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Linq query with aggregate function OrderBy

- by Billy Logan

Hello everyone, I have the following LinqToEntities query, but am unsure of where or how to add the orderby clause: var results = from d in db.TBLDESIGNER join s in db.TBLDESIGN on d.ID equals s.TBLDESIGNER.ID where s.COMPLETED && d.ACTIVE let value = new { s, d} let key = new { d.ID, d.FIRST_NAME, d.LAST_NAME } group value by key into g orderby g.Key.FIRST_NAME ascending, g.Key.LAST_NAME ascending select new { ID = g.Key.ID, FirstName = g.Key.FIRST_NAME, LastName = g.Key.LAST_NAME, Count = g.Count() }; This should be sorted by First_Name ascending and then Last_Name ascending. I have tried adding ordering but It has had no effect on the result set. Could someone please provide an example of where the orderby would go assuming the query above. Thanks, Billy

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Set Height of Div Equal to Parent Tag

- by Phong Dang

Hello, I have a snip code HTML as below : <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" lang="en-us" dir="ltr"> <head> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" /> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft SharePoint" /> <meta name="progid" content="SharePoint.WebPartPage.Document" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Expires" content="0" /> <title>Demo </title> <style type="text/css"> A { font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; text-decoration: none; } </style> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/_layouts/1033/styles/Themable/wiki.css?rev=AWRyZDbGxZSekWBubaxPXw%3D%3D" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/_layouts/1033/styles/Themable/corev4.css?rev=w9FW7ASZnUjiWWCtJEcnTw%3D%3D" /> </head> <body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" style="height:100%;"> <form method="" name="frm"> <table style="border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-left: black 1px solid; border-collapse: collapse; border-top: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid" id="ctl00_m_g_510fd150_a968_41ee_a28d_d47ff4a7198e_BambooCalendarControl" height="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="border-top: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid" height="25" valign="top" rowspan="1" width="1%" align="right"> <span> <nobr>8:00 AM</nobr> </span> </td> <td style="border-bottom: #d4d0c8 1px dotted; background-color: #ccffcc; border-left: 0px; border-top: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid" height="100%" valign="top" rowspan="8" width="50%"> <div style="border-bottom: gray 1px solid; border-left: gray 1px solid; background-color: #ffa500; height: 100%; overflow: hidden; border-top: gray 1px solid; border-right: gray 1px solid" nowrap width="100%" valign="top"> <a style="height: 100%; color: black" href="#"><font color="white">Item </font></a> </div> </td> <td style="border-bottom: #d4d0c8 1px dotted; border-left: 0px; border-top: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid" height="25" valign="top" width="100%" colspan="1"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid" height="25" valign="top" rowspan="1" width="1%" align="right"> </td> <td style="border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-left: 0px; border-right: black 1px solid" height="25" valign="top" width="100%" colspan="1"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border-right: black 1px solid" height="25" valign="top" rowspan="1" width="1%" align="right"> <span> <nobr>9:00 AM</nobr> </span> </td> <td style="border-bottom: #d4d0c8 1px dotted; background-color: #ccffcc; border-left: 0px; border-right: black 1px solid" height="100%" valign="top" rowspan="4" width="50%"> <div style="border-bottom: gray 1px solid; border-left: gray 1px solid; background-color: #bdb76b; height: 100%; overflow: hidden; border-top: gray 1px solid; border-right: gray 1px solid" nowrap width="100%" valign="top"> <a style="height: 100%; color: black" title="" href="#"><font color="white">Item 2 </font> </a> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid" height="25" valign="top" rowspan="1" width="1%" align="right"> </td> </tr> <tr style="border-left: medium none; border-right: #696969 1px solid"> <td style="border-right: black 1px solid" height="25" valign="top" rowspan="1" width="1%" align="right"> <span> <nobr>10:00 AM</nobr> </span> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid" height="25" valign="top" rowspan="1" width="1%" align="right"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border-right: black 1px solid" height="25" valign="top" rowspan="1" width="1%" align="right"> <span> <nobr>11:00 AM</nobr> </span> </td> <td style="border-bottom: #d4d0c8 1px dotted; border-left: 0px; border-top: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid" height="25" valign="top" width="100%" colspan="1"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid" height="25" valign="top" rowspan="1" width="1%" align="right"> </td> <td style="border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-left: 0px; border-right: black 1px solid" height="25" valign="top" width="100%" colspan="2"> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </form> </body> </html> I set the height of the div 100% so that it full of TD but it did not effect. Please help me ! Thanks / PD

