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Where can I find free and open data?

- by kitsune

Sooner or later, coders will feel the need to have access to "open data" in one of their projects, from knowing a city's zip to a more obscure information such as the axial tilt of Pluto. I know data.un.org which offers access to the UN's extensive array of databases that deal with human development and other socio-economic issues. The other usual suspects are NASA and the USGS for planetary data. There's an article at readwriteweb with more links. infochimps.org seems to stand out. Personally, I need to find historic commodity prices, stock values and other financial data. All these data sets seem to cost money however. Clarification To clarify, I'm interested in all kinds of open data, because sooner or later, I know I will be in a situation where I could need it. I will try to edit this answer and include the suggestions in a structured manners. A link for financial data was hidden in that readwriteweb article, doh! It's called opentick.com. Looks good so far! Update I stumbled over semantic data in another question of mine on here. There is opencyc ('the world's largest and most complete general knowledge base and commonsense reasoning engine'). A project called UMBEL provides a light-weight, distilled version of opencyc. Umbel has semantic data in rdf/owl/skos n3 syntax. The Worldbank also released a very nice API. It offers data from the last 50 years for about 200 countries

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gridview whith dropdown extender

- by Wafaa

hello, I have gridview with TextBox Template field and DropDownExtender so when user click on the textbox another gridview will appear tha contain List of items and button to add the item to the first gridview. my qusetion is: how can i in the event of button click(which is in the extender gridview) to get the row index of the first gridview(which contain the textbox)? thanks <cc1:DropDownExtender ID="uxItemExtender" runat="server" DropDownControlID="uxItemContainer" TargetControlID="uxItems"></cc1:DropDownExtender> <asp:Panel BackColor="AliceBlue" ID="uxItemContainer" runat="server" ScrollBars="Both" Height="400" Width="200"> <asp:GridView ID="uxItemsView" runat="server" Font-Size="Small" AutoGenerateColumns="false" OnRowDataBound="uxItemsView_RowDataBound"> <Columns> <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Item Details"> <ItemTemplate> <asp:Label ID="uxItemNameLbl" Text="Name :" runat="server"></asp:Label> <asp:Label ID="uxItemName" runat="server"></asp:Label><br /> <asp:Label ID="uxItemDescriptionLbl" Text="Description :" runat="server"></asp:Label> <asp:Label ID="uxItemDescription" runat="server"></asp:Label><br /> <asp:Label ID="uxItemPriceLbl" Text="Price :" runat="server"></asp:Label> <asp:Label ID="uxItemPrice" runat="server"></asp:Label><br /> <asp:Button ID="uxSelectItem" runat="server" Text="Add Item" OnClick="uxSelectItem_Click" /><br /> </ItemTemplate> </asp:TemplateField> <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Picture"> <ItemTemplate> <asp:Image ID="uxItemImage" runat="server" Width="45" Height="50" /> </ItemTemplate> </asp:TemplateField> </Columns> </asp:GridView> </asp:Panel> </asp:TemplateField>

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Software development metrics and reporting

- by David M

I've had some interesting conversations recently about software development metrics, in particular how they can be used in a reasonably large organisation to help development teams work better. I know there have been Stack Overflow questions about which metrics are good to use - like this one, but my question is more about which metrics are useful to which stakeholders, and at what level of aggregation. As an example, my view is that code coverage is a useful metric in the following ways (and maybe others): For a team's own internal use when combined with other measurements. For facilitating/enabling/mentoring teams, where it might be instructive when considered on a team-by-team basis as a trend (e.g. if team A and B have coverage this month of 75 and 50, I'd be more concerned with team A than B if the previous month they'd had 80 and 40). For senior management when presented as an aggregated statistic across a number of teams or a whole department. But I don't think it's useful for senior management to see this on a team-by-team basis, as this encourages artifical attempts to bolster coverage with tests that merely exercise, rather than test, code. I'm in an organisation with a couple of levels in its management hierarchy, but where the vast majority of managers are technically minded and able (with many still getting their hands dirty). Some of the development teams are leading the way in driving towards agile development practices, but others lag, and there is now a serious mandate from the top for this to be the way the organisation works. A couple of us are starting a programme to encourage this. In this sort of an organisation, what sort of metrics do you think are useful, to whom, why, and at what level of aggregation? I don't want people to feel their performance is being assessed based on a metric that they can artificially influence; at the same time, the senior management are going to want some sort of evidence that progress is being made. What advice or caveats can you provide based on experience in your own organisations? EDIT We are definitely wanting to use metrics as a tool for organisational improvement not as a tool for individual performance measurement.

