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17,304 | 2 | null | 17,225 | 19 | null | I don't know of any default way to do this, but you can define a subroutine to do it for you:
```
sub execute {
my $cmd = shift;
print "$cmd\n";
system($cmd);
}
my $cmd = $ARGV[0];
execute($cmd);
```
And then see it in action:
```
pbook:~/foo rudd$ perl foo.pl ls
ls
file1 file2 foo.pl
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T01:47:02.190 | 2008-08-20T01:47:02.190 | null | null | 219 | null |
17,299 | 1 | 17,312 | null | 1 | 4,079 | I am trying to build a function in C/C++ to sort an array and replace each value with its "score" or rank. It takes in a double pointer array to an array of ints, and sorts the double pointers based on the dereferenced value of the integers. I have tried quite a few times to make it work, but can't get it down. Once... | How can I sort an array of double pointers based on the values they point to? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-20T01:44:58.323 | 2017-01-23T22:54:01.290 | 2017-01-23T22:54:01.290 | 4,492,932 | 522 | [
"c++",
"c",
"arrays",
"pointers",
"reference"
] |
17,307 | 2 | null | 17,289 | 0 | null | While using IFrames as a sort of master page/template for your pages might be a good thing, IFrames have a known negative impact to searchability/SEO.
It might also be unnecessary in the first place because once your images are loaded the first time (and with the large high-def images you have on your site, that woul... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-20T01:49:17.270 | 2015-08-20T22:22:29.690 | 2015-08-20T22:22:29.690 | 7,226 | 372 | null |
17,305 | 2 | null | 4,432 | 1 | null | I've used this method before. The Length property of StringBuilder is NOT readonly so subtracting it by one means truncate the last character. But you have to make sure your length is not zero to start with (which would happen if your list is empty) because setting the length to less than zero is an error.
```
public ... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-20T01:47:02.920 | 2016-02-07T14:33:38.247 | 2016-02-07T14:33:38.247 | 2,921,691 | 2,051 | null |
17,312 | 2 | null | 17,299 | 5 | null | You're close. You're referencing the address of the array items when you swap, which isn't necessary. The items in the array are pointers, and that's what needs to be swapped.
See below:
```
void SortArray( int ** pArray, int ArrayLength )
{
int i, j, flag = 1; // set flag to 1 to begin initial pass
int * ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T01:53:47.837 | 2008-08-20T02:05:08.213 | 2008-08-20T02:05:08.213 | 611 | 611 | null |
17,290 | 2 | null | 17,194 | 5 | null | The Case Statement is my best sql friend. You also need a table for time to generate your 0 rev in both months.
Assumptions are based on the availability of following tables:
> sales: Category | Revenue | Yearh |
Month
and
> tm: Year | Month (populated with all
dates required for reporting)
Example 1 with... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T01:28:08.567 | 2008-08-20T01:39:02.987 | 2008-08-20T01:39:02.987 | 1,293 | 1,293 | null |
17,320 | 1 | 17,345 | null | 8 | 8,703 | I am a student studying software development, and I feel programming, in general, is too broad of a subject to try to know everything. To be proficient, you have to decide which areas to focus your learning and understanding. Certain skill sets synergize with each other, like data-driven web development and SQL experie... | What areas of specialization within programming would you recommend to a beginner | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-20T01:59:08.710 | 2013-04-10T04:08:53.100 | 2013-04-10T04:08:53.100 | null | 1,880 | [
"language-agnostic"
] |
17,323 | 2 | null | 17,289 | 1 | null | > I should also have mentioned that I would like the banner rotation to keep moving. When the visitor clicks on a link, the banner rotation starts over. It would be nice if the "animation" kept rotating, regardless of the page the user visits.Blockquote
Well, in that case I would strongly recommend not doing that. The... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T02:00:59.470 | 2008-08-20T02:00:59.470 | null | null | 1,951 | null |
17,324 | 2 | null | 17,289 | 0 | null | You could have it load the main page once, then asynchronously load the other elements when needed (ajax). If you did that, an iFrame would not be necessary. [Here is an example of loading only the new material](http://www.dubioussecurity.com).
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-20T02:01:01.250 | 2013-04-02T15:15:15.730 | 2013-04-02T15:15:15.730 | 830,691 | 522 | null |
17,329 | 2 | null | 17,228 | 6 | null | [Eclipse CDT](http://www.eclipse.org/cdt) is really quite nice. I still have to resort to Emacs from time to time but I really love the indexing, call trees, type trees, refactoring support (thought it's nothing like Java refactoring), etc. Syntax highlighting is quite powerful if you customize it (can have separate ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T02:05:37.043 | 2008-08-20T02:05:37.043 | null | null | 825 | null |
17,332 | 2 | null | 17,299 | 3 | null | > Heh, this isnt homework.
