Posts by jwenting

well, there's a choice of programming languages out there.
Pretty much everything from A to ZZZZZZZ...
Take your pick and start designing.

only when we can't get enough people locally.
Offshoring and outsourcing are a danger to your intellectual property and your own knowledge about your product, which is bad for your company's stability and survivability.

you quite obviously have an error in your javascript...

said someone 18 months later, with the person originally asking the question long gone and never been back...

that assumes the printer is actually assigned to a DOS accessible printer port rather than a network URI (which is quite possible with USB printers).

uh, you want to do WHAT?

You make about as much sense as a monkey typing away on a keyboard all on his own without the other infinite amount of monkeys he's working with to create the combined works of Shakespeare.

what "RAD tool"?
Hot deployment is a feature of the server, if it supports it and your "RAD tool" can make use of it, it should work.
Read the documentation better.

same thing, it's after all just another string.

It is not as such compulsory to make the inner class as 'static' unless you plan on creating instances of that class in the 'outer class'.

But if you need to create instances of inner class, 'static' qualifier is the must:

Not quite. In fact it's only mandatory when creating an instance from within a static method of the outer class.

and even if you do, the display device has to know how to display those Unicode characters or it will show something else.

ever heard of foreign keys?
Look into that, all you really need is a reference to the table containing the information about a blog in the table containing information about the entries.

SQL indeed doesn't allow spaces.
The fact that Access does allow them doesn't mean you should use them...

I've used Access, yet never used spaces in table or column names (maybe because I learned SQL before starting to use Access).

If that database has some non-standard features in it, it's past time for some dataconversion to make it better :)

says it all, doesn't it.
Typos maybe?

don't use either. Both are end of life, no longer supported, and not to be used.
Especially the BDK which was removed from suppport by Sun years ago (and you don't need it anyway).

is it that time of the month again?
Maybe we should make a calendar out of it, there's a very regular pattern in which homework questions appear when and in what order...

nope. the JVM will ONLY load classes it can find on its classpath (and that includes your application classes, if those aren't on the classpath it won't load them).

Best set up the classpath when running the JVM, that way it's local to that instance of the JVM.
That's achieved through the -cp commandline parameter to the Java runtime.

http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details/US/EN,CRID=2162,CONTENTID=11986 this one's decent except for the mouse (too contoured, useless for lefthanded people).

So I use this one: http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/productdetails.aspx?pid=043
I did use this one: http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/productdetails.aspx?pid=014 but threw it against the wall until it exploded in frustration because the radio unit wouldn't work properly (interference from something in the area meant it constantly lost connection).
http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/productdetails.aspx?pid=004 is the best mouse I ever used, but it's sadly no longer sold here.

That's the problem, most people have never taken law school and don't know the legal loopholes that may result from writing a custom licence.

Since when has being unqualified ever stopped people from doing something? ;)

there should be no custom tags relying on SQL statements at all...
And I seriously doubt someone learning the ropes has a need for any server specific SQL extensions, they should stick to standard SQL92 which is just about fully portable.

Turbo C++ 3 and Turbo Pascal 6.
I realise it was over a decade ago :)

haven't used VB6, but VB4 sure felt a lot like a cross between Delphi 1 and QuickBasic 4.5.

http://www.marcocantu.com/ buy one of his books, and browse his site.

be more precise in your language use. Your writings are completely incomprehensible due to the volume of incorrect grammar and spelling.

no you don't. You can write plugins for Excel that load when Excel loads and are available to all spreadsheets you open.

This has absolutely nothing to do with Java whatsoever.

well, compared to what people make in Europe it's way too high.
And we make a lot more than people in say Kazakhstan.

it's a single line of Javascript. Any decent book or tutorial should be able to tell you what it is.

if done properly, your JSPs won't have anything to do with the database so they won't change.
Your servlets won't have much to do with the database so they most likely won't change either.
Only your ORM mapping files and configuration files would change to take the different database configuration into account.

hmm, you could create all of that in a spreadsheet...
In fact that's what most companies have for such systems :)

there is of course no urgency in it for anyone. Most CEOs won't mind waiting a few more days for such longterm historical data.

>Bruce Eckel's books are WAY overrated.
I disagree. Thinking in C++ volume 2 is a good book. The code is tolerably ugly, but the content is sound and useful. I actually haven't read volume 1 though, so you could be right on that one.

started reading the PDFs and put them down again.
Maybe I'm biassed as I don't like the guy at all (especially his new "Flex is god" attitude now that he's got a contract with Adobe, suddenly nothing except Flex is good for anything), but I've never liked his writing.

