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Working with Stored Credentials

To store and retrieve encrypted credentials easily, use PowerShell's built-in XML serialization (Clixml): $credential = Get-Credential $credential | Export-CliXml -Path 'C:\My\Path\cred.xml' To re-import: $credential = Import-CliXml -Path 'C:\My\Path\cred.xml' The important thing to remem...

PowerShell • Handling Secrets and Credentials

Swapping values

Tuples are useful to swap values between 2 (or more) variables without using temporary variables. Example with 2 variables Given 2 variables var a = "Marty McFly" var b = "Emmett Brown" we can easily swap the values (a, b) = (b, a) Result: print(a) // "Emmett Bro...

Swift Language • Tuples

Getting file information

Check if a path is a directory or a file The is_dir function returns whether the argument is a directory, while is_file returns whether the argument is a file. Use file_exists to check if it is either. $dir = "/this/is/a/directory"; $file = "/this/is/a/file.txt"; echo is_d...

PHP • File handling

Common Lisp Quick Reference

The Common Lisp Quick Reference is a document which can be printed and bound as a booklet in various layouts to have a printed quick reference for Common Lisp.

common-lisp • ANSI Common Lisp, the language standard and its documentation

Clearing a Set

You can remove all the elements in a set using the .clear() method: mySet.clear();

JavaScript • Set

Getting set length

You can get the number of elements inside the set using the .size property const mySet = new Set([1, 2, 2, 3]); mySet.add(4); mySet.size; // 4 This property, unlike Array.prototype.length, is read-only, which means that you can't change it by assigning something to it: mySet.size = 5; mySet....

JavaScript • Set

Creating Objects

Unlike many other languages, Perl does not have constructors that allocate memory for your objects. Instead, one should write a class method that both create a data structure and populate it with data (you may know it as the Factory Method design pattern). package Point; use strict; sub new { ...

Perl Language • Object-oriented Perl

Defining Classes

In general, classes in Perl are just packages. They can contain data and methods, as usual packages. package Point; use strict; my $CANVAS_SIZE = [1000, 1000]; sub new { ... } sub polar_coordinates { ... } 1; It is important to note that the variables declared in a packa...

Perl Language • Object-oriented Perl

Inheritance and methods resolution

To make a class a subclass of another class, use parent pragma: package Point; use strict; ... 1; package Point2D; use strict; use parent qw(Point); ... 1; package Point3D; use strict; use parent qw(Point); ... 1; Perl allows for multiple inheritance: package Point2D; use stri...

Perl Language • Object-oriented Perl

Get previous element

To get the previous element you can use the .prev() method. <ul> <li>Mark</li> <li class="anna">Anna</li> <li>Paul</li> </ul> If you are standing on the "Anna" element and you want to get the previous element, &q...

jQuery • DOM Traversing

Filter a selection

To filter a selection you can use the .filter() method. The method is called on a selection and returns a new selection. If the filter matches an element then it is added to the returned selection, otherwise it is ignored. If no element is matched then an empty selection is returned. The HTML Thi...

jQuery • DOM Traversing

Repeating Annotations

Until Java 8, two instances of the same annotation could not be applied to a single element. The standard workaround was to use a container annotation holding an array of some other annotation: // Author.java @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME) public @interface Author { String value(); } ...

Java Language • Annotations

Create composite index

This will create a composite index of both keys, mystring and mydatetime and speed up queries with both columns in the WHERE clause. CREATE INDEX idx_mycol_myothercol ON my_table(mycol, myothercol) Note: The order is important! If the search query does not include both columns in the WHERE claus...

MySQL • Indexes and Keys

On Linux via dpkg

On Debian-based distributions, including Ubuntu, the most straightforward way is to use the .deb installation file. Go to the Scala website. Choose the version you want to install then scroll down and look for scala-x.x.x.deb. You can install the scala deb from command line: sudo dpkg -i scala-x.x...

Scala Language • Setting up Scala

Using a base template

base.twig.html <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>{{ title | default('Hello World') }}</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="theme.css"> {% block css %} {% endblock %} &...

twig • Template inheritance

Change the content of an included template

article.twig.html <article> <h1>{{ article.title }}</h1> {% block content %} <p>{{ article.content }}</p> {% endblock %} </article> articles.twig.html {# use default template for article #} {% for article in articles %} {% include &...

twig • Template inheritance

Monkey Patching

In this case, "monkey patching" means adding a new variable or method to a class after it's been defined. For instance, say we defined class A as class A(object): def __init__(self, num): self.num = num def __add__(self, other): return A(self.num + other.num)...

Python Language • Classes

Collections and Primitive Values

Collections in Java only work for objects. I.e. there is no Map<int, int> in Java. Instead, primitive values need to be boxed into objects, as in Map<Integer, Integer>. Java auto-boxing will enable transparent use of these collections: Map<Integer, Integer> map = new HashMap<&g...

Java Language • Collections

Checking if one array contains another array

public static class ArrayHelpers { public static bool Contains<T>(this T[] array, T[] candidate) { if (IsEmptyLocate(array, candidate)) return false; if (candidate.Length > array.Length) return false; for (int a = 0; a <...

C# Language • Arrays

Redis command line interface

redis-cli is the Redis command line interface program that allows to send commands to Redis and read the replies sent by the server, directly from the terminal. Basic command line usage is below: Access to redis: $ redis-cli 127.0.0.1:6379> Access to redis with authentication: $ redis-cli ...

redis • Getting started with redis