When programming in Node.js and referencing files that are located somewhere in relation to your current directory, is there any reason to use the __dirname variable instead of just a regular ./ ? I've been using ./ thus far in my code and just discovered the existence of __dirname , and essenti...

Gradle is a bit confusing to me, and also for any new Android developer. Can anyone explain what Gradle in Android Studio is and what its purpose is? Why is it included in Android Studio? ...

I have to find the average of a list in Python. This is my code so far 23 Answers 23 ...

Do you need to explicitly create an index, or is it implicit when defining the primary key? Is the answer the same for MyISAM and InnoDB? ...

For apparently no reason, every time I open my solution, Visual Studio checks the sln file out. 8 Answers ...

Is there a way to extract the source code from an executable .jar file (Java ME)? 10 Answers ...

I am running gdb and want to examine one of those unfortunate god objects. It takes many pages (and I have a 24" monitor turned sideways!) to see the whole thing. For ease of use, I'd like gdb to print the object to a file instead of the screen so that I can open it in vi and move around with ease...

Simple example: I want to have some items on a page (like divs or table rows), and I want to let the user click on them to select them. That seems easy enough in jQuery. To save which items a user clicks on with no server-side post backs, I was thinking a cookie would be a simple way to get this don...

I've always laughed to myself when I've looked back at my VB6 days and thought, "What modern language doesn't allow incrementing with double plus signs?": ...

In Google Chrome there is an easy way to see what's in local storage as well as modify or delete it after inspecting it. 7 ...