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How I can get output from 1st frame textfield input text to 2nd frame textArea

- by soulgreen

Here is my 1st frame - I want went I input text in textfield example name then click button report will display output to 2nd frame using textArea... please help me import java.awt.; import java.awt.event.; import javax.swing.; import javax.swing.border.; public class Order extends JFrame implements ActionListener { private JPanel pInfo,pN, pIC, pDate,Blank,pBlank, button, pTotal; private JLabel nameL,icL,DateL; private JTextField nameTF, icTF; private JFormattedTextField DateTF; private JButton calB,clearB,exitB,reportB; public Order() { Container contentPane = getContentPane(); contentPane.setLayout(new BorderLayout()); contentPane.setBackground(Color.gray); pInfo = new JPanel(); pN = new JPanel(); pIC = new JPanel(); pDate = new JPanel(); nameTF = new JTextField(30); icTF = new JTextField(30); DateTF = new JFormattedTextField(java.util.Calendar.getInstance().getTime()); DateTF.setEditable (false); DateTF.addActionListener(this); nameL = new JLabel(" NAME : ",SwingConstants.RIGHT); icL = new JLabel(" IC : ",SwingConstants.RIGHT); DateL = new JLabel(" DATE :",SwingConstants.RIGHT); pInfo.setLayout(new GridLayout(10,2,5,5)); pInfo.setBorder(BorderFactory.createTitledBorder (BorderFactory.createEtchedBorder(),"ORDER")); pN.add(nameL); pN.add(nameTF); pIC.add(icL); pIC.add(icTF); pDate.add(DateL); pDate.add(DateTF); pInfo.add(pN); pInfo.add(pIC); pInfo.add(pDate); pInfo.setBackground(Color.GRAY); pN.setBackground(Color.gray); pIC.setBackground(Color.gray); pDate.setBackground(Color.gray); nameL.setForeground(Color.black); icL.setForeground(Color.black); DateL.setForeground(Color.black); nameTF.setBackground(Color.pink); icTF.setBackground(Color.pink); DateTF.setBackground(Color.pink); contentPane.add(pInfo,BorderLayout.CENTER); Blank = new JPanel(); pBlank = new JPanel(); button = new JPanel(); calB = new JButton("CALCULATE"); calB.setToolTipText("Click to calculate"); clearB = new JButton("RESET"); clearB.setToolTipText("Click to clear"); reportB = new JButton ("REPORT"); reportB.setToolTipText ("Click to print"); exitB = new JButton("EXIT"); exitB.setToolTipText("Click to exit"); Blank.setLayout(new GridLayout(2,2)); Blank.setBorder(BorderFactory.createTitledBorder (BorderFactory.createEtchedBorder(),"")); button.setLayout(new GridLayout(1,4)); button.add(calB,BorderLayout.WEST); button.add(clearB,BorderLayout.CENTER); button.add(reportB,BorderLayout.CENTER); button.add(exitB,BorderLayout.EAST); Blank.add(pBlank); Blank.add(button); contentPane.add(Blank,BorderLayout.SOUTH); Blank.setBackground(Color.gray); pBlank.setBackground(Color.gray); calB.setForeground(Color.black); clearB.setForeground(Color.black); reportB.setForeground(Color.black); exitB.setForeground(Color.black); calB.setBackground(Color.pink); clearB.setBackground(Color.pink); reportB.setBackground(Color.pink); exitB.setBackground(Color.pink); calB.addActionListener(this); clearB.addActionListener(this); reportB.addActionListener(this); exitB.addActionListener(this); } public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent p) { if (p.getSource() == calB) { } else if (p.getSource() == clearB) { } else if (p.getSource () == reportB) { } else if (p.getSource() == exitB) { } } public static void main (String [] args) { Order frame = new Order(); frame.setTitle("Order"); frame.setSize(500,500); frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); frame.setResizable(false); frame.setVisible(true); frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);//center the frame } }

