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29,370 | 1 | 29,914 | null | 4 | 22,885 | I am trying to get the DB2 data provider from a 32-bit .Net application to connect to DB2 running as a 32-bit application on Vista 64 (is that confusing enough yet)? Unfortunately, I am getting the following error:
> SQL1159 Initialization error with DB2 .NET Data Provider, reason code 7, tokens 9.5.0.DEF.2, SOFTWARE... | SQL1159 Initialization error with DB2 .NET Data Provider, reason code 7, tokens 9.5.0.DEF.2, SOFTWARE\IBM\DB2\InstalledCopies | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T02:20:39.913 | 2016-07-22T20:11:20.847 | 2016-07-22T20:11:20.847 | 1,227,152 | 1,432 | [
".net",
"db2",
"db2-luw",
"vista64"
] |
29,377 | 2 | null | 26,002 | 2 | null | We ended up using Oracle XE. Install client, install express, reboot, it just works.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T02:28:38.147 | 2008-08-27T02:28:38.147 | null | null | 2,676 | null |
29,357 | 1 | null | null | 2 | 642 | I have a project to build a voting desktop application for a class in Java. While security isn't the focus of the project, I would like to be as realistic as I can. What are some of the primary tools to integrate security into a Java application.
Edit: I'm not primarily worried about physical security, we are simply b... | Security For Voting Application | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T02:09:29.767 | 2016-11-11T19:21:37.397 | 2008-08-27T03:32:06.823 | 657 | 657 | [
"java",
"security",
"desktop"
] |
29,340 | 2 | null | 29,292 | 1 | null | @Damian - Good point about the tagging and cross referencing. That's true; while I haven't working with many designers on a software development project, I have worked for a company that had a design department and know that this is an issue. Designers are still (perpetually) looking for the perfect system to handle ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T01:43:01.250 | 2008-08-27T01:43:01.250 | null | null | 1,875 | null |
29,354 | 2 | null | 29,346 | 3 | null | Given everyone already has domain accounts. Try IIS integrated authentication. You will get an ugly logon box off network but your creds should pass down to the file share.
@lomaxx
Are you saying that only you have perms to the share or that you manually mapped it to a drive letter. If the later you can use ucn \ho... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T01:59:39.010 | 2008-08-27T03:09:19.873 | 2008-08-27T03:09:19.873 | 1,293 | 1,293 | null |
29,383 | 1 | 29,571 | null | 114 | 232,839 | Maybe this is a dumb question, but is there any way to convert a boolean value to a string such that 1 turns to "true" and 0 turns to "false"? I could just use an if statement, but it would be nice to know if there is a way to do that with the language or standard libraries. Plus, I'm a pedant. :)
| Converting bool to text in C++ | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-27T02:32:34.953 | 2022-09-04T07:42:06.297 | null | null | 2,147 | [
"c++",
"string",
"boolean"
] |
29,390 | 2 | null | 28,369 | 1 | null | Although that code looks quite secure, I've always held the opinion that any sufficiently motivated person could break it given adequate time. I do think it will take quite a bit of determination to get through that, but I'm relatively sure it could be done.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T02:37:05.973 | 2008-08-27T02:37:05.973 | null | null | 3,119 | null |
29,394 | 2 | null | 29,383 | -3 | null | I agree that a macro might be the best fit. I just whipped up a test case (believe me I'm no good with C/C++ but this sounded fun):
```
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdarg.h>
#define BOOL_STR(b) (b?"true":"false")
int main (int argc, char const *argv[]) {
bool alpha = true;
printf( BOOL_STR(alpha) );
re... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T02:41:52.560 | 2008-08-27T02:41:52.560 | null | null | 792 | null |
29,396 | 2 | null | 29,383 | -7 | null | Try this Macro. Anywhere you want the "true" or false to show up just replace it with PRINTBOOL(var) where var is the bool you want the text for.
```
#define PRINTBOOL(x) x?"true":"false"
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T02:42:28.987 | 2008-08-27T02:42:28.987 | null | null | 171 | null |
29,397 | 2 | null | 29,099 | 0 | null | To further what aib said, I would say that a language isn't really object oriented unless the standard libraries that are available are object oriented. The biggest example of this is PHP. Although it supports all the standard object oriented concepts, the fact that such a large percentage of the standard libraries a... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T02:42:56.677 | 2008-08-27T02:42:56.677 | null | null | 1,862 | null |
29,382 | 1 | 29,404 | null | 0 | 1,219 | I'm deploying to Ubuntu slice on slicehost, using Rails 2.1.0 (from `gem`)
If I try `mongrel_rails` start or script/server I get this error:
```
Rails requires RubyGems >= 0.9.4. Please install RubyGems
```
When I type `gem -v` I have version `1.2.0` installed. Any quick tips on what to look at to fix?
| Rails requires RubyGems >= 0.9.4. Please install RubyGems | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-27T02:32:15.033 | 2017-12-13T19:52:31.010 | 2017-12-13T19:52:31.010 | 1,380,867 | 2,477 | [
"ruby-on-rails",
"deployment",
"rubygems"
] |
29,401 | 2 | null | 29,382 | 1 | null | Have you tried reinstalling RubyGems? I had a pretty similar error message until I reuninstalled and for some reason, it installed into a different directory and then the problem went away.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T02:46:13.173 | 2008-08-27T02:46:13.173 | null | null | 422 | null |
29,404 | 2 | null | 29,382 | 0 | null | Just finally found [this answer](http://www.shorepound.net/wpblog/?p=65)... I was missing a gem, and thrown off by bad error message from Rails...
