This is about the bag o' crap sales on woot.com. I'm the president of Woot Workshop, the subsidiary of Woot that does the design, writes the product descriptions, podcasts, blog posts, and moderates the forums. I work with CSS/HTML and am only barely familiar with other technologies. I work closely ...

When all you have is a pair of bolt cutters and a bottle of vodka, everything looks like the lock on the door of Wolf Blitzer's boathouse. (Replace that with a hammer and a nail if you don't read xkcd) ...

It seems rare to read of a Python "virtual machine" while in Java "virtual machine" is used all the time. 13 Answers ...

What is a segmentation fault? Is it different in C and C++? How are segmentation faults and dangling pointers related? 14 A...

I want to know what a " virtual base class " is and what it means. 11 Answers 11 ...

Design patterns are usually related to object oriented design. Are there design patterns for creating and programming relational databases? Many problems surely must have reusable solutions. ...

I know that at least one of the changes in C++11 that will cause some old code to stop compiling: the introduction of explicit operator bool() in the standard library, replacing old instances of operator void*() . Granted, the code that this will break is probably code that should not have been v...

I generally avoid casting types as much as possible since I am under the impression that it's poor coding practice and may incur a performance penalty. ...

I suppose this is a strange question to the huge majority of programmers that work daily with Java. I don't. I know Java-the-language, because I worked on Java projects, but not Java-the-world. I never made a web app from scratch in Java. If I have to do it with Python, Ruby, I know where to go (Dja...

Let's say I have a Javascript associative array (a.k.a. hash, a.k.a. dictionary): 10 Answers ...