I'm wondering why styling an element within a specific class, like this: .reddish H1 { color: red } is shown as an example of correct syntax in the CSS1 specification under Contextual selectors: Cascading Style Sheets, level 1 but it's not shown as an example in the CSS2 spec: Cascading Style Sheets, Level 2 At least I can't find ...
I've seen this syntax a couple times now, and it is beginning to worry me: for example: iCalendar iCal = new iCalendar(); Event evt = iCal.Create<Event>(); Google can't help, but I know SO can! ...
This is Crystal Reports 9 in Visual Studio 2003 by the way Simple question about crystal reports formula syntax: How do I build the formula's result using if then clauses? Specifically I would like something like this: dim val as string val = {table.level} if {table.uom_id} = 5 then val = val & ' feet' else val = val $ ' meters'...
Two snippets of MySQL: SELECT * FROM annoyingly_long_left_hand_table LEFT JOIN annoyingly_long_right_hand_table ON annoyingly_long_left_hand_table.id = annoyingly_long_right_hand_table.id; vs SELECT * FROM annoyingly_long_left_hand_table LEFT JOIN annoyingly_long_right_hand_table USING (id); Given that both...
Hi all.. Been thinking, what's the difference between declaring a variable with [] or * ? The way I see it: char *str = new char[100]; char str2[] = "Hi world!"; .. should be the main difference, though Im unsure if you can do something like char *str = "Hi all"; .. since the pointer should the reference to a static member, which ...
I'm using the Apache Commons EqualsBuilder to build the equals method for a non-static Java inner class. For example: import org.apache.commons.lang.builder.EqualsBuilder; public class Foo { public class Bar { private Bar() {} public Foo getMyFoo() { return Foo.this } private int myInt ...
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What is the correct syntax for this: IList<string> names = "Tom,Scott,Bob".Split(',').ToList<string>().Reverse(); What am I messing up? What does TSource mean? ...
Simple question: How do I do this on one line: my $foo = $bar->{baz}; fizz(\$foo); I've tried \$bar->{baz}, \${$bar->{baz}}, and numerous others. Is this even possible? -fREW Update: Ok, the hashref is coming from DBI and I am passing the scalar ref into template toolkit. I guess now that I look more closely the issue is somethin...
Some of you may recognize this as Project Euler's problem number 11. The one with the grid. I'm trying to replicate the grid in a large multidimensional array, But it's giving me a syntax error and i'm not sure why grid = [ [ 08, 02, 22, 97, 38, 15, 00, 40, 00, 75, 04, 05, 07, 78, 52, 12, 50, 77, 91, 08 ], [ 49, 49, 99, 40, 17, 81, 18...
I'm just wondering how other developers tackle this issue of getting 2 or 3 answers from a method. 1) return a object[] 2) return a custom class 3) use an out or ref keyword on multiple variables 4) write or borrow (F#) a simple Tuple<> generic class http://slideguitarist.blogspot.com/2008/02/whats-f-tuple.html I'm working on some cod...
First, I know there are methods off of the generic List<> class already in the framework do iterate over the List<>. But as an example, what is the correct syntax to write a ForEach method to iterate over each object of a List<>, and do a Console.WriteLine(object.ToString()) on each object. Something that takes the List<> as the first a...
What does the "class" part of a template statement do? Example: template <class T> class Something { public: Something(const T &something); } And what else can go there? I usually only see "class". ...
I'm using Eclipse as an IDE for Ruby/Rails development (using Aptana plugin). I have one very, very large file that encompasses an initial data load of several thousand rows of data. When this file is open, everything grinds to a halt (on both Windows and Linux), presumably because Eclipse is tied up trying to parse and format/syntax-che...
Ok, so we have a bunch of tables that are named like this: training_data_001 training_data_002 training_data_003 training_data_004 training_data_005 And then to find those we look at a field in another table, let's just call it master.training_type. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone knew of a way to do a weird table name based join w...
I came across this code today AsyncInvoke(OnTimeMessageTimer, (object)null, (ElapsedEventArgs)null); Is there anything wrong with it or no? ...
Hello. I'm using Windows XP Service Pack 3 and have Command Extensions enabled by default in the Windows Registry. Somehow, the following command does not work on this version of Windows but if I run it in Windows Server 2003 or Windows Vista Business, it works just fine. Any clue? The problem is that on Windows XP, it seems like the /...
Hi, I would like to know how to change the colour of the equality sign and double quotes for html documents in the eclipse PDT IDE. I can change most colours in Preferences -> Web & XML -> HTML Files -> syntax coloring, but can't change the characters = or " e.g. in an anchor tag Anyone know if this is possible? ...
What is the syntax to concatenate text into a binding expression for an asp.net webpage (aspx). For example if I had a hyperlink that was being bound like this: <asp:HyperLink id="lnkID" NavigateUrl='<%# Bind("Link") %>' Target="_blank" Text="View" runat="server"/> How do you change, say, the Text to concaten...
I've seen the @ symbol used in PowerShell to initialise arrays. What exactly does the @ symbol denote and where can I read more about it? ...