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• Extend Javascript Date Object

  - by jAndy

  Hi Folks, I'm curious what would be the best practice to extend the Date constructor. The problem I'm facing is, that the Internet Explorer (< 7+8) can't parse a date like new Date('2010-05-11'); I have to admit that this is not a standard method to parse, anyways FireFox and Chrome perform well on that kind of date string. Now I'm wondering, should I just split/parse/rebuild the string before calling new Date() or is there a more elegant solution ?

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• What is wrong with using SELECT * FROM sometable

  - by Ankur

  I have read the using "SELECT * FROM sometable" is bad practice, esp. if the query is being sent over a network. Specifically what is wrong with it?

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• Unit tests and fixtures

  - by Wizzard

  We have a bunch of unit tests which test a lot of webpages and REST API services. Currently when our tests run it pulls from these pages live but this can take ages to run sometimes, and it also feels like the tests should be testing more of our code - not just relying on them being up and responding (if that makes sense..). Is it better practice to save a valid api response and with the unit tests load this in during setup? Thoughts?

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• How to create global variables in a Grails project

  - by firnnauriel

  What's the best practice of making a variable that would be accessible by almost all classes in a Grails project? Is there a config file that I can use for storage of that data (i.e. application.properties)? Thanks.

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• Saving a Django form to a csv file

  - by Oli

  I have a Django form that is working fine. I'd like to save the data it submits to a CSV file. Is there a "best practice" way to do this? I need to include blank fields in the CSV file where the user has not filled in a "required=False" field

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• Passing DataSource object from a servlet to a JavaBean

  - by Slavko

  I like the ease of using @Resource annotation to get a DataSource, but as far as I know, it's not possible to use it in a regular JavaBean. Would it be considered a bad practice if I pass the DataSource object from a servlet to a bean along with the other data to avoid having that lookup code in the bean?

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• Stored Queries?

  - by phpeffedup

  Is it considered crazy to store common SQL queries for my web app in a database for use in execution? Or is that common practice? Or is it impossible? My thinking is, this way, I avoid hard-coding SQL into my application files, and add another level of abstraction. Is this crazy? Is this what a stored procedure is? Or is that something else?

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• what is the best way to use global variables in c++?

  - by tsubasa

  For me, I usually make a global class with all members static. All other classes will inherit from this global class. I wonder if this is a good practice? Anybody got any suggestions?

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• How to test Gem Extensions in Rails

  - by rube_noob

  I have written an extension to an existing gem (that is stored in lib) and a corresponding test for my extension. How could I go about running the gem's tests as well as my own automatically. What is the best practice for this case?

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• Java Interfaces Methodology

  - by Amir Rachum

  Hi all, I've been programming in Java for a few courses in the University and I have the following question: Is it methodologically accepted that every class should implement an interface? Is it considered bad practice not to do so? Can you describe a situation where it's not a good idea to use interfaces? Thanks.

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• Proper disposing of MD5CryptoServiceProvider

  - by StupidDeveloper

  Which one of the below 2 code pieces is not calling dispose and therefore is bad practice: ... using(MD5CryptoServiceProvider p = new MD5CryptoServiceProvider()) { return p.ComputeHash(...); } ... or ... return new MD5CryptoServiceProvider()).ComputeHash(...); ... ?

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• Singleton & Multithreading in Java

  - by vivek jagtap

  What is the preferred way to work with Singleton class in multithreaded environment? Suppose if I have 3 thread, and all they try to access getInstance() method of singleton class at the same time - What would happen if no synchronization is maintained? Is it good practice to use synchronized getInstance() method or use synchronized block inside getInstance(). Please advise if there is any other way out.

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• Why return this.each(function()) in jQuery plugins?

  - by Corey Sunwold

  Some of the tutorials and examples I have seen for developing jQuery plugins tend to return this.each(function () { }); at the end of the function that instantiates the plugin but I have yet to see any reasoning behind it, it just seems to be a standard that everyone follows. Can anyone enlighten me as to the reasoning behind this practice?

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• Is an Iframe my only option?

