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• Constantly changing frameworks/APIs - how do we keep up?

  - by Jamie Chapman

  This question isn't really for any specific technology but more of general developer question. We all know from experience that things change. Frameworks evolve, new features are added and stuff gets removed. For example, how might a product using version 1.0 of the "ABC" framework adapt when version 2.0 comes along (ABC could be .NET, Java, Cocoa, or whatever you want)? One solution might be to make the frameworks backward compatible; so that code written for 1.0 will still work in version 2.0 of the framework. Another might be to selectively target only version 1.0 of the framework, but this might leave many fancy new features unused (many .NET 2.0 apps seem to do this) Any thoughts on what we as developers should do as best practice to keep our technologies up to date, whilst not breaking our applications?

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• generating dynamic word documents for mass mailing

  - by bluesystem

  I need to generate a mass mailing based on a word document model with PHP. Given is a database with the adresses and the data that need to be filled in my word model. I want to generate a single word document with the different adresses and field contents from the database. We have a Linux server and the COM object is not avalaible. Is there a ready to use class to do this? Did you had any experiance with PHPWord? What is the best practice in this case? In the ideal case the client should just upload th word master document, with the fields that need to be filled and then fusioned to a multiple pages word document containing the whole mailing.

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• Javascript code in ASP.NET MVC Partial Views (ASCX) or not?

  - by Alex

  Is there a "best practice" for placing Javascript code when you have many partial views and JS code that's specific to them? I feel like I'm creating a maintenance nightmare by having many partial views and then a bunch of independent Javascript files for them which need to be synced up when there is a partial view change. It appears, for maintenance purposes, better to me to put the JS code with the partial view. But then I'm violating generally accepted practices that all JS code should be at the bottom of the page and not mixed in, and also I'd end up with multiple references to the same JS file (as I'd include a reference in each ASCX for intellisense purposes). Does anyone have a better idea? Thank you!

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• Using DAO's or static methods in Domain Object with nHibernate

  - by mickyjtwin

  I am using nHibernate for the first time, and after alot of reading/researching, plus looking at other projects done with nHibernate, have seen a couple of implementation practices. I am looking for opinions about which would be best to use and why. Essentially the two methods are as follows: Using Data Access Objects and a DAO Factory. Example usage: INotificationListDAO nListDAO = NHDaoFactory.GetNotificationListDAO(); NotificationList list = nListDAO.GetByListID(""); Use Static methods in the Domain Object. Example usage: NotificationList list = NotificationList.GetByListID(""); NHHelper.Session.Get(id); NHHelper.Session basically calls the NHibernateSessionManager.Instace.GetSessionFrom(""). While both look similar, it is more to do with best practice. From what I understand, the first option is more so if you are developing enterprise level applications, where my requirements are more for mid-range websites.

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• How do I use a UIView subclass as a container?

  - by dxq

  I'm trying to subclass UIView to create a custom view that is essentially a container. The subclass contains a UILabel and a UIImageView- I can't make either of them show up. Here's an example of what I've been trying: In my main view controller: - (id)initWithNibName:(NSString *)nibNameOrNil bundle:(NSBundle *)nibBundleOrNil { if (self = [super initWithNibName:nibNameOrNil bundle:nibBundleOrNil]) { ViewClass *myView = [[ViewClass alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(100, 100, 150, 150)]; [view addSubview:myView]; } return self; } In my UIView subclass: - (id)initWithFrame:(CGRect)frame { if (self = [super initWithFrame:frame]) { UILabel *word = [[[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:[self bounds]] autorelease]; word.text = @"WHY ISN'T THIS SHOWING UP!?"; [self addSubview:word]; } return self; } Can anyone explain what I'm doing wrong? I'm way out of practice with UIKit and Obj-C, and I figure I'm probably missing something obvious.