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Galleria jQuery plugin briefly shows all images in IE 7 & 8

- by hollyb

I'm using the galleria jQuery plugin on a site. When the gallery first loads, all of the images appear briefly & vertically in ie 7 & 8. This doesn't happen when i isolate the gallery, only when i put it on a somewhat heavy page. This leads me to believe that it happens when the page is a little slow to load. Does anybody know a way to fix this? I feel like an overflow: hidden should fix this, but I've applied it along with a height in every container I could think of. Anybody have any ideas? Here is my css: .galleria{list-style:none;width:350px; overflow:hidden; height: 70px;} .galleria li{display:block;width:50px;height:50px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin:4px 10px 20px 0;} .galleria li a{display:none;} .galleria li div{position:absolute;display:none;top:0;left:180px;} .galleria li div img{cursor:pointer;} .galleria li.active div img,.galleria li.active div{display:block;} .galleria li img.thumb{cursor:pointer;top:auto;left:auto;display:block;width:auto;height:auto} .galleria li .caption{display: inline;padding-top:.5em; width: 300px; } * html .galleria li div span{width:350px;} /* MSIE bug */ html: <ul class="gallery"> <li class="active"><img src="1.jpg" cap="A great veiw by so and so. This is a long block of info.<br /><span style=color:#666;>Photo by: Billy D. Williams</span>" alt="Image01"></li> <li><img src="2.jpg" cap="A mountain <span style=color:#666;>Photo by: Billy D. Williams</span>" alt="Image01"></li> <li><img src="3.jpg" cap="Another witty caption <span style=color:#666;>Photo by: Billy D. Williams</span>" alt="Image01"></li> <li><img src="4.jpg" cap="<span style=color:#666;>Photo by: Billy D. Williams</span>" alt="Image01"></li> </ul>

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Using the @ symbol to identify users like twitter does

- by Justin Phillips

I'm creating my own version of twitter, I have no idea how to get my back end php script to pick up the @membername within the entered text. Including multiple @membername's for example @billy @joseph, @tyrone,@kesha message or @billy hit up @tyrone he's bugging @kesha about the money you owe him. Any scripts of use on how I can accomplish this?

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excel change 4 rows / 48 col to 48 rows / 4 col

- by GoodOlPete

Hi, I've selected 4 database records of 48 fields into excel as below: FirstName LastName Age Address1 ....................... Andy smith 23 53 high st billy ball 43 23 the avenue charles brown 76 rose cottage dave green 43 station rd I want to display them as firstname andy billy charles dave lastname smith ball brown green age 23 43 76 43 address1.............................. Can anyone suggest how to do this?

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General directions on developing a server side control system for JS/Canvas Action RPG

- by Billy Ninja

Well, yesterday I asked on anti-cheat JS, and confirmed what I kind of already knew that it's just not possible. Now I wanna measure roughly how hard it is to implement a server side checking that is agnostic to client input, that does not mess with the game experience so much. I don't wanna waste to much resource on this matter, since it's going to be initially a single player game, that I may or would like to introduce some kind of ranking, trading system later on. I'd rather deliver better more cool game features instead. I don't wanna have to guarantee super fast server response to keep the game going lag free. I'd rather go with more loose discrete control of key variables and instances. Like store user's action on a fifo buffer on the client, and push that actions to the server gradually. I'd love to see a elegant, generic solution that I could plug into my client game logic root (not having to scatter treatments everywhere in my client js) - and have few classes on Node.js server that could handle that - without having to mirror/describe all of my game entities a second time on the server.

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Why does the word "Pythonic" exist?

- by Billy ONeal

Honestly, I hate the word "Pythonic" -- it's used as a simple synonym of "good" in many circles, and I think that's pretentious. Those who use it are silently saying that good code cannot be written in a language other than Python. Not saying Python is a bad language, but it's certainly not the "end all be all language to solve ALL of everyone's problems forever!" (Because that language does not exist). What it seems like people who use this word really mean is "idiomatic" rather than "Pythonic" -- and of course the word "idiomatic" already exists. Therefore I wonder: Why does the word "Pythonic" exist?

