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In any system support must be provided for the system to evolve over time. Most existing systems have conventions and mechanisms that specify how change is accommodated. These systems have been based on the model where software programs are installed on a computer. Typically, developers have been able to specify what versions of other packages are required and the installation process has helped verify and configure the system.
In open distributed systems the static assumptions of existing systems does not work and evolution is more difficult because it is not possible to control how or when the packages change and correct operation depends on a greater number of dependencies between packages. What is needed is an updated set of conventions and mechanisms that specify how the packages of a system should evolve so that the goal of an open reliable scalable distributed system can be achieved.
This document specifies:
The impact of changes within a distributed system has a significant impact on end users, support organizations, web administrators, and developers.
Each of these groups has different requirements on products deployed on the net that evolve over time.
For users there is a need to build confidence that Java based products will be reliable and compatible over time. The reluctance to upgrade needs be addressed by building confidence in the Write Once Run Anywhere philosophy. With Java it should no longer be the norm that users will complain “if I upgrade it will break something” or “I won't be able to read/write data others can use”.
Product organizations rely on being able to easily and correctly identify the product that is being used, the environment in which it is being used, and the integrity of the product packaging.
Webmasters, administrators, and service providers need to deploy applications for their clients via the web or network filesystems in a way that is reliable and supportable.
Product developers need to know how to write and deploy applications and libraries that satisfy the requirements of the users, administrators and support personnel. The must be able to make products and packages that:
In open distributed systems many problems can occur when the packages evolve and are updated independently. If the specified behavior inherent in the use of public interfaces are not maintained the system may fail in unexpected ways. Open systems are made up of many packages from different companies and organizations. These organizations operate asynchronously, introducing and upgrading their products on their own schedules. The distribution of those upgraded products takes time and adoption is not universal.
In Java, the components of local and distributed systems rely on the public interfaces and contracts for the behavior of other packages. Those packages will themselves evolve over time. In order for a package to operate correctly the packages it depends on must continue to provide the expected behavior even though they have been updated.
In distributed systems only partial consistency is possible, since it is impossible to have knowledge of the entire state of the system. Each process and package of the system has its own partial view of the current state of the system, accumulated incrementally by requesting information from other parts of the distributed system. Each piece of information whether from an applet that was started, a class that was loaded, a remote method invoked, or a web page retrieved must be treated carefully so that it can be used consistently with the rest of that partial view.
Many kinds of errors could result from inconsistencies in the classes that are loaded, including class verification errors, classes could compute incorrectly but without recognizable errors, or user requested functions could exhibit arbitrary failures.
Typical problems include:
These problems cannot be prevented or solved directly because they arise out of inconsistencies between dynamically loaded packages that are not under the control of a single system administrator and so cannot be addressed by current configuration management techniques.
The key to dealing with these problems and meeting the requirements stated above is the careful design of the packages and packaging of the system so that they may be updated, distributed, and loaded in consistent units. Typical to mass produced products is the notion of the field replacable unit. It is the smallest unit of a product that can be identified with a specification, a supplier, can be distributed and redistributed, and can be replaced if faulty. This same model is used for software distribution, products have a name, a version number, adhere to one or more specifications, are distributed on the network or cdrom and its problems can be reported to support organizations. These packages are the smallest unit that can be distributed, used, validated and replaced or upgraded when necessary. Packages can be assembled with other packages and each package can still be identified, verified, and distributed.
The Java language based package mechanism fits well with the idea of a replacable unit. Java packages expose only public interfaces and use only the public interfaces of other packages. The Java Language Specification define the approaches for compatible evolution of packages.
The Java Language Specification lays the groundwork for developing packages that can be expected to evolve gracefully over time. It defines how classes can change and still be backward compatible with other classes previously compiled and distributed. Essential to robust evolution is the stability of the public, protected, and package interfaces and behavior as the implementations evolve. It defines “compatible” changes as those changes that do not change existing interfaces or behavior. Thus, if a class defines a method, and the method had a particular behavior, that same contract must be supported by the all later evolutions of the class. Detailed rules are given in Chapter 13 of the Java Language Specification. One additional incompatible change has been added; it is incompatible to add methods to a public interface.
Incompatible changes are not permitted, but new or similar functionality can always be added in new or existing interfaces or classes.
By choosing the Java package as the unit of update the package and private methods of the classes may change allowing flexibility in the implementation of the package while the public and protected classes and methods maintain the external interfaces and semantics.
Robust persistent storage and robust communication between the components is important to distributed systems. Components must be able to maintain persistent storage as they evolve, being able to evolve classes and yet have them read data previously written to storage. Components in a distributed system evolve at different rates and must still be able to reliably communicate.
Adhering to the compatibility requirements of object serialization allows newer and older versions to communicate in a predictable and consistent way. The details are in Chapter 5 of the Java™ Object Serialization Specification.
There are several categories of artifacts that need to be identified including specifications, implementation, the Java Virtual Machine and Java Runtime Environment.
Open systems are based on the idea that a specification may have multiple implementations. Specifications evolve under the auspices of an organization or company. It is highly undesirable if a specification has multiple incompatible versions. Each version of a specification or implementation must evolve only into a single subsequent version. The philosophy of requiring specifications to be backward compatible allows specifications to be identified as supersets of the previous specification. Since there is a single sequence of version specifications they can meaningfully be identified by version numbers with specific semantics that imply the ordering. Specification version numbers use a Dewey decimal notation consisting of numbers seperated by periods.
A specification is identified by the:
An implementation of the Java Virtual Machine should be identify both the specification and the implementation. These properties should be added to those already available using java.lang.System.getProperties.
java.vm.specification.version
: Example, 1.8
java.vm.specification.vendor
: Example, Oracle Corporation
java.vm.specification.name
: Example, Java Virtual Machine
Specification
java.vm.version
: Example, 25.0-b05
java.vm.vendor
: Example, Oracle Corporation
java.vm.name
: Example, Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM
These properties are accessed using the method java.lang.System.getProperty and each returns a string.
The requirement to identify the Java Runtime is already partially met via the properties specified by the Java Language Specification, section 20.18.7 using java.lang.System.getProperties.
Currently these identify the implementation of the Java runtime and the core classes that are available. These properties do not identify the Java Language Specification version that this JDK implements.
Additional properties are needed to identify the version of the Java Runtime Environment specification that this implementation adheres to. The properties are:
java.specification.version
: Example, 1.8
java.specification.name
: Example: Java Language
Specification
java.specification.vendor
: Example, Oracle Corporation
These properties are accessed using the method java.lang.System.getProperty and return their values as strings.
Each Java package is made up of class files plus optional resource files. The information needed to identify the contents of the package is stored with the package contents.
This specification applies to all packages regardless of whether they are developed as a core package distributed with a Java Runtime, a standard extension, an applet or application package.
Unlike version numbers for specifications version information for implementations cannot be used to identify the package as being backward compatible with earlier versions. Package version numbers are present to identify differences between the specification and the implementation, i.e. bugs. New versions of implementations are specifically produced to remove (bad or incorrect) behavior and thus are intended not to be backward compatible. Thus package version strings can have any unique value and can only be compared for equality. For a complete explanation of the rationale, see Section 1.5.10 "Rationale for limiting Implementation version numbers to identity”.
The following attribute names are defined for a package. The value of each attribute is a string:
Package-Title
: Title of the packagePackage-Version
: Version numberPackage-Vendor
: Vendor's company or organizationSpecification-Title
: Title of the specificationSpecification-Version
: Version numberSpecification-Vendor
: Vendor's company or organizationThese attributes are stored in the manifest and retrieved by programs using the java.lang.Package API described below.
The java.lang.Package class provides a object to locate and access information about the package.
