How to get selected or clicked clistctrl subitem (report view) ?

What is the one "thing" (physical object, tool, software package, person, etc.) that is most indispensible to you as a programmer?

I will get the ball rolling by stating that I have long considered a whiteboard to be a programmer's best friend.

(marked community wiki)

How can i do subtraction of integers in C without using either the unary or binary '-' operator?

Or can we do the same for other data types like float/double?

How fast is development with Zend Framework? As a newbie I would like to know rough estimates to know whether I am already quick or need to pump something up.

E.g. it possibly would take me a day to write a basic forum app in PHP, with messages/post new/reply/search forms. What would it take for something like this for a knowledgeable ZF developer?

Interesting fact is that as I know ZF Developers mention less applications developed by them and more are talking about months, not days. How true is that?

P.S. How about admin forms? They can double the developmen time needed. WIth web apps you generally have to accompany most user-available tables/data with forms to edit it in the admin screen. Are there solutions to speed up creation of admin forms? Can you create form in ZF and make some admin mode for the same form?

Can someone with extensive experience with both Qt and Java Swing please discuss whether you would use Swing or Qt under Java, and why?

Secondly, what is the business impact of using Qt? Is it reasonably popular or will I have a hard time finding experienced Qt developers? Are there any other business impacts I should be aware of?

UPDATE: I am more interested in the technical and business impacts of Swing vs Qt than the license type/fee since in my case the cost is not a concern.

How do I run HTML Tidy from Python without extra libraries?

I struggle to show a second form above the main form without loosing focus.

I have tried ShowWindow(second.handle, SW_SHOWNOACTIVATE), but the mainform looses focus. If I set Visible := false on the second window, the call to ShowWindow does not activate the second form, but the windows is empty when shown...

Does anyone have a good recipe for this?

UPDATE: What I'm trying to accomplish, is a notification-window that will show up at some event, and then disappear again. It's crucial that the main window do not lose focus, since that would interrupt the user.

Hi,

I have added some images on a view. Each image is meant for showing a video. That is when the user touches an image, the video corresponding to that image will be played.

The problem is when the Done button ( MPMoviePlayerController's ) is clicked, the movie which is being shown is stopped and the control goes back to the previous screen and at this point of time application freezes for a while(say 2secs) then comes back to working condition. why is this strange behavior happens. Gimme some ideas

I tried to use Bazaar VCS with Eclipse recently, and somehow the checkout seems to take forever, and when I try and cancel the progress, Eclipse freezes and then I have to terminate the process.

Here is basically what I did : I downloaded bazaar latest windows installer from http://bazaar-vcs.org/ I installed it. I also installed the Bzr for Eclipse plugin in Eclipse. Then under Windows > Preferences > Team > Bazaar I added the path to bzr.exe Now, it told me that plugin bzr-xmloutput was not found, so I added it to Bazaar plug-ins. So everything worked fine for a while, it let me Apply those settings to Bazaar.

Then I went to File > New > Project > Bazaar > Checkout as a project > URL of repo And then it freezes?

Can anyone point out what might be wrong? Or any alternatives/tutorials for the same?

Thanks a lot,

At our company, we are looking for good Java programmers, that the one and only requirement and that's written in our job advertisement. Since we need more people to handle all the work that's coming up, within this and the next year, we want to hire people. The problem is, most of the candidates are not as good as we want them to be. Maybe some of them think they are good and simply underestimate the task. Maybe some know that they are not the best, but try it anyway, because all the job advertisements read like everybody is looking for a 25 year old übergeek with ten years work experience and a master in computer engineering. However, 80 - 90 % of the interviews are deflating and we can't offer them a job.

The question is: how do we make clear, we are seriously looking for some good programmer? If you not understood OO or not really know how synchronized works, you the wrong man for the job. Or: how do we increase the quality of the applications/candidates?

I suggested to include one or two programming questions in the advertisement, but my colleagues don't think this would be a good idea. In fact, Joel also don't think it is for the same reasons, as you can read here:

I’ve frequently heard the suggestion of including a programming quiz of some sort in the application procedure. This does work, in the sense that it reduces the number of applications you get, but it doesn’t work, in the sense that it doesn’t really improve the quality.

I'm not sure if Joel means the same thing I do. I don't want the candidate to send the answers in, I just want to show him what he have to know to get the job. He should decide for himself. I think this is more precise than arguing about what a good programmer is. Otherwise, it is like asking How would you rank your java skills from 1 - 10 instead of doing a test.

So, what do you guys think? Should one add a programming quiz to the job advertisement? Why / why not?

