Introducing the thumbifier
If you want to thumbify your files (for whatever reason) then all you need is an api-key to use the thumbifier service.
If you need an api-key, then just head back to the home page (click the 'about' link at the top) and enter your email address and you should have an api-key emailed to you.
When you sign up, you're put on a free account that allows you to create 10 thumbnails every 60 minutes. If you try and create any more then the system will moan at you and you'll have to come back when the time is ready.
How does it work?
It's really quite straight forward... All you have to do is make a POST
request to the thumbifier service api and giving it some key information (we'll go into this in detail further down the page). The most important thing is you pass it a url (shorter way of saying web address) to a file on the internet or even just to a website.
There's no need to worry about uploading a file via a web post as we do the downloading for you when the thumbifer works its magic. Once the thumbnail for your provided file has been created, we push it back to a url of your choice (we call this the callback url).
 we hear you ask... followed by "Can't we just push and wait for the page to respond with the thumbnail?"
The short answer is: No
And the long answer is: Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
And the actual helpful answer is: The reason we pass it to a callback is down to web time outs; sure if you pass a small file (small in filesize) and the thumbifier is twiddling its.....thumb, then your thumbnail would be generated very quickly and returned almost instantly.
But, what if you're pushing a huge movie file to be thumbified? Or if the thumbifier is working its little socks off then you would be waiting for a while for your thumbnail to come back. Probably too long, which would mean your web connection would most likely time out and everyone would be sad.
So the benefit of having the callback url means no matter how big the file, or how long the wait, you will always get your thumbnail back for you to process in your our special way.
What files can be thumbified?
You can see which mime-types the thumbifier supports by viewing the supported mime-types page or by making a GET
request to the api:
...and you'll get a list back of all the supported mimetypes.
The returned list is an array of supported mime-types in a JSON Response format.
HTTP Status Code: 200 [ "image/jpg", "image/pjpeg", "image/jpeg", "image/gif", "image/png", "image/bmp", "image/x-bmp", "image/x-bitmap" ]
It is also possible to query the api to check if a specific mime-type is supported (you need to replace the forward slash '/' with an underscore '_'):
The result returned is either 'true' if the mime-type is supported or 'false' if it is not:
Supported mime-type
HTTP Status Code: 200 true
Unsupported mime-type
HTTP Status Code: 200 false
Thumbifying your own files
There are two parts to the thumbifier process, the first is where you POST
a set of input parameters to the service containing a URL to the media you want thumbifying. The second part is where the thumbifier service makes a POST
back to you containing the converted media jpg.
So to get going you're going to need two separate scripts, one to POST
your data and one to receive POST
data from the thumbifier.
Thumbifier input
Before you can use the thumbifier service, you're going to need an api-key
so if you don't have one already then go to the about page and sign up for free and you'll receive an api-key
via email.
Once you have your api-key
you're ready to start using the thumbifier service.
Getting an access token
The access_token
is your temporary access to the thumbifier service. Why do you need an access_token
if you have an api-key
? Well, the api-key
is your super secret secure key for your account, it's like your password which means you don't want anyone finding it out. This means if you wanted to call the thumbifier service via a JavaScript function and we relied on your api-key
for authentication then you'd have to put it in plain text meaning others could steal your account.
The access_token
on the other hand is a temporary grant to the thumbifier service, once you generate one you have 10 minutes to use it before it expires and once you use it then it also becomes invalid. This means you can use an access_token
in your JavaScript code if you need to as even if someone gets hold of it, as soon as you've used the access_token
it becomes useless to anyone else.
To retrieve an access_token
you need to make an authorized GET
request to the api:
//HTTP Headers
Authorization: Bearer :api_key
The api will return useful information about your user account:
HTTP Status Code: 200 { "usage_reset_at": "2015-12-10T15:42:32Z", "usage_limit": 10, "usage_counter": 1, "total_usage": 71, "email"<EMAIL_ADDRESS>"access_token": "721e58d7-1351-40bf-b9ce-5464e79b877b" }
JSON response explained:
- usage_reset_at: The last date and time your
usage_counter
was reset at. If it is over 60 minutes then yourusage_counter
is reset back to zero. - usage_limit: The amount of times you're allowed to use the thumbifier within the 60 minute window. If your
usage_counter
is greater or equal to this number then you will be temporarily denied access to the service. - usage_counter: The number of times you've used the thumbifier within your current usage cycle, since your
usage_counter
was last reset. - total_usage: The total number of times you've used the thumbifier since your account was created.
- email: The email address the account is registered with.
- access_token: The temporary access token required to convert your media. It expires after 10 minutes.
You'll notice above that the GET
request requires Authorization, which is where your api-key
comes in. You provide your authorization information via a HTTP Header, which you'll need to do via server side code as it will contain your super secret api-key
so you don't want to expose that.
So how would you go about actually doing this in code? Well, we'll provide an example below of how you would do it in PHP
but pretty much all web based languages can call this service...
//Set the stream context to contain an Authorization Header $header = array("header" => "Authorization: Bearer api_key_goes_here"); $context = stream_context_create( array('http' => $header )); //Call the api endpoint passing in the above stream $context to retrive your user details $response =<EMAIL_ADDRESS>false, $context); //If something has gone wrong then the $response will be false if ($response !== false) { //The api response is in JSON format, so decode it into a PHP array $userData = json_decode($response, true); //Get the access token from the decoded JSON $accessToken = $userData["access_token"]; }
So now you should have an understanding of how to get your access_token
to use. Next we'll expand this into a complete script to also call the thumbifier service.
Calling the thumbifier
Now you're ready to thumbify your media file, you'll just have to POST
your request to the api:
Request parameters
- access_token: The temporary code received from your user details request. It expires after 10 minutes.
- media_url: A publically accessible URL that points to the file you want converting.
- callback_url: A publically accessible URL that points to your code that will accept a POST from the thumbifier service. This is the code where you process the results of the request.
- dimensions: The new size dimensions for the generated jpg specified as an ImageMagick geometry parameter. If this parameter is not provided it will default to
100x100
- quality: The jpg compression level to use for the generated jpg (between 0 - 100). The higher the number, the better the quality but larger the file size. If this parameter is not provided it will default to
72
- personal_reference: A custom identifier you can provide at point of request, when the thumbifier service responds to your
callback_url
it will contain thispersonal_reference
to make it easier for you to identify the input. - page: Specifies the page to use on certain file formats, such as PDF or Office documents. As the thumbifier service only generates one output jpg then if the input format has multiple pages then you must specify which page to use. If this parameter is not provided but required it will default to
1
. - frame: Specifieds the frame to use on a video file format. This will be the time within the video you wish to create the thumbnail of and is provided in
hh:mm:ss
format, so if the required frame is at 1 minute 32 seconds of the video then theframe
would be00:01:32
. If this parameter is not provided but required it will default to00:00:01
The api will either respond with a success or failure as follows:
Request failure
There are three types of failure that can occur when calling the thumbifier on this route:
# 401 Unauthorized - An invalid access_token
has been provided. Either expired or incorrect.
HTTP Status Code: 401 { "message": "AccessToken 'afb5dad2-5bcc-4378-ad18-15f654293df5' is not authorized" }
# 429 Too Many Requests - Your usage_counter
on your account has exceeded your usage_limit
.
HTTP Status Code: 429 { "message": "User limit exceeded - 10/10" }
# 400 Bad Request - The media_url
provided is not a well formed URL or is blank.
HTTP Status Code: 400 { "message": "Request '' is invalid" }
Each request failure returns an appropriate HTTP Status Code
and a JSON payload containing a message
key which provides additional information on the failure.
Request success
If everything is fine with the api request, then the thumbifier will receive your request to convert and return a GUID
which is your unique identification number of your request. This GUID
is also included in the POST
made to your callback_url
so it can make it easier for you to identify the input.
HTTP Status Code:<PHONE_NUMBER>9-3077-4b25-844b-18df5742926c
So how would you make this request? Expanding the PHP
code that we started earlier to get the access_token
we can continue to call the thumbifier service with our desired parameters and check the response:
//request.php //Get access_token code from above $header = array("header" => "Authorization: Bearer api_key_goes_here"); $context = stream_context_create( array('http' => $header )); $response =<EMAIL_ADDRESS>false, $context); $accessToken = ""; if ($response !== false) { $userData = json_decode($response, true); $accessToken = $userData["access_token"]; } //Create an array to set the parameters $data = array( "access_token" => $accessToken, "media_url" => "http://www.yourwebaddress.com/files/work.pdf", "dimensions" => "64x64", "callback_url" => "http://www.yourwebaddress.com/callback.php", "personal_reference" => "work" ); //Set up a cURL request to the api, this allows us to query the HTTP response status code $curl = curl_init("https://api.thumbify.me"); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); //Tell cURL we are doing a POST request and provide our POSTFIELDS $data array curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POST, true); curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data); //Execute the cURL request and capture the response in the $result variable $result = curl_exec($curl); //Get the HTTP info from the cURL request (this contains the HTTP status code) $info = curl_getinfo($curl); curl_close($curl); //Do something different depending on the response HTTP status code if($info["http_code"] === 201) { echo "everything went ok, the response GUID is ${$result}"; } else { echo "Something went wrong, error is: {$result}"; }
The above code is a bit overly simplistic, but it highlights how you can make a request to the thumbifier service via your server side code. It's also possible to retrieve your access_token
via server side code and then inject it into your JavaScript and make the above request using a JavaScript POST
either via a HTML form or an Ajax request.
Once you've called the thumbifier service, it will do it's processing magic and then POST
the results to your callback_url
, so we'll discuss how to deal with the thumbifier service callback.
Handling the thumbifier callback
You need to have a script somewhere that is publically web accessible that the thumbifier can POST
the thumbified results to. The results are provided in a JSON format and the structure does not change whether the service was successful or has failed with the processing:
JSON data explained
- status: This will be
ok
if processing was successful orerror
if something went wrong. - response_id: This is the unique GUID that was returned when the thumbifier api was initially called.
- personal_reference: This is your reference you provided when the thumbifier api was initially called.
- payload: This contains a Base64 encoded jpg if the result is
status: ok
or it contains the error message if the result isstatus: error
Callback failure
There are three types of failure that can occur within the thumbifier process:
# File not found - If the provided media_url
does not resolve then it cannot be downloaded for thumbification.
{ "status": "error", "response_id": "28423859-3077-4b25-844b-18df5742926c", "personal_reference": "work", "payload": "[001] File not found" }
# File limit exceeded - If the provided media_url
is a link to a file that is larger than 512MegaBytes in file size then it is too large.
{ "status": "error", "response_id": "28423859-3077-4b25-844b-18df5742926c", "personal_reference": "work", "payload": "[002] File limit exceeded" }
# Mime-type not supported - If the provided media_url
is of a mime-type that isn't supported then the thumbifier cannot process it.
{ "status": "error", "response_id": "28423859-3077-4b25-844b-18df5742926c", "personal_reference": "work", "payload": "[003] mime-type made_up_type not supported" }
Callback success
If everything has gone well with the thumbification process then the JSON data will contain a Base64 encoded payload of the converted jpg. All you need to do is use the payload as is or Base64 decode the payload string back into the jpg binary data and save it to disk.
{ "status": "ok", "response_id": "28423859-3077-4b25-844b-18df5742926c", "personal_reference": "work", "payload": "/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQEARwBHAAD/2wBDAAYEBAQFBAYFBQYJBgUGCQsIBgYICwwKCgsKCgwQDAwMDAwMEAwODxAPD gwTExQUExMcGxsbHCAgICAgICAgICD/2wBDAQcHBw0MDRgQEBgaFREVGiAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgICAgIC" }
Let's take a look at some sample PHP
code of how we'd receive the thumbifier service POST
. The below is our callback_url
code that we pass through to the thumbifier service. The basic premise of it is to receive the POST
data, extract the converted jpg and save it to disk with the file name of our given personal_reference
. This is just an example of what you can do, but obviously you can use the data to suit whatever need you have.
//callback.php //Only process the payload if the status is 'ok' if ($_POST["status"] === "ok") { //Set the filename of our new file to the 'personal_reference'.jpg $filename = $_POST["personal_reference"] . ".jpg"; //Save the Base64 decoded payload file_put_contents(__DIR__ . "/{$filename}", base64_decode($_POST["payload"]) ); }
Once the callback_url
is called, it should now save a copy of the thumbified jpg to disk. And that's all there is to it!
Don't forget that you don't have unlimited goes on the thumbifier, every time you use the service, your usage_counter
goes up by 1 and when you reach your usage_limit
then you will be temporarily rejected from using the service. Your usage_counter
is reset every 60 minutes (so if you have a free account, this means you can create 10 thumbnails per 60 minutes). However, if you have a paid subscription then your usage_limit
will be higher.
If you're still not getting it or maybe you have some questions, comments, complaints or suggestions then just drop us an email at<EMAIL_ADDRESS>and we'll do our best to help.


