This guide will help you get up and running with the Corona SDK for Mac OS X.
You can use the Corona SDK without installing Apple's Developer Kit or the Android SDK. Later, if you want to build and test your code on a iOS device, you will need to sign up as an Apple Developer and create the necessary certificates and provisioning profiles.
We'll assume you've already downloaded Corona. If you're familiar with how apps are installed from .dmg disk images, proceed as you normally would and skip to Activating the SDK.
Once you've downloaded the disk image, it should mount. If it doesn't, double click on the disk image file. It should have a name like "CoronaSDK-2013.1076.dmg"
. When it opens, you should be presented with a disk image window.
In the disk image window, drag the Corona folder into the Applications folder alias. This will copy the contents of the CoronaSDK folder into "/Applications"
. If you are not an administrator, you will be prompted for an administrator password. After successful installation, the Corona SDK folder should be located at "/Applications/CoronaSDK"
.
In order to use the Corona SDK, you must be connected to the Internet and perform a simple one-time authorization process.
Open the Corona Simulator from the folder where you installed it. The first time you launch, you will be presented with a License Agreement (EULA). Read the license terms and click Agree. If you've already registered for a Corona account, simply enter your account e-mail and password to activate the SDK. Otherwise, click Register to create an account.
Upon successful login, you will receive a confirmation dialog. You're ready to get started!
Please do not install Java 7 for Mac. It's not compatible with the Android SDK. If you have installed Java 7, please refer to this Apple Support article:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5559
Corona doesn't come with a built-in program editor, so you need to use your own text editor. Many people already have their favorite text editor, but if you don't, the following options are recommended. These advanced text editors automatically color your Lua code, provide comprehensive search/replace options, and allow you to jump between blocks of your code (functions).
The Corona SDK development environment consists of two aspects: the Corona Simulator and the Corona Terminal.
The Corona Simulator is a visual representation and test environment for your app. What you see in the Simulator is generally what your app will look like — and how it will function — when deployed to an actual device. The Corona Simulator is an essential tool because it allows you to view changes to your code instantly in an active, responsive environment that closely mimics the device.
The Corona Terminal is where you can view diagnostic messages about what's happening in your program.
If you're running the Corona Simulator by itself (without the Terminal open) please close and quit the Simulator for a moment — we need to reload it with the Terminal window "linked" and working in unison. Now, in your Corona SDK folder, instead of opening Corona Simulator
, open Corona Terminal
. The Terminal will load, then it will automatically open the Welcome Window where you can choose the Simulator option. The Terminal will then display diagnostic output as you run your code.
The Welcome Window provides access to Corona developer resources. From here, you can also press ⌘-R (Command-R) to relaunch the most recently edited app.
Sample Apps — access the wealth of sample applications included with the Simulator. You can build these for a device and examine their code.
APIs — open the Corona Docs page where you'll find details on all of the Corona SDK features and APIs.
Forums — open the Corona Forums where you can discuss developer topics with other Corona users.
Share Code — open the Share Your Code page where you can view code from other Corona developers and/or submit your own.
Tutorials — access Corona's extensive tutorials on mobile application development.
New Project — this is the same as File → New Project and is used to create a new project with an optional template.
Simulator — this is the same as File → Open... and is used to open an existing project.
Dashboard — open the Dashboard page (Pro subscribers only).
Demo — open the demo window which contains step-by-step examples of how Corona applications are made.
RSS Feed — click one of the changing headlines at the bottom to access that article on our website.
The Simulator has several preferences which let you customize the development workflow.
Deauthorize and Quit — the number of different computers on which you're allowed to run the Simulator is limited, so you'll need to deauthorize a computer if you stop using it. You can also use this button if you need to change the Corona account credentials you're developing with.
Anonymous feedback — approve the sending of anonymous usage information that helps us improve the Corona Simulator.
Automatically show the Welcome Window — show the Welcome Window any time there's not an application open.
Automatically close the Welcome Window — close the Welcome Window any time there's an application open.
Automatically open last project — upon loading the Simulator, open the most recently edited project.
Display device border — display the device without a border to save space on small screens.
Automatically scale Simulator to fit screen — automatically fit the Simulator to the screen when skins are changed.
Show Runtime Errors — show a diagnostic popup when the application experiences a runtime error. This helps in debugging application code.
Relaunch Simulator when project is modified? — the Corona Simulator can monitor the files in the project directory and relaunch the application if it sees any changes. This allows you to edit and save changes to your application code and see the result in the Simulator immediately.
When you want to build your app for distribution or to test on a device, choose File → Build and select the desired build option (iOS or Android). The entire process for each OS is outlined in the following guides:
To start a particular app in the Corona Simulator without double-clicking it use a command like this:
"/Applications/CoronaSDK/Corona Simulator.app/Contents/MacOS/Corona Simulator" ~/CoronaApps/MyApp
or
"/Applications/CoronaSDK/Corona Simulator.app/Contents/MacOS/Corona Simulator" ~/CoronaApps/MyApp/main.lua
If the specified directory doesn't contain a main.lua
file then an error is displayed. Optionally -project
can be specified (note that this suppresses any error messages if the directory is invalid).
One additional flag is allowed -debug
which allows an IDE to connect a debugger to the Simulator session (specify it before the directory/file argument).


GitHub Activity Patterns: Star & Fork
Confession time, I check my GitHub activity feed dashboard as much as I check my Twitter timeline. I know a lot of people who ignore their GitHub dashboard, but for me I find it a great source of information... to see who is working on what; if there are any new Umbraco related open-source projects; and also if anyone has starred or forked one of my projects.
Over the past few years I've noticed patterns emerge on the activity feed, sometimes there'll be a tweet about a new Umbraco package and I'll see a spate of people starring the project's repository, but then other times there are patterns that I can't explain, here's an example.
Scanning down my activity feed, I notice someone
has forked one of my projects...
"Excellent" I think, someone
might be preparing a pull request... Yes, a contribution! (Excited!)
Then I see the next line...
The same someone
has starred the project. I let out a sigh and resign myself that there will be no contribution.
I can't say that I understand this pattern of "Star & Fork", but it has become quite common. Each time I see it, I've never had a subsequent contribution on that project.
Maybe someone
is starring the project as a bookmark, then forking it to keep a copy of the code for themselves? Either way it's an interesting pattern.
If you have any ideas on this, or have noticed other curious GitHub activity patterns, let me know in the comments.


Create action creators in flux standard action format. {: .-setup}
increment = createAction('INCREMENT', amount => amount)
increment = createAction('INCREMENT') // same
// Errors are handled for you:
err = new Error()
increment(err) === { type: 'INCREMENT', payload: err, error: true }
redux-actions {: .-crosslink}
A standard for flux action objects. An action may have an
error
, payload
and meta
and nothing
else. {: .-setup}
{ type: 'ADD_TODO', payload: { text: 'Work it' } }
{ type: 'ADD_TODO', payload: new Error(), error: true }
flux-standard-action {: .-crosslink}
Dispatch multiple actions in one action creator. {: .-setup}
redux-multi {: .-crosslink}
Combines reducers (like combineReducers()), but without namespacing magic. {: .-setup}
re = reduceReducers(
(state, action) => state + action.number,
(state, action) => state + action.number
)
re(10, { number: 2 }) //=> 14
reduce-reducers {: .-crosslink}
Logs actions to your console. {: .-setup}
redux-logger {: .-crosslink}
Pass promises to actions. Dispatches a flux-standard-action. {: .-setup}
redux-promise {: .-crosslink}
Sorta like that, too. Works by letting you pass
thunks (functions) to dispatch()
. Also has ‘idle
checking'. {: .-setup}
fetchData = (url) => (dispatch) => {
dispatch({ type: 'FETCH_REQUEST' })
fetch(url)
.then((data) => dispatch({ type: 'FETCH_DONE', data })
.catch((error) => dispatch({ type: 'FETCH_ERROR', error })
})
store.dispatch(fetchData('/posts'))
redux-promises {: .-crosslink}
Pass side effects declaratively to keep your actions pure. {: .-setup}
{
type: 'EFFECT_COMPOSE',
payload: {
type: 'FETCH'
payload: {url: '/some/thing', method: 'GET'}
},
meta: {
steps: [ [success, failure] ]
}
}
redux-effects {: .-crosslink}
Pass “thunks" to as actions. Extremely similar to redux-promises, but has support for getState. {: .-setup}
fetchData = (url) => (dispatch, getState) => {
dispatch({ type: 'FETCH_REQUEST' })
fetch(url)
.then((data) => dispatch({ type: 'FETCH_DONE', data })
.catch((error) => dispatch({ type: 'FETCH_ERROR', error })
})
store.dispatch(fetchData('/posts'))
// Optional: since fetchData returns a promise, it can be chained
// for server-side rendering
store.dispatch(fetchPosts()).then(() => {
ReactDOMServer.renderToString(<MyApp store={store} />)
})
redux-thunk {: .-crosslink}


From: MRS. SUSAN SHABANGU MINISTRY OF MINERALS AND ENERGY. 10, Kasr El-Aini steet PRETORIA. SOUTH AFRICA. Greeting: After due deliberation with my children, I decided to contact you for your assistance in standing as beneficiary to the sum of US$30.5M (Thirty Million, Five Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only) First, let me start by introducing myself as MRS. SUSAN SHABANGU, a mother of three children and the Deputy Minister of Minerals and Energy since 1st April 1996 to date under the auspices of the President of South Africa MR THABO MBEKI. You can view my profile at my Website www.gov.za then click on deputy ministers, and then click on my name (shabangu susan. THE PROPOSAL, after the swearing in ceremony making me the Deputy Minister of Minerals and Energy, my husband Mr. Ndelebe Shabangu died while he was on an official trip to Trinidad and Tobago in 1996. After his death, I discovered that he had some funds in a dollar account which amounted to the sum of US$30.5M with a security and finance institution in South Africa of which I will divulge information to you when I get your full consent and support to go for a change of beneficiary and subsequent transfer of the funds into you comfortable and conducive account of your choice.This fund emanated as a result of an over-invoiced contract which he executed with the Government of South Africa.Though I assisted him in getting this contract but I never knew that it was over-invoiced by him. I am afraid that the government of South Africa might start to investigate on contracts awarded from 1990 to date. If they discover this money in his bank account, they will confiscate it and seize his assets here in South Africa and this will definitely affect my political career in government. I want your assistance in opening an account with bankers through my banker so that this fund could be wired into your account directly without any hitch. As soon as the fund gets to your account, you are expected to move it immediately into another personal bank account in your country. I will see to it that the account is not traced from South Africa.  For your assistance, I am offering you 20% of the principal sum which amounts to US$6,100.000.00 (Six million One Hundred Thousand United States Dollars Only) However, you have to assure me and also be ready to go into agreement with me that you will not elope with my fund. If you agree to my terms, kindly as a matter of urgency send me an email. Due to my sensitive position in the South African Government, I would not WANT you to call me on phone or send a fax to me. All correspondence must be by email to my private email address<EMAIL_ADDRESS>If you want to speak with my Banker, that is okay by me. You will have to send down you private telephone /fax number so that I can forward it to him to reach you from time to time this is for security reasons. Please I do not need to remind you of the need for absolute Confidentiality if this transaction must succeed.YOU MUST NOT CALL ME! If you do not feel comfortable with this transaction, do not hesitate to discontinue. Thanks for your anticipated co-peration and my regards to your family. Yours faithfully, MRS. SUSAN SHABANGU Deputy Minister of Minerals and Energy South Africa. PLS. DO NOT SEND ME MAIL ON ANY OTHER E-MAIL ADDRESS SEND IT ON THIS MAIL BOX FOR SECURITY REASONS<EMAIL_ADDRESS>I waiting for your urgent reply. Thanks and be bless. SUSAN SHBANGU


Intro to Angular
Using a combination of Rails templates and jQuery
, we can create a decent interactive front end for our applications. But this process can quickly become ugly and limited, devolving into a mess of ERB
tags and JavaScript
functions. This is one of the reasons for the evolution of front end frameworks, one of them being the Google backed Angular JS.
Angular exists to help developers build single-page applications. It provides structure and tools to help solve common problems without having to reinvent the wheel with every application.
Without JavaScript
and JS frameworks, everything is rendered on the server. For example, through the MVC
paradigm of Rails, the controller renders a view and sends it back as a response. But if you want to make make small changes and see different results - such as adjusting the price range while shopping for a product - you would have to initiate a page reload with every request.
With Angular, not only does it handle routing so you can load different pages without a page reload, it allows you to build dynamic views that react to your input spontaneously.
MVVM
While Rails utilizes the MVC
paradigm - model, view controller - Angular utilizes MVVM
- model, view, viewmodel. The controller is replaced with the viewmodel, which is responsible for all view logic.
Data Binding
In order to create views that are dynamic and respond to user input, the concept of data binding is employed. This means that data from one source - such as an input field - is bound to something else - like a text box - so it displays your text spontaneously, something that couldn’t really be done in Rails without JavaScript
.
In addition, two way data binding is used to keep data from a view synchronized with the data in a model. You can read more about data binding here on the Angular docs.
Angular is an extensive framework with a lot of moving parts. You can delve deeper by taking a look at the Angular documentation.


Elon Musk Unveils New Electric Truck And The Internet Is Having A Good Laugh At It
by Shahril SaifolTap to listen to this article instead: 🔊 Listen to Post
Any gamers here remember playing racing games in the 90s during the golden years of Playstation? Can you recall the low-polygon cars that looked like boxes of cereal with wheels careening at top speed on a flat track?
Well, Elon Musk has made that a reality. The co-founder of Tesla recently unveiled a new electric truck which looks exactly like what we described. Have a look and judge for yourself:
Meanwhile in the Twitterverse, seems like a lot of netizens are having a good time poking fun at this cutting-edge (geddit?) vehicle.
Adding salt to the wound, It’s not just the design that netizens are laughing at. Tesla claims the truck has unbreakable windows, which they demonstrated at the unveiling and it backfired when the glass broke after metal balls were hurled at it. It was a cringe-y moment:
However, there are those who are in defense of the edgy Cybertruck who tells everyone to be fair as the glass did break but the object thrown at it didn’t go through.
The truck definitely needs to go back to the drawing board as there’s much to be improved. While all this does tickle our funny bones and raise some eyebrows, we do admire the great effort Elon Musk and Tesla are putting in to create a carbon-free future for road transport.
Do you like the design of the Tesla Cybertruck? Tell us in the comments section!
Also read:


This is a demo of radhist. Look to the bottom of the page to see the current status.
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portal-casting field-of-view algorithm
WarpField is a grid-based field-of-view algorithm for roguelike games. It computes which cells are visible from a particular cell, using a technique called shadow casting. WarpField supports portals, linking one map to another, which allows:


jquery.ui-contextmenu.js
Sample 1
- Initialized using a command-array.
- Entry 'More - Sub1' uses the callback syntax.
- The menu is modified in the `beforeOpen` event (disabling an renaming entries).
- `preventSelect: true` prevents accidential selection of the menu
targets (i.e. 'AAA') when double-clicking or dragging the mouse.
- `taphold: true` enables long-press to open the menu (useful on
tablet computers).
- Ctrl+Click or two-finger-click on the touchpad also works (MacBook).
Right-click in an element to open the context menu:
Sample 2
- Initialized by hidden <ul> element.
- Use custom show/hide effects.
- Define custom position for initial popup.
- Define custom position for submenus.
Action 1
Action 2
Action 3
- ----
- Extra
Sample 3
Open context menu using $("#container").contextmenu("open", $(".hasmenu:first"))
and close after 2 sec.:


--- title: Portfolio ---
Blog software and content management software are often too complicated for their own good. For this portfolio, I chose to use a static site generator called Nanoc instead. Instead of using heavy backend software and a database to generate pages in real-time, nanoc will compile the webpage once, using templates, and create flat html files. Webservers can serve up these pages really fast and the whole project can be stored in versioning control. No need for databases, cumbersome setup and initializations, or other uneccessary complications.


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We appreciate that you answer the following questions truthfully. You WILL receive your SONA participation credit regardless of your answer choices.
I was on task for the duration of the game and did not use my cellphone, watch Netflix, become distracted by something around me, etc.:
I used the following to play the game:


Help paying for NHS costs prototype
Beta sprint 2
29 November 2016 to 12 December 2016
Interactive questionare pattern
Eligibity checker- England only- without data
Start
Pop-up answers pattern
Eligibity checker- without data
Start
Exemption checker- with data
Start
NHS.UK content
Situational header
NHS BSA content
Low income scheme content
Key findings:
- Didn't read the NHS BSA content
- Didn't understand the 'tax credits exemption card' question
- Searched via benefit type for Universal credits only
- Didn't understand the difference between income based vs contribution based benefits
Next research:
- Device testing
- Content with mothers around loss of a baby
Eligibity checker- without data
Key findings:
- Didn't read the NHS BSA content
- Didn't understand the 'tax credits exemption card' question
- Searched via benefit type for Universal credits only
- Didn't understand the difference between income based vs contribution based benefits
Next research:
- Device testing
- Content with mothers around loss of a baby


pax
Archiving and copying utility.
More information: home page
- List the contents of an archive:
pax -f archive.tar
- List the contents of a gzipped archive:
pax -zf archive.tar.gz
- Create an archive from files:
pax -wf target.tar path/to/file1 path/to/file2 path/to/file3
- Create an archive from files, using output redirection:
pax -w path/to/file1 path/to/file2 path/to/file3 > target.tar
- Extract an archive into the current directory:
pax -rf source.tar
- Copy to a directory, while keeping the original metadata; `target/` must exist:
pax -rw path/to/file1 path/to/directory1 path/to/directory2 target/


