... syntax=<type> where <type> is something like perl, html, php, etc. There is another mechanism that can be used to control syntax highlighting called filetype, or ft for short. Similar to syntax, you give it a type like this: :set filetype=html. Other filetypes are perl, php, etc. Someti...

...s Access the network Hit a database Use the file system Spin up a thread etc. Any kind of dependency that is slow / hard to understand / initialise / manipulate should be stubbed/mocked/whatevered using the appropriate techniques so you can focus on what the unit of code is doing, not what its d...

... Good point about order of operations. That's what I had in mind, though: create a user-specified number of shared arrays, then spawn a few child processes. Is that straightforward? – Andrew Jan 19 '13 at...

...cludes ID'ing it via the md5 hash, uploading it, copying it, archiving it, etc. It does this automatically and provides you with a long running history of build artifacts. Q: How often should we make this kind of build? A: We have ours poll SVN every hour, looking for code changes, then running a ...

... One possible problem with the given answers so far is that dependency order in make is not defined. For example, running: make -j target when target has a few dependencies does not guarantee that these will run in any given order. The solution for this (to guarantee that ENV will be checked...

...ll set the privileges on all relations: tables, views, indexes, sequences, etc. If you want to restrict that, filter on pg_class.relkind. See the pg_class docs for details. You should run this function as superuser and as regular as your application requires. An option would be to package this in a...

... @ariel The 'correct' way is to get all the wheels, ordered by CarId (1 select), and if more details than the CarId are required, make a second query for all cars (2 queries total). Printing things out is now optimal, and no indexes or secondary storage were required (you can ...

...from the view as the view is from the model. ... should any validation etc be done in the Controller? If so, how do I feedback error messages back to the View - should that go through the Model again, or should the Controller just send it straight back to View? If the validation i...

...ads are blocking on entry to a method (i.e. trying to acquire a lock), the order of acquisition can be non-deterministic. Remember also that a thread can only be in one of the methods at any one time - the synchronized methods allow only one thread to be executing (i.e. holding the lock of) any (syn...

...r clean-up tasks which are not release (closing files, removing observers, etc.). – Stanislav Yaglo Jul 8 '11 at 7:31  |  show 3 more comments...