Programs & Examples On #Assemblyversions

Multi-gradient shapes

You can layer gradient shapes in the xml using a layer-list. Imagine a button with the default state as below, where the second item is semi-transparent. It adds a sort of vignetting. (Please excuse the custom-defined colours.)

<!-- Normal state. -->
<item>
    <layer-list>
        <item>  
            <shape>
                <gradient 
                    android:startColor="@color/grey_light"
                    android:endColor="@color/grey_dark"
                    android:type="linear"
                    android:angle="270"
                    android:centerColor="@color/grey_mediumtodark" />
                <stroke
                    android:width="1dp"
                    android:color="@color/grey_dark" />
                <corners
                    android:radius="5dp" />
            </shape>
        </item>
        <item>  
            <shape>
                <gradient 
                    android:startColor="#00666666"
                    android:endColor="#77666666"
                    android:type="radial"
                    android:gradientRadius="200"
                    android:centerColor="#00666666"
                    android:centerX="0.5"
                    android:centerY="0" />
                <stroke
                    android:width="1dp"
                    android:color="@color/grey_dark" />
                <corners
                    android:radius="5dp" />
            </shape>
        </item>
    </layer-list>
</item>

What exactly is Python's file.flush() doing?

Basically, flush() cleans out your RAM buffer, its real power is that it lets you continue to write to it afterwards - but it shouldn't be thought of as the best/safest write to file feature. It's flushing your RAM for more data to come, that is all. If you want to ensure data gets written to file safely then use close() instead.

Reading an Excel file in PHP

I use PHP-ExcelReader to read xls files, and works great.

Can we convert a byte array into an InputStream in Java?

If you use Robert Harder's Base64 utility, then you can do:

InputStream is = new Base64.InputStream(cph);

Or with sun's JRE, you can do:

InputStream is = new
com.sun.xml.internal.messaging.saaj.packaging.mime.util.BASE64DecoderStream(cph)

However don't rely on that class continuing to be a part of the JRE, or even continuing to do what it seems to do today. Sun say not to use it.

There are other Stack Overflow questions about Base64 decoding, such as this one.

ExpressJS - throw er Unhandled error event

In-order to fix this, terminate or close the server you are running. If you are using Eclipse IDE, then follow this,

Run > Debug

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Right-click the running process and click on Terminate.

Android studio logcat nothing to show

Logcat can fail if you are using more than 1 version of adb at the same time. One in Android Studio, and one in the terminal.

You might have different version of adb from: "sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb" which will create /usr/bin/adb the Android SDK which contains {android-sdk}/platform-tools/adb, or from the output of an AOSP build which creates out/host/linux-x86/bin/adb

To see if this problem effects you, open idea.log using "Help -> Show Log in Files" and look for a line like "Initializing adb using:/home/repkap11/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb". Compare this path with "which adb" in your terminal. If they don't match, this problem effects you.

Android studio looks for {android-sdk}/platform-tools/adb and doesn't care about your PATH. I replaced the version of adb in android-sdk using a symlink, but simply "sudo apt-get remove android-tools-adb" would work as well.

Easy way to test a URL for 404 in PHP?

If you are looking for an easiest solution and the one you can try in one go on php5 do

file_get_contents('www.yoursite.com');
//and check by echoing
echo $http_response_header[0];

Check if a number is odd or even in python

if num % 2 == 0:
    pass # Even 
else:
    pass # Odd

The % sign is like division only it checks for the remainder, so if the number divided by 2 has a remainder of 0 it's even otherwise odd.

Or reverse them for a little speed improvement, since any number above 0 is also considered "True" you can skip needing to do any equality check:

if num % 2:
    pass # Odd
else:
    pass # Even 

Trusting all certificates with okHttp

Just in case anyone falls here, the (only) solution that worked for me is creating the OkHttpClient like explained here.

Here is the code:

private static OkHttpClient getUnsafeOkHttpClient() {
  try {
    // Create a trust manager that does not validate certificate chains
    final TrustManager[] trustAllCerts = new TrustManager[] {
        new X509TrustManager() {
          @Override
          public void checkClientTrusted(java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) throws CertificateException {
          }

          @Override
          public void checkServerTrusted(java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] chain, String authType) throws CertificateException {
          }

          @Override
          public java.security.cert.X509Certificate[] getAcceptedIssuers() {
            return new java.security.cert.X509Certificate[]{};
          }
        }
    };

    // Install the all-trusting trust manager
    final SSLContext sslContext = SSLContext.getInstance("SSL");
    sslContext.init(null, trustAllCerts, new java.security.SecureRandom());
    // Create an ssl socket factory with our all-trusting manager
    final SSLSocketFactory sslSocketFactory = sslContext.getSocketFactory();

    OkHttpClient.Builder builder = new OkHttpClient.Builder();
    builder.sslSocketFactory(sslSocketFactory, (X509TrustManager)trustAllCerts[0]);
    builder.hostnameVerifier(new HostnameVerifier() {
      @Override
      public boolean verify(String hostname, SSLSession session) {
        return true;
      }
    });

    OkHttpClient okHttpClient = builder.build();
    return okHttpClient;
  } catch (Exception e) {
    throw new RuntimeException(e);
  }
}

How do you check whether a number is divisible by another number (Python)?

I had the same approach. Because I didn't understand how to use the module(%) operator.

6 % 3 = 0 *This means if you divide 6 by 3 you will not have a remainder, 3 is a factor of 6.

Now you have to relate it to your given problem.

if n % 3 == 0 *This is saying, if my number(n) is divisible by 3 leaving a 0 remainder.

Add your then(print, return) statement and continue your

How to refresh an access form

"Requery" is indeed what you what you want to run, but you could do that in Form A's "On Got Focus" event. If you have code in your Form_Load, perhaps you can move it to Form_Got_Focus.

How to merge every two lines into one from the command line?

perl -0pE 's{^KEY.*?\K\s+(\d+)$}{ $1}msg;' data.txt > data_merged-lines.txt

-0 gobbles the whole file instead of reading it line-by-line;
pE wraps code with loop and prints the output, see details in http://perldoc.perl.org/perlrun.html;
^KEY match "KEY" in the beginning of line, followed by non-greedy match of anything (.*?) before sequence of

  1. one or more spaces \s+ of any kind including line breaks;
  2. one or more digit (\d+) which we capture and later re-insert as $1;

followed by the end of line $.

\K conveniently excludes everything on its left hand side from substitution so { $1} replaces only 1-2 sequence, see http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html.

Overloading and overriding

  • Overloading = Multiple method signatures, same method name
  • Overriding = Same method signature (declared virtual), implemented in sub classes

An astute interviewer would have followed up with:

What's the difference between overriding and shadowing?

What is base 64 encoding used for?

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64

The term Base64 refers to a specific MIME content transfer encoding. It is also used as a generic term for any similar encoding scheme that encodes binary data by treating it numerically and translating it into a base 64 representation. The particular choice of base is due to the history of character set encoding: one can choose a set of 64 characters that is both part of the subset common to most encodings, and also printable. This combination leaves the data unlikely to be modified in transit through systems, such as email, which were traditionally not 8-bit clean.

