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15,159 | 2 | null | 15,142 | 44 | null | > Advantages for in Code:- -
Actually, I think you have that backwards. IMHO, SQL in code is pain to maintain because:
- - - - -
Think of Stored Procs as methods you call from the database object - they are much easier to reuse, there is only one place to edit and in the event that you do change DB providers, the ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T20:07:42.433 | 2009-04-17T14:10:18.840 | 2009-04-17T14:10:18.840 | 1,185 | 149 | null |
15,165 | 2 | null | 7,252 | 0 | null | This may be a bit heartless, but the way you describe the situation it sounds like you need to fire this guy. Or at least make it clear: refusing to follow house development practices (including writing tests) checking in buggy code that other people have to clean up will eventually get you fired.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T20:12:24.687 | 2008-08-18T20:12:24.687 | null | null | 1,412 | null |
15,171 | 1 | 7,989,517 | null | 34 | 32,395 | In the linux file system, where should user scripts be placed?
I'm thinking specifically python scripts to be called by cron.
| User script location linux (debian etch) | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-18T20:15:13.933 | 2013-02-23T23:00:49.543 | 2009-04-08T19:14:15.097 | 16,417 | 479 | [
"linux",
"debian"
] |
15,168 | 2 | null | 9,435 | 3 | null | Here are two things you can do to improve support for iPhones without doing much work:
Make page scroll up to hide URL bar:
```
<script type="application/x-javascript">
if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('iPhone') != -1) {
addEventListener("load", function() {
setTimeout(hideURLbar, 0);
}, false);
}
... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-18T20:13:33.780 | 2016-11-30T10:48:03.190 | 2016-11-30T10:48:03.190 | 2,571,493 | 1,441 | null |
15,160 | 2 | null | 11,043 | 1 | null | I always use aliases in my queries and it is part of the code guidebook in my company. First of all you need aliases or table names when there are columns with identical names in the joining tables. In my opinion the aliases improve readability in complex queries and allow me to see quickly the location of each colum... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T20:07:51.030 | 2008-08-18T20:07:51.030 | null | null | null | null |
15,173 | 2 | null | 15,142 | 4 | null | Definitely easier to maintain if you put it in a stored procedure. If there's difficult logic involved that will potentially change in the future it is definitely a good idea to put it in the database when you have multiple clients connecting. For example I'm working on an application right now that has an end user w... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T20:15:39.220 | 2008-08-18T20:15:39.220 | null | null | 428,190 | null |
15,172 | 2 | null | 15,139 | 2 | null | [Nihilogic](http://blog.nihilogic.dk/) (not my site) does a lot of stuff with Javascript. They even have several [games](http://blog.nihilogic.dk/search/label/games) that they've made in Javascript.
I've also seen a neat roguelike game made in Javascript. Unfortunately, I can't remember what it was called...
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T20:15:24.820 | 2008-08-18T20:15:24.820 | null | null | 55 | null |
15,174 | 2 | null | 15,142 | 7 | null | Think of it this way
You have 4 webservers and a bunch of windows apps which use the same SQL code
Now you realized there is a small problem with the SQl code
so do you rather......
change the proc in 1 place
or
push the code to all the webservers, reinstall all the desktop apps(clickonce might help) on all the window... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T20:16:14.850 | 2008-08-18T20:16:14.850 | null | null | 740 | null |
15,177 | 2 | null | 15,171 | 19 | null | If you're talking about scripts created by a user that will be run from that users crontab, I typically put those in either a bin or scripts folder in the home directory, or if they're intended to be shared between users, a /usr/local/scripts directory.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T20:18:29.557 | 2008-08-18T20:18:29.557 | null | null | 1,322 | null |
15,163 | 1 | 15,591 | null | 3 | 1,309 | In some VB6 code, I have a handler for a TreeView's Collapse event:
```
Private Sub MyTree_Collapse(ByVal Node as MSComCtlLib.Node)
```
This is called whenever a node in the tree is collapsed, whether by the user or programmatically. As it turns out, through some roundabout execution, it may happen that this handle... | Prevent a TreeView from firing events in VB6? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T20:11:22.787 | 2009-11-28T19:32:36.030 | null | null | 863 | [
"events",
"vb6",
"treeview"
] |
15,176 | 1 | 15,198 | null | 10 | 1,476 | I have a product, X, which we deliver to a client, C every month, including bugfixes, enhancements, new development etc.) Each month, I am asked to err "guarantee" the quality of the product.
For this we use a number of statistics garnered from the tests that we do, such as:
- - -
and various other figures.
It is ... | How to gauge the quality of a software product | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-18T20:18:22.257 | 2013-11-14T22:01:05.127 | 2013-11-14T22:01:05.127 | null | 1,836 | [
"testing"
] |
15,182 | 2 | null | 15,176 | 1 | null | I think keeping it simple is the best way to go. Categorize your bugs by severity, and address them in order of decreasing severity.
This way you can hand over the highest-quality build possible (the number of significant bugs remaining is how I would gauge the quality of the product, as opposed to some complex statis... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T20:27:06.560 | 2008-08-18T20:27:06.560 | null | null | 1,467 | null |
15,183 | 2 | null | 14,963 | 0 | null | Just to clarify. The last (4th) point given by Dale was the problem. During the installation of SP1 the Status for ASP.NET and WebDAV became set to Prohibited under Web Service Extensions.
