Programs & Examples On #Amiga

The Amiga is a family of personal computers that was sold by Commodore in the 1980s and 1990s.

ASP.NET MVC - Find Absolute Path to the App_Data folder from Controller

Phil Haak has an example that I think is a bit more stable when dealing with paths with crazy "\" style directory separators. It also safely handles path concatenation. It comes for free in System.IO

var fileName = Path.GetFileName(file.FileName);
var path = Path.Combine(Server.MapPath("~/App_Data/uploads"), fileName);

However, you could also try "AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirector" instead of "Server.MapPath".

How to extract URL parameters from a URL with Ruby or Rails?

I think you want to turn any given URL string into a HASH?

You can try http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/cgi/rdoc/classes/CGI.html#M000075

require 'cgi'

CGI::parse('param1=value1&param2=value2&param3=value3')

returns

{"param1"=>["value1"], "param2"=>["value2"], "param3"=>["value3"]}

How to compile c# in Microsoft's new Visual Studio Code?

Since no one else said it, the short-cut to compile (build) a C# app in Visual Studio Code (VSCode) is SHIFT+CTRL+B.

If you want to see the build errors (because they don't pop-up by default), the shortcut is SHIFT+CTRL+M.

(I know this question was asking for more than just the build shortcut. But I wanted to answer the question in the title, which wasn't directly answered by other answers/comments.)

How to display both icon and title of action inside ActionBar?

You can create actions with text in 2 ways:

1- From XML:

<item android:id="@id/resource_name"
      android:title="text"
      android:icon="@drawable/drawable_resource_name"
      android:showAsAction="withText" />

When inflating the menu, you should call getSupportMenuInflater() since you are using ActionBarSherlock.

2- Programmatically:

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    MenuItem item = menu.add(Menu.NONE, ID, POSITION, TEXT);
    item.setIcon(R.drawable.drawable_resource_name);
    item.setShowAsAction(MenuItem.SHOW_AS_ACTION_WITH_TEXT);

    return true;
}

Make sure you import com.actionbarsherlock.view.Menu and com.actionbarsherlock.view.MenuItem.

How to connect to Mysql Server inside VirtualBox Vagrant?

Log in to your box with ssh [email protected] -p 2222 (password vagrant)

Then: sudo nano /etc/mysql/my.cnf and comment out the following lines with #

#skip-external-locking 
#bind-address

save it & exit

then: sudo service mysql restart

Then you can connect through SSH to your MySQL server.

How to write a cursor inside a stored procedure in SQL Server 2008

Try the following snippet. You can call the the below stored procedure from your application, so that NoOfUses in the coupon table will be updated.

CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[sp_UpdateCouponCount]
AS

Declare     @couponCount int,
            @CouponName nvarchar(50),
            @couponIdFromQuery int


Declare curP cursor For

  select COUNT(*) as totalcount , Name as name,couponuse.couponid  as couponid from Coupon as coupon 
  join CouponUse as couponuse on coupon.id = couponuse.couponid
  where couponuse.id=@cuponId
  group by couponuse.couponid , coupon.Name

OPEN curP 
Fetch Next From curP Into @couponCount, @CouponName,@couponIdFromQuery

While @@Fetch_Status = 0 Begin

    print @couponCount
    print @CouponName

    update Coupon SET NoofUses=@couponCount
    where couponuse.id=@couponIdFromQuery


Fetch Next From curP Into @couponCount, @CouponName,@couponIdFromQuery

End -- End of Fetch

Close curP
Deallocate curP

Hope this helps!

Git fetch remote branch

The easiest way to do it, at least for me:

git fetch origin <branchName> # Will fetch the branch locally
git checkout <branchName> # To move to that branch

An error occurred while executing the command definition. See the inner exception for details

In my case, I messed up the connectionString property in a publish profile, trying to access the wrong database (Initial Catalog). Entity Framework then complains that the entities do not match the database, and rightly so.

How can I get the latest JRE / JDK as a zip file rather than EXE or MSI installer?

Thanks for asking; the JDK does not seem to interact with the Windows registry.

However, the JRE does in certain instances.

Link: http://www.rgagnon.com/javadetails/java-0604.html

How to compare strings in C conditional preprocessor-directives

If your strings are compile time constants (as in your case) you can use the following trick:

#define USER_JACK strcmp(USER, "jack")
#define USER_QUEEN strcmp(USER, "queen")
#if $USER_JACK == 0
#define USER_VS USER_QUEEN
#elif USER_QUEEN == 0
#define USER_VS USER_JACK
#endif

The compiler can tell the result of the strcmp in advance and will replace the strcmp with its result, thus giving you a #define that can be compared with preprocessor directives. I don't know if there's any variance between compilers/dependance on compiler options, but it worked for me on GCC 4.7.2.

EDIT: upon further investigation, it look like this is a toolchain extension, not GCC extension, so take that into consideration...

Laravel Request::all() Should Not Be Called Statically

also it happens when you import following library to api.php file. this happens by some IDE's suggestion to import it for not finding the Route Class.

just remove it and everything going to work fine.

use Illuminate\Routing\Route;

update:

seems if you add this library it wont lead to error

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;

What version of Python is on my Mac?

Use below command to see all python installations :

which -a python

How to calculate number of days between two given dates?

everyone has answered excellently using the date, let me try to answer it using pandas

dt = pd.to_datetime('2008/08/18', format='%Y/%m/%d')
dt1 = pd.to_datetime('2008/09/26', format='%Y/%m/%d')

(dt1-dt).days

This will give the answer. In case one of the input is dataframe column. simply use dt.days in place of days

(dt1-dt).dt.days

How to tell Jackson to ignore a field during serialization if its value is null?

You can use the following mapper configuration:

mapper.getSerializationConfig().setSerializationInclusion(Inclusion.NON_NULL);

Since 2.5 you can user:

mapper.setSerializationInclusion(Include.NON_NULL);

The type java.util.Map$Entry cannot be resolved. It is indirectly referenced from required .class files

I've seen occasional problems with Eclipse forgetting that built-in classes (including Object and String) exist. The way I've resolved them is to:

  • On the Project menu, turn off "Build Automatically"
  • Quit and restart Eclipse
  • On the Project menu, choose "Clean…" and clean all projects
  • Turn "Build Automatically" back on and let it rebuild everything.

This seems to make Eclipse forget whatever incorrect cached information it had about the available classes.

Check if a list contains an item in Ansible

Ansible has a version_compare filter since 1.6. You can do something like below in when conditional:

when: ansible_distribution_version | version_compare('12.04', '>=')

This will give you support for major & minor versions comparisons and you can compare versions using operators like:

<, lt, <=, le, >, gt, >=, ge, ==, =, eq, !=, <>, ne

You can find more information about this here: Ansible - Version comparison filters

Otherwise if you have really simple case you can use what @ProfHase85 suggested

What is the significance of #pragma marks? Why do we need #pragma marks?

While searching for doc to point to about how pragma are directives for the compiler, I found this NSHipster article that does the job pretty well.

I hope you'll enjoy the reading

ImportError: No module named mysql.connector using Python2

I was facing the same issue on WAMP. Locate the connectors available with pip command. You can run this from any prompt if Python ENV variables are properly set.

    pip search mysql-connector

    mysql-connector (2.2.9)                           - MySQL driver written in Python
    bottle-mysql-connector (0.0.4)                    - MySQL integration for Bottle.
    mysql-connector-python (8.0.15)                   - MySQL driver written in Python
    mysql-connector-repackaged (0.3.1)                - MySQL driver written in Python
    mysql-connector-async-dd (2.0.2)                  - mysql async connection

Run the following command to install mysql-connector

    C:\Users\Admin>pip install mysql-connector

verify the installation

    C:\Users\Admin>python
    Python 3.7.3 (v3.7.3:ef4ec6ed12, Mar 25 2019, 22:22:05) [MSC v.1916 64 bit 
    (AMD64)] on win32
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> import mysql.connector
    >>>

This solution worked for me.

Displaying a vector of strings in C++

You have to insert the elements using the insert method present in vectors STL, check the below program to add the elements to it, and you can use in the same way in your program.

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <string.h>

int main ()
{
  std::vector<std::string> myvector ;
  std::vector<std::string>::iterator it;

   it = myvector.begin();
  std::string myarray [] = { "Hi","hello","wassup" };
  myvector.insert (myvector.begin(), myarray, myarray+3);

  std::cout << "myvector contains:";
  for (it=myvector.begin(); it<myvector.end(); it++)
    std::cout << ' ' << *it;
    std::cout << '\n';

  return 0;
}

Bootstrap - dropdown menu not working?

When i checked i saw display: none; value is in the .dropdown-menu bootstrap css class. Hence i removed it.

Xpath for href element

Try below locator.

selenium.click("css=a[href*='listDetails.do'][id='oldcontent']");

or

selenium.click("xpath=//a[contains(@href,'listDetails.do') and @id='oldcontent']");

AngularJS access scope from outside js function

we can call it after loaded

http://jsfiddle.net/gentletech/s3qtv/3/

<div id="wrap" ng-controller="Ctrl">
    {{message}}<br>
    {{info}}
    </div>
    <a  onClick="hi()">click me </a>

    function Ctrl($scope) {
        $scope.message = "hi robi";
        $scope.updateMessage = function(_s){
            $scope.message = _s;    
        };
    }

function hi(){
    var scope = angular.element(document.getElementById("wrap")).scope();
        scope.$apply(function() {
        scope.info = "nami";
        scope.updateMessage("i am new fans like nami");
    });
}

The target ... overrides the `OTHER_LDFLAGS` build setting defined in `Pods/Pods.xcconfig

I've seen these 3 errors for pod command in terminal

pod install

[!] The MY_APP [Debug/Release] target overrides the HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS ...
[!] The MY_APP [Debug/Release] target overrides the OTHER_LDFLAGS ...
[!] The MY_APP [Debug/Release] target overrides the GCC_PREPROCESSOR_DEFINITIONS ...

All these 3 errors would be gone by adding $(inherited) to

  1. Header Search Paths
  2. Other Linker Flags
  3. Preprocessor Macros

in Project -> Target -> Build Settings

And now the command would run without giving any errors

pod install

Changing position of the Dialog on screen android

I used this code to show the dialog at the bottom of the screen:

Dialog dlg = <code to create custom dialog>;

Window window = dlg.getWindow();
WindowManager.LayoutParams wlp = window.getAttributes();

wlp.gravity = Gravity.BOTTOM;
wlp.flags &= ~WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_DIM_BEHIND;
window.setAttributes(wlp);

This code also prevents android from dimming the background of the dialog, if you need it. You should be able to change the gravity parameter to move the dialog about


private void showPictureialog() {
    final Dialog dialog = new Dialog(this,
            android.R.style.Theme_Translucent_NoTitleBar);

    // Setting dialogview
    Window window = dialog.getWindow();
    window.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER);

    window.setLayout(LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT, LayoutParams.FILL_PARENT);
    dialog.setTitle(null);
    dialog.setContentView(R.layout.selectpic_dialog);
    dialog.setCancelable(true);

    dialog.show();
}

you can customize you dialog based on gravity and layout parameters change gravity and layout parameter on the basis of your requirenment

How to make an authenticated web request in Powershell?

The PowerShell is almost exactly the same.

$webclient = new-object System.Net.WebClient
$webclient.Credentials = new-object System.Net.NetworkCredential($username, $password, $domain)
$webpage = $webclient.DownloadString($url)

How to get html to print return value of javascript function?

you could change the innerHtml on an element

function produceMessage(){
    var msg= 'Hello<br />';
     document.getElementById('someElement').innerHTML = msg;
}

Continuous Integration vs. Continuous Delivery vs. Continuous Deployment

DevOps is a combination of 3C's - continuous, communication, collaboration and this lead to prime focus in various industries.

In an IoT connected devices world, multiple scrum features like product owner, web, mobile and QA working in an agile manner in a scrum of scrum cycle to deliver a product to end customer.

Continuous integration: Multiple scrum feature working simultanrouly in multiple endpoints

Continuous delivery: With integration and deployment, delivery of product to multiple customers to be handled at the same time.

Continuous deployment: multiple products deployed to multiple customers at multiple platform.

Watch this to know how DevOps enabling IoT connected world: https://youtu.be/nAfZt2t4HqA

Global variables in header file

You should not define global variables in header files. You can declare them as extern in header file and define them in a .c source file.

(Note: In C, int i; is a tentative definition, it allocates storage for the variable (= is a definition) if there is no other definition found for that variable in the translation unit.)

Can't find/install libXtst.so.6?

Your problem comes from the 32/64 bit version of your JDK/JRE... Your shared lib is searched for a 32 bit version.

Your default JDK is a 32 bit version. Try to install a 64 bit one by default and relaunch your `.sh file.

How do I get next month date from today's date and insert it in my database?

I know - sort of late. But I was working at the same problem. If a client buys a month of service, he/she expects to end it a month later. Here's how I solved it:

    $now = time(); 
    $day = date('j',$now);
    $year = date('o',$now);
    $month = date('n',$now);
    $hour = date('G');
    $minute = date('i');
    $month += $count;
    if ($month > 12)        {
            $month -= 12;
            $year++; 
            }
    $work = strtotime($year . "-" . $month . "-01");
    $avail = date('t',$work);
    if ($day > $avail)
            $day = $avail;
    $stamp = strtotime($year . "-" . $month . "-" . $day . " " . $hour . ":" . $minute);

This will calculate the exact day n*count months from now (where count <= 12). If the service started March 31, 2019 and runs for 11 months, it will end on Feb 29, 2020. If it runs for just one month, the end date is Apr 30, 2019.

Reliable way for a Bash script to get the full path to itself

Perhaps the accepted answer to the following question may be of help.

How can I get the behavior of GNU's readlink -f on a Mac?

Given that you just want to canonicalize the name you get from concatenating $PWD and $0 (assuming that $0 is not absolute to begin with), just use a series of regex replacements along the line of abs_dir=${abs_dir//\/.\//\/} and such.

Yes, I know it looks horrible, but it'll work and is pure Bash.

When do you use map vs flatMap in RxJava?

In that scenario use map, you don't need a new Observable for it.

you should use Exceptions.propagate, which is a wrapper so you can send those checked exceptions to the rx mechanism

Observable<String> obs = Observable.from(jsonFile).map(new Func1<File, String>() { 
    @Override public String call(File file) {
        try { 
            return new Gson().toJson(new FileReader(file), Object.class);
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            throw Exceptions.propagate(t); /will propagate it as error
        } 
    } 
});

You then should handle this error in the subscriber

obs.subscribe(new Subscriber<String>() {
    @Override 
    public void onNext(String s) { //valid result }

    @Override 
    public void onCompleted() { } 

    @Override 
    public void onError(Throwable e) { //e might be the FileNotFoundException you got }
};); 

There is an excellent post for it: http://blog.danlew.net/2015/12/08/error-handling-in-rxjava/

What is the best workaround for the WCF client `using` block issue?

I like this way of closing connection:

var client = new ProxyClient();
try
{
    ...
    client.Close();
}
finally
{
    if(client.State != CommunicationState.Closed)
        client.Abort();
}

How can I insert vertical blank space into an html document?

i always use this cheap word for vertical spaces.