Base64 can be used in a variety of contexts:

  • Evolution and Thunderbird use Base64 to obfuscate e-mail passwords[1]
  • Base64 can be used to transmit and store text that might otherwise cause delimiter collision
  • Base64 is often used as a quick but insecure shortcut to obscure secrets without incurring the overhead of cryptographic key management

  • Spammers use Base64 to evade basic anti-spamming tools, which often do not decode Base64 and therefore cannot detect keywords in encoded messages.

  • Base64 is used to encode character strings in LDIF files
  • Base64 is sometimes used to embed binary data in an XML file, using a syntax similar to ...... e.g. Firefox's bookmarks.html.
  • Base64 is also used when communicating with government Fiscal Signature printing devices (usually, over serial or parallel ports) to minimize the delay when transferring receipt characters for signing.
  • Base64 is used to encode binary files such as images within scripts, to avoid depending on external files.
  • Can be used to embed raw image data into a CSS property such as background-image.

XSL if: test with multiple test conditions

Thanks to @IanRoberts, I had to use the normalize-space function on my nodes to check if they were empty.

<xsl:if test="((node/ABC!='') and (normalize-space(node/DEF)='') and (normalize-space(node/GHI)=''))">
  This worked perfectly fine.
</xsl:if>

jQuery UI - Draggable is not a function?

If you are developing an Ionic app be sure to include jquery and jquery-ui before ionic.bundle.js!

such a waste of time for something so trivial :(

exec failed because the name not a valid identifier?

Try this instead in the end:

exec (@query)

If you do not have the brackets, SQL Server assumes the value of the variable to be a stored procedure name.

OR

EXECUTE sp_executesql @query

And it should not be because of FULL JOIN.
But I hope you have already created the temp tables: #TrafficFinal, #TrafficFinal2, #TrafficFinal3 before this.


Please note that there are performance considerations between using EXEC and sp_executesql. Because sp_executesql uses forced statement caching like an sp.
More details here.


On another note, is there a reason why you are using dynamic sql for this case, when you can use the query as is, considering you are not doing any query manipulations and executing it the way it is?

adb shell su works but adb root does not

I use for enter su mode in abd shell

adb shell "su"

How can I include null values in a MIN or MAX?

Use the analytic function :

select case when 
    max(field) keep (dense_rank first order by datfin desc nulls first) is null then 1 
    else 0 end as flag 
from MYTABLE;

How to call on a function found on another file?

Your sprite is created mid way through the playerSprite function... it also goes out of scope and ceases to exist at the end of that same function. The sprite must be created where you can pass it to playerSprite to initialize it and also where you can pass it to your draw function.

Perhaps declare it above your first while?

Angular expression if array contains

Somewhere in your initialisation put this code.

Array.prototype.contains = function contains(obj) {
    for (var i = 0; i < this.length; i++) {
        if (this[i] === obj) {
            return true;
        }
    }
    return false;
};

Then, you can use it this way:

<li ng-class="{approved: selectedForApproval.contains(jobSet)}"></li>

Find the max of 3 numbers in Java with different data types

int first = 3;  
int mid = 4; 
int last = 6;

//checks for the largest number using the Math.max(a,b) method
//for the second argument (b) you just use the same method to check which  //value is greater between the second and the third
int largest = Math.max(first, Math.max(last, mid));

Best implementation for hashCode method for a collection

I prefer using utility methods fromm Google Collections lib from class Objects that helps me to keep my code clean. Very often equals and hashcode methods are made from IDE's template, so their are not clean to read.

e.printStackTrace equivalent in python

Adding to the other great answers, we can use the Python logging library's debug(), info(), warning(), error(), and critical() methods. Quoting from the docs for Python 3.7.4,

There are three keyword arguments in kwargs which are inspected: exc_info which, if it does not evaluate as false, causes exception information to be added to the logging message.

What this means is, you can use the Python logging library to output a debug(), or other type of message, and the logging library will include the stack trace in its output. With this in mind, we can do the following:

import logging

logger = logging.getLogger()
logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)

def f():
    a = { 'foo': None }
    # the following line will raise KeyError
    b = a['bar']

def g():
    f()

try:
    g()
except Exception as e:
    logger.error(str(e), exc_info=True)

And it will output:

'bar'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<ipython-input-2-8ae09e08766b>", line 18, in <module>
    g()
  File "<ipython-input-2-8ae09e08766b>", line 14, in g
    f()
  File "<ipython-input-2-8ae09e08766b>", line 10, in f
    b = a['bar']
KeyError: 'bar'

Replacing a character from a certain index

You can also Use below method if you have to replace string between specific index

def Replace_Substring_Between_Index(singleLine,stringToReplace='',startPos=0,endPos=1):
    try:
       singleLine = singleLine[:startPos]+stringToReplace+singleLine[endPos:]
    except Exception as e:
        exception="There is Exception at this step while calling replace_str_index method, Reason = " + str(e)
        BuiltIn.log_to_console(exception)
    return singleLine

Get attribute name value of <input>

While there is no denying that jQuery is a powerful tool, it is a really bad idea to use it for such a trivial operation as "get an element's attribute value".

Judging by the current accepted answer, I am going to assume that you were able to add an ID attribute to your element and use that to select it.

With that in mind, here are two pieces of code. First, the code given to you in the Accepted Answer:

$("#ID").attr("name");

And second, the Vanilla JS version of it:

document.getElementById('ID').getAttribute("name");

My results:

  • jQuery: 300k operations / second
  • JavaScript: 11,000k operations / second

You can test for yourself here. The "plain JavaScript" vesion is over 35 times faster than the jQuery version.

Now, that's just for one operation, over time you will have more and more stuff going on in your code. Perhaps for something particularly advanced, the optimal "pure JavaScript" solution would take one second to run. The jQuery version might take 30 seconds to a whole minute! That's huge! People aren't going to sit around for that. Even the browser will get bored and offer you the option to kill the webpage for taking too long!

As I said, jQuery is a powerful tool, but it should not be considered the answer to everything.

What's wrong with nullable columns in composite primary keys?

I still believe this is a fundamental / functional flaw brought about by a technicality. If you have an optional field by which you can identify a customer you now have to hack a dummy value into it, just because NULL != NULL, not particularly elegant yet it is an "industry standard"

Using HTML5/Canvas/JavaScript to take in-browser screenshots

JavaScript can read the DOM and render a fairly accurate representation of that using canvas. I have been working on a script which converts HTML into a canvas image. Decided today to make an implementation of it into sending feedbacks like you described.

The script allows you to create feedback forms which include a screenshot, created on the client's browser, along with the form. The screenshot is based on the DOM and as such may not be 100% accurate to the real representation as it does not make an actual screenshot, but builds the screenshot based on the information available on the page.