Why the installation of SP1 changed this setting on one server and not the other is a mystery that I wouldn't mind (but not expect... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T20:28:48.430 | 2008-08-18T20:28:48.430 | null | null | 1,463 | null |
15,181 | 2 | null | 15,142 | 8 | null | You list 2 pro-points for sprocs:
Performance - not really. In Sql 2000 or greater the query plan optimisations are pretty good, and cached. I'm sure that Oracle etc do similar things. I don't think there's a case for sprocs for performance any more.
Security? Why would sprocs be more secure? Unless you have a pret... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T20:24:53.133 | 2008-08-18T20:24:53.133 | 2017-05-23T12:17:54.817 | -1 | 905 | null |
15,184 | 2 | null | 15,124 | 1 | null | As a student of many languages/frameworks, I can't stress enough that you shouldn't be concentrating on the whizz-bang latest and greatest stuff. It's a solid understanding of the tried and true programming principles (see design patterns, DRY principle, OOP conventions, etc.) and general familiarity with the framework... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T20:29:14.810 | 2008-08-18T20:29:14.810 | null | null | 149 | null |
15,186 | 2 | null | 15,139 | 1 | null | You might run into performance issues given that you're completely at the mercy of the client's Javascript interpreter. Gears would be a nice way of data storage, but I don't think it has penetrated the market that much. You could just use cookies if you're not fussy about that kind of thing.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T20:31:02.513 | 2008-08-18T20:31:02.513 | null | null | 1,467 | null |
15,189 | 2 | null | 15,171 | 4 | null | I'm a strong beleiver that if a file is made by a user, it goes in his user directory (/home/username) if he didn't make it then it gets more complicated. I have in the past just put them in either /usr/local/bin, /bin, or /usr/local/scripts, I'm not sure about etch, but you need to check to make sure that /usr/local/s... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T20:32:26.363 | 2008-08-18T20:32:26.363 | null | null | 1,063 | null |
15,185 | 2 | null | 15,142 | 16 | null | I fall on the side. We build data access layer that's used by all all the apps (both web and client), so it's DRY from that perspective. It simplifies the database deployment because we just have to make sure the table schema's are correct. It simplifies code maintenance because we don't have to look at source code... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T20:29:35.213 | 2008-08-18T20:29:35.213 | null | null | 1,752 | null |
15,178 | 2 | null | 1,669 | 12 | null | One book not yet suggested but very important is ["Linkers and Loaders"](http://books.google.com/books?id=h34d_jr2iikC&dq=%22linkers+and+loaders%22&pg=PP1&ots=IxFkFWJ-8V&sig=GSlclmkezTRL6YYguGJmZsnkM3c&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result) by John Levine. If you're not using an external assembler, you'll need ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T20:18:32.163 | 2008-08-18T20:18:32.163 | null | null | 1,323 | null |
15,187 | 1 | null | null | 28 | 5,367 | I'd like to take an existing application (written in OCaml) and create an Emacs "interface" for it (like, for example, the Emacs GDB mode). I would prefer to do this without writing a ton of Lisp code. In MVC terms, I'd like for the View to be Emacs, but for the Model and Controller to remain (primarily) OCaml.
Does a... | Writing Emacs extensions in languages other than Lisp | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-18T20:31:15.583 | 2016-10-11T09:14:46.747 | null | null | 1,412 | [
"emacs",
"lisp",
"ocaml"
] |
15,194 | 2 | null | 15,171 | 0 | null | You can also add paths to your crontab file as shown in a [previous cron-related question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13204/why-doesnt-my-cron-job-work-properly#13220).
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T20:35:29.820 | 2008-08-18T20:35:29.820 | 2017-05-23T11:45:24.007 | -1 | 1,491 | null |
15,190 | 1 | null | null | 3 | 4,050 | I have a project group that contains a project I'm working on as well as some related component and packages. I prefer to keep the database links active during design-time.
I know how to write the code which would change the database file location, but in this case, I'm just using `".\data"` instead, for various desi... | Changing CURRENT save/default directory in Delphi 2007 without using Save-As | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-18T20:32:49.920 | 2013-05-03T11:40:18.710 | 2013-04-18T16:56:14.397 | 1,454,806 | null | [
"delphi",
"ide"
] |
15,195 | 2 | null | 15,176 | 2 | null | The question is who requires you to provide the stats.
If it's non-technical people, fake the stats. By "fake", I mean "provide any inevitably meaningless, but real numbers" of the kind you mentioned.
If it's technical people without a CS background, they ought to be told about the halting problem, which is undecidab... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T20:36:56.790 | 2008-08-18T20:36:56.790 | null | null | 1,648 | null |
15,193 | 2 | null | 15,142 | 13 | null | :
More easily code reviewed.
Less coupled, therefore more easily tested.
More easily tuned.
