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Inserting data

There are several ways to insert data: Using the DB Facade public function run() { DB::table('users') ->insert([ 'name' => 'Taylor', 'age' => 21 ]); } Via Instantiating a Model public function run() { $user = new User; $us...

Laravel • Seeding

Calling other seeders

Within your DatabaseSeeder class you are able to call other seeders $this->call(TestSeeder::class) This allows you to keep one file where you can easily find your seeders. Keep in mind that you need to pay attention to the order of your calls regarding foreign key constraints. You can't refe...

Laravel • Seeding

Member Function cv-qualifier Overloading

Functions within a class can be overloaded for when they are accessed through a cv-qualified reference to that class; this is most commonly used to overload for const, but can be used to overload for volatile and const volatile, too. This is because all non-static member functions take this as a hi...

C++ • Function Overloading

IA-32 assembly, GAS, cdecl calling convention

# make this routine available outside this translation unit .globl string_to_integer string_to_integer: # function prologue push %ebp mov %esp, %ebp push %esi # initialize result (%eax) to zero xor %eax, %eax # fetch pointer to the string mov 8(%ebp), %e...

Intel x86 Assembly Language & Microarchitecture • Converting decimal strings to integers

Inheriting from classes and abstract classes

Disclaimer: the examples presented here are only for the purpose of showing the use of abstract classes and inheritance and may not necessarily be of a practical use. Also, there is no sich thing as polymorphic in MATLAB and therefore the use of abstract classes is limited. This example is to show w...

MATLAB Language • Object-Oriented Programming

Friend function

A class or a structure may declare any function it's friend. If a function is a friend of a class, it may access all it's protected and private members: // Forward declaration of functions. void friend_function(); void non_friend_function(); class PrivateHolder { public: PrivateHolder(in...

C++ • Friend keyword

Friend method

Methods may declared as friends as well as functions: class Accesser { public: void private_accesser(); }; class PrivateHolder { public: PrivateHolder(int val) : private_value(val) {} friend void Accesser::private_accesser(); private: int private_value; }; void Access...

C++ • Friend keyword

Friend class

A whole class may be declared as friend. Friend class declaration means that any member of the friend may access private and protected members of the declaring class: class Accesser { public: void private_accesser1(); void private_accesser2(); }; class PrivateHolder { public: P...

C++ • Friend keyword

Updating packages

In every applications life-cycle comes a day where it's components needs to be updated. Everyone knows the pain of updating every single dependency one-by-one. Well here you just need to issue the command: npm update (-g) If the "-g" is there then npm will update the global packages. ...

npm • Getting started with npm

finalize() method

This is a protected and non-static method of the Object class. This method is used to perform some final operations or clean up operations on an object before it gets removed from the memory. According to the doc, this method gets called by the garbage collector on an object when garbage collecti...

Java Language • Object Class Methods and Constructor

Wait for DOM to be loaded

Use DOMContentLoaded when the <script> code interacting with DOM is included in the <head> section. If not wrapped inside the DOMContentLoaded callback, the code will throw errors like Cannot read something of null document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(event) { ...

DOM • Getting started with DOM

Import function from unmanaged C++ DLL

Here is an example of how to import a function that is defined in an unmanaged C++ DLL. In the C++ source code for "myDLL.dll", the function add is defined: extern "C" __declspec(dllexport) int __stdcall add(int a, int b) { return a + b; } Then it can be included into ...

C# Language • Interoperability

Grid of Subplots using subplot

""" ================================================================================ CREATE A 2 BY 2 GRID OF SUB-PLOTS WITHIN THE SAME FIGURE. ================================================================================ """ import matplotlib.pyplot as plt ...

matplotlib • Multiple Plots

Extending Rectangle adding new stylable properties

JavaFX 8 The following example demonstrates how to add custom properties that can be styled from css to a custom Node. Here 2 DoublePropertys are added to the Rectangle class to allow setting the width and height from CSS. The following CSS could be used for styling the custom node: StyleableRe...

javafx • CSS

Connection to a Microsoft Access database with UCanAccess

UCanAccess is a pure Java JDBC driver that allows us to read from and write to Access databases without using ODBC. It uses two other packages, Jackcess and HSQLDB, to perform these tasks. Once it has been set up*, we can work with data in .accdb and .mdb files using code like this: import java.sq...

jdbc • Creating a database connection

Strings and Lists

It's important to know how CMake distinguishes between lists and plain strings. When you write: set(VAR "a b c") you create a string with the value "a b c". But when you write this line without quotes: set(VAR a b c) You create a list of three items instead: "a", &q...

cmake • Variables and Properties

How to configure build types in the build.gradle

You can create and configure build types in the module-level build.gradle file inside the android {} block. android { ... defaultConfig {...} buildTypes { release { minifyEnabled true proguardFiles getDefaultProguar...

android-gradle • Configure Build Types

Worksheet .Name, .Index or .CodeName

We know that 'best practise' dictates that a range object should have its parent worksheet explicitly referenced. A worksheet can be referred to by its .Name property, numerical .Index property or its .CodeName property but a user can reorder the worksheet queue by simply dragging a name tab or rena...

excel-vba • Excel VBA Tips and Tricks

Akka hello world (Scala)

Add akka-actor dependency (SBT example) libraryDependencies += "com.typesafe.akka" % "akka-actor_2.11" % "2.4.8" Create actor classes: Actor for string output: class OutputActor extends Actor { override def receive: Receive = { case message => p...

akka • Hello world

Always define and set references to all Workbooks and Sheets

When working with multiple open Workbooks, each of which may have multiple Sheets, it’s safest to define and set reference to all Workbooks and Sheets. Don't rely on ActiveWorkbook or ActiveSheet as they might be changed by the user. The following code example demonstrates how to copy a range from...

excel-vba • VBA Best Practices