It does not require any rendering from the server, as the whole image is created on the client's browser. The HTML2Canvas script itself is still in a very experimental state, as it does not parse nearly as much of the CSS3 attributes I would want it to, nor does it have any support to load CORS images even if a proxy was available.

Still quite limited browser compatibility (not because more couldn't be supported, just haven't had time to make it more cross browser supported).

For more information, have a look at the examples here:

http://hertzen.com/experiments/jsfeedback/

edit The html2canvas script is now available separately here and some examples here.

edit 2 Another confirmation that Google uses a very similar method (in fact, based on the documentation, the only major difference is their async method of traversing/drawing) can be found in this presentation by Elliott Sprehn from the Google Feedback team: http://www.elliottsprehn.com/preso/fluentconf/

Removing page title and date when printing web page (with CSS?)

Its simple. Just use css.

<style>
@page { size: auto;  margin: 0mm; }
</style>

How to Use Order By for Multiple Columns in Laravel 4?

Simply invoke orderBy() as many times as you need it. For instance:

User::orderBy('name', 'DESC')
    ->orderBy('email', 'ASC')
    ->get();

Produces the following query:

SELECT * FROM `users` ORDER BY `name` DESC, `email` ASC

How can I multiply all items in a list together with Python?

nums = str(tuple([1,2,3]))
mul_nums = nums.replace(',','*')
print(eval(mul_nums))

How to move table from one tablespace to another in oracle 11g

Moving tables:

First run:

SELECT 'ALTER TABLE <schema_name>.' || OBJECT_NAME ||' MOVE TABLESPACE '||' <tablespace_name>; '
FROM ALL_OBJECTS
WHERE OWNER = '<schema_name>'
AND OBJECT_TYPE = 'TABLE' <> '<TABLESPACE_NAME>';

-- Or suggested in the comments (did not test it myself)

SELECT 'ALTER TABLE <SCHEMA>.' || TABLE_NAME ||' MOVE TABLESPACE '||' TABLESPACE_NAME>; ' 
FROM dba_tables 
WHERE OWNER = '<SCHEMA>' 
AND TABLESPACE_NAME <> '<TABLESPACE_NAME>

Where <schema_name> is the name of the user. And <tablespace_name> is the destination tablespace.

As a result you get lines like:

ALTER TABLE SCOT.PARTS MOVE TABLESPACE USERS;

Paste the results in a script or in a oracle sql developer like application and run it.

Moving indexes:

First run:

SELECT 'ALTER INDEX <schema_name>.'||INDEX_NAME||' REBUILD TABLESPACE <tablespace_name>;' 
FROM ALL_INDEXES
WHERE OWNER = '<schema_name>'
AND TABLESPACE_NAME NOT LIKE '<tablespace_name>';

The last line in this code could save you a lot of time because it filters out the indexes which are already in the correct tablespace.

As a result you should get something like:

ALTER INDEX SCOT.PARTS_NO_PK REBUILD TABLESPACE USERS;

Paste the results in a script or in a oracle sql developer like application and run it.

Last but not least, moving LOBs:

First run:

SELECT 'ALTER TABLE <schema_name>.'||LOWER(TABLE_NAME)||' MOVE LOB('||LOWER(COLUMN_NAME)||') STORE AS (TABLESPACE <table_space>);'
FROM DBA_TAB_COLS
WHERE OWNER = '<schema_name>' AND DATA_TYPE like '%LOB%';

This moves the LOB objects to the other tablespace.

As a result you should get something like:

ALTER TABLE SCOT.bin$6t926o3phqjgqkjabaetqg==$0 MOVE LOB(calendar) STORE AS (TABLESPACE USERS);

Paste the results in a script or in a oracle sql developer like application and run it.

O and there is one more thing:

For some reason I wasn't able to move 'DOMAIN' type indexes. As a work around I dropped the index. changed the default tablespace of the user into de desired tablespace. and then recreate the index again. There is propably a better way but it worked for me.

How do I get the name of a Ruby class?

Both result.class.to_s and result.class.name work.

Accessing JSON elements

import json

# some JSON:
json_str =  '{ "name":"Sarah", "age":25, "city":"Chicago"}'

# parse json_str:
json = json.loads(json_str)

# get tags from json   
tags = []
for tag in json:
    tags.append(tag)
  

# print each tag name e your content
for i in range(len(tags)):
    print(tags[i] + ': ' + str(json[tags[i]]))

How to upgrade scikit-learn package in anaconda

I would suggest using conda. Conda is an anconda specific package manager. If you want to know more about conda, read the conda docs.

Using conda in the command line, the command below would install scipy 0.17.

conda install scipy=0.17.0

SQL Query Multiple Columns Using Distinct on One Column Only

you have various ways to distinct values on one column or multi columns.

  • using the GROUP BY

    SELECT DISTINCT MIN(o.tblFruit_ID)  AS tblFruit_ID,
       o.tblFruit_FruitType,
       MAX(o.tblFruit_FruitName)
    FROM   tblFruit  AS o
    GROUP BY
         tblFruit_FruitType
    
  • using the subquery

    SELECT b.tblFruit_ID,
       b.tblFruit_FruitType,
       b.tblFruit_FruitName
    FROM   (
           SELECT DISTINCT(tblFruit_FruitType),
                  MIN(tblFruit_ID) tblFruit_ID
           FROM   tblFruit
           GROUP BY
                  tblFruit_FruitType
       ) AS a
       INNER JOIN tblFruit b
            ON  a.tblFruit_ID = b.tblFruit_I
    
  • using the join with subquery

    SELECT t1.tblFruit_ID,
        t1.tblFruit_FruitType,
        t1.tblFruit_FruitName
    FROM   tblFruit  AS t1
       INNER JOIN (
                SELECT DISTINCT MAX(tblFruit_ID) AS tblFruit_ID,
                       tblFruit_FruitType
                FROM   tblFruit
                GROUP BY
                       tblFruit_FruitType
            )  AS t2
            ON  t1.tblFruit_ID = t2.tblFruit_ID 
    
  • using the window functions only one column distinct

    SELECT tblFruit_ID,
        tblFruit_FruitType,
        tblFruit_FruitName
    FROM   (
             SELECT tblFruit_ID,
                  tblFruit_FruitType,
                  tblFruit_FruitName,
                  ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY tblFruit_FruitType ORDER BY tblFruit_ID) 
        rn
           FROM   tblFruit
        ) t
        WHERE  rn = 1 
    
  • using the window functions multi column distinct

    SELECT tblFruit_ID,
        tblFruit_FruitType,
        tblFruit_FruitName
    FROM   (
             SELECT tblFruit_ID,
                  tblFruit_FruitType,
                  tblFruit_FruitName,
                  ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY tblFruit_FruitType,     tblFruit_FruitName 
        ORDER BY tblFruit_ID) rn
              FROM   tblFruit
         ) t
        WHERE  rn = 1 
    

Which MySQL data type to use for storing boolean values

BOOL and BOOLEAN are synonyms of TINYINT(1). Zero is false, anything else is true. More information here.

