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28,838 | 2 | null | 28,820 | 6 | null | I work on windows mobile full time and have never really come across a good Windows Mobile scripting implementation unfortunately. For some reason MS has never seen the need for it. For example, even though you can actually get a command console on WM, it does not support running batch files, even though all the comm... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T18:53:07.680 | 2008-08-26T18:53:07.680 | null | null | 194 | null |
28,833 | 2 | null | 28,826 | 0 | null | The [Expression site](http://www.microsoft.com/expression/) is the first place to start. These are tools that bridge the developer/designer gap for building rich internet applications with Silverlight and WPF. They compete with Adobe Studio products.
Whilst Visual Studio is good for working with code, it has some weak... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T18:51:49.180 | 2008-08-26T18:51:49.180 | null | null | 636 | null |
28,693 | 2 | null | 27,243 | 2 | null | I found the answer here:
[http://blog.domaindotnet.com/2008/08/24/nhibernate-20-gold-released-must-wait-for-linq-to-nhibernate/](http://blog.domaindotnet.com/2008/08/24/nhibernate-20-gold-released-must-wait-for-linq-to-nhibernate/)
# gold release 2.0.0.GA
## BREAKING CHANGES from NH1.2.1GA to NH2.0.0
-
## In... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T17:36:49.687 | 2008-08-26T17:36:49.687 | null | null | 2,849 | null |
28,840 | 1 | null | null | -1 | 422 | We are a small team of 3 developers (2 experienced but new to this particular business sector) developing a functionally complex product. We're using Scrum and have a demo at the end of each sprint. Its clear that the functional team have plenty of ideas but these are not well communicated to the development team an... | Scrum - How to get better input from the functional/commercial team | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-26T18:54:01.640 | 2017-12-25T12:41:37.290 | 2017-12-25T12:41:37.290 | 2,442,804 | 2,839 | [
"scrum",
"methodology",
"requirements"
] |
28,846 | 2 | null | 28,840 | 0 | null | Are they participating in the stand-up meetings?
You could propose to have a representative at each (or some) of them, to ask them for input before the end of the sprint
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T18:57:22.897 | 2008-08-26T18:57:22.897 | null | null | 1,782 | null |
28,849 | 2 | null | 11,491 | 0 | null | What Steve says is right, but I guess that if your code had to support several languages, you could have a factory method that encapsulates a set of methods that do the relevant toUpper or toLower based on that language.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T18:58:13.440 | 2008-08-26T18:58:13.440 | null | null | 3,081 | null |
28,845 | 2 | null | 28,826 | 1 | null | EDIT: Okay, I type too slow so most of what I had to say was already mentioned, so I'll strip it out except for...
The BIG thing to take note of is that the WSYWIG designer they used in Expression Web made it's way into Visual Studio 2008, which is a VERY GOOD thing. There is now EXCELLENT support for CSS, a better ed... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T18:56:22.337 | 2008-08-26T18:56:22.337 | null | null | 71 | null |
28,843 | 1 | 33,738 | null | 6 | 2,592 | I prefer [SlickEdit](http://www.slickedit.com/) for my IDE but the only way I can get it to update the tag files to incorporate code changes is to recreate the project and/or run start a re-tag manually. Is there a way to setup Slick Edit so that it automatically incorporates changes in the code base that happen after ... | Can SlickEdit automatically update its tag files? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-26T18:54:48.860 | 2012-04-25T21:22:51.547 | 2012-04-25T21:22:51.547 | 1,332,690 | 3,022 | [
"ide",
"slickedit"
] |
28,848 | 2 | null | 26,148 | 0 | null | > Good suggestions, but rest assured, we have tried all of the usual troubleshooting. What I'm hoping is that this is a .NET issue that someone might know about, that we can work on solving.
My feeling is that no matter how bizarre the underlying cause, the usual troubleshooting steps are your best bet for locating th... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T18:57:56.390 | 2008-08-26T18:57:56.390 | null | null | 1,990 | null |
28,851 | 2 | null | 1,644 | 6 | null | If you're interested in Linux, [Linux Action Show](http://www.linuxactionshow.com/) is a wonderful podcast !
It's about Linux news, distributions and softwares releases and also Linux based hardware testing (like drobo, Amazon Kindle and so on).
It's very good quality and the hosts, Brian and Chris, sounds amazing.
I... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T18:58:16.077 | 2009-05-27T19:02:16.487 | 2009-05-27T19:02:16.487 | 4,596 | 3,122 | null |
28,853 | 2 | null | 28,840 | 1 | null | Sometimes the easiest way to get input from people is to force it out of them. My company used SCRUM on a project, and found very quickly that people tend to keep to themselves when they already know what they're doing. We ended up organizing weekly meetings where team members were required to display something that ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T18:58:52.923 | 2008-08-26T18:58:52.923 | null | null | 3,018 | null |
28,847 | 2 | null | 22,309 | 3 | null | IDA Pro will definitely do ARM disassembly. And they (Datarescue) once arranged me a licence at about 11PM local time, so I like to recommend them...
