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35,789 | 2 | null | 3,180 | 1 | null | Yea FogBugz is great for process-light, quick and easy task management. It seems especially well suited for soloing, where you don't need or want a lot of complexity in that area.
By the way, if you want to keep track of what you're doing at the computer all day, check out TimeSprite, which integrates with FogBugz.... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T08:40:48.697 | 2008-08-30T08:40:48.697 | null | null | 3,710 | null |
35,788 | 2 | null | 35,748 | 2 | null | No, there is not any facility to enumerate named events. You could enumerate all objects in the respective object manager directory using ZwOpenDirectoryObject and then filter for events. But this routine is undocumented and therefore should not be used without good reason.
Why not use a separate mechanism to share th... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T08:39:48.373 | 2008-08-30T08:39:48.373 | null | null | null | null |
35,787 | 2 | null | 35,541 | 1 | null | Or
```
find . -name '*.as' -or -name '*.mxml' | xargs wc -l
```
Or if you use zsh
```
wc -l **/*.{as,mxml}
```
It won't give you what fraction of those lines are comments, or blank lines, but if you're only interested in how one project differs from another and you've written them both, it's a useful metric.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T08:35:57.307 | 2008-08-30T08:35:57.307 | null | null | 1,109 | null |
35,782 | 1 | 35,784 | null | 3 | 1,268 | I need to produce a calculation trace file containing tabular data showing intermediate results. I am currently using a combination of the standard ascii pipe symbols (|) and dashes (-) to draw the table lines:
E.g.
```
Numerator | Denominator | Result
----------|-------------|-------
6 | 2 | ... | Formatting tabular data using unicode characters | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T08:26:43.630 | 2020-05-24T02:16:01.933 | 2019-01-26T19:48:04.887 | 6,697,764 | 1,131 | [
"unicode",
"format",
"special-characters",
"non-ascii-characters"
] |
35,793 | 2 | null | 35,785 | 0 | null | If you're talking about automatic XML serialization of objects, check out [Castor](http://www.castor.org/):
> Castor is an Open Source data binding framework for Java[tm]. It's the shortest path between Java objects, XML documents and relational tables. Castor provides Java-to-XML binding, Java-to-SQL persistence, and... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T08:49:34.433 | 2008-08-30T08:49:34.433 | null | null | 1,109 | null |
35,777 | 2 | null | 35,753 | 23 | null | You'll find mostly two answers to that – the religous one (Yes! Of course! It's the best language ever!) and the other religious one (you gotta be kidding me! Python? No... it's not mature enough). I will maybe skip the last religion (Python?! Use Ruby!). The truth, as always, is far from obvious.
: it's easy, readab... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T08:21:24.907 | 2008-08-30T08:21:24.907 | null | null | 3,105 | null |
35,796 | 2 | null | 35,785 | 71 | null | [XStream](http://x-stream.github.io/) is pretty good at serializing object to XML without much configuration and money! (it's under BSD license).
We used it in one of our project to replace the plain old java-serialization and it worked almost out of the box.
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-30T08:55:00.350 | 2015-11-25T12:32:43.063 | 2015-11-25T12:32:43.063 | 1,701,600 | 1,651 | null |
35,800 | 2 | null | 35,722 | 1 | null | [Tracker](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Tracker) ships with Ubuntu 8.04 -- it was a significant switch from Beagle which users believed was too resource (CPU) intensive and didn't yield good enough results. It indexes both pdf and chm and according to [this bug report](http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=460260)... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T08:59:56.063 | 2008-08-30T08:59:56.063 | null | null | 3,594 | null |
35,802 | 2 | null | 35,721 | 0 | null | I use the [GeSHi Syntax Highlighter Plugin](http://qbnz.com/highlighter/index.php) in [my blog](http://blog.cdleary.com) and I find it works well. Which highlighter you use tends to depend on which languages you use most frequently and how good the support is for them.
[Edit] I forgot that GeSHi is the highlighter ass... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T09:03:07.647 | 2008-08-30T09:08:57.850 | 2008-08-30T09:08:57.850 | 3,594 | 3,594 | null |
35,803 | 2 | null | 35,798 | 2 | null | I thought most of the virus scanners nowadays use [sandbox techniques](http://www.norman.com/Virus/Sandbox/20374/en) to check for "bad" behavior. Therefore the polymorphic virusses will also be detected.
of course these detection techniques are also known to virus creators, and can easily be bypassed using a bunch of r... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T09:11:31.713 | 2008-08-30T09:11:31.713 | null | null | 46 | null |
35,804 | 2 | null | 10,499 | 5 | null | There is another place where the TNS location is stored: If you're using Windows, open `regedit` and navigate to `My HKEY Local Machine/Software/ORACLE/KEY_OraClient10_home1` where `KEY_OraClient10_home1` is your Oracle home. If there is a string entry called `TNS_ADMIN`, then the value of that entry will point to the ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T09:12:33.723 | 2008-08-30T09:12:33.723 | null | null | 2,822 | null |
35,807 | 2 | null | 246 | 7 | null | Perhaps you could use an XSL transformation to convert the XSD into SQL table definitions. Likewise, I can't find any prior examples of this, but I'd have thought it would be possible.
