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4,683 | 2 | null | 4,519 | 1 | null | I had nothing but problems with Xming. When I could get it to work it was extremely slow (this is over a VPN). IMO X is not designed to run over slow connections its too chatty. And by slow connection I mean anything less then a LAN connection.
My solution was to use x11vnc. It lets you access your existing X11 sessio... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-07T13:05:26.993 | 2015-08-20T22:12:41.130 | 2015-08-20T22:12:41.130 | 7,226 | 486 | null |
4,682 | 2 | null | 4,670 | 1 | null | EDIT: Perhaps add a "dvcs", "distrubutedversioncontrol", "distrubuted"
I've used Mercurial on Windows with no problems. You can use TortoiseHG or just use the command line. Mercurial does require Python, but that is easy to install in Windows as well.
[Mercurial Binary Packages](http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T13:05:01.783 | 2008-08-07T13:05:01.783 | null | null | 287 | null |
4,678 | 2 | null | 4,665 | 1 | null | The normal way is to compute a [hash](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function) of the two files and compare that. MD5 and SHA1 are typical hash algorithms. md5sum should be installed by default on most unix type machines, and Wikipedia's [md5sum](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Md5sum) article has links to some windows... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T13:00:17.940 | 2008-08-07T13:00:17.940 | null | null | 588 | null |
4,684 | 1 | 4,706 | null | 21 | 3,373 | I'm currently experimenting with build script, and since I have an ASP.net Web Part under source control, my build script should do that at the end:
1. Grab the "naked" Windows 2003 IIS VMWare or Virtual PC Image from the Network
2. Boot it up
3. Copy the Files from the Build Folder to the Server
4. Install it
5. Do ... | Automating VMWare or VirtualPC | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-07T13:05:38.040 | 2016-01-09T11:15:36.843 | null | null | 91 | [
"vmware",
"virtualization"
] |
4,686 | 2 | null | 4,677 | 8 | null | Use the singleton module:
```
class Clazz
include Singleton
end
```
See [http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/singleton/rdoc/index.html](http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/singleton/rdoc/index.html) for more info.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T13:06:34.777 | 2008-08-07T13:06:34.777 | null | null | 410 | null |
4,694 | 2 | null | 4,689 | 51 | null | I use Consolas for everything, including Notepad++, SQL Studio, Eclipse, etc. I wish there was a Mac version. Also, if you notice, the text area field on Stack Overflow uses Consolas, so we have some other fans out there as well :p
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T13:12:46.527 | 2008-08-07T13:12:46.527 | null | null | 26 | null |
4,689 | 1 | 4,704 | null | 182 | 249,098 | What fonts do you use for programming, and for what language/IDE? I use [Consolas](http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=22e69ae4-7e40-4807-8a86-b3d36fab68d3&displaylang=en) for all my Visual Studio work, any other recommendations?
| Recommended Fonts for Programming? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-07T13:08:44.070 | 2017-02-03T15:43:43.503 | 2010-01-02T23:47:39.170 | 21,234 | 637 | [
"fonts",
"development-environment"
] |
4,687 | 2 | null | 4,665 | 3 | null | The only 100% way to figure out if two files are equal is to do a binary comparison of the two.
If you can live with the risk of false positives (ie. two files which aren't 100% identical but your code says they are), then the digest and checksum algorithms can be used to lessen the work, particularly if the files liv... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T13:07:12.747 | 2008-08-07T13:07:12.747 | null | null | 267 | null |
4,698 | 2 | null | 4,689 | 7 | null | Adding a vote for Consolas. It feels very easy on my eyes.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T13:14:34.293 | 2008-08-07T13:14:34.293 | null | null | 309,844 | null |
4,701 | 2 | null | 4,689 | 7 | null | I never found a reason to stray from Courier New. I don't think I'd have a problem with any font so long as it's sans-serif. Mono-spaced fonts are nice for coding, too.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T13:15:48.517 | 2008-08-07T13:15:48.517 | null | null | 557 | null |
4,695 | 2 | null | 4,689 | 15 | null | I don't use Consolas, though it does look good on LCD, but sometimes I'm not on LCD, like when I'm giving presentations and then it looks crap.
My current font of choice for programming is the [Liberation Mono](http://www.press.redhat.com/2007/05/09/liberation-fonts/) font.
Oh man, just discovered why the text on Sta... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T13:12:58.057 | 2008-08-07T13:16:41.013 | 2008-08-07T13:16:41.027 | 267 | 267 | null |
4,700 | 2 | null | 4,689 | 3 | null | +1 for Consolas, together with a proper [Color Scheme](http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000682.html) (I use the white one at the first screenshot)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T13:15:42.247 | 2008-08-07T13:15:42.247 | null | null | 91 | null |
4,692 | 2 | null | 2,630 | 2 | null | I wrote a PowerShell provider to give me access to IE7's RSS feed store, and had lots of fun with it.
It lets me `cd` to a drive called `feed:` and navigate around folders and feeds using `cd` and `dir`.
It even lets you add or remove feeds from the command line.
