... the huge benefits of Ruby is the ability to create DSLs very easily. Ruby allows you to create "business rules" in a natural language way that is usually easy enough for a business analyst to use. Many Ruby apps outside of web development exist for this purpose. I highly recommend Googling "ruby ...

... Trying to parse HTML with regular expressions is really dangerous --- it's practically impossible (I suspect it may be theoretically impossible) to get right. There's too many edge cases and then your code blows up when faced with strange input, which can frequently be exploi...

I have a class called Order which has properties such as OrderId , OrderDate , Quantity , and Total . I have a list of this Order class: ...

...OK obviously that isn't a real answer. But still SOAP should be avoided at all costs. ;-) Is it possible to add a proxy server between the iPhone and the web service? Perhaps something that converts REST into SOAP for you? You could try CSOAP, a SOAP library that depends on libxml2 (which is includ...

I had it working allright but now it stopped. I tried the following commands with no avail: 22 Answers ...

... open a document using its default application in Windows and Mac OS. Basically, I want to do the same thing that happens when you double-click on the document icon in Explorer or Finder. What is the best way to do this in Python? ...

... No, there's no way to do it, since what would happen when you called Object::GetTypeInformation()? It can't know which derived class version to call since there's no object associated with it. You'll have to make it a non-static virtual function to work properly; if you also want to be...

... What kind of dates do you have in the column? Do all of them fit within the range of the type? As an aside, the correct way to get a Type object for the DataColumn constructor is the typeof keyword, which is orders of magnitude faster. Therefore, to create the column, y...

...n that your workingcopy is out of date. revert to this revision will undo all changes in your working copy which were made after the selected revision (in your example rev. 96,97,98,99,100) Your working copy is now in modified state. The file content of both scenarions is same, however in first c...

...ation and if the annotation policy retains the annotation at runtime. Naturally if the retention policy doesn't keep the annotation at runtime, you won't be able to query it at runtime. An answer that's since been deleted (?) provided a useful link to an annotations tutorial that you may find helpf...