... a dictionary. The columns contain strings of numbers and letters. Occasionally there are cases where a cell is empty. In my opinion, the value read to that dictionary entry should be None but instead nan is assigned. Surely None is more descriptive of an empty cell as it has a null value, whe...

...S DTC will not be able to communicate with each other. This problem typically occurs if one of the systems were cloned using unsupported cloning tools. MS DTC requires that the systems be cloned using supported cloning tools such as SYSPREP. Running 'msdtc -uninstall' and then 'msdtc -instal...

...ter delete. Setting a pointer to NULL after deleting it masquerades memory allocation errors, which is a very bad thing. A program that is correct does not delete a pointer twice, and a program that does delete a pointer twice should crash. – Damon Aug 30 '13 a...

I accidentally made a wrong pull request and ended up closing the request myself. It's in a closed state right now but it's accessible via direct URL and showing on my activity bar. ...

... Try adding <lockingModel type="log4net.Appender.FileAppender+MinimalLock" /> to your <appender /> element. There is some performance impact because this means that log4net will lock the file, write to it, and unlock it for each write operation (as opposed to the default behavior,...

...e's a slightly more succinct way of removing an element from the DOM than calling .removeChild(element) on its parent, which is to just call element.remove(). In due course, this will probably become the standard and idiomatic way of removing an element from the DOM. The .remove() method was added ...

...tificate for the localhost CN. Firefox accepts this certificate after initially complaining about it, as expected. Chrome and IE, however, refuse to accept it, even after adding the certificate to the system certificate store under Trusted Roots. Even though the certificate is listed as correctly in...

... Placement new allows you to construct an object in memory that's already allocated. You may want to do this for optimization when you need to construct multiple instances of an object, and it is faster not to re-allocate memory each time y...

...an manage the process of invoking the COM component without bothering the calling code with it. They can also simplify the use of the underlying object by reducing the number interface points involved; frequently, this makes for more secure use of underlying components. ...

...eath src, you can simply place your project mypack, and underneath that is all of your .go files including the mypack_test.go go build will then build into the root level pkg and bin. So your GOPATH might look like this: ~/projects/ bin/ pkg/ src/ mypack/ foo.go ...