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To change PS1, you just have to change the value of PS1 shell variable. The value can be set in ~/.bashrc or /etc/bashrc file, depending on the distro. PS1 can be changed to any plain text like: PS1="hello " Besides the plain text, a number of backslash-escaped special characters are s...

To sort elements efficiently (all at once and with minimal DOM interruption), we need to: Find the elements Sort based on a set condition Insert back in the DOM <ul id='my-color-list'> <li class="disabled">Red</li> <li>Green</li> <li ...

Matlab supports synchronous and asynchronous communication with a serial port. It is important to chose the right communication mode. The choice will depend on: how the instrument you are communicating with behave. what other functions your main program (or GUI) will have to do aside from managi...

#include <stdio.h> int main(void) { /* define a small bit-field that can hold values from 0 .. 7 */ struct { unsigned int uint3: 3; } small; /* extract the right 3 bits from a value */ unsigned int value = 255 - 2; /* Binary 11111101 */ small.u...

You can convert a numeric string to various Java numeric types as follows: String to int: String number = "12"; int num = Integer.parseInt(number); String to float: String number = "12.0"; float num = Float.parseFloat(number); String to double: String double = "1...

Pass each variable to view at a time $this->set('color', 'pink'); $this->set('color', $color); Pass multiple variables to view together via compact() function $color1 = 'pink'; $color2 = 'red'; $this->set(compact('color1', 'color2'));

You can retrieve post data as Array. $post_data= $this->request->data; You can retrieve post data for particular key. $this->request->data['field']; Retrieve specific key value $this->request->data('key_name'); Retrieve specific key value of nested array $this->requ...

Dim fso As New Scripting.FileSystemObject Debug.Print fso.GetBaseName("MyFile.something.txt") Prints MyFile.something Note that the GetBaseName() method already handles multiple periods in a file name.

Dim fso As New Scripting.FileSystemObject Debug.Print fso.GetExtensionName("MyFile.something.txt") Prints txt Note that the GetExtensionName() method already handles multiple periods in a file name.

There are a several different ways of sorting a collection. Sort() The sort method sorts the collection: $collection = collect([5, 3, 1, 2, 4]); $sorted = $collection->sort(); echo $sorted->values()->all(); returns : [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] The sort method also allows for passing in ...

The format of a playbook is quite straightforward, but strict in terms of spacing and layout. A playbook consists of plays. A play is a combination of targets hosts and the tasks we want to apply on these hosts, so a drawing of a playbook is this: To execute this playbook, we simply run: ansible...

Here’s a simple play: - name: Configure webserver with git hosts: webserver become: true vars: package: git tasks: - name: install git apt: name={{ package }} state=present As we said earlier, every play must contain: A set of hosts to configure A list of t...

To translate strings, you will have to create translation files. To do so, django ships with the management command makemessages. $ django-admin makemessages -l fr processing locale fr The above command will discover all strings marked as translatable within your installed apps and create one l...

Sometimes it is required to display a notification at a specific time, a task that unfortunately is not trivial on the Android system, as there is no method setTime() or similiar for notifications. This example outlines the steps needed to schedule notifications using the AlarmManager: Add a Broa...

Retrieving sensor information from the onboard sensors: public class MainActivity extends Activity implements SensorEventListener { private SensorManager mSensorManager; private Sensor accelerometer; private Sensor gyroscope; float[] accelerometerData = new float[3]; f...

The sensor values returned by Android are with respective to the phone's coordinate system (e.g. +Y points towards the top of the phone). We can transform these sensor values into a world coordinate system (e.g. +Y points towards magnetic North, tangential to the ground) using the sensor managers ro...

Make sure the following dependency is added to your app's build.gradle file under dependencies: compile 'com.android.support:design:25.3.1' Show the hint from an EditText as a floating label when a value is entered. <android.support.design.widget.TextInputLayout android:layout_width=&qu...

Hex Opacity Values ------------------------------ | Alpha(%) | Hex Value | ------------------------------ | 100% | FF | | 95% | F2 | | 90% | E6 | | 85% | D9 | | 80% | ...

JSON is a cross language, widely used method to serialize data Supported data types : int, float, boolean, string, list and dict. See -> JSON Wiki for more Here is an example demonstrating the basic usage of JSON :- import json families = (['John'], ['Mark', 'David', {'name': 'Avraham'}]) ...

Here is an example demonstrating the basic usage of pickle:- # Importing pickle try: import cPickle as pickle # Python 2 except ImportError: import pickle # Python 3 # Creating Pythonic object: class Family(object): def __init__(self, names): self.sons = names ...