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Step 2: Creating a Subscription for a User using a Billing Agreement (Node Sample)

The second step to creating a subscription for a user is to create and execute a billing agreement, based on an existing activated billing plan. This example assumes that you have already gone through and activated a billing plan in the previous example, and have an ID for that billing plan to refer...

PayPal • Creating Subscriptions / Recurring Payments

Conditional comments for Internet Explorer

Conditional comments can be used to customize code for different versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer. For example, different HTML classes, script tags, or stylesheets can be provided. Conditional comments are supported in Internet Explorer versions 5 through 9. Older and newer Internet Explorer ...

HTML • Comments

Convert to a string format

Convert to String var date1 = new Date(); date1.toString(); Returns: "Fri Apr 15 2016 07:48:48 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)" Convert to Time String var date1 = new Date(); date1.toTimeString(); Returns: "07:48:48 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)" Conve...

JavaScript • Date

Building native executables for Android

project/jni/main.c #include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> int main(void) { printf("Hello world!\n"); return 0; } project/jni/Android.mk LOCAL_PATH := $(call my-dir) include $(CLEAR_VARS) LOCAL_MODULE := hello_world LOCAL_SRC_FILES := main.c include $(BU...

Android • Android NDK

Performing operations on sets

Common values from both sets: You can use the intersect(_:) method to create a new set containing all the values common to both sets. let favoriteColors: Set = ["Red", "Blue", "Green"] let newColors: Set = ["Purple", "Orange", "Green"] ...

Swift Language • Sets

Getting color information about the screen

To determine the color and pixel depths of the screen: var pixelDepth = window.screen.pixelDepth, colorDepth = window.screen.colorDepth;

JavaScript • Screen

Print environment information before build

The following is handy to have in build logs that identifies the build machine, and some parameters; simply make you main task depend on this task to print it before every build.  <target name="environment"> <!-- Get the current ti...

ant • Getting started with ant

Testing for NaN using isNaN()

window.isNaN() The global function isNaN() can be used to check if a certain value or expression evaluates to NaN. This function (in short) first checks if the value is a number, if not tries to convert it (*), and then checks if the resulting value is NaN. For this reason, this testing method may ...

JavaScript • Built-in Constants

Running output buffer before any content

ob_start(); $user_count = 0; foreach( $users as $user ) { if( $user['access'] != 7 ) { continue; } ?> <li class="users user-<?php echo $user['id']; ?>"> <a href="<?php echo $user['link']; ?>"> <?php echo $user...

PHP • Output Buffering

Using Output buffer to store contents in a file, useful for reports, invoices etc

<?php ob_start(); ?> <html> <head> <title>Example invoice</title> </head> <body> <h1>Invoice #0000</h1> <h2>Cost: &pound;15,000</h2> ... </body> </html> <?php...

PHP • Output Buffering

Basic Formatting

Every format type is related to an HTML tag. The First Heading refers to the <h1> tag and is visualized like: Hello World and it's written underlining the text with =: Hello World =========== or by prepending # to the text: # Hello World The Second Heading refers to the <h2&gt...

Markdown • Getting started with Markdown

Bit shift operators for I/O

The operators << and >> are commonly used as "write" and "read" operators: std::ostream overloads << to write variables to the underlying stream (example: std::cout) std::istream overloads >> to read from the underlying stream to a variable (example: s...

C++ • Operator Overloading

Convert formatted string representation of date to Date object

This method can be used to convert a formatted string representation of a date into a Date object. /** * Parses the date using the given format. * * @param formattedDate the formatted date string * @param dateFormat the date format which was used to create the string. ...

Java Language • Date Class

Searching for a file by name or extension

To find files/directories with a specific name, relative to pwd: $ find . -name "myFile.txt" ./myFile.txt To find files/directories with a specific extension, use a wildcard: $ find . -name "*.txt" ./myFile.txt ./myFile2.txt To find files/directories matching one of ma...

Bash • Find

Platform independent new line separator

Since the new line separator varies from platform to platform (e.g. \n on Unix-like systems or \r\n on Windows) it is often necessary to have a platform-independent way of accessing it. In Java it can be retrieved from a system property: System.getProperty("line.separator") Java SE 7 ...

Java Language • Strings

Range-Based For

C++11 for loops can be used to iterate over the elements of a iterator-based range, without using a numeric index or directly accessing the iterators: vector<float> v = {0.4f, 12.5f, 16.234f}; for(auto val: v) { std::cout << val << " "; } std::cout <<...

C++ • Loops

foreach

foreach is used to iterate over the elements of an array or the items within a collection which implements IEnumerable✝. var lines = new string[] { "Hello world!", "How are you doing today?", "Goodbye" }; foreach (string line in lines) { Con...

C# Language • Keywords

Increasing Animation Performance Using the `will-change` Attribute

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...

CSS • Animations

Handling the error when getting metadata for a non-existing path using the Dropbox .NET library

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...

Dropbox API • Getting file metadata

For loop

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++ • Loops