If thats the case then consider using the STL to manage arrays and sort. Its easier to develop and maintain and the std::sort algorithm is asymptotically faster than bubble sort.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T02:08:49.593 | 2008-08-20T02:08:49.593 | null | null | 1,254 | null |
17,326 | 2 | null | 17,274 | -2 | null | Personally, I'd never use JPEG images on a website, mainly because of three reasons:
1. JPEGs often contains artifacts.
2. Quality is often proportional with filesize.
3. Does not support alpha transparency.
That said, I'd recommend you to use PNGs for images since it's lossless and a 24-bit palette (meaning full ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T02:03:19.187 | 2008-08-20T02:03:19.187 | null | null | 1,993 | null |
17,331 | 2 | null | 17,225 | 2 | null | Hmm, interesting how different people are answering this different ways. It looks to me like [mk](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17225/echo-system-commands-to-terminal-in-perl#17245) and [Daniel Fone](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17225/echo-system-commands-to-terminal-in-perl#17293) interpreted it as wanti... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T02:06:10.490 | 2008-08-20T02:06:10.490 | 2017-05-23T12:08:36.867 | -1 | 430 | null |
17,316 | 2 | null | 16,550 | 8 | null | I use MSBuild completely for building. Here's my generic MSBuild script that searches the tree for .csproj files and builds them:
```
<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003" DefaultTargets="Build">
<UsingTask AssemblyFile="$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)\bin\xUnit\xunitext.runner.msbuild.dll... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T01:56:06.473 | 2008-08-20T01:56:06.473 | null | null | 1,954 | null |
17,336 | 2 | null | 17,320 | 5 | null | Not to directly reject your premise but I actually think being a generalist is a good position in programming. You will certainly develop expertise in specific areas but it is likely to be a product of either personal interest or work necessity. Over time the stuff you are able to transfer across languages and problem ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T02:12:21.190 | 2008-08-20T02:12:21.190 | null | null | 1,104 | null |
17,337 | 2 | null | 16,167 | 1 | null | I'm not familiar with the tools you mentioned but the refactoring support for C++ in [Eclipse 3.4](http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/) is getting pretty useful and growing.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T02:13:17.290 | 2008-08-20T02:13:17.290 | null | null | 825 | null |
17,339 | 2 | null | 17,320 | 3 | null | I think the more important question is: What areas of specialization are you most interested in?
Once you know, begin learning in that area!
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T02:14:12.000 | 2008-08-20T02:14:12.000 | null | null | 868 | null |
17,333 | 1 | null | null | 640 | 603,618 | What would be the most efficient way to compare two `double` or two `float` values?
Simply doing this is not correct:
```
bool CompareDoubles1 (double A, double B)
{
return A == B;
}
```
But something like:
```
bool CompareDoubles2 (double A, double B)
{
diff = A - B;
return (diff < EPSILON) && (-diff < ... | What is the most effective way for float and double comparison? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-20T02:09:33.647 | 2022-09-04T13:44:52.200 | 2016-12-21T03:17:41.073 | 1,459,996 | 2,057 | [
"c++",
"algorithm",
"optimization",
"floating-point"
] |
17,335 | 2 | null | 17,299 | 2 | null | You should consider using `std::swap()` to do your swapping. If you do, call it as such:
```
swap( obj1, obj2 );
```
rather than:
```
std::swap( obj1, obj2 );
```
As the first calling semantic will allow the proper namespace lookup to find the correct overload if one exists. Be sure to have either:
```
using nam... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-20T02:12:01.927 | 2011-10-17T13:41:54.433 | 2011-10-17T13:41:54.433 | 496,830 | 1,366 | null |
17,341 | 2 | null | 17,333 | 206 | null | The comparison with an epsilon value is what most people do (even in game programming).
You should change your implementation a little though:
```
bool AreSame(double a, double b)
{
return fabs(a - b) < EPSILON;
}
```
---
Edit: Christer has added a stack of great info on this topic on a [recent blog post](h... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-20T02:14:51.013 | 2015-11-20T02:59:35.297 | 2015-11-20T02:59:35.297 | 908,939 | 611 | null |
17,340 | 2 | null | 4,432 | 5 | null |
I know it sounds like overkill for something that appears so simple, but as you can tell by the comments and code snippets, there's more than meets the eye. In addition to handling full CSV compliance, you'll eventually want to handle both reading and writing CSVs... and you may want file manipulation.
I've used [O... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T02:14:42.013 | 2008-08-20T02:14:42.013 | null | null | 237 | null |
17,343 | 2 | null | 17,274 | 1 | null | I had the same problem myself, I was just looking for something really easy to smash together a website quickly. First I went with just plain old HTML, but then I realised a simple CMS would be better.
I went for Wordpress. Wordpress is mostly known as a blogging platform, but in my opinion it is really great as a dea... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T02:16:46.143 | 2008-08-20T02:16:46.143 | null | null | 1,542 | null |
17,322 | 2 | null | 16,963 | 2 | null | I like the GridView control and have used it in several custom DotNetNuke modules for my company's web site. For one thing, using the built-in controls means less dependencies to worry about. And once I had it set up how I wanted it, I basically copied the code to other pages and just had to do minor tweaks.
I've foun... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T02:00:51.767 | 2008-08-20T02:00:51.767 | null | null | 741 | null |
17,342 | 2 | null | 17,274 | 2 | null | If you're familiar with html/javascript basics I'd look into a CMS - [wordpress](http://www.wordpress.org), [drupal](http://www.drupal.org), [joomla](http://www.joomla.org/), [nuke](http://phpnuke.org/), etc. All of these are free. Very often your web hosting company will install one of these by default which takes a... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T02:16:31.667 | 2008-08-20T02:16:31.667 | null | null | 225 | null |
17,344 | 2 | null | 16,689 | 4 | null | I realize you're talking about programs on the same machine, but I've always liked the idea of passing messages in XML over HTTP.
