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Installation or Setup

Download and install the WiX Toolset from wixtoolset.org. The installer for the WiX Toolset provides also the integration with Visual Studio, after the installation you should be able to create WiX specific projects. Warnings Admin rights are needed. Some versions of WiX are compatible only with...

wix • Getting started with wix

Installation or Setup

Detailed instructions on getting asp.net-identity set up or installed.

asp.net-identity • Getting started with asp.net-identity

Use latest Gradle version

The Gradle team works regularly on improving the performance of different aspects of Gradle builds. If you’re using an old version of Gradle, you’re missing out on the benefits of that work. Try upgrading to the latest version of Gradle to see what kind of impact it has. Doing so is low risk because...

gradle • Gradle Performance

Split routes into multiple files

If your routes file is overwhelmingly big, you can put your routes in multiple files and include each of the files with Ruby’s require_relative method: config/routes.rb: YourAppName::Application.routes.draw do require_relative 'routes/admin_routes' require_relative 'routes/sidekiq_routes' ...

Ruby on Rails • Routing

Ignoring return values of library functions

Almost every function in C standard library returns something on success, and something else on error. For example, malloc will return a pointer to the memory block allocated by the function on success, and, if the function failed to allocate the requested block of memory, a null pointer. So you sho...

C Language • Common pitfalls

Installation or Setup

On Windows Download the Visual Studio Code installer for Windows. Once it is downloaded, run the installer (VSCodeSetup-version.exe). This will only take a minute. By default, VS Code is installed under C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft VS Code for a 64-bit machine. Note: .NET Framework 4.5.2...

vscode • Getting started with vscode

Core Extensions: String Access

String#at Returns a substring of a string object. Same interface as String#[]. str = "hello" str.at(0) # => "h" str.at(1..3) # => "ell" str.at(-2) # => "l" str.at(-2..-1) # => "lo" str.at(5) # => nil str.at(5..-...

Ruby on Rails • ActiveSupport

Core Extensions: String to Date/Time Conversion

String#to_time Converts a string to a Time value. The form parameter can be either :utc or :local, defaults to :local. "13-12-2012".to_time # => 2012-12-13 00:00:00 +0100 "06:12".to_time # => 2012-12-13 06:12:00 +0100 "2012-12-13 06...

Ruby on Rails • ActiveSupport

Core Extensions: String Exclusion

String#exclude? The inverse of String#include? "hello".exclude? "lo" # => false "hello".exclude? "ol" # => true "hello".exclude? ?h # => false

Ruby on Rails • ActiveSupport

Core Extensions: String Filters

String#squish Returns a version of the given string without leading or trailing whitespace, and combines all consecutive whitespace in the interior to single spaces. Destructive version squish! operates directly on the string instance. Handles both ASCII and Unicode whitespace. %{ Multi-line ...

Ruby on Rails • ActiveSupport

Core Extensions: String Inflection

String#pluralize Returns of plural form of the string. Optionally takes a count parameter and returns singular form if count == 1. Also accepts a locale parameter for language-specific pluralization. 'post'.pluralize # => "posts" 'octopus'.pluralize # => &quot...

Ruby on Rails • ActiveSupport

Newline character is not consumed in typical scanf() call

When this program #include <stdio.h> #include <string.h> int main(void) { int num = 0; char str[128], *lf; scanf("%d", &num); fgets(str, sizeof(str), stdin); if ((lf = strchr(str, '\n')) != NULL) *lf = '\0'; printf("%d \"%s\&...

C Language • Common pitfalls

Adding a NOT NULL constraint to existing data

Say you want to add a foreign key company_id to the users table, and you want to have a NOT NULL constraint on it. If you already have data in users, you will have to do this in multiple steps. class AddCompanyIdToUsers < ActiveRecord::Migration def up # add the column with NULL allowed ...

Ruby on Rails • ActiveRecord Migrations

Minimal Chart Example

Depending on the version of Chart.JS you are using (the current one being 2.X), the syntax is different to create a minimal example of a bar chart (JSFiddle Demo for 2.X). Chart.js 2.X <html> <body> <canvas id="myChart" width="400" height="400&...

chart.js • Getting started with chart.js

Encoding

const foobar = `foo bar` encoding := base64.StdEncoding encodedFooBar := make([]byte, encoding.EncodedLen(len(foobar))) encoding.Encode(encodedFooBar, []byte(foobar)) fmt.Printf("%s", encodedFooBar) // Output: Zm9vIGJhcg== Playground

Go • Base64 Encoding

Encoding to a String

str := base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString([]byte(`foo bar`)) fmt.Println(str) // Output: Zm9vIGJhcg== Playground

Go • Base64 Encoding

Decoding

encoding := base64.StdEncoding data := []byte(`Zm9vIGJhcg==`) decoded := make([]byte, encoding.DecodedLen(len(data))) n, err := encoding.Decode(decoded, data) if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } // Because we don't know the length of the data that is encoded // (only the max length), we n...

Go • Base64 Encoding

Decoding a String

decoded, err := base64.StdEncoding.DecodeString(`biws`) if err != nil { log.Fatal(err) } fmt.Printf("%s", decoded) // Output: n,, Playground

Go • Base64 Encoding

Adding objects

Anything that needs to happen with data in an IndexedDB database happens in a transaction. There are a few things to note about transactions that are mentioned in the Remarks section at the bottom of this page. We'll use the database we set up in Opening a database. // Create a new readwrite (sinc...

JavaScript • IndexedDB

Retrieving data

Anything that needs to happen with data in an IndexedDB database happens in a transaction. There are a few things to note about transactions that are mentioned in the Remarks section at the bottom of this page. We'll use the database we set up in Opening a database. // Create a new transaction, we...

JavaScript • IndexedDB