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Do I really need cmake for build automation?

- by PMiller

I'm currently investigating cmake to allow automatic building on the Win32 platform. For all runtimes and libraries I'd like to build, Visual Studio (2008/2010) projects do allready exist. I've come across cmake, but I'm unsure if I really need it. As the documentation says, cmake generates VS projects and they then can be built e.g. using MSBuild. As the projects itself allready do exist (and build nicely via the IDE or MSBuild on the cmd line), what do I need and use cmake for? Just for directory/project folder traversal? Build failure reporting? Regards, Paul

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Mantis - Integrate Wiki

- by Adrian

I am using Mantis (PHP and MysQL) as a bug tracking tool and I would like to extend it in order to document requirements and technical specifications. Ideally, I should be able to link a defect with a requirement. Is there a way to integrate a Wiki tool (preferably PHP and MySQL based) into Mantis? EDITED: Instructions how to integrate DocuWiki can be found in this article "Integrating DokuWiki with Mantis" Instructions how to integrate MediaWiki can be found here (Thanks Ian) Instructions how to integrate TWiki can be found here and here Suggested alternatives to Mantis: (open source bugtrackers with integrated Wiki) TikiWiki (Php) PhpWiki (Php) Trac (Python) (Thanks ax) Redmine (Ruby on Rails) (Thanks Paul)

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'schema' design for a social network

- by Alan B

I'm working on a proof of concept app for a twitter style social network with about 500k users. I'm unsure of how best to design the 'schema' should I embed a user's subscriptions or have a separate 'subscriptions' collection and use db references? If I embed, I still have to perform a query to get all of a user's followers. e.g. Given the following user: { "username" : "alan", "photo": "123.jpg", "subscriptions" : [ {"username" : "john", "status" : "accepted"}, {"username" : "paul", "status" : "pending"} ] } to find all of alan's subscribers, I'd have to run something like this: db.users.find({'subscriptions.username' : 'alan'}); from a performance point of view, is that any worse or better than having a separate subscriptions collection? also, when displaying a list of subscriptions/subscribers, I am currently having problems with n+1 because the subscription document tells me the username of the target user but not other attributes I may need such as the profile photo. Are there any recommended practices for such situations? thanks Alan

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Trying to speed up a SQLITE UNION QUERY

- by user142683

I have the below SQLITE code SELECT x.t, CASE WHEN S.Status='A' AND M.Nomorebets=0 THEN S.PriceText ELSE '-' END AS Show_Price FROM sb_Market M LEFT OUTER JOIN (select 2010 t union select 2020 t union select 2030 t union select 2040 t union select 2050 t union select 2060 t union select 2070 t ) as x LEFT OUTER JOIN sb_Selection S ON S.MeetingId=M.MeetingId AND S.EventId=M.EventId AND S.MarketId=M.MarketId AND x.t=S.team WHERE M.meetingid=8051 AND M.eventid=3 AND M.Name='Correct Score' With the current interface restrictions, I have to use the above code to ensure that if one selection is missing, that a '-' appears. Some feed would be something like the following SelectionId Name Team Status PriceText =================================== 1 Barney 2010 A 10 2 Jim 2020 A 5 3 Matt 2030 A 6 4 John 2040 A 8 5 Paul 2050 A 15/2 6 Frank 2060 S 10/11 7 Tom 2070 A 15 Is using the above SQL code the quickest & efficient?? Please advise of anything that could help. Messages with updates would be preferable.

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Selecting the most common value from relation - SQL statement

- by Ronnie

I have a table within my database that has many records, some records share the same value for one of the columns. e.g. | id | name | software | ______________________________ | 1 | john | photoshop | | 2 | paul | photoshop | | 3 | gary | textmate | | 4 | ade | fireworks | | 5 | fred | textmate | | 6 | bob | photoshop | I would like to return the value of the most common occurring piece of software, by using an SQL statement. So in the example above the required SQL statement would return 'photoshop' as it occurs more than any other piece of software. Is this possible? Thank you for your time.

