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If you need to extend the meteor tool or the command line, you'll need to create and publish your own meteor-tool package. Ronen's documentation is the best out there for this process: http://practicalmeteor.com/using-meteor-publish-release-to-extend-the-meteor-command-line-tool/1 It's easy to get...

StarryNight contains a small utility that parses an application's .meteor/versions file, and converts it into a Release Manifest. npm install -g starrynight cd myapp starrynight generate-release-json If you don't wish to use StarryNight, simply copy the contents of your .meteor/versions file i...

The following example creates a Bootstrap Drop-Down menu, using only Blaze and no JQuery. Document Object Model <nav class="nav navbar-nav"> <li class="dropdown"> <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="drop...

To retreive the screens width and height in pixels, we can make use of the WindowManagers display metrics. // Get display metrics DisplayMetrics metrics = new DisplayMetrics(); context.getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(metrics); These DisplayMetrics hold a series of informatio...

Generally, if we want to remove an element from an array, we need to know it's index so that we can remove it easily using remove(at:) function. But what if we don't know the index but we know the value of element to be removed! So here is the simple extension to an array which will allow us to re...

Mapping URLs to specific templates To fully grasp WordPress themes, you must understand two primary concepts: Permalinks The Template Hierarchy A permalink is a permanent, non-changing URL (or link, to a specific resource. For instance: example.com/about-us/ (a Page in WP) example.com/se...

Another way to implement item click listener is to use interface with several methods, the number of which is equal to the number of clickable views, and use overrided click listeners as you can see below. This method is more flexible, because you can set click listeners to different views and quite...

initialize() is introduced in CakePHP version > 3.0 As a code structure, it looks like same as beforeFilter() method. but there is many differences between beforeFilter() and initialize(). initialize() is always called after constructor is called. but beforeFilter() is not calling in case of ...

DATABASE : SQL Server PARSENAME function returns the specific part of given string(object name). object name may contains string like object name,owner name, database name and server name. More details MSDN:PARSENAME Syntax PARSENAME('NameOfStringToParse',PartIndex) Example To get object nam...

You can convert a timestamp or interval value to a string with the to_char() function: SELECT to_char('2016-08-12 16:40:32'::timestamp, 'DD Mon YYYY HH:MI:SSPM'); This statement will produce the string "12 Aug 2016 04:40:32PM". The formatting string can be modified in many different wa...

You have to setup the prerequisites. Add the Facebook activity to the AndroidManifest.xml file: <activity android:name="com.facebook.FacebookActivity" android:configChanges= "keyboard|keyboardHidden|screenLayout|screenSize|orientation" android:theme=&...

If you want your application to support a plug-in system, for example to load plug-ins from assemblies located in plugins folder: interface IPlugin { string PluginDescription { get; } void DoWork(); } This class would be located in a separate dll class HelloPlugin : IPlugin { ...

Structure: Try 'Your program will try to run the code in this block. 'If any exceptions are thrown, the code in the Catch Block will be executed, 'without executing the lines after the one which caused the exception. Catch ex As System.IO.IOException 'If an exception occurs w...

Extension Method can work on null references, but you can use ?. to null-check anyway. public class Person { public string Name {get; set;} } public static class PersonExtensions { public static int GetNameLength(this Person person) { return person == null ? -1 : pers...

To list all available schemes for the project in your current directory xcodebuild -list Optionally you can pass a path to a project or workspace file xcodebuild -list -workspace ./MyApp.xcworkspace xcodebuild -list -project ./MyApp.xcodeproj Example output Information about project "...

An HTTP POST request is sent to a URL of the format: "https://api.twilio.com/2xxx-xx-xx/Accounts/[AccountSid]/Messages.json The example below uses a alphanumeric string as the sender. At the time of writing a sender ID can only be added through a service request Twlio. Example Request: To=&q...

using System; public class Program { public static void Main() { var date = new DateTime(2016,12,31); Console.WriteLine(date.ToString()); //Outputs: 12/31/2016 12:00:00 AM Console.WriteLine(date.ToShortDateString()); //Out...

A common use-case for iterators is to perform some operation over a collection of numbers. The example below demonstrates how each element within an array of numbers can be individually printed out to the console. This is possible because arrays implement the IEnumerable interface, allowing clients...

Creates a new menu in the Spreadsheet UI. Each menu entry runs a user-defined function. var activeSheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet(); var menuItems = []; // When the user clicks on "addMenuExample" then "Menu 1", the function Myfunction1 is executed. me...

This example is written with F# in mind but the ideas are applicable in all environments The first rule when optimizing for performance is to not to rely assumption; always Measure and Verify your assumptions. As we are not writing machine code directly it is hard to predict how the compiler an...