Programs & Examples On #Approximate

mat-form-field must contain a MatFormFieldControl

I had the same error message, but in my case, nothing above didn't fix the problem. The solution was in "label". You need to add 'mat-label' and to put your input inside 'label' tags also. Solution of my problem is in the snippet below:

  <mat-label>
     Username
  </mat-label>
  <label>
    <input 
       matInput 
       type="text" 
       placeholder="Your username" 
       formControlName="username"/>
  </label>

Start redis-server with config file

I think that you should make the reference to your config file

26399:C 16 Jan 08:51:13.413 # Warning: no config file specified, using the default config. In order to specify a config file use ./redis-server /path/to/redis.conf

you can try to start your redis server like

./redis-server /path/to/redis-stable/redis.conf

How to smooth a curve in the right way?

I prefer a Savitzky-Golay filter. It uses least squares to regress a small window of your data onto a polynomial, then uses the polynomial to estimate the point in the center of the window. Finally the window is shifted forward by one data point and the process repeats. This continues until every point has been optimally adjusted relative to its neighbors. It works great even with noisy samples from non-periodic and non-linear sources.

Here is a thorough cookbook example. See my code below to get an idea of how easy it is to use. Note: I left out the code for defining the savitzky_golay() function because you can literally copy/paste it from the cookbook example I linked above.

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

x = np.linspace(0,2*np.pi,100)
y = np.sin(x) + np.random.random(100) * 0.2
yhat = savitzky_golay(y, 51, 3) # window size 51, polynomial order 3

plt.plot(x,y)
plt.plot(x,yhat, color='red')
plt.show()

optimally smoothing a noisy sinusoid

UPDATE: It has come to my attention that the cookbook example I linked to has been taken down. Fortunately, the Savitzky-Golay filter has been incorporated into the SciPy library, as pointed out by @dodohjk. To adapt the above code by using SciPy source, type:

from scipy.signal import savgol_filter
yhat = savgol_filter(y, 51, 3) # window size 51, polynomial order 3

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

I understand that you asked that you would like a CSS specific solution. To keep the aspect ratio, you would need to divide the height by the desired aspect ratio. 16:9 = 1.777777777778.

To get the correct height for the container, you would need to divide the current width by 1.777777777778. Since you can't check the width of the container with just CSS or divide by a percentage is CSS, this is not possible without JavaScript (to my knowledge).

I've written a working script that will keep the desired aspect ratio.

HTML

<div id="aspectRatio"></div>

CSS

body { width: 100%; height: 100%; padding: 0; margin: 0; }
#aspectRatio { background: #ff6a00; }

JavaScript

window.onload = function () {
    //Let's create a function that will scale an element with the desired ratio
    //Specify the element id, desired width, and height
    function keepAspectRatio(id, width, height) {
        var aspectRatioDiv = document.getElementById(id);
        aspectRatioDiv.style.width = window.innerWidth;
        aspectRatioDiv.style.height = (window.innerWidth / (width / height)) + "px";
    }

    //run the function when the window loads
    keepAspectRatio("aspectRatio", 16, 9);

    //run the function every time the window is resized
    window.onresize = function (event) {
        keepAspectRatio("aspectRatio", 16, 9);
    }
}

You can use the function again if you'd like to display something else with a different ratio by using

keepAspectRatio(id, width, height);

Parsing JSON in Java without knowing JSON format

Take a look at Jacksons built-in tree model feature.

And your code will be:

public void parse(String json)  {
       JsonFactory factory = new JsonFactory();

       ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper(factory);
       JsonNode rootNode = mapper.readTree(json);  

       Iterator<Map.Entry<String,JsonNode>> fieldsIterator = rootNode.fields();
       while (fieldsIterator.hasNext()) {

           Map.Entry<String,JsonNode> field = fieldsIterator.next();
           System.out.println("Key: " + field.getKey() + "\tValue:" + field.getValue());
       }
}

Amazon AWS Filezilla transfer permission denied

In my case, after 30 minutes changing permissions, got into account that the XLSX file I was trying to transfer was still open in Excel.

How do you specify the Java compiler version in a pom.xml file?

I faced same issue in eclipse neon simple maven java project

But I add below details inside pom.xml file

   <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.6.1</version>
                <configuration>
                    <source>1.8</source>
                    <target>1.8</target>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

After right click on project > maven > update project (checked force update)

Its resolve me to display error on project

Hope it's will helpful

Thansk

refresh both the External data source and pivot tables together within a time schedule

Under the connection properties, uncheck "Enable background refresh". This will make the connection refresh when told to, not in the background as other processes happen.

With background refresh disabled, your VBA procedure will wait for your external data to refresh before moving to the next line of code.

Then you just modify the following code:

ActiveWorkbook.Connections("CONNECTION_NAME").Refresh
Sheets("SHEET_NAME").PivotTables("PIVOT_TABLE_NAME").PivotCache.Refresh

You can also turn off background refresh in VBA:

ActiveWorkbook.Connections("CONNECTION_NAME").ODBCConnection.BackgroundQuery = False

Standardize data columns in R

@BBKim pretty much gave the best answer, but it can just be done shorter. I'm surprised noone came up with it yet.

dat <- data.frame(x = rnorm(10, 30, .2), y = runif(10, 3, 5)) dat <- apply(dat, 2, function(x) (x - mean(x)) / sd(x))

How do I restart a program based on user input?

This line will unconditionally restart the running program from scratch:

os.execl(sys.executable, sys.executable, *sys.argv)

One of its advantage compared to the remaining suggestions so far is that the program itself will be read again.

This can be useful if, for example, you are modifying its code in another window.

Base64 length calculation?

Simple implementantion in javascript

function sizeOfBase64String(base64String) {
    if (!base64String) return 0;
    const padding = (base64String.match(/(=*)$/) || [])[1].length;
    return 4 * Math.ceil((base64String.length / 3)) - padding;
}

Android XXHDPI resources

The newer android phones in the market like HTC one, Xperia Z etc have resolutions in the >480dpi range, putting them in the new xxhdpi class as well. The new assets might be useful for them too.

Handler "ExtensionlessUrlHandler-Integrated-4.0" has a bad module "ManagedPipelineHandler" in its module list

This maybe not a usefull solution for OP but it concerns the same "error" message.

We are hosting PHP pages on IIS8.5 with .NET 4.5 installed correctly.

We make use of the preload functionality to make sure our application is always responsive across the board.

After a while we started getting this error at random.

In the web.config : I put skipManagedModules to true, -> don't do this!

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
  <system.webServer>
<applicationInitialization skipManagedModules="false" doAppInitAfterRestart="true">
  <add initializationPage="/" />
</applicationInitialization>
...

Although website is php, the routing to the paging is managed by the modules!!!

How do I find files with a path length greater than 260 characters in Windows?

For paths greater than 260:
you can use:

Get-ChildItem | Where-Object {$_.FullName.Length -gt 260}

Example on 14 chars:
To view the paths lengths:

Get-ChildItem | Select-Object -Property FullName, @{Name="FullNameLength";Expression={($_.FullName.Length)}

Get paths greater than 14:

Get-ChildItem | Where-Object {$_.FullName.Length -gt 14}  

Screenshot:
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For filenames greater than 10:

Get-ChildItem | Where-Object {$_.PSChildName.Length -gt 10}

Screenshot:
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How to calculate growth with a positive and negative number?

Simplest method is the one I would use.

=(ThisYear - LastYear)/(ABS(LastYear))

However it only works in certain situations. With certain values the results will be inverted.

Setting paper size in FPDF

/*$mpdf = new mPDF('',    // mode - default ''
 '',    // format - A4, for example, default ''
 0,     // font size - default 0
 '',    // default font family
 15,    // margin_left
 15,    // margin right
 16,     // margin top
 16,    // margin bottom
 9,     // margin header
 9,     // margin footer
 'L');  // L - landscape, P - portrait*/

Case statement with multiple values in each 'when' block

You might take advantage of ruby's "splat" or flattening syntax.

This makes overgrown when clauses — you have about 10 values to test per branch if I understand correctly — a little more readable in my opinion. Additionally, you can modify the values to test at runtime. For example:

honda  = ['honda', 'acura', 'civic', 'element', 'fit', ...]
toyota = ['toyota', 'lexus', 'tercel', 'rx', 'yaris', ...]
...

if include_concept_cars
  honda += ['ev-ster', 'concept c', 'concept s', ...]
  ...
end

case car
when *toyota
  # Do something for Toyota cars
when *honda
  # Do something for Honda cars
...
end

Another common approach would be to use a hash as a dispatch table, with keys for each value of car and values that are some callable object encapsulating the code you wish to execute.

ggplot2 legend to bottom and horizontal

Here is how to create the desired outcome:

library(reshape2); library(tidyverse)
melt(outer(1:4, 1:4), varnames = c("X1", "X2")) %>%
ggplot() + 
  geom_tile(aes(X1, X2, fill = value)) + 
  scale_fill_continuous(guide = guide_legend()) +
  theme(legend.position="bottom",
        legend.spacing.x = unit(0, 'cm'))+
  guides(fill = guide_legend(label.position = "bottom"))

Created on 2019-12-07 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)


Edit: no need for these imperfect options anymore, but I'm leaving them here for reference.

Two imperfect options that don't give you exactly what you were asking for, but pretty close (will at least put the colours together).

library(reshape2); library(tidyverse)
df <- melt(outer(1:4, 1:4), varnames = c("X1", "X2"))
p1 <- ggplot(df, aes(X1, X2)) + geom_tile(aes(fill = value))
p1 + scale_fill_continuous(guide = guide_legend()) +
 theme(legend.position="bottom", legend.direction="vertical")

p1 + scale_fill_continuous(guide = "colorbar") + theme(legend.position="bottom")

Created on 2019-02-28 by the reprex package (v0.2.1)

Double precision - decimal places

In most contexts where double values are used, calculations will have a certain amount of uncertainty. The difference between 1.33333333333333300 and 1.33333333333333399 may be less than the amount of uncertainty that exists in the calculations. Displaying the value of "2/3 + 2/3" as "1.33333333333333" is apt to be more meaningful than displaying it as "1.33333333333333319", since the latter display implies a level of precision that doesn't really exist.

In the debugger, however, it is important to uniquely indicate the value held by a variable, including essentially-meaningless bits of precision. It would be very confusing if a debugger displayed two variables as holding the value "1.333333333333333" when one of them actually held 1.33333333333333319 and the other held 1.33333333333333294 (meaning that, while they looked the same, they weren't equal). The extra precision shown by the debugger isn't apt to represent a numerically-correct calculation result, but indicates how the code will interpret the values held by the variables.

LINQ Using Max() to select a single row

I don't see why you are grouping here.

Try this:

var maxValue = table.Max(x => x.Status)
var result = table.First(x => x.Status == maxValue);

An alternate approach that would iterate table only once would be this:

var result = table.OrderByDescending(x => x.Status).First();

This is helpful if table is an IEnumerable<T> that is not present in memory or that is calculated on the fly.

Loop until a specific user input

As an alternative to @Mark Byers' approach, you can use while True:

guess = 50     # this should be outside the loop, I think
while True:    # infinite loop
    n = raw_input("\n\nTrue, False or Correct?: ")
    if n == "Correct":
        break  # stops the loop
    elif n == "True":
        # etc.

How to print a double with two decimals in Android?

textView2.setText(String.format("%.2f", result));

and

DecimalFormat form = new DecimalFormat("0.00");
         textView2.setText(form.format(result) );

...cause "NumberFormatException" error in locale for Europe because it sets result as comma instead of point decimal - error occurs when textView is added to number in editText. Both solutions are working excellent in locale US and UK.

Unable to begin a distributed transaction

I was getting the same error and i managed to solve it by configuring the MSDTC properly on the source server to allow outbound and allowed the DTC through the windows firewall.

Allow the Distributed Transaction Coordinator, tick domain , private and public options

Can I change the scroll speed using css or jQuery?

No. Scroll speed is determined by the browser (and usually directly by the settings on the computer/device). CSS and Javascript don't (or shouldn't) have any way to affect system settings.

That being said, there are likely a number of ways you could try to fake a different scroll speed by moving your own content around in such a way as to counteract scrolling. However, I think doing so is a HORRIBLE idea in terms of usability, accessibility, and respect for your users, but I would start by finding events that your target browsers fire that indicate scrolling.

Once you can capture the scroll event (assuming you can), then you would be able to adjust your content dynamically so that the portion you want is visible.

Another approach would be to deal with this in Flash, which does give you at least some level of control over scrolling events.

Fastest way to count exact number of rows in a very large table?

Not exactly a DBMS-agnostic solution, but at least your client code won't see the difference...

Create another table T with just one row and one integer field N1, and create INSERT TRIGGER that just executes:

UPDATE T SET N = N + 1

Also create a DELETE TRIGGER that executes:

UPDATE T SET N = N - 1

A DBMS worth its salt will guarantee the atomicity of the operations above2, and N will contain the accurate count of rows at all times, which is then super-quick to get by simply:

SELECT N FROM T

While triggers are DBMS-specific, selecting from T isn't and your client code won't need to change for each supported DBMS.

However, this can have some scalability issues if the table is INSERT or DELETE-intensive, especially if you don't COMMIT immediately after INSERT/DELETE.


1 These names are just placeholders - use something more meaningful in production.

2 I.e. N cannot be changed by a concurrent transaction between reading and writing to N, as long as both reading and writing are done in a single SQL statement.

Reading data from a website using C#

The WebClient class should be more than capable of handling the functionality you describe, for example:

System.Net.WebClient wc = new System.Net.WebClient();
byte[] raw = wc.DownloadData("http://www.yoursite.com/resource/file.htm");

string webData = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(raw);

or (further to suggestion from Fredrick in comments)

System.Net.WebClient wc = new System.Net.WebClient();
string webData = wc.DownloadString("http://www.yoursite.com/resource/file.htm");

When you say it took 30 seconds, can you expand on that a little more? There are many reasons as to why that could have happened. Slow servers, internet connections, dodgy implementation etc etc.

You could go a level lower and implement something like this:

HttpWebRequest webRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://www.yoursite.com/resource/file.htm");

using (StreamWriter streamWriter = new StreamWriter(webRequest.GetRequestStream(), Encoding.UTF8))
{
    streamWriter.Write(requestData);
}

string responseData = string.Empty;
HttpWebResponse httpResponse = (HttpWebResponse)webRequest.GetResponse();
using (StreamReader responseReader = new StreamReader(httpResponse.GetResponseStream()))
{
    responseData = responseReader.ReadToEnd();
}

However, at the end of the day the WebClient class wraps up this functionality for you. So I would suggest that you use WebClient and investigate the causes of the 30 second delay.

JSON formatter in C#?

There are already a bunch of great answers here that use Newtonsoft.JSON, but here's one more that uses JObject.Parse in combination with ToString(), since that hasn't been mentioned yet:

var jObj = Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JObject.Parse(json);
var formatted = jObj.ToString(Newtonsoft.Json.Formatting.Indented);

Find size and free space of the filesystem containing a given file

For the second part of your question, "get usage statistics of the given partition", psutil makes this easy with the disk_usage(path) function. Given a path, disk_usage() returns a named tuple including total, used, and free space expressed in bytes, plus the percentage usage.

Simple example from documentation:

>>> import psutil
>>> psutil.disk_usage('/')
sdiskusage(total=21378641920, used=4809781248, free=15482871808, percent=22.5)

Psutil works with Python versions from 2.6 to 3.6 and on Linux, Windows, and OSX among other platforms.

Measuring text height to be drawn on Canvas ( Android )

The height is the text size you have set on the Paint variable.

Another way to find out the height is

mPaint.getTextSize();

Switch statement with returns -- code correctness

For "correctness", single entry, single exit blocks are a good idea. At least they were when I did my computer science degree. So I would probably declare a variable, assign to it in the switch and return once at the end of the function

Floating point vs integer calculations on modern hardware

For example (lesser numbers are faster),

64-bit Intel Xeon X5550 @ 2.67GHz, gcc 4.1.2 -O3

short add/sub: 1.005460 [0]
short mul/div: 3.926543 [0]
long add/sub: 0.000000 [0]
long mul/div: 7.378581 [0]
long long add/sub: 0.000000 [0]
long long mul/div: 7.378593 [0]
float add/sub: 0.993583 [0]
float mul/div: 1.821565 [0]
double add/sub: 0.993884 [0]
double mul/div: 1.988664 [0]

32-bit Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 265 @ 1.81GHz, gcc 3.4.6 -O3

short add/sub: 0.553863 [0]
short mul/div: 12.509163 [0]
long add/sub: 0.556912 [0]
long mul/div: 12.748019 [0]
long long add/sub: 5.298999 [0]
long long mul/div: 20.461186 [0]
float add/sub: 2.688253 [0]
float mul/div: 4.683886 [0]
double add/sub: 2.700834 [0]
double mul/div: 4.646755 [0]

As Dan pointed out, even once you normalize for clock frequency (which can be misleading in itself in pipelined designs), results will vary wildly based on CPU architecture (individual ALU/FPU performance, as well as actual number of ALUs/FPUs available per core in superscalar designs which influences how many independent operations can execute in parallel -- the latter factor is not exercised by the code below as all operations below are sequentially dependent.)

Poor man's FPU/ALU operation benchmark:

#include <stdio.h>
#ifdef _WIN32
#include <sys/timeb.h>
#else
#include <sys/time.h>
#endif
#include <time.h>
#include <cstdlib>

double
mygettime(void) {
# ifdef _WIN32
  struct _timeb tb;
  _ftime(&tb);
  return (double)tb.time + (0.001 * (double)tb.millitm);
# else
  struct timeval tv;
  if(gettimeofday(&tv, 0) < 0) {
    perror("oops");
  }
  return (double)tv.tv_sec + (0.000001 * (double)tv.tv_usec);
# endif
}

template< typename Type >
void my_test(const char* name) {
  Type v  = 0;
  // Do not use constants or repeating values
  //  to avoid loop unroll optimizations.
  // All values >0 to avoid division by 0
  // Perform ten ops/iteration to reduce
  //  impact of ++i below on measurements
  Type v0 = (Type)(rand() % 256)/16 + 1;
  Type v1 = (Type)(rand() % 256)/16 + 1;
  Type v2 = (Type)(rand() % 256)/16 + 1;
  Type v3 = (Type)(rand() % 256)/16 + 1;
  Type v4 = (Type)(rand() % 256)/16 + 1;
  Type v5 = (Type)(rand() % 256)/16 + 1;
  Type v6 = (Type)(rand() % 256)/16 + 1;
  Type v7 = (Type)(rand() % 256)/16 + 1;
  Type v8 = (Type)(rand() % 256)/16 + 1;
  Type v9 = (Type)(rand() % 256)/16 + 1;

  double t1 = mygettime();
  for (size_t i = 0; i < 100000000; ++i) {
    v += v0;
    v -= v1;
    v += v2;
    v -= v3;
    v += v4;
    v -= v5;
    v += v6;
    v -= v7;
    v += v8;
    v -= v9;
  }
  // Pretend we make use of v so compiler doesn't optimize out
  //  the loop completely
  printf("%s add/sub: %f [%d]\n", name, mygettime() - t1, (int)v&1);
  t1 = mygettime();
  for (size_t i = 0; i < 100000000; ++i) {
    v /= v0;
    v *= v1;
    v /= v2;
    v *= v3;
    v /= v4;
    v *= v5;
    v /= v6;
    v *= v7;
    v /= v8;
    v *= v9;
  }
  // Pretend we make use of v so compiler doesn't optimize out
  //  the loop completely
  printf("%s mul/div: %f [%d]\n", name, mygettime() - t1, (int)v&1);
}

int main() {
  my_test< short >("short");
  my_test< long >("long");
  my_test< long long >("long long");
  my_test< float >("float");
  my_test< double >("double");

  return 0;
}

jQuery .css("margin-top", value) not updating in IE 8 (Standards mode)

try this method

$("your id or class name").css({ 'margin-top': '18px' });  

How can I mix LaTeX in with Markdown?