Your server could be a web server that's ready to accept an XML payload. Your client can send HTTP messages with XML in the body, and receive an HTTP response with XML in it.
One reason I... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T02:19:53.450 | 2009-11-24T00:45:57.390 | 2009-11-24T00:45:57.390 | 2,030 | 2,030 | null |
17,345 | 2 | null | 17,320 | 21 | null | Ben, Almost all seasoned programmers are still students in programming. You never stops learning anything when you are a developer. But if you are really starting off on your career then you should be least worried about the specialization thing. All APIs, frameworks and skills that you expect that gives you a long ter... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T02:20:32.873 | 2008-08-20T02:20:32.873 | null | null | 1,781 | null |
17,346 | 2 | null | 17,320 | 3 | null | I would think the greatest skill of all would be to adapt with the times, because if your employer can see this potential in you then they would be wise to hold on tightly.
That said, I would advise you dive into the area YOU would enjoy. .
Since my current employ is with an internet provider, I've found networki... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T02:22:26.673 | 2008-08-20T02:22:26.673 | null | null | 952 | null |
17,350 | 2 | null | 16,963 | 2 | null | They are one of the benefits of asp.net. Up until just recently I hated them, but the more you use them the easier they become, once you learn what setting you must change for which instances. Mainly I like the form view and listview the gridview still needs some work.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T02:38:46.353 | 2008-08-20T02:38:46.353 | null | null | 1,925 | null |
17,348 | 2 | null | 16,340 | 0 | null | [RuntimeHelpers.GetHashCode](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.runtime.compilerservices.runtimehelpers.gethashcode.aspx) might help:
> From Msdn:Serves as a hash function for a
particular type, suitable for use in
hashing algorithms and data structures
such as a hash table.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T02:32:20.193 | 2008-08-20T02:32:20.193 | null | null | 718 | null |
17,318 | 2 | null | 17,289 | 0 | null | This may work without CSS also, but if you use CSS to load the background and your server is configured correctly, the image should already only be downloaded once.
Usually the browser will request a resource by asking for it only if it has not been modified since the last time it was downloaded. In this case, the onl... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T01:58:19.633 | 2008-08-20T01:58:19.633 | null | null | 392 | null |
17,347 | 2 | null | 17,032 | 12 | null | I use it only when it's clearly obvious what var is.
clear to me:
```
XmlNodeList itemList = rssNode.SelectNodes("item");
var rssItems = new RssItem[itemList.Count];
```
not clear to me:
```
var itemList = rssNode.SelectNodes("item");
var rssItems = new RssItem[itemList.Count];
```
| null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-20T02:26:04.950 | 2013-01-09T16:59:25.533 | 2013-01-09T16:59:25.533 | 1,147 | 1,147 | null |
17,354 | 2 | null | 16,963 | 4 | null | Every single app we development at my company has grids (the apps are all behind the firewall). That includes both web apps and Winform apps. For the web apps it's the good ole gridview with custom sorting for the winform apps we use Janus grid. I'm trying to get the developers/users to think of a better user interf... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T02:42:26.953 | 2008-08-20T02:42:26.953 | null | null | 1,351 | null |
17,351 | 2 | null | 17,172 | 6 | null | In the interest of not reinventing the wheel, why not take a look at ACL/Authentication systems like [Zend ACL](http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.acl.html) and [Zend Auth](http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.auth.html)? Both can be used independently from the Zend Framework as a whole. Access Control is a t... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T02:39:00.863 | 2008-11-03T18:15:12.807 | null | null | 204 | null |
17,352 | 1 | 17,390 | null | 17 | 4,546 | In relation to this question on [Using OpenGL extensions](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14413/using-opengl-extensions-on-windows), what's the purpose of these extension functions? Why would I want to use them? Further, are there any tradeoffs or gotchas associated with using them?
| What are OpenGL extensions, and what are the benefits/tradeoffs of using them? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-20T02:40:40.953 | 2014-12-13T07:56:07.970 | 2017-05-23T12:33:29.600 | -1 | 803 | [
"opengl"
] |
17,357 | 2 | null | 17,231 | 2 | null | It is probably shell scripts that help take a company the future. I know just from a programming standpoint that I would waste a lot of time doing repetitive tasks that I have delegated to shell scripts. For example, I know most of the subversion commands for the command line but if I can lump all those commands into ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T02:46:48.737 | 2008-08-20T02:46:48.737 | null | null | 204 | null |
17,364 | 2 | null | 14,413 | 0 | null | @Kronikarz: From the looks of it, seems to be the way of the future. NVIDIA already ships it along with its [OpenGL SDK](http://developer.nvidia.com/object/sdk_home.html). And its latest release was in 2007 compared to GLEE which was in 2006.
