I've been looking into improving SQLite performance for my site, especially with regard to transactions. In essence what I'm looking for is a way to defer database writes in a process so that they can all be done at once. However, while I'm accumulating update queries, I would like other processes to be able to both read from and write t...
Is there a list of jQuery reserved words published somewhere? I ask because jQuery won't return a value for a class I'm using called "selected". If I change the class name to something else it is found. Example: <ul> <li><a id="a1" class="selected" href="#tab1">Part I</a></li> </ul> alert($('ul li a').attr("class")); I get an em...
Hi all! I'm using MSBuild to customize the build process of Visual Studio, WiX, SandCastle, ... projects. To keep it as generic as possible I'd like to use text files defining some 'project specific' settings, like where the files should be loaded from, which custom executables to run and so on. A text file could look like this: $(MSBu...
I have finally got my paypal system working using IPN and a reservation system to ensure that two people do not buy the same product. The problem is, the reservations last for 10 mins on my application. If a user reserves the product the 'timer' starts, he clicks pay and ends up on paypals website. He then leaves the computer for 10 min...
Is there a list of reserved memory addresses out there - a list of addresses that the memory of a user-space program could never be allocated to? I realize this is most likely per-OS or per-architecture, but I was hoping someone might know some of the more common OSes and Arches. I could only dig one up for a few versions of windows: ...
I am hex editing a hard disk and I would like to mark some hard drive sectors as reserved so that they are not overwritten by Windows (Vista or 7). I think this is possible, since during a defrag, the disk says that there are some sectors that aren't movable. How can I do this? ...