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• What does a Software Developer actually do?

  - by chobo2

  Hi I am graduating from my Computer Science degree in a few weeks from now!! I started to look for my first job. For the last couple years I gotten really into web programming(Asp.net). My first choice would be to get a junior asp.net MVC developer but I don't any companies in my area use MVC yet or if they do they are not hiring. So my second choice would be a junior asp.net Webforms developer. My other choices after that would be forms applications, mobile applications using .Net and C#. As you can see I am looking for something with .Net. I spent the last couple years doing .Net projects for school, on my free time and love the Language and it would pain me right now to switch to something like php. So now I found a posting in my area for an Entry Software Developer. I like the fact that they are using .net and that it is entry job(I never worked in this industry and never had more then like a tutoring job so I want to for like intermediate jobs). Posting Are you looking for an exciting challenge within a dynamic, people-oriented culture where you can launch your technical career? Company Name Inc. is a technology consulting company, located in Canada, that designs, develops, and delivers real-time interactive applications accessed via the Internet as well as back-end tools to support these applications. Company Name provides a combination of out-of-the-box and customized solutions to an expanding list of partners and customers. POSITION SUMMARY As a member of our team, the successful candidate will be responsible for helping us increase the quality and stability of our software systems by working jointly and directly with both the Software Development teams and the QA Team. The primary mission of this role will be to substantially enhance our test automation suite. The incumbent will design and program automated tests (unit, integration, system, stress and load) in Visual Studio using C# and will develop sound processes that help us identify and resolve defects as early as possible. The successful incumbent will help us improve and enhance system functionality, reliability, performance and scalability. This role is specifically designed for an eager, bright, new graduate who is looking for a stepping stone into a software engineering role. We promote from within and invite new graduates to apply for this important position - which may lead to new opportunities. We also offer a generous professional development plan to help you on your way. You will be a key part of a team of experts that is responsible for improving the quality of our software by: • Designing, writing, and executing test plans and programmatic tests in Visual Studio using C# and NUnit for functional testing of our code, new features, regression, and performance test procedures. • Working with the engineers to design and build the stress and load testing framework which emulates tens and even hundreds of thousands of concurrent users via a distributed network interfacing with our Load Testing Lab. • Interfacing with both the Development Team and the QA Team to ensure risks are identified and managed. • Mentoring and leading the QA Team in programmatic test automation technologies and tools. MUST HAVE SKILLS / QUALIFICATIONS: • Diploma or higher Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent formal training. • Fundamental C# programming skills. • Knowledge of Internet technologies and Microsoft Windows platforms. • Knowledge of PC hardware. • Excellent communication skills (both oral and written). • Self-starter who takes initiative, requires minimal supervision, can handle multiple simultaneous tasks. • Detail-oriented, able to concentrate, and work quickly. • Proven diagnostic, analytical, and problem solving skills. NICE TO HAVE SKILLS: • Exposure to Visual Studio Team System or Visual Studio Test Edition. • Exposure in C# using NUnit. • Exposure to NUnit, HTTPUnit, and other automation tool suites. • Exposure to Performance/Stress/Load Testing. • Good understanding of relational databases (MS SQL Server). • Familiar with video and online multi-player games. As part of our team you will have the opportunity to work with a supportive team of experts, drive your own success, and ride the wave as we continually expand our team of experts. If you are interested in this opportunity, please send your resume to [email protected] with “Entry Level Software Developer” in the subject line. So that is the posting. To me it sounds like it is QA job. I don't have anything against QA jobs but alot of them seems to be your just clicking buttons and running scripts. Is this what a typical software developer does? Like I am so on the fence to apply for this job. On one side I am not sure how much programming I would be doing. Like I want to be at least half the time programming otherwise my skills will never improve since I will never be programming in teams and stuff. At the same time I have no experience in the industry so on the other side I am thinking just go for it and then maybe a year later try to get a full programming job(provided that I got the job). Yet if I am not programming in that job then that experience will not help me for the next job I find as I will be back a square one.

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• How do you set a variable value from another form?

  - by flavour404

  Hi, c# .Net 3.5 visual studio 2008, windows xp I have a main form in a project, given a specific set of circumstances another form is instantiated and displayed to the user: Form frmT = new frmTargetFolder(expName, this); frmT.Show(); As you can see, I am passing a reference to the new form from the current one. My question is, what do I have to do to a method so that it is exposed to the new form, the same for a variable? I have tried defining the functions as public, but I can't seem to access them, also I have written a Get and Set method for a variable, again how do I expose these functions and methods to other forms? public void hit() { MessageBox.Show("hit it"); } bool setOverRide { get { return OverRide; } set { OverRide = value; } } The main form is called frmDataXfer and the form, form which I am trying to call the functions and methods of frmDataXfer is called frmTargetFolder, an instance of which is created in the frmDataXfer and referenced as frmT. Thanks, R.