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Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) is a new type of storage designed specifically for Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon EBS allows you to create volumes that can be mounted as devices by Amazon EC2 instances. Amazon EBS volumes behave like raw unformatted external block devices. They have user supplied device names and provide a block device interface. You can load a file system on top of Amazon EBS volumes, or use them just as you would use a block device.
You can create up to twenty Amazon EBS volumes of any size (from one GiB up to one TiB). Each Amazon EBS volume can be attached to any Amazon EC2 instance in the same Availability Zone or can be left unattached.
Amazon EBS provides the ability to create snapshots of your Amazon EBS volumes to Amazon S3. You can use these snapshots as the starting point for new Amazon EBS volumes and can protect your data for long term durability.
Create a new EBS Volume
Creating a brand new EBS Volume requires the size and which zone you want the EBS Volume to be in.
createNewVolume will return an array containing information about the new Volume which includes the volumeId, size, zone, status and createTime.
1 2 | $ec2_ebs = new ZendService\Amazon\Ec2\Ebs('aws_key','aws_secret_key');
$return = $ec2_ebs->createNewVolume(40, 'us-east-1a');
|
Create an EBS Volume from a Snapshot
Creating an EBS Volume from a snapshot requires the snapshot_id and which zone you want the EBS Volume to be in.
createVolumeFromSnapshot will return an array containing information about the new Volume which includes the volumeId, size, zone, status, createTime and snapshotId.
1 2 | $ec2_ebs = new ZendService\Amazon\Ec2\Ebs('aws_key','aws_secret_key');
$return = $ec2_ebs->createVolumeFromSnapshot('snap-78a54011', 'us-east-1a');
|
Create a Snapshot of an EBS Volume
Creating a Snapshot of an EBS Volume requires the volumeId of the EBS Volume.
createSnapshot will return an array containing information about the new Volume Snapshot which includes the snapshotId, volumeId, status, startTime and progress.
1 2 | $ec2_ebs = new ZendService\Amazon\Ec2\Ebs('aws_key','aws_secret_key');
$return = $ec2_ebs->createSnapshot('volumeId');
|
Describing an EBS Volume
describeVolume allows you to get information on an EBS Volume or a set of EBS Volumes. If nothing is passed in then it will return all EBS Volumes. If only one EBS Volume needs to be described a string can be passed in while an array of EBS Volume Id’s can be passed in to describe them.
describeVolume will return an array with information about each Volume which includes the volumeId, size, status and createTime. If the volume is attached to an instance, an addition value of attachmentSet will be returned. The attachment set contains information about the instance that the EBS Volume is attached to, which includes volumeId, instanceId, device, status and attachTime.
1 2 | $ec2_ebs = new ZendService\Amazon\Ec2\Ebs('aws_key','aws_secret_key');
$return = $ec2_ebs->describeVolume('volumeId');
|
Describe Attached Volumes
To return a list of EBS Volumes currently attached to a running instance you can call this method. It will only return EBS Volumes attached to the instance with the passed in instanceId.
describeAttachedVolumes returns the same information as the describeVolume but only for the EBS Volumes that are currently attached to the specified instanceId.
1 2 | $ec2_ebs = new ZendService\Amazon\Ec2\Ebs('aws_key','aws_secret_key');
$return = $ec2_ebs->describeAttachedVolumes('instanceId');
|
Describe an EBS Volume Snapshot
describeSnapshot allows you to get information on an EBS Volume Snapshot or a set of EBS Volume Snapshots. If nothing is passed in then it will return information about all EBS Volume Snapshots. If only one EBS Volume Snapshot needs to be described its snapshotId can be passed in while an array of EBS Volume Snapshot Id’s can be passed in to describe them.
describeSnapshot will return an array containing information about each EBS Volume Snapshot which includes the snapshotId, volumeId, status, startTime and progress.
1 2 | $ec2_ebs = new ZendService\Amazon\Ec2\Ebs('aws_key','aws_secret_key');
$return = $ec2_ebs->describeSnapshot('volumeId');
|
Attaching an EBS Volume
attachVolume will attach an EBS Volume to a running Instance. To attach a volume you need to specify the volumeId, the instanceId and the device (ex: /dev/sdh).
attachVolume will return an array with information about the attach status which contains volumeId, instanceId, device, status and attachTime
1 2 | $ec2_ebs = new ZendService\Amazon\Ec2\Ebs('aws_key','aws_secret_key');
$return = $ec2_ebs->attachVolume('volumeId', 'instanceid', '/dev/sdh');
|
Detaching an EBS Volume
detachVolume will detach an EBS Volume from a running Instance. detachVolume requires that you specify the volumeId with the optional instanceId and device name that was passed when attaching the volume. If you need to force the detachment you can set the fourth parameter to be TRUE and it will force the volume to detach.
detachVolume returns an array containing status information about the EBS Volume which includes volumeId, instanceId, device, status and attachTime.
1 2 | $ec2_ebs = new ZendService\Amazon\Ec2\Ebs('aws_key','aws_secret_key');
$return = $ec2_ebs->detachVolume('volumeId');
|
Note
Forced Detach
You should only force a detach if the previous detachment attempt did not occur cleanly (logging into an instance, unmounting the volume, and detaching normally). This option can lead to data loss or a corrupted file system. Use this option only as a last resort to detach a volume from a failed instance. The instance will not have an opportunity to flush file system caches or file system meta data. If you use this option, you must perform file system check and repair procedures.
Deleting an EBS Volume
deleteVolume will delete an unattached EBS Volume.
deleteVolume will return boolean TRUE or FALSE.
1 2 | $ec2_ebs = new ZendService\Amazon\Ec2\Ebs('aws_key','aws_secret_key');
$return = $ec2_ebs->deleteVolume('volumeId');
|
Deleting an EBS Volume Snapshot
deleteSnapshot will delete an EBS Volume Snapshot.
deleteSnapshot returns boolean TRUE or FALSE.
1 2 | $ec2_ebs = new ZendService\Amazon\Ec2\Ebs('aws_key','aws_secret_key');
$return = $ec2_ebs->deleteSnapshot('snapshotId');
|
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TABLE OF CONTENT
I’ve changed a job last month and had to build up my dev environment from scratch again. While doing that I decided to write down some thoughts about it.
I guess it might be interesting to look back at some point and see how does it evolve.
Background #
At my previous employer, we were very into Virtual Machines. We had different base VMs which every developer can download.
That’s extremely handy when a new hire has nothing to do, but to install just a couple of tools that are not standard, and enter some credentials.
You remember those dialogs:
— I can’t build the project. Packages are missing…
— Oh, yep, you need to add this private NuGet feed.
…
— I can’t run the project locally.
— Yeah, I think you need so put these lines into your
hosts
file.
Well, now it’s all gone.
It’s not only limited to this scenario. You want to experiment with a new unstable version of the framework (yes, .NET Core RC-final-almost-stable, I’m talking about you) and you don’t want to mess up with your dev machine?
Just fire a new VM up.
Got a neat idea for a hackathon, but you think that JDK is not what you need on your computer? Giving a tech demo on the local meetup?
A VM comes to the rescue.
Got a new computer? Just copy the VM over and you’re up to speed in 20 minutes.
Back to the topic #
So, what do I have on my base VM?
Frameworks #
I’m a .NET web developer, so nothing special here:
- .NET framework 4.5.2 and 4.6
- Node.js (npm, gulp)
IDE and editors #
- VS 2015 with a set of extensions
- NoGit.
- PVS Studio. A static analysis tool for C#.
- ReSharper. A developer productiviy tool.
- OzCode. A debugging addon for VS. Makes my life much easier.
- SpecFlow. A port of Cucumber.
- ReSharper goes with a handfull of extensions as well
- Rider. A cross-platform C# IDE based on the IntelliJ platform and ReSharper.
- Visual Studio Code with extensions
- C#
- Markdown preview
- Spelling and Grammar checker (being the only non-native speaker in a team is hard :) )
File Managers and command line shell #
- Far manager. An old school two panels file manager.
- ConEmu. A powerful and advanced console window.
- Chocolatey package manager. A package manager for Windows.
Source control #
GitKraken is quite heavy and not super fast as most of the electron.js based tools are, but I find it’s history tree view very readable. The merge tool is not bad at all.
I do most of the git related operations in git bash, though.
Debugging and profiling #
- DotPeek. A free .NET decompiler.
- DotMemory .NET memory profiler.
- WinDbg.
- Fiddler. A free web debugging proxy.
- REST and Http clients. I use two, can’t decide which one I prefer over an other.
- LINQPad A .NET programmer’s playground.
Communication #
- Slack
- Skype
Other tools #
- FoxitReader. A PDF reader.
- ScreenToGif.
- Paint.NET. A free image and photo editing software.
- IIS and SQL Express
Web tools and services #
Besides all the tools above which I have installed locally there are web services I use on a pretty much daily basis.
- requestb.in. An easy to use HTTP request inspector.
- AppVeyor. A free CI/CD service for my open source projects.
- regex101.com. A super awesome regular expressions builder and debugger.
- Toggl. A time tracker.
Batch install #
Most of the tools could be installed from Chocolatey gallery.
choco install dotnet4.5.2 linqpad -y
I prefer to have all the tools grouped into .config
files:
<!-- commandline-tools.config -->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<packages>
<package id="git" />
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Reduce nil verifications in nested hashes
Rails provide us multiple methods to help developers and we are used to calling them, check the article Living outside Rails for more info ;). To write Ruby scripts return us to the core language.
Recently I work in a script to parse data from an external API. It returns data in JSON format, but some keys are optional so my code is full of these conditionals:
if res['user'] && res['user']['avatar'] && res['user']['avatar']['small_uri']
avatar_uri = res['user']['avatar']['small_uri']
else
avatar_uri = nil
end
I need to check every level in the hash response. This problem can be solved using Hash#dig, but it's only available from Ruby 2.3.0.
For older versions, I created a recursive method that return the value of the given path or nil.
#
# Check if a hash constains the path of keys.
#
# Example:
# h = { a: { b: { c: 1 }}}
#
# dig h, :a, :b # { c: 1 }
# dig h, :a, :b, :c # 1
# dig h, :a, :b, :d # nil
# dig h, :a, :d # nil
# dig h, :a, :d, :c # nil
# dig h, :a, :b, :c, :d # nil
#
# == Parameters:
# hash::
# Hash to check.
# keys::
# Array with the sequence of keys to get value
#
# == Returns:
# Value of the key in the hash or nil
#
def dig(hash, *keys)
if hash[keys.first] && keys.size == 1
return hash[keys.first]
elsif hash[keys.first] && hash[keys.first].is_a?(Hash)
dig(hash[keys.first], *keys[1..keys.size-1])
else
return nil
end
end
Using this method, the code to get avatar_uri
from the API can be simplified to:
avatar_uri = dig res, 'user', 'avatar', 'small_uri'
Code
You can grab the code in Github ;).