I see from [http://www.datarescue.com/idabase/](http://www.datarescue.com/idabase/) that there's been some rearrangement of the company, but I guess it's still a good p... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T18:57:33.580 | 2008-08-26T18:57:33.580 | null | null | 987 | null |
28,855 | 2 | null | 28,817 | 0 | null | I don't know of any tool that can help you, but if you are writing your own, I can save you from one headace: Directories in CVS cannot be tagget. Only the files within them have tags (and that is what determines what is checked out when you check out a directory on a specific tag).
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T18:59:22.330 | 2008-08-26T18:59:22.330 | null | null | 3,102 | null |
28,850 | 2 | null | 28,826 | 8 | null | The idea is that designers will work in Expression Design (to design vector artwork) and Expression Blend (to build and style XAML interactions, as well as to define timeline based animations and interactions).
Developers will work on the application in Visual Studio. Visual Studio includes very basic XAML editing cap... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T18:58:15.343 | 2008-08-26T18:58:15.343 | null | null | 5 | null |
28,844 | 2 | null | 28,826 | 18 | null | Expression Studio is basically a design studio. It consists of a bunch of design software that Microsoft has bought for the most part. The audience is designers, not developers. The gist of the software is that Expression Blend enables designers and programmers to work seamlessly together in letting the designer create... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T18:54:56.520 | 2008-09-24T01:09:11.417 | 2008-09-24T01:09:11.417 | 234 | 1,968 | null |
28,856 | 2 | null | 28,832 | 2 | null | The finalize method is never invoked more than once by a JVM for any given object. You shouldn't be relying on finalize anyway because there's no guarantee that it will be invoked. If you're calling finalize because you need to execute clean up code then better to put it into a separate method and make it explicit, e.g... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T18:59:31.907 | 2008-08-26T18:59:31.907 | null | null | 1,450 | null |
28,854 | 2 | null | 28,840 | 2 | null | Have you tried working with your customer to define / formulate ?
Using something like Fit to come up with these tests - would result in better specs as well as force the customer to think about what is really required. The icing on the cake is instant-doc-executable specs at the end of this process.
That is of course... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T18:59:07.133 | 2008-08-26T19:05:03.250 | 2008-08-26T19:05:03.250 | 1,695 | 1,695 | null |
28,868 | 2 | null | 28,768 | 3 | null | I have used SubSonic and EntitySpaces. Once you get the hang of them, I beleive they can save you time, but as complexity of your app and volume of data grow, you may outgrow these tools. You start to lose time trying to figure out if something like a performance issue is related to the ORM or to your code. So, to a... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:05:45.590 | 2008-08-26T19:05:45.590 | null | null | 1,865 | null |
28,859 | 2 | null | 28,716 | 5 | null | I use APC because it was easy to install in windows and I'm developing on WAMP.
Integrating APC into PHP6 was discussed here:
[http://www.php.net/~derick/meeting-notes.html#add-an-opcode-cache-to-the-distribution-apc](http://www.php.net/~derick/meeting-notes.html#add-an-opcode-cache-to-the-distribution-apc)
And ther... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:00:26.383 | 2008-08-26T19:00:26.383 | null | null | 2,926 | null |
28,863 | 2 | null | 1,644 | 5 | null | [http://herdingcode.com/](http://herdingcode.com/)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:03:31.803 | 2008-08-26T19:03:31.803 | null | null | 1,782 | null |
28,839 | 1 | 28,873 | null | 4 | 2,556 | I had been happily coding along on a decent sized solution (just over 13k LOC, 5 projects) which utilizes Linq to Sql for it's data access. All of sudden I performed a normal build and I received a sweet, sweet ambiguous message:
I had not touched my data access layer for weeks and no adjustments had been made to t... | What causes Visual Studio to fail to load an assembly incorrectly? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-26T18:53:57.117 | 2013-01-29T14:45:38.150 | 2011-09-15T13:08:23.767 | 419 | 2,213 | [
"visual-studio",
"visual-studio-2008",
"linq-to-sql"
] |
28,858 | 1 | null | null | 44 | 14,058 | Saw a post about hidden features in C# but not a lot of people have written linq/lambdas example so... I wonder...
> What's the coolest (as in the most elegant) use of the C# LINQ and/or Lambdas/anonymous delegates you have ever saw/written?
Bonus if it has went into production too!
| Coolest C# LINQ/Lambdas trick you've ever pulled? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-26T19:00:22.357 | 2014-08-05T13:53:26.383 | 2009-08-18T15:42:02.393 | 3,055 | 3,055 | [
"c#",
"linq",
"functional-programming",
"lambda"
] |
28,867 | 2 | null | 28,858 | 27 | null | The [LINQ Raytracer](http://blogs.msdn.com/lukeh/archive/2007/10/01/taking-linq-to-objects-to-extremes-a-fully-linqified-raytracer.aspx) certainly tops my list =)
I'm not quite sure if qualifies as elegant but it is most certainly the coolest linq-expression I've ever seen!
Oh, and just to be extremely clear; I did ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:04:51.973 | 2008-08-26T19:11:17.947 | 2008-08-26T19:11:17.947 | 2,114 | 2,114 | null |
28,873 | 2 | null | 28,839 | 1 | null | TBH, I have had a couple of instances like this where files "seemed to go crazy".. However, upon investigation it has appeared that the files have changed in some way, shape or form.. (e.g. sometimes changes can be made to the file by inadvertantly changing a property somewhere that unrelated).