I'd imagine a generic XSLT for XSD->SQL, once written, could be applied to any such scenario (and would be cross-platform too). Perhap... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T09:14:30.083 | 2008-08-30T09:14:30.083 | null | null | null | null |
35,791 | 2 | null | 35,304 | 1 | null | I see nothing wrong with using the async version. I can agree that the second version is shorter, but I'm not sure that I think it's easier to follow. The test does a lot of things that you wouldn't normally do, whereas the first example is more true to how you would use the component outside the test environment.
Als... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T08:47:12.397 | 2008-08-30T08:47:12.397 | null | null | 1,109 | null |
35,810 | 2 | null | 35,722 | 1 | null | Note that djvu is an image compression format (optimized to compress 'pictures of text', typically the results of scanning). As such, you won't be able to search for text, except in the metadata -this is what the link sent by cdleary refers to-, if you first use OCR on the document to convert it into text.
The same i... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T09:17:23.477 | 2008-08-30T09:17:23.477 | null | null | 2,638 | null |
35,805 | 1 | 35,823 | null | 37 | 5,568 | If I create a class `A` as follows:
```
class A:
def __init__(self):
self.name = 'A'
```
Inspecting the `__dict__` member looks like `{'name': 'A'}`
If however I create a class `B`:
```
class B:
name = 'B'
```
`__dict__` is empty.
What is the difference between the two, and why doesn't `name` sh... | Why is my instance variable not in __dict__? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-30T09:12:41.367 | 2013-02-05T05:28:27.900 | 2011-08-12T06:33:50.663 | 91,962 | 3,154 | [
"python"
] |
35,819 | 2 | null | 13 | 17 | null | If you happen to be using [OpenID](http://openid.net/) for authentication, [Simple Registration Extension](http://openid.net/specs/openid-simple-registration-extension-1_0.html) would solve the problem for authenticated users (You'll need to convert from tz to numeric).
Another option would be to infer the time zone f... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T09:29:39.377 | 2008-09-02T15:14:02.220 | 2008-09-02T15:14:02.220 | 3,583 | 3,583 | null |
35,820 | 2 | null | 35,721 | 0 | null | WP-Syntax uses GeSHi to do the highlighting, the WordPress Syntax Highlighter uses the [Javascript SyntaxHighlighter](http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/wiki/Overview)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T09:31:06.080 | 2008-08-30T09:31:06.080 | null | null | 2,975 | null |
35,823 | 2 | null | 35,805 | 46 | null | `B.name` is a class attribute, not an instance attribute. It shows up in `B.__dict__`, but not in `b = B(); b.__dict__`.
The distinction is obscured somewhat because when you access an attribute on an instance, the class dict is a fallback. So in the above example, `b.name` will give you the value of `B.name`.
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-30T09:33:00.990 | 2013-02-05T05:28:27.900 | 2013-02-05T05:28:27.900 | 3,207 | 3,207 | null |
35,817 | 1 | 35,857 | null | 142 | 112,171 | When using os.system() it's often necessary to escape filenames and other arguments passed as parameters to commands. How can I do this? Preferably something that would work on multiple operating systems/shells but in particular for bash.
I'm currently doing the following, but am sure there must be a library functio... | How to escape os.system() calls? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-30T09:27:24.640 | 2022-08-02T13:37:11.913 | 2017-12-17T15:26:56.927 | 355,230 | 3,715 | [
"python",
"shell",
"escaping"
] |
35,831 | 2 | null | 35,817 | 4 | null | I believe that os.system just invokes whatever command shell is configured for the user, so I don't think you can do it in a platform independent way. My command shell could be anything from bash, emacs, ruby, or even quake3. Some of these programs aren't expecting the kind of arguments you are passing to them and ev... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T09:43:50.123 | 2008-08-30T09:43:50.123 | null | null | 755 | null |
35,821 | 2 | null | 35,785 | 84 | null |
The "Official" Java API for this is now JAXB - Java API for XML Binding. See [Tutorial by Oracle](http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/jaxb/TOC.html). The reference implementation lives at [http://jaxb.java.net/](http://jaxb.java.net/)
Note that [the Java EE and CORBA Modules are deprecated in SE in JDK9 and to b... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-30T09:31:57.530 | 2018-07-11T13:10:05.997 | 2018-07-11T13:10:05.997 | 1,820 | 1,820 | null |
35,841 | 2 | null | 35,753 | 3 | null | Refactoring is inevitable on larger codebases and the lack of static typing makes this much harder in python than in statically typed languages.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T09:53:02.970 | 2008-08-30T09:53:02.970 | null | null | 755 | null |
35,837 | 1 | 35,845 | null | 726 | 644,283 | I've been using git for some time now on Windows (with msysGit) and I like the idea of distributed source control. Just recently I've been looking at Mercurial (hg) and it looks interesting. However, I can't wrap my head around the differences between hg and git.
Has anyone made a side-by-side comparison between git a... | What is the Difference Between Mercurial and Git? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-30T09:48:27.520 | 2012-06-25T09:03:52.710 | 2012-01-31T20:07:55.410 | 110,204 | 3,713 | [
"git",
"version-control",
"mercurial",
"comparison",
"dvcs"
] |
35,838 | 2 | null | 35,753 | 0 | null | I know I'm probably stating the obvious, but don't forget that the quality of the development team and their familiarity with the technology will have a major impact on your ability to deliver.
