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  • How to code a 'Next in Results' within search results in PHP

    - by thebluefox
    Right, bit of a head scratcher, although I've got a feeling there's an obvious answer and I'm just not seeing the wood for the trees. Baiscally, using Solr as a search engine for my site, bringing back 15 results per page. When you click on a result, you get a detail page, that has a "Next in Results" link on it, which obviously forwards you on to the next result. Whats the best way of doing this? I've come up with a few solutions but they're either too inpractical or just don't work. I could store all the ids in a session array, then grab the one after the current one and put that in the link. But with possibly hundreds/thousands of results, the memory that array would need, and the performance hit of dealing with it isn't practical. I could take the same approach and put it into the db, but I'll still have to deal with a potentially huge array when I grab them out of the db. Or; I could do the search again, only returning the id's, and grab the one after the one we're currently looking at. I think this could be the best option? Although it does seem kind of messy, namely because of when I have to select the id thats on a different 'page' (ie the 16th, 31st etc result). Unless I pass through where it was in the results, and select from there, but that still doesn't seem like the right way to do it. I'm really sorry if this is just complete nonsense, any help is massively appreciated as always, Cheers guys!

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  • More efficient comparison of numbers

    - by Pez Cuckow
    I have an array which is part of a small JS game I am working on I need to check (as often as reasonable) that each of the elements in the array haven't left the "stage" or "playground", so I can remove them and save the script load I have coded the below and was wondering if anyone knew a faster/more efficient way to calculate this. This is run every 50ms (it deals with the movement). Where bots[i][1] is movement in X and bots[i][2] is movement in Y (mutually exclusive). for (var i in bots) { var left = parseInt($("#" + i).css("left")); var top = parseInt($("#" + i).css("top")); var nextleft = left + bots[i][1]; var nexttop = top + bots[i][2]; if(bots[i][1]>0&&nextleft>=PLAYGROUND_WIDTH) { remove_bot(i); } else if(bots[i][1]<0&&nextleft<=-GRID_SIZE) { remove_bot(i); } else if(bots[i][2]>0&&nexttop>=PLAYGROUND_HEIGHT) { remove_bot(i); } else if(bots[i][2]<0&&nexttop<=-GRID_SIZE) { remove_bot(i); } else { //alert(nextleft + ":" + nexttop); $("#" + i).css("left", ""+(nextleft)+"px"); $("#" + i).css("top", ""+(nexttop)+"px"); } } On a similar note the remove_bot(i); function is as below, is this correct (I can't splice as it changes all the ID's of the elements in the array. function remove_bot(i) { $("#" + i).remove(); bots[i] = false; } Many thanks for any advice given!

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  • Invoicing vs Quoting or Estimating

    - by FreshCode
    If invoices can be voided, should they be used as quotations? I have an Invoices tables that is created from inventory associated with a Job or Order. I could have a Quotes table as a halfway-house between inventory and invoices, but it feels like I would have duplicate data structures and logic just to handle an "Is this a quote?" bit. From a business perspective, quotes are different from invoices: a quote is sent prior to an undertaking and an invoice is sent once it is complete and payment is due, but how to represent this in my repository and model. What is an elegant way to store and manage quotes & invoices in a database? Edit: indicated Job === Order for this particular instance.

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  • PHP Facebook Cronjob with offline access

