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As a brief note, sometimes in Flutter (and Dart) you have to write a method/function that makes an asynchronous call, but the method can’t be marked async itself. The Flutter initState method is a good example of this.

So far I’ve learned two ways to deal with this:

• Use then inside the non-async method
• Use an unusual anonymous-function style syntax inside the method

I’ll demonstrate each technique below.

As a brief note to self, here’s an example of the forEach method on a Dart Map class. First, a sample Dart Map:

final states = {
    'AK' : 'Alaska',
    'AL' : 'Alabama', 
    'AR' : 'Arizona'
};

As a brief note, I took a very long time — more than a year — before writing this blog post because I wanted to be sure about what I’ve experienced. But I believe it to be correct, so I’m now sharing it here.

Collagen and diverticula pain

In short, I believe that collagen products like these — which I have bought many times on Amazon, as shown below — help to significantly diverticula/diverticulosis pain:

• Collagen Peptides Powder
• Vital Proteins Collagen Peptides Powder

And when I say significantly, I mean like an 80% reduction in diverticula/diverticulosis pain.

If you come from another programming language like Scala where you can easily create immutable lists — and many other immutable things — working with Dart (and Flutter) can be a major change, possibly because Dart was designed to be a pure OO language.

That being said, I just saw that there is a way to create an immutable list in Dart:

Many times when you use the Dart map method on a list, you’ll write the method as a one-line function. For example, the second line of code here shows a one-line map method on a Dart list:

final xs = ['aaa', 'bb', 'cccc'];
final ys = xs.map((String s) => s.length);  //one-line 'map'
ys.forEach(print);

I’m generally getting out of the writing business, but that being said, I don’t mind sharing some code as I go along. In this case I created the follow Dart programming examples as I reload Dart into my brain:

• Dart Factory pattern/method example
• Dart constructors with public and private fields
• Dart mixin example

If you ever want to compile and run a Dart project that uses a pubspec.yaml file to include some dependencies, here’s a quick example of the solution.

Your Dart source code

First, create your code and pubspec.yaml file as usual. Here’s the source code for a file named http_get.dart that uses the http package:

This article shares the source code for a Monte Carlo simulation that I wrote in Scala. It was inspired by the movie Minority Report, as well as my own experience.

Background

For the purposes of this simulation, imagine that you have three people that are each “right” roughly 80% of the time. For instance, if they take a test with 100 questions, each of the three individuals will get 80 of the questions right, although they may not get the same questions right or wrong. Given these three people, my question to several statisticians was, “If two of the people have the same answer to a given question, what are the odds that they are correct? Furthermore, if all three of them give the same answer to a question, what are the odds that they are right?”

I was having a problem connecting from a Google Cloud Run service to a Cloud SQL instance, so as part of the process of troubleshooting the problem I created the following Scala + MySQL + JDBC database test code. The idea was to create the code as simply as possible — with as few dependencies as possible — to try to understand the problem.

This is an excerpt from the Scala Cookbook, 2nd Edition. This is Recipe 23.7, Creating Meaningful Scala Type Names with Opaque Types.

Problem

In keeping with practices like Domain-Driven Design (DDD), you want to give values that have simple types like String and Int more meaningful type names to make your code safer and easier to read.

Solution

In Scala 3, the solution is to use opaque types to create meaningful type names. For an example of the problem, when a customer orders something on an e-commerce website you may add it to a cart using the customerId and the productId: