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why is the <img> alt attribute not always properly displayed

- by Piero

So I have this php script that output an html table with data about some files (like filename, filesize, etc...) I have this javascript function that displays the picture when you hover a tag belonging to the class "preview". For example, if a filename is: somePic.jpg, when you hover somePic.jpg in the table, the picture will appear next to your mouse. Now not all these files are pictures, some are .mp3, so of course when you hover them, the javascript cannot display the picture. To deal with this case, I added in the tag (generated by the javascript function), an alt attribute: alt='Preview not available for this type of content.' And here is my problem, sometimes it works, but sometimes it doesn't! Sometimes you start hovering .mp3 links, and the alt attribute is displayed, then you hover a picture, the picture is displayed, then you hover an .mp3 again, and the alt isn't displayed anymore, but the "broken image" image (the little red cross) is displayed instead... Sure I could parse the filenames and detect when it's an mp3 and then deal with the case, but I thought the alt attribute was suppose to achieve this... but it's buggy... Any idea? Does anyone already faced this problem?

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How to connect remote EJB module from application client

- by Zeck

Hi guys, I have a EJB module in remote Glassfish server and application client in my computer. I want to connect from the application client to the remote EJB. Here is the my EJB interface: @Remote public interface BookEJBRemote { public String getTitle(); } Here is the my ejb: @Stateless public class BookEJB implements BookEJBRemote { @Override public String getTitle() { return "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"; } } I have several questions : Can I use Dependency Injection in the remote application client to connect to the ejb? If so what can i do to achieve this. Do i need to configure in the sun-ejb-jar.xml and sun-application-client.xml? In other words, if i use DI like @EJB MyEJBRemote ejb; How application client container know what ejb to be injected? Where should i specify the information? How can i run the application client? I tried to run package-appclient in the glassfish server to get appclient.jar and copy it to my computer. Then i type appclient.jar -client myAppClient.jar . It didn't work. How do i point the target server? if i cannot use DI in the client then i guess i have to use JNDI lookup. Do i need to configure jndi name in sun-ejb-jar.xml or in the sun-application-client.xml? No matter how i try i never manage to run application client ? Can you guys put some working example? And thank you for every advises and examples?

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compact Number formatting behavior in Java (automatically switch between decimal and scientific notation)

- by kostmo

I am looking for a way to format a floating point number dynamically in either standard decimal format or scientific notation, depending on the value of the number. For moderate magnitudes, the number should be formatted as a decimal with trailing zeros suppressed. If the floating point number is equal to an integral value, the decimal point should also be suppressed. For extreme magnitudes (very small or very large), the number should be expressed in scientific notation. Alternately stated, if the number of characters in the expression as standard decimal notation exceeds a certain threshold, switch to scientific notation. I should have control over the maximum number of digits of precision, but I don't want trailing zeros appended to express the minimum precision; all trailing zeros should be suppressed. Basically, it should optimize for compactness and readability. 2.80000 - 2.8 765.000000 - 765 0.0073943162953 - 0.00739432 (limit digits of precision—to 6 in this case) 0.0000073943162953 - 7.39432E-6 (switch to scientific notation if the magnitude is small enough—less than 1E-5 in this case) 7394316295300000 - 7.39432E+6 (switch to scientific notation if the magnitude is large enough—for example, when greater than 1E+10) 0.0000073900000000 - 7.39E-6 (strip trailing zeros from significand in scientific notation) 0.000007299998344 - 7.3E-6 (rounding from the 6-digit precision limit causes this number to have trailing zeros which are stripped) Here's what I've found so far: The .toString() method of the Number class does most of what I want, except it doesn't upconvert to integer representation when possible, and it will not express large integral magnitudes in scientific notation. Also, I'm not sure how to adjust the precision. The "%G" format string to the String.format(...) function allows me to express numbers in scientific notation with adjustable precision, but does not strip trailing zeros. I'm wondering if there's already some library function out there that meets these criteria. I guess the only stumbling block for writing this myself is having to strip the trailing zeros from the significand in scientific notation produced by %G.

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Need to format character precedence in Strings.