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Reading Assignment 5 (due 6pm, Wed, Jan 31, 2007)
Read the following paper and prepare short summaries (3-4 bullet points / short paragraphs each).
- T. Nghiem, G. Pappas, A. Girard, R. Alur: Time-triggered Implementations of Dynamic Controllers. In Proc. of the 6th ACM & IEEE int. Conference on Embedded Software. EMSOFT 2006. p2.pdf
Reading Assignment 4 (due 6pm, Wed, Jan 10, 2007)
Read the following paper and prepare short summaries (3-4 bullet points / short paragraphs each).
- P. Caspi, A. Curic, A. Maignan, C. Sofronis, S. Tripakis, P. Niebert: From Simulink to SCADE/Lustre to TTA: A Layered Approach for Distributed Embedded Applications. LCTES 2003, Click here for PDF file.
Reading Assignment 3 (due 6pm, Wed, Dec 13, 2006)
Read the following paper and prepare short summaries (3-4 bullet points / short paragraphs each).
- C. Sofronis, S. Tripakis and P. Caspi. A Memory-Optimal Buffering Protocol for Preservation of Synchronous Semantics under Preemptive Scheduling. In 6th ACM Intl.Conf. on Embedded Software (EMSOFT06), Click here for PDF file.
Reading Assignment 2 (due 6pm, Wed, Nov 29, 2006)
(Note extended deadline)
Read the following paper and prepare short summaries (3-4 bullet points / short paragraphs each).
- T.A. Henzinger and C.M. Kirsch: The Embedded Machine: predictable, portable real-time code, Proc. ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), 2002, pp. 315-326, Click here for PDF file.
Reading Assignment 1 (due 6pm, Wed, Nov 8, 2006)
Read the following papers and prepare short summaries (3-4 bullet points each).
- Edward A. Lee: What's Ahead for Embedded Software? IEEE Computer Magazine, September 2000, pp. 18-26. Click here for PDF file.
- Edward A. Lee: The Problem with Threads, Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2006-1. Click here for PDF file.
List of Potential Papers
Papers on Programming Abstractions:
- T.A. Henzinger, C.M. Kirsch, B. Horowitz: Giotto: A Time-triggered Language for Embedded Programming. In Proc. IEEE, vol. 91 (1), 2003.
- Gérard Berry: The Foundations of Esterel. Proof, Language and Interaction: Essays in Honour of Robin Milner, MIT Press, 2000.
- N. Wirth: Toward a discipline of real-time programming. Communications of the ACM, vol. 20, 1977.
Papers on Runtime Abstractions:
- N. Wirth: Tasks versus threads: An alternative multiprocessing paradigm. Software: Concepts and Tools, vol. 17, Springer, 1996.
Papers on Model-Based Design:
- N. Scaife, C. Sofronis, P. Caspi, S. Tripakis, F. Maraninchi: Defining and translating a "safe" subset of Simulink/Stateflow into Lustre. EMSOFT 2004.
- P. Caspi, A. Curic, A. Maignan, C. Sofronis, S. Tripakis: Translating Discrete-Time Simulink to Lustre. EMSOFT 2003.
Papers on Clock Synchronization:
- Leslie Lamport: Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system. Communications of the ACM, vol. 21 (7), 1978.
Papers on WCET Analysis:
- H. Theiling, C. Ferdinand, R. Wilhelm: Fast and precise WCET prediction by separated cache and path analyzes. Real-Time Systems, vol. 18 (2-3), 2000.


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Montpellier say au revoir to Bok prop, paves way for Lions move
Cape Town - French club Montpellier have confirmed the departure of Springbok prop Jannie du Plessis, paving the way for a possible move to the Lions.
The Top 14 outfit tweeted a tribute to Du Plessis, thanking him for his services.
"Another living legend bows out... He also delivered his last fight on Sunday... a huge thank you to Jannie du Plessis who has worn our colours with honour for more than 4 seasons," the club tweeted.
Du Plessis, 37, is likely to move to the Lions for next year's Super Rugby competition, with the Johannesburg-franchise earlier this week confirming they were in talks with the front-ranker.
News of Du Plessis' surprise move to Johannesburg first broke over the weekend when Afrikaans newspaper Rapport reported that the Lions were in talks with him and Stormers prop Carlu Sadie.
Du Plessis, who played 70 Tests for the Springboks between 2007 and 2015, has been at Montpellier since 2015.
Before that, he played 119 Super Rugby games for the Sharks between 2008 and 2015, having started his professional career at the Cheetahs in 2003.
Sadie, 22, joined the Lions on a loan deal for the 2019 Super Rugby season, but was ordered to return to play for Western Province in the Currie Cup.
The Lions open their 2020 Super Rugby campaign against the Jaguares in Buenos Aires on February 1.
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Table of Contents
Previous: BUGS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ftnchek
was designed by Dr. Robert Moniot, professor at Fordham
University. During the academic year of
1988-1989, Michael Myers and Lucia Spagnuolo developed the program to
perform the variable usage checks. During the following year it was
augmented by Lois Bigbie to check subprogram arguments and
COMMON block declarations.
Brian Downing assisted with the implementation of the INCLUDE
statement.
John Quinn wrote the common block usage checks.
Heba Elsayed wrote the label table printout and label usage checks.
Nelson H. F. Beebe of the University of Utah added most of the new code
to implement the -makedcls feature and wrote the dcl2inc script.
The -mkhtml feature was contributed by Mark McVeigh of
Framatome ANP, Inc.
The -reference feature was contributed by Gerome Emmanuel,
Ecole des mines, U. Nancy (slightly modified).
The -vcg option
was contributed by Dr. Philip Rubini of Cranfield University, UK.
The support for Cray pointer syntax was provided by John Dannenhoffer of
United Technologies Research Center.
John C. Bollinger of Indiana University added the parser syntax for
the SELECT CASE construct.
Additional features will be added as time permits.
As of Version 2.5, the name was changed from forchek to ftnchek,
to avoid confusion with a
similar program named forcheck,
developed earlier at Leiden University.
We would like to thank
John Amor of the University of British Columbia,
Reg Clemens of the Air Force Phillips Lab in Albuquerque,
Markus Draxler of the University of Stuttgart,
Victor Eijkhout of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville,
Greg Flint of Purdue University,
Daniel P. Giesy of NASA Langley Research Center,
Fritz Keinert of Iowa State University,
Judah Milgram of the University of Maryland College Park,
Hugh Nicholas of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center,
Dan Severance of Yale University,
Phil Sterne of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
Larry Weissman of the University of Washington,
Warren J. Wiscombe of NASA Goddard,
and
Nelson H. F. Beebe of the University of Utah,
for pointing out bugs and suggesting some improvements.
Stefan A. Deutscher,
Gunnar Duus,
Clive Page of the University of Leicester,
Stephan Wefing of Heidelberg University,
and
Bob Wells of Oxford University
were extremely helpful as alpha testers.
We also thank Jack Dongarra for putting
ftnchek into the netlib
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Next: INSTALLATION AND SUPPORT


