... Apparently, the compiler thinks NSSearchPathDirectory:0 is an array, and of course it expects the type NSSearchPathDirectory instead. Certainly not a helpful error message. But as to the reasons: First, you are confusing the argument names and types. Take a look at the function definition: ...

...rtaain cases you don't want it to be a part of the visual experience then handle it at the cosmetic layer. Bear in mind that some agents attempt to parse CSS and if they determine that something wouldn't be SEEN then they don't output it at all. I think this is aberrant behavior but it can help to k...

... You are searching for a multimap, and indeed both commons-collections and Guava have several implementations for that. Multimaps allow for multiple keys by maintaining a collection of values per key, i.e. you can put a single object into the map, but you retr...

... No. Order is not guaranteed in JSON and most other key-value data structures, so therefore the last item could sometimes be carrot and at other times be banana and so on. If you need to rely on ordering, your best bet is to go with arrays. The power of key-val...

...ensive coding, what would they be? Although my current languages are Java and Objective-C (with a background in C++), feel free to answer in any language. Emphasis here would be on clever defensive techniques other than those that 70%+ of us here already know about. So now it is time to dig dee...

...hnical consideration I have about version bump (only in the context of sbt and Maven projects) is that development should only happen with -SNAPSHOT versions. This also helps avoid two people bumping the version unaware of each other. 1. bump from -SNAPSHOT to a release (with same version number). 2...

...conservative on memory usage. The user can open unlimited number of files, and the program keeps the opened objects in the memory. After a quick research I found Ergonomics in the 5.0 Java Virtual Machine and others saying on Windows machine the JVM defaults max heap size as 64MB . ...

...p://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Cantarell:400,700,400italic,700italic|Candal It links to a CSS defining the fonts via a bunch of @font-face defintions. Open it in a browser to copy and paste them into your own CSS and modify the urls to include the right font file and format types. So this: ...

I'm trying to run two AsyncTasks at the same time. (Platform is Android 1.5, HTC Hero.) However, only the first gets executed. Here's a simple snippet to describe my problem: ...

... Assuming you've used home-brew to install and upgrade Postgres, you can perform the following steps. Stop current Postgres server: launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist Initialize a new 10.1 database: initdb /usr/local/var/postgre...