Performance is generally better, from the point of view of network traffic - if you have a cursor, or similar, then there aren't multiple trips to the database
You can protect access to the data more easily, remove direct a... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-18T20:35:25.810 | 2014-02-07T09:21:40.170 | 2014-02-07T09:21:40.170 | 3,030,434 | 1,836 | null |
15,204 | 1 | 15,210 | null | 17 | 44,945 | What is the best way to iterate through a strongly-typed generic List in C#.NET and VB.NET?
| What is the best way to iterate through a strongly-typed generic List<T>? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T20:49:22.443 | 2010-04-23T14:36:23.697 | 2008-08-19T00:27:28.480 | null | 1,224 | [
"c#",
".net",
"vb.net",
"generics",
"collections"
] |
15,196 | 2 | null | 15,176 | 0 | null | How long is a piece of string? Ultimately what makes a quality product? Bugs gives some indication yes, but many other factors are involved, Unit Test coverage is a key factor in IMO. But in my experience the main factor that effects whether a product can be deemed quality or not, is good understanding of the problem t... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T20:41:12.023 | 2008-08-18T20:41:12.023 | null | null | 230 | null |
15,199 | 2 | null | 15,176 | 1 | null | Most of the agile methodologies address this dilemma pretty clearly. You can't test everything. Neither can you test it infinite number of times before you release. So the procedure is to rely on the risk and likelihood of the bug. Both risk and likelihood are numerical values. The product of both gives you a RPN numbe... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T20:44:11.190 | 2008-08-18T20:44:11.190 | null | null | 1,781 | null |
15,203 | 1 | 15,271 | null | 5 | 7,089 | We are planning on moving for MS Source Safe (ouch) to SVN. We are working mostly in a Microsoft environment (windows, Visual Studio, .NET) and we have developers in multiple sites. I heard about VisualSVN and integration with visual studio. On the other hand I can get someone to host SVN for me and use TortoiseSVN. An... | Best way to deploy subversion (SVN) in a multisite windows environment | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-18T20:46:11.797 | 2022-12-20T21:59:44.427 | 2022-12-20T21:59:44.427 | 761,095 | 1,363 | [
"windows",
"svn",
"tortoisesvn",
"visualsvn-server"
] |
15,209 | 2 | null | 1,390 | 2 | null | No. For some things, you will need the `.net` Framework (like reporting services), and you can't install it (in a supported way) in a server core.
| null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-18T20:52:22.470 | 2018-05-10T16:52:32.417 | 2018-05-10T16:52:32.417 | 5,260,008 | 295 | null |
15,198 | 2 | null | 15,176 | 2 | null | I don't think you can ever really estimate the number of bugs in your app. Unless you use a language and process that allows formal proofs, you can never really be sure. Your time is probably better spent setting up processes to minimize bugs than trying to estimate how many you have.
One of the most important thing... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T20:43:17.573 | 2008-08-18T20:43:17.573 | null | null | 1,409 | null |
15,201 | 2 | null | 15,142 | 2 | null | Stored Procedures are maintainable because:
- -
Code repetition is the thing you can do when you're trying to build a maintainable application!
What happens when you find a logic error that needs to be corrected in multiple places? You're more apt to forget to change that last spot where you copy & pasted your co... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T20:44:20.893 | 2008-08-18T20:44:20.893 | null | null | 357 | null |
15,206 | 2 | null | 15,142 | 1 | null | @Keith
> Security? Why would sprocs be more secure?
Stored procedures offer inherent protection from [SQL Injection](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_injection) attacks.
However, you're not completely protected because you can still write stored procedures that are vulnerable to such attacks (i.e. dynamic SQL in a s... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T20:51:16.323 | 2008-08-18T20:51:16.323 | null | null | 357 | null |
15,210 | 2 | null | 15,204 | 32 | null | For C#:
```
foreach(ObjectType objectItem in objectTypeList)
{
// ...do some stuff
}
```
Answer for VB.NET from :
```
For Each objectItem as ObjectType in objectTypeList
'Do some stuff '
Next
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T20:52:25.980 | 2010-04-21T18:07:30.817 | 2010-04-21T18:07:30.817 | 131,926 | 810 | null |
15,217 | 2 | null | 14,410 | 5 | null | @Leon: Great answer.
@dbr: Modal editing is something that takes a while to get used to. If you were to build a new editor that fits this paradigm, how would you improve on VI/VIM/Emacs? I think that is, in part, an answer to the question. Getting it "right" is hard enough, competing agains the likes of VI/VIM/Emacs w... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T21:00:57.287 | 2008-08-18T21:00:57.287 | null | null | 611 | null |
15,207 | 2 | null | 15,047 | 20 | null | Let's first make sure we know what the Command pattern is:
> Command pattern encapsulates a request
as an object and gives it a known
public interface. Command Pattern
ensures that every object receives its
own commands and provides a decoupling
between sender and receiver. A sender
is an object that invok... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T20:51:49.070 | 2008-08-18T20:51:49.070 | null | null | 1,117 | null |
15,211 | 1 | 85,541 | null | 13 | 14,173 | we have a lot of users running in different shared and solo-owned repositories in Subversion. As part of our work, we do project-shared code and individual work, and we need to control access, ideally on a group basis.
Currenly, we use [SVNManager](http://svnmanager.sourceforge.net/) to allow users to manage access a... | Subversion Management Tools | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-18T20:53:06.430 | 2011-09-02T15:46:42.093 | 2008-09-14T15:14:34.613 | -1 | 170 | [
"linux",
"svn"
] |
15,218 | 2 | null | 15,204 | 4 | null | For VB.NET:
```
For Each tmpObject as ObjectType in ObjectTypeList
'Do some stuff '
Next
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T21:01:07.850 | 2008-08-18T21:01:07.850 | null | null | 1,795 | null |
15,212 | 2 | null | 15,204 | 1 | null | I may be missing something, but iterating through a generic list should be fairly simple if you use my examples below. The List<> class implements the IList and IEnumerable interfaces so that you can easily iterate through them basically any way you want.
