...her explicitly or via methods such as submit, these task objects catch and maintain computational exceptions, and so they do not cause abrupt termination, and the internal exceptions are not passed to this method. When you submit a Runnable, it'll get wrapped in a Future. Your after...

I was invited to the kindergarten group of my elder daughter to talk and answer the kids' questions about my profession. There are 26 kids of age 4-6 in the group, plus 3 teachers who are fairly scared of anything related to programming and IT themselves, but bold enough to learn new tricks. I would...

... Most XML standards originating from the W3C tend to use lower case with hyphens. There is a philosophical distinction between seeing XML as a format for platform neutral documents, which W3C standards try to encourage, and languages su...

... There a few alternatives, both free and commercial. I haven't used any of them but in theory they should work: Iexpress (native windows tool) Quick Batch File Compiler (commercial) BoxedApp Packer "Advanced" Batch To EXE Converter" (freeware) Most will requ...

... supports ++ (increment) for bool, but not -- (decrement). It this just a random decision, or there is some reason behind this? ...

... Shorthand versions: -D is short for --save-dev and -S is short for --save – chrisco Mar 26 '17 at 14:07 ...

What is the difference between viewDidLoad and viewDidAppear ? What kind of initialization or custom code goes into those functions? ...

I'm aware that there are many questions about Facebook access-tokens and the grief they cause, but despite much experimentation and reading many frustratingly vague blog articles (FB and otherwise), I'm still struggling to get a clear answer to my needs. Let me succinctly break down my process so fa...

...-from-virtualbox-xp-install-ubuntu It suggests using IP: http://10.0.2.2, and it worked for me. So, I edited the hosts file, C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts, and added this entry: 10.0.2.2 outer If you're testing on IE8, remember to put http:// in the address bar. Just putting the ip d...

...g a book called "Teach Yourself C in 21 Days" (I have already learned Java and C# so I am moving at a much faster pace). I was reading the chapter on pointers and the -> (arrow) operator came up without explanation. I think that it is used to call members and functions (like the equivalent of...