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• Forced Learning

  - by Ben Griswold

  If you ask me, it can be a little intimidating to stand in front of a group and walkthrough anything remotely technical. Even if you know “Technical Thingy #52” inside and out, public speaking can be unsettling.  And if you don’t have your stuff together, well, it can be downright horrifying. With that said, if given the choice, I still like to schedule myself to present on unfamiliar topics. Over the past few months, I’ve talked about Aspect-Oriented Programming, Functional Programming, Lean Software Development and Kanban Systems, Domain-Driven Design and Behavior Driven Development.  What do these topics have in common? You guessed it: I was truly interested in them. I had only a superficial understanding of each. Huh?  Why in the world would I ever want to to put myself in that intimidating situation? Actually, I rarely want to put myself into that situation but I often do as I like the results.  There’s nothing remotely clever going on here.  All I’m doing is putting myself into a compromising situation knowing that I’ll likely work myself out of it by learning the topic prior to the presentation.  I’m simply time-boxing myself to learn something new while knowing there are negative repercussions if I fall short. So, I end up doing tons of research and I learn bunches to ensure I have my head firmly wrap around the material before my talk. I’m not saying I become an expert overnight (or over a couple of weeks) but I’ll definitely know enough to be confident and comfortable and I’ll know more than enough to ensure the audience will learn a thing or two from me. It’s forced learning and though it might sound a little scary to some, it works for me. Now I could very easily rename this post to something like Fear Is My Motivator because, in a sense, fear of failure and embarrassment is what’s driving my learning. However, I’m the guy signing up for the presentation and since the entire process is self-imposed I’m not sure Fear deserves too much credit.  Anyway…

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• Am I misunderstanding chown and chmod?

  - by isomorphismes

  I want to either extend the size of my guest partition or figure out how to copy stuff from the guest partition to my normal /home directory. (Because of some other problems I can only run Xorg as guest, but I can log into virtual console as myself or root.) Here's the motivation: I want to torrent a large file. It's larger than my guest filesystem. But I have plenty of space on my real drive, I just can't log into it graphically. So I tried to set up a "pipe" to get the file out of the tmpfs. I did: su -u myself #catch mkdir ~/receiver_dir sudo su cd /tmp/guest-lkj567UIO/ #throw ln -s mario_pipe /home/myself/receiver_dir chown -R guest-lkj567UIO /home/myself/receiver_dir chown -R guest-lkj567UIO /tmp/guest-lkj567UIO/mario_pipe chmod -R a+rw /home/myself/receiver_dir chmod -R a+rw /tmp/guest-lkj567UIO/mario_pipe su -u guest-lkj567UIO cd /tmp/guest-lkj567UIO cd mario_pipe touch something #success! However, when I try to torrent to /tmp/guest-lkj567UIO/mario_pipe, Transmission says I don't have write permissions. But it looks like I just wrote there? And that everybody (a+rw) can write there in fact? Maybe this indicates I don't actually understand chown and chmod but nothing from their man pages pops out.

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• Advice for a distracted, unhappy, recently graduated programmer? [closed]

  - by Re-Invent

  I graduated 4 months ago. I had offers from a few good places to work at. At the same time I wanted to stick to building a small software business of my own, still have some ideas with good potential, some half done projects frozen in my github. But due to social pressures, I chose a job, the pay is great, but I am half-passionate about it. A small team of smart folks building useful product, working out contracts across the world. I've started finding it extremely boring. Boring to the extent that I skip 2-3 days a week together not doing work. Neither do I spend that time progressing any of my own projects. Yes, I feel stupid at the way I'm wasting time, but I don't understand exactly why is it happening. It's as if all the excitement has been drained. What can I do about it? Long version: School - I was in third standard. Only students, 6th grade had access to computer labs. I once peeked into the lab from the little door opening. No hard-disks, MS DOS on 5 1/2 inch floppies. I asked a senior student to play some sound in BASIC. He used PLAY to compose a tune. Boy! I was so excited, I was jumping from within. Back home, asked my brother to teach me some programming. We bought a book "MODERN All About GW-BASIC for Schools & Colleges". The book had everything, right from printing, to taking input, file i/o, game programming, machine level support, etc. I was in 6th standard, wrote my first game - a wheel of fortune, rotated the wheel by manipulating 16 color palette's definition. Got internet soon, got hooked to QuickBasic programming community. Made some more games "007 in Danger", "Car Crush 2" for submission to allbasiccode archives. I was extremely excited about all this. My interests now swayed into "hacking" (computer security). Taught myself some perl, found it annoying, learnt PHP and a bit of SQL. Also taught myself Visual Basic one of the winters and wrote a pacman clone with Direct X. By the time I was in 10th standard, I created some evil tools using visual basic, php and mysql and eventually landed myself into an unpaid side-job at a government facility, building evil tools for them. It was a dream come true for crackers of that time. And so was I, still very excited. Things changed soon, last two years of school were not so great as I was balancing preps for college, work at govt. and studies for school at same time. College - College was opposite of all I had wished it to be. I imagined it to be a place where I'd spend my 4 years building something awesome. It was rather an epitome of rote learning, attendance, rules, busy schedules, ban on personal laptops, hardly any hackers surrounding you and shit like that. We had to take permissions to even introduce some cultural/creative activities in our annual schedule. The labs won't be open on weekends because the lab employees had to have their leaves. Yes, a horrible place for someone like me. I still managed to pull out a project with a friend over 2 months. Showed it to people high in the academia hierarchy. They were immensely impressed, we proposed to allow personal computers for students. They made up half-assed reasons and didn't agree. We felt frustrated. And so on, I still managed to teach myself new languages, do new projects of my own, do an intern at the same govt. facility, start a small business for sometime, give a talk at a conference I'm passionate about, win game-dev and hacking contest at most respected colleges, solve good deal of programming contest problems, etc. At the same time I was not content with all these restrictions, great emphasis on rote learning, and sheer wastage of time due to college. I never felt I was overdoing, but now I feel I burnt myself out. During my last days at college, I did an intern at a bigco. While I spent my time building prototypes for certain LBS, the other interns around me, even a good friend, was just skipping time. I thought maybe, in a few weeks he would put in some serious efforts at work assigned to him, but all he did was to find creative ways to skip work, hide his face from manager, engage people in talks if they try to question his progress, etc. I tried a few time to get him on track, but it seems all he wanted was to "not to work hard at all and still reap the fruits". I don't know how others take such people, but I find their vicinity very very poisonous to one's own motivation and productivity. Over that, the place where I come from, HRs don't give much value to what have you done past 4 years. So towards the end of out intern, we all were offered work at the bigco, but the slacker, even after not writing more than 200 lines of code was made a much better offer. I felt enraged instantly - "Is this how the corp world treats someone who does fruitful, if not extra-ordinary work form them for past 6 months?". Yes, I did try to negotiate and debate. The bigcos seem blind due to departmentalization of responsibilities and many layers of management. I decided not to be in touch with any characters of that depressing play. Probably the busy time I had at college, ignoring friends, ignoring fun and squeezing every bit of free time for myself is also responsible. Probably this is what has drained all my willingness to work for anyone. I find my day job boring, at the same time I with to maintain it for financial reasons. I feel a bit burnt out, unsatisfied and at the same time an urge to quit working for someone else and start finishing my frozen side-projects (which may be profitable). Though I haven't got much to support myself with food, office, internet bills, etc in savings. I still have my day job, but I don't find it very interesting, even though the pay is higher than the slacker, I don't find money to be a great motivator here. I keep comparing myself to my past version. I wonder how to get rid of this and reboot myself back to the way I was in school days - excited about it, tinkering, building, learning new things daily, and NOT BORED?

