Programs & Examples On #Adm2

echo key and value of an array without and with loop

foreach($page as $key => $value) {
  echo "$key is at $value";
}

For 'without loop' version I'll just ask "why?"

Disable same origin policy in Chrome

The Allow-Control-Allow-Origin plugin for Chrome does not work. This is for MacOS

I added alias chrome='open -n -a /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --args --user-data-dir --disable-web-security' to my .profile as an alias.

The other commands will disable my other extensions and this will boot your normal chrome with cors disabled

Add inline style using Javascript

Try something like this

document.getElementById("vid-holder").style.width=300 + "px";

Streaming via RTSP or RTP in HTML5

My observations regarding the HTML 5 video tag and rtsp(rtp) streams are, that it only works with konqueror(KDE 4.4.1, Phonon-backend set to GStreamer). I got only video (no audio) with a H.264/AAC RTSP(RTP) stream.

The streams from http://media.esof2010.org/ didn't work with konqueror(KDE 4.4.1, Phonon-backend set to GStreamer).

mysqldump & gzip commands to properly create a compressed file of a MySQL database using crontab

First the mysqldump command is executed and the output generated is redirected using the pipe. The pipe is sending the standard output into the gzip command as standard input. Following the filename.gz, is the output redirection operator (>) which is going to continue redirecting the data until the last filename, which is where the data will be saved.

For example, this command will dump the database and run it through gzip and the data will finally land in three.gz

mysqldump -u user -pupasswd my-database | gzip > one.gz > two.gz > three.gz

$> ls -l
-rw-r--r--  1 uname  grp     0 Mar  9 00:37 one.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 uname  grp  1246 Mar  9 00:37 three.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 uname  grp     0 Mar  9 00:37 two.gz

My original answer is an example of redirecting the database dump to many compressed files (without double compressing). (Since I scanned the question and seriously missed - sorry about that)

This is an example of recompressing files:

mysqldump -u user -pupasswd my-database | gzip -c > one.gz; gzip -c one.gz > two.gz; gzip -c two.gz > three.gz

$> ls -l
-rw-r--r--  1 uname  grp  1246 Mar  9 00:44 one.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 uname  grp  1306 Mar  9 00:44 three.gz
-rw-r--r--  1 uname  grp  1276 Mar  9 00:44 two.gz

This is a good resource explaining I/O redirection: http://www.codecoffee.com/tipsforlinux/articles2/042.html

How to set selected value on select using selectpicker plugin from bootstrap

Actually your value is set, but your selectpicker is not refreshed

As you can read from documentation
https://silviomoreto.github.io/bootstrap-select/methods/#selectpickerval

The right way to do this would be

$('.selectpicker').selectpicker('val', 1);

For multiple values you can add array of values

$('.selectpicker').selectpicker('val', [1 , 2]);

Check if a div does NOT exist with javascript

There's an even better solution. You don't even need to check if the element returns null. You can simply do this:

if (document.getElementById('elementId')) {
  console.log('exists')
}

That code will only log exists to console if the element actually exists in the DOM.

HTML tag inside JavaScript

<div id="demo"></div>

<input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit" value="Submit" onClick="return empty()">


<script type="text/javascript">
        function empty()
        {
          var x;
          x = document.getElementById("feedbackpost").value;
          if (x == "")
           {
             var demo = document.getElementById("demo");
             demo.innerHTML =document.write='<h1>Hello member</h1>';
              return false;
           };
        }
    </script>

how to set cursor style to pointer for links without hrefs

in your css file add this....

a:hover {
 cursor:pointer;
}

if you don't have a css file, add this to the HEAD of your HTML page

<style type="text/css">
 a:hover {
  cursor:pointer;
 }
</style>

also you can use the href="" attribute by returning false at the end of your javascript.

<a href="" onclick="doSomething(); return false;">a link</a>

this is good for many reasons. SEO or if people don't have javascript, the href="" will work. e.g.

<a href="nojavascriptpage.html" onclick="doSomething(); return false;">a link</a>

@see http://www.alistapart.com/articles/behavioralseparation

Edit: Worth noting @BalusC's answer where he mentions :hover is not necessary for the OP's use case. Although other style can be add with the :hover selector.

Regex replace uppercase with lowercase letters

I figured this might come in handy for others as well :

find:

  • ([A-Z])(.*)

replace:

  • \L$1$2 --> will convert all letters in $1 and $2 to lowercase
    BUT
  • \l$1$2 --> will only convert the first letter of $1 to lowercase and leave everything else as is

The same goes for uppercase with \U and \u

Where are SQL Server connection attempts logged?

You can enable connection logging. For SQL Server 2008, you can enable Login Auditing. In SQL Server Management Studio, open SQL Server Properties > Security > Login Auditing select "Both failed and successful logins".

Make sure to restart the SQL Server service.

Once you've done that, connection attempts should be logged into SQL's error log. The physical logs location can be determined here.

add commas to a number in jQuery

Here is my coffeescript version of @baacke's fiddle provided in a comment to @Timothy Perez

class Helpers
    @intComma: (number) ->
        # remove any existing commas
        comma = /,/g
        val = number.toString().replace comma, ''

        # separate the decimals
        valSplit = val.split '.'

        integer = valSplit[0].toString()
        expression = /(\d+)(\d{3})/
        while expression.test(integer)
            withComma = "$1,$2"
            integer = integer.toString().replace expression, withComma

        # recombine with decimals if any
        val = integer
        if valSplit.length == 2
            val = "#{val}.#{valSplit[1]}"

        return val

Service will not start: error 1067: the process terminated unexpectedly

This is a problem related permission. Make sure that the current user has access to the folder which contains installation files.

is there a function in lodash to replace matched item

Came across this as well and did it simply that way.

const persons = [{id: 1, name: "Person 1"}, {id:2, name:"Person 2"}];
const updatedPerson = {id: 1, name: "new Person Name"}
const updatedPersons = persons.map(person => (
  person.id === updated.id
    ? updatedPerson
    : person
))

If wanted we can generalize it

const replaceWhere = (list, predicate, replacement) => {
  return list.map(item => predicate(item) ? replacement : item)
}

replaceWhere(persons, person => person.id === updatedPerson.id, updatedPerson)

How do you run a single query through mysql from the command line?

echo "select * from users;" | mysql -uroot -p -hslavedb.mydomain.com mydb_production

How to create unit tests easily in eclipse

Any unit test you could create by just pressing a button would not be worth anything. How is the tool to know what parameters to pass your method and what to expect back? Unless I'm misunderstanding your expectations.

Close to that is something like FitNesse, where you can set up tests, then separately you set up a wiki page with your test data, and it runs the tests with that data, publishing the results as red/greens.

If you would be happy to make test writing much faster, I would suggest Mockito, a mocking framework that lets you very easily mock the classes around the one you're testing, so there's less setup/teardown, and you know you're really testing that one class instead of a dependent of it.

How to fix: Error device not found with ADB.exe

I have a Droid 3 (Verizon). I went to Motorola here and found the driver for the device 'Motorola ADB Interface' which was showing in device manager. It's kind of a big download for just the driver, but during installation it found it and installed correctly.

The APK file does not exist on disk

My problem was including minutes in the file name - it looked for appname_debug_0.9.0.1_170214_2216.apk when the generated file was appname_debug_0.9.0.1_170214_2217.apk so the output filename code (nabbed from elsewhere) was clearly being called from two different points in the build.

applicationVariants.all { variant ->
        variant.outputs.each { output ->
            def project = "appname"
            def SEP = "_"
    //        def flavor = variant.productFlavors[0].name
            def buildType = variant.variantData.variantConfiguration.buildType.name
            def version = variant.versionName
            def date = new Date();
            def formattedDate = date.format('yyMMdd_HHmm')

            def newApkName = project + SEP + /*flavor + */ SEP + buildType + SEP + version + SEP + formattedDate + ".apk"

            output.outputFile = new File(output.outputFile.parent, newApkName)
        }
    }

Determine whether an array contains a value

You can use _.indexOf method or if you don't want to include whole Underscore.js library in your app, you can have a look how they did it and extract necessary code.

    _.indexOf = function(array, item, isSorted) {
    if (array == null) return -1;
    var i = 0, l = array.length;
    if (isSorted) {
      if (typeof isSorted == 'number') {
        i = (isSorted < 0 ? Math.max(0, l + isSorted) : isSorted);
      } else {
        i = _.sortedIndex(array, item);
        return array[i] === item ? i : -1;
      }
    }
    if (nativeIndexOf && array.indexOf === nativeIndexOf) return array.indexOf(item, isSorted);
    for (; i < l; i++) if (array[i] === item) return i;
    return -1;
  };

Simple http post example in Objective-C?

Thanks a lot it worked , please note I did a typo in php as it should be mysqli_query( $con2, $sql )

Android Studio Stuck at Gradle Download on create new project

Note : My answer seems quite long but its only 2 steps away if you want a correct way to configure with current project.

I found what was the actual problem. Actually, each android project comes with its own version of gradle wrapper.

have a look at dir

projectname/gradle/wrapper

here the properties file says the version of gradle that this project uses:

#Mon Sep 08 13:53:18 PDT 2014
distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
distributionPath=wrapper/dists
zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.7-all.zip

So the issue is if you dont have that version of gradle then it will download that version for you. For instance have a look at this dir, where it downloaded gradle versions for me

/home/myusername/.gradle/wrapper/dists

looks like

enter image description here

Here it will try to download version of gradle if you dont have. If you are comfortable with downloading other version of gradle then you can wait till it completes else

Workaround will be: 1. if project is on git clone it first.

  1. goto your projectdir/gradle/wrapper

3.change version of distributionUrl to version that you already have : eg: for 2.2.1-all

url will be

distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.2.1-all.zip

4.copy gradle-wrapper.jar to your projectdir/gradle/wrapper from

.gradle/wrapper/dists/gradle-2.1.1-all/4ryh47z6pv2tj9n03uiw8pzc6/gradle-2.2.1/lib/gradle-wrapper.jar(dont forget to rename gradle-wrapper2.2.1.jar to gradle-wrapper.jar)

  1. now import your project in studio.. and it works.

How to disable spring security for particular url

I have a better way:

http
    .authorizeRequests()
    .antMatchers("/api/v1/signup/**").permitAll()
    .anyRequest().authenticated()

How do I create a transparent Activity on Android?

In the onCreate function, below the setContentView, add this line:

getWindow().setBackgroundDrawable(new ColorDrawable(Color.TRANSPARENT));

Calling a class function inside of __init__

You must declare parse_file like this; def parse_file(self). The "self" parameter is a hidden parameter in most languages, but not in python. You must add it to the definition of all that methods that belong to a class. Then you can call the function from any method inside the class using self.parse_file

your final program is going to look like this:

class MyClass():
  def __init__(self, filename):
      self.filename = filename 

      self.stat1 = None
      self.stat2 = None
      self.stat3 = None
      self.stat4 = None
      self.stat5 = None
      self.parse_file()

  def parse_file(self):
      #do some parsing
      self.stat1 = result_from_parse1
      self.stat2 = result_from_parse2
      self.stat3 = result_from_parse3
      self.stat4 = result_from_parse4
      self.stat5 = result_from_parse5

'sprintf': double precision in C

You need to write it like sprintf(aa, "%9.7lf", a)

Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printf for some more details on format codes.

How can I create database tables from XSD files?

Commercial Product: Altova's XML Spy.

Note that there's no general solution to this. An XSD can easily describe something that does not map to a relational database.

While you can try to "automate" this, your XSD's must be designed with a relational database in mind, or it won't work out well.

If the XSD's have features that don't map well you'll have to (1) design a mapping of some kind and then (2) write your own application to translate the XSD's into DDL.

Been there, done that. Work for hire -- no open source available.

MySQL my.cnf file - Found option without preceding group

I had this problem when I installed MySQL 8.0.15 with the community installer. The my.ini file that came with the installer did not work correctly after it had been edited. I did a full manual install by downloading that zip folder. I was able to create my own my.ini file containing only the parameters that I was concerned about and it worked.

  1. download zip file from MySQL website
  2. unpack the folder into C:\program files\MySQL\MySQL8.0
  3. within the MySQL8.0 folder that you unpacked the zip folder into, create a text file and save it as my.ini
  4. include the parameters in that my.ini file that you are concerned about. so something like this(just ensure that there is already a folder created for the datadir or else initialization won't work):

    [mysqld]
    basedire=C:\program files\MySQL\MySQL8.0
    datadir=D:\MySQL\Data
    ....continue with whatever parameters you want to include
    
  5. initialize the data directory by running these two commands in the command prompt:

    cd C:\program files\MySQL\MySQL8.0\bin
    mysqld --default-file=C:\program files\MySQL\MySQL8.0\my.ini --initialize
    
  6. install the MySQL server as a service by running these two commands:

    cd C:\program files\MySQL\MySQL8.0\bin
    mysqld --install --default-file=C:\program files\MySQL\MySQL8.0\my.ini
    
  7. finally, start the server for the first time by running these two commands:

    cd C:\program files\MySQL\MySQL8.0\bin
    mysqld --console
    

SQL Server, division returns zero

if you declare it as float or any decimal format it will display

0

only

E.g :

declare @weight float;

SET @weight= 47 / 638; PRINT @weight

Output : 0

If you want the output as

0.073667712

E.g

declare @weight float;

SET @weight= 47.000000000 / 638.000000000; PRINT @weight

Invariant Violation: _registerComponent(...): Target container is not a DOM element

In my case this error was caused by hot reloading, while introducing new classes. In that stage of the project, use normal watchers to compile your code.

Can I convert a boolean to Yes/No in a ASP.NET GridView

Add a method to your page class like this:

public string YesNo(bool active) 
{
  return active ? "Yes" : "No";
}

And then in your TemplateField you Bind using this method:

<%# YesNo(Active) %>

jQuery Clone table row

Here you go:

$( table ).delegate( '.tr_clone_add', 'click', function () {
    var thisRow = $( this ).closest( 'tr' )[0];
    $( thisRow ).clone().insertAfter( thisRow ).find( 'input:text' ).val( '' );
});

Live demo: http://jsfiddle.net/RhjxK/4/


Update: The new way of delegating events in jQuery is

$(table).on('click', '.tr_clone_add', function () { … });

Getting the inputstream from a classpath resource (XML file)

ClassLoader.getResourceAsStream().

As stated in the comment below, if you are in a multi-ClassLoader environment (such as unit testing, webapps, etc.) you may need to use Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader(). See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2308188/getresourceasstream-vs-fileinputstream/2308388#comment21307593_2308388.

Setting the height of a SELECT in IE

It is correct that there is no work-around for this aside from ditching the select element, but if you only need to show more items in your select list you can simply use the size attribute:

<select multiple="multiple" size="15">
<option>1</option>
<option>2</option>
<option>3</option>
<option>4</option>
</select>

Doing this you'll have additional empty lines if your collection of items lenght is smaller than size value.

How to pass macro definition from "make" command line arguments (-D) to C source code?

Because of low reputation, I cannot comment the accepted answer.

I would like to mention the predefined variable CPPFLAGS. It might represent a better fit than CFLAGS or CXXFLAGS, since it is described by the GNU Make manual as:

Extra flags to give to the C preprocessor and programs that use it (the C and Fortran compilers).

