ACCU 2011 Conference
This year’s ACCU conference (my fourth) was always going to be a little bit different because this year I was going to be speaking.
I arrived on the Tuesday evening just in
time for the obligatory visit to Chutneys - an Indian restaurant in the centre
of town. Many of the usual suspects were already there and it took no time at
all to slip into idle chat about what we’ve all been up to since we sat in the
same restaurant a year ago. Then it was back to the bar and a chance to catch
up with the late arrivals and gatecrash a few conversations in an attempt to do
a little networking before a nice early night.  Of
course I ended up in the bar until
The opening keynote on Wednesday morning was from Giles Colborne, titled Advanced Simplicity. As someone who is a backroom boy these days I don’t spend any time doing UI work, but the talk seemed to transcend that and provided perfect analogies that could just as easily be applied to API design. He provided some nice examples of how you can avoid a whole class of potential error scenarios by just using a simpler control in the first place. There were also examples of ideas that you would expect to work, but didn’t, and cases where people used the tool in ways the designers hadn’t anticipated. Some quotes from the likes of Donald Norman and Alan Cooper provided a nice backdrop.
That was the easy bit out of the way and a shot of coffee was then needed whilst I spent the 30 minute break trying to decide between 5 typically awesome sessions. Sometimes you just have to use darts, dice, a coin or whatever because the line-up is so varied. For my first session I chose Peter Pilgrim’s Introduction to Scala. I don’t generally follow the Java world but I have heard interesting things about Scala and Peter’s introduction was a whirlwind tour of the various language features. It has elements of functional languages that I’m not used to but his examples still made sense and he finished off with a nice comparison of the various JVM based languages that seem to be vying for the hearts and minds of developers.
The 90 minute lunch break is quickly over when you’ve been nattering away and it was Lisa Crispin and her Dealing with Defects talk that filled my early afternoon slot. This was an interesting look at the techniques and tools that teams often use to track and manage bugs. There was definitely a feeling that many organisations spend too much time on tracking and managing bugs and not enough on preventing them in the first place. Lisa got the audience to do a little exercise where we played the role of developer and tester. The two had to collaborate to draw a simple map, first standing back-to-back and then facing each other. This illustrated how much better it is for the two to engage directly instead of via, say, email – simple but very effective. This was a useful talk that helped to confirm my team are heading in the right direction.
I made Kevlin Henney’s talk about OO as my final choice for the day because I saw his Value Objects session last year and I clearly still have much to learn about OO even after all this time.  However I got the feeling that the Single Responsibility Principle (the S in SOLID) should also be taken under advisement. His revelation about the Liskov Substitution Principle was most enlightening and goes to show that the terms type, subtype, class, interface, abstract data type, etc. are often banded about and incorrectly used interchangeably in OO circles. The question now is whether I still answer “Encapsulation, Polymorphism and Inheritance” in a job interview?
Sadly Uncle Bob couldn’t provide the closing day’s keynote and so Michael Feathers stepped up to the plate instead. This was a curious keynote that I felt never really went anywhere. He commented on the productivity of Ruby and noted the verbosity of C++ but never appeared to come to any conclusion. Was he suggesting the world would be a better place if we all switched to Ruby? Did the fact that there were so many C & C++ programmers in the audience cause him to refrain from saying what he really wanted to? If nothing else it generated chatter in the bar after…
Tom Preston-Werner, one of the big cheeses at Github, opened business on the Thursday morning. On the one hand it’s nice to see that some companies can provide an excellent place to work, but on the other there is a large degree of smugness that goes with this kind of presentation. Unmetered holidays, self organising teams, a bar on-site, and they’re making a profit too - it sounds like programming nirvana. It sure will be interesting to see how it scales with the age of the employees and the size of the company.
My first optional session for the day was titled Distributed Computing 2.0 by Filip Van Laenen. I wasn’t sure what to expect from this as I didn’t really read the blurb and therefore was somewhat surprised to hear the details of his hobby project that used Twitter as the communication channel for a distributed system. This immediately raised many questions in my mind about scalability and reliability and he answered nearly all of them during his talk as he explained how Facebook and Yahoo/Google Groups could also be used in a channel bonding style. The problem he is attempting to solve fits nicely inside the limits of the architecture; ok, so it’s not a general purpose solution, but he never claimed it was. I soon started thinking about how to use the add-on services like yfrog and twitpic to overcome the message size limits so it’s clearly had some impact.
I suppose I didn’t really have a choice about what I was going to see in the afternoon. Given that I had stayed up in the bar into the wee hours Tuesday night to listen to an argument about equality I just had to go and see Roger Orr and Steve Love cover the subject in detail. This focused mainly on the pitfalls of how to correctly do an equivalence comparison in Java and C# as there is much complexity involved. C# has a plethora of interfaces for dealing with equality – more than I knew. They also showed some really ‘interesting’ behaviour around the way one JVM caches the boxed values -100 to +100. It’s not often that people remark how simple C++ is, but in this case it really is and the wording in the standard backed that up.
I felt I needed to hear some hard-core techie stuff at some point and so Scott Meyers was the perfect choice with a session all about CPU’s and cache lines. Scott is an entertaining presenter and he made the low-level topic easily understandable. Although I was aware of many of the symptoms and solutions from Herb Sutter’s writings I gained a much better insight into the hardware side and why these problems exist. I have much more respect for the chip designers now! He also briefly covered Profile Guided Optimisation and Whole Program Optimisation to cover the instruction cache side of things.
Lightning talks – 5 minute talks by the general populace – made their appearance again this year and their popularity is clearly growing as the number of speakers approached 23 over the two days. Olve Maudal kicked off the first set of talks with a tongue-in-cheek piece called Technical debt is good! Other notable shorts include Pete Goodliffe’s Manyfestos, which was a poke at the ever growing number of developer manifestos out there, and Mark Dalgano’s Optimise for Unhappiness which reflected back on the day’s keynote to show how too many companies treat their employees.
Friday’s keynote was due to be given by both authors of the hugely popular book Growing Object Orientated Software, but unfortunately it was left to Steve Freeman to go it alone. The title, Good Enough Is the Enemy of Better, sums up perfectly how software development is often approached in many organisations. But Steve showed how it can be a false economy and that doing it right can pay dividends both from an operational and maintenance perspective. As someone who is currently working on a system built this way it’s great to be nodding in absolute agreement instead of longing to be taking part.
The morning coffee break was swiftly followed by a visit to see Jon Skeet discuss Java and C# - the lessons learned and mistakes replicated by the latter from the former. Jon may be a Java programmer by day and C# hobbyist by night, but he still knows way more about C# than most! The discussion about the differences, such as the handling of generics was typically enlightening as was the curious adoption of much of the Object behaviour and how that was probably a bad choice. I left somewhat disappointed as I had hoped for more crystal ball gazing and the answers to some of his questions where clearly already in “C++” and “D” which just goes to show how hard it is to keep up with even the “curly brace” languages.
The weather really brightened up for lunch and it was somewhat of a shame to be stuck indoors in the afternoon, but if anyone is ever a ray of sunshine it’s Tom Gilb. I thought I should go to at least one “process” related talk and the contentious title “What’s Wrong With Requirements” sounded like it could generate some debate. Tom’s premise always seems to be that everything can be measured and quantified and this was no different. What seems to be wrong is that we use “woolly” terms instead of backing them up with a measurable value to guide the design and implementation. A simple message but fairly well rammed home with plenty of entertaining anecdotes and tangents that only Tom seems to get away with.
I really had no option about what to go to after the break because I was one of those going to be doing the talking! It was a great experience that I felt went pretty well, even if I did speak a little too quickly. Interestingly however feedback suggests that I need to do work in other areas instead; such is the problem with not being able to watch yourself. The good thing is that I have 12 months to work on my presentation skills before next year.
The second round of lightening talks followed the day’s final coffee break and once again it was a packed with speakers. Didier Verna is clearly in the wrong job and should be “treading the boards” as he appeared again – twice. Richard Harris rose to the challenge from Roger Orr and Steve Love by showing us how to correctly compare floating point numbers and Jim Hague tried to drum up interest for the local folk dancing display before showing what he’d unearthed whilst spelunking the King James’ Bible. Phil Nash closed the year’s talks with a very succinct demonstration of his new lightweight unit testing framework called Catch.
Friday always plays host to the Speakers’
Dinner where the attendees get to spend a little more time up close and
personal with the presenters. After each course they have to switch tables
whilst the speakers stay put so there is always someone new to chat with. There
was also an auction in aid of
Sadly my presence ended a little earlier
this year and so I had to miss out on the Saturday sessions. I haven’t even
looked at what was on because it will only depress me further knowing what has
escaped me. I know I say it each year, but you really cannot put a price on the
time you spend with the speakers and other attendees in the bar at the end of
each day. Yes, as the evening progresses the value-per-pint slowly diminishes,
but even at
Chris Oldwood
23/04/2011
Bio
Chris started out as a bedroom coder in the 80s, writing assembler on 8-bit micros. These days it’s C++ and C# on Windows in big plush corporate offices. He is also the commentator for the Godmanchester Gala Day Duck Race and can be contacted via gort@cix.co.uk.