I think there are too ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:11:59.350 | 2008-08-26T19:11:59.350 | null | null | 832 | null |
28,874 | 2 | null | 28,708 | 0 | null | OK, sorry that didn't work... I am no expert on ASP.NET impersonation, I tend to use app pools which I don't think you can do on W2K Have you tried writing a tiny little test app which does the same query, and then running that as various users?
I am reluctant to post a chunk of MS framework code here, but you c... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:12:07.760 | 2008-08-26T19:12:07.760 | null | null | 987 | null |
28,880 | 2 | null | 28,578 | 0 | null | The problem is I'm worried about breaking the build in the meantime while I'm moving folders in StarTeam. I suppose the only way to avoid that is to be ready to upload updated project files as soon as I move things around in StarTeam and do it as quickly as possible.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:14:16.287 | 2008-08-26T19:14:16.287 | null | null | 327 | null |
28,881 | 1 | 28,903 | null | 17 | 7,803 | Using the same command with the same input produces different results on different machines. How do I fix that?
| Why doesn't **sort** sort the same on every machine? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-26T19:15:47.267 | 2020-10-23T16:49:52.757 | 2008-09-16T00:07:26.087 | 1,438 | 1,438 | [
"bash",
"unix",
"sorting",
"ksh"
] |
28,882 | 2 | null | 28,877 | 1 | null | this is because if the data you insert is not in the order of the index, SQL will have to split pages to make room for additional rows to keep them together logically
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:16:28.747 | 2008-08-26T19:16:28.747 | null | null | 740 | null |
28,871 | 2 | null | 28,577 | 2 | null | You should store the current language somewhere (in a [singleton](http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/csharp/singleton.html), for instance) and in the product.Name property use the language setting to get the correct string. This way you only have to write the language specific code once for each field rather than thinking a... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:08:53.837 | 2008-08-26T19:08:53.837 | null | null | 327 | null |
28,876 | 2 | null | 3,088 | 1 | null | I don't know for sure what will be the best for your brother, but I know I started with python. I've been playing various games from a very early age and wanted to make my own, so my uncle introduced me to python with the [pygame](http://www.pygame.org/) library. It has many tutorials and makes it all easy (WAY easier ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:12:37.413 | 2008-08-26T19:12:37.413 | null | null | 3,119 | null |
28,884 | 2 | null | 28,877 | 3 | null | You should NEVER EVER create an index on an empty table if you are going to massively load it right afterwards.
Indexes have to be maintained as the data on the table changes, so imagine as if for every insert on the table the index was being recalculated (which is an expensive operation).
Load the table first and crea... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:17:34.173 | 2011-03-25T21:26:54.217 | 2011-03-25T21:26:54.217 | 2,697 | 2,697 | null |
28,891 | 2 | null | 7,864 | 3 | null | > The question is about the Active
Record design pattern. Not an orm
Tool.
The original question is tagged with rails and refers to Twitter which is built in Ruby on Rails. The ActiveRecord framework within Rails is an implementation of Fowler's Active Record design pattern.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:19:25.370 | 2008-08-26T19:19:25.370 | null | null | 1,450 | null |
28,878 | 1 | null | null | 17 | 30,399 | I'm translating my C# code for YouTube video comments into PHP. In order to properly nest comment replies, I need to re-arrange XML nodes. In PHP I'm using DOMDocument and DOMXPath which closely corresponds to C# XmlDocument. I've gotten pretty far in my translation but now I'm stuck on getting the parent node of a DOM... | Determine Parent Node Of DOMElement | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-26T19:14:01.170 | 2019-01-18T11:15:18.677 | 2019-01-18T11:15:18.677 | 567,854 | 2,601 | [
"php",
"xml",
"dom"
] |
28,857 | 2 | null | 28,713 | 3 | null | This is a CSS question: the width includes the border and padding widths, which have different defaults for INPUT and TEXTAREA in different browsers, so make those the same as well:
```
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>width</title>
<style ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T18:59:54.980 | 2008-08-26T18:59:54.980 | null | null | 2,670 | null |
28,888 | 2 | null | 28,877 | 2 | null | After performing large data manipulation operations, you frequently have to update the underlying indexes. You can do that by using the UPDATE STATISTICS [table] statement.
The other option is to drop and recreate the index which, if you are doing large data insertions, will likely perform the inserts much faster. Y... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:19:15.463 | 2008-08-26T19:19:15.463 | null | null | 312 | null |
28,892 | 2 | null | 28,877 | 42 | null | If you create a clustered index, it affects the way the data is physically ordered on the disk. It's better to add the index after the fact and let the database engine reorder the rows when it knows how the data is distributed.
