...some service which worked with Executors, and I needed to have my service callbacks sync-ed with the test methods from my ApplicationTestCase classes. Usually the test method itself finished before the callback would be accessed, so the data sent via the callbacks would not be tested. Tried applying...

... WARNING: If you delete postmaster.pid without making sure there are really no postgres processes running you, could permanently corrupt your database. (PostgreSQL should delete it automatically if the postmaster has exited.). SOLUTION: This fixed the issue--I deleted this file, and then everyt...

...n programming for a while but It's been mostly Java and C#. I've never actually had to manage memory on my own. I recently began programming in C++ and I'm a little confused as to when I should store things on the stack and when to store them on the heap. ...

...ty settings that would prevent this from working. I "worked around" it by calling new ProcessBuilder("x-www-browser", uri.toString());. You would think that if there were security restrictions, the ProcessBuilder call would not work. But it does work. I have no idea why desktop.browse(uri) doesn't w...

...um RC? You can 'supposedly', pass in some parameters into Chrome, specifically: --no-startup-window Note that for some browsers, especially IE, it will hurt your tests to not have it run in focus. You can also hack about a bit with AutoIT, to hide the window once it's opened. ...

... Well....Java is actually more portable. Mono isn't implemented everywhere, and it lags behind the Microsoft implementation significantly. The Java SDK seems to stay in better sync across platforms (and it works on more platforms). I'd also ...

...ticle/blog post that you should definitely check out (no affiliation) - Parallelism in one line: A Better Model for Day to Day Threading Tasks. I'll summarize below - it ends up being just a few lines of code: from multiprocessing.dummy import Pool as ThreadPool pool = ThreadPool(4) results = pool.m...

...d within the if body.) That's slightly annoying in some cases, so if you really care about introducing the smallest number of variables possible in every scope, you might still want to use is followed by a cast. I don't think any of the answers so far (at the time of starting this answer!) have r...

...t this works great for normal termination of the script, but it won't get called in all cases (e.g. fatal internal errors). share | improve this answer | follow ...

...te's answer is pretty good already, I'm going to expand on it more specifically for Visual Studio 2010 as requested, and include information on compiling in the various optional components which requires external libraries. If you are using headers only libraries, then all you need to do is to unar...