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  • SEO: Where do I start?

    - by James
    Hi, I am primarily a software developer however I tend to delve in some web development from time to time. I have recently been asked to have a look at a friends website as they are wanting to improve their position in search engine results i.e. google/yahoo etc. I am aware there is no guarentee that their position will change, however, I do know there are techniques/ways to make your website more visible to search engine spiders and to consequently improve your position in the rankings i.e. performing SEO. Before I started looking at the SEO of the site I did the following prerequsite checks: Ran the website through the W3C Markup Validator and the W3C CSS Validator services. Looked through the markup code manually (check for meta tags etc) Performed a thorough cross browser compatibility test. From those checks, the following was evident: No SEO has been performed on the site before. The website has been developed using a visual editing tool such as dreamweaver (as it failed the validation services miserably and tables where being used everywhere!) The site is fairly cross browser compatibile (only some slight issues with IE8 which are easily resolved). How the site navigation is, isn't very search engine friendly (e.g. index.php?page=home) I can see right away a major improvement for SEO (or I at least think) would be to change the way the website is structured i.e. change from using dynamic pages such as "index.php?page=home" and actually having pages called "home.html". Other area's would be to add meta tags to identify keywords, and then sprinkling these keywords over the pages. As I am a rookie in this department, could anyone give me some advice on how I could perform thorough SEO on this website? Thanks in advance.

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  • What are the alternatives to public fields?

    - by James
    I am programming a game in java, and as the question title suggestions i am using public fields in my classes. (for the time being) From what i have seen public fields are bad and i have some understanding why. (but if someone could clarify why you should not use them, that would be appreciated) The thing is that also from what i have seen, (and it seems logical) is that using private fields, but using getters and setters to access them is also not good as it defeats the point of using private fields in the first place. So, my question is, what are the alternatives? or do i really have to use private fields with getters and setters? For reference here is one of my classes, and some of its methods. I will elaborate more if needs be. //The player's fields. public double health; public String name; public double goldCount; public double maxWeight; public double currentWeight; public double maxBackPckSlts; public double usedBackPckSlts; // The current back pack slots in use public double maxHealth; // Maximum amount of health public ArrayList<String> backPack = new ArrayList<String>(); //This method happens when ever the player dynamically takes damage(i.e. when it is not scripted for the player to take damage. //Parameters will be added to make it dynamic so the player can take any spread of damage. public void beDamaged(double damage) { this.health -= damage; if (this.health < 0) { this.health = 0; } } public void gainHealth(double gainedHp) { this.health += gainedHp; if (this.health > this.maxHealth) { this.health = this.maxHealth; } }

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  • Why its not working?

    - by Andrew Hoffmann
    BinaryReader br = new BinaryReader(Console.OpenStandardInput()); BinaryWriter bw = new BinaryWriter(Console.OpenStandardOutput()); int n = br.ReadInt32(); bw.Write(n); always getting this error: Unhandled Exception: System.IO.EndOfStreamException: Failed to read past end of stream. at System.IO.BinaryReader.FillBuffer (Int32 numBytes) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at System.IO.BinaryReader.ReadInt32 () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0 at Program.Main () [0x00025] in /home/skydos/ACM/Csharp/Csharp/Main.cs:24 Is there any way to make reading data in C# faster from Console?

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  • Convert any currency string to double

    - by James
    I need to store multiple currencies in SQL server. I understand that SQL won't support all different types of currencies (unless I store it as a string, but I don't want to do that). My idea was to convert all the values from their currency format to a standard double and store that instead. Then just re-format based on the culture info when displaying. However, I have tried doing something like e.g. var cultureInfo = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US"); double plain = return Double.Parse("$20,000.00", cultureInfo); This doesn't ever seem to work it always throws a FormatException. Even removing the currency symbol and just trying to do this based on the number alone does the same thing. This is just an example I want to support pretty much any type of currency. Is there a standard way of stripping out currency and getting the value as a double?

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  • Can checkboxes be removed from a .NET WinForms ListView at runtime?

