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How to handle deprecated API

It is unlikely for a developer to not come across a deprecated API during a development process. A deprecated program element is one that programmers are discouraged from using, typically because it is dangerous, or because a better alternative exists. Compilers and analyzers (like LINT) warn when a...

Android • Building Backwards Compatible Apps

BroadcastReceiver to handle BOOT_COMPLETED events

Example below shows how to create a BroadcastReceiver which is able to receive BOOT_COMPLETED events. This way, you are able to start a Service or start an Activity as soon device was powered up. Also, you can use BOOT_COMPLETED events to restore your alarms since they are destroyed when device is ...

Android • BroadcastReceiver

Advanced example with docopt and docopt_dispatch

As with docopt, with [docopt_dispatch] you craft your --help in the __doc__ variable of your entry-point module. There, you call dispatch with the doc string as argument, so it can run the parser over it. That being done, instead of handling manually the arguments (which usually ends up in a high c...

Python Language • Parsing Command Line arguments

Contributing to the Documentation

We request that the Chef community not use this StackOverflow documentation feature. Docs managed via wiki (or community editing in general) tend to rot very quickly and are of poor quality. We've all experienced the sense of dread when searching for an answer on Google and getting back a half-unrea...

chef • Getting started with chef

Initializing a List to a Fixed Number of Elements

For immutable elements (e.g. None, string literals etc.): my_list = [None] * 10 my_list = ['test'] * 10 For mutable elements, the same construct will result in all elements of the list referring to the same object, for example, for a set: >>> my_list=[{1}] * 10 >>> print(my_...

Python Language • List

DATEDIFF for calculating time period differences

General syntax: DATEDIFF (datepart, datetime_expr1, datetime_expr2) It will return a positive number if datetime_expr is in the past relative to datetime_expr2, and a negative number otherwise. Examples DECLARE @now DATETIME2 = GETDATE(); DECLARE @oneYearAgo DATETIME2 = DATEADD(YEAR, -1, @now...

Microsoft SQL Server • Dates

Media print page-break

@media print { p { page-break-inside: avoid; } h1 { page-break-before: always; } h2 { page-break-after: avoid; } } This code does 3 things: it prevents a page break inside any p tags, meaning a paragraph will never be broken in two pages, if possible. it for...

CSS • Fragmentation

Automated versioning

Your code in source control has version numbers either by default (SVN ids or Git SHA1 hashes) or explicitly (Git tags). Rather than manually updating versions in AssemblyInfo.cs you can use a build time process to write the version from your source control system into your AssemblyInfo.cs files and...

C# Language • AssemblyInfo.cs Examples

Grouped CMS Menu

The Grouped CMS Menu Module allows you to group CMS menu items into nested lists which expand when hovered over. This is useful when there are so many CMS menu items that screen space becomes an issue.

silverstripe • Add Ons and Modules

Multiple, nested scopes

import std.stdio; void main() { writeln("<html>"); scope(exit) writeln("</html>"); { writeln("\t<head>"); scope(exit) writeln("\t</head>"); "\t\t<title>%s</title>".write...

D Language • Scope guards

Renamed imports

A local name for an import can be given, through which all references to the module's symbols must be qualified with: import io = std.stdio; void main() { io.writeln("Hello world"); std.stdio.writeln("hello!"); // error, std is undefined writeln("hello!&qu...

D Language • Imports and modules

Renamed and selective imports

Selective imports may also be renamed. void main() { import std.stdio : fooln = writeln; fooln("Hello world"); }

D Language • Imports and modules

Module declaration

Modules have a one-to-one correspondence with source files. The module name is, by default, the file name with the path and extension stripped off, and can be set explicitly with the module declaration. The ModuleDeclaration sets the name of the module and what package it belongs to. If absent, the...

D Language • Imports and modules

Re-use a moved object

You can re-use a moved object: void consumingFunction(std::vector<int> vec) { // Some operations } int main() { // initialize vec with 1, 2, 3, 4 std::vector<int> vec{1, 2, 3, 4}; // Send the vector by move consumingFunction(std::move(vec)); // Here...

C++ • Move Semantics

Reversing a linked list

You can also perform this task recursively, but I have chosen in this example to use an iterative approach. This task is useful if you are inserting all of your nodes at the beginning of a linked list. Here is an example: #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #define NUM_ITEMS 10...

C Language • Linked lists

Reduction and parallel loops

Julia provides macros to simplify distributing computation across multiple machines or workers. For instance, the following computes the sum of some number of squares, possibly in parallel. function sumofsquares(A) @parallel (+) for i in A i ^ 2 end end Usage: julia> sumo...

Julia Language • for Loops

ResolveData

This example will show you how you can resolve data fetched from a service before rendering your application's view. Uses angular/router 3.0.0-beta.2 at the time of writing users.service.ts ... import { Http, Response } from '@angular/http'; import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Rx'; import { User ...

Angular 2 • Routing

Statements affected by automatic semicolon insertion

empty statement var statement expression statement do-while statement continue statement break statement return statement throw statement Examples: When the end of the input stream of tokens is encountered and the parser is unable to parse the input token stream as a single complete Pro...

JavaScript • Automatic Semicolon Insertion - ASI

What you need for parsing

In performing parsing, before starting, the grammar for the language needs to be specified. A source of tokens is also needed for the parser. The parser could be hand-written code, or a parser generator tool could be used. If a parser generator tool is used, then that tool will need to be downloade...

parsing • Getting started with parsing

CASE use for NULL values ordered last

in this way '0' representing the known values are ranked first, '1' representing the NULL values are sorted by the last: SELECT ID ,REGION ,CITY ,DEPARTMENT ,EMPLOYEES_NUMBER FROM DEPT ORDER BY CASE WHEN REGION IS NULL THEN 1 ELSE 0 END, REGION ...

SQL • CASE