Examples of built-in implicit rules that use CPPFLAGS

  • n.o is made automatically from n.c with a recipe of the form:
    • $(CC) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) -c
  • n.o is made automatically from n.cc, n.cpp, or n.C with a recipe of the form:
    • $(CXX) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CXXFLAGS) -c

One would use the command make CPPFLAGS=-Dvar=123 to define the desired macro.

More info

Android: show soft keyboard automatically when focus is on an EditText

I know this question is old by I think using an extension function is a prettier way to show keyboard for an edit text

here is the method I use to show keyboard for an edittext.

kotlin code: just need to call edittext.showKeyboard()

fun EditText.showKeyboard() {
  post {
    requestFocus()
    val imm = context.getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE) as InputMethodManager
    imm.showSoftInput(this, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT)
  }
}

the java code:

public static void showKeyboard(EditText editText) {
    editText.post(new Runnable() {
      @Override
      public void run() {
        editText.requestFocus();
        InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) editText.getContext()
            .getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
        imm.showSoftInput(editText, InputMethodManager.SHOW_IMPLICIT);
      }
    });
  }

jQuery UI: Datepicker set year range dropdown to 100 years

This is a bit late in the day for suggesting this, given how long ago the original question was posted, but this is what I did.

I needed a range of 70 years, which, while not as much as 100, is still too many years for the visitor to scroll through. (jQuery does step through year in groups, but that's a pain in the patootie for most people.)

The first step was to modify the JavaScript for the datepicker widget: Find this code in jquery-ui.js or jquery-ui-min.js (where it will be minimized):

for (a.yearshtml+='<select class="ui-datepicker-year" onchange="DP_jQuery_'+y+".datepicker._selectMonthYear('#"+
a.id+"', this, 'Y');\" onclick=\"DP_jQuery_"+y+".datepicker._clickMonthYear('#"+a.id+"');\">";b<=g;b++)
 a.yearshtml+='<option value="'+b+'"'+(b==c?' selected="selected"':"")+">"+b+"</option>";
a.yearshtml+="</select>";

And replace it with this:

a.yearshtml+='<select class="ui-datepicker-year" onchange="DP_jQuery_'+y+
 ".datepicker._selectMonthYear('#"+a.id+"', this, 'Y');
 \" onclick=\"DP_jQuery_"+y+".datepicker._clickMonthYear('#"+a.id+"');
 \">";
for(opg=-1;b<=g;b++) {
    a.yearshtml+=((b%10)==0 || opg==-1 ?
        (opg==1 ? (opg=0, '</optgroup>') : '')+
        (b<(g-10) ? (opg=1, '<optgroup label="'+b+' >">') : '') : '')+
        '<option value="'+b+'"'+(b==c?' selected="selected"':"")+">"+b+"</option>";
}
a.yearshtml+="</select>";

This surrounds the decades (except for the current) with OPTGROUP tags.

Next, add this to your CSS file:

.ui-datepicker OPTGROUP { font-weight:normal; }
.ui-datepicker OPTGROUP OPTION { display:none; text-align:right; }
.ui-datepicker OPTGROUP:hover OPTION { display:block; }

This hides the decades until the visitor mouses over the base year. Your visitor can scroll through any number of years quickly.

Feel free to use this; just please give proper attribution in your code.

Open web in new tab Selenium + Python

In a discussion, Simon clearly mentioned that:

While the datatype used for storing the list of handles may be ordered by insertion, the order in which the WebDriver implementation iterates over the window handles to insert them has no requirement to be stable. The ordering is arbitrary.


Using Selenium v3.x opening a website in a New Tab through Python is much easier now. We have to induce an WebDriverWait for number_of_windows_to_be(2) and then collect the window handles every time we open a new tab/window and finally iterate through the window handles and switchTo().window(newly_opened) as required. Here is a solution where you can open http://www.google.co.in in the initial TAB and https://www.yahoo.com in the adjacent TAB:

  • Code Block:

    from selenium import webdriver
    from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
    from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC
    
    options = webdriver.ChromeOptions() 
    options.add_argument("start-maximized")
    options.add_argument('disable-infobars')
    driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=options, executable_path=r'C:\Utility\BrowserDrivers\chromedriver.exe')
    driver.get("http://www.google.co.in")
    print("Initial Page Title is : %s" %driver.title)
    windows_before  = driver.current_window_handle
    print("First Window Handle is : %s" %windows_before)
    driver.execute_script("window.open('https://www.yahoo.com')")
    WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(EC.number_of_windows_to_be(2))
    windows_after = driver.window_handles
    new_window = [x for x in windows_after if x != windows_before][0]
    driver.switch_to_window(new_window)
    print("Page Title after Tab Switching is : %s" %driver.title)
    print("Second Window Handle is : %s" %new_window)
    
  • Console Output:

    Initial Page Title is : Google
    First Window Handle is : CDwindow-B2B3DE3A222B3DA5237840FA574AF780
    Page Title after Tab Switching is : Yahoo
    Second Window Handle is : CDwindow-D7DA7666A0008ED91991C623105A2EC4
    
  • Browser Snapshot:

multiple__tabs


Outro

You can find the based discussion in Best way to keep track and iterate through tabs and windows using WindowHandles using Selenium

Test if object implements interface

This should do:

public static boolean implementsInterface(Object object, Class interf){
    return interf.isInstance(object);
}

For example,

 java.io.Serializable.class.isInstance("a test string")

evaluates to true.

Type safety: Unchecked cast

If you really want to get rid of the warnings, one thing you can do is create a class that extends from the generic class.

For example, if you're trying to use

private Map<String, String> someMap = new HashMap<String, String>();

You can create a new class like such

public class StringMap extends HashMap<String, String>()
{
    // Override constructors
}

Then when you use

someMap = (StringMap) getApplicationContext().getBean("someMap");

The compiler DOES know what the (no longer generic) types are, and there will be no warning. This may not always be the perfect solution, some might argue this kind of defeats the purpose of generic classes, but you're still re-using all of the same code from the generic class, you're just declaring at compile time what type you want to use.

Remove "whitespace" between div element

The cleanest way to fix this is to apply the vertical-align: top property to you CSS rules:

#div1 div {
   width:30px;height:30px;
   border:blue 1px solid;
   display:inline-block;
   *display:inline;zoom:1;
   margin:0px;outline:none;
   vertical-align: top;
}

If you were to add content to your div's, then using either line-height: 0 or font-size: 0 would cause problems with your text layout.

See fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/audetwebdesign/eJqaZ/

Where This Problem Comes From

This problem can arise when a browser is in "quirks" mode. In this example, changing the doctype from:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

to

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Strict//EN">

will change how the browser deals with extra whitespace.

In quirks mode, the whitespace is ignored, but preserved in strict mode.

References:

html doctype adds whitespace?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Images,_Tables,_and_Mysterious_Gaps

What is the difference between a Docker image and a container?

In short:

Container is a division (virtual) in a kernel which shares a common OS and runs an image (Docker image).

A container is a self-sustainable application that will have packages and all the necessary dependencies together to run the code.

What is the default text size on Android?

Default text size vary from device to devices

Type Dimension Micro 12 sp Small 14 sp Medium 18 sp Large 22 sp

notifyDataSetChanged not working on RecyclerView

Try this method:

List<Business> mBusinesses2 = mBusinesses;
mBusinesses.clear();
mBusinesses.addAll(mBusinesses2);
//and do the notification

a little time consuming, but it should work.

How to modify a global variable within a function in bash?

What you are doing, you are executing test1

$(test1)

in a sub-shell( child shell ) and Child shells cannot modify anything in parent.

You can find it in bash manual

Please Check: Things results in a subshell here

Equivalent of .bat in mac os

May be you can find answer here? Equivalent of double-clickable .sh and .bat on Mac?

Usually you can create bash script for Mac OS, where you put similar commands as in batch file. For your case create bash file and put same command, but change back-slashes with regular ones.

Your file will look something like:

#! /bin/bash
java -cp  ".;./supportlibraries/Framework_Core.jar;./supportlibraries/Framework_DataTable.jar;./supportlibraries/Framework_Reporting.jar;./supportlibraries/Framework_Utilities.jar;./supportlibraries/poi-3.8-20120326.jar;PATH_TO_YOUR_SELENIUM_SERVER_FOLDER/selenium-server-standalone-2.19.0.jar" allocator.testTrack

Change folders in path above to relevant one.

Then make this script executable: open terminal and navigate to folder with your script. Then change read-write-execute rights for this file running command:

chmod 755 scriptname.sh

Then you can run it like any other regular script: ./scriptname.sh

or you can run it passing file to bash:

bash scriptname.sh

Calling @Html.Partial to display a partial view belonging to a different controller

As GvS said, but I also find it useful to use strongly typed views so that I can write something like

@Html.Partial(MVC.Student.Index(), model)

without magic strings.

Adding an assets folder in Android Studio

To specify any additional asset folder I've used this with my Gradle. This adds moreAssets, a folder in the project root, to the assets.

android {
    sourceSets {
        main.assets.srcDirs += '../moreAssets'
    }
}

"Fatal error: Unable to find local grunt." when running "grunt" command

I had the same issue today on windows 32 bit,with node 0.10.25, and grunt 0.4.5.

I followed dongho's answer, with just few extra steps. here are the steps I used to solve the error:

1) create your package.json

$ npm init

2) install grunt for this project, this will be installed under node_modules/. --save-dev will add this module to devDependency in your package.json

$ npm install grunt --save-dev

3) then create gruntfile.js , with a sample code like this:

module.exports = function(grunt) {

  grunt.initConfig({
    jshint: {
      files: ['Gruntfile.js', 'src/**/*.js', 'test/**/*.js'],
      options: {
        globals: {
          jQuery: true
        }
      }
    },
    watch: {
      files: ['<%= jshint.files %>'],
      tasks: ['jshint']
    }
  });

  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-jshint');
  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-watch');

  grunt.registerTask('default', ['jshint']);

};

here, src/**/*.js and test/**/*.js should be the paths to actual JS files you are using in your project

4) run npm install grunt-contrib-jshint --save-dev

5) run npm install grunt-contrib-watch --save-dev

6) run $ grunt

Note: when you require common package like concat, uglify etc, you need to add those modules via npm install, just the way we installed jshint and watch in step 4 & 5

Chrome blocks different origin requests

This is a security update. If an attacker can modify some file in the web server (the JS one, for example), he can make every loaded pages to download another script (for example to keylog your password or steal your SessionID and send it to his own server).

To avoid it, the browser check the Same-origin policy

Your problem is that the browser is trying to load something with your script (with an Ajax request) that is on another domain (or subdomain). To avoid it (if it is on your own website) you can:

how to get rid of notification circle in right side of the screen?

This stuff comes from ES file explorer

Just go into this app > settings

Then there is an option that says logging floating window, you just need to disable that and you will get rid of this infernal bubble for good

How do I prevent an Android device from going to sleep programmatically?

I found another working solution: add the following line to your app under the onCreate event.

getWindow().addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_KEEP_SCREEN_ON);

My sample Cordova project looks like this:

package com.apps.demo;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.WindowManager;
import org.apache.cordova.*;

public class ScanManActivity extends DroidGap {
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        getWindow().addFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_KEEP_SCREEN_ON);
        super.loadUrl("http://stackoverflow.com");
    }
}

After that, my app would not go to sleep while it was open. Thanks for the anwer goes to xSus.

C char* to int conversion

Use atoi() from <stdlib.h>

http://linux.die.net/man/3/atoi

Or, write your own atoi() function which will convert char* to int

int a2i(const char *s)
{
  int sign=1;
  if(*s == '-'){
    sign = -1;
    s++;
  }
  int num=0;
  while(*s){
    num=((*s)-'0')+num*10;
    s++;   
  }
  return num*sign;
}

How do I resolve "Cannot find module" error using Node.js?

This error can be encountered if you are requireing a module that has a missing or incorrect main field in its package.json. Though the module itself is installed, npm/node has to use a single .js file as an entrypoint to your module. If the main field is not there, it defaults to looking for index.js in your module's folder. If your module's main file is not called index.js, it won't be able to require it.

Discovered while turning a browserify-based module into a CommonJS require-able module; browserify didn't care about the missing main field, and so the error had gone unnoticed.

ExpressionChangedAfterItHasBeenCheckedError Explained

A solution that worked for me using rxjs

import { startWith, tap, delay } from 'rxjs/operators';

// Data field used to populate on the html
dataSource: any;

....

ngAfterViewInit() {
  this.yourAsyncData.
      .pipe(
          startWith(null),
          delay(0),
          tap((res) => this.dataSource = res)
      ).subscribe();
}

Is there a CSS selector by class prefix?

CSS Attribute selectors will allow you to check attributes for a string. (in this case - a class-name)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Attribute_selectors

(looks like it's actually at 'recommendation' status for 2.1 and 3)


Here's an outline of how I *think it works:

  • [ ] : is the container for complex selectors if you will...
  • class : 'class' is the attribute you are looking at in this case.
  • * : modifier(if any): in this case - "wildcard" indicates you're looking for ANY match.
  • test- : the value (assuming there is one) of the attribute - that contains the string "test-" (which could be anything)

So, for example:

[class*='test-'] {
  color: red;
}

You could be more specific if you have good reason, with the element too

ul[class*='test-'] > li { ... }

I've tried to find edge cases, but I see no need to use a combination of ^ and * - as * gets everything...

example: http://codepen.io/sheriffderek/pen/MaaBwp

http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-sel2

Everything above IE6 will happily obey. : )

note that:

[class] { ... }

Will select anything with a class...

How to AUTO_INCREMENT in db2?

You will have to create an auto-increment field with the sequence object (this object generates a number sequence).

Use the following CREATE SEQUENCE syntax:

  CREATE SEQUENCE seq_person
  MINVALUE 1
  START WITH 1
  INCREMENT BY 1
  CACHE 10

The code above creates a sequence object called seq_person, that starts with 1 and will increment by 1. It will also cache up to 10 values for performance. The cache option specifies how many sequence values will be stored in memory for faster access.

To insert a new record into the "Persons" table, we will have to use the nextval function (this function retrieves the next value from seq_person sequence):

  INSERT INTO Persons (P_Id,FirstName,LastName)
  VALUES (seq_person.nextval,'Lars','Monsen')

The SQL statement above would insert a new record into the "Persons" table. The "P_Id" column would be assigned the next number from the seq_person sequence. The "FirstName" column would be set to "Lars" and the "LastName" column would be set to "Monsen".

Remove all padding and margin table HTML and CSS

Use a display block

style= "display: block";

Posting form to different MVC post action depending on the clicked submit button

you can use ajax calls to call different methods without a postback

$.ajax({
    type: "POST",
     url: "@(Url.Action("Action", "Controller"))",
     data: {id: 'id', id1: 'id1' },
     contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
     cache: false,
     async: true,
     success: function (result) {
        //do something
     }
});

Go to "next" iteration in JavaScript forEach loop

JavaScript's forEach works a bit different from how one might be used to from other languages for each loops. If reading on the MDN, it says that a function is executed for each of the elements in the array, in ascending order. To continue to the next element, that is, run the next function, you can simply return the current function without having it do any computation.

