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When you show a location to your users, you might want the MKMapView to display a coordinate at a zoom-level instead of setting a region to show. This functionality is not implemented by default, so you need to extend MKMapView with a methods that do the complex calculation from a coordinate and zoo...

In Python 2, writing directly to a file handle returns None: Python 2.x2.3 hi = sys.stdout.write('hello world\n') # Out: hello world type(hi) # Out: <type 'NoneType'> In Python 3, writing to a handle will return the number of characters written when writing text, and the number of by...

Install module and read docs npm i formidable@latest Example of server on 8080 port var formidable = require('formidable'), http = require('http'), util = require('util'); http.createServer(function(req, res) { if (req.url == '/upload' && req.method.toLowerCase() == 'pos...

Each gem has a file in the format of <gem name>.gemspec which contains metadata about the gem and it's files. The format of a gemspec is as follows: Gem::Specification.new do |s| # Details about gem. They are added in the format: s.<detail name> = <detail value> end The ...

Local variables (unlike the other variable classes) do not have any prefix local_variable = "local" p local_variable # => local Its scope is dependent on where it has been declared, it can not be used outside the "declaration containers" scope. For example, if a local va...

Class variables have a class wide scope, they can be declared anywhere in the class. A variable will be considered a class variable when prefixed with @@ class Dinosaur @@classification = "Like a Reptile, but like a bird" def self.classification @@classification ...

Global variables have a global scope and hence, can be used everywhere. Their scope is not dependent on where they are defined. A variable will be considered global, when prefixed with a $ sign. $i_am_global = "omg" class Dinosaur def instance_method p "global vars ca...

Instance variables have an object wide scope, they can be declared anywhere in the object, however an instance variable declared on class level, will only be visible in the class object. A variable will be considered an instance variable when prefixed with @. Instance variables are used to set and g...

Example: Invoke different constructors by passing relevant parameters import java.lang.reflect.*; class NewInstanceWithReflection{ public NewInstanceWithReflection(){ System.out.println("Default constructor"); } public NewInstanceWithReflection( String a){ ...

Reflection is useful when it is properly used for right purpose. By using reflection, you can access private variables and re-initialize final variables. Below is the code snippet, which is not recommended. import java.lang.reflect.*; public class ReflectionDemo{ public static void main(St...

import java.io.FileReader; import java.io.IOException; import javax.script.ScriptEngine; import javax.script.ScriptEngineManager; import javax.script.ScriptException; public class InterfaceImplementationExample { public static interface Pet { public void eat(); } p...

// Obtain an instance of JavaScript engine ScriptEngineManager manager = new ScriptEngineManager(); ScriptEngine engine = manager.getEngineByName("nashorn"); try { // Set value in the global name space of the engine engine.put("name","Nashorn"); // E...

To check if a required gem is installed, from within your code, you can use the following (using nokogiri as an example): begin found_gem = Gem::Specification.find_by_name('nokogiri') require 'nokogiri' .... <the rest of your code> rescue Gem::LoadError end However, this can ...

This can be easily accomplished by calling Enumerable#to_a on a Range object: (1..10).to_a #=> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] (a..b) means that it will include all numbers between a and b. To exclude the last number, use a...b a_range = 1...5 a_range.to_a #=> [1, 2, 3, 4] or...

While in insert mode, you can use <C-r> to paste from a register, which is specified by the next keystroke. <C-r>" for example pastes from the unnamed (") register. See :help registers.

Suppose we want to select a word with a surrounding white space, use the text object aw for around a word using visual mode: Got to normal mode by pressing ESC Type vaw at the beginning of a word This will select the word with white space

Quite often it's necessary to send/upload a file to a remote server, for example, an image, video, audio or a backup of the application database to a remote private server. Assuming the server is expecting a POST request with the content, here's a simple example of how to complete this task in Andro...

You can loop over a file. <cfloop file="#myFile#" index="line"> <cfoutput> #line#<br /> </cfoutput> </cfloop>

You can loop over a Structure or COM collection. <cfset myBooks = StructNew()> <cfset myVariable = StructInsert(myBooks,"ColdFusion","ColdFusion MX Bible")> <cfset myVariable = StructInsert(myBooks,"HTML","HTML Visual QuickStart")> <cf...

Exporting a database is a simple two step process: sqlite> .output mydatabase_dump.sql sqlite> .dump Exporting a table is pretty similar: sqlite> .output mytable_dump.sql sqlite> .dump mytable The output file needs to be defined with .output prior to using .dump; otherwise, the...