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Linux: Display File Properties via Terminal

We commonly need and want to know more about the files and directories that we are working with. Most people know one of the ways, which is simply to Right Click > Properties on the wanted folder or file to view their properties. Though, for the moore terminal-savvy, here's how...

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Jul 29, 2021

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How to Return HTTP Status Codes in a Spring Boot Application

All Software Engineers that rely on external/third-party services or tools over HTTP would like to know whether their requests have been accepted, and if not - what's going on. Your role as an API developer is to provide a good experience for your users, and amongst other things -...

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Jul 01, 2021

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Thymeleaf Path Variables with Spring Boot

Thymeleaf is a templating (server-side rendering) engine used by many Java software engineers within Spring-based web applications. An important feature of any web application is the support for dynamic URLs and path variables within those URLs. Most REST APIs extensively use path variables to specify the IDs of elements they're...

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Jun 22, 2021

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JavaScript: How to Redirect to Another Webpage

Oftentimes, we need to redirect users to another website or another web page on the same site. There are several ways to redirect which include JavaScript redirection, server-side redirection, and HTML meta refresh redirection. Redirection is basically a mechanism to send users to another URL address. The motivation to use...

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May 28, 2021·6 min read

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Working with Python's PyQT Framework

In this guide, we'll take a look at how to use Python's PyQT framework to develop a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for a desktop application in Python. Popular Python alternatives for developing a GUI include Tkinter, Kivy, PySimpleGUI, and wxPython. Note: As of writing this tutorial, PyQt6 is the latest...

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May 10, 2021·27 min read

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Parse Datetime Strings with parsedatetime in Python

In this tutorial, we'll take a look at how to parse Datetime with parsedatetime in Python. To use the parsedatetime package we first need to install it using pip: $ pip install parsedatetime Should pip install parsedatetime fail, the package is also open-source and available on Github. Convert String to Python's...

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Mar 24, 2021·6 min read

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Reading and Writing CSV Files in Kotlin with Apache Commons

In this article we'll be taking a look at how to read and write CSV files in Kotlin, specifically, using Apache Commons. Apache Commons Dependency Since we're working wih an external library, let's go ahead and import it into our Kotlin project. If you're using Maven, simply include the commons-csv...

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Mar 23, 2021·5 min read

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Python: Check if Array/List Contains Element/Value

In this tutorial, we'll take a look at how to check if a list contains an element or value in Python. We'll use a list of strings, containing a few animals: animals = ['Dog', 'Cat', 'Bird', 'Fish'] Check if List Contains Element With...

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Mar 05, 2021·4 min read

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Form Data Validation in Node.js with express-validator

It is imperative to carry out server-side validation when building applications - especially client-facing applications. The reason being, one can never rely on the user’s input alone; as these inputs sometimes contain bogus/malicious data. Client-side validation is a great way to sift through most of the input, but...

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Feb 03, 2021·9 min read