Add the following code to the top of your Markdown files to get MathJax rendering support

<style TYPE="text/css">
code.has-jax {font: inherit; font-size: 100%; background: inherit; border: inherit;}
</style>
<script type="text/x-mathjax-config">
MathJax.Hub.Config({
    tex2jax: {
        inlineMath: [['$','$'], ['\\(','\\)']],
        skipTags: ['script', 'noscript', 'style', 'textarea', 'pre'] // removed 'code' entry
    }
});
MathJax.Hub.Queue(function() {
    var all = MathJax.Hub.getAllJax(), i;
    for(i = 0; i < all.length; i += 1) {
        all[i].SourceElement().parentNode.className += ' has-jax';
    }
});
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/mathjax/2.7.4/MathJax.js?config=TeX-AMS_HTML-full"></script>

and then `$x^2$` or `$$x^2$$` will render as expected :-)

You can always install a local version of MathJax if you don't want to use the online distribution, but you might need to host it through a local webserver.

UPDATE: these days I just use pandoc instead of canonical markdown, but the above is still useful.

Splitting a list into N parts of approximately equal length

def chunk_array(array : List, n: int) -> List[List]:
    chunk_size = len(array) // n 
    chunks = []
    i = 0
    while i < len(array):
        # if less than chunk_size left add the remainder to last element
        if len(array) - (i + chunk_size + 1) < 0:
            chunks[-1].append(*array[i:i + chunk_size])
            break
        else:
            chunks.append(array[i:i + chunk_size])
            i += chunk_size
    return chunks

here's my version (inspired from Max's)

Improve INSERT-per-second performance of SQLite

Try using SQLITE_STATIC instead of SQLITE_TRANSIENT for those inserts.

SQLITE_TRANSIENT will cause SQLite to copy the string data before returning.

SQLITE_STATIC tells it that the memory address you gave it will be valid until the query has been performed (which in this loop is always the case). This will save you several allocate, copy and deallocate operations per loop. Possibly a large improvement.

Writing your own square root function

The following computes floor(sqrt(N)) for N > 0:

x = 2^ceil(numbits(N)/2)
loop:
    y = floor((x + floor(N/x))/2)
    if y >= x
        return x
    x = y

This is a version of Newton's method given in Crandall & Pomerance, "Prime Numbers: A Computational Perspective". The reason you should use this version is that people who know what they're doing have proven that it converges exactly to the floor of the square root, and it's simple so the probability of making an implementation error is small. It's also fast (although it's possible to construct an even faster algorithm -- but doing that correctly is much more complex). A properly implemented binary search can be faster for very small N, but there you may as well use a lookup table.

To round to the nearest integer, just compute t = floor(sqrt(4N)) using the algorithm above. If the least significant bit of t is set, then choose x = (t+1)/2; otherwise choose t/2. Note that this rounds up on a tie; you could also round down (or round to even) by looking at whether the remainder is nonzero (i.e. whether t^2 == 4N).

Note that you don't need to use floating-point arithmetic. In fact, you shouldn't. This algorithm should be implemented entirely using integers (in particular, the floor() functions just indicate that regular integer division should be used).

How can I get the count of line in a file in an efficient way?

Try the unix "wc" command. I don't mean use it, I mean download the source and see how they do it. It's probably in c, but you can easily port the behavior to java. The problem with making your own is to account for the ending cr/lf problem.

JOIN queries vs multiple queries

Here is a link with 100 useful queries, these are tested in Oracle database but remember SQL is a standard, what differ between Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL and other databases are the SQL dialect:

http://javaforlearn.com/100-sql-queries-learn/

What are the advantages of NumPy over regular Python lists?

Here's a nice answer from the FAQ on the scipy.org website:

What advantages do NumPy arrays offer over (nested) Python lists?

Python’s lists are efficient general-purpose containers. They support (fairly) efficient insertion, deletion, appending, and concatenation, and Python’s list comprehensions make them easy to construct and manipulate. However, they have certain limitations: they don’t support “vectorized” operations like elementwise addition and multiplication, and the fact that they can contain objects of differing types mean that Python must store type information for every element, and must execute type dispatching code when operating on each element. This also means that very few list operations can be carried out by efficient C loops – each iteration would require type checks and other Python API bookkeeping.

How to insert multiple rows from array using CodeIgniter framework?

You can do it with several ways in codeigniter e.g.

First By loop

foreach($myarray as $row)
{
   $data = array("first"=>$row->first,"second"=>$row->sec);
   $this->db->insert('table_name',$data);
}

Second -- By insert batch

$data = array(
       array(
          'first' => $myarray[0]['first'] ,
          'second' => $myarray[0]['sec'],
        ),
       array(
          'first' => $myarray[1]['first'] ,
          'second' => $myarray[1]['sec'],
        ),
    );

    $this->db->insert_batch('table_name', $data);

Third way -- By multiple value pass

$sql = array(); 
foreach( $myarray as $row ) {
    $sql[] = '("'.mysql_real_escape_string($row['first']).'", '.$row['sec'].')';
}
mysql_query('INSERT INTO table (first, second) VALUES '.implode(',', $sql));

H.264 file size for 1 hr of HD video

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

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

Google's calculator can confirm

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Definitive C Book Guide and List

Beginner

Introductory, no previous programming experience

  • C++ Primer * (Stanley Lippman, Josée Lajoie, and Barbara E. Moo) (updated for C++11) Coming at 1k pages, this is a very thorough introduction into C++ that covers just about everything in the language in a very accessible format and in great detail. The fifth edition (released August 16, 2012) covers C++11. [Review]

    * Not to be confused with C++ Primer Plus (Stephen Prata), with a significantly less favorable review.

  • Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ (Bjarne Stroustrup, 2nd Edition - May 25, 2014) (updated for C++11/C++14) An introduction to programming using C++ by the creator of the language. A good read, that assumes no previous programming experience, but is not only for beginners.

Introductory, with previous programming experience

  • A Tour of C++ (Bjarne Stroustrup) (2nd edition for C++17) The “tour” is a quick (about 180 pages and 14 chapters) tutorial overview of all of standard C++ (language and standard library, and using C++11) at a moderately high level for people who already know C++ or at least are experienced programmers. This book is an extended version of the material that constitutes Chapters 2-5 of The C++ Programming Language, 4th edition.

  • Accelerated C++ (Andrew Koenig and Barbara Moo, 1st Edition - August 24, 2000) This basically covers the same ground as the C++ Primer, but does so on a fourth of its space. This is largely because it does not attempt to be an introduction to programming, but an introduction to C++ for people who've previously programmed in some other language. It has a steeper learning curve, but, for those who can cope with this, it is a very compact introduction to the language. (Historically, it broke new ground by being the first beginner's book to use a modern approach to teaching the language.) Despite this, the C++ it teaches is purely C++98. [Review]

Best practices

  • Effective C++ (Scott Meyers, 3rd Edition - May 22, 2005) This was written with the aim of being the best second book C++ programmers should read, and it succeeded. Earlier editions were aimed at programmers coming from C, the third edition changes this and targets programmers coming from languages like Java. It presents ~50 easy-to-remember rules of thumb along with their rationale in a very accessible (and enjoyable) style. For C++11 and C++14 the examples and a few issues are outdated and Effective Modern C++ should be preferred. [Review]

  • Effective Modern C++ (Scott Meyers) This is basically the new version of Effective C++, aimed at C++ programmers making the transition from C++03 to C++11 and C++14.

  • Effective STL (Scott Meyers) This aims to do the same to the part of the standard library coming from the STL what Effective C++ did to the language as a whole: It presents rules of thumb along with their rationale. [Review]


Intermediate

  • More Effective C++ (Scott Meyers) Even more rules of thumb than Effective C++. Not as important as the ones in the first book, but still good to know.

  • Exceptional C++ (Herb Sutter) Presented as a set of puzzles, this has one of the best and thorough discussions of the proper resource management and exception safety in C++ through Resource Acquisition is Initialization (RAII) in addition to in-depth coverage of a variety of other topics including the pimpl idiom, name lookup, good class design, and the C++ memory model. [Review]

  • More Exceptional C++ (Herb Sutter) Covers additional exception safety topics not covered in Exceptional C++, in addition to discussion of effective object-oriented programming in C++ and correct use of the STL. [Review]

  • Exceptional C++ Style (Herb Sutter) Discusses generic programming, optimization, and resource management; this book also has an excellent exposition of how to write modular code in C++ by using non-member functions and the single responsibility principle. [Review]

  • C++ Coding Standards (Herb Sutter and Andrei Alexandrescu) “Coding standards” here doesn't mean “how many spaces should I indent my code?” This book contains 101 best practices, idioms, and common pitfalls that can help you to write correct, understandable, and efficient C++ code. [Review]

  • C++ Templates: The Complete Guide (David Vandevoorde and Nicolai M. Josuttis) This is the book about templates as they existed before C++11. It covers everything from the very basics to some of the most advanced template metaprogramming and explains every detail of how templates work (both conceptually and at how they are implemented) and discusses many common pitfalls. Has excellent summaries of the One Definition Rule (ODR) and overload resolution in the appendices. A second edition covering C++11, C++14 and C++17 has been already published. [Review]

  • C++ 17 - The Complete Guide (Nicolai M. Josuttis) This book describes all the new features introduced in the C++17 Standard covering everything from the simple ones like 'Inline Variables', 'constexpr if' all the way up to 'Polymorphic Memory Resources' and 'New and Delete with overaligned Data'. [Review]

  • C++ in Action (Bartosz Milewski). This book explains C++ and its features by building an application from ground up. [Review]

  • Functional Programming in C++ (Ivan Cukic). This book introduces functional programming techniques to modern C++ (C++11 and later). A very nice read for those who want to apply functional programming paradigms to C++.

  • Professional C++ (Marc Gregoire, 5th Edition - Feb 2021) Provides a comprehensive and detailed tour of the C++ language implementation replete with professional tips and concise but informative in-text examples, emphasizing C++20 features. Uses C++20 features, such as modules and std::format throughout all examples.


Advanced

  • Modern C++ Design (Andrei Alexandrescu) A groundbreaking book on advanced generic programming techniques. Introduces policy-based design, type lists, and fundamental generic programming idioms then explains how many useful design patterns (including small object allocators, functors, factories, visitors, and multi-methods) can be implemented efficiently, modularly, and cleanly using generic programming. [Review]

  • C++ Template Metaprogramming (David Abrahams and Aleksey Gurtovoy)

  • C++ Concurrency In Action (Anthony Williams) A book covering C++11 concurrency support including the thread library, the atomics library, the C++ memory model, locks and mutexes, as well as issues of designing and debugging multithreaded applications. A second edition covering C++14 and C++17 has been already published. [Review]

  • Advanced C++ Metaprogramming (Davide Di Gennaro) A pre-C++11 manual of TMP techniques, focused more on practice than theory. There are a ton of snippets in this book, some of which are made obsolete by type traits, but the techniques, are nonetheless useful to know. If you can put up with the quirky formatting/editing, it is easier to read than Alexandrescu, and arguably, more rewarding. For more experienced developers, there is a good chance that you may pick up something about a dark corner of C++ (a quirk) that usually only comes about through extensive experience.


Reference Style - All Levels

  • The C++ Programming Language (Bjarne Stroustrup) (updated for C++11) The classic introduction to C++ by its creator. Written to parallel the classic K&R, this indeed reads very much like it and covers just about everything from the core language to the standard library, to programming paradigms to the language's philosophy. [Review] Note: All releases of the C++ standard are tracked in the question "Where do I find the current C or C++ standard documents?".

  • C++ Standard Library Tutorial and Reference (Nicolai Josuttis) (updated for C++11) The introduction and reference for the C++ Standard Library. The second edition (released on April 9, 2012) covers C++11. [Review]

  • The C++ IO Streams and Locales (Angelika Langer and Klaus Kreft) There's very little to say about this book except that, if you want to know anything about streams and locales, then this is the one place to find definitive answers. [Review]

C++11/14/17/… References:

  • The C++11/14/17 Standard (INCITS/ISO/IEC 14882:2011/2014/2017) This, of course, is the final arbiter of all that is or isn't C++. Be aware, however, that it is intended purely as a reference for experienced users willing to devote considerable time and effort to its understanding. The C++17 standard is released in electronic form for 198 Swiss Francs.

  • The C++17 standard is available, but seemingly not in an economical form – directly from the ISO it costs 198 Swiss Francs (about $200 US). For most people, the final draft before standardization is more than adequate (and free). Many will prefer an even newer draft, documenting new features that are likely to be included in C++20.

  • Overview of the New C++ (C++11/14) (PDF only) (Scott Meyers) (updated for C++14) These are the presentation materials (slides and some lecture notes) of a three-day training course offered by Scott Meyers, who's a highly respected author on C++. Even though the list of items is short, the quality is high.

  • The C++ Core Guidelines (C++11/14/17/…) (edited by Bjarne Stroustrup and Herb Sutter) is an evolving online document consisting of a set of guidelines for using modern C++ well. The guidelines are focused on relatively higher-level issues, such as interfaces, resource management, memory management and concurrency affecting application architecture and library design. The project was announced at CppCon'15 by Bjarne Stroustrup and others and welcomes contributions from the community. Most guidelines are supplemented with a rationale and examples as well as discussions of possible tool support. Many rules are designed specifically to be automatically checkable by static analysis tools.

  • The C++ Super-FAQ (Marshall Cline, Bjarne Stroustrup and others) is an effort by the Standard C++ Foundation to unify the C++ FAQs previously maintained individually by Marshall Cline and Bjarne Stroustrup and also incorporating new contributions. The items mostly address issues at an intermediate level and are often written with a humorous tone. Not all items might be fully up to date with the latest edition of the C++ standard yet.

  • cppreference.com (C++03/11/14/17/…) (initiated by Nate Kohl) is a wiki that summarizes the basic core-language features and has extensive documentation of the C++ standard library. The documentation is very precise but is easier to read than the official standard document and provides better navigation due to its wiki nature. The project documents all versions of the C++ standard and the site allows filtering the display for a specific version. The project was presented by Nate Kohl at CppCon'14.


Classics / Older

Note: Some information contained within these books may not be up-to-date or no longer considered best practice.

  • The Design and Evolution of C++ (Bjarne Stroustrup) If you want to know why the language is the way it is, this book is where you find answers. This covers everything before the standardization of C++.

  • Ruminations on C++ - (Andrew Koenig and Barbara Moo) [Review]

  • Advanced C++ Programming Styles and Idioms (James Coplien) A predecessor of the pattern movement, it describes many C++-specific “idioms”. It's certainly a very good book and might still be worth a read if you can spare the time, but quite old and not up-to-date with current C++.

  • Large Scale C++ Software Design (John Lakos) Lakos explains techniques to manage very big C++ software projects. Certainly, a good read, if it only was up to date. It was written long before C++ 98 and misses on many features (e.g. namespaces) important for large-scale projects. If you need to work in a big C++ software project, you might want to read it, although you need to take more than a grain of salt with it. The first volume of a new edition is released in 2019.

  • Inside the C++ Object Model (Stanley Lippman) If you want to know how virtual member functions are commonly implemented and how base objects are commonly laid out in memory in a multi-inheritance scenario, and how all this affects performance, this is where you will find thorough discussions of such topics.

  • The Annotated C++ Reference Manual (Bjarne Stroustrup, Margaret A. Ellis) This book is quite outdated in the fact that it explores the 1989 C++ 2.0 version - Templates, exceptions, namespaces and new casts were not yet introduced. Saying that however, this book goes through the entire C++ standard of the time explaining the rationale, the possible implementations, and features of the language. This is not a book to learn programming principles and patterns on C++, but to understand every aspect of the C++ language.

  • Thinking in C++ (Bruce Eckel, 2nd Edition, 2000). Two volumes; is a tutorial style free set of intro level books. Downloads: vol 1, vol 2. Unfortunately they're marred by a number of trivial errors (e.g. maintaining that temporaries are automatically const), with no official errata list. A partial 3rd party errata list is available at http://www.computersciencelab.com/Eckel.htm, but it is apparently not maintained.

  • Scientific and Engineering C++: An Introduction to Advanced Techniques and Examples (John Barton and Lee Nackman) It is a comprehensive and very detailed book that tried to explain and make use of all the features available in C++, in the context of numerical methods. It introduced at the time several new techniques, such as the Curiously Recurring Template Pattern (CRTP, also called Barton-Nackman trick). It pioneered several techniques such as dimensional analysis and automatic differentiation. It came with a lot of compilable and useful code, ranging from an expression parser to a Lapack wrapper. The code is still available online. Unfortunately, the books have become somewhat outdated in the style and C++ features, however, it was an incredible tour-de-force at the time (1994, pre-STL). The chapters on dynamics inheritance are a bit complicated to understand and not very useful. An updated version of this classic book that includes move semantics and the lessons learned from the STL would be very nice.

Handling very large numbers in Python

Python supports a "bignum" integer type which can work with arbitrarily large numbers. In Python 2.5+, this type is called long and is separate from the int type, but the interpreter will automatically use whichever is more appropriate. In Python 3.0+, the int type has been dropped completely.

That's just an implementation detail, though — as long as you have version 2.5 or better, just perform standard math operations and any number which exceeds the boundaries of 32-bit math will be automatically (and transparently) converted to a bignum.

