As much as I generally don't like the discussion/subjective posts on SO, I have really come to appreciate the "Hidden Secrets" set of posts that people have put together. They provide a great overview of some commonly missed tools that you might now otherwise discover. For this question I would like to explore the Visual Studio .NET de...
I know there is a standard behind all C compiler implementations, so there should be no hidden features. Despite that, I am sure all C developers have hidden/secret tricks they use all the time. ...
With a huge influx of newbies to Xcode I'm sure there are lots of Xcode tips and tricks to be shared. What are yours? ...
This is both for the local version and msdn.microsoft.com. Generally I find the MSDN documentation to be very good, but only if you can find what you're looking for. So if anybody has any general tips and tricks, I'd love to hear them. ...
What are some really useful but esoteric language features in Perl that you've actually been able to employ to do useful work? Guidelines: Try to limit answers to the Perl core and not CPAN Please give an example and a short description Hidden Features also found in other languages' Hidden Features: (These are all from Corion's a...
This is the unabashed attempt of a similar C# question. So what are your favorite F# hidden (or not) features? Most of the features I've used so far aren't exactly hidden but have been quite refreshing. Like how trivial it is to overload operators compared to say C# or VB.NET. And Async<T> has helped me shave off some real ugly code. ...
Do you have a less well known but powerful feature of ReSharper? ...
I've been working for years with VS's debugger, but every now and then I come across a feature I have never noticed before, and think "Damn! How could I have missed that? It's so useful!" [Disclaimer: These tips work in VS 2005 on a C# project, no guarantees for older incarnations of VS or other languages] Keep track of object instanc...
What are the lesser-known but useful features of the Haskell programming language. (I understand the language itself is lesser-known, but work with me. Even explanations of the simple things in Haskell, like defining the Fibonacci sequence with one line of code, will get upvoted by me.) Try to limit answers to the Haskell core One fea...
Shell scripts are often used as glue, for automation and simple one-off tasks. What are some of your favorite "hidden" features of the Bash shell/scripting language? One feature per answer Give an example and short description of the feature, not just a link to documentation Label the feature using bold title as the first line See al...
Objective-C is getting wider use due to its use by Apple for Mac OS X and iPhone development. What are some of your favourite "hidden" features of the Objective-C language? One feature per answer. Give an example and short description of the feature, not just a link to documentation. Label the feature using a title as the first line. ...
I think everyone agrees that DOS batch scripting is lame. Nonetheless there are many situations where it is expedient, or you must maintain existing scripts. Guidelines: One feature per answer Give both a short description of the feature and an example, not just a link to documentation Limit answers to native funtionality, i.e., does ...
I thought I'd have a try at using Win32 GVim, and I'm finding that it's much more versatile than I realised. At this point I'm finding that for myself a lot of its features are still hidden. As an example I'm used to having a button on the toolbar to run external commands and capturing the output but I found in Vim it's :%!<command> to g...
There seem to be a decent number of mod_rewrite threads floating around lately with a bit of confusion over how certain aspects of it work. As a result I've compiled a few notes on common functionality, and perhaps a few annoying nuances. What other features / common issues have you run across using mod_rewrite? ...
In 10gR2 (first available in 9.0.1) if you Describe dbms_transform it shows a procedure compute_transformation not listed in the documentation. Google searches show it's undocumented... d'uh. Has anyone explored what this does? PROCEDURE COMPUTE_TRANSFORMATION Argument Name Type In/Out --------...
It seems like Groovy was forgotten in this thread so I'll just ask the same question for Groovy. Try to limit answers to Groovy core One feature per answer Give an example and short description of the feature, not just a link to documentation Label the feature using bold title as the first line See also: Hidden features of Python H...
I was hanging out in my profiler for a while trying to figure out how to speed up a common log parser which was bottlenecked around the date parsing and I tried various algorithms to speed things up. The thing I tried that was fastest for me was also by far the most readable, but potentially non-standard C. This worked quite well in gc...
I've been working with Microsoft SQL Server with many years now but have only just recently started to use MySQL with my web applications, and I'm hungry for knowledge. To continue with the long line of "hidden feature" questions, I would like to know any hidden or handy features of MySQL which will hopefully improve my knowledge of thi...
I enjoyed the answers and questions about hidden features in sql server What can you tell us about Oracle? Hidden tables, inner workings of ..., secret stored procs, package that has good utils... ...
What feature is missing or hidden in Notepad++, that can be added while keeping it still the small, fast and efficient source code editor that it is? Have you found a feature to be missing only to later discover a way to achieve this anyway, perhaps with a plug-in? ...