There has been a tug-of-war in the hot-questions list. Community members like JonW seem to be unhappy with the traffic that it brings to their site: 'But we want to encourage people to post, that's the whole point of the HQ list!' I hear you cry. I disagree. We want to encourage people to th...

We only have so many canned, built in, close reasons. There are so many other reasons to close something at times - giving a better message than trying to shoehorn the reason to close something into too broad or primarily opinion. Custom close messages have the significant advantage when it com...

I remember reading a Hebrew version of the Bible with English translation *right to left) many years ago and I am sure the English directly translated to 'some evil' rather than 'all evil'. Can anyone confirm this?

I am working with a home grown server application written in Java. We don't use an application server platform or a framework that would offer access to some high level bootstrapped application context and objects of global importance within it (such as configuration). The way it is designed i...

You and most of the answerers approach this as a communication issue between two colleagues, but I don't really think it is. What you describe sounds more like a horribly broken code review process than anything else. First, you mention that your colleague is second in command and it's expected...

This is the classic purpose of using a hosts file. It's a very simple to edit file wherein you can put manual overrides for domain names to force them to resolve to some given IP. Here's a simple tutorial on how to edit your windows hosts file: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/27350/beginner-geek-...

I am doing a site for an Interior Designer which happens to be my wife, I am neither a web designer nor a programmer, It is simply a hobby for me. The site is almost complete except for this scenario, She has few e-packages that she want to sell, depending on which package clients purchase they w...

I read that having no bugs at all is almost impossible. Well, I started working at a company 3 months ago as a developer, writing scripts in a new language that I wasn't familiar with. The framework that I need to improve, fix bugs and add feature to is really messy: too much of a redundant code...

I really like the first approach in general. it's simple to understand and implement it's secure (to my knowledge) it's a not uncommon approach which I've seen used in the past One thing I don't see mentioned about the first that you should keep in mind, the timestamp used to hash the token n...

I have an enum like this: public enum MyEnum { Character = 'C', Number = 'N', } Then I'm doing something like this: char myChar = 'C'; var value = Enum.GetName(typeof(MyEnum), myChar); //throw exception on .NET 3.5 or less This code is OK in projects with .NET 4 but throws exception...

any bug information directly associated to a piece of code, become irrelevant when the integrity of the whole change is modified by a successive fix. It used to be common to add info in the function summary, when we had to rely on external tools (say javadocs) to create release notes from the cod...