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Have you ever worked on a system where the tests slow you down?
Do the tests break even with the smallest change?
Are the tests brittle?
Is it really hard to write a test? Lots of setup, mocks and expectations?
I've worked on these and I'm pretty sure I'm not alone.
So what's the problem with TDD?
To understand the problem we have to understand feedback loops.
The use of feedback loops is crucial in engineering; the components in a system provide feedback that reinforces or reduces change.
There are two types of feedback loops; positive and negative.
Negative feedback
Negative feedback loops move systems towards stability.
Negative feedback loops act as a damper to, or prohibits, change.
An example of a negative feedback loop in engineering is the centrifugal governor. This limits the speed of the engine by limiting fuel supply.
Positive feedback
Positive feedback loops moves systems towards instability.
Positive feedback loops reinforce change. A change reinforces itself and creates more of the same change.
An oscillator is an example of a positive feedback loop.
In much the same way, unit tests are an example of a negative feedback loop. When one breaks we stop and fix it. It is enforcing stability.
However, tests are also providing feedback when you are writing them. If it’s hard to write a test, your design is likely sub-optimal for the change you are trying to make.
For example, if there are lots of dependencies to mock and expectations to set up, we may have missed a needed abstraction that combines them.
The longer we put up with tests that are getting harder to write, the more our software degrades.
We have to be careful how we design our feedback loops. If our tests are too fine grained our feedback loop will be too tight, limiting the changes we can make to our system. This will reduce our ability to change our software.
We need the feedback to ensure we haven't broken anything while at the same time we want to be able to change the implementation details of our software.
Our tests are feedback loops, telling us, not only when changes are wrong, but also when our changes cannot easily be supported in the design.
If we ignore our tests it will become harder to work within our system over time.
We need to be careful how fine grained we make our tests; too fine and we won't be able to change our software. Not fine enough and we will inadvertently break some behaviour of our software.