    - by Mohamed Salem
    1:the code to greet the user, ask for his permission and store his session data so that we can use a cronjob with his session data afterwards. <?php $db_server = "localhost"; $db_username = "username"; $db_password = "password"; $db_name = "databasename"; #go to line 85, the script actually starts there mysql_connect($db_server,$db_username,$db_password); mysql_select_db($db_name); #you have to create a database to store session values. #if you do not know what columns there should be look at line 76 to see column names. #make them all varchars # Now lets load the FB GRAPH API require './facebook.php'; // Create our Application instance. global $facebook; $facebook = new Facebook(array( 'appId' => '121036530138', 'secret' => '9bbec378147064', 'cookie' => false,)); # Lets set up the permissions we need and set the login url in case we need it. $par['req_perms'] = "friends_about_me,friends_education_history,friends_likes, friends_interests,friends_location,friends_religion_politics, friends_work_history,publish_stream,friends_activities, friends_events, friends_hometown,friends_location ,user_interests,user_likes,user_events, user_about_me,user_status,user_work_history,read_requests, read_stream,offline_access,user_religion_politics,email,user_groups"; $loginUrl = $facebook->getLoginUrl($par); function save_session($session){ global $facebook; # OK lets go to the database and see if we have a session stored $sid=mysql_query("Select access_token from facebook_user WHERE uid =".$session['uid']); $session_id=mysql_fetch_row($sid); if (is_array($session_id)) { # We have a stored session, but is it valid? echo " We have a session, but is it valid?"; try { $attachment = array('access_token' => $session_id[0]); $ret_code=$facebook->api('/me', 'GET', $attachment); } catch (Exception $e) { # We don't have a good session so echo " our old session is not valid, let's delete saved invalid session data "; $res = mysql_query("delete from facebook_user WHERE uid =".$session['uid']); #save new good session #to see what is our session data: print_r($session); if (is_array($session)) { $sql="insert into facebook_user (session_key,uid,expires,secret,access_token,sig) VALUES ('".$session['session_key']."','".$session['uid']."','". $session['expires']."','". $session['secret'] ."','" . $session['access_token']."','". $session['sig']."');"; $res = mysql_query($sql); return $session['access_token']; } # this should never ever happen echo " Something is terribly wrong: Our old session was bad, and now we cannot get the new session"; return; } echo " Our old stored session is valid "; return $session_id[0]; } else { echo " no stored session, this means the user never subscribed to our application before. "; # let's store the session $session = $facebook->getSession(); if (is_array($session)) { # Yes we have a session! so lets store it! $sql="insert into facebook_user (session_key,uid,expires,secret,access_token,sig) VALUES ('".$session['session_key']."','".$session['uid']."','". $session['expires']."','". $session['secret'] ."','". $session['access_token']."','". $session['sig']."');"; $res = mysql_query($sql); return $session['access_token']; } } } #this is the first meaningful line of this script. $session = $facebook->getSession(); # Is the user already subscribed to our application? if ( is_null($session) ) { # no he is not #send him to permissions page header( "Location: $loginUrl" ); } else { #yes, he is already subscribed, or subscribed just now #in case he just subscribed now, save his session information $access_token=save_session($session); echo " everything is ok"; # write your code here to do something afterwards } ?> error Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/content/28/9687528/html/ss/src/indexx.php:1) in /home/content/28/9687528/html/ss/src/facebook.php on line 49 Fatal error: Call to undefined method Facebook::getSession() in /home/content/28/9687528/html/ss/src/indexx.php on line 86 2:A cronjob template that reads the stored session of a user from database, uses his session data to work on his behalf, like reading status posts or publishing posts etc. <?php $db_server = "localhost"; $db_username = "username"; $db_password = "pass"; $db_name = "database"; # Lets connect to the Database and set up the table $link = mysql_connect($db_server,$db_username,$db_password); mysql_select_db($db_name); # Now lets load the FB GRAPH API require './facebook.php'; // Create our Application instance. global $facebook; $facebook = new Facebook(array( 'appId' => 'appid', 'secret' => 'secret', 'cookie' => false, )); function get_check_session($uidCheck){ global $facebook; # This function basically checks for a stored session and if we have one it returns it # OK lets go to the database and see if we have a session stored $sid=mysql_query("Select access_token from facebook_user WHERE uid =".$uidCheck); $session_id=mysql_fetch_row($sid); if (is_array($session_id)) { # We have a session # but, is it valid? try { $attachment = array('access_token' => $session_id[0],); $ret_code=$facebook->api('/me', 'GET', $attachment); } catch (Exception $e) { # We don't have a good session so echo " User ".$uidCheck." removed the application, or there is some other access problem. "; # let's delete stored data $res = mysql_query("delete from facebook_user where WHERE uid =".$uidCheck); return; } return $session_id[0]; } else { # "no stored session"; echo " error:newsFeedcrontab.php No stored sessions. This should not have happened "; } } # get all users that have given us offline access $users = getUsers(); foreach($users as $user){ # now for each user, check if they are still subscribed to our application echo " Checking user".$user; $access_token=get_check_session($user); # If we've not got an access_token we actually need to login. # but in the crontab, we just log the error, there is no way we can find the user to give us permission here. if ( is_null($access_token) ) { echo " error: newsFeedcrontab.php There is no access token for the user ".$user." "; } else { #we are going to read the newsfeed of user. There are user's friends' posts in this newsfeed try{ $attachment = array('access_token' => $access_token); $result=$facebook->api('/me/home', 'GET', $attachment); }catch(Exception $e){ echo " error: newsfeedcrontab.php, cannot get feed of ".$user.$e; } #do something with the result here #but what does the result look like? #go to http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/user/ and click on the "home" link under connections #we can also read the home of user. Home is the wall of the user who has given us offline access. try{ $attachment = array('access_token' => $access_token); $result=$facebook->api('/me/feed', 'GET', $attachment); }catch(Exception $e){ echo " error: newsfeedcrontab.php, cannot get wall of ".$user.$e; } #do something with the result here # #but what does the result look like? #go to http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/user/ and click on the "feed" link under connections } } function getUsers(){ $sql = "SELECT distinct(uid) from facebook_user Where 1"; $result = mysql_query($sql); while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){ $rows [] = $row['uid']; } print_r($rows); return $rows; } mysql_close($link); ?> error Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/content/28/9687528/html/ss/src/cron.php:1) in /home/content/28/9687528/html/ss/src/facebook.php on line 49 Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /home/content/28/9687528/html/ss/src/cron.php on line 110 Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/content/28/9687528/html/ss/src/cron.php on line 64