You can find all the gory details in PEP 0237.

What is the difference between lower bound and tight bound?

If I were lazy, I could say that binary search on a sorted array is O(n2), O(n3), and O(2n), and I would be technically correct in every case.

We can use o-notation ("little-oh") to denote an upper bound that is not asymptotically tight. Both big-oh and little-oh are similar. But, big-oh is likely used to define asymptotically tight upper bound.

C# Equivalent of SQL Server DataTypes

This is for SQL Server 2005. There are updated versions of the table for SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2012 and SQL Server 2014.

SQL Server Data Types and Their .NET Framework Equivalents

The following table lists Microsoft SQL Server data types, their equivalents in the common language runtime (CLR) for SQL Server in the System.Data.SqlTypes namespace, and their native CLR equivalents in the Microsoft .NET Framework.

SQL Server data type          CLR data type (SQL Server)    CLR data type (.NET Framework)  
varbinary                     SqlBytes, SqlBinary           Byte[]  
binary                        SqlBytes, SqlBinary           Byte[]  
varbinary(1), binary(1)       SqlBytes, SqlBinary           byte, Byte[] 
image                         None                          None

varchar                       None                          None
char                          None                          None
nvarchar(1), nchar(1)         SqlChars, SqlString           Char, String, Char[]     
nvarchar                      SqlChars, SqlString           String, Char[] 
nchar                         SqlChars, SqlString           String, Char[] 
text                          None                          None
ntext                         None                          None

uniqueidentifier              SqlGuid                       Guid 
rowversion                    None                          Byte[]  
bit                           SqlBoolean                    Boolean 
tinyint                       SqlByte                       Byte 
smallint                      SqlInt16                      Int16  
int                           SqlInt32                      Int32  
bigint                        SqlInt64                      Int64 

smallmoney                    SqlMoney                      Decimal  
money                         SqlMoney                      Decimal  
numeric                       SqlDecimal                    Decimal  
decimal                       SqlDecimal                    Decimal  
real                          SqlSingle                     Single  
float                         SqlDouble                     Double  

smalldatetime                 SqlDateTime                   DateTime  
datetime                      SqlDateTime                   DateTime 

sql_variant                   None                          Object  
User-defined type(UDT)        None                          user-defined type     
table                         None                          None 
cursor                        None                          None
timestamp                     None                          None 
xml                           SqlXml                        None

DNS problem, nslookup works, ping doesn't

I had this problem occasionally when using a multi-label name ie test.internal

The solution for me was to stop/start the dnscache on my windows 7 machine. Open a console as administrator and type

net stop dnscache
net start dnscache

then sigh and look for a way to get a Mac as your principal desktop.

Binary search (bisection) in Python

def binary_search_length_of_a_list(single_method_list):
    index = 0
    first = 0
    last = 1

    while True:
        mid = ((first + last) // 2)
        if not single_method_list.get(index):
            break
        index = mid + 1
        first = index
        last = index + 1
    return mid

Parse usable Street Address, City, State, Zip from a string

RecogniContact is a Windows COM object that parses US and European addresses. You can try it right on http://www.loquisoft.com/index.php?page=8

Big O, how do you calculate/approximate it?

Break down the algorithm into pieces you know the big O notation for, and combine through big O operators. That's the only way I know of.

For more information, check the Wikipedia page on the subject.

Python For loop get index

Do you want to iterate over characters or words?

For words, you'll have to split the words first, such as

for index, word in enumerate(loopme.split(" ")):
    print "CURRENT WORD IS", word, "AT INDEX", index

This prints the index of the word.

For the absolute character position you'd need something like

chars = 0
for index, word in enumerate(loopme.split(" ")):
    print "CURRENT WORD IS", word, "AT INDEX", index, "AND AT CHARACTER", chars
    chars += len(word) + 1

Textfield with only bottom border

Probably a duplicate of this post: A customized input text box in html/html5

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input {_x000D_
  border: 0;_x000D_
  outline: 0;_x000D_
  background: transparent;_x000D_
  border-bottom: 1px solid black;_x000D_
}
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<input></input>
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How to use Angular2 templates with *ngFor to create a table out of nested arrays?

<table>
     <ng-container *ngFor="let group of groups">
         <tr><td><h2>{{group.name}}</h2></td></tr>
         <tr *ngFor="let item of group.items"><td>{{item}}</td></tr>
     </ng-container>
</table>

HTTPS and SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed, CA is OK

When setting the curl options for CURLOPT_CAINFO please remember to use single quotes, using double quotes will only cause another error. So your option should look like:

curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CAINFO, 'c:\wamp\www\mywebfolder\cacert.pem');

Additionally, in your php.ini file setting should be written as:(notice my double quotes)

curl.cainfo = "C:\wamp\www\mywebfolder"

I put it directly below the line that says this: extension=php_curl.dll

(For organizing purposes only, you could put it anywhere within your php.ini, i just put it close to another curl reference so when I search using keyword curl I caan find both curl references in one area.)

How to delete columns in numpy.array

From Numpy Documentation

np.delete(arr, obj, axis=None) Return a new array with sub-arrays along an axis deleted.

>>> arr
array([[ 1,  2,  3,  4],
       [ 5,  6,  7,  8],
       [ 9, 10, 11, 12]])
>>> np.delete(arr, 1, 0)
array([[ 1,  2,  3,  4],
       [ 9, 10, 11, 12]])

>>> np.delete(arr, np.s_[::2], 1)
array([[ 2,  4],
       [ 6,  8],
       [10, 12]])
>>> np.delete(arr, [1,3,5], None)
array([ 1,  3,  5,  7,  8,  9, 10, 11, 12])

Why do I get PLS-00302: component must be declared when it exists?

You can get that error if you have an object with the same name as the schema. For example:

create sequence s2;

begin
  s2.a;
end;
/

ORA-06550: line 2, column 6:
PLS-00302: component 'A' must be declared
ORA-06550: line 2, column 3:
PL/SQL: Statement ignored

When you refer to S2.MY_FUNC2 the object name is being resolved so it doesn't try to evaluate S2 as a schema name. When you just call it as MY_FUNC2 there is no confusion, so it works.

The documentation explains name resolution. The first piece of the qualified object name - S2 here - is evaluated as an object on the current schema before it is evaluated as a different schema.

It might not be a sequence; other objects can cause the same error. You can check for the existence of objects with the same name by querying the data dictionary.

select owner, object_type, object_name
from all_objects
where object_name = 'S2';

Map a 2D array onto a 1D array

Example : we want to represent an 2D array of SIZE_X and SIZE_Y size. That means that we will have MAXY consecutive rows of MAXX size. Hence the set function is

void set_array( int x, int y, int val ) { array[ x * SIZE_Y + y ] = val; }

The get would be:

int get_array( int x, int y ) { return array[ x * SIZE_Y + y ]; }

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.

Extract digits from string - StringUtils Java

   `String s="as234dfd423";
for(int i=0;i<s.length();i++)
 {
    char c=s.charAt(i);``
    char d=s.charAt(i);
     if ('a' <= c && c <= 'z')
         System.out.println("String:-"+c);
     else  if ('0' <= d && d <= '9')
           System.out.println("number:-"+d);
    }

output:-

number:-4
number:-3
number:-4
String:-d
String:-f
String:-d
number:-2
number:-3

How to add a response header on nginx when using proxy_pass?

There is a module called HttpHeadersMoreModule that gives you more control over headers. It does not come with Nginx and requires additional installation. With it, you can do something like this:

location ... {
  more_set_headers "Server: my_server";
}

That will "set the Server output header to the custom value for any status code and any content type". It will replace headers that are already set or add them if unset.

How can I easily convert DataReader to List<T>?

I would suggest writing an extension method for this:

public static IEnumerable<T> Select<T>(this IDataReader reader,
                                       Func<IDataReader, T> projection)
{
    while (reader.Read())
    {
        yield return projection(reader);
    }
}

You can then use LINQ's ToList() method to convert that into a List<T> if you want, like this:

using (IDataReader reader = ...)
{
    List<Customer> customers = reader.Select(r => new Customer {
        CustomerId = r["id"] is DBNull ? null : r["id"].ToString(),
        CustomerName = r["name"] is DBNull ? null : r["name"].ToString() 
    }).ToList();
}

I would actually suggest putting a FromDataReader method in Customer (or somewhere else):

public static Customer FromDataReader(IDataReader reader) { ... }

That would leave:

using (IDataReader reader = ...)
{
    List<Customer> customers = reader.Select<Customer>(Customer.FromDataReader)
                                     .ToList();
}

(I don't think type inference would work in this case, but I could be wrong...)

MAC addresses in JavaScript

Nope. The reason ActiveX can do it is because ActiveX is a little application that runs on the client's machine.

I would imagine access to such information via JavaScript would be a security vulnerability.

Why do I have to define LD_LIBRARY_PATH with an export every time I run my application?

You could add in your code a call system with the new definition:

sprintf(newdef,"export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:%s:%s",ld1,ld2);
system(newdef);

But, I don't know it that is the rigth solution but it works.

Regards

javascript node.js next()

It's basically like a callback that express.js use after a certain part of the code is executed and done, you can use it to make sure that part of code is done and what you wanna do next thing, but always be mindful you only can do one res.send in your each REST block...

So you can do something like this as a simple next() example:

app.get("/", (req, res, next) => {
  console.log("req:", req, "res:", res);
  res.send(["data": "whatever"]);
  next();
},(req, res) =>
  console.log("it's all done!");
);

It's also very useful when you'd like to have a middleware in your app...

To load the middleware function, call app.use(), specifying the middleware function. For example, the following code loads the myLogger middleware function before the route to the root path (/).

var express = require('express');
var app = express();

var myLogger = function (req, res, next) {
  console.log('LOGGED');
  next();
}

app.use(myLogger);

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

app.listen(3000);

Eclipse - Failed to create the java virtual machine

Reduce the memory size to Xmx512m and it works.

How to get the pure text without HTML element using JavaScript?

This works for me compiled based on what was said here with a more modern standard. This works best for multiple looks up.

let element = document.querySelectorAll('.myClass')
  element.forEach(item => {
    console.log(item.innerHTML = item.innerText || item.textContent)
  })

jQuery UI accordion that keeps multiple sections open?

open jquery-ui-*.js

find $.widget( "ui.accordion", {

find _eventHandler: function( event ) { inside

change

var options = this.options,             active = this.active,           clicked = $( event.currentTarget ),             clickedIsActive = clicked[ 0 ] === active[ 0 ],             collapsing = clickedIsActive && options.collapsible,            toShow = collapsing ? $() : clicked.next(),             toHide = active.next(),             eventData = {
                oldHeader: active,
                oldPanel: toHide,
                newHeader: collapsing ? $() : clicked,
                newPanel: toShow            };

to

var options = this.options,
    clicked = $( event.currentTarget),
    clickedIsActive = clicked.next().attr('aria-expanded') == 'true',
    collapsing = clickedIsActive && options.collapsible;

    if (clickedIsActive == true) {
        var toShow = $();
        var toHide = clicked.next();
    } else {
        var toShow = clicked.next();
        var toHide = $();

    }
    eventData = {
        oldHeader: $(),
        oldPanel: toHide,
        newHeader: clicked,
        newPanel: toShow
    };

before active.removeClass( "ui-accordion-header-active ui-state-active" );

add if (typeof(active) !== 'undefined') { and closing }

enjoy

How to change bower's default components folder?

Try putting the components.json file in the public directory of your application, rather than the root directory, then re-run bower install ...try this in your app home directory:

cp components.json public
cd public
bower install

jQuery Toggle Text?

Why not keep track of the state of through a class without CSS rules on the clickable anchor itself

$(function() {
    $("#show-background").click(function () {
        $("#content-area").animate({opacity: 'toggle'}, 'slow');
        $("#show-background").toggleClass("clicked");
        if ( $("#show-background").hasClass("clicked") ) {
            $(this).text("Show Text");
        }
        else {
            $(this).text("Show Background");
        }
    });
});

java, get set methods

To understand get and set, it's all related to how variables are passed between different classes.

The get method is used to obtain or retrieve a particular variable value from a class.

A set value is used to store the variables.

The whole point of the get and set is to retrieve and store the data values accordingly.

What I did in this old project was I had a User class with my get and set methods that I used in my Server class.

The User class's get set methods:

public int getuserID()
    {
        //getting the userID variable instance
        return userID;
    }
    public String getfirstName()
    {
        //getting the firstName variable instance
        return firstName;
    }
    public String getlastName()
    {
        //getting the lastName variable instance
        return lastName;
    }
    public int getage()
    {
        //getting the age variable instance
        return age;
    }

    public void setuserID(int userID)
    {
        //setting the userID variable value
        this.userID = userID;
    }
    public void setfirstName(String firstName)
    {
        //setting the firstName variable text
        this.firstName = firstName;
    }
    public void setlastName(String lastName)
    {
        //setting the lastName variable text
        this.lastName = lastName;
    }
    public void setage(int age)
    {
        //setting the age variable value
        this.age = age;
    }
}

Then this was implemented in the run() method in my Server class as follows:

//creates user object
                User use = new User(userID, firstName, lastName, age);
                //Mutator methods to set user objects
                use.setuserID(userID);
                use.setlastName(lastName);
                use.setfirstName(firstName);               
                use.setage(age); 

Check if ADODB connection is open

ADO Recordset has .State property, you can check if its value is adStateClosed or adStateOpen

If Not (rs Is Nothing) Then
  If (rs.State And adStateOpen) = adStateOpen Then rs.Close
  Set rs = Nothing
End If

MSDN about State property

Edit; The reason not to check .State against 1 or 0 is because even if it works 99.99% of the time, it is still possible to have other flags set which will cause the If statement fail the adStateOpen check.

Edit2:

For Late binding without the ActiveX Data Objects referenced, you have few options. Use the value of adStateOpen constant from ObjectStateEnum

If Not (rs Is Nothing) Then
  If (rs.State And 1) = 1 Then rs.Close
  Set rs = Nothing
End If

Or you can define the constant yourself to make your code more readable (defining them all for a good example.)

Const adStateClosed As Long = 0 'Indicates that the object is closed.
Const adStateOpen As Long = 1 'Indicates that the object is open.
Const adStateConnecting As Long = 2 'Indicates that the object is connecting.
Const adStateExecuting As Long = 4 'Indicates that the object is executing a command.
Const adStateFetching As Long = 8 'Indicates that the rows of the object are being retrieved.    

[...]

If Not (rs Is Nothing) Then

    ' ex. If (0001 And 0001) = 0001 (only open flag) -> true
    ' ex. If (1001 And 0001) = 0001 (open and retrieve) -> true
    '    This second example means it is open, but its value is not 1
    '    and If rs.State = 1 -> false, even though it is open
    If (rs.State And adStateOpen) = adStateOpen Then 
        rs.Close
    End If

    Set rs = Nothing
End If

How to set seekbar min and max value

Min-value will always start at zero and its nothing you can do about it. But you can change its value when user start scrolling it around.

Here I set the max-value as 64. This calculations are simple: I want the user to pick a time from 15min to 16 hours, and he picks one of every 15min to 16 hours, clear? I know, very simple :)

    SeekBar seekBar = (SeekBar) dialog.findViewById(R.id.seekBar);
    seekBar.setMax(64);

    seekBar.setOnSeekBarChangeListener(new SeekBar.OnSeekBarChangeListener() {
        float b;

        @Override
        public void onProgressChanged(SeekBar seekBar, int progress, boolean fromUser) {
            float des = (float) progress / 4;
            b = des;
            hours.setText(des + " hours");
        }

        @Override
        public void onStartTrackingTouch(SeekBar seekBar) {


        }

        @Override
        public void onStopTrackingTouch(SeekBar seekBar) {
            hoursSelected = b;
        }
    });

Using Mockito to mock classes with generic parameters

I agree that one shouldn't suppress warnings in classes or methods as one could overlook other, accidentally suppressed warnings. But IMHO it's absolutely reasonable to suppress a warning that affects only a single line of code.

@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
Foo<Bar> mockFoo = mock(Foo.class);

Java foreach loop: for (Integer i : list) { ... }

Another way, you can use a pass-through object to capture the last value and then do something with it:

List<Integer> list = new ArrayList<Integer>();
Integer lastValue = null;
for (Integer i : list) {
    // do stuff
    lastValue = i;
}
// do stuff with last value

Wait until page is loaded with Selenium WebDriver for Python

Find below 3 methods:

readyState

Checking page readyState (not reliable):

def page_has_loaded(self):
    self.log.info("Checking if {} page is loaded.".format(self.driver.current_url))
    page_state = self.driver.execute_script('return document.readyState;')
    return page_state == 'complete'

The wait_for helper function is good, but unfortunately click_through_to_new_page is open to the race condition where we manage to execute the script in the old page, before the browser has started processing the click, and page_has_loaded just returns true straight away.

id

Comparing new page ids with the old one:

def page_has_loaded_id(self):
    self.log.info("Checking if {} page is loaded.".format(self.driver.current_url))
    try:
        new_page = browser.find_element_by_tag_name('html')
        return new_page.id != old_page.id
    except NoSuchElementException:
        return False

It's possible that comparing ids is not as effective as waiting for stale reference exceptions.

staleness_of

Using staleness_of method:

@contextlib.contextmanager
def wait_for_page_load(self, timeout=10):
    self.log.debug("Waiting for page to load at {}.".format(self.driver.current_url))
    old_page = self.find_element_by_tag_name('html')
    yield
    WebDriverWait(self, timeout).until(staleness_of(old_page))

For more details, check Harry's blog.

Where to find extensions installed folder for Google Chrome on Mac?

You can find all Chrome extensions in below location.

/Users/{mac_user}/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Extensions

Change keystore password from no password to a non blank password

Add -storepass to keytool arguments.

keytool -storepasswd -storepass '' -keystore mykeystore.jks

But also notice that -list command does not always require a password. I could execute follow command in both cases: without password or with valid password

$JAVA_HOME/bin/keytool -list -keystore $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/security/cacerts

How do I write dispatch_after GCD in Swift 3, 4, and 5?

In Swift 4.1 and Xcode 9.4.1

Simple answer is...

//To call function after 5 seconds time
DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + 5.0) {
//Here call your function
}

The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process (File is created but contains nothing)

using (var fs = new FileStream(filePath, FileMode.Append, FileAccess.Write, FileShare.ReadWrite))
using (var sw = new StreamWriter(fs))
{
    sw.WriteLine(message);
}

Add line break within tooltips

if you are using jquery-ui 1.11.4:

var tooltip = $.widget( "ui.tooltip", {
    version: "1.11.4",
    options: {
        content: function() {
            // support: IE<9, Opera in jQuery <1.7
            // .text() can't accept undefined, so coerce to a string
            var title = $( this ).attr( "title" ) || "";
            // Escape title, since we're going from an attribute to raw HTML
Replace-->  //return $( "<a>" ).text( title ).html();
by -->      return $( "<a>" ).html( title );
             },

How to select count with Laravel's fluent query builder?

