Where in Toronto can I take a class on programming Access 2003 forms?
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posted by jb
on May 24, 2012 -
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Programmers and other IT folks: what advice can you give a programmer co-op student to help her get the most out of this summer job experience?
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posted by kitcat
on May 23, 2012 -
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I move back and forth between language, technologies and systems. I spend inordinate amounts of times getting back to speed. Is there any way I can ease this and reduce this time period?
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posted by gadha
on May 20, 2012 -
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What's the single best book for a beginning student of C++ to work through over a period of a month or two?
posted by killdevil
on May 16, 2012 -
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I need to go through text files, each containing hundreds of lines, and copy a specific part of each line, and then add all those parts together into one long line, each part separated by a comma. But how?
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posted by Unhyper
on May 9, 2012 -
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A year and a half ago, stuck in what I thought was a dead-end job, I decided to do a degree in computing/IT with the Open University. Six months later, I landed a job as a Test Analyst in the IT department of the company I was working for. I now have an actual career. I've been continuing with the degree, but I'm finding bits of it very dull and it's difficult to get motivated. Should I keep going?
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posted by xchmp
on May 8, 2012 -
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Amazon recently started featuring pull quotes on product reviews that are automatically compiled from 'similar' customer statements. For example, take a look at top of the reviews section for an
iPad.
At first I thought these might be manually maintained on popular products, but the pull quotes exist for some pretty obscure items with only a handful of reviews. They are obviously being procedurally compiled. I'm working on a project where this exact type of natural language processing could be very useful.
Is there a preexisting library available that offers functionality similar to what Amazon is doing here? Or could anybody point me in the right direction for understand the technology behind this better?
posted by csimpkins
on May 2, 2012 -
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I was given the task of filling out a job description for a programming environment. Should I respect the history of previous job descriptions when writing out this job description?
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posted by DetriusXii
on Apr 30, 2012 -
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What programming environments provide the level of navigation, analysis, and refactoring power for their languages that Eclipse does for Java?
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posted by Koray
on Apr 29, 2012 -
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I would like to get a new job in Chicago. What are some things I can do over the summer to maximize my odds at finding employment in the windy city? My field is software engineering.
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posted by Green With You
on Apr 23, 2012 -
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How do mobile developers detect screen sizes, types and other information about the display of various phones in the wild?
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posted by loquacious
on Apr 17, 2012 -
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Pay less for online classes or more for sitting in a classroom? Get clicky for career-switching details...
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posted by mild deer
on Apr 12, 2012 -
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Is there a way to find out the filename associated with a specific FILE * pointer? (OS: Red Hat EL 5)
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posted by tckma
on Apr 12, 2012 -
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Is there a programmatic way to detect whether a given song is exclusively instrumental?
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posted by xulu
on Apr 11, 2012 -
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I would like to scrape information from an RSS feed into an Excel-readable text file for a completely legal non-copyright violating use. In a better world, I'd have access to the database that generates the feed, but since this ain't a perfect world it appears that scraping is my best bet. Are there tools that will help me automate this, or programming tutorials that will help me figure it out myself (it's been 15 years since I last write any code beyond simple SQL queries)?
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posted by croutonsupafreak
on Apr 4, 2012 -
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LearningProgramming(PHP)Filter: I have a form with a select field (with about 70 options) and a couple of radio buttons. The final result differs according to what has been selected. I'm pretty sure the worst possible way to do this would be to use a lot of IF and IF ELSE statements but I'm not sure what would be the "correct" way to do it.
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posted by Memo
on Apr 4, 2012 -
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Which aspects of computer science are profitable and worthwhile? Help a high schooler going off to college...
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posted by ptsampras14
on Apr 3, 2012 -
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Need suggestions on creating an interactive map of congressional districts. I'd like to have a map embedded on my site (only Us) with zoom-able and click-able Congressional districts. When a district is selected, I'd like to display the relevant Senator & Congressman.
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posted by Raichle
on Apr 2, 2012 -
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I'm a novice programmer. Someone just took a recent Python web project of mine, rewrote it in Ruby, and published it as his own work. My code was open, and I don't really mind, but I'd like credit. How can I ask politely but firmly and avoid triggering a defense mechanism? Lots of details inside.
