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  • Printing out variables in c changes values of variables

    - by George Wilson
    I have an odd problem with some c-programme here. I was getting some wrong values in a matrix I was finding the determinant of and so I started printing variables - yet found that by printing values out the actual values in the code changed. I eventually narrowed it down to one specific printf statement - highlighted in the code below. If I comment out this line then I start getting incorrect values in my determinent calculations, yet by printing it out I get the value out I expect Code below: #include <math.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #define NUMBER 15 double determinant_calculation(int size, double array[NUMBER][NUMBER]); int main() { double array[NUMBER][NUMBER], determinant_value; int size; array[0][0]=1; array[0][1]=2; array[0][2]=3; array[1][0]=4; array[1][1]=5; array[1][2]=6; array[2][0]=7; array[2][1]=8; array[2][2]=10; size=3; determinant_value=determinant_calculation(size, array); printf("\n\n\n\n\n\nDeterminant value is %lf \n\n\n\n\n\n", determinant_value); return 0; } double determinant_calculation(int size, double array[NUMBER][NUMBER]) { double determinant_matrix[NUMBER][NUMBER], determinant_value; int x, y, count=0, sign=1, i, j; /*initialises the array*/ for (i=0; i<(NUMBER); i++) { for(j=0; j<(NUMBER); j++) { determinant_matrix[i][j]=0; } } /*does the re-cursion method*/ for (count=0; count<size; count++) { x=0; y=0; for (i=0; i<size; i++) { for(j=0; j<size; j++) { if (i!=0&&j!=count) { determinant_matrix[x][y]=array[i][j]; if (y<(size-2)) { y++; } else { y=0; x++; } } } } //commenting this for loop out changes the values of the code determinent prints -7 when commented out and -3 (expected) when included! for (i=0; i<size; i++) { for(j=0; j<size; j++){ printf("%lf ", determinant_matrix[i][j]); } printf("\n"); } if(size>2) { determinant_value+=sign*(array[0][count]*determinant_calculation(size-1 ,determinant_matrix)); } else { determinant_value+=sign*(array[0][count]*determinant_matrix[0][0]); } sign=-1*sign; } return (determinant_value); } I know its not the prettiest (or best way) of doing what I'm doing with this code but it's what I've been given - so can't make huge changes. I don't suppose anyone could explain why printing out the variables can actually change the values? or how to fix it because ideally i don't want to!!

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  • How to declare a variable that spans multiple lines

    - by Chris Wilson
    I'm attempting to initialise a string variable in C++, and the value is so long that it's going to exceed the 80 character per line limit I'm working to, so I'd like to split it to the next line, but I'm not sure how to do that. I know that when splitting the contents of a stream across multiple lines, the syntax goes like cout << "This is a string" << "This is another string"; Is there an equivalent for variable assignment, or do I have to declare multiple variables and concatenate them? Edit: I misspoke when I wrote the initial question. When I say 'next line', I'm just meaning the next line of the script. When it is printed upon execution, I would like it to be on the same line.

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  • How to reference a string from another package in a library using XML in Android?

    - by Garret Wilson
    The Android documentation tells me that I can access a string from another package by using the "package name", whatever that means: @[<package_name>:]<resource_type>/<resource_name> So in my manifest I want to access a string that I've placed in a separate library project, in the com.globalmentor.android package---that's where my R class is, after all: <activity android:label="@com.globalmentor.android:string/app_applicationlistactivity_label" android:name="com.globalmentor.android.app.ApplicationListActivity" > </activity> That doesn't even compile. But this does: <activity android:label="@string/app_applicationlistactivity_label" android:name="com.globalmentor.android.app.ApplicationListActivity" > </activity> Why? What does the Android documentation mean which it talks about the "package_name"? Why doesn't the first example work, and why does the second example work? I don't want all my resource names merged into the same R file---I want them partitioned into packages, like I wrote them.

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  • mysql_query arguments in PHP

    - by Chris Wilson
    I'm currently building my first database in MySQL with an interface written in PHP and am using the 'learn-by-doing' approach. The figure below illustrates my database. Table names are at the top, and the attribute names are as they appear in the real database. I am attempting to query the values of each of these attributes using the code seen below the table. I think there is something wrong with my mysql_query() function since I am able to observe the expected behaviour when my form is successfully submitted, but no search results are returned. Can anyone see where I'm going wrong here? Update 1: I've updated the question with my enter script, minus the database login credentials. <html> <head> <title>Search</title> </head> <body> <h1>Search</h1> <!--Search form - get user input from this--> <form name = "search" action = "<?=$PHP_SELF?>" method = "get"> Search for <input type = "text" name = "find" /> in <select name = "field"> <option value = "Title">Title</option> <option value = "Description">Description</option> <option value = "City">Location</option> <option value = "Company_name">Employer</option> </select> <input type = "submit" name = "search" value = "Search" /> </form> <form name = "clearsearch" action = "Search.php"> <input type = "submit" value = "Reset search" /> </form> <?php if (isset($_GET["search"])) // Check if form has been submitted correctly { // Check for a search query if($_GET["find"] == "") { echo "<p>You did not enter a search query. Please press the 'Reset search' button and try again"; exit; } echo "<h2>Search results</h2>"; ?> <table align = "left" border = "1" cellspacing = "2" cellpadding = "2"> <tr> <th><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">No.</font></th> <th><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Title</font></th> <th><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Employer</font></th> <th><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Description</font></th> <th><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Location</font></th> <th><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Date Posted</font></th> <th><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Application Deadline</font></th> </tr> <? // Connect to the database $username=REDACTED; $password=REDACTED; $host=REDACTED; $database=REDACTED; mysql_connect($host, $username, $password); @mysql_select_db($database) or die (mysql_error()); // Perform the search $find = mysql_real_escape_string($find); $query = "SELECT job.Title, job.Description, employer.Company_name, address.City, job.Date_posted, job.Application_deadline WHERE ( Title = '{$_GET['find']}' OR Company_name = '{$_GET['find']}' OR Date_posted = '{$_GET['find']}' OR Application_deadline = '{$_GET['find']}' ) AND job.employer_id_job = employer.employer_id AND job.address_id_job = address.address_id"; if (!$query) { die ('Invalid query:' .mysql_error()); } $result = mysql_query($query); $num = mysql_numrows($result); $count = 0; while ($count < $num) { $title = mysql_result ($result, $count, "Title"); $date_posted = mysql_result ($result, $count, "Date_posted"); $application_deadline = mysql_result ($result, $count, "Application_deadline"); $description = mysql_result ($result, $count, "Description"); $company = mysql_result ($result, $count, "Company_name"); $city = mysql_result ($result, $count, "City"); ?> <tr> <td><font face = "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><? echo $count + 1; ?></font></td> <td><font face = "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><? echo $title; ?></font></td> <td><font face = "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><? echo $company; ?></font></td> <td><font face = "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><? echo $description; ?></font></td> <td><font face = "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><? echo $date_posted; ?></font></td> <td><font face = "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><? echo $application_deadline; ?></font></td> <td><font face = "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><? echo $education_level; ?></font></td> <td><font face = "Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><? echo $years_of_experience; ?></font></td> <? $count ++; } } ?> </body> </html>

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  • Is my Perl script grabbing environment variabless from "someplace else"?

    - by Michael Wilson
    On a Solaris box in a "mysterious production system" I'm running a Perl script that references an environment variable. No big deal. The contents of that variable from the shell both pre- and post-execution are what I expect. However, when reported by the script, it appears as though it's running in some other sub-shell which is clobbering my vars with different values for the duration of the script. Unfortunately I really can't paste the code. I'm trying to get an atomic case, but I'm at my wit's end here.

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  • Fix buttons at the bottom of the screen.

    - by Wilson
    I am a beginner in Android programming. I want to build a simple application with a main list view in the screen and two buttons at the bottom of the screen. When more items are added to the list view, the list view should scroll without increasing the overall length of the list view.

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  • jquery form extension ajax

    - by Craig Wilson
    http://www.malsup.com/jquery/form/#html I have multiple forms on a single page. They all use the same class "myForm". Using the above extension I can get them to successfully process and POST to ajax-process.php <script> // wait for the DOM to be loaded $(document).ready(function() { // bind 'myForm' and provide a simple callback function $('.myForm').ajaxForm(function() { alert("Thank you for your comment!"); }); }); </script> I'm having an issue however with the response. I need to get the comment that the user submitted to be displayed in the respective div that it was submitted from. I can either set this as a hidden field in the form, or as text in the ajax-process.php file. I can't work out how to get the response from ajax-process.php into something I can work with in the script, if I run the following it appends to all the forms (obviously). The only way I can think to do it is to repeat the script using individual DIV ID's instead of a single class. However there must be a way of updating the div that the ajax-process.php returns! // prepare the form when the DOM is ready $(document).ready(function() { // bind form using ajaxForm $('.myForm').ajaxForm({ // target identifies the element(s) to update with the server response target: '.myDiv', // success identifies the function to invoke when the server response // has been received; here we apply a fade-in effect to the new content success: function() { $('.myDiv').fadeIn('slow'); } }); }); Any suggestions?!

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  • Spring deployment-level configuration

    - by Robert Wilson
    When I wrote JEE apps, I used JBoss Datasources to control which databases the deployment used. E.g. the dev versions would use a throwaway hibernate db, the ref and ops would use stable MySQL deployments. I also used MBeans to configure various other services and rules. Now that I'm using Spring, I'd like the same functionality - deploy the same code, but with different configuration. Crucially, I'd also like Unit Tests to still run with stub services. My question is this - is there a way, in JBoss, to inject configuration with files which live outside of the WAR/EAR, and also include these files in test resources.

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  • "Low level" project using Java

    - by Tammy Wilson
    I'm wondering if it would make sense to do some low level or OS stuff(a project) using Java. Reason why I ask is because I would like to expand my knowledge in Java and I'm into doing stuff like file compressor, bulk file renamer, etc. Are there any examples out there that I can look at or play with? Or should I just be using C or C++ instead? Thanks!

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  • Failing to use Array.Copy() in my WPF App

    - by Steven Wilson
    I am a C++ developer and recently started working on WPF. Well I am using Array.Copy() in my app and looks like I am not able to completely get the desired result. I had done in my C++ app as follows: static const signed char version[40] = { 'A', 'U', 'D', 'I', 'E', 'N', 'C', 'E', // name 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , // reserved, firmware size 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , // board number 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , // variant, version, serial 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 // date code, reserved }; unsigned char sendBuf[256] = {}; int memloc = 0; sendBuf[memloc++] = 0; sendBuf[memloc++] = 0; // fill in the audience header memcpy(sendBuf+memloc, version, 8); // the first 8 bytes memloc += 16; // the 8 copied, plus 8 reserved bytes I did the similar operation in my WPF (C#) app as follows: Byte[] sendBuf = new Byte[256]; char[] version = { 'A', 'U', 'D', 'I', 'E', 'N', 'C', 'E', // name '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0' , // reserved, firmware size '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0' , // board number '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0' , // variant, version, serial '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0', '0' // date code, reserved }; // fill in the address to write to -- 0 sendBuf[memloc++] = 0; sendBuf[memloc++] = 0; // fill in the audience header Array.Copy(sendBuf + memloc, version, 8); // the first 8 bytes memloc += 16; But it throws me an error at Array.Copy(sendBuf + memloc, version, 8); as Operator '+' cannot be applied to operands of type 'byte[]' and 'int'. How can achieve this???? :) please help :)

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  • Change a dropdown depending on another dropdown

    - by Eric Evans
    I'm trying to create a three select dropdowns that represent a persons birthday. I'm taking into consideration that there are 4 months with 30 days, 7 with 31 ,and 1 with 28 or 29 depending if it's a leap year or not. I would like the days dropdown to show the number of days depending on which month is chosen in the month dropdown. Here's what I have now. Here's the html for the select <!Doctype html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title>Birthday validation</title> <script src="jquery-1.11.1.min.js"></script> <script src="birthday_drop.js"></script> <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet /> </head> <body> <h2>Birthday</h2> <fieldset class="birthday-picker"> <select class="birth-month" name="birth[month]"><option>Month</option></select> <select class="birth-day" name="birth[day]"><option>Day</option></select> <select class="birth-year" name="birth[year]"><option>Year</option></select> </fieldset> </body> </html> Here's the jquery that populates the dropdowns and my attempt to use the change function /** * Created by Eric Evans on 8/19/14. */ $(document).ready(function(){ var months = ['January','February','March','April','May','June','July','August','September','October','November','December']; for(i=0; i < months.length; i++){ $("<option value=' + months[i] + '>" + months[i] + "</option>").appendTo('.birth-month'); } for(i=0; i <= 31; i++){ $("<option value=' + i + '>" + i + "</option>").appendTo('.birth-day'); } var myYear = new Date().getFullYear(); for(i=myYear; i >= 1950; i--){ $("<option value=' + i + '>" + i + "</option>").appendTo('.birth-year'); } $('.birth-month').change(function(){ if($(this).val() == 'April'){ for(i=0; i <= 30; i++){ $("<option value=' + i + '>" + i + "</option>").appendTo('.birth-day'); } } }); }); Any help would be greatly appreciated

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  • ASP.NET mvcConf Videos Available

    - by ScottGu
    Earlier this month the ASP.NET MVC developer community held the 2nd annual mvcConf event.  This was a free, online conference focused on ASP.NET MVC – with more than 27 talks that covered a wide variety of ASP.NET MVC topics.  Almost all of the talks were presented by developers within the community, and the quality and topic diversity of the talks was fantastic. Below are links to free recordings of the talks that you can watch (and optionally download): Scott Guthrie Keynote The NuGet-y Goodness of Delivering Packages (Phil Haack) Industrial Strenght NuGet (Andy Wahrenberger) Intro to MVC 3 (John Petersen) Advanced MVC 3 (Brad Wilson) Evolving Practices in Using jQuery and Ajax in ASP.NET MVC Applications (Eric Sowell) Web Matrix (Rob Conery) Improving ASP.NET MVC Application Performance (Steven Smith) Intro to Building Twilio Apps with ASP.NET MVC (John Sheehan) The Big Comparison of ASP.NET MVC View Engines (Shay Friedman) Writing BDD-style Tests for ASP.NET MVC using MSTestContrib (Mitch Denny) BDD in ASP.NET MVC using SpecFlow, WatiN and WatiN Test Helpers (Brandon Satrom) Going Postal - Generating email with View Engines (Andrew Davey) Take some REST with WCF (Glenn Block) MVC Q&A (Jeffrey Palermo) Deploy ASP.NET MVC with No Effort (Troels Thomsen) IIS Express (Vaidy Gopalakrishnan) Putting the V in MVC (Chris Bannon) CQRS and Event Sourcing with MVC 3 (Ashic Mahtab) MVC 3 Extensibility (Roberto Hernandez) MvcScaffolding (Steve Sanderson) Real World Application Development with Mvc3 NHibernate, FluentNHibernate and Castle Windsor (Chris Canal) Building composite web applications with Open frameworks (Sebastien Lambla) Quality Driven Web Acceptance Testing (Amir Barylko) ModelBinding derived types using the DerivedTypeModelBinder in MvcContrib (Steve Hebert) Entity Framework "Code First": Domain Driven CRUD (Chris Zavaleta) Wrap Up with Jon Galloway & Javier Lozano I’d like to say a huge thank you to all of the speakers who presented, and to Javier Lozano, Eric Hexter and Jon Galloway for all their hard work in organizing the event and making it happen. Hope this helps, Scott P.S. I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu

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  • WebLogic Weekly for June 20th, 2011

    - by james.bayer
    Welcome the first the first edition of the WebLogic Weekly.  The WebLogic Server team has been trying to extend our community outreach to new mediums like an Oracle WebLogic Youtube Channel (how-to videos and feature showcases), Twitter (sharing WebLogic links, typically blogs), and a Facebook page to do a better job sharing information, providing learning alternatives to product documentation and perhaps most importantly collecting feedback from all of our users using the tools they prefer.  This is our attempt to provide a round-up what has been going on in WebLogic over the past week.  If you would like to have something shared here, use the #weblogic tag on tweets, post on the Oracle WebLogic facebook page, or comment on these blog entries. Blogs WebLogic Server: Listing Groups of an Authenticated User by Steve Button Weblogic, QBrowser And Topics by Eric Elzinga Weblogic, Topics And (Non)-Durable Subscribers by Eric Elzinga Database Web Service using Toplink DB Provider by Vishal Jain WebLogic Server – Use the Execution Context ID in Applications – Lessons From Hansel and Gretel by James Bayer Getting All Server’s Lifecycle State in a Domain by Jay SenSharma Steps to Move Messages From One Queue To Another Queue Using WLST (Updated Version) by Ravish Mody Events If you want to share a story of something innovative you or your organization has done with WebLogic Server or other Fusion Middleware, you could win a pass to Oracle Open World 2011 and share the story there.  See Ruma Sanyal's posting on the Application Grid blog for details.  The deadline for submissions is July 22nd, 2011.

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  • If I'm a web server, for which accounts can I turn off shells within passwd file?

    - by eric01
    I am making a web server running LAMP and want to access it using SSH. When I open the passwd file, I see all those accounts and I want to know for which ones I can put false. I have the following accounts: root, daemon, bin, sys, sync, games, man, lp, mail, news, uucp, proxy, www-data backup, list, irc, gnats, nobody, libuuid, syslog, messagebus, whoopsie, mandscape, sshd, eric Except root, sshd and eric, which ones should I not disable? How about www-data and sshd? Thanks a lot for your help.

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  • Dutch ACEs SOA Partner Community Award Celebration

    - by JuergenKress
    When you win you need to celebrate. This was the line of thinking when I found out that I was part of a group that won the Oracle SOA Community Country Award. Well – thinking about a party is one thing, preparing it and finally having the small party is something completely different. It starts with finding a date that would be suitable for the majority of invited people. As you can imagine the SOA ACEs and ACE Directors have a busy life, that takes them places. Alongside that they are engaged with customers who want to squeeze every bit of knowledge out of them. So everybody is pretty busy (that’s what makes you an ACE). After some deliberation (and checks of international Oracle events, Trip-it, blogs and tweets) a date was chosen. Meeting on a Friday evening for some drinks is probably not a Dutch-only activity. But as some of the ACEs are self-employed they miss the companies around them to organize such events. Come the day a turn-out of almost 50% was great – although I expected some more folks . This was mainly due to some illness and work overload. Luckily the mini-party got going, (alcoholic) beverages were consumed, food was appreciated, a decent picture was made (see below) and all had a good chat and hopefully a good time. (Above from left to right: Eric Elzinga, Andreas Chatziantoniou, Mike van Aalst, Edwin Biemond) All in all a nice evening and certainly a "meeting" which can be repeated.  For the full article please visit Andreas's blog Want to organize a local SOA & BPM community? Let us know we are more than happy to support you! To receive more information become a member of the SOA & BPM Partner Community please register at http://www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa (OPN account required) Blog Twitter LinkedIn Mix Forum Technorati Tags: Eric Elzinga,Andreas Chatziantoniou,Mike van Aalst,Edwin Biemond,Dutsch SOA Community,SOA Community,Oracle,OPN,Jürgen Kress,ACE

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  • links for 2010-05-03

    - by Bob Rhubart
    @ORACLENERD: Exadata + The Hartford Oracle ACE Chet "ORACLENERD" Justice went digging for information on Oracle Exadata, and shares the results. (tags: oracle otn oracleace hardware database exadata) @myfear: About the Java EE 6 Web Profile and the Future "If you look at the new web profile in more detail, you see that it is a specified minimal configuration targeted for small footprint servers that should support something called 'typical' web applications. It is thought of as a minimal specification, so a vendor is free to add additional services in their concrete implementation." -- Oracle ACE Director Markus Eisele (tags: oracle otn oracleace java) Edwin Biemond: WSM in FMW 11g Patch Set 2 and OSB 11g Oracle ACE Edwin Biemond of Whitehorses takes a look at the security aspects of Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Service Bus 11g. (tags: oracle otn oracleace fusionmiddleware servicebus osb) James Taylor: Installing SOA Suite 11.1.1.3 James Taylor documents his attempt to implement a complete SOA Environment with SOA Suite, BPM and OSB on the WLS infrastructure. (tags: oracle otn soa soasuite fusionmiddleware) Eric Elzinga: Oracle Service Bus 11g Installation Eric Elzinga illustrates the Oracle Service Bus 11g installation process. (tags: otn oracle soa esb)

