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  • Letting a new PHP page know a new POST value is an Array?

    - by Wintermute
    I have a page that creates an associative array, then passes it as a hidden value to a new PHP page. I have a foreach loop waiting to iterate through it but it coughs up an "invalid argument" error, as if the page doesn't know the value it's working with is an array (Despite "print" showing simply "Array"). This is essentially what I have: //Hidden input to be passed to the next page print "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"price_list\" value=\"$item_list\"> //Code on the second page for the foreach loop extract($_POST); foreach($price_list as $name=>$price) { ... } But I am simply given "Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/cut/mg299/public_html/PHP/invoice.php on line 17". The array works fine, as I can iterate on the previous page, and other values are parsed fine to this second page. Do I need to 'reinitialise' this array value?

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  • Preserve data in .net mvc

    - by Wei Ma
    I am implementing a search module with result page support paging. The example provided by NerdDinner passes pagenumber as a parameter for the Index action, and the action uses the pagenumber to perform a query each time the user hit a different page number. My problem is that my search take many more criteria such as price, material, model number etc. than just simple pagenumber. Therefore, I would like to preserve the criteria after users' first submission, so that I only have to pass the pagenumber back and forth. Using ViewData is not possible because ViewData get cleared once it is sent to the View. Is there any good way to preserve the criteria data as I wish?

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  • Need to work out database structure

    - by jim smith
    Hi, Just need a little kickstart with this. I have Mysql/PHP, and I have 5,000 products. I have 30 companies I need to store some data for those 30 companies for each product as follows: a) prices b) stock qty I also need to store data historically on a daily basis. So the table... It makes sense that the records will be the products because there's 5000, and if I put the companies as the columns, I can store the prices, but what about the stock quantities? I could create two columns for each compoany, one for prices, one for qty. Then make the tablename the date for that day...so theer would be a new table for every day with 5000 products in it? is this the correct way? Some idea on how I'll be retreiving data the top 5 lowest prices (and the company) by product for a certain date the price and stock changes in the past 7 days by product

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  • How to find the parent element using javascript

    - by Kalpana
    I want to change the background color of the table cell when radio button inside the cell is clicked. <table> <tr> <c:forEach items="#{books}" var="book"> <td align="center"> <h:selectOneRadio value="#{book.price}" onclick="this.parentElement.style.background-color='red';"> <f:selectItems value="#{books.getDetails()}" /> </h:selectOneRadio> </td> </c:forEach> </tr> </table> How to get the parent element reference.

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  • Decimal data Type Display scale part as zero

    - by Wael Dalloul
    I have Decimal field in SQLserver 2005 table, Price decimal(18, 4) if I write 12 it will be converted to 12.0000, if I write 12.33 it will be converted into 12.3300. Always it's putting zero to the right of the decimal point in the count of Scale Part(4). I was using these in SQL Server 2000, it was not behaving like this, in SQL Server 2000 if I put 12.5 it will be stored as 12.5 not as 12.5000 what SQLServer2005 do. My Question is how to stop SQL Server 2005 from putting zeros to the right of the decimal point?

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  • ASP.NET and Winforms: What PDF reporting tools are out there and recommended?

    - by Mark Redman
    I have ActiveReports for .Net which is a great tool, however the version I have is not going to support Visual Studio 2010. Active Reports quite pricey, so just wondering if there are any better alternatives out there at a competitive price or even open source, before I consider upgrading. I am looking for a reporting tool specifically, that has a designer and is programmable etc, not looking for something that can just produce PDF, eg iTextSharp etc. Output will primarily be PDF for web and windows applications. Using various databases, SQL Server, SQL Server Express, Azure and SQLite, so not sure SQL Server reporting services will work for all these cases. All coments appreciated.

