...less; we could easily use plain strings instead, like we do in JavaScript. And now they decide to complicate things in JS with that. ...

I just upgraded to Visual Studio 2010 and MVC 2.0 and I noticed the Web.config has two additional files attached to it? Are these files used to specify debug and release specific settings, so you don't clutter up the main Web.config? ...

I understand what livelock is, but I was wondering if anyone had a good code-based example of it? And by code-based, I do not mean "two people trying to get past each other in a corridor". If I read that again, I'll lose my lunch. ...

...is: PUT /users/:user_id/attributes/password -- The "current password" and the "new password" passed through the body You'd have two collections, a users collection, and an attributes collection for each user. The user is specified by the :user_id and the attribute is specified by password. Th...

...riation might be, to do away with the javascript confirm on the same page, and instead, create the selection and redirect to it, showing a confirm message on that page. In other words: From: http://example.com/resources/ do a POST with a selection of the ID's to: http://example.com/resources/sele...

...nts a full set of mutation methods including __setitem__, __delitem__, pop and clear. It implements immutability by checking a flag when you call one of the mutation methods. And when you call the copy method you get another QueryDict instance with the mutable flag turned on. For performance improve...

...rchar, so no difference, see documentation :) The notations varchar(n) and char(n) are aliases for character varying(n) and character(n), respectively. character without length specifier is equivalent to character(1). If character varying is used without length specifier, the type ac...

I would like to start using compass and sass to speed up development. At the moment, I have installed Sass on a mac and instructed it to watch scss file for input, and a css file for generated output. ...

... The most readable way is x = 10 if a > b else 11 but you can use and and or, too: x = a > b and 10 or 11 The "Zen of Python" says that "readability counts", though, so go for the first way. Also, the and-or trick will fail if you put a variable instead of 10 and it evaluates to Fals...

I would like to limit the X and Y axis in matplotlib but for a speific subplot. As I can see subplot figure itself doesn't have any axis property. I want for example to change only the limits for the second plot! ...