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accessing firebug's css data through javascript

The css tab in firebug? it shows the existing rules and properties, and you can add to those rules and properties? How can I programmatically add to these rules and properties? I am using some homemade tools to create divs in the browser, and then would like to be able to take an existing div's css state and turn it into a new rule. I...

Portfolio Management API

Does anyone know of a Stock/Fund GIPS Portfolio API. An Open Source version would be preferable. Thanks, j. ...

Long URLs from short ones using C#

Hi, I've been using the LongURL.org API for expanding short URLs. The great thing about this service is that it returns a long URL, the title of the actual page and meta-info. The real problem I have is that it seems to take an inordinate amount of time to fetch the data. I'm considering shifting the request to JavaScript so that the U...

Howto use Google Finance gadgets JavaScript API

How can i get access to the Google Finance gadgets JavaScript API (http://code.google.com/intl/de-DE/apis/finance/docs/finance-gadgets.html#JS_API) ?? I see the methods but how can i include the javascript api into a html file? Or must i use the google IDE? ...

php api ebay integration

how can i integrate ebay sniper in my site code which is used to making bid in last remaining seconds of bid ...

php / js facebook API Internet explorer fb_xd_fragment

Hi all, I'm debugging my website on Internet Explorer and, each time I try to use Facebook and connect with IE, it logs me in with Facebook, but in the popup it changes the URL to something beginning with "fb_xd_fragment" and it doesn't set the cookies for my domain... Any idea how to fix this? It only happens on IE, works perfectly on...

Managing dependencies of OSS projects

I'm a contributor to a Java Open Source project which integrates with Hibernate. I'm fairly new to the Open Source scene (as a contributor), and would like advice on how to manage dependencies. What are the best strategies / approaches for managing changes to the Hibernate codebase within our project? For example, nestled deep within ...

How far to go with a strongly typed language?

Let's say I am writing an API, and one of my functions take a parameter that represents a channel, and will only ever be between the values 0 and 15. I could write it like this: void Func(unsigned char channel) { if(channel < 0 || channel > 15) { // throw some exception } // do something } Or do I take advantage of C++ be...

iPhone private API of canAuthenticateAgainstProtectionSpace and didReceiveAuthenticationChallenge

Hi, everyone. I want to ask a questions about the canAuthenticateAgainstProtectionSpace and ddidReceiveAuthenticationChallenge. Are they private API iPhone application? If yes, how can I modify it? And after I modify the private API of iPhone, will the iPhone reject my application? If no, where should I put the modified code? I used ...

.NET API for music programming?

In short words I am looking for a .NET translation of JFugue. Update I realize that there is no real .NET alternative for JFugue, the posts bellow are always great as a guideline for one who wants to develop it by his own. Thanks for all of you. Note: I want to emphsize that my search is on the transcription part, not the playing part,...

HTML5 Filereader and SQL Database Crashes Chrome

I'm not sure if I'm using incorrect syntax, but I am unable to read an HTML5 Web SQL database BLOB entry into a DataURL using the HTML5 Filereader API. Here, try it for yourself on Chrome Dev Channel: http://austin.99k.org/index.html Choose multiple files, then inspect the page and go to storage. You'll see that a database has been cr...

Where can I get the full api doc of rails 3?

It seems http://api.rubyonrails.org/ is not for rails 3. Where can I get the api doc of rails 3? ...

Which API is being used in this website to sign in, and display a profile image?

I'm a bit puzzled. CSS tricks has an area for comments, but I noticed that the people who comment, have their own link and profile image. I understand that the author of that site is using Wordpress. Is this being accomplished with Wordpress or another API? ...

RESTful VS XML-styled requests

I'm developing API for booking(hotels, cars, apartments, etc.) system. Response will be in XML but how to handle requests in the best way ? Should they be an XML requests like on Travelfusion or RESTful like on Cleartrip ? Service is written in Grails. ...

google ajax search API for .net

hi all. i use this library to search web from my application: ht tp://code.google.com/p/google-api-for-dotnet/ I want to search this term with library above: imdb.com/title/ "2012.2009.Bluray.1080p.DTSMA5.1.x264.dxva-FraMeSToR" in site named:framestor-hd.org using this code: Google.API.Search.GwebSearchClient client = new Google.A...

Maya Programming: Separating attributes into sections in the attribute editor

Hi, Sorry to be so application specific, but I noticed another well answered post about Maya development. I've just written a plugin node for Maya. It just kills a bunch of particles according to a turbulence function. The turbulence is driven by a number of attributes that are adjustable in the attribute editor. In the attribute edito...

Lucene index of Amazon browse nodes

Has anybody tried to create a lucene index of Amazon browse nodes? If so, how should one go about doing this? Does it cost anything to crawl the browse nodes yourselfe? ...

Amazon Product Advertising API signed request with Java

Hello, after many hours of tinkering and reading the whole internet several times I just can't figure out how to sign requests for use with the Product Advertising API. So far I managed to generate a client from the provided WSDL file. I used a tutorial by Amazon for this. You can find it here: Tutorial for generating the web service ...

RESTful uploading of a file in PHP

Hello Everyone, So I'm working on a script that's going to upload a video to a server via a RESTful interface. The documentation tells me that I should pass the data (including the binary video file) as part of a POST request. I know how to set my POST variables, but I'm not sure how to do the binary data. The API says I should have a ...

Interface (API) name ind CDT Eclipse plugin for building source file

Existing eclipse expects a C/C++ source file to be present and then it compiles/builds the project on hitting the build button. Case in hand: I generate a C code from an AST using my own created plugin. Then this code has to be executed using CDT (i.e. I would directly like to call the interface (API) that CDT uses to call the build the ...