If you have a strong team, then it's probably not an issue if they're familiar. But if you have people who are more 9 to 5'r... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T09:49:27.003 | 2008-08-30T09:49:27.003 | null | null | 2,422 | null |
35,834 | 1 | null | null | 3 | 398 | Without resorting to PInvoke, is there a way in .net to find out what windows are open? This is slightly different than asking what applications are running in memory. For example, Firefox could be running, but could be more than one window. Basically, I just want to be privy to the same information that the taskbar... | Get a list of current windows, and give one of them focus, in .Net | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-30T09:46:06.840 | 2017-08-09T20:15:32.350 | 2017-08-09T20:15:32.350 | 1,836,618 | 1,493 | [
".net",
"windows"
] |
35,842 | 1 | 35,885 | null | 409 | 337,227 | How do I get the id of my Java process?
I know there are several platform-dependent hacks, but I would prefer a more generic solution.
| How can a Java program get its own process ID? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-30T09:53:25.420 | 2023-02-12T01:01:45.550 | 2018-02-24T03:52:37.370 | 1,592,191 | 3,583 | [
"java",
"pid"
] |
35,843 | 2 | null | 34,717 | 0 | null | Have you tried manually modifying the XSL in order to generate HTML which embedds your audio file?
I don't think there is a way to do this using the InfoPath Designer, but if it ends up in the XSL; it may just get passed through to the web enabled form.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T09:55:14.603 | 2008-08-30T09:55:14.603 | null | null | 211,367 | null |
35,839 | 2 | null | 3,748 | 28 | null | As others have said SQL 2008 comes with a Filestream type that allows you to store a filename or identifier as a pointer in the db and automatically stores the image on your filesystem which is a great scenario.
If you're on an older database, then I'd say that if you're storing it as blob data, then you're really not... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T09:50:23.850 | 2008-08-30T09:50:23.850 | null | null | 3,717 | null |
35,846 | 2 | null | 17,434 | 174 | null | At work we , extensively. It means we can provide proper encapsulation and information hiding for the main application code. But also we can have separate test code that uses friends to inspect internal state and data for testing.
Suffice to say I wouldn't use the friend keyword as an essential component of your desig... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-30T09:59:53.063 | 2017-02-12T10:37:11.760 | 2017-02-12T10:37:11.760 | 1,593,077 | 3,719 | null |
35,852 | 2 | null | 35,848 | 0 | null | I think the VB6 units are not the same with the VB.Net one. So you have to do a conversion.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T10:03:46.550 | 2008-08-30T10:03:46.550 | null | null | 718 | null |
35,844 | 2 | null | 35,837 | 4 | null | I'm currently in the process of migrating from SVN to a DVCS (while blogging about my findings, my first real blogging effort...), and I've done a bit of research (=googling). As far as I can see you can do most of the things with both packages. It seems like git has a few more or better implemented advanced features,
... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T09:55:25.990 | 2008-08-30T09:55:25.990 | null | null | 909 | null |
35,845 | 2 | null | 35,837 | 345 | null | These articles may help:
- [Git vs. Mercurial: Please Relax](http://importantshock.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/git-vs-mercurial/)- [The Differences Between Mercurial and Git](http://www.rockstarprogrammer.org/post/2008/apr/06/differences-between-mercurial-and-git/)
: Comparing Git and Mercurial to celebrities seems to b... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-30T09:57:01.963 | 2011-11-29T11:36:50.483 | 2011-11-29T11:36:50.483 | 15,649 | 718 | null |
35,853 | 1 | 35,873 | null | 21 | 3,973 | What's the of [Mono](http://www.mono-project.com/)'s Platform Invoke implementation on `Linux` and on `Solaris`?
| P/Invoke in Mono | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-30T10:04:55.407 | 2019-12-23T10:26:42.467 | 2019-12-23T10:26:42.467 | 11,383,441 | 3,583 | [
".net",
"linux",
"mono",
"pinvoke",
"solaris"
] |
35,849 | 1 | 35,892 | null | 12 | 1,699 | So we've discussed logging in passing at my place of work and I was wondering if some of you guys here could give me some ideas of your approaches?
Typically our scenario is, no logging really at all, and mostly .NET apps, winforms/WPF clients talking through web services or direct to a db.
So, the real question is, ... | What logging is good logging for your app? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-30T10:02:20.063 | 2013-05-27T16:54:16.053 | null | null | 3,717 | [
".net",
"logging",
"client-applications"
] |
35,854 | 2 | null | 35,837 | 5 | null | Sometime last year I evaluated both git and hg for my own use, and decided to go with hg. I felt it looked like a cleaner solution, and worked better on more platforms at the time. It was mostly a toss-up, though.
More recently, I started using git because of git-svn and the ability to act as a Subversion client. This... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T10:08:37.473 | 2008-08-30T10:08:37.473 | null | null | 893 | null |
35,860 | 2 | null | 3,748 | 2 | null | I'm the lead developer on an enterprise document management system in which some customers store hundreds of gigabytes of documents. Terabytes in the not too distant future. We use the approach for many of the reasons mentioned on this page plus another: archiving.
Many of our customers must conform to industry spec... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T10:15:53.227 | 2008-08-30T10:15:53.227 | null | null | 470 | null |
35,866 | 2 | null | 35,834 | 0 | null | I'm afraid there is no way you can do it without PInvoke. To give focus to some window you should call SetForegroundWindow function, see [this](http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/windowhider.aspx) article for details.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T10:29:17.487 | 2008-08-30T10:29:17.487 | null | null | 1,196 | null |
35,862 | 2 | null | 35,849 | 1 | null | As a quick answer I would say to come up with a series of categories and have switchable logging levels, e.g. info, warning, error, critical, etc.
