Ok, so I'll try to simplify this as much as possible.
There's this game I play. So I need to grind boxes which you get after completing parties. Each account is limited to 2 boxes per day. So either I can go through all accounts, 17 I have yet, and attack and hit and get box and then do that on all accounts. Or..... there's another idea. That's where this question comes in.
I need an app that will hit the button on multiple cloned apps of the same game. The button is fixed and the app is online.
Now is this possible? Can anyone help?
Thnx
You can write yourself a Script in AutoHotKey which you can download from https://autohotkey.com/
Writing it won't be so tough but yet very time taking but once finished it can do your work exactly in the way you want.
Here is the documentation on "how to use it", https://autohotkey.com/docs/AutoHotkey.htm
Let me know if you face any further problem :)
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I must admit, I am a complete newbie here. I am not technical by trade but have taught myself a few things over the years. I am looking for some assistance in figuring out how I could easily incorporate a ticker of some sort onto a website which would depict a value entered somewhere else. For example, a website for a business where I want to show a wait time number by having the staff enter that time somewhere and have the business site poll it. Is this possible (I am sure it is) and what is the easiest way to go about it? Major help needed here :-/
As I just started researching this I haven't made any attempts yet as I don't want to mess anything up.
I am not sure if StackOverflow is the right forum to ask this question. If I am wrong, please point me to the right forum.
I am still junior android developer, and I always wondered about one question.
Do software developers sometimes use internet to check for code syntax or to check for some code for some action, that they never used before, or didn't use for a long time, and simply need to remind themselves about that code?
We use it for anything.
Don't know how to do something at all?
Ask the internet.
Know how, but forget what the function name is?
Ask the internet.
Remember the name, but forget the order of parameters?
Sing it with me: Ask the internet!
There are no rules about when it's OK and when it's not. Use it when it helps.
It depends on the personalty of the developer, I for one had a time in my life when i was code happy and all I try to do then is solve my own problem myself thereby impressing my fellow developers and peers, in return I wasted time doing one simple thing for days and time is money.
But as it is now, money must be made and more money to be made means more jobs to be done for clients.
If I have a whole lot of issues on my mind e.g the flow process of the application, the limited time frame to deliver, another job from a pestering client (who paid higher than the current client), personal problems, etc. The least thing I want to do is to disturb my head about some code I know but cant remember. I look it up in no time.
Yes, I look up a lot of codes i don't remember and wish not to remember and no one cares because at the end of the day it is the developer that get his/her job done at the specified time that is a good developer.
You will find out that as you grow in your career if you work as a freelance programmer, except in limited cases, NO CLIENT will tell you write a sample code to do bla bla bla.
What they care about is the manner in which you solve the problem they have. Your problem solving logic is what makes you a better programmer every single day.
It doesn't mean you should forget all your code but don't stress over it if you don't remember look it up, it doesn't cause a volcanic eruption in central park...lolz.
BUT you must also remember that if you make it an habit to always look up your code, in no time you will have issues reading codes and that is a crime as a computer programmer.
My advise for you as a
junior android developer
is that you learn to disconnect from the internet most times when you write your codes it will strengthen your brain to remember your codes better. Because what i have found out over time is that there are two types of programmers,
offline
online
The offline programmer would survive even in the desert but the Online programmer can only survive in the city.
Lastly if you were a client and you called two programmers to add extra page to an android application. Then you looked at their various systems and one of the was editing his code while the other was on google or other site like stack overflow with page title
How to add extra page to android application?
Be sincere with yourself who will you rather work with next time?
Don't get it wrong there is no crime in asking but sometimes asking is the last thing you want to do because its more shameful that stealing.
Wish you luck in your career path...trust me with consistency you will exceed your peers because you have chosen the extra ordinary careea path.
Say my developer account is x#y.com. Imagine you have two clients.
It is, in fact, possible to be on two different development teams:
That's precisely what I see when I log in to developer.apple.com member center (i.e., after their recent 24 hour downtime :/ ).
How did I achieve that? I'm trying to do it again with a third client but it seems almost impossible. When I log in as the third company, and try to add "x#y.com", I just get the annoying message
There are many questions about that annoying message, here on SO and elsewhere, but with no resolution. How to achieve the image shown at top? How to add a third one .. for that matter how the heck was the second added?