For example, let's say you needed to build a brick wall with numbered bricks so that those ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:19:27.710 | 2008-08-26T19:24:49.477 | 2008-08-26T19:24:49.477 | 5 | 5 | null |
28,894 | 1 | 28,947 | null | 19 | 11,838 | For years I have been using the DEBUG compiler constant in VB.NET to write messages to the console. I've also been using System.Diagnostics.Debug.Write in similar fashion. It was always my understanding that when RELEASE was used as the build option, that all of these statements were left out by the compiler, freeing... | .NET Compiler -- DEBUG vs. RELEASE | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-26T19:20:09.470 | 2010-03-16T15:27:43.927 | null | null | 3,059 | [
".net",
"compiler-construction",
"debugging"
] |
28,897 | 2 | null | 28,877 | 6 | null | It's because the database server has to do calculations each and every time you insert a new row. Basically, you end up reindexing the table each time. It doesn't seem like a very expensive operation, and it's not, but when you do that many of them together, you start to see the impact. That's why you usually want t... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:20:57.800 | 2008-08-26T19:20:57.800 | null | null | 2,363 | null |
28,901 | 2 | null | 28,881 | 3 | null | This is probably due to different settings of the [locale environment variables](http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/systems/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.nls/doc/nlsgdrf/locale_env.htm). `sort` will use these settings to determine how to compare strings. By setting these environment variables the way you want befo... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:21:42.977 | 2008-08-26T19:21:42.977 | null | null | 893 | null |
28,893 | 2 | null | 28,881 | 5 | null | This can be the result of locale differences:
```
$ echo 'CO2_
CO_' | env LC_ALL=C sort
CO2_
CO_
$ echo 'CO2_
CO_' | env LC_ALL=en_US sort
CO_
CO2_
```
Setting the LC_ALL environment variable to the same value should correct the problem.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:19:31.157 | 2008-08-26T19:19:31.157 | null | null | 1,438 | null |
28,877 | 1 | null | null | 16 | 14,757 | I have a sproc that puts 750K records into a temp table through a query as one of its first actions. If I create indexes on the temp table before filling it, the item takes about twice as long to run compared to when I index after filling the table. (The index is an integer in a single column, the table being indexed... | Why does SQL Server work faster when you index a table after filling it? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:13:14.917 | 2022-12-07T09:14:50.290 | 2008-08-26T21:51:50.980 | 1,797 | 1,327 | [
"sql-server",
"performance",
"indexing"
] |
28,902 | 2 | null | 28,877 | 1 | null | This due to the fact that when SQL Server indexes table with data it is able to produce exact statistics of values in indexed column. At some moments SQL Server will recalculate statistics, but when you perform massive inserts the distribution of values may change after the statistics was calculated last time.
The fac... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:21:50.373 | 2008-08-26T19:21:50.373 | null | null | 2,586 | null |
28,896 | 1 | 28,917 | null | 10 | 783 | I'm currently designing a program that will involve some physics (nothing too fancy, a few balls crashing to each other)
What's the most exact datatype I can use to represent position (without a feeling of discrete jumps) in c#?
Also, what's the smallest ammount of time I can get between t and t+1? One tick?
EDIT: C... | Datatypes for physics | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-26T19:20:35.493 | 2010-05-20T22:19:37.000 | 2009-02-24T18:23:59.887 | 6,688 | 1,782 | [
"c#",
"types",
"physics"
] |
28,885 | 2 | null | 27,492 | 2 | null | In general, avoid allocating from the heap unless you have to. If you have to, use reference counting for objects that are long-lived and need to be shared between diverse parts of your code.
Sometimes you need to allocate objects dynamically, but they will only be used within a certain span of time. For example, in a... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:18:03.237 | 2008-08-26T19:18:03.237 | null | null | 3,121 | null |
28,908 | 2 | null | 28,708 | 0 | null | I can enumerate the process (ie, the GetProcessById function works), and we have other code that gets the EXE name and other bits of information.
I will give the test app a try. I'm also going to attempt to use WMI to get this information if I can't get the C# implementation working properly in short order (this is no... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:23:44.017 | 2008-08-26T19:23:44.017 | null | null | 1,975,282 | null |
28,904 | 2 | null | 28,877 | 3 | null | Think of it this way.
> Given
unorderedList = {5, 1,3}
orderedList = {1,3,5}add 2 to both lists.
unorderedList = {5, 1,3,2}
orderedList = {1,2,3,5}
What list do you think is easier to add to?
Btw ordering your input before load will give you a boost.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:22:08.873 | 2008-08-26T19:22:08.873 | 2020-06-20T09:12:55.060 | -1 | 1,293 | null |
28,907 | 2 | null | 28,894 | -6 | null | In my experience choosing between Debug and Release in VB.NET makes no difference. You may add custom actions to both configuration, but by default I think they are the same.
