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What are the differences between poll and select?

I am referring to POSIX standard of select and poll system C API calls? ...

What are the best programming-related screencasts?

Screencasts can be extremely educational and informative. If well produced, IMHO they can be very effective learning tools for developers, just short of pairing with an experienced developer. They can also be a waste of time. In the same light as this question, what have been the best programming-related screencasts you've seen? What...

Any free ajax poll script?

Hello, do you guys know any free php ajax poll script with an admin panel? i cant find one, i have googled for ages. ...

jquery & php poll in Blogger

Would it be possible to use a poll like this in Blogger? Link: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/creating-a-dynamic-poll-with-jquery-and-php/ ...

Fun Ideas for an embedded senior design project?

I have a class called Senior Design next semester and we are looking for fun or interesting ideas that anyone might have for an embedded project. We will have Electrical Engineers, Computer Sciene, and Software Engineering majors working on this. All suggestions are welcome. Some ideas we are thinking about now are: Software Define...

Joomla poll not working with IE

On my joomla website the joomla poll extension (down,right) or any other joomla poll only works in Firefox,Safari and all the other browser but not in IE8 or lower versions. I need a poll on my site and 95% of my site visitors use IE8, its frustrating. How can i get any joomla poll to work in IE8 ? Its strange but IE8 displays the poll...

What design pattern do you use the most?

The reason I ask is because many applications, particularly web applications, do things in a similar fashion. Of course, the pattern used varies with the task at hand, perhaps even a combination of patterns. I'm guessing that many of us use a primary pattern for apps that we start out from scratch and I'm wanting to see if there is a com...

IE6 Joomla Poll problem after converting template to 1.5x

Hi! Recently i converted Joomla 1.0x template to 1.5x for a client of mine. Almost everything went smoothly, i migrated the content, menus etc and the website is up & running atm. I didn't notice at start that my Poll window is sort of broken. Polls are displaying correctly in every browser except in IE6 (i know, one more crappy IE6 pro...

poll() c function on windows

Hi there!I want to know if I can use the poll() function on a MinGW development chain. I have CodeBlocks+MinGW. Thanks a lot. ...

Reliable Java libs for general programming

There's always a balance when deciding whether to use a 3rd party library or write your own code. Writing your own takes time and will incur a maintenance cost. Using the 3rd party library has its downsides too, with the potential for version incompatibilities every time you update the dependencies. With some libraries, the downsides ...

most interest feature of visual studio 2010 and .Net framework 4

hi everybody when you install visual studio 2010, what feature of that is most interest for you? why do i , upgrade to VS2010? is it valuable to purchase?(why?) ...

Rolling my own "Version Control"

I'm a hobby developer and i want to put my projects in some sort of version control. I've tried several version control systems (git i think, SVN, mercurial, bazaar) and they were a pain in the neck for one or more of the following reasons: There was no GUI interface The gui interface it DID have was clunky it plastered decals all over...

How does one go about "evangelizing" a language?

I was wondering: if you have a relatively unknown programming language that you love and want to get more people using it, what can be done to "evangelize" the langueage? E.G. where would you go, what would you say, etc. ...

When is it a good idea to clean a solution?

As the title says - what are your guidelines for when you should run a "Clean solution" on your visual studio projects? ...

polling of childs stdout stops setting POLLIN after first read

I want to read the output of my child's proccess, but for some reason it stops setting the POLLIN in revents when there is still output to be read. Here is what I do: Fork my process create pipe dup2(pipe[0],STDOUT_FILENO) my child's stdout poll the file descriptor of the pipe(I do this until I reach EOF) read output if POLLIN is se...

Choosing DVCS - criteria

There are similar questions on SO but I'd like some clearer answers here. How important is DVCS not littering your working folder with files? (Alternately is single file repository a big plus to you?) How important is cherry-picking functionality (choosing arbitrary changes instead of lineage of changes)? How important is the speed of ...

poll/epoll compatible Timer

Greetings, I was wondering if there is a way to use a timer in combination with linux poll/epoll API. I already use epoll and it would integrate very nice with the existing code if i could make the timer to be just another epoll event in my queue. A possible way is maybe, a file-based Timer, like echo 400;now > /dev/timer ; cat /dev/t...

Which would you prefer to have to maintain?

[To any mod considering deleting this question - please don't. Either my or Steve Jessop's code may well be helpful to reference from questions regarding reading text files using C.] This question has generated the usual amount of sound and fury re the relative merits of C and C++. But something that never seems to get introduced into t...

Using readv(), writev() and poll() from C++

There is a multiplayer card game which I had first programmed as a non-forking socket server in C (using poll() call). Then it was too difficult for me to add new features and I've switched to Perl (using IO::Poll module). As Perl doesn't support readv()/writev(), requires more memory/CPU and also isn't very commercial (I'd like to sel...

Back-to-back ajax long poll without a recursive callback function.

I'm trying to make long poll ajax calls, back to back. The problem with the current way I'm doing it is that I make each successive call from the callback function of the previous call. Is this a problem? Firebug doesn't show any of my ajax calls as completed, even thought the data is returned and the callback is executed. The recursive ...