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  • Is it possible to calculate or mathematically prove if a game is balanced / fair?

    - by Lurca
    This question is not focussed on video games but games in general. I went to a boardgame trade fair yesterday and asked myself if there is a way to calculate the fairness of a game. Sure, some of them require a good portion of luck, but it might be possible to calculate if some character is overpowered. Especially in role-playing games and trading card games. How, for example, can the creators of "Magic: The Gathering" make sure that there isn't the "one card that beats them all", given the impressive number of available cards?

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  • ASP.NET AJAX Release History : Q1 2010 SP2 (version 2010.1.519)

    Common for all controls What's Fixed Fixed: Problem with RegisterWithScriptManager=false (MVC) and browsers without gzip support Fixed: $telerik.getLocation implementation, in case the element is a child of an element with position:fixed Visual Studio Extensions What's New Improved: Visual Studio 2010 support for upgrade notifications What's Fixed Fixed: Code language selection in WebSite does not work. RadAjax What's Fixed Fixed: RadAjax controls break on AJAX callback with ToolkitScriptManager...Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

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  • Unit testing - getting started

    - by higgenkreuz
    I am just getting started with unit testing but I am not sure if I really understand the point of it all. I read tutorials and books on it all, but I just have two quick questions: I thought the purpose of unit testing is to test code we actually wrote. However, to me it seems that in order to just be able to run the test, we have to alter the original code, at which point we are not really testing the code we wrote but rather the code we wrote for testing. Most of our codes rely on external sources. Upon refactoring our code however, even it would break the original code, our tests still would run just fine, since the external sources are just muck-ups inside our test cases. Doesn't it defeat the purpose of unit testing? Sorry if I sound dumb here, but I thought someone could enlighten me a bit. Thanks in advance.

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  • Keep a programming language backwards compatible vs. fixing its flaws

    - by Radu Murzea
    First, some context (stuff that most of you know anyway): Every popular programming language has a clear evolution, most of the time marked by its version: you have Java 5, 6, 7 etc., PHP 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 etc. Releasing a new version makes new APIs available, fixes bugs, adds new features, new frameworks etc. So all in all: it's good. But what about the language's (or platform's) problems? If and when there's something wrong in a language, developers either avoid it (if they can) or they learn to live with it. Now, the developers of those languages get a lot of feedback from the programmers that use them. So it kind of makes sense that, as time (and version numbers) goes by, the problems in those languages will slowly but surely go away. Well, not really. Why? Backwards compatibility, that's why. But why is this so? Read below for a more concrete situation. The best way I can explain my question is to use PHP as an example: PHP is loved thousands of people and hated by just as many thousands. All languages have flaws, but apparently PHP is special. Check out this blog post. It has a very long list of so called flaws in PHP. Now, I'm not a PHP developer (not yet), but I read through all of it and I'm sure that a big chunk of that list are indeed real issues. (Not all of it, since it's potentially subjective). Now, if I was one of the guys who actively develops PHP, I would surely want to fix those problems, one by one. However, if I do that, then code that relies on a particular behaviour of the language will break if it runs on the new version. Summing it up in 2 words: backwards compatibility. What I don't understand is: why should I keep PHP backwards compatible? If I release PHP version 8 with all those problems fixed, can't I just put a big warning on it saying: "Don't run old code on this version !"? There is a thing called deprecation. We had it for years and it works. In the context of PHP: look at how these days people actively discourage the use of the mysql_* functions (and instead recommend mysqli_* and PDO). Deprecation works. We can use it. We should use it. If it works for functions, why shouldn't it work for entire languages? Let's say I (the developer of PHP) do this: Launch a new version of PHP (let's say 8) with all of those flaws fixed New projects will start using that version, since it's much better, clearer, more secure etc. However, in order not to abandon older versions of PHP, I keep releasing updates to it, fixing security issues, bugs etc. This makes sense for reasons that I'm not listing here. It's common practice: look for example at how Oracle kept updating version 5.1.x of MySQL, even though it mostly focused on version 5.5.x. After about 3 or 4 years, I stop updating old versions of PHP and leave them to die. This is fine, since in those 3 or 4 years, most projects will have switched to PHP 8 anyway. My question is: Do all these steps make sense? Would it be so hard to do? If it can be done, then why isn't it done? Yes, the downside is that you break backwards compatibility. But isn't that a price worth paying ? As an upside, in 3 or 4 years you'll have a language that has 90 % of its problems fixed.... a language much more pleasant to work with. Its name will ensure its popularity. EDIT: OK, so I didn't expressed myself correctly when I said that in 3 or 4 years people will move to the hypothetical PHP 8. What I meant was: in 3 or 4 years, people will use PHP 8 if they start a new project.

