QML Dynamic View Ordering Tutorial 1 - A Simple ListView and Delegate
We begin our application by defining a ListView, a model which will provide data to the view, and a delegate which provides a template for constructing items in the view.
The code for the ListView and delegate looks like this:
import QtQuick 2.0 Rectangle { id: root width: 300; height: 400 Component { id: dragDelegate Rectangle { id: content anchors { left: parent.left; right: parent.right } height: column.implicitHeight + 4 border.width: 1 border.color: "lightsteelblue" radius: 2 Column { id: column anchors { fill: parent; margins: 2 } Text { text: 'Name: ' + name } Text { text: 'Type: ' + type } Text { text: 'Age: ' + age } Text { text: 'Size: ' + size } } } } ListView { id: view anchors { fill: parent; margins: 2 } model: PetsModel {} delegate: dragDelegate spacing: 4 cacheBuffer: 50 } }
The model is defined in a separate QML file which looks like this:
import QtQuick 2.0 ListModel { ListElement { name: "Polly" type: "Parrot" age: 12 size: "Small" } ListElement { name: "Penny" type: "Turtle" age: 4 size: "Small" } }
Walkthrough
The first item defined within the application's root Rectangle is the delegate Component. This is the template from which each item in the ListView is constructed.
The name
, age
, type
, and size
variables referenced in the delegate are sourced from the model data. The names correspond to roles defined in the model.
Component { id: dragDelegate Rectangle { id: content anchors { left: parent.left; right: parent.right } height: column.implicitHeight + 4 border.width: 1 border.color: "lightsteelblue" radius: 2 Column { id: column anchors { fill: parent; margins: 2 } Text { text: 'Name: ' + name } Text { text: 'Type: ' + type } Text { text: 'Age: ' + age } Text { text: 'Size: ' + size } } } }
The second part of the application is the ListView itself to which we bind the model and delegate.
ListView { id: view anchors { fill: parent; margins: 2 } model: PetsModel {} delegate: dragDelegate spacing: 4 cacheBuffer: 50 }
Files:


China 'resolutely' backs Hong Kong leader despite polls setback
BEIJING: China said on Monday (Nov 25) it supports Hong Kong's embattled leader Carrie Lam, after the pro-democracy camp scored a crushing victory in community-level elections in the city after months of violence.
The result was a humiliating rebuke to Beijing and Lam, who has dismissed calls for political reform and had repeatedly suggested that a silent majority supported her administration and opposed the protest movement.
"China's central government resolutely supports chief executive Carrie Lam's leadership of the Special Administrative Region government," said foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang at a regular press briefing.

Commentary: Hong Kong poll win will embolden protesters
Geng said the government also supported the police and judiciary in Hong Kong in "punishing relevant violent and illegal behaviours."
"The Chinese government's resolve to protect national sovereignty, security and development interest has not faltered. Its resolve to carry out one country, two systems has not faltered," he said.
READ: Hong Kong part of China 'no matter what happens' in elections, says foreign minister
Lam said earlier on Monday that her government would "listen humbly" to the public.
Candidates favouring greater democracy seized an overwhelming majority of the 452 seats in the city's 18 district councils.
READ: Our coverage of the Hong Kong protests
Follow us on Telegram for the latest on Hong Kong: https://cna.asia/telegram


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- Horses
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Bear Paw, September 30, 1877. Chief Joseph handles his rifle to Gen.Oliver O. Howard and Col. Nelson Miles: “I will fight no more forever”.


