...existing frameworks are pretty useful.. In the recent past, I have placed all my tests on a "test" page that was embedded in to the application but not reachable unless physically typed. For instance, I would have all the tests in a page accessible under chrome-extension://asdasdasdasdad/unittests...

... Decorator pattern achieves a single objective of dynamically adding responsibilities to any object. Consider a case of a pizza shop. In the pizza shop they will sell few pizza varieties and they will also provide toppings in the menu. Now imagine a situation wherein if the piz...

...se you'll see the flickering of images. A more subtle issue is that on a really slow network, your asynchronous request might not finish before the cell scrolls off the screen. You can use the UITableView method cellForRowAtIndexPath: (not to be confused with the similarly named UITableViewDataSourc...

...because it is abstract. This is part of TypeScript 1.6, which is now officially live. abstract class Animal { constructor(protected name: string) { } abstract makeSound(input : string) : string; move(meters) { alert(this.name + " moved " + meters + "m."); } } class Snake ...

... If I understood well the question actually is: "does every single coder in the world know enough English to use the exact same reserved words as I do?" Well.. English is not the subject here but programming language reserved words. I mean, when I started about ...

... I think this is a really great question, and it's a shame that rather than tackling the real question, most answers have skirted the issue and simply said not to use swizzling. Using method sizzling is like using sharp knives in the kitchen. So...

...a field to the Users Database (user.subscribed_to_newsletter = true). Naturally, you sometimes want to get those Users who are subscribed to your newsletter. You could, of course, always do this: User.where(subscribed_to_newsletter: true).each do #something Instead of always writing this you cou...

...st 2 years) but the API is consistent. For example the users table is now called AspNetUsers in Identity Framework, and the names of several primary key fields kept changing, so the code in several answers will no longer work as-is. Another problem is that the underlying OWIN access to the database...

... Just be aware that the two solutions are not necessarily identical for all locales. String#equalsIgnoreCase is not using locale specific casing rules, while String#toLowerCase and #toUpperCase do. – jarnbjo Feb 8 '10 at 9:48 ...

...s but let me expand a bit: I think that cross-platform tools have historically always been also-rans because such tools have the wrong philosophical focus. All the selling points for cross-plaform tools are the benefits they bring to developers. They are sold on the idea that they allow the devel...