interface AttachmentsStorageService
| attachments |
abstract val attachments: AttachmentStorage
Provides access to storage of arbitrary JAR files (which may contain only data, no code). |
| StorageService |
interface StorageService : AttachmentsStorageService
A sketch of an interface to a simple key/value storage system. Intended for persistence of simple blobs like transactions, serialised flow state machines and so on. Again, this isn't intended to imply lack of SQL or anything like that, this interface is only big enough to support the prototyping work. |


PutInfluxDatabaseRecord processor uses a specified RecordReader to write the content of a FlowFile into InfluxDB database.
The value is determined from the field in the Record Schema. If the field is not found in the schema then is used the value of Measurement property. Any data type is converted into a String type and used as the value.
The name of the field in the Record Schema is used as the key of the Tag. The value of the field is used as the value of the Tag. Any data type is converted into a String type and used as the Tag value (see also handling complex types).
The name of the field in the Record Schema is used as the key of the Tag. The value of the field is used as the value of the Tag. The Record Field data type is converted into a supported InfluxDB types:
The value is determined from the field in the Record Schema. If the field is not found in the schema or field has not defined value the timestamp is not specified for the Data Point. The precision for the supplied time value is determined from the property Timestamp precision.
The Apache NiFi complex Record fields are handled by different strategy:
Enabled batching will reduce reliability in the cost of better performance. The PutInfluxDatabaseRecord processor uses batching/buffering implemented in influxdb-java client. Processor can route flow file to the success relation before the batch buffer is flushed into the database. The batch buffer is stored in the system memory, so in the case of power failure or process kill, is content of buffer not written into InfluxDB.
Batching is useful when the flow file contains large number of records. Records are sent into InfluxDB in batching points with preconfigured size.


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Independence Day is founded on the declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel by the Jewish leadership headed by future Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion on 14 May 1948. The mood outside of Ben-Gurion's home just prior to the declaration was joyous: "The Jews of Palestine ... were dancing because they were about to realize what was one of the most remarkable and inspiring achievements in human history: A people which had been exiled from its homeland two thousand years before, which had endured countless pogroms, expulsions, and persecutions, but which had refused to relinquish its identity—which had, on the contrary, substantially strengthened that identity; a people which only a few years before had been the victim of mankind’s largest single act of mass murder, killing a third of the world’s Jews, that people was returning home as sovereign citizens in their own independent state."[1]
Independence was declared eight hours before the end of the British Mandate of Palestine, which was due to finish on 15 May 1948.
Declaration of the State of Israel The operative paragraph of the Declaration of the Establishment of State of Israel of 14 May 1948[2] expresses the declaration to be by virtue of our natural and historic right and on the basis of the resolution of the United Nations General Assembly. The operative paragraph concludes with the words of Ben-Gurion, where he thereby declares the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel, to be known as the State of Israel.
The new state was quickly recognised by the United States de facto, the Soviet Union,[3] and many other countries, but not by the surrounding Arab states, which marched with their troops into the area of the former British Mandate.


Here is the list of all the practicles that we have done till now:
Practicals:-
- Creating our First Web page- Practicle 1
- Creating a web page showing output as Html Structure using character Entities and span Tag.- Practicle 2
- Live your First Web-Page on Git-Hub- Practicle 3
- Creating a website having list of all practical and their individual practical Page links- Practicle 4
- Creating a Web-Page showing the use of Image-Map in the Web Application- Practicle 5
- Creating a Card Layout using css layout properties- Practicle 6
- Creating a web Page Layout using div tags-Practicle 7
- Creating a web Page having Fixed Navigation Bar with the given content-Practicle 8
- Creating a Responsive Web Layout with Responsive Navigation Bar-Practicle 9
- Create a Responsive Side-Bar Navigation Menu-Practicle 10
- Create a Responsive Footer Template-Practicle 11
- Create a Table that represent Live Practical Book Records-Practicle 12
- Create a Table that represent Live Practical Book Records-Practicle 13
- Create a Counter Page using JavaScript as per the attached Templates-Practical 14


Created using HSLS/Cg shader languages in Unity. Features include dissolving, pulsing animation, intersection highlights and distorting items occluded by the effect.
Grass shader system for unity. Includes level of detail, density/height map and many other customizable features.
Custom editor window in Unity to generate low poly planets. Includes a custom shader for flat shading and emissive lighting.
Various 3d models created in 3ds max and blender.
Created a custom editor window for Unity to spawn leaf meshes around a source mesh.
2D/3D Engine built on top of the MonoGame framework in C#. Includes 3D world builder (Using Windows Forms), Farseer Physics integration, basic special effects and a UI system.
This unity programs converts multiple midi data into a 3D representation.
This project demonstrates my customizable water shader. This includes an additional shader which processes the ripples.