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  • JMF microphone volume controller

    - by TacB0sS
    How to obtain the Microphone volume controller in JMF? this is what I have: I tried this implementation concept of yours, but I keep getting a null from the first volume processor when I try to get the stream, here is how I do it: // the device is the media device specifically audio Processor processorForVolume = Manager.createProcessor(device.getLocator()); // wait until configured ProcessorStates newState = new ProcessorStateListener(Processor.Configured).waitForProcessorState(processorForVolume); System.out.println("volumeProcessorState: "+newState); // setting the content descriptor to null - read in another thread this allows to get the gain control processorForVolume.setContentDescriptor(null); // set the track control format to one supported by the device and the track control. // I didn't match it to an RTP allowed format, but I don't think this has anything to do with it... TrackControl[] trackControls = processorForVolume.getTrackControls(); if (trackControls.length == 0) throw new MC_Exception("No track controls where found for this device:", new Object[]{device}); for (TrackControl control : trackControls) trackManipulator.manipulateTrackControls(control); // wait until the processor is realized newState = new ProcessorStateListener(Controller.Realized).waitForProcessorState(processorForVolume); System.out.println("volumeProcessorState: "+newState); // receives the gain control micVolumeController = processorForVolume.getGainControl(); // cannot get the output stream to process further... any suggestions? processor = Manager.createProcessor(processorForVolume.getDataOutput()); new ProcessorStateListener(Processor.Configured).waitForProcessorState(processor); processor.setContentDescriptor(DeviceCapturingManager.RAW_RTP); new ProcessorStateListener(Controller.Realized).waitForProcessorState(processor); this is the output It generates: volumeProcessorState: Configured format set to track control - com.sun.media.ProcessEngine$ProcTControl@1627c16: LINEAR, 48000.0 Hz, 16-bit, Stereo, LittleEndian, Signed volumeProcessorState: Realized and the data output from the processor is Null. I should make clear that when the content descriptor != null I do get an output stream but not the volume controller, and the when it is null I get the controller, but no stream. I try to connect to an audio microphone device Adam.

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  • Cannot understand NullPointerException with custom adapter

