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I'm on a team building some class libraries to be used by many other projects. Some members of our team insist that "All public methods should be virtual" just in case "anything needs to be changed". This is very much against my instincts. Can anyone offer some solid design guidelines for me? Thanks in advance....

Hi Know any good utilities to help me strip out the tags that Microsoft Excel 2002 leaved behind when you try and export an HTML format file? This is driving me NUTS. And really makes me hate microsoft with a passion. I literally just want "compact HTML" - ie just the data,

What's on the picture? A dragon? A wyrm? It looks more like a pigeon to me!! He,he!

Hi everyone, Just out of curiosity I recently pointed one of my hand-typed pages at the W3 Validator, and my hand-typed code was just ripped to shreds. Then I pointed some major sites (microsoft.com, cnn.com, etc.) at the W3 Validator; to my surprise none of them passed. Doesn't anyone care anymore, or are the standards more-or-less...

hello everyone, Iam vasant from India.. I have a test+interview on C /C++ in the coming month so plz help me by giving some resources of FAQS, interview questions, tracky questions, multiple choice questions.etc.. I'll be indebted to everyone.. Thanks in advance.. regards vasant shetty Bangalore

I found something interesting on the Web today, purely by chance. It would be funny if it weren't so sad. Or sad if it weren't so funny. I'm not sure which. http://www.developerdotstar.com/community/node/291 This "teacher of C" demonstrates his prowess with a masterful display of incompetence in a 200-line program that travels as...

Hi, first, python is one of my fav languages, and i'll definitely keep developing with it. But, there's 1 one thing what I -really- miss: data hiding. I know member vars are private when you prefix them with 2 underscores, but I hate prefixing my vars, I'd rather add a keyword before it. Python advertises himself as a full OOP language,...

I want to create a search form for a library which contain 2 option group;1 is for searching according to keywords,exact match,first on field and phrase,another is type of searching which have different field table such as title,publication,subject,author,call number,ISBN, and any. and also a text field to enter searching.When the search button is...

I was under the assumption that everything in python was a refrence... so if I code this: lst = for i in lst: if i==2: i = 4 print lst I though the contents of lst would be modified.. (After reading that

Hi all, I'm a recent, belated convert from Perl. I work in a physics lab and have been using Python to automate a lot of measurement equipment lately. It works fabulously for this purpose. Recently I've wanted to start writing GUIs for some of my programs, for data visualization and to make the programs easier to use for some of my...

According to Troelsen in "C# and the .NET Platform" "Boxing can be formally defined as the process of explicitly converting a value type into a corresponding reference type." I think that my biggest problem with this process is that the terms "value type" and "reference type" mean something entirely different than what they mean on every...

Greetings friends, This semester I have started a course in C programming. I was moving along fine until I reached to the topic of loops (feeling embarrassed among you elite programmers). My prof. would post program questions and the solutions online. For practice I would try to do the problems. I would reach to a certain point in the...

Is this valid? int a; void *b; b = (void *)a; // b points to a b += 5*sizeof(*a); // b points to a a = 100;

Hello everyone, Please take a look at the following code: #include <stdio.h> typedef struct person { char name; int age; } Person;

Are there any commercial, or otherwise obfuscators for python source code or byte code and what are their relative advantages or disadvantages. I wonder because there are some byte code protection available for java and .NET, although from what i've read these seem to be not comprehensive as protection schemes

Hi, I have a 32-bit machine... Is there anyway I can get gcc to use the following integer sizes? char: 8 bits short: 16 bits int: 32 bits long: 64 bits long long: 128 bits

howdy! please recommend a good c compiler. - should be small - should be fast - should come with a good ide - should be inexpensive i am using windows os.

Hello, I just read this mail by Brett Cannon: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-October/069139.html where the "PSF infrastracture committee", after weeks of evaluation, recommends using a non open source tracker (called JIRA - never heard before of course) for Python itself. Does this smell "Bitkeeper fiasco" to anyone...

This question is occur in interview. Please help me.

The TopStyle people seem to have lost interest in their product. It does not work in Vista. I would like to find a replacement/replacement that did the following 1. let me compose CSS using a checkbox style where the field names are already present and that does some minimal editing on field values. 2. tidier that reorder in some...

1: It is not possible to check EVERY malloc result within complex software. 2: The reasonable solution (use a garbage collector) is not possible for whatever reasons. 3: A solution like the one proposed by Mr McLean (aborting) is not possible for software quality reasons. The program must decide

i don't know what input size of string is. so i can't gets inputsize before malloc function. i want determine the size of malloc without get inputsize in advance. how to deal with it?

Hi all, Is garbage collection possible in C++. It doesn't come as part of language support. Is there any specific reason for the same due to the way the language is designed. Or it is discouraged due to some specific reason. If someone can give inputs on the same, it will be of great help. Regards, Pushpa

Is there some way --using, say, DOM or javascript-- to detect the current pixel width and/or height of a relatively sized table or of one of its columns or rows. I'm going to be writing javascript to adjust my page to the viewer's browser window dimensions and this would sure be great information to have. Thanks .... Dennis

Hi I'm coding this simple program, but I get a segmentation fault, I'm pretty sure that the arrays are big enough and there isn't really any buffer overflows so why is this happening? Program as followed: #include <stdio.h> #include <math.h>