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A bootstrap is a series of procedures ran when an application starts up or a request over the web is received. For questions about Twitter's Bootstrap CSS framework, please see the tag. For "bootstrapping" in statistics, please see the tag.

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PHP: bootstrap.php

What is bootstrap.php? I got a project that in the .htaccess reads SetEnv AE_BOOTSTRAP /full/path/to/_app/bootstrap.php However, that file does not exist in the project... Is this something from PHP?
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How to intelligently install .NET 4.x using WiX Burn

When installing an application that can use either .NET 4.0 or 4.5, what is the best practice when installing the prerequisites .NET framework? And how do you implement it using Burn in WiX? These are the options and trade-offs that I am aware…
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Understanding step wise manual bootstrapping of angularJS

I was going through the basics of angularJS about how it is manually bootstrapped. I came across different approach and found this approach to be best fitted. angular.element(document).ready(function(){ …
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How to deploy 64-bit and a 32-bit Windows Installer package as a single setup?

I need to deploy a software setup targeting both, Windows 64bit and 32bit. I have two separate Windows Installer databases (created with WiX) for each platform, and I am using dotNetInstaller to combine both into a single installation bootstrapper…
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What is the Cloud-Init equivalent for Windows?

It seems that the stock bootstrapping process is a bit lacking on Windows. Linux has cloud-init which will install packages, store files, and run a bash script from user data. Windows has ec2config but there is currently no support to run a cmd or…
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Terraform azurerm_virtual_machine_extension

I'm using azurerm_virtual_machine_extension to bootstrap some virtual machines in azure. All examples i've found show using something similar to: settings = <
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Difference between bootloader and bootstrap loader?

how boot loader is different from bootstrap loader. According to me bootstrap loaders are stored in ROM and boot loaders are in hard disk in MBR (please correct me if I am wrong). bootstrap loader is the first program which get executed after…
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Why does GCC compile itself 3 times?

I have compiled GCC from source but I can't seem to fully understand the utility of gcc compiling itself three times. What benefit does this serve ? This answer says: Build new version of GCC with existing C compiler re-build new version of GCC…
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How to deploy a Python application with libraries as source with no further dependencies?

Background: I have a small Python application that makes life for developers releasing software in our company a bit easier. I build an executable for Windows using py2exe. The application as well as the binary are checked into Subversion.…
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Why 55 AA is used as the boot signature on IBM PCs?

Why does the IBM PC architecture use 55 AA magic numbers in the last two bytes of a bootsector for the boot signature? I suspect that has something to do with the bit patterns they are: 01010101 10101010, but don't know what. My guesses are…
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Zend Framework Layout

I'm beginning with Zend Framework and I would like to understand Bootstrap file. I've learned all _init methods are executed by default but it seems confusing to me. Anyway that is not what I would like to ask. A came around the…
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c++11 std::unique_ptr error cmake 3.11.3 bootstrap

I am trying to bootstrap cmake 3.11.3 on Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS xenial. I have upgrade my gnu g++ compiler as follows: > $ g++ --version g++ (Ubuntu 8.1.0-5ubuntu1~16.04) 8.1.0 Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see…
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Understanding Laravel Mix

Understanding Laravel Mix I am currently in the process of migrating one of my websites to Laravel in order to make it a little more maintainable in future... I have plenty of experience building API's with Laravel but I have very limited experience…
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PHPUnit configuration (phpunit.xml) -- loading in a bootstrap?

Situation We're using PHPUnit in our project and are using a phpunit.xml to ensure things like backupGlobals is turned off. To further ensure the include path is set and autoloading is active, we also cascade our test bootstraps. That is to say,…
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Can Javascript be Bootstrapped?

Will Javascript on the rapid rise and it being adapted for all sorts of things, my question is: Can Javascript be bootstrapped? More specifically, would a JS parser written in JS be fast enough to be useful at all? What are the design decisions that…
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