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I'm a software engineer with about 20 years of experience. In September, October, and November I'll be teaching JavaScript and jQuery courses in Cincinnati, Boston, and New York. Check out my website for details: http://bit.ly/learnJavaScript Find me…

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As of today, DaniWeb offers a completely ad-free experience to sponsors!! What do you think? Is it enough to sway you to donate $5/mo for all the benefits you get?

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People who know me know that Python has always been one of my favorite languages. And over the years, I've been pleased with the array of development tools that have been created for it, including the different IDEs. I also do a lot of work in .NET, primarily with C#. …

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Every year or so for the past couple of decades I've seen new products appear that claim to let you create software without having to know how to code. And every time the next one comes out, I roll my eyes, because they always fail to deliver as promised. Usually …

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[COLOR="Red"][B]UPDATE: see author's comments after article[/B][/COLOR] When you develop for mobile devices these days, you pretty much have two paths you can take: You can use the OS manufacturer's SDK and develop native apps, or you can create an application that runs in the device's web browser. Developing for the …

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[ATTACH=RIGHT]17428[/ATTACH]Almost every programmer knows his name. He's a living legend in computers. His name is Bjarne Stroustrup, and he created the world's most popular programming language, C++. I had a chance to ask him a few questions. The first three of the questions I came up with, and the remainder …

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Hi! My database is in AS/400 DB2 hence, I am using SQL. Here's my line of code for opening a connection. Dim str As String = "User ID=EDITH;Password=EDITH;Data Source=10.0.1.11;Initial Catalog=ictms;Integrated Security=True" Dim conn As SqlConnection = New SqlConnection(str) conn.Open() Now, I wanted to execute a delete query, however, I already …

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I have this assignment due this weekend and I was able to figure it out but for some reason the last part of my output is going up to 38 and I have no clue to way it would be doing that any thoughts to way. my output: output: PRINTING …

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Herro there :) i'm having serious trouble understaning even the basics of regular expressions in perl. im trying to make a rainmeter skin that lets you search google from desktop and parses the first five links, and a picture if possible.

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Is it possible to create tables in the text editor that will retain spacing -- something like code tags but without line numbers?

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Hello everyone. Good morning or afternoon. depends on where you are. I am just excited about programming. I love to make new things and programs.

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Is there any difference between returning a pointer to a struct, and returning a struct? Aside from the derefrenceing that is done would they both be working with the same struct? Is there any copying that gets done if it is just a regular return?

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As I spend time in the Daniweb forums, I see some questions that ultimately come down to the issue of manipulating JavaScript data and a user interface on a website. When you build a GUI that lets your user view, add, edit, and delete data, a common approach is to …

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I have 2 tables in sql , one is called stock and the other stock warning the stock table has columns ' Pid, pdescr,current stock, stock warning' this shows up in datagridview 2nd table(stock warning) has columns 'pdescr, current stock' showing in datagridview in the stock table when the 'current …

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I'm using [Page Transitions](http://tympanus.net/Development/PageTransitions/) (get animations.css from tympanus.net) to hide/show div. How to add remove classes. I'm trying to add in-out effects with simple classes. How to *Remove class `current` from current div & add outgoing class to same div* and *add class `current` & incoming class to next div*? …

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How can I explain this. I have a list of postcodes in text files in an external url and I have a formfield. When people enter data into the form field, using javascript validation, I want the form to check if the entered data exists in any of the external …

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Every page of DaniWeb has a Javascript error that says: Uncaught SecurityError: Blocked a frame with origin "http://www.daniweb.com" from accessing a frame with origin "https://www.facebook.com". The frame requesting access has a protocol of "http", the frame being accessed has a protocol of "https". Protocols must match. I haven't changed anything …

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First, here are my code HTML <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="css/style_v2.css"> <title>Far Far Away - A folktale at Faraway Island</title> </head> <body> <header> <div id="logonslogan"> <a href="#">Well-Designed Blog</a> <p id="slogan">Created by Terry</p> </div> <div id="navnsearch"> <nav> <ul> <li><a href="#">Home</a></li> <li><a href="#">Portfolio</a> <ul> <li><a href="#">Wordpress Theme</a></li> <li><a href="#">Blogger …

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ello ello, I'm currently calling a file using JQuery but every so often (very randomly) Google Chrome would crash (Just the tab, not the browser). Soooo I began investigating and discovered that browsers cache AJAX calls? This would mean that the tab would be using a stupid amount of memory …

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A minor update to the 1.6 version of jQuery was just released today. After a big outcry of version 1.6's changes to the way properties work, the jQuery team quickly released version 1.6.1 to make the new techniques more compatible with the older functionality, hopefully preventing sites from breaking. The …

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IE9 is on the horizon, and there has been plenty said about it. But what about its web development aspects? In this article I look at its web developer tools, and decide whether I'll start using it in my own web development. Like most web developers, I abandoned IE several …

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Netbeans is a free, open source IDE for developing software in Java. It's been around for almost 15 years, having gotten its start around the time Java began. Version 7.0 is about to be released, and I got my hands on the Beta release of this new version. In the …

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A couple weeks ago, Microsoft Research made available a project that had been under development for a while called Debugger Canvas. This is a visual tool for debugging applications where your functions appear as bubbles, similar to a database diagram or UML diagram. It only works on Visual Studio 2010 …

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Back around 2004 and 2005, I had embarked on a web project that included the ability for my users to draw on a web page—or at least, that was one of the requirements. At the time, most of my web development had been server-side, with very little JavaScript. Long story …

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This past Summer, Microsoft announced the beta of a new product called WebMatrix. Two weeks ago, the third beta came out. But before I talk about it, I have to ask: Is this a new product? Or am I having déjà vu?[ATTACH]18093[/ATTACH]WebMatrix (one word) is, in fact, a brand new …

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I've been using jQuery for a few years now, and the more I use it, the more I like and appreciate it. It seems like I'm always finding new ways to use it, and usually those new techniques result in me writing less code and ultimately being more productive. On …

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When I first started working on this article, I was originally planning on reviewing a different product, a new project from Eclipse called Orion. However, it turns out that project just isn't ready for prime time. It's still in a very early stage, and I don't feel I would do …

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Last week, I took a look at Node.js, a powerful server-side implementation of JavaScript. But one thing I found lacking was the way to easily create a web server. Essentially, Node is an implementation of CommonJS, which adds operating systems features to JavaScript. But Node is not a web application …

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[ATTACH=RIGHT]19350[/ATTACH]In the past, the word "JavaScript" usually triggered notions of buttons changing when you float your mouse over them, and images flashing, and silly animations happening in the web browser. Today, however, most programmers recognize that JavaScript is actually much more than that; it's a powerful language that runs in …

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When I was studying computer programming in college many years ago, I didn't imagine that our work could impact lives, particularly in a negative way. We've heard reports (mostly true) of death, dying, and destruction as a result of software problems, such as the time a plane flew right into …

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