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  • Where/When does C# and the .NET Framework fail to be the right tool?

    - by Nate Bross
    In my non-programming life, I always attempt to use the approprite tool for the job, and I feel that I do the same in my programming life, but I find that I am choosing C# and .NET for almost everything. I'm finding it hard to come up with (realistic business) needs that cannot be met by .NET and C#. Obviously embedded systems might require something less bloated than the .NET Micro Framework, but I'm really looking for line of business type situations where .NET is not the best tool. I'm primarly a C# and .NET guy since its what I'm the most comfertable in, but I know a fair amount of C++, php, VB, powershell, batch files, and Java, as well as being versed in the web technologes (javascript, html/css). But I'm open minded about it my skill set and I'm looking for cases where C# and .NET are not the right tool for the job. The bottom line here, is that I feel that I'm choosing C# and .NET simply because I am very comfertable with it, so I'm looking for cases where you have chosen something other than .NET, even though you are primarly a .NET developer.

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  • sbt: "test" works "test:run" not

    - by Martin
    I try to establish a build pipeline on Jenkins with a Play(2.0.2) project. As I want to just build the sources once and use the classes for downstream builds, I now have created a "compile"-job, that runs "sbt test:compile". That works so far. The next job should then just run the compiled tests. If I use "sbt test" it works as expected, but compiles the sources again. But if I try to run "sbt test:run" it says: [info] Loading project definition from ~/myproject/project [info] Set current project to myproject (in build file: ~/myproject/) java.lang.RuntimeException: No main class detected. at scala.sys.package$.error(package.scala:27) [error] {file:~/myproject/test:run: No main class detected. The same happens locally. I can run "sbt test" but not "sbt test:run". Same error. Is there someone who can point me to the right direction?

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  • Get Image from Byte Aarray.

    - by Arun Thakkar
    Hello Everyone!! Hope You all are fine and also in one of your best of moods!! Hope You all are Enjoying iPhone development. I herewith one issue that i am not able to solve, may be i don't know the depth concept of iPhone. So Its my humble requet to you to guide me or suggest or share your ideas. I do find an issue with getting an image from Bytes array. I am calling a webservice which returns an image in form of Bytes Array as response. I have Converted this bytes array in to form of NSData, Now i have NSData, But When i Try to get an image from this NSData, It shows nil. I Did lots of R&D and Find one suggestion to use base64 encoder, But unfortunately because of not proper guidance I was not able to Implement that. I was also suggested to use OPenSSL Library for base64 from url http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?BaseSixtyFour But again i was not able to include #include #include these two files. as in Newer Version of SDK 3.X family Apple has depreciated those (as i guess). So Now i need help from you guys. kindly help me if you have solution or if you know the steps to solve these. Looking Forwards. Regards, Arun Thakkar

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  • How should I pass the translated text to my object in my multilingual application?

    - by boatingcow
    Up until now, I have maintained a 'dictionary' table in my database, for example: +-----------+---------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+--------+ | phrase | en | fr | etc... | +-----------+---------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+--------+ | generated | Generated in %1$01.2f seconds at %2$s | Créée en %1$01.2f secondes à %2$s aujourd'hui | ... | | submit | Submit... | Envoyer... | ... | +-----------+---------------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+--------+ I'll then select all rows from the database for the column that matches the locale we're interested in (or read the cache from a file to speed db lookup) and dump the dictionary into an array called $lng. Then I'll have HTML helper objects like this in my view: $html->input(array('type' => 'submit', 'value' => $lng['submit'], etc...)); ... $html->div(array('value' => sprintf($lng['generated'], $generated, date('H:i')), etc...)); The translations can appear in PDF, XLS and AJAX responses too. The problem with my approach so far is that I now have loads of global $lng; in every class where there is a function that spits out UI code.. How do other people get the translation into the object? Is it one scenario where globals aren't actually that bad? Would it be madness to create a class with accessors when the dictionary terms are all static?

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  • Keeping DB Table sorted using multi-field formula (Microsoft SQL)

    - by user298167
    Hello Everybody. I have a Job Table which has two interesting columns: Creation Date and Importance (high - 3, medium 2, low - 1). Job's priority calculated like this: Priority = Importance * (time passed since creation). The problem is, Every time I would like to pick 200 jobs with highest priority, I dont want to resort the table. Is there a way to keep rows sorted? I was also thinking about having three tables one for High, Medium and Low and then sort those by Creation Date. Thanks

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  • What Kind of Knowledge is Necessary For a Permon Who Does Not Have IT Background? [closed]

    - by skyflyer
    One of my colleagues joined our company, which by the way is a internet company, months ago as an on-line marketing specialist. He majored English in his college and has never deeply touched IT before. He says that to be a good on-line marketing specialist he needs to lean some basic IT skills in order to deliver superb work. According to him, things like Search Engine Optimization, monitoring competitors' web sites, design some functionality on web site and so on require IT entree-level knowledge. And he asks me what kind knowledge is helpful for him to do his job. I am stunted by his question. It is easy enough to answer, things like HTML, CSS, even Photo-shop are required in some job descriptions. Also, I believe some basic understanding of dynamic web site, static web site is helpful to him. On the other hand, as a techie I still feel my answer is awkward. What is your opinion on this? Always lot of thanks to you guys on SO.

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  • Using Matlab to find maxima for data with a lot of noise

    - by jimbo
    I have noisy data set with three peaks in Matlab and want to do some image processing on it. The peaks are about 5-9 pixels wide at the base, in a 50 x 50 array. How do I locate the peaks? Matlab is very new to me. Here is what I have so far... For my original image, let's call it "array", I tried J = fspecial('gaussian',[5 5], 1.5); C = imfilter(array, J) peaks = imregionalmax(C); but there is still some noise along the baseline between the peaks so I end up getting a ton of local max that are really just noise values. (I tried playing with the size of the filter, but that didn't help.) I also tried peaks = imextendedmax(C,threshold); where the threshold was determined visually... which works but is definitely not a good way to do it since it's not that robust obviously. So, how do I locate these peaks in a robust way? Thanks.

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  • PHP: Join two separate mysql queries into the same json data object

    - by Dan
    I'm trying to mesh the below mysql query results into a single json object, but not quite sure how to do it properly. //return data $sql_result = mysql_query($sql,$connection) or die ("Fail."); $arr = array(); while($obj = mysql_fetch_object($sql_result)) { $arr[] = $obj; } echo json_encode($arr); //return json //plus the selected options $sql_result2 = mysql_query($sql2,$connection) or die ("Fail."); $arr2 = array(); while($obj2 = mysql_fetch_object($sql_result2)) { $arr2[] = $obj2; } echo json_encode($arr2); //return json Here's the current result: [{"po_number":"test","start_date":"1261116000","end_date":"1262239200","description":"test","taa_required":"0","account_overdue":"1","jobs_id":null,"job_number":null,"companies_id":"4","companies_name":"Primacore Inc."}][{"types_id":"37"},{"types_id":"4"}] Notice how the last section [{"types_id":"37"},{"types_id":"4"}] is placed into a separate chunk under root. I'm wanting it to be nested inside the first branch under a name like, "types". I think my question has more to do with Php array manipulation, but I'm not the best with that. Thank you for any guidance.

