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The input is not a valid Base-64 string as it contains a non-base 64 character

As Alex Filipovici mentioned the issue was a wrong encoding. The file I read in was UTF-8-BOM and threw the above error on Convert.FromBase64String(). Changing to UTF-8 did work without problems.

How to determine if a number is odd in JavaScript

How about this...

    var num = 3 //instead get your value here
    var aa = ["Even", "Odd"];

    alert(aa[num % 2]);

adb remount permission denied, but able to access super user in shell -- android

Some newer builds require the following additional adb commands to be run first

adb root
adb disable-verity
adb reboot

Then

adb root
adb remount

Android: set view style programmatically

Update: At the time of answering this question (mid 2012, API level 14-15), setting the view programmatically was not an option (even though there were some non-trivial workarounds) whereas this has been made possible after the more recent API releases. See @Blundell's answer for details.

OLD Answer:

You cannot set a view's style programmatically yet, but you may find this thread useful.

Parse json string to find and element (key / value)

Use a JSON parser, like JSON.NET

string json = "{ \"Atlantic/Canary\": \"GMT Standard Time\", \"Europe/Lisbon\": \"GMT Standard Time\", \"Antarctica/Mawson\": \"West Asia Standard Time\", \"Etc/GMT+3\": \"SA Eastern Standard Time\", \"Etc/GMT+2\": \"UTC-02\", \"Etc/GMT+1\": \"Cape Verde Standard Time\", \"Etc/GMT+7\": \"US Mountain Standard Time\", \"Etc/GMT+6\": \"Central America Standard Time\", \"Etc/GMT+5\": \"SA Pacific Standard Time\", \"Etc/GMT+4\": \"SA Western Standard Time\", \"Pacific/Wallis\": \"UTC+12\", \"Europe/Skopje\": \"Central European Standard Time\", \"America/Coral_Harbour\": \"SA Pacific Standard Time\", \"Asia/Dhaka\": \"Bangladesh Standard Time\", \"America/St_Lucia\": \"SA Western Standard Time\", \"Asia/Kashgar\": \"China Standard Time\", \"America/Phoenix\": \"US Mountain Standard Time\", \"Asia/Kuwait\": \"Arab Standard Time\" }";
var data = (JObject)JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(json);
string timeZone = data["Atlantic/Canary"].Value<string>();

How to add button tint programmatically

Have you tried something like this?

button.setBackgroundTintList(getResources().getColorStateList(R.id.blue_100));

note that getResources() will only work in an activity. But it can be called on every context too.

Sending POST data in Android

You can use the following to send an HTTP-POST request to a URL and receive the response. I always use this:

try {
    AsyncHttpClient client = new AsyncHttpClient();
    // Http Request Params Object
    RequestParams params = new RequestParams();
    String u = "B2mGaME";
    String au = "gamewrapperB2M";
    // String mob = "880xxxxxxxxxx";
    params.put("usr", u.toString());
    params.put("aut", au.toString());
    params.put("uph", MobileNo.toString());
    //  params.put("uph", mob.toString());
    client.post("http://196.6.13.01:88/ws/game_wrapper_reg_check.php", params, new AsyncHttpResponseHandler() {
        @Override
        public void onSuccess(String response) {
            playStatus = response;
            //////Get your Response/////
            Log.i(getClass().getSimpleName(), "Response SP Status. " + playStatus);
        }
        @Override
        public void onFailure(Throwable throwable) {
            super.onFailure(throwable);
        }
    });
} catch (Exception e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

You Also need to Add bellow Jar file in libs folder

android-async-http-1.3.1.jar

Finally, I have edit your build.gradle:

dependencies {
    compile files('libs/<android-async-http-1.3.1.jar>')
}

In the last Rebuild your project.

NoClassDefFoundError for code in an Java library on Android

In my case, I was trying to add a normal java class (from a normal java project) compiled with jre 1.7 to an android app project compiled with jre 1.7.

The solution was to recompile that normal java class with jre 1.6 and add references to the android app project (compiled with jre 1.6 also) as usual (in tab order and export be sure to check the class, project, etc).

The same process, when using an android library to reference external normal java classes.

Don't know what's wrong with jre 1.7, when compiling normal java classes from a normal java project and try to reference them in android app or android library projects.

If you don't use normal java classes (from a normal java project) you don't need to downgrade to jre 1.6.

Wrap a text within only two lines inside div

CSS only

    line-height: 1.5;
    white-space: normal;
    overflow: hidden;
    text-overflow: ellipsis;
    display: -webkit-box;
    -webkit-line-clamp: 2;
    -webkit-box-orient: vertical;

Why use #ifndef CLASS_H and #define CLASS_H in .h file but not in .cpp?

The CLASS_H is an include guard; it's used to avoid the same header file being included multiple times (via different routes) within the same CPP file (or, more accurately, the same translation unit), which would lead to multiple-definition errors.

Include guards aren't needed on CPP files because, by definition, the contents of the CPP file are only read once.

You seem to have interpreted the include guards as having the same function as import statements in other languages (such as Java); that's not the case, however. The #include itself is roughly equivalent to the import in other languages.

adding child nodes in treeview

It's not that bad, but you forgot to call treeView2.EndUpdate() in your addParentNode_Click() method.
You can also call treeView2.ExpandAll() at the end of your addChildNode_Click() method to see your child node directly.

private void addParentNode_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) {
  treeView2.BeginUpdate();
  //treeView2.Nodes.Clear();
  string yourParentNode;
  yourParentNode = textBox1.Text.Trim();
  treeView2.Nodes.Add(yourParentNode);
  treeView2.EndUpdate();
}

private void addChildNode_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) {
  if (treeView2.SelectedNode != null) {
    string yourChildNode;
    yourChildNode = textBox1.Text.Trim();
    treeView2.SelectedNode.Nodes.Add(yourChildNode);
    treeView2.ExpandAll();
  }
}

I don't know if it was a mistake or not but there was 2 TreeViews. I changed it to only 1 TreeView...

EDIT: Answer to the additional question:
You can declare the variable holding the child node name outside of the if clause:

private void addChildNode_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) {
  var childNode = textBox1.Text.Trim();
  if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(childNode)) {
    TreeNode parentNode = treeView2.SelectedNode ?? treeView2.Nodes[0];
    if (parentNode != null) {
      parentNode.Nodes.Add(childNode);
      treeView2.ExpandAll();
    }
  }
}

Note: see http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/csharp/csharp2/nullable.html for info about the ?? operator.

How to round to 2 decimals with Python?

Not sure why, but '{:0.2f}'.format(0.5357706) gives me '0.54'. The only solution that works for me (python 3.6) is the following:

def ceil_floor(x):
    import math
    return math.ceil(x) if x < 0 else math.floor(x)

def round_n_digits(x, n):
    import math
    return ceil_floor(x * math.pow(10, n)) / math.pow(10, n)

round_n_digits(-0.5357706, 2) -> -0.53 
round_n_digits(0.5357706, 2) -> 0.53

Extract time from moment js object

If you read the docs (http://momentjs.com/docs/#/displaying/) you can find this format:

moment("2015-01-16T12:00:00").format("hh:mm:ss a")

See JS Fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/Bjolja/6mn32xhu/

How to get input text value on click in ReactJS

First of all, you can't pass to alert second argument, use concatenation instead

alert("Input is " + inputValue);

Example

However in order to get values from input better to use states like this

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  getInitialState: function () {_x000D_
    return { input: '' };_x000D_
  },_x000D_
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  handleChange: function(e) {_x000D_
    this.setState({ input: e.target.value });_x000D_
  },_x000D_
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  handleClick: function() {_x000D_
    console.log(this.state.input);_x000D_
  },_x000D_
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  render: function() {_x000D_
    return (_x000D_
      <div>_x000D_
        <input type="text" onChange={ this.handleChange } />_x000D_
        <input_x000D_
          type="button"_x000D_
          value="Alert the text input"_x000D_
          onClick={this.handleClick}_x000D_
        />_x000D_
      </div>_x000D_
    );_x000D_
  }_x000D_
});_x000D_
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ReactDOM.render(_x000D_
  <MyComponent />,_x000D_
  document.getElementById('container')_x000D_
);
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<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/15.1.0/react.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/15.1.0/react-dom.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<div id="container"></div>
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Regex: match everything but specific pattern

Just match /^index\.php/ then reject whatever matches it.

List comprehension vs map

Here is one possible case:

map(lambda op1,op2: op1*op2, list1, list2)

versus:

[op1*op2 for op1,op2 in zip(list1,list2)]

I am guessing the zip() is an unfortunate and unnecessary overhead you need to indulge in if you insist on using list comprehensions instead of the map. Would be great if someone clarifies this whether affirmatively or negatively.

What is REST call and how to send a REST call?

REST is just a software architecture style for exposing resources.

  • Use HTTP methods explicitly.
  • Be stateless.
  • Expose directory structure-like URIs.
  • Transfer XML, JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), or both.

A typical REST call to return information about customer 34456 could look like:

http://example.com/customer/34456

Have a look at the IBM tutorial for REST web services

Effect of using sys.path.insert(0, path) and sys.path(append) when loading modules

Because python checks in the directories in sequential order starting at the first directory in sys.path list, till it find the .py file it was looking for.

Ideally, the current directory or the directory of the script is the first always the first element in the list, unless you modify it, like you did. From documentation -

As initialized upon program startup, the first item of this list, path[0], is the directory containing the script that was used to invoke the Python interpreter. If the script directory is not available (e.g. if the interpreter is invoked interactively or if the script is read from standard input), path[0] is the empty string, which directs Python to search modules in the current directory first. Notice that the script directory is inserted before the entries inserted as a result of PYTHONPATH.

So, most probably, you had a .py file with the same name as the module you were trying to import from, in the current directory (where the script was being run from).

Also, a thing to note about ImportErrors , lets say the import error says - ImportError: No module named main - it doesn't mean the main.py is overwritten, no if that was overwritten we would not be having issues trying to read it. Its some module above this that got overwritten with a .py or some other file.

Example -

My directory structure looks like -

 - test
    - shared
         - __init__.py
         - phtest.py
  - testmain.py

Now From testmain.py , I call from shared import phtest , it works fine.

Now lets say I introduce a shared.py in test directory` , example -

 - test
    - shared
         - __init__.py
         - phtest.py
  - testmain.py 
  - shared.py

Now when I try to do from shared import phtest from testmain.py , I will get the error -

ImportError: cannot import name 'phtest'

As you can see above, the file that is causing the issue is shared.py , not phtest.py .

Get sum of MySQL column in PHP

You can completely handle it in the MySQL query:

SELECT SUM(column_name) FROM table_name;

Using PDO (mysql_query is deprecated)

$stmt = $handler->prepare('SELECT SUM(value) AS value_sum FROM codes');
$stmt->execute();

$row = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
$sum = $row['value_sum'];

Or using mysqli:

$result = mysqli_query($conn, 'SELECT SUM(value) AS value_sum FROM codes'); 
$row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result); 
$sum = $row['value_sum'];

Textarea Auto height

This using Pure JavaScript Code.

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function auto_grow(element) {_x000D_
    element.style.height = "5px";_x000D_
    element.style.height = (element.scrollHeight)+"px";_x000D_
}
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textarea {_x000D_
    resize: none;_x000D_
    overflow: hidden;_x000D_
    min-height: 50px;_x000D_
    max-height: 100px;_x000D_
}
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<textarea oninput="auto_grow(this)"></textarea>
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How can I dismiss the on screen keyboard?

To dismiss the keyboard (1.7.8+hotfix.2 and above) just call the method below:

FocusScope.of(context).unfocus();

Once the FocusScope.of(context).unfocus() method already check if there is focus before dismiss the keyboard it's not needed to check it. But in case you need it just call another context method: FocusScope.of(context).hasPrimaryFocus

How to style dt and dd so they are on the same line?

Here is one possible flex-based solution (SCSS):

dl {
  display: flex;
  flex-wrap: wrap;
  width: 100%;
  dt {
    width: 150px;
  }
  dd {
    margin: 0;
    flex: 1 0 calc(100% - 150px);
  }
}

that works for the following HTML (pug)

dl
  dt item 1
  dd desc 1
  dt item 2
  dd desc 2

How do I escape a single quote ( ' ) in JavaScript?

You should always consider what the browser will see by the end. In this case, it will see this:

<img src='something' onmouseover='change(' ex1')' />

In other words, the "onmouseover" attribute is just change(, and there's another "attribute" called ex1')' with no value.

The truth is, HTML does not use \ for an escape character. But it does recognise &quot; and &apos; as escaped quote and apostrophe, respectively.

Armed with this knowledge, use this:

document.getElementById("something").innerHTML = "<img src='something' onmouseover='change(&quot;ex1&quot;)' />";

... That being said, you could just use JavaScript quotes:

document.getElementById("something").innerHTML = "<img src='something' onmouseover='change(\"ex1\")' />";

VBA procedure to import csv file into access

The easiest way to do it is to link the CSV-file into the Access database as a table. Then you can work on this table as if it was an ordinary access table, for instance by creating an appropriate query based on this table that returns exactly what you want.

You can link the table either manually or with VBA like this

DoCmd.TransferText TransferType:=acLinkDelim, TableName:="tblImport", _
    FileName:="C:\MyData.csv", HasFieldNames:=true

UPDATE

Dim db As DAO.Database

' Re-link the CSV Table
Set db = CurrentDb
On Error Resume Next:   db.TableDefs.Delete "tblImport":   On Error GoTo 0
db.TableDefs.Refresh
DoCmd.TransferText TransferType:=acLinkDelim, TableName:="tblImport", _
    FileName:="C:\MyData.csv", HasFieldNames:=true
db.TableDefs.Refresh

' Perform the import
db.Execute "INSERT INTO someTable SELECT col1, col2, ... FROM tblImport " _
   & "WHERE NOT F1 IN ('A1', 'A2', 'A3')"
db.Close:   Set db = Nothing

throwing exceptions out of a destructor

Your destructor might be executing inside a chain of other destructors. Throwing an exception that is not caught by your immediate caller can leave multiple objects in an inconsistent state, thus causing even more problems then ignoring the error in the cleanup operation.

How to upload image in CodeIgniter?

It seems the problem is you send the form request to welcome/do_upload, and call the Welcome::do_upload() method in another one by $this->do_upload().

Hence when you call the $this->do_upload(); within your second method, the $_FILES array would be empty.

And that's why var_dump($data['upload_data']); returns NULL.

If you want to upload the file from welcome/second_method, send the form request to the welcome/second_method where you call $this->do_upload();.

Then change the form helper function (within the View) as follows1:

// Change the 'second_method' to your method name
echo form_open_multipart('welcome/second_method');

File Uploading with CodeIgniter

CodeIgniter has documented the Uploading process very well, by using the File Uploading library.

You could take a look at the sample code in the user guide; And also, in order to get a better understanding of the uploading configs, Check the Config items Explanation section at the end of the manual page.

Also there are couple of articles/samples about the file uploading in CodeIgniter, you might want to consider:

Just as a side-note: Make sure that you've loaded the url and form helper functions before using the CodeIgniter sample code:

// Load the helper files within the Controller
$this->load->helper('form');
$this->load->helper('url');

1. The form must be "multipart" type for file uploading. Hence you should use form_open_multipart() helper function which returns:
<form method="post" action="controller/method" enctype="multipart/form-data" />

Getting files by creation date in .NET

If the performance is an issue, you can use this command in MS_DOS:

dir /OD >d:\dir.txt

This command generate a dir.txt file in **d:** root the have all files sorted by date. And then read the file from your code. Also, you add other filters by * and ?.

Documentation for using JavaScript code inside a PDF file

The comprehensive place for Acrobat JavaScript documentation is the Acrobat SDK, which can be downloaded from the Adobe website. In the Documentation section, you will find all the material needed to work with Acrobat JavaScript.

To complete the documentation you may in addition get the specification of the JavaScript Core. My book of choice for that is "JavaScript, the Definitive Guide" by David Flanagan, published by O'Reilly.

How to decrypt a password from SQL server?

You shouldn't really be de-encrypting passwords.

You should be encrypting the password entered into your application and comparing against the encrypted password from the database.

Edit - and if this is because the password has been forgotten, then setup a mechanism to create a new password.

What is the C++ function to raise a number to a power?

While pow( base, exp ) is a great suggestion, be aware that it typically works in floating-point.

This may or may not be what you want: on some systems a simple loop multiplying on an accumulator will be faster for integer types.

And for square specifically, you might as well just multiply the numbers together yourself, floating-point or integer; it's not really a decrease in readability (IMHO) and you avoid the performance overhead of a function call.

visual c++: #include files from other projects in the same solution

#include has nothing to do with projects - it just tells the preprocessor "put the contents of the header file here". If you give it a path that points to the correct location (can be a relative path, like ../your_file.h) it will be included correctly.

