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Enable utf8 pragma In order to enable utf8 pragma in one-liner, perl interpreter should be called with -Mutf8 option: perl -Mutf8 -E 'my $人 = "human"; say $人' Unicode handling with -C switch The -C command line flag lets you control Unicode features. It can be followed by a list of o...

Setting encoding with open() When opening a text file, you may specify it's encoding explicitly with a three-argument open(). This en-/decoder attached to a file handle is called an "I/O layer": my $filename = '/path/to/file'; open my $fh, '<:encoding(utf-8)', $filename or die "...

If we need to parse a large file, e.g. a CSV more than 10 Mbytes containing millions of rows, some use file or file_get_contents functions and end up with hitting memory_limit setting with Allowed memory size of XXXXX bytes exhausted error. Consider the following source (top-1m.csv has exactly...

After successfully installing Xamarin as described in the first example, it's time to launch the first sample application. Step 1: Creating a new Project. In Visual Studio, choose New -> Project -> Visual C# -> Cross-Platform -> Blank App (Xamarin.Forms Portable) Name the app "He...

The Salesforce application consists of several products which can be integrated with each other: Sales Cloud Marketing Page, Salesforce Documentation Service Cloud Marketing Page, Salesforce Documentation, Trailhead Marketing Cloud Marketing Page Community Cloud Marketing Page, Salesforce Do...

LeakCanary is an Open Source Java library to detect memory leaks in your debug builds. Just add the dependencies in the build.gradle: dependencies { debugCompile 'com.squareup.leakcanary:leakcanary-android:1.5.1' releaseCompile 'com.squareup.leakcanary:leakcanary-android-no-op:1.5.1' ...

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static and templates folder in the apps may should also contain a folder with the name of app ex. blog this is a convention used to prevent namespace pollution, so we reference the files like /blog/base.html rather than /base.html which provides more clarity about the file we are referencing and pre...

In order for a program to react to a certain signal, other than using default action, custom signal handler can be installed using sigaction. sigaction receives three arguments - signal to act on, pointer to sigaction_t structure which, if not NULL, is describing new behaviour and pointer to sigacti...

Least squares is a standard approach to problems with more equations than unknowns, also known as overdetermined systems. Consider the four equations: x0 + 2 * x1 + x2 = 4 x0 + x1 + 2 * x2 = 3 2 * x0 + x1 + x2 = 5 x0 + x1 + x2 = 4 We can express this as a matrix multiplication A * x = b: A ...

When rendering a form 'by hand', it can be useful to know if there are fields left to render or not. The function isRendered() from the FormView class returns true if there are still fields left to be rendered to the template. This snippet prints <h3>Extra fields</h3> if there are fiel...

CREATE TABLE foo ( ... name CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 ... );

There are dozens of character sets with hundreds of collations. (A given collation belongs to only one character set.) See the output of SHOW COLLATION;. There are usually only 4 CHARACTER SETs that matter: ascii -- basic 7-bit codes. latin1 -- ascii, plus most characters needed for Western Eur...

You can rename branch in local repository using this command: git branch -m old_name new_name

Getting zsh zsh is available on many UNIX-like platforms via their built-in package management systems. On the Debian and Ubuntu Linux distributions, zsh is available in the default package repositories and can be installed using: $ sudo apt-get install zsh # or, on newer Ubuntu distributions $ ...

You can obtain the url for an existing remote by using the command git remote get-url <name> By default, this will be git remote get-url origin

When you created your own Models in a app, they still need to be registered in order to become available in the admin pages. This is done in the admin submodule. If your app was created using manage.py startapp, an admin.py file should already lay in you app module. Otherwise create it. #myapp/a...

There are several packages that allow the output of data structures in form of HTML or LaTeX tables. They mostly differ in flexibility. Here I use the packages: knitr xtable pander For HTML documents --- title: "Printing Tables" author: "Martin Schmelzer" date: &quot...

C++ thrives on what is known as a Regular type (or at least Pseudo-Regular). A Regular type is a type that can be constructed and assigned-to and assigned-from via copy or move, can be destroyed, and can be compared equal-to. It can also be constructed from no arguments. Finally, it also has supp...

Mockito offers a one-size-fits-all mehtod to create mocks of (non-final) classes and interfaces. Dependency mock = Mockito.mock(Dependency.class); This creates a mock instance of Dependency regardless of whether Dependency is a interface or class. It is then possible to stub method calls to tha...