Posts by jwenting

don't use them... That's the most useful advise to have.

split the string on the operator and strip whitespace from the resulting substrings.

and don't mix stream io with oldstyle io.

btw, Dani is quite correct. What counts for more than anything is how easy your code is to read (and therefore maintain).

and no, we're not here at your beg and call to answer your questions immediately.

Your tone is extremely rude, suggesting you're more important than anyone else in the world.

they don't teach you the basics either the way they should.
What they are teaching you is the way things were done nearly 10 years ago which has been recognised as exactly the wrong way to do them for the last 7 or so.
If they insist in teaching it like that the course isn't worth the time and money you invest in it.

it's VCs way of handling precompiled headers.

start by reading.
we're not going to do your homework for you.

uh, it expects a far pointer to a DWORD, which is a far pointer to longword, not a longword.

You are in a difficult position in which many will find themselves. You have the assurances of an officer of a company upon which you must rely; yet, you do not have any demonstrated substance with which you can back up those assurances. While what you have been assured of may be the absolute truth, things do change; and, things get put onto the back burner--- or forgotten... Or, as is the case in many business dealings today, some things not agreed to by those in charge of implementation can be left to "burn out" on their own... The tactic employed, translated, is something like "Ignore it--- It'll go away"...

Correct. I once had a verbal promise I'd be offered a job at a company which never went any further because the day after that a hiring stop was announced by someone higher up the chain of command than the person who'd made that promise.
An ex-colleague once had a promise from someone in a large company he'd get the job only to be overruled by HR who simply refused to send out the job offer because they had been left out of the initial recruitment loop (he'd been brought in by someone in the department rather than the 'official' recruitment process).
I've seen such things happen time and again.
A single call to clear up the mess can help (at least you'll find out what's happening there) but don't go calling them every hour on the …

no.
Not only will good projects not use just JSP, they're also intellectual property of banks and therefore noone's right to give away.

And quite beyond that, we're NOT here to do your work for you and especially not here to give you private tutoring.

and why do this at all?
When will kids learn that scriptlets are there for backwards compatibility only and should never have been invented?

check the servlet specification. There's a simple flag you can set on a servlet declaration in the web.xml that causes the container to load the servlet during application startup.

no, he has a solution in mind (or at least has made up his mind about his problem domain) and gets upset when someone posts anything that doesn't fully agree with that solution or problem domain...

It's common among some people.

It's now a piece of paper and a plastic card the size of an ATM card.
I rarely see ads asking specifically for certifiable programmers, as most people who actually are certified know the value of the certification based on the difficulty of the exam, which is quite low.

There are 2 (valid) reasons to go for SCJP certification:
1) studying for it will improve your knowledge of Java, especially the more obscure areas (things you never knew worked like they actually do).
2) it is a prerequisite for more useful exams like SCBCD and SCDJWS.

In general, being SCJP certifiable won't land you a job but MAY get your resume past the first screening and marked as potentially interesting for a job interview.
From there you're on your own.

Given the cost of the exam (€240 plus what you spend on books and stuff) there's little reason to not go for it.

different from what?

if you "just don't get" an introductory Java course, and are happy with a C overall, you may need to reconsider your career choices and switch to another line of studies.
May sound harsh, but that's the long and short of it, as with those symptoms you'll never amount to more than a lowend programmer stuck with the uninteresting jobs noone else wants to do.

console applications by definition have none of that, as they're line in/out only.

You seem to be thinking of a full-screen textmode application.
Those are highly dependent on your environment.
Each operating system and compiler will have its own libraries to create them.

friend Complex operator+(Complex &operand);

ah, good old C++ 1.0 :)

tough luck. If they teach you to do it like that ask for your money back.

whatever happened to reading the documentation and some tutorials?
Every question here is answered in full in the Tomcat documentation and examples.

If you can't understand those there's no way you're going to understand having it explained by people here.
And if you can't be bothered to read those and so help yourself why should we bother to help you?

it's easy. Start a Timer inside the servlet init method, set the servlet to load on web application startup, and away you go.

my answer still stands. You're on probation there for a period (depending on your contract and the local law that can be several months or longer).
Don't piss people off during that period or you're liable to be terminated with extreme prejudice.
And never piss off the big bosses or you find yourself in deadend jobs with no career opportunities.

iow, you want to cheat.
Such things already exist for almost every shooter out there, and people using them are cheaters.

Someone employing either of the two tactics you describe would be rejected out of hand for most real jobs (maybe not for telemarketing and manning concession stands).
You're showing yourself as obnoxious.

