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MySQL: Will a column-oriented engine be available in MySQL 5.5?

Will a column-oriented storage engine (e.g. InfiniDB) be available in the core release of MySQL 5.5? Meaning, not as a plugin but available with the core MySQL 5.5 bundle. ...

How can I build in release in Visual Studio 2010 (C# Express)?

I'm used to VS2008, in which a release build would be built upon pressing F6, or in the menu Build > Build Solution. The build menu is gone, and although I can build the solution (through F6), it only builds the debug. I assume there is some kind of configuration manager now, but I can't find it anywhere. ...

How does building a project in Debug differ with in Release?

In visual studio or any other IDE, usually there are two build configurations, Debug and Release? How does the differ? Why sometimes you have compile errors when building in Debug mode, but not when in Release mode, and vice versa? ...

Is it safe to override `release` for debugging?

Sometimes I need to find out if an object will really be released. I could use Instruments of course, but that takes much time, and I have to search into millions of objects, so I used to do this: -(void)release { NSLog(@"I'm released"); [super release]; } But the problem is: is this safe to do? Can I get any problems when I o...

pointer being freed was not allocated. Complex malloc history help

I've followed the guides helpfully linked here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/295778/iphone-debugging-pointer-being-freed-was-not-allocated-errors but the malloc_history is really throwing me for a loop, can anyone shed any light on the following: ALLOC 0x185c600-0x18605ff [size=16384]: thread_a068a4e0 |start | main | UIApplicati...

When do you tag your software project?

I realize there are various kinds of software projects: commercial (for John Doe) industrial (for Mr. Montgomery Burns) successful open-source (with audience larger than, say, 10 people) personal projects (with audience size in the vicinity of 1). each of which releases a new version of their product on different conditions. I'm part...

Release Quickie

How to succinctly handle this situation. I'm not properly releasing contactDictionary in the if statement... NSNumber *pIDAsNumber; ... NSMutableDictionary *contactDictionary = [NSMutableDictionary dictionaryWithDictionary:[defaults dictionaryForKey:kContactDictionary]]; if (!contactDictionary) { con...

Release Process Improvements

The process of creating a new build and releasing it to production is a critical step in the SDLC but it is often left as an afterthought and varies greatly from one company to the next. I'm hoping people will share improvements they have made to this process in their organisation so we can all takes steps to 'reduce the pain'. So the...

Having trouble with confusing behaviour of error between debug and release modes in Xcode

Hi guys, I am confused over something (what is new!). I have an iPhone program I am writing and using some sqlite in a certain method, and there is some error which is giving me a message that says "Program received signal: “EXC_BAD_ACCESS” Okay, so I am trying to hunt down why this is doing this, and I notice something: When I run t...

Objective-C NSDate memory issue (again)

I'm developing a graphing application and am attempting to change the renderer from OpenGL to Quartz2D to make text rendering easier. A retained NSDate object that was working fine before suddenly seems to be deallocating itself, causing a crash when an NSMutableString attempts to append it's decription (now 'nil'). Build & analyse doe...

NSObject release destroys local copy of object's data

I know this is something stupid on my part but I don't get what's happening. I create an object that fetches data & puts it into an array in a specific format, since it fetches asynchronously (has to download & parse data) I put a delegate method into the object that needs the data so that the data fetching object copies it's formatted a...

Trying to understand NavigationController retain count for ViewControllers on its stack

I have an UITableViewController as the rootViewController for my navigatorController. When I press a table cell I do the following: - (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath { MessageHistory *msg = (MessageHistory *)[[self fetchedResultsController]objectAtIndexPath:indexPath]; Conversa...

Release build in MVS 2010 professional v/s express for C

Hi, recently I discovered that "executing" a C program as a release build instead of a debug build optimizes the code and makes it run much faster. This is accessed through project properties > configuration manager menu. I would like to know if this feature is the same in the professional version and in the express edition of MVS 2010 i...

Is there a maven plugin that verifies that all dependencies are releases?

The 'maven-release-plugin' has this feature, but it is not available as separate goal. I think I have seen this functionality somewhere, but I can't find it again. Would be great if somebody knows where to find such a plugin. ...

How to find out when each user's last commit was to subversion?

I have a repository that is running subversion. Some users have not been committing regularly. I'd like to send out a weekly reminder to those that have not committed during the last week. Is there a way to determine when each users last submit date was? ...

having a test debug app and a released debug app side by side

When I download my app from the iStore, the latest test version installed to my phone gets over written. Does anyone know how to have two versions of the same app side by side? On a test project, I edited the build settings so that "realease" and "debug" have different product names. This seemed to solve my problem, however when I try t...

Releasing Excel after using Interop

Hi everyone I've read many post looking for my answer, but all are similar to this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1610743/reading-excel-files-in-vb-net-leaves-excel-process-hanging My problem is that I don't quit the app... The idea is this: If a User has Excel Open, if he has the file I'm interested in open... get that Excel in...

When is a webapp called Beta, alpha, pre-alpha, or none

I've come across many apps on the web that call themselves Beta. I've come across other apps that had an alpha designation. I've even come across some that called themselves pre-alpha, whatever that means (if you know please clarify). Then I've come across some really bad webapps that shouldn't have left the developer's computer and they...

Exclude files only in "release" in VS2008 config

Hi Guys, I was wondering how to "Exclude" individual files in the "release" web.csproj config of my solution. I've seen other answers and they all feature "include" - but this is not what I am wanting to achieve. I only want to exclude around 10-15 files from a "release" package ? I don't want to manually edit the web.csproj file - so ...

How to switch between debug/release in Visual c# 2010 express

I cant find it, I have looked in the project properties but it seems to be missing, does anyone knows what I'm missing here? ...