The most efficient way would be to use a for loop:
```
for(i... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T20:54:56.630 | 2008-08-18T20:54:56.630 | null | null | 392 | null |
15,222 | 2 | null | 15,204 | 2 | null | Without knowing the internal implementation of a list, I think generally the best way to iterate over it would be a foreach loop. Because foreach uses an IEnumerator to walk over the list, it's up to the list itself to determine how to move from object to object.
If the internal implementation was, say, a linked list,... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T21:06:49.383 | 2008-08-18T21:06:49.383 | null | null | 615 | null |
15,226 | 2 | null | 15,142 | 8 | null | @Keith
> Security? Why would sprocs be more secure?
As suggested by Komradekatz, you can disallow access to tables (for the username/password combo that connects to the DB) and allow SP access only. That way if someone gets the username and password to your database they can execute SP's but can't access the tables o... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T21:12:39.933 | 2008-08-18T21:12:39.933 | null | null | 1,463 | null |
15,228 | 1 | 15,239 | null | 9 | 8,710 | I'm working on a site which needs to be able to support two or more looks, changable at runtime. I'd hoped to be able to handle the change with a CSS switch, but it looks like I'll need to use a different masterpage for each design.
So, what's the best way to set the masterpage at runtime? Page.MasterPageFile can only... | Setting an ASP.NET Master Page at runtime | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-18T21:17:15.523 | 2013-08-29T13:23:01.310 | 2008-08-28T21:30:41.090 | 1,790 | 5 | [
".net",
"asp.net",
"master-pages"
] |
15,219 | 1 | 18,507 | null | 4 | 16,377 | I'm using the Infragistics grid and I'm having a difficult time using a drop-down list as the value selector for one of my columns.
I tried reading the documentation but Infragistics' documentation is not so good. I've also taken a look at this [discussion](http://news.infragistics.com/forums/p/9063/45792.aspx) with n... | UltraWebGrid: How to use a drop-down list in a column | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-18T21:03:18.483 | 2010-04-21T09:07:05.480 | null | null | 810 | [
"c#",
"asp.net",
"grid",
"infragistics",
"ultrawebgrid"
] |
15,225 | 2 | null | 15,211 | 2 | null | There is an alternative called [KDESVN](http://kdesvn.alwins-world.de/trac.fcgi) which you might want to try. However, I have never used it, so I cannot vouch for it.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T21:12:38.777 | 2008-08-18T21:12:38.777 | null | null | 1,311 | null |
15,235 | 2 | null | 15,228 | 2 | null | Rather than two different master pages how about having one master that dynamically loads different user controls and content HTML literals?
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T21:19:30.230 | 2008-08-18T21:19:30.230 | null | null | 905 | null |
15,236 | 2 | null | 14,943 | 16 | null | Note that it is considered bad form for an application to completely prevent itself from closing. You should check the event arguments for the Closing event to determine how and why your application was asked to close. If it is because of a Windows shutdown, you should not prevent the close from happening.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T21:19:32.990 | 2008-08-18T21:19:32.990 | null | null | 267 | null |
15,234 | 2 | null | 15,139 | 16 | null | I've written several application in JS including a spreadsheet.
Upside:
- - - -
Downside:
- - - - -
Bottom line: Go for it. I did.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T21:19:27.827 | 2008-08-18T21:19:27.827 | null | null | 1,476 | null |
15,239 | 2 | null | 15,228 | 6 | null | I've done this once before, I did exactly what you described (Made all pages inherit from a custom page with an OnPreInit event). Also I had a custom Application_PreRequestHandlerExecute in my Global.asax.cs for setting Page.StyleSheetTheme for doing image/css changes that didn't require a different Master Page.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T21:22:01.363 | 2008-08-18T21:22:01.363 | null | null | 163 | null |
15,240 | 1 | 15,269 | null | 43 | 36,428 | I'd like to make a debug logging function with the same parameters as `printf`. But one that can be removed by the pre-processor during optimized builds.
For example:
```
Debug_Print("Warning: value %d > 3!\n", value);
```
I've looked at variadic macros but those aren't available on all platforms. `gcc` supports t... | How do you create a debug only function that takes a variable argument list? Like printf() | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-18T21:22:20.753 | 2023-02-19T05:19:33.373 | 2016-01-30T19:20:59.977 | 4,370,109 | 1,841 | [
"c++",
"c",
"c-preprocessor"
] |
15,242 | 2 | null | 15,228 | 1 | null | It's easy enough to handle PreInit and insert the one line of code it takes to load the proper Master Page.
```
this.Page.MasterPageFile = "~/default.master";
```
In the absence of some compelling reason not to go this route, that's what I'd do, regardless of where you handle the PreInit.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T21:24:43.637 | 2008-08-18T21:24:43.637 | null | null | null | null |
15,241 | 1 | 15,323 | null | 51 | 12,880 | The main web application of my company is crying out for a nifty set of libraries to make it in some way maintainable and scalable, and one of my colleagues has suggested CSLA. So I've bought the book but as :
>
I wanted to gauge the SOFlow community's opinion of it.
So here are my questions:
1. How may people ar... | Does anyone have any real-world experience of CSLA? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-18T21:23:50.877 | 2014-12-22T21:51:19.790 | 2014-12-22T21:51:19.790 | 3,474,146 | 1,116 | [
".net",
"frameworks",
"csla"
] |
15,243 | 2 | null | 14,943 | 12 | null | > I am using a form as a popup dialog to display a progress bar and I do not want the user to be able to close it.
