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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Is it a waste of time to free resources before I exit a process? [duplicate]
Let's consider a fictional program that builds a linked list in the heap, and at the end of the program there is a loop that frees all the nodes, and then exits. For this case let's say the linked ...
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What is the proper way to do REST?
Everybody nowadays does SOA, even if some don't actually understand what is all about. So they do it wrong. Using that as an analogy I know what REST is (or at least I think I do) and want to do some ...
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What are the alternatives to resx file
I am developing a Windows application and I want to store all the text for labels, radio buttons, buttons, check boxes and column headers of grids at one place. I have tried using a class file, an xml ...
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How do you manage the testing of your Android software on physical devices?
I'm in charge of managing mobile application development at my company, and I am currently building a mobile device "library" for testing. Essentially, we want to have a representative device in-house ...
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Why can't Java/C# implement RAII?
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Why can't Java/C# implement RAII?
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I am aware the garbage collector is not deterministic. So with the current language features it is not possible for an object's Dispose() ...
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Where can I get free public raw data? [closed]
In web development, a mashup is a web page or application that uses and combines data, presentation or functionality from two or more sources to create new services.
There are many sources for ...
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Why are string resources generally kept external to the code and not inside the code?
Generally, on many platforms, I'm writing my string resources to a .resx or .xml file, and then I'm getting them using some platform-dependent approach.
That is, on iOS, I'm getting them via NSBundle....
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Are there any A.I. resources that explain the concepts and present source code?
Are there any A.I. resources that explain the concepts and present source code, similarly to AI Horizon?
I've read books and research papers but they generally present a conceptual approach, without ...
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Is there an issue with closing our database connections in the "Finally" block of a Try statement?
I'm doing some refactoring for our application, and trying to reduce the number of issues reported in our ISO Scan (a static code analysis tool based on HP Fortify). Right now, what I'm trying to ...
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What would be the best way to learn about compilers, and executable formats? [duplicate]
I want to write my own compiler for my own language. Yes, it's going to be hard, and it will take long, but I think it will be worth it.
I have looked into OSDev.org, and read about executable ...
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How to deal with relative paths in out of source build?
An out of source build is a build which can be in any directory other than the source directory
I have a project which contains relative paths to some resource files, needed at runtime, which are ...
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How to structure your URIs?
I am making a web UI and an HTTP API for editing JSON documents in collaboration (role and versioning system).
There are several types of JSON documents. Each type is described by a JSON schema, let ...
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Trade off between concurrency and stagnation in a Dining Philosophers problem analogue?
I am currently facing a problem in the application I am developing that I think is the same as, or an analogue of, the Dining Philosophers Problem.
In my application I have a list of N resources. I ...
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How to configure these REST API Resources [closed]
I'm still in the design phase of my REST API, and I'm a bit stuck on how to configure the resources. The API will be consumed by mobile devices (Android, iOS, and Windows). Communication through HTTPS....
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