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naw... not really. What kind of programming are you interested in?
not too much action around here, huh?
i was wondering if there was a forum for software architects and programmers...is this it?
anyone out there? out there...out ther...out th...ou...
in case anyone runs into a similar problem, I solved the problem by uninstalling McAfee security software (although kept the virus stuff). now it all works fine.
Don't know if anybody follows this board lately... but here goes...
I'm trying to set up .NET to work on web applications using my PC as a local server. I did this on another PC a few days ago and got it to work... having trouble this time. Keep getting a message that server received an invalid or unrecognized response when attempting to create a web project...
looking for a place to vent where someone might understand... since last Jan I have been assigned to work on a product that is the biggest POS I've ever worked on! Today I asked a fellow programmer how to set something up for testing in the UI and this was his response:
no idea...
try clicking your heels together and wishing...the UI seems to respond to random stuff like that.
ACK!!!!
NEED HTML HELP:
Anyone here know HTML and willing to help me find a glich in a few lines of code. Familiarity with " AIM investing" would be a help but not neccesary. I have written a program that tells me my hold zone for a particular security and once I know it is outside the hold zone, how much to buy or sell depending on the current price. The hold zone part of the program works and it works if there should be a sale but there is a glitch on the buy side that does not make any sence to me.
Toofuzzy
I'd rather write something mself than figure it out...
Agree with you on that... it's kind of hard from that code snippet to get the whole idea.
Sara
Sprint PCS... NOT free and NOT clear!
Here's something that was on a mail list yesterday. Ross's techniques are valid but his congestion definition is just a small part of it, actually something most people would overlook. From past reading I believe 4 consecutive bars of (opens or closes) within the range of any 1 bar is how Ross defines congestion. That same definition can be changed slightly to indicate trend. For instance the length of a series where either the open or close is beyond the range of the previous bar is an indication of trend strength or weakness.
Here's the congestion code below. I'd rather write something mself than figure it out but will probably look to it for ideas if and when I get around to it. Over the years I've saved tons of this stuff but like I said earlier I don't look back at much of it ...but sometimes it's a handy reference, so I always save it.
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How do I turn this code into a flag which prohibits trades? This is the
Ross Congestion paintbar.Thanks in advance.
Inputs:Option(1);
Vars:x(0),Counter(0),BarBack(0),Str("");
Counter=0;
For x=0 to 3 begin
If Option<=1 Or Option3 then begin
{Refer the closes in
the condition}
If (C[x]=L[BarBack]) and (C[x]<=H[BarBack]) then
Counter=Counter+1;
end;
If Option=2 then begin
{Refer the opens in the
condition}
If (O[x]=L[BarBack]) and (O[x]<=H[BarBack]) then
Counter=Counter+1;
end;
If Option=3 then begin
{Refer both in the condition}
If (C[x]=L[BarBack]) and (C[x]<=H[BarBack]) and
(O[x]=L[BarBack])
and (O[x]<=H[BarBack]) then Counter=Counter+1;
end;
end;
If Counter=4 then begin {If the condition is
true
plot the congestion
bars}
For x=0 to 3 begin
Plot1[x](H[x],"H");
Plot2[x](L[x],"L");
end;
end;
If Counter=4 then Barback=BarBack+1 else BarBack=4; {If the
condition
is true use the engulfing bar as reference}
But there's quite a backlog of ideas I might not get to.
I'd really like to come up with an idea for a project. If you have any you probably won't do, please throw them my way :)
Hope you're having a great weekend!
Sara
Sprint PCS... NOT free and NOT clear!
Sorry don't have the original. I printed what I liked about it and stuck it to a corkboard. Btw, I've never worked as a programmer either. I only code market TA for myself. Thinking in terms of minimal functionality gets me started quicker and I stick with projects without getting bogged down when new ideas pop up... sometimes :) But there's quite a backlog of ideas I might not get to.
Great quote! Is that something I can get a link to?
Sara
Sprint PCS... NOT free and NOT clear!
If she issues the change order then she's responsible for the cost overruns and missed deadline.
A good programmer once said... "if through beta testing or whatever, you come up with a list of features that you want in a program, you set the scope of the project and work toward an end date. If other "better ideas" come up along the way, you hold them for the next version. You do not keep on putting off a release date just to add new features. There is nothing wrong with a new version every month, so long as each one is a finished product."
yes, but it's not within my control. My boss accepts these changes and passes them on. I've had several discussions with her on this topic and she just keeps doing everything. Her solution is to work 20 hour days (only a slight exaggeration in her case). She worked so many extra hours on this last project that her left arm went numb from sitting at the computer too much. She's a perfectionist and a work-a-holic... which is great for a co-worker or subordinate... but hell for a boss :)
Sara
Sprint PCS... NOT free and NOT clear!
spend the rest of the day loafing
You deserve it when you've just prevented the co. from making a huge mistake.