You can use an array in the select() to define more columns and you can use the DB::raw() there with aliasing it to followers. Should look like this:

$query = DB::table('category_issue')
    ->select(array('issues.*', DB::raw('COUNT(issue_subscriptions.issue_id) as followers')))
    ->where('category_id', '=', 1)
    ->join('issues', 'category_issue.issue_id', '=', 'issues.id')
    ->left_join('issue_subscriptions', 'issues.id', '=', 'issue_subscriptions.issue_id')
    ->group_by('issues.id')
    ->order_by('followers', 'desc')
    ->get();

Can't append <script> element

I want to do the same thing but to append a script tag in other frame!

var url = 'library.js'; 
var script = window.parent.frames[1].document.createElement('script' ); 
script.type = 'text/javascript'; 
script.src = url;
$('head',window.parent.frames[1].document).append(script);

Resize UIImage and change the size of UIImageView

When you get the width and height of a resized image Get width of a resized image after UIViewContentModeScaleAspectFit, you can resize your imageView:

imageView.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, resizedWidth, resizedHeight);
imageView.center = imageView.superview.center;

I haven't checked if it works, but I think all should be OK

document.getelementbyId will return null if element is not defined?

console.log(document.getElementById('xx') ) evaluates to null.

document.getElementById('xx') !=null evaluates to false

You should use document.getElementById('xx') !== null as it is a stronger equality check.

Delete an element from a dictionary

d = {1: 2, '2': 3, 5: 7}
del d[5]
print 'd = ', d

Result: d = {1: 2, '2': 3}

validate natural input number with ngpattern

<label>Mobile Number(*)</label>
<input id="txtMobile" ng-maxlength="10" maxlength="10" Validate-phone  required  name='strMobileNo' ng-model="formModel.strMobileNo" type="text"  placeholder="Enter Mobile Number">
<span style="color:red" ng-show="regForm.strMobileNo.$dirty && regForm.strMobileNo.$invalid"><span ng-show="regForm.strMobileNo.$error.required">Phone is required.</span>

the following code will help for phone number validation and the respected directive is

app.directive('validatePhone', function() {
var PHONE_REGEXP = /^[789]\d{9}$/;
  return {
    link: function(scope, elm) {
      elm.on("keyup",function(){
            var isMatchRegex = PHONE_REGEXP.test(elm.val());
            if( isMatchRegex&& elm.hasClass('warning') || elm.val() == ''){
              elm.removeClass('warning');
            }else if(isMatchRegex == false && !elm.hasClass('warning')){
              elm.addClass('warning');
            }
      });
    }
  }
});

How to execute raw SQL in Flask-SQLAlchemy app

result = db.engine.execute(text("<sql here>"))

executes the <sql here> but doesn't commit it unless you're on autocommit mode. So, inserts and updates wouldn't reflect in the database.

To commit after the changes, do

result = db.engine.execute(text("<sql here>").execution_options(autocommit=True))

How to bind Close command to a button

All it takes is a bit of XAML...

<Window x:Class="WCSamples.Window1"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml">
    <Window.CommandBindings>
        <CommandBinding Command="ApplicationCommands.Close"
                        Executed="CloseCommandHandler"/>
    </Window.CommandBindings>
    <StackPanel Name="MainStackPanel">
        <Button Command="ApplicationCommands.Close" 
                Content="Close Window" />
    </StackPanel>
</Window>

And a bit of C#...

private void CloseCommandHandler(object sender, ExecutedRoutedEventArgs e)
{
    this.Close();
}

(adapted from this MSDN article)

Postgres password authentication fails

Assuming, that you have root access on the box you can do:

sudo -u postgres psql

If that fails with a database "postgres" does not exists this block.

sudo -u postgres psql template1

Then sudo nano /etc/postgresql/11/main/pg_hba.conf file

local   all         postgres                          ident

For newer versions of PostgreSQL ident actually might be peer.

Inside the psql shell you can give the DB user postgres a password:

ALTER USER postgres PASSWORD 'newPassword';

Oracle comparing timestamp with date

You can truncate the date part:

select * from table1 where trunc(field1) = to_date('2012-01-01', 'YYYY-MM-DD')

The trouble with this approach is that any index on field1 wouldn't be used due to the function call.

Alternatively (and more index friendly)

select * from table1 
 where field1 >= to_timestamp('2012-01-01', 'YYYY-MM-DD') 
   and field1 < to_timestamp('2012-01-02', 'YYYY-MM-DD')

Make ABC Ordered List Items Have Bold Style

You could do something like this also:

ol {
  font-weight: bold;
}

ol > li > * {
  font-weight: normal;
}

So you have no "style" attributes in your HTML

How to change max_allowed_packet size

Set the max allowed packet size using MySql Workbench and restart the serverMysql Workbench

Windows could not start the SQL Server (MSSQLSERVER) on Local Computer... (error code 3417)

What is System Event Log saying?

Have you tried to repair: Sql Server Installation Center -> Maintenance -> Repair

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Calling one method from another within same class in Python

To call the method, you need to qualify function with self.. In addition to that, if you want to pass a filename, add a filename parameter (or other name you want).

class MyHandler(FileSystemEventHandler):

    def on_any_event(self, event):
        srcpath = event.src_path
        print (srcpath, 'has been ',event.event_type)
        print (datetime.datetime.now())
        filename = srcpath[12:]
        self.dropbox_fn(filename) # <----

    def dropbox_fn(self, filename):  # <-----
        print('In dropbox_fn:', filename)

MongoDB - Update objects in a document's array (nested updating)

There is no way to do this in single query. You have to search the document in first query:

If document exists:

db.bar.update( {user_id : 123456 , "items.item_name" : "my_item_two" } , 
                {$inc : {"items.$.price" : 1} } , 
                false , 
                true);

Else

db.bar.update( {user_id : 123456 } , 
                {$addToSet : {"items" : {'item_name' : "my_item_two" , 'price' : 1 }} } ,
                false , 
                true);

No need to add condition {$ne : "my_item_two" }.

Also in multithreaded enviourment you have to be careful that only one thread can execute the second (insert case, if document did not found) at a time, otherwise duplicate embed documents will be inserted.

Instantiating a generic class in Java

For Java 8 ....

There is a good solution at https://stackoverflow.com/a/36315051/2648077 post.

This uses Java 8 Supplier functional interface

Creating lowpass filter in SciPy - understanding methods and units

A few comments:

  • The Nyquist frequency is half the sampling rate.
  • You are working with regularly sampled data, so you want a digital filter, not an analog filter. This means you should not use analog=True in the call to butter, and you should use scipy.signal.freqz (not freqs) to generate the frequency response.
  • One goal of those short utility functions is to allow you to leave all your frequencies expressed in Hz. You shouldn't have to convert to rad/sec. As long as you express your frequencies with consistent units, the scaling in the utility functions takes care of the normalization for you.

Here's my modified version of your script, followed by the plot that it generates.

import numpy as np
from scipy.signal import butter, lfilter, freqz
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt


def butter_lowpass(cutoff, fs, order=5):
    nyq = 0.5 * fs
    normal_cutoff = cutoff / nyq
    b, a = butter(order, normal_cutoff, btype='low', analog=False)
    return b, a

def butter_lowpass_filter(data, cutoff, fs, order=5):
    b, a = butter_lowpass(cutoff, fs, order=order)
    y = lfilter(b, a, data)
    return y


# Filter requirements.
order = 6
fs = 30.0       # sample rate, Hz
cutoff = 3.667  # desired cutoff frequency of the filter, Hz

# Get the filter coefficients so we can check its frequency response.
b, a = butter_lowpass(cutoff, fs, order)

# Plot the frequency response.
w, h = freqz(b, a, worN=8000)
plt.subplot(2, 1, 1)
plt.plot(0.5*fs*w/np.pi, np.abs(h), 'b')
plt.plot(cutoff, 0.5*np.sqrt(2), 'ko')
plt.axvline(cutoff, color='k')
plt.xlim(0, 0.5*fs)
plt.title("Lowpass Filter Frequency Response")
plt.xlabel('Frequency [Hz]')
plt.grid()


# Demonstrate the use of the filter.
# First make some data to be filtered.
T = 5.0         # seconds
n = int(T * fs) # total number of samples
t = np.linspace(0, T, n, endpoint=False)
# "Noisy" data.  We want to recover the 1.2 Hz signal from this.
data = np.sin(1.2*2*np.pi*t) + 1.5*np.cos(9*2*np.pi*t) + 0.5*np.sin(12.0*2*np.pi*t)

# Filter the data, and plot both the original and filtered signals.
y = butter_lowpass_filter(data, cutoff, fs, order)

plt.subplot(2, 1, 2)
plt.plot(t, data, 'b-', label='data')
plt.plot(t, y, 'g-', linewidth=2, label='filtered data')
plt.xlabel('Time [sec]')
plt.grid()
plt.legend()

plt.subplots_adjust(hspace=0.35)
plt.show()

lowpass example

Failed binder transaction when putting an bitmap dynamically in a widget

The Binder transaction buffer has a limited fixed size, currently 1Mb, which is shared by all transactions in progress for the process. Consequently this exception can be thrown when there are many transactions in progress even when most of the individual transactions are of moderate size.

refer this link

how do I initialize a float to its max/min value?

May I suggest that you initialize your "max and min so far" variables not to infinity, but to the first number in the array?

"Could not find the main class" error when running jar exported by Eclipse

I ran into the same issues the other day and it took me days to make it work. The error message was "Could not find the main class", but I can run the executable jar exported from Eclipse in other Windows machines without any problem.

The solution was to install both x64 and x86 version of the same version of JRE. The path environment variable was pointed to the x64 version. No idea why, but it worked for me.

What is the best way to trigger onchange event in react js

For React 16 and React >=15.6

Setter .value= is not working as we wanted because React library overrides input value setter but we can call the function directly on the input as context.

var nativeInputValueSetter = Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(window.HTMLInputElement.prototype, "value").set;
nativeInputValueSetter.call(input, 'react 16 value');

var ev2 = new Event('input', { bubbles: true});
input.dispatchEvent(ev2);

For textarea element you should use prototype of HTMLTextAreaElement class.

New codepen example.

All credits to this contributor and his solution

Outdated answer only for React <=15.5

With react-dom ^15.6.0 you can use simulated flag on the event object for the event to pass through

var ev = new Event('input', { bubbles: true});
ev.simulated = true;
element.value = 'Something new';
element.dispatchEvent(ev);

I made a codepen with an example

To understand why new flag is needed I found this comment very helpful:

The input logic in React now dedupe's change events so they don't fire more than once per value. It listens for both browser onChange/onInput events as well as sets on the DOM node value prop (when you update the value via javascript). This has the side effect of meaning that if you update the input's value manually input.value = 'foo' then dispatch a ChangeEvent with { target: input } React will register both the set and the event, see it's value is still `'foo', consider it a duplicate event and swallow it.

This works fine in normal cases because a "real" browser initiated event doesn't trigger sets on the element.value. You can bail out of this logic secretly by tagging the event you trigger with a simulated flag and react will always fire the event. https://github.com/jquense/react/blob/9a93af4411a8e880bbc05392ccf2b195c97502d1/src/renderers/dom/client/eventPlugins/ChangeEventPlugin.js#L128

Where are environment variables stored in the Windows Registry?

Here's where they're stored on Windows XP through Windows Server 2012 R2:

User Variables

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment

System Variables

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment

How to add header data in XMLHttpRequest when using formdata?

Your error

InvalidStateError: An attempt was made to use an object that is not, or is no longer, usable

appears because you must call setRequestHeader after calling open. Simply move your setRequestHeader line below your open line (but before send):

xmlhttp.open("POST", url);
xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("x-filename", photoId);
xmlhttp.send(formData);

How do I pass a value from a child back to the parent form?

Create a property (or method) on FormOptions, say GetMyResult:

using (FormOptions formOptions = new FormOptions())
{
    formOptions.ShowDialog();

    string result = formOptions.GetMyResult;

    // do what ever with result...
}

Xcode 4 - build output directory

From the Xcode menu on top, click preferences, select the locations tab, look at the build location option.

You have 2 options:

  1. Place build products in derived data location (recommended)
  2. Place build products in locations specified by targets

Update: On xcode 4.6.2 you need to click the advanced button on the right side below the derived data text field. Build Location select legacy.

Remove white space below image

I've set up a JSFiddle to test several different solutions to this problem. Based on the [vague] criteria of

1) Maximum flexibility

2) No weird behavior

The accepted answer here of

img { display: block; }

which is recommended by a lot of people (such as in this excellent article), actually ranks fourth.

1st, 2nd, and 3rd place are all a toss-up between these three solutions:

1) The solution given by @Dave Kok and @Hasan Gursoy:

img { vertical-align: top; } /* or bottom */

pros:

  • All display values work on both the parent and img.
  • No very strange behavior; any siblings of the img fall where you'd expect them to.
  • Very efficient.

cons:

  • In the [perfectly valid] case of both the parent and img having `display: inline`, the value of this property can determine the position of the img's parent (a bit strange).

2) Setting font-size: 0; on the parent element:

.parent {
    font-size: 0;
    vertical-align: top;
}
.parent > * {
    font-size: 16px;
    vertical-align: top;
}

Since this one [kind of] requires vertical-align: top on the img, this is basically an extension of the 1st solution.

pros:

  • All display values work on both the parent and img.
  • No very strange behavior; any siblings of the img fall where you'd expect them to.
  • Fixes the inline whitespace problem for any siblings of the img.
  • Although this still moves the position of the parent in the case of the parent and img both having `display: inline`, at least you can't see the parent anymore.

cons:

  • Less efficient code.
  • This assumes "correct" markup; if the img has text node siblings, they won't show up.

3) Setting line-height: 0 on the parent element:

.parent {
    line-height: 0;
    vertical-align: top;
}
.parent > * {
    line-height: 1.15;
    vertical-align: top;
}

Similar to the 2nd solution in that, to make it fully flexible, it basically becomes an extension of the 1st.

pros:

  • Behaves like the first two solutions on all display combinations except when the parent and img have `display: inline`.

cons:

  • Less efficient code.
  • In the case of both the parent and img having `display: inline`, we get all sorts of crazy. (Maybe playing with the `line-height` property isn't the best idea...)

So there you have it. I hope this helps some poor soul.

Decode Hex String in Python 3

The answers from @unbeli and @Niklas are good, but @unbeli's answer does not work for all hex strings and it is desirable to do the decoding without importing an extra library (codecs). The following should work (but will not be very efficient for large strings):

>>> result = bytes.fromhex((lambda s: ("%s%s00" * (len(s)//2)) % tuple(s))('4a82fdfeff00')).decode('utf-16-le')
>>> result == '\x4a\x82\xfd\xfe\xff\x00'
True

Basically, it works around having invalid utf-8 bytes by padding with zeros and decoding as utf-16.

Post values from a multiple select

You need to add a name attribute.

Since this is a multiple select, at the HTTP level, the client just sends multiple name/value pairs with the same name, you can observe this yourself if you use a form with method="GET": someurl?something=1&something=2&something=3.

In the case of PHP, Ruby, and some other library/frameworks out there, you would need to add square braces ([]) at the end of the name. The frameworks will parse that string and wil present it in some easy to use format, like an array.

Apart from manually parsing the request there's no language/framework/library-agnostic way of accessing multiple values, because they all have different APIs

For PHP you can use:

<select name="something[]" id="inscompSelected" multiple="multiple" class="lstSelected">

Iterate Multi-Dimensional Array with Nested Foreach Statement

Two ways:

  1. Define the array as a jagged array, and use nested foreachs.
  2. Define the array normally, and use foreach on the entire thing.

Example of #2:

int[,] arr = { { 1, 2 }, { 3, 4 } };
foreach(int a in arr)
    Console.Write(a);

Output will be 1234. ie. exactly the same as doing i from 0 to n, and j from 0 to n.

How to create exe of a console application

an EXE file is created as long as you build the project. you can usually find this on the debug folder of you project.

C:\Users\username\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\ProjectName\bin\Debug

How do I enable TODO/FIXME/XXX task tags in Eclipse?

All those settings are necessary to choose which tags you are interested in, but in order to display these tags in a list, you also need to select the right Eclipse perspective. I finally discovered that the "Markers" tab containing the "Task" list is only available under the "Java EE" perspective... Hope this helps! :-)

Jump into interface implementation in Eclipse IDE

Here is what I do:

I press command (on Mac, probably control on PC) and then hover over the method or class. When you do this a popup window will appear with the choices "Open Declaration", "Open Implementation", "Open Return Type". You can then click on what you want and Eclipse brings you right there. I believe this works for version 3.6 and up.

It is just as quick as IntelliJ I think.

How do I get the HTTP status code with jQuery?

I have had major issues with ajax + jQuery v3 getting both the response status code and data from JSON APIs. jQuery.ajax only decodes JSON data if the status is a successful one, and it also swaps around the ordering of the callback parameters depending on the status code. Ugghhh.

The best way to combat this is to call the .always chain method and do a bit of cleaning up. Here is my code.

$.ajax({
        ...
    }).always(function(data, textStatus, xhr) {
        var responseCode = null;
        if (textStatus === "error") {
            // data variable is actually xhr
            responseCode = data.status;
            if (data.responseText) {
                try {
                    data = JSON.parse(data.responseText);
                } catch (e) {
                    // Ignore
                }
            }
        } else {
            responseCode = xhr.status;
        }

        console.log("Response code", responseCode);
        console.log("JSON Data", data);
    });

bootstrap.min.js:6 Uncaught Error: Bootstrap dropdown require Popper.js

In the introduction of Bootstrap it states which imports you need to add. https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/getting-started/introduction/#quick-start

You have to add some scripts in order to get bootstrap fully working. It's important that you include them in this exact order. Popper.js is one of them:

    <script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.1.slim.min.js" integrity="sha384-KJ3o2DKtIkvYIK3UENzmM7KCkRr/rE9/Qpg6aAZGJwFDMVNA/GpGFF93hXpG5KkN" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
    <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/popper.js/1.11.0/umd/popper.min.js" integrity="sha384-b/U6ypiBEHpOf/4+1nzFpr53nxSS+GLCkfwBdFNTxtclqqenISfwAzpKaMNFNmj4" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>
    <script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0-beta/js/bootstrap.min.js" integrity="sha384-h0AbiXch4ZDo7tp9hKZ4TsHbi047NrKGLO3SEJAg45jXxnGIfYzk4Si90RDIqNm1" crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

Open and write data to text file using Bash?

