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The title is fairly self-explanatory, but I'll reiterate: What would be a good variable name for a rectangle that describes an objects position and size.
EDIT - The object is a paddle for a Pong-like game, and there is already a rectangle named 'bounds...
Started by kitchen on
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Science, it describes the object and its property and should be enough to distinguish it from anything.
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I know that you cannot fully describe the XML that the TClientDataSet with an XSD schema, as the ROW elements have attributes that have names that vary with the contents.
However, the METADATA section of such an XML should be.
So: is there anyone having...
Started by Jeroen Pluimers on
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> <xs:element name="DATAPACKET....
Well I couldn't find one either, so I used this website to generate this schema based on a ClientDataSet XML file .
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Hello,
I have often wondered if code really "shines" after it has been cleaned? Sometimes I find myself repeating some solution several times in the same piece of code. I think it over, simplify, and them rewrite it so it doesn't repeat. I guess you just...
Started by Secko on
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Broken up into appropriately sized pieces, whether....
Modular.
As simple as possible, no simpler.
Terse.
Standard approaches are used.
Idiomatic.
Other programmers don't have a hard time figuring out what's going on .
Test-driven development
Readable.
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A coworker of mine has asked me for a term (preferably an adjective) that can be used to describe a system that gets more "intelligent" as it gets more data. The example she used when asking me this question was "as Google crawls more sites, it gets smarter...
Started by abeger on
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It could be a....
But I'm not aware of a matching adjective.
How about "capable," or "robust."
The domain of this kind of applications is "machine-learning" .
Perhaps that could apply here.
Sometimes you refer to things like spam filters as "trainable" .
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In the terms of Apple's Documentation: What does "Memory Footprint" mean? How much Memory my App consumes? Does someone have a good explanation for that term?
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I think that's one explanation: link text
The memory footprint of an application can be described as how much memory it uses at the point when it uses the most memory..
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Currently I understand it as a kind of "empty object". But what's it really?
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It's a null pointer - a pointer....
Nil
nil is "undefined".
You can look at this question to have more info on NULL vs .
But a "nothing" you can send messages to without getting killed as you would if you were trying to call a method on NULL .
It's "nothing".
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What does ./CoverFlows_files/coverflow.js mean?
I understand ../CoverFlows_files/coverflow.js means [move up one directory] And /CoverFlows_files/coverflow.js means [go down from here]
Also is there are way to get to the root like in asp.net its ~/ .....
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Mean current directory
CoverFlows_files/coverflow.css and ./CoverFlows_files/coverflow.css are basically same
/CoverFlows_files/coverflow.css is absolute path from domain name
For Example http://yoursite.com/CoverFlows_files/coverflow.css same as /... .
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Can someone explain in an humanly understandable way what an "Outlet" is?
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It's an instance variable that shows up in Interface Builder, so that... .
Like the name suggests, they provide a spot to "plug in" your UI to your code .
I would say they are the bridge that connects your user interface objects to the code that uses them .
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I have trouble understanding Cocoa Bindings. Can someone explain me what this is all about, in an way that is humanly perceivable?
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The traditional approach....
All you have to do is set up properties in both classes* and hook up the binding in IB .
Bindings is a system for connecting your views to your controllers without writing a lot of glue code to make them explicitly talk to each other .
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Unfortunately, the explanation of File's Owner is pretty short at the Apple docs. I know it is an proxy object. But what's really the point about that "File's Owner" object? What is it good for?
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The icon in the nib is a proxy only in the sense that ... .
It's a real object.
It's not.
I know it is an proxy object.
Http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?FilesOwner
In essence, whichever object loaded the NibFile becomes the file's owner for that nib file .
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