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Marquee style progressbar in wxPython

- by Mridang Agarwalla

Hi, Could anyone tell me how to implement a marquee style progress bar in wxPython? As stated on MSDN: you can animate it in a way that shows activity but does not indicate what proportion of the task is complete. Thank you. I tried this but it doesn't seem to work. The timer ticks but the gauge doesn't scroll. Any help? import wx import time class MyForm(wx.Frame): def __init__(self): wx.Frame.__init__(self, None, wx.ID_ANY, "Timer Tutorial 1", size=(500,500)) # Add a panel so it looks the correct on all platforms panel = wx.Panel(self, wx.ID_ANY) self.timer = wx.Timer(self) self.Bind(wx.EVT_TIMER, self.update, self.timer) self.gauProgress = wx.Gauge(panel, range=1000, pos=(30, 50), size=(440, 20)) self.toggleBtn = wx.Button(panel, wx.ID_ANY, "Start") self.toggleBtn.Bind(wx.EVT_BUTTON, self.onToggle) def onToggle(self, event): btnLabel = self.toggleBtn.GetLabel() if btnLabel == "Start": print "starting timer..." self.timer.Start(1000) self.toggleBtn.SetLabel("Stop") else: print "timer stopped!" self.timer.Stop() self.toggleBtn.SetLabel("Start") def update(self, event): print "\nupdated: ", print time.ctime() self.gauProgress.Pulse() # Run the program if __name__ == "__main__": app = wx.PySimpleApp() frame = MyForm().Show() app.MainLoop()

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Fade HTML element with raw javascript

- by jnkrois

It's my second question of the day related to the same problem, so I apologize for that. I was able to put together a function to "fade out" an element, and it works just fine, my problem is that when I try to reverse it, so the element "fades in" it does not work. I've tried to change the obvious, but I can't understand what I'm doing wrong. My code so far is as follows: Given I have a "div" like so: <div id="test" style="width:200px; height:200px; display:block; opacity:1; background-color:red;"></div> The JavaScript function that I'm using to fade it out is: var getElement = document.getElementById('test'); function fadeOut(elem, speed){ if(!elem.style.opacity){ elem.style.opacity = 1; } var desvanecer = setInterval(function(){ elem.style.opacity -= .02; if(elem.style.opacity < 0){ clearInterval(desvanecer); } }, speed / 50); } fadeOut(getElement, 500); Could somebody take a look at this and let me know what I'm doing wrong, all I want to do is "FADE IN" an element to an opacity equal to "1". By the way, I can't use jQuery, however I'm eager to learn this way. Thanks

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Two strange efficiency problems in Mathematica

- by Jess Riedel

FIRST PROBLEM I have timed how long it takes to compute the following statements (where V[x] is a time-intensive function call): Alice = Table[V[i],{i,1,300},{1000}]; Bob = Table[Table[V[i],{i,1,300}],{1000}]^tr; Chris_pre = Table[V[i],{i,1,300}]; Chris = Table[Chris_pre,{1000}]^tr; Alice, Bob, and Chris are identical matricies computed 3 slightly different ways. I find that Chris is computed 1000 times faster than Alice and Bob. It is not surprising that Alice is computed 1000 times slower because, naively, the function V must be called 1000 more times than when Chris is computed. But it is very surprising that Bob is so slow, since he is computed identically to Chris except that Chris stores the intermediate step Chris_pre. Why does Bob evaluate so slowly? SECOND PROBLEM Suppose I want to compile a function in Mathematica of the form f(x)=x+y where "y" is a constant fixed at compile time (but which I prefer not to directly replace in the code with its numerical because I want to be able to easily change it). If y's actual value is y=7.3, and I define f1=Compile[{x},x+y] f2=Compile[{x},x+7.3] then f1 runs 50% slower than f2. How do I make Mathematica replace "y" with "7.3" when f1 is compiled, so that f1 runs as fast as f2? Many thanks!

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Is there a more useful explanation for UITableViewStylePlain?

- by mystify

From the docs: In the plain style, section headers and footers float above the content if the part of a complete section is visible. A table view can have an index that appears as a bar on the right hand side of the table (for example, "a" through "z"). You can touch a particular label to jump to the target section. I find that very hard to grasp. First, this one: if the part of a complete section is visible What do they mean by this? This is paradox. Which one is it? A) Table must be exactly the height of that section. If I have 5 Rows, and each row is 50px high, I must make it 5*50 high. The full section must be visible on the screen. Otherwise, if I have 100 rows but my table view is only 400 high, this will not apply. Nothing will float above my content. Sounds wrong. B) It doesn't matter how high my table view actually is. Header and Footer is floating above the content and I can scroll the section. Makes more sense. But is completely against this nonsense making sentence: 'if the part of a complete section is visible' Can anyone explain it better than they did?

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What might make "Xclients" be executed twice when boot system?

