I searched for noop in bash (:), but was not able to find any good information. What is the exact purpose or use case of this operator? ...

I just installed the new Android Studio and I'm looking for a way to import the support library for Android. 6 Answers ...

I managed to shoot myself in the foot this morning by doing the following: 10 Answers ...

We have an employee whose surname is Null. Our employee lookup application is killed when that last name is used as the search term (which happens to be quite often now). The error received (thanks Fiddler!) is: ...

I was wondering what exactly is the difference between MVC(which is an architectural pattern) and an n-tier architecture for an application. I searched for it but couldn't find a simple explanation. May be I am a bit naive on MVC concepts, so if anyone can explain the difference then it would be gre...

I'm making a pagination system (sort of like Facebook) where the content loads when the user scrolls to the bottom. I imagine the best way to do that is to find when the user is at the bottom of the page and run an ajax query to load more posts. ...

So I've got a data file (semicolon separated) that has a lot of detail and incomplete rows (leading Access and SQL to choke). It's county level data set broken into segments, sub-segments, and sub-sub-segments (for a total of ~200 factors) for 40 years. In short, it's huge, and it's not going to fit...

I want to find a linux command that can return a part of the string. In most programming languages, it's the substr() function. Does bash have any command that can be used for this purpose. I want to be able to do something like this... substr "abcdefg" 2 3 - prints cde . ...

I have a page with a "Print" link that takes the user to a printer-friendly page. The client wants a print dialog box to appear automatically when the user arrives at the print-friendly page. How can I do this with javascript? ...

I want to copy the entire contents of a directory from one location to another in C#. 22 Answers ...