Today's Question:  What does your personal desk look like?        GIVE A SHOUT

ALL


A good keyboard is a great accessory for programmers, while a bad keyboard will severely affect the programmer's efficiency and often makes programmers frustrated. Have you ever used a keyboard which has antihuman design? Why do they bother you?...

8,259  3   

Mozilla has released a video conversation tool called Firefox Hello. This tool is integrated into Firefox and is based on WebRTC. It doesn't require any installation of third party software. At the moment only Firefox can be used to start a conversation, but any browser which supports WebRTC can join the conversation. What do you think the purpose of introducing Firefox Hello? Where can this be used most frequently? About this project : https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/hello/...

3,151  0   

Just a few days ago, Microsoft announced a product which changes the way people see the world -- HoloLens. It is to be the first augmented-reality device done right. After Google has its Google Glass, Microsoft is also catching up with Google and Facebook. What's the significance of Microsoft HoloLens? Will people get into a new smart world? Which fields will be mostly influenced by HoloLens?...

9,089  1   

According to ITWorld, IBM is going to layoff 26% of its employees globally starting from next week until end of February. If it's true, this will be the biggest job cuts in the history? Will this be true? What does it mean to IBM? Is IBM going on a wrong road? Share your thoughts. What suggestions do you have?Ref link : http://www.itworld.com/article/2875112/ibm-is-about-to-get-hit-with-a-massive-reorg-and-layoffs.html...

5,000  2   

We frequently see NullPointerException in our logs. It's really a big headache when we see a NullPointerException and it is encapsulated in another exception as we don't know which object is null and it is throwing an Exception. Is there any way we can get to know the object type or the object variable name where the object is null and it is throwing a NullPointerException? i.e, instead of just saying there is a NullPointerException, can we add some friendly message? For example, do you expect t...

2,268  0   

Microsoft has announced they will move their .NET Compiler Platform from Codeplex to Github. This is another big movement since Microsoft starts to embrace open source. Do you have any comment about this movement from Microsoft? Why don't they keep staying on their own project hosting platform Codeplex?...

2,696  0   

Frequently when we read a PDF file or eBook, we may encounter some jargons or people names or book names which we are not familiar with, we want to get an instant description of them without explicitly opening a web browser and trying Wikipedia or Google search. Have you ever wanted to have such a request? Is it necessary? Is it feasible? What should be prepared to achieve this? Give us some thoughts....

3,401  3   

Today I was checking some library codes, and occasionally I was reading some codes written in 1999. That time I was still a primary school student. So I wonder how many years from now are the earliest code you have read? At that year, what were you doing?...

3,471  2