...y the code is much more extensible and, the most important part for me, testable. Why is it more important to be testable? Because I don't always write library code, so extensibility is not that important, but testability is important when I do refactoring. Anyways, testable code usually yields exte...

...ular, in a service-oriented architecture the parts generally don't share mutable state (global variables in a traditional program). Or if they do share state, that state is carefully locked up in a database which is itself an agent and which can easily manage multiple concurrent clients. ...

... Last comparison is confusing as per table! Methods in interface can't be static but variables are static final Implemented methods in abstract class can be static – realPK Mar 9 '14 at 4:29 ...

...ions to minimize contention. Especially SQLite 3. For most desktop/laptop/tablet/phone applications, SQLite is fast enough as there's not enough concurrency. (Firefox uses SQLite extensively for bookmarks, history, etc.) For server applications, somebody some time ago said that anything less than ...

...lication but this is one of the unique features that Node.js brings to the table. So, again if you run your node application, it will run in just a single thread. No matter if you have 1 or million users accessing your application at the same time. So let's understand exactly what happens in the si...

...I character set including special characters? Notice: A std::string is suitable for holding a 'binary' buffer, where a std::wstring is not! On Linux? Yes. On Windows? Only special characters available for the current locale of the Windows user. Edit (After a comment from Johann Gerell): a std::st...

..., W. Richard Stevens) In most C-derived languages, TCP connections are established and manipulated using methods on an instance of a Socket class. Although it is common to operate on a higher level of abstraction, typically an instance of a NetworkStream class, this generally exposes a reference t...

...er(). It's a bit clunky, but due to a PHP quirk (it keeps an internal hashtable of all loaded functions), it allows Drupal to quickly check for listeners just by iterating over a list of installed plugins. For each plugin it can call function_exists() on the appropriately named pattern, and call th...

...rtion of an URL. If you use Wikipedia, you will see that most pages have a table of contents and you can jump to sections within the document with an anchor, such as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing#Early_computers_and_the_Turing_test https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing identifies ...

...ry similar. Your rewrite contains a lot of details (pass by reference, big table etc.), but that detail distracts from the smooth introduction to the core topic of the workings of the comparison function, IMHO. I explicitly refer to the manual several times on purpose, because that's where such deta...