Programs & Examples On #Acronym

Acronyms are a series of letters that form a word based on another word or phrase.

What does MVW stand for?

I feel that MWV (Model View Whatever) or MV* is a more flexible term to describe some of the uniqueness of Angularjs in my opinion. It helped me to understand that it is more than a MVC (Model View Controller) JavaScript framework, but it still uses MVC as it has a Model View, and Controller.

It also can be considered as a MVP (Model View Presenter) pattern. I think of a Presenter as the user-interface business logic in Angularjs for the View. For example by using filters that can format data for display. It's not business logic, but display logic and it reminds me of the MVP pattern I used in GWT.

In addition, it also can be a MVVM (Model View View Model) the View Model part being the two-way binding between the two. Last of all it is MVW as it has other patterns that you can use as well as mentioned by @Steve Chambers.

I agree with the other answers that getting pedantic on these terms can be detrimental, as the point is to understand the concepts from the terms, but by the same token, fully understanding the terms helps one when they are designing their application code, knowing what goes where and why.

making a paragraph in html contain a text from a file

You can use a simple HTML element <embed src="file.txt"> it loads the external resource and displays it on the screen no js needed

How can I change default dialog button text color in android 5

There are two ways to change the dialog button color.

Basic Way

If you just want to change in an activity, write the below two lines after alertDialog.show();

alertDialog.getButton(AlertDialog.BUTTON_POSITIVE).setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.colorPrimary));
alertDialog.getButton(AlertDialog.BUTTON_NEGATIVE).setTextColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.colorPrimaryDark));

Recommended

I'll recommend adding a theme for AlertDialog in styles.xml so you don't have to write the same code again and again in each activity/dialog call. You can just create a style and apply that theme on the dialog box. So whenever you want to change the color of AlertDialog box, just change color in styles.xml and all the dialog boxes will be updated in the whole application.

<style name="AlertDialogTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light.Dialog.Alert">
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/colorPrimary</item>
</style>

And apply the theme in AlertDialog.Builder

AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this, R.style.AlertDialogTheme);

OpenVPN failed connection / All TAP-Win32 adapters on this system are currently in use

It seems to me you are using the wrong version...

TAP-Win32 should not be installed on the 64bit version. Download the right one and try again!

Converting a char to ASCII?

A char is an integral type. When you write

char ch = 'A';

you're setting the value of ch to whatever number your compiler uses to represent the character 'A'. That's usually the ASCII code for 'A' these days, but that's not required. You're almost certainly using a system that uses ASCII.

Like any numeric type, you can initialize it with an ordinary number:

char ch = 13;

If you want do do arithmetic on a char value, just do it: ch = ch + 1; etc.

However, in order to display the value you have to get around the assumption in the iostreams library that you want to display char values as characters rather than numbers. There are a couple of ways to do that.

std::cout << +ch << '\n';
std::cout << int(ch) << '\n'

Show / hide div on click with CSS

if 'focus' works for you (i.e. stay visible while element has focus after click) then see this existing SO answer:

Hide Show content-list with only CSS, no javascript used

convert string date to java.sql.Date

This works for me without throwing an exception:

package com.sandbox;

import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

public class Sandbox {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException {
        SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd");
        Date parsed = format.parse("20110210");
        java.sql.Date sql = new java.sql.Date(parsed.getTime());
    }


}

Does Eclipse have line-wrap

In Eclipse v4.7 (Oxygen):

Window menu ? Editor ? Toggle Word Wrap (Shift+Alt+Y)

Neither BindingResult nor plain target object for bean name available as request attr

I worked on this same issue and I am sure I have found out the exact reason for it.

Neither BindingResult nor plain target object for bean name 'command' available as request attribute

If your successView property value (name of jsp page) is the same as your input page name, then second value of ModelAndView constructor must be match with the commandName of the input page.

E.g.

index.jsp

<html>
<body>
    <table>
        <tr><td><a href="Login.html">Login</a></td></tr>
    </table>
</body>
</html>

dispatcher-servlet.xml

<bean id="viewResolver"
    class="org.springframework.web.servlet.view.InternalResourceViewResolver">

    <property name="prefix">
        <value>/WEB-INF/jsp/</value>
    </property>
    <property name="suffix">
        <value>.jsp</value>
    </property>
</bean>
<bean id="urlMapping"
    class="org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping">
    <property name="urlMap">
        <map>              
            <entry key="/Login.html">
                <ref bean="userController"/>
            </entry>
        </map>          
    </property>             
</bean>     
 <bean id="userController" class="controller.AddCountryFormController">     
       <property name="commandName"><value>country</value></property>
       <property name="commandClass"><value>controller.Country</value></property>        
       <property name="formView"><value>countryForm</value></property>
       <property name="successView"><value>countryForm</value></property>
   </bean>      

AddCountryFormController.java

package controller;

import javax.servlet.http.*;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.ModelAndView;
import org.springframework.validation.BindException;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.SimpleFormController;


public class AddCountryFormController extends SimpleFormController
{

    public AddCountryFormController(){
        setCommandName("Country.class");
    }

    protected ModelAndView onSubmit(HttpServletRequest request,HttpServletResponse response,Object command,BindException errors){

            Country country=(Country)command;

            System.out.println("calling onsubmit method !!!!!");

        return new ModelAndView(getSuccessView(),"country",country);

    }

}

Country.java

package controller;

public class Country
{
    private String countryName;

    public void setCountryName(String value){
        countryName=value;
    }

    public String getCountryName(){
        return countryName;
    }

}

countryForm.jsp

<%@ taglib prefix="form" uri="http://www.springframework.org/tags/form" %>
<html>
<body>
    <form:form commandName="country" method="POST" >
            <table>
                    <tr><td><form:input path="countryName"/></td></tr>
                    <tr><td><input type="submit" value="Save"/></td></tr>
            </table>
    </form:form>
</body>
<html>

Input page commandName="country" ModelAndView Constructor as return new ModelAndView(getSuccessView(),"country",country); Means inputpage commandName==ModeAndView(,"commandName",)

MS Access: how to compact current database in VBA

If you want to compact/repair an external mdb file (not the one you are working in just now):

Application.compactRepair sourecFile, destinationFile

If you want to compact the database you are working with:

Application.SetOption "Auto compact", True

In this last case, your app will be compacted when closing the file.

My opinion: writting a few lines of code in an extra MDB "compacter" file that you can call when you want to compact/repair an mdb file is very usefull: in most situations the file that needs to be compacted cannot be opened normally anymore, so you need to call the method from outside the file.

Otherwise, the autocompact shall by default be set to true in each main module of an Access app.

In case of a disaster, create a new mdb file and import all objects from the buggy file. You will usually find a faulty object (form, module, etc) that you will not be able to import.

Capture Video of Android's Screen

If you are on a PC then you can run My Phone Explorer on the PC, the MyPhoneExplorer Client on the phone, set the screen capture to refresh continuously, and use Wink to capture a custom rectangular area of your screen over the My Phone Explorer window with your own capture rate. Then convert to a FLV in Wink, then convert from Flash video to MPG with WinFF.

What's the difference between a Future and a Promise?

According to this discussion, Promise has finally been called CompletableFuture for inclusion in Java 8, and its javadoc explains:

A Future that may be explicitly completed (setting its value and status), and may be used as a CompletionStage, supporting dependent functions and actions that trigger upon its completion.

An example is also given on the list:

f.then((s -> aStringFunction(s)).thenAsync(s -> ...);

Note that the final API is slightly different but allows similar asynchronous execution:

CompletableFuture<String> f = ...;
f.thenApply(this::modifyString).thenAccept(System.out::println);

Java and SSL - java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException

Try javax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword instead of javax.net.ssl.keyPassword: the latter isn't mentioned in the JSSE ref guide.

The algorithms you mention should be there by default using the default security providers. NoSuchAlgorithmExceptions are often cause by other underlying exceptions (file not found, wrong password, wrong keystore type, ...). It's useful to look at the full stack trace.

You could also use -Djavax.net.debug=ssl, or at least -Djavax.net.debug=ssl,keymanager, to get more debugging information, if the information in the stack trace isn't sufficient.

SQL - Select first 10 rows only?

The ANSI SQL answer is FETCH FIRST.

SELECT a.names,
         COUNT(b.post_title) AS num
    FROM wp_celebnames a
    JOIN wp_posts b ON INSTR(b.post_title, a.names) > 0
    WHERE b.post_date > DATE_SUB(CURDATE(), INTERVAL 1 DAY)
GROUP BY a.names
ORDER BY num DESC
FETCH FIRST 10 ROWS ONLY

If you want ties to be included, do FETCH FIRST 10 ROWS WITH TIES instead.

To skip a specified number of rows, use OFFSET, e.g.

...
ORDER BY num DESC
OFFSET 20
FETCH FIRST 10 ROWS ONLY

Will skip the first 20 rows, and then fetch 10 rows.

Supported by newer versions of Oracle, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, Mimer SQL and DB2 etc.

Update multiple rows in same query using PostgreSQL

Let's say you have an array of IDs and equivalent array of statuses - here is an example how to do this with a static SQL (a sql query that doesn't change due to different values) of the arrays :

drop table if exists results_dummy;
create table results_dummy (id int, status text, created_at timestamp default now(), updated_at timestamp default now());
-- populate table with dummy rows
insert into results_dummy
(id, status)
select unnest(array[1,2,3,4,5]::int[]) as id, unnest(array['a','b','c','d','e']::text[]) as status;

select * from results_dummy;

-- THE update of multiple rows with/by different values
update results_dummy as rd
set    status=new.status, updated_at=now()
from (select unnest(array[1,2,5]::int[]) as id,unnest(array['a`','b`','e`']::text[]) as status) as new
where rd.id=new.id;

select * from results_dummy;

-- in code using **IDs** as first bind variable and **statuses** as the second bind variable:
update results_dummy as rd
set    status=new.status, updated_at=now()
from (select unnest(:1::int[]) as id,unnest(:2::text[]) as status) as new
where rd.id=new.id;

Add views in UIStackView programmatically

You have to set you distribution type. In your code, juste add:

self.stack1.distribution = UIStackViewDistributionFillEqually;

Or you can set the distribution directly in your interface builder. For example:

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Hope that helps ;) Lapinou.

css 'pointer-events' property alternative for IE

It's worth mentioning that specifically for IE, disabled=disabled works for anchor tags:

<a href="contact.html" onclick="unleashTheDragon();" disabled="disabled">Contact</a>

IE treats this as an disabled element and does not trigger click event. However, disabled is not a valid attribute on an anchor tag. Hence this won't work in other browsers. For them pointer-events:none is required in the styling.

UPDATE 1: So adding following rule feels like a cross-browser solution to me

UPDATE 2: For further compatibility, because IE will not form styles for anchor tags with disabled='disabled', so they will still look active. Thus, a:hover{} rule and styling is a good idea:

a[disabled="disabled"] {
        pointer-events: none; /* this is enough for non-IE browsers */
        color: darkgrey;      /* IE */
    }
        /* IE - disable hover effects */   
        a[disabled="disabled"]:hover {
            cursor:default;
            color: darkgrey;
            text-decoration:none;
        }

Working on Chrome, IE11, and IE8.
Of course, above CSS assumes anchor tags are rendered with disabled="disabled"

how to show calendar on text box click in html

yeah you will come across of various issues using HTML5 datepicker, it would work with some or might not be. I faced the same issue. Please check this DatePicker Demo, I solved my problem with this plugin. Its very good and flexible datepicker plugin with complete demo. It is completely compatible with mobile browsers too and can be integrated with jquery mobile too.

ListBox vs. ListView - how to choose for data binding

A ListView is a specialized ListBox (that is, it inherits from ListBox). It allows you to specify different views rather than a straight list. You can either roll your own view, or use GridView (think explorer-like "details view"). It's basically the multi-column listbox, the cousin of windows form's listview.

If you don't need the additional capabilities of ListView, you can certainly use ListBox if you're simply showing a list of items (Even if the template is complex).

Regular Expressions: Search in list

You can create an iterator in Python 3.x or a list in Python 2.x by using:

filter(r.match, list)

To convert the Python 3.x iterator to a list, simply cast it; list(filter(..)).

Checking if element exists with Python Selenium

A) Yes. The easiest way to check if an element exists is to simply call find_element inside a try/catch.

B) Yes, I always try to identify elements without using their text for 2 reasons:

  1. the text is more likely to change and;
  2. if it is important to you, you won't be able to run your tests against localized builds.

solution either:

  1. You can use xpath to find a parent or ancestor element that has an ID or some other unique identifier and then find it's child/descendant that matches or;
  2. you could request an ID or name or some other unique identifier for the link itself.

For the follow up questions, using try/catch is how you can tell if an element exists or not and good examples of waits can be found here: http://seleniumhq.org/docs/04_webdriver_advanced.html

Unit tests vs Functional tests

Unit testing is usually done by developers. The objective of doing the same is to make sure their code works properly. General rule of thumb is to cover all the paths in code using unit testing.

Functional Testing: This is a good reference. Functional Testing Explanation

Visual Studio 2013 error MS8020 Build tools v140 cannot be found

That's the platform toolset for VS2015. You uninstalled it, therefore it is no longer available.

To change your Platform Toolset:

  1. Right click your project, go to Properties.
  2. Under Configuration Properties, go to General.
  3. Change your Platform Toolset to one of the available ones.

Fitting a Normal distribution to 1D data

To see both the normal distribution and your actual data you should plot your data as a histogram, then draw the probability density function over this. See the example on https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy-1.15.0/reference/generated/numpy.random.normal.html for exactly how to do this.

How to compare different branches in Visual Studio Code

UPDATE

Now it's available:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=donjayamanne.githistory

Until now it isn't supported, but you can follow the thread for it: GitHub

Pair/tuple data type in Go

There is no tuple type in Go, and you are correct, the multiple values returned by functions do not represent a first-class object.

Nick's answer shows how you can do something similar that handles arbitrary types using interface{}. (I might have used an array rather than a struct to make it indexable like a tuple, but the key idea is the interface{} type)

My other answer shows how you can do something similar that avoids creating a type using anonymous structs.

These techniques have some properties of tuples, but no, they are not tuples.

No == operator found while comparing structs in C++

Because you did not write a comparison operator for your struct. The compiler does not generate it for you, so if you want comparison, you have to write it yourself.

Loading an image to a <img> from <input file>

Andy E is correct that there is no HTML-based way to do this*; but if you are willing to use Flash, you can do it. The following works reliably on systems that have Flash installed. If your app needs to work on iPhone, then of course you'll need a fallback HTML-based solution.

* (Update 4/22/2013: HTML does now support this, in HTML5. See the other answers.)

Flash uploading also has other advantages -- Flash gives you the ability to show a progress bar as the upload of a large file progresses. (I'm pretty sure that's how Gmail does it, by using Flash behind the scenes, although I may be wrong about that.)

