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Elie

Toronto, Canada

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Age: 30

A programmer with a degree in CS and Biology. For my professional information go to my Linked In profile, or visit my company's site, Optimal Upgrade Consulting.
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datetime vs timestamp?

mysql datetime timestamp Apr 18 at 21:14 Esko Luontola
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440 votes
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Tricks to speed up Eclipse

eclipse tips-and-tricks performance Jan 24 at 8:42 erickson
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95 votes
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Is Agile Development Dead?

agile scrum extreme-programming Apr 18 at 15:55 Ken
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84 votes
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Where can I get free real-time stock data?

web-services finance stockquotes Sep 19 '12 at 15:14 brian d foy
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81 votes
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What are the most common security mistakes programmers make?

security Sep 29 '12 at 11:56 PintSizedCat
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71 votes
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Learning/Implementing Design Patterns (For Newbies)

oop design-patterns Aug 30 '12 at 18:26 Lance Roberts
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49 votes
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Does it make sense to set up a wiki at the workplace?

wiki workplace Apr 23 '12 at 16:50 Eric Wendelin
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48 votes
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How can a group track database schema changes?

mysql version-control schema May 6 '11 at 2:34 Dori
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41 votes
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Howto bring a Java window to the front?

java windows swing awt Mar 28 at 14:36 Lalith Jayasinghe
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39 votes
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How to find good looking font color if background color is known?

design accessibility colors readability aesthetics Mar 5 at 13:22 Duarte Cunha Leão
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39 votes
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What are some good websites for programming puzzles?

algorithm puzzle Aug 29 '11 at 1:20 S.Lott
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39 votes
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Encrypting/Hashing plain text passwords in database

security encryption passwords security-by-obscurity Jun 5 '11 at 15:03 Jonathan S.
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37 votes
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Java assertions underused

java assertions Nov 9 '09 at 14:39 Don
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37 votes
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Which book dramatically changed your way of approaching problems?

books Apr 19 '12 at 23:41 Alexandre Brisebois
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33 votes
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Is there a public secure FTP site for testing?

testing ftp ftps Jan 7 at 19:24 Akroy
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30 votes
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How do you keep your Windows development machine from slowing down?

windows hardware productivity tips-and-tricks Mar 26 '11 at 18:30 Ola Eldoy
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28 votes
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Human factors design (meeting psychological needs in UI design)

user-interface psychology Feb 25 '12 at 22:42 Rich B
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22 votes
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NoClassDefFoundError while trying to run my jar with java.exe -jar…what's wrong?

java jar classpath executable-jar Oct 26 '12 at 19:38 jschoen
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22 votes
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Convert webpage to image from ASP.NET

c# asp.net image webpage Mar 7 at 5:11 Kardo
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20 votes
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What payment structure do you use for small projects?

project-management business Feb 7 '09 at 21:13 Gortok
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20 votes
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Method for email testing

email testing smtp Nov 28 '12 at 14:06 yankee
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18 votes
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Java 6 Excessive Memory Usage

java memory-management Sep 7 '11 at 10:07 Software Monkey
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17 votes
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Detect WebBrowser complete page loading

c# webbrowser Jan 29 at 22:35 Sheng Jiang 蒋晟
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12 votes
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What are the best and most ethical ways to promote a new coding blog?

blogs Mar 12 '12 at 5:10 Benny
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11 votes
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Best Project Management Tool for 2 Developers?

project-management Nov 5 '11 at 6:28 Verbeia
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11 votes
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What are your feelings on functional specs? And Software design?

project-management functional-programming planning spec Feb 25 '09 at 4:44 John Topley
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11 votes
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Moving in to a designer/programmer Leadership Role

project-management Feb 18 '12 at 10:20 skaffman
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11 votes
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Adding rows to a JTable

java swing Nov 17 '08 at 15:24 Saiyine
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9 votes
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Where can I get databases of cities/places around the world?

web-services geolocation Feb 8 '12 at 8:55 Ken
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9 votes
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SQL group by day, show orders for each day

sql sql-server-2005 aggregate May 2 '12 at 8:15 Jonathan Leffler
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