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Lexical and dynamic scoping in Mathematica: Local variables with Module, With, and Block

- by dreeves

The following code returns 14 as you'd expect: Block[{expr}, expr = 2 z; f[z_] = expr; f[7]] But if you change that Block to a Module then it returns 2*z. It seems to not matter what other variables besides expr you localize. I thought I understood Module, Block, and With in Mathematica but I can't explain the difference in behavior between Module and Block in this example. Related resources: Tutorial on Modularity and the Naming of Things from the Mathematica documentation Excerpt from a book by Paul R. Wellin, Richard J. Gaylord, and Samuel N. Kamin Explanation from Dave Withoff on the Mathematica newsgroup

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Erlang code explained

- by dagda1

Hi, I am having a bit of trouble getting my head around the following erlang code -module(threesix). -export([quicksort/1]). quicksort(Pivot, Left, Right, []=_Src) -> {Left, Pivot, Right}; quicksort(Pivot, Left, Right, [H|T]=_Src) when H < Pivot -> quicksort(Pivot, [H|Left], Right, T); quicksort(Pivot, Left, Right, [H|T]=_Src) -> quicksort(Pivot, Left, [H|Right], T). quicksort([]) -> []; quicksort([H|T]=_List) -> {Left, Pivot, Right} = quicksort(H, [], [], T), quicksort(Left) ++ [Pivot] ++ quicksort(Right). I am specifically talking about the use of _Src and _List in the parameters. Are these simply for documentation as I cannot see why they are used? Thanks Paul

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Creating an AST node in Erlang

- by dagda1

Hi, I am playing about with Erlang and I am trying to write a simple arithmetic parser. I want to try and parse the following expression: ((12+3)-4) I want to parse the expression into a stack of AST nodes. When parsing this expression, I would first of all create a binary expression for the (12+3) expression which would look something like this in C#: var binaryStructure = new BinaryStructure(); binaryStructure.Left = IntegerLiteralExpression(12); binaryStructure.Right = IntegerLiteralExpression(4); binaryStructure.Operator = binaryExpression.Operator != BinaryOperatorType.Addition; I am quite new to Erlang and I am wondering how I would go about creating a structure like this in Erlang that I can place on a List that I would use as the stack of expressions. Can anyone suggest how to create such a tree like structure? Would a function be a good fit? Thanks Paul

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How To Aggregate API Data?

- by Mindblip

Hi, I have a system that connects to 2 popular APIs. I need to aggregate the data from each into a unified result that can then be paginated. The scope of the project means that the system could end up supporting 10's of APIs. Each API imposes a max limit of 50 results per request. What is the best way of aggregating this data so that it is reliable i.e ordered, no duplicates etc I am using CakePHP framework on a LAMP environment, however, I think this question relates to all programming languages. My approach so far is to query the search API of each provider and then populate a MySQL table. From this the results are ordered, paginated etc. However, my concern is performance: API communication, parsing, inserting and then reading all in one execution. Am I missing something, does anyone have any other ideas? I'm sure this is a common problem with many alternative solutions. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Paul

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Returning an array of tm* structs from a function

- by paultop6

Hi Guys, Im trying to create an array of tm* structs, and then return them at the end of the function. This is what i have at the moment: struct tm* BusinessLogicLayer::GetNoResponceTime() { struct tm* time_v[3]; struct tm* time_save; int s = 3; time_save = LastSavedTime(); time_v[0] = time_save; sleep(5); time_save = LastSavedTime(); time_v[1] = time_save; sleep(5); time_save = LastSavedTime(); time_v[2] = time_save; return time_v; } I understand that given the code i have now it will not be possible to return the array, because it will be destroyed when the function ends. Can anyone help me with regards to how i would go about being able to access the array from the returned value after the function has ended? Regards Paul

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Erlang code critique

- by dagda1

Hi, I am trying to get my head round some basic erlang functionality and I could do with some comments on the following. I have the following erlang code that takes a list of tuples and returns a list minus an element if a key is found: delete(Key, Database) -> remove(Database, Key, []). remove([], Key, Acc) -> Acc; remove([H|T], Key, Acc) -> if element(1, H) /= Key -> [H| remove(T, Key, Acc)]; true -> remove(T, Key, Acc) end. Is this a good way of doing this? The if statement seems incorrect. Also is my use of the accumulator Acc making this tail recursive? Cheers Paul

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IE7 li ul bug on dropdown menu