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• jQuery selector to identify a div by its size

  - by Anton

  I have few nested DIVs at page. I want to add event only for smalest DIV which size is more than 100x100 px. I am able to do it using conditions in code. Is it possible to do using selector? $('?????').click(function (e) { } If yes, please provide an example.

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• How do you pronounce XAML?

  - by Joan Venge

  Is it EX-A-M-L? Or Examal? Should I just say Xml because it's what it is? Any ideas?

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• good database design for localization

  - by rap-uvic

  Hi, I have 3 tables for localization: Locales, ResourceKeys, and Resources. Resources is a many to many table between ResourceKeys and Locales, and stores Resource values for each resource key in multiple languages. Now if I have a table called Event, which needs a localized title and description, how do I best do this? Do I create foreign key columns in Event table which point to ResourceKey IDs each for title and description, or is there a better way?

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• java converting int to short

  - by changed

  Hi I am calculating 16 bit checksum on my data which i need to send to server where it has to recalculate and match with the provided checksum. Checksum value that i am getting is in int but i have only 2 bytes for sending the value.So i am casting int to short while calling shortToBytes method. This works fine till checksum value is less than 32767 thereafter i am getting negative values. Thing is java does not have unsigned primitives, so i am not able to send values greater than max value of signed short allowed. How can i do this, converting int to short and send over the network without worrying about truncation and signed & unsigned int. Also on both the side i have java program running. private byte[] shortToBytes(short sh) { byte[] baValue = new byte[2]; ByteBuffer buf = ByteBuffer.wrap(baValue); return buf.putShort(sh).array(); } private short bytesToShort(byte[] buf, int offset) { byte[] baValue = new byte[2]; System.arraycopy(buf, offset, baValue, 0, 2); return ByteBuffer.wrap(baValue).getShort(); }

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• Trying to calculate the 10001st prime number in Java.

  - by user247679

  Greetings. I am doing Problem 7 from Project Euler. What I am supposed to do is calculate the 10001st prime number. (A prime number being a number that is only divisible by itself and one.) Here is my current program: public class Problem7 { public static void main(String args []){ long numberOfPrimes = 0; long number = 2; while (numberOfPrimes < 10001){ if(isPrime(number)){ numberOfPrimes++; } number++; } System.out.println("10001st prime: "+ number); } public static boolean isPrime(long N) { if (N <= 1) return false; else return Prime(N,N-1); } public static boolean Prime(long X,long Y) { if (Y == 1) return true; else if (X % Y == 0) return false; else return Prime(X, Y-1); } } It works okay with finding, say the 100th prime number, but when I enter very large numbers such as 10001 it causes a stack overflow. Does anyone know of a way to fix this? Thanks for reading my problem!

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• R: Removing object from parent environment using rm()

  - by user151410

  Hi, I am trying to remove an object from the parent environment. rm_obj <- function(obj){ a <-deparse(substitute(obj)) print (a) print(ls(envir=sys.frame(-1))) rm(a,envir=sys.frame(-1)) } > x<-c(1,2,3) > rm_obj(x) [1] "x" [1] "rm_obj" "x" Warning message: In rm(a, envir = sys.frame(-1)) : object 'a' not found This will help clarify my misunderstanding regarding frames. Thanks in advance, Russ

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• problem while removing an element from the TreeSet

  - by harshit

  I am doing the following class RuleObject implements Comparable{ @Override public String toString() { return "RuleObject [colIndex=" + colIndex + ", probability=" + probability + ", rowIndex=" + rowIndex + ", rule=" + rule + "]"; } String rule; double probability; int rowIndex; int colIndex; public RuleObject(String rule, double probability) { this.rule = rule; this.probability = probability; } @Override public int compareTo(Object o) { RuleObject ruleObj = (RuleObject)o; System.out.println(ruleObj); System.out.println("---------------"); System.out.println(this); if(ruleObj.probability > probability) return 1; else if(ruleObj.probability < probability) return -1; else{ if(ruleObj.colIndex == this.colIndex && ruleObj.rowIndex == this.rowIndex && ruleObj.probability == this.probability && ruleObj.rule.equals(this.rule)) return 0; } return 1; } } And I have a TreeSet containing elements of RuleObject. I am trying to do the following : System.out.println(sortedHeap.size()); RuleObject ruleObj = sortedHeap.first(); sortedHeap.remove(ruleObj); System.out.println(sortedHeap.size()); I can see that the size of set remains same. I am not able to understand why is it not being deleted. Also while deleting I could see compareTo method is called. But it is called for only 3 object whereas in set there are 8 objects. Thanks

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• How to detect and replace non-printable characters in a string using Java ?