  - by cyggi

  I have a job to develop a website. My client wants it so that there is a header, a menu and for the content a rectangle-like box in which you can scroll the text. So that header and menu don't move but the text in the box does. It should look like this: ***********header image *********** menu menu menu menu -------------- | you || | can || | scroll in || | this box || |_____________ Is my only option to implement this an iframe? Would it be bad practice to use an iframe for this?

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• Details to log when starting an application

  - by Karl

  To help support and anyone who may use one of my applications I tend to log a few things during the application startup. Currently I log: Start Time App Name App Author App Version App Classpath Current working directory Java vendor Java version Max heap size Taking into consideration this application may be used / supported by a whole host of people can anyone think of any other vital details which we / others should log for good practice?

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• Drupal: cusomizing modules question

  - by Patrick

  hi, I've a question about how to customize drupal modules avoiding hacks. Let's say I've downloaded Lightbox2 module and I want to change the javascript file to display differently my lightbox. At the moment I'm modifying the Lightbox2 module, so I cannot update it anymore, so I know it is not the best practice. I was wondering if I can customize the javascript file of this module with a hook, and how. Thanks

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• Advantages of createElement over innerHTML?

  - by oninea

  In practice, what are the advantages of using createElement over innerHTML? I am asking because I'm convinced that using innerHTML is more efficient in terms of performance and code readability/maintainability but my teammates have settled on using createElement as the coding approach. I just wanna understand how createElement can be more efficient.

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• Is relative positioning the ultimate alternative for the nightmare of writing thousands of IE hacks?

  - by janoChen

  I found this very interesting: http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/ultimate-3-column-holy-grail-pixels.htm He avoid using horizontal margin and paddings to avoid problems with IE. I think he "fakes" padding using relative positioning. Have you ever done something like this? I'm a missing a common trend against IE hacks? Does this practice have any drawbacks?

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• Re-usable views or xibs for use with UIStoryboard

  - by Leonardo

  I find it very convenient to use storyboards, especially to have (and show) an overview of the application. However, I also find it very annoying to replicate the same code and views without the possibility to keep at least a reusable library of the most common xibs. This is especially true with UITableView and its cell. Did some of you have had any idea or best practice to share for dealing with this issue?

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• What's the best way to distribute Lua and libraries?

  - by SJML

  I'm looking at moving a program that currently embeds a Python interpreter to use Lua. With Python it's fairly easy to use modulefinder, compileall, and zipfile to make a nice tidy zip containing all the external libraries used. Does Lua have the ability to bundle up its libraries like that, or is there some better best practice for distributing programs that embed Lua?

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• Rescuing redirect :back after destroy in Rails?

  - by Andreas

  I'm looking for a best practice solution to be able to keep using redirect :back after a successful destroy action, as many items can be deleted from a variety of listings. Unfortunately that strategy fails for the one case when the delete is initiated from the item view itself. What approach do you recommend for this situation?

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• Whats the difference between \z and \Z in a regular expression and when and how do I use it?

  - by Mister M. Bean

  From http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html: \Z The end of the input but for the final terminator, if any \z The end of the input But what does it mean in practice? Can you give me an example when I use either the \Z or \z. In my test I thought that "StackOverflow\n".matches("StackOverflow\\z") will return true and "StackOverflow\n".matches("StackOverflow\\Z") returns false. But actually both return false. Where is the mistake?

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• Where to put Assertions?

  - by sud03r

  Hi, Having assertions for unexpected conditions is considered to be good defensive coding practice. I happen to place assertions whenever i think something unexpected may happen, but that now seems to be an overkill to me. Additionally, sometimes mild unexpected conditions that don't necessarily lead to crash may even cause failure on customer end. Is there a hard and fast rule to put assertions? Thanks.

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• Should I check-in IDE project files to version control system?

  - by Alexey Kalmykov

  For a Java project (with the team of 5-10 developers) should I store my IDE project files (e.g. Eclipse or IntelliJ Idea) in version control system (currently I store only build scripts)? What's the best practice? PS Do you aware of any tools to automatically generate project files for common Java IDEs according to some descriptor?

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• Zend_Registry: real life examples

  - by takeshin

  Do you find Zend_Registry useful? For which tasks it should be used? For which not? Global state for variables is not a good practice. Main objects may have global state injected via $front->setParam('paramName', $object), so what's the purpose of Zend_Registry?.

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