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-27T02:47:39.380 | 2015-10-08T08:14:43.370 | 2015-10-08T08:14:43.370 | 67,579 | 2,477 | null |
29,399 | 1 | 29,471 | null | 27 | 8,077 | I'm working on building a development tool that is written in JavaScript.
This will not be an open source project and will be sold (hopefully) as a commercial product.
I'm looking for the best way to protect my investment. Is using an obfuscator (code mangler) enough to reasonably secure the code?
Are there other al... | Is using an obfuscator enough to secure my JavaScript code? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-27T02:44:58.107 | 2012-03-07T12:43:43.030 | 2011-03-15T21:58:06.563 | 496,830 | 2,490 | [
"javascript",
"obfuscation"
] |
29,407 | 2 | null | 29,399 | 0 | null | That's probably about the best you can do. Just be aware that anybody with enough dedication, can probably de-obfuscate your program. Just make sure you're comfortable with that before embarking on your project. I think the biggest problem with this would be to control who's using it on their site. If somebody g... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T02:49:43.243 | 2008-08-27T02:49:43.243 | null | null | 1,862 | null |
29,406 | 1 | 29,411 | null | 8 | 7,451 | I'm faced with writing a framework to simplify working with a large and complex object library ([ArcObjects](http://resources.esri.com/help/9.3/ArcGISDesktop/ArcObjects/ao_start.htm)). What guidelines would you suggest for creating a framework of this kind? Are static methods preferred? How do you handle things like lo... | Guidelines for writing a framework | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T02:48:39.550 | 2008-10-13T09:56:20.867 | 2008-09-10T14:13:52.750 | -1 | 3,074 | [
"frameworks"
] |
29,408 | 2 | null | 29,399 | 0 | null | A obfuscator won't help you at all if someone wants to figure out the code. The code still exists on the client machine and they can grab a copy of it and study it at their leisure.
There is simply no way to hide code written in Javascript since the source code has to be handed to the browser for execution.
If you w... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T02:50:11.370 | 2008-08-27T02:50:11.370 | null | null | 2,284 | null |
29,411 | 2 | null | 29,406 | 5 | null | Brad Abrams' [Framework Design Guidelines](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0321246756) book is all about this. Might be worth a look.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T02:51:35.987 | 2008-08-27T02:51:35.987 | null | null | 615 | null |
29,395 | 2 | null | 29,242 | 6 | null | The unix tool `xxd` is distributed as part of [vim](http://www.vim.org/download.php), and according to [http://www.vmunix.com/vim/util.html#xxd](http://www.vmunix.com/vim/util.html#xxd), the source for xxd is [ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de:21/pub/utilities/etc/xxd-1.10.tar.gz](ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de:21/pub/utilities/etc... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T02:42:07.507 | 2008-08-27T02:42:07.507 | null | null | 3,101 | null |
29,403 | 2 | null | 29,357 | 0 | null | I believe that physical security is more important for voting booth system rather than you know, code security.
These machine by their very nature shouldn't be connected to any kind of public networks, especially not the the internet. But having a good physical security to prevent any sort of physical tampering is very... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-27T02:46:59.647 | 2016-11-11T19:21:37.397 | 2016-11-11T19:21:37.397 | 2,225,646 | 2,976 | null |
29,413 | 2 | null | 29,399 | 0 | null | I'd say yes, it's enough if you also make sure than you compress the code as well using a tool like [Dean Edward's Packer](http://dean.edwards.name/packer/) or similar. If you think about what is possible with tools like .NET Reflector in terms of reverse engineering compiled code / IL in .NET, you realize that there's... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T02:52:30.087 | 2008-08-27T02:52:30.087 | null | null | 3,074 | null |
29,414 | 2 | null | 26,041 | 3 | null | I'd definitely suggest PHP. I've developed browser based games (pbbgs) for about 10 years now. I've tried .Net, Perl and Java.
All of them worked, but by far PHP was the best because:
- - -
Ruby is not to bad, but the last time I tried it I rapidly ran into scaling/performance issues. I have not tried Python yet..... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-27T02:52:39.103 | 2013-11-19T17:19:43.120 | 2013-11-19T17:19:43.120 | 832,136 | 2,490 | null |
29,419 | 2 | null | 29,406 | 1 | null | I think that you're consistent is more important than what conventions you go with. As far as future-proofing yourself, that's a matter of the code that you're making a framework for. It's a lot easier to build on a brick house than a sand one.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T02:57:41.103 | 2008-08-27T02:57:41.103 | null | null | 2,147 | null |
29,416 | 2 | null | 29,399 | 1 | null | You're always faced with the fact that any user that comes to your webpage will download some working version of your Javascript source. They have the source code. Obfuscating it may make it very difficult to be reused by someone with the intent to your hard work. However, in many cases someone can even reuse the ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T02:53:19.320 | 2008-08-27T02:53:19.320 | null | null | 792 | null |
29,380 | 2 | null | 29,308 | 0 | null | From Linq in Action
> Microsoft has a Query Visualizer tool that can be downloaded separetly from VS 2008. it is at [http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/07/31/linq-to-sql-debug-visualizer.aspx](http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/07/31/linq-to-sql-debug-visualizer.aspx)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T02:29:37.927 | 2008-08-27T02:29:37.927 | null | null | 2,469 | null |
29,423 | 1 | 29,449 | null | 7 | 278 | I have `ci`, so our staging environment builds itself.
