I wrote the two methods below to automatically select N distinct colors. It works by defining a piecewise linear function on the RGB cube. The benefit of this is you can also get a progressive scale if that's what you want, but when N gets large the colors can start to look similar. I can also imagi...

I started using PHP a couple of months ago. For the sake of creating a login system for my website, I read about cookies and sessions and their differences (cookies are stored in the user's browser and sessions on the server). At that time, I preferred cookies (and who does not like cookies?!) and j...

Why do I read in the answer to most questions here a lot about AsyncTask and Loaders but nothing about Services ? Are Services just not known very well or are they deprecated or have some bad attributes or something? What are the differences? ...

Is there any way of overriding a model's id value on create? Something like: 13 Answers ...

This is my HTML which I'm generating dynamically using drag and drop functionality. 9 Answers ...

I'm looking for a tool to migrate a couple of SVN repositories to Mercurial, with history, labels and so on. 9 Answers ...

I'm thinking of using Docker to build my dependencies on a Continuous Integration (CI) server, so that I don't have to install all the runtimes and libraries on the agents themselves. ...

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I have a service which is checking for new task all the time. If there is new task, I want to refresh the activity UI to show that info. I did find https://github.com/commonsguy/cw-andtutorials/tree/master/18-LocalService/ this example. Is that a good approch ? Any other examples? ...

I want to launch an app on OSX from a script. I need pass it command line arguments. Unfortunately, open doesn't accept command line args. ...