Package objects are created explicitly by class loaders and should be created before the first class in the package is defined. The attributes of each package are stored in the manifest and are retrieved by the classloader.
package java.lang; public class Package { // Return the name of this package. public String getName(); // Return the title of the specification of this package. public String getSpecificationTitle(); // Return the version of the specification of this package. public String getSpecificationVersion(); // Return the vendor of the specification of this package. public String getSpecificationVendor(); // Return the title of the implementation of this package. public String getImplementationTitle(); // Return the version of the implementation of this package. public String getImplementationVersion(); // Return the vendor of the implementation of this package. public String getImplementationVendor(); // Is this package is compatible with the requested version public boolean isCompatibleWith(String desired); // Get the Package for the named class public static Package getPackage(String classname); // Return the packages for currently loaded classes. public static Package[] getAllPackages(); // Return true if this package is equal to another object. public boolean equals(Object obj); // Return the hashcode for this object public int hashCode(); // Return the string describing this package. public String toString(); }
The getName
method
returns this package’s name, for example, java.lang.
The getSpecificationTitle
method return this packages
specification title if it is known and null otherwise.
The getSpecificationVersion
method return this the
version number of the specification this package implements. Null
is returned if the version is not known.
The getSpecificationVendor
returns the organization,
group or vendor that owns the specification.
The getImplementationTitle
method return this packages
implementation title if it is known and null otherwise.
The getImplementationVersion
method return this the
version number of the implementation this package implements. Null
is returned if the version is not known.
The getImplementationVendor
returns the organization,
group or vendor that owns this implementation.
The isCompatibleWith
method returns true if this package’s specification version
number is compatible with the desired version number. True is
returned if this packages specification version number is greater
than the supplied version string. A version string is a series of
positive numbers separated by periods. The numbers are compared
component by component from left to right. If any number is greater
than the corresponding number of the supplied string the method
returns true. If the number is less than it returns false. If the
corresponding numbers are equal the next number is examined.
The getPackage
method
locates the package for the class by name. The current class loader
is consulted to map the package name to the package object in that
class loader. It returns the package object containing the
attributes for the package. Null is returned if the package
information has not yet been loaded or if no package information
was defined by the classloader.
The getAllPackages
method will return an array of the packages known to the current
classloader. It includes the packages of both the system and
classloaded classes. It does not identify all packages available to
be loaded by the classloader. It only identifies those packages for
which the classloader has provided information.
The equals
method
returns true if this package has the same name and classloader as
the object passed in.
The hashCode method returns a hashcode consistent with definition of equals as required by the Java Language Specification.
The toString
method
returns a string consisting of “package” and the
package name. If available the specification title and
specification version number are appended to the string.
A method has been added to java.lang.Class
to get the package for this
class.
In order to support Packages the classloader is extended to keep track of the mapping from classes to packages and to allow classloaders to define the Package instances for the classes they load. The additional methods are defined to allow subclasses to define packages in this classloader to allow the Package implementation to get information about packages defined by this classloader.
The java.lang.Package implementation needs to identify the current classloader in order to call it from system code.
package java.lang; public class ClassLoader { ... // Return the non-null classloader of callers public static ClassLoader currentClassLoader(); // Define a Package protected Package(String pkgname, String spectitle, String specversion, String specvendor, String impltitle, String implversion, String implvendor); ... }
The currentClassLoader
method is used to find the current ClassLoader even if called from
a system class. When called from a classloader loaded class it will
return the equivalent of this.getClass().getClassLoader().
It’s behavior is identical to the current
SecurityManager.currentClassLoader method but is public.
The protected access definePackage
method is used by subclasses to define
the packages of the classes it is loading. Packages with a given
name may only be defined once and must be defined before the first
class of that package is loaded. The classloader should supply the
versioning attributes from the manifest if they are available.
The current manifest format is extended to allow the specification of the attributes for package versioning information. A manifest entry should be created for each Java package. The name of the entry will be the directory within the archive that contains the package’s class and resource files. For example:
Manifest-Version: 1.0 Created-By: 1.8.0 (Oracle Corporation) Name: java/util/ Specification-Title: Java Utility Classes Specification-Version: 1.2 Specification-Vendor: Example Tech, Inc. Implementation-Title: java.util Implementation-Version: build57 Implementation-Vendor: Example Tech, Inc.
These attributes can be inserted in the manifest by creating a prototype manifest file and using the “-m” switch of the jar tool to merge them into the manifest when it is built. JarTool will be extended to browse and set the versioning attributes in the manifest.
Users need to be able to report the identities of the packages in use when bugs occur. It’s up to the application, applet or browser to expose the available information to the user on demand or when an error occurs. API’s are available to allow the following to be reported:
package.getAllPackages
method will
return the active packages.Implementations evolve independently over time to fix bugs, improve performance or add new functions called for by later revisions of the specifications. Packages implement specifications and must identify which version of each specification they implement. Interactions occur between packages only through their public and protected interfaces and classes. It is the public api and behavior that must remain stable over time so that changes can be allowed in the implementation of one package without affecting the behavior of another package.
If the classes of a package always faithfully implemented the specification it would be sufficient just to identify the specification. Since in the real world this rarely happens packages need to identify themselves so that bugs can be reported against the packages that may have contributed to the problem.
There is a significant tendency to try to attach some significance to version identifiers of implementations. If the purpose is to allow the tracking of bugs then a unique number is sufficient. It is also sufficient for a client package to workaround a bug in a particular version of a vendors package since that version can be tested for and the bug avoided.
However, many additional problems can occur when one package attempts to work around bugs in other packages. They need to identify behavior that is not part of the specification and may try to use behavior that is only part of one implementation. Such implementation specific behavior cannot be relied upon to be in any particular version other than the one(s) seen and tested by the developer.
A bug first appears in some version of a vendors package and may or may not continue to be a problem in subsequent versions. If the client of the buggy package uses a work around based on version numbers it could correctly work around the bug in the specific version. Now, if the buggy package was fixed, how would the client package know whether the bug was fixed or not. If it assumed that higher versions still contained the bug it would still try to work around the bug. The work around itself might not work correctly with the non-buggy package. This could cause a cascade of bugs caused by fixing a bug. Only the developer, through testing with a new version, can determine whether or not the workaround for a bug is still necessary or whether it will cause problems with the correctly behaving package. The developer only knows that the bug exists in a particular individual versions.
This section should discuss each aspect of product development and distributions giving direction on how to achieve a robust evolvable product.
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Ruby Classes
DBC Phase 0 Week 6
January 16, 2015
Ruby is an object-oriented language, and classes are a part of what makes objects possible. A class is a blueprint used to create individual objects. Objects of a certain class will have methods/variables associated with that class. Things like strings, arrays, etc are considered classes, but you can also define your own classes.
In Ruby, here is how we would define a class to create dog objects:
Some of the characteristics a dog can have are a name and a breed. These can be used to tell different dogs apart. In Ruby, these characteristics would be instance variables, which are variables that are associated with a particular instance of the class. Instance variables are available across methods for that instance and are differentiated from other variables with an @
sign. In our example, every dog will have these charateristics, but they won't necessarily have the same values for them.
A class definition needs an initialize method to be able to create new instances of the class. This method will be invoked when class_name.new is called outside of the class. Within this method is usually where you would assign the instance variables.
Ruby classes can also have methods associated with them, which can then be called on an instance of the class. These are defined as you would define any other Ruby method, but can only be used in association with an object of that type of class.
Here are some examples of defining methods within a class:
After you have finished defining the method, you can create new instances outside of the class and use the methods on that class.
This is how you would create a new Dog and call its methods:
This is what the above code would output to the console:


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Filter Class
Definition
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of
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Constructors & Destructor
public
Filter
(
Kind
itemKind_,
Kind
kind_,
const
String
<
char
>& filePattern_)
Member Functions
public
void
ApplyTo
(
Item
& item)
Enumerated Types
public
enum
Kind
Member Variables
public
String
<
char
>
filePattern
public
List
<
Filter
>
filters
public
Kind
itemKind
public
Kind
kind
public
RegEx
regEx
Constructor& Destructor Details
Filter Constructor
public
Filter(
Kind
itemKind_,
Kind
kind_,
const
String
<
char
>& filePattern_)
Definition
Line
90
of
cpp2cm/Work.cm
Member Function Details
ApplyTo Member Function
public
void
ApplyTo(
Item
& item)
Definition
Line
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of
cpp2cm/Work.cm


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The Gs
service
Method Gs.GetGatewayConnectionStats
Get statistics about the current gateway connection to the Gateway Server. This is not persisted between reconnects.
Request: GatewayIdentifiers
Response: GatewayConnectionStats
GET
/gs/gateways/{gateway_id}/connection/stats
Messages
Message GatewayIdentifiers
-
gateway_id
(string
) -
max_len
:36
pattern
:^[a-z0-9](?:[-]?[a-z0-9]){2,}$
-
eui
(bytes
) -
Secondary identifier, which can only be used in specific requests.
Show object example
{
"gateway_id": "",
"eui": "",
}
Message GatewayConnectionStats
Connection stats as monitored by the Gateway Server.
-
connected_at
(google.protobuf.Timestamp
) -
protocol
(string
) -
last_status_received_at
(google.protobuf.Timestamp
) -
last_status
(GatewayStatus
) -
last_uplink_received_at
(google.protobuf.Timestamp
) -
uplink_count
(uint64
) -
last_downlink_received_at
(google.protobuf.Timestamp
) -
downlink_count
(uint64
) -
round_trip_times
(GatewayConnectionStats.RoundTripTimes
)
Show object example
{
"connected_at": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
"protocol": "",
"last_status_received_at": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
"last_status": {},
"last_uplink_received_at": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
"uplink_count": 0,
"last_downlink_received_at": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
"downlink_count": 0,
"round_trip_times": {},
}
Message GatewayConnectionStats.RoundTripTimes
-
min
(google.protobuf.Duration
) -
max
(google.protobuf.Duration
) -
median
(google.protobuf.Duration
) -
count
(uint32
)
Show object example
{
"min": "0s",
"max": "0s",
"median": "0s",
"count": 0,
}
Message GatewayStatus
-
time
(google.protobuf.Timestamp
) -
required
Current time of the gateway
-
boot_time
(google.protobuf.Timestamp
) -
Boot time of the gateway - can be left out to save bandwidth; old value will be kept
-
versions
(map ofstring
tostring
) -
Versions of gateway subsystems - each field can be left out to save bandwidth; old value will be kept - map keys are written in snake_case - for example: firmware: “2.0.4” forwarder: “v2-3.3.1” fpga: “48” dsp: “27” hal: “v2-3.5.0”
-
antenna_locations
(repeatedLocation
) -
Location of each gateway’s antenna - if left out, server uses registry-set location as fallback
-
ip
(repeatedstring
) -
IP addresses of this gateway. Repeated addresses can be used to communicate addresses of multiple interfaces (LAN, Public IP, …).
-
metrics
(map ofstring
tofloat
) -
Metrics - can be used for forwarding gateway metrics such as temperatures or performance metrics - map keys are written in snake_case
-
advanced
(google.protobuf.Struct
) -
Advanced metadata fields - can be used for advanced information or experimental features that are not yet formally defined in the API - field names are written in snake_case
Show object example
{
"time": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
"boot_time": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
"versions": {},
"antenna_locations": [],
"ip": [],
"metrics": {},
"advanced": {},
}


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Light and Heavy Tests
Plugin tests run in a real, rather than mocked, IntelliJ Platform environment and use real implementations for most of the application and project components/services.
Loading and initializing all the project components and services for a project to run tests is a quite expensive operation, and we want to avoid doing it for each test. Dependently on the loading and execution time, we make a difference between heavy tests and light tests available in IntelliJ Platform test framework:
- Heavy tests create a new project for each test.
- Light tests reuse a project from the previous test run when possible.
Light and heavy tests use different base classes or fixture classes, as described below.
Light Tests
The standard way of writing a light test is to extend the following classes:
LightPlatformCodeInsightFixtureTestCase
for tests that don’t have any Java dependencies.LightCodeInsightFixtureTestCase
for tests that require the Java PSI or any related functionality.
When writing a light test, you can specify the requirements for the project that you need to have in your test, such as the module type, the configured SDK, facets, libraries, etc. You do so by extending the LightProjectDescriptor
class and returning your project descriptor from getProjectDescriptor()
.
Before executing each test, the project will be reused if the test case returns the same project descriptor as the previous one, or recreated if the descriptor is different.
Heavy Tests
The setup code for a multi-module Java project looks something like that:
final TestFixtureBuilder<IdeaProjectTestFixture> projectBuilder = IdeaTestFixtureFactory.getFixtureFactory().createFixtureBuilder(getName());
// Repeat the following line for each module
final JavaModuleFixtureBuilder moduleFixtureBuilder = projectBuilder.addModule(JavaModuleFixtureBuilder.class);
myFixture = JavaTestFixtureFactory.getFixtureFactory().createCodeInsightFixture(projectBuilder.getFixture());


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TimeSequencePipeline
TimeSequencePipeline
TimeSequencePipeline
integrates feature engineering and time sequence model into a data analysis pipeline.
You can get an TimeSequencePipeline
object after calling TimeSequencePredictor.fit()
or load_ts_pipeline
.
Methods
load_ts_pipeline
ts_pipeline = load_ts_pipeline(file)
Arguments
- file: saved ts pipeline file.
describe
Since you may get your ts_pipeline
from a saved file which is a result pipeline of TimeSeqencePredictor
. You can use
describe
method to get the initialization info for the TimeSeqencePredictor
, including future_seq_len
, dt_col
, target_col
, extra_features_col
, drop_missing
.
ts_pipeline.describe()
fit
Used for incremental fitting. Note that fit
in TimeSequencePipeline
doesn`t run in distributed mode.
ts_pipeline.fit(input_df, validation_df=None, mc=False, epoch_num=20)
Arguments
-
input_df: Input time series data frame. It should have the same datetime column, target column, extra features columns (if there are) name with the names you got from
ts_pipeline.describe()
. -
validation_df: The validation data frame. It should have the same columns with
input_df
. -
mc: Boolean. Whether to use Monte Carlo Dropout to predict with uncertainty. Default is False. You can refer to the paper here for more details about Monte Carlo Dropout.
-
epoch_num: Integer. Number of epochs to run incremental fitting.
evaluate
ts_pipeline.evaluate(input_df,
metrics=["mse"],
multioutput=`raw_values`)
Arguments
-
input_df: Input data frame. It should have the same column names as the data frame you used to train your
TimeSequencePredictor
. And you can get the information withpipeline.describe()
-
metrics: The metrics you want to use for evaluation. The available metrics are
me
,mae
,mse
,rmse
,msle
,r2
,mpe
,mape
,mspe
,smape
,mdape
andsmdape
. -
multioutput: string in [
raw_values
,uniform_average
]- `raw_values` : Returns a full set of errors. - `uniform_average` : Errors of all outputs are averaged with uniform weight.
predict
ts_pipeline.predict(input_df)
Arguments
- input_df: Input data frame to do prediction.It should have the same column names as the data frame you used to train your
TimeSequencePredictor
. And you can get the information withpipeline.describe()
- a TFDataset object - A Numpy array (or array-like), or a list of arrays (in case the model has multiple inputs). - A dict mapping input names to the corresponding array/tensors,
save
ts_pipeline.save(ppl_file="my.ppl")
Arguments
- ppl_file: The file name you want to save your pipeline.
config_save
ts_pipeline.config_save(config_file=="my.json")
Arguments
- config_file: The config file name that you want to save all the pipeline configs in.


Donald Trump congratulates Jorge Masvidal after UFC 244, BMF champ calls it a ‘very humbling moment’
by Anton TabuenaDonald Trump and company attended UFC 244 in New York City this past weekend, where Jorge Masvidal beat Nate Diaz in the main event of their “BMF” title bout. When not debating the fakeness of the amount of boos and cheers the US President received, the Trump family also made time to tweet their compliments and congratulations to Masvidal.
Masvidal then reacted to the congratulatory message on social media, once again calling Trump a “BMF.”
“Very humbling moment,” Masvidal wrote. “Real recognize real.”
As seen on the clip the Trumps included, Masvidal had praised the President on the week leading up to his bout. He called Trump a “cool” and “bad motherf—ker” because of the “the money that he’s made, the obstacles that he’s conquered.”
The Cuban fighter also went on to say that he didn’t want to get too political because “a lot of my Latin community might be upset at me.”
Masvidal wasn’t the only UFC 244 winner who spoke about politics though. Kevin Lee, who scored an impressive knockout over Gregor Gillespie on the same night, took to Instagram with the following photo and caption: “BERNIE SANDERS YOU BASTARDS.”


