Pike-devel August 2007

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gb_low_backend_once
by H. William Welliver III 24 Aug '07

24 Aug '07

Any chance of making this PMOD_EXPORT? I'd like to be able to call if from external code.

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NUMBER ONE Success System
by Tommy Lee 23 Aug '07

23 Aug '07

http://www.noss123.com/ **5 Questions to Ask When Choosing a Financial Planner *1. How will I pay for your services?* As part of your financial planning agreement, the financial planner should clearly tell you in writing how she will be paid for the services to be provided. Planners can be paid in several ways: - A salary paid by the company for which the planner works. The planner's employer receives payment from you or others, either in fees or commissions, in order to pay the planner's salary. - Fees based on an hourly rate, a flat rate, or on a percentage of your assets and/or income. - Commissions paid by a third party from the products sold to you to carry out the financial planning recommendations. Commissions are usually a percentage of the amount you invest in a product. - A combination of fees and commissions whereby fees are charged for the amount of work done to develop financial planning recommendations and commissions are received from any products sold. In addition, some planners may offset some portion of the fees you pay if they receive commissions for carrying out their recommendations. *2. How much do you typically charge?* While the amount you pay the planner will depend on your particular needs, the financial planner should be able to provide you with an estimate of possible costs based on the work to be performed. Such costs should include the planner's hourly rates or flat fees or the percentage he would receive as commission on products you may purchase as part of the financial planning recommendations. *3. Could anyone besides me benefit from your recommendations?* Some business relationships or partnerships that a planner has could affect her professional judgment while working with you, inhibiting the planner from acting in your best interest. Ask the planner to provide you with a description of her conflicts of interest in writing. For example, financial planners who sell insurance policies, securities or mutual funds have a business relationship with the companies that provide these financial products. The planner may also have relationships or partnerships that should be disclosed to you, such as business she receives for referring you to an insurance agent, accountant or attorney for implementation of planning suggestions. *4. Have you ever been publicly disciplined for any unlawful or unethical actions in your professional career?* Several government and professional regulatory organizations, such as the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), your state insurance and securities departments, and CFP Board keep records on the disciplinary history of financial planners and advisers. Ask what organizations the planner is regulated by and contact these groups to conduct a background check. (See listing at right.) All financial planners who have registered as investment advisers with the Securities and Exchange Commission or state securities agencies, or who are associated with a company that is registered as an investment adviser, must be able to provide you with a disclosure form called Form ADV Part II or the state equivalent of that form. *5. Can I have it in writing?* Ask the planner to provide you with a written agreement that details the services that will be provided. Keep this document in your files for future reference.

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catch in c code
by H. William Welliver III 21 Aug '07

21 Aug '07

what's the recommended approach for performing the equivalent of a catch around apply_svalue()? I've got some code that uses apply_svalue() that is called by code i don't have access to, and I don't want a thrown error to break out of that code (that I don't have access to). suggestions are welcome! bill

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String quoting
by Johan Sundstr�m (Achtung Liebe!) ＠ Pike (-) developers forum 16 Aug '07

16 Aug '07

I've been thinking a bit about how to succinctly produce quoted strings of various formats from pike code, and sprintf("%O", s) used to be fairly close to the answer in 7.6, but used octal escapes with two " marks afterward, if the following character was a number, which got fixed in 7.7 via \uXXXX quotes instead. In 7.7, however, now any occurrence of \n gets turned into the five characters '\\', 'n', '"', '\n', '"', which again is just as bad as 7.6 was with octal numbers. I don't care much for the argument that %O is only intended for debug purposes, as long as there is no equally succinct way of producing the kind of quoted strings for log files, consumption of other languages and the like you typically want quoted strings for in the first place; the functionality ought to be somewhere (not necessarily sprintf %O, even though I would personally find that awfully convenient), and it should be terse. Opinions, ideas, wishes? Can Locale.Charset easily be abused to produce a codec that would work in 7.6 and 7.7 alike and turn \n and similar C shorthands into two-byte sequences and escape above-ASCII as \uXXXX?

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Calendar
by Marcus Comstedt (ACROSS) (Hail Ilpalazzo!) ＠ Pike (-) developers forum 15 Aug '07

15 Aug '07

Why doesn't format_iso_short() in the calendar module work as advertized? refdocs: iso_short "2000-06-02T00:00:00" reality: Pike v7.7 release 34 running Hilfe v3.5 (Incremental Pike Frontend) > Calendar.ISO_UTC.Second(time())->format_iso_short(); (1) Result: "20070813T19:56:13" > Where did the dashes go? :-(

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Calendar
by Mirar ＠ Pike developers forum 14 Aug '07

14 Aug '07

*same class, not same object...

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open() and NO_ATIME
by Arne Goedeke ＠ Pike developers forum 09 Aug '07

09 Aug '07

I realized when reading file.c that file_open does not support open flags except for the basic essential ones. What I miss personally is NO_ATIME, but there are some more flags (some only in new linux kernel versions). It would be nice to have an open() that accepts the same integer flags as open(2). arne

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7.6.116 alpha
by Magnus Holmgren, FR Ryd (Nu med m�l och syfte) ＠ Pike (-) developers forum 06 Aug '07

06 Aug '07

No wait, they're gone (404).

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packaging/debian/changelog
by Martin Stjernholm, Roxen IS ＠ Pike developers forum 06 Aug '07

06 Aug '07

Saw that the automatically generated entries in this file still says Marek is making them.

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7.6.116 alpha
by Peter Bortas ＠ Pike developers forum 06 Aug '07

06 Aug '07

http://pike.ida.liu.se/pub/pike/beta/7.6.116/Pike-v7.6.116.tar.gz http://pike.ida.liu.se/pub/pike/beta/7.6.116/Pike-v7.6.116.1-win32.exe Completely untested. I haven't tried even to start the pike on any OS. Changes since Pike 7.6.112 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes in Pike: o Fixed infinite loop that could occur when feeding Image.XBM with malformed data. o Added option "file" to Image.PS.decode(). o Image.PS.decode() now reads nonblocking from the pipes. o Added "Regexp.PCRE.Widestring" to the feature list. o Added more methods to enable the buggy unicode decode support in Mysql.mysql: * "broken-unicode" as charset to create() or set_charset(). * set_unicode_decode_mode (-1). Note that all this only applies when compiling with a mysql client lib older than 4.1.0. Otherwise these methods are aliases to enabling the normal unicode decode support. This means that no code using broken-unicode should rely on the BINARY flag on text fields to avoid utf-8 decoding. Build fixes: o Mird: Renamed FDATASYNC() to MIRD_FDATASYNC() to avoid clash with NetBSD header-files.

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