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Open-source full-text article recommendation engines

I'm wondering if there are any good .NET recommendation algorithms available in open source projects, whether attached to a search engine or not. By recommendation I mean something that accepts a full-text article and recommends other articles from its index based on keyword similarity. At the high end there are document classification...

Best way to communicate with a programmer to define a project?

What are the best set of details to give to a programmer to define a project? Simply put, I know what I want done, but I know nothing about programming and so what is the best way to define my project to a programmer so he/she gives me what I need. i.e project summary, design brief, flow charts? ...

Can you toggle grouping in a Crystal Report?

Is it possible to have a report which has grouping on the underlying data but for which you can disable the grouping via a button or something on the report? Basically I want to have a "Summary Report" which is grouped, but then be able to view the detail beneath when required without having a separate report for it. ...

Is it possible to obtain class summary at runtime?

Hi. Is it possible to obtain class summary at runtime in C#? I would like to obtain class summary through reflection and then write it to console. By class summary I mean summary comments before class definition, something like this: /// <summary> /// some description /// </summary> class SomeClass { } I don't know if these comments ...

Show asterisk in validation control but show error message in summary.

I'd like a way to both show an asterisk by an invalid field and show a verbose message in a validation summary. However, setting Display to "NONE" in the validation control suppresses any message that would appear next to the field to validate. Is there a way to get this kind of hybrid function? ...

SVN updates summary

I have checked out source code from a SVN server, which is not in my control. I would like to know whenever there are new updates available and classify those as modification, new additions etc. Googling led me to believe "svn status --show-updates" was the command I was looking for. However when I run it on the repository root, it does ...

easy ways to create a summary variable in SAS

Hello programming guru's I am looking for an way to create a summary variable in SAS that will automatically add each row observation until a condition is met. I would need to be able to start and stop and reset this variable if necessary. Thanks a lot -sasnewbie ...

How do I include an html tag in a C# summary so that it is processed as text (not parsed as XML)?

I'm writing an HTML parser in C# and want to include examples of the HTML that it handles in the summary XML blocks. How do I prevent the < and > characters from messing up the auto-documentation of Visual Studio 2008? example: /// <summary> /// Creates a FlowSegment based on an HTML code, i.e. <bold> /// </summary> /// <para...

Java Data Structures Reference

Can anyone give me references of a web site containing a summary of the main Java data structures, and their respective complexity in time (for some given operations like add, find, remove), e.g. Hashtables are O(1) for finding, while LinkedLists are O(n). Some details like memory usage would be nice too This would be really helpful for...

Use cases for Java concurrent utilities

I have read Java Concurrency in Practice and this is a great reference, but I would like to see a concise single page summary of the use cases of the java.util.concurrent package. For instance: Why use a concurrent collection over a synchronized collection? When should the atomic classes be preferred over explicit locking? When should...

Web page summary with Ruby

Can anyone recommend a Ruby library for creating a summary of a given URL? What I have in mind is the sort of one- or two-sentence summary as seen in search engine results. ...

need to create a summary of a large switch statement in C#

Alright, i dont know how to explain it well.. but i have a switch statement, string mystring = "hello"; switch(mystring) { case "hello": break; case "goodbye": break; case "example": break; } of course this is an example, and in the real situation, there will be different things happening for each case. ok, hope you get the point, now...

Excel pivot table calculated field total returns unexpected value

I have an Excel spreadsheet which has a pivot table on it. The data itself is quite simple, Number of Units and a Discount (percentage from 0 to 100), pivoted on date across the top and customer down the left hand side. Those numbers are straight from a SQL view, so the pivot table source is just: SELECT * FROM UnitDiscountView All wa...

Vba Summary Page

hello,I am new to vba and I would like to know if can search thru the worksheets, copy and then paste in a new worksheet on a column thank you Public Sub CopyandPaste() Dim ws As Worksheet ' Delete all data from Summary Page Worksheets("1a").UsedRange.Delete ' Copy each worksheet in file and paste to Summary Page For Each ws In Works...

validation summary problem

Hi, i have a page where i am using validation summary and required field validators. When i click the validation button error message is being dispalyed in both validation summary is showing message written in required field validators. I want to display different message in validation summary and required field validators. e.g validati...

How to add a mouse-over summary.

I'm almost certain this is going to be a very simple answer but I can't seem to find it anywhere. We all know when you hover your mouse over something (like a string) a little summary pops up (if its enabled). For a string, it says: class System.String Represents text as a series of Unicode characters. When I mouse over one ...

Is this a correct summary of Cocoa reference counting?

Here's my understanding of it: Object are only retained (reference counter is incremented): when init from NSObject is called. when retain is called. Objects are only released (reference counter is decremented): when release is called. when an autorelease pool containing the object is drained And to clarify, autorelease does no...

Display both jQuery validation summary and individual error messages

Hi, I'm using jQuery validation in ASP.net MVC. I would like to show validation summary and also individual error messages besides the control. I can do either one at a time. So it would be really helpful to know how can I display both. Thank you. ...

javascript summary function

Hello, im trying to make a small name summary function depending on the size of the elements container, here's what I have; function shorten_text(str, size){ size = size.match( /[0-9]*/ ); var endValue = Math.floor( Number(size) / 10 ); var number; var newStr; for ( number = 0; number <= endValue; number++ ) { ...

How to disable the Footer summary for certain columns?

I am using a devexpress grid and i don't want to have any footer or group summary for string columns. The user can modify the formula used for the footer summary by accessing the footer menu. I want this menu to be disabled for string columns, since the provided summaries do not make sense for string columns. Any ideas? ...