Programmers Weekly Newsletter - Thursday, October 30, 2014

Top new questions this week: Is it a good practice to run unit tests in version control hooks? From the technical point of view it is possible to add some pre/post push hooks which will run unit tests before allowing some specific commit to be merged to remote default branch. My question is - ... version-control continuous-integration hooks   asked by shabunc 22 votes answered by MainMa 14 votes Is vanilla JS still considered a library? I very recently found out that VanillaJS (document?) is a library that's just bundled with 99% browsers and isn't exactly native JavaScript (shock of my life). While writing a lib of my own I normally ... javascript libraries third-party-libraries dom   asked by Random User 12 votes answered by delnan 43 votes Is it permissible to use explicit interface implementation to hide members in C#? I understand how to work with interfaces and explicit interface implementation in C#, but I was wondering if it's considered bad form to hide away certain members that would not be used frequently. ... c# interfaces implementations   asked by Kyle Baran 10 votes answered by Telastyn 33 votes Database schema for a ToDo list I am trying to make a very simple todo list application with PHP, MySQL, Jquery templating and JSON... However, my schema seems to complicate things in JSON. What's the best way to do it? A new ... database database-design   asked by CodeSlow 6 votes answered by MichaelT 45 votes Does assigning NULL in a GC'ed Environment have similar effects to using free()? I was just writing a function (in C# in this case) that stored huge amounts of data in a local variable early on in the code, let's say at 5% of the functions code. After that point, the data in this ... memory garbage-collection allocation   asked by Mark 6 votes answered by delnan 9 votes Heterogeneous Associations - Data Modeling When an Object that Must Relate to One of Many Classes Suppose you have 3 classes: ClassA, ClassB and ClassC. Now suppose you have a class Message. You want a one-to-many relationship between each one of those three classes and the Message. The goal is ... design database database-design orm   asked by user1987392 5 votes answered by Walter Mitty 1 vote Should the sender of an event always be a generic Object? When programming events in C#, it is advised to create a delegate in form of: delegate XEventHandler(object sender, XEventArgs e); My question is on the first argument of the delegate, object ... c# event   asked by Krumia 5 votes answered by jhominal 6 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Is there a benefit in compiling your code as you go along? I recently had a job interview in which they gave me an hour to write some real code. It wasn't a huge amount, probably less than 100 lines. After about 45 minutes, I compiled, ran it, and got it to ... programming-practices   asked by CaptainCodeman 152 votes answered by Oded 195 votes What's the difference between simulation and emulation I frequently see Simulation and Emulation in computer science. These two terms seem synonymous. Is there any difference between Simulation and Emulation? terminology   asked by user 51 votes answered by S.Robins 63 votes Can you answer these? Callback pattern handling exceptions - Best practices in .NET 3.5 I am looking to implement the callback pattern with error handling such that error is caught and pass to the callback code with the response. Since I am using .NET 3.5, I cant use Task (TAP) pattern ... design-patterns .net patterns-and-practices async asynchronous-programming   asked by Kalyanaraman Santhanam 1 vote Proof of Concept in agile development I am part of a team that develops and maintains a B2B web portal that had evolved over several years. We follow an agile development process (admittedly the design did not evolve into a maintainable ... agile prototyping   asked by zencv 1 vote adding new service to authenticated website So I've created an api that I want to leverage to add some functionality to an existing web app. My current website authenticates users using saml. What I'm looking to do is instead of moving the code ... architecture authentication authorization   asked by ThrowsException 1 vote

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