You will, however, have to learn about libraries (static/dynamic libraries) in order to make such projects link properly - but that's another question.

WARNING: Setting property 'source' to 'org.eclipse.jst.jee.server:appname' did not find a matching property

You can change the eclipse tomcat server configuration. Open the server view, double click on you server to open server configuration. Then click to activate "Publish module contents to separate XML files". Finally, restart your server, the message must disappear.

Source: http://www.albeesonline.com/blog/2008/11/29/warning-setpropertiesruleserverserviceenginehostcontext-setting-property/

Spring Boot Program cannot find main class

I tried all the above solution, but didn't worked for me. Finally was able to resolve it with a simple fix.

on STS, Run Configuration > open your Spring Boot App > Open your configuration, Follow the steps,

  1. In Spring boot Tab, check your Main class and profile.
  2. Then go to classpath tab, In the bottom you will see two checkboxes,one is "Exclude Test Code"(Check this if you do not want to run test classes) and other, "Use Temporary Jar file to specify classpath" (this is necessary).

Save your configuration and run. enter image description here

Pandas dataframe get first row of each group

maybe this is what you want

import pandas as pd
idx = pd.MultiIndex.from_product([['state1','state2'],   ['county1','county2','county3','county4']])
df = pd.DataFrame({'pop': [12,15,65,42,78,67,55,31]}, index=idx)
                pop
state1 county1   12
       county2   15
       county3   65
       county4   42
state2 county1   78
       county2   67
       county3   55
       county4   31
df.groupby(level=0, group_keys=False).apply(lambda x: x.sort_values('pop', ascending=False)).groupby(level=0).head(3)

> Out[29]: 
                pop
state1 county3   65
       county4   42
       county2   15
state2 county1   78
       county2   67
       county3   55

how to set the background color of the whole page in css

I've checked your source code and find to change to yellow you need to adds the yellow background color to : #left-padding, #right-padding, html, #hd, #main and #yui-main.

Hope it's what you wanted. See ya

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PostgreSQL: export resulting data from SQL query to Excel/CSV

The correct script for postgres (Ubuntu) is:

COPY (SELECT * FROM tbl) TO '/var/lib/postgres/myfile1.csv';

dynamic_cast and static_cast in C++

static_cast< Type* >(ptr)

static_cast in C++ can be used in scenarios where all type casting can be verified at compile time.

dynamic_cast< Type* >(ptr)

dynamic_cast in C++ can be used to perform type safe down casting. dynamic_cast is run time polymorphism. The dynamic_cast operator, which safely converts from a pointer (or reference) to a base type to a pointer (or reference) to a derived type.

eg 1:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

class A
{
public:
    virtual void f(){cout << "A::f()" << endl;}
};

class B : public A
{
public:
    void f(){cout << "B::f()" << endl;}
};

int main()
{
    A a;
    B b;
    a.f();        // A::f()
    b.f();        // B::f()

    A *pA = &a;   
    B *pB = &b;   
    pA->f();      // A::f()
    pB->f();      // B::f()

    pA = &b;
    // pB = &a;      // not allowed
    pB = dynamic_cast<B*>(&a); // allowed but it returns NULL

    return 0;
}

For more information click here

eg 2:

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

class A {
public:
    virtual void print()const {cout << " A\n";}
};

class B {
public:
    virtual void print()const {cout << " B\n";}
};

class C: public A, public B {
public:
    void print()const {cout << " C\n";}
};


int main()
{

    A* a = new A;
    B* b = new B;
    C* c = new C;

    a -> print(); b -> print(); c -> print();
    b = dynamic_cast< B*>(a);  //fails
    if (b)  
       b -> print();  
    else 
       cout << "no B\n";
    a = c;
    a -> print(); //C prints
    b = dynamic_cast< B*>(a);  //succeeds
    if (b)
       b -> print();  
    else 
       cout << "no B\n";
}

html 5 audio tag width

For those looking for an inline example, here is one:

<audio controls style="width: 200px;">
   <source src="http://somewhere.mp3" type="audio/mpeg">
</audio>

It doesn't seem to respect a "height" setting, at least not awesomely. But you can always "customize" the controls but creating your own controls (instead of using the built-in ones) or using somebody's widget that similarly creates its own :)

Popup window in PHP?

if (isset($_POST['Register']))
    {
        $ErrorArrays = array (); //Empty array for input errors 

        $Input_Username = $_POST['Username'];
        $Input_Password = $_POST['Password'];
        $Input_Confirm = $_POST['ConfirmPass'];
        $Input_Email = $_POST['Email'];

        if (empty($Input_Username))
        {
            $ErrorArrays[] = "Username Is Empty";
        }
        if (empty($Input_Password))
        {
            $ErrorArrays[] = "Password Is Empty";
        }
        if ($Input_Password !== $Input_Confirm)
        {
            $ErrorArrays[] = "Passwords Do Not Match!";
        }
        if (!filter_var($Input_Email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL))
        {
            $ErrorArrays[] = "Incorrect Email Formatting";
        }

        if (count($ErrorArrays) == 0)
        {
            // No Errors
        }
        else
        {
            foreach ($ErrorArrays AS $Errors)
            {
                echo "<font color='red'><b>".$Errors."</font></b><br>";
            }
        }
    }

?>

    <form method="POST"> 
        Username: <input type='text' name='Username'> <br>
        Password: <input type='password' name='Password'><br>
        Confirm Password: <input type='password' name='ConfirmPass'><br>
        Email: <input type='text' name='Email'> <br><br>

        <input type='submit' name='Register' value='Register'>


    </form> 

This is a very basic PHP Form validation. This could be put in a try block, but for basic reference, I see this fit following our conversation in the comment box.

What this script will do, is process each of the post elements, and act accordingly, for example:

    if (!filter_var($Input_Email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL))
        {
            $ErrorArrays[] = "Incorrect Email Formatting";
        }

This will check:

if $Input_Email is not a valid email. If this is not a valid E-mail, then a message will get added to a empty array.

Further down the script, you will see:

    if (count($ErrorArrays) == 0)
    {
        // No Errors
    }
    else
    {
        foreach ($ErrorArrays AS $Errors)
        {
            echo "<font color='red'><b>".$Errors."</font></b><br>";
        }
    }

Basically. if the array count is not 0, errors have been found. Then the script will print out the errors.

Remember, this is a reference based on our conversation in the comment box, and should be used as such.

How to render an ASP.NET MVC view as a string?

you are get the view in string using this way

protected string RenderPartialViewToString(string viewName, object model)
{
    if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(viewName))
        viewName = ControllerContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("action");

    if (model != null)
        ViewData.Model = model;

    using (StringWriter sw = new StringWriter())
    {
        ViewEngineResult viewResult = ViewEngines.Engines.FindPartialView(ControllerContext, viewName);
        ViewContext viewContext = new ViewContext(ControllerContext, viewResult.View, ViewData, TempData, sw);
        viewResult.View.Render(viewContext, sw);

        return sw.GetStringBuilder().ToString();
    }
}

We are call this method in two way

string strView = RenderPartialViewToString("~/Views/Shared/_Header.cshtml", null)

OR

var model = new Person()
string strView = RenderPartialViewToString("~/Views/Shared/_Header.cshtml", model)

What does href expression <a href="javascript:;"></a> do?

It's used to write js codes inside of href instead of event listeners like onclick and avoiding # links in href to make a tags valid for HTML.

Interesting fact

I had a research on how to use javascript: inside of href attribute and got the result that I can write multiple lines in it!

<a href="
     javascript:
        a = 4;
        console.log(a++); 
        a += 2; 
        console.log(a++); 
        if(a < 6){ 
            console.log('a is lower than 6');
        } 
        else 
            console.log('a is greater than 6');
        function log(s){
            console.log(s);
        }
        log('function implementation working too');

">Click here</a>
  • Tested in chrome Version 68.0.3440.106 (Official Build) (64-bit)

  • Tested in Firefox Quantum 61.0.1 (64-bit)

Perform commands over ssh with Python

I found paramiko to be a bit too low-level, and Fabric not especially well-suited to being used as a library, so I put together my own library called spur that uses paramiko to implement a slightly nicer interface:

import spur

shell = spur.SshShell(hostname="localhost", username="bob", password="password1")
result = shell.run(["echo", "-n", "hello"])
print result.output # prints hello

If you need to run inside a shell:

shell.run(["sh", "-c", "echo -n hello"])

String comparison: InvariantCultureIgnoreCase vs OrdinalIgnoreCase?

FXCop typically prefers OrdinalIgnoreCase. But your requirements may vary.

For English there is very little difference. It is when you wander into languages that have different written language constructs that this becomes an issue. I am not experienced enough to give you more than that.

OrdinalIgnoreCase

The StringComparer returned by the OrdinalIgnoreCase property treats the characters in the strings to compare as if they were converted to uppercase using the conventions of the invariant culture, and then performs a simple byte comparison that is independent of language. This is most appropriate when comparing strings that are generated programmatically or when comparing case-insensitive resources such as paths and filenames. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.stringcomparer.ordinalignorecase.aspx

InvariantCultureIgnoreCase

The StringComparer returned by the InvariantCultureIgnoreCase property compares strings in a linguistically relevant manner that ignores case, but it is not suitable for display in any particular culture. Its major application is to order strings in a way that will be identical across cultures. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.stringcomparer.invariantcultureignorecase.aspx

The invariant culture is the CultureInfo object returned by the InvariantCulture property.

The InvariantCultureIgnoreCase property actually returns an instance of an anonymous class derived from the StringComparer class.

Error during SSL Handshake with remote server

The comment by MK pointed me in the right direction.

In the case of Apache 2.4 and up, there are different defaults and a new directive.

I am running Apache 2.4.6, and I had to add the following directives to get it working:

SSLProxyEngine on
SSLProxyVerify none 
SSLProxyCheckPeerCN off
SSLProxyCheckPeerName off
SSLProxyCheckPeerExpire off

What does enctype='multipart/form-data' mean?

The enctype attribute specifies how the form-data should be encoded when submitting it to the server.

The enctype attribute can be used only if method="post".

No characters are encoded. This value is required when you are using forms that have a file upload control

From W3Schools

How can I generate a list or array of sequential integers in Java?

This is the shortest I could find.

List version

public List<Integer> makeSequence(int begin, int end)
{
    List<Integer> ret = new ArrayList<Integer>(++end - begin);

    for (; begin < end; )
        ret.add(begin++);

    return ret;
}

Array Version

public int[] makeSequence(int begin, int end)
{
    if(end < begin)
        return null;

    int[] ret = new int[++end - begin];
    for (int i=0; begin < end; )
        ret[i++] = begin++;
    return ret;
}

Remove header and footer from window.print()

1.For Chrome & IE

<script language="javascript">
function printDiv(divName) {
var printContents = document.getElementById(divName).innerHTML;
var originalContents = document.body.innerHTML;
document.getElementById('header').style.display = 'none';
document.getElementById('footer').style.display = 'none';
document.body.innerHTML = printContents;

window.print();


document.body.innerHTML = originalContents;
}

</script>
<div id="div_print">
<div id="header" style="background-color:White;"></div>
<div id="footer" style="background-color:White;"></div>
</div>
  1. For FireFox as l2aelba said,

Add moznomarginboxes attribute in Example :

<html moznomarginboxes mozdisallowselectionprint>

How to automatically import data from uploaded CSV or XLS file into Google Sheets

(Mar 2017) The accepted answer is not the best solution. It relies on manual translation using Apps Script, and the code may not be resilient, requiring maintenance. If your legacy system autogenerates CSV files, it's best they go into another folder for temporary processing (importing [uploading to Google Drive & converting] to Google Sheets files).

My thought is to let the Drive API do all the heavy-lifting. The Google Drive API team released v3 at the end of 2015, and in that release, insert() changed names to create() so as to better reflect the file operation. There's also no more convert flag -- you just specify MIMEtypes... imagine that!

The documentation has also been improved: there's now a special guide devoted to uploads (simple, multipart, and resumable) that comes with sample code in Java, Python, PHP, C#/.NET, Ruby, JavaScript/Node.js, and iOS/Obj-C that imports CSV files into Google Sheets format as desired.

Below is one alternate Python solution for short files ("simple upload") where you don't need the apiclient.http.MediaFileUpload class. This snippet assumes your auth code works where your service endpoint is DRIVE with a minimum auth scope of https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file.

# filenames & MIMEtypes
DST_FILENAME = 'inventory'
SRC_FILENAME = DST_FILENAME + '.csv'
SHT_MIMETYPE = 'application/vnd.google-apps.spreadsheet'
CSV_MIMETYPE = 'text/csv'

# Import CSV file to Google Drive as a Google Sheets file
METADATA = {'name': DST_FILENAME, 'mimeType': SHT_MIMETYPE}
rsp = DRIVE.files().create(body=METADATA, media_body=SRC_FILENAME).execute()
if rsp:
    print('Imported %r to %r (as %s)' % (SRC_FILENAME, DST_FILENAME, rsp['mimeType']))

Better yet, rather than uploading to My Drive, you'd upload to one (or more) specific folder(s), meaning you'd add the parent folder ID(s) to METADATA. (Also see the code sample on this page.) Finally, there's no native .gsheet "file" -- that file just has a link to the online Sheet, so what's above is what you want to do.

If not using Python, you can use the snippet above as pseudocode to port to your system language. Regardless, there's much less code to maintain because there's no CSV parsing. The only thing remaining is to blow away the CSV file temp folder your legacy system wrote to.

Change MySQL root password in phpMyAdmin

you can use this command

 mysql> UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('Your new Password') WHERE User='root';

check the links http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?279644-How-to-reset-password-in-WAMP-server http://www.phpmytutor.com/blogs/2012/08/27/change-mysql-root-password-in-wamp-server/

Find your config.inc.php file under the phpMyAdmin installation directory and update the line that looks like
this:

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password']      = 'password';

... to this:

 $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password']      = 'newpassword';

Enabling the OpenSSL in XAMPP

Yes, you must open php.ini and remove the semicolon to:

;extension=php_openssl.dll

If you don't have that line, check that you have the file (In my PC is on D:\xampp\php\ext) and add this to php.ini in the "Dynamic Extensions" section:

extension=php_openssl.dll

Things have changed for PHP > 7. This is what i had to do for PHP 7.2.

Step: 1: Uncomment extension=openssl

Step: 2: Uncomment extension_dir = "ext"

Step: 3: Restart xampp.

Done.

Explanation: ( From php.ini )

If you wish to have an extension loaded automatically, use the following syntax:

extension=modulename

Note : The syntax used in previous PHP versions (extension=<ext>.so and extension='php_<ext>.dll) is supported for legacy reasons and may be deprecated in a future PHP major version. So, when it is possible, please move to the new (extension=<ext>) syntax.

Special Note: Be sure to appropriately set the extension_dir directive.

Select folder dialog WPF

Add The Windows API Code Pack-Shell to your project

using Microsoft.WindowsAPICodePack.Dialogs;

...

var dialog = new CommonOpenFileDialog();
dialog.IsFolderPicker = true;
CommonFileDialogResult result = dialog.ShowDialog();

How to make a SIMPLE C++ Makefile

You had two options.

Option 1: simplest makefile = NO MAKEFILE.

Rename "a3driver.cpp" to "a3a.cpp", and then on the command line write:

nmake a3a.exe

And that's it. If you're using GNU Make, use "make" or "gmake" or whatever.

Option 2: a 2-line makefile.

a3a.exe: a3driver.obj
    link /out:a3a.exe a3driver.obj

How to know if a DateTime is between a DateRange in C#

I’ve found the following library to be the most helpful when doing any kind of date math. I’m still amazed nothing like this is part of the .Net framework.

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/168662/Time-Period-Library-for-NET

How can I open a popup window with a fixed size using the HREF tag?

This should work

<a href="javascript:window.open('document.aspx','mywindowtitle','width=500,height=150')">open window</a>

Create space at the beginning of a UITextField

ScareCrow's answer in Swift 3

let padding = UIEdgeInsets(top: 0, left: 5, bottom: 0, right: 5);

override func textRect(forBounds bounds: CGRect) -> CGRect {
    return UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect(bounds, padding)
}

override func placeholderRect(forBounds bounds: CGRect) -> CGRect {
    return UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect(bounds, padding)
}

override func editingRect(forBounds bounds: CGRect) -> CGRect {
    return UIEdgeInsetsInsetRect(bounds, padding)
}

How can I download HTML source in C#

You can get it with:

var html = new System.Net.WebClient().DownloadString(siteUrl)

How can I hide select options with JavaScript? (Cross browser)

As has been said, you can't display:none individual <option>s, because they're not the right kind of DOM elements.

