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26,401 | 2 | null | 26,383 | 1 | null | My usual approach is to use contract to handle any kind of error due to "client" invocation, that is, due to an external error (i.e ArgumentNullException).
Every error on the arguments is not handled. An exception is raised and the "client" is in charge of handling it. On the other hand, for internal errors always try... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:00:45.273 | 2008-08-25T17:00:45.273 | null | null | 2,695 | null |
26,398 | 2 | null | 21,830 | 18 | null | First of all, do you need to use them for text search indexing? GIN and GiST are index specialized for some data types. If you need to index simple char or integer values then the normal B-Tree index is the best.
Anyway, PostgreSQL documentation has a chapter on [GIST](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/gist.htm... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:00:24.947 | 2008-08-25T17:00:24.947 | null | null | 1,005 | null |
26,407 | 2 | null | 26,301 | 1 | null | For some reason Bubble Sort has always stood out to me. Not because it's elegant or good just because it had/has a goofy name I suppose.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:01:47.020 | 2008-08-25T17:01:47.020 | null | null | 2,109 | null |
26,403 | 2 | null | 26,383 | 6 | null | I favor what you call the "contract" approach. Returning nulls or other special values to indicate errors isn't necessary in a language that supports exceptions. I find it much easier to understand code when it doesn't have a bunch of "if (result == NULL)" or "if (result == -1)" clauses mixed in with what could be ve... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:01:07.287 | 2008-08-25T17:01:07.287 | null | null | 1,175 | null |
26,404 | 2 | null | 26,260 | 0 | null | When you say "precompile" the site, are you using the [aspnet_compiler](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms229863%28VS.80%29.aspx) utility to precompile, or simply using the "Build site" option in Visual Studio?
If you are not carrying out the former, I recommend [giving it a spin](http://odetocode.com/blogs/sc... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:01:22.263 | 2008-08-25T17:01:22.263 | null | null | 2,663 | null |
26,399 | 2 | null | 26,355 | 1 | null | @DavidG and @KevenPang
MVC is not limited to a web technology, in fact the original smalltalk MVC was for desktop applications.
It works like this:
- - -
In pure Smalltalk MVC, the View is not limited to being a form, but can be any representation of Model Data...For example, if we had a Model that represented a s... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:00:28.317 | 2008-08-25T17:00:28.317 | null | null | 1,965 | null |
26,366 | 1 | null | null | 11 | 1,005 | For the past 10 years or so there have been a smattering of articles and papers referencing Christopher Alexander's newer work "The Nature of Order" and how it can be applied to software.
Unfortunately, the only works I can find are from James Coplien and Richard Gabriel; there is nothing beyond that, at least from my... | Beyond design patterns? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-25T16:40:44.497 | 2017-07-19T17:12:14.603 | 2017-07-19T17:12:14.603 | 7,750,640 | 1,799 | [
"design-patterns"
] |
26,408 | 2 | null | 24,221 | 7 | null | Java also has the Annotation Processing Tool (apt) where not only you create annotations, but decide also how do these annotations work on the source code.
[Here](http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/guide/apt/GettingStarted.html) is an introduction.
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-25T17:02:12.790 | 2012-07-31T12:17:44.620 | 2012-07-31T12:17:44.620 | 812,149 | 2,644 | null |
26,411 | 2 | null | 26,393 | 52 | null | A selector engine is used to query a page's DOM for particular elements, based on some sort of query (usually CSS syntax or similar).
For example, this jQuery:
```
$('div')
```
Would search for and return all of the <div> elements on the page. It uses jQuery's selector engine to do that.
Optimizing the selector... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:03:51.897 | 2008-08-25T17:03:51.897 | null | null | 60 | null |
26,415 | 2 | null | 25,252 | 1 | null | Since this is more along the lines of product support, your best bet is probably emailing the support people. We bought Zend Studio at my last job and they were always able to help us in a matter of hours.
Feel free to post the answer though, I am sure there are more people looking for it. :)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:06:28.460 | 2008-08-25T17:06:28.460 | null | null | 2,859 | null |
26,417 | 2 | null | 26,393 | 5 | null | Also, Sizzle is the engine John Resig is working on currently to replace jQuery's already fantastic selector engine.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:07:35.040 | 2008-08-25T17:07:35.040 | null | null | 77 | null |
26,416 | 2 | null | 8,398 | 1 | null | Just make sure you have 'Disable Script Debugging' unchecked, and just hit F5 to start debugging in VS2005 or 2008.
I would also note that if you have your JavaScript inside the .aspx page you will have to find it via the script explore. However if you have it in a separate .js file you can just put a break point on... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:07:04.417 | 2008-08-26T12:39:01.573 | 2008-08-26T12:39:01.573 | 2,469 | 2,469 | null |
26,409 | 2 | null | 1,711 | 2 | null | Read [Head First Design Patterns](http://books.google.com/books?id=LjJcCnNf92kC&dq=head+first+design+patterns&pg=PP1&ots=_9Z38Ii7uY&sig=BQOPlemSK6VvYAapjbrHzCqr434&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result) for a much more accessible introduction than the GoF book. I remember feeling like I'd leveled up after each ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:02:29.013 | 2008-08-25T17:02:29.013 | null | null | 1,288 | null |
26,394 | 2 | null | 26,369 | 87 | null | I love using the built-in [Application Settings](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a65txexh.aspx). Then you have built in support for using the settings designer if you want at design-time, or at runtime to use:
```
// read setting
string setting1 = (string)Settings.Default["MySetting1"];
// save setting
Setti... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-25T16:59:15.527 | 2015-11-06T17:33:12.597 | 2015-11-06T17:33:12.597 | 1,627 | 1,627 | null |
26,419 | 2 | null | 26,393 | 9 | null | A selector engine is a way to traverse the DOM looking for a specific element.