Here is a sample Flex 4 app that allows the user to pick a file, and then displays it:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Application xmlns:fx="http://ns.adobe.com/mxml/2009" 
               xmlns:s="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/spark" 
               xmlns:mx="library://ns.adobe.com/flex/mx" minWidth="955" minHeight="600"
               creationComplete="init()">
    <fx:Declarations>
        <!-- Place non-visual elements (e.g., services, value objects) here -->
    </fx:Declarations>
    <s:Button x="10" y="10" label="Choose file..." click="showFilePicker()" />
    <mx:Image id="myImage" x="9" y="44"/>
    <fx:Script>
        <![CDATA[
            private var fr:FileReference = new FileReference();

            // Called when the app starts.
            private function init():void
            {
                // Set up event handlers.
                fr.addEventListener(Event.SELECT, onSelect);
                fr.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onComplete);
            }

            // Called when the user clicks "Choose file..."
            private function showFilePicker():void
            {
                fr.browse();
            }

            // Called when fr.browse() dispatches Event.SELECT to indicate
            // that the user has picked a file.
            private function onSelect(e:Event):void
            {
                fr.load(); // start reading the file
            }

            // Called when fr.load() dispatches Event.COMPLETE to indicate
            // that the file has finished loading.
            private function onComplete(e:Event):void
            {
                myImage.data = fr.data; // load the file's data into the Image
            }
        ]]>
    </fx:Script>
</s:Application>

CURL and HTTPS, "Cannot resolve host"

After tried all above, still can't resolved my issue yet. But got new solution for my problem.

At server where you are going to make a request, there should be a entry of your virtual host.

sudo vim /etc/hosts

and insert

192.xxx.x.xx www.domain.com

The reason if you are making request from server to itself then, to resolve your virtual host or to identify it, server would need above stuff, otherwise server won't understand your requesting(origin) host.

jQuery click not working for dynamically created items

You have to add click event to an exist element. You can not add event to dom elements dynamic created. I you want to add event to them, you should bind event to an existed element using ".on".

$('p').on('click','selector_you_dynamic_created',function(){...});

.delegate should work,too.

How to create JSON Object using String?

JSONArray may be what you want.

String message;
JSONObject json = new JSONObject();
json.put("name", "student");

JSONArray array = new JSONArray();
JSONObject item = new JSONObject();
item.put("information", "test");
item.put("id", 3);
item.put("name", "course1");
array.put(item);

json.put("course", array);

message = json.toString();

// message
// {"course":[{"id":3,"information":"test","name":"course1"}],"name":"student"}

How to send email in ASP.NET C#

Check this out .... it works

http://www.aspnettutorials.com/tutorials/email/email-aspnet2-csharp/

using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
using System.Net.Mail;

public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {

    }

    protected void btnSubmit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        try
        {
            MailMessage message = new MailMessage(txtFrom.Text, txtTo.Text, txtSubject.Text, txtBody.Text);
            SmtpClient emailClient = new SmtpClient(txtSMTPServer.Text);
            emailClient.Send(message);
            litStatus.Text = "Message Sent";
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            litStatus.Text=ex.ToString();
        }
    }
}

How do you easily create empty matrices javascript?

var matrix = [];
for(var i=0; i<9; i++) {
    matrix[i] = new Array(9);
}

... or:

var matrix = [];
for(var i=0; i<9; i++) {
    matrix[i] = [];
    for(var j=0; j<9; j++) {
        matrix[i][j] = undefined;
    }
}

Getting a link to go to a specific section on another page

I tried the above answer - using page.html#ID_name it gave me a 404 page doesn't exist error.

Then instead of using .html, I simply put a slash / before the # and that worked fine. So my example on the sending page between the link tags looks like:

<a href= "http://my website.com/target-page/#El_Chorro">El Chorro</a>

Just use / instead of .html.

What does "-ne" mean in bash?

This is one of those things that can be difficult to search for if you don't already know where to look.

[ is actually a command, not part of the bash shell syntax as you might expect. It happens to be a Bash built-in command, so it's documented in the Bash manual.

There's also an external command that does the same thing; on many systems, it's provided by the GNU Coreutils package.

[ is equivalent to the test command, except that [ requires ] as its last argument, and test does not.

Assuming the bash documentation is installed on your system, if you type info bash and search for 'test' or '[' (the apostrophes are part of the search), you'll find the documentation for the [ command, also known as the test command. If you use man bash instead of info bash, search for ^ *test (the word test at the beginning of a line, following some number of spaces).

Following the reference to "Bash Conditional Expressions" will lead you to the description of -ne, which is the numeric inequality operator ("ne" stands for "not equal). By contrast, != is the string inequality operator.

You can also find bash documentation on the web.

The official definition of the test command is the POSIX standard (to which the bash implementation should conform reasonably well, perhaps with some extensions).

Update value of a nested dictionary of varying depth

Another way of using recursion:

def updateDict(dict1,dict2):
    keys1 = list(dict1.keys())
    keys2= list(dict2.keys())
    keys2 = [x for x in keys2 if x in keys1]
    for x in keys2:
        if (x in keys1) & (type(dict1[x]) is dict) & (type(dict2[x]) is dict):
            updateDict(dict1[x],dict2[x])
        else:
            dict1.update({x:dict2[x]})
    return(dict1)

Debugging "Element is not clickable at point" error

In my case, it worked in Firefox but failed in Chrome. In Chrome, it got fixed after updating Chrome driver version to the latest.

Python: read all text file lines in loop

There's no need to check for EOF in python, simply do:

with open('t.ini') as f:
   for line in f:
       # For Python3, use print(line)
       print line
       if 'str' in line:
          break

Why the with statement:

It is good practice to use the with keyword when dealing with file objects. This has the advantage that the file is properly closed after its suite finishes, even if an exception is raised on the way.

PHP Composer update "cannot allocate memory" error (using Laravel 4)

Try this:

/bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swap.1 bs=1M count=1024
/sbin/mkswap /var/swap.1
/sbin/swapon /var/swap.1

This work for me on Centos 6

Definition of "downstream" and "upstream"

That's a bit of informal terminology.

As far as Git is concerned, every other repository is just a remote.

Generally speaking, upstream is where you cloned from (the origin). Downstream is any project that integrates your work with other works.

The terms are not restricted to Git repositories.

For instance, Ubuntu is a Debian derivative, so Debian is upstream for Ubuntu.

How to check if the user can go back in browser history or not

Check if window.history.length is equal to 0.

Remove the last line from a file in Bash

This is by far the fastest and simplest solution, especially on big files:

head -n -1 foo.txt > temp.txt ; mv temp.txt foo.txt

if You want to delete the top line use this:

tail -n +2 foo.txt

which means output lines starting at line 2.

Do not use sed for deleting lines from the top or bottom of a file -- it's very very slow if the file is large.

Run jQuery function onclick

There's several things you can improve upon here. To start, there's no reason to use an <a> (anchor) tag since you don't have a link.

Every element can be bound to click and hover events... divs, spans, labels, inputs, etc.

I can't really identify what it is you're trying to do, though. You're mixing the goal with your own implementation and, from what I've seen so far, you're not really sure how to do it. Could you better illustrate what it is you're trying to accomplish?

== EDIT ==

The requirements are still very vague. I've implemented a very quick version of what I'm imagining you're saying ... or something close that illustrates how you might be able to do it. Left me know if I'm on the right track.

http://jsfiddle.net/THEtheChad/j9Ump/

String array initialization in Java

First up, this has got nothing to do with String, it is about arrays.. and that too specifically about declarative initialization of arrays.

As discussed by everyone in almost every answer here, you can, while declaring a variable, use:

String names[] = {"x","y","z"};

However, post declaration, if you want to assign an instance of an Array:

names = new String[] {"a","b","c"};

AFAIK, the declaration syntax is just a syntactic sugar and it is not applicable anymore when assigning values to variables because when values are assigned you need to create an instance properly.

However, if you ask us why it is so? Well... good luck getting an answer to that. Unless someone from the Java committee answers that or there is explicit documentation citing the said syntactic sugar.

AWS EFS vs EBS vs S3 (differences & when to use?)

Amazon EBS provides block level storage - It is used to create a filesystem on it and store files. Amazon EFS - its shared storage system similar like NAS/SAN. You need to mount it to unix server and use it. Amazon S3 - It is object based storage where each item is stored with a http URL.

One of the difference is - EBS can be attached to 1 instance at a time and EFS can be attached to multiple instances that why shared storage. S2 plain object storage cannot be mounted.

define() vs. const

No one says anything about php-doc, but for me that is also a very significant argument for the preference of const:

/**
 * My foo-bar const
 * @var string
 */
const FOO = 'BAR';

How to specify in crontab by what user to run script?

Mike's suggestion sounds like the "right way". I came across this thread wanting to specify the user to run vncserver under on reboot and wanted to keep all my cron jobs in one place.

I was getting the following error for the VNC cron:

vncserver: The USER environment variable is not set. E.g.:

In my case, I was able to use sudo to specify who to run the task as.

@reboot sudo -u [someone] vncserver ...

How to insert an item into an array at a specific index (JavaScript)?

Here's a working function that I uses in one of my application.

This checks if item exit

let ifExist = (item, strings = [ '' ], position = 0) => {
     // output into an array with empty string. Important just in case their is no item. 
    let output = [ '' ];
    // check to see if the item that will be positioned exist.
    if (item) {
        // output should equal to array of strings. 
        output = strings;
       // use splice in order to break the array. 
       // use positition param to state where to put the item
       // and 0 is to not replace an index. Item is the actual item we are placing at the prescribed position. 
        output.splice(position, 0, item);
    }
    //empty string is so we do not concatenate with comma or anything else. 
    return output.join("");
};

And then I call it below.

ifExist("friends", [ ' ( ', ' )' ], 1)}  // output: ( friends )
ifExist("friends", [ ' - '], 1)}  // output:  - friends 
ifExist("friends", [ ':'], 0)}  // output:   friends: 

How to validate an e-mail address in swift?

Swift 5 - Scalable Validation Layer

Using this layer you will get amazing validations over any text field easily.

Just follow the following process.

1. Add these enums:

import Foundation

enum ValidatorType
{
    case email
    case name
    // add more cases ...
}

enum ValidationError: Error, LocalizedError
{
    case invalidUserName
    case invalidEmail
    // add more cases ...

    var localizedDescription: String
    {
        switch self
        {
        case .invalidEmail:
            return "Please kindly write a valid email"    
        case .invalidUserName:
            return "Please kindly write a valid user name"
        }
    }
}

2. Add this functionality to String:

extension String
{
    // MARK:- Properties

    var isValidEmail: Bool
    {
        let emailFormat = "[A-Z0-9a-z._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\\.[A-Za-z]{2,64}"
        let emailPredicate = NSPredicate(format:"SELF MATCHES %@", emailFormat)
        return emailPredicate.evaluate(with: self)
    }

    // MARK:- Methods

    func validatedText(_ validationType: ValidatorType) throws
    {
        switch validationType
        {
            case .name:
                try validateUsername()
            case .email:
                try validateEmail()
        }
    }

    // MARK:- Private Methods

    private func validateUsername() throws
    {
        if isEmpty
        {
            throw ValidationError.invalidUserName
        }
    }

    private func validateEmail() throws
    {
        if !isValidEmail 
        {
            throw ValidationError.invalidEmail
        }

        // add more validations if you want like empty email
    }
}

3. Add the following functionality to UITextField:

import UIKit

extension UITextField
{
    func validatedText(_ validationType: ValidatorType) throws
    {
        do
        {
            try text?.validatedText(validationType)
        }
        catch let validationError
        {
            shake()
            throw validationError
        }
    }

    // MARK:- Private Methods

    private func shake()
    {
        let animation = CABasicAnimation(keyPath: "position")
        animation.duration = 0.1
        animation.repeatCount = 5
        animation.fromValue = NSValue(cgPoint: CGPoint(x: center.x + 6, y: center.y))
        animation.toValue = NSValue(cgPoint: CGPoint(x: center.x - 6, y: center.y))
        layer.add(animation, forKey: "position")
    }
}

Usage

import UIKit

class LoginVC: UIViewController
{
    // MARK: Outlets

    @IBOutlet weak var textFieldEmail: UITextField!

    // MARK: View Controller Life Cycle

    override func viewDidLoad()
    {
        super.viewDidLoad()
    }

    // MARK: Methods

    private func checkEmail() -> Bool
    {
        do
        {
            try textFieldEmail.validatedText(.email)
        }
        catch let error
        {
            let validationError = error as! ValidationError
            // show alert to user with: validationError.localizedDescription
            return false
        }

        return true
    }

    // MARK: Actions

    @IBAction func loginTapped(_ sender: UIButton)
    {
        if checkEmail()
        {
            let email = textFieldEmail.text!
            // move safely ...
        }
    }
}

500 Error on AppHarbor but downloaded build works on my machine

Just a wild guess: (not much to go on) but I have had similar problems when, for example, I was using the IIS rewrite module on my local machine (and it worked fine), but when I uploaded to a host that did not have that add-on module installed, I would get a 500 error with very little to go on - sounds similar. It drove me crazy trying to find it.

So make sure whatever options/addons that you might have and be using locally in IIS are also installed on the host.

Similarly, make sure you understand everything that is being referenced/used in your web.config - that is likely the problem area.

Retrieving the first digit of a number

This example works for any double, not just positive integers and takes into account negative numbers or those less than one. For example, 0.000053 would return 5.

private static int getMostSignificantDigit(double value) {
    value = Math.abs(value);
    if (value == 0) return 0;
    while (value < 1) value *= 10;
    char firstChar = String.valueOf(value).charAt(0);
    return Integer.parseInt(firstChar + "");
}

To get the first digit, this sticks with String manipulation as it is far easier to read.

How to implement Android Pull-to-Refresh

Those who are looking to implement pull to refresh functionality for RecyclerView can following my simple tutorial How to implement Pull To Refresh for RecyclerView in Android.

Libraries To Import

implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.2.0'
implementation 'androidx.gridlayout:gridlayout:1.0.0'

XML Code

<androidx.swiperefreshlayout.widget.SwipeRefreshLayout
    android:id="@+id/swipe_layout"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">

    <androidx.recyclerview.widget.RecyclerView
        android:id="@+id/recycler_view"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"/>

</androidx.swiperefreshlayout.widget.SwipeRefreshLayout>

Activity JAVA Code

import androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity;
import androidx.swiperefreshlayout.widget.SwipeRefreshLayout;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.os.Handler;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

private SwipeRefreshLayout swipeRefreshLayout;

...

@Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
       
        ...
        swipeRefreshLayout = findViewById(R.id.swipe_layout);
        initializeRefreshListener();
}

    void initializeRefreshListener() {

        swipeRefreshLayout.setOnRefreshListener(new SwipeRefreshLayout.OnRefreshListener() {
            @Override
            public void onRefresh() {
                // This method gets called when user pull for refresh,
                // You can make your API call here,
                // We are using adding a delay for the moment
                final Handler handler = new Handler();
                handler.postDelayed(new Runnable() {
                    @Override
                    public void run() {
                        if(swipeRefreshLayout.isRefreshing()) {
                            swipeRefreshLayout.setRefreshing(false);
                        }
                    }
                }, 3000);
            }
        });
    }

How do I disable directory browsing?

The best way to do this is disable it with webserver apache2. In my Ubuntu 14.X - open /etc/apache2/apache2.conf change from

<Directory /var/www/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Require all granted
</Directory>

to

<Directory /var/www/>
        Options FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride None
        Require all granted
</Directory>

then restart apache by:

sudo service apache2 reload

This will disable directory listing from all folder that apache2 serves.

