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Approach to use for user email address change in application?

As the title says, if the user wants change their email address in the application, in terms of programming, what approach (process) to use? Where do you store the new email address until the user ...
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What are the advantages of expressing information in the simplest possible format?

I want to apologize in advance if my headline is not specific enough, but I think this is a general question, although I have a very concrete example: In my team we maintain a test specification ...
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I want to create an open data format… but I don't really know what that is

I have found a need for a standardization for storage and recording of data relating to diabetes information (I don't think there's any, but I may have missed it). To that end I made this github ...
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How related is coding/information theory to computer networking?

I am taking a networking class(data communication) this coming semester. In many courses in my computer engineering degree, the books lack mathematical content. I am not a math wizard, but I think ...
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HP openview servicedesk: looking for api information ? [closed]

Good day folks. I am very confused in this situation. I need to implement system which will be based on HP open view service desk 4.5 api. But this system are reached the end of supporting period. On ...
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Getting in to smart card programming

I have a Compaq nw8440 with a smart card reader that is: Compatible with ISO 7816 compliant Smart Cards. PC/SC interface support I have been interested in smart cards and wanted to start playing ...
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Looking for an information system for collaborating on files metadata [closed]

I am looking for an information system which has the following features: upload files and add custom properties depending on file type (e.g., author, composer, painter, singer); support for ...
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What responsibilities does a Management Information Systems job entail?

At my school there is apparently a Computer Science degree, which is located under the "department of natural sciences", while Management Information Systems is considered "business". Besides the ...
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How do you manage all of the information you have learned and found? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do you manage your knowledge base? What do you use for personal note taking to keep track of everything you learn? Are you always Googling or searching ...
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How can I make tagging work for the concept of “all”?

There's an approach to organising information that says that hierarchy is a tool of the devil, or at least is overrated. I've embraced this understanding for a data-driven site I'm working on which ...
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How do you deal with an information hoarder? [closed]

We must have all come across them - developers that have been around for ages and have a fantastic domain knowledge and yet they fail to share that knowledge with their team. The team desperately ...
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Working code and user needs

Programmers, like myself, often is too worried about if their code is really going to work, rather than how to communicate with the users. Scared of throwing an exception at the user, we test with ...
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Effective Information Management on a Personal Level

Have you had problems managing information and found ways to effectively manage information? When I say "manage" I'm talking about storing, grouping, tagging, prioritizing, searching, sharing, etc. ...
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Resources on how to relate structured and semi- / un-structured information

I don't have a great background in information organisation / retrieval, but I know of a few ways of dealing with the problem. For structured information, it's possible to go OOish - everything ...
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Where is a good starting point for planning Information Architecture for a website?

I am planning a project to develop and enhance an information architecture for a website. This will include navigation structures, content classification, metadata etc. Where is the best place to ...
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What information must never appear in logs?

I'm about to write the company guidelines about what must never appear in logs (trace of an application). In fact, some developers try to include as many information as possible in trace, making it ...
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How do you organize information? [closed]

I have a relatively large collection of useful books (paper and electronic), [academic] papers (mostly electronic) and web bookmarks. However, I don't have an overview of the material. Currently I ...
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Why is it so hard to find anything on MS site?

I have always had this question in my mind and I would really be happy to get an explanation for this. Is it only me or do you also feel the same way that it's hard to find anything on MS site. For ...
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What would be a best way to code a rudimentary LIMS?

I hope that I am asking the right question at right place. If not, please do not hesitate to point me to the right place. I am working in a laboratory, where computers/programming/programmers are ...
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How to deal with or survive with the information overload

I will better explain my question. I have been struggling with this for long time Everytime i want to read something for e,g book on java , then i find so much stuff like many tutorials , many ebooks ...
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what is the concept behind sstatic.net?

Question is pretty simple. whenever i login to stackoverflow or some sites i get lots of http://sstatic.net/ type like request. What is the whole concept of this? How does it help to speed up a ...
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what does the term bandwith mean?

I am a pure internet product so i don't have any it degree or training so i am quit confused about bandwith. is it the memory resource server or processor resource or database server load? If i use ...
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how to make audio and video streaming servers work?

I am a php mysql developer ... just an (below) average. and i am interested in the way television and radio are broadcasted over internet live. i want to know how it works and and what are its ...
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Information Technology -> Specialization of Computer Science?

My friend said to me "IT is a specialization of Computer Science". I said it isn't. Is he correct? Can someone clarify the difference between IT and CS? I know they are related but according to me ...
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What do you use for personal note taking to keep track of everything you learn? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do you manage your knowledge base? I have been using Dokuwiki but it is not very elegant and really doesn't look very nice. So does anybody else have any other ...
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What is the role of an Information Architect?

I've heard this term bandied about, especially in reference to web development, but I'm having trouble getting a clear understanding of what an Information Architect actually does. Any ideas what ...
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What is the general tech news website every programmer should read? [closed]

A link and a quick explanation why would be very helpful. General tech news, I mean not like InfoQ which is too technical. Probably much more like P.SE than SO. EDIT: site should help developers ...
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Is a yobibit really a meaningful unit? [closed]

Wikipedia helpfully explains: The yobibit is a multiple of the bit, a unit of digital information storage, prefixed by the standards-based multiplier yobi (symbol Yi), a binary prefix ...
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How do you deal with information overload?

There are so many (good) programming blogs out there. Some of them are consistent in what they post - as in they stick to programming topics. Some of them occasionally post on other unrelated topics. ...