- by Berns

hoping one of you guys can help me please. I have a basic list menu with two dropdowns. This all works fine on all browsers except IE6 and IE7. Please take a look at my markup. <nav> <ul id="topNav" ><li id="topNavFirst"><a href="../about/about.php" id="aboutNav">About Us</a></li ><li id="topNavSecond"><a href="../people/our-people.php" id="peopleNav">Our People</a ><ul id="subList1"><li><a href="../people/mike-hadfield.php">Mike Hadfield</a></li ><li><a href="../people/karen-sampson.php">Karen Sampson</a></li ><li><a href="../people/milhana-farook.php">Milhana Farook</a></li ><li><a href="../people/kim-crook.php">Kim Crook</a></li ><li><a href="../people/amanda-lynch.php">Amanda Lynch</a></li ><li><a href="../people/gideon-scott.php">Gideon Scott</a></li ><li><a href="../people/paul-fuller.php">Paul Fuller</a></li ><li><a href="../people/peter-chaplain.php">Peter Chaplain</a></li ><li><a href="../people/laura-hutley.php">Laura Hutley</a></li ></ul ></li ><li id="topNavThird"><a href="../services/our-services.php" id="servicesNav">Our Services</a ><ul id="subList2"><li><a href="../services/company-and-commercial.php">Company & Commercial</a></li ><li><a href="../services/employment.php">Employment</a></li ><li><a href="../services/civil-litigation.php">Civil Litigation</a></li ><li><a href="../services/debt-recovery.php">Debt Recovery</a></li ><li><a href="../services/conveyancing.php">Conveyancing</a></li ><li><a href="../services/commercial-property.php">Commerical Property</a></li ><li><a href="../services/wills-and-probate.php">Wills & Probate</a></li ><li><a href="../services/family.php">Matrimonial & Family</a></li ></ul ></li ><li><a href="../news/news.php" id="newsNav">News</a></li ><li><a href="../careers/careers.php" id="careersNav">Careers</a></li ><li><a href="../contact/contact.php" id="contactNav">Contact</a></li ></ul> </nav>? and the css a {text-decoration:none;} #topNav { float:right; height:30px; margin:0; font-size:12px; } #topNav li { display:inline; float:left; list-style:none; color:#666; border-left: 1px solid #666; padding: 0 3px 0 3px; position:relative; } #topNav ul a { white-space:nowrap; } #topNav li a:hover { border-bottom:2px solid #369; } #topNavSecond a:hover { border-bottom:2px solid transparent !important; } #topNavFirst { border-left: 1px solid transparent !important; } /*****OUR-PEOPLE DROPDOWN*****/ #topNav ul{ background:#fff; border:1px solid #666; border-top:0px solid transparent; border-bottom:2px solid #666; list-style:none; position:absolute; left:-9999px; width:100px; text-align:left; padding:5px 0 5px 0px; margin:0 0 0 -4px; z-index:10; -webkit-box-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #666; -moz-box-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #666; box-shadow: 1px 1px 1px #666; vertical-align: bottom; } #topNav ul li{ display:block; border-left:0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding:0; vertical-align: bottom; } #topNav ul a{ padding:0 0 0 5px; } #topNav li:hover ul{ left:auto; } #topNav li:hover a { color:#369; } #topNav li:hover ul a{ text-decoration:none; color:#666; } #topNav li:hover ul li a:hover{ color:#fff;; width:100%; border-bottom:0px solid transparent !important; } #topNav ul li:hover { background:#369; display: block; } #topNav ul li a { display: block; padding:0 0 0 4px; } /************/ /*****OUR-SERVICES DROPDOWN*****/ #topNavThird a:hover { border-bottom:2px solid transparent !important; } #topNavThird ul{ /*background:#fff url(images/service-ul-bg.png) no-repeat;*/ width:135px !important; /*margin-left:120px !important;*/ }? here it is working perfectly http://jsfiddle.net/BcWd9/ here is a screen shot of how it looks in IE7. hadfield.andymcnallydesign.co.uk/images/ie7-error.jpg as you can see the ul is appearing to the right of the li and not the left and it is overlaying the top list. I've tried removing white space, but no luck. Any ideas? If one of you can help it would be much appreciated.

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Overuse of guards in Erlang?

- by dagda1

Hi, I have the following function that takes a number like 5 and creates a list of all the numbers from 1 to that number so create(5). returns [1,2,3,4,5]. I have over used guards I think and was wondering if there is a better way to write the following: create(N) -> create(1, N). create(N,M) when N =:= M -> [N]; create(N,M) when N < M -> [N] ++ create(N + 1, M). Thanks, Paul

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Using Library files in Linux

- by paultop6

Hi Guys, Im trying to use some of the functions that are in the /lib/libproc-3.2.6.so library in my Ubuntu Distribution. I have downloaded and installed the header files and they are defined in my source files. Currently this is all im trying to do, just for starters... proc_t **read_proc = readproctab(0); But i get the following compiler error: /tmp/cclqMImG.o: In function `Sysmon::initialise_sysmon()': sysmon.cpp:(.text+0x494): undefined reference to `readproctab' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Im aware im probably doing some wrong with the command im using to compile it, but due to lack of experience im not sure what im doign wrong. This is the g++ command im using to compile my cpp file: g++ -o sysmon.o sysmon.cpp `pkg-config --libs --cflags gtk+-2.0` Can someone please give me some pointers as to where im going wrong Regards Paul