LIU Brooklyn takes on Delaware St.
by Associated PressLong Island-Brooklyn (0-3) vs. Delaware State (0-3)
Memorial Hall, Dover, Delaware; Monday, 7 p.m. EST
BOTTOM LINE: Long Island-Brooklyn and Delaware State look to bounce back from losses. Long Island-Brooklyn fell 80-74 at George Mason on Wednesday. Delaware State lost 100-66 to Georgia on Friday.
STEPPING UP: Delaware State’s John Crosby has averaged 16 points and two steals while Ameer Bennett has put up 11.7 points and 6.7 rebounds. For the Sharks, Ty Flowers has averaged 15.7 points, 13.7 rebounds and 3.7 blocks while Jashaun Agosto has put up 9.7 points and 5.3 assists.TERRIFIC TY: Flowers has connected on 18.5 percent of the 27 3-pointers he’s attempted and has gone 5 for 27 over his last three games. He’s also converted 85.7 percent of his free throws this season.
DID YOU KNOW: Long Island-Brooklyn as a team has made 8.7 3-pointers per game this season, which is second-most among NEC teams.
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Reviewed by Jon Turner on 6/12/99 Posted 6/12/99
DOUBLE DISNEY!
The Adventures of Ichabod & Mr. Toad Rating: ***1/2 out of *****
The Brave Little Toaster To The Rescue Rating: ***1/2 out of *****
Both videos reviewed by Jon Turner
Disney has recently released two new videos on May 26, it's 11th masterpiece, The Adventures Of Ichabod & Mr. Toad and another direct-to-home sequel, The Brave Little Toaster To The Rescue. The question is, which one is good and which one isn't? You'll find out here.
THE ADVENTURES OF ICHABOD & MR. TOAD
Before I go into detail about this movie, there are a few things you should know about it. This film was created at a time when the studio was troubled. Walt was still around, but World War II had caused his studio to lose its momentum that always gave its films, such as Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, and Bambi. Because of money shortages (and the Latin market cut off), Walt Disney and his staff had no choice; they couldn't make another full-length feature, so they decided to do a multi-feature film. In other words, a compilation of various cartoons that had been in production before, during, or after the war. Two of these compilations were multi-feature films, Make Mine Music and Melody Time. The other two were double-feature films, Fun And Fancy Free and the very film that I just mentioned earlier, The Adventures Of Ichabod & Mr. Toad.
Don't be fooled by the title. This was originally supposed to have been called Two Fabulous Characters, but Walt probably thought the name would be a disgrace. The Adventures Of Ichabod & Mr. Toad is two famous stories given the typical Disney treatment, Kenneth Grahame's The Wind In The Willows and Washington Irving's The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow. Both featurettes were well received by the public and critics. Leonard Maltin, in his The Disney Films book, particularly praised The Wind In The Willows for featuring "some of the finest work the studio ever did". This may be stretching things too far, but The Wind In The Willows is nevertheless an entertaining, well-executed cartoon, and it holds well to this day.
For those of you who don't know, here is how the story goes: It's about a toad, J. Thaddeus Toad, squire of the famous Toad Hall. Now he has three friends, Ratty, Moley, and Angus MacBadger. Now Toad is not your average every-day man; he has a tendency to get into manias–manias that cause him to be in greater debts than ever (near bankruptcy, in fact). One particular mania riding is a gypsy's carriage with a happy-go-lucky horse, Cyril. As they ride along the countryside singing, "We're merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily on our way to nowhere in particular" they cause damage everywhere. This is SO shocking, in fact, that Ratty and Mole literally have to lock him up to prevent something much worse happening. Of course, this is exactly what happens. Toad gets obsessed with getting a motor car (even if it is stolen by a gang of crafty weasels, which in this case, it is), and trades Toad Hall for it–an act that results with him arrested and put on trial. All seems hopeless until Winky, a pompous bar tender is called on to testify. Only he can tell the truth, but he tells a different side of the story: "You tried to sell me a stolen motor car." Toad lands in jail, but Cyril bails him out, and there is a long, extended escape scene which includes a train chase. The chase ends when Toad jumps off the train into the river below (as they are passing over a bridge, leaving the cops behind). After getting himself out of the water (this is never shown, so I have no idea how he gets out of there with his ball 'n chain), he heads to his friends, who have discovered, courtesy of MacBadger, that Winky is actually the leader of the weasels whom Toad traded Toad Hall for the motor car. They plan to get the deed back from Winky so they can prove Toad's innocence. It isn't easy. They have to sneak in the back way of Toad Hall and battle the weasels to retrieve the deed (by the way, this scene is awesome, and strikingly staged; running around on the floor, swinging from the chandeliers–don't try this at home!–, and literally dropping in on a snoring Winky to retrieve the paper). Eventually, they succeed, and Toad is proven innocent. You might think that Toad may be, as the narrator (Basil Rathbone) tells us, a "new toad", but that is not the case. He has found a new mania–airplanes.
To call The Wind In The Willows, as Maltin did, the finest piece of work ever to be done by Disney may be stretching things too far, but there is much to enjoy in this film. There is a great cast of characters, and a couple of amusing scenes. One such amusing scene in particular is when Ratty starts yakking away at Toad on his foolishness. And how does Toad respond? By holding his hands over his ears, that's how! (As he does this, the soundtrack becomes muted; a very nice touch). It is moments like this (and the unforgettable characters) that make The Wind In The Willows worth a look. I give it a ****1/2 out of *****.
The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow, on the other hand, is another story. While it is equally well staged, it is a trifle lackluster. The problem might be in the choice of Bing Crosby as the narrator. He was, at the time of the film, a popular choice during the Depression area. However, to this day, he comes off as lame and annoying. He goes a little bit too far in narrating the story (he's too over dramatic), and his singing (or what you would call it), along with his humorous occasional "bom-bom-bom-bom-bom-boo-boo-boo-boo" don't help much. However, at the scene of the Halloween party at Van Tassel where tough bully Brom Bones tells schoolmaster Ichabod Crane (who, by the way, has a habit for snitching a few foods here and there) the story of the dreaded Headless(!) Horseman, things do start to get more interesting. Why is Brom telling Ichabod such a terrible story? Both of them are in love with the beautiful (and over exaggerated) Katrina Van Tassell. Ichabod has succeeded in sweeping Katrina off her feet (not literally), and Bones is none too happy about that. So to buzz Ichabod off, he scares him to death with this tale, through song (one of the more bouncy ones in this featurette). Things REALLY get creepy when Ichabod starts to ride home across his trusty steed, Gunpowder, where the sky is dark, the forest menacing (the crickets chirp "Ichabod", and the frogs croak "Headless Horseman".  This is where things REALLY get more exciting; there is a spectacular, long, extended chase scene in which Ichabod tries to outrun the Headless Horseman. How can he escape this monster? He must cross the bridge of Sleepy Hollow, for, as Brom Bones has told him, "Once you cross that bridge, my friends, the ghost is through–his power ends!" When he FINALLY makes it across the bridge, the Headless Horseman does not become powerless, his head (a pumpkin) is whirled across the bridge, which explodes into a raging fire. The next morning, we see Ichabod's hat and a shattered pumpkin, but we don't see Ichabod anywhere! What happened to him? Was he really spirited by the Headless Horseman? Or is he still alive, and married to a wealthy widow in a distant county? Whatever the answers, Bones succeeds in winning Katrina's heart, and takes her to the altar.
Who are we rooting for in this story? That is the most puzzling question one could ask of The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow. Ichabod Crane barely says anything, he just hums, trips across limbs, and try to win over the ladies. Brom Bones is too mean-spirited to be a sympathetic character; he plays tricks on Ichabod everywhere he goes. None of the characters in this sequence are well defined, so it becomes difficult for us to feel happy or sad when this darkly entertaining tale comes to a close. Also, as mentioned before, Crosby spends too much time showing off rather than seriously telling the story. All that said, The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow benefits greatly from its long, extended, hair-raising, heart-thumping climax, and for that, if not anything else, I enjoyed it. I give it *** out of *****.
My average rating for The Adventures Of Ichabod & Mr. Toad is ***1/2. It's not the best feature Disney has every done, but if you're a diehard Disney-Masterpiece collector fan (I certainly am–I own almost every single film Disney released on video, if you pardon me for bragging) it's yet another must buy for your Disney collection.
THE BRAVE LITTLE TOASTER TO THE RESCUE
Disney is really going nuts on its Brave Little Toaster franchise.  It was so enjoyable, in fact, that it won the 1988 Parents' Choice Television Award.
It was followed, ten years later, by a direct to home video sequel, The Brave Little Toaster Goes To Mars. While it did have its moments, such as the as-always funny characters, and gag lines "Houston, we have a problem!", the whole film wasn't as much as enjoyable or delightful as it was silly and formulaic (a toaster and appliances going to Mars?! How ridiculous!). It was almost like a "cheap deal", and not anywhere near half as good as the original.
Now, Disney has released another sequel, The Brave Little Toaster To The Rescue. My guess is, is that they are trying to make another trilogy, like they did with Aladdin. What made the Aladdin trilogies enjoyable where the fact that it took a lot of effort and heart to bring them to life. The Toaster direct-to-home-sequel, however, was a "cheap deal". This one had me suspicious since I was ticked off by the previous sequel, but this was a turnabout of expectations: this one is surprisingly decent. It's not really a "sequel", but a prequel to the Mars movie. It's more exciting, it has more heart, and while it falls far short of being as good as the original movie, this is still a great improvement over the first sequel.
It starts out with Rob and his girlfriend, Chris, driving towards college (with a catchy song playing), explaining that he can't wait for their graduation and anniversary (Anniversary? Anniversary about what? Even Rob doesn't know that). He drops Chris off and heads towards an informatory hospital, where his beloved appliances, Toaster, Blanky, Kirby, Lampy, and Radio, who come to life when no one else is around, via the toys in Toy Story, are awaiting his return (He is their master, after all). After some by play, Lampy jumps out of the window (with the help of Radio, who is pretty funny in his own way, considering that this isn't Jon Lovitz). He then "freezes" in his lamp position when he arrives at the Master's dormitory, where Rob works on some sort of assignment.
