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I'm using Doxygen to help me figure out some library code. There's an enum I know I need to use, but I don't know which file it's declared in. Searching for that identifier in Doxygen yields the p...
I want to use LazyCache and UnityContainer together in an ASP.NET classic application (.NET framework 4.6.1+). Namely, to be able to inject IAppCache in various services. For ASP.NET Core and its d...
It's a very old question came to my mind. Whenever I start building some applications for Android using Android Studio. In every update, lots of tools get deprecated. I know I can use deprecated "t...
The problem I am working on a simple drawing app for Android. I have a custom view on which the user can draw. This means that a lot of data (a list of points) is generated in this View. I want t...
When reading questions about C programming from beginners, I very often see them describing peculiar run-time errors and crashes, segmentation faults and similar. They have spent a lot of time chas...
tl;dr I'd like to learn a compact, cross-compiler way of selectively suppressing compiler warnings. Consider the case where you really mean to make an exact floating-point comparison using ==, o...
If I execute in browser console: document.write("Hello"); A new DOM document with the text Hello appears in the same browser window. From MDN documentation: Note: Because document.write() w...
I work with CentOS operating system and my only shell is Bash. I want to create a script which prompts a user with a question like "What is your web application root?" The user should answer dire...
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 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...
Note: This is basically a question from Stack Overflow that was closed for a very long period of time and I fear it might get closed again as primarily opinion based. I am wondering if my ASP.NET C...
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 am styling a simple HTML-PHP-CSS contact form and I have considered to give some min-height pixel value CSS style to the form's submit button. I ran a Google search with the query: min-height...
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 ...
I develop an HTML-CSS-JavaScript-PHP contact form and I have a large HTML file which is very long and very wide (lots of horizontal scrolling due to nesting) and it's hard for me personally to work...
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 have a variable defined using const keyword. function Text() { const variable = "Hello!"; } console.log(variable); When I try to access this variable, I get: Uncaught ReferenceError...
By principle, I normally work with two different companies for establishing websites for myself: One for domain registration and domain-sole email address One for web application hosting My ...
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...
How can one differentiate what is or is not a *nix operating system even if that operating system (or its core/shell/common-utilities) allegedly behaves like any "other" *nix operating system? Is ...
I have added some input to an input field element this way: const inputFiled = document.querySelector("#example"); inputField.value = "X"; I want to fire a change event for that field right af...
Microsoft.Build.Evaluation.Project seems to have some rather odd ideas of what values to use when loading projects. In particular, I have a number of projects with the following dependency: <Pa...
Tldr; I don't need to parse HTML, but I need to check if user submitted input conforms to a very strict subset of HTML. Can regex be a suitable tool for this? Details I have a frontend sanitiser th...
Say I want to implement a very basic group chat application. I use the H2 database, a user class, a controller, and a text file in the Resources folder that stores the chat texts. All texts would b...
A Q on Stack Exchange from a very long time ago included: I have first names in one column and second names in another, I want to create a third column that contains the first character from the...
Try It Online! is an online interpreter for many supported languages, including PHP. I'm trying to solve coding challenges using the language, specifically "Hello, {name}!". In PHP, you can litera...
I transfer emails from my Right To Left (RTL) contact form → to my local email box (powered by Roundcube). Emails reach my email box (inbox) just fine but I have a problem were PHP variables aren'...
#include<stdio.h> #include<stdlib.h> int main (void){ FILE *cfPtr; char name[15]; int ID; if ((cfPtr = fopen("draft.txt","w")) == NULL){ printf("File could n...
const body = document.body; const light = evt => { body.setAttribute('data-theme', 'light'); localStorage.setItem("theme", "light"); console.log("light"); } const dark = ...
I have created two PHP modules, one is a contact form module and one is a a sticky "call now" module. I can access the contact form by example.com/contact_form.php but in contrast, example.com/cal...
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...
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...
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 ...
Based on my understanding HTTP is something client and server speak in, I mean it is like a language for a server and client to communicate(not exactly a programming language). Then how to understa...
I'm using SimpleDateFormat to parse a string containing a date/time, but the result has a different date, hour, minute, second and millisecond: SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM...
There is this service for website owners which is a both an email server (Backend as a Service) and a comfortable GUI for creating contact forms (Frontend as a Service). Website owners who don't w...
As a big fan of tacit/point-free programming in general, I'm looking at different tacit programming systems for inspiration (for a language I'm creating). What are the advantages and disadvantages ...
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 ...
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' ...
In programming instead of arrowcode where one has many layers of indented if statements, you can return a result as soon as possible. So instead of, if if end if end if It looks like if ret...
I'm used to working in Python, but my current project is in C#/.NET and uses log4net for logging. Out of the box, log4net uses an XML file for configuration. I dislike XML and want to use something...
Note: this is an aggregate of the answer provided for this question. I want to get the LINQ equivalent of the following from SQL: SELECT .. FROM entity1 e1 JOIN entity2 e2 ON e1.field1 = e2.fie...
Situation: I have an Azure account which has management permissions for various subscriptions in various directories (tenants). I have a GUI tool to do various management tasks whose details are ir...
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...
In a website I didn't build, I want to put a value in an HTML input field element with JavaScript and to also use it as-putted. I can put it with the browser console this way: document.querySelec...
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 ...
How can I monitor an Angular frontend with Prometheus? I was able to create metrics for my Node.js API using the express-prometheus module. But I can't find any Angular/Prometheus integration. Basi...
For my purposes, it is secure enough to use passwords to execute MySQL commands on the command line, what I would like to do is disable the warning that says, mysql: [Warning] Using a password on ...
#include<stdio.h> struct Book { char title[20]; char author[20]; int pages; }; void init_Book_types(struct Book* aTitle,struct Book* aAuthor,struct Book* aPages){ aTitle->ti...