Count number of files within a directory in Linux?

this is one:

ls -l . | egrep -c '^-'

Note:

ls -1 | wc -l

Which means: ls: list files in dir

-1: (that's a ONE) only one entry per line. Change it to -1a if you want hidden files too

|: pipe output onto...

wc: "wordcount"

-l: count lines.

Use a LIKE statement on SQL Server XML Datatype

Yet another option is to cast the XML as nvarchar, and then search for the given string as if the XML vas a nvarchar field.

SELECT * 
FROM Table
WHERE CAST(Column as nvarchar(max)) LIKE '%TEST%'

I love this solution as it is clean, easy to remember, hard to mess up, and can be used as a part of a where clause.

EDIT: As Cliff mentions it, you could use:

...nvarchar if there's characters that don't convert to varchar

How to add a line break within echo in PHP?

You may want to try \r\n for carriage return / line feed

How change default SVN username and password to commit changes?

In TortiseSVN settings

right-click menu >> settings >> Saved data >> Authentication data [Clear]

The side effect is that it clears out all authentication data and you have to re-enter your own username/password.

Android 6.0 Marshmallow. Cannot write to SD Card

Android changed how permissions work with Android 6.0 that's the reason for your errors. You have to actually request and check if the permission was granted by user to use. So permissions in manifest file will only work for api below 21. Check this link for a snippet of how permissions are requested in api23 http://android-developers.blogspot.nl/2015/09/google-play-services-81-and-android-60.html?m=1

Code:-

If (ActivityCompat.checkSelfPermission(MainActivity.this, Manifest.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE) !=
                PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) {
            ActivityCompat.requestPermissions(MainActivity.this, new String[]{Manifest.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE}, STORAGE_PERMISSION_RC);
            return;
        }`


` @Override
    public void onRequestPermissionsResult(int requestCode, @NonNull String[] permissions, @NonNull int[] grantResults) {
        super.onRequestPermissionsResult(requestCode, permissions, grantResults);
        if (requestCode == STORAGE_PERMISSION_RC) {
            if (grantResults[0] == PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) {
                //permission granted  start reading
            } else {
                Toast.makeText(this, "No permission to read external storage.", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
        }
    }
}

Text-decoration: none not working

Try placing your text-decoration: none; on your a:hover css.

How to identify unused CSS definitions from multiple CSS files in a project

Chrome Developer Tools has an Audits tab which can show unused CSS selectors.

Run an audit, then, under Web Page Performance see Remove unused CSS rules

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Remove all whitespace in a string

try this.. instead of using re i think using split with strip is much better

def my_handle(self):
    sentence = ' hello  apple  '
    ' '.join(x.strip() for x in sentence.split())
#hello apple
    ''.join(x.strip() for x in sentence.split())
#helloapple

Shell script to set environment variables

Please show us more parts of the script and tell us what commands you had to individually execute and want to simply.

Meanwhile you have to use double quotes not single quote to expand variables:

export PATH="/home/linux/Practise/linux-devkit/bin/:$PATH"

Semicolons at the end of a single command are also unnecessary.

So far:

#!/bin/sh
echo "Perform Operation in su mode"
export ARCH=arm
echo "Export ARCH=arm Executed"
export PATH="/home/linux/Practise/linux-devkit/bin/:$PATH"
echo "Export path done"
export CROSS_COMPILE='/home/linux/Practise/linux-devkit/bin/arm-arago-linux-gnueabi-' ## What's next to -?
echo "Export CROSS_COMPILE done"
# continue your compilation commands here
...

For su you can run it with:

su -c 'sh /path/to/script.sh'

Note: The OP was not explicitly asking for steps on how to create export variables in an interactive shell using a shell script. He only asked his script to be assessed at most. He didn't mention details on how his script would be used. It could have been by using . or source from the interactive shell. It could have been a standalone scipt, or it could have been source'd from another script. Environment variables are not specific to interactive shells. This answer solved his problem.

Number format in excel: Showing % value without multiplying with 100

In Excel workbook - Select the Cell-goto Format Cells - Number - Custom - in the Type box type as shows (0.00%)

How to respond with HTTP 400 error in a Spring MVC @ResponseBody method returning String?

I would change the implementation slightly:

First, I create a UnknownMatchException:

@ResponseStatus(HttpStatus.NOT_FOUND)
public class UnknownMatchException extends RuntimeException {
    public UnknownMatchException(String matchId) {
        super("Unknown match: " + matchId);
    }
}

Note the use of @ResponseStatus, which will be recognized by Spring's ResponseStatusExceptionResolver. If the exception is thrown, it will create a response with the corresponding response status. (I also took the liberty of changing the status code to 404 - Not Found which I find more appropriate for this use case, but you can stick to HttpStatus.BAD_REQUEST if you like.)


Next, I would change the MatchService to have the following signature:

interface MatchService {
    public Match findMatch(String matchId);
}

Finally, I would update the controller and delegate to Spring's MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter to handle the JSON serialization automatically (it is added by default if you add Jackson to the classpath and add either @EnableWebMvc or <mvc:annotation-driven /> to your config, see the reference docs):

@RequestMapping(value = "/matches/{matchId}", produces = MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE)
@ResponseBody
public Match match(@PathVariable String matchId) {
    // throws an UnknownMatchException if the matchId is not known 
    return matchService.findMatch(matchId);
}

Note, it is very common to separate the domain objects from the view objects or DTO objects. This can easily be achieved by adding a small DTO factory that returns the serializable JSON object:

@RequestMapping(value = "/matches/{matchId}", produces = MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE)
@ResponseBody
public MatchDTO match(@PathVariable String matchId) {
    Match match = matchService.findMatch(matchId);
    return MatchDtoFactory.createDTO(match);
}

exceeds the list view threshold 5000 items in Sharepoint 2010

The setting for the list throttle

  • Open the SharePoint Central Administration,
  • go to Application Management --> Manage Web Applications
  • Click to select the web application that hosts your list (eg. SharePoint - 80)
  • At the Ribbon, select the General Settings and select Resource Throttling
  • Then, you can see the 5000 List View Threshold limit and you can edit the value you want.
  • Click OK to save it.

For addtional reading: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dinaayoub/archive/2010/04/22/sharepoint-2010-how-to-change-the-list-view-threshold.aspx

format a number with commas and decimals in C# (asp.net MVC3)

Try with

ToString("#,##0.00")

From MSDN

*The "0" custom format specifier serves as a zero-placeholder symbol. If the value that is being formatted has a digit in the position where the zero appears in the format string, that digit is copied to the result string; otherwise, a zero appears in the result string. The position of the leftmost zero before the decimal point and the rightmost zero after the decimal point determines the range of digits that are always present in the result string.

The "00" specifier causes the value to be rounded to the nearest digit preceding the decimal, where rounding away from zero is always used. For example, formatting 34.5 with "00" would result in the value 35.*

C# refresh DataGridView when updating or inserted on another form

Create a small function and use it anywhere

public SqlConnection con = "Your connection string"; 
public void gridviewUpdate()
{
    con.Open();
    string select = "SELECT * from table_name";
    SqlDataAdapter da = new SqlDataAdapter(select, con);
    DataSet ds = new DataSet();
    da.Fill(ds, "table_name");
    datagridview.DataSource = ds;
    datagridview.DataMember = "table_name";
    con.Close();
}

Gradle sync failed: failed to find Build Tools revision 24.0.0 rc1

Try to change the buildToolsVersion for 23.0.2 in Gradle Script build.gradle (Module App)

and set buildToolsVersion "23.0.2"

then rebuild

Sorting HashMap by values

As a kind of simple solution you can use temp TreeMap if you need just a final result:

TreeMap<String, Integer> sortedMap = new TreeMap<String, Integer>();
for (Map.Entry entry : map.entrySet()) {
    sortedMap.put((String) entry.getValue(), (Integer)entry.getKey());
}

This will get you strings sorted as keys of sortedMap.

Maven 3 and JUnit 4 compilation problem: package org.junit does not exist

removing the scope tag in pom.xml for junit worked..

Change icon on click (toggle)

Instead of overwriting the html every time, just toggle the class.

$('#click_advance').click(function() {
    $('#display_advance').toggle('1000');
    $("i", this).toggleClass("icon-circle-arrow-up icon-circle-arrow-down");
});

How to embed image or picture in jupyter notebook, either from a local machine or from a web resource?

This works for me in a markdown cell. Somehow I do not need to mention specifically if its an image or a simple file.

![](files/picture.png)

Could not establish secure channel for SSL/TLS with authority '*'

This error can occur for lots of reasons, and the last time, I solved it by modifying the Reference.svcmap file, and changing how the WSDL file is referenced.

Throwing exception:

<MetadataSource Address="C:\Users\Me\Repo\Service.wsdl" Protocol="file" SourceId="1" />
<MetadataFile FileName="Service.wsdl" ... SourceUrl="file:///C:/Users/Me/Repo/Service.wsdl" />

Working fine:

<MetadataSource Address="https://server.domain/path/Service.wsdl" Protocol="http" SourceId="1" />
<MetadataFile FileName="Service.wsdl" ... SourceUrl="https://server.domain/path/Service.wsdl" />

This seems weird, but I have reproduced it. This was in a console application on .NET 4.5 and 4.7, as well as a .NET WebAPI site on 4.7.

Date query with ISODate in mongodb doesn't seem to work

I am using robomongo as the mongodb client gui and the below worked for me

db.collectionName.find({"columnWithDateTime" : {
$lt:new ISODate("2016-02-28T00:00:00.000Z")}})

On the app side I am using nodejs based driver mongodb(v1.4.3),the application uses datepicker in the ui which gives date like YYYY-mm-dd, this is then appended with default time like 00:00:00 and then given to the new Date() constructor and then supplied to the mongodb criteria object,I think the driver converts the date to ISO date and the query then works and gives desired output, however the same new Date() constructor does not work or show same output on robo mongo,for the same criteria,which is weird,since I used robomongo to cross check my criteria objects.

Whereas the default cli mongoshell works well with both ISODate and new Date()

Django return redirect() with parameters

Firstly, your URL definition does not accept any parameters at all. If you want parameters to be passed from the URL into the view, you need to define them in the urlconf.

Secondly, it's not at all clear what you are expecting to happen to the cleaned_data dictionary. Don't forget you can't redirect to a POST - this is a limitation of HTTP, not Django - so your cleaned_data either needs to be a URL parameter (horrible) or, slightly better, a series of GET parameters - so the URL would be in the form:

/link/mybackend/?field1=value1&field2=value2&field3=value3

and so on. In this case, field1, field2 and field3 are not included in the URLconf definition - they are available in the view via request.GET.

So your urlconf would be:

url(r'^link/(?P<backend>\w+?)/$', my_function)

and the view would look like:

def my_function(request, backend):
   data = request.GET

and the reverse would be (after importing urllib):

return "%s?%s" % (redirect('my_function', args=(backend,)),
                  urllib.urlencode(form.cleaned_data))

Edited after comment

The whole point of using redirect and reverse, as you have been doing, is that you go to the URL - it returns an Http code that causes the browser to redirect to the new URL, and call that.

If you simply want to call the view from within your code, just do it directly - no need to use reverse at all.

That said, if all you want to do is store the data, then just put it in the session:

request.session['temp_data'] = form.cleaned_data

Is there a Python Library that contains a list of all the ascii characters?

ASCII defines 128 characters whose byte values range from 0 to 127 inclusive. So to get a string of all the ASCII characters, you could just do

''.join([chr(i) for i in range(128)])

Only some of those are printable, however- the printable ASCII characters can be accessed in Python via

import string
string.printable

Simplest way to detect a mobile device in PHP

function isMobile(){
   if(defined(isMobile))return isMobile;
   @define(isMobile,(!($HUA=@trim(@$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']))?0:
   (
      preg_match('/(android|bb\d+|meego).+mobile|silk|avantgo|bada\/|blackberry|blazer|compal|elaine|fennec|hiptop|iemobile|ip(hone|od)|iris|kindle|lge |maemo|midp|mmp|netfront|opera m(ob|in)i|palm( os)?|phone|p(ixi|re)\/|plucker|pocket|psp|series(4|6)0|symbian|treo|up\.(browser|link)|vodafone|wap|windows (ce|phone)|xda|xiino/i'
      ,$HUA)
   ||
      preg_match('/1207|6310|6590|3gso|4thp|50[1-6]i|770s|802s|a wa|abac|ac(er|oo|s\-)|ai(ko|rn)|al(av|ca|co)|amoi|an(ex|ny|yw)|aptu|ar(ch|go)|as(te|us)|attw|au(di|\-m|r |s )|avan|be(ck|ll|nq)|bi(lb|rd)|bl(ac|az)|br(e|v)w|bumb|bw\-(n|u)|c55\/|capi|ccwa|cdm\-|cell|chtm|cldc|cmd\-|co(mp|nd)|craw|da(it|ll|ng)|dbte|dc\-s|devi|dica|dmob|do(c|p)o|ds(12|\-d)|el(49|ai)|em(l2|ul)|er(ic|k0)|esl8|ez([4-7]0|os|wa|ze)|fetc|fly(\-|_)|g1 u|g560|gene|gf\-5|g\-mo|go(\.w|od)|gr(ad|un)|haie|hcit|hd\-(m|p|t)|hei\-|hi(pt|ta)|hp( i|ip)|hs\-c|ht(c(\-| |_|a|g|p|s|t)|tp)|hu(aw|tc)|i\-(20|go|ma)|i230|iac( |\-|\/)|ibro|idea|ig01|ikom|im1k|inno|ipaq|iris|ja(t|v)a|jbro|jemu|jigs|kddi|keji|kgt( |\/)|klon|kpt |kwc\-|kyo(c|k)|le(no|xi)|lg( g|\/(k|l|u)|50|54|\-[a-w])|libw|lynx|m1\-w|m3ga|m50\/|ma(te|ui|xo)|mc(01|21|ca)|m\-cr|me(rc|ri)|mi(o8|oa|ts)|mmef|mo(01|02|bi|de|do|t(\-| |o|v)|zz)|mt(50|p1|v )|mwbp|mywa|n10[0-2]|n20[2-3]|n30(0|2)|n50(0|2|5)|n7(0(0|1)|10)|ne((c|m)\-|on|tf|wf|wg|wt)|nok(6|i)|nzph|o2im|op(ti|wv)|oran|owg1|p800|pan(a|d|t)|pdxg|pg(13|\-([1-8]|c))|phil|pire|pl(ay|uc)|pn\-2|po(ck|rt|se)|prox|psio|pt\-g|qa\-a|qc(07|12|21|32|60|\-[2-7]|i\-)|qtek|r380|r600|raks|rim9|ro(ve|zo)|s55\/|sa(ge|ma|mm|ms|ny|va)|sc(01|h\-|oo|p\-)|sdk\/|se(c(\-|0|1)|47|mc|nd|ri)|sgh\-|shar|sie(\-|m)|sk\-0|sl(45|id)|sm(al|ar|b3|it|t5)|so(ft|ny)|sp(01|h\-|v\-|v )|sy(01|mb)|t2(18|50)|t6(00|10|18)|ta(gt|lk)|tcl\-|tdg\-|tel(i|m)|tim\-|t\-mo|to(pl|sh)|ts(70|m\-|m3|m5)|tx\-9|up(\.b|g1|si)|utst|v400|v750|veri|vi(rg|te)|vk(40|5[0-3]|\-v)|vm40|voda|vulc|vx(52|53|60|61|70|80|81|83|85|98)|w3c(\-| )|webc|whit|wi(g |nc|nw)|wmlb|wonu|x700|yas\-|your|zeto|zte\-/i'
      ,$HUA)
   )
   ));
}

echo isMobile()?1:0;
// OR
echo isMobile?1:0;

SQLite DateTime comparison

To solve this problem, I store dates as YYYYMMDD. Thus, where mydate >= '20090101' and mydate <= '20050505'

It just plain WORKS all the time. You may only need to write a parser to handle how users might enter their dates so you can convert them to YYYYMMDD.

