismp

  Whether you're looking for the open source edition, stable and supported builds, promoted or event nightly builds, they are all in one place on this download page which is linked off of the main glassfish.org welcome page. At the time of this writing (Nov. 2011), the latest stable release is GlassFish 3.1.1 (open source bits, supported Oracle GlassFish Server). The all-in-one Download page also contains links to the developer builds of both 3.1.2 (see plans here) as well as the promoted builds for the 4.0 version (plans) which was used to deliver the keynote "PaaS" demo at the recent JavaOne and Devoxx conferences.

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• How to detect browser type and version from ADF Faces

  - by Frank Nimphius

  Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} Sometimes ADF applications need to know about the user browser type and version. For this, assuming you need this information in Java, you can use the Trinidad RequestContext object. You could also use the AdfFacesContext object for the same, but since the ADF Faces Agent class is marked as deprecated, using the equivalent Trinidad classes is the better choice. The source code below prints the user browser information to the Oracle JDeveloper message window import org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.context.Agent; import org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.context.RequestContext; … RequestContext requestCtx = RequestContext.getCurrentInstance(); Agent agent = requestCtx.getAgent(); String version = agent.getAgentVersion(); String browser = agent.getAgentName(); String platform = agent.getPlatformName(); String platformVersion = agent.getPlatformVersion(); System.out.println("=================="); System.out.println("Your browser information: "); System.out.println("Browser: "+browser); System.out.println("Browser Version : "+version); System.out.println("Browser Platform: "+platform); System.out.println("Browser Platform Version: "+platformVersion); System.out.println("==================");

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• Enterprise 2.0 - How to

  - by me

  Today I had a very interesting lecture at the  Fachhochschule Nordostschweiz "Hochschule für Wirtschaft" around How to design & implement an Enterprise 2. 0 solution. We had a great (and sometime pretty skeptical)  discussion around Social Value Models. The presentation can be found below. Enterprise 2.0 - How to View more presentations from Peter Reiser Feedback are always welcome.

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• Searching for entity awareness in 3D space algorithm and data structure

  - by Khanser

  I'm trying to do some huge AI system just for the fun and I've come to this problem. How can I let the AI entities know about each other without getting the CPU to perform redundant and costly work? Every entity has a spatial awareness zone and it has to know what's inside when it has to decide what to do. First thoughts, for every entity test if the other entities are inside the first's reach. Ok, so it was the first try and yep, that is redundant and costly. We are working with real time AI over 10000+ entities so this is not a solution. Second try, calculate some grid over the awareness zone of every entity and test whether in this zones are entities (we are working with 3D entities with float x,y,z location coordinates) testing every point in the grid with the indexed-by-coordinate entities. Well, I don't like this because is also costly, but not as the first one. Third, create some multi linked lists over the x's and y's indexed positions of the entities so when we search for an interval between x,y and z,w positions (this interval defines the square over the spatial awareness zone) over the multi linked list, we won't have 'voids'. This has the problem of finding the nearest proximity value if there isn't one at the position where we start the search. I'm not convinced with any of the ideas so I'm searching for some enlightening. Do you people have any better ideas?

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• How can I make sure my evening project code is mine?

  - by Sebastian

  I'm a physicist with a CS degree and just started my PhD at a tech company (wanted to do applied research). It deals with large scale finite element simulations. After reviewing their current approach, I think that a radically different method has to be applied (they are using a commercial tool which is very limited). I'd rather base my research on an open source finite element solver and write a program which makes use of it. I'd like to develop this idea in the evenings, because that's the time that best suits me for programming (during the day I prefer reading and maths) and use it at a late stage of my PhD. I'd like to have the option to release my program as open source on my website as a reference, for future personal or even commercial (e.g. consulting) use. How can I make sure that my company doesn't claim the code ownership? I don't really I thought that a version control system could help (check out only in the evening). This would document that I programmed not during regular office hours (documented elsewhere). But these data can be easily manufactured. Any other ideas? I want to stress that I'm not interested in selling software. Jurisdiction is EU, if that matters. Thank you.

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• Recommendations for finding part-time consultancy work

  - by Mark Heath

  Although I have a full-time development job, I have occasionally done some part-time paid work in evenings / weekends for various people who have contacted me as a result of open-source projects I have worked on. It's a nice way to earn a bit of extra cash, but obviously it is not always available. My question is, what is a good way of getting your name out there to do some small projects? I have seen a few programmers-for-hire type websites, but I don't know which I can trust or whether there are too many people willing to work for very low prices. Also, being UK based, I would want something which did not assume I have a US bank account.

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• How do I find a qualified web designer in my area?

  - by Incognito

  I just sent out emails to five local web design companies to my area asking to take drawings to HTML/CSS/jQuery. None of the ones who accepted the deal seem suitable to myself. Others rejected the offer because they wanted to 'provide an end-to-end solution' or are 'booked till June'. The local companies did not seem suitable to myself because my review process is this: goto their website, do a view-source. I'll see really weird things (contact us forms that go nowhere), really old things (mm_menu.js), and portfolios that are non-existent (aren't on the site, don't link anywhere, or otherwise). The company would like to hire as locally as they can rather than out-source to another country. Answers I'm looking for Processes you use when searching for someone How you qualify their aptitude for the project Anything that you think I'm doing wrong, or should be doing also. Answers I'm not looking for: "Hello sir please contact me we do everything for 10 dolla." My bud's great at this stuff, call him. example.com is the best for this.

