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How to include PHP files that require an absolute path?

 I have a directory structure like the following; script.php inc/include1.php inc/include2.php objects/object1.php objects/object2.php soap/soap.php Now, I use those objects in..

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Accessing a Dictionary.Keys Key through a numeric index

 I'm using a Dictionary<string, int> where the int is a count of the key. Now, I need to access the last-inserted Key inside the Dictionary, but I do not know the name of it. The obvious attempt..

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What Are Some Good .NET Profilers?

 What profilers have you used when working with .net programs, and which would you particularly recommend?..

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IllegalArgumentException or NullPointerException for a null parameter?

 I have a simple setter method for a property and null is not appropriate for this particular property. I have always been torn in this situation: should I throw an IllegalArgumentException, or a NullP..

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Storing Images in DB - Yea or Nay?

 So I'm using an app that stores images heavily in the DB. What's your outlook on this? I'm more of a type to store the location in the filesystem, than store it directly in the DB. What do you think ..

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Call ASP.NET function from JavaScript?

 I'm writing a web page in ASP.NET. I have some JavaScript code, and I have a submit button with a click event. Is it possible to call a method I created in ASP with JavaScript's click event?..

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Create a new Ruby on Rails application using MySQL instead of SQLite

 I want to create my Rails application with MySQL, because I like it so much. How can I do that in the latest version of Rails instead of the default SQLite?..

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SQL Client for Mac OS X that works with MS SQL Server

 How can I connect to a remote SQL server using Mac OS X? I don't really need a GUI, but it would be nice to have for the color coding and resultset grid. I'd rather not have to use a VM. Is there a S..

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Multiple Updates in MySQL

 I know that you can insert multiple rows at once, is there a way to update multiple rows at once (as in, in one query) in MySQL? Edit: For example I have the following Name id Col1 Col2 Row1 1..

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How to show a GUI message box from a bash script in linux?

 I'm writing a few little bash scripts under Ubuntu linux. I want to be able to run them from the GUI without needing a terminal window to enter any input or view any output. So far the only input req..

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Graph visualization library in JavaScript

 I have a data structure that represents a directed graph, and I want to render that dynamically on an HTML page. These graphs will usually be just a few nodes, maybe ten at the very upper end, so my ..

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How to create a SQL Server function to "join" multiple rows from a subquery into a single delimited field?

 To illustrate, assume that I have two tables as follows: VehicleID Name 1 Chuck 2 Larry LocationID VehicleID City 1 1 New York 2 1 Seattle 3 ..

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How should I load files into my Java application?

 How should I load files into my Java application?..

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C# loop - break vs. continue

 In a C# (feel free to answer for other languages) loop, what's the difference between break and continue as a means to leave the structure of the loop, and go to the next iteration? Example: foreach..

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Log4Net configuring log level

 How do I make Log4net only log Info level logs? Is that even possible? Can you only set a threshold? This is what I have, and it logs Info and above as I would expect. Is there anything i can do to ..

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Getting the text from a drop-down box

 This gets the value of whatever is selected in my dropdown menu. document.getElementById('newSkill').value I cannot however find out what property to go after for the text that's currently displaye..

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SQL Server Escape an Underscore

 How do I escape the underscore character? I am writing something like the following where clause and want to be able to find actual entries with _d at the end. Where Username Like '%_d' ..

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IsNothing versus Is Nothing

 Does anyone here use VB.NET and have a strong preference for or against using IsNothing as opposed to Is Nothing (for example, If IsNothing(anObject) or If anObject Is Nothing...)? If so, why? EDIT:..

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Tab Escape Character?

 I'm just in the process of parsing some text and can't remember what the escape character is for a tab in C#?..

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Equivalent VB keyword for 'break'

 I just moved over to the Visual Basic team here at work. What is the equivalent keyword to break in Visual Basic, that is, to exit a loop early but not the method?..

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The imported project "C:\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" was not found

 I got this error today when trying to open a Visual Studio 2008 project in Visual Studio 2005: The imported project "C:\Microsoft.CSharp.targets" was not found. ..