See this post on my blog as an example:
[Getting the ... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-07T13:11:06.657 | 2012-11-04T08:08:41.123 | 2012-11-04T08:08:41.123 | 902,217 | 615 | null |
4,697 | 2 | null | 4,689 | 23 | null | For UltraEdit and anything for that matter, I use the good old
[alt text http://www.identifont.com/samples/microsoft/CourierNew.gif](http://www.identifont.com/samples/microsoft/CourierNew.gif)
I've found Consolas to difficult to read with it's over anti-aliasing.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T13:14:06.697 | 2008-08-07T13:25:26.080 | 2008-08-07T13:25:26.080 | 383 | 383 | null |
4,696 | 2 | null | 4,670 | 4 | null | I use [msys-git](http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/) on windows every single day. Works fast and flawlessly.
Although the newer build has some problems with git-svn, [this build (Git-1.5.5-preview20080413.exe)](http://msysgit.googlecode.com/files/Git-1.5.5-preview20080413.exe) has a working git-svn.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T13:13:37.367 | 2008-08-07T13:13:37.367 | null | null | 309,844 | null |
4,691 | 2 | null | 4,519 | 5 | null | Chances are it's either X authentication, the X server binding to an interface, or your DISPLAY variable. I don't use Xming myself but there are some general phenomenon to check for. One test you can do to manually verify the DISPLAY variable is correct is:
1. Start your VPN. Run ipconfig to be sure you have the two ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T13:11:03.067 | 2008-08-07T13:11:03.067 | null | null | 360 | null |
4,707 | 2 | null | 4,689 | 10 | null | I use [Inconsolata](http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html) with UltraEdit on Windows. With TextMate (on the Mac) I prefer Monaco (it's the default font).
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T13:32:14.897 | 2008-08-07T13:32:14.897 | null | null | 341 | null |
4,704 | 2 | null | 4,689 | 197 | null | Either Consolas [(download)](http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=22e69ae4-7e40-4807-8a86-b3d36fab68d3&displaylang=en) or Andale Mono [(download)](http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/corefonts/andale32.exe?download). I mostly use Andale Mono. I wrote an article about programming fonts [a long time ag... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T13:28:17.040 | 2009-01-27T20:54:43.597 | 2009-01-27T20:54:43.597 | 3,043 | 556 | null |
4,703 | 2 | null | 4,665 | 3 | null | Hashing is very good. But the other, slightly lower tech alternative is to run a diff tool like WinMerge or TextWrangler and compare the two versions of each file. Boring and there's room for human error.
Best of all, use version control to ensure the files you're testing are the files you edited and the ones you're g... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T13:17:45.673 | 2008-08-07T13:17:45.673 | null | null | 137 | null |
4,702 | 2 | null | 104 | 6 | null | Also keep in mind that .NET has two heaps, one being the large object heap. I believe objects of roughly 85k or larger are put on this heap. This heap has a different lifetime rules than the regular heap.
If you are creating large memory structures (Dictionary's or List's) it would prudent to go lookup what the exact ... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-07T13:17:27.547 | 2012-01-26T15:52:26.423 | 2012-01-26T15:52:26.423 | 231,716 | 645 | null |
4,712 | 2 | null | 4,617 | 1 | null | The users outside the network can make [patches](http://hgbook.red-bean.com/hgbookch12.html#x16-26800012.1), and/or use [email](http://hgbook.red-bean.com/hgbookch14.html#x18-32100014.4) to send the updates to the main repo or someone, like yourself to merge them. The other internal people can have local copies, like y... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T13:37:30.300 | 2008-08-07T13:37:30.300 | null | null | 157 | null |
4,706 | 2 | null | 4,684 | 21 | null | With VMWare, there is the [Virtual Machine Automation APIs (VIX API)](http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vix-api/). You can find the reference guide [here](http://pubs.vmware.com/vix-api/ReferenceGuide/). It works with VMWare Server and WorkStation, but AFAIK it's not available for ESX Server.
From the main pag... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T13:31:29.733 | 2008-08-07T13:31:29.733 | null | null | 206 | null |
4,724 | 1 | 4,755 | null | 130 | 59,980 | I really feel that I should learn [Lisp](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_(programming_language)) and there are plenty of good resources out there to help me do it.
I'm not put off by the complicated syntax, but where in "traditional commercial programming" would I find places it would make sense to use it instead of... | Why should I learn Lisp? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-07T13:54:03.137 | 2020-06-20T10:02:12.567 | 2014-12-16T18:33:31.480 | 314,291 | 381 | [
"functional-programming",
"lisp"
] |
4,716 | 2 | null | 4,689 | 28 | null | +1 for Monaco, although [this blog post](http://thinkingdigitally.com/archive/ditching-monaco/) is making me think about switching to [Inconsolata](http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html).
I'm curious as to what point size y'all use, I use the [TextMate](http://macromates.com/) default size of 12pt.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T13:40:17.703 | 2008-08-07T13:40:17.703 | null | null | 444 | null |
4,736 | 1 | null | null | 166 | 148,068 | I don't really understand regular expressions. Can you explain them to me in an easy-to-follow manner? If there are any online tools or books, could you also link to them?
| Learning Regular Expressions | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-07T14:05:23.677 | 2022-11-11T14:30:45.603 | 2015-01-07T14:39:54.033 | 16,587 | 1,384,652 | [
"regex"
] |
4,733 | 2 | null | 4,724 | 3 | null | Complicated syntax? The beauty of lisp is that it has a ridiculously simple syntax. It's just a list, where each element of the list can be either another list or an elementary data type.
It's worth learning because of the way it enhances your coding ability to think about and use functions as just another data type.... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T14:01:59.687 | 2008-08-07T14:01:59.687 | null | null | 390 | null |
4,717 | 2 | null | 4,052 | 2 | null | All I needed to get full-text indexing to work was the...