    <p>Q1</p>
    <br>
    <p>Q2</p>

String index out of range: 4

You are using the wrong iteration counter, replace inp.charAt(i) with inp.charAt(j).

What is "android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1"?

No need to go to external links, everything you need is located on your computer already:

Android\android-sdk\platforms\android-x\data\res\layout.

Source code for all android layouts are located here.

What is the difference between ArrayList.clear() and ArrayList.removeAll()?

Array => once the space is allocated for an Array variable at the run time, the allocated space can not be extended or removed.

ArrayList => This is not the case in arraylist. ArrayList can grow and shrink at the run time. The allocated space can be minimized or maximized at the run time.

scroll up and down a div on button click using jquery

Where did it come from scrollBottom this is not a valid property it should be scrollTop and this can be positive(+) or negative(-) values to scroll down(+) and up(-), so you can change:

scrollBottom 

to this scrollTop:

$("#upClick").on("click", function () {
    scrolled = scrolled - 300;

    $(".cover").animate({
        scrollTop: scrolled
    });//^^^^^^^^------------------------------this one
});

how to output every line in a file python

Firstly, as @l33tnerd said, f.close should be outside the for loop.

Secondly, you are only calling readline once, before the loop. That only reads the first line. The trick is that in Python, files act as iterators, so you can iterate over the file without having to call any methods on it, and that will give you one line per iteration:

 if data.find('!masters') != -1:
     f = open('masters.txt')
     for line in f:
           print line,
           sck.send('PRIVMSG ' + chan + " " + line)
     f.close()

Finally, you were referring to the variable lines inside the loop; I assume you meant to refer to line.

Edit: Oh and you need to indent the contents of the if statement.

how to check if object already exists in a list

If you use EF core add

 .UseSerialColumn();

Example

modelBuilder.Entity<JobItem>(entity =>
        {
            entity.ToTable("jobs");

            entity.Property(e => e.Id)
                .HasColumnName("id")
                .UseSerialColumn();
});

Android Studio Gradle: Error:Execution failed for task ':app:processDebugGoogleServices'. > No matching client found for package

I found success using this configuration:

classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:1.5.0'
classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:2.0.0-alpha3'
//or use
//classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:2.0.0-alpha6'

and

distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.10-all.zip

using 8.40 Google Play services. Alpha5 & Alpha6 gave the same 2.8 error you had, regardless of the distributionUrl being 2.10

Parse XML using JavaScript

The following will parse an XML string into an XML document in all major browsers, including Internet Explorer 6. Once you have that, you can use the usual DOM traversal methods/properties such as childNodes and getElementsByTagName() to get the nodes you want.

var parseXml;
if (typeof window.DOMParser != "undefined") {
    parseXml = function(xmlStr) {
        return ( new window.DOMParser() ).parseFromString(xmlStr, "text/xml");
    };
} else if (typeof window.ActiveXObject != "undefined" &&
       new window.ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM")) {
    parseXml = function(xmlStr) {
        var xmlDoc = new window.ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
        xmlDoc.async = "false";
        xmlDoc.loadXML(xmlStr);
        return xmlDoc;
    };
} else {
    throw new Error("No XML parser found");
}

Example usage:

var xml = parseXml("<foo>Stuff</foo>");
alert(xml.documentElement.nodeName);

Which I got from https://stackoverflow.com/a/8412989/1232175.

Does Spring Data JPA have any way to count entites using method name resolving?

Working example

@Repository
public interface TenantRepository extends JpaRepository< Tenant, Long > {
    List<Tenant>findByTenantName(String tenantName,Pageable pageRequest);
    long countByTenantName(String tenantName);
}

Calling from DAO layer

@Override
public long countByTenantName(String tenantName) {
    return repository.countByTenantName(tenantName);
}

How Can I Remove “public/index.php” in the URL Generated Laravel?

I tried this on Laravel 4.2

Rename the server.php in the your Laravel root folder to index.php and copy the .htaccess file from /public directory to your Laravel root folder.

I hope it works

Azure SQL Database "DTU percentage" metric

From this document, this DTU percent is determined by this query:

SELECT end_time,   
  (SELECT Max(v)    
   FROM (VALUES (avg_cpu_percent), (avg_data_io_percent), 
(avg_log_write_percent)) AS    
   value(v)) AS [avg_DTU_percent]   
FROM sys.dm_db_resource_stats;  

looks like the max of avg_cpu_percent, avg_data_io_percent and avg_log_write_percent

Reference:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/system-dynamic-management-views/sys-dm-db-resource-stats-azure-sql-database

AngularJS event on window innerWidth size change

If Khanh TO's solution caused UI issues for you (like it did for me) try using $timeout to not update the attribute until it has been unchanged for 500ms.

var oldWidth = window.innerWidth;
$(window).on('resize.doResize', function () {
    var newWidth = window.innerWidth,
        updateStuffTimer;

    if (newWidth !== oldWidth) {
        $timeout.cancel(updateStuffTimer);
    }

    updateStuffTimer = $timeout(function() {
         updateStuff(newWidth); // Update the attribute based on window.innerWidth
    }, 500);
});

$scope.$on('$destroy',function (){
    $(window).off('resize.doResize'); // remove the handler added earlier
});

Reference: https://gist.github.com/tommaitland/7579618

Creating a BLOB from a Base64 string in JavaScript

The method with fetch is the best solution, but if anyone needs to use a method without fetch then here it is, as the ones mentioned previously didn't work for me:

function makeblob(dataURL) {
    const BASE64_MARKER = ';base64,';
    const parts = dataURL.split(BASE64_MARKER);
    const contentType = parts[0].split(':')[1];
    const raw = window.atob(parts[1]);
    const rawLength = raw.length;
    const uInt8Array = new Uint8Array(rawLength);

    for (let i = 0; i < rawLength; ++i) {
        uInt8Array[i] = raw.charCodeAt(i);
    }

    return new Blob([uInt8Array], { type: contentType });
}

How to enter a multi-line command

Just add a corner case here. It might save you 5 minutes. If you use a chain of actions, you need to put "." at the end of line, leave a space followed by the "`" (backtick). I found this out the hard way.

$yourString = "HELLO world! POWERSHELL!". `
                  Replace("HELLO", "Hello"). `
                  Replace("POWERSHELL", "Powershell")

How do I find duplicates across multiple columns?

 SELECT name, city, count(*) as qty 
 FROM stuff 
 GROUP BY name, city HAVING count(*)> 1

CSS force image resize and keep aspect ratio

If the application can have an image of any aspect ratio or resolution then you can manage height and width as in this link.

This uses Javascript and HTML

https://stackoverflow.com/a/65090175/13338731

jQuery Mobile: document ready vs. page events

Some of you might find this useful. Just copy paste it to your page and you will get a sequence in which events are fired in the Chrome console (Ctrl + Shift + I).

$(document).on('pagebeforecreate',function(){console.log('pagebeforecreate');});
$(document).on('pagecreate',function(){console.log('pagecreate');});
$(document).on('pageinit',function(){console.log('pageinit');});
$(document).on('pagebeforehide',function(){console.log('pagebeforehide');});
$(document).on('pagebeforeshow',function(){console.log('pagebeforeshow');});
$(document).on('pageremove',function(){console.log('pageremove');});
$(document).on('pageshow',function(){console.log('pageshow');});
$(document).on('pagehide',function(){console.log('pagehide');});
$(window).load(function () {console.log("window loaded");});
$(window).unload(function () {console.log("window unloaded");});
$(function () {console.log('document ready');});

You are not going see unload in the console as it is fired when the page is being unloaded (when you move away from the page). Use it like this:

$(window).unload(function () { debugger; console.log("window unloaded");});

And you will see what I mean.

Dynamically Fill Jenkins Choice Parameter With Git Branches In a Specified Repo

You may try this, This list dynamic branch names in dropdown w.r.t inputted Git Repo.

Jenkins Plugins required:

  1. Validating String Parameter
  2. Active Choices

OPTION 1: Jenkins File:

    properties([
        [$class: 'JobRestrictionProperty'], parameters([validatingString(defaultValue: 'https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes.git', description: 'Input Git Repo (https) Url', failedValidationMessage: 'Invalid Git Url. Retry again', name: 'GIT_REPO', regex: 'https://.*'), [$class: 'CascadeChoiceParameter', choiceType: 'PT_SINGLE_SELECT', description: 'Select Git Branch Name', filterLength: 1, filterable: false, name: 'BRANCH_NAME', randomName: 'choice-parameter-8292706885056518', referencedParameters: 'GIT_REPO', script: [$class: 'GroovyScript', fallbackScript: [classpath: [], sandbox: false, script: 'return[\'Error - Unable to retrive Branch name\']'], script: [classpath: [], sandbox: false, script: ''
                            'def GIT_REPO_SRC = GIT_REPO.tokenize(\'/\')
                            GIT_REPO_FULL = GIT_REPO_SRC[-2] + \'/\' + GIT_REPO_SRC[-1]
                            def GET_LIST = ("git ls-remote --heads [email protected]:${GIT_REPO_FULL}").execute()
                            GET_LIST.waitFor()
                            BRANCH_LIST = GET_LIST.in.text.readLines().collect {
                                it.split()[1].replaceAll("refs/heads/", "").replaceAll("refs/tags/", "").replaceAll("\\\\^\\\\{\\\\}", "")
                            }
                            return BRANCH_LIST ''
                            ']]]]), throttleJobProperty(categories: [], limitOneJobWithMatchingParams: false, maxConcurrentPerNode: 0, maxConcurrentTotal: 0, paramsToUseForLimit: '
                            ', throttleEnabled: false, throttleOption: '
                            project '), [$class: '
                            JobLocalConfiguration ', changeReasonComment: '
                            ']])
    try {
        node('master') {
            stage('Print Variables') {
                echo "Branch Name: ${BRANCH_NAME}"
            }
    }
    catch (e) {
        currentBuild.result = "FAILURE"
        print e.getMessage();
        print e.getStackTrace();
    }



OPTION 2: Jenkins UI

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Regular expression to find URLs within a string

If you have to be strict on selecting links, I would go for:

(?i)\b((?:[a-z][\w-]+:(?:/{1,3}|[a-z0-9%])|www\d{0,3}[.]|[a-z0-9.\-]+[.][a-z]{2,4}/)(?:[^\s()<>]+|\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\))+(?:\(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))*\)|[^\s`!()\[\]{};:'".,<>?«»“”‘’]))

For more infos, read this:

An Improved Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs

Using group by on two fields and count in SQL

I think you're looking for: SELECT a, b, COUNT(a) FROM tbl GROUP BY a, b

Difference between getContext() , getApplicationContext() , getBaseContext() and "this"

  • View.getContext(): Returns the context the view is currently running in. Usually the currently active Activity.

  • Activity.getApplicationContext(): Returns the context for the entire application (the process all the Activities are running inside of). Use this instead of the current Activity context if you need a context tied to the lifecycle of the entire application, not just the current Activity.

  • ContextWrapper.getBaseContext(): If you need access to a Context from within another context, you use a ContextWrapper. The Context referred to from inside that ContextWrapper is accessed via getBaseContext().

Correct set of dependencies for using Jackson mapper

The package names in Jackson 2.x got changed to com.fasterxml1 from org.codehaus2. So if you just need ObjectMapper, I think Jackson 1.X can satisfy with your needs.

Excel error HRESULT: 0x800A03EC while trying to get range with cell's name

Interesting enough, this error also occurs, at time of opening when the .XLS? file is incorrectly formed or require repairs.

A hard to find error is to many rows on a .xls (old excel) file.

Test it: manually open the affected file with excel desktop .

I use automation to process a few hundred files daily, when this error show up, I notify the owner via mail and save the unprocessed file on a temporary location.

How do you make a LinearLayout scrollable?

Wrap the linear layout with a <ScrollView>

See here for an example:

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <LinearLayout 
       android:layout_width="fill_parent"
       android:layout_height="fill_parent"
       xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
       <ScrollView
            android:layout_width="fill_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content">
            <LinearLayout 
                  android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                  android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                  android:orientation="vertical">
                  <!-- Content here -->
            </LinearLayout>
      </ScrollView>
 </LinearLayout>

Note: fill_parent is deprecated and renamed to match_parent in API Level 8 and higher.

How to embed a .mov file in HTML?

Well, if you don't want to do the work yourself (object elements aren't really all that hard), you could always use Mike Alsup's Media plugin: http://jquery.malsup.com/media/

What is an Endpoint?

The term Endpoint was initially used for WCF services. Later even though this word is being used synonymous to API resources, REST recommends to call these URI (URI[s] which understand HTTP verbs and follow REST architecture) as "Resource".

In a nutshell, a Resource or Endpoint is kind of an entry point to a remotely hosted application which lets the users to communicate to it via HTTP protocol.

Delete all files in directory (but not directory) - one liner solution

Or to use this in Java 8:

try {
  Files.newDirectoryStream( directory ).forEach( file -> {
    try { Files.delete( file ); }
    catch ( IOException e ) { throw new UncheckedIOException(e); }
  } );
}
catch ( IOException e ) {
  e.printStackTrace();
}

It's a pity the exception handling is so bulky, otherwise it would be a one-liner ...

What is an index in SQL?

An index is used to speed up the performance of queries. It does this by reducing the number of database data pages that have to be visited/scanned.

In SQL Server, a clustered index determines the physical order of data in a table. There can be only one clustered index per table (the clustered index IS the table). All other indexes on a table are termed non-clustered.

How to detect duplicate values in PHP array?

$count = 0;
$output ='';
$ischeckedvalueArray = array();
for ($i=0; $i < sizeof($array); $i++) {
    $eachArrayValue = $array[$i];
    if(! in_array($eachArrayValue, $ischeckedvalueArray)) {
        for( $j=$i; $j < sizeof($array); $j++) {
            if ($array[$j] === $eachArrayValue) {
                $count++;
            }
        }
        $ischeckedvalueArray[] = $eachArrayValue;
        $output .= $eachArrayValue. " Repated ". $count."<br/>";
        $count = 0;
    }

}

echo $output;

How to run two jQuery animations simultaneously?

If you run the above as they are, they will appear to run simultaenously.

Here's some test code:

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(function () {
    $('#first').animate({ width: 200 }, 200);
    $('#second').animate({ width: 600 }, 200);
});
</script>
<div id="first" style="border:1px solid black; height:50px; width:50px"></div>
<div id="second" style="border:1px solid black; height:50px; width:50px"></div>

R: `which` statement with multiple conditions

The && function is not vectorized. You need the & function:

EUR <- PCs[which(PCs$V13 < 9 & PCs$V13 > 3), ]

In Tensorflow, get the names of all the Tensors in a graph

You can do

[n.name for n in tf.get_default_graph().as_graph_def().node]

Also, if you are prototyping in an IPython notebook, you can show the graph directly in notebook, see show_graph function in Alexander's Deep Dream notebook

Android Gradle 5.0 Update:Cause: org.jetbrains.plugins.gradle.tooling.util

I upgraded my IntelliJ Version from 2018.1 to 2018.3.6. It works !

How to create a user in Django?