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x86 Assembly on a Mac

 Does anyone know of any good tools (I'm looking for IDEs) to write assembly on the Mac. Xcode is a little cumbersome to me. Also, on the Intel Macs, can I use generic x86 asm? Or is there a modified..

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How can I undo git reset --hard HEAD~1?

 Is it possible to undo the changes caused by the following command? If so, how? git reset --hard HEAD~1 ..

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Python, Unicode, and the Windows console

 When I try to print a Unicode string in a Windows console, I get an error . UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode character .... I assume this is because the Windows console does not accept..

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Length of a JavaScript object

 I have a JavaScript object. Is there a built-in or accepted best practice way to get the length of this object? const myObject = new Object(); myObject["firstname"] = "Gareth"; myO..

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Accessing post variables using Java Servlets

 What is the Java equivalent of PHP's $_POST? After searching the web for an hour, I'm still nowhere closer...

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SQL Server Management Studio alternatives to browse/edit tables and run queries

 I was wondering if there are any alternatives to Microsoft's SQL Server Management Studio? Not there's anything wrong with SSMS, but sometimes it just seem too big an application where all I want tod..

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Setting a div's height in HTML with CSS

 I am trying to lay out a table-like page with two columns. I want the rightmost column to dock to the right of the page, and this column should have a distinct background color. The content in the r..

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Using ConfigurationManager to load config from an arbitrary location

 I'm developing a data access component that will be used in a website that contains a mix of classic ASP and ASP.NET pages, and need a good way to manage its configuration settings. I'd like to use a..

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Learning Regular Expressions

 I don't really understand regular expressions. Can you explain them to me in an easy-to-follow manner? If there are any online tools or books, could you also link to them?..

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Recommended Fonts for Programming?

 What fonts do you use for programming, and for what language/IDE? I use Consolas for all my Visual Studio work, any other recommendations?..

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Best implementation for Key Value Pair Data Structure?

 So I've been poking around with C# a bit lately, and all the Generic Collections have me a little confused. Say I wanted to represent a data structure where the head of a tree was a key value pair, an..

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How to use XPath in Python?

 What are the libraries that support XPath? Is there a full implementation? How is the library used? Where is its website?..

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Entity Framework vs LINQ to SQL

 Now that .NET v3.5 SP1 has been released (along with VS2008 SP1), we now have access to the .NET entity framework. My question is this. When trying to decide between using the Entity Framework and L..

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Generic type conversion FROM string

 I have a class that I want to use to store "properties" for another class. These properties simply have a name and a value. Ideally, what I would like is to be able to add typed properties, so that th..

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Best way to access a control on another form in Windows Forms?

 First off, this is a question about a desktop application using Windows Forms, not an ASP.NET question. I need to interact with controls on other forms. I am trying to access the controls by using, f..

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What does the [Flags] Enum Attribute mean in C#?

 From time to time I see an enum like the following: [Flags] public enum Options { None = 0, Option1 = 1, Option2 = 2, Option3 = 4, Option4 = 8 } I don't understand what exac..

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How do you redirect HTTPS to HTTP?

 How do you redirect HTTPS to HTTP?. That is, the opposite of what (seemingly) everyone teaches. I have a server on HTTPS for which I paid an SSL certification for and a mirror for which I haven't and..

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How do you determine the size of a file in C?

 How can I figure out the size of a file, in bytes? #include <stdio.h> unsigned int fsize(char* file){ //what goes here? } ..

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Center text output from Graphics.DrawString()

 I'm using the .NETCF (Windows Mobile) Graphics class and the DrawString() method to render a single character to the screen. The problem is that I can't seem to get it centred properly. No matter wha..

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How do you open a file in C++?

 I want to open a file for reading, the C++ way. I need to be able to do it for: text files, which would involve some sort of read line function. binary files, which would provide a way to read raw d..

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Change visibility of ASP.NET label with JavaScript

 I have a ASP.NET page with an asp:button that is not visible. I can't turn it visible with JavaScript because it is not rendered to the page. What can I do to resolve this?..

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How do I enable MSDTC on SQL Server?

