I'd like to run an external process and capture it's command output to a variable in PowerShell. I'm currently using this: ...

... Short Version Merge takes all the changes in one branch and merges them into another branch in one commit. Rebase says I want the point at which I branched to move to a new starting point So when do you use either one? Merge Let's say you have created a branch for the purpose of...

...hat just offers a simple symbol lookup service? i.e., input a company name and it will tell you the ticker symbol? I've tried just screen-scraping Google Finance, but after a little while it rate limits you and you have to enter a CAPTCHA. I'm trying to batch-lookup about 2000 ticker symbols. Any id...

...m java to c. In this case jni will win in performance because you can keep and modify this buffer in c, without copying. These are the problems I've encountered. Maybe there's more. But in general performance is not that different between jna and jni, so wherever you can use JNA, use it. EDIT Th...

... I have seen this issue when creating scripts in Windows env and then porting over to run on a Unix environment. Try running dos2unix on the script: http://dos2unix.sourceforge.net/ Or just rewrite the script in your Unix env using vi and test. Unix uses different line endings so ...

...efore anyways, so with XML, you would just need to change the XML mappings and it is fairly quick and painless to do so. I haven't used JPA annotations, so I don't know how good they are, but I would argue that leaving the mapping of beans to the database in XML is also good, as the object shouldn'...

... If the user selects a file via <input type="file">, you can read and process that file using the File API. Reading or writing arbitrary files is not allowed by design. It's a violation of the sandbox. From Wikipedia -> Javascript -> Security: JavaScript and the DOM provide the ...

...n a small list of relatively simple programming problems used to weed out candidates, just like FizzBuzz. Here are some of the problems I've seen, in order of increasing difficulty: Reverse a string Reverse a sentence ("bob likes dogs" -> "dogs likes bob") Find the minimum value in a list Find ...

I had a plugin installed in Visual Studio 2008, and it created some extra dockable windows. I have uninstalled it, and I can't get rid of the windows it created - I close them, but they always come back. They're just empty windows now, since the plugin is no longer present, but nothing I've tried ...

I'm making a new web app using Rails, and was wondering, what's the difference between string and text ? And when should each be used? ...