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posted by ecmendenhall
on Mar 29, 2012 -
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Does it make sense to block off a few months to develop the skills needed to pursue a modest career/business developing indie games and mobile apps for Android, or am I better off just getting an entry-level job at a call center and make a
decent amount of money doing sales or tech support?
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posted by porcupine
on Mar 28, 2012 -
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So I've used Python here and there to solve system administration tasks and create some small web applications (again to solve any issue related to work). Living in the sys admin world, I typically turn to Bash. Bash because I know it well and I can throw out a solution quickly. Problem is I'm starting to interview more and more for "DevOps" positions, what's the best and fastest way to bring my Python (or insert language) abilities up a notch?
I admit that I typically write in Python with one screen trained on the library docs. I've got a solid understanding of data and control structures. I thought maybe coming up with a weekend project might help but I'd like to hear other people's thoughts. Reading good code always helps, but doing is always better for me. I guess the real question is creating something that does x always makes you understand a language at a deeper level (if such thing exists).
posted by snuffaluffagus
on Mar 23, 2012 -
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What are some examples of small web apps that earn their creators a side-income? What are the stories behind them?
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posted by philipy
on Mar 22, 2012 -
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SQLNoobFilter: I am trying to find all unique combinations on a table. Does my simple query do the trick or is there more to it?
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posted by amazingstill
on Mar 14, 2012 -
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Hello, brightminded and helpful mefi's.
I have an idea for (IMO) an awesome new website that I believe will be huge. Is it still feasible in this day and age for a person to buy a stack of books and learn the coding skills needed for a website with very robust features, to say the least? Or will I have to acquire the funding to hire the people to do this? Funding is non-existent at the point in time.
posted by DesmondDoomsday
on Mar 5, 2012 -
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Suppose I'm a programmer. I want super awesome companies to be excited about hiring me. And I want to work with nice and smart people. What kinds of techonologies should I spend my time learning?
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posted by oranger
on Mar 5, 2012 -
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I want to contribute with my programming ability (software developer) to free software. I could be developing another tower defense game but prefer a small project which might be mildly useful to somebody and possibly teaches me something outside of programming.
What would be a useful to you and a good project for me?
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posted by EuroBunny
on Feb 25, 2012 -
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Where to start with teaching a bright 13 year-old programming? His interest comes from wanting to code Minecraft mods.
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posted by grubby
on Feb 23, 2012 -
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If I'm applying for a junior developer job in a web company, and they ask for a code sample along with the resume, what sorts of things would make a good sample? How much code is just enough/too little/too much? What would make a sample supergood, or the opposite?
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posted by jsturgill
on Feb 22, 2012 -
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My partner and I are currently living on separate sides of the Vancouver/Washington state border - I would very much like to move to be with her, but the job prospects for my specialties are low. One option is to work for a local company which produces bible software. From a technical standpoint, their products are excellent, the jobs pay well , have excellent medical and retirement benefits and they regularly hire from outside the faith. The catch? I am a staunch atheist, and bordering on actively anti-religious.
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posted by anonymous
on Feb 22, 2012 -
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What's the best way to learning web-app development after working through Learn Python the Hard Way (or any other introductory Python book for noobs)?
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posted by rahulrg
on Feb 17, 2012 -
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What kind of magic does QString().setNum() do to convert -1413011644 to 2881955652?
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posted by crawl
on Feb 16, 2012 -
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I've written some customizable interactive activity templates in javascript that work on tablets and I want to sell to publishers. How do I prevent anyone from stealing and re-using the code?
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posted by postergeist
on Feb 15, 2012 -
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I generally work from home and have an excellent desktop machine that never lets me down. Occasionally I have to travel, and when I do I take an ancient Dell Inspiron 8500 to work on and use for remote support. Long story short, the Dell has died and I'm out of touch with laptop options. Anyone know the best portable machines for programmers?
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posted by samworm
on Feb 8, 2012 -
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I have to code some fairly complicated logic involving nested loops, etc. I am a mere (mortal) student. Please tell me how YOU plan out the coding of complex logic in your programming.
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posted by kitcat
on Feb 4, 2012 -
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