 It is hear we meet some new characters. One is a mother cat named Maisie, who worries that the first thing her kittens will see is Ratso (there is some by play about this). Another is a tiny Chihuahua, Alberto, whose leg is busted. There is also a snake, Murgetroid, who spittles every time he hisses ("I'd recommend steering clear of such words with too much s-s-s-sibiliance, pal," comments Ratso, when he gets spitted on by the snake.) Finally, there's a wise man in the group, in the form of a monkey, Sebastian (not the crab). Anyhow, the room is a mess from a party last night (they invited party friendly Dobermans over to have some fun), and they have to, as Radio states, "mambo out of this mess". This they do, while breaking into song, where the animals reminisce when they first met Rob, with the exception of Sebastian (while Ratso covers his ears, as the most anti-song fans probably will; I enjoyed the song, though). Ratso runs away, after reminding the appliances that they are "too old" for the Master, and that he only takes Lampy with him because he can "do something useful". Blanky makes a fuss about it, although Toaster tries to reassure everyone that they are high closest friends.
Meanwhile, Robby is working away on his computer, when he is interrupted by the abrupt appearance of his assistant, Mack, who is pretty jealous about Rob (he even wants to have Chris). When Chris comes about, something terrible happens: electricity goes off for some reason, and Rob's newly completed animal-thesis work is completely erased on the computer! He blames the computer for this, and he and Chris go off to fetch Charlie, who can probably help out (after some by play the computer says that he SHOULD have saved it, which he didn't). This is to no avail; there is a virus affecting the computer systems, now Rob won't be able to graduate! Even a little reassurance from Chris won't help.
At the same time, the appliances learn from Sebastian that there is a testing laboratory where the humans there were cruel to him (so THAT explains his broken arm!). The appliances reassure everybody that the master will take care of him (even though Ratso doesn't trust him). Then, everybody goes to bed, after a little bit of "late-night humor" from Radio.
Rob is still depressed about his lost file, but Chris states that his file is just "hiding". Rob is not any happier when she tries to use Kirby to clean up the kitty litter (Kirby gets a sick stomach afterwards), and Chris responds by walking out on Rob. This is a bad day for Rob: He's lost both his thesis AND his girlfriend–and his RAT! (Ratso is heading towards the basement, avoiding stampeding rats "Hey, I'm walking here!" he shouts at them.) Rob decides to write a better, newer report, even if it takes him a whole day. Mack comes by and Rob leaves him in charge of the house. This is a bad mistake, because Mack plots to send the animals to the testing laboratory in exchange for money. "I'm so bad!" he says.
Lampy returns, who tells them how sad the Master is. The appliances vow to help out, but they don't know how to use any computers. Sebastian helps out ("Monkey see, monkey do"), after they get him up onto the chair.  It echoes the gospel songs in Hercules, but it's more tolerable. After that, the computer gets a virus (beginning to crash), and starts to show secret passwords, one which is ANIMAL TRANSPORTATION! They all pull out the plug just as it crashes. Sebastian then tells them that the animals are going to be sent to Tartarus Laboratory, which he was talking about earlier.
We cut back to Rob and Chris (who has forgiven him, by the way), and we learn that he has to retype all 612 pages (including the title page), and that he remembers the anniversary of when he first met Chris. Still, it's a bad day for him.
It's a bad day for the animals, too, for they don't want to leave (although I'm sure Ratso wouldn't mind). Leave it to Toaster to think of a plan. Ratso mentions that he saw a malfunctioning (er, sneezing) computer in the basement. Mack comes by, and locks the animals in their cages (he also mentions that at midnight tonight, they're history). The appliances free Ratso and head to the basement, save Kirby (he's too big to fit, and he'll be the perfect guard for the animals). He fails to save the animals, from Mack, however.
Meanwhile, the appliances head to the basement where they discover the computer, who is ancient and doing loud sneezes. His name is Wittgenstein, and he thinks he's useless, or outmoded (he's been down there 4,999,450,852,312 nanoseconds, ever since transistors were invented). He explains this through a song, which is the weakest in the film (although funny to this reviewer). His light bulbs break as he sings, thanks to a couple of sparks. He also explains that he knows of Mack's evil plan to transport the animals to the factory, and that he had been trying to warn Rob (so THAT explains his computer crash!). Unfortunately, as he mentions, he is not PC compatible. He also explains that he's made of tubes, and that one of his tubes is busted, which is his only life source. Ratso and Radio set off, or rather gallop off, to find a replacement in the camp storage supplies. After much difficulty, they manage to find one last tube, but they break it buy getting into a fight. However, Wittgenstein still manages to mention that the animals are being transmitted. And he dies, and Radio takes the blame; he takes out his last circuit to help Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein is saved, thanks to Radio's self-sacrifice, and is able to print out a plan for the appliances (boo-boo proof), and alert the master about Mack's plan.
The animals have been loaded into the truck, and Rob is after them with Chris, while Toaster and the others chase after the truck on a table top piloted by Kirby powered by Wittgenstein's modem. There is a long, extended chase scene, which of course, works out okay. Maisie appears to be dead, but of course, she's all right. Ratso cries out of happiness in this scene.
Afterwards, the master finds Radio and tries to find a new circuit for him, while Wittgenstein recovers Rob's thesis report and gets it printed. The kittens open their eyes, and Ratso is the first thing that they see! They even play with him. This scene is so sweet.
Rob and Chris leave, secure with the fact that the animals will be taken to well taken to new homes where they will be looked after. Ratso comes along with the master and mistress. But what about Radio? Well, his circuit is restored to him, thanks to Chris. By the way, Rob has also asked Chris to be his wife. How happier can this ending be?
If you think The Brave Little Toaster To The Rescue will be just as bad as The Brave Little Toaster Goes To Mars, think again! The exciting, emotional story and the hilarious characters, including the show stealing ones, along with a little more drama and action to top it all off, make this sequel good entertainment. Still, while not as good as The Brave Little Toaster, this 3rd movie is pleasant enough for what it is. And for that, I give it ***1/2 out of *****. Whether you want it for your collection is another question, but its definitely one to rent, especially if you're a Toaster fan.
CONCLUSION
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Embedding SVG in HTML documents
Overview
SVG images can be used as stand-alone files, but the
most efficient way to include them in an HTML document is by embedding them as <svg>
subtrees.
However, this may cause unexpected problems due to two factors:
- Element IDs that were unique in the SVG image and the main document may collide, causing the HTML to become non-conformant due to the presence of two (or more) elements with the same ID.
- The way that
STYLE
elements are handled in HTML documents may cause further collisions (see below).
The STYLE
elements contained inside the hierarchy of the SVG
elements are used for the
computation of the styles of the whole document. That is, the rules located in a style sheet that was written for a
specific SVG image are accounted like if the STYLE
was located at the HEAD
element (but applying
the CSS precedence rules).
Due to that, there could be a collision between IDs and class names in the CSS from the SVG image(s) and the main document, or among the embedded SVG images.
Using the visitor pattern to replace identifiers
Fortunately, the css4j library provides the necessary tools to visit the CSS rules and make the necessary checks and
modifications to the relevant selectors. You can use your favourite DOM implementation to check and modify duplicate id
attributes (if you use css4j's native DOM,
a NodeIterator
could be a good choice), but the changes must be consistent with what you apply on the selectors.
For example, the AttributeConditionVisitor class can be of help for the task. Let us subclass it to provide our own logic:
package com.example;
import io.sf.carte.doc.style.css.nsac.AttributeCondition;
import io.sf.carte.doc.style.css.nsac.Condition.ConditionType;
import io.sf.carte.doc.style.css.parser.AttributeConditionVisitor;
class DupeConditionVisitor extends AttributeConditionVisitor {
@Override
public void visit(AttributeCondition condition) {
ConditionType type = condition.getConditionType();
if (type == ConditionType.ID || type == ConditionType.CLASS) {
String currentName = condition.getValue();
if (isBadName(currentName)) {
String newName = getNewName(currentName);
setConditionValue(condition, newName);
}
}
}
private boolean isBadName(String name) {
// Your logic comes here
...
}
private String getNewName(String oldName) {
// Your logic comes here
...
}
}
As you can see, for each visit it is checked whether the selector condition is a ID or class, and in that case checks for the name (for which you need to provide your own logic).
Your visitor based on the above code is now prepared to perform the task, but first you need to find the right CSS rules to apply it, for which we will use another visitor. You could use the AttrStyleRuleVisitor convenience class for this. Let's see an excerpt of what it does, adapted from its source:
package io.sf.carte.doc.style.css.util;
import io.sf.carte.doc.style.css.CSSStyleRule;
import io.sf.carte.doc.style.css.nsac.SelectorList;
import io.sf.carte.doc.style.css.om.AbstractCSSStyleSheet;
import io.sf.carte.doc.style.css.parser.AttributeConditionVisitor;
import io.sf.carte.util.Visitor;
public class AttrStyleRuleVisitor implements Visitor<CSSStyleRule> {
private final AttributeConditionVisitor visitor;
public AttrStyleRuleVisitor(AttributeConditionVisitor visitor) {
super();
this.visitor = visitor;
}
@Override
public void visit(CSSStyleRule rule) {
SelectorList selist = rule.getSelectorList();
visitor.visit(selist);
rule.setSelectorList(selist); // Refresh serialization
}
}
As you see, it just accepts the style rule, obtains the selector list and applies the condition visitor to it.
Then you can visit the style sheets by using any of the DOM backends that the library provides. You could gather identifier information from the main document first, then check with the SVG files that you want to embed. Or you may prefer to apply a systematic approach with the identifiers declared in the SVG files.
Here is an example that visits the sheets contained by an element, it uses css4j's native DOM (adapted from Carte's DocumentStore):
DOMElement svg = ... [the SVG element containing the image]
DupeConditionVisitor dupeVisitor = new DupeConditionVisitor();
Visitor<CSSStyleRule> ruleVisitor = new AttrStyleRuleVisitor(dupeVisitor);
Iterator<DOMElement> styleIt = svg.getElementsByTagNameNS("*", "style").iterator();
while (styleIt.hasNext()) {
DOMElement style = styleIt.next();
AbstractCSSStyleSheet sheet = (AbstractCSSStyleSheet) ((LinkStyle<?>) style).getSheet();
if (sheet != null) {
sheet.acceptStyleRuleVisitor(ruleVisitor);
style.normalize(); // Write the result to the inner text node
}
}
And now you only need to serialize the resulting document. (To serialize the native DOM, look at the powerful
DOMWriter
or just call toString()
).
Examples of embedded SVG
You may want to look at the CSS4J benchmark pages for examples of pages where SVG images were embedded in the way described by this document.


