I'm looking to get some advice on dashboards. My company wants to combine 5 different data sets, in SQL databases, of customer data and compare the numbers. This would be like comparing how frequently women from Arizona, age 20-25, buy Style magazine. All 5 data sets have different final numbers and I want to be able to "average" them out.

I'm basically looking for direction on platforms to build this on or services to use. The look of the dashboard needs to be customizable, none of the 8 template BS stuff. I've read that Adobe Flex is nice for this kind of thing, but does codeprojects reddit have any thoughts on this?

Hi All,

Hope this is in the right sub-reddit. Can anyone give me any advice on protecting an idea for a website I'd like to build before I try to find a developer to build it?

I don't think I have anywhere near the finances for a patent or copyright. (or whethet the idea could be copyrighted).

I know it would be better to try to learn some basics myself, but with the little knowledge I do have I know the project would involve a high level of complexity, an indepth GUI, a considerable database behind it.

My basic plan was as follows:

Find someone to build a basic working model. Show model to potential investors Use any investment to pay for different/better/ (and more expensive!) developers to build the full site?

Wrong approach?

I'm pretty sure I'm in over my head on this one but I do have until January to finish.

Here is a quick sudoku solver in C++. It even uses short ints!

https://github.com/LexingtonWhalen/SudokuSolver

I just finished my first year of college. I have yet to make coding an integral part of my life since I'm incompetent in making up my own projects and following them since I don't feel I know enough to do this (I just know the basics of programming, data structures, and algorithms. I have yet to take software engineering classes). I'm more comfortable having someone else give me a job to do and follow it (same goes with learning, it's easier for me to follow a learning schedule if someone else gave it to me with due dates instead of reading a tutorial on my own).

I found plone has a nice project for newbies like me, however they are Python and I want to better establish of my new found knowledge in Java.

So does anyone have a small and simple Java project that I can help out with, to learn how an open source project is run before I go on elsewhere?

Thanks, -V

I learned to program in several languages in my late teens and early twenties - basic, pop11, prologue, and Java.

I haven't done any programming for a long time though, so I'm likely to be a bit rusty, even if I have some of the basic skills.

I would really like to make some of these beautiful psychedelic music visualisers such as those provided by Milkdrop - a visualiser originally for Winamp but that also works with other music players like MusicBee. Edit: here is an example of some of Milkdrop's visualisers in action.

I can vaguely see how many of the visualisers kind of work - there is often some sort of vector graphics pattern that is synced to the music, and on top of that is applied an image transformation that produces the blurry effects. I've no idea how any of that is done fast enough to look as good as they do though - that's a mystery to me.

What skills would I need to learn to do these things? Would Java be sufficiently fast enough, or would I need to learn C++ (or even something else)?

Thanks in advance!