Stumped with RPy, need help badly! [more inside]
posted on Feb 25, 2008 - 4 answers

I have a OSX Program idea (solution.) Where can I find people interested in it (if I were to give the idea away) or pay for development? [more inside]
posted on Feb 22, 2008 - 9 answers

Comp Sci: What's the best Design Pattern or structure for dealing with a complex relationship between many booleans? [more inside]
posted on Sep 25, 2007 - 34 answers

How long does it take to learn how to program for Mac OS X? [more inside]
posted on Jul 26, 2007 - 14 answers

Programming/geometry: in a Flash program (you don't need to know Flash to answer this), I'm trying to place rectangular images at random positions on the screen. There are already images on the screen. I need to make sure that the new, randomly-placed images don't obscure the images already there. [more inside]
posted on Sep 29, 2005 - 25 answers

So I have a big conference coming up and we’re considering giving each attendee a usb-drive with all the presentations on. The problem is that if I don’t find a way to automate the copying of files I have to do it manually by myself! (+)
posted on Feb 16, 2005 - 19 answers

Excel formula question. Using Excel as an employee scheduler and need to help trying to create a formula for tracking.
posted on Feb 1, 2005 - 4 answers

Making an "updatable" CD-Rom (lots of linked, searchable pdfs/ docs) that needs to check the web for updated documents and download them to user's hard-drive, subsequently seamlessly showing data from HD/ CD as necessary. Any resources on coding said beast? Google-fu fails me.
posted on Dec 14, 2004 - 8 answers

Flash MX question, is there a way to load a page from blogger (or an xml page) into a dynamic text block with a scroll bar?
posted on Nov 25, 2004 - 3 answers

What are some computer languages for describing/generating graphics?
posted on Sep 10, 2004 - 35 answers

As a self-imposed php refresher, I've recently been toying around with writing custom movable type submission frontends for a few less web-literate family members (Basically just simplified forms that throw the user input into the MT mysql database). I've got everything ticking along nicely, but none of the submitted entries will show up until I log in and rebuild the site from within movable type. My question: Is there some way to either force a rebuild from a custom form, or automate a rebuild? I've searched the MT forums with no success. I'm using MT 2.64 with minimal knowledge of its inner workings. Any suggestions / pointers / links are appreciated!
posted on Sep 8, 2004 - 6 answers

Microsoft Script Debugger - Has anyone actually gotten this thing to work properly? I've got some JavaScript (that I didn't write) that is completely bisbehaving in IE (although it produces no errors...it works fine in FireFox, so my usual line of attack doesn't work). I've used the View | Script Debugger | Break at Next Statement and then refreshed the page. It opens the debugger app but doesn't open any source files and it most certainly doesn't break. Has anyone seen this behavior and overcome it?
posted on Aug 10, 2004 - 4 answers

Is there an online community or web site that mentors new programmers? One in which the student is guided through the different phases of development of a small, but not insignificant program. If one doesn't exist, would it be a worthwhile endeavor to create a mentor community?
posted on Apr 29, 2004 - 5 answers

I've been fascinated for a while with stiff like tradesports.com and the ill-fated DARPA terrorism futures market, and got to thinking about building a fake, toy futures market. There are systems out there that simulate markets, but they're either simple portfolio charters or they have randomly wobbling shares. I'm much more interested in valuations created by groups of users gaming on the outcome of real events.

Ideally, as I'm very lazy, someone will have written one of these already, but I've googled away and had no joy. It could be me not knowing the lingo used to describe these things.

Failing this can anybody recommend a framework to work within? I'm thinking of something (probably the usual php/mysql) with e-mail/users/password recovery etc. built in for me to start from. Maybe the toy market would be best developed as a plug in to something?
posted on Mar 28, 2004 - 6 answers

I was interested in making a flash animation that looks like an 8 bit nintendo game, and was wondering if there's an easy way to do 8 bit art?
posted on Feb 20, 2004 - 8 answers

Why (in general) do you need source files? Why can't applications manipulate binary files directly? [more inside.]
posted on Jan 15, 2004 - 11 answers

Does anyone here do any programming for financial modeling? (more inside)
posted on Dec 19, 2003 - 6 answers