An example of a built in selector engine:
```
var foo = document.getElementById('foo');
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:07:50.607 | 2008-08-25T17:07:50.607 | null | null | 1,965 | null |
26,421 | 2 | null | 26,260 | 0 | null | The initial slowness is a couple things:
- - -
This is normal behavior for ASP.NET.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:10:02.333 | 2008-08-25T17:10:02.333 | null | null | 1,965 | null |
26,418 | 2 | null | 26,393 | 19 | null | A selector engine is a JavaScript library that lets you select elements in the DOM tree using some kind of string for identifying them (think regular expressions for DOM elements). Most selector engines use some variation of the CSS3 selectors syntax so, for example, you can write something like:
```
var paragraphs = ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:07:40.420 | 2008-08-25T17:07:40.420 | null | null | 2,384 | null |
26,422 | 1 | 26,426 | null | 5 | 438 | Do you know where I could find some useful third party (free) code snippets for VS 2008?
| Third party Visual Studio snippets | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-25T17:11:07.153 | 2014-12-31T07:41:06.113 | 2014-12-31T07:41:06.113 | 1,505,120 | 1,782 | [
"visual-studio",
"visual-studio-2008",
"code-snippets"
] |
26,426 | 2 | null | 26,422 | 6 | null | [http://gotcodesnippets.com/](http://gotcodesnippets.com/)
[http://www.codekeep.net/](http://www.codekeep.net/) has a VS add-in for their snippets, too
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:11:55.497 | 2008-09-04T18:52:16.487 | 2008-09-04T18:52:16.487 | 2,688 | 2,688 | null |
26,383 | 1 | 26,403 | null | 12 | 879 | I know two approaches to Exception handling, lets have a look at them.
1. Contract approach. When a method does not do what it says it will do in the method header, it will throw an exception. Thus the method "promises" that it will do the operation, and if it fails for some reason, it will throw an exception.
2. Exce... | Exception handling: Contract vs Exceptional approach | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-25T16:52:23.110 | 2013-02-19T19:42:02.483 | 2020-06-20T09:12:55.060 | -1 | null | [
"exception"
] |
26,397 | 2 | null | 26,301 | 33 | null | General algorithms:
- - [AVL trees](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVL_tree)- [Dijkstra](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijkstra's_algorithm)[Ford-Fulkerson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford-Fulkerson_algorithm)- [LZW](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZW)- [FFT](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fft)- [simplex](http://en.wikiped... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:00:23.123 | 2008-08-25T17:15:52.430 | 2008-08-25T17:15:52.430 | 2,638 | 2,638 | null |
26,431 | 2 | null | 25,252 | 1 | null | There's an option to debug a php script,
run->run as->php script
I believe it also has to be in your project root though. Just for clarification, Zend studio uses their own debugger, while the eclipse pdt project you have the option for Xdebug or Zend's debugger.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:17:43.487 | 2008-08-25T17:17:43.487 | null | null | 1,425 | null |
26,414 | 2 | null | 26,369 | 2 | null | One approach that has worked for me in the past has been to create a settings class and use XML serialization to write it to the file system. You could extend this concept by creating a collection of settings objects and serializing it. You would have all of your settings for all users in one place without having to ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:06:26.650 | 2008-08-25T17:06:26.650 | null | null | 2,470 | null |
26,424 | 2 | null | 26,369 | 5 | null | Or write your settings in a xml file and save it using [Isolated Storage](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/3ak841sy.aspx). Depending on the store you use it saves it in the Application Data folder. You can also choose a roaming enabled store which means when the user logs on a different computer the settings mov... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:11:33.080 | 2008-08-25T17:11:33.080 | null | null | 1,242 | null |
26,428 | 2 | null | 23,376 | 1 | null | In the no-cost category, newer versions of [gzip](http://www.gzip.org/#faq10) and [bzip2](http://www.bzip.org/) are supposed to include large file support (someone on the internet tells me that bzip2 1.0.1 and beyond is large file compatible thanks to Cyril Pilsko, while gzip 1.2 can be patched which the dowloadable bi... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:14:16.613 | 2008-08-25T17:14:16.613 | null | null | 459 | null |
26,423 | 2 | null | 26,355 | 5 | null | I personally think that the Mobile Software Factory doesn't hold much joy for CF.
