Fortnite
Fortnite logo.jpg
Developer(s)
Epic Games
People Can Fly
Publisher(s) Epic Games
Director(s) Darren Sugg[1]
Artist(s) Pete Ellis[2]
Composer(s) Rom Di Prisco[3]
Engine Unreal Engine 4
Platform(s)
Microsoft Windows
macOS
PlayStation 4
Xbox One
Release 2018
Genre(s) Survival
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer
Fortnite is a co-op sandbox survival game developed by Epic Games and People Can Fly and published by Epic Games. The game was released as a paid-for early access title for Microsoft Windows, macOS, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on July 25, 2017, with a full free-to-play release expected in 2018.
Fortnite
Fortnite logo.jpg
Developer(s)
Epic Games
People Can Fly
Publisher(s) Epic Games
Director(s) Darren Sugg[1]
Artist(s) Pete Ellis[2]
Composer(s) Rom Di Prisco[3]
Engine Unreal Engine 4
Platform(s)
Microsoft Windows
macOS
PlayStation 4
Xbox One
Release 2018
Genre(s) Survival
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer
Fortnite is a co-op sandbox survival game developed by Epic Games and People Can Fly
Fortnite
Fortnite logo.jpg
Developer(s)
Epic Games
People Can Fly
Publisher(s) Epic Games
Director(s) Darren Sugg[1]
Artist(s) Pete Ellis[2]
Composer(s) Rom Di Prisco[3]
Engine Unreal Engine 4
Platform(s)
Microsoft Windows
macOS
PlayStation 4
Xbox One
Release 2018
Genre(s) Survival
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer
Fortnite is a co-op sandbox survival game developed by Epic Games and People Can Fly
Fortnite
Fortnite logo.jpg
Developer(s)
Epic Games
People Can Fly
Publisher(s) Epic Games
Director(s) Darren Sugg[1]
Artist(s) Pete Ellis[2]
Composer(s) Rom Di Prisco[3]
Engine Unreal Engine 4
Platform(s)
Microsoft Windows
macOS
PlayStation 4
Xbox One
Release 2018
Genre(s) Survival
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer
Fortnite is a co-op sandbox survival game developed by Epic Games and People Can Fly and published by Epic Games. The game was released as a paid-for early access title for Microsoft Windows, macOS, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on July 25, 2017, with a full free-to-play release expected in 2018.


13.49. Release 0.205
General Changes
- Fix parsing of row types where the field types contain spaces.
Previously, row expressions that included spaces would fail to parse.
For example:
cast(row(timestamp '2018-06-01') AS row(timestamp with time zone))
. - Fix distributed planning failure for complex queries when using bucketed execution.
- Fix
ST_ExteriorRing()
to only accept polygons. Previously, it erroneously accepted other geometries. - Add the
task.min-drivers-per-task
andtask.max-drivers-per-task
config options. The former specifies the guaranteed minimum number of drivers a task will run concurrently given that it has enough work to do. The latter specifies the maximum number of drivers a task can run concurrently. - Add the
concurrent-lifespans-per-task
config property to control the default value of theconcurrent_lifespans_per_task
session property. - Add the
query_max_total_memory
session property and thequery.max-total-memory
config property. Queries will be aborted after their total (user + system) memory reservation exceeds this threshold. - Improve stats calculation for outer joins and correlated subqueries.
- Reduce memory usage when a
Block
contains all null or all non-null values. - Change the internal hash function used in
approx_distinct
. The result ofapprox_distinct
may change in this version compared to the previous version for the same set of values. However, the standard error of the results should still be within the configured bounds. - Improve efficiency and reduce memory usage for scalar correlated subqueries with aggregations.
- Remove the legacy local scheduler and associated configuration properties,
task.legacy-scheduling-behavior
andtask.level-absolute-priority
. - Do not allow using the
FILTER
clause for theCOALESCE
,IF
, orNULLIF
functions. The syntax was previously allowed but was otherwise ignored.
Security Changes
- Remove unnecessary check for
SELECT
privileges forDELETE
queries. Previously,DELETE
queries could fail if the user only hasDELETE
privileges but notSELECT
privileges. This only affected connectors that implementcheckCanSelectFromColumns()
. - Add a check that the view owner has permission to create the view when
running
SELECT
queries against a view. This only affected connectors that implementcheckCanCreateViewWithSelectFromColumns()
. - Change
DELETE FROM <table> WHERE <condition>
to check that the user hasSELECT
privileges on the objects referenced by theWHERE
condition as is required by the SQL standard. - Improve the error message when access is denied when selecting from a view due to the view owner having insufficient permissions to create the view.
JDBC Driver Changes
- Add support for prepared statements.
- Add partial query cancellation via
partialCancel()
onPrestoStatement
. - Use
VARCHAR
rather thanLONGNVARCHAR
for the Prestovarchar
type. - Use
VARBINARY
rather thanLONGVARBINARY
for the Prestovarbinary
type.
Hive Connector Changes
- Improve the performance of
INSERT
queries when all partition column values are constants. - Improve stripe size estimation for the optimized ORC writer. This reduces the number of cases where tiny ORC stripes will be written.
- Respect the
skip.footer.line.count
Hive table property.
CLI Changes
- Prevent the CLI from crashing when running on certain 256 color terminals.
SPI Changes
- Add a context parameter to the
create()
method inSessionPropertyConfigurationManagerFactory
. - Disallow non-static methods to be annotated with
@ScalarFunction
. Non-static SQL function implementations must now be declared in a class annotated with@ScalarFunction
. - Disallow having multiple public constructors in
@ScalarFunction
classes. All non-static implementations of a SQL function will now be associated with a single constructor. This improves support for providing specialized implementations of SQL functions with generic arguments. - Deprecate
checkCanSelectFromTable/checkCanSelectFromView
andcheckCanCreateViewWithSelectFromTable/checkCanCreateViewWithSelectFromView
inConnectorAccessControl
andSystemAccessControl
.checkCanSelectFromColumns
andcheckCanCreateViewWithSelectFromColumns
should be used instead.
Note
These are backwards incompatible changes with the previous SPI. If you have written a plugin using these features, you will need to update your code before deploying this release.


NSC ex-official to urge lawmakers to reject false Ukraine narrative: statement
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former White House official on Thursday will call on some lawmakers investigating impeachment of U.S. President Donald Trump not to perpetuate the “alternative narrative” that Ukraine, not Russia, interfered in the 2016 U.S. election, according to her prepared remarks.
“I would ask that you please not promote politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance Russian interests,” Fiona Hill, the former senior director for European and Russian Affairs on Trump’s National Security Council, wrote ahead of her public appearance.


Serverless architecture allows you to focus on the development of application without thinking about the details of the infrastructure. Therefore, it saves you time in the development of your application.
You develop your functions and handlers and then connect events to your handlers. That's it. This approach also called Function as a Service (Faas).
There are a couple of cloud providers that have serverless service. They are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Google Cloud, Firebase, Cloudflare, IBM Cloud and Alibaba Cloud. There are differences between them. This article focuses on the supported programming languages of these cloud providers.
In the chart, the left-hand side lists the available programming languages and the right-hand side lists the cloud providers. If there is a link between language and cloud provider, that means this language is supported by that cloud provider. As you can see that not all languages supported by every cloud provider except AWS and IBM cloud has a Runtime API or Docker that supports every language on top of that. Javascript is the only language supported by every cloud provider.