    - by James
    Is it possible to remove the checkboxes from a .NET WinForms ListView control at runtime? The following code appears to have no effect when '.Checkboxes' has initially been set to 'true' and the control has rendered onto a form with checkboxes available for each list view item: // C#: testListView.BeginUpdate(); testListView.Checkboxes = false; testListView.EndUpdate(); Is there a method that must be called to enact this change? What is the use of providing the .Checkboxes property when it defaults to 'false' and only has an effect if set to 'true'?

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  • Is Minus Zero some sort of JavaScript performance trick?

    - by James Wiseman
    Looking in the jQuery core I found the folloiwng code convention: nth: function(elem, i, match){ return match[3] - 0 === i; }, And I was really curious about the snippet match[3] - 0 Hunting around for '-0' on google isn't too productive, and a search for 'minus zero' brings back a reference to a Bob Dylan song. So, can anyone tell me. Is this some sort of performance trick, or is there a reason for doing this rather than a parseInt or parseFloat? Thanks

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  • Rails auto_complete "undefined method `auto_complete_for'" problem

    - by Andrew Wize
    rails - 2.3.8 ruby - 1.8.7 After auto_complete plugin installstion i still have "undefined method `auto_complete_for'" problem! Andrey-Bezruks-MacBook-Pro:eyeonasia.stage wizeflux$ ruby script/plugin install http://github.com/rails/auto_complete.git --force svn: '/Users/wizeflux/Projects/ionasia/eyeonasia.stage/vendor/plugins' is not a working copy Initialized empty Git repository in /Users/wizeflux/Projects/ionasia/eyeonasia.stage/vendor/plugins/auto_complete/.git/ warning: Option "depth" is ignored for github.com/rails/auto_complete.git From github.com/rails/auto_complete * branch HEAD - FETCH_HEAD Andrey-Bezruks-MacBook-Pro:eyeonasia.stage wizeflux$ after restarting server i get an error on line " auto_complete_for :listings, :name " - undefined method `auto_complete_for' for #

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  • Escaping Problem

    - by James Jeffery
    How can escape quotes for use in HTML? My line of code is: <body onload="setTimeout('window.location='http://somepage.com'', 1000)"> As you can see in the current example, there are two ', and a " being used. How can I escape them for the above to work? The onload contents are set dynamically for a system I am working on @ work.

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  • Keep width even when column changes. (HTML)

