November 8, 2005

Suppose you are creating a dynamic page in ASP. Most of the page elements are dynamic and you need a few of the headers to have the first letter of each work to be capitalized. With a very small amount of CSS, you can avoid using VBScript for string manipulation.

If you are familiar with the remove_if() algorithm, you’re used to applying remove_if() followed by erase(). For example, suppose you’re given a predicate to determine whether a number is even: vector::iterator p = remove_if(coll.begin(), coll.end(), even);coll.erase(p, coll.end()); This code takes a vector with the contents: 1 2 3 4 5

On AIX, and UNIX in general, DB2 instance creation fails with vague errors: Update DBM cfg SYSADM_GROUP errcode = 8DBI1281E The database manager configuration file could not be initialized. Explanation: An error occurred when attempting to initialize the database manager configuration file. A DB2 instance could not be created or

Use the following code to extract JAR and ZIP Entries with JarURLConnection: import java.net.*;import java.io.*;import java.awt.*;import java.util.*;import java.util.jar.*;class read extends Frame{URL url=null;JarURLConnection URLcon=null;JarFile jar=null;TextArea TA=new TextArea(15,35);public read(String titlu){ super(titlu);}void init(){ setLayout(new FlowLayout()); setSize(300,300); add(TA); setVisible(true);}public void getURLContent(){ try { //local file //url=new URL( //”jar:file:/C:/Program%20Files/Java/jdk1.5.0/jre/lib/jsse.jar!/” //); //remote file url=new URL( “jar:http://sosnoski.com/opensrc/xmlbench/code/xmlbench.jar!/”);

You can use Microsoft’s ILMerge tool to merge .NET assemblies?even those written in different .NET languages?into a single assembly for easier distribution, something that’s not possible using Visual Studio alone.