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I host my website on a CentOS-Bash, PHP and MySQL environment; my local email client is engined by Roundcube. I don't know almost anything about PHP nuances. While my web domain registration is do...
I was trying to install Netbeans in Xubuntu. I had installed Netbeans using Snapd. sudo snap install netbeans --classic I was trying to start Netbeans then I got an error which was looking like...
I've been doing a lot of reading on implementing the repository pattern in C# projects and found controversy, or shall I say some strong criticism, made by seemingly very smart people with previous...
I am working on a website which unfortunately uses a mix of linked and inline CSS and Javascript (and, even more unfortunately, I can't do a lot about the use of inline CSS and Javascript), and am ...
I'm working on a system where the frontend will make a call to the backend to perform an action. Sometimes this action can cause other unintended consequences (like charging the customer), in thes...
I'm trying to log error messages from Requests exceptions. Example: try: make_web_request() except RequestException as ex: logging.error(ex) Example output: ERROR : ('Connection abo...
It's possible to use Angular 8 http.get to get a page from the frontend itself ? My local frontend url: https://192.168.0.177:4200/ I tried in a service: test(): Observable<string> { ret...
One of the recent business requirements is to be able to search through a list of entities using a bunch of filters. Most of these filters allow multiple values and the user might theoretically pro...
const body = document.body; const light = evt => { body.setAttribute('data-theme', 'light'); localStorage.setItem("theme", "light"); console.log("light"); } const dark = ...
This revolves around images. I'm trying to write an HTML page of COVID-19 safety procedures, and here's what I've written so far: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title&...
In MediaWiki 1.36.1 with Skin:Timeless, the following JavaScript code doesn't work. I get in browser console: Your skin is incompatible with VisualEditor. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Exte...
I have a .html file containing only the following data, and I keep that file on top of my website's directory. <link rel="stylesheet" href="./css/mobile_general_structure.css"></link> ...
I would say that the terms "property" and "method" are basic in JavaScript programming (at least in the context of web/front), but are they basic or common in other programming languages such as C,...
I am interested in finding out all the aspects I need to cover in order to correctly assess if a user has stopped interacting with a web page. So far, I found the following: Idle Detection API -...
Our team will have to migrate an old application to use a new tech stack. One of the features involves the usage of HTML editors which serialized the content as HTML and I am able to see valid HTML...
Despite the fact that I have programmed against SQL Server for quite a while I did not pay much attention to the tempdb database. This is especially true if application logic is mostly written usin...
There is an external program I'm calling from within my C/C++ program, by using fork() and execl(), and redirecting the stdio with dup2() to be able to read the output from the external program. I...
When I clear my Google Chrome browser history I can clear both "Cookies and other site data" AND "passwords and other sign-in data". Clearing just one of the two would require me to re-login t...
I've recently been involved with creating text documentation of steps for workflows in graphical windows systems (and web-pages). These are often somewhat wordy, for example: "Click on the 'Exit' ...
This is a rather vague question, but I'm trying to solve a specific problem and I'm inexperienced in most of the potential solutions, so please forgive the inherent ambiguity. I have access to a d...
As I don't have any significant experience with internationally-standard information security literature, I would like to ask here if some international information security organization took the i...
from tkinter import * from tkinter import messagebox, filedialog import pyttsx3 import PyPDF2 import os import webbrowser root = Tk() # root.geometry("500x500") root.title("Audio Book") ...
I have been using open-source software, and the open-source Community is great at maintaining such projects. But I have observed something in smaller open-source projects. Whenever I demand some f...
I use the following backend (PHP) pattern to send email. I consider to start sending email by Ajax but I would still need to store my email address in some backend file (say, a PHP file) so it won...
I was trying to initialize a simple two dimensional array as follows: const arrays = Array(3).fill([]); However, when I tried to push an entry into one of the arrays, it seems like it gets push...
I was trying to plot using following lines in C++. #include "koolplot.h" int main() { plotdata x(-6.0, 6.0); plotdata y = sin(x) + x/5; plot(x, y); return 0; } When I was...
I have a project Anonymised.Theme which contains XAML resource dictionaries for a theme. This is used by about a dozen applications which simply include it by merging <ResourceDictionary Source...
This is the worst bug I have ever seen.. I was fetching CallLogs following way. ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>> callLog= new ArrayList<>(); HashMap<String, Strin...
I am a noob Java programmer. I want to create a simple login page with just username and password. So I have to combine Java and HTML. While googling I found that Servlets do the job but people are...
How do I mock tempnam() with vfsStream for code that uses it to create temporary files (for example, in a PHPUnit test)?
One of the legacy applications my team has to maintain has almost always this pattern for dealing with data modification: try { // get the connection // begin transaction // optional...
I was tasked with an assignment where I should get a box to move to the 4 corners of the viewport by hovering on a button. Most of the code is already finished except for figuring out how to get th...
I find myself often writing code like this. try { // code } catch( FailedReadException const & ex) { file.close(); std::cerr << "Read failure " << ex.readFailure() <&...
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In C#, I have two lists and need to mark records in the first based on the second. Here's a sample: public class Vehicle { public string Make { get; set; } public string VIN { get; set;...
I consider to create a multi page contact form in which there is one backend page but about 5 front-end pages (stage 1-5). Pages 1-4 are input pages and page 5 is for a submit button and a success ...
I have a simple HTML-PHP-CSS contact form (no JavaScript) with an input type="url" field. Currently in 30/03/2021, the default behavior of input type="url" (by W3C design I guess) is to obligate t...
I was using static method few moments ago. But I noticed that I was returning a variable using that static method. According to the article, Static is a keyword that identifies the class-related...
I have read that several programming languages, listed below are considered "typeless": Forth Brainfuck B MUMPS BLISS Lucid BCPL I have shared this data with a programmer who clued that...
I am trying to re-build an unpacked apk, because it was unpacked the required libraries are already included, deleting the prepacked libraries would be feasible if it weren't for the fact that some...
I'm using git for LaTeX projects and am in a little dilemma about how to best ignore files. if I add *.pdf to my .gitignore file, I keep forgetting to force add included graphics if I don...
Hello folks, can someone resolve this seg fault with me please, i can't find the error where it occur. Thank you. #include <stdlib.h> #include <stdio.h> int ft_ultimate_range(int *...
Why do Content Delivery Networks are often developed in such a way that they would require adding a Cname value such as www. before example.com? I ask this after switching from one CDN (Cloudflare...
All the ways I know of to mutate a DOM are JavaScript. Just for broadening general knowledge I want to know if there is any common way to mutate the DOM via HTML itself, without involving any Java...
The following code (credit for user:hkotsubo) moves the user to another page if Alt+Shift+E are pressed together. window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', () => { let domain = window.loca...
I'm rather new to using git, so I'm not sure about the best practices regarding it. I have a feature branch branched off, and periodically when the feature needs to be updated I will add some commi...
I'm trying to write a MIME message to the console. ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); MimeMultipart replyMsg = mdnCreator.createMDNData(); replyMsg.writeTo(out); out.close...
On 25th October 2020 in Europe/Berlin clocks where set back from 03:00 AM to 02:00 AM to change from summer time (CEDT) to winter time (CET). Which means there is a 1 hour separation between 02:30...
I have this bootstrap code (grid) <div class="container p-3 center"> <div class="row"> <div class="bg-light border-bottom border-secondary border-top col-6 te...
