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• What are the benefits of using properties internally?

  - by cyclotis04

  Encapsulation is obviously helpful and essential when accessing members from outside the class, but when referring to class variables internally, is it better to call their private members, or use their getters? If your getter simply returns the variable, is there any performance difference?

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• rename keys in a dictionary

  - by user366660

  i want to rename the keys of a dictionary are which are ints, and i need them to be ints with leading zeros's so that they sort correctly. for example my keys are like: '1','101','11' and i need them to be: '001','101','011' this is what im doing now, but i know there is a better way tmpDict = {} for oldKey in aDict: tmpDict['%04d'%int(oldKey)] = aDict[oldKey] newDict = tmpDict

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• Is or Are to prefix boolean values

  - by Brian T

  When naming a boolean, or a function returning a boolean it's usual to prefix with 'is' e.g. isPointerNull isShapeSquare What about when refering to multiple items, should it be: arePointersNull or isPointersNull areShapesNull or isShapesNull I can see arguments for both; is offers consistency and perhaps slightly better readability, are makes the code read in a more natural way. Any opinions?

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• How can I frequently/automatically compare the structure of the same Database?

  - by Pitming

  Does anyone know a tool that automatically compares the structure of a database and gives a report of what was changed? If it can be integrated into a CruiseControl, even better. By structure I also mean functions and stored procedures. Which is probably not clear at first sight ;-) The idea was to integrate that into a cruise control server

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• What tools do you use to plan and draw a database structure = tables, relationship

  - by EugeneP

  Modeling tool or just a visual tool for drawing. In fact I only need to draw and later I'll transform the picture into sql by hand to better control the process.

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• Detecting use after free() on windows. (dangling pointers)

  - by The Rook

  I'm trying to detect "Use after free()" bugs, otherwise known as "Dangling pointers". I know Valgrind can be used to detect "Use after free" bugs on the *nix platform, but what about windows? What if I don't have the source? Is there a better program than Valgrind for detecting all dangling pointers in a program? A free and open source would be preferred , but I'll use a commercial solution if it will get the job done.

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• What is a good FAT file system for ARM7-TDMI

  - by Seidleroni

  I'm using the ARM7TDMI-S (NXP processor) and I need a file system capable of reading/writing to an SD card. There are so many available, what have people used and been happy with? One that requires the least amount of setup is best - so the less I have to do to get it started (i.e. write device drivers to NXP's hardware) the better.

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• Reliable email encoding.

  - by Seba Illingworth

  What are the most reliable encodings for sending email? I had some problems recently with .NET's System.Net.Mail default of quoted-printable ('=0D=0A' scattered throughout the message). So I changed to iso-8859-1 for the body (set via alternative views), and 7bit for transfer (and base64 for embedded resources). Are there the better choices?

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• How can I "merge" or "flatten" results from a query which returns multiple rows into a single result

  - by dsm

  I have a simple query over a table, which returns results like the following: id id_type id_ref 2702 5 31 2702 16 14 2702 17 3 2702 40 1 2702 26 4 And I would like to merge the results into a single row, for instance: id concatenation 2702 5,16,17,40,26:31,14,3,1,4 Is there any way to do this within a trigger? NB: I know I can use a cursor, but I would really prefer not to unless there is no better way.

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• Unit tests and fixtures

  - by Wizzard

  We have a bunch of unit tests which test a lot of webpages and REST API services. Currently when our tests run it pulls from these pages live but this can take ages to run sometimes, and it also feels like the tests should be testing more of our code - not just relying on them being up and responding (if that makes sense..). Is it better practice to save a valid api response and with the unit tests load this in during setup? Thoughts?

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• what is advantage of using headlink() to insert javascript and css in zend framework?

  - by Andy

  Documentation says to use headlink()-prependstylesheet() to insert css in the layout file. Also says to use to load the javascript files this way also. Why is this any better than just hard coding the link and script tag right in the header? I would think this is slower performance since its using the framework methods to do it. Using zend framework 1.10

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• Best aproach for working with Time in C# WinForms?

  - by MadBoy

  I'm trying to make a field where user will enter amount of time per day he/she spent on a project per day. It can be from 30 minutes to 8 hours. Is DateTimePicker with CustomFormat hh:mm best choice for this? Or there's better alternative for WinForms C#? Maybe TextBox or MaskedTextBox with special settings?

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• Chat client with GWT

  - by user284016

  What would be the best way to create a JS chat client with GWT? The bit that I'm having trouble with is the persistence and transfer of the messages. Should I store the messages in a DB and check the db for new messages? Is there a much better way to do this?

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• Using a user-defined type as a primary key

  - by Chris Kaminski

  Suppose I have a system where I have metadata such as: table: ====== key name address ... Then suppose I have a user-defined type described as so: datasource datasource-key A) are there systems where it's possible to have keys based on user-defined types? B) if so, how do you decompose the keys into a form suitable for querying? C) is this a case where I'm just better off with a composite primary key?

