... Adding an inspect method to your class allows you to define how the class' attributes are displayed, rather than rely on default output. A lot of classes don't implement it well, but it can be really useful when debugging. Ruby will fall back to to_s if it can't f...

... so. You could just get this module and use it on your existing Python install. It will probably work. Before this, I used to rename the tests I wanted skipped to xtest_testname from test_testname. Here's a quick elisp script to do this. My elisp is a little rusty so I apologise in advance for ...

Why can't we autowire the static instance variable in the Spring bean. I know there is another way to achieve this but just want to know why cant we do it in below way. ...

I see these terms bandied around all over the place in programming and I have a vague notion of what they mean. A search shows me that such things have been asked all over stack overflow in fact. As far as I'm aware Static/Dynamic typing in languages is subtly different to Strong/Weak typing but wha...

...its. This is a convenient way to handle shutdown in bigger programs, where all parts of the program can't (and shouldn't) be aware of each other. Then, if someone wants to quit, he can simply call System.exit(), and the shutdown hooks (if properly set up) take care of doing all necessary shutdown ce...

... have a separate code for the various place where docstrings can occur, so all you can do is disable C0111. The problem is that if you disable this at module scope, then it will be disabled everywhere in the module (i.e you won't get any C line for missing function / class / method docstring. Which ...

... Although JS implementations might keep track of such a value internally, there's no standard way to get it. In the past, Mozilla's Javascript variant exposed the non-standard __count__, but it has been removed with version 1.8.5. For cross-browser scripting you're stuck with explicitly ite...

...s for different input arguments? For example, I have database layer class called DB. This class has method called "Query ( string $query )", that method takes an SQL query string on input. Can I create mock for this class (DB) and set different return values for different Query method calls that dep...

I'm really enjoying Rails (even though I'm generally RESTless), and I enjoy Ruby being very OO. Still, the tendency to make huge ActiveRecord subclasses and huge controllers is quite natural (even if you do use a controller per resource). If you were to create deeper object worlds, where would you p...

...ases, this ends up saving memory, and should make things go faster. If all you're going to do is iterate over this list eventually, there's no need to even convert it to a list, because you can still iterate over the map object like so: # Prints "ABCD" for ch in map(chr,[65,66,67,68]): prin...