Force to open "Save As..." popup open at text link click for PDF in HTML

I just used this, but I don't know if it works across all browsers.

It works in Firefox:

<a href="myfile.pdf" download>Click to Download</a>

How to prevent a dialog from closing when a button is clicked

To prevent Dialog box from closing when clicked and it should only close when the internet is available

I am trying to do the same thing, as I don't want the dialog box to be closed until and unless the internet is connected.

Here is my code:

AlertDialog.Builder builder=new AlertDialog.Builder(MainActivity.this); builder.setTitle("Internet Not Connected");
    if(ifConnected()){

        Toast.makeText(this, "Connected or not", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }
    else{
        builder.setPositiveButton("Retry", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialogInterface, int i) {
               if(!ifConnected())
               {
                   builder.show();
               }
            }
        }).setNegativeButton("Cancel", new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(DialogInterface dialogInterface, int i) {
                finish();
            }
        });
        builder.show();

    }

And here is my Connectivity manager code:

 private boolean ifConnected()
{
    ConnectivityManager connectivityManager= (ConnectivityManager) getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);
    NetworkInfo networkInfo=connectivityManager.getActiveNetworkInfo();
   return networkInfo!=null && networkInfo.isConnected();
}

Is it possible to do a sparse checkout without checking out the whole repository first?

In 2020 there is a simpler way to deal with sparse-checkout without having to worry about .git files. Here is how I did it:

git clone <URL> --no-checkout <directory>
cd <directory>
git sparse-checkout init --cone # to fetch only root files
git sparse-checkout set apps/my_app libs/my_lib # etc, to list sub-folders to checkout
# they are checked out immediately after this command, no need to run git pull

Note that it requires git version 2.25 installed. Read more about it here: https://github.blog/2020-01-17-bring-your-monorepo-down-to-size-with-sparse-checkout/

UPDATE:

The above git clone command will still clone the repo with its full history, though without checking the files out. If you don't need the full history, you can add --depth parameter to the command, like this:

# create a shallow clone,
# with only 1 (since depth equals 1) latest commit in history
git clone <URL> --no-checkout <directory> --depth 1

jQuery: how do I animate a div rotation?

If you want just a jQuery option, this will work:

$(el).stop().animate(
  {rotation: 360},
  {
    duration: 500,
    step: function(now, fx) {
      $(this).css({"transform": "rotate("+now+"deg)"});
    }
  }
);

This works with jQuery 1.8, which takes care of CSS prefixing automatically. jQuery doesn't animate rotation so I'm putting the transform:rotate() in the custom step function. It might only work starting from 0.

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/forresto/ShUgD/

IE9 and Mobile Safari 4 support CSS transforms but not CSS transitions, so I came up with this simple shim, using Modernizr feature testing:

if (Modernizr.csstransitions) {
  $(el).css({
    "transition": "all 500ms ease-in-out"
  });
}

$(el).click(function(){
  var rotateTo = 360;
  if (Modernizr.csstransitions) {
    $(el).css({"transform": "rotate("+rotateTo+"deg)"});
  } else {
    $(el).stop().animate(
      {rotation: rotateTo},
      {
        duration: 500,
        step: function(now, fx) {
          $(this).css({"transform": "rotate("+now+"deg)"});
        }
      }
    );
  }
});

The above will use CSS transitions when available.

Difference between Fact table and Dimension table?

From my point of view,

  • Dimension table : Master Data
  • Fact table : Transactional Data

Convert integer to hexadecimal and back again

// Store integer 182
int intValue = 182;
// Convert integer 182 as a hex in a string variable
string hexValue = intValue.ToString("X");
// Convert the hex string back to the number
int intAgain = int.Parse(hexValue, System.Globalization.NumberStyles.HexNumber);

from http://www.geekpedia.com/KB8_How-do-I-convert-from-decimal-to-hex-and-hex-to-decimal.html

Eclipse IDE: How to zoom in on text?

Here's a quicker way than multi-layer menus without resorting to plug-ins:

Use the Quick Access tool at the upper left corner.

Type in "font", then, from the list that drops down, click on the link for "Preferences->Colors and Fonts->General->Appearance".

One click replaces the 4 needed to get there through menus. I do it so often, my Quick Access tool pulls it up as a previous choice right at the top of the list so I can just type "font" with a tap on the enter key and Boom!, I'm there.

If you want a keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+3 sets the focus to the Quick Access tool. Better yet, this even automatically brings up a list with your previous choices. The last one you chose will be on top, in which case a simple Ctrl+3 followed by enter would bring you straight there! I use this all the time to make it bigger during long typing or reading sessions to ease eye strain, or to make it smaller if I need more text on the screen at one time to make it easier to find something.

It's not quite as nice as zooming with the scroll wheel, but it's a lot better than navigating through the menus every time!

Angular JS: What is the need of the directive’s link function when we already had directive’s controller with scope?

After my initial struggle with the link and controller functions and reading quite a lot about them, I think now I have the answer.

First lets understand,

How do angular directives work in a nutshell:

  • We begin with a template (as a string or loaded to a string)

    var templateString = '<div my-directive>{{5 + 10}}</div>';

  • Now, this templateString is wrapped as an angular element

    var el = angular.element(templateString);

  • With el, now we compile it with $compile to get back the link function.

    var l = $compile(el)

    Here is what happens,

    • $compile walks through the whole template and collects all the directives that it recognizes.
    • All the directives that are discovered are compiled recursively and their link functions are collected.
    • Then, all the link functions are wrapped in a new link function and returned as l.
  • Finally, we provide scope function to this l (link) function which further executes the wrapped link functions with this scope and their corresponding elements.

    l(scope)

  • This adds the template as a new node to the DOM and invokes controller which adds its watches to the scope which is shared with the template in DOM.

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Comparing compile vs link vs controller :

  • Every directive is compiled only once and link function is retained for re-use. Therefore, if there's something applicable to all instances of a directive should be performed inside directive's compile function.

  • Now, after compilation we have link function which is executed while attaching the template to the DOM. So, therefore we perform everything that is specific to every instance of the directive. For eg: attaching events, mutating the template based on scope, etc.

  • Finally, the controller is meant to be available to be live and reactive while the directive works on the DOM (after getting attached). Therefore:

    (1) After setting up the view[V] (i.e. template) with link. $scope is our [M] and $controller is our [C] in M V C

    (2) Take advantage the 2-way binding with $scope by setting up watches.

    (3) $scope watches are expected to be added in the controller since this is what is watching the template during run-time.

    (4) Finally, controller is also used to be able to communicate among related directives. (Like myTabs example in https://docs.angularjs.org/guide/directive)

    (5) It's true that we could've done all this in the link function as well but its about separation of concerns.

Therefore, finally we have the following which fits all the pieces perfectly :

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Flutter - Layout a Grid

Please visit this repo.