Adding a return and it will go to the next run of the loop:

_x000D_
_x000D_
var myArr = [1,2,3,4];_x000D_
_x000D_
myArr.forEach(function(elem){_x000D_
  if (elem === 3) {_x000D_
    return;_x000D_
  }_x000D_
_x000D_
  console.log(elem);_x000D_
});
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Output: 1, 2, 4

What is the C# equivalent of friend?

There's no direct equivalent of "friend" - the closest that's available (and it isn't very close) is InternalsVisibleTo. I've only ever used this attribute for testing - where it's very handy!

Example: To be placed in AssemblyInfo.cs

[assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("OtherAssembly")]

Why am I getting an error "Object literal may only specify known properties"?

As of TypeScript 1.6, properties in object literals that do not have a corresponding property in the type they're being assigned to are flagged as errors.

Usually this error means you have a bug (typically a typo) in your code, or in the definition file. The right fix in this case would be to fix the typo. In the question, the property callbackOnLoactionHash is incorrect and should have been callbackOnLocationHash (note the mis-spelling of "Location").

This change also required some updates in definition files, so you should get the latest version of the .d.ts for any libraries you're using.

Example:

interface TextOptions {
    alignment?: string;
    color?: string;
    padding?: number;
}
function drawText(opts: TextOptions) { ... }
drawText({ align: 'center' }); // Error, no property 'align' in 'TextOptions'

But I meant to do that

There are a few cases where you may have intended to have extra properties in your object. Depending on what you're doing, there are several appropriate fixes

Type-checking only some properties

Sometimes you want to make sure a few things are present and of the correct type, but intend to have extra properties for whatever reason. Type assertions (<T>v or v as T) do not check for extra properties, so you can use them in place of a type annotation:

interface Options {
    x?: string;
    y?: number;
}

// Error, no property 'z' in 'Options'
let q1: Options = { x: 'foo', y: 32, z: 100 };
// OK
let q2 = { x: 'foo', y: 32, z: 100 } as Options;
// Still an error (good):
let q3 = { x: 100, y: 32, z: 100 } as Options;

These properties and maybe more

Some APIs take an object and dynamically iterate over its keys, but have 'special' keys that need to be of a certain type. Adding a string indexer to the type will disable extra property checking

Before

interface Model {
  name: string;
}
function createModel(x: Model) { ... }

// Error
createModel({name: 'hello', length: 100});

After

interface Model {
  name: string;
  [others: string]: any;
}
function createModel(x: Model) { ... }

// OK
createModel({name: 'hello', length: 100});

This is a dog or a cat or a horse, not sure yet

interface Animal { move; }
interface Dog extends Animal { woof; }
interface Cat extends Animal { meow; }
interface Horse extends Animal { neigh; }

let x: Animal;
if(...) {
  x = { move: 'doggy paddle', woof: 'bark' };
} else if(...) {
  x = { move: 'catwalk', meow: 'mrar' };
} else {
  x = { move: 'gallop', neigh: 'wilbur' };
}

Two good solutions come to mind here

Specify a closed set for x

// Removes all errors
let x: Dog|Cat|Horse;

or Type assert each thing

// For each initialization
  x = { move: 'doggy paddle', woof: 'bark' } as Dog;

This type is sometimes open and sometimes not

A clean solution to the "data model" problem using intersection types:

interface DataModelOptions {
  name?: string;
  id?: number;
}
interface UserProperties {
  [key: string]: any;
}
function createDataModel(model: DataModelOptions & UserProperties) {
 /* ... */
}
// findDataModel can only look up by name or id
function findDataModel(model: DataModelOptions) {
 /* ... */
}
// OK
createDataModel({name: 'my model', favoriteAnimal: 'cat' });
// Error, 'ID' is not correct (should be 'id')
findDataModel({ ID: 32 });

See also https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/3755

Bootstrap table without stripe / borders

Using Bootstrap 3.2.0 I had problem with Brett Henderson solution (borders were always there), so I improved it:

HTML

<table class="table table-borderless">

CSS

.table-borderless > tbody > tr > td,
.table-borderless > tbody > tr > th,
.table-borderless > tfoot > tr > td,
.table-borderless > tfoot > tr > th,
.table-borderless > thead > tr > td,
.table-borderless > thead > tr > th {
    border: none;
}

How to set the maximum memory usage for JVM?

If you want to limit memory for jvm (not the heap size ) ulimit -v

To get an idea of the difference between jvm and heap memory , take a look at this excellent article http://blogs.vmware.com/apps/2011/06/taking-a-closer-look-at-sizing-the-java-process.html

PHP substring extraction. Get the string before the first '/' or the whole string

Late is better than never. php has a predefined function for that. here is that good way.

strstr

if you want to get the part before match just set before_needle (3rd parameter) to true http://php.net/manual/en/function.strstr.php

function not_strtok($string, $delimiter)
{    
    $buffer = strstr($string, $delimiter, true);

    if (false === $buffer) {
        return $string;
    }

    return $buffer;
}

var_dump(
    not_strtok('st/art/page', '/')
);

How to reload/refresh jQuery dataTable?

I had done something that relates to this... Below is a sample javascript with what you need. There is a demo on this here: http://codersfolder.com/2016/07/crud-with-php-mysqli-bootstrap-datatables-jquery-plugin/

//global the manage member table 
var manageMemberTable;

function updateMember(id = null) {
    if(id) {
        // click on update button
        $("#updatebutton").unbind('click').bind('click', function() {
            $.ajax({
                url: 'webdesign_action/update.php',
                type: 'post',
                data: {member_id : id},
                dataType: 'json',
                success:function(response) {
                    if(response.success == true) {                      
                        $(".removeMessages").html('<div class="alert alert-success alert-dismissible" role="alert">'+
                              '<button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert" aria-label="Close"><span aria-hidden="true">&times;</span></button>'+
                              '<strong> <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-ok-sign"></span> </strong>'+response.messages+
                            '</div>');

                        // refresh the table

                        manageMemberTable.ajax.reload();

                        // close the modal
                        $("#updateModal").modal('hide');

                    } else {
                        $(".removeMessages").html('<div class="alert alert-warning alert-dismissible" role="alert">'+
                              '<button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="alert" aria-label="Close"><span aria-hidden="true">&times;</span></button>'+
                              '<strong> <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-exclamation-sign"></span> </strong>'+response.messages+
                            '</div>');

                        // refresh the table                        
                        manageMemberTable.ajax.reload();

                        // close the modal
                        $("#updateModal").modal('hide');
                    }
                }
            });
        }); // click remove btn
    } else {
        alert('Error: Refresh the page again');
    }
}

Ignoring a class property in Entity Framework 4.1 Code First

You can use the NotMapped attribute data annotation to instruct Code-First to exclude a particular property

public class Customer
{
    public int CustomerID { set; get; }
    public string FirstName { set; get; } 
    public string LastName{ set; get; } 
    [NotMapped]
    public int Age { set; get; }
}

[NotMapped] attribute is included in the System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations namespace.

You can alternatively do this with Fluent API overriding OnModelCreating function in your DBContext class:

protected override void OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder)
{
   modelBuilder.Entity<Customer>().Ignore(t => t.LastName);
   base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder);
}

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh295847(v=vs.103).aspx

The version I checked is EF 4.3, which is the latest stable version available when you use NuGet.


Edit : SEP 2017

Asp.NET Core(2.0)

Data annotation

If you are using asp.net core (2.0 at the time of this writing), The [NotMapped] attribute can be used on the property level.

public class Customer
{
    public int Id { set; get; }
    public string FirstName { set; get; } 
    public string LastName { set; get; } 
    [NotMapped]
    public int FullName { set; get; }
}

Fluent API

public class SchoolContext : DbContext
{
    public SchoolContext(DbContextOptions<SchoolContext> options) : base(options)
    {
    }
    protected override void OnModelCreating(ModelBuilder modelBuilder)
    {
        modelBuilder.Entity<Customer>().Ignore(t => t.FullName);
        base.OnModelCreating(modelBuilder);
    }
    public DbSet<Customer> Customers { get; set; }
}

Jquery set radio button checked, using id and class selectors

"...by a class and a div."

I assume when you say "div" you mean "id"? Try this:

$('#test2.test1').prop('checked', true);

No need to muck about with your [attributename=value] style selectors because id has its own format as does class, and they're easily combined although given that id is supposed to be unique it should be enough on its own unless your meaning is "select that element only if it currently has the specified class".

Or more generally to select an input where you want to specify a multiple attribute selector:

$('input:radio[class=test1][id=test2]').prop('checked', true);

That is, list each attribute with its own square brackets.

Note that unless you have a pretty old version of jQuery you should use .prop() rather than .attr() for this purpose.

How do I specify the exit code of a console application in .NET?

Just an another way:

public static class ApplicationExitCodes
{
    public static readonly int Failure = 1;
    public static readonly int Success = 0;
}

Sort a list by multiple attributes?

It appears you could use a list instead of a tuple. This becomes more important I think when you are grabbing attributes instead of 'magic indexes' of a list/tuple.

In my case I wanted to sort by multiple attributes of a class, where the incoming keys were strings. I needed different sorting in different places, and I wanted a common default sort for the parent class that clients were interacting with; only having to override the 'sorting keys' when I really 'needed to', but also in a way that I could store them as lists that the class could share

So first I defined a helper method

def attr_sort(self, attrs=['someAttributeString']:
  '''helper to sort by the attributes named by strings of attrs in order'''
  return lambda k: [ getattr(k, attr) for attr in attrs ]

then to use it

# would defined elsewhere but showing here for consiseness
self.SortListA = ['attrA', 'attrB']
self.SortListB = ['attrC', 'attrA']
records = .... #list of my objects to sort
records.sort(key=self.attr_sort(attrs=self.SortListA))
# perhaps later nearby or in another function
more_records = .... #another list
more_records.sort(key=self.attr_sort(attrs=self.SortListB))

This will use the generated lambda function sort the list by object.attrA and then object.attrB assuming object has a getter corresponding to the string names provided. And the second case would sort by object.attrC then object.attrA.

This also allows you to potentially expose outward sorting choices to be shared alike by a consumer, a unit test, or for them to perhaps tell you how they want sorting done for some operation in your api by only have to give you a list and not coupling them to your back end implementation.

How do I manage MongoDB connections in a Node.js web application?

Open a new connection when the Node.js application starts, and reuse the existing db connection object:

/server.js

import express from 'express';
import Promise from 'bluebird';
import logger from 'winston';
import { MongoClient } from 'mongodb';
import config from './config';
import usersRestApi from './api/users';

const app = express();

app.use('/api/users', usersRestApi);

app.get('/', (req, res) => {
  res.send('Hello World');
});

// Create a MongoDB connection pool and start the application
// after the database connection is ready
MongoClient.connect(config.database.url, { promiseLibrary: Promise }, (err, db) => {
  if (err) {
    logger.warn(`Failed to connect to the database. ${err.stack}`);
  }
  app.locals.db = db;
  app.listen(config.port, () => {
    logger.info(`Node.js app is listening at http://localhost:${config.port}`);
  });
});

/api/users.js

import { Router } from 'express';
import { ObjectID } from 'mongodb';

const router = new Router();

router.get('/:id', async (req, res, next) => {
  try {
    const db = req.app.locals.db;
    const id = new ObjectID(req.params.id);
    const user = await db.collection('user').findOne({ _id: id }, {
      email: 1,
      firstName: 1,
      lastName: 1
    });

    if (user) {
      user.id = req.params.id;
      res.send(user);
    } else {
      res.sendStatus(404);
    }
  } catch (err) {
    next(err);
  }
});

export default router;

Source: How to Open Database Connections in a Node.js/Express App

How do I hide anchor text without hiding the anchor?

Use this code:

<div class="hidden"><li><a href="somehwere">Link text</a></li></div>

How to monitor SQL Server table changes by using c#?

SqlDependency doesn't watch the database it watches the SqlCommand you specify so if you are trying to lets say insert values into the database in 1 project and capture that event in another project it won't work because the event was from the SqlCommand from the 1º project not the database because when you create an SqlDependency you link it to a SqlCommand and only when that command from that project is used does it create a Change event.

Types in MySQL: BigInt(20) vs Int(20)

Let's give an example for int(10) one with zerofill keyword, one not, the table likes that:

create table tb_test_int_type(
    int_10 int(10),
    int_10_with_zf int(10) zerofill,
    unit int unsigned
);

Let's insert some data:

insert into tb_test_int_type(int_10, int_10_with_zf, unit)
values (123456, 123456,3147483647), (123456, 4294967291,3147483647) 
;

Then

select * from tb_test_int_type; 

# int_10, int_10_with_zf, unit
'123456', '0000123456', '3147483647'
'123456', '4294967291', '3147483647'

We can see that

  • with keyword zerofill, num less than 10 will fill 0, but without zerofill it won't

  • Secondly with keyword zerofill, int_10_with_zf becomes unsigned int type, if you insert a minus you will get error Out of range value for column...... But you can insert minus to int_10. Also if you insert 4294967291 to int_10 you will get error Out of range value for column.....

Conclusion:

  1. int(X) without keyword zerofill, is equal to int range -2147483648~2147483647

  2. int(X) with keyword zerofill, the field is equal to unsigned int range 0~4294967295, if num's length is less than X it will fill 0 to the left

How do I get the opposite (negation) of a Boolean in Python?

Python has a "not" operator, right? Is it not just "not"? As in,

  return not bool

How do I find which program is using port 80 in Windows?

Type in the command:

netstat -aon | findstr :80

It will show you all processes that use port 80. Notice the pid (process id) in the right column.

If you would like to free the port, go to Task Manager, sort by pid and close those processes.

-a displays all connections and listening ports.

-o displays the owning process ID associated with each connection.

-n displays addresses and port numbers in numerical form.

Bootstrap 4 img-circle class not working

Now the class is this

_x000D_
_x000D_
 <img src="img/img5.jpg" width="200px" class="rounded-circle float-right">
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

go to character in vim

:goto 21490 will take you to the 21490th byte in the buffer.

How do I implement onchange of <input type="text"> with jQuery?

You could use .keypress().

For example, consider the HTML:

<form>
  <fieldset>
    <input id="target" type="text" value="Hello there" />
  </fieldset>
</form>
<div id="other">
  Trigger the handler
</div>

The event handler can be bound to the input field:

$("#target").keypress(function() {
  alert("Handler for .keypress() called.");
});

I totally agree with Andy; all depends on how you want it to work.

Convert seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds

gmdate("d H:i:s",1640467);

Result will be 19 23:41:07. When it is just one second more than normal day, it is increasing the day value for 1 day. This is why it show 19. You can explode the result for your needs and fix this.

Get length of array?

Length of an array:

UBound(columns)-LBound(columns)+1

UBound alone is not the best method for getting the length of every array as arrays in VBA can start at different indexes, e.g Dim arr(2 to 10)

UBound will return correct results only if the array is 1-based (starts indexing at 1 e.g. Dim arr(1 to 10). It will return wrong results in any other circumstance e.g. Dim arr(10)

More on the VBA Array in this VBA Array tutorial.