The correct way to create a user in Django is to use the create_user function. This will handle the hashing of the password, etc..

from django.contrib.auth.models import User
user = User.objects.create_user(username='john',
                                 email='[email protected]',
                                 password='glass onion')

Shell script to check if file exists

One liner to check file exist or not -

awk 'BEGIN {print getline < "file.txt" < 0 ? "File does not exist" : "File Exists"}'

How do I find the location of my Python site-packages directory?

All the answers (or: the same answer repeated over and over) are inadequate. What you want to do is this:

from setuptools.command.easy_install import easy_install
class easy_install_default(easy_install):
  """ class easy_install had problems with the fist parameter not being
      an instance of Distribution, even though it was. This is due to
      some import-related mess.
      """

  def __init__(self):
    from distutils.dist import Distribution
    dist = Distribution()
    self.distribution = dist
    self.initialize_options()
    self._dry_run = None
    self.verbose = dist.verbose
    self.force = None
    self.help = 0
    self.finalized = 0

e = easy_install_default()
import distutils.errors
try:
  e.finalize_options()
except distutils.errors.DistutilsError:
  pass

print e.install_dir

The final line shows you the installation dir. Works on Ubuntu, whereas the above ones don't. Don't ask me about windows or other dists, but since it's the exact same dir that easy_install uses by default, it's probably correct everywhere where easy_install works (so, everywhere, even macs). Have fun. Note: original code has many swearwords in it.

How to add a browser tab icon (favicon) for a website?

I have created an online Favicon Generator with which you can create favicons from Font Awesome Icons. You can preview the created favicon live in the browser.

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If you want additional features please feel free to submit an issue or a pull request here :).

Set colspan dynamically with jquery

I've also found that if you had display:none, then programmatically changed it to be visible, you might also have to set

$tr.css({display:'table-row'});

rather than display:inline or display:block otherwise the cell might only show as taking up 1 cell, no matter how large you have the colspan set to.

Java synchronized block vs. Collections.synchronizedMap

If you are using JDK 6 then you might want to check out ConcurrentHashMap

Note the putIfAbsent method in that class.

How to pass multiple checkboxes using jQuery ajax post

Here's a more flexible way.

let's say this is your form.

<form>
<input type='checkbox' name='user_ids[]' value='1'id='checkbox_1' />
<input type='checkbox' name='user_ids[]' value='2'id='checkbox_2' />
<input type='checkbox' name='user_ids[]' value='3'id='checkbox_3' />
<input name="confirm" type="button" value="confirm" onclick="submit_form();" />
</form>

And this is your jquery ajax below...

                // Don't get confused at this portion right here
                // cuz "var data" will get all the values that the form
                // has submitted in the $_POST. It doesn't matter if you 
                // try to pass a text or password or select form element.
                // Remember that the "form" is not a name attribute
                // of the form, but the "form element" itself that submitted
                // the current post method
                var data = $("form").serialize(); 

                $.ajax({
                    url: "link/of/your/ajax.php", // link of your "whatever" php
                    type: "POST",
                    async: true,
                    cache: false,
                    data: data, // all data will be passed here
                    success: function(data){ 
                        alert(data) // The data that is echoed from the ajax.php
                    }
                });

And in your ajax.php, you try echoing or print_r your post to see what's happening inside it. This should look like this. Only checkboxes that you checked will be returned. If you didn't checked any, it will return an error.

<?php 
    print_r($_POST); // this will be echoed back to you upon success.
    echo "This one too, will be echoed back to you";

Hope that is clear enough.

Get GPS location via a service in Android

Here is my solution

Step1 Register Serice in manifest

<receiver
    android:name=".MySMSBroadcastReceiver"
    android:exported="true">
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="com.google.android.gms.auth.api.phone.SMS_RETRIEVED" />
    </intent-filter>
</receiver>

Step2 Code Of Service

public class FusedLocationService extends Service {

    private String mLastUpdateTime = null;

    // bunch of location related apis
    private FusedLocationProviderClient mFusedLocationClient;
    private SettingsClient mSettingsClient;
    private LocationRequest mLocationRequest;
    private LocationSettingsRequest mLocationSettingsRequest;
    private LocationCallback mLocationCallback;
    private Location lastLocation;

    // location updates interval - 10sec
    private static final long UPDATE_INTERVAL_IN_MILLISECONDS = 5000;

    // fastest updates interval - 5 sec
    // location updates will be received if another app is requesting the locations
    // than your app can handle
    private static final long FASTEST_UPDATE_INTERVAL_IN_MILLISECONDS = 500;
    private DatabaseReference locationRef;
    private int notificationBuilder = 0;
    private boolean isInitRef;

    @Override
    public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) {
        Log.log("LOCATION GET DURATION", "start in service");
        init();
        return START_STICKY;
    }

    /**
     * Initilize Location Apis
     * Create Builder if Share location true
     */
    private void init() {
        mFusedLocationClient = LocationServices.getFusedLocationProviderClient(this);
        mSettingsClient = LocationServices.getSettingsClient(this);
        mLocationCallback = new LocationCallback() {
            @Override
            public void onLocationResult(LocationResult locationResult) {
                super.onLocationResult(locationResult);
                receiveLocation(locationResult);
            }
        };

        mLocationRequest = new LocationRequest();
        mLocationRequest.setInterval(UPDATE_INTERVAL_IN_MILLISECONDS);
        mLocationRequest.setFastestInterval(FASTEST_UPDATE_INTERVAL_IN_MILLISECONDS);
        mLocationRequest.setPriority(LocationRequest.PRIORITY_HIGH_ACCURACY);

        LocationSettingsRequest.Builder builder = new LocationSettingsRequest.Builder();
        builder.addLocationRequest(mLocationRequest);
        mLocationSettingsRequest = builder.build();
        startLocationUpdates();
    }

    /**
     * Request Location Update
     */
    @SuppressLint("MissingPermission")
    private void startLocationUpdates() {
        mSettingsClient
                .checkLocationSettings(mLocationSettingsRequest)
                .addOnSuccessListener(locationSettingsResponse -> {
                    Log.log(TAG, "All location settings are satisfied. No MissingPermission");

                    //noinspection MissingPermission
                    mFusedLocationClient.requestLocationUpdates(mLocationRequest, mLocationCallback, Looper.myLooper());
                })
                .addOnFailureListener(e -> {
                    int statusCode = ((ApiException) e).getStatusCode();
                    switch (statusCode) {
                        case LocationSettingsStatusCodes.RESOLUTION_REQUIRED:
                            Log.loge("Location settings are not satisfied. Attempting to upgrade " + "location settings ");
                            break;
                        case LocationSettingsStatusCodes.SETTINGS_CHANGE_UNAVAILABLE:
                            Log.loge("Location settings are inadequate, and cannot be " + "fixed here. Fix in Settings.");
                    }
                });
    }

    /**
     * onLocationResult
     * on Receive Location  share to other activity and save if save true
     *
     * @param locationResult
     */
    private void receiveLocation(LocationResult locationResult) {
        lastLocation = locationResult.getLastLocation();

        LocationInstance.getInstance().changeState(lastLocation);

        saveLocation();
    }

    private void saveLocation() {
        String saveLocation = getsaveLocationStatus(this);

        if (saveLocation.equalsIgnoreCase("true") && notificationBuilder == 0) {
            notificationBuilder();
            notificationBuilder = 1;
        } else if (saveLocation.equalsIgnoreCase("false") && notificationBuilder == 1) {
            ((NotificationManager) getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE)).cancel(1);
            notificationBuilder = 0;
        }

        Log.logd("receiveLocation : Share :- " + saveLocation + ", [Lat " + lastLocation.getLatitude() + ", Lng" + lastLocation.getLongitude() + "], Time :- " + mLastUpdateTime);

        if (saveLocation.equalsIgnoreCase("true") || getPreviousMin() < getCurrentMin()) {
            setLatLng(this, lastLocation);

            mLastUpdateTime = DateFormat.getTimeInstance().format(new Date());

            if (isOnline(this) && !getUserId(this).equalsIgnoreCase("")) {
                if (!isInitRef) {
                    locationRef = getFirebaseInstance().child(getUserId(this)).child("location");
                    isInitRef = true;
                }
                if (isInitRef) {
                    locationRef.setValue(new LocationModel(lastLocation.getLatitude(), lastLocation.getLongitude(), mLastUpdateTime));
                }
            }
        }
    }

    private int getPreviousMin() {
        int previous_min = 0;
        if (mLastUpdateTime != null) {
            String[] pretime = mLastUpdateTime.split(":");
            previous_min = Integer.parseInt(pretime[1].trim()) + 1;

            if (previous_min > 59) {
                previous_min = 0;
            }
        }
        return previous_min;
    }

    @Override
    public void onDestroy() {
        super.onDestroy();
        stopLocationUpdates();
    }

    /**
     * Remove Location Update
     */
    public void stopLocationUpdates() {
        mFusedLocationClient
                .removeLocationUpdates(mLocationCallback)
                .addOnCompleteListener(task -> Log.logd("stopLocationUpdates : "));
    }

    private void notificationBuilder() {
        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 26) {
            String CHANNEL_ID = "my_channel_01";
            NotificationChannel channel = new NotificationChannel(CHANNEL_ID, "Channel human readable title",
                    NotificationManager.IMPORTANCE_DEFAULT);

            ((NotificationManager) getSystemService(Context.NOTIFICATION_SERVICE)).createNotificationChannel(channel);

            Notification notification = new NotificationCompat.Builder(this, CHANNEL_ID)
                    .setContentTitle("")
                    .setContentText("").build();

            startForeground(1, notification);
        }
    }

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

Step 3

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

Step 4

implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-location:16.0.0'

Can anyone explain python's relative imports?

Checking it out in python3:

python -V
Python 3.6.5

Example1:

.
+-- parent.py
+-- start.py
+-- sub
    +-- relative.py

- start.py
import sub.relative

- parent.py
print('Hello from parent.py')

- sub/relative.py
from .. import parent

If we run it like this(just to make sure PYTHONPATH is empty):

PYTHONPATH='' python3 start.py

Output:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "start.py", line 1, in <module>
    import sub.relative
  File "/python-import-examples/so-example-v1/sub/relative.py", line 1, in <module>
    from .. import parent
ValueError: attempted relative import beyond top-level package

If we change import in sub/relative.py

- sub/relative.py
import parent

If we run it like this:

PYTHONPATH='' python3 start.py

Output:

Hello from parent.py

Example2:

.
+-- parent.py
+-- sub
    +-- relative.py
    +-- start.py

- parent.py
print('Hello from parent.py')

- sub/relative.py
print('Hello from relative.py')

- sub/start.py
import relative
from .. import parent

Run it like:

PYTHONPATH='' python3 sub/start.py

Output:

Hello from relative.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "sub/start.py", line 2, in <module>
    from .. import parent
ValueError: attempted relative import beyond top-level package

If we change import in sub/start.py:

- sub/start.py
import relative
import parent

Run it like:

PYTHONPATH='' python3 sub/start.py

Output:

Hello from relative.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "sub/start.py", line 3, in <module>
    import parent
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'parent'

Run it like:

PYTHONPATH='.' python3 sub/start.py

Output:

Hello from relative.py
Hello from parent.py

Also it's better to use import from root folder, i.e.:

- sub/start.py
import sub.relative
import parent

Run it like:

PYTHONPATH='.' python3 sub/start.py

Output:

Hello from relative.py
Hello from parent.py

Android: How to bind spinner to custom object list?

For simple solutions you can just Overwrite the "toString" in your object

public class User{
    public int ID;
    public String name;

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return name;
    }
}

and then you can use:

ArrayAdapter<User> dataAdapter = new ArrayAdapter<User>(mContext, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item, listOfUsers);

This way your spinner will show only the user names.

How to get the CPU Usage in C#?

CMS has it right, but also if you use the server explorer in visual studio and play around with the performance counter tab then you can figure out how to get lots of useful metrics.

Why do people use Heroku when AWS is present? What distinguishes Heroku from AWS?

Well Heroku uses AWS in background, it all depends on the type of solution you need. If you are a core linux and devops guy you are not worried about creating vm from scratch like selecting ami choosing palcement options etc, you can go with AWS. If you want to do things on surface level without having those nettigrities you can go with heroku.

Error message 'Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information.'

As it has been mentioned before, it's usually the case of an assembly not being there.

To know exactly what assembly you're missing, attach your debugger, set a breakpoint and when you see the exception object, drill down to the 'LoaderExceptions' property. The missing assembly should be there.

Hope it helps!

Temporary tables in stored procedures

Not really and I am talking about SQL Server. The temp table (with single #) exists and is visible within the scope it is created (scope-bound). Each time you call your stored procedure it creates a new scope and therefore that temp table exists only in that scope. I believe the temp tables are also visible to stored procedures and udfs that're called within that scope as well. If you however use double pound (##) then they become global within your session and therefore visible to other executing processes as part of the session that the temp table is created in and you will have to think if the possibility of temp table being accessed concurrently is desirable or not.

How to convert an ASCII character into an int in C

Use the ASCII to Integer atoi() function which accepts a string and converts it into an integer:

#include <stdlib.h>

int num = atoi("23"); // 23

If the string contains a decimal, the number will be truncated:

int num = atoi("23.21"); // 23

How to find out if a Python object is a string?

Python 3

In Python 3.x basestring is not available anymore, as str is the sole string type (with the semantics of Python 2.x's unicode).

So the check in Python 3.x is just:

isinstance(obj_to_test, str)

This follows the fix of the official 2to3 conversion tool: converting basestring to str.

Enterprise app deployment doesn't work on iOS 7.1

I had the same problem and although I was already using an SSL server, simply changing the links to https wasn't working as there was an underlying problem.

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That highlighted bit told me that we should be given the option to trust the certificate, but since this is the app store, working through Safari that recovery suggestion just isn't presented.


I wasn't happy with the existing solutions because:

  • Some options require dependance on a third party (Dropbox)
  • We weren't willing to pay for an SSL certificate
    • Free SSL certificates are only a temporary solution.

I finally found a solution by creating a Self Signed Root Certificate Authority and generating our server's SSL certificate using this.

I used Keychain Access and OSX Server, but there are other valid solutions to each step


Creating a Certificate Authority

From what I gather, certificate authorities are used to verify that certificates are genuine. Since we're about to create one ourselves, it's not exactly secure, but it means that you can trust all certificates from a given authority. A list of these authorities is usually included by default in your browsers as these are actually trusted. (GeoTrust Global CA, Verisign etc)

  • Open Keychain and use the certificate assistant to create an authority

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  • Fill in your Certificate Authority Information

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  • I don't know if it's necessary, but I made the authority trusted.

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Generating a Certificate Signing Request

In our case, certificate signing requests are generated by the server admin. Simply it's a file that asks "Can I have a certificate with this information for my site please".