You can set .prop('disabled', true), but this only grays out the elements and makes them unselectable -- they still take up space.

One solution I use is to .detach() the <select> into a global variable on page load, then add back only the <option>s you want on demand. Something like this (http://jsfiddle.net/mblase75/Afe2E/):

var $sel = $('#sel option').detach(); // global variable

$('a').on('click', function (e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    var c = 'name-of-class-to-show';
    $('#sel').empty().append( $sel.filter('.'+c) );
});

At first I thought you'd have to .clone() the <option>s before appending them, but apparently not. The original global $sel is unaltered after the click code is run.


If you have an aversion to global variables, you could store the jQuery object containing the options as a .data() variable on the <select> element itself (http://jsfiddle.net/mblase75/nh5eW/):

$('#sel').data('options', $('#sel option').detach()); // data variable

$('a').on('click', function (e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    var $sel = $('#sel').data('options'), // jQuery object
        c = 'name-of-class-to-show';
    $('#sel').empty().append( $sel.filter('.'+c) );
});

How to write text in ipython notebook?

Adding to Matt's answer above (as I don't have comment privileges yet), one mouse-free workflow would be:

Esc then m then Enter so that you gain focus again and can start typing.

Without the last Enter you would still be in Escape mode and would otherwise have to use your mouse to activate text input in the cell.

Another way would be to add a new cell, type out your markdown in "Code" mode and then change to markdown once you're done typing everything you need, thus obviating the need to refocus.

You can then move on to your next cells. :)

How I could add dir to $PATH in Makefile?

By design make parser executes lines in a separate shell invocations, that's why changing variable (e.g. PATH) in one line, the change may not be applied for the next lines (see this post).

One way to workaround this problem, is to convert multiple commands into a single line (separated by ;), or use One Shell special target (.ONESHELL, as of GNU Make 3.82).

Alternatively you can provide PATH variable at the time when shell is invoked. For example:

PATH  := $(PATH):$(PWD)/bin:/my/other/path
SHELL := env PATH=$(PATH) /bin/bash

SQL- Ignore case while searching for a string

See this similar question and answer to searching with case insensitivity - SQL server ignore case in a where expression

Try using something like:

SELECT DISTINCT COL_NAME 
FROM myTable 
WHERE COL_NAME COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS LIKE '%priceorder%'

"The page has expired due to inactivity" - Laravel 5.5

Solution:

use incognito new tab then test it again.

reason:

in my case another user logged in with my admin panel

H.264 file size for 1 hr of HD video

If you know the bitrate, it's simply bitrate (bits per second) multiplied by number of seconds. Given that HDV is 25 Mbit/s and one hour has 3,600 seconds, non-transcoded it would be:

25 Mbit/s * 3,600 s/hr  =  3.125 MB/s * 3,600 s/hr  =  11,250 MB/hr  ˜  11 GB/hr

Google's calculator can confirm

The same applies with H.264 footage, although the above might not be as accurate (being variable bitrate and such).

I want to archive approximately 100 hours of such content and want to figure out whether I'm looking at a big hard drive, a multi-drive unit like a Drobo, or an enterprise-level storage system.

First, do not buy an "enterprise-level" storage system (you almost certainly don't need things like hot-swap drives and the same level of support - given the costs)..

I would suggest buying two big drives: One would be your main drive, another in a USB enclosure, and would be connected daily and mirror the primary system (as a backup).

Drives are incredibly cheap, using the above calculation of ~11 GB/hour, that's only 1.1 TB of data (for 100 hours, uncompressed). and you can buy 2 TB drives now.

Drobo, or a machine with a few drives and software RAID is an option, but a single large drive plus backups would be simpler.

Storage is almost a non-issue now, but encode time can still be an issue. Encoding H.264 is very resource-intensive. On a quad-core ~2.5 GHz Xeon, I think I got around 60 fps encoding standard-def (DVD) to H.264 (compared to around 300 fps with MPEG 4). I suppose that's only about 50 hours, but it's something worth considering. Also, assuming the HDV is on tapes, it's a 1:1 capture time, so that's 150 hours of straight processing, never mind things like changing tapes, entering metadata, and general delays (sleep) and errors ("opps, wrong tape").

How do I get the localhost name in PowerShell?

An analogue of the bat file code in Powershell

Cmd

wmic path Win32_ComputerSystem get Name

Powershell

Get-WMIObject Win32_ComputerSystem | Select-Object -ExpandProperty name

and ...

hostname.exe

How to get char from string by index?

Python.org has an excellent section on strings here. Scroll down to where it says "slice notation".

How would I stop a while loop after n amount of time?

You do not need to use the while True: loop in this case. There is a much simpler way to use the time condition directly:

import time

# timeout variable can be omitted, if you use specific value in the while condition
timeout = 300   # [seconds]

timeout_start = time.time()

while time.time() < timeout_start + timeout:
    test = 0
    if test == 5:
        break
    test -= 1

ConcurrentModificationException for ArrayList

I like a reverse order for loop such as:

int size = list.size();
for (int i = size - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
    if(remove){
        list.remove(i);
    }
}

because it doesn't require learning any new data structures or classes.

How to add additional libraries to Visual Studio project?

This description is very vague. What did you try, and how did it fail.

To include a library with your project, you have to include it in the modules passed to the linker. The exact steps to do this depend on the tools you are using. That part has nothing to do with the OS.

Now, if you are successfully compiling the library into your app and it doesn't run, that COULD be related to the OS.

What's the difference between a proxy server and a reverse proxy server?

A pair of simple definitions would be:

Forward Proxy: Acting on behalf of a requestor (or service consumer)

Reverse Proxy: Acting on behalf of service/content producer.

How can I align the columns of tables in Bash?

printf is great, but people forget about it.

$ for num in 1 10 100 1000 10000 100000 1000000; do printf "%10s %s\n" $num "foobar"; done
         1 foobar
        10 foobar
       100 foobar
      1000 foobar
     10000 foobar
    100000 foobar
   1000000 foobar

$ for((i=0;i<array_size;i++));
do
    printf "%10s %10d %10s" stringarray[$i] numberarray[$i] anotherfieldarray[%i]
done

Notice I used %10s for strings. %s is the important part. It tells it to use a string. The 10 in the middle says how many columns it is to be. %d is for numerics (digits).

man 1 printf for more info.

No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource - Resteasy

Your resource methods won't get hit, so their headers will never get set. The reason is that there is what's called a preflight request before the actual request, which is an OPTIONS request. So the error comes from the fact that the preflight request doesn't produce the necessary headers.

For RESTeasy, you should use CorsFilter. You can see here for some example how to configure it. This filter will handle the preflight request. So you can remove all those headers you have in your resource methods.

See Also:

Unable to generate an explicit migration in entity framework

There is an ambiguity and so error. Best way is to exclude the current migration file and create new migration(add-migration) file and then copy the content of new migration to excluded file and include it again and run update-database command.

Getting 404 Not Found error while trying to use ErrorDocument

The ErrorDocument directive, when supplied a local URL path, expects the path to be fully qualified from the DocumentRoot. In your case, this means that the actual path to the ErrorDocument is

ErrorDocument 404 /hellothere/error/404page.html

Twitter bootstrap scrollable modal

/* Important part */
.modal-dialog{
    overflow-y: initial !important
}
.modal-body{
    max-height: calc(100vh - 200px);
    overflow-y: auto;
}

This works for Bootstrap 3 without JS code and is responsive.

Source

Entity Framework - "An error occurred while updating the entries. See the inner exception for details"

My problem was that the Id of the table is not AUTO_INCREMENT and I was trying to add range.

How do I escape double and single quotes in sed?

Regarding the single quote, see the code below used to replace the string let's with let us:

command:

echo "hello, let's go"|sed 's/let'"'"'s/let us/g'

result:

hello, let us go

define a List like List<int,string>?

Since your example uses a generic List, I assume you don't need an index or unique constraint on your data. A List may contain duplicate values. If you want to insure a unique key, consider using a Dictionary<TKey, TValue>().

var list = new List<Tuple<int,string>>();

list.Add(Tuple.Create(1, "Andy"));
list.Add(Tuple.Create(1, "John"));
list.Add(Tuple.Create(3, "Sally"));

foreach (var item in list)
{
    Console.WriteLine(item.Item1.ToString());
    Console.WriteLine(item.Item2);
}

Recover unsaved SQL query scripts

You may be able to find them in one of these locations (depending on the version of Windows you are using).

Windows XP

C:\Documents and Settings\YourUsername\My Documents\SQL Server Management Studio\Backup Files\

Windows Vista/7/10

%USERPROFILE%\Documents\SQL Server Management Studio\Backup Files

OR

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp

Googled from this source and this source.

Android, How to create option Menu

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    new MenuInflater(this).inflate(R.menu.folderview_options, menu);
    return (super.onCreateOptionsMenu(menu));
}

@Override
public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {

    if (item.getItemId() == R.id.locationListRefreshLocations) {
        Cursor temp = helper.getEmployee(active_employeeId);
        String[] matches = new String[1];
        if (temp.moveToFirst()) {
            matches[0] = helper.getEmployerID(temp);
        }
        temp.close();               
        startRosterReceiveBackgroundTask(matches);
    } else if (item.getItemId()==R.id.locationListPrefs) {
        startActivity(new Intent(this, PreferencesUnlockScreen.class));
        return true;
    }           
    return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
}   

"No such file or directory" but it exists

I had the same problem with a file that I've created on my mac. If I try to run it in a shell with ./filename I got the file not found error message. I think that something was wrong with the file.

what I've done:

open a ssh session to the server
cat filename
copy the output to the clipboard
rm filename
touch filename
vi filename
i for insert mode
paste the content from the clipboard
ESC to end insert mode
:wq!

This worked for me.

Do checkbox inputs only post data if they're checked?

If checkbox isn't checked then it doesn't contribute to the data sent on form submission.

HTML5 section 4.10.22.4 Constructing the form data set describes the way form data is constructed:

If any of the following conditions are met, then skip these substeps for this element: [...]

The field element is an input element whose type attribute is in the Checkbox state and whose checkedness is false.

and then the default valued on is specified if value is missing:

Otherwise, if the field element is an input element whose type attribute is in the Checkbox state or the Radio Button state, then run these further nested substeps:

If the field element has a value attribute specified, then let value be the value of that attribute; otherwise, let value be the string "on".

Thus unchecked checkboxes are skipped during form data construction.

Similar behavior is required under HTML4. It's reasonable to expect this behavior from all compliant browsers.

'foo' was not declared in this scope c++

In C++, your source files are usually parsed from top to bottom in a single pass, so any variable or function must be declared before they can be used. There are some exceptions to this, like when defining functions inline in a class definition, but that's not the case for your code.

Either move the definition of integrate above the one for getSkewNormal, or add a forward declaration above getSkewNormal:

double integrate (double start, double stop, int numSteps, Evaluatable evalObj);

The same applies for sum.

Microsoft.WebApplication.targets was not found, on the build server. What's your solution?

I fixed this by adding
/p:VCTargetsPath="C:\Program Files\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V120"

into
Build > Build a Visual Studio project or solution using MSBuild > Command Line Arguments

"This project is incompatible with the current version of Visual Studio"

In my case it was an incompatible Project Type. Editing project file and removing ProjectTypeGuids node resolved the issue of loading the project (I had already re-targeted the framework version as advised here).

Probably the project type is not supported in the (most likely) NEW version of VS, so you will have to adjust (update) the code to work properly (if possible), but at least you can see the content through VS.

C/C++ switch case with string

Just use a if() { } else if () { } chain. Using a hash value is going to be a maintenance nightmare. switch is intended to be a low-level statement which would not be appropriate for string comparisons.

How do I turn a C# object into a JSON string in .NET?

Serializer

 public static void WriteToJsonFile<T>(string filePath, T objectToWrite, bool append = false) where T : new()
{
        var contentsToWriteToFile = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(objectToWrite, new JsonSerializerSettings
        {
            Formatting = Formatting.Indented,
        });
        using (var writer = new StreamWriter(filePath, append))
        {
            writer.Write(contentsToWriteToFile);
        }
}

Object

namespace MyConfig
{
    public class AppConfigurationSettings
    {
        public AppConfigurationSettings()
        {
            /* initialize the object if you want to output a new document
             * for use as a template or default settings possibly when 
             * an app is started.
             */
            if (AppSettings == null) { AppSettings=new AppSettings();}
        }

        public AppSettings AppSettings { get; set; }
    }

    public class AppSettings
    {
        public bool DebugMode { get; set; } = false;
    }
}

Implementation

var jsonObject = new AppConfigurationSettings();
WriteToJsonFile<AppConfigurationSettings>(file.FullName, jsonObject);

Output

{
  "AppSettings": {
    "DebugMode": false
  }
}

Push eclipse project to GitHub with EGit

I have the same issue and solved it by reading this post, while solving it, I hitted a problem: auth failed.

And I finally solved it by using a ssh key way to authorize myself. I found the EGit offical guide very useful and I configured the ssh way successfully by refer to the Eclipse SSH Configuration section in the link provided.

Hope it helps.

How to run a shell script on a Unix console or Mac terminal?

To run a non-executable sh script, use:

sh myscript

To run a non-executable bash script, use:

bash myscript

To start an executable (which is any file with executable permission); you just specify it by its path:

/foo/bar
/bin/bar
./bar

To make a script executable, give it the necessary permission:

chmod +x bar
./bar

When a file is executable, the kernel is responsible for figuring out how to execte it. For non-binaries, this is done by looking at the first line of the file. It should contain a hashbang:

#! /usr/bin/env bash

The hashbang tells the kernel what program to run (in this case the command /usr/bin/env is ran with the argument bash). Then, the script is passed to the program (as second argument) along with all the arguments you gave the script as subsequent arguments.

That means every script that is executable should have a hashbang. If it doesn't, you're not telling the kernel what it is, and therefore the kernel doesn't know what program to use to interprete it. It could be bash, perl, python, sh, or something else. (In reality, the kernel will often use the user's default shell to interprete the file, which is very dangerous because it might not be the right interpreter at all or it might be able to parse some of it but with subtle behavioural differences such as is the case between sh and bash).

A note on /usr/bin/env

Most commonly, you'll see hash bangs like so:

#!/bin/bash

The result is that the kernel will run the program /bin/bash to interpret the script. Unfortunately, bash is not always shipped by default, and it is not always available in /bin. While on Linux machines it usually is, there are a range of other POSIX machines where bash ships in various locations, such as /usr/xpg/bin/bash or /usr/local/bin/bash.

To write a portable bash script, we can therefore not rely on hard-coding the location of the bash program. POSIX already has a mechanism for dealing with that: PATH. The idea is that you install your programs in one of the directories that are in PATH and the system should be able to find your program when you want to run it by name.

Sadly, you cannot just do this:

#!bash

The kernel won't (some might) do a PATH search for you. There is a program that can do a PATH search for you, though, it's called env. Luckily, nearly all systems have an env program installed in /usr/bin. So we start env using a hardcoded path, which then does a PATH search for bash and runs it so that it can interpret your script:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

This approach has one downside: According to POSIX, the hashbang can have one argument. In this case, we use bash as the argument to the env program. That means we have no space left to pass arguments to bash. So there's no way to convert something like #!/bin/bash -exu to this scheme. You'll have to put set -exu after the hashbang instead.

This approach also has another advantage: Some systems may ship with a /bin/bash, but the user may not like it, may find it's buggy or outdated, and may have installed his own bash somewhere else. This is often the case on OS X (Macs) where Apple ships an outdated /bin/bash and users install an up-to-date /usr/local/bin/bash using something like Homebrew. When you use the env approach which does a PATH search, you take the user's preference into account and use his preferred bash over the one his system shipped with.

How to get your Netbeans project into Eclipse

  1. Make sure you have sbt and run sbt eclipse from the project root directory.
  2. In eclipse, use File --> Import --> General --> Existing Projects into Workspace, selecting that same location, so that eclipse builds its project structure for the file structure having just been prepared by sbt.

How do I fetch only one branch of a remote Git repository?

For the sake of completeness, here is an example command for a fresh checkout:

git clone --branch gh-pages --single-branch git://github.com/user/repo

As mentioned in other answers, it sets remote.origin.fetch like this:

[remote "origin"]
        url = git://github.com/user/repo
        fetch = +refs/heads/gh-pages:refs/remotes/origin/gh-pages

How to create timer events using C++ 11?

