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This is an opinion based question so whether this is in the wrong place or isn’t allowed, apologies. I’m looking to create an online booking system that would involve a front-end for both the customer/users (to view/book/edit/cancel appointments), as well as one for employees/staff (in which they can create/update/cancel appointments, view sign ups, calendars etc,Read more

Here are two examples of what I mean, if (someVariableOrExpression !== null |> !== undefined) { } if (someVariableOrExpression != 1 |> != 2) { } Now I know there are ways you can do these things, e.g. Just refer to someVariableOrExpression twice. Put 1 and 2 into a list and change if someVariableOrExpression isRead more

I have quite some experience with TDD in Java and Kotlin and currently try to learn testing with Javascript. I am not sure if this is really a question about weak vs. strong typing or about general design. I always was under the impression that mocking/stubbing code you don’t own is a bad idea. InRead more

Consider the following c# example: public class MyParentClass { public int MyInt { get; set; } } public class MyChildClass : MyParentClass { } public class AnotherClass { public MyChildClass GetChildClassFromParentClass(MyParentClass parent) { return new MyChildClass() { MyInt = parent.MyInt }; } } I’m wondering why it’s not possible to directly clone the parent classRead more

I am trying to get into isomorphic web development. I have taken a look at Scala. ScalaJS seems to be lacking with respect to availability of facades for popular libraries. I have also taken a look at Typescript. What would be other options in programming languages with static typing and good community support ? ThanksRead more

in older-drupal-versions when content was translated to different languages, it was possible to indicate in which other languages that content is available and in which not. Let’s say I have en, de and fr as languages. Foo is translated to en and de and bar is translated to fr only. In my contents index (/admin/content)Read more

Java and .NET have wonderful garbage collectors that manage memory for you, and convenient patterns for quickly releasing external objects (Closeable, IDisposable), but only if they are owned by a single object. In some systems a resource might need to be consumed independently by two components, and only be released when both components release theRead more

I often need to use library written in one language in another language. There are many projects that support interfacing between programs written in different programming languages (either by generating bindings or using reflection). For example: SWIG (C++/C <-> multiple languages) pyjnius (Python<->Java) gopy (Go<->Python) “raw” C interop is built-in in most languages (C#, Java,Read more

In a module (not a template), I need the label of a specific field in multiple languages. $ entity->getFieldDefinition(‘myField’)->label() gives me the label in current/active language (let’s say, English). What doesn’t work as expected is the following: $ entity->getTranslation(‘fr’)->getFieldDefinition(‘myField’)->label() I would expect the label in French. Instead, I get the label English. How to getRead more

For example, I would to create an Android app that creates a grid on the camera preview. I would like the app to monitor a specific square or set of squares for motion detection:Read more