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ROBIN HOOD: MEN IN TIGHTS A film review by Scott Renshaw Copyright 1993 Scott Renshaw
[This was written by a friend of the poster and was forwarded to the net with his permission. Caution: minor spoilers.]
Starring Cary Elwes, Roger Rees, Richard Lewis and Amy Yasbeck. Directed by Mel Brooks. Reviewed by Scott Renshaw.
I have a housemate who works for a theater concessions company, and periodically he can get us in free at the theaters where his company does business. "Robin Hood: Men in Tights" was showing at one of these theaters.
I want it back.
ROBIN HOOD: MEN IN TIGHTS is co-writer/director Mel Brooks' stab at the swashbuckler genre, most specifically the 1991 Kevin Costner vehicle ROBIN HOOD, PRINCE OF THIEVES. Cary Elwes is Robin of Loxley, who returns from the Crusades to find England in the grip of the usurper Prince John (Richard Lewis) and his muscle the Sheriff of Rottingham (Roger Rees). The story, of Robin's attempts to free the kingdom and to win Maid Marian, is a thin frame on which to hang a collection of sight gags and groaners, almost none of which work.
MEN IN TIGHTS ranks among the most excruciating movie-going experiences I've ever had, and it's a damned shame. Once upon a time, Mel Brooks was funny. There is evidence. He was a writer for "Your Show of Shows," co-created "Get Smart" and created such classic film parodies as YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN and BLAZING SADDLES. But for the past fifteen years, his screen efforts have ranged from the dreadfully uneven HISTORY OF THE WORLD, PART I to the breathtakingly dumb SPACEBALLS to the pointless LIFE STINKS. I honestly didn't think it could get any worse.
Unfortunately, it got much worse. MEN IN TIGHTS is a failure on so many different levels, it's difficult to know where to begin. The acting is at times unwatchably bad, with Richard Lewis the primary culprit, guilty of first degree mugging. There was an editor in the credits, so I assume there was one, although the positively leaden pacing provides no evidence that he did anything but pick up a check. And then there is the script, a cavalcade of miserable puns that goes on...
"A mime is a terrible thing to waste." ...and on... "Hey, Blinken." "Did you say Abe Lincoln?" ...and on... "This is my friend Ahchoo." "A Jew? Here?"
...and on, and on, and on.  Then there are moments when you know there was supposed to be some kind of joke somewhere, but for the life of you, you can't figure out what it was. This is a film so jaw-droppingly unfunny that the few positive reviews I've seen seem absolutely incomprehensible to me.
What's even more of a shame is that Cary Elwes' Robin Hood is actually quite charming. He generates such enormous good will, striking arms akimbo poses at every opportunity and doing his level best to underplay his part, that I kept holding out hope that it might get better. Even more depressing is the cameo appearance by Patrick Stewart as King Richard, a la Sean Connery in PRINCE OF THIEVES. Whatever it was that they paid him, it couldn't possibly have been enough.
On the Renshaw scale of 0 to 10 arrows: 1 arrow, right through the heart of whoever green-lighted this piece of garbage.
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Native Windows Derive: Basics
Natives Windows Derive (NWD) is a procedural macro that can be used to generate the NWG boilerplate code.
The code generated by NWD will be as fast as hand written code because NWD do not take any assumptions about your code.
The first thing to do is to add native-windows-derive to your Cargo dependencies:
[dependencies]
native-windows-gui = "1.0.12"
native-windows-derive = "1.0.3"
And then, in
main.rs
or
lib.rs
:
extern crate native_windows_gui as nwg;
extern crate native_windows_derive as nwd;
use nwd::NwgUi;
NWD expects your code to use a struct-based data layout, the same that has been used through this guide. If you skipped
3.4 Small application layout, you should go read it first.
Basic setup
With this out of the way, derive
NwgUi
from your GUI struct:
#[derive(NwgUi)]
pub struct BasicApp {
...
}
This will implement the base of the
NativeUi
trait on a new Ui wrapper struct.
The new struct will be named
[StructName]Ui
,
in this case:
BasicAppUi
.
This structure will be returned by the
BasicApp::build_ui
function.
The derive macro will also implement
Deref
for you.
And that's only the first step. NWD has no way to know which fields in your struct are controls, it doesn't how to initalize them, it doesn't know
how to dispatch the events, etc.
In order to feed NWD this information, the GUI fields needs to be marked with the NWD attributes. The following sections will go over these.


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- B2B marketing experience is a plus but not mandatory.
- MBA / PG in marketing is preferred .
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- Exposure to website analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics etc.).
- Be up to date with the latest trends and best practices in digital marketing and effectiveness.
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U.S. Ambassador Sondland says he followed Trump's orders on Ukraine
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. envoy Gordon Sondland told lawmakers on Wednesday that President Donald Trump ordered him to work with Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani on Ukraine matters, and that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was aware and “fully supportive” of their efforts.
Sondland, the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union, said Giuliani’s efforts to push Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate Trump’s political rivals “were a quid pro quo for arranging a White House visit for Zelenskiy,” he said prepared testimony for an impeachment hearing.


With metadata management we are allowing users to manage the imported metadata as resources management in the Governance Registry since all the information are stored as resource information inside the Governance Registry. In the Metadata list part users can list imported resources, WSDLs, Schemas and Policies.
When user click list services user will be display the services imported through add service UI and add WSDL UI. Service listing page displays the service name, version, namespace, life cycle status and delete link to click to delete the added resource. Important thing here is even though you have imported through WSDL user can click on resource and go the add service UI which automatically filled some of the information extracted using the WSDL.
Figure 1: Service List
In the previous figure you can see out of the uploaded services one is imported using Add-WSDL and others are imported using add-Service. User can click the service imported using WSDL and go to edit Service UI like following figure.
Figure 2: Service Content
As you can see some of the information has been extracted using WSDL and now user can fill user's own information by editing the service UI and save it. Please note that WSDL URL field has been replaced with the resource path of the imported WSDL so that by clicking on that link user can go to imported WSDL registry resource.
In the service Listing page users can see a link called "Filter the Service list", once you click it you can give service parameters through the same UI where you used to add services and search for given parameters and filter the service list.