Widget _gridView() {
    return GridView.count(
      crossAxisCount: 4,
      padding: EdgeInsets.all(4.0),
      childAspectRatio: 8.0 / 9.0,
      children: itemList
          .map(
            (Item) => ItemList(item: Item),
          )
          .toList(),
    );
  }

Below screenshot contains crossAxisCount: 2 this screenshot is for grid count 2

user authentication libraries for node.js?

Here is a new authentication library that uses timestamped tokens. The tokens can be emailed or texted to users without the need to store them in a database. It can be used for passwordless authentication or for two-factor authentication.

https://github.com/vote539/easy-no-password

Disclosure: I am the developer of this library.

Delete forked repo from GitHub

Deleting it will do nothing to the original project. Editing it will only edit your fork on your repo page.

Requests -- how to tell if you're getting a 404

Look at the r.status_code attribute:

if r.status_code == 404:
    # A 404 was issued.

Demo:

>>> import requests
>>> r = requests.get('http://httpbin.org/status/404')
>>> r.status_code
404

If you want requests to raise an exception for error codes (4xx or 5xx), call r.raise_for_status():

>>> r = requests.get('http://httpbin.org/status/404')
>>> r.raise_for_status()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "requests/models.py", line 664, in raise_for_status
    raise http_error
requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 404 Client Error: NOT FOUND
>>> r = requests.get('http://httpbin.org/status/200')
>>> r.raise_for_status()
>>> # no exception raised.

You can also test the response object in a boolean context; if the status code is not an error code (4xx or 5xx), it is considered ‘true’:

if r:
    # successful response

If you want to be more explicit, use if r.ok:.

How to get last N records with activerecord?

If you need to set some ordering on results then use:

Model.order('name desc').limit(n) # n= number

if you do not need any ordering, and just need records saved in the table then use:

Model.last(n) # n= any number

How to print an exception in Python 3?

[In Python3]

Let's say you want to handle an IndexError and print the traceback, you can do the following:

from traceback import print_tb 
empty_list = [] 
try: 
    x = empty_list[100]
except IndexError as index_error: 
    print_tb(index_error.__traceback__)

Note: You can use the format_tb function instead of print_tb to get the traceback as a string for logging purposes. Hope this helps.

How can I run MongoDB as a Windows service?

Plz try the steps in Mongo DB: 3.6 & Windows 10

  1. mongod --remove
  2. mongod --dbpath=C:/data/db --port 27017 --logpath C:/data/log/log.txt --service
  3. mongod --dbpath=C:/data/db --port 27017 --logpath C:/data/log/log.txt --install
  4. net start MongoDB

What is context in _.each(list, iterator, [context])?

The context lets you provide arguments at call-time, allowing easy customization of generic pre-built helper functions.

some examples:

// stock footage:
function addTo(x){ "use strict"; return x + this; }
function pluck(x){ "use strict"; return x[this]; }
function lt(x){ "use strict"; return x < this; }

// production:
var r = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9];
var words = "a man a plan a canal panama".split(" ");

// filtering numbers:
_.filter(r, lt, 5); // elements less than 5
_.filter(r, lt, 3); // elements less than 3

// add 100 to the elements:
_.map(r, addTo, 100);

// encode eggy peggy:
_.map(words, addTo, "egg").join(" ");

// get length of words:
_.map(words, pluck, "length"); 

// find words starting with "e" or sooner:
_.filter(words, lt, "e"); 

// find all words with 3 or more chars:
_.filter(words, pluck, 2); 

Even from the limited examples, you can see how powerful an "extra argument" can be for creating re-usable code. Instead of making a different callback function for each situation, you can usually adapt a low-level helper. The goal is to have your custom logic bundling a verb and two nouns, with minimal boilerplate.

Admittedly, arrow functions have eliminated a lot of the "code golf" advantages of generic pure functions, but the semantic and consistency advantages remain.

I always add "use strict" to helpers to provide native [].map() compatibility when passing primitives. Otherwise, they are coerced into objects, which usually still works, but it's faster and safer to be type-specific.

Hibernate: "Field 'id' doesn't have a default value"

Try to change Long object type to long primitive type (if using primitives is ok for you).

I had the same problem and changing type helped me.

Using BeautifulSoup to extract text without tags

I think you could solve this with .strip() in gazpacho:

Input:

html = """\
<p>
  <strong class="offender">YOB:</strong> 1987<br />
  <strong class="offender">RACE:</strong> WHITE<br />
  <strong class="offender">GENDER:</strong> FEMALE<br />
  <strong class="offender">HEIGHT:</strong> 5'05''<br />
  <strong class="offender">WEIGHT:</strong> 118<br />
  <strong class="offender">EYE COLOR:</strong> GREEN<br />
  <strong class="offender">HAIR COLOR:</strong> BROWN<br />
</p>
"""

Code:

soup = Soup(html)
text = soup.find("p").strip(whitespace=False) # to keep \n characters intact
lines = [
    line.strip()
    for line in text.split("\n")
    if line != ""
]
data = dict([line.split(": ") for line in lines])

Output:

print(data)
# {'YOB': '1987',
#  'RACE': 'WHITE',
#  'GENDER': 'FEMALE',
#  'HEIGHT': "5'05''",
#  'WEIGHT': '118',
#  'EYE COLOR': 'GREEN',
#  'HAIR COLOR': 'BROWN'}

OrderBy descending in Lambda expression?

This only works in situations where you have a numeric field, but you can put a minus sign in front of the field name like so:

reportingNameGroups = reportingNameGroups.OrderBy(x=> - x.GroupNodeId);

However this works a little bit different than OrderByDescending when you have are running it on an int? or double? or decimal? fields.

What will happen is on OrderByDescending the nulls will be at the end, vs with this method the nulls will be at the beginning. Which is useful if you want to shuffle nulls around without splitting data into pieces and splicing it later.

DataTrigger where value is NOT null?

You can use a converter or create new property in your ViewModel like that:

public bool CanDoIt
{
    get
    {
        return !string.IsNullOrEmpty(SomeField);
    }
}

and use it:

<DataTrigger Binding="{Binding SomeField}" Value="{Binding CanDoIt}">

How should we manage jdk8 stream for null values

If you just want to filter null values out of a stream, you can simply use a method reference to java.util.Objects.nonNull(Object). From its documentation:

This method exists to be used as a Predicate, filter(Objects::nonNull)

For example:

List<String> list = Arrays.asList( null, "Foo", null, "Bar", null, null);

list.stream()
    .filter( Objects::nonNull )  // <-- Filter out null values
    .forEach( System.out::println );

This will print:

Foo
Bar

jQuery loop over JSON result from AJAX Success?

If you use Fire Fox, just open up a console (use F12 key) and try out this:

var a = [
 {"TEST1":45,"TEST2":23,"TEST3":"DATA1"},
 {"TEST1":46,"TEST2":24,"TEST3":"DATA2"},
 {"TEST1":47,"TEST2":25,"TEST3":"DATA3"}
];

$.each (a, function (bb) {
    console.log (bb);
    console.log (a[bb]);
    console.log (a[bb].TEST1);
});

hope it helps

How to destroy JWT Tokens on logout?