  • Next you'll have to create your Certificate Signing Request (I used OSX Server's Certificates manager for this bit

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  • Fill in your certificate information (Must contain only ascii chars!, thanks @Jasper Blues)

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  • Save the generate CSR somewhere

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Creating the Certificate

Acting as the certificate authority again, it's up to you to decide if the person who sent you the CSR is genuine and they're not pretending to be somebody else. Real authorities have their own ways of doing this, but since you are hopefully quite sure that you are you, your verification should be quite certain :)

  • Go back to Keychain Access and open the "Create A Certificate.." option as shown

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  • Drag in your saved CSR to the box indicated

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  • Click the "Let me override defaults for this request button"

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  • I like to increase the validity period.

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  • For some reason, we have to fill in some information again

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  • Click continue on this screen

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  • MAKE SURE YOU CLICK SSL SERVER AUTHENTICATION, this one caused me some headaches.

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  • You can click continue through the rest of the options.

  • The Mail app will open giving you the chance to send the certificate. Instead of emailing, right click it and save it.

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Installing the Certificate

We now need to set up the server to use the certificate we just created for it's SSL traffic.

  • If the device your working on is your server, you might find the certificate is already installed.

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  • If not though, double click the Pending certificate and drag the PEM file that we just saved from the email into the space indicated. (Alternatively, you can export your PEM from keychain if you didn't save it.)

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  • Update your server to use this new certificate. If you find that the new certificate won't "stick" and keeps reverting, go back to the bit in BOLD ITALIC CAPS

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Setting Up Devices

Each device you need to install apps on will need to have a copy of this certificate authority so that they know they can trust SSL certificates from that authority

  • Go back to Keychain Access and export your certificate authority as a .cer

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  • I then put this file on my server with my OTA apps, users can click this link and download the authority certificate. Emailing the certificate directly to users is also a valid option.

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  • Install the certificate on your device.

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Test

  • Make sure your plist links are https

    • Try and install an app! It should now work. The certificate authority is trusted and the SSL certificate came from that authority.

Git: "Corrupt loose object"

Looks like you have a corrupt tree object. You will need to get that object from someone else. Hopefully they will have an uncorrupted version.

You could actually reconstruct it if you can't find a valid version from someone else by guessing at what files should be there. You may want to see if the dates & times of the objects match up to it. Those could be the related blobs. You could infer the structure of the tree object from those objects.

Take a look at Scott Chacon's Git Screencasts regarding git internals. This will show you how git works under the hood and how to go about doing this detective work if you are really stuck and can't get that object from someone else.

How to create a 100% screen width div inside a container in bootstrap?

2019's answer as this is still actively seen today

You should likely change the .container to .container-fluid, which will cause your container to stretch the entire screen. This will allow any div's inside of it to naturally stretch as wide as they need.

original hack from 2015 that still works in some situations

You should pull that div outside of the container. You're asking a div to stretch wider than its parent, which is generally not recommended practice.

If you cannot pull it out of the div for some reason, you should change the position style with this css:

.full-width-div {
    position: absolute;
    width: 100%;
    left: 0;
}

Instead of absolute, you could also use fixed, but then it will not move as you scroll.

phpmyadmin.pma_table_uiprefs doesn't exist

A really simple solution is to edit /etc/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php and put

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

It just manages the UI and who needs the UI if its interfering with display of actual data.

cheers

X-UA-Compatible is set to IE=edge, but it still doesn't stop Compatibility Mode

Even if you have unchecked the "Display intranet sites in Compatibility View" option, and have the X-UA-Compatible in your response headers, there is another reason why your browser might default to "Compatibility View" anyways - your Group Policy. Look at your console for the following message:

HTML1203: xxx.xxx has been configured to run in Compatibility View through Group Policy.

Where xxx.xxx is the domain for your site (i.e. test.com). If you see this then the group policy for your domain is set so that any site ending in test.com will automatically render in Compatibility mode regardless of doctype, headers, etc.

For more information, please see the following link (explains the html codes): http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/hh180764(v=vs.85).aspx

OrderBy descending in Lambda expression?

LastOrDefault() is usually not working but with the Tolist() it will work. There is no need to use OrderByDescending use Tolist() like this.

GroupBy(p => p.Nws_ID).ToList().LastOrDefault();

PHP parse/syntax errors; and how to solve them

Unexpected T_IS_EQUAL
Unexpected T_IS_GREATER_OR_EQUAL
Unexpected T_IS_IDENTICAL
Unexpected T_IS_NOT_EQUAL
Unexpected T_IS_NOT_IDENTICAL
Unexpected T_IS_SMALLER_OR_EQUAL
Unexpected <
Unexpected >

Comparison operators such as ==, >=, ===, !=, <>, !== and <= or < and > mostly should be used just in expressions, such as if expressions. If the parser complains about them, then it often means incorrect paring or mismatched ( ) parens around them.

  1. Parens grouping

    In particular for if statements with multiple comparisons you must take care to correctly count opening and closing parenthesis:

                            ?
    if (($foo < 7) && $bar) > 5 || $baz < 9) { ... }
                          ?
    

    Here the if condition here was already terminated by the )

    Once your comparisons become sufficiently complex it often helps to split it up into multiple and nested if constructs rather.

  2. isset() mashed with comparing

    A common newcomer is pitfal is trying to combine isset() or empty() with comparisons:

                            ?
    if (empty($_POST["var"] == 1)) {
    

    Or even:

                        ?
    if (isset($variable !== "value")) {
    

    This doesn't make sense to PHP, because isset and empty are language constructs that only accept variable names. It doesn't make sense to compare the result either, because the output is only/already a boolean.

  3. Confusing >= greater-or-equal with => array operator

    Both operators look somewhat similar, so they sometimes get mixed up:

             ?
    if ($var => 5) { ... }
    

    You only need to remember that this comparison operator is called "greater than or equal" to get it right.

    See also: If statement structure in PHP

  4. Nothing to compare against

    You also can't combine two comparisons if they pertain the same variable name:

                     ?
    if ($xyz > 5 and < 100)
    

    PHP can't deduce that you meant to compare the initial variable again. Expressions are usually paired according to operator precedence, so by the time the < is seen, there'd be only a boolean result left from the original variable.

    See also: unexpected T_IS_SMALLER_OR_EQUAL

  5. Comparison chains

    You can't compare against a variable with a row of operators:

                      ?
     $reult = (5 < $x < 10);
    

    This has to be broken up into two comparisons, each against $x.

    This is actually more a case of blacklisted expressions (due to equivalent operator associativity). It's syntactically valid in a few C-style languages, but PHP wouldn't interpret it as expected comparison chain either.

  6. Unexpected >
    Unexpected <

    The greater than > or less than < operators don't have a custom T_XXX tokenizer name. And while they can be misplaced like all they others, you more often see the parser complain about them for misquoted strings and mashed HTML:

                            ?
    print "<a href='z">Hello</a>";
                     ?
    

    This amounts to a string "<a href='z" being compared > to a literal constant Hello and then another < comparison. Or that's at least how PHP sees it. The actual cause and syntax mistake was the premature string " termination.

    It's also not possible to nest PHP start tags:

    <?php echo <?php my_func(); ?>
               ?
    

See also:

How to put labels over geom_bar in R with ggplot2

To plot text on a ggplot you use the geom_text. But I find it helpful to summarise the data first using ddply

dfl <- ddply(df, .(x), summarize, y=length(x))
str(dfl)

Since the data is pre-summarized, you need to remember to change add the stat="identity" parameter to geom_bar:

ggplot(dfl, aes(x, y=y, fill=x)) + geom_bar(stat="identity") +
    geom_text(aes(label=y), vjust=0) +
    opts(axis.text.x=theme_blank(),
        axis.ticks=theme_blank(),
        axis.title.x=theme_blank(),
        legend.title=theme_blank(),
        axis.title.y=theme_blank()
)

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How to write a unit test for a Spring Boot Controller endpoint

The new testing improvements that debuted in Spring Boot 1.4.M2 can help reduce the amount of code you need to write situation such as these.

The test would look like so:

import static org.springframework.test.web.servlet.request.MockMvcRequestB??uilders.get; 
import static org.springframework.test.web.servlet.result.MockMvcResultMat??chers.content; 
import static org.springframework.test.web.servlet.result.MockMvcResultMat??chers.status;

    @RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
    @WebMvcTest(HelloWorld.class)
    public class UserVehicleControllerTests {

        @Autowired
        private MockMvc mockMvc;

        @Test
        public void testSayHelloWorld() throws Exception {
            this.mockMvc.perform(get("/").accept(MediaType.parseMediaType("application/json;charset=UTF-8")))
                    .andExpect(status().isOk())
                    .andExpect(content().contentType("application/json"));

        }

    }

See this blog post for more details as well as the documentation

m2eclipse not finding maven dependencies, artifacts not found

I had this issue for dependencies that were created in other projects. Downloaded thirdparty dependencies showed up fine in the build path, but not a library that I had created.

SOLUTION: In the project that is not building correctly, right-click on the project and choose Properties, and then Maven. Uncheck the box labeled "Resolve dependencies from Workspace projects", hit Apply, and then OK. Right-click again on your project and do a Maven->Update Snapshots (or Update Dependencies) and your errors should go away when your project rebuilds (automatically if you have auto-build enabled).

ExecuteNonQuery doesn't return results

The ExecuteNonQuery method is used for SQL statements that are not queries, such as INSERT, UPDATE, ... You want to use ExecuteScalar or ExecuteReader if you expect your statement to return results (i.e. a query).

Django optional url parameters

Use ? work well, you can check on pythex. Remember to add the parameters *args and **kwargs in the definition of the view methods

url('project_config/(?P<product>\w+)?(/(?P<project_id>\w+/)?)?', tool.views.ProjectConfig, name='project_config')

startForeground fail after upgrade to Android 8.1

This worked for me. In my service class, I created the notification channel for android 8.1 as below:

public class Service extends Service {

    public static final String NOTIFICATION_CHANNEL_ID_SERVICE = "com.package.MyService";
    public static final String NOTIFICATION_CHANNEL_ID_INFO = "com.package.download_info";

    @Override
    public void onCreate() {

        super.onCreate();
        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.O) {
            NotificationManager nm = (NotificationManager) getSystemService(NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
            nm.createNotificationChannel(new NotificationChannel(NOTIFICATION_CHANNEL_ID_SERVICE, "App Service", NotificationManager.IMPORTANCE_DEFAULT));
            nm.createNotificationChannel(new NotificationChannel(NOTIFICATION_CHANNEL_ID_INFO, "Download Info", NotificationManager.IMPORTANCE_DEFAULT));
        } else {
            Notification notification = new Notification();
            startForeground(1, notification);
        }
    }
}

Note: Create the channel where you are creating the Notification for Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.O

VBA: activating/selecting a worksheet/row/cell

This is just a sample code, but it may help you get on your way:

Public Sub testIt()
    Workbooks("Workbook2").Activate
    ActiveWorkbook.Sheets("Sheet2").Activate
    ActiveSheet.Range("B3").Select
    ActiveCell.EntireRow.Insert
End Sub

I am assuming that you can open the book (called Workbook2 in the example).


I think (but I'm not sure) you can squash all this in a single line of code:

    Workbooks("Workbook2").Sheets("Sheet2").Range("B3").EntireRow.Insert

This way you won't need to activate the workbook (or sheet or cell)... Obviously, the book has to be open.

There is an error in XML document (1, 41)

In my case I had a float value expected where xml had a null value so be sure to search for float and int data type in your xsd map

Inserting image into IPython notebook markdown

For those looking where to place the image file on the Jupyter machine so that it could be shown from the local file system.

I put my mypic.png into

/root/Images/mypic.png

(that is the Images folder that shows up in the Jupyter online file browser)

In that case I need to put the following line into the Markdown cell to make my pic showing in the notepad:

![My Title](Images/mypic.png)

Zip lists in Python

When you zip() together three lists containing 20 elements each, the result has twenty elements. Each element is a three-tuple.

See for yourself:

In [1]: a = b = c = range(20)

In [2]: zip(a, b, c)
Out[2]: 
[(0, 0, 0),
 (1, 1, 1),
 ...
 (17, 17, 17),
 (18, 18, 18),
 (19, 19, 19)]

To find out how many elements each tuple contains, you could examine the length of the first element:

In [3]: result = zip(a, b, c)

In [4]: len(result[0])
Out[4]: 3

Of course, this won't work if the lists were empty to start with.

How to reverse MD5 to get the original string?

Its not possible thats the whole point of hashing. You can however bruteforce by going through all possibilities (using all possible digits characters in every possible order) and hashing them and checking for a collision.

for more information on hashing and MD5 etc see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5 , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_function , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function and http://onin.com/hhh/hhhexpl.html

I myself created my own app to do this, its open source you can check the link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jpassrecovery/ and of course the source. Here is the source for easy access it has a basic implementation in the comments:

Bruter.java:

import java.util.ArrayList;

public class Bruter {

    public ArrayList<String> characters = new ArrayList<>();
    public boolean found = false;
    public int maxLength;
    public int minLength;
    public int count;
    long starttime, endtime;
    public int minutes, seconds, hours, days;
    public char[] specialCharacters = {'~', '`', '!', '@', '#', '$', '%', '^',
        '&', '*', '(', ')', '_', '-', '+', '=', '{', '}', '[', ']', '|', '\\',
        ';', ':', '\'', '"', '<', '.', ',', '>', '/', '?', ' '};
    public boolean done = false;
    public boolean paused = false;

    public boolean isFound() {
        return found;
    }

    public void setPaused(boolean paused) {
        this.paused = paused;
    }

    public boolean isPaused() {
        return paused;
    }

    public void setFound(boolean found) {
        this.found = found;
    }

    public synchronized void setEndtime(long endtime) {
        this.endtime = endtime;
    }

    public int getCounter() {
        return count;
    }

    public long getRemainder() {
        return getNumberOfPossibilities() - count;
    }

    public long getNumberOfPossibilities() {
        long possibilities = 0;
        for (int i = minLength; i <= maxLength; i++) {
            possibilities += (long) Math.pow(characters.size(), i);
        }
        return possibilities;
    }

    public void addExtendedSet() {
        for (char c = (char) 0; c <= (char) 31; c++) {
            characters.add(String.valueOf(c));
        }
    }

    public void addStandardCharacterSet() {
        for (char c = (char) 32; c <= (char) 127; c++) {
            characters.add(String.valueOf(c));
        }
    }

    public void addLowerCaseLetters() {
        for (char c = 'a'; c <= 'z'; c++) {
            characters.add(String.valueOf(c));
        }
    }

    public void addDigits() {
        for (int c = 0; c <= 9; c++) {
            characters.add(String.valueOf(c));
        }
    }

    public void addUpperCaseLetters() {
        for (char c = 'A'; c <= 'Z'; c++) {
            characters.add(String.valueOf(c));
        }
    }

    public void addSpecialCharacters() {
        for (char c : specialCharacters) {
            characters.add(String.valueOf(c));
        }
    }

    public void setMaxLength(int i) {
        maxLength = i;
    }

    public void setMinLength(int i) {
        minLength = i;
    }

    public int getPerSecond() {
        int i;
        try {
            i = (int) (getCounter() / calculateTimeDifference());
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            return 0;
        }
        return i;

