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Inheritance the a fundamental mechanism of CSS by which the computed values of some properties of an element are applied to its' children. This is particularly useful when you want to set a global style to your elements rather than having to set said properties to each and every element in your mark...

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Hierarchy - LinearLayout(horizontal) - ImageView - LinearLayout(vertical) - TextView - TextView Code LinearLayout rootView = new LinearLayout(context); rootView.setLayoutParams(new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT)); rootView.s...

First, install socket.io module in node.js application. npm install socket.io --save Basic HTTP Setup The following example attaches socket.io to a plain node.js HTTP server listening on port 3000. var server = require('http').createServer(); var io = require('socket.io')(server); io.on(...

// Uses Windows authentication. Replace the Trusted_Connection parameter with // User Id=...;Password=...; to use SQL Server authentication instead. You may // want to find the appropriate connection string for your server. string connectionString = @"Server=myServer\myInstance;Database=myDa...

Pseudo-elements are often used to change the look of lists (mostly for unordered lists, ul). The first step is to remove the default list bullets: ul { list-style-type: none; } Then you add the custom styling. In this example, we will create gradient boxes for bullets. li:before { conte...

JasperReports Library JasperReports is a open source Java based reporting tool. The JasperReports Library can be downloaded from the Jaspersoft Community for the latest release. In recent releases the third-party jars in the lib folder are not distributed, they need to be download from public r...

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This storage class denotes that an identifier has automatic storage duration. This means once the scope in which the identifier was defined ends, the object denoted by the identifier is no longer valid. Since all objects, not living in global scope or being declared static, have automatic storage d...

The reduce method reduces the collection to a single value, passing the result of each iteration into the subsequent iteration. Please see reduce method. The reduce method loops through each item with a collection and produces new result to the next iteration. Each result from the last iteration ...

The <see> tag can be used to link to another class. It contains the cref member which should contain the name of the class that is to be referenced. Visual Studio will provide Intellsense when writing this tag and such references will be processed when renaming the referenced class, too. /// ...

You can use the System.IO.File.ReadAllText function to read the entire contents of a file into a string. string text = System.IO.File.ReadAllText(@"C:\MyFolder\MyTextFile.txt"); You can also read a file as an array of lines using the System.IO.File.ReadAllLines function: string[] line...

The System.IO.StreamWriter class: Implements a TextWriter for writing characters to a stream in a particular encoding. Using the WriteLine method, you can write content line-by-line to a file. Notice the use of the using keyword which makes sure the StreamWriter object is disposed as soon as ...

You can use the System.IO.File.WriteAllText function to write a string to a file. string text = "String that will be stored in the file"; System.IO.File.WriteAllText(@"C:\MyFolder\OutputFile.txt", text); You can also use the System.IO.File.WriteAllLines function which receiv...

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There are two functions that can be used to obtain a readable representation of an object. repr(x) calls x.__repr__(): a representation of x. eval will usually convert the result of this function back to the original object. str(x) calls x.__str__(): a human-readable string that describes the obje...

A simple example of using multiple processes would be two processes (workers) that are executed separately. In the following example, two processes are started: countUp() counts 1 up, every second. countDown() counts 1 down, every second. import multiprocessing import time from random impor...

HashMap is an implementation of the Map interface that provides a Data Structure to store data in Key-Value pairs. 1. Declaring HashMap Map<KeyType, ValueType> myMap = new HashMap<KeyType, ValueType>(); KeyType and ValueType must be valid types in Java, such as - String, Integer, Fl...

To ensure that our collection can be iterated using iterator or for-each loop, we have to take care of following steps: The stuff we want to iterate upon has to be Iterable and expose iterator(). Design a java.util.Iterator by overriding hasNext(), next() and remove(). I have added a simple ...

Here's how to match a prefix code (a + or (00), then a number from 1 to 1939, with an optional space): This doesn't look for a valid prefix but something that might be a prefix. See the full list of prefixes (?:00|\+)?[0-9]{4} Then, as the entire phone number length is, at most, 15, we can look...