- by Christian

I'm currently writing a Roman Numeral Converter for the fun of it. The problem works up to the aforementioned character precedence. Since Roman Numerals are not positional, i.e. III does not symbolize 1*whatever base^2 + 1*whatever base^1 + 1*whatever base^0. That of course makes it hard when somebody types in XIV and I need to make sure that the I is not added in this case, but rather subtracted. I'm not sure how to do this. What would be the best approach to tackle this? I have both the Roman Symbols and their respective decimal numbers stored in arrays: const char cRomanArray[] = "IVXLCDM"; const int romanArray[] = { 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, 500, 1000 }; so it wouldn't be too hard for me to brute-force the damn thing by simply checking the precedence within the array, i.e. if the symbol is smaller than the next symbol, i.e. in the exampe 'XIV' if 'I' is smaller than 'V', in which case it would be because I have ordered them in the array, then I could make it subtract the value instead of add. But this seems like a very ugly solution. Are there perhaps any better ones? I was thinking something along the lines of Regular Expressions maybe( forgive me if that sounds like a horrible idea, I haven't used RegExp yet, but it sounds like it could do what I need, and that's to determine the characters in a string.)

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How do I fork a maximum of 5 child processes of the parent at any one time?

- by bstullkid

I have the following code, which I'm trying to only allow a maximum of 5 children to run at a time, but I can't figure out how to decrement the child count when a child exits. struct { char *s1; char *s2; } s[] = { {"one", "oneB"}, {"two", "twoB"}, {"three", "thr4eeB"}, {"asdf", "3th43reeB"}, {"asdfasdf", "thr33eeB"}, {"asdfasdfasdf", "thdfdreeB"}, {"af3c3", "thrasdfeeB"}, {"fec33", "threfdeB"}, {NULL, NULL} }; int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int i, im5, children = 0; int pid = fork(); for (i = 0; s[i].s2; i++) { im5 = 0; switch (pid) { case -1: { printf("Error\n"); exit(255); } case 0: { printf("%s -> %s\n", s[i].s1, s[i].s2); if (i==5) im5 = 1; printf("%d\n", im5); sleep(i); exit(1); } default: { // Here is where I need to sleep the parent until chilren < 5 // so where do i decrement children so that it gets modified in the parent process? while(children > 5) sleep(1); children++; pid = fork(); } } } return 1; }

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Show image with link based on first directory with Javascript

- by Nestorete

Hi, i need some help please, i want to show an image on my Page depending of the first directory of the URL. Example: In Any of this URLs will show the image1.jpg www.mysite.com/audio/amplifiers/400wats.html www.mysite.com/audio/ www.mysite.com/audio/amplifiers/ In any of this others will show the image2.jpg www.mysite.com/video/spots/40wats.html www.mysite.com/video/amplifiers/400wats.html www.mysite.com/video/lighting/laser.html www.mysite.com/video/laser/ At the moment i can show the image only if the url is only the first directory, bu no in the internal directory or documents. This is the script that i'm using right now: <script type="text/javascript"> switch (location.pathname) { case "/audio/": document.write("From Web<BR>") break case "/video/": document.write('<A HREF="slides.htm" target="_blank"><IMG SRC="/adman/banners/joinvip.gif" WIDTH=728 HEIGHT=90 BORDER=0></A>') break default: document.write('<A HREF="http://www.apple.com" target="_blank"><IMG SRC="http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/DownloadableAssets/NEW_PIB_728x90.gif" WIDTH=728 HEIGHT=90 BORDER=0></A>') break } </script> Thank you

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Show image with link based on first directory with Javascript

- by Nestorete

Hi, i need some help please, i want to show an image on my Page depending of the first directory of the URL. Example: In Any of this URLs will show the image1.jpg www.mysite.com/audio/amplifiers/400wats.html www.mysite.com/audio/ www.mysite.com/audio/amplifiers/ In any of this others will show the image2.jpg www.mysite.com/video/spots/40wats.html www.mysite.com/video/amplifiers/400wats.html www.mysite.com/video/lighting/laser.html www.mysite.com/video/laser/ At the moment i can show the image only if the url is only the first directory, bu no in the internal directory or documents. This is the script that i'm using right now: <script type="text/javascript"> switch (location.pathname) { case "/audio/": document.write("From Web<BR>") break case "/video/": document.write('<A HREF="slides.htm" target="_blank"><IMG SRC="/adman/banners/joinvip.gif" WIDTH=728 HEIGHT=90 BORDER=0></A>') break default: document.write('<A HREF="http://www.apple.com" target="_blank"><IMG SRC="http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/DownloadableAssets/NEW_PIB_728x90.gif" WIDTH=728 HEIGHT=90 BORDER=0></A>') break } </script> Thank you

