...instantiated once and re-used throughout the life of an application. Especially in server applications, creating a new HttpClient instance for every request will exhaust the number of sockets available under heavy loads..." From here: asp.net/web-api/overview/advanced/… – Ser...

... The generated class ItemRequest will always be a partial class. This allows you to write a second partial class which is marked with the necessary data annotations. In your case the partial class ItemRequest would look like this: using System.ComponentModel; using System.ComponentModel.DataAn...

...imple syntax: array[start:stop:step] You can omit any parameter. These are all valid: array[start:], array[:stop], array[::step] Slicing a generator import itertools top5 = itertools.islice(my_list, 5) # grab the first five elements You can't slice a generator directly in Python. itertools.i...

... Here's my code if anyone is interested Basically at compile time the compiler will recursively unroll all arguments in various inclusive function calls <N> -> calls <N-1> -> calls ... -> calls <0> which is the last one and the compiler will o...

...e the screen in the first line - until Esc is pressed (6.), at which point all lines will be updated. Press Esc. An uppercase I must be used rather than a lowercase i, because the lowercase i is interpreted as the start of a text object, which is rather useful on its own, e.g. for selecting insi...

... OK, first of all, you don't have to get a reference to the module into a different name; you already have a reference (from the import) and you can just use it. If you want a different name just use import swineflu as f. Second, you are...

...tion that will take a function and return another function. So it should really return a normal decorator. A bit confusing, right? What I mean is: def decorator_factory(argument): def decorator(function): def wrapper(*args, **kwargs): funny_stuff() something_with...

... For example, you might have a playbook something like this: - hosts: all vars_files: - secret tasks: - name: Do something as sudo service: name=nginx state=restarted sudo: yes Here we are including a file called secret which will contain our sudo password. We will...

Mock has a helpful assert_called_with() method . However, as far as I understand this only checks the last call to a method. If I have code that calls the mocked method 3 times successively, each time with different parameters, how can I assert these 3 calls with their specific parameters? ...

... as a bug with certain hardware see here but can be overcome by using the call to mCamera.setDisplayOrientation(degrees) available in API 8. So this is how I implement it: public void surfaceChanged(SurfaceHolder holder, int format, int width, int height) { if (isPreviewRunning) { ...