vocabulary

What is [assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("MyAssembly")]? A statement, directive, ...?

Hi. Sorry about the vocabulary question but I can't find this anywhere: how do you call this below? [assembly: System.Runtime.CompilerServices.InternalsVisibleTo("MyAssembly")] Is it a statement, a directive, ... ? I want to indicate that you have to insert that line in order to give MyAssembly access to your assembly's internal membe...

Compile-time, load-time, run-time: phases of... what?

Hi. Sorry for the confusing title :P I'm sure I should know this but I always have trouble with terminology. I can't figure out the right word to put in the blank space in the following sentence: Different weaving strategies are usually classified according to the phase of _______ at which they are performed, resulting in the ...

Vocabulary: path in a graph of objects?

Hi. I'm having trouble with the following sentence: DeepClone performs a deep clone of the target object, stopping the cloning process when all <dependency paths> have reached a value type or an ITransactionalObject. What I mean by "dependency path" is the chain of references you follow in the cloning process: object A has a ...

drupal hiding a vocabulary

i want hide a particular vocabulary to users other than admin. how to do this? ...

Categories of tags

I'm starting a pro bono project that is the web interface to the world's largest collection of lute music and it's a challenging collection from several points of view. The pieces are largely from 1400 to 1600, but they range from the mid-1200's to present day. Needless to say, there is tremendous variability in how the pieces are catego...

how to automate creation of vocabulary questions

We would like to prepare a quiz which will improve the vocabulary of the students. What does pittance mean? a) tiny, inadequate amount of payment b) to feel pity or remorse c) to go against, rebuttal an argument d) regret, wishing you could take back what has been done or said The answer to the above question is (a). So in order to c...

Unit Testing Vocabulary: "coverage"

I'm preparing some educational/training material with respect to Unit Testing, and want to double check some vocabulary. In an example I'm using the developer has tested a Facade for all possible inputs but hasn't tested the more granular units 'behind' it. Would one still say that the tests have "full coverage" - given they cover the ...

General Programming: When a set of objects are managed by another object, what do you call it?

I'm looking for help identifying this design pattern and learning the "typical" vocabulary it uses: I'm working on a project in PHP, and I've created a thin ORM layer that saves generic objects to and from the database. There are two classes that do the work: "my_object" is basically a container for various kinds of data. After being ...

What are methods that affect their explicit parameters called?

I'm documenting some code in C++ right now, and one of the methods I intend to write will sort an array. It won't create a new array, though, it will sort the elements of the given array in place. I want to include a remark along the lines of, "if the original ordering was important to you, then don't use this method!" But I would rather...