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5,909 | 1 | 5,985 | null | 56 | 55,053 | I'm downloading an entire directory from a web server. It works OK, but I can't figure how to get the file size before download to compare if it was updated on the server or not. Can this be done as if I was downloading the file from a FTP server?
```
import urllib
import re
url = "http://www.someurl.com"
# Download... | Get size of a file before downloading in Python | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-08T13:35:19.970 | 2022-11-28T01:16:33.860 | 2013-07-06T01:43:48.180 | 498,705 | 394 | [
"python",
"urllib"
] |
5,924 | 2 | null | 5,913 | 7 | null | ```
document.getElementById('newSkill').options[document.getElementById('newSkill').selectedIndex].value
```
Should work
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-08T13:41:11.737 | 2017-02-15T11:26:52.587 | 2017-02-15T11:26:52.587 | 3,030,434 | 482 | null |
5,923 | 2 | null | 5,916 | 3 | null | I use [Textmate](http://macromates.com/) (Mac only) which has Code folding and I find it really useful for folding functions, I know what my "getGet" function does, I don't need it taking up 10 lines of oh so valuable screen space.
I never use it to hide a for loop, if statement or similar unless showing the code to s... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T13:40:55.510 | 2008-08-08T13:40:55.510 | null | null | 1,384,652 | null |
5,921 | 2 | null | 5,913 | 1 | null | Does this get the correct answer?
```
document.getElementById("newSkill").innerHTML
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T13:40:04.780 | 2008-08-08T20:52:40.880 | 2008-08-08T20:52:40.880 | 1 | 721 | null |
5,927 | 2 | null | 5,909 | 7 | null | The size of the file is sent as the Content-Length header. Here is how to get it with urllib:
```
>>> site = urllib.urlopen("http://python.org")
>>> meta = site.info()
>>> print meta.getheaders("Content-Length")
['16535']
>>>
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T13:41:43.043 | 2008-08-08T13:44:47.390 | 2008-08-08T13:44:47.390 | 309,844 | 309,844 | null |
5,916 | 1 | 7,767 | null | 26 | 6,972 | For those of you in the Visual Studio environment, how do you feel about wrapping any of your code in #regions? (or if any other IDE has something similar...)
| How do you feel about code folding? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-08T13:38:30.260 | 2021-10-25T12:28:13.667 | 2008-10-20T09:02:02.300 | 1 | 396 | [
"visual-studio",
"folding"
] |
5,929 | 2 | null | 5,916 | 15 | null | This was talked about on [Coding Horror](https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-problem-with-code-folding/).
My personal belief is that is that they are useful, but like anything in excess can be too much.
I use it to order my code blocks into:
Enumerations
Declarations
Constructors
Methods
Event Handlers
Properties
| null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-08T13:42:09.080 | 2018-10-21T11:58:15.537 | 2018-10-21T11:58:15.537 | 1,033,581 | 36 | null |
5,930 | 2 | null | 5,916 | 1 | null | I personally use #Regions all the time. I find that it helps me to keep things like properties, declarations, etc separated from each other.
This is probably a good answer, too!
[Coding Horror](https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-problem-with-code-folding/)
Edit: Dang, Pat beat me to this!
| null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-08T13:42:56.757 | 2018-10-21T12:00:33.943 | 2018-10-21T12:00:33.943 | 1,033,581 | 721 | null |
5,939 | 2 | null | 5,913 | 9 | null | This should return the text value of the selected value
```
var vSkill = document.getElementById('newSkill');
var vSkillText = vSkill.options[vSkill.selectedIndex].innerHTML;
alert(vSkillText);
```
Props: @Tanerax for reading the question, knowing what was asked and answering it before others figured it out.
Edit... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T13:52:02.883 | 2008-08-08T14:18:05.390 | 2008-08-08T14:18:05.390 | 567 | 567 | null |
5,913 | 1 | 5,947 | null | 86 | 249,544 | This gets the value of whatever is selected in my dropdown menu.
```
document.getElementById('newSkill').value
```
I cannot however find out what property to go after for the text that's currently displayed by the drop down menu. I tried "text" then looked at [W3Schools](http://w3schools.com/) but that didn't have t... | Getting the text from a drop-down box | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-08T13:36:16.877 | 2021-10-25T12:28:28.320 | 2013-01-09T06:32:38.550 | 1,471,203 | 1,384,652 | [
"javascript",
"dom",
"browser",
"client-side"
] |
5,944 | 2 | null | 3,894 | 3 | null | You should never ever use the money datatype to store monetary values. If you do any calculations you will get truncated results. Run the following to see what I mean
```
DECLARE
@mon1 MONEY,
@mon2 MONEY,
@mon3 MONEY,
@mon4 MONEY,
@num1 DECIMAL(19,4),
@num2 DECIMAL(19,4),
@num3 DECIMAL(19,4),
@num4 DECIMAL(19,4)
SELE... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-08T13:53:26.377 | 2012-05-21T18:38:10.893 | 2012-05-21T18:38:10.893 | 866,022 | 740 | null |
5,938 | 2 | null | 5,909 | 6 | null | Also if the server you are connecting to supports it, look at [Etags](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_ETag) and the [If-Modified-Since](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_headers#Requests) and [If-None-Match](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_headers#Requests) headers.