Using Release will certainly not remove the System.Diagnostics.Debug.Write statements.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:23:42.957 | 2008-08-26T19:23:42.957 | null | null | 1,508 | null |
28,905 | 2 | null | 28,877 | 1 | null | If you have an index on a table, as you add data to the table SQL Server will have to re-order the table to make room in the appropriate place for the new records. If you're adding a lot of data, it will have to reorder it over and over again. By creating an index only after the data is loaded, the re-order only need... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:22:14.553 | 2008-08-26T19:22:14.553 | null | null | 3,043 | null |
28,913 | 2 | null | 28,894 | 1 | null | What I do is encapsulate the call to Debug in my own class and add a precompiler directive
```
public void Debug(string s)
{
#if DEBUG
System.Diagnostics.Debug(...);
#endif
}
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:25:58.333 | 2008-08-26T19:25:58.333 | null | null | 1,782 | null |
28,906 | 2 | null | 28,832 | 30 | null | According to this simple test program, the JVM will still make its call to finalize() even if you explicitly called it:
```
private static class Blah
{
public void finalize() { System.out.println("finalizing!"); }
}
private static void f() throws Throwable
{
Blah blah = new Blah();
blah.finalize();
}
public ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:23:06.483 | 2008-08-26T19:23:06.483 | null | null | 1,471 | null |
28,883 | 2 | null | 28,858 | 1 | null | I was trying to come up with a cool way to build a navigation control for a website I was building. I wanted to use regular HTML unordered list elements (employing the standard [CSS "Sucker Fish" look](http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dropdowns)) with a top-navigation mouse-over effect that reveals the drop down item... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:16:43.800 | 2008-08-26T19:29:39.650 | 2008-08-26T19:29:39.667 | 2,213 | 2,213 | null |
28,918 | 2 | null | 28,896 | 0 | null | I think you should be able to get away with the Decimal data type with no problem. It has the most precision available. However, the double data type should be just fine.
Yes, a tick is the smallest I'm aware of (using the System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch class).
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:28:22.040 | 2008-08-26T19:28:22.040 | null | null | 2,982 | null |
28,889 | 2 | null | 26,195 | 1 | null | @Greg Hewgill:
thanks for the script! I had a couple of issues with it though, so here's what I'd change:
line 21:
```
< map <silent> <C-d> :call <SID>scmToggle()<CR>
--
> map <silent> <C-h> :call <SID>scmToggle()<CR>
```
I use - for page-down (too lazy to move all that way over to PdDn), so had to switch to Ctrl-h... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-26T19:19:19.660 | 2015-08-20T22:17:52.987 | 2015-08-20T22:17:52.987 | 7,226 | 24 | null |
28,914 | 2 | null | 28,896 | 0 | null | I'm not sure I understand your last question, could you please clarify?
Edit:
I might still not understand, but you can use any type you want (for example, doubles) to represent time (if what you actually want is to represent the discretization of time for your physics problem, in which case the tick is irrelevant). ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:26:42.670 | 2008-08-26T19:34:05.537 | 2008-08-26T19:34:05.537 | 2,638 | 2,638 | null |
28,915 | 2 | null | 26,719 | 1 | null | I know Xenocode can merge assemblies into one but I am not sure if it will internalize other non-primary assemblies.
I have found the /internalize switch in ILMerge that "internalize" all assemblies except the primary one. Pretty useful!
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:27:04.167 | 2008-08-26T19:27:04.167 | null | null | 1,508 | null |
28,922 | 1 | 28,924 | null | 3 | 216 | I have an SQL server database that I am querying and I only want to get the information when a specific row is null. I used a where statement such as:
```
WHERE database.foobar = NULL
```
and it does not return anything. However, I know that there is at least one result because I created an instance in the database ... | SQLServer Get Results Where Value Is Null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-26T19:32:20.783 | 2019-03-23T13:06:51.270 | 2019-03-23T13:06:51.270 | 7,338,544 | 2,486 | [
"sql",
"sql-server",
"oracle"
] |
28,917 | 2 | null | 28,896 | 9 | null | In .Net a `decimal` will be the most precise datatype that you could use for position. I would just write a class for the position:
```
public class Position
{
decimal x;
decimal y;
decimal z;
}
```
As for time, your processor can't give you anything smaller than one tick.
Sounds like an fun project! ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:27:49.203 | 2008-08-26T19:27:49.203 | null | null | 2,363 | null |
28,920 | 2 | null | 28,858 | 4 | null | [http://igoro.com/archive/extended-linq-additional-operators-for-linq-to-objects/](http://igoro.com/archive/extended-linq-additional-operators-for-linq-to-objects/)
[http://igoro.com/archive/7-tricks-to-simplify-your-programs-with-linq/](http://igoro.com/archive/7-tricks-to-simplify-your-programs-with-linq/)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:30:15.313 | 2008-08-26T19:30:15.313 | null | null | 2,437 | null |
28,903 | 2 | null | 28,881 | 24 | null | The [man-page](http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/sort.1.html) on OS X says:
> ******* WARNING ******* The locale specified by the environment affects sort order. Set LC_ALL=C to get
the traditional sort order that uses native byte values.
which might explain things.
If some of yo... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-26T19:21:56.177 | 2020-10-23T16:49:52.757 | 2020-10-23T16:49:52.757 | 2,430,549 | 2,010 | null |
28,924 | 2 | null | 28,922 | 6 | null | Correct syntax is WHERE database.foobar IS NULL. See [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188795.aspx](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188795.aspx) for more info
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:33:04.277 | 2008-08-26T19:33:04.277 | null | null | 2,688 | null |
28,919 | 2 | null | 28,756 | 17 | null | The solution depends on why you don't want to enumerate through the collection.