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Should I choose Doctrine 2 or Propel 1.5/1.6, and why?

- by Billy ONeal

I'd like to hear from those who have used Doctrine 2 (or later) and Propel 1.5 (or later). Most comparisons between these two object relational mappers are based on old versions -- Doctrine 1 versus Propel 1.3/1.4, and both ORMs went through significant redesigns in their recent revisions. For example, most of the criticism of Propel seems to center around the "ModelName Peer" classes, which are deprecated in 1.5 in any case. Here's what I've accumulated so far (And I've tried to make this list as balanced as possible...): Propel Pros Extremely IDE friendly, because actual code is generated, instead of relying on PHP magic methods. This means IDE features like code completion are actually helpful. Fast (In terms of database usage -- no runtime introspection is done on the database) Clean migration between schema versions (at least in the 1.6 beta) Can generate PHP 5.3 models (i.e. namespaces) Easy to chain a lot of things into a single database query with things like useXxx methods. (See the "code completion" video above) Cons Requires an extra build step, namely building the model classes. Generated code needs rebuilt whenever Propel version is changed, a setting is changed, or the schema changes. This might be unintuitive to some and custom methods applied to the model are lost. (I think?) Some useful features (i.e. version behavior, schema migrations) are in beta status. Doctrine Pros More popular Doctrine Query Language can express potentially more complicated relationships between data than easily possible with Propel's ActiveRecord strategy. Easier to add reusable behaviors when compared with Propel. DocBlock based commenting for building the schema is embedded in the actual PHP instead of a separate XML file. Uses PHP 5.3 Namespaces everywhere Cons Requires learning an entirely new programming language (Doctrine Query Language) Implemented in terms of "magic methods" in several places, making IDE autocomplete worthless. Requires database introspection and thus is slightly slower than Propel by default; caching can remove this but the caching adds considerable complexity. Fewer behaviors are included in the core codebase. Several features Propel provides out of the box (such as Nested Set) are available only through extensions. Freakin' HUGE :) This I have gleaned though only through reading the documentation available for both tools -- I've not actually built anything yet. I'd like to hear from those who have used both tools though, to share their experience on pros/cons of each library, and what their recommendation is at this point :)

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Why should I use Zend_Application?

- by Billy ONeal

I've been working on a Zend Framework application which currently does a bunch of things through Zend Application and a few resource plugins written for it. However, looking at this codebase now, it seems to me that using Zend_Application just makes things more complicated; and a plain, more "traditional" bootstrap file would do a better job of being transparent. This is even more the case because the individual components of Zend -- Zend_Controller, Zend_Navigation, etc. -- don't reference Zend_Application at all. Therefore they do things like "Well just call setRoute and be on your way," and the user is left scratching their head as to how to implement that in terms of the application.ini configuration file. This is not to say that one can't figure out what's going on by doing spelunking through the ZF source code. My problem with that approach is that it's to easy to depend on something that's an implementation detail, rather than a contract, and that all it seems to do is add an extra layer of indirection that one must wade through to understand an application. I look at pre ZF 1.8 example code, before Zend_Application existed, and everywhere I see plain bootstrap files that setup the MVC framework and get on their way. The code is clear and easy to understand, even if it is a bit repetitive. I like the DRY concept that Application gets you, but particularly when I'm assuming first people looking at the app's code aren't really familiar with Zend at all, I'm considering blowing away any dependence I have on Zend_Application and returning to a traditional bootstrap file. Now, my concern here is that I don't have much experience doing this, and I don't want to get rid of Zend_Application if it does something particularly important of which I am unaware, or something of that nature. Is there a really good reason I should keep it around?

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What do you do when you realize your job requires you to do something out of your depth?