Off the market? Actor Keanu Reeves breaks hearts by appearing with red carpet date
by BY TAN MEI ZIPETALING JAYA, Nov 5 — Hollywood actor Keanu Reeves set tongues wagging when he walked down the red carpet hand-in-hand with artist Alexandra Grant recently.
The pair were attending the LACMA Art + Film Gala in Los Angeles on Saturday.
Various publications reported that it was the first time Reeves has ever attended a red carpet event with a date throughout his 35-year career.
Their public display of affection fueled the curiosity of fans who couldn’t help but wonder if Reeves, affectionately nicknamed the “internet’s boyfriend”, was dating Grant for real.
Either way, many social media users were over the moon to see the 55-year-old with a companion they deemed to be “age-appropriate”.
Various publications have reported Grant’s age as 46 years old.
According to People magazine, the Reeves and Grant have been “friends and collaborators” for years and have previously worked together on two books together, Ode to Happiness and Shadows.
They also founded a publishing house in 2017 named X Artists’ Books.
Reeves became the subject of mass adoration online following a slew of appearances in popular films this year, including John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum, Always Be My Maybe, and Toy Story 4.
While the Canadian actor can’t quite fathom the Internet’s obsession with him, he welcomes it all the same.
“... That’s wacky. Well, the positivity is great,” he was quoted as saying by People.
He’s set to return to the franchise that catapulted him to global stardom when production on the fourth Matrix film begins next year.


IPL: Naft Masjed Solyman Stuns Persepolis [VIDEO]
by Mir Farhad Ali KhanTasnim – TEHRAN, Naft Masjed Soleyman football team defeated Persepolis 1-0 here at the Azadi Stadium on Friday.
Alireza Alizadeh scored the only goal of the match in the 76th minute.
Persepolis created several scoring chances in the final minutes of the match but its strikers lacked the cutting edge.
Titleholder Persepolis remained in third place with 19 points, four points behind IPL leader Shahr Khodro who has one match in hand.


Onboard IoT hardware as easy as Kindle, at a fraction of the cost.
Last month we released OpenSensors’ Search and Subscribe features. This IoT Day we’re pushing our latest development, Organisations, or Orgs for short.
Orgs is a new feature focused on streamlining hardware production workflows and managing large numbers of devices.
With OpenSensors’ Orgs, you are able to manage all of your devices and data in one place with and pretty soon you will get an at-a-glance easy device health monitoring – giving your customers a seamless user experience equivalent of the Kindle but without Amazon’s budget. Those of you managing 1000s of devices in the wild are only too aware of how hard it is to manage the workflow between factory and individual devices all over the world.
We’re trying to make IoT onboarding easier for Hardware startups and connected device manufacturers. That’s why we’ve designed a production to customer workflow, think Kindle for IoT.
People managing organisations can now batch provision and manage their new devices. Devices can be searched for and ‘claimed’ by your customers via the UI or API adding relevant meta-data such as location information to help you keep track of your devices and new customers once your connected devices are out in the wild.
It’s an exciting feature, and we hope you’re just as excited as we are. We want to save you time and effort and also enable you to get your connected devices to market quicker and cheaper.
As some of you may have noticed, we released a stripped down Alpha version of Orgs in our last release. We’ve learned from your feedback.
And we’re not finished yet, we have a lot of plans for Orgs and this is the first step in the journey. To celebrate IOT day we are giving away 3 months worth of Organisational hosting and functionality to IoT startups. Get in touch on<EMAIL_ADDRESS>for a voucher.
For more details about Organisations and how to use them check out our help pages
Happy IoT Day!