> CREATE FULLTEXT CATALOG [myFullText] WITH ACCENT_SENSITIVITY = ON
After that I could run a CREATE FULLTEXT INDEX query or use the Manage FullText Index in MSSQL Management Studio.
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-07T13:40:21.307 | 2017-12-14T09:48:20.193 | 2017-12-14T09:48:20.193 | 3,817,004 | 576 | null |
4,725 | 2 | null | 4,724 | 48 | null | ??
The syntax for lisp is .
Killer app written in lisp: [emacs](http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/). Lisp will allow you to extend emacs at will to do almost anything you can think of that an editor might do.
, you should only learn lisp if you to, and you may never get to use at work ever, but it is still awesom... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T13:56:51.430 | 2008-08-07T23:29:05.283 | 2008-08-07T23:29:05.283 | 92 | 92 | null |
4,730 | 2 | null | 4,724 | 3 | null | I agree that Lisp is one of those languages that you may never use in a commercial setting. But even if you don't get to, learning it will definitely expand your understanding of programming as a whole. For example, I learned Prolog in college and while I never used it after, I gave me a greater understanding of many... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T14:01:22.623 | 2008-08-07T14:01:22.623 | null | null | 194 | null |
4,729 | 2 | null | 4,724 | 26 | null | I can't answer from first-hand experience but you should read what [Paul Graham](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham) wrote [on Lisp](http://www.paulgraham.com/lisp.html). As for the "killer-app" part, read [Beating the averages](http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html).
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T14:00:39.473 | 2008-08-07T14:00:39.473 | null | null | 341 | null |
4,732 | 2 | null | 4,689 | 12 | null | I like [Fixedsys](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixedsys) in Visual Studio. It's a classic. No anti-aliasing blur.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T14:01:32.200 | 2008-08-07T14:01:32.200 | 2017-02-08T14:00:18.347 | -1 | 83 | null |
4,746 | 2 | null | 4,738 | 130 | null | Try this:
```
System.Configuration.ConfigurationFileMap fileMap = new ConfigurationFileMap(strConfigPath); //Path to your config file
System.Configuration.Configuration configuration = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.OpenMappedMachineConfiguration(fileMap);
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T14:14:44.187 | 2008-08-07T14:14:44.187 | null | null | 227 | null |
4,738 | 1 | 4,746 | null | 131 | 110,531 | I'm developing a data access component that will be used in a website that contains a mix of classic ASP and ASP.NET pages, and need a good way to manage its configuration settings.
I'd like to use a custom `ConfigurationSection`, and for the ASP.NET pages this works great. But when the component is called via COM in... | Using ConfigurationManager to load config from an arbitrary location | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-07T14:07:21.033 | 2022-10-04T11:29:03.450 | 2013-03-19T20:33:40.473 | 1,518,087 | 205 | [
"asp.net",
"configuration",
"asp-classic"
] |
4,744 | 2 | null | 4,724 | 3 | null | Okay, I might be weird but I really don't like Paul Graham's essays that much & on Lisp is a really rough going book if you don't have some grasp of Common Lisp already. Instead, I'd say go for Siebel's [Practical Common Lisp](http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/). As for "killer-apps", Common Lisp seems to find its plac... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-07T14:12:15.563 | 2020-06-20T10:02:12.567 | 2020-06-20T10:02:12.567 | 9,780,149 | 634 | null |
4,753 | 2 | null | 4,689 | 18 | null | I use Consolas on my mac, BTW; [here's a link to download the consolas TTF files](http://pastrana.co.uk/consolas/) if you want to install this (Mac/Win/Linux).
/mp
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T14:22:34.453 | 2008-08-07T14:22:34.453 | null | null | 547 | null |
4,782 | 1 | 70,009 | null | 21 | 1,742 | How much database performance overhead is involved with using C# and LINQ compared to custom optimized queries loaded with mostly low-level C, both with a SQL Server 2008 backend?
I'm specifically thinking here of a case where you have a fairly data-intensive program and will be doing a data refresh or update at least... | How much database performance overhead when using LINQ? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T14:38:59.723 | 2008-12-17T04:43:06.463 | 2008-08-08T16:51:25.237 | 177 | 177 | [
"sql-server",
"linq",
"performance",
"linq-to-sql"
] |
4,755 | 2 | null | 4,724 | 58 | null | One of the main uses for Lisp is in Artificial Intelligence. A friend of mine at college took a graduate AI course and for his main project he wrote a "[Lights Out](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights_Out_(video_game))" solver in Lisp. Multiple versions of his program utilized slightly different AI routines and testin... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-07T14:22:36.603 | 2011-11-13T18:45:44.007 | 2011-11-13T18:45:44.007 | 102,937 | 271 | null |
4,794 | 1 | 4,919 | null | 20 | 8,435 | I've written (most of) an application in Flex and I am concerned with protecting the source code. I fired up a demo of [Trillix swf decompiler](http://www.flash-decompiler.com/) and opened up the swf file that was installed to my Program Files directory. I saw that all of the actionscript packages I wrote were there. I... | Flex / Air obfuscation | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-07T14:41:42.883 | 2014-01-12T17:31:28.873 | null | null | 26 | [
"apache-flex",
"actionscript-3",
"air",
"obfuscation"
] |
4,816 | 1 | 4,821 | null | 30 | 6,402 | How do you resolve a domain name to an IP address with .NET/C#?