Using these will take advantage ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T13:51:23.290 | 2008-08-08T13:51:23.290 | null | null | 309,844 | null |
5,943 | 2 | null | 3,255 | 8 | null | Big O notation is useful because it's easy to work with and hides unnecessary complications and details (for some definition of unnecessary). One nice way of working out the complexity of divide and conquer algorithms is the tree method. Let's say you have a version of quicksort with the median procedure, so you split ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T13:53:20.930 | 2008-08-08T13:53:20.930 | null | null | null | null |
5,935 | 2 | null | 5,909 | 28 | null | Using the returned-urllib-object method `info()`, you can get various information on the retrieved document. Example of grabbing the current Google logo:
```
>>> import urllib
>>> d = urllib.urlopen("http://www.google.co.uk/logos/olympics08_opening.gif")
>>> print d.info()
Content-Type: image/gif
Last-Modified: Thu, 0... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-08T13:47:26.373 | 2021-10-25T12:28:46.357 | 2021-10-25T12:28:46.357 | 17,169,050 | 745 | null |
5,945 | 2 | null | 5,892 | 0 | null | Presuming you haven't futzed around with the Project settings deleting something you ought not have (which is where I'd expect external dependencies like User32.lib to be):
Check Tools | Options | Directories | Libraries (going from memory here) and ensure that you're not missing the common-all-garden variety lib dire... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T13:54:35.763 | 2008-08-08T13:57:57.707 | 2008-08-08T13:57:57.707 | 257 | 257 | null |
5,954 | 2 | null | 5,916 | 0 | null | I prefer #regions myself, but an old coworker couldn't stand to have things hidden. I understood his point once I worked on a page with 7 #regions, at least 3 of which had been auto-generated and had the same name, but in general I think they're a useful way of splitting things up and keeping everything less cluttered.... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T13:57:31.657 | 2008-08-08T13:57:31.657 | null | null | 517 | null |
5,953 | 2 | null | 5,916 | 5 | null | While I understand the problem that Jeff, et. al. have with regions, what I understand is why hitting +,+ to expand all regions in a file is so difficult to deal with.
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-08T13:56:58.660 | 2015-04-21T16:00:52.503 | 2015-04-21T16:00:52.503 | 3,906,965 | 35 | null |
5,947 | 2 | null | 5,913 | 151 | null | Based on your example HTML code, here's one way to get the displayed text of the currently selected option:
```
var skillsSelect = document.getElementById("newSkill");
var selectedText = skillsSelect.options[skillsSelect.selectedIndex].text;
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T13:54:55.983 | 2008-10-02T13:24:05.037 | 2008-10-02T13:24:05.037 | 437 | 437 | null |
5,940 | 2 | null | 5,892 | 0 | null | windows.h is declared at the top of IOCompletionPort.h as an include - I was sick of seeing 7 lines just to include 1 file so I have wrapped it its own file and includes that itself. This also contains some additional #defines (i.e. ULONG_PTR) as our main app won't compile with the Platform SDK installed:-(
1. That is... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-08T13:52:29.013 | 2021-10-25T12:23:13.527 | 2021-10-25T12:23:13.527 | 17,169,050 | 342 | null |
5,956 | 2 | null | 5,880 | 0 | null | As with anything abstraction creates complexity, and so the complexity of doing N-tiered should be properly justified, e.g., does N-tiered actually benefit the system? There be small systems that will work best with N-tiered, although a lot of them will not.
Also, even if your system is small at the moment, you might... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T13:58:59.250 | 2008-08-08T13:58:59.250 | null | null | 372 | null |
5,952 | 2 | null | 5,509 | 2 | null | Are you sure you have debug build? Or rather you have all PDB's enabled? Try WindDbg on your executable and check with !lmi command what is visible.
Is whole code properly instrumented?
Also consider using something else like [free Visual Leak Detector](http://www.codeproject.com/KB/applications/visualleakdetector.as... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T13:56:40.487 | 2008-08-08T13:56:40.487 | null | null | 501 | null |
5,963 | 2 | null | 5,949 | 35 | null | I can't say about the web side of your question. But uuids are great for n-tier applications. PK generation can be decentralized: each client generates it's own pk without risk of collision.
And the speed difference is generally small.
Make sure your database supports an efficient storage datatype (16 bytes, 128 bits... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T14:03:00.833 | 2008-08-08T14:03:00.833 | null | null | 626 | null |
5,948 | 1 | 587,244 | null | 10 | 4,354 | In my web application I have a file which hold the current revision number via $Rev$. This work fine except, if I don't make any changes to that file, it doesn't get committed.
| Always Commit the same file with SVN | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-08T13:55:04.453 | 2021-10-25T12:26:52.947 | 2009-02-24T14:42:13.150 | 383 | 383 | [
"svn"
] |
5,958 | 2 | null | 5,949 | 2 | null | I work with a student management system which uses UUID's in the form of an integer. They have a table which hold the next unique ID.
Although this is probably a good idea for an architectural point of view, it makes working with on a daily basis difficult. Sometimes there is a need to do bulk inserts and having a UUI... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T13:59:46.673 | 2008-08-08T13:59:46.673 | null | null | 383 | null |
5,960 | 2 | null | 5,949 | 1 | null | I think using a GUID would be the better choice in your situation. It takes up more space but it's more secure.