I know this is a damn old question, but as the OP is about scripting, and for the fact that google brought me here, opening file descriptors for reading and writing at the same time should also be mentioned.

#!/bin/bash

# Open file descriptor (fd) 3 for read/write on a text file.
exec 3<> poem.txt

    # Let's print some text to fd 3
    echo "Roses are red" >&3
    echo "Violets are blue" >&3
    echo "Poems are cute" >&3
    echo "And so are you" >&3

# Close fd 3
exec 3>&-

Then cat the file on terminal

$ cat poem.txt
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Poems are cute
And so are you

This example causes file poem.txt to be open for reading and writing on file descriptor 3. It also shows that *nix boxes know more fd's then just stdin, stdout and stderr (fd 0,1,2). It actually holds a lot. Usually the max number of file descriptors the kernel can allocate can be found in /proc/sys/file-max or /proc/sys/fs/file-max but using any fd above 9 is dangerous as it could conflict with fd's used by the shell internally. So don't bother and only use fd's 0-9. If you need more the 9 file descriptors in a bash script you should use a different language anyways :)

Anyhow, fd's can be used in a lot of interesting ways.

Implement a simple factory pattern with Spring 3 annotations

The following worked for me:

The interface consist of you logic methods plus additional identity method:

public interface MyService {
    String getType();
    void checkStatus();
}

Some implementations:

@Component
public class MyServiceOne implements MyService {
    @Override
    public String getType() {
        return "one";
    }

    @Override
    public void checkStatus() {
      // Your code
    }
}

@Component
public class MyServiceTwo implements MyService {
    @Override
    public String getType() {
        return "two";
    }

    @Override
    public void checkStatus() {
      // Your code
    }
}

@Component
public class MyServiceThree implements MyService {
    @Override
    public String getType() {
        return "three";
    }

    @Override
    public void checkStatus() {
      // Your code
    }
}

And the factory itself as following:

@Service
public class MyServiceFactory {

    @Autowired
    private List<MyService> services;

    private static final Map<String, MyService> myServiceCache = new HashMap<>();

    @PostConstruct
    public void initMyServiceCache() {
        for(MyService service : services) {
            myServiceCache.put(service.getType(), service);
        }
    }

    public static MyService getService(String type) {
        MyService service = myServiceCache.get(type);
        if(service == null) throw new RuntimeException("Unknown service type: " + type);
        return service;
    }
}

I've found such implementation easier, cleaner and much more extensible. Adding new MyService is as easy as creating another spring bean implementing same interface without making any changes in other places.

NGinx Default public www location?

You can search for it, no matter where did they move it (system admin moved or newer version of nginx)

find / -name nginx

android:layout_height 50% of the screen size

You should do something like that:

<LinearLayout
    android:id="@+id/widget34"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_below="@+id/tv_scanning_for"
    android:layout_centerHorizontal="true">

    <ListView
        android:id="@+id/lv_events"
        android:textSize="18sp"         
        android:cacheColorHint="#00000000"
        android:layout_height="1"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_weight="0dp"
        android:layout_below="@+id/tv_scanning_for"
        android:layout_centerHorizontal="true"
        />

</LinearLayout>

Also use dp instead px or read about it here.

openpyxl - adjust column width size

You could estimate (or use a mono width font) to achieve this. Let's assume data is a nested array like [['a1','a2'],['b1','b2']]

We can get the max characters in each column. Then set the width to that. Width is exactly the width of a monospace font (if not changing other styles at least). Even if you use a variable width font it is a decent estimation. This will not work with formulas.

from openpyxl.utils import get_column_letter

column_widths = []
for row in data:
    for i, cell in enumerate(row):
        if len(column_widths) > i:
            if len(cell) > column_widths[i]:
                column_widths[i] = len(cell)
        else:
            column_widths += [len(cell)]

for i, column_width in enumerate(column_widths):
    worksheet.column_dimensions[get_column_letter(i+1)].width = column_width

A bit of a hack but your reports will be more readable.

How to change color of Toolbar back button in Android?

You can add a style to your styles.xml,

<style name="ToolbarTheme" parent="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.ActionBar">
  <!-- Customize color of navigation drawer icon and back arrow --> 
  <item name="colorControlNormal">@color/toolbar_color_control_normal</item>
</style>

and add this as theme to your toolbar in toolbar layout.xml using app:theme, check below

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar 
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:minHeight="?attr/actionBarSize"
    android:background="?attr/colorPrimary"
    app:theme="@style/ToolbarTheme" >
</android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>

jQuery form validation on button click

You can also achieve other way using button tag

According new html5 attribute you also can add a form attribute like

<form id="formId">
    <input type="text" name="fname">
</form>

<button id="myButton" form='#formId'>My Awesome Button</button>

So the button will be attached to the form.

This should work with the validate() plugin of jQuery like :

var validator = $( "#formId" ).validate();
validator.element( "#myButton" );

It's working too with input tag

Source :

https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/HTML/Element/Button

Is there a way to break a list into columns?

If you can support it CSS Grid is probably the cleanest way for making a one-dimensional list into a two column layout with responsive interiors.

_x000D_
_x000D_
ul {_x000D_
  max-width: 400px;_x000D_
  display: grid;_x000D_
  grid-template-columns: 50% 50%;_x000D_
  padding-left: 0;_x000D_
  border: 1px solid blue;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
li {_x000D_
  list-style: inside;_x000D_
  border: 1px dashed red;_x000D_
  padding: 10px;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<ul>_x000D_
  <li>1</li>_x000D_
  <li>2</li>_x000D_
  <li>3</li>_x000D_
  <li>4</li>_x000D_
  <li>5</li>_x000D_
  <li>6</li>_x000D_
  <li>7</li>_x000D_
  <li>8</li>_x000D_
  <li>9</li>_x000D_
<ul>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

These are the two key lines which will give you your 2 column layout

display: grid;
grid-template-columns: 50% 50%;

Search a string in a file and delete it from this file by Shell Script

This should do it:

sed -e s/deletethis//g -i *
sed -e "s/deletethis//g" -i.backup *
sed -e "s/deletethis//g" -i .backup *

it will replace all occurrences of "deletethis" with "" (nothing) in all files (*), editing them in place.

In the second form the pattern can be edited a little safer, and it makes backups of any modified files, by suffixing them with ".backup".

The third form is the way some versions of sed like it. (e.g. Mac OS X)

man sed for more information.

Compare 2 arrays which returns difference

/** SUBTRACT ARRAYS **/
function subtractarrays(array1, array2){
    var difference = [];
    for( var i = 0; i < array1.length; i++ ) {
        if( $.inArray( array1[i], array2 ) == -1 ) {
                    difference.push(array1[i]);
        }
    }

    return difference;
}   

You can then call the function anywhere in your code.

var I_like    = ["love", "sex", "food"];
var she_likes = ["love", "food"];

alert( "what I like and she does't like is: " + subtractarrays( I_like, she_likes ) ); //returns "Naughty"!

This works in all cases and avoids the problems in the methods above. Hope that helps!

What is the precise meaning of "ours" and "theirs" in git?

From git checkout's usage:

-2, --ours            checkout our version for unmerged files
-3, --theirs          checkout their version for unmerged files
-m, --merge           perform a 3-way merge with the new branch

When resolving merge conflicts, you can do git checkout --theirs some_file, and git checkout --ours some_file to reset the file to the current version and the incoming versions respectively.

If you've done git checkout --ours some_file or git checkout --theirs some_file and would like to reset the file to the 3-way merge version of the file, you can do git checkout --merge some_file.

path.join vs path.resolve with __dirname

Yes there is a difference between the functions but the way you are using them in this case will result in the same outcome.

path.join returns a normalized path by merging two paths together. It can return an absolute path, but it doesn't necessarily always do so.

For instance:

path.join('app/libs/oauth', '/../ssl')

resolves to app/libs/ssl

path.resolve, on the other hand, will resolve to an absolute path.

For instance, when you run:

path.resolve('bar', '/foo');

The path returned will be /foo since that is the first absolute path that can be constructed.

However, if you run:

path.resolve('/bar/bae', '/foo', 'test');

The path returned will be /foo/test again because that is the first absolute path that can be formed from right to left.

If you don't provide a path that specifies the root directory then the paths given to the resolve function are appended to the current working directory. So if your working directory was /home/mark/project/:

path.resolve('test', 'directory', '../back');

resolves to

/home/mark/project/test/back

Using __dirname is the absolute path to the directory containing the source file. When you use path.resolve or path.join they will return the same result if you give the same path following __dirname. In such cases it's really just a matter of preference.

MySql Error: 1364 Field 'display_name' doesn't have default value

I got this error when I forgot to add new form fields/database columns to the $fillable array in the Laravel model - the model was stripping them out.

Change Activity's theme programmatically

I have used this code to implement dark mode...it worked fine for me...You can use it in a switch on....listener...

//setting up Night Mode...
 AppCompatDelegate.setDefaultNightMode(AppCompatDelegate.MODE_NIGHT_YES);
//Store current mode in a sharedprefernce to retrieve on restarting app
            editor.putBoolean("NightMode", true);
            editor.apply();
//restart all the activities to apply changed mode...
            TaskStackBuilder.create(getActivity())
                    .addNextIntent(new Intent(getActivity(), MainActivity.class))
                    .addNextIntent(getActivity().getIntent())
                    .startActivities();

showing that a date is greater than current date

For those that want a nice conditional:

DECLARE @MyDate DATETIME  = 'some date in future' --example  DateAdd(day,5,GetDate())

IF @MyDate < DATEADD(DAY,1,GETDATE())
    BEGIN
        PRINT 'Date NOT greater than today...'
END
ELSE 
    BEGIN
       PRINT 'Date greater than today...'
END 

C++ string to double conversion

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
    cout << stod("  99.999  ") << endl;
}

Output: 99.999 (which is double, whitespace was automatically stripped)

Since C++11 converting string to floating-point values (like double) is available with functions:
stof - convert str to a float
stod - convert str to a double
stold - convert str to a long double

As conversion of string to int was also mentioned in the question, there are the following functions in C++11:
stoi - convert str to an int
stol - convert str to a long
stoul - convert str to an unsigned long
stoll - convert str to a long long
stoull - convert str to an unsigned long long

TypeScript error TS1005: ';' expected (II)

You don't have the last version of typescript.

Running :

npm install -g typescript

npm checks if tsc command is already installed.

And it might be, by another software like Visual Studio. If so, npm doesn't override it. So you have to remove the previous deprecated tsc installed command.

Run where tsc to know its bin location. It should be in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\TypeScript\1.0\ in windows. Once found, delete the folder, and re-run npm install -g typescript. This should now install the last version of typescript.

Regarding 'main(int argc, char *argv[])'

You can run your application with parameters such as app -something -somethingelse. int argc represents number of these parameters and char *argv[] is an array with actual parameters being passed into your application. This way you can work with them inside of your application.

T-SQL split string

If you need a quick ad-hoc solution for common cases with minimum code, then this recursive CTE two-liner will do it:

DECLARE @s VARCHAR(200) = ',1,2,,3,,,4,,,,5,'

;WITH
a AS (SELECT i=-1, j=0 UNION ALL SELECT j, CHARINDEX(',', @s, j + 1) FROM a WHERE j > i),
b AS (SELECT SUBSTRING(@s, i+1, IIF(j>0, j, LEN(@s)+1)-i-1) s FROM a WHERE i >= 0)
SELECT * FROM b

Either use this as a stand-alone statement or just add the above CTEs to any of your queries and you will be able to join the resulting table b with others for use in any further expressions.

edit (by Shnugo)

If you add a counter, you will get a position index together with the List:

DECLARE @s VARCHAR(200) = '1,2333,344,4'

;WITH
a AS (SELECT n=0, i=-1, j=0 UNION ALL SELECT n+1, j, CHARINDEX(',', @s, j+1) FROM a WHERE j > i),
b AS (SELECT n, SUBSTRING(@s, i+1, IIF(j>0, j, LEN(@s)+1)-i-1) s FROM a WHERE i >= 0)
SELECT * FROM b;

The result:

n   s
1   1
2   2333
3   344
4   4

How can I get the full object in Node.js's console.log(), rather than '[Object]'?

Another simple method is to convert it to json

console.log('connection : %j', myObject);

Importing two classes with same name. How to handle?

Yes, when you import classes with the same simple names, you must refer to them by their fully qualified class names. I would leave the import statements in, as it gives other developers a sense of what is in the file when they are working with it.

java.util.Data date1 = new java.util.Date();
my.own.Date date2 = new my.own.Date();

Using FileUtils in eclipse

I have come accross the above issue. I have solved it as below. Its working fine for me.

  1. Download the 'org.apache.commons.io.jar' file on navigating to [org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils] [ http://www.java2s.com/Code/Jar/o/Downloadorgapachecommonsiojar.htm ]

  2. Extract the downloaded zip file to a specified folder.

  3. Update the project properties by using below navigation Right click on project>Select Properties>Select Java Build Path> Click Libraries tab>Click Add External Class Folder button>Select the folder where zip file is extracted for org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils.zip file.

  4. Now access the File Utils.

What is char ** in C?

It is a pointer to a pointer, so yes, in a way it's a 2D character array. In the same way that a char* could indicate an array of chars, a char** could indicate that it points to and array of char*s.

how to convert a string date to date format in oracle10g

You can convert a string to a DATE using the TO_DATE function, then reformat the date as another string using TO_CHAR, i.e.:

SELECT TO_CHAR(
         TO_DATE('15/August/2009,4:30 PM'
                ,'DD/Month/YYYY,HH:MI AM')
       ,'DD-MM-YYYY')
FROM DUAL;

15-08-2009

For example, if your table name is MYTABLE and the varchar2 column is MYDATESTRING:

SELECT TO_CHAR(
         TO_DATE(MYDATESTRING
                ,'DD/Month/YYYY,HH:MI AM')
       ,'DD-MM-YYYY')
FROM MYTABLE;

How to edit/save a file through Ubuntu Terminal

Within Nano use Ctrl+O to save and Ctrl+X to exit if you were wondering

Using setattr() in python

The Python docs say all that needs to be said, as far as I can see.

setattr(object, name, value)

This is the counterpart of getattr(). The arguments are an object, a string and an arbitrary value. The string may name an existing attribute or a new attribute. The function assigns the value to the attribute, provided the object allows it. For example, setattr(x, 'foobar', 123) is equivalent to x.foobar = 123.

If this isn't enough, explain what you don't understand.

Stop form refreshing page on submit

<form onsubmit="myFunction(event)">
    Name : <input type="text"/>
    <input class="submit" type="submit">
  </form>
  <script>
  function myFunction(event){
    event.preventDefault();
    //code here
  }
  </script>

How to get the file name from a full path using JavaScript?

Not more concise than nickf's answer, but this one directly "extracts" the answer instead of replacing unwanted parts with an empty string:

var filename = /([^\\]+)$/.exec(fullPath)[1];

how to set default culture info for entire c# application

If you use a Language Resource file to set the labels in your application you need to set the its value:

CultureInfo customCulture = new CultureInfo("en-US");
Languages.Culture = customCulture;

is there a function in lodash to replace matched item

If you're just trying to replace one property, lodash _.find and _.set should be enough:

var arr = [{id: 1, name: "Person 1"}, {id: 2, name: "Person 2"}];

_.set(_.find(arr, {id: 1}), 'name', 'New Person');

Vue is not defined

jsBin demo

  1. You missed the order, first goes:

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/vue/1.0.18/vue.min.js"></script>

and then:

<script>
    var demo = new Vue({
        el: '#demo',
        data: {
            message: 'Hello Vue.js!'
        }
    });
</script>
  1. And type="JavaScript" should be type="text/javascript" (or rather nothing at all)

jQuery multiple events to trigger the same function

You could define the function that you would like to reuse as below:

var foo = function() {...}

And later you can set however many event listeners you want on your object to trigger that function using on('event') leaving a space in between as shown below:

$('#selector').on('keyup keypress blur change paste cut', foo);

How can I make robocopy silent in the command line except for progress?

I did it by using the following options:

/njh /njs /ndl /nc /ns

Note that the file name still displays, but that's fine for me.

For more information on robocopy, go to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc733145%28WS.10%29.aspx

How can I use grep to show just filenames on Linux?

The standard option grep -l (that is a lowercase L) could do this.

From the Unix standard:

-l
    (The letter ell.) Write only the names of files containing selected
    lines to standard output. Pathnames are written once per file searched.
    If the standard input is searched, a pathname of (standard input) will
    be written, in the POSIX locale. In other locales, standard input may be
    replaced by something more appropriate in those locales.

You also do not need -H in this case.

Mongodb: failed to connect to server on first connect

If the mongo instance is build on the cloud.mongodb.com this error appears when the instance can work only from known IP addresses set in the IP whitelist pool when the instance was configured.

So from the mongo dashboard need to be set the current IP address on the IP whitelist from network access menu on the left.

BR,

How does spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto property exactly work in Spring?

For the record, the spring.jpa.hibernate.ddl-auto property is Spring Data JPA specific and is their way to specify a value that will eventually be passed to Hibernate under the property it knows, hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto.

The values create, create-drop, validate, and update basically influence how the schema tool management will manipulate the database schema at startup.

For example, the update operation will query the JDBC driver's API to get the database metadata and then Hibernate compares the object model it creates based on reading your annotated classes or HBM XML mappings and will attempt to adjust the schema on-the-fly.

The update operation for example will attempt to add new columns, constraints, etc but will never remove a column or constraint that may have existed previously but no longer does as part of the object model from a prior run.

Typically in test case scenarios, you'll likely use create-drop so that you create your schema, your test case adds some mock data, you run your tests, and then during the test case cleanup, the schema objects are dropped, leaving an empty database.

In development, it's often common to see developers use update to automatically modify the schema to add new additions upon restart. But again understand, this does not remove a column or constraint that may exist from previous executions that is no longer necessary.

