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Is Your Development Project a Sinking Ship?
gManZboy writes "Everyone knows that some software development projects succeed and other fail -- the question has always been 'why'? I'm sure we all have our favorite (likely anecdotal) explanations. Well, these guys decided to actually go out there and do a formal survey, and they've got some real data on why projects actually fail (as reported by development project managers -- care to guess where 'changing requirements' ranks?). They've developed a diagnostic formula people can use to gauge the likeliness that the project they're working on right now is (or isn't) going to fail."
I was developing a robot that automagically first posted slashdot.org for me, to save me tons of time at work and whatnot, but sadly it didn't work too well.
My main personal project is at a standstill for now until I can figure out how to make my own wxWidgets widgets and wxPython wrapper.
I basically need a way of putting a checkbox into the last column of a wxListCtrl, kinda like a ColumnSorterMixin in the wxDemo, but I need a checkbox widget, not just a bitmap.
If anyone knows how to do this, it would mean I could do a lot more development (maybe even finish) my cross-platform Livejournal client.
Where I used to work, the decision was to go with Qt for all C++ GUI work, mainly because of lack of widgets in GTK+ and wxWindows as it then was known, plus it's easy to make your own custom widgets in QtDesigner.
My Perl ethereal clone is coming along nicely, I would convert it to Python, but don't have time to research libpcap support.
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Off-topic:
I don't understand what people are hoping to achieve withi this EA Petition in your signature. The NFL would have a hell of a lot more to lose if they committed breach of contract and got sued for millions (and in today's litigious insanity, possible billions) by EA by backing out after the deal is signed.