| How do you resolve a domain name to an IP address with .NET/C#? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T14:56:59.797 | 2019-12-27T07:06:30.937 | 2012-07-18T17:17:40.483 | 1,453,461 | 390 | [
"c#",
".net",
"dns",
"reverse-dns"
] |
4,823 | 2 | null | 4,816 | 1 | null | Try using the [System.Net.Dns](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.net.dns) class
| null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-07T15:00:08.027 | 2019-12-27T07:06:30.937 | 2019-12-27T07:06:30.937 | 5,407,188 | 51 | null |
4,768 | 2 | null | 4,519 | 0 | null | You may have better luck doing [X11 Forwarding](http://tldp.org/HOWTO/XDMCP-HOWTO/ssh.html) through SSH rather than fiddling with your DISPLAY variable directly. X11 Forwarding with SSH is secure and uses the existing SSH connection to tunnel, so working through a VPN should be no problem.
Fortunately this is fairly ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T14:31:09.207 | 2008-08-07T20:01:24.737 | 2008-08-07T20:01:24.737 | 462 | 462 | null |
4,821 | 2 | null | 4,816 | 20 | null | ```
using System.Net;
foreach (IPAddress address in Dns.GetHostAddresses("www.google.com"))
{
Console.WriteLine(address.ToString());
}
```
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-07T14:59:15.517 | 2013-05-01T16:38:15.217 | 2013-05-01T16:38:15.217 | 427,309 | 275 | null |
4,752 | 1 | 97,256 | null | 16 | 3,415 | We've been having some issues with a SharePoint instance in a test
environment. Thankfully this is not production ;) The problems started
when the disk with the SQL Server databases and search index ran out
of space. Following this, the search service would not run and search
settings in the SSP were not accessible. Re... | MOSS SSP Issue - Failed database logons from deleted SSP | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-07T14:21:10.087 | 2018-04-10T19:37:29.113 | 2014-12-09T13:39:52.677 | 2,641,576 | 636 | [
"sql-server",
"database",
"sharepoint",
"search",
"ssp"
] |
4,785 | 1 | null | null | 15 | 14,080 | In a installation of WebSphere Application Server with Network Deployment, a node is:
1. a physical machine
2. an instance of operative system
3. a logical set of WAS instances that is independent of physical machine or OS instance
| What is called a Node in a WebSpere Network Deployment | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-07T14:39:25.243 | 2015-09-08T21:43:45.943 | 2012-07-02T10:26:48.037 | 97,160 | 527 | [
"deployment",
"websphere",
"cluster-computing"
] |
4,828 | 2 | null | 4,782 | 2 | null | Thanks Stu. Bottom line seems to be that LINQ to SQL probably doesn't have a significant database performance overhead with the newer versions if you are able to use a compiled select, and the slower functions of updating are likely to be faster unless you have a REALLY sharp expert doing most of the coding.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T15:02:49.707 | 2008-08-07T15:02:49.707 | null | null | 177 | null |
4,829 | 2 | null | 4,824 | 0 | null | If you are not totally tied to pure C and can use string.h there is strchr()
[See here](http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstring/strchr.html)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T15:04:16.100 | 2008-08-07T15:04:16.100 | null | null | 194 | null |
4,824 | 1 | 4,838 | null | 46 | 101,509 | Is there a C library function that will return the index of a character in a string?
So far, all I've found are functions like strstr that will return the found char *, not it's location in the original string.
| String.indexOf function in C | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-07T15:00:34.530 | 2018-01-15T14:38:31.557 | null | null | 75 | [
"c",
"string"
] |
4,817 | 2 | null | 1,644 | 0 | null |
1. Podcasts from Dr.Dobbs Journal ITConversations SE-Radio Channel 9
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T14:58:20.353 | 2008-08-08T09:12:21.223 | 2008-08-08T09:12:21.223 | 123 | 123 | null |
4,833 | 2 | null | 4,824 | 13 | null | EDIT: strchr is better only for one char.
Pointer aritmetics says "Hellow!":
```
char *pos = strchr (myString, '#');
int pos = pos ? pos - myString : -1;
```
strchr () returns NULL if no string is found
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T15:05:07.877 | 2010-10-24T12:51:05.770 | 2010-10-24T12:51:05.770 | 501 | 501 | null |
4,832 | 2 | null | 4,824 | 39 | null | `strstr` returns a pointer to the found character, so you could use pointer arithmetic: (Note: this code not tested for its ability to compile, it's one step away from pseudocode.)
```
char * source = "test string"; /* assume source address is */
/* 0x10 for example */
c... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T15:04:47.440 | 2010-10-24T23:33:33.030 | 2010-10-24T23:33:33.030 | 102 | 102 | null |
4,777 | 2 | null | 4,661 | 23 | null | I think each site that implements OpenID would have to build their software to allow multiple entries for your OpenID credentials. However, just because a site doesn't allow you to create multiple entries doesn't mean you can't swap out OpenID suppliers.
