Labeling correctly It means that you’re calling something what it actually is. The classic example is that if something is a table, it should contain rows and columns of data. To use that for layout is semantically incorrect – you’re saying “this is a table” when it’s not. Another example: a list (<ul> or <ol>) … Read more
A mask defines which bits you want to keep, and which bits you want to clear. Masking is the act of applying a mask to a value. This is accomplished by doing: Bitwise ANDing in order to extract a subset of the bits in the value Bitwise ORing in order to set a subset of … Read more
Any Python file is a module, its name being the file’s base name without the .py extension. A package is a collection of Python modules: while a module is a single Python file, a package is a directory of Python modules containing an additional __init__.py file, to distinguish a package from a directory that just … Read more
Don Cruickshank’s helpful answer provides one piece of the puzzle, but let me try give a comprehensive overview: By itself, a [<fullTypeNameOrTypeAccelerator>] expression is a type literal, i.e. a reference to a .NET type in the form of a System.Reflection.TypeInfo instance, which is rich source of reflection on the type it represents. <fullTypeNameOrTypeAccelerator> can be … Read more
My assumption has always been that the programming term originated from the following definition of the word “string” (from Merriam-Webster): (1): a series of things arranged in or as if in a line <a string of cars> <a string of names> (2): a sequence of like items (as bits, characters, or words) Since a string … Read more
The Base Class Library (BCL) is literally that, the base. It contains basic, fundamental types like System.String and System.DateTime. The Framework Class Library (FCL) is the wider library that contains the totality: ASP.NET, WinForms, the XML stack, ADO.NET and more. You could say that the FCL includes the BCL.
A web service typically offers a WSDL from which you can create client stubs automatically. Web Services are based on the SOAP protocol. ASP.NET Web API is a newer Microsoft framework which helps you to build REST based interfaces. The response can be either JSON or XML, but there is no way to generate clients … Read more
The original code for the Cocoa frameworks came from the NeXTSTEP libraries Foundation and AppKit (those names are still used by Apple’s Cocoa frameworks), and the NextStep engineers chose to prefix their symbols with NS. Because Objective-C is an extension of C and thus doesn’t have namespaces like in C++, symbols must be prefixed with … Read more
What is the correct term for the sections of CSS selectors that are separated by commas? These are called complex selectors. The entire comma-separated list is known as a selector-list. Within those sections, what is the term for the parts separated by combinators (spaces, +, >, etc)? These are known as compound selectors. So, a … Read more
The type attribute The type attribute specifies the type of debugger to use for this launch configuration. Every installed debug extension introduces a type: node for the built-in Node debugger, for example, or php and go for the PHP and Go extensions. type : pwa-node Javascript Debugger is a built-in extension for debugging in VS … Read more