...s that is has significant value. I have to convince the other programmers and, more importantly, the bean-counters in management, that all the extra time spent learning the testing framework, writing tests, keeping them updated, etc.. will pay for itself, and then some. ...

...rror -34018. This doesn't match any of the documented keychain error codes and can't be consistently reproduced. (happens maybe 30% of the time, and it's not clear to me why it happens). What makes debugging this problem very difficult is the total lack of documentation. Any idea what causes this an...

...NuGet team's recommended approach to Package Restore within Visual Studio, and it was introduced in NuGet 2.7. Beginning with NuGet 2.7, the NuGet Visual Studio extension integrates into Visual Studio's build events and restores missing packages when a build begins. This feature is enabled by defa...

...fferent search results on the Internet about "red exclamation point icons" and "red exclamation mark decorators" and "red bang icons," no doubt because lots of plugins and programming-related tools use red exclamation point icons. So, to be clear, this is the one I mean: ...

... Also updating a db schema should be handled by the professionals ( dbas ). Recovering from a bad db change is difficult at best. Vova didn't mention it - but what happens if hibernate's update decides to drop a column and re-add it because the type or size chan...

...LTW (load-time weaving) or the AspectJ compiler. It uses the Proxy pattern and the Decorator pattern Spring-AOP Cons This is proxy-based AOP, so basically you can only use method-execution joinpoints. Aspects aren't applied when calling another method within the same class. There can be a little...

... It's a really terrible name for an incredibly powerful concept, and perhaps one of the number 1 things that C++ developers miss when they switch to other languages. There has been a bit of a movement to try to rename this concept as Scope-Bound Resource Management, though it doesn't seem...

I'm running Windows and the shell/OS automatically runs Python based on the registry settings when you run a program on the command line. Will this break if I install a 2.x and 3.x version of Python on the same machine? ...

I'm using an amazon Ubuntu EC2 instance which is only has a command line interface. I want to setup UI for that server to access using remote desktop tools. Is there any way to apply GUI to the EC2 instance? ...

...lot of them. Also there will be no output until all of the names are read and sorted. Use the ls -f option to turn off sorting. ls -f | wc -l Note that this will also enable -a, so ., .., and other files starting with . will be counted. ...