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Create a dispatch queue

You can create your own queue using dispatch_queue_create Objective-C dispatch_queue_t queue = dispatch_queue_create("com.example.myqueue", DISPATCH_QUEUE_SERIAL); Swift // Before Swift 3 let queue = dispatch_queue_create("com.example.myqueue", DISPATCH_QUEUE_SERIAL) // ...

iOS • GCD (Grand Central Dispatch)

Adding Transforms to a CALayer (translate, rotate, scale)

Basics There are a number of different transforms you can do on a layer, but the basic ones are translate (move) scale rotate To do transforms on a CALayer, you set the layer's transform property to a CATransform3D type. For example, to translate a layer, you would do something like this:...

iOS • CALayer

Disable Animations

CALayer property animations are enabled by default. When this is undesirable, they can be disabled as follows. Swift CATransaction.begin() CATransaction.setDisableActions(true) // change layer properties that you don't want to animate CATransaction.commit() Objective-C [CATransaction be...

iOS • CALayer

Creating a Xposed Module

Xposed is a framework that allows you to hook method calls of other apps. When you do a modification by decompiling an APK, you can insert/change commands directly wherever you want. However, you will need to recompile/sign the APK afterwards and you can only distribute the whole package. With Xpose...

Android • Xposed

Updating Auto Layout with Trait Collection Changes

Making an app adaptive – that is, responding to size class changes by changing your layout – often involves lots of help from the Auto Layout system. One of the primary ways apps become adaptive is by updating the active Auto Layout constraints when a view's size class changes. For example, conside...

iOS • Size Classes and Adaptivity

Floating point literals

Floating point literals are used to represent signed real numbers. The following suffixes can be used to specify type of a literal: SuffixTypeExamplesnonedouble3.1415926 -3E6f, Ffloat3.1415926f 2.1E-6Fl, Llong double3.1415926L 1E126L In order to use these suffixes, the literal must be a floating p...

C Language • Literals for numbers, characters and strings

Catch-all route

Suppose we want to have a route that allows an unbound number of segments like so: http://example.com/Products/ (view all products) http://example.com/Products/IT http://example.com/Products/IT/Laptops http://example.com/Products/IT/Laptops/Ultrabook http://example.com/Products/IT/Laptops/Ult...

asp.net-mvc • Routing

Your first Sinatra app

# app.rb require 'sinatra' get '/' do 'Hello, Universe!' end Install Sinatra: gem install sinatra Run the app: ruby app.rb That's it! Access your app at http://localhost:4567

sinatra • Getting started with sinatra

Including LaTeX Preample Commands

There are two possible ways of including LaTeX preamble commands (e.g. \usepackage) in a RMarkdown document. 1. Using the YAML option header-includes: --- title: "Including LaTeX Preample Commands in RMarkdown" header-includes: - \renewcommand{\familydefault}{cmss} - \usepacka...

R Language • Creating reports with RMarkdown

A simple authentication POST request with Jsoup

A simple POST request with authentication data is demonstrated below, note that the username and password field will vary depending on the website: final String USER_AGENT = "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36"; ...

Jsoup • Logging into websites with Jsoup

A more comprehensive authentication POST request with Jsoup

Most websites require a much more complicated process than the one demonstrated above. Common steps for logging into a website are: Get the unique cookie from the initial login form. Inspect the login form to see what the destination url is for the authentication request Parse the login form t...

Jsoup • Logging into websites with Jsoup

Parsing JavaScript Generated Page with Jsoup and HtmUnit

page.html - source code <html> <head> <script src="loadData.js"></script> </head> <body onLoad="loadData()"> <div class="container"> <table id="data" border="1"> <...

Jsoup • Parsing Javascript Generated Pages

@CompileStatic

Enables a code to be statically compiled. Its bytecode will be closer to Java's, thus having better performance, though some dynamic features won't be available. @groovy.transform.CompileStatic class ListMath { def countSize(List<String> strings) { strings.collect { it.size() }...

groovy • AST Transformations

Using uWSGI to run a flask application

The built-in werkzeug server certainly is not suitable for running production servers. The most obvious reason is the fact that the werkzeug server is single-threaded and thus can only handle one request at a time. Because of this we want to use the uWSGI Server to serve our application instead. In...

Flask • Deploying Flask application using uWSGI web server with Nginx

CRTP to avoid code duplication

The example in Visitor Pattern provides a compelling use-case for CRTP: struct IShape { virtual ~IShape() = default; virtual void accept(IShapeVisitor&) const = 0; }; struct Circle : IShape { // ... // Each shape has to implement this method the same way ...

C++ • Curiously Recurring Template Pattern (CRTP)

Creating zip archive from directory

System.IO.Compression.ZipFile.CreateFromDirectory("myfolder", "archive.zip") Create archive.zip file containing files which are in myfolder. In example paths are relative to program working directory. You can specify absolute paths.

Visual Basic .NET Language • File/Folder Compression

Create zip archive dynamicaly

' Create filestream to file Using fileStream = New IO.FileStream("archive.zip", IO.FileMode.Create) ' open zip archive from stream Using archive = New System.IO.Compression.ZipArchive(fileStream, IO.Compression.ZipArchiveMode.Create) ' create file_in_archive.txt in arch...

Visual Basic .NET Language • File/Folder Compression

How to compose values and functions using common operators

In Object Oriented Programming a common task is to compose objects (values). In Functional Programming it is as common task to compose values as well as functions. We are used to compose values from our experience of other programming languages using operators like +, -, *, / and so on. Value co...

F# • Operators

Latebinding in F# using ? operator

In a statically typed language like F# we work with types well-known at compile-time. We consume external data sources in a type-safe manner using type providers. However, occassionally there's need to use late binding (like dynamic in C#). For instance when working with JSON documents that have...

F# • Operators

Adding a UIRefreshControl to a TableView

Assumptions: TableView - reference to the TableView DataSource - is a class which inherits UITableViewSource DataSource.Objects - is a public List< object >(), accessible to the UIViewController private UIRefreshControl refreshControl; public override void ViewDidLoad() { base.V...

Xamarin.iOS • Adding UIRefreshControl to a table view