...nd it worked fine for me. I think you may have some problems if you change from python 2.6 to 2.7 or 2.7 to 3.x but if you just upgrade inside the same version (staying at 2.7 as you want) you shouldn't have any problem, as all the packages are held in the same folders for both python versions (2.7....

...sktop apps that were written in Visual C++, so that is perfectly feasible. From what I know of Visual Basic, the main advantage seems to be that the first part of the development cycle may be done faster than when using Visual C++, but as the complexity of a project increases, C++ programs tend to b...

...se the --rebase-merges option on git rebase, which is described as follows from the manual: By default, a rebase will simply drop merge commits from the todo list, and put the rebased commits into a single, linear branch. With --rebase-merges, the rebase will instead try to preserve the branching s...

...action forward. They may then ask you which account you'd like to withdraw from. When you answer, "My savings account", that's even more context. The more context you give, the more knowledge the other party has to help deal with your request. Sometimes context is optional (like typing more and mo...

I want to read and write an Excel file from Java with 3 columns and N rows, printing one string in each cell. Can anyone give me simple code snippet for this? Do I need to use any external lib or does Java have built-in support for it? ...

...ion of a member and immediately know whether it is going to be called only from internal code. Unfortunately, that doesn't always work out nicely; for example, an internal class that implements an internal interface still has to have the implementing members marked as public, because they are part...

I'm in the process of converting one of our web applications from CodeIgniter to Laravel. However at this moment we don't want to add the updated_at / created_at fields to all of our tables as we have a logging class that does all this in more depth for us already. ...

...riginal traceback one solution is to cache the exception infos as returned from exc_info in a local variable and display it using print_exception: import traceback import sys try: raise TypeError("Oups!") except Exception, err: try: exc_info = sys.exc_info() # do you usefu...

...re passing to it does contain a file name; it simply removes the final bit from the path, whether it is a file name or directory name (it actually has no idea which). You could validate first by testing File.Exists() and/or Directory.Exists() on your path first to see if you need to call Path.GetDi...

...y local. Aside: understanding the reflog means you can't really lose data from your repo once it's been committed. If you accidentally reset to an older commit, or rebase wrongly, or any other operation that visually "removes" commits, you can use the reflog to see where you were before and git res...