Archive for July 2008

What is the fastest way to get the value of π? *

Question Solutions are welcome in any language. :-) I'm looking for the fastest way to obtain the value of π, as a personal challenge. M...

Question How do I store binary data in MySQL ? Answer The answer by phpguy is correct but I think there is a lot of confusing additional ...

Question How do you expose a LINQ query as an ASMX web service? Usually, from the business tier, I can return a typed DataSet or DataTabl...

Question Is there a standard way for a Web Server to determine what time zone offset a user is in? Perhaps from an HTTP header? Or part ...

Question Given a specific DateTime value, how do I display relative time, like: 2 hours ago 3 days ago a month ago Et cetera?...

Question Given a DateTime representing a person's birthday, how do I calculate their age? Answer For some reason Jeff's code did...

Question Are there any conversion tools for porting from Visual J# code to C# ? Answer Have you tried Reflector + FileGenerator to dump...

Question I have an absolutely positioned div containing several children, one of which is a relatively positioned div . When I use a percen...

Question I want to use a track-bar to change a form's opacity. This is my code: decimal trans = trackBar1.Value / 5000; this.Opaci...