Outtakes of my creative writing portfolio from 2015 - 2017.
Name
I think it is red, rich and bold. It’s sweet to hear people saying my name with their accents, hear their voices stretch out its syllables. I love the way my grandmother says ‘Katharine’. My name does not mean hope or happiness, but I have filled it with good traits that belong to me. I think ‘Katharines’ have been given their name by pure luck. A mere trawling through the abyss of the English language and finding something which seems familiar. Sundays are the sweetest day of the week. There is always soft background music, the smell of fresh laundry. I always think of my name with the fondness I think of the weekend, of Sundays.
Mia + Boys
The boys you fell in love with were like actors. They were never as exciting as the roles they played. Mia knew this, but she went for them anyway. Because in some twisted way, to hurt created excellence in her body and mind. Her words became polished and beautiful. Her skin smoother, plumper.  The thought itself carried a weight over her.
Suburbia
I
Dark suburbia is scary. It's different from Hollywood films and pastel skies - more dangerous too. The glamorous
suburbs filled with stylish women who cry themselves to sleep at night - that
is what we want. We want Xanax and coke to ease the pain - it's scary to think that
the woman working three jobs can just end herself. The drugs and the lights dull almost compared to red lipstick of
the new wife. Oh, how should she pay for such a divorce, what glamour! What beauty - a tarnished nickel in the
water.
II
An eye for an eye, I’m scared of consequences. So, I watch my shadow and step, avoid the pavement and keep an eye
down, my iris circling out. Crying through the veil of tears and watching for a bullet to come through my head. I
hear noises at night - a motorbike, howl hoot and bark from the animals - why should they yell at night? What is in
our suburbs that make us cry? Pageant queen smiles at me - why the placid look? I don't like her, she doesn’t like
me, what else is there to say with that look?
Mummy
edited on 30-08-17
Mist settles on cold water. A cycle where junipers of water dripped and dribbled spinning silken whirls of string. Covered the smooth bark with paper thin water. Dull and blue. Unclear. Intangible. Cocoa in her stars, finished and oddity space-filled and she was godly divine speech impaired and soulful gold tooth which had replace her rotten one mother was one love and she was the worst mummy issues which created irreplaceable fear and certainly approved masochistic tendencies.
Womanhood
My life is a rotation of blood, bleeding and revitalisation. When I feel dirty, I have the urge to purify myself. Aquify myself in a ritual. Sometimes I break, upon and upon myself. But I’m not sad, I’m not sad, and I convince myself that that is normal.  Cream coloured paper filled with these thoughts.
Untitled
I
I am the trigger to my own gun, I am paranoid. A schizophrenic fairy in a state of static. The sand slips through my
fingers with exquisite slowness, so before I realise what I have lost, I enjoy it with the pleasure of the first
bite of an apple. Freshness.
II
Slick blood slippery fingers, skin with dryness. And ache which will not escape my nails. The softness of my hair,
one moment transformed to the movement of tar and the Amazonian rubber and oil which runs through the veins of the
earth.
Beauty Regime II
I’ve recently become obsessed with drinking water. I drink close to 6-7 large cups of water a day because it will make my skin perfect. This idea now defines my idea of beauty – natural. Natural beauty is what will separate me from other girls. I use a thin layer of cream on my face every morning. Recently, I have started getting larger bumps on my skin, my nose is dryer and slightly peeling and I’m not sure how to stop this. I read an article that suggested that oils might moisturise as supposed to saturate your natural skin, but oils feel greasy and summer is approaching. I firmly believe heels are essential in the beauty mantra. Seven-inch, six-inch are all fine - they elongate the leg, straighten the back and make the chin better swooped.
White Owl in Paradise
*this poem was the basis of my All the Women script - it's a satirical little poem about poetry subject matter and the stylisation of poets in contemporary media & culture
Dove like, satst, the white owl,
Overlooking ultramarine blue waters,
Not incandescent blue wine,
Not Campbell tomato soup, blue with time.