The Null Object Pattern involves using a special object place-marker object representing null. Typically, if you have a reference to null, you can’t invoke reference.field
or reference.method()
You receive the dreaded NullPointerException
. The null object pattern uses a special object representing null, instead of using an actual null
. This allows you to invoke field and method references on the null object. The result of using the null object should semantically be equivalent to doing nothing.
1. Simple Example
Suppose we have the following system:
class Job {
def salary
}
class Person {
def name
def Job job
}
def people = [
new Person(name: 'Tom', job: new Job(salary: 1000)),
new Person(name: 'Dick', job: new Job(salary: 1200)),
]
def biggestSalary = people.collect { p -> p.job.salary }.max()
println biggestSalary
When run, this prints out 1200
. Suppose now that we now invoke:
people << new Person(name: 'Harry')
If we now try to calculate biggestSalary
again, we receive a null pointer exception.
To overcome this problem, we can introduce a NullJob
class and change the above statement to become:
class NullJob extends Job { def salary = 0 }
people << new Person(name: 'Harry', job: new NullJob())
biggestSalary = people.collect { p -> p.job.salary }.max()
println biggestSalary
This works as we require but it’s not always the best way to do this with Groovy. Groovy’s safe-dereference operator (?.
) operator and null aware closures often allow Groovy to avoid the need to create a special null object or null class. This is illustrated by examining a groovier way to write the above example:
people << new Person(name:'Harry')
biggestSalary = people.collect { p -> p.job?.salary }.max()
println biggestSalary
Two things are going on here to allow this to work. First of all, max()
is 'null aware' so that [300, null, 400].max() == 400. Secondly, with the ?.
operator, an expression like p?.job?.salary
will be equal to null if salary
is equal to null, or if job
is equal ` null or if p
is equal to null. You don’t need to code a complex nested if ... then ... else to avoid a NullPointerException
.
2. Tree Example
Consider the following example where we want to calculate size, cumulative sum and cumulative product of all the values in a tree structure.
Our first attempt has special logic within the calculation methods to handle null values.
class NullHandlingTree {
def left, right, value
def size() {
1 + (left ? left.size() : 0) + (right ? right.size() : 0)
}
def sum() {
value + (left ? left.sum() : 0) + (right ? right.sum() : 0)
}
def product() {
value * (left ? left.product() : 1) * (right ? right.product() : 1)
}
}
def root = new NullHandlingTree(
value: 2,
left: new NullHandlingTree(
value: 3,
right: new NullHandlingTree(value: 4),
left: new NullHandlingTree(value: 5)
)
)
println root.size()
println root.sum()
println root.product()
If we introduce the null object pattern (here by defining the NullTree
class), we can now simplify the logic in the size()
, sum()
and`product()` methods. These methods now much more clearly represent the logic for the normal (and now universal) case. Each of the methods within NullTree
returns a value which represents doing nothing.
class Tree {
def left = new NullTree(), right = new NullTree(), value
def size() {
1 + left.size() + right.size()
}
def sum() {
value + left.sum() + right.sum()
}
def product() {
value * left.product() * right.product()
}
}
class NullTree {
def size() { 0 }
def sum() { 0 }
def product() { 1 }
}
def root = new Tree(
value: 2,
left: new Tree(
value: 3,
right: new Tree(value: 4),
left: new Tree(value: 5)
)
)
println root.size()
println root.sum()
println root.product()
The result of running either of these examples is:
4 14 120
Note: a slight variation with the null object pattern is to combine it with the singleton pattern. So, we wouldn’t write new NullTree() wherever we needed a null object as shown above. Instead we would have a single null object instance which we would place within our data structures as needed.


Lizzy is a Java library allowing to parse, create, edit, convert and save almost any kind of multimedia playlist.
Your main entry point is the package christophedelory.playlist.
Associated command-line tools are located in the package christophedelory.lizzy.


EAST gives students the skills and expertise necessary to succeed in the real world. Students learn professinalism, video editing, and other skills that they can use in the "real world".
These skills are applied to their projects in a way that challenges the student to think on a technical level about their project.
Community involvement is one of the major pillars in EAST. Every project must incorporate a partner (usually local buisnesses, friends of the EAST Program, or other faculty members.) This is where the students learn to apply the skills they have learned in a meaningful and practical way.
An EAST Project cannot suceed without community involvement.
EAST is not a traditional classroom. Students are the teachers. Facilitators maintain the program, and provide guidance for the students, but they don't necessarily do the projects for the students. Students teach themselves anything they want to learn that will hep them further their project.
Students grow and learn at their own pace and learn what they want.
Founded serveral years ago by our former SRO, Officer Wooten, Wooten's Helping Hands help students that have food insecurites. They provide a food pantry to any student that needs it, and provide meals to families during the holidays. They have created a scanning system to help organize and inventory the pantry. This year alone they have fed over 300 families.
Dream Green is a compilation of all of our environmental projects. They have grown grass for the Arkansas Razorback Greenway, written a grant for solar panels to power the computers, and mapped where the raised beds will go in our courtyard to grow vegetables and flowers. They organize the upcycling paper and plastic program of Har-Ber through a PTSO grant.
Hour with a Hero is the annual program put on by our Veterans’ Initiative team that recognized our veterans and helped document the experiences so they would not be forgotten. This year we had several different speakers of varying ages and years, all bringing a different experience to the students.
Computer Upcycling is a project that deals with the problem Many people in our community are not fortunate enough to afford a computer. In today's world, you need a computer for a lot of things. In many cases you apply for and find jobs online, some of our school work is being moved to online services, teachers communicate with us via email. By giving up-cycled computers to these families and individuals they will help them to succeed in today's digital world
Project #1
Project #2
Project #3
We all joined our project through EAST, a project-based, service-learning oriented program that provides students with high-end technology available in the most progressive fields in the world. At its heart, EAST is a coordinated effort to provide today’s students with an educational atmosphere that allows them to gain insight into their own abilities to acquire and use information, solve problems and develop valuable experience. Since its inception in 1996, the EAST model has expanded to over 200 schools in five states.


David and Gillian Millane: Dignified in the face of despair
When an emotional David and Gillian Millane spoke to the waiting media on Friday evening, you could see the trauma in their faces as they paid tribute to their daughter Grace.
The verdict of murder for the 27-year-old man who killed her - who still has name suppression - "will be welcomed by every member of the Millane family," David said.
"It will not reduce the pain and the suffering we have had to endure over the past year."
It would have been a bittersweet moment for the family, happy and relieved they got justice for Grace, but knowing ultimately it won't bring her back.
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'It will not reduce the pain': Emotional David Millane says Grace 'did not deserve to be murdered'
For parents who are still in the depths of grief, having to sit through the trial of the man who murdered their daughter is hard.
Reliving Grace's final moments in a packed courtroom feels like life is dealing you another cruel blow when you are still reeling from the first one.
Sitting in the same court as the man who murdered their daughter, watching CCTV footage of Grace's last moments, seeing her in the lift on the way to his room, hearing detailed accounts of how he tried to dispose of the body, would have been unbearable.
If your child dies you hope someone would do the right thing and call for an ambulance so at least their body can be properly attended to. I cannot imagine how hard it would have been to watch footage of him taking Grace's body out of the hotel in a suitcase.
To retain their level of grace and decorum was a tribute to them and to their daughter. We should remind ourselves of that from time to time, and be a little more decent to each other.
I followed the trial closely, but couldn't quite bring myself to attend court.
My daughter Emily was murdered in the UK in a case that had some similarities. Both girls were strangled alone in a room with their murderers. Both died on the other side of the world from their homes. Both met men who were deranged monsters and both should still be alive today.
I remember during Elliot Turner's trial when he was on the stand talking about Emily.
I calculated I could reach him before anyone could stop me. I looked down at my knuckles and they were white as I tensed, ready to rush at him in the dock.
 I could not bear him talking about Emily anymore.
I didn't rush at him him, I stopped myself.
I wanted to rise above him and his parents, who were also on trial. It was my way of honouring Emily.
On Friday evening, I was happy for the family and for Grace.
The attempts to smear her name during the trial, as if her belonging to certain dating apps somehow justified what happened, were a low blow.
It was irrelevant. There is no excuse for what he did to her. As David said their daughter was taken away from them in the most "brutal fashion".
He is right when he says the verdict won't reduce the pain.
There is a long way to go yet, but at least they don't have to think about him anymore. That part is closed.
My only comfort to them now is that one day you will be able to think about Grace as who she was, not what happened to her. It makes the grief a little more manageable.
I spoke with David during the trial. He told me he was having trouble sleeping.
I hope he slept a little better on Friday night knowing they had brought justice for Grace.
Mark Longley is the managing editor of Newshub digital. His daughter, Emily Longely, was murdered in 2011.


