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  • Are unit tests also used to find bugs?

    - by Draco
    I was reading the following article and the author made it quite clear that unit tests are NOT used to find bugs. I would like to know what your thoughts are on this. I do know that unit tests makes the design of your application much more robust but isn't it the fact that finding bugs through unit tests that make the application robust, besides its other advantages? http://blog.stevensanderson.com/2009/08/24/writing-great-unit-tests-best-and-worst-practises/

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  • Taming the malloc/free beast -- tips & tricks

    - by roufamatic
    I've been using C on some projects for a master's degree but have never built production software with it. (.NET & Javascript are my bread and butter.) Obviously, the need to free() memory that you malloc() is critical in C. This is fine, well and good if you can do both in one routine. But as programs grow, and structs deepen, keeping track of what's been malloc'd where and what's appropriate to free gets harder and harder. I've looked around on the interwebs and only found a few generic recommendations for this. What I suspect is that some of you long-time C coders have come up with your own patterns and practices to simplify this process and keep the evil in front of you. So: how do you recommend structuring your C programs to keep dynamic allocations from becoming memory leaks?

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  • Can Core Data be used for objects with variable schemas?

    - by glenc
    I'm implementing a new iPhone app and am relatively new to Cocoa development overall. I am at the stage of choosing how the persistence layer of this app will work, and it looks like I'm basically choosing between Core Data and sqlite3. The persisted models in this app are intended to have a schema that is loaded at runtime (from some kind of defn file, probably XML). By which I mean, this app is intended to have objects that are user-definable to some extent, e.g. the Customer type (which has certain built-in fields like "name" and "email") can be modified to have extra fields based on the user's specific needs (e.g. a user might want to add a "favourite fruit" field to their Customer type). Having said that, will Core Data work for an app with a non-baked-in data model like this? I've just started playing around with the Core Data object designer thing in XCode and it seems like this thing wants to work with objects that have fixed fields that are compiled in. I'm definitely trying to take the path of least resistance here, and I can see the benefits of using an Apple-supplied data framework, but don't want to start down that path if it's going to lock me into a data model that's defined at compile time.

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  • Find what unknown function does in C using gdb

    - by Gary
    Hi, I have a function m(int i, char c) which takes and returns a char between "-abc...xyz" and also takes an integer i. Basically I have no way to see the source code of the function but can call it and get the return value. Using gdb/C, what's the best way to decipher what the function actually does? I've tried looking for patterns using consecutive chars and integer inputs but have come up with nothing yet. If it helps, here are some results of testing the return values, with the first two bits being the arguments and the last bit being the return value: 0 a i 0 b l 0 c t 0 d x 0 e f 0 f v 1 a q 1 b i 1 c y 1 d e 2 a a 2 b y 2 c f 2 d n

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  • What do you do to keep current

    - by griegs
    I've noticed that as I progress in my career I my day to day activities require less and less actual hands on development. However, I feel that I need to stay current, both for my own personal desire as well as being able to guide a team to best practices etc. I'm finding it very hard to stay on top of the game because there are so many new frameworks, technologies and patterns coming out. Do I concentrate on a particular aspect or framework? Do I become a generalist or a specialist? What are others doing to maintain a certain level of proficiency and currentness (sic)?

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  • Weird bug in header in IE7

    - by Luuk
    Hi all, I have a weird bug in IE7. http://www.luukratief-design.nl/dump/simplefolio/ the navigation has to be centered. same goes for the background. Now every browser does it perfectly. even IE6! (didnt do pngfix yet). The only one who is having problems is IE7 who shifts the whole navbar element to the right. Anyone knows how this is possible?

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  • High Throughput and Windows Workflow Foundation

    - by SometimesUseful
    Can WWF handle high throughput scenarios where several dozen records are 'actively' being processed in parallel at any one time? We want to build a workflow process which handles a few thousand records per hour. Each record takes up to a minute to process, because it makes external web service calls. We are testing Windows Workflow Foundation to do this. But our demo programs show processing of each record appear to be running in sequence not in parallel, when we use parallel activities to process several records at once within one workflow instance. Should we use multiple workflow instances or parallel activities? Are there any known patterns for high performance WWF processing?