Then make it easy to set the logging level to tune the level of detail that you need. Typically, set the logging level in a config file and stop and restart the app.
I wou... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-30T10:20:11.143 | 2013-05-27T16:54:16.053 | 2013-05-27T16:54:16.053 | 1,012,641 | 2,974 | null |
35,858 | 2 | null | 35,817 | 63 | null | Perhaps you have a specific reason for using `os.system()`. But if not you should probably be using the [subprocess module](https://docs.python.org/library/subprocess.html). You can specify the pipes directly and avoid using the shell.
The following is from [PEP324](http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0324/):
> ```
Re... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-30T10:15:02.403 | 2016-11-15T11:38:59.663 | 2016-11-15T11:38:59.663 | 6,761,868 | 3,363 | null |
35,857 | 2 | null | 35,817 | 90 | null | This is what I use:
```
def shellquote(s):
return "'" + s.replace("'", "'\\''") + "'"
```
The shell will always accept a quoted filename and remove the surrounding quotes before passing it to the program in question. Notably, this avoids problems with filenames that contain spaces or any other kind of nasty shel... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-30T10:13:11.503 | 2015-11-30T19:25:15.243 | 2015-11-30T19:25:15.243 | 20,146 | 893 | null |
35,870 | 1 | 35,872 | null | 12 | 5,812 | I have a list of more than 15 thousand latitude and longitude coordinates. Given any X,Y coordinates, what is the fastest way to find the closest coordinates on the list?
| Comparison of Lat, Long Coordinates | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-30T10:34:05.383 | 2008-12-30T15:35:39.240 | null | null | 3,725 | [
"sorting",
"comparison"
] |
35,877 | 2 | null | 22,873 | 5 | null |
- [Free Ruby on Rails Training Online Course by Sang Shin](http://www.javapassion.com/rubyonrails/)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T10:55:13.023 | 2008-08-30T10:55:13.023 | null | null | 3,720 | null |
35,872 | 2 | null | 35,870 | 6 | null | You will want to use a geometric construction called a [Voronoi diagram](http://mathworld.wolfram.com/VoronoiDiagram.html). This divides up the plane into a number of areas, one for each point, that encompass all the points that are closest to each of your given points.
The code for the exact algorithms to create the ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T10:41:35.147 | 2008-08-30T11:39:59.623 | 2008-08-30T11:39:59.623 | 893 | 893 | null |
35,873 | 2 | null | 35,853 | 29 | null | Working, usable and stable. It's well tested since quite a lot of mono's own low-level functionality has to be marshaled through it to the underlying operating system.
There are some [P/Invoke extensions](http://www.mono-project.com/Interop_with_Native_Libraries) when compared to Microsoft .Net implementation (after a... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T10:45:40.393 | 2008-08-30T10:45:40.393 | null | null | 3,205 | null |
35,867 | 2 | null | 35,507 | 0 | null | For , specifically, you can put a persistence unit in a separate JAR, which you can deploy separately from your web application WAR, or both together in an EAR archive, depending on what your application server supports. For example, the JBoss manual describes this as [Deploy EAR with EJB3 JAR](http://www.jboss.org/fil... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T10:30:48.480 | 2008-08-30T10:30:48.480 | null | null | 2,670 | null |
35,848 | 1 | null | null | 3 | 8,450 | I have a VB6.0 project and I want to convert it in VB.Net.
In my VB6.0 application some of the MDI Child form’s height is 17000 and width is 13000. Now I want to set the same form size in VB.Net forms, but it allows maximum form width = 1036, height = 780 for resolution 1024x768.
How can I increase form size with sam... | VB.NET form Height Question | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T10:01:31.420 | 2018-07-15T05:01:21.137 | 2008-08-30T16:34:26.483 | 832 | 2,528 | [
"vb.net",
"winforms"
] |
35,879 | 1 | 35,891 | null | 65 | 142,805 | I am building an open search add-on for Firefox/IE and the image needs to be Base64 Encoded so how can I base 64 encode the favicon I have?
I am only familiar with PHP
| Base64 Encoding Image | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-30T11:01:31.887 | 2020-11-28T11:52:37.790 | null | null | 115 | [
"php",
"encoding",
"base64",
"opensearch"
] |
35,878 | 2 | null | 35,707 | 0 | null | > The server must analyze all of this
info to determine the health of these
computers
That is probably the biggest clue so far explaning what your application is kinda about. Are you able to provide a more elaborate briefing on what this application is seeking to achieve in this distributed environment? We do not ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T10:59:35.040 | 2008-08-30T10:59:35.040 | null | null | 2,663 | null |
35,881 | 2 | null | 35,879 | 0 | null | Google led me to [this](http://fr.php.net/base64_encode) solution (base64_encode). Hope this helps!
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T11:06:37.350 | 2008-08-30T11:06:37.350 | null | null | 2,638 | null |
35,880 | 2 | null | 35,699 | 4 | null | You can do it in jQuery really simple, but I am not sure JS should be used for such things. The best way is to do it with pure css.