LASU Adds N150,000 To Tuition For Newly Introduced Programme
by Faderera FaladeThe Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun of the Lagos State University, has announced students would start paying a sum of N150,000 tuition fee for a second stream undergraduate programme.
According to Fagbohun, the programme was introduced to help deepen the entrepreneurship skills of students of the institution.
He said, “Our regular Stream 1 programme tuition fee is still N25,000, while medical students pay N37,000.
“But for Stream 2 entrepreneurship programme, the tuition fee is N150,000, aside from acceptance and medical fees,”
Fagbohun however, dismissed rumours that LASU had increased tuition fees for its undergraduate programmes.
It is also not clear yet whether or not the second stream degree programme would be optional or mandatory for students of the university.
Naija News understands that the entrepreneurship programme would run along with normal undergraduate degrees, would prepare students to be self-employed and employers of labour.
The Vice-Chancellor said “Research indicates that small-medium enterprises employ more than 80 per cent of the workforce in Nigeria.
“That is why we have a very close working relationship with SMEs, so they can impact on the university and impart right entrepreneurship skills to the students.
“Before starting, the Stream 2 entrepreneurship programme will go through all the approval processes of the university.
“Critical thing for LASU is quality assurance which means the two-stream programmes will be standard and run successfully together without any programme failing.
“We have a directorate of quality assurance that monitors every programme of the university in order to achieve best practices,” the vice-chancellor said.
He said that entrepreneurship courses would be taught only during the first year of the regular Stream 1 programme, while it would be taught throughout the duration of the Stream 2 programme.


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Stan Okoye highlights ACB Top 7 of the Week
Make way for great ACB efforts, none best than Stan Okoye this week.
By Eurohoops Team/<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Stan Okoye with an emphatic dunk over Walter Tavares secured first place in the ACB Regular Season Round 10 Top 7 KIA. Ondrej Balvín followed second in blocking fashion, Brandon Davies, Sadiel Rojas, Shayne Whittington, Phil Pressey and Dejan Kravic rounded up the field.


Is KSI vs Logan Paul rematch on YouTube? Full TV and live stream information
KSI and Logan Paul face off at the Staples Center in Los Angeles in the early hours of Sunday morning
by Aaron Flanagan, Martin Domin, https://www.mirror.co.uk/authors/aaron-flanagan/, https://www.facebook.com/mirrorfightingTwo of the world's biggest social media stars clash in the ring tonight as KSI and Logan Paul meet in their long-awaited rematch.
The YouTube stars, who have more than 40million followers between them, will bid to settle their rivalry at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
They fought to a controversial draw in Manchester last year and quickly agreed to a second fight.
But it took the involvement of promoter Eddie Hearn for the two men to agree terms and they have also turned professional for tonight's clash, ditching the head guards and pulling on 10oz gloves.
There are also plenty of big names on the undercard with world champions Billy Joe Saunders and Devin Haney in action.
Here is everything you need to know about the fights...
When is the fight?
The rematch between KSI and Logan Paul takes place in Los Angeles on Saturday November 9.
However, with the time difference, it will be in the early hours of the morning on Sunday November 10 for those in the UK.
What UK time is the fight likely to start?
The main event fight is not expected to start until between 4am and 5am in the morning.
It will be getting going between 9pm and 10pm local time.
What TV channel is the fight being shown on?
The fight is being shown on Sky Sports Box Office for those viewers in the UK.
It can be purchased for a price of £9.95.
Can you live stream the fight?
If you have purchased the fight from Sky Sports Box Office, you will be able to live stream the fight.
Please follow instructions from Sky as you complete your purchase.
Will the fight be shown on YouTube?
No.
Unlike their first meeting, this is going to be shown solely by the broadcasters who have the rights.
The first fight was shown on YouTube pay-per-view but they will not be following suit this time around.
However, there will be a pre-shown, Countdown to KSI vs Logan Paul 2, that will be shown on YouTube before the fight. It can be found on DAZN, KSI and Logan Paul's YouTube channels ahead of the bout.
Is there a way to watch the fight for free?
No.
The action is completely pay-per-view for this match.
Betting odds
- KSI: 7/4
- Draw: 10/1
- Logan Paul: 8/15
Odds courtesy of Ladbrokes.