I use SQL Server 2008 to send out e-mails for notifications on certain events. The only problem with this is that the text will always be plain text. I don't suppose there's a way to send out formatted HTML tables of data using DB Mail? For example with the following:

EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail
@profile_name = 'User',
@recipients   = @EmailList,
@subject      = 'Subject',
@body         = @ErrBody

Anyone know some good clone detectors?

I'm searching for examples and algorithms on how they work to study them.

A clone detector is a program that detect repeated code in the src file.

An example of a clone detector I already found, was this for eclipse: http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~swevo/clonetracker/

But I'm really interested is in documentation about how the algorithms they use works.

Can anyone show me some links?

For the reference i just found this one, seems to be cool: http://pmd.sourceforge.net/cpd.html

We have a webapplication that is delivered in several languages.

I need a way to change text in a textlayer in an automated way. I know there will be glitches because of the different length of words. But it would help to have the text in the file anyway.

Hi, I am using preg_replace() function to replace xml data. whenever tha data to be replaced has slashes '//' it gives

<b>Warning</b>:  preg_replace() [<a href='function.preg-replace'>function.preg-replace</a>]: Unknown modifier '/'

i am using the function like this...

 preg_replace ("/$rep_text/", "$txt[$i]", $ad['metadata']);

where $rep_text is my text to be replaced which is

http://www.dfgdf.com

and $txt[$i] is the replacement text.. but it gives me the above error... someone please help me with this..

I want to test my application in the case where the user has messed up the config file.

To clarify: this is for a quick-and-dirty one time test, using the IDE. I'm not using unit testing for this project.

My specific test case is where an un-escaped double-quote character has made its way into a value text.

When I try to do this with the App.config, Visual Studio fails with a build error (MSB3249).

It appears that the only way to do it is by manual editing of files after the build has completed.

For the record, the following code is what I ended up using:

        // Seemingly spurious use of ConfigurationManager forces validation of config file,
        // failures of which can be trapped an handled.
        try
        {
            string ignore = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["ProductName"];
        }
        catch (System.Configuration.ConfigurationException)
        {
            MessageBox.Show("Could not understand configuration file. Please fix it and try again.",
                "Configuration File Error", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error);
            return;
        }

Hi guys,

I have an working orchestration in place to process X12 messages. Now I need to expose the orchestration as a webservice (ASMX) that accepts a text input (the X12 message) and returns the text response (the X12 response). If I try to use the wizard, the generated webservice will expose the inner XML representation of the X12 request and not the its original plain text representation.

In short, I want to be able to connect to a webservice (ASMX and not a WCF service), send a X12 request (plain text) and get the appropriate response (also plain text).

I've seen examples of this using WCF, but none with a simple webservice. Can you give me a hand with this?

Thanks!

Dear All,

I create sortable element and attach an on-click event on every portlet to open dialog box, but when i open (drag more portlet to the main dashboard), and click the setup link (on the header of the portlet) the alert() (i setup for testing purpose) always fire for every portlet on the main dashboard, why is this happen ?

Below is the code i use to setup the sortable wich receive element from another sortable (you can see the elements on the left side).

You can see some screenshoot on this url : http://wildanm.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/ofc-reloading-problem-on-jquery-sortable-elements/

if you need the HTML markup i will post also later ..

Btw, i'm new in jQuery ..

Thanks!

$(function() {
   var param ; //additional param to the a portlet ; later
   var title = ""; //title for prototyping only

   $("#maincontent .column").sortable({
       connectWith: ['#maincontent .column'],
       opacity: 0.6,
       scroll: false,
       handle : ".portlet-header",
       receive: function(event, ui) {
         var id = $(ui.item).attr('id');
         var chartId = 'chart-'+id ;

         $("#"+id+" > .portlet-content").flash({
             data: '/swf/open-flash-chart.swf',
             id: chartId,
             name: 'chart-'+id,
             expressInstall: true ,
             flashvars: { 
               'data-file': '/chart/'+id
             },
         })

         $("#"+id).find("span").removeClass("ui-icon ui-icon-arrow-4-diag");
         $("#"+id).addClass("ui-widget ui-widget-content ui-helper-clearfix ui-corner-all")
            .find(".portlet-header")
            .addClass("ui-widget-header ui-corner-all")
            .prepend('<span class="ui-icon ui-icon-close"></span>')
            .prepend('<span class="ui-icon ui-icon-wrench"></span>')
            .prepend('<span class="ui-icon ui-icon-plusthick"></span>')
            .end()
            .find(".portlet-content");

            $("#maincontent .column .portlet-header .ui-icon-plusthick").click(function() {
            $(this).toggleClass("ui-icon-minusthick");
            $(this).parents(".portlet:first").find(".portlet-content").toggle();
            });