## How to turn your blog into an OpenID
STEP 1: Get an Open... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-07T14:36:06.890 | 2016-02-07T14:24:47.220 | 2016-02-07T14:24:47.220 | 2,921,691 | 519 | null |
4,834 | 2 | null | 4,824 | 4 | null | You can use strstr to accomplish what you want. Example:
```
char *a = "Hello World!";
char *b = strstr(a, "World");
int position = b - a;
printf("the offset is %i\n", position);
```
This produces the result:
```
the offset is 6
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T15:07:47.730 | 2008-08-07T15:07:47.730 | null | null | 658 | null |
4,852 | 2 | null | 4,839 | 0 | null | The default CSS and HTML editors for Eclipse are really good. The default javascript editor does an OK job, but it needs a little work.
I just tested this in Eclipse 3.3.2
```
function test(){
}
te<CTRL+SPACE>
```
and it completed the method for me as did this:
```
var test = function(){
};
te<CTRL+SPACE>
```... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T15:24:12.847 | 2008-08-07T15:24:12.847 | null | null | 309,844 | null |
4,854 | 2 | null | 4,661 | 3 | null | > @prakeshAs long as you associate all of them
to the same email address, i would
think it would lead you to same
account.But whats your experience?
When I tried it out I got a whole new account with 0 rep and no steenkin badges. So at the moment SO does not allow multiple OpenID's to be associated with the one ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T15:27:55.177 | 2008-08-07T15:27:55.177 | null | null | 274 | null |
4,838 | 2 | null | 4,824 | 14 | null | I think that
> size_t strcspn ( const char * str1, const char * str2 );
is what you want. Here is an example pulled from [here](http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/cstring/strcspn.html):
```
/* strcspn example */
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
int main ()
{
char str[] = "fcba73";
char keys[] = "... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T15:09:30.973 | 2008-08-07T15:09:30.973 | null | null | 309,844 | null |
4,869 | 2 | null | 4,689 | 1 | null | I have to agree with Kevin Kenny, Proggy fonts all the way, though I prefer Proggy Clean. But either way you have to go with a font that clearly shows the difference between the number 0 and the letter O. Which the preview font here doesn't really show that.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T15:43:02.027 | 2008-08-07T15:43:02.027 | null | null | 657 | null |
4,850 | 1 | 5,026 | null | 25 | 9,552 | I am new to C# and am doing some work in an existing application. I have a DirectX viewport that has components in it that I want to be able to position using arrow keys.
Currently I am overriding ProcessCmdKey and catching arrow input and send an OnKeyPress event. This works, but I want to be able to use modifiers().... | C# and Arrow Keys | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-07T15:23:28.883 | 2014-02-24T06:25:15.813 | 2014-02-24T06:25:15.813 | 2,096,990 | 41 | [
"c#",
"user-interface",
"directx"
] |
4,849 | 1 | null | null | 18 | 1,018 | I have a WinForms program written on .NET 2 which hosts a webbrowser control and renders asp.net pages from a known server.
I would like to be able to drag, say, a tree node from a treeview in my winforms app into a specific location in the hosted web page and have it trigger a javascript event there.
Currently, I can... | Drag and Drop to a hosted Browser control | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-07T15:22:40.167 | 2011-09-09T09:51:48.833 | 2011-09-09T09:51:48.833 | 213,550 | 618 | [
"c#",
"browser"
] |
4,860 | 1 | 17,014 | null | 12 | 564 | We have a question with regards to XML-sig and need detail about the optional elements as well as some of the canonicalization and transform stuff. We're writing a spec for a very small XML-syntax payload that will go into the metadata of media files and it needs to by cryptographically signed. Rather than re-invent ... | Authoritative source on XML-sig | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-07T15:33:59.223 | 2014-09-10T20:14:22.060 | 2014-09-10T20:14:22.060 | 2,974,754 | 661 | [
"xml",
"xml-signature"
] |
4,839 | 1 | 4,877 | null | 8 | 3,521 | My dream IDE does full code hints, explains and completes PHP, Javascript, HTML and CSS. I know it exists!
so far, [Zend studio 6](http://www.zend.com/en/products/studio/features), under the Eclipse IDE does a great job at hinting PHP, some Javascript and HTML, any way I can expand this?
edit: a bit more information:... | How do I configure eclipse (zend studio 6) to hint and code complete several languages? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-07T15:12:10.530 | 2013-02-12T11:55:21.800 | 2013-02-12T11:55:21.800 | 1,201,415 | 547 | [
"zend-studio",
"code-completion"
] |
4,885 | 2 | null | 4,880 | 4 | null | I agree with you in that it is quite an annoyance to me (I also copy and paste my address into the second input).
That being said, for less savvy users, it is probably a good idea. Watching my mother type is affirmation that many users do not look at the screen when they type (when she's using her laptop she resembles... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T15:58:31.717 | 2008-08-07T15:58:31.717 | null | null | 271 | null |
4,886 | 2 | null | 4,880 | 11 | null | I would just use one input box. The "Confirm" input is a remnant form the "Confirm Password" method.
With passwords, this is useful because they are usually typed as little circles. So, you can't just look at it to make sure that you typed it correctly.
With a regular text box, you can visually check your input. So... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T16:00:04.847 | 2008-08-07T16:00:04.847 | null | null | 106 | null |
4,888 | 2 | null | 4,880 | 3 | null | I agree with Justin, while most technical folks will use the copy, paste method, for the less savvy users it is a good practice.
One more thing that I would add is that the second field should have the auto-complete feature disabled. This ensures that there is human input from either method on at least one of the fie... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T16:02:00.663 | 2008-08-07T16:02:00.663 | null | null | 312 | null |
4,883 | 2 | null | 4,870 | 1 | null | Without doing detailed analysis, I'd guess that it's faster because of the question marks. These allow the regular expression to be "lazy," and stop as soon as they have enough to match, rather than checking if the rest of the input matches.