If the user is determined to close your app (and knowledgeable) enough to press alt+f4, they'll most likely also be knowledgeable enough to run task manager and kill your application instead.
At least wi... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T21:25:12.700 | 2008-08-18T21:25:12.700 | null | null | 234 | null |
15,232 | 2 | null | 15,204 | 21 | null | With any generic implementation of IEnumerable the best way is:
```
//C#
foreach( var item in listVariable) {
//do stuff
}
```
There is an important exception however. IEnumerable involves an overhead of Current() and MoveNext() that is what the foreach loop is actually compiled into.
When you have a simple arr... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T21:18:00.187 | 2010-04-23T14:36:23.697 | 2010-04-23T14:36:23.697 | 905 | 905 | null |
15,248 | 2 | null | 15,240 | 1 | null | What platforms are they not available on? stdarg is part of the standard library:
[http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/stdarg.h.html](http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/stdarg.h.html)
Any platform not providing it is not a standard C implementation (or very, very old). For those... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T21:27:18.793 | 2008-08-18T21:27:18.793 | null | null | 414 | null |
15,238 | 2 | null | 15,204 | 5 | null | C#
```
myList<string>().ForEach(
delegate(string name)
{
Console.WriteLine(name);
});
```
Anonymous delegates are not currently implemented in VB.Net, but both C# and VB.Net should be able to do lambdas:
C#
```
myList<string>().ForEach(name => Console.WriteLine(name));
```
VB.Net
```
myList(... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T21:21:49.337 | 2010-04-22T02:08:53.873 | 2010-04-22T02:08:53.873 | 1,249 | 1,249 | null |
15,205 | 2 | null | 15,139 | 1 | null | Standalone games in GWT:
1. http://gpokr.com/
2. http://kdice.com/
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T20:50:06.170 | 2008-12-25T01:11:47.287 | null | null | 40 | null |
15,258 | 2 | null | 15,241 | 6 | null | We started using CSLA because we thought it would help with our model layer. Was sort of overkill and mostly all we use now is the SmartDate class, just because we're already linked to the library.
We thought the validation interface would really help us enforce business rules but it didn't work well with WCF and ser... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T21:34:26.893 | 2008-08-18T21:34:26.893 | null | null | 698 | null |
15,247 | 1 | 17,132 | null | 9 | 4,862 | Given a list of locations such as
```
<td>El Cerrito, CA</td>
<td>Corvallis, OR</td>
<td>Morganton, NC</td>
<td>New York, NY</td>
<td>San Diego, CA</td>
```
What's the easiest way to generate a Google Map with pushpins for each location?
| Simplest way to make a Google Map mashup? | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-18T21:26:57.750 | 2020-08-12T17:13:47.773 | 2020-08-12T17:13:47.773 | 9,154,188 | 116 | [
"html",
"google-maps"
] |
15,257 | 2 | null | 15,247 | 1 | null | I guess more information would be needed to really give you an answer, but over at Django Pluggables there is a [django-googlemap plugin](http://djangoplugables.com/projects/django-googlemap/) that might be of help.
Adam has a much better answer. When it doubt look at the API examples.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T21:34:26.347 | 2008-08-18T21:40:42.230 | 2008-08-18T21:40:42.230 | 1,797 | 1,797 | null |
15,253 | 2 | null | 15,142 | 2 | null | @Terrapin - sprocs are just as vulnerable to injection attacks. As I said:
> Always parametrise all queries - never inline something from user input and you'll be fine.
That goes for sprocs and dynamic Sql.
I'm not sure not recompiling your app is an advantage. I mean, you have run your unit tests against that code ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T21:32:57.177 | 2008-08-18T21:32:57.177 | null | null | 905 | null |
15,259 | 2 | null | 15,203 | 1 | null | You can get hosting of secure svn repositories from a variety of sources: [http://beanstalkapp.com/](http://beanstalkapp.com/) and many others. Often free if the usage (users, data, etc.) is limited.
VisualSVN does integrate with Visual Studio but not like SourceSafe does (and I mean this in a good way). It requires T... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T21:34:28.420 | 2008-08-18T21:34:28.420 | null | null | 748 | null |
15,254 | 1 | 15,343 | null | 47 | 16,252 | Is it possible to actually make use of placement new in portable code when using it for arrays?
It appears that the pointer you get back from new[] is not always the same as the address you pass in (5.3.4, note 12 in the standard seems to confirm that this is correct), but I don't see how you can allocate a buffer for... | Can placement new for arrays be used in a portable way? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-18T21:33:35.863 | 2023-02-11T07:01:34.470 | 2012-09-01T23:25:54.560 | 1,561,378 | 1,739 | [
"c++",
"arrays",
"compiler-construction",
"portability",
"overhead"
] |
15,262 | 2 | null | 15,240 | 11 | null | Here's something that I do in C/C++. First off, you write a function that uses the varargs stuff (see the link in Stu's posting). Then do something like this:
```
int debug_printf( const char *fmt, ... );
#if defined( DEBUG )
#define DEBUG_PRINTF(x) debug_printf x
#else
#define DEBUG_PRINTF(x)
#endif
DEBUG_P... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T21:35:49.917 | 2008-08-18T21:35:49.917 | null | null | 1,821 | null |
15,260 | 2 | null | 15,187 | 4 | null | I don't know if this will work for your particular problem, but I have been doing something similar using the shell-command-to-string function:
```
(shell-command-to-string
"bash -c \"script-to-exec args\"")
```
So for example, we have existing scripts written in python which will mangle a file, so the above let... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T21:34:59.747 | 2008-08-18T21:34:59.747 | null | null | 122 | null |
15,265 | 2 | null | 15,247 | 8 | null | Check out the [Google Maps API Examples](http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/examples/)
They make it pretty simple and their API documentation is great.