In production, it's often highly recommended you use none or simply don't specify this property. That is because it's common practice for DBAs to review migration scripts for database changes, particularly if your database is shared across multiple services and applications.

xlrd.biffh.XLRDError: Excel xlsx file; not supported

The previous version, xlrd 1.2.0, may appear to work, but it could also expose you to potential security vulnerabilities. With that warning out of the way, if you still want to give it a go, type the following command:

pip install xlrd==1.2.0

Extract public/private key from PKCS12 file for later use in SSH-PK-Authentication

Solution 1:

Extract P12 from jks

keytool -importkeystore -srckeystore MyRootCA.jks -destkeystore MyRootCA.p12 -deststoretype PKCS12

Extract PEM from P12 and Edit file and pem from crt file

openssl pkcs12 -in MyRootCA.p12 -clcerts -nokeys -out MyRootCA.crt

Extract key from jks

openssl pkcs12 -in MyRootCA.p12 -nocerts -out encryptedPrivateKey.pem
openssl rsa -in encryptedPrivateKey.pem -out decryptedPrivateKey.key

Solution 2:

Extract PEM and encryptedPrivateKey to txt file```

openssl pkcs12 -in MyRootCA.p12 -out keys_out.txt

Decrypt privateKey

openssl rsa -in encryptedPrivateKey.key [-outform PEM] -out decryptedPrivateKey.key

How do I find an element position in std::vector?

First of all, do you really need to store indices like this? Have you looked into std::map, enabling you to store key => value pairs?

Secondly, if you used iterators instead, you would be able to return std::vector.end() to indicate an invalid result. To convert an iterator to an index you simply use

size_t i = it - myvector.begin();

Difference between char* and const char*?

Actually, char* name is not a pointer to a constant, but a pointer to a variable. You might be talking about this other question.

What is the difference between char * const and const char *?

JOptionPane - input dialog box program

Why to annoy the user with three different Dialog Boxes to enter things, why not do all this in one go in a single Dialog and save time, instead of testing the patience of the USER ?

You can add everything in a single Dialog, by putting all the fields on your JPanel and then adding this JPanel to your JOptionPane. Below code can clarify a bit more :

import java.awt.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.swing.*;

public class AverageExample
{
    private double[] marks;
    private JTextField[] marksField;
    private JLabel resultLabel;

    public AverageExample()
    {
        marks = new double[3];
        marksField = new JTextField[3];
        marksField[0] = new JTextField(10);
        marksField[1] = new JTextField(10);
        marksField[2] = new JTextField(10);
    }

    private void displayGUI()
    {
        int selection = JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog(
                null, getPanel(), "Input Form : "
                                , JOptionPane.OK_CANCEL_OPTION
                                , JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE);

        if (selection == JOptionPane.OK_OPTION) 
        {
            for ( int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
            {
                marks[i] = Double.valueOf(marksField[i].getText());             
            }
            Arrays.sort(marks);
            double average = (marks[1] + marks[2]) / 2.0;
            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null
                    , "Average is : " + Double.toString(average)
                    , "Average : "
                    , JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE);
        }
        else if (selection == JOptionPane.CANCEL_OPTION)
        {
            // Do something here.
        }
    }

    private JPanel getPanel()
    {
        JPanel basePanel = new JPanel();
        //basePanel.setLayout(new BorderLayout(5, 5));
        basePanel.setOpaque(true);
        basePanel.setBackground(Color.BLUE.darker());

        JPanel centerPanel = new JPanel();
        centerPanel.setLayout(new GridLayout(3, 2, 5, 5));
        centerPanel.setBorder(
            BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder(5, 5, 5, 5));
        centerPanel.setOpaque(true);
        centerPanel.setBackground(Color.WHITE);

        JLabel mLabel1 = new JLabel("Enter Marks 1 : ");
        JLabel mLabel2 = new JLabel("Enter Marks 2 : ");
        JLabel mLabel3 = new JLabel("Enter Marks 3 : ");

        centerPanel.add(mLabel1);
        centerPanel.add(marksField[0]);
        centerPanel.add(mLabel2);
        centerPanel.add(marksField[1]);
        centerPanel.add(mLabel3);
        centerPanel.add(marksField[2]);

        basePanel.add(centerPanel);

        return basePanel;
    }

    public static void main(String... args)
    {
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable()
        {
            @Override
            public void run()
            {
                new AverageExample().displayGUI();
            }
        });
    }
}

canvas.toDataURL() SecurityError

I had the same error message. I had the file in a simple .html, when I passed the file to php in Apache it worked

html2canvas(document.querySelector('#toPrint')).then(canvas => {
            let pdf = new jsPDF('p', 'mm', 'a4');
            pdf.addImage(canvas.toDataURL('image/png'), 'PNG', 0, 0, 211, 298);
            pdf.save(filename);
        });

CodeIgniter: How to get Controller, Action, URL information

You could use the URI Class:

$this->uri->segment(n); // n=1 for controller, n=2 for method, etc

I've also been told that the following work, but am currently unable to test:

$this->router->fetch_class();
$this->router->fetch_method();

What does question mark and dot operator ?. mean in C# 6.0?

It can be very useful when flattening a hierarchy and/or mapping objects. Instead of:

if (Model.Model2 == null
  || Model.Model2.Model3 == null
  || Model.Model2.Model3.Model4 == null
  || Model.Model2.Model3.Model4.Name == null)
{
  mapped.Name = "N/A"
}
else
{
  mapped.Name = Model.Model2.Model3.Model4.Name;
}

It can be written like (same logic as above)

mapped.Name = Model.Model2?.Model3?.Model4?.Name ?? "N/A";

DotNetFiddle.Net Working Example.

(the ?? or null-coalescing operator is different than the ? or null conditional operator).

It can also be used out side of assignment operators with Action. Instead of

Action<TValue> myAction = null;

if (myAction != null)
{
  myAction(TValue);
}

It can be simplified to:

myAction?.Invoke(TValue);

DotNetFiddle Example:

using System;

public class Program
{
  public static void Main()
  {
    Action<string> consoleWrite = null;

    consoleWrite?.Invoke("Test 1");

    consoleWrite = (s) => Console.WriteLine(s);

    consoleWrite?.Invoke("Test 2");
  }
}

Result:

Test 2

How to view AndroidManifest.xml from APK file?

You can use apkanalyzer, the command-line version of the APK Analyzer bundled with the Android SDK. Just execute the following command on the CLI:

/path/to/android-sdk/tools/bin/apkanalyzer manifest print /path/to/app.apk

You only have to replace /path/to/android-sdk with the correct path to your version of the Android SDK, and /path/to/app.apk with the path to your APK file.

How to change the font size and color of x-axis and y-axis label in a scatterplot with plot function in R?

To track down the correct parameters you need to go first to ?plot.default, which refers you to ?par and ?axis:

plot(1, 1 ,xlab="x axis", ylab="y axis",  pch=19,
           col.lab="red", cex.lab=1.5,    #  for the xlab and ylab
           col="green")                   #  for the points

Are 2 dimensional Lists possible in c#?

You can also..do in this way,

List<List<Object>> Parent=new  List<List<Object>>();

List<Object> Child=new List<Object>();
child.Add(2349);
child.Add("Daft Punk");
child.Add("Human");
.
.
Parent.Add(child);

if you need another item(child), create a new instance of child,

Child=new List<Object>();
child.Add(2323);
child.Add("asds");
child.Add("jshds");
.
.
Parent.Add(child);

how to add the missing RANDR extension

First off, Xvfb doesn't read configuration from xorg.conf. Xvfb is a variant of the KDrive X servers and like all members of that family gets its configuration from the command line.

It is true that XRandR and Xinerama are mutually exclusive, but in the case of Xvfb there's no Xinerama in the first place. You can enable the XRandR extension by starting Xvfb using at least the following command line options

Xvfb +extension RANDR [further options]

How to link C++ program with Boost using CMake

Two ways, using system default install path, usually /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/:

find_package(Boost REQUIRED regex date_time system filesystem thread graph)
include_directories(${BOOST_INCLUDE_DIRS})
message("boost lib: ${Boost_LIBRARIES}")
message("boost inc:${Boost_INCLUDE_DIR}")

add_executable(use_boost use_boost.cpp)
target_link_libraries(use_boost
        ${Boost_LIBRARIES}
        )

If you install Boost in a local directory or choose local install instead of system install, you can do it by this:

set( BOOST_ROOT "/home/xy/boost_install/lib/" CACHE PATH "Boost library path" )
set( Boost_NO_SYSTEM_PATHS on CACHE BOOL "Do not search system for Boost" )

find_package(Boost REQUIRED regex date_time system filesystem thread graph)
include_directories(${BOOST_INCLUDE_DIRS})
message("boost lib: ${Boost_LIBRARIES}, inc:${Boost_INCLUDE_DIR}")

add_executable(use_boost use_boost.cpp)
target_link_libraries(use_boost
        ${Boost_LIBRARIES}
        )

Note the above dir /home/xy/boost_install/lib/ is where I install Boost:

xy@xy:~/boost_install/lib$ ll -th
total 16K
drwxrwxr-x 2 xy xy 4.0K May 28 19:23 lib/
drwxrwxr-x 3 xy xy 4.0K May 28 19:22 include/

xy@xy:~/boost_install/lib$ ll -th lib/
total 57M
drwxrwxr-x 2 xy xy 4.0K May 28 19:23 ./
-rw-rw-r-- 1 xy xy 2.3M May 28 19:23 libboost_test_exec_monitor.a
-rw-rw-r-- 1 xy xy 2.2M May 28 19:23 libboost_unit_test_framework.a
.......

xy@xy:~/boost_install/lib$ ll -th include/
total 20K
drwxrwxr-x 110 xy xy  12K May 28 19:22 boost/

If you are interested in how to use a local installed Boost, you can see this question How can I get CMake to find my alternative Boost installation?.

ASP.Net which user account running Web Service on IIS 7?

Look at the Identity of the Application Pool that's running your application. By default it will be the Network Service account, but you can change this.

At least that's how it works on 2003 server, don't know if some details have changed for 2008 server.

Cannot resolve method 'getSupportFragmentManager ( )' inside Fragment

If you're getting "Cannot resolve method getSupportFragmentManager()", try using

this.getSupportFragmentManager()

It works for me when dealing with DialogFragments in android

git reset --hard HEAD leaves untracked files behind

You might have done a soft reset at some point, you can solve this problem by doing

git add .
git reset --hard HEAD~100
git pull

"Mixed content blocked" when running an HTTP AJAX operation in an HTTPS page

I was same problem, but for me the problem was ng build command. I was doing "ng build --prod" i have corrected it to "ng build --prod --base-href /applicationname/". and this solved my problem.

Copy a file list as text from Windows Explorer

In Windows 7 and later, this will do the trick for you

  • Select the file/files.
  • Hold the shift key and then right-click on the selected file/files.
  • You will see Copy as Path. Click that.
  • Open a Notepad file and paste and you will be good to go.

The menu item Copy as Path is not available in Windows XP.

What can be the reasons of connection refused errors?

Connection refused means that the port you are trying to connect to is not actually open.

So either you are connecting to the wrong IP address, or to the wrong port, or the server is listening on the wrong port, or is not actually running.

A common mistake is not specifying the port number when binding or connecting in network byte order...

Conversion failed when converting the nvarchar value ... to data type int

I got this error when I used a where clause which looked at a nvarchar field but didn't use single quotes.

My invalid SQL query looked like this:

SELECT * FROM RandomTable WHERE Id IN (SELECT Id FROM RandomTable WHERE [Number] = 13028533)

This didn't work since the Number column had the data type nvarchar. It wasn't an int as I first thought.

I changed it to:

SELECT * FROM RandomTable WHERE Id IN (SELECT Id FROM RandomTable WHERE [Number] = '13028533')

And it worked.

Finding the direction of scrolling in a UIScrollView?

When paging is turned on,you could use these code.

- (void)scrollViewDidEndDecelerating:(UIScrollView *)scrollView
{
    self.lastPage = self.currentPage;
    CGFloat pageWidth = _mainScrollView.frame.size.width;
    self.currentPage = floor((_mainScrollView.contentOffset.x - pageWidth / 2) / pageWidth) + 1;
    if (self.lastPage < self.currentPage) {
        //go right
        NSLog(@"right");
    }else if(self.lastPage > self.currentPage){
        //go left
        NSLog(@"left");
    }else if (self.lastPage == self.currentPage){
        //same page
        NSLog(@"same page");
    }
}

HTTP Error 401.2 - Unauthorized You are not authorized to view this page due to invalid authentication headers

Make sure Anonymous access is enabled on IIS -> Authentication.

But also right click on it, then click on Edit, and choose a domain\username and password. (With access to the physical folder of the application).

How to change row color in datagridview?

private void dtGrdVwRFIDTags_DataSourceChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    dtGrdVwRFIDTags.Refresh();
    this.dtGrdVwRFIDTags.Columns[1].Visible = false;

    foreach (DataGridViewRow row in this.dtGrdVwRFIDTags.Rows)
    {
        if (row.Cells["TagStatus"].Value != null 
            && row.Cells["TagStatus"].Value.ToString() == "Lost" 
            || row.Cells["TagStatus"].Value != null 
            && row.Cells["TagStatus"].Value.ToString() == "Damaged" 
            || row.Cells["TagStatus"].Value != null 
            && row.Cells["TagStatus"].Value.ToString() == "Discarded")
        {
            row.DefaultCellStyle.BackColor = Color.LightGray;
            row.DefaultCellStyle.Font = new Font("Tahoma", 8, FontStyle.Bold);
        }
        else
        {
            row.DefaultCellStyle.BackColor = Color.Ivory;
        }
    }  

    //for (int i= 0 ; i<dtGrdVwRFIDTags.Rows.Count - 1; i++)
    //{
    //    if (dtGrdVwRFIDTags.Rows[i].Cells[3].Value.ToString() == "Damaged")
    //    {
    //        dtGrdVwRFIDTags.Rows[i].Cells["TagStatus"].Style.BackColor = Color.Red;                   
    //    }
    //}
}

JavaScript is in array

function in_array(needle, haystack){
    var found = 0;
    for (var i=0, len=haystack.length;i<len;i++) {
        if (haystack[i] == needle) return i;
            found++;
    }
    return -1;
}
if(in_array("118",array)!= -1){
//is in array
}

How to set editor theme in IntelliJ Idea

OK I found the problem, I was checking in the wrong place which is for the whole IDE's look and feel at File->Settings->Appearance

The correct place to change the editor appearance is through File->Settings->Editor->Colors &Fonts and then choose the scheme there. The imported settings appear there :)

Note: The theme site seems to have moved.

Jquery get form field value

You can get any input field value by $('input[fieldAttribute=value]').val()

here is an example

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displayValue = () => {_x000D_
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  // you can get the value by name attribute like this_x000D_
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  console.log('value of firstname : ' + $('input[name=firstName]').val());_x000D_
  _x000D_
  // if there is the id as lastname_x000D_
  _x000D_
  console.log('value of lastname by id : ' + $('#lastName').val());_x000D_
  _x000D_
  // get value of carType from placeholder  _x000D_
  console.log('value of carType from placeholder ' + $('input[placeholder=carType]').val());_x000D_
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}
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<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<div class="formdiv">_x000D_
    <form name="inpForm">_x000D_
        <input type="text" name="firstName" placeholder='first name'/>_x000D_
        <input type="text" name="lastName" id='lastName' placeholder='last name'/>_x000D_
        _x000D_
        <input type="text" placeholder="carType" />_x000D_
        <input type="button" value="display value" onclick='displayValue()'/>_x000D_
        _x000D_
    </form>_x000D_
</div>
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iOS 7 status bar overlapping UI

What I usually do is add two key-value properties to the Info.plist file.

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The properties source code is:

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Composer: file_put_contents(./composer.json): failed to open stream: Permission denied

I faced this issue as well but in my case, I was in wrong directory. Check the directory you are working

JQuery/Javascript: check if var exists

Before each of your conditional statements, you could do something like this:

var pagetype = pagetype || false;
if (pagetype === 'something') {
    //do stuff
}

Ansible - Use default if a variable is not defined

Not totally related, but you can also check for both undefined AND empty (for e.g my_variable:) variable. (NOTE: only works with ansible version > 1.9, see: link)

- name: Create user
  user:
    name: "{{ ((my_variable == None) | ternary('default_value', my_variable)) \
    if my_variable is defined else 'default_value' }}"

How to post JSON to PHP with curl

Normally the parameter -d is interpreted as form-encoded. You need the -H parameter:

curl -v -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"screencast":{"subject":"tools"}}' \
http://localhost:3570/index.php/trainingServer/screencast.json

How can I find the method that called the current method?

Note that doing so will be unreliable in release code, due to optimization. Additionally, running the application in sandbox mode (network share) won't allow you to grab the stack frame at all.

Consider aspect-oriented programming (AOP), like PostSharp, which instead of being called from your code, modifies your code, and thus knows where it is at all times.

Bootstrap 3 - Set Container Width to 940px Maximum for Desktops?

If you don't wish to compile bootstrap, copy the following and insert it in your custom css file. It's not recommended to change the original bootstrap css file. Also, you won't be able to modify the bootstrap original css if you are loading it from a cdn.

Paste this in your custom css file:

@media (min-width:992px)
    {
        .container{width:960px}
    }
@media (min-width:1200px)
    {
        .container{width:960px}
    }

I am here setting my container to 960px for anything that can accommodate it, and keeping the rest media sizes to default values. You can set it to 940px for this problem.

What linux shell command returns a part of a string?

expr(1) has a substr subcommand:

expr substr <string> <start-index> <length>

This may be useful if you don't have bash (perhaps embedded Linux) and you don't want the extra "echo" process you need to use cut(1).

Initializing a member array in constructor initializer

  1. No, unfortunately.
  2. You just can't in the way you want, as it's not allowed by the grammar (more below). You can only use ctor-like initialization, and, as you know, that's not available for initializing each item in arrays.
  3. I believe so, as they generalize initialization across the board in many useful ways. But I'm not sure on the details.

In C++03, aggregate initialization only applies with syntax similar as below, which must be a separate statement and doesn't fit in a ctor initializer.

T var = {...};

Java : Comparable vs Comparator

Comparator provides a way for you to provide custom comparison logic for types that you have no control over.

Comparable allows you to specify how objects that you are implementing get compared.

Obviously, if you don't have control over a class (or you want to provide multiple ways to compare objects that you do have control over) then use Comparator.

Otherwise you can use Comparable.

How do you auto format code in Visual Studio?

If you can afford it (or if you're eligible for the 30-day free trial) Jetbrains ReSharper can reformat a whole project directory.

Just install -> Right-click a directory -> select Cleanup Code from the context menu.