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The tag mask is used to specify a bit pattern that is used to match against one of a tag's memory banks to determine if it is matching or non-matching. A mask is a combination of a memory bank and a sequence of bits that will be matched at the specified offset within the chosen memory bank.
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| MemoryBank | bank = MemoryBank.UNKNOWN |
| | The memory bank that contains the bits that will be compared against the bit pattern specified in mask. For a tag mask, MemoryBank.RESERVED is not a valid value. More...
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| UInt32 | offset = 0 |
| | The offset, in bits, from the start of the memory bank, of the first bit that will be matched against the mask. If offset falls beyond the end of the memory bank, the tag is considered non-matching. More...
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| UInt32 | count = 0 |
| | The number of bits in the mask. A length of zero will cause all tags to match. If (offset+count) falls beyond the end of the memory bank, the tag is considered non-matching. Valid values are 0 to 255, inclusive. More...
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| Byte [] | m_mask = new Byte[32] |
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| Byte [] | mask [get, set] |
| | A buffer that contains a left-justified bit array that represents that bit pattern to match – i.e., the most significant bit of the bit array appears in the most-significant bit (i.e., bit 7) of the first byte of the buffer (i.e., mask[0]). All bits beyond count are ignored. For example, if the application wished to find tags with the following 12 bits 1000.1100.1101, starting at offset 16 in the EPC memory bank, then the fields would be set as follows: bank = RFID_18K6C_MEMORY_BANK_EPC offset = 16 count = 12 mask[0] = 0x8C (1000.1100) mask[1] = 0xD? (1101.????) More...
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The tag mask is used to specify a bit pattern that is used to match against one of a tag's memory banks to determine if it is matching or non-matching. A mask is a combination of a memory bank and a sequence of bits that will be matched at the specified offset within the chosen memory bank.
◆ SelectMask() [1/2]
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MemoryBank |
bank, |
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UInt32 |
offset, |
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count, |
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epc |
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Custom constructor
- Parameters
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| bank | Memory bank |
| offset | offset in bit |
| count | count in bit |
| epc | epc mask |
◆ bank
The memory bank that contains the bits that will be compared against the bit pattern specified in mask. For a tag mask, MemoryBank.RESERVED is not a valid value.
◆ count
| UInt32 CSLibrary.Structures.SelectMask.count = 0 |
The number of bits in the mask. A length of zero will cause all tags to match. If (offset+count) falls beyond the end of the memory bank, the tag is considered non-matching. Valid values are 0 to 255, inclusive.
◆ m_mask
| Byte [] CSLibrary.Structures.SelectMask.m_mask = new Byte[32] |
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protected |
A buffer that contains a left-justified bit array that represents that bit pattern to match
◆ offset
| UInt32 CSLibrary.Structures.SelectMask.offset = 0 |
The offset, in bits, from the start of the memory bank, of the first bit that will be matched against the mask. If offset falls beyond the end of the memory bank, the tag is considered non-matching.
◆ mask
| Byte [] CSLibrary.Structures.SelectMask.mask |
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getset |
A buffer that contains a left-justified bit array that represents that bit pattern to match – i.e., the most significant bit of the bit array appears in the most-significant bit (i.e., bit 7) of the first byte of the buffer (i.e., mask[0]). All bits beyond count are ignored. For example, if the application wished to find tags with the following 12 bits 1000.1100.1101, starting at offset 16 in the EPC memory bank, then the fields would be set as follows: bank = RFID_18K6C_MEMORY_BANK_EPC offset = 16 count = 12 mask[0] = 0x8C (1000.1100) mask[1] = 0xD? (1101.????)
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Here, we do the businesses.
Now that's a green tree. Sum of digits in columns class must add up to 12.
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| Frogs | Monies |
|---|---|
| Blue | 45 |
| Yellow | 22 |
| Green | 72 |
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For replicated, distributed, and local regions, Geode provides a standard set of statistics for the region and its entries.
Geode gathers these statistics when the --enable-statistics
parameter of the create region
command of gfsh
is set to true or in cache.xml the region attribute statistics-enabled
is set to true.
Note: Unlike other Geode statistics, these region and entry statistics are not archived and cannot be charted.
Note: Enabling these statistics requires extra memory per entry. See Memory Requirements for Cached Data.
These are the transient statistics gathered for all but partitioned regions:
- Hit and miss counts. For the entry, the hit count is the number of times the cached entry was accessed through the
Region.get
method and the miss count is the number of times these hits did not find a valid value. For the region these counts are the totals for all entries in the region. The API providesget
methods for the hit and miss counts, a convenience method that returns the hit-to-miss ratio, and a method for zeroing the counts. - Last accessed time. For the entry, this is the last time a valid value was retrieved from the locally cached entry. For the region, this is the most recent “last accessed time” for all entries contained in the region. This statistic is used for idle timeout expiration activities.
- Last modified time. For the entry, this is the last time the entry value was updated (directly or through distribution) due to a load, create, or put operation. For the region, this is the most recent “last modified time” for all entries contained in the region. This statistic is used for time to live and idle timeout expiration activities.
The hit and miss counts collected in these statistics can be useful for fine-tuning your system’s caches. If you have a region’s entry expiration enabled, for example, and see a high ratio of misses to hits on the entries, you might choose to increase the expiration times.
Retrieve region and entry statistics through the getStatistics
methods of the Region
and Region.Entry
objects.


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FileSorting
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namespace that will Sort text in linux encoding More...
Classes | |
| class | StringToCompare |
Functions | |
| bool | comparator (StringToCompare &&a, StringToCompare &&b) |
| void | outputAscendingText (size_t *indexes, size_t countOfLines, char *text, const char *DistFileName) |
| void | outputAscendingFromEndText (size_t *indexes, size_t countOfLines, char *text, const char *DistFileName) |
| void | outputNormalText (size_t *indexes, size_t countOfLines, char *text, const char *DistFileName) |
| void | freeText (char *text, size_t *indexes, size_t countOfLines) |
| void | sortMyFile (const char *SrcFileName, const char *DistFileName) |
namespace that will Sort text in linux encoding
| bool StringSorter::comparator | ( | StringToCompare && | a, |
| StringToCompare && | b | ||
| ) |
compare two objects
| a | - first StringToCompare object to be compared |
| b | - StringToCompare object to be compared |
| void StringSorter::freeText | ( | char * | text, |
| size_t * | indexes, | ||
| size_t | countOfLines | ||
| ) |
free space where text is
| text | - pointer to first elemt of char |
| indexes | - pointer to array of indexes, where in left side \0 was put |
| void StringSorter::outputAscendingFromEndText | ( | size_t * | indexes, |
| size_t | countOfLines, | ||
| char * | text, | ||
| const char * | DistFileName | ||
| ) |
Append to file DistFileName text sorted Ascending starting from the end of line
| indexes | - array where sorted indexes will be |
| countOfLines | - count of elements in indexes |
| text | - full text |
| DistFileName | - file where text must be printed |
| void StringSorter::outputAscendingText | ( | size_t * | indexes, |
| size_t | countOfLines, | ||
| char * | text, | ||
| const char * | DistFileName | ||
| ) |
Truncate file DistFileName or create it and write there text sorted Ascending
| indexes | - array where sorted indexes will be |
| countOfLines | - count of elements in indexes |
| text | - full text |
| DistFileName | - file where text must be printed |
| void StringSorter::outputNormalText | ( | size_t * | indexes, |
| size_t | countOfLines, | ||
| char * | text, | ||
| const char * | DistFileName | ||
| ) |
Append to file DistFileName full text
| indexes | - array where sorted indexes will be |
| countOfLines | - count of elements in indexes |
| text | - full text |
| DistFileName | - file where text must be printed |
| void StringSorter::sortMyFile | ( | const char * | SrcFileName, |
| const char * | DistFileName | ||
| ) |
Text read to the variable,
changed to \0 and then outputAscendingText outputAscendingFromEndText outputNormalText are called with appropriate parametres
| SrcFileName | - file where text must be got |
| DistFileName | - file where sorted text must be put |