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• RESTful API: How to model 'request new password'?

  - by Jan P.

  I am designing a RESTful API for a booking application and was quite happy to see I could map all details of the application to the 4 HTTP methods. /users - GET, POST /users/({id}|myself) - GET, POST, PUT, DELETE /users/({id}|myself)/bookings - GET, POST /users/({id}|myself)/bookings/{id} - GET, POST, PUT, DELETE Example: Updating my own user uses a PUT to /users/myself. But now I found out that one thing is missing: The possibility to request a new password if I forgot my old one. Any idea how I could add this?

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• rsAccessDenied - SQL server 2008 reporting services

  - by rboorgapally

  Hi, I am running SQL server 2008 developer edition on windows vista home premium. I created a reporting services project that was built successfully in BIDS. When I try to deploy it it gives the following error: Error rsAccessDenied : The permissions granted to user 'COMP\MYSELF' are insufficient for performing this operation. The MYSELF account is the only account on the system. It has administrator rights. The reporting service is running with the LocalSystem service account. If I log in with the MYSELF account into reportmanager, I cannot see the site settings tab. Without the site settings tab, how do I add or change the roles for MYSELF account. In summary, please help me to open the reportmanager in the browser with the site settings link so that I can change the role of the user account.

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• Mail server not sending or receiving after removal from barracuda blacklist to white list