You can add "issue time" to token and maintain "last logout time" for each user on the server. When you check token validity, also check "issue time" be after "last logout time".

Facebook Graph API, how to get users email?

First, activate your application at the Facebook Developer center. Applications in development mode are not allowed to retrieve the e-mail field.

If the user is not logged in, you need to login and specify that your application/site will need the e-mail field.

FB.login(
    function(response) {
         console.log('Welcome!');
    },
    {scope: 'email'}
);

Then, after the login, or if the user is already logged, retrieve the e-mail using the Facebook API, specifying the field email:

FB.api('/me', {fields: 'name,email'}, (response) => {
    console.log(response.name + ', ' + response.email);
    console.log('full response: ', response);
});

Is there a Google Sheets formula to put the name of the sheet into a cell?

I got this to finally work in a semi-automatic fashion without the use of scripts... but it does take up 3 cells to pull it off. Borrowing from a bit from previous answers, I start with a cell that has nothing more than =NOW() it in to show the time. For example, we'll put this into cell A1...

=NOW()

This function updates automatically every minute. In the next cell, put a pointer formula using the sheets own name to point to the previous cell. For example, we'll put this in A2...

='Sheet Name'!A1

Cell formatting aside, cell A1 and A2 should at this point display the same content... namely the current time.

And, the last cell is the part I'm borrowing from previous solutions using a regex expression to pull the fomula from the second cell and then strip out the name of the sheet from said formula. For example, we'll put this into cell A3...

=REGEXREPLACE(FORMULATEXT(A2),"='?([^']+)'?!.*","$1")

At this point, the resultant value displayed in A3 should be the name of the sheet.

From my experience, as soon as the name of the sheet is changed, the formula in A2 is immediately updated. However that's not enough to trigger A3 to update. But, every minute when cell A1 recalculates the time, the result of the formula in cell A2 is subsequently updated and then that in turn triggers A3 to update with the new sheet name. It's not a compact solution... but it does seem to work.

Does a valid XML file require an XML declaration?

In XML 1.0, the XML Declaration is optional. See section 2.8 of the XML 1.0 Recommendation, where it says it "should" be used -- which means it is recommended, but not mandatory. In XML 1.1, however, the declaration is mandatory. See section 2.8 of the XML 1.1 Recommendation, where it says "MUST" be used. It even goes on to state that if the declaration is absent, that automatically implies the document is an XML 1.0 document.

Note that in an XML Declaration the encoding and standalone are both optional. Only the version is mandatory. Also, these are not attributes, so if they are present they must be in that order: version, followed by any encoding, followed by any standalone.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16" standalone="yes"?>

If you don't specify the encoding in this way, XML parsers try to guess what encoding is being used. The XML 1.0 Recommendation describes one possible way character encoding can be autodetected. In practice, this is not much of a problem if the input is encoded as UTF-8, UTF-16 or US-ASCII. Autodetection doesn't work when it encounters 8-bit encodings that use characters outside the US-ASCII range (e.g. ISO 8859-1) -- avoid creating these if you can.

The standalone indicates whether the XML document can be correctly processed without the DTD or not. People rarely use it. These days, it is a bad to design an XML format that is missing information without its DTD.

Update:

A "prolog error/invalid utf-8 encoding" error indicates that the actual data the parser found inside the file did not match the encoding that the XML declaration says it is. Or in some cases the data inside the file did not match the autodetected encoding.

Since your file contains a byte-order-mark (BOM) it should be in UTF-16 encoding. I suspect that your declaration says <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> which is obviously incorrect when the file has been changed into UTF-16 by NotePad. The simple solution is to remove the encoding and simply say <?xml version="1.0"?>. You could also edit it to say encoding="UTF-16" but that would be wrong for the original file (which wasn't in UTF-16) or if the file somehow gets changed back to UTF-8 or some other encoding.

Don't bother trying to remove the BOM -- that's not the cause of the problem. Using NotePad or WordPad to edit XML is the real problem!

What's the equivalent of Java's Thread.sleep() in JavaScript?

Assuming you're able to use ECMAScript 2017 you can emulate similar behaviour by using async/await and setTimeout. Here's an example sleep function:

async function sleep(msec) {
    return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, msec));
}

You can then use the sleep function in any other async function like this:

async function testSleep() {
    console.log("Waiting for 1 second...");
    await sleep(1000);
    console.log("Waiting done."); // Called 1 second after the first console.log
}

This is nice because it avoids needing a callback. The down side is that it can only be used in async functions. Behind the scenes the testSleep function is paused, and after the sleep completes it is resumed.

From MDN:

The await expression causes async function execution to pause until a Promise is fulfilled or rejected, and to resume execution of the async function after fulfillment.

For a full explanation see:

CSS centred header image

you don't need to set the width of header in css, just put the background image as center using this code:

background: url("images/logo.png") no-repeat top center;

or you can just use img tag and put align="center" in the div

How can I parse a CSV string with JavaScript, which contains comma in data?

People seemed to be against RegEx for this. Why?

(\s*'[^']+'|\s*[^,]+)(?=,|$)

Here's the code. I also made a fiddle.

String.prototype.splitCSV = function(sep) {
  var regex = /(\s*'[^']+'|\s*[^,]+)(?=,|$)/g;
  return matches = this.match(regex);    
}

var string = "'string, duppi, du', 23, 'string, duppi, du', lala";
var parsed = string.splitCSV();
alert(parsed.join('|'));

File path for project files?

I was facing a similar issue, I had a file on my project, and wanted to test a class which had to deal with loading files from the FS and process them some way. What I did was:

  • added the file test.txt to my test project
  • on the solution explorer hit alt-enter (file properties)
  • there I set BuildAction to Content and Copy to Output Directory to Copy if newer, I guess Copy always would have done it as well

then on my tests I just had to Path.Combine(Environment.CurrentDirectory, "test.txt") and that's it. Whenever the project is compiled it will copy the file (and all it's parent path, in case it was in, say, a folder) to the bin\Debug (or whatever configuration you are using) folder.

Hopes this helps someone

.ssh directory not being created

Is there a step missing?

Yes. You need to create the directory:

mkdir ${HOME}/.ssh

Additionally, SSH requires you to set the permissions so that only you (the owner) can access anything in ~/.ssh:

% chmod 700 ~/.ssh

Should the .ssh dir be generated when I use the ssh-keygen command?

No. This command generates an SSH key pair but will fail if it cannot write to the required directory:

% ssh-keygen
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/Users/xxx/.ssh/id_rsa): /Users/tmp/does_not_exist
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase): 
Enter same passphrase again: 
open /Users/tmp/does_not_exist failed: No such file or directory.
Saving the key failed: /Users/tmp/does_not_exist.