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  • Bing Map on Windows Phone - add click events to pushpins; display more details

    - by Will Gill
    I have a WP Phone app using a Bing Map control. I have an array of objects, and each object has a location. I iterate the array to place the pins on the map (see below). I have a touch event bound to each pin to allow the user to tap the pin to start an action. Now - I would like, on tap, to show information from the object that relates to that pin to be shown in a textbox. How can I retrieve the object from the array that corresponds to the pushpin that was tapped/clicked? foreach (wikiResult result in arrayResults) { double lat = double.Parse(result.Latitude, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture); double lng = double.Parse(result.Longitude, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture); statusTextBlock.Text = result.Latitude + " " + result.Longitude + " " + lat + " " + lng; GeoCoordinate d = new GeoCoordinate(lat, lng); Pushpin pin; pin = new Pushpin(); pin.Location = d; pin.Content = result.Name; pin.MouseLeftButtonUp += new MouseButtonEventHandler(pin1_MouseLeftButtonUp); myMap.Children.Add(pin); } void pin1_MouseLeftButtonUp(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e) { //display the content from the object in a text box } Many thanks in advance!

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  • Java Session Like Object

    - by scriptmonster
    I have been developing a project and in this project i have designed my code to do the same job after a specified time interval continuously. The job that wanted to be done has a lot of distinct cycles. The interval is small to execute them normally thus i used threads. Until that point everything is clear for me. To decrease the process and information transaction i wanted to put an session like object that holds the given data and provide it to any thread at anytime. With this object i plan to not query the same configuration information from database at everytime but if it exists on the session take it else query and store on session. I'm not sure how to implement this structure. Regards,

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  • More efficient way to find & tar millions of files

    - by Stu Thompson
    I've got a job running on my server at the command line prompt for a two days now: find data/ -name filepattern-*2009* -exec tar uf 2008.tar {} ; It is taking forever, and then some. Yes, there are millions of files in the target directory. But just running... find data/ -name filepattern-*2009* -print > filesOfInterest.txt ...takes only two hours or so. At the rate my job is running, it won't be finished for a couple of weeks.. That seems unreasonable. Is there a more efficient to do this? Maybe with a more complicated bash script? A secondary questions is "why is my current approach so slow?"

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  • PHP static function self:: in joomla JFactory class explanation?

    - by Carbon6
    Hi I'm looking at the code of Joomla and trying to figure out what exactly happends in this function. index.php makes a call to function $app = JFactory::getApplication('site'); jfactory.php code public static function getApplication($id = null, $config = array(), $prefix='J') { if (!self::$application) { jimport('joomla.application.application'); self::$application = JApplication::getInstance($id, $config, $prefix); } return self::$application; } application.php code.. public static function getInstance($client, $config = array(), $prefix = 'J') { static $instances; if (!isset($instances)) { $instances = array(); } ....... more code ........ return $instances[$client]; } Now I cannot figure out in function getApplication why is self:$application used. self::$application = JApplication::getInstance($id, $config, $prefix); $application is always null, what is the purpose of using this approach. I tryied modifying it to $var = JApplication::getInstance($id, $config, $prefix); and returnig it but it doesn't work. I would be very glad if someone with more knowledge could explain what is happening here detailed as possible. Many thanks.

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  • NSArray containObjects method

    - by Anthony Chan
    Hi, I have a simple question regarding xcode coding but don't know why things are not performing as I think. I have an array of objects (custom objects). I just want to check if this one is within the array. I used the following code: NSArray *collection = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:A, B, C, nil]; //custom "Item" objects Item *tempItem = [[Fruit alloc] initWithLength:1 width:2 height:3]; //3 instance variables in "Item" objects if([collection containsObject:tempItem]) { NSLog(@"collection contains this item"); } I suppose the above checking will give me a positive result but it's not. Further, I checked whether the objects created are the same. NSLog(@"L:%i W:%i H:%i", itemToCheck.length, itemToCheck.width, itemToCheck.height); for (int i = 0, i < [collection count], i++) { Item *itemInArray = [collection objectAtIndex:i]; NSLog(@"collection contains L:%i W:%i H:%i", itemInArray.length, itemInArray.width, itemInArrayheight); } In the console, this is what I got: L:1 W:2 H:3 collection contains L:0 W:0 H:0 collection contains L:1 W:2 H:3 collection contains L:6 W:8 H:2 Obviously the tempItem is inside the collection array but nothing shows up when I use containsObject: to check it. Could anyone give me some direction which part I am wrong? Thanks a lot!

