...u simply add the line outputStream.write( c ); - you don't have to go back and edit the line where you create the result byte array. Also, re-ordering the arrays is simple, unlike using the arraycopy method. – Wayne Uroda Aug 27 '12 at 11:38 ...

...han file system storage you can super-accelerate file system access with standard off the shelf products for example, many web servers use the operating system's sendfile() system call to asynchronously send a file directly from the file system to the network interface. Images stored in a database...

...why you should use 1px instead of 1dp or 1dip: if you specify 1dp or 1dip, Android will scale that down. On a 120dpi device, that becomes something like 0.75px translated, which rounds to 0. On some devices, that translates to 2-3 pixels, and it usually looks ugly or sloppy For dividers, 1px is the...

I just learned about Java's Scanner class and now I'm wondering how it compares/competes with the StringTokenizer and String.Split. I know that the StringTokenizer and String.Split only work on Strings, so why would I want to use the Scanner for a String? Is Scanner just intended to be one-stop-shop...

... why is there two correct ways of specifying const data and in what situation would you prefer or need one over the other if any? Essentially, the reason that the position of const within specifiers prior to an asterisk does not matter is that the C grammar was defined that way ...

...ests that it might be a firewall problem: I have just had this problem and found it was my firewall. I use PCTools Firewall Plus and it wasn't allowing full access to MySQL. Once I changed that it was fine. Hope that helps. Could that be it? Also, someone here suggests that it might be becaus...

...tion, or whatever. These are only useful when the main program is running, and it's okay to kill them off once the other, non-daemon, threads have exited. Without daemon threads, you'd have to keep track of them, and tell them to exit, before your program can completely quit. By setting them as dae...

... Shell scripts are run inside a subshell, and each subshell has its own concept of what the current directory is. The cd succeeds, but as soon as the subshell exits, you're back in the interactive shell and nothing ever changed there. One way to get around this is t...

I was doing some reading on enums and find them very similar to declaring constants. How would I know when to use a constant rather than an enum or vice versa. What are some of the advantages of using enums? ...

...ssage. This can be because: You have different contracts between client and sender. You're using a different binding between client and sender. The message security settings are not consistent between client and sender. Have at look at the EndpointDispatcher class for more information on the su...