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Why Not to Use an Exit Within a Loop

This recent tip gives advice on how to include an exit within a loop to avoid repeated code. While avoiding repeated code is prudent, using an exit from a loop

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Retrieving a Domain Name

This VB function returns the DNS domain name (westcoast.mycorp.com) from the passed LDAP distinguishedName (CN=Administrator,DN=Users,DC=westcoast,DC=mycorp,DC=com). Function DN2DomainName(ByVal strDN As String) On Error Resume Next Dim strDomainName As String Dim strDNParts()

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Implementing the GetFreePhysicalMemory API in Linux

Because everything in Linux is composed of files, you can get any required information from the /proc/meminfo file. Here’s the code: int getFreePhysicalMemory(){ ifstream meminfo(“/proc/meminfo”); if ( ! meminfo.is_open() )

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Overloading a Constructor or Method

Overloading a constructor or a method so it takes an extra argument based upon some specific requirement can result in duplicate code. For instance, a project that contains a lot

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Retrieving Custom Objects Added to the Clipboard

You may have found that sometimes, copying a custom .NET object to the clipboard doesn’t work. That’s because retrieving a custom object from the clipboard returns nothing if the object

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Use sun.misc Classes for Base64 Image Conversion

The following code demonstrates how to use sun.misc classes for Base64 image conversion: import java.io.*;import java.awt.*;import java.awt.event.*;class Base64Example extends Frame implements ActionListener{Image IMG=null; //image1Image IMGdecode=null; //image2-resultTextArea TA=new TextArea(); //printing the

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Implement GetTickCount in Linux

To implement the GetTickCount API when porting code from Windows to Linux, use the following code: long getTickCount(){ tms tm; return times(&tm);}