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  • Drag Gestures - fractional delta values

    - by Den
    I have an issue with objects moving roughly twice as far as expected when dragging them. I am comparing my application to the standard TouchGestureSample sample from MSDN. For some reason in my application gesture samples have fractional positions and deltas. Both are using same Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Input.Touch.dll, v4.0.30319. I am running both apps using standard Windows Phone Emulator. I am setting my break point immediately after this line of code in a simple Update method: GestureSample gesture = TouchPanel.ReadGesture(); Typical values in my app: Delta = {X:-13.56522 Y:4.166667} Position = {X:184.6956 Y:417.7083} Typical values in sample app: Delta = {X:7 Y:16} Position = {X:497 Y:244} Have anyone seen this issue? Does anyone have any suggestions? Thank you.

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  • How can I implement an Iris Wipe effect?

    - by Vandell
    For those who doesn't know: An iris wipe is a wipe that takes the shape of a growing or shrinking circle. It has been frequently used in animated short subjects, such as those in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoon series, to signify the end of a story. When used in this manner, the iris wipe may be centered around a certain focal point and may be used as a device for a "parting shot" joke, a fourth wall-breaching wink by a character, or other purposes. Example from flasheff.com Your answer may or may not include a coding sample, a language agnostic explanation is considered enough.

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  • jQuery - Why editable-select list plugin doesn't work with latest jQuery?

