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1) Create a Contract Class A contract class defines constants that help applications work with the content URIs, column names, intent actions, and other features of a content provider. Contract classes are not included automatically with a provider; the provider's developer has to define them and t...

globalize gem is a great solution to add translations to your ActiveRecord models. You can install it adding this to your Gemfile: gem 'globalize', '~> 5.0.0' If you're using Rails 5 you will also need to add activemodel-serializers-xml gem 'activemodel-serializers-xml' Model translations...

Due to type erasure the following will not work: public <T> void genericMethod() { T t = new T(); // Can not instantiate the type T. } The type T is erased. Since, at runtime, the JVM does not know what T originally was, it does not know which constructor to call. Workarounds ...

When an HTTP server receives a well-formed HTTP request, it must process the information that request contains and return a response to the client. A simple HTTP 1.1 response, may look like any of the following, usually followed by a number of header fields, and possibly a response body: HTTP/1.1 2...

Like an HTTP request, an HTTP response may include additional headers to modify or augment the response it provides. A full list of available headers is defined in §6.2 of the specification. The most commonly-used headers are: Server, which functions like a User-Agent request header for the serv...

As with request bodies, HTTP responses may contain a message body. This provides additional data that the client will process. Notably, 200 OK responses to a well-formed GET request should always provide a message body containing the requested data. (If there is none, 204 No Content is a more approp...

DELETE FROM `myTable` WHERE `someColumn` = 'something' The WHERE clause is optional but without it all rows are deleted.

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...

In Java, parent and child class both can have static methods with the same name. But in such cases implementation of static method in child is hiding parent class' implementation, it's not method overriding. For example: class StaticMethodTest { // static method and inheritance public stati...

use-fixtures allows to wrap each deftest in namespace with code that runs before and after test. It can be used for fixtures or stubbing. Fixtures are just functions that take test function and run it with other necessary steps (before/after, wrap). (ns myapp.test (require [clojure.test :refer ...

The text-transform property allows you to change the capitalization of text. Valid values are: uppercase, capitalize, lowercase, initial, inherit, and none CSS: .example1 { text-transform: uppercase; } .example2 { text-transform: capitalize; } .example3 { text-transform: lowerc...

Scala can be used as a scripting language. To demonstrate, create HelloWorld.scala with the following content: println("Hello") Execute it with the command-line interpreter (the $ is the command line prompt): $ scala HelloWorld.scala Hello If you omit .scala (such as if you simply...

This is the easiest syntax to define a function: square(n) = n * n To call a function, use round brackets (without spaces in between): julia> square(10) 100 Functions are objects in Julia, and we can show them in the REPL as with any other objects: julia> square square (generic func...

We can use the :: syntax to dispatch on the type of an argument. describe(n::Integer) = "integer $n" describe(n::AbstractFloat) = "floating point $n" Usage: julia> describe(10) "integer 10" julia> describe(1.0) "floating point 1.0" Unlike m...

A long-form syntax is available for defining multi-line functions. This can be useful when we use imperative structures such as loops. The expression in tail position is returned. For instance, the below function uses a for loop to compute the factorial of some integer n: function myfactorial(n) ...

Functions are objects in Julia. Like any other objects, they can be passed as arguments to other functions. Functions that accept functions are known as higher-order functions. For instance, we can implement an equivalent of the standard library's foreach function by taking a function f as the firs...

Arrow syntax Anonymous functions can be created using the -> syntax. This is useful for passing functions to higher-order functions, such as the map function. The below function computes the square of each number in an array A. squareall(A) = map(x -> x ^ 2, A) An example of using this fu...