JavaScript: Create and destroy class instance through class method

No. JavaScript is automatically garbage collected; the object's memory will be reclaimed only if the GC decides to run and the object is eligible for collection.

Seeing as that will happen automatically as required, what would be the purpose of reclaiming the memory explicitly?

\r\n, \r and \n what is the difference between them?

They are normal symbols as 'a' or '?' or any other. Just (invisible) entries in a string. \r moves cursor to the beginning of the line. \n goes one line down.

As for your replacement, you haven't specified what language you're using, so here's the sketch:

someString.replace("\r\n", "\n").replace("\r", "\n")

JavaScriptSerializer - JSON serialization of enum as string

Here is the answer for newtonsoft.json

enum Gender { Male, Female }

class Person
{
    int Age { get; set; }

    [JsonConverter(typeof(StringEnumConverter))]
    Gender Gender { get; set; }
}

What's the actual use of 'fail' in JUnit test case?

Some cases where I have found it useful:

  • mark a test that is incomplete, so it fails and warns you until you can finish it
  • making sure an exception is thrown:
try{
  // do stuff...
  fail("Exception not thrown");
}catch(Exception e){
  assertTrue(e.hasSomeFlag());
}

Note:

Since JUnit4, there is a more elegant way to test that an exception is being thrown: Use the annotation @Test(expected=IndexOutOfBoundsException.class)

However, this won't work if you also want to inspect the exception, then you still need fail().

Blank HTML SELECT without blank item in dropdown list

Simply using

<option value="" selected disabled>Please select an option...</option>

will work anywhere without script and allow you to instruct the user at the same time.

c# write text on bitmap

Very old question, but just had to build this for an app today and found the settings shown in other answers do not result in a clean image (possibly as new options were added in later .Net versions).

Assuming you want the text in the centre of the bitmap, you can do this:

// Load the original image
Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap("filename.bmp");

// Create a rectangle for the entire bitmap
RectangleF rectf = new RectangleF(0, 0, bmp.Width, bmp.Height);

// Create graphic object that will draw onto the bitmap
Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(bmp);

// ------------------------------------------
// Ensure the best possible quality rendering
// ------------------------------------------
// The smoothing mode specifies whether lines, curves, and the edges of filled areas use smoothing (also called antialiasing). 
// One exception is that path gradient brushes do not obey the smoothing mode. 
// Areas filled using a PathGradientBrush are rendered the same way (aliased) regardless of the SmoothingMode property.
g.SmoothingMode = SmoothingMode.AntiAlias;

// The interpolation mode determines how intermediate values between two endpoints are calculated.
g.InterpolationMode = InterpolationMode.HighQualityBicubic;

// Use this property to specify either higher quality, slower rendering, or lower quality, faster rendering of the contents of this Graphics object.
g.PixelOffsetMode = PixelOffsetMode.HighQuality;

// This one is important
g.TextRenderingHint = TextRenderingHint.AntiAliasGridFit;

// Create string formatting options (used for alignment)
StringFormat format = new StringFormat()
{
    Alignment = StringAlignment.Center,
    LineAlignment = StringAlignment.Center
};

// Draw the text onto the image
g.DrawString("yourText", new Font("Tahoma",8), Brushes.Black, rectf, format);

// Flush all graphics changes to the bitmap
g.Flush();

// Now save or use the bitmap
image.Image = bmp;

References

Convert a object into JSON in REST service by Spring MVC

Another simple solution is to add jackson-databind dependency in POM.

    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
        <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
        <version>2.8.1</version>
    </dependency>

Keep Rest of the code as it is.

Twig: in_array or similar possible within if statement?

You just have to change the second line of your second code-block from

{% if myVar is in_array(array_keys(someOtherArray)) %}

to

{% if myVar in someOtherArray|keys %}

in is the containment-operator and keys a filter that returns an arrays keys.

Check if a time is between two times (time DataType)

I suspect you want to check that it's after 11pm or before 7am:

select *
from MyTable
where CAST(Created as time) >= '23:00:00' 
   or CAST(Created as time) < '07:00:00'

How to check if a float value is a whole number

You can use the round function to compute the value.

Yes in python as many have pointed when we compute the value of a cube root, it will give you an output with a little bit of error. To check if the value is a whole number you can use the following function:

def cube_integer(n):
    if round(n**(1.0/3.0))**3 == n:
        return True
    return False

But remember that int(n) is equivalent to math.floor and because of this if you find the int(41063625**(1.0/3.0)) you will get 344 instead of 345.

So please be careful when using int withe cube roots.

How do I set the request timeout for one controller action in an asp.net mvc application

<location path="ControllerName/ActionName">
    <system.web>
        <httpRuntime executionTimeout="1000"/>
    </system.web>
</location>

Probably it is better to set such values in web.config instead of controller. Hardcoding of configurable options is considered harmful.

Binding Listbox to List<object> in WinForms

For a UWP app:

XAML

<ListBox x:Name="List" DisplayMemberPath="Source" ItemsSource="{x:Bind Results}"/>

C#

public ObservableCollection<Type> Results

Git error: src refspec master does not match any error: failed to push some refs

One classic root cause for this message is:

  • when the repo has been initialized (git init lis4368/assignments),
  • but no commit has ever been made

Ie, if you don't have added and committed at least once, there won't be a local master branch to push to.

Try first to create a commit:

  • either by adding (git add .) then git commit -m "first commit"
    (assuming you have the right files in place to add to the index)
  • or by create a first empty commit: git commit --allow-empty -m "Initial empty commit"

And then try git push -u origin master again.

See "Why do I need to explicitly push a new branch?" for more.

How to install a Mac application using Terminal

Probably not exactly your issue..

Do you have any spaces in your package path? You should wrap it up in double quotes to be safe, otherwise it can be taken as two separate arguments

sudo installer -store -pkg "/User/MyName/Desktop/helloWorld.pkg" -target /

How can I select all children of an element except the last child?

How to select all children of an element except the last child using CSS?

Answer: this code will work

<style>
.parent *:not(:last-child) { 
  color:red;
}
</style>

<div class='parent'>
  <p>this is paragraph</p>
  <h1>this is heading</h1>
  <b>text is bold</b>
</div>

Is there a performance difference between a for loop and a for-each loop?

All these loops do the exact same, I just want to show these before throwing in my two cents.

First, the classic way of looping through List:

for (int i=0; i < strings.size(); i++) { /* do something using strings.get(i) */ }

Second, the preferred way since it's less error prone (how many times have YOU done the "oops, mixed the variables i and j in these loops within loops" thing?).

for (String s : strings) { /* do something using s */ }

Third, the micro-optimized for loop:

int size = strings.size();
for (int i = -1; ++i < size;) { /* do something using strings.get(i) */ }

Now the actual two cents: At least when I was testing these, the third one was the fastest when counting milliseconds on how long it took for each type of loop with a simple operation in it repeated a few million times - this was using Java 5 with jre1.6u10 on Windows in case anyone is interested.

While it at least seems to be so that the third one is the fastest, you really should ask yourself if you want to take the risk of implementing this peephole optimization everywhere in your looping code since from what I've seen, actual looping isn't usually the most time consuming part of any real program (or maybe I'm just working on the wrong field, who knows). And also like I mentioned in the pretext for the Java for-each loop (some refer to it as Iterator loop and others as for-in loop) you are less likely to hit that one particular stupid bug when using it. And before debating how this even can even be faster than the other ones, remember that javac doesn't optimize bytecode at all (well, nearly at all anyway), it just compiles it.

If you're into micro-optimization though and/or your software uses lots of recursive loops and such then you may be interested in the third loop type. Just remember to benchmark your software well both before and after changing the for loops you have to this odd, micro-optimized one.

Deserializing a JSON file with JavaScriptSerializer()

//Page load starts here

var json = new System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer().Serialize(new
{
    api_key = "my key",
    action = "categories",
    store_id = "my store"
});

var json2 = "{\"api_key\":\"my key\",\"action\":\"categories\",\"store_id\":\"my store\",\"user\" : {\"id\" : 12345,\"screen_name\" : \"twitpicuser\"}}";
var list = new System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer().Deserialize<FooBar>(json);
var list2 = new System.Web.Script.Serialization.JavaScriptSerializer().Deserialize<FooBar>(json2);

string a = list2.action;
var b = list2.user;
string c = b.screen_name;

//Page load ends here

public class FooBar
{
    public string api_key { get; set; }
    public string action { get; set; }
    public string store_id { get; set; }
    public User user { get; set; }
}

public class User
{
    public int id { get; set; }
    public string screen_name { get; set; }
}

How do you create a temporary table in an Oracle database?

CREATE GLOBAL TEMPORARY TABLE Table_name
    (startdate DATE,
     enddate DATE,
     class CHAR(20))
  ON COMMIT DELETE ROWS;

Java Singleton and Synchronization

Yes, it is necessary. There are several methods you can use to achieve thread safety with lazy initialization:

Draconian synchronization:

private static YourObject instance;

public static synchronized YourObject getInstance() {
    if (instance == null) {
        instance = new YourObject();
    }
    return instance;
}

This solution requires that every thread be synchronized when in reality only the first few need to be.

Double check synchronization:

private static final Object lock = new Object();
private static volatile YourObject instance;

public static YourObject getInstance() {
    YourObject r = instance;
    if (r == null) {
        synchronized (lock) {    // While we were waiting for the lock, another 
            r = instance;        // thread may have instantiated the object.
            if (r == null) {  
                r = new YourObject();
                instance = r;
            }
        }
    }
    return r;
}

This solution ensures that only the first few threads that try to acquire your singleton have to go through the process of acquiring the lock.

Initialization on Demand:

private static class InstanceHolder {
    private static final YourObject instance = new YourObject();
}

public static YourObject getInstance() {
    return InstanceHolder.instance;
}

This solution takes advantage of the Java memory model's guarantees about class initialization to ensure thread safety. Each class can only be loaded once, and it will only be loaded when it is needed. That means that the first time getInstance is called, InstanceHolder will be loaded and instance will be created, and since this is controlled by ClassLoaders, no additional synchronization is necessary.

Set specific precision of a BigDecimal

Try this code ...

    Integer perc = 5;
    BigDecimal spread = BigDecimal.ZERO; 
    BigDecimal perc = spread.setScale(perc,BigDecimal.ROUND_HALF_UP);
    System.out.println(perc);

Result: 0.00000

JavaScript, getting value of a td with id name

.innerText doesnt work in Firefox.

.innerHTML works in both the browsers.

Find the similarity metric between two strings

I think maybe you are looking for an algorithm describing the distance between strings. Here are some you may refer to:

  1. Hamming distance
  2. Levenshtein distance
  3. Damerau–Levenshtein distance
  4. Jaro–Winkler distance

How to make a back-to-top button using CSS and HTML only?

Hope this helps somebody!

<style> html { scroll-behavior: smooth;} </style>
<a id="top"></>
<!--content here-->
<a href="#top">Back to top..</a>

SQL Server SELECT into existing table

It would work as given below :

insert into Gengl_Del Select Tdate,DocNo,Book,GlCode,OpGlcode,Amt,Narration 
from Gengl where BOOK='" & lblBook.Caption & "' AND DocNO=" & txtVno.Text & ""

How do I change select2 box height

None of the above solutions worked for me. This is my solution:

/* Height fix for select2 */
.select2-container .select2-selection--single, .select2-container--default .select2-selection--single .select2-selection__rendered, .select2-container--default .select2-selection--single .select2-selection__arrow {
    height: 35px;
}

.select2-container--default .select2-selection--single .select2-selection__rendered {
    line-height: 35px;
}

How to set timer in android?

He're is simplier solution, works fine in my app.

  public class MyActivity extends Acitivity {

    TextView myTextView;
    boolean someCondition=true;

     @Override
        protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
            super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
            setContentView(R.layout.my_activity);

            myTextView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.refreshing_field);

            //starting our task which update textview every 1000 ms
            new RefreshTask().execute();



        }

    //class which updates our textview every second

    class RefreshTask extends AsyncTask {

            @Override
            protected void onProgressUpdate(Object... values) {
                super.onProgressUpdate(values);
                String text = String.valueOf(System.currentTimeMillis());
                myTextView.setText(text);

            }

            @Override
            protected Object doInBackground(Object... params) {
                while(someCondition) {
                    try {
                        //sleep for 1s in background...
                        Thread.sleep(1000);
                        //and update textview in ui thread
                        publishProgress();
                    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                        e.printStackTrace(); 

                };
                return null;
            }
        }
    }

Parsing PDF files (especially with tables) with PDFBox

I had the same problem in reading the pdf file in which data is in tabular format. After regular parse using PDFBox each row were extracted with comma as a separator... losing the columnar position. To resolve this I used PDFTextStripperByArea and using coordinates I extracted the data column by column for each row. This is provided that you have a fixed format pdf.

        File file = new File("fileName.pdf");
        PDDocument document = PDDocument.load(file);
        PDFTextStripperByArea stripper = new PDFTextStripperByArea();
        stripper.setSortByPosition( true );
        Rectangle rect1 = new Rectangle( 50, 140, 60, 20 );
        Rectangle rect2 = new Rectangle( 110, 140, 20, 20 );
        stripper.addRegion( "row1column1", rect1 );
        stripper.addRegion( "row1column2", rect2 );
        List allPages = document.getDocumentCatalog().getAllPages();
        PDPage firstPage = (PDPage)allPages.get( 2 );
        stripper.extractRegions( firstPage );
        System.out.println(stripper.getTextForRegion( "row1column1" ));
        System.out.println(stripper.getTextForRegion( "row1column2" ));

Then row 2 and so on...

How to pass List<String> in post method using Spring MVC?

I had the same use case, You can change your method defination in the following way :

@RequestMapping(value = "/saveFruits", method = RequestMethod.POST, 
    consumes = "application/json")
@ResponseBody
public ResultObject saveFruits(@RequestBody Map<String,List<String>> fruits) {
    ..
}

The only problem is it accepts any key in place of "fruits" but You can easily get rid of a wrapper if it is not big functionality.

How can I convert a long to int in Java?

In Java 8 I do in following way

long l = 100L;
int i = Math.toIntExact(l);

This method throws ArithmaticException if long value exceed range of int. Thus I am safe from data loss.

problem with <select> and :after with CSS in WebKit

This is a modern solution I cooked up using font-awesome. Vendor extensions have been omitted for brevity.

