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As already pointed out in other pitfalls, catching all exceptions by using try { // Some code } catch (Exception) { // Some error handling } Comes with a lot of different problems. But one perticular problem is that it can lead to deadlocks as it breaks the interrupt system when writ...

Bootstrapping Magento by calling: require_once 'app/Mage.php'; Mage::app(); // Your code This is the simplest way but not really the Magento way because we're not using class that extends Mage_Shell_Abstract - the class which when extended provides us with tools to parse command line arguments...

Magento way File resides in shell/custom.php <?php require_once' abstract.php'; class Stackoverflow_Shell_Custom extends Mage_Shell_Abstract { protected $_argname = array(); public function __construct() { parent::__construct(); // Time limit to infinity ...

SOSex is an extension to SOS, written by Steve Johnson, a Microsoft employee. He provides SOSex for download for free, but it's not open source. Typically, the extension is not available side by side to any other DLL, so it is usually loaded with .load x:\full\path\to\sosex.dll. Besides simplifyin...

NetExt is an extension for .NET which provides LINQ-like queries for objects on the heap (!wselect, !wfrom) display capabilities for special objects like dictionaries and hash tables (!wdict, !whash) ASP.NET / HTTP related commands (!wcookie, !wruntime, !whttp) several other network related co...

Print the path to the active developer directory (selected Xcode) xcode-select -p Select a different version of Xcode, e.g. Beta sudo xcode-select -s /Applications/Xcode-beta.app Reset to the default version of Xcode sudo xcode-select -r This is equivalent to running sudo xcode-select -s /Appl...

An incomplete list of WinDbg extensions that are not installed with WinDbg itself: ExtensionPurposeSOS.NET (official Microsoft extension)SOSex.NET (extension for SOS)CoSOS.NET (extension for SOS)NetExt.NET (with focus on networking)PyKDPython scriptingPDEWindows native and store applications (stowe...

We're going to use the expression tree API to create a CalculateSalesTax tree. In plain English, here's a summary of the steps it takes to create the tree. Check if the product is taxable If it is, multiply the line total by the applicable tax rate and return that amount Otherwise return 0 ...

array_flip function will exchange all keys with its elements. $colors = array( 'one' => 'red', 'two' => 'blue', 'three' => 'yellow', ); array_flip($colors); //will output array( 'red' => 'one', 'blue' => 'two', 'yellow' => 'three' )

Single characters can be extracted using array (square brace) syntax as well as curly brace syntax. These two syntaxes will only return a single character from the string. If more than one character is needed, a function will be required, i.e.- substr Strings, like everything in PHP, are 0-indexed....

To change a text file is not easy because its content must be moved around. For small files easiest method is to read its content in memory and then write back modified text. In this example we read all lines from a file and drop all blank lines then we write back to original path: File.WriteAllLi...

Text is saved encoded (see also Strings topic) then sometimes you may need to change its encoding, this example assumes (for simplicity) that file is not too big and it can be entirely read in memory: public static void ConvertEncoding(string path, Encoding from, Encoding to) { File.WriteAllT...

Having example type like this: public TestClass { public static string StaticPublicField = "StaticPublicFieldValue"; } We can retrieve value of StaticPublicField: var fieldExpr = Expression.Field(null, typeof(TestClass), "StaticPublicField"); var labmda = Expression....

echo off cls sqlcmd.exe -S "your server name" -U "sql user name" -P "sql password" -d "name of databse" -Q "here you may write your query/stored procedure" Batch files like these can be used to automate tasks, for example to make backups of ...

It is obvious to assume that the percentage value of margin to margin-left and margin-right would be relative to its parent element. .parent { width : 500px; height: 300px; } .child { width : 100px; height: 100px; margin-left: 10%; /* (parentWidth * 10/100) => 50px ...

If you want to log exceptions you can and should make use of the logging.exception(msg) method: >>> import logging >>> logging.basicConfig() >>> try: ... raise Exception('foo') ... except: ... logging.exception('bar') ... ERROR:root:bar Traceback (most rec...

We can create a better mapper classes with extension methods, Suppose if i have some DTO classes like public class UserDTO { public AddressDTO Address { get; set; } } public class AddressDTO { public string Name { get; set; } } and i need to map to corresponding v...

using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Numerics; // also add reference to System.Numberics namespace ConsoleApplication33 { class Program { private static IEnumerable<BigInteger> Fibonacci() { BigInteger p...

This example shows how to update a UI component from a background thread by using a SynchronizationContext void Button_Click(object sender, EventArgs args) { SynchronizationContext context = SynchronizationContext.Current; Task.Run(() => { for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++) ...

To Illustrate the MERGE Statement, consider the following two tables - dbo.Product : This table contains information about the product that company is currently selling dbo.ProductNew: This table contains information about the product that the company will sell in the future. The foll...