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BadAlloc X Error

- by paultop6

Hi Guys, Im having some problems with a GTK program im trying to build. When i compile it i keep getting this error: This probably reflects a bug in the program. The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'. (Details: serial 195 error_code 11 request_code 53 minor_code 0) Ive traced it down to the following command that appears to be causing it: gtk_box_pack_start(GTK_BOX (Top_Graph), Widget_Get (Graph_Cpu), TRUE, TRUE, 0); Now Top_Graph and Graph_Cpu are both GtkVbox Widgets. Has anyone ever seen an error like this, and could they give me some advice as to how it is caused Regards Paul

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Can EC2 instances be set up to come from different IP ranges?

- by Joshua Frank

I need to run a web crawler and I want to do it from EC2 because I want the HTTP requests to come from different IP ranges so I don't get blocked. So I thought distributing this on EC2 instances might help, but I can't find any information about what the outbound IP range will be. I don't want to go to the trouble of figuring out the extra complexity of EC2 and distributed data, only to find that all the instances use the same address block and I get blocked by the server anyway. NOTE: This isn't for a DoS attack or anything. I'm trying to harvest data for a legitimate business purpose, I'm respecting robots.txt, and I'm only making one request per second, but the host is still shutting me down. Edit: Commenter Paul Dixon suggests that the act of blocking even my modest crawl indicates that the host doesn't want me to crawl them and therefore that I shouldn't do it (even assuming I can work around the blocking). Do people agree with this?

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Declaring the datatype dynamically reading from an xml string

- by NLV

Hello I've this strange issue. I've an xml string which looks like below - <key><int>5</int></key><value><int>10</int> The above xml is obtained after serializing a Dictionary using Paul's Code. Now i want to convert the xml back to the dictionary. How can i get the type "int" from the xml and declare the dictionary as follows? Dictionary<int, int> Any clues?

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Arrays in JavaScript

- by caramel1991

While reading a book about JavaScript I stumbled across an example: var names = new Array("Paul","Catherine","Steve"); var ages = new Array(31,29,34); var concatArray; concatArray = names.concat(ages); My question is, why doesn't the variable concatArray need to be define as a new Array() in order to store the concatenated data for both arrays name and ages , but when I try to treat the concatArray as an array by adding another line of code "document.write(concatArray[0])", it works just like an array and shows me the data stored in the first element. I just wonder why I'm not declaring the concatArray as a new array, yet it still works as one.

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How to get data type property values using SPARQL

- by udayalkonline

hey, I have created some sample ontology in protege.According to my ontology there is a class called person and which has sub class called Student.There are some student individuals(john,paul,marry,...). I have diffiend some data property called "email" and assigned their email addresses. Following query which is resulting all the individuals in ontology.But I want to get each individual and their email address. String queryStr = "PREFIX rdfs: http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema# "+ "PREFIX rdf: http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns# "+ "select ?ind "+ "where { "+ "?ind rdf:type http://www.semanticweb.org/ontologies/2010/5/Ontology1275975684120.owl#Student ;"+ "}\n "; Above query was tested on jena in eclipse IDE. any idea..? Thank in advance!

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REXML Formatting issues

- by dagda1

Hi, I am using REXML to edit an xml file but have ran into difficulties with formatting. My original code looked like this: file = File.new( destination) doc = REXML::Document.new file doc.elements.each("configuration/continuity2") do |element| element.attributes["islive"] = "true" element.attributes["pagetitle"] = "#{@client.page_title}" element.attributes["clientname"] = "#{@client.name}" end doc.elements.each("configuration/continuity2/plans") do |element| element.attributes["storebasedir"] = "#{@client.store_dir}" end I first of all had to add the following code as REXML was adding single quotes instead of double quotes. I found the following via google: REXML::Attribute.class_eval( %q^ def to_string %Q[#@expanded_name="#{to_s().gsub(/"/, '"')}"] end ^ ) I also have a problem in that REXML is reformatting the document. are there ways to stop this? Cheers Paul

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Eunit Expected Exception

- by dagda1

Hi, Is there a way in Eunit to test whether an exception has been thrown under certain cicumstances? Say I have a function sum like this: sum(N, M) when N > M -> throw({"start is bigger than end", N, M}); sum(N, M) when N =:= M -> N; sum(N, M) when N =< M -> N + sum(N + 1, M). Can I test that if N is bigger than M then an exception is thrown? Cheers Paul

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How to approach this SQL query

- by Kim

I have data related as follows: A table of Houses A table of Boxes (with an FK back into Houses) A table of Things_in_boxes (with an FK back to Boxes) A table of Owners (with an FK back into Houses) In a nutshell, a House has many Boxes, and each Box has many Things in it. In addition, each House has many Owners. If I know two Owners (say Peter and Paul), how can I list all the Things that are in the Boxes that are in the Houses owned by these guys? Also, I'd like to master this SQL stuff. Can anyone recommend a good book/resource? (I'm using MySQL). Thanks!