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Rails 2.3 session

- by Sam Kong

Hi, I am developing a rails 2.3.2 app. I need to keep session_id for an order record, retrieve it and finally delete the session_id when the order is completed. It worked when I used cookies as session store but it doesn't for active_record store. (I restarted my browser, so no cache issue.) I know rails 2.3 implements lazy session load. I read some info about it but am still confused. Can somebody clarify how I use session_id for such a case? What I am doing is... A user make an order going through several pages. There is no sign-up, neither login. So I keep session_id in the order record so that no other user can access the order. @order = Order.last :conditions = {:id = params[:id], :session_id = session[:session_id] } When the order is finished, I set nil to session_id column. How would you implement such a case in lazy session(and active_record store) environment? Thanks. Sam

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handling java exception

- by Noona

This questions is related to java exception, why are there some cases that when an exception thrown the program exits even though the exception was caught and there was no exit() statement? my code looks something like this void bindProxySocket(DefaultHttpClientConnection proxyConnection, String hostName, HttpParams params) { if (!proxyConnection.isOpen()) { Socket socket = null; try { socket = new Socket(hostName, 80); } catch (UnknownHostException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } try { proxyConnection.bind(socket, params); } catch(IOException e) { System.err.println ("couldn't bind socket"); e.printStackTrace(); } } } and then I call this method like this: bindProxySocket(proxyConn, hostName, params1); but, the program exits, although I want to handle the exception by doing something else, can it be because I didn't enclose the method call within a try catch clause? what happens if I catch the exception again even though it's already in the method? and what should I do if i want to clean resources only if an exception occurs and otherwise I want to continue with the program? I am guessing in this case I have to include the whole piece of code until I can clean the resources with in a try statement or can I do it in the handle exception statement? some of these questions are on this specific case, but I would like to get a thorough answer to all my questions for future reference. thanks

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How to keep my topmost window on top?

- by Misko Mare

I will first explain why I need it, because I anticipate that the first response will be "Why do you need it?". I want to detect when the mouse cursor is on an edge of the screen and I don't want to use hooks. Hence, I created one pixel wide TOPMOST invisible window. I am using C++ on Win XP, so when the window is created (CreateWindowEx(WS_EX_TOPMOST | WS_EX_TRANSPARENT ...) everything works fine. Unfortunately, if a user moves another topmost window, for example the taskbar over my window, I don't get mouse movements. I tried to solve this similarly to approaches suggested in: How To Keep an MDI Window Always on Top I tried to check for Z-order of my topmost window in WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGED first with case WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGED : WINDOWPOS* pWP = (WINDOWPOS*)lParam; yet pWP-hwnd points to my window and pWP-hwndInsertAfter is 0, which should mean that my window is on the top of the Z, even though it is covered with the taskbar. Then I tried: case WM_WINDOWPOSCHANGED : HWND topWndHndl = GetNextWindow(myHandle, GW_HWNDPREV) GetWindowText(topWndHndl, pszMem, cTxtLen + 1); and I'll always get that the "Default IME" window is on top of my window. Even if try to bring my window to the top with SetWindowPos() or BringWindowToTop (), "Default IME" stays on the top. I don't know what is "Default IME" and how to detect if the taskbar is on top of my window. So my question is: How to detect that my topmost window is not the top topmost window anymore and how to keep it on the top? P.S. I know that a "brute force" approach of periodically bringing my window to the top works, yet is ugly and could have some unwanted inference with the notification window for example. (Bringing my window to the top will hide the notification window.) Thank you on your time and suggestions!

