... In short: You should be able to achieve in the order of millions of simultaneous active TCP connections and by extension HTTP request(s). This tells you the maximum performance you can expect with the right platform with the right configuration. Today, I was worried wheth...

...s with larger aspect ratio. Most likely, you would instead design it to stretch over the 1.333 to 1.778 range. But sometimes part of your design looks too distorted then. Advanced layout ideas: For text, you can design for 1.3333, then increase line spacing for 1.666 - though that will loo...

...e binary files that can contain executable code and resources like images, etc. Unlike applications, these cannot be directly executed, but an application will load them as and when they are required (or all at once during startup). Are they important? Most applications will load the DLL files the...

...lass and the method seeing changes the other one makes to the variable. In order to maintain the illusion that there is only one variable rather than two copies, it has to be final. share | improve ...

...complete. Most modern programming languages (e.g. Java, JavaScript, Perl, etc.) are all Turing complete because they each implement all the features required to run programs like addition, multiplication, if-else condition, return statements, ways to store/retrieve/erase data and so on. Update: Yo...

...ile specified by user is not readable, or no network connection available, etc., In all these cases, our program doesn't need to exit, instead it can take actions like alerting the user, or go into a fallback mechanism(like offline working when network not available), etc. Unchecked Exceptions: The...

...l just make your code slow and you have the fun of Arrays, nulls, Objects, etc. What most developers do is tack on an object as the last argument to their methods. This object can hold anything. function foo(a, b, opts) { // ... if (opts['test']) { } //if test param exists, do something.. }...

... I've found that the order of the options matters too. On a project using sqlite3, I have to put -ldl (and -lpthread) after -lsqlite3. Don't know what that is, I'm sure the answer is there if I would just RTFM. – user2918461...

...product in development was to be iPhone/iPad only (who cares about Android etc) and in MonoTouch. We have now reconsidered, and we will now be Obj-C as required, but we will also be sure to have Android and WinPhone support available day 1 too. A business cannot afford the uncertainty of behaviour,...

...equest. Rack allows you to add multiple middlewares that are called in the order they are added. It's just a great way to add functionality without changing the core of the rack application. Rack - The Gem Although rack - first of all - is a convention it also is a gem that provides great function...