This is the code I have so far:

I am using VC++ 2012 (no variadic templates)

//header
#include <thread>
#include <mutex>
#include <condition_variable>
#include <vector>
#include <chrono>
#include <memory>
#include <algorithm>

template<class T>
class TimerThread
{
  typedef std::chrono::high_resolution_clock clock_t;

  struct TimerInfo
  {
    clock_t::time_point m_TimePoint;
    T m_User;

    template <class TArg1>
    TimerInfo(clock_t::time_point tp, TArg1 && arg1)
      : m_TimePoint(tp)
      , m_User(std::forward<TArg1>(arg1))
    {
    }

    template <class TArg1, class TArg2>
    TimerInfo(clock_t::time_point tp, TArg1 && arg1, TArg2 && arg2)
      : m_TimePoint(tp)
      , m_User(std::forward<TArg1>(arg1), std::forward<TArg2>(arg2))
    {
    }
  };

  std::unique_ptr<std::thread> m_Thread;
  std::vector<TimerInfo>       m_Timers;
  std::mutex                   m_Mutex;
  std::condition_variable      m_Condition;
  bool                         m_Sort;
  bool                         m_Stop;

  void TimerLoop()
  {
    for (;;)
    {
      std::unique_lock<std::mutex>  lock(m_Mutex);

      while (!m_Stop && m_Timers.empty())
      {
        m_Condition.wait(lock);
      }

      if (m_Stop)
      {
        return;
      }

      if (m_Sort)
      {
        //Sort could be done at insert
        //but probabily this thread has time to do
        std::sort(m_Timers.begin(),
                  m_Timers.end(),
                  [](const TimerInfo & ti1, const TimerInfo & ti2)
        {
          return ti1.m_TimePoint > ti2.m_TimePoint;
        });
        m_Sort = false;
      }

      auto now = clock_t::now();
      auto expire = m_Timers.back().m_TimePoint;

      if (expire > now) //can I take a nap?
      {
        auto napTime = expire - now;
        m_Condition.wait_for(lock, napTime);

        //check again
        auto expire = m_Timers.back().m_TimePoint;
        auto now = clock_t::now();

        if (expire <= now)
        {
          TimerCall(m_Timers.back().m_User);
          m_Timers.pop_back();
        }
      }
      else
      {
        TimerCall(m_Timers.back().m_User);
        m_Timers.pop_back();
      }
    }
  }

  template<class T, class TArg1>
  friend void CreateTimer(TimerThread<T>& timerThread, int ms, TArg1 && arg1);

  template<class T, class TArg1, class TArg2>
  friend void CreateTimer(TimerThread<T>& timerThread, int ms, TArg1 && arg1, TArg2 && arg2);

public:
  TimerThread() : m_Stop(false), m_Sort(false)
  {
    m_Thread.reset(new std::thread(std::bind(&TimerThread::TimerLoop, this)));
  }

  ~TimerThread()
  {
    m_Stop = true;
    m_Condition.notify_all();
    m_Thread->join();
  }
};

template<class T, class TArg1>
void CreateTimer(TimerThread<T>& timerThread, int ms, TArg1 && arg1)
{
  {
    std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lock(timerThread.m_Mutex);
    timerThread.m_Timers.emplace_back(TimerThread<T>::TimerInfo(TimerThread<T>::clock_t::now() + std::chrono::milliseconds(ms),
                                      std::forward<TArg1>(arg1)));
    timerThread.m_Sort = true;
  }
  // wake up
  timerThread.m_Condition.notify_one();
}

template<class T, class TArg1, class TArg2>
void CreateTimer(TimerThread<T>& timerThread, int ms, TArg1 && arg1, TArg2 && arg2)
{
  {
    std::unique_lock<std::mutex> lock(timerThread.m_Mutex);
    timerThread.m_Timers.emplace_back(TimerThread<T>::TimerInfo(TimerThread<T>::clock_t::now() + std::chrono::milliseconds(ms),
                                      std::forward<TArg1>(arg1),
                                      std::forward<TArg2>(arg2)));
    timerThread.m_Sort = true;
  }
  // wake up
  timerThread.m_Condition.notify_one();
}

//sample
#include <iostream>
#include <string>

void TimerCall(int i)
{
  std::cout << i << std::endl;
}

int main()
{
  std::cout << "start" << std::endl;
  TimerThread<int> timers;

  CreateTimer(timers, 2000, 1);
  CreateTimer(timers, 5000, 2);
  CreateTimer(timers, 100, 3);

  std::this_thread::sleep_for(std::chrono::seconds(5));
  std::cout << "end" << std::endl;
}

Fine control over the font size in Seaborn plots for academic papers

You are right. This is a badly documented issue. But you can change the font size parameter (by opposition to font scale) directly after building the plot. Check the following example:

import seaborn as sns
tips = sns.load_dataset("tips")

b = sns.boxplot(x=tips["total_bill"])
b.axes.set_title("Title",fontsize=50)
b.set_xlabel("X Label",fontsize=30)
b.set_ylabel("Y Label",fontsize=20)
b.tick_params(labelsize=5)
sns.plt.show()

, which results in this:

Different font sizes for different labels

To make it consistent in between plots I think you just need to make sure the DPI is the same. By the way it' also a possibility to customize a bit the rc dictionaries since "font.size" parameter exists but I'm not too sure how to do that.

NOTE: And also I don't really understand why they changed the name of the font size variables for axis labels and ticks. Seems a bit un-intuitive.

Maven: add a folder or jar file into current classpath

This might have been asked before. See Can I add jars to maven 2 build classpath without installing them?

In a nutshell: include your jar as dependency with system scope. This requires specifying the absolute path to the jar.

See also http://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-dependency-mechanism.html

Django CharField vs TextField

It's a difference between RDBMS's varchar (or similar) — those are usually specified with a maximum length, and might be more efficient in terms of performance or storage — and text (or similar) types — those are usually limited only by hardcoded implementation limits (not a DB schema).

PostgreSQL 9, specifically, states that "There is no performance difference among these three types", but AFAIK there are some differences in e.g. MySQL, so this is something to keep in mind.

A good rule of thumb is that you use CharField when you need to limit the maximum length, TextField otherwise.

This is not really Django-specific, also.

Regex pattern including all special characters

I have defined one pattern to look for any of the ASCII Special Characters ranging between 032 to 126 except the alpha-numeric. You may use something like the one below:

To find any Special Character:

[ -\/:-@\[-\`{-~]

To find minimum of 1 and maximum of any count:

(?=.*[ -\/:-@\[-\`{-~]{1,})

These patterns have Special Characters ranging between 032 to 047, 058 to 064, 091 to 096, and 123 to 126.

How can I start an Activity from a non-Activity class?

I don't know if this is good practice or not, but casting a Context object to an Activity object compiles fine.

Try this: ((Activity) mContext).startActivity(...)

executing shell command in background from script

Leave off the quotes

$cmd &
$othercmd &

eg:

nicholas@nick-win7 /tmp
$ cat test
#!/bin/bash

cmd="ls -la"

$cmd &


nicholas@nick-win7 /tmp
$ ./test

nicholas@nick-win7 /tmp
$ total 6
drwxrwxrwt+ 1 nicholas root    0 2010-09-10 20:44 .
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 nicholas root 4096 2010-09-10 14:40 ..
-rwxrwxrwx  1 nicholas None   35 2010-09-10 20:44 test
-rwxr-xr-x  1 nicholas None   41 2010-09-10 20:43 test~

foreach for JSON array , syntax

You can use the .forEach() method of JavaScript for looping through JSON.

_x000D_
_x000D_
var datesBooking = [_x000D_
    {"date": "04\/24\/2018"},_x000D_
      {"date": "04\/25\/2018"}_x000D_
    ];_x000D_
    _x000D_
    datesBooking.forEach(function(data, index) {_x000D_
      console.log(data);_x000D_
    });
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

How to make a cross-module variable?

I wondered if it would be possible to avoid some of the disadvantages of using global variables (see e.g. http://wiki.c2.com/?GlobalVariablesAreBad) by using a class namespace rather than a global/module namespace to pass values of variables. The following code indicates that the two methods are essentially identical. There is a slight advantage in using class namespaces as explained below.

The following code fragments also show that attributes or variables may be dynamically created and deleted in both global/module namespaces and class namespaces.

wall.py

# Note no definition of global variables

class router:
    """ Empty class """

I call this module 'wall' since it is used to bounce variables off of. It will act as a space to temporarily define global variables and class-wide attributes of the empty class 'router'.

source.py

import wall
def sourcefn():
    msg = 'Hello world!'
    wall.msg = msg
    wall.router.msg = msg

This module imports wall and defines a single function sourcefn which defines a message and emits it by two different mechanisms, one via globals and one via the router function. Note that the variables wall.msg and wall.router.message are defined here for the first time in their respective namespaces.

dest.py

import wall
def destfn():

    if hasattr(wall, 'msg'):
        print 'global: ' + wall.msg
        del wall.msg
    else:
        print 'global: ' + 'no message'

    if hasattr(wall.router, 'msg'):
        print 'router: ' + wall.router.msg
        del wall.router.msg
    else:
        print 'router: ' + 'no message'

This module defines a function destfn which uses the two different mechanisms to receive the messages emitted by source. It allows for the possibility that the variable 'msg' may not exist. destfn also deletes the variables once they have been displayed.

main.py

import source, dest

source.sourcefn()

dest.destfn() # variables deleted after this call
dest.destfn()

This module calls the previously defined functions in sequence. After the first call to dest.destfn the variables wall.msg and wall.router.msg no longer exist.

The output from the program is:

global: Hello world!
router: Hello world!
global: no message
router: no message

The above code fragments show that the module/global and the class/class variable mechanisms are essentially identical.

If a lot of variables are to be shared, namespace pollution can be managed either by using several wall-type modules, e.g. wall1, wall2 etc. or by defining several router-type classes in a single file. The latter is slightly tidier, so perhaps represents a marginal advantage for use of the class-variable mechanism.

How to check if a string in Python is in ASCII?

Vincent Marchetti has the right idea, but str.decode has been deprecated in Python 3. In Python 3 you can make the same test with str.encode:

try:
    mystring.encode('ascii')
except UnicodeEncodeError:
    pass  # string is not ascii
else:
    pass  # string is ascii

Note the exception you want to catch has also changed from UnicodeDecodeError to UnicodeEncodeError.

Want custom title / image / description in facebook share link from a flash app

I have a Joomla Module that displays stuff... and I want to be able to share that stuff on facebook and not the Page's Title Meta Description... so my workaround is to have a secret .php file on the server that gets executed when it detects the FB's

$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']

if($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] != 'facebookexternalhit/1.1 (+http://www.facebook.com/externalhit_uatext.php)') {
    echo 'Direct Access';
} else {
    echo 'FB Accessed';
}

and pass variables with the URL that formats that particular page with the title and meta desciption of the item I want to share from my joomla module...

a name="fb_share" share_url="MYURL/sharer.php?title=TITLE&desc=DESC"

hope this helps...

MySQL Workbench Dark Theme

MySQL Workbench 8.0 Update

Based on Gunther's answer, it seems like in code_editor.xml they're planning to enable a dark mode at some point down the road. What was once fore-color has now been split into fore-color-light and fore-color-dark. Likewise with back-color.

Here's how to get a dark editor (not whole application theme) based on the Monokai colours provided graciously by elMestre:

<!-- 
dark-gray:         #282828;
brown-gray:        #49483E;
gray:              #888888;
light-gray:        #CCCCCC;
ghost-white:       #F8F8F0;
light-ghost-white: #F8F8F2;
yellow:            #E6DB74;
blue:              #66D9EF;
pink:              #F92672;
purple:            #AE81FF;
brown:             #75715E;
orange:            #FD971F;
light-orange:      #FFD569;
green:             #A6E22E;
sea-green:         #529B2F; 
-->

<style id="32" fore-color-light="#DDDDDD" back-color-light="#282828" fore-color-dark="#DDDDDD" back-color-dark="#282828" bold="No" />   <!-- STYLE_DEFAULT       !BACKGROUND!   -->
<style id="33" fore-color-light="#DDDDDD" back-color-light="#282828" fore-color-dark="#DDDDDD" back-color-dark="#282828" bold="No" />   <!-- STYLE_LINENUMBER                   -->
<style id= "0" fore-color-light="#DDDDDD" back-color-light="#282828" fore-color-dark="#DDDDDD" back-color-dark="#282828" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_DEFAULT                  -->

<style id= "1" fore-color-light="#999999" back-color-light="#282828" fore-color-dark="#999999" back-color-dark="#282828" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_COMMENT                  -->
<style id= "2" fore-color-light="#999999" back-color-light="#282828" fore-color-dark="#999999" back-color-dark="#282828" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_COMMENTLINE              -->
<style id= "3" fore-color-light="#DDDDDD" back-color-light="#282828" fore-color-dark="#DDDDDD" back-color-dark="#282828" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_VARIABLE                 -->
<style id= "4" fore-color-light="#66D9EF" back-color-light="#282828" fore-color-dark="#66D9EF" back-color-dark="#282828" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_SYSTEMVARIABLE           -->
<style id= "5" fore-color-light="#66D9EF" back-color-light="#282828" fore-color-dark="#66D9EF" back-color-dark="#282828" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_KNOWNSYSTEMVARIABLE      -->
<style id= "6" fore-color-light="#AE81FF" back-color-light="#282828" fore-color-dark="#AE81FF" back-color-dark="#282828" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_NUMBER                   -->
<style id= "7" fore-color-light="#F92672" back-color-light="#282828" fore-color-dark="#F92672" back-color-dark="#282828" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_MAJORKEYWORD             -->
<style id= "8" fore-color-light="#F92672" back-color-light="#282828" fore-color-dark="#F92672" back-color-dark="#282828" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_KEYWORD                  -->
<style id= "9" fore-color-light="#9B859D" back-color-light="#282828" fore-color-dark="#9B859D" back-color-dark="#282828" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_DATABASEOBJECT           -->
<style id="10" fore-color-light="#DDDDDD" back-color-light="#282828" fore-color-dark="#DDDDDD" back-color-dark="#282828" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_PROCEDUREKEYWORD         -->
<style id="11" fore-color-light="#E6DB74" back-color-light="#282828" fore-color-dark="#E6DB74" back-color-dark="#282828" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_STRING                   -->
<style id="12" fore-color-light="#E6DB74" back-color-light="#282828" fore-color-dark="#E6DB74" back-color-dark="#282828" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_SQSTRING                 -->
<style id="13" fore-color-light="#E6DB74" back-color-light="#282828" fore-color-dark="#E6DB74" back-color-dark="#282828" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_DQSTRING                 -->
<style id="14" fore-color-light="#F92672" back-color-light="#282828" fore-color-dark="#F92672" back-color-dark="#282828" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_OPERATOR                 -->
<style id="15" fore-color-light="#9B859D" back-color-light="#282828" fore-color-dark="#9B859D" back-color-dark="#282828" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_FUNCTION                 -->
<style id="16" fore-color-light="#DDDDDD" back-color-light="#282828" fore-color-dark="#DDDDDD" back-color-dark="#282828" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_IDENTIFIER               -->
<style id="17" fore-color-light="#E6DB74" back-color-light="#282828" fore-color-dark="#E6DB74" back-color-dark="#282828" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_QUOTEDIDENTIFIER         -->
<style id="18" fore-color-light="#529B2F" back-color-light="#282828" fore-color-dark="#529B2F" back-color-dark="#282828" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_USER1                    -->
<style id="19" fore-color-light="#529B2F" back-color-light="#282828" fore-color-dark="#529B2F" back-color-dark="#282828" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_USER2                    -->
<style id="20" fore-color-light="#529B2F" back-color-light="#282828" fore-color-dark="#529B2F" back-color-dark="#282828" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_USER3                    -->
<style id="21" fore-color-light="#66D9EF" back-color-light="#49483E" fore-color-dark="#66D9EF" back-color-dark="#49483E" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_HIDDENCOMMAND            -->
<style id="22" fore-color-light="#909090" back-color-light="#49483E" fore-color-dark="#909090" back-color-dark="#49483E" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_PLACEHOLDER              -->
<!-- All styles again in their variant in a hidden command -->
<style id="65" fore-color-light="#999999" back-color-light="#49483E" fore-color-dark="#999999" back-color-dark="#49483E" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_COMMENT                  -->
<style id="66" fore-color-light="#999999" back-color-light="#49483E" fore-color-dark="#999999" back-color-dark="#49483E" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_COMMENTLINE              -->
<style id="67" fore-color-light="#DDDDDD" back-color-light="#49483E" fore-color-dark="#DDDDDD" back-color-dark="#49483E" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_VARIABLE                 -->
<style id="68" fore-color-light="#66D9EF" back-color-light="#49483E" fore-color-dark="#66D9EF" back-color-dark="#49483E" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_SYSTEMVARIABLE           -->
<style id="69" fore-color-light="#66D9EF" back-color-light="#49483E" fore-color-dark="#66D9EF" back-color-dark="#49483E" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_KNOWNSYSTEMVARIABLE      -->
<style id="70" fore-color-light="#AE81FF" back-color-light="#49483E" fore-color-dark="#AE81FF" back-color-dark="#49483E" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_NUMBER                   -->
<style id="71" fore-color-light="#F92672" back-color-light="#49483E" fore-color-dark="#F92672" back-color-dark="#49483E" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_MAJORKEYWORD             -->
<style id="72" fore-color-light="#F92672" back-color-light="#49483E" fore-color-dark="#F92672" back-color-dark="#49483E" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_KEYWORD                  -->
<style id="73" fore-color-light="#9B859D" back-color-light="#49483E" fore-color-dark="#9B859D" back-color-dark="#49483E" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_DATABASEOBJECT           -->
<style id="74" fore-color-light="#DDDDDD" back-color-light="#49483E" fore-color-dark="#DDDDDD" back-color-dark="#49483E" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_PROCEDUREKEYWORD         -->
<style id="75" fore-color-light="#E6DB74" back-color-light="#49483E" fore-color-dark="#E6DB74" back-color-dark="#49483E" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_STRING                   -->
<style id="76" fore-color-light="#E6DB74" back-color-light="#49483E" fore-color-dark="#E6DB74" back-color-dark="#49483E" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_SQSTRING                 -->
<style id="77" fore-color-light="#E6DB74" back-color-light="#49483E" fore-color-dark="#E6DB74" back-color-dark="#49483E" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_DQSTRING                 -->
<style id="78" fore-color-light="#F92672" back-color-light="#49483E" fore-color-dark="#F92672" back-color-dark="#49483E" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_OPERATOR                 -->
<style id="79" fore-color-light="#9B859D" back-color-light="#49483E" fore-color-dark="#9B859D" back-color-dark="#49483E" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_FUNCTION                 -->
<style id="80" fore-color-light="#DDDDDD" back-color-light="#49483E" fore-color-dark="#DDDDDD" back-color-dark="#49483E" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_IDENTIFIER               -->
<style id="81" fore-color-light="#E6DB74" back-color-light="#49483E" fore-color-dark="#E6DB74" back-color-dark="#49483E" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_QUOTEDIDENTIFIER         -->
<style id="82" fore-color-light="#529B2F" back-color-light="#49483E" fore-color-dark="#529B2F" back-color-dark="#49483E" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_USER1                    -->
<style id="83" fore-color-light="#529B2F" back-color-light="#49483E" fore-color-dark="#529B2F" back-color-dark="#49483E" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_USER2                    -->
<style id="84" fore-color-light="#529B2F" back-color-light="#49483E" fore-color-dark="#529B2F" back-color-dark="#49483E" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_USER3                    -->
<style id="85" fore-color-light="#66D9EF" back-color-light="#888888" fore-color-dark="#66D9EF" back-color-dark="#888888" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_HIDDENCOMMAND            -->
<style id="86" fore-color-light="#AAAAAA" back-color-light="#888888" fore-color-dark="#AAAAAA" back-color-dark="#888888" bold="No" />   <!-- SCE_MYSQL_PLACEHOLDER              -->  

