Each language I've used has had its pros and cons, but some features have really shone through as being indispensible, shining examples of how to design a programming language to make programmers happy. I use PHP a lot at work, and the one thing I really miss when moving to other languages is PHP's foreach: foreach($items as $item) //i...
Is it possible to develop a plug-in for Internet Explorer that can replace the existing favorites functionality? ...
Possible Duplicate: What is your single favorite development tool? Though this question asked for your favorite tool, I wonder which one would be the most painful to have to give up in your daily work? ...
What is the best LINQ tutorial that you know of? I am starting to play with it, but I haven't found a really good source yet. Any ideas? ...
We've just had YAFLQ and it got me thinking. What's the more popular approach? Dedicating your life to "The One and Only True Language"? Or just realising that they're all just different tools in your toolbox, and having a range of languages to select from, allows you to pick the best tool for the job at hand? I guess this can be ext...
There are lots of features in .NET. Some language related, others will be related to the framework itself and having the ability to access/do/perform xyz. So for fun, I was wondering what the community's favorite features in .NET or ASP.NET include? This is a community wiki question as its mainly for polling purposes to see what kind of...
After the series of Hidden feature posts, now is the time for listing down your favorite features. This thread will be used for listing Java specific features. This is a community wiki. Please be specific. Update : For .Net, please post your answers here: What’s your favorite feature in .NET? ...
Whats your favorite power tool that helped you the most? OS doesn't matter. Please note this is a community wiki. I would like this list to help all of us in finding more powerful tools. If possible, list down one tool (or multiple tools for multiple os) per answer. This will make voting for tools easier ...
There are some gadgets/features for programming languages that I like a lot because they save a lot of coding or simply because they are magical or nice. Some of my favorites are: C++ increment/decrement operator: my_array[++c]; C++ assign and sum or substract (...): a += b C# yield return: yield return 1; C# foreach: foreach (MyClass...
Happy Christmas/[enter your festivity here] everyone! perl -e '$a="How does stAckoverflow PeoPle implement \"happY Holiday\" prOgrams in Language of theIr choice toDAY, chriStmas eve?"; $a=~ tr/[A-Z]//cd; print $a;' ...
Similar questions have been asked for .NET and Java, but not for Ruby. So, what’s your favorite feature in Ruby? You might also be interested in hidden features of Ruby. Please be specific and post one feature per answer. An explanation or a code sample would be nice. ...
What is your favourite programmer's context-menu addition for your Windows machine? ...
I have used a lot of free .NET libraries, some from Microsoft itself! Which ones have you found the most useful? Package managers for external libraries NuGet (formerly known as NuPack) - Microsoft (developer-focused package management system for the .NET platform intent on simplifying the process of incorporating third party librarie...
The "Recent Projects" section on the startup page in VS2008 feels pretty useless to me. I'm used to checking out multiple repositories to work on different features. Our repository structure is pretty deep. The File->"Recent Projects" menu does not show enough of the path for me to figure out which project it is going to open. The clos...
Using C#, I need to get all Firefox bookmarks for importing them into our database. How can I do this? I'm aware of the SO question, Read FF 3 bookmarks in Java, but the answers there all seem to revolve around Java database drivers, and I'm not sure that some of those answers aren't Java-specific. My primary question is, "How can I re...
I have some C# code that tries to get the Favorites for the currently logged in user. The code is part of a Taskbar Toolbar that gets loaded into the Windows Explorer process. I have a user who is using Windows Vista with UAC enabled on a domain that either has Roaming Profiles or Folder Redirection setup and enabled. When calling Dir...
we all create/discover new and useful commands every day (I do...) but I forget them the day after, above all those complicated command pipes.. I use history | grep but that's not enough. I'd like a program to save and categorize my favorite commands, that lets you search them and execute them easily. If you know any, that'd be cool if...
Hi everyone. I am not familiar with js and jQuery, but need to create function to add/remove blog post to "My favorites" page and update counter of saved posts. Is any ready solution - plugin or snippet - to it? There is my html snippet. <h1><a href="http://www.example.com/add-post-to-my-favorites-page.htm" id="post_0064"><span class...
According to this post, i ask $title. Which are your favorite PHP coding related Eclipse plugins? Without you can't live? Why? I list my own plugins of choice: Eclipse PDT Mylyn Subclipse Which are yours? ...
I tried some "add to favorties" JavaScript scripts.. With IE8, I get an "access denied" (is that even possible to add a bookmark via JS with IE8?) and it just doesn't work with IE6... Anybody has a good script that works on most browsers? Thanks! ...