... As mentioned by @bacar, RFC 4122 §4.3 defines a way to create a name-based UUID. The advantage of doing this (over just using a MD5 hash) is that these are guaranteed not to collide with non-named-based UUIDs, and have a very (very) smal...

...n where git knows that the file has been modified (or needs to be modified by a reset --hard or the like), it will pretend it has not been, using the version from the index instead. This persists until the index is discarded. There is a good summary of the ramifications of this difference and the t...

...sed. One such use case arises when you need to resolve a call at run-time by invoking a callable object that adheres to a specific signature, but whose concrete type is unknown at compile-time. This is typically the case when you have a collection of callbacks of potentially different types, but w...

... https://mms.nw.ru likely uses a certificate not issued by a certification authority. Consequently, you need to add the certificate to your trusted Java key store as explained in unable to find valid certification path to requested target: When working on a client that works ...

...T application, I was trying to add few white spaces between two text boxes by typing space bar. The equivalent HTML source was   instead of   . So I just wanted to check: is this the new replacement for white space? If yes, any idea why they changed? ...

...thentication? Forms authentication uses it own value for timeout (30 min. by default). A forms authentication timeout will send the user to the login page with the session still active. This may look like the behavior your app gives when session times out making it easy to confuse one with the othe...

...of my articles were transferred over to the Elastic blog, and can be found by filtering on my name: https://www.elastic.co/blog/author/zachary-tong To be perfectly honest, the best source of beginner knowledge is now Elasticsearch - The Definitive Guide written by myself and Clinton Gormley. It...

My codebase has a long build.properties file written by someone else. I want to see the available built targets without having to search through the file manually. Does ant have a command for this - something like ant show-targets - that will make it list all the targets in the build file? ...

...rt CSS3 yet, so be sure you know what you're doing which is now supported by all major browsers (and has been for quite some time; this is an old answer...). Example: <input type="text" value="will be matched" /> <input type="text" value="will not be matched" class="avoidme" /> <in...

... agreed, note that on a mac, a .DS_Store file auto created by finder will block the clone. check with ls -la – ptim Nov 1 '13 at 6:08 ...