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Using the Delegate Pattern (passing data back)

To pass data from the current view controller back to the previous view controller, you can use the delegate pattern. This example assumes that you have made a segue in the Interface Builder and that you set the segue identifier to showSecondViewController. The outlets and actions must also be ho...

iOS • Passing Data between View Controllers

Verbatim strings instruct the compiler to not use character escapes

In a normal string, the backslash character is the escape character, which instructs the compiler to look at the next character(s) to determine the actual character in the string. (Full list of character escapes) In verbatim strings, there are no character escapes (except for "" which is ...

C# Language • Verbatim Strings

Counting the elements of a Foldable structure

length counts the occurences of elements a in a foldable structure t a. ghci> length [7, 2, 9] -- t ~ [] 3 ghci> length (Right 'a') -- t ~ Either e 1 -- 'Either e a' may contain zero or one 'a' ghci> length (Left "foo") -- t ~ Either String 0 ghci> length (3, True) ...

Haskell Language • Foldable

vector: The Exception To So Many, So Many Rules

The standard (section 23.3.7) specifies that a specialization of vector<bool> is provided, which optimizes space by packing the bool values, so that each takes up only one bit. Since bits aren't addressable in C++, this means that several requirements on vector are not placed on vector<bool...

C++ • std::vector

Other Compiler Instructions

Line #line controls the line number and filename reported by the compiler when outputting warnings and errors. void Test() { #line 42 "Answer" #line filename "SomeFile.cs" int life; // compiler warning CS0168 in "SomeFile.cs" at Line 42 #line defa...

C# Language • Preprocessor directives

Use the C standard library

Swift's C interoperability allows you to use functions and types from the C standard library. On Linux, the C standard library is exposed via the Glibc module; on Apple platforms it's called Darwin. #if os(macOS) || os(iOS) || os(tvOS) || os(watchOS) import Darwin #elseif os(Linux) import Glibc...

Swift Language • Working with C and Objective-C

Setting up the upstream remote

If you have cloned a fork (e.g. an open source project on Github) you may not have push access to the upstream repository, so you need both your fork but be able to fetch the upstream repository. First check the remote names: $ git remote -v origin https://github.com/myusername/repo.git (fetch...

Git • Getting started with Git

Reading the body of an HTTP GET request

URL url = new URL("http://example.com"); HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection(); try { BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream())); // use a string builder to bufferize the response body //...

Android • HttpURLConnection

The Option type

A nice example of a parameterized type is the Option type. It is essentially just the following definition (with several more methods defined on the type): sealed abstract class Option[+A] { def isEmpty: Boolean def get: A final def fold[B](ifEmpty: => B)(f: A => B): B = if (i...

Scala Language • Type Parameterization (Generics)

Linear regression on the mtcars dataset

The built-in mtcars data frame contains information about 32 cars, including their weight, fuel efficiency (in miles-per-gallon), speed, etc. (To find out more about the dataset, use help(mtcars)). If we are interested in the relationship between fuel efficiency (mpg) and weight (wt) we may start p...

R Language • Linear Models (Regression)

Adding the Doctype

The <!DOCTYPE> declaration should always be included at the top of the HTML document, before the <html> tag. 5 See HTML 5 Doctype for details on the HTML 5 Doctype. <!DOCTYPE html> 4.01 See HTML 4.01 Doctypes for details on how these types differ from each other. Stri...

HTML • Doctypes

Get the list of all databases on a server

Method 1: Below query will be applicable for SQL Server 2000+ version (Contains 12 columns) SELECT * FROM dbo.sysdatabases Method 2: Below query extract information about databases with more informations (ex: State, Isolation, recovery model etc.) Note: This is a catalog view and will be availa...

Microsoft SQL Server • Retrieve information about the database

Opening the Visual Basic Editor (VBE)

Step 1: Open a Workbook Step 2 Option A: Press Alt + F11 This is the standard shortcut to open the VBE. Step 2 Option B: Developer Tab --> View Code First, the Developer Tab must be added to the ribbon. Go to File -> Options -> Customize Ribbon, then check the box for developer. ...

excel-vba • Getting started with excel-vba

Using an explicit count argument to determine the length of the va_list

With any variadic function, the function must know how to interpret the variable arguments list. With the printf() or scanf() functions, the format string tells the function what to expect. The simplest technique is to pass an explicit count of the other arguments (which are normally all the same ...

C Language • Variable arguments

Installing The Entity Framework NuGet Package

In your Visual Studio open the Solution Explorer window then right click on your project then choose Manage NuGet Packages from the menu: In the window that opens type EntityFramework in the search box in the top right. Or if you are using Visual Studio 2015 you'll see something like this: ...

Entity Framework • Getting started with Entity Framework

Create a new Rails app with your choice of database and including the RSpec Testing Tool

Rails uses sqlite3 as the default database, but you can generate a new rails application with a database of your choice. Just add the -d option followed by the name of the database. $ rails new MyApp -T -d postgresql This is a (non-exhaustive) list of available database options: mysql oracle...

Ruby on Rails • Getting started with Ruby on Rails

All and Any with empty arrays

Special care needs to be taken when there is a possibility that an array become an empty array when it comes to logical operators. It is often expected that if all(A) is true then any(A) must be true and if any(A) is false, all(A) must also be false. That is not the case in MATLAB with empty arrays....

MATLAB Language • Using functions with logical output

The all special variable

Modules can have a special variable named __all__ to restrict what variables are imported when using from mymodule import *. Given the following module: # mymodule.py __all__ = ['imported_by_star'] imported_by_star = 42 not_imported_by_star = 21 Only imported_by_star is imported when usi...

Python Language • Importing modules

Overwrite single file in current working directory with the same from another branch

The checked out file will overwrite not yet commited changes you did in this file. This command will check out the file file.example (which is located in the directory path/to/) and overwrite any changes you might have made to this file. git checkout some-branch path/to/file some-branch can be ...

Git • Branching

Using the SQLiteOpenHelper class

public class DatabaseHelper extends SQLiteOpenHelper { private static final String DATABASE_NAME = "Example.db"; private static final int DATABASE_VERSION = 3; // For all Primary Keys _id should be used as column name public static final String COLUMN_ID = "_id&q...

Android • SQLite