Some colleagues and I were comparing past languages we had programmed in and were talking about our experience with VBScript with its odd features such as 1-based index instead of 0-based indexes like almost every other language has, the reasoning being that it was a language for users (e.g....

Is there to way write a T-SQL command to just make it sleep for a period of time? I am writing a web service asynchronously and I want to be able to run some tests to see if the asynchronous pattern is really going to make it more scalable. In order to "mock" an external service that is slow, I wa...

I am looking to implement a sort feature for my address book application. 11 Answers 1...

I have a generic class that should allow any type, primitive or otherwise. The only problem with this is using default(T) . When you call default on a value type or a string, it initializes it to a reasonable value (such as empty string). When you call default(T) on an object, it returns null. Fo...

I've got a linq query that I want to order by f.bar, which is a string, but I also want to order it by f.foo, which is a boolean field, first. Like the query below. ...

I'm a beginner at rails programming, attempting to show many images on a page. Some images are to lay on top of others. To make it simple, say I want a blue square, with a red square in the upper right corner of the blue square (but not tight in the corner). I am trying to avoid compositing (with...

In Unix, we can put multiple commands in a single line like this: 1 Answer 1 ...

This is a question that came to mind while reading the brilliant answer by Mysticial to the question: why is it faster to process a sorted array than an unsorted array ? ...

I have this code: 4 Answers 4 ...

In a Bash script, I want to pick out N random lines from input file and output to another file. 4 Answers ...