Top "Dry" questions

sed command in dry run

How it is possible to make a dry run with sed? I have this command: find ./ -type f | xargs sed …

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Calling Django `reverse` in client-side Javascript

I'm using Django on Appengine. I'm using the django reverse() function everywhere, keeping everything as DRY as possible. However, I'm …

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Is duplicated code more tolerable in unit tests?

I ruined several unit tests some time ago when I went through and refactored them to make them more DRY--the …

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Why is "copy and paste" of code dangerous?

Sometimes, my boss will complain to us: Why do we need such a long time to implement a feature? Actually, …

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Where to put partials shared by the whole application in Rails?

Where would I go about placing partial files shared by more than one model? I have a page called crop.…

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How much duplicated code do you tolerate?

In a recent code review I spotted a few lines of duplicated logic in a class (less than 15 lines). When …

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How to reuse a large query without repeating it?

If I have two queries, which I will call horrible_query_1 and ugly_query_2, and I want to perform the …

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Is it possible to share a masterpage between MVC and webforms?

I am adding MVC to a project that has MANY legacy webform pages. This works fine. However, I currently have …

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Validate a value in property

So I heard that validating a value in a property like this: //dummy example, let's assume that I want my …

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Access Level to certain class must be public error in PHP

I created this class <?php abstract class Validator{ public $_errors = array(); abstract public function isValid($input); public function _addErrors($…

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