We still use one part of it (EventBroker) at work and I'd like to even remove that part if possible (as it doesn't support generic events and you have to cast the arguments into their strong types from EventArgs). A sister project at work... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:11:13.143 | 2008-08-25T17:16:59.243 | 2008-08-25T17:16:59.243 | 1,143 | 1,143 | null |
26,439 | 2 | null | 26,433 | 1 | null | I don't know of anything in bash or on cp, but there are simple ways to do this sort of thing using (for example) a perl script:
```
($op = shift) || die "Usage: rename perlexpr [filenames]\n";
for (@ARGV) {
$was = $_;
eval $op;
die $@ if $@;
rename($was,$_) unless $was eq $_;
}
```
Then:
```
renam... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:21:13.150 | 2008-09-18T19:30:37.600 | null | null | 1,199 | null |
26,448 | 2 | null | 21,388 | 3 | null | Just a thought considering : doesn't the spaced array option (#3) only postpone the problem of the normal array (#1)? Whatever algorithm you choose, either it's broken, and you'll run into problems with #3 later, or it works, and then #1 should work just as well.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:24:13.627 | 2008-08-25T17:24:13.627 | null | null | 1,037 | null |
26,435 | 2 | null | 26,065 | 1 | null | We haven't done any/much I&T and use unit testing almost exclusively, seasoned with a bit of system testing. But our focus is clearly on unit testing. I'm pretty strict on the APIs we build/provide, so the assumption is, if it works by itself, it will work in conjunction and there hasn't been much wrong in it yet.
Our... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:19:50.737 | 2008-08-25T17:19:50.737 | null | null | 2,859 | null |
26,427 | 2 | null | 8,398 | 0 | null | > I usually use Firebug to deal with debugging JS.
Unless you need to debug in IE, there's no need to stop using Firebug. It works with JavaScript in ASP.NET pages just as well as it does with any other type of page.
Visual Studio's JavaScript debugging is alright, but really cannot compete with the full range of cl... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:13:06.727 | 2012-12-06T05:40:55.950 | 2012-12-06T05:40:55.950 | 60 | 60 | null |
26,433 | 1 | 26,456 | null | 9 | 818 | Say I have three files (template_*.txt):
- - -
I want to copy them to three new files (foo_*.txt).
- - -
Is there some simple way to do that with one command, e.g.
`cp --enableAwesomeness template_*.txt foo_*.txt`
| Bash One Liner: copy template_*.txt to foo_*.txt? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:18:50.083 | 2012-06-07T16:42:22.417 | null | null | 437 | [
"bash"
] |
26,451 | 2 | null | 26,433 | 3 | null | ```
[01:22 PM] matt@Lunchbox:~/tmp/ba$
ls
template_x.txt template_y.txt template_z.txt
[01:22 PM] matt@Lunchbox:~/tmp/ba$
for i in template_*.txt ; do mv $i foo${i:8}; done
[01:22 PM] matt@Lunchbox:~/tmp/ba$
ls
foo_x.txt foo_y.txt foo_z.txt
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:25:23.827 | 2008-08-25T17:25:23.827 | null | null | 1,322 | null |
26,456 | 2 | null | 26,433 | 11 | null | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:26:57.503 | 2008-08-28T00:02:11.703 | 2008-08-28T00:02:11.703 | 234 | 1,412 | null | |
26,452 | 1 | 26,462 | null | 6 | 4,013 | I'm trying to bind the following shortcut: to close tabs
How can you customize VS to add/change shortcuts? Also, what are the most useful shortcuts you guys have found?
| Visual Studio 2005 Shortcuts | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-25T17:25:33.857 | 2017-06-29T13:27:50.103 | 2009-03-25T18:17:02.590 | 14,444 | 40 | [
"visual-studio",
"visual-studio-2005",
"shortcut"
] |
26,455 | 1 | 26,484 | null | 26 | 4,246 | Do you use Design by Contract professionally? Is it something you have to do from the beginning of a project, or can you change gears and start to incorporate it into your software development lifecycle? What have you found to be the pros/cons of the design approach?
I came across the [Design by Contract](http://en.wi... | Does Design By Contract Work For You? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-25T17:26:47.163 | 2010-11-18T05:19:10.330 | 2009-06-22T13:54:07.840 | 96,780 | null | [
"design-by-contract"
] |
26,450 | 1 | null | null | 2 | 3,135 | Is there any way to save an object using Hibernate if there is already an object using that identifier loaded into the session?
- `session.contains(obj)`- `merge(obj)`
| Hibernate saveOrUpdate with another object in the session | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-25T17:25:22.610 | 2017-08-09T20:14:13.173 | 2017-08-09T20:14:13.173 | 1,836,618 | 2,875 | [
"hibernate",
"orm"
] |
26,457 | 2 | null | 26,452 | 2 | null | Tools > Options > Environment > Keyboard
I find most of them useful TBH!
Commenting, Bookmarking, Incremental Search, etc etc.
