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Emacs's user interface uses terms that were coined early and can be unsettling to users used to a more modern terminology. Frame In Emacs, what is otherwise called a window (the area of the display used by a program) is called a frame. Emacs starts using one frame, though additional frames may b...

Sometimes it is desirable to evaluate a nullable expression in an if-else fashion. The elvis operator, ?:, can be used in Kotlin for such a situation. For instance: val value: String = data?.first() ?: "Nothing here." The expression above returns "Nothing here" if data?.firs...

!! suffixes ignore nullability and returns a non-null version of that type. KotlinNullPointerException will be thrown if the object is a null. val message: String? = null println(message!!) //KotlinNullPointerException thrown, app crashes

getTimeStemp is a unix representation of a datetime object. $date = new DateTime(); echo $date->getTimestamp(); this will out put an integer indication the seconds that have elapsed since 00:00:00 UTC, Thursday, 1 January 1970.

setDate sets the date in a DateTime object. $date = new DateTime(); $date->setDate(2016, 7, 25); this example sets the date to be the twenty-fifth of July, 2015, it will produce the following result: 2016-07-25 17:52:15.819442

The & character appears first in entity references and must be escaped in element content or in attribute content. <?xml version="1.0"?> <document attribute="An ampersand is escaped as &"> An ampersand can also be escaped as & in element conte...

The < character appears first in entity tags and must be escaped in element content or in attribute content. <?xml version="1.0"?> <document attribute="A lower-than sign is escaped as <"> 2 + 2 < 5 </document>

The ]]> character sequence is not allowed in element content. The easiest way to escape it is to escape > as >. <?xml version="1.0"?> <document> The sequence ]]> cannot appear in element content. </document>

Attribute values can appear in simple or double quotes. The appropriate character must be escaped. <?xml version="1.0"?> <document quot-attribute="This is a "double quote" and this one is 'simple'" apos-attribute='This is a 'simple quot...

Longer portions of text containing special characters can be escaped with a CDATA section. CDATA sections can only appear in element content. <?xml version="1.0"?> <document> This is a CDATA section : <![CDATA[ plenty of special characters like & < > " ; ...

Characters can be escaped using character references, in element content or attribute values. Their Unicode codepoint can be specified in decimal or hex. <?xml version="1.0"?> <document> The line feed character can be escaped with a decimal (
) or hex (
) ...

Type abbreviations allow you to create aliases on existing types to give them a more meaningful senses. // Name is an alias for a string type Name = string // PhoneNumber is an alias for a string type PhoneNumber = string Then you can use the alias just as any other type: // Create a recor...

Examples of numeric fields are given: AutoField An auto-incrementing integer generally used for primary keys. from django.db import models class MyModel(models.Model): pk = models.AutoField() Each model gets a primary key field (called id) by default. Therefore, it is not necessary t...

This is a specialized field, used to store binary data. It only accepts bytes. Data is base64 serialized upon storage. As this is storing binary data, this field cannot be used in a filter. from django.db import models class MyModel(models.Model): my_binary_data = models.BinaryField() ...

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In real world, connection and server delays could occur, to simulate delays in development environment Meteor._sleepForMs(ms); could be used Meteor.publish('USER_DATA', function() { Meteor._sleepForMs(3000); // Simulate 3 seconds delay return Meteor.users.find({}); });

select '123' * 2; To make the multiplication with 2 MySQL automatically converts the string 123 into a number. Return value: 246 The conversion to a number starts from left to right. If the conversion is not possible the result is 0 select '123ABC' * 2 Return value: 246 select 'A...

To load an image and place it on the canvas var image = new Image(); // see note on creating an image image.src = "imageURL"; image.onload = function(){ ctx.drawImage(this,0,0); } Creating an image There are several ways to create an image new Image() document.createEleme...

What's an image sprite? An image sprite is a single asset located within an image sprite sheet. An image sprite sheet is an image file that contains more than one asset that can be extracted from it. For example: The image above is an image sprite sheet, and each one of those stars is a sprite...

@Entity class Note { @Id Integer id; @Basic String note; @Basic int count; } Getters, setters etc. are ommitted for brevity, but they are not needed for JPA anyway. This Java class would map to the following table (depending on your database, here given in on...