As you may know they are planning to include new Symbol primitive type in ECMAScript 6 (not to mention some other crazy stuff). I always thought that the :symbol notion in Ruby is needless; we could easily use plain strings instead, like we do in JavaScript. And now they decide to complicate thi...

I have a feeling that there must be client-server synchronization patterns out there. But i totally failed to google up one. ...

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With Observers officially removed from Rails 4.0 , I'm curious what other developers are using in their place. (Other than using the extracted gem.) While Observers were certainly abused and could easily become unwieldily at times, there were many use-cases outside of just cache-clearing where they...

I am in the design phase of writing a new Windows Service application that accepts TCP/IP connections for long running connections (i.e. this is not like HTTP where there are many short connections, but rather a client connects and stays connected for hours or days or even weeks). ...

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Software Engineering as it is taught today is entirely focused on object-oriented programming and the 'natural' object-oriented view of the world. There is a detailed methodology that describes how to transform a domain model into a class model with several steps and a lot of (UML) artifacts like us...

I have view with a UITapGestureRecognizer . So when I tap on the view another view appears above this view. This new view has three buttons. When I now press on one of these buttons I don't get the buttons action, I only get the tap gesture action. So I'm not able to use these buttons anymore. What...

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I am introducing myself to Git by following this tutorial: 27 Answers 27 ...