The one you want to override by the way is which defaults to +
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-25T17:27:18.907 | 2017-06-29T13:09:11.973 | 2017-06-29T13:09:11.973 | 5,982,710 | 832 | null |
26,458 | 1 | null | null | 47 | 33,358 | Is there any IDE that simplifies creating Swing applications (ideally something along the lines of Visual Studio)
| IDE for Swing applications development | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-25T17:27:19.330 | 2022-04-06T10:31:45.193 | 2022-04-06T10:31:45.193 | 5,446,749 | 2,875 | [
"java",
"swing",
"ide"
] |
26,447 | 2 | null | 26,433 | 2 | null | This should work:
```
for file in template_*.txt ; do cp $file `echo $file | sed 's/template_\(.*\)/foo_\1/'` ; done
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:24:13.457 | 2008-08-25T17:24:13.457 | null | null | 497 | null |
26,461 | 2 | null | 25,952 | 4 | null | I think [.NET Terrarium](http://www.codeplex.com/terrarium2) is one of the best 'learn-to-program' games for the .NET platform.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:27:36.550 | 2008-08-25T17:27:36.550 | null | null | 2,029 | null |
26,441 | 2 | null | 26,433 | 1 | null | ```
for i in template_*.txt; do cp -v "$i" "`echo $i | sed 's%^template_%foo_%'`"; done
```
Probably breaks if your filenames have funky characters in them. Remove the '-v' when (if) you get confidence that it works reliably.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:21:35.990 | 2008-08-25T17:21:35.990 | null | null | 755 | null |
26,460 | 2 | null | 26,301 | 3 | null | The iterative algorithm for Fibonacci, because for me it nailed down the fact that the most elegant code (in this case, the recursive version) is not necessarily the most efficient.
To elaborate- The "fib(10) = fib(9) + fib(8)" approach means that fib(9) will be evaluated to fib(8) + fib(7). So evaluation of fib(8) ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:27:35.210 | 2008-08-25T17:27:35.210 | null | null | 2,876 | null |
26,470 | 2 | null | 26,458 | 20 | null | I like the [Swing GUI Builder](http://www.netbeans.org/features/java/swing.html) from the [NetBeans IDE](http://www.netbeans.org/).
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:33:53.230 | 2008-08-25T17:33:53.230 | null | null | 755 | null |
26,468 | 2 | null | 26,450 | 4 | null | Have you tried calling .SaveOrUpdateCopy()?
It should work in all instances, if there is an entity by the same id in the session or if there is no entity at all. This is basically the catch-all method, as it converts a transient object into a persistent one (Save), updates the object if it is existing (Update) or even... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:32:23.343 | 2008-08-25T18:06:19.640 | 2008-08-25T18:06:19.640 | 1,143 | 1,143 | null |
26,467 | 2 | null | 26,452 | 3 | null | I keep a link to Jeff's [shortcuts page](http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/files/Visual%20Studio%20.NET%202005%20Keyboard%20Shortcuts.htm), and refer to it to learn the shortcuts for all tasks I find myself regularly doing. I also use VisualAssist, and use a lot of:
- -
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-25T17:30:32.473 | 2017-06-29T13:27:50.103 | 2017-06-29T13:27:50.103 | 5,982,710 | 2,638 | null |
26,462 | 2 | null | 26,452 | 6 | null | Tools > Options > (Show all settings), then Environment > Keyboard.
Here, rebind the key “File.Close” to +.
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-25T17:28:26.377 | 2015-08-20T22:19:28.417 | 2015-08-20T22:19:28.417 | 7,226 | 1,968 | null |
26,469 | 2 | null | 26,458 | 7 | null | Netbeans has some GUI-building support, and it's one of the most popular Java IDEs on the market. Give it a look.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:33:05.430 | 2008-08-25T17:33:05.430 | null | null | 1,344 | null |
26,453 | 2 | null | 3,713 | 3 | null | > The Microsoft AJAX library will accomplish this. You could also create your own solution that involves using AJAX to call your own aspx (as basically) script files to run .NET functions.
This is the library called AjaxPro which was written an MVP named [Michael Schwarz](http://weblogs.asp.net/mschwarz/about.aspx). T... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-25T17:25:36.917 | 2016-12-09T17:47:35.877 | 2016-12-09T17:47:35.877 | 63,550 | 2,469 | null |
26,476 | 2 | null | 25,952 | 0 | null | There is a Spanish Java Page who organice a football leage in wich the users program the skills of their team and the strategy. You only need to download the framework and implement a little interface, then you can simulate matchs which are seen in the screen. When you are happy with your team and strategy you submit t... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-25T17:37:30.130 | 2012-01-27T02:54:05.513 | 2012-01-27T02:54:05.513 | 956,033 | 518 | null |
26,474 | 2 | null | 26,458 | 1 | null | I used to use MyEclipse quite a bit. It had a decent IDE for making Swing forms and such. I assume it has improved in the past year - they seem to add features in gobs and heaps, quite often.
[http://www.myeclipseide.com/](http://www.myeclipseide.com/)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:36:28.683 | 2008-08-25T17:36:28.683 | null | null | 2,878 | null |
26,481 | 2 | null | 26,458 | 5 | null | The latest version of NetBeans include a very nice and simple visual editor for Swing called Matisse
[Matisse](http://www.netbeans.org/kb/articles/matisse.html)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:39:57.113 | 2008-08-25T17:39:57.113 | null | null | 518 | null |
26,475 | 2 | null | 24,821 | 2 | null | You should make sure that neither IIS nor any other filter is trying to compress your response. It is very possible that your production server has IIS compression enabled for dynamic pages such as those with the .aspx suffix, and your development server does not.
