Underscores in Python

the following special forms using leading or trailing
underscores are recognized (these can generally be combined with any case
convention):

- _single_leading_underscore: weak "internal use" indicator.  E.g. "from M
  import *" does not import objects whose name starts with an underscore.

- single_trailing_underscore_: used by convention to avoid conflicts with
  Python keyword, e.g.

  Tkinter.Toplevel(master, class_='ClassName')

- __double_leading_underscore: when naming a class attribute, invokes name
  mangling (inside class FooBar, __boo becomes _FooBar__boo; see below).

- __double_leading_and_trailing_underscore__: "magic" objects or
  attributes that live in user-controlled namespaces.  E.g. __init__,
  __import__ or __file__.  Never invent such names; only use them
  as documented.

HTML Notes

Overlay one div on another div

 #div_1 {
  position: absolute;
 }
 

  

   

   

  
 

thus the two div_1 is overlaid on div_2

Merits in Social Networking

source: http://www.spring.org.uk/2013/03/is-the-internet-goodbad-for-you-and-other-dumb-questions.php

Cannot Sleep? Association Rule Can Help You

Stimulus Control Therapy

1. Lie down to go to sleep only when you are sleepy.
2. Do not use your bed for anything except sleep; that is, do not read, watch television, eat, or worry in bed. Sexual activity is the only exception to this rule. On such occasions, the instructions are to be followed afterwards, when you intend to go to sleep.
3. If you find yourself unable to fall asleep, get up and go into another room. Stay up as long as you wish and then return to the  bedroom to sleep. Although we do not want you to watch the clock, we want you to get out of bed if you do not fall asleep immediately. Remember the goal is to associate your bed with falling asleep quickly! If you are in bed more than about 10 minutes without falling asleep and have not gotten up, you are not following this instruction.
4. If you still cannot fall asleep, repeat step 3. Do this as often as is necessary throughout the night.
5. Set your alarm and get up at the same time every morning irrespective of how much sleep you got during the night. This will help your body acquire a consistent sleep rhythm.
6. Do not nap during the day.

Notes on Memory

How Memory Works: 10 Things Most People Get Wrong

"If we remembered everything we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing." ~William James

Change the size of Thumbnail Preview. Aero Peek

Make the Taskbar Thumbnail Preview Bigger in Windows 7

Source: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/increase-taskbar-thumbnail-preview-size-windows-7/

Aspect-oriented programming

Aspect-Oriented Programming 

Wikipedia Notes

Regular Expression (Regexe)

yet another insignificant Programming Notes

Regular Expression 

Regular Expression, or regexe in short, is extremely and amazingly powerful in searching and manipulating text strings. One line of regexe can easily replace several dozen lines of programming codes. Regexe is supported in almost all the scripting languages (such as Perl, Python, PHP, and JavaScript) as well as general purpose programming languages such as Java, and even word processor such as Word for searching texts. 

>>> convert('CamelCase')
camel_case

C++ & Java: args and argv

aAutoDeleteEnginePath = AdaConstants.AUTODELETE_BIN_PATH;
aAutoDeleteEngineOutputFilePath = AdaConstants.AUTODELETE_OUTPUT_FILE_PATH;
aTerminal = args[0];
aTimestamp = args[1];

C++ the argv[0] is the command itself java the args[0] is the first argument

Process in Java

Process

Word Advanced Techniques

Hyphenation 

ERP Implementation Cases Reflection

Zhang Danyang
Overview

This reflection will discuss about the lessons learned from both successful and unsuccessful Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation cases. The purpose of ERP is to integrate and unify every aspect of the business of an enterprise into one single suite of software system. Many of the ERP implementation cases occurred around late 1990’s, in an attempt to tackle with Y2K problems.  After discussion about the lessons learned from these cases, the reflection will talk about the ERP implementation approaches, and a new approach from Software Engineering is proposed.

Recommend a Plagiarism Checking Website

In order to check the plagiarism before submitting to Turnitin, this website - plagiarism scan - is recommended.

The Tipping Point (Malcolm Gladwell) -- Summary of Info on Wikipedia

Hub in Information Dissemination

 

Some of Malcolm Gladwell's analysis as to why the phenomenon of the "tipping point" occurs (particularly in relation to his idea of the "law of the few") and its unpredictable elements^[16] is based on the 1967 small-world experiment by social psychologist Stanley Milgram. Milgram distributed letters to 160 students in Nebraska, with instructions that they be sent to a stockbroker in Boston (not personally known to them) by passing the letters to anyone else that they believed to be socially closer to the target. The study found that it took an average of six links to deliver each letter. Of particular interest to Gladwell was the finding that just three friends of the stockbroker provided the final link for half of the letters that arrived successfully.^[17] This gave rise to Gladwell's theory that certain types of people are key to the dissemination of information.

Outliers (Malcolm Gladwell) -- Summary of Info on Wikipedia

Christopher Langan and J. Robert Oppenheimer, end up with such vastly different fortunes.

All Gladwell's books focus on singularities: singular events in The Tipping Point, singular moments in Blink, and singular people in Outliers. Gladwell was drawn to writing about singular things after he discovered that "they always made the best stories".^[1] Convinced that the most unusual stories had the best chance of reaching the front page of a newspaper, he was "quickly weaned off the notion that [he] should be interested in the mundane".^[1]

C++ file IO

freopen("input.txt","r",stdin); string line; stringstream ss; getline(cin, line); while(line!=""){ ss<

Euler Project Question #3

Euler Project Question #3

Find Prime:

We can use the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic which states:
Any integer greater than 1 is either a prime number, or can be written as a unique product of prime numbers (ignoring the order).

