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Referring to the declared generic type within its own declaration

How do you go about using an instance of a (possibly further) inherited generic type within a method declaration in the generic type itself being declared? This is one of the problems you will face when you dig a bit deeper into generics, but still a fairly common one. Assume we have a DataSeries&l...

Java Language • Generics

basic model fitting

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R Language • Hierarchical Linear Modeling

Enabling Hibernate Caching in WildFly

To enable Second Level Caching for Hibernate in WildFly, add this property to your persistence.xml file: <property name="hibernate.cache.use_second_level_cache" value="true"/> You may also enable Query Caching with this property: <property name="hibernate.cache...

hibernate • Caching

Update an existing model

$user = User::find(1); $user->name = 'abc'; $user->save(); You can also update multiple attributes at once using update, which does not require using save afterwards: $user = User::find(1); $user->update(['name' => 'abc', 'location' => 'xyz']); You can also update a model(s)...

Laravel • Eloquent: Model

A View Bound to Existing HTML

Assuming this HTML in the page: <body> <div id="myPage"> </div> </body> A view can be bound to it with: var MyPageView = Backbone.View.extend( { "el": "#myPage", "template": _.template( "<p>This is m...

backbone.js • View

View's initialize function

initialize is called by Backbone right after a View is constructed. Optional parameters The initialize function receives any arguments passed to the view's constructor. Commonly, the options hash that is used to pass the view's default options: ['model', 'collection', 'el', 'id', 'attributes', 'c...

backbone.js • View

Closing Streams

Most streams must be closed when you are done with them, otherwise you could introduce a memory leak or leave a file open. It is important that streams are closed even if an exception is thrown. Java SE 7 try(FileWriter fw = new FileWriter("outfilename"); BufferedWriter bw = new Buf...

Java Language • InputStreams and OutputStreams

Gem installation from github/filesystem

You can install a gem from github or filesystem. If the gem has been checked out from git or somehow already on the file system, you could install it using gem install --local path_to_gem/filename.gem Installing gem from github. Download the sources from github mkdir newgem cd newgem git clon...

Ruby Language • Gem Usage

Single & Multiple line comments

Comments are programmer-readable annotations that are ignored at runtime. Their purpose is to make source code easier to understand. Single line comments The # character is used to add single line comments. #!/usr/bin/ruby -w # This is a single line comment. puts "Hello World!" Whe...

Ruby Language • Comments

v-if / v-else

Assuming we have a Vue.js instance defined as: var vm = new Vue({ el: '#example', data: { a: true, b: false } }); You can conditionally render any html element by including the v-if directive; the element that contains v-if will only render if the condition eval...

Vue.js • Conditional Rendering

Use StrConv to convert a byte-array of single-byte characters to a string

'Declare an array of bytes, assign single-byte character codes, and convert to a string Dim singleByteChars(4) As Byte singleByteChars(0) = 72 singleByteChars(1) = 101 singleByteChars(2) = 108 singleByteChars(3) = 108 singleByteChars(4) = 111 Dim stringFromSingleByteChars As String stringFro...

VBA • Converting other types to strings

Implicitly convert a byte array of multi-byte-characters to a string

'Declare an array of bytes, assign multi-byte character codes, and convert to a string Dim multiByteChars(9) As Byte multiByteChars(0) = 87 multiByteChars(1) = 0 multiByteChars(2) = 111 multiByteChars(3) = 0 multiByteChars(4) = 114 multiByteChars(5) = 0 multiByteChars(6) = 108 multiByteChar...

VBA • Converting other types to strings

Reload NGINX configuration file

As a root user: sudo nginx -s reload Ubuntu 14.04 example sudo service nginx reload Ubuntu 16.04 example sudo systemctl reload nginx Before reloading, it is a good idea to check config for syntax errors: sudo nginx -t Or sudo service nginx configtest

nginx • Getting started with nginx

Using LocalBroadcastManager

LocalBroadcastManager is used to send Broadcast Intents within an application, without exposing them to unwanted listeners. Using LocalBroadcastManager is more efficient and safer than using context.sendBroadcast() directly, because you don't need to worry about any broadcasts faked by other Applic...

Android • BroadcastReceiver

Filter items inside RecyclerView with a SearchView

add filter method in RecyclerView.Adapter: public void filter(String text) { if(text.isEmpty()){ items.clear(); items.addAll(itemsCopy); } else{ ArrayList<PhoneBookItem> result = new ArrayList<>(); text = text.toLower...

Android • RecyclerView

Separating distribution specific tasks and variables inside a role

We can easily separate distribution specific tasks and variables into different dedicated .yml files. Ansible helps us to automatically identify the target hosts distribution via {{ ansible_distribution }} and {{ ansible_distribution_version }}, so we just have to name the distribution dedicated .y...

ansible • Roles

Provisioning remote machines with Ansible

We can provision remote systems with Ansible. You should have an SSH key-pair and you should take your SSH public key to the machine ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file. The porpuse is you can login without any authorization. Prerequisites: Ansible You need an Inventory file (for ex.: development.ini...

ansible • Getting started with ansible

SSL/TLS in Node.js

If you choose to handle SSL/TLS in your Node.js application, consider that you are also responsible for maintaining SSL/TLS attack prevention at this point. In many server-client architectures, SSL/TLS terminates on a reverse proxy, both to reduce application complexity and reduce the scope of secur...

Node.js • Securing Node.js applications

Using an httpHandler (.ashx) to download a file from a specific location

Create a new httpHandler inside your ASP.NET project. Apply the following code (VB) to the handler file: Public Class AttachmentDownload Implements System.Web.IHttpHandler Sub ProcessRequest(ByVal context As HttpContext) Implements IHttpHandler.ProcessRequest ' pass an ID thr...

ASP.NET • httpHandlers

Angular Controllers in Typescript

As defined in the AngularJS Documentation When a Controller is attached to the DOM via the ng-controller directive, Angular will instantiate a new Controller object, using the specified Controller's constructor function. A new child scope will be created and made available as an injectable par...

AngularJS • Using AngularJS with TypeScript