- by ablmf

For some special purpose, I modified /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients to start firefox instead of start Desktop Environment. # Argh! Nothing good is installed. Fall back to twm { # gosh, neither fvwm95 nor fvwm2 is available; # fall back to failsafe settings [ -x /usr/bin/xsetroot ] && /usr/bin/xsetroot -solid '#222E45' # if [ -x /usr/bin/xclock ] ; then # /usr/bin/xclock -geometry 100x100-5+5 & # elif [ -x /usr/bin/xclock ] ; then # /usr/bin/xclock -geometry 100x100-5+5 & # fi # if [ -x /usr/bin/xterm ] ; then # /usr/bin/xterm -geometry 80x50-50+150 & # fi if [ -x /usr/bin/firefox ]; then /usr/bin/firefox -chrome http://127.0.0.1/ -width 1280 -height 768 fi # if [ -x /usr/bin/twm ] ; then # exec /usr/bin/twm # fi This used to work fine until today I tested it on another computer. Firefox reports that there's another running instance of firefox which stops responding. Thus, firefox could not autostart as I expected. I connected the computer with SSH and I found there are 2 firefox processes: [root@my113 xinit]# ps -ef | grep firefox root 4479 4371 0 17:34 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/firefox-3.0b5/run-mozilla.sh /usr/lib/firefox-3.0b5/firefox -chrome http://127.0.0.1/ -width 1280 -height 768 root 4600 4479 0 17:34 ? 00:00:01 /usr/lib/firefox-3.0b5/firefox -chrome http://127.0.0.1/ -width 1280 -height 768 root 4940 4906 0 17:35 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/firefox-3.0b5/run-mozilla.sh /usr/lib/firefox-3.0b5/firefox -chrome http://127.0.0.1/ -width 1280 -height 768 root 4963 4940 0 17:35 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/firefox-3.0b5/firefox -chrome http://127.0.0.1/ -width 1280 -height 768 root 5717 5345 0 17:51 pts/2 00:00:00 grep firefox I guess, for some reason, "Xclients" is executed twice. But I really knows very little about XWindows, so if anyone here could give me some clues, I will appreciate!

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Compressing a web service response for jQuery

- by SirDemon

I'm attempting to gzip a JSON response from an ASMX web service to be consumed on the client-side by jQuery. My web.config already has httpCompression set like so: (I'm using IIS 7) <httpCompression directory="%SystemDrive%\inetpub\temp\IIS Temporary Compressed Files" staticCompressionDisableCpuUsage="90" staticCompressionEnableCpuUsage="60" dynamicCompressionDisableCpuUsage="80" dynamicCompressionEnableCpuUsage="50"> <dynamicTypes> <add mimeType="application/javascript" enabled="true" /> <add mimeType="application/x-javascript" enabled="true" /> <add mimeType="text/css" enabled="true" /> <add mimeType="video/x-flv" enabled="true" /> <add mimeType="application/x-shockwave-flash" enabled="true" /> <add mimeType="text/javascript" enabled="true" /> <add mimeType="text/*" enabled="true" /> <add mimeType="application/json; charset=utf-8" enabled="true" /> </dynamicTypes> <staticTypes> <add mimeType="application/javascript" enabled="true" /> <add mimeType="application/x-javascript" enabled="true" /> <add mimeType="text/css" enabled="true" /> <add mimeType="video/x-flv" enabled="true" /> <add mimeType="application/x-shockwave-flash" enabled="true" /> <add mimeType="text/javascript" enabled="true" /> <add mimeType="text/*" enabled="true" /> </staticTypes> <scheme name="gzip" dll="%Windir%\system32\inetsrv\gzip.dll" /> </httpCompression> <urlCompression doDynamicCompression="true" doStaticCompression="true" /> Through fiddler I can see that normal aspx and other compressions work fine. However, the jQuery ajax request and response work as they should, only nothing gets compressed. What am I missing?

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[NSCFNumber _isNaturallyRTL]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x605ac10

