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28,127 | 2 | null | 26,301 | 10 | null | Huffman coding would be mine, I had originally made my own dumb version by minimizing the number of bits to encode text from 8 down to less, but had not thought about variable number of bits depending on frequency. Then I found the huffman coding described in an article in a magazine and it opened up lots of new possib... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:09:10.700 | 2008-08-26T14:09:10.700 | null | null | 267 | null |
28,112 | 2 | null | 28,051 | 1 | null | The biggest problem I've noticed with controls in ASP.Net is that you can't easily get designer support for both building the control using the control in a site once you built it. The only way I've been able to do that is create an .ascx control with no code-behind (ie: all the server-side code is in a script tag i... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:02:31.903 | 2008-08-26T14:02:31.903 | null | null | 3,043 | null |
28,124 | 1 | 28,130 | null | 11 | 3,469 | We would like to have user defined formulas in our c++ program.
e.g. The value . Later in the program the user would define x,y and z -> the program should return the result of the calculation. Somewhen later the formula may get changed, so the next time the program should parse the formula and add the new values. An... | calculating user defined formulas (with c++) | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-26T14:07:18.897 | 2019-08-01T17:43:34.667 | null | null | 3,056 | [
"c++"
] |
28,130 | 2 | null | 28,124 | 2 | null | If it will be used frequently and if it will be extended in the future, I would almost recommend adding either Python or Lua into your code. [Lua](http://www.lua.org/) is a very lightweight scripting language which you can hook into and provide new functions, operators etc. If you want to do more robust and complicated... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-26T14:10:53.130 | 2019-08-01T17:43:34.667 | 2019-08-01T17:43:34.667 | -1 | 2,973 | null |
28,105 | 2 | null | 27,258 | 1 | null | Since you are using only ASP.NET 2.0 I would recommend [AjaxPro](http://www.ajaxpro.info/) will which create the .ashx file. All you have to do is to pull the AjaxPro.dll into your web site. I developed an entire application with [AjaxPro](http://www.ajaxpro.info/) and found it worked very well. It uses serializatio... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T13:59:54.700 | 2008-08-26T13:59:54.700 | null | null | 2,469 | null |
28,134 | 2 | null | 28,124 | 0 | null | There's generally two ways of doing it, with three possible implementations:
1. as you've touched on yourself, a library to evaluate formulas
2. compiling the formula into code
The second option here is usually done either by compiling something that can be loaded in as a kind of plugin, or it can be compiled into... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:12:11.537 | 2008-08-26T14:12:11.537 | null | null | 267 | null |
28,131 | 2 | null | 28,098 | 311 | null | This is done with typecasting:
```
$strvar = (string) $var; // Casts to string
echo $var; // Will cast to string implicitly
var_dump($var); // Will show the true type of the variable
```
In a class you can define what is output by using the magical method [__toString](http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.magic... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-26T14:11:01.197 | 2011-12-04T00:17:10.270 | 2011-12-04T00:17:10.270 | 2,025 | 2,025 | null |
28,113 | 2 | null | 26,301 | 1 | 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.The iterative method, (curr = prev1 + prev2 in a forloop) does not tree out this way, nor does it take as much memory since it's only 3 t... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:02:56.113 | 2008-08-26T14:02:56.113 | 2020-06-20T09:12:55.060 | -1 | 2,131 | null |
28,135 | 2 | null | 28,110 | 0 | null | I would suggest cleaning up the mess and changing the column to a datetime because doing stuff like this
```
WHERE datediff(dd, convert(datetime, lastUpdate), getDate()) < 31
```
cannot use an index and it will be many times slower than if you had a datetime colum,n and did
```
where lastUpdate > getDate() -31
```
... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:12:26.980 | 2011-08-28T09:41:25.297 | 2011-08-28T09:41:25.297 | 53,114 | 740 | null |
28,139 | 2 | null | 28,110 | 0 | null | In your convert call, you need to specify a third style parameter, e.g., the format of the datetimes that are stored as varchar, as specified in this document: [CAST and CONVERT (T-SQL)](http://doc.ddart.net/mssql/sql70/ca-co_1.htm)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:13:25.277 | 2008-08-26T14:13:25.277 | null | null | 372 | null |
28,137 | 2 | null | 28,124 | 0 | null | If you want to write your own, search for "formal automata" and/or "finite state machine grammar"
In general what you will do is parse the string, pushing characters on a stack as you go. Then start popping the characters off and perform tasks based on what is popped. It's easier to code if you force equations to re... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:12:36.387 | 2008-08-26T14:12:36.387 | null | null | 1,097 | null |
28,138 | 2 | null | 26,301 | 3 | null | For some reason I like the [Schwartzian transform](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwartzian_transform)
```
@sorted = map { $_->[0] }
sort { $a->[1] cmp $b->[1] }
map { [$_, foo($_)] }
@unsorted;
```
Where foo($ (each item of the list in turn) and produces the corresponding value... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:13:13.187 | 2008-08-26T14:13:13.187 | null | null | 238 | null |
28,132 | 2 | null | 27,774 | 2 | null | I'm afraid I think the answer is no. From the help text on
[http://docs.google.com/support/spreadsheets/bin/answer.py?answer=71291&query=arrayformula&topic=&type=](http://docs.google.com/support/spreadsheets/bin/answer.py?answer=71291&query=arrayformula&topic=&type=)
> The real power of ARRAYFORMULA comes when you tak... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:11:18.933 | 2008-08-26T14:11:18.933 | null | null | 2,983 | null |
28,145 | 2 | null | 26,301 | 4 | null | Quicksort in Haskell:
```
qsort [] = []
qsort (x:xs) = qsort (filter (< x) xs) ++ [x] ++ qsort (filter (>= x) xs)
```
Although I couldn'd write Haskell at the time, I did understand this code and with it recursion and the quicksort algorithm. It just made click and there it was...