            $("#maincontent .column .portlet-header  .ui-icon-wrench").click(function() {
$("#dialog").css("visibility","visible");
                //dialog         
 alert($(this).parent('div').attr('id'));
                $("#dialog").dialog({ 
bgiframe: true,
autoOpen: false,
height: 400,
width:300,
modal: true,
buttons: {
'Update Chart': function() {
            title = $("#title").val();
            url = "/chart/"+id+"?title="+title+'&id='+id ;
              $.getJSON(url,function(data) { jsonData = data ; reloadJsonData() }) ;
  function reloadJsonData() {
    data = JSON.stringify(jsonData) ;
    tmp = findSWF(chartId);
    tmp.load(data);
  }
  $(this).dialog('close');
},
Cancel: function() {
$(this).dialog('close');
}
},
close: function() {
//allFields.val('').removeClass('ui-state-error');
}
});
                $('#dialog').dialog('open');
            });


            $("#maincontent .column .portlet-header  .ui-icon-close").click(function() {
            $(this).parents(".portlet:first").remove();
            });               
            //resize();         
       },

       start: function(event, ui) {
       },
       stop: function(event, ui) { 
         // Here's the trick:

         $("#maincontent .column").each(function() {
           //alert($(this).sortable("toArray"));
           //$(this).resizable();
         })
       }
     })


$("#maincontent .column .portlet").addClass("ui-widget ui-widget-content ui-helper-clearfix ui-corner-all")
.find(".portlet-header")
.addClass("ui-widget-header ui-corner-all")
.prepend('<span class="ui-icon ui-icon-close"></span>')
.prepend('<span class="ui-icon ui-icon-plusthick"></span>')
.end()
.find(".portlet-content");

$("#maincontent .column .portlet-header .ui-icon").click(function() {
$(this).toggleClass("ui-icon-minusthick");
$(this).parents(".portlet:first").find(".portlet-content").toggle();
});

$("#maincontent .column .portlet-header  .ui-icon-close").click(function() {
$(this).parents(".portlet:first").remove();
});


$("#maincontent .column").disableSelection();

});

   function findSWF(movieName) {
        if (navigator.appName.indexOf("Microsoft")!= -1) {
            return window[movieName];
        } else {
            return document[movieName];
        }
    }

Update :

Thanks Kyle for the answer,

After re-examining my code and try the change you propose, i think the main issue is how we can we tell the dialog box his parent element (which portlet his come from). On the code above, after i click the update button, the portlet affected is always the first portlet that i drop to the main area .., i hope my explanation is clear enough for you .., thanks !

Btw, here is the markup of a single portlet :

<div id="gambarTigaSatu" class="portlet ui-widget ui-widget-content ui-helper-clearfix ui-corner-all" style="opacity: 1;">
        <div class="portlet-header ui-widget-header ui-corner-all">
               <span class="ui-icon ui-icon-plusthick"/>
               <span class="ui-icon ui-icon-wrench" id="setup-gambarTigaSatu"/>
               <span class="ui-icon ui-icon-close"/>
               <span class=""/>SDM yang Terlibat Kegiatan Penelitian dan Pengabdian Masyarakat (Valid)
       </div>

       <div class="portlet-content">
              <object width="320" height="180" data="/swf/open-flash-chart.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" style="vertical-align: text-top;"  
    name="chart-gambarTigaSatu" id="chart-gambarTigaSatu"><param value="data-file=/chart/gambarTigaSatu" name="flashvars"/>
             </object>
       </div>
</div>

The ui-icon-wrench id is added automatically, it's for testing only for now, i try to traverse the dom, and get the id of the object element from there. The object element also generated automatically using swfobject, u can see to code above .. (Btw, the comment on the answer is limited to 300 char, so I post here)

Update :

Problem solved ..., now i just have to cleaning up the code

Best Regards,

Wildan

I am trying to install VMWare ESXi 3.5 on a DELL GX280 machine which has SATA configurations. As ESXi doesn't support SATA, i am not able to proceed.

I could able to install on IDE (which is also not supported) by making some changes. Is there a way to install on SATA as well??

Please let me know if anyone has tried it.

Thanks, Shwetha

I am trying to extract the schema of an .mdb database, so that I can recreate the database elsewhere.

How can I pull off something like this?

I think somewhere I read about limiting the readfile(); function speed but I can not find it again, so I'm asking you:

Is there any way to limit the speed that readfile(); reads files?

For instance: readfile('this.zip',30000); to limit it to 30000 bits per second or similar?

Thank you