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A BroadcastReceiver is basically a mechanism to relay Intents through the OS to perform specific actions. A classic definition being "A Broadcast receiver is an Android component which allows you to register for system or application events." LocalBroadcastManager is a way to send ...

A numeric type used to store 8-bit signed integers. sbyte is an alias for System.SByte, and takes up 1 byte of memory. For the unsigned equivalent, use byte. Valid range is -127 to 127 (the leftover is used to store the sign). sbyte a = 127; // 127 sbyte b = -127; // -127 sbyte c = 200; // Err...

To open an app with defined URL scheme todolist://: Objective-C NSURL *myURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"todolist://there/is/something/to/do"]; [[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:myURL]; Swift let stringURL = "todolist://there/is/something/to/do" if let url = NSURL(s...

Here is a generic ViewHolder class that you can use with any DataBinding layout. Here an instance of particular ViewDataBinding class is created using the inflated View object and DataBindingUtil utility class. import android.databinding.DataBindingUtil; import android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerVi...

You can communicate two activities so that Activity A can be notified of an event happening in Activity B. Activity A final String eventName = "your.package.goes.here.EVENT"; @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { registerEventReceiver(); super.onCre...

Your DocumentDB database can be created by using the CreateDatabaseAsync method of the DocumentClient class. A database is the logical container of JSON document storage partitioned across collections. using System.Net; using System.Threading.Tasks; using Microsoft.Azure.Documents; using Microso...

Deleting a database will remove the database and all children resources (collections, documents, etc.). await this.client.DeleteDatabaseAsync(UriFactory.CreateDatabaseUri(databaseName));

A job queue that maintains a worker pool, useful for doing things like background processing in web servers: package main import ( "fmt" "runtime" "strconv" "sync" "time" ) // Job - interface for job processing type Job interf...

GC (Garbage Collector) is responsible for cleaning our garbage. While GC cleans our garbage, he removes the unused objects from the managed heap which cause heap fragmentation. When GC is done with the removal, it performs a heap compression (defragmintation) which involves moving objects on the he...

using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.Schema; public class Department { ... public virtual ICollection<Employee> PrimaryEmployees { get; set; } public virtual ICollection<Employee> SecondaryEmployees { get; set; } } public class Employee { ...

using System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.Schema; [ComplexType] public class BlogDetails { public DateTime? DateCreated { get; set; } [MaxLength(250)] public string Description { get; set; } } public class Blog { ... public BlogDetails BlogDetail { get...

Any attempt to modify a const object results in undefined behavior. This applies to const variables, members of const objects, and class members declared const. (However, a mutable member of a const object is not const.) Such an attempt can be made through const_cast: const int x = 123; const_cas...

You will need a domain name from a registrar. In the gh-pages branch of your project repository, or the main branch of your username.github.io repository, create a CNAME file with the contents www.yourdomain.com - the canonical domain. At your registrar's domain configuration page, point your doma...

The $Label variable can be used to display text defined in your custom labels. <apex:outputText value="{!$Label.Welcome_Message}" /> You can do formatting with labels as well. Suppose you have a custom label named Welcome_Message defined as Welcome to our site, {0}! You could...

Exec sp_configure 'show advanced options' ,1 RECONFIGURE GO -- Show all configure sp_configure

Exec sp_configure 'backup compression default',1 GO RECONFIGURE;

EXEC sp_configure 'xp_cmdshell', 1 GO RECONFIGURE

EXEC sp_configure "number of checkpoint tasks", 4

Download the latest version of ANTLR and extract it to a folder. You can use also Maven, Gradle, or other build tool to depend on its runtime (the classes the generated grammars use): org.antlr:antlr4-runtime. In order to automatically -as part of the build process- generate the parser in a maven ...

The observer pattern is a software design pattern in which an object (called subject) maintains a list of its dependents (called observers), and notifies them automatically of any state changes, usually by calling one of their methods. Ruby provides a simple mechanism to implement the Observer desi...