Most of the examples are for doing all the code in JavaScript on the client side, but there are APIs for other languages available as well.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T21:38:16.497 | 2008-08-18T21:38:16.497 | null | null | 194 | null |
15,264 | 2 | null | 15,139 | 7 | null | Another option for developing simple desktop like applications or games in JavaScript is [Adobe AIR](http://www.adobe.com/devnet/air/). You can build your app code in either HTML + JavaScript or using Flash/Flex or a combination of both. It has the advantage of being cross-platform (actually cross-platform, Linux, OS X... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T21:37:24.203 | 2008-08-18T21:37:24.203 | null | null | 1,538 | null |
15,261 | 2 | null | 8,154 | 2 | null | You might want to check MySQL's timeout variables:
```
show variables like '%timeout%';
```
You're probably interested in `wait_timeout` (less likely but possible: `interactive_timeout`). On Debian and Ubuntu, the defaults are 28800 (MySQL kills connections after 8 hours), but maybe the default for your platform is... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-18T21:35:39.387 | 2011-11-04T11:33:54.620 | 2011-11-04T11:33:54.620 | 1,813 | 1,813 | null |
15,270 | 2 | null | 15,203 | 5 | null | > I heard about VisualSVN and
integration with visual studio
Point to note, VisualSVN (the one that integrates with VStudio) is a server technology at all, it is simply a integrated GUI front end to SVN, and in fact works TortoiseSVN (which is to be installed). However, VisualSVN is GREAT and defnitely worth the... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T21:42:21.620 | 2008-08-18T21:42:21.620 | null | null | 194 | null |
15,269 | 2 | null | 15,240 | 25 | null | I still do it the old way, by defining a macro (XTRACE, below) which correlates to either a no-op or a function call with a variable argument list. Internally, call vsnprintf so you can keep the printf syntax:
```
#include <stdio.h>
void XTrace0(LPCTSTR lpszText)
{
::OutputDebugString(lpszText);
}
void XTrace(LPC... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-18T21:42:09.857 | 2016-04-09T23:06:06.310 | 2016-04-09T23:06:06.310 | 1,162,609 | null | null |
15,272 | 1 | 15,904 | null | 3 | 1,193 | I want a data structure that will allow querying . An item may just be a simple identifier or a more complex data structure, preferably the timestamp of the item will be in the item, rather than stored outside (as a hash or similar, wouldn't want to have problems with multiple items having same timestamp).
So far it s... | Aging Data Structure in C# | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T21:44:07.933 | 2010-04-23T15:32:59.280 | 2008-08-25T12:52:04.093 | 2,134 | 163 | [
"c#",
"linq",
".net-3.5",
"data-structures"
] |
15,271 | 2 | null | 15,203 | 3 | null | Hosting subversion is fantastically simple. At the risk of being labeled a brown nose (is there a badge for that?) Jeff Atwood did put up an article on installing subersion
- [http://blog.codinghorror.com/setting-up-subversion-on-windows/](http://blog.codinghorror.com/setting-up-subversion-on-windows/)
So really you... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-18T21:42:25.457 | 2015-07-28T17:19:27.987 | 2015-07-28T17:19:27.987 | 100,297 | 361 | null |
15,266 | 1 | 2,195,434 | null | 11 | 9,827 | Using , I am trying to access a web site that has an expired certificate. When I send the request, my delegate method is invoked with the following info:
```
-1203, NSURLErrorDomain, bad server certificate
```
My searches have only turned up one solution: a hidden class method in NSURLRequest:
```
[NSURLRequest se... | Objective-C/Cocoa: How do I accept a bad server certificate? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-18T21:40:01.657 | 2015-08-12T03:18:58.923 | 2017-05-23T10:33:44.020 | -1 | 544 | [
"objective-c",
"cocoa",
"networking"
] |
15,276 | 2 | null | 15,241 | 11 | null | I had experience with it several years ago. It is a brilliant architecture, but very complex, difficult to understand or change, and it's solving a problem that most of us developing web based applications don't necessarily have. It was developed more for windows based applications and handling multi-level undo, with... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T21:48:44.680 | 2008-08-18T21:48:44.680 | null | null | 1,219 | null |
15,278 | 2 | null | 2,482 | 10 | null | Joseph Albahari wrote a good overview of Threading in C# here:
[http://www.albahari.com/threading/](http://www.albahari.com/threading/)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T21:51:01.947 | 2008-08-18T21:51:01.947 | null | null | 1,807 | null |
15,281 | 2 | null | 15,240 | 5 | null | Ah, vsprintf() was the thing I was missing. I can use this to pass the variable argument list directly to printf():
```
#include <stdarg.h>
#include <stdio.h>
void DBG_PrintImpl(char * format, ...)
{
char buffer[256];
va_list args;
va_start(args, format);
vsprintf(buffer, format, args);
printf("%... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-18T21:54:15.777 | 2016-04-09T23:20:00.097 | 2016-04-09T23:20:00.097 | 15,168 | 1,841 | null |
15,274 | 2 | null | 15,228 | 0 | null | I'm curious what decides how the page should look? Is it the user clicking a button to change the theme? Is it based on the URL that was used to get to the site?
