...ite important. Workflows: Larry Osterman (a Microsoft dev working on the Windows team) has a great blog post about the workflow they employ at the Windows team. Most notably they have: A clean, high quality code only trunk (master repo) All development happens on feature branches Feature teams h...

...rashes on you (the compile/deploy interface) If you do not have a working internet connection it will not start as it can not log you in to their servers. API CSS, HTML and jQuery is a breeze compared to this. Titanium resembles any other old GUI API, and you need to set some properties for ever...

I once had the task of determining the following performance parameters from inside a running application: 9 Answers ...

...ata, but only one is capable of reclaiming it. Disk I/O dumping: A clear win for redis since it does this by default and has very configurable persistence. Memcached has no mechanisms for dumping to disk without 3rd party tools. Scaling: Both give you tons of headroom before you need more than a s...

...o be updated. With large amounts of data this can be a sizable performance win. This is also very popular in industries that have very strict auditing rules; Perforce admins can easily track and log which developers have synced which files. For more information on the full power of Perforce workspa...

...query optimiser will choose a table scan only when one or more of the following holds. There are fewer than 200 rows in the relation (in this case a scan will be cheaper) There are no suitable indexes on the join columns (if it's meaningful to join on these columns then why aren't they indexed? fi...

... number of years now I have been unable to get a decent answer to the following question: why are some developers so against checked exceptions? I have had numerous conversations, read things on blogs, read what Bruce Eckel had to say (the first person I saw speak out against them). ...

...draft Effective Modern C++ and Herb Sutter's revamped GotW. I use the following style recommendations: Herb Sutter's "Almost Always Auto" and Scott Meyers's "Prefer auto to specific type declarations" recommendation, for which the brevity is unsurpassed, although its clarity is sometimes disputed....

...est decentralized method for expressing an identity that is built into the internet infrastructure is the domain name. As a second level of expressing identity, each domain manages its own set of accounts. The form “account@domain” is concise and supported by a wide range of protocols and URI sc...

...y the same, not the same by value. For example, CSE won't fire in the following code without a bunch of inlining: x = (1 + (2 + 3)) + ((1 + 2) + 3) y = f x z = g (f x) y However, if you compile via llvm, you may get some of this combined, due to its Global Value Numbering pass. Liberate case Thi...