...many files and directories, EnumerateFiles can be more efficient. So basically, EnumerateFiles returns an IEnumerable which can be lazily evaluated somewhat, whereas GetFiles returns a string[] which has to be fully populated before it can return. ...

...t collection that has thread safe reads but non-thread safe writes (almost all of classes under the System.Collections namespace is like that). Here is how I would do it using ReaderWriterLockSlim to protect access. You need to do a kind of "Double Checked Locking" to see if anyone else created the...

... can be used to detect if a variable has been already initialized. Additionally and more ideal is the solution of empty() since it does not generate a warning or error message if the variable is not initialized. From PHP documentation: No warning is generated if the variable does not exist. T...

...e to machine code with the use of an assembler or a compiler, though we usually think of compilers in association with high-level programming language that are abstracted further from the CPU instructions. Building a complete program involves writing source code for the program in either assembly or...

...of work ("Your branch is ahead of 'origin/master' by 37 commits.") which really should have gone into its own branch rather than into master . These commits only exist on my local machine and have not been pushed to origin , but the situation is complicated somewhat in that other devs have been p...

... I prefer git reflog over git log -g simply because you get all the information on one line with sha1, HEAD info and commit messages all lined up. Much easier to read. – Snowcrash Nov 11 '14 at 18:41 ...

...d space to camera space, projection from camera to screen. If you compose all three, you can use the one result to map all the way from object space to screen space, making you able to work out what you need to pass on to the next stage of a programmable pipeline from the incoming vertex positions....

I was trying to get a list of all python and html files in a directory with the command find Documents -name "*.{py,html}" . ...

...ushed over 150 of his local branches to our central repo. Thankfully, they all have the same prefix. Using that prefix, is there a git command or cool little shell script I can use that will delete all of those at once? ...

... Here is an example of all the options I have found as of Xcode 5.0.2 That was generated with this code: /** First line text. Putting \\n doesn't create a new line.\n One way to create a newline is by making sure nothing is on that line. Not ...