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Calling other seeders

Within your DatabaseSeeder class you are able to call other seeders $this->call(TestSeeder::class) This allows you to keep one file where you can easily find your seeders. Keep in mind that you need to pay attention to the order of your calls regarding foreign key constraints. You can't refe...

Laravel • Seeding

Member Function cv-qualifier Overloading

Functions within a class can be overloaded for when they are accessed through a cv-qualified reference to that class; this is most commonly used to overload for const, but can be used to overload for volatile and const volatile, too. This is because all non-static member functions take this as a hi...

C++ • Function Overloading

IA-32 assembly, GAS, cdecl calling convention

# make this routine available outside this translation unit .globl string_to_integer string_to_integer: # function prologue push %ebp mov %esp, %ebp push %esi # initialize result (%eax) to zero xor %eax, %eax # fetch pointer to the string mov 8(%ebp), %e...

Intel x86 Assembly Language & Microarchitecture • Converting decimal strings to integers

Inheriting from classes and abstract classes

Disclaimer: the examples presented here are only for the purpose of showing the use of abstract classes and inheritance and may not necessarily be of a practical use. Also, there is no sich thing as polymorphic in MATLAB and therefore the use of abstract classes is limited. This example is to show w...

MATLAB Language • Object-Oriented Programming

Basic image I/O

>> img = imread('football.jpg'); Use imread to read image files into a matrix in MATLAB. Once you imread an image, it is stored as an ND-array in memory: >> size(img) ans = 256 320 3 The image 'football.jpg' has 256 rows and 320 columns and it has 3 color channels: Red, ...

MATLAB Language • Image processing

Friend class

A whole class may be declared as friend. Friend class declaration means that any member of the friend may access private and protected members of the declaring class: class Accesser { public: void private_accesser1(); void private_accesser2(); }; class PrivateHolder { public: P...

C++ • Friend keyword

Updating packages

In every applications life-cycle comes a day where it's components needs to be updated. Everyone knows the pain of updating every single dependency one-by-one. Well here you just need to issue the command: npm update (-g) If the "-g" is there then npm will update the global packages. ...

npm • Getting started with npm

finalize() method

This is a protected and non-static method of the Object class. This method is used to perform some final operations or clean up operations on an object before it gets removed from the memory. According to the doc, this method gets called by the garbage collector on an object when garbage collecti...

Java Language • Object Class Methods and Constructor

Extract extension from file name

Fast and short way to extract extension from file name in JavaScript will be: function get_extension(filename) { return filename.slice((filename.lastIndexOf('.') - 1 >>> 0) + 2); } It works correctly both with names having no extension (e.g. myfile) or starting with . dot (e.g. .h...

JavaScript • Data Manipulation

Format numbers as money

Fast and short way to format value of type Number as money, e.g. 1234567.89 => "1,234,567.89": var num = 1234567.89, formatted; formatted = num.toFixed(2).replace(/\d(?=(\d{3})+\.)/g, '$&,'); // "1,234,567.89" More advanced variant with support of any number o...

JavaScript • Data Manipulation

Set object property given its string name

function assign(obj, prop, value) { if (typeof prop === 'string') prop = prop.split('.'); if (prop.length > 1) { var e = prop.shift(); assign(obj[e] = Object.prototype.toString.call(obj[e]) === '[object Object]' ? obj[e] ...

JavaScript • Data Manipulation

Wait for DOM to be loaded

Use DOMContentLoaded when the <script> code interacting with DOM is included in the <head> section. If not wrapped inside the DOMContentLoaded callback, the code will throw errors like Cannot read something of null document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function(event) { ...

DOM • Getting started with DOM

Import function from unmanaged C++ DLL

Here is an example of how to import a function that is defined in an unmanaged C++ DLL. In the C++ source code for "myDLL.dll", the function add is defined: extern "C" __declspec(dllexport) int __stdcall add(int a, int b) { return a + b; } Then it can be included into ...

C# Language • Interoperability

Multiple Lines/Curves in the Same Plot

""" ================================================================================ DRAW MULTIPLE LINES IN THE SAME PLOT ================================================================================ """ import matplotlib.pyplot as plt ...

matplotlib • Multiple Plots

Extending Rectangle adding new stylable properties

JavaFX 8 The following example demonstrates how to add custom properties that can be styled from css to a custom Node. Here 2 DoublePropertys are added to the Rectangle class to allow setting the width and height from CSS. The following CSS could be used for styling the custom node: StyleableRe...

javafx • CSS

The "instancetype" return type

Objective-C supports a special type called `instancetype that can only be used as type returned by a method. It evaluates to the class of the receiving object. Consider the following class hierarchy: @interface Foo : NSObject - (instancetype)initWithString:(NSString *)string; @end @interf...

Objective-C Language • Classes and Objects

Connection to a Microsoft Access database with UCanAccess

UCanAccess is a pure Java JDBC driver that allows us to read from and write to Access databases without using ODBC. It uses two other packages, Jackcess and HSQLDB, to perform these tasks. Once it has been set up*, we can work with data in .accdb and .mdb files using code like this: import java.sq...

jdbc • Creating a database connection

Strings and Lists

It's important to know how CMake distinguishes between lists and plain strings. When you write: set(VAR "a b c") you create a string with the value "a b c". But when you write this line without quotes: set(VAR a b c) You create a list of three items instead: "a", &q...

cmake • Variables and Properties

How to configure build types in the build.gradle

You can create and configure build types in the module-level build.gradle file inside the android {} block. android { ... defaultConfig {...} buildTypes { release { minifyEnabled true proguardFiles getDefaultProguar...

android-gradle • Configure Build Types

Attr

Use the attr binding to apply any additional attributes to your element. Most commonly used for setting an href, src, or any data-attributes. <img data-bind="attr: { src: url, title: title }"/> var viewModel = { url: ko.observable("images/example.png"), title:...

knockout.js • Bindings - Text and appearance