...her hand, a callback is also a special kind of postback, but it is just a quick round-trip to the server to get a small set of data (normally), and thus the page is not refreshed, unlike with the postback...think of it as 'calling the server, and receiving some data back'. With Asp.Net, the ViewSta...

...aling" checkbox ticked), Windows by default takes over the scaling of your UI. It does so by having your app render its output to a bitmap and drawing that bitmap to the screen. The rescaling of that bitmap makes the text inevitably look fuzzy. A feature called "DPI virtualization", it keeps old ...

...led to see the new System.Collections.Concurrent namespace in .Net 4.0, quite nice! I've seen ConcurrentDictionary , ConcurrentQueue , ConcurrentStack , ConcurrentBag and BlockingCollection . ...

... the same. Lxc implements process sandboxing, which is an important pre-requisite for portable deployment, but that alone is not enough for portable deployment. If you sent me a copy of your application installed in a custom lxc configuration, it would almost certainly not run on my machine the way ...

...www.macadamian.com/blog/post/android_-_theming_the_unthemable/ Android MenuItem Toggle Button Is it possible to make the Android options menu background non-translucent? http://www.codeproject.com/KB/android/AndroidMenusMyWay.aspx Setting the menu background to be opaque I tested this hack on 2...

...ew.bounds.size.width and view.bounds.size.height (or the frame, which is equivalent unless you're playing with the view.transform). If what you want is the width and height implied by your existing constraints, the answer is not to inspect the constraints manually, since that would require you to r...

...rything else and it takes time to write good code. Many developers don't quite understand how to do all these "the right way". But because everybody tells them that TDD is the only true way to develop software, they just try the best they can. It is much harder than one might think. Often projects...

...gment transaction has finished committing (as fragments interfere with the UI they run on the main thread). // Remember this is an example, you will need to modify to work with your code private final Handler handler = new Handler(); private Runnable runPager; @Override public View onCreateView(La...

... HttpPost httpost = new HttpPost("https://portal.sun.com/amserver/UI/Login?" + "org=self_registered_users&" + "goto=/portal/dt&" + "gotoOnFail=/portal/dt?error=true"); List <NameValuePair> nvps = new ArrayList <NameVa...

...llected when the the application exits. You can also kill an application quickly via android.os.Process.killProcess(android.os.Process.myPid()) if you prefer. The best way to do this is put a method like the following in a helper class and then call it whenever the app needs to be killed. For ex...