Clear and reset form input fields

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import React, { Component } from 'react'

export default class Form extends Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props)
    this.formRef = React.createRef()
    this.state = {
      email: '',
      loading: false,
      eror: null
    }
  }

  reset = () => {
    this.formRef.current.reset()
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <div>
        <form>
          <input type="email" name="" id=""/>
          <button type="submit">Submit</button>
          <button onClick={()=>this.reset()}>Reset</button>
        </form>
      </div>
    )
  }
}
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Modifying a subset of rows in a pandas dataframe

Here is from pandas docs on advanced indexing:

The section will explain exactly what you need! Turns out df.loc (as .ix has been deprecated -- as many have pointed out below) can be used for cool slicing/dicing of a dataframe. And. It can also be used to set things.

df.loc[selection criteria, columns I want] = value

So Bren's answer is saying 'find me all the places where df.A == 0, select column B and set it to np.nan'

How to display HTML tags as plain text

In PHP use the function htmlspecialchars() to escape < and >.

htmlspecialchars('<strong>something</strong>')

Importing csv file into R - numeric values read as characters

version for data.table based on code from dmanuge :

convNumValues<-function(ds){
  ds<-data.table(ds)
  dsnum<-data.table(data.matrix(ds))
  num_cols <- sapply(dsnum,function(x){mean(as.numeric(is.na(x)))<0.5})
  nds <- data.table(  dsnum[, .SD, .SDcols=attributes(num_cols)$names[which(num_cols)]]
                        ,ds[, .SD, .SDcols=attributes(num_cols)$names[which(!num_cols)]] )
return(nds)
}

Getting the class of the element that fired an event using JQuery

If you are using jQuery 1.7:

alert($(this).prop("class"));

or:

alert($(event.target).prop("class"));

Check if a user has scrolled to the bottom

Nick Craver's answer works fine, spare the issue that the value of $(document).height() varies by browser.

To make it work on all browsers, use this function from James Padolsey:

function getDocHeight() {
    var D = document;
    return Math.max(
        D.body.scrollHeight, D.documentElement.scrollHeight,
        D.body.offsetHeight, D.documentElement.offsetHeight,
        D.body.clientHeight, D.documentElement.clientHeight
    );
}

in place of $(document).height(), so that the final code is:

$(window).scroll(function() {
       if($(window).scrollTop() + $(window).height() == getDocHeight()) {
           alert("bottom!");
       }
   });

var.replace is not a function

My guess is that the code that's calling your trim function is not actually passing a string to it.

To fix this, you can make str a string, like this: str.toString().replace(...)
...as alper pointed out below.

Set The Window Position of an application via command line

Have found that AutoHotKey is very good for window positioning tasks.

Here is an example script. Call it notepad.ahk and then run it from the command line or double click on it.

Run, notepad.exe
WinWait, ahk_class Notepad
WinActivate
WinMove A,, 10, 10, A_ScreenWidth-20, A_ScreenHeight-20

It will start an application (notepad) and then adjust the window size so that it is centered in the window with a 10 pixel border on all sides.

How to split a string into an array of characters in Python?

If you want to process your String one character at a time. you have various options.

uhello = u'Hello\u0020World'

Using List comprehension:

print([x for x in uhello])

Output:

['H', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', ' ', 'W', 'o', 'r', 'l', 'd']

Using map:

print(list(map(lambda c2: c2, uhello)))

Output:

['H', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', ' ', 'W', 'o', 'r', 'l', 'd']

Calling Built in list function:

print(list(uhello))

Output:

['H', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', ' ', 'W', 'o', 'r', 'l', 'd']

Using for loop:

for c in uhello:
    print(c)

Output:

H
e
l
l
o

W
o
r
l
d

string.split - by multiple character delimiter

Another option:

Replace the string delimiter with a single character, then split on that character.

string input = "abc][rfd][5][,][.";
string[] parts1 = input.Replace("][","-").Split('-');

Python: most idiomatic way to convert None to empty string?

Functional way (one-liner)

xstr = lambda s: '' if s is None else s

TypeError: can only concatenate list (not "str") to list

That's not how to add an item to a string. This:

newinv=inventory+str(add)

Means you're trying to concatenate a list and a string. To add an item to a list, use the list.append() method.

inventory.append(add) #adds a new item to inventory
print(inventory) #prints the new inventory

Hope this helps!

How do I install soap extension?

They dont support it as in in they wont help you or be responsible for you hosing anything, but you can install custom extensions. To do so you need to first set up a local install of php 5, during that process you can compile in extensions you need or you can add them dynamically to the php.ini after the fact.

BEGIN - END block atomic transactions in PL/SQL

BEGIN-END blocks are the building blocks of PL/SQL, and each PL/SQL unit is contained within at least one such block. Nesting BEGIN-END blocks within PL/SQL blocks is usually done to trap certain exceptions and handle that special exception and then raise unrelated exceptions. Nevertheless, in PL/SQL you (the client) must always issue a commit or rollback for the transaction.

If you wish to have atomic transactions within a PL/SQL containing transaction, you need to declare a PRAGMA AUTONOMOUS_TRANSACTION in the declaration block. This will ensure that any DML within that block can be committed or rolledback independently of the containing transaction.

However, you cannot declare this pragma for nested blocks. You can only declare this for:

  • Top-level (not nested) anonymous PL/SQL blocks
  • List item
  • Local, standalone, and packaged functions and procedures
  • Methods of a SQL object type
  • Database triggers

Reference: Oracle

Crop image in android

Can you use default android Crop functionality?

Here is my code

private void performCrop(Uri picUri) {
    try {
        Intent cropIntent = new Intent("com.android.camera.action.CROP");
        // indicate image type and Uri
        cropIntent.setDataAndType(picUri, "image/*");
        // set crop properties here
        cropIntent.putExtra("crop", true);
        // indicate aspect of desired crop
        cropIntent.putExtra("aspectX", 1);
        cropIntent.putExtra("aspectY", 1);
        // indicate output X and Y
        cropIntent.putExtra("outputX", 128);
        cropIntent.putExtra("outputY", 128);
        // retrieve data on return
        cropIntent.putExtra("return-data", true);
        // start the activity - we handle returning in onActivityResult
        startActivityForResult(cropIntent, PIC_CROP);
    }
    // respond to users whose devices do not support the crop action
    catch (ActivityNotFoundException anfe) {
        // display an error message
        String errorMessage = "Whoops - your device doesn't support the crop action!";
        Toast toast = Toast.makeText(this, errorMessage, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT);
        toast.show();
    }
}

declare:

final int PIC_CROP = 1;

at top.

In onActivity result method, writ following code:

@Override
protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
    super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);

    if (requestCode == PIC_CROP) {
        if (data != null) {
            // get the returned data
            Bundle extras = data.getExtras();
            // get the cropped bitmap
            Bitmap selectedBitmap = extras.getParcelable("data");

            imgView.setImageBitmap(selectedBitmap);
        }
    }
}

It is pretty easy for me to implement and also shows darken areas.

WARNING in budgets, maximum exceeded for initial

What is Angular CLI Budgets? Budgets is one of the less known features of the Angular CLI. It’s a rather small but a very neat feature!

As applications grow in functionality, they also grow in size. Budgets is a feature in the Angular CLI which allows you to set budget thresholds in your configuration to ensure parts of your application stay within boundaries which you setOfficial Documentation

Or in other words, we can describe our Angular application as a set of compiled JavaScript files called bundles which are produced by the build process. Angular budgets allows us to configure expected sizes of these bundles. More so, we can configure thresholds for conditions when we want to receive a warning or even fail build with an error if the bundle size gets too out of control!

How To Define A Budget? Angular budgets are defined in the angular.json file. Budgets are defined per project which makes sense because every app in a workspace has different needs.

Thinking pragmatically, it only makes sense to define budgets for the production builds. Prod build creates bundles with “true size” after applying all optimizations like tree-shaking and code minimization.

Oops, a build error! The maximum bundle size was exceeded. This is a great signal that tells us that something went wrong…

  1. We might have experimented in our feature and didn’t clean up properly
  2. Our tooling can go wrong and perform a bad auto-import, or we pick bad item from the suggested list of imports
  3. We might import stuff from lazy modules in inappropriate locations
  4. Our new feature is just really big and doesn’t fit into existing budgets

First Approach: Are your files gzipped?

Generally speaking, gzipped file has only about 20% the size of the original file, which can drastically decrease the initial load time of your app. To check if you have gzipped your files, just open the network tab of developer console. In the “Response Headers”, if you should see “Content-Encoding: gzip”, you are good to go.

How to gzip? If you host your Angular app in most of the cloud platforms or CDN, you should not worry about this issue as they probably have handled this for you. However, if you have your own server (such as NodeJS + expressJS) serving your Angular app, definitely check if the files are gzipped. The following is an example to gzip your static assets in a NodeJS + expressJS app. You can hardly imagine this dead simple middleware “compression” would reduce your bundle size from 2.21MB to 495.13KB.

const compression = require('compression')
const express = require('express')
const app = express()
app.use(compression())

Second Approach:: Analyze your Angular bundle

If your bundle size does get too big you may want to analyze your bundle because you may have used an inappropriate large-sized third party package or you forgot to remove some package if you are not using it anymore. Webpack has an amazing feature to give us a visual idea of the composition of a webpack bundle.

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It’s super easy to get this graph.

  1. npm install -g webpack-bundle-analyzer
  2. In your Angular app, run ng build --stats-json (don’t use flag --prod). By enabling --stats-json you will get an additional file stats.json
  3. Finally, run webpack-bundle-analyzer ./dist/stats.json and your browser will pop up the page at localhost:8888. Have fun with it.

ref 1: How Did Angular CLI Budgets Save My Day And How They Can Save Yours

ref 2: Optimize Angular bundle size in 4 steps

MySQL error - #1062 - Duplicate entry ' ' for key 2

  1. Drop the primary key first: (The primary key is your responsibility)

    ALTER TABLE Persons DROP PRIMARY KEY ;
    
  2. Then make all insertions:

  3. Add new primary key just like before dropping:

    ALTER TABLE Persons ADD PRIMARY KEY (P_Id);
    

Why would an Enum implement an Interface?

Most common usage for this would be to merge the values of two enums into one group and treat them similarly. For example, see how to join Fruits and Vegatables.

Facebook share link - can you customize the message body text?

NOTE: @azure_ardee solution is no longer feasible. Facebook will not allow developers pre-fill messages. Developers may customize the story by providing OG meta tags, but it's up to the user to fill the message.

This is only possible if you are posting on the user's behalf, which requires the user authorizing your application with the publish_actions permission. AND even then:

please note that Facebook recommends using a user-initiated sharing modal.


Have a look at this answer.

Error:Unknown host services.gradle.org. You may need to adjust the proxy settings in Gradle

make sure that you disable the proxy setting. settting > apperance and behaviour > Http Proxy > and select no proxy check box and check the connection after you select no proxy or auto detect proxy setting > the apply ok

How to get a resource id with a known resource name?

I have found this class very helpful to handle with resources. It has some defined methods to deal with dimens, colors, drawables and strings, like this one:

public static String getString(Context context, String stringId) {
    int sid = getStringId(context, stringId);
    if (sid > 0) {
        return context.getResources().getString(sid);
    } else {
        return "";
    }
}

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute

I faced the same issue. fixed by using reload.

import the_module_name
from importlib import reload
reload(the_module_name)

How to synchronize or lock upon variables in Java?

If on another occasion you're synchronising a Collection rather than a String, perhaps you're be iterating over the collection and are worried about it mutating, Java 5 offers:

How to fix the "java.security.cert.CertificateException: No subject alternative names present" error?

public class RESTfulClientSSL {

    static TrustManager[] trustAllCerts = new TrustManager[]{new X509TrustManager() {
        @Override
        public void checkClientTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) throws CertificateException {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        }

        @Override
        public void checkServerTrusted(X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) throws CertificateException {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        }

        @Override
        public X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            return null;
        }
    }};

    public class NullHostNameVerifier implements HostnameVerifier {
        /*
         * (non-Javadoc)
         *
         * @see javax.net.ssl.HostnameVerifier#verify(java.lang.String,
         * javax.net.ssl.SSLSession)
         */
        @Override
        public boolean verify(String arg0, SSLSession arg1) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            return true;
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        HttpURLConnection connection = null;
        try {

            HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultHostnameVerifier(new RESTfulwalkthroughCer().new NullHostNameVerifier());
            SSLContext sc = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
            sc.init(null, trustAllCerts, new SecureRandom());
            HttpsURLConnection.setDefaultSSLSocketFactory(sc.getSocketFactory());


            String uriString = "https://172.20.20.12:9443/rest/hr/exposed/service";
            URL url = new URL(uriString);
            connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
            connection.setRequestMethod("GET");
            //connection.setRequestMethod("POST");

            BASE64Encoder encoder = new BASE64Encoder();
            String username = "admin";
            String password = "admin";
            String encodedCredential = encoder.encode((username + ":" + password).getBytes());
            connection.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "Basic " + encodedCredential);

            connection.connect();
            BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(connection.getInputStream()));
            int responseCode = connection.getResponseCode();
            if (responseCode == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
                StringBuffer stringBuffer = new StringBuffer();
                String line = "";
                while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
                    stringBuffer.append(line);
                }
                String content = stringBuffer.toString();
                System.out.println(content);
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            if (connection != null) {
                connection.disconnect();
            }
        }
    }
}

Casting objects in Java

For example you have Animal superclass and Cat subclass.Say your subclass has speak(); method.

class Animal{

  public void walk(){

  }

}

class Cat extends Animal{

  @Override
  public void walk(){

  }

  public void speak(){

  }

  public void main(String args[]){

    Animal a=new Cat();
    //a.speak(); Compile Error
    // If you use speak method for "a" reference variable you should downcast. Like this:

    ((Cat)a).speak();
  }

}

Creating a list of dictionaries results in a list of copies of the same dictionary

If you want one line:

list_of_dict = [{} for i in range(list_len)]

How to prevent Browser cache for php site

I had problem with caching my css files. Setting headers in PHP didn't help me (perhaps because the headers would need to be set in the stylesheet file instead of the page linking to it?).

I found the solution on this page: https://css-tricks.com/can-we-prevent-css-caching/

The solution:

Append timestamp as the query part of the URI for the linked file.
(Can be used for css, js, images etc.)

For development:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css?<?php echo date('Y-m-d_H:i:s'); ?>">

For production (where caching is mostly a good thing):

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css?version=3.2">
(and rewrite manually when it is required)

Or combination of these two:

<?php
    define( "DEBUGGING", true ); // or false in production enviroment
?>
<!-- ... -->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css?version=3.2<?php echo (DEBUGGING) ? date('_Y-m-d_H:i:s') : ""; ?>">

EDIT:

Or prettier combination of those two:

<?php
    // Init
    define( "DEBUGGING", true ); // or false in production enviroment
    // Functions
    function get_cache_prevent_string( $always = false ) {
        return (DEBUGGING || $always) ? date('_Y-m-d_H:i:s') : "";
    }
?>
<!-- ... -->
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css?version=3.2<?php echo get_cache_prevent_string(); ?>">

how to upload a file to my server using html

<form id="uploadbanner" enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" action="#">
   <input id="fileupload" name="myfile" type="file" />
   <input type="submit" value="submit" id="submit" />
</form>

To upload a file, it is essential to set enctype="multipart/form-data" on your form

You need that form type and then some php to process the file :)

You should probably check out Uploadify if you want something very customisable out of the box.

How to use PHP OPCache?

OPcache replaces APC

Because OPcache is designed to replace the APC module, it is not possible to run them in parallel in PHP. This is fine for caching PHP opcode as neither affects how you write code.

However it means that if you are currently using APC to store other data (through the apc_store() function) you will not be able to do that if you decide to use OPCache.

You will need to use another library such as either APCu or Yac which both store data in shared PHP memory, or switch to use something like memcached, which stores data in memory in a separate process to PHP.

Also, OPcache has no equivalent of the upload progress meter present in APC. Instead you should use the Session Upload Progress.

Settings for OPcache

The documentation for OPcache can be found here with all of the configuration options listed here. The recommended settings are:

; Sets how much memory to use
opcache.memory_consumption=128

;Sets how much memory should be used by OPcache for storing internal strings 
;(e.g. classnames and the files they are contained in)
opcache.interned_strings_buffer=8

; The maximum number of files OPcache will cache
opcache.max_accelerated_files=4000

;How often (in seconds) to check file timestamps for changes to the shared
;memory storage allocation.
opcache.revalidate_freq=60

;If enabled, a fast shutdown sequence is used for the accelerated code
;The fast shutdown sequence doesn't free each allocated block, but lets
;the Zend Engine Memory Manager do the work.
opcache.fast_shutdown=1

;Enables the OPcache for the CLI version of PHP.
opcache.enable_cli=1

If you use any library or code that uses code annotations you must enable save comments:

opcache.save_comments=1

If disabled, all PHPDoc comments are dropped from the code to reduce the size of the optimized code. Disabling "Doc Comments" may break some existing applications and frameworks (e.g. Doctrine, ZF2, PHPUnit)

Is it possible to style html5 audio tag?

You have to create your own player that interfaces with the HTML5 audio element. This tutorial will help http://alexkatz.me/html5-audio/building-a-custom-html5-audio-player-with-javascript/

How can I replace every occurrence of a String in a file with PowerShell?

You could try something like this:

$path = "C:\testFile.txt"
$word = "searchword"
$replacement = "ReplacementText"
$text = get-content $path 
$newText = $text -replace $word,$replacement
$newText > $path

How to know that a string starts/ends with a specific string in jQuery?

One option is to use regular expressions:

if (str.match("^Hello")) {
   // do this if begins with Hello
}

if (str.match("World$")) {
   // do this if ends in world
}

image.onload event and browser cache

As you're generating the image dynamically, set the onload property before the src.

var img = new Image();
img.onload = function () {
   alert("image is loaded");
}
img.src = "img.jpg";

Fiddle - tested on latest Firefox and Chrome releases.

You can also use the answer in this post, which I adapted for a single dynamically generated image:

var img = new Image();
// 'load' event
$(img).on('load', function() {
  alert("image is loaded");
});
img.src = "img.jpg";

Fiddle

Null or empty check for a string variable

Yes, it works. Check the below example. Assuming @value is not int

WITH CTE 
AS
(
    SELECT NULL AS test
    UNION
    SELECT '' AS test
    UNION
    SELECT '123' AS test
)

SELECT 
    CASE WHEN isnull(test,'')='' THEN 'empty' ELSE test END AS IS_EMPTY 
FROM CTE

Result :

IS_EMPTY
--------
empty
empty
123

How do I put variable values into a text string in MATLAB?

I just realized why I was having so much trouble - in MATLAB you can't store strings of different lengths as an array using square brackets. Using square brackets concatenates strings of varying lengths into a single character array.

    >> a=['matlab','is','fun']

a =

matlabisfun

>> size(a)

ans =

     1    11

In a character array, each character in a string counts as one element, which explains why the size of a is 1X11.

