Two college friends and myself are looking to put together a mobile application start-up. We have the business end of the startup covered, but we need to find a developer to help us out. We need some financial guidance on what to do and what not to do. Should we pay a freelance developer, or bring someone on board with us as a partner? [more inside]
posted on Jul 16, 2008 - 15 answers

Dearest Hivemind, I am looking to hire a freelance software developer to create some sort of workflow management tool for a small arts business. Apart from web designers/developers, I have never done this kind of thing before and am wondering if anyone could possibly have a look at my list of demands, and point me in the right direction to find my dream developer? I'm using Macs btw. [more inside]
posted on Jul 16, 2008 - 7 answers

iPhone development question - can an application control any of the system settings? [more inside]
posted on Jul 14, 2008 - 6 answers

I'm looking for an alternative to windows' CMD window/terminal. It isn't the shell itself that has me annoyed (although it stinks and monad is an improvement), but the terminal window. I'd love to have something like xterm or rxvt running- just the ability to resize the width of the window would be huge. [more inside]
posted on Jul 10, 2008 - 13 answers

What's the best approach to take with the a lead software developer after being left holding the ball? [more inside]
posted on Jul 1, 2008 - 5 answers

Where can I get some introductory-level information regarding video player implementation on mobile phones? I want to build a site that will play video on a variety of mobile phones. I have a non-mobile version of the site already, and all the videos are FLV format playing within a flash player, but the file & player format can be modified as necessary.
posted on Jun 26, 2008 - 3 answers

Where can I find a database of American cars? [more inside]
posted on Jun 20, 2008 - 2 answers

My education website is in major need of an overhaul. However, I can't afford to pay developers the cost price for it. How can I get funding or assistance for this project? [more inside]
posted on Jun 6, 2008 - 6 answers

I work for a small web development company. As we are growing, I have been tasked with looking at a few pieces of our business: - Version Control (Currently we don’t do it. We’re starting to use Subversion at my recommendation) - Development Environments (We don’t exactly have formalized dev/stage/production right now, more like just dev/production…) - Hosting (How we host our different clients varies… too much… we need a good solution) - Infrastructure (i.e. how we host our own email, how we back up our data) I already have some thoughts and recommendations, but they’re based on my personal experiences, so I thought I’d see what other experiences are out there and find out what other people/companies are doing… [more inside]
posted on Jun 5, 2008 - 10 answers

Does your company capitalize the cost of software development? Why or why not? [more inside]
posted on Jun 4, 2008 - 7 answers

Can anyone suggest why my daughter can write just fine, but apparently can't read? [more inside]
posted on May 25, 2008 - 36 answers

What can an editor teach medical writers? [more inside]
posted on May 21, 2008 - 12 answers

Is there a definitive source I can point to or glean knowledge from in order to justify the purchase of a Mac for web development and design? [more inside]
posted on May 8, 2008 - 19 answers

Is there a QuickLook plugin (for Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" if you didn't follow) to browse sqlite databases? If not, wouldn't that be awesome for Rails and iPhone development!
posted on May 8, 2008 - 2 answers

What open-source project should I work on? Or how do I find one? [more inside]
posted on May 5, 2008 - 12 answers

I recently came across an article about the lack of opportunities for teenagers in rapidly developed suburban/exurban communities. Can you help me find it again? [more inside]
posted on Apr 24, 2008 - 4 answers

Can a rural area be developed? [more inside]
posted on Apr 22, 2008 - 8 answers

I'm a senior software developer, and I'd like to start working in the green energy sector. What are the opportunities in this area? [more inside]
posted on Apr 13, 2008 - 3 answers

I would like to use SVK in a manner that's invisible to my svn-using co-workers. Naturally, there are compllications. [more inside]
posted on Apr 6, 2008 - 4 answers

Where does a small web design/development company find work? [more inside]
posted on Mar 29, 2008 - 10 answers

I'm specifically looking at automated builds, unit testing, better source control, and generally moving away from seat-of-the-pants coding and deployment, to specific processes. This is a Microsoft shop, if that helps. [more inside]
posted on Mar 22, 2008 - 15 answers

Should I go into web design or web programming? [more inside]
posted on Mar 20, 2008 - 26 answers

What's the best web site builder software for a non-beginner? [more inside]
posted on Mar 16, 2008 - 11 answers

What should I be reading? I'm an ASP.Net / SQL developer. [more inside]
posted on Mar 14, 2008 - 5 answers

Question for web developers: Is Web Development about to change? Is the web browser still the best solution for rich Internet applications? [more inside]
posted on Mar 13, 2008 - 24 answers

What are some tips/resources for someone very familiar with web development on mostly Mac/Linux who now needs to do web development on Windows? [more inside]
posted on Mar 11, 2008 - 12 answers

How can I best involve myself in the Social/Political cause against Water Privatization? [more inside]
posted on Mar 6, 2008 - 4 answers