If this is the case, IIS may be waiting for the entir... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:37:00.490 | 2008-08-25T17:37:00.490 | null | null | 1,335 | null |
26,482 | 2 | null | 25,646 | 1 | null | > I've always had problems with OpenGL
implementations from Intel
This is kind of what I'm worried about, but I have a hard time believing they'd screw up something as basic as glDrawPixels, and also, since I can "duplicate" the problem by changing the raster position vector, it makes me think it's my fault and I'm ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:40:46.800 | 2008-08-25T17:40:46.800 | null | null | 1,329,401 | null |
26,483 | 2 | null | 24,821 | 5 | null | Hey, Jason. Sorry you're still having trouble with this.
What I would do is set up a simple page like:
```
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
Response.Write(i + "<br />");
Response.Flush();
Thread.Sleep(1000);
}
}
```
As we discussed before, m... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:41:10.967 | 2008-08-25T17:41:10.967 | null | null | 60 | null |
26,509 | 1 | null | null | -1 | 153 | I haven't been to enough of these "live" events to really determine which, if any, are worth the time / money. Which ones do you attend and why?
| What workshops / user groups / conventions do you attend? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:55:58.997 | 2011-09-07T00:29:40.673 | null | null | 1,574 | [
"networking"
] |
26,498 | 2 | null | 7,991 | 91 | null | I'd like to add another vote for the StringFormat object.
You can use this simply to specify "center, center" and the text will be drawn centrally in the rectangle or points provided:
```
StringFormat format = new StringFormat();
format.LineAlignment = StringAlignment.Center;
format.Alignment = StringAlignment.Center;... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-25T17:49:38.463 | 2017-10-09T15:39:34.130 | 2017-10-09T15:39:34.130 | 395,500 | 1,143 | null |
26,478 | 1 | 49,638 | null | 1 | 460 | I'm having trouble getting the following to work in SQL Server 2k, but it works in 2k5:
```
--works in 2k5, not in 2k
create view foo as
SELECT usertable.legacyCSVVarcharCol as testvar
FROM usertable
WHERE rsrcID in
( select val
from
dbo.fnSplitStringToInt(usertable.legacyCSVVarc... | Incosistency between MS Sql 2k and 2k5 with columns as function arguments | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-25T17:38:50.470 | 2010-07-22T19:47:03.480 | 2010-07-22T19:47:03.480 | 5,696,608 | 2,327 | [
"sql-server"
] |
26,485 | 2 | null | 26,455 | 2 | null | It's absolutely foolish to not design by contract when doing anything in an SOA realm, and it's always helpful if you're working on any sort of modular work, where bits & pieces might be swapped out later on, especially if any black boxen are involved.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:42:30.243 | 2008-08-25T17:42:30.243 | null | null | 35 | null |
26,512 | 1 | null | null | 2 | 4,967 | I have a ComboBox that I bind to a standard HTTPService, I would like to add an event listener so that I can run some code after the ComboBox is populated from the data provider.
How can I do this?
| Can I add an event listener to a databinding action in Flex? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:56:40.537 | 2010-07-29T20:33:16.413 | 2008-08-25T18:06:58.017 | 35 | 1,638 | [
"apache-flex",
"data-binding"
] |
26,490 | 2 | null | 19,487 | 3 | null | I essentially do the same thing Jon does, but here are a few other ideas:
1. Use Guides in Photoshop (and lock to them). Figure out all of your dimensions for each box/ region ahead of time.
2. Collect all of your dimensions and color hex values into an info file (I use a txt file) that you can easily reference. This... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-25T17:45:16.493 | 2015-08-20T22:19:12.793 | 2015-08-20T22:19:12.793 | 7,226 | 2,166 | null |
26,517 | 2 | null | 26,458 | 2 | null | I'm a big fan of JetBrains, and when it comes to Java, [IntelliJ](http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/index.html) is the best IDE I have used.
For Swing, they have a fully interactive UI builder. And, for actual coding, their intellisense can't be beat.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:59:44.557 | 2008-08-25T17:59:44.557 | null | null | 338 | null |
26,521 | 2 | null | 26,509 | 0 | null | I used to belong to my local Linux User Group which I co-founded but I treated it more as a social event than anything else but obviously a social event full of geeks is still a great way to get a great debate going :)
Conventions and the like I've not got much out of other than being pestered by businesses who can of... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T18:02:26.030 | 2008-08-25T18:02:26.030 | null | null | 269 | null |
26,522 | 1 | 26,582 | null | 3 | 2,102 | Let's say I have a .NET Array of n number of dimensions. I would like to foreach through the elements and print out something like:
```
[0, 0, 0] = 2
[0, 0, 1] = 32
```
And so on. I could write a loop using some the Rank and dimension functions to come up with the indices. Is there a built in function instead?
| .NET Multi Dimensional Array Printing | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T18:02:48.713 | 2013-01-24T10:12:22.053 | null | null | 632 | [
"c#",
".net",
"arrays"
] |
26,515 | 1 | 26,537 | null | 2 | 860 | I have a habit of keeping my variable usage to a bare minimum. So I'm wondering if there is any advantage to be gained by the following:
```
$query = $mysqli->query('SELECT * FROM `people` ORDER BY `name` ASC LIMIT 0,30');
// Example 1
$query = $query->fetch_assoc();
// Example 2
$query_r = $query->fetch_assoc();
$... | Using MySQLi - which is better for closing queries | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-25T17:59:28.847 | 2009-03-06T16:51:49.370 | 2009-03-06T16:51:49.370 | null | 2,025 | [
"php",
"mysql",
"memory",
"mysqli"
] |
26,546 | 2 | null | 26,522 | 1 | null | [Take a look at this:](http://forums.msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/csharplanguage/thread/2ca85aa4-0672-40ad-b780-e181b28fcd80/) might helpful for you.
