Suggest an algorithm and data structure for solving the game Globs (http://www.deadwhale.com/play.php?game=131). It's pretty fun in a geeky kind of way. (MatrixFrog correctly points out this game is …

I use emacs to edit most of my answers for SO, and although I use longlines-mode (I have not upgraded to emacs 23 because of some critical bugs that don't look like being fixed any time soon), I can't …

Hi, I'm currently in the process of building a CRUD tool for an existing Spring-based application. The application is being included in the Grails app as a JAR library which seems to work fine. To …

In NHibernate Profiler I observed that when I use eager fetching on an association, using "left join fetch" in an HQL Query or .SetFetchMode() in a Criteria Query the query no longer gets cached in …

I'm creating Maven 2 archetypes for our project (Weld). I would like to be able to control which files are placed into the generated project based on the value of a property that is defined during …

We have an application whose structure when compiled looks something like this: Foo nb-NO Text.resources.dll sv-SE Text.resources.dll Bar.dll Foo.exe Text.dll Is it possible to use ILMerge …

350 Bounty and waffles to the person who can help me! I have been struggling with Spring Web Service encryption for days and I can't figure out how to get Spring's encryption on the message body to …

Hi folks, I'm new here, but I love the site. I checked through the other similar questions, but I didn't see what I'm looking for. I'm a musician, and I've been doing a "song of the day" thing for a …

Based on an answer I got here, I started to give commons-pool a serious look. My last experience of using it was around 2003, probably version 1.1 or 1.2. Its main user, DBCP, is considered by many as …

Is there a reason why opendir doesn't have the same policy than open in Perl Best Practices? I'm thinking about at least these 2 policies: …

Hi all, i'm trying to make this work; this validate is applied to a payment form, and as you can see, there are only 3 requierd inputs, if and only if input[type=radio]:checked').val() != "CB"; …

I recently needed to configure CocoaHttpServer, which we're using in our application with success, to handle HTTPS connections coming from a client application (running on Android devices). This is …

I am looking for a sophisticated graphical FSM editor that can export a model in a well-documented output format, like SCXML or similar. Can anybody recommend me a tool?

Hi all, I'm trying to dynamically add an ActiveX control to my application, without having to place it on a form. However, when I do place the ActiveX control using the Visual Studio designer, …

Most open source wiki and CMS engines host user-contributed themes/plugins in directories whose code, strikingly, is not itself released as open source software. Possibly the best example is …