A JavaScript library for building user interfaces
The most useful part:
A library for mapping the state to UI


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--- title: "WREATH WORKSHOPS" date: "2000-01-01 20:12:04 -06:00" categories: - adult - winter subtitle: "" layout: "events" event-image: "wreath-workshop.jpg" event-dates: "December 4 - 6" event-location: "Online via Zoom" button-type: "register" tickets-link: "" registration-info: "" instructor-info: "RBG Staff" member-cost: "$43" public-cost: "$55" event-notes: "online" tickets-button: "hide" published: false ---
Wreath workshops will be held online via Zoom in order to keep students, guests, staff, and volunteers safe during this unique time.
Students will be able to pick up materials prior to class in order to follow along with instructor on Zoom. Material kits include Noble Fir as the main greenery and one of the following additions: Princess Pine, Juniper, Port Orford Cedar, and Incense Cedar.
Start off your holiday season by creating a fresh wreath for your front door at our annual wreath-making workshop. Workshop materials will include fresh greens, a 14” wreath frame, and paddle wire that will be available for pick up prior to class. Attendees are encouraged to collect unusual greens or your favorite ornaments to include in your wreath. Gloves, scissors, and hand pruners are recommended for class.


Use a Powershell script to take and save screenshots in the background. The script is called via the Windows Task Scheduler.
| This example uses Windows 10, so change your targets as appropriate. |
Screenshot Function and Script
| Mostly from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2969321/how-can-i-do-a-screen-capture-in-windows-powershell |
Create a new script named screenshot.ps1. Insert the following and save it. Change the filename path to match your needs.
Add-Type -AssemblyName System.Windows.Forms [Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Drawing") function screenshot([Drawing.Rectangle]$bounds, $path) { $bmp = New-Object Drawing.Bitmap $bounds.width, $bounds.height $graphics = [Drawing.Graphics]::FromImage($bmp) $graphics.CopyFromScreen($bounds.Location, [Drawing.Point]::Empty, $bounds.size) $bmp.Save($path) $graphics.Dispose() $bmp.Dispose() } While($True){ $width = [System.Windows.Forms.Screen]::PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Width $height = [System.Windows.Forms.Screen]::PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Height $bounds = [Drawing.Rectangle]::FromLTRB(0, 0, $width, $height) $timestamp = get-date -Format ddMMyhhmmss $filename = "C:\bin\screenshot" + $timestamp + ".jpg" screenshot $bounds $filename $sleeptime = 900 Start-Sleep }
A few items to change to match your environment and needs are:
-
$filename, change to C:\bin\screenshot to your chosen path
-
$sleeptime, change to number of seconds between screenshots
Sign your Script
-
Start Powershell as a user
-
$cert = @(Get-ChildItem cert:\CurrentUser\My -codesigning)[0]
-
Set-AuthenticodeSignature screenshot.ps1 $cert
Test Run
-
For testing, I set
$sleeptime = 5
-
Run command, using WindowsKey + r
-
powershell -windowstyle hidden \bin\screenshot.ps1
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Substitute \bin\screenshot.ps1 with your path
-
-
Verify that screenshots are saved to your chosen $filename
-
Kill the powershell script using Task Manager
-
Task Manager shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+Esc
-
In the Processes tab under the Background processes select Windows Powershell
-
Click End task
-
Task Scheduler
Open
-
Launch Task Scheduler
-
Search via WindowsKey + s
-
Start typing task, usually enough
-
Click Task Scheduler
-
Create Task
-
Click Create Task
-
On the General tab, give the task a name
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On the Triggers tab, click New
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Begin the task At log on for Any user
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Click Ok
-
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On the Actions tab, click New
-
Action is Start a program
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Program/script is powershell
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Add arguments is -windowstyle hidden \bin\screenshot.ps1
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Click Ok
-
-
Click Ok
The task has been added and will run at the next and every log on. Review the other settings available in Task Scheduler to make certain the task runs as you require it. The Screenshot script does not need to be run multiple times as it continues to run in the background while it sleeps.