    - by ganesh
    hi, I am trying to create a list view which as TextView that can display html content , an WebView and other basic TextViews.I tried to extend SimpleAdapter but i struck with the problem ,I will be glad if someone can point out the mistake i am doing. In onCreate method ArrayList mylist= resultfromXmlparser(); adap = new MyAdapter(TourLandingPage.this, mylist, R.layout.row, new String[] {"Name", "desc","Duration","Price","imgurl"}, new int[] {R.id.productname,R.id.des,R.id.duration,R.id.pricefrom,R.id.photo}); setListAdapter(adap); My custom Adapter looks like this private class MyAdapter extends SimpleAdapter { ArrayList<HashMap<String,String>> elements; Context ctx; public MyAdapter(Context context, ArrayList<HashMap<String,String>> mylist,int textViewResourceId,String[] names,int[] resouceid) { super(context, mylist,textViewResourceId, names,resouceid); this.elements=mylist; this.ctx=context; } @Override public int getCount() { return elements.size(); } @Override public Object getItem(int position) { return elements.get(position); } @Override public long getItemId(int position) { return position; } @Override public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) { RelativeLayout rowLayout; if (convertView == null) { rowLayout = (RelativeLayout) LayoutInflater.from(ctx).inflate(R.layout.rowfor_tourlist, parent, false); } else { rowLayout = (RelativeLayout) convertView; } TextView in = (TextView)rowLayout.findViewById(R.id.introduction); TextView du = (TextView)rowLayout.findViewById(R.id.duration); TextView pf = (TextView)rowLayout.findViewById(R.id.pricefrom); TextView pn = (TextView)rowLayout.findViewById(R.id.productname); WebView wv=(WebView)rowLayout.findViewById(R.id.photo); in.setText(Html.fromHtml(mylist.get(position).get("desc"))); du.setText(mylist.get(position).get("Duration")); pf.setText(mylist.get(position).get("Price")); pn.setText(mylist.get(position).get("Name")); wv.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true); wv.loadUrl(mylist.get(position).get("imgurl")); return convertView; } }//class and my row.xml file looks like RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" TextView android:id="@+id/productname" ...... LinearLayout android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="60dip" android:layout_margin="5dip" android:layout_below="@id/productname" android:orientation="horizontal" android:id="@+id/lay1" WebView android:id="@+id/photo" .... TextView android:id="@+id/introduction" ...... LinearLayout TextView android:id="@+id/duration" .... TextView android:id="@+id/pricefrom" ..... RelativeLayout The error i was getting was 04-28 19:46:17.749: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(976): Uncaught handler: thread main exiting due to uncaught exception 04-28 19:46:17.769: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(976): java.lang.NullPointerException 04-28 19:46:17.769: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(976): at android.widget.ListView.setupChild(ListView.java:1693) 04-28 19:46:17.769: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(976): at android.widget.ListView.makeAndAddView(ListView.java:1671) 04-28 19:46:17.769: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(976): at android.widget.ListView.fillDown(ListView.java:637) 04-28 19:46:17.769: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(976): at android.widget.ListView.fillFromTop(ListView.java:694) 04-28 19:46:17.769: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(976): at android.widget.ListView.layoutChildren(ListView.java:1521) 04-28 19:46:17.769: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(976): at android.widget.AbsListView.onLayout(AbsListView.java:1113) 04-28 19:46:17.769: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(976): at android.view.View.layout(View.java:6831) 04-28 19:46:17.769: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(976): at android.widget.LinearLayout.setChildFrame(LinearLayout.java:1119) 04-28 19:46:17.769: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(976): at android.widget.LinearLayout.layoutHorizontal(LinearLayout.java:1108) 04-28 19:46:17.769: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(976): at android.widget.LinearLayout.onLayout(LinearLayout.java:920) 04-28 19:46:17.769: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(976): at android.view.View.layout(View.java:6831) 04-28 19:46:17.769: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(976): at android.widget.LinearLayout.setChildFrame(LinearLayout.java:1119) 04-28 19:46:17.769: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(976): at android.widget.LinearLayout.layoutVertical(LinearLayout.java:998) 04-28 19:46:17.769: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(976): at android.widget.LinearLayout.onLayout(LinearLayout.java:918) 04-28 19:46:17.769: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(976): at android.view.View.layout(View.java:6831) 04-28 19:46:17.769: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(976): at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:333) 04-28 19:46:17.769: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(976): at android.view.View.layout(View.java:6831) 04-28 19:46:17.769: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(976): at android.widget.LinearLayout.setChildFrame(LinearLayout.java:1119) 04-28 19:46:17.769: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(976): at android.widget.LinearLayout.layoutVertical(LinearLayout.java:998) 04-28 19:46:17.769: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(976): at android.widget.LinearLayout.onLayout(LinearLayout.java:918) 04-28 19:46:17.769: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(976): at android.view.View.layout(View.java:6831) 04-28 19:46:17.769: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(976): at android.widget.FrameLayout.onLayout(FrameLayout.java:333) 04-28 19:46:17.769: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(976): at android.view.View.layout(View.java:6831) 04-28 19:46:17.769: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(976): at android.view.ViewRoot.performTraversals(ViewRoot.java:996) 04-28 19:46:17.769: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(976): at android.view.ViewRoot.handleMessage(ViewRoot.java:1633) 04-28 19:46:17.769: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(976): at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99) 04-28 19:46:17.769: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(976): at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123) 04-28 19:46:17.769: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(976): at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4338) 04-28 19:46:17.769: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(976): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method) 04-28 19:46:17.769: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(976): at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521) 04-28 19:46:17.769: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(976): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:860) 04-28 19:46:17.769: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(976): at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:618) 04-28 19:46:17.769: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(976): at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method) 04-28 19:46:17.789: INFO/Process(52): Sending signal. PID: 976 SIG: 3 04-28 19:46:17.799: INFO/dalvikvm(976): threadid=7: reacting to signal 3 04-28 19:46:17.829: INFO/dalvikvm(976): Wrote stack trace to '/data/anr/traces.txt'

