I was having a discussion with a teammate about locking in .NET. He's a really bright guy with an extensive background in both lower-level and higher-level programming, but his experience with lower level programming far exceeds mine. Anyway, He argued that .NET locking should be avoided on critic...

I'm using Visual Studio 2010 and when I do a "Find in Files" the results are returned to the "Find Results 1" window which is docked below my code editor window. ...

Now that Rails 3 beta is out, I thought I'd have a look at rewriting an app I have just started work on in Rails 3 beta, both to get a feel for it and get a bit of a head-start. The app uses MongoDB and MongoMapper for all of its models and therefore has no need for ActiveRecord. In the previous ver...

For past 4 years, I have been programming with Eclipse (for Java), and Visual Studio Express (for C#). The IDEs mentioned always seemed to provide every facility a programmer might ask for (related to programming, of course). ...

... a ViewModel that more accurately reflects the model that the view is trying to display, but I'm curious about some of the conventions (I'm new to the MVC pattern, if it wasn't already obvious). ...

... Knuth left this as an exercise (Vol 3, 5.2.5). There do exist in-place merge sorts. They must be implemented carefully. First, naive in-place merge such as described here isn't the right solution. It downgrades the performance to O(N2). The idea is to sort part of the array while usin...

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I am iterating over a list and I want to print out the index of the item if it meets a certain condition. How would I do this? ...

I'd like to hear from people with experience of coding for both. Myself, I only have experience with NVIDIA. 10 Answers ...

What is the meaning of _ after for in this code? 5 Answers 5 ...