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ISP Config 3 - squirrel login error & how to add an smtp server for sending mails

- by A Prasetyo

Hi, Case #1: I have ISPConfig3 running, sending email through telnet server.mydomain.com 25 are possible. Receiving email also possible. BUT!! problem occurs when I try to login to squirrel... I've been awaken for 2 days now and still couldn't figured out why logging in into squirrel always having an error: ERROR: Connection dropped by IMAP server. here is the /var/log/mail.log: Jun 3 00:23:27 server-01 imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1] Jun 3 00:23:27 server-01 imapd: chdir /var/vmail/mydomain.com/info: Permission denied Jun 3 00:23:27 server-01 imapd: [email protected]: Permission denied I did chmod 777 & still doesn't work, only another message appeared Jun 3 00:24:28 server-01 imapd: Connection, ip=[::ffff:127.0.0.1] Jun 3 00:24:28 server-01 imapd: [email protected]: Account's mailbox directory is not owned by the correct uid or gid Try to do telnet to IMAP port telnet mydomain.com 143 Trying 63.105.102.48... Connected to mydomain.com. Escape character is '^]'. OK [CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UIDPLUS CHILDREN NAMESPACE THREAD=ORDEREDSUBJECT THREAD=REFERENCES SORT QUOTA IDLE ACL ACL2=UNION STARTTLS] Courier-IMAP ready. Copyright 1998-2008 Double Precision, Inc. See COPYING for distribution information. login [email protected] mypassword login NO Error in IMAP command received by server. and give no result... -_- I checked mysql.sock, I checked username and password in mysql db, everything is correct.. anyone can help? PLEASE?! Case #2: Does anyone know how to set or to view SMTP settings in ISPConfig 3? thank you..

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Programmatically modifying a file on Windows Server 2008 (Web Ed.)

- by Tom

I have written a .NET 2008 application, incorporating Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel, that modifies an existing Excel 2007 spreadsheet. It works perfectly on my WinXP development computer. When I upload the app to a Microsoft Web Server 2008, it opens the file and reads from the file, but when the app tries to save the file, it throws this exception: "System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x800A03EC): 'july2009.xlsx' is read-only. To save a copy, click OK, then give the workbook a new name in the Save As dialog box." The file is NOT read-only, nor is it opened by any other user or app. The app and the Excel file both reside on the D: (data-only) drive. My first instinct was to look at file permissions. When nothing else worked, I literally created a temporary Group, added EVERY user and security entity to it and granted the group full control of the entire D: drive. No luck. Then I tried manually elevating the permission by running my app as administrator. No luck. Finally, I copied the file to my XP development computer and ran the app there. Of course it worked perfectly. Can anyone please tell me how to give my program permission to edit a file on Server 2008? Thanks!

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Windows 7 DWM weirdness

- by Max

I'm looking to write a FOSS "Alt+Tab" replacement (window switcher) for Windows, since there are a few features I feel it's (still) lacking; but I'm noticing two quirks I can't seem to fix: #1. (Somewhat Unrelated) In the default Windows 7 window switcher, one computer allows left clicking on a thumbnail to focus the window; however on another, similarly specced computer, I have to use a right click. The only difference between these two fresh installs is the theme. Any ideas? #2. (Directly Related) In both the default Windows 7 window switcher and the DWM API output, minimized windows often have no thumbnail, and instead show only the taskbar. This has been a long running problem with the Windows API, and in the past I've seen the popular recommendation being "restore (un-minimize) the window, take a screenshot, then re-minimize" - but this is sloppy and causes flickering, etc. Has anyone done this successfully using the newer DWM API? If sharing code, I'd prefer C# syntax, but VB.NET will do as well. Thanks!

