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 | hard to tell. Professionals hardly work alone on something, and I've indeed worked on some very large, very complex systems. Things like the customer care and billing software for a mobile phone network, or a message broker and workflow engine for inter application communication, a major HRM system handling not …  |
 | Re: Windows 8 Windows Blue is the internal codename for Windows 8.1, which will effectively be an update to Windows 8 based on large scale user feedback on the user interface. Windows 8 OF COURSE will not run everything ever made in the past. No version ever has, especially games. While Microsoft tries …  |
 | still lots of Java 6 code out there, thank you very much. In fact many companies are still working to update their products to be compatible with Java 6, and some are as yet in the process of upgrading to 1.5 (yes, 1.4 code is still out in the wild … |
 | my best friend with whom I'd spent on average about 10 hours a day for the last year, who pulled me out of depression with starting ideas about suicide a year ago, died last friday. She will be sorely missed, I will never forget her nor the good times we …  |
| | seems he needs a lesson on the use and love of the classpath before he continues his forrays into the world of JDBC. If it now compiles but can't find the driver class at runtime, he's failed to add the driver jar to his runtime configuration. |
| | you declare "row" to be null, but never create any instance before you try to call methods on it. HSSFRow HSSFRow = sheet.getRow(i); HSSFRow row=null; int id = (int) row.getCell(0).getNumericCellValue(); My guess is what you actually want to do is the following: HSSFRow row = sheet.getRow(i); int id = (int) …  |
 | > employers must redouble their efforts if they are to attract and hold on to skilled employees as the sector grows which it doesn't, hence employers have no incentive to increase pay and benefits as employees aren't going to voluntarilly pack up and switch jobs in a playing field where … |
| | Re: decrypt dll A DLL is not (usually) "encrypted". It's compiled code, there's no decrypting it to get something you can read and comprehend. You can TRY decompiling it BUT * it's very likely to break your license to use the product the DLL came with (if not, it'd have come with source …  |
| | the driver is provided with the JVM (IF you're using a Sun/Oracle JVM). The error here is the connect string which is fundamentally flawed. As an aside, using the bridge driver and Access databases is not to be recommended, the JVM comes with its own embedded SQL database these days, … |
 | For future reference: Netbeans is more frequently encountered in the wild than jCreator, much more frequently, so if you want to learn marketable skills, learning Netbeans will be a better investment than learning jCreator. |
 | That's because Bioshock probably built more heavily on existing software and libraries, so required less people. You could do it with a smaller team, you'd just take FAR longer. And you'd need FAR more skill per team member. Think about putting a dozen people like Bjarne Stroustrup, Joshua Bloch, and … |
| | in Europe the ONLY weather related reason football (what Merkins call soccer) games are cancelled is if playing on the field in its current condition would destroy it or if there's such poor visibility it's impossible to play. That usually means the field is too waterlogged, walking on it would …  |
| | > umm.. whats the difference between class variables and instance variables? i thought they were the same There's no such thing as a "class variable" per se. He means a static data member, which is definitely different from an instance variable in that it exists independently of any instance of … |
| | Re: random > If your code is intended to enter the if block half the time at random, just use actually, there's no guarantee it will be executed half the time, or anywhere near half the time. That's what random means :) Over an indefinitely long number of executions most likely it … |
 | Re: April Fools? > But I don't think the middle east respects april fool's day. As most of them use a different calendar, don't have April on it, and won't have a month crossover on what's the first of April in the rest of the world most years, probably not :) In other … |
 | What you need to do is first of all set some priorities. Dont' chase bug counts like a headless chicken as, as you found out, it won't work. Which product is closest to a new release? Start getting that one in order, probably (unless you've a critical patch to make … |
 | if you don't know what you're looking for, how would you know when you've found it? simplest form of course is public String dcrypt(long input) { return "Hello"; } :) |
| | Which you use depends heavily on the intended data security. If you want class instances to be resistant to outside change after creation, you will not create setter methods, setting fields exclusively through the constructors and/or internal calculation. If you want/need your class' fields to be editable after instantiation, you … |
 | Re: How old is DW? another oldtimer checking in again, once in a while :) Don't spend nearly the time on the web that I did in the past, returning to books, my first, last, and only true love (and second life, now there's a time eater, and you can program in it). |
| | No, you're not going to get that to work. There are several important reasons for that: * there's no "executable" * there's no mySQL running on localhost on the machines you're deploying to * there's no such concept as an embedded mySQL database in a Java application * don't ever … |
| | The Sun (now Oracle) code conventions for Java are so universally accepted that it makes little sense to deviate from them without very good reason (working in an environment with a very large investment in some other technology where a smithering of Java is used on the side might be … |
| | good conclusion, which says it all: infection RATE is far higher in Asia than it is elsewhere, the high US and Euro figures are in no small part because of the far larger number of connected systems in those areas. That's why the ROK's place in the system is far … |