    }

    public String calculateTimeElapsed() {
        long timeTaken = calculateTimeDifference();
        seconds = (int) timeTaken;
        if (seconds > 60) {
            minutes = (int) (seconds / 60);
            if (minutes * 60 > seconds) {
                minutes = minutes - 1;
            }

            if (minutes > 60) {
                hours = (int) minutes / 60;
                if (hours * 60 > minutes) {
                    hours = hours - 1;
                }
            }

            if (hours > 24) {
                days = (int) hours / 24;
                if (days * 24 > hours) {
                    days = days - 1;
                }
            }
            seconds -= (minutes * 60);
            minutes -= (hours * 60);
            hours -= (days * 24);
            days -= (hours * 24);
        }
        return "Time elapsed: " + days + "days " + hours + "h " + minutes + "min " + seconds + "s";
    }

    private long calculateTimeDifference() {
        long timeTaken = (long) ((endtime - starttime) * (1 * Math.pow(10, -9)));
        return timeTaken;
    }

    public boolean excludeChars(String s) {
        char[] arrayChars = s.toCharArray();
        for (int i = 0; i < arrayChars.length; i++) {
            characters.remove(arrayChars[i] + "");
        }
        if (characters.size() < maxLength) {
            return false;
        } else {
            return true;

        }
    }

    public int getMaxLength() {
        return maxLength;
    }

    public int getMinLength() {
        return minLength;
    }

    public void setIsDone(Boolean b) {
        done = b;
    }

    public boolean isDone() {
        return done;
    }
}

HashBruter.java:

import java.security.MessageDigest;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
import java.util.zip.Adler32;
import java.util.zip.CRC32;
import java.util.zip.Checksum;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;

public class HashBruter extends Bruter {
    /*
     * public static void main(String[] args) {
     *
     * final HashBruter hb = new HashBruter();
     *
     * hb.setMaxLength(5); hb.setMinLength(1);
     *
     * hb.addSpecialCharacters(); hb.addUpperCaseLetters();
     * hb.addLowerCaseLetters(); hb.addDigits();
     *
     * hb.setType("sha-512");
     *
     * hb.setHash("282154720ABD4FA76AD7CD5F8806AA8A19AEFB6D10042B0D57A311B86087DE4DE3186A92019D6EE51035106EE088DC6007BEB7BE46994D1463999968FBE9760E");
     *
     * Thread thread = new Thread(new Runnable() {
     *
     * @Override public void run() { hb.tryBruteForce(); } });
     *
     * thread.start();
     *
     * while (!hb.isFound()) { System.out.println("Hash: " +
     * hb.getGeneratedHash()); System.out.println("Number of Possibilities: " +
     * hb.getNumberOfPossibilities()); System.out.println("Checked hashes: " +
     * hb.getCounter()); System.out.println("Estimated hashes left: " +
     * hb.getRemainder()); }
     *
     * System.out.println("Found " + hb.getType() + " hash collision: " +
     * hb.getGeneratedHash() + " password is: " + hb.getPassword());
     *
     * }
     */

    public String hash, generatedHash, password;
    public String type;

    public String getType() {
        return type;
    }

    public String getPassword() {
        return password;
    }

    public void setHash(String p) {
        hash = p;
    }

    public void setType(String digestType) {
        type = digestType;
    }

    public String getGeneratedHash() {
        return generatedHash;
    }

    public void tryBruteForce() {
        starttime = System.nanoTime();
        for (int size = minLength; size <= maxLength; size++) {
            if (found == true || done == true) {
                break;
            } else {
                while (paused) {
                    try {
                        Thread.sleep(500);
                    } catch (InterruptedException ex) {
                        ex.printStackTrace();
                    }
                }
                generateAllPossibleCombinations("", size);
            }
        }
        done = true;
    }

    private void generateAllPossibleCombinations(String baseString, int length) {
        while (paused) {
            try {
                Thread.sleep(500);
            } catch (InterruptedException ex) {
                ex.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
        if (found == false || done == false) {
            if (baseString.length() == length) {
                if(type.equalsIgnoreCase("crc32")) {
                generatedHash = generateCRC32(baseString);
                } else if(type.equalsIgnoreCase("adler32")) {
                generatedHash = generateAdler32(baseString);
                } else if(type.equalsIgnoreCase("crc16")) {
                    generatedHash=generateCRC16(baseString);
                } else if(type.equalsIgnoreCase("crc64")) {
                    generatedHash=generateCRC64(baseString.getBytes());
                }
                else {
                generatedHash = generateHash(baseString.toCharArray());
                }
                    password = baseString;
                if (hash.equals(generatedHash)) {
                    password = baseString;
                    found = true;
                    done = true;
                }
                count++;
            } else if (baseString.length() < length) {
                for (int n = 0; n < characters.size(); n++) {
                    generateAllPossibleCombinations(baseString + characters.get(n), length);
                }
            }
        }
    }

    private String generateHash(char[] passwordChar) {
        MessageDigest md = null;
        try {
            md = MessageDigest.getInstance(type);
        } catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e1) {
            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "No such algorithm for hashes exists", "Error", JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);
        }
        String passwordString = new String(passwordChar);
        byte[] passwordByte = passwordString.getBytes();
        md.update(passwordByte, 0, passwordByte.length);
        byte[] encodedPassword = md.digest();
        String encodedPasswordInString = toHexString(encodedPassword);
        return encodedPasswordInString;
    }

    private void byte2hex(byte b, StringBuffer buf) {
        char[] hexChars = {'0', '1', '2', '3', '4', '5', '6', '7', '8',
            '9', 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D', 'E', 'F'};
        int high = ((b & 0xf0) >> 4);
        int low = (b & 0x0f);
        buf.append(hexChars[high]);
        buf.append(hexChars[low]);
    }

    private String toHexString(byte[] block) {
        StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
        int len = block.length;
        for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
            byte2hex(block[i], buf);
        }
        return buf.toString();
    }

    private String generateCRC32(String baseString) {

                //Convert string to bytes
                byte bytes[] = baseString.getBytes();

                Checksum checksum = new CRC32();

                /*
                 * To compute the CRC32 checksum for byte array, use
                 *
                 * void update(bytes[] b, int start, int length)
                 * method of CRC32 class.
                 */

                checksum.update(bytes,0,bytes.length);

                /*
                 * Get the generated checksum using
                 * getValue method of CRC32 class.
                 */
                return String.valueOf(checksum.getValue());
    }   
    private String generateAdler32(String baseString) {

                //Convert string to bytes
                byte bytes[] = baseString.getBytes();

                Checksum checksum = new Adler32();

                /*
                 * To compute the CRC32 checksum for byte array, use
                 *
                 * void update(bytes[] b, int start, int length)
                 * method of CRC32 class.
                 */

                checksum.update(bytes,0,bytes.length);

                /*
                 * Get the generated checksum using
                 * getValue method of CRC32 class.
                 */
                return String.valueOf(checksum.getValue());
    }
/*************************************************************************
 *  Compilation:  javac CRC16.java
 *  Execution:    java CRC16 s
 *  
 *  Reads in a string s as a command-line argument, and prints out
 *  its 16-bit Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC16). Uses a lookup table.
 *
 *  Reference:  http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/lxr/source/lib/crc16.c
 *
 *  % java CRC16 123456789
 *  CRC16 = bb3d
 *
 * Uses irreducible polynomial:  1 + x^2 + x^15 + x^16
 *
 *
 *************************************************************************/
    private String generateCRC16(String baseString) {
                int[] table = {
            0x0000, 0xC0C1, 0xC181, 0x0140, 0xC301, 0x03C0, 0x0280, 0xC241,
            0xC601, 0x06C0, 0x0780, 0xC741, 0x0500, 0xC5C1, 0xC481, 0x0440,
            0xCC01, 0x0CC0, 0x0D80, 0xCD41, 0x0F00, 0xCFC1, 0xCE81, 0x0E40,
            0x0A00, 0xCAC1, 0xCB81, 0x0B40, 0xC901, 0x09C0, 0x0880, 0xC841,
            0xD801, 0x18C0, 0x1980, 0xD941, 0x1B00, 0xDBC1, 0xDA81, 0x1A40,
            0x1E00, 0xDEC1, 0xDF81, 0x1F40, 0xDD01, 0x1DC0, 0x1C80, 0xDC41,
            0x1400, 0xD4C1, 0xD581, 0x1540, 0xD701, 0x17C0, 0x1680, 0xD641,
            0xD201, 0x12C0, 0x1380, 0xD341, 0x1100, 0xD1C1, 0xD081, 0x1040,
            0xF001, 0x30C0, 0x3180, 0xF141, 0x3300, 0xF3C1, 0xF281, 0x3240,
            0x3600, 0xF6C1, 0xF781, 0x3740, 0xF501, 0x35C0, 0x3480, 0xF441,
            0x3C00, 0xFCC1, 0xFD81, 0x3D40, 0xFF01, 0x3FC0, 0x3E80, 0xFE41,
            0xFA01, 0x3AC0, 0x3B80, 0xFB41, 0x3900, 0xF9C1, 0xF881, 0x3840,
            0x2800, 0xE8C1, 0xE981, 0x2940, 0xEB01, 0x2BC0, 0x2A80, 0xEA41,
            0xEE01, 0x2EC0, 0x2F80, 0xEF41, 0x2D00, 0xEDC1, 0xEC81, 0x2C40,
            0xE401, 0x24C0, 0x2580, 0xE541, 0x2700, 0xE7C1, 0xE681, 0x2640,
            0x2200, 0xE2C1, 0xE381, 0x2340, 0xE101, 0x21C0, 0x2080, 0xE041,
            0xA001, 0x60C0, 0x6180, 0xA141, 0x6300, 0xA3C1, 0xA281, 0x6240,
            0x6600, 0xA6C1, 0xA781, 0x6740, 0xA501, 0x65C0, 0x6480, 0xA441,
            0x6C00, 0xACC1, 0xAD81, 0x6D40, 0xAF01, 0x6FC0, 0x6E80, 0xAE41,
            0xAA01, 0x6AC0, 0x6B80, 0xAB41, 0x6900, 0xA9C1, 0xA881, 0x6840,
            0x7800, 0xB8C1, 0xB981, 0x7940, 0xBB01, 0x7BC0, 0x7A80, 0xBA41,
            0xBE01, 0x7EC0, 0x7F80, 0xBF41, 0x7D00, 0xBDC1, 0xBC81, 0x7C40,
            0xB401, 0x74C0, 0x7580, 0xB541, 0x7700, 0xB7C1, 0xB681, 0x7640,
            0x7200, 0xB2C1, 0xB381, 0x7340, 0xB101, 0x71C0, 0x7080, 0xB041,
            0x5000, 0x90C1, 0x9181, 0x5140, 0x9301, 0x53C0, 0x5280, 0x9241,
            0x9601, 0x56C0, 0x5780, 0x9741, 0x5500, 0x95C1, 0x9481, 0x5440,
            0x9C01, 0x5CC0, 0x5D80, 0x9D41, 0x5F00, 0x9FC1, 0x9E81, 0x5E40,
            0x5A00, 0x9AC1, 0x9B81, 0x5B40, 0x9901, 0x59C0, 0x5880, 0x9841,
            0x8801, 0x48C0, 0x4980, 0x8941, 0x4B00, 0x8BC1, 0x8A81, 0x4A40,
            0x4E00, 0x8EC1, 0x8F81, 0x4F40, 0x8D01, 0x4DC0, 0x4C80, 0x8C41,
            0x4400, 0x84C1, 0x8581, 0x4540, 0x8701, 0x47C0, 0x4680, 0x8641,
            0x8201, 0x42C0, 0x4380, 0x8341, 0x4100, 0x81C1, 0x8081, 0x4040,
        };


        byte[] bytes = baseString.getBytes();
        int crc = 0x0000;
        for (byte b : bytes) {
            crc = (crc >>> 8) ^ table[(crc ^ b) & 0xff];
        }

        return Integer.toHexString(crc);
    }
    /*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2009, 2012 Mountainminds GmbH & Co. KG and Contributors
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 *    Marc R. Hoffmann - initial API and implementation
 *    
 *******************************************************************************/

/**
 * CRC64 checksum calculator based on the polynom specified in ISO 3309. The
 * implementation is based on the following publications:
 * 
 * <ul>
 * <li>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_redundancy_check</li>
 * <li>http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/8659/crc.htm</li>
 * </ul>
 */
    private static final long POLY64REV = 0xd800000000000000L;

    private static final long[] LOOKUPTABLE;

    static {
        LOOKUPTABLE = new long[0x100];
        for (int i = 0; i < 0x100; i++) {
            long v = i;
            for (int j = 0; j < 8; j++) {
                if ((v & 1) == 1) {
                    v = (v >>> 1) ^ POLY64REV;
                } else {
                    v = (v >>> 1);
                }
            }
            LOOKUPTABLE[i] = v;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Calculates the CRC64 checksum for the given data array.
     * 
     * @param data
     *            data to calculate checksum for
     * @return checksum value
     */
    public static String generateCRC64(final byte[] data) {
        long sum = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
            final int lookupidx = ((int) sum ^ data[i]) & 0xff;
            sum = (sum >>> 8) ^ LOOKUPTABLE[lookupidx];
        }
        return String.valueOf(sum);
    }
}

you would use it like:

      final HashBruter hb = new HashBruter();

      hb.setMaxLength(5); hb.setMinLength(1);

     hb.addSpecialCharacters(); hb.addUpperCaseLetters();
     hb.addLowerCaseLetters(); hb.addDigits();

      hb.setType("sha-512");

                   hb.setHash("282154720ABD4FA76AD7CD5F8806AA8A19AEFB6D10042B0D57A311B86087DE4DE3186A92019D6EE51035106EE088DC6007BEB7BE46994D1463999968FBE9760E");

      Thread thread = new Thread(new Runnable() {

      @Override public void run() { hb.tryBruteForce(); } });

      thread.start();

      while (!hb.isFound()) { System.out.println("Hash: " +
      hb.getGeneratedHash()); System.out.println("Number of Possibilities: " +
      hb.getNumberOfPossibilities()); System.out.println("Checked hashes: " +
     hb.getCounter()); System.out.println("Estimated hashes left: " +
     hb.getRemainder()); }

     System.out.println("Found " + hb.getType() + " hash collision: " +
     hb.getGeneratedHash() + " password is: " + hb.getPassword());

How to convert date into this 'yyyy-MM-dd' format in angular 2

The date can be converted in typescript to this format 'yyyy-MM-dd' by using Datepipe

import { DatePipe } from '@angular/common'
...
constructor(public datepipe: DatePipe){}
...
myFunction(){
 this.date=new Date();
 let latest_date =this.datepipe.transform(this.date, 'yyyy-MM-dd');
}

and just add Datepipe in 'providers' array of app.module.ts. Like this:

import { DatePipe } from '@angular/common'
...
providers: [DatePipe]

How to display pdf in php

Try this below code

<?php
$file = 'dummy.pdf';
$filename = 'dummy.pdf';
header('Content-type: application/pdf');
header('Content-Disposition: inline; filename="' . $filename . '"');
header('Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary');
header('Content-Length: ' . filesize($file));
header('Accept-Ranges: bytes');
@readfile($file);
?>

Demo

Replace the single quote (') character from a string

You can escape the apostrophe with a \ character as well:

mystring.replace('\'', '')

Writing .csv files from C++

You must ";" separator, CSV => Comma Separator Value

 ofstream Morison_File ("linear_wave_loading.csv");         //Opening file to print info to
    Morison_File << "'Time'; 'Force(N/m)' " << endl;          //Headings for file
    for (t = 0; t <= 20; t++) {
      u = sin(omega * t);
      du = cos(omega * t); 
      F = (0.5 * rho * C_d * D * u * fabs(u)) + rho * Area * C_m * du; 

      cout << "t = " << t << "\t\tF = " << F << endl;
      Morison_File << t << ";" << F;

    }

     Morison_File.close();

Change multiple files

@PaulR posted this as a comment, but people should view it as an answer (and this answer works best for my needs):

sed -i 's/abc/xyz/g' xa*

This will work for a moderate amount of files, probably on the order of tens, but probably not on the order of millions.