    - by Andrew
    I have a login on the left sidebar of my website. When a user is logged in, the sidebar width doesn't remain the same as it was when the user wasn't logged in. Is there a way to keep the width the same? <!-- Start Sidebar --> <td id="sidebar" valign="top" height="400px" style="width: 200px"> <!-- Login Form --> <table id="TABLE2"> <tr> <td valign="top"> <asp:LoginView ID="LoginView1" runat="server"> <LoggedInTemplate> <br /> <br /> You are currently logged in. </LoggedInTemplate> <AnonymousTemplate> <asp:Login ID="Login1" runat="server" BorderPadding="0" BorderStyle="None" BorderWidth="0px" Font-Names="Verdana" Font-Size="0.8em" CreateUserText="Sign Up Now!" CreateUserUrl="http://www.tiltonindustries.com/Tilton/Login/CreateAccount.aspx" Height="1px" PasswordRecoveryText="Forgot your password?" PasswordRecoveryUrl="http://www.tiltonindustries.com/Tilton/Login/ForgotPassword.aspx" TextLayout="TextOnTop" Width="200px" DestinationPageUrl="http://www.tiltonindustries.com/Tilton/default.aspx"> <TitleTextStyle Font-Bold="True" Font-Size="0.9em"/> <InstructionTextStyle Font-Italic="True" ForeColor="Black" /> <TextBoxStyle Font-Size="0.8em" /> <LoginButtonStyle BorderStyle="Solid" BorderWidth="1px" Font-Names="Verdana" Font-Size="0.8em" ForeColor="#990000" /> <LayoutTemplate> <table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; height: 159px;"> <tr> <td style="height: 176px; width: 135px;"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" style="width: 219px; height: 1px" id="TABLE1"> <tr> <td align="center" style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 0.9em; color: white; height: 18px; background-color: #990000; text-align: center" colspan="2"> Log In</td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 94px; height: 10px;"> </td> <td style="height: 10px; width: 78px;"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 94px; height: 20px; text-align: right"> <asp:Label ID="UserNameLabel" runat="server" AssociatedControlID="UserName">User Name:</asp:Label> &nbsp; </td> <td style="height: 20px; text-align: left; width: 78px;"> <asp:TextBox ID="UserName" runat="server" Font-Size="0.9em" EnableViewState="False" Width="100px" MaxLength="20"></asp:TextBox><asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="UserNameRequired" runat="server" ControlToValidate="UserName" ErrorMessage="User Name is required." ToolTip="User Name is required." ValidationGroup="ctl01$Login1">*</asp:RequiredFieldValidator></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 94px; text-align: right"> <asp:Label ID="PasswordLabel" runat="server" AssociatedControlID="Password">Password:</asp:Label> &nbsp; </td> <td style="text-align: left; width: 78px;"> <asp:TextBox ID="Password" runat="server" Font-Size="0.9em" TextMode="Password" Width="100px"></asp:TextBox><asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="PasswordRequired" runat="server" ControlToValidate="Password" ErrorMessage="Password is required." ToolTip="Password is required." ValidationGroup="ctl01$Login1">*</asp:RequiredFieldValidator></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="height: 20px; width: 94px;"> &nbsp;</td> <td style="height: 20px; text-align: left; width: 78px;"> <asp:CheckBox ID="chkRememberMe" runat="server" Text="Remember Me" Width="104px" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" style="color: red; width: 94px; height: 20px;"> </td> <td align="center" style="color: red; text-align: left; width: 78px; height: 20px;"> <asp:Button ID="LoginButton" runat="server" BorderStyle="Solid" BorderWidth="1px" CommandName="Login" Font-Names="Verdana" Font-Size="1.0 em" Text="Log In" ValidationGroup="ctl01$Login1" Width="59px" BackColor="Gray" BorderColor="Black" Height="20px" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" style="width: 250px; color: red; height: 35px; text-align: center;" colspan="2"> <asp:Literal ID="FailureText" runat="server" EnableViewState="False"></asp:Literal></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="height: 26px; width: 94px;"> <asp:HyperLink ID="CreateUserLink" runat="server" NavigateUrl="http://www.tiltonindustries.com/Tilton/Login/CreateAccount.aspx">Sign Up Now!</asp:HyperLink>&nbsp; </td> <td style="width: 78px; height: 26px"> <asp:HyperLink ID="PasswordRecoveryLink" runat="server" NavigateUrl="http://www.tiltonindustries.com/Tilton/Login/ForgotPassword.aspx">Forgot your password?</asp:HyperLink></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> </LayoutTemplate> </asp:Login> </AnonymousTemplate> </asp:LoginView> <!-- End Login Form --> <!-- Quick Links --> <br /> <br /> <p style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; color: White"> Quick Links:<br /> </p> <br /> <p id="quicklinks"> <a href="default.aspx">Home</a><br /> <a href="services.aspx">Services</a><br /> <a href="matching.aspx">Color Matching</a><br /> <a href="packaging.aspx">Custom Packaging</a><br /> <a href="decorals.aspx">Decorals</a><br /> <a href="delivery.aspx">Delivery</a><br /> <a href="items.aspx">Items</a><br /> <a href="msds.aspx">MSDS</a><br /> <a href="plant.aspx">Plant Capabilities</a><br /> <a href="standard.aspx">Standard Colors</a><br /> <a href="special.aspx">Special Effects</a><br /> <a href="coatings.aspx">Spray Coatings</a><br /> <a href="warranty.aspx">Warranty</a><br /> <a href="http://www.tiltonindustries.com/Tilton/Login/Login.aspx">My Account</a><br /> <a href="gallery.aspx">Gallery</a><br /> <a href="about.aspx">About</a><br /> <a href="faq.aspx">F.A.Q</a><br /> <a href="links.aspx">Links</a><br /> <a href="careers.aspx">Careers</a><br /> <a href="contact.aspx">Contact</a><br /> <br /> </p> </td> </tr> </table> </td> <!-- End Sidebar -->

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  • dojox.widget.dialog: disable close button opacity animation

    - by James Maroney
    I am nearly happy with my dialog widget now, only that there is a built-in behavior of the close button fading in and out with mouseover/out interaction. I have found no way to disable this feature such that the close button remains at full opacity anytime the dialog is open. Here's roughly the code I'm working from: var d = new dojox.widget.Dialog({modal:true,sizeMethod:"chain",closable:true}); d.startup(); d.attr('content', /*html content*/); d.attr('dimensions',[/*width*/, /*height*/ ]).show(); There's much logic that I'm omitting here for brevity, but this should be all that is specifically pertinent to the way I am constructing the dialog. Many Thanks.

