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When SQL/Plus or SQL Developer display dates they will perform an implicit conversion to a string using the default date format model (see the Setting the Default Date Format Model example). You can change how a date is displayed by changing the NLS_DATE_FORMAT parameter.

When it comes to geographic data, R shows to be a powerful tool for data handling, analysis and visualisation. Often, spatial data is avaliable as an XY coordinate data set in tabular form. This example will show how to create a spatial data set from an XY data set. The packages rgdal and sp provi...

rgdal ESRI shape files can easily be imported into R by using the function readOGR() from the rgdal package. library(rgdal) shp <- readORG(dsn = "/path/to/your/file", layer = "filename") It is important to know, that the dsn must not end with / and the layer does not all...

package { import flash.text.TextField; import flash.display.Sprite; public class TextHello extends Sprite { public function TextHello() { var tf:TextField = new TextField(); tf.text = "Hello World!" tf.x = 50; tf...

'Prefer composition over inheritance' is an important and popular programming principle, used to assign behaviors to objects, as opposed to inheriting many often unneeded behaviors. Behaviour factories var speaker = function (state) { var noise = state.noise || 'grunt'; return { ...

macro(set_my_variable _INPUT) if("${_INPUT}" STREQUAL "Foo") set(my_output_variable "foo") else() set(my_output_variable "bar") endif() endmacro(set_my_variable) Use the macro: set_my_variable("Foo") message(STATUS ${my_outpu...

A method defined in an interface is by default public abstract. When an abstract class implements an interface, any methods which are defined in the interface do not have to be implemented by the abstract class. This is because a class that is declared abstract can contain abstract method declaratio...

function listener(e:Event):void { var m:MovieClip=e.target as MovieClip; m.x++; } If such a listener is attached to an object that's not a MovieClip descendant (for example, a Sprite), the typecast will fail, and any subsequent operations with its result will throw the 1009 error.

x=anObject.aProperty.anotherProperty.getSomething().data; Here, any object before the dot can end up being null, and using methods that return complex objects only increases the complication to debug the null error. Worst case if the method is prone to extraneous failures, say retrieving data ove...

s=this.getChildByName("garbage"); if (s.parent==this) {...} getChildByName() is one of the many functions that can return null if an error occurred when processing its input. Therefore, if you are receiving an object from any function that can possibly return null, check for null first...

prerequisite of scrapy installation: Python 2.7 or above 3.3 pip and setuptools Python packages. lxml OpenSSL. You can install Scrapy using pip. To install using pip run: pip install Scrapy Platform specific installation Anaconda This is the recommended way to install Scrapy. ...

sqldf() from the package sqldf allows the use of SQLite queries to select and manipulate data in R. SQL queries are entered as character strings. To select the first 10 rows of the "diamonds" dataset from the package ggplot2, for example: data("diamonds") head(diamonds) #...

Windows There are two options how to install Kivy: First ensure python tools are up-to-date. python -m pip install --upgrade pip wheel setuptools Then install the basic dependencies. python -m pip install docutils pygments pypiwin32 kivy.deps.sdl2 kivy.deps.glew Although Kivy already has p...

The JsonPipe can be used for debugging the state of any given internal. Code @Component({ selector: 'json-example', template: `<div> <p>Without JSON pipe:</p> <pre>{{object}}</pre> <p>With JSON pipe:</p> <pre>{{object | json...

You can install three.js via npm: npm install three You can add it from a CDN to your HTML: <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/three.js/r83/three.js"></script> You can use the three.js editor to give it a try and download the project as an ex...

Detailed instructions on getting tfs set up or installed.

This helper validates that the specified attributes are not empty. class Person < ApplicationRecord validates :name, presence: true end Person.create(name: "John").valid? # => true Person.create(name: nil).valid? # => false You can use the absence helper to validate th...

Use following methods if you want to skip the validations. These methods will save the object to the database even if it is invalid. decrement! decrement_counter increment! increment_counter toggle! touch update_all update_attribute update_column update_columns update_counters You ca...

Overload resolution occurs after name lookup. This means that a better-matching function will not be selected by overload resolution if it loses name lookup: void f(int x); struct S { void f(double x); void g() { f(42); } // calls S::f because global f is not visible here, ...

You can create parser error messages according to your script needs. This is through the argparse.ArgumentParser.error function. The below example shows the script printing a usage and an error message to stderr when --foo is given but not --bar. import argparse parser = argparse.ArgumentParser...