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  • Interactive Web Collaboration Platform

    - by user1477586
    I am currently unsatisfied with most, if not all, web-based collaboration tools I've ever used. Examples of what I'm considering a "web-based collaboration tool" are TWiki, WebEx, etc. What I have in mind of developing is to develop my own. The target "market" is for software/hardware developers who will likely be working on separate projects linked by a common goal. Example: You work at a company who is designing a brand new printer. So, one man is working on the ink cartridge, another on the paper feed, one on the circuitry of the printer and one more is working on the drivers. What I would like to make (unless it already exists) is a website that, upon loading, presents the user with a web that has each project within it's own bubble, graphically. These bubbles would all be linked to the central bubble of "[Company Name]". Upon selecting an individual bubble the browser would focus and zoom in on that project bubble and expand more information (in bullets or with more affiliated bubbles) about subprojects, progress, setbacks, etc. Then, at a terminal "node" (i.e. a bubble with no sub-bubbles) a selection would then load a page with information relevant to that node. That's a lot of monologue. In short, I want to know how I might approach this. My background is with algorithmic use of Python and C++. I've never done interactive web design like this; though, I have gone through the W3C tutorials on HTML4/5. I'm willing to learn a new language I'm just wondering which language/set of languages seem(s) most appropriate for this project. Thanks, world, for imparting your knowledge to me. An example of what the start page might look like is:

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  • Circular Dependency of Navigation Control in iPhone

    - by Taimur Hamza
    Hi everyone , In my view this is one of the strangest problem i have ever come across in iPhone app development. Let me explain the scenario , i have main screen 'A' on which i have a Button that directs me to another Screen say 'B'. Now on Screen 'B' i have a feature in which user can send a mail to his friend for promotion purpose e.g a user wishes to tell a frnd about this app so i used MFMailComposeViewController and a view is generated where the user types the address and click send ( subject and body of mail is automatically generated ). After sending the mail a new view opens say screen 'C' and here i want to give the user the options . 1. Go to Screen 'A' ( which is main screen of the app ) 2. Go back to Screen 'B' ( from where the user requested to send a mail to his frnd ). Now the strange part i cannot declare the variables ( Screen 'A' and 'B' ) of both these files here at in header file of screen 'C' . Even when i declare the header file at the top it generates an error. The variables can be easily be declared and used for other screens but not for these 2 screens. Can anybody please explain wats the problem.? this the text of the error "/Users/admin/Documents/AppName/Classes/A.h:42: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'B'" Thanks Guys ! Taimur

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  • Why do I have to unserialize this serialized value twice?

    - by 55skidoo
    What am I doing wrong here? I'm serializing a value, storing it in a database (table bb_meta), retrieving it... OK so far... but then I have to unserialize it twice. Shouldn't I be able to just unserialize once? This seems to work, but I'm wondering what point about serialization I'm missing here. //check database to see if user has ever visited before. $querystring = $bbdb->prepare( "SELECT `meta_value` FROM `$bbdb->meta` WHERE `object_type` = %s AND `object_id` = %s AND `meta_key` = %s LIMIT 1", $bbtype, $bb_this_thread, $bbuser ); $bb_last_visits = $bbdb->get_row($querystring, OBJECT); //if $bb_last_visits is empty, add time() as the metavalue using bb_update_meta if (empty($bb_last_visits)) { $first_visit = time(); echo 'serialized first visit: ' . $bb_this_visit_time_serialized = serialize(array($bb_this_thread => $first_visit)); bb_update_meta( $bb_this_thread, $bbuser, $bb_this_visit_time_serialized, $bbtype ); //add to database, bb_meta table echo '$bb_last_visits was empty. Setting first visit time as ' . $bb_this_visit_time_serialized . '<br>'; } else { //else, test by unserializing the data for use. echo 'last visit time already set: '; echo $bb_last_visits->meta_value; echo '<br>'; //fatal error - echo 'unserialized: ' . $bb_last_visits_unserialized = unserialize($bb_last_visits[0]->meta_value); echo '<br>'; echo 'unserialize: ' . $unserialized_visits = unserialize($bb_last_visits->meta_value); echo '<br>'; echo 'hmm, need to unserialize again??: '; echo $unserialized_unserialized_visits = unserialize($unserialized_visits); echo '<br>'; echo 'hey look, it\'s an array value I can finally use now. phew: ' . $unserialized_unserialized_visits[$bb_this_thread]; }

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  • Why use SQL database?

    - by martinthenext
    I'm not quite sure stackoverflow is a place for such a general question, but let's give it a try. Being exposed to the need of storing application data somewhere, I've always used MySQL or sqlite, just because it's always done like that. As it seems like the whole world is using these databases, most of all software products, frameworks, etc. It is rather hard for a beginning developer like me to ask a question - why? Ok, say we have some object-oriented logic in our application, and objects are related to each other somehow. We need to map this logic to the storage logic, so we need relations between database objects too. This leads us to using relational database and I'm ok with that - to put it simple, our database rows sometimes will need to have references to other tables' rows. But why do use SQL language for interaction with such a database? SQL query is a text message. I can understand this is cool for actually understanding what it does, but isn't it silly to use text table and column names for a part of application that no one ever seen after deploynment? If you had to write a data storage from scratch, you would have never used this kind of solution. Personally, I would have used some 'compiled db query' bytecode, that would be assembled once inside a client application and passed to the database. And it surely would name tables and colons by id numbers, not ascii-strings. In the case of changes in table structure those byte queries could be recompiled according to new db schema, stored in XML or something like that. What are the problems of my idea? Is there any reason for me not to write it myself and to use SQL database instead?

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  • Active Record two belongs_to calls or single table inheritance

    - by ethyreal
    In linking a sports event to two teams, at first this seemed to make sense: events - id:integer - integer:home_team_id - integer:away_team_id teams - integer:id - string:name However I am troubled by how I would link that up in the active record model: class Event belongs_to :home_team, :class_name => 'Team', :foreign_key => "home_team_id" belongs_to :away_team, :class_name => 'Team', :foreign_key => "away_team_id" end Is that the best solution? In an answer to a similar question I was pointed to single table inheritance, and then later found polymorphic associations. Neither of which seemed to fit this association. Perhaps I am looking at this wrong, but I see no need to subclass a team into home and away teams since the distinction is only in where the game is played. If I did go with single table inheritance I wouldn't want each team to belong_to an event so would this work? # app/models/event.rb class Event < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :home_team belongs_to :away_team end # app/models/team.rb class Team < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :teams end # app/models/home_team.rb class HomeTeam < Team end # app/models/away_team.rb class AwayTeam < Team end I thought also about a has_many through association but that seems two much as I will only ever need two teams, but those two teams don't belong to any one event. event_teams - integer:event_id - integer:team_id - boolean:is_home Is there a cleaner more semantic way for making these associations in active record? or is one of these solutions the best choice? Thanks

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  • NullPointerException in javax.swing.text.SimpleAttributeSet.addAttribute

    - by Paul Reiners
    Has anyone ever seen an exception like this?: ERROR: java.lang.NullPointerException: null at java.util.Hashtable.put(null:-1) at javax.swing.text.SimpleAttributeSet.addAttribute(null:-1) at javax.swing.text.SimpleAttributeSet.addAttributes(null:-1) at javax.swing.text.StyledEditorKit.createInputAttributes(null:-1) at javax.swing.text.StyledEditorKit$AttributeTracker.updateInputAttributes(null:-1) at javax.swing.text.StyledEditorKit$AttributeTracker.caretUpdate(null:-1) at javax.swing.text.JTextComponent.fireCaretUpdate(null:-1) at javax.swing.text.JTextComponent$MutableCaretEvent.fire(null:-1) at javax.swing.text.JTextComponent$MutableCaretEvent.mouseReleased(null:-1) at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.mouseReleased(null:-1) at java.awt.AWTEventMulticaster.mouseReleased(null:-1) at java.awt.Component.processMouseEvent(null:-1) at javax.swing.JComponent.processMouseEvent(null:-1) at java.awt.Component.processEvent(null:-1) at java.awt.Container.processEvent(null:-1) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(null:-1) at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(null:-1) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(null:-1) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.retargetMouseEvent(null:-1) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.processMouseEvent(null:-1) at java.awt.LightweightDispatcher.dispatchEvent(null:-1) at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(null:-1) at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(null:-1) at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(null:-1) at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(null:-1) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(null:-1) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(null:-1) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(null:-1) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(null:-1) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(null:-1) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(null:-1) I wish I could tell you an easy way to reproduce this, but I can’t. It’s happening in a Java Swing application I maintain. It happens infrequently and the application is quite complex. I know it’s a bit of a long shot just showing this stack trace, but I thought I’d try.

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  • How can I capture Rake output when invoked from with a Ruby script?

    - by Adrian O'Connor
    I am writing a web-based dev-console for Rails development. In one of my controller actions, I am calling Rake, but I am unable to capture any of the output that Rake generates. For example, here is some sample code, from the controller: require 'rake' require 'rake/rdoctask' require 'rake/testtask' require 'tasks/rails' require 'stringio' ... def show_routes @results = capture_stdout { Rake.tasks['routes'].invoke } # @results is nil -- the capture_stdout doesn't catpure anything that Rake generates end def capture_stdout s = StringIO.new $stdout = s yield s.string ensure $stdout = STDOUT end Does anybody know why I can't capture the Rake output? I've tried going through the Rake source, and I can't see where it fires a new process or anything, so I think I ought to be able to do this. Many thanks! Adrian I have since discovered the correct way to call Rake from inside Ruby that works much better: Rake.application['db:migrate:redo'].reenable Rake.application['db:migrate:redo'].invoke Strangely, some rake tasks work perfectly now (routes), some capture the output the first time the run and after that are always blank (db:migrate:redo) and some don't seem to ever capture output (test). Odd.

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  • On IE cursor is comming always at start in textarea

    - by pravin
    I am dealing with textarea, and on click of this I am calling one replace function which will remove some specified string in textarea, this is the basic operation. Expected behavior after clicking on textarea 1) At first click : It should remove specified string from textarea Cursor should come at end of string 2) more than one click : - Cursor should come at where ever user clicks in text area Below is my replace function.... function replace(id,transFromDb) { newStr = $("#"+id).val(); var len = null; if(transFromDb == '') { newStr = newStr.replace(Lang.Message27,''); newStr = newStr.replace(Lang.Message28,''); } else { newStr = newStr.replace(Lang.Message28,''); newStr = newStr.replace(Lang.Message27,''); } /* change font weight as bold. */ $("#"+id).css({"fontWeight":"bold"}); $("#"+id).val(newStr); } Assume that Lang.Message is specified string. It's working above behavior with FF. Facing issue on IE, it always keep cursor position at first. Please provide any solution.... Thanks in Adavance Pravin

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  • Socket Read In Multi-Threaded Application Returns Zero Bytes or EINTR (104)

    - by user309670
    Hi. Am a c-coder for a while now - neither a newbie nor an expert. Now, I have a certain daemoned application in C on a PPC Linux. I use PHP's socket_connect as a client to connect to this service locally. The server uses epoll for multiplexing connections via a Unix socket. A user submitted string is parsed for certain characters/words using strstr() and if found, spawns 4 joinable threads to different websites simultaneously. I use socket, connect, write and read, to interact with the said webservers via TCP on their port 80 in each thread. All connections and writes seems successful. Reads to the webserver sockets fail however, with either (A) all 3 threads seem to hang, and only one thread returns -1 and errno is set to 104. The responding thread takes like 10 minutes - an eternity long:-(. *I read somewhere that the 104 (is EINTR?), which in the network context suggests that ...'the connection was reset by peer'; or (B) 0 bytes from 3 threads, and only 1 of the 4 threads actually returns some data. Isn't the socket read/write thread-safe? I use thread-safe (and reentrant) libc functions such as strtok_r, gethostbyname_r, etc. *I doubt that the said webhosts are actually resetting the connection, because when I run a single-threaded standalone (everything else equal) all things works perfectly right, but of course in series not parallel. There's a second problem too (oops), I can't write back to the client who connect to my epoll-ed Unix socket. My daemon application will hang and hog CPU 100% for ever. Yet nothing is written to the clients end. Am sure the client (a very typical PHP socket application) hasn't closed the connection whenever this is happening - no error(s) detected either. Any ideas? I cannot figure-out whatever is wrong even with Valgrind, GDB or much logging. Kindly help where you can.

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  • Why do people have to use multiple versions of jQuery on the same page?

    - by reprogrammer
    I have noticed that sometimes people have to use multiple versions of jQuery in the same page (See question 1 and question 2). I assume people have to carry old versions of jQuery because some pieces of their code is based on an older version of jQuery. Obviously, this approach causes inefficiency. The ideal solution is to refactor the old code to use the newer jQuery API. I wonder if there are tools that automate the process of upgrading a piece of code to use a newer version of jQuery. I've never written programs in in either Javascript or jQuery. So, I'd like to hear from programmers experienced in these language about their opinion on this issue. In particular, I'd like to know the following. How much of problem it is to have to load multiple versions of jQuery? Have you ever had to load multiple versions of any other library in the same page? Do you know of any refactoring tools that helps you migrate your code to use the updated API? Do you think such a refactoring tool is useful? Are you willing to use it?

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  • ActionScript 3.0: placing code on stage/MC timelines a la AS2 instead of in classes

    - by BoltClock
    I'm aware that ActionScript 3.0 is designed from the ground up to be a largely object-oriented language and using it means less or even no timeline code in Flash documents. I'm quite experienced with OOP and am comfortable writing classes. However, since I mostly use Flash for animations, I hardly ever need to write ActionScript code other than for preloaders, subtitles, quality controls, website links and so on. In fact, I still set my Flash movies to use AS2 to this day because I'm used to gotoAndPlay()/gotoAndStop(), AS2 preloaders, subtitles, quality controls and even getURL(). Of course, I really want to move on now that practically everyone's on Flash Player 9 or 10 and now that I've dabbled with other OO languages like Java, C# and Objective-C too. I'm a complete newcomer to AS3 and am not very learned with AS2 either. Considering my current use of ActionScript, are there any cases where it's still OK to use very simple AS3 code in the timeline instead of moving code to a class, especially since moving to a class might mean unnecessarily increasing the number of LOC from 4 to 40? (Heck, is the latter case ('instead of ...') even a valid concern at all?)

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  • How to suggest changes as a recently-hired employee ?

    - by ereOn
    Hi, I was recently hired in a big company (thousands of people, to give an idea of the size). They said they hired me because of my rigor and because I was, despite my youngness (i'm 25), experienced as a C/C++ programer. Now that I'm in, I can see that the whole system is old and often uses obsolete technologies. There is no naming convention (files, functions, variables, ...), they don't use Version Control, don't use exceptions or polymorphism and it seems like almost everybody lost his passion (some of them are only 30 years old). I'd like to suggest somes changes but i don't want to be "the new guy that wants to change everything just because he doesn't want to fit in". I tried to "fit in", but actually, It takes me one week to do what I would do in one afternoon, just because of the poor tools we're forced to use. A lot my collegues never look at the new "things" and techniques that people use nowadays. It's like they just given up. The situation is really frustrating. Have you ever been in a similar situation and, if so, what advices would you give me ? Is there a subtle way of changing things without becoming the black sheep here ? Or should I just give up my passion and energy as well ? Thank you.

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  • .NET Sockets Buffer Overflow No Error

    - by Michael Covelli
    I have one thread that is receiving data over a socket like this: while (sock.Connected) { // Receive Data (Block if no data) recvn = sock.Receive(recvb, 0, rlen, SocketFlags.None, out serr); if (recvn <= 0 || sock == null || !sock.Connected) { OnError("Error In Receive, recvn <= 0 || sock == null || !sock.Connected"); return; } else if (serr != SocketError.Success) { OnError("Error In Receive, serr = " + serr); return; } // Copy Data Into Tokenizer tknz.Read(recvb, recvn); // Parse Data while (tknz.MoveToNext()) { try { ParseMessageAndRaiseEvents(tknz.Buffer(), tknz.Length); } catch (System.Exception ex) { string BadMessage = ByteArrayToStringClean(tknz.Buffer(), tknz.Length); string msg = string.Format("Exception in MDWrapper Parsing Message, Ex = {0}, Msg = {1}", ex.Message, BadMessage); OnError(msg); } } } And I kept seeing occasional errors in my parsing function indicating that the message wasn't valid. At first, I thought that my tokenizer class was broken. But after logging all the incoming bytes to the tokenizer, it turns out that the raw bytes in recvb weren't a valid message. I didn't think that corrupted data like this was possible with a tcp data stream. I figured it had to be some type of buffer overflow so I set sock.ReceiveBufferSize = 1024 * 1024 * 8; and the parsing error never, ever occurs in testing (it happens often enough to replicate if I don't change the ReceiveBufferSize). But my question is: why wasn't I seeing an exception or an error state or something if the socket's internal buffer was overflowing before I changed this buffer size?

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  • Are we DELPHI, VCL or Pascal programmers?

    - by José Eduardo
    i´ve been a delphi database programmer since D2. Now i´m facing some digital imaging and 3D challenges that make me to start study OpenGL, DirectX, Color Spaces and so on. I´m really trying but nobody seems to use Delphi for this kind of stuff, just the good-old-paycheck Database programming. ok, i know that we have some very smart guys behind some clever components, some of this open-source. Is there any PhotoShop, Blender, Maya, Office, Sonar, StarCraft, Call of Dutty written in Delphi? Do i have to learn C++ to have access to zillions of books about that kind of stuff? What is the fuzz/hype behind this: int *varName = &anhoterThing? Why pointers seems to be the holy graal to this apps? I´ve downloaded MSVC++ Express and start to learn some WPF and QT integration, and i think: "Man, Delphi does this kind of stuff, with less code, less headaches, since the wheels were invented" This lead my mind to the following... Do you ever tried to write a simple notepad program using just notepad and dcc32 in Pascal/Delphi? if so embarcadero could make our beloved pascal compiler free, and sell just the ide, the vcl, the customer support ... and back to the question: Are we DELPHI, VCL or Pascal programmers?

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  • Comparable and Comparator contract with regards to null

    - by polygenelubricants
    Comparable contract specifies that e.compareTo(null) must throw NullPointerException. From the API: Note that null is not an instance of any class, and e.compareTo(null) should throw a NullPointerException even though e.equals(null) returns false. On the other hand, Comparator API mentions nothing about what needs to happen when comparing null. Consider the following attempt of a generic method that takes a Comparable, and return a Comparator for it that puts null as the minimum element. static <T extends Comparable<? super T>> Comparator<T> nullComparableComparator() { return new Comparator<T>() { @Override public int compare(T el1, T el2) { return el1 == null ? -1 : el2 == null ? +1 : el1.compareTo(el2); } }; } This allows us to do the following: List<Integer> numbers = new ArrayList<Integer>( Arrays.asList(3, 2, 1, null, null, 0) ); Comparator<Integer> numbersComp = nullComparableComparator(); Collections.sort(numbers, numbersComp); System.out.println(numbers); // "[null, null, 0, 1, 2, 3]" List<String> names = new ArrayList<String>( Arrays.asList("Bob", null, "Alice", "Carol") ); Comparator<String> namesComp = nullComparableComparator(); Collections.sort(names, namesComp); System.out.println(names); // "[null, Alice, Bob, Carol]" So the questions are: Is this an acceptable use of a Comparator, or is it violating an unwritten rule regarding comparing null and throwing NullPointerException? Is it ever a good idea to even have to sort a List containing null elements, or is that a sure sign of a design error?

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  • How to find Part Time development/IT work?

    - by Jonathan
    I've been working in the IT field now for 10 years. Originally trained as an Engineer, started out with C++ and have been a .Net specialist since beta. Currently seconded to a major city and working in the finance industry as freelance, I really feel like i've hit the glass ceiling. Have been contracting now for 5 years as the company politics and frustration of not being promoted and poor pay rises for excellent work but during the last decade of corporate cost cutting took its toll on my morale. Freelance made all the difference and i've had a very decorated career for good clients. What any Engineering student could ever dream of when starting out. The problem is, it doesn't particularly make me happy. It's good work, and i enjoy the problem solving aspects of it and having something to do each day. However there is always a large overhead of non-technical work and dealing with poor managers etc. I guess the Engineering was always a bit of a mistake i made the best out of, and now having 10 years behind a computer hasn't done wonders for my health or eye sight. In a nutshell i am in the process of retraining as a therapist and would like to open my own clinic. However, never having done this before, the fast pace IT skills outdate and the fact that all my experience and skills are non transferrable, i am a little worried. Any ideas how i can find part time IT work as i build up my business? (it's incredibly hard to find freelancing work that doesn't require long hours and overtime). Or other ideas to make the transition easier, and perhaps backout if it financially doesn't work/or i have enough marketing skills? I'd be interested to hear from people who have made a similar transition, successfully or unsuccessfully. Many thanks

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  • Why do I have to unserialize this serialized value twice? (wordpress/bbpress maybe_serialize)

    - by 55skidoo
    What am I doing wrong here? I'm serializing a value, storing it in a database (table bb_meta), retrieving it... OK so far... but then I have to unserialize it twice. Shouldn't I be able to just unserialize once? This seems to work, but I'm wondering what point about serialization I'm missing here. //check database to see if user has ever visited before. $querystring = $bbdb->prepare( "SELECT `meta_value` FROM `$bbdb->meta` WHERE `object_type` = %s AND `object_id` = %s AND `meta_key` = %s LIMIT 1", $bbtype, $bb_this_thread, $bbuser ); $bb_last_visits = $bbdb->get_row($querystring, OBJECT); //if $bb_last_visits is empty, add time() as the metavalue using bb_update_meta if (empty($bb_last_visits)) { $first_visit = time(); echo 'serialized first visit: ' . $bb_this_visit_time_serialized = serialize(array($bb_this_thread => $first_visit)); bb_update_meta( $bb_this_thread, $bbuser, $bb_this_visit_time_serialized, $bbtype ); //add to database, bb_meta table echo '$bb_last_visits was empty. Setting first visit time as ' . $bb_this_visit_time_serialized . '<br>'; } else { //else, test by unserializing the data for use. echo 'last visit time already set: '; echo $bb_last_visits->meta_value; echo '<br>'; //fatal error - echo 'unserialized: ' . $bb_last_visits_unserialized = unserialize($bb_last_visits[0]->meta_value); echo '<br>'; echo 'unserialize: ' . $unserialized_visits = unserialize($bb_last_visits->meta_value); echo '<br>'; echo 'hmm, need to unserialize again??: '; echo $unserialized_unserialized_visits = unserialize($unserialized_visits); echo '<br>'; echo 'hey look, it\'s an array value I can finally use now. phew: ' . $unserialized_unserialized_visits[$bb_this_thread]; }

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  • String.Format Phone Numbers with Extension

    - by ChiliYago
    I am trying to create a an function that formats US phone numbers -- hopefully without looping through each digit. When 10 digits are passed in all is fine. How ever when more than 10 digits are passed in I want the String.Format method to append the extension digits on the right. For example: When 14 digits passed in the result should be:(444)555-2222 x8888 When 12 digits passed in the result should be:(444)555-2222 x88 etc. However what I get with my current attempt is: Passing in 12 digits returns this string '() -949 x555444433' here is what I have so far. public static string _FormatPhone(object phonevalue) { Int64 phoneDigits; if (Int64.TryParse(phonevalue.ToString(), out phoneDigits)) { string cleanPhoneDigits = phoneDigits.ToString(); int digitCount = cleanPhoneDigits.Length; if (digitCount == 10) return String.Format("{0:(###) ###-####}", phoneDigits); else if (digitCount > 10) return String.Format("{0:(###) ###-#### x#########}", phoneDigits); else return cleanPhoneDigits; } return "Format Err#"; } Thanks in advance.

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  • Why can't HTC Droid running OTA 2.1 communicate with RFCOMM?

    - by Brad Hein
    Yesterday we received OTA Android 2.1 on my wife's HTC Droid - HOORAY!!! I am finally able to load my carputer app on her phone. Well we loaded it, but it doesn't work. Specifically, it connects but sees no I/O!!! I paired, re-paired, and re-paired again, every time its the same problem: connect() says we connected successfully, but any attempt to send or receive data appears to work but no data ever arrives in the input buffer. The device I'm connecting to uses AT commands. ATI should respond with a device ID. That works fine when I run the app on my Moto Droid, but on the HTC droid, no data is ever present in the inputstream/buffer. Personally, I'm feeling pretty sure it's a bug or limitation in this release for the HTC (because the app works great on my Moto A855 Droid). Can anybody comment on the issue? Obligatory code snippets: Member variable defining my RFCOMM UUID static final UUID UUID_RFCOMM_GENERIC = UUID.fromString("00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805F9B34FB"); Parts of my connect() // make sure peer is defined as a valid device based on their MAC. If not then do it. if (mBTDevice == null) mBTDevice = mBTAdapter.getRemoteDevice(mPeerMAC); // Make an RFCOMM binding. try {mBTSocket = mBTDevice.createRfcommSocketToServiceRecord(UUID_RFCOMM_GENERIC); } catch (Exception e1) { msg ("connect(): Failed to bind to RFCOMM by UUID. msg=" + e1.getMessage()); return false; } msg ("connect(): Try to connect."); try { mBTSocket.connect(); } catch (Exception e) { msg ("connect(): Exception thrown during connect: " + e.getMessage()); return false; // there was a problem connecting... make a note of the particulars and move on. } msg ("connect(): CONNECTED!"); try { mBTOutputStream = mBTSocket.getOutputStream(); mBTInputStream = new BufferedInputStream (mBTSocket.getInputStream(),INPUT_BUFFER_SIZE); //msg ("Connecting non-buffered input stream..."); //mBTInputStream = mBTSocket.getInputStream(); } catch (Exception e) { msg ("connect(): Error attaching i/o streams to socket. msg=" + e.getMessage()); return false; } resetErrorCounters(); setConnected(true); return true; } Then I send "ATI\r" and expect something like "CAN OBD II" but I get nothing. mBTInputStream.available(), it seems, is ALWAYS zero, even when data should be in the input buffer. There are GOBS of trace messages being generated by the OS as viewed with adb logcat -v time Some of the more interesting ones: 05-17 19:44:21.447 D/BluetoothSppPort( 5809): connected to device service! 05-17 19:44:21.447 D/BluetoothSppPort( 5809): Creating a BluetoothSpp proxy object 05-17 19:44:21.467 D/BluetoothSppService( 74): createPort called! 05-17 19:44:21.467 D/BluetoothSppService( 74): createPort checking uuid 05-17 19:44:21.467 D/BluetoothSppService( 74): createPort UUID=00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb auth=true encrypt=true 05-17 19:44:21.467 D/BluetoothSppService( 74): createPort enforcing bluetooth perm 05-17 19:44:21.467 D/BluetoothSppService( 74): createPort creating a jbtlspp object 05-17 19:44:21.467 D/BluetoothSppService( 74): createPort checking if the btl spp object is valid 05-17 19:44:21.467 D/BluetoothSppService( 74): createPort try to create an spp container 05-17 19:44:21.467 D/BluetoothSppService( 74): createPort try to create security params 05-17 19:44:21.467 D/BluetoothSppService( 74): createPort Set Security L2 05-17 19:44:21.467 D/BluetoothSppService( 74): createPort spp port create 05-17 19:44:21.467 D/JBtlSpp ( 74): create: Entered 05-17 19:44:21.467 D/JBtlSpp ( 74): Calling NativeJBtlSpp_Create 05-17 19:44:21.467 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): NativeJBtlSpp_Create: Entered 05-17 19:44:21.467 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): NativeJBtlSpp_Create: Calling BTL_SPP_Remote_Create 05-17 19:44:21.477 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): NativeJBtlSpp_Create: BTL_SPP_Remote_Create returned 0, context:18 05-17 19:44:21.477 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): NativeJBtlSpp_Create: Setting context value in jContext out parm 05-17 19:44:21.477 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): NativeJBtlSpp_Create: Calling Java setValue(0x18) in context's class 05-17 19:44:21.477 D/JBtlProfileContext( 74): setValue: setValue called, value:24 05-17 19:44:21.477 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): create_spp_port_data: will use context struct 0 for the port 24 05-17 19:44:21.477 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): create_spp_port_data: spp port context 0 added 05-17 19:44:21.477 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): NativeJBtlSpp_Create:Exiting Successfully 05-17 19:44:21.477 D/JBtlSpp ( 74): After NativeJBtlSpp_Create, status=SUCCESS, Context = 24 05-17 19:44:21.477 D/JBtlRbtlServices( 74): addUser: Entered, userRefCount = 1 05-17 19:44:21.477 D/BluetoothSppService( 74): port create returned status SUCCESS 05-17 19:44:21.477 D/JBtlSpp ( 74): enable: Entered 05-17 19:44:21.477 D/JBtlSpp ( 74): enable: UUID=00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb 05-17 19:44:21.477 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): NativeJBtlSpp_Enable: Entered 05-17 19:44:21.487 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): NativeJBtlSpp_Enable: BTL_SPP_Enable returned 0 05-17 19:44:21.487 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): NativeJBtlSpp_Enable:Exiting 05-17 19:44:21.487 D/JBtlSpp ( 74): After NativeJBtlSpp_Enable, status=SUCCESS 05-17 19:44:21.487 D/JBtlSpp ( 74): enable: Exiting 05-17 19:44:21.487 D/BluetoothSppService( 74): port enable returned status SUCCESS 05-17 19:44:21.487 D/BluetoothSppService( 74): connectPort called! 05-17 19:44:21.497 D/BluetoothSppService( 74): connectPort received bdaddress:00:18:E4:1D:23:9B 05-17 19:44:21.527 D/BluetoothSppService( 74): Trying to connect to 00:18:E4:1D:23:9B 05-17 19:44:21.527 D/JBtlSpp ( 74): setServiceName: Entered 05-17 19:44:21.527 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): NativeJBtlSpp_SetServiceName: Entered 05-17 19:44:21.547 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): NativeJBtlSpp_SetServiceName: native func returned 0 05-17 19:44:21.547 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): NativeJBtlSpp_SetServiceName:Exiting 05-17 19:44:21.547 D/JBtlSpp ( 74): After setServiceName, status=SUCCESS 05-17 19:44:21.547 D/JBtlSpp ( 74): setServiceName: Exiting 05-17 19:44:21.557 D/BluetoothSppService( 74): port setServiceName returned status SUCCESS 05-17 19:44:21.587 D/JBtlSpp ( 74): connect: Entered connecting to 00:18:E4:1D:23:9B 05-17 19:44:21.587 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): NativeJBtlSpp_Connect: Entered 05-17 19:44:21.597 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): NativeJBtlSpp_Connect: BTL_SPP_Connect returned 2 05-17 19:44:21.597 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): NativeJBtlSpp_Connect:Exiting 05-17 19:44:21.597 D/JBtlSpp ( 74): After NativeJBtlSpp_Connect, status=PENDING 05-17 19:44:21.747 D/AK8973 ( 61): Compass CLOSE 05-17 19:44:21.887 W/Process ( 74): Unable to open /proc/5749/status 05-17 19:44:21.917 I/ActivityManager( 74): Displayed activity com.gtosoft.dash/.Dash: 1279 ms (total 1279 ms) 05-17 19:44:24.047 D/ ( 74): signal_BTEVENT_ACCESSIBLE_CHANGE: Entered 05-17 19:44:24.047 D/ ( 74): signal_BTEVENT_ACCESSIBLE_CHANGE: Calling Java Accessible Change callback 05-17 19:44:24.047 D/JBtlBmg ( 74): nativeAccessibleChange 05-17 19:44:24.087 D/BluetoothService( 74): Callback - accessbileChange, btErrCode = NO_ERROR, mode = CONNECTABLE_ONLY 05-17 19:44:24.087 D/BluetoothService( 74): Sending ACTION_SCAN_MODE_CHANGED intent, mode = 21 05-17 19:44:24.087 D/ ( 74): signal_BTEVENT_ACCESSIBLE_CHANGE: Exiting 05-17 19:44:24.097 D/ ( 74): signal_BTEVENT_LINK_CONNECT_CNF: Entered 05-17 19:44:24.097 D/ ( 74): signal_BTEVENT_LINK_CONNECT_CNF: context: 1, errCode: 0 05-17 19:44:24.097 D/ ( 74): signal_BTEVENT_LINK_CONNECT_CNF: Calling Java Link Connect Confirmation callback 05-17 19:44:24.097 D/JBtlBmg ( 74): nativeLinkConnectCnf 05-17 19:44:24.107 D/BluetoothService( 74): Callback - linkConnectCnf, btErrCode = NO_ERROR, bdAddr = 00:18:E4:1D:23:9B 05-17 19:44:24.117 D/JBtlBmg ( 74): getKnownDeviceInfo: Entered 05-17 19:44:24.117 D/JBtlBmg ( 74): getKnownDeviceInfo: Calling NativeJBtlBmg_GetKnownDeviceInfo 05-17 19:44:24.137 D/ ( 74): NativeJBtlBmg_GetKnownDeviceInfo: Entered 05-17 19:44:24.137 D/ ( 74): NativeJBtlBmg_GetKnownDeviceInfo: Calling BTL_BMG_GetKnownDeviceInfo 05-17 19:44:24.227 D/JBtlBmgJniKnownDeviceInfo( 74): setValues: Entered 05-17 19:44:24.227 D/ ( 74): NativeJBtlBmg_GetKnownDeviceInfo:Exiting 05-17 19:44:24.227 D/JBtlBmg ( 74): getKnownDeviceInfo: After NativeJBtlBmg_GetKnownDeviceInfo, status=SUCCESS 05-17 19:44:24.227 D/JBtlBmg ( 74): getKnownDeviceInfo: Exiting 05-17 19:44:24.227 D/BluetoothService( 74): onRemoteDeviceConnected, device 00:18:E4:1D:23:9B is Paired 05-17 19:44:24.227 D/BluetoothService( 74): Sending ACTION_ACL_CONNECTED intent, address = 00:18:E4:1D:23:9B 05-17 19:44:24.227 D/BluetoothA2dpService( 74): Received intent with action: android.bluetooth.device.action.ACL_CONNECTED 05-17 19:44:24.227 D/ ( 74): signal_BTEVENT_LINK_CONNECT_CNF: Exiting 05-17 19:44:24.757 D/JBtlAg ( 163): setIndicatorValue: entered 05-17 19:44:24.767 I/JBtlAg ( 163): After NativeJBtlAg_SetIndicatorValue, status = SUCCESS 05-17 19:44:24.767 D/JBtlAg ( 163): setIndicatorValue: exiting 05-17 19:44:24.807 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): signal_SPP_EVENT_OPEN: Entered 05-17 19:44:24.807 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): signal_SPP_EVENT_OPEN: status: 0 context:24 05-17 19:44:24.827 D/JBtlSpp ( 74): nativeCb_open: Entered from 00:18:E4:1D:23:9B 05-17 19:44:24.827 D/JBtlSpp ( 74): nativeCb_open: Calling callback 05-17 19:44:24.827 D/BluetoothSppService( 74): connected called! 05-17 19:44:24.847 D/JBtlSpp ( 74): connect: Exiting 05-17 19:44:24.847 D/BluetoothSppService( 74): port connect returned status SUCCESS 05-17 19:44:24.847 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): signal_SPP_EVENT_OPEN: Exiting 05-17 19:44:24.847 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): signal_SPP_EVENT_MODEM_STATUS_IND: Entered 05-17 19:44:24.847 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): signal_SPP_EVENT_MODEM_STATUS_IND: Exiting 05-17 19:44:25.424 D/BluetoothSppService( 74): writeSync called! 05-17 19:44:25.424 D/JBtlSpp ( 74): write: Entered 05-17 19:44:25.427 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): NativeJBtlSpp_WriteNative: Entered 05-17 19:44:25.427 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): NativeJBtlSpp_WriteNative: BTL_SPP_WriteSync returned 0 written: 6 total: 0/6 05-17 19:44:25.437 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): signal_SPP_EVENT_TX_DATA_COMPLETE: Entered 05-17 19:44:25.437 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): signal_SPP_EVENT_TX_DATA_COMPLETE: status: 0 context:24 txDataLen:6 05-17 19:44:25.437 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): signal_SPP_EVENT_TX_DATA_COMPLETE: Exiting ok 05-17 19:44:25.437 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): NativeJBtlSpp_WriteNative: written 6 05-17 19:44:25.437 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): NativeJBtlSpp_WriteNative:Exiting with 0 05-17 19:44:25.437 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): NativeJBtlSpp_WriteNative: returning 6 bytes 05-17 19:44:25.437 D/JBtlSpp ( 74): After write, status=SUCCESS 05-17 19:44:25.437 D/JBtlSpp ( 74): write: Exiting 05-17 19:44:25.437 D/BluetoothSppPort( 5809): written 6 bytes 05-17 19:44:25.467 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): signal_SPP_EVENT_RX_DATA_IND: Entered 05-17 19:44:25.467 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): signal_SPP_EVENT_RX_DATA_IND: status: 0 context: 24 rxDataLen: 1 05-17 19:44:25.467 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): signal_SPP_EVENT_RX_DATA_IND: Exiting 05-17 19:44:25.477 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): signal_SPP_EVENT_RX_DATA_IND: Entered 05-17 19:44:25.477 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): signal_SPP_EVENT_RX_DATA_IND: status: 0 context: 24 rxDataLen: 5 05-17 19:44:25.477 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): signal_SPP_EVENT_RX_DATA_IND: Exiting 05-17 19:44:25.487 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): signal_SPP_EVENT_RX_DATA_IND: Entered 05-17 19:44:25.487 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): signal_SPP_EVENT_RX_DATA_IND: status: 0 context: 24 rxDataLen: 10 05-17 19:44:25.487 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): signal_SPP_EVENT_RX_DATA_IND: Exiting 05-17 19:44:25.497 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): signal_SPP_EVENT_RX_DATA_IND: Entered 05-17 19:44:25.497 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): signal_SPP_EVENT_RX_DATA_IND: status: 0 context: 24 rxDataLen: 7 05-17 19:44:25.497 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): signal_SPP_EVENT_RX_DATA_IND: Exiting 05-17 19:44:27.930 W/ActivityManager( 74): Activity destroy timeout for HistoryRecord{447e0d48 com.gtosoft.dash/.Dash} 05-17 19:44:29.907 D/dalvikvm( 448): GC freed 78 objects / 3664 bytes in 153ms 05-17 19:44:29.917 D/BluetoothSppService( 74): writeSync called! 05-17 19:44:29.917 D/JBtlSpp ( 74): write: Entered 05-17 19:44:29.917 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): NativeJBtlSpp_WriteNative: Entered 05-17 19:44:29.927 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): NativeJBtlSpp_WriteNative: BTL_SPP_WriteSync returned 0 written: 6 total: 0/6 05-17 19:44:29.937 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): signal_SPP_EVENT_TX_DATA_COMPLETE: Entered 05-17 19:44:29.937 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): signal_SPP_EVENT_TX_DATA_COMPLETE: status: 0 context:24 txDataLen:6 05-17 19:44:29.937 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): signal_SPP_EVENT_TX_DATA_COMPLETE: Exiting ok 05-17 19:44:29.937 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): NativeJBtlSpp_WriteNative: written 6 05-17 19:44:29.937 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): NativeJBtlSpp_WriteNative:Exiting with 0 05-17 19:44:29.937 D/JBtlSppNative( 74): NativeJBtlSpp_WriteNative: returning 6 bytes 05-17 19:44:29.937 D/JBtlSpp ( 74): After write, status=SUCCESS 05-17 19:44:29.937 D/JBtlSpp ( 74): write: Exiting

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  • Matching a Repeating Sub Series using a Regular Expression with PowerShell

    - by Hinch
    I have a text file that lists the names of a large number of Excel spreadsheets, and the names of the files that are linked to from the spreadsheets. In simplified form it looks like this: "Parent File1.xls" Link: ChildFileA.xls Link: ChildFileB.xls "ParentFile2.xls" "ParentFile3.xls" Blah Link: ChildFileC.xls Link: ChildFileD.xls More Junk Link: ChildFileE.xls "Parent File4.xls" Link: ChildFileF.xls In this example, ParentFile1.xls has embedded links to ChildFileA.xls and ChildFileB.xls, ParentFile2.xls has no embedded links, and ParentFile3.xls has 3 embedded links. I am trying to write a regular expression in PowerShell that will parse the text file producing output in the following form: ParentFile1.xls:ChildFileA.xls,ChildFileB.xls ParentFile3.xls:ChildFileC.xls,ChildFileD.xls,ChildFileE.xls etc The task is complicated by the fact that the text file contains a lot of junk between each of the lines, and a parent may not always have a child. Furthermore, a single file name may pass over multiple lines. However, it's not as bad as it sounds, as the parent and child file names are always clearly demarcated (the parent with quotes and the child with a prefix of Link: ). The PowerShell code I've been using is as follows: $content = [string]::Join([environment]::NewLine, (Get-Content C:\Temp\text.txt)) $regex = [regex]'(?im)\s*\"(.*)\r?\n?\s*(.*)\"[\s\S]*?Link: (.*)\r?\n?' $regex.Matches($content) | %{$_.Groups[1].Value + $_.Groups[2].Value + ":" + $_.Groups[3].Value} Using the example above, it outputs: ParentFile1.xls:ChildFileA.xls ParentFile2.xls""ParentFile3.xls:ChildFileC.xls ParentFile4.xls:ChildFileF.xls There are two issues. Firstly, the inclusion of the "" instead of a newline whenever a Parent without a Child is processed. And the second issue, which is the most important, is that only a single child is ever shown for each parent. I'm guessing I need to somehow recursively capture and display the multiple child links that exist for each parent, but I'm totally stumped as to how to do this with a regular expression. Amy help would be greatly appreciated. The file contains 100's of thousands of lines, and manual processing is not an option :)

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  • iPhone and Core Data: how to retain user-entered data between updates?

    - by Shaggy Frog
    Consider an iPhone application that is a catalogue of animals. The application should allow the user to add custom information for each animal -- let's say a rating (on a scale of 1 to 5), as well as some notes they can enter in about the animal. However, the user won't be able to modify the animal data itself. Assume that when the application gets updated, it should be easy for the (static) catalogue part to change, but we'd like the (dynamic) custom user information part to be retained between updates, so the user doesn't lose any of their custom information. We'd probably want to use Core Data to build this app. Let's also say that we have a previous process already in place to read in animal data to pre-populate the backing (SQLite) store that Core Data uses. We can embed this database file into the application bundle itself, since it doesn't get modified. When a user downloads an update to the application, the new version will include the latest (static) animal catalogue database, so we don't ever have to worry about it being out of date. But, now the tricky part: how do we store the (dynamic) user custom data in a sound manner? My first thought is that the (dynamic) database should be stored in the Documents directory for the app, so application updates don't clobber the existing data. Am I correct? My second thought is that since the (dynamic) user custom data database is not in the same store as the (static) animal catalogue, we can't naively make a relationship between the Rating and the Notes entities (in one database) and the Animal entity (in the other database). In this case, I would imagine one solution would be to have an "animalName" string property in the Rating/Notes entity, and match it up at runtime. Is this the best way to do it, or is there a way to "sync" two different databases in Core Data?

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  • System.ArgumentException: Invalid hex character at DecryptAssemblyResource

    - by Radu094
    My webapp is trowing these exceptions intermitently ever since we migrated to Mono + Apache: The error sounds more like a problem reading/processing some assembly, so I was wondering if I should be worried that there might be a problem with the hard-drive? System.ArgumentException: Invalid hex character at System.Web.Configuration.MachineKeySectionUtils.ToHexValue (Char c, Boolean high) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at System.Web.Configuration.MachineKeySectionUtils.GetBytes (System.String key, Int32 len) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at System.Web.Handlers.ScriptResourceHandler.GetBytes (System.String val) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at System.Web.Handlers.ScriptResourceHandler.DecryptAssemblyResource (System.String val, System.String& asmName, System.String& resName) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at System.Web.Handlers.ScriptResourceHandler.ProcessRequest (System.Web.HttpContext context) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at System.Web.Handlers.ScriptResourceHandler.System.Web.IHttpHandler.ProcessRequest (System.Web.HttpContext context) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at System.Web.HttpApplication+<Pipeline>c__Iterator2.MoveNext () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at System.Web.HttpApplication.Tick () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 Method: Void Application_Error(System.Object, System.EventArgs) at File: at Line Number: 0 Method: Void ProcessError(System.Exception) at File: at Line Number: 0 Method: Void Tick() at File: at Line Number: 0 Method: Void Start(System.Object) at File: at Line Number: 0 Method: Void System.Web.IHttpHandler.ProcessRequest(System.Web.HttpContext) at File: at Line Number: 0 Method: Void Process(System.Web.HttpWorkerRequest) at File: at Line Number: 0 Method: Void RealProcessRequest(System.Object) at File: at Line Number: 0 Method: Void ProcessRequest(System.Web.HttpWorkerRequest) at File: at Line Number: 0 Method: Void ProcessRequest() at File: at Line Number: 0 Method: Void ProcessRequest(Mono.WebServer.MonoWorkerRequest) at File: at Line Number: 0 Method: Void ProcessRequest(Int32, System.String, System.String, System.String, System.String, System.String, Int32, System.String, Int32, System.String, System.String[], System.String[], System.Object) at File: at Line Number: 0 Method: Void InnerRun(System.Object) at File: at Line Number: 0 Method: Void Run(System.Object) at File: at Line Number: 0

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  • Top 10 collection completion - a monster in-query formula in MySQL?

    - by Andrew Heath
    I've got the following tables: User Basic Data (unique) [userid] [name] [etc] User Collection (one to one) [userid] [game] User Recorded Plays (many to many) [userid] [game] [scenario] [etc] Game Basic Data (unique) [game] [total_scenarios] I would like to output a table that shows the collection play completion percentage for the Top 10 users in descending order of %: Output Table [userid] [collection_completion] 3 95% 1 81% 24 68% etc etc In my mind, the calculation sequence for ONE USER is: grab user's total owned scenarios from User Collection joined with Game Basic Data and COUNT(gbd.total_scenarios) grab all recorded plays by COUNT(DISTINCT scenario) for that user Divide all recorded plays by total owned scenarios So that's 2 queries and a little PHP massage at the end. For a list of users sorted by completion percentage things get a little more complicated. I figure I could grab all users' collection totals in one query, and all users recorded plays in another, and then do the calcs and sort the final array in PHP, but it seems like overkill to potentially be doing all that for 1000+ users when I only ever want the Top 10. Is there a wicked monster query in MySQL that could do all that and LIMIT 10? Or is sticking with PHP handling the bulk of the work the way to go in this case?

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  • NSThread terminating too early

    - by JustinXXVII
    I have an app that uploads to Google Spreadsheets via the GData ObjC client for Mac/iPhone. It works fine as is. I'm trying to get the upload portion on its own thread and I'm attempting to call the upload method on a new thread. Look: -(void)establishNewThreadToUpload { [NSThread detachNewThreadSelector:@selector(uploadToGoogle) toTarget:self withObject:nil]; } -(void)uploadToGoogle { NSAutoReleasePool *pool = [[NSAutoReleasePool alloc] init]; //works fine [helper setNewServiceWithName:username password:password]; //works fine [helper fetchUserSpreadsheetFeed]; //inside the helper class, fetchUserSpreadsheet feed calls ANOTHER method, which //calls ANOTHER METHOD and so on, until the object is either uploaded or fails //However, once the class gets to the end of fetchUserSpreadsheetFeed //control is passed back to this method, and [pool release]; //is called. The thread terminates and nothing ever happens. } If I forget about using a separate thread, everything works like it's supposed to. I'm new to thread programming, so if there's something I'm missing, please clue me in! Thanks!

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  • Do programmers need a union?

    - by James A. Rosen
    In light of the acrid responses to the intellectual property clause discussed in my previous question, I have to ask: why don't we have a programmers' union? There are many issues we face as employees, and we have very little ability to organize and negotiate. Could we band together with the writers', directors', or musicians' guilds, or are our needs unique? Has anyone ever tried to start one? If so, why did it fail? (Or, alternatively, why have I never heard of it, despite its success?) later: Keith has my idea basically right. I would also imagine the union being involved in many other topics, including: legal liability for others' use/misuse of our work, especially unintended uses evaluating the quality of computer science and software engineering higher education programs -- unlike many other engineering disciplines, we are not required to be certified on receiving our Bachelor's degrees evangelism and outreach -- especially to elementary school students certification -- not doing it, but working with the companies like ISC(2) and others to make certifications meaningful and useful continuing education -- similar to previous conferences -- maintain a go-to list of organizers and other resources our members can use I would see it less so as a traditional trade union, with little emphasis on: pay -- we tend to command fairly good salaries outsourcing and free trade -- most of use tend to be pretty free-market oriented working conditions -- we're the only industry with Aeron chairs being considered anything like "standard"

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