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  • Load balancing and shedulling algorithms .NET

    - by Lukas Šalkauskas
    Hello there, so here is my problem: I have several different configuarion servers. I have different calculations (jobs), I can predict how long approx. each job will take to be caclulated. Also I have priorities. My question is how to keep all machines loaded 99-100% and shedule the jobs in the best way. Each machine can do several calculations at the time. Jobs are pushed to the machine. Central machine knows current load of each machine. Also I would like to to assign some king of machine learning here, because I will know statistics of each job (started, finished, cpu load etc.). How to distribute jobs(calculations) in the best possible way, also keep in mind priority. Any suggestions ? Ideas ? Algorithms ?

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  • Shuffling words in a sentence in javascript (coding horror - How to improve?)

    - by Bill Zimmerman
    Hi, I'm trying to do something that is fairly simple, but my code looks terrible and I am certain there is a better way to do things in javascript. I am new to javascript, and am trying to improve my coding. This just feels very messy. All I want to do is to randomly change the order some words on a web page. In python, the code would look something like this: s = 'THis is a sentence' shuffledSentence = random.shuffle(s.split(' ')).join(' ') However, this is the monstrosity I've managed to produce in javascript //need custom sorting function because javascript doesn't have shuffle? function mySort(a,b) { return a.sortValue - b.sortValue; } function scrambleWords() { var content = $.trim($(this).contents().text()); splitContent = content.split(' '); //need to create a temporary array of objects to make sorting easier var tempArray = new Array(splitContent.length); for (var i = 0; i < splitContent.length; i++) { //create an object that can be assigned a random number for sorting var tmpObj = new Object(); tmpObj.sortValue = Math.random(); tmpObj.string = splitContent[i]; tempArray[i] = tmpObj; } tempArray.sort(mySort); //copy the strings back to the original array for (i = 0; i < splitContent.length; i++) { splitContent[i] = tempArray[i].string; } content = splitContent.join(' '); //the result $(this).text(content); } Can you help me to simplify things?

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  • struct and rand()

    - by teoz
    I have a struct with an array of 100 int (b) and a variable of type int (a) I have a function that checks if the value of "a" is in the array and i have generated the array elements and the variable with random values. but it doesn't work can someone help me fix it? #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <time.h> typedef struct { int a; int b[100]; } h; int func(h v){ int i; for (i=0;i<100;i++){ if(v.b[i]==v.a) return 1; else return 0; } } int main(int argc, char** argv) { h str; srand(time(0)); int i; for(i=0;0<100;i++){ str.b[i]=(rand() % 10) + 1; } str.a=(rand() % 10) + 1; str.a=1; printf("%d\n",func(str)); return 0; }

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  • Design patterns and interview question

    - by user160758
    When I was learning to code, I read up on the design patterns like a good boy. Long after this, I started to actually understand them. Design discussions such as those on this site constantly try to make the rules more and more general, which is good. But there is a line, over which it becomes over-analysis starts to feed off itself and as such I think begins to obfuscate the original point - for example the "What's Alternative to Singleton" post and the links contained therein. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1300655/whats-alternative-to-singleton I say this having been asked in both interviews I’ve had over the last 2 weeks what a singleton is and what criticisms I have of it. I have used it a few times for items such as user data (simple key-value eg. last file opened by this user) and logging (very common i'm sure). I've never ever used it just to have what is essentially global application data, as this is clearly stupid. In the first interview, I reply that I have no criticisms of it. He seemed disappointed by this but as the job wasn’t really for me, I forgot about it. In the next one, I was asked again and, as I wanted this job, I thought about it on the spot and made some objections, similar to those contained in the post linked to above (I suggested use of a factory or dependency injection instead). He seemed happy with this. But my problem is that I have used the singleton without ever using it in this kind of stupid way, which I had to describe on the spot. Using it for global data and the like isn’t something I did then realised was stupid, or read was stupid so didn’t do, it was just something I knew was stupid from the start. Essentially I’m supposed to be able to think of ways of how to misuse a pattern in the interview? Which class of programmers can best answer this question? The best ones? The medium ones? I'm not sure.... And these were both bright guys. I read more than enough to get better at my job but had never actually bothered to seek out criticisms of the most simple of the design patterns like this one. Do people think such questions are valid and that I ought to know the objections off by heart? Or that it is reasonable to be able to work out what other people who are missing the point would do on the fly? Or do you think I’m at least partially right that the question is too unsubtle and that the questions ought to be better thought out in order to make sure only good candidates can answer. PS. Please don’t think I’m saying that I’m just so clever that I know everything automatically - I’ve learnt the hard way like everyone else. But avoiding global data is hardly revolutionary.