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  • Is removing unused functionality a bad thing?

    - by Andrew Grimm
    Is it possible for YAGNI to apply in the past tense? You created some functionality, it was used a little bit a while ago, but you aren't using it any more, and you don't want to maintain it, so you'd rather delete it. Is getting rid of unused or rarely-used functionality neccessarily a bad thing? Background: I use source control, so if I need the functionality again, I can get it. I'm the only user of my software (I'm a bioinformatician analyzing a data set). One scenario where I came across this was that I was using inheritance, with a parent class, and two child classes. One was handling files generated by 454 sequencing (next-generation sequencing), and the other was handling files generated by Sanger sequencing (previous-generation sequencing). I was actively maintaining the latter, but not the former. Maybe my mistake was using inheritance rather than composition, but that's a slightly different story.

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  • Do any browsers yet support HTML5's checkValidity() method?

    - by James A. Rosen
    The HTML5 spec defines some very interesting validation components, including pattern (for validating against a Regexp) and required (for marking a field as required). As best I can tell, however, no browser yet actually does any validation based on these attributes. I found a comparison of HTML5 support across engines, but there is no information about validation there. In the browsers I've tried (Firefox 3.5.8 and Safari 4.0.4), no object has a checkValidity() method, so I can't run the validations even though I can define them. Is there any support for this feature out there so I can experiment?

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  • Replacing accented/umlauted characters with their unadorned counterparts in C# [closed]

    - by Andrew Rollings
    Duplicate of 249087 I have a bunch of user generated addresses that may contain characters with diacritic marks. What is the most effective (i.e. generic) way (apart from a straightforward replace) to automatically convert any such characters to their closest English equivalent? E.g. any of àâãäå would become a æ would become the two separate letters ae ç would become c any of èéêë would become e etc. for all possible letter variations (preferably without having to find and encode lookups for each diacritic form of the letter). (Note: I have to pass these addresses on to third party software that is incapable of printing anything other than English characters. I'd rather the software was capable of handling them, but I have no control over that.) EDIT: Never mind... Found the answer [here][2]. It showed up in the "Related" section to the right of the question after I posted, but not in my prior search or as a pre-post suggestion. Hmm. I added the 'diacritics' tag to the other question in any case. EDIT 2: Jeez! Who voted this -1 after I closed it?

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  • C++ portable end of line

    - by Andrew
    Hi everyone, is there any way to automatically use correct EOL character depending on the OS used? I was thinking of something like std::eol? I know that it is very easy to use preprocessor directives but curious if that is already available.

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  • How would you sample a real-time stream of coordinates to create a Speed Graph?

    - by Andrew Johnson
    I have a GPS device, and I am receiving continuous points, which I store in an array. These points are time stamped. I would like to graph distance/time (speed) vs. distance in real-time; however, I can only plot 50 of the points because of hardware constraints. How would you select points from the array to graph? For example, one algorithm might be to select every Nth point from the array, where N results in 50 points total. Code: float indexModifier = 1; if (MIN(50,track.lastPointIndex) == 50) { indexModifier = track.lastPointIndex/50.0f; } index = ceil(index*indexModifier); Another algorithm might be to keep an array of 50 points, and throw out the point with the least speed change each time you get a new point.

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  • Get Auto Increment value with MySQL query

    - by James Simpson
    I currently have a database with over 6 million rows and growing. I currently do SELECT COUNT(id) FROM table; in order to display the number to my users, but the database is getting large and I have no need to store all of those rows except to be able to show the number. Is there a way to select the auto_increment value to display so that I can clear out most of the rows in the database? Using LAST_INSERT_ID() doesn't seem to work.

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  • What is a user category exactly?