Damn, Its April and temperatures are going up but the quality of Custom ROMs are doing down :P , but we are different! We get better and better with the power of Friendship!
With every release I feel more and more retarded while writing these blog posts. So, Now let's get seriously into the release. You guys spammed us with "wen update", "wen update sar", "plox update". But sadly like every month we are following our normal release cycle. We always update around 12th to 15th of the month at best. So, Lemme tell you what changes you will be seeing this month.
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Okay good, so what we have new in this release..
We are also dropping an array of devices from our supported list, they are:
But, this is not all we also have one more thing coming this week :) But that will have a separate blog post of it's own( more retarded content from me ).
So, That was everything for this small release and see ya all soon.
Also, If you like how hard we work you can go ahead and gift us some coffee to complete this trade. We will surely be delighted, Buying me a coffee.
Well, thats all for this release and as always do follow us on twitter @ProjectSakura_ coz we keep posting fun stuff on it ;)
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Astronaut from Caribou and senator from Caribou have a chat
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - A Caribou native on the International Space Station has had a high-flying chat with another Caribou native.
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins spoke to Jessica Meir on Tuesday, telling the astronaut that she’s inspired boys and girls from Caribou to follow their dreams.
The Republican from Maine also congratulated Meir for participating in the first all-women spacewalk. The spacewalk lasted more than seven hours as Meir and fellow astronaut Christina Koch installed a new battery charge-discharge unit.
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)(implicit
request: RequestHeader
)
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Blue Streak (1999) Reviewed by Eugene Novikov http://www.ultimate-movie.com Member: Online Film Critics Society
*** out of four
"Believe that!" Starring Martin Lawrence, Luke Wilson, Dave Chappelle, Peter Greene. Rated PG-13.
Martin Lawrence is in the first stages of big-time Hollywood fame. The amiable comic got his very first breakout hit earlier this year with Life, in which he co-starred with Murphy. Almost right on its heels comes Blue Streak, another sure-fire box-office winner which puts Lawrence at the head of a genre-hopping plot and an unexpectedly clever script. He delivers and the movie triumphs. A nice recovery, also, on the part of director Les Mayfield whom I all but gave up on after the travesty that was Flubber.
Wasting no time, Mayfield throws us into the action. Lawrence plays Miles Logan (have you ever heard a phonier Hollywood name?), a high- stakes jewel thief, and in his latest heist, he has a complicated plan to steal a diamond the size of a golf ball. He blunders big time and the police are on to him, but before he can be arrested, he hides the diamond in what seems to be the ventilation shaft of an abandoned warehouse. After two years in the slammer, he comes back to retrieve his treasure, only to find that his hiding place is now a police station and the ventilation shaft is smack in the middle of the robbery homicide department.
He attempts to infiltrate the building by posing as a pizza delivery man. No luck there. "There are two kinds of people who get through that door," he is told. "People wearing handcuffs and people wearing a badge." Now there's an idea! He goes to an old buddy of his, who finds it in his heart to make Miles fake police ID. He enters robbery homicide claiming to be a newly transferred detective with an astonishing 16 (count 'em) citations in his former place of employment. Miles, being the seasoned veteran that he is, is partnered with a newbie in the department and proceeds to show him how the "big boys" work, often to riotous results. He searches for "his baby" while attempting to come off as a convincing police officer. He has unexpected success in the latter, of course. He does find the diamond almost right away, too, but nothing is that easy -- otherwise we wouldn't have a movie.
Blue Streak's plot is trite and generic, an assortment of formulas from all different sources, including but not limited to the buddy movie, the wacky cop movie and the always reliable mistaken identity caper. How does it work, exactly? A lot of things come together for Mayfield, who's a pretty lucky bastard, considering what he had coming into this high- risk project: a sharp, witty script from Michael Berry and John Blumenthal, as well as the extremely talented Lawrence, whose performance will surely help his Hollywood status (read: raise his asking price).
It got off to a slow start, and I was getting into that weird mind-set of mine where I am actually excited about hating a film, but 20-25 minutes in, Blue Streak was beginning to grow on me. I realized that the jokes were hitting the target. The script found new ways to wring laughs out of tired situations, and though it wasn't consistently the most hilarious things I've ever seen, I found solace in the fact that this movie would still have been made had the writing relied only on old, formulaic gags, like so many of today's Hollywood screenplays tend to do. I enjoyed the parts that worked, and a good many did, but I could even appreciate those that didn't quite get there, because most of them found fresh ways to fail.
Martin Lawrence rises above the material every chance he gets. A skillful ad libber, he is more than a fast-talking Eddie Murphy wannabe (Chris Tucker comes to mind). He is a good actor with a tough but strangely outgoing style. He has a way of looking like he wants to hurt you when necessary, but really just wants to be your friend. As a result, his characters tend to be less one-dimensional even when the script calls for a walking cliché. Lawrence brings that same spirit to Blue Streak, making what could have been a mean-spirited comedy an affectionate one.
Look, this isn't Dr. Strangelove. It isn't even Bowfinger. But for what it was, I liked it. Blue Streak is probably the most original unoriginal comedy I've ever seen: a film that finds new ways to handle situations you thought have been beaten into the ground by screenwriters past. ©1999 Eugene Novikov
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-H 'Accept: application/json'
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Host: www.concursolutions.com
Accept: application/json
const headers = {
'Accept':'application/json'
};
fetch('https://www.concursolutions.com/api/v3.0/insights/latestbookings/',
{
method: 'GET',
headers: headers
})
.then(function(res) {
return res.json();
}).then(function(body) {
console.log(body);
});
require 'rest-client'
require 'json'
headers = {
'Accept' => 'application/json'
}
result = RestClient.get 'https://www.concursolutions.com/api/v3.0/insights/latestbookings/',
params: {
}, headers: headers
p JSON.parse(result)
import requests
headers = {
'Accept': 'application/json'
}
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);
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try {
$response = $client->request('GET','https://www.concursolutions.com/api/v3.0/insights/latestbookings/', array(
'headers' => $headers,
'json' => $request_body,
)
);
print_r($response->getBody()->getContents());
}
catch (\GuzzleHttp\Exception\BadResponseException $e) {
// handle exception or api errors.
print_r($e->getMessage());
}
// ...
URL obj = new URL("https://www.concursolutions.com/api/v3.0/insights/latestbookings/");
HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) obj.openConnection();
con.setRequestMethod("GET");
int responseCode = con.getResponseCode();
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream()));
String inputLine;
StringBuffer response = new StringBuffer();
while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
response.append(inputLine);
}
in.close();
System.out.println(response.toString());
package main
import (
"bytes"
"net/http"
)
func main() {
headers := map[string][]string{
"Accept": []string{"application/json"},
}
data := bytes.NewBuffer([]byte{jsonReq})
req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://www.concursolutions.com/api/v3.0/insights/latestbookings/", data)
req.Header = headers
client := &http.Client{}
resp, err := client.Do(req)
// ...
}
GET /insights/latestbookings/
Get the latest hotel and air booking for a particular user.
Get the latest hotel and air booking for a particular user.
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| user | query | string | false | Optional. The login ID of the user. The user must have the Web Services Admin (Professional) or Can Administer (Standard) user role to use this parameter. |
Example responses
200 Response
{
"Airlines": {
"BookingClass": "string",
"Code": "string"
},
"Hotel": {
"Location": "string",
"StarRating": 0
}
}
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<LatestBooking>
<Airlines>
<BookingClass>string</BookingClass>
string
</Airlines>
<Hotel>
<Location>string</Location>
<StarRating>0</StarRating>
</Hotel>
</LatestBooking>
| Status | Meaning | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|---|
| 200 | OK | Success | LatestBooking |
{
"BookingClass": "string",
"Code": "string"
}
| Name | Type | Required | Restrictions | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BookingClass | string | false | none | The booking class of the latest booked airline segment. |
| Code | string | false | none | The airline code of the latest booked airline segment. |
{
"Location": "string",
"StarRating": 0
}
| Name | Type | Required | Restrictions | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Location | string | false | none | The IATA airport code of the location of the latest booked hotel segment. |
| StarRating | integer(int32) | false | none | The star rating of the latest booked hotel segment. Possible values are from 0 - 5. Values 1 - 5 are mapped to the Northstar standard. If the value is 0, the star rating could not be found. |
{
"Airlines": {
"BookingClass": "string",
"Code": "string"
},
"Hotel": {
"Location": "string",
"StarRating": 0
}
}
| Name | Type | Required | Restrictions | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airlines | Airline | false | none | none |
| Hotel | Hotel | false | none | none |


UK BioBank Papers
NIST Lab
Sofía Fernández Lozano
Purpose
-
Assess whether any associations between baseline cognitive
and incident dementia may be accounted for by
constitutional/modifiable risk factors;
-
and, whether cognitive scores add anything to prediction
models of the disease.
Sample (UKBB)
- 502,617 (age: 40-69; across UK; 2006-2010)
- 488,363 (blood samples for genotyping)
- 1,051 cases of incident dementia
- 385,336 (591 dementia) main analytic sample
- 65,824 (112 dementia) genetic sample
- 130,212 (115 dementia) all-cognitive sample
Ascertainment of incident dementia
Dementia was identified from:
- ICD (9&10) codes of hospital inpatient admission data (1996 - Feb 2016)
- ICD10 codes on death certificates (Apr 2006 - Feb 2016)
*Cases were selected if the date of first recorded Dx occurred at
least three years after baseline assessment
Assessment of cognitive function
Brief computer-administered cognitive battery of four
test for fluid cognitive abilities:
- Processing speed (reaction time task)
- Visual episodic memory (visual pairs memory task)
- Prospective memory (prospective memory task)
- Fluid & crystallized abilities (verbal-numerical reasoning task)
Models
- Univariate age- and sex-adjusted logistic regression models
(cognitive, constitutional and modifiable risk factors)
- Model1 - age, sex, education and 1/4 cognitive tests
- Model2 - added constitutional risk factors
- Model3 - added modifiable risk factors
- *Models were repeated to include participants with missing
data on covariates with >5% missingness
Association of risk factors for dementia
Prediction by baseline cognitive performance
- Effect sizes for total dementia risk according to reaction time and
visual memory were similar for the main sample and the sample with
incomplete cases
- No obvious difference between OR for dementia D× within three to five
years of cognitive testing and those made six to eight years later
Adjustment for risk factors
- This was conducted on all-cause dementia
- Adjusting for risk factors didn't affect the associations between
cognitive tasks and dementia risk, which remained statistically
significant in fully-adjusted models
Discriminative accuracy of models
with and without cognitive variables
Comparison to previous studies
- Reproduced ROC curves adding the four cognitive tests to a basic model
including age, sex, and education (N=160,903; 177)
- AUC went from 0.763 (95% CI: 0.729, 0.796) to 0.821 (0.790, 0.853),
χ2 = 31.9, P <.001
Strenghts
- Large scale of cohort & rich data set
- Age range covering mid to late adulthood
Limitations
- Referral bias
- Electronic health linkage without primary care data may have led
to underdetection of dementia
- Low-to-moderate test-retest reliability of cognitive tests
- Missing data from participants with lower cognitive ability and/or
poorer health were likely to have reduced sensitivity due to selective attrition
Main conclusions
- Even a brief cognitive test battery has predictive power at the population level
- AD was defined by a relatively stronger association with APOE4 and VaD
risk by slower processing speed and greater vascular risk factors
- None of the modifiable risk factors but depression increased risk for AD; several did for VaD
- Modifiable risk factors had almost no impact on the performance of the prediction models that included cognitive and genetic factors


