... What is the correct C# way of representing a data structure, which, "logically" (that is to say, "to the human mind") is just a list of things with a few bells and whistles? Ask any ten non-computer-programmer people who are familiar with the existence of football to fill in the blank: A foot...

...se my own implementation of it like: jQuery.loadScript = function (url, callback) { jQuery.ajax({ url: url, dataType: 'script', success: callback, async: true }); } and use it like: if (typeof someObject == 'undefined') $.loadScript('url_to_someScript.js...

...ferred way of doing this is like described by jurka below. My code is generally only recommended if you don't have PHP 5.3 or better. Several people in the comments have pointed out that the code above is only an approximation. I still believe that for most purposes that's fine, since the usage of...

...s is probably a very simple question, but I'm having trouble with it. Basically, I am trying to write a Batch File and I need it to list all the files in a certain directory. The dir command will do this, but it also gives a bunch of other information; I want it to list ONLY the file names and e...

...then throwing it away when you create the final String. In practice memory allocation is surprisingly fast. Update: As Pawel Adamski notes, performance has changed in more recent HotSpot. javac still produces exactly the same code, but the bytecode compiler cheats. Simple testing entirely fails bec...

... First - do not edit anything in your gem path! It will influence all projects, and you will have a lot problems later... In your project edit script/rails this way: #!/usr/bin/env ruby # This command will automatically be run when you run "rails" with Rails 3 gems installed from the root...

... This is cool, but doesn't print all dictionaries well. print json.dumps(myObject.__dict__, sort_keys=True, indent=4) #TypeError: <object at 0x0000000002E6A748> is not JSON serializable – tponthieux Feb 8 '12 at 2...

... This problem calls for a z-score or standard score, which will take into account the historical average, as other people have mention, but also the standard deviation of this historical data, making it more robust than just using the avera...

...cking window.open is kinda the point of pop-up blockers! If you make the call in response to a click action it has a better chance of not being blocked. – William Denniss Aug 18 '11 at 15:16 ...

...ow the database is at 700 procedures plus, it becomes a lot harder to find all procedures on a specific object. For example i now have to search 50 odd Add procedures for the Product add, and 50 odd for the Get etc. Because of this in my new application I'm planning on grouping procedure names by o...