- by Risma

my app got crashed an showed that keyword. There is no error and warning. can some body help me?? this is stack that showed : Call stack at first throw: ( 0 CoreFoundation 0x012ccbe9 __exceptionPreprocess + 185 1 libobjc.A.dylib 0x014215c2 objc_exception_throw + 47 2 CoreFoundation 0x012ce6fb -[NSObject(NSObject) doesNotRecognizeSelector:] + 187 3 CoreFoundation 0x0123e366 ___forwarding___ + 966 4 CoreFoundation 0x0123df22 _CF_forwarding_prep_0 + 50 5 UIKit 0x0042d35e -[UITextField setText:] + 53 6 Koder232_risma_edited 0x0006427a -[FilePropertiesViewController viewWillAppear:] + 442 7 UIKit 0x003c4d52 -[UIView(Hierarchy) _willMoveToWindow:withAncestorView:] + 207 8 UIKit 0x003cfa2b -[UIView(Hierarchy) _makeSubtreePerformSelector:withObject:withObject:copySublayers:] + 378 9 UIKit 0x003cfa5c -[UIView(Hierarchy) _makeSubtreePerformSelector:withObject:withObject:copySublayers:] + 427 10 UIKit 0x003cfa5c -[UIView(Hierarchy) _makeSubtreePerformSelector:withObject:withObject:copySublayers:] + 427 11 UIKit 0x003c6b36 -[UIView(Internal) _addSubview:positioned:relativeTo:] + 370 12 UIKit 0x003c514f -[UIView(Hierarchy) addSubview:] + 57 13 UIKit 0x006ad8ae -[UIPopoverView presentFromRect:inView:contentSize:backgroundStyle:animated:] + 1920 14 UIKit 0x006a0a4c -[UIPopoverView presentFromRect:inView:animated:] + 236 15 UIKit 0x006d9b20 -[UIPopoverController presentPopoverFromRect:inView:permittedArrowDirections:animated:] + 1046 16 Koder232_risma_edited 0x0001f90f -[codeViewController arrangeTabWithTypeGesture:andNumtag:] + 4683 17 Koder232_risma_edited 0x0001e68f -[codeViewController setTap2:] + 99 18 UIKit 0x0061e9c7 -[UIGestureRecognizer _updateGestureWithEvent:] + 727 19 UIKit 0x0061a9d6 -[UIGestureRecognizer _delayedUpdateGesture] + 47 20 UIKit 0x00620fa5 _UIGestureRecognizerUpdateObserver + 584 21 UIKit 0x0062118a _UIGestureRecognizerUpdateGesturesFromSendEvent + 51 22 UIKit 0x003bc6b4 -[UIWindow _sendGesturesForEvent:] + 1292 23 UIKit 0x003b7f87 -[UIWindow sendEvent:] + 105 24 UIKit 0x0039b37a -[UIApplication sendEvent:] + 447 25 UIKit 0x003a0732 _UIApplicationHandleEvent + 7576 26 GraphicsServices 0x0191fa36 PurpleEventCallback + 1550 27 CoreFoundation 0x012ae064 __CFRUNLOOP_IS_CALLING_OUT_TO_A_SOURCE1_PERFORM_FUNCTION__ + 52 28 CoreFoundation 0x0120e6f7 __CFRunLoopDoSource1 + 215 29 CoreFoundation 0x0120b983 __CFRunLoopRun + 979 30 CoreFoundation 0x0120b240 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 208 31 CoreFoundation 0x0120b161 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 97 32 GraphicsServices 0x0191e268 GSEventRunModal + 217 33 GraphicsServices 0x0191e32d GSEventRun + 115 34 UIKit 0x003a442e UIApplicationMain + 1160 35 Koder232_risma_edited 0x00002680 main + 102 36 Koder232_risma_edited 0x00002611 start + 53 37 ??? 0x00000001 0x0 + 1 )

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argv Memory Allocation

- by Joshua Green

I was wondering if someone could tell me what I am doing wrong that I get this Unhandled Exception error message: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0x0000000c. with a green pointer pointing at my first Prolog code (fid_t): Here is my header file: class UserTaskProlog { public: UserTaskProlog( ArRobot* r ); ~UserTaskProlog( ); protected: int cycles; char* argv[ 1 ]; term_t tf; term_t tx; term_t goal_term; functor_t goal_functor; ArRobot* robot; void logTask( ); }; And here is my main code: UserTaskProlog::UserTaskProlog( ArRobot* r ) : robot( r ), robotTaskFunc( this, &UserTaskProlog::logTask ) { cycles = 0; argv[ 0 ] = "libpl.dll"; argv[ 1 ] = NULL; PL_initialise( 1, argv ); PlCall( "consult( 'myPrologFile.pl' )" ); robot->addSensorInterpTask( "UserTaskProlog", 50, &robotTaskFunc ); } UserTaskProlog::~UserTaskProlog( ) { robot->remSensorInterpTask( &robotTaskFunc ); } void UserTaskProlog::logTask( ) { cycles++; fid_t fid = PL_open_foreign_frame( ); tf = PL_new_term_ref( ); PL_put_integer( tf, 5 ); tx = PL_new_term_ref( ); goal_term = PL_new_term_ref( ); goal_functor = PL_new_functor( PL_new_atom( "factorial" ), 2 ); PL_cons_functor( goal_term, goal_functor, tf, tx ); int fact; if ( PL_call( goal_term, NULL ) ) { PL_get_integer( tx, &fact ); cout << fact << endl; } PL_discard_foreign_frame( fid ); } int main( int argc, char** argv ) { ArRobot robot; ArArgumentParser argParser( &argc, argv ); UserTaskProlog talk( &robot ); } Thank you,

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Image "moves" when varying heightForRowAtIndexPath in UITableViewCell.