HTML

<fieldset>
    <label for="color">Select Color</label>
    <div class="select-wrapper">
        <select id="color">
            <option>Red</option>
            <option>Blue</option>
            <option>Yellow</option>
        </select>
        <i class="fa fa-chevron-down"></i>
    </div>
</fieldset>

SCSS

fieldset {
    .select-wrapper {
        position: relative;

        select {
            appearance: none;
            position: relative;
            z-index: 1;
            background: transparent;

            + i {
                position: absolute;
                top: 40%;
                right: 15px;
            }
        }
    }

If your select element has a defined background color, then this won't work as this snippet essentially places the Chevron icon behind the select element (to allow clicking on top of the icon to still initiate the select action).

However, you can style the select-wrapper to the same size as the select element and style its background to achieve the same effect.

Check out my CodePen for a working demo that shows this bit of code on both a dark and light themed select box using a regular label and a "placeholder" label and other cleaned up styles such as borders and widths.

P.S. This is an answer I had posted to another, duplicate question earlier this year.

Can HTML be embedded inside PHP "if" statement?

Using PHP close/open tags is not very good solution because of 2 reasons: you can't print PHP variables in plain HTML and it make your code very hard to read (the next code block starts with an end bracket }, but the reader has no idea what was before).

Better is to use heredoc syntax. It is the same concept as in other languages (like bash).

 <?php
 if ($condition) {
   echo <<< END_OF_TEXT
     <b>lots of html</b> <i>$variable</i>
     lots of text...
 many lines possible, with any indentation, until the closing delimiter...
 END_OF_TEXT;
 }
 ?>

END_OF_TEXT is your delimiter (it can be basically any text like EOF, EOT). Everything between is considered string by PHP as if it were in double quotes, so you can print variables, but you don't have to escape any quotes, so it very convenient for printing html attributes.

Note that the closing delimiter must begin on the start of the line and semicolon must be placed right after it with no other chars (END_OF_TEXT;).

Heredoc with behaviour of string in single quotes (') is called nowdoc. No parsing is done inside of nowdoc. You use it in the same way as heredoc, just you put the opening delimiter in single quotes - echo <<< 'END_OF_TEXT'.

ApiNotActivatedMapError for simple html page using google-places-api

I had the same error. To fix the error:

  1. Open the console menu Gallery Menu and select API Manager.
  2. On the left, click Credentials and then click New Credentials.
  3. Click Create Credentials.
  4. Click API KEY.
  5. Click Navigator Key (there are more options; It depends on when consumed).

You must use this new API Navigator Key, generated by the system.

Open a facebook link by native Facebook app on iOS

Just verified this today, but if you are trying to open a Facebook page, you can use "fb://page/{Page ID}"

Page ID can be found under your page in the about section near the bottom.

Specific to my use case, in Xamarin.Forms, you can use this snippet to open in the app if available, otherwise in the browser.

Device.OpenUri(new Uri("fb://page/{id}"));

How change List<T> data to IQueryable<T> data

var list = new List<string>();
var queryable = list.AsQueryable();

Add a reference to: System.Linq

Best way to compare dates in Android

You can use compareTo()

CompareTo method must return negative number if current object is less than other object, positive number if current object is greater than other object and zero if both objects are equal to each other.

// Get Current Date Time
Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm aa");
String getCurrentDateTime = sdf.format(c.getTime());
String getMyTime="05/19/2016 09:45 PM ";
Log.d("getCurrentDateTime",getCurrentDateTime); 
// getCurrentDateTime: 05/23/2016 18:49 PM

if (getCurrentDateTime.compareTo(getMyTime) < 0)
{

}
else
{
 Log.d("Return","getMyTime older than getCurrentDateTime "); 
}

Moment.js with Vuejs

I'd simply import the moment module, then use a computed function to handle my moment() logic and return a value that's referenced in the template.

While I have not used this and thus can not speak on it's effectiveness, I did find https://github.com/brockpetrie/vue-moment for an alternate consideration

Correctly determine if date string is a valid date in that format

This option is not only simple but also accepts almost any format, although with non-standard formats it can be buggy.

$timestamp = strtotime($date);
return $timestamp ? $date : null;

How to get a vCard (.vcf file) into Android contacts from website

AFAIK Android doesn't support vCard files out of the Box at least not until 2.2.

You could use the app vCardIO to read vcf files from your SD card and save to you contacts. So you have to save them on your SD card in the first place and import them afterwards.

vCardIO is also available trough the market.

Assign result of dynamic sql to variable

You can use sp_executesql with output parameter.

declare @S nvarchar(max) = 'select @x = 1'

declare @xx int
set @xx = 0

exec sp_executesql @S, N'@x int out', @xx out

select @xx

Result:

(No column name)
1

Edit

In my sample @S is instead of your @template. As you can see I assign a value to @x so you need to modify @template so it internally assigns the comma separated string to the variable you define in your second argument to sp_executesql. In my sample N'@x int out'. You probably want a varchar(max) output parameter. Something like N'@Result varchar(max) out'

Here is another example building a comma separated string from master..spt_values

declare @template nvarchar(max)
set @template = 
'select @Result += cast(number as varchar(10))+'',''
from master..spt_values
where type = ''P''
'

declare @CommaString varchar(max)
set @CommaString = ''

exec sp_executesql @template, N'@Result varchar(max) out', @CommaString out

select @CommaString

T-SQL stored procedure that accepts multiple Id values

Erland Sommarskog has maintained the authoritative answer to this question for the last 16 years: Arrays and Lists in SQL Server.

There are at least a dozen ways to pass an array or list to a query; each has their own unique pros and cons.

I really can't recommend enough to read the article to learn about the tradeoffs among all these options.

How to combine 2 plots (ggplot) into one plot?

Just combine them. I think this should work but it's untested:

p <- ggplot(visual1, aes(ISSUE_DATE,COUNTED)) + geom_point() + 
     geom_smooth(fill="blue", colour="darkblue", size=1)

p <- p + geom_point(data=visual2, aes(ISSUE_DATE,COUNTED)) + 
     geom_smooth(data=visual2, fill="red", colour="red", size=1)

print(p)

ASP.NET MVC Html.DropDownList SelectedValue

The code in the previous MVC 3 post does not work but it is a good start. I will fix it. I have tested this code and it works in MVC 3 Razor C# This code uses the ViewModel pattern to populate a property that returns a List<SelectListItem>.

The Model class

public class Product
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public decimal Price { get; set; }
}

The ViewModel class

using System.Web.Mvc;

public class ProductListviewModel
{
    public List<SelectListItem> Products { get; set; }
}

The Controller Method

public ViewResult List()
{
    var productList = new List<SelectListItem>();

    foreach (Product p in Products)
    {
        productList.Add(new SelectListItem
        {
            Value = p.ProductId.ToString(),
            Text = "Product: " + p.Name + " " + p.Price.ToString(),
            // To set the selected item use the following code 
            // Note: you should not set every item to selected
            Selected = true
        });
    }

    ProductListViewModel productListVM = new ProductListViewModeld();

    productListVM.Products = productList;

    return View(productListVM);
}

The view

@model MvcApp.ViewModels.ProductListViewModel

@using (Html.BeginForm())
{
    @Html.DropDownList("Products", Model.Products)
}

The HTML output will be something like

<select id="Products" name="Products">
    <option value="3">Product: Widget 10.00</option>
    <option value="4">Product: Gadget 5.95</option>
</select>

depending on how you format the output. I hope this helps. The code does work.

join on multiple columns

Below is the structure of SQL that you may write. You can do multiple joins by using "AND" or "OR".

Select TableA.Col1, TableA.Col2, TableB.Val
FROM TableA, 
INNER JOIN TableB
 ON TableA.Col1 = TableB.Col1 OR TableA.Col2 = TableB.Col2

How do you turn a Mongoose document into a plain object?

You can also stringify the object and then again parse to make the normal object. For example like:-

const obj = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(mongoObj))

awk without printing newline

The ORS (output record separator) variable in AWK defaults to "\n" and is printed after every line. You can change it to " " in the BEGIN section if you want everything printed consecutively.

Selecting pandas column by location

Two approaches that come to mind:

>>> df
          A         B         C         D
0  0.424634  1.716633  0.282734  2.086944
1 -1.325816  2.056277  2.583704 -0.776403
2  1.457809 -0.407279 -1.560583 -1.316246
3 -0.757134 -1.321025  1.325853 -2.513373
4  1.366180 -1.265185 -2.184617  0.881514
>>> df.iloc[:, 2]
0    0.282734
1    2.583704
2   -1.560583
3    1.325853
4   -2.184617
Name: C
>>> df[df.columns[2]]
0    0.282734
1    2.583704
2   -1.560583
3    1.325853
4   -2.184617
Name: C

Edit: The original answer suggested the use of df.ix[:,2] but this function is now deprecated. Users should switch to df.iloc[:,2].

How to keep the local file or the remote file during merge using Git and the command line?

This approach seems more straightforward, avoiding the need to individually select each file:

# keep remote files
git merge --strategy-option theirs
# keep local files
git merge --strategy-option ours

or

# keep remote files
git pull -Xtheirs
# keep local files
git pull -Xours

Copied directly from: Resolve Git merge conflicts in favor of their changes during a pull

Combining a class selector and an attribute selector with jQuery

I think you just need to remove the space. i.e.

$(".myclass[reference=12345]").css('border', '#000 solid 1px');

There is a fiddle here http://jsfiddle.net/xXEHY/

How to update/upgrade a package using pip?

The way is

pip install [package_name] --upgrade

or in short

pip install [package_name] -U

Using sudo will ask to enter your root password to confirm the action, but although common, is considered unsafe.

If you do not have a root password (if you are not the admin) you should probably work with virtualenv.

You can also use the user flag to install it on this user only.

pip install [package_name] --upgrade --user

How do I call a JavaScript function on page load?

function yourfunction() { /* do stuff on page load */ }

window.onload = yourfunction;

Or with jQuery if you want:

$(function(){
   yourfunction();
});

If you want to call more than one function on page load, take a look at this article for more information:

isPrime Function for Python Language

Of many prime number tests floating around the Internet, consider the following Python function:

def is_prime(n):
  if n == 2 or n == 3: return True
  if n < 2 or n%2 == 0: return False
  if n < 9: return True
  if n%3 == 0: return False
  r = int(n**0.5)
  # since all primes > 3 are of the form 6n ± 1
  # start with f=5 (which is prime)
  # and test f, f+2 for being prime
  # then loop by 6. 
  f = 5
  while f <= r:
    print('\t',f)
    if n % f == 0: return False
    if n % (f+2) == 0: return False
    f += 6
  return True    

Since all primes > 3 are of the form 6n ± 1, once we eliminate that n is:

  1. not 2 or 3 (which are prime) and
  2. not even (with n%2) and
  3. not divisible by 3 (with n%3) then we can test every 6th n ± 1.

Consider the prime number 5003:

print is_prime(5003)

Prints:

 5
 11
 17
 23
 29
 35
 41
 47
 53
 59
 65
True

The line r = int(n**0.5) evaluates to 70 (the square root of 5003 is 70.7318881411 and int() truncates this value)

Consider the next odd number (since all even numbers other than 2 are not prime) of 5005, same thing prints:

 5
False

The limit is the square root since x*y == y*x The function only has to go 1 loop to find that 5005 is divisible by 5 and therefore not prime. Since 5 X 1001 == 1001 X 5 (and both are 5005), we do not need to go all the way to 1001 in the loop to know what we know at 5!


Now, let's look at the algorithm you have:

def isPrime(n):
    for i in range(2, int(n**0.5)+1):
        if n % i == 0:
            return False

    return True

There are two issues:

  1. It does not test if n is less than 2, and there are no primes less than 2;
  2. It tests every number between 2 and n**0.5 including all even and all odd numbers. Since every number greater than 2 that is divisible by 2 is not prime, we can speed it up a little by only testing odd numbers greater than 2.

So:

def isPrime2(n):
    if n==2 or n==3: return True
    if n%2==0 or n<2: return False
    for i in range(3, int(n**0.5)+1, 2):   # only odd numbers
        if n%i==0:
            return False    

    return True

OK -- that speeds it up by about 30% (I benchmarked it...)

The algorithm I used is_prime is about 2x times faster still, since only every 6th integer is looping through the loop. (Once again, I benchmarked it.)


Side note: x**0.5 is the square root:

>>> import math
>>> math.sqrt(100)==100**0.5
True

Side note 2: primality testing is an interesting problem in computer science.

Add another class to a div

Well you just need to use document.getElementById('hello').setAttribute('class', 'someclass');.

Also innerHTML can lead to unexpected results! Consider the following;

var myParag = document.createElement('p');

if(under certain age)
{
    myParag.text="Good Bye";
    createCookie('age', 'not13', 0);
    return false;
{
else
{
    myParag.text="Hello";
    return true;
}

document.getElementById('hello').appendChild(myParag);

Describe table structure

It depends from the database you use. Here is an incomplete list:

  • sqlite3: .schema table_name
  • Postgres (psql): \d table_name
  • SQL Server: sp_help table_name (or sp_columns table_name for only columns)
  • Oracle DB2: desc table_name or describe table_name
  • MySQL: describe table_name (or show columns from table_name for only columns)

Automatically pass $event with ng-click?

I wouldn't recommend doing this, but you can override the ngClick directive to do what you are looking for. That's not saying, you should.

With the original implementation in mind:

compile: function($element, attr) {
  var fn = $parse(attr[directiveName]);
  return function(scope, element, attr) {
    element.on(lowercase(name), function(event) {
      scope.$apply(function() {
        fn(scope, {$event:event});
      });
    });
  };
}

We can do this to override it:

// Go into your config block and inject $provide.
app.config(function ($provide) {

  // Decorate the ngClick directive.
  $provide.decorator('ngClickDirective', function ($delegate) {

    // Grab the actual directive from the returned $delegate array.
    var directive = $delegate[0];

    // Stow away the original compile function of the ngClick directive.
    var origCompile = directive.compile;

    // Overwrite the original compile function.
    directive.compile = function (el, attrs) {

      // Apply the original compile function. 
      origCompile.apply(this, arguments);

      // Return a new link function with our custom behaviour.
      return function (scope, el, attrs) {

        // Get the name of the passed in function. 
        var fn = attrs.ngClick;

        el.on('click', function (event) {
          scope.$apply(function () {

            // If no property on scope matches the passed in fn, return. 
            if (!scope[fn]) {
              return;
            }

            // Throw an error if we misused the new ngClick directive.
            if (typeof scope[fn] !== 'function') {
              throw new Error('Property ' + fn + ' is not a function on ' + scope);
            }

            // Call the passed in function with the event.
            scope[fn].call(null, event);

          });
        });          
      };
    };    

    return $delegate;
  });
});

Then you'd pass in your functions like this:

<div ng-click="func"></div>

as opposed to:

<div ng-click="func()"></div>

jsBin: http://jsbin.com/piwafeke/3/edit

Like I said, I would not recommend doing this but it's a proof of concept showing you that, yes - you can in fact overwrite/extend/augment the builtin angular behaviour to fit your needs. Without having to dig all that deep into the original implementation.