  - by user137765

  Mail server not sending or receiving after removal from barracuda blacklist to white list. I've checked against black lists and the ip and domain are clean. 1and1 are saying its Barracuda black list and barracuda are saying its not blacklisted and that its somethign with 1and1 server. section from log file... Sep 20 04:29:25 vegaserve postfix/smtpd[16906]: connect from mta860.chtah.net[63.236.31.146] Sep 20 04:29:25 vegaserve postfix/smtpd[16070]: connect from host81-136-144-117.in-addr.btopenworld.com[81.136.144.117] Sep 20 04:29:27 vegaserve pop3d: IMAP connect from @ [201.80.253.153]checkmailpasswd: FAILED: raidon - short names not allowed from @ [201.80.253.153]ERR: 1348111767.185119 LOGOUT, [email protected], ip=[86.143.136.249], top=0, retr=0, time=151, rcvd=18, sent=283, maildir=/var/qmail/mailnames/mbelectrics.net/mb/Maildir Sep 20 04:29:28 vegaserve pop3d: LOGIN FAILED, ip=[201.80.253.153] Sep 20 04:29:28 vegaserve postfix/smtpd[15388]: connect from mta965.emails.itv.com[8.30.201.55] Sep 20 04:29:29 vegaserve postfix/smtpd[18194]: warning: connect to proxy service 127.0.0.1:10025: Connection timed out Sep 20 04:29:29 vegaserve postfix/cleanup[24879]: 95CB31E87556C: message-id=<[email protected] Sep 20 04:29:29 vegaserve postfix/qmgr[14378]: 95CB31E87556C: from=, size=975, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Sep 20 04:29:29 vegaserve postfix/smtpd[18194]: disconnect from uspmta172097.emarsys.net[195.54.172.97] Sep 20 04:29:29 vegaserve postfix/smtp[25748]: 95CB31E87556C: to=, orig_to=, relay=none, delay=0.05, delays=0.05/0/0/0, dsn=5.4.6, status=bounced (mail for vegaserve.com loops back to myself) Sep 20 04:29:29 vegaserve postfix/bounce[25897]: warning: 95CB31E87556C: undeliverable postmaster notification discarded Sep 20 04:29:29 vegaserve postfix/qmgr[14378]: 95CB31E87556C: removed Sep 20 04:29:32 vegaserve pop3d: Connection, ip=[201.80.253.153] Sep 20 04:29:37 vegaserve pop3d: IMAP connect from @ [201.80.253.153]checkmailpasswd: FAILED: rei - short names not allowed from @ [201.80.253.153]ERR: LOGIN FAILED, ip=[201.80.253.153] Sep 20 04:29:38 vegaserve pop3d: Connection, ip=[201.80.253.153] Sep 20 04:29:38 vegaserve postfix/smtpd[19328]: warning: connect to proxy service 127.0.0.1:10025: Connection timed out Sep 20 04:29:40 vegaserve postfix/smtpd[18331]: warning: connect to proxy service 127.0.0.1:10025: Connection timed out Sep 20 04:29:40 vegaserve postfix/smtpd[24464]: warning: connect to proxy service 127.0.0.1:10025: Connection timed out Sep 20 04:29:40 vegaserve postfix/cleanup[24825]: BD1A71E87556C: message-id=<[email protected] Sep 20 04:29:40 vegaserve postfix/qmgr[14378]: BD1A71E87556C: from=, size=673, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Sep 20 04:29:40 vegaserve postfix/smtpd[24464]: disconnect from unknown[118.97.212.190] Sep 20 04:29:40 vegaserve postfix/smtp[25748]: BD1A71E87556C: to=, orig_to=, relay=none, delay=0.04, delays=0.04/0/0/0, dsn=5.4.6, status=bounced (mail for vegaserve.com loops back to myself) Sep 20 04:29:40 vegaserve postfix/bounce[25995]: warning: BD1A71E87556C: undeliverable postmaster notification discarded Sep 20 04:29:40 vegaserve postfix/qmgr[14378]: BD1A71E87556C: removed Sep 20 04:29:41 vegaserve postfix/cleanup[24879]: 0A42B1E87556C: message-id=<[email protected] Sep 20 04:29:41 vegaserve postfix/qmgr[14378]: 0A42B1E87556C: from=, size=961, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Sep 20 04:29:41 vegaserve postfix/smtpd[18331]: disconnect from bay0-omc4-s10.bay0.hotmail.com[65.54.190.212] Sep 20 04:29:41 vegaserve postfix/smtp[25748]: 0A42B1E87556C: to=, orig_to=, relay=none, delay=0.03, delays=0.03/0/0/0, dsn=5.4.6, status=bounced (mail for vegaserve.com loops back to myself) Sep 20 04:29:41 vegaserve postfix/bounce[25897]: warning: 0A42B1E87556C: undeliverable postmaster notification discarded Sep 20 04:29:41 vegaserve postfix/qmgr[14378]: 0A42B1E87556C: removed Sep 20 04:29:43 vegaserve postfix/smtpd[17511]: warning: connect to proxy service 127.0.0.1:10025: Connection timed out Sep 20 04:29:43 vegaserve postfix/cleanup[24825]: 8F8991E87556C: message-id=<[email protected] Sep 20 04:29:43 vegaserve postfix/qmgr[14378]: 8F8991E87556C: from=, size=946, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Sep 20 04:29:43 vegaserve postfix/smtpd[17511]: disconnect from blu0-omc4-s22.blu0.hotmail.com[65.55.111.161] Sep 20 04:29:43 vegaserve postfix/smtp[25748]: 8F8991E87556C: to=, orig_to=, relay=none, delay=0.05, delays=0.02/0/0.02/0, dsn=5.4.6, status=bounced (mail for vegaserve.com loops back to myself) Sep 20 04:29:43 vegaserve postfix/bounce[25995]: warning: 8F8991E87556C: undeliverable postmaster notification discarded Sep 20 04:29:43 vegaserve postfix/qmgr[14378]: 8F8991E87556C: removed Sep 20 04:29:44 vegaserve postfix/cleanup[24879]: 088641E87556C: message-id=<[email protected] Sep 20 04:29:44 vegaserve postfix/qmgr[14378]: 088641E87556C: from=, size=1078, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Sep 20 