Covered Walkway
问题描述 :
Your university wants to build a new walkway, and they want at least part of it to be covered. There are certain points which must be covered. It doesn’t matter if other points along the walkway are covered or not.
The building contractor has an interesting pricing scheme. To cover the walkway from a point at x to a point at y, they will charge c+(x-y)2, where c is a constant. Note that it is possible for x=y. If so, then the contractor would simply charge c.
Given the points along the walkway and the constant c, what is the minimum cost to cover the walkway?
The building contractor has an interesting pricing scheme. To cover the walkway from a point at x to a point at y, they will charge c+(x-y)2, where c is a constant. Note that it is possible for x=y. If so, then the contractor would simply charge c.
Given the points along the walkway and the constant c, what is the minimum cost to cover the walkway?
输入:
There will be several test cases in the input. Each test case will begin with a line with two integers, n (1≤n≤1,000,000) and c (1≤c≤109), where n is the number of points which must be covered, and c is the contractor’s constant. Each of the following n lines will contain a single integer, representing a point along the walkway that must be covered. The points will be in order, from smallest to largest. All of the points will be in the range from 1 to 109, inclusive. The input will end with a line with two 0s.
输出:
There will be several test cases in the input. Each test case will begin with a line with two integers, n (1≤n≤1,000,000) and c (1≤c≤109), where n is the number of points which must be covered, and c is the contractor’s constant. Each of the following n lines will contain a single integer, representing a point along the walkway that must be covered. The points will be in order, from smallest to largest. All of the points will be in the range from 1 to 109, inclusive. The input will end with a line with two 0s.
样例输入:
10 5000 1 23 45 67 101 124 560<PHONE_NUMBER> 0 0
样例输出:
30726
http://acm.hdu.edu.cn/showproblem.php?pid=4258
题意：一个N个点的序列，要将他们全部覆盖，求总最少费用；费用计算： c+(x-y)2
Idea：
朴素的想法： f[i] = min(f[j] + (a[i]-a[j+1]) ^ 2+c) （N^2)
公式变形+数形结合：f[i] = min{f[j] + a[j+1]^2 – 2*a[i]*a[j+1] + a[i]^2 +C}
令x = a[j+1],y = f[j] + a[j+1]^2;
f[i] = y – 2*a[i]*x + a[i]^2 + C;
问题转化为: 已知直线的斜率为a[i]，求过前i-1个点直线与y轴的最小截距。
最后优化：经过一系列的推理，可以得到–用下凸曲线来维护检查集，可以在均摊O(1)的时间内，找到斜率连续变化时的最小值。
（画图慢慢观察下，可参考另外一题：http://blog.csdn.net/xdu_truth/article/details/7943237）
#include <cstdio> #include <iostream> #include <fstream> #include <cstring> using namespace std; int N,C; long long a[1000010];//int a[1000010] 要么用long long，要么每次算平方是将其转化为long long long long f[1000010]; struct point { int id; long long x,y; point(int a,long long b,long long c) { id = a;x = b;y = c; } point(){}; }; long long solve() { static point s[1000010]; int head = 1,tail = 0; long long temp; for (int i = 1;i <= N;i++) { point p(i-1,a[i],f[i-1]+ a[i]*a[i]); while(tail-1 >= head && (s[tail].x - s[tail-1].x)*(p.y - s[tail].y) - (s[tail].y - s[tail-1].y) *(p.x - s[tail].x) <0)//while (tail >= head... tail --; s[++tail] = p; while (head <= tail && (temp = s[head].y - 2*a[i]*s[head].x+a[i]*a[i] + C,temp < f[i]||f[i] == -1))//while(temp = s[head].y - 2*a[i]*s[head].x+a[i]*a[i] + C,temp < f[i]||f[i] == -1) { f[i] = temp; head++; } head--; } return f[N]; } int main() { freopen("test.txt","r",stdin); while(scanf("%d%d",&N,&C),N+C) { a[0] = 0;//a[0] = f[0] = 0; for(int i = 1;i <= N;i++) scanf("%d",&a[i]); memset(f,-1,sizeof(f)); f[0] = 0; printf("%I64d\n",solve()); } return 0; } /* example:比ans要少1，观察了下，发现f[0]的初始化有问题 1st/WA:代码表达出错，检查下凸曲线部分写错了，说明思维还不够清晰； 2nd/WA:下凸数组没有进行防越界处理 3rd/WA;这次是由于计算过程中有两个较大的int相乘，编译是默认结果也是用int保存，导致溢出。然后就把数据都改成long long 了 */
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参考：http://blog.csdn.net/xdu_truth/article/details/7948536
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Waking the Dead (2000) Billy Crudup, Jennifer Connelly, Molly Parker, Janet McTeer, Paul Hipp, Sandra Oh, Hal Holbrook, Lawrence Dane. Screenplay by Keith Gordon and Robert Dillon, based on the novel by Scott Spencer. Directed by Keith Gordon. 105 minutes. Rated R, 1 star (out of five stars)
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"Waking the Dead," an overwrought, underdeveloped story of a young politician (Billy Crudup) in the '80s having visions of his presumed-dead, activist girlfriend (Jennifer Connelly) from the '70s, is one of the most annoying films I have endured in years. Rather than waste valuable composition time following the standard review format, I've decided to simply list some of the reasons why.
A) Time travel abuse: The movie leaps between the '70s and '80s so often that I began to wonder if Dramamine works for temporal motion sickness. Not since "Slaughterhouse Five" have characters been so unstuck in time. But while the time jumping in "Slaughterhouse Five" was an integral part of the story, it only serves to fracture "Waking the Dead," robbing the film of any emotional cohesiveness.
B) Tired premise: It's love at first sight when fiercely dedicated counterculture zealot Sarah Williams meets starchy Fielding Pierce, who believes in working within the system. My, what an inventive concept. Not since, oh… any typical episode of "Dharma and Greg" has such a radical dynamic been so thoughtfully explored.
C) Lame leads: She gives speeches and makes meaningful eye contact. He gives speeches and whines. I get squirmy and check my watch.
D) Lack of chemistry: While both actors have shown promise in previous cinematic outings, Billy Crudup and Jennifer Connelly's performances here are painfully forced. Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley were more convincing lovers than this pair.
E) The dialogue: "I don't know what I'm going to say, what I'm going to do, from one minute to the next,' moans Fielding. "Sometimes meaningless gestures are all we have," Sarah intones somberly. I'm amazed that one of them didn't blurt out "Love means never having to say you're sorry."
F) Billy Crudup's feet: After spending considerable time padding barefoot around Sarah's bohemian pad, Fielding lies down on the bed and we see the pink, squeaky-clean bottoms of his feet. In the real world, a brief walk across any hardwood floor would leave at least a bit of visible dirt. Of course, had the story been even mildly involving, I wouldn't have noticed.
G) Endless posing: Intimate scenes are undermined by director Keith Gordon's insistence on artful placement of the character's bodies. Nude shots of Crudup and Connelly have the actors' forms oh-so-carefully positioned, covering their genitals while making them look less like lovers and more like chintzy erotic sculptures.
H) The hippie brother and his psychedelic office: Paul Hipp overacts shamelessly as Fielding's brother, a counterculture publisher. Even more ridiculous is his tripped-out office, the least convincing hippie set I've seen since Samantha's wacky cousin Serena went club hopping on "Bewitched."
I) Stereotypes galore: While Paul Hipp is the most glaring of the walking stereotypes, talented actors like Hal Holbrook, Janet McTeer and Sandra Oh are also wasted playing animated clichés.
J) The "Is she or isn't she?" gimmick: A decade after the reported death of his honey-bunny, Fielding begins catching glimpses of her everywhere. Are these hallucinations brought on by guilt and longing or did Sarah fake her death for some political purpose, only to resurface to seek out her lost love? By the time the answer was revealed, I didn't give a damn. Gordon's handling of the gimmick makes one appreciate the skilled choreography of "The Sixth Sense" all the more.
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run_independent_shape.Rd
Fits flexsurv
models using flexsurvreg
containing a covariate for treatment on shape and scale parameter.
run_independent_shape( data, time_var, event_var, distr = c("exp", "weibull", "gompertz", "lnorm", "llogis", "gengamma", "gamma", "genf"), strata_var, int_name, ref_name )
| data | A data frame containing individual patient data for the relevant
time to event outcomes. This is passed to the |
|---|---|
| time_var | Name of time variable in 'data'. Variable must be numerical and >0. |
| event_var | Name of event variable in 'data'. Variable must be numerical and contain 1's to indicate an event and 0 to indicate a censor. |
| distr | A vector string of distributions, see dist argument in
|
| strata_var | Name of stratification variable in "data". This is usually the treatment variable and must be categorical. |
| int_name | Character to indicate the name of the treatment of interest, must be a level of the "strata_var" column in "data", used for labeling the parameters. @param ref_name Character to indicate the name of the reference treatment, must be a level of the "strata_var" column in "data", used for labeling the parameters. |
A list containing 'models' (output from fit_models
), 'model_summary' (output fromget_model_summary
) and
'parameters', a data frame containing the coefficients of each flexsurv model.
'models' is a list of flexsurv objects for each distribution specified
'model_summary' is a tibble object containing the fitted model objects, the parameter
estimates (coef
), AIC
and BIC
from flexsurv objects.
'parameters' is a data frame with with one row which contains the coefficients for all of the flexsurv models specified. The column names are in the format 'distribution.parameter.TreatmentName', for example, weibull.shape.Intervention refers to the shape parameter of the weibull distribution for the intervention treatment and 'gengamma.mu.Reference' refers to the mu parameter of the generalised gamma distribution for the reference treatment. Columns with 'TE' at the end are the treatment effect coefficients (applicable to the scale and shape parameters for independent shape models).
Possible distributions include:
Exponential ('exp')
Weibull ('weibull')
Gompertz ('gompertz')
Log-normal ('lnorm')
Log-logistic ('llogis')
Generalized gamma ('gengamma')
Gamma ('gamma')
Generalised F ('genf')
The model fit is in the form Surv(Time, Event==1) ~ ARM + shape(ARM). The scale parameter is derived directly from the model for the reference category, however for the intervention arm, this is calculated as reference scale + treatment effect (scale). The shape parameter is derived directly from the model for the reference category, however for the intervention arm, this is calculated as reference shape + treatment effect (shape).