1. Take a look at faux columns or even Fluid Faux Columns
2. Also another technique(doesn't work on the beautiful IE6) is to position:relative the parent container. The child container(t... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T11:04:10.523 | 2008-08-30T11:04:10.523 | null | null | 3,718 | null |
35,893 | 1 | 83,939 | null | 10 | 4,731 | Do you know any grid control compatible with .NET and Mono?
DataGridView seems to be quite buggy on Mono, and GTK# controls depends on GTK+ so you need to install it in windows machines where, usually, it's not present.
| Grid controls compatible with .NET and Mono? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-30T11:22:42.677 | 2015-05-13T12:57:17.403 | null | null | 3,730 | [
"c#",
"datagrid",
"controls",
"mono"
] |
35,885 | 2 | null | 35,842 | 408 | null | There exists no platform-independent way that can be guaranteed to work in all jvm implementations.
`ManagementFactory.getRuntimeMXBean().getName()` looks like the best (closest) solution, and typically includes the PID. It's short, and works in every implementation in wide use.
On linux+windows it returns a value lik... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-30T11:11:17.277 | 2022-01-06T01:00:43.913 | 2022-01-06T01:00:43.913 | 32,453 | 3,432 | null |
35,799 | 2 | null | 35,748 | 1 | null | [ProcessExplorer](http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx) is able to enumerate all the named events held by some specific process. You could go over the entire process list and do something similar although I have now clue as to what API is used to get the list...
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T08:59:10.400 | 2008-08-30T08:59:10.400 | null | null | 1,651 | null |
35,894 | 2 | null | 34,848 | 4 | null | I did it this way (ZF 1.5):
```
$name = new Zend_Form_Element_Text('name');
$name->setLabel('Full Name: ')
->setRequired(true)
->addFilter('StripTags')
->addFilter('StringTrim')
->addValidator($MyNotEmpty);
```
so, the addValidator() is the interesting part. The Message is set in an "Errormessage... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T11:26:57.207 | 2008-08-30T11:26:57.207 | null | null | 1,462 | null |
35,875 | 2 | null | 35,849 | 1 | null | For a typical desktop app, I'd store everything on the current session, and maybe store info messages for the past n sessions or up to x in size.
I'm assuming that your messages are organized. We use 4 categories; errors, warnings, info, and trace. We're still figuring out what goes at which level. As I'm getting used... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T10:47:06.320 | 2008-08-30T10:47:06.320 | null | null | 3,436 | null |
35,895 | 2 | null | 35,849 | 2 | null | > Is it better to go all the way and log everything across multiple attempts/days, or log only what you need to (given hdd is cheap).
The fact harddrives are cheap really isn't a good reason to verbosely log everything possible, for a few reasons.. For one, with a very busy application, you really don't want to slow i... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T11:31:42.000 | 2008-08-30T11:31:42.000 | null | null | 745 | null |
35,883 | 2 | null | 35,224 | 36 | null | If you don't need the default item to be selectable you can use the `prompt` property of `ComboBox` and set the `selectedIndex` to -1. That will show the string you set `propmt` to as the selected value until the user chooses another. It will not appear in the list of options, however.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T11:07:33.947 | 2008-08-30T16:33:49.857 | 2008-08-30T16:33:49.857 | 1,109 | 1,109 | null |
35,798 | 1 | 35,803 | null | 3 | 1,945 | What techniques can be applied to detect [Polymorphic](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_virus#Polymorphic_code) and [Metamorphic](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_virus#Metamorphic_code) viruses?
How difficult is to implement these techniques?
Are these techniques being applied in modern day anti-virus sof... | Techniques to detect Polymorphic and Metamorphic viruses? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-30T08:55:43.543 | 2011-04-29T06:54:57.713 | null | null | 184 | [
"antivirus",
"virus"
] |
35,892 | 2 | null | 35,849 | 10 | null | The key thing for logging is good planning. I would suggest that you look into the enterprise library exception and logging application block ([http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc467894.aspx](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc467894.aspx)). There is a wee bit of a learning curve but it does work quite we... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T11:20:54.727 | 2008-08-30T11:40:40.217 | 2008-08-30T11:40:40.217 | 2,422 | 2,422 | null |
35,897 | 2 | null | 35,870 | 0 | null | Even if you create a voronoi diagram, that still means you need to compare your x, y coordinates to all 15 thousand created areas. To make that easier, the first thing that popped into my mind though was to create some sort of grid over the possible values, so that you can easily place and x/y coordinate into one of th... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T11:34:12.120 | 2008-08-30T11:34:12.120 | null | null | 3,197 | null |
35,902 | 2 | null | 35,893 | 0 | null | Which version did you try? Perhaps you should give [Mono 2.0 preview](http://mono.ximian.com/monobuild/preview/download-preview/) a go, it might work for you (no, the Data* controls are not yet perfect, but they have improved greatly). From my experience GTK# controls on Windows are not that great either...
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T11:48:13.507 | 2008-08-30T11:48:13.507 | null | null | 3,205 | null |
35,904 | 2 | null | 35,849 | 3 | null | [This post on highscalability.com](http://highscalability.com/log-everything-all-time) provides a good perspective on logging in a large scale distributed system. (And coincidentally it starts out by mentioning a post on the JoelOnSoftware).
