...ine of the commit message is used all over the place within git; for more, read "A Note About Git Commit Messages". If you open Terminal.app, cd to your project directory, and git commit -am '', you will see that it fails because an empty commit message is not allowed. Newer versions of git have th...

I've been reading up on STL containers in my book on C++, specifically the section on the STL and its containers. Now I do understand each and every one of them have their own specific properties, and I'm close to memorizing all of them... But what I do not yet grasp is in which scenario each of the...

...FORMAT A blank line matches no files, so it can serve as a separator for readability. A line starting with # serves as a comment. An optional prefix ! which negates the pattern; any matching file excluded by a previous pattern will become included again. If a negated pattern matches, this will ove...

...This expects the encrypted private key on standard input - you can instead read it from a file using -in <file>). Example of creating a 3072-bit private and public key pair in files, with the private key pair encrypted with password foobar: openssl genrsa -aes128 -passout pass:foobar -out ...

...up your App to plugins model (the article in Kalkie's post is great). I've read a bit on the way eclipse does things, but nothing more than that. Yegge's properties blog talks a bit about how the use of the properties pattern allows for plugins and extensibility. Most of the work I've done has us...

...of the value (current cookie), and base64 encoded it. When the cookie gets read, it recalculates the signature and makes sure that it matches the signature attached to it. If it does not match, then it will give an error. If you want to hide the contents of the cookie as well, you should encrypt i...

...ort answer: NO! Long answer: If you won't modify the string (treat is as read-only), pass it as const ref&.(the const ref& obviously needs to stay within scope while the function that uses it executes) If you plan to modify it or you know it will get out of scope (threads), pass it as a va...

...) If you're having trouble remembering the order, then remember that when read aloud, you (almost) say what you mean. For example, x = 4 if b > 8 else 9 is read aloud as x will be 4 if b is greater than 8 otherwise 9. Official documentation: Conditional expressions Is there an equivalent of C...

...ss. These may be OR'd together. */ #define R_OK 4 /* Test for read permission. */ #define W_OK 2 /* Test for write permission. */ //#define X_OK 1 /* execute permission - unsupported in windows*/ #define F_OK 0 /* Test for existence. */ #define access _a...

..., we can turn back at anytime. Our coffeescript compiler is just producing readable javascript, so if anyone changes their mind or can't figure something out, then we can just drop back to using the javascript that coffeescript produced - and keep coding. ...