Convert International String to \u Codes in java

In case you need this to write a .properties file you can just add the Strings into a Properties object and then save it to a file. It will take care for the conversion.

How to call a JavaScript function within an HTML body

Try wrapping the createtable(); statement in a <script> tag:

<table>
        <tr>
            <th>Balance</th>
            <th>Fee</th>

        </tr>
        <script>createtable();</script>
</table>

I would avoid using document.write() and use the DOM if I were you though.

Peak-finding algorithm for Python/SciPy

First things first, the definition of "peak" is vague if without further specifications. For example, for the following series, would you call 5-4-5 one peak or two?

1-2-1-2-1-1-5-4-5-1-1-5-1

In this case, you'll need at least two thresholds: 1) a high threshold only above which can an extreme value register as a peak; and 2) a low threshold so that extreme values separated by small values below it will become two peaks.

Peak detection is a well-studied topic in Extreme Value Theory literature, also known as "declustering of extreme values". Its typical applications include identifying hazard events based on continuous readings of environmental variables e.g. analysing wind speed to detect storm events.

How do I split a multi-line string into multiple lines?

The original post requested for code which prints some rows (if they are true for some condition) plus the following row. My implementation would be this:

text = """1 sfasdf
asdfasdf
2 sfasdf
asdfgadfg
1 asfasdf
sdfasdgf
"""

text = text.splitlines()
rows_to_print = {}

for line in range(len(text)):
    if text[line][0] == '1':
        rows_to_print = rows_to_print | {line, line + 1}

rows_to_print = sorted(list(rows_to_print))

for i in rows_to_print:
    print(text[i])

How do I fix PyDev "Undefined variable from import" errors?

I was having a similar problem with an Eclipse/PyDev project. In this project the root directory of the python code was a sub-directory of the project.

--> MyProject
 + --> src         Root of python code
   + --> module1     A module 
   + --> module2     Another module
 + --> docs
 + --> test

When the project was debugged or run everything was fine as the working directory was set to the correct place. However the PyDev code analysis was failing to find any imports from module1 or module2.

Solution was to edit the project properties -> PyDev - PYTHONPATH section and remove /MyProject from the source folders tab and add /MyProject/src to it instead.

How to create Android Facebook Key Hash?

For Windows:

  1. open command prompt and paste below command

keytool -exportcert -alias androiddebugkey -keystore %HOMEPATH%.android\debug.keystore | openssl sha1 -binary | openssl base64

  1. Enter password : android --> Hit Enter

  2. Copy Generated Hash Key --> Login Facebook with your developer account

  3. Go to your Facebook App --> Settings--> Paste Hash key in "key hashes" option -->save changes.

  4. Now Test your android app with Facebook Log-in/Share etc.

git remote prune – didn't show as many pruned branches as I expected

When you use git push origin :staleStuff, it automatically removes origin/staleStuff, so when you ran git remote prune origin, you have pruned some branch that was removed by someone else. It's more likely that your co-workers now need to run git prune to get rid of branches you have removed.


So what exactly git remote prune does? Main idea: local branches (not tracking branches) are not touched by git remote prune command and should be removed manually.

Now, a real-world example for better understanding:

You have a remote repository with 2 branches: master and feature. Let's assume that you are working on both branches, so as a result you have these references in your local repository (full reference names are given to avoid any confusion):

  • refs/heads/master (short name master)
  • refs/heads/feature (short name feature)
  • refs/remotes/origin/master (short name origin/master)
  • refs/remotes/origin/feature (short name origin/feature)

Now, a typical scenario:

  1. Some other developer finishes all work on the feature, merges it into master and removes feature branch from remote repository.
  2. By default, when you do git fetch (or git pull), no references are removed from your local repository, so you still have all those 4 references.
  3. You decide to clean them up, and run git remote prune origin.
  4. git detects that feature branch no longer exists, so refs/remotes/origin/feature is a stale branch which should be removed.
  5. Now you have 3 references, including refs/heads/feature, because git remote prune does not remove any refs/heads/* references.

It is possible to identify local branches, associated with remote tracking branches, by branch.<branch_name>.merge configuration parameter. This parameter is not really required for anything to work (probably except git pull), so it might be missing.

(updated with example & useful info from comments)

Dump all tables in CSV format using 'mysqldump'

This worked well for me:

mysqldump <DBNAME> --fields-terminated-by ',' \
--fields-enclosed-by '"' --fields-escaped-by '\' \
--no-create-info --tab /var/lib/mysql-files/

Or if you want to only dump a specific table:

mysqldump <DBNAME> <TABLENAME> --fields-terminated-by ',' \
--fields-enclosed-by '"' --fields-escaped-by '\' \
--no-create-info --tab /var/lib/mysql-files/

I'm dumping to /var/lib/mysql-files/ to avoid this error:

mysqldump: Got error: 1290: The MySQL server is running with the --secure-file-priv option so it cannot execute this statement when executing 'SELECT INTO OUTFILE'

How to redirect the output of DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE to a file?

An old thread, but there is another alternative.

Since 9i you can use pipelined table function.

First, create a type as a table of varchar:

CREATE TYPE t_string_max IS TABLE OF VARCHAR2(32767);

Second, wrap your code in a pipelined function declaration:

CREATE FUNCTION fn_foo (bar VARCHAR2) -- your params
  RETURN t_string_max PIPELINED IS 
  -- your vars
BEGIN
  -- your code
END;
/

Replace all DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE for PIPE ROW.

Finally, call it like this:

SELECT * FROM TABLE(fn_foo('param'));

Hope it helps.

How to find the duration of difference between two dates in java?

You can create a method like

public long getDaysBetweenDates(Date d1, Date d2){
return TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.toDays(d1.getTime() - d2.getTime());
}

This method will return the number of days between the 2 days.

Google Drive as FTP Server

I couldn't find a direct GDrive/DropBox solution. I'm also surprised there's no lazy solution for a free ftp host. Windows azure offers a ftp server "FTP connector" that's fairly easy to turn on at: https://portal.azure.com

You can get a free 1 GB account by selecting "View All" machine types during your deployment.

MVC ajax json post to controller action method

Below is how I got this working.

The Key point was: I needed to use the ViewModel associated with the view in order for the runtime to be able to resolve the object in the request.

[I know that that there is a way to bind an object other than the default ViewModel object but ended up simply populating the necessary properties for my needs as I could not get it to work]

[HttpPost]  
  public ActionResult GetDataForInvoiceNumber(MyViewModel myViewModel)  
  {            
     var invoiceNumberQueryResult = _viewModelBuilder.HydrateMyViewModelGivenInvoiceDetail(myViewModel.InvoiceNumber, myViewModel.SelectedCompanyCode);
     return Json(invoiceNumberQueryResult, JsonRequestBehavior.DenyGet);
  }

The JQuery script used to call this action method:

var requestData = {
         InvoiceNumber: $.trim(this.value),
         SelectedCompanyCode: $.trim($('#SelectedCompanyCode').val())
      };


      $.ajax({
         url: '/en/myController/GetDataForInvoiceNumber',
         type: 'POST',
         data: JSON.stringify(requestData),
         dataType: 'json',
         contentType: 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
         error: function (xhr) {
            alert('Error: ' + xhr.statusText);
         },
         success: function (result) {
            CheckIfInvoiceFound(result);
         },
         async: true,
         processData: false
      });

Error loading MySQLdb Module 'Did you install mysqlclient or MySQL-python?'

pip install pymysql

Then, edit the __init__.py file in your project origin dir(the same as settings.py)

add:

import pymysql

pymysql.install_as_MySQLdb()

Suppress Scientific Notation in Numpy When Creating Array From Nested List

for 1D and 2D arrays you can use np.savetxt to print using a specific format string:

>>> import sys
>>> x = numpy.arange(20).reshape((4,5))
>>> numpy.savetxt(sys.stdout, x, '%5.2f')
 0.00  1.00  2.00  3.00  4.00
 5.00  6.00  7.00  8.00  9.00
10.00 11.00 12.00 13.00 14.00
15.00 16.00 17.00 18.00 19.00

Your options with numpy.set_printoptions or numpy.array2string in v1.3 are pretty clunky and limited (for example no way to suppress scientific notation for large numbers). It looks like this will change with future versions, with numpy.set_printoptions(formatter=..) and numpy.array2string(style=..).

PHP: Count a stdClass object

The count function is meant to be used on

  1. Arrays
  2. Objects that are derived from classes that implement the countable interface

A stdClass is neither of these. The easier/quickest way to accomplish what you're after is

$count = count(get_object_vars($some_std_class_object));

This uses PHP's get_object_vars function, which will return the properties of an object as an array. You can then use this array with PHP's count function.

What is the difference between Java RMI and RPC?

RPC is C based, and as such it has structured programming semantics, on the other side, RMI is a Java based technology and it's object oriented.

With RPC you can just call remote functions exported into a server, in RMI you can have references to remote objects and invoke their methods, and also pass and return more remote object references that can be distributed among many JVM instances, so it's much more powerful.

RMI stands out when the need to develop something more complex than a pure client-server architecture arises. It's very easy to spread out objects over a network enabling all the clients to communicate without having to stablish individual connections explicitly.

How to set the min and max height or width of a Frame?

A workaround - at least for the minimum size: You can use grid to manage the frames contained in root and make them follow the grid size by setting sticky='nsew'. Then you can use root.grid_rowconfigure and root.grid_columnconfigure to set values for minsize like so:

from tkinter import Frame, Tk

class MyApp():
    def __init__(self):
        self.root = Tk()

        self.my_frame_red = Frame(self.root, bg='red')
        self.my_frame_red.grid(row=0, column=0, sticky='nsew')

        self.my_frame_blue = Frame(self.root, bg='blue')
        self.my_frame_blue.grid(row=0, column=1, sticky='nsew')

        self.root.grid_rowconfigure(0, minsize=200, weight=1)
        self.root.grid_columnconfigure(0, minsize=200, weight=1)
        self.root.grid_columnconfigure(1, weight=1)

        self.root.mainloop()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app = MyApp()

But as Brian wrote (in 2010 :D) you can still resize the window to be smaller than the frame if you don't limit its minsize.

How to insert double and float values to sqlite?

I think you should give the data types of the column as NUMERIC or DOUBLE or FLOAT or REAL

Read http://sqlite.org/datatype3.html to more info.

How to capitalize the first letter in a String in Ruby

Use capitalize. From the String documentation:

Returns a copy of str with the first character converted to uppercase and the remainder to lowercase.

"hello".capitalize    #=> "Hello"
"HELLO".capitalize    #=> "Hello"
"123ABC".capitalize   #=> "123abc"

Disable Input fields in reactive form

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lastName: new FormControl({value: '', disabled: true}, Validators.compose([Validators.required])),

How do I clone a specific Git branch?

git checkout -b <branch-name> <origin/branch_name>

for example in my case:

 git branch -a
* master
  origin/HEAD
  origin/enum-account-number
  origin/master
  origin/rel_table_play
  origin/sugarfield_customer_number_show_c

So to create a new branch based on my enum-account-number branch I do:

git checkout -b enum-account-number origin/enum-account-number

After you hit return the following happens:

Branch enum-account-number set up to track remote branch refs/remotes/origin/enum-account-number.
Switched to a new branch "enum-account-number"

How do I change a PictureBox's image?

Assign a new Image object to your PictureBox's Image property. To load an Image from a file, you may use the Image.FromFile method. In your particular case, assuming the current directory is one under bin, this should load the image bin/Pics/image1.jpg, for example:

pictureBox1.Image = Image.FromFile("../Pics/image1.jpg");

Additionally, if these images are static and to be used only as resources in your application, resources would be a much better fit than files.

Python element-wise tuple operations like sum

simple solution without class definition that returns tuple

import operator
tuple(map(operator.add,a,b))

CSS float right not working correctly

Here is one way of doing it.

If you HTML looks like this:

<div>Contact Details
    <button type="button" class="edit_button">My Button</button>
</div>

apply the following CSS:

div {
    border-bottom-width: 1px;
    border-bottom-style: solid;
    border-bottom-color: gray;
    overflow: auto;
}
.edit_button {
    float: right;
    margin: 0 10px 10px 0; /* for demo only */
}

The trick is to apply overflow: auto to the div, which starts a new block formatting context. The result is that the floated button is enclosed within the block area defined by the div tag.

You can then add margins to the button if needed to adjust your styling.

In the original HTML and CSS, the floated button was out of the content flow so the border of the div would be positioned with respect to the in-flow text, which does not include any floated elements.

See demo at: http://jsfiddle.net/audetwebdesign/AGavv/

No tests found with test runner 'JUnit 4'

There is another chance, you might have changed Junit Test from lower version(e.g. Junit 3) to Junit 4 . Is so follow below steps:-

1. Right Click on class
2. Select Run as >> "Run Configurations"
3. Check your "Test Runner" option in new window
4. If it not same as maven change it for example change it as Junit 4.

How to add (vertical) divider to a horizontal LinearLayout?

If the answer of Kapil Vats is not working try something like this:

drawable/divider_horizontal_green_22.xml

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

    <size android:width="22dip"/>
    <solid android:color="#00ff00"/>

</shape>

layout/your_layout.xml

LinearLayout 
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:id="@+id/llTopBar"
            android:orientation="horizontal"
            android:divider="@drawable/divider_horizontal_green_22"
            android:showDividers="middle"
           >

I encountered an issue where the padding attribute wasn't working, thus I had to set the height of the divider directly in the divider.

Note:

If you want to use it in vertical LinearLayout, make a new one, like this: drawable/divider_vertical_green_22.xml

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

    <size android:height="22dip"/>
    <solid android:color="#00ff00"/>

</shape>

Convert List<T> to ObservableCollection<T> in WP7

Extension method from this answer IList<T> to ObservableCollection<T> works pretty well

public static ObservableCollection<T> ToObservableCollection<T>(this IEnumerable<T> enumerable) {
  var col = new ObservableCollection<T>();
  foreach ( var cur in enumerable ) {
    col.Add(cur);
  }
  return col;
}

How to sanity check a date in Java

Here is I would check the date format:

 public static boolean checkFormat(String dateTimeString) {
    return dateTimeString.matches("^\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}") || dateTimeString.matches("^\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}\\s\\d{2}:\\d{2}:\\d{2}")
            || dateTimeString.matches("^\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}T\\d{2}:\\d{2}:\\d{2}") || dateTimeString
            .matches("^\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}T\\d{2}:\\d{2}:\\d{2}Z") ||
            dateTimeString.matches("^\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}\\s\\d{2}:\\d{2}:\\d{2}Z");
}

run program in Python shell

It depends on what is in test.py. The following is an appropriate structure:

# suppose this is your 'test.py' file
def main():
 """This function runs the core of your program"""
 print("running main")

if __name__ == "__main__":
 # if you call this script from the command line (the shell) it will
 # run the 'main' function
 main()

If you keep this structure, you can run it like this in the command line (assume that $ is your command-line prompt):

$ python test.py
$ # it will print "running main"

If you want to run it from the Python shell, then you simply do the following:

>>> import test
>>> test.main() # this calls the main part of your program

There is no necessity to use the subprocess module if you are already using Python. Instead, try to structure your Python files in such a way that they can be run both from the command line and the Python interpreter.

How to generate unique id in MySQL?