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HipRaiseExerciseName
public struct HipRaiseExerciseName: ExerciseName
Hip Raise Exercise Name
-
Exercise Name
Declaration
Swift
private(set) public var name: String
-
Exercise Name Number
Declaration
Swift
private(set) public var number: UInt16
-
Declaration
Swift
public var hashValue: Int
-
Declaration
Swift
public static func ==(lhs: HipRaiseExerciseName, rhs: HipRaiseExerciseName) -> Bool
-
Declaration
Swift
public static var supportedExerciseNames: [HipRaiseExerciseName]
-
Declaration
Swift
public static func create(rawValue: UInt16) -> HipRaiseExerciseName?
-
Barbell Hip Thrust on Floor
Declaration
Swift
public static var barbellHipThrustOnFloor: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Barbell Hip Thrust with Bench
Declaration
Swift
public static var barbellHipThrustWithBench: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Bent Knee Swiss Ball Reverse Hip Raise
Declaration
Swift
public static var bentKneeSwissBallReverseHipRaise: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Weighted Bent Knee Swiss Ball Reverse Hip Raise
Declaration
Swift
public static var weightedBentKneeSwissBallReverseHipRaise: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Bridge with Leg Extension
Declaration
Swift
public static var bridgeWithLegExtension: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Weighted Bridge with Leg Extension
Declaration
Swift
public static var weightedBridgeWithLegExtension: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Clam Bridge
Declaration
Swift
public static var clamBridge: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Front Kick Tabletop
Declaration
Swift
public static var frontKickTabletop: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Weighted Front Kick Tabletop
Declaration
Swift
public static var weightedFrontKickTabletop: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Hip Extension and Cross
Declaration
Swift
public static var hipExtensionAndCross: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Weighted Hip Extension and Cross
Declaration
Swift
public static var weightedHipExtensionAndCross: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Hip Raise
Declaration
Swift
public static var hipRaise: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Weighted Hip Raise
Declaration
Swift
public static var weightedHipRaise: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Hip Raise with Feet on Swiss Ball
Declaration
Swift
public static var hipRaiseWithFeetOnSwissBall: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Weighted Hip Raise with Feet on Swiss Ball
Declaration
Swift
public static var weightedHipRaiseWithFeetOnSwissBall: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Hip Raise with Head on Bosu Ball
Declaration
Swift
public static var hipRaiseWithHeadOnBosuBall: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Weighted Hip Raise with Head on Bosu Ball
Declaration
Swift
public static var weightedHipRaiseWithHeadOnBosuBall: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Hip Raise with Head on Swiss Ball
Declaration
Swift
public static var hipRaiseWithHeadOnSwissBall: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Weighted Hip Raise with Head on Swiss Ball
Declaration
Swift
public static var weightedHipRaiseWithHeadOnSwissBall: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Hip Raise with Knee Squeeze
Declaration
Swift
public static var hipRaiseWithKneeSqueeze: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Weighted Hip Raise with Knee Squeeze
Declaration
Swift
public static var weightedHipRaiseWithKneeSqueeze: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Incline Rear Leg Extension
Declaration
Swift
public static var inclineRearLegExtension: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Weighted Incline Rear Leg Extension
Declaration
Swift
public static var weightedInclineRearLegExtension: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Kettlebell Swing
Declaration
Swift
public static var kettlebellSwing: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Marching Hip Raise
Declaration
Swift
public static var marchingHipRaise: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Weighted Marching Hip Raise
Declaration
Swift
public static var weightedMarchingHipRaise: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Marching Hip Raise with Feet on a Swiss Ball
Declaration
Swift
public static var marchingHipRaiseWithFeeOnSwissBall: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Weighted Marching Hip Raise with Feet on a Swiss Ball
Declaration
Swift
public static var weightedMarchingHipRaiseWithFeeOnSwissBall: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Reverse Hip Raise
Declaration
Swift
public static var reverseHipRaise: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Weighted Reverse Hip Raise
Declaration
Swift
public static var weightedReverseHipRaise: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Single Leg Hip Raise
Declaration
Swift
public static var singleLegHipRaise: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Weighted Single Leg Hip Raise
Declaration
Swift
public static var weightedSingleLegHipRaise: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Single Leg Hip Raise with Foot on Bench
Declaration
Swift
public static var singleLegHipRaiseWithFootOnBench: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Weighted Single Leg Hip Raise with Foot on Bench
Declaration
Swift
public static var weightedSingleLegHipRaiseWithFootOnBench: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Single Leg Hip Raise with Foot on Bosu Ball
Declaration
Swift
public static var singleLegHipRaiseWithFootOnBosuBall: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Weighted Single Leg Hip Raise with Foot on Bosu Ball
Declaration
Swift
public static var weightedSingleLegHipRaiseWithFootOnBosuBall: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Single Leg Hip Raise with Foot on Foam Roller
Declaration
Swift
public static var singleLegHipRaiseWithFootOnFoamRoller: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Weighted Single Leg Hip Raise with Foot on Foam Roller
Declaration
Swift
public static var weightedSingleLegHipRaiseWithFootOnFoamRoller: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Single Leg Hip Raise with Foot on Medicine Ball
Declaration
Swift
public static var singleLegHipRaiseWithFootOnMedicineBall: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Weighted Single Leg Hip Raise with Foot on Medicine Ball
Declaration
Swift
public static var weightedSingleLegHipRaiseWithFootOnMedicineBall: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Single Leg Hip Raise with Head on Bosu Ball
Declaration
Swift
public static var singleLegHipRaiseWithHeaddOnBosuBall: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Weighted Single Leg Hip Raise with Head on Bosu Ball
Declaration
Swift
public static var weightedSingleLegHipRaiseWithHeaddOnBosuBall: HipRaiseExerciseName
-
Weighted Clam Bridge
Declaration
Swift
public static var weightedClamBridge: HipRaiseExerciseName


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--- layout: post title: 'Developing Windows 8 Apps with HTML5/js : Data Binding in WinJS' date: 2013-03-10 20:27:11.000000000 +05:30 type: post published: true status: publish categories: - HTML5 - Javascript - Tutorial - Windows 8 Apps - WinJS tags: - Data-Binding - Details - Windows 8 - WinJS meta: _publicize_pending: '1' author: Eklavya Mirani ---
So, we have been hearing lots about data-binding, especially if you have ever tried WPF, ASP.net, WinJS, etc. But what is it exactly?
It's exactly what you might think it is, a way to bind the data, with…. What?
Formally,
Data binding is a way of creating a connection, which binds together the Application UI with the Business Logic.
Okay, here’s a simple way to explain it:
This is data binding. Simple.
One time data-binding is, as the name suggests, a one time only binding. The View is bound to the model only once. So once the bound data is loaded, any changes in the model is not reflected by the view/ui.
So here's a simple view that I am using to explain what it is:
[caption id="attachment_154" align="aligncenter" width="645"] One Time Data Binding Demo[/caption]
Here's how the code-behind looks like:
(function () { "use strict"; var _model = { name: "Eklavya Mirani", blog: "http://corneringeki.wordpress.com" }; var _viewModel = { model: _model }; WinJS.UI.Pages.define("/pages/One Time/One Time.html", { ready: function (element, options) { // TODO: Initialize the page here. init(); //defining the namespace for the new view model. WinJS.Namespace.define("Application.Pages.ViewModel", _viewModel); WinJS.Binding.processAll(null, Application.Pages.ViewModel); }, unload: function () { // TODO: Respond to navigations away from this page. }, updateLayout: function (element, viewState, lastViewState) { // TODO: Respond to changes in viewState. } }); })();
Let us look at the code part by part.
var _model = { name: "Eklavya Mirani", blog: "http://corneringeki.wordpress.com" }; var _viewModel = { model: _model };
So now we define a model, with the properties name and blog. Also we define the View Model that will act as the data source for data-binding.
If you're wondering why do I have a '_' before the names of these objects, it is because in javascript, an '_' prefix signifies that it is a private property. Even the intellisense will not show you properties and objects prefixed with an '_'
Since we have made our view model a private property, we need a way to access it publicly, and we do this by assigning it a namespace.
//defining the namespace for the new view model. WinJS.Namespace.define("Application.Pages.ViewModel", _viewModel);
Application.Pages.ViewModel is the win-data-bindsource that we will use as the binding source.

WinJS.Binding.processAll(null, Application.Pages.ViewModel);
WinJS.Binding.processAll() is used to process all the data sources to their respective UI elements.
We can process all data-bound elements in a given parent element by passing the parent element instead of null, or null to process all data-bound elements in the entire page.

 <input id="txtInput" type="text" placeholder="Enter the value here" data-win-bind="value : model.name"/>
 <input id="buttonChange" type="button" value="Change values" />

