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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...

... Mass assignment is when you send an array to the model creation, basically setting a bunch of fields on the model in a single go, rather than one by one, something like: $user = new User(request()->all()); (This is instead of explicitly setting each value on the model separately.) You ...

...ct of a solution using msbuild like we do with devenv.com.In devenv.com we can specify a project of a solution using following commandline ...

...ions (a simple disk access) and I see this model as a kind of non volatile cache (i.e. well suited if you need fast accesses by key to long-lived data). A document-oriented database extends the previous model and values are stored in a structured format (a document, hence the name) that the databas...

...st is helpful when you don't have a direct access to the activity. In both cases, if not on UI thread, Handler#post(Runnable) will be called behind the scenes. As CommonsWare mentioned in the comment, there is a difference between the two - when called on Ui thread, Activity#runOnUiThread will call ...

...at you are explicit about what you mean, so that an otherwise silent error can be diagnosed: struct Base { virtual int foo() const; }; struct Derived : Base { virtual int foo() // whoops! { // ... } }; The above code compiles, but is not what you may have meant (note the...

...sed by clients, it might be difficult to correlate requests (that a client can see) with server logs (that the server can see). The idea of the X-Request-ID is that a client can create some random ID and pass it to the server. The server then include that ID in every log statement that it creates. ...

...urce. So: POST /api/purchase will place a new order. The details (user, car, etc.) should be referenced by id (or URI) inside the contents sent to this address. It doesn't matter that ordering a car is not just a simple INSERT in the database. Actually, REST is not about exposing your database t...

...answered Aug 11 '12 at 0:31 Kai CarverKai Carver 1,8842424 silver badges2323 bronze badges ...