... @Isantipov: No, it just means that these web frameworks don't rely on the absence of a posted value for a checkbox to indicate false. Look at RyanJMcGowan's answer below: "Sending a hidden input makes it possible to know that the checkbox was present on the page wh...

... Sometimes an example is easier than theoretical jargon. In an MS web site (Scroll to the bottom: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.controls.contentpresenter(v=vs.110).aspx), it uses a button as an example. A Button has a ContentControl, which allows you to place one co...

...to create a Python-based charset detector that's file-oriented (instead of web-oriented) and works well with 8-bit character sets including legacy ** n ones like cp850 and cp437. It's nowhere near prime time yet. I'm interested in training files; are your ISO-8859-1 / cp1252 / MacRoman files as equa...

... the driver settings, sometimes also on the device itself (front panel, or web interface). Older models, for example HP's, define in their PPDs their margines quite generously, just to be on the supposedly "safe side". Very often HP used 1/3, 1/2 inch or more (like "24 24 588 768" for Letter format...

... Imperative programming style was practiced in web development from 2005 all the way to 2013. With imperative programming, we wrote out code that listed exactly what our application should do, step by step. The functional programming style produces abstraction through c...

...years we will have an option to choose how large we want favicons to be on webbrowser tabs. Choose from: 16x16 32x32 64x64 128x128 Being the original poster, its invigorating to see 9 years later folks still care, about the little things that make life more beautiful, more enjoyable, snappier or j...

... NODE_ENV is an environment variable made popular by the express web server framework. When a node application is run, it can check the value of the environment variable and do different things based on the value. NODE_ENV specifically is used (by convention) to state whether a particular ...

...a protocol with which a 3-party app can access your data stored in another website without your account and password. For a more official definition, refer to the Wiki or specification. Here is a use case demo: I login to LinkedIn and want to connect some friends who are in my Gmail contacts. Li...

...nspired by this code. Another good point is to include the version of your web application somewhere close to the stacktrace (for quick and safe copy and pasting). You may also show errors more aggressively (alert...) in development mode as developers will not constantly monitor the browser console ...

...amiliar with the JSON that facebook sends back, but most JSON strings from web apps will start with a open square [ or curly { bracket. No images formats I know of start with those characters. Conversely if you know what image formats might show up, you can check the start of the string for their ...