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Java Simple Calculator

- by Lahiru Kavinda

I have made this calculator program in Java. This works well only when two numbers are calculated at one time. That means to get the sum of 1+2+3 you have to go this way : press 1 press + press 2 press = press + press 3 press = and it calculates it as 6. But I want to program this so that I can get the answer by: press 1 press + press 2 press + press 3 press = but this gives the answer 5!!! How to code this so that it works like an ordinary calculator? Here is my code: import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import javax.swing.*; public class cal1 extends JFrame { double op1 = 0d, op2 = 0d; double result = 0d; char action; boolean b = false; boolean pressequal = false; public cal1() { makeUI(); } private void makeUI() { setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); setSize(400, 400); b0 = new JButton("0"); b1 = new JButton("1"); b2 = new JButton("2"); b3 = new JButton("3"); b4 = new JButton("4"); b5 = new JButton("5"); b6 = new JButton("6"); b7 = new JButton("7"); b8 = new JButton("8"); b9 = new JButton("9"); bDot = new JButton("."); bMul = new JButton("*"); bDiv = new JButton("/"); bPlus = new JButton("+"); bMinus = new JButton("-"); bEq = new JButton("="); t = new JTextField(12); t.setFont(new Font("Tahoma", Font.PLAIN, 24)); t.setHorizontalAlignment(JTextField.RIGHT); numpad = new JPanel(); display = new JPanel(); numpad.add(b7); numpad.add(b8); numpad.add(b9); numpad.add(bMul); numpad.add(b4); numpad.add(b5); numpad.add(b6); numpad.add(bDiv); numpad.add(b1); numpad.add(b2); numpad.add(b3); numpad.add(bMinus); numpad.add(bDot); numpad.add(b0); numpad.add(bEq); numpad.add(bPlus); numpad.setLayout(new GridLayout(4, 5, 5, 4)); display.add(t); add(display, BorderLayout.NORTH); add(numpad, BorderLayout.CENTER); t.addKeyListener(new KeyAdapter() { @Override public void keyTyped(KeyEvent e) { typeOnt(e); } }); b0.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { b0pressed(e); } }); b1.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { b1pressed(e); } }); b2.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { b2pressed(e); } }); b3.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { b3pressed(e); } }); b4.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { b4pressed(e); } }); b5.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { b5pressed(e); } }); b6.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { b6pressed(e); } }); b7.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { b7pressed(e); } }); b8.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { b8pressed(e); } }); b9.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { b9pressed(e); } }); bDot.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { bDotpressed(e); } }); bPlus.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { bPlusPressed(e); } }); bMinus.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { bMinusPressed(e); } }); bMul.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { bMulPressed(e); } }); bDiv.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { bDivPressed(e); } }); bEq.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { bEqpressed(e); } }); } void typeOnt(KeyEvent e) { e.consume(); } void b0pressed(ActionEvent e) { if (b) { t.setText(null); b = false; t.setText(t.getText() + "0"); } else { t.setText(t.getText() + "0"); } } void b1pressed(ActionEvent e) { if (b) { t.setText(null); b = false; t.setText(t.getText() + "1"); } else { t.setText(t.getText() + "1"); } } void b2pressed(ActionEvent e) { if (b) { t.setText(null); b = false; t.setText(t.getText() + "2"); } else { t.setText(t.getText() + "2"); } } void b3pressed(ActionEvent e) { if (b) { t.setText(null); b = false; t.setText(t.getText() + "3"); } else { t.setText(t.getText() + "3"); } } void b4pressed(ActionEvent e) { if (b) { t.setText(null); b = false; t.setText(t.getText() + "4"); } else { t.setText(t.getText() + "4"); } } void b5pressed(ActionEvent e) { if (b) { t.setText(null); b = false; t.setText(t.getText() + "5"); } else { t.setText(t.getText() + "5"); } } void b6pressed(ActionEvent e) { if (b) { t.setText(null); b = false; t.setText(t.getText() + "6"); } else { t.setText(t.getText() + "6"); } } void b7pressed(ActionEvent e) { if (b) { t.setText(null); b = false; t.setText(t.getText() + "7"); } else { t.setText(t.getText() + "7"); } } void b8pressed(ActionEvent e) { if (b) { t.setText(null); b = false; t.setText(t.getText() + "8"); } else { t.setText(t.getText() + "8"); } } void b9pressed(ActionEvent e) { if (b) { t.setText(null); b = false; t.setText(t.getText() + "9"); } else { t.setText(t.getText() + "9"); } } void bDotpressed(ActionEvent e) { if (!t.getText().contains(".")) { if (b) { t.setText(null); b = false; t.setText(t.getText() + "0."); } else if (t.getText().isEmpty()) { t.setText("0."); } else { t.setText(t.getText() + "."); } } } void bPlusPressed(ActionEvent e) { b = true; action = '+'; op1 = Double.parseDouble(t.getText()); } void bMinusPressed(ActionEvent e) { b = true; action = '-'; op1 = Double.parseDouble(t.getText()); } void bMulPressed(ActionEvent e) { b = true; action = '*'; op1 = Double.parseDouble(t.getText()); } void bDivPressed(ActionEvent e) { b = true; action = '/'; op1 = Double.parseDouble(t.getText()); } void bEqpressed(ActionEvent e) { op2 = Double.parseDouble(t.getText()); doCal(); } void doCal() { switch (action) { case '+': result = op1 + op2; break; case '-': result = op1 - op2; break; case '*': result = op1 * op2; break; case '/': result = op1 / op2; break; } t.setText(String.valueOf(result)); } public static void main(String[] args) { new cal1().setVisible(true); } JButton b0; JButton b1; JButton b2; JButton b3; JButton b4; JButton b5; JButton b6; JButton b7; JButton b8; JButton b9; JButton bDot; JButton bPlus; JButton bMinus; JButton bMul; JButton bDiv; JButton bEq; JPanel display; JPanel numpad; JTextField t; }

