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  • How to Identify and Avoid Search Engine Blocks

    Search engines can sometimes take the best designed sites and can completely ignore a lot of modern elements of a webpage. A search engine spider will come across a number of stumbling blocks that are in many ways not in agreement with what they are looking for even if the content is embedded in the so called blocks.

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  • Intentional misspellings to avoid reserved words

    - by Renesis
    I often see code that include intentional misspellings of common words that for better or worse have become reserved words: klass or clazz for class: Class clazz = ThisClass.class kount for count in SQL: count(*) AS kount Personally I find this decreases readability. In my own practice I haven't found too many cases where a better name couldn't have been used — itemClass or recordTotal. However, it's so common that I can't help but wonder if I'm the only one? Anyone have any advice or even better, quoted recommendations from well-respected programmers on this practice?

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  • IsNullOrEmpty generic method for Array to avoid Re-Sharper warning

    - by Michael Freidgeim
    I’ve used the following extension method in many places. public static bool IsNullOrEmpty(this Object[] myArr) { return (myArr == null || myArr.Length == 0); }Recently I’ve noticed that Resharper shows warning covariant array conversion to object[] may cause an exception for the following codeObjectsOfMyClass.IsNullOrEmpty()I’ve resolved the issue by creating generic extension method public static bool IsNullOrEmpty<T>(this T[] myArr) { return (myArr == null || myArr.Length == 0); }Related linkshttp://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/94089/add-isnullorempty-to-array-class    public static bool IsNullOrEmpty(this System.Collections.IEnumerable source)        {            if (source == null)                return true;            else            {                return !source.GetEnumerator().MoveNext();            }        }http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8560106/isnullorempty-equivalent-for-array-c-sharp

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  • Redirects in .htaccess to avoid crawl errors

    - by user71698
    I am getting a lot of errors in Webmaster Tools and basically there's a lot of links ending like this: mydomainname.com/links.php How can I redirect these links, to shave off this part at the end? For instance, there is a link in Google: http://www.onlineglobalbiz.com/article-marketing/www.onlineglobalbiz.com/links.php This should be: http://www.onlineglobalbiz.com/article-marketing/ Using .htaccess, how can I redirect from the incorrect links?

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  • how to avoid flickering in awt [on hold]

    - by Ishanth
    import java.awt.event.*; import java.awt.*; class circle1 extends Frame implements KeyListener { public int a=300; public int b=70; public int pacx=360; public int pacy=270; public circle1() { setTitle("circle"); addKeyListener(this); repaint(); } public void paint(Graphics g) { g.fillArc (a, b, 60, 60,pacx,pacy); } public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e) { int key=e.getKeyCode(); System.out.println(key); if(key==38) { b=b-5; //move pacman up pacx=135;pacy=270; //packman mouth upside if(b==75&&a>=20||b==75&&a<=945) { b=b+5; } else { repaint(); } } else if(key==40) { b=b+5; //move pacman downside pacx=315; pacy=270; //packman mouth down if(b==645&&a>=20||b==645&&a<=940) { b=b-5; } else{ repaint(); } } else if(key==37) { a=a-5; //move pacman leftside pacx=227; pacy=270; //packman mouth left if(a==15&&b>=75||a==15&&b<=640) { a=a+5; } else { repaint(); } } else if(key==39) { a=a+5; //move pacman rightside pacx=42;pacy=270; //packman mouth right if(a==945&&a>=80||a==945&&b<=640) { a=a-5; } else { repaint(); } } } public void keyReleased(KeyEvent e){} public void keyTyped(KeyEvent e){} public static void main(String args[]) { circle1 c=new circle1(); c.setVisible(true); c.setSize(400,400); } }

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  • Avoid double compression of resources

    - by user1095108
    I am using .pngs for my textures and am using a virtual file system in a .zip file for my game project. This means my textures are compressed and decompressed twice. What are the solutions to this double compression problem? One solution I've heard about is to use .tgas for textures, but it seems ages ago, since I've heard that. Another solution is to implement decompression on the GPU and, since that is fast, forget about the overhead.

