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When a user subscribes to a channel, you may want to set state for that newly subscribed user. While there is a subscribe with state API, there are some scenarios where this is not the most optimal/reliable technique (like during a disconnect/reconnect situation - the state will be lost and not rein...

Boolean is a type, having two values, denoted as true or false. This code sets the value of $foo as true and $bar as false: $foo = true; $bar = false; true and false are not case sensitive, so TRUE and FALSE can be used as well, even FaLsE is possible. Using lower case is most common and recom...

var='0123456789abcdef' # Define a zero-based offset $ printf '%s\n' "${var:3}" 3456789abcdef # Offset and length of substring $ printf '%s\n' "${var:3:4}" 3456 4.2 # Negative length counts from the end of the string $ printf '%s\n' "${var:3:-5}" 3456789a...

A class is a user-defined type. A class is introduced with the class, struct or union keyword. In colloquial usage, the term "class" usually refers only to non-union classes. A class is a collection of class members, which can be: member variables (also called "fields"), mem...

To get started with the jQuery UI library, you'll need to add the jQuery script, the jQuery UI script, and the jQuery UI stylesheet to your HTML. First, download jQuery UI; choose the features you need on the download page. Unzip your download, and put jquery-ui.css and jquery-ui.js (and jquery.js)...

When you make a label and set its text to be more than a single line that it can display, it will be truncated and you will see only one line of text ending with three dots (...). This is because a property called numberOfLines is set to 1, and therefore only one line will be displayed. It is a comm...

UIButtons can be initialized in a frame: Swift let button = UIButton(frame: CGRect(x: x, y: y, width: width, height: height) Objective C UIButton *button = [[UIButton alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(x, y, width, height)]; A specific type of UIButton can be created like this: Swift let but...

The underlying title label, if one exists, can be fetched using Swift var label: UILabel? = button.titleLabel Objective C UILabel *label = button.titleLabel; This can be used to set the font of the title label, for example Swift button.titleLabel?.font = UIFont.boldSystemFontOfSize(12) ...

To get the “available” area of the screen (i.e. not including any bars on the edges of the screen, but including window chrome and other windows: var availableArea = { pos: { x: window.screen.availLeft, y: window.screen.availTop }, size: { width: window.scr...

To determine the color and pixel depths of the screen: var pixelDepth = window.screen.pixelDepth, colorDepth = window.screen.colorDepth;

A common pitfall is confusing the equality comparison operators is and ==. a == b compares the value of a and b. a is b will compare the identities of a and b. To illustrate: a = 'Python is fun!' b = 'Python is fun!' a == b # returns True a is b # returns False a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] b = a ...

Bold Text To bold text, use the <strong> or <b> tags: <strong>Bold Text Here</strong> or <b>Bold Text Here</b> What’s the difference? Semantics. <strong> is used to indicate that the text is fundamentally or semantically important to the surrounding...

To offset text either upward or downward you can use the tags <sup> and <sub>. To create superscript: <sup>superscript here</sup> To create subscript: <sub>subscript here</sub>

If you are using the PASSWORD_DEFAULT method to let the system choose the best algorithm to hash your passwords with, as the default increases in strength you may wish to rehash old passwords as users log in <?php // first determine if a supplied password is valid if (password_verify($plaintex...

Markdown tables are physically represented using dash - for to separate the header row from the content ones and pipe | for columns. ColumnColumnCellCell is produced by Column | Column ------ | ------ Cell | Cell You can also populate a table in any way you want - LetterDigitCharactera4...

Add the following target in your build.xml <!-- Bootstrap ivy --> <target name="ivy.bootstrap" description="Download Apache Ivy"> <!-- Define the version to use --> <property name="ivy.version">2.4.0</property> <!-- ...

Declare a new variable with var, followed by a name, type, and value: var num: Int = 10 Variables can have their values changed: num = 20 // num now equals 20 Unless they're defined with let: let num: Int = 10 // num cannot change Swift infers the type of variable, so you don't always ha...

Properties can be added to a class or struct (technically enums too, see "Computed Properties" example). These add values that associate with instances of classes/structs: class Dog { var name = "" } In the above case, instances of Dog have a property named name of type...

Local variables are defined within a function, method, or closure: func printSomething() { let localString = "I'm local!" print(localString) } func printSomethingAgain() { print(localString) // error } Global variables are defined outside of a function, method, or c...

The following is handy to have in build logs that identifies the build machine, and some parameters; simply make you main task depend on this task to print it before every build. <!-- Print Environment Info --> <target name="environment"> <!-- Get the current ti...