04:29:44 vegaserve postfix/smtpd[19328]: disconnect from smtp10.bis7.eu.blackberry.com[178.239.85.15] Sep 20 04:29:44 vegaserve postfix/smtp[25748]: 088641E87556C: to=, orig_to=, relay=none, delay=0.05, delays=0.03/0/0.01/0, dsn=5.4.6, status=bounced (mail for vegaserve.com loops back to myself) Sep 20 04:29:44 vegaserve postfix/bounce[25995]: warning: 088641E87556C: undeliverable postmaster notification discarded Sep 20 04:29:44 vegaserve postfix/qmgr[14378]: 088641E87556C: removed Sep 20 04:29:44 vegaserve pop3d: IMAP connect from @ [201.80.253.153]checkmailpasswd: FAILED: rin - short names not allowed from @ [201.80.253.153]ERR: LOGIN FAILED, ip=[201.80.253.153] Sep 20 04:29:44 vegaserve pop3d: Connection, ip=[201.80.253.153] Sep 20 04:29:44 vegaserve postfix/smtpd[18965]: warning: connect to proxy service 127.0.0.1:10025: Connection timed out Sep 20 04:29:44 vegaserve postfix/cleanup[24825]: 946F51E87556C: message-id=<[email protected] Sep 20 04:29:44 vegaserve postfix/qmgr[14378]: 946F51E87556C: from=, size=1173, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Sep 20 04:29:44 vegaserve postfix/smtpd[18965]: disconnect from hubrelay-rd.bt.com[62.239.224.99] Sep 20 04:29:44 vegaserve postfix/smtp[25748]: 946F51E87556C: to=, orig_to=, relay=none, delay=0.04, delays=0.04/0/0/0, dsn=5.4.6, status=bounced (mail for vegaserve.com loops back to myself) Sep 20 04:29:44 vegaserve postfix/bounce[25897]: warning: 946F51E87556C: undeliverable postmaster notification discarded Sep 20 04:29:44 vegaserve postfix/qmgr[14378]: 946F51E87556C: removed Sep 20 04:29:45 vegaserve postfix/smtpd[14816]: connect from col0-omc2-s12.col0.hotmail.com[65.55.34.86] Sep 20 04:29:47 vegaserve postfix/smtpd[16900]: warning: connect to proxy service 127.0.0.1:10025: Connection timed out Sep 20 04:29:47 vegaserve postfix/cleanup[24879]: 961721E87556C: message-id=<[email protected] Sep 20 04:29:47 vegaserve postfix/qmgr[14378]: 961721E87556C: from=, size=1082, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Sep 20 04:29:47 vegaserve postfix/smtpd[16900]: disconnect from mta-35d2.livingsocial.com[199.91.53.210] Sep 20 04:29:47 vegaserve postfix/smtp[25748]: 961721E87556C: to=, orig_to=, relay=none, delay=0.04, delays=0.04/0/0/0, dsn=5.4.6, status=bounced (mail for vegaserve.com loops back to myself) Sep 20 04:29:47 vegaserve postfix/bounce[25995]: warning: 961721E87556C: undeliverable postmaster notification discarded Sep 20 04:29:47 vegaserve postfix/qmgr[14378]: 961721E87556C: removed Sep 20 04:29:50 vegaserve pop3d: IMAP connect from @ [201.80.253.153]checkmailpasswd: FAILED: rini - short names not allowed from @ [201.80.253.153]ERR: LOGIN FAILED, ip=[201.80.253.153] Sep 20 04:29:50 vegaserve pop3d: Connection, ip=[201.80.253.153] Sep 20 04:29:52 vegaserve postfix/smtpd[24478]: connect from col0-omc2-s13.col0.hotmail.com[65.55.34.87] Sep 20 04:29:52 vegaserve postfix/smtpd[18923]: connect from www.idbwplan.com[193.181.254.21] Sep 20 04:29:55 vegaserve postfix/smtpd[15968]: connect from 105-48.mta.dotmailer.com[94.143.105.48] Sep 20 04:29:56 vegaserve pop3d: IMAP connect from @ [201.80.253.153]checkmailpasswd: FAILED: ringo - short names not allowed from @ [201.80.253.153]ERR: LOGIN FAILED, ip=[201.80.253.153] Sep 20 04:29:56 vegaserve pop3d: Connection, ip=[201.80.253.153] Sep 20 04:30:00 vegaserve postfix/smtpd[18772]: warning: connect to proxy service 127.0.0.1:10025: Connection timed out Sep 20 04:30:01 vegaserve postfix/cleanup[24825]: 1DAD71E87556C: message-id=<[email protected] Sep 20 04:30:01 vegaserve postfix/qmgr[14378]: 1DAD71E87556C: from=, size=1022, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Sep 20 04:30:01 vegaserve postfix/smtpd[18772]: disconnect from mail95.us2.mcsv.net[173.231.139.95] Sep 20 04:30:01 vegaserve postfix/smtp[25748]: 1DAD71E87556C: to=, orig_to=, relay=none, delay=0.06, delays=0.05/0/0/0, dsn=5.4.6, status=bounced (mail for vegaserve.com loops back to myself) Sep 20 04:30:01 vegaserve postfix/bounce[25897]: warning: 1DAD71E87556C: undeliverable postmaster notification discarded Sep 20 04:30:01 vegaserve postfix/qmgr[14378]: 1DAD71E87556C: removed Sep 20 04:30:02 vegaserve pop3d: IMAP connect from @ [201.80.253.153]checkmailpasswd: FAILED: ritsuko - short names not allowed from @ [201.80.253.153]ERR: LOGIN FAILED, ip=[201.80.253.153] Sep 20 04:30:02 vegaserve postfix/smtpd[16911]: warning: connect to proxy service 127.0.0.1:10025: Connection timed out Sep 20 04:30:02 vegaserve pop3d: Connection, ip=[201.80.253.153] Sep 20 04:30:02 vegaserve postfix/cleanup[24879]: 8AADD1E87556C: message-id=<[email protected] Sep 20 04:30:02 vegaserve postfix/qmgr[14378]: 8AADD1E87556C: from=, size=1003, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Sep 20 04:30:02 vegaserve postfix/smtpd[16911]: disconnect from mr133.createsend.com[184.106.86.133] Sep 20 04:30:02 vegaserve postfix/smtp[25748]: 8AADD1E87556C: to=, orig_to=, relay=none, delay=0.02, delays=0.02/0/0/0, dsn=5.4.6, status=bounced (mail for vegaserve.com loops back to myself)