But, the usage of both libraries looks almost the same to me. (GLEW has an ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T03:01:42.273 | 2008-08-20T03:01:42.273 | null | null | 1,630 | null |
17,359 | 1 | 9,524,359 | null | 306 | 734,298 | I've created a script that runs every night on my Linux server that uses `mysqldump` to back up each of my MySQL databases to .sql files and packages them together as a compressed .tar file. The next step I want to accomplish is to send that tar file through email to a remote email server for safekeeping. I've been abl... | How do I send a file as an email attachment using Linux command line? | CC BY-SA 4.0 | 0 | 2008-08-20T02:48:50.433 | 2022-12-07T15:40:00.707 | 2022-06-21T10:52:12.383 | 1,145,388 | 1,339 | [
"linux",
"email",
"command-line"
] |
17,366 | 2 | null | 17,359 | 13 | null | You can use [mutt](http://www.mutt.org/doc/manual/) to send the email with attachment
```
mutt -s "Backup" -a mysqldbbackup.sql backup@example.com < message.txt
```
| null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-20T03:09:39.137 | 2022-07-11T09:52:31.997 | 2022-07-11T09:52:31.997 | 1,145,388 | 1,750 | null |
17,367 | 2 | null | 17,231 | 16 | null | Using shell scripts is fine when you're using their strengths. My company has some class 5 soft switches and the call processing code and the provisioning interface is written in java. Everything else is written in KSH - DB dumps for backups, pruning, log file rotation, and all the automated reporting. I would argue... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T03:12:01.313 | 2008-08-20T03:12:01.313 | null | null | 430 | null |
17,370 | 1 | 17,371 | null | 23 | 43,666 | I've been using OpenGL extensions on Windows the [painful way](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14413/using-opengl-extensions-on-windows). Is GLEW the easier way to go? How do I get started with it?
| Using GLEW to use OpenGL extensions under Windows | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-20T03:19:34.400 | 2013-10-10T11:25:08.680 | 2017-05-23T12:33:29.757 | -1 | 1,630 | [
"opengl",
"glew"
] |
17,365 | 2 | null | 17,359 | 41 | null | From looking at `man mailx`, the mailx program does not have an option for attaching a file. You could use another program such as mutt.
```
echo "This is the message body" | mutt -a file.to.attach -s "subject of message" recipient@example.com
```
Command line options for mutt can be shown with `mutt -h`.
| null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-20T03:05:57.147 | 2022-07-11T09:52:14.460 | 2022-07-11T09:52:14.460 | 1,145,388 | 1,653 | null |
17,372 | 2 | null | 17,175 | 28 | null | Full cross-platform support for Windows, Mac and Linux with complete feature parity for each OS. ;)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T03:19:55.710 | 2008-08-20T03:19:55.710 | null | null | 1,347 | null |
17,363 | 2 | null | 16,829 | 0 | null | We migrated from the bad world of VSS with one giant repository (over 4G) before switching to SVN. I really struggled with how to set up the new repository for our company. Our company is very "old" school. It's difficult to get change I'm one of the younger developers and I'm 45! I am part of a corporate developme... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T02:59:28.240 | 2008-08-20T02:59:28.240 | null | null | 1,351 | null |
17,311 | 2 | null | 17,140 | 18 | null | If you want to perform more complicated operations, like reading the output of the external program, you may be better served by the [popen](http://man.he.net/man3/popen) system call. For example, to programmatically access a directory listing (this is a somewhat silly example, but useful an example), you could write ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T01:52:59.040 | 2008-08-20T01:52:59.040 | null | null | 1,199 | null |
17,373 | 1 | 27,791 | null | 13 | 18,496 | How do I open the default mail program with a Subject and Body in a cross-platform way?
Unfortunately, this is for a a client app written in Java, not a website.
I would like this to work in a cross-platform way (which means Windows and Mac, sorry Linux). I am happy to execute a VBScript in Windows, or AppleScript in... | How do I open the default mail program with a Subject and Body in a cross-platform way? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-20T03:20:02.090 | 2013-01-22T03:35:58.493 | 2008-08-26T02:56:18.230 | 338 | 338 | [
"java",
"windows",
"macos",
"email"
] |
17,377 | 2 | null | 1,644 | 24 | null | - - - - -
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T03:28:03.507 | 2010-07-14T15:14:13.027 | 2010-07-14T15:14:13.027 | 1,432 | 1,432 | null |
17,376 | 1 | 17,414 | null | 6 | 3,526 | I have a PHP script that runs as a CGI program and the HTTP `Authenticate` header gets eaten and spit out. So I would like to implement some kind of FORM based authentication. As an added constraint, there is no database so no session data can be stored.
I am very open to having a master username and password. I just ... | How would you implement FORM based authentication without a backing database? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-20T03:27:08.343 | 2019-08-24T16:08:46.053 | 2008-09-17T07:56:49.710 | 2,961 | 338 | [
"php",
"http",
"authentication",
"cookies",
"cgi"
] |
17,387 | 1 | 222,016 | null | 4 | 1,358 | I have a blogengine.net install that requires privatization.
I'm doing research work at the moment, but I have to keep my blog/journal private until certain conditions are met.
How can I privatize my blogEngine.net install so that readers must log in to read my posts?
| Privatizing a BlogEngine.Net Installation | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-20T03:39:30.857 | 2012-12-04T21:03:17.350 | 2008-09-01T06:10:26.607 | 209 | 209 | [
"c#",
".net",
"asp.net",
"blogs"
] |
17,371 | 2 | null | 17,370 | 37 | null | Yes, the (GLEW) is a painless way to use OpenGL extensions on Windows. Here's how to get started on it:
Identify the OpenGL extension and the extension APIs you wish to use. OpenGL extensions are listed in the [OpenGL Extension Registry](http://www.opengl.org/registry/).