If it's because enumerating the collection might be slow, then there is no solution that will be faster. You might want to consider using an ICollection instead if possible. Unless the enumeration is remarkably slow (e.g. it reads items fro... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:29:11.073 | 2008-08-26T19:52:41.640 | 2020-06-20T09:12:55.060 | -1 | 214 | null |
28,931 | 2 | null | 28,896 | 0 | null | For a simulation you're probably better off using a decimal/double (same type as position) for a dimensionless time, then converting it from/to something meaningful on input/output. Otherwise you'll be performing a ton of cast operations when you move things around. You'll get arbitrary precision this way, too, becau... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:35:47.763 | 2008-08-26T19:35:47.763 | null | null | 1,807 | null |
28,930 | 2 | null | 28,922 | 2 | null | Read [Testing for Null Values](http://wiki.lessthandot.com/index.php/SQL_Server_programming_Hacks_-_Testing_for_Null_Values), you need IS NULL not = NULL
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:35:35.143 | 2008-08-26T19:35:35.143 | null | null | 740 | null |
28,929 | 2 | null | 28,922 | 1 | null | Is it an SQL Server database?
If so, use `IS NULL` instead of making the comparison ([MSDN](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa933227(SQL.80).aspx)).
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:35:31.727 | 2008-08-26T19:35:31.727 | null | null | 2,841 | null |
28,933 | 2 | null | 28,820 | 2 | null | The closest thing to a scripting environment on Windows Mobile is the Configuration Service Provider interface. While it is not a scripting language , it does allow one to do a lot of the same type of things such as modify registry settings, copy and delete files and directories, install and uninstall applications and... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:36:21.710 | 2008-08-26T19:36:21.710 | null | null | 1,954 | null |
28,935 | 2 | null | 25,661 | 7 | null | I've never attempted it myself, but hearing plenty about other people who've tried, it's not a road you want to go down.
There is the alternative of putting the gui in pygame itself. There are plenty of gui toolkits built specifically for pygame that you could use. Most of them are rather unfinished, but there are 2 b... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:36:24.877 | 2008-08-26T19:36:24.877 | null | null | 3,119 | null |
28,925 | 2 | null | 28,757 | -1 | null | I would agree with [Kibbee](https://stackoverflow.com/users/1862/kibbee). I wanted to jump in with SVN so I installed the daemon and had everything up and running in no time. It took me longer to get all the commands down for adding and committing files than the installation.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:33:06.617 | 2008-08-26T19:33:06.617 | 2017-05-23T12:33:26.220 | -1 | 2,863 | null |
28,934 | 2 | null | 28,894 | 1 | null | Using the DEBUG compiler symbol will, like you said, actually omit the code from the assembly.
I believe that System.Diagnostics.Debug.Write will always output to an attached debugger, even if you've built in Release mode. Per the [MSDN article](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.debug.write.a... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:36:24.393 | 2008-08-26T19:44:23.577 | 2008-08-26T19:44:23.577 | 2,773 | 2,773 | null |
28,932 | 1 | 3,541,878 | null | 174 | 114,821 | What is the the best JavaScript compressor available? I'm looking for a tool that:
- - -
| Best JavaScript compressor | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-26T19:36:20.273 | 2016-05-24T22:41:41.463 | 2011-01-31T09:14:30.147 | 63,550 | 1,363 | [
"javascript",
"compression"
] |
28,939 | 2 | null | 28,932 | 3 | null | [JSMin](http://crockford.com/javascript/jsmin) is another one.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:41:56.253 | 2008-08-26T19:41:56.253 | null | null | 305 | null |
28,937 | 2 | null | 28,716 | 6 | null | I have run several [benchmarks with eAcclerator, APC, XCache](http://blogs.interdose.com/dominik/2008/04/11/benchmarking-php-eaccelerator-und-andere-opcode-caches/), and Zend Optimizer (even though Zend is an optimizer, not a cache).
[Benchmark Results http://blogs.interdose.com/dominik/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/op... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-26T19:37:52.440 | 2015-06-20T21:50:57.320 | 2015-06-20T21:50:57.320 | 2,632,129 | 999 | null |
28,928 | 2 | null | 15,681 | 1 | null | Xcode is the standard for editing source files, though you can use another editor in conjunction with the command line xcodebuild tool if you really want. I used Vim for all my Cocoa editing before finally giving in to Xcode. It's not the greatest IDE in the world, but it gets the job done, and the recent 3.x release... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:34:51.497 | 2008-08-26T19:34:51.497 | null | null | null | null |
28,941 | 1 | 28,955 | null | 2 | 535 | Here is the scenario:
I'm writing an app that will watch for any changes in a specific directory. This directory will be flooded with thousands of files a minute each with an "almost" unique GUID. The file format is this:
GUID.dat where GUID == xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(the internal contents aren't relevant, bu... | Best architecture for handling file system changes? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-26T19:42:47.483 | 2017-08-04T14:41:55.507 | 2017-08-04T14:41:55.507 | 1,836,618 | 750 | [
".net",
"architecture",
"concurrency",
"filesystemwatcher"
] |
28,944 | 2 | null | 28,878 | 27 | null | [DOMElement](http://no2.php.net/manual/en/class.domelement.php) is a subclass of [DOMNode](http://no2.php.net/manual/en/class.domnode.php), so it does have parent_node property. Just use $domNode->parentNode; to find the parent node.
