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Which is a better optmized CSS for a button design?
There are two ways I have been using to create links and style them as buttons:
background: url("/images/sing_up_btn.png") no-repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Sans-serif;
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Setting variable in constructor or within method [migrated]
I have a class which contains two methods.
These methods add & remove an object to a datastore.
The class which contains these methods has a no arg constructor but each of the two methods takes ...
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contract validation and responsibility without exceptions in the constructor
my question is based on this "principles"
do not throw exceptions in a constructor
single responsibility / seperation of conerns
use logic exceptions for broken contracts and runtime exceptions for ...
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Best practices for decouple classes in C#
So this is a lot more confusing than it has to be (I could just stick all of this in the main class with the ui event handlers) but I wanted to decouple this class for learning purposes.
Basic ...
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Could an IDE give feedback to the developer? [migrated]
I was thinking about IDEs and how they could be changed. I came across projects like the Light Table IDE on Kickstarter, which gives more of a visual touch to modern IDEs (as well as other neat stuff ...
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Good method to check whether a string is a valid number?
I'm developing a Java Helper Library which has useful methods developers don't want to type out over and over. I'm trying to think of the best way of checking whether a string is a valid number.
I've ...
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Is it wrong to use a boolean parameter to determine behavior? [migrated]
I have seen a practice from time to time that "feels" wrong, but I can't quite articulate what is wrong about it. Or maybe it's just my prejudice. Here goes:
A developer defines a method with a ...
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Is it ok to use multiple jQuery methods in one single statement?
I am creating a step-by-step form (it only shows in step-by-step and is not a multi state form) and the parts slide in and out (similar to GitHub but without the browser's back buttons). I have ...
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Is there any way to shorten up this Facebook API call?
Right now I am working on an AJAX call that grabs a random photo that a Facebook user is tagged in and then grabs the large source for it. Is there any way to speed this up or at least distill the ...
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Organizing a wordpress template with lots of variables
A question of organization and best practices with Wordpress templates:
Where should I put my variables? Directly in the template? In a separate file via includes()?
Should I place all variables at ...
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Which class is best to call .getResource on? - Java
I'm creating a Java Helper Library with helpful static methods. I find myself needing to call ...getResource(...) or ...getResourceAsStream(...) in several instances and I'm wondering what's the best ...
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String splitting in C
I am trying to improve my C skills, and I hope someone might be able to provide me with some feedback on the following code.
It is just basic string splitting, it should behave the similar to Ruby's ...
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Safely using console.* in browser
I come from a Java background so my desire for proper unambiguous logging is strong. I prefer using the console to using some other gui widget however, in the browser I know that I can't always count ...
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Please review this implementation of Kosaraju's algorithm for strongly connected components
To learn and practice coding in C++, I wrote an implementation of Kosaraju's two-pass algorithm for computing the strongly connected components in a directed graph, using depth-first search.
This was ...
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JS scope of member functions
I was writing a program that used a bit of recursion with objects, and it wasn't working at all. After debugging I realized that JS's evil scope was playing nasty tricks.
To spare you guys a wall of ...