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-25T18:11:57.303 | 2013-01-24T10:12:22.053 | 2013-01-24T10:12:22.053 | 1,410,342 | 2,104 | null |
26,484 | 2 | null | 26,455 | 16 | null | I can't recommend it highly enough. It's particularly nice if you have a suite that takes inline documentation contract specifications, like so:
```
// @returns null iff x = 0
public foo(int x) {
...
}
```
and turns them into generated unit tests, like so:
```
public test_foo_returns_null_iff_x_equals_0() {
as... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T17:41:29.530 | 2008-10-06T17:45:05.760 | 2008-10-06T17:45:05.760 | 1,190 | 1,190 | null |
26,537 | 2 | null | 26,515 | 5 | null | The [manual](http://us2.php.net/manual/en/mysqli-result.free.php) seems to suggest that you should still be using `free()` to release the memory. I believe the reasoning is that `free()` is freeing the memory in , not in PHP. Since PHP can't garbage-collect for MySQL, you need to call `free()`.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T18:08:38.373 | 2008-08-25T18:08:38.373 | null | null | 1,344 | null |
26,536 | 1 | 26,684 | null | 9 | 6,216 | My coworker and I have encountered a nasty situation where we have to use an active X control to manipulate a web camera on a page.
Is it possible to assign a javascript event handler to a button in the active x control so that it would fire an action on the page when clicked, or do we have to create a button on the ... | Active X Control JavaScript | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-25T18:07:57.110 | 2017-02-15T21:50:21.847 | 2015-04-17T18:11:40.827 | 1,215,724 | 1,942 | [
"javascript",
"activex"
] |
26,548 | 2 | null | 26,383 | 0 | null | If you are actually interested in exceptions and want to think about how to use them to construct robust systems, consider reading [Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors](http://www.erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf).
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T18:13:44.443 | 2008-08-25T18:13:44.443 | null | null | 338 | null |
26,535 | 2 | null | 22,873 | 5 | null | Effective Java is a must but I recommend being comfortable with Java first to fully understand the examples.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T18:07:50.887 | 2008-08-25T18:07:50.887 | null | null | 2,644 | null |
26,542 | 2 | null | 26,455 | 1 | null | In lieu of more expressive type systems, I would absolutely use design by contract on military grade projects.
For weakly typed languages or languages with dynamic scope (PHP, JavaScript), functional contracts are also very handy.
For everything else, I would toss it aside an rely upon beta testers and unit tests.
[... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T18:10:20.380 | 2008-08-25T18:10:20.380 | 2017-05-23T10:29:43.280 | -1 | 338 | null |
26,552 | 1 | 26,555 | null | 14 | 14,318 | What are the advantages and disadvantages of turning `NOCOUNT` off in SQL server queries?
| What are the advantages and disadvantages of turning NOCOUNT off in SQL server queries? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-25T18:14:21.197 | 2017-07-19T17:47:06.307 | 2017-07-19T17:47:06.307 | 7,750,640 | 2,141 | [
"sql-server",
"nocount"
] |
26,545 | 2 | null | 26,458 | 35 | null | Like others have mentioned, NetBeans' visual editor is pretty good, but it's based pretty heavily on the [Swing Application Framework](https://java.net/projects/appframework/), so you'd need to get an understanding of how it works to properly use it (although you don't need to dig in to just test things).
Other than t... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-25T18:11:28.740 | 2018-02-10T00:47:34.063 | 2018-02-10T00:47:34.063 | 63,550 | 2,881 | null |
26,547 | 1 | 26,589 | null | 2 | 529 | Let's say that you want to create a dead simple BlogEditor and, one of your ideas, is to do what Live Writer does and ask only the URL of the persons Blog. How can you detect what type of blog is it?
Basic detection can be done with the URL itself, such as “[http://myblog.blogger.com](http://myblog.blogger.com)” etc. ... | How to detect which blog API | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-25T18:13:40.420 | 2013-12-02T12:48:11.227 | 2013-12-02T12:48:11.227 | 2,432,317 | 2,644 | [
"java",
"api",
"blogs"
] |
26,561 | 2 | null | 26,552 | 8 | null | And it's not just the network traffic that is reduced. There is a boost internal to SQL Server because the execution plan can be optimized due to reduction of an extra query to figure out how many rows were affected.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T18:18:00.097 | 2008-08-25T18:18:00.097 | null | null | 380 | null |
26,558 | 2 | null | 20,047 | 1 | null | So what's the problem with implementing a retry mechanism? There will always be the possibility of a deadlock ocurring so why not have some logic to identify it and just try again?