In your example, the parent node of $importnode is null, because it has been imported... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:44:21.737 | 2008-08-26T19:44:21.737 | null | null | 1,585 | null |
28,942 | 2 | null | 28,932 | 5 | null | Try [JSMin](http://www.crockford.com/javascript/jsmin.html), got C#, Java, C and other ports and readily available too.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:42:48.153 | 2008-08-26T19:42:48.153 | null | null | 3,055 | null |
28,946 | 1 | 28,963 | null | 3 | 3,704 | Hey everyone, I'm using Virtual PC and working with a virtual hard disk (*.vhd) that is only sized at 8.2 GB. I would like to double the size to something like 16-20GB. I see options for compacting the VHD but nothing to expand it. It's set to "dynamically expand" but I'm installing some software and it doesn't seem to... | Expanding Virtual Disk | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-26T19:45:49.283 | 2012-08-22T17:59:01.503 | 2009-08-05T02:21:06.213 | 6,268 | 64 | [
"virtualization",
"virtual-pc",
"vhd"
] |
28,947 | 2 | null | 28,894 | 22 | null | The preferred method is to actually use the conditional attribute to wrap your debug calls, not use the compiler directives. #ifs can get tricky and can lead to weird build problems.
An example of using a conditional attribute is as follows (in C#, but works in VB.NET too):
```
[ Conditional("Debug") ]
private void ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:45:54.900 | 2008-08-26T19:45:54.900 | null | null | 2,848 | null |
28,953 | 2 | null | 28,932 | 1 | null | [Here's the source code](http://blog.madskristensen.dk/post/Optimize-WebResourceaxd-and-ScriptResourceaxd.aspx) of an HttpHandler which does that, maybe it'll help you
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:48:33.770 | 2008-08-26T19:48:33.770 | null | null | 1,782 | null |
28,949 | 1 | 29,038 | null | 28 | 15,193 | After reading [this question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28832/java-and-manually-executing-finalize), I was reminded of when I was taught Java and told never to call finalize() or run the garbage collector because "it's a big black box that you never need to worry about". Can someone boil the reasoning for thi... | Why do you not explicitly call finalize() or start the garbage collector? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-26T19:46:46.367 | 2018-10-30T11:09:32.920 | 2017-05-23T12:13:37.900 | -1 | 572 | [
"java",
"garbage-collection"
] |
28,938 | 2 | null | 28,932 | 43 | null | [YUI Compressor](http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/compressor/) is the way to go. It has a great compression rate, is well tested and is in use among many top sites, and, well, personally recommended by me.
I've used it for my projects without a single JavaScript error or hiccup. And it has nice documentation.
CSS com... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-26T19:39:44.010 | 2011-08-14T23:39:34.730 | 2011-08-14T23:39:34.730 | 49,485 | 1,335 | null |
28,955 | 2 | null | 28,941 | 3 | null | A couple of things that I have in my head:
- - -
Sorry no answer as yet, just would like to know more about the problem :)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:48:48.107 | 2008-08-26T19:48:48.107 | null | null | 832 | null |
28,957 | 2 | null | 28,946 | 0 | null | Never worked with Virtual PC but from other virtualization software I know I guess that dynamically expand means that initially the .vhd file will take less space in the HD than the specified and will dynamically grow as you keep installing programs or adding files into the virtual drive UP TO the specified size.
For ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:49:29.963 | 2008-08-26T19:49:29.963 | null | null | 2,697 | null |
28,952 | 1 | 488,509 | null | 31 | 73,714 | Is it possible to get a breakdown of CPU utilization ?
I'm ideally looking for a Task Manager type interface for SQL server, but instead of looking at the CPU utilization of each PID (like `taskmgr`) or each SPID (like `spwho2k5`), I want to view the total CPU utilization of each database. Assume a single SQL instance... | CPU utilization by database? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-26T19:48:09.437 | 2017-11-27T17:29:18.890 | 2017-11-27T17:29:18.890 | 1,387,817 | 1,690 | [
"sql-server",
"monitoring"
] |
28,961 | 1 | 322,393 | null | 8 | 1,099 | I have a medium sized application that runs as a .net web-service which I do not control,
and I want to create a loose pythonic API above it to enable easy scripting.
I wanted to know what is the best/most practical solution for using web-services in python.
Edit:
I need to consume a complex soap WS
and I have no con... | What's the best way to use web services in python? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-26T19:49:54.517 | 2015-11-02T06:26:22.957 | 2009-03-27T02:58:15.000 | 76,310 | 3,117 | [
"python",
"web-services",
"soap"
] |
28,960 | 2 | null | 28,949 | 0 | null | The GC does a lot of optimization on when to properly finalize things.
So unless you're familiar with how the GC actually works and how it tags generations, manually calling finalize or start GC'ing will probably hurt performance than help.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:49:48.620 | 2008-08-26T19:56:36.840 | 2008-08-26T19:56:36.840 | 3,055 | 3,055 | null |
28,956 | 2 | null | 28,708 | 2 | null | Process of .Net 1.1 uses the Performance Counters to get the information. Either they are disabled or the user does not have administrative rights. Making sure the Performance Counters are enabled and the user is an administrator should make your code work.