If you use MySQL with version higher than 5.7.4, you can use the newly added RANDOM_BYTES function:

 SELECT TO_BASE64(RANDOM_BYTES(16));

This will result in a random string such as GgwEvafNLWQ3+ockEST00A==.

Difference between Hive internal tables and external tables?

An internal table data is stored in the warehouse folder, whereas an external table data is stored at the location you mentioned in table creation.

So when you delete an internal table, it deletes the schema as well as the data under the warehouse folder, but for an external table it's only the schema that you will loose.

So when you want an external table back you again after deleting it, can create a table with the same schema again and point it to the original data location. Hope it is clear now.

Node.js/Express routing with get params

For Query parameters like domain.com/test?format=json&type=mini format, then you can easily receive it via - req.query.

app.get('/test', function(req, res){
  var format = req.query.format,
      type = req.query.type;
});

How to create many labels and textboxes dynamically depending on the value of an integer variable?

Here is a simple example that should let you keep going add somethink that would act as a placeholder to your winform can be TableLayoutPanel

and then just add controls to it

   for ( int i = 0; i < COUNT; i++ ) {


    Label lblTitle = new Label();
    lblTitle.Text = i+"Your Text";
    youlayOut.Controls.Add( lblTitle, 0, i );

    TextBox txtValue = new TextBox();
    youlayOut.Controls.Add( txtValue, 2, i );
}

Is it possible to include one CSS file in another?

For whatever reason, @import didn't work for me, but it's not really necessary is it?

Here's what I did instead, within the html:

  <link rel="stylesheet" media="print" href="myap-print.css">
  <link rel="stylesheet" media="print" href="myap-screen.css">
  <link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" href="myap-screen.css">

Notice that media="print" has 2 stylesheets: myap-print.css and myap-screen.css. It's the same effect as including myap-screen.css within myap-print.css.

Keep SSH session alive

putty settings

FYI Putty Users can set the options here

How do I make a fixed size formatted string in python?

Sure, use the .format method. E.g.,

print('{:10s} {:3d}  {:7.2f}'.format('xxx', 123, 98))
print('{:10s} {:3d}  {:7.2f}'.format('yyyy', 3, 1.0))
print('{:10s} {:3d}  {:7.2f}'.format('zz', 42, 123.34))

will print

xxx        123    98.00
yyyy         3     1.00
zz          42   123.34

You can adjust the field sizes as desired. Note that .format works independently of print to format a string. I just used print to display the strings. Brief explanation:

10s format a string with 10 spaces, left justified by default

3d format an integer reserving 3 spaces, right justified by default

7.2f format a float, reserving 7 spaces, 2 after the decimal point, right justfied by default.

There are many additional options to position/format strings (padding, left/right justify etc), String Formatting Operations will provide more information.

Update for f-string mode. E.g.,

text, number, other_number = 'xxx', 123, 98
print(f'{text:10} {number:3d}  {other_number:7.2f}')

For right alignment

print(f'{text:>10} {number:3d}  {other_number:7.2f}')

How to convert string to char array in C++?

Try strcpy(), but as Fred said, this is C++, not C

SQL Server: Difference between PARTITION BY and GROUP BY

We can take a simple example.

Consider a table named TableA with the following values:

id  firstname                   lastname                    Mark
-------------------------------------------------------------------
1   arun                        prasanth                    40
2   ann                         antony                      45
3   sruthy                      abc                         41
6   new                         abc                         47
1   arun                        prasanth                    45
1   arun                        prasanth                    49
2   ann                         antony                      49

GROUP BY

The SQL GROUP BY clause can be used in a SELECT statement to collect data across multiple records and group the results by one or more columns.

In more simple words GROUP BY statement is used in conjunction with the aggregate functions to group the result-set by one or more columns.

Syntax:

SELECT expression1, expression2, ... expression_n, 
       aggregate_function (aggregate_expression)
FROM tables
WHERE conditions
GROUP BY expression1, expression2, ... expression_n;

We can apply GROUP BY in our table:

select SUM(Mark)marksum,firstname from TableA
group by id,firstName

Results:

marksum  firstname
----------------
94      ann                      
134     arun                     
47      new                      
41      sruthy   

In our real table we have 7 rows and when we apply GROUP BY id, the server group the results based on id:

In simple words:

here GROUP BY normally reduces the number of rows returned by rolling them up and calculating Sum() for each row.

PARTITION BY

Before going to PARTITION BY, let us look at the OVER clause:

According to the MSDN definition:

OVER clause defines a window or user-specified set of rows within a query result set. A window function then computes a value for each row in the window. You can use the OVER clause with functions to compute aggregated values such as moving averages, cumulative aggregates, running totals, or a top N per group results.

PARTITION BY will not reduce the number of rows returned.

We can apply PARTITION BY in our example table:

SELECT SUM(Mark) OVER (PARTITION BY id) AS marksum, firstname FROM TableA

Result:

marksum firstname 
-------------------
134     arun                     
134     arun                     
134     arun                     
94      ann                      
94      ann                      
41      sruthy                   
47      new  

Look at the results - it will partition the rows and returns all rows, unlike GROUP BY.

BOOLEAN or TINYINT confusion

Just a note for php developers (I lack the necessary stackoverflow points to post this as a comment) ... the automagic (and silent) conversion to TINYINT means that php retrieves a value from a "BOOLEAN" column as a "0" or "1", not the expected (by me) true/false.

A developer who is looking at the SQL used to create a table and sees something like: "some_boolean BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT FALSE," might reasonably expect to see true/false results when a row containing that column is retrieved. Instead (at least in my version of PHP), the result will be "0" or "1" (yes, a string "0" or string "1", not an int 0/1, thank you php).

It's a nit, but enough to cause unit tests to fail.

How to combine multiple inline style objects?

To have multiple Inline styles in React.

<div onClick={eleTemplate} style={{'width': '50%', textAlign: 'center'}}/>

How do I install PIL/Pillow for Python 3.6?

Pillow is released with installation wheels on Windows:

We provide Pillow binaries for Windows compiled for the matrix of supported Pythons in both 32 and 64-bit versions in wheel, egg, and executable installers. These binaries have all of the optional libraries included

https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/3.3.x/installation.html#basic-installation

Update: Python 3.6 is now supported by Pillow. Install with pip install pillow and check https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation.html for more information.


However, Python 3.6 is still in alpha and not officially supported yet, although the tests do all pass for the nightly Python builds (currently 3.6a4).

https://travis-ci.org/python-pillow/Pillow/jobs/155605577

If it's somehow possible to install the 3.5 wheel for 3.6, that's your best bet. Otherwise, zlib notwithstanding, you'll need to build from source, requiring an MS Visual C++ compiler, and which isn't straightforward. For tips see:

https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/3.3.x/installation.html#building-from-source

And also see how it's built for Windows on AppVeyor CI (but not yet 3.5 or 3.6):

https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/tree/master/winbuild

Failing that, downgrade to Python 3.5 or wait until 3.6 is supported by Pillow, probably closer to the 3.6's official release.

Embed YouTube video - Refused to display in a frame because it set 'X-Frame-Options' to 'SAMEORIGIN'

You only need to copy <iframe> from the YouTube Embed section (click on SHARE below the video and then EMBED and copy the entire iframe).

how to know status of currently running jobs

EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_help_job @Job_name = 'Your Job Name'

check field execution_status

0 - Returns only those jobs that are not idle or suspended.
1 - Executing.
2 - Waiting for thread.
3 - Between retries.
4 - Idle.
5 - Suspended.
7 - Performing completion actions.

If you need the result of execution, check the field last_run_outcome

0 = Failed
1 = Succeeded
3 = Canceled
5 = Unknown

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186722.aspx

How to get and set the current web page scroll position?

You're looking for the document.documentElement.scrollTop property.

How do I hide the bullets on my list for the sidebar?

its on you ul in the file http://ratest4.com/wp-content/themes/HarnettArts-BP-2010/style.css on line 252

add this to your css

ul{
     list-style:none;
}

Communication between multiple docker-compose projects

If you are

  • trying to communicate between two containers from different docker-compose projects and don't want to use the same network (because let's say they would have PostgreSQL or Redis container on the same port and you would prefer to not changing these ports and not use it at the same network)
  • developing locally and want to imitate communication between two docker compose projects
  • running two docker-compose projects on localhost
  • developing especially Django apps or Django Rest Framework (drf) API and running app inside container on some exposed port
  • getting Connection refused while trying to communicate between two containers

And you want to

  • container api_a communicate to api_b (or vice versa) without the same "docker network"

(example below)

you can use "host" of the second container as IP of your computer and port that is mapped from inside Docker container. You can obtain IP of your computer with this script (from: Finding local IP addresses using Python's stdlib):

import socket
def get_ip():
    s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
    try:
        # doesn't even have to be reachable
        s.connect(('10.255.255.255', 1))
        IP = s.getsockname()[0]
    except:
        IP = '127.0.0.1'
    finally:
        s.close()
    return IP

Example:

project_api_a/docker-compose.yml:

networks:
  app-tier:
    driver: bridge

services:
  api:
    container_name: api_a
    image: api_a:latest
    depends_on:
      - postgresql
    networks:
      - app-tier

inside api_a container you are running Django app: manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

and second docker-compose.yml from other project:

project_api_b/docker-compose-yml :

networks:
  app-tier:
    driver: bridge

services:
  api:
    container_name: api_b
    image: api_b:latest
    depends_on:
      - postgresql
    networks:
      - app-tier

inside api_b container you are running Django app: manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8001

And trying to connect from container api_a to api_b then URL of api_b container will be: http://<get_ip_from_script_above>:8001/

It can be especially valuable if you are using even more than two(three or more) docker-compose projects and it's hard to provide common network for all of it - it's good workaround and solution

How to make Bootstrap 4 cards the same height in card-columns?

I'm using Bootstrap 4 (Beta 2). Meanwhile the situations seems to have changed. I had the same problem and found an easy solution. This is my code:

<div class="container-fluid content-row">
    <div class="row">
        <div class="col-sm-12 col-lg-6">
            <div class="card h-100">
                … content card …
            </div>
        </div>
        … all the other cards … 
    </div>
</div>

With "col-sm-12 col-lg-6" I've made the cards responsive. With "card h-100" I've set all cards to the height of their parent column. On my system this works, but I'm not a pro. So, hopefully I helped someone.

HTML: Image won't display?

I found that skipping the quotation marks "" around the file and location name displayed the image... I am doing this on MacBook....

ASP.NET jQuery Ajax Calling Code-Behind Method

This hasn't solved my problem too, so I changed the parameters slightly.
This code worked for me:

var dataValue = "{ name: 'person', isGoing: 'true', returnAddress: 'returnEmail' }";

$.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    url: "Default.aspx/OnSubmit",
    data: dataValue,
    contentType: 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
    dataType: 'json',
    error: function (XMLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown) {
        alert("Request: " + XMLHttpRequest.toString() + "\n\nStatus: " + textStatus + "\n\nError: " + errorThrown);
    },
    success: function (result) {
        alert("We returned: " + result.d);
    }
});

how do I give a div a responsive height

For the height of a div to be responsive, it must be inside a parent element with a defined height to derive it's relative height from.

If you set the height of the container holding the image and text box on the right, you can subsequently set the heights of its two children to be something like 75% and 25%.

However, this will get a bit tricky when the site layout gets narrower and things will get wonky. Try setting the padding on .contentBg to something like 5.5%.

My suggestion is to use Media Queries to tweak the padding at different screen sizes, then bump everything into a single column when appropriate.

What is the difference between JSF, Servlet and JSP?

From Browser/Client perspective

JSP and JSF both looks same, As Per Application Requirements goes, JSP is more suited for request - response based applications.

JSF is targetted for richer event based Web applications. I see event as much more granular than request/response.

From Server Perspective

JSP page is converted to servlet, and it has only minimal behaviour.

JSF page is converted to components tree(by specialized FacesServlet) and it follows component lifecycle defined by spec.

Why do we usually use || over |? What is the difference?

Non short-circuiting can be useful. Sometimes you want to make sure that two expressions evaluate. For example, say you have a method that removes an object from two separate lists. You might want to do something like this:

class foo {

    ArrayList<Bar> list1 = new ArrayList<Bar>();
    ArrayList<Bar> list2 = new ArrayList<Bar>();

    //Returns true if bar is removed from both lists, otherwise false.
    boolean removeBar(Bar bar) {
        return (list1.remove(bar) & list2.remove(bar));
    }
}

If your method instead used the conditional operand, it would fail to remove the object from the second list if the first list returned false.

//Fails to execute the second remove if the first returns false.
boolean removeBar(Bar bar) {
    return (list1.remove(bar) && list2.remove(bar));
}

It's not amazingly useful, and (as with most programming tasks) you could achieve it with other means. But it is a use case for bitwise operands.

How to check a string starts with numeric number?

See the isDigit(char ch) method:

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/Character.html

and pass it to the first character of the String using the String.charAt() method.

Character.isDigit(myString.charAt(0));

Replace non-ASCII characters with a single space

As a native and efficient approach, you don't need to use ord or any loop over the characters. Just encode with ascii and ignore the errors.

The following will just remove the non-ascii characters:

new_string = old_string.encode('ascii',errors='ignore')

Now if you want to replace the deleted characters just do the following:

final_string = new_string + b' ' * (len(old_string) - len(new_string))

What is the JSF resource library for and how should it be used?

Actually, all of those examples on the web wherein the common content/file type like "js", "css", "img", etc is been used as library name are misleading.

Real world examples

To start, let's look at how existing JSF implementations like Mojarra and MyFaces and JSF component libraries like PrimeFaces and OmniFaces use it. No one of them use resource libraries this way. They use it (under the covers, by @ResourceDependency or UIViewRoot#addComponentResource()) the following way:

<h:outputScript library="javax.faces" name="jsf.js" />
<h:outputScript library="primefaces" name="jquery/jquery.js" />
<h:outputScript library="omnifaces" name="omnifaces.js" />
<h:outputScript library="omnifaces" name="fixviewstate.js" />
<h:outputScript library="omnifaces.combined" name="[dynamicname].js" />
<h:outputStylesheet library="primefaces" name="primefaces.css" />
<h:outputStylesheet library="primefaces-aristo" name="theme.css" />
<h:outputStylesheet library="primefaces-vader" name="theme.css" />

It should become clear that it basically represents the common library/module/theme name where all of those resources commonly belong to.

Easier identifying

This way it's so much easier to specify and distinguish where those resources belong to and/or are coming from. Imagine that you happen to have a primefaces.css resource in your own webapp wherein you're overriding/finetuning some default CSS of PrimeFaces; if PrimeFaces didn't use a library name for its own primefaces.css, then the PrimeFaces own one wouldn't be loaded, but instead the webapp-supplied one, which would break the look'n'feel.

Also, when you're using a custom ResourceHandler, you can also apply more finer grained control over resources coming from a specific library when library is used the right way. If all component libraries would have used "js" for all their JS files, how would the ResourceHandler ever distinguish if it's coming from a specific component library? Examples are OmniFaces CombinedResourceHandler and GraphicResourceHandler; check the createResource() method wherein the library is checked before delegating to next resource handler in chain. This way they know when to create CombinedResource or GraphicResource for the purpose.