I'm not entirely happy with this answer though, because this mostly applies t... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-07T15:57:16.133 | 2013-02-06T05:53:21.500 | 2013-02-06T05:53:21.500 | 938,024 | 55 | null |
4,880 | 1 | null | null | 27 | 4,047 | My organization has a form to allow users to update their email address with us.
It's suggested that we have two input boxes for email: the second as an email confirmation.
I always copy/paste my email address when faced with the confirmation.
I'm assuming most of our users are not so savvy.
Regardless, is this consi... | Is a "Confirm Email" input good practice when user changes email address? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-07T15:54:22.537 | 2010-05-21T08:27:07.290 | 2008-08-23T18:04:58.350 | 2,134 | 323 | [
"html",
"email",
"forms",
"confirm"
] |
4,877 | 2 | null | 4,839 | 2 | null | I think the JavaScript and CSS need to be in separate files for this to work.
Example of CSS autocomplete in Eclipse:
Starting to type `border`
> 
Then setting thickness
> 
Then cho... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-07T15:47:35.420 | 2012-03-28T19:54:48.593 | 2012-03-28T19:54:48.593 | 122,607 | 309,844 | null |
4,891 | 1 | 4,908 | null | 11 | 1,010 | When developing whether its Web or Desktop at which point should a developer switch from SQLite, MySQL, MS SQL, etc
| What point should someone decide to switch Database Systems | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-07T16:06:33.947 | 2019-07-22T14:38:24.287 | 2012-05-03T14:06:32.257 | 1,280,410 | 567 | [
"sql",
"database"
] |
4,910 | 2 | null | 2,328 | 2 | null | If you're already shuffling the ViewState around anyway, you might as well use an UpdatePanel. Its partial postbacks update the page's ViewState automatically.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T16:19:34.683 | 2008-08-07T16:19:34.683 | null | null | 60 | null |
4,884 | 1 | 13,918 | null | 20 | 1,995 | I have a custom built ajax [div] based dynamic dropdown.
I have an [input] box which; `onkeyup`, runs an Ajax search which returns results in `div`s and are drawn back in using `innerHTML`. These `div`s all have highlights `onmouseover` so, a typical successful search yields the following structure (pardon the semi-c... | How to keyboard down or up between dropdown "options"? | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-07T15:58:10.313 | 2019-01-18T08:01:20.077 | 2019-01-18T08:01:20.077 | 567,854 | 547 | [
"javascript",
"events",
"dom",
"keyboard"
] |
4,913 | 1 | 4,924 | null | 48 | 33,397 | Using VS2008, C#, .Net 2 and Winforms how can I make a regular Button look "pressed"?
Imagine this button is an on/off switch.
`ToolStripButton` has the Checked property, but the regular Button does not.
| How to make a button appear as if it is pressed? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-07T16:21:59.280 | 2017-12-22T10:09:05.793 | 2017-12-22T10:09:05.793 | 3,804,420 | 626 | [
"c#",
".net",
"winforms",
"user-interface",
"button"
] |
4,903 | 2 | null | 4,880 | 1 | null | I'd say that this is ok but should only be reserved for forms where the email is essential. If you mistype your email for your flight booking then you have severed the two-way link between yourself and the other party and risk not getting the confirmation number, here on StackOverflow it would only mean your Gravatar w... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T16:16:37.607 | 2008-08-07T16:16:37.607 | null | null | 199 | null |
4,897 | 2 | null | 4,884 | 1 | null | Off the top of my head, I would think that you'd need to maintain some form of a data structure in the JavaScript that reflects the items in the current dropdown list. You'd also need a reference to the currently active/selected item.
Each time `keyup` or `keydown` is fired, update the reference to the active/selecte... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-07T16:11:58.413 | 2016-02-10T16:10:51.103 | 2016-02-10T16:10:51.103 | 92,701 | 20 | null |
4,908 | 2 | null | 4,891 | 4 | null | It depends on what you are doing. You might switch if:
- - - - - -
There are many more reasons for switching and it all depends on your requirements and the attributes of the databases.
| null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-07T16:19:10.753 | 2019-07-22T14:38:24.287 | 2019-07-22T14:38:24.287 | 636 | 636 | null |
4,870 | 1 | null | null | 16 | 5,033 | I'm writing a Telnet client of sorts in C# and part of what I have to parse are ANSI/VT100 escape sequences, specifically, just those used for colour and formatting (detailed [here](http://www.termsys.demon.co.uk/vtansi.htm#colors)).
One method I have is one to find all the codes and remove them, so I can render the t... | Why is this regular expression faster? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T15:43:11.467 | 2013-02-06T05:53:21.500 | 2008-09-17T21:18:19.503 | 483 | 483 | [
"regex",
"ansi"
] |
4,911 | 1 | 5,057 | null | 33 | 32,140 | So in my simple learning website, I use the built in ASP.NET authentication system.
I am adding now a user table to save stuff like his zip, DOB etc. My question is:
1. In the new table, should the key be the user name (the string) or the user ID which is that GUID looking number they use in the asp_ tables.