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  • 25 Passwords to Avoid to Thwart Hackers

    SplashData, a vendor of smartphone productivity applications for consumers and businesses, recently released a list of the top 25 most commonly used passwords for 2011. The company compiled the list after analyzing files of stolen passwords that hackers posted online to share with their cybercriminal colleagues. Without further adieu, here is the list of passwords that made SplashData's top 25: password, 123456, 12345678, qwerty, abc123, monkey, 1234567, letmein, trustno1, dragon, baseball, 111111, iloveyou, master, sunshine, ashley, bailey, passw0rd, shadow, 123123, 654321, superman, qazwsx...

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  • How to avoid game objects accidentally deleting themselves in C++

    - by Tom Dalling
    Let's say my game has a monster that can kamikaze explode on the player. Let's pick a name for this monster at random: a Creeper. So, the Creeper class has a method that looks something like this: void Creeper::kamikaze() { EventSystem::postEvent(ENTITY_DEATH, this); Explosion* e = new Explosion; e->setLocation(this->location()); this->world->addEntity(e); } The events are not queued, they get dispatched immediately. This causes the Creeper object to get deleted somewhere inside the call to postEvent. Something like this: void World::handleEvent(int type, void* context) { if(type == ENTITY_DEATH){ Entity* ent = dynamic_cast<Entity*>(context); removeEntity(ent); delete ent; } } Because the Creeper object gets deleted while the kamikaze method is still running, it will crash when it tries to access this->location(). One solution is to queue the events into a buffer and dispatch them later. Is that the common solution in C++ games? It feels like a bit of a hack, but that might just be because of my experience with other languages with different memory management practices. In C++, is there a better general solution to this problem where an object accidentally deletes itself from inside one of its methods?

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  • Partition Configuration to avoid reinstalling applications after update

    - by nightcrawler
    The major bane when I update Ubuntu (which is way more frequent than Windows) is that I lose all installed application. To be precise I do a lot of Maple, Matlab, Geogebra & for all of those I install Java platform which too isnt very straightforward plus the license management things, which really give me craps. I don't install application in /home (to be made available to all users) thus a separate /home partition is meaningless. Can we circumvent this problem somehow such that Java dependent applications along with JDK doesn't blow away after update, may be by a separate partition (just like /home) where only custom (other than provided by Ubuntu Software Center) install application resides Further: I use specific binary of Java (Java6 update 32), its an important requirement for me, thus I don't want to let it crash/overwritten or similar

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  • Avoid overwriting all the methods in the child class

    - by Heckel
    The context I am making a game in C++ using SFML. I have a class that controls what is displayed on the screen (manager on the image below). It has a list of all the things to draw like images, text, etc. To be able to store them in one list I created a Drawable class from which all the other drawable class inherit. The image below represents how I would organize each class. Drawable has a virtual method Draw that will be called by the manager. Image and Text overwrite this method. My problem is that I would like Image::draw method to work for Circle, Polygon, etc. since sf::CircleShape and sf::ConvexShape inherit from sf::Shape. I thought of two ways to do that. My first idea would be for Image to have a pointer on sf::Shape, and the subclasses would make it point onto their sf::CircleShape or sf::ConvexShape classes (Like on the image below). In the Polygon constructor I would write something like ptr_shape = &polygon_shape; This doesn't look very elegant because I have two variables that are, in fact, just one. My second idea is to store the sf::CircleShape and sf::ConvexShape inside the ptr_shape like ptr_shape = new sf::ConvexShape(...); and to use a function that is only in ConvexShape I would cast it like so ((sf::ConvexShape*)ptr_shape)->convex_method(); But that doesn't look very elegant either. I am not even sure I am allowed to do that. My question I added details about the whole thing because I thought that maybe my whole architecture was wrong. I would like to know how I could design my program to be safe without overwriting all the Image methods. I apologize if this question has already been asked; I have no idea what to google.