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T11:52:52.013 | 2008-08-30T11:52:52.013 | null | null | 2,168 | null |
35,905 | 1 | 35,924 | null | 1 | 6,859 | I've created a few `autorun` script files on various USB devices that run `bash` scripts when they mount. These scripts run "in the background", how do I get them to run in a terminal window? (Like the "Application in Terminal" gnome Launcher type.)
| How do I autorun an application in a terminal in Ubuntu? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-30T11:53:01.777 | 2014-02-07T03:09:39.397 | null | null | 3,715 | [
"bash",
"ubuntu",
"gnome",
"autorun"
] |
35,891 | 2 | null | 35,879 | 81 | null | As far as I remember there is an xml element for the image data. You can use this [website](http://www.motobit.com/util/base64-decoder-encoder.asp) to encode a file (use the upload field). Then just copy and paste the data to the XML element.
You could also use PHP to do this like so:
```
<?php
$im = file_get... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-30T11:20:50.513 | 2014-04-20T08:50:25.080 | 2014-04-20T08:50:25.080 | null | 2,025 | null |
35,896 | 1 | 36,050 | null | 19 | 10,507 | Is there a portable, not patent-restricted way to play compressed sound files in C# / .Net? I want to play short "jingle" sounds on various events occuring in the program.
[System.Media.SoundPlayer](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.media.soundplayer.aspx) can handle only WAV, but those are typically to b... | How can I play compressed sound files in C# in a portable way? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-30T11:33:55.787 | 2012-10-08T21:23:54.097 | 2011-08-02T10:32:52.520 | 3,205 | 3,205 | [
"c#",
".net",
"mono",
"audio",
"oggvorbis"
] |
35,899 | 2 | null | 35,646 | 66 | null | I've worked with both techniques and I would say that developing on the trunk and branching off stable points as releases is the best way to go.
Those people above who object saying that you'll have:
> - -
have probably not used continuous integration techniques.
It's true that if you don't perform several test bu... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-30T11:42:35.860 | 2013-03-05T17:58:17.637 | 2013-03-05T17:58:17.637 | 142,162 | 2,974 | null |
35,907 | 1 | null | null | 6 | 7,609 | I have a .Net compact framework application with a frankly unimpressive UI.
My win32 app uses Dev Express components and looks great, but I can't find anything similar for the compact framework.
Can anyone recommend components that will jazz up my UI?
Does such a thing exist, oram I going to have to owner draw my co... | 3rd Party UI components for .net Compact Framework? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-30T11:57:41.110 | 2013-03-12T21:48:17.750 | 2008-09-24T15:26:19.827 | 12,870 | 3,732 | [
".net",
"user-interface",
"compact-framework"
] |
35,911 | 2 | null | 871 | 3 | null | Thanks to the fact it doesn't need to communicate with a central server constantly, pretty much every command runs in less than a second (obviously git push/pull/fetch are slower simply because they have to initalise SSH connections). Branching is far far easier (one simple command to branch, one simple command to merg... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T12:01:09.527 | 2008-08-30T12:01:09.527 | null | null | 745 | null |
35,909 | 2 | null | 9,304 | 0 | null | @Domenic : I don't get it.. can't you do this with auto-properties?:
```
public string Title { get; }
```
or
```
public string Title { get; private set; }
```
Is this what you are referring to?
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T11:59:37.067 | 2008-08-30T11:59:37.067 | null | null | 1,796 | null |
35,908 | 2 | null | 35,748 | 1 | null | Do not mix up the user mode ZwOpenDirectoryObject with the kernel mode ZwOpenDirectoryObject -- the kernel mode API ([http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms800966.aspx](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms800966.aspx)) indeed seems to available as of XP only, but the user mode version should be available at l... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T11:58:22.887 | 2008-08-30T11:58:22.887 | null | null | null | null |
35,916 | 2 | null | 5,251 | 0 | null | +1 [flot](http://code.google.com/p/flot/), requires jQuery though, so might not play well with GWT, I haven't used that.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T12:12:55.117 | 2008-08-30T12:12:55.117 | null | null | 3,715 | null |
35,918 | 2 | null | 35,907 | 2 | null | [OpenNETCF](http://www.opennetcf.com/) is a large collection of classes, components and controls for the compact framework. I'm not sure that they have anything that'll jazz up your UI, but it'd be worth a look.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T12:14:34.440 | 2008-08-30T12:14:34.440 | null | null | 615 | null |
35,913 | 2 | null | 27,695 | 3 | null | To remove a file entirely from a git repository (Say you commited a file with a password in it, or accidently commited temporary files)
```
git filter-branch --index-filter 'git update-index --remove filename' HEAD
```
Then I think you have to commit, and push -f if it's in remote branches (remember it might annoy p... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T12:08:48.743 | 2008-08-30T12:08:48.743 | null | null | 745 | null |
35,915 | 2 | null | 35,870 | 0 | null | [Premature optimization is the root of all evil.](http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PrematureOptimization)
15K coordinates aren't that much. Why not iterate over the 15K coordinates and see if that's really a performance problem? You could save a lot of work and maybe it never gets too slow to even notice.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T12:12:50.327 | 2008-08-30T12:12:50.327 | null | null | 3,730 | null |
35,912 | 2 | null | 35,870 | 3 | null | The general concept you're describing is [nearest-neighbour search](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-nearest_neighbor_algorithm), and there are a whole raft of techniques which deal with solving these types of queries, either exactly or approximately. The basic idea is to use a spatial partitioning technique to reduce th... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T12:01:48.870 | 2008-08-30T12:01:48.870 | null | null | 2,246 | null |
35,898 | 2 | null | 35,785 | 2 | null | [XMLBeans](http://xmlbeans.apache.org/) works great if you have a schema for your XML. It creates Java objects for the schema and creates easy to use parse methods.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T11:39:16.880 | 2008-08-30T11:39:16.880 | null | null | 3,535 | null |
35,903 | 2 | null | 35,837 | 11 | null | Nothing. They both do the same, both perform about equally. The only reason you should choose one over the other is if you help out with a project that already uses one..