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  • I want Oracle Query for Formatted Output

    - by reply2viveksshah
    The following is my table design: Ecode Degree YOQ 7654321 SSC 2000 7654321 HSC 2002 7654321 Bcom 2006 7654321 MCA 2010 7654322 SSC 2002 7654322 HSC 2004 7654322 Bcom 2007 7654323 SSC 2002 7654323 HSC 2004 7654323 BE 2008 I want the following formatted output using an oracle query: Ecode Degree year 7654321 SSC,HSC,Bcom,MCA 2000,2002,2006,2010 7654322 SSC,HSC,Bcom 2002,2004,2007 7654323 SSC,HSC,BE 2002,2004,2008 How can this be done?

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  • How do I run a vim script that alters the current buffer?

    - by Dan
    I'm trying to write a beautify.vim script that makes C-like code adhere to a standard that I can easily read. My file contains only substitution commands that all begin with %s/... However, when I try to run the script with my file open, in the manner :source beautify.vim, or :runtime beautify.vim, it runs but all the substitute commands state that their pattern wasn't found (patterns were tested by entering them manually and should work). Is there some way to make vim run the commands in the context of the current buffer? beautify.vim: " add spaces before open braces sil! :%s/\%>1c>\s\@<!{/ {/g " beautify for sil! :%s/for *( *\([^;]*\) *; *\([^;]*\) *; *\([^;]*\) *)/for (\1; \2; \3)/ " add spaces after commas sil! :%s/,\s\@!/, /g In my tests the first :s command should match (it matches when applied manually).

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  • How to display a DateTime with chosen date parts, but in the order of the FormatProvider?

    - by Stephane
    I want to display the date in the order that the culture provides, but with the elements I want only. The DateTime.Tostring() method has a list of patterns that are very useful but I would like a very small change in it. The CultureInfo used in the following the following code are chosen as example, I don't want to rely on a specific list of CultureInfo, if possible var now = DateTime.Now; string nowString = now.ToString("m", CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("en-us")); Console.WriteLine(nowString); nowString = now.ToString("m", CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("fr-FR")); Console.WriteLine(nowString); displays : April 12 12 avril I would like a pattern that display the abbreviation of the month and the day, but that keeps the correct order from the specified CultureInfo. using the pattern "MMM dd" will always display the month's abbreviation first, followed by the day, breaking the french order for example. Any way to achieve that without too much custom code?

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  • Performance tuning of a Hibernate+Spring+MySQL project operation that stores images uploaded by user

    - by Umar
    Hi I am working on a web project that is Spring+Hibernate+MySQL based. I am stuck at a point where I have to store images uploaded by a user into the database. Although I have written some code that works well for now, but I believe that things will mess up when the project would go live. Here's my domain class that carries the image bytes: @Entity public class Picture implements java.io.Serializable{ long id; byte[] data; ... // getters and setters } And here's my controller that saves the file on submit: public class PictureUploadFormController extends AbstractBaseFormController{ ... protected ModelAndView onSubmit(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, Object command, BindException errors) throws Exception{ MutlipartFile file; // getting MultipartFile from the command object ... // beginning hibernate transaction ... Picture p=new Picture(); p.setData(file.getBytes()); pictureDAO.makePersistent(p); // this method simply calls getSession().saveOrUpdate(p) // committing hiernate transaction ... } ... } Obviously a bad piece of code. Is there anyway I could use InputStream or Blob to save the data, instead of first loading all the bytes from the user into the memory and then pushing them into the database? I did some research on hibernate's support for Blob, and found this in Hibernate In Action book: java.sql.Blob and java.sql.Clob are the most efficient way to handle large objects in Java. Unfortunately, an instance of Blob or Clob is only useable until the JDBC transaction completes. So if your persistent class defines a property of java.sql.Clob or java.sql.Blob (not a good idea anyway), you’ll be restricted in how instances of the class may be used. In particular, you won’t be able to use instances of that class as detached objects. Furthermore, many JDBC drivers don’t feature working support for java.sql.Blob and java.sql.Clob. Therefore, it makes more sense to map large objects using the binary or text mapping type, assuming retrieval of the entire large object into memory isn’t a performance killer. Note you can find up-to-date design patterns and tips for large object usage on the Hibernate website, with tricks for particular platforms. Now apparently the Blob cannot be used, as it is not a good idea anyway, what else could be used to improve the performance? I couldn't find any up-to-date design pattern or any useful information on Hibernate website. So any help/recommendations from stackoverflowers will be much appreciated. Thanks

