...ely there is no perfect way, unless you use _proto_ recursively and access all non-enumerable properties, but this works in Firefox only. So the best I can do is to guess usage scenarios. 1) Fast and limited. Works when you have simple JSON-style objects without methods and DOM nodes inside: ...

... pattern, you produce instances of implementations (Apple, Banana, Cherry, etc.) of a particular interface -- say, IFruit. With the Abstract Factory pattern, you provide a way for anyone to provide their own factory. This allows your warehouse to be either an IFruitFactory or an IJuiceFactory, with...

... aware of the fact that even getElementById() doesn't work consistently on all browsers - see this answer for details.) UPDATE: It's been years since I wrote this answer and I think it's worth pointing out here that today you can use: SystemJS ModuleLoader jspm.io to dynamically load scripts...

I have resource dictionary files (MenuTemplate.xaml, ButtonTemplate.xaml, etc) that I want to use in multiple separate applications. I could add them to the applications' assemblies, but it's better if I compile these resources in one single assembly and have my applications reference it, right? ...

...at we presumably already know: The Singleton pattern, the Factory pattern, etc; They are merely ways of organizing your solution to the problem, but they are not solutions themselves. These patterns were analyzed and extracted for the rest of us by the Gang of Four, when they published their book: D...

It seems many others have had problems installing the pg gem. None of the solutions posed for others have worked for me. 1...

... switch shells (If you SSH into some other shell, switch from BASH to ZSH, etc and you lose some if not all of your keybindings). Most shells have a set of default sequences that come pre-bound. Furthermore, while they aren't 100% consistent, they're close enough. So the easiest way that I have fou...

... If you are looking for all entries in the 1d array a smaller than their neighbors, you can try numpy.r_[True, a[1:] < a[:-1]] & numpy.r_[a[:-1] < a[1:], True] You could also smooth your array before this step using numpy.convolve(). I...

...RARY table is visible only to the current session, and is dropped automatically when the session is closed. This means that two different sessions can use the same temporary table name without conflicting with each other or with an existing non-TEMPORARY table of the same name. (The existing table i...

...a out of a Google doc, processing it, and writing it to a file (that eventually I will paste into a Wordpress page). 8 Answ...