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Use class introspection

You can use a class to mimic the switch/case structure. The following is using introspection of a class (using the getattr() function that resolves a string into a bound method on an instance) to resolve the "case" part. Then that introspecting method is aliased to the __call__ method to ...

Python Language • Alternatives to switch statement from other languages

Using a context manager

Another way, which is very readable and elegant, but far less efficient than a if/else structure, is to build a class such as follows, that will read and store the value to compare with, expose itself within the context as a callable that will return true if it matches the stored value: class Switc...

Python Language • Alternatives to switch statement from other languages

Label with bindable collection of Spans

I created custom label with wrapper around FormattedText property: public class MultiComponentLabel : Label { public IList<TextComponent> Components { get; set; } public MultiComponentLabel() { var components = new ObservableCollection<TextComponent>(); ...

Xamarin.Forms • Creating custom controls

Performing an action on a view

It is possible to perform ViewActions on a view using the perform method. The ViewActions class provides helper methods for the most common actions, like: ViewActions.click() ViewActions.typeText() ViewActions.clearText() For example, to click on the view: onView(...).perform(click()); onVi...

Android • Testing UI with Espresso

Finding a view with onView

With the ViewMatchers you can find view in the current view hierarchy. To find a view, use the onView() method with a view matcher which selects the correct view. The onView() methods return an object of type ViewInteraction. For example, finding a view by its R.id is as simple as: onView(withId(...

Android • Testing UI with Espresso

Bulkification

If you do row-by-row processing in Salesforce, you'll probably reach the governor limit quickly. This is especially true with triggers and things that fire when you don't expect them. One documented method of escaping the governor limit is bulkification. Note: The following information is based on ...

Salesforce • Trigger Bulkification

Inheritance Modifiers (on classes)

Inherits Specifies the base (or parent) class Public Class Person End Class Public Class Customer Inherits Person End Class 'One line notation Public Class Student : Inherits Person End Class Possible objects: Dim p As New Person Dim c As New Customer Dim s As New Student ...

Visual Basic .NET Language • OOP Keywords

Inheritance Modifiers (on properties and methods)

Overridable Allows a property or method in a class to be overridden in a derived class. Public Class Person Public Overridable Sub DoSomething() Console.WriteLine("Person") End Sub End Class Overrides Overrides an Overridable property or method defined in the base...

Visual Basic .NET Language • OOP Keywords

Installation or Setup

Chart.js can be included in several different ways: NPM Run the following command on your NPM project directory npm install chart.js --save CDN Include a script tag in your HTML linking to the chart.js CDN <html> <body> <script type="text/javascript" s...

chart.js • Getting started with chart.js

Using character constants instead of string literals, and vice versa

In C, character constants and string literals are different things. A character surrounded by single quotes like 'a' is a character constant. A character constant is an integer whose value is the character code that stands for the character. How to interpret character constants with multiple charac...

C Language • Common pitfalls

Introduction

Ruby has three types of objects: Classes and modules which are instances of class Class or class Module. Instances of classes. Singleton Classes. Each object has a class which contains its methods: class Example end object = Example.new object.class # => Example Example.class # ...

Ruby Language • Singleton Class

Accessing Singleton Class

There are two ways to get singleton class of an object singleton_class method. Reopening singleton class of an object and returning self. object.singleton_class singleton_class = class << object self end

Ruby Language • Singleton Class

Accessing Instance/Class Variables in Singleton Classes

Singleton classes share their instance/class variables with their object. class Example @@foo = :example end def Example.foo class_variable_get :@@foo end Example.foo #=> :example class Example def initialize @foo = 1 end def foo @foo end end e = Ex...

Ruby Language • Singleton Class

Flowing execution context with AsyncLocal

When you need to pass some data from the parent task to its children tasks, so it logically flows with the execution, use AsyncLocal class: void Main() { AsyncLocal<string> user = new AsyncLocal<string>(); user.Value = "initial user"; // this does not aff...

.NET Framework • Task Parallel Library (TPL)

Formatting console output

Many of the console's print methods can also handle C-like string formatting, using % tokens: console.log('%s has %d points', 'Sam', 100); Displays Sam has 100 points. The full list of format specifiers in Javascript is: SpecifierOutput%sFormats the value as a string%i or %dFormats the value a...

JavaScript • Console

Basic subscription to Time.every event with 'unsubscribe'

0.18.0 Model is passed to subscriptions which means that every state change can modify subscriptions. import Html exposing ( Html, div, text, button ) import Html.Events exposing ( onClick ) import Time main : Program Never Model Msg main = Html.program { init = init ,...

Elm Language • Subscriptions

Basic loading and playing a video on the canvas.

The canvas can be used to display video from a variety of sources. This example shows how to load a video as a file resource, display it and add a simple click on screen play/pause toggle. This stackoverflow self answered question How do I display a video using HTML5 canvas tag shows the following ...

html5-canvas • Media types and the canvas

StackOverflowError & recursion to loop

If a recursive call goes "too deep", this results in a StackOverflowError. Java allocates a new frame for every method call on its thread's stack. However, the space of each thread's stack is limited. Too many frames on the stack leads to the Stack Overflow (SO). Example public static vo...

Java Language • Recursion

Getting started on iOS

Prerequisites Create a new project and add an iOS app to that project in the Firebase Console. Download and include GoogleServices-Info.plist in your application. Add Firebase Storage to your app Add the following dependency to your project's Podfile: pod 'Firebase/Storage' Run pod insta...

firebase • Storage

Packing function arguments

In functions, you can define a number of mandatory arguments: def fun1(arg1, arg2, arg3): return (arg1,arg2,arg3) which will make the function callable only when the three arguments are given: fun1(1, 2, 3) and you can define the arguments as optional, by using default values: def fun...

Python Language • List destructuring (aka packing and unpacking)