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Testing a wide variety of computers with a small company

- by Tom the Junglist

Hello everyone, I work for a small dotcom which will soon be launching a reasonably-complicated Windows program. We have uncovered a number of "WTF?" type scenarios that have turned up as the program has been passed around to the various not-technical-types that we've been unable to replicate. One of the biggest problems we're facing is that of testing: there are a total of three programmers -- only one working on this particular project, me -- no testers, and a handful of assorted other staff (sales, etc). We are also geographically isolated. The "testing lab" consists of a handful of VMWare and VPC images running sort-of fresh installs of Windows XP and Vista, which runs on my personal computer. The non-technical types try to be helpful when problems arise, we have trained them on how to most effectively report problems, and the software itself sports a wide array of diagnostic features, but since they aren't computer nerds like us their reporting is only so useful, and arranging remote control sessions to dig into the guts of their computers is time-consuming. I am looking for resources that allow us to amplify our testing abilities without having to put together an actual lab and hire beta testers. My boss mentioned rental VPS services and asked me to look in to them, however they are still largely very much self-service and I was wondering if there were any better ways. How have you, or any other companies in a similar situation handled this sort of thing? EDIT: According to the lingo, our goal here is to expand our systems testing capacity via an elastic computing platform such as Amazon EC2. At this point I am not sure suggestions of beefing up our unit/integration testing are going to help very much as we are consistently hitting walls at the systems testing phase. Has anyone attempted to do this kind of software testing on a cloud-type service like EC2? Tom

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How to mimic built-in .NET serialization idioms?

- by Matt Enright

I have a library (written in C#) for which I need to read/write representations of my objects to disk (or to any Stream) in a particular binary format (to ensure compatibility with C/Java library implementations). The format requires a fair amount of bit-packing and some DEFLATE'd bytestreams. I would like my library, however, to be as idiomatic .NET as possible, however, and so would like to provide an API as close as possible to the normal binary serialization process. I'm aware of the ability to implement the IFormatter interface, but being that I really am unable to reuse any part of the built-in serialization stack, is it worth doing this, or will it just bring unnecessary overhead. In other words: Implement IFormatter and co. OR Just provide "Serialize"/"Deserialize" methods that act on a Stream? A good point brought up below about needing the serialization semantics for any case involving Remoting. In a case where using MarshalByRef objects is feasible, I'm pretty sure that this won't be an issue, so leaving that aside are there any benefits or drawbacks to using the ISerializable/IFormatter versus a custom stack (or, is my understanding remoting incorrectly)?

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Perl WordPress::XMLRPC categories not being set.

- by Jay

The following code works fine to upload a new post to a WordPress blog but for the life of me I can't seem to get the categories to be set. The categories exist. I've tried all lower case, tried case-matching, tried the slug version. Nothing works. No matter how I try passing the categories, the post gets assigned only to the default category. I've scoured the web to find other pieces of sample code and none mention the actual code semantics of how to assign post to certain categories using the WordPress::XMLRPC module. use WordPress::XMLRPC; my $o = WordPress::XMLRPC-new; $o-username('username'); $o-password('password'); $o-proxy('http://blogdomain.com/xmlrpc.php'); $o-server() || die "$!"; my $hashref = { 'title' = 'Test New Post 999 555456782', 'categories' = ['Categorie1', 'Categorie2'], 'description' = '<pHere is the content</p', 'mt_keywords' = 'tag1, tag2, tag3', 'mt_allow_comments' = 1, }; my $ID = $o-newPost($hashref, 1);

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What's the purpose of "import package"?

