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I handle several projects that use yaml files for configuration, and load them with YamlDotNet. It is sometimes useful to log the effective configuration when the program starts, to aid future debu...
I consider to migrate a large MediaWiki website to Drupal 9. All the webpages include MediaWiki syntax, just one example is the link syntax: [[ARTICLE NAME|LINK_TEXT]] for internal links [URL ...
I'm new to D and am planning to use it for golfing. I want to make a ROT13 converter and I want to determine the length of an inputted string. Is there a function for this? If not, what ways can I...
const body = document.body; const light = evt => { body.setAttribute('data-theme', 'light'); localStorage.setItem("theme", "light"); console.log("light"); } const dark = ...
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 ...
In the past I have read about the fact that some programmers use a variable to hold two or more variables (instead holding a mere value or an array). There might also be cases when programmers use...
Making a Nannou App that draws a line to the screen. My model only contains the window itself and a vector of tuples describing the points and color. Similar to this example(under Drawing Lines) ...
While learning JavaScript, I started to see =, == and === operators. What's the difference between them?
While learning JavaScript, I started to see sometimes the <script> is placed in the <head> and sometimes it is placed in the <body>, What's difference between placing the <scri...
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 would assume the following content types would be standard when creating a web shop with Drupal but maybe I am wrong: Home page Article page Product page Service page Another page Are t...
When working with a qmake subdirs project you may want to share configuration between multiple projects. In a less common case you may including a external project within your own as code and want ...
What I want: An object that contains a function that I can update after creation. I created a struct that contains a parameter b and a function(closure?) named Internal_Fn. struct MyThing { ...
Building a Nannou App from their template. I want a circle to slowly fade in color and randomly change color when hitting the boundary of the window. But there is something strange going on when ...
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 *...
After upgrading a Web application from ASP.NET Core 3.1 to ASP.NET Core 5.0, it worked fine on an existing server. However, when deployed on a server that had only .NET 5.0 installed, the applicat...
I have developed an Atom package which calls SyncTeX (a utility for reverse lookup for LaTeX), and then opens in Atom the file specified in the SyncTeX response. I'm developing on Linux, but now a ...
Let I have a button <button type="button" onclick = "myfunction()" class="collapsible">Expand content</button> And, I have a JS function. function collapse() { var coll = docu...
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 ...
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'm writing some functions in C that parses a part of a XML file (using libxml), but instead of extracting the content of the XML node that has a specific name, it outputs a string that's not in UT...
I am developing a modular HTML-PHP-CSS no-JavaScript (JavaScriptless) contact form and the HTML is becoming increasingly large, around 80 lines (and could easily grow to be significantly larger as ...
I get the impression that there are two general types of contact forms: A regular contact form where all fields are in one webpage ; such form might be very long for a potential customer ("too m...
My HTML form got dir="rtl" attribute and value and in desktop computer systems it appears Right to Left (RTL) but in my mobile device (OnePLus 6) with Android and DuckDuckGo browser, the form's HTM...
In Android Studio, when I click on a variable. It redirects me to where the variable was declared. Even, when coder writes lot of code than, it becomes hard to find "main" object by scrolling. Rub...
#include<stdio.h> struct Node{ int data; struct Node* next; }; Here I used an asterisk after Node. What is it used for? What if I don't put any asterisk after Node (both Node...
#include<iostream> using namespace std; class Book{ public: string title; string author; int pages; Book(string aTitle, string aAuthor, int aPages){ aTitle = title; ...
I am struggling to do a save button in C# Windows Form Application where I have a GridView and I want to save all modifications I do in GridView Table(I connected it to SQL). This is the data sourc...
I wrote a program named Kernel.c 2 months into my life in programming and created 4 functions at the time, and now there are 7 functions. Recently, I updated the program completely onto an online ...
There are two broad types of build environments - in-source and out-of-source. "In-source" means the compiled files will appear in the same directory as source files. "Out-of-source" means there is...
Context Our product owner has realized that some entities are duplicated from time to time and that a merge is required. This should clean up existing duplicates and also allow special users to me...
I have a simple HTML contact form and I wish to create a text area in it with <input type="text"> but without a <textarea> tag. The end product should be an <input type="text"> f...
Here in Python, I created a program for this challenge and I'm having trouble debugging it. I already fixed most errors I have on my program but here's what I have left: x=y=z=[];i=0.0;a=int(input...
I have a column that is a concatenation of 5 other columns plus a join to a different table. UPDATE db.a JOIN db.b ON fk_b = b.pk SET concat_field = CONCAT(field1,field2,field3,b.field,field4,fi...
I'm writing a JSON schema to validate asset files for a program. The JSON I need to parse is structured so: { "jobs": { "software-developer": { "job-description": "sw-dev.md:0", "pay": 800...
I've got this sample regex: Pattern p = Pattern.compile("(?:([aeiou]+)[0-9]+|([123]+)[a-z]+)\\W+"); It basically has the following parts: one or more lowercase vowels ([aeiou]+), followed by one ...
I'm using Python to invoke another program in a sub-process. I've noticed my memory sometimes gets so large as to crash the system, and I'm wondering if I'm not correctly cleaning up the memory som...
I have used Drupal since 2010 to create websites and I recall a few years back reading that it can be used to create smartphone applications (or something similar). Is this only the "web-integrate...
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...
Many web login and contact form features could be set as standard HTML builtins without the need to develop and backend and/or (non HTML) frontend for them, for example: Select field Input Date...
To start off, here is the complete HTML of a simple example table: <html lang="en-US"> <head> <title>Title</title> <style> table { width: 20em; ...
I would like to maintain a log that is available to several modules in my Angular 8 system. So I created the following service: @Injectable({ providedIn: 'root' }) export class LogService { ...
I have a mobile-only HTML contact form divided in source code into three sections; each section should contain fields by a different context. <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> ...
For debugging running programs I often use whatever is integrated with the IDE I am using. QtDeveloper right now, but also used Eclipse, Netbeans and others. Most of them just use gdb under the hoo...
I have finally received access to a trial account on OpenAI and I took it for a spin. My interest is with code generation, so first tried something simple using the playground: Q: generate a stand...
I had installed mysql using the following command sudo pacman -Sy mysql Earlier, I was using Lampp(Xampp for Linux) where I could start using the command /opt/lampp/start start I am not sur...
Our web site has a widget that displays some date-based information that we retrieve from some JSON-formatted data (one object per date). We get the current date from the environment, possibly adj...
I have recently an issue at work after upgrading an ASP.NET Core 3.1 application to .NET 5. It worked correctly on all environments (e.g. PreProd, Prod) when targeting 3.1, but failed on Prod only ...
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...
By "functional" I don't mean "procedural" (i.e. I don't mean to programming which is done solely or primarily with these data structures commonly known as "functions" but are actually procedures), ...
