I want to delete a folder that contains thousands of files and folders. If I use Windows Explorer to delete the folder it can take 10-15 minutes (not always, but often). Is there a faster way in Windows to delete folders? ...

This came up as a question I asked in an interview recently as something the candidate wished to see added to the Java language. It's commonly-identified as a pain that Java doesn't have reified generics but, when pushed, the candidate couldn't actually tell me the sort of things that he could hav...

Is there a way in javascript to obtain the names of all fonts (or font-families) that the browser can show? (I want to give the user a dropdown with a list of all available fonts, and allow the user to choose a font.) I'd prefer not to have to hardcode this list ahead of time or send it down from t...

I have a python object with several attributes and methods. I want to iterate over object attributes. 8 Answers ...

I want to remove all event listeners of a specific type that were added using addEventListener() . All the resources I'm seeing are saying you need to do this: ...

I've built a entity framework model against a 2008 database. All works ok against the 2008 database. When I try to update the entity on a 2005 database I get this error. ...

I'm using json-simple and I need to pretty-print JSON data (make it more human readable). 18 Answers ...

I'm trying to install PostgreSQL for Rails on Mac OS X 10.6. First I tried the MacPorts install but that didn't go well so I did the one-click DMG install. That seemed to work. ...

Is there a Unix command to prepend some string data to a text file? 16 Answers 16 ...

I am trying to add simple syntax highlighting and auto completion for a simple scripting language... 8 Answers ...