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programming best practice question

Is inheritance an option?
- douglasb
- Post #6
- May 15, 2014
- Forum: Programming
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SQL problem

^ Agree on the schema being too simple. You could write a query for the simple schema in the 1st fiddle and it would work, but it would be a nightmare.
- douglasb
- Post #4
- Mar 7, 2014
- Forum: Programming
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SQL problem

You could have another table for just the prerequisite courses. So, for your example: Class | Prerequisite -------+------------- 4 | 1 4 | 3 3 | 1 5 | 2 8 | 6 8 | 5 Assuming that you have a table with each student and the classes that he/she has already...
- douglasb
- Post #2
- Mar 7, 2014
- Forum: Programming
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Few newbie Quesions on C#

I always thought that LINQ was part of the framework (whether .NET, mono, or whatever) and not the language itself.
- douglasb
- Post #9
- Feb 10, 2014
- Forum: Programming
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JS "onchange" does not seem to work...

Although I agree with the point about unobtrusive JavaScript, that was a pretty rude response. The OP understands the order that the functions are being called; his/her question was: The answer is that the browser knows when an event is triggered by JavaScript (as opposed to being triggered...
- douglasb
- Post #5
- Feb 5, 2014
- Forum: Programming
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Need help with SQL query

Glad to help.
- douglasb
- Post #8
- Jan 30, 2014
- Forum: Programming
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Need help with SQL query

Are you looking for something like this? select distinct TOP 1000 wtp.ProfileID , wtp.ProfileName , wtp.WRC_ProfileID , wtp.TimeZoneID , wtd.DataSourceID , wtd.DCSID , wtd.Name From wt_profile wtp Inner Join wt_ProfileDataSource On wtp.WRC_ProfileID = wt_ProfileDataSource.ProfileID Inner Join...
- douglasb
- Post #6
- Jan 30, 2014
- Forum: Programming
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The Most In-Demand Tech Skills of 2013

This is patently false in almost every conceivable scenario.
- douglasb
- Post #49
- Jan 23, 2014
- Forum: Programming
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Keeping programming skills current

Great suggestions so far. We are looking at some things like Pluralsight, developer conferences, etc. As far as developer conferences go, are there any in particular that are highly recommended (especially with a focus on .Net)?
- douglasb
- Post #14
- Jan 22, 2014
- Forum: Programming
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Keeping programming skills current

They generally aren't willing to learn a new language for the job, let alone in their spare time. Until I came on in 2011, this was a 100% VB shop. These particular employees STILL haven't learned C#, which is mind-boggling to me. Nor do they have any knowledge of Java, C++, or OOP in general.
- douglasb
- Post #11
- Jan 22, 2014
- Forum: Programming
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Keeping programming skills current

One of the issues we are seeing at my current employer (a .Net shop) is that some of the older employees have not stayed up to date with their programming skills. There is a lot of Visual Basic code written as though it was pre-.NET (so VB6- or VBA-style). Likewise, even though our current...
- douglasb
- Thread
- Jan 22, 2014
- Replies: 21
- Forum: Programming
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Good free alternative to photoshop?

The real question (and I'm surprised that nobody has asked this yet) is: What on earth does this have to do with programming? Why is it in this forum?
- douglasb
- Post #11
- Jan 21, 2014
- Forum: Programming
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HOT! Powercolor AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GB.....$119.99 ar w/fs!

It depends on what's important to you. The performance increase won't be much at all, but the power consumption will be less. I didn't find this price to be that great, honestly. I ordered an XFX HD7870 for $135 after rebate, so it's a comparable deal to that. Decent but not "hot" IMO.
- douglasb
- Post #5
- Jan 16, 2014
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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ººººº--§§§§§§§--The Freebies thread--§§§§§§§--ººººº Part 0b110 (six).

PM'ed him. He doesn't. Still looking for AGP video card.
- douglasb
- Post #1,046
- Jan 10, 2014
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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ººººº--§§§§§§§--The Freebies thread--§§§§§§§--ººººº Part 0b110 (six).