- by codethief

As I just found out import package does not make the package's modules available through package.module. The same obviously holds true for from package import subpackage as well as from package import * What's the purpose of importing a package at all then if I can't access its submodules but only the objects defined in __init__.py? It makes sense to me that from package import * would bloat the namespace, which, however, doesn't apply in case of the other two ways! I also understand that loading all submodules might take a long time. But I don't know what these unwanted side-effects, "that should only happen when the sub-module is explicitly imported", are which the author of the previous link mentions. To me it looks like doing an import package[.subpackage] (or from package import subpackage) makes absolutely no sense if I don't exactly want to access objects provided in __init__.py. Are those unwanted side effects really that serious that the language actually has to protect the programmer from causing them? Actually, I thought that Python was a little bit more about "If the programmer wants to do it, let him do it." In my case, I really do want to import all submodules with the single statement from package import subpackage, because I need all of them! Telling Python in the init.py file which submodules I'm exactly talking about (all of them!) is quite cumbersome from my point of view. Please enlighten me. :)

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Where are the real risks in network security?

- by Barry Brown

Anytime a username/password authentication is used, the common wisdom is to protect the transport of that data using encryption (SSL, HTTPS, etc). But that leaves the end points potentially vulnerable. Realistically, which is at greater risk of intrusion? Transport layer: Compromised via wireless packet sniffing, malicious wiretapping, etc. Transport devices: Risks include ISPs and Internet backbone operators sniffing data. End-user device: Vulnerable to spyware, key loggers, shoulder surfing, and so forth. Remote server: Many uncontrollable vulnerabilities including malicious operators, break-ins resulting in stolen data, physically heisting servers, backups kept in insecure places, and much more. My gut reaction is that although the transport layer is relatively easy to protect via SSL, the risks in the other areas are much, much greater, especially at the end points. For example, at home my computer connects directly to my router; from there it goes straight to my ISPs routers and onto the Internet. I would estimate the risks at the transport level (both software and hardware) at low to non-existant. But what security does the server I'm connected to have? Have they been hacked into? Is the operator collecting usernames and passwords, knowing that most people use the same information at other websites? Likewise, has my computer been compromised by malware? Those seem like much greater risks. What do you think?

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What is the best way to handle autorotation with multiple subview?

- by thangnguyen

I am learning and programing an application. I do this project based on what I learned from the book Beginning iphone 3 development. I have two main questions here: I would like to create a multi utility application so I need multiple-view. I have a main view controller which will control switching between views. In this example I have two views A and B. I have 2 view controller A and B which will handles all of events on these 2 views. I have 2 nib files viewA.xib and viewB.xib. One of the uitility is reading PDF. So I create another class which handle the PDF file which can load a PDF page call PDFview. From Interface Builder, I selected class identity for view of the viewB.xib as PDFView class. The result is I can switching between View A and view B. View B will display the content of the PDF page. I am not sure if my solution is right or wrong but now I don't know how to handle the autorotation. The rotation will active the view controller B. But the PDFView handle how to display the PDF on the View. Could you please tell me how I should handle this in a right way? Second question: Should I create the subview automatically? In case I need to do the swipe page animation, how can I do that? I think that I need to load another subview so I can do the animation when swap view. But I think this solution will waste the resource. I can just load another page of the PDF, but in this case I don't know how to use animation? Please tell me how I should solve this? I highly appreciate your time reading and answering my question. Thang Nguyen

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Number Algorithm

- by James

I've been struggling to wrap my head around this for some reason. I have 15 bits that represent a number. The bits must match a pattern. The pattern is defined in the way the bits start out: they are in the most flush-right representation of that pattern. So say the pattern is 1 4 1. The bits will be: 000000010111101 So the general rule is, take each number in the pattern, create that many bits (1, 4 or 1 in this case) and then have at least one space separating them. So if it's 1 2 6 1 (it will be random): 001011011111101 Starting with the flush-right version, I want to generate every single possible number that meets that pattern. The # of bits will be stored in a variable. So for a simple case, assume it's 5 bits and the initial bit pattern is: 00101. I want to generate: 00101 01001 01010 10001 10010 10100 I'm trying to do this in Objective-C, but anything resembling C would be fine. I just can't seem to come up with a good recursive algorithm for this. It makes sense in the above example, but when I start getting into 12431 and having to keep track of everything it breaks down.

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Inheritance of list-style-type property in Firefox (bug in Firebug?)

