From Wiktionary: (computing) In assembly languages, a loop which contains few instructions and iterates many times. (computing) Such a loop which heavily uses I/O or processing resources, failing to adequately share them with other programs running in the operating system. For case 1 it is probably like for (unsigned int i = 0; i < … Read more
Actually, the language is called “Assembly Language”, and the tool to convert it to machine code is the “Assembler”. More info on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly_language
“Headless” in this context simply means without a graphical display. (i.e.: Console based.) Many servers are “headless” and are administered over SSH for example.
If you are developing software for a client, then there is a contract between you/your company, and the client/their company. These are the two parties to the contract. Anyone else, not bound by the contract, is a third party. It’s used wherever a contract exists between two parties to mean anyone not bound by the … Read more
Or WISA: Windows, IIS, SQL Server, ASP.net I don’t know why anyone would want to call it WISC, as these people are essentially saying “We will never ever use VB.NET, IronPython, IronRuby, F# or any other .NET Language”. Also calling it .NET (WISN) sounds a bit weird as well, since ASP.NET is the Web-Technology of … Read more
Stateless means there is no memory of the past. Every transaction is performed as if it were being done for the very first time. Stateful means that there is memory of the past. Previous transactions are remembered and may affect the current transaction. Stateless: // The state is derived by what is passed into the … Read more
A domain specific language is a language that’s written to deal with a specific domain or set of concerns. There are a lot of them around, like make, ant, and rake for describing software builds, or lexx and yacc for language construction. In recent years, they’ve become popular as some things have combined to make … Read more
From Wikipedia (granularity): Granularity is the extent to which a system is broken down into small parts, either the system itself or its description or observation. It is the extent to which a larger entity is subdivided. For example, a yard broken into inches has finer granularity than a yard broken into feet. Coarse-grained systems … Read more
A callback URL will be invoked by the API method you’re calling after it’s done. So if you call POST /api.example.com/foo?callbackURL=http://my.server.com/bar Then when /foo is finished, it sends a request to http://my.server.com/bar. The contents and method of that request are going to vary – check the documentation for the API you’re accessing.
A stub is a controllable replacement for an Existing Dependency (or collaborator) in the system. By using a stub, you can test your code without dealing with the dependency directly. External Dependency – Existing Dependency: It is an object in your system that your code under test interacts with and over which you have no … Read more