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-08T14:00:49.323 | 2017-06-23T15:55:20.533 | 2017-06-23T15:55:20.533 | 444,991 | 299 | null |
5,964 | 2 | null | 2,527 | 0 | null | If you want the context menu to be dependent on the selected item you're best move I think is to use Jonesinator's code to select the clicked item. Your context menu content can then be dependent on the selected item.
Selecting the item first as opposed to just using it for the context menu gives a few advantages. The... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T14:04:11.503 | 2008-08-08T14:04:11.503 | null | null | 214 | null |
5,962 | 2 | null | 5,916 | 3 | null | I prefer partial classes as opposed to regions.
Extensive use of regions by others also give me the impression that someone, somewhere, is violating the Single Responsibility Principle and is trying to do too many things with one object.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T14:01:16.750 | 2008-08-08T14:01:16.750 | null | null | 372 | null |
5,965 | 2 | null | 4,738 | 10 | null | In addition to Ishmaeel's answer, the method `OpenMappedMachineConfiguration()` will always return a `Configuration` object. So to check to see if it loaded you should check the `HasFile` property where true means it came from a file.
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-08T14:04:32.857 | 2014-04-23T09:14:57.430 | 2014-04-23T09:14:57.430 | 2,264,626 | 507 | null |
5,970 | 2 | null | 5,948 | 1 | null | Depending on your client, some of them offer a pre-commit hook that you can implement something that simply "touches" the file and flags it as changed. If your using something like Visual Studio you could create a post build task that would "touch" the file but you would have to make sure that you do a build before com... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T14:07:49.357 | 2008-08-08T14:07:49.357 | null | null | 567 | null |
5,971 | 2 | null | 5,916 | 2 | null | I'm not a fan of partial classes - I try to develop my classes such that each class has a very clear, single issue for which it's responsible. To that end, I don't believe that something with a clear responsibility should be split across multiple files. That's why I don't like partial classes.
With that said, I'm on t... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T14:08:10.043 | 2008-08-08T14:08:10.043 | null | null | 20 | null |
5,917 | 2 | null | 5,908 | 6 | null | - `2000``sp_who2``dbo.sysprocesses`- `2005``sys.dm_exec_sessions`
Below is an example
```
SELECT COUNT(*) AS StatusCount,CASE status
WHEN 'Running' THEN 'Running - Currently running one or more requests'
WHEN 'Sleeping ' THEN 'Sleeping - Currently running no requests'
ELSE 'Dormant – Session is in prelogin state' ... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-08T13:38:51.070 | 2011-10-11T08:27:24.180 | 2011-10-11T08:27:24.180 | 805,252 | 740 | null |
5,949 | 1 | 5,963 | null | 80 | 27,092 | I've always preferred to use long integers as primary keys in databases, for simplicity and (assumed) speed. But when using a [REST](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer) or Rails-like URL scheme for object instances, I'd then end up with URLs like this:
```
http://example.com/user/783
```
An... | What's your opinion on using UUIDs as database row identifiers, particularly in web apps? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-08T13:55:48.773 | 2022-05-30T22:46:20.797 | 2008-08-08T18:34:04.140 | 726 | 726 | [
"database",
"web-applications",
"uuid"
] |
5,973 | 2 | null | 5,948 | 3 | null | > This work fine except, if I don't make any changes to that file, it doesn't get committed.
If the file never changes, why would you need it to commmit every single time?
[EDIT]
@Sean = I understand what he's trying to do, but if the file is never getting updated via a hook or some other process and therefore never ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T14:08:33.957 | 2008-08-08T14:21:42.513 | 2008-08-08T14:21:42.513 | 204 | 204 | null |
5,974 | 2 | null | 5,948 | 1 | null | @gradonmantank: Because he wants that file to be updated with the latest revision number. Did you read his question completely?
The pre-commit hook might work.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T14:12:15.463 | 2008-08-08T14:12:15.463 | null | null | 106 | null |
5,980 | 2 | null | 5,876 | 3 | null | try querying with a trailing dot to explicitly set the root:
```
host dlksfhoiahdsfiuhsdf.com.
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T14:17:08.760 | 2008-08-08T14:17:08.760 | null | null | 430 | null |
5,978 | 2 | null | 5,948 | 1 | null | I used to have a manual way of doing that. I'd run a script that would use sed to replace a comment with the current timestamp in my $Rev$ file. That way, the file contents would change and Subversion would commit it.
What I didn't do was to take that to the next step: using [Subversion's repository hooks](http://svnb... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T14:15:49.717 | 2008-08-08T14:15:49.717 | null | null | 726 | null |
5,972 | 2 | null | 5,916 | 10 | null | Sometimes you might find yourself working on a team where #regions are encouraged or required. If you're like me and you can't stand messing around with folded code you can turn off outlining for C#:
1. Options -> Text Editor -> C# -> Advanced Tab
2. Uncheck "Enter outlining mode when files open"
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T14:08:27.797 | 2008-08-11T12:34:06.550 | 2008-08-11T12:34:06.550 | 507 | 507 | null |
5,990 | 2 | null | 5,916 | 5 | null | I use #Region to hide ugly and useless automatically generated code, which really belongs in the automatically generated part of the partial class. But, when working with old projects or upgraded projects, you don't always have that luxury.