The above code is pretty much self explanatory, I am creating a section and adding elements to demonstrate data binding.
Before HTML5, adding custom attributes to your elements was not allowed, but now it can be done by using data-* attribute.
You can add any custom attribute with the data- prefix and save any metadata to it.
Okay, as I mentioned, data-win-bindsource refers to the namespace "Application.Pages.ViewModel" which contains the View Model that we created.
To actually bind an attribute of the element to our model, we use:
data-win-bind="value : model.name"
This binds our element's 'value' attribute to the model.name property.
The button is used to change the Application.Pages.ViewModel.model.name to the value in textbox.
In one time binding, the change in the values of the model is not reflected by the view after it is modified, hence the name "One Time" binding.
And that, is what is one time data-binding.! (The full code is attached at the end.)
One way data binding, is like a pipe one end of which is screwed into the tap and the other is used to spray water (data in our case) in the garden (View). You can get water from the tap, but you can’t send it back in (if you have ever done that, I’d love to hear why :) ).
So for a to the point answer, one way binding is the type of binding where the model is bound to the view in such a way that any changes in the model will be reflected by the view but the changes in the view WILL NOT be reflected by the model.
One Way binding is implemented almost entirely as one time binding, but for one small change:
var _viewModel = { model: WinJS.Binding.as(_model) };
If you remember from above, instead of directly assigning _model to model, we now formally specify that _model is to be used for data binding by making a call to WinJS.Binding.as() which returns an observable object.
Now if you check, all changes to the model are reflected back by the View.
Two way data binding is pretty simple if you understood one way binding. This type of binding works both ways. You make changes to the View, it gets reflected in the model and if you make changes in model, the view reflects those changes.
Now, how do you trigger the changes from the View to the model is a different story. It may happen that you want the values to get updated as soon as you “key up”, or “on blur” or any other event that the bound element supports. Its more of a preference actually.
var _model = { name: "Eklavya Mirani", blog: "http://corneringeki.wordpress.com" }; var _viewModel = { model: WinJS.Binding.as(_model), //Requires to be marked by //WinJS.Utilities.markSupportedForProcessing setValue: function (args) { Application.Pages.ViewModel.model.name = args.srcElement.value; } };
Two way data binding is slightly different from One Way Binding. Here we specify a setter function to change the value of the Application.Pages.ViewModel.model.name to an element's value attribute passed as an argument.
What I am actually doing here is, setting up an event handler inside of the Model, so that it can be bound to the a specific event of the target attribute.
Say, for example, I set the onblur event to setValue, every time the onblur is fired, setValue is executed and the model.name also gets modified. And this is why we use
Application.Pages.ViewModel.model.name = args.srcElement.value;
instead of
this.model.name = args.srcElement.value;
So when you test this, you will notice an exception, breaking on the debugger.
So whats actually happening here?
By default, WinJS doesn’t allow functions to be executed in data binding unless they are explicitly flagged to support data binding.
What you need to do is to call the WinJS.Utilities.markSupportedForProcessing(function func) to allow WinJS to support the execution of this function.
So the whole code looks like this:
(function () { "use strict"; var _model = { name: "Eklavya Mirani", blog: "http://corneringeki.wordpress.com" }; var _viewModel = { model: WinJS.Binding.as(_model), //Requires to be marked by //WinJS.Utilities.markSupportedForProcessing setValue: function (args) { Application.Pages.ViewModel.model.name = args.srcElement.value; } }; WinJS.UI.Pages.define("/pages/Two Way/Two Way.html", { ready: function (element, options) { // TODO: Initialize the page here. //defining the namespace for the new view model. WinJS.Namespace.define("Application.Pages.ViewModel", _viewModel); //Marking the setValue function WinJS.Utilities.markSupportedForProcessing( Application.Pages.ViewModel.setValue); WinJS.Binding.processAll(null, Application.Pages.ViewModel); }, unload: function () { // TODO: Respond to navigations away from this page. }, updateLayout: function (element, viewState, lastViewState) { // TODO: Respond to changes in viewState. } }); })();
Here is a link to the VS project:
Data Binding in WinJS Demo


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A lot of things were based on Applying_EANNs by ArztSamuel. The name κλωναλγ is "CLONALG" (named by andrewcpp) in Greek lowercase.
The two button things at the bottom are for controlling the sand-coloured car. Because the cars are controlled by fine movement, they require two fingers to use. Add ?human-car=false to the URL to hide them.
The speed setting changes the speed of the simulation.
You can add ?map=2 to the URL for the other map but I haven't tested it much so it's probably not very good.


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---
layout: game-page
redirect_from: /game/carnegie-mellings
title: Carnegie Mellings
year: 2004
semester: Fall
description: "Poor Carnegie Mellon freshmen, never know where to go. Guide them around campus in this tribute to DMA Design's Lemmings.
Note: This project contains known but unresolved bugs."
tags: Windows Singleplayer
# tag options: "Windows", "Mac", "Linux",
# "Singleplayer", "Multiplayer",
# "Controller-Compatible", "VR",
# "Game-Jam"
project_members: {
Carl Lecompte: Programming,
David Astle: "Project Lead, Programming Lead",
David Hartunion: Music,
Drew Warshaver: Programming,
Eujern Lim: Level Design,
Grant Van Nostrand: Writing,
Greg Hallenbeck: Icon Art,
Jared Goerner: Sprite Art,
John Nesky: Art,
Kevin Costello: "Playtesting, Level Design",
Lucas Coyne: Level Production Management,
Michael Weber: Playtesting
}
stage_game_path: mellings/
builds: {
Windows: carnegie-mellings.win32.zip
}
thumbnail: mellings-1.jpg
top-img: mellings-1.jpg
screenshots: [
mellings-1.jpg,
mellings-2.jpg
]
# Optional
top-img-fit: cover
# top-img-fit options:
# "cover" - Cover the entire top area with the image, without squashing/stretching
# "fill" - Fit the FULL image into the top area, squashing/stretching as necessary
---


============= Meeting 09-May-2012 =============
Agenda
======
1. What to do about non-threading channelRPC. (*Ralph* re problem, *Marty* re proposed reaction)
2. Time domain based dataset Normative Type proposal (*Michael*)
3. Introspection and unsigned C++ version upgrade status
4. New releases for Java and C++ version upgrades. Nailing it down. When and who does it.
5. Schedule and assignment to connect the PVManager interface to Normative types
6. Date of next meeting
7. Will monitoring options be supported under C++?
------------------------ Minutes ----------------------------
Present: BD, NM, MS, TK, MK, GS, JR, AM
Scribe: AM, RL
************
NEW TOPIC: What to do about non-threading channelRPC
************
What to do about threading channelRPC (currently it is non-threading). (*Ralph* re problem, *Marty* re proposed reaction)
Multiple clients must use the same service at the same time. So multiple clients need to access this at the same time. The directory server gets this at the same time. The RPC service must be able to spawn off threads that are running in parellel. The service developer will determine the behavoir.
************
AI on Matej (Java) and Marty (C++) will take care of this after the current refactoring. A spearate thread will be spawned for each request. Expected delivery - 2 months. Implement Java first.
************
BD: What first? Java or C++? Probably both shortly after another.
RL: Other similar services (e.g. web containers, db connections) are working with thread pools for maximum performance and safety.
************
NEW TOPIC: Time domain based dataset Normative Type proposal (*Michael*)
************
Greg has taken a stab at capturing what Michael had said. There is still not agreement on this.
************
AI on Bob by [soon]: Ask Michael to generate the Normative Type proposal for time and frequency domain arrays.
************
************
NEW TOPIC: Introspection and unsigned C++ version upgrade status
************
GS: Fears that it affects servers that are already deployed
MK: Should only be minor changes
Marty: Java stuff is essentially done. C++ version has C++ shared pointers as an issue. Matej can start on the PVAccess section of this. Expected completion in 3 weeks.
************
NEW TOPIC: New releases for Java and C++ version upgrades. Nailing it down. When and who does it.
************
Group is unsure what this is supposed to mean.
[GW: meant when do we intend to release the Java and C++ implementations of the unsigned and
introspection interfave changes, as point releases, ie BETA-2.0.0].
TK: Should ship a new release after the current refactoring.
Greg was always managing the release process, with James doing a lot of the under-the-hood work.
************
AI on Greg by 3 weeks plus 1 day: Manage next beta release.
************
************
NEW TOPIC: Schedule and assignment to connect the PVManager interface to Normative types
************
BD: Who is going to connect the V4 types to CSS?
MS: As I understand Gabriele, he needs to finish one more layer on top of pvManager
************
AI on Bob by after refactoring and multithreading: Check with Gabriele, when pvManager will be ready for our plugs.
************
************
NEW TOPIC: Date of next meeting
************
TK: Doodle says 11.07.-13.07. looks like the better option with more participants.
RL: Will check if he can make on the 13th.
JR: Is the new date definite?
BD: Yes.
************
RESOLUTION: July meeting date: 11.07.-13.07.
************
BD: expects up to 2⁴ participants.
************
NEW TOPIC: Will monitoring options be supported under C++?
************
GB: Will C++ be limted to RPC
MK: That would need the pvIOC on C++.
GS: Some of the planned services will need monitor functionality.
MK: That could be done by directly overriding the monitoring methods. The database would take care of the threading issues in a general way.
Implementing this in C++ would be a 0.5 man year task.
Suggests trying to implement monitors and see how complicated it gets.
The Java version has most of the framework. If you run your service in a record, the basics are there.
GS: doesn't want SWTshell nor XML in the IOC.
MK: May do XML stuff last.
GS: XML record definition is an unsightly mess, hard to do.
MK: XML allows to define record without writing code.
RL: pvIOC functionality has not been reviewed yet. Should do this before writing the second implementation.
MK: The V4 IOC engine design should get higher priority.
MK: SWTshell is an important debugging tool - someone should reimplement something like this for the c++ version.
Upcoming meeting should have a session on this.
BD: After the beamline discussions, we should generate a basic statement of what a V4 IOC would be.
************
RESOLUTION: At the upcoming meeting, have 0.5 days about beamline requirements and 0.5 days about what a V4 IOC should be.
************
End of meeting 14:49 UTC


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BEYOND THERAPY A film review by Steve Fritzinger Copyright 1987 Steve Fritzinger
Set in the offices of two psychoanalysts, and in a very bad French restaurant, BEYOND THERAPY is a love story about two very confused people.
Bruce (Jeff Goldblum) and Prudence (Julie Haggarty) meet through one of many personal ads Bruce has placed. They have a disastrous lunch, and leave expecting never to see one an other again. Of course, they do meet again.
 A series of bizarre coincidences puts these six people on a collision course with the hilarious climax.
BEYOND THERAPY builds momentum slowly. The first 45 minutes, during which the relationships between the main characters are reveled and expanded, are slow sometimes to the point of being tedious. About half of the people in the audience walked out during this part of the film.
But once all the players are lined up in their domino-like positions, the film delivers a 20-minute punch line worth the wait. When the final push comes, the characters start to fall, and knock each other down with a very satisfying crash.
I rate it +2 on the -4 to +4 scale. -- Steve Fritzinger CCI-OSG Reston,Va. seismo!rlgvax!jsf
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Check your javascript log; the scripts were all loaded in the head. You really need to look at this with something like LiveHTTPHeaders so you can see when requests are and aren't made.