Should I have a script that not only builds production but does all the branching for it as well?
When you have one code base on two different urls with skinning, should they be required to build at once?
| How automated is too automated when it comes to deployment? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-27T03:02:00.250 | 2016-01-12T09:47:29.113 | 2016-01-12T09:47:29.113 | 607,407 | 1,220 | [
"build-automation",
"production"
] |
29,422 | 2 | null | 29,399 | 3 | null | You are going to be fighting a losing battle if you try to obfuscate your code in the hopes of someone not stealing it. You may stop the casual browser from getting at it, but someone dedicated would almost certainly be able to overcome any measure you use.
In the past I have seen people do several things:
1. Paste ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T03:01:02.560 | 2011-03-15T21:59:03.880 | 2011-03-15T21:59:03.880 | 496,830 | 3,431,280 | null |
29,425 | 2 | null | 29,370 | 1 | null | I vaguely remember having a similar sounding problem with the DB2 for as/400 oledb driver when trying to set up a linked server from sql 2005 to the as/400. It was a permissions issue and I eventually found that only sql server accounts (not windows) could use the linked server because (i think) then the driver was loa... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T03:02:42.433 | 2008-08-27T03:02:42.433 | null | null | 1,433 | null |
29,426 | 1 | 3,816,214 | null | 125 | 422,534 | I'm looking for a good GUI designer for swing in eclipse. My preference is for a free/open-source plugin.
| Best GUI designer for eclipse? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-27T03:06:06.760 | 2012-06-10T23:23:39.830 | null | null | 2,612 | [
"java",
"eclipse",
"swing",
"gui-designer"
] |
29,430 | 2 | null | 29,399 | 0 | null | If this is for a website, which by its very nature puts viewing of its code one menu click away, is there any reason to hide anything? If someone wants to steal your code they will most likely go through the effort of making even the most mangled code human readable. Look at commercial websites, they don't obfuscate t... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T03:06:46.900 | 2008-08-27T03:06:46.900 | null | null | 3,119 | null |
29,434 | 2 | null | 29,426 | 7 | null | 'Jigloo' is a very cool GUI designer. It is not free for commercial use however.
It auto-generates code and allows for custom editing of the code it creates.
[http://www.cloudgarden.com/jigloo/](http://www.cloudgarden.com/jigloo/)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T03:10:36.453 | 2008-08-27T03:10:36.453 | null | null | 2,598 | null |
29,436 | 1 | 29,472 | null | 6 | 5,060 | I'm using the .NET CF 3.5. The type I want to create does not have a default constructor so I want to pass a string to an overloaded constructor. How do I do this?
Code:
```
Assembly a = Assembly.LoadFrom("my.dll");
Type t = a.GetType("type info here");
// All ok so far, assembly loads and I can get my type
string s... | Compact Framework - how do I dynamically create type with no default constructor? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T03:12:43.267 | 2019-11-21T12:48:44.133 | 2008-09-24T15:27:31.150 | 12,870 | 636 | [
"c#",
"reflection",
"compact-framework"
] |
29,439 | 2 | null | 29,244 | 4 | null | Must be a `Vista` problem. I have `XP SP 2` and it looks normal.
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-27T03:13:46.680 | 2017-02-23T10:32:31.573 | 2017-02-23T10:32:31.573 | 6,670,723 | 648 | null |
29,437 | 1 | 29,492 | null | 15 | 21,786 | I want to shift the contents of an array of bytes by 12-bit to the left.
For example, starting with this array of type `uint8_t shift[10]`:
```
{0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x0A, 0xBC}
```
I'd like to shift it to the left by 12-bits resulting in:
```
{0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0... | How to shift an array of bytes by 12-bits | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-27T03:13:12.283 | 2020-12-03T07:49:19.360 | 2016-05-27T17:19:40.313 | 609 | 609 | [
"c",
"arrays",
"bit-shift",
"bitset"
] |
29,442 | 2 | null | 28,029 | -4 | null | ```
Tools->Options->Addin/Macro Security
```
Change Paths there.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T03:14:51.797 | 2008-08-27T03:14:51.797 | null | null | 1,965 | null |
29,417 | 2 | null | 29,399 | 0 | null | code obfuscator is enough for something that needs minimal protection, but I think it will definitely not enough to really protect you. if you are patient you can realy de-mangle the whole thing.. and i'm sure there are programs to do it for you.
That being said, you can't stop anyone from pirating your stuff because ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T02:56:06.177 | 2008-08-27T03:01:43.870 | 2008-08-27T03:01:43.870 | 2,976 | 2,976 | null |
29,428 | 2 | null | 29,370 | 1 | null | I assume you have seen the writeup of [SQL1159](http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v9/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.db2.udb.msg.doc/doc/sql1159.htm) in the [DB2 Reference Guide](http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v9/index.jsp)?