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  • Changing constraints on the fly

    - by GoinOff
    Hi, I have a dijit.form.NumberTextBox input field that starts out with these parms: new dijit.form.NumberTextBox({ id: din1, style: "width:60px", constraints: { places: 0, pattern: '######' } }, din1); Everything works great..My question is I would like to change 'places' and 'pattern' parms on the fly. So I wrote this to change 'places' and 'patterns' parms: var myFldObj = dijit.byId(din1); if (myFldObj) { var myConstObj = myFldObj.attr('constraints'); if (myConstObj) { myConstObj.places = 2; myConstObj.pattern = '#####.0'; } } So, after I show the form again, I'd expect the entry field to allow 2 decimal places but the form still acts like places=0 and pattern='######'. When I check the values of 'places' and 'pattern' I get what I'd expect (2 and #####.0). My question: Can you change these values on the fly?? OR Do you have to destroy the original dijit object and recreate with new parms?? Thx!!

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  • Testing a db structure before beginnning to code the app

    - by driverate
    I'm in the beginning stages of writing (and learning as I go) a Python database app using SQLite. I have the db structure planned on paper, and I have the queries I'll need in mind, but before I start coding I want to fully test the db design so I know it's right and ready. What's the best free software to use to test the db structure quickest?

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  • Understanding Ruby class vs instance methods

    - by randombits
    I have the following code: #!/usr/bin/ruby class Person def self.speak p = self.new puts "Hello" p.chatter end private def chatter puts "Chattering" end end p = Person.new Person.speak I'd like to make chatter private, accessible only within p.. but I want p to be able to access it within the class method. Is there a better way to design this so chatter isn't available to the public, but a "factory" method like self.speak can call chatter?

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  • Regular Expression Help - Brackets within brackets

    - by adbox
    Hello I'm trying to develop a function that can sort through a string that looks like this: Donny went to the {park|store|{beach with friends|beach alone}} so he could get a breath of freash air. What I intend to do is search the text recursively for {} patterns where there is no { or } inside the {}, so only the innermost sandwiched text is selected, where I will then run a php to array the contents and select one at random, repeating process until the whole string has been parsed, showing a complete sentence. I just cannot wrap my head around regular expressions though. Appreciate any help!

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  • PHP 5.2 Function needed for GENERIC sorting of a recordset array

    - by donbriggs
    Somebody must have come up with a solution for this by now. We are using PHP 5.2. (Don't ask me why.) I wrote a PHP class to display a recordset as an HTML table/datagrid, and I wish to expand it so that we can sort the datagrid by whichever column the user selects. In the below example data, we may need to sort the recordset array by Name, Shirt, Assign, or Age fields. I will take care of the display part, I just need help with sorting the data array. As usual, I query a database to get a result, iterate throught he result, and put the records into an assciateiave array. So, we end up with an array of arrays. (See below.) I need to be able to sort by any column in the dataset. However, I will not know the column names at design time, nor will I know if the colums will be string or numeric values. I have seen a ton of solutions to this, but I have not seen a GOOD and GENERIC solution Can somebody please suggest a way that I can sort the recordset array that is GENERIC, and will work on any recordset? Again, I will not know the fields names or datatypes at design time. The array presented below is ONLY an example. UPDATE: Yes, I would love to have the database do the sorting, but that is just not going to happen. The queries that we are running are very complex. (I am not really querying a table of Star Trek characters.) They include joins, limits, and complex WHERE clauses. Writing a function to pick apart the SQL statement to add an ORDER BY is really not an option. Besides, sometimes we already have the array that is a result of the query, rather than the ability to run a new query. Array ( [0] => Array ( [name] => Kirk [shrit] => Gold [assign] => Bridge ) [1] => Array ( [name] => Spock [shrit] => Blue [assign] => Bridge ) [2] => Array ( [name] => Uhura [shrit] => Red [assign] => Bridge ) [3] => Array ( [name] => Scotty [shrit] => Red [assign] => Engineering ) [4] => Array ( [name] => McCoy [shrit] => Blue [assign] => Sick Bay ) )