As for other types of folding, I fold Functions all the time. If you name the ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T14:24:50.663 | 2008-08-08T14:24:50.663 | null | null | 106 | null |
5,982 | 1 | null | null | 8 | 1,757 | Does anyone know why when using BindingUtils on the selectedItem property of a ComboBox you get the following warning? Any ideas how to resolve the issue?
The binding still works properly, but it would be nice to get rid of the warning.
```
warning: multiple describeType entries for 'selectedItem' on type 'mx.control... | How do I get rid of the "multiple describeType entries" warning? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-08T14:18:09.913 | 2021-10-25T12:24:03.480 | 2013-01-09T06:31:55.837 | 1,471,203 | 22 | [
"apache-flex",
"actionscript-3",
"air"
] |
5,966 | 1 | 10,778 | null | 17 | 1,693 | Basically, I've written an API to www.thetvdb.com in Python. The current code can be found [here](http://github.com/dbr/tvdb_api/tree/master/tvdb_api.py).
It grabs data from the API as requested, and has to store the data somehow, and make it available by doing:
```
print tvdbinstance[1][23]['episodename'] # get the ... | Best way to abstract season/show/episode data | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-08T14:05:45.290 | 2021-10-25T12:24:20.477 | 2017-03-29T20:45:42.267 | 604,687 | 745 | [
"python",
"data-structures"
] |
5,977 | 2 | null | 5,894 | 4 | null | If you're really looking for an application that you can modify try out [Family.Show](http://www.codeplex.com/familyshow) on CodePlex.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T14:15:08.047 | 2008-08-08T14:15:08.047 | null | null | 627 | null |
5,994 | 2 | null | 2,786 | 6 | null | One of the best things you can do if developing with Visual Studio for Mono is to get MoMA [http://www.mono-project.com/MoMA](http://www.mono-project.com/MoMA). This will inspect any number of assemblies that you build and generate a report showing potential Mono problems (e.g., methods not implemented in the mono libr... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T14:29:04.727 | 2008-08-08T14:29:04.727 | null | null | 748 | null |
5,997 | 1 | 6,018 | null | 6 | 1,463 | If I have .Net Form with a component/object such as a textbox that I need to access from a parent or other form I obviously need to "upgrade" the modifier to this component to an Internal or Public level variable.
Now, if I were providing a public variable of an int or string type etc. in my form class I wouldn't thin... | Should I provide accessor methods / Getter Setters for public/protected components on a form? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-08T14:35:25.353 | 2021-10-25T12:23:28.773 | 2015-10-08T00:57:25.790 | 67,579 | 445 | [
".net",
"winforms"
] |
6,005 | 2 | null | 5,997 | 2 | null | The reason for not implementing Getters and Setters for components on a form I believe is cause they wouldn't be "Thread Safe" .NET objects are suppose to be only modified by the form thread that created them, If you put on getter and setters you are potentially opening it up for any thread. Instead your suppose to imp... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-08T14:42:13.233 | 2021-10-25T12:23:28.773 | 2021-10-25T12:23:28.773 | 17,169,050 | 567 | null |
6,007 | 1 | 10,383 | null | 65 | 113,056 | How do I make [Log4net](http://logging.apache.org/log4net/index.html) only log Info level logs? Is that even possible? Can you only set a threshold?
This is what I have, and it logs Info and above as I would expect. Is there anything i can do to make it only log info?
```
<logger name="BrokerCollection.Model.XmlDocu... | Log4Net configuring log level | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-08T14:43:11.877 | 2017-11-01T13:25:59.577 | 2013-10-01T13:29:30.410 | 463,828 | 230 | [
"log4net"
] |
5,967 | 2 | null | 5,949 | 23 | null | I can answer you that in SQL server if you use a uniqueidentifier (GUID) datatype and use the NEWID() function to create values you will get horrible fragmentation because of page splits. The reason is that when using NEWID() the value generated is not sequential. SQL 2005 added the NEWSEQUANTIAL() function to remedy t... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T14:05:56.630 | 2008-08-08T14:05:56.630 | null | null | 740 | null |
5,992 | 2 | null | 5,948 | 4 | null | @gatekiller: It seems TortoiseSVN does support [Client Side Hooks](http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/tsvn_1.5_releasenotes.html#client-side-hooks).
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T14:28:17.087 | 2008-08-08T14:28:17.087 | null | null | 567 | null |
6,003 | 2 | null | 5,997 | 1 | null | I always do that, and if you ARE following an MVP design creating getter/setters for your view components would be a design requirement.
I do not understand what you mean by "does not comply with good programming practice". Microsoft violates of good programming practices to make it easier to create stuff on Visual S... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T14:41:48.697 | 2008-08-08T14:41:48.697 | null | null | 372 | null |
6,011 | 2 | null | 6,009 | 19 | null | Don't version that file. Version a template or something.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T14:46:15.020 | 2008-08-08T14:46:15.020 | null | null | 30 | null |
5,984 | 2 | null | 5,918 | 1 | null | I don't know about yahoo, but there is another mapping website that provides an API for India.