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:14:04.760 | 2008-08-26T14:14:04.760 | null | null | 2,450 | null |
28,129 | 2 | null | 28,124 | 0 | null | Using [Spirit](http://spirit.sourceforge.net/) (for example) to parse (and the 'semantic actions' it provides to construct an expression tree that you can then manipulate, e.g., evaluate) seems like quite a simple solution. You can find a grammar for arithmetic expressions [there](http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~warren/xsbbo... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:10:51.557 | 2008-08-26T14:10:51.557 | null | null | 2,638 | null |
28,146 | 2 | null | 28,110 | 0 | null | Print out the records. Give the hardcopy to the idiot who decided to use a varchar(50) and ask them to find the problem record.
Next time they might just see the point of choosing an appropriate data type.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:14:09.737 | 2008-08-26T14:14:09.737 | null | null | 2,084 | null |
28,148 | 2 | null | 28,011 | 1 | null | If you only need dates (no times), the [Date](http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.2.3/libdoc/date/rdoc/Date.html) class in ruby should handle dates before 1970. But it has only a resolution of days. I don't know if there are solutions, if you also need times before 1970
[(source)](http://safari.ibmpressbooks.com/0768667208/ch... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-26T14:14:26.943 | 2015-10-08T07:34:29.363 | 2015-10-08T07:34:29.363 | 67,579 | 1,870 | null |
28,153 | 2 | null | 28,150 | 0 | null | This is all starting to sound a bit like [Yesterday's TDWTF](http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/SUSBSTITUTE_CODE.aspx). :-)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:16:26.363 | 2008-08-26T14:16:26.363 | null | null | 2,025 | null |
28,147 | 1 | 28,170 | null | 13 | 2,665 | What do you think the future of GPU as a CPU initiatives like CUDA are? Do you think they are going to become mainstream and be the next adopted fad in the industry? Apple is building a new framework for using the GPU to do CPU tasks and there has been alot of success in the Nvidias CUDA project in the sciences. Would ... | Feasibility of GPU as a CPU? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-26T14:14:10.893 | 2014-12-09T02:16:29.613 | 2014-12-09T02:16:29.613 | 4,157,408 | 2,501 | [
"cuda",
"cpu",
"gpu",
"gpgpu"
] |
28,152 | 2 | null | 28,098 | 18 | null | For primitives just use `(string)$var` or print this variable straight away. PHP is dynamically typed language and variable will be casted to string on the fly.
If you want to convert objects to strings you will need to define `__toString()` method that returns string. This method is forbidden to throw exceptions.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:15:46.787 | 2008-08-26T14:15:46.787 | null | null | 2,169 | null |
28,108 | 2 | null | 28,098 | 34 | null | > How do I convert the value of a PHP
variable to string?
A value can be converted to a string using the [(string) cast](http://us3.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.casting) or the [strval()](http://ca.php.net/strval) function. (Edit: As [Thomas](https://stackoverflow.com/users/2314/... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:00:48.460 | 2008-08-26T14:06:07.433 | 2017-05-23T10:31:31.273 | -1 | 2,134 | null |
28,159 | 2 | null | 28,124 | 1 | null | You can represent your formula as a tree of operations and sub-expressions. You may want to define types or constants for Operation types and Variables.
You can then easily enough write a method that recurses through the tree, applying the appropriate operations to whatever values you pass in.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:17:51.180 | 2008-08-26T14:17:51.180 | null | null | 3,044 | null |
28,154 | 2 | null | 7,779 | 3 | null | I've been doing Eclipse RCP development for almost 2 years now. When I first started, I wanted a book for help and many people told me, with Eclipse you're better off using the [Eclipsepedia](http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Rich_Client_Platform) and Google.
However, I started with "[The Java Developer's Guide to Ec... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:17:10.447 | 2008-08-26T14:17:10.447 | null | null | 3,033 | null |
28,162 | 2 | null | 28,110 | 0 | null | The problem is most likely how the data is stored, there are only two safe formats
ISO YYYYMMDD
ISO 8601 yyyy-mm-dd Thh:mm:ss:mmm(no spaces)
these will work no matter what your language is.
You might need to do a SET DATEFORMAT YMD (or whatever the data is stored as) to make it work
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:20:01.563 | 2008-08-26T14:20:01.563 | null | null | 740 | null |
28,161 | 2 | null | 28,150 | 3 | null | If you consider a warning (which is what [Obsolete] throws up) build-breaking, then just use the [#warning](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/963th5x3.aspx) compiler directive.