- by Marcel Korpel

Let's have a look at some comments on a page generated by Wordpress (it's not a site I maintain, I'm just wondering what's going on here). As these pages might disappear in the near future, I've put some screenshots online. Here's what I saw: Obviously, the list-item markers shouldn't be there. So I decided to look at the source using Firebug. As you can see, Firebug claims that the list-style property (containing none) is inherited from ol.commentlist. But if that's the case, why are the circle and the square visible? When checking the computed style, Firebug shows the list-style-types correctly. What's the correct behaviour? I just did a quick check in Chromium, whose Web Inspector gave a better view of reality (the list item markers were also displayed in this browser): According to WebKit, list-style of ol.commentlist isn't inherited, only the default value of list-style-type from the rendering engine. So, we may conclude that the output of both browsers is correct and that Firefox (Firebug) shows an incorrect representation of inherited styles. What does the CSS specification say? Inheritance will transfer the list-style values from OL and UL elements to LI elements. This is the recommended way to specify list style information. Not much about the inheritance of ol properties to uls. Is Firebug wrong in this respect? BTW, I managed to let the markers disappear by just changing line 312 of style.css to ol.commentlist, li.commentlist, ul.children { When also explicitly defining the list-style of ul.children to none, the markers are not painted. You can have a look at screenshots of Firebug and WebKit's Web Inspector in this case, if you like.

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error handler isn't called when file is uploaded via ajax using jQuery form plugin

- by scompt.com

Here's my test case. If the form is posted, a 500 error response is sent. If not, the form is sent. If the file input tag is commented out, the error handler is called. If the file input tag is present, the error handler isn't called. I think this might have something to do with the fact that jQuery needs to use an iframe to handle the upload and iframes don't seem to respond to the error handler. Edit: If I add iframe: true to the options passed to ajaxSubmit to force the use of an iframe, the non-file-upload case stops working also, so it definitely has to do with the iframe. Edit2: I'm using the jQuery Form Plugin. <?php if($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST') { header('HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error'); die; } else {?> <html><head> <script type='text/javascript' src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js?ver=2.9.2'></script> <script type='text/javascript' src='http://github.com/malsup/form/raw/master/jquery.form.js?v2.43'></script> <script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(document).ready(function() { jQuery('a').click(function() {jQuery('form').ajaxSubmit({error: function(){alert('error handler called');}})}); }); </script> </head><body> <form method="POST"> <input type="text" name="mytext" /> <input type="file" name="myfile" /> <input type="hidden" name="blah" value="blah" /> <a>submit</a> </form> </body></html> <?php } Is there any way to get the error handler to be called in both situations?

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[Apache Camel] Generating multiple files based on DB query in a nice way

- by chantingwolf

Dear all, I have a following question. I have to generate many files based on sql query. Let's say for example, I have get from database a list of orders made today and genarate file for each order and later store each file on ftp. Ideally I would like to get follewing. Not quite sure how to get it. from(MyBean).to(Ftp) The problem and main question is how to generate multiple messages by custom bean (for example). I am not sure if splitter EIP is ok in this case because in my case I have not just one message to split, but I just have to generate and send many messages. http://camel.apache.org/splitter.html I hope, someone meet this problem before. If the task will be to generate just one file - everything is quite simple - you need just fill Exchange.OutMessage (or something like this). But what about multiple files - I really can't get, how to manage this situation. P.S. Sorry if this question is stupid. I am novice in Camel (working with it just for coupe weeks). It's a great tool. Actually, that's why I want to use in in the best way. Thanks a lot.

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How to unit test this simple ASP.NET MVC controller

- by Frank Schwieterman

Lets say I have a simple controller for ASP.NET MVC I want to test. I want to test that a controller action (Foo, in this case) simply returns a link to another action (Bar, in this case). How would you test this? (either the first or second link) My implementation has the same link twice. One passes the url throw ViewData[]. This seems more testable to me, as I can check the ViewData collection returned from Foo(). Even this way though, I don't know how to validate the url itself without making dependencies on routing. The controller: public class TestController : Controller { public ActionResult Foo() { ViewData["Link2"] = Url.Action("Bar"); return View("Foo"); } public ActionResult Bar() { return View("Bar"); } } the "Foo" view: <%@ Page Title="" Language="C#" Inherits="System.Web.Mvc.ViewPage" MasterPageFile="~/Views/Shared/Site.Master"%> <asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderID="MainContent" runat="server"> <%= Html.ActionLink("link 1", "Bar") %> <a href="<%= ViewData["Link2"]%>">link 2</a> </asp:Content>

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