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};
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Yes, this is another of those “how to parse JSON in Swift” blog posts that seem to be required of every Swift blogger. And yes, several of the techniques we’ll work through come from the functional programming world. And, yes, Swift+Functional+JSON is itself a well-worn trail. But still, I hope you find this exploration helpful. Don’t think of it as functional programming. Think of it as the path of “I wish there were a function that….”
Let’s start with the setup. We want to build a nice Wikipedia front end, so step one is to allow the user to type in some search term, and return a list of pages. Our input is a piece of JSON like this from the Wikipedia API (after searching for “a”):
["a",["Animal","Association football","Arthropod","Australia","AllMusic",...]]
Our output should be a list of pages or an error. “A list of pages or an error.” That’s kind of a funny thing. What type would that be? If you’re an old ObjC dev like me, then you’d probably think (in Swift):
struct Page { let title: String }
func pagesFromData(data: NSData, error: NSErrorPointer) -> [Page]?
But that’s kind of a pain to use. We have to create an NSError
variable and
pass it with &error
and then check whether there was a result. Bleh. Gotta be
a better way in this new Swift world.
Let’s say it again. “A list of pages or an error.” That means it’s something that could be one of a couple of types. That’s just an enum. Let’s make it:
enum PageListResult {
case Success([Page])
case Failure(NSError)
}
I’m going to assume that you’ve already seen enums with associated values and you understand the above type. If you don’t, stop here and go read the “Associated Values” section of “Enumerations” from The Swift Programming Language. This is a really important concept in Swift. Seriously, go read it. It’s like two pages long and we’re going to use it a lot. Don’t worry. We’ll wait for you.
So that gives us a much better function signature:
func pagesFromData(data: NSData) -> PageListResult
I’m amazed how often just figuring out the type I want and the function signature really simplifies everything else. You may be familiar with this approach from TDD, but to me, it’s WDD: Wish Driven Development. “I wish there were a function that would take data and return me a list of pages or an error.”
A very interesting thing happened when we phrased the wish this way. The “happy path” and the “error path” are now the same path. For every possible input, there is a result. It might be an error, but an error is just a kind of result. That seems kind of nice.
Anyway, back to our wish fulfillment. We wished that there were this function, so let’s get to work writing it. (In software, we are our own genies.) To parse this data, we need to do several things, any of which could fail:
- Parse the
NSData
into a JSON object - Make sure the JSON object is an array
- Get the second element
- Make sure the second element is a list of strings
- Convert those strings into pages
If we write this in a straightforward style, we get the following (complete gist):
typealias JSON = AnyObject
typealias JSONArray = [JSON]
struct Page { let title: String }
func pagesFromData(data: NSData) -> PageListResult {
// 1. Parse the NSData into a JSON object
var error: NSError?
let json: JSON? = NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(data,
options: NSJSONReadingOptions(0), error: &error)
if let json: JSON = json {
// 2. Make sure the JSON object is an array
if let array = json as? JSONArray {
// 3. Get the second element
if array.count < 2 {
// Failure leg for 3
return .Failure(NSError(localizedDescription: "Could not get second element. Got: \(array.count)"))
}
let element: JSON = array[1]
// 4. Make sure the second element is a list of strings
if let titles = element as? [String] {
// 5. Convert those strings into pages
return .Success(titles.map { Page(title: $0) })
}
else {
// Failure leg for 4
return .Failure(NSError(localizedDescription: "Expected string list. Got: \(array[1])"))
}
}
else {
// Failure leg for 2
return .Failure(NSError(localizedDescription: "Expected array. Got: \(json)"))
}
}
else if let error = error {
// Failure leg for 1
return .Failure(error)
}
else {
fatalError("Received neither JSON nor an error")
return .Failure(NSError())
}
}
That’s a lot of code, and frankly, it’s hard to tell what’s going on in there,
even with the comments. Some of it is because of how if let
works, so the
errors wind up being in distant else
clauses. But even if you rearranged it, I
think most approaches would look something like this. Lots of if’s and returns
to deal with all the possible error conditions. (Or maybe you just skip the
error legs because they’re too hard, but then you pay for it later when you’re
trying to debug crazy problems in the field. You know I’m talking to you. Don’t
deny it.)
I’m going to skip way ahead now and show you where we’re going. You’re not meant
to understand this code quite yet, but I just want you to compare readability.
This function does exactly the same thing as the above function. It has the
same error checks, same success and failure results, passes the same unit tests,
returns the same NSError
values. Even with no idea what >==
means, even if
you just call it “the thing you put at the beginning of each step,” I’d say this
function is a lot easier to understand and maintain.
func pagesFromData(data: NSData) -> Result<[Page]> {
return data
>== asJSON
>== asJSONArray
>== atIndex(1)
>== asStringList
>== asPages
}
This isn’t about fancy operators or clever tricks. We’re not going to discuss category theory, monads, functors, or combinators (at least not for a while). We’re just going to follow a sequence of “as a real-world developer who needs to get code out the door, I wish there were a function that…” and see where it takes us. This is about making code easier to read, understand, write, and debug. And there are several stops along the way where you can jump off and still have better code for your trouble.
So, what’s the first thing we wish for? Well, a lot of our confusing code is
tied up in different ways of managing success versus failure. It would be nice
if each step dealt with success or failure in the same way. For example, I wish
there were a function that took an NSData
and returned parsed JSON or an
error. Then it’d look just like the pagesFromData
function. How about:
enum JSONResult {
case Success(JSON)
case Failure(NSError)
}
func asJSON(data: NSData) -> JSONResult
That’s OK, but now we have this PageListResult
and JSONResult
that are
almost identical, and obviously that’s going to keep repeating. This feels like
a generic problem that we should solve in a generic way:
enum Result<A> {
case Success(A)
case Failure(NSError)
}
And that would be great, except that Beta6 can’t quite handle it (known bug,
will hopefully be fixed soon). So in the meantime, to get this we need a Box
for our Success
case:
enum Result<A> {
case Success(Box<A>)
case Failure(NSError)
}
final class Box<T> {
let unbox: T
init(_ value: T) { self.unbox = value }
}
So back to our wished-for function, using our awesome new Result
:
func asJSON(data: NSData) -> Result<JSON> {
var error: NSError?
let json: AnyObject? = NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(data, options: NSJSONReadingOptions(0), error: &error)
switch (json, error) {
case (_, .Some(let error)): return .Failure(error)
case (.Some(let json), _): return .Success(Box(json))
default:
fatalError("Received neither JSON nor an error")
return .Failure(NSError())
}
}
(If the .Some
cases are unfamiliar to you, read
Unwrapping Multiple Optionals
from Natasha the Robot.)
Let’s see what happens if we do that for all our functions (you can find all the helper functions in this gist):
func pagesFromData(data: NSData) -> Result<[Page]> {
// 1. Parse the NSData into a JSON object
switch asJSON(data) {
case .Success(let boxJson):
// 2. Make sure the JSON object is an array
switch asJSONArray(boxJson.unbox) {
case .Success(let boxArray):
// 3. Get the second element
switch secondElement(boxArray.unbox) {
case .Success(let elementBox):
// 4. Make sure the second element is a list of strings
switch asStringList(elementBox.unbox) {
case .Success(let titlesBox):
// 5. Convert those strings into pages
return asPages(titlesBox.unbox)
case .Failure(let error):
return .Failure(error)
}
case .Failure(let error):
return .Failure(error)
}
case .Failure(let error):
return .Failure(error)
}
case .Failure(let error):
return .Failure(error)
}
}
We haven’t saved any code here. This function, plus the helper functions, is actually a bit longer than the original. But short code wasn’t the goal. Don’t focus on typing. Focus on consistency and clarity. Conciseness will often follow on its own.
Our function is now incredibly consistent. At each step down the tree we call
a function that takes something
and returns a Result<something-else>
. And
if any of those results are .Failure
, we return the error. I wish…
Hmmm…. what do I wish? There’s clearly a pattern here, and where there are patterns there are opportunities for functions. Let’s think harder about this pattern.
switch asJSON(data) {
case .Success(let boxJson):
switch asJSONArray(boxJson.unbox) {
case .Success(let boxArray):
switch secondElement(boxArray.unbox) {
...
return asPages(titlesBox.unbox)
...
case .Failure(let error):
return .Failure(error)
}
case .Failure(let error):
return .Failure(error)
}
Let’s write it a bit more generally:
switch f1(x0) { // Pass x0 to some function
case .Success(let x1box): // If successful,
switch f2(x1box.unbox) { // continue to another function
case .Success(let x2box): // If successful,
switch f3(x2box.unbox) { // continue to another function
...
return fn(xn.unbox) // Return the result of the last function
...
case .Failure(let error): // If anyone fails, return failure
return .Failure(error)
}
case .Failure(let error):
return .Failure(error)
}
So I wish I had a function that took “the Result
so far” and “the next step”
and returned a Result
. If passed a .Success
, then it should pass the
contents to the next step. If passed a .Failure
, then it should stop and
return that. Let’s call it continueWith
for the time being.
func continueWith<T,U>(a: Result<T>, f: T -> Result<U>) -> Result<U>
Stop. I know you just skimmed over that signature. Go read it again. Make sure
you know what it says. Say it out loud. It takes a result, and a function that
takes something and returns a result, and returns a result. That probably still
didn’t make any sense. Go back and think about it until it does. This function
is important. Think about where it says A
and where it says B
. It should
start to click in your head pretty quickly once you stop and think about it for
a second and stop speed-reading.
…
Really, don’t go on until it makes 90% sense to you. You might be thinking
something like “hey, this kind of converts A into B, but inside a Result.” Yeah,
that kind of makes sense. Kind of like map
, but kind of different. Hold onto
that thought, or whatever thought made it make sense to you (we’re all
different). Maybe what you’re thinking will be useful later.
…
OK, now that we’re on the same page, if we had a function like that, we could write:
func pagesFromData(data: NSData) -> Result<[Page]> {
return continueWith(asJSON(data)) { // data is NSData
continueWith(asJSONArray($0)) { // $0 is JSON (AnyObject)
continueWith(secondElement($0)) { // $0 is JSONArray ([AnyObject])
continueWith(asStringList($0)) { // $0 is JSON (AnyObject)
asPages($0) // $0 is [String]
} } } } // We return Result<[Page]>
}
That’s starting to look kind of nice. I like this continueWith
function. I
wonder how we’d write it. Well, if it’s passed a .Success
, it unboxes it and
calls the next function.1 If it’s passed a .Failure
, it returns a
.Failure
. That doesn’t seem too hard:
func continueWith<T,U>(x: Result<T>, f: T -> Result<U>) -> Result<U> {
switch x {
case .Success(let box): return f(box.unbox)
case .Failure(let err): return .Failure(err)
}
}
That was actually pretty simple. Don’t get too used to the name continueWith
.
We’ll be discussing other names for this function later. It’s more powerful than
it looks.
You can look at the full gist if you like.
Go back and ponder that last version of pagesFromData
for a moment. What do
you like about it? What still bothers you?
I told you there were several jumping off points in this discussion, and we’ve
reached one of them. The nested version of this function using continueWith
is
already a lot easier to reason about than the original version. The techniques
are pretty vanilla for Swift: an enum with associated data, and a function that
takes function. All you need to do is structure your code so each failable step
takes a value and returns a Result
. You can continue this pattern
indefinitely, keeping the code easy to understand, while still getting good
error messages.
So let’s leave it there for this post. Soon we’ll push this further, make it
easier to read and more generic. We might even talk more about this interesting
continueWith
function.
In the meantime, you may be interested in some other explorations of these topics. They all have spoilers of where we’re going, but there’s no harm in that. We each learn in our own way, so maybe one of these approaches will click best with you.
- Alexandros Salazar’s
Error Handling in Swift.
A must-read series in my opinion. My use of the
Result
type is based directly on his. - Tony DiPasquale’s Efficient JSON in Swift with Functional Concepts and Generics, which is a direct influence on this work, but may be a bit fast-paced for many readers.
- Chris Eidhof’s Parsing JSON in Swift which is quite nice if you already understand where this is going, but jumps into the deep end very quickly.
If Tony or Chris’s posts make perfect sense to you, maybe you don’t need my series. If you leave them a little befuddled, then this series will get to the same place, just a bit more gently.
Until then, stop mutating. Evolve.
-
Remember that the “unbox” step is just because of a Beta6 compiler limitation. ↩