 Is this even a valid question? I have a .NET Windows app that is using MSTDC and it is throwing an exception: System.Transactions.TransactionManagerCommunicationException: Network access for Distr..

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How to resolve symbolic links in a shell script

 Given an absolute or relative path (in a Unix-like system), I would like to determine the full path of the target after resolving any intermediate symlinks. Bonus points for also resolving ~username n..

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Database, Table and Column Naming Conventions?

 Whenever I design a database, I always wonder if there is a best way of naming an item in my database. Quite often I ask myself the following questions: Should table names be plural? Should column n..

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How do I remove duplicate items from an array in Perl?

 I have an array in Perl: my @my_array = ("one","two","three","two","three"); How do I remove the duplicates from the array?..

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Are the shift operators (<<, >>) arithmetic or logical in C?

 In C, are the shift operators (<<, >>) arithmetic or logical?..

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Best Practices for securing a REST API / web service

 When designing a REST API or service are there any established best practices for dealing with security (Authentication, Authorization, Identity Management) ? When building a SOAP API you have WS-Sec..

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Performing a Stress Test on Web Application?

 In the past, I used Microsoft Web Application Stress Tool and Pylot to stress test web applications. I'd written a simple home page, login script, and site walkthrough (in an ecommerce site adding a f..

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How to autosize a textarea using Prototype?

 I'm currently working on an internal sales application for the company I work for, and I've got a form that allows the user to change the delivery address. Now I think it would look much nicer, if th..

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PDF Editing in PHP?

 Does anyone know of a good method for editing PDFs in PHP? Preferably open-source/zero-license cost methods. :) I am thinking along the lines of opening a PDF file, replacing text in the PDF and then..

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What is Turing Complete?

 What does the expression "Turing Complete" mean? Can you give a simple explanation, without going into too many theoretical details?..

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What is the difference between String and string in C#?

 Example (note the case): string s = "Hello world!"; String s = "Hello world!"; What are the guidelines for the use of each? And what are the differences?..

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Storing a file in a database as opposed to the file system?

 Generally, how bad of a performance hit is storing a file in a database (specifically mssql) as opposed to the file system? I can't come up with a reason outside of application portability that I wou..

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Accessing MP3 metadata with Python

 How can I retrieve mp3 metadata in Python?..

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mysqli or PDO - what are the pros and cons?

 In our place we're split between using mysqli and PDO for stuff like prepared statements and transaction support. Some projects use one, some the other. There is little realistic likelihood of us ever..

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What's the difference between struct and class in .NET?

 What's the difference between struct and class in .NET?..

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Mercurial stuck "waiting for lock"

 Got a bluescreen in windows while cloning a mercurial repository. After reboot, I now get this message for almost all hg commands: c:\src\>hg commit waiting for lock on repository c:\src\McVrsServe..

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How do I tell if a variable has a numeric value in Perl?

 Is there a simple way in Perl that will allow me to determine if a given variable is numeric? Something along the lines of: if (is_number($x)) { ... } would be ideal. A technique that won't throw..

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What is the easiest way to parse an INI File in C++?

 I'm trying to parse an INI file using C++. Any tips on what is the best way to achieve this? Should I use the Windows API tools for INI file processing (with which I am totally unfamiliar), an open-so..

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How do you get a directory listing in C?

 How do you scan a directory for folders and files in C? It needs to be cross-platform...

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How should I unit test multithreaded code?

 I have thus far avoided the nightmare that is testing multi-threaded code since it just seems like too much of a minefield. I'd like to ask how people have gone about testing code that relies on thre..

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Calling the base constructor in C#

 If I inherit from a base class and want to pass something from the constructor of the inherited class to the constructor of the base class, how do I do that? For example, if I inherit from the Except..

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Browse for a directory in C#

 How can I present a control to the user that allows him/her to select a directory? There doesn't seem to be any native .net controls which do this?..

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Case-insensitive string comparison in C++

 What is the best way of doing case-insensitive string comparison in C++ without transforming a string to all uppercase or all lowercase? Please indicate whether the methods are Unicode-friendly and h..

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How do you kill all current connections to a SQL Server 2005 database?

