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  Permutation algorithm with JavaScript

In secondary school, we have learned permutation. Basically, for n numbers, the number of permutations for these n numbers can be calculated to n! which is called 'n factorial'. But to display all the permutations on the screen, we need to use a recursive function. The problem is how to write this function.  Next I write a program to display the permutations for n numbers with JavaScript. First, we need to understand that from these n numbers, we can first take any one number from it, and t...

   JavaScript,Permutation,Algorithm,Impleme     2011-09-21 12:02:35

  New function signal.NotifyContext in GoLang 1.16

os/signal package in GoLang may not be frequently used but it provides some good features like Shutdown() which can be used to gracefully shutdown a running HTTP server. func (srv *Server) Shutdown(ctx context.Context) error With this function, there is no need to use third party library to gracefully shutdown HTTP server. How is it being used? package main import ( "context" "fmt" "net/http" "os" "os/signal" "time" ) func main() { server := http.Server{ Addr: ":8080", } http.Handl...

   GOLANG,NOTIFYCONTEXT,GRACEFUL SHUTDOWN     2021-06-19 01:07:10

  Restore mocked variables in GoLang unit test

One of the guarding principles of writing unit test is that there should be no real external calls for dependant services. Unit test should run by its own and can run without issues on any environment including local, build, test environment. This indicates there should be some mock responses whenever an external call is needed so that different unit test scenarios can be covered. How can this be done in GoLang? In GoLang, anything can be assigned to a variable even including functions. A variab...

   GOLANG,UNIT TEST,MOCK FUNCTION,RESTORE MOCK     2021-12-10 20:43:00

  Google upgrades its built in calculator

Google search engine is more and more intelligent.It has been a long time since Google integrated a built in calculator in its search engine. Today, Google upgraded its built in calculator function in its search engine, a new calculator interface with 34 buttons is added.Before upgrading, if you type 6+7 in the search field, Google will only show the answer 13. But now, if you enter this formula again, in addition to the answer, it will display one calculator interface with 34 buttons. See follo...

   Google,built in,Calculator,Upgrade     2012-07-25 11:07:33

  The magic of go:linkname

When writing Go program, there is frequent need on using time.Sleep() function to pause the logic for some time. And if jumping to the definition of this function, can see below definition: // Sleep pauses the current goroutine for at least the duration d. // A negative or zero duration causes Sleep to return immediately. func Sleep(d Duration) I's strange that there is no function body defined here. What happened? The actual definition of the function body is residing at runtime/time.go&nb...

   TRICKS,GO:LINKNAME,GOLANG     2022-04-10 08:39:00

  How to help new joiners involve in projects

Usually when a new joiner involves in a new project, he will spend much time on understanding the background of the project, the current status of the project and the requirements of the project etc. It is very easy for them to get lost in this stage. So to effectively help them involve in the project, we need have some people guiding them, giving them some useful instructions. What should we do to help them? Here are some steps I take.1. Project backgroundIn this phase, I will introduce to them...

   New joiner,Experience     2012-05-05 11:06:18

  The confusing strtotime() function in PHP

Frequently PHP programmers get confused of the use of i month, -1 month, next month in strtotime() function. and hence it leaves some impression to programmer that this function is not that reliable. Let's take one example of strtotime call with -1 month and see why it leaves this impression. date("Y-m-d",strtotime("-1 month"))  // Assume today is 2018-07-31 What's the output of above call? The answer is 2018-07-01. Why not 2018-06-30? So people get confused. It appears that this is ...

   PHP,STRTOTIME,FIRST DAY OF,-1 MONTH     2018-08-04 05:49:32

  Art of code comment

Note : This post is just for fun. Please be careful about these tricks. Code comment is to provide complementary comment to abstract codes. We will introduce two comment styles while we are debugging our codes. we should avoid these styles in production codes. 1. if else style Only execute eatKfc() //* eatKfc(); /*/ eatMcdonalds(); //*/ Only execute eatMcdonalds() /* eatKfc(); /*/ eatMcdonalds(); //*/ Execute both //* eatKfc(); //*/ eatMcdonalds(...

   Comment,Style     2013-08-19 04:19:40

  PHP Multithreading – Faking It

PHP doesn’t really support multi-threading per se but there are ways to do “fake” multithreading. Here’s one I saw in the PHPClasses.org newsletter – Multi-thread Simulation. Note that this class is intedend for use on a webserver, as opposed to running PHP scripts from a command line (or similar). Check the end of this post for some alternatives you can try if you’re using PHP as a stand-alone scripting language. Now, I’m going to be lazy and just ...

   PHP,Multithreading,Possible,CURL,Fake,Si     2011-09-04 23:07:22

  An easy way to log client side information to server

JavaScript debug is a very troublesome thing in web application development. Because many web browsers will not notify you if there is any error in the JavaScript codes you write. They just silently fail and block the following codes execution. In order to debug JavaScript codes, we need a good log mechanism which will help us log the error information,, we often need to log errors in JavaScript codes to server for debug purpose in a production web application, What should we do? The first ...

   JavaScript log, Ajax,Image,Debug     2012-12-30 09:16:50