Tutorial by Examples: u

Print out enumeration using the Image attribute

Ada 2012(TC-1) with Ada.Text_IO; procedure Main is type Fruit is (Banana, Orange, Pear); X : Fruit := Orange; begin Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line (X'Image); Ada.Text_IO.Put_Line (Pear'Image); end Main; Result ORANGE PEAR

ada • Attribute Image

Temporary Jupyter Notebook hosted by Rackspace

Jupyter Notebooks are an interactive, browser-based development environment. They were originally developed to run computation python and as such play very well with numpy. To try numpy in a Jupyter notebook without fully installing either on one's local system Rackspace provides free temporary note...

numpy • Getting started with numpy

Use what the language offers: the if/else construct.

Well, if you want a switch/case construct, the most straightforward way to go is to use the good old if/else construct: def switch(value): if value == 1: return "one" if value == 2: return "two" if value == 42: return "the answer to...

Python Language • Alternatives to switch statement from other languages

Use a dict of functions

Another straightforward way to go is to create a dictionary of functions: switch = { 1: lambda: 'one', 2: lambda: 'two', 42: lambda: 'the answer of life the universe and everything', } then you add a default function: def default_case(): raise Exception('No case found!') ...

Python Language • Alternatives to switch statement from other languages

Use class introspection

You can use a class to mimic the switch/case structure. The following is using introspection of a class (using the getattr() function that resolves a string into a bound method on an instance) to resolve the "case" part. Then that introspecting method is aliased to the __call__ method to ...

Python Language • Alternatives to switch statement from other languages

Using a context manager

Another way, which is very readable and elegant, but far less efficient than a if/else structure, is to build a class such as follows, that will read and store the value to compare with, expose itself within the context as a callable that will return true if it matches the stored value: class Switc...

Python Language • Alternatives to switch statement from other languages

Differences between inner/outer joins

SQL has various join types to specify whether (non-)matching rows are included in the result: INNER JOIN, LEFT OUTER JOIN, RIGHT OUTER JOIN, and FULL OUTER JOIN (the INNER and OUTER keywords are optional). The figure below underlines the differences between these types of joins: the blue area repres...

SQL • JOIN

Basic GROUP BY example

It might be easier if you think of GROUP BY as "for each" for the sake of explanation. The query below: SELECT EmpID, SUM (MonthlySalary) FROM Employee GROUP BY EmpID is saying: "Give me the sum of MonthlySalary's for each EmpID" So if your table looked like this: +----...

SQL • GROUP BY

Bulkification

If you do row-by-row processing in Salesforce, you'll probably reach the governor limit quickly. This is especially true with triggers and things that fire when you don't expect them. One documented method of escaping the governor limit is bulkification. Note: The following information is based on ...

Salesforce • Trigger Bulkification

Installation or Setup

Chart.js can be included in several different ways: NPM Run the following command on your NPM project directory npm install chart.js --save CDN Include a script tag in your HTML linking to the chart.js CDN <html> <body> <script type="text/javascript" s...

chart.js • Getting started with chart.js

Using character constants instead of string literals, and vice versa

In C, character constants and string literals are different things. A character surrounded by single quotes like 'a' is a character constant. A character constant is an integer whose value is the character code that stands for the character. How to interpret character constants with multiple charac...

C Language • Common pitfalls

How to know the directory and/or the path of the file you are editing

To know the path of the directory your file is in you can use: Esc to enter command mode :pwd This will print the path to the directory at the bottom of the editor, like this I'm a ninja ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ /home/ubuntu/myfolder 1,5 All Now...

vim • Tips and tricks to boost productivity

Download a file from Server using Retrofit2

Interface declaration for downloading a file public interface ApiInterface { @GET("movie/now_playing") Call<MovieResponse> getNowPlayingMovies(@Query("api_key") String apiKey, @Query("page") int page); // option 1: a resource relative to your bas...

Android • Retrofit2

Sample to get user profile path

# will retrieve my home path ENV['HOME'] # => "/Users/username" # will try retrieve the 'FOO' environment variable. If failed, will get 'bar' ENV.fetch('FOO', 'bar')

Ruby Language • Environment Variables

Introduction

Ruby has three types of objects: Classes and modules which are instances of class Class or class Module. Instances of classes. Singleton Classes. Each object has a class which contains its methods: class Example end object = Example.new object.class # => Example Example.class # ...

Ruby Language • Singleton Class

Flowing execution context with AsyncLocal

When you need to pass some data from the parent task to its children tasks, so it logically flows with the execution, use AsyncLocal class: void Main() { AsyncLocal<string> user = new AsyncLocal<string>(); user.Value = "initial user"; // this does not aff...

.NET Framework • Task Parallel Library (TPL)

Formatting console output

Many of the console's print methods can also handle C-like string formatting, using % tokens: console.log('%s has %d points', 'Sam', 100); Displays Sam has 100 points. The full list of format specifiers in Javascript is: SpecifierOutput%sFormats the value as a string%i or %dFormats the value a...

JavaScript • Console

Basic subscription to Time.every event with 'unsubscribe'

0.18.0 Model is passed to subscriptions which means that every state change can modify subscriptions. import Html exposing ( Html, div, text, button ) import Html.Events exposing ( onClick ) import Time main : Program Never Model Msg main = Html.program { init = init ,...

Elm Language • Subscriptions

StackOverflowError & recursion to loop

If a recursive call goes "too deep", this results in a StackOverflowError. Java allocates a new frame for every method call on its thread's stack. However, the space of each thread's stack is limited. Too many frames on the stack leads to the Stack Overflow (SO). Example public static vo...

Java Language • Recursion

Limit DOM Updates

A common mistake seen in JavaScript when run in a browser environment is updating the DOM more often than necessary. The issue here is that every update in the DOM interface causes the browser to re-render the screen. If an update changes the layout of an element in the page, the entire page layout...

JavaScript • Performance Tips