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  • Dynamic pages and controls with Asp .NET

    - by Abhilash
    Hi, We are starting with the design of an ASP .NET Web UI using WCSF as the UI FW. We are evaluating some FW which will allow us to build dynamic pages, dynamic as in, deciding at runtime what user controls will be displayed and in what order. Also possibly, the pages and order in which they will be displayed. We are looking at Page Flow Application Block, but there's limited documentation around it, we were interested in knowing what other options could be considered. Thanks for your help guys...

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  • JavaScript Encapsulation / JQuery

    - by Chris
    I am trying to figure out how to keep my page variables in my application from being defined globally. I've come up with a few methods but am wondering if there is a general standard approach people use. I've got my plugin design pattern down using this approach: http://www.virgentech.com/blog/2009/10/building-object-oriented-jquery-plugin.html. But I'm just not sure how to handle my page level encapsulation.

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  • modify this code .. please help me?

    - by Sam
    i wana modify this code from static choices to dynamic this for 3 choices var PollhttpObject=null; function DoVote() {if(document.getElementById('PollRadio1').checke d)DoVote_Submit(1);else if(document.getElementById('PollRadio2').checked)DoVote_Submit(2);else if(document.getElementById('PollRadio3').checked)DoVote_Submit(3);else alert('?????: ?????? ?????? ??? ?????????? ??????? ?? ????? ??? ?? ???????');return false;} function DisbalePoll(TheCase) {document.getElementById('VoteBttn').onclick=function(){alert('!?????? ??? ?? ??????? ??????');} document.getElementById('PollRadio1').disabled='true';document.getElementById('PollRadio2').disabled='true';document.getElementById('PollRadio3').disabled='true';if(TheCase=='EXPIRED') {document.getElementById('VoteBttn').src='images/design/VoteBttn_OFF.jpg';document.getElementById('ResultBttn').src='images/design/ResultsBttn_OFF.jpg';document.getElementById('VoteBttn').onclick='';document.getElementById('ResultBttn').onclick='';document.getElementById('ResultBttn').style.cursor='';document.getElementById('VoteBttn').style.cursor='';}} function DoVote_Submit(VoteID) {if(VoteID!=0)DisbalePoll();try{PollhttpObject=getHTTPObject();if(PollhttpObject!=null) {PollhttpObject.onreadystatechange=PollOutput;PollhttpObject.open("GET","Ajax.aspx?ACTION=POLL&VOTEID="+ VoteID+"&RND="+ Math.floor(Math.random()*10001),true);PollhttpObject.send(null);}} catch(e){} return false;} function PollOutput(){if(PollhttpObject.readyState==4) {var SearchResult=PollhttpObject.responseText;document.getElementById('PollProgress').style.display='none';document.getElementById('PollFormDiv').style.display='block';if(SearchResult.length=2&&SearchResult.substr(0,2)=='OK') {var ReturnedValue=SearchResult.split("#");document.getElementById('PollBar1').style.width=0+'px';document.getElementById('PollBar2').style.width=0+'px';document.getElementById('PollBar3').style.width=0+'px';document.getElementById('PollRate1').innerHTML="0 (0%)";document.getElementById('PollRate2').innerHTML="0 (0%)";document.getElementById('PollRate3').innerHTML="0 (0%)";window.setTimeout('DrawPollBars(0, '+ ReturnedValue[1]+', 0, '+ ReturnedValue[2]+', 0, '+ ReturnedValue[3]+')',150);} else if(SearchResult.length=2&&SearchResult.substr(0,2)=='NO') {alert("?????: ??? ??? ???????? ?????");}} else {document.getElementById('PollProgress').style.display='block';document.getElementById('PollFormDiv').style.display='none';}} function DrawPollBars(Bar1Var,Bar1Width,Bar2Var,Bar2Width,Bar3Var,Bar3Width) {var TotalVotes=parseInt(Bar1Width)+parseInt(Bar2Width)+parseInt(Bar3Width);var IncVal=parseFloat(TotalVotes/10);var NewBar1Width=0;var NewBar2Width=0;var NewBar3Width=0;var Bar1NextVar;var Bar2NextVar;var Bar3NextVar;if(parseInt(parseInt(Bar1Var)*200/TotalVotes)0)NewBar1Width=parseInt(Bar1Var)*200/TotalVotes;else if(Bar1Var0)NewBar1Width=1;else NewBar1Width=0;if(parseInt(parseInt(Bar2Var)*200/TotalVotes)0)NewBar2Width=parseInt(Bar2Var)*200/TotalVotes;else if(Bar2Var0)NewBar2Width=1;else NewBar2Width=0;if(parseInt(parseInt(Bar3Var)*200/TotalVotes)0)NewBar3Width=parseInt(Bar3Var)*200/TotalVotes;else if(Bar3Var0)NewBar3Width=1;else NewBar3Width=0;document.getElementById('PollBar1').style.width=NewBar1Width+'px';document.getElementById('PollBar2').style.width=NewBar2Width+'px';document.getElementById('PollBar3').style.width=NewBar3Width+'px';document.getElementById('PollRate1').innerHTML=parseFloat(Bar1Var).toFixed(0)+" ("+ parseFloat(parseFloat(Bar1Var)/TotalVotes*100).toFixed(1)+"%)";document.getElementById('PollRate2').innerHTML=parseFloat(Bar2Var).toFixed(0)+" ("+ parseFloat(parseFloat(Bar2Var)/TotalVotes*100).toFixed(1)+"%)";document.getElementById('PollRate3').innerHTML=parseFloat(Bar3Var).toFixed(0)+" ("+ parseFloat(parseFloat(Bar3Var)/TotalVotes*100).toFixed(1)+"%)";if(Bar1Var!=Bar1Width||Bar2Var!=Bar2Width||Bar3Var!=Bar3Width) {if(parseFloat(Bar1Var)+IncVal<=parseInt(Bar1Width))Bar1NextVar=parseFloat(Bar1Var)+IncVal;else Bar1NextVar=Bar1Width;if(parseFloat(Bar2Var)+IncVal<=parseInt(Bar2Width))Bar2NextVar=parseFloat(Bar2Var)+IncVal;else Bar2NextVar=Bar2Width;if(parseFloat(Bar3Var)+IncVal<=parseInt(Bar3Width))Bar3NextVar=parseFloat(Bar3Var)+IncVal;else Bar3NextVar=Bar3Width;window.setTimeout('DrawPollBars('+ Bar1NextVar+', '+ Bar1Width+', '+ Bar2NextVar+', '+ Bar2Width+', '+ Bar3NextVar+', '+ Bar3Width+')',80); }}