I don’t know why they’re so brittle after several weeks – mascara?
I have never thought of myself as ugly. I want to have perfect skin.
#36
Aftermath
Sometimes as I walk, the soft sunlight follows me and the air is not so humid. It is warm
and the wind is soft, combing my face. I lighten as if nature lifts me up, and I feel alive.
American
Dark room. Two rows of “U” shaped tables. Our heroine cries silently, melodramatically.
She is an actor. The heroine bats her lashes in the dark cinema. A jour de jeune, Matthew smokes into
the dark. It is an almost overwhelming beauty, the ugliest can transform into the most extraordinary. There is so
much sensation which has been blessed upon the wayward earth. Rose, with Rose. After an afternoon of
debauchery and sin, cigar, black jack playing, our heart throb graces the room with supernatural awe and grotesque
splendour. Matthew leans over and he stamps out his cigar into the ashtray of porcelain, it is shaped like a rude
ballet dancer fanning out her skirt.
 I cannot compete with such and I left my body cold for more than a month, I stopped I was smoke no liquid had touched my parched skin sickle more, arching leering teeth glaring.
Martyrs
What ever happened to us? What ever happened to what we stood for. No romance. The romantics died in the war, martyrs for love. There is no more love. I haven’t felt love for a while. Exist and progress. Identity lost. The decades fly and we cry.
Rio
There is an aesthetic to poverty – our ‘thin’ a trait that is inspired by the swaths of thin limbs and the pile of bones that stretch the coloured skin of peoples in the world. There is an aesthetic to wealth - a mixture of luxury, gold, Cartier status on one's’ arm and a sway to one's leather coat, boots, hair, skin - tantalising. From the cartels in Mexico I find my way, my swish and rumba to the lights, I sway and wonder whether there are good men in Rio – Rio the party the light the fire in my glass, rumbling down my throat a tidal breeze. A man can pursue the arts in the city of god, a man can be who he wants to be and he can cry out to those who will listen.
Jazz
My eyelids are so fat and heavy that my pupil is a slit but I see her – all golden and taut and tan. Holier than thou sort of girl. She isn’t hardened like the women I know – the Mishkas’ cold and silent in stony realisation, the women who endure hardship, labour and brutality. She was a little girl, soft, buttery tissues tearing. Her laugh is wispy as I tell her that she is an angel. So light it skims the fibers of my body, anchoring on heavy. She dances, disappears. Mishka and Getty sway me away asking about the music, the drugs, the poetry but I can only answer with a “darn” or “yeah”, I run back. I am absolutely besotted, flushed and I am in love again with an Angel with rosy lips and oily skin. This entire night has been a blur, I am drunk on four-dollar scotches, crying in Mishka’s lap and I can only think of her.
Jazz II
In a smoky bar,
Where women chain smoke
And men drink to smash glasses in ecstasy,
Howl and whistle at beautiful women
There sits a man lost in his world,
he keeps drinking and drugging,
slugging his body.
Light and clear he blinks, all charming.
And we can tell he is our poet extraordinaire,
with his words and his coyness.
All that boozing and smoking,
with pipes,
but he is still soft inside.


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Preparation time
less than 30 mins
Cooking time
30 mins to 1 hour
Serves
Serves 16
Dietary
A Christmas inspired twist on a sweet Italian dessert.
Preheat the oven to 160C/140C Fan/Gas 3. Grease and line a 23cm/9in round springform cake tin with baking paper.
Mix the almonds, mincemeat, spices, chocolate, figs, cocoa and flour in a large bowl.
Heat the butter, honey and sugar in a medium saucepan until the butter has melted and the sugar has dissolved. Pour over the dry ingredients and mix until well combined.
Tip the mixture into the prepared tin and bake for 40–50 minutes. Leave to cool in the tin.
Just before serving, transfer onto a serving plate, dust with icing sugar and cut into thin slices.


Main layout
Requirements
Optimal at
- 1366x768 px
- ~19.5% of Swedens desktop screens (~56% is above this resolution)
Great at
- 768 px
- Portrait iPad (~82% of Swedens tablets)
- 1024 px
- Landscape iPad (~82% of Swedens tablets)
Good at
- 1920x1080 px
- ~20% of Swedens desktop screens
- 1440x900 px
- ~16.5% of Swedens desktop screens
- 360x640 px
- 360x640 & 375x667 is ~51% of Swedens mobile screens


