I've been using a local git repository interacting with my group's CVS repository for several months, now. I've made an almost neurotic number of branches, most of which have thankfully merged back into my trunk. But naming is starting to become an issue. If I have a task easily named with a simp...

... People often talk about performance, reads vs. writes, foreign keys, etc. but there's one other must-have feature for a storage engine in my opinion: atomic updates. Try this: Issue an UPDATE against your MyISAM table that takes 5 seconds. While the UPDATE is in p...

... foreach can (will?) result in a ConcurrentModificationException. foreach vs. for: Basic differences The only practical difference between for and foreach is that, in the case of indexable objects, you do not have access to the index. An example when the basic for loop is required: for(int i = 0;...

... they are slower than .Value2 For a more extensive discussion see my Text vs Value vs Value2 share | improve this answer | follow | ...

...Here's a recent post from 'uncle Bob' (Robert Martin) discussing manual DI vs using framework. Some more thoughts on Flavius's solution. I don't want this post to be an anti-post but I think it's important to see why dependency injection is, at least for me, better than globals. Even though it i...

...s (see the Applies To section at msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms531174(VS.85).aspx). – Simon Lieschke Apr 10 '10 at 2:08 ...

.../paste MSDN clipboard: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms535220(v=vs.85).aspx MDN DocumentFragment: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/API/DocumentFragment MDN DomStringList: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/API/DOMStringList Thanks to Tim Down to suggesting the use of a Do...

...ifference. It's similar to the common accidental mixing of the assignment vs equality operator. For this reason I've weaned myself off of the symbol versions (it wasn't easy) in favor of the word versions. I'd rather have someone do a double-take on them due to our love of old things than tempt b...

...rams (for language [6.11] or library features [7.26]) is discouraged f() vs f(void) for declarations When you write just: void f(); it is necessarily an identifier list declaration, because 6.7.5 "Declarators" says defines the grammar as: direct-declarator: [...] direct-declarator ( p...

...ma updates to the production host. I also keep a separate pair of testing vs. application databases on my development system so that I can verify there that the db upgrade works properly before touching the real production box(es). ...