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Looping with async await

When using async await in loops, you might encounter some of these problems. If you just try to use await inside forEach, this will throw an Unexpected token error. (async() => { data = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]; data.forEach(e => { const i = await somePromiseFn(e); console.log(i); }); ...

JavaScript • Async functions (async/await)

Looping through each character

C++11 std::string supports iterators, and so you can use a ranged based loop to iterate through each character: std::string str = "Hello World!"; for (auto c : str) std::cout << c; You can use a "traditional" for loop to loop through every character: std::stri...

C++ • std::string

HTTP with the fetch API

It should be noted that Fetch does not support progress callbacks. See: https://github.com/github/fetch/issues/89. The alternative is to use XMLHttpRequest https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Events/progress. fetch('https://mywebsite.com/mydata.json').then(json => console.log(json)); ...

react-native • HTTP Requests

With a through model

class Skill(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=50) description = models.TextField() class Developer(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=50) skills = models.ManyToManyField(Skill, through='DeveloperSkill') class DeveloperSkill(models.Model): ...

Django • Many-to-many relationships

Useful functions that operate on cells and arrays

This simple example provides an explanation on some functions I found extremely useful since I have started using MATLAB: cellfun, arrayfun. The idea is to take an array or cell class variable, loop through all its elements and apply a dedicated function on each element. An applied function can eith...

MATLAB Language • Useful tricks

Assertion of Unreachable Code

During development, when certain code paths must be prevented from the reach of control flow, you may use assert(0) to indicate that such a condition is erroneous: switch (color) { case COLOR_RED: case COLOR_GREEN: case COLOR_BLUE: break; default: assert(0); ...

C Language • Assertion

Using ngStorage to share data

Firstly, include the ngStorage source in your index.html. An example injecting ngStorage src would be: <head> <title>Angular JS ngStorage</title> <script src = "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.3.14/angular.min.js"></script> &l...

AngularJS • Sharing Data

StringLengthAttribute

The StringLength attribute specifies the minimum and maximum length of characters that are allowed in a data field. This attribute can be applied on properties, public fields and parameters. The error message must be specified on the ErrorMessage property on the attribute. The properties MinimumLeng...

asp.net-mvc • Data annotations

Match any float

[\+\-]?\d+(\.\d*)? This will match any signed float, if you don't want signs or are parsing an equation remove [\+\-]? so you have \d+(\.\d+)? Explanation: \d+ matches any integer ()? means the contents of the parentheses are optional but always have to appear together '\.' matches '.', we ...

Regular Expressions • Matching Simple Patterns

Laravel 5 App on Shared Hosting on Linux Server

By default Laravel project's public folder exposes the content of the app which can be requested from anywhere by anyone, the rest of the app code is invisible or inaccessible to anyone without proper permissions. After developing the application on your development machine, it needs to be pushed t...

Laravel • Deploy Laravel 5 App on Shared Hosting on Linux Server

Gotcha: Exception in Dispose method masking other errors in Using blocks

Consider the following block of code. try { using (var disposable = new MyDisposable()) { throw new Exception("Couldn't perform operation."); } } catch (Exception ex) { Console.WriteLine(ex.Message); } class MyDisposable : IDisposable { public vo...

C# Language • Using Statement

Access character at index in string

Use charAt() to get a character at the specified index in the string. var string = "Hello, World!"; console.log( string.charAt(4) ); // "o" Alternatively, because strings can be treated like arrays, use the index via bracket notation. var string = "Hello, World!";...

JavaScript • Strings

Getting a char at specific index and enumerating the string

You can use the Substring method to get any number of characters from a string at any given location. However, if you only want a single character, you can use the string indexer to get a single character at any given index like you do with an array: string s = "hello"; char c = s[1]; //...

C# Language • Common String Operations

Disable Warnings Enhancements

In C# 5.0 and earlier the developer could only suppress warnings by number. With the introduction of Roslyn Analyzers, C# needs a way to disable warnings issued from specific libraries. With C# 6.0 the pragma directive can suppress warnings by name. Before: #pragma warning disable 0501 C# 6.0: ...

C# Language • C# 6.0 Features

Incrementing with a button

import javax.swing.JButton; import javax.swing.JFrame; import javax.swing.JLabel; import javax.swing.JPanel; import javax.swing.SwingUtilities; import javax.swing.WindowConstants; /** * A very simple Swing example. */ public class SwingExample { /** * The number of times the ...

swing • Getting started with swing

Non-alphanumerics matching (negated character class)

[^0-9a-zA-Z] This will match all characters that are neither numbers nor letters (alphanumerical characters). If the underscore character _ is also to be negated, the expression can be shortened to: [^\w] Or: \W In the following sentences: Hi, what's up? I can't wait for 2017!...

Regular Expressions • Character classes

Non-digits matching (negated character class)

[^0-9] This will match all characters that are not ASCII digits. If Unicode digits are also to be negated, the following expression can be used, depending on your flavor/language settings: [^\d] This can be shortened to: \D You may need to enable Unicode character properties support expl...

Regular Expressions • Character classes

Test without middleware and with a fresh database

To make artisan migrate a fresh database before running tests, use DatabaseMigrations. Also if you want to avoid middleware like Auth, use WithoutMiddleware. <?php use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\WithoutMiddleware; use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\DatabaseMigrations; class ExampleTest ...

Laravel • Testing

Show the commit that last modified a line

git blame <file> will show the file with each line annotated with the commit that last modified it.

Git • Blaming

Ignore whitespace-only changes

Sometimes repos will have commits that only adjust whitespace, for example fixing indentation or switching between tabs and spaces. This makes it difficult to find the commit where the code was actually written. git blame -w will ignore whitespace-only changes to find where the line really came fr...

Git • Blaming