Confused Coder

Hola! What is an efficient program? In a layman term - A program which does, what its "supposed to do", in a "fast" and "cheap" way... A program can be very fast... If we decrease the number of loops inside it By choosing the "right data-structure " which can be used to efficiently manipulate the data, the program uses etc... A program can be cheap... If it consumes less memory (RAM space while it runs) By using as less "Objects" as we can Or by again using right data-structure Ok... theory.. its always boring...  :-) Lets jump on to solving an interesting problem... Take up a role of   Server-side Developer of a reputed website company, where the first task given to you is to validate the user password! Here is the requirement - You should reject a password if it contains a "repetitive sequence". A password is said to contain "repetitive sequence" if it has same sequence repeated one after

Hi There! :-) Its been a while since I am working on GWT(Google Web Toolkit) and its wrapper framework like ext-GWT (which is called as GXT) and have come across lots of new widgets and containers. One recent feature request, I had to work on recently, which caught my attention was Mutli-Select ComboBox. What does it mean ? Its a ComboBox (a widget which will allow user to edit - as well as select values from multiple options it provides) How its different from normal ComboBox? Multi-ComboBox allows you to select multiple values from options (unlike normal combo which allows to select only one value at a time) Now as I went on to analyse the implementation of this widget, I remembered a component from GXT called CheckBoxListView . Which is a list view comprising of CheckBox components. As I found this component perfect to select multiple values, I went on to integrate it with TriggerField . I thought of creating a Dialog widget which will act as ComboBox "option prov