Projections
- Disable All
- Enable All
- Include Queries
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3 Poems
Circulars
Upstairs, the one legged man taps on the floor
and I think it is someone knocking at our door.
Sometimes when I am lying in bed
I can hear him in the toilet.
Our flats are laid out backward.
His lounge is above my bedroom,
his bedroom below our lounge.
The kitchens are in completely different places.
Once, Jackson said he could hear the
one legged man peeing while he was peeing.
The one legged man leaves his newspapers on the footpath
and his junk mail in the mailbox.
We bring his junk mail down to him
and put it on his barbecue,
but it just ends up blowing around
on our steps and getting caught out in the rain.
The one legged man stays home a lot.
He watches a lot of movies and
gets his food delivered from Countdown.
The one legged man keeps his door open
but I’ve only seen him once.
The day we moved in,
I knocked on his door frame.
He came out and introduced himself.
He said he likes to play music
and we should tell him off if it gets too loud.
The one legged man’s music is never too loud
but it’s not enjoyable either.
The one legged man has two cats.
They are both incredibly shy.
One of them accepts pats
but the other one will hide under the house
if he sees you coming.
One time, I sat down on the couch
and the shy cat shot out from behind it
and ran out the door.
The one legged man seems nice enough.
We borrowed his can opener once.

House
I tie a thread around my ankles and lower my body down beneath the deck to watch the cats with human faces clean themselves in the half-light of their homes. A zeppelin disguised as a kereru propels itself magnificently through the stratosphere overhead and my person-eyes are transfixed by the person-eyes in front of mine, set in their frame of orange fur. How far back does the person go, I wonder – as in, are they person-brains or cat-brains living inside? Their homes are so clean, pitched roofs and whitewashed boards fitted snug to the land, the gentle roll of the hill. It is hard to hold onto them, hard to keep sight of their scale as we tap dance on the lino above their heads.

Houseplants
Trees march down the window panes of all the apartment buildings in straight diagonal lines. A woman peers through the plants in her window and smiles as you pass. Smile back. A foot appears in the gutter, lonely, pierced by a metal rod. Pick it up and place it in your bag.


Consider this variable declaration:
This funny tag syntax is neither a string nor HTML.
It is called JSX, and it is a syntax extension to JavaScript. We recommend using it with React to describe what the UI should look like. JSX may remind you of a template language, but it comes with the full power of JavaScript.
JSX produces React "elements". We will explore rendering them to the DOM in the next section. Below, you can find the basics of JSX necessary to get you started.
React embraces the fact that rendering logic is inherently coupled with other UI logic: how events are handled, how the state changes over time, and how the data is prepared for display.
Instead of artificially separating technologies by putting markup and logic in separate files, React separates concerns with loosely coupled units called "components" that contain both. We will come back to components in a further section, but if you're not yet comfortable putting markup in JS, this talk might convince you otherwise.
React doesn't require using JSX, but most people find it helpful as a visual aid when working with UI inside the JavaScript code. It also allows React to show more useful error and warning messages.
With that out of the way, let's get started!
In the example below, we declare a variable called name
and then use it inside JSX by wrapping it in curly braces:
const name = 'Josh Perez';
const element =
Hello, {name}
;
ReactDOM.render(
element,
document.getElementById('root')
);
You can put any valid JavaScript expression inside the curly braces in JSX. For example, 2 + 2
, user.firstName
, or formatName(user)
are all valid JavaScript expressions.
In the example below, we embed the result of calling a JavaScript function, formatName(user)
, into an

element.
function formatName(user) {
return user.firstName + ' ' + user.lastName;
}
const user = {
firstName: 'Harper',
lastName: 'Perez'
};
const element = (

Hello, {formatName(user)}!

);
ReactDOM.render(
element,
document.getElementById('root')
);
We split JSX over multiple lines for readability. While it isn't required, when doing this, we also recommend wrapping it in parentheses to avoid the pitfalls of automatic semicolon insertion.
After compilation, JSX expressions become regular JavaScript function calls and evaluate to JavaScript objects.
This means that you can use JSX inside of if
statements and for
loops, assign it to variables, accept it as arguments, and return it from functions:
function getGreeting(user) {
if (user) {
return
Hello, {formatName(user)}!
;
}
return
Hello, Stranger.
;
}
You may use quotes to specify string literals as attributes:
You may also use curly braces to embed a JavaScript expression in an attribute:
Don't put quotes around curly braces when embedding a JavaScript expression in an attribute. You should either use quotes (for string values) or curly braces (for expressions), but not both in the same attribute.
Warning:
Since JSX is closer to JavaScript than to HTML, React DOM uses
camelCase
property naming convention instead of HTML attribute names.For example,
class
becomesclassName
in JSX, andtabindex
becomestabIndex
.
If a tag is empty, you may close it immediately with />
, like XML:
JSX tags may contain children:
It is safe to embed user input in JSX:
const title = response.potentiallyMaliciousInput;
// This is safe:
const element =
{title}
;
By default, React DOM escapes any values embedded in JSX before rendering them. Thus it ensures that you can never inject anything that's not explicitly written in your application. Everything is converted to a string before being rendered. This helps prevent XSS (cross-site-scripting) attacks.
Babel compiles JSX down to React.createElement()
calls.
These two examples are identical:
React.createElement()
performs a few checks to help you write bug-free code but essentially it creates an object like this:
// Note: this structure is simplified
const element = {
type: 'h1',
props: {
className: 'greeting',
children: 'Hello, world!'
}
};
These objects are called "React elements". You can think of them as descriptions of what you want to see on the screen. React reads these objects and uses them to construct the DOM and keep it up to date.
We will explore rendering React elements to the DOM in the next section.
Tip:
We recommend using the "Babel" language definition for your editor of choice so that both ES6 and JSX code is properly highlighted.


