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    Java character checking (regex? Range object?)

    Here's one way to do this in Java using regular expressions: Pattern regex = Pattern.compile("([0-9]{3})\\-([A-M])"); Matcher m = regex.matcher("134-A"); //for example if(m.matches()){ for(int i = 1; i <= m.groupCount(); i++){ System.out.println(i + " : " +...
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    Java's split too slow

    Does this imply you need all parts of each line that are delimited by spaces, or only a subset of the parts? If you only need a small subset of each line, it may be more efficient to write a regex with capturing groups as opposed to creating extra String objects during the split that never get...
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    Oracle - user creation script

    Figured out a solution, in case anyone else runs into this problem: There was no need to surround the code with a 'begin' and 'end.' Just having the statements in a file delimited by semi-colons was enough to get it to work.
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    Oracle - user creation script

    I often need to create a handful of Oracle user schemas for test builds. I generally use the following two commands in sqlplus: CREATE USER username IDENTIFIED BY password DEFAULT TABLESPACE users; GRANT connect, resource TO username; This works fine, but I would really like to make my...
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    5.25 to 3.5 drive bay converters?

    I am working on upgrading an older Dell machine I have lying around with some additional storage. Unfortunately, it only has two (rather poorly placed) 3.5 inch drive bays. I would like to be able to utilize the 5.25 inch bays to hold at least two more hard drives. So far, I have only come...
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    Setting up tabs (indents) in Acrobat 9

    I need to set up tab-stops in a few spots in the center of my document, so that text lines up along a single vertical line. I am able to get a visual guide by double clicking the ruler at the top of the page, but how do I make it so that the cursor advances exactly to that point when I hit the...
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    I need help with Visual Basic 2k5

    Are you familiar with other programming languages? If so, the first step would likely be to learn about VB's syntax for common tasks such as declaring variables, making assignments, decision making, etc... If this is your first programming language, I would agree with PTNL that you need...
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    Excel VB editor Macro?

    This shouldn't be too hard. The task can be broken up into several components/functions: -Extract the raw text from a file. FileSystemObject makes this really easy. Look up the OpenTextFile method. -Extract your interesting words from the raw text. Given the TextStream from the previous...
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    Microsoft Expression Studio VS Adobe CS3: Pathetic

    This is quite likely. Word, Excel and Outlook all shipped as part of Office 2003, yet if you have ever tried to program extensions for these you might have noticed some (sometimes frustrating) differences. Microsoft has been doing business like this for years.
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    Would like simple, flexible web form that sends to email as HTML.

    What you want to do can be done fairly simply in Perl or PHP. If your forms are predefined, you just need to write a form handler for each one. This form handler can be used to insert the form input between any HTML tags you want, then send that as an HTML formatted email.
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    .NET Languages - VB.NET vs C#

    If you are proficient with VB, C# should be easy to learn. Since they both are .NET languages, they share a large class library. Therefore, if you know how to do something in VB - doing it in C# is little more than instantiating the same objects and calling the same methods. Beyond that, the...
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    J2EE v. .NET

    Choosing a language to learn is largely irrelevent without having some idea about the jobs you will be applying for. Unfortunately, it is true that recruiters often choose based on buzzwords and raw time spent in the industry. Your manager however, will mostly care about how your particular...
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    Suggestions

    Do you have to implement the methods in a specific way? An easy way to think of multiplication is as a series of additions, e.g. 4 x 3 is 4 added to 4 twice (4 + 4 + 4). Since I assume you have already implemented the method for adding correctly, most of the work is done. You need two...
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    Question for IT employers / industry people

    From the software perspective... Try to find an internship in a related field. Generally, these are much easier to obtain than actual jobs and the experience can be just as meaningful. Most pay better than the average college-student-aimed job as well (in urban areas, at least). Generally...
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    Cheapest Possible CPU/Motherboard

    Play with newegg's advanced search features a bit; sort the results by lowest price. I was able to find a cpu/mobo combo for a combined $60-70. You can likely do a better job, since you know exactly what you need.
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