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ascent, descent and baseline

the units-per-em property is one of the most important font properties. It's used to give any value of any other property any meaning. the CSS2 font spec has a nice definition of the em sqare: Certain values, such as width metrics, are expressed in units that are relative to an abstract square w...

SVG • Creating fonts

Move all files not already in a directory into a self named directory

ll | grep ^- | awk -F"." '{print $2 "." $3}' | awk -F":" '{print $2}' | awk '{$1=""; print $0}' | cut -c2- | awk -F"." '{print "mkdir ""$1"";mv ""$1"."$2"" ""$1"""}' >...

Bash • Creating directories

Padding-Based Buttons

This technique relies on padding at the table cell level to structure the button, and both HTML attributes and CSS to style the button. No VML means simpler code, but no background images in Outlook. <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0...

email • Bulletproof Buttons

Border-Based Buttons

This technique relies on adding thick borders to the link itself to build the button's CTA. Using borders is universally understood by email clients, but limit button appearance solid colors. <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"&g...

email • Bulletproof Buttons

Padding + Border-Based Buttons

This technique uses a combination of border-based and padding-based buttons, styling the link with both padding and at least a solid 1px border. The background color needs to be applied to the instead of the in this instance because Outlook does recognize horizontal padding on the tag (since it's...

email • Bulletproof Buttons

Decompile Database

This should always be your initial fix. A good policy is to decompile the database before each release. Create a decompile shortcut. This loads the database with a "/decompile" switch. Right Click your Database File. Select Copy Right Click in the explorer window and select &quot...

ms-access • How to troubleshoot Access crashes

Rebuild the entire database

This is a lot of work, so do this as a last resort after exhausting all other options. You only need to do this if the problem is occurring for different users, on different machines. If it isn't occurring for all users, then most likely it is not a corrupt database container. Similar to the steps...

ms-access • How to troubleshoot Access crashes

New Java SE 7 programming language features

Binary Literals: The integral types (byte, short, int, and long) can also be expressed using the binary number system. To specify a binary literal, add the prefix 0b or 0B to the number. Strings in switch Statements: You can use a String object in the expression of a switch statement The try-wit...

Java Language • Java SE 7 Features

New Java SE 8 programming language features

Lambda Expressions, a new language feature, has been introduced in this release. They enable you to treat functionality as a method argument, or code as data. Lambda expressions let you express instances of single-method interfaces (referred to as functional interfaces) more compactly. Method r...

Java Language • Java SE 8 Features

Custom Camera Control - Mouse-based Sliding

Here's an example of a custom camera controller. This reads the position of the mouse within the client window, and then slides the camera around as if it were following the mouse on the window. index.html <html> <head> <title>Three.js Custom Mouse Camera Control Ex...

three.js • Camera Controls in Three.js

Oracle SQL CASE statement in a Netsuite formula

Using a CASE statement, conditionally display an expression in the column based on values found in another column, a.k.a. “my kingdom for an OR”. In the example, the result is obtained when the status of the transaction is Pending Fulfillment or Partially Fulfilled: CASE DECODE( {status}, 'Pending ...

netsuite • Exploiting formula columns in saved searches

Test the value of `mainline` in an SQL CASE statement

In a saved search formula, the possible values of mainline are designed to be useful in an HTML context. When mainline is true, the value of {mainline} is the 1-character string * (asterisk). When mainline is false, the value of {mainline} is the 6-character string &nbsp; (non-breaking space, HT...

netsuite • Exploiting formula columns in saved searches

Defining a Setter/Getter Using Object.defineProperty

var setValue; var obj = {}; Object.defineProperty(obj, "objProperty", { get: function(){ return "a value"; }, set: function(value){ setValue = value; } });

JavaScript • Setters and Getters

Examble based on SDL2 control version

If you have a cmake module . You can create a folder called in to store all config files. For example,you have a project called FOO, you can create a FOO_config.h.in file like: //=================================================================================== // CMake configuration file, base...

cmake • Configure file

Analysis of Linear search (Worst, Average and Best Cases)

We can have three cases to analyze an algorithm: Worst Case Average Case Best Case #include <stdio.h> // Linearly search x in arr[]. If x is present then return the index, // otherwise return -1 int search(int arr[], int n, int x) { int i; for (i=0; i<n; i...

algorithm • Searching

Turn a sequence of indices into copies of an element

Expanding the parameter pack of indices in a comma expression with a value creates a copy of the value for each of the indices. Sadly, gcc and clang think the index has no effect and warn about it (gcc can be silenced by casting the index to void): #include <algorithm> #include <array>...

C++ • std::integer_sequence

Setting a Release/Debug configuration

CMAKE_MINIMUM_REQUIRED(VERSION 2.8.11) SET(PROJ_NAME "myproject") PROJECT(${PROJ_NAME}) # Configuration types SET(CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES "Debug;Release" CACHE STRING "Configs" FORCE) IF(DEFINED CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE AND CMAKE_VERSION VERSION_GREATER "2.8"...

cmake • Build Configurations

Trivial example of a case analysis

In Coq, destruct more or less corresponds to a case analysis. It is similar to induction except that there's no induction hypothesis. Here is a (admittedly rather trivial) example of this tactic: Require Import Coq.Arith.Lt. Theorem atLeastZero : forall a, 0 <= a. Proof. intros. destr...

coq • Using Tactics

Basic handling of GET, POST, PUT using BaseHTTPRequestHandler

# from BaseHTTPServer import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer # python2 from http.server import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer # python3 class HandleRequests(BaseHTTPRequestHandler): def _set_headers(self): self.send_response(200) self.send_header('Content-type', 'text...

Python Language • Python HTTP Server

Advantages of an MVC-Based Web Application

It makes it easier to manage complexity by dividing an application into the model, the view, and the controller (Separation of concerns). It does not use view state or server-based forms. This makes the MVC framework ideal for developers who want full control over the behavior of an applica...

asp.net-mvc • MVC vs Web Forms