Edit: I've never used it, but [#error](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x5hedts0.aspx) is also available.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:19:36.260 | 2008-08-26T14:25:41.847 | 2008-08-26T14:25:41.863 | 2,314 | 2,314 | null |
28,160 | 1 | 28,215 | null | 89 | 95,771 | For whatever reason, our company has a coding guideline that states:
`Each class shall have it's own header and implementation file.`
So if we wrote a class called `MyString` we would need an associated and .
Does anyone else do this? Has anyone seen any compiling performance repercussions as a result? Does 5000 ... | Multiple classes in a header file vs. a single header file per class | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-26T14:19:34.967 | 2022-07-10T14:07:20.510 | 2012-04-26T01:14:46.407 | 1,332,690 | 1,881 | [
"c++",
"performance",
"file-organization"
] |
28,166 | 2 | null | 28,147 | 2 | null | I think it's the right way to go.
Considering that [GPUs have been tapped to create cheap supercomputers](http://www.geek.com/researchers-create-a-playstation-2-based-supercomputer/), it appears to be the natural evolution of things. With so much computing power and R&D already done for you, why not exploit the avail... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:20:51.500 | 2008-08-26T14:20:51.500 | null | null | 372 | null |
28,150 | 1 | 28,220 | null | 8 | 3,539 | OK, this kind of follows on from [my previous question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27758/notify-developer-of-a-do-not-use-method).
What I would really like to do is create some sort of attribute which allows me to decorate a method that will . Much like the attribute, but without falsely identifying obsolete... | Create an Attribute to Break the Build | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:15:08.393 | 2012-08-08T03:00:43.833 | 2017-05-23T12:13:34.533 | -1 | 832 | [
".net",
"attributes"
] |
28,170 | 2 | null | 28,147 | 5 | null | First of all I don't think this questions really belongs on SO.
In my opinion the GPU is a very interesting alternative whenever you do vector-based float mathematics. However this translates to: It will not become mainstream. Most mainstream (Desktop) applications do very few floating-point calculations.
It has alre... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:22:02.963 | 2010-09-24T01:18:51.363 | 2010-09-24T01:18:51.363 | 38,765 | 1,870 | null |
28,142 | 2 | null | 28,051 | 1 | null | I managed to do this by sacrificing some of the ease of building the controls in the first place.
You can create a Control Library project that will generate a control library DLL for you. The drawback is that you have to create the controls with code only. In my last project, this was fine. In more complicated contro... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:13:52.843 | 2008-08-26T14:13:52.843 | null | null | 106 | null |
28,171 | 1 | 28,193 | null | 63 | 32,097 | If I open a solution in Visual Studio 2008 and run a unit test then VS creates a new .vsmdi file in the Solution Items folder and gives it the next number available e.g. My Solution2.vsmdi.
Any idea why VS is doing this and how I can get it to stop doing this?
| Why does Visual Studio create a new .vsmdi file? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-26T14:22:42.713 | 2012-07-10T00:13:02.607 | 2012-06-29T17:29:13.283 | 182,371 | 1,463 | [
"visual-studio-2010",
"visual-studio",
"visual-studio-2008",
"mstest"
] |
28,173 | 2 | null | 28,160 | 12 | null | We do that at work, its just easier to find stuff if the class and files have the same name. As for performance, you really shouldn't have 5000 classes in a single project. If you do, some refactoring might be in order.
That said, there are instances when we have multiple classes in one file. And that is when it's jus... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:23:12.040 | 2008-08-26T14:23:12.040 | null | null | 2,957 | null |
28,172 | 2 | null | 28,124 | 0 | null | To make your life easier, I think getting this kind of input is best done through a GUI where users are restricted in what they can type in.
If you plan on doing it from the command line (that is the impression I get from your post), then you should probably define a strict set of allowable inputs (e.g. only single l... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:22:55.287 | 2008-08-26T14:22:55.287 | null | null | 142 | null |
28,168 | 2 | null | 26,354 | 1 | null | Thank you all for your thoughts. Printing directly to the serial port is likely the most flexible method. In this case we didn't want to replicate all of the work that was already built into the Intermec dll for handling the port, printer errors, etc. We were able to get this working by sending the printer the appropri... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:21:16.973 | 2008-08-26T14:21:16.973 | null | null | 620,435 | null |
28,176 | 2 | null | 28,110 | 1 | null | How about writing a cursor to loop through the contents, attempting the cast for each entry?
When an error occurs, output the primary key or other identifying details for the problem record.
I can't think of a set-based way to do this.
- ah yes, I forgot about ISDATE(). Definitely a better approach than using a cur... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:24:18.870 | 2008-08-26T14:35:07.877 | 2008-08-26T14:35:07.877 | 2,084 | 2,084 | null |
28,165 | 1 | 28,247 | null | 13 | 2,744 | Python has this wonderful way of handling string substitutions using dictionaries:
```
>>> 'The %(site)s site %(adj)s because it %(adj)s' % {'site':'Stackoverflow', 'adj':'rocks'}
'The Stackoverflow site rocks because it rocks'
```
I love this because you can specify a value once in the dictionary and then replace i... | Does PHP have an equivalent to this type of Python string substitution? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-26T14:20:48.910 | 2012-10-29T21:02:13.727 | 2012-10-29T21:02:13.727 | 321,731 | 305 | [
"php",
"python",
"string"
] |
28,174 | 2 | null | 27,952 | 9 | null | If you're looking to be more generic about the paths embedded in a pdb file, you could first use the MS-DOS `subst` command to map a particular folder to a drive letter.
