...ot be changed after instantiation. However, there must be care taken that all objects that are referenced by the object must be immutable as well, or it could be possible to change the state of the object. For example, allowing an reference to an array or ArrayList to be obtained through an gette...

I see in C++ there are multiple ways to allocate and free data and I understand that when you call malloc you should call free and when you use the new operator you should pair with delete and it is a mistake to mix the two (e.g. Calling free() on something that was created with the new ...

... @JayKilleen You're correct. Ruby is all about clever tricks, but it's that clever (: – Nikita Rybak Jan 23 '15 at 7:47 3 ...

...s)Enum.Parse(typeof(Items), v)); // Boo I adapted what Enum does internally to generate the string to instead return the flags. You can look at the code in reflector and should be more or less equivalent. Works well for general use cases where there are values which contain multiple bits. sta...

...d procedures are always faster. So, since they're always faster, use them ALL THE TIME . 20 Answers ...

I normally compress using tar zcvf and decompress using tar zxvf (using gzip due to habit). 6 Answers ...

... I know it's an old question, but... composer.phar show Will show all the currently installed packages and their version information. (This was shown in previous versions of Composer only when using the now-deprecated -i option.) To see more details, specify the name of the package as wel...

I generally avoid casting types as much as possible since I am under the impression that it's poor coding practice and may incur a performance penalty. ...

... not mention the "git commit -m 'first commit'" command. Once I used that, all was fine! – Pascal Lindelauf Sep 1 '09 at 13:55 3 ...

...art using your method too. Thankyou @aku – Jim Birchall Sep 24 '08 at 8:25 38 @pilavdzice Settin...