Remember to paste all these styles inside of the <language name="SCLEX_MYSQL"> tag in data > code_editor.xml.

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Adding an onclick function to go to url in JavaScript?

HTML

<input type="button" value="My Button" 
onclick="location.href = 'https://myurl'" />

MVC

<input type="button" value="My Button" 
onclick="location.href='@Url.Action("MyAction", "MyController", new { id = 1 })'" />

AES Encrypt and Decrypt

There is an interesting "pure-swift" Open Source library:

Example with AES decrypt (got from project README.md file):

import CryptoSwift
let setup = (key: keyData, iv: ivData)
let decryptedAES = AES(setup).decrypt(encryptedData)

What is a good Hash Function?

There's no such thing as a “good hash function” for universal hashes (ed. yes, I know there's such a thing as “universal hashing” but that's not what I meant). Depending on the context different criteria determine the quality of a hash. Two people already mentioned SHA. This is a cryptographic hash and it isn't at all good for hash tables which you probably mean.

Hash tables have very different requirements. But still, finding a good hash function universally is hard because different data types expose different information that can be hashed. As a rule of thumb it is good to consider all information a type holds equally. This is not always easy or even possible. For reasons of statistics (and hence collision), it is also important to generate a good spread over the problem space, i.e. all possible objects. This means that when hashing numbers between 100 and 1050 it's no good to let the most significant digit play a big part in the hash because for ~ 90% of the objects, this digit will be 0. It's far more important to let the last three digits determine the hash.

Similarly, when hashing strings it's important to consider all characters – except when it's known in advance that the first three characters of all strings will be the same; considering these then is a waste.

This is actually one of the cases where I advise to read what Knuth has to say in The Art of Computer Programming, vol. 3. Another good read is Julienne Walker's The Art of Hashing.

How to create a BKS (BouncyCastle) format Java Keystore that contains a client certificate chain

command line:

keytool -genseckey -alias aliasName -keystore truststore.bks -providerclass org.bouncycastle.jce.provider.BouncyCastleProvider -providerpath /path/to/jar/bcprov-jdk16-1.46.jar -storetype BKS

Change bar plot colour in geom_bar with ggplot2 in r

If you want all the bars to get the same color (fill), you can easily add it inside geom_bar.

ggplot(data=df, aes(x=c1+c2/2, y=c3)) + 
geom_bar(stat="identity", width=c2, fill = "#FF6666")

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Add fill = the_name_of_your_var inside aes to change the colors depending of the variable :

c4 = c("A", "B", "C")
df = cbind(df, c4)
ggplot(data=df, aes(x=c1+c2/2, y=c3, fill = c4)) + 
geom_bar(stat="identity", width=c2)

enter image description here

Use scale_fill_manual() if you want to manually the change of colors.

ggplot(data=df, aes(x=c1+c2/2, y=c3, fill = c4)) + 
geom_bar(stat="identity", width=c2) + 
scale_fill_manual("legend", values = c("A" = "black", "B" = "orange", "C" = "blue"))

enter image description here

Matplotlib: "Unknown projection '3d'" error

Just to add to Joe Kington's answer (not enough reputation for a comment) there is a good example of mixing 2d and 3d plots in the documentation at http://matplotlib.org/examples/mplot3d/mixed_subplots_demo.html which shows projection='3d' working in combination with the Axes3D import.

from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
...
ax = fig.add_subplot(2, 1, 1)
...
ax = fig.add_subplot(2, 1, 2, projection='3d')

In fact as long as the Axes3D import is present the line

from mpl_toolkits.mplot3d import Axes3D
...
ax = fig.gca(projection='3d')

as used by the OP also works. (checked with matplotlib version 1.3.1)

How to change the CHARACTER SET (and COLLATION) throughout a database?

Heres how to change all databases/tables/columns. Run these queries and they will output all of the subsequent queries necessary to convert your entire schema to utf8. Hope this helps!

-- Change DATABASE Default Collation

SELECT DISTINCT concat('ALTER DATABASE `', TABLE_SCHEMA, '` CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;')
from information_schema.tables
where TABLE_SCHEMA like  'database_name';

-- Change TABLE Collation / Char Set

SELECT concat('ALTER TABLE `', TABLE_SCHEMA, '`.`', table_name, '` CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;')
from information_schema.tables
where TABLE_SCHEMA like 'database_name';

-- Change COLUMN Collation / Char Set

SELECT concat('ALTER TABLE `', t1.TABLE_SCHEMA, '`.`', t1.table_name, '` MODIFY `', t1.column_name, '` ', t1.data_type , '(' , t1.CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH , ')' , ' CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;')
from information_schema.columns t1
where t1.TABLE_SCHEMA like 'database_name' and t1.COLLATION_NAME = 'old_charset_name';

Javascript - Regex to validate date format

Format, days, months and year:

var regex = /^(0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])[- /.](0[1-9]|1[012])[- /.](19|20)\d\d$/;

How to Use UTF-8 Collation in SQL Server database?

No! It's not a joke.

Take a look here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186939.aspx

Character data types that are either fixed-length, nchar, or variable-length, nvarchar, Unicode data and use the UNICODE UCS-2 character set.

And also here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16

The older UCS-2 (2-byte Universal Character Set) is a similar character encoding that was superseded by UTF-16 in version 2.0 of the Unicode standard in July 1996.

org.json.simple.JSONArray cannot be cast to org.json.simple.JSONObject

You can first read the whole content of file into a String.

FileInputStream fileInputStream = null;
String data="";
StringBuffer stringBuffer = new StringBuffer("");
try{
    fileInputStream=new FileInputStream(filename);
    int i;
    while((i=fileInputStream.read())!=-1)
    {
        stringBuffer.append((char)i);
    }
    data = stringBuffer.toString();
}
catch(Exception e){
        LoggerUtil.printStackTrace(e);
}
finally{
    if(fileInputStream!=null){  
        fileInputStream.close();
    }
}

Now You will have the whole content into String ( data variable ).

JSONParser parser = new JSONParser();
org.json.simple.JSONArray jsonArray= (org.json.simple.JSONArray) parser.parse(data);

After that you can use jsonArray as you want.

How to remove element from array in forEach loop?

It looks like you are trying to do this?

Iterate and mutate an array using Array.prototype.splice

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function log(result) {
  pre.appendChild(document.createTextNode(result + '\n'));
}

var review = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'b', 'a'];

review.forEach(function(item, index, object) {
  if (item === 'a') {
    object.splice(index, 1);
  }
});

log(review);
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Which works fine for simple case where you do not have 2 of the same values as adjacent array items, other wise you have this problem.

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function log(result) {
  pre.appendChild(document.createTextNode(result + '\n'));
}

var review = ['a', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'b', 'a', 'a'];

review.forEach(function(item, index, object) {
  if (item === 'a') {
    object.splice(index, 1);
  }
});

log(review);
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So what can we do about this problem when iterating and mutating an array? Well the usual solution is to work in reverse. Using ES3 while but you could use for sugar if preferred

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var pre = document.getElementById('out');

function log(result) {
  pre.appendChild(document.createTextNode(result + '\n'));
}

var review = ['a' ,'a', 'b', 'c', 'b', 'a', 'a'],
  index = review.length - 1;

while (index >= 0) {
  if (review[index] === 'a') {
    review.splice(index, 1);
  }

  index -= 1;
}

log(review);
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Ok, but you wanted to use ES5 iteration methods. Well and option would be to use Array.prototype.filter but this does not mutate the original array but creates a new one, so while you can get the correct answer it is not what you appear to have specified.

We could also use ES5 Array.prototype.reduceRight, not for its reducing property by rather its iteration property, i.e. iterate in reverse.

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var pre = document.getElementById('out');

function log(result) {
  pre.appendChild(document.createTextNode(result + '\n'));
}

var review = ['a', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'b', 'a', 'a'];

review.reduceRight(function(acc, item, index, object) {
  if (item === 'a') {
    object.splice(index, 1);
  }
}, []);

log(review);
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Or we could use ES5 Array.protoype.indexOf like so.

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var pre = document.getElementById('out');

function log(result) {
  pre.appendChild(document.createTextNode(result + '\n'));
}

var review = ['a', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'b', 'a', 'a'],
  index = review.indexOf('a');

while (index !== -1) {
  review.splice(index, 1);
  index = review.indexOf('a');
}

log(review);
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But you specifically want to use ES5 Array.prototype.forEach, so what can we do? Well we need to use Array.prototype.slice to make a shallow copy of the array and Array.prototype.reverse so we can work in reverse to mutate the original array.

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var pre = document.getElementById('out');

function log(result) {
  pre.appendChild(document.createTextNode(result + '\n'));
}

var review = ['a', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'b', 'a', 'a'];

review.slice().reverse().forEach(function(item, index, object) {
  if (item === 'a') {
    review.splice(object.length - 1 - index, 1);
  }
});

log(review);
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Finally ES6 offers us some further alternatives, where we do not need to make shallow copies and reverse them. Notably we can use Generators and Iterators. However support is fairly low at present.

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function log(result) {
  pre.appendChild(document.createTextNode(result + '\n'));
}

function* reverseKeys(arr) {
  var key = arr.length - 1;

  while (key >= 0) {
    yield key;
    key -= 1;
  }
}

var review = ['a', 'a', 'b', 'c', 'b', 'a', 'a'];

for (var index of reverseKeys(review)) {
  if (review[index] === 'a') {
    review.splice(index, 1);
  }
}

log(review);
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Something to note in all of the above is that, if you were stripping NaN from the array then comparing with equals is not going to work because in Javascript NaN === NaN is false. But we are going to ignore that in the solutions as it it yet another unspecified edge case.

So there we have it, a more complete answer with solutions that still have edge cases. The very first code example is still correct but as stated, it is not without issues.

OkHttp Post Body as JSON

Another approach is by using FormBody.Builder().
Here's an example of callback:

Callback loginCallback = new Callback() {
    @Override
    public void onFailure(Call call, IOException e) {
        try {
            Log.i(TAG, "login failed: " + call.execute().code());
        } catch (IOException e1) {
            e1.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onResponse(Call call, Response response) throws IOException {
        // String loginResponseString = response.body().string();
        try {
            JSONObject responseObj = new JSONObject(response.body().string());
            Log.i(TAG, "responseObj: " + responseObj);
        } catch (JSONException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        // Log.i(TAG, "loginResponseString: " + loginResponseString);
    }
};

Then, we create our own body:

RequestBody formBody = new FormBody.Builder()
        .add("username", userName)
        .add("password", password)
        .add("customCredential", "")
        .add("isPersistent", "true")
        .add("setCookie", "true")
        .build();

OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient.Builder()
        .addInterceptor(this)
        .build();
Request request = new Request.Builder()
        .url(loginUrl)
        .post(formBody)
        .build();

Finally, we call the server:

client.newCall(request).enqueue(loginCallback);

In ASP.NET, when should I use Session.Clear() rather than Session.Abandon()?

I had this issue and tried both, but had to settle for removing crap like "pageEditState", but not removing user info lest I have to look it up again.

public static void RemoveEverythingButUserInfo()
{
    foreach (String o in HttpContext.Current.Session.Keys)
    {
        if (o != "UserInfoIDontWantToAskForAgain")
            keys.Add(o);
    }
}

How do I tell if a regular file does not exist in Bash?

sometimes it may be handy to use && and || operators.

Like in (if you have command "test"):

test -b $FILE && echo File not there!

or

test -b $FILE || echo File there!

pointer to array c++

int g[] = {9,8};

This declares an object of type int[2], and initializes its elements to {9,8}

int (*j) = g;

This declares an object of type int *, and initializes it with a pointer to the first element of g.

The fact that the second declaration initializes j with something other than g is pretty strange. C and C++ just have these weird rules about arrays, and this is one of them. Here the expression g is implicitly converted from an lvalue referring to the object g into an rvalue of type int* that points at the first element of g.

This conversion happens in several places. In fact it occurs when you do g[0]. The array index operator doesn't actually work on arrays, only on pointers. So the statement int x = j[0]; works because g[0] happens to do that same implicit conversion that was done when j was initialized.

A pointer to an array is declared like this

int (*k)[2];

and you're exactly right about how this would be used

int x = (*k)[0];

(note how "declaration follows use", i.e. the syntax for declaring a variable of a type mimics the syntax for using a variable of that type.)

However one doesn't typically use a pointer to an array. The whole purpose of the special rules around arrays is so that you can use a pointer to an array element as though it were an array. So idiomatic C generally doesn't care that arrays and pointers aren't the same thing, and the rules prevent you from doing much of anything useful directly with arrays. (for example you can't copy an array like: int g[2] = {1,2}; int h[2]; h = g;)


Examples:

void foo(int c[10]); // looks like we're taking an array by value.
// Wrong, the parameter type is 'adjusted' to be int*

int bar[3] = {1,2};
foo(bar); // compile error due to wrong types (int[3] vs. int[10])?
// No, compiles fine but you'll probably get undefined behavior at runtime

// if you want type checking, you can pass arrays by reference (or just use std::array):
void foo2(int (&c)[10]); // paramater type isn't 'adjusted'
foo2(bar); // compiler error, cannot convert int[3] to int (&)[10]

int baz()[10]; // returning an array by value?
// No, return types are prohibited from being an array.

int g[2] = {1,2};
int h[2] = g; // initializing the array? No, initializing an array requires {} syntax
h = g; // copying an array? No, assigning to arrays is prohibited

Because arrays are so inconsistent with the other types in C and C++ you should just avoid them. C++ has std::array that is much more consistent and you should use it when you need statically sized arrays. If you need dynamically sized arrays your first option is std::vector.

