C++: "string" to C char*

Apparently there's a built in function for the c++ std::string type:

c_str()

Why does it come up? Things like ifstream are initialized with char* file names, not std::string.

MS SQL and Python

Had trouble connecting Python to MS SQL Server. Here is the answer!

MS-SQL and Python

In short:

Set up your ODBC Data Source Administrator

Insert Python code using very built in imports (dbi, odbc)

Python code:

import dbi
import odbc

query = "SELECT * FROM default_table";
conn=odbc.odbc("odbc_data_source_admin_name");
cursor = conn.cursor();
cursor.execute(query);
print (cursor.fetchall());

Slavery and Freedom

When people impose order on you, they enslave you.
When you impose order on yourself, you liberate yourself.

The Product

Is this the answer? "Sculley believed in keeping people happy and worrying about relationships. Steve didn't give a shit about that. But he did care about the product in a way that Sculley never could, and he was able to avoid having too many bozos working at Apple by insulting anyone who wasn't an A player."

8353: Bugs today

1) Was chasing around this bug for a few hours: for some reason my posts for my navigation bar wouldn't go to the right URL (select_auction.php), except when I was at the right URL (select_auction.php) to begin with. Turns out, I wrote

action-"select_auction.php"

What surprises me is the fact that this worked correctly for when I was at select_auction.php. I guess the default behavior for HTML is rather tolerant (redirect confused posts to self) which makes it hard to find bugs!

8352: Bugs today

1) For MySQL Queries, don't forget the "Quotations that surround text fields" when INSERTing new values
2) Know when to tinker, and when to use the manual

Quickie on Make Files

Found it at this quick Makefile Tutorial

CC=g++
CFLAGS=-c -Wall
LDFLAGS=
SOURCES=main.cpp hello.cpp factorial.cpp
OBJECTS=$(SOURCES:.cpp=.o)
EXECUTABLE=hello

all: $(SOURCES) $(EXECUTABLE)
 
$(EXECUTABLE): $(OBJECTS) 
 $(CC) $(LDFLAGS) $(OBJECTS) -o $@

.cpp.o:
 $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $< -o $@