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Finding trends in loads of text data

Hi: I have a large table and would like to at least find the most repeated works so I can have a trends keyword list. The database is mysql and I am running php5. Is there any other way besides exploding the data and searching for repetitions on the php side? What about having combinations of 2/3 words keyword trends? Any thoughts? ...

How do I plot the output from a C++ Win32 console app?

I have a small Win32 console application which is essentially a test harness. I read data in, do some processing on it and currently just output some of the numbers to the console. This isn't a huge problem - I can get an idea of what the data looks like, but it would be much easier to analyse if there was a way of getting that informati...

Light-weight flexible data persistence options

I was originally using SQLCE first starting with LINQ to SQL and then moved to Entity Framework, but it seems that SQLCE is too inflexible. (Right now I can't even drop a table to recreate it because it says I can't remove PrimaryKeyA because it is being referenced by PrimaryKeyA... so I don't have much confidence in being able to modif...

What is the difference between the shape and structure of an object?

Title says it all. I see it used a lot in context of data. From ScottGu's post: One of the really powerful capabilities provided by LINQ and query syntax is the ability for you to define new classes that are separate from the data being queried, and to then use them to control the shape and structure of the data being re...

ExtJS Gridfilter values to PHP

Hello. I'm using ExtJS v2.0 . I would like to grab the gridfilter values and pass them to a PHP page as $_POST, $_GET, $variable or any possible method that would work to be inserted in PHP query using this backend code: http://www.vinylfox.com/grid-filter-php-backend-code/ I will use those queryes to print one table with the results an...

data method in JQUery

In my code I want to send two parameters in my data. Name is one of my parameter names and its value is in a variable a. Another parameter name is type with the value in the str variable. The following did not work for me: $.ajax({ type: "POST", url: "./server", data: "name="+a+"type="+str, success: function(msg){ ...

Form generator and data capture PHP application

Hi, Does anyone know of a PHP open source which can generate forms to be deployed across your website. These forms will collect and aggregate the data with in on database. There should also be the functionality to search across the forms (to generate reports and newsletter mailing lists) All the services I have found so far have been...

C# Wrapper for Media File Meta Data

I am looking for a nice wrapper for extracting media file attributes dependent of file type. I am creating a bit of a generic media library that can handle video, audio, images etc. They are not just .wmv or .mp3, i would like to be able to support various formats and dont want to pigeon hole myself to an sdk like WMP SDK that seem to on...

Data Logging with Oracle (or any RDBMS)

What is the "best" (correct, standard, etc) way to maintain a log of data acquired at a set rate (every minute, every 5 seconds, every 10ms, etc) in an Oracle database? It seems inefficient to store the 7 byte DATE value for every datapoint (especially as the frequency increases). However, packing the data into some type of raw format ...

SSIS and Excel Data Source for SQL Server 2005

I have an Excel spreadsheet whose first column is mostly numbers or a combination of letters and numbers. These are codes relevant to my business area: 28 38 48 L2 A7 BC etc. The column is formatted as text in Excel. I want to use this as a data source in SSIS for SQL Server, but when I add the object to a Data Flow designer, it forc...

ASP.NET: Accessing data associated with the RepeaterItem on Command execution.

Hi guys, I want to access the data associated with the RepeaterItem in which an ItemCommand fired up. The scenario is, I have multiple RepeaterItems which Button controls in which the Command is set declaratively like this: <asp:Repeater ID="Repeater3" runat="server" DataSource='<%# ClientManager.GetClientEmployees(Eval("ClientID")) %>'...

How does your organisation setup testing data?

I work as a tester for an organisation that has a web service as it's critical application. Currently we load massive amounts of test data through the web front end, as this is how it would be done in the real world. This gives the data an amount of legitimacy and prevents errors in the format of the data. However it is very time consum...

Python - change file creating date

Hello, can I change creating date of some file using python in Linux? ...

how to convert data efficiently in DataTable in ADO.Net

Hello everyone, I am using ADO.Net + C# + VSTS 2008 + SQL Server 2005. I bind an ADO.Net DataTable to a real database table, and then bind the DataTable to a grid view on ASP.Net page. My question is, if I want to do some data manipulation work (very simple, like add some prefix to some character data type rows, multiple integer data ty...

HOW DO I: Pass aggregated data between unmanaged and managed code using a COM interface in the .NET Compact Framework V2?

I have a COM interface in my unmanaged C++ project that my managed C# code can find and use successfully. Currently, all the interface methods use simple type arguments like UINT and DOUBLE. What I want to do is to aggregate data into a single structure that my C# code can create and pass through the COM interface to my unmanaged C++ c...

.Net MVC Passing Nested Data from Controller to View

I am creating a .NET MVC application and I have a view in which I want to display the following: Category followed by a list of items for the current Category [possibly] followed by a list of sub items for the current item I could create a custom ViewModel class that sends 3 separate IEnumerable lists (categories, items, and sub item...

How to get data about a company's financials, balance sheet, cash flow, etc. via its ticker symbol

Are there any good, free (or cheap) sources to get information about a company's financials that I can access via an API or XML feed or anything besides screen-scraping? Specifically I'm looking for things like total assets, liabilities, revenue, etc. ...

How to handle erroneous data?

How do you deal with user input (unicode) that you need to be restricted to a certain set of values, and you want to minimize the risk to applications that you pass the data to further down the line. For example, if I were to store the data in SQL, I would want to remove any chance of a SQL injection. If I were to send it over the wire v...

Generating random number in a given range in Fortran 77

I am a beginner trying to do some engineering experiments using fortran 77. I am using Force 2.0 compiler and editor. I have the following queries: How can I generate a random number between a specified range, e.g. if I need to generate a single random number between 3.0 and 10.0, how can I do that? How can I use the data from a text f...

How to store data on a page and retrieve it through JQuery?

Hi all, I have an array of data that I'll echo to a page using PHP, and I want JQuery to be able to parse it. However, I don't want the data necessarily visible to the user. I have, for example: <div id="data-1"> <span id="width">5</span> <span id="height">10</span> <span id="depth">15</span> </div> <div id="data-2"> <s...