Won't at least some of the other options introduce performance penalties that are taken all the time when a retry system will kick in r... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T18:16:49.100 | 2008-08-25T18:16:49.100 | null | null | 2,862 | null |
26,553 | 2 | null | 26,512 | 0 | null | You can use `BindingUtils` to get notified when the `dataProvider` property of the combo box changes:
```
BindingUtils.bindSetter(comboBoxDataProviderChanged, comboBox, "dataProvider");
```
`BindingUtils` lives in the `mx.binding.utils` package.
I have a longer description of how to work with `BindingUtils` here: [... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T18:14:53.473 | 2008-08-25T18:14:53.473 | 2017-05-23T11:48:36.327 | -1 | 1,109 | null |
26,562 | 2 | null | 26,552 | 4 | null | It simply stops the message that shows the # of rows effected for being sent/displayed, which provides a benefit, especially if you have many statements that will return the message. It improves performance since less data is being sent over the network (between the sql server and front end).
More at BOL: [SET NOCOU... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T18:18:05.447 | 2008-08-25T18:18:05.447 | null | null | 1,368 | null |
26,555 | 2 | null | 26,552 | 18 | null | From SQL BOL:
> SET NOCOUNT ON prevents the sending of
DONE_IN_PROC messages to the client
for each statement in a stored
procedure. For stored procedures that
contain several statements that do not
return much actual data, , because
network traffic is greatly reduced.
See [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T18:15:57.747 | 2008-08-25T18:15:57.747 | null | null | 1,627 | null |
26,563 | 2 | null | 26,512 | 0 | null | You can also listen for the `ResultEvent.RESULT` on the HTTPService, that would be called slightly before the combo box got populated I guess, but it might be good enough.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T18:18:40.330 | 2008-08-25T18:18:40.330 | null | null | 1,109 | null |
26,566 | 2 | null | 26,552 | 1 | null | I always have it set to ON for the reasons above, but if you have more than 1 result set in your proc it could mess up client code
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T18:19:09.050 | 2008-08-25T18:19:09.050 | null | null | 740 | null |
26,570 | 1 | 26,600 | null | 21 | 11,444 | I'm looking for a way to get the size of an instance of a reference type. sizeof is only for value types. Is this possible?
| sizeof() equivalent for reference types? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-25T18:19:57.563 | 2011-08-19T14:02:37.540 | 2008-09-09T14:55:47.807 | 2,361 | 1,786 | [
"c#",
".net"
] |
26,556 | 2 | null | 26,551 | 63 | null | Yep, and just don't forget to use variables like `%%1` when using `if` and `for` and the gang.
If you forget the double `%`, then you will be substituting in (possibly null) command line arguments and you will receive some pretty confusing error messages.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T18:16:32.957 | 2008-08-25T18:16:32.957 | null | null | 338 | null |
26,559 | 1 | 26,597 | null | 25 | 10,918 | I know there are a lot of positive things mod-rewrite accomplishes. But are there any negative? Obviously if you have poorly written rules your going to have problems. But what if you have a high volume site and your constantly using mod-rewrite, is it going to have a significant impact on performance? I did a quick s... | Any negative impacts when using Mod-Rewrite? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-25T18:17:11.377 | 2015-10-08T01:09:42.233 | 2015-10-08T01:08:35.423 | 67,579 | 2,687 | [
"performance",
"mod-rewrite"
] |
26,551 | 1 | 92,057 | null | 1,373 | 2,337,027 | I need to pass an ID and a password to a batch file at the time of running rather than hardcoding them into the file.
Here's what the command line looks like:
```
test.cmd admin P@55w0rd > test-log.txt
```
| How can I pass arguments to a batch file? | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-25T18:14:18.437 | 2022-07-28T22:53:26.763 | 2019-01-30T10:03:02.953 | 10,607,772 | 730 | [
"batch-file",
"arguments"
] |
26,577 | 2 | null | 26,478 | 0 | null | I don't think functions can have default values in functions in SS2K.
What happens when you run this SQL in SS2K?
```
select val
from dbo.fnSplitStringToInt('1,2,3', default)
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T18:21:56.733 | 2008-08-25T18:33:27.843 | 2008-08-25T18:33:27.843 | 2,173 | 2,173 | null |
26,573 | 2 | null | 17,966 | 2 | null | I'm new to Air, but also haven't found any way to customize the install process. It looks like you're limited to your application code. (Updating appears more flexible.)
From your example, it looks like you want your app' to run with a parameter constant each time Windows starts. So you're probably already aware yo... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T18:20:59.420 | 2008-08-25T18:20:59.420 | null | null | 2,882 | null |
26,568 | 2 | null | 26,509 | 2 | null | For conventions, if you're still in university, and can make it to Montreal, Canada, the [Canadian Undergraduate Software Engineering Conference](http://www.cusec.net/) (CUSEC) has been extremely enjoyable. See the [2009](http://2009.cusec.net/) site for the next event, and for a take on what previous years have been ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T18:19:27.427 | 2008-08-25T18:19:27.427 | 2017-05-23T10:27:50.457 | -1 | 2,134 | null |
26,580 | 2 | null | 26,512 | 1 | null | You can use a mx.binding.utils.ChangeWatcher as described [here](http://www.adobe.com/livedocs/flex/201/html/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/wwhelp.htm?context=LiveDocs_Book_Parts&file=databinding_091_08.html).
