String conversion is the act of converting data to and from character strings. It is a special case of type conversion and commonly used in programming to combine multiple data types into a string or when validating/storing user input.

A framework's URL mapping facility is the mechanism by which the framework interprets URLs.

A function that does not validate the additivity or homogeneity properties is characterized as non-linear.

This tag is used for questions about similarities between any of various programming constructs. Comparisons include correspondences between API, functionality, syntax, features, methodologies and the like.

Named parameters enable you to specify an argument for a particular parameter by associating the argument with the parameter's name rather than with the parameter's position in the parameter list.

Data Transformation Services, or DTS, is a set of objects and utilities to allow the automation of extract, transform and load operations to or from a database. The objects are DTS packages and their components, and the utilities are called DTS tools. DTS was included with earlier versions of Microsoft SQL Server, and was almost always used with SQL Server databases, although it could be used independently with other databases.

A convention is a set of agreed, stipulated, or generally accepted norms. It typically helps common efficiency or understanding but is not required, as opposed to a strict standard or protocol. In programming, a typical kind of convention is the coding convention which stipulates how programmers should format and style their programs.

ActiveResource is the main class for mapping RESTful resources as models in a Rails application

In C++ placement new is used to construct an object at a particular memory location or to pass additional arguments to an allocation function.

Version 2.8 of the Scala language for the JVM. Use only if your question is specifically related to features of this version.

Grids are familiar in the client/server development world. Basically a grid is a kind of mini spreadsheet, commonly used to display details on master-detail forms. From HTML terms, a grid is a “super-table” with its own scrollable viewport.