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This will be somewhat of a brain dump with somewhat vague questions.  To summarize it right now, something about "refactoring software" has been bugging me.  The length of the process, the work it takes, and the time, and the "no immediately visible results" that it produces.   There have been numerous questions on "do I refactor or rewrite".  Depending on circumstances, one choice may work better than another, although historically for working projects (projects people are using continuously), refactoring seemed to do better, since it does not break things as much as rewriting does.  And when things break all at once, such as when introducing a rewrite (which most likely has different behavior, UI, feel, workflow, etc. etc.), people tend to get upset.

Well, refactoring seems to smooth out the 'upsetness' over a much longer period of time.  People change as software changes, and each change is not as abrupt as with a rewrite.

There are books written about refactoring software.  That process takes time and work, `while not changing the functionality of the software`.  Little improvements can be done here and there, but the main point becomes improving the internals of the software without affecting the outside behavior, the user experience.

From the business end, *there are no changes!*.  We have developers *doing busy work* without showing anything to the business, until perhaps much later.  Is that bad?  Where I work, I have business people scoff at "what have we been doing" quite regularly, and saying things like "add convertion from one unit system to another?  Just put it in!"  Which ends up me staring into vastness of legacy code and taking 2-3 weeks to "put it in", what in someone's mind takes a day at the most.  But that's cuz maybe I'm slow, but I chose to refactor relevant code first, at least moving View items into respective view containers as a first step.

What is the purpose of refactoring software?  What, per se does it make better?  What expectations can be set?  What do I do next time someone says "it is taking too long", other than saying ... cuz I am refactoring!

Hey, whats going on.  i have been using microsoft access for doing all my queries.  And they are pretty complex.  One query can be the combination of like 8 tables.  Do you think Access is the best program to build and run these queries or do you think there is better software out there for building queries.  what do you suggest.  It seems like Access cant handle very complex queries.  A lot of times i have to break the queries down into 3 or 4 queries.  i build one, export it to a csv file and then import it back into Access and build a new query on the new imported file.  Please let me know what you think. 

Hello,   I'm looking for server management software, preferably free or low cost. I did some googling but could not come up with a good solution for what I need. I manage a small data center and currently keep all server information (IPs, Rack ID, Client ID, etc) in an excel sheet. Does anyone know of something that I can manage the server information more efficiently?   Thanks

I previously used https://www.phpdoc.org/ (not sure about the part 2 part) but got out of the habit.  Wish to change, but had more installation problems than expected.  Is it still considered a good solution?  If so, any recommendations whether I should install using pear, phar, or other?  Thanks

Title: Software Developer Support Lead   About Us: We are a small, rapidly growing software company based in Wilmington, NC.  Our mission is simple: help companies, cities, and school systems save money in bulk fuel acquisition and managing their fleets of vehicles.  We are in the fuel industry and we want transparency.  We have a diligent, diverse team, which enjoys challenges and the joy of extracting our best in our daily work life.   Who We Are Seeking: A charismatic individual to serve as a first line of defense for our software team's most valuable product.  Ideally you would be happiest when making others happy, especially as it relates to solving elusive problems in code, or logic in a large, web application.  If you have high expectations of your work, and that of others, and seek to solve problems at their core, this will be a good fit for you.  We strive to deal with difficult problems today so that tomorrow will be a better place.     About The Position: You will be the primary point of contact between our Operations and Development teams--this means you will have to help refine problems, research code, develop and apply rock-solid solutions, and work well with others in the process. In short, you will be coding, but you will also plan, weighing many potential outcomes, and test the result.  You will need to know Linux, MVC frameworks, PHP, MSSQL/MySQL and have a desire to learn: both about technology and from our experiences.   General: B.S. in Computer Science, or comparable comfortable in PHP, MySQL/MSSQL, Javascript, jQuery familiarity with any web framework (Yii experience preferred) excellent communication skills explain what is on your mind: with words, pictures, metaphors, UML, etc. 1 or more years of experience desired   Helpful Characteristics: daily user of Linux (Arch, Fedora, CentOS, for example) familiarity with vim, tmux personality traits which would be helpful methodical in nature willingness to learn desire to please re-enforcing standards, rather than "just get the job done" ability to work with a team "Pair Programming" is a daily practice regular code reviews group project planning plan first, act later asking questions is considered a strength highly communicative in nature work with Operations Team to refine the actual problem determine the source of the problem propose solution to Software Architect implement a solution   Please email résumé and cover sheet to development@goenergies.com.  

I am working on an application and part of the requirements is to restrict the number of users that can log in based on a license. So on install, I will provide a license that allows for 10 user accounts to be created.

If the client requires 50, a different license will be provided that allows 50. 
I am asking, does anyone know of such a third party software that can accomplish such a task that would invalidate the need of me writing one from scratch.

 

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I Need help Integrating An Video Upload System Into The Mybb Forum Software. I understand You Need ffmeg +jwplayer ive already installed that on my server.But Now I Need A Little Help Integrating And Uploader Into The Software, So It Can Post The Video Into An Thred When My Users Upload.

Hello I am a total beginner and don't know first thing about php, but still trying to figure this out. 

So what I am trying to achieve is, send a http request from a software to my website with a ticket number, is it possible in php to receive that request and show it on a different webpage of the same site? 

It would be helpful if you can point me to some related articles. 

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Hi,
A piece of software I'm using an array is made that looks like the following:
Code: [Select]
[["Select","Vehicle",0.142933,[0.15,0.4,0.05,0.01]]]
How would I be best parsing it so:
Square brackets currently showing an array becomes an array within PHP
Text strings surrounded by "quotations" lose the quotation mark when stored in the PHP array
Numbers remain as values in the PHP array

The arrays can become quite large, so which would be the best way to go about it?

Regards,
Jason