...y the ASCII code. Once you get into those strange European languages with all their accents and other features, collation changes. For example, though the different accented forms of a may exist at disparate code points, they may all need to be sorted as if they were the same letter. ...

...lections are an exception" suggests a very fuzzy understanding of what's really going on here. It's important to realize that there are sort of two levels of conforming to an interface: What the Java language can check. This pretty much just boils down to: is there some implementation for each of...

...t). As you say, lots of shared hosts do support shorttags but "lots" isn't all of them. If you want to share your scripts, it's best to use the full syntax. I agree that <? and <?= are easier on programmers than <?php and <?php echo but it is possible to do a bulk find-and-replace as lo...

...probably consider a computed column (and perhaps persisted) instead, especially if a lot of queries refer to this same expression. PS your fears seem unfounded. In this simple example at least, SQL Server is smart enough to only perform the calculation once, even though you've referenced it twice. ...

...ge is from the moreutils package, and avoids clearing the input file. Finally, you can use gexpand on OSX, after installing coreutils with Homebrew (brew install coreutils). share | improve this a...

... Dependency walker works on normal win32 binaries. All .NET dll's and exe's have a small stub header part which makes them look like normal binaries, but all it basically says is "load the CLR" - so that's all that dependency walker will tell you. To see which things your .N...

... You can get some limited memory information from the Runtime class. It really isn't exactly what you are looking for, but I thought I would provide it for the sake of completeness. Here is a small example. Edit: You can also get disk usage information from the java.io.File class. The disk space us...

...on a single computer or even in a single process on a single computer. All we are doing is discussing a way of organizing a code into a set of layers defined by specific function. Physical tiers however, are only about where the code runs. Specifically, tiers are places where laye...

Somehow I am totally confused by how CMake works. Every time I think that I am getting closer to understand how CMake is meant to be written, it vanishes in the next example I read. All I want to know is, how should I structure my project, so that my CMake requires the least amount of maintainance i...

...se CoffeeScript in our product - a non-public facing website which is basically an app for browsing certain kinds of data. We use CoffeeScript as a command-line compiler (not on the server, which we'd eventually like to do). PROS (for us): It gets rid of a lot of needless clutter in javascript (e...