You have the solution. Whenever a customer says the words lets change this ... smile, pull out your template and tell them you'll get started just as soon as the purchase order is accepted.
Then spend the rest of the day loafing,...
LOL... sounds good!
Sara
Sprint PCS... NOT free and NOT clear!
You have the templates, just fill in the blanks and get the customer to approve the agreement. Done! That has to take less time than whatever it is management is thinking will be quicker. Then spend the rest of the day loafing, knowing you just saved hundreds of hours of work by doing it the right way. Eventually management will figure out that you're the only one that comes in under budget and has happy customers too.
You need a straight forward outline of what the program will do stating that additional feature request will be billed at an hourly rate or rebid as a separate purchase order.
Exactly! But what happens is constant changes come in... we even had design changes up to and past our first deadline. Finally I told my boss that if we kept doing them we'd never get done... guess that makes me "needing to be more flexible" and "having difficulty to adapting to a changing environment".
Either shop I was in before would not have allowed changes without changes in deadlines and cost estimates. It's like saying... add two new rooms to the house but do it in the same time frame and with no additional costs... what? you can't? hey, you have a attitude problem... why aren't you thinking of solutions?
thanks for letting me vent here... I'm very frustrated.
Sara
Sprint PCS... NOT free and NOT clear!
That could drag on forever, with unplanned for features added in after the bid has been accepted. You need a straight forward outline of what the program will do stating that additional feature requests will be billed at an hourly rate or rebid as a separate purchase order. Good luck.
p.s.
I have written up templates for User Requirement Documents and Technical Specifications. I also created a document for the Development Process which was approved by management and then ignored because "we don't have the time".
I think it's time for me to find a new job.
Sara
Sprint PCS... NOT free and NOT clear!
if it's anything like a list of hardware requirements you might be able to come up with a generic boiler plate
It's kind of like that... I like the analogy of building a house. Someone comes to you, a contractor, and says I want a house, start building it. You say, but how many rooms? how many bathrooms, how many windows? The person says, you write up a proposal. So you create a blue print that the person glances at and says okay. Now.. you start building the house. The customer comes to the site and says... hey, I don't like that window there and I want more bedrooms! My point being, that the person who you are building the house for... or software for, needs to communicate clearly and in detail what they want starting before the pouring of the foundation. Certainly that person will need the help of an architect and/or contractor to make those decisions and to detail their ideas, but if you don't make them primarily responsible for their requirements, you get blamed everytime it doesn't turn out the way they "wanted" it. That causes re-dos, cost overruns, missed deadlines.
Every place I've worked prior to this one had a system. In general the system was that the user wrote up a request of some sort for services. That request was received by the Development Department and analyzed. In response, we would propose a solution detailing exactly what we would do to meet the user requirements. These were tools used to facilitate understanding between the user needs and the developers. It would include the time and resources to complete the project. The user would then approve or work with us to come to some mutually agreeable solution.
The problem with how it works where I am now is this...
we make a guess at user requirements...
the users glance at them without much thought and say yeah...
then we start doing the work and presenting results...
the user then realizes they want something different...
we are constantly changing the user requirements and specs...
work is re-done... deadlines are missed.... management is unhappy and blames development... development is unhappy because they were caught in the middle. The problem is that what the user wants has not been thought through thoroughly and communicated. The User Requirements document is a tool to facilitate that communication. If I do the requirement document, I might as well be talking to myself.
In the two places I worked previously, I made my cost estimates within acceptable variance and I don't think I ever went over the deadline.
Every project I've worked on at this place has been overdue in management eyes.
My boss has never worked at any other company and says that the systems at these other companies (one was a subsidiary of GTE, the other of American Express) doesn't apply to us.
Sara
Sprint PCS... NOT free and NOT clear!
I don't know what user requirements are but if it's anything like a list of hardware requirements you might be able to come up with a generic boiler plate you can cut and paste without much editing.
VOLUNTEER to do the *!#**! user reqs and do it with style!
After raising my objections I DID do them! And yet it IS still being used against me. The complaint is that I "resisted".
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Sara
Sprint PCS... NOT free and NOT clear!
