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Convert NSDate that is composed from hour and minute (only) to a full NSDate

There are many cases when one has created an NSDate from only an hour and minute format, i.e: 08:12 The downside for this situation is that your NSDate is almost completely "naked" and what you need to do is to create: day, month, year, second and time zone in order to this object to &quo...

Objective-C Language • NSDate

Converting NSDate to NSString

If ww have NSDate object, and we want to convert it into NSString. There are different types of Date strings. How we can do that?, It is very simple. Just 3 steps. Create NSDateFormatter Object NSDateFormatter *dateFormatter = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init]; Set the date format in whi...

Objective-C Language • NSDate

`return` only returns from the lambda, not the outer method

The return method only returns from the lambda, not the outer method. Beware that this is different from Scala and Kotlin! void threeTimes(IntConsumer r) { for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) { r.accept(i); } } void demo() { threeTimes(i -> { System.out.println(i); return...

Java Language • Lambda Expressions

Converting (Parsing) a String to a Date

If you know the format of the string you are converting (parsing) you should use DateTime.ParseExact Dim dateString As String = "12.07.2003" Dim dateFormat As String = "dd.MM.yyyy" Dim dateValue As Date dateValue = DateTime.ParseExact(dateString, dateFormat, Globalization.C...

Visual Basic .NET Language • Date

Converting a Date To A String

Simply use the .ToString overload of a DateTime object to get the format you require: Dim dateValue As DateTime = New DateTime(2001, 03, 06) Dim dateString As String = dateValue.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd") '2001-03-06

Visual Basic .NET Language • Date

Introduction

Example of declarations are: int a; /* declaring single identifier of type int */ The above declaration declares single identifier named a which refers to some object with int type. int a1, b1; /* declaring 2 identifiers of type int */ The second declaration declares 2 identifiers named a1 a...

C Language • Declarations

Positioning Tooltips

By default, the tooltip will appear on top of the element. We can use data-placement attribute to set the position of the tooltip on top, bottom, left or the right side of the element. <a href="#" data-toggle="tooltip" data-placement="top" title="Top tooltip&q...

twitter-bootstrap • Tooltip

Calling a Tcl command from an expression

Sometimes you need to call a Tcl command from your expression. For example, supposing you need the length of a string in it. To do that, you just use a [...] sequence in the expression: set halfTheStringLength [expr { [string length $theString] / 2 }] You can call any Tcl command this way, but i...

tcl • Expressions

D3.js component with ReactJS

This example is based on a blog post by Nicolas Hery. It utilizes ES6 classes and ReactJS's lifecycle methods to keep the D3 component updated d3_react.html <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Hello, d3React!</title>...

d3.js • Using D3 with other frameworks

Versions

The first release of SciPy, vsn 0.10, was released on August 14th 2001. The current release of SciPy (correct at 26th July 2016) is v 0.17 (stable) with v .18 forthcoming soon. Details of former releases are listed here

scipy • Getting started with scipy

Specifying revision by object name

$ git show dae86e1950b1277e545cee180551750029cfe735 $ git show dae86e19 You can specify revision (or in truth any object: tag, tree i.e. directory contents, blob i.e. file contents) using SHA-1 object name, either full 40-byte hexadecimal string, or a substring that is unique to the repository. ...

Git • Git revisions syntax

The default revision: HEAD

$ git show # equivalent to 'git show HEAD' 'HEAD' names the commit on which you based the changes in the working tree, and is usually the symbolic name for the current branch. Many (but not all) commands that take revision parameter defaults to 'HEAD' if it is missing.

Git • Git revisions syntax

Compiling on Ubuntu

To build vim from source on Ubuntu: Get a copy of the source code by downloading from the official Vim repository on GitHub. Get the dependencies by running $ sudo apt-get build-dep vim-gnome or similar. Go to the directory of the Vim source code: cd vim/src Run $ ./configure. You can customiz...

vim • How to Compile Vim

Introduction to type-level programming

If we consider a heterogenous list, wherein the elements of the list have varied but known types, it might be desirable to be able to perform operations on the elements of the list collectively without discarding the elements' type information. The following example implements a mapping operation ov...

Scala Language • Type-level Programming

-XXexitOnOutOfMemory

This option makes JRockit JVM exit on the first occurrence of an out of memory error. It can be used if you prefer restarting an instance of JRockit JVM rather than handling out of memory errors. Enter this command at startup to force JRockit JVM to exit on the first occurrence of an out of memory e...

Java Language • JVM Flags

Association Lists

Plain lists are useful for representing a sequence of elements, but sometimes it is more helpful to represent a kind of key to value mapping. Common Lisp provides several ways to do this, including genuine hash tables (see 18.1 Hash Table Concepts). There are two primary ways or representing key t...

common-lisp • Types of Lists

Thread Interruption / Stopping Threads

Each Java Thread has an interrupt flag, which is initially false. Interrupting a thread, is essentially nothing more than setting that flag to true. The code running on that thread can check the flag on occasion and act upon it. The code can also ignore it completely. But why would each Thread have...

Java Language • Concurrent Programming (Threads)

UILongPressGestureRecognizer

The UILongPressGestureRecognizer lets you listen for a long press on a view. You can set the length of delay before the action method is called. Swift override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() // Long Press let longPressGesture = UILongPressGestureRecognizer(target: self, ...

iOS • UIGestureRecognizer

UIRotationGestureRecognizer

Two fingers rotating around a center can be listened for with the UIRotationGestureRecognizer. This is generally used for rotating a view. Swift override func viewDidLoad() { super.viewDidLoad() // Rotate let rotateGesture = UIRotationGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: #selec...

iOS • UIGestureRecognizer

Jetty Downloads and Documentation

The current release version of Jetty is 9.4. Support is still provided for Jetty 9.2 and 9.3, and maintenance releases are provided for Jetty 7 and Jetty 8 when needed. The most up-to-date distributions can be found on the Jetty Downloads page. It is worth noting that current releases of Jetty requ...

jetty • Official Jetty Resources