 I want to rename a database, but keep getting the error that 'couldn't get exclusive lock' on the database, which implies there is some connection(s) still active. How can I kill all the connections ..

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How to parse XML using vba

 I work in VBA, and want to parse a string eg <PointN xsi:type='typens:PointN' xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' xmlns:xs='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema'> <X>..

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Refresh Excel VBA Function Results

 How can I get a user-defined function to re-evaluate itself based on changed data in the spreadsheet? I tried F9 and Shift+F9. The only thing that seems to work is editing the cell with the function..

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What are the proper permissions for an upload folder with PHP/Apache?

 Sorry for the basic question - I'm a .NET developer and don't have much experience with LAMP setups. I have a PHP site that will allow uploads to a specific folder. I have been told that this folder ..

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How can you customize the numbers in an ordered list?

 How can I left-align the numbers in an ordered list? 1. an item // skip some items for brevity 9. another item 10. notice the 1 is under the 9, and the item contents also line up Change the char..

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LINQ query on a DataTable

 I'm trying to perform a LINQ query on a DataTable object and bizarrely I am finding that performing such queries on DataTables is not straightforward. For example: var results = from myRow in myDataT..

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How to programmatically send SMS on the iPhone?

 Does anybody know if it's possible, and how, to programmatically send a SMS from the iPhone, with the official SDK / Cocoa Touch?..

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Compare a date string to datetime in SQL Server?

 In SQL Server I have a DATETIME column which includes a time element. Example: '14 AUG 2008 14:23:019' What is the best method to only select the records for a particular day, ignoring the time..

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Why are my PowerShell scripts not running?

 I wrote a simple batch file as a PowerShell script, and I am getting errors when they run. It's in a scripts directory in my path. This is the error I get: Cannot be loaded because the execution ..

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Differences between MySQL and SQL Server

 I'm an ASP.NET developer who has used Microsoft SQL Server for all my database needs (both at work and for personal projects). I am considering trying out the LAMP stack for some of my personal proj..

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How can I set up an editor to work with Git on Windows?

 I'm trying out Git on Windows. I got to the point of trying "git commit" and I got this error: Terminal is dumb but no VISUAL nor EDITOR defined. Please supply the message using either -m or -..

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Oracle - What TNS Names file am I using?

 Sometimes I get Oracle connection problems because I can't figure out which tnsnames.ora file my database client is using. What's the best way to figure this out? ++happy for various platform soluti..

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Convert a hexadecimal string to an integer efficiently in C?

 In C, what is the most efficient way to convert a string of hex digits into a binary unsigned int or unsigned long? For example, if I have 0xFFFFFFFE, I want an int with the base10 value 4294967294...

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How do I create a Linked List Data Structure in Java?

 What's the best way to make a linked list in Java?..

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How do I remove duplicates from a C# array?

 I have been working with a string[] array in C# that gets returned from a function call. I could possibly cast to a Generic collection, but I was wondering if there was a better way to do it, possibly..

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How do you pass a function as a parameter in C?

 I want to create a function that performs a function passed by parameter on a set of data. How do you pass a function as a parameter in C?..

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How do you create a static class in C++?

 How do you create a static class in C++? I should be able to do something like: cout << "bit 5 is " << BitParser::getBitAt(buffer, 5) << endl; Assuming I created the BitParser cla..

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Removing elements with Array.map in JavaScript

 I would like to filter an array of items by using the map() function. Here is a code snippet: var filteredItems = items.map(function(item) { if( ...some condition... ) { return item; ..

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Select all columns except one in MySQL?

 I'm trying to use a select statement to get all of the columns from a certain MySQL table except one. Is there a simple way to do this? EDIT: There are 53 columns in this table (NOT MY DESIGN)..

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grep a file, but show several surrounding lines?

 I would like to grep for a string, but also show the preceding five lines and the following five lines as well as the matched line. How would I be able to do this?..

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Hidden Features of C#?

 This came to my mind after I learned the following from this question: where T : struct We, C# developers, all know the basics of C#. I mean declarations, conditionals, loops, operators, etc. Some..

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