Anyone follow environmental issues or general politics in the US Southwest (AZ, NM, UT, CO)? [more inside]
posted on Mar 1, 2008 - 9 answers

CMSFilter: Joomla for a pseudo-beginner? Is this a good idea? [more inside]
posted on Feb 13, 2008 - 13 answers

Resizing & storing many images on a webserver: limits, options, etc? [more inside]
posted on Feb 13, 2008 - 8 answers

What would be the best CMS solution for a blog that I'm trying to expand as a resource/community site? [more inside]
posted on Feb 12, 2008 - 18 answers

phpList: seriously, wtf? [more inside]
posted on Feb 11, 2008 - 13 answers

Ok, here's a slightly odd one. Prompted by the recent FPP in the blue about the ancient photography lab, I got to thinking about the lighting in the basement "wet lab". This led to the question: if film doesn't react to red light, why are we able to take pictures of red things?
posted on Feb 8, 2008 - 17 answers

Trying to set up a development environment on my Macbook (running latest Leopard). I have VMware fusion running Debian etch, set up perfectly with the requisite LAMP stack. The problem is, I'd like to have Debian's /var/www/ available to OSX for actual editing. I've tried setting up NFS, but to no avail (though I'm admittedly novice at this sysadmin stuff). [more inside]
posted on Jan 23, 2008 - 8 answers

I can handle Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, and, sigh, Java. My C and C++ are purely academic. How do I get into 'real' programming as an undergrad. [more inside]
posted on Jan 13, 2008 - 23 answers

Basic web development for a non-technical user? [more inside]
posted on Jan 13, 2008 - 11 answers

Does anyone have experience using DirectX in a server-side application? Is it practical? If not, what alternatives are there? [more inside]
posted on Jan 4, 2008 - 10 answers

Can I store changing data in a googlepages setup? [more inside]
posted on Jan 2, 2008 - 5 answers

I'm interested in attempting some work with Ruby on Rails. Other than some very elementary BASIC programming and HTML (yes, I know it's not a programming language), I have no programming experience. [more inside]
posted on Dec 29, 2007 - 6 answers

I've been charged with redoing our Label Website pretty much from scratch, both back-end and front-end (yes, its a self-link but its relevant). Because this site is about classical music, there is a HUGE amount of metadata that will need to be collected, parsed and displayed (think 3700 titles * 10 tracks * performer, composer, title, length, etc for each track). Has anyone done or know of anyone who's done work on this scale on either the back-end side or the design side before that they might recommend? I have an RFP pretty much already mocked-up. I would've liked to have used someone like 37signals but it seems like they don't do work for others anymore.
posted on Dec 19, 2007 - 13 answers

Looking for a fairly simple database driven web application environment / framework. Thinking of Turbogears. [more inside]
posted on Nov 21, 2007 - 10 answers

A family member is working on a development project in Africa which will involve setting up a database of patient records in rural medical clinics. There are some cheap computers out there now, but only a few solutions consider the cost and unreliability of power in such regions. He also needs something which runs a standard operating system, so the OLPC computer isn't right. The best I've found so far is the Inveneo project, which was actually designed with such communities in mind. I'm wondering if there are any other solutions that MeFi community members might know of which are comparable to the one offered by Inveneo? [more inside]
posted on Nov 20, 2007 - 8 answers

I'm developing a custom 404 page using .htaccess to redirect to the 404.html. I'm trying to use PHP (via an include in the 404.html) to show the referring page (using $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']). This works fine. I'd also like to return the bad URL that originates the 404. Is this possible using PHP? [more inside]
posted on Nov 14, 2007 - 6 answers

Suggestion for Code Coverage reporting with .NET 1.1, now that NCover has become commercial, and closed source?
posted on Nov 5, 2007 - 0 answers

Software development: How to best get useful feedback from users? [more inside]
posted on Oct 25, 2007 - 11 answers

I just finished reading Scott Smith's "The Ruins" and loved it. I want to read more books like this (and his original "The Simple Plan"). Basically, I want all the suspense and horror, but the people have to seem real to me. I don't have to like them, I just want to know what they are thinking/feeling/fearing so that they aren't just numbers on some gorefest scoreboard. Bonus points if the author is semi-prolific, so I have choices for further reading. Help me, hive mind!
posted on Oct 19, 2007 - 14 answers

Has anyone used Umbraco? [more inside]
posted on Oct 11, 2007 - 1 answers

I've got the skills and knowledge, mostly, but I'd like to get a better workflow with PHP/MySQL development. [more inside]
posted on Oct 11, 2007 - 15 answers

I am looking for real-life documents surrounding the development of a website. My organization is quite inexperienced in building a website from scratch and we are looking for some documents to get us started. Can anyone point us to some actual specifications, wireframes, test scripts, and project plans for website design and development?
posted on Oct 9, 2007 - 7 answers

Moving from Advertising to Web Development. What is the best route? [more inside]
posted on Sep 30, 2007 - 7 answers