Check if your graphic card supports the exten... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T03:19:50.827 | 2008-08-20T03:19:50.827 | null | null | 1,630 | null |
17,392 | 2 | null | 17,387 | 0 | null | I would think it's possible to do this in the web config file by doing something like the following:
```
<system.web>
<authorization>
<allow roles="Admin" />
<deny users="*" />
</authorization>
</system.web>
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T03:49:49.943 | 2008-08-20T03:49:49.943 | null | null | 493 | null |
17,391 | 2 | null | 7,540 | 1 | null | There's a [thorough discussion of this](http://shaver.off.net/diary/2008/05/25/fsyncers-and-curveballs/) that explains all of the fsync related problems that affected pre-3.0 versions of FF. In general, I have not seen the behaviour since then either, and really it shouldn't be a problem at all if your system isn't al... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T03:47:03.833 | 2008-08-20T03:47:03.833 | null | null | 1,432 | null |
17,374 | 2 | null | 16,963 | 4 | null | Using controls like the GridView are great for simple apps. Even if you are a server-side HTML bracket-twiddling ninja, they can make developing simple stuff much less time consuming. The problem is that they usually start to expose their shortcomings eventually, and you end up having to spend time tweaking them anywa... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T03:24:46.760 | 2008-08-20T03:24:46.760 | null | null | 1,436 | null |
17,390 | 2 | null | 17,352 | 23 | null | The OpenGL standard allows individual vendors to provide additional functionality through extensions as new technology is created. Extensions may introduce new functions and new constants, and may relax or remove restrictions on existing OpenGL functions.
Each vendor has an alphabetic abbreviation that is used in nam... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T03:43:32.627 | 2008-08-20T03:43:32.627 | null | null | 1,043 | null |
17,393 | 2 | null | 17,352 | 7 | null | are new features added to the , they are added by the OpenGL standards body and by the various graphics card vendors. These are exposed to the programmer as new function calls or variables. Every new version of the OpenGL specification ships with newer functionality and (typically) includes all the previous functional... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T03:51:09.863 | 2008-08-20T10:48:40.467 | 2008-08-20T10:48:40.467 | 1,630 | 1,630 | null |
17,394 | 2 | null | 17,373 | 0 | null | I have implemented this, and it works well on OS X. (Ryan's mention of the max URL length has not been codified.)
```
public void email(String subject, String body) throws Exception {
String cmd = "open mailto:";
cmd += "?subject=" + urlEncode(subject);
cmd += "&body=" + urlEncode(body);
Runtim... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T03:56:38.460 | 2008-08-20T03:56:38.460 | null | null | 338 | null |
17,313 | 2 | null | 17,032 | 0 | null | There's a [really good MSDN article](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb384061.aspx) on this topic and it outlines some cases where you can't use var:
The following restrictions apply to implicitly-typed variable declarations:
> - - - - -
I would recommend checking it out to understand the full implications of ... | null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-20T01:53:58.333 | 2021-07-11T16:38:08.297 | 2021-07-11T16:38:08.297 | 2,667,173 | 493 | null |
17,398 | 2 | null | 17,373 | 3 | null | > I had to re-implement URLencode
because Java's would use + for space
and Mail took those literally.
I don't know if Java has some built-in method for urlencoding the string, but this link [http://www.permadi.com/tutorial/urlEncoding/](http://www.permadi.com/tutorial/urlEncoding/) shows some of the most common ch... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T04:03:44.200 | 2008-08-20T04:03:44.200 | null | null | 1,627 | null |
17,408 | 2 | null | 15,851 | 1 | null | I think that labelled loops are so uncommon that you can pick whatever method of labelling works for you - what you have there makes your intentions with the continues perfectly clear.
---
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T04:26:04.957 | 2008-08-20T04:26:04.957 | null | null | 943 | null |
17,403 | 2 | null | 1,644 | 0 | null | I listen to and watch:
* this week in tech
* Cranky Geeks
* Security Now
* This Week in Media
* Tech5
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T04:15:35.717 | 2008-08-20T04:15:35.717 | null | null | 522 | null |
17,381 | 2 | null | 17,359 | 52 | null | Depending on your version of Linux it may be called mail. To quote @David above:
```
mail -s "Backup" -a mysqldbbackup.sql backup@email.example < message.txt
```
or also:
```
cat message.txt | mail -s "Backup" -a mysqldbbackup.sql backup@email.example
```
| null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-20T03:36:24.250 | 2022-06-21T10:52:28.510 | 2022-06-21T10:52:28.510 | 1,145,388 | 1,084 | null |
17,379 | 2 | null | 17,373 | 2 | null | Mailto isn't a bad route to go. But as you mentioned, you'll need to make sure it is encoded correctly.
The main problem with using mailto is with breaking lines. Use %0A for carriage returns, %20 for spaces.
Also, keep in mind that the mailto is considered the same as a URL of sorts and therefore will have the same... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T03:30:31.487 | 2008-08-20T03:59:15.943 | 2008-08-20T03:59:15.943 | 1,627 | 1,627 | null |
17,414 | 2 | null | 17,376 | 5 | null | A few ways you could do this.
1. htaccess -- have your webserver handle securing the pages in question (not exactly cgi form based though).