Sara,
re; User reqs. & mgmt
I think I know where you are coming from on this. Here's some free advice (and it's probably worth what you paid for it - VVBG)
VOLUNTEER to do the *!#**! user reqs and do it with style! Heck, if you have been programming that long, you probably forgot more about writing user reqs. than most people know!
I just sense that this is something that could be "used against" you, and it's just not worth the risk. I've been involved in a LOT of review cycles and know how politicized they can be ... part of the reason I retired, I guess!
Good luck,
greg
it has been Marketing who writes high-level user requirements.
thanks for responding.
In my 20 years of programming, I've never had it be my responsibility or the responsiblity of anyone in the development departments I've worked in. Although on many occassion, I have helped others do them. My boss gave me a review stating that I was "resistant" to do User Requirements (which is true but I did them anyway) and put it as one of my responsiblities. After cooling off, I've realized it's indicative of a deeper problem between us.
Sara
Sprint PCS... NOT free and NOT clear!
Sara,
I'm a retired Marketing person, not a programmer, but in my years of leading development teams it has been Marketing who writes high-level user requirements.
greg
I'd like a talley from all programmers on the following questions:
For any programming job you have had, has writing User Requirements been a primary responsiblitiy? a secondary responsibility?
Do you feel that writing User Requirements should be the primary responsibility of the Development Department?
Note: I'm not talking about Technical Specifications which are written in response to user requirements or saying that the development department shouldn't help users with their Requirements documents.
Sara
Sprint PCS... NOT free and NOT clear!
Does anyone here know ASP?
A bit...
If so, how did it take you to learn what you know
ASP really isn't a "programming language" in the conventional sense. It's a kind of programming. Active Server Pages. Meaning, basically, programs that produce HTML on the fly for use by web browsers.
What language you use depends on your own preferences and what your server software supports. I don't know what server packages support what, but I'd bet the most common implementation of ASP involves IIS (which comes with NT) and VBScript. IIS also supports JavaScript. Some other servers (and probaby IIS, but I haven't checked) support Perl or standalone EXE's.
For example, Brad Dryer's version of Silicon Investor was written in C++ and compiled into standalone programs. Very good approach, as it's awfully fast, since you can write some really tight code in C++ and using standalone programs gets rid of the huge overhead of the webserver having to interpret/translate every program one line at a time as it's running.
As I said, it's probably most often MSFT's IIS and VBScript and that's it. Definitely the easiest and cheapest approach.
A lot of ASP is just HTML. You can write a pure HTML page and name it with a .ASP extension and IIS handles it just fine.
What "makes it ASP" in the conventional sense is the inclusion of VBScript.
VBScript is just a subset/extension of Visual Basic, which is just a superset of BASIC. Most of us who took any computer classes or just did some programming for fun have learned some BASIC. If not, it's still an easy language to learn. Once you know any language (and therefore understand programming concepts), VBScript (or any other language) is comparatively easy to pick up.
iHub is MSFT's IIS and the source code is a combination of HTML, VBScript, JavaScript and a boatload of T-SQL. That's because at its barest essence it's just a front-end to a SQL database.
In answer to your question "how [long] did it take you to learn...", in my case I was able to start making source code changes the first time I ever looked at ASP because though I didn't (and still really don't) know JavaScript, VBScript and SQL are very familiar to me.
how proficient on ASP are you?
Depends on how you define "proficient in ASP". Like programming as a whole, it's such a huge area that contains many areas of specialization. Personally, I'd call myself very proficient in using VBScript to communicate with a SQL database. I couldn't write a Java applet if my life depended on it.
I learned just enough a few years ago to write a bug tracking system for internal use and haven't use it since. If you had a specific question, I could probably get an answer for you. But, I'd bet Bob has more experience with asp.
Sara
>> What can explain this?
Pushing this button explains. Puuuushing it explains ... uuuu
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=361339
Prooograming......oooo
Does anyone here know ASP? If so, how did it take you to learn what you know and how proficient on ASP are you?
For some strange reason, late at night, I find myself wanting to learn ASP. Hmmm. What can explain this?
very very big numbers and Format....
I have an application that is running a model. We are in the initial stages of debugging the model and are getting bogus numbers out in some cases. After the model runs, I get arrays of doubles for formatting for output. One of the values was...
2.934e+42
when I tried to use CString Format to make it nice for output, I got an access violation.
Mostly I want to avoid this except and print something like "err". Does anyone know what the limit is for the format statement to handle?
tia!
