I've been reading about "web services" here on SO, on Wikipedia, Google, etc., and I don't quite understand what they are. What is the plain English definition/description? ...

...s associated operations (union, intersection, difference on multiple sets, etc ...). It is quite easy to implement a basic faceted search or tagging engine on top of this feature, which is an interesting addition to MongoDB more traditional indexing capabilities. Redis supports efficient blocking po...

...y optimized code written in a ahead-of-time compiled language (C, Fortran, etc.) can beat it; however, Java can be more than 10x as fast as PHP, Ruby, Python, etc. There are specific areas where it can beat common compiled languages (if they use standard libraries). There is no excuse for "slow" Ja...

... for injection attacks Debugging can be more challenging (no line numbers, etc.) eval'd code executes slower (no opportunity to compile/cache eval'd code) Edit: As @Jeff Walden points out in comments, #3 is less true today than it was in 2008. However, while some caching of compiled scripts may ha...

...manage resources like memory, database connections, open file descriptors, etc. in C++. Now that allows us to provide exception safety guarantees. share | improve this answer | ...

...o create a request, how to create an assertion, how to work with variables etc). Very scalable. I've run tests with 11 machines generating load on the server to the tune of almost a million hits/hour. It was much easier to setup than I was expecting. Has an active community and good resources to hel...

... code to make complete use of the given XSD and make Web Service calls to fetch data from servicer and convert data returned into their suitable requirement and then display or publish data or information about the product on their website. A simple example would be FLIGHT Ticket booking. An airline...

...y resources). These could be UI handles, network connections, file handles etc. These are limited resources, so you generally want to release them as soon as you can. You should implement IDisposable whenever your type "owns" an unmanaged resource, either directly (usually via an IntPtr) or indirect...

...m with backing up blobs!), PostgreSQL additional supplied modules, How-tos etc. use a separate database with DBlink: for original image store, at another (unified/specialized) database. In this case, I prefer bytea, but blob is near the same. Separating database is the best way for a "unified imag...

...le users to get something done (i.e compiler, text editor, window manager, etc). share | improve this answer | follow | ...