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• Need help with a Linq XML conditional grouping query

  - by FiveTools

  I have the following xml fragment: <BANNER ID="Banner 2" ROW_WIDTH="200"> <BANNER_TEXTS ID="BANNER_TEXTS"> <BANNER_TEXT UNDERLINE="false" SPAN_COL="1" WIDTHT="78px"></BANNER_TEXT> <BANNER_TEXT UNDERLINE="true" SPAN_COL="3" WIDTHT="234px">Years In Practice</BANNER_TEXT> <BANNER_TEXT UNDERLINE="true" SPAN_COL="3" WIDTHT="234px">Internet Usage</BANNER_TEXT> <BANNER_TEXT UNDERLINE="true" SPAN_COL="4" WIDTHT="312px">Sales Reps Seen / Week</BANNER_TEXT> <BANNER_TEXT UNDERLINE="true" SPAN_COL="3" WIDTHT="234px">Prescription Volume</BANNER_TEXT> <BANNER_TEXT UNDERLINE="true" SPAN_COL="3" WIDTHT="222px">Patient Load</BANNER_TEXT> </BANNER_TEXTS> <BANNER_TEXTS ID="COLUMN_TEXTS"> <BANNER_TEXT UNDERLINE="true" SPAN_COL="1" WIDTHT="78px">Total</BANNER_TEXT> <BANNER_TEXT UNDERLINE="true" SPAN_COL="1" WIDTHT="78px">&#60; 11 years</BANNER_TEXT> <BANNER_TEXT UNDERLINE="true" SPAN_COL="1" WIDTHT="78px">11-20 years</BANNER_TEXT> <BANNER_TEXT UNDERLINE="true" SPAN_COL="1" WIDTHT="78px">21-30 years</BANNER_TEXT> <BANNER_TEXT UNDERLINE="true" SPAN_COL="1" WIDTHT="78px">Light 1-5 hrs</BANNER_TEXT> <BANNER_TEXT UNDERLINE="true" SPAN_COL="1" WIDTHT="78px">Medium 6-10 hrs</BANNER_TEXT> <BANNER_TEXT UNDERLINE="true" SPAN_COL="1" WIDTHT="78px">Heavy &#62;10 hrs</BANNER_TEXT> <BANNER_TEXT UNDERLINE="true" SPAN_COL="1" WIDTHT="78px">0</BANNER_TEXT> <BANNER_TEXT UNDERLINE="true" SPAN_COL="1" WIDTHT="78px">1-2</BANNER_TEXT> <BANNER_TEXT UNDERLINE="true" SPAN_COL="1" WIDTHT="78px">3-5</BANNER_TEXT> <BANNER_TEXT UNDERLINE="true" SPAN_COL="1" WIDTHT="78px">&#62;5</BANNER_TEXT> <BANNER_TEXT UNDERLINE="true" SPAN_COL="1" WIDTHT="78px">1-100</BANNER_TEXT> <BANNER_TEXT UNDERLINE="true" SPAN_COL="1" WIDTHT="78px">101-150</BANNER_TEXT> <BANNER_TEXT UNDERLINE="true" SPAN_COL="1" WIDTHT="78px">&#62;150</BANNER_TEXT> <BANNER_TEXT UNDERLINE="true" SPAN_COL="1" WIDTHT="74px">1-100</BANNER_TEXT> <BANNER_TEXT UNDERLINE="true" SPAN_COL="1" WIDTHT="74px">101-200</BANNER_TEXT> <BANNER_TEXT UNDERLINE="true" SPAN_COL="1" WIDTHT="74px">&#62;200</BANNER_TEXT> </BANNER_TEXTS> <BANNER_TEXTS ID="COLUMN_TEXTS"> <COLUMN_TEXT UNDERLINE="false" SPAN_COL="1">(A)</COLUMN_TEXT> <COLUMN_TEXT UNDERLINE="false" SPAN_COL="1">(B)</COLUMN_TEXT> <COLUMN_TEXT UNDERLINE="false" SPAN_COL="1">(C)</COLUMN_TEXT> <COLUMN_TEXT UNDERLINE="false" SPAN_COL="1">(D)</COLUMN_TEXT> <COLUMN_TEXT UNDERLINE="false" SPAN_COL="1">(E)</COLUMN_TEXT> <COLUMN_TEXT UNDERLINE="false" SPAN_COL="1">(F)</COLUMN_TEXT> <COLUMN_TEXT UNDERLINE="false" SPAN_COL="1">(G)</COLUMN_TEXT> <COLUMN_TEXT UNDERLINE="false" SPAN_COL="1">(H)</COLUMN_TEXT> <COLUMN_TEXT UNDERLINE="false" SPAN_COL="1">(I)</COLUMN_TEXT> <COLUMN_TEXT UNDERLINE="false" SPAN_COL="1">(J)</COLUMN_TEXT> <COLUMN_TEXT UNDERLINE="false" SPAN_COL="1">(K)</COLUMN_TEXT> <COLUMN_TEXT UNDERLINE="false" SPAN_COL="1">(L)</COLUMN_TEXT> <COLUMN_TEXT UNDERLINE="false" SPAN_COL="1">(M)</COLUMN_TEXT> <COLUMN_TEXT UNDERLINE="false" SPAN_COL="1">(N)</COLUMN_TEXT> <COLUMN_TEXT UNDERLINE="false" SPAN_COL="1">(O)</COLUMN_TEXT> <COLUMN_TEXT UNDERLINE="false" SPAN_COL="1">(P)</COLUMN_TEXT> <COLUMN_TEXT UNDERLINE="false" SPAN_COL="1">(Q)</COLUMN_TEXT> </BANNER_TEXTS> </BANNER> I would like to group all the 'BANNER_TEXT' in the second sequence using the first sequence 'BANNER_TEXT' as the key (only include elements where string is not null or empty). The span_col attribute in the first 'BANNER_TEXT' sequence indicates which elements by position in the 2nd sequence are related. An example: 'Years in Practice' would be the first key and the attribute SPAN_COL=3 for that element indicates it would contain '< 11 years', '11-20 years', '21-30 years' (the first grouping of string.empty = Total would be skipped).