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Fully Bayesian Classification with a subset of high-dimensional features, such as expression levels of genes. The data are modeled with a hierarchical Bayesian models using heavy-tailed t distributions as priors. When a large number of features are available, one may like to select only a subset of features to use, typically those features strongly correlated with the response in training cases. Such a feature selection procedure is however invalid since the relationship between the response and the features has be exaggerated by feature selection. This package provides a way to avoid this bias and yield better-calibrated predictions for future cases when one uses F-statistic to select features.
| Version: | 1.0-1 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 2.13.1), abind |
| Published: | 2015-09-26 |
| Author: | Longhai Li |
| Maintainer: | Longhai Li <longhai at math.usask.ca> |
| License: | GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)] |
| URL: | http://www.r-project.org, http://math.usask.ca/~longhai |
| NeedsCompilation: | yes |
| In views: | Bayesian |
| CRAN checks: | BCBCSF results |
| Reference manual: | BCBCSF.pdf |
| Package source: | BCBCSF_1.0-1.tar.gz |
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| Old sources: | BCBCSF archive |
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Menopause is usually diagnosed in women over 45 who have not had a period for more than a year. Any bleeding from the vagina after this time needs to be checked by a GP..
Postmenopausal bleeding is not usually serious, but can be a sign of cancer. Cancer is easier to treat if it's found early.
The GP should refer you to hospital or a special postmenopausal bleeding clinic. You should not have to wait more than 2 weeks to see a specialist.
A specialist, who may be a nurse, will offer you tests to help find out what's causing the bleeding and plan any necessary treatment.
The test may include:
There can be several causes of postmenopausal bleeding.
The most common causes are:
Less commonly, postmenopausal bleeding is caused by cancer, such as ovarian and womb cancer.
Treatment depends on what's causing your bleeding.
| Cause | Treatment |
|---|---|
| Cervical polyps | the polyps may need to be removed by a specialist |
| Endometrial atrophy | you may not need treatment, but may be offered oestrogen cream or pessaries |
| Endometrial hyperplasia | depending on the type of hyperplasia, you may be offered no treatment, hormone medicine (tablets or an intrauterine system, IUS) or a total hysterectomy (surgery to remove your uterus, cervix and ovaries) |
| Side effect of HRT | changing or stopping HRT treatment |
| Womb cancer | total hysterectomy will often be recommended |
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Hello, Code School!
Here are the things I wish to learn:
To create a webiste with confidence and fluency
To create simple applications to automate my work
To learn the language and skills to collaborate with tech pros


In almost all modern web apps, you can create an account to have your own private space. As multiple users can access a web app at the same time, you need a mechanism to store each user personal data separately and select which information to display information. We won’t cover how to manage user identity securely as it’s an extensive topic on its own, but we’ll make sure each user is able to create one (or more) bank account on our app.
In this part we’ll use HTML forms to add login and registration to our web app. We’ll see how to send the data to a server API programmatically, and ultimately how to define basic validation rules for user inputs.
You need to have completed the HTML templates and routing of the web app for this lesson. You also need to install Node.js and run the server API locally so you can send data to create accounts.
You can test that the server is running properly by executing this command in a terminal:
The <form>
element encapsulates a section of an HTML
document where the user can input and submit data with interactive
controls. There are all sorts of user interface (UI) controls that can be
used within a form, the most common one being the
<input>
and the <button>
elements.
There are a lot of different
types
of <input>
, for example to create a field where the
user can enter its username you can use:
The name
attribute will be used as the property name when the
form data will be sent over. The id
attribute is used to
associate a
with the form control.
Take a look at the whole list of
<input>
types and other form controls to get an idea of all the native UI elements you can use when building your UI.
✅ Note that <input>
is an
empty element
on which you should not add a matching closing tag. You can
however use the self-closing <input/>
notation, but
it’s not required.
The <button>
element within a form is a bit special. If
you do not specify its type
attribute, it will automatically
submit the form data to the server when pressed. Here are the possible
type
values:
submit
: The default within a <form>
, the
button triggers the form submit action.
reset
: The button resets all the form controls to their
initial values.
button
: Do not assign a default behavior when the button is
pressed. You can then assign custom actions to it using JavaScript.
Let’s start by adding a form to the login
template. We’ll
need a username field and a Login button.
<template id="login">

Bank App

Login

<form id="loginForm">
Username
<input id="username" name="user" type="text" />
<button>Login</button>
</form>

</template>
If you take a closer look, you can notice that we also added a

element here.

elements are used to add a name to UI controls,
such as our username field. Labels are important for the readability of
your forms, but also comes with additional benefits:
Accessibility on the web is a very important topic that’s often overlooked. Thanks to semantic HTML elements it’s not difficult to create accessible content if you use them properly. You can read more about accessibility to avoid common mistakes and become a responsible developer.
Now we’ll add a second form for the registration, just below the previous one:

