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Should I continue working with dead tech, or bail out now?

What do you guys think of working with dead/legacy or proprietary programming languages? After working on it for a number of years, it seems like your chances of getting to another position is almost impossible because you're not up to date with anything and it's almost a throw-away on your resume. Upsides: expert status: if you're ...

jquery clean old dialog

Hi All, I am trying to use UI dialog to create a modal dialog. The dialog workscorrectly, and all is well. I close the dialog using the "X" in the corner. I tried using dialog('destroy').remove(); , but then of course I can't open it again. I think I just don't understand how to reinitialize the dialog and do not have the old values...

jquery dialog old values

Hi All, I am using jquery dialog box .It has a problem that it takes old values when i reopen a dialog. Is there any way i can reopen a dialog without having the old values. Can i use modal window instead of dialog? Can anyone give me an example how can i use modal window. Thanks ...

Moving (very old) Zope/Plone Site to Django

I am ask to move data from a (now offline) site driven by Plone to a new Django site. These are the version informations I have: Zope Version (unreleased version, python 2.1.3 ) Python Version 2.1.3 (#1, Sep 19 2002, 13:15:46) [GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)] CMFPlone (Installed product CMFPlone (1.0.1)) 2003-04...

DOS Database - help needed to recognize what is it

Hello, today I got a copy of an old system from which I need to import data. The system is written in C and runs in DOS. It uses some kind of database. The file format seems to be rather simple(1 file = 1 table, header contains some description and then records, fields are delimited by 0 ASCII character, but it's not that simple as it se...

Oldest code in a typical Linux distro

Just out of curiosity: What's the oldest code/package in a typical linux distro? Emacs? GCC? ...

display old inactive data in dropdown

I have a dropdown which displays some programs (active and inactive). I have a column (isActive) in the programs table in the database which either has a value N or Y. Now I want to filter the dropdown to display only active programs. So, I will just do a sql select to get all programs which are active. Everything is fine up to here. N...

Page Rendering occurs blank page because of Old Cookie

Hi! I am developing application using J2EE (JSF,RichFaces, Jetty/Glashfish). Sometimes when I click on some link I get nothing returned to the browser at all (blank page). But when i refresh the page all contents appears in page. After some trail and error i found that it is cookies problem: It happens bez some old cookie not deleted ...

Asymmetric behavior for __getattr__, newstyle vs oldstyle classes

Hi, this is the first time I write here, sorry if the message is unfocuessed or too long. I was interested in understanding more about how objects'attributes are fetched when needed. So I read the Python 2.7 documentation titled "Data Model" here, I met __getattr__ and, in order to check whether I understood or not its behavior, I wro...

How to be downward compatible to a customers old local database when the application is brandnew?

Hello, I want that my users can read my sqlite database still in 10 years, because there could be data in it they want to browse. Well the database file is 10 years old. In the meantime I have upgraded my database structure (additional fields is best example) and my latest version of the application makes use of that new fields. Now t...

Fonts of Old Computers in C Headers

I need to get the bitmap fonts of all computer systems (like that with BASIC, handhelds, etc.) as C data arrays or raw bitmap files. More fonts, the better. I would need a site with the files or a way to extract them from the memory of an emulator. I need much help, pleeeease! ;) I need the links of the sites with the fonts or lessons ...