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Closing a serial port even if lost, deleted or overwritten

Assuming you created the serial port object s as in this example, then to close it fclose(s) However, sometimes you can accidentally lose the port (e.g. clear, overwrite, change scope, etc...), and fclose(s) will no longer work. The solution is easy fclose(instrfindall) More info at instrfin...

Packing / unpacking values as bit fragments

It is common for memory performance to compress multiple values into a single primitive value. This may be useful to pass various information into a single variable. For example, one can pack 3 bytes - such as color code in RGB - into an single int. Packing the values // Raw bytes as input byte...

Comprehensions involving tuples

The for clause of a list comprehension can specify more than one variable: [x + y for x, y in [(1, 2), (3, 4), (5, 6)]] # Out: [3, 7, 11] [x + y for x, y in zip([1, 3, 5], [2, 4, 6])] # Out: [3, 7, 11] This is just like regular for loops: for x, y in [(1,2), (3,4), (5,6)]: print(x+y) ...

This is confusing. Why not just always use parentheses?

Parentheses are used to enclose the arguments of function calls. Using them for procedure calls can cause unexpected problems. Because they can introduce bugs, both at run-time by passing a possibly unintended value to the procedure, and at compile-time by simply being invalid syntax. Run-time Re...

Augmenting methods using Method Swizzling

The Objective-C runtime allows you to change the implementation of a method at runtime. This is called method swizzling and is often used to exchange the implementations of two methods. For example, if the methods foo and bar are exchanged, sending the message foo will now execute the implementation...

Variable Names

Variables hold data. Name them after what they're used for, not after their data type or scope, using a noun. If you feel compelled to number your variables (e.g. thing1, thing2, thing3), then consider using an appropriate data structure instead (e.g. an array, a Collection, or a Dictionary). Names...

Procedure Names

Procedures do something. Name them after what they're doing, using a verb. If accurately naming a procedure is not possible, likely the procedure is doing too many things and needs to be broken down into smaller, more specialized procedures. Some common VBA naming conventions go thus: For all Pr...

Basic Component

Given the following HTML file: index.html <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8" /> <title>React Tutorial</title> <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/15.2.1/react.js"></script>...

Benefits of Using Composer

Composer tracks which versions of packages you have installed in a file called composer.lock, which is intended to be committed to version control, so that when the project is cloned in the future, simply running composer install will download and install all the project's dependencies. Composer de...

Nesting Components

A lot of the power of ReactJS is its ability to allow nesting of components. Take the following two components: var React = require('react'); var createReactClass = require('create-react-class'); var CommentList = reactCreateClass({ render: function() { return ( <div className...

Select children of element

To select the children of an element you can use the children() method. <div class="parent"> <h2>A headline</h2> <p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...</p> <p>Praesent quis dolor turpis...</p> </div> Change the color of all the ...

Creating a CAGradientLayer

// View to hold the CAGradientLayer. let view: UIView = UIView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 320, height: 320)) // Initialize gradient layer. let gradientLayer: CAGradientLayer = CAGradientLayer() // Set frame of gradient layer. gradientLayer.frame = view.bounds // Color at...

Underlying references of named method delegates

When assigning named methods to delegates, they will refer to the same underlying object if: They are the same instance method, on the same instance of a class They are the same static method on a class public class Greeter { public void WriteInstance() { Console.Write...

exec statement is a function in Python 3

In Python 2, exec is a statement, with special syntax: exec code [in globals[, locals]]. In Python 3 exec is now a function: exec(code, [, globals[, locals]]), and the Python 2 syntax will raise a SyntaxError. As print was changed from statement into a function, a __future__ import was also added. ...

Stream output to client

/** * Enables output buffer streaming. Calling this function * immediately flushes the buffer to the client, and any * subsequent output will be sent directly to the client. */ function _stream() { ob_implicit_flush(true); ob_end_flush(); }

Argument forwarding

Template may accept both lvalue and rvalue references using forwarding reference: template <typename T> void f(T &&t); In this case, the real type of t will be deduced depending on the context: struct X { }; X x; f(x); // calls f<X&>(x) f(X()); // calls f<X>(...

Alternative for statement

<?php for ($i = 0; $i < 10; $i++): do_something($i); endfor; ?> <?php for ($i = 0; $i < 10; $i++): ?> <p>Do something in HTML with <?php echo $i; ?></p> <?php endfor; ?>

Alternative while statement

<?php while ($condition): do_something(); endwhile; ?> <?php while ($condition): ?> <p>Do something in HTML</p> <?php endwhile; ?>

Alternative foreach statement

<?php foreach ($collection as $item): do_something($item); endforeach; ?> <?php foreach ($collection as $item): ?> <p>Do something in HTML with <?php echo $item; ?></p> <?php endforeach; ?>

Alternative switch statement

<?php switch ($condition): case $value: do_something(); break; default: do_something_else(); break; endswitch; ?> <?php switch ($condition): ?> <?php case $value: /* having whitespace before your cases will cause an error */ ?&g...

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