# Intro to TDD
.title-logo[![Red logo](/public/img/red-logo-white.svg)]
# Agenda
1. Coding interviews
2. Code completion
3. Intro to TDD
4. Write failing tests
5. Red Green Refactor
### Coding Interviews
**Fun Fact**: The code you'll actually be writing on the job is not at all like the code you'll be asked to write for an interview.
# Coding Interviews
- Often computer science-heavy (less so for juniors)
- Focus on devil-in-the-details problems
- Are as much about **how you write code** as they are about **what code you write**
# Format
- First interview: usually with HR or Recruitment for **fit**
- **Take-home programming task**, due within 1-3 days
- Second interview, **whiteboarding/live coding**
- Depending on the company, they might have more live coding interviews
- Meeting with CEO or CTO for **final decision**
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This week, we're going to focus on tools to help you with the take-home and in-interview coding challenges.
]
# Test Driven Development
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How do you know when your code is **done**?
]
???
The discussing here should be around getting some way of 'testing' whether code is done.
- Are you logging to the console?
- Are you rendering UI and checking it?
- Are either of the above efficient? Can they be automated?
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How do you know if code that you've changed **works**?
]
???
When you refactor existing code, how do you know it works?
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![Feedback loop](/public/img/slide-assets/feedback-loop-green.png)
]
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**Feedback!**
]
???
Basically what we're talking about is the feedback loop.
- You write or change code
- You run the code in whatever environment you've built
- You get feedback as to whether or not it works
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So how do we make that feedback loop smaller?
]
???
We're going to learn how to run **unit tests**, which mean that we are only executing the code that we're writing, and nothing else. This makes the feedback loop tiny, we can run hundreds of tests in a couple seconds.
Let's start with an exercise...
# Example Question
*This is an example coding test question...*
A frog wants to get to the other side of the road. The frog is currently located at position `start` and wants to get to a position greater than or equal to `end`. The frog always jumps a fixed distance, `jumpLength`.
Write a function to count the minimal number of jumps that the frog must perform to reach its target.
# Exercise 1
In groups:
- Use the whiteboard to draw out some examples of the jumping frog algorithm
- Write out a specification for the `frogJumps` function **in plain English**. Use the format:
```
[Function name]
When [given some input(s)] it should [return something].
When [given some other input(s)] it should [return something else].
...etc
```
# Testing Playground
Build a testing playground:
```bash
mkdir tdd-playground
cd tdd-playground
mkdir lib
mkdir __tests__
npm init -y
npm i --save-dev jest-cli
```
Then, [install the RED Academy ESlint](https://www.npmjs.com/package/eslint-config-redacademy).
# Our First Unit Test
We've talked about how `frogJumps` works.
Let's use TDD to write it!
Step 1 is to write a test. Here's an example:
```js
// __tests__/frog-jumps.spec.js
const frogJumps = require('../lib/frog-jumps.js');
describe('frogJumps', () => {
describe('when start is equal to end', () => {
it('should return 0', () => {
const result = frogJumps(10, 10, 5);
expect(result).toEqual(0);
});
});
});
```
???
This might look like a lot of syntax right off the bat, but you'll get used to the pattern.
# Anatomy of a Test
We're using **[Jest](https://facebook.github.io/jest/)** to write tests. Read the docs!
To make our tests match our Plain English specs, we use nested `describe` blocks. The `describe` takes a callback function as its second argument, allowing us to group tests with a similar context.
```js
describe('Outer context', () => {
// Code/Tests specific to outer context
describe('Middle context', () => {
// Code/Tests specific to middle context
describe('Inner context', () => {
// Code/Tests specific to inner context
});
});
});
```
# Anatomy of a Test
Nesting callbacks is generally considered bad practice outside of writing tests, so you'll need to get used to the difference.
If your code is indented properly, you will see a series of closing parens/braces in a 45 degree angle at the end of a file.
```js
// Good
});
});
});
// Probably a bug
});
});
```
# Anatomy of a Test
When we pass strings to `describe` (other than the outermost `describe`) we use the format `when [some context]`:
```js
describe('functionName', () => {
describe('when passed a certain type of argument', () => {
// Test here
});
});
```
# Anatomy of a Test
We write our actual tests (aka **assertions**) using `it` blocks. It blocks are given a string of the format `should [return something]`.
Within an `it`, we use the `expect` function with various **matchers**:
```js
it('should return true', () => {
// 'toBe' matcher
expect(result).toBe(true);
});
it('should return 100', () => {
// 'toEqual' matcher
expect(result).toEqual(100);
});
```
# Anatomy of a Test
Bringing it together:
```js
// __tests__/frog-jumps.spec.js
const frogJumps = require('../lib/frog-jumps.js');
// Outer describe
describe('frogJumps', () => {
// Inner describe 'context'
describe('when start is equal to end', () => {
// Test
it('should return 0', () => {
// Assertion
expect(frogJumps(10, 10, 5)).toEqual(0);
});
});
});
```
# Running Your Test
The test on the previous slide uses the **[Jest](https://facebook.github.io/jest/)** testing library.
Jest has a command line tool, but in order to execute it in the proper environment we need to execute it as a node script.
In your `package.json`:
```js
{
...
"scripts": {
"test": "jest --verbose"
}
}
```
# Code Along
Run your test:
```bash
npm run test
# or
npm test
# or even
npm t
```
*The test will fail, obviously!*
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FAIL -> PASS
]
???
What we need to do now is write the minimal amount of code in order to get the test to pass.
- Start by running the test. It will fail because the file doesn't exist
- Add the file, run the test again, it will fail because the function is undefined
- Add a function with the correct name, but no body, it will fail because the return value is undefined
- Write minimal code to get the scenario to pass, then run the test
# Add Another Test
```js
describe('when destination is exactly one jump away', () => {
it('should return 1', () => {
expect(frogJumps(5, 15, 10)).toEqual(1);
});
});
```
Run your tests, and fix the errors.
???
- Make sure the students follow TDD step by step: only do things that error messages tell you to do
- You can take shortcuts once you're better at this
- Once all the tests pass, you KNOW your code is done
### Red, Green, Refactor
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![Red Green Refactor](/public/img/slide-assets/red-green-refactor.png)
]
???
The process we've been going through is called red-green-refactor
- We write a failing test (RED)
- We write MINIMAL code to make it pass (GREEN)
- We refactor the code to make it better, and run our tests to make sure it still works
# Exercise 2
Implement unit tests for each of the specifications you wrote for `frogJumps`.
Think about the **Edge Cases**
- Zero Arguments
- Perfect match
- Maximum Match
- No Match
???
- Give them maybe 30 minutes of supported work
- They will struggle with the syntax, so make sure you help out a lot
- Encourage them to run tests after every change
Solution in [adp-exercise-solutions](https://github.com/redacademy/adp-exercise-solutions/blob/master/adp-testing-week/lib/frog-jump.js).
# Exercise 3
A palindrome is a string that is the same when written forwards and backwards.
**Mom**, **racecar**, and **never odd or even** are all palindromes.
Write a function that takes a string and returns whether it is a palindrome. Take these steps to do so:
- Whiteboard the algorithm
- Write out plain English specs
- Convert specs to tests
- Implement your algorithm
???
- Get them to work on this by themselves
- Get them to each read out a test scenario
Once they start working, start hinting at complexity of algorithms.
This is something that can be solved in `n/2` operations, but you can also use JS library functions to do it for you, at about `3n`.
Naive and efficient solutions in [adp-exercise-solutions](https://github.com/redacademy/adp-exercise-solutions/blob/master/adp-testing-week/lib/palindrome.js)
# What We've Learned
- How a typical coding interview goes
- What code completion is
- What TDD is
- How to write tests with Jest


Here you can try out our transformation code, try moving around the pink box in your console with its variable name: mover
mover


Sister of Silence Eris:
Embryo. Ah. As I expected, what Solina said is correct. I have not spent all these years waiting for you in vain. Now, Embryo... I will help you with this darkness.
On second thought... Perhaps we should rest a moment. The journey from here is a long one. I hope you will be ready for it.


Council and CIT 'Scale Cork' programme to boost growth for key SMEs
by By Joe DermodySMEs in the medtech, agritech and digital health sectors are set to benefit from Ireland’s first Scaling Programme, to be hosted from next January by Cork County Council and the Rubicon Centre at CIT.
Scale Cork will be the first scaling programme of its kind to be provided by a campus incubator. The Rubicon will provide group training and one to one mentoring to six SME companies in Cork who wish to scale beyond their current capability with a view to increasing sales, developing exports and building relationships with FDIs in the region. This programme follows the incubator programme, Bridge to Masschallenge Cork for life science start-ups run by Cork County Council in 2018.
The programme is open to companies with more than 10 employees who might have some of the following characteristics; profitable with potential to increase profitability, turnover over €500,000, some IP in the business or potential to exploit same and the potential to grow sales by 20% per annum.
For more see www.rubiconcentre.ie/scale-cork/


31 Aug 2010 01:33
Can asn2wrs handle BER & PER in same protocol?
I'm making my first serious attempt at working with an asn2wrs generated dissector, T.125. I noticed (when looking at RDP traffic) that only the Connect Initial/Reponse packets are decoded. The rest of the packets simply say "T.125 payload" because t125.cnf doesn't support them. The next packet in an RDP session after the MCS connection response is Erect Domain. DomainMCSPDU is commented out in t125.cnf presumably because it doesn't work yet. Although I barely know the difference in BER and PER, I'm guessing that the problem is being caused by the connect packets being BER encoded and the domain packets being PER. Is it possible to switch between them when using asn2wrs? Glancing at all of the other .cnf files seems to indicate that each protocol is one or the other. ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-request@...?subject=unsubscribe