Once you've created your keys, you should also restrict who can read those key files to just yourself:

% chmod -R go-wrx ~/.ssh/*

Synchronization vs Lock

Lock and synchronize block both serves the same purpose but it depends on the usage. Consider the below part

void randomFunction(){
.
.
.
synchronize(this){
//do some functionality
}

.
.
.
synchronize(this)
{
// do some functionality
}


} // end of randomFunction

In the above case , if a thread enters the synchronize block, the other block is also locked. If there are multiple such synchronize block on the same object, all the blocks are locked. In such situations , java.util.concurrent.Lock can be used to prevent unwanted locking of blocks

error: package com.android.annotations does not exist

In my case I had to use

import androidx.annotation...

instead of

import android.annotation...

I migrated to AndroidX and forgot to change that.

How to get query params from url in Angular 2?

Even though the question specifies version beta 7, this question also comes up as top search result on Google for common phrases like angular 2 query parameters. For that reason here's an answer for the newest router (currently in alpha.7).

The way the params are read has changed dramatically. First you need to inject dependency called Router in your constructor parameters like:

constructor(private router: Router) { }

and after that we can subscribe for the query parameters on our ngOnInit method (constructor is okay too, but ngOnInit should be used for testability) like

this.router
  .routerState
  .queryParams
  .subscribe(params => {
    this.selectedId = +params['id'];
  });

In this example we read the query param id from URL like example.com?id=41.

There are still few things to notice:

  1. Accessing property of params like params['id'] always returns a string, and this can be converted to number by prefixing it with +.
  2. The reason why the query params are fetched with observable is that it allows re-using the same component instance instead of loading a new one. Each time query param is changed, it will cause a new event that we have subscribed for and thus we can react on changes accordingly.

java.net.MalformedURLException: no protocol

The documentation could help you : http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/javax/xml/parsers/DocumentBuilder.html

The method DocumentBuilder.parse(String) takes a URI and tries to open it. If you want to directly give the content, you have to give it an InputStream or Reader, for example a StringReader. ... Welcome to the Java standard levels of indirections !

Basically :

DocumentBuilder db = ...;
String xml = ...;
db.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(xml)));

Note that if you read your XML from a file, you can directly give the File object to DocumentBuilder.parse() .

As a side note, this is a pattern you will encounter a lot in Java. Usually, most API work with Streams more than with Strings. Using Streams means that potentially not all the content has to be loaded in memory at the same time, which can be a great idea !

Best Python IDE on Linux

Probably the new PyCharm from the makers of IntelliJ and ReSharper.

In Python, how do you convert seconds since epoch to a `datetime` object?

datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp will do, if you know the time zone, you could produce the same output as with time.gmtime

>>> datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(1284286794)
datetime.datetime(2010, 9, 12, 11, 19, 54)

or

>>> datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(1284286794)
datetime.datetime(2010, 9, 12, 10, 19, 54)

How do I retrieve my MySQL username and password?

Unfortunately your user password is irretrievable. It has been hashed with a one way hash which if you don't know is irreversible. I recommend go with Xenph Yan above and just create an new one.

You can also use the following procedure from the manual for resetting the password for any MySQL root accounts on Windows:

  1. Log on to your system as Administrator.
  2. Stop the MySQL server if it is running. For a server that is running as a Windows service, go to the Services manager:

Start Menu -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services

Then find the MySQL service in the list, and stop it. If your server is not running as a service, you may need to use the Task Manager to force it to stop.

  1. Create a text file and place the following statements in it. Replace the password with the password that you want to use.

    UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('MyNewPass') WHERE User='root';
    FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
    

    The UPDATE and FLUSH statements each must be written on a single line. The UPDATE statement resets the password for all existing root accounts, and the FLUSH statement tells the server to reload the grant tables into memory.

  2. Save the file. For this example, the file will be named C:\mysql-init.txt.
  3. Open a console window to get to the command prompt:

    Start Menu -> Run -> cmd

  4. Start the MySQL server with the special --init-file option:

    C:\> C:\mysql\bin\mysqld-nt --init-file = C:\mysql-init.txt
    

    If you installed MySQL to a location other than C:\mysql, adjust the command accordingly.

    The server executes the contents of the file named by the --init-file option at startup, changing each root account password.

    You can also add the --console option to the command if you want server output to appear in the console window rather than in a log file.

    If you installed MySQL using the MySQL Installation Wizard, you may need to specify a --defaults-file option:

    C:\> "C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\bin\mysqld-nt.exe" --defaults-file="C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\my.ini" --init-file=C:\mysql-init.txt
    

    The appropriate --defaults-file setting can be found using the Services Manager:

    Start Menu -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Services

    Find the MySQL service in the list, right-click on it, and choose the Properties option. The Path to executable field contains the --defaults-file setting.

  5. After the server has started successfully, delete C:\mysql-init.txt.
  6. Stop the MySQL server, then restart it in normal mode again. If you run the server as a service, start it from the Windows Services window. If you start the server manually, use whatever command you normally use.

You should now be able to connect to MySQL as root using the new password.

Simulate a specific CURL in PostMan

sometimes whenever you copy cURL, it contains --compressed. Remove it while import->Paste Raw Text-->click on import. It will also solve the problem if you are getting the syntax error in postman while importing any cURL.

Generally, when people copy cURL from any proxy tools like Charles, it happens.

The activity must be exported or contain an intent-filter

Double check your manifest, your first activity should have tag

    <intent-filter>
        <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
    </intent-filter>

inside of activity tag.

If that doesn't work, look for target build, which located in the left of run button (green-colored play button), it should be targeting "app" folder, not a particular activity. if it doesn't targeting "app", just click it and choose "app" from drop down list.

Hope it helps!

C++ Redefinition Header Files (winsock2.h)

In my project (I use VS 2008 SP1) works next solution:

Header file:

//myclass.h
#pragma once
#define _WINSOCKAPI_
#include <windows.h>

Cpp class:

//myclass.cpp
#include "Util.h"
#include "winsock2class.h"
#pragma comment(lib, "Ws2_32.lib")

where #include "winsock2class.h" mean class which implemented winsock2.h :

//winsock2class.h
#include <winsock2.h>
#include <windows.h>
#pragma comment(lib, "Ws2_32.lib")

Passing headers with axios POST request

Here is a full example of an axios.post request with custom headers

_x000D_
_x000D_
var postData = {_x000D_
  email: "[email protected]",_x000D_
  password: "password"_x000D_
};_x000D_
_x000D_
let axiosConfig = {_x000D_
  headers: {_x000D_
      'Content-Type': 'application/json;charset=UTF-8',_x000D_
      "Access-Control-Allow-Origin": "*",_x000D_
  }_x000D_
};_x000D_
_x000D_
axios.post('http://<host>:<port>/<path>', postData, axiosConfig)_x000D_
.then((res) => {_x000D_
  console.log("RESPONSE RECEIVED: ", res);_x000D_
})_x000D_
.catch((err) => {_x000D_
  console.log("AXIOS ERROR: ", err);_x000D_
})
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

What is the meaning of "this" in Java?