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  • How to draw flowchart for code involving opening from text file and reading them

    - by problematic
    like this code fp1=fopen("Fruit.txt","r"); if(fp1==NULL) { printf("ERROR in opening file\n"); return 1; } else { for(i=0;i<lines;i++)//reads Fruits.txt database { fgets(product,sizeof(product),fp1); id[i]=atoi(strtok(product,",")); strcpy(name[i],strtok(NULL,",")); price[i]=atof(strtok(NULL,",")); stock[i]=atoi(strtok(NULL,"\n")); } } fclose(fp1); These symbols sound too similar to differentiate their function,can anyone helps me by any method, or use names of shape according to this site http://www.breezetree.com/article-excel-flowchart-shapes.htm

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  • where does the professional sheen of a GUI application realistically come from?

    - by JW
    I have been playing around with php-gtk recently and in the past I have experimented with Java to make GUI 'hello world' apps. However both these types of applications have had a bit of a clunky (almost childish) look and feel to them. I cannot deny that they are handy for making apps for in-house use (and I totally respect the amount of community effort that goes into these projects). But I would not necessarily be proud to sell it as a commercial application with a price tag of, say, £450 or £1,000. If I wanted to make an application that had the look and feel of, say, Firefox for Windows, or Adobe xyz, what GUI/language should I use? Is the 'professional sheen' or smart look and feel down to the designer or is it the case that, no matter how good a designer is, picking the right GUI framework is essential to get that look?

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  • Do i need to insert one fake row in database ?

    - by Ankit Rathod
    Hello, I have few tables like example. Users Books UsersBookPurchase UID BookId UserId UName Name BookId Password Price Email This is fine. I am having my own login system but i am also using some 3rd party to validate like OpenID or facebook Authetication. My question is if the user is able to log in successfully using OpenID or facebook Authentication, what steps do i need to do i.e do i have to insert one fake row in Users table because if i do not insert how will integrity be maintained. I mean what user id should i insert in UsersBookPurchase when the person who has logged in using Facebook Authentication has made a purchase because the UserId is reference key from Users table. Please give me a high level overview of what i need to do because this is fairly common scenario. Thanks in advance :)

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  • Aggregate Functions and Group By Problems

    - by David Stein
    If we start with the following simple SQL statement which works. SELECT sor.FPARTNO, sum(sor.FUNETPRICE) FROM sorels sor GROUP BY sor.FPARTNO FPartNo is the part number and the Funetprice is obviously the net price. The user also wants the description and this causes a problem. If I follow up with this: SELECT sor.FPARTNO, sor.fdesc, sum(sor.FUNETPRICE) FROM sorels sor GROUP BY sor.FPARTNO, sor.fdesc If there are multiple variations of the description for that part number, typically very small variations in the text, then I don't actually aggregate on the part number. Make sense? I'm sure this must be simple. How can I return the first fdesc that corresponds to the part number? Any of the description variations would suffice as they are almost entirely identical. Edit: The description is a text field.

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  • Multiple Prices for a product in ubercart?

    - by Satya
    Hi, My product is a book. Each books will be sold in 3 formats. 1) Print 2) Online 3) Print + Online All the three prices for each book will be different. If i add the book as different product. I have to add all the content like Index, Author details etc. 3 times for each book. Is there any way where i can allow admin to add 3 prices for each product and user can select any one of the price? Thanks & Regards, Satya.

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  • Database Modelling - Conceptually different entities but with near identical fields

    - by Andrew Shepherd
    Suppose you have two sets of conceptual entities: MarketPriceDataSet which has multiple ForwardPriceEntries PoolPriceForecastDataSet which has multiple PoolPriceForecastEntry Both different child objects have near identical fields: ForwardPriceEntry has MarketPriceDataSetId (foreign key to parent table) StartDate EndDate SimulationItemId ForwardPrice PoolPriceForecastEntry has PoolPriceForecastDataSetId (foreign key to parent table) StartDate EndDate SimulationItemId ForecastPoolPrice If I modelled them as separate tables, the only difference would be the foreign key, and the name of the price field. There has been a debate as to whether the two near identical tables should be merged into one. Options I've thought of to model this is: Just keep them as two independent, separate tables Have both sets in the one table with an additional "type" field, and a parent_id equalling a foreign key to either parent table. This would sacrifice referential integrity checks. Have both sets in the one table with an additional "type" field, and create a complicated sequence of joining tables to maintain referential integrity. What do you think I should do, and why?