- by Kalle

I have a table view with varying height, as defined in the heightForRowAtIndexPath. For some very odd reason, the image is "indented" to the right based on the height; if the height is low enough, the image is stuck to the left side of the cell, but as the height increases, the image for said cell is shifted rightward compared to other rows. The result of this is a very poor looking list, with images floppily laid out in a zig-zag pattern depending on the height of each individual row. The problem is revealed by this simple example: - (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath { return (indexPath.row+1) * 50; } Each cell is set up (simplified) as a "Subtitle" style cell with: // ... cell.textLabel.text = @"foo"; cell.detailTextLabel.text = @"bar"; cell.imageView.backgroundColor = [UIColor redColor]; // for debugging; i have images with transparent bg cell.imageView.image = anImageThatIs55x50pixelsBig; return cell; Any ideas? My head bleeds from the wall-love-affair. Edit: uploaded a screen which displays this. The "image" is just a screenshot of a tiny area of the screen which makes it look a little weird, but you get the picture I'm sure: http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/549/screenshot20100311at172.png

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Single-player pong game

- by Jam

I am just starting out learning pygame and livewires, and I'm trying to make a single-player pong game, where you just hit the ball, and it bounces around until it passes your paddle (located on the left side of the screen and controlled by the mouse), which makes you lose. However, I keep getting the error: "Cannot have more than on Screen object", which I can find no references to online really, and I can't make sense of it. I want to eventually make the game more complicated, but I need to make it work first. Help please! Here's the code so far: from livewires import games games.init(screen_width=640, screen_height=480, fps=50) class Paddle(games.Sprite): image=games.load_image("paddle.bmp") def __init__(self): super(Paddle, self).__init__(image=Paddle.image, y=games.mouse.y, left=0) self.score=games.Text(value=0, size=25, top=5, right=games.screen.width-10) games.screen.add(self.score) def update(self): self.y=games.mouse.y self.check_collide() def check_collide(self): for ball in self.overlapping_sprites: self.score.value+=1 self.score.right=games.screen.width-10 ball.handle_collide() class Ball(games.Sprite): image=games.load_image("ball.bmp") speed=1 def __init__(self, x, y=90): super(Ball, self).__init__(image=Ball.image, x=x, y=y, dx=Ball.speed, dy=Ball.speed) def update(self): if self.left<0: self.end_game() self.destroy() def handle_collide(self): if self.right>games.screen.width: self.dx=-self.dx if self.bottom>games.screen.height or self.top<0: self.dy=-self.dy def ball_destroy(self): self.destroy() def main(): background_image=games.load_image("background.bmp", transparent=False) games.screen.background=background_image the_ball=Ball() games.screen.add(the_ball) the_paddle=Paddle() games.screen.add(the_paddle) games.mouse.is_visible=False games.screen.event_grab=True games.screen.mainloop() main()

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Flash movies in inactive browser tabs pause or don't execute in real time

- by ZenBlender

I'm noticing some unexpected behavior. Some time in the last few months, a change in either Firefox, the Flash player, or both, has made it so that Flash movies that are in inactive browser tabs no longer execute in real time. They appear to still execute, but only in bursts, and not in a predictable way. This is a problem because I develop a Flash-based (Actionscript 2.0, Flash CS3) multiplayer game that maintains a network connection and allows players to chat, etc. Many of our players complain about Firefox crashing while playing the game. I have noticed it too, not too frequently, but it crashes several times a week. (Firefox crashes, I do not get a message from Flash player that indicates an infinite loop or problem in my code) My theory is that this new behavior is causing crashes when there is a lot of activity in my game, leading to lots of unhandled network traffic for my game getting buffered before Firefox/Flash will give it a chance to execute. Maybe this leads to a buffer overflow or missing packets, and as a result, something crashes. At times I will switch back to the tab that is running my game and discover a display bug, which looks as though Flash has simply failed to execute something that it was supposed to. I would assume this new behavior is on purpose, for example to prevent all the Flash-based advertisements in inactive tabs from executing and therefore killing performance. In a quick test on Chrome (5.0.342.9 beta), this "pausing" of Flash seems to be there as well, but somehow it seems much less of a problem. My users have only complained about Firefox crashing, not other browsers. My machine: Windows 7 x64 Firefox 3.6.3 Flash Player 10.1.50.426 My game: triplejack.com Any ideas? Ideally I'd like to disable this behavior for my Flash game so it can execute in real time even when in an inactive tab. Thanks for any help!

