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Laravel 5 App on Shared Hosting on Linux Server

By default Laravel project's public folder exposes the content of the app which can be requested from anywhere by anyone, the rest of the app code is invisible or inaccessible to anyone without proper permissions. After developing the application on your development machine, it needs to be pushed t...

Laravel • Deploy Laravel 5 App on Shared Hosting on Linux Server

A very simple Hello World application

Starting from a fresh installation of Codeigniter 3, here is a simple way to start with an Hello World application, to break the ice with this solid PHP framework. To do this you can start creating the view that we want to be shown for our Hello World app. We are going to put it in your applicatio...

codeigniter • Let's start: Hello World

Let's use the controller a little more

Now we'll try going for a little more complex example, using the capabilities of the controller to fill in the view. Here is our view: /application/views/hello_world.php <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <titl...

codeigniter • Let's start: Hello World

Let's choose our greetings: Hello World or Good Bye World or ...?

Let's say that we want to have an alternative greeting that is accessible through a different URL. We might create a new function or even a new controller for that, but a best practice is to optimize what we already have, to make it work at it's best! To do this, we'll keep the same view as in the ...

codeigniter • Let's start: Hello World

Using collection initializer inside object initializer

public class Tag { public IList<string> Synonyms { get; set; } } Synonyms is a collection-type property. When the Tag object is created using object initializer syntax, Synonyms can also be initialized with collection initializer syntax: Tag t = new Tag { Synonyms = new List&...

C# Language • Collection Initializers

Recursively describe an object structure

Recursion is when a method calls itself. Preferably it will do so until a specific condition is met and then it will exit the method normally, returning to the point from which the method was called. If not, a stack overflow exception might occur due to too many recursive calls. /// <summary>...

C# Language • Recursion

Write Data to a File

To write the contents of a string to a file: Dim toWrite As String = "This will be written to the file." System.IO.File.WriteAllText("filename.txt", toWrite) WriteAllText will open the specified file, write the data, and then close the file. If the target file exists, it is ...

Visual Basic .NET Language • File Handling

Read All Contents of a File

To read the contents to a file into a string variable: Dim fileContents As String = System.IO.File.ReadAllText("filename.txt") ReadAllText will open the specified file, read data to the end, then close the file. To read a file, separating it into an array element for each line: Dim f...

Visual Basic .NET Language • File Handling

Automatic package installation on emacs start-up

;; package.el is available since emacs 24 (require 'package) ;; Add melpa package source when using package list (add-to-list 'package-archives '("melpa" . "http://melpa.org/packages/") t) ;; Load emacs packages and activate them ;; This must come before configurations o...

emacs • Package Management

Multiple page PDF

UIGraphicsBeginPDFContextToFile(fileName, CGRectZero, nil); UIGraphicsBeginPDFPageWithInfo(CGRectMake(0, 0, 600, 792), nil); UIGraphicsBeginPDFPageWithInfo(CGRectMake(0, 0, 600, 792), nil); UIGraphicsBeginPDFPageWithInfo(CGRectMake(0, 0, 600, 792), nil); ...

iOS • PDF Creation in iOS

Simple WCF service

Minimal requirements for WCF service is one ServiceContract with one OperationContract. Service contract: [ServiceContract] public interface IDemoService { [OperationContract] CompositeType SampleMethod(); } Service contract implementation: public class DemoService : IDemoService...

wcf • Getting started with wcf

Lists

Lists are a special kind of compound term. Lists are defined inductively: the atom [] is a list, denoting the empty list. if Ls is a list, then the term '.'(L, Ls) is also a list. There is a special syntax for denoting lists conveniently in Prolog: The list '.'(a, '.'(b, '.'(c, []))) can a...

Prolog Language • Data Structures

Association lists

In all serious Prolog systems, association lists are available to allow faster than linear access to a collection of elements. These association lists are typically based on balanced trees like AVL trees. There is a public domain library called library(assoc) that ships with many Prolog systems and ...

Prolog Language • Data Structures

Gotcha: Exception in Dispose method masking other errors in Using blocks

Consider the following block of code. try { using (var disposable = new MyDisposable()) { throw new Exception("Couldn't perform operation."); } } catch (Exception ex) { Console.WriteLine(ex.Message); } class MyDisposable : IDisposable { public vo...

C# Language • Using Statement

?. (Null Conditional Operator)

6.0 Introduced in C# 6.0, the Null Conditional Operator ?. will immediately return null if the expression on its left-hand side evaluates to null, instead of throwing a NullReferenceException. If its left-hand side evaluates to a non-null value, it is treated just like a normal . operator. Note tha...

C# Language • Operators

Connecting to the local Wildfly server

To connect to a local Wildfly server via the command line, the tool bin/jboss-cli.sh can be used: $ ./bin/jboss-cli.sh --connect [standalone@localhost:9990 /] To connect to a remote Wildfly server, use the --controller option: $ ./bin/jboss-cli.sh --connect --controller=localhost:9990 [stan...

wildfly • Command line interface (CLI)

Using an uninitialized local variable

int a; std::cout << a; // Undefined behavior! This results in undefined behavior, because a is uninitialised. It is often, incorrectly, claimed that this is because the value is "indeterminate", or "whatever value was in that memory location before". However, it is th...

C++ • Undefined Behavior

call/N predicates

The call/N family of predicates can call arbitrary Prolog goals at run time: ?- G=true, call(G). true. ?- G=(true,false), call(G). false.

Prolog Language • Higher-Order Programming

maplist/[2,3]

maplist/2 and maplist/3 are higher-order predicates, which allow the definition of a predicate to be lifted about a single element to lists of such elements. These predicates can be defined using call/2 and call/3 as building blocks and ship with many Prolog systems. For example: ?- maplist(dif(a)...

Prolog Language • Higher-Order Programming

Meta-call

In Prolog, the so-called meta-call is a built-in language feature. All Prolog code is represented by Prolog terms, allowing goals to be constructed dynamically and be used like other goals without additional predicates: ?- Goal = dif(X, Y), Goal. dif(X, Y). Using this mechanism, other higher-or...

Prolog Language • Higher-Order Programming