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• Optimizing lifestyle and training

  - by Gabe

  I am a college freshman who has recently discovered a passion for computer science. Having had my first lick of formal python training last semester, I have cast aside my previously hedonist way of life and tunneled my sights on becoming the most rounded and proficient programmer I can be. I know that I'm taking strides in the right direction (I've stopped smoking, I've been exercising every day, I've taught myself C++ and OpenGL, and I've begun training in kung-fu and meditation), yet I am still finding myself struggling to achieve satisfactory results. I would like to be able to spend a good 3-4 hours every day burning through textbooks. I have the time cleared and the resources allocated. The problem lies in the logistics-- I have never taken anything seriously before. Recently I've realized that I am clueless when it comes to taking care of myself and gaining control of my mind, and it drastically hinders my productivity. My question is this: How can I learn to manage my time and take care of myself such that I can spend the maximum amount of time every day studying with steady concentration? Personal tricks would be key here: techniques you use to get yourself to sleep, a diet that yields focus, even computer break stretching routines or active reading techniques. Anything you could think of here would be great. I was a low-life in high school and I have the drive to turn my life around, I'm just quite a bit behind in the way of good habits :)

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• Does anyone else not enjoy this 'Required 15 Reputation' to vote situation? [migrated]

  - by Oliver Hyde

  I know, it's most likely the reason stackexchange has become so popular, by forcing people to actually contribute. But as a full-time lurker, and long time user (only recently signed up), it kind of bums me out that I don't get to give credit where credit is due. I don't generally asks questions because I always find a related question before I get myself into the situation where I need to ask and I don't like to answer questions myself as I don't consider myself experienced enough to be contributing effectively. Hopefully the first response to this post is a quick solution to getting 15 reputation points that I haven't seen, and I can just quickly delete this useless question, or maybe a concise paragraph explaining why my question is redundant and that I should go back to my lurky shadows of which I came from. All I want to do, is give credit to helpful comments/questions.

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• DRY, string, and unit testing

  - by Rodrigue

  I have a recurring question when writing unit tests for code that involves constant string values. Let's take an example of a method/function that does some processing and returns a string containing a pre-defined constant. In python, that would be something like: STRING_TEMPLATE = "/some/constant/string/with/%s/that/needs/interpolation/" def process(some_param): # We do some meaningful work that gives us a value result = _some_meaningful_action() return STRING_TEMPLATE % result If I want to unit test process, one of my tests will check the return value. This is where I wonder what the best solution is. In my unit test, I can: apply DRY and use the already defined constant repeat myself and rewrite the entire string def test_foo_should_return_correct_url(): string_result = process() # Applying DRY and using the already defined constant assert STRING_TEMPLATE % "1234" == string_result # Repeating myself, repeating myself assert "/some/constant/string/with/1234/that/needs/interpolation/" == url The advantage I see in the former is that my test will break if I put the wrong string value in my constant. The inconvenient is that I may be rewriting the same string over and over again across different unit tests.

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• Best/ most efficient way to learn a programming language as a beginner [closed]

  - by dizzytri99er

  I am a student and have obtained a one year placement at a business that develops an e-commerce system using C#, HTML, WPF, javascript, ASP and more. Although I do have a little bit of knowledge, I find myself being assigned a lot of tasks that are beyond me and even when I ask for help, the response I get is often cryptic to me. I stare at as much code as possible to just try and "throw myself into it" but I often just get lost in the code I like to consider myself a fast learner and I am damn determined to be a good programmer. I would just like to ask if there are some tips for me to catch up as quick as possible? I don't want to be a nuisance and sit here and ask for help 24/7. I just want to crack on!

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• Find all the child node of specific value in C#

  - by sara brown

  <main> <myself> <pid>1</pid> <name>abc</name> </myself> <myself> <pid>2</pid> <name>efg</name> </myself> </main> that is my XML file named simpan. I have two button. next and previous. What i want to do is, all the info will shows off on the TextBox when the user click the button. The searching node will be based on the pid. Next button will adding 1 value of pid (let's say pid=2) and it will search on the node that have the same value of pid=2. it also will show the name for the pid=2. (showing name=abc) Same goes to the previous button where it will reduce 1value of pid (pid=1). Does anybody knows how to do this? //-------------EDIT------------------ thanks to L.B, im trying to use his code. however i got an error. is my implementation of code correct? private void previousList_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { pid = 14; XDocument xDoc = XDocument.Parse("C:\\Users\\HDAdmin\\Documents\\Fatty\\SliceEngine\\SliceEngine\\bin\\Debug\\simpan.xml"); var name = xDoc.Descendants("myself") .First(m => (int)m.Element("PatientID") == pid) .Value; textETA.Text = name; //////////////////// }

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• What to do to improve my skill and knowledge on javascript??

  - by caramel1991

  Currently I've finish studying the book name "beginning javascript 3rd edition",so i just wonder what should be my next step in order to strengthen myself on using and manipulating this language?Besides,how to improve myself in programming in javascript??Is it by thinking something cool myself,and start coding it??Or googling around the internet to find some task and question offered??Besides,is there any book that teaches the correct method of coding?? Thanks you

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• Should I be using libraries if I'm trying to learn how to program?

  - by CodeJustin.com

  I have been programming "a lot" in the past few months and at first I was trying to find the "easyest" language. Fortunately I realized that it's not about the language, it's about learning HOW to code. I ran into the Stanford lectures online (programming methodology) and I watched them all (around 23 hours total) awhile ago. Then I got into Java ME and programmed about 28.47% of a mobile RPG game (only around 2k lines of code). I feel like I learned a lot from those two experiences compared to previous ones but now that I'm moving into flash/actionscript 3.0 development and I'm finding myself learning like I did when I first started with PHP. I'm not really getting whats under the hood kind of. I'm finding myself using libraries to speed up development time which doesn't seem like a bad thing BUT I personally do not know how to write the libraries myself off hand. So should I be coding everything myself or is it ok to use libraries when you don't even know how to code them?

