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How to create the command list argument

The subprocess method that allows running commands needs the command in form of a list (at least using shell_mode=True). The rules to create the list are not always straightforward to follow, especially with complex commands. Fortunately, there is a very helpful tool that allows doing that: shlex. ...

Python Language • Subprocess Library

Execution procedure of the TestNG test API methods

public class TestngAnnotation { // test case 1 @Test public void testCase1() { System.out.println("in test case 1"); } // test case 2 @Test public void testCase2() { System.out.println("in test case 2"); } @BeforeMethod pu...

testng • TestNG - Execution Procedure

Multiple Themes in one App

Using more than one theme in your Android application, you can add custom colors to every theme, to be like this: First, we have to add our themes to style.xml like this: <style name="OneTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar"> </style> <!--...

Android • Theme, Style, Attribute

Parsing Parentheses

Stacks are often used for parsing. A simple parsing task is to check whether a string of parentheses are matching. For example, the string ([]) is matching, because the outer and inner brackets form pairs. ()<>) is not matching, because the last ) has no partner. ([)] is also not matching, be...

Python Language • Stack

Using the CAPTCHA helper

Once loaded you can generate a captcha like this: $vals = array( 'word' => 'Random word', 'img_path' => './captcha/', 'img_url' => 'http://example.com/captcha/', 'font_path' => './path/to/fonts/texb.ttf', 'img_width' => '150', 'img_height'...

codeigniter • CAPTCHA Helper

How to update packages with the pacman package manager

To update a specific program: sudo pacman -S <programName> To update entire the system: sudo pacman -Syu

GNU/Linux • Package Managers

Configure the default register to be used as system clipboard

set clipboard=unnamed This makes it possible to copy/paste between Vim and the system clipboard without specifying any special register. yy yanks the current line into the system clipboard p pastes the content of the system clipboard into Vim This only works if your Vim installation has cli...

vim • Useful configurations that can be put in .vimrc

The Basics (Tables and Inline CSS)

Tables for Layout The structure of an HTML email file is similar to that of a web page: <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <title>Hello!</title> </head> <body> &...

email • Getting started with email

Get the properties of the file

If you want to get the properties of the file (like the name or the size) you can do it before using the File Reader. If we have the following html piece of code: <input type="file" id="newFile"> You can access the properties directly like this: document.getElementById...

JavaScript • File API, Blobs and FileReaders

Optimizing Magento Changing The .htaccess File

Magento is a very popular eCommerce application. It offers a great deal of customization and abilities from initial install. Here are a few suggestions for optimizing a Magento installation. Enabling Output Compression In your .htaccess file for Magento you will find a section of text starting wit...

magento • Optimizing Magento For Speed

How to install a package with the pacman package manager

In order to search for packages in the databse, searching both in packages' names and descriptions: pacman -Ss string1 string2 ... To install a single package or list of packages (including dependencies), issue the following command: sudo pacman -S package_name1 package_name2 ... source

GNU/Linux • Package Managers

Converting other types into LocalDates

Converting a java.util.Calendar object: Calendar rightNow = Calendar.getInstance(); LocalDate today = LocalDate.fromCalendarFields(rightNow); Converting a java.util.Date object: Date rightNow = new Date(); LocalDate today = LocalDate.fromDateFields(rightNow); Converting a string: String d...

jodatime • LocalDate (dealing with dates)

The "polymorphic proxy" idiom

Since Proxy contains no runtime information, there is never a need to pattern-match on the Proxy constructor. So a common idiom is to abstract over the Proxy datatype using a type variable. showread :: forall proxy a. (Show a, Read a) => proxy a -> String -> String showread _ = (show :: a...

Haskell Language • Proxies

Creating an Active Job via the generator

$ rails g job user_unsubscribe

Ruby on Rails • Active Jobs

Functors in Category Theory

A Functor is defined in category theory as a structure-preserving map (a 'homomorphism') between categories. Specifically, (all) objects are mapped to objects, and (all) arrows are mapped to arrows, such that the category laws are preserved. The category in which objects are Haskell types and morph...

Haskell Language • Functor

Smart way to setting up the base_url

The following lines of code is more smart way to setting up the base_url in codeigniter: $config['base_url'] = ((isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && $_SERVER['HTTPS'] == "on") ? "https" : "http"); $config['base_url'] .= "://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']; $config[...

codeigniter • Base url in Codeigniter

Another way to set timezone in codeigniter

To set the timezone in Codeigniter by extending date helper is an alternative way. For doing that need to follow the following two step activity. Extend date helper with the following function: if ( ! function_exists('now')) { /** * Get "now" time * * Returns tim...

codeigniter • How to set time zone in CodeIgniter

The Freer monad

There's an alternative formulation of the free monad called the Freer (or Prompt, or Operational) monad. The Freer monad doesn't require a Functor instance for its underlying instruction set, and it has a more recognisably list-like structure than the standard free monad. The Freer monad represents...

Haskell Language • Free Monads

Camelized the string

Camel Case is the practise of writing compound words or phrases where every word begins with Capital letter, without space between word. The function camelize($string) helps to make a string camelized. It converts a string of words separated by spaces or underscores to camel case. echo camelize('Mc...

codeigniter • Play with English word with INFLECTOR helper

Simple authenticate

PLEASE NOTE: ONLY PUT THIS CODE IN THE HEADER OF THE PAGE, OTHERWISE IT WILL NOT WORK! <?php if (!isset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'])) { header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="My Realm"'); header('HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized'); echo 'Text to send if user hits Cancel button';...

PHP • HTTP Authentication