- by Billy ONeal

For a large software project recently, I was really out of my depth. And I did actually know this; and that the only reason I was employed was mostly a lack of other qualified candidates. The job was to build a large application on top of PHP/MySQL, a system I had little experience with. (I did advise the employer of this beforehand -- I've been spoiled by C# ASP.NET/MVC and MSSQL Server) The main reason I applied was location, location, location -- on campus jobs which actually have any programming component are relatively rare. For almost a year and a half I've slogged through this, and I think I can say I know (at least somewhat) what I'm doing now. I've made some mistakes, torn out some hair, and moved on. (I'm still working on this system nowadays, but I no longer feel completely lost) In the future though, I'd like to keep my personal and professional self a little healthier than what occurred in this case. So I'm curious -- what's the best way to handle a situation like this?

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Anti-cheat Javascript for browser/HTML5 game

- by Billy Ninja

I'm planning on venturing on making a single player action rpg in js/html5, and I'd like to prevent cheating. I don't need 100% protection, since it's not going to be a multiplayer game, but I want some level of protection. So what strategies you suggest beyond minify and obfuscation? I wouldn't bother to make some server side simple checking, but I don't want to go the Diablo 3 path keeping all my game state changes on the server side. Since it's going to be a rpg of sorts I came up with the idea of making a stats inspector that checks abrupt changes in their values, but I'm not sure how it consistent and trusty it can be. What about variables and functions escopes? Working on smaller escopes whenever possible is safer, but it's worth the effort? Is there anyway for the javascript to self inspect it's text, like in a checksum? There are browser specific solutions? I wouldn't bother to restrain it for Chrome only in the early builds.

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Best way to deal with a system without a user acceptance / testing phase

- by billy.bob

Historically I've been able to get away with making small changes to an in-house helpdesk system riding on a LAMP stack and just making a backup prior to editing. This has no user acceptance / testing phase and I work on the live .php files directly. However now the requirement has arisen that will require a bit more coding done, and I'm obviously not particularly happy about making these changes without a framework to support me. What would the best way forward be? I could just make another backup I suppose.

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What naming anti-patterns exist?

- by Billy ONeal

There are some names, where if you find yourself reaching for those names, you know you've already messed something up. For example: XxxManager This is bad because a class should describe what the class does. If the most specific word you can come up with for what the class does is "manage," then the class is too big. What other naming anti-patterns exist? EDIT: To clarify, I'm not asking "what names are bad" -- that question is entirely subjective and there's no way to answer it. I'm asking, "what names indicate overall design problems with the system." That is, if you find yourself wanting to call a component Xyz, that probably indicates the component is ill concieved. Also note here that there are exceptions to every rule -- I'm just looking for warning flags for when I really need to stop and rethink a design.

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Learning the command line [duplicate]

- by Billy

This question already has an answer here: What is the best way to learn how to use Ubuntu with terminal? 3 answers This isn't really a technical question but I am curious as to how long it takes to learn the linux command line. I would like to learn how to be able to do as much as possible easily from the command line. I just bought a book, linux command line and shell scripting bible. I know that this book will be of great help, but i just have no clue how long it will be before i can successfully naviagte the terminal with ease. If you could post and let me know about your experience with the terminal, and the learning process, that would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

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Weird unexpected image compression on a web server running Apache on Ubuntu?

- by Billy Bob Thornton

I have a weird problem on my production web server running Apache on Ubuntu: it compresses my images thereby dramatically lowering their quality! Actually I have two virtual hosts running, each located in a different folder. Wether I display .gif images by navigating on the two sites, or acceding them directly by their url, their size and quality are invariably degraded. I tried with three different browsers: same problem. Using them on other sites on the Web: no problem. Of course I disabled mod_deflate on the server (which should not compress images anyway), but the phenomenon remains. On my local développement server, running the same configuration, everything is Ok. Now I'm completely lost! For the record, my configuration: Ubuntu 10.04, Apache 2, Php 5.

