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If there are sections of code that you are considering removing or want to temporarily disable, you can comment it out with a block comment. /* Block comment around whole function to keep it from getting used. * What's even the purpose of this function? int myUnusedFunction(void) { int i =...

Descriptive names and structure in your code help make comments unnecessary Dim ductWidth As Double Dim ductHeight As Double Dim ductArea As Double ductArea = ductWidth * ductHeight is better than Dim a, w, h a = w * h This is especially helpful when you are copying data from one ...

The .GetValueOrDefault() method returns a value even if the .HasValue property is false (unlike the Value property, which throws an exception). class Program { static void Main() { int? nullableExample = null; int result = nullableExample.GetValueOrDefault(); C...

When filtering a value that should be an integer filter_var() will return the filtered data, in this case the integer, or false if the value is not an integer. Floats are not integers: var_dump(filter_var('10', FILTER_VALIDATE_INT)); var_dump(filter_var('a10', FILTER_VALIDATE_INT)); var_dump(filt...

When validating that an integer falls in a range the check includes the minimum and maximum bounds: $options = array( 'options' => array( 'min_range' => 5, 'max_range' => 10, ) ); var_dump(filter_var('5', FILTER_VALIDATE_INT, $options)); var_dump(filter_var('...

In PHP 5.3+ and above you can utilize late static binding to control which class a static property or method is called from. It was added to overcome the problem inherent with the self:: scope resolutor. Take the following code class Horse { public static function whatToSay() { echo ...

Single node Installation Pre-install NodeJS, Python and Java Select your installation document based on your platform http://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/3.x/cassandra/install/installTOC.html Download Cassandra binaries from http://cassandra.apache.org/download/ Untar the downloaded file to ...

Our randomNumbers() function can be re-written to use a generator. <?php function randomNumbers(int $length) { for ($i = 0; $i < $length; $i++) { // yield tells the PHP interpreter that this value // should be the one used in the current iteration. yield mt...

To be able to use JDBC you need to have the JDBC driver of your database on the class path of your application. There are multiple ways to connect to a database, but the common ways are to either use the java.sql.DriverManager, or to configure and use a database specific implementation of javax.sql...

Left association If the preceedence of two operators is equal, the associativity determines the grouping (see also the Remarks section): $a = 5 * 3 % 2; // $a now is (5 * 3) % 2 => (15 % 2) => 1 * and % have equal precedence and left associativity. Because the multiplication occurs first ...

Simple check To check if constant is defined use the defined function. Note that this function doesn't care about constant's value, it only cares if the constant exists or not. Even if the value of the constant is null or false the function will still return true. <?php define("GOOD&quo...

Implementing IErrorHandler for WCF services is a great way to centralize error handling and logging. The implementation shown here should catch any unhandled exception that is thrown as a result of a call to one of your WCF services. Also shown in this example is how to return a custom object, and h...

Checks to see if the passed Item is in Editing mode. If not, it throws an EditingNotAllowedException. Assert.IsEditing(Sitecore.Context.Item);

You can nest ArrayFields by passing another ArrayField as it's base_field. from django.db import models, IntegerField from django.contrib.postgres.fields import ArrayField class SudokuBoard(models.Model): numbers = ArrayField( ArrayField( models.IntegerField(), ...

pip install sqlalchemy For most common applications, particularly web applications, it is usually recommended that beginners consider using a supplementary library, such as flask-sqlalchemy. pip install flask-sqlalchemy

The FlagsAttribute should be used whenever the enumerable represents a collection of flags, rather than a single value. The numeric value assigned to each enum value helps when manipulating enums using bitwise operators. Example 1 : With [Flags] [Flags] enum Colors { Red=1, Blue=2, ...

Token pasting allows one to glue together two macro arguments. For example, front##back yields frontback. A famous example is Win32's <TCHAR.H> header. In standard C, one can write L"string" to declare a wide character string. However, Windows API allows one to convert between wide c...

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/// <summary> /// Returns the data for the specified ID and timestamp. /// </summary> /// <param name="id">The ID for which to get data. </param> /// <param name="time">The DateTime for which to get data. </param> /// <returns>A Data...

To generate an XML documentation file from documentation comments in the code, use the /doc option with the csc.exe C# compiler. In Visual Studio 2013/2015, In Project -> Properties -> Build -> Output, check the XML documentation file checkbox: When you build the project, an XML file wi...