Unfortunately for you, the reason codes stop at 6 and don't continue t... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T03:06:15.827 | 2008-08-27T03:06:15.827 | null | null | 1,958 | null |
29,443 | 2 | null | 27,779 | 5 | null | - [Visual C++ Team Blog](http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/default.aspx)- [Programming Windows with MFC](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/1572316950)- [search google for various tutorials on MFC](http://www.google.ca/search?q=mfc+tutorial&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a)
... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-27T03:15:43.947 | 2012-03-29T21:17:00.767 | 2012-03-29T21:17:00.767 | 1,219,121 | 3,153 | null |
29,392 | 2 | null | 29,099 | 0 | null | Disregarding the theoretical implications, it seems to be
"Any language that has a keyword called 'class'" :-P
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T02:39:00.273 | 2008-08-27T02:39:00.273 | null | null | 234 | null |
29,248 | 2 | null | 29,104 | 12 | null | [Steve Yegge](http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/08/business-requirements-are-bullshit.html) talks fun but there is money to be made in working out what other people's requirements are so i'd take his article with a pinch of salt.
Requirements gathering is incredibly tough because of the manner in which communicatio... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-27T00:30:51.050 | 2011-08-03T16:23:26.073 | 2011-08-03T16:23:26.073 | 1,143 | 1,143 | null |
29,444 | 2 | null | 29,436 | 0 | null | See if this works for you (untested):
```
Type t = a.GetType("type info here");
var ctors = t.GetConstructors();
string s = "Pass me to the ctor of t";
MyObj o = ctors[0].Invoke(new[] { s }) as MyObj;
```
If the type has more than one constructor then you may have to do some fancy footwork to find the one that accep... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T03:17:16.143 | 2008-08-27T03:50:56.560 | 2017-05-23T12:10:48.007 | -1 | 615 | null |
29,449 | 2 | null | 29,423 | 8 | null | The only way to be too automated is if you are spending more time fighting with building or fixing automation scripts than you would just doing the job manually. As long as your automation scripts take less time and produce fewer errors than doing the job manually, then automation is great.
Scripts to build and branc... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T03:21:03.467 | 2008-08-27T03:21:03.467 | null | null | 1,432 | null |
29,454 | 2 | null | 29,357 | 0 | null | I'm not primarily worried about physical security, we are simply building an application not a whole system. I want to ensure votes are recorded correctly and not able to be changed or read by someone else.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T03:31:27.747 | 2008-08-27T03:31:27.747 | null | null | 657 | null |
29,460 | 1 | 29,491 | null | 5 | 6,680 | I know I can programatically make the taskbar item for a particular window start flashing when something changes, but is there any way I can stop it from flashing either programatically after a certain period of time or at least is there a keyboard shortcur I can give to my users to somehow stop the flashing?
| Stop the taskbar flashing | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-27T03:38:10.537 | 2013-10-29T20:53:28.990 | null | null | 493 | [
"c#",
"winforms",
"taskbar"
] |
29,445 | 2 | null | 29,423 | 3 | null | In my opinion anything the computer is capable of doing automatically it should do, because it can do it faster, easier and without thought from you. Within reason of course, but stuff like that can be very trivial to automate, so I've always been a proponent of automating that whole process.
and plus it can be fun to... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T03:18:04.830 | 2008-08-27T03:18:04.830 | null | null | 3,119 | null |
29,308 | 1 | null | null | 7 | 2,805 | In the [herding code](http://herdingcode.com/) podcast 14 someone mentions that stackoverflow displayed the queries that were executed during a request at the bottom of the page.
It sounds like an excellent idea to me. Every time a page loads I want to know what sql statements are executed and also a count of the tot... | How to Track Queries on a Linq-to-sql DataContext | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-27T01:20:29.183 | 2015-09-13T18:22:25.877 | 2015-09-13T18:22:25.877 | 4,111,568 | 2,785 | [
"asp.net",
"linq-to-sql"
] |
29,466 | 1 | 29,523 | null | 22 | 13,900 | I'd like to write a game for the Nintendo Wii. How do I go about obtaining an SDK and/or any other tools necessary for writing a game?
| Writing a game for the Nintendo Wii | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-27T03:43:11.743 | 2020-09-27T01:01:59.160 | 2008-08-27T09:45:13.417 | 3,051 | 3,051 | [
"wii"
] |
29,463 | 2 | null | 29,437 | 3 | null | Lets make it the best way to shift `N` bits in the array of 8 bit integers.
```
N - Total number of bits to shift
F = (N / 8) - Full 8 bit integers shifted
R = (N % 8) - Remaining bits that need to be shifted
```
I guess from here you would have to find the most optimal way to make use of this data to mov... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T03:40:39.347 | 2008-08-27T04:10:58.180 | 2008-08-27T04:10:58.180 | 792 | 792 | null |
29,467 | 2 | null | 29,437 | 0 | null | @Joseph, notice that the variables are 8 bits wide, while the shift is 12 bits wide. Your solution works only for N <= variable size.
If you can assume your array is a multiple of 4 you can cast the array into an array of uint64_t and then work on that. If it isn't a multiple of 4, you can work in 64-bit chunks on a... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T03:44:18.200 | 2008-08-27T03:44:18.200 | null | null | 1,084 | null |
29,472 | 2 | null | 29,436 | 9 | null | ```
MyObj o = null;
Assembly a = Assembly.LoadFrom("my.dll");
Type t = a.GetType("type info here");
ConstructorInfo ctor = t.GetConstructor(new Type[] { typeof(string) });
if(ctor != null)
o = ctor.Invoke(new object[] { s });
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T03:48:10.140 | 2008-08-27T03:48:10.140 | null | null | 2,773 | null |
29,468 | 2 | null | 29,466 | 4 | null | You would have to get in contact with Nintendo of America and obtain a developer kit from them. Be prepared to spend a wad of dough though.