Conversion from Long to Double in Java

Long i = 1000000;
String s = i + "";
Double d = Double.parseDouble(s);
Float f = Float.parseFloat(s);

This way we can convert Long type to Double or Float or Int without any problem because it's easy to convert string value to Double or Float or Int.

How to restore to a different database in sql server?

You can create a new db then use the "Restore Wizard" enabling the Overwrite option or;

View the content;

RESTORE FILELISTONLY FROM DISK='c:\your.bak'

note the logical names of the .mdf & .ldf from the results, then;

RESTORE DATABASE MyTempCopy FROM DISK='c:\your.bak'
WITH 
   MOVE 'LogicalNameForTheMDF' TO 'c:\MyTempCopy.mdf',
   MOVE 'LogicalNameForTheLDF' TO 'c:\MyTempCopy_log.ldf'

To create the database MyTempCopy with the contents of your.bak.

Example (restores a backup of a db called 'creditline' to 'MyTempCopy';

RESTORE FILELISTONLY FROM DISK='e:\mssql\backup\creditline.bak'

>LogicalName
>--------------
>CreditLine
>CreditLine_log

RESTORE DATABASE MyTempCopy FROM DISK='e:\mssql\backup\creditline.bak'
WITH 
   MOVE 'CreditLine' TO 'e:\mssql\MyTempCopy.mdf',
   MOVE 'CreditLine_log' TO 'e:\mssql\MyTempCopy_log.ldf'

>RESTORE DATABASE successfully processed 186 pages in 0.010 seconds (144.970 MB/sec).

Angular2 QuickStart npm start is not working correctly

Just: npm install -g lite-server

And then relaunch: npm start

How to get the scroll bar with CSS overflow on iOS

Works fine for me, please try:

.scroll-container {
  max-height: 250px;
  overflow: auto;
  -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;
}

Lambda expression to convert array/List of String to array/List of Integers

I didn't find it in the previous answers, so, with Java 8 and streams:

Convert String[] to Integer[]:

Arrays.stream(stringArray).map(Integer::valueOf).toArray(Integer[]::new)

How to compare each item in a list with the rest, only once?

Your solution is correct, but your outer loop is still longer than needed. You don't need to compare the last element with anything else because it's been already compared with all the others in the previous iterations. Your inner loop still prevents that, but since we're talking about collision detection you can save the unnecessary check.

Using the same language you used to illustrate your algorithm, you'd come with something like this:

for (int i = 0, i < mylist.size() - 1; ++i)
    for (int j = i + 1, j < mylist.size(); --j)
        compare(mylist[i], mylist[j])

How to pass data to all views in Laravel 5?

Inside your config folder you can create a php file name it for example "variable.php" with content below:

<?php

  return [
    'versionNumber' => '122231',
  ];

Now inside all the views you can use it like

config('variable.versionNumber')

WindowsError: [Error 126] The specified module could not be found

When I see things like this - it is usually because there are backslashes in the path which get converted.

For example - the following will fail - because \t in the string is converted to TAB character.

>>> import ctypes
>>> ctypes.windll.LoadLibrary("c:\tools\depends\depends.dll")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "c:\tools\python271\lib\ctypes\__init__.py", line 431, in LoadLibrary
    return self._dlltype(name)
  File "c:\tools\python271\lib\ctypes\__init__.py", line 353, in __init__
    self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
WindowsError: [Error 126] The specified module could not be found

There are 3 solutions (if that is the problem)

a) Use double slashes...

>>> import ctypes
>>> ctypes.windll.LoadLibrary("c:\\tools\\depends\\depends.dll")

b) use forward slashes

>>> import ctypes
>>> ctypes.windll.LoadLibrary("c:/tools/depends/depends.dll")

c) use RAW strings (prefacing the string with r

>>> import ctypes
>>> ctypes.windll.LoadLibrary(r"c:\tools\depends\depends.dll")

While this third one works - I have gotten the impression from time to time that it is not considered 'correct' because RAW strings were meant for regular expressions. I have been using it for paths on Windows in Python for years without problem :) )

error: member access into incomplete type : forward declaration of

You must have the definition of class B before you use the class. How else would the compiler otherwise know that there exists such a function as B::add?

Either define class B before class A, or move the body of A::doSomething to after class B have been defined, like

class B;

class A
{
    B* b;

    void doSomething();
};

class B
{
    A* a;

    void add() {}
};

void A::doSomething()
{
    b->add();
}

Daemon Threads Explanation

A simpler way to think about it, perhaps: when main returns, your process will not exit if there are non-daemon threads still running.

A bit of advice: Clean shutdown is easy to get wrong when threads and synchronization are involved - if you can avoid it, do so. Use daemon threads whenever possible.

Variables within app.config/web.config

You can use environment variables in your app.config for that scenario you describe

<configuration>
  <appSettings>
    <add key="Dir1" value="%MyBaseDir%\Dir1"/>
  </appSettings>
</configuration>

Then you can easily get the path with:

var pathFromConfig = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Dir1"];
var expandedPath = Environment.ExpandEnvironmentVariables(pathFromConfig);

How to convert a Base64 string into a Bitmap image to show it in a ImageView?

This is a great sample:

String base64String = "data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAIAAAACACAYAAADDPmHLAA...";
String base64Image = base64String.split(",")[1];
byte[] decodedString = Base64.decode(base64Image, Base64.DEFAULT);
Bitmap decodedByte = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(decodedString, 0, decodedString.length);
imageView.setImageBitmap(decodedByte);

Sample found at: https://freakycoder.com/android-notes-44-how-to-convert-base64-string-to-bitmap-53f98d5e57af

This is the only code that worked for me in the past.

What is the difference between Select and Project Operations

Select Operation : This operation is used to select rows from a table (relation) that specifies a given logic, which is called as a predicate. The predicate is a user defined condition to select rows of user's choice.

Project Operation : If the user is interested in selecting the values of a few attributes, rather than selection all attributes of the Table (Relation), then one should go for PROJECT Operation.

See more : Relational Algebra and its operations

Set textarea width to 100% in bootstrap modal

I am new to .NET/MVC programming, but my understanding is that the Site.css file (under the Content folder in MVC) is a site-level override for Bootstrap CSS, allowing you to override bootstrap native settings in a portable and non-destructive manner (e.g. you can easily save and reapply your site.css changes when updating Bootstrap on your system.)

In Bootstrap 3.0.0, Site.css has the following style setting:

/* Set width on the form input elements since they're 100% wide by default */
input,
select,
textarea {
    max-width: 280px;
}

Other blogs have suggested that this 280px width was added in haste near a release date, in a desire to make the UI look better than it does with 100% width input. Fortunately it was placed in a "visible" location in the site file so you would notice it.

Simply change the width setting, either for all three input types, or pull out textarea and give it its own setting if you want to leave the others alone.

How do you exit from a void function in C++?

Use a return statement!

return;

or

if (condition) return;

You don't need to (and can't) specify any values, if your method returns void.

How to select a column name with a space in MySQL

Generally the first step is to not do that in the first place, but if this is already done, then you need to resort to properly quoting your column names:

SELECT `Business Name` FROM annoying_table

Usually these sorts of things are created by people who have used something like Microsoft Access and always use a GUI to do their thing.

jQuery datepicker years shown

If you look down the demo page a bit, you'll see a "Restricting Datepicker" section. Use the dropdown to specify the "Year dropdown shows last 20 years" demo , and hit view source:

$("#restricting").datepicker({ 
    yearRange: "-20:+0", // this is the option you're looking for
    showOn: "both", 
    buttonImage: "templates/images/calendar.gif", 
    buttonImageOnly: true 
});

You'll want to do the same (obviously changing -20 to -100 or something).

Laravel 4: Redirect to a given url

Yes, it's

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Redirect;

return Redirect::to('http://heera.it');

Check the documentation.

Update: Redirect::away('url') (For external link, Laravel Version 4.19):

public function away($path, $status = 302, $headers = array())
{
    return $this->createRedirect($path, $status, $headers);
}

How to refresh or show immediately in datagridview after inserting?

Try refreshing the datagrid after each insert

datagridview1.update();
datagridview1.refresh();  

Hope this helps you!

Typescript: How to extend two classes?

In design patterns there is a principle called "favouring composition over inheritance". It says instead of inheriting Class B from Class A ,put an instance of class A inside class B as a property and then you can use functionalities of class A inside class B. You can see some examples of that here and here.

java.security.AccessControlException: Access denied (java.io.FilePermission

Just document it here on Windows you need to escape the \ character:

"e:\\directory\\-"

Setting button text via javascript

Create a text node and append it to the button element:

var t = document.createTextNode("test content");
b.appendChild(t);

how do I get eclipse to use a different compiler version for Java?

Just to clarify, do you have JAVA_HOME set as a system variable or set in Eclipse classpath variables? I'm pretty sure (but not totally sure!) that the system variable is used by the command line compiler (and Ant), but that Eclipse modifies this accroding to the JDK used

how to drop database in sqlite?

If you want to delete database programatically you can use deleteDatabase from Context class:

deleteDatabase(String name)
Delete an existing private SQLiteDatabase associated with this Context's application package.

How do I calculate someone's age in Java?

Check out Joda, which simplifies date/time calculations (Joda is also the basis of the new standard Java date/time apis, so you'll be learning a soon-to-be-standard API).

EDIT: Java 8 has something very similar and is worth checking out.

e.g.

LocalDate birthdate = new LocalDate (1970, 1, 20);
LocalDate now = new LocalDate();
Years age = Years.yearsBetween(birthdate, now);

which is as simple as you could want. The pre-Java 8 stuff is (as you've identified) somewhat unintuitive.

Add a user control to a wpf window

Make sure there is an namespace definition (xmlns) for the namespace your control belong to.

xmlns:myControls="clr-namespace:YourCustomNamespace.Controls;assembly=YourAssemblyName"
<myControls:thecontrol/>

Calculate mean across dimension in a 2D array

If you do this a lot, NumPy is the way to go.

If for some reason you can't use NumPy:

>>> map(lambda x:sum(x)/float(len(x)), zip(*a))
[45.0, 10.5]

Facebook page automatic "like" URL (for QR Code)

For a hyperlink just use www.facebook.com/++page ID++/like

Eg: www.facebook.com/MYPAGEISAWESOME/like

To make it work with m.facebook.com here's what you do:

Open the Facebook page you're looking for then change the URL to the mobile URL ( which is www.m.facebook.com/MYPAGEISAWESOME ).

Now you should see a big version of the mobile Facebook page. Copy the target URL of the like button.

Pop that URL into the QR generator to make a "scan to like" barcode. This will open the m.Facebook page in the browser of most mobiles directly from the QR reader. If they are not logged into Facebook then they will be prompted to log in and then click 'like'. If logged in, it will auto like.

Hope this helps!

Also, definitely include something with a "click here/scan here to like us on Facebook"

Programmatically change the height and width of a UIImageView Xcode Swift

imageView is a subview of the main view. It works this way

image.frame = CGRectMake(0 , 0, super.view.frame.width, super.view.frame.height * 0.2)

Android: remove notification from notification bar

This is quite simple. You have to call cancel or cancelAll on your NotificationManager. The parameter of the cancel method is the ID of the notification that should be canceled.

See the API: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/NotificationManager.html#cancel(int)

How to convert milliseconds to seconds with precision

Why don't you simply try

System.out.println(1500/1000.0);
System.out.println(500/1000.0);

PHP str_replace replace spaces with underscores

Try this instead:

$journalName = preg_replace('/\s+/', '_', $journalName);

Explanation: you are most likely seeing whitespace, not just plain spaces (there is a difference).

Why is lock(this) {...} bad?

There's also some good discussion about this here: Is this the proper use of a mutex?

Getting time difference between two times in PHP

You can also use DateTime class:

$time1 = new DateTime('09:00:59');
$time2 = new DateTime('09:01:00');
$interval = $time1->diff($time2);
echo $interval->format('%s second(s)');

Result:

1 second(s)

relative path in require_once doesn't work

for php version 5.2.17 __DIR__ will not work it will only works with php 5.3

But for older version of php dirname(__FILE__) perfectly

For example write like this

require_once dirname(__FILE__) . '/db_config.php';

How to read GET data from a URL using JavaScript?

I also made a fairly simple function. You call on it by: get("yourgetname");

and get whatever there was. (now that i wrote it i noticed it will give you %26 if you had a & in your value..)

function get(name){
  var url = window.location.search;
  var num = url.search(name);
  var namel = name.length;
  var frontlength = namel+num+1; //length of everything before the value 
  var front = url.substring(0, frontlength);  
  url = url.replace(front, "");  
  num = url.search("&");

 if(num>=0) return url.substr(0,num); 
 if(num<0)  return url;             
}

Difference between "module.exports" and "exports" in the CommonJs Module System

Renee's answer is well explained. Addition to the answer with an example:

Node does a lot of things to your file and one of the important is WRAPPING your file. Inside nodejs source code "module.exports" is returned. Lets take a step back and understand the wrapper. Suppose you have

greet.js

var greet = function () {
   console.log('Hello World');
};

module.exports = greet;

the above code is wrapped as IIFE(Immediately Invoked Function Expression) inside nodejs source code as follows:

(function (exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname) { //add by node

      var greet = function () {
         console.log('Hello World');
      };

      module.exports = greet;

}).apply();                                                  //add by node

return module.exports;                                      //add by node

and the above function is invoked (.apply()) and returned module.exports. At this time module.exports and exports pointing to the same reference.

Now, imagine you re-write greet.js as

exports = function () {
   console.log('Hello World');
};
console.log(exports);
console.log(module.exports);

the output will be

[Function]
{}

the reason is : module.exports is an empty object. We did not set anything to module.exports rather we set exports = function()..... in new greet.js. So, module.exports is empty.

Technically exports and module.exports should point to same reference(thats correct!!). But we use "=" when assigning function().... to exports, which creates another object in the memory. So, module.exports and exports produce different results. When it comes to exports we can't override it.

Now, imagine you re-write (this is called Mutation) greet.js (referring to Renee answer) as

exports.a = function() {
    console.log("Hello");
}

console.log(exports);
console.log(module.exports);

the output will be

{ a: [Function] }
{ a: [Function] }

As you can see module.exports and exports are pointing to same reference which is a function. If you set a property on exports then it will be set on module.exports because in JS, objects are pass by reference.