Anyone have an extra AGP video card? Need one for my brother's older computer. PM me. Thanks in advance.
- douglasb
- Post #1,040
- Jan 3, 2014
- Forum: Hot Deals and Giveaways
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the python challenge

Each domain is resolved into an IP by DNS.
- douglasb
- Post #2
- Dec 29, 2013
- Forum: Programming
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JavaScript: why colon (:) and not equals (=)

Mark is right. It's just the standard for JSON, so everything is listed as key/value pairs. When you think of it that way, it would look kind of strange to transmit JSON objects full of equal signs. Especially when you start having objects inside of objects. It would look something like...
- douglasb
- Post #3
- Dec 28, 2013
- Forum: Programming
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C++ :Pointers, I need an explanation.

There is no element in numbers at spot 16. That would be out of the bounds of the array. Here's a clue that might help: when you increment the pointer (p++), you aren't literally incrementing the memory address by 1 or anything like that. You are moving to the next "spot" in memory (so the...
- douglasb
- Post #14
- Dec 21, 2013
- Forum: Programming
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Natural Language Programming

The key word was "popular" (hence the quotes when I mentioned it the first time). I was referring to languages that are still commonly used today. The 5 I listed are #1-5 in popularity according to the Tiobe index (which is probably a fairly decent metric for this sort of thing). If you...
- douglasb
- Post #113
- Dec 20, 2013
- Forum: Programming
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Natural Language Programming

Every single "popular" language you listed has usually been (up to this point) interpreted, JIT'ed, or run within a browser. Furthermore, you left out C, Java, C#, C++, and Objective C (all of which are probably more popular than any of the languages you listed) because they obviously do...
- douglasb
- Post #109
- Dec 20, 2013
- Forum: Programming
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Natural Language Programming

You keep repeating the same statements ad nauseum. "Our compiler compiles itself in 3 seconds...blah blah blah....desktop, a simplified file manager...blah blah...wysiwyg page layout..." What you've written is essentially an expanded version of BASIC - an extremely verbose, procedural language...
- douglasb
- Post #86
- Dec 18, 2013
- Forum: Programming
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Natural Language Programming

For someone who keeps extolling the virtues of "Plain English", you seem to have a hard time understanding it. What part of "we want to be able to compile your compiler ourselves" do you not understand? Obviously you had to write the thing in something other than "Plain English" originally, so...
- douglasb
- Post #67
- Dec 16, 2013
- Forum: Programming
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Natural Language Programming

He meant the source code INSTEAD of the executable. You did not post the source code of the executable. You posted a bunch of random text files that your executable presumably parses and then does something with.
- douglasb
- Post #24
- Dec 14, 2013
- Forum: Programming
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9 Physics Demos in JS

I always thought this one was pretty cool (demo at barbin.us): .<script> eval(z='p="<"+"pre>"/* ,.oq#+ ,._, */;for(y in n="zw24l6k\ 4e3t4jnt4qj24xh2 x/* =<,m#F^ A W###q. */42kty24wrt413n243n\ 9h243pdxt41csb yz/* #K q##H######Am */43iyb6k43pk7243nm\ r24".split(4)){/* dP...
- douglasb
- Post #4
- Dec 5, 2013
- Forum: Programming
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Easy solution? Work smarter not harder...