Shotgun metagenomics
Alfred Ssekagiri
Uganda Virus Research Institute - H3ABiONET
Outline
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Introduction to shotgun metagenomics
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Sample collection and extraction
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Library preparation and sequencing
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Metagenome assembly
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Metagenome annotation
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Post analysis
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Challenges and oppurtunities
Introduction
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What is it?:
shotgun metagenomics, is the untargeted (‘shotgun’) sequencing of all (‘meta-’) microbial genomes ‘genomics’ present in a sample. -
What can it do?:
Shotgun sequencing can be used to profile taxonomic composition and functional potential of microbial communities and to recover whole genome sequences -
Applications:
Understanding the functions and characterizing specific strains of these communities offers biotechnological promise in therapeutic discovery and innovative ways to synthesize products using microbial factories and can pinpoint the contributions of microorganisms to planetary, animal and human health.
Shotgun metagenomics workflow
Library preparation
Nextera DNA Flex Library Prep Kit:
A fast, integrated workflow for a wide range of applications, from human whole-genome sequencing to amplicons, plasmids, and microbial species.
Nextera XT Library Prep Kit:
Prepare sequencing-ready libraries for small genomes (bacteria, archaea, viruses), amplicons, and plasmids in less than 90 minutes.
TruSeq DNA PCR-Free Library Preparation Kits:
Simple, all-inclusive library preparation for whole-genome sequencing applications. Researchers can sequence a wide variety of organisms, from small genomes such as bacteria to whole-human genomes.
Sequencing platforms
Requirement:
System that maximizes output in order to retrieve sequences from as many low-abundance members of the microbiome as possible.
Examples:
Illumina HiSeq 2500 or 4000,
NextSeq and NovaSeq produce high volumes of sequence data (between 120 Gb and 1.5 Tb per run).
Preference:
The Illumina HiSeq 2500, although now two generations old, is a popular choice for shotgun metagenomics, as it is able to generate 2 × 250-nt reads in rapid-run mode (generating up to 180 Gb per flow cell) or up to 1 Tb in high-output mode, with 2 × 125-nt reads.
Metagenome assembly
This is the process of recovering genomes from metagenomic data.
Challenge(s)
The coverage of each constituent genome depends on the abundance of each genome in the community. Low-abundance genomes may end up fragmented if overall sequencing depth is insufficient to form connections in the graph.
A second problem is that a sample can contain different strains of the same bacterial species. These closely related genomes can cause branches in the assembly graph where they may differ by a single nucleotide variant or by the presence or absence of an entire gene or operon. The assembler will often stop at these branch points, resulting in fragmented reconstructions.
Approach and resources
Most de novo metagenome assemblers are based on de Bruijn graphs: For single genome assemblies, a de Bruijn graph is constructed by breaking each sequencing read into overlapping subsequences of a fixed length k. This is different in for metagenomes due to above challenges. However, the assemblers are designed to overcome these challenges.
Tools for metagenome assembly
metaVelvet
metaSpades
IDBA-UD
Megahit
Binning contigs
Aim: To group contigs into species. This is done through supervised and unsupervised binning methods.
The princliple:
The underlying principle is that contigs from the same genome will have similar coverage values within each metagenome.
Approach: For taxonomic classification, contig homology against known genomes is a potentially useful approach, but most microbial species have not been sequenced, so a large fraction of reconstructed genomic fragments cannot be mapped to reference genomes.
Softwares automated for this include; METABAT, Groop, CONCOCT among others.
Assembly free metagenomic profiling
Taxonomic profiling of metagenomes identifies which microbial species are present in a metagenome and estimates their abundance.
This can be carried out without assembly, through external sequence data resources, such as publicly available reference genomes.
This approach can mitigate assembly problems, speed up computation and enable profiling of low-abundance organisms that cannot be assembled de novo.
Main limitation is that previously uncharacterized microbes are difficult to profile
Genes and metabolic pathways
With a fragmented but high-quality metagenome assembly, the genetic repertoire of a microbial community can be identified using adapted single-genome characterization tools.
Databases that include combinations of manually annotated and computationally predicted proteins families, such as KEGG or UniProt, can be used for this task and enable characterization of the functional potential of the microbiome
A complementary approach to metabolic function profiling of metagenomes is an in-depth characterization of specific functions of interest. For example, identification of genes involved in antibiotic resistance (the ‘resistome’) in a microbial community can inform on the spread of antibiotic resistance.
Post analysis
The outputs of the above mentioned processes comprise data matrices of samples versus microbial features (i.e., species, taxa, genes and pathways). Post- processing analysis uses statistical tools to interpret these matrices and establish how the findings correlate with the sample metadata.
Post-processing tools include traditional multivariate statistics and machine learning. Unsupervised methods include simple clus- tering and correlation of samples, and visualization techniques such as heat maps, ordination, networks, which allow patterns in the data to be revealed graphically.
Supervised methods include statistical methods, such as multivariate analysis of variance (ANOVA) for direct hypothesis testing of differences between groups, or machine learning classifiers that train models to label groups of samples, such as random forests
A number of packages in R: DESeq2, vegan, metagenomeSeq among others.


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Melody Creator
In this YouTube video, Kie Codes demonstrated a method for generating melodies using a genetic algorithm. The code for this example can be found on Github.
The current example requires the user to evaluate each generated melody, which can be a time-consuming task. To improve this process, we will use a separate evaluation network to predict a rating for each melody, allowing the evolutionary algorithm to run more efficiently.
Furthermore, we will implement an active learning approach to train the evaluation network. This means that when the network is uncertain about a melody’s rating, we will ask the user to provide a label and retrain the network with this new data.
By using swergio, we will be able to communicate between the independent components (Evolutionary Algorithm, Evaluation Network, and Active Learner) and streamline the process of collecting user feedback.
The full source code of the example can be found on GitHub.
Requirements
- For this example we need to run Python code and the easiest way to set it up is to:
Install Python > 3.8 (https://www.python.org/downloads/)
If required install python3-venv
sudo apt install python3-venv
Create a virtual environment in the example folder
python3 -m venv /venv
Activate the virtual environment
source \env\bin\activate
Install required packages to virtual environment
pip install -r requirements.txt
How to run it
To execute this example, which includes training the evaluation network and providing active labels for new data,
we can run separate code blocks either through interactive python in VSCode from the 05_user_interface.py
file or as a Jupyter notebook ``05_user_interface.ipynb`.
The script will start all necessary components and set up another swergio client to communicate the labeling of the new data as well as sending the starting command.
The final code block in the files will shut down all the components.


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replicates results shown in Figure 1 of
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Header File:
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Output niqlow/examples/output/BerkovecSternEmet1991.txt
| Public fields | ||
| acteqpars | static | βi |
| Changing | static const | |
| col | static | Column of table to get params from |
| disc | static const | |
| drates | static const | |
| dur | static | duration of existing job |
| eI | static | individual wage effect |
| ejob | static | array of choice-specific draws |
| eqpars | static const | |
| eS | static | new match draw |
| HThous | static const | |
| i | static | Action variable |
| iacc | static const | age bracket death rates per 100000. |
| M | static | match value if worked last year |
| m | static | move/match decision. |
| p | static const | |
| PrevJob | static | choice previous period |
| sig1 | static const | |
| sig2 | static const | |
| sig3 | static const | |
| tau | static const | |
| Xn | static | |
| Public methods | ||
| FeasibleActions | ||
| mprob | static | Age-dependent mortality probability. |
| Reachable | Duration must be feasible, do not track current eta if retired. | |
| Run | static | Setup and solve the model for both columns. |
| Sig1 | static | |
| Sig2 | static | |
| Utility | The one period return. | |
| Enumerations | ||
| Anonymous enum 1 | ||
| Dimens | State space dimensions. | |
| mortbrackets | Mortality brackets. | |
| regressors | Wage regressors. | |
| sectors | Choices & Sectors. |
| Public methods | ||
| Transit | ||
| XLagged |


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