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  • Static Libraries on iPhone device

    - by Akusete
    I have two projects, a Cocoa iPhone application and a static library which it uses. I've tested it successfully on the iPhone simulator, but when I try to deploy it to my iPhone device I get (symbol not found) link errors. If I remove the dependancy of the library the project builds/runs fine. I have made sure all the build settings are set to iPhoneOS not the simulator. Im sure its something simple, but has anyone run into similar problems moving from iPhone simulator to device? --EDIT: I have managed to create new projects (one for the application and one for the static library), and successfully get them to run on the iPhone or simulator. But I have a very strange problem... for each specific project I cannot get it working for BOTH the device and the simulator... I have double checked the build settings, made sure the libraries that are being references are for the matching build settings (I believe) but I cannot resolve these linking errors. I think I must be doing something very wrong... all the apple documentation says 'its super simple - one click' but this is giving me a lot of problems. This is probably something to do with xCode build settings, but I cannot seem to understand why selecting the different build platforms and rebuilding the libraries does not work.

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  • How to prefix a positive number with plus sign in PHP

    - by user318466
    I need to design a function to return negative numbers unchanged but should add a + sign at the start of the number if its already no present. Example: Input Output ---------------- +1 +1 1 +1 -1 -1 It will get only numeric input. function formatNum($num) { # something here..perhaps a regex? } This function is going to be called several times in echo/print so the quicker the better.

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