Windows Basics CMD Shell & Others

1.  Frequently-used Commands

General Notes: The commands are NOT case-sensitive (because the legacy DOS is not case-sensitive). In general, Windows/DOS Operating System is not case-sensitive, but Unixes are. Most of the programming languages such as C/C++/Java, with origin in Unix, are case-sensitive.

1.1  Help

Help: To list all the available commands, for example,

1.2  Directory- and File-related Commands

Other frequently-used directory- and file-related commands include:

• del filenames: Deletes files.
• ren current-filename new-filename: Renames a file.
• mkdir directory-name: Creates (or make) a sub-directory under the current working directory.
• rmdir directory-name: Removes or deletes the sub-directory.
• copy filename new-filename: Copies file.
• xcopy|robocopy: Copies (or Robust copies) files and directory trees.

Programmer's Survival Guide for Windows

2.  Windows' File System and Basic File/Directory Commands

Windows' file system is NOT case-sensitive

Flow

This is a summary tag

        familial relationships
        collective form of TV watching
        ostracization
        funky clothes
        demeanor
        clique
        expressivity
        deferent waiter
        bittersweet memories
        spontaneous process
        assiduously
        dissipative
        paraplegics
        fulfilling
        terminal illness
        unwavering purpose
        daunt
        suspicion
        epoch

    

Adobe Photoshop CS6 Keyboard Shortcuts

Ubuntu Font on Chrome (Windows)

Three things:
1. Download Ubuntu Font Family
2. Install Ubuntu Font in Windows
3. Chrome Extension

1. Download Ubuntu Font Family

http://font.ubuntu.com/

HTML 5 Semantic Element

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_semantic_elements.asp

New Semantic Elements in HTML5

They are <div></div> by themselves

Many of existing web sites today contains HTML code like this: <div id="nav">, <div class="header">, or <div id="footer">, to indicate navigation links, header, and footer.

HTML5 offers new semantic elements to clearly define different parts of a web page:

• <header>
• <nav>
• <section>
• <article>
• <aside>
• <figcaption>
• <figure>
• <footer>

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HTTP Response Error Codes

Error Codes

Because the default handlers handle redirects (codes in the 300 range), and codes in the 100-299 range indicate success, you will usually only see error codes in the 400-599 range.

dbx - Universal Debugger in Unix/Linux

More Advanced Information: http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/doc/dbx.html

DBX:

C++ map::find() and map::operator[]

// map::find
#include <iostream>
#include <map>

urllib2 -- The Missing Mannual

urllib2 The Missing Mannual

 urllib2 docs

Fetching URLs

The simplest way to use urllib2 is as follows :

import urllib2
response = urllib2.urlopen('http://python.org/')
html = response.read()

Request object

Reflection in Java (and a little Python)

toString(), iterates through every attributes in a Class

public class Formatter {
    public static String toString(Object aObject) {
        StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder();
        String newLine = System.getProperty("line.separator");
        
        result.append( aObject.getClass().getName() );
        result.append( " Object {" );
        result.append(newLine);
        
        //determine fields declared in aObject class only (no fields of superclass)
        Field[] fields = aObject.getClass().getDeclaredFields();
        
        //print field names paired with their values
        for ( Field field : fields  ) {
            result.append("  ");
            try {
                field.setAccessible(true);
                result.append( field.getName() );
                result.append(": ");
                //requires access to private field:
                result.append( field.get(aObject) );
            } catch ( IllegalAccessException ex ) {
                System.out.println(ex);
            }
            result.append(newLine);
        }
        result.append("}");
        
        return result.toString();
    }

}

Disable auto brightness/ dynamic contrast

1. ctrl+alt+F12 to call up Intel Graphics->Power->On Battery->Max Performance, Plugged-in->Max Perforamnce
2. Windows Advanced Power Options -> Display -> turn off "adaptive brightness" 
3. If it does not work, try to plug and unplug the power supply several times. 

Java Serialization Tutorial

source: http://www.tutorialspoint.com/java/java_serialization.htm

like pickle in Python:
Java provides a mechanism, called object serialization where an object can be represented as a sequence of bytes that includes the object's data as well as information about the object's type and the types of data stored in the object.

Classes ObjectInputStream and ObjectOutputStream are high-level streams that contain the methods for serializing and deserializing an object.

Permutation in Java and C++

C++

from #include<algorithm>

int a[] = {3,4,6,2,1};
int size = sizeof(a)/sizeof(a[0]);
std::sort(a, a+size);
do {
  // print a's elements
} while(std::next_permutation(a, a+size));

JAVA

public class Permute{
    static void permute(java.util.List<Integer> arr, int k){
        for(int i = k; i < arr.size(); i++){
            java.util.Collections.swap(arr, i, k);
            permute(arr, k+1);
            java.util.Collections.swap(arr, k, i);
        }
        if (k == arr.size() -1){
            System.out.println(java.util.Arrays.toString(arr.toArray()));
        }
    }
    public static void main(String[] args){
        Permute.permute(java.util.Arrays.asList(3,4,6,2,1), 0);
    }
}

You take first element of an array (k=0) and exchange it with any element (i) of the array. Then you recursively apply permutation on array starting with second element. This way you get all permutations starting with i-th element. The tricky part is that after recursive call you must swap i-th element with first element back, otherwise you could get repeated values at the first spot. By swapping it back we restore order of elements (basically you do backtracking).

done