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Query returns too few rows

- by Tareq

setup: mysql> create table product_stock( product_id integer, qty integer, branch_id integer); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.17 sec) mysql> create table product( product_id integer, product_name varchar(255)); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.11 sec) mysql> insert into product(product_id, product_name) values(1, 'Apsana White DX Pencil'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.05 sec) mysql> insert into product(product_id, product_name) values(2, 'Diamond Glass Marking Pencil'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.03 sec) mysql> insert into product(product_id, product_name) values(3, 'Apsana Black Pencil'); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.03 sec) mysql> insert into product_stock(product_id, qty, branch_id) values(1, 100, 1); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.03 sec) mysql> insert into product_stock(product_id, qty, branch_id) values(1, 50, 2); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.03 sec) mysql> insert into product_stock(product_id, qty, branch_id) values(2, 80, 1); Query OK, 1 row affected (0.03 sec) my query: mysql> SELECT IFNULL(SUM(s.qty),0) AS stock, product_name FROM product_stock s RIGHT JOIN product p ON s.product_id=p.product_id WHERE branch_id=1 GROUP BY product_name ORDER BY product_name; returns: +-------+-------------------------------+ | stock | product_name | +-------+-------------------------------+ | 100 | Apsana White DX Pencil | | 80 | Diamond Glass Marking Pencil | +-------+-------------------------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) But I want to have the following result: +-------+------------------------------+ | stock | product_name | +-------+------------------------------+ | 0 | Apsana Black Pencil | | 100 | Apsana White DX Pencil | | 80 | Diamond Glass Marking Pencil | +-------+------------------------------+ To get this result what mysql query should I run?

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Bubble Breaker Game Solver better than greedy?

- by Gregory

For a mental exercise I decided to try and solve the bubble breaker game found on many cell phones as well as an example here:Bubble Break Game The random (N,M,C) board consists N rows x M columns with C colors The goal is to get the highest score by picking the sequence of bubble groups that ultimately leads to the highest score A bubble group is 2 or more bubbles of the same color that are adjacent to each other in either x or y direction. Diagonals do not count When a group is picked, the bubbles disappear, any holes are filled with bubbles from above first, ie shift down, then any holes are filled by shifting right A bubble group score = n * (n - 1) where n is the number of bubbles in the bubble group The first algorithm is a simple exhaustive recursive algorithm which explores going through the board row by row and column by column picking bubble groups. Once the bubble group is picked, we create a new board and try to solve that board, recursively descending down Some of the ideas I am using include normalized memoization. Once a board is solved we store the board and the best score in a memoization table. I create a prototype in python which shows a (2,15,5) board takes 8859 boards to solve in about 3 seconds. A (3,15,5) board takes 12,384,726 boards in 50 minutes on a server. The solver rate is ~3k-4k boards/sec and gradually decreases as the memoization search takes longer. Memoization table grows to 5,692,482 boards, and hits 6,713,566 times. What other approaches could yield high scores besides the exhaustive search? I don't seen any obvious way to divide and conquer. But trending towards larger and larger bubbles groups seems to be one approach Thanks to David Locke for posting the paper link which talks above a window solver which uses a constant-depth lookahead heuristic.

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Best way to be able to pick multiple colors/designs of symbols dynamically from flash

- by Cyprus106

Sorry the title's so convoluted... I must've tried for ten minutes to get a good, descriptive title! Basically, here's the scenario. Let's say a user can pick fifty different hat colors and styles to put on an avatar. The avatar can move his head around, so we'd need the same types of movements in the symbol for when that happens. Additionally, it gets which hat should be on the 'avatar' from a database. The problem is that we can't just make 50 different frames with a different hat on each. And each hat symbol will have the same movements, it'll just be different styles, colors and sizes. So how can I make one variable that is the HAT, that way we can just put the appropriate hat symbol into the variable and always be able to call Hat.gotoAndplay('tip_hat') or any other generic functions.... Does that make sense? Hope that's not too confusing. Sorry, I'm not great at the visual Flash stuff, but it's gotta be done! Thanks!

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Need help with animation on iPhone

- by Arun Ravindran

I'm working on an animated clock application for the iPhone, and I have to pivot all the 3 nodes in the view, which I have obtained in the following code: [CATransaction begin]; [CATransaction setValue:(id)kCFBooleanTrue forKey:kCATransactionDisableActions]; clockarm.layer.anchorPoint = CGPointMake(0.0, 0.0); [CATransaction commit]; [CATransaction begin]; [CATransaction setValue:(id)kCFBooleanFalse forKey:kCATransactionDisableActions]; [CATransaction setValue:[NSNumber numberWithFloat:50.0] forKey:kCATransactionAnimationDuration]; CABasicAnimation *animation; animation = [CABasicAnimation animationWithKeyPath:@"transform.rotation.z"]; animation.fromValue = [NSNumber numberWithFloat:-60.0]; animation.toValue = [NSNumber numberWithFloat:2 * M_PI]; animation.timingFunction = [CAMediaTimingFunction functionWithName: kCAMediaTimingFunctionLinear]; animation.delegate = self; [clockarm.layer addAnimation:animation forKey:@"rotationAnimation"]; animation.timingFunction = [CAMediaTimingFunction functionWithName:kCAMediaTimingFunctionEaseInEaseOut]; [CATransaction commit]; The problem it's just rotating once, ie. only 360 degree and then stopping. I want to raotate the needles indefinitely. How would I do that?