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RetroTector
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The RetroTector window
The RetroTector window, which appears on successful startup, has a
platform-dependent look, but should be something like this:
It has the following components (in top-bottom
left-right, order):
- The Working directory field. To begin with, it is
set according to the 'WorkingDirectory' parameter in Configuration.txt. It specifies where
RetroTector is allowed to do work at the moment. It may be changed using
- The Choose directory button. Clicking it produces a file dialog window where
you may search out and select any directory.
- The Directory^ button. Clicking it will take you one
step up in the working directory hierarchy.
- The Script file field. This should contain, if
anything, the file path of an Executor script in the
Working directory. It may be changed with the
- Choose script button. When it is clicked, any text
file (not necessarily a script) within the Working directory may be
choosen through a file dialog. It
should not allow you to go outside the Working directory,
though this does not seem to work in all implementations.
- The Execute script button. When it is clicked, the
file whose path is in the Script file field (hopefully a script) is
executed.
- The View file button. When it is clicked, a window
appears where you may inspect the file whose path is in the Script file
field. You may also do some rudimentary editing (details are
implementation-dependent, but the usual Paste, Copy and Cut
key assignments should work) and also save the result with the Save
button. You are not asked if you really want to save!
- The Current executor field. It shows the name of the
currently running Executor, preceded by
'SweepScripts>' if it running under the auspices of SweepScripts.
- The Progress indicator. This little field should
move a couple of times per second when lengthy work is in progress, but
the programmer has been known to forget to provide for this.
- The Information field. This displays auxiliary
information from the current Executor.
There are two menus belonging to the RetroTector
window.
Their location and appearance is platform-dependent.
- The 'Control' menu. It has four items:
- 'Clear error messages'. See below.
- 'Abort' will terminate the current task within a
reasonable time (though this is coupled to the movements of the
Progress indicator and similarly dependent on the programmer).
- 'Stop SweepScripts' is enabled only when SweepScripts is running. It will
'soft-stop'
it, so that a new call to SweepScripts may continue the work done.
- 'Quit' will terminate RetroTector, without asking
permission.
- The 'Execute' menu. This contains the names of all
the Executors found in Retrotector.jar
and the 'plugins' directory, in an order
partly or wholly determined by the 'Executormenu' parameter in Configuration.txt. Choosing one of them
will start that Executor interactively, unless an Executor is already
running, in which case the 'Execute' menu is not in operation.
At the bottom of the RetroTector window there are two
scrolling panels (invisible if empty). The upper one displays Warning
(on blue) and Notice (on green) messages, the lower Error (on
red) messages.
The messages
are also written to the error log file.
NB that the error log file will be properly
closed only if you
terminate RetroTector with the Quit menu command (see above), not
through
closing the text window or something.
To remove the messages from the window, use the command
'Clear error
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12 SEM_PERF Package Subprograms
The SEM_PERF package contains subprograms for examining and enhancing the performance of the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and Web Ontology Language (OWL) support in an Oracle database.
To use the subprograms in this chapter, you must understand the conceptual and usage information in RDF Semantic Graph Overview and OWL Concepts .
This chapter provides reference information about the subprograms, listed in alphabetical order.
Topics:
12.1 SEM_PERF.DELETE_NETWORK_STATS
Format
SEM_PERF.DELETE_NETWORK_STATS ( cascade_parts IN BOOLEAN DEFAULT TRUE, cascade_columns IN BOOLEAN DEFAULT TRUE, cascade_indexes IN BOOLEAN DEFAULT TRUE, no_invalidate IN BOOLEAN DEFAULT DBMS_STATS.AUTO_INVALIDATE, force IN BOOLEAN DEFAULT FALSE, options IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL);
Description
Deletes statistics for the semantic network.
Parameters
- options
-
Controls the scope of the operation:
-
If
MDSYS.SDO_RDF.VALUE_TABLE_ONLY
, the operation applies only to the MDSYS.RDF_VALUE$ table. -
If
MDSYS.SDO_RDF.LINK_TABLE_ONLY
, the operation applies only to the MDSYS.RDF_LINK$ table. -
If null (the default), the operation applies to both the MDSYS.RDF_VALUE$ and MDSYS.RDF_LINK$ tables.
-
- (other parameters)
-
See the parameter explanations for the DBMS_STATS.DELETE_TABLE_STATS procedure in Oracle Database PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference, although
force
here applies to network statistics.
Usage Notes
See the information about the DBMS_STATS package inOracle Database PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference.
See also Managing Statistics for Semantic Models and the Semantic Network.
Examples
The following example deletes statistics for the semantic network:
EXECUTE SEM_APIS.DELETE_NETWORK_STATS;
12.2 SEM_PERF.EXPORT_NETWORK_STATS
Format
SEM_PERF.EXPORT_NETWORK_STATS ( stattab IN VARCHAR2, statid IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL, cascade IN BOOLEAN DEFAULT TRUE, statown IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL, stat_category IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT 'OBJECT_STATS', options IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL);
Description
Exports the statistics for the semantic network and stores them in the user statistics table.
Parameters
- options
-
Controls the scope of the operation:
-
If
MDSYS.SDO_RDF.VALUE_TABLE_ONLY
, the operation applies only to the MDSYS.RDF_VALUE$ table. -
If
MDSYS.SDO_RDF.LINK_TABLE_ONLY
, the operation applies only to the MDSYS.RDF_LINK$ table. -
If null (the default), the operation applies to both the MDSYS.RDF_VALUE$ and MDSYS.RDF_LINK$ tables.
-
- (other parameters)
-
See the parameter explanations for the DBMS_STATS.EXPORT_TABLE_STATS procedure in Oracle Database PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference.
Usage Notes
See the information about the DBMS_STATS package inOracle Database PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference.
See also Managing Statistics for Semantic Models and the Semantic Network.
Examples
The following example exports the statistics for the semantic network and stores them in a table named STAT_TABLE
.
EXECUTE SEM_APIS.EXPORT_NETWORK_STATS('stat_table');
12.3 SEM_PERF.GATHER_STATS
Format
SEM_PERF.GATHER_STATS( just_on_values_table IN BOOLEAN DEFAULT FALSE, degree IN NUMBER(38) DEFAULT NULL);
Description
Gathers statistics about RDF and OWL tables and their indexes.
Parameters
- just_on_values_table
-
TRUE
collects statistics only on the table containing the lexical values of triples;FALSE
(the default) collects statistics on all major tables related to the storage of RDF and OWL data.A value of
TRUE
reduces the execution time for the procedure; and it may be sufficient if you need only to collect statistics on the values table (for example, if you use other interfaces to collect any other statistics that you might need). - degree
-
Degree of parallelism. For more information about parallel execution, see Oracle Database VLDB and Partitioning Guide.
Usage Notes
To use this procedure, you must connect as a user with permission to execute it. By default, when Spatial and Graph is installed as part of Oracle Database, only the MDSYS user can execute this procedure; however execution permission on this procedure can be granted to users as needed.
This procedure collects statistical information that can help you to improve inferencing performance, as explained in Enhancing Inference Performance. This procedure internally calls the DBMS_STATS.GATHER_TABLE_STATS procedure to collect statistics on RDF- and OWL-related tables and their indexes, and stores the statistics in the Oracle Database data dictionary. For information about using the DBMS_STATS package, see Oracle Database PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference.
Gathering statistics uses significant system resources, so execute this procedure when it cannot adversely affect essential applications and operations.
See also Managing Statistics for Semantic Models and the Semantic Network.
Examples
The following example gathers statistics about RDF and OWL related tables and their indexes.
EXECUTE SEM_PERF.GATHER_STATS;
12.4 SEM_PERF.IMPORT_NETWORK_STATS
Format
SEM_PERF.IMPORT_NETWORK_STATS ( stattab IN VARCHAR2, statid IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL, cascade IN BOOLEAN DEFAULT TRUE, statown IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL, no_invalidate IN BOOLEAN DEFAULT FALSE, force IN BOOLEAN DEFAULT FALSE, stat_category IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT 'OBJECT_STATS', options IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT NULL);
Description
Retrieves the statistics for the semantic network from a user statistics table and stores them in the dictionary.
Parameters
- options
-
Controls the scope of the operation:
-
If
MDSYS.SDO_RDF.VALUE_TABLE_ONLY
, the operation applies only to the MDSYS.RDF_VALUE$ table. -
If
MDSYS.SDO_RDF.LINK_TABLE_ONLY
, the operation applies only to the MDSYS.RDF_LINK$ table. -
If null (the default), the operation applies to both the MDSYS.RDF_VALUE$ and MDSYS.RDF_LINK$ tables.
-
- (other parameters)
-
See the parameter explanations for the DBMS_STATS.IMPORT_TABLE_STATS procedure in Oracle Database PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference, although
force
here applies to network statistics.
Usage Notes
See the information about the DBMS_STATS package inOracle Database PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference.
See also Managing Statistics for Semantic Models and the Semantic Network.
Examples
The following example imports the statistics for the semantic network in a table named STAT_TABLE
, and stores them in the dictionary.
EXECUTE SEM_APIS.IMPORT_NETWORK_STATS('stat_table');