```
subst N: <MyRealPath>
```
Then open your project relative to the N: drive and rebuild it. Your PDB files will reference the source files on N:... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:23:54.753 | 2008-08-26T14:23:54.753 | null | null | 863 | null |
28,186 | 2 | null | 28,110 | 0 | null | > Wouldn't the isdate() check take care of this?
Run this to see what happens
```
select isdate('20080131')
select isdate('01312008')
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:27:31.343 | 2008-08-26T14:27:31.343 | null | null | 740 | null |
28,181 | 2 | null | 28,160 | 4 | null | It's common practice to do this, especially to be able to include .h in the files that need it. Of course the performance is affected but try not to think about this problem until it arises :).
It's better to start with the files separated and after that try to merge the .h's that are commonly used together to improve ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:25:31.287 | 2008-08-26T14:25:31.287 | null | null | 1,065 | null |
28,192 | 2 | null | 28,171 | 0 | null | An [old post but](http://blogs.vertigosoftware.com/teamsystem/archive/2006/06/23/Beware_the_Team_Test_VSMDI_file.aspx) vsmdi is a meta data file created by the test system.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:28:09.750 | 2008-08-26T14:28:09.750 | null | null | 1,075 | null |
28,191 | 2 | null | 28,150 | -2 | null | Why not just make something up? An unknown attribute would surely break the build.
```
[MyMadeUpAttributeThatBreaksTheBuildForSure]
public class NotDoneYet {}
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:28:08.580 | 2008-08-26T14:28:08.580 | null | null | 35 | null |
28,187 | 2 | null | 28,092 | 0 | null | You could create a user control (.ascx) to house the listbox. Then add a public event for the page.
```
Public Event btnRemove()
```
Then on the button click event in the usercontrol
```
RaiseEvent btnRemove()
```
You can also pass objects through the event just like any other method. This will allow your user co... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:27:40.517 | 2008-08-26T14:27:40.517 | null | null | 777 | null |
28,194 | 2 | null | 28,160 | 12 | null | +1 for separation. I just came onto a project where some classes are in files with a different name, or lumped in with another class, and it is impossible to find these in a quick and efficient manner. You can throw more resources at a build - you can't make up lost programmer time because (s)he can't find the right ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:28:28.050 | 2008-08-26T14:28:28.050 | null | null | 96 | null |
28,184 | 2 | null | 28,110 | 9 | null | Place the `CASE` and `ISDATE` inside the `CONVERT()` function.
```
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM MyTable
WHERE
DATEDIFF(dd, CONVERT(DATETIME, CASE IsDate(lastUpdate)
WHEN 1 THEN lastUpdate
ELSE '12-30-1899'
END), GetDate()) < 31
```
Replace `'12-30-1899'` with the default date of your choice.
| null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-26T14:27:08.053 | 2018-08-26T10:48:32.057 | 2018-08-26T10:48:32.057 | 1,630,171 | 3,067 | null |
28,193 | 2 | null | 28,171 | 30 | null | It appears that the [VSMDI problem is a known bug and has been around since VS2005 Team System](http://web.archive.org/web/20080302162715/http://blogs.vertigosoftware.com/teamsystem/archive/2006/06/23/Beware_the_Team_Test_VSMDI_file.aspx) but it has no clear fix as yet. Another reason to NOT use MS Test.
An MSDN blog ... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-26T14:28:15.537 | 2012-07-10T00:13:02.607 | 2012-07-10T00:13:02.607 | 85,661 | 372 | null |
28,199 | 2 | null | 28,165 | 1 | null | Some of the user-contributed notes and functions in [PHP's documentation for sprintf](http://us3.php.net/sprintf) come quite close.
Note: search the page for "sprintf2".
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:30:17.437 | 2008-08-26T14:30:17.437 | null | null | 2,314 | null |
28,200 | 2 | null | 28,197 | 4 | null | For the PSP, I have seen the [Software Process Dashboard](http://processdash.sourceforge.net/), but it seems awfully difficult to use.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:30:36.547 | 2008-08-26T14:30:36.547 | null | null | 572 | null |
28,198 | 2 | null | 28,160 | 1 | null | The same rule applies here, but it notes a few exceptions where it is allowed Like so:
- - -
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:30:11.557 | 2008-08-26T14:30:11.557 | null | null | 1,830 | null |
28,197 | 1 | 106,682 | null | 15 | 4,287 | For more information - [Personal Software Process on Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Software_Process) and [Team Software Process on Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Software_Process).
I have two questions:
1. What benefits have you seen from these processes?
2. What tools and/or methods... | Do you follow the Personal Software Process? Does your organization/team follow the Team Software Process? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-26T14:29:56.143 | 2014-05-02T04:21:23.613 | 2014-05-02T04:21:23.613 | 321,731 | 572 | [
"process",
"personal-software-process"
] |
28,196 | 1 | 30,733 | null | 10 | 7,529 | This is a very specific question regarding as implemented in .
