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In this iText 7 example, we need to switch between different styles in the same document: The best way to achieve this in iText 7, is to create a Style object, and to apply that Style to a Text object: public void createPdf(String dest) throws IOException { PdfDocument pdf = new PdfDocument...

There are many ways to communicate with servers using Unity as the client (some methodologies are better than others depending on your purpose). First, one must determine the need of the server to be able to effectively send operations to and from the server. For this example, we will send a few pie...

Requirements: PHP 5.6.0 or greater mbstring PHP extension (default works in WAMP/XAMPP, if not then enable it) intl PHP extension (Available in WAMP/XAMPP, you have to enable it from php.ini) CakePHP will run on a variety of web servers such as nginx, LightHTTPD, or Microsoft IIS. Befor...

Detailed instructions on getting artificial-intelligence set up or installed.

In the .bashrc or .bash_profile, adding: export MYSQL_PS1="\u@\h [\d]>" make the MySQL client PROMPT show current user@host [database].

An NSPredicate can use substitution variables to allow values to be bound on the fly. Objective-C NSPredicate *template = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat: @"self BEGINSWITH $letter"]; NSDictionary *variables = @{ @"letter": @"r" }; NSPredicate *beginsWithR = [templ...

To prevent memory leaks, one should not forget to close an input stream or an output stream whose job is done. This is usually done with a try-catch-finally statement without the catch part: void writeNullBytesToAFile(int count, String filename) throws IOException { FileOutputStream out = null...

You can bind event listeners to the EventSource object to listen to different events channels using the .addEventListener method. EventSource.addEventListener(name: String, callback: Function, [options]) name: The name related to the name of the channel the server is emitting events to. callb...

It is always a good practice to test how push notifications work even before you have your server side ready for them, just to make sure that everything is set up correctly on your side. It is quite easy to send yourself a push notification using a following PHP script. Save the script as a file ...

Using redux directly with react might seem little difficult, As for every component you want to update when store changes, you have to subscribe that component to the redux store React Redux takes care of all these and makes it really easy to write components that can request the data it needs from...

As seen in previous examples, basic use of this script is: python setup.py install But there is even more options, like installing the package and have the possibility to change the code and test it without having to re-install it. This is done using: python setup.py develop If you want to p...

Detailed instructions on getting promise set up or installed.

Swift 2.3 let url = NSURL(string: "http://google.com/lastPath") let lastPath = url?.lastPathComponent Swift 3.0 let url = URL(string: "http://google.com/lastPath") let lastPath = url?.lastPathComponent

GET your REST data and store in a PowerShell object: $Post = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1" Modify your data: $Post.title = "New Title" PUT the REST data back $Json = $Post | ConvertTo-Json Invoke-RestMethod -Method Put -Uri "h...

GET your REST data and store in a PowerShell object: $Users = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/users" Modify many items in your data: $Users[0].name = "John Smith" $Users[0].email = "[email protected]" $Users[1].name = "Jane S...

Identify the item that is to be deleted and delete it: Invoke-RestMethod -Method Delete -Uri "http://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/posts/1"

# Define a class class TypeName { # Property with validate set [ValidateSet("val1", "Val2")] [string] $P1 # Static property static [hashtable] $P2 # Hidden property does not show as result of Get-Member hidden [int] $P3 # Constructor Ty...

In Julia, you can have an Array that holds other Array type objects. Consider the following examples of initializing various types of Arrays: A = Array{Float64}(10,10) # A single Array, dimensions 10 by 10, of Float64 type objects B = Array{Array}(10,10,10) # A 10 by 10 by 10 Array. Each ele...

There are numerous ways to convert numeric types to strings in Julia: julia> a = 123 123 julia> string(a) "123" julia> println(a) 123 The string() function can also take more arguments: julia> string(a, "b") "123b" You can also insert (aka ...

In Julia, as in many other languages, it is possible to interpolate by inserting values defined by variables into strings. For a simple example: n = 2 julia> MyString = "there are $n ducks" "there are 2 ducks" We can use other types than numeric, e.g. Result = false j...