Check this out:
[http://www.nintendo.com/corp/developer.jsp](http://www.nintendo.com/corp/developer.jsp)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T03:45:26.887 | 2008-08-27T03:45:26.887 | null | null | 1,238 | null |
29,477 | 2 | null | 28,197 | 6 | null | I got into this once, even tried using PSP Dashboard.
It's just too hard to keep up with. Who wants to use a stop watch for all their activities? Follow Joel's advice on Painless Scheduling and Evidence Based Scheduling.
+1 this question, -1 to PSP.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T03:53:04.497 | 2008-08-27T03:53:04.497 | null | null | 809 | null |
29,474 | 2 | null | 29,423 | 2 | null | I like to separate the build and deploy steps into two separate steps. The output of the build step should be a package that is placed in a repository or staging area. This package should be independent of the target environments.
The deploy step is responsible for configuring the target environment and installing th... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T03:49:32.617 | 2008-08-27T03:49:32.617 | null | null | 1,969 | null |
29,461 | 1 | 29,573 | null | 11 | 1,028 | I'm working on getting an Introduction to [Groovy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groovy_%28programming_language%29) presentation ready for my local Java User's Group and I've pretty much got it together. What I'd like to see is what you all think I just have to cover.
Remember, this is an introductory presentation. ... | What is a MUST COVER in my Groovy presentation? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-27T03:40:05.807 | 2015-07-14T07:50:14.947 | 2015-07-14T07:50:14.947 | 3,218,692 | 3,030 | [
"java",
"groovy"
] |
29,471 | 2 | null | 29,399 | 146 | null | I'm going to tell you a secret. Once you understand it, you'll feel a lot better about the fact that Javascript obfuscation is only really useful for saving bandwidth when sending scripts over the wire.
Your source-code is not worth stealing.
I know this comes as a shock to the ego, but I can say this confidently wit... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-27T03:48:07.377 | 2012-03-07T12:43:43.030 | 2012-03-07T12:43:43.030 | 324,381 | 3,052 | null |
29,453 | 2 | null | 29,308 | 3 | null | ```
System.IO.StreamWriter httpResponseStreamWriter =
new StreamWriter(HttpContext.Current.Response.OutputStream);
dataContext.Log = httpResponseStreamWriter;
```
Stick that in your page and you'll get the SQL dumped out on the page. Obviously, I'd wrap that in a little method that you can enable/disable.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T03:30:42.600 | 2008-08-27T03:30:42.600 | null | null | 1,965 | null |
29,482 | 1 | 29,485 | null | 3,803 | 1,897,158 | How do I cast an `int` to an `enum` in C#?
| How do I cast int to enum in C#? | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-27T03:58:21.253 | 2022-07-10T23:29:04.723 | 2022-07-10T23:22:40.560 | 365,102 | 493 | [
"c#",
"enums",
"casting",
"integer"
] |
29,479 | 2 | null | 29,335 | 1 | null | In the occasions when this has been relevant to me (which, truth be told, is not often) we have tended to do a combination of hosting a dev copy of the solution in-house and mocking what we can't host.
I personally think that the more you can host on individual dev boxes the better-- if your dev's PCs are powerful eno... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T03:55:35.177 | 2008-08-27T03:55:35.177 | null | null | 1,666 | null |
29,488 | 2 | null | 29,482 | 141 | null | Take the following example:
```
int one = 1;
MyEnum e = (MyEnum)one;
```
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-27T04:00:38.877 | 2016-12-25T09:39:23.650 | 2016-12-25T09:39:23.650 | 5,120,235 | 2,279 | null |
29,481 | 2 | null | 29,436 | 1 | null | Ok, here's a funky helper method to give you a flexible way to activate a type given an array of parameters:
```
static object GetInstanceFromParameters(Assembly a, string typeName, params object[] pars)
{
var t = a.GetType(typeName);
var c = t.GetConstructor(pars.Select(p => p.GetType()).ToArray());
if ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T03:57:25.030 | 2008-08-27T04:02:46.687 | 2008-08-27T04:02:46.687 | 615 | 615 | null |
29,483 | 2 | null | 29,466 | 10 | null | You could spend literally thousands of dollars on the dev kit or you could be a bad person and go look at the [homebrew stuff](http://hbc.hackmii.com/). It is technically hacking though, so I only hypothetically recommend it.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T03:58:46.010 | 2008-08-27T03:58:46.010 | null | null | 3,119 | null |
29,485 | 2 | null | 29,482 | 4,562 | null | From an int:
```
YourEnum foo = (YourEnum)yourInt;
```
From a string:
```
YourEnum foo = (YourEnum) Enum.Parse(typeof(YourEnum), yourString);
// The foo.ToString().Contains(",") check is necessary for
// enumerations marked with a [Flags] attribute.
if (!Enum.IsDefined(typeof(YourEnum), foo) && !foo.ToString().Conta... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-27T03:59:42.483 | 2022-07-10T23:27:18.967 | 2022-07-10T23:27:18.967 | 365,102 | 1,965 | null |
29,489 | 2 | null | 29,482 | 1,115 | null | Just cast it:
```
MyEnum e = (MyEnum)3;
```
Check if it's in range using [Enum.IsDefined](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.enum.isdefined.aspx):
```
if (Enum.IsDefined(typeof(MyEnum), 3)) { ... }
```
| null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-27T04:01:14.600 | 2022-07-10T23:29:04.723 | 2022-07-10T23:29:04.723 | 365,102 | 615 | null |
29,475 | 2 | null | 7,252 | 0 | null | The main reason junior engineers/programmers don't take lots of time to design and perform test scripts, is because most CS certifications do not heavily require this, so other areas of engineering are covered further in college programs, such as design patters.