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  • ArchBeat Link-o-Rama for 11/16/2011

    - by Bob Rhubart
    Size, Failure, and Optimization | Roger Sessions The slide deck from Roger Sessions' keynote address at the 2nd IT Architect Regional Conference in Bogota, Colombia. Webcast: Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile Event Date: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 Time: 9 a.m. PT/12 noon ET Featuring Manan Goel (Director BI Product Marketing, Oracle) and Shailesh Shedge (Director BI & Analytics Practice, Ascentt). Live Webinar: Solutions for MySQL High Availability (November 29) Tune into this webcast to learn how MySQL’s High Availability solution can help you minimize downtime and ensure business continuity. Domain-Driven Design: Useful Models for Complex Problems | @ericevans0 Domain-Driven Design: Useful Models for Complex Problems | Eric Evans Eric Evans' slide deck from the recent IASA event in Spain. Oracle Hardware goes social Introducing the Oracle Hardware Social Media Hub -- The new Facebook meeting place for the global hardware community. The hub now features a pioneering Q&A app called Oracle Ask the Expert, where you can ask questions and engage with Oracle experts. Review: WebLogic Server 11g Administration Handbook by S. Alapati Dr. Frank Munz, author of "Middleware and Cloud Computing, reviews the new WebLogic book by Sam Alapati and offers a quick overview of a couple of other new titles. SOA All the Time; Architects in AZ; Clearing Info Integration hurdles This week on the Architect Home Page on OTN.

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  • GWB | 30 in 60 Update &ndash; Enrique is almost there!

    - by Staff of Geeks
    We are very close to having our first blogger to reach 30 posts, Enrique Lima.  Stuart Brierley is over the hump with 16 posts and Dave Campbell and Eric Nelson are definitely in the running.  If you don’t know what I am talking about, we are running a contest for our bloggers.  Anyone who blogs on Geekswithblogs who creates 30 posts from May 15th to July 13th will receive a custom Geekswithblogs.net t-shirt with their URL on the back.  This could be their Geekswithblogs.net address or their custom domain.  It is definitely not too late to get started and with TechEd or WWDC right around the corner, there is definitely a lot to talk about. Current Standings: Enrique Lima (28 posts) - http://geekswithblogs.net/enriquelima StuartBrierley (16 posts) - http://geekswithblogs.net/StuartBrierley Dave Campbell (12 posts) - http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings Eric Nelson (10 posts) - http://geekswithblogs.net/iupdateable Christopher House (10 posts) - http://geekswithblogs.net/13DaysaWeek mbcrump (7 posts) - http://geekswithblogs.net/mbcrump Chris Williams (6 posts) - http://geekswithblogs.net/cwilliams Michael Stephenson (5 posts) - http://geekswithblogs.net/michaelstephenson Steve Michelotti (5 posts) - http://geekswithblogs.net/michelotti Liam McLennan (5 posts) - http://geekswithblogs.net/liammclennan Follow Us On Twitter: @StaffOfGeeks Technorati Tags: Geekswithblogs,30 in 60,Standings

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  • On developing deep programming knowledge

    - by Robert Harvey
    Occasionally I see questions about edge cases and other weirdness on Stack Overflow that are easily answered by the likes of Jon Skeet and Eric Lippert, demonstrating a deep knowledge of the language and its many intricacies, like this one: You might think that in order to use a foreach loop, the collection you are iterating over must implement IEnumerable or IEnumerable<T>. But as it turns out, that is not actually a requirement. What is required is that the type of the collection must have a public method called GetEnumerator, and that must return some type that has a public property getter called Current and a public method MoveNext that returns a bool. If the compiler can determine that all of those requirements are met then the code is generated to use those methods. Only if those requirements are not met do we check to see if the object implements IEnumerable or IEnumerable<T>. That's cool stuff to know. I can understand why Eric knows this; he's on the compiler team, so he has to know. But what about those who demonstrate such deep knowledge who are not insiders? How do mere mortals (who are not on the C# compiler team) find out about stuff like this? Specifically, are there methods these folks use to systematically root out such knowledge, explore it and internalize it (make it their own)?

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