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• Asp.net certification

  - by poter

  I want to certified in .net which certification is best for me ? 8 Months back i am working on .net 3.5 framework, but at the same time .net 4.0 frameworks is also released last year, how can i grow myself by appearing this exams. I want to Switch myself because .net paid good salary package as compare to PHP. Note:-right now i m working in PHP 5.3 and PostgreSQL I know that certs != experience. but still i want to certified

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• How can a solo programmer become a good team player?

  - by Nick

  I've been programming (obsessively) since I was 12. I am fairly knowledgeable across the spectrum of languages out there, from assembly, to C++, to Javascript, to Haskell, Lisp, and Qi. But all of my projects have been by myself. I got my degree in chemical engineering, not CS or computer engineering, but for the first time this fall I'll be working on a large programming project with other people, and I have no clue how to prepare. I've been using Windows all of my life, but this project is going to be very unix-y, so I purchased a Mac recently in the hopes of familiarizing myself with the environment. I was fortunate to participate in a hackathon with some friends this past year -- both CS majors -- and excitingly enough, we won. But I realized as I worked with them that their workflow was very different from mine. They used Git for version control. I had never used it at the time, but I've since learned all that I can about it. They also used a lot of frameworks and libraries. I had to learn what Rails was pretty much overnight for the hackathon (on the other hand, they didn't know what lexical scoping or closures were). All of our code worked well, but they didn't understand mine, and I didn't understand theirs. I hear references to things that real programmers do on a daily basis -- unit testing, code reviews, but I only have the vaguest sense of what these are. I normally don't have many bugs in my little projects, so I have never needed a bug tracking system or tests for them. And the last thing is that it takes me a long time to understand other people's code. Variable naming conventions (that vary with each new language) are difficult (__mzkwpSomRidicAbbrev), and I find the loose coupling difficult. That's not to say I don't loosely couple things -- I think I'm quite good at it for my own work, but when I download something like the Linux kernel or the Chromium source code to look at it, I spend hours trying to figure out how all of these oddly named directories and files connect. It's a programming sin to reinvent the wheel, but I often find it's just quicker to write up the functionality myself than to spend hours dissecting some library. Obviously, people who do this for a living don't have these problems, and I'll need to get to that point myself. Question: What are some steps that I can take to begin "integrating" with everyone else? Thanks!

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• How to become a good team player?

  - by Nick

  I've been programming (obsessively) since I was 12. I am fairly knowledgeable across the spectrum of languages out there, from assembly, to C++, to Javascript, to Haskell, Lisp, and Qi. But all of my projects have been by myself. I got my degree in chemical engineering, not CS or computer engineering, but for the first time this fall I'll be working on a large programming project with other people, and I have no clue how to prepare. I've been using Windows all of my life, but this project is going to be very unix-y, so I purchased a Mac recently in the hopes of familiarizing myself with the environment. I was fortunate to participate in a hackathon with some friends this past year -- both CS majors -- and excitingly enough, we won. But I realized as I worked with them that their workflow was very different from mine. They used Git for version control. I had never used it at the time, but I've since learned all that I can about it. They also used a lot of frameworks and libraries. I had to learn what Rails was pretty much overnight for the hackathon (on the other hand, they didn't know what lexical scoping or closures were). All of our code worked well, but they didn't understand mine, and I didn't understand theirs. I hear references to things that real programmers do on a daily basis -- unit testing, code reviews, but I only have the vaguest sense of what these are. I normally don't have many bugs in my little projects, so I have never needed a bug tracking system or tests for them. And the last thing is that it takes me a long time to understand other people's code. Variable naming conventions (that vary with each new language) are difficult (__mzkwpSomRidicAbbrev), and I find the loose coupling difficult. That's not to say I don't loosely couple things -- I think I'm quite good at it for my own work, but when I download something like the Linux kernel or the Chromium source code to look at it, I spend hours trying to figure out how all of these oddly named directories and files connect. It's a programming sin to reinvent the wheel, but I often find it's just quicker to write up the functionality myself than to spend hours dissecting some library. Obviously, people who do this for a living don't have these problems, and I'll need to get to that point myself. Question: What are some steps that I can take to begin "integrating" with everyone else? Thanks!

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• What are the preconditions to get an experienced developer from working as a freelancer to owning a small software company?

  - by Kovu

  I've been a software developer for 8 years. I've worked on about 20 projects, some smaller, some bigger. I know how to help myself by using google magic, msdn, youttube, tutorials, how-to's etc. I'm playing around with the idea to get a friend of mine (who has been a software-developer for 5 years) and start my own software-developer-company. What do you think are the preconditions to get myself from a freelancer to owning my own little company with 2-3 employees?

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• Certification Progress

  - by NeilHambly

  Like a lot of us, I had set myself some goals @ the start of the year, and I did not make them all that easy I had set myself the goal to become Microsoft certified in SQL Server 2008 & 2012 {the details on what exactly where the 2012 certifications where not clear when the goal was initially set} I duly spent the best part of the 1st half of the year, in studies for and taking the 4 exams to become an MCITP 2008 SQL Server for both Database Administrator & Developer Exam 70-432 This was...(read more)

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• Best way to create an exact twitter clone? From scratch vs CMS vs any other way [closed]

  - by Akash

  I tried many already built Twitter clone scripts but none was having user-end functionality exactly as twitter. I know enough PHP to code all the twitter's features myself. But is there a faster way than coding myself? I've never used a CMS but if I do then won't I have to search a plugin for every twitter feature, like support for multiple users, options for following-unfollowing users, retweeting (reposting someone else's post), tagging? And I'm afraid that there might be some licensing issues with CMS.

