I've been seeing this syntax on a few libraries now and I'm wondering what the benefit is. (note i'm well aware of closures and what the code is doing, I'm only concerned about the syntactical differences) ...

I am wondering when to use static methods? Say if I have a class with a few getters and setters, a method or two, and I want those methods only to be invokable on an instance object of the class. Does this mean I should use a static method? ...

There has been a long standing issue with Firefox not loading font from different origin than the current webpage. Usually, the issue arise when the fonts are served on CDNs. ...

I am writing a Mesh Rendering manager and thought it would be a good idea to group all of the meshes which use the same shader and then render these while I'm in that shader pass. ...

How can I execute an SQL command through a shell script so that I can make it automated? 14 Answers ...

Is there a common way to show a big image and enable the user to zoom in and out and pan the image? 13 Answers ...

We have an application that has a WCF service (*.svc) running on IIS7 and various clients querying the service. The server is running Win 2008 Server. The clients are running either Windows 2008 Server or Windows 2003 server. I am getting the following exception, which I have seen can in fact be rel...

The new Facebook application and its navigation is so cool. I was just trying to see how it can be emulated in my application. ...

I know that you can disable git integration by using the Tools / Options dialog, but what I've noticed is that this setting doesn't seem to persist across sessions; i.e., as soon as close and reopen the solution, Git integration is enabled again. I'm guessing Visual Studio is seeing the .git folder ...

I was suggested, not long ago, to change my code to use PDO in order to parameterize my queries and safely save HTML in the database. ...