| Go to |
|---|
| CL2 |
| UIx |
| HIIT |
The logger program has a lot of functionality, and it necessarily requires some site and user specific configuration. Otherwise it aims to just run and run without much interaction with the outside world, and hence here our focus is primarily on explaining how to do the configuring.
In the case of ContextLogger2, build time configuration also plays an important role. For information on that, see builder's guide.
There are a number of configuration parameters that may be set in a textual configuration file, without having to rebuild the binary. These parameters are typically ones that are not easy to decide at build time, as they may depend on user preferences, mobile operator, or the specific device used. Some of the parameters can also be overridden dynamically at runtime. On the other hand, there are also ones that we specifically did not want to be dynamically configurable, for security reasons; these include username
and upload_url
.
The definitions for these parameters reside in a configuration file whose pathname is c:\data\cl2\config.txt
. An example of the content of the file is given below. The content must be a piece of valid Lua code that assigns the configuration parameters to global variables of known names.
username = "teemuteekkari" upload_url = "https://myhost.mydomain/upload" compress_logs = true remokon_host = "big.brother" remokon_port = 5222 remokon_password = "BigBrother123" jid = username .. "@" .. remokon_host .. "/Mobile" iap = function () return cl2.iap_id_by_name('Elisa Internet') end mcc = 244 operator_name = "Elisa"
Dynamic configuring of the logger program is possible remotely via XMPP (Jabber). It is also possible locally for Symbian builds, which implement a configuration protocol based on the Symbian client/server framework. The Launcher application makes use of the latter protocol to implement its logger configuration commands. More flexible configuration than that provided by the launcher is possible by using the protocol directly.
For easy deployment of the same initial configuration on multiple devices, it is also possible to simply create a configuration database file using SQLite3, on the PC, say, and then store that on all the devices as c:\data\cl2\config.db
.
For instance, suppose there is a trial involving 50 phones, and for all of them one wants to set the GPS scan interval as 10 minutes. There is presently no compile-time configuration option for this, nor is there a parameter for this in the static configuration file. Instead, one might create a configuration database specifying the desired interval of 10 minutes (600 seconds), and install this as a SIS file, say, in addition to the software itself. The configuration file with the desired parameter could be created with the following commands:
sqlite3 config.db "create table configuration (name TEXT UNIQUE, value TEXT);" sqlite3 config.db "insert or replace into configuration (name, value) values \ ('sensor.gps.interval', 'return 600');"
Note that the "gps" and "btprox" sensors consume a lot of battery, and for this reason you may want to carefully consider whether you want to enable these sensors or not. Disabling of sensors can be done both via compile-time and dynamic configuration.
The remote control facility is also a concern due to its constant use of the cellular radio. Particularly if you are not anyway constantly updating you Facebook feed or whatnot, the battery hit could be considerable. Remote control can be disabled at compile time, or simply by leaving it unconfigured. Also, you can dynamically start and stop it, or disable/enable its automatic activation upon logger process launch.
The access point to use and the upload frequency can be modified dynamically (via the Launcher program, or more generally by making a request via the CL2 client library), but the rest of it must be specified either already at build time, or in the configuration.
An upload configuration could look something like:
username = "john_doe" upload_url = "https://big.brother/upload.php?username=" .. username iap = function () return cl2.iap_id_by_name('Elisa Internet') end mcc = 244 -- Finland compress_logs = true
There is a large number of different web technologies one might use for receiving log files on the server side. The uploads arrive via multipart HTTP POST, and the part with the SQLite3 log file is named "logdata". The username is encoded in the filename of the part.
Due to the prevalence of PHP in the web hosting world, we have (despite not being PHP experts) written our example log file collector program in PHP. You might adapt it for receiving log files on your chosen server.
In PHP receiving multipart posts is straightforword. Basically one just has to inspect the "magic" value $_FILES["logdata"]
, which is automatically set by PHP. $_FILES['logdata']['tmp_name']
gives the pathname of the temporary file in which the log file is stored, while $_FILES['logdata']['name']
gives the client-specified name of the file.
Doing uploads over SSL is a good idea as it achieves server authentication and transport-time data confidentiality and integrity.
To do uploads via SSL, simply specify "https:" in the URL instead of "http:". Naturally then you must configure SSL support on the server side as well. If you use a self-signed certificate on the server, you will also have to install the appropriate CA cert on the client, but this is not always easy with S60 devices. Some phones (such as recent Nokia Eseries ones) allow you to permanently accept a cert sent by a server; with such phones you thus have the option of just launching the logger client, and then, upon first upload, accepting the certificate permanently for the upload site. Yes, there will be a pop-up dialog in that case.
On phones where this is not an option you must install a certificate, by sending it to the phone and then invoking the cert manager on it. You must use the DER format, as the phone will not accept PEM. You may want to refer to Nokia's document about certificate installation. The document unfortunately does not tell you much of anything about certificate creation; just installing a CA cert is not enough to get rid of popup warnings unless you get the cert content right. But based on experimentation, the key here seems to be that Common Name on the cert must exactly match the domain name of your server, otherwise you will get a popup for every single connection complaining about an untrusted server. Unless, indeed, you device offers the option of accepting the cert permanently for the site.