imap_mailboxmsginfo
(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)
imap_mailboxmsginfo — Get information about the current mailbox
说明
object imap_mailboxmsginfo ( resource $imap_stream )
Checks the current mailbox status on the server. It is similar to imap_status()
, but will additionally sum up the size of all messages in the mailbox, which
will take some additional time to execute.
参数
imap_stream
由 imap_open() 返回的 IMAP 流。
返回值
Returns the information in an object with following properties:
Mailbox properties
Date date of last change (current datetime)
Driver driver
Mailbox name of the mailbox
Nmsgs number of messages
Recent number of recent messages
Unread number of unread messages
Deleted number of deleted messages
Size mailbox size
Returns FALSE on failure.
范例
Example #1 imap_mailboxmsginfo() example
Date . "
\n" ;
echo "Driver: " . $check->Driver . "
\n" ;
echo "Mailbox: " . $check->Mailbox . "
\n" ;
echo "Messages: " . $check->Nmsgs . "
\n" ;
echo "Recent: " . $check->Recent . "
\n" ;
echo "Unread: " . $check->Unread . "
\n" ;
echo "Deleted: " . $check->Deleted . "
\n" ;
echo "Size: " . $check->Size . "
\n" ;
} else {
echo "imap_mailboxmsginfo() failed: " . imap_last_error() . "
\n";
}
imap_close($mbox);
?>
User Contributed Notes 8 notes
===============================================================================
imap_mailboxmsginfo() is NOT similar to imap_status(). You will easily
recognize that if you compare the prototypes:
object imap_mailboxmsginfo ( resource $imap_stream )
object imap_status ( resource $imap_stream , string $mailbox , int
$options )
One SIGNIFICANT difference is that imap_mailboxmsginfo() gets the mailbox name
from the stream resource and imap_status() requires any mailbox name as second
argument.
===============================================================================
About the slowness of imap_mailboxmsginfo() : if used on an IMAP connection, I
did checked my mailserver logs and it appeared to send FETCH commands to
retrieve the headers of EVERY messages of the mailbox ...
So, if you have, let's say, 400 messages in a folder, the function will be very
slow (>1.5 sec on a local server !) ...
I strongly advise you to use imap_status() instead, which only sends one <
STATUS "Mailbox/Name" (MESSAGES UNSEEN) > and is actually a lot faster (at
least with IMAP, but that's maybe not true with POP3)
===============================================================================
The runtime difference between imap_status and imap_mailboxmsginfo is very
significant on large mailboxes
===============================================================================
the 'recent' of this function returns the same as 'UIDvalidity' from
imap_status() ... makes no sense (or dos it?)
===============================================================================
then use imap_get_quotaroot().....
or use this one (works with qmail):
function get_quotaroot() {
if(!$socket = @fsockopen("your server", your port);
return false;
fgets($socket, 1024);
fputs($socket, "a001 LOGIN ".$username." ".$password."\n");
fgets($socket, 1024);
fputs($socket, "a002 GETQUOTAROOT INBOX\n");
fgets($socket, 1024);
$result = fgets($socket, 1024);
fputs($socket, "a003 LOGOUT\n");
fgets($socket, 1024);
sscanf($result, '* QUOTA "ROOT" (STORAGE %d %d MESSAGE %d %d', $usedSize,
$maxSize, $usedNum, $maxNum);
return array("usedSize" => $usedSize, "maxSize" => $maxSize, "usedNum" =>
$usedNum, "maxNum" => $maxNum);
}
===============================================================================
imap_get_quota need you to be the admin of the mail server !
===============================================================================
It is very slow,so don't use it to get mailbox size,used imap_get_quota
instead.
===============================================================================
Don't lie... I've timed it, there is merely a time difference, besides it
returns a lot of other useful info packed in an object!


'The cross was sitting in our yard' - Father heartbroken after baby's grave vandalised in Limerick
by By Digital Desk staffGardaí have launched an investigation after a baby's grave was vandalised in Co Limerick.
Baby Gary McDonagh passed away in August last year and is buried at Taylor's Cross in Fedamore.
Last Friday, ornaments around his grave were smashed and a cross was taken and dumped at his grandmother's home nearby.
His father, also named Gary, says it's disturbing to think someone could do this to an innocent child's resting place.
"What actually happened is I walked out my mam's front door and the cross was sitting in our yard," he explained.
"(It was) brought down to my mam's and thrown over the wall."
Mr McDonagh added that angels and flower pots placed at the grave were smashed.
"The guards did take the cross that night," he said, adding that the guards took the cross to examine for fingerprints.
"I want them to stop and leave my son's grave alone. It's sick"


I have chosen to use the following fonts for my site:
My name is John and I make websites. I don’t know about you, but I’ve
always had trouble with studying long periods of time, until I found out
the Pomodoro Technique, which is where you study for 25-minute sessions
and have 5-minute breaks. After 4 study sessions, you take a 30-minute
break.
Although it did help me study for longer, the 25-minute sessions didn’t
feel long enough to gain momentum and the 5-minute breaks weren’t long
enough to have anything fun. This is when I found the Animedoro
Technique, where you study for 60 minutes and then watch an episode of
anime (20-minute break). This amount of time allowed me to gain a lot of
momentum in my studies and also have a meaningful length break, while
also watching my favorite anime.
I tried to find an app that would help me track my study sessions, but
these apps would only track pomodoro sessions. This is why I want to
make a website that tracks custom study sessions; you can choose the
length of your study sessions, short-breaks, long breaks, the number of
study sessions until your long breaks, and how many study sessions
you’ve done; this website will give you feedback and will track your
productivity! Please replace this text with your Elevator Pitch.
To provide a service that allows people to be more productiveEveryone
strives to be more productive, but most people don’t know how or where
to start. This website will provide them the structure they need to be
more productive and ensure that productivity is sustainable and
motivating as well.
We want users to be informed about the benefits of intermittent study
sessions, by providing users scientific literature for their knowledge,
and allow users to implement the technique through the in-built tools,
such as the timer, and customized study sessions. Allowing users to
track their sessions will motivate long-term progress as well.
By providing these tools and information, we are allowing users to
achieve their goals, whether that be in their studies, careers, or
personal life.
The main target demographic of this website would be mainly for students of all ages and demographics but, with the customized nature of it, the audience can be anyone who is looking to increase and track their productivity, while also being sustainable as well.
As a student myself and being surrounded by others, students can lack structure and discipline. The website will allow people to give structure to the user’s study/productivity sessions and allowing for sustainable, long-term productivity.
Our demographic will mainly access this via the web app. A mobile application may be implemented at a later date, but a web application allows for universal access across all devices.
Our mission is to enhance human capital. There is no financial goal with this website; what the website is to be is a tool to allow people to flourish and be at their best and achieve their goals, whether that be personal or career goals. To enhance discipline is to enhance one’s life. As one achieves more goals and is disciplined in doing so, more of their time is freed up for other important aspects of their lives, while also allowing them to reach their potential. By helping individuals achieve more of what they want, the benefits will radiate outwards to those around them. Humans are networked individuals and to help one is to help many.
Age: 19
Occupation: Student
Archetype: Nerd
Personality Type: Introvert, Sensing, Feeling, Judging (ISFJ)
Goals:
Bio:
David is a young college student who wants to change his life around. He is currently has mediocre grades in all of his courses and finds it easier to procrastinate by playing videos, browsing social media, talking to friends online etc. He wants to be able to increase his productivity and decrease his procrastination time.
Age: 23
Occupation: Student
Archetype: Bookworm
Personality Type: Introvert, Intuition, Thinking, Perceiving (IITP)
Goals:
Bio:
Kim is a older college student who is a high grade student and is always striving for improvement. She knows that she is doing well in her college career but is always striving to for improvement. She want a tool to be able to track her time spent studying and wants to compare her performance week by week to see if she’s improving or not.