2. Use cookies and some sort of hashing algorithm (md5 is good enough) to store the passwords in a flat file where each line in the file is username:passwordhash. Make sure to sa... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T04:37:35.243 | 2008-08-20T04:43:15.573 | 2008-08-20T04:43:15.573 | 92 | 92 | null |
17,411 | 1 | null | null | 20 | 10,992 | How can you make the display frames per second be independent from the game logic? That is so the game logic runs the same speed no matter how fast the video card can render.
| How do you separate game logic from display? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-20T04:30:24.543 | 2019-10-26T10:12:43.697 | 2008-08-24T15:39:04.747 | 2,134 | null | [
"algorithm"
] |
17,389 | 2 | null | 17,373 | 4 | null |
You can prefill the subject line in the email by adding the subject preceded by '' after the email address.
So the link now becomes:
```
<a href="mailto:someone@yoursite.com?subject=Mail from Our Site">Email Us</a>
```
Mail can be sent to additional recipients either as carbon copies (cc) or blind carbon co... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-20T03:42:35.547 | 2013-01-22T03:35:58.493 | 2013-01-22T03:35:58.493 | 242 | 242 | null |
17,420 | 2 | null | 17,411 | -2 | null | From my experience (not much) Jesse and Adam's answers should put you on the right track.
If you are after further information and insight into how this works, i found that the sample applications for [TrueVision 3D](http://www.truevision3d.com/) were very useful.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T04:45:36.003 | 2008-08-20T04:45:36.003 | null | null | 1,061 | null |
17,419 | 2 | null | 17,376 | -1 | null | ... About salt, add the username in your hash salt will prevent someone who knows your salt and have access to your password file to write a rainbow table and crack number of your users's password.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T04:44:37.987 | 2008-08-20T04:44:37.987 | null | null | 446,497 | null |
17,422 | 2 | null | 17,359 | 80 | null | Or, failing mutt:
```
gzip -c mysqldbbackup.sql | uuencode mysqldbbackup.sql.gz | mail -s "MySQL DB" backup@email.com
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T04:48:25.263 | 2008-08-20T04:48:25.263 | null | null | 1,848 | null |
17,426 | 2 | null | 17,373 | 4 | null | `start` works fine in Windows (see below). I would use Java's built in UrlEscape then just run a second replacement for '+' characters.
```
start mailto:"?subject=My%20Subject&body=The%20Body"
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T04:53:10.837 | 2008-08-20T04:53:10.837 | null | null | 1,414 | null |
17,415 | 2 | null | 17,411 | 4 | null | You could make your game loop look like:
```
int lastTime = GetCurrentTime();
while(1) {
// how long is it since we last updated?
int currentTime = GetCurrentTime();
int dt = currentTime - lastTime;
lastTime = currentTime;
// now do the game logic
Update(dt);
// and you can render
Dra... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T04:37:39.860 | 2008-08-20T04:37:39.860 | null | null | 112 | null |
17,396 | 2 | null | 419 | 27 | null | I'm pretty sure there's no good way to force VB6 to unload the control.
Here's what I do... instead of running Visual C and Visual Basic side-by-side, run VB6 VC :
1. Load up VC
2. Open the project containing your COM objects
3. Edit, change, etc.
4. In VC, set the Output Executable to be VB6.EXE with appropriate c... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-20T03:58:09.347 | 2015-12-29T06:31:29.563 | 2015-12-29T06:31:29.563 | 3,787,519 | 4 | null |
17,424 | 2 | null | 17,411 | 8 | null | Koen Witters has a [very detailed article](https://dewitters.com/dewitters-gameloop/) about different game loop setups.
He covers:
- - - -
(These are the headings pulled from the article, in order of desirability.)
| null | CC BY-SA 4.0 | null | 2008-08-20T04:52:20.683 | 2019-10-26T10:12:43.697 | 2019-10-26T10:12:43.697 | 4,466,800 | 55 | null |
17,430 | 1 | null | null | -1 | 157 | We created a tool which converts a language called P2, a language similar to assembly which I think exists only in Japan, to C#. There are at least a hundred modules written in P2 and we want to verify if the conversion to C# is right? How can we test this?
| Language Conversion Testing | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T05:18:22.337 | 2014-04-02T23:12:25.200 | 2014-04-02T23:12:25.200 | 193,717 | 718 | [
"c#",
"testing"
] |
17,412 | 2 | null | 17,333 | 15 | null | The code you wrote is bugged :
```
return (diff < EPSILON) && (-diff > EPSILON);
```
The correct code would be :
```
return (diff < EPSILON) && (diff > -EPSILON);
```
(...and yes this is different)
I wonder if fabs wouldn't make you lose lazy evaluation in some case. I would say it depends on the compiler. You m... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T04:32:25.537 | 2008-08-20T05:20:55.153 | 2008-08-20T05:20:55.153 | 446,497 | 446,497 | null |
17,435 | 1 | null | null | 14 | 1,483 | Does anyone see server-side JavaScript taking off? There are a couple of implementations out there, but it all seems to be a bit of a stretch (as in, "doing it BECAUSE WE CAN" type of attitude).
I'm curious to know if anyone actually writes JavaScript for the server-side and what their experiences with it have been t... | Will server-side JavaScript take off? Which implementation is most stable? | CC BY-SA 2.5 | 0 | 2008-08-20T05:33:28.680 | 2012-09-23T16:02:09.863 | 2009-07-24T03:02:53.640 | 6,010 | 1,693 | [
"javascript",
"server-side"
] |
17,436 | 2 | null | 17,434 | 0 | null | When implementing tree algorithms for class, the framework code the prof gave us had the tree class as a friend of the node class.