Noted should be that RichFaces did it wrong. It didn't use any library at all and homebrewed another resource handling layer over it and it's therefore impossible to programmatically identify RichFaces resources. That's exactly the reason why OmniFaces CombinedResourceHander had to introduce a reflection-based hack in order to get it to work anyway with RichFaces resources.

Your own webapp

Your own webapp does not necessarily need a resource library. You'd best just omit it.

<h:outputStylesheet name="css/style.css" />
<h:outputScript name="js/script.js" />
<h:graphicImage name="img/logo.png" />

Or, if you really need to have one, you can just give it a more sensible common name, like "default" or some company name.

<h:outputStylesheet library="default" name="css/style.css" />
<h:outputScript library="default" name="js/script.js" />
<h:graphicImage library="default" name="img/logo.png" />

Or, when the resources are specific to some master Facelets template, you could also give it the name of the template, so that it's easier to relate each other. In other words, it's more for self-documentary purposes. E.g. in a /WEB-INF/templates/layout.xhtml template file:

<h:outputStylesheet library="layout" name="css/style.css" />
<h:outputScript library="layout" name="js/script.js" />

And a /WEB-INF/templates/admin.xhtml template file:

<h:outputStylesheet library="admin" name="css/style.css" />
<h:outputScript library="admin" name="js/script.js" />

For a real world example, check the OmniFaces showcase source code.

Or, when you'd like to share the same resources over multiple webapps and have created a "common" project for that based on the same example as in this answer which is in turn embedded as JAR in webapp's /WEB-INF/lib, then also reference it as library (name is free to your choice; component libraries like OmniFaces and PrimeFaces also work that way):

<h:outputStylesheet library="common" name="css/style.css" />
<h:outputScript library="common" name="js/script.js" />
<h:graphicImage library="common" name="img/logo.png" />

Library versioning

Another main advantage is that you can apply resource library versioning the right way on resources provided by your own webapp (this doesn't work for resources embedded in a JAR). You can create a direct child subfolder in the library folder with a name in the \d+(_\d+)* pattern to denote the resource library version.

WebContent
 |-- resources
 |    `-- default
 |         `-- 1_0
 |              |-- css
 |              |    `-- style.css
 |              |-- img
 |              |    `-- logo.png
 |              `-- js
 |                   `-- script.js
 :

When using this markup:

<h:outputStylesheet library="default" name="css/style.css" />
<h:outputScript library="default" name="js/script.js" />
<h:graphicImage library="default" name="img/logo.png" />

This will generate the following HTML with the library version as v parameter:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/contextname/javax.faces.resource/css/style.css.xhtml?ln=default&amp;v=1_0" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="/contextname/javax.faces.resource/js/script.js.xhtml?ln=default&amp;v=1_0"></script>
<img src="/contextname/javax.faces.resource/img/logo.png.xhtml?ln=default&amp;v=1_0" alt="" />

So, if you have edited/updated some resource, then all you need to do is to copy or rename the version folder into a new value. If you have multiple version folders, then the JSF ResourceHandler will automatically serve the resource from the highest version number, according to numerical ordering rules.

So, when copying/renaming resources/default/1_0/* folder into resources/default/1_1/* like follows:

WebContent
 |-- resources
 |    `-- default
 |         |-- 1_0
 |         |    :
 |         |
 |         `-- 1_1
 |              |-- css
 |              |    `-- style.css
 |              |-- img
 |              |    `-- logo.png
 |              `-- js
 |                   `-- script.js
 :

Then the last markup example would generate the following HTML:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/contextname/javax.faces.resource/css/style.css.xhtml?ln=default&amp;v=1_1" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="/contextname/javax.faces.resource/js/script.js.xhtml?ln=default&amp;v=1_1"></script>
<img src="/contextname/javax.faces.resource/img/logo.png.xhtml?ln=default&amp;v=1_1" alt="" />

This will force the webbrowser to request the resource straight from the server instead of showing the one with the same name from the cache, when the URL with the changed parameter is been requested for the first time. This way the endusers aren't required to do a hard refresh (Ctrl+F5 and so on) when they need to retrieve the updated CSS/JS resource.

Please note that library versioning is not possible for resources enclosed in a JAR file. You'd need a custom ResourceHandler. See also How to use JSF versioning for resources in jar.

See also:

How to read a Parquet file into Pandas DataFrame?

pandas 0.21 introduces new functions for Parquet:

pd.read_parquet('example_pa.parquet', engine='pyarrow')

or

pd.read_parquet('example_fp.parquet', engine='fastparquet')

The above link explains:

These engines are very similar and should read/write nearly identical parquet format files. These libraries differ by having different underlying dependencies (fastparquet by using numba, while pyarrow uses a c-library).

How to print a number with commas as thousands separators in JavaScript

You could just use the printf-way, for example:

double number = 1234567;
System.out.printf("%,.2f" , number);

UTF-8 byte[] to String

You could use the methods described in this question (especially since you start off with an InputStream): Read/convert an InputStream to a String

In particular, if you don't want to rely on external libraries, you can try this answer, which reads the InputStream via an InputStreamReader into a char[] buffer and appends it into a StringBuilder.

Maven error in eclipse (pom.xml) : Failure to transfer org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:pom:2.12.4

You need just to follow those steps:

  1. Right Click on your project: Run (As) -> Maven clean
  2. Right Click on your project: Run (As) -> Maven install

After which, if the build fails when you do Maven Install, it means there is no web.xml file under WEB-INF or some problem associated with it. it really works

How to read a .xlsx file using the pandas Library in iPython?

DataFrame's read_excel method is like read_csv method:

dfs = pd.read_excel(xlsx_file, sheetname="sheet1")


Help on function read_excel in module pandas.io.excel:

read_excel(io, sheetname=0, header=0, skiprows=None, skip_footer=0, index_col=None, names=None, parse_cols=None, parse_dates=False, date_parser=None, na_values=None, thousands=None, convert_float=True, has_index_names=None, converters=None, true_values=None, false_values=None, engine=None, squeeze=False, **kwds)
    Read an Excel table into a pandas DataFrame

    Parameters
    ----------
    io : string, path object (pathlib.Path or py._path.local.LocalPath),
        file-like object, pandas ExcelFile, or xlrd workbook.
        The string could be a URL. Valid URL schemes include http, ftp, s3,
        and file. For file URLs, a host is expected. For instance, a local
        file could be file://localhost/path/to/workbook.xlsx
    sheetname : string, int, mixed list of strings/ints, or None, default 0

        Strings are used for sheet names, Integers are used in zero-indexed
        sheet positions.

        Lists of strings/integers are used to request multiple sheets.

        Specify None to get all sheets.

        str|int -> DataFrame is returned.
        list|None -> Dict of DataFrames is returned, with keys representing
        sheets.

        Available Cases

        * Defaults to 0 -> 1st sheet as a DataFrame
        * 1 -> 2nd sheet as a DataFrame
        * "Sheet1" -> 1st sheet as a DataFrame
        * [0,1,"Sheet5"] -> 1st, 2nd & 5th sheet as a dictionary of DataFrames
        * None -> All sheets as a dictionary of DataFrames

    header : int, list of ints, default 0
        Row (0-indexed) to use for the column labels of the parsed
        DataFrame. If a list of integers is passed those row positions will
        be combined into a ``MultiIndex``
    skiprows : list-like
        Rows to skip at the beginning (0-indexed)
    skip_footer : int, default 0
        Rows at the end to skip (0-indexed)
    index_col : int, list of ints, default None
        Column (0-indexed) to use as the row labels of the DataFrame.
        Pass None if there is no such column.  If a list is passed,
        those columns will be combined into a ``MultiIndex``
    names : array-like, default None
        List of column names to use. If file contains no header row,
        then you should explicitly pass header=None
    converters : dict, default None
        Dict of functions for converting values in certain columns. Keys can
        either be integers or column labels, values are functions that take one
        input argument, the Excel cell content, and return the transformed
        content.
    true_values : list, default None
        Values to consider as True

        .. versionadded:: 0.19.0

    false_values : list, default None
        Values to consider as False

        .. versionadded:: 0.19.0

    parse_cols : int or list, default None
        * If None then parse all columns,
        * If int then indicates last column to be parsed
        * If list of ints then indicates list of column numbers to be parsed
        * If string then indicates comma separated list of column names and
          column ranges (e.g. "A:E" or "A,C,E:F")
    squeeze : boolean, default False
        If the parsed data only contains one column then return a Series
    na_values : scalar, str, list-like, or dict, default None
        Additional strings to recognize as NA/NaN. If dict passed, specific
        per-column NA values. By default the following values are interpreted
        as NaN: '', '#N/A', '#N/A N/A', '#NA', '-1.#IND', '-1.#QNAN', '-NaN', '-nan',
    '1.#IND', '1.#QNAN', 'N/A', 'NA', 'NULL', 'NaN', 'nan'.
    thousands : str, default None
        Thousands separator for parsing string columns to numeric.  Note that
        this parameter is only necessary for columns stored as TEXT in Excel,
        any numeric columns will automatically be parsed, regardless of display
        format.
    keep_default_na : bool, default True
        If na_values are specified and keep_default_na is False the default NaN
        values are overridden, otherwise they're appended to.
    verbose : boolean, default False
        Indicate number of NA values placed in non-numeric columns
    engine: string, default None
        If io is not a buffer or path, this must be set to identify io.
        Acceptable values are None or xlrd
    convert_float : boolean, default True
        convert integral floats to int (i.e., 1.0 --> 1). If False, all numeric
        data will be read in as floats: Excel stores all numbers as floats
        internally
    has_index_names : boolean, default None
        DEPRECATED: for version 0.17+ index names will be automatically
        inferred based on index_col.  To read Excel output from 0.16.2 and
        prior that had saved index names, use True.

    Returns
    -------
    parsed : DataFrame or Dict of DataFrames
        DataFrame from the passed in Excel file.  See notes in sheetname
        argument for more information on when a Dict of Dataframes is returned.

Excel VBA Run-time error '424': Object Required when trying to copy TextBox

The problem with your macro is that once you have opened your destination Workbook (xlw in your code sample), it is set as the ActiveWorkbook object and you get an error because TextBox1 doesn't exist in that specific Workbook. To resolve this issue, you could define a reference object to your actual Workbook before opening the other one.

Sub UploadData()
    Dim xlo As New Excel.Application
    Dim xlw As New Excel.Workbook
    Dim myWb as Excel.Workbook

    Set myWb = ActiveWorkbook
    Set xlw = xlo.Workbooks.Open("c:\myworkbook.xlsx")
    xlo.Worksheets(1).Cells(2, 1) = myWb.ActiveSheet.Range("d4").Value
    xlo.Worksheets(1).Cells(2, 2) = myWb.ActiveSheet.TextBox1.Text

    xlw.Save
    xlw.Close
    Set xlo = Nothing
    Set xlw = Nothing
End Sub

If you prefer, you could also use myWb.Activate to put back your main Workbook as active. It will also work if you do it with a Worksheet object. Using one or another mostly depends on what you want to do (if there are multiple sheets, etc.).

Convert DataSet to List

var myData = ds.Tables[0].AsEnumerable().Select(r => new Employee {
    Name = r.Field<string>("Name"),
    Age = r.Field<int>("Age")
});
var list = myData.ToList(); // For if you really need a List and not IEnumerable

javascript jquery radio button click

this should be good

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('input:radio').change(function() {
       alert('ole');
    });
});

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException on working app

Setting minifyEnabled to false in my build.gradle file fixed the issue for me.

release {
    minifyEnabled false
}

Convert a string to int using sql query

Also be aware that when converting from numeric string ie '56.72' to INT you may come up against a SQL error.

Conversion failed when converting the varchar value '56.72' to data type int.

To get around this just do two converts as follows:

STRING -> NUMERIC -> INT

or

SELECT CAST(CAST (MyVarcharCol AS NUMERIC(19,4)) AS INT)

When copying data from TableA to TableB, the conversion is implicit, so you dont need the second convert (if you are happy rounding down to nearest INT):

INSERT INTO TableB (MyIntCol)
SELECT CAST(MyVarcharCol AS NUMERIC(19,4)) as [MyIntCol]
FROM TableA

How to select data where a field has a min value in MySQL?

In fact, depends what you want to get: - Just the min value:

SELECT MIN(price) FROM pieces
  • A table (multiples rows) whith the min value: Is as John Woo said above.

  • But, if can be different rows with same min value, the best is ORDER them from another column, because after or later you will need to do it (starting from John Woo answere):

    SELECT * FROM pieces WHERE price = ( SELECT MIN(price) FROM pieces) ORDER BY stock ASC

AngularJS - Building a dynamic table based on a json

TGrid is another option that people don't usually find in a google search. If the other grids you find don't suit your needs, you can give it a try, its free

What is the equivalent to getch() & getche() in Linux?

As said above getch() is in the ncurses library. ncurses has to be initialized, see i.e. getchar() returns the same value (27) for up and down arrow keys for this

How to picture "for" loop in block representation of algorithm

The Algorithm for given flow chart :

enter image description here

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

Step :01

  • Start

Step :02 [Variable initialization]

  • Set counter: i<----K [Where K:Positive Number]

Step :03[Condition Check]

  • If condition True then Do your task, set i=i+N and go to Step :03 [Where N:Positive Number]
  • If condition False then go to Step :04

Step:04

  • Stop

Ruby Array find_first object?

Either I don't understand your question, or Enumerable#find is the thing you were looking for.

Make git automatically remove trailing whitespace before committing

For Sublime Text users.

Set following properly in you Setting-User configuration.

"trim_trailing_white_space_on_save": true

How do I choose grid and block dimensions for CUDA kernels?

There are two parts to that answer (I wrote it). One part is easy to quantify, the other is more empirical.

Hardware Constraints:

This is the easy to quantify part. Appendix F of the current CUDA programming guide lists a number of hard limits which limit how many threads per block a kernel launch can have. If you exceed any of these, your kernel will never run. They can be roughly summarized as:

  1. Each block cannot have more than 512/1024 threads in total (Compute Capability 1.x or 2.x and later respectively)
  2. The maximum dimensions of each block are limited to [512,512,64]/[1024,1024,64] (Compute 1.x/2.x or later)
  3. Each block cannot consume more than 8k/16k/32k/64k/32k/64k/32k/64k/32k/64k registers total (Compute 1.0,1.1/1.2,1.3/2.x-/3.0/3.2/3.5-5.2/5.3/6-6.1/6.2/7.0)
  4. Each block cannot consume more than 16kb/48kb/96kb of shared memory (Compute 1.x/2.x-6.2/7.0)

If you stay within those limits, any kernel you can successfully compile will launch without error.

Performance Tuning:

This is the empirical part. The number of threads per block you choose within the hardware constraints outlined above can and does effect the performance of code running on the hardware. How each code behaves will be different and the only real way to quantify it is by careful benchmarking and profiling. But again, very roughly summarized:

  1. The number of threads per block should be a round multiple of the warp size, which is 32 on all current hardware.
  2. Each streaming multiprocessor unit on the GPU must have enough active warps to sufficiently hide all of the different memory and instruction pipeline latency of the architecture and achieve maximum throughput. The orthodox approach here is to try achieving optimal hardware occupancy (what Roger Dahl's answer is referring to).