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Illumination and Shading for computer graphics class

- by Sam I Am

I am preparing for my test tomorrow and this is one of the practice questions. I solved it partially but I am confused with the rest. Here is the problem: Consider a gray world with no ambient and specular lighting ( only diffuse lighting). The screen coordinates of a triangle P1,P2,P3, are P1=(100,100), P2= (300,150), P3 = (200, 200). The gray values at P!,P2,P3 are 1/2, 3/4, and 1/4 respectively. The light is at infinity and its direction and gray color are (1,1,1) and 1.0 respectively. The coefficients of diffused reflection is 1/2. The normals of P1,P2,P3 are N1= (0,0,1), N2 = (1,0,0), and N3 = (0,1,0) respectively. Consider the coordinates of three points P1,P2,P3 to be 0. Do not normalize the normals. I have computed that the illumination at the 3 vertices P1,P2,P3 is (1/4,3/8,1/8). Also I computed that interpolation coefficients of a point P inside the triangle whose coordinates are (220, 160) are given by (1/5,2/5,2/5). Now I have 4 more questions regarding this problem. 1) The illumination at P using Gouraud Shading is: i) 1/2 The answer is 1/2, but I have no idea how to compute it.. 2) The interpolated normal at P is given by i) (2/5, 2/5,1/5) ii) (1/2, 1/4, 1/4) iii) (3/5, 1/5, 1/5) 3) The interpolated color at P is given by: i) 1/2 Again, I know the correct answer but no idea how to solve it 4) The illumination at P using Phong Shading is i) 1/4 ii) 9/40 iii) 1/2

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How does one network at software conferences?

- by Billy ONeal

Well... I'm still at Microsoft TechEd -- and the response to my last question was overwhelmingly "networking is the most useful part of software conferences". Problem: I have no idea how to even approach that task. I've always been kind of an introvert. At school and at work I've generally not had issues because there are enough extroverts around that approach me that I've made some awesome friends over the years. However, at conferences, it seems most are introverted like myself, and those who aren't seem to be salespeople. The couple of times I've felt okay approaching people it's been after a session where there's been healthy discussion throughout the whole room, and just when I get the nerve to go up and talk to some people, they leave and go on to other things. Are there books I can read? Advice I can take? Anything as far as approaching people one does not know? 'Cause every time I try I just feel like an awkward mess. :( (Oddly enough, I don't have problems speaking to a group of people -- it's the one-on-one things that trip me up :P) (Oh, and by the way, if anyone from here is also there and would like to meet to talk about things, I'm game :P)

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How can I stop Ubuntu from automatically unmounting Samba shares?

- by Billy ONeal

I have some music files I'd like to listen to sitting on a Samba share. I added this share via the Ubuntu GUI (Places - Connect to server...), and everything worked just fine. However, despite the fact that my music file is playing from this location, after I've not touched the location using the Nautilus GUI, Ubuntu/GNOME decides that I'm not using the share anymore and terminates the connection. Thus, my music stops playing and Rhythmbox is unhappy with me. Simply clicking on the new shortcut the "Connect to server..." bit created for me immediately makes the files come back again and allows me to restart the music playing. How can I have Ubuntu not automatically dismount samba shares?

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How does a CS student negotiate in/after a job interview?

- by Billy ONeal

Alright, I've gotten to the second step in the interview process. At this point I'm working under the assumption that I might be offered a position -- flying my butt to Redmond would be quite an expense if they weren't at least considering me for something (*crosses fingers*). So, if one is offered a position, how should a CS student negotiate? I've heard a few strategies about dealing with software companies when you are being considered for a hire, but most of them are considering the developer in a powerful position. In such examinations, (s)he has lots of job experience, and may even be overqualified for what the employer is looking for. (s)he is part of a small job market of qualified developers, because 99% of applications companies receive are from those who are woefully under qualified. I'm in a completely different position. I think I compare favorably to most of my fellow students, and I have been a programmer for almost 10 years, but often I still feel green compared to most of my coworkers. I'm in a position where the employer holds most of the chips; they'd be doing me quite a favor by hiring me. I think this scenario is considerably different than the targets for most of the advice I've seen. Above all, I don't want to be such a prick negotiating that it damages my chances to actually operate in a position, even if it means not negotiating at all. How should one approach a scenario like this? P.S. If this is off topic feel free to close it -- I think it's borderline and I'm of the opinion that it's better to ask and be closed than not ask at all ;)

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Where is the best place to find stock website templates?