Register

<form id="registerForm">
Username
<input id="user" name="user" type="text" />
Currency
<input id="currency" name="currency" type="text" value="$" />
Description
<input id="description" name="description" type="text" />
Current balance
<input id="balance" name="balance" type="number" value="0" />
<button>Register</button>
</form>
Using the value
attribute we can define a default value for a
given input. Notice also that the input for balance
has the
number
type. Does it look different than the other inputs?
Try interacting with it.
✅ Can you navigate and interact with the forms using only a keyboard? How would you do that?
Now that we have a functional UI, the next step is to send the data over to our server. Let’s make a quick test using our current code: what happens if you click on the Login or Register button?
Did you notice the change in your browser’s URL section?
The default action for a <form>
is to submit the form
to the current server URL using the
GET method, appending the form data directly to the URL. This method has some
shortcomings though:
That’s why you can change it to use the POST method which sends the form data to the server in the body of the HTTP request, without any of the previous limitations.
While POST is the most commonly used method to send data over, in some specific scenarios it is preferable to use the GET method, when implementing a search field for example.
Add action
and method
properties to the
registration form:
Now try to register a new account with your name. After clicking on the Register button you should see something like this:
If everything goes well, the server should answer your request with a JSON response containing the account data that was created.
✅ Try registering again with the same name. What happens?
As you probably noticed, there’s a slight issue with the approach we just used: when submitting the form, we get out of our app and the browser redirects to the server URL. We’re trying to avoid all page reloads with our web app, as we’re makng a Single-page application (SPA).
To send the form data to the server without forcing a page reload, we have
to use JavaScript code. Instead of putting an URL in the
action
property of a <form>
element, you
can use any JavaScript code prepended by the
javascript:
string to perform a custom action. Using this
also means that you’ll have to implement some tasks that were previously
done automatically by the browser:
Replace the registration form action
with:
Open app.js
add a new function named register
:
function register() {
const registerForm = document.getElementById("registerForm");
const formData = new FormData(registerForm);
const data = Object.fromEntries(formData);
const jsonData = JSON.stringify(data);
}
Here we retrieve the form element using getElementById()
and
use the
FormData
helper to extract the values from form controls as a set of key/value
pairs. Then we convert the data to a regular object using
Object.fromEntries()
and finally serialize the data to
JSON, a format commonly
used for exchanging data on the web.
The data is now ready to be sent to the server. Create a new function
named createAccount
:
async function createAccount(account) {
try {
const response = await fetch("//localhost:5000/api/accounts", {
method: "POST",
headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
body: account,
});
return await response.json();
} catch (error) {
return { error: error.message || "Unknown error" };
}
}
What’s this function doing? First, notice the async
keyword
here. This means that the function contains code that will execute
asynchronously. When used along the await
keyword, it allows waiting for
asynchronous code to execute - like waiting for the server response here -
before continuing.
Here’s a quick video about async/await
usage:
Click the image above for a video about async/await.
We use the fetch()
API to send JSON data to the server. This
method takes 2 parameters:
//localhost:5000/api/accounts
here.
POST
and provide the body
for the request. As
we’re sending JSON data to the server, we also need to set the
Content-Type
header to application/json
so the
server know how to interpret the content.
As the server will respond to the request with JSON, we can use
await response.json()
to parse the JSON content and return
the resulting object. Note that this method is asynchronous, so we use the
await
keyword here before returning to make sure any errors
during parsing are also caught.
Now add some code to the register
function to call
createAccount()
:
Because we use the await
keyword here, we need to add the
async
keyword before the register function:
Finally, let’s add some logs to check the result. The final function should look like this:
async function register() {
const registerForm = document.getElementById("registerForm");
const formData = new FormData(registerForm);
const jsonData = JSON.stringify(Object.fromEntries(formData));
const result = await createAccount(jsonData);
if (result.error) {
return console.log("An error occured:", result.error);
}
console.log("Account created!", result);
}
That was a bit long but we got there! If you open your browser developer tools, and try registering a new account, you should not see any change on the web page but a message will appear in the console confirming that everything works.
✅ Do you think the data is sent to the server securely? What if someone what was able to intercept the request? You can read about HTTPS to know more about secure data communication.
If you try to register a new account without setting an username first, you can see that the server returns an error with status code 400 (Bad Request).
Before sending data to a server it’s a good practice to validate the form data beforehand when possible, to make sure you send a valid request. HTML5 forms controls provides built-in validation using various attributes:
required
: the field needs to be filled otherwise the form
cannot be submitted.
minlength
and maxlength
: defines the minimum
and maximum number of characters in text fields.
min
and max
: defines the minimum and maximum
value of a numerical field.
type
: defines the kind of data expected, like
number
, email
, file
or
other built-in types. This attribute may also change the visual rendering of the form
control.
pattern
: allows to define a
regular expression
pattern to test if the entered data is valid or not.
Tip: you can customize the look of your form controls depending if they’re valid or not using the
:valid
and:invalid
CSS pseudo-classes.
There are 2 required fields to create a valid new account, the username
and currency, the other fields being optional. Update the form’s HTML,
using both the required
attribute and text in the field’s
label to that:
Username (required)
<input id="user" name="user" type="text" required />
...
Currency (required)
<input id="currency" name="currency" type="text" value="$" required />
While this particular server implementation does not enforce specific limits on the fields maximum length, it’s always a good practice to define reasonable limits for any user text entry.
Add a maxlength
attribute to the text fields:
<input id="user" name="user" type="text" maxlength="20" required />
...
<input
id="currency"
name="currency"
type="text"
value="$"
maxlength="5"
required
/>
...
<input id="description" name="description" type="text" maxlength="100" />
Now if you press the Register button and a field does not respect a validation rule we defined, you should see something like this:
Validation like this performed before sending any data to the server is called client-side validation. But note that’s it’s not always possible to peform all checks without sending the data. For example, we cannot check here if an account already exists with the same username without sending a request to the server. Additional validation performed on the server is called server-side validation.
Usually both need to be implemented, and while using client-side validation improves the user experience by providing instant feedback to the user, server-side validation is crucial to make sure the user data you manipulate is sound and safe.
Show an error message in the HTML if the user already exists.
Here’s an example of what the final login page can look like after a bit of styling:
Developers have gotten very creative about their form building efforts, especially regarding validation strategies. Learn about different form flows by looking through CodePen; can you find some interesting and inspiring forms?