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• How would you go to "design" a cart within a Zend Framework project?

  - by ÉricP

  Hi, I know ZF well, and a little bit of Magento, but I'm new to E-commerce, and I'm sure there are best practice to follow when designing a cart model. How would go to design a cart? I though of two models, Model_Cart and Model_Cart_Item used in conjonction with Zend_Session to store the cart in session. What are your feedbacks? How would you go to do that? What should I know about writing a cart system? Note that I need a simple system, I even don't need to work with quantity

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• What is the most efficient way to list all of the files in a directory (including sub-directories)?

  - by prometheus

  I am writing a servlet which will examine a directory on the server (external to the web container), and recursively search for certain files (by certain files, I mean files that are of a certain extension as well as a certain naming convention). Once these files are found, the servlet responds with a long list of all of the found files (including the full path to the files). My problem is that there are so many files and directories that my servlet goes extremely slow. I was wondering if there was a best practice or existing servlet for this type of problem? Would it be more efficient to simply compile the entire list of files and do the filtering via js/jquery on the client side?

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• code-style: Is inline initialization of JS objects ok?

  - by michael

  I often find myself using inline initialization (see example below), especially in a switch statement when I don't know which case loop will hit. I find it easier to read than if statements. But is this good practice or will it incur side-effects or a performance hit? for (var i in array) { var o = o ? o : {}; // init object if it doesn't exist o[array[i]] = 1; // add key-values } Is there a good website to go to get coding style tips?

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• Too many jquery plugins?

  - by DavidR

  I'm developing a website, but I realized that, in addition to the link to my main javascript file, and the link to the jquery file, it's beginning to look like I'm going to have links to three or more plugins also. I'm just wondering if this is good practice? The site I'm building is a web app, so I need a lot of functionality, but I don't want to be a plugin glutton. Is it considered good to append all the javascript plugins together into one file so as to only have to download one file, or will I run into problems?

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• Manually setting object's position or have the object do it all?

  - by N. Lucas

  I'm stuck thinking about the best way to go about setting a line segment's position, I have a class Line(length, angle, previous) being called from a class Polygon.. Right now I have: public function Line(length:Number, angle:Number, previous:Line = null) { if (previous != null) { this.x = previous.end.x; this.y = previous.end.y; } /**/ } Now, is this the best practice or should I be doing: Polygon.addLine(length:Number, angle:Number):void { var previous = _line[_line.length - 1]; // Array containing all Lines var line:Line = new Line(length, angle, previous); line.x = previous.end.x; line.y = previous.end.y; /**/ }

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• What is the optimal number of threads for performing IO operations in java?

  - by marc

  In Goetz's "Java Concurrency in Practice", in a footnote on page 101, he writes "For computational problems like this that do not I/O and access no shared data, Ncpu or Ncpu+1 threads yield optimal throughput; more threads do not help, and may in fact degrade performance..." My question is, when performing I/O operations such as file writing, file reading, file deleting, etc, are there guidelines for the number of threads to use to achieve maximum performance? I understand this will be just a guide number, since disk speeds and a host of other factors play into this. Still, I'm wondering: can 20 threads write 1000 separate files to disk faster than 4 threads can on a 4-cpu machine?

