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/** * returns a array of random numbers with no duplicates * @param range the range of possible numbers for ex. if 100 then it can be anywhere from 1-100 * @param length the length of the array of random numbers * @return array of random numbers with no duplicates. */ public static int[] ...

After creating an API wrapper, it's likely that you may want to create an Atmosphere package to redistribute it and share it between applications. The files of your package will probably look something like this. packages/foo-api-wrapper/package.js packages/foo-api-wrapper/readme.md packages/foo-...

Add React to your project: meteor npm install --save react react-dom react-mounter Create the client/helloworld.jsx file to display a simple React component: import React, { Component } from 'react'; import { mount } from 'react-mounter'; // This component only renders a paragraph containin...

The navigation bar (at the bottom of the screen) can be transparent. Here is the way to achieve it. <style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat"> <item name="android:windowTranslucentNavigation">true</item> </style> The Status Bar (t...

As well as being able to create an array by filtering out nil from the transformed elements of a sequence, there is also a version of flatMap(_:) that expects the transformation closure to return a sequence S. extension SequenceType { public func flatMap<S : SequenceType>(transform: (Sel...

There are hundreds of settings that can be placed in my.cnf. For the 'lite' user of MySQL, they won't matter as much. Once your database becomes non-trivial, it is advisable to set the following parameters: innodb_buffer_pool_size This should be set to about 70% of available RAM (if you have a...

A branch is just a pointer to a commit, so you can freely move it around. To make it so that the branch is referring to the commit aabbcc, issue the command git reset --hard aabbcc Please note that this will overwrite your branch's current commit, and as so, its entire history. You might loose s...

Example from the standard library (core.clj:807): (defmacro and "Evaluates exprs one at a time, from left to right. If a form returns logical false (nil or false), and returns that value and doesn't evaluate any of the other expressions, otherwise it returns the value of the last e...

You can also update data in a table based on data from another table: UPDATE person SET state_code = cities.state_code FROM cities WHERE cities.city = city; Here we are joining the person city column to the cities city column in order to get the city's state code. This is then used to updat...

The Comparable<T> interface requires one method: public interface Comparable<T> { public int compareTo(T other); } And the Comparator<T> interface requires one method: public interface Comparator<T> { public int compare(T t1, T t2); } These two met...

Variables declared inside a function only exist (unless passed) inside that function. x <- 1 foo <- function(x) { y <- 3 z <- x + y return(z) } y Error: object 'y' not found Variables passed into a function and then reassigned are overwritten, but only insi...

Environments in R can be explicitly call and named. Variables can be explicitly assigned and call to or from those environments. A commonly created environment is one which encloses package:base or a subenvironment within package:base. e1 <- new.env(parent = baseenv()) e2 <- new.env(parent ...

Functions and objects in different packages may have the same name. The package loaded later will 'mask' the earlier package and a warning message will be printed. When calling the function by name, the function from the most recently loaded package will be run. The earlier function can be accessed ...

The slice() method returns a copy of a portion of an array. It takes two parameters, arr.slice([begin[, end]]) : begin Zero-based index which is the beginning of extraction. end Zero-based index which is the end of extraction, slicing up to this index but it's not included. If the end is a neg...

A cancelable event can be raised by a class when it is about to perform an action that can be canceled, such as the FormClosing event of a Form. To create such event: Create a new event arg deriving from CancelEventArgs and add additional properties for event data. Create an event using EventH...

If you're writing a class that manages resources, you need to implement all the special member functions (see Rule of Three/Five/Zero). The most direct approach to writing the copy constructor and assignment operator would be: person(const person &other) : name(new char[std::strlen(other.n...

There are use cases when you might want to rename your app directory to something else. In Laravel4 you could just change a config entry, here's one way to do it in Laravel5. In this example we'll be renaming the app directory to src. Override Application class The directories name app is hardcod...

The function angular.isFunction determines and returns true if and only if the value passed to is a reference to a function. The function returns a reference to the now extended destination object angular.isFunction(fn) Examples var onClick = function(e) {return e}; angular.isFunction(onCli...

The function angular.toJson will take an object and serialize it into a JSON formatted string. Unlike the native function JSON.stringify, This function will remove all properties beginning with $$ (as angular usually prefixes internal properties with $$) angular.toJson(object) As data needs to ...

The function angular.fromJson will deserialize a valid JSON string and return an Object or an Array. angular.fromJson(string|object) Note that this function is not limited to only strings, it will output a representation of any object passed to it. Examples: angular.fromJson("{\"yo...