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Assets (like memory, disk space, CPU power or alike) necessary for effective operation or physical files (like images, configuration files or other) to provide some externalized enrichment to an application.

Typically resources are materials or other assets that are transformed to produce benefit and in the process may be consumed or made unavailable

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What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?

If you could go back in time and tell yourself to read a specific book at the beginning of your career as a developer, which book would it be? I expect this list to be varied and to cover a wide range of things. To search: Use the search box in the…
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Should I use Singular or Plural name convention for REST resources?

Some RESTful services use different resource URIs for update/get/delete and Create. Such as Create - using /resources with POST method (observe plural) at some places using /resource (singular) Update - using /resource/123 with PUT method Get -…
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Android: How do I get string from resources using its name?

I would like to have 2 languages for the UI and separate string values for them in my resource file res\values\strings.xml: Books Quotes
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Change app language programmatically in Android

Is it possible to change the language of an app programmatically while still using Android resources? If not, is it possible to request a resource in an specific language? I would like to let the user change the language of the app from the app.
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Should a RESTful 'PUT' operation return something....

I was wondering what people's opinions are of a RESTful PUT operation that returns nothing (null) in the response body.
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What's the difference between StaticResource and DynamicResource in WPF?

When using resources such as brushes, templates and styles in WPF, they can be specified either as StaticResources or as a DynamicResource
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How to read text file from classpath in Java?

I am trying to read a text file which is set in CLASSPATH system variable. Not a user variable. I am trying to get input stream to the file as below: Place the directory of file (D:\myDir) in CLASSPATH and try below: InputStream in =…
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Reading a resource file from within jar

I would like to read a resource from within my jar like so: File file; file = new File(getClass().getResource("/file.txt").toURI()); BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(file)); //Read the file and it works fine when running…
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Get a list of resources from classpath directory

I am looking for a way to get a list of all resource names from a given classpath directory, something like a method List getResourceNames (String directoryName). For example, given a classpath directory x/y/z containing files a.html,…
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Read resource text file to String in Java

Is there a way to read a text file in the resource into a String? I suppose this is a popular requirement, but I couldn't find any utility after Googling.
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Add floating point value to android resources/values

I'm trying to add a little space between lines to my TextViews using android:lineSpacingMultiplier from the documentation: Extra spacing between lines of text, as a multiplier. Must be a floating point value, such as "1.2". As I'm using this…
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Scala Programming for Android

I have followed the tutorial at Scala and Android with Scala 2.7.3 final. The resulting Android App works but even the most basic application takes several minutes (!) to compile and needs 900 kb compressed, which is a show stopper for mobile…
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getResourceAsStream returns null

I'm loading a text file from within a package in a compiled JAR of my Java project. The relevant directory structure is as follows: /src/initialization/Lifepaths.txt My code loads a file by calling Class::getResourceAsStream to return a…
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Get OS-level system information

I'm currently building a Java app that could end up being run on many different platforms, but primarily variants of Solaris, Linux and Windows. Has anyone been able to successfully extract information such as the current disk space used, CPU…
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What is the JSF resource library for and how should it be used?

The JSF , and components have a library attribute. What is this and how should this be used? There are a lot of examples on the web which use it as follows with the common content/file type css,…
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