...t known. For example, if it is some kind of integer id, we can't very well select for every possible case. We are then left to parse the class attribute manually which is definitely workable, but not as clear in the code, and in some cases, could be very slow (if there are a lot of candidate element...

...ults than using n-gram indexing, as described above. In each case you must select the best correction from a list. This may be a distance metric such as levenshtein, the keyboard metric, etc. For a multi-word phrase, only one word may be misspelled, in which case you can use the remaining words as c...

Imagine a web form with a set of check boxes (any or all of them can be selected). I chose to save them in a comma separated list of values stored in one column of the database table. ...

... they allow. I highly recommend using them for what they're good at (i.e. selectively staging hunks into/out of the index in git gui, and also just committing. (ctrl-s to add a signed-off: line, ctrl-enter to commit.) gitk is great for keeping track of a few branches while you sort out your chang...

...ilable: isShut==false && isLocked==true. Because the types I have selected as my representation admit this state, I must expend mental effort to ensure that the class never gets into this state (perhaps by explicitly coding an invariant). In contrast, if I were using a language with algebr...

... Rather than select a clock by hand, use timeit.default_timer; Python has already done the work for you. But really, you should use timeit.timeit(myfast, number=n) instead of re-inventing the repetitive call wheel (and miss the fact that ...

...n. To make it work as a standalone script, it's necessary to 1) explicitly select a backend for matplotlib, and 2) to force the figure to be displayed and drawn before entering the animation loop using plt.show() and plt.draw(). I've added these changes to the code above. – ali...

...steps to change the font of Toolbar Title: Read Downloadable Fonts & select any font from the list (my recommendation) or load a custom font to res > font as per Fonts in XML In res > values > styles, paste the following (use your imagination here!) <style name="TitleBarTextAppear...

... If you are using TortoiseSVN, right-click on a file and then select TortoiseSVN / Add to ignore list. This will add the file/wildcard to the svn:ignore property. svn:ignore will be checked when you are checking in files, and matching files will be ignored. I have the following ignore ...

...it can be done. But yeah, it ain't bloody likely for almost all but a very select few. – WhozCraig Sep 3 '12 at 7:24 1 ...