Do please use it with care, if you were to decide on going down this path (it's a lot of fun though).

No shadow by default on Toolbar?

I ended up setting my own drop shadow for the toolbar, thought it might helpful for anyone looking for it:

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
              xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
              android:layout_width="wrap_content"
              android:layout_height="wrap_content"
              android:layout_gravity="top"
              android:orientation="vertical">

    <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar android:id="@+id/toolbar"
                                       android:layout_width="match_parent"
                                       android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                                       android:background="@color/color_alizarin"
                                       android:titleTextAppearance="@color/White"
                                       app:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"/>

    <FrameLayout android:layout_width="match_parent"
                 android:layout_height="match_parent">

        <!-- **** Place Your Content Here **** -->

        <View android:layout_width="match_parent"
              android:layout_height="5dp"
              android:background="@drawable/toolbar_dropshadow"/>

    </FrameLayout>

</LinearLayout>

@drawable/toolbar_dropshadow:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" 
       android:shape="rectangle">

    <gradient android:startColor="@android:color/transparent"
              android:endColor="#88333333"
              android:angle="90"/>

</shape>

@color/color_alizarin

<color name="color_alizarin">#e74c3c</color>

enter image description here

How do I show multiple recaptchas on a single page?

A similar question was asked about doing this on an ASP page (link) and the consensus over there was that it was not possible to do with recaptcha. It seems that multiple forms on a single page must share the captcha, unless you're willing to use a different captcha. If you are not locked into recaptcha a good library to take a look at is the Zend Frameworks Zend_Captcha component (link). It contains a few

Regex - Should hyphens be escaped?

Typically you would always put the hyphen first in the [] match section. EG, to match any alphanumeric character including hyphens (written the long way), you would use [-a-zA-Z0-9]

SQL "select where not in subquery" returns no results

Table1 or Table2 has some null values for common_id. Use this query instead:

select *
from Common
where common_id not in (select common_id from Table1 where common_id is not null)
and common_id not in (select common_id from Table2 where common_id is not null)

Can I set max_retries for requests.request?

After struggling a bit with some of the answers here, I found a library called backoff that worked better for my situation. A basic example:

import backoff

@backoff.on_exception(
    backoff.expo,
    requests.exceptions.RequestException,
    max_tries=5,
    giveup=lambda e: e.response is not None and e.response.status_code < 500
)
def publish(self, data):
    r = requests.post(url, timeout=10, json=data)
    r.raise_for_status()

I'd still recommend giving the library's native functionality a shot, but if you run into any problems or need broader control, backoff is an option.

Android Firebase, simply get one child object's data

just fetch specific node data and its working perfect for me

mFirebaseInstance.getReference("yourNodeName").getRef().addValueEventListener(new ValueEventListener() {
    @Override
    public void onDataChange(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {


        for (DataSnapshot postSnapshot : dataSnapshot.getChildren()) {
            Log.e(TAG, "======="+postSnapshot.child("email").getValue());
            Log.e(TAG, "======="+postSnapshot.child("name").getValue());
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onCancelled(DatabaseError error) {
        // Failed to read value
        Log.e(TAG, "Failed to read app title value.", error.toException());
    }
});

Replacing accented characters php

An updated answer based on @BurninLeo's answer

function replace_spec_char($subject) {
    $char_map = array(
        "?" => "-", "?" => "-", "?" => "-", "?" => "-",
        "?" => "A", "A" => "A", "A" => "A", "A" => "A", "À" => "A", "Ã" => "A", "Á" => "A", "Æ" => "A", "Â" => "A", "Å" => "A", "?" => "A", "A" => "A", "?" => "A",
        "?" => "B", "?" => "B", "Þ" => "B",
        "C" => "C", "C" => "C", "Ç" => "C", "?" => "C", "?" => "C", "C" => "C", "C" => "C", "©" => "C", "?" => "C",
        "?" => "D", "D" => "D", "Ð" => "D", "?" => "D", "Ð" => "D",
        "È" => "E", "E" => "E", "É" => "E", "Ë" => "E", "Ê" => "E", "?" => "E", "E" => "E", "E" => "E", "E" => "E", "E" => "E", "?" => "E", "?" => "E", "?" => "E",
        "?" => "F", "ƒ" => "F",
        "G" => "G", "G" => "G", "G" => "G", "G" => "G", "?" => "G", "?" => "G", "?" => "G",
        "?" => "H", "H" => "H", "?" => "H", "H" => "H", "?" => "H",
        "I" => "I", "Ï" => "I", "Î" => "I", "Í" => "I", "Ì" => "I", "I" => "I", "I" => "I", "I" => "I", "?" => "I", "I" => "I", "I" => "I", "?" => "I", "?" => "I", "I" => "I", "?" => "I",
        "?" => "J", "J" => "J",
        "?" => "K", "?" => "K", "K" => "K", "?" => "K", "?" => "K",
        "L" => "L", "?" => "L", "?" => "L", "L" => "L", "L" => "L", "L" => "L", "?" => "L",
        "?" => "M", "?" => "M", "?" => "M",
        "Ñ" => "N", "N" => "N", "?" => "N", "N" => "N", "?" => "N", "?" => "N", "?" => "N", "?" => "N", "N" => "N",
        "Ø" => "O", "Ó" => "O", "Ò" => "O", "Ô" => "O", "Õ" => "O", "?" => "O", "O" => "O", "O" => "O", "O" => "O", "?" => "O", "O" => "O", "O" => "O",
        "?" => "P", "?" => "P", "?" => "P",
        "?" => "Q",
        "R" => "R", "R" => "R", "R" => "R", "?" => "R", "?" => "R", "®" => "R",
        "S" => "S", "S" => "S", "?" => "S", "Š" => "S", "?" => "S", "S" => "S", "?" => "S",
        "?" => "T", "?" => "T", "?" => "T", "T" => "T", "?" => "T", "T" => "T", "T" => "T",
        "Ù" => "U", "Û" => "U", "Ú" => "U", "U" => "U", "?" => "U", "U" => "U", "U" => "U", "U" => "U", "U" => "U", "U" => "U", "U" => "U", "U" => "U", "U" => "U", "U" => "U", "U" => "U", "U" => "U",
        "?" => "V", "?" => "V",
        "Ý" => "Y", "?" => "Y", "Y" => "Y", "Ÿ" => "Y",
        "Z" => "Z", "Ž" => "Z", "Z" => "Z", "?" => "Z", "?" => "Z",
        "?" => "a", "a" => "a", "a" => "a", "a" => "a", "à" => "a", "ã" => "a", "á" => "a", "æ" => "a", "â" => "a", "å" => "a", "?" => "a", "a" => "a", "?" => "a",
        "?" => "b", "?" => "b", "þ" => "b",
        "c" => "c", "c" => "c", "ç" => "c", "?" => "c", "?" => "c", "c" => "c", "c" => "c", "©" => "c", "?" => "c",
        "?" => "ch", "?" => "ch",
        "?" => "d", "d" => "d", "d" => "d", "?" => "d", "ð" => "d",
        "è" => "e", "e" => "e", "é" => "e", "ë" => "e", "ê" => "e", "?" => "e", "e" => "e", "e" => "e", "e" => "e", "e" => "e", "?" => "e", "?" => "e", "?" => "e",
        "?" => "f", "ƒ" => "f",
        "g" => "g", "g" => "g", "g" => "g", "g" => "g", "?" => "g", "?" => "g", "?" => "g",
        "?" => "h", "h" => "h", "?" => "h", "h" => "h", "?" => "h",
        "i" => "i", "ï" => "i", "î" => "i", "í" => "i", "ì" => "i", "i" => "i", "i" => "i", "i" => "i", "?" => "i", "i" => "i", "i" => "i", "?" => "i", "?" => "i", "i" => "i", "?" => "i",
        "?" => "j", "?" => "j", "J" => "j", "j" => "j",
        "?" => "k", "?" => "k", "k" => "k", "?" => "k", "?" => "k",
        "l" => "l", "?" => "l", "?" => "l", "l" => "l", "l" => "l", "l" => "l", "?" => "l",
        "?" => "m", "?" => "m", "?" => "m",
        "ñ" => "n", "n" => "n", "?" => "n", "n" => "n", "?" => "n", "?" => "n", "?" => "n", "?" => "n", "n" => "n",
        "ø" => "o", "ó" => "o", "ò" => "o", "ô" => "o", "õ" => "o", "?" => "o", "o" => "o", "o" => "o", "o" => "o", "?" => "o", "o" => "o", "o" => "o",
        "?" => "p", "?" => "p", "?" => "p",
        "?" => "q",
        "r" => "r", "r" => "r", "r" => "r", "?" => "r", "?" => "r", "®" => "r",
        "s" => "s", "s" => "s", "?" => "s", "š" => "s", "?" => "s", "s" => "s", "?" => "s",
        "?" => "t", "?" => "t", "?" => "t", "t" => "t", "?" => "t", "t" => "t", "t" => "t",
        "ù" => "u", "û" => "u", "ú" => "u", "u" => "u", "?" => "u", "u" => "u", "u" => "u", "u" => "u", "u" => "u", "u" => "u", "u" => "u", "u" => "u", "u" => "u", "u" => "u", "u" => "u", "u" => "u",
        "?" => "v", "?" => "v",
        "ý" => "y", "?" => "y", "y" => "y", "ÿ" => "y",
        "z" => "z", "ž" => "z", "z" => "z", "?" => "z", "?" => "z", "?" => "z",
        "™" => "tm",
        "@" => "at",
        "Ä" => "ae", "?" => "ae", "ä" => "ae", "æ" => "ae", "?" => "ae",
        "?" => "ij", "?" => "ij",
        "?" => "ja", "?" => "ja",
        "?" => "je", "?" => "je",
        "?" => "jo", "?" => "jo",
        "?" => "ju", "?" => "ju",
        "œ" => "oe", "Œ" => "oe", "ö" => "oe", "Ö" => "oe",
        "?" => "sch", "?" => "sch",
        "?" => "sh", "?" => "sh",
        "ß" => "ss",
        "Ü" => "ue",
        "?" => "zh", "?" => "zh",
    );
    return strtr($subject, $char_map);
}

$string = "Hí th?®ë, ?ßt å test!";
echo replace_spec_char($string);

Hí th?®ë, ?ßt å test! => Hi there, jusst a test!

This does not mix up upper and lower case chars except for longer chars (eg: ss,ch, sch) , added @ ® ©

Also if you want to build regex matching regardless to special chars :

rss => '[rrrRrR?R??](?:[s??Sšs?s?s][s??Sšs?s?s]|[ß])'

A vala implementation of this : https://code.launchpad.net/~jeremy-munsch/synapse-project/ascii-smart/+merge/277477

Here is the base list you could work with, with regex replacing (in sublime text) or small script you can build anything from this array to fill your needs.

"-" => "????",
"A" => "?AAAÀÃÁÆÂÅ?A?",
"B" => "??Þ",
"C" => "CCÇ??CC©?",
"D" => "?DÐ?Ð",
"E" => "ÈEÉËÊ?EEEE???",
"F" => "?ƒ",
"G" => "GGGG???",
"H" => "?H?H?",
"I" => "IÏÎÍÌIII?II??I?",
"J" => "?J",
"K" => "??K??",
"L" => "L??LLL?",
"M" => "???",
"N" => "ÑN?N????N",
"O" => "ØÓÒÔÕ?OOO?OO",
"P" => "???",
"Q" => "?",
"R" => "RRR??®",
"S" => "SS?Š?S?",
"T" => "???T?TT",
"U" => "ÙÛÚU?UUUUUUUUUUU",
"V" => "??",
"Y" => "Ý?YŸ",
"Z" => "ZŽZ??",
"a" => "?aaaàãáæâå?a?",
"b" => "??þ",
"c" => "ccç??cc©?",
"ch" => "?",
"d" => "?dd?ð",
"e" => "èeéëê?eeee???",
"f" => "?ƒ",
"g" => "gggg???",
"h" => "?h?h?",
"i" => "iïîíìiii?ii??i?",
"j" => "?j",
"k" => "??k??",
"l" => "l??lll?",
"m" => "???",
"n" => "ñn?n????n",
"o" => "øóòôõ?ooo?oo",
"p" => "???",
"q" => "?",
"r" => "rrr??®",
"s" => "ss?š?s?",
"t" => "???t?tt",
"u" => "ùûúu?uuuuuuuuuuu",
"v" => "??",
"y" => "ý?yÿ",
"z" => "zžz???",
"tm" => "™",
"at" => "@",
"ae" => "Ä?äæ?",
"ch" => "??",
"ij" => "??",
"j" => "??Jj",
"ja" => "??",
"je" => "??",
"jo" => "??",
"ju" => "??",
"oe" => "œŒöÖ",
"sch" => "??",
"sh" => "??",
"ss" => "ß",
"tm" => "™",
"ue" => "Ü",
"zh" => "??"

Kill python interpeter in linux from the terminal

pkill -9 python

should kill any running python process.

Youtube iframe wmode issue

Try adding ?wmode=transparent to the end of the URL. Worked for me.

Change the borderColor of the TextBox

This is an ultimate solution to set the border color of a TextBox:

public class BorderedTextBox : UserControl
{
    TextBox textBox;

    public BorderedTextBox()
    {
        textBox = new TextBox()
        {
            BorderStyle = BorderStyle.FixedSingle,
            Location = new Point(-1, -1),
            Anchor = AnchorStyles.Top | AnchorStyles.Bottom |
                     AnchorStyles.Left | AnchorStyles.Right
        };
        Control container = new ContainerControl()
        {
            Dock = DockStyle.Fill,
            Padding = new Padding(-1)
        };
        container.Controls.Add(textBox);
        this.Controls.Add(container);

        DefaultBorderColor = SystemColors.ControlDark;
        FocusedBorderColor = Color.Red;
        BackColor = DefaultBorderColor;
        Padding = new Padding(1);
        Size = textBox.Size;
    }

    public Color DefaultBorderColor { get; set; }
    public Color FocusedBorderColor { get; set; }

    public override string Text
    {
        get { return textBox.Text; }
        set { textBox.Text = value; }
    }

    protected override void OnEnter(EventArgs e)
    {
        BackColor = FocusedBorderColor;
        base.OnEnter(e);
    }

    protected override void OnLeave(EventArgs e)
    {
        BackColor = DefaultBorderColor;
        base.OnLeave(e);
    }

    protected override void SetBoundsCore(int x, int y,
        int width, int height, BoundsSpecified specified)
    {
        base.SetBoundsCore(x, y, width, textBox.PreferredHeight, specified);
    }
}

Position absolute but relative to parent

If you don't give any position to parent then by default it takes static. If you want to understand that difference refer to this example

Example 1::

http://jsfiddle.net/Cr9KB/1/

   #mainall
{

    background-color:red;
    height:150px;
    overflow:scroll
}

Here parent class has no position so element is placed according to body.

Example 2::

http://jsfiddle.net/Cr9KB/2/

#mainall
{
    position:relative;
    background-color:red;
    height:150px;
    overflow:scroll
}

In this example parent has relative position hence element are positioned absolute inside relative parent.

Removing duplicate values from a PowerShell array

Another option is to use Sort-Object (whose alias is sort, but only on Windows) with the
-Unique switch, which combines sorting with removal of duplicates:

$a | sort -unique

How to get First and Last record from a sql query?

