I use log4net all the time, but one thing I've never figured out is how to tell what's going on on the inside. For example, I've got a console appender and a database appender in my project. I made a few changes to the database and the code, and now the database appender doesn't work anymore. I'll f...

...ted) setTimeout is not very accurate but for most appliances not dramatically inaccurate. Now if I run the test in in Chrome and let it run in a background tab (so, switching to another tab and browse on there), returning to the test and inspecting te results (if the test finished) they are dramat...

...portant in REST, and unless you're very careful about this, you'll end up falling into a REST anti-pattern. Some frameworks that get it right are web.py, Flask and Bottle. When combined with the mimerender library (full disclosure: I wrote it), they allow you to write nice RESTful webservices: imp...

... Generators have no length, they aren't collections after all. Generators are functions with a internal state (and fancy syntax). You can repeatedly call them to get a sequence of values, so you can use them in loop. But they don't contain any elements, so asking for the length of ...

I know that we can use os.walk() to list all sub-directories or all files in a directory. However, I would like to list the full directory tree content: ...

... global type (much like using var self = this in Javascript). It doesn't really matter unless you need to access the type object inside your function, in which case you can use type_ as the argument instead. – Ryan P Jan 2 '13 at 17:08 ...

...in C# .Net 2.0. What are the classes that should be used? What are the pitfalls to look out for etc. All that commit and rollback stuff. I'm just starting a project where I might need to do some transactions while inserting data into the DB. Any responses or links for even basic stuff about transact...

... You can use * for all parameters or a semi-colon separated list (VaryByParam = "customerId;languageId"). You can also use none if you didn't want it to cache different versions.... Here's a nice write up specifically for MVC. ...

... I've made, that haven't yet been pushed to the remote repository? Occasionally, git status will print out that my branch is X commits ahead of origin/master , but not always. ...

...iles, output_stream): input_streams = [] try: # First open all the files, then produce the output file, and # finally close the input files. This is necessary because # the data isn't read from the input files until the write # operation. Thanks to # h...