To store strings of varying lengths as elements of an array, you need to use curly braces to save as a cell array. In cell arrays, each string is treated as a separate element, regardless of length.

>> a={'matlab','is','fun'}

a = 

    'matlab'    'is'    'fun'

>> size(a)

ans =

     1     3

SQL Count for each date

I had similar question however mine involved a column Convert(date,mydatetime). I had to alter the best answer as follows:

Select
     count(created_date) as counted_leads,
     Convert(date,created_date) as count_date 
from table
group by Convert(date,created_date)

MySQL, Concatenate two columns

You can use the CONCAT function like this:

SELECT CONCAT(`SUBJECT`, ' ', `YEAR`) FROM `table`

Update:

To get that result you can try this:

SET @rn := 0;

SELECT CONCAT(`SUBJECT`,'-',`YEAR`,'-',LPAD(@rn := @rn+1,3,'0'))
FROM `table`

Set a variable if undefined in JavaScript

Yes, it can do that, but strictly speaking that will assign the default value if the retrieved value is falsey, as opposed to truly undefined. It would therefore not only match undefined but also null, false, 0, NaN, "" (but not "0").

If you want to set to default only if the variable is strictly undefined then the safest way is to write:

var x = (typeof x === 'undefined') ? your_default_value : x;

On newer browsers it's actually safe to write:

var x = (x === undefined) ? your_default_value : x;

but be aware that it is possible to subvert this on older browsers where it was permitted to declare a variable named undefined that has a defined value, causing the test to fail.

How to do associative array/hashing in JavaScript

var associativeArray = {};
associativeArray["one"] = "First";
associativeArray["two"] = "Second";
associativeArray["three"] = "Third";

If you are coming from an object-oriented language you should check this article.

How to break out of multiple loops?

Here's an implementation that seems to work:

break_ = False
for i in range(10):
    if break_:
        break
    for j in range(10):
        if j == 3:
            break_ = True
            break
        else:
            print(i, j)

The only draw back is that you have to define break_ before the loops.

Extract string between two strings in java

I have answered this question here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/38238785/1773972

Basically use

StringUtils.substringBetween(str, "<%=", "%>");

This requirs using "Apache commons lang" library: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.commons/commons-lang3/3.4

This library has a lot of useful methods for working with string, you will really benefit from exploring this library in other areas of your java code !!!

In Angular, I need to search objects in an array

Saw this thread but I wanted to search for IDs that did not match my search. Code to do that:

found = $filter('filter')($scope.fish, {id: '!fish_id'}, false);

Reusing output from last command in Bash

I have an idea that I don't have time to try to implement immediately.

But what if you do something like the following:

$ MY_HISTORY_FILE = `get_temp_filename`
$ MY_HISTORY_FILE=$MY_HISTORY_FILE bash -i 2>&1 | tee $MY_HISTORY_FILE
$ some_command
$ cat $MY_HISTORY_FILE
$ # ^You'll want to filter that down in practice!

There might be issues with IO buffering. Also the file might get too huge. One would have to come up with a solution to these problems.

What causes a java.lang.StackOverflowError

When a function call is invoked by a Java application, a stack frame is allocated on the call stack. The stack frame contains the parameters of the invoked method, its local parameters, and the return address of the method.

The return address denotes the execution point from which, the program execution shall continue after the invoked method returns. If there is no space for a new stack frame then, the StackOverflowError is thrown by the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).

The most common case that can possibly exhaust a Java application’s stack is recursion.

Please Have a look

How to solve StackOverflowError

How to import functions from different js file in a Vue+webpack+vue-loader project

I was trying to organize my vue app code, and came across this question , since I have a lot of logic in my component and can not use other sub-coponents , it makes sense to use many functions in a separate js file and call them in the vue file, so here is my attempt

1)The Component (.vue file)

//MyComponent.vue file
<template>
  <div>
  <div>Hello {{name}}</div>
  <button @click="function_A">Read Name</button>
  <button @click="function_B">Write Name</button>
  <button @click="function_C">Reset</button>
  <div>{{message}}</div>
  </div>
 </template>


<script>
import Mylib from "./Mylib"; // <-- import
export default {
  name: "MyComponent",
  data() {
    return {
      name: "Bob",
      message: "click on the buttons"
    };
  },
  methods: {
    function_A() {
      Mylib.myfuncA(this); // <---read data
    },
    function_B() {
      Mylib.myfuncB(this); // <---write data
    },
    function_C() {
      Mylib.myfuncC(this); // <---write data
    }
  }
};
</script>

2)The External js file

//Mylib.js
let exports = {};

// this (vue instance) is passed as that , so we
// can read and write data from and to it as we please :)
exports.myfuncA = (that) => {
  that.message =
  "you hit ''myfuncA'' function that is located in Mylib.js  and data.name = " +
    that.name;
};

exports.myfuncB = (that) => {
  that.message =
  "you hit ''myfuncB'' function that is located in Mylib.js and now I will change the name to Nassim";
  that.name = "Nassim"; // <-- change name to Nassim
};

exports.myfuncC = (that) => {
  that.message =
  "you hit ''myfuncC'' function that is located in Mylib.js and now I will change the name back to Bob";
  that.name = "Bob"; // <-- change name to Bob
};

export default exports;

enter image description here 3)see it in action : https://codesandbox.io/s/distracted-pare-vuw7i?file=/src/components/MyComponent.vue


edit

after getting more experience with Vue , I found out that you could use mixins too to split your code into different files and make it easier to code and maintain see https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/mixins.html

How to check if an option is selected?

In my case I don't know why selected is always true. So the only way I was able to think up is:

var optionSelected = false;
$( '#select_element option' ).each( function( i, el ) {
    var optionHTMLStr = el.outerHTML;

    if ( optionHTMLStr.indexOf( 'selected' ) > 0 ) {
        optionSelected = true;
        return false;
    }
});

Computational complexity of Fibonacci Sequence

The naive recursion version of Fibonacci is exponential by design due to repetition in the computation:

At the root you are computing:

F(n) depends on F(n-1) and F(n-2)

F(n-1) depends on F(n-2) again and F(n-3)

F(n-2) depends on F(n-3) again and F(n-4)

then you are having at each level 2 recursive calls that are wasting a lot of data in the calculation, the time function will look like this:

T(n) = T(n-1) + T(n-2) + C, with C constant

T(n-1) = T(n-2) + T(n-3) > T(n-2) then

T(n) > 2*T(n-2)

...

T(n) > 2^(n/2) * T(1) = O(2^(n/2))

This is just a lower bound that for the purpose of your analysis should be enough but the real time function is a factor of a constant by the same Fibonacci formula and the closed form is known to be exponential of the golden ratio.

In addition, you can find optimized versions of Fibonacci using dynamic programming like this:

static int fib(int n)
{
    /* memory */
    int f[] = new int[n+1];
    int i;

    /* Init */
    f[0] = 0;
    f[1] = 1;

    /* Fill */
    for (i = 2; i <= n; i++)
    {
        f[i] = f[i-1] + f[i-2];
    }

    return f[n];
}

That is optimized and do only n steps but is also exponential.

Cost functions are defined from Input size to the number of steps to solve the problem. When you see the dynamic version of Fibonacci (n steps to compute the table) or the easiest algorithm to know if a number is prime (sqrt(n) to analyze the valid divisors of the number). you may think that these algorithms are O(n) or O(sqrt(n)) but this is simply not true for the following reason: The input to your algorithm is a number: n, using the binary notation the input size for an integer n is log2(n) then doing a variable change of

m = log2(n) // your real input size

let find out the number of steps as a function of the input size

m = log2(n)
2^m = 2^log2(n) = n

then the cost of your algorithm as a function of the input size is:

T(m) = n steps = 2^m steps

and this is why the cost is an exponential.

Inserting data into a temporary table

All the above mentioned answers will almost fullfill the purpose. However, You need to drop the temp table after all the operation on it. You can follow-

INSERT INTO #TempTable (ID, Date, Name) 
SELECT id, date, name 
FROM physical_table;

IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb.dbo.#TempTable') IS NOT NULL 
    DROP TABLE #TempTable;

Visual Studio Code Tab Key does not insert a tab

[Edit] This answer is for MSVS (the IDE, as opposed to VS Code). It seems Microsoft and Google go out of their way to choose confusing names for new products. I'll leave this answer here for now, while I (continue to) look for the equivalent stackoverflow question about MSVS. Let me know in the comments if you think I should delete it. Or better, point me to the MSVS version of this question.

I installed MSVS 2017 recently. None of the suggestions I've seen fixed the problem. The solution I figured out works for MSVS 2015 and 2017. Add a comment below if you find that it works for other versions.

Under Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> C/C++ -> Formatting -> General, try unchecking the "Automatically indent when I type a tab" box. It seems counter intuitive, but it fixed the problem for me. enter image description here

fetch in git doesn't get all branches

write it from the terminal

git fetch --prune.

it works fine.

OCI runtime exec failed: exec failed: (...) executable file not found in $PATH": unknown

I was running into this issue and it turned out that I needed to do this:

docker run ${image_name} bash -c "${command}"

Hope that helps someone who finds this error.

How to scroll page in flutter

Wrap your widget tree inside a SingleChildScrollView

 body: SingleChildScrollView(
child: Stack(
    children: <Widget>[
      new Container(
        decoration: BoxDecoration(
            image: DecorationImage(...),
      new Column(children: [
        new Container(...),
        new Container(...... ),
        new Padding(
          child: SizedBox(
            child: RaisedButton(..),
        ),
....
...
 ); // Single child scroll view

Remember, SingleChildScrollView can only have one direct widget (Just like ScrollView in Android)

Format Date as "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'"

function converToLocalTime(serverDate) {

    var dt = new Date(Date.parse(serverDate));
    var localDate = dt;
    
    var gmt = localDate;
        var min = gmt.getTime() / 1000 / 60; // convert gmt date to minutes
        var localNow = new Date().getTimezoneOffset(); // get the timezone
        // offset in minutes
        var localTime = min - localNow; // get the local time

    var dateStr = new Date(localTime * 1000 * 60);
    // dateStr = dateStr.toISOString("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'"); // this will return as just the server date format i.e., yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'
    dateStr = dateStr.toString("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'");
    return dateStr;
}

how to change the dist-folder path in angular-cli after 'ng build'

For Angular 6+ things have changed a little.

Define where ng build generates app files

Cli setup is now done in angular.json (replaced .angular-cli.json) in your workspace root directory. The output path in default angular.json should look like this (irrelevant lines removed):

{
  "projects": {
    "my-app-name": {
    "architect": {
      "options": {
         "outputPath": "dist/my-app-name",

Obviously, this will generate your app in WORKSPACE/dist/my-app-name. Modify outputPath if you prefer another directory.

You can overwrite the output path using command line arguments (e.g. for CI jobs):

ng build -op dist/example
ng build --output-path=dist/example

S.a. https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/wiki/build

Hosting angular app in subdirectory

Setting the output path, will tell angular where to place the "compiled" files but however you change the output path, when running the app, angular will still assume that the app is hosted in the webserver's document root.

To make it work in a sub directory, you'll have to set the base href.

In angular.json:

{
  "projects": {
    "my-app-name": {
    "architect": {
      "options": {
         "baseHref": "/my-folder/",

Cli:

ng build --base-href=/my-folder/

If you don't know where the app will be hosted on build time, you can change base tag in generated index.html.

Here's an example how we do it in our docker container:

entrypoint.sh

if [ -n "${BASE_PATH}" ]
then
  files=( $(find . -name "index.html") )
  cp -n "${files[0]}" "${files[0]}.org"
  cp "${files[0]}.org" "${files[0]}"
  sed -i "s*<base href=\"/\">*<base href=\"${BASE_PATH}\">*g" "${files[0]}"
fi

Java: method to get position of a match in a String?

I have some big code but working nicely....

   class strDemo
   { 
       public static void main(String args[])
       {
       String s1=new String("The Ghost of The Arabean Sea");
           String s2=new String ("The");
           String s6=new String ("ehT");
           StringBuffer s3;
           StringBuffer s4=new StringBuffer(s1);
           StringBuffer s5=new StringBuffer(s2);
           char c1[]=new char[30];
           char c2[]=new char[5];
           char c3[]=new char[5];
           s1.getChars(0,28,c1,0);
           s2.getChars(0,3,c2,0);
           s6.getChars(0,3,c3,0); s3=s4.reverse();      
           int pf=0,pl=0;
           char c5[]=new char[30];
           s3.getChars(0,28,c5,0);
           for(int i=0;i<(s1.length()-s2.length());i++)
           {
               int j=0;
               if(pf<=1)
               {
                  while (c1[i+j]==c2[j] && j<=s2.length())
                  {           
                    j++;
                    System.out.println(s2.length()+" "+j);
                    if(j>=s2.length())
                    {
                       System.out.println("first match of(The) :->"+i);

                     }
                     pf=pf+1;         
                  }   
             }                
       }       
         for(int i=0;i<(s3.length()-s6.length()+1);i++)
        {
            int j=0;
            if(pl<=1)
            {
             while (c5[i+j]==c3[j] && j<=s6.length())
             {
                 j++;
                 System.out.println(s6.length()+" "+j);
                 if(j>=s6.length())
                 {
                         System.out.println((s3.length()-i-3));
                         pl=pl+1;

                 }   
                }                 
              }  
           }  
         }
       }

How to send email using simple SMTP commands via Gmail?

Unfortunately as I am forced to use a windows server I have been unable to get openssl working in the way the above answer suggests.

However I was able to get a similar program called stunnel (which can be downloaded from here) to work. I got the idea from www.tech-and-dev.com but I had to change the instructions slightly. Here is what I did:

  1. Install telnet client on the windows box.
  2. Download stunnel. (I downloaded and installed a file called stunnel-4.56-installer.exe).
  3. Once installed you then needed to locate the stunnel.conf config file, which in my case I installed to C:\Program Files (x86)\stunnel
  4. Then, you need to open this file in a text viewer such as notepad. Look for [gmail-smtp] and remove the semicolon on the client line below (in the stunnel.conf file, every line that starts with a semicolon is a comment). You should end up with something like:

    [gmail-smtp]
    client = yes
    accept = 127.0.0.1:25
    connect = smtp.gmail.com:465
    

    Once you have done this save the stunnel.conf file and reload the config (to do this use the stunnel GUI program, and click on configuration=>Reload).

Now you should be ready to send email in the windows telnet client!
Go to Start=>run=>cmd.

Once cmd is open type in the following and press Enter:

telnet localhost 25

You should then see something similar to the following:

220 mx.google.com ESMTP f14sm1400408wbe.2

You will then need to reply by typing the following and pressing enter:

helo google

This should give you the following response:

250 mx.google.com at your service

If you get this you then need to type the following and press enter:

ehlo google

This should then give you the following response:

250-mx.google.com at your service, [212.28.228.49]
250-SIZE 35651584
250-8BITMIME
250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN XOAUTH
250 ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES

Now you should be ready to authenticate with your Gmail details. To do this type the following and press enter:

AUTH LOGIN

This should then give you the following response:

334 VXNlcm5hbWU6

This means that we are ready to authenticate by using our gmail address and password.

However since this is an encrypted session, we're going to have to send the email and password encoded in base64. To encode your email and password, you can use a converter program or an online website to encode it (for example base64 or search on google for ’base64 online encoding’). I reccomend you do not touch the cmd/telnet session again until you have done this.

For example [email protected] would become dGVzdEBnbWFpbC5jb20= and password would become cGFzc3dvcmQ=

Once you have done this copy and paste your converted base64 username into the cmd/telnet session and press enter. This should give you following response:

334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6

Now copy and paste your converted base64 password into the cmd/telnet session and press enter. This should give you following response if both login credentials are correct:

235 2.7.0 Accepted

You should now enter the sender email (should be the same as the username) in the following format and press enter:

MAIL FROM:<[email protected]>

This should give you the following response:

250 2.1.0 OK x23sm1104292weq.10

You can now enter the recipient email address in a similar format and press enter:

RCPT TO:<[email protected]>

This should give you the following response:

250 2.1.5 OK x23sm1104292weq.10

Now you will need to type the following and press enter:

DATA

Which should give you the following response:

354  Go ahead x23sm1104292weq.10

Now we can start to compose the message! To do this enter your message in the following format (Tip: do this in notepad and copy the entire message into the cmd/telnet session):

From: Test <[email protected]>
To: Me <[email protected]>
Subject: Testing email from telnet
This is the body

Adding more lines to the body message.

When you have finished the email enter a dot:

.

This should give you the following response:

250 2.0.0 OK 1288307376 x23sm1104292weq.10

And now you need to end your session by typing the following and pressing enter:

QUIT

This should give you the following response:

221 2.0.0 closing connection x23sm1104292weq.10
Connection to host lost.

And your email should now be in the recipient’s mailbox!

CSS/HTML: What is the correct way to make text italic?

I'm no expert but I'd say that if you really want to be semantic, you should use vocabularies (RDFa).

This should result in something like that:

<em property="italic" href="http://url/to/a/definition_of_italic"> Your text </em>

em is used for the presentation (humans will see it in italic) and the property and href attributes are linking to a definition of what italic is (for machines).

You should check if there's a vocabulary for that kind of thing, maybe properties already exist.

More info about RDFa here: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/introduction-to-rdfa/

Register 32 bit COM DLL to 64 bit Windows 7

The problem is likely you try to register a 32-bit library with 64-bit version of regsvr32. See this KB article - you need to run regsvr32 from windows\SysWOW64 for 32-bit libraries.

Try/catch does not seem to have an effect

In my case, it was because I was only catching specific types of exceptions:

try
  {
    get-item -Force -LiteralPath $Path -ErrorAction Stop

    #if file exists
    if ($Path -like '\\*') {$fileType = 'n'}  #Network
    elseif ($Path -like '?:\*') {$fileType = 'l'} #Local
    else {$fileType = 'u'} #Unknown File Type

  }
catch [System.UnauthorizedAccessException] {$fileType = 'i'} #Inaccessible
catch [System.Management.Automation.ItemNotFoundException]{$fileType = 'x'} #Doesn't Exist

Added these to handle additional the exception causing the terminating error, as well as unexpected exceptions

catch [System.Management.Automation.DriveNotFoundException]{$fileType = 'x'} #Doesn't Exist
catch {$fileType='u'} #Unknown

Javascript / Chrome - How to copy an object from the webkit inspector as code

So,. I had this issue,. except I got [object object]

I'm sure you could do this with recursion but this worked for me:

Here is what I did in my console:

var object_that_is_not_shallow = $("all_obects_with_this_class_name");
var str = '';
object_that_is_not_shallow.map(function(_,e){
    str += $(e).html();
});
copy(str);

Then paste into your editor.