-- Create a function that always returns the first non-NULL item
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION public.first_agg ( anyelement, anyelement )
RETURNS anyelement LANGUAGE SQL IMMUTABLE STRICT AS $$
        SELECT $1;
$$;


-- And then wrap an aggregate around it
CREATE AGGREGATE public.FIRST (
        sfunc    = public.first_agg,
        basetype = anyelement,
        stype    = anyelement
);

-- Create a function that always returns the last non-NULL item
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION public.last_agg ( anyelement, anyelement )
RETURNS anyelement LANGUAGE SQL IMMUTABLE STRICT AS $$
        SELECT $2;
$$;

-- And then wrap an aggregate around it
CREATE AGGREGATE public.LAST (
        sfunc    = public.last_agg,
        basetype = anyelement,
        stype    = anyelement
);

Got it from here: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/First/last_(aggregate)

Custom seekbar (thumb size, color and background)

All done in XML (no .png images). The clever bit is border_shadow.xml.

All about the vectors these days...

Screenshot:

seekbar
This is your SeekBar (res/layout/???.xml):

SeekBar

<SeekBar
    android:id="@+id/seekBar_luminosite"
    android:layout_width="300dp"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"        
    android:progress="@integer/luminosite_defaut"
    android:progressDrawable="@drawable/seekbar_style"
    android:thumb="@drawable/custom_thumb"/>

Let's make it stylish (so you can easily customize it later):

style

res/drawable/seekbar_style.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
    <item 
        android:id="@android:id/background" 
        android:drawable="@drawable/border_shadow" >
    </item>

    <item 
        android:id="@android:id/progress" > 
        <clip 
            android:drawable="@drawable/seekbar_progress" />
    </item>
</layer-list>

thumb

res/drawable/custom_thumb.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <item>
        <shape android:shape="oval">
            <solid android:color="@color/colorDekraOrange"/>
            <size
                android:width="35dp"
                android:height="35dp"/>
        </shape>
    </item>   
</layer-list>

progress

res/drawable/seekbar_progress.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list 
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
    <item 
        android:id="@+id/progressshape" >
        <clip>
            <shape 
                android:shape="rectangle" >
                <size android:height="5dp"/>
                <corners 
                    android:radius="5dp" />
                <solid android:color="@color/colorDekraYellow"/>        
            </shape>
        </clip>
    </item>
</layer-list>

shadow

res/drawable/border_shadow.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">       
    <item>      
        <shape> 
            <corners 
                android:radius="5dp" />
            <gradient
                android:angle="270"
                android:startColor="#33000000"
                android:centerColor="#11000000"
                android:endColor="#11000000"
                android:centerY="0.2"
                android:type="linear"
            />          
        </shape> 
    </item>
</layer-list>

Vertical divider doesn't work in Bootstrap 3

may be this will help also:

.navbar .divider-vertical {
    margin-top: 14px;
    height: 24px;
    border-left: 1px solid #f2f2f2;
    border-image: linear-gradient(to bottom, gray, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)) 1 100%;
}

Split an NSString to access one particular piece

Swift 3.0 version

let arr = yourString.components(separatedBy: "/")
let month = arr[0]

How can I use delay() with show() and hide() in Jquery

The easiest way is to make a "fake show" by using jquery.

element.delay(1000).fadeIn(0); // This will work

Array versus linked-list

Arrays Vs Linked List:

  1. Array memory allocation will fail sometimes because of fragmented memory.
  2. Caching is better in Arrays as all elements are allocated contiguous memory space.
  3. Coding is more complex than Arrays.
  4. No size constraint on Linked List, unlike Arrays
  5. Insertion/Deletion is faster in Linked List and access is faster in Arrays.
  6. Linked List better from multi-threading point of view.

Finding local IP addresses using Python's stdlib

You can use the netifaces module. Just type:

pip install netifaces

in your command shell and it will install itself on default Python installation.

Then you can use it like this:

from netifaces import interfaces, ifaddresses, AF_INET
for ifaceName in interfaces():
    addresses = [i['addr'] for i in ifaddresses(ifaceName).setdefault(AF_INET, [{'addr':'No IP addr'}] )]
    print '%s: %s' % (ifaceName, ', '.join(addresses))

On my computer it printed:

{45639BDC-1050-46E0-9BE9-075C30DE1FBC}: 192.168.0.100
{D43A468B-F3AE-4BF9-9391-4863A4500583}: 10.5.9.207

Author of this module claims it should work on Windows, UNIX and Mac OS X.

Conversion from Long to Double in Java

You could simply do :

double d = (double)15552451L;

Or you could get double from Long object as :

Long l = new Long(15552451L);
double d = l.doubleValue();

ActivityCompat.requestPermissions not showing dialog box

I had this same issue.I updated to buildToolsVersion "23.0.3" It all of a sudden worked. Hope this helps anyone having this issue.

What is thread safe or non-thread safe in PHP?

Apache MPM prefork with modphp is used because it is easy to configure/install. Performance-wise it is fairly inefficient. My preferred way to do the stack, FastCGI/PHP-FPM. That way you can use the much faster MPM Worker. The whole PHP remains non-threaded, but Apache serves threaded (like it should).

So basically, from bottom to top

Linux

Apache + MPM Worker + ModFastCGI (NOT FCGI) |(or)| Cherokee |(or)| Nginx

PHP-FPM + APC

ModFCGI does not correctly support PHP-FPM, or any external FastCGI applications. It only supports non-process managed FastCGI scripts. PHP-FPM is the PHP FastCGI process manager.

How to make an android app to always run in background?

You have to start a service in your Application class to run it always. If you do that, your service will be always running. Even though user terminates your app from task manager or force stop your app, it will start running again.

Create a service:

public class YourService extends Service {

    @Nullable
    @Override
    public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) {
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) {
        // do your jobs here
        return super.onStartCommand(intent, flags, startId);
    }
}

Create an Application class and start your service:

public class App extends Application {

    @Override
    public void onCreate() {
        super.onCreate();

        startService(new Intent(this, YourService.class));
    }
}

Add "name" attribute into the "application" tag of your AndroidManifest.xml

android:name=".App"

Also, don't forget to add your service in the "application" tag of your AndroidManifest.xml

<service android:name=".YourService"/>

And also this permission request in the "manifest" tag (if API level 28 or higher):

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE"/>

UPDATE

After Android Oreo, Google introduced some background limitations. Therefore, this solution above won't work probably. When a user kills your app from task manager, Android System will kill your service as well. If you want to run a service which is always alive in the background. You have to run a foreground service with showing an ongoing notification. So, edit your service like below.

public class YourService extends Service {

    private static final int NOTIF_ID = 1;
    private static final String NOTIF_CHANNEL_ID = "Channel_Id";

    @Nullable
    @Override
    public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) {
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId){

        // do your jobs here

        startForeground();
        
        return super.onStartCommand(intent, flags, startId);
    }

    private void startForeground() {
        Intent notificationIntent = new Intent(this, MainActivity.class);

        PendingIntent pendingIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(this, 0,
                notificationIntent, 0);

        startForeground(NOTIF_ID, new NotificationCompat.Builder(this, 
                NOTIF_CHANNEL_ID) // don't forget create a notification channel first
                .setOngoing(true)
                .setSmallIcon(R.drawable.ic_notification)
                .setContentTitle(getString(R.string.app_name))
                .setContentText("Service is running background")
                .setContentIntent(pendingIntent)
                .build());         
    }
}

EDIT: RESTRICTED OEMS

Unfortunately, some OEMs (Xiaomi, OnePlus, Samsung, Huawei etc.) restrict background operations due to provide longer battery life. There is no proper solution for these OEMs. Users need to allow some special permissions that are specific for OEMs or they need to add your app into whitelisted app list by device settings. You can find more detail information from https://dontkillmyapp.com/.

If background operations are an obligation for you, you need to explain it to your users why your feature is not working and how they can enable your feature by allowing those permissions. I suggest you to use AutoStarter library (https://github.com/judemanutd/AutoStarter) in order to redirect your users regarding permissions page easily from your app.

By the way, if you need to run some periodic work instead of having continuous background job. You better take a look WorkManager (https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/architecture/workmanager)

Delete dynamically-generated table row using jQuery

When cloning, by default it will not clone the events. The added rows do not have an event handler attached to them. If you call clone(true) then it should handle them as well.

http://api.jquery.com/clone/

How to change the color of an svg element?

If you want to do this to an inline svg that is, for example, a background image in your css:

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_x000D_
background: url("data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf8,%3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' fill='rgba(31,159,215,1)' viewBox='...'/%3E%3C/svg%3E");
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

of course, replace the ... with your inline image code

Convert timestamp long to normal date format

I tried this and worked for me.

Date = (long)(DateTime.Now.Subtract(new DateTime(1970, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0))).TotalSeconds

The provider is not compatible with the version of Oracle client

I encountered this problem after I installed Oracle Data Tools for Visual Studio 2015, and then fighting with Oracle for a good hour. I decided to try reinstalling Oracle client again instead of this mess with file copying, config changes, etc., and that worked for me.

How to pass password to scp?

You can script it with a tool like expect (there are handy bindings too, like Pexpect for Python).

how to make negative numbers into positive

a *= (-1);

problem solved. If there is a smaller solution for a problem, then why you guys going for a complex solution. Please direct people to use the base logic also because then only the people can train their programming logic.

Edit In Place Content Editing

I've modified your plunker to get it working via angular-xeditable:

http://plnkr.co/edit/xUDrOS?p=preview

It is common solution for inline editing - you creale hyperlinks with editable-text directive that toggles into <input type="text"> tag:

<a href="#" editable-text="bday.name" ng-click="myform.$show()" e-placeholder="Name">
    {{bday.name || 'empty'}}
</a>

For date I used editable-date directive that toggles into html5 <input type="date">.

Populating a ComboBox using C#

If you simply want to add it without creating a new class try this:

// WPF
<ComboBox Name="language" Loaded="language_Loaded" /> 


// C# code
private void language_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    List<String> language= new List<string>();
    language.Add("English");
    language.Add("Spanish");
    language.Add("ect"); 
    this.chartReviewComboxBox.ItemsSource = language;
}

I suggest an xml file with all your languages that you will support that way you do not have to be dependent on c# I would definitly create a class for languge like the above programmer suggest.

google console error `OR-IEH-01`

i found that my google payment account was not activated. i activated it and the error was solved. link for vitrification: google account verification

Class Diagrams in VS 2017

VS 2017 Professional edition- Go to Quick launch type "Class..." select Class designer and install it.

Once installed go to Add New Items search "Class Diagram" and you are ready to go.

Get table column names in MySQL?

$col = $db->query("SHOW COLUMNS FROM category");

while ($fildss = $col->fetch_array())
{             
    $filds[] = '"{'.$fildss['Field'].'}"';
    $values[] = '$rows->'.$fildss['Field'].'';
}

if($type == 'value')
{
    return $values = implode(',', $values);
}
else {
     return $filds = implode(',', $filds);
}

Difference between .dll and .exe?

Dll v/s Exe

1)DLL file is a dynamic link library which can be used in exe files and other dll files.
EXE file is a executable file which runs in a separate process which is managed by OS.

2)DLLs are not directly executable . They are separate files containing functions that can be called by programs and other DLLs to perform computations and functions.
An EXE is a program that can be executed . Ex :Windows program

3)Reusability
DLL: They can be reused for some other application. As long as the coder knows the names and parameters of the functions and procedures in the DLL file .
EXE: Only for specific purpose .

4)A DLL would share the same process and memory space of the calling application while an
EXE creates its separate process and memory space.

5)Uses
DLL: You want many applications to use it but you don't want to give them the source code You can't copy-paste the code for the button in every program, so you decide you want to create a DL-Library (DLL).

EXE: When we work with project templates like Windows Forms Applications, Console Applications, WPF Applications and Windows Services they generate an exe assembly when compiled.

6)Similarities :
Both DLL and EXE are binary files have a complex nested structure defined by the Portable Executable format, and they are not intended to be editable by users.

perform an action on checkbox checked or unchecked event on html form

We can do this using JavaScript, no need of jQuery. Just pass the changed element and let JavaScript handle it.

HTML

<form id="myform">
    syn<input type="checkbox" name="checkfield" id="g01-01"  onchange="doalert(this)"/>
</form>

JS

function doalert(checkboxElem) {
  if (checkboxElem.checked) {
    alert ("hi");
  } else {
    alert ("bye");
  }
}

Demo Here

Line Break in XML formatting?

Also you can add <br> instead of \n.

And then you can add text to TexView:

articleTextView.setText(Html.fromHtml(textForTextView));

jQuery UI themes and HTML tables

Why noy just use the theme styles in the table? i.e.

<table>
  <thead class="ui-widget-header">
    <tr>
      <th>Id</th>
      <th>Description</th>
    </td>
  </thead>
  <tbody class="ui-widget-content">
    <tr>
      <td>...</td>
      <td>...</td>
    </tr>
      .
      .
      .
  </tbody>
</table>

And you don't need to use any code...

How to count certain elements in array?

Modern JavaScript:

Note that you should always use triple equals === when doing comparison in JavaScript (JS). The triple equals makes sure, that JS comparison behaves like double equals == in other languages. The following solution shows how to solve this the functional way, which will never have out of bounds error:

// Let has local scope
let array = [1, 2, 3, 5, 2, 8, 9, 2]

// Functional filter with an Arrow function
array.filter(x => x === 2).length  // -> 3

The following anonymous Arrow function (lambda function) in JavaScript:

(x) => {
   const k = 2
   return k * x
}

may be simplified to this concise form for a single input:

x => 2 * x

where the return is implied.