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  • Mysql query different group by

    - by solomongaby
    Hello i have a products table that contains normal products and configurable product It has a basic stucture of: id name price configurable ('yes', 'no') id_configuration Normal products have configurable no and 0 as id configuration, and configurable products have it set to yes and have the same id_configuration value. The current query is: SELECT `products`.* FROM `products`, `categories`, `product_categories` WHERE `categories`.`id` = 23 AND `products`.`id` = `product_categories`.`id_product` AND `categories`.`id` = `product_categories`.`id_category` AND `products`.`active` = 'yes' AND ORDER BY `pos_new` ASC, `created` DESC LIMIT 0,20 I was wondering if there is a way to group by id_configuration, but only for the configurable products. The reason is that i want only one of the configuration products to show in search. I was thinking i could do a join, but was wondering if there is a way to do some kind of special group by. For example for configurable yes the field should be id_configuration otherwise it should be the id field Thanks a lot for any sugestions

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  • Newtonsoft.json throwing error: Array was not a one-dimensional array.

    - by SIA
    Hi everybody, I am getting an error when trying to serialize an object products. Product product = new Product(); product.Name = "Apple"; product.Expiry = new DateTime(2008, 12, 28); product.Price = 3.99M; product.Sizes = new string[3,2] { {"Small","40"}, {"Medium","44"}, {"Large","50"} }; string json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(product);//this line is throwing an error Array was not a one-dimensional array Is there any way to serialize a two dimensional array with Newtonsoft.json Thanks in Advance. SIA

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  • I want to create an Android App that checks a website like Woot

    - by tim
    Im new to android and thought it would be fun to develop an app that goes out and checks woot.com. The idea I came up with is for the app to be a widget that refresh woot.com once a day and displays a picture of the item and price. If the widget is clicked on it would open the browser to woot.com. In theory this seems like it would be easy but Im having trouble figuring out where to begin. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Tim

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  • Good memory profiling, leak and error detection for Windows

    - by Fernando
    I'm currently looking for a good memory / leak detection tool for Windows. A few years ago, I used Numega's Boundschecker, which was VERY good. Right now it seems to have been sold to Compuware, which apparently sold it again to some other company. Trying to evaluate a demo of the current version has been so far very frustrating, in the best "enterprisy" tradition: (a) no advertised prices on their website (Great Red Flashing Lights of Warning); (b) contact form asked for number of employeers and other private information; (c) no response to my emails asking for a evaluation and price. I had to conclude that BoundsChecker is now one of "those" products. Y'know, the type where you innocently call and tomorrow 3 men in black suits turn up at your building wanting to talk to you about "partnerships" and not-so-secretly gauge the size of your company and therefore how much they can get away with charging you. SO, rant aside, can anyone recommend an excellent memory checking/leak detection tool, how much it costs, and suggestions for where to buy?

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  • Please help me to write the sql

    - by Lu Lu
    Hello everyone, I am a new with T-SQL. So, please help me to write the sql. I have table Price (Code column is primary column): Code Value A1 234 A2 525 A3 566 I will input a string and the sql need to return a table. Ex1: input 'A2' - return: Code Value A2 525 Ex2: input 'A1 A3' - return: Code Value A1 234 A3 566 Ex3: input 'A1 A3 A1' - return: Code Value A1 234 A3 566 Ex4: input 'A1 A4' - return: Code Value A1 234 Please help me. I am using SQL Server 2005. Tks.