[http://biz.mapmyindia.com/APIs.html](http://biz.mapmyindia.com/APIs.html)
| null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-08T14:21:09.830 | 2021-10-25T12:27:22.547 | 2021-10-25T12:27:22.547 | 17,169,050 | 106 | null |
6,009 | 1 | 6,017 | null | 102 | 21,265 | Let's say you have a typical web app and with a file configuration.whatever. Every developer working on the project will have one version for their dev boxes, there will be a dev, prod and stage versions. How do you deal with this in source control? Not check in this file at all, check it with different names or do som... | How do you deal with configuration files in source control? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-08T14:44:25.570 | 2021-10-25T12:22:09.663 | 2008-08-17T02:13:54.053 | 55 | 556 | [
"svn",
"git",
"version-control",
"cvs"
] |
6,016 | 2 | null | 6,009 | 3 | null | @Grant is right.
I'm on a team with close to 100 other developers, and our config files are not checked into source control. We have versions of the files in the repository that are pulled with each check out but they don't change.
It's worked out pretty well for us.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T14:49:52.453 | 2008-08-08T14:49:52.453 | null | null | 20 | null |
6,017 | 2 | null | 6,009 | 73 | null | What I've done in the past is to have a default config file which is checked in to source control. Then, each developer has their own override config file which is excluded from source control. The app first loads the default, and then if the override file is present, loads that and uses any settings from the override ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T14:50:00.287 | 2008-08-08T14:50:00.287 | null | null | 726 | null |
5,993 | 2 | null | 5,948 | 1 | null | Committing the file wouldn't do you any good. The file isn't committed with the full version inside, it is replaced with just the keyword. If you look at the file inside the repository you will see this.
As such, you need to force the file to be updated in some way instead.
If you're on the Windows platform, you can us... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-08T14:28:52.887 | 2021-10-25T12:26:52.947 | 2021-10-25T12:26:52.947 | 17,169,050 | 267 | null |
5,985 | 2 | null | 5,909 | 39 | null | I have reproduced what you are seeing:
```
import urllib, os
link = "http://python.org"
print "opening url:", link
site = urllib.urlopen(link)
meta = site.info()
print "Content-Length:", meta.getheaders("Content-Length")[0]
f = open("out.txt", "r")
print "File on disk:",len(f.read())
f.close()
f = open("out.txt", "... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T14:21:51.107 | 2008-08-08T14:26:40.817 | 2008-08-08T14:26:40.817 | 309,844 | 309,844 | null |
6,019 | 2 | null | 6,009 | 1 | null | I version control it, but never push it to the other servers. If the production server requires a change, I make that change directly to the config file.
It may not be pretty, but it works just fine.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T14:50:48.617 | 2008-08-08T14:50:48.617 | null | null | 106 | null |
6,014 | 2 | null | 5,948 | 1 | null | You can use svn pre-commit-hooks to do it.
The general idea I have in mind is create one that before the commit will put the new revision number in the file (get it using svnlook) or maybe change a bogus property on the file (it has to change or SVN will ignore it).
For more information about pre-commit-hooks I found ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T14:48:29.213 | 2008-08-08T14:48:29.213 | null | null | 573 | null |
6,012 | 2 | null | 6,009 | 6 | null | Currently I have the "template" config file with an added extension for example:
```
web.config.rename
```
However, I can see an issue with this method if critical changes have changed.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T14:47:06.593 | 2008-08-08T14:47:06.593 | null | null | 383 | null |
6,020 | 2 | null | 6,009 | 2 | null | The checked-in, plain-vanilla version of app/web.config should be generic enough to work on all developer machines, and be kept up to date with any new setting changes, etc. If you require a specific set of settings for dev/test/production settings, check in separate files with those settings, as GateKiller stated, wi... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T14:51:35.400 | 2008-08-08T14:51:35.400 | null | null | 35 | null |
6,037 | 2 | null | 5,802 | 0 | null | We have a SProc that adds audit columns to a given table, and (optionally) creates a history table and associated triggers to track changes to a value. Unfortunately, company policy means I can't share, but it really isn't difficult to achieve.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T14:59:43.777 | 2008-08-08T14:59:43.777 | null | null | 377 | null |
6,018 | 2 | null | 5,997 | 5 | null | ""
If you mean the controls you're dragging and dropping onto the form, these are marked as private instance members and are added to the form's Controls collection. Why would they be otherwise? A form could have forty or fifty controls, it'd be somewhat unnecessary and unwieldy to provide a getter/setter for every co... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-08T14:50:30.130 | 2015-10-08T00:57:46.193 | 2015-10-08T00:57:46.193 | 67,579 | 419 | null |
6,081 | 2 | null | 6,009 | 2 | null | We use a template config file that is checked in to version control and then a step in our automated build to replace specific entries in the template file with environment-specific settings. The environment-specific settings are stored in a separate XML file that is also under version control.
We're using MSBuild in... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T15:41:29.137 | 2008-08-08T15:41:29.137 | null | null | 729 | null |
6,062 | 2 | null | 5,949 | 28 | null | For what it's worth, I've seen a long running stored procedure (9+ seconds) drop to just a few hundred milliseconds of run time simply by switching from GUID primary keys to integers. That's not to say a GUID is a bad idea, but as others have pointed out, joining on them, and indexing them, by definition, is not going... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T15:20:35.857 | 2008-08-08T15:20:35.857 | null | null | 751 | null |
6,052 | 2 | null | 5,949 | 3 | null | I don't think a GUID gives you many benefits. Users hate long, incomprehensible URLs.