2. If ... | Should I use the username, or the user's ID to reference authenticated users in ASP.NET | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-07T16:19:40.487 | 2015-12-17T11:59:36.797 | 2015-12-17T11:59:36.797 | 5,550,041 | 350 | [
"asp.net",
"authentication"
] |
4,918 | 2 | null | 4,911 | 35 | null | You should use some unique ID, either the GUID you mention or some other auto generated key. However, this number should never be visible to the user.
A huge benefit of this is that all your code can work on the user ID, but the user's name is not really tied to it. Then, the user can change their name (which I've f... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T16:26:40.910 | 2008-08-07T16:26:40.910 | null | null | 122 | null |
4,915 | 2 | null | 4,870 | 3 | null | The reason why #1 is slower is that [\d;]+ is a greedy quantifier. Using +? or *? is going to do lazy quantifing. See [MSDN - Quantifiers](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/3206d374(VS.80).aspx) for more info.
You may want to try:
```
"(\e\[(\d{1,2};)*?[mz]?)?"
```
That may be faster for you.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T16:24:02.570 | 2008-08-07T16:47:48.027 | 2008-08-07T16:47:48.027 | 309,844 | 309,844 | null |
4,924 | 2 | null | 4,913 | 94 | null | One method you can used to obtain this option is by placing a "CheckBox" object and changing its "Appearance" from "Normal" to "Button" this will give you the same functionality that I believe you are looking for.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T16:30:46.953 | 2008-08-07T16:30:46.953 | null | null | 567 | null |
4,929 | 2 | null | 4,880 | 2 | null | As long as a field is viewable, you do not need a confirm box. As long as you do some form validation to be sure that it is at least in valid format for an email address let the user manage the rest of the issues.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T16:34:49.350 | 2008-08-07T16:34:49.350 | null | null | 673 | null |
4,923 | 1 | 5,156 | null | 68 | 24,162 | I'm using `ColdFusion` to populate a template that includes HTML unordered lists (`<ul>`s).
Most of these aren't that long, but a few have ridiculously long lengths and could really stand to be in 2-3 columns.
Is there an HTML, ColdFusion or perhaps JavaScript (I'm accepting jQuery solutions) way to do this easily? ... | Wrapping lists into columns | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-07T16:30:45.613 | 2019-07-11T14:02:06.903 | 2019-07-11T14:02:06.903 | 10,221,765 | 666 | [
"javascript",
"jquery",
"html",
"css",
"cfml"
] |
4,931 | 2 | null | 4,880 | 18 | null | I've seen plenty of people type their email address wrong and I've also looked through user databases full of invalid email address.
The way I see it you've got two options. Use a second box to confirm the input, or send an authentication/activation email.
Both are annoyances so you get to choose which you think wil... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T16:36:19.953 | 2008-08-07T16:36:19.953 | null | null | 666 | null |
4,930 | 1 | null | null | 20 | 4,966 | I'm developing a Sharepoint application and use .NET AjaxControlToolkit library, we are adding a custom aspx page to the Sharepoint. Sharepoint 2007 run in quirks mode so I've made some modification to the AJAX library to make it behave like it normally should. The problem is, the other team already uses the AJAX libra... | How to reference to multiple version assembly | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-07T16:35:33.060 | 2020-02-24T11:02:21.587 | 2020-02-24T11:02:21.587 | 7,014,431 | 668 | [
"c#",
".net",
"sharepoint",
"assemblies"
] |
4,932 | 2 | null | 4,922 | 5 | null | Yes it is, try it out in a test. You will see "long" printed. It is widening because Java will choose to widen the int into a long before it chooses to autobox it to an Integer, so the hello(long) method is chosen to be called.
Edit: [the original post being referenced](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4242/why-c... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T16:36:25.447 | 2008-08-07T16:41:42.020 | 2017-05-23T12:31:55.937 | -1 | 122 | null |
4,919 | 2 | null | 4,794 | 12 | null | Here's what I would do.
- Compile your application to a SWF file. Then encrypt the SWF using AES.- Make a "wrapper" application that loads the encrypted SWF into a ByteArray using URLLoader- Use the [as3crypto](http://code.google.com/p/as3crypto/) library to decrypt the swf at runtime.- Once decrypted, use Loader.load... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T16:28:34.337 | 2008-08-07T16:28:34.337 | null | null | 22 | null |
4,936 | 2 | null | 4,911 | 0 | null | I agree with Mike Stone. I would also suggest only using a GUID in the event you are going to be tracking an enormous amount of data. Otherwise, a simple auto incrementing integer (Id) column will suffice.
If you do need the GUID, .NET is lovely enough that you can get one by a simple...
```
Dim guidProduct As Guid =... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T16:38:08.827 | 2008-08-07T16:38:08.827 | null | null | 71 | null |
4,934 | 2 | null | 3,666 | 2 | null | If your willing to force the user to also install another application, you could write a small C# or C++ windows service that simply opens a Socket that provides some kind of protocol for accessing the registry. Then in AIR you can use the Socket class to send messages to/from the C# service that would return results t... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T16:37:02.557 | 2008-08-07T16:37:02.557 | null | null | 22 | null |
4,940 | 2 | null | 3,666 | 0 | null | You could theoretically modify the actual registry files, but I would highly discourage that idea.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T16:39:35.690 | 2008-08-07T16:39:35.690 | null | null | 574 | null |
4,922 | 1 | 5,091 | null | 31 | 4,572 | I saw this in [an answer to another question](https://stackoverflow.com/a/4384/697449), in reference to shortcomings of the Java spec:
> There are more shortcomings and this is a subtle topic. Check [this](http://kiranthakkar.blogspot.com/2007/05/method-overloading-with-new-features-of.html) out:```
public class method... | Is this really widening vs autoboxing? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-07T16:30:32.180 | 2018-04-24T20:33:39.063 | 2020-06-20T09:12:55.060 | -1 | 670 | [
"java",
"primitive",
"autoboxing"
] |
4,939 | 1 | 5,098 | null | 18 | 2,520 | LINQ to SQL allows table mappings to automatically convert back and forth to Enums by specifying the type for the column - this works for strings or integers.