Darn - the answer here is pretty simple.
The "third company" has to log in on developer.apple.com ...
NOT on AITconnect .. itunesconnect.apple.com
There's then a facility to invite a new member - make them "admin" - who is already an Apple developer. It then works fine - that dev gets an invite email, can then get the certs, and so on.
It's an interesting phenomenon that there are dozens of questions about this on the net, due to the AIT connect confusion: essentially the solution is that simple. Hope it helps someone googling.
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I really want to know if I'm missing anything obvious in the software I'm developing.
What User Interface features that you consider important are often missing in most software?
Undo is bitchy to code, but very useful to the end users.
Save the location and size of all/any windows, so they are restored whenever the program is restarted.
Read this article on Undo from a usability expert (Aza Raskin): Never Use a Warning When you Mean Undo. Coding undo is not all that hard: examples [1], [1.5], [2].
These are some of the UI features that I often find are done badly, or are even missing:
Restoring window state properly.
Conforming to the average (non-beginner, non-expert) user's mental model.
Restricting the number of choices that the user has to make.
Restricting the amount that users have to read while using the app.
Strong consistency with other apps of the same genre running on the same platform.
A well-done Undo / Restore facility.
As somebody else remarked, context-sensitive help.
Allowing an app to be navigated without the aid of a mouse.
Good multi-monitor support.
keyboard Shortcuts
What's usually left out in UI's? Nothing! (literally. empty space). The question is better asked "What can be taken out?". When you have to think of what else your UI needs, you have already gone too far. Leaving out empty space is something UI programmers need to work on. Nobody likes feature creeping.
Remember the KISS rule.
A help menu with more than About...
Context sensitive help
Tool tips
An API and a scripting language so I can bypass the UI.
Seriously. Nothing is more tedious (and error-prone) than having to point-and-click through some repetitive process.
Right click context menu on things like tree views and grids.
We have an record management application here at work that I have to use now and then and they don't have right click on any of the documents in the treeview so you have to keep going to the bottom of the screen to mark a task as completed grrr, and no keyboard shortcuts too grrr
Consistency in your design... There are too many apps that "look" like a programmer wrote them. I can't stress enough!
Automation... Office has it, I wish more apps did.
CLI... As mentioned above, especially if it's a repetitive-wizard-type process
Templates/Presets... like Handbrake... make life easier, not to mention handy in the training process
Error/Confirm messages which don't get in the way... Unless the user needs to take immediate action, don't display a dialog. If the error is obvious, fix it for me and then tell me why
Scalable UI. With WPF this is getting easier, but it is annoying if I'm on a large monitor and I have to squint to see anything. Not to mention my click accuracy isn't that great.
UI Consistency.
I know I've been guilty of leaving out printing support in the past. I would never use it, but some of my users do.
drag and drop
clipboard
Good design.
Leave room in your dialogs so if you internationalize it, you have room for longer words (think Italian) and bigger fonts (think Chinese).
I'll add a few myself that have't been mentioned yet:
Non-modal forms that can remain open while other work is done.
Ability to view multi-windows at once (instead of tabs which show only one at a time)
Ability to have multiple views of a single window at once, i.e. split mode, or panes, or actual multiple windows into the same object.
Clean and intuitive.
Clean icons. Good icons. Meaningful icons.
I am very disappointed with a lot of icons inside applications — especially on Windows ;-)
actual consideration for the user seems to be left out quite frequently:
using terminology that makes sense to the programmer, but not the user
organizing the application's workflow for the convenience of the programmer, but not the user
not considering the user's work processes in the first place, and finding ways to help him/her eliminate steps and simplify things
Being able to use drag and drop to customise the toolbar and to be able to remove/hide unwanted toolbars without leaving an unused button whose only purpose is restore/unhide them.
Freezing the application when it's doing something that takes more than a second.
Not showing users what's happening, and not indicating how long it's going to take.
IMO, user name and password login options need work. I understand there are security concerns with each of these options. The risk-trade off is different for each application and needs to be assessed on an app by app basis.