Code behind is supported in Master Pages, so you could put some logic in your one Master Page to decide what should be displayed.
I've seen several sites se... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T21:46:40.877 | 2008-08-18T22:19:44.993 | 2008-08-18T22:19:44.993 | 1,795 | 1,795 | null |
15,283 | 2 | null | 10,083 | 4 | null | If you are a bit of a Pythonista then [iPython](http://ipython.scipy.org/) is tough to beat. It has some of the more common shell commands coded in (i.e. ls, pwd, cd etc.), can also run any other shell command by prefixing with '!' (i.e. !latex file.tex) but also is a full Python shell with history, tab-complete, multi... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T21:56:55.100 | 2008-08-18T21:56:55.100 | null | null | 199 | null |
15,282 | 2 | null | 14,760 | 1 | null | > you can enter commands into the search box by prefixing them with a > symbol.
Wow, I didn't know that. Where do I find the list of possible commands?
I never actually use the search box, I've remapped + to incremental search, which is usually +
I find this cooler than the normal search - give it a go, you might ... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-18T21:55:43.090 | 2015-08-20T22:23:50.497 | 2015-08-20T22:23:50.497 | 7,226 | 234 | null |
15,279 | 2 | null | 14,801 | 2 | null | I tried it with a pojo and it seems to work. I had to modify your code a bit.
I think your interfaces were a bit off, but I'm not sure.
I assumed "Foo" was a concrete type, but if not I can do some more testing for you.
I just wrote a main method to test this.
I hope this helps!
```
public static void main(String[] ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T21:51:55.140 | 2008-08-18T21:51:55.140 | null | null | 1,310 | null |
15,167 | 2 | null | 15,139 | 5 | null | [SproutCore](http://www.sproutcore.com/) is a wholly JavaScript-hosted application framework, borrowing concepts particularly from Cocoa (such as KVO) and Ruby on Rails (such as using a CLI generator for your models, views and controllers). It includes Prototype, but builds plenty of stuff such as sophisticated control... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T20:12:46.747 | 2008-08-18T20:12:46.747 | null | null | 1,600 | null |
15,286 | 2 | null | 15,109 | 2 | null | I had LOTS of issues with developing installers (and software in general) for terminal server. I hate that damn thing.
Anyway, VS Setup Projects are just .msi files, and run using the Windows installer framework.
This will drop a log file when it errors out, they're called MSIc183.LOG (swap the c183 for some random n... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T22:00:58.103 | 2008-08-18T22:00:58.103 | null | null | 234 | null |
15,291 | 2 | null | 4,942 | 0 | null | I agree with mreggen. Tell them by working in Python you can get things done faster. Getting things done faster possibly means money saved by the client. In the least it means that you are working with a language you a more comfortable in, meaning faster development, debugging, and refactoring time. There will be less ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T22:06:02.693 | 2008-08-18T22:06:02.693 | null | null | 1,797 | null |
15,113 | 2 | null | 15,056 | 5 | null | This is one of the handy ones I use on HTML and XML files:
```
''''replaceunicodechars.vb
Option Strict Off
Option Explicit Off
Imports EnvDTE
Imports System.Diagnostics
Public Module ReplaceUnicodeChars
Sub ReplaceUnicodeChars()
DTE.ExecuteCommand("Edit.Find")
ReplaceAllChar(ChrW(8230), "…... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T19:27:01.330 | 2008-08-18T19:27:01.330 | null | null | 1,414 | null |
15,273 | 2 | null | 15,254 | 0 | null | I think gcc does the same thing as MSVC, but of course this doesn't make it "portable".
I think you can work around the problem when NUMELEMENTS is indeed a compile time constant, like so:
`typedef A Arr[NUMELEMENTS];````A* p = new (buffer) Arr;`
This should use the scalar placement new.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T21:45:14.640 | 2008-08-18T21:45:14.640 | null | null | 1,648 | null |
15,302 | 1 | 15,324 | null | 13 | 2,115 | What does it mean when you get or create a date in UTC format in JavaScript?
| What do the getUTC* methods on the date object do? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-18T22:14:34.427 | 2013-05-14T12:11:32.290 | 2013-05-14T12:11:32.290 | 2,139,775 | 1,538 | [
"javascript",
"date",
"utc"
] |
15,292 | 2 | null | 13,775 | 1 | null | It looks like you might be sending a poorly formed XML document to the service. Can you use Fiddler or something like that to get a copy of the actual call that is going to the web service? That would be a huge help in figured out what the issue is.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T22:07:24.877 | 2008-08-18T22:07:24.877 | null | null | 537 | null |
15,301 | 2 | null | 14,760 | 0 | null | > Wow, I didn't know that. Where do I
find the list of possible commands?
The commands are the same as those you can enter in the command window, so you can pretty much drive the entire IDE and debugger using it. There are a load of predefined aliases for common commands. Open up the command window and enter `alias`... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T22:13:33.430 | 2008-08-18T22:13:33.430 | null | null | 1,739 | null |
15,296 | 2 | null | 4,942 | 5 | null | It's one of the preferred languages over at Google - It's several years ahead of Ruby in terms of "maturity" (what ever that really means - but managers like that). Since it's prefered by Google you can also run it on the Google App Engine.
Mircosoft is also embracing Python, and will have a v2.0 of IronPython coming ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T22:10:13.077 | 2008-08-18T22:10:13.077 | null | null | 1,199,387 | null |
15,297 | 2 | null | 15,142 | 6 | null | Use your app code as what it does best: handle logic.
