You could get into endless arguments about the proper way to organize event code. I think nobody would argue that it should be done consistently in the same project.
I have a ton of experience dealing with consultants... A majority of them had no real clue what they were talking about, but damn were they ever confident about it.
@ErickRobertson same here. My last job was absolutely infested with consultants, there had to be kick-backs involved or some other corruption. It made no sense.
The last time I worked with consultants it was on a government project where a certain percentage of the money had to be spent on minority-owned companies. Literally, the company was called "Blackwell".
@Fosco and that's why it's a good answer: the "clean" way is to separate binding from markup... but the other answer did so in a way that'll break in >50% of browsers, so all else equal it's a worse solution
so when you use jQuery, is it okay to still interact directly with the components on the page? or is there nothing you can't do through the jQuery library, so you should always use that to ensure browser compatability?
...with the obvious caveat that if you've used jQuery to, say, install an event-handler, you should use jQuery to remove it (replace it / modify it / etc)
@Shog9 Clearly you don't mean that it's a bricks-and-mortar building that people can go borrow books from, so by "traditional" you mean programming-traditional. What is the non-traditional sense? (That might sound a little joke-ish but I am asking seriously.)
@PopularDemand a library in the "traditional" sense is a metaphor based on the brick and mortar full of books library
you grab a routine "off the shelf" and call it
a library that doesn't work this way (by limiting what you can do when not calling library routines, imposing implicit constraints on where / when your program can operate, etc.) breaks that metaphor
@PopularDemand think GDI+ on Windows: requires explicit initialization, regular maintenance (in the form of a periodic call into the library from a message loop or a background thread), and care when mixing with the system GDI API on which it is based
@PopularDemand: don't bother. If you're not doing .NET, GDI+ is mostly a waste of time (and if you are, it's integrated into the framework and you don't have much of a choice)
@ErickRobertson yeah. Frameworks are sort of the extreme case of an unlibrary library: they exist to determine the structure of your program, and won't necessarily provide any benefit if you don't build within that structure.
I used the ... checking code ... Glazed Lists AutoCompleteSupport object for Java - LOVED IT. It took literally one line of code and did everything I needed it to.
@Erick XAjax is an example of a server side ajax framework for PHP. It was something I used to learn a great deal from, and made my own in it's image... stripped all the XML out of it.
@Erick yeah it was both sides, functions for sending/handling the response (a collection of actions), and a server side piece just to distribute the work and send back the response.
@Shog9 Sorry, that was me. Never tried submitting anything to Reddit before, so I thought I'd give it a shot, and that question somehow had never made it there before.
Why do SO types hate Reddit/Digg/Hacker News so much? I've never used any of the three, but they seem quite popular, so I'm surprised that they're so hated-on by our subset of the Intarwubz.
@PopularDemand I read the programming subreddit pretty regularly, but it tends to get flooded with nonsense like "I want to learn C++ in 12 minutes, what should I do" and "What's the best antivirus program?". Fortunately, we don't allow sillyness like off-topic or poll links on SO
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I tried Hacker News once, but it seemed like it was proggit but about two days behind. It was all the same links, only I'd already seen them before. I'm not sure if that's still true
highlight of my day to find out what other people eat and when their bowels move :)
if you had been following Jon Skeet, then you would have found out he made a massive toad in the hole: @jonskeet: Toad in the hole. Yum. twitpic.com/2hj5b1
The head of the rescue operation, Andre Sougarret, said engineers would drill two more shafts - a narrow one to ensure ventilation and communication with the miners in the coming months, and a wider one to extract the men via a pulley.
Mr Sougarret said it would take about 120 days to drill the second shaft.
Or: Aaronut is six moderators by himself
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@shog9: Don't you think it's amazing how someone can still write questions incredibly badly after posting 910 other questions on Stack Overflow and having an 89% accept rate?
@Shog9 Yup, I'm currently using the GF's 19" widescreen as a 2nd screen. Another 22" would be even better. It reminded me of how much I miss having dual monitors. Ideally, I'd like to have 3 for some games. :)
@George, i just bought a Dell 24" Ultrasharp, and then realized that a 27" would fit in the space I have. I'll sell it at what I bought it for and pay the shipping ($520).
@LanceRoberts Oohh. I'll keep that in mind, though it's a bit pricey for my current situation. That said, I could use a really good monitor for my aging eyes.
I use tried and true programming languages that survive the test of time, not something invented five years ago that probably won't survive another five in its current form.
I have to include some sort of reports for my university project and I already have the data ready to be used.
I'm thinking of using WPF for the GUI and I was wondering if there was a library or something I could use that has some nice effects for graphs and whatnot.
Any suggestions? I have to ...
I guess I could do something like that, but I'd need Excel installed on the end user. The purpose of this area of my project is to create a standalone application a business owner can launch to see some stats about his business.
I was looking into WPF because they have animations that are very fluid, but it seems there is no library for that.
Shog9: That's like asking why I need colors for labels. I don't NEED it, but they certainly make it look nicer. I'm talking about a slice expanding on mouseover, or something like that.
I have to include some sort of reports for my university project and I already have the data ready to be used.
I'm thinking of using WPF for the GUI and I was wondering if there was a library or something I could use that has some nice effects for graphs and whatnot.
Any suggestions? I have to ...