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MySQL stuck on "using filesort" when doing an "order by"

- by noko

I can't seem to get my query to stop using filesort. This is my query: SELECT s.`pilot`, p.`name`, s.`sector`, s.`hull` FROM `pilots` p LEFT JOIN `ships` s ON ( (s.`game` = p.`game`) AND (s.`pilot` = p.`id`) ) WHERE p.`game` = 1 AND p.`id` <> 2 AND s.`sector` = 43 AND s.`hull` > 0 ORDER BY p.`last_move` DESC Table structures: CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `pilots` ( `id` mediumint(5) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `game` tinyint(3) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', `last_move` int(10) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', UNIQUE KEY `id` (`id`), KEY `last_move` (`last_move`), KEY `game_id_lastmove` (`game`,`id`,`last_move`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=8 ; CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `ships` ( `id` mediumint(5) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `game` tinyint(3) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', `pilot` mediumint(5) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', `sector` smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '0', `hull` smallint(4) unsigned NOT NULL DEFAULT '50', UNIQUE KEY `id` (`id`), KEY `game` (`game`), KEY `pilot` (`pilot`), KEY `sector` (`sector`), KEY `hull` (`hull`), KEY `game_2` (`game`,`pilot`,`sector`,`hull`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=8 ; The explain: id select_type table type possible_keys key key_len ref rows Extra 1 SIMPLE p ref id,game_id_lastmove game_id_lastmove 1 const 7 Using where; Using filesort 1 SIMPLE s ref game,pilot,sector... game_2 6 const,fightclub_alpha.p.id,const 1 Using where; Using index edit: I cut some of the unnecessary pieces out of my queries/table structure. Anybody have any ideas?

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Make an image transparent in IE to show non-transparent background

- by Select0r

Hi, I'm trying to get this thing to work in IE (any version - works in FF, Opera, Safari, Chrome ...): I have a DIV with a background-image. The DIV also contains an image that should be transparent onMouseOver. The expected behaviour now is that the DIV-background would shine through the transparent image (which it does in all browsers but IE). Instead it looks like the image is getting transparent but on a white background, I can't see the DIV's background through the image. Here's some code: <div><a href="#" class"dragItem"><img /></a></div> And some CSS: .dojoDndItemOver { cursor : pointer; filter : alpha(opacity = 50); opacity : 0.5; -moz-opacity : 0.5; -khtml-opacity : 0.5; } .dragItem:hover { filter : alpha(opacity = 30); opacity : 0.3; -moz-opacity : 0.3; -khtml-opacity : 0.3; background : none; } All of this is embedded in a Dojo Drag-n-Drop-system, so dojoDndItemOver will automatically be set to the DIV on MouseOver, dragItem is set to the href around the image (using the same class on the image directly doesn't work at all as IE doesn't support "hover" on other items that href). Any ideas? Or is it an IE-speciality to just "simulate" transparency on images by somehow just greying them out instead of providing real transparency and showing whatever is beneath?

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Problem with javascript onclick function string

- by StealthRT

Hey all, i have been trying for a few minutes on this problem and i can not seem to figure out how to correct it. I tend to have the hardest time doing stuff like this when it involves more than one varable within the function. Here is the code: var tempString = "thePrompt('Are you sure you wish to delete this?', 'theDel('" + IDnum + "', '" + theTitle + "', \'" + temperDay + "\', \'" + temperMonth + "\', \'" + temperYear + "\', \'" + DDiff + "\')"; html += "<div id='theTable" + IDnum + "' class='fc-event fc-event-hori fc-corner-left fc-corner-right' style='position:absolute; margin-top: 15px; z-index:8;left:"+left+"px'><div id='apDEL' style='position:relative;width:0px;height:0px;z-index:1000; top:-13px; left:2px; float:left;'><img src='img/xCal.png' width='15' height='15' alt='' border='0' onclick=\"" + tempString + "\" /></div>" + (ETC ETC...) The error i keep getting is this: Error: missing ) after argument list Line: 1, Column: 68 Source Code: thePrompt('Are you sure you wish to delete this posting?', 'theDel('105', '50 points for visiting us today!!!!', '13', '3', '2010', '2') And its pointing to the '105'. As always, any help would be wonderful! :o) David