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• Chapter 7–Enforced Data Protection

  - by drsql

  As the book progresses, I find myself veering from the original stated outline quite a bit, because as I teach about this more (and I am teaching a daylong db design class in August at http://www.sqlsolstice.com/ … shameless plug, but it is on topic :) I start to find that a given order works better. Originally I had slated myself to talk more about modeling here for three chapters, then get back to the more implementation topics to finish out the book, but now I am going to keep plugging through...(read more)

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• The type of programmer I want to be [closed]

  - by Aventinus_

  I'm an undergraduate Software Engineer student, although I've decided that pure programming is what I want to do for the rest of my life. The thing is that programming is a vast field and although most of its aspects are extremely interesting, soon or later I'll have to choose one (?) to focus on. I have several ideas on small projects I'd like to develop this summer, having in mind that this will gain me some experience and, in the best scenario, some cash. But the most important reason I'd like to develop something close to “professional” is to give myself direction on what I want to do as a programmer. One path is that of the Web Programmer. I enjoy PHP and MySQL, as well as HTML and CSS, although I don't really like ASP.NET. I can see myself writing web apps, using the above technologies, as well as XML and Javascript. I also have a neat idea on a Facebook app. The other path is that of the Desktop Programmer. This is a little more complicated cause I really-really enjoy high level languages such as Java and Python but not the low level ones, such as C. I use both Linux and Windows for the last 6 years and I like their latest DEs (meaning Gnome Shell and Metro). I can see myself writing desktop applications for both OSs as long as it means high level programming. Ideally I'd like being able to help the development of GNOME. The last path that interests me is the path of the Smartphone Programmer. I have created some sample applications on Android and due to Java I found it a quite interesting experience. I can also see myself as an independent smartphone developer. These 3 paths seem equally interesting at the moment due to the shallowness of my experience, I guess. I know that I should spend time with all of them and then choose the right one for me but I'd like to know what are the pros and cons in terms of learning curve, fun, job finding and of course financial rewards with each of these paths. I have fair or basic understanding of the languages/technologies I described earlier and this question will help me choose where to focus, at least for now.

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• Should I create topics in a forum I'm about to launch so that new users won't feel it is "empty"?

  - by janoChen

  I'm about to launch a discussion forum about Taiwan. I'm really trying to figure out how to deal with the first visitors. I've thought about the following so far: Invite few friends to start some discussions and give some replies. Create discussions myself and reply them myself (with another account). I don't want the first visitors to feel like the site is empty. Maybe I'm missing something. Any suggestions?

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• NIS user not being added to NIS group

  - by Brian

  I have set up a NIS server and several NIS clients. I have a user and a group on the NIS server like so: /etc/passwd: myself:x:5000:5000:,,,:/home/myself:/bin/bash /etc/group: fishy:x:3001:otheruser,etc,myself,moreppl I imported the users and groups on the NIS client by adding +:::::: to /etc/passwd and +::: to /etc/group. I can log in to the NIS client, but when I run groups, fishy is not listed. But getent group fishy shows that it was imported correctly and lists me as a member. And if I do sudo su - myself, then suddenly groups says I am in the group! I also had nscd installed, and the groups worked correctly for a while. It seemed like after being logged in for a while, I would silently be dropped out of the group. If I restarted nscd and logged in again, then the groups worked correctly...for a while. There are no UID or GID conflicts with local users or groups. Update: Contents of /etc/nsswitch.conf: passwd: compat group: compat shadow: compat hosts: files nis dns networks: files protocols: db files services: db files ethers: db files rpc: db files netgroup: nis aliases: nis files

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• Communicating between C# application and Android app via bluetooth

