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Format numbers as money

Fast and short way to format value of type Number as money, e.g. 1234567.89 => "1,234,567.89": var num = 1234567.89, formatted; formatted = num.toFixed(2).replace(/\d(?=(\d{3})+\.)/g, '$&,'); // "1,234,567.89" More advanced variant with support of any number o...

JavaScript • Data Manipulation

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

Foreach

Similar to repeaters used in other languages. This binding will allow you to replicate a block of html for each item in an array. <div data-bind="foreach:contacts"> <div class="contact"> <h2 data-bind="text:name"> <p data-bin...

knockout.js • Bindings

Cache response for everyone for 1 year

Cache-Control: public, max-age=31536000 public means the response is the same for all users (it does not contain any personalized information). max-age is in seconds from now. 31536000 = 60 * 60 * 24 * 365. This is recommended for static assets that are never meant to change.

HTTP • Caching HTTP responses

Cache personalized response for 1 minute

Cache-Control: private, max-age=60 private specifies that the response can be cached only for user who requested the resource, and can't be reused when other users request the same resource. This is appropriate for responses that depend on cookies.

HTTP • Caching HTTP responses

Date Formatting

DateTime date = new DateTime(2016, 07, 06, 18, 30, 14); // Format: year, month, day hours, minutes, seconds Console.Write(String.Format("{0:dd}",date)); //Format by Culture info String.Format(new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("mn-MN"),"{0:dddd}",date); 6....

C# Language • String.Format

Access Modifiers for Inner Classes

A full explanation of Access Modifiers in Java can be found here. But how do they interact with Inner classes? public, as usual, gives unrestricted access to any scope able to access the type. public class OuterClass { public class InnerClass { public int x = 5; } p...

Java Language • Nested and Inner Classes

Closure with custom target for method calls with implicit receiver

class MyHello { def sayHello() { "Hello, world" } } def cl = { sayHello() } cl() // groovy.lang.MissingMethodException cl.delegate = new MyHello() cl(); // "Hello, world" Used extensively by Groovy DSLs.

groovy • Closures

Parallel.ForEach Loop

If you have a foreach loop that you want to speed up and you don't mind what order the output is in, you can convert it to a parallel foreach loop by doing the following: using System; using System.Threading; using System.Threading.Tasks; public class MainClass { public static void Main...

C# Language • Threading

Fixed Source Form

Fortran originally was designed for a fixed format form based on an 80 column punched card: Yes: This is a line of the author's own code These were created on a card punch machine, much like this: Images are original photography by the author The format, as shown on the illustrated sample ca...

Fortran • Modern alternatives to historical features

Add beforeFilter() method in Controller

The beforeFilter() method executes before any other method executes in the controller. First use the Event namespace before defining the class in your controller file. use Cake\Event\Event; In your controller, add the beforeFilter() method as shown below. public function beforeFilter(Event $ev...

cakephp • CakePHP3 Coding Tips

Sensor transformation to world coordinate system

The sensor values returned by Android are with respective to the phone's coordinate system (e.g. +Y points towards the top of the phone). We can transform these sensor values into a world coordinate system (e.g. +Y points towards magnetic North, tangential to the ground) using the sensor managers ro...

Android • SensorManager

Generic installation for Linux distributions

If you have one of the supported Linux distributions, you can follow the steps on the .NET Core website: https://www.microsoft.com/net If you have an unsupported distribution: Download the .NET Core SDK from the links, picking the distribution closer to the used one. https://www.microsoft.com/net...

.net-core • Installing .NET Core on Linux

Vibrate for one time

using the vibrate(long milliseconds) Vibrator vibrator = (Vibrator) getSystemService(Context.VIBRATOR_SERVICE); vibrator.vibrate(500);

Android • Vibration

Process a Tabular Form

When a tabular form is posted, the items in each record are available to PL/SQL code via the "APEX_APPLICATION.G_Fnn" arrays. G_F01 corresponds to the first editable column, G_F02 to the 2nd, and so on. For example, you can loop through each record and access the posted values for each fie...

oracle-apex • Tabular Forms

Disable image compression for a smaller APK file size

If you are optimizing all images manually, disable APT Cruncher for a smaller APK file size. android { aaptOptions { cruncherEnabled = false } }

Android • Gradle for Android

Responsive GUI using threads for background work and PostMessage to report back from the threads

Keeping a GUI responsive while running a lengthy process requires either some very elaborate "callbacks" to allow the GUI to process its message queue, or the use of (background) (worker) threads. Kicking off any number of threads to do some work usually isn't a problem. The fun starts wh...

Embarcadero Delphi • Running a thread while keeping GUI responsive

Upstart Script For Replica Sets

If you're running a replica set or have a need to shard your database, you'll want an upstart script that looks something like this: # /etc/init/myapp.conf description "myapp.mydomain.com" author "[email protected]" # used to be: start on startup # until we found som...

meteor • Deployment with Upstart

Perceptually uniform colormaps

The original default colourmap of MATLAB (replaced in version R2014b) called jet is ubiquitous due to its high contrast and familiarity (and was the default of matplotlib for compatibility reasons). Despite its popularity, traditional colormaps often have deficiencies when it comes to representing d...

matplotlib • Colormaps

Using << notation for flags

The left-shift operator (<<) can be used in flag enum declarations to ensure that each flag has exactly one 1 in binary representation, as flags should. This also helps to improve readability of large enums with plenty of flags in them. [Flags] public enum MyEnum { None = 0, Fl...

C# Language • Enum