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• Passing a web service an unknown number of parameters

  - by Billyhole

  I'm relatively new to utilizing web services. I'm trying to create one that will be accepting data from a ASP.Net form whose input controls are created dynamically at runtime and I don't how many control values will be getting passed. I'm thinking I'll be using jQuery's serialize() on the form to get the data, but what do I have the web service accept for a parameter? I thought maybe I could use serializeArray(), but still I don't know what type of variable to accept for the JavaScript array. Finally, I was thinking that I might need to create a simple data transfer object with the data before sending it along to the web service. I just didn't wanna go through with the DTO route if there was a much simpler way or an established best practice that I should follow. Thanks in advance for any direction you can provide and let me know I wasn't clear enough, or if you have any questions.

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• -1 as a return value

  - by dimadima

  This question is specifically about PHP, but I'm guessing it might be applicable to other languages as well. I've noticed that between PHP4 and PHP5, the designers of the language shifted away from using -1 as a return value to using constants or other forms of output. This makes sense, as -1 is not particularly evocative, and I'm guessing this practice led to confusion. That said, I am sometimes inclined to return -1 when I want to quickly add another return option to a function, and -1 often seems like a perfectly valid way to express the outcome I am coding for. So here are my questions: Is my observation generally correct, regarding the move away from -1 as a return value in PHP5 vs PHP4? What are the cons of returning -1, beyond for the reason I mentioned above, wherein the -1 return value doesn't contribute positively to code clarity?

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• Unread email notifier, most practical approach

  - by Michael Pasqualone

  I'm in the process of writing a small php-cli script that will loop over over my personal inbox and then send me an SMS via a gateway. The question I have is: As will have the script launch via cron every 10 minutes, if there is an email sitting in my inbox that is not read before the next script launch then I will receive 2 sms. Does any one (pseudocode will do) have any idea what the best practice would be in php5 to ensure only 1 SMS is sent? What I am currently learning towards is towards storing the message ID in a sqlite DB and flagging a field whether an SMS has been sent or not - but wondering if there is an easier way?

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• How do you set a double value to a "non-value"

  - by Ankur

  I have two double data elements in an object. Sometimes they are set with a proper value and sometimes not. When the form field from which they values are received is not filled I want to set them to some value that tells me, during the rest of the code that the form fields were left empty. I can't set the values to null as that gives an error, is there some way I can make them 'Undefined'. PS. Not only am I not sure that this is possible, it might not also make sense. But if there is some best practice for such a situation I would be keen to hear it.

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• Connection Pooling

  - by cshah

  I have the following code, If I use conn == null in finally do I still use connection pooling? I know it is a good practice to close your connection but how about disposing the whole connection object? public void ExecuteNonQuery(SqlCommand Cmd) { //========== Connection ==========// SqlConnection Conn = new SqlConnection(strConStr); try { //========== Open Connection ==========// Conn.Open(); //========== Execute Command ==========// Cmd.Connection = Conn; Cmd.CommandTimeout = 180; Cmd.ExecuteNonQuery(); } catch (Exception Exc) { throw Exc; } finally { //======== Closing Connection ========// if (Conn.State == ConnectionState.Open) { Conn.Close(); } //======== Disposing object ========// Conn = null; } }

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• Unreachable code detected in case statement

  - by alex

  I have a code: protected override bool ProcessCmdKey(ref Message msg, Keys keyData) { switch (keyData) { case Keys.Alt|Keys.D1: if (this._condition1) { return true; } else { return base.ProcessCmdKey(ref msg, keyData); } break; case Keys.Control |Keys.U: if (this._condition2) { return true; } else { return base.ProcessCmdKey(ref msg, keyData); } break; default: return base.ProcessCmdKey(ref msg, keyData); } return true; It gives me "unreachable code detected" warning on breaks. Is it good practice not to use break operator here ? I don't want to turn off "unreachable code detected" warning. PS: There are many case in my ProcessCmdKey method.