Often forgotten or poorly implemented features include:
Remember Me
Forgot password
If you have a restrictive password policy, give me a hint as to what it is!
Range for # of characters, no special characters, required numbers or capitol letters, etc
Forgot username
If my username is not my email address, give me a hint to your username policy
Kind of too general a question. It would depend on what does the application do. One thing I see often missing from gui applications is an easy way undo mistakes and not only in the object you're manipulating but also on program UI elements. Closing some floating options panel or toolbar by mistake and then having no idea where is the thing enabled frustrates me to no end. Is it under Windows? Or under View? Was it this one? no that one is for something else entirely. Gah! what's it called?
Cycling through links and fields using the tab button.
Left click drag to highlight, right click for context menu with option to copy highlighted text. Found missing from some applications coded in Java.
Windows that snap to other windows and screenboarders. KDE and Winamp do this, and are the ones most famous for it. Why don't a whole host of other applications and DEs do this?
What do the clever programmers here do to keep track of handy programming tricks and useful information they pick up over their many years of experience? Things like useful compiler arguments, IDE short-cuts, clever code snippets, etc.
I sometimes find myself frustrated when looking up something that I used to know a year or two ago. My IE favorites probably represent a good chunk of the Internet in the late 1990s, so clearly that isn't effective (at least for me). Or am I just getting old?
So.. what do you do?
Two Things I do:
I blog about it - this allows me to go back and search my own blog.
We use the code snippet feature in Visual Studio.
Cheers.
I use:
Google Notebook - I take notes for projects, books I'm reading, etc
Delicious + Firefox plug in - Every time I see a good page I mark it.
Windows Journal (in tablet pc) - When I need to draw something and then copy/cut/paste it. I have more distractions here, the web is always very close :)
Small Moleskine paper notebook - Its always with me.
Big paper notebook - When I need more space to write and less distractions.
Obviously these are for all useful information, not just for snippets or tips and tricks.
Why not set up a Wiki?
If you are on windows, i know that ScrewTurn wiki is pretty simple to deploy on a desktop/laptop. No database to fuss around with.
Blog about it.
One of the nice side-effects of blogging is that if you use a sensible categorization or tagging system, it's quite easy to search for stuff within your blog. The fact that you wrote about it also makes it easier to remember problems you have encountered before ("hey, I blogged about that!").
That's a great benefit aside from, of course, being able to share this information publicly so that others might be able to find your solution to a particular problem using Google.
A number of people I know swear by Google Notebook
I send them to my gmail account, that way I have them where ever I go, and they can be put into appropriate folders for later.
I second the blog about it technique...even Jeff said that's a major reason he blogs.
Also, regarding the wiki idea, if you set one up at work, be sure to encourage your coworkers to do the same. When someone finds something of interest they can just write a little "article" explaining what it is and how to do it... that way, not only are your own things easily available and quickly searchable, but you'll often find out things you never knew from other people in your group. That way it benefits everyone not just you.
I agree with emailing, the wiki and the blog. Emailing is the most useful. If you can't use GMail and you're on windows, install a desktop search utility (Windows search, Google Desktop, Copernic, etc)
I also like to jot it into a textfile and save it in my documents folder. Whatever desktop search utility you use will be able to find it easily. e.g.
//print spool stop.notes.txt
If the printer spooler stops, start it again by
- Services > Provision Networks > Restart Service
tags: printer provision no printer spooler cannot print remote desktop
Subscribe in Google Reader and then search later.
At my last place of work they wouldn't let me set up a wiki or anything - so I just made various word documents full of tips and instructions and gave that to my successor when I left.
Now though I'd use a private wiki, or maybe a blog.
For many years I've kept a Word doc named Knowledgebase.doc that contains all my notes with a decent table of contents. I like to keep everything in one searchable doc.
I use a sync tool to make sure the file is copied to all the machines I want it on.
I use TiddlyWiki stored in my DropBox account. Although, recently, Evernote is getting my atention; it has a really useful feature: you send a twitter direct message to evernote user (myen) and it adds a note with your message (a really quick way to add notes or URL's for post-processing). Imagine, you can use a command-line twitter client to create notes! (or any twitter client). I really like this feature.