I've got a part of my application which deals with tracking the dates a particular item is worked on. It is a single aspnet page, which displays controls to either start or stop tracking, depending on the state of the work item. There are up to three controls on the page. A calendar to enter the...

I need improvement on solution to the following problem: Generating random string keys in SQA is relatively simple, something like: request_id = Column(String, default=lambda: uuid.uuid4().hex, primary_key=True) However, I need to to get request_id have format like DIVISION_ABC_REQ...

In my ongoing quest for an IRC client, I'm working on more stringent validation per RFC 2812. I've written this regex to validate a message. It's a little hairy, so I'm wondering if there's a way to reduce repetition, or at least to make it cleaner and easier to read. I didn't always add comme...

I hacked together a way to make a small graph using Braille unicode codepoints by abusing unicodedata: def plot(timeline): ret = [] for r1, r2 in zip(timeline[::2], timeline[1::2]): character_name = "BRAILLE PATTERN DOTS-" dots = [x for x, y in zip("7321", range(r1))] dots += [x...

I am currently for a program I am writing needing to compare two associative arrays by key and value in PHP and get the common elements as well as the difference between the common elements. I have currently arrived at the following solution: <?php $newArr = [0 => ['id' => 'UT5', 'qty' => '4'],...

I'm working on a project that uses RxJS to perform data transformations on varying sources of data, and I'm in the process of writing some documentation for it. I want to find an effective way to document the following: An abstract way to describe the cardinality and relationships of the data...

I was doing the question from the Cracking the coding interview, I would like to ask whether my solution for the question is good enough, because the solution given in the book, doesn't seem to work correctly. import java.util.Arrays; public class duplicateString{ public static void rdupli...

Is the code below a good solution for the above question, or is there a better way to do it? package ArraysAndStrings; import java.util.Arrays; public class anagram{ private boolean isAnagram = false; public boolean Anagrams(String str1, String str2){ if(str1.length() != str...

I'm updating a bunch of php code that relies on register_globals and uses request data globally. In the process of fixing/updating I spend a lot of time writing code that looks like: <?php $x = isset($_REQUEST['x']) ? $_REQUEST['x'] : $xdefault; // or $_GET, $_POST $abc = isset($_REQUEST['abc'])...

This: Is a data table we get from our financial platform with lots of useful information. For reference, "--" is also the string they use to denote empty values. This: Is a spreadsheet I built (and had reviewed here) to track our customers' regular income requirements. The code produce...

Note: I have been using Python for only a few days, so I am trying to learn about some best practices. I am posting this to get some input from the community so I can learn other ways of doing things. I have some string parsing code here which gives me the output that I am looking for. I was wond...

I have some parameterized queries in Access 2010. They are often used in VBA functions having the same parameters. In such cases, I give the query and function the same name. For example Public Function get_assignments(e_id As Long, yr As Integer, wk As Integer) As DAO.Recordset Dim db As DA...