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Mapping dynamic buffers in Direct3D11 in Windows Store apps

- by Donnie

I'm trying to make instanced geometry in Direct3D11, and the ID3D11DeviceContext1->Map() call is failing with the very helpful error of "Invalid Parameter" when I'm attempting to update the instance buffer. The buffer is declared as a member variable: Microsoft::WRL::ComPtr<ID3D11Buffer> m_instanceBuffer; Then I create it (which succeeds): D3D11_BUFFER_DESC instanceDesc; ZeroMemory(&instanceDesc, sizeof(D3D11_BUFFER_DESC)); instanceDesc.Usage = D3D11_USAGE_DYNAMIC; instanceDesc.ByteWidth = sizeof(InstanceData) * MAX_INSTANCE_COUNT; instanceDesc.BindFlags = D3D11_BIND_VERTEX_BUFFER; instanceDesc.CPUAccessFlags = D3D11_CPU_ACCESS_WRITE; instanceDesc.MiscFlags = 0; instanceDesc.StructureByteStride = 0; DX::ThrowIfFailed(d3dDevice->CreateBuffer(&instanceDesc, NULL, &m_instanceBuffer)); However, when I try to map it: D3D11_MAPPED_SUBRESOURCE inst; DX::ThrowIfFailed(d3dContext->Map(m_instanceBuffer.Get(), 0, D3D11_MAP_WRITE, 0, &inst)); The map call fails with E_INVALIDARG. Nothing is NULL incorrectly, and this being one of my first D3D apps I'm currently stumped on what to do next to track it down. I'm thinking I must be creating the buffer incorrectly, but I can't see how. Any input would be appreciated.

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Graduating soon with a computer science degree, but have unique circumstances [closed]

- by Donnie

I joined the Navy in 1998, and was admitted into Nuclear Power Training. I got my electrician's mate certificate, but was put on medical hold when I was in Nuclear Power Training. I was sent to the Naval Hospital, and received a medical (honorable) discharge in the middle of 2000. I decided to stay at home and raise my son, and my girlfriend worked. a few years ago, I decided that I want to work as a programmer, so I went to college and will soon be graduating with a degree in computer science. I hope to finish with a relatively high GPA, 3.8 or 3.9. My question is this: How much, if any, of my Navy experience should I put on my resume? And how do I explain my nine year gap as a stay at home dad? Do I even try to explain it? I know recent college graduates typically have no experience, but obviously I'm not the typical college graduate. Will my long absence from working, or my relatively short duration in the Navy hurt my chances? Should I just put the college on my resume, and hope that HR thinks I'm younger than I am? Obviously, then, my age would show at the interview and there would be questions. Any help is appreciated.

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html5 / flash video player

- by Donnie

I'm working on a website in which I'm going to embed some videos. Are there any good open source html5 / flash video players around so I can avoid having to code up one of my own from scratch?

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Make a c# / wpf event fire only once?

- by Donnie

I have a case where I want a given event to execute once, and only once. I'm trying to do it this way, but I'm having prolems (else I wouldn't be asking). Note that the following code is inside the function that decides that the event needs to be fired. EventHandler h = delegate(Object sender, EventArgs e) { FiringControl.TheEvent -= h; // <-- Error, use of unassigned local variable "h" // Do stuff } FiringControl.TheEvent += h; In general this should work because of the way scope is preserved for delegates until after they're done running, but, since h is in the process of being built when I try to use it it is still considered to be "uninitialized", apparently.

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High speed matrix manipulation in c#?

- by Donnie

I'm working on some image manipulation code in c# and need to do some matrix operations (specifically 2D convolution). I have the code written in matlab which uses the conv2 function ... is there a library for C# / .NET that does good high-speed matrix manipulations? I'd be fine if it requires some specific GPU and does the matrix math on-GPU if that's what it takes.

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Use XQuery to Access XML in Emacs

- by Gregory Burd

There you are working on a multi-MB/GB/TB XML document or set of documents, you want to be able to quickly query the content but you don't want to load the XML into a full-blown XML database, the time spent setting things up is simply too expensive. Why not combine a great open source editor, Emacs, and a great XML XQuery engine, Berkeley DB XML? That is exactly what Donnie Cameron did. Give it a try.

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Why does this pdo::mysql code crash on windows??