Example Dogecoin In-app Purchase.
your address:
your balance:
(
pending deposit)
Buy the hammer of victory for 3 Dogecoins!
Buy!


Unity3d: Flappy Bird
I use Unity3d to remaster a famous mobile game - Flappy Bird. The development process helps me to review the C# and game engine knowledge. And I deploy a Gameplay Demo on Github Pages to master more CI/CD skills.
I use Unity3d to remaster a famous mobile game - Flappy Bird. The development process helps me to review the C# and game engine knowledge. And I deploy a Gameplay Demo on Github Pages to master more CI/CD skills.


--- layout: post title: How To Memorize Spelling Words date: 2010-02-13 08:16:07.000000000 -08:00 type: post parent_id: '0' published: true pd: '' status: publish categories: - Classroom Talk tags: - early childhood - how to memorize spelling words - reading - spelling words - writing author: login: k email: k@k display_name: mcary first_name: '' last_name: '' ---
Tips To Help Memorize Spelling Words:


I was one of the organizers of the Machine Translation Quality Estimation shared task happening in WMT 2019.
My best known project is nlpnet. It is a Python library (together with standalone scripts) for training and running NLP tagging tools based on neural networks and distributed word representations, also known as word embeddings. Documentation can be found here, along with pre-trained models.
Currently, my version performs POS tagging and SRL, and I plan to add NER identification (at least one fork implemented it) and parsing in the coming months.
In 2016, I released ASSIN, a corpus for Recognizing Textual Entailment (or Natural Language Inference) and Semantic Textual Similarity in Portuguese. A good number of colleagues and professores helped in many ways ASSIN to get ready. It was used in a shared task parallel to the PROPOR 2016 conference.
In 2013 and 2014, I revised the Mac-Morpho corpus, a collection of newswire texts in Brazilian Portuguese manually annotated with POS tags. Duplicated sentences and sentences with missing words were removed, and a few other corrections were performed. Word contractions were joined in a single token, as they appear in actual text, instead of leaving them separated. Both the original and the revised versions can be found in the link.


QVCS-Enterprise Downloads
Download the client bundle that works with this server.
This client zip file contains just the jar file needed to run the client application, and the associated data files needed by the client application. Documentation within within the client bundle zip file provides step by step instruction on how to install the client application.
If you want to use IDE integration, you need to download a client installer from here. The installer modifies your Windows registry so that your IDE will recognize QVCS-Enterprise as your version control provider.
To get the latest server/client bundle, visit the Quma Software web site.
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Block/Unblock
An effective and practical screen blocker for jQuery with delay, timeout and an easy API.
Download
Download from GitHub: https://github.com/vanderlee/block-unblock
MIT licensed
Features
- Delay; block immediately, but start the visualization after a short delay.
- Timeout; unblock after a timeout period and call an event.
- Optional content.
- Styling either inline or using a classname or id.
- Configurable fade-in speed.
- Very simple API ($.block() and $.unblock()).
Example
- delay visualization 1 second
- timeout after 3 seconds (including delay)
Options
- context: The context in which the blocking is used. Default 'body'.
- css: A classname to assign to the overlay visualization.
- delay: Wait this many milliseconds before showing visualization. (note that blocking functionality is always immediate). Default 500 (half a second).
- id: An ID to assign the the overlay visualization.
- message: HTML content to display in the center of the overlay.
- speed: The speed with which to fade in the visualization. Default 'slow'.
- style: Style of the overlay. Default 50% transparent black.
- timeout: Time before timeout event is triggered and blocking automatically unblocked. Default 10000 (10 seconds).
- zIndex: z-index of the overlay. Must be greater than any window it's supposed to block. Default 20000.
Events
- onblock: Triggered when blocking starts.
- onunblock: Triggered when blocking ends (not on timeout).
- ontimeout: Triggered if a timeout occurs.
- ondisplay: Triggered after the delay has passed and visualization starts.


Daktronics is a market leader in LED displays. You see them used on subway platforms, sports venues, and in front of schools, to name just a few. These displays use a proprietary protocol called Multipurpose Display Protocol (MDC) that exchanges binary messages over TCP sockets. This article presents a .NET class library that implements version 1 of this protocol.
System.dll
and System.Core.dll
are requiredI'm currently working on a project for a major Canadian public transit authority, for which an LED display is used at the entrance to a train yard to visually communicate messages to operators by the yard dispatcher.
The hardware chosen for this task is a Daktronics Galaxy AF-3200 display (red LED, 8mm pitch). The device is a network-connected embedded system that uses IP for connectivity. Specifically, it listens on tcp/3001 for commands, and replies to any commands it receives.
The manufacturer offers three ways to communicate with the display hardware.
I opted for the low-level option. I couldn't risk use of an unknown component in this high-availability system.
This module is a .NET class library that implements a high-level wrapper for a subset of the low-level MDC protocol:
The sign (server role) accepts TCP connections on port 3001.
A client makes a socket connection with the sign.
All communications to and from the sign consist of a 6-byte header and (if required), a variable-length body. Both the header and body include a 1-byte checksum.
The client sends an IDENTIFY
request (6 + 0 bytes).
The sign responds (6 + 3 bytes).
The client sends a COMMAND
to the sign (6 + x bytes).
The sign accepts or rejects the command and responds with a confirmation (6 + x bytes).
This article does not detail the MDC protocol. The MDC protocol and command set are documented in detail in the compiled help file, MDCHelp.chm, available from the manufacturer. The following is a brief summary for context only.
The sign supports two command protocols, MDC and M2 (short for MDC version 3)[1].
MDC (version 1) is primarily a binary language, consisting of a header and a terse command.
M2 (version 3) is more complex, consisting of a binary header and exchange of XML files. M2 is a superset of MDC, and in theory, commands in both protocols can be used (untested).
MDC version 1 was selected for this project because:
It supports all of the required functionality.
It is considerably simpler.
It requires minimal bandwidth, yet includes error detection.
[1] Yes, that is pretty confusing. Version 2 was used internally at Daktronics and was not publicly released. Version 3 is version 2 of version 2. Clearer?
The Display
class is the module’s controller. Its methods wrap a subset of the available MDC commands. Simple use of the class looks like:
/// <summary>
/// Clears the display.
/// </summary>
public void Clear()
{
using(var display = new Display(_host, _port, _index))
{
display.Connect();
display.Identify();
display.Blank();
display.Disconnect();
}
}
An Identify
command must be sent at the beginning of each transmission. It both checks the state of the display, and tells the sign which version of the MDC protocol will be used.
The data sent to the sign to display a message consists of a message, frame(s), and line(s). These are represented by the Message
, Frame
, and Line
classes.
A message consists of one or more frames. The message has a filename, and is stored in the device's non-volatile memory.
Each frame contains one or more lines, and the amount of time to show the frame.
Each line includes text, font, justification, intensity, and entry/exit/flash effect details. Where appropriate, these are represented by enums.
This example demonstrates sending a simple message to the display (the _display
field is already instantiated):
There are several steps in sending a message to the display.
Connect
to the display.Identify
.SendMessage
, to declare it.SendFileBlock
.RunMessage
.
/// <summary>
/// Shows a "STOP Contact YCC" message.
/// </summary>
public void StopContact()
{
var message = new Message("TTC")
{
new Frame
{
new Line(1, "STOP", Fonts.MediumFixed, Justifications.Centre),
new Line(2, "Contact YCC", Fonts.MediumVariable, Justifications.Centre),
}
};
_display.Connect();
_display.Identify();
_display.SendMessage(message);
_display.SendFileBlock(message);
_display.RunMessage(message);
_display.Disconnect();
}
The Message
, Frame
, and Line
classes are containers for Frames
, Lines
, and text/attributes, accordingly. Each implements a Serialize()
method that formats its contents appropriately for the protocol. These are chained so that a single call to Message.Serialize()
prepares a ready-to-use message,
The work of communication is performed by the Display
class. It abstracts sending/receiving of messages to a high-level. The System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient class is used to connect to the sign at the low-level.
Only the features required for this project are implemented. If you require development for additional features for your project, please contact me.


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Save An Angel, 2019
Save An Angel is an non-profit organization based in Austin, TX involved in animal rescue, community outreach and rescue transportation. My team and I redesigned Save An Angel's outdated website to reflect its current goals and operation.
Increase overall community support for Save An Angel by:
Our first step was to meet with our stakeholder: Jeremey Parks, the Executive Director of Save An Angel. From this meeting we were able to gain some valuable insights on Save An Angel's operation.
To begin empathizing with our target users, my teammate created two proto personas for the two groups Save An Angel's website serves: the no-kill agencies who receive the rescues, and those in the Austin community who volunteer for or donate to Save An Angel. These personas underscored the importance of the giving and receiving of information between the two groups and Save An Angel in order to coordinate mission efforts.
Receiving Organization
Donor
We tested the current Save An Angel site, specifically looking at the routes of donation and volunteering. From our feedback, we formed some goals for our redesign.
As a team we organized the data from our in-person interviews into an affinity diagram and empathy map.
We card-sorted the navigation to make sure we had the most intuitive, efficient site layout.
As a team, we used the "I Like, I Wish, What If" method to brainstorm potential features and ways the site could better serve its purposes.
With Nancy's experience in mind, we created two user flows that would provide the necessary information and complete the task while remaining short and sweet.
Through a user journey map, we found that low points of the emotional journey were locating important information/items and filling out forms. Opportunties to improve this are:
We based the color scheme off of Save An Angel's signature blue and the bright orange from its current website, and added shades of both colors for visual depth. The orange was a peppy contrast to the cool blue, and we employed this happy color for times when we hoped the user would be generous - for example, with the "Donate" CTA.
Desktop
Mobile
When wireframing Save An Angel's homepage, I kept in mind that the emotional appeal was crucial in inspiring users to get involved.
Donation Flow
We AB tested the 2 different navigation styles in both mobile and desktop.
Double Decker Horizontal Nav vs. Right-Side Vertical Nav
Vertical Swiping Nav vs. Hamburger Expanding Nav
Ultimately, for our hi-fi desktop we settled on a simple drop-down navigation because it is recognizable and comfortable for users, maintains the hierarchy, and conserves the most screen space compared to the other styles tested.
For our hi-fi mobile, we kept the playful swiping motion in the nav, but put the tab at the bottom of the screen to make it easy to reach with the thumb. We also integrated the drop-down hierarchy from the expanding hamburger version.
Meet Our Animals
What to Expect When Adopting
Adoption Process and Fees
Check out the full hi-fi desktop and mobile prototypes:


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MultiEnumClassFlag
A multi_enum_class flag.
Inherits From: MultiFlag
tf.compat.v1.app.flags.MultiEnumClassFlag
See the doc for MultiFlag for most behaviors of this class. In addition, this class knows how to handle enum.Enum instances as values for this flag type.
__init__
__init__( name, default, help_string, enum_class, **args )
Initialize self. See help(type(self)) for accurate signature.
value
__eq__
__eq__(other)
Return self==value.
__ge__
__ge__( other, NotImplemented=NotImplemented )
Return a >= b. Computed by @total_ordering from (not a < b).
__gt__
__gt__( other, NotImplemented=NotImplemented )
Return a > b. Computed by @total_ordering from (not a < b) and (a != b).
__le__
__le__( other, NotImplemented=NotImplemented )
Return a <= b. Computed by @total_ordering from (a < b) or (a == b).
__lt__
__lt__(other)
Return self<value.
flag_type
flag_type()
See base class.
parse
parse(arguments)
Parses one or more arguments with the installed parser.
arguments
: a single argument or a list of arguments (typically a
list of default values); a single argument is converted
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SHIBA
Shiba Inu dog has a lot to its cute features, it's an interesting breed. Shiba has its origin from Japan and also part of the spitz class of dogs. Shiba was originally a hunting dog for game before it became a pet dog.
SIZE:The male stands at 35-43cm while the female stands at 33-41cm, and they weigh 8-11kg, and 6.8-9kg accordingly.
MAJOR CHARCTERSITICS: Shiba's have different colour coats including white, red, cream, etc. Shiba’s three major personalities are tied to three Japanese words “Kan-i, Ryosei, and Soboku.” The first meaning that Shiba are fearless dogs, the second describes how gentle the Shiba can be despite its fearless nature and finally describes as Shiba is a combination of both fearless, happy and impulsive in its behaviour.
EXERCISE:The exercise for Shiba should not be too intense as they can become weak with too much exercise.
Life-Span:12-15years
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The Ministry of Health has reported an increase in the number of cases of meningitis in Bulawayo city, mainly in the townships of Mzilikazi and Makokoba. Preliminary diagnosis indicates meningococcal meningitis and serogroup investigation is underway. Vaccines, diagnostic kits and media for preserving isolates during transport have been shipped to Harare.
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Disease Outbreak Reported


Aimee Battcock from Department of Psychology, Neuroscience and Behavior - Music Cognition (supervisor: Dr. Michael Schutz [School of the Arts])
Currently, my research is looking at how performers’ interpretations of musical pieces influence how listeners are able to perceive emotion. Many researchers have studied how emotion is communicated in music, and have uncovered how structural aspects (cues such as tempo, or whether a piece is in the major or minor key) of musical pieces help us identify expressed emotions (Hevner 1935, Livingstone, Muhlberger, Brown, & Thompson, 2010; Thompson & Robitaille, 1992). When performing a musical piece, performers have the wonderful ability to include their own expressive actions, thus varying these musical or acoustic cues (Gabrielsson and Juslin 1996). As a result, this variation may impact what is being conveyed! In addition, the expressive performance of a piece will change from performer to performer, so a listener’s experience will therefore change across performers. My research hopes to investigate these variations and how it changes listeners’ perceived emotion.
Everyone can relate to music in some way, and at one point or another everyone connects to the emotional aspect of it. I have always felt passionate about music, both as a listener and an amateur musician. I love this research because it is addressing what it is about music that makes it so valuable to us: the emotion. It’s a complicated topic to study, but with consideration to its importance and ubiquity, emotion in music is such a fascinating and worthwhile topic.
Ideas behind my research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-4MSLtXPH4
Our Lab website: http://maplelab.net/
If you’re interested in my work and the work of my lab, you’ll catch us at the 11th Annual NeuroMusic Conference: "Music and Health” happening Saturday, November 14th, 2015 (9:00am-10:00pm) right here at McMaster! https://mimm.mcmaster.ca/events/neuromusic-conference/neuromusic-conference-2015-music-and-health
Gabrielsson, A., & Justin, P. N. (1996). Emotional expression in music performance: Between the performer's intention and the listener's experience. Psychology of Music, 24, 68-91.
Hevner, K., (1935) The affective character of the major and minor modes in music. American Journal of Psychology, 47, 103-118.
Livingstone, S. R., Muhlberger, R., Brown, A. R., & Thompson, W. F. (2010). Changing musical emotion: A computational rule system for modifying score and performance. Computer Music Journal, 34(1), 41-64.
Thompson, W. F., & Robitaille, B. (1992). Can composers express emotions through mu- sic? Empirical Studies of the Arts, 10, 79–89.