Conclusion is always use module.exports to avoid confusion. Hope this helps. Happy coding :)

What is the significance of url-pattern in web.xml and how to configure servlet?

url-pattern is used in web.xml to map your servlet to specific URL. Please see below xml code, similar code you may find in your web.xml configuration file.

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>AddPhotoServlet</servlet-name>  //servlet name
    <servlet-class>upload.AddPhotoServlet</servlet-class>  //servlet class
</servlet>
 <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>AddPhotoServlet</servlet-name>   //servlet name
    <url-pattern>/AddPhotoServlet</url-pattern>  //how it should appear
</servlet-mapping>

If you change url-pattern of AddPhotoServlet from /AddPhotoServlet to /MyUrl. Then, AddPhotoServlet servlet can be accessible by using /MyUrl. Good for the security reason, where you want to hide your actual page URL.

Java Servlet url-pattern Specification:

  1. A string beginning with a '/' character and ending with a '/*' suffix is used for path mapping.
  2. A string beginning with a '*.' prefix is used as an extension mapping.
  3. A string containing only the '/' character indicates the "default" servlet of the application. In this case the servlet path is the request URI minus the context path and the path info is null.
  4. All other strings are used for exact matches only.

Reference : Java Servlet Specification

You may also read this Basics of Java Servlet

Insert json file into mongodb

the following two ways work well:

C:\>mongodb\bin\mongoimport --jsonArray -d test -c docs --file example2.json
C:\>mongodb\bin\mongoimport --jsonArray -d test -c docs < example2.json

if the collections are under a specific user, you can use -u -p --authenticationDatabase

Why a function checking if a string is empty always returns true?

I know this thread been pretty old but I just wanted to share one of my function. This function below can check for empty strings, string with maximum lengths, minimum lengths, or exact length. If you want to check for empty strings, just put $min_len and $max_len as 0.

function chk_str( $input, $min_len = null, $max_len = null ){

    if ( !is_int($min_len) && $min_len !== null ) throw new Exception('chk_str(): $min_len must be an integer or a null value.');
    if ( !is_int($max_len) && $max_len !== null ) throw new Exception('chk_str(): $max_len must be an integer or a null value.'); 

    if ( $min_len !== null && $max_len !== null ){
         if ( $min_len > $max_len ) throw new Exception('chk_str(): $min_len can\'t be larger than $max_len.');
    }

    if ( !is_string( $input ) ) {
        return false;
    } else {
        $output = true;
    }

    if ( $min_len !== null ){
        if ( strlen($input) < $min_len ) $output = false;
    }

    if ( $max_len !== null ){
        if ( strlen($input) > $max_len ) $output = false;
    }

    return $output;
}

SOAP client in .NET - references or examples?

Prerequisites: You already have the service and published WSDL file, and you want to call your web service from C# client application.

There are 2 main way of doing this:

A) ASP.NET services, which is old way of doing SOA
B) WCF, as John suggested, which is the latest framework from MS and provides many protocols, including open and MS proprietary ones.

Adding a service reference step by step

The simplest way is to generate proxy classes in C# application (this process is called adding service reference).

  1. Open your project (or create a new one) in visual studio
  2. Right click on the project (on the project and not the solution) in Solution Explorer and click Add Service Reference
  3. A dialog should appear shown in screenshot below. Enter the url of your wsdl file and hit Ok. Note that if you'll receive error message after hitting ok, try removing ?wsdl part from url.

    add service reference dialog

    I'm using http://www.dneonline.com/calculator.asmx?WSDL as an example

  4. Expand Service References in Solution Explorer and double click CalculatorServiceReference (or whatever you named the named the service in the previous step).

    You should see generated proxy class name and namespace.

    In my case, the namespace is SoapClient.CalculatorServiceReference, the name of proxy class is CalculatorSoapClient. As I said above, class names may vary in your case.

    service reference proxy calss

  5. Go to your C# source code and add the following

    using WindowsFormsApplication1.ServiceReference1
    
  6. Now you can call the service this way.

    Service1Client service = new Service1Client();
    int year = service.getCurrentYear();
    

Hope this helps. If you encounter any problems, let us know.

Using jQuery To Get Size of Viewport

Please note that CSS3 viewport units (vh,vw) wouldn't play well on iOS When you scroll the page, viewport size is somehow recalculated and your size of element which uses viewport units also increases. So, actually some javascript is required.

Spring JDBC Template for calling Stored Procedures

There are a number of ways to call stored procedures in Spring.

If you use CallableStatementCreator to declare parameters, you will be using Java's standard interface of CallableStatement, i.e register out parameters and set them separately. Using SqlParameter abstraction will make your code cleaner.

I recommend you looking at SimpleJdbcCall. It may be used like this:

SimpleJdbcCall jdbcCall = new SimpleJdbcCall(jdbcTemplate)
    .withSchemaName(schema)
    .withCatalogName(package)
    .withProcedureName(procedure)();
...
jdbcCall.addDeclaredParameter(new SqlParameter(paramName, OracleTypes.NUMBER));
...
jdbcCall.execute(callParams);

For simple procedures you may use jdbcTemplate's update method:

jdbcTemplate.update("call SOME_PROC (?, ?)", param1, param2);

Multiple conditions in ngClass - Angular 4

I hope this is one of the basic conditional classes

Solution: 1

<section [ngClass]="(condition)? 'class1 class2 ... classN' : 'another class1 ... classN' ">

Solution 2

<section [ngClass]="(condition)? 'class1 class2 ... classN' : '(condition)? 'class1 class2 ... classN':'another class' ">

Solution 3

<section [ngClass]="'myclass': condition, 'className2': condition2">

Hide Twitter Bootstrap nav collapse on click

I just replicate the 2 attributes of the btn-navbar (data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".nav-collapse.in") on each link like this:

<div class="nav-collapse">
  <ul class="nav" >
    <li class="active"><a href="#home" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".nav-collapse.in">Home</a></li>
    <li><a href="#about" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".nav-collapse.in">About</a></li>
    <li><a href="#portfolio" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".nav-collapse.in">Portfolio</a></li>
    <li><a href="#services" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".nav-collapse.in">Services</a></li>
    <li><a href="#contact" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".nav-collapse.in">Contact</a></li>
  </ul>
</div>

In the Bootstrap 4 Navbar, in has changed to show so the syntax would be:

data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".navbar-collapse.show"

Favicon: .ico or .png / correct tags?

I know this is an old question.

Here's another option - attending to different platform requirements - Source

<link rel='shortcut icon' type='image/vnd.microsoft.icon' href='/favicon.ico'> <!-- IE -->
<link rel='apple-touch-icon' type='image/png' href='/icon.57.png'> <!-- iPhone -->
<link rel='apple-touch-icon' type='image/png' sizes='72x72' href='/icon.72.png'> <!-- iPad -->
<link rel='apple-touch-icon' type='image/png' sizes='114x114' href='/icon.114.png'> <!-- iPhone4 -->
<link rel='icon' type='image/png' href='/icon.114.png'> <!-- Opera Speed Dial, at least 144×114 px -->

This is the broadest approach I have found so far.

Ultimately the decision depends on your own needs. Ask yourself, who is your target audience?

UPDATE May 27, 2018: As expected, time goes by and things change. But there's good news too. I found a tool called Real Favicon Generator that generates all the required lines for the icon to work on all modern browsers and platforms. It doesn't handle backwards compatibility though.

How can I edit javascript in my browser like I can use Firebug to edit CSS/HTML?

I know that you can modify a javascript file when using Google Chrome.

  1. Open up Chrome Inspector, go to the "Scripts" tab.
  2. Press the drop-down menu and select the javascript file that you want to edit.
  3. Double click in the text field, type in what ever you want and delete whatever you want.
  4. Then all you have to do is press Ctrl + S to save the file.

Warning: If you refresh the page, all changes will go back to original file. I recommend to copy/paste the code somewhere else if you want to use it again.

Hope this helps!

What is Robocopy's "restartable" option?

Restartable mode (/Z) has to do with a partially-copied file. With this option, should the copy be interrupted while any particular file is partially copied, the next execution of robocopy can pick up where it left off rather than re-copying the entire file.

That option could be useful when copying very large files over a potentially unstable connection.

Backup mode (/B) has to do with how robocopy reads files from the source system. It allows the copying of files on which you might otherwise get an access denied error on either the file itself or while trying to copy the file's attributes/permissions. You do need to be running in an Administrator context or otherwise have backup rights to use this flag.

Get current time in hours and minutes

With bash version >= 4.2:

printf "%(%H:%M)T\n"

or

printf -v foo "%(%H:%M)T\n"
echo "$foo"

See: man bash

How does functools partial do what it does?

Also worth to mention, that when partial function passed another function where we want to "hard code" some parameters, that should be rightmost parameter

def func(a,b):
    return a*b
prt = partial(func, b=7)
    print(prt(4))
#return 28

but if we do the same, but changing a parameter instead

def func(a,b):
    return a*b
 prt = partial(func, a=7)
    print(prt(4))

it will throw error, "TypeError: func() got multiple values for argument 'a'"

Why an inline "background-image" style doesn't work in Chrome 10 and Internet Explorer 8?

As c-smile mentioned: Just need to remove the apostrophes in the url():

<div style="background-image: url(http://i54.tinypic.com/4zuxif.jpg)"></div>

Demo here

Remove all constraints affecting a UIView

The easier and efficient approach is to remove the view from superView and re add as subview again. this causes all the subview constraints get removed automagically.

Does delete on a pointer to a subclass call the base class destructor?

It is named "destructor", not "deconstructor".

Inside the destructor of each class, you have to delete all other member variables that have been allocated with new.

edit: To clarify:

Say you have

struct A {}

class B {
    A *a;
public:
    B () : a (new A) {}
    ~B() { delete a; }
};

class C {
    A *a;
public:
    C () : a (new A) {}        
};

int main () {
    delete new B;
    delete new C;
}

Allocating an instance of B and then deleting is clean, because what B allocates internally will also be deleted in the destructor.

But instances of class C will leak memory, because it allocates an instance of A which it does not release (in this case C does not even have a destructor).

RecyclerView expand/collapse items

After using the recommended way of implementing expandable/collapsible items residing in a RecyclerView on RecyclerView expand/collapse items answered by HeisenBerg, I've seen some noticeable artifacts whenever the RecyclerView is refreshed by invoking TransitionManager.beginDelayedTransition(ViewGroup) and subsequently notifyDatasetChanged().

His original answer:

final boolean isExpanded = position==mExpandedPosition;
holder.details.setVisibility(isExpanded?View.VISIBLE:View.GONE);
holder.itemView.setActivated(isExpanded);
holder.itemView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        mExpandedPosition = isExpanded ? -1 : position;
        TransitionManager.beginDelayedTransition(recyclerView);
        notifyDataSetChanged();
    }
});

Modified:

final boolean isExpanded = position == mExpandedPosition;
holder.details.setVisibility(isExpanded ? View.VISIBLE : View.GONE);
holder.view.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        if (mExpandedHolder != null) {
            mExpandedHolder.details.setVisibility(View.GONE);
            notifyItemChanged(mExpandedPosition);
        }
        mExpandedPosition = isExpanded ? -1 : holder.getAdapterPosition();
        mExpandedHolder = isExpanded ? null : holder;
        notifyItemChanged(holder.getAdapterPosition());
    }
}
  • details is view that you want to show/hide during item expand/collapse
  • mExpandedPosition is an int that keeps track of expanded item
  • mExpandedHolder is a ViewHolder used during item collapse

Notice that the method TransitionManager.beginDelayedTransition(ViewGroup) and notifyDataSetChanged() are replaced by notifyItemChanged(int) to target specific item and some little tweaks.

After the modification, the previous unwanted effects should be gone. However, this may not be the perfect solution. It only did what I wanted, eliminating the eyesores.

::EDIT::

For clarification, both mExpandedPosition and mExpandedHolder are globals.

How to wrap text in LaTeX tables?

Another option is to insert a minipage in each cell where text wrapping is desired, e.g.:

\begin{table}[H]
\begin{tabular}{l}
\begin{minipage}[t]{0.8\columnwidth}%
a very long line a very long line a very long line a very long line
a very long line a very long line a very long line a very long line
a very long line a very long line a very long line %
\end{minipage}\tabularnewline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

How do you determine what SQL Tables have an identity column programmatically

Another potential way to do this for SQL Server, which has less reliance on the system tables (which are subject to change, version to version) is to use the INFORMATION_SCHEMA views:

select COLUMN_NAME, TABLE_NAME
from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
where COLUMNPROPERTY(object_id(TABLE_SCHEMA+'.'+TABLE_NAME), COLUMN_NAME, 'IsIdentity') = 1
order by TABLE_NAME 

Check if a number is int or float

def is_int(x):
  absolute = abs(x)
  rounded = round(absolute)
  if absolute - rounded == 0:
    print str(x) + " is an integer"
  else:
    print str(x) +" is not an integer"


is_int(7.0) # will print 7.0 is an integer

Get a resource using getResource()

Instead of explicitly writing the class name you could use

this.getClass().getResource("/unibo/lsb/res/dice.jpg");

How to search in a List of Java object

As your list is an ArrayList, it can be assumed that it is unsorted. Therefore, there is no way to search for your element that is faster than O(n).

If you can, you should think about changing your list into a Set (with HashSet as implementation) with a specific Comparator for your sample class.

Another possibility would be to use a HashMap. You can add your data as Sample (please start class names with an uppercase letter) and use the string you want to search for as key. Then you could simply use

Sample samp = myMap.get(myKey);

If there can be multiple samples per key, use Map<String, List<Sample>>, otherwise use Map<String, Sample>. If you use multiple keys, you will have to create multiple maps that hold the same dataset. As they all point to the same objects, space shouldn't be that much of a problem.

break statement in "if else" - java

The issue is that you are trying to have multiple statements in an if without using {}. What you currently have is interpreted like:

if( choice==5 )
{
    System.out.println( ... );
}
break;
else
{
    //...
}

You really want:

if( choice==5 )
{
    System.out.println( ... );
    break;
}
else
{
    //...
}

Also, as Farce has stated, it would be better to use else if for all the conditions instead of if because if choice==1, it will still go through and check if choice==5, which would fail, and it will still go into your else block.

if( choice==1 )
    //...
else if( choice==2 )
    //...
else if( choice==3 )
    //...
else if( choice==4 )
    //...
else if( choice==5 )
{
    //...
}
else
    //...

A more elegant solution would be using a switch statement. However, break only breaks from the most inner "block" unless you use labels. So you want to label your loop and break from that if the case is 5:

LOOP:
for(;;)
{
    System.out.println("---> Your choice: ");
    choice = input.nextInt();
    switch( choice )
    {
        case 1:
            playGame();
            break;
        case 2:
            loadGame();
            break;
        case 2:
            options();
            break;
        case 4:
            credits();
            break;
        case 5:
            System.out.println("End of Game\n Thank you for playing with us!");
            break LOOP;
        default:
            System.out.println( ... );
    }
}

Instead of labeling the loop, you could also use a flag to tell the loop to stop.

bool finished = false;
while( !finished )
{
    switch( choice )
    {
        // ...
        case 5:
            System.out.println( ... )
            finished = true;
            break;
        // ...
    }
}

TensorFlow ValueError: Cannot feed value of shape (64, 64, 3) for Tensor u'Placeholder:0', which has shape '(?, 64, 64, 3)'

Powder's comment may go undetected like I missed it so many times,. So with the hope of making it more visible, I will re-iterate his point.

