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• Are VB.NET to C# converters actually compilers?

  - by Rowan Freeman

  Whenever I see programs or scripts that convert between high-level programming languages they are always labelled as converters. "VB.NET to C# converter" on Google results in expected, useful hits. However "VB.NET to C# compiler" on Google results in things like comparisons between the C# and VB.NET compilers and other hits that are not quite…

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• Should my URLs be lowercase?

  - by Rowan Freeman

  According to this blog ("Understanding SEO Friendly URL Syntax Practices") I should change http://example.com/Hello-Dolly To http://example.com/hello-dolly The reasons given are: URLs, in general, are case-sensitive it will simplify any case sensitive SEO and analytics reports According to this GIF that I found on…

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• Why should I use List<T> over IEnumerable<T>?

  - by Rowan Freeman

  In my ASP.net MVC4 web application I use IEnumerables, trying to follow the mantra to program to the interface, not the implementation. Return IEnumerable(Of Student) vs Return New List(Of Student) People are telling me to use List and not IEnumerable, because lists force the query to be executed and IEumerable does not. Is this…

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• Should I just always Convert.ToInt32 my integers to account for potential nullable integers?

  - by Rowan Freeman

  If my MSSQL database contains a data type that is NULL (i.e. null is allowed) then ORMs, such as EntityFramework in my case, create .NET objects that are nullable. This is great, and the way I use nullables is like this: C# int? someInt = 5; int newInt = someInt.Value; // woot VB.NET Dim someInt As Integer? Dim newInt As…

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• Are there any concerns with using a static read-only unit of work so that it behaves like a cache?

  - by Rowan Freeman

  Related question: How do I cache data that rarely changes? I'm making an ASP.NET MVC4 application. On every request the security details about the user will need to be checked with the area/controller/action that they are accessing to see if they are allowed to view it. The security information is stored in the database. For…

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• HTC Android device mounted as USB drive is read-only unless I'm root

  - by Ian Dickinson

  When I connect my HTC Incredible S to my Ubuntu 10.10 system as a USB drive, the device seems to mount OK, but is read-only unless I access it as root. For example, if I run nautilus, I can't drag and drop files to the SD-card in the phone, but if I run sudo nautilus I can. I have USB debug support set on the phone…

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• What TrustLeap G-WAN for?

  - by Rowan

  Hi, Some people said that TrustLeap G-WAN ( http://trustleap.ch/ ) is very fast. But after reading the manual, I dont see guide to use G-WAN with PHP or Python. So, what this application server for? Is it only works only for C language? Thanks in advance

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• Run Windows 7 x64 in Virtual PC hosted on Windows 7 x86

  - by Rowan

  Can you run Windows 7 x64 in Virtual PC hosted on Windows 7 x86?

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• PECL on Mac OS X 10.6

  - by Rowan

  I'm having trouble finding PECL on a Mac OS X 10.6 machine. I'm using the default install of Apache and PHP for development and have installed MongoDB, however I can't work with Mongo/PHP without the mongo PECL extension. Is there a copy of PECL on a Mac or will I have to install it? If so, where is it? If not, do…

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• Comprehensive and well maintained wiki syntax Parser for PHP

  - by Rowan

  I'm looking for a comprehensive and well maintained wiki syntax Parser for PHP, does anybody know of one? I can find some really good parsers for markdown and bbcode but am having trouble with finding a decent wiki parser. I prefer markdown myself, but I'm writing post functions for a CMS and I'd like to give…

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• need to inclide one file or another based on visitor country

  - by rowan

  visitors from either of 3 countries New Zealand, Fiji or India, need a different content page respectively. site is php, content is in html files ready to be included.... im a newb please be patient!!

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• need to include one file or another based on visitor country

  - by rowan

  Visitors from either of 3 countries - New Zealand, Fiji or India - need a different content page respectively. The site is written in PHP, the content is in HTML files ready to be included.... I'm a newb; please be patient!!

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• spl_object_hash for PHP < 5.2 (unique ID for object instances)

  - by Rowan

  I'm trying to get unique IDs for object instances in PHP 5+. The function, spl_object_hash() is available from PHP 5.2 but I'm wondering if there's a workaround for older versions. There are a couple of functions in the comments on php.net but they're not working for me. The first (simplified): function…

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• need php 'if IE' to call a one CSS or alternative for IE

  - by rowan

  definately one or the other, not one and the other if.... HTML doesnt have an else function.. or does it? could you please be so kind as to code it in your answer im a php newb but so far getting nice results! this one's got be buggered though. if browser = IE then css/ie.css else css/moz even a webkit…

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• Payment gateways and XSS

  - by Rowan Parker

  Hi all, I'm working on a website which takes payment from a customer. I'm using Kohana 2.3.4 and have created a library to handle the payment gateway I use (www.eway.com.au). Basically I'm just using their sample code, copied into it's own class. Anyway, the code works fine and I can make payments, etc.…

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• jQuery Date Picker where text input is read only

  - by Rowan Parker

  Hi all, I want to use the Jquery datepicker. I've got it setup using an the alt field option. I'm displaying Y-M-D in the text field, but submitting Y-M-D. Everything works fine so far, sending the correct data, etc. However I want to stop the user from being able to manually type a date. I add…

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• Set the current date in PHP

  - by Rowan

  I'm currently working on my company's in-house CMS and wish to add the ability for an admin to view the site on a specific date. This will allow admins to preview the site with archived or scheduled posts. I'd like to avoid finding all mentions of date() or time() and offsetting them. Is there a…

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• How can I have a certain set of CSS properties affect only IE users?

  - by rowan

  definately one or the other, not one and the other if.... HTML doesnt have an else function.. or does it? could you please be so kind as to code it in your answer im a php newb but so far getting nice results! this one's got be buggered though. if browser = IE then css/ie.css else css/moz even…

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• An Hour With Bill Buxton MIX10

  After spending a couple of hours with Rowan Simpson yesterday afternoon I found myself continually coming back to some of the things that Bill Buxton talked about in his hour Q&A at MIX10 in Las Vegas. Dont have Silverlight? Download the video in WMV, WMV (High) or MP4…

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• An Hour With Bill Buxton MIX10

  After spending a couple of hours with Rowan Simpson yesterday afternoon I found myself continually coming back to some of the things that Bill Buxton talked about in his hour Q&A at MIX10 in Las Vegas. Dont have Silverlight? Download the video in WMV, WMV (High) or MP4…

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• Scrollbar problem with jquery ui dialog in Chrome and Safari

  - by alexis.kennedy

  I'm using the jquery ui dialog with modal=true. In Chrome and Safari, this disables scrolling via the scroll bar and cursor keys (scrolling with the mouse wheel and page up/down still works). This is a problem if the dialog is too tall to fit on one page - users on a laptop get frustrated.…

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