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• Would you make use of "Google 20%" time if your employer encouraged and funded it?

  - by ChrisB

  We know about Google's 20% projects, whereby a developer can spend up to 20% of their time on a personal project which interests them. If your employer let you spend 20% of your time on a project that wasn't part of your day-to-day work, would you make use of it? I can think of a couple of reasons why not: It would make your normal work take 20% longer (extended deadline) You might want to keep your personal idea "personal."

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• How to get out of supporting deadend sales pitches?

  - by JoseK

  As part of being a programmer, you often are asked to provide estimates/ make slideware / do technical demos for Sales teams to present to end-clients. Sometimes we go along for the 'technical' discussions or 'strategic capability planning' or some similar mumbo-jumbo. Sometimes, you kind of know which ones are totally going to fail and are not worth pursuing but the Sales guys present fake optimism and extract 'few more slides' out of you or the 'last conference call'. These don't lead to anywhere and are just a waste of time from other tasks for the week. My question is how do you get out of these situations without coming across as non-cooperative. Updated after Kate Gregory's answer: The problem is related to projects we know are doomed (from the technical feedback we've received) But Sales ain't convinced since they've just had a call higher up the management chain - so it's definitely going ahead !

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• What should a Python developer know while learning Ruby?

  - by C J

  I have been a Python programmer for about 18 months, consisting of one internship and a few side projects, and I consider myself pretty comfortable in the language. However, there seems to be a lot of attention on Ruby in the programming field, but not a lot on Python anymore. So in learning Ruby, are there going to be Pythonic things that are just bad practices in Ruby? What should I watch out for, and what should I avoid?

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• Time it would take me to learn c++ given my speed? [closed]

  - by ashwin

  I am a student in second year of engineering and my life is hard, nowadays. To make my future secure and at least get good jobs, I have started learning C++; I have learned J2SE, ASP.NET (little, basic C#), PHP (little), HTML, CSS, AJAX, Javascript, SQL, a little android development (I have built a benchmark app) in 4 months and have received 1 gold medal in CSS and 1 each in HTML, CSS, Java. I am able to make things in C#, Java and all other, so I can apply all this knowledge. I was able to do all this, because I loved learning and I hate to ask this question. How much time would it take me to learn C++, good-enough to get good jobs at Google, Microsoft? I am currently learning data structures, so that's excluded.

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• Website where you can see how other programmers write their code

  - by CuiPengFei

  I remember seeing a website where people upload videos of themselves writing code. However, I can not find that site now. The purpose is to see how others code, to see how they refactor their code, to see how they use their paradigms, etc. Update: I remember that the video contains almost no audio, it's only one guy writing code, making mistakes, typos, fixing mistakes. If I read the final code, I can figure out how it works, but if I see how the code was wrote and what kind of mistakes were made along the way, then I can better understand it. I guess this is the main reason that they make this kind of video.

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• Business/Development Liaison Wanting To Enhance Understanding In Programming

  - by James Alexander

  I lead software development for a team of of about 20 devs and we're primarily a .net/sql server shop. We've recently created a new role in our organization for a more business like role to assist in prioritization of development and this business liaison has asked me if there are any books or resources he could use to better understand software concepts in a meaningful way. Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated.

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• Scalable solution for website polling

  - by Tom Irving

  I'm looking to add push notifications to one of my iOS apps. The app is a client for a website which doesn't offer push notifications. What I've come up with so far: App sends a message to home server when transitioning to background, asking the server to start polling the website for the logged in user. The home server starts a new process to poll for that user. Polling happens every so many seconds / minutes. When the user returns to the iOS app, the app sends a message to the home server to stop polling. The home server kills the process polling for the user. Repeat. The problem is that this soon becomes stupid: 100s of users means 100s of different processes. It's just not scalable in the slighest. What I've written so far is in PHP, using CURL to do the polling and I started with PHP a few days ago, so maybe I'm missing something obvious that could help me with this. Some advice would be great.

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• CakePHP pair programming practise

  - by The-Di-Lab

  We are on the stage of planning a CakePHP project. It is a relatively a big project for us, as a developer+project manager, I want to hire someone to work with me. But what I really want is to spend less time on actual coding, without losing control of the code quality. What I want to do is that I will design all the functions of the project in CakePHP, at least all the model's functions, and leave the implementation part to the coder who I am going to hire. But my worry is still if I am going to lose control of the code quality using this approach? is it feasible to do so or it is going to turn this project to a chaos. Thank you all in advanced for reading my question and give me answers.

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• When should I use static variables with primitive types?

  - by Felipe Cypriano

  Recently I came across the question NSString: Why use static over literal? and in the comments arrived a new question. In Objective-C there some "special" types that are just maps to C primitives. Like the NSInteger. #if __LP64__ || (TARGET_OS_EMBEDDED && !TARGET_OS_IPHONE) || TARGET_OS_WIN32 || NS_BUILD_32_LIKE_64 typedef long NSInteger; #else typedef int NSInteger; #endif I know how to use the static keywords for objects but I don't understand the implications on C primitive types. When should I use a static NSInteger x instead of NSInteger x? What happens with the memory in both cases?

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