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jQuery History Plugin Error: $.history is undefined

I'm not exactly a novice, but I can't for the life of me figure out why something so simple isn't working. I'm getting an error $.history is undefined when trying to run this jQuery plugin... http://www.mikage.to/jquery/jquery_history.html here is my page... http://hupcapstudios.com/includeTest/getit.php can anyone tell me what I'm ...

Why are there so many different calling conventions?

Historically, why does it seem like just about everyone and their kid brother defined their own calling conventions? You've got C, C++, Windows, Pascal, Fortran, Fastcall and probably a zillion others I didn't think to mention. Shouldn't one convention be the most efficient for the vast majority of use cases? Is there ever any good re...

Why doesn't Java have automatic properties like C#?

C# has automatic properties which greatly simplify your code: public string Name { get; set; } public string MiddleName { get; set; } public string LastName { get; set; } Whereas Java has you write this much code: private String name; private String middleName; private String LastName; public String Name(){ return this.name; } e...

Why are 8 and 256 such important numbers in computer sciences?

I don't know very well about RAM and HDD architecture, or how electronics deals with chunks of memory, but this always triggered my curiosity: Why did we choose to stop at 8 bits for the smallest element in a computer value ? My question may look very dumb, because the answer are obvious, but I'm not very sure... Is it because 2^3 allo...

bool operator ++ and --

Today while writing some Visual C++ code I have come across something which has surprised me. It seems C++ supports ++ (increment) for bool, but not -- (decrement). It this just a random decision, of there is some reason behind this? This compiles: static HMODULE hMod = NULL; static bool once = false; if (!once++) hMod = Load...

Software Development Legends: The Movers and Shakers

Possible Duplicate: Who in the software world do you admire the most? As a software engineer, I am pretty interested in the history of computers, programming languages and technology in general. Most of all, I like to read about the advent of algorithms and languages and the reasons behind their creation. I found the story of...

SQL*Plus history under Linux

How to make sqlplus in Linux to maintain history of my queries? So that I could use up/down arrows to get my previous query. ...

VIM recently edited files history

Is there a history of files edited in VIM that persists between vim sessions, e.g. last 20 opened files. I tend to edit the same .conf files and I have to navigate to them each time of course they are spread all over the filesystem. ...

Merge 2 SMS databases (sms.db) from 1 iPhone 3GS running on iOS 4.0.1 and putting the output file back on the iPhone without the SMS App crashing

First of all, I've never really done any heavy programming, just fooling around a bit with Python. If any of my questions sound odd or so, please try to understand me. I have a following problem: My iPhone 3GS running on iOS 4.0.1 had problems with making outgoing calls. The only way to solve this problem was to restore iPhone to its f...

Jquery pagination with history, stil searching for one...

Hi all... I need jquery pagionation with history support. I've looked at tons of pagination and this works best to me: http://plugins.jquery.com/project/pagination ([demo page])1 Works great! Pages are made dynamically and the script is using OOP which I don't quite understand. But it has no back button/history support which I really ...

What's the point of XML?

What problems was XML invented to solve? From what I can tell, it seems like it specifies a uniform syntax for things that may have vastly different semantics. Unlike, for example, an HTML file, a Java source file, or a .docx document, one cannot write a program to extract any kind of high-level meaning from an XML file without lots of...

android intent history

I have an application that execute a specific task when a file is clicked or an HTTP links is shared to it. I only want to execute the task once, unless the user himself re-execute the task. To be sure, I monitor the flag: FLAG_ACTIVITY_LAUNCHED_FROM_HISTORY. If its set I ignore the task, if not, I execute it. The problem is that som...

Edit Filter criteria in Account history?

I’m using Microsoft Dynamics 4.0. I would like to know how to add attributes to the filter option in Accounts > History. Instead of sorting by how long ago, I would like to sort by what type of task it was, Such as email, phone call, fax, service ..ect.. Is this possible? If so How would I go about implementing this change? ...

Detemine the previous page (i.e. referrer) in jQTouch

I am trying to determine the previous page (e.g. the referrer) in order to decide whether to display the back button. I tried to check for $('.current').data('referrer'), but it is not always set. In fact, it is often not set. history.previous and document.referrer do not seem to be set, either. Could someone please enlighten me on th...

Sending a history command to ajax load() when browser back is hit.

Hi there My question is kind of hard to explain, but I'll try it as best as I can. I have a jquery paginator without history support. So I understand that clicking on page 5 and then 8 and then pressing browser back would go out of this page. It doesn't bother me. What bother's me is that pressing page 5 and clicking on a link in this...

java collections framework history

After searching on the web I didn't found a well-done article on the JCF and what there was prior of the framework. Does anyone know a book, site or itself a good history paper on the question title? ...

jquery history plugin set current page possible?

I use jquery pagination plugin, unfortunately it doesn't have method to set current page from outside the object. I've really looked into this object (the function is not long), but as a jquery beginner I can not even find how the event binds (by click obviously). I have no idea how to modify this function so I can call something like: c...

Going back in history of iframe but changing address of main window

I've found solutions for manipulating everything except what I need. Here's the scenario Just like in GMail - main content is presented in an iframe. Clicking links on the main page targets the iframe. This works well, and seamless. At this point if I click "Back" on the browser -- the iframe will go back. This is good because cache is...

How do you get the previous url in Javascript?

Is there any way to get the previous url in javascript? Something like this: alert("previous url is: " + window.history.previous.href); Is there something like that? Or should I just store it in a cookie? I only need to know so I can do transitions from the previous url to the current url without anchors and all that. ...

Facebook Work History Unavailable

Dear all, I am relatively new to FB development, but I have managed to do what I wanted, which was to get a list of friends, and from each of them, get their work history. I accomplished this by using Facebook's own C# SDK, and using the Get method on each of my friends, basically doing: _fa.Get("/"). This worked perfectly up until a c...