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T18:23:20.677 | 2008-08-25T18:23:20.677 | null | null | 2,168 | null |
26,579 | 2 | null | 26,547 | 1 | null | Some blogs provide a Generator meta tag - e.g. Wordpress - you could find out if there's any exceptions to this.
You'll have to be careful how you detect it though, Google surprised me with this line:
```
<meta content='blogger' name='generator'/>
```
Single quotes are blasphemy.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T18:22:54.687 | 2008-08-25T18:22:54.687 | null | null | 2,025 | null |
26,578 | 2 | null | 769 | 2 | null | Personally, I'm partial to the algorithms of [Numerical Recipes](http://www.nr.com/). (I'm fond of the C++ edition.)
This book will teach you why the algorithms work, plus show you some pretty-well debugged implementations of those algorithms.
Of course, you could just blindly use [CLAPACK](http://www.netlib.org/clap... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T18:22:48.010 | 2008-08-25T18:22:48.010 | null | null | 338 | null |
26,567 | 1 | 30,409 | null | 17 | 64,880 | I have a report with many fields that I'm trying to get down to 1 page horizontally (I don't care whether it's 2 or 200 pages vertically... just don't want to have to deal with 2 pages wide by x pages long train-wreck). That said, it deals with contact information.
My idea was to do:
```
Name: Address: City: ... | How do I set a textbox to multi-line in SSRS? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-25T18:19:18.627 | 2017-08-13T05:06:38.150 | 2017-07-19T17:04:08.630 | 7,750,640 | 2,156 | [
"reporting-services",
"textbox",
"multiline"
] |
26,582 | 2 | null | 26,522 | 2 | null | Thanks for the answer, here is what I wrote while I waited:
```
public static string Format(Array array)
{
var builder = new StringBuilder();
builder.AppendLine("Count: " + array.Length);
var counter = 0;
var dimensions = new List<int>();
for (int i = 0; i < array.Rank; i++)
{
dimensio... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T18:23:38.977 | 2008-08-25T18:23:38.977 | null | null | 632 | null |
26,592 | 2 | null | 22,873 | 1 | null | I know this is a cross post from [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26437/book-recommendation-for-java-good-practices)... but, I think one of the best Java books is [Java Concurrency in Practice](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0321349601) by Brian Goetz. A rather advanced book - but, it will wea... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T18:26:43.743 | 2008-08-25T18:36:49.757 | 2017-05-23T12:18:29.303 | -1 | 828 | null |
26,594 | 1 | 26,710 | null | 4 | 691 | What libraries/methods do you know of that can do some basic HTML representation in Swing? Can you comment on your experience?
| Previewing HTML in Java | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-25T18:27:09.950 | 2019-12-03T20:42:41.677 | 2019-12-03T20:42:41.677 | 12,475,991 | 2,644 | [
"java",
"html"
] |
26,590 | 2 | null | 26,570 | 1 | null | Beware that Marshal.SizeOf is for unsafe code...
I don't think it's possible for managed code though, maybe you can explain your problem, there may be another way to solve it
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T18:25:56.583 | 2008-08-25T18:25:56.583 | null | null | 1,782 | null |
26,588 | 2 | null | 26,552 | 0 | null | I personally like to turn on for queries that get run in an manual fashion and use a lot of `Print` statements to output debugging messages. In this way, your output would look less like:
And more like
Depending on the sensitivity of what you're updating, sometimes it is helpful to include the counts; however, ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T18:25:34.617 | 2008-08-25T18:25:34.617 | null | null | 1,108 | null |
26,600 | 2 | null | 26,570 | 10 | null | If you don't mind it being a little less accurate than perfect, and for comparative purposes, you could serialize the object/s and measure that (in bytes for example)
: Because it's a little more complicated than sizeof for valuetypes, for example: reference types can have references to other objects and so on... ther... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T18:31:00.813 | 2008-08-25T18:36:23.627 | 2008-08-25T18:36:23.627 | 1,782 | 1,782 | null |
26,589 | 2 | null | 26,547 | 3 | null | Many (most?) blogs will have a meta tag for "generator" which will list the blog engine. For example a blogger blog will contain the following meta tag:
```
<meta name="generator" content="Blogger" />
```
My Subtext blog shows the following generator meta tag:
```
<meta name="Generator" content="Subtext Version... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-25T18:25:51.920 | 2008-08-25T18:25:51.920 | null | null | 1,627 | null |
26,595 | 1 | 26,611 | null | 227 | 32,538 | Is there any difference between:
```
if foo is None: pass
```
and
```
if foo == None: pass
```
The convention that I've seen in most Python code (and the code I myself write) is the former, but I recently came across code which uses the latter. None is an instance (and the only instance, IIRC) of NoneType, so it... | Is there any difference between "foo is None" and "foo == None"? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-25T18:27:16.330 | 2019-04-03T07:18:57.980 | null | null | 156 | [
"python"
] |