I'm trying to develop a plugin that will show (select) posts that have specific '' and belong to specific '' (both multiple)
I was told it's impossible because of the way categories and tags are stored:
1. wp_posts contains a list of posts, each post have... | How to select posts with specific tags/categories in WordPress | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-26T14:29:38.093 | 2021-07-28T18:38:03.760 | 2021-07-28T18:38:03.760 | 13,176,802 | 1,011 | [
"php",
"mysql",
"sql",
"wordpress",
"plugins"
] |
28,202 | 1 | 28,448 | null | 7 | 7,021 | Every time I create a new project I copy the last project's ant file to the new one and make the appropriate changes (trying at the same time to make it more flexible for the next project). But since I didn't really thought about it at the beginning, the file started to look really ugly.
Do you have an Ant template th... | Best Apache Ant Template | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-26T14:31:28.777 | 2011-01-26T00:39:49.010 | 2010-08-03T00:50:19.300 | 18,196 | 2,644 | [
"java",
"ant"
] |
28,210 | 2 | null | 28,150 | 0 | null | I will have to agree with Greg: make up an attribute for it.
And if you're really serious, maybe find a way to figure out if the constructor is being accessed by anything other than XMLSerializer and throw an exception if it is.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:32:44.450 | 2008-08-26T14:32:44.450 | null | null | 372 | null |
28,206 | 2 | null | 28,110 | 3 | null | > How about writing a cursor to loop through the contents, attempting the cast for each entry?When an error occurs, output the primary key or other identifying details for the problem record.
I can't think of a set-based way to do this.
Not totally setbased but if only 3 rows out of 1 million are bad it will save yo... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:32:14.000 | 2008-08-26T14:32:14.000 | null | null | 740 | null |
28,216 | 2 | null | 28,160 | 10 | null | In addition to simply being "clearer", separating classes into separate files makes it easier for multiple developers not to step on each others toes. There will be less merging when it comes time to commit changes to your version control tool.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:34:40.467 | 2008-08-26T14:34:40.467 | null | null | 863 | null |
28,215 | 2 | null | 28,160 | 93 | null | The term here is and you really want to (if possible) have one class per translation unit ie, one class implementation per .cpp file, with a corresponding .h file of the same name.
It's usually more efficient (from a compile/link) standpoint to do things this way, especially if you're doing things like incremental li... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:34:39.797 | 2008-08-26T14:34:39.797 | null | null | null | null |
28,204 | 2 | null | 28,160 | 8 | null | Most places where I have worked have followed this practice. I've actually written coding standards for BAE (Aust.) along with the reasons why instead of just carving something in stone with no real justification.
Concerning your question about source files, it's not so much time to compile but more an issue of being a... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-26T14:31:52.940 | 2022-04-26T16:15:40.060 | 2022-04-26T16:15:40.060 | 2,974 | 2,974 | null |
28,209 | 2 | null | 28,110 | 2 | null | The ISDATE() would take care of the rows which were not formatted properly if it were indeed being executed first. However, if you look at the execution plan you'll probably find that the DATEDIFF predicate is being applied first - thus the cause of your pain.
If you're using SQL Server Management Studio hit + to vie... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-26T14:32:32.313 | 2015-08-20T22:18:46.987 | 2015-08-20T22:18:46.987 | 7,226 | 3,067 | null |
28,214 | 2 | null | 22,988 | 1 | null | > Are you initially loading the data only when !Page.IsPostBack? Also, is view state enabled for the text box?
I had almost forgotten to check the ViewState, but ended up remembering to verify that it wasn't disabled before making my post here on SO. I even set EnableViewState="true" to make sure.
I did find the sol... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:34:11.063 | 2008-08-26T14:34:11.063 | null | null | 418 | null |
28,223 | 2 | null | 28,212 | 0 | null | It may not be feasible in your case, but I've seen people employ a little preprocessor-foo to massage the types into compatibility.
Even this assumes that you are building one or both libraries.
It is also possible that you don't want to do this at all, but want to re-evaulate some early decision. Or not.
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-26T14:37:28.167 | 2015-10-08T07:41:07.507 | 2015-10-08T07:41:07.507 | 67,579 | 2,509 | null |
28,219 | 1 | 28,225 | null | 4 | 1,008 | Can I get a 'when to use' for these and others?
```
<% %>
<%# EVAL() %>
```
Thanks
| In ASP.NET, what are the different ways to inline code in the .aspx? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-26T14:35:45.753 | 2011-12-13T11:29:11.920 | 2009-10-09T22:03:08.153 | 2,688 | 1,293 | [
".net",
"asp.net",
"syntax"
] |
28,220 | 2 | null | 28,150 | 4 | null | If this is for XML serialization and NHibernate, where you want the parameterless constructor to be accessible (as is the case in the [example](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27758/notify-developer-of-a-do-not-use-method#27796) you referenced), then use a private or protected parameterless constructor for serializ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:36:30.933 | 2008-08-26T14:47:45.693 | 2017-05-23T12:01:17.740 | -1 | 2,314 | null |
28,218 | 2 | null | 28,011 | 0 | null | You can also check out the section on dates on [ruby-doc.org](http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/date/rdoc/index.html). I'm still learning Ruby but it sounds like you could use either the [Civil or Commerical Date](http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/date/rdoc/index.html) to go back before 1970.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:35:15.367 | 2008-08-26T14:35:15.367 | null | null | 2,863 | null |
28,217 | 2 | null | 27,850 | 1 | null | The seminal resource for this are chapters 28-30 of [SQL for Smarties](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/1558605762).