    - by Binyamin
    Why editable-select list plugin<select><option>value</option>doesn't work with latest jQuery? editable-select code: /** * Copyright (c) 2009 Anders Ekdahl (http://coffeescripter.com/) * Dual licensed under the MIT (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php) * and GPL (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php) licenses. * * Version: 1.3.1 * * Demo and documentation: http://coffeescripter.com/code/editable-select/ */ (function($) { var instances = []; $.fn.editableSelect = function(options) { var defaults = { bg_iframe: false, onSelect: false, items_then_scroll: 10, case_sensitive: false }; var settings = $.extend(defaults, options); // Only do bg_iframe for browsers that need it if(settings.bg_iframe && !$.browser.msie) { settings.bg_iframe = false; }; var instance = false; $(this).each(function() { var i = instances.length; if(typeof $(this).data('editable-selecter') == 'undefined') { instances[i] = new EditableSelect(this, settings); $(this).data('editable-selecter', i); }; }); return $(this); }; $.fn.editableSelectInstances = function() { var ret = []; $(this).each(function() { if(typeof $(this).data('editable-selecter') != 'undefined') { ret[ret.length] = instances[$(this).data('editable-selecter')]; }; }); return ret; }; var EditableSelect = function(select, settings) { this.init(select, settings); }; EditableSelect.prototype = { settings: false, text: false, select: false, wrapper: false, list_item_height: 20, list_height: 0, list_is_visible: false, hide_on_blur_timeout: false, bg_iframe: false, current_value: '', init: function(select, settings) { this.settings = settings; this.select = $(select); this.text = $('<input type="text">'); this.text.attr('name', this.select.attr('name')); this.text.data('editable-selecter', this.select.data('editable-selecter')); // Because we don't want the value of the select when the form // is submitted this.select.attr('disabled', 'disabled'); var id = this.select.attr('id'); if(!id) { id = 'editable-select'+ instances.length; }; this.text.attr('id', id); this.text.attr('autocomplete', 'off'); this.text.addClass('editable-select'); this.select.attr('id', id +'_hidden_select'); this.initInputEvents(this.text); this.duplicateOptions(); this.positionElements(); this.setWidths(); if(this.settings.bg_iframe) { this.createBackgroundIframe(); }; }, duplicateOptions: function() { var context = this; var wrapper = $(document.createElement('div')); wrapper.addClass('editable-select-options'); var option_list = $(document.createElement('ul')); wrapper.append(option_list); var options = this.select.find('option'); options.each(function() { if($(this).attr('selected')) { context.text.val($(this).val()); context.current_value = $(this).val(); }; var li = $('<li>'+ $(this).val() +'</li>'); context.initListItemEvents(li); option_list.append(li); }); this.wrapper = wrapper; this.checkScroll(); }, checkScroll: function() { var options = this.wrapper.find('li'); if(options.length > this.settings.items_then_scroll) { this.list_height = this.list_item_height * this.settings.items_then_scroll; this.wrapper.css('height', this.list_height +'px'); this.wrapper.css('overflow', 'auto'); } else { this.wrapper.css('height', 'auto'); this.wrapper.css('overflow', 'visible'); }; }, addOption: function(value) { var li = $('<li>'+ value +'</li>'); var option = $('<option>'+ value +'</option>'); this.select.append(option); this.initListItemEvents(li); this.wrapper.find('ul').append(li); this.setWidths(); this.checkScroll(); }, initInputEvents: function(text) { var context = this; var timer = false; $(document.body).click( function() { context.clearSelectedListItem(); context.hideList(); } ); text.focus( function() { // Can't use the blur event to hide the list, because the blur event // is fired in some browsers when you scroll the list context.showList(); context.highlightSelected(); } ).click( function(e) { e.stopPropagation(); context.showList(); context.highlightSelected(); } ).keydown( // Capture key events so the user can navigate through the list function(e) { switch(e.keyCode) { // Down case 40: if(!context.listIsVisible()) { context.showList(); context.highlightSelected(); } else { e.preventDefault(); context.selectNewListItem('down'); }; break; // Up case 38: e.preventDefault(); context.selectNewListItem('up'); break; // Tab case 9: context.pickListItem(context.selectedListItem()); break; // Esc case 27: e.preventDefault(); context.hideList(); return false; break; // Enter, prevent form submission case 13: e.preventDefault(); context.pickListItem(context.selectedListItem()); return false; }; } ).keyup( function(e) { // Prevent lots of calls if it's a fast typer if(timer !