It doesn't really do any good, other than let you access a member variable without using a setting function.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T05:33:58.337 | 2008-08-20T05:33:58.337 | null | null | 55 | null |
17,438 | 2 | null | 17,435 | 1 | null | I've never even heard of this, but it strikes me as using the wrong tool for the job. Since programming languages are just tools designed to help us solve some problem.
Why would you want to process something in Javascript when you can process it in PHP or ASP.NET which are designed specifically for this task?
Sure y... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T05:37:47.780 | 2008-08-20T05:37:47.780 | null | null | 1,366 | null |
17,429 | 2 | null | 17,370 | 6 | null | Personally I wouldn't use an exit command.
I would throw an exception so you can clear any other initialisation up at the end of the function.
ie:
```
try
{
// init opengl/directx
// init directaudio
// init directinput
if (GLEW_OK != glewInit())
{
throw std::exception("glewInit failed")... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T05:08:59.083 | 2008-08-20T05:08:59.083 | null | null | 342 | null |
17,441 | 2 | null | 3,234 | 0 | null | Yup [Keith](https://stackoverflow.com/users/905/keith) ugly but true. I ended up placing the MIME types that we would use into a database and then pull them out when I was publishing a file. I still can't believe that there is no autoritive list of types out there or that there is no mention of what is available in MSD... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-20T05:42:47.130 | 2017-09-25T19:34:53.857 | 2017-09-25T19:34:53.857 | 6,761,181 | 231 | null |
17,427 | 2 | null | 17,411 | 2 | null | There was an excellent article on flipcode about this back in the day. I would like to dig it up and present it for you.
[http://www.flipcode.com/archives/Main_Loop_with_Fixed_Time_Steps.shtml](http://www.flipcode.com/archives/Main_Loop_with_Fixed_Time_Steps.shtml)
It's a nicely thought out loop for running a game:
... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T05:06:03.600 | 2008-08-20T05:06:03.600 | null | null | 338 | null |
17,437 | 2 | null | 17,435 | -1 | null | I can't see most developers getting over their distaste for client-side JavaScript programming. I'd rather go to Java for server-side stuff before choosing JavaScript.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T05:36:57.987 | 2008-08-20T05:36:57.987 | null | null | 680 | null |
17,431 | 2 | null | 17,430 | 2 | null | You don't test the converter, you test the final code.
If the code doesn't compile, clearly your converter is failing. If the code compiles and your functionality tests fail, then you can tweak the code so that it passes the test. If you are fairly successful you should see that you only need to fix the modules that ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T05:21:20.177 | 2008-08-20T05:21:20.177 | null | null | 372 | null |
17,434 | 1 | 17,443 | null | 385 | 184,778 | I have been reading through the [C++ FAQ](http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/) and was curious about the [friend](http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/friend.html) declaration. I personally have never used it, however I am interested in exploring the language.
What is a good example of using `friend`?
---
Reading the FAQ a bit longer... | When should you use 'friend' in C++? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-20T05:29:32.793 | 2022-12-02T06:49:45.073 | 2017-06-15T18:54:27.863 | 3,980,929 | 716 | [
"c++",
"oop",
"encapsulation",
"friend"
] |
17,417 | 2 | null | 17,411 | 31 | null | I think the question reveals a bit of misunderstanding of how game engines should be designed. Which is perfectly ok, because they are damn complex things that are difficult to get right ;)
You are under the correct impression that you want what is called Frame Rate Independence. But this does not only refer to Render... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-20T04:41:16.140 | 2012-05-31T19:29:19.050 | 2012-05-31T19:29:19.050 | -1 | 1,366 | null |
17,450 | 2 | null | 17,435 | 1 | null | Well, plain ol' ASP supported JavaScript server-side years ago and everyone onad their dog used VBShiate instead. But I have to agree with the others: JS does not seem to be the right tool here - and I love to do client-side JS :)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T06:10:06.847 | 2008-08-20T06:10:06.847 | null | null | 1,814 | null |
17,444 | 2 | null | 17,434 | 1 | null | The tree example is a pretty good example :
Having an object implemented in a few different class without
having an inheritance relationship.
Maybe you could also need it to have a constructor protected and force
people to use your "friend" factory.
... Ok, Well frankly you can live without it.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T05:51:21.850 | 2008-08-20T05:51:21.850 | null | null | 446,497 | null |
17,457 | 2 | null | 17,274 | 3 | null | Plain old HTML is fine, just as long as you don't use tags like blink and marquee.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T06:18:48.820 | 2008-08-20T06:18:48.820 | null | null | 372 | null |
17,451 | 2 | null | 17,434 | 8 | null | You control the access rights for members and functions using Private/Protected/Public right?
so assuming the idea of each and every one of those 3 levels is clear, then it should be clear that we are missing something...
The declaration of a member/function as protected for example is pretty generic. You are saying ... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T06:10:58.263 | 2008-08-20T06:10:58.263 | null | null | 350 | null |
17,453 | 2 | null | 17,274 | 1 | null | why not simply use [Google pages](http://pages.google.com)?
