What is the best way to convert an int or null to boolean value in an SQL query, such that:
Any non-null value is TRUE in the results
Any null value is FALSE in the results
I'm a longtime C/C++ Unix guy. I recently started work in a new position that's gonna eventually require C# and WPF (and probably some LINQ). What are the best resources to quickly come up to speed on all these Microsoft technologies? Years ago I read Petzold's book and loved it because it was so complete and by the end I really felt like I knew what I was doing... Is their something equivalent for the .NET world?
I'm trying to find information about CouchDB and it seems quite sparse or not centralized at least. What blogs/websites are the best central source of information on CouchDB? Are there any books on the subject?
Hi,
If I am running an organization that has 50 .net developers and all are using sql server, what is the best way to make single sql server available to them?
Here is some of the concerns that I want to be careful about
Should I configure database users per project or per user? or both?
Should I provide single sql server instance?
There are some more concerns but I think getting answer of these two will be a good starting point.
I want to convert MS word formatted documents to images and pdf. I am well versed with Java. I was looking for apis using which I can do the same.
Can anyone please point me to that ?
If you know the best alternatives even though they are for other languages , please update me about that.
Hey everybody,
What is the Best oder of traversing edges within Bellman-Ford algorithm
in Order to achieve a min. number of iterations necessary.?
thx in advance,
Andreas
I'm porting an application from WPF to Silverlight and was saddened to read of the lack of FlowDocument support.
What is the best way in Silverlight then to display text with markup?
I just need the basics, e.g.
bold
italic
hyperlink
colors
font sizes
The presentation tier will contain 2 web modules (serving different purposes and based on different technologies), the middle tier will be Spring beans without EJBs and the persistence tier will be JPA on Hibernate. I am wondering what would be the best project setup in this case. The IDE I am planning to use is MyEclipse 8.5. Thanks.
I see a lot of functional programming languages nowadays compared to a decade ago.
ML/Occaml
Erlang
F#
Clojure
Scala
Lisp/Scheme
Out of these plethora of functional languages, what do you think is the best language that can teach the power of functional programming?
If I wanted to, using QT, simply have some circles move around in a white box, or a graphic, what would be the best method of this?
Would I need to draw white/the graphic behind where the circle moved from every time? Is there a simple way of accomplishing this in QT?
If I wanted to, using QT, simply have some circles move around in a white box, or a graphic, what would be the best method of this? Would I need to draw white/the graphic behind where the circle moved from every time? Is there a simple way of accomplishing this in QT?
My Windows Forms application uses a strongly typed dataset created using the designer in Visual Studio. At runtime I would like to be able to select either the live or test database.
What is the best way to programmatically set the connection string for the dataset at runtime?
What is the best way to version control my database objects? I'm using Visual studio 2005/2008 and SQL server 2005. I would prefer a solution which can be used with SVN.
The guys at the top want sort order to be customizable in our app. So I have a table that effectively defines the data type. What is the best way to store our sort order. If I just created a new column called 'Order' or something, every time I updated the order of one row I imagine I would have to update the order of every row to ensure posterity. Is there a better way to do it?
I am trying to pick out the optimal set of colors for a new website project.
I want to do a traditional black on white look and feel for the main content. However my partner on the project wants to do a color combination that more looks like the traditional Windows Forms look and feel.
Is there any research available on the best color combination's to use for readability, ease of use, and reduced eye strain?
What is the best way to display a large chunk of text (taken from a .txt file in the app) in a UIScrollView so a user can scroll about it? Length of the text is variable.
What is the best scala-like persistence framework available right now?
Hibernate works, but it's not very scala-like. It insists on using annotations, no-arg constructors, doesn't work with anonymous class instances, doesn't work with scala collections, has an outdated string-based query model, etc.
I'm looking for something that really fits Scala. Does it exist? Or do I have to make it?
What is the best way to generate KML files using C#?
Is there a class library that I can use? I have looked and struggled to find anything interesting.
libkml doesn't have a C# implementation or wrapper.
Any help would be great.
Hello;
I have design a magazine online and worry that is it the best approch or at least a good approch or no,the magazine contains articles+news in all subjects, i have one table for both articles+news ,but i would like to know that is this good or i must separate articles and news (it is clear that beside the main table there are several tables for categories ,tags,and photos and tables for relation between these tables)?
Thanks
We want to try Ext JS on new project. Is there any well-known best practice for integrating Ext JS with server side Java (Spring/Hibernate/JS) application? Is DWR a good choice for that?
as topic, I want detect my internet speed , I often use WIFI or CDMA , I want know which is best and if I open both whether it can be speed more :D
thanks for you help , network master !
Hi all,
I am going to develop an application which will parse the RSS feeds and display the items in my custom cell.(Cell containing the image, label, description, etc). The most popular way of parsing is using the NSXMLParser. But this is bit of a lengthy way. So is there any other way to do this. Or my question will be, which is the best xml parser for objective-c ?