| | most larger companies already have that, an intranet that can be accessed by employees (at least in part) over the internet by logging in through a firewall.  |
| | may take a long weekend with easter, but that's about it until at least June or more likely September/October...  |
| | remember that Google analytics generates traffic/consumes bandwidth as well :) Plus many users (including me at home at least) have it blocked for privacy reasons. |
| | and that's why you should never construct an SQL query like that (or rather one of the reasons). Use PreparedStatement instead. |
 | Re: vb6 to java There is, or rather was, Visual J++ which had virtually the same user interface as did VB6. But luckily it's been removed from distribution years ago. You'd best get used to a different style of working, it'd do you good. The IntelliJ community edition has a pretty good UI builder, … |
| | what complete bollocks. These vulnerabilities are extremely rare and hard to trigger, and I seriously doubt Oracle is going to pump out new JVM versions 3-4 times a day, which is the rate of database updates for serious AV products. Or do you suggest most people update their AV product … |
| | my €200 Android phone does the same for me as would a €700 iPhone. Case closed. Plus I can write software for it using the Android SDK on my PC. To do the same for an iPhone I'd need in addition to buy a €1700 Apple computer (replacing my PC … |
 | don't like to roseindia, it's the worst excuse for a programming help website out there. Or if you link to them, link to them as an example how not to do something. mvmalderen has the correct answer, unless of course you are receiving a different binary representation from the one … |
| | complete bollocks that most users will just wait for the MONTHLY update message. Microsoft releases updates once a week through Windows Update and critical fixes more frequently in emergencies. As most Windows machines come with Windows Update preconfigured to automatically download and install, most everyone will have the fix within … |
| | Re: dllhost.exe sounds like sandboxie, whatever it is, is starting some background processes in Windows which hang, blocking sandboxie from completing the loading of the application. I agree this is suspicious activity and could be a trojan (not virus most likely). But it could also be benign and just buggy, like it … |
 | And do realise that as soon as you filter the numbers to (for example) not have duplicates they're no longer random. |
 | hmm, 2 versions of IntelliJ, 2 of Eclipse, Netbeans, and Visual Studio currently installed side by side :) |
 | Re: my case study hmm, write a modular system, turn each of the current functionalities into a module and plug them all into the system. Something like OSGi comes to mind, maybe with an Eclipse based UI (or a web UI, depending on the nature of the intended system). |
 | nope, any quality florist could order anything you want for you and get you higher quality fresh flowers in the arrangement you want in a few days. And probably cheaper too. |
| | not only is it idiotic to claim people should stop using Java for development because of potential applet security problems (applet code is rarely used, and then mostly in intranet and extranet applications where security is provided through other means) but the claim that an applet "has no business using … |
| | As said, why would you want to have the latest everything all the time? There's no need to upgrade every 6 months, let alone every few days. Just pick a release that works for you (which will usually be the latest release at time of installation) and stick with it. … |
| | "Anyone can think of another song by Led Zeppelin." I can't ;) Townes Van Zandt - Waiting Around [b]to[/b] Die |
 | 600 or so audioCDs, a few dozen of them imported into iTunes for a total of maybe 3GB (which gets deleted and new stuff imported once in a while). Use iTunes almost exclusively to move stuff from CDs to my iPod so there's no need to retain things there. |
| | depends on which registrar you choose and which TLD you want. Some registrars can do it in near realtime for some TLDs, some may require manual checking of contact information and stuff, some TLDs require all kinds of paperwork to be sent in (signed forms, sometimes birth certificates or chamber … |
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| | the use of the word "gay" for homosexuals is an abomination. They're no more gay than anyone having a good time... Anyway, I've little against them in principle. What I dead set against is their constant demands to be given special privileges over other people. The worst of those excesses …  |
| | I wouldn't expect that class to have a main method btw as it doesn't look to be something that stands on its own. It looks far more like a panel to be used as part of either a larger application window or as a the content of a dialog box … |
 | hmm, crackpots of all kinds have predicted the end of the world (either literally or metaphorically) so often almost every day is probably the last one according to someone. It's not happened so far, so I'd not start spending those life savings in the knowledge you're not going to need …  |
 | I guess the adminclient is trying to connect to the server you're trying to administrate but that server is either not running or you're behind a firewall which is blocking the request. I've not used Axis but those are the main reasons for "connection refused" errors in general. |
| | However, I'd consider any unsollicited email like that to be highly suspicious. Make sure it's not fake addresses. Many spammers make messages look like they're from legitimate businesses but the actual site and response are not real.  |
 | Ms.Pacman tied for first place with Total Annihillation (and yes, I'm old enough to have played those old table top console games). |
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| | So you want a List of Lists of integer numbers? Why not make a List<List<Integer>>? |
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