Create a shorter ID that you can map to the URL, or enforce a unique user name convention ([http://example.com/user/brianly](http://example.com/user/brianly)). The guys at [37Signals](http://gettingreal.37signals.com/) would probably... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T15:10:04.240 | 2008-08-08T15:10:04.240 | null | null | 636 | null |
6,022 | 2 | null | 4,080 | 0 | null | I am looking for many answers to learn about new tools and consolidate this knowledge in a one question/thread, so I doubt there will be 1 true answer to this question.
My answer to my own question is that we use:
- -
Hudson also has a task-scanner plugin that will display a count of your TODO and FIXMEs, as well a... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T14:53:12.293 | 2008-08-08T14:53:12.293 | null | null | 235 | null |
6,083 | 2 | null | 6,080 | 0 | null | OpenID seems to be a very good alternative to writing your own user management/authentication piece. I'm seeing more and more sites using OpenID these days, so the barrier to entry for your users should be relatively low.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T15:42:21.303 | 2008-08-08T15:42:21.303 | null | null | 423 | null |
6,084 | 2 | null | 6,080 | 4 | null | I like OpenID, but I'd still go with the email address, unless your user community is very technically savvy. It's still much easier for most people to understand and remember.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T15:44:12.563 | 2008-08-08T15:44:12.563 | null | null | 676 | null |
6,086 | 2 | null | 6,009 | 10 | null | My team keeps separate versions of the config files for each environment (web.config.dev, web.config.test, web.config.prod). Our deployment scripts copy out the correct version, renaming it to web.config. This way, we have full version control on the config files for each environment, can easily perform a diff, etc.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T15:44:59.723 | 2008-08-08T15:44:59.723 | null | null | 423 | null |
6,080 | 1 | 6,088 | null | 17 | 6,978 | We are in the early design stages of a major rewrite of our product. Right now our customers are mostly businesses. We manage accounts. User names for an account are each on their own namespace but it means that we can't move assets between servers.
We want to move to a single namespace. But that brings the problem of... | What to use for login ID? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-08T15:40:58.903 | 2021-10-25T12:12:57.620 | 2008-08-23T17:23:39.073 | 2,134 | 758 | [
"authentication",
"web-applications",
"account"
] |
6,089 | 2 | null | 6,080 | 1 | null | I personally would say Email w/ Verification, OpenId is a great idea but I find that finding a provider that your already with is a pain, I only had an openId for here cause just 2 days before beta I decided to start a blog on blogspot. But everyone on the internet has an email address, especially when dealing with bus... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-08T15:46:36.227 | 2021-10-25T12:12:57.620 | 2021-10-25T12:12:57.620 | 17,169,050 | 567 | null |
6,087 | 2 | null | 2,988 | 1 | null | [Algorithms for Java: Part 5](https://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/com/0201361213) by Robert Sedgewick is all about graph algorithms and datastructures. This would be a good first book to work through if you want to implement some graph algorithms.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T15:46:05.617 | 2008-08-08T15:46:05.617 | null | null | null | null |
6,093 | 2 | null | 6,080 | 6 | null | OpenID is very slick, and something you should seriously consider as it basically removes the requirement to save local usernames and passwords and worry about authentication.
A lot of sites nowadays are using both OpenID and their own, giving users the option.
If you do decide to roll your own, I'd recommend using t... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T15:49:41.913 | 2008-08-08T15:49:41.913 | null | null | 722 | null |
6,096 | 2 | null | 6,076 | 3 | null | Is SearchButton a LinkButton? If so, the javascript that is written to the browser doesn't work properly.
Here is a good blog post explaining the issue and how to solve it:
[Using Panel.DefaultButton property with LinkButton control in ASP.NET](http://kpumuk.info/asp-net/using-panel-defaultbutton-property-with-link... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T15:53:23.030 | 2008-08-08T15:53:23.030 | null | null | 519 | null |
6,091 | 2 | null | 6,080 | 1 | null | I think that OpenID is definitely worth looking at. Besides giving you a framework in which to provide a unified id for customers, it can also provide large businesses with the ability to manage their own logins and provide a common login across all products that they use, including your own. This isn't that large of... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T15:48:06.567 | 2008-08-08T16:01:24.697 | 2008-08-08T16:01:24.697 | 121 | 121 | null |
6,078 | 2 | null | 3,400 | 0 | null | When it comes to full-text searching, for my money nothing beats [Lucene](http://lucene.apache.org). There is a [.Net port available](http://incubator.apache.org/projects/lucene.net.html) that is compatible with indexes created with the Java version.
There's a little work involved in that you have to create/maintain ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T15:34:28.997 | 2008-08-08T15:34:28.997 | null | null | 729 | null |
6,098 | 2 | null | 6,080 | 1 | null | If most of your customers are mostly businesses then I think that using anything other than email creates problems for your customers. Most people are comfortable with email address login and since they are a business customer will likely want to use their work email rather than a personal account. OpenID creates a sit... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T15:54:51.077 | 2008-08-08T15:54:51.077 | null | null | 757 | null |
6,076 | 1 | 7,740 | null | 7 | 1,676 | I am building a server control that will search our db and return results. The server control is contains an ASP:Panel. I have set the default button on the panel equal to my button id and have set the form default button equal to my button id.