Actually the "Performance Counter Users Group" should enough.... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:49:18.293 | 2008-08-26T20:00:36.597 | 2008-08-26T20:00:36.597 | 1,242 | 1,242 | null |
28,963 | 2 | null | 28,946 | 1 | null | [VHD Resizer](http://vmtoolkit.com/files/folders/converters/entry87.aspx)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:50:44.640 | 2008-08-26T19:50:44.640 | null | null | 2,134 | null |
28,950 | 1 | 28,970 | null | 10 | 9,721 | Does anyone have links to documentation or guides on making the decision between REST vs. SOAP? I understand both of these but am looking for some references on the key decision points, eg, security, which may make you lean towards one or the other.
| Guide to choosing between REST vs SOAP services? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-26T19:46:56.553 | 2017-07-10T02:17:04.043 | null | null | 636 | [
"architecture",
"rest",
"soap"
] |
28,962 | 2 | null | 28,894 | 2 | null | I read the article too, and it led me to believe that when DEBUG was not defined, that the ConditionalAttribute declared on System.Debug functions would cause the compiler to leave out this code completely. I assume the same thing to be true for TRACE. That is, the System.Diagnostics.Debug functions must have Conditi... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:50:28.523 | 2008-08-26T19:50:28.523 | null | null | 3,059 | null |
28,969 | 2 | null | 28,941 | 2 | null | I suggest you take a look at the [SHChangeNotify](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb762118(VS.85).aspx) API call, which can notify you of all kinds of shell events. To monitor file creation and deletion activity, you may want to pay special attention to the SHCNE_CREATE and SHCNE_DELETE arguments.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:52:57.833 | 2008-08-26T19:52:57.833 | null | null | 672 | null |
28,967 | 2 | null | 28,965 | 1 | null | SQL injection
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:52:18.693 | 2008-08-26T19:52:18.693 | null | null | 3,018 | null |
28,972 | 2 | null | 28,965 | 1 | null | [XSS](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting) (Cross Site Scripting) Attacks
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:54:12.447 | 2008-08-26T19:54:12.447 | null | null | 1,992 | null |
28,965 | 1 | 29,084 | null | 17 | 1,927 | Watching SO come online has been quite an education for me. I'd like to make a checklist of various vunerabilities and exploits used against web sites, and what programming techniques can be used to defend against them.
- - - - - - [sockpuppeting](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_sock_puppet)[meatpuppeting](http... | Checklist for Web Site Programming Vulnerabilities | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-26T19:51:32.187 | 2015-07-14T07:49:37.057 | 2015-07-14T07:49:37.057 | 3,218,692 | 116 | [
"security",
"defensive-programming"
] |
28,954 | 2 | null | 28,932 | 126 | null | Revisiting this question a few years later, [UglifyJS](http://github.com/mishoo/UglifyJS), seems to be the best option as of now.
As stated below, it runs on the NodeJS platform, but can be easily modified to run on any JavaScript engine.
--- Old answer below---
Google released [Closure Compiler](https://github.com/... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-26T19:48:34.927 | 2016-05-24T22:41:41.463 | 2017-05-23T11:46:22.797 | -1 | 238 | null |
28,974 | 2 | null | 28,952 | 15 | null | SQL Server (starting with 2000) will install performance counters (viewable from Performance Monitor or Perfmon).
One of the counter categories (from a SQL Server 2005 install is:)
- SQLServer:Databases
With one instance for each database. The counters available however do not provide a CPU % Utilization counter or... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:55:22.553 | 2008-08-26T19:55:22.553 | null | null | 1,341 | null |
28,970 | 2 | null | 28,950 | 6 | null | [Google first hit](http://www.prescod.net/rest/rest_vs_soap_overview/) seems pretty comprehensive.
I think the problem here is there are too many advocates of one or the other, may be better of googling and getting more of a handle of the pro's/con's yourself and making your own decision.
I know that sounds kinda lam... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:53:04.103 | 2008-08-26T19:53:04.103 | null | null | 832 | null |
28,976 | 2 | null | 28,949 | 1 | null | Assuming finalizers are similar to their .NET namesake then you only really need to call these when you have resources such as file handles that can leak. Most of the time your objects don't have these references so they don't need to be called.
It's bad to try to collect the garbage because it's not really your garba... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:55:52.333 | 2008-08-26T19:55:52.333 | null | null | 636 | null |
28,966 | 2 | null | 28,922 | 3 | null | Comparison to NULL will be false every time. You want to use IS NULL instead.
```
x = NULL -- always false
x <> NULL -- always false
x IS NULL -- these do what you want
x IS NOT NULL
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:51:41.907 | 2008-08-26T23:34:53.853 | 2008-08-26T23:34:53.853 | 116 | 116 | null |
28,984 | 2 | null | 3,057 | 0 | null | I've actually done a small test like this in python on a website I maintain and found that they are almost equivalent in speed, with the procedural approach winning by something like ten-thousandths of a second, but that the OO code was so significantly cleaner I didn't continue the exercise any longer than one iterati... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T20:01:09.310 | 2008-08-26T20:01:09.310 | null | null | 3,119 | null |
28,978 | 2 | null | 28,965 | 2 | null | Obviously test every field for vulnerabilities:
- `mysql_real_escape_string`- - -
Search for infinite loops (the only indirect thing (if a lot of people found it accidentally) that could kill a server really).
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-26T19:56:27.857 | 2008-08-26T19:56:27.857 | null | null | 2,025 | null |