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Preferences can be used to store user settings that reflect a user's personal application settings, e.g. their editor font, whether they prefer the application to be started in full-screen mode, whether they checked a "don't show this again" checkbox and things like that. public class Exi...

A very common guideline in object oriented design is "as little as possible but as much as necessary". This also applies to the strategy pattern: It is usually advisable to hide implementation details, for example which classes actually implement strategies. For simple strategies which do...

Note that all bitwise operations operate on 32-bit integers by passing any operands to the internal function ToInt32. Bitwise or var a; a = 0b0011 | 0b1010; // a === 0b1011 // truth table // 1010 | (or) // 0011 // 1011 (result) Bitwise and a = 0b0011 & 0b1010; // a === 0b0010 // t...

Iterators and pointers pointing into an std::vector can become invalid, but only when performing certain operations. Using invalid iterators/pointers will result in undefined behavior. Operations which invalidate iterators/pointers include: Any insertion operation which changes the capacity of...

When calling a function without an explicit namespace qualifier, the compiler can choose to call a function within a namespace if one of the parameter types to that function is also in that namespace. This is called "Argument Dependent Lookup", or ADL: namespace Test { int call(int i)...

The struct template std::pair can bundle together exactly two return values, of any two types: #include <utility> std::pair<int, int> foo(int a, int b) { return std::make_pair(a+b, a-b); } With C++11 or later, an initializer list can be used instead of std::make_pair: C++11 ...

You can apply any kind of additional processing to the output by passing a callable to ob_start(). <?php function clearAllWhiteSpace($buffer) { return str_replace(array("\n", "\t", ' '), '', $buffer); } ob_start('clearAllWhiteSpace'); ?> <h1>Lorem Ipsum&l...

This uses the Dropbox Python SDK to upload a file to the Dropbox API from the local file as specified by file_path to the remote path as specified by dest_path. It also chooses whether or not to use an upload session based on the size of the file: f = open(file_path) file_size = os.path.getsize(fi...

Useful for simple animations, the CSS transition property allows number-based CSS properties to animate between states. Example .Example{ height: 100px; background: #fff; } .Example:hover{ height: 120px; background: #ff0000; } View Result By default, hovering over an...

When creating animations and other GPU-heavy actions, it's important to understand the will-change attribute. Both CSS keyframes and the transition property use GPU acceleration. Performance is increased by offloading calculations to the device's GPU. This is done by creating paint layers (parts of...

Using Item Sales Table from Example Database, let us calculate and show the total Quantity we sold of each Product. This can be easily done with a group by, but lets assume we to 'rotate' our result table in a way that for each Product Id we have a column. SELECT [100], [145] FROM (SELECT ItemI...

In JavaScript, any object can be the prototype of another. When an object is created as a prototype of another, it will inherit all of its parent's properties. var proto = { foo: "foo", bar: () => this.foo }; var obj = Object.create(proto); console.log(obj.foo); console.log(obj....

Suppose we have a plain object called prototype: var prototype = { foo: 'foo', bar: function () { return this.foo; } }; Now we want another object called obj that inherits from prototype, which is the same as saying that prototype is the prototype of obj var obj = Object.create(prototype); N...

Setting a filter applies to all channels that you will subscribe to from that particular client. This client filter excludes messages that have this subscriber's UUID set at the sender's UUID: NSString *expression = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"(uuid != '%@'", se...

This example uses the Dropbox .NET library to try to get the metadata for an item at a particular path, and checks for a NotFound error: try { var metadata = await this.client.Files.GetMetadataAsync("/non-existant path"); Console.WriteLine(metadata.Name); } catch (Dropbox.Api.A...

Property injection allows a classes dependencies to be updated after it has been created. This can be useful if you want to simplify object creation, but still allow the dependencies to be overridden by your tests with test doubles. Consider a class that needs to write to a log file in an error co...

A for loop executes statements in the loop body, while the loop condition is true. Before the loop initialization statement is executed exactly once. After each cycle, the iteration execution part is executed. A for loop is defined as follows: for (/*initialization statement*/; /*condition*/; /*it...

C++14 Lambdas can capture expressions, rather than just variables. This permits lambdas to store move-only types: auto p = std::make_unique<T>(...); auto lamb = [p = std::move(p)]() //Overrides capture-by-value of `p`. { p->SomeFunc(); }; This moves the outer p variable into th...

If you precede a local variable's name with an &, then the variable will be captured by reference. Conceptually, this means that the lambda's closure type will have a reference variable, initialized as a reference to the corresponding variable from outside of the lambda's scope. Any use of the v...

By default, local variables that are not explicitly specified in the capture list, cannot be accessed from within the lambda body. However, it is possible to implicitly capture variables named by the lambda body: int a = 1; int b = 2; // Default capture by value [=]() { return a + b; }; // OK;...