- by Billy ONeal

I think I'm in the majority of programmers in saying I can't do visual design for s***. But I do write programs occasionally, and I'd like to have a nice website to tell people about said programs. I used to use a site called "OSWD" to find templates, but it's been forever since it's been looked at, and most of the designs seem overly specifically tailored to a single kind of site -- for example, a site featuring a large picture of an ice cube wouldn't make much sense for a site displaying software for people to use. I know there are plenty of template sites out there which have freely available designs, but I'm not sure which ones are good, and which ones are garbage. Where is the best place to find website templates?

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How to implement time traveling into a game?

- by Billy

I was wondering how to implement time travel into a game. Nothing super complex, just time-reversal like what's in Braid, where the user can rewind/fast forward time by 30 seconds or whatever. I searched around the web a lot, but my results usually referred to using time as in like "it's 3:00" or a timer and such. The only thing I could think of was using 2 arrays, one for the player's x position and the other for the player's y position, and then iterating through those arrays and placing the character at that position as they rewind/fast forward time. Could that work? If it would work, how large would the array have to be and how often should I store the player's x and y? If it doesn't work, what else could I try? Thanks in advance!

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How do I share my jQuery plugin with the world?

- by Billy Moon

I made a plugin for jQuery, which I think is quite useful. It combines an animated colours plugin with an easings plugin, and adds a completely new feature of being able to refer to colours numerically (more useful in hex notation, so 0xff00cc for example) and therefore manipulate them mathematically more easily. I created a repository on github, and it sits there, nobody looks at it. Mostly, I would like people to look at it, use it, and improve it, so I can use the improvements and so on. I think this idea of numerically manipulating colors could be interesting. It makes it easy to change the hue without changing the saturation for example. Combined with animated colors, I think something interesting could be done, but I don't know what exactly. How do I let people know it (or any other project) is there..? I was going to post it on http://plugins.jquery.com which is currently down. Are there any other outlets for this kind of code?

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Should one use the legal "shall" in requirements documents and specification documents? [migrated]

- by Billy ONeal

At least in the US, "will" has replaced "shall" in most every context, with the notable exception of the "legal shall". Shall is used instead of will in legal documents to indicate a sense of obligation or requirement; e.g. "the defendant shall vacate the premises by October 16". In software, requirements documents and specification documents serve close to the same purpose as the aforementioned legal documents; does this mean shall should be used in a similar fashion as a result?

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Why is Java the lingua franca at so many institutions?

- by Billy ONeal

EDIT: This question at first seems to be bashing Java, and I guess at this point it is a bit. However, the bigger point I am trying to make is why any one single language is chosen as the one end all be all solution to all problems. Java happens to be the one that's used so that's the one I had to beat on here, but I'm not intentionality ripping Java a new one :) I don't like Java in most academic settings. I'm not saying the language itself is bad -- it has several extremely desirable aspects, most importantly the ability to run without recompilation on most any platform. Nothing wrong with using the language for Your Next App ^TM. (Not something I would personally do, but that's more because I have less experience with it, rather than it's design being poor) I think it is a waste that high level CS courses are taught using Java as a language. Too many of my co-students cannot program worth a damn, because they don't know how to work in a non-garbage-collected world. They don't fundamentally understand the machines they are programming for. When someone can work outside of a garbage collected world, they can work inside of one, but not vice versa. GC is a tool, not a crutch. But the way it is used to teach computer science students is a as a crutch. Computer science should not teach an entire suite of courses tailored to a single language. Students leave with the idea that all good design is idiomatic Java design, and that Object Oriented Design is the ONE TRUE WAY THAT IS THE ONLY WAY THINGS CAN BE DONE. Other languages, at least one of them not being a garbage collected language, should be used in teaching, in order to give the graduate a better understanding of the machines. It is an embarrassment that somebody with a PHD in CS from a respected institution cannot program their way out of a paper bag. What's worse, is that when I talk to those CS professors who actually do understand how things operate, they share feelings like this, that we're doing a disservice to our students by doing everything in Java. (Note that the above would be the same if I replaced it with any other language, generally using a single language is the problem, not Java itself) In total, I feel I can no longer respect any kind of degree at all -- when I can't see those around me able to program their way out of fizzbuzz problems. Why/how did it get to be this way?

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