C++11 reverse range-based for-loop

You could simply use BOOST_REVERSE_FOREACH which iterates backwards. For example, the code

#include <iostream>
#include <boost\foreach.hpp>

int main()
{
    int integers[] = { 0, 1, 2, 3, 4 };
    BOOST_REVERSE_FOREACH(auto i, integers)
    {
        std::cout << i << std::endl;
    }
    return 0;
}

generates the following output:

4

3

2

1

0

How to unset a JavaScript variable?

?? The accepted answer (and others) are outdated!

TL;DR

  • delete does not remove variables.
    (It's only for removing a property from an object.)

  • The correct way to "unset" is to simply set the variable to null. (source)
    (This enables JavaScript's automatic processes to remove the variable from memory.)

Example:

x = null;


More info:

Use of the delete operator on a variable is deprecated since 2012, when all browsers implemented (automatic) mark-and-sweep garbage-collection. The process works by automatically determining when objects/variables become "unreachable" (deciding whether or not the code still requires them).

With JavaScript, in all modern browsers:

  • Garbage collection is performed automatically. We cannot force or prevent it.
  • Objects are retained in memory while they are reachable.
  • Being referenced is not the same as being reachable: a pack of interlinked objects can become unreachable as a whole. (source)

The delete operator is only used to remove a property from an object; it does not remove variables.

Unlike what common belief suggests (perhaps due to other programming languages like delete in C++), the delete operator has nothing to do with directly freeing memory. Memory management is done indirectly via breaking references. (source)

When using strict mode ('use strict';, as opposed to regular/"sloppy mode") an attempt to delete a variable will throw an error and is not allowed. Normal variables in JavaScript can't be deleted using the delete operator (source) (or any other way, as of 2021).

 


 

...alas, the only solution:

Freeing the contents of a variable

To free the contents of a variable, you can simply set it to null:

var x;

// ...

x = null;    // (x can now be garbage collected)

(source)


Further Reading:

How can I create a unique constraint on my column (SQL Server 2008 R2)?

One thing not clearly covered is that microsoft sql is creating in the background an unique index for the added constraint

create table Customer ( id int primary key identity (1,1) , name nvarchar(128) ) 

--Commands completed successfully.

sp_help Customer

---> index
--index_name    index_description   index_keys
--PK__Customer__3213E83FCC4A1DFA    clustered, unique, primary key located on PRIMARY   id

---> constraint
--constraint_type   constraint_name delete_action   update_action   status_enabled  status_for_replication  constraint_keys
--PRIMARY KEY (clustered)   PK__Customer__3213E83FCC4A1DFA  (n/a)   (n/a)   (n/a)   (n/a)   id


---- now adding the unique constraint

ALTER TABLE Customer ADD CONSTRAINT U_Name UNIQUE(Name)

-- Commands completed successfully.

sp_help Customer

---> index
---index_name   index_description   index_keys
---PK__Customer__3213E83FCC4A1DFA   clustered, unique, primary key located on PRIMARY   id
---U_Name   nonclustered, unique, unique key located on PRIMARY name

---> constraint
---constraint_type  constraint_name delete_action   update_action   status_enabled  status_for_replication  constraint_keys
---PRIMARY KEY (clustered)  PK__Customer__3213E83FCC4A1DFA  (n/a)   (n/a)   (n/a)   (n/a)   id
---UNIQUE (non-clustered)   U_Name  (n/a)   (n/a)   (n/a)   (n/a)   name

as you can see , there is a new constraint and a new index U_Name

Use basic authentication with jQuery and Ajax

Use jQuery's beforeSend callback to add an HTTP header with the authentication information:

beforeSend: function (xhr) {
    xhr.setRequestHeader ("Authorization", "Basic " + btoa(username + ":" + password));
},

How to align a div inside td element using CSS class

div { margin: auto; }

This will center your div.

Div by itself is a blockelement. Therefor you need to define the style to the div how to behave.

git: updates were rejected because the remote contains work that you do not have locally

I had the same problem. It happened that I have created .Readme file on the repository without pulling it first.

You may want to delete .Readme file or pull it before pushing.

How can I make the browser wait to display the page until it's fully loaded?

This is a very bad idea for all of the reasons given, and more. That said, here's how you do it using jQuery:

<body>
<div id="msg" style="font-size:largest;">
<!-- you can set whatever style you want on this -->
Loading, please wait...
</div>
<div id="body" style="display:none;">
<!-- everything else -->
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
    $('#body').show();
    $('#msg').hide();
});
</script>
</body>

If the user has JavaScript disabled, they never see the page. If the page never finishes loading, they never see the page. If the page takes too long to load, they may assume something went wrong and just go elsewhere instead of *please wait...*ing.

"Uncaught TypeError: a.indexOf is not a function" error when opening new foundation project

One of the possible reasons is when you load jQuery TWICE ,like:

<script src='..../jquery.js'></script>
....
....
....
....
....
<script src='......./jquery.js'></script>

So, check your source code and remove duplicate jQuery load.

Render HTML string as real HTML in a React component

Check if the text you're trying to append to the node is not escaped like this:

var prop = {
    match: {
        description: '&lt;h1&gt;Hi there!&lt;/h1&gt;'
    }
};

Instead of this:

var prop = {
    match: {
        description: '<h1>Hi there!</h1>'
    }
};

if is escaped you should convert it from your server-side.

The node is text because is escaped

The node is text because is escaped

The node is a dom node because isn't escaped

The node is a dom node because isn't escaped

how to set the query timeout from SQL connection string

Only from code:

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Python name 'os' is not defined

Just add:

import os

in the beginning, before:

from settings import PROJECT_ROOT

This will import the python's module os, which apparently is used later in the code of your module without being imported.

CreateProcess: No such file or directory

I had this same problem and none of the suggested fixes worked for me. So even though this is an old thread, I figure I might as well post my solution in case someone else finds this thread through Google(like I did).

For me, I had to uninstall MinGW/delete the MinGW folder, and re-install. After re-installing it works like a charm.

JavaFX How to set scene background image

I know this is an old Question

But in case you want to do it programmatically or the java way

For Image Backgrounds; you can use BackgroundImage class

BackgroundImage myBI= new BackgroundImage(new Image("my url",32,32,false,true),
        BackgroundRepeat.REPEAT, BackgroundRepeat.NO_REPEAT, BackgroundPosition.DEFAULT,
          BackgroundSize.DEFAULT);
//then you set to your node
myContainer.setBackground(new Background(myBI));

For Paint or Fill Backgrounds; you can use BackgroundFill class

BackgroundFill myBF = new BackgroundFill(Color.BLUEVIOLET, new CornerRadii(1),
         new Insets(0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0));// or null for the padding
//then you set to your node or container or layout
myContainer.setBackground(new Background(myBF));

Keeps your java alive && your css dead..

How do I change the android actionbar title and icon

This work for me:

getActionBar().setHomeButtonEnabled(true);
getActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(true);
getActionBar().setHomeAsUpIndicator(R.mipmap.baseline_dehaze_white_24);

How to change package name of an Android Application

  1. In your Android studio , at project panel , there is gear icon "Click on it".
  2. Uncheck the Compact Empty Middle Packages
  3. Now the package directory has been broken up i.e individual directories.
  4. Select the directory you want to rename.
  5. Right click on that particular directory.
  6. Select refactor and then rename option.
  7. The dialog box has been open up,rename it.
  8. After putting new name, click on Refactor.
  9. Then click on Do Refactor at bottom.
  10. Then android studio will update all changes.
  11. Now open build.gradle file and update the applicationId & sync it.
  12. Now go to manifest file and rename the package.
  13. Rebuild your Project.
  14. You are done :)

LINQ equivalent of foreach for IEnumerable<T>

Inspired by Jon Skeet, I have extended his solution with the following:

Extension Method:

public static void Execute<TSource, TKey>(this IEnumerable<TSource> source, Action<TKey> applyBehavior, Func<TSource, TKey> keySelector)
{
    foreach (var item in source)
    {
        var target = keySelector(item);
        applyBehavior(target);
    }
}

Client:

var jobs = new List<Job>() 
    { 
        new Job { Id = "XAML Developer" }, 
        new Job { Id = "Assassin" }, 
        new Job { Id = "Narco Trafficker" }
    };

jobs.Execute(ApplyFilter, j => j.Id);

. . .

    public void ApplyFilter(string filterId)
    {
        Debug.WriteLine(filterId);
    }

How to specify font attributes for all elements on an html web page?

you can set them in the body tag

body
{
    font-size:xxx;
    font-family:yyyy;
}

PHP CURL & HTTPS

Quick fix, add this in your options:

curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false)

Now you have no idea what host you're actually connecting to, because cURL will not verify the certificate in any way. Hope you enjoy man-in-the-middle attacks!

Or just add it to your current function:

/**
 * Get a web file (HTML, XHTML, XML, image, etc.) from a URL.  Return an
 * array containing the HTTP server response header fields and content.
 */
function get_web_page( $url )
{
    $options = array(
        CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,     // return web page
        CURLOPT_HEADER         => false,    // don't return headers
        CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION => true,     // follow redirects
        CURLOPT_ENCODING       => "",       // handle all encodings
        CURLOPT_USERAGENT      => "spider", // who am i
        CURLOPT_AUTOREFERER    => true,     // set referer on redirect
        CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 120,      // timeout on connect
        CURLOPT_TIMEOUT        => 120,      // timeout on response
        CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS      => 10,       // stop after 10 redirects
        CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => false     // Disabled SSL Cert checks
    );

    $ch      = curl_init( $url );
    curl_setopt_array( $ch, $options );
    $content = curl_exec( $ch );
    $err     = curl_errno( $ch );
    $errmsg  = curl_error( $ch );
    $header  = curl_getinfo( $ch );
    curl_close( $ch );

    $header['errno']   = $err;
    $header['errmsg']  = $errmsg;
    $header['content'] = $content;
    return $header;
}

How to pass integer from one Activity to another?

In Sender Activity Side:

Intent passIntent = new Intent(getApplicationContext(), "ActivityName".class);
passIntent.putExtra("value", integerValue);
startActivity(passIntent);

In Receiver Activity Side:

int receiveValue = getIntent().getIntExtra("value", 0);

Check whether an input string contains a number in javascript

To test if any char is a number, without overkill?, to be adapted as need.

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function hasInt(me){
  let i = 1,a = me.split(""),b = "",c = "";
  a.forEach(function(e){
   if (!isNaN(e)){
     console.log(`CONTAIN NUMBER «${e}» AT POSITION ${a.indexOf(e)} => TOTAL COUNT ${i}`)
     c += e
     i++
   } else {b += e}
  })
  console.log(`STRING IS «${b}», NUMBER IS «${c}»`)
  if (i === 0){
    return false
    // return b
  } else {
    return true
    // return +c
  }
}


hasInt(s)
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

CSS height 100% percent not working

For code mirror divs refer to the manual, these sections might be useful to you:

http://codemirror.net/demo/fullscreen.html

var editor = CodeMirror.fromTextArea(document.getElementById("code"), {
  lineNumbers: true,
  theme: "night",
  extraKeys: {
    "F11": function(cm) {
      cm.setOption("fullScreen", !cm.getOption("fullScreen"));
    },
    "Esc": function(cm) {
      if (cm.getOption("fullScreen")) cm.setOption("fullScreen", false);
    }
  }
});

And also take a look at:

http://codemirror.net/demo/resize.html

Also a comment:

Inline styling is horrible you should avoid this at all costs, not only will it confuse you, it's poor practice.

Get output parameter value in ADO.NET

You can get your result by below code::

using (SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(...))
{
    SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("sproc", conn);
    cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;

    // add other parameters parameters

    //Add the output parameter to the command object
    SqlParameter outPutParameter = new SqlParameter();
    outPutParameter.ParameterName = "@Id";
    outPutParameter.SqlDbType = System.Data.SqlDbType.Int;
    outPutParameter.Direction = System.Data.ParameterDirection.Output;
    cmd.Parameters.Add(outPutParameter);

    conn.Open();
    cmd.ExecuteNonQuery();

    //Retrieve the value of the output parameter
    string Id = outPutParameter.Value.ToString();

    // *** read output parameter here, how?
    conn.Close();
}

How to delete an array element based on key?

this looks like PHP to me. I'll delete if it's some other language.

Simply unset($arr[1]);

How do I check if a C++ string is an int?

Ok, the way I see it you have 3 options.

1: If you simply wish to check whether the number is an integer, and don't care about converting it, but simply wish to keep it as a string and don't care about potential overflows, checking whether it matches a regex for an integer would be ideal here.

2: You can use boost::lexical_cast and then catch a potential boost::bad_lexical_cast exception to see if the conversion failed. This would work well if you can use boost and if failing the conversion is an exceptional condition.

3: Roll your own function similar to lexical_cast that checks the conversion and returns true/false depending on whether it's successful or not. This would work in case 1 & 2 doesn't fit your requirements.

Deprecated Java HttpClient - How hard can it be?

Relevant imports:

import org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClientBuilder;
import java.io.IOException;

Usage:

HttpClient httpClient = HttpClientBuilder.create().build();

EDIT (after Jules' suggestion):

As the build() method returns a CloseableHttpClient which is-a AutoClosable, you can place the declaration in a try-with-resources statement (Java 7+):

try (CloseableHttpClient httpClient = HttpClientBuilder.create().build()) {

    // use httpClient (no need to close it explicitly)

} catch (IOException e) {

    // handle

}

Python Checking a string's first and last character

When you say [:-1] you are stripping the last element. Instead of slicing the string, you can apply startswith and endswith on the string object itself like this

if str1.startswith('"') and str1.endswith('"'):

So the whole program becomes like this

>>> str1 = '"xxx"'
>>> if str1.startswith('"') and str1.endswith('"'):
...     print "hi"
>>> else:
...     print "condition fails"
...
hi

Even simpler, with a conditional expression, like this

>>> print("hi" if str1.startswith('"') and str1.endswith('"') else "fails")
hi

How to get my Android device Internal Download Folder path

if a device has an SD card, you use:

Environment.getExternalStorageState() 

if you don't have an SD card, you use:

Environment.getDataDirectory()

if there is no SD card, you can create your own directory on the device locally.

    //if there is no SD card, create new directory objects to make directory on device
        if (Environment.getExternalStorageState() == null) {
                        //create new file directory object
            directory = new File(Environment.getDataDirectory()
                    + "/RobotiumTestLog/");
            photoDirectory = new File(Environment.getDataDirectory()
                    + "/Robotium-Screenshots/");
            /*
             * this checks to see if there are any previous test photo files
             * if there are any photos, they are deleted for the sake of
             * memory
             */
            if (photoDirectory.exists()) {
                File[] dirFiles = photoDirectory.listFiles();
                if (dirFiles.length != 0) {
                    for (int ii = 0; ii <= dirFiles.length; ii++) {
                        dirFiles[ii].delete();
                    }
                }
            }
            // if no directory exists, create new directory
            if (!directory.exists()) {
                directory.mkdir();
            }

            // if phone DOES have sd card
        } else if (Environment.getExternalStorageState() != null) {
            // search for directory on SD card
            directory = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()
                    + "/RobotiumTestLog/");
            photoDirectory = new File(
                    Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()
                            + "/Robotium-Screenshots/");
            if (photoDirectory.exists()) {
                File[] dirFiles = photoDirectory.listFiles();
                if (dirFiles.length > 0) {
                    for (int ii = 0; ii < dirFiles.length; ii++) {
                        dirFiles[ii].delete();
                    }
                    dirFiles = null;
                }
            }
            // if no directory exists, create new directory to store test
            // results
            if (!directory.exists()) {
                directory.mkdir();
            }
        }// end of SD card checking

add permissions on your manifest.xml

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

Happy coding..

Select Specific Columns from Spark DataFrame

You can use the below code to select columns based on their index (position). You can alter the numbers for variable colNos to select only those columns

import org.apache.spark.sql.functions.col

val colNos = Seq(0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35)
val Df_01 = Df.select(colNos_01 map Df.columns map col: _*)
Df_01.show(20, false)

What is the correct syntax of ng-include?

For those who are looking for the shortest possible "item renderer" solution from a partial, so a combo of ng-repeat and ng-include:

<div ng-repeat="item in items" ng-include src="'views/partials/item.html'" />

Actually, if you use it like this for one repeater, it will work, but won't for 2 of them! Angular (v1.2.16) will freak out for some reason if you have 2 of these one after another, so it is safer to close the div the pre-xhtml way:

<div ng-repeat="item in items" ng-include src="'views/partials/item.html'"></div>

How to generate a random string in Ruby

My favorite is (:A..:Z).to_a.shuffle[0,8].join. Note that shuffle requires Ruby > 1.9.

React Native: Getting the position of an element

This seems to have changed in the latest version of React Native when using refs to calculate.

Declare refs this way.

  <View
    ref={(image) => {
    this._image = image
  }}>

And find the value this way.

