At work it seems like no week ever passes without some encoding-related conniption, calamity, or catastrophe. The problem usually derives from programmers who think they can reliably process a “text” file without specifying the encoding. But you can't. ...

The below code works on Visual Studio 2008 with and without optimization. But it only works on g++ without optimization (O0). ...

I would like to enable -- literally -- ALL of the warnings that GCC has. (You'd think it would be easy...) 7 Answers ...

I've read conflicting information regarding Internet Explorer's silly CSS limits. I am (think I am) understanding that you can only have 31 <style> and <link> tags (combined), and that each sheet can have up to 31 @import -s (so 31 <link> -s, each to 31 @import -s is fine, a...

This question arose from comments about different kinds of progress in computing over the last 50 years or so. 129 Answer...

I have to do some operation whenever UICollectionView has been loaded completely, i.e. at that time all the UICollectionView's datasource / layout methods should be called. How do I know that?? Is there any delegate method to know UICollectionView loaded status? ...

I've seen references to being able to specify two separate layout xml files for an activity, one for Portrait and one for Landscape. I've not been to find any information on how to do that though. How do I specify for each activity which xml file is it's portrait layout and which is the Landscape ...

I was wondering if anyone could tell me what Xcode is actually doing when it says: "Processing Symbol Files" after plugging in your device? ...

I'm using GROUP_CONCAT() in a MySQL query to convert multiple rows into a single string. However, the maximum length of the result of this function is 1024 characters. ...

As the title says, how can I find the current operating system in python? 5 Answers 5 ...