    - by Andrew
    I wanted to add a tab to the user edit page ie user/%/edit/foo, and was using the twitter module as a model. After much spelunking and stepping through with a debugger, I realised that I needed to add a hook_user function in my module so that the %user_category part of the menu router path would work. It's now functioning as expected, but I don't really have a solid idea of what I just did, and haven't found a good explanation anywhere. Can anyone explain to me what it's about?

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  • PHP protected classes and properties, protected from whom?

    - by Andrew Heath
    I'm just getting started with OOP PHP via PHP Object-Oriented Solutions and am a little curious about the notion of protection in OOP. The author clearly explains how protection works, but the bit about not wanting others to be able to change properties falls a bit flat. I'm having a hard time imagining a situation where it is ever possible to prevent others from altering your classes, since they could just open up your class.php and manually tweak whatever they pleased seeing as how PHP is always in plaintext. Caution: all of the above written by a beginner with a beginner's understanding of programming...

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  • Troubles with list "dropdowns" and which list item gets the dropdown

    - by Andrew
    I'm working on a project for an MMO "guild" that gives members of the guild randomly generated tasks for the game. They can "block" three tasks from being assigned. The lists will look something like this: <ul> <li class="blocked">Task that is blocked</li> <li class="blocked-open">Click to block a task</li> <li class="blocked-open">Click to block a task</li> </ul> The blocked-open class means they haven't chosen a task to block yet. The blocked task means they've already blocked a task. When they click the list item, I want this to appear: <ul class="tasks-dropdown no-display"> <li><h1>Click a Task to Block</h1></li> <ul class="task-dropdown-inner"> <?php //output all tasks foreach($tasks as $task) { echo '<li class="blocked-option"><span id="'.$task.'">'.$task.'</span></li>'; } ?> <br class="clear" /> </ul> </ul> I don't quite know how, when the user clicks the .blocked-open line-item, to show that dropdown under only the one they clicked. My jQuery looked like this before I became confused. $("li.blocked-open").click(function() { $("ul.no-display").slideToggle("900"); }); $(".blocked-option span").click(function() { var task = $(this).attr('id'); alert("You have blocked: " + task); location.reload(true); }); I tested it by putting the dropdown under a line item in the code, and it worked fine, but when I have more than one dropdown in the code, clicking on one line item toggles all the dropdowns. I'm not sure what to do. :-p.

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  • Logging from multiple apps/processes to a single log file

    - by Andrew
    Our app servers (weblogic) all use log4j to log to the same file on a network share. On top of this we have all web apps in a managed server logging errors to a common error.log. I can't imagine this is a good idea but wanted to hear from some pros. I know that each web app has its own classloader, so any thread synchronization only occurs within the app. So what happens when multiple processes start converging on a single log file? Can we expect interspersed log statements? Performance problems? What about multiple web apps logging to a common log file? The environment is Solaris.

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  • POSTDATA, ASIHTTPrequest + instapaper

    - by Andrew
    Hi guys, I'm trying to use ASIHTTPRequest to submit links to instapaper (http://www.instapaper.com/api). I'm able to authenticate but I get a 400 response when trying to submit a link, so I'm clearly in need of figuring how to use postdata. Any help appreciated. Sample code attached. Thanks NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:urlInstapaperAddUrl]; ASIHTTPRequest instapaperAuthRequest = [ASIHTTPRequest requestWithURL:url]; [instapaperAuthRequest setDelegate:self]; [instapaperAuthRequest setRequestMethod:@"PUT"]; NSData temp = [[NSData alloc] initWithData:[@"url=http://www.redhat.com" dataUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding]]; [instapaperAuthRequest appendPostData:temp]; [instapaperAuthRequest addBasicAuthenticationHeaderWithUsername:@"myusername" andPassword:@"mypassword"]; [instapaperAuthRequest startAsynchronous];

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  • Debug Deserialization on Silverlight Client

    - by Andrew Garrison
    I'm working on a Silverlight client that interacts with a WCF web service. The Silverlight client and the WCF web service are using the same class library for their data entities that they are passing back and forth over the wire. I just added a new entity, and it's not being correctly deserialized on the Silverlight client. My question is, how can I debug the System.ServiceModel.ClientBase as it is deserializing an entity that it received from a WCF web service?

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