  _measure = () => {
    this._image._component.measure((width, height, px, py, fx, fy) => {
      const location = {
        fx: fx,
        fy: fy,
        px: px,
        py: py,
        width: width,
        height: height
      }
      console.log(location)
    })
  }

Pivoting rows into columns dynamically in Oracle

Oracle 11g provides a PIVOT operation that does what you want.

Oracle 11g solution

select * from
(select id, k, v from _kv) 
pivot(max(v) for k in ('name', 'age', 'gender', 'status')

(Note: I do not have a copy of 11g to test this on so I have not verified its functionality)

I obtained this solution from: http://orafaq.com/wiki/PIVOT

EDIT -- pivot xml option (also Oracle 11g)
Apparently there is also a pivot xml option for when you do not know all the possible column headings that you may need. (see the XML TYPE section near the bottom of the page located at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/sql/11g-pivot-097235.html)

select * from
(select id, k, v from _kv) 
pivot xml (max(v)
for k in (any) )

(Note: As before I do not have a copy of 11g to test this on so I have not verified its functionality)

Edit2: Changed v in the pivot and pivot xml statements to max(v) since it is supposed to be aggregated as mentioned in one of the comments. I also added the in clause which is not optional for pivot. Of course, having to specify the values in the in clause defeats the goal of having a completely dynamic pivot/crosstab query as was the desire of this question's poster.

Undefined reference to main - collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

You can just add a main function to resolve this problem. Just like:

int main()
{
    return 0;
}

How to push JSON object in to array using javascript

You need to have the 'data' array outside of the loop, otherwise it will get reset in every loop and also you can directly push the json. Find the solution below:-

var my_json;
$.getJSON("https://api.thingspeak.com/channels/"+did+"/feeds.json?api_key="+apikey+"&results=300", function(json1) {
console.log(json1);
var data = [];
json1.feeds.forEach(function(feed,i){
    console.log("\n The details of " + i + "th Object are :  \nCreated_at: " + feed.created_at + "\nEntry_id:" + feed.entry_id + "\nField1:" + feed.field1 + "\nField2:" + feed.field2+"\nField3:" + feed.field3);      
    my_json = feed;
    console.log(my_json); //Object {created_at: "2017-03-14T01:00:32Z", entry_id: 33358, field1: "4", field2: "4", field3: "0"}
    data.push(my_json);
     //["2017-03-14T01:00:32Z", 33358, "4", "4", "0"]
}); 
console.log(data);

Disable hover effects on mobile browsers

I really wanted a pure css solution to this myself, since sprinkling a weighty javascript solution around all of my views seemed like an unpleasant option. Finally found the @media.hover query, which can detect "whether the primary input mechanism allows the user to hover over elements." This avoids touch devices where "hovering" is more of an emulated action than a direct capability of the input device.

So for example, if I have a link:

<a href="/" class="link">Home</a>

Then I can safely style it to only :hover when the device easily supports it with this css:

@media (hover: hover) {
  .link:hover { /* hover styles */ }
}

While most modern browsers support interaction media feature queries, some popular browsers such as IE and Firefox do not. In my case this works fine, since I only intended to support Chrome on desktop and Chrome and Safari on mobile.

Get keys of a Typescript interface as array of strings

You can't do it. Interfaces don't exist at runtime (like @basarat said).

Now, I am working with following:

const IMyTable_id = 'id';
const IMyTable_title = 'title';
const IMyTable_createdAt = 'createdAt';
const IMyTable_isDeleted = 'isDeleted';

export const IMyTable_keys = [
  IMyTable_id,
  IMyTable_title,
  IMyTable_createdAt,
  IMyTable_isDeleted,
];

export interface IMyTable {
  [IMyTable_id]: number;
  [IMyTable_title]: string;
  [IMyTable_createdAt]: Date;
  [IMyTable_isDeleted]: boolean;
}

How to extract text from a PDF?

I was given a 400 page pdf file with a table of data that I had to import - luckily no images. Ghostscript worked for me:

gswin64c -sDEVICE=txtwrite -o output.txt input.pdf

The output file was split into pages with headers, etc., but it was then easy to write an app to strip out blank lines, etc, and suck in all 30,000 records. -dSIMPLE and -dCOMPLEX made no difference in this case.

Ripple effect on Android Lollipop CardView

Ripple event for android Cardview control:

<android.support.v7.widget.CardView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_gravity="center"
    android:foreground="?android:attr/selectableItemBackground"
    android:clickable="true"
    android:layout_marginBottom="4dp"
    android:layout_marginTop="4dp" />

Inserting data into a temporary table

insert into #temptable (col1, col2, col3)
select col1, col2, col3 from othertable

Note that this is considered poor practice:

insert into #temptable 
select col1, col2, col3 from othertable

If the definition of the temp table were to change, the code could fail at runtime.

How do I customize Facebook's sharer.php

Sharer.php no longer allows you to customize. The page you share will be scraped for OG Tags and that data will be shared.

To properly customize, use FB.UI which comes with the JS-SDK.

How to style UITextview to like Rounded Rect text field?

You can create a Text Field that doesn't accept any events on top of a Text View like this:

CGRect frameRect = descriptionTextField.frame;
frameRect.size.height = 50;
descriptionTextField.frame = frameRect;
descriptionTextView.frame = frameRect;
descriptionTextField.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];
descriptionTextField.enabled = NO;
descriptionTextView.layer.cornerRadius = 5;
descriptionTextView.clipsToBounds = YES;

How to view/delete local storage in Firefox?

From Firefox 34 onwards you now have an option for Storage Inspector, which you can enable it from developer tools settings

Once there, you can enable the Storage options under Default Firefox Developer tools

Updated 27-3-16

Firefox 48.0a1 now supports Cookies editing.

Updated 3-4-16

Firefox 48.0a1 now supports localStorage and sessionStorage editing.

Updated 02-08-16

Firefox 48 (stable release) and onward supports editing of all storage types, except IndexedDB

preferredStatusBarStyle isn't called

My app used all three: UINavigationController, UISplitViewController, UITabBarController, thus these all seem to take control over the status bar and will cause preferedStatusBarStyle to not be called for their children. To override this behavior you can create an extension like the rest of the answers have mentioned. Here is an extension for all three, in Swift 4. Wish Apple was more clear about this sort of stuff.

extension UINavigationController {
    open override var childViewControllerForStatusBarStyle: UIViewController? {
        return self.topViewController
    }

    open override var childViewControllerForStatusBarHidden: UIViewController? {
        return self.topViewController
    }
}

extension UITabBarController {
    open override var childViewControllerForStatusBarStyle: UIViewController? {
        return self.childViewControllers.first
    }

    open override var childViewControllerForStatusBarHidden: UIViewController? {
        return self.childViewControllers.first
    }
}

extension UISplitViewController {
    open override var childViewControllerForStatusBarStyle: UIViewController? {
        return self.childViewControllers.first
    }

    open override var childViewControllerForStatusBarHidden: UIViewController? {
        return self.childViewControllers.first
    }
}

Edit: Update for Swift 4.2 API changes

extension UINavigationController {
    open override var childForStatusBarStyle: UIViewController? {
        return self.topViewController
    }

    open override var childForStatusBarHidden: UIViewController? {
        return self.topViewController
    }
}

extension UITabBarController {
    open override var childForStatusBarStyle: UIViewController? {
        return self.children.first
    }

    open override var childForStatusBarHidden: UIViewController? {
        return self.children.first
    }
}

extension UISplitViewController {
    open override var childForStatusBarStyle: UIViewController? {
        return self.children.first
    }

    open override var childForStatusBarHidden: UIViewController? {
        return self.children.first
    }
}

How to convert a String to CharSequence?

Straight answer:

String s = "Hello World!";

// String => CharSequence conversion:

CharSequence cs = s;  // String is already a CharSequence

CharSequence is an interface, and the String class implements CharSequence.

What is the basic difference between the Factory and Abstract Factory Design Patterns?

//Abstract factory - Provides interface to create factory of related products
interface PizzaIngredientsFactory{    
   public Dough createDough(); //Will return you family of Dough
   public Clam createClam();   //Will return you family of Clam
   public Sauce createSauce(); //Will return you family of Sauce
}

class NYPizzaIngredientsFactory implements PizzaIngredientsFactory{

   @Override
   public Dough createDough(){
      //create the concrete dough instance that NY uses
      return doughInstance;
   }

   //override other methods
} 

The text book definitions are already provided by other answers. I thought I would provide an example of it too.

So here the PizzaIngredientsFactory is an abstract factory as it provides methods to create family of related products.

Note that each method in the Abstract factory is an Factory method in itself. Like createDough() is in itself a factory method whose concrete implementations will be provided by subclasses like NYPizzaIngredientsFactory. So using this each different location can create instances of concrete ingredients that belong to their location.

Factory Method

Provides instance of concrete implementation

In the example:
- createDough() - provides concrete implementation for dough. So this is a factory method

Abstract Factory

Provides interface to create family of related objects

In the example:
- PizzaIngredientsFactory is an abstract factory as it allows to create a related set of objects like Dough, Clams, Sauce. For creating each family of objects it provides a factory method.

Example from Head First design patterns

You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '''')' at line 2

I had this problem before, and the reason is very simple: Check your variables, if there were strings, so put it in quotes '$your_string_variable_here' ,, if it were numerical keep it without any quotes. for example, if I had these data: $name ( It will be string ) $phone_number ( It will be numerical ) So, it will be like that:

$query = "INSERT INTO users (name, phone) VALUES ('$name', $phone)"; Just like that and it will be fixed ^_^

How do I convert uint to int in C#?

Assuming that the value contained in the uint can be represented in an int, then it is as simple as:

int val = (int) uval;

Select query with date condition

The semicolon character is used to terminate the SQL statement.

You can either use # signs around a date value or use Access's (ACE, Jet, whatever) cast to DATETIME function CDATE(). As its name suggests, DATETIME always includes a time element so your literal values should reflect this fact. The ISO date format is understood perfectly by the SQL engine.

Best not to use BETWEEN for DATETIME in Access: it's modelled using a floating point type and anyhow time is a continuum ;)

DATE and TABLE are reserved words in the SQL Standards, ODBC and Jet 4.0 (and probably beyond) so are best avoided for a data element names:

Your predicates suggest open-open representation of periods (where neither its start date or the end date is included in the period), which is arguably the least popular choice. It makes me wonder if you meant to use closed-open representation (where neither its start date is included but the period ends immediately prior to the end date):

SELECT my_date
  FROM MyTable
 WHERE my_date >= #2008-09-01 00:00:00#
       AND my_date < #2010-09-01 00:00:00#;

Alternatively:

SELECT my_date
  FROM MyTable
 WHERE my_date >= CDate('2008-09-01 00:00:00')
       AND my_date < CDate('2010-09-01 00:00:00'); 

How to get the element clicked (for the whole document)?

You need to use the event.target which is the element which originally triggered the event. The this in your example code refers to document.

In jQuery, that's...

$(document).click(function(event) {
    var text = $(event.target).text();
});

Without jQuery...

document.addEventListener('click', function(e) {
    e = e || window.event;
    var target = e.target || e.srcElement,
        text = target.textContent || target.innerText;   
}, false);

Also, ensure if you need to support < IE9 that you use attachEvent() instead of addEventListener().

MySQL: how to get the difference between two timestamps in seconds

UNIX_TIMESTAMP(ts1) - UNIX_TIMESTAMP(ts2)

If you want an unsigned difference, add an ABS() around the expression.

Alternatively, you can use TIMEDIFF(ts1, ts2) and then convert the time result to seconds with TIME_TO_SEC().

ng-change not working on a text input

Maybe you can try something like this:

Using a directive

directive('watchChange', function() {
    return {
        scope: {
            onchange: '&watchChange'
        },
        link: function(scope, element, attrs) {
            element.on('input', function() {
                scope.onchange();
            });
        }
    };
});

http://jsfiddle.net/H2EAB/

Select distinct values from a large DataTable column

dt- your data table name

ColumnName- your columnname i.e id

DataView view = new DataView(dt);
DataTable distinctValues = new DataTable();
distinctValues = view.ToTable(true, ColumnName);

How do you UrlEncode without using System.Web?

In .Net 4.5+ use WebUtility

Just for formatting I'm submitting this as an answer.

Couldn't find any good examples comparing them so:

string testString = "http://test# space 123/text?var=val&another=two";
Console.WriteLine("UrlEncode:         " + System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlEncode(testString));
Console.WriteLine("EscapeUriString:   " + Uri.EscapeUriString(testString));
Console.WriteLine("EscapeDataString:  " + Uri.EscapeDataString(testString));
Console.WriteLine("EscapeDataReplace: " + Uri.EscapeDataString(testString).Replace("%20", "+"));

Console.WriteLine("HtmlEncode:        " + System.Web.HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(testString));
Console.WriteLine("UrlPathEncode:     " + System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlPathEncode(testString));

//.Net 4.0+
Console.WriteLine("WebUtility.HtmlEncode: " + WebUtility.HtmlEncode(testString));
//.Net 4.5+
Console.WriteLine("WebUtility.UrlEncode:  " + WebUtility.UrlEncode(testString));

Outputs:

UrlEncode:             http%3a%2f%2ftest%23+space+123%2ftext%3fvar%3dval%26another%3dtwo
EscapeUriString:       http://test#%20space%20123/text?var=val&another=two
EscapeDataString:      http%3A%2F%2Ftest%23%20space%20123%2Ftext%3Fvar%3Dval%26another%3Dtwo
EscapeDataReplace:     http%3A%2F%2Ftest%23+space+123%2Ftext%3Fvar%3Dval%26another%3Dtwo

HtmlEncode:            http://test# space 123/text?var=val&amp;another=two
UrlPathEncode:         http://test#%20space%20123/text?var=val&another=two

//.Net 4.0+
WebUtility.HtmlEncode: http://test# space 123/text?var=val&amp;another=two
//.Net 4.5+
WebUtility.UrlEncode:  http%3A%2F%2Ftest%23+space+123%2Ftext%3Fvar%3Dval%26another%3Dtwo

In .Net 4.5+ use WebUtility.UrlEncode

This appears to replicate HttpUtility.UrlEncode (pre-v4.0) for the more common characters:
Uri.EscapeDataString(testString).Replace("%20", "+").Replace("'", "%27").Replace("~", "%7E")
Note: EscapeUriString will keep a valid uri string, which causes it to use as many plaintext characters as possible.

See this answer for a Table Comparing the various Encodings:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/11236038/555798

Line Breaks All of them listed here (other than HttpUtility.HtmlEncode) will convert "\n\r" into %0a%0d or %0A%0D

Please feel free to edit this and add new characters to my test string, or leave them in the comments and I'll edit it.

What does "O(1) access time" mean?

It's called the Big O notation, and describes the search time for various algorithms.

O(1) means that the worst case run time is constant. For most situation it means that you dont acctually need to search the collection, you cand find what you are searching for right away.

Could someone explain this for me - for (int i = 0; i < 8; i++)

That's a loop that says, okay, for every time that i is smaller than 8, I'm going to do whatever is in the code block. Whenever i reaches 8, I'll stop. After each iteration of the loop, it increments i by 1 (i++), so that the loop will eventually stop when it meets the i < 8 (i becomes 8, so no longer is smaller than) condition.

For example, this:

for (int i = 0; i < 8; i++)
{
   Console.WriteLine(i);
}

Will output: 01234567

See how the code was executed 8 times?

In terms of arrays, this can be helpful when you don't know the size of the array, but you want to operate on every item of it. You can do:

Disclaimer: This following code will vary dependent upon language, but the principle remains the same

Array yourArray;

for (int i = 0; i < yourArray.Count; i++)
{
    Console.WriteLine(yourArray[i]);
}

The difference here is the number of execution times is entirely dependent on the size of the array, so it's dynamic.

Difference between Subquery and Correlated Subquery

Correlated Subquery is a sub-query that uses values from the outer query. In this case the inner query has to be executed for every row of outer query.

See example here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlated_subquery

Simple subquery doesn't use values from the outer query and is being calculated only once:

SELECT id, first_name 
FROM student_details 
WHERE id IN (SELECT student_id
FROM student_subjects 
WHERE subject= 'Science'); 

CoRelated Subquery Example -

Query To Find all employees whose salary is above average for their department

 SELECT employee_number, name
       FROM employees emp
       WHERE salary > (
         SELECT AVG(salary)
           FROM employees
           WHERE department = emp.department);

PL/SQL, how to escape single quote in a string?

Here's a blog post that should help with escaping ticks in strings.

Here's the simplest method from said post:

The most simple and most used way is to use a single quotation mark with two single >quotation marks in both sides.