  - by Akki

  The android application acts as a server in this case. I have a main activity which creates a Thread to handle serverSocket and a different thread to handle the socket connection. I am using a uuid common to C# and android. I am using 32feet bluetooth library for C#. The errors i am facing are 1) My logcat shows this debug log Error while doing socket.connect()1 java.io.IOException: File descriptor in bad state Message: File descriptor in bad state Localized Message: File descriptor in bad state Received : Testing Connection Count of Thread is : 1 2) When i try to send something via C# app the second time, this exception is thrown: A first chance exception of type 'System.InvalidOperationException' occurred in System.dll System.InvalidOperationException: BeginConnect cannot be called while another asynchronous operation is in progress on the same Socket. at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.DoBeginConnect(EndPoint endPointSnapshot, SocketAddress socketAddress, LazyAsyncResult asyncResult) at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.BeginConnect(EndPoint remoteEP, AsyncCallback callback, Object state) at InTheHand.Net.Bluetooth.Msft.SocketBluetoothClient.BeginConnect(BluetoothEndPoint remoteEP, AsyncCallback requestCallback, Object state) at InTheHand.Net.Sockets.BluetoothClient.BeginConnect(BluetoothEndPoint remoteEP, AsyncCallback requestCallback, Object state) at InTheHand.Net.Sockets.BluetoothClient.BeginConnect(BluetoothAddress address, Guid service, AsyncCallback requestCallback, Object state) at BTSyncClient.Form1.connect() in c:\users\----\documents\visual studio 2010\Projects\TestClient\TestClient\Form1.cs:line 154 I only know android application programming and i designed the C# by learning bit and pieces. FYI, My android phone is galaxy s with ICS running on it.Please point out my mistakes.. Source codes : C# Code using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Data; using System.Drawing; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.Threading; using System.Net.Sockets; using InTheHand.Net.Bluetooth; using InTheHand.Windows.Forms; using InTheHand.Net.Sockets; using InTheHand.Net; namespace BTSyncClient { public partial class Form1 : Form { BluetoothClient myself; BluetoothDeviceInfo bTServerDevice; private Guid uuid = Guid.Parse("00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805F9B34FB"); bool isConnected; public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); if (BluetoothRadio.IsSupported) { myself = new BluetoothClient(); } } private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { } private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { connect(); } private void Form1_FormClosing(object sender, FormClosingEventArgs e) { try { myself.GetStream().Close(); myself.Dispose(); } catch (Exception ex) { Console.Out.WriteLine(ex); } } private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { SelectBluetoothDeviceDialog dialog = new SelectBluetoothDeviceDialog(); DialogResult result = dialog.ShowDialog(this); if(result.Equals(DialogResult.OK)){ bTServerDevice = dialog.SelectedDevice; } } private void callback(IAsyncResult ar) { String msg = (String)ar.AsyncState; if (ar.IsCompleted) { isConnected = myself.Connected; if (myself.Connected) { UTF8Encoding encoder = new UTF8Encoding(); NetworkStream stream = myself.GetStream(); if (!stream.CanWrite) { MessageBox.Show("Stream is not Writable"); } System.IO.StreamWriter mywriter = new System.IO.StreamWriter(stream, Encoding.UTF8); mywriter.WriteLine(msg); mywriter.Flush(); } else MessageBox.Show("Damn thing isnt connected"); } } private void connect() { try { if (bTServerDevice != null) { myself.BeginConnect(bTServerDevice.DeviceAddress, uuid, new AsyncCallback(callback) , message.Text); } } catch (Exception e) { Console.Out.WriteLine(e); } } } } Server Thread import java.io.IOException; import java.util.UUID; import android.bluetooth.BluetoothAdapter; import android.bluetooth.BluetoothServerSocket; import android.bluetooth.BluetoothSocket; import android.util.Log; public class ServerSocketThread extends Thread { private static final String TAG = "TestApp"; private BluetoothAdapter btAdapter; private BluetoothServerSocket serverSocket; private boolean stopMe; private static final UUID uuid = UUID.fromString("00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805F9B34FB"); //private static final UUID uuid = UUID.fromString("6e58c9d5-b0b6-4009-ad9b-fd9481aef9b3"); private static final String SERVICE_NAME = "TestService"; public ServerSocketThread() { stopMe = false; btAdapter = BluetoothAdapter.getDefaultAdapter(); try { serverSocket = btAdapter.listenUsingRfcommWithServiceRecord(SERVICE_NAME, uuid); } catch (IOException e) { Log.d(TAG,e.toString()); } } public void signalStop(){ stopMe = true; } public void run(){ Log.d(TAG,"In ServerThread"); BluetoothSocket socket = null; while(!stopMe){ try { socket = serverSocket.accept(); } catch (IOException e) { break; } if(socket != null){ AcceptThread newClientConnection = new AcceptThread(socket); newClientConnection.start(); } } Log.d(TAG,"Server Thread now dead"); } // Will cancel the listening socket and cause the thread to finish public void cancel(){ try { serverSocket.close(); } catch (IOException e) { } } } Accept Thread import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStream; import java.util.Scanner; import android.bluetooth.BluetoothSocket; import android.util.Log; public class AcceptThread extends Thread { private BluetoothSocket socket; private String TAG = "TestApp"; static int count = 0; public AcceptThread(BluetoothSocket Socket) { socket = Socket; } volatile boolean isError; String output; String error; public void run() { Log.d(TAG, "AcceptThread Started"); isError = false; try { socket.connect(); } catch (IOException e) { Log.d(TAG,"Error while doing socket.connect()"+ ++count); Log.d(TAG, e.toString()); Log.d(TAG,"Message: "+e.getLocalizedMessage()); Log.d(TAG,"Localized Message: "+e.getMessage()); isError = true; } InputStream in = null; try { in = socket.getInputStream(); } catch (IOException e) { Log.d(TAG,"Error while doing socket.getInputStream()"); Log.d(TAG, e.toString()); Log.d(TAG,"Message: "+e.getLocalizedMessage()); Log.d(TAG,"Localized Message: "+e.getMessage()); isError = true; } Scanner istream = new Scanner(in); if (istream.hasNextLine()) { Log.d(TAG, "Received : "+istream.nextLine()); Log.d(TAG,"Count of Thread is : " + count); } istream.close(); try { in.close(); } catch (IOException e) { Log.d(TAG,"Error while doing in.close()"); Log.d(TAG, e.toString()); Log.d(TAG,"Message: "+e.getLocalizedMessage()); Log.d(TAG,"Localized Message: "+e.getMessage()); isError = true; } try { socket.close(); } catch (IOException e) { Log.d(TAG,"Error while doing socket.close()"); Log.d(TAG, e.toString()); Log.d(TAG,"Message: "+e.getLocalizedMessage()); Log.d(TAG,"Localized Message: "+e.getMessage()); isError = true; } } }

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• lamp server permissions on development server

  - by user101289

  I run a LAMP server on a ubuntu laptop I use only for development. I am not greatly concerned with security, since the server is never accessible outside the local network, and it's turned off when I'm not using it. My question is what is the simplest and 'best' way to set permissions/users/groups so that when my myself user creates, edits or writes files in the webroot, I won't need to go through and CHMOD / CHOWN everything back to the www-data user? Should I add myself to the www-data group? Or chown the webroot to www-data:myself? Or is there a best practice for this situation so I don't have to keep re-setting the ownership of these files? Thanks

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