== false) { clearTimeout(timer); timer = false; }; timer = setTimeout( function() { // If the user types in a value, select it if it's in the list if(context.text.val() != context.current_value) { context.current_value = context.text.val(); context.highlightSelected(); }; }, 200 ); } ).keypress( function(e) { if(e.keyCode == 13) { // Enter, prevent form submission e.preventDefault(); return false; }; } ); }, initListItemEvents: function(list_item) { var context = this; list_item.mouseover( function() { context.clearSelectedListItem(); context.selectListItem(list_item); } ).mousedown( // Needs to be mousedown and not click, since the inputs blur events // fires before the list items click event function(e) { e.stopPropagation(); context.pickListItem(context.selectedListItem()); } ); }, selectNewListItem: function(direction) { var li = this.selectedListItem(); if(!li.length) { li = this.selectFirstListItem(); }; if(direction == 'down') { var sib = li.next(); } else { var sib = li.prev(); }; if(sib.length) { this.selectListItem(sib); this.scrollToListItem(sib); this.unselectListItem(li); }; }, selectListItem: function(list_item) { this.clearSelectedListItem(); list_item.addClass('selected'); }, selectFirstListItem: function() { this.clearSelectedListItem(); var first = this.wrapper.find('li:first'); first.addClass('selected'); return first; }, unselectListItem: function(list_item) { list_item.removeClass('selected'); }, selectedListItem: function() { return this.wrapper.find('li.selected'); }, clearSelectedListItem: function() { this.wrapper.find('li.selected').removeClass('selected'); }, pickListItem: function(list_item) { if(list_item.length) { this.text.val(list_item.text()); this.current_value = this.text.val(); }; if(typeof this.settings.onSelect == 'function') { this.settings.onSelect.call(this, list_item); }; this.hideList(); }, listIsVisible: function() { return this.list_is_visible; }, showList: function() { this.wrapper.show(); this.hideOtherLists(); this.list_is_visible = true; if(this.settings.bg_iframe) { this.bg_iframe.show(); }; }, highlightSelected: function() { var context = this; var current_value = this.text.val(); if(current_value.length < 0) { if(highlight_first) { this.selectFirstListItem(); }; return; }; if(!context.settings.case_sensitive) { current_value = current_value.toLowerCase(); }; var best_candiate = false; var value_found = false; var list_items = this.wrapper.find('li'); list_items.each( function() { if(!value_found) { var text = $(this).text(); if(!context.settings.case_sensitive) { text = text.toLowerCase(); }; if(text == current_value) { value_found = true; context.clearSelectedListItem(); context.selectListItem($(this)); context.scrollToListItem($(this)); return false; } else if(text.indexOf(current_value) === 0 && !best_candiate) { // Can't do return false here, since we still need to iterate over // all list items to see if there is an exact match best_candiate = $(this); }; }; } ); if(best_candiate && !value_found) { context.clearSelectedListItem(); context.selectListItem(best_candiate); context.scrollToListItem(best_candiate); } else if(!best_candiate && !value_found) { this.selectFirstListItem(); }; }, scrollToListItem: function(list_item) { if(this.list_height) { this.wrapper.scrollTop(list_item[0].offsetTop - (this.list_height / 2)); }; }, hideList: function() { this.wrapper.hide(); this.list_is_visible = false; if(this.settings.bg_iframe) { this.bg_iframe.hide(); }; }, hideOtherLists: function() { for(var i = 0; i < instances.length; i++) { if(i != this.select.data('editable-selecter')) { instances[i].hideList(); }; }; }, positionElements: function() { var offset = this.select.offset(); offset.top += this.select[0].offsetHeight; this.select.after(this.text); this.select.hide(); this.wrapper.css({top: offset.top +'px', left: offset.left +'px'}); $(document.body).append(this.wrapper); // Need to do this in order to get the list item height this.wrapper.css('visibility', 'hidden'); this.wrapper.show(); this.list_item_height = this.wrapper.find('li')[0].offsetHeight; this.wrapper.css('visibility', 'visible'); this.wrapper.hide(); }, setWidths: function() { // The text input has a right margin because of the background arrow image // so we need to remove that from the width var width = this.select.width() + 2; var padding_right = parseInt(this.text.css('padding-right').replace(/px/, ''), 10); this.text.width(width - padding_right); this.wrapper.width(width + 2); if(this.bg_iframe) { this.bg_iframe.width(width + 4); }; }, createBackgroundIframe: function() { var bg_iframe = $('<iframe frameborder="0" class="editable-select-iframe" src="about:blank;"></iframe>'); $(document.body).append(bg_iframe); bg_iframe.width(this.select.width() + 2); bg_iframe.height(this.wrapper.height()); bg_iframe.css({top: this.wrapper.css('top'), left: this.wrapper.css('left')}); this.bg_iframe = bg_iframe; } }; })(jQuery); $(function() { $('.editable-select').editableSelect( { bg_iframe: true, onSelect: function(list_item) { alert('List item text: '+ list_item.text()); // 'this' is a reference to the instance of EditableSelect // object, so you have full access to everything there // alert('Input value: '+ this.text.val()); }, case_sensitive: false, // If set to true, the user has to type in an exact // match for the item to get highlighted items_then_scroll: 10 // If there are more than 10 items, display a scrollbar } ); var select = $('.editable-select:first'); var instances = select.editableSelectInstances(); // instances[0].addOption('Germany, value added programmatically'); });