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• Enumerating all hamiltonian paths from start to end vertex in grid graph

  - by Eric

  Hello, I'm trying to count the number of Hamiltonian paths from a specified start vertex that end at another specified vertex in a grid graph. Right now I have a solution that uses backtracking recursion but is incredibly slow in practice (e.g. O(n!) / 3 hours for 7x7). I've tried a couple of speedup techniques such as maintaining a list of reachable nodes, making sure the end node is still reachable, and checking for isolated nodes, but all of these slowed my solution down. I know that the problem is NP-complete, but it seems like some reasonable speedups should be achievable in the grid structure. Since I'm trying to count all the paths, I'm sure that the search must be exhaustive, but I'm having trouble figuring out how to prune out paths that aren't promising. Does anyone have some suggestions for speeding the search up? Or an alternate search algorithm?

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• How to? - part of the site over ssl, other part not

  - by spirytus

  What is common practice for coding web applications where part of the site has to be secured (e.g. checkout section) and part not necessarily, lets say homepage. As far as I know sharing sessions in between http and https parts of the site is not easily possible (or is it?). What would be common approach if I wanted to display on http page like homepage, shopping cart data (items) that users ordered on https pages? How those two parts of the site would communicate if necessary? Also isn't it security flaw in popular shopping carts as it seems that many of these have only checkout pages secured (ssl) and the rest not? I'm using php if it makes any difference.

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• How to insert an n:m-relationship with technical primary keys generated by a sequence?

  - by bitschnau

  Let's say I have two tables with several fields and in every table there is a primary key which is a technical id generated by a database sequence: table1 table2 ------------- ------------- field11 <pk> field21 <pk> field12 field22 field11 and field21 are generated by sequences. Also there is a n:m-relationship between table1 und table2, designed in table3: table3 ------------- field11 <fk> field21 <fk> The ids in table1 und table2 are generated during the insert statement: INSERT INTO table1 VALUES (table1_seq1.NEXTVAL, ... INSERT INTO table2 VALUES (table2_seq1.NEXTVAL, ... Therefore I don't know the primary key of the added row in the data-access-layer of my program, because the generation of the pk happens completely in the database. What's the best practice to update table3 now? How can I gain access to the primary key of the rows I just inserted?

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• How is an SOA architecture really supposed to be implemented?

  - by smaye81

  My project is converting a legacy fat-client desktop application into the web. The database is not changing as a result. Consequently, we are being forced to call external web services to access data in our own database. Couple this with the fact that some parts of our application are allowed to access the database directly through DAOs (a practice that is much faster and easier). The functionality we're supposed to call web services for are what has been deemed necessary for downstream, dependent systems. Is this really how SOA is supposed to work? Admittedly, this is my first foray into the SOA world, but I have to think this is the complete wrong way to go about this.

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• Enums With Default Throw Clause?

  - by Tom Tresansky

  I noticed the following in the Java Language spec in the section on enumerations here: link switch(this) { case PLUS: return x + y; case MINUS: return x - y; case TIMES: return x * y; case DIVIDE: return x / y; } throw new AssertionError("Unknown op: " + this); However, looking at the switch statement definition section, I didn't notice this particular syntax (the associated throw statement) anywhere. Can I use this sort of "default case is throw an exception" syntactic sugar outside of enum definitions? Does it have any special name? Is this considered a good/bad practice for short-cutting this behavior of "anything not in the list throws an exception"?

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• Why I have to call 'exit' after redirection through header('Location..') in PHP?

  - by Nicolò Martini

  You know that if you want to redirect an user in PHP you can use the header function: header('Location: http://smowhere.com'); It is also well known that it is a good practice to put also an exit; after the header call, to prevent execution of other php code. So my question is: could the code after the header-location call be effectively executed? In which cases? Can a malicious user be able to completely ignore the header('Location..') call? How?

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• Sinatra: How do I provide access to a login form while preventing access to the rest of my Sinatra a

  - by Brandon Toone

  I recently created a Sinatra app with a login form (no basic auth). To prevent access to the app unless the user logged in I put a before block in place before do unless request.path_info == '/login' authenticated? end end I quickly realized that this prevented me from accessing resources in the public directory like my style sheet and logo unless authenticated first as well. To get around that I changed my filter to the following: before do unless request.path_info == '/login' || request.path_info == "/stylesheets/master.css" || request.path_info == "/images/logo.png" authenticated? end end If there were lots of resources I needed to provide exceptions to this way of making them would quickly become overwhelming. What is a better way to code this so I can make exceptions for the public directory or even its specific sub-directories and files like /stylesheets, /images, /images/bg.png but not /secret or /secret/eyes-only.pdf? Or ... Is there a completely different best-practice to handle this situation of locking down everything except the stuff related to logging in (handlers, views, resources)?

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