Posts by jwenting

by taking a piece of paper and starting to figure out how to do it.
When you know that, you can fire up an editor and write your code.

you're wrong to ask that here for starters.

no, we're not going to do your work for you.
We can however point you to some existing packages that might do the trick. Check out Lucene.

of course it's not going to work. And a good thing it is. The security risks would be tremendous if it were otherwise.

an even simpler solution is to check the timestamps on posts before replying to them...

Must goverment be the center of our existence?
Yes, it is. Without government there would be just chaos. Government, from the tiny village to the federal government affects our every day lives. I can't think of a thing I do (yes, even in the privacy of my bedroom and bathroom) that isn't affected by some goverment in some way.

That doesn't answer the question...
You have just proven that the government IS the center of our existence. But you've not stated whether it should be...

maybe you read my post which got deleted

was that one even worse gibberish than the one that didn't get deleted?

yup. Of course they're not taxing the air we breathe, but are taxing the CO2 we exhale...

To meet Kyoto standards though is cheap. All we need to do is kill all enviroweenies. The CO2 emissions and hot air those idiots put out is enough to tip the scales :)

maybe you should start learning some English, and don't try to do that in "half da time".

If I were to get a cover letter or resume written like you are writing I'd ditch it instantly.

small wonder. PDF files are readonly, so you can't change them.

says it all. You don't have permission to read that file.

Medicare is a disaster, OSHA is meddling with the rights of people, postal services are far more effecient and cheaper when run as private enterprises.
The drug supply is pretty much guaranteed by the Colombian cartels, the food supply by farmers. Air is as yet free, but I'm certain someone in government is planning to tax it.
DHS and TSA are some of the best examples of why increasing government power is a bad thing.
The government, like the military, should serve the people. Yet in reality it's usually the other way around.

and please don't use Struts.
There are far better alternatives out there, and pretty much everyone wants it to die a slow and horrible death.

Government should be as small and insignificant as possible, basically providing physical security and emergency services and little else.

we don't help thread hijacking kiddos.

read reply #1...

and what made you think asking about MS SQL Server in an Oracle forum would get you any help?

says it all, that class isn't there.
Now, don't ask me where it is, but it's not where it's supposed to be.

I tried something like that ONCE -- the next day, after the hangover, I had to burn everything I did because it was nothing but a bunch of crap.

Morale: don't drink and code.

where did I say it was an alcoholic drink?

yes, we can answer it. Question is, can you...

we're not going to help you build game bots in any language, cheater.

1.Get The explorer properties and disable refresh,back & minimize buttons
2.Get the Current System time not use counter.

what about checking timestamps on threads before posting in them (and that goes for you other kiddos as well!)?

And what about reading the actual answers already provided before posting your own?

tell your boss you lied to get the job. That's the only honest way to proceed.

says it all...

to pay that little for gas...
Filled up last week for €1.65 per liter, and it's gone up 2 cents since.

And next month we're going to get another 3 cent tax hike per liter, on top of the regular price increase.
Finance minister needs it to pay for the pay raise he's given himself...

As to fuelwars, Spanish truckers paralysed the entire country for almost 2 weeks until they were forced out of their trucks by riot police who then confiscated the trucks and drove them to an impound lot.

the only "coding tool" you need is VI, and maybe a commandline compiler.

Probably the most relaxed coding I've ever done was in a lounge chair at the poolside, sipping a cold drink with one hand while writing code in pencil on paper with the other.

if they're updated infrequently, it's best to cache the results for a period known to be shorter than that update interval.
Analyse how long you can live with the old information after new information becomes available.
That will tell you the longest period you should cache the data.

And don't use a Vector, they're notoriously slow as well as being effectively deprecated, retained for backwards compatibility reasons only.

