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What is the best way to open source a project I would like help on? I'm aware of source forge, but is there some way to advertise "I'm a newbie looking to improve my coding skills, so here is a working project I'm uploading in hopes of learning how to code better?" I currently have a Cocoa program I wrote that works fine, but I'm certain there are inefficiencies and leaks in my code that I will never know about unless someone with more experience points them out.
Judging from my experience, if your project is considered to be useful, people will start submitting bug reports and patches by themselves. If that happens, get in touch with your submitters, offer them write access to the code base, distribute responsibility.
That way, you'll learn a lot about coding and, more importantly, team management.
That having said, why don't you participate in existing projects in order to improve your coding skills? Reading other people's code will boost your capabilities far more than just writing your own stuff.
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I am an electrical engineer but I love to code and I managed to learn few languages (and to use them to build useful stuff) and I did it all in my own since I learned coding using tutos and books.
This is good to have some knowledge of the vocabulary, but not to learn good programming practices.
But thanks to sites like Github, I now have access to a lot of good quality code used to build popular open source software and which is very well commented, as well.
Do you think, as experienced (and, probably, professional) programmers and developers, this is a good way to improve my skills ?
P.S. : Please do NOT close this question for being debatable because, as far as I am aware of, almost all Human knowledge is debatable. Thanks, again ;)
It will help you to
read code and understand it more quickly
know more ways to do something
It will not tell you which ways are better and which just look better at first glance.
By all means, continue reading working code. Just remember that you don't know who wrote it or how many times its been patched or how good the patch was or what subtle bugs are still lurking in there.
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That title may be a bit confusing, so let me elaborate. I want to know what the code is behind the choice command. There is not really much reason other than curiosity and the fact that it might help me one day. I've searched everywhere but can't find it.
I don't know much about open source projects and the like, but may it be because Windows doesn't want people to know (or for it to be easily accessible)?
Any information will be appreciated.
Windows is not open source. The code for any Windows command-line utilities is not routinely released. This has nothing to do with Microsoft especially not wanting you to know how choice in particular is implemented!
That said, it looks to be very straight-forward. Implementation would be a dozen lines or so at most.. what part of it is giving you trouble?
As Mahmoud Al-Qudsi pointed out, Windows is not open source. FreeDOS however is, and the choice command is available here.
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In our company we need a project handler so we decided to write our own.
We use CMake and bazaar and we still don't know if to store the informations of the
projects in XML format or in a database.
We are locked at this point: we would like to use as less languages/tools as possible
but we cannot find a way to interface CMake with XML files or databases.
An idea could be Python but it would be really annoying to use a new language just for an interface. We've seen that there's a Python framework (Waf) but we have already used CMake for all our projects and it would take a lot of time to convert all.
We work with Ubuntu and Windows.
Suggestions ?
thanks in advance
Rather than make your own tool, use an off-the-shelf product like something from the Jira suite, or BuildMaster. Many of these have great integration with most build software and don't require you to write and maintain your own stack just to manage projects.
Focus your developer time on solving your business problems, not on reinventing the wheel. Their time is MUCH more valuable than the cost of using a ready-made solution.
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I'm currently trying to write up some software specs for a large-ish project that I'd like to bid out on oDesk (maybe 3k-6k). I have a classical education in computer science, but minimal work experience and I've never worked in a corporate environment.
I've written up 15 pages of project specs for an API that I want to run on Google App Engine. I'm finding the subtleties difficult with issues such as: where to draw the line on what to specify and what not to; how to break the project up into pieces so that if one part goes wrong, other parts can still be used; where and how to set milestones; and how to screen for a candidate who has the skills to properly implement the specs.
I asked a friend what issues I should watch out for and he said:
Make sure specs do not have contradictory information
Make sure specs are not unnecessarily specific because this will turn off more skilled developers
What other pitfalls and common mistakes should I look out for while drawing up project specs?
While it is important to focus on the functionality of what you want to achieve, also keep in mind the non-functional requirements as well. Think about how you want it to perform, security considerations, etc.
One to add to the list
Make sure the specs are unambiguous. (Can only be interpreted one way...Hopefully)
I think these two links will help:
On Reqs And Specs: http://www.pragmaticmarketing.com/publications/topics/02/0204sj
Painless Functional Specifications - Part 2: What's a Spec?: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000035.html
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All,
I am proposing the addition of code obfuscation to the standard build process at my organization. One of the questions being asked is whether there is a performance hit to running obfuscated code vs. running unobfuscated code.
What is your experience? Have you seen a reduction in performance at runtime because you obfuscated your Java or C# code?
Thanks,
VI
It depends on how you are obfuscating it. If you use one of the tools that replaces all the names of objets and functions, then there should be no change at all. The compilers don't care what you call anything, whether it's useful to a developer (fetchProjects()) or just (funcA()).
You may wish to read about my over-obfuscation experiments: Impact of Flow Obfuscation on Performance.