... From Wikipedia: In computer programming, a shim is a small library that transparently intercepts an API, changing the parameters passed, handling the operation itself, or redirecting the operation elsewhere. Shims typically come about when the behaviour of an API changes, thereby...

... curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, json_encode($post)); // Actually send the request $result = curl_exec($ch); // Handle errors if (curl_errno($ch)) { echo 'GCM error: ' . curl_error($ch); } // Close curl handle curl_close($ch); // Debug GCM res...

...le rather than IList as the Linq above is lazily evaluated: it doesn't actually do all of the work until the enumerable is iterated. When you call ToList it actually walks the entire enumerable forcing all of the work to be done up front. (And may take a little while if your enumerable is infinitely...

...nstance, for example accessing WEB-INF resources(xml configs and etc.) by calling the getResourceAsStream() method. Typically all application contexts defined in web.xml in a servlet Spring application are Web Application contexts, this goes both to the root webapp context and the servlet's app cont...

...iews, even though they don't draw, still participate in Auto Layout and usually retain their frames, leaving other related views in their places. When removing a view from its superview, all related constraints are also removed from that view hierarchy. In your case, this likely means: If you se...

What is the best way to vertically center the content of a div when the height of the content is variable. In my particular case, the height of the container div is fixed, but it would be great if there were a solution that would work in cases where the container has a variable height as well. Also...

... No. Well, not really. There are a couple of selectors that can get you somewhat close, but probably won't work in your example and don't have the best browser compatibility. :only-child The :only-child is one of the few true counting sele...

...ns Too verbose Imperative Easy to have off-by-one errors (sometimes also called a fence post error) 2. Array.prototype.forEach The ES5 specification introduced a lot of beneficial array methods, one of them, the Array.prototype.forEach and it gives us a concise way to iterate over an array: co...

I have a datasets where all the dates have the following format: 3 Answers 3 ...

...mory resolved my issue, why does that work? I am on a virtual machine installing a virtual machine. Inception. – Jacek Trociński Nov 6 '15 at 12:04 2 ...