WITNESS LIST
International Trade & Intergovernmental Affairs Committee
March 18, 2013 - 10:00 AM
Invited testimony regarding International Energy Trade and Investment.
On:
Benson, Erika (Self)
Black, Andy (Association of Oil Pipe Lines)
Blackmon, David (Self)
Bloodworth, Michelle (America's Natural Gas Alliance)
Cibrian, David (Motorwise, inc.)
Clark, Jeffrey (The Wind Coalition)
Cooper, Bill (Center for Liquefied Natural Gas)
Eugster, Cris (CPS Energy)
Harbert, Karen (Institute for 21st Century Energy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce)
Levi, Michael (Self)
Rivero, Hector (Texas Chemical Council)
Tintera, John (Self; Sebree and Tintera LLC)
For:
Barrera, Joe (Rio Grande Regional Water Authority)
Darling, Jim (RGRWA, Region M water planning group, City of McAllen)
Garcia, Buddy (Brownsville Public Utilities Board)
Ramirez, Oscar (City of Donna, Texas)
Reed, Cyrus (Lone Star Chapter, Sierra Club)
On:
Rubinstein, Carlos (TCEQ)
Registering, but not testifying:
For:
Halbert, Wayne (Self; Texas Irrigation Council)
Salinas, Nelson (Texas association of business)
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BIG NIGHT A film review by Edwin Jahiel Copyright 1996 Edwin Jahiel
WAITING FOR LOUIS
BIG NIGHT *** 1/2 Directed by Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci. Written by Tucci and Joseph Tropiano. Photography, Ken Kelsch. Editing,Suzy Elmiger.; Production design, Andrew Jackness. Music, Gary DeMichele. Producer, Jonathan Filley. Cast: Tony Shalhoub (Primo), Stanley Tucci (Secondo), Minnie Driver (Phyllis), Isabella Rossellini (Gabriella), Ian Holm (Pascal), Allison Janney (Ann), Campbell Scott (Bob). A Rysher Entertainment release. Some Italian with subtitles. 107 min. Rated R (language).
The review by a respected critic of a major weekly newsmagazine, had the following dumdum headline :
"A Movie To Dine For. Big Night Makes Babette's Feast Look Like Pizza Hut".
There's nothing in the critic's text that corresponds to that headline --or to facts for that matter. Since writers almost never write their headlines, this must have been put in by some kid at the copy-desk, some new hiree who needs to see more films, to learn about cusine and to read more Dave Barry.
The only connection between the superb "Babette" and the excellent --but awkwardly and flatly titled -- "Big Night" is the gastronomic feast that crowns both movies.
Scott and Tucci's film is set in the 1950's (when Cadillacs grew fins) by the Jersey shore. It deals with two brothers who have been in the States for a short time and are trying to make a go of their restaurant, "Paradise."
Primo is the gifted chef who, in spite of the establishment's precarious situation is a purist. He will not tolerate barbaric requests or compromises in his authentic Italian cuisine. Played by an actor with an Arabic-sounding name, Primo looks and sounds entirely Italian, down to the hot temper.
A funny opening scene (with a sad subtext) sets the tone. One of the rare customers does not understand the basics of risotto, wants a side order of spaghetti (another pasta!) and, horrors, wants it with meatballs, which is an American invention.
Younger brother Secondo, is the practical one, the manager who helps in the kitchen (a primitive place that produces wonders) but whose main task is to avoid losing the restaurant to the bank. He's pure of heart yet also a realist who tries to reason with Primo. But the chef sticks to his guns:"If you give people time, they learn." Secondo: " I don't HAVE time." Yet, during the constant, affectionate tension between the two, Primo insists: "If you comp[rpmise with my work, it dies."
Nearby is "The Grotto," one of those Italian eateries where waiters and customers sing, where indifferent, inauthentic food is served, where phony local color prevails, where (as per Primo) food gets raped nightly... and where the cash register keeps ringing. The owner, cynical friend Pascal, is played by that most British actor Ian Holm convincingly transformed into an Italian.
The single real Italian in the film, Isabella Rosselini, plays Gabriella, vaguely the hostess and not vaguely Pascal's mistress.
The brothers are handsome and molto simpatici, Primo in his unloquacious way, Secondo in his natural elegance. They succeed (with, of course, the filmmakers) in making "Big Night" into a genuine Italian movie set in the land of plenty, "plenty" that is, if you conform, adapt and leave ideals behind you.
Secondo goes to Pascal to search for a solution. It's not forthcoming -- until Pascal mentions that the popular band-leader Louis Prima (yes, Virginia, there was such a person) is his pal and that he, Pascal, will arrange for him to come to a special dinner at the Paradise. The resulting PR and publicity will surely bring more customers.
With the brothers investing their last pennies and immense labor, the feast does take place. It's a gathering of friends and new acquaintances, from Pascal to Gabriella, from a nice Cadillac salesman (just met by Secondo under slyly warm circumstances), to a florist lady whom Primo is to shy to court, and so on, down to (or up to) the U.K.'s Minnie Driver ("Circle of Friends") who, as Phyllis, Secondo's girl friend, is amazingly genuine as a Yank. I say "up to" because the ladies all tower above the men, not just the diminutive Ian Holm.
There are two surprises in store. One, I cannot mention without spoiling things. The other is the meal itself, a repast greeted by oohs and aahs by the guests as well as the audience.
The menu, gargantuan and sumptuously delicious, starts with La Zuppa (Soup), goes on to I Primi (First Courses, in the plural), then I Secondi (Second Courses, also plural) and I Dolci (The Sweets). Even if you find a top Italian restaurant you will not encounter the likes of those dishes again, recipes of the pre-cholesterol, pre-fat calories era, all under the sign of the stomach pump. (The brothers are also chain-smokers).
We get to the meal well after one hour of film. It lasts no more than 10 to 15 minutes. Before all this, the movie followed the brothers in their mini-odyssey, especially Secondo. He had taken us for a walk (plus a ride in a Caddy) that, while sometimes a bit unfocused and slow, gave his character dimensionality. Among the asides was an almost hilarious reversal of sex attitudes. Phyllis wants to cuddle, and much more, Secondo reacts like a shy virgin. "I want the time to be right. It is not right for you." Phyllis doesn't get it, while next --surprise!-- we see Secondo in bed with Gabriella.
"Big Night" is studded with nostalgic Italian and Italian-American period music in the background and with sensitive, intelligent touches in the foreground. The dialogue proceeds in shifts, indirections and allusions. Almost incredibly for an "Italian" movie, this one has more pregnant silences than talk and goes easy on loudness and theatricalism. There are also some visuals of Phyllis and others by the sea, which may remind you of Fellini or Antonioni yet are not copycat scenes.
The naturalist tone of the movie seldom abates. It is cannily recorded and splendidly performed, although some bits do push verisimilitude to its limits, notably Secondo's fluid command of the American language, far too unlikely for a recent immigrant. Some of the wines on the banquet table look like Bordeaux bottles. But several other absurdisms are humorous, such as Secondo's linguistic, didactic argument: "You can't say 'It is raining outside,' since rain always falls outside.."
Some gastronomes may find food for thought in the comparative celebrations of Italian cooking and Europe's champion cuisine, the French, that was glorified in "Babette's Feast."
Filmically speaking, "BN"'s dialogue-less ending is a little gem as, the morning after, Secondo makes a simple omelet for himself, his brother and their assistant. The dish, like the mood, is in touching contrast with the earlier, intricate relations, preparations and dreams.
The film won the Sundance Festival's script writing prize. Score another win for Sundance, by now incontestably the breeding and launching grounds for the New Independent America Cinema.
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We aim to build a transfer learning-based weakly-supervised object detection (WSOD) method, to stably improve the localization performance of current WSOD framework, thus imporving the overall detection accuracy. This bounding box adjuster can be easily adopted into various WSOD training frameworks.
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The project starts with the observation that naïve application of ViT to few-shot learning results in substantial performance degradation. To resolve this issue, this project introduces a new few-shot training framework for ViTs, named self-promoted supervision (SUN). This framework aims to enhance the capability of learning the token dependencies via location-specific supervision. As a result, SUN reports high performance on few-shot learning benchmarks. It can be considered as a good baseline for ViTs on few-shot learning.
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I'm interested in image and video understanding with non-ideal supervision (e.g., weakly-supervised object detection and few-shot classification).
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CVPR 2023 | paper | code
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ICLR 2023 | paper | code
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Tianyu Huang, Bowen Dong, Yunhan Yang, Xiaoshui Huang, Rynson W.H. Lau, Wanli Ouyang, Wangmeng Zuo
arxiv 2022 | paper | code
- Symmetry-Aware Transformer-based Mirror Detection
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AAAI 2023 | paper | code
- Self-Promoted Supervision for Few-Shot Transformer
Bowen Dong, Pan Zhou, Shuicheng Yan, Wangmeng Zuo
ECCV 2022 | paper | code
- W2N: Switching From Weak Supervision to Noisy Supervision for Object Detection
Zitong Huang, Yiping Bao, Bowen Dong, Erjin Zhou, Wangmeng Zuo
ECCV 2022 | paper | code
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2018, Silver Prize, Award on LanQiao Cup Final
2017, Bronze Prize, Award on ACM-ICPC Shenyang
2017, Bronze Prize, Award on ACM-CCPC Hangzhou
2017, Silver Prize, Award on ACM-CCPC Heilongjiang
2017, Silver Prize, Award on ACM-CCPC Northeast Region


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