Could be his style, his code, or everything taken together.

you probably could (I've not used it in over a decade, at the time it had a nice little scripting language) but why would you want to?
It's a system for mathematical analysis and simulation, not a general purpose programming language.

i know im in over my head but its a class assignment i have to make a mud text based game with combat and im in a group with two people who cant tell their heads form a hole in the ground

Take that up with your teacher. Approach him and tell him the others are not doing anything and effectively leaving you to do all the work for them.
(s)He should know how to deal with such situations, at the very least you'll have covered your as* :mrgreen:

If you talk to the consumer helpdesk or salesrep, they will indeed give you (or sell you) a ready made piece of software (which is what mom and pop want).
You'll need to dig deeper, or maybe go to a specialised company, to get an API.

Netbeans is crap as an IDE, and even worse as a learning device.
You'll end up learning the tool, where all the buttons and wizards are, rather than the language.

Anyone can click and drag something together that looks halfway decent, but that doesn't make them programmers.

yah, misread it. Looked like you had them defined inside a method, in which case it wouldn't have compiled.

are you sure your text is being painted in a visible colour, that the text colour isn't somethintg transparent?

.NET 2.0 is for some reason not enough when you want to run something that needs .NET 1.1.
You need to install .NET 1.1 as well (it won't overwrite 2.0).
go here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/default.aspx

"Is there any way to embed Delphi code into a website? "
You can create serverside modules for IIS and Apache in Delphi (though maybe not in the free version).

"Is Delphi a lot better than VB?"
Certainly. Far more powerful, better editors, a real programming language.
If VB looks a bit like Delphi it's because the people making VB looked at Delphi and liked what they saw. Initial versions of VB looked nothing like that.

Ever used Turbo Vision? Now that was a joy to work with (well, if you have a slight masochistic streak) :)

Unless you're a genius of some sort then I concur with jwenting. [/URL]

Good luck on your programming odyssey, LamaBot

It he were a genius though he'd not be in "way over his head" as he claims :)
He'd also have a quite different way of expressing himself.

You were completely and utterly incapable even of reading your courseware or listening to your teacher while he was teaching you yet expect us to give you private tutoring here in the form of a few messages?
And you were completely incapable of reading Sun's own website which lists some excellent tutorials yet expect us to provide you with some?

And you want us to drop whatever we're doing to help you out NOW!!!!!! ?

Seems you have very weird expectations, and are extremely rude as well.

Learn some manners, follow your classes and do your homework next time, use the internet, bookstores, and libraries to gather your own information instead of waiting for it to be handed to you in predigested chunks, and maybe you'll learn something.

Even easier...
Before you print anything, create a Map containing each distinct value in the array as the key and the number of occurances as the value.
After that, just iterate over those keys and extract their values for printing.
Worst case, that's equivalent to running over the array twice, best case it's equivalent to running over it once plus a single lookup.

and do listen to Dr Bob. He's a great guy I've met several times.

and no, I can't recommend any recent books as I've not recently read any (I'm concerned almost fulltime with Java these days).

But anything by Marco Cantu is sure to be good (unless he's gotten a lot worse with age).

You'd need to write a plugin of some sort for Excel to do that, not even sure if it will let you do that.

contact a service provider, they'll have APIs for you (at a price).

yes, you're in way over your head alright.
Leave programming games, and especially largescale games, to experienced people and start with beginners' tutorials.

You can NOT write the next Quake or Everquest on your own from the comfort of your bedroom, and especially not without years (think a decade) of professional experience.

create a JFrame or JDialog containing a JTextArea or something like that inside a JScrollPane, and show that.

That doesn't solve the problem, it masks it but it will come back to bite you later.

The problem here is almost certainly classpath related.
Most likely the jar depends on other jars that aren't on the classpath (like mail.jar, activation.jar, and things like that).

only advise to give here is RTFM.

the code you posted won't even compile, as m and n aren't initialised yet at the time you first use them.

sadly hardcore environmentalists would love to see mankind go extinct and I feel that more than a few of them would gladly lend a hand in making that happen if they could (by for example spreading diseases like Ebola all over the world).

The only keyboards I'm comfortable with are the split ones, like Microsoft natural keyboards.
All others give me pain in my shoulders and wrists after a while (usually a short while by now).
The current 4000 model from Microsoft is excellent, best I've ever used. Comfortable, sensible feedback on pressing a key, key action decently strong, and the thing isn't so light it keeps sliding out from under your hands.

For mice, the old Microsoft Intellimouse explorer is one of my favourites, but it's sadly no longer available.
But any symetrical model (I use it lefthanded, most good mice are made specially for righthanded use) that's large and bulky stands a good chance of being decent. As I spend a lot of time not using it it's a bit less important than the best possible keyboard, but I still require a model that fits my hands well or again it's problems with the wrists after a while.