Unofficial translation
The vision of the Dominican Republic for 2030 states that:
“The Dominican Republic is a prosperous country, where people live with dignity, attached to ethical values and in the context of a participatory democracy that guarantees the social and democratic rule of law and promotes equity, equal opportunities, and social justice, and that manages and uses its resources to develop in an innovative, sustainable and territorially balanced and integrated way, competitively inserted into the global economy.”
For the realization of this vision, the 2030 National Development Strategy (NDS) articulates public policy in several key areas of development. This strategy promotes the transformation of society to a culture of sustainable production and consumption, which manages risks with equity and efficiency, protection of the environment and natural resources, and promoting adequate climate change adaptation. This is a huge challenge given national circumstances, territorial conditions and environmental features that add to and exacerbate the challenges imposed by climate change.
As a highly vulnerable country, the Dominican Republic aspires to achieve a global agreement that limits the increase in global average temperature to 2°C, with progressive reduction to 1.5°C, based on the scientific consensus.
The Dominican Republic’s intended nationally determined contribution has been designed based on national capacities, envisaged financing conditions and national circumstances.
| The reference point | The base year is 2010. Base year estimated emissions are 3.6 tCO2e per capita |
| Quantifiable emissions reduction target (conditional) | Reduction of 25% of base year emissions by 2030. This reduction is conditional upon favorable and predictable support, feasible climate finance mechanisms, and corrections to the failures of existing market mechanisms. |
| Time frames and/or periods for implementation | The implementation period is 2010-2030, with a review every five years. The post 2030 contributions will be established at the end of the NDS period. |
| Scope and coverage | Sectors covered:
|
| Planning processes | Planning processes will be based on the NDS, the National Policy on Climate Change, the Climate-Compatible Development Plan (CCDP), and the National Adaptation Plan of Action (NAPA-DR).These instruments articulate public policy on strategic areas where indicators have been established for the decarbonization of the economy and society, and relevant aspects for effective climate change adaptation. Furthermore, multisectoral consultations have identified specific actions for climate change adaptation and mitigation. |
| Assumptions and methodological approaches | The methodologies to be used correspond to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for Conducting National Greenhouse Gas Inventories and assume the Global Warming Potential (GWP) values for a residence period in the atmosphere of 100 years of the Second Assessment Report of the IPCC.
As the NDS indicates a vision for the country to be competitively inserted into a global economy, there is potential to participate in carbon market mechanisms. The development of carbon markets must ensure environmental integrity both nationally and internationally. Land Use and Land Use Change have implications in terms of emissions and absorptions, whose quantification will be used to achieve the objectives within the national contribution. |
| Fairness andambition | The proposed level is ambitious. The Dominican Republic is a middle-income country, however, it faces a number of development challenges, such as: poverty, education, health, security, etc., that exacerbate the challenge of adaptation and decoupling emissions from the economy.
In terms of emissions, the Dominican Republic represents less than 0.1% of global emissions. Per capita emissions are below the average for Latin America and the Caribbean region (4.9 tCO2e). However, the emissions trends of some economic sectors are important, especially transport, energy, manufacturing and construction, waste and agriculture. |
| Adaptation | Adaptation is a constitutional priority for the country. The sectors identified as most vulnerable are: Drinking Water, Energy (power generation component), National System of Protected Areas, Human Settlements and Tourism.
The elements of the strategic planning approach to adaptation are:
|
| Loss and Damage | As a small island developing state, and being located in an area of intense hurricane activity, the Dominican Republic is threatened constantly by hydro-meteorological events such as tropical storms, droughts and hurricanes affecting human settlements and productive activities.
Damage associated with hydro-meteorological events over the years has left a trail of effects demanded beyond considerable efforts. In 1998, Hurricane Georges caused losses and damages equivalent to 14% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 1997. The tropical storms Olga and Noel in 2007 forced the government to adjust its priorities and the economy, causing losses and damages of 1.2% of GDP and 5.3% of the national budget. Additionally, the damage caused by many otherdisasters including floods, landslides and droughts have not been quantified. The impacts of some extreme events have meant economic losses in the order of USD 9,470 million, and the most affected sectors have been: agriculture, transportation, energy, housing, education, industry and trade, sanitation, drainage, health and environment. These statistics refer to major events that cause disasters, but smaller and recurrent events can cause major damage to property, livelihoods and crops. However, certain gaps in the historical record of medium and small events persist, and the amount is estimated to be equal to half of the loss and damage of the biggest events. |
| Financing | For the water sector, the incremental cost of adaptation with reference to a baseline scenario for theperiod 2010-2030, reaches an amount of USD 2,792.5 million (2005 dollars), representing an average of 0.48% of the GDP projected for that period. The tourism sector will have to face the consequences of hydro-meteorological phenomena in the coming years. To combat this, it is estimated that the sector will need incremental financial flows of USD 358.3 million (2005 dollars) for the period 2005-2030.
In terms of mitigation, CCDP’s implementation has an approximate cost of USD 17,000 million (2010 Dollars) in the energy, transport, forestry, tourism, solid waste and cement sectors for the period 2010-2030; to achieve emission reductions in the order of 25 MtCO2e. These costs are associated with the identified measures that have mitigation potential, not with structural measures to modify or promote an enabling environment in these sectors. The National Strategy to Strengthen Human Resources and Skills to Advance Green, Low Emission and Climate Resilient Development identifies financing needs that exceed USD 1.5 million per year for projects of Higher Education, Technical-Vocational education and specializations. |
| Technology Needs | The country has developed a Technology Needs Assessment (TNA), which identified a number of measures and technologies whose implementation is compatible with the NDS, CCDP and the NAPA-DR. |
| Gender perspective | Aware that climate change will impact vulnerable groups of people in different ways, the gender perspective is a cross-cutting issue in the national development model. Therefore, the role of women as agents of change is recognized, and their participation is encouraged in the transformation of society towards a low-carbon and resilient development. |


