I'm personally an advocate of the ternary operator: () ? : ; I do realize that it has its place, but I have come across many programmers that are completely against ever using it, and some that use it too often. ...

Occassionaly, but fairly often, for no apparent reason, VS 2012 will lock up with a dialogue that says, "Waiting for a background operation to finish". E.g. this may happen during a plain old code edit, not on explicitly invoking any IDE command. ...

One of the commands I find incredibly useful in Git is git add -u to throw everything but untracked files into the index. Is there an inverse of that? In the last few months, I've often found myself in a position where I've interactively added some updates to the index and I want to add all of the...

So for viewing a current object's state at runtime, I really like what the Visual Studio Immediate window gives me. Just doing a simple ...

I'd like to have loglevel TRACE (5) for my application, as I don't think that debug() is sufficient. Additionally log(5, msg) isn't what I want. How can I add a custom loglevel to a Python logger? ...

I would like to have a text input field containing the "$" sign in the very beginning, and no matter what editing occurs to the field, for the sign to be persistent. ...

I am doing something very simple wrong. I'm trying to prepare an ordinary patch file, so I can reapply some changes: 5 Ans...

I have a requirement to implement an "Unsaved Changes" prompt in an ASP .Net application. If a user modifies controls on a web form, and attempts to navigate away before saving, a prompt should appear warning them that they have unsaved changes, and give them the option to cancel and stay on the cu...

Maybe I am not from this planet, but it would seem to me that the following should be a syntax error: 20 Answers ...

Is there a way in which I can see all the git repositories that exist on my machine? Any command for that? 10 Answers ...