Every job has its ups and downs, but sometimes it just isn't worth it to stick around. I'm currently in one of the "down" points with my current job and debating whether or not to …

I've never seen a good list of free Java Libraries, so here's mine. Name: Guice Website: http://code.google.com/p/google-guice/ Purpose: Dependency Injection, ease of …

For me, I've always wanted to finish the O'Reilly "Mastering Regular Expressions" book. When I need a Regexp, I manage to get the one I need eventually, but it takes more effort th …

What is the longest name that you should expect to get as input to your program or database? I don't want to truncate unusual names, but I also don't want people to paste a novel i …

I have a bunch a values I would like to add together which are entered into a form. Right now, the form has 11 lines but it could get larger in the future. I can easily add all the …

Can someone explain what exactly the string "0 but true" means in Perl? As far as I understand, it equals zero in an integer comparison, but evaluates to true when used as a boolea …

I have seen people say that it is bad form to use catch with no arguments, especially if that catch doesn't do anything: StreamReader reader=new StreamReader("myfile.txt"); try { …

Yes it may be good to post a question you already know the answer to, just to see what other peoples answers are. But, don't forget to search the web or Wikipedia before posting it …

Most people say never throw an exception out of a destructor - doing so results in undefined behavior. Stroustrup makes the point that "the vector destructor explicitly invokes the …

I keep hearing this term tossed around in several different contexts. What is it?