The second point is a huge topic which I doubt anyone is going to try and cover it in a single StackOverflow answer. There are people writing PhD theses around the quantitative analysis of aspects of the problem (see this presentation by Vasily Volkov from UC Berkley and this paper by Henry Wong from the University of Toronto for examples of how complex the question really is).

At the entry level, you should mostly be aware that the block size you choose (within the range of legal block sizes defined by the constraints above) can and does have a impact on how fast your code will run, but it depends on the hardware you have and the code you are running. By benchmarking, you will probably find that most non-trivial code has a "sweet spot" in the 128-512 threads per block range, but it will require some analysis on your part to find where that is. The good news is that because you are working in multiples of the warp size, the search space is very finite and the best configuration for a given piece of code relatively easy to find.

Twitter Bootstrap carousel different height images cause bouncing arrows

You can also use this code to adjust to all carousel images.

.carousel-item{
    width: 100%; /*width you want*/
    height: 500px; /*height you want*/
    overflow: hidden;
}
.carousel-item img{
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    object-fit: cover;
}

how to return index of a sorted list?

You can use the python sorting functions' key parameter to sort the index array instead.

>>> s = [2, 3, 1, 4, 5, 3]
>>> sorted(range(len(s)), key=lambda k: s[k])
[2, 0, 1, 5, 3, 4]
>>> 

Adding n hours to a date in Java?

Date argDate = new Date(); //set your date.
String argTime = "09:00"; //9 AM - 24 hour format :- Set your time.
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy");
SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yyyy HH:mm");
String dateTime = sdf.format(argDate) + " " + argTime;
Date requiredDate = dateFormat.parse(dateTime);

Add attribute 'checked' on click jquery

It seems this is one of the rare occasions on which use of an attribute is actually appropriate. jQuery's attr() method will not help you because in most cases (including this) it actually sets a property, not an attribute, making the choice of its name look somewhat foolish. [UPDATE: Since jQuery 1.6.1, the situation has changed slightly]

IE has some problems with the DOM setAttribute method but in this case it should be fine:

this.setAttribute("checked", "checked");

In IE, this will always actually make the checkbox checked. In other browsers, if the user has already checked and unchecked the checkbox, setting the attribute will have no visible effect. Therefore, if you want to guarantee the checkbox is checked as well as having the checked attribute, you need to set the checked property as well:

this.setAttribute("checked", "checked");
this.checked = true;

To uncheck the checkbox and remove the attribute, do the following:

this.setAttribute("checked", ""); // For IE
this.removeAttribute("checked"); // For other browsers
this.checked = false;

Pushing an existing Git repository to SVN

If you don't have to use any specific SVN and you are using GitHub you can use their SVN connector.

More information is here: Collaborating on GitHub with Subversion

Random float number generation

If you know that your floating point format is IEEE 754 (almost all modern CPUs including Intel and ARM) then you can build a random floating point number from a random integer using bit-wise methods. This should only be considered if you do not have access to C++11's random or Boost.Random which are both much better.

float rand_float()
{
    // returns a random value in the range [0.0-1.0)

    // start with a bit pattern equating to 1.0
    uint32_t pattern = 0x3f800000;

    // get 23 bits of random integer
    uint32_t random23 = 0x7fffff & (rand() << 8 ^ rand());

    // replace the mantissa, resulting in a number [1.0-2.0)
    pattern |= random23;

    // convert from int to float without undefined behavior
    assert(sizeof(float) == sizeof(uint32_t));
    char buffer[sizeof(float)];
    memcpy(buffer, &pattern, sizeof(float));
    float f;
    memcpy(&f, buffer, sizeof(float));

    return f - 1.0;
}

This will give a better distribution than one using division.

How can I remove a child node in HTML using JavaScript?

Modern Solution - child.remove()

For your use case:

document.getElementById("FirstDiv").remove()

This is recommended by W3C since late 2015, and is vanilla JS. All major browsers support it.

Mozilla Docs

Supported Browsers - 96% May 2020

How do I fit an image (img) inside a div and keep the aspect ratio?

For me, the following CSS worked (tested in Chrome, Firefox and Safari).

There are multiple things working together:

  • max-height: 100%;, max-width: 100%; and height: auto;, width: auto; make the img scale to whichever dimension first reaches 100% while keeping the aspect ratio
  • position: relative; in the container and position: absolute; in the child together with top: 50%; and left: 50%; center the top left corner of the img in the container
  • transform: translate(-50%, -50%); moves the img back to the left and top by half its size, thus centering the img in the container

CSS:

.container {
    height: 48px;
    width: 48px;

    position: relative;
}

.container > img {
    max-height: 100%;
    max-width: 100%;
    height: auto;
    width: auto;

    position: absolute;
    top: 50%;
    left: 50%;

    transform: translate(-50%, -50%);
}

<Django object > is not JSON serializable

The easiest way is to use a JsonResponse.

For a queryset, you should pass a list of the the values for that queryset, like so:

from django.http import JsonResponse

queryset = YourModel.objects.filter(some__filter="some value").values()
return JsonResponse({"models_to_return": list(queryset)})

Returning multiple objects in an R function

Similarly in Java, you can create a S4 class in R that encapsulates your information:

setClass(Class="Person",
         representation(
            height="numeric",
            age="numeric"
          )
)

Then your function can return an instance of this class:

myFunction = function(age=28, height=176){
  return(new("Person",
          age=age,
          height=height))
}

and you can access your information:

aPerson = myFunction()

aPerson@age
aPerson@height

Ping all addresses in network, windows

I know this is a late response, but a neat way of doing this is to ping the broadcast address which populates your local arp cache.

This can then be shown by running arp -a which will list all the addresses in you local arp table.

ping 192.168.1.255
arp -a

Hopefully this is a nice neat option that people can use.

WebView and HTML5 <video>

This question is years old, but maybe my answer will help people like me who have to support old Android version. I tried a lot of different approaches which worked on some Android versions, however not on all. The best solution I found is to use the Crosswalk Webview which is optimized for HTML5 feature support and works on Android 4.1 and higher. It is as simple to use as the default Android WebView. You just have to include the library. Here you can find a simple tutorial on how to use it: https://diego.org/2015/01/07/embedding-crosswalk-in-android-studio/

The total number of locks exceeds the lock table size

Same issue I'm getting in my MYSQL while running sql script Please look into below image.. Error code 1206: The number of locks exceeds the lock table size Picture

This is Mysql configuration issue so I made some changes in my.ini and It's working on my system & issue resolved.

We need to make some changes in my.ini which is available on following Path:- C:\ProgramData\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.7\my.ini and please update following changes in my.ini config file fields:-

key_buffer_size=64M
read_buffer_size=64M
read_rnd_buffer_size=128M
innodb_log_buffer_size=10M
innodb_buffer_pool_size=256M
query_cache_type=2
max_allowed_packet=16M

After all above changes please restart the MYSQL Service. Please refer the image:- Microsoft MYSQL Service Picture

Change Git repository directory location.

I use Github Desktop for Windows and I wanted to move location of a repository. No problem if you move your directory and choose the new location in the software. But if you set a bad directory, you get a fatal error and no second chance to make a relocation to the good one. So to repair that. You must copy project files in the bad directory, make its reconize by Github Desktop, after that, you can move again your project in another folder and make a relocate in the software. No need to close Github Desktop for that, it will check folders in live.

Hoping this will help someone.

semaphore implementation

The fundamental issue with your code is that you mix two APIs. Unfortunately online resources are not great at pointing this out, but there are two semaphore APIs on UNIX-like systems:

  • POSIX IPC API, which is a standard API
  • System V API, which is coming from the old Unix world, but practically available almost all Unix systems

Looking at the code above you used semget() from the System V API and tried to post through sem_post() which comes from the POSIX API. It is not possible to mix them.

To decide which semaphore API you want you don't have so many great resources. The simple best is the "Unix Network Programming" by Stevens. The section that you probably interested in is in Vol #2.

These two APIs are surprisingly different. Both support the textbook style semaphores but there are a few good and bad points in the System V API worth mentioning:

  • it builds on semaphore sets, so once you created an object with semget() that is a set of semaphores rather then a single one
  • the System V API allows you to do atomic operations on these sets. so you can modify or wait for multiple semaphores in a set
  • the SysV API allows you to wait for a semaphore to reach a threshold rather than only being non-zero. waiting for a non-zero threshold is also supported, but my previous sentence implies that
  • the semaphore resources are pretty limited on every unixes. you can check these with the 'ipcs' command
  • there is an undo feature of the System V semaphores, so you can make sure that abnormal program termination doesn't leave your semaphores in an undesired state

How to cast an object in Objective-C

Typecasting in Objective-C is easy as:

NSArray *threeViews = @[[UIView new], [UIView new], [UIView new]];
UIView *firstView = (UIView *)threeViews[0];

However, what happens if first object is not UIView and you try to use it:

NSArray *threeViews = @[[NSNumber new], [UIView new], [UIView new]];
UIView *firstView = (UIView *)threeViews[0];
CGRect firstViewFrame = firstView.frame; // CRASH!

It will crash. And it's easy to find such crash for this case, but what if those lines are in different classes and the third line is executed only once in 100 cases. I bet your customers find this crash, not you! A plausible solution is to crash early, like this:

UIView *firstView = (UIView *)threeViews[0];
NSAssert([firstView isKindOfClass:[UIView class]], @"firstView is not UIView");

Those assertions doesn't look very nice, so we could improve them with this handy category:

@interface NSObject (TypecastWithAssertion)
+ (instancetype)typecastWithAssertion:(id)object;
@end


@implementation NSObject (TypecastWithAssertion)

+ (instancetype)typecastWithAssertion:(id)object {
    if (object != nil)
        NSAssert([object isKindOfClass:[self class]], @"Object %@ is not kind of class %@", object, NSStringFromClass([self class]));
    return object;
}

@end

This is much better:

UIView *firstView = [UIView typecastWithAssertion:[threeViews[0]];

P.S. For collections type safety Xcode 7 have a much better than typecasting - generics

How to config routeProvider and locationProvider in angularJS?

AngularJS provides a simple and concise way to associate routes with controllers and templates using a $routeProvider object. While recently updating an application to the latest release (1.2 RC1 at the current time) I realized that $routeProvider isn’t available in the standard angular.js script any longer.

After reading through the change log I realized that routing is now a separate module (a great move I think) as well as animation and a few others. As a result, standard module definitions and config code like the following won’t work any longer if you’re moving to the 1.2 (or future) release:

var app = angular.module('customersApp', []);

app.config(function ($routeProvider) {

    $routeProvider.when('/', {
        controller: 'customersController',
        templateUrl: '/app/views/customers.html'
    });

});

How do you fix it?

Simply add angular-route.js in addition to angular.js to your page (grab a version of angular-route.js here – keep in mind it’s currently a release candidate version which will be updated) and change the module definition to look like the following:

var app = angular.module('customersApp', ['ngRoute']);

If you’re using animations you’ll need angular-animation.js and also need to reference the appropriate module:

 var app = angular.module('customersApp', ['ngRoute', 'ngAnimate']);

Your Code can be as follows:

    var app = angular.module('app', ['ngRoute']);   

    app.config(function($routeProvider) {

    $routeProvider
        .when('/controllerone', {
                controller: 'friendDetails',
                templateUrl: 'controller3.html'

            }, {
                controller: 'friendsName',
                templateUrl: 'controller3.html'

            }

    )
        .when('/controllerTwo', {
            controller: 'simpleControoller',
            templateUrl: 'views.html'
        })
        .when('/controllerThree', {
            controller: 'simpleControoller',
            templateUrl: 'view2.html'
        })
        .otherwise({
            redirectTo: '/'
        });

});

Rails: Missing host to link to! Please provide :host parameter or set default_url_options[:host]

The host should be specified in each environment's config file. Eg:

config/environments/development.rb

See this question and this question.

How to get current html page title with javascript

$('title').text();

returns all the title

but if you just want the page title then use

document.title

How to plot two histograms together in R?

Here is an even simpler solution using base graphics and alpha-blending (which does not work on all graphics devices):

set.seed(42)
p1 <- hist(rnorm(500,4))                     # centered at 4
p2 <- hist(rnorm(500,6))                     # centered at 6
plot( p1, col=rgb(0,0,1,1/4), xlim=c(0,10))  # first histogram
plot( p2, col=rgb(1,0,0,1/4), xlim=c(0,10), add=T)  # second

The key is that the colours are semi-transparent.

Edit, more than two years later: As this just got an upvote, I figure I may as well add a visual of what the code produces as alpha-blending is so darn useful:

enter image description here

How to start and stop/pause setInterval?

The reason you're seeing this specific problem:

JSFiddle wraps your code in a function, so start() is not defined in the global scope.

enter image description here


Moral of the story: don't use inline event bindings. Use addEventListener/attachEvent.


Other notes:

Please don't pass strings to setTimeout and setInterval. It's eval in disguise.

Use a function instead, and get cozy with var and white space:

_x000D_
_x000D_
var input = document.getElementById("input"),
  add;

function start() {
  add = setInterval(function() {
    input.value++;
  }, 1000);
}

start();
_x000D_
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<input type="number" id="input" />
<input type="button" onclick="clearInterval(add)" value="stop" />
<input type="button" onclick="start()" value="start" />
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Find elements inside forms and iframe using Java and Selenium WebDriver

On Selenium >= 3.41 (C#) the rigth syntax is:

webDriver = webDriver.SwitchTo().Frame(webDriver.FindElement(By.Name("icontent")));

String.equals versus ==

Let's analyze the following Java, to understand the identity and equality of Strings:

public static void testEquality(){
    String str1 = "Hello world.";
    String str2 = "Hello world.";

    if (str1 == str2)
        System.out.print("str1 == str2\n");
    else
        System.out.print("str1 != str2\n");

    if(str1.equals(str2))
        System.out.print("str1 equals to str2\n");
    else
        System.out.print("str1 doesn't equal to str2\n");

    String str3 = new String("Hello world.");
    String str4 = new String("Hello world.");

    if (str3 == str4)
        System.out.print("str3 == str4\n");
    else
        System.out.print("str3 != str4\n");

    if(str3.equals(str4))
        System.out.print("str3 equals to str4\n");
    else
        System.out.print("str3 doesn't equal to str4\n");
}

When the first line of code String str1 = "Hello world." executes, a string \Hello world." is created, and the variable str1 refers to it. Another string "Hello world." will not be created again when the next line of code executes because of optimization. The variable str2 also refers to the existing ""Hello world.".

The operator == checks identity of two objects (whether two variables refer to same object). Since str1 and str2 refer to same string in memory, they are identical to each other. The method equals checks equality of two objects (whether two objects have same content). Of course, the content of str1 and str2 are same.

When code String str3 = new String("Hello world.") executes, a new instance of string with content "Hello world." is created, and it is referred to by the variable str3. And then another instance of string with content "Hello world." is created again, and referred to by str4. Since str3 and str4 refer to two different instances, they are not identical, but their content are same.

