...keyword. In this case, your Foo class defines a protected static property called $bar. When you use self in the Foo class to refer to the property, you're referencing the same class. Therefore if you tried to use self::$bar elsewhere in your Foo class but you had a Bar class with a different value ...

...methods on the Regex class. For example: Regex.Replace, Regex.Match etc.. all use the Regex cache. The size of the cache can be increased by setting Regex.CacheSize. It accepts changes in size any time during your application's life cycle. New regular expressions are only cached by the static hel...

...rves a rel=canonical link. I wouldn't bet on Github to never change this! All internal gist links (e.g. from user's page https://gist.github.com/cben/) omit the trailing slash :-( Gists in Google search results omit the trailing slash :-( (You could use relative path 46d9536baacb7c5d196c/raw/dodg...

... I've updated the question with the small difficulty I am having working with the PHP array that is returned by jSON. Please read the bottom part of it if you can. – Maaz May 22 '13 at 21:30 ...

...es it possible to host fonts in a way that throws away bits that are critically important for system installation, but irrelevant for the web (making people worried about piracy happy) and allows for internal compression to better suit the needs of the web (making users and hosts happy). This become...

... your application and that are managed by the Spring IoC* container are called beans. A bean is an object that is instantiated, assembled, and otherwise managed by a Spring IoC container. These beans are created with the configuration metadata that you supply to the container, for example, i...

...oint and floating point numbers due to hard to read definitions about them all over Google. But none that I have read provide a simple enough explanation of what they really are. Can I get a plain definition with example? ...

... viewDidLoad is things you have to do once. viewWillAppear gets called every time the view appears. You should do things that you only have to do once in viewDidLoad - like setting your UILabel texts. However, you may want to modify a specific part of the view every time the user gets to v...

...If we have O(n) processors we would hope for a linear speedup. O(log n) parallel algorithms exist but they have a very high constant. They also aren't applicable on commodity hardware which doesn't have anywhere near O(n) processors. With p processors, reasonable algorithms should take O(n/p log n) ...

... Note: if you don't want to add -S all the time to make sure your commits are signed, there is a proposal (branch 'pu' for now, December 2013, so no guarantee it will make it to a git release) to add a config which will take care of that option for you. Update...