Most likely you have indeed been rejected. While it would be good manners to notify you of that, most companies don't do so.
You might call them and ask, but don't badger them with constant phone calls and letters. They might just get a restraining order against you :)

I think you need a tutorial on the use of search engines...
Use Google to look for one :)

and not only is the quality often low, most never even make it to release.
I guess that for every game you see on the shelves, another dozen at least fail at one point or another during development and dozens more never even get past the concept stage because they don't get funded.

>Borlan 4.52 doesn't support using namespace std; and #include <iostream> for some reason (HELP!)...
I feel like I'm being ignored. Did you miss the part where I said you would have issues with Borland 4.5 not properly supporting C++?

which C++ though... It supports the standard as it stood when the product was finalised (which is of course different from what it is today) :mrgreen:

JPEG doesn't know anything about transparency.
If you create an image in Photoshop, save it as a JPEG, then open it again, you'll also see a solid colour whereever you didn't place content earlier.

I don't use JME so I can't help you with specifics.
You will need a compiler to turn your sources into something your phone can understand.
There are toolkits for that, either from Sun, from phone or phone OS manufacturers, or both.

several things wrong there, some of the terribly wrong.
First, you don't properly close your database resources. That's the single greatest sin of anyone using JDBC and a major cause of application failure (even of multimillion Euro systems, I've seen it happen).
Second, you're using the JDBC-ODBC bridge driver which is to put it mildly no good at all.
Third, (and related) you are using a JDBC driver that doesn't support updatable resultsets, and apparently this one fails silently instead of yielding an error.
Fourth, you don't commit your transaction (and you can't know if you are using autocommit or not if you don't explicitly say so, in fact you should always assume you aren't unless you explicitly say you are).

probably the most interesting to look at desktop I have right now (on any of the 5 machines I use regularly)

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.

When you gain experience you get a feel for what's available in the standard API and where it will likely be.
Until then, indeed spend a lot of time reading the API docs, just browse them and take a look at everything that's there.
Even after years you'll still sometimes be pleasantly surprised to find something you didn't know was there (and might indeed not have been there in earlier versions).

JME is a subset of JSE. The programming itself is pretty similar but more restricted (and as you're dealing with smaller screens you can do less with the screen layout too).

Of course you also need to take the specific hardware you're programming for into account when programming JME as there are differences between brands that JME can't completely hide.

you can use MFC in VS2005 express if you install the Platform SDK . I do this myself

not according to the MSDN forums...

to start with, avoid anything that's "for dummies" or "in 24 hours" and things like that.
Those books give a highlevel overview and not much more, they're generally a waste of money (there are exceptions but they're few and far between).

Can't help you with specific titles as I only have one and despite having had it sitting on my desk for half a year at least I've not yet gotten around to even reading the introduction.

a tool that translated gibberish like the stuff you're posting into English so people can actually understand your questions would be handy.

so it is pirated... It's being used outside the terms of the license which means it's pirated.

If your friend is allowed to use the software his company bought at home that doesn't mean he's allowed to give it away to others (which IS piracy).
And quite often companies tell employees it's OK to use software from work at home when in fact the company doesn't have the licenses to allow that, in which case the company is also pirating the software.

Just because you didn't download it from some cracker site or bought a CD with pirated stuff doesn't mean it's not piracy what you're doing.

you already wrote that method name in your question, thereby answering your own question.

buy Robert Martin's "Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices".
He uses a payroll system in some of the chapters as an example.

Mind it's an advanced text but if you have a "prof" as you claim elsewhere you'll be a university student on a highlevel course and should have no problems with it.

I think he means "help me by writing the code for me" when he says "help me write the code"...

And no, we're not going to do that.

Your teacher (only universities can have professors, and those won't touch introductory programming courses) will have explained what you need to know during your classes, and it is also in the books and handouts you have for your course.
So get started and when you get stuck on details come back and we'll see what we can do.

and he can't use MFC because VC2005E doesn't support MFC.

you really think that kid will come back to do your homework for you when he's only posted that one message and that a year ago?

no, you don't use scriptlets. Scriptlets are evil and are still allowed ONLY for backwards compatibility reasons.

said Rich almost 4 years later...

do your own homework, lazy kiddo.
And if you're as incapable of doing that as you claim to be you deserve to fail.
Go to school and pay attention in class in the future and you might learn something instead of having to badger others into doing your homework for you.
What are you going to do when you get out of school, be a leech on society for the rest of your life? Sitting there lazing away on social security while others work their asses off to pay your government granted income? Or cheat your way into some job and let others do your work for you there while you suck up to management to prevent being fired for incompetence?

anyone writing such crap in a JSP gets what he deserves when (and it will) it doesn't work.

you can't break a string over multiple lines.

well, seeing as Windows, MS Office, and many many other systems can do that, what do YOU think about the question whether such systems exist?