...I'm a bit unsure of just picking an implementation that turns up in google and am thinking that I may be better off using sha256 in the System.Security.Cryptography namespace, at least then I know it's supported! What are you thoughts? ...

... git pull is really just a shorthand for git pull <remote> <branchname>, in most cases it's equivalent to git pull origin master. You will need to add another remote and pull explicitly from it. This page describes it in detail: http://help.gith...

... git's diff is more functional than the standard unix diff. I often want to do this and since this question ranks highly on google, I want this answer to show up. This question: How to use git diff --color-words outside a Git repository? Shows how to use git to di...

I have some PNG images which consist of a black shape and a transparent background. Unfortunately, IrfanView shows transparent background as black color, so I see just black on black. I've found in Irfan settings that I can change the window's background color, but it changes only around the image, ...

I would like to dynamically add properties to a ExpandoObject at runtime. So for example to add a string property call NewProp I would like to write something like ...

In C / Objective-C it is possible to find the minimum and maximum value between two numbers using MIN and MAX macros. Swift doesn't support macros and it seems that there are no equivalents in the language / base library. Should one go with a custom solution, maybe based on generics like this one ?...

...nk the idea is that you will notice the lines that extend into the margin (and the black boxes it inserts after such lines), and will have a chance to revise the contents, whereas if there was too much space, you might not notice it. Use \sloppy or \begin{sloppypar}...\end{sloppypar} to adjust this...

I'm terrible at naming and realize that there are a better set of names for my models in my Rails app. Is there any way to use a migration to rename a model and its corresponding table? ...

...fy a value for any of the half-dozen properties that background is a shorthand for, then it is set to its default value. none and transparent are the defaults. One explicitly sets the background-image to none and implicitly sets the background-color to transparent. The other is the other way around...

...sible performance issue to you. This should be fixable by running this command from the command line: cd path/to/your/git/repo git gc --aggressive From the output of git help gc: Runs a number of housekeeping tasks within the current repository, such as compressing file revisions (to reduce disk s...