Is there a way to make the conversion case insensitive or add a custom mapping class or extenstion method into the mix so that I can specify what the string sho... | LINQ to SQL strings to enums | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-07T16:38:51.820 | 2012-02-27T21:15:42.390 | null | null | 193 | [
"linq-to-sql"
] |
4,937 | 2 | null | 2,756 | 13 | null | [Vim](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_(text_editor)) (or Emacs varying on religion) will always be my first answer to this question, over any point-and-click IDE.
As they write in [The Pragmatic Programmer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatic_Programmer)
> Choose an editor, know it thoroughly, and use it for all ed... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T16:38:30.950 | 2008-08-07T16:38:30.950 | 2020-06-20T09:12:55.060 | -1 | 613 | null |
4,902 | 2 | null | 4,046 | 14 | null | My Environment: Fedora 8; WAS 6.1 (as installed with Rational Application Developer 7)
The documentation is very poor in this area and there is a dearth of practical examples.
To run as described here, you need to run them from your server bin directory using the or commands.
```
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project ... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-07T16:16:00.010 | 2014-04-29T05:58:20.757 | 2014-04-29T05:58:20.757 | 1,540,450 | 304 | null |
4,956 | 2 | null | 4,949 | 0 | null | Each of you could run it locally, or on your own dev server (or even the same one with a different port...).
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T16:49:36.870 | 2008-08-07T16:49:36.870 | null | null | 26 | null |
4,942 | 1 | 4,978 | null | 14 | 1,447 | When asked to create system XYZ and you ask to do it in Python over PHP or Ruby, what are the main features you can mention when they require you to explain it?
| How to sell Python to a client/boss/person | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-07T16:43:21.937 | 2017-01-27T11:22:24.910 | 2017-01-27T11:22:24.910 | 7,453,178 | 1,384,652 | [
"php",
"python",
"ruby-on-rails",
"ruby"
] |
4,949 | 1 | 4,965 | null | 36 | 8,622 | We have a PHP project that we would like to version control. Right now there are three of us working on a development version of the project which resides in an external folder to which all of our Eclipse IDEs are linked, and thus no version control.
What is the right way and the best way to version control this?
We ... | Version control PHP Web Project | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-07T16:46:32.507 | 2019-01-18T10:58:13.427 | 2019-01-18T10:58:13.427 | 567,854 | 673 | [
"php",
"svn",
"version-control",
"cvs"
] |
4,954 | 1 | 4,972 | null | 11 | 3,289 | I have worked for 5 years mainly in java desktop applications accessing Oracle databases and I have never used regular expressions. Now I enter Stack Overflow and I see a lot of questions about them; I feel like I missed something.
For what do you use regular expressions?
P.S. sorry for my bad english
| What are good regular expressions? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-07T16:48:42.270 | 2009-09-17T09:00:25.187 | 2008-10-23T16:06:07.513 | 21,632 | 518 | [
"regex"
] |
4,959 | 2 | null | 4,954 | 0 | null | > A regular expression (regex or regexp for short) is a special text string for describing a search pattern. You can think of regular expressions as wildcards on steroids. You are probably familiar with wildcard notations such as `*.txt` to find all text files in a file manager. The regex equivalent is `.*\.txt$`.
A g... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T16:50:51.487 | 2008-08-25T11:25:46.907 | 2008-08-25T11:25:46.907 | 572 | 22 | null |
4,965 | 2 | null | 4,949 | 27 | null | We were in a similar situation, and here's what we ended up doing:
- - -
You can also set up individual development servers for each of the team members, on their workstations. I find that it speeds things up a bit, although you do have some more setup time.
We had to use a single development server, because we wer... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T16:56:03.330 | 2008-08-07T16:56:03.330 | null | null | 676 | null |
4,958 | 2 | null | 4,942 | 3 | null | Focus on the shorter time needed for development/prototype and possibly easier maintenance (none of this may apply against Ruby).
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T16:50:43.997 | 2008-08-07T16:50:43.997 | null | null | 613 | null |
4,968 | 2 | null | 4,949 | 0 | null | One possible way (there are probably better ways):
Each of you should have your own checked out version of the project.
Have a local copy of the server on your computer and test it there throughout the day. Then at the end of each day (or whenever), you merge together whatever you are ready to test, and you check it... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T16:57:58.960 | 2008-08-07T16:57:58.960 | null | null | 58 | null |
4,978 | 2 | null | 4,942 | 13 | null | This is one of those cases that really boil down to personal preference or situational details. If you're more comfortable and experienced with Python, then say so. Are they asking you to justify it because they're more comfortable with one of the other environments? After you're done, will the system be passed off to ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-07T17:04:25.810 | 2008-08-07T17:04:25.810 | null | null | 676 | null |