...it would be a great idea to plaster the entire app with connection strings all over the place. 6 Answers ...

...ested that the user select one of the options you've given, but he can actually enter anything he wants in the input. Edit 1: So which one you use depends upon your requirements. If the user must enter one of your choices, use the select element. If the use can enter whatever, use the datalist...

...up that way. A great example can be found in the Express examples folder, called mvc. If you look at lib/boot.js, you can see how they've set up the example to require each file in the controllers directory, and generate the Express routes on the fly depending on the name of the methods created on t...

... My understanding is that this is actually very simple: Javascript is always pass by value, but when a variable refers to an object (including arrays), the "value" is a reference to the object. Changing the value of a variable never changes the underlying prim...

... not the purpose of this discussion so I won't dive into the detail. We all know that writing a == or < or > operator for every single struct definition will be a painful and buggy task. Let replace our custom comparator using std::tie and rerun our benchmark. bool operator<(const Str...

...g that my code will never need to run on anything older than NT, does it really matter which way I name my batch files, or is there some gotcha awaiting me by using the wrong suffix? ...

...ords messages between users. Apart from the typical ids and message types (all integer types) I need to save the actual message text as either VARCHAR or TEXT. I'm setting a front-end limit of 3000 characters which means the messages would never be inserted into the db as longer than this. ...

I understand the difference between copy vs. deepcopy in the copy module. I've used copy.copy and copy.deepcopy before successfully, but this is the first time I've actually gone about overloading the __copy__ and __deepcopy__ methods. I've already Googled around and looked through the ...

... It should be noted this isn't really an 'or' selector, more like multiple selectors in one. – alex Feb 15 '10 at 3:57 50 ...

...uestion. In places where you are mainly reading or writing a file sequentially, the buffering support is really helpful and a big speed improvement. But it can lead to some interesting problems in which data does not end up in the file when you expect it to be there. You have to remember to fclos...