User your database for what it does best: store data.
You can debug stored procedures but you will find easier to debug and maintaing logic in code.
Usually you will end recompiling your code every time you change the database model.
Also stored procedures with ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T22:10:49.207 | 2008-08-18T22:26:41.687 | 2008-08-18T22:26:41.687 | null | null | null |
15,305 | 1 | 15,367 | null | 7 | 3,501 | I'm just about to make my first trip into the world of JNI (Java Native Interface) to provide file system change notifications from platform specific C/C++ code to Java. That is unless someone suggest some brilliant library for doing this that I've missed.
Being new to JNI I've managed to find much documentation on th... | JNI and Java: ant calling make or make calling ant? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-18T22:15:39.087 | 2019-12-29T14:10:47.387 | null | null | 1,849 | [
"java",
"ant",
"makefile",
"java-native-interface",
"automake"
] |
15,314 | 2 | null | 15,302 | 0 | null | getUTC is for converting times to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC, the acronym is ordered differently than what it stands for) which is the standard time based on the time in Greenwich, London.
The universal time is calculated using a time offset (in minutes when in JavaScript.) This offset is based on the time zone c... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T22:24:32.423 | 2008-08-18T22:24:32.423 | null | null | 392 | null |
15,316 | 2 | null | 15,272 | 2 | null | I think that an important consideration will be the frequency of querying vs. adding/removing. If you will do frequent querying (especially if you'll have a large collection) a B-tree may be the way to go:
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-tree](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-tree)
You could have some thread go throug... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T22:25:35.200 | 2008-08-18T22:25:35.200 | null | null | 1,807 | null |
15,319 | 2 | null | 14,872 | 0 | null | My friend fixed it by just using another directory, namely C:\TEMP. I think it was just a permissions thing.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T22:26:57.630 | 2008-08-18T22:26:57.630 | null | null | 1,659 | null |
15,277 | 2 | null | 15,142 | 179 | null | I am not a fan of stored procedures
> Stored Procedures are MORE maintainable because:
* You don't have to recompile your C# app whenever you want to change some SQL
You'll end up recompiling it anyway when datatypes change, or you want to return an extra column, or whatever. The number of times you can 'transpa... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-18T21:50:33.757 | 2013-09-19T15:28:31.400 | 2013-09-19T15:28:31.400 | 547,144 | 234 | null |
15,321 | 2 | null | 9,033 | 111 | null | If you're trying to use curly brackets inside a String.Format expression...
```
int foo = 3;
string bar = "blind mice";
String.Format("{{I am in brackets!}} {0} {1}", foo, bar);
//Outputs "{I am in brackets!} 3 blind mice"
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T22:29:45.020 | 2010-05-19T14:43:18.540 | 2010-05-19T14:43:18.540 | 63,550 | 1,690 | null |
15,315 | 1 | null | null | 3 | 331 | Is there a method for handling errors from COM objects in RDML? For instance, when calling Word VBA methods like `PasteSpecial`, an error is returned and the LANSA application crashes. I cannot find anything in the documentation to allow handling of these errors.
Actually, error handling in general is a weak-point for... | Is there a method for handling errors from COM objects in RDML? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-18T22:25:20.083 | 2012-06-18T21:48:38.557 | 2010-05-31T14:17:22.660 | 8,513 | null | [
"com",
"error-handling"
] |
15,324 | 2 | null | 15,302 | 14 | null | A date represents a specific point in time. This point in time will be called differently in different places. As I write this, it's 00:27 on Tuesday in Germany, 23:27 on Monday in the UK and 18:27 on Monday in New York.
To take an example method: getDay returns the day of the week in the local timezone. Right now,... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T22:32:34.233 | 2008-08-18T22:32:34.233 | null | null | 1,813 | null |
15,327 | 2 | null | 15,305 | 3 | null | As a simpler alternative to JNI, try JNA: [https://jna.dev.java.net/](https://jna.dev.java.net/), may solve this hassle for you and be simpler (assuming it can do what you want).
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T22:36:49.967 | 2008-08-18T22:36:49.967 | null | null | 699 | null |
15,326 | 1 | null | null | 11 | 24,873 | Here is the scenario:
I have a table with a margin-bottom of 19px. Below that I have a form that contains some fieldsets. One of them is floated right. The problem is that the margin-bottom is not getting the full 19px in IE7. I've gone through all of the IE7 css/margin/float bugs that I can think of and have tried r... | IE7 HTML/CSS margin-bottom bug | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-18T22:35:42.620 | 2019-08-29T10:35:10.330 | 2012-06-21T20:56:57.907 | 102,937 | 1,797 | [
"html",
"css",
"internet-explorer-7"
] |
15,335 | 2 | null | 14,760 | 2 | null | This is a really cool feature. I've poked through the [feature documentation](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1665hyw1(VS.80).aspx), and the accompanying [command list](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/c338aexd(VS.80).aspx), and not a heck of a lot is showing up in terms of turning it off.
If you want t... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T22:42:12.513 | 2008-08-18T22:42:12.513 | null | null | 1,370 | null |
15,339 | 2 | null | 15,302 | 0 | null | Further to Dan's remark about the acronym being different to what it stands for is a good reason: [UTC Abbreviation on Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time#Abbreviation)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-18T22:49:46.413 | 2008-08-18T22:49:46.413 | null | null | 1,035 | null |