.... The dev who wrote THAT line of code, we think, is gone. We asked The Gu, and he wasn't sure. Stefan Schackow, from the team, said, after speaking with Manu Vasandani: "The ASP.NET developers were being chased by a pack of feral ninjas on fire and thus were under intense pressure to com...

I've implemented two REST services: Twitter and Netflix. Both times, I struggled to find the use and logic involved in the decision to expose these services as REST instead of SOAP. I hope somebody can clue me in to what I'm missing and explain why REST was used as the service implementation for ser...

...load on changes?" First off, in-process code reloading in Ruby is hard and having a solution that works for every scenario is technically impossible. Which is why we recommend you to do out-of-process reloading. First you need to install rerun if you haven’t already: $ gem instal...

...encoded to the + sign, some other times to %20 . What is the difference and why should this happen? 5 Answers ...

...cript from here: http://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer Extract the archive and copy the script's folder to a convenient place in your project. Include the main script file -- require_once('path/to/file/class.phpmailer.php'); Now, sending emails with attachments goes from being insanely difficult t...

... was that I changed things with a 3rd party library (jQuery to be precise) and in this case even though calling functions and setting variable works Angular doesn't always recognize that there are changes thus it never digests. $apply() is used to execute an expression in angular from outside of...

...s to select an element if it has the given class (or is of the given type) and is the first of its type among its siblings. Unfortunately, CSS doesn't provide a :first-of-class selector that only chooses the first occurrence of a class. As a workaround, you can use something like this: .myclass1 {...

...l static_cast<>(), reinterpret_cast<>(), const_cast<>(), and dynamic_cast<>(). These four things are completely different. A static_cast<>() is usually safe. There is a valid conversion in the language, or an appropriate constructor that makes it possible. The only tim...

...is std::enable_shared_from_this just for this purpose. You inherit from it and you can call .shared_from_this() from inside the class. Also, you are creating circular dependencies here that can lead to resource leaks. That can be resolved with the use of std::weak_ptr. So your code might look like t...

...lt The lowercase p switch is used with scp for the preservation of times and modes. Here is an excerpt from scp's man page with all of the details concerning the two switches, as well as an explanation of why uppercase P was chosen for scp: -P port   Specifies the port to connect to on the r...