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Flash video slooow in AIR 2 HTMLLoader component

- by shane

I am working on a full screen kiosk application in Flex 4/Air 2 using Flash Builder 4. We have a company training website which staff can access via the kiosk, and the main content is interactive flash training videos. Our target machines are by no means 'beefy', they are Atom n270s @ 1.6Ghz with 1Gb RAM. As it stands the videos are all but unusable when used from within the Air application, the application becomes completely unresponsive (100% cpu usage, click events take approx 5-10 seconds to register). So far I have tried: increasing the default frame rate from 24fps to 60. No improvement. nativeWindow.stage.frameRate = 60; running the videos in a stripped down version of my app, just a full screen HTMLLoader component pointed at the training website. No better than before. disabled hyper threading. The Atom CPU is split into two virtual cores, and the AIR app was only able to use one thread so maxed out at 50% CPU usage. Since the kiosk will only run the AIR app I am happy to loose hyper threading to increase the performance of the Air app. Marginal Improvement. The same website with the same videos is responsive if viewed in ie7 on the same machine, although Internet Explorer takes advantage of the CPU’s hyper threading. The flash videos are built with Adobe Captivate and from what I understand employee JavaScript to relay results back to the server. I will add more information about the video content asap as the training guru is back in the office later this week.

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Optimal Serialization of Primitive Types

- by Greg Dean

We are beginning to roll out more and more WAN deployments of our product (.Net fat client w/ IIS hosted Remoting backend). Because of this we are trying to reduce the size of the data on the wire. We have overridden the default serialization by implementing ISerializable (similar to this), we are seeing anywhere from 12% to 50% gains. Most of our efforts focus on optimizing arrays of primitive types. I would like to know if anyone knows of any fancy way of serializing primitive types, beyond the obvious? For example today we serialize an array of ints as follows: [4-bytes (array length)][4-bytes][4-bytes] Can anyone do significantly better? The most obvious example of a significant improvement, for boolean arrays, is putting 8 bools in each byte, which we already do. Note: Saving 7 bits per bool may seem like a waste of time, but when you are dealing with large magnitudes of data (which we are), it adds up very fast. Note: We want to avoid general compression algorithms because of the latency associated with it. Remoting only supports buffered requests/responses(no chunked encoding). I realize there is a fine line between compression and optimal serialization, but our tests indicate we can afford very specific serialization optimizations at very little cost in latency. Whereas reprocessing the entire buffered response into new compressed buffer is too expensive.

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Python: combining making two scripts into one

- by Alex

I have two separately made python scripts one that makes a sine wave sound based off time, and another that produces a sine wave graph that is based off the same time factors. I need help combining them into one running file. Here's the first: from struct import pack from math import sin, pi import time def au_file(name, freq, freq1, dur, vol): fout = open(name, 'wb') # header needs size, encoding=2, sampling_rate=8000, channel=1 fout.write('.snd' + pack('>5L', 24, 8*dur, 2, 8000, 1)) factor = 2 * pi * freq/8000 factor1 = 2 * pi * freq1/8000 # write data for seg in range(8 * dur): # sine wave calculations sin_seg = sin(seg * factor) + sin(seg * factor1) fout.write(pack('b', vol * 64 * sin_seg)) fout.close() t = time.strftime("%S", time.localtime()) ti = time.strftime("%M", time.localtime()) tis = float(t) tis = tis * 100 tim = float(ti) tim = tim * 100 if __name__ == '__main__': au_file(name='timeSound.au', freq=tim, freq1=tis, dur=1000, vol=1.0) import os os.startfile('timeSound.au') and the second is this: from Tkinter import * import math import time t = time.strftime("%S", time.localtime()) ti = time.strftime("%M", time.localtime()) tis = float(t) tis = tis / 100 tim = float(ti) tim = tim / 100 root = Tk() root.title("This very moment") width = 400 height = 300 center = height//2 x_increment = 1 # width stretch x_factor1 = tis x_factor2 = tim # height stretch y_amplitude = 50 c = Canvas(width=width, height=height, bg='black') c.pack() str1 = "sin(x)=white" c.create_text(10, 20, anchor=SW, text=str1) center_line = c.create_line(0, center, width, center, fill='red') # create the coordinate list for the sin() curve, have to be integers xy1 = [] xy2 = [] for x in range(400): # x coordinates xy1.append(x * x_increment) xy2.append(x * x_increment) # y coordinates xy1.append(int(math.sin(x * x_factor1) * y_amplitude) + center) xy2.append(int(math.sin(x * x_factor2) * y_amplitude) + center) sinS_line = c.create_line(xy1, fill='white') sinM_line = c.create_line(xy2, fill='yellow') root.mainloop()

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