Use something like ehcache to cache the data, and set the cache timeout to a fixed interval (rather than a period after the last request) of maybe 5-10 minutes.
You might even have a dedicated process running that at regular intervals updates the cache in the background, so http requests never notice the time needed for the data retrieval.
But whether you want that depends on the actual time penalty. If it's only a few seconds, it's not worth it, users will just think the site's a bit more busy than usual when it happens (and they'll be effectively right, the server is busy waiting for the database).
If you're talking minutes, definitely do it out of process (but in that case you may want to seriously look at your data retrieval as well, there's likely something extremely inefficient in there that can be seriously improved, even a few database indices and stored procedures can do wonders).

that's not what you use JSP for, so we're not going to tell you.
And yes, we do know how you'd do it if you'd be really stupid and used JSP for it anyway.

Coding on the typical French beach? "Unpossible"!

hmm, one of those weathersealed laptops could work wonders...

and learn to write English while you're learning proper behaviour.

create a servlet that streams a JPEG or PNG of the chart when called from an IMG tag.

wrong place to beg for help.
And grovelling won't help either.

by reading the tutorials that come with it and the JEE distribution from Sun.

Wow, half a year for the company to respond to a customer complaint. Doesn't make you look good...

Well, that and the fact that there are a lot of people around we just don't want to think about seeing naked! :P

There are people I don't want to see at all...
One of the pillars of nudism is respect for others, lack of jealousy. Sounds like a good idea.
Don't judge others by how they look, lest you be so judged yourself.

anywhere they stock black jeans and matching colour T-shirts or dress shirts...
If they're cheap, so much the better.

but they're unlikely to be your "mates" (though they may become so in time).

I wonder why kids are too lazy to even come up with their own project ideas.
Doesn't bode well for them actually getting around to implementing those projects...

It's also no longer supported, and I think not even Y2K compliant in places.
There is NO reason to use it.

and? there's no question there, only a lot of unformatted code and some ramblings about things that have nothing whatsoever to do with Java.

Don't bother trying to help the slacker. It's hopeless.

yah, but wouldn't it be nice...
Might never do it myself, but IMO the entire taboo against nudity is rather silly.
While clothes may be a necessity in cold and temperate climates to compensate for the lack of fur on the human body, that's largely because we're not used to being without clothes.
The taboo is rooted in religion, not any scientific reason.

i cant see the whole nude coding thing. first of all it is too much effort taking of your close just to code. and then you remember to go get something from the shop? or someone knocks on the door? second it would be too cold. and honestly. Does it really make a difference?

That's assuming you have to take them off in the first place.
One of the benefits of working from home is that you don't have to get dressed up in the morning to look good in the office...
If someone knocks on the door, you can just throw on a bathrobe...
If it's too cold, turn up the heater or turn down the airconditioning, sheesh.
If you can't see the point, it's not for you. Just like dressing up in a monkey suit with a $100 tie isn't for everyone either (I know I hate it, however much I like the looks of that tie).

and don't revive old dead threads to post nonsense "solutions".

that's a different problem, and one you can't solve.
The server will time out the request, and even if not the client will at some point time out the request.

yes, the manual. It's there for a reason, use it.

who is this "Peter Buso" person you're talking to?

One of the most relaxed exam experiences I ever had was walking into that room and finding out that it was an exam I'd not specifically studied for.
I'd mixed up the dates of 2 exam sessions, the one I thought I was sitting was a month later, oops.

After the first few minutes of terror I resigned to the situation, decided to make the best of it, and completed the exam with time to spare.
Passed it too with a pretty nice score. Maybe not what I could have gotten without going over the material one last time in the days running up to it, but a good score nevertheless.

it indeed won't compile. but even if it did it wouldn't work if he has a problem getting a resultset and ignored it (as so many kids do).

Almost ALL schoolkids think their school is bad because it doesn't let them do what they want to do.

If you're bright you'll recognise that what most kids want to do is anything BUT schoolwork so it's a good thing schools don't let the kids decide for themselves.

What languages a school uses to teach programming is largely irrelevant. Pascal is in fact an EXCELLENT choice (VB6 isn't, but that's another story that has nothing to do with education and everything with VB6).
As to having to come up with your own project ideas, that's excellent. Teaches you to think for yourself, something far too few kids these days can do.

As to starting out as a pro, learning to think for yourself is the first step.
And remember that most professionals didn't go to school to learn to program, they taught themselves or were taught on the job.