The other possible reason for choosing one is an application or service which only supports one of the system.. For example, I pretty much chose to ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T11:48:33.240 | 2008-08-30T11:48:33.240 | null | null | 745 | null |
35,919 | 2 | null | 35,893 | 2 | null | I tried mono 1.9.1 (Mono 2.0 beta) and had some problems with sorting, generated columns, and some nasty exceptions.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T12:15:53.330 | 2008-08-30T12:15:53.330 | null | null | 3,730 | null |
35,923 | 2 | null | 35,870 | 1 | null | You didn't specify what you meant by fastest. If you want to get the answer quickly without writing any code, I would give the [gpsbabel radius filter](http://www.gpsbabel.org/htmldoc-1.3.3/filter_radius.html) a go.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T12:19:15.817 | 2008-08-30T12:19:15.817 | null | null | 3,715 | null |
35,921 | 2 | null | 35,907 | 3 | null | A number of vendors provide controls for the Windows Mobile environment.
[Component One Mobile](http://www.componentone.com/SuperProducts/StudioMobile/)
[Pocket PC Controls](http://www.pocketpccontrols.com/)
[Resco Mobile Forms Toolkit](http://www.resco.net/developer/mobileformstoolkit/overview.aspx)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T12:17:41.330 | 2008-08-30T12:17:41.330 | null | null | 3,479 | null |
35,928 | 2 | null | 35,914 | 2 | null | If you query the registry, you can retrieve the data about the registered file type and then call the app directly passing the command line arguments. See [Programmatically Checking and Setting File Types](http://www.blackwasp.co.uk/ProgrammaticFileTypes.aspx) for an example of retrieving shell information for a file ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T12:29:07.183 | 2008-08-30T12:29:07.183 | null | null | 3,479 | null |
35,924 | 2 | null | 35,905 | 5 | null | Run them as a two stage process with your "autorun" script calling the second script in a new terminal eg
```
gnome-terminal -e top --title Testing
```
Would run the program "top" in a new gnome terminal window with the title "Testing" You can add additional arguments like setting the geometry to determine the size ... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-30T12:23:17.307 | 2014-02-07T03:09:39.397 | 2014-02-07T03:09:39.397 | 1,854,985 | 3,720 | null |
35,926 | 2 | null | 35,922 | 1 | null | I've used [Glade](http://glade.gnome.org/) with some success, though I didn't manage to wrap my head around creating anything really complex. It has a nice GUI builder and stores the forms as xml files that are loaded dynamically. Kind of like XAML afiak.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T12:25:25.927 | 2008-08-30T12:25:25.927 | null | null | 3,715 | null |
35,922 | 1 | 35,935 | null | 19 | 10,874 | I've played around with GTK, TK, wxPython, Cocoa, curses and others. They are are fairly horrible to use.. GTK/TK/wx/curses all seem to basically be direct-ports of the appropriate C libraries, and Cocoa basically mandates using both PyObjC and Interface Builder, both of which I dislike..
The Shoes GUI library for Rub... | Are there any "nice to program" GUI toolkits for Python? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-30T12:19:01.933 | 2016-03-30T14:12:16.597 | null | null | 745 | [
"python",
"user-interface"
] |
35,932 | 2 | null | 34,194 | 7 | null | Since you can't modify IIS settings to map .mvc to ASP.Net, you can use a different extension that's already mapped to ASP.Net. For example, you could use {controller}.ashx/{action} and it should work out of the box on IIS 6.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T12:31:04.447 | 2008-08-30T12:31:04.447 | null | null | 729 | null |
35,930 | 2 | null | 35,914 | 4 | null | Using my code from [this](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24954/windows-list-and-launch-applications-associated-with-an-extension#24974) answer you can get command associated with xls extension. Then you can pass this command to `Process.Start` method.
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-30T12:29:30.643 | 2013-05-27T17:21:23.503 | 2017-05-23T10:33:14.293 | -1 | 1,196 | null |
35,933 | 2 | null | 35,707 | 2 | null | In a client-server setting, if you care about security, you should always program on the assumption that the client may have been compromised. Even if it hasn't, there is always the risk of somebody using an old version of the client, using a competing or modified version of the client, or just of the net connection be... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T12:31:54.133 | 2008-08-30T12:31:54.133 | null | null | 1,000 | null |
35,937 | 2 | null | 35,292 | 0 | null | Are you using Apache? If so you could have a look at [mod_log_spread](http://www.schlossnagle.org/~george/mod_log_spread/) Though you may have too big an infrastructure to make it maintainable. The other option is to look at "broadcasting" or "multicasting" your log messages and having dedicated logging servers subscri... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T12:39:55.253 | 2008-08-30T12:39:55.253 | null | null | 3,720 | null |
35,934 | 2 | null | 35,870 | 2 | null | It rather depends how many times you want to do it, and what resources are available - if you're doing the test once, then the O(log N) techniques are good. If you're doing it a thousand times on a server, constructing a bitmap lookup table would be faster, either giving the result directly or as a first stage of. 2GB ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T12:33:04.943 | 2008-08-30T12:33:04.943 | null | null | 1,527 | null |
35,936 | 2 | null | 35,834 | 1 | null | You could check out the new [UI Automation](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms747327.aspx) stuff in .NET 3.5. It is supposed to mask a whole lot of the PInovke stuff and works with web and WPF applications.
