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Never walk away from a routine that is not functionally complete but that will still compile. You might forget, or be out sick, and the module may never be finished.

Flickering in animation is caused due to the default behavior ofupdate() function. This default behavior first clears the screen and then calls paint() to do the painting. Overriding the update

Consider the code snippet below: BaseClass *bp;for(i =0;i< VERY_LARGE_NUM;i++) bp->VirtualFunc(); Such a situation can lead to an unacceptably high overhead of calling a virtual function. This can be remedied by

To set the memory limits of the JVM in a Java application, run the program using following switches: java

The following is a VBScript function that will escape an entire SQL string, not just individual field values. This is so that ‘ becomes ” when it’s supposed to. The

This ASP script will enable you to order your database by columns instead of the default by rows, which is not easy on the eye. Due to the way HTML

There is a table called v$session, which is visible if you haveDBA privileges. This table contains an entry for each session connected to the Oracle database. To see who is

Use this code to notify a form that displays another form when the displayed form is closed

Since the operators ++ and — can have two definitions (one for prefix, other for postfix), we should have two ways to overload them.These overloaded fns. are differentiated on the