In my experience, the best way to get the junior profess... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T03:52:11.673 | 2008-08-27T03:52:11.673 | null | null | 3,081 | null |
29,497 | 2 | null | 29,466 | 2 | null | Yes the SDKs (and dev hardware) are expensive, and you must be an actual company with an actual office to get one.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T04:09:30.260 | 2008-08-27T04:09:30.260 | null | null | 1,366 | null |
29,499 | 1 | 29,515 | null | 2 | 2,539 | If all you see is the ugly no-char boxes, what tools or strategies do you use to figure out what went wrong?
(The specific scenario I'm facing is no-char boxes within a <select> when it should be showing Japanese chars.)
| How do you troubleshoot character encoding problems? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T04:11:18.820 | 2017-09-13T09:13:17.673 | null | null | 337 | [
"encoding",
"localization"
] |
29,500 | 2 | null | 28,823 | 2 | null | Model, model, model, model, model. Skinny controllers, simple views.
The RedHandedHomePage model does the parsing on initialization, then call 'def render' in the controller, set output to an instance variable, and print that in a view.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T04:12:04.077 | 2008-08-27T04:12:04.077 | null | null | 809 | null |
29,491 | 2 | null | 29,460 | 5 | null | The [FlashWindowEx](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms679347%28VS.85%29.aspx) function which controls the flashing takes a [FLASHWINFO](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms679348%28VS.85%29.aspx) struct which has a uCount field to control how many times it flashes. Also, a possible value for the dwFlags ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T04:02:17.640 | 2008-08-27T04:11:52.687 | 2008-08-27T04:11:52.687 | 2,508 | 2,508 | null |
29,493 | 2 | null | 8,472 | 30 | null | Avoid the [worst CAPTCHAs of all time](http://www.docstoc.com/docs/1048763/Worst-Captchas-of-All-Time).
> Trivia is OK, but you'll have to write each of them :-(
would have to write them.
You could do trivia questions in the same way ReCaptcha does printed words. It offers two words, one of which it knows the answer ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T04:04:26.263 | 2008-08-27T04:57:21.610 | 2020-06-20T09:12:55.060 | -1 | 257 | null |
29,496 | 1 | 29,609 | null | 15 | 29,412 | I'd like to write a script/batch that will bunch up my daily IIS logs and zip them up by month.
ex080801.log which is in the format of ex.log
ex080801.log - ex080831.log gets zipped up and the log files deleted.
The reason we do this is because on a heavy site a log file for one day could be 500mb to 1gb so we zip t... | Automated script to zip IIS logs? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-27T04:08:39.980 | 2014-02-19T09:27:26.793 | 2008-09-09T23:13:44.830 | -1 | 648 | [
"iis",
"batch-file",
"zip",
"scripting",
"logging"
] |
29,507 | 2 | null | 29,496 | 0 | null | Regex will do the trick... create a perl/python/php script to do the job for you..
I'm pretty sure windows batch file can't do regex.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T04:18:41.330 | 2008-08-27T04:18:41.330 | null | null | 2,976 | null |
29,505 | 1 | 29,524 | null | 6 | 5,034 | The log4j network adapter sends events as a serialised java object. I would like to be able to capture this object and deserialise it in a different language (python). Is this possible?
The network capturing is easy; its just a TCP socket and reading in a stream. The difficulty is the deserialising part
| Deserialize in a different language | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-27T04:18:10.347 | 2009-02-20T17:34:13.313 | null | null | 3,431,280 | [
"java",
"serialization",
"log4j"
] |
29,503 | 2 | null | 29,067 | 0 | null | I think that @Craig is on the right track depending on the details of the problem you are solving. Add it to the repeater and remove it or set Visible="false" to hide it where needed. Viewstate gets tricky with dynamically created controls/user controls, so google that or check [here](http://www.aspnet4you.com/articl... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-27T04:15:45.597 | 2016-12-20T05:25:40.300 | 2016-12-20T05:25:40.300 | 1,380,867 | 1,865 | null |
29,512 | 2 | null | 29,511 | 7 | null | You want `a[0,1]` instead of `a[0]`.