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  • Good PHP / MYSQL hashing solution for large number of text values

    - by Dave
    Short descriptio: Need hashing algorithm solution in php for large number of text values. Long description. PRODUCT_OWNER_TABLE serial_number (auto_inc), product_name, owner_id OWNER_TABLE owner_id (auto_inc), owener_name I need to maintain a database of 200000 unique products and their owners (AND all subsequent changes to ownership). Each product has one owner, but an owner may have MANY different products. Owner names are "Adam Smith", "John Reeves", etc, just text values (quite likely to be unicode as well). I want to optimize the database design, so what i was thinking was, every week when i run this script, it fetchs the owner of a proudct, then checks against a table i suppose similar to PRODUCT_OWNER_TABLE, fetching the owner_id. It then looks up owner_id in OWNER_TABLE. If it matches, then its the same, so it moves on. The problem is when its different... To optimize the database, i think i should be checking against the other "owner_name" entries in OWNER_TABLE to see if that value exists there. If it does, then i should use that owner_id. If it doesnt, then i should add another entry. Note that there is nothing special about the "name". as long as i maintain the correct linkagaes AND make the OWNER_TABLE "read-only, append-new" type table - I should be able create a historical archive of ownership. I need to do this check for 200000 entries, with i dont know how many unique owner names (~50000?). I think i need a hashing solution - the OWNER_TABLE wont be sorted, so search algos wont be optimal. programming language is PHP. database is MYSQL.

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  • Model objects versions in Django

    - by pablo
    Hi I'm building an e-commerce website. I have a Product and Order models. It's possible that a customer order a product and then the admin change its price or other fields before the customer actually get it. A possible solution is to add a 'version' field to the Product model. When the admin update a product field I'll add a timestamp and create a new object instead of updating the old one. An Order will have a reference to a specific product version. Does this make sense? Will overriding the Product Save method be sufficient to make it work? Thanks

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  • Combining multiple jQuery functions

    - by Mark
    Is there any way to combine all of this to reduce the amount of js? This is just an example of some of the jquery dialogs I have in my site, there are a few more too. Thanks. //initiate Search refinement dialog here $("#chooseMoreCnt, #chooseMoreCat, #chooseMorePr").dialog({ bgiframe: true, autoOpen: false, width: 500, modal: true, open: function(type, data) { $(this).parent().appendTo(jQuery("form:first")); } }); //trigger country dialog $('a.chooseMoreCnt').click(function() { $('#chooseMoreCnt').dialog('open'); return false; }); //trigger category dialog $('a.chooseMoreCat').click(function() { $('#chooseMoreCat').dialog('open'); return false; }); //trigger price dialog $('a.chooseMorePr').click(function() { $('#chooseMorePr').dialog('open'); return false; });

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  • summer experiment: GWT & python for a trading game- arch question

    - by sadhu_
    Hi, As a summer learning experiment, I'm thinking of coding up a web front end for a trading game i wrote in python, that generates share prices and random snippets of text. I am sort of struggling with how this should work on the back-end though. I'd rather have my GWT client page interact with the python share price generator, than to try and re-code it in java. I suppose i could use an sqlite db, and then use jdbc to pick up the prices, but i was wondering if there is a better way, for me to be able to poll some python script either from my client page, or from the serverside java code ? I found this python wrapper, but i'm not sure how i could use it though: http://code.google.com/apis/visualization/documentation/dev/gviz_api_lib.html Thanks.

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  • Feasability of reverse engineering some embedded code

    - by user258526
    All, My company is in the situation where we are using an embedded control system from another company in another country. We do not have the source code or the schematics to this system, and the manufacturer doesn't want to release them, seemingly at any price or under any terms. We are thus stuck with a 6 month turn around to get even a small modification done, and they can basically charge any amount they want. Legal aspects aside, would it be at all feasible to reverse engineer the embedded code back into C? Do any companies exist that could do this for us? Thank you, Fred

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  • New hire expectations... (Am I being unreasonable?)

