... @SergeyVlasov Actually, the equivalent of /dev/null in Windows is nul, not null. – Francisco Zarabozo Dec 11 '17 at 7:37 3 ...

...ur two dependencies for your EJB project and your WAR project. So you actually have three maven projects here. One EJB. One WAR. One EAR that pulls the two parts together and creates the ear. Deployment descriptors can be generated by maven, or placed inside the resources directory in the EAR pr...

... Usually what you choose will depend on which methods you need access to. In general - IEnumerable<> (MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.collections.ienumerable.aspx) for a list of objects that only needs ...

... to make here: Firstly, there is little or NO performance penalty in actually having try-catch blocks in your code. This should not be a consideration when trying to avoid having them in your application. The performance hit only comes into play when an exception is thrown. When an exception is th...

...like you might be running into string-handling problems in PHP, which is really an algorithm problem, not a language one. Basically, when working with large strings, you want to minimize unnecessary copying. Primarily, this means you want to avoid concatenation. The fastest and most memory efficient...

...d Was this meant to be a function that returned a value, or not? It's really hard to say what the developer meant, as it both assigns the instance variable, AND returns the value assigned as well. Suppose much later, another programmer (perhaps not that familiar with how Ruby does returns based ...

... tend to almost never use 2 since if something is not the right type, I usually expect an exception to occur. I have only seen a need for this return-null type of functionality with badly designed libraries which use error codes (e.g. return null = error, instead of using exceptions). 3 is not a ca...

...uldn't we mistakenly think that the key isn't present in the dictionary at all? – jbx72487 Feb 1 '13 at 18:51 13 ...

...the baton among each other more fluidly). Threads are (at least conceptually) a form of concurrent processing: multiple threads may be executing at any given time. (Traditionally, on single-CPU, single-core machines, that concurrency was simulated with some help from the OS -- nowadays, since so...

... Isn't it that loadNibNamed calls init(coder:)? I have a crash trying to adapt your approach. – Fishman Nov 14 '16 at 9:15 ...