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  • Absorbtion 2d image effect

    - by Ed.
    I want to create a specyfic 2d image effect. It consists in modifying a sprite so it looks like it is being zoomed to a point or "absorbed" by that point. I'm not really sure what is the technical name of this effect so I cannot explain it correctly. Here you can see a video of what I'm talking about, it is the effect when the character absorbs the three glyphs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIo-GddsMcU&t=4m45s What is the name of this effect? How can I implement it with XNA for 2D textures/sprites?

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  • Defaulting the HLSL Vertex and Pixel Shader Levels to Feature Level 9_1 in VS 2012

    - by Michael B. McLaughlin
    I love Visual Studio 2012. But this is not a post about that. This is a post about tweaking one particular parameter that I’ve found a bit annoying. Disclaimer: You will be modifying important MSBuild files. If you screw up you will break your build tools. And maybe your computer will catch fire. I’m not responsible. No warranties or guaranties of any sort. This info is provided “as is”. By default, if you add a new vertex shader or pixel shader item to a project, it will be set to build with shader profile 4.0_level_9_3. If you need 9_3 functionality, this is all well and good. But (especially for Windows Store apps) you really want to target the lowest shader profile possible so that your game will run on as many computers as possible. So it’s a good idea to default to 9_1. To do this you could add in new HLSL files via “Add->New Item->Visual C++->HLSL->______ Shader File (.hlsl)” and then edit the shader files’ properties to set them manually to use 9_1 via “Properties->HLSL Compiler->General->Shader Model”. This is fine unless you forget to do this once and then submit your game with 9_3 shaders instead of 9_1 shaders to the Windows Store or to some other game store. Then you’d wind up with either rejection or angry “this doesn’t work on my computer! ripoff!” messages. There’s another option though. In “Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates\VC\HLSL\1033\VertexShader” (note the path might vary slightly for you if you are using a 32-bit system or have a non-ENU version of Visual Studio 2012) you will find a “VertexShader.vstemplate” file. If you open this file in a text editor (e.g. Notepad++), then inside the CustomParameters tag within the TemplateContent tag you should see a CustomParameter tag for the ShaderType, i.e.: <CustomParameter Name="$ShaderType$" Value="Vertex"/> On a new line, we are going to add another CustomParameter tag to the CustomParameters tag. It will look like this: <CustomParameter Name="$ShaderModel$" Value="4.0_level_9_1"/> such that we now have:     <CustomParameters>       <CustomParameter Name="$ShaderType$" Value="Vertex"/>       <CustomParameter Name="$ShaderModel$" Value="4.0_level_9_1"/>     </CustomParameters> You can then save the file (you will need to be an Administrator or have Administrator access). Back in the 1033 directory (or whatever the number is for your language), go into the “PixelShader” directory. Edit the “PixelShader.vstemplate” file and make the same change (note that this time $ShaderType$ is “Pixel” not “Vertex”; you shouldn’t be changing that line anyway, but if you were to just copy and replace the above four lines then you will wind up creating pixel shaders that the HLSL compiler would try to compile as vertex shaders, with all sort of weird errors as a result). Once you’ve added the $ShaderModel$ line to “PixelShader.vstemplate” and have saved it, everything should be done. Since Feature Level 9_1 and 9_3 don’t support any of the other shader types, those are set to default to their appropriate minimums already (Compute and Geometry are set to “4.0” and Domain and Hull are set to “5.0”, which are their respective minimums (though not all 4.0 cards support Compute shaders; they were an optional feature added with DirectX 10.1 and only became required for DirectX 11 hardware). In case you are wondering where these magic values come from, you can find them all in the “fxc.xml” file in the “\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.CPP\v4.0\V110\1033” directory (or whatever your language number is; 1033 is ENU and various other product languages have their own respective numbers (see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964664.aspx ) such that Japanese is 1041 (for example), though for all I know MSBuild tasks might be 1033 for everyone). If, like me, you installed VS 2012 to a drive other than the C:\ drive, you will find the vstemplate files in the drive to which you installed VS 2012 (D:\ in my case) but you will find the fxc.xml file on the C:\ drive. You should not edit fxc.xml. You will almost definitely break things by doing that; it’s just something you can look through to see all the other options that the FXC task takes such that you could, if needed, add further CustomParameter tags if you wanted to default to other supported options. I haven’t tried any others though so I don’t have any advice on how to set them.

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  • SL: Showcase

    - by xamlnotes
    One of the sites I go to frequently is www.silverlight.net/showcase. Theres always new stuff showing up here and it gives me tons of ideas. The business section is also awesome because it has tons of samples of great applications that should really jog your brain for ideas. One of the great things about SL and WPF is how we can break the mold of application design and come up with truly great new applications for our   users. That’s one are where the showcase can help to get new ideas on things you can do.

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  • Migrate 12.04 Wubi install to new partition with corrupted win7 install and small hard drive

    - by Robin Clark
    The move from Win7 to Ubuntu 12.04 has been honestly awesome. But I've come into a snag because my Win7 inevitably broke. I can still boot into Ubuntu even though Win7 is broken (won't boot, can't repair). I'd like to Migrate Wubi to a real partition and forget about windows. Presumably under normal conditions I would run the Ubuntu live CD, create a new partition then log back into my Wubi install and migrate using the script to the new partition. But I'm worried if I do that I'll break my current wubi set-up and be unable to migrate. I have a small hard drive, only 75GB and unfortunately my backup drive recently died so can't migrate there first and transfer over either. Does anybody have any suggestions to solve this?

