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I have always been skeptical of rewriting working code - porting code is no exception to this. However, with the advent of TDD and automated testing it is much more reasonable to rewrite and refactor code.
Does anyone know if there is a TDD tool that can be used for porting old code? Ideally you…
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This is very basic question from programming point of view but as I am in learning phase, I thought I would better ask this question rather than having a misunderstanding or narrow knowledge about the topic.
So do excuse me if somehow I mess it up.
Question:
Let's say I have class A,B,C and D…
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Is there an accepted general term that subsumes the concepts of variables, class instances and arrays? Basically "any typed thing that needs memory". In C++, such a thing is called an object, but I'm looking for a more language-agnostic term.
§ 1.8 The C++ object model
1 The constructs in…
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A lot of the code I've been working on recently, both professionally (read: at work) and in other spheres (read: at home, for friends/family/etc, or NOT FOR WORK), has been worked on, redesigned and re-implemented several times - where possible/required. This has been in an effort to make things smaller…
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Hi there:
I might be doing a coding competition soon, I was wondering if anyone made one and what where the guidelines/ process.
I'd like to make the competition appealing to all devs, and I m trying to come up with ideas as to how.
the scenario is: There is an event running and we(of the coding…
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Is there a plugin for firefox to validate HTML 5? I've always used this but if my webpage has a <!DOCTYPE HTML> doctype it complains about it not having a doctype at all.
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Hi Al,
I need to make a page which displays a video. Firefox and and Opera support the OGG format, no problem there. Chrome is ... "stupid" and does not recognize OGG.
Does Chrome on Windows know how to handle WMV? I already have them encoded, and no I cannot recode new videos since the media is…
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I'm doing an iPhone version of a desktop site that includes a blog. The blog often embeds images from other domains (the image URLs always start with http:// in this case, obviously), but because I'm using cache-manifest, these images don't load because they aren't declared in the manifest file.
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Part of the challenge with HTML5 is understanding the range of different technologies and finding good samples. The following are some of the sites I have found most useful.
IE TestDrive
http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/
A good set of demos using touch, appcache, IndexDB, etc…
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Here are some of the best introductory HTML5 videos I have found online/for free.
Mix 2011:
HTML5 for Skeptics - Scott Stansfield
channel9.msdn.com/Events/MIX/MIX11/EXT21
Filling the HTML5 Gaps with Polyfills and Shims - Ray Bango
channel9.msdn.com/Events/MIX/MIX11/HTM04
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