Two design approaches to consider The essence pattern The fluent interface pattern These are both similar in intent, in that we slowly build up an intermediate object, and then create our target object in a single step. An example of the fluent interface in action would be: public class CustomerBuilder { String surname; String firstName; … Read more
From the proxy_pass documentation: A special case is using variables in the proxy_pass statement: The requested URL is not used and you are fully responsible to construct the target URL yourself. Since you’re using $1 in the target, nginx relies on you to tell it exactly what to pass. You can fix this in two … Read more
When is something considered so obscene as to be something that can be regulated despite the 1st Amendment guarantee to free speech? According to Justice Potter Stewart, “I know it when I see it.” The same holds here. I hate making hard and fast rules like this because the answer changes not only depending on … Read more
There are reserved characters, that have a reserved meanings, those are delimiters — :/?#[]@ — and subdelimiters — !$&'()*+,;= There is also a set of characters called unreserved characters — alphanumerics and -._~ — which are not to be encoded. That means, that anything that doesn’t belong to unreserved characters set is supposed to be … Read more
From MSDN: If two candidates are judged to be equally good, preference goes to a candidate that does not have optional parameters for which arguments were omitted in the call. This is a consequence of a general preference in overload resolution for candidates that have fewer parameters.
First off, it’s important to understand that there is no single standard H.264 elementary bitstream format. The specification document does contain an Annex, specifically Annex B, that describes one possible format, but it is not an actual requirement. The standard specifies how video is encoded into individual packets. How these packets are stored and transmitted … Read more
What’s the difference between an argument and a parameter?