- by user154107

Why does this pdo::mysql code crash on windows??? <?php $username = "root"; $password = ""; try { $dsn = "mysql:host=localhost;dbname=employees"; $dbh = new PDO($dsn, $username, $password); $dbh->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES, FALSE); $dbh->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION); echo "Connected to database<br />" ; $dbh->exec("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS vCard;"); $dbh->exec("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS emp;"); $table = "CREATE TABLE vCard( id INT(4) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, firstName VARCHAR (255), lastName VARCHAR (255), office VARCHAR (255), homePh VARCHAR (13), mobilePh VARCHAR (13))"; $dbh->exec($table); $dbh->beginTransaction(); $dbh->exec("INSERT INTO vCard(id, firstName, lastName, office, homePh, mobilePh) VALUES (4834, 'Randy', 'Lewis', 'SR. Front End Developer', '631-842-3375', '917-435-2245');"); $dbh->exec("INSERT INTO vCard(id, firstName, lastName, office, homePh, mobilePh) VALUES (0766, 'Frank', 'LaGuy', 'Graphic Designer', '631-789-8244', '917-324-9897');"); $dbh->exec("INSERT INTO vCard(id, firstName, lastName, office, homePh, mobilePh) VALUES (6684, 'Donnie', 'Dolemite', 'COO', '631-789-9482', '917-234-1222');"); $dbh->exec("INSERT INTO vCard(id, firstName, lastName, office, homePh, mobilePh) VALUES (8569, '', 'McLovin', 'Actor', '631-842-9786', '917-987-8944');"); $dbh->commit(); echo "Data entered successfully<br/><br/>"; $sql = "SELECT * FROM vCard"; // WHERE firstName = 'Donnie'"; $results = $dbh->query($sql); foreach ($results as $id){ echo "SSN: ". $id['id']." "; echo "First Name: ". $id['firstName']." "; echo "Last Name: ". $id['lastName']."<br/>"; } } catch (PDOException $e) { echo "Failed: " . $e->getMessage(); $dbh->rollback(); } ?> basically this line of code is what triggers Apache to crash.. $sql = "SELECT * FROM vCard"; If I try to select one value like 'id' it'll ... when I try to select more than one value "*" it crashes??????

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servlet resopnse data for autocomplete

- by shams haque

Hello experts, Following code is in php. i want to do same in java. Please tell me how do i generate this type of array or collection in java. I need this to response to json autocomplete. <?php $q = strtolower($_GET["q"]); if (!$q) return; $items = array( "Peter Pan"=>"[email protected]", "Molly"=>"[email protected]", "Forneria Marconi"=>"[email protected]", "Master Sync"=>"[email protected]", "Dr. Tech de Log"=>"[email protected]", "Don Corleone"=>"[email protected]", "Mc Chick"=>"[email protected]", "Donnie Darko"=>"[email protected]", "Quake The Net"=>"[email protected]", "Dr. Write"=>"[email protected]" ); $result = array(); foreach ($items as $key=>$value) { if (strpos(strtolower($key), $q) !== false) { array_push($result, array( "name" => $key, "to" => $value )); } } echo json_encode($result); ?>

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Removing HttpModule for specific path in ASP.NET / IIS 7 application?

- by soccerdad

Most succinctly, my question is whether an ASP.NET 4.0 app running under IIS 7 integrated mode should be able to honor this portion of my Web.config file: <location path="auth/windows"> <system.webServer> <modules> <remove name="FormsAuthentication"/> </modules> </system.webServer> </location> I'm experimenting with mixed mode authentication (Windows and Forms - I know there are other questions on S.O. about the topic). Using IIS Manager, I've disabled Anonymous authentication to auth/windows/winauth.aspx, which is within the location path above. I have Failed Request Tracing set up to trace various HTTP status codes, including 302s. When I request the winauth.aspx page, a 302 HTTP status code is returned. If I look at the request trace, I can see that a 401 (unauthorized) was originally generated by the AnonymousAuthenticationModule. However, the FormsAuthenticationModule converts that to a 302, which is what the browser sees. So it seems as though my attempt to remove that module from the pipeline for pages in that path isn't working. But I'm not seeing any complaints anywhere (event viewer, yellow pages of death, etc.) that would indicate it's an invalid configuration. I want the 401 returned to the browser, which presumably would include an appropriate WWW-Authenticate header. A couple of other points: a) I do have <authentication mode="Forms"> in my Web.config, and that is what the 302 redirects to; b) I got the "name" of the module I'm trying to remove from the inetserv\config\applicationHost.config file. Anyone had any luck removing modules in this fashion? Thanks much, Donnie

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jQuery jScrollPane - it simply won't work! :'(

- by Jack Webb-Heller

Hey folks, OK - I'll admit, I'm quite a beginner in this jQuery-department. I've probably made some amateur mistake, but hey, you gotta learn somewhere! :) So I'm using jScrollPane: http://www.kelvinluck.com/assets/jquery/jScrollPane/jScrollPane.html I want to use it style the scrollable area in my second column. Specifically, I would like to apply and format the scrollbars on the div #ajaxresults My page is... rather jQuery heavy. I don't know if any variables are conflicting or something... in fact I really have no idea at all why this isn't working. Take a look at my problematic page: http://furnace.howcode.com In the header, I've set this to go:  <script type="text/javascript" src="http://localhost:8888/js/jquery.mousewheel.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://localhost:8888/js/jScrollPane.js"></script> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" href="http://localhost:8888/stylesheets/jScrollPane.css" /> <script type="text/javascript"> $(function() { $('#ajaxresults').jScrollPane(); }); </script> (I've changed localhost on the server copy though) Nothing ever seems to work with the #ajaxresults div. I've set, as the jScrollPane docs say, overflow:auto on it but still no luck. I find that when jScrollPane DOES seem to 'run' it just moves the div down about 100 pixels. Try it for yourself. Perhaps someone could help? There's quite a few jQuery plugins there so I don't know if something's colliding/crashing etc... Please note the site is still in development between myself and a friend, which explains the personal messages we submit to each other ('Hi Donnie!' etc. :D ). Also, when you view the page nothing may appear in the second column for a few seconds - it's just fetching the data via Ajax. So give it a little time. Thanks very much! Jack

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