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  • JSON parse data in javascript from php

    - by Stefania
    I'm trying to retrieve data in a javascript file from a php file using json. $items = array(); while($r = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { $rows = array( "id_locale" => $r['id_locale'], "latitudine" => $r['lat'], "longitudine" => $r['lng'] ); array_push($items, array("item" => $rows)); } ECHO json_encode($items); and in the javascript file I try to recover the data using an ajax call: $.ajax({ type:"POST", url:"Locali.php", success:function(data){ alert("1"); //var obj = jQuery.parseJSON(idata); var json = JSON.parse(data); alert("2"); for (var i=0; i<json.length; i++) { point = new google.maps.LatLng(json[i].item.latitudine,json[i].item.longitudine); alert(point); } } }) The first alert is printed, the latter does not, it gives me error: Unexpected token <.... but I do not understand what it is. Anyone have any idea where am I wrong? I also tried to recover the data with jquery but with no positive results.

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  • Recursion in assembly?

    - by Davis
    I'm trying to get a better grasp of assembly, and I am a little confused about how to recursively call functions when I have to deal with registers, popping/pushing, etc. I am embedding x86 assembly in C++. Here I am trying to make a method which given an array of integers will build a linked list containing these integers in the order they appear in the array. I am doing this by calling a recursive function: insertElem (struct elem *head, struct elem *newElem, int data) -head: head of the list -data: the number that will be inserted at the end of a list -newElem: points to the location in memory where I will store the new element (data field) My problem is that I keep overwriting the registers instead of a typical linked list. For example, if I give it an array {2,3,1,8,3,9} my linked-list will return the first element (head) and only the last element, because the elements keep overwriting each other after head is no longer null. So here my linked list looks something like: 2--9 instead of 2--3--1--8--3--9 I feel like I don't have a grasp on how to organize and handle the registers. newElem is in EBX and just keeps getting rewritten. Thanks in advance!

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  • Do all C compilers allow functions to return structures?

    - by Jordan S
    I am working on a program in C and using the SDCC compiler for a 8051 architecture device. I am trying to write a function called GetName that will read 8 characters from Flash Memory and return the character array in some form. I know that it is not possible to return an array in C so I am trying to do it using a struct like this: //********************FLASH.h file******************************* MyStruct GetName(int i); //Function prototype #define NAME_SIZE 8 typedef struct { char Name[NAME_SIZE]; } MyStruct; extern MyStruct GetName(int i); // *****************FLASH.c file*********************************** #include "FLASH.h" MyStruct GetName( int i) { MyStruct newNameStruct; //... // Fill the array by reading data from Flash //... return newNameStruct; } I don't have any references to this function yet but for some reason, I get a compiler error that says "Function cannot return aggregate." Does this mean that my compiler does not support functions that return structs? Or am I just doing something wrong?

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  • Export Sharepoint 2007 Custom List as RSS File

    - by matt
    Here's our scenario: We've created a sharepoint 2007 calendar on our intranet site We want to run a daily job to export a subset of the events to an rss file Another job will move the rss file to our public web site We have some funny restrictions where we can't simply publish the rss feed to the public. We have to go this export route. I'm not clear on how to accomplish step 2. Ideally, we wouldn't have to write a lot of custom code to accomplish this. Thanks.

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