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while (boolean_expression) { block_expression } do { block_expression } while (boolean_expression) ParameterDetailsboolean_expressionAny expression that will evaluate to true or false.block_expressionAny expression or set of expressions that will be evaluated if the boolean_expres...

Pipe operators, available in magrittr, dplyr, and other R packages, process a data-object using a sequence of operations by passing the result of one step as input for the next step using infix-operators rather than the more typical R method of nested function calls. Note that the intended aim of p...

QML is an acronym that stands for Qt Meta-object Language. It is a declarative programming language that is part of the Qt framework. QML's main purpose is fast and easy creation of user interfaces for desktop, mobile and embedded systems. QML allows seamless integration of JavaScript, either dire...

Docker is an open-source project that automates the deployment of applications inside software containers. These application containers are similar to lightweight virtual machines, as they can be run in isolation to each other and the running host. Docker requires features present in recent linux...

Lua is minimalistic, lightweight and embeddable scripting language. It's being designed, implemented, and maintained by a team at PUC-Rio, the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. The mailing list is open to get involved. Common use-cases for Lua includes scripting video...

selector match partialFunction selector match {list of case alternatives) // This is most common form of the above ParameterDetailsselectorThe expression whose value is being pattern-matched.alternativesa list of case-delimited alternatives.

svn copy [BRANCH-FROM-URL] [BRANCH-TO-URL] -m <COMMIT-LOG-MESSAGE> svn copy [^/PATH-TO-BRANCH-FROM] [^/PATH-TO-BRANCH-TO] -m <COMMIT-LOG-MESSAGE> As you might have noticed, we use svn copy command to create branches, tags and shelves (we'll skip mentioning tags and shel...

ASDF - Another System Definition Facility ASDF is a tool for specifying how systems of Common Lisp software are made up of components (sub-systems and files), and how to operate on these components in the right order so that they can be compiled, loaded, tested, etc.

A cherry-pick takes the patch that was introduced in a commit and tries to reapply it on the branch you’re currently on. Source: Git SCM Book git cherry-pick [--edit] [-n] [-m parent-number] [-s] [-x] [--ff] [-S[key-id]] commit... git cherry-pick --continue git cherry-pick --quit git cher...

IBM Watson Speech to Text offers a variety of options for transcribing audio in various languages and formats: WebSockets – establish a persistent connection over the WebSocket protocol for continuous transcription Sessionless – transcribe audio without the overhead of establishing and m...

A database snapshot is a read-only, static view of a SQL Server database which is transactionally consistent with the source database as of the moment of the snapshot's creation. A database snapshot always resides on the same server instance as its source database. As the source database is updat...

Data in the world started to grow tremendously after mobile application came in the market. This huge amount of data became almost impossible to handle with traditional relational database - SQL. NoSQL databases are introduced to handle those data where much more flexibility came like variable n...

As with other relational database systems, SQL Server exposes metadata about your databases. This is provided through the ISO Standard INFORMATION_SCHEMA schema, or the SQL Server-specific sys catalog views.

thread() thread(thread&& other) explicit thread(Function&& func, Args&&... args) ParameterDetailsotherTakes ownership of other, other doesn't own the thread anymorefuncFunction to call in a seperate threadargsArguments for func Some notes: Two std::thread obje...

resource curl_init ([ string $url = NULL ] ) bool curl_setopt ( resource $ch , int $option , mixed $value ) bool curl_setopt_array ( resource $ch, array $options ) mixed curl_exec ( resource $ch ) void curl_close ( resource $ch ) ParameterDetailscurl_init-- Initialize a cURL sessionurl...

ParameterDetailscharacter_expressionthe existing string in your datastart_positionthe position in character_expression to delete length and then insert the replacement_stringlengththe number of characters to delete from character_expressionreplacement_stringthe sequence of characters to insert in c...

The source code for Reachability.h and Reachability.m can be found on Apple's developer documentation site. Caveats Unlike other platforms, Apple is yet to provide a standard set of APIs to determine an iOS device's network status and offer only these code examples linked above. The source fil...

Bosun Templates can include graphs to provide more information when sending a notification. The graphs can use variables from the alert and filter base on the tagset for the alert instance or use the GraphAll function to graph all series. When viewed on the Dashboard or in an email you can click o...