What is an Endpoint?

All of the answers posted so far are correct, an endpoint is simply one end of a communication channel. In the case of OAuth, there are three endpoints you need to be concerned with: Temporary Credential Request URI (called the Request Token URL in the OAuth 1.0a community spec). This is a URI that you … Read more

What is “Linting”?

Linting is the process of running a program that will analyse code for potential errors. See lint on wikipedia: lint was the name originally given to a particular program that flagged some suspicious and non-portable constructs (likely to be bugs) in C language source code. The term is now applied generically to tools that flag … Read more

What Language is Used To Develop Using Unity

As far as I know, you can go with c#. You can also use the obscure language “Boo”. (Found at https://boo-language.github.io/) In the past (before about 2012) it was possible to use a strange variant of Java but that is now deprecated and does not work. Note that Unity builds to Android / iOS, and … Read more

scp with port number specified

Unlike ssh, scp uses the uppercase P switch to set the port instead of the lowercase p: The lowercase p switch is used with scp for the preservation of times and modes. Here is an excerpt from scp’s man page with all of the details concerning the two switches, as well as an explanation of … Read more

HTTP Status 504

I’m getting the following error when my win32 (c#) app is calling web services. I understand ‘I think’ that this is because the upstream request does not get a response in a timely fashion. But my question is this? How do I change the app.config settings in my win32 application to allow more time to … Read more

Python Dictionary Comprehension

There are dictionary comprehensions in Python 2.7+, but they don’t work quite the way you’re trying. Like a list comprehension, they create a new dictionary; you can’t use them to add keys to an existing dictionary. Also, you have to specify the keys and values, although of course you can specify a dummy value if … Read more

What does in XML mean?

CDATA stands for Character Data and it means that the data in between these strings includes data that could be interpreted as XML markup, but should not be. The key differences between CDATA and comments are: As Richard points out, CDATA is still part of the document, while a comment is not. In CDATA you … Read more