Sara
Hi Vam,
Thanks for the response! I ended up with a similar strategy... basically we are going to either have a menu command or a special button for each dialog. However, I am still using HTMLHelp() for the actual help call. Seems to work well.
Hope you check in on this board regularly!
(next post... another question...)
Sara
Hello world! VAM is in the house! ;)
It's good to know you're here!
You make that sound easy. It makes sense too, not that I could do it myself but it's logical and easy to follow.
I implemented a flavor of html help using MFC, but I didnt use mfc to do the html or the help part except to respond to a button.
basically what I did was this:
I provided a button on each dialog (also f1 reachable) that when triggered would open a html help file with a #reference in the URL.
something like this
shellexec (... open, "myfile.html#helparea"....)
Then in the myfile.html I had a named area like this:
<a name=helparea></a>
blah.........
Is this what you are looking to do?
also going along those lines in your windows program, if you create some text associated with help, make sure you change the IDC_STATIC to something unique IDC_WEBHOP,
Then make sure the control is set to notify the parent.
Then catch the WM_CTLCOLOR MESSAGE and if the id is IDC_WEBHOP change the RGB value to (0,0,0xff).
Then add an event for when someone 'clicks' on the text that launches a website... and you've created a link to a webpage from your program.
If anyone happens to be at next week's NAB, ( http://www.nab.org/conventions/nab2002/ )
I'll be there presenting our products including Face Recognition in either our main booth: S6950 ( http://www.nab.org/conventions/nab2002/exhibitors/company.asp?id=2636 )
or booth: S7863 (the Virage booth [VRGE]).
Stop by if you get a chance...
David (windows programmer)
Nope! I waste too much time on message boards. <g>
MM
With the divergence between the indeces the directions unclear at the moment, at least not as clear as I prefer setups be and I'm flat with no opinion on direction.
You have some interesting thoughts there... you ought to join the COMPX board challenge.
Sara
Hey that's cool. I was marking boards without looking at titles and didn't realize where I was but my keen observation skills said this things changing too fast to be a true hot subjects board. Thanks for explaining.
The dow 30 indu reversed at the close and are still a buy. The spx is a half sell but it's not a strong half sell so maybe it's only a 40% sell because of where it closed. Ndx and comp are full sells but yesterday's narrow range bar contributed to that and makes it an unusual case study. I'm told yesterday's ndx was the narrowest range in years excluding half days like Christmas. With the divergence between the indeces the directions unclear at the moment, at least not as clear as I prefer setups be and I'm flat with no opinion on direction.
MM
I noticed the subject hotlist changes real fast, almost like it's based on the last board that was posted to. could be?
When you first go to the Hot! area, you get the "ActiveBoards" which is exactly as your observed it... the boards being most recently posted to. "Top Boards" on the other hand indicate the most popular(?) ones.
Sara
Well adding a bookmark to this board I started didn't change anything. And bookmarking everything on the hot list didn't change anything. I noticed the subject hotlist changes real fast, almost like it's based on the last board that was posted to. could be?
I've since lost interest in book marks and member scores and am watching the market because today has setup a reversal down. I've confirmed down signals on the ndx and comp but the spx and indu haven't confirmed with a full signal yet... but they've given a half signal.
2 full sells plus 2 half sells = 3 out of a possible 4.
I don't think board marks affect poster ratings even if you started a board... but you can ask Bob on the Q&A board, he'd know for sure.
[edit] I see you already did : )
Sara
dSort[0]=dRoc[ui,0];
I used the wrong index! It should of been di! Fortunately the question was clear enough I received a reply on another board .... and they didn't mention the indexing problem either!
Since I'm told peoplemarks affects member score, I'm wondering if board marks affects member score too, assuming it's a board I started myself. I unbookmarked this months ago after I had the answer I needed so I'm rebookmarking it as a test. I'm told the notes I've posted today have little affect on my score so if it jumps while peoplemarks remains constant there's justification for further testing of the board mark concept.
1. I can boardmark a bunch of popular boards although that's not likely to do much but might help the people who started those boards.
2. I can create new boards and of course add a bookmark to them. I'm thinking that's a huge part of AL? Mainly peoplemarks but also boardmarks of any boards we start. Just like we're always checking our marks in the stock market, this algorithm is obsessed with marks also?
MM
Hi Sara,
I'm swamped with programing projects right now so it's time to focus. That means I can't poke around on these message boards much or I won't make the progress I want. I'm cutting back everywhere in order to find more time.
Best regards, MM
Hi MechMeth and Matt...
This a great idea. I've been trying to learn the web side of things and maybe you all could help me out here.
Sara
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