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In an article on functional programming (update: link to Reddit copy; for some reason the original is gone). this Python code is declared as bad:
def respond(channel, msg): if channel.isValid() and msg.body() == "next": return channel.send("A2-B3") else: return channel.send("bye")
(I've corrected the obvious non-Pythonness of the original code, since that wasn't the point.) The author is unhappy that he doesn't know the value (i.e. implementation) of channel.isValid, msg.body and channel.send. If he knew the type of channel and msg he would know these things. And realistically these types are going to be relatively static, but you can't tell from a localized snippet of code. (Note that type inference doesn't help here at all, since with inference the types will be just as mysterious from simple code reading.)
The problem here is that the code has a language of its own. It talks about things like "channels" and "messages" without specifying what exactly it means. These terms probably are all over the code. And once you become familiar with the code base it is probably obvious what they mean, and tedious to constantly describe them.
This is a common situation in frameworks, though in this case the "framework" might simply be the rest of the code in the application outside of the module or function you are looking at.
It's often a very good tradeoff to ask the programmer new to your code to spend some time familiarizing him or herself with the lay of the land -- the basic ideas that are pervasive in your application, the objects that form the core of it, the words you use to describe its process.
Generally in Python (and elsewhere) we lack good conventions for doing this. Extracted documentation (ala Javadoc) is horrible for this; doctests aren't much better. Interfaces are generally quite good, if you separate the important interfaces from the incidental ones. Narratives and code maps are usually the best. But they often not present, or incomplete, or hidden, or not trustworthy. (Even when documentation is true it may still not be trustworthy.)
We (meaning "we programmers") should try to do better here. We should also be careful about the tradeoff -- adding new fundamental ideas to your code can be a great way to increase the expressiveness and cohesiveness of the code. But it also has a very real cost; it should not be done lightly. It is often better to repeat oneself than to introduce a new metaprogramming construct, a new object type, a subtle polymorphism, or use higher-level functions. I know, it feels cool to do all these things. It makes higher level languages seem justified -- if you are writing code that looks like C, why not write C? It lets you keep from repeating yourself. But it's often not worth it. It's often better to repeat yourself, to write dumb imperative code, to use short statements instead of long expressions, to add extra names to your code, to use lots of vertical space, to use a for loop, to use fundamental types over custom types, to avoid subclassing, to reimplement instead of generalize, to calculate eagerly instead of lazily, to bind tightly instead of loosely, to use functions over methods... all the things that are so often called bad are usually good, because they are usually easy. People overstate their case on these matters because it is hard to keep other people from doing the easy thing when it is the wrong thing. But programming-in-the-small (one function, one line, one simple routine) is best done in the easy way, even if it isn't as exciting.
The post you linked disappeared
While it's always been true that the man with only a hammer sees all problems as nails, the man with a toolbag containing a rich collection of function and object-oriented tools can have a tendency to see even the simplest problems as excuses to write a meta-framework that will never be used in any other context.
Or, as people have been saying for a long time now, and in a phrase that I feel could be interpreted as Pythonic:
"Keep it simple, stupid"This is especially important if we want to enourage much wider use of programming skills.
http://yarivsblog.com/articles/2006/12/11/a-general-theory-of-programming-language-relativity/ leads to a "404 not found"
# anonymous
it seems Yariv has unpublished some posts, including the one you mention. But I had read it earlier, and I also raised an eyebrow when he illustrated the "correct" way to write code, which to me just seemed to use slightly longer expression chains with identifier names that i guess were supposed to be more descriptive (they were talking about chess pieces or something). but there was nothing clearer about it at all, if you didnt know those particular names...it did not illustrate any advantage inherent in erlang that couldnt be true for python or most any other language as well.
anyway ++1 on every point you made. when writing code that is to be consumed by others, you have to question every little trick and shortcut you think is cool and/or convenient and insure it has a proper and consistent place in the overall concept. I also try to focus on "narrative" style documentation...since API docs dont say much by themselves. though I do receive some complaints that illustration through example is "inaccurate".
# mike bayer
Doctests can be narratives.
# Michael Bernstein
Google cache link doesn't work for me now.
You can read the original at reddit.
# silly_coward
However, terse-ness has merit in efficiency. We use shortcuts in language all the time. Idioms, contractions (not sure if that's the proper name), et al.
While I agree with the KISS paradigm, sometimes I feel it's getting taken too far in the web-development space. I have no evidence to form an argument, but I do wonder if coding for this level of read-ability will lead to "picture book" code -- code that is overly-simplified to the point of being a hindrance to efficiency.
Maybe I don't have experiences where using OO and "high-level" concepts has been a hindrance, but I do believe that the benefits out-weigh the cost when everyone understands the concepts. I believe there is a sweet-spot of balance between writing complex code efficiently and elegantly while still being readable and maintainable.
Extreme terseness can lead to obfu, but extreme verbosity can also have the same effects on maintenance AFAIK.
It might also be a matter of preference.
Interesting article -- good argument, but I think coding this way is too extreme. Or perhaps I am simply still too perl-ish for the python world, I dunno.
:)
All the best!
# j_king


