I occasionally hear things about how SQL sucks and it's not a good language, but I never really hear much about alternatives to it. So, are other good languages that serve the same purpose (database access) and what makes them better than SQL? Are there any good databases that use this alternative l...

...ect. It lets newly-created objects understand what has been going on. Typically you call it to get information regarding another part of your program (activity and package/application). You can get the context by invoking getApplicationContext(), getContext(), getBaseContext() or this (when in a cl...

... triggered when the link is clicked, and that will be what he wants to actually happen, but he wants it to look like a normal <a> tag link. Some developers use href='#' for the same purpose, but this causes the browser to jump to the top of the page, which may not be wanted. And he couldn't s...

...Encoding="UTF-8" in the above example. This quarantees that Tomcat handles all incoming GET parameters as UTF-8 encoded. As a result, when the user writes the following to the address bar of the browser: https://localhost:8443/ID/Users?action=search&name=*ж* the character ж is handled as U...

...ppDomain provides a layer of isolation within a process. Everything you usually think of as "per program" (static variables etc) is actually per-AppDomain. This is useful for: plugins (you can unload an AppDomain, but not an assembly within an AppDomain) security (you can run a set of code with sp...

... I installed this in Juno, restarted but it does nothing. The combo doesn't do anything and neither can I find an item in the context menu :-( – Daniel Gerson Jun 20 '13 at 20:03 ...

... @GMan - in almost all implementations, size() is fast for lists just as much for vectors. Next version of the standard will require this to be true. The real problem is the slowness of retreval by position. – Daniel Earwi...

In software engineering we create indexes all the time (e.g., in databases) but I also hear a lot of people talk about inverted indices. Is there something fundamentally different between the two? They sound like the same thing. ...

...ot remove the errors. So then I did Xcode > Source Control > Discard ALL Changes, and it cleaned up all the errors for me. – EdwardM Jan 24 '17 at 18:29 ...

... The only "best practice" you should be using all the time is "Use Your Brain". Too many people jumping on too many bandwagons and trying to force methods, patterns, frameworks etc onto things that don't warrant them. Just because something is new, or because someone r...