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Definition In software development, a breakpoint is an intentional stopping or pausing place in a program, put in place for debugging purposes. More generally, a breakpoint is a means of acquiring knowledge about a program during its execution. During the interruption, the programmer inspects th...

The example shows parsing a JSON object using the Gson library from Google. Parsing objects: class Robot { //OPTIONAL - this annotation allows for the key to be different from the field name, and can be omitted if key and field name are same . Also this is good coding practice as it decouple ...

Composer is a dependency/package manager for PHP. It can be used to install, keep track of, and update your project dependencies. Composer also takes care of autoloading the dependencies that your application relies on, letting you easily use the dependency inside your project without worrying about...

While composer provides a system to manage dependencies for PHP projects (e.g. from Packagist), it can also notably serve as an autoloader, specifying where to look for specific namespaces or include generic function files. It starts with the composer.json file: { // ... "autoload&q...

You can use traits to modify methods of a class, using traits in stackable fashion. The following example shows how traits can be stacked. The ordering of the traits are important. Using different order of traits, different behavior is achieved. class Ball { def roll(ball : String) = println(&q...

ActionScript 3 can be used by installing the Adobe AIR SDK or Apache Flex SDK or as part Adobe's Animate CC product (formerly known as Flash Professional). Adobe Animate CC is a professional software solution that can be used to create AS3 projects using visual tools - once installed, no further st...

A while loop will evaluate a condition and if true will perform an action. As long as the condition evaluates to true the action will continue to be performed. while(condition){ code_block } The following example creates a loop that will count down from 10 to 0 $i = 10 while($i -ge 0){ ...

For security reasons, PowerShell is set up by default to only allow signed scripts to execute. Executing the following command will allow you to run unsigned scripts (you must run PowerShell as Administrator to do this). Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned Another way to run PowerShell scripts is t...

class Animal def method_missing(method, *args, &block) if method.to_s == 'say' block.call else super end end end => Animal.new.say{ 'moo' } => "moo"

class Animal def method_missing(method, *args, &block) say, speak = method.to_s.split("_") if say == "say" && speak return speak.upcase if args.first == "shout" speak else super end end end => Animal.new....

#include <stdio.h> /* for perror(), fopen(), fputs() and fclose() */ #include <stdlib.h> /* for the EXIT_* macros */ int main(int argc, char **argv) { int e = EXIT_SUCCESS; /* Get path from argument to main else default to output.txt */ char *path = (argc > 1...

Library cargo new my-library This creates a new directory called my-library containing the cargo config file and a source directory containing a single Rust source file: my-library/Cargo.toml my-library/src/lib.rs These two files will already contain the basic skeleton of a library, such th...

CommandDescriptionaAppend text following current cursor positionAAppend text at the end of current lineiInsert text before the current cursor positionIInsert text before first non-blank character of current linegIInsert text in first column of cursor linegiInsert text at same position where it was l...

To add a new column name to the users table, run the command: rails generate migration AddNameToUsers name This generates the following migration: class AddNameToUsers < ActiveRecord::Migration[5.0] def change add_column :users, :name, :string end end When the migration name i...

To add a new indexed column email to the users table, run the command: rails generate migration AddEmailToUsers email:string:index This will generate the following migration: class AddEmailToUsers < ActiveRecord::Migration[5.0] def change add_column :users, :email, :string add_i...

To create a new users table with the columns name and salary, run the command: rails generate migration CreateUsers name:string salary:decimal This will generate the following migration: class CreateUsers < ActiveRecord::Migration[5.0] def change create_table :users do |t| t.s...

Say you want to perform in action (in this case, logging "Foo"), while doing something else (logging "Bar"). Normally, if you don't use concurrency, one of these actions is going to be fully executed, and the other run will run only after it's completely finished. But with concur...

Create a simple table create table MY_table ( what varchar2(10), who varchar2(10), mark varchar2(10) ); Insert values (you can omit target columns if you provide values for all columns) insert into my_table (what, who, mark) values ('Hello', 'world', '!' ); insert into my_table ...

One of ColdFusion's strengths is how easy it is to work with databases. And of course, query inputs can and should be parameterized. Tag Implementation <cfquery name="myQuery" datasource="myDatasource" result="myResult"> select firstName, lastName from...

You can create a new class that inherits from HashSet: Set<String> h = new HashSet<String>() {{ add("a"); add("b"); }}; One line solution: Set<String> h = new HashSet<String>(Arrays.asList("a", "b")); Using guava: Se...