The 2nd Monitor

10:54 PM

Mods united.

Q: Do all [makefile] questions need to have a language tag?

:-)

I'm currently using a query to locate questions with only one non-language tag.

...but yeah, now I know that makefile is different.

Stack Exchange

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The makefile tag has 19 questions, 3 of which do not have a language tag. They have already been reviewed and are not closed. We also don't get very many makefile questions, so I'm not sure if they should be approached any differently.

discussion tags

ckuhn203

11:18 PM

Oops.

Oh wait. Never mind. You're that guy... — ckuhn203 44 secs ago

Yup. Someone else even complained on Meta about something done by this person.

@Bhathiya-JaDogg-Perera I'm pretty sure I can only remove that from a non OSX device.

ah

I can't see the file at all on OSX as far as I know, and you can only see it on Windows if you have hidden files turned on.

And it's reasonably safe to assume that anyone who downloads the zip will be using OSX...

:D

you can also generate websites using github

11:30 PM

How?

like this one : simpll.info

I should ignore python, javascript, and php.

Goto Settings->Github pages

ckuhn203

@Phrancis.

The 'controlled demolition' theory was concocted by the government to distract us. '9/11 was an inside job' was an inside job!

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Update the readme.md then generate it

Phrancis

11:33 PM

@ckuhn203 LMAO.

lol

Hmm, I think for now I shall work on trying to get a good Wiki for the library going.

btw,It takes like 20 seconds to generate one

Does XKCD has everything ?

not yet, but getting close.

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ckuhn203

If you include what if?, maybe.

11:41 PM

Perhaps instead of using standard arrays and dictionaries, I should return the results in custom objects.

@nhgrif what scenario?

In my library. Did you look at it?

I don't speak iOS gibberish so I only vaguely skimmed over it

It just lets you connect to a database and perform queries

but if you are referring to result objects that indicate a success/failure of a call: custom objects rock

11:43 PM

what does "the-2nd-monitor" mean ?

Success or failure is indicated by the delegate method called, and error is described appropriately-ish with the existing NSError object that all Objective-C programmers are familiar with.

class Result {
     bool Success;
     int ErrorCode;
     string ErrorMessage;
     string ExecutedQuery;
}

For example

I'm talking about the actual results of the query

The tables/rows/columns returned by a SELECT

Yeah, me too. I just threw in that last one for debugging purposes since it comes in handy

oh

Well yeah, you have to add that too ofcourse

I just forgot it

Well, right now each row is a dictionary

each table is an array of rows

and the total result is an array of tables

11:45 PM

Why can't you parse it so you have an array of objects?

It's a dictionary of objects

with column names as keys

So, "SELECT TOP 10 ID, FullName FROM Employee" will give you 10 dictionaries with an ID and FullName key each

Is that something obj-c specific? Because I'd immediatly turn that into an object

NSDictionary

It's just an Objective-C collection

I don't know about that

I think it's HashMap in Java?

It's just a key-value collection

11:47 PM

Dictionary in C#, HashMap in Java yes

Yeah, NSDictionary

I know, but I was referring to storing it as a dictionary instead of actual objects

It'll use less memory but the strongly typed nature of an object makes me want to parse it into that instead

as in: create 10 objects and return them as a list instead of that dictionary

It's in a dictionary because I need keys

I need to know what value is the result of which column

SELECT ID, FullName FROM Employee

I need to know which result is the ID column's result, and which result is the FullName column result

And they also need to be paired together so I know which ID belongs to which full name

I'd do this in C#:

Do we need import? It also has no tag wiki.

11:51 PM

// insert the value into the dictionary
row[columnName] = columnValue;

// then later, when I'm done building the row...

// add an immutable copy of the row to the table
[table addObject:[row copy]];

// then later when I'm done building the table...

[result addObject:[table copy]];

@Jamal Do we have include?

No. :-)

Then we probably don't need import...

what are questions tagged with it about generally?

List<Dictionary<string, string>> sqlResult = `SELECT TOP 10 ID, FullName FROM Employee`;
List<Employee> employees = new List<Employee>();
foreach(Dictionary<string, string> row in sqlResult) {
	employees.Add(new Employee {
		ID = row["id"],
		Name = row["name"]
	});
}

Just making sure. I'll kill it, then.

One loop too many

11:54 PM

@nhgrif Importing things, I guess. And each question merely uses import in the code.

Back to 40 tags with > 200 questions.

what does "the-2nd-monitor" mean ?

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Q: Import management

I am working on a personal iPhone ObjC project, and was recently getting frustrated with how tedious importing the same set of headers over and over was getting… So I created a header file that literally only imports other header files, and looks something along the lines of this: //BackboneTool...

objective-c import

I'm not sure what else that would be tagged with and import seems appropriate

@Bhathiya-JaDogg-Perera Many people have multiple monitors (I don't), and they keep the chat open in one, and do real work in the other. It's also common to have your code in one, and reference material in the other.

It's meant to be a play on words.... there's a meta post about it, I think.