...yntax (in the case of this example, and you can call Mixpanel SDK methods, etc.). You need to familiarize yourself with how Xcode translates Objective-C to Swift. Apple's guide is a quick read. Or see this answer for an incomplete summary. Example for Mixpanel: func application(application: UIApp...

...ngleton into the object, you'll have a happier time later if writing tests etc. Hard singletons are far too overused. – occulus Jan 14 '13 at 13:41 add a comment ...

...sure that only one thread is allowed inside that area, using that resource etc. How to use them is language specific, but is often (if not always) based on a operating system mutex. Some languages doesn't need this construct, due to the paradigm, for example functional programming (Haskell, ML are...

...nt the user from continuing to interact with any given entity (form field, etc) during an async call that would not require blocking the browser thread. When the thread is blocking, there cannot be any logical processing, whatsoever, and that's just a bad situation to be in; it creates far more pro...

...es it can handle, whether or not it's able to understand HTTP compression, etc. An array of query string parameters if there were any, in request.query (e.g. /people.json?foo=bar would result in request.query.foo containing the string "bar"). To respond to that request, you use the response object...

...and-craft a NAnt script to do things like copying built files, cleaning up etc - and call MSBuild to do the actual "turn my C# source code into assemblies" part. If you want an example of that, look at my Protocol Buffers build file. (I wouldn't claim it's a fabulous NAnt script, but it does the jo...

...s useful if you have a multi-part calculation with multiple base addresses etc. share | improve this answer | follow | ...

...ata type that can be given some meaningful order, ie sorted (integer, date etc). It does not matter if the data in a column is generally increasing. If you create an index on the column, the index will create it's own data structure that will simply reference the actual items in your table without...

...to deal with advanced concepts like having COW strings, and non-COW for MT etc, you will need std::string. If you are worried about copies, as long as you use references, and const references wherever you can, you will not have any overhead due to copies, and it's the same thing as you would be doi...

...he output is to something other than the tty (which is useful for grepping etc.) git log -g now contains the reflog selector. Save 2 parens on refnames and put them at the end (to preserve column alignment) Truncate relative dates if they are too long (e.g. 3 years, 4..) Truncate commiter names (mig...