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  • How to avoid “The web server process that was being debugged has been terminated by IIS”

    - by ybbest
    Problem: When debugging asp.net by attaching w3wp.exe process, you often will see encounter the following error message, the web server process that was being debugged has been terminated by IIS. Analysis: This caused Internet Information Services (IIS) to assume that the worker process had stopped responding. Therefore, IIS terminated the worker process. Solution: 1. Open IIS manager. 2.Click application Pools>>select the application pool associated with the site>>and click Advanced Settings 3. Click Advanced Settings of the application pool and set the Ping Enabled property from True to False. Now, reattach the process from Visual Studio, you should not get the error message. References: msdn

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  • "Best fit" to avoid reuse of object instances in a collection

    - by Simon
    Imagine I have a collection of object instances which represent activities for a user to undertake. Dependent on user attributes, I have to randomly select instances to present activities to the user. For some users, I need to present more activities to them than there are available activities in which case, I want to use the following algorithm. If all available activities have already been presented to the user, then re-select a "used" activity, selecting the earliest presented activity ordered by frequency of use. In other words, try to reduce repetition and where repetition is unavoidable, use the instances which have been repeated less often and were presented furthest back in time. Before I go on to code that algorithm, I wondered if there is some existing pattern I can re-use? [EDIT] "Furthest back in time" is not relevant as I will pass the algorithm an ordered collection of used instances where the first entry is the first presented.

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  • Why Should I Avoid Inline Scripting?

    - by thesunneversets
    A knowledgeable friend recently looked at a website I helped launch, and commented something like "very cool site, shame about the inline scripting in the source code". I'm definitely in a position to remove the inline scripting where it occurs; I'm vaguely aware that it's "a bad thing". My question is: what are the real problems with inline scripting? Is there a significant performance issue, or is it mostly just a matter of good style? Can I justify immediate action on the inline scripting front to my superiors, when there are other things to work on that might have a more obvious impact on the site? If you pulled up to a website, and took a peek at the source code, what factors would lead you to say "hmm, professional work here", and what would cause you to recoil from an obviously amateurish job? Okay, that question turned into multiple questions in the writing. But basically, inline scripting - what's the deal?

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  • How to avoid being an API programmer only?

    - by anything
    I have almost six years of experience in java. I have developed many projects which used frameworks like Struts, Spring, Hibernate, JQuery , DWR, Ajax etc. I have used these technologies in almost all the projects I have worked on. Projects were very simple mostly with crud based apps. My everyday tasks involves creating few screens, writing queries, testing etc. After all these years I feel like I have turned into an API programmer who just uses these above mentioned frameworks which is not giving me any satisfaction of being a programmer. Is this normal or is it just me who is feeling like this?

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  • Top Five SEO Mistakes to Avoid

    No matter whether you are a blogger or a webmaster of a business website, as long as you are hoping for a higher exposure rate, then you will need to optimize your website for search engines. This is because doing SEO on your website is the best way to obtain a large amount of visitors to your site quickly.

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  • Avoid random disk names

    - by BarsMonster
    Hi! I have Ubuntu Server 10.04 1 system disk, and 5 disks in RAID-5 configuration. The problem is that names of these disks are changed from time to time, they are being randomly mixed from time to time (sda,b,c,d,e,f - so system disks might be sda, or sdc at different time for example).... is there any way to fix drive names, so that even if it's disconnected for example, no other drive can occupy this letter based on disk UUID or something?

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  • How to CURL and avoid timeout death (Twitter Down) [migrated]

    - by David
    Twitter is down right now, and one of my site's home pages relies on getting data from Twitter (relies is the problem - it should be more of an accessory feature, as it just shows follow count from its feed). Here's the code in question: function socials_Twitter_GetFollowerCount($username) { $method = function () use ($username) { return file_get_contents('https://api.twitter.com/1/users/show.json?screen_name='.$username.'&include_entities=true'); }; $json = cache('bmdtwitter', 3600, $method, false); $json = json_decode($json, true); return intval($json['followers_count']); } What is a good way to make it so if Twitter is down (or not responsive for some reasonable amount of time), our site doesn't appear to be down (I think the timeout maybe defaulting to 30-60 seconds or more).

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