Therefore, the output contains four lines:

Str1 == str2

Str1 equals str2

Str3! = str4

Str3 equals str4

No Persistence provider for EntityManager named

In an OSGi-context, it's necessary to list your persistence units in the bundle's MANIFEST.MF, e.g.

JPA-PersistenceUnits: my-persistence-unit

Otherwise, the JPA-bundle won't know your bundle contains persistence units.

See http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/Examples/OSGi/Developing_with_EclipseLink_OSGi_in_PDE .

find first sequence item that matches a criterion

a=[100,200,300,400,500]
def search(b):
 try:
  k=a.index(b)
  return a[k] 
 except ValueError:
    return 'not found'
print(search(500))

it'll return the object if found else it'll return "not found"

How do you send an HTTP Get Web Request in Python?

In Python, you can use urllib2 (http://docs.python.org/2/library/urllib2.html) to do all of that work for you.

Simply enough:

import urllib2
f =  urllib2.urlopen(url)
print f.read() 

Will print the received HTTP response.

To pass GET/POST parameters the urllib.urlencode() function can be used. For more information, you can refer to the Official Urllib2 Tutorial

How to make div follow scrolling smoothly with jQuery?

This is my final code .... (based on previous fixes, thank you big time for headstart, saved a lot of time experimenting). What bugged me was scrolling up, as well as scrolling down ... :)

it always makes me wonder how jquery can be elegant!!!

$(document).ready(function(){

    //run once
    var el=$('#scrolldiv');
    var originalelpos=el.offset().top; // take it where it originally is on the page

    //run on scroll
     $(window).scroll(function(){
        var el = $('#scrolldiv'); // important! (local)
        var elpos = el.offset().top; // take current situation
        var windowpos = $(window).scrollTop();
        var finaldestination = windowpos+originalelpos;
        el.stop().animate({'top':finaldestination},500);
     });

});

In Eclipse, what can cause Package Explorer "red-x" error-icon when all Java sources compile without errors?

This can occur for a number of reasons. If you have changed the jdk, the Project facet will have a red X next to it while no other folders shows an error. If this is the case, modify the jdk that is shown. This happens on occasion in our JAX-WS class (HSG

Write HTML to string

Use an XDocument to create the DOM, then write it out using an XmlWriter. This will give you a wonderfully concise and readable notation as well as nicely formatted output.

Take this sample program:

using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Linq;

class Program {
    static void Main() {
        var xDocument = new XDocument(
            new XDocumentType("html", null, null, null),
            new XElement("html",
                new XElement("head"),
                new XElement("body",
                    new XElement("p",
                        "This paragraph contains ", new XElement("b", "bold"), " text."
                    ),
                    new XElement("p",
                        "This paragraph has just plain text."
                    )
                )
            )
        );

        var settings = new XmlWriterSettings {
            OmitXmlDeclaration = true, Indent = true, IndentChars = "\t"
        };
        using (var writer = XmlWriter.Create(@"C:\Users\wolf\Desktop\test.html", settings)) {
            xDocument.WriteTo(writer);
        }
    }
}

This generates the following output:

<!DOCTYPE html >
<html>
    <head />
    <body>
        <p>This paragraph contains <b>bold</b> text.</p>
        <p>This paragraph has just plain text.</p>
    </body>
</html>

When and how should I use a ThreadLocal variable?

Essentially, when you need a variable's value to depend on the current thread and it isn't convenient for you to attach the value to the thread in some other way (for example, subclassing thread).

A typical case is where some other framework has created the thread that your code is running in, e.g. a servlet container, or where it just makes more sense to use ThreadLocal because your variable is then "in its logical place" (rather than a variable hanging from a Thread subclass or in some other hash map).

On my web site, I have some further discussion and examples of when to use ThreadLocal that may also be of interest.

Some people advocate using ThreadLocal as a way to attach a "thread ID" to each thread in certain concurrent algorithms where you need a thread number (see e.g. Herlihy & Shavit). In such cases, check that you're really getting a benefit!

File upload along with other object in Jersey restful web service

You can access the Image File and data from a form using MULTIPART FORM DATA By using the below code.

@POST
@Path("/UpdateProfile")
@Consumes(value={MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON,MediaType.MULTIPART_FORM_DATA})
@Produces(value={MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON,MediaType.APPLICATION_XML})
public Response updateProfile(
    @FormDataParam("file") InputStream fileInputStream,
    @FormDataParam("file") FormDataContentDisposition contentDispositionHeader,
    @FormDataParam("ProfileInfo") String ProfileInfo,
    @FormDataParam("registrationId") String registrationId) {

    String filePath= "/filepath/"+contentDispositionHeader.getFileName();

    OutputStream outputStream = null;
    try {
        int read = 0;
        byte[] bytes = new byte[1024];
        outputStream = new FileOutputStream(new File(filePath));

        while ((read = fileInputStream.read(bytes)) != -1) {
            outputStream.write(bytes, 0, read);
        }

        outputStream.flush();
        outputStream.close();
    } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } finally {
        if (outputStream != null) { 
            try {
                outputStream.close();
            } catch(Exception ex) {}
        }
    }
}

How do I activate a specific workbook and a specific sheet?

You have to set a reference to the workbook you're opening. Then you can do anything you want with that workbook by using its reference.

Dim wkb As Workbook
Set wkb = Workbooks.Open("Tire.xls") ' open workbook and set reference!

wkb.Sheets("Sheet1").Activate
wkb.Sheets("Sheet1").Cells(2, 1).Value = 123

Could even set a reference to the sheet, which will make life easier later:

Dim wkb As Workbook
Dim sht As Worksheet

Set wkb = Workbooks.Open("Tire.xls")
Set sht = wkb.Sheets("Sheet2")

sht.Activate
sht.Cells(2, 1) = 123

Others have pointed out that .Activate may be superfluous in your case. You don't strictly need to activate a sheet before editing its cells. But, if that's what you want to do, it does no harm to activate -- except for a small hit to performance which should not be noticeable as long as you do it only once or a few times. However, if you activate many times e.g. in a loop, it will slow things down significantly, so activate should be avoided.

How does the Java 'for each' loop work?

for (Iterator<String> itr = someList.iterator(); itr.hasNext(); ) {
   String item = itr.next();
   System.out.println(item);
}

How to programmatically round corners and set random background colors

You can dynamically change color of any items ( layout, textview ) . Try below code to set color programmatically in layout

in activity.java file


String quote_bg_color = "#FFC107"
quoteContainer= (LinearLayout)view.findViewById(R.id.id_quotecontainer);
quoteContainer.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.layout_round);
GradientDrawable drawable = (GradientDrawable) quoteContainer.getBackground();
drawable.setColor(Color.parseColor(quote_bg_color));

create layout_round.xml in drawable folder

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <solid android:color="@color/colorPrimaryLight"/>
    <stroke android:width="0dp" android:color="#B1BCBE" />
    <corners android:radius="10dp"/>
    <padding android:left="0dp" android:top="0dp" android:right="0dp" android:bottom="0dp" />
</shape>

layout in activity.xml file

<LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/id_quotecontainer"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="vertical">

----other components---

</LinearLayout>


how to save DOMPDF generated content to file?

I have just used dompdf and the code was a little different but it worked.

Here it is:

require_once("./pdf/dompdf_config.inc.php");
$files = glob("./pdf/include/*.php");
foreach($files as $file) include_once($file);

$html =
      '<html><body>'.
      '<p>Put your html here, or generate it with your favourite '.
      'templating system.</p>'.
      '</body></html>';

    $dompdf = new DOMPDF();
    $dompdf->load_html($html);
    $dompdf->render();
    $output = $dompdf->output();
    file_put_contents('Brochure.pdf', $output);

Only difference here is that all of the files in the include directory are included.

Other than that my only suggestion would be to specify a full directory path for writing the file rather than just the filename.

SQL update trigger only when column is modified

You want to do the following:

ALTER TRIGGER [dbo].[tr_SCHEDULE_Modified]
   ON [dbo].[SCHEDULE]
   AFTER UPDATE
AS 
BEGIN
SET NOCOUNT ON;

    IF (UPDATE(QtyToRepair))
    BEGIN
        UPDATE SCHEDULE SET modified = GETDATE()
            , ModifiedUser = SUSER_NAME()
            , ModifiedHost = HOST_NAME()
        FROM SCHEDULE S
        INNER JOIN Inserted I ON S.OrderNo = I.OrderNo AND S.PartNumber = I.PartNumber
        WHERE S.QtyToRepair <> I.QtyToRepair
    END
END

Please note that this trigger will fire each time you update the column no matter if the value is the same or not.

Programmatically obtain the phone number of the Android phone

Here's a combination of the solutions I've found (sample project here, if you want to also check auto-fill):

manifest

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

build.gradle

    implementation "com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth:17.0.0"

MainActivity.kt

class MainActivity : AppCompatActivity() {
    private lateinit var googleApiClient: GoogleApiClient

    override fun onCreate(savedInstanceState: Bundle?) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState)
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main)
        tryGetCurrentUserPhoneNumber(this)
        googleApiClient = GoogleApiClient.Builder(this).addApi(Auth.CREDENTIALS_API).build()
        if (phoneNumber.isEmpty()) {
            val hintRequest = HintRequest.Builder().setPhoneNumberIdentifierSupported(true).build()
            val intent = Auth.CredentialsApi.getHintPickerIntent(googleApiClient, hintRequest)
            try {
                startIntentSenderForResult(intent.intentSender, REQUEST_PHONE_NUMBER, null, 0, 0, 0);
            } catch (e: IntentSender.SendIntentException) {
                Toast.makeText(this, "failed to show phone picker", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show()
            }
        } else
            onGotPhoneNumberToSendTo()

    }

    override fun onActivityResult(requestCode: Int, resultCode: Int, data: Intent?) {
        super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data)
        if (requestCode == REQUEST_PHONE_NUMBER) {
            if (resultCode == Activity.RESULT_OK) {
                val cred: Credential? = data?.getParcelableExtra(Credential.EXTRA_KEY)
                phoneNumber = cred?.id ?: ""
                if (phoneNumber.isEmpty())
                    Toast.makeText(this, "failed to get phone number", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show()
                else
                    onGotPhoneNumberToSendTo()
            }
        }
    }

    private fun onGotPhoneNumberToSendTo() {
        Toast.makeText(this, "got number:$phoneNumber", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show()
    }


    companion object {
        private const val REQUEST_PHONE_NUMBER = 1
        private var phoneNumber = ""

        @SuppressLint("MissingPermission", "HardwareIds")
        private fun tryGetCurrentUserPhoneNumber(context: Context): String {
            if (phoneNumber.isNotEmpty())
                return phoneNumber
            if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.M) {
                val subscriptionManager = context.getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SUBSCRIPTION_SERVICE) as SubscriptionManager
                try {
                    subscriptionManager.activeSubscriptionInfoList?.forEach {
                        val number: String? = it.number
                        if (!number.isNullOrBlank()) {
                            phoneNumber = number
                            return number
                        }
                    }
                } catch (ignored: Exception) {
                }
            }
            try {
                val telephonyManager = context.getSystemService(Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE) as TelephonyManager
                val number = telephonyManager.line1Number ?: ""
                if (!number.isBlank()) {
                    phoneNumber = number
                    return number
                }
            } catch (e: Exception) {
            }
            return ""
        }
    }
}

What does it mean to inflate a view from an xml file?

"Inflating" a view means taking the layout XML and parsing it to create the view and viewgroup objects from the elements and their attributes specified within, and then adding the hierarchy of those views and viewgroups to the parent ViewGroup. When you call setContentView(), it attaches the views it creates from reading the XML to the activity. You can also use LayoutInflater to add views to another ViewGroup, which can be a useful tool in a lot of circumstances.

Paste a multi-line Java String in Eclipse

As far as i know this seems out of scope of an IDE. Copyin ,you can copy the string and then try to format it using ctrl+shift+ F Most often these multiline strings are not used hard coded,rather they shall be used from property or xml files.which can be edited at later point of time without the need for code change

How to edit my Excel dropdown list?

The answers above will work for changing the values.

If you want to change the number of cells in your list (e.g. I have a list called 'revisions' which has 4 items, I now need 7 items) you will find that you can't simply select your list and amend it on the sheet, So:

go to your 'Formulas' tab

choose "Name Manager"

a pop up box will show what is available for editing. Your list should be in it. Select your list and edit the range.

How can getContentResolver() be called in Android?

Access contentResolver in Kotlin , inside activities, Object classes &... :

Application().contentResolver

Python: Converting string into decimal number

If you are converting string to float:

import re
A1 = [' "29.0" ',' "65.2" ',' "75.2" ']
float_values = [float(re.search(r'\d+.\d+',number).group()) for number in A1]
print(float_values)
>>> [29.0, 65.2, 75.2]

Foreign Key to non-primary key

If you really want to create a foreign key to a non-primary key, it MUST be a column that has a unique constraint on it.

From Books Online:

A FOREIGN KEY constraint does not have to be linked only to a PRIMARY KEY constraint in another table; it can also be defined to reference the columns of a UNIQUE constraint in another table.

So in your case if you make AnotherID unique, it will be allowed. If you can't apply a unique constraint you're out of luck, but this really does make sense if you think about it.

Although, as has been mentioned, if you have a perfectly good primary key as a candidate key, why not use that?

How to keep form values after post

If you are looking to just repopulate the fields with the values that were posted in them, then just echo the post value back into the field, like so:

<input type="text" name="myField1" value="<?php echo isset($_POST['myField1']) ? $_POST['myField1'] : '' ?>" />

Adding Python Path on Windows 7

Working with Windows environment variables is always a horrible experience. Recently, I found an amazing tool called Rapid Environment Editor, which gives an awesomely simple GUI for managing them.

If you use chocolatey, you can install it using choco install rapidee. Otherwise, take a look at http://www.rapidee.com/en/download

Re-reading this, it sounds like a paid shill, but I swear I'm not! It's just been one of the most useful utilities in my toolkit for a while and I'm surprised no one seems to know about it.

Select folder dialog WPF

MVVM + WinForms FolderBrowserDialog as behavior

public class FolderDialogBehavior : Behavior<Button>
{
    public string SetterName { get; set; }

    protected override void OnAttached()
    {
        base.OnAttached();
        AssociatedObject.Click += OnClick;
    }

    protected override void OnDetaching()
    {
        AssociatedObject.Click -= OnClick;
    }

    private void OnClick(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        var dialog = new FolderBrowserDialog();
        var result = dialog.ShowDialog();
        if (result == DialogResult.OK && AssociatedObject.DataContext != null)
        {
            var propertyInfo = AssociatedObject.DataContext.GetType().GetProperties(BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.Public)
            .Where(p => p.CanRead && p.CanWrite)
            .Where(p => p.Name.Equals(SetterName))
            .First();

            propertyInfo.SetValue(AssociatedObject.DataContext, dialog.SelectedPath, null);
        }
    }
}

Usage

     <Button Grid.Column="3" Content="...">
            <Interactivity:Interaction.Behaviors>
                <Behavior:FolderDialogBehavior SetterName="SomeFolderPathPropertyName"/>
            </Interactivity:Interaction.Behaviors>
     </Button>

Blogpost: http://kostylizm.blogspot.ru/2014/03/wpf-mvvm-and-winforms-folder-dialog-how.html