Questions tagged [resources]
Memory, files, network connections, I/O devices and other objects that have to be acquired and then released within a program. Please do not use this tag to ask questions about educational resources such as tutorials, books, websites or classes. Those are off-topic on Programmers.
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How to initialize the same global resources from multiple modules independently?
I encountered the following situation: I have two modules, TokenService and Wifi which are initialized from main(). The modules themselves don't know of the existence of each other and function ...
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Sink or non-sink API's?
This might be an opinionated question but I'm eager to hear your anecdotes as I'm at the beginning of designing a new API. Now I'm questioning whether I want this API to be a sink API or non-sink API. ...
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In Laravel, how do you handle a resource being managed differently depending on a user role while using policies?
I find myself in a situation where I have two roles, "Admin" and a "Organizer". The "Admin" accesses the AdminUserController to update users, while the "Organizer&...
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When to self-audit complex calculation [closed]
Given an app that manages appointment bookings, I'm separately storing purchases, bookings made, or cancellations (some of them non-refundable) and am required to show the sum of these, based on ...
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Can resource which requires asynchronous cleanup be constructed synchronously?
More specifically this applies only to resources which have asynchronous dependencies themselves (but I think that's majority of them).
Concrete example:
class Foo : IAsyncDisposable
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public ...
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What is the purpose of storing multiple lower resolution versions of the same original image?
Sometimes in apps I look into the Resources and find files for, for example, a 256x256 version, a 128x128 version, a 64x64 version, AND a 32x32 version, of the same icon. When I see simple geometric ...
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HTTP polling vs WebSocket for very small payloads that don't change often
In our team we are currently discussing which technology makes more sense for an upcoming feature - HTTP polling vs WebSocket.
To give some context:
We are developing a TV streaming application (...
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How to store a vector of smart pointers, except some of them are owned by another object?
I'm making a basic platformer game. I have a Game class as well as Level class. The game object holds a pointer to the current Level object. A level currently has a std::vector of GameObject raw ...
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Managing the disposal of network connections
I am writing a class -- let's call it MessageSender -- that needs to perform operations over the network. It basically does these things:
Take some configuration
establish a connection
send stuff
If ...
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How do browsers isolate traffic within a single tab?
I know that browsers use a separate port for each tab. However, in each tab, there might be multiple scripts doing data transfer over the network. How does a browser makes sure that the data is ...
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How do VMs and GCs treat objects which wrap yet active resources, but that are unreachable from user code?
I am building an interpreter in C for a simple programming language.
The interpreter is fitted with a built in garbage collector. The GC simply marks all objects which are linked from some root (the ...
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Managing .resx resources files for multiple languages application
I am currently developing a software for a multi languages environment using visual studio (en, fr and es). The soft is some kind of a 3d configurator, if I take the exemple of a car configurator, the ...
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How can I accurately estimate the minimum resources my application needs?
For an application that is starting out I do not want to over pay for servers and resources that will not be used since the budget is very limited at this point. This will be a for an iOS and Android ...
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Can iOS App Process Location Info while it's not running?
I want to ask about iOS application characteristic/behavior regarding processing location information. My previous wording isn't straightforward and seems to make it look unclear (which is my problem ...
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Updating last resource access time when clients perform a GET
We have many clients which, upon start up, request a specific resource on the server using an HTTP API (not RESTful). This resource is - currently, identical for all clients.
Naturally, since the ...
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