(I've recommended this book so much I figure Celko owes me royalties by now!)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:35:13.760 | 2008-08-26T14:35:13.760 | null | null | 414 | null |
28,226 | 2 | null | 28,212 | 0 | null | If the `struct`s were the same internally, you could do a [reinterpret_cast](http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/reinterpret_cast); however, since it looks like you have 16-bit vs 32-bit fields, you're probably stuck converting on each call, or writing wrappers for all functions of one of the libraries.
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-26T14:38:11.800 | 2015-10-08T07:43:18.117 | 2015-10-08T07:43:18.117 | 67,579 | 414 | null |
28,230 | 2 | null | 27,952 | 12 | null | You can use the source indexing feature of the Debugging Tools for Windows, which will save references to the appropriate revisions of the files in your source repository as an alternate stream in the PDB file.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:41:07.130 | 2008-08-26T14:41:07.130 | null | null | 2,150 | null |
28,227 | 2 | null | 28,219 | 2 | null | You can also use
`<%= Class.Method() %>`
And it will print the result, just as you can do in Ruby on Rails.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:38:45.933 | 2008-08-26T14:38:45.933 | null | null | 1,344 | null |
28,224 | 1 | 113,250 | null | 4 | 1,984 | Is there a way to run a regexp-string replace on the current line in the bash?
I find myself rather often in the situation, where I have typed a long commandline and then realize, that I would like to change a word somewhere in the line.
My current approach is to finish the line, press + (to get to the start of the l... | Bash reg-exp substitution | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-26T14:37:31.773 | 2015-08-20T22:18:28.950 | 2015-08-20T22:18:28.950 | 7,226 | 1,870 | [
"regex",
"bash"
] |
28,228 | 2 | null | 28,224 | 3 | null | G'day,
What about using vi mode instead? Just enter set -o vi
Then you can go to the word you want to change and just do a cw or cW depending on what's in the word?
Oops, forgot to add you enter a ESC k to o to the previous line in the command history.
What do you normally use for an editor?
cheers,
Rob
Edit: Wh... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:40:23.683 | 2008-08-27T13:04:57.117 | 2008-08-27T13:04:57.117 | 2,974 | 2,974 | null |
28,229 | 2 | null | 28,051 | 15 | null | Scott Guthrie gives some great advice here on how to set up a User Control Library project, then use pre-build events to copy the user controls into multiple projects. It works really well.
[http://webproject.scottgu.com/CSharp/usercontrols/usercontrols.aspx](http://webproject.scottgu.com/CSharp/usercontrols/usercontr... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:40:38.193 | 2008-08-26T14:40:38.193 | null | null | null | null |
28,212 | 1 | 28,244 | null | 0 | 1,301 | I'm using two different libraries in my project, and both of them supply a basic rectangle `struct`. The problem with this is that there seems to be no way to insert a conversion between the types, so I can't call a function in one library with the result from a function in the other. If I was the author of either of t... | How can I convert types in C++? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-26T14:33:17.663 | 2015-10-08T07:43:18.117 | 2017-05-23T12:08:38.563 | -1 | 1,421 | [
"c++",
"oop",
"types"
] |
28,235 | 1 | 28,472 | null | 52 | 64,483 | Using [JDeveloper](http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev), I started developing a set of web pages for a project at work. Since I didn't know much about JDev at the time, I ran over to Oracle to follow some tutorials. The JDev tutorials recommended doing [JSPX](http://www.fileinfo.net/extension/jspx) instead o... | Should I be doing JSPX instead of JSP? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-26T14:41:55.757 | 2014-05-12T08:55:13.777 | null | null | null | [
"jsp",
"jspx"
] |
28,232 | 2 | null | 28,212 | 0 | null | Why not something simple like this: (note this may/probably won't compile) but you get the idea...
```
private Rect* convert(const rectangle& src)
{
return new Rect(src.x,src.y,src.w,src.h);
}
int main()
{
rectangle r;
r.x = 1;
r.y = 2;
r.w = 3;
r.h = 4;
Rect* foo = convert(&r);
...
... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-26T14:41:26.380 | 2015-10-08T07:42:01.297 | 2015-10-08T07:42:01.297 | 67,579 | 1,638 | null |
28,238 | 2 | null | 27,562 | 0 | null | This seems to be a reasonable tutorial with a few simple examples [UTL_FILE example](http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/ora/plsql/utl_file.html)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:44:09.667 | 2008-08-26T14:44:09.667 | null | null | 2,985 | null |
28,233 | 2 | null | 28,196 | 2 | null | What a gross DB structure.
Anyway, I'd do something like this (note I prefer EXISTS to joins, but you can re-write them as joins if you like; most query analyzers will collapse them to the same query plan anyway). You may have to do some additional juggling one way or another to make it work...
```
SELECT *
FROM wp... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:41:27.160 | 2008-08-26T14:41:27.160 | null | null | 2,590 | null |
28,239 | 2 | null | 28,212 | -1 | null | Maybe you could try it with operator overloading ? (Maybe a = operator which is not a method of your class) ?
