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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 try to ignore paths in the Codeql code scanning file. But every scan it seems that scanning doesn't ignore these files, do you have any tips?
What does ptr() mean in this code? #include<stdio.h> #include<stdlib.h> void PrintHello() { printf("Hello\n"); } int Add(int a, int b) { return a+b; } int main...
I am trying to combine MVVM in WPF using Microsoft.Toolkit.MVVM. Somethings are working as expected. The text boxes bind to fields and update in both directions. The button command executes and cha...
I have a page to change the user password in my website, this page can only be used if the user have a logged in! The change password page have 3 inputs: Old Password, New Password and Con...
I have to migrate a bunch of text from an old application into a new one. Some of these texts contain HTML tags and entities (HTML editor was used) and now they do not want to support this in the n...
I need to load a site based on a cookie. I wrote code to validate that, like this. if(!isset($_COOKIE['cookie'])){ $domain = $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME']; setcookie('cookie', $cookie, time() ...
I have a code block like this: try { ... x.foo(); // This is the line that forces us to have the try block ... } catch (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException e) { logger.error(e.getM...
Used to work with PhantomJS. Want to upgrade to Puppeteer. Started with some code: "use strict"; const puppeteer = require("puppeteer"); const capture = async () => { let browser; try {...
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...
The Caesar cipher is a substitution cipher in which the letters of an ordered alphabet are cyclically shifted by a given number. A detailed description can be found e.g. here. Let u be the index o...
Let's say I have this class I want to mock class A { public void add(T arg) { B b = A.getB(); U val = somefunc(arg); V ret = b.add(val); } } I have a spy o...
I had installed Ruby. rvm install 2.6.6 I had Ruby which version was 3.0.0. I had removed it. Then, installed 2.6.6. When I try bundle install I got no error. When I tried following command...
I am attempting to write a program to simulate Hunt The Wumpus in the K programming language. The game requires a grid that is created by the vertices of a Dodecahedron, which is cyclic and triangu...
I have two tables: Table1: Name Description Amount 123 Description123 123 456 Description456 456 789 Description789 666 101 Description777 101 133 De...
I'm trying to use H2O to serve a multi-file PHP website without routing—just having a separate PHP file for every page. The relevant part of my H2O config currently looks like this: paths: "/":...
I have the following scenario (in MySQL 8): CREATE TABLE `steps` ( `id` int NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `number` varchar(30) DEFAULT NULL, `parent_number` varchar(30) DEFAULT NULL, `timestamp` ti...
Assume I have this class Foo class Foo { private int x; void setX(int x) { this.x = x; } } And I have a Junit test like this: Bar bar; @BeforeEach void setu...
I'm facing rsync full syncs every once upon a time, I think it's because DST, notice an hour of difference: $ ls -l tier2/VIDEO-2020-06-17-15-10-27.mp4 /Volumes/KINSTON2/dat/laptop_kinstones/tier2...
Let's say I have this class: class myService { private boolean foo(T arg) { return arg == 42; } public Response bar(U arg) { if(foo(U.field)) { return Response.st...
I have some code connecting to an active directory via ldap. Something like this: public Response add(User user) { try { LDAPConnectionPool ldapPool = ldapConnectionPool.getPool();...
I have seen this construct quite a lot: int *p = (int*) malloc(n * sizeof(int)); Is this how it should be? What is the proper way to use malloc? I have also seen this: int *p = malloc(n * size...
I am trying to check a JSON array for a certain element. However, when I try to instantiate a JsonElement to search the list for: JsonElement builderElement = JsonParser.parseString( "{\"disc...
I have an array friends = Array.new friends[0] = "Mad man" friends[1] = "hey" There's two ways to print it (using print or puts). At first I tried print print friends which gave: ["Mad...
I use the devise authentication gem for a Rails application and it's very convenient. Typically I want my users to confirm their registration by email. Therefore the User model looks like class U...
In Vim, it's possible to tell it to read from stdin instead of a file, by using vim -. This is so that you can pipe the output of one command into Vim, to view/edit it there. The problem I'm facin...
Is it legal ISO C to declare a function as noreturn with a non-void return type (but of course not actually returning)? As far as I can read from the standard, it seems legal. Example: noreturn ...
I've created a function that calls scanf passing a void pointer as argument: void read(const char *format, void *p) { scanf(format, p); } And tested it with different types: int n; read...
Background This is kind of a subquestion to How to properly use malloc? When allocating, there are basically two common ways of using the sizeof operator: int *p; p = malloc(n * sizeof *p); /...
Let's say I have a table with 10,000 rows and instead of selecting all of the rows at once I select 1,000 at a time like LIMIT 0,1000 LIMIT 1000,1000 etc. Without an ORDER BY statement the or...
I found a form I wanted to duplicate on a roof construction website. All my input boxes are centered except the last one that's a bit off and I cannot figure out why. Here is my code: HTML <...
When using the Array.prototype.sort method, we can pass a compare function as argument. Then, this function can be used to process array's elements, so the comparison is made using some custom crit...
I am developing a web app that is tied to a database. My codebase is stored on a private GitLab instance. I would like to set up a workflow that would look something like this: I have a developm...
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 -...
Consider this code: #include <stdio.h> int main(void) { static void *ptr; if(ptr == NULL) puts("It's NULL!"); } I wonder if this is guaranteed to print "It's NULL!" I know ...
I have an Angular application. The frontend has a mechanism that periodically fetches some information like this: ngOnInit(): void { setInterval( () => { this.http.get(... ).sub...
When reading posts at programming sites such as this one, I frequently encounter people saying things like: "There is no pass-by-reference in C, everything is passed by value." People claiming su...
I am caching some very static information (changes once per day) in my ASP.NET Core application. This is normally done when needed ("lazy"). One such cache item is a 50K list of items that are tak...
Our team is finally focusing on writing more automatic testing and one of my ex-colleagues recommended to try out the Verify library. The tool does the following: runs the test and compares the...
There are a lot of articles and presentations that show little love for ORMs. This is mainly because some queries are so complex and heavy on the database that they lead to significant issues in p...
I'm starting a small site with some online tools. Tried to include Google Adsense but I initially got rejected because the site was still on construction. Yet I've seen in the forums that they are...
During a presentation of a pipeline configuration, a colleague showed a SonarQube integration and one of its reports. A warning was caused by overrunning the max value for the code complexity thres...
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...
I'm trying to write a MIME message to the console. ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); MimeMultipart replyMsg = mdnCreator.createMDNData(); replyMsg.writeTo(out); out.close...
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...
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 have noticed that lots of projects (both in real-world and within online courses) use Automapper to map domain models to view models, API models. The main advantage seems to be convenience by re...
I am trying to create an app with two toolbars on top and a specific collapsing/expanding behaviour on scrolling. See the mockup to get a deeper understanding of what I'm trying to achieve: I fo...
A person I used to work with several years ago was hired to rewrite a product using a .NET-based modern tech stack. One of the aspects that stroke me was that he believes that the product should mo...
