...If the exception is thrown, do not perform any recursive operations, especially destructive ones. They will operate on the old path and not the new one. Return to your old directory when you're done. This can be done in an exception-safe manner by wrapping your chdir call in a context manager, lik...

...stored procedures etc within SQL Server. For example, by executing Exec sp_help 'sys.tables' you will see that the column name is defined as sysname this is because the value of this is actually an object in itself (a table) I would worry too much about it. It's also worth noting that for those p...

I'd like to write a test script or program that asserts that all DLL files in a given directory are of a particular build type. ...

...;> s1 = s.decode('utf-8') >>> print s1 Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 1-5: ordinal not in range(128) >>> Consult the docs for your linux variant to disc...

... Sourcing a file is 'executing' it. Essentially, each line of the file is considered a command. Sourcing it is the same as typing each command in order. You source with the command :source (usually shortened to :so). So if you source myStuff.vim :so myStuff.vim an...

...ou wouldn't use either of the last two for long running processes. You normally see it when you're trying to update the UI (always on the main thread) from something that may be running on another thread. share | ...

...t rationale before, that's useful. Thanks. For the record, it is still totally ridiculous that the main character type in Oracle is "varchar2". Doesn't that strike anybody else as a terrible kludge? Seems like how I would have solved some problem in my first week of learning to program. ...

...ere 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 essentially want to know whether it would be smart to convert my ./'s to that, a...

... Due to a recent change, you can't call stderr.pipe() anymore - it takes this now: process.__defineGetter__('stderr', function() { return fs.createWriteStream(__dirname + '/error.log', {flags:'a'}) }) – damianb Feb 23 '13 ...

... I wish calling SetText were that easy but there are quite a few gotchas that you have to deal with. You have to make sure that the thread you are calling it on is running in the STA. It can sometimes fail with an access denied error ...