Programmers Weekly Newsletter - Thursday, March 31, 2016

Top new questions this week: Should I add redundant code now just in case it may be needed in the future? I'm not a professional programmer, and everything I know about programming I've taught myself / read somewhere on the internet or in a book. Rightly or wrongly, I'm currently of the belief that I ... c# programming-practices code-quality future-proof   asked by KidCode 78 votes answered by Adam Zuckerman 83 votes How does a surname of Null cause problems in many databases? I read an article on BBC. One of the examples they said was that people with surname 'Null' are having problems with entering their details in some websites. No explanation is given about the error ... database null   asked by Nitish 48 votes answered by amon 77 votes Can a git commit have more than 2 parents? In this documentation it is mentioned A commit object may have any number of parents. But from my understanding, the only case where a commit will have more than 1 parent is when a merge has ... git   asked by Can't Tell 12 votes answered by David Hammen 10 votes Should I add the source of libraries instead of linking to them? I'm relatively new to C++, so I'm not sure how I should best handle small dependencies (e.g., a scripting language, or a JSON/YAML/XML Parser). Should I create separate projects and link them as ... c++ linking   asked by Michael Stum 10 votes answered by Mazyod 1 vote Is it correct to say that a variable is an instance of a data type? (that can change its value over the course of the program) Or is 'instance of something' strictly related to classes and objects? If so, how would you define the concept of 'variable' when it comes ... c++ semantics   asked by Zakkor 8 votes answered by coredump 8 votes RESTful API. Should I be returning the object that was created / updated? I'm designing a RESTful web service using WebApi and was wondering what HTTP responses and response bodies to return when updating / creating objects. For example I can use the POST method to send ... rest http   asked by iswinky 8 votes answered by Eric Stein 4 votes Are bargaining and beat down attempts on Scrum estimations legitimate parts of the process? I noticed in scrum meetings, that developers often give realistic estimations on stories. However, even rather simple stories need a lot efforts for configuration, setting up third party components, ... scrum estimation planning sprint   asked by Erik Hart 8 votes answered by Jonah 10 votes Greatest hits from previous weeks: Is it bad practice to use <?= tag in PHP I've come across this PHP tag <?= ?> recently and I am reluctant to use it, but it itches so hard that I wanted to have your take on it. I know it is bad practice to use short tags <? ?> ... php shortcuts   asked by marco-fiset 77 votes answered by zzzzBov 103 votes Why shouldn't I use the repository pattern with Entity Framework? During a job interview, I was asked to explain why the repository pattern isn't a good pattern to work with ORMs like Entity Framework. Why is this the case? asp.net-mvc unit-of-work   asked by StringBuilder 91 votes answered by Shyju 54 votes Can you answer these? Best solution to authorize that a user is only allowed to modify/act with their own resources in a REST API Background: Currently in the process of building out a REST API, using node w/express and it is consumed by a mobile app and eventually a (modern browser based) website. I'm trying to identify the ... rest session authorization large-scale-project   asked by Ashtonian 6 votes How to use derive: in OCL when the type is not primitive Let's consider the following class diagram I would like to express the following rule in OCL if cond = true then bderived = b else bderived.x = b.x + 10 bderived.y = b.y + 10 endif My ... uml   asked by Robbo 1 vote Optimistic rendering imposes duplication of logic? If you're working on a client side mobile application, for a smoother UX, optimistic rendering is encouraged. This is where the application makes UI updates based on user requests that get sent to the ... client-server business-logic user-experience   asked by razzledazzle 4 votes

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