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Chart Filtering

- by Tim Dexter

Interesting question from a colleague this week. Can you add a filter to a chart to just show a specific set of data? In an RTF template, you need to do a little finagling in the chart definition. In an online template, a couple of clicks and you're done. RTF Build your chart as you would normally to include all the data to start with. Now flip to the Advanced tab to see the code behind the chart. Its not very pretty but with a little effort you can get it looking a little more friendly. Here's my chart showing employees and their salaries. <Graph depthAngle="50" depthRadius="8" seriesEffect="SE_AUTO_GRADIENT"> <LegendArea visible="true"/> <Title text="Executive Department Only" visible="true" horizontalAlignment="CENTER"/> <LocalGridData colCount="{count(.//G_2)}" rowCount="1"> <RowLabels> <Label>SALARY</Label> </RowLabels> <ColLabels> <xsl:for-each select=".//G_2"> <Label><xsl:value-of select="EMP_NAME"/></Label> </xsl:for-each> </ColLabels> <DataValues> <RowData> <xsl:for-each select=".//G_2"> <Cell><xsl:value-of select="SALARY"/></Cell> </xsl:for-each> </RowData> </DataValues> </LocalGridData> </Graph> Note the emboldened text. Its currently grabbing all values in the G_2 level of the data. We can use an XPATH expression to filter the data to the set we want to see. In my case I want to only see the employees that are in the Executive department. My data is structured thus: <DATA_DS> <G_1> <DEPARTMENT_NAME>Accounting</DEPARTMENT_NAME> <G_2> <MANAGER>Higgins</MANAGER> <EMPLOYEE_ID>206</EMPLOYEE_ID> <HIRE_DATE>2002-06-07T00:00:00.000-04:00</HIRE_DATE> <SALARY>8300</SALARY> <JOB_TITLE>Public Accountant</JOB_TITLE> <PARAS>11000</PARAS> <EMP_NAME>William Gietz</EMP_NAME> </G_2> So the XPATH expression Im going to use to limit the data to the Executive department would be .//G_2[../DEPARTMENT_NAME='Executive'] Note the ../ moves the parser up the XML tree to be able to test the DEPARTMENT_NAME value. I added this XPATH expression to the three instances that need it ColCount, ColLabels and RowData. Its simple enough to do. Testing your XPATH expression is easier to do using a table of data. Please note, as soon as you make changes to the chart code. Going back to the Builder tab, you'll find that everything is grayed out. I recommend you make all the changes you can via the chart dialog before updating the code. Online Template Implementing the filter is much simpler, there is a dialog box to help you out. Add you chart and fill out the various data points you want to show. then hit the Filter item in the ribbon above the chart. That will pop the filter dialog box where you can then add a filter to the chart. You can add multiple filters if needed and of course you can use the Manage Filters button to re-open and edit the filters. Pretty straightforward stuff!

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lists:keyfind problems

- by dagda1

Hi, I cannot for the life of me get lists:keyfind to work as I expect in Erlang. I have the following eunit test: should_find_key_test() -> NewList = lists:keystore("key", 1, [], {"key", "value"}), Value = case lists:keyfind("key", 1, NewList) of false -> notfound; {_key, _value} -> _value end, ?debugVal(Value). Whenever I run this test I get the following error message: indextests:should_find_key_test (module 'indextests')...failed ::error:undef in function lists:keyfind/3 called as keyfind("key",1,[{"key","value"}]) in call from indextests:should_find_key_test/0 Can anyone see what I am doing wrong? Is it saying that lists:keyfind no longer exists? Cheers Paul

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The State of RDF in Ruby

- by Daniel

I'm wondering about the current support there is in Ruby for semantic web technologies. Is there good RDF options? It seems that the last surveys done were circa 2007 ( http://paul-classic.stadig.name/2007/10/26/the-state-of-rdf-support-in-ruby-2007/ ). Is Redland's RDF wrappers the best way to go for RDF support - all the other projects mentioned in that aging article seem to be unsupported or dropped. Is Ruby perhaps a bad choice if one which to pursue projects pertaining to the semantic web?

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