I am wondering when to use static methods? Say if I have a class with a few getters and setters, a method or two, and I want those methods only to be invokable on an instance object of the class. Does this mean I should use a static method? ...

I'm using Netbeans to add professional-like comments to each function, I write. So I begin each of it with /** and then I press Enter to let Netbeans fulfill default comment scheme for following function. ...

Visual Studio's MDI is currently causing me a lot of frustration. Here is my basic layout: 5 Answers ...

I've pulled all remote branches via git fetch --all . I can see the branch I'd like to merge via git branch -a as remotes/origin/branchname. Problem is it is not accessible. I can't merge or checkout. ...

Now, I did find the Google Finance API and started looking through that but I found a lot of info about portfolios, transactions, positions & other stuff I know nothing about. ...

I've created a utility R script, util.R, which I want to use from other scripts in my project. What is the proper way to ensure that the function this script defines are available to function in my other scripts? ...

I have always thought that functional programming can be done in Python. Thus, I was surprised that Python didn't get much of a mention in this question, and when it was mentioned, it normally wasn't very positive. However, not many reasons were given for this (lack of pattern matching and algebra...

Since Javascript 1.7 there is an Iterator object, which allows this: 5 Answers 5 ...

How can I revert a range of commits in git? From looking at the gitrevisions documentation, I cannot see how to specify the range I need. For example: ...

I tried cloning my repository which I keep on my Ubuntu one folder to a new machine and I got this: 14 Answers ...