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Fatal error detected in Eclipse when using Xuggle [closed]
I was trying to get frames from a video using Xuggle 5.4. The IDE which I use is Eclipse Juno.The last time (which was roughly one months back) when I tried, I got the frames with a gap of 5 seconds, ...
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Getting a ton of warnings when trying to compile Qt program [migrated]
Here are the warnings I'm getting when I'm compiling in debug mode: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=xNvn2TgM
When compiling in release mode, I get no errors. The program runs fine in both release mode ...
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What happens when using address before it's allocated?
The very simple piece of C++ code below is incorrect, it's easy to see why and tools like Valgrind will tell you. In running several C++ codes containing this kind of error, I noticed that each time, ...
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Choosing a proper wording for referring compiler errors
Consider someone is writing a message (or a question at StackOverflow). The context is following:
In my code, I have the following line:
int foo = Bar();
However, the compiler returns an ...
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Android: Not able to experiment on own?
I have just started learning Android App Development a few days ago, with prior knowledge of C/C++, HTML and CSS.
This is the situation I am facing Repeatedly:
I am learning from a Video Tutorial ...
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What can be done to decrease the number of live issues with applications?
First off I have seen this post which is slightly similar to my question. :
What can you do to decrease the number of deployment bugs of a live website?
Let me layout the situation for you. The ...
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Why is nesting or piggybacking errors within errors bad in general?
Why is nesting or piggybacking errors within errors bad in general?
To me it seems bad intuitively, but I'm suspicious in that I cannot adequately articulate why it is bad. This may be because it is ...
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How often do experienced programmers have trouble getting their code to perform its intended purpose?
I'm kind of inexperienced with programming (ie less than a year) and I have recently been getting discouraged, mostly from not being able to solve problems with my own code (Not forgetting parentheses ...
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How to teach your users/customers to send better error descriptions
I often have to deal with customers or users which are reporting errors in applications.
Most of the time their content is something useless as
ERROR!!!
x does not work
without much more ...
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How to avoid typo errors, etc?
For the first time I have been coding for an open-source software where all my work gets reviewed before being commited. I understand reviewing work isn't an easy task, so I don't like to waste ...
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Using a parser to locate faulty code
Lately I've been working a lot in PHP and have run into an abnormally large number of parsing errors. I realize these are my own fault and a result of sloppy initial coding on my part, but it's ...
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Worst practices in C++, common mistakes [closed]
After reading this famous rant by Linus Torvalds, I wondered what actually are all the pitfalls for programmers in C++. I'm explicitly not referring to typos or bad program flow as treated in this ...
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Catching an error?
Is catching an error with try ... catch a better practice than catching an error with proper analysis/error check? For instance, removing from an empty list: Does surround with a try catch clause ...
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Common Industry Term For Negative Logging?
It is one thing to log something that happened in code, a process, or procedure. It is another thing to log something that didn't happen. For example, if your ETL system is supposed to receive a ...
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Silent Crash of WPF/VB.net 2010 based application
I have an application built in WPF and VB.net. It works on several Windows XP computers that I've tested it on, however, my animator's computer doesn't seem to like it.
At first, the program would ...
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What's the best way to manage error logging for exceptions?
Introduction
If an error occurs on a website or system, it is of course useful to log it, and show the user a polite message with a reference code for the error.
And if you have lots of systems, you ...
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How should compilers report errors and warnings?
I don't plan on writing a compiler in the near future; still, I'm quite interested with compiler technologies, and how this stuff could be made better.
Starting with compiled languages, most ...
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What are developer's problems with helpful error messages?
It continue to astounds me that, in this day and age, products that have years of use under their belt, built by teams of professionals, still to this day - fail to provide helpful error messages to ...
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How to Solve an Error?
I am novice developer.
While development is going on, we come across different error issues. However for the novice of programming, it is always hard to directly understand them & solve them.
I ...
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Under what circumstances should error messages be presented to the user?
Should error messages ever be presented to an end user and if so what rules or advice should you have about what should be in them?
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Managing Production Issues during a Scrum Sprint
The question of managing bugs in production has been a large feature in my mind of late. Sprint's are not meant to have any items added into them, but for critical bugs, this is simply unavoidable.
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Error handling, creating time line, need help defining what aspects of the environment need tracking
For my final year project, I'm working on a script that will run your python program and provide a time line of events(so far working on assignments) and create a story of what happened(the changes in ...
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In Java, what are checked exceptions good for?
Java's checked exceptions have gotten some bad press over the years. A telling sign is that it's literally the only language in the world that has them (not even other JVM languages like Groovy and ...
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How do you deal when an error occurs on 1 instance of your website/program/app?
I've had a couple of times in the time I've working, moments when I get an error ocurring in just 1 computer and it often takes me hours or days to figure out because it is (or at least seems) an ...
