... Use require when the file is required by your application, e.g. an important message template or a file containing configuration variables without which the app would break. require_once when the file contains content that would produce an error on subsequent inclusion, ...

...s a binary representation of the module and makes its API available to the application directly. Preprocessor definitions that precede the import declaration have no impact on the API provided... because the module itself was compiled as a separate, standalone module. Additionally, any linker flags ...

...actually make it harder to find tables. With experience, you can plan and apply a prefixing scheme that does more good than harm. I worked in a db once where data tables began with tbl, config tables with ctbl, views with vew, proc's sp, and udf's fn, and a few others; it was meticulously, consist...

.... Useful book in this area: Muthukrishnan - "Data Streams: Algorithms and Applications" Closely related reference to the problem at hand which I picked from the above: Manku, Motwani - "Approximate Frequency Counts over Data Streams" [pdf] By the way, Motwani, of Stanford, (edit) was an author of...

...mple of the use of this pattern. Here's the difference: POCO describes an approach to programming (good old fashioned object oriented programming), where DTO is a pattern that is used to "transfer data" using objects. While you can treat POCOs like DTOs, you run the risk of creating an anemic doma...

In HTTP there are two ways to POST data: application/x-www-form-urlencoded and multipart/form-data . I understand that most browsers are only able to upload files if multipart/form-data is used. Is there any additional guidance when to use one of the encoding types in an API context (no browser...

...r this, from a localization perspective. Imagine that I have written a web application showing airline flight information that I publish online. I look up flights on a certain date by clicking on a link for that day (perhaps something like http://www.melsflighttimes.com/Flights/2008-11-21), and then...

...ojects, usually translators (such as a subset of EDIF streamed into an EDA app). Additionally, I've had to support code based on lex/yacc grammars dating back decades. So I know my way around the tools, though I'm no expert. ...

...en means querying multiple rows There's a lot of things behind the scenes (application configuration, system config, layout config, etc.) that involve building up giant XML trees in memory and then "querying" those same trees for information. This takes both memory (storing the trees) and CPU (pars...

... I use a google application specific password with python smtplib, did the trick without having to go low security. – yoyo Jun 30 '15 at 22:48 ...