Hi all, I'm trying to build a C# library to generate QR Codes, but there's gaps I'm having a hard time filling in. From what I've read at www.qrcode.com, I take the data (string?) that I want to encode, and perform some calculations on it to get the desired bit matrix. The calculations depend o...

Hi, After a burst of ranting about homework, the applicability of the classes I'm taking, and my computer science teacher, I have some questions concerning education for my career path as a developer. I taught myself everything I know about programming. I've been thinking lately about the advan...

I'm making little progress on a major project. The source is massive, many layers of objects, macaroni code, double-diamond graphs of multiple inheritance, half-baked features frozen when the original writer left, and no one knows why many pieces of it were designed the way they were. So, I su...

I have an offer to do some work that mines data from several websites. As I've never done this before I was wondering if this is moral and\or legal? It seems a bit of a gray area to me. TIA

What would you say is the coolest, most interesting program you have written? In my case, it was a simulation of bacteriophages interacting with E. Coli in openGL. I am looking to start a discussion that will lead myself and others to have fun experimenting with something new and exciting.

Core Servlets and Javaserver Pages: Core Technologies, Vol. 1 (2nd Edition) Can I rely on this book to learn Servlets and JSP,or is there a better book out there I should be reading instead?

we ask the developers themselves to close the sprint once they completed the sprint. Just want to confirm, if it has to be closed by TL after he reviewed the tasks completion.

I would like to hear how you manage your emails when you get lot of emails on a day basis. Here some of the things that I follow, Read emails and respond for 2 hours once. I will not disturb my work for intermediate emails unless until I got the email with high priority status. Even I responde...

Without getting into all the details here, I've found that I work hardest and most productively from home rather than commuting to the office. However, I know that there are serious drawbacks to working remotely, especially when your coworkers do not. Have any of you found yourselves in a pos...

In an IT project: Who or whose should participate in time estimation? Developer, team leader, scrum master and etc? Who or whose vote should be counted most?

I will start with one, which however did not work the way I wanted. Vendor Evaluation: In the beginning of the project, we spent some time to do a survey of existing open-source libraries that can be used as building blocks for a larger library. Despite our efforts, there were a number of librar...

In our company developers sit in cubicles with walls painted with water-dispersion paint. Paint gets dirty over time and once they all we be repainted. Currently some cubicles are painted in nice colors like green apple and some are painted drab colors like cossack green. I guess we could lobby ...