On the Panel:
```
MyPanel.DefaultButton = SearchButton.ID
```
On the Con... | Default Form Button in FireFox | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-08T15:32:15.787 | 2021-10-25T12:20:50.397 | 2021-10-25T12:20:50.397 | 17,169,050 | 225 | [
"asp.net",
"vb.net"
] |
6,097 | 2 | null | 6,076 | 0 | null | I might be wrong and this might not make a difference but have you tried:
```
Me.Page.Form.DefaultButton = SearchButton.ID
```
instead of
```
Me.Page.Form.DefaultButton = SearchButton.UniqueID
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T15:53:58.130 | 2008-08-08T15:53:58.130 | null | null | 299 | null |
6,104 | 2 | null | 2,988 | 1 | null | Scene graphs for drawing graphics in games and multimedia applications heavily use trees and graphs. Nodes represents objects to be rendered, transformations, controls, groups, ...
Scene graphs usually have multiple layers and attributes which mean that you can draw only some node of a graph (attributes) in a specifi... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T15:58:36.530 | 2008-08-08T15:58:36.530 | null | null | 42 | null |
6,105 | 2 | null | 6,085 | 0 | null | If you are building on the you could tell it to be verbose and capture all of the output to a text file to archiving with each build.
`eg, msbuild <build_file> > myfile.txt`
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-08T15:59:58.680 | 2017-07-04T09:34:19.573 | 2017-07-04T09:34:19.573 | 5,423,108 | 636 | null |
6,088 | 2 | null | 6,080 | 42 | null |
Rational
1. Users don't change emails very often
2. Removes the step of asking for username and email address, which you'll need anyway
3. Users don't often forget their email address (see number one)
4. Email will be unique unless the user already registered for the site, in which case forward them to a forgot you... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T15:46:12.187 | 2008-08-08T16:33:47.223 | 2008-08-08T16:33:47.223 | 302 | 302 | null |
6,109 | 2 | null | 1,994 | 0 | null | In WPF and Silverlight the binding infrastructure takes care of the switching to the UI thread.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T16:19:17.923 | 2008-08-08T16:19:17.923 | null | null | 580 | null |
6,100 | 2 | null | 5,598 | 30 | null | Document versus RPC is only a question if you are using SOAP Web Services which require a service description ([WSDL](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Services_Description_Language)). RESTful web services do not not use WSDL because the service can't be described by it, and the feeling is that REST is simpler and easie... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-08T15:55:58.517 | 2014-01-14T21:18:44.873 | 2014-01-14T21:18:44.873 | 636 | 636 | null |
6,085 | 1 | 6,514 | null | 6 | 414 | Our automated build machine needs to archive the version numbers of the OS plus various tools used during each build. (In case we ever need to replicate exactly the same build later on, perhaps when the machine is long dead.)
I see the command "msinfo32.exe" can be used to dump a whole load of system version informat... | Gathering OS and tool version numbers for build archive purposes | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T15:44:25.823 | 2021-10-25T12:12:08.177 | 2008-09-09T22:13:47.767 | -1 | 755 | [
"build-automation",
"versions",
"archive"
] |
6,112 | 2 | null | 5,605 | 3 | null | Emacs ships with url.el and url-http.el. Although http-get.el, http-post.el and http-cookies.el are in vogue today. Here's the GitHub link where you can get it from.
[http://github.com/wfarr/dotfiles/tree/master/.elisp](http://github.com/wfarr/dotfiles/tree/master/.elisp)
Any other suggestions are also welcome.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T16:24:48.020 | 2008-08-08T16:24:48.020 | 2020-06-20T09:12:55.060 | -1 | 617 | null |
6,095 | 2 | null | 5,997 | 2 | null | This is a classic example of encapsulation in object-oriented design.
A Form is an object whose responsibility is to present UI to the user and accept input. The interface between the Form object and other areas of the code should be a data-oriented interface, not an interface which exposes the inner implementation de... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T15:51:49.770 | 2008-08-08T16:28:49.807 | 2008-08-08T16:28:49.807 | 756 | 756 | null |
6,110 | 1 | 6,120 | null | 6 | 852 | I've been handed a table with about 18000 rows. Each record describes the location of one customer. The issue is, that when the person created the table, they did not add a field for "Company Name", only "Location Name," and one company can have many locations.
For example, here are some records that describe the same... | Normalizing a Table with Low Integrity | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-08T16:19:20.607 | 2014-11-25T13:26:34.720 | 2014-11-25T13:26:34.720 | 2,641,576 | 754 | [
"database"
] |
6,117 | 2 | null | 6,113 | 10 | null | I'm not certain, but I believe you can put it in a config file and encrypt the config file.
Update: See Jon Galloway's post [here.](http://weblogs.asp.net/jongalloway/archive/2008/04/13/encrypting-passwords-in-a-net-app-config-file.aspx)
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-08T16:38:34.513 | 2015-12-15T14:38:20.887 | 2015-12-15T14:38:20.887 | 517 | 517 | null |
6,124 | 2 | null | 6,110 | 0 | null | I was going to recommend some complicated token matching algorithm but it's really tricky to get right and if you're data does not have a lot of correlation (typos, etc) then it's not going to give very good results.
