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interesting programming technology from old times

Hello If you are old programmer or are history of programming/computing buff, what is an interesting programming/computing technology which you liked, which is marginalized today? In other words, which technology do you miss from old times? ps: feel free to make this question sound more English ...

SharePoint Closed web part

Hi All, I have a site developed in MOSS2007. where can I see the list of web parts that are closed and the user name who closed that web parts i.e(ClosedBy). Or Else, if a perticular web part is closed, how can I get to know that web part is closed by whome? Thanks, Sachin Katkar. ...

How to save "history" automatically depending on the directory

Hi, I work extensively using the shell. When I continue working on some project one week later, I go to some "folder" and realize that I do not remember what I was doing. Sometimes and before stopping work what I do is: history > DIRX_HISTORY_20100922 so later I have a look at the commands I used, I can remember much better what I w...

PHP session problem-- captcha/Joomla

Hi - I have a Joomla component which calls a helper function to create a captcha image. Everything works fine when sh404 is disabled, but when sh404 is enabled the session variable for the security image isn't being set correctly so when you submit the form you get 'Invalid Captcha' message. The funny thing is if you submit another 5-6 t...

Why were window.scrollY and window.scrollX introduced?

As far as I know, pageY/XOffset properties were already available since Netscape 4 era. And it seems scrollY/X were introduced circa Netscape 6. Alternative question: Is there a browser which implements scrollY/X but doesn't support pageY/XOffset? ...

Mac OS System 1.0 Programming Language

Hi, I started my early days programming in a Macintosh 128k (I was 10) and I don't quite remember the programming languages used. Any one does? I would like to know the different programming languages available at that time for that platform. Thanks ...

jQuery: Why 2 ajax GET requests instead of 1 request?

Why http://jsbin.com/ogilo/3#http://bit.ly/cKnMc2 has 2 ajax GET requests instead of 1 request? It has requests http://bit.ly/aHW5jy and http://bit.ly/cKnMc2 one after other. It must have just 1 request. Editable code in http://jsbin.com/ogilo/3/edit You can check the bug in Firebug console ...

using jQuery address plug in and window.location update without executing address.change twice

I have two events that need to be executed in this order: tabs toggled into/out of view the browser navigating to a hash tag as it would normally (jumping down the page to the anchor) And I need it to work with the back button. I wrote my own function gotoanchor() which accomplishes the first two and because I am navigating to the p...

In which language did attributes first appear

It seems that almost all features in C# were borrowed from another languages (OOP from Java, generics (parametric polymorphism) and lambdas from ML family, LINQ from Haskell's monads and dynamic from dynamic languages), but I don't know the origin of attributes(annotations in Java world). Is C# the first language that introduced attribut...

Why does the F# Bitwise Operator pad with 1's for signed types?

I was looking at F# doc on bitwise ops: Bitwise right-shift operator. The result is the first operand with bits shifted right by the number of bits in the second operand. Bits shifted off the least significant position are not rotated into the most significant position. For unsigned types, the most significant bits are ...

Active menu class for current page

Hello, i'm making portfolio site template. I have problem about "active link" for my full ajax site. When i open url (http://bit.ly/d5qNeN) directly, url doesnt come up with addClass function. How can i add 'selected' class for directly opened urls? Here is my jquery code, which adds 'selected' class to my navi bar. $j("a[rel=...

Keep git history when splitting a file

I want to take a function out of one file and put it into another, but keep the blame history. cp a.php b.php vim b.php # delete everything but 1 function vim a.php # delete the 1 function git add a.php b.php git commit But if I run git blame b.php I only see it blaming to this new commit. ...

git mv records move?

When invoking git mv file1 file2 does it record the move internally (for history tracking in the log) or is it completely the same as invoking mv file1 file2, git rm file1 and git add file2? ...

Letter O considered harmful?

Back in the day, the FORTRAN standards committee reviewed a technical proposal called "Letter O considered harmful". I used to be able to find a link to the text of this proposal on the net, but it seems to have disappeared since the last time I looked for it -- the link disappeared off the relevant Wikipedia page and the only Google hit...

How did {0}, {1}, etc become the standard for formatting strings?

Just curious about this in the history of development... how did brackets with the array index ({0}, {1}, and so on) become the standard of string formatting? Any special significance, or something somebody picked out of midair in the 80's? ...

Which Activity will be Started when Launching App from History

There are two Activities in my application: LoginActivity and RegisterActivity. The launch mode of LoginActivity is setted to singleInstance in manifest xml. RegisterActivity use the default launch mode. Following are what I did: The italic part is what I think might happen. Launch the app, LoginActivity shows. An task is cre...

Suggest something for storing history

i have a ajaxified list page showing some list of items i am using a user control for filtering the content of the list page there are multiple filters in the user control what i want is if a user applied more than one filter than navigate to other page and press the back button the applied filters should be there in active state. can an...

Unaccessible git state

Hello. I'm using git. And previously, I tried to experiment with my program and then, I feel like going back (checkout) to previous commit. Then, I changed something, committed.. etc.. The question is, How do I go back to the state before I checkout. I know I could git checkout the-hash, But I don't know the-hash. git log only show h...

iframe history coming up twice.

I am trying to use an iframe to move around the site. My link inside the iframe would be <a href="#" onclick="loadPage('test')">test</a> //loadPage function function loadPage(page){ location.hash = page; $('iframe[name="iframe"]').attr('src','/'+page+'.php') } Now it works perfectly in IE7, pressing the back button or for...

Hashtable. Name history. Why not HashTable?

we know: ArrayList; LinkedList; TreeMap and other... and all names in CamelCase format, but why Hashtable, not HashTable? it is unprincipled question, just wondering :) ...