Steve Gray discusses one of the oldest OLAP techiques for representing the time dimension - and shows why it's a lot easier to stick to DATETIME values.
I've been working on a rather large scale project which makes use of a number of different pages with some very specific Javascript for each of them. To lessen load times, I plan to minify it all in to one file before deploying.
The problem is this: how should I avoid launching page specific JS on pages which don't require it? So far my best…
If you aren't doing keyword research the right way then you could be wasting your time on keywords that will be too hard to rank for or will never bring in any traffic. Here's some tips and what you should... and should not... do.
I've developed several games for the android platform and now planning to create my first multiplayer game. What I have in mind is basically just a 2-player game witch you can play with 2 phones over local area connection/WiFi.
Both phones need to be able to pass 3 integer values to the other phone in real time. So far I have considered…
Creating a Button control at run-time is merely a work of creating an instance of Button class, set its properties and add Button class to the Form controls.
I am preparing for a programming contest in C++ where it is all about producing working code in a short time. An example would be to use a macro to get the minimum of two ints(but I was told that you shouldn't use macros as they are not type-safe) or using memsets to initialize arrays (but I was told that you shouldn't use memsets in…
If you aren't doing keyword research the right way then you could be wasting your time on keywords that will be too hard to rank for or will never bring in any traffic. Here's some tips and what you should... and should not... do.
I have to choose between a framework I already know (Adobe Air), and a framework I know nothing about but is more powerful (Unity). I can do the mobile game I have in mind with both platforms, but the quality of the graphics and development time would be quite different.
From an indie mobile perspective, are more detailed graphics…
Curently, I avoid loading any unnecesary scripts on individual pages of my site. I have a class that remembers all javascript files that were requested during PHP processing and adds them to HTML.
I was just thinking that I could merge the current set of files, save the result in special directory and let the browser download just…
I want to get the current date and time according to a remote NTP server, using Linux. I don't want to change the local time as a result; I just want to get the remote date, adjusted for the local time zone, printed out. The date returned must comply with the following criteria:
It needs to be reasonably accurate.
It needs to be…
Sometimes, the things I have to do for my job are interesting and engaging. Sometimes, they aren't. Occasionally, they really aren't.
Do you have any particular strategies or tricks for dealing with those dull stretches when your brain would rather be doing anything other than what you're supposed to be doing, particularly when…
Well, first of all, it's a good idea to realize that in-house employees are quite expensive to keep on the payroll-especially when it comes to expert level technical gurus-the kind of people that know SEO inside and out. Even though they still might help you make a profit through your search engine optimization efforts, just think…
If you have been given the task of creating or updating a website for your business or organisation, there are some key questions you need to ask before you get started. Answering these questions will prove to be invaluable in saving you precious time once you contract a web development company, and ensuring you get the kind of…
I haven't used thunderbird for a while but when i started to use it again I found out that i have to give the application driven password since i'm using gmail. So i types that application password which is automatically given by the google, but it asks for that every time i try to login. it's really frustrating, to obtain that…
Cutting expenses down to just what you need is an important step on the road to profitability. A full-time webmaster can be an unnecessary expense in some cases - I explain below.
If you have been given the task of creating or updating a website for your business or organisation, there are some key questions you need to ask before you get started. Answering these questions will prove to be invaluable in saving you precious time once you contract a web development company, and ensuring you get the kind of…
This is not a very related software / hardware question, but it's too related to the Tech world.
I started a work 3 months before, and I am about to finish this week, and my boss asked me to do a planning of what I've done so far, I think this is totally ok, but he is asking for what I did each day with the hours I spent in…
Do you know my dears that SEO has been prevailed over the World Wide Web these days? So don't waste any more time, and try to make use of this result-oriented web marketing technique in order to assemble your long term business returns.
Maybe I'm just an idiot, but I've been trying to implement a game loop all day and it's just not clicking. I've read literally every article I could find on Google, but the problem is that they all use different timing mechanisms, which makes them difficult to apply to my particular situation (some use milliseconds, other…
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I have tried to sett my DC to get its time from several NTP severs.
I follow this answer (http://serverfault.com/questions/24298/w32time-sync-problems-for-hyper-v-guests-w32time-event-ids-38-24-29-35/24299#24299) to do it.
First I disable Time Synchronization in the Hyper-V Integration Services for each…
The basic problem is we have a FC6 server instance running on a virtual machine, and the system time seems to have been slowly varying until it is now causing a problem. The server runs 24/7 and has been up for 155 days.
It has been changed to show GMT, and reports the time as (example) 00:15:15 GMT whereas the…
C# 4.0 introduces a new type: dynamic. dynamic is a static type that bypasses static type checking. This new type comes in very handy to work with: The new languages from the dynamic language runtime. HTML Document Object Model (DOM). COM objects. Duck typing …
I am making a simple game right now and am struggling with collision response. My goal is to someday be able to turn it into a 2D platformer but I have a long way to go. I am currently making this in JavaScript and using the canvas element so (0,0) is in the top left and positive X is to the right and positive Y…
I'm at spring break so I'm back at my parent's house. I've turned my computer on which has been off since January and its unusably slow. This was not the case when I last used the computer in January.
It is running 10.04,
Memory: 875.5 MB
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+
Available Disk Space:…