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Aurelia Moser, Map Scientist, CartoDB
Workshop - Beirut, Lebanon
February 22, 2015
Find this document here:
Find the demo-maps here:
Some terms:
Some software:
Some resources:
Map population by relative density
Maps that tell Stories - Odyssey JS
Maps that tell Time - Torque
More in the CartoDB Gallery
Basic Data Import
Most major formats for storing data: Excel Spreadsheets, CSV files, Shapefiles, KML (Google Earth), etc.
Integration with Google Drive and Dropbox.
Twitter firehose access for Enterprise accounts.
Schema or column names
Filters are a great way to explore your data. Besides filtering your data, they allow you to see histograms of the distributions, the number of unique entries, or a search box for columns that have a large number of text entries.
Check out visualization documentation for more.
The visualization style simple is the default visualization for all maps.
Styles available in the wizard
Select basemaps from different providers, use custom color, NASA data, MapBox tiles, etc.
Choropleth maps show map elements colored according to where a value associated with the map element falls in a range. It’s like a histogram where each bin is colored differently according to a color scale you pick. Notice the CartoCSS screenshot above.
CartoCSS is the styling language for our maps.
Can be easily customized
You have the option of giving it a title, and changing the text for the colors. You can also change the colors manually, or, even better, change the color ramp back in the wizard.
Click on the 90-degree arrow to get back to view your tables/visualizations
You can setup a free student account here, since today we’re all learning: https://cartodb.com/signup?plan=academy
We’re going to be building visualizations about blackouts.
We’ll be mapping energy, population and temperature data as an index of power outages, as per a few relevant if not recent articles on the topic.
This is a common problem in many places globally.
Some inspiration projects:
You can find some more sample datasets related to Lebanon in the “Data” section at the bottom of this page.
You can download the datasets we’ll be working with, and the files for the workshop here.
| Description | Source | Download | Dropbox |
|---|---|---|---|
| Population Data | World Bank | pop_2000s | pop_2000s |
| Electrical Power Loss Data | World Bank | epl_2009 / epl_2000s | epl_2009 epl_2000s |
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Downloading the Electric Power Loss Data required some finessing:
This is what it might look like when you import it:
Geospatial data is into that ids a geolocation and its characteristic features/frontiers, typically represented by points, lines, polygons, and/or complex geographic features.
The most basic SQL statement is:
sql
SELECT * FROM table_name
The * means everything. This means that all rows and columns from the table are given back once the query is run.
A more detailed query is like this:
sql
SELECT
name,
height,
age
FROM
class_list
WHERE
name = 'Aure'
AND (
height > 1.2
OR
height < 1.9
)
SELECT
is what you’re requesting (required)FROM
is where the data is located (required)WHERE
is the filter on the data you’re requesting (optional)GROUP BY
and ORDER BY
are optional additions, you can read more about aggregate/other functions belowThere are two special columns in CartoDB:
the_geom
the_geom_webmercator
The first of these is in the units of standard latitude/longitude, while the second is a projection based on the original Mercator projection but optimized for the web.
If you want to run SQL commands and see your map update, make sure to SELECT
the the_geom_webmercator
because this is the column that’s used for mapping–the other is more of a convenience column since most datasets use lat/long.
This is a SQL statement and you’ll note it in your visualization tray as a way of querying and exploring your data with immediate visual output.
sql
SELECT
epl.the_geom_webmercator,
epl._2009,
epl.country_name,
epl.indicator_name,
ceil(epl._2009) AS d
FROM
epl_2000 AS epl
ORDER BY
d ASC
You can enter queries, apply them, click on “create table from query” in the green field below the column names.
You can also use “Filters” in the tray to traverse your data in lieu of SQL, and then browse the output in the SQL tray to learn more about how those queries are constructed.
If you navigate to the “Filters” pane after loading your epl_2000 data, you can adjust the interface to illustrate only _2009 data and see the choropleth that results.
Now navigate to your SQL pane
This query will give you the option of creating a more focused table for your visualization (filtering by 2009), run the query and elect to “create a table” which you should name epl_2009
pr epl_2009_sqltest
.
You have myriad customization options in the in-browser editor.
wizard
try to adjust the quantile binning and stroke to match thisinfo window
customize so you can display a ‘dark’ tooltip on hover, disable the click window/interaction via custom htmlbasemaps
select a dark basemap; dark countries on the choropleth should blend into the background, and suggest a higher likelyhood of “blackout”You can add layers of data to your maps as well.
Add the “pop_2000” or “Population Totals by Country” data from your downloaded files.
Just add the table, and select the “+” sign above your existing layer in the map/data view.
Create a visualization, which you can name “blackout map” or whatever you would like, and play with the UI options to style the second layer.
Note that you can toggle the layers on and off, and select custom colors, styles and tooltip info windows for each of the layers.
You might also consider the “Populated Places” data from our core library of “common data” which we’ve started to pre-populate with datasets that play well with others.
You can also join tables in the GUI if you’d rather not write SQL:
You can share your visualization right from your online editor, and embed it in other applications accordingly.
In the next section we will explore exporting and self-hosting your visualization.
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Most dynamic maps can be created in the editor, visualized publically and embedded in other applications. If you’d like to go further and build your own applications, we have a host of APIs and libraries to support this.
CartoDB.js is our JavaScript API – a way to make maps using JavaScript.
The example above use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to make a map appear on a webpage.
Check out our Map Academy course on CartoDB.js if you want to learn more.
Use CartoDB.js with other JavaScript libraries to make powerful web map apps.
Check out Urban Reviewer.
If you take a look at the source code, there are a dozen libraries linked:
We’ll start with an export of the map you just made in a HTML/JS format. Two simple scripts are all we need to make a page like the following.
Global Blackout Map
Checkout the code in this block: http://bl.ocks.org/auremoser/bcefbded913be2daccb8
We’ll continue with an example of a visualization “mashup,” something that combines a map and a graph.
In this case, we’ll include the Electric loss and population map, focused on Lebanon, and partner it with a graph of average temperatures in Lebanon.
Blackout Map-Lebanon
Data comes from this source, also a dataset culled from the World Bank.
Checkout the code in this block: http://bl.ocks.org/auremoser/bcefbded913be2daccb8
You can use the same JS and HTML template for your projects.
Don’t forget:
You can also import Twitter data on certain accounts, to scan tweets and develop Torque visualizations based on the categories and trends you might like to analyze in social media.
“beirut + “lebanon” 2/21/15
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My contact<EMAIL_ADDRESS>If you make a map you’re proud of or just want to say hello, connect with me @auremoser
Find out more about the Lebanese Rocket Society here.


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Process Mining in R using the bupaR package
This page contains 2 examples of the bupaR R package for process mining:
R Process Mining example with completion events only
R Process Mining example with start and completion events for activities