Here is an [example](http://yellowfoxsoftware.googlepages.com/) of a website I did, takes about 2 hours, easy to maintain (not that I do (-: ) and FREE.
I think that suggesting you mess with HTML for what you need is crazy!
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T06:15:46.817 | 2008-08-20T06:15:46.817 | null | null | 350 | null |
17,458 | 2 | null | 15,979 | 1 | null | Actually, I have been using a workaround for this. I append a character to the id, eg: A1, A2, etc.
With such values in the field, it is possible to search using the query `id:A*`
But would love to find whether a true solution exists.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T06:19:10.023 | 2008-08-20T06:19:10.023 | null | null | 1,448 | null |
17,443 | 2 | null | 17,434 | 362 | null | Firstly (IMO) don't listen to people who say `friend` is not useful. It IS useful. In many situations you will have objects with data or functionality that are not intended to be publicly available. This is particularly true of large codebases with many authors who may only be superficially familiar with different area... | null | CC BY-SA 3.0 | null | 2008-08-20T05:48:22.717 | 2017-01-17T14:09:28.503 | 2017-01-17T14:09:28.503 | null | 1,043 | null |
17,456 | 2 | null | 17,435 | 1 | null | I personally did a whole site in server side JavaScript using ASP. I found it quite enjoyable because I was able to have some good code reuse. This included:
- - -
Coupled with a higher-level modeling tool and code gen, I had fun with that project.
I have no numbers on perf unfortunately, since it is used only on a... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T06:18:23.457 | 2008-08-20T06:18:23.457 | null | null | 338 | null |
17,448 | 2 | null | 15,023 | 4 | null | You've got to love .NET reflection. I worked on the WPF team and can't quite think of anything better off the top of my head. The following code produces this list on my machine:
```
Bitmap Encoders:
System.Windows.Media.Imaging.BmpBitmapEncoder
System.Windows.Media.Imaging.GifBitmapEncoder
System.Windows.Media.Imagin... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T06:03:18.313 | 2008-08-20T06:03:18.313 | null | null | 338 | null |
17,465 | 2 | null | 17,175 | 0 | null | What about some way to be able to wrap Silverlight around AIR and be able to run it as a client in a multi platform way... I guess this is more of a request to the Adobe team rather than the Microsoft one, yet I should be cool!
Cheers!
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T06:26:22.360 | 2008-08-20T06:26:22.360 | null | null | 1,549 | null |
17,471 | 2 | null | 17,469 | 0 | null | It is possible for other applications to register themselves as a handler for files with a particular extension. Quicktime has (or at least had) a tendency to do this with .png files, so a .png file would display fine inline in an HTML page, but with an URL referring directly to the .png file, IE would immediately dele... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T06:38:57.527 | 2008-08-20T06:38:57.527 | null | null | 893 | null |
17,468 | 2 | null | 17,225 | 2 | null | Another technique to combine with the others mentioned in the answers is to use the `tee` command. For example:
```
open(F, "ls | tee /dev/tty |");
while (<F>) {
print length($_), "\n";
}
close(F);
```
This will both print out the files in the current directory (as a consequence of `tee /dev/tty`) and also print... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T06:33:49.673 | 2008-08-20T06:33:49.673 | null | null | 893 | null |
17,459 | 2 | null | 17,274 | 3 | null | I personally love tools like [CityDesk](http://www.fogcreek.com/CityDesk/).
And I'm not just plugging Joel. (There are others out there in this class I'm sure.) The point is they make making a static website very easy:
- - - -
For a dynamic collaborative site, I would just install one of many open source CMSs avail... | null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T06:23:16.347 | 2008-08-20T06:23:16.347 | null | null | 338 | null |
17,476 | 2 | null | 17,469 | 1 | null | Maybe it is related to this: [http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=003j8d](http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=003j8d)
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T06:44:48.073 | 2008-08-20T06:44:48.073 | null | null | 1,786 | null |
17,480 | 2 | null | 17,469 | 3 | null | It won't load in IE7 on my Vista x64 box. Also Paint.net won't save the file, saying "There was an unspecified error while saving the file."
EDIT:
In paint.net I did a Select All, New File, Paste, Save, and now it works fine. I'm guessing that file has some weird corruption.
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T06:49:10.950 | 2008-08-20T06:49:10.950 | null | null | 100 | null |
17,485 | 2 | null | 17,483 | 0 | null | If you address the child class as a type of its parent, then a non-virtual function will call the parent class's version.
ie:
```
Parent* obj = new Child();
```
| null | CC BY-SA 2.5 | null | 2008-08-20T06:53:36.647 | 2008-08-20T06:53:36.647 | null | null | 55 | null |
17,483 | 1 | 17,486 | null | 39 | 21,623 | Is anyone aware of a language feature or technique in C++ to prevent a child class from over riding a particular method in the parent class?
```
class Base {
public:
bool someGuaranteedResult() { return true; }
};
class Child : public Base {
public:
bool someGuaranteedResult() { return false; /* Haha I broke ... | Is there a way to prevent a method from being overridden in subclasses? | CC BY-SA 3.0 | 0 | 2008-08-20T06:50:32.910 | 2017-07-26T18:35:15.660 | 2013-06-05T07:50:02.870 | 1,025,391 | 1,366 | [
"c++",
"overriding",
"metrowerks"
] |