I would recommend you submit a job to the [Amazon Mechanical Turk](http://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome)... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T16:44:48.480 | 2008-08-08T16:44:48.480 | null | null | 758 | null |
6,119 | 2 | null | 6,110 | 1 | null | I've had to do this before. The only real way to do it is to manually match up the various locations. Use your database's console interface and grouping select statements. First, add your "Company Name" field. Then:
```
SELECT count(*) AS repcount, "Location Name" FROM mytable
WHERE "Company Name" IS NULL
GROUP BY "... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T16:40:43.933 | 2008-08-08T17:33:30.720 | 2008-08-08T17:33:30.720 | 619 | 619 | null |
6,116 | 2 | null | 4,004 | 3 | null | The [class documentation](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.httplistener.aspx)
has this note:
> If you create an HttpListener using
https, you must select a Server
Certificate for that listener.
Otherwise, an HttpWebRequest query of
this HttpListener will fail with an
unexpected close of th... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T16:37:29.820 | 2008-08-08T16:37:29.820 | null | null | 525 | null |
6,111 | 2 | null | 1,898 | 9 | null | Brian gives a nice solution for converting it to a strongly typed collection.
Most of the CSV parsing methods given don't take into account escaping fields or some of the other subtleties of CSV files (like trimming fields). Here is the code I personally use. It's a bit rough around the edges and has pretty much no er... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T16:20:53.863 | 2008-08-08T22:21:38.207 | 2017-05-23T12:25:45.393 | -1 | 214 | null |
6,113 | 1 | 6,117 | null | 17 | 15,381 | The application my team is currently developing has a DLL that is used to perform all database access. The application can not use a trusted connection because the database is behind a firewall and the domain server is not. So it appears that the connection string needs to have a DB username and password. The DLL cu... | What is the best way to store connection string in .NET DLLs? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-08T16:32:30.440 | 2015-12-15T14:38:20.887 | 2013-01-09T06:07:18.333 | 1,471,203 | 702 | [
".net",
"sql-server",
"connection-string"
] |
6,123 | 2 | null | 6,113 | 0 | null | If the app is an ASP.NET app then just encrypt the connection strings section of your `web.config`.
If the app is a client application running on multiple machines, instead of storing the connection string locally, consider using a web service or some other kind of secure mechanism to store it centrally. This would fac... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-08T16:44:30.180 | 2015-04-21T01:07:58.787 | 2020-06-20T09:12:55.060 | -1 | 419 | null |
6,125 | 2 | null | 5,966 | 4 | null | Why not use SQLite? There is good support in Python and you can write SQL queries to get the data out. Here is the Python docs for [sqlite3](http://docs.python.org/lib/module-sqlite3.html)
---
If you don't want to use SQLite you could do an array of dicts.
```
episodes = []
episodes.append({'season':1, 'episode':... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T16:45:50.117 | 2008-08-08T16:53:10.973 | 2008-08-08T16:53:10.973 | 309,844 | 309,844 | null |
6,126 | 1 | 6,140 | null | 29 | 5,938 | It's something that's bugged me in every language I've used, I have an if statement but the conditional part has so many checks that I have to split it over multiple lines, use a nested if statement or just accept that it's ugly and move on with my life.
Are there any other methods that you've found that might be of u... | How do you handle huge if-conditions? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-08T16:45:58.540 | 2017-05-03T17:11:48.390 | 2010-05-10T15:50:40.153 | 157,882 | 1,384,652 | [
"language-agnostic",
"if-statement"
] |
6,120 | 2 | null | 6,110 | 1 | null | Please update the question, do you have a list of CompanyNames available to you? I ask because you maybe able to use Levenshtein algo to find a relationship between your list of CompanyNames and LocationNames.
---
> There is not a list of Company Names, I will have to generate the company name from the most desc... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T16:41:29.623 | 2008-08-08T17:14:55.157 | 2008-08-08T17:14:55.157 | 302 | 302 | null |
6,134 | 1 | 10,525,736 | null | 68 | 90,802 | I have a problem with some zombie-like processes on a certain server that need to be killed every now and then. How can I best identify the ones that have run for longer than an hour or so?
| How do you kill all Linux processes that are older than a certain age? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-08T16:50:46.643 | 2018-08-26T04:29:40.417 | 2016-05-09T06:11:31.793 | 116 | 726 | [
"linux",
"bash",
"unix",
"process"
] |
6,132 | 2 | null | 6,126 | 1 | null | I resort to separate boolean values:
```
Bool cond1 == (var1 && var2);
Bool cond2 == (var3 && var4);
if ( cond1 && cond2 ) {}
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-08T16:49:54.427 | 2008-08-08T16:49:54.427 | null | null | 32 | null |
6,131 | 2 | null | 6,126 | 5 | null | First, I'd remove all the `== true` parts, that would make it 50% shorter ;)
When I have big condition I search for the reasons. Sometimes I see I should use polymorphism, sometimes I need to add some state object. Basically, it implies a refactoring is needed (a code smell).
Sometimes I use [De-Morgan's laws](http:... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-08T16:49:48.530 | 2012-06-25T12:09:49.020 | 2012-06-25T12:09:49.020 | 573 | 573 | null |