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  • WIn API Basic Paint program

    - by Tom Burman
    Just trying to learn a bit of Win API. Im trying to make a basic drawing app, a bit like MS Paint. For the time being im trying to get one function to work which is, when you left click and drag the mouse around the screen a line is drawn behind the mouse. Heres what i have so far, but for some reason: 1) the line starts drawing straight away rather then waiting for the left click 2) the line isn't solid its very dotty. case WM_MOUSEMOVE: { if(MK_LBUTTON){ hdc = GetDC(hwnd); hPen = CreatePen(PS_SOLID,5,RGB(0, 0, 255)); SelectObject(hdc, hPen); int x = LOWORD(lParam); int y = HIWORD(lParam); MoveToEx(hdc,x,y,NULL); LineTo(hdc, LOWORD(lParam), HIWORD(lParam)); ReleaseDC(hwnd,hdc); } else break; } } Thanks for any help!

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  • Adding Debian Sid as Package Repository?

    - by user1131467
    I am running 12.04 Precise beta (upgraded from 11.10 Oneiric) and I added the following line to my /etc/apt/source.list: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free In order to get a newer version of a package (octave 3.6) that I needed but was not available in the precise repository. This worked fine, but now when I want to upgrade there is a large number of packages that need to get updated. I assume this is because sid has newer versions of many of the packages than precise. I've temporarily disabled the sid repository, and this works fine - however I am curious to know what would happen if I allowed all those upgrades to go through? Would it break my system? Are the structures of Ubuntu Precise and Debian Sid repositories fundamentally different somehow?

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  • SEO domain name advice

    - by Dominykas Mostauskis
    I'm starting a website, that is meant for a non-English region, using an alphabet that is a bit different than that of English. Current plan is as follows. The website name, and the domain name, will be in the local language (not English); however, domain name will be spelled in the English alphabet, while the website's title will be the same word(s), but spelled properly with accents. E.g.: 'www.litterat.fr' and 'Littérat'. Does the difference between domain name and website name character use influence the site's SEO? Is it better, SEO-wise, to choose a name that can be spelled the same way in the English alphabet? From my experience, when searching online, invariably, the English alphabet is used, no matter the language, so people will still be searching 'litterat' (without accents and such).

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  • Google Webmasters tools crawl error caused by URL split into two lines

    - by Shiro
    I am looking in to Google Webmaster Tools - Crawl Error section. How should I handle for those URL due their system / application showed invalid URL. e.g http://www.example/images/products/s_=enlarge_16gb.jpg but, I dunno what happen to yahoo groups, it break the link into http://www.example/images/products/s_= enlarge_16gb.jpg and I only make the top part become hyperlink, which is http://www.example/images/products/s_= Because of the URL, Google show crawl error, I got few error because of this kind of result or because other people typo error. How do I prevent this. I am sure I don't have the right go and change other people post. What is the solution for this. Thanks!

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  • 24 Hours of PASS – first reflections