Rect operator= (const Rect&,const rectangle&)
More about this in the C++ programming language by Bjarne Stroustrup or maybe on this page: [http://www.cs.caltech.edu/courses/cs11/material/cpp/donnie/cpp-ops.ht... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:44:27.200 | 2008-08-26T14:44:27.200 | null | null | 3,056 | null |
28,244 | 2 | null | 28,212 | 2 | null | If you can't modify the structures then you have no alternative to writing a manual conversion function because overloading conversion operators only works within the class body. There's no other way.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:48:00.420 | 2008-08-26T14:48:00.420 | null | null | 1,968 | null |
28,241 | 1 | 28,255 | null | 15 | 26,535 | I am merging a CVS branch and one of the larger changes is the replacement wherever it occurs of a Singleton pattern with abstract classes that have a static initialisation block and all static methods.
Is this something that's worth keeping since it will require merging a lot of conflicts, what sort of situation woul... | Java Singleton vs static - is there a real performance benefit? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-26T14:45:48.617 | 2012-03-12T01:44:29.530 | 2012-03-12T01:44:29.530 | 1,288 | null | [
"java",
"design-patterns",
"singleton"
] |
28,240 | 2 | null | 28,212 | 4 | null | Create an intermediate shim type "`RectangleEx`", and define custom conversions to/from the 3rd-party string types. Whenever you speak to either API, do so through the shim class.
Another way would be to derive a `class` from either `rect` or `Rectangle`, and insert conversions/constructors there.
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-26T14:44:41.257 | 2015-10-08T07:40:05.173 | 2015-10-08T07:40:05.173 | 67,579 | null | null |
28,242 | 2 | null | 28,150 | 0 | null | I'd suggest you to use the #error directive.
Another pretty unknown attribute that might do the work is the [conditional attribute](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.conditionalattribute.aspx) (depending on what you're trying to ahieve)
```
[Conditional("CONDITION")]
public static void MiMet... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:46:13.217 | 2008-08-26T14:46:13.217 | null | null | 2,695 | null |
28,225 | 2 | null | 28,219 | 15 | null | Check out the [Web Forms Syntax Reference](http://quickstarts.asp.net/QuickStartv20/aspnet/doc/pages/syntax.aspx#expressions) on MSDN.
For basics,
- <% %> is used for pure code blocks. I generally only use this for if statements> - > <div class='<%= IsLoggedIn ? "authenticated" : "unauthenticated" %>'>- <%# Express... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:38:11.363 | 2008-08-26T14:47:44.977 | 2008-08-26T14:47:44.977 | 2,688 | 2,688 | null |
28,248 | 2 | null | 22,873 | 1 | null | The defacto standard for learning Grails is the excellent [Getting Started with Grails](http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/grails) by Jason Rudolph. You can debate whether it is an online tutorial or a book since it can be purchased but is available as a free download. There are more "real" books being published and I reco... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:49:56.110 | 2008-08-26T14:49:56.110 | null | null | 3,014 | null |
28,247 | 2 | null | 28,165 | 5 | null | ```
function subst($str, $dict){
return preg_replace(array_map(create_function('$a', 'return "/%\\($a\\)s/";'), array_keys($dict)), array_values($dict), $str);
}
```
You call it like so:
```
echo subst('The %(site)s site %(adj)s because it %(adj)s', array('site'=>'Stackoverflow', 'adj'=>'rocks'));
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:49:54.707 | 2008-08-26T14:49:54.707 | null | null | 1,585 | null |
28,246 | 2 | null | 28,212 | 3 | null | Not sure how sensible this is, but how about something like this:
```
class R
{
public:
R(const rectangle& r) { ... };
R(const Rect& r) { ... };
operator rectangle() const { return ...; }
operator Rect() const { return ...; }
private:
...
};
```
Then you can just wrap every `rectangle` in `R()`... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-26T14:49:01.057 | 2015-10-08T07:40:32.130 | 2015-10-08T07:40:32.130 | 67,579 | 1,175 | null |
28,251 | 2 | null | 28,241 | 0 | null | Does this discussion help? (I don't know if it's taboo to link to another programming forum, but I'd rather not just quote the whole discussion =) )
[Sun Discussion on this subject](http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5221231&messageID=9898827)
The verdict seems to be that it doesn't make enough of a differen... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:50:44.987 | 2008-08-26T14:50:44.987 | null | null | 3,068 | null |
28,255 | 2 | null | 28,241 | 16 | null | From a strict runtime performance point of view, the difference is really negligible. The main difference between the two lies down in the fact that the "static" lifecycle is linked to the classloader, whereas for the singleton it's a regular instance lifecycle. Usually it's better to stay away from the ClassLoader bus... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:52:01.783 | 2008-08-26T14:52:01.783 | null | null | 3,069 | null |
28,249 | 2 | null | 21,294 | 3 | null | i've used yet another solution i found on the net ... this one is under creativecommons and it ...
you can find the file here: [include.js](http://xkr.us/code/javascript/include.js)
```
/** include - including .js files from JS - bfults@gmail.com - 2005-02-09
** Code licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Shar... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:50:30.803 | 2008-08-26T14:50:30.803 | null | null | 1,532 | null |
28,254 | 2 | null | 28,150 | 0 | null | Create an FxCop rule, and add FxCop to your integration build in order to check for this.