  - by Frank

  For instance I have a string like this : abc123[*]xyz[#]098[~]f9e [*] , [#] and [~] represents 3 different non-printable characters. How can I replace them with "X" in Java ? Frank

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• Best current framework for unit testing EJB3 / JPA

  - by kennygrimm

  Starting new project using EJB 3 / JPA, mainly stateless session beans and batch jobs. I've used JUnit in the past on standard Java webapps and it seemed to work pretty well. In EJB2 unit testing was a pain and required a running container such as JBoss to make the calls into. Now that we're going to be working in EJB3 / JPA I'd like to know what companies are using to write and run these tests. Are Junit and JMock still considered relevant or are there other newer frameworks that have come around that we should investigate?

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• valueOf() vs. toString() in Javascript

  - by brainjam

  In Javascript every object has a valueOf() and toString() method. I would have thought that the toString() method got invoked whenever a string conversion is called for, but apparently it is trumped by valueOf(). For example, the code var x = {toString: function() {return "foo"; }, valueOf: function() {return 42; }}; window.console.log ("x="+x); window.console.log ("x="+x.toString()); will print x=42 x=foo This strikes me as backwards .. if x were a complex number, for example, I would want valueOf() to give me its magnitude (so that zero would become special), but whenever I wanted to convert to a string I would want something like "a+bi". And I wouldn't want to have to call toString() explicitly in contexts that implied a string. Is this just the way it is?

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• Resizing an image using mouse dragging (C#)

  - by Gaax

  Hi all. I'm having some trouble resizing an image just by dragging the mouse. I found an average resize method and now am trying to modify it to use the mouse instead of given values. The way I'm doing it makes sense to me but maybe you guys can give me some better ideas. I'm basically using the distance between the current location of the mouse and the previous location of the mouse as the scaling factor. If the distance between the current mouse location and the center of of the image is less than the distance between previous mouse location and the center of the image then the image gets smaller, and vice-versa. With the code below I'm getting an Argument Exception (invalid parameter) when creating the new bitmap with the new height and width and I really don't understand why... any ideas? private static Image resizeImage(Image imgToResize, System.Drawing.Point prevMouseLoc, System.Drawing.Point currentMouseLoc) { int sourceWidth = imgToResize.Width; int sourceHeight = imgToResize.Height; float dCurrCent = 0; //Distance between current mouse location and the center of the image float dPrevCent = 0; //Distance between previous mouse location and the center of the image float dCurrPrev = 0; //Distance between current mouse location and the previous mouse location int sign = 1; System.Drawing.Point imgCenter = new System.Drawing.Point(); float nPercent = 0; imgCenter.X = imgToResize.Width / 2; imgCenter.Y = imgToResize.Height / 2; // Calculating the distance between the current mouse location and the center of the image dCurrCent = (float)Math.Sqrt(Math.Pow(currentMouseLoc.X - imgCenter.X, 2) + Math.Pow(currentMouseLoc.Y - imgCenter.Y, 2)); // Calculating the distance between the previous mouse location and the center of the image dPrevCent = (float)Math.Sqrt(Math.Pow(prevMouseLoc.XimgCenter.X,2) + Math.Pow(prevMouseLoc.Y - imgCenter.Y, 2)); // Calculating the sign value if (dCurrCent >= dPrevCent) { sign = 1; } else { sign = -1; } nPercent = sign * (float)Math.Sqrt(Math.Pow(currentMouseLoc.X - prevMouseLoc.X, 2) + Math.Pow(currentMouseLoc.Y - prevMouseLoc.Y, 2)); int destWidth = (int)(sourceWidth * nPercent); int destHeight = (int)(sourceHeight * nPercent); Bitmap b = new Bitmap(destWidth, destHeight); // exception thrown here Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage((Image)b); g.InterpolationMode = InterpolationMode.HighQualityBicubic; g.DrawImage(imgToResize, 0, 0, destWidth, destHeight); g.Dispose(); return (Image)b; }

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• going reverse in a for loop?