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MV Computer Science is, to put it bluntly, the above. Founded in 2007 as MV Java Club, MVCS (rebranded in 2013) has expanded from teaching the Java programming language to embracing the arts that are computer science, coding, and the integration of both into technologies that make our life tick.
Today, we cover topics as varied as algorithmic programming (to prep for competitions like USACO) to teaching computer science from a top-down perspective, and even web programming for educational nonprofits like Learn To Be.
We hope to not only promote tech-literacy, but also empower teens, young adults, and students to take up pursuits (and maybe even careers!) in technology. We have a lot of exciting stuff going on, and it's only going to get better from here!
Ved Pradhan is currently a senior at Monta Vista. He likes all things related to math, including computer science and physics. In addition, he also has many interests in extracurricular activities.
Ved codes in Java, Python, C++, JavaScript, and more. He also knows small amounts of other languages, too. He specializes in Web Development (Front-End and Back-End) and works extensively with the frameworks Django and Node.js. Ved has been coding since elementary school, and developed an interest in programming early on. Ved tied for first place in the first ever repl.it coding competition in 2018. He also participates regularly in hackathons, like <hack> Cupertino. He also participates in USACO Silver.
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Native gzip compression and decompression utility for Node.js.
For simple installation:
npm install tar.gz
If you want to use the targz
command line:
npm intall -g tar.gz
At the moment this package can only compress a folder and everything that is inside it. To compress something is easy:
var targz = require('tar.gz');
var compress = new targz().compress('/path/to/compress', '/path/to/store.tar.gz', function(err){
if(err)
console.log(err);
console.log('The compression has ended!');
});
With the same easy you can extract a gziped file:
var targz = require('tar.gz');
var compress = new targz().extract('/path/to/stored.tar.gz', '/path/to/extract', function(err){
if(err)
console.log(err);
console.log('The extraction has ended!');
});
You can pass some configuration parameters to the constructor before compress:
var targz = require('tar.gz');
var level = 6 //the compression level from 0-9, default: 6
var memLevel = 6 //the memory allocation level from 1-9, default: 6
var proprietary = true //to include or not proprietary headers, default: true
var compress = new targz(level, memLevel, proprietary).compress(...)
$ targz -h
Usage: targz [options]
Options:
-h, --help output usage information
-V, --version output the version number
-c, --compress Compress folder to archive
-x, --extract Extract archive to folder
-l, --level [n] Compression level from 0-9. Default 6.
-m, --memory [n] Memory allocation level from 1-9. Default 6.
-n, --noproprietary Remove proprietary headers.
Examples:
Default compression
$ targz -c /folder/to/compres /path/to/archive.tar.gz
Extracting some archive
$ targz -x /path/to/archive.tar.gz /destination/folder
Maximum compression
$ targz -l 9 -m 9 -c /folder/to/compres /path/to/archive.tar.gz
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All newly created selectors are "inactive" until they have been mapped to a segment.
Always selects a single implementation to be used for the linked segments.
Deterministically selects an implementation based on the relative weights between different implementations. Rollouts are designed to be able to change the weights after the initial setup in order to expand the audience for an implementation. Objects will always receive the same implementation as long as the weights do not change. Useful for doing releases of new features or implementations.
Randomly selects an implementation based on the relative weights between different implementations. Stores the results of previous selections to ensure objects always receive the same implementation regardless of how the configured weights change. Useful for doing product A/B tests.


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Each internationalized extension or app has at least one
file named messages.json
that provides locale-specific strings.
This page describes the format of messages.json
files.
For information on how to internationalize and localize,
see the Internationalization page.
The following code shows the supported fields for
messages.json
.
Only the "name" and "message" fields are required.
{ "name": { "message": "Message text, with optional placeholders.", "description": "Translator-aimed description of the message.", "placeholders": { "placeholder_name": { "content": "A string to be placed within the message.", "example": "Translator-aimed example of the placeholder string." }, ... } }, ... }
Here's a messages.json
file
that defines three messages
named "prompt_for_name", "hello", and "bye":
{ "prompt_for_name": { "message": "What's your name?", "description": "Ask for the user's name" }, "hello": { "message": "Hello, $USER$", "description": "Greet the user", "placeholders": { "user": { "content": "$1", "example": "Cira" } } }, "bye": { "message": "Goodbye, $USER$. Come back to $OUR_SITE$ soon!", "description": "Say goodbye to the user", "placeholders": { "our_site": { "content": "Example.com", }, "user": { "content": "$1", "example": "Cira" } } } }
This section describes each field
that can appear in a messages.json
file.
For details on how the messages file is used —
for example, what happens when a locale doesn't define
all the messages —
see Internationalization.
Actually, there's no field called "name".
This field's name is the name of the message —
the same name that you see in
__MSG_name__
or getMessage("name")
.
The name is a case-insensitive key that lets you retrieve the localized message text. The name can include the following characters:
Note: Don't define names that begin with "@@". Those names are reserved for predefined messages.
Here are three examples of names, taken from the Example section:
"prompt_for_name": { ... }, "hello": { ... }, "bye": { ... }
For more examples of using names, see the Internationalization page.
The translated message,
in the form of a string that can contain
placeholders.
Use $placeholder_name$
(case insensitive)
to refer to a particular placeholder.
For example, you can refer to a placeholder named "our_site" as
$our_site$
, $OUR_SITE$
, or $oUR_sITe$
.
Here are three examples of messages, taken from the Example section:
"message": "What's your name?" ... "message": "Hello, $USER$" ... "message": "Goodbye, $USER$. Come back to $OUR_SITE$ soon!"
To put a dollar sign ($
) into the string,
use $$
.
For example, use the following code to specify the message
Amount (in $):
"message": "Amount (in $$)"
Although placeholders such as $USER$
are
the preferred way of referring to substitution strings
(strings specified using the substitutions parameter of
$(ref:i18n.getMessage))
you can also refer to substitution strings directly
within the message.
For example, the following message
refers to the first three substitution strings passed into
getMessage()
:
"message": "Params: $1, $2, $3"
Despite that example,
we recommend that you stick to using placeholders
instead of $n
strings
within your messages.
Think of placeholders as good variable names.
A week after you write your code,
you'll probably forget what $1
refers to,
but you'll know what your placeholders refer to.
For more information on placeholders and substitution strings, see
the placeholders section.
Optional. A description of the message, intended to give context or details to help the translator make the best possible translation.
Here are three examples of descriptions, taken from the Example section:
"description": "Ask for the user's name" ... "description": "Greet the user" ... "description": "Say goodbye to the user"
Optional. Defines one or more substrings to be used within the message. Here are two reasons you might want to use a placeholder:
getMessage()
.
Example: $1
.
Each placeholder has a name, a "content" item, and an optional "example" item. A placeholder's name is case-insensitive and can contain the same characters as a message name.
The "content" item's value is a string
that can refer to substitution strings, which are
specified using the
$(ref:i18n.getMessage) method's
substitutions parameter.
The value of a "content" item is typically something like
"Example.com" or "$1".
If you refer to
a substitution string that doesn't exist,
you get an empty string.
The following table shows how
$n
strings correspond to
strings specified by the substitutions parameter.
| substitutions parameter | Value of $1 | Value of $2 | Value of $3 |
|---|---|---|---|
userName |
value of userName |
"" |
"" |
["Cira", "Kathy"] |
"Cira" |
"Kathy" |
"" |
The "example" item
(optional, but highly recommended)
helps translators by showing how the content appears to the end user.
For example, a placeholder
for a dollar amount
should have an example like "$23.45"
.
The following snippet, taken from the Example section, shows a "placeholders" item that contains two placeholders named "our_site" and "user". The "our_site" placeholder has no "example" item because its value is obvious from the "content" field.
"placeholders": { "our_site": { "content": "Example.com", }, "user": { "content": "$1", "example": "Cira" } }


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Guidance and best practice for building accessible services and meeting the Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations 2018.
This guidance is still being iterated and is likely to change.
Understand the Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations 2018, the Government Accessibility Requirements and what you need to do to make sure your service is compliant.