| null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-27T04:22:04.020 | 2022-04-03T21:43:39.103 | 2022-04-03T21:43:39.103 | 15,261,315 | 1,666 | null |
29,508 | 2 | null | 29,437 | 1 | null | The 32 bit version... :-) Handles 1 <= count <= num_words
```
#include <stdio.h>
unsigned int array[] = {0x12345678,0x9abcdef0,0x12345678,0x9abcdef0,0x66666666};
int main(void) {
int count;
unsigned int *from, *to;
from = &array[0];
to = &array[0];
count = 5;
while (count-- > 1) {
*to++ = (*from<<12... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T04:19:09.970 | 2008-09-03T06:55:02.240 | 2008-09-03T06:55:02.240 | 3,148 | 3,148 | null |
29,511 | 1 | 29,521 | null | 16 | 11,606 | In Ruby, trying to print out the individual elements of a String is giving me trouble. Instead of seeing each character, I'm seeing their ASCII values instead:
```
>> a = "0123"
=> "0123"
>> a[0]
=> 48
```
I've looked online but can't find any way to get the original "0" back out of it. I'm a little new to Ruby to ... | Ruby - Convert Integer to String | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T04:19:42.047 | 2022-04-03T21:43:39.103 | 2008-08-27T04:39:48.847 | 422 | 422 | [
"ruby",
"arrays"
] |
29,515 | 2 | null | 29,499 | 3 | null | Firstly, "ugly no-char boxes" might not be an encoding problem, they might just be a sign you don't have a font installed that can display the glyphs in the page.
Most character encoding problems happen when strings are being passed from one system to another. For webapps, this is usually between the browser and the a... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T04:26:58.737 | 2008-08-27T04:26:58.737 | null | null | 3,052 | null |
29,509 | 2 | null | 29,383 | 3 | null | I use a ternary in a printf like this:
```
printf("%s\n", b?"true":"false");
```
If you macro it :
```
B2S(b) ((b)?"true":"false")
```
then you need to make sure whatever you pass in as `'b'` doesn't have any side effects. And don't forget the brackets around the `'b'` as you could get compile errors.
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-27T04:19:16.540 | 2015-11-16T14:28:18.800 | 2015-11-16T14:28:18.800 | 1,084 | null | null |
29,469 | 2 | null | 5,473 | 23 | null | If you have not yet garbage collected your repository (e.g. using `git repack -d` or `git gc`, but note that garbage collection can also happen automatically), then your commit is still there – it's just no longer reachable through the HEAD.
You can try to find your commit by looking through the output of `git fsck --... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T03:45:40.223 | 2008-08-29T01:49:54.603 | 2008-08-29T01:49:54.603 | 2,988 | 2,988 | null |
29,518 | 2 | null | 29,511 | 1 | null | [@Chris](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29511/ruby-convert-integer-to-string#29513),
That's just how [] and [,] are defined for the String class.
Check out the [String API](http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/String.html#M000786).
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T04:31:17.447 | 2008-08-27T04:31:17.447 | 2017-05-23T12:19:30.550 | -1 | 1,666 | null |
29,521 | 2 | null | 29,511 | 15 | null | Or you can convert the integer to its character value:
```
a[0].chr
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T04:34:03.493 | 2008-08-27T04:34:03.493 | null | null | 792 | null |
29,504 | 2 | null | 29,437 | 5 | null | Here's my solution, but even more importantly my approach to solving the problem.
I approached the problem by
- - -
This showed me the pattern:
- `iL``a[i]`- `iH``a[i]`- `iH = (i+1)L`- `iL = (i+2)H`
This pattern holds for all bytes.
Translating into C, this means:
```
a[i] = (iH << 4) OR iL
a[i] = ((a[i+1] & 0x... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-27T04:16:29.633 | 2016-02-12T17:53:39.540 | 2016-02-12T17:53:39.540 | 116 | 116 | null |
29,525 | 1 | 29,570 | null | 1 | 661 | Can anyone tell me what is the ?
I've seen a lot of reviews of `opcode cache` but all of them only concentrate on the performance increase. I have a small entry level are a concern for me.
| Opcode cache impact on memory usage | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-27T04:36:49.757 | 2016-11-08T16:32:12.907 | 2016-11-08T16:32:12.907 | 4,311,889 | 2,976 | [
"php",
"opcode-cache"
] |
29,524 | 2 | null | 29,505 | 5 | null | Generally, no.
The stream format for Java serialization is defined [in this document](http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/pdf/serial-spec.pdf), but you need access to the original class definitions (and a Java runtime to load them into) to turn the stream data back into something approaching the original objects. For example... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T04:35:57.700 | 2008-08-27T05:58:59.390 | 2008-08-27T05:58:59.390 | 3,052 | 3,052 | null |
29,530 | 2 | null | 26,715 | 7 | null | In terms of how you arrange your views, you can put your views in subfolders if you'd like and create your own view structure. All views can always be referenced by their full path using the ~syntax. So if you put Index.aspx in \Views\Feature1\Home then you could reference that view using ~/Views/Feature1/Home/Index.as... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T04:41:48.920 | 2008-08-27T04:41:48.920 | null | null | 598 | null |
29,531 | 1 | 29,534 | null | 4 | 2,671 | I want to use CodeDOM to both declare and initialize my static field in one statement. How can I do this?
```
// for example
public static int MyField = 5;
```
I can seem to figure out how to declare a static field, and I can set its value later, but I can't seem to get the above effect.
