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Improvements in programming skills over time [closed]
Hope this is a valid question, even though it allows for a wide variety of answers. It's about how programmers notice that their coding skills improve over time. At the age of 19, I'm currently seeing ...
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Free Newsletters that teach you new coding techniques periodically? [closed]
Are there are any periodic newsletters/articles about unique coding tips/techniques that can be subscribed to? I want to expand my arsenal and I'm sure there's some experienced programmers out there ...
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Suggestions to manage semi-structured email bounces?
The company I work for sends a lot of emails, and in return we get a lot of bounces.
We currently don't have a good way of sorting them and help us archive the routine ones while putting the important ...
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Technique for multiple users on same datasets
This is more a learning question than coding, but I'm certain it's a common issue for anyone developing administration systems or applications in php/mysql/js etc.
I've developed quite a complex ...
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How do you keep track of large projects?
When dealing with a project that has many different files, I always seem to loose track of how the parts interact with one another. I've never really had much of a problem understanding smaller ...
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What are the common techniques to handle user-generated HTML modified differently by different browsers?
I am developing a website updater. The front end uses HTML, CSS and JavaScript, and the backend uses Python.
The way it works is that <p/>, <b/> and some other HTML elements can be ...
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What do you need to succeed with Agile?
Agile adoption can fail in some organizations, I even worked for a company where waterfall was the only (the true) way but only because they tried Agile on a project and failed.
When I asked the ...
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Your Approach to Learning Language(s)?
This question is geared specifically towards finding out what techniques you employ when faced with learning a new language - feel free to skip to the last paragraph for the straight-forward question.
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What is the point of the prototype method?
I am reading through Javascript: The Good Parts, and struggled to get my head around the section on prototypes.
After a little google, I came to the conclusion that it is to add properties to objects ...
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server and request understanding
I want to know what a server does to run a php application. Below is what I think:
client A types www.blahblahblah.blah/
Server resolves url and directory etc.
Server go the index.php
index.php ...
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How do you manage passwords in your team for db with multiple env and security constraints?
I don't want any tools, but more methods to help us manage our passwords.
I know this question has been closed, but I think this one, even if it's related, is more a programmers problem than a super ...
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A new CAPTCHA using sentences?
I was just thinking about how recaptcha is getting harder when I thought about another posible solution. Images won't last forever so we will need something else some day - like human logic or ...
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What process do you normally use when attempting to debug a problem/issue/bug with your software? [closed]
Most people seem to treat debugging as an art, rather than a science. For those here which treat it as a science, rather than an art - what process(es) do you normally use when faced with a new ...
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As a right-brainer, how do I become a better software developer/computer scientist?
I'm studying computer science at university, and so for a long time I thought I'm a left-brainer (which I guess is the normal case for people working in the field of IT). But recently I noticed that I ...
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How can a Right-Brainer Deal with Massive Left-Brainer Code?
I'm an artist, mostly, though I describe myself as a artist/physicist. While I can do math, deal with words, and the "logical" stuff considered left-brain, it's an effort and I make mistakes, ...
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What techniques are used in solving code golf problems?
"Regular" golf vs. code golf:
Both are competitions. Both have a well-defined set of rules, which I'll leave out for simplicity. Both have well-defined goals; in short, "use fewer hits/characters ...