    - by user295841
    I work for a very small custom software shop. We currently consist me and my boss. My boss is an old FoxPro DOS developer and OOP makes him uncomfortable. He is planning on taking a back seat in the next few years to hopefully enjoy a “partial retirement”. I will be taking over the day to day operations and we are now desperately looking for more help. We tried Monster.com, Dice.com, and others a few years ago when we started our search. We had no success. We have tried outsourcing overseas (total disaster), hiring kids right out of college (mostly a disaster but that’s where I came from), interns (good for them, not so good for us) and hiring laid off “experienced” developers (there was a reason they were laid off). I have heard hiring practices discussed on podcasts, blogs, etc... and have tried a few. The “Fizz Buzz” test was a good one. One kid looked physically ill before he finally gave up. I think my problem is that I have grown so much as a developer since I started here that I now have a high standard. I hear/read very intelligent people podcasts and blogs and I know that there are lots of people out there that can do the job. I don’t want to settle for less than a “good” developer. Perhaps my expectations are unreasonable. I expect any good developer (entry level or experienced) to be billable (at least paying their own wage) in under one month. I expect any good developer to be able to be productive (at least dangerous) in any language or technology with only a few days of research/training. I expect any good developer to be able to take a project from initial customer request to completion with little or no help from others. Am I being unreasonable? What constitutes a valuable developer? What should be expected of an entry level developer? What should be expected of an experienced developer? I realize that everyone is different but there has to be some sort of expectations standard, right? I have been giving the test project below to potential canidates to weed them out. Good idea? Too much? Too little? Please let me know what you think. Thanks. Project ID: T00001 Description: Order Entry System Deadline: 1 Week Scope The scope of this project is to develop a fully function order entry system. Screen/Form design must be user friendly and promote efficient data entry and modification. User experience (Navigation, Screen/Form layouts, Look and Feel…) is at the developer’s discretion. System may be developed using any technologies that conform to the technical and system requirements. Deliverables Complete source code Database setup instructions (Scripts or restorable backup) Application installation instructions (Installer or installation procedure) Any necessary documentation Technical Requirements Server Platform – Windows XP / Windows Server 2003 / SBS Client Platform – Windows XP Web Browser (If applicable) – IE 8 Database – At developer’s discretion (Must be a relational SQL database.) Language – At developer’s discretion All data must be normalized. (+) All data must maintain referential integrity. (++) All data must be indexed for optimal performance. System must handle concurrency. System Requirements Customer Maintenance Customer records must have unique ID. Customer data will include Name, Address, Phone, etc. User must be able to perform all CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) operations on the Customer table. User must be able to enter a specific Customer ID to edit. User must be able to pull up a sortable/queryable search grid/utility to find a customer to edit. Validation must be performed prior to database commit. Customer record cannot be deleted if the customer has an order in the system. (++) Inventory Maintenance Part records must have unique ID. Part data will include Description, Price, UOM (Unit of Measure), etc. User must be able to perform all CRUD operations on the part table. User must be able to enter a specific Part ID to edit. User must be able to pull up a sortable/queryable search grid/utility to find a part to edit. Validation must be performed prior to database commit. Part record cannot be deleted if the part has been used in an order. (++) Order Entry Order records must have a unique auto-incrementing key (Order Number). Order data must be split into a header/detail structure. (+) Order can contain an infinite number of detail records. Order header data will include Order Number, Customer ID (++), Order Date, Order Status (Open/Closed), etc. Order detail data will include Part Number (++), Quantity, Price, etc. User must be able to perform all CRUD operations on the order tables. User must be able to enter a specific Order Number to edit. User must be able to pull up a sortable/queryable search grid/utility to find an order to edit. User must be able to print an order form from within the order entry form. Validation must be performed prior to database commit. Reports Customer Listing – All Customers in the system. Inventory Listing – All parts in the system. Open Order Listing – All open orders in system. Customer Order Listing – All orders for specific customer. All reports must include sorts and filter functions where applicable. Ex. Customer Listing by range of Customer IDs. Open Order Listing by date range.

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