@lomaxx,
Naw, I just want ... | Using .NET CodeDOM to declare and initialize a field in one statement | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T04:43:00.537 | 2014-06-24T20:49:53.063 | 2008-08-27T05:01:36.483 | 404 | 404 | [
".net",
"codedom"
] |
29,533 | 2 | null | 4,225 | 2 | null | [CGAL](http://cgal.org/) is a C++ library that has data structures and algorithms used in Computational Geometry.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T04:43:58.633 | 2008-08-27T04:43:58.633 | null | null | 1,630 | null |
29,529 | 2 | null | 29,505 | 1 | null | In theory it's possible. Now how difficult in practice it might be depends on whether Java serialization format is documented or not. I guess, it's not. [oops, I was wrong, thanks Charles](http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/pdf/serial-spec.pdf).
1. capture from log4j & deserialize Java object in your own little Java pro... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T04:41:41.133 | 2008-08-27T05:18:17.583 | 2008-08-27T05:18:17.583 | 275 | 275 | null |
29,523 | 2 | null | 29,466 | 25 | null | The Wii Remote and Wii Balance Board use bluetooth. You can [pair them with your PC](http://www.wiiprojects.org/bluetooth.html) and write your own PC apps that interact with them (like [this guy](http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/projects/wii/)). If you want to make something that actually runs on the Wii, you can try fi... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-27T04:35:02.540 | 2013-09-09T14:31:50.610 | 2013-09-09T14:31:50.610 | 744 | 744 | null |
29,535 | 2 | null | 29,505 | 1 | null | I would recommend moving to a third-party format (by creating your own log4j adapters etc) that both languages understand and can easily marshal / unmarshal, e.g. XML.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T04:45:58.377 | 2008-08-27T04:45:58.377 | null | null | 1,666 | null |
29,532 | 2 | null | 29,437 | 0 | null | There are a couple of edge-cases which make this a neat problem:
- -
Here's a simple solution which loops over the array copying the low-order nibble of the next byte into its high-order nibble, and the high-order nibble of the next-next (+2) byte into its low-order nibble. To save dereferencing the look-ahead point... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T04:43:40.770 | 2008-08-27T05:15:40.880 | 2008-08-27T05:15:40.880 | 878 | 878 | null |
29,537 | 2 | null | 29,423 | 1 | null | In my opinion it's only too automated if no one in your production support group can deploy an application manually in a pinch. Automated deployments really cut down on simple but common errors such as configuration mistakes. However, a manual deployment must always be an option.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T04:47:31.213 | 2008-08-27T04:47:31.213 | null | null | 1,644 | null |
29,534 | 2 | null | 29,531 | 8 | null | Once you create your CodeMemberField instance to represent the static field, you can assign the InitExpression property to the expression you want to use to populate the field.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T04:45:27.617 | 2008-08-27T04:45:27.617 | null | null | 3,163 | null |
29,538 | 2 | null | 29,531 | 1 | null | [This post](http://weblogs.asp.net/okloeten/archive/2005/10/15/427549.aspx) by Omer van Kloeten seems to do what you want. Notice that the output has the line:
```
private static Foo instance = new Foo();
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T04:48:30.150 | 2008-08-27T04:48:30.150 | null | null | 598 | null |
29,517 | 2 | null | 29,511 | 6 | null | I believe this is changing in Ruby 1.9 such that "asdf"[2] yields "d" rather than the character code
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T04:29:45.313 | 2008-08-27T04:29:45.313 | null | null | 3,162 | null |
29,539 | 1 | 86,325 | null | 213 | 105,970 | Is there a one line function call that quits the program and displays a message? I know in Perl it's as simple as:
```
die("Message goes here")
```
I'm tired of typing this:
```
puts "Message goes here"
exit
```
| How to create an exit message | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-27T04:48:50.417 | 2017-04-19T08:51:30.933 | 2017-02-03T17:30:21.967 | 128,421 | 422 | [
"ruby"
] |
29,536 | 2 | null | 29,383 | 4 | null | If you decide to use macros (or are using C on a future project) you should add parenthesis around the 'b' in the macro expansion (I don't have enough points yet to edit other people's content):
```
#define BOOL_STR(b) ((b)?"true":"false")
```
This is a [defensive programming](http://www.embedded.com/1999/9912/9912f... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T04:46:15.413 | 2008-09-05T17:58:15.233 | 2008-09-05T17:58:15.233 | 346 | 346 | null |
29,543 | 2 | null | 29,067 | 0 | null | If you are going to do it from a place where you don't have an instance of a page then you need to go one step further (e.g. from a webservice to return html or from a task rendering emails)
```
var myPage = new System.Web.UI.Page();
var myControl = (Controls.MemberRating)myPage.LoadControl("~/Controls/MemberRating.as... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T04:52:59.797 | 2008-08-27T04:52:59.797 | null | null | 2,279 | null |
29,542 | 2 | null | 4,849 | 1 | null | If you can find out the on screen position of the part of the page you are interested in, you could compare this with the position of the mouse when you receive the drop event. I'm not sure how practical this is if you can get the info out of the DOM or whatnot.
As an alternative could you implement the mouse events o... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T04:52:30.250 | 2008-08-27T04:52:30.250 | null | null | 2,925 | null |
29,545 | 2 | null | 27,009 | 13 | null | Make liberal use of [SuppressMessage] attribute to begin with. At least at the beginning. Once you get the count to 0 via the attribute, you then put in a rule that new checkins may not introduce FxCop violations.
Visual Studio 2008 has a nice code analysis feature that allows you to ensure that code analysis runs on... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-27T04:53:45.520 | 2008-08-27T04:53:45.520 | null | null | 598 | null |