Sometimes using image = array(img).reshape(a,b,c,d) will reshape alright but from experience, my kernel crashes every time I try to use the new dimension in an operation. The safest to use is

np.expand_dims(img, axis=0)

It works perfect every time. I just can't explain why. This link has a great explanation and examples regarding its usage.

Send data through routing paths in Angular

In navigateExtra we can pass only some specific name as argument otherwise it showing error like below: For Ex- Here I want to pass customer key in router navigate and I pass like this-

this.Router.navigate(['componentname'],{cuskey: {customerkey:response.key}});

but it showing some error like below:

Argument of type '{ cuskey: { customerkey: any; }; }' is not assignable to parameter of type 'NavigationExtras'.
  Object literal may only specify known properties, and 'cuskey' does not exist in type 'NavigationExt## Heading ##ras'

.

Solution: we have to write like this:

this.Router.navigate(['componentname'],{state: {customerkey:response.key}});

How to install package from github repo in Yarn

I use this short format for github repositories:

yarn add github_user/repository_name#commit_hash

How to compare two tables column by column in oracle

SELECT *
  FROM (SELECT   table_name, COUNT (*) cnt
            FROM all_tab_columns
           WHERE owner IN ('OWNER_A')
        GROUP BY table_name) x,
       (SELECT   table_name, COUNT (*) cnt
            FROM all_tab_columns
           WHERE owner IN ('OWNER_B')
        GROUP BY table_name) y
 WHERE x.table_name = y.table_name AND x.cnt <> y.cnt;

Convert date time string to epoch in Bash

A lot of these answers overly complicated and also missing how to use variables. This is how you would do it more simply on standard Linux system (as previously mentioned the date command would have to be adjusted for Mac Users) :

Sample script:

#!/bin/bash
orig="Apr 28 07:50:01"
epoch=$(date -d "${orig}" +"%s")
epoch_to_date=$(date -d @$epoch +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)    

echo "RESULTS:"
echo "original = $orig"
echo "epoch conv = $epoch"
echo "epoch to human readable time stamp = $epoch_to_date"

Results in :

RESULTS:
original = Apr 28 07:50:01
epoch conv = 1524916201 
epoch to human readable time stamp = 20180428_075001

Or as a function :

# -- Converts from human to epoch or epoch to human, specifically "Apr 28 07:50:01" human.
#    typeset now=$(date +"%s")
#    typeset now_human_date=$(convert_cron_time "human" "$now")

function convert_cron_time() {
    case "${1,,}" in
        epoch)
            # human to epoch (eg. "Apr 28 07:50:01" to 1524916201)
            echo $(date -d "${2}" +"%s")
            ;;
        human)
            # epoch to human (eg. 1524916201 to "Apr 28 07:50:01")
            echo $(date -d "@${2}" +"%b %d %H:%M:%S")
            ;;
    esac
}

Visual Studio Code always asking for git credentials

Last updated: 05 March, 2019

After 98 upvotes, I think I need to give a true answer with the explanation.

Why does VS code ask for a password? Because VSCode runs the auto-fetch feature, while git server doesn't have any information to authorize your identity. It happens when:

  • Your git repo has https remote url. Yes! This kind of remote will absolutely ask you every time. No exceptions here! (You can do a temporary trick to cache the authorization as the solution below, but this is not recommended.)
  • Your git repo has ssl remote url, BUT you've not copied your ssh public key onto git server. Use ssh-keygen to generate your key and copy it to git server. Done! This solution also helps you never retype password on terminal again. See a good instruction by @Fnatical here for the answer.

The updated part at the end of this answer doesn't really help you at all. (It actually makes you stagnant in your workflow.) It only stops things happening in VSCode and moves these happenings to the terminal.

Sorry if this bad answer has affected you for a long, long time.

--

the original answer (bad)

I found the solution on VSCode document:

Tip: You should set up a credential helper to avoid getting asked for credentials every time VS Code talks to your Git remotes. If you don't do this, you may want to consider Disabling Autofetch in the ... menu to reduce the number of prompts you get.

So, turn on the credential helper so that Git will save your password in memory for some time. By default, Git will cache your password for 15 minutes.

In Terminal, enter the following:

git config --global credential.helper cache
# Set git to use the credential memory cache

To change the default password cache timeout, enter the following:

git config --global credential.helper 'cache --timeout=3600'
# Set the cache to timeout after 1 hour (setting is in seconds)

UPDATE (If original answer doesn't work)

I installed VS Code and config same above, but as @ddieppa said, It didn't work for me too. So I tried to find an option in User Setting, and I saw "git.autofetch" = true, now set it's false! VS Code is no longer required to enter password repeatedly again!

In menu, click File / Preferences / User Setting And type these:

Place your settings in this file to overwrite the default settings

{
  "git.autofetch": false
}

What is the best (idiomatic) way to check the type of a Python variable?

I think it might be preferred to actually do

if isinstance(x, str):
    do_something_with_a_string(x)
elif isinstance(x, dict):
    do_somethting_with_a_dict(x)
else:
    raise ValueError

2 Alternate forms, depending on your code one or the other is probably considered better than that even. One is to not look before you leap

try:
  one, two = tupleOrValue
except TypeError:
  one = tupleOrValue
  two = None

The other approach is from Guido and is a form of function overloading which leaves your code more open ended.

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=155514

Spring cron expression for every after 30 minutes

If someone is using @Sceduled this might work for you.

@Scheduled(cron = "${name-of-the-cron:0 0/30 * * * ?}")

This worked for me.

C# convert int to string with padding zeros?

Here I want to pad my number with 4 digit. For instance, if it is 1 then it should show as 0001, if it 11 it should show as 0011.

Below is the code that accomplishes this:

reciptno=1; // Pass only integer.

string formatted = string.Format("{0:0000}", reciptno);

TxtRecNo.Text = formatted; // Output=0001

I implemented this code to generate money receipt number for a PDF file.

Correct way to detach from a container without stopping it

You can use the --detach-keys option when you run docker attach to override the default CTRL+P, CTRL + Q sequence (that doesn't always work).

For example, when you run docker attach --detach-keys="ctrl-a" test and you press CTRL+A you will exit the container, without killing it.

Other examples:

  • docker attach --detach-keys="ctrl-a,x" test - press CTRL+A and then X to exit
  • docker attach --detach-keys="a,b,c" test - press A, then B, then C to exit

Extract from the official documentation:

If you want, you can configure an override the Docker key sequence for detach. This is useful if the Docker default sequence conflicts with key sequence you use for other applications. There are two ways to define your own detach key sequence, as a per-container override or as a configuration property on your entire configuration.

To override the sequence for an individual container, use the --detach-keys="<sequence>" flag with the docker attach command. The format of the <sequence> is either a letter [a-Z], or the ctrl- combined with any of the following:

  • a-z (a single lowercase alpha character )
  • @ (at sign)
  • [ (left bracket)
  • \ (two backward slashes)
  • _ (underscore)
  • ^ (caret)

These a, ctrl-a, X, or ctrl-\\ values are all examples of valid key sequences. To configure a different configuration default key sequence for all containers, see Configuration file section.

Note: This works since docker version 1.10+ (at the time of this answer, the current version is 18.03)

How to initialize a dict with keys from a list and empty value in Python?

You could use dict.fromkeys as follows:

dict.fromkeys([1, 2, 3, 4], list())

This will create a list object for each key. If you change value for any specific key it won't affect other keys (as most people would want, I presume).

How to part DATE and TIME from DATETIME in MySQL

Try:

SELECT DATE(`date_time_field`) AS date_part, TIME(`date_time_field`) AS time_part FROM `your_table`

How to show alert message in mvc 4 controller?

You cannot show an alert from a controller. There is one way communication from the client to the server.The server can therefore not tell the client to do anything. The client requests and the server gives a response.

You therefore need to use javascript when the response returns to show a messagebox of some sort.

OR

using jquery on the button that calls the controller action

<script>
 $(document).ready(function(){
  $("#submitButton").on("click",function()
  {
   alert('Your Message');
  });

});
<script>

nodejs get file name from absolute path?

So Nodejs comes with the default global variable called '__fileName' that holds the current file being executed My advice is to pass the __fileName to a service from any file , so that the retrieval of the fileName is made dynamic

Below, I make use of the fileName string and then split it based on the path.sep. Note path.sep avoids issues with posix file seperators and windows file seperators (issues with '/' and '\'). It is much cleaner. Getting the substring and getting only the last seperated name and subtracting it with the actulal length by 3 speaks for itself.

You can write a service like this (Note this is in typescript , but you can very well write it in js )

export class AppLoggingConstants {

    constructor(){

    }
      // Here make sure the fileName param is actually '__fileName'
    getDefaultMedata(fileName: string, methodName: string) {
        const appName = APP_NAME;
        const actualFileName = fileName.substring(fileName.lastIndexOf(path.sep)+1, fileName.length - 3);
        //const actualFileName = fileName;
     return appName+ ' -- '+actualFileName;
    }


}

export const AppLoggingConstantsInstance = new AppLoggingConstants();

How can I remove an entry in global configuration with git config?

Try these commands to remove all users' usernames and emails.

git config --global --unset-all user.name
git config --global --unset-all user.email

how to realize countifs function (excel) in R

Here an example with 100000 rows (occupations are set here from A to Z):

> a = data.frame(sex=sample(c("M", "F"), 100000, replace=T), occupation=sample(LETTERS, 100000, replace=T))
> sum(a$sex == "M" & a$occupation=="A")
[1] 1882

returns the number of males with occupation "A".

EDIT

As I understand from your comment, you want the counts of all possible combinations of sex and occupation. So first create a dataframe with all combinations:

combns = expand.grid(c("M", "F"), LETTERS)

and loop with apply to sum for your criteria and append the results to combns:

combns = cbind (combns, apply(combns, 1, function(x)sum(a$sex==x[1] & a$occupation==x[2])))
colnames(combns) = c("sex", "occupation", "count")

The first rows of your result look as follows:

  sex occupation count
1   M          A  1882
2   F          A  1869
3   M          B  1866
4   F          B  1904
5   M          C  1979
6   F          C  1910

Does this solve your problem?

OR:

Much easier solution suggested by thelatemai:

table(a$sex, a$occupation)


       A    B    C    D    E    F    G    H    I    J    K    L    M    N    O
  F 1869 1904 1910 1907 1894 1940 1964 1907 1918 1892 1962 1933 1886 1960 1972
  M 1882 1866 1979 1904 1895 1845 1946 1905 1999 1994 1933 1950 1876 1856 1911

       P    Q    R    S    T    U    V    W    X    Y    Z
  F 1908 1907 1883 1888 1943 1922 2016 1962 1885 1898 1889
  M 1928 1938 1916 1927 1972 1965 1946 1903 1965 1974 1906

Changing line colors with ggplot()

color and fill are separate aesthetics. Since you want to modify the color you need to use the corresponding scale:

d + scale_color_manual(values=c("#CC6666", "#9999CC"))

is what you want.

Creating a new database and new connection in Oracle SQL Developer

  1. Connect to sys.
  2. Give your password for sys.
  3. Unlock hr user by running following query:

alter user hr identified by hr account unlock;

  1. Then, Click on new connection
  2. Give connection name as HR_ORCL Username: hr Password: hr Connection Type: Basic Role: default Hostname: localhost Port: 1521 SID: xe

  3. Click on test and Connect

How to get all of the IDs with jQuery?

for(i=1;i<13;i++)     
{

   alert($("#tdt"+i).val());  

}  

How to set image to fit width of the page using jsPDF?

The API changed since this commit, using version 1.4.1 it's now

var width = pdf.internal.pageSize.getWidth();
var height = pdf.internal.pageSize.getHeight();

Math functions in AngularJS bindings

If you're looking to do a simple round in Angular you can easily set the filter inside your expression. For example:

{{ val | number:0 }}

See this CodePen example & for other number filter options.

Angular Docs on using Number Filters

Perform .join on value in array of objects

On node or ES6+:

users.map(u => u.name).join(', ')

Fatal error: Call to undefined function base_url() in C:\wamp\www\Test-CI\application\views\layout.php on line 5

codeigniter needs to load the url helper to call the base_url() function.

use application->config->autoload.php

edit autoload helper array and add url helper..

base_url() function is working now..

How to draw a rectangle around a region of interest in python

As the other answers said, the function you need is cv2.rectangle(), but keep in mind that the coordinates for the bounding box vertices need to be integers if they are in a tuple, and they need to be in the order of (left, top) and (right, bottom). Or, equivalently, (xmin, ymin) and (xmax, ymax).

How to see PL/SQL Stored Function body in Oracle

SELECT text 
FROM all_source
where name = 'FGETALGOGROUPKEY'
order by line

alternatively:

select dbms_metadata.get_ddl('FUNCTION', 'FGETALGOGROUPKEY')
from dual;

Changing route doesn't scroll to top in the new page

FYI for for anyone coming across the problem described in the title (as I did) who is also using the AngularUI Router plugin...

As asked and answered in this SO question, the angular-ui router jumps to the bottom of the page when you change routes.
Can't figure out why page loads at bottom? Angular UI-Router autoscroll Issue

However, as the answer states, you can turn off this behavior by saying autoscroll="false" on your ui-view.

For example:

<div ui-view="pagecontent" autoscroll="false"></div>
<div ui-view="sidebar" autoscroll="false"></div> 

http://angular-ui.github.io/ui-router/site/#/api/ui.router.state.directive:ui-view

How do I pass parameters into a PHP script through a webpage?

Presumably you're passing the arguments in on the command line as follows:

php /path/to/wwwpublic/path/to/script.php arg1 arg2

... and then accessing them in the script thusly:

<?php
// $argv[0] is '/path/to/wwwpublic/path/to/script.php'
$argument1 = $argv[1];
$argument2 = $argv[2];
?>

What you need to be doing when passing arguments through HTTP (accessing the script over the web) is using the query string and access them through the $_GET superglobal:

Go to http://yourdomain.com/path/to/script.php?argument1=arg1&argument2=arg2

... and access:

<?php
$argument1 = $_GET['argument1'];
$argument2 = $_GET['argument2'];
?>

If you want the script to run regardless of where you call it from (command line or from the browser) you'll want something like the following:

EDIT: as pointed out by Cthulhu in the comments, the most direct way to test which environment you're executing in is to use the PHP_SAPI constant. I've updated the code accordingly:

<?php
if (PHP_SAPI === 'cli') {
    $argument1 = $argv[1];
    $argument2 = $argv[2];
}
else {
    $argument1 = $_GET['argument1'];
    $argument2 = $_GET['argument2'];
}
?>

How can I measure the similarity between two images?

Well a really base-level method to use could go through every pixel colour and compare it with the corresponding pixel colour on the second image - but that's a probably a very very slow solution.