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[Erowid Warning: The “water extraction” method is ineffective in separating diethyl ether from the volatile hydrocarbon liquids/gases in “starter fluid”. Our understanding of the literature is that there is no such thing as safe use of volatile hydrocarbon gases: their psychoactive effects are inseparable from nerve and organ damage.]
Last month I decided to huff some ether. I'd done it once, and kinda freaked out. I was told that I tried to jump out of my friend's car on the highway, but I don't remember doing that. I thought since I knew what to expect I would be able to control myself. wrong. This time I had one of my friends watch me to make sure I didn't have a repeat of the last time I did it.
I extracted some ether from starter fluid, put it on a rag, and started huffing. immediatly my mind started going in circles. I felt as if everything happened in a pattern. I realized that this was exactly what I felt like the last time I did it, but I just kept going. I felt as if I was going insane, I couldn't make sense of anything. At one point I thought my arm had turned into a box, that I was trapped inside. I was trying to get out of it but I couldn't. I heard a voice laughing at me because I couldn't escape. My friend told me that as I was 'trying to get out'. I was waving my arms around and screaming.
Well, the box disappeared, along with the right side of my body, and then I saw all of existence coming to an end right in front of me. I was coming to a point where everything, including myself, would be gone. Needless to say I was scared shitless. Imagine being pulled up the hill of a roller coaster, looking over the first drop, and seeing the track end right at the ground. For the first time in my life I felt what it was like to know that I was about to die. But right when I thought all was over, I was reborn. I snapped back into reality with best feeling I've ever had. Everything was new and beautiful.
I've been sober since.
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Windows Controls and WPF UserControls Inside an Xna Game Project
In this article we will be working on using Windows Controls and WPF UserControls inside an XNA Game Project.
They tell Windows Controls cant be used inside an XNA game let alone WPF. Well, that has been proved in this article.
Components:
Windows Controls we’ll be using
- Button
- TextBox
- CheckBox
- ElementHost
Tools
XNA GS 3.1 veya Visual Studio 2008(SP1) .NET Framework 3.5(SP1)
We are creating a new project:
Now we will add reference.Project->Add Reference and then choose “System.Windows.Forms” namespace.
And declare it on Game1.cs:
Note: You may need to declare and add reference to “System.Drawing” namespace as well.
TextBox Control:
An Input control we can use on Windows Forms.We add Textbox to our XNA project:
In anywhere we can declare variables:
TextBox text1 = new TextBox();
With that we have created a new Textbox variable.We are adding the code below to our Initialize() function.
protected override void Initialize()
{
base.Initialize();
text1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(40, 40);
text1.BorderStyle = BorderStyle.None;
text1.Multiline = true;
text1.Size = new Size(400, 400);
Control.FromHandle(Window.Handle).Controls.Add(text1);
}
Let us explain : “Control.FromHandle(Window.Handle).Controls.Add(ornek);”
“Control.FromHandle” - helps us to call the handle we will add textbox.
“Control.FromHandle(Window.Handle)” We take the Handle of GameWindow class named Window.Game class is not a control.But because of GameWindow is a control that can be used on XNA project,we can call and add Windows Controls through it.We were able to add or remove any control while coding in Windows Forms because Windows Forms was itself a control too.Now let me tell you this: “Form class & GameWindow class looks alike”.By thinking so we can make RAD(Rapid Application Development) in XNA just like we do while developing Windows Form Based Applications.
But if you run the project,you will not be able to enter a key inside TextBox class.
Because while Textbox class uses “System.Windows.Forms.Keys”,XNA accepts only “XNA.Framework.Input.Keys”.Although we cant make it with the Windows-Way,we will make it as we do on XNA Inputs.
string var_text1;
we add a string valuable that will store all the texts from your input and then assign to our text1 named TextBox class
protected override void Update(GameTime gameTime)
{
base.Update(gameTime);
if (text1.Focused)
{
KeyboardState ns = Keyboard.GetState();
foreach (Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Input.Keys a in ns.GetPressedKeys())
{
var_text1 = a.ToString();
text1.Text += var_text1;
}
}
}
“KeyboardState ns = Keyboard.GetState();” -> we get all the input from Keyboard(“ns.GetPressedKeys()”).This helps us to to write any key value to our Textbox.
If you wish you may not take all the keys,just use “if-else” structure and take any key you want to.
Let us run the project.Whats going to happen?
When we press a key,it wrote as we pressed 5 times.Let me explain this:
In Xna, every event happens on Update function depends on Gametime value.1 sec process is repeated 5 times so that the game window refreshes as we want.Why is it 1 sec/5? Because in continuous things like “chasing a car,shooting an opponent” we must see whats happening instantly.The user must feel like he is playing a “Real-time” game.Because of that Gametime repeats 5 times in 1 sec.Even 1 sec can differ sometime.
Lets go back to our project.How we will solve this?
create an int variable and query it on Update function.
int ct = 0; //the start value must be 0 so it cant be repeated.
Then update our Update function seen below:
protected override void Update(GameTime gameTime)
{
base.Update(gameTime);
if (text1.Focused)
{
ct = ct -1;
if(ct < 0)
{
ct = 5;
}
if(ct == 0)
{
KeyboardState ns = Keyboard.GetState();
foreach (Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Input.Keys a in ns.GetPressedKeys())
{
var_text1 = a.ToString();
Text1.Text += var_text1;
}
}
}
}
And you can enter any value without repeating:
Thats it! You have created a Textbox control inside an XNA Window…
BUTTON Control:
Button control helps us to accept a process.In this section i will be talking about how to add a button control and its eventhandler.
We declare our Button Class first.
Button btn = new Button();
To add this inside project-update Initialize function just like below:
protected override void Initialize()
{
base.Initialize();
btn.Text = "Press Me!";
btn.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(50, 50);
btn.FlatStyle = FlatStyle.Popup;
Control.FromHandle(Window.Handle).Controls.Add(btn);
}
Now lets write down a simple EventHandler that will show us a MessageBox.
protected override void Initialize()
{
base.Initialize();
btn.Text = "Press Me!";
btn.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(50, 50);
btn.FlatStyle = FlatStyle.Popup;
btn.Click += new System.EventHandler(ButtonClick);
Control.FromHandle(Window.Handle).Controls.Add(btn);
}
private void ButtonClick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
MessageBox.Show("Button is Clicked!");
}
By doing so we have added “Windows Control-Based” events inside XNA Game.
CHECKBOX Control:
Checkbox control helps us to select multi-options.
We declare it as seen below:
CheckBox cb = new CheckBox();
Using it:
protected override void Initialize()
{
base.Initialize();
cb.CheckState = CheckState.Unchecked;
cb.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(50, 50);
cb.Text = "Yes";
cb.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.CornflowerBlue;
Control.FromHandle(Window.Handle).Controls.Add(cb);
}
Lets create an eventhandler and change the text value of checkbox object.
protected override void Initialize()
{
base.Initialize();
cb.CheckState = CheckState.Indeterminate;
cb.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(50, 50);
cb.Text = "Indeterminate";
cb.BackColor = System.Drawing.Color.CornflowerBlue;
cb.CheckStateChanged += new EventHandler(CBChanged);
Control.FromHandle(Window.Handle).Controls.Add(cb);
}
private void CBChanged(Object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (cb.CheckState == CheckState.Unchecked)
{
cb.Text = "No";
}
else if (cb.CheckState == CheckState.Checked)
{
cb.Text = "Yes";
}
}
We have changed the code a little bit.
Check=Checked No Check=Unchecked Both of Them=Indeterminate
Lets run it!
Indeterminate Mode:
Unchecked Mode:
Checked Mode:
I have explained Windows controls as detailed as i can.Now lets talk about the most exciting feature: WPF!
WPF User Controls:
WPF User Controls are the most exciting controls we can add inside XNA Game.
But first we need to add some references that a WPF Application alone needs: - Presentation Core - Presentation Framework - UIAutomationProvider - WindowsBase - WindowsFormsIntegration After that we will be adding our pre-made WPFUserControl from Project->”Add Existing Item…”
Find the files with Windows Markup Files & C# Source file and add them:
Now what we will do is to add them to our project as we have done before.
You can add the namespace we used for WPF UserControl.
using WindowsFormsApplication1; //That's the Namespace we have used inside WPF UserControl
Inside this WPF User Control we have added a combobox and an event “SelectionChanged” which shows us message for the selected item.
Code of WPF UserControl:
private void comboBox1_SelectionChanged(object sender, SelectionChangedEventArgs e)
{
ComboBoxItem cbi = ((ComboBox)sender).SelectedItem as ComboBoxItem;
MessageBox.Show(cbi.Content.ToString());
}
XAML of WPF UserControl:
<UserControl x:Class="WindowsFormsApplication1.Kontrol1"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Height="300" Width="300">
<Grid>
<ComboBox Height="23" Margin="48,70,132,0" Name="comboBox1" VerticalAlignment="Top" SelectionChanged="comboBox1_SelectionChanged">
<ComboBoxItem>1</ComboBoxItem>
<ComboBoxItem>2</ComboBoxItem>
<ComboBoxItem>3</ComboBoxItem>
<ComboBoxItem>4</ComboBoxItem>
</ComboBox>
</Grid>
</UserControl>
Lets add the control!
Kontrol1 kontrol11 = new Kontrol1();
We declared the control.
Then inside “Initialize()” function call our control named Kontrol11…
protected override void Initialize()
{
base.Initialize();
//ElementHost object helps us to connect a WPF User Control.
ElementHost elementHost1 = new ElementHost();
elementHost1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(308, 69);
elementHost1.Name = "elementHost1";
elementHost1.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(350, 181);
elementHost1.TabIndex = 1;
elementHost1.Text = "elementHost1";
elementHost1.Child = this.kontrol11;
Control.FromHandle(Window.Handle).Controls.Add(elementHost1);
}
As you can see above we have added a WPF UserControl to our project
Lets run this project.Whats going to happen?
Yes Different UIS such as XAML cannot be used in directly inside an XNA Game.For that we must convert it to Single-Threaded.
Open your Program.cs file:
Change as it is:
using System;
namespace DemoTest
{
static class Program
{
[STAThread]
static void Main(string[] args)
{
using (Game1 game = new Game1())
{
game.Run();
}
}
}
}
[STAThread] Helps us to achieve this.Now our project is Single Threaded.And call any different UIs inside XNA!
As you can see we have added it inside XNA Game!
We are selecting an item and then:
It shows us the selected value.
In this article I have written as detailed as much to explain how we can do all of this inside XNA Game.
By doing so you have integrated Windows Controls and WPF User Controls inside XNA!
I will tell much more about REXA(Rich-Effects XNA Applications) in the following days.
Update: FULL SCREEN
As you well know these samples run Windowed Mode.But what if they were running Full Screen?
If we use XNA’s graphics.ToggleFullScreen() or graphics.IsFullScreen=true then all the things we have used -like Windows Controls and Dialogs- will disappear.Thats because Direct3D that XNA uses will take over the control and remove all the Window-based controls and dialogs from full screen view.
If we cant use XNA Framework for full screen what are we going to do?
It is easy to call a one-line code for full screen,isnt it? Well what are you going to do when you face something like that not able to see Windows Controls or anything related to Windows Object Model?
Theres a solution! : We will develop it the “Windows-Way”..
We will be using Windows API for Full Screen.So what i suggest you is to follow the steps then you will find it most easy:
1) Add these references by coding:
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
2) Add Windows API declarations:
[ DllImport(“user32.dll”)] private static extern bool SetWindowPos(IntPtr hWnd, IntPtr hWndIntertAfter, int X, int Y, int cx, int cy, int uFlags); [DllImport(“user32.dll”)] private static extern int GetSystemMetrics(int Which);
private const int SM_CXSCREEN = 0;
private const int SM_CYSCREEN = 1;
private IntPtr HWND_TOP = IntPtr.Zero;
private const int SWP_SHOWWINDOW = 64;
These are going to show full screen or restore Windowed Mode.
3) Get Screen Values:
public int ScreenX
{
get
{
return GetSystemMetrics(SM_CXSCREEN);
}
}
public int ScreenY
{
get
{
return GetSystemMetrics(SM_CYSCREEN);
}
}
4) Write Full Screen & Restore Codes:
private void FullScreen()
{
Form.FromHandle(Window.Handle).FindForm().WindowState=FormWindowState.Maximized;
Form.FromHandle(Window.Handle).FindForm().FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.None;
Form.FromHandle(Window.Handle).FindForm().TopMost = true;
SetWindowPos(Window.Handle, HWND_TOP, 0, 0, ScreenX, ScreenY, SWP_SHOWWINDOW);
}
private void Restore()
{
Form.FromHandle(Window.Handle).FindForm().WindowState = FormWindowState.Normal;
Form.FromHandle(Window.Handle).FindForm().FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.FixedDialog;
Form.FromHandle(Window.Handle).FindForm().TopMost = false;
}
5) For calling these 2 functions we will write a code @ Update function:
KeyboardState newstat = Keyboard.GetState();
if (newstat.IsKeyDown(Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Input.Keys.Escape))
{
FullScreen();
}
else if (newstat.IsKeyDown(Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Input.Keys.Space))
{
Restore();
}
If we click on Escape the game will run on Full Screen.If we press Space it will restore the Windowed Mode.
Lets run the updated part and see what happens:
Windowed Mode:
FULL SCREEN:
Thats it! We have successfully Run our project in Full Screen.As you can see its very simple isnt it?