I haven't used it yet, so I don't have a more specific place to direct you, but it might fit the bill.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T12:36:24.077 | 2008-08-30T12:36:24.077 | null | null | 1,233 | null |
35,938 | 2 | null | 35,922 | 2 | null | Seconding [PyQt](http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/intro). Coupled with the book [Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt](http://www.qtrac.eu/pyqtbook.html), it's really easy to learn.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T12:48:34.407 | 2008-08-30T12:48:34.407 | null | null | null | null |
35,943 | 1 | 35,961 | null | 3 | 1,345 | I want to keep logs of some things that people do in my app, in some cases so that it can be undone if needed.
Is it best to store such logs in a file or a database? I'm completely at a loss as to what the pros and cons are except that it's another table to setup.
Is there a third (or fourth etc) option that I'm not ... | Logging in a PHP webapp | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T13:08:07.697 | 2008-10-15T13:21:23.700 | null | null | 1,384,652 | [
"php",
"logging"
] |
35,914 | 1 | 35,930 | null | 5 | 1,162 | Here's the situation: I am trying to launch an application, but the location of the .exe isn't known to me. Now, if the file extension is registered (in Windows), I can do something like:
```
Process.Start("Sample.xls");
```
However, I need to pass some command line arguments as well. I couldn't get this to work
... | Launch a file with command line arguments without knowing location of exe? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-30T12:10:50.580 | 2013-05-27T17:42:23.363 | 2013-05-27T17:42:23.363 | 897,326 | 2,258 | [
"c#",
".net",
"vb.net"
] |
35,952 | 2 | null | 35,943 | 1 | null | I'd use a database simply for maintainability - also multiple edits on a file may cause some getting missed out.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T13:25:09.980 | 2008-08-30T13:25:09.980 | null | null | 2,025 | null |
35,925 | 2 | null | 35,905 | 1 | null | ```
xterm -e shellscript.sh
```
or (if `xterm` isn't installed)
```
gnome-terminal -e shellscript.sh
```
or (if you're using kubuntu / kde)
```
konsole -e shellscript.sh
```
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-30T12:24:09.020 | 2011-07-17T02:57:56.883 | 2011-07-17T02:57:56.883 | 3,715 | 3,660 | null |
35,939 | 2 | null | 35,849 | 7 | null | Being an admin, I really appreciate apps that log to the Event Log (preferably their own, otherwise the application log) for all logging but trace logs. By logging to the event log, you make it much more likely that warnings or errors can be found and addressed by the admin staff before they become a major problem (if... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T12:49:37.337 | 2008-08-30T12:49:37.337 | null | null | 1,233 | null |
35,955 | 2 | null | 35,950 | 0 | null | I that an unordered_map and hash_map are more or less the same thing. The difference is that the STL doesn't officially have a hash_map (what you're using is probably a compiler specific thing), so unordered_map is the fix for that omission.
unordered_map is just that... unordered. You can't depend on it preserving a... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T13:31:42.163 | 2008-08-30T13:31:42.163 | null | null | 3,738 | null |
35,946 | 2 | null | 35,870 | 8 | null | I did this once for a web site. I.e. find the dealer within 50 miles of your zip code. I used the [great circle calculation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great-circle_distance) to find the coordinates that were 50 miles north, 50 miles east, 50 miles south, and 50 miles west. That gave me a min and max lat and a min... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-30T13:11:16.643 | 2008-12-30T15:18:19.837 | 2008-12-30T15:18:19.837 | 15,168 | 3,657 | null |
35,950 | 1 | 35,965 | null | 4 | 15,634 | I need an associative container that makes me index a certain object through a string, but that also keeps the order of insertion, so I can look for a specific object by its name or just iterate on it and retrieve objects in the same order I inserted them.
I think this [hybrid of linked list and hash map](http://www.d... | I don't understand std::tr1::unordered_map | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-30T13:20:42.643 | 2012-08-02T02:07:12.460 | 2011-10-26T03:30:16.687 | 17,174 | 3,373 | [
"c++",
"tr1",
"unordered-map"
] |
35,948 | 1 | 50,425 | null | 38 | 29,480 | I'm using Google App Engine and Django templates.
I have a table that I want to display the objects look something like:
```
Object Result:
Items = [item1,item2]
Users = [{name='username',item1=3,item2=4},..]
```
The Django template is:
```
<table>
<tr align="center">
<th>user</th>
{% for item in re... | Django templates and variable attributes | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-30T13:20:02.740 | 2016-07-17T22:35:02.673 | 2016-07-17T22:35:02.673 | 2,291,321 | 3,117 | [
"python",
"django",
"google-app-engine"
] |