Split an integer into digits to compute an ISBN checksum

Recursion version:

def int_digits(n):
    return [n] if n<10 else int_digits(n/10)+[n%10]

jQuery Popup Bubble/Tooltip

Autoresize simple Popup Bubble

index.html

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
  <link href="bubble.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
  <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
  <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="bubble.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
  <br/><br/>
  <div class="bubbleInfo">
      <div class="bubble" title="Text 1">Set cursor</div>
  </div>
  <br/><br/><br/><br/>
  <div class="bubbleInfo">
      <div class="bubble" title="Text 2">Set cursor</div>
  </div>
</body>
</html>

bubble.js

$(function () {     
  var i = 0;
  var z=1;
  do{
    title = $('.bubble:eq('+i+')').attr('title');
    if(!title){
      z=0;
    } else {
       $('.bubble:eq('+i+')').after('<table style="opacity: 0; top: -50px; left: -33px; display: none;" id="dpop" class="popup"><tbody><tr><td id="topleft" class="corner"></td><td class="top"></td><td id="topright" class="corner"></td></tr><tr><td class="left"></td><td>'+title+'</td><td class="right"></td></tr><tr><td class="corner" id="bottomleft"></td><td class="bottom"><img src="bubble/bubble-tail.png" height="25px" width="30px" /></td><td id="bottomright" class="corner"></td></tr></tbody></table>');
       $('.bubble:eq('+i+')').removeAttr('title');
    }
    i++;
  }while(z>0)

  $('.bubbleInfo').each(function () {
    var distance = 10;
    var time = 250;
    var hideDelay = 500;        
    var hideDelayTimer = null;       
    var beingShown = false;
    var shown = false;
    var trigger = $('.bubble', this);
    var info = $('.popup', this).css('opacity', 0);        

    $([trigger.get(0), info.get(0)]).mouseover(function () {
      if (hideDelayTimer) clearTimeout(hideDelayTimer);
      if (beingShown || shown) {
        // don't trigger the animation again
        return;
      } else {
        // reset position of info box
        beingShown = true;

        info.css({
        top: -40,
        left: 10,
        display: 'block'
        }).animate({
        top: '-=' + distance + 'px',
        opacity: 1
        }, time, 'swing', function() {
          beingShown = false;
          shown = true;
        });
      }          
      return false;
    }).mouseout(function () {
      if (hideDelayTimer) clearTimeout(hideDelayTimer);
      hideDelayTimer = setTimeout(function () {
        hideDelayTimer = null;
        info.animate({
          top: '-=' + distance + 'px',
          opacity: 0
        }, time, 'swing', function () {
          shown = false;
          info.css('display', 'none');
        });
      }, hideDelay);
      return false;
    });
  }); 
});

bubble.css

/* Booble */
.bubbleInfo {
    position: relative;
    width: 500px;
}
.bubble {       
}
.popup {
    position: absolute;
    display: none;
    z-index: 50;
    border-collapse: collapse;
    font-size: .8em;
}
.popup td.corner {
    height: 13px;
    width: 15px;
}
.popup td#topleft { 
    background-image: url(bubble/bubble-1.png); 
} 
.popup td.top { 
    background-image: url(bubble/bubble-2.png); 
}
.popup td#topright { 
    background-image: url(bubble/bubble-3.png); 
}
.popup td.left { 
    background-image: url(bubble/bubble-4.png); 
}
.popup td.right { 
    background-image: url(bubble/bubble-5.png); 
}
.popup td#bottomleft { 
    background-image: url(bubble/bubble-6.png); 
}
.popup td.bottom { 
    background-image: url(bubble/bubble-7.png); 
    text-align: center;
}
.popup td.bottom img { 
    display: block; 
    margin: 0 auto; 
}
.popup td#bottomright { 
    background-image: url(bubble/bubble-8.png); 
}

How to convert a Django QuerySet to a list

Why not just call .values('reqColumn1','reqColumn2') or .values_list('reqColumn1','reqColumn2') on the queryset?

answers_list = models.objects.values('reqColumn1','reqColumn2')

result = [{'reqColumn1':value1,'reqColumn2':value2}]

OR

answers_list = models.objects.values_list('reqColumn1','reqColumn2')

result = [(value1,value2)]

You can able to do all the operation on this QuerySet, which you do for list .

How to set width to 100% in WPF

It is the container of the Grid that is imposing on its width. In this case, that's a ListBoxItem, which is left-aligned by default. You can set it to stretch as follows:

<ListBox>
    <!-- other XAML omitted, you just need to add the following bit -->
    <ListBox.ItemContainerStyle>
        <Style TargetType="ListBoxItem">
            <Setter Property="HorizontalAlignment" Value="Stretch"/>
        </Style>
    </ListBox.ItemContainerStyle>
</ListBox>

How to set array length in c# dynamically

Use Array.CreateInstance to create an array dynamically.

    private Update BuildMetaData(MetaData[] nvPairs)
    {
        Update update = new Update();
        InputProperty[] ip = Array.CreateInstance(typeof(InputProperty), nvPairs.Count()) as InputProperty[];
        int i;
        for (i = 0; i < nvPairs.Length; i++)
        {
            if (nvPairs[i] == null) break;
            ip[i] = new InputProperty();
            ip[i].Name = "udf:" + nvPairs[i].Name;
            ip[i].Val = nvPairs[i].Value;
        }
        update.Items = ip;
        return update;
    }

Node package ( Grunt ) installed but not available

Sometimes you have to npm install package_name -g for it to work.

How to get html table td cell value by JavaScript?

This is my solution

var cells = Array.prototype.slice.call(document.getElementById("tableI").getElementsByTagName("td"));
for(var i in cells){
    console.log("My contents is \"" + cells[i].innerHTML + "\"");
}

Do Git tags only apply to the current branch?

When calling just git tag <TAGNAME> without any additional parameters, Git will create a new tag from your current HEAD (i.e. the HEAD of your current branch). When adding additional commits into this branch, the branch HEAD will keep up with those new commits, while the tag always refers to the same commit.

When calling git tag <TAGNAME> <COMMIT> you can even specify which commit to use for creating the tag.

Regardless, a tag is still simply a "pointer" to a certain commit (not a branch).

How to extract year and month from date in PostgreSQL without using to_char() function?

date_part(text, timestamp)

e.g.

date_part('month', timestamp '2001-02-16 20:38:40'),
date_part('year', timestamp '2001-02-16 20:38:40') 

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/functions-datetime.html

How can I commit a single file using SVN over a network?

You have a file myFile.txt you want to commit.

The right procedure is :

  1. Move to the file folder
  2. svn up
  3. svn commit myFile.txt -m "Insert here a commit message!!!"

Hope this will help someone.

Where can I get a list of Ansible pre-defined variables?

There are 3 sources of variables in Ansible:

  1. Variables gathered from facts. You can get them by running command: ansible -m setup hostname

  2. Built-in (pre-defined) Ansible variables (AKA 'magic' variables). They are documented in Ansible documentation: http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks_variables.html#magic-variables-and-how-to-access-information-about-other-hosts
    Here is the list extracted from Ansible 1.9 documentation:

    • group_names
    • groups
    • inventory_hostname
    • ansible_hostname
    • inventory_hostname_short
    • play_hosts
    • delegate_to
    • inventory_dir
    • inventory_file
  3. Variables passed to ansible via command line. But obviously you know what they are

How to get the file path from HTML input form in Firefox 3

For preview in Firefox works this - attachment is object of attachment element in first example:

           if (attachment.files)
             previewImage.src = attachment.files.item(0).getAsDataURL();
           else
             previewImage.src = attachment.value;

.substring error: "is not a function"

you can also quote string

''+document.location+''.substring(2,3);

creating batch script to unzip a file without additional zip tools

Try this:

@echo off
setlocal
cd /d %~dp0
Call :UnZipFile "C:\Temp\" "c:\path\to\batch.zip"
exit /b

:UnZipFile <ExtractTo> <newzipfile>
set vbs="%temp%\_.vbs"
if exist %vbs% del /f /q %vbs%
>%vbs%  echo Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
>>%vbs% echo If NOT fso.FolderExists(%1) Then
>>%vbs% echo fso.CreateFolder(%1)
>>%vbs% echo End If
>>%vbs% echo set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
>>%vbs% echo set FilesInZip=objShell.NameSpace(%2).items
>>%vbs% echo objShell.NameSpace(%1).CopyHere(FilesInZip)
>>%vbs% echo Set fso = Nothing
>>%vbs% echo Set objShell = Nothing
cscript //nologo %vbs%
if exist %vbs% del /f /q %vbs%

Revision

To have it perform the unzip on each zip file creating a folder for each use:

@echo off
setlocal
cd /d %~dp0
for %%a in (*.zip) do (
    Call :UnZipFile "C:\Temp\%%~na\" "c:\path\to\%%~nxa"
)
exit /b

If you don't want it to create a folder for each zip, change Call :UnZipFile "C:\Temp\%%~na\" "c:\path\to\%%~nxa" to Call :UnZipFile "C:\Temp\" "c:\path\to\%%~nxa"

Styling a input type=number

I've been struggling with this on mobile and tablet. My solution was to use absolute positioning on the spinners, so I'm just posting it in case it helps anyone else:

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_x000D_
<html><head>_x000D_
    <style>_x000D_
      body {padding: 10px;margin: 10px}_x000D_
      input[type=number] {_x000D_
        /*for absolutely positioning spinners*/_x000D_
        position: relative; _x000D_
        padding: 5px;_x000D_
        padding-right: 25px;_x000D_
      }_x000D_
_x000D_
      input[type=number]::-webkit-inner-spin-button,_x000D_
      input[type=number]::-webkit-outer-spin-button {_x000D_
        opacity: 1;_x000D_
      }_x000D_
_x000D_
      input[type=number]::-webkit-outer-spin-button, _x000D_
      input[type=number]::-webkit-inner-spin-button {_x000D_
        -webkit-appearance: inner-spin-button !important;_x000D_
        width: 25px;_x000D_
        position: absolute;_x000D_
        top: 0;_x000D_
        right: 0;_x000D_
        height: 100%;_x000D_
      }_x000D_
    </style>_x000D_
  <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes"/>_x000D_
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=0"/>_x000D_
  </head>_x000D_
  <body >_x000D_
    <input type="number" value="1" step="1" />_x000D_
_x000D_
  </body></html>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

ITextSharp insert text to an existing pdf

I found a way to do it (dont know if it is the best but it works)

string oldFile = "oldFile.pdf";
string newFile = "newFile.pdf";

// open the reader
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(oldFile);
Rectangle size = reader.GetPageSizeWithRotation(1);
Document document = new Document(size);

// open the writer
FileStream fs = new FileStream(newFile, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write);
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, fs);
document.Open();

// the pdf content
PdfContentByte cb = writer.DirectContent;

// select the font properties
BaseFont bf = BaseFont.CreateFont(BaseFont.HELVETICA, BaseFont.CP1252,BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED);
cb.SetColorFill(BaseColor.DARK_GRAY);
cb.SetFontAndSize(bf, 8);

// write the text in the pdf content
cb.BeginText();
string text = "Some random blablablabla...";
// put the alignment and coordinates here
cb.ShowTextAligned(1, text, 520, 640, 0);
cb.EndText();
cb.BeginText();
text = "Other random blabla...";
// put the alignment and coordinates here
cb.ShowTextAligned(2, text, 100, 200, 0);
cb.EndText();

// create the new page and add it to the pdf
PdfImportedPage page = writer.GetImportedPage(reader, 1);
cb.AddTemplate(page, 0, 0);

// close the streams and voilá the file should be changed :)
document.Close();
fs.Close();
writer.Close();
reader.Close();

I hope this can be usefull for someone =) (and post here any errors)

How can I split a text file using PowerShell?

Sounds like a job for the UNIX command split:

split MyBigFile.csv

Just split my 55 GB csv file in 21k chunks in less than 10 minutes.

It's not native to PowerShell though, but comes with, for instance, the git for windows package https://git-scm.com/download/win

C++ IDE for Linux?

Sun Studio version 12 is a free download(FREE and paid support available) -- http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/downloads/thankyou.jsp?submit=%A0FREE+Download%A0%BB%A0.

I'm sure you have code completion and debugging support including plugin support in this IDE.

Sun Studio is available for Linux as well as Solaris. forums : http://developers.sun.com/sunstudio/community/forums/index.jsp. Sun Studio Linux forums : http://forum.sun.com/forum.jspa?forumID=855

I'll be eager to hear your feedback on this tool.

BR,
~A

Is there an easy way to check the .NET Framework version?

I had a situation where my .NET 4.0 class library might be called from an .NET 4.0 or higher version assemblies.

A specific method call would only work if executed from an 4.5+ assembly.

In Order to decide if I should call the method or not I needed to determine the current executing framework version and this is a pretty good solution for that

var frameworkName = new System.Runtime.Versioning.FrameworkName(
    AppDomain.CurrentDomain.SetupInformation.TargetFrameworkName
);

if (frameworkName.Version >= new Version(4, 5)) 
{
    // run code
}

What's the -practical- difference between a Bare and non-Bare repository?

The distinction between a bare and non-bare Git repository is artificial and misleading since a workspace is not part of the repository and a repository doesn't require a workspace. Strictly speaking, a Git repository includes those objects that describe the state of the repository. These objects may exist in any directory, but typically exist in the .git directory in the top-level directory of the workspace. The workspace is a directory tree that represents a particular commit in the repository, but it may exist in any directory or not at all. Environment variable $GIT_DIR links a workspace to the repository from which it originates.

Git commands git clone and git init both have options --bare that create repositories without an initial workspace. It's unfortunate that Git conflates the two separate, but related concepts of workspace and repository and then uses the confusing term bare to separate the two ideas.

Creating a recursive method for Palindrome

/**
     * Function to check a String is palindrome or not
     * @param s input String
     * @return true if Palindrome
     */
    public boolean checkPalindrome(String s) {

        if (s.length() == 1 || s.isEmpty())
            return true;

        boolean palindrome = checkPalindrome(s.substring(1, s.length() - 1));

        return palindrome && s.charAt(0) == s.charAt(s.length() - 1);

    }

When saving, how can you check if a field has changed?

How about using David Cramer's solution:

http://cramer.io/2010/12/06/tracking-changes-to-fields-in-django/

I've had success using it like this:

@track_data('name')
class Mode(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=5)
    mode = models.CharField(max_length=5)

    def save(self, *args, **kwargs):
        if self.has_changed('name'):
            print 'name changed'

    # OR #

    @classmethod
    def post_save(cls, sender, instance, created, **kwargs):
        if instance.has_changed('name'):
            print "Hooray!"

Python check if website exists

Try this one::

import urllib2  
website='https://www.allyourmusic.com'  
try:  
    response = urllib2.urlopen(website)  
    if response.code==200:  
        print("site exists!")  
    else:  
        print("site doesn't exists!")  
except urllib2.HTTPError, e:  
    print(e.code)  
except urllib2.URLError, e:  
    print(e.args)  

AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'encode'

You need to do encode on tmp[0], not on tmp.

tmp is not a string. It contains a (Unicode) string.

Try running type(tmp) and print dir(tmp) to see it for yourself.

Listening for variable changes in JavaScript

No.

But, if it's really that important, you have 2 options (first is tested, second isn't):

First, use setters and getters, like so:

var myobj = {a : 1};

function create_gets_sets(obj) { // make this a framework/global function
    var proxy = {}
    for ( var i in obj ) {
        if (obj.hasOwnProperty(i)) {
            var k = i;
            proxy["set_"+i] = function (val) { this[k] = val; };
            proxy["get_"+i] = function ()    { return this[k]; };
        }
    }
    for (var i in proxy) {
        if (proxy.hasOwnProperty(i)) {
            obj[i] = proxy[i];
        }
    }
}

create_gets_sets(myobj);

then you can do something like:

function listen_to(obj, prop, handler) {
    var current_setter = obj["set_" + prop];
    var old_val = obj["get_" + prop]();
    obj["set_" + prop] = function(val) { current_setter.apply(obj, [old_val, val]); handler(val));
}

then set the listener like:

listen_to(myobj, "a", function(oldval, newval) {
    alert("old : " + oldval + " new : " + newval);
}

Second, you could put a watch on the value:

Given myobj above, with 'a' on it:

function watch(obj, prop, handler) { // make this a framework/global function
    var currval = obj[prop];
    function callback() {
        if (obj[prop] != currval) {
            var temp = currval;
            currval = obj[prop];
            handler(temp, currval);
        }
    }
    return callback;
}

var myhandler = function (oldval, newval) {
    //do something
};

var intervalH = setInterval(watch(myobj, "a", myhandler), 100);

myobj.set_a(2);