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Ex-Chief Justice Bersamin getting death threats
by Hector LawasJUSTICE Secretary Menardo Guevarra yesterday offered former chief justice Lucas Bersamin protection by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) following disclosure that the retired magistrate has been receiving death threats.
“If former CJ Bersamin needs protection from the NBI, or he wants to investigate where the threat is coming from, we will help,” Guevarra vowed.
Earlier, Supreme Court spokesman Brian Keith Hosaka confirmed that Bersamin has been receiving death threats since his retirement last October 18.
“Yes. I learned about that yesterday when I briefly talked to him just before the ceremony for his Doctors of Law conferment by the University of the East,” Hosaka said in a statement.
Hosaka however refused to give more details.
“Yes, the SC is providing CJ Bersamin security personnel. I cannot divulge anything more for obvious reasons,” Hosaka, the concurrent chief of the SC Public Information Office, said.
“He was his normal self confident self. I guess coming from a political family, they have encountered this scenario before and they would know how to handle it,” he continued.
Bersamin retired last October 18. In his farewell speech, he said he wanted to be remembered as a ‘healing chief justice.’
“I wish to be remembered and known as the healing chief justice who brought stability and normalcy back to the judiciary and particularly to the SC,” Bersamin said.
“Yes, the judiciary needed healing and it became my response as chief justice to initiate and ensure such healing,” he said.


Methods
addClass(className) → {selection}
jQuery equivalent: $.addClass
Adds class to elements in the current selection. Returns current selection.
Parameters:
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
className |
string |
The class to insert |
- Source:
Example
d3.selectAll('ul').addClass('active');
d3.selectAll('ul').addClass('class-a class-b'); //will add two classes
after(tagName) → {selection}
jQuery equivalent: $.after
Inserts new elements after each element in the current selection. Returns the newly created elements as a d3 selection.
Parameters:
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
tagName |
string |
The element to insert |
Example
d3.selectAll('li')
.after('li')
.text('Item');
//do something else with the inserted elements...
appendTo(tagName) → {selection}
jQuery equivalent: $.appendTo
Appends elements of the current selection to the target element. Returns the target selection.
Parameters:
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
tagName |
string |
The element to append |
- Source:
before(tagName) → {selection}
jQuery equivalent: $.before
Inserts new elements before each element in the current selection. Returns the newly created elements as a d3 selection.
Parameters:
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
tagName |
string |
The element to insert |
Example
d3.selectAll('li')
.before('li')
.text('Item');
//do something else with the inserted elements...
clear() → {selection}
jQuery equivalent: $.empty
Removes all children of the current selection. Returns the current selection. We are using another name for this function as in jQuery, because d3 already has an empty function.
css() → {selection}
jQuery equivalent: $.css
Applies style to elements in the current selection. Returns the selection. Works in the same way like the D3 style function we only changed the name here.
eq(index, groupIndexopt) → {element}
jQuery equivalent: $.eq
Reduces current selection to the element with the passed index. Returns element. If you have a nested group, you can also specify the group index, to select a certain group.
Parameters:
| Name | Type | Attributes | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
index |
string |
The index to select |
|
groupIndex |
string |
<optional> |
Group to select |
first() → {selection}
jQuery equivalent: $.first
Reduces the current selection to the first element. Then returns the reduced selection.
hasClass(className) → {bool}
jQuery equivalent: $.hasClass
Checks if current selection has the passed class. Returns true or false.
Parameters:
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
className |
string |
The element to append |
- Source:
hide() → {selection}
jQuery equivalent: $.hide
Hides the current selection. Returns the selection.
last() → {selection}
jQuery equivalent: $.last
Reduces the current selection to the last element. Then returns the reduced selection.
moveToBack()
Displays SVG element above the other ones.
- Source:
moveToFront()
Displays SVG element below the other ones.
- Source:
on(types, listener, capture) → {selection}
jQuery equivalent: $.on
Works like the normal on
function but now you can pass multiple event types like you know it from jquery.
We took this function from the awesome d3-jetpack
Parameters:
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
types |
string |
- |
listener |
string |
- |
capture |
string |
- |
prepend(tagName) → {selection}
jQuery equivalent: $.prepend
Inserts elements as first child of the current selection. Returns the new elements as a D3 selection.
Parameters:
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
tagName |
string |
The element to append |
- Source:
removeClass(className) → {selection}
jQuery equivalent: $.removeClass
Removes class from elements in the current selection. Returns current selection.
Parameters:
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
className |
string |
The class to remove |
- Source:
Example
d3.selectAll('ul').removeClass('active');
d3.selectAll('ul').removeClass('class-a class-b'); //will remove two classes
show() → {selection}
jQuery equivalent: $.show
Diplays the current selection. Returns the selection.
toggle() → {selection}
jQuery equivalent: $.toggle
Diplays or hides the current selection. Returns the selection.
toggleClass(className) → {selection}
jQuery equivalent: $.toggleClass
Adds or removes class from elements in the current selection. Returns current selection.
Parameters:
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
className |
string |
The css class to toggle |
- Source:


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java.lang.Object org.apache.poi.contrib.poibrowser.TreeReaderListener
public class TreeReaderListener
Organizes document information in a tree model in order to be
e.g. displayed in a Swing JTree
. An instance of this
class is created with a root tree node (MutableTreeNode
) and
registered as a POIFSReaderListener
with a POIFSReader
. While the latter processes
a POI filesystem it calls this class' processPOIFSReaderEvent(org.apache.poi.poifs.eventfilesystem.POIFSReaderEvent)
for
each document it has been registered for. This method appends the document it
processes at the appropriate position into the tree rooted at the
above mentioned root tree node.
The root tree node should be the root tree node of a TreeModel
.
A top-level element in the tree model, i.e. an immediate child node of the root node, describes a POI filesystem as such. It is suggested to use the file's name (as seen by the operating system) but it could be any other string.
The value of a tree node is a DocumentDescriptor
. Unlike
a POIFSDocument
which may be as heavy
as many megabytes, an instance of DocumentDescriptor
is a
light-weight object and contains only some meta-information about a
document.
| Field Summary | |
|---|---|
protected java.lang.String |
filename
The name of the file this TreeReaderListener
processes. |
protected java.util.Map |
pathToNode
Maps filenames and POI document paths to their associated tree nodes. |
protected javax.swing.tree.MutableTreeNode |
rootNode
The tree's root node. |
| Constructor Summary | |
|---|---|
TreeReaderListener(java.lang.String filename,
javax.swing.tree.MutableTreeNode rootNode)
Creates a TreeReaderListener which should then be
registered with a
POIFSReader . |
| Method Summary | |
|---|---|
int |
getNrOfBytes()
|
void |
processPOIFSReaderEvent(POIFSReaderEvent event)
A document in the POI filesystem has been opened for reading. |
void |
setNrOfBytes(int nrOfBytes)
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clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait |
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protected javax.swing.tree.MutableTreeNode rootNode
The tree's root node. POI filesystems get attached to this node as children.
protected java.util.Map pathToNode
Maps filenames and POI document paths to their associated tree nodes.
protected java.lang.String filename
The name of the file this TreeReaderListener
processes. It is used to identify a top-level element in the
tree. Alternatively any other string can be used. It is just a
label which should identify a POI filesystem.
| Constructor Detail |
|---|
public TreeReaderListener(java.lang.String filename, javax.swing.tree.MutableTreeNode rootNode)
Creates a TreeReaderListener
which should then be
registered with a
POIFSReader
.
filename
- The name of the POI filesystem, i.e. the name
of the file the POI filesystem resides in. Alternatively any
other string can be used.rootNode
- All document information will be attached as
descendands to this tree node.| Method Detail |
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public void setNrOfBytes(int nrOfBytes)
public int getNrOfBytes()
public void processPOIFSReaderEvent(POIFSReaderEvent event)
A document in the POI filesystem has been opened for reading. This method retrieves properties of the document and adds them to a tree model.
processPOIFSReaderEvent
in interface POIFSReaderListener
event
- the POIFSReaderEvent
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Several people have died in southern France and northern Italy after high floodwaters swamped cars. The rainstorms sweeping across southern Europe also caused a bridge to collapse near the coastal city of Savona, Italy.
Torrential rains struck northern Italy and southern France over the weekend, killing at least five people and bringing a new wave of flooding to Venice. The bodies of two more people, believed to be tourists, were recovered late Sunday and early Monday near the Greek port of Antirio, and another two women died when the storm reached the east of the country later on Monday, according to state ERT television.
A 30-meter (100-foot) section of highway caved in near a viaduct close to the flooded Italian coastal city of Savona, leaving cars stranded on the precipice of the remaining stretch of road. Emergency services and sniffer dogs were deployed to find potential victims but, as yet, none had been found.
On Monday, some roads were still closed on the French Riviera and rivers were still rising in Italy after a week of flooding.
In the northern Italian region of Piedmonton Sunday, a 52-year-old woman who had been missing since her vehicle was swept away by a river was found dead. Italian media stated that two other people in the car had managed to escape in time.
Evacuations in Italy, 2 dead in France
In Alessandria, located between Turin and Milan, 200 citizens were evacuated.
Around 500 citizens were also evacuated in the Aosta Valley, where roads were closed because of a fear of potential avalanches.
In France, two people were killed and one was missing after floodwaters swamped cars and turned roads into rivers. Thousands of households have been left without electricity. The storm also reached Greece late on Sunday, causing mudslides and flooding hundreds of homes. Dozens of people were rescued by firefighters after being trapped in cars and flooded houses.


What Is It? Conversion Therapy, also referred to as “reparative therapy,” is the practice of attempting to change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity. Techniques can range from extreme electroshock treatments or institutionalization to “counseling” services based on pseudoscience.
Is It Legal? Fifteen states and the District of Columbia have passed laws protecting minors from conversion therapy, but the practice remains legal in most states, including North Carolina. Studies by the UCLA Williams Institute suggest that over 700,000 LGBTQ people have undergone conversion therapy during their lifetime.
Does It Work?No, it does not work. The practice is not only ineffective, but it is also dangerous, inflicting emotional and psychological trauma on children that can follow them for the rest of their lives. Conversion therapy has been rejected by every leading professional medical and mental health association in the nation.
The Mental Health Protection Act introduced in the North Carolina General Assembly on March 28, 2019. It would protect LGBTQ people under the age of 18 and adults who cannot consent from state-licensed therapists in North Carolina who falsely claim that being LGBTQ is a mental illness and subsequently take advantage of parents and harm vulnerable youth and disabled adults.
In a poll conducted by Equality North Carolina and Campaign for Southern Equality in February 2019, 80% of respondents immediately stated that they think conversion therapy aimed at changing a young person’s sexual orientation or gender identity should be illegal.
Another 10% of respondents who initially opposed outlawing conversion therapy or had no opinion changed their minds when they learned more about what conversion therapy involves, bringing the total percentage of respondents who supported protecting minors from ‘conversion therapy’ to 90%.
Legislation protecting young people from "conversion therapy" enjoys strong support from North Carolinians across the political spectrum, including a supermajority of Republicans, Democrats, and Independents. North Carolinians are overwhelmingly ready for the practice of conversion therapy to be outlawed in their home state.


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Boris Johnson confirms December election: 'No one wants it but we have no choice' – video
by Reuters
The prime minister officially launched the Conservative election campaign on Wednesday, saying he had to call the general election because MPs ‘refused to deliver on Brexit’. Speaking outside No 10, Johnson said the Queen had agreed to dissolve parliament for a December general election.
Johnson said ‘we have no choice’ but to have a general election to deliver Brexit after delays left him ‘wanting to chew his own tie’


Top edge containment will always be corrected if a taskbar is present,
so windows will touch top taskbar.
Right edge containment will be corrected if taskbar is wider than given integer,
so in this case it's indeed corrected and windows will touch right taskbar.
Bottom edge containment will never be corrected,
so windows will always be 60px from the bottom edge.
Left edge containment will be corrected if taskbar is not wider than given integer,
so in this case it's not corrected and windows will go under the taskbar,
but only 70px from left edge (default vertical taskbar width is 100px).


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