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CAS
Section: Misc. Reference Manual Pages (1)Index Return to Main Contents
NAME
cas - Tool to configure core analysis environment.DESCRIPTION
- cas is a tool used to automatically configure an environment for
- viewing coredumps.
OPTIONS
- -i identifier
- Specify an id to associate with current cas job, normally a support ticket of some sort.
- -f file
- Define a core file to be processed.
- -e email
- Provide an email address for result notification
- -m
- Extract current loaded modules from debug kernels.
RESOURCES
A configuration file is maintained in /etc/cas.conf.AUTHOR
Written by Adam StokesREPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Copyright © 2007-2009 Adam StokesThis is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
Full documentation should be found in /usr/share/doc/cas-<version>.
Index
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| Opcode/Instruction | Op/En | 64/32 bit Mode Support | CPUID Feature Flag | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NP 0F 1C /0 CLDEMOTE m8 | A | V/V | CLDEMOTE | Hint to hardware to move the cache line containing m8 to a more distant level of the cache without writing back to memory. |
1. The Mod field of the ModR/M byte cannot have value 11B.
| Op/En | Operand 1 | Operand 2 | Operand 3 | Operand 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | ModRM:r/m (w) | NA | NA | NA |
Hints to hardware that the cache line that contains the linear address specified with the memory operand should be moved (“demoted”) from the cache(s) closest to the processor core to a level more distant from the processor core. This may accelerate subsequent accesses to the line by other cores in the same coherence domain, especially if the line was written by the core that demotes the line. Moving the line in such a manner is a performance optimization, i.e., it is a hint which does not modify architectural state. Hardware may choose which level in the cache hierarchy to retain the line (e.g., L3 in typical server designs). The source operand is a byte memory location.
The availability of the CLDEMOTE instruction is indicated by the presence of the CPUID feature flag CLDEMOTE (bit 25 of the ECX register in sub-leaf 07H, see “CPUID—CPU Identification”). On processors which do not support the CLDEMOTE instruction (including legacy hardware) the instruction will be treated as a NOP.
A CLDEMOTE instruction is ordered with respect to stores to the same cache line, but unordered with respect to other instructions including memory fences, CLDEMOTE, CLWB or CLFLUSHOPT instructions to a different cache line. Since CLDEMOTE will retire in order with respect to stores to the same cache line, software should ensure that after issuing CLDEMOTE the line is not accessed again immediately by the same core to avoid cache data movement penalties.
The effective memory type of the page containing the affected line determines the effect; cacheable types are likely to generate a data movement operation, while uncacheable types may cause the instruction to be ignored.
Speculative fetching can occur at any time and is not tied to instruction execution. The CLDEMOTE instruction is not ordered with respect to PREFETCHh instructions or any of the speculative fetching mechanisms. That is, data can be speculatively loaded into a cache line just before, during, or after the execution of a CLDEMOTE instruction that references the cache line.
Unlike CLFLUSH, CLFLUSHOPT and CLWB instructions, CLDEMOTE is not guaranteed to write back modified data to memory.
The CLDEMOTE instruction may be ignored by hardware in certain cases and is not a guarantee.
The CLDEMOTE instruction can be used at all privilege levels. In certain processor implementations the CLDEMOTE instruction may set the A bit but not the D bit in the page tables.
If the line is not found in the cache, the instruction will be treated as a NOP.
In some implementations, the CLDEMOTE instruction may always cause a transactional abort with Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX). However, programmers must not rely on CLDEMOTE instruction to force a transactional abort.
Cache_Line_Demote(m8);
None.
CLDEMOTE void _cldemote(const void*);
| #UD | If the LOCK prefix is used. |
| #UD | If the LOCK prefix is used. |
Same exceptions as in real address mode.
Same exceptions as in protected mode.
| #UD | If the LOCK prefix is used. |


Rock:
This is the rock where Harkilgamed was hiding, but he moved elsewhere while the servants of the goddess were distracted.
Before he left, he instructed you to find Hierarch Kekropus.


PML-N slams govt for violating MNAs’ production order
by Our CorrespondentISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on Friday criticised the government for not bringing the party’s incarcerated members to the National Assembly to the meetings of the house standing committees, terming it an attack on parliament.
The PML-N spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb said Saad Rafiq was not brought to the house despite his production order, while Rana Sanaullah’s production order was not issued. “For this, the government of Punjab and prime minister Imran Khan would be held accountable,” she said.
Addressing a news conference along with Murtaza Javeed Abbasi and chairman of the National Assembly Committee on Science and Technology Sajid Mehdi, she also accused the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) of “harassing” the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP).
She said that Prime Minister Imran was pursuing political vendetta for past two years. “He [Imran] cursed parliament when he was on container,” she said, referring to the PTI’s sit-in in 2014. “And now he has locked down the parliament.”
She said that on November 7 the production order of Saad Rafiq was issued but he was not brought to the National Assembly. For Rana Sanaullah, the PML-N spokesperson added, even the production order was not issued.
She reminded that former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has said that unless all production orders were issued, he would not go to the proceedings.
Despite the production order, Saad Rafique was not brought to the science and technology committee meeting, she said. She said that the party would table a privilege motion in the production order issue.
Aurangzeb said that former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and former Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif completed development projects worth trillions of rupees but not even single rupee corruption was proved against them.


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BOUND (1996) A Film Review by Ted Prigge Copyright 1997 Ted Prigge
Writers/Directors: Andy and Larry Wachowski Starring: Gina Gershon, Jennifer Tilly, Joe Pantoliano, John P. Ryan, Christopher Meloni, Richard C. Sarafian
Lately, the sub-genre of film noir has been coming back in a big way. With "L.A. Confidential" being dubbed one of the best films of the year, we're seeing a 90s version of a once-dead group of films which delighted in presenting a world full of harsh, selfish, amoral people, all out to screw eachother over more than an episode of "Melrose Place." With "Bound," we get the perfect epitome of the new wave film noir. It's a stylish, politically incorrect, and deliciously nasty tale of greed, trust, betrayal, and good old fashioned lesbianism. WOO-HOO!
The big news for this film was that it was a film noir dealing with a pair of LESBIANS who decide to rip off the mob. As you can tell, the main hook seems to be that the two protagonists are two female LESBIANS. But, this flick is more than that.  But yeah, I could get that on Cinemax on any late night of the week...if I HAD Cinemax. But, this film surrounds that with a well-developed plot, characters we like and/or care about in some fashion, and an amazing directorial style which makes this film dripping with mood and pure, unadulterated tension. Even the lesbo sex scene is well-directed.
The film, as I said, tells about two lesbians, and we see them when they first meet. Corky (Gina Gershon, fresh off of "Showgirls," where she played a bisexual stripper who makes out with Elizabeth Berkley - I haven't seen it) is a butch crook who has just gotten out of prison, and is doing a job for a mafia friend which requires her to...paint an apartment. When she gets on the elevator, she finds herself on it with a mafiaso guy (Joe Pontaliano) and his cute moll (Jennifer Tilly). The two chicks trade flirtatious looks, and we find out that Corky is going to be working in the apartment adjacent to that of the mafiaso and his moll.
The film takes us through their courtship, which is funny and intriguing. Corky and her (name is Violet) meet a couple times before one day Corky gets a call to fetch an earring out of Violet's sink. Before you can say "foreplay," the two are making out on the floor, and soon engaging in some good old sex. Some problems come up where they begin to loose trust in eachother, but it becomes known that Violet's man (name is Caesar) is holding two million in stolen money in their apartment. The two begin plotting an ingenius scheme which would not only help them get rich together, but also get away clean with Caesar blame.
This is only the first 20 minutes or so, by the way. We are soon tossed into a world of Hitchcockian tension. Each step along the way gets more and more frightening, and soon we are gripping the arms of our chairs. Why do we do this? Well, the direction is fantastic, and we realize we actually care about these characters. In a typical or even good thriller, the characters are half-interesting, more characateur, and we only care about them because they are deemed "protagonist." But here, the directors make us care about these characters. Hence, we're more into it.
The direction is the real highlight of the film cinematically (we all know what the real highlight is otherwise, though, eh?). The Wachowski brothers find interesting things for the camera to do in every single shot. Whether it's showing a close-up of blood squishing through the carpet as someone steps on it, or if it's a wonderfully cool zipping tracking shot of information going from one telephone cord to another, the cinematography is always interesting, and highly snubbed at this year's Oscars. Look at the art direction in this film, and tell me you don't already feel tense.
Also, instead of going for some cheap-ass Valerie Solonas message that guys are jerks, and women should stick together to the bitter end, this film aims for just a fun twist on the subgenre (as well as some more fans from Howard Stern listeners). It doesn't take up a lot of the film (thank god), but just adds some more fun to the film, by letting us see Gina and Jennifer show true chemistry.
The only complaint I have is that Jennifer Tilly's voice is annoying, but I will say that it's less in this film than in others. Not sure why either. If you've never heard it, it's very squeaky and high-pitched (a friend said she would rather view it dubbed in another language, just so they didn't have to listen to it). But nevertheless Tilly is an excellent actress, and so is Gershon. The two have fantastic chemistry, and make for two of the most memorable two leads in film noir.
Many thrillers are cheap, redundant, and sometimes even boring. "Bound" is the complete opposite. From the moment that they're past the point of no return, we're in a web of pure and utter tension. Not many thrillers can do this, and hold it without any peaks and valleys, but the Wachowski brothers can, and can do it in spades. And if you're not already sold, just remember: it has lesbians.
MY RATING (out of 4): ****
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