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How to keep concentrated and focused while waiting for your compiler?

When I'm working on software, I find that as soon as I have to wait more than around 6 seconds for the compiler or for the program to start (or simply for Visual Studio to process some really complicated command like, say, Space Bar), I tend to fire up the email client, or go read stuff on the Internet, or post questions on StackOverflow...

What does it take to get you in the zone?

That's right, the zone. You've all been there at least once or twice. So how do you get to that point? Do you need peace and quite? Loud music? Lights on? Lights off? 10 screens? Mozart? Redbull? Or are you in the zone the second you touch any computer? I'd love to know! ...

State and time transending logic and program flow?

Wondering if it would ever be useful to index every possible state of an application using some reference keys... Meaning, say we have a program that starts, has only so many possible outcomes, say 8. but if each outcome is attained through stepping through many more logic states, and in between each branch is considered to be a state ...

What is the best way to graphically represent page flow, as applicable to an action oriented web application?

What is the best way to graphically represent page flow, as applicable to an action oriented web application? What model do you use to represent page flows (page flow diagrams) encompassing pages (views), user actions on those views (events) and processes? These diagrams should act as a starting point for understanding between a busine...

What are good ways to design or diagram state?

The issue that prompted me to ask this is a web form that was not persisting data the way I expected it to. That's vague, but the point is, what do you like to do to model state, flow of data, and so forth? ...

how to build a free software to help students demonstrate in geometry with flow chart.

I studied computer engineering 10 years ago and i know all the basics of object programming. I didn't write any code for 5 years but actually I'm thinking to go back to this business for a specific need : Now I'm a mathematic teacher in a secondary school and i want to develop a little free software that help students to organize their ...

Microsoft reporting services trouble with subreport flow

Hi I have a subreport in a reporting services main report. The subreport starts approximately on the middle of the page in the main report. If i have few detail lines in the subreport so that all can be rendered on page one, everything is ok. However, if I have more detail lines in the subreport so that it's not possible to print all...

Creating nice pdfs with ruby

I would like to create pdfs with ruby. One special need is embedding a picture into text (or a textblock), which means I need to be able to let the text flow around the image. E.g. the image should be in the rigth upper corner and the text should start left of the image and continue after the image by using the whole width of the page. H...

Is there a way to automatically generate the data flow diagrams and flowcharts?

Hi, I am recently working on some long and obscure codes written by some other smart guys. I'm thinking of generating the Data Flow Diagrams and the Flowcharts to facilitate my work. Is there any kinds of software that can do this job automatically? P.S. Most of the codes are in C and Fortran. ...

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...

Selenium xpath flow

Hi All, Can anyone tell me what is the exact flow of taking out xpath in Selenium-IDE. After trying alot by putting alerts i m not getting how to take out the exact xpath. Selenium displays the xpath according to xpath:position and some others ways also but i want to add the xpath traversing from html i.e the topmost position.How can i ...

CSS box "flow"/stacking (see screenshot)

I'm having a hard time making boxes flow as illustrated in the attached screenshot. Seeing as I'm not even quite sure what this technique is called, it's making googling hard. The boxes with be generated using jQuery's AJAX implementation if that makes a difference. UPDATE: Thanks Jonathan, that's close but it's apparent I haven't des...

Force a floated or absolutely position element to stay "in the flow" with CSS

I'm looking for a way to force floated or absolutely positioned elements to stay in the flow in css. I'm pretty much thinking css is stupid for not having something like flow:on flow:off to keep it in the flow or take it out. The issue is that I want to have a div element with a variable height, I have a floated image on the left in th...

When does a page get rendered in ASP.NET?

I'm writing am ASP.NET/C# project, it's a simple blog page with commnents. Problem I'm having when button click you see comments load original blogload plus blogs and comments, trying to get it to load blog/comment selected only. If I try not to load blog in page_load or have it only do if not postback nothing is displayed. Any help wou...

PayPal Subscriptions - IPN Handling and Site Flow?

For my membership site, I've got the IPN handler done. My question is one of site "flow". Here's how it goes: User -> Landing -> SignUp -> Verify -> PayPal -> ThankYou So here's the problem (which could just all be in my head). Let's say you've signed up and verified your account. Then you click the "Subscribe!" link and are sent to pa...

TCP flow extraction

Hello My Friends, I need to extract TCP Flows with their content from dump file and then save their flow into other file each flow separately, does any one know a tool for processing this? I really appreciate for any Help Hanieh Rajabi. ...

How to generate smooth flow pager with jQuery?

For these page numbers below: 1 2 3 4 5 6 When 6 is clicked,7 should come out from right side,and 1 should hide into left,so on. How to create such kind of effect with jQuery? ...

How to make a div appear higher on the page in front the content higher in the flow?

It's a pretty basic design question, but still: I have a header in one file and a few pages which load in succession in other files. I want to add a progress indicator (just an image of a 1/3, 2/3 and 3/3 filled bar) to each of these pages, but I want the bar appear on header, which is in different file and higher in flow, so negative m...

Flow control in threading.Thread

I Have run into a few examples of managing threads with the threading module (using Python 2.6). What I am trying to understand is how is this example calling the "run" method and where. I do not see it anywhere. The ThreadUrl class gets instantiated in the main() function as "t" and this is where I would normally expect the code to sta...

Pass Url Parameter web flow

Hi.... I have this web application using Spring Web Flow framework. In my main page I have a default display of a list of employees. When I click a particular row I need to redirect to another page displaying a detailed view of the row. I was thinking of passing the "name" field in my row through URL parameter. Is this possible or can...