  - by sil3nt

  Hello there, Basically i got this for loop and i want the number inputed (eg. 123) to be printed out in reverse, so "321". so far it works fine and prints out the correct order when the for loop is for(i = 0; i<len ; i++) but i get an error when i try to print it in reverse?. Whats going wrong? #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> void cnvrter(char *number); int main(){ char number[80]; printf("enter a number "); gets(number); cnvrter(number); return 0; } void cnvrter(char *number){ char tmp[80]; int i = 0,len = 0; int cnvrtd_digit = 0; len = strlen(number); printf("\nsize of input %d\n",len); for(i = len; i>len ; i--){ if ( ( number[i] >= '0' ) && ( number[i]<='9' ) ){ tmp[0] = number[i]; sscanf(tmp,"%d",&cnvrtd_digit); } printf("%d\n",cnvrtd_digit); } }

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• Cartesian product in Scheme

  - by John Retallack

  I've been trying to do a function that returns the Cartesian Product of n sets,in Dr Scheme,the sets are given as a list of lists,I've been stuck at this all day,I would like a few guidelines as where to start,I've wrote a pice of code but it dosen't work. (define cart-n(?(l) (if (null? l) '(()) (map (?(lst) (cons (car ( car(l))) lst)) (cart-n (cdr l) )))))

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• Delete backup files older than 7 days

  - by rockbala

  Using osql command, SSQL backup of a database is created. It is saved to Disk. Then renamed to match the date of the day backup was taken. All these files are saved in a single folder all the time. for example: Batch1.bat does the following 1) Created backup.bak 2) renamed to backup 12-13-2009.bak (this is done by the combination of % ~ - etc to get the date parameter) This is now automated to take backup everyday by Task scheduler in Windows. Can the batch file also be modified to delete backup files older than 7 days? if so, how ? If it is not possible via batch file, other than manually deleting the files are there any other alternatives to automate the deleting job ? Thanks in advance, Balaji S

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• How can I destroy sessions if user closes the browser window or navigates away from page in php?

  - by Chris

  I have some sessions that are saved. I want to destroy all the sessions if the user closes the browser window or a single tab or navigates away from the page. Is there any way I can do this?

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• Compile Error Using MutableClassToInstanceMap with Generics

  - by user298251

  I am getting the following compile error "The method putInstance(Class, T) in the type MutableClassToInstanceMap is not applicable for the arguments (Class, Number)" on the putInstance method call. Does anyone know what I am doing wrong?? Thanks! public class TestMutableClassToInstanceMap { public final MutableClassToInstanceMap<Number> identifiers = MutableClassToInstanceMap.create(); public static void main(String[] args) { ArrayList<Number> numbers = new ArrayList<Number>(); numbers.add(new Integer(5)); TestMutableClassToInstanceMap test = new TestMutableClassToInstanceMap(numbers); } public TestMutableClassToInstanceMap(Collection<Number> numbers){ for (Number number : numbers) { this.identifiers.putInstance(number.getClass(), number); //error here } this.identifiers.putInstance(Double.class, 5.0); // This works } }

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• How do I limit the CPU share of TrustedInstaller.exe on a Vista system

  - by Dan Neely

  I'm trying to fix a few low end single core desktops running Vista. In normal use they're fast enough not to be a problem. The issue is that because these machines are only on when being used, primarily for school work, windowsupdate begins installing patches it launches TrustedInstaller which in turn hogs 100% of the CPU and renders the machines all but unusable for however long it takes to patch them.

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• How to Become a SEO Expert Within a Short Time

  Do you want to become a SEO expert? If you are a small business owner, you will like to know more about the SEO techniques to give that additional boost to your business. There are some great resources which will help you to become a SEO expert.

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• Top 5 Misconceptions About Search Engine Optimization Marketing

  When you employ SEO techniques to make your site more user-friendly, you will have to think of getting the best results. However experts have noted that people actually have some misconceptions about the SEO marketing process. These are the five common misconceptions that people nurture.

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• How SEO Specialists Rule the Online Marketing World

  If you want a good ranking for your site, you will have to rely on the SEO techniques. This is one of the most effective and most useful online marketing tools to make the site more popular.

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• SEO - "What Does it Mean?"

  Today, whether you are the searcher or the searched for on the internet, whether you are looking for personal or business reasons, SEO, or the lack of it, plays a major part in our life right now. So what exactly is SEO?

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• How an SEO Company Implements Search Engine Optimization

  Many of you would wonder how an SEO Company can place your site on the upper ranks of search engines to drive traffic to your page. There are plenty of resources online to help you achieve the same on your own, but their expertise enable to do so easily that shows results in the shortest possible time.

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• How Cheap Websites Can Save You a Ton of Money!

  OK, so you need a website, and you have already started looking at cheap websites to buy, but do you know what is actually involved in getting it set up and running, so it is ready for you to start adding content. In fact, do you even know that you need to add content or are you assuming that someone else will do this for you? So read on to find out the best way to save a ton of money by buying a cheap website.

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