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Many people find themselves eventually supporting multiple applications, and desire to share code between apps. This leads to the concept of microservice architecture, and all-package apps. Essentially, the code from the entire classic directory structure is refactored out into packages. Even tho...

The most recent versions of Meteor ship with support for ecmascript, aka ES6 or ES2015. Instead of packages, Javascript now supports import statements and modules, which replaces the need for package-only applications. The latest directory structure is similar to the package-only structure, but us...

And, of course, you can mix these approaches, and use both packages and imports along side your application specific code. A mix-mode structure is most common in three situations: a franken-app, which is just sort of pulling a bit from here-and-there without any overall strategy; an app that's bei...

A common problem is having a collection of items that all need to meet a certain criteria. In the example below we have collected two items for a diet plan and we want to check that the diet doesn't contain any unhealthy food. // First we create a collection $diet = collect([ ['name' => ...

You will often find yourself with a collection of data where you are only interested in parts of the data. In the example below we got a list of participants at an event and we want to provide a the tour guide with a simple list of names. // First we collect the participants $participants = colle...

Often you need to change the way a set of data is structured and manipulate certain values. In the example below we got a collection of books with an attached discount amount. But we much rather have a list of books with a price that's already discounted. $books = [ ['title' => 'The Pragma...

Collections also provide you with an easy way to do simple statistical calculations. $books = [ ['title' => 'The Pragmatic Programmer', 'price' => 20], ['title' => 'Continuous Delivery', 'price' => 30], ['title' => 'The Clean Coder', 'price' => 10], ] $min = col...

Not always we have liberty to read from or write to a local system path. For example if R code streaming map-reduce must need to read and write to file connection. There can be other scenarios as well where one is going beyond local system and with advent of cloud and big data, this is becoming incr...

Using credentials from your local computer: Enter-PSSession 192.168.1.1 Prompting for credentials on the remote computer Enter-PSSession 192.168.1.1 -Credential $(Get-Credential)

A basic AppComponent that depends on a single AppModule to provide application-wide singleton objects. @Singleton @Component(modules = AppModule.class) public interface AppComponent { void inject(App app); Context provideContext(); Gson provideGson(); } A module to use to...

By default the Large Object Heap is not compacted unlike the classic Object Heap which can lead to memory fragmentation and further, can lead to OutOfMemoryExceptions Starting with .NET 4.5.1 there is an option to explicitly compact the Large Object Heap (along with a garbage collection): GCSettin...

When writing a copy assignment operator, it is very important that it be able to work in the event of self-assignment. That is, it has to allow this: SomeType t = ...; t = t; Self-assignment usually doesn't happen in such an obvious way. It typically happens via a circuitous route through vario...

Dim sites() As String = {"Stack Overflow", "Super User", "Ask Ubuntu", "Hardware Recommendations"} Dim query = From x In sites Where x.StartsWith("S") ' result = "Stack Overflow", "Super User" Query will be enumerable objec...

Dim sites() As String = {"Stack Overflow", "Super User", "Ask Ubuntu", "Hardware Recommendations"} Dim query = From x In sites Select x.Length ' result = 14, 10, 10, 24 Query...

Casting an instance of a base class to a subclass as in : b = (B) a; is called narrowing (as you are trying to narrow the base class object to a more specific class object) and needs an explicit type-cast. Casting an instance of a subclass to a base class as in: A a = b; is called widening and does...

/** * returns a array of random numbers with no duplicates * @param range the range of possible numbers for ex. if 100 then it can be anywhere from 1-100 * @param length the length of the array of random numbers * @return array of random numbers with no duplicates. */ public static int[] ...

Most times when people have to reverse a string, they do it more or less like this: char[] a = s.ToCharArray(); System.Array.Reverse(a); string r = new string(a); However, what these people don't realize is that this is actually wrong. And I don't mean because of the missing NULL check. It ...

Now that we have all those pieces put together, you should now be able to make calls like the following from within your app: Foo.identify('John'); Foo.record_action_on_item('view', "HackerNews'); Obviously you'll want to adjust function names, arguments, urls, and the like, to create the ...

However, if you're really serious about storage, and you want to store millions of images, you're going to need to leverage Mongo's GridFS infrastructure, and create yourself a storage layer. For that, you're going to need the excellent CollectionFS subsystem. Start by adding the necessary packages...

Everything in .NET is an object, hence every type has ToString() method defined in Object class which can be overridden. Default implementation of this method just returns the name of the type: public class Foo { } var foo = new Foo(); Console.WriteLine(foo); // outputs Foo ToString() is i...