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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...
I have not used a database trigger in years in the projects of the teams I have worked in, but I have seen them being used by other teams. Back in 2009, it seemed like a heated debate, but I am wo...
Agner Fog has this C++ Vector Class Library, which is ... useful for improving code performance where speed is critical and where the compiler is unable to vectorize the code automatically in an...
Suppose I am using a Java API from Kotlin and I want to call a function that takes a FloatArray (represented as float[] in Java), and I have an Iterable<Float> as my input data type. To be mo...
I understand that in object-oriented programming, an object is an instance of a class. If it's an instance, I misunderstand why does it need the term object at all (we could just say "instance"). ...
Background story: I'm on mac OS 11.6 and would like to access an identifier for the current space/desktop from the command line. I found a helpful article at https://ianyh.com/blog/identifying-spac...
I am trying to listen to the event in which the keyboard key containing the Hebrew final-letter ך is pressed. This key stands for both the English letter L and the Hebrew final letter ך. If my op...
I've seen some regular expressions (regex) using \s when they want to match a space, but I noticed that it also matches line breaks. Example: the regex [a-z]\s[0-9] (lowercase ASCII letter, follow...
What (if anything) does the C standard have to say about linking objects? My guess is that, because C only defines language->behavior rules, it completely ignores any potential intermediate form...
Can anyone help me, I'm currently learning pointers, this is the code I wrote to try and insert a node at the beginning of the list. However at the part where I included the comment of "error at th...
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...
Loss leader is a marketing pattern implemented in stores: A customer enters a store and while heading to some most desired expensive products far from entrance, that customer picks some products s...
We use Jenkins Pipeline to build and test some C++ software. The pipeline script runs the tests on 10 different nodes in a parallel way in order to save time. All of these nodes are real (not virtu...
Before I publish a new webpage in my website (in the content management system itself), I zoom in from say 100% zooming to 500% zooming and then re-read it, as a nice way to check for typos. The p...
I recently told a friend that malloc(n) allocates and returns a pointer to a block of at least N bytes of memory, as opposed to exactly N; that it is allowed to allocate 'extra' memory to meet e.g....
One of the legacy applications our team manages contained the following pattern (in the controller): // initialization private readonly IServiceScopeFactory _serviceScopeFactory; public FooCon...
A few of my services rely on LazyCache and they use it by injecting IAppCache. For unit testing, I would like to mock this. I have found MockCachingService, but it does not do any caching (as spec...
In git I branched feature-A from master. To reduce eventual merge conflicts later, I branched feature-B, which heavily overlaps and depends on A, from feature-A. A build of the feature-B branch s...
I have an ASP.NET Core 5 web application that provides functionality that involves file upload + rather large processing (memory consumption mainly). After each processing (with success or not) the...
I have an array that I need to clone in Angular / Typescript. That is, any change done on an element from the cloned array should not affect the content of the initial array. How can I achieve thi...
This is based on a code review discussion that I had with a colleague about the way I have designed the resources paths for an ASP.NET Core controller that is currently consumed only internally (by...
I'm trying to connect to a db file in my project but having some troubles. I'm using JDK 14 with ojdbc11 however I am still getting this when trying to connect: java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionEr...
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...
I have a website with a search box. Running search queries in that search box creates frontend/dynamic search result webpages in which search results based on a search query can appear. Let's ass...
Let's say I have some collection of data. My goal is to provide different kind of view of ItemsControl depending on user`s preference. For simplicity, we can assume that user can select only betwe...
Our team is currently transferring all functionality (+ some changes) from small and very old project A (almost code freeze) to project B (actively developed). As part of the data migration, there ...
Consider the following code: #include <stdio.h> int main() { int a = 5; int b; ++*(&b + 1); printf("%d\n", a); return 0; } The output is as expected: 6 ...
I get the concept of the heap sort algorithm and its like first you have a heap(ordered binary tree) then we have the Max heap which has the highest element value in the array at the top of the tre...
I have an iframe tag to which I didn't set height so it has a default height which is 150px (at least in Google Chrome). As a consequence, the iframe appears partially in such a way that constant ...
I have a Python script that needs to access some data (or configuration) file in its very own folder. For example, say script.py does something like this: with open('data.txt') as file: data ...