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• Best practices for an internal webservice

  - by sankara

  Experience says that using WSDL-SOAP based webservice for internal consumption is an overkill. There are too many service-based POJO classes that when let into the system complicates it way too much. One option would be use adapter pattern, map the request/response objects to internal domain classes and . But is it even required? Is there a better approach? What are your suggestions?

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• Does rails do a rollback if I use begin...rescue?

  - by codeman73

  I'd like to add a begin...rescue block to one of my controllers create method, in order to log better info and construct the correct error message to return to the client. Does the rescue in any way 'interrupt' the rollback process? I'm assuming rails automatically does a rollback. When does it happen? Has it already happened by the time I get in the rescue clause? I'm using mySQL on Dreamhost and I think they use innoDB.

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• How do I use Perl's chdir operator?

  - by T. Gruhn

  In ksh, I'd use cd /usr/src/sys How should I write it in Perl? A conversion such as cd /usr/src/sys ---> chdir '/usr/src/sys' Maybe the following would be better: execute "chdir '/usr/src/sys' "

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• Can I get the name of the currently running function in javascript?

  - by sprugman

  Is it possible to do this: myfile.js: function foo() { alert(<my-function-name>); // pops-up "foo" // or even better: "myfile.js : foo" } I've got the dojo and jquery frameworks in my stack, so if either of those make it easier, they're available.

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• NullDisplayText in markup or ISNULL(field, 0) in SQL?

  - by abatishchev

  Which approach is better to use: BoundField.NullDisplayText isn't set. NULL-case is foreseen in SQL query, i.e. SELECT ISNULL(amount, 0) FROM table or BoundField.NullDisplayText is set, e.g. "0.00 %". NULL-case isn't foreseen in SQL query, i.e. SELECT amount FROM table What do you think?

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• Powerbuilder ressources

  - by afilatun

  I'm recently working in a company where we use PowerBuilder extensively. The only documentation or ressources we have access to is some basic course saying things like "Do A, then B and you'll get C". I was wondering if there is some better crash courses or tutorials for this language on the net or somewhere else which actually explain something instead of simply taking me by the hand.

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• Compare DateTime ticks on two machines

  - by vani

  Is it a viable option to compare two FileInfo.CreationTimeUtc.Ticks of two files on two different computers to see which version is newer - or is there a better way? Do Ticks depend on OS time or are they really physical ticks from some fixed date in the past?

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• WCF for live images communication?

  - by Benny

  I have two applications, and one is keeping sending live images to the other and it need to be long-running. Is WCF suitable for this scenario? or if there is any better alternative for this communication?

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• What tools for server side application performance testing you suggest?

  - by Artic

  What tools for server side application performance testing you suggest? Have an application server and need to test it performance. Not sure issue is server side. Need to investigate. NB:Better to have convenient UI

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• Can I use WCF to replace my current Web Service and Window Service combination?

  - by gun_shy

  I need a little bit of advise regarding the situation I am faced with. The current arrangement I have been tasked with improving just doesn't sit well with me and I feel like there is a better way to do it. The more I read about WCF, the more I get the feeling that it might be what I am looking for. Right now, I have an asp.net client, a .net web service, a windows service, a ms sql database, and a third party application that is used for processing a group of 'project' files into a finalized file. Since the third party application can only handle processing one 'project' at a time, the combination of the web service, window service, and database have been arranged to create a job queue manager for the third party application. The client sends a zip 'project' file containing multiple sub files to the web service. The web service adds a new 'project' line to the database, generating a unique job id. The zip file is expanded to a folder location on the server using the job id as the folder name. The web service then returns the job id to the client. The client will use this id to poll the web service for the status of the job submitted. When the job is complete, the client will request the processed file. The windows service polls the database every x minutes. If a new job exists, the service will pull the oldest job and send it to the third party app for processing. If the processing succeeds, the window service updates the project line in the database, marking the job complete. The window service will continue to process any non complete jobs in the database until there are no more. When it stops finding any jobs, it will sleep x minutes and then poll the database again. I do not like the fact that the window service has to poll the database. If there is only one job submitted, the client will have to wait for the window service to poll and then wait while the 'project' is being processed. It seems like WCF could be used to combine the web and window services using a combination of the InstanceContextMode.Single and ConcurrencyMode.Multiple. So far, I have been unable to find any articles or examples that would point me in the right direction. Can WCF be utilized to accomplish the job queue logic of the current arrangement in a better way? As always, any help is more than appreciated.

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• How to resume an ftp download at any point? (shell script, wget option)?

  - by Dave

  hi! i want to download a huge file from an ftp server in chunks of 50-100MB each. At each point, i want to be able to set the "starting" point and the length of the chunk i want. i wont have the "previous" chunks saved locally (ie i cant ask the program to "resume" the downlaod). what is the best way of going about that? i use wget mostly, but would something else be better?

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