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Questions about Ruby, dynamic, reflective, general-purpose object-oriented programming language that combines syntax inspired by Perl with Smalltalk-like features.
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Programming questions that are significantly affected or best defined by the underlying mathematics of the problem.
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The Single Responsibility Principle states that each module in a system should be responsible for a single feature or functionality, or aggregation of cohesive functionality. Another common way to put…
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Ruby on Rails is an open-source web development framework optimized for programmer happiness and maintaining sustainable productivity. Many things are defined by convention, freeing you from having to…
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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a language for specifying the layout and presentation in general of markup such as HTML and XML.
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Object-relational mapping (ORM) is a technique for mapping between object-oriented systems and relational databases.
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The Model View ViewModel (MVVM) is an architectural pattern used in software engineering that originated from Microsoft as a specialization of the presentation model design pattern introduced by Marti…
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Integration testing is the phase in software testing in which individual
software modules are
combined and tested
as a group. No mocks or stubs are required; everything is tested as in productio…
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Source code is any collection of computer instructions (possibly with comments) written using some human-readable computer language, usually as text.
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WPF is a graphical subsystem for rendering user interfaces in Windows-based applications.
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Estimation is the process of finding an estimate, or approximation, which is a value that is usable for some purpose even if input data may be incomplete, uncertain, or unstable.
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Computer data logging is the process of recording events in a computer program, usually with a certain scope, in order to provide an audit trail that can be used to understand the activity of the syst…
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OFF TOPIC QUESTIONS ARE NOT SUPPORTED! Questions about legal matters, including software licensing, are off-topic here. ask a lawyer, or try the law stack exchange site.
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Architectural pattern that manages the current state as the result of a sequence of events that are captured and stored and each trigger a state change.
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A workflow consists of a sequence of concatenated (connected) steps. Emphasis is on the flow paradigm, where each step follows the precedent without delay or gap and ends just before the subsequent st…
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It refers to client-server model, where providers of a resource or service is called Server.
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"The powers that be" is often a phrase used to describe those in a position of authority responsible for work. Distribution of resources would be a way to describe what managers do though resources i…
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A simple, very flexible text format that stands for eXtensible Markup Language, that can be used to exchange, share, and store data. It is easily parsed by computers, but is also readable by programme…
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A repository provides a storage mechanism for digital products. May refer to [version-control] like [git] or [svn]. An application specific tag should be used with this tag in order to identify the sp…
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Debugging is the process of examining the state of a program - generally with a debugging tool - while it is running and attempting to find bugs that cause it to behave abnormally.
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Web is referred to a network environment without any specific web frameworks used in programming.
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Microsoft Visual Studio is an IDE for the .NET family of languages.
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in reference to any topic related to networking hardware and software. Do not use this tag in reference to personal networking like on social media.
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Branching, in revision control is the duplication of an object under revision control so that modifications can happen in parallel along both branches.
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In computing a graphical user interface (GUI, sometimes pronounced gooey) is a type of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices with images rather than text commands. GUIs …
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A message queue is a service that receives events or messages from producers and provides them to consumers.
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Questions regarding cache algorithms by applications and implementations of information caching by database engines and other information repository and presentation applications.
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Scala is a general purpose programming language principally targeting the Java Virtual Machine. Designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way, it fuses both …
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Questions on self-guided improvement. Because no one cares as much about you as you do.
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An anti-pattern is a behavior or practice that is common despite being ineffective or counterproductive.
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Development is undertaken by a game developer, which may range from a single person to a large business. Mainstream games are normally funded by a publisher and take several years to develop. Indie ga…
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Creating and manipulating abstract representations of a problem or of software elements for the purpose of facilitating the understanding, reasoning, and solving of the problem.
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Questions surrounding communications between programmers and the others involved in software development. This can include stakeholders, management, end users, designers, testers, and other developer…
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Event-driven programming refers to the programming technique where the flow of the program is driven by recognition and handling of events such as mouse clicks, key presses, etc.
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