...bility of the interpreter to deduce type and type conversions makes developm>mem>nt tim>mem> faster, but it also can provoke runtim>mem> failures which you just cannot get in a statically typed language where you catch them at compile tim>mem>. But which one's better (or even if that's always true) is hotly discuss...

...ymbols such as unix and vax was a way to allow code to detect at compile tim>mem> what system it was being compiled for. There was no official language standard back then (beyond the reference material at the back of the first edition of K&R), and C code of any complexity was typically a complex maz...

...ing plan to ever deprecate the latter. In commit Issue #14123: Explicitly m>mem>ntion that old style % string formatting has caveats but is not going away any tim>mem> soon., inspired by issue Indicate that there are no current plans to deprecate printf-style formatting, the docs on %-formatting were edite...

...tter speed) at relatively little difference in cost...? Also, is there any m>mem>tric as to whether more people are using EBS now that it's available, considering it is still relatively new? ...

...e if anyone has a query that will fit my needs completely, but hopefully som>mem>thing that will give m>mem> a good start. Either sql 2008, 2005 or 2000 will do, I can probably convert as needed. ...

I'm a beginner RoR programm>mem>r who's planning to deploy my app using Heroku. Word from my other advisor friends says that Heroku is really easy, good to use. The only problem is that I still have no idea what Heroku does... ...

I never clearly understood what an ABI is. Please don't point m>mem> to a Wikipedia article. If I could understand it, I wouldn't be here posting such a lengthy post. ...

...a concept that for many can be confusing at first, in particular when it com>mem>s to copying pointer values around and still referencing the sam>mem> m>mem>mory block. I've found that the best analogy is to consider the pointer as a piece of paper with a house address on it, and the m>mem>mory block it references...

... Why can't the libraries function outside of the application server environm>mem>nt? Actually they can. Most of the libraries can be directly used standalone (in Java SE) or included in a .war (practically that's nearly always Tomcat). Som>mem> parts of Java EE, like JPA, have explicit sections in their re...

...bases and web services and all that - the ultimate end goal is the exact sam>mem> basic principle: generate a string of HTML*. Your big HTML string doesn't becom>mem> anything more special than that until it's loaded by a web browser. Once a browser loads the page, then all the other magic happens - layout...