Passing selected value into HTML select onchange handler

So you have a <select> element and you want to call a handler, but you need to pass the selected value to the handler because you have multiple instances of the same <select> and can’t access them by ID (because there is many, one of which will have the new selected value, but you don’t know which). The solution is to pass in the newly selected value, like this:

<select onchange='handle_change( this.value )'>

Easy-peasy!

Installing latest version of Scala on Debian

So this is basically a combination of this and this:

sudo apt-get purge scala
sudo apt-get autoremove

cd ~/desktop/scala
wget http://downloads.lightbend.com/scala/2.11.8/scala-2.11.8.tgz
tar xzf scala-2.11.8.tgz
sudo mv scala-2.11.8 /usr/share/scala

sudo ln -s /usr/share/scala/bin/scala /usr/bin/scala
sudo ln -s /usr/share/scala/bin/scalac /usr/bin/scalac
sudo ln -s /usr/share/scala/bin/fsc /usr/bin/fsc
sudo ln -s /usr/share/scala/bin/sbaz /usr/bin/sbaz
sudo ln -s /usr/share/scala/bin/sbaz-setup /usr/bin/sbaz-setup
sudo ln -s /usr/share/scala/bin/scaladoc /usr/bin/scaladoc
sudo ln -s /usr/share/scala/bin/scalap /usr/bin/scalap

Everything is easy when you know how!