    - by Rob Farley
    A few days after the end of 24HOP, I find myself reflecting on it. I’m still waiting on most of the information. I want to be able to discover things like where the countries represented on each of the sessions, and things like that. So far, I have the feedback scores and the numbers of attendees. The data was provided in a PDF, so while I wait for it to appear in a more flexible format, I’ve pushed the 24 attendee numbers into Excel. This chart shows the numbers by time. Remember that we started at midnight GMT, which was 10:30am in my part of the world and 8pm in New York. It’s probably no surprise that numbers drooped a bit at the start, stayed comparatively low, and then grew as the larger populations of the English-speaking world woke up. I remember last time 24HOP ran for 24 hours straight, there were quite a few sessions with less than 100 attendees. None this time though. We got close, but even when it was 4am in New York, 8am in London and 7pm in Sydney (which would have to be the worst slot for attracting people), we still had over 100 people tuning in. As expected numbers grew as the UK woke up, and even more so as the US did, with numbers peaking at 755 for the “3pm in New York” session on SQL Server Data Tools. Kendra Little almost reached those numbers too, and certainly contributed the biggest ‘spike’ on the chart with her session five hours earlier. Of all the sessions, Kendra had the highest proportion of ‘Excellent’s for the “Overall Evaluation of the session” question, and those of you who saw her probably won’t be surprised by that. Kendra had one of the best ranked sessions from the 24HOP event this time last year (narrowly missing out on being top 3), and she has produced a lot of good video content since then. The reports indicate that there were nearly 8.5 thousand attendees across the 24 sessions, averaging over 350 at each one. I’m looking forward to seeing how many different people that was, although I do know that Wil Sisney managed to attend every single one (if you did too, please let me know). Wil even moderated one of the sessions, which made his feat even greater. Thanks Wil. I also want to send massive thanks to Dave Dustin. Dave probably would have attended all of the sessions, if it weren’t for a power outage that forced him to take a break. He was also a moderator, and it was during this session that he earned special praise. Part way into the session he was moderating, the speaker lost connectivity and couldn’t get back for about fifteen minutes. That’s an incredibly long time when you’re in a live presentation. There were over 200 people tuned in at the time, and I’m sure Dave was as stressed as I was to have a speaker disappear. I started chasing down a phone number for the speaker, while Dave spoke to the audience. And he did brilliantly. He started answering questions, and kept doing that until the speaker came back. Bear in mind that Dave hadn’t expected to give a presentation on that topic (or any other), and was simply drawing on his SQL expertise to get him through. Also consider that this was between midnight at 1am in Dave’s part of the world (Auckland, NZ). I would’ve been expecting just to welcome people, monitor questions, probably read some out, and in general, help make things run smoothly. He went far beyond the call of duty, and if I had a medal to give him, he’d definitely be getting one. On the whole, I think this 24HOP was a success. We tried a different platform, and I think for the most part it was a popular move. We didn’t ask the question “Was this better than LiveMeeting?”, but we did get a number of people telling us that they thought the platform was very good. Some people have told me I get a chance to put my feet up now that this is over. As I’m also co-ordinating a tour of SQLSaturday events across the Australia/New Zealand region, I don’t quite get to take that much of a break (plus, there’s the little thing of squeezing in seven SQL 2012 exams over the next 2.5 weeks). But I am pleased to be reflecting on this event rather than anticipating it. There were a number of factors that could have gone badly, but on the whole I’m pleased about how it went. A massive thanks to everyone involved. If you’re reading this and thinking you wish you could’ve tuned in more, don’t worry – they were all recorded and you’ll be able to watch them on demand very soon. But as well as that, PASS has a stream of content produced by the Virtual Chapters, so you can keep learning from the comfort of your desk all year round. More info on them at sqlpass.org, of course.

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  • Do you believe it's a good idea for Software Engineers to have to work as Quality Assurance Engineers for some period of time?

    - by Macy Abbey
    I believe it is. Why? I've encountered many Software Engineers who believe they are somehow superior to QA engineers. I think it may help quench this belief if they do the job of a QA engineer for some time, and realize that it is a unique and valuable skill-set of its own. The better a Software Engineer is at testing their own programs, the less cost in time their code incurs when making its way through the rest of the software development life-cycle. The more time a Software Engineer spends thinking about how a program can break, the more often they are to consider these cases as they are developing them, thus reducing bugs in the end product. A Software Engineer's definition of "complete" is always interesting...if they have spent time as a QA engineer maybe this definition will more closely match the designer of the software's. What do you all think?

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  • still getting 403 on apt-get install: no proxy, urls seems valid

    - by Berry Tsakala
    i'm trying to install libreoffice (or openoffice) on Ubuntu server 12.10, the packages exist - verified with "apt-cache search", the file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/30proxy doesn't exist on my system the text 'proxy' isn't mention in grep proxy /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ other packages that i tried to apt-get-install -- are installed OK. the only thing i haven't done is to replace the respository servers; i'm afraid it can break the dpkg system! related questions http://askubuntu.com/questions/304340/apt-get-403-forbidden?rq=1 http://askubuntu.com/questions/303150/apt-get-403-forbidden-but-accessible-in-the-browser http://askubuntu.com/questions/409998/proxy-blocking-apt-get-allowing-wget-curl http://askubuntu.com/questions/367737/apt-get-upgrade-gives-403-forbidden-error?rq=1 What else can I do to solve this 403 error and install liber/open-office using apt?

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  • SEO URL structure for tag search on site

    - by Theo G
    I am looking to add tags to each product on my site e.g. brown, x products under £x, second hand x, refurbished x etc. Once you click these tags it will then search for other tags that are similar. I was thinking of using a url structure of www.site.com/tags/this%is%the%tag%name and then simply have a page that shows the results of all the products with that tag. I heard a while back that google generally ignores or downgrades anything with ‘search’ in the url and was wondering if anyone had any experience with this? Also, would you say /tags/ is a pretty valid destination or is it best to break it down and add more levels e.g. /product-type/product%variation Thanks in advance!

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  • Pixel perfect collision with paths (Android)

    - by keysersoze
    Hi I'm writing a game and I'm trying to do some pixel perfect collisions with paths. The player's character has a bitmask which looks for example like this: Currenly my code that handles player's collision with path looks like this: private boolean isTerrainCollisionDetected() { if(collisionRegion.op(player.getBounds(), terrain.getBottomPathBounds(), Region.Op.INTERSECT) || collisionRegion.op(player.getBounds(), terrain.getTopPathBounds(), Region.Op.INTERSECT)) { collisionRegion.getBounds(collisionRect); for(int i = collisionRect.left; i < collisionRect.right; i++) { for(int j = collisionRect.top; j < collisionRect.bottom; j++) { if(player.getBitmask().getPixel(i - player.getX(), j - player.getY()) != Color.TRANSPARENT) { return true; } } } } return false; } The problem is that collisions aren't pixel perfect. It detects collisions in situations like this: The question is: what can I do to improve my collision detection?

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  • 2D Platform Game Jumping

    - by Bradley Kreuger
    I'm currently writing a game in XNA for fun which uses C#. I have got my sprites loaded and when the character moves right he looks like he is running right and when he moves left he looks like he is running left. I been looking everywhere for a good coding example for how to create a jumping ability. I have read all the physics stuff that I can stand and it doesn't help when I can't figure out how to use say space bar to jump yet can't keep them from using space just jump again until they land.

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  • How to fix the copy/paste-pattern?

    - by Lenny222
    Where i work, people (consultants) feel pressed to release features as fast as possible. So instead of spending too much time on thinking about how to do things the right way or because they don't want to break anything, code gets copied from different modules and modified. It's not easy to prevent this, since the code base is open to the whole company. Lots of people work on this. Now that the mess is there already, what is the best way to remove those redundancies without breaking too much?

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  • Can this word search algorithm be made faster?

    - by Ashwin Singh
    Problem: Find a match of word S in text T Given: S and T are part of spoken and written English. Example: Match 'Math' in 'I love Mathematics' NOTE: Ignore CASES. My algorithm: STEP 1) Convert S, T to char[] STEP 2) for i=0, i < T.length , i++ STEP 3) for j=S.length-1, j>0 , j-- STEP 3 is the magic, instead of going about matching M,A,T,H, this matches M, H, T and finally A. This helps in eliminating a lot of possible partial matches. For example, if I go sequentially like M A as in Boyer Moore's method ... it can match Matter, Mass, Matchstick etc. using M _ _ H will bring down size of partial matches. STEP 4) if S[j]!=T[i] -> break; else if j==i -> PRINT MATCH

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  • Super Secret Door Top Stash Hides Your Flash Drive and Cash [DIY]

    - by Jason Fitzpatrick
    Everyone needs a bit of spy-guy fun in their lives (or at least a way to hide your Sailor Moon photo collection from everyone). This clever and extremely well hidden DIY stash puts your contraband inside a door. At Make Projects, the user-contributed project blog at Make magazine, Sean Michael Ragan shares a really stealthy way to hide stuff–stashing it inside the top of the door stop. You’ll need some power tools like a drill, files, and a countersink, as well as a cigar tube for the body of your hidden drop. When you’re done you’ll have an extremely well hidden stash in a place that next to nobody would think to look–inside the top of a door. Hit up the link for a picture-filled step-by-step guide to building your own stash. Door Top Stash [Make Projects] HTG Explains: What Are Character Encodings and How Do They Differ?How To Make Disposable Sleeves for Your In-Ear MonitorsMacs Don’t Make You Creative! So Why Do Artists Really Love Apple?

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  • How to use short breaks at work effectively for self-development?

    - by Alaudo
    At the moment my daily work as a developer requires me to have short 10-20 min breaks after every 2-3 hours. It would be nice if I could use those effectively to improve my expertise in programming or CS in general. I tried several things: Reading jokes online gets boring very soon. Trying to solve some (even the most simple) tasks from different code contests requires more time, as long as I have some idea of an algorithm the time is over. Reading a randomly picked Wikipedia-article about Computer Science: depending upon the article sometimes it requires more time and is not an easy reading for a break. So, I ended up reading StackOverflow questions and answers with most votes: that is entertaining and educative. Do you have any other suggestions?

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