You'll get warnings, rather than a failing build. Attributes 'run' at reflection time rather than build time.
Alternatively (and this is rather nasty) put a compiler directive around the method you don't want to be called. Then... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:51:54.343 | 2008-08-26T14:51:54.343 | null | null | 905 | null |
28,250 | 2 | null | 28,235 | 6 | null | Hello fellow JDeveloper developer!
I have been working with JSPX pages for over two years and I never had any problems with them being JSPX opposed to JSP. The choice for me to go with JSPX was kinda forced since I use JHeadstart to automatically generate ADF Faces pages and by default, JHeadstart generates everything... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:50:36.407 | 2008-08-26T14:50:36.407 | null | null | 506 | null |
28,257 | 2 | null | 18,783 | 1 | null | Remove cursors wherever the are not neceesary.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:52:46.103 | 2009-03-05T17:40:33.863 | 2009-03-05T17:40:33.863 | 357 | 357 | null |
28,243 | 1 | 109,708 | null | 9 | 29,411 | I'm trying to install some Ruby Gems so I can use Ruby to notify me when I get twitter messages. However, after doing a `gem update --system`, I now get a zlib error every time I try and do a `gem install` of anything. below is the console output I get when trying to install ruby gems. (along with the output from `gem ... | cannot install ruby gems - zlib error | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-26T14:47:52.357 | 2014-11-26T09:34:17.727 | 2012-04-26T01:48:41.113 | 1,332,690 | 1,726 | [
"ruby",
"rubygems"
] |
28,258 | 2 | null | 27,381 | 1 | null | This should be decided on how complicated the design of your website is. The more complicated, graphically or component wise (amount of content divs), will determine how well your website will scale. Generally you will find most graphic designers website will not scale because they are graphically intensive. However in... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:53:23.683 | 2008-08-26T14:53:23.683 | null | null | 2,501 | null |
28,253 | 2 | null | 27,757 | 49 | null | I find myself forgetting how to do this every time as well so I just wrap the two one-liners that I need in a little class:
```
public class Utility
{
/// <summary>
/// Takes the full name of a resource and loads it in to a stream.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="resourceName">Assuming an embedded reso... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:51:12.533 | 2008-08-26T14:51:12.533 | null | null | 3,074 | null |
28,261 | 1 | null | null | 18 | 2,915 | I've been looking for a tool to extract exception information from a C++ program. The most wanted feature I'm looking for: I want to know all the exceptions that can be thrown from a function (which would include all the function that is called from that function recursively).
I've always thought that documenting erro... | Exception analysis tool for C++ | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-26T14:55:31.340 | 2015-10-29T06:22:05.907 | null | null | 2,957 | [
"c++",
"exception",
"code-analysis"
] |
28,263 | 2 | null | 28,219 | 2 | null | Just want to add, there's also the resources expression
```
<%$ Resources:resource, welcome%>
```
and asp.net would look for localized version of "welcome" in satellite assemblies automatically.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:56:25.347 | 2008-08-26T14:56:25.347 | null | null | 3,055 | null |
28,260 | 2 | null | 28,241 | 3 | null | If my original post was the correct understanding and the discussion from Sun that was linked to is accurate (which I think it might be), then I think you have to make a trade off between clarity and performance.
Ask yourself these questions:
1. Does the Singleton object make what I'm doing more clear?
2. Do I need ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:54:56.380 | 2008-08-26T14:54:56.380 | null | null | 572 | null |
28,262 | 2 | null | 27,077 | 4 | null | G'day,
Just wanted to expand on the suggestion from Jon to use -prune. It isn't the easiest of find options to use, for example to just search in the current directory the find command looks like:
```
find . \( -type d ! -name . -prune \) -o \( <the bit you want to look for> \)
```
this will stop find from descendi... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:55:46.377 | 2008-08-26T14:55:46.377 | null | null | 2,974 | null |
28,265 | 2 | null | 22,873 | 3 | null | check out the [programming section of wikibooks](http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Programming_languages_bookshelf)
Many of them are fully formed, and quite a few have more advanced sections (which are in varying states of completion) on specific functionality.
also, [w3 schools](http://www.w3schools.com/PHP/DEf... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:56:51.537 | 2008-08-26T14:56:51.537 | null | null | 2,908 | null |
28,270 | 2 | null | 28,268 | 0 | null | Probably better not to run vista in a VM. Especially if you want the Aero UI turned on. VMs aren't very good with advanced graphics, so you'll probably want to run XP, or Vista in classic mode.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:59:13.747 | 2008-08-26T14:59:13.747 | null | null | 1,862 | null |
28,271 | 2 | null | 28,241 | 16 | null | I would use a singleton if it needed to store any state, and static classes otherwise. There's no point in instantiating something, even a single instance, unless it needs to store something.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:59:20.503 | 2008-08-26T14:59:20.503 | null | null | 3,044 | null |
28,273 | 2 | null | 28,268 | 0 | null | Not really, it should run just fine. Your dev environment will just be a little bit slower...but in my experience, it's not really all that bad. I wouldn't want it as my main machine, but it's perfectly usable.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T14:59:59.783 | 2008-08-26T14:59:59.783 | null | null | 194 | null |