Libraries like jQuery make it pretty easy to do this sort of thing. It depends on how your work's site is set up, but you would probably be looking for items in a list. You would iterate through the list, save its current state into a variable, then when your frame refreshes, you would...
- douglasb
- Post #9
- Nov 25, 2013
- Forum: Programming
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C# job opportunity

To the best of my knowledge, nobody here works at Microsoft on any of the .Net teams, so I don't think that your viewpoint really bothers anyone all that much. Then again, I can only speak for myself. But in the end, it's just another tool. I suppose that the analogy would be for one...
- douglasb
- Post #33
- Nov 21, 2013
- Forum: Programming
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C# job opportunity

Mono's CLI implementation is the open-source equivalent of Microsoft's CLR. For all intents and purposes, it is a less-complete, open-source version of the exact same thing. If you think that it is somehow better by virtue of not being Microsoft's implementation, then you are only fooling...
- douglasb
- Post #30
- Nov 21, 2013
- Forum: Programming
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C# job opportunity

Let me fix that for you... Seriously, though...Try doing anything in C# without using the .Net framework (basically all of the System.* namespaces), and you will very quickly see his point. C# consists of 104 keywords and I think that 19 of them are types (including var and dynamic). Some...
- douglasb
- Post #27
- Nov 20, 2013
- Forum: Programming
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C# job opportunity

It depends on where you live, but from what I have seen, C# jobs seem to be more plentiful than most other languages (Java and PHP excluded). I certainly don't see very many people looking specifically for Python developers. If you have a formal Computer Science education (or sufficient work...
- douglasb
- Post #9
- Nov 19, 2013
- Forum: Programming
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So how do you organize your code projects?

I envy those of you who work at places that aren't a decade in the past and still stuck on centralized version control. Worse, yet, it's on a relatively old server that crashes frequently, which means nobody can get anything done when it crashes because we use TFS and have our policies set to...
- douglasb
- Post #9
- Nov 14, 2013
- Forum: Programming
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VBA Excel Help needed

I've never used VBA (and never plan to), but it sounds like you might be looking for a For Each loop or a While loop.
- douglasb
- Post #2
- Sep 27, 2013
- Forum: Programming
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VBA Excel Help

Kind of unrelated, but I seem to always see this in VB code: why declare the variables at the top of the function, then assign values to them immediately after? I see this a lot in VB6 and VBA especially, but also somewhat in VB .NET. Why not: Public Sub SearchEngine() 'Finds the...
- douglasb
- Post #5
- Sep 27, 2013
- Forum: Programming
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Why no updates for Windows Forms since .NET 2.0?

^ yep
- douglasb
- Post #3
- Sep 23, 2013
- Forum: Programming
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12 year old son wants to learn programming

You know, I often disagree with your points in this forum, but this time, I think you hit the nail right on the head.
- douglasb
- Post #13
- Sep 21, 2013
- Forum: Programming
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vb.net DataGridView w/ checkBox selects row

Change the background color of the row?
- douglasb
- Post #2
- Sep 13, 2013
- Forum: Programming
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How to do this in VB?

This is the correct ".NET way" to do this. The VB-specific "Shell" method is something that was left in VB .NET for backwards compatibility with VB6 and so that VB6 programmers would be more comfortable when moving to VB .NET.
- douglasb
- Post #9
- Sep 7, 2013
- Forum: Programming
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How to do this in VB?

If the other .exe is located on the same flash drive, you can just use a relative path instead of an absolute path. They don't have to be in the same directory; just on the same drive. If the other .exe is located elsewhere, then it becomes a little bit trickier. In that case, you would have...
- douglasb
- Post #4
- Sep 6, 2013
- Forum: Programming
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Write some bad C

Wow...the past winners are amazing. Some of the worst code ever written.
- douglasb
- Post #3
- Jul 30, 2013
- Forum: Programming
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PHP Session problems.

On an unrelated note, I'm going to spare you all the obligatory "Little Bobby Tables" reference, and instead mention that this code is vulnerable to SQL injection.
- douglasb
- Post #6
- Jul 29, 2013
- Forum: Programming
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What was your language progression?

Technically, this is impossible because many of these languages did not exist when I started, but if I could have gone in any order, it would have been something like this: Python C Java or C# (or both) HTML and JavaScript SQL C++ Assembly language After those, anything else would...
- douglasb
- Post #13
- Jul 25, 2013
- Forum: Programming

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