LED Object structure. More...
#include <LED.h>
Data Fields | |
| uint32_t | pwmPeriod |
| PWM_Handle | pwmHandle |
| ClockP_Handle | clockHandle |
| ClockP_Struct | clock |
| LED_State | state |
| LED_State | rawState |
| LED_Type | ledType |
| uint8_t | brightness |
| uint_least8_t | gpioIndex |
| uint16_t | togglePeriod |
| uint16_t | blinkCount |
LED Object structure.
The application must not access any member variables of this structure!
| uint32_t LED_Object::pwmPeriod |
pwmPeriod(us) of controlling PWM
| PWM_Handle LED_Object::pwmHandle |
Used for PWM calls if PWM type LED
| ClockP_Handle LED_Object::clockHandle |
Handle to clock used for blinking
| ClockP_Struct LED_Object::clock |
Clock internal data
| LED_State LED_Object::state |
Current State of LED
| LED_State LED_Object::rawState |
rawState maintains actual state On or Off while blinking which is super state
| LED_Type LED_Object::ledType |
may be either GPIO or PWM controlled
| uint8_t LED_Object::brightness |
Varying min-max(0-100%) for PWM LED)
| uint_least8_t LED_Object::gpioIndex |
Index into GPIO_PinConfig array
| uint16_t LED_Object::togglePeriod |
Toggleperiod(ms), 0 for non-blinking LED This is half of blinkPeriod: two toggles is one blink
| uint16_t LED_Object::blinkCount |
Blinkcount, 0 for non-blinking LED


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| 003:200 Maulana | : |
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