SELECT 'test single quote''' from dual;

The output of the above statement would be:

test single quote'

Simply stating you require an additional single quote character to print a single quote >character. That is if you put two single quote characters Oracle will print one. The first >one acts like an escape character.

This is the simplest way to print single quotation marks in Oracle. But it will get >complex when you have to print a set of quotation marks instead of just one. In this >situation the following method works fine. But it requires some more typing labour.

What is the difference between UTF-8 and Unicode?

The existing answers already explain a lot of details, but here's a very short answer with the most direct explanation and example.

Unicode is the standard that maps characters to codepoints.
Each character has a unique codepoint (identification number), which is a number like 9731.

UTF-8 is an the encoding of the codepoints.
In order to store all characters on disk (in a file), UTF-8 splits characters into up to 4 octets (8-bit sequences) - bytes. UTF-8 is one of several encodings (methods of representing data). For example, in Unicode, the (decimal) codepoint 9731 represents a snowman (?), which consists of 3 bytes in UTF-8: E2 98 83

Here's a sorted list with some random examples.

How to get root directory of project in asp.net core. Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() doesn't seem to work correctly on a mac

If that can be useful to anyone, in a Razor Page cshtml.cs file, here is how to get it: add an IHostEnvironment hostEnvironment parameter to the constructor and it will be injected automatically:

public class IndexModel : PageModel
{
    private readonly ILogger<IndexModel> _logger;
    private readonly IHostEnvironment _hostEnvironment;

    public IndexModel(ILogger<IndexModel> logger, IHostEnvironment hostEnvironment)
    {
        _logger = logger;
        _hostEnvironment = hostEnvironment; // has ContentRootPath property
    }

    public void OnGet()
    {

    }
}

PS: IHostEnvironment is in Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting namespace, in Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting.Abstractions.dll ... what a mess!

How to clone all remote branches in Git?

When you do "git clone git://location", all branches and tags are fetched.

In order to work on top of a specific remote branch, assuming it's the origin remote:

git checkout -b branch origin/branchname

Angular (4, 5, 6, 7) - Simple example of slide in out animation on ngIf

The most upvoted answer is not implementing a real slide in/out (or down/up), as:

  1. It's not doing a soft transition on the height attribute. At time zero the element already has the 100% of its height producing a sudden glitch on the elements below it.
  2. When sliding out/up, the element does a translateY(-100%) and then suddenly disappears, causing another glitch on the elements below it.

You can implement a slide in and slide out like so:

my-component.ts

import { animate, style, transition, trigger } from '@angular/animations';

@Component({
  ...
  animations: [
    trigger('slideDownUp', [
      transition(':enter', [style({ height: 0 }), animate(500)]),
      transition(':leave', [animate(500, style({ height: 0 }))]),
    ]),
  ],
})

my-component.html

<div @slideDownUp *ngIf="isShowing" class="box">
  I am the content of the div!
</div>

my-component.scss

.box {
  overflow: hidden;
}

Initial bytes incorrect after Java AES/CBC decryption

Another solution using java.util.Base64 with Spring Boot

Encryptor Class

package com.jmendoza.springboot.crypto.cipher;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

import javax.crypto.Cipher;
import javax.crypto.spec.SecretKeySpec;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
import java.util.Base64;

@Component
public class Encryptor {

    @Value("${security.encryptor.key}")
    private byte[] key;
    @Value("${security.encryptor.algorithm}")
    private String algorithm;

    public String encrypt(String plainText) throws Exception {
        SecretKeySpec secretKey = new SecretKeySpec(key, algorithm);
        Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance(algorithm);
        cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, secretKey);
        return new String(Base64.getEncoder().encode(cipher.doFinal(plainText.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8))));
    }

    public String decrypt(String cipherText) throws Exception {
        SecretKeySpec secretKey = new SecretKeySpec(key, algorithm);
        Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance(algorithm);
        cipher.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, secretKey);
        return new String(cipher.doFinal(Base64.getDecoder().decode(cipherText)));
    }
}

EncryptorController Class

package com.jmendoza.springboot.crypto.controller;

import com.jmendoza.springboot.crypto.cipher.Encryptor;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.GetMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.PathVariable;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;

@RestController
@RequestMapping("/cipher")
public class EncryptorController {

    @Autowired
    Encryptor encryptor;

    @GetMapping(value = "encrypt/{value}")
    public String encrypt(@PathVariable("value") final String value) throws Exception {
        return encryptor.encrypt(value);
    }

    @GetMapping(value = "decrypt/{value}")
    public String decrypt(@PathVariable("value") final String value) throws Exception {
        return encryptor.decrypt(value);
    }
}

application.properties

server.port=8082
security.encryptor.algorithm=AES
security.encryptor.key=M8jFt46dfJMaiJA0

Example

http://localhost:8082/cipher/encrypt/jmendoza

2h41HH8Shzc4BRU3hVDOXA==

http://localhost:8082/cipher/decrypt/2h41HH8Shzc4BRU3hVDOXA==

jmendoza

putting datepicker() on dynamically created elements - JQuery/JQueryUI

This was what worked for me (using jquery datepicker):

$('body').on('focus', '.datepicker', function() {
 $(this).removeClass('hasDatepicker').datepicker();
});

Execute specified function every X seconds

Threaded:

    /// <summary>
    /// Usage: var timer = SetIntervalThread(DoThis, 1000);
    /// UI Usage: BeginInvoke((Action)(() =>{ SetIntervalThread(DoThis, 1000); }));
    /// </summary>
    /// <returns>Returns a timer object which can be disposed.</returns>
    public static System.Threading.Timer SetIntervalThread(Action Act, int Interval)
    {
        TimerStateManager state = new TimerStateManager();
        System.Threading.Timer tmr = new System.Threading.Timer(new TimerCallback(_ => Act()), state, Interval, Interval);
        state.TimerObject = tmr;
        return tmr;
    }

Regular

    /// <summary>
    /// Usage: var timer = SetInterval(DoThis, 1000);
    /// UI Usage: BeginInvoke((Action)(() =>{ SetInterval(DoThis, 1000); }));
    /// </summary>
    /// <returns>Returns a timer object which can be stopped and disposed.</returns>
    public static System.Timers.Timer SetInterval(Action Act, int Interval)
    {
        System.Timers.Timer tmr = new System.Timers.Timer();
        tmr.Elapsed += (sender, args) => Act();
        tmr.AutoReset = true;
        tmr.Interval = Interval;
        tmr.Start();

        return tmr;
    }

Can you force Visual Studio to always run as an Administrator in Windows 8?

VSCommands didn't work for me and caused a problem when I installed Visual Studio 2010 aside of Visual Studio 2012.

After some experimentations I found the trick:

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers and add an entry with the name "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\MSEnv\VSLauncher.exe" and the value "RUNASADMIN".

This should solve your issue. I've also blogged about that.

What causes the error "_pickle.UnpicklingError: invalid load key, ' '."?

I had a similar error but with different context when I uploaded a *.p file to Google Drive. I tried to use it later in a Google Colab session, and got this error:

    1 with open("/tmp/train.p", mode='rb') as training_data:
----> 2     train = pickle.load(training_data)
UnpicklingError: invalid load key, '<'.

I solved it by compressing the file, upload it and then unzip on the session. It looks like the pickle file is not saved correctly when you upload/download it so it gets corrupted.

How to export private key from a keystore of self-signed certificate

Use Keystore Explorer gui - http://keystore-explorer.sourceforge.net/ - allows you to extract the private key from a .jks in various formats.

Getting value of selected item in list box as string

If you want to retrieve the item selected from listbox, here is the code...

String SelectedItem = listBox1.SelectedItem.Value;

What is token-based authentication?

Token Based (Security / Authentication)

means that In order for us to prove that we’ve access we first have to receive the token. In a real life scenario, the token could be an access card to building, it could be the key to the lock to your house. In order for you to retrieve a key card for your office or the key to your home, you first need to prove who you are, and that you in fact do have access to that token. It could be something as simple as showing someone your ID or giving them a secret password. So imagine I need to get access to my office. I go down to the security office, I show them my ID, and they give me this token, which lets me into the building. Now I have unrestricted access to do whatever I want inside the building, as long as I have my token with me.

What’s the benefit of token based security?

If we think back on the insecure API, what we had to do in that case was that we had to provide our password for everything that we wanted to do.

Imagine that every time we enter a door in our office, we have to give everyone sitting next to the door our password. Now that would be pretty bad, because that means that anyone inside our office could take our password and impersonate us, and that’s pretty bad. Instead, what we do is that we retrieve the token, of course together with password, but we retrieve that from one person. And then we can use this token wherever we want inside the building. Of course if we lose the token, we have the same problem as if someone else knew our password, but that leads us into things like how do we make sure that if we lose the token, we can revoke the access, and maybe the token shouldn’t live for longer than 24hours, so the next day that we come to the office, we need to show our ID again. But still, there’s just one person that we show the ID to, and that’s the security guard sitting where we retrieve the tokens.

Applying an ellipsis to multiline text

I came up with my own solution for this:

/*this JS code puts the ellipsis (...) at the end of multiline ellipsis elements
 *
 * to use the multiline ellipsis on an element give it the following CSS properties
 * line-height:xxx
 * height:xxx (must line-height * number of wanted lines)
 * overflow:hidden
 *
 * and have the class js_ellipsis
 * */

//do all ellipsis when jQuery loads
jQuery(document).ready(function($) {put_ellipsisses();});

//redo ellipsis when window resizes
var re_ellipsis_timeout;
jQuery( window ).resize(function() {
    //timeout mechanism prevents from chain calling the function on resize
    clearTimeout(re_ellipsis_timeout);
    re_ellipsis_timeout = setTimeout(function(){ console.log("re_ellipsis_timeout finishes"); put_ellipsisses(); }, 500);
});

//the main function
function put_ellipsisses(){
    jQuery(".js_ellipsis").each(function(){

        //remember initial text to be able to regrow when space increases
        var object_data=jQuery(this).data();
        if(typeof object_data.oldtext != "undefined"){
            jQuery(this).text(object_data.oldtext);
        }else{
            object_data.oldtext = jQuery(this).text();
            jQuery(this).data(object_data);
        }

        //truncate and ellipsis
        var clientHeight = this.clientHeight;
        var maxturns=100; var countturns=0;
        while (this.scrollHeight > clientHeight && countturns < maxturns) {
            countturns++;
            jQuery(this).text(function (index, text) {
                return text.replace(/\W*\s(\S)*$/, '...');
            });
        }
    });
}

jQuery validate: How to add a rule for regular expression validation?

    $.validator.methods.checkEmail = function( value, element ) {
        return this.optional( element ) || /[a-z]+@[a-z]+\.[a-z]+/.test( value );
    }

    $("#myForm").validate({
        rules: {
            email: {
                required: true,
                checkEmail: true
            }
        },
        messages: {
            email: "incorrect email"
        }
    });

JavaScript: How to get parent element by selector?

simple example of a function parent_by_selector which return a parent or null (no selector matches):

function parent_by_selector(node, selector, stop_selector = 'body') {
  var parent = node.parentNode;
  while (true) {
    if (parent.matches(stop_selector)) break;
    if (parent.matches(selector)) break;
    parent = parent.parentNode; // get upper parent and check again
  }
  if (parent.matches(stop_selector)) parent = null; // when parent is a tag 'body' -> parent not found
  return parent;
};

How to correctly catch change/focusOut event on text input in React.js?

If you want to only trigger validation when the input looses focus you can use onBlur

Trivia: React <17 listens to blur event and >=17 listens to focusout event.

Maintain aspect ratio of div but fill screen width and height in CSS?

My original question for this was how to both have an element of a fixed aspect, but to fit that within a specified container exactly, which makes it a little fiddly. If you simply want an individual element to maintain its aspect ratio it is a lot easier.

The best method I've come across is by giving an element zero height and then using percentage padding-bottom to give it height. Percentage padding is always proportional to the width of an element, and not its height, even if its top or bottom padding.

W3C Padding Properties

So utilising that you can give an element a percentage width to sit within a container, and then padding to specify the aspect ratio, or in other terms, the relationship between its width and height.

.object {
    width: 80%; /* whatever width here, can be fixed no of pixels etc. */
    height: 0px;
    padding-bottom: 56.25%;
}
.object .content {
    position: absolute;
    top: 0px;
    left: 0px;
    height: 100%;
    width: 100%;
    box-sizing: border-box;
    -moz-box-sizing: border-box;
    padding: 40px;
}

So in the above example the object takes 80% of the container width, and then its height is 56.25% of that value. If it's width was 160px then the bottom padding, and thus the height would be 90px - a 16:9 aspect.

The slight problem here, which may not be an issue for you, is that there is no natural space inside your new object. If you need to put some text in for example and that text needs to take it's own padding values you need to add a container inside and specify the properties in there.

Also vw and vh units aren't supported on some older browsers, so the accepted answer to my question might not be possible for you and you might have to use something more lo-fi.

Android Spinner: Get the selected item change event

You can implement AdapterView.OnItemSelectedListener class in your Activity.

And then use the below line within onCreate()

Spinner spin = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spinner);
spin.setOnItemSelectedListener(this);

Then override these two methods:

public void onItemSelected(AdapterView<?> parent, View v, int position, long id) {
    selection.setText(items[position]);
}

public void onNothingSelected(AdapterView<?> parent) {
    selection.setText("");
}

How can I control Chromedriver open window size?

Try with driver.manage.window.maximize(); to maximize window.

find all subsets that sum to a particular value

You may use Dynamic Programmining. Algo complexity is O(Sum * N) and use O(Sum) memory.

Here's my implementation in C#:

private static int GetmNumberOfSubsets(int[] numbers, int sum)
{
    int[] dp = new int[sum + 1];
    dp[0] = 1;
    int currentSum =0;
    for (int i = 0; i < numbers.Length; i++)
    {
        currentSum += numbers[i];
        for (int j = Math.Min(sum, currentSum); j >= numbers[i]; j--)
            dp[j] += dp[j - numbers[i]];
    }

    return dp[sum];
}

Notes: As number of subsets may have value 2^N it easy may overflows int type.

Algo works only for positive numbers.

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlObject Error

you have to include two more jar files.

xmlbeans-2.3.0.jar and dom4j-1.6.1.jar Add try it will work.

Note: It is required for the files with .xlsx formats only, not for just .xlt formats.

Remove excess whitespace from within a string

Not sure exactly what you want but here are two situations:

  1. If you are just dealing with excess whitespace on the beginning or end of the string you can use trim(), ltrim() or rtrim() to remove it.

  2. If you are dealing with extra spaces within a string consider a preg_replace of multiple whitespaces " "* with a single whitespace " ".

Example:

$foo = preg_replace('/\s+/', ' ', $foo);

Align nav-items to right side in bootstrap-4

This should work for alpha 6. The key is the class "mr-auto" on the left nav, which will push the right nav to the right. You also need to add navbar-toggleable-md or it will stack in a column instead of a row. Note I didn't add the remaining toggle items (e.g. toggle button), I added just enough to get it to formatted as requested. Here are more complete examples https://v4-alpha.getbootstrap.com/examples/navbars/.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0-alpha.6/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />
</head>
<body>
    <nav class="navbar navbar-toggleable-md navbar-light bg-faded">
        <div class="container">
            <a class="navbar-brand" href="#">Navbar</a>
            <ul class="nav navbar-nav mr-auto">
                <li class="nav-item active">
                    <a class="nav-link" href="#">Home</a>
                </li>
                <li class="nav-item">
                    <a class="nav-link" href="#">Link</a>
                </li>
                <li class="nav-item">
                    <a class="nav-link" href="#">Link</a>
                </li>
            </ul>
            <ul class="nav navbar-nav">
                <li class="nav-item">
                    <a class="nav-link" href="#">Link on the Right</a>
                </li>
            </ul>
        </div>
    </nav>
</body>

How to filter by string in JSONPath?

''Alastair, you can use this lib and tool; DefiantJS. It enables XPath queries on JSON structures and you can test and validate this XPath:

//data[category="Politician"]

DefiantJS extends the global object with the method "search", which in turn returns an array with the matches. In Javascript, it'll look like this:

var person = JSON.search(json_data, "//people[category='Politician']");
console.log( person[0].name );
// Barack Obama

Calculating Page Load Time In JavaScript

The answer mentioned by @HaNdTriX is a great, but we are not sure if DOM is completely loaded in the below code:

var loadTime = window.performance.timing.domContentLoadedEventEnd- window.performance.timing.navigationStart; 

This works perfectly when used with onload as:

window.onload = function () {
    var loadTime = window.performance.timing.domContentLoadedEventEnd-window.performance.timing.navigationStart; 
    console.log('Page load time is '+ loadTime);
}

Edit 1: Added some context to answer

Note: loadTime is in milliseconds, you can divide by 1000 to get seconds as mentioned by @nycynik