As everyone said, this represents the current object / current instance. I understand it this way, if its just "this" - it returns class object, in below ex: Dog if it has this.something, something is a method in that class or a variable

class Dog {
private String breed;
private String name;

Dog(String breed, String name) {
    this.breed = breed;
    this.name = name;
}

public Dog getDog() {
    // return Dog type
    return this;
}

}

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Use basic authentication with jQuery and Ajax

According to SharkAlley answer it works with nginx too.

I was search for a solution to get data by jQuery from a server behind nginx and restricted by Base Auth. This works for me:

server {
    server_name example.com;

    location / {
        if ($request_method = OPTIONS ) {
            add_header Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*";
            add_header Access-Control-Allow-Methods "GET, OPTIONS";
            add_header Access-Control-Allow-Headers "Authorization";

            # Not necessary
            #            add_header Access-Control-Allow-Credentials "true";
            #            add_header Content-Length 0;
            #            add_header Content-Type text/plain;

            return 200;
        }

        auth_basic "Restricted";
        auth_basic_user_file /var/.htpasswd;

        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8100;
    }
}

And the JavaScript code is:

var auth = btoa('username:password');
$.ajax({
    type: 'GET',
    url: 'http://example.com',
    headers: {
        "Authorization": "Basic " + auth
    },
    success : function(data) {
    },
});

Article that I find useful:

  1. This topic's answers
  2. http://enable-cors.org/server_nginx.html
  3. http://blog.rogeriopvl.com/archives/nginx-and-the-http-options-method/

How to open local file on Jupyter?

Install jupyter. Open terminal. Go to folder where you file is (in terminal ie.cd path/to/folder). Run jupyter notebook. And voila: you have something like this:

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Notice that to open a notebook in the folder, you can either click on it in the browser or go to address:

http://localhost:8888/notebooks/name_of_your_file.ipynb

How to convert integer into date object python?

I would suggest the following simple approach for conversion:

from datetime import datetime, timedelta
s = "20120213"
# you could also import date instead of datetime and use that.
date = datetime(year=int(s[0:4]), month=int(s[4:6]), day=int(s[6:8]))

For adding/subtracting an arbitary amount of days (seconds work too btw.), you could do the following:

date += timedelta(days=10)
date -= timedelta(days=5)

And convert back using:

s = date.strftime("%Y%m%d")

To convert the integer to a string safely, use:

s = "{0:-08d}".format(i)

This ensures that your string is eight charecters long and left-padded with zeroes, even if the year is smaller than 1000 (negative years could become funny though).

Further reference: datetime objects, timedelta objects

Can you split a stream into two streams?

Unfortunately, what you ask for is directly frowned upon in the JavaDoc of Stream:

A stream should be operated on (invoking an intermediate or terminal stream operation) only once. This rules out, for example, "forked" streams, where the same source feeds two or more pipelines, or multiple traversals of the same stream.

You can work around this using peek or other methods should you truly desire that type of behaviour. In this case, what you should do is instead of trying to back two streams from the same original Stream source with a forking filter, you would duplicate your stream and filter each of the duplicates appropriately.

However, you may wish to reconsider if a Stream is the appropriate structure for your use case.

Get key and value of object in JavaScript?

Change your object.

var top_brands = [ 
  { key: 'Adidas', value: 100 }, 
  { key: 'Nike', value: 50 }
];

var $brand_options = $("#top-brands");

$.each(top_brands, function(brand) {
  $brand_options.append(
    $("<option />").val(brand.key).text(brand.key + " " + brand.value)
  );
});

As a rule of thumb:

  • An object has data and structure.
  • 'Adidas', 'Nike', 100 and 50 are data.
  • Object keys are structure. Using data as the object key is semantically wrong. Avoid it.

There are no semantics in {Nike: 50}. What's "Nike"? What's 50?

{key: 'Nike', value: 50} is a little better, since now you can iterate an array of these objects and values are at predictable places. This makes it easy to write code that handles them.

Better still would be {vendor: 'Nike', itemsSold: 50}, because now values are not only at predictable places, they also have meaningful names. Technically that's the same thing as above, but now a person would also understand what the values are supposed to mean.

Difference between scaling horizontally and vertically for databases

SQL databases like Oracle, db2 also support Horizontal scaling through Shared disk cluster. For example Oracle RAC, IBM DB2 purescale or Sybase ASE Cluster edition. New node can be added to Oracle RAC system or DB2 purescale system to achieve horizontal scaling.

But the approach is different from noSQL databases (like mongodb, CouchDB or IBM Cloudant) is that the data sharding is not part of Horizontal scaling. In noSQL databases data is shraded during horizontal scaling.

Resource interpreted as Document but transferred with MIME type application/zip

After a couple of csv file downloads (lots of tests) chrome asked whether to allow more downloads from this page. I just dismissed the window. After that chrome did not download the file any more but the console sayed:

"Resource interpreted as Document but transferred with MIME type text/csv"

I could solve that issue by restarting chrome (completely Ctrl-Shift-Q).

[Update] Not sure why this post was deleted but it provided the solution for me. I had gotten the message earlier about trying to download multiple files and must have answered no. I got the "Resource interpreted..." message until I restarted the browser; then it worked perfectly. For some cases, this may be the right answer.

Class JavaLaunchHelper is implemented in two places

I have found the other workaround: to exclude libinstrument.dylib from project path. To do so, go to the Preferences -> Build, Execution and Deployment -> Compiler -> Excludes -> + and here add file by the path in error message.

jQuery & CSS - Remove/Add display:none

The only way to remove an inline "display:none" via jQuery's css-api is by resetting it with the empty string (null does NOT work btw!!).

According to the jQuery docu this is the general way to "remove" a once set inline style property.

$("#mydiv").css("display","");

or

$("#mydiv").css({display:""});

should do the trick properly.

IMHO there is a method missing in jQuery that could be called "unhide" or "reveal" which instead of just setting another inline style property unsets the display value properly as described above. Or maybe hide() should store the initial inline value and show() should restore that...

Is it necessary to use # for creating temp tables in SQL server?

The difference between this two tables ItemBack1 and #ItemBack1 is that the first on is persistent (permanent) where as the other is temporary.

Now if take a look at your question again

Is it necessary to Use # for creating temp table in sql server?

The answer is Yes, because without this preceding # the table will not be a temporary table, it will be independent of all sessions and scopes.

What is a unix command for deleting the first N characters of a line?

sed 's/^.\{5\}//' logfile 

and you replace 5 by the number you want...it should do the trick...

EDIT if for each line sed 's/^.\{5\}//g' logfile

How to start an application using android ADB tools?

You can find your app package name by below command:

adb shell pm list packages

Above command returns package list of all apps, Example:

org.linphone.debug
.
.
com.android.email

Now I want to start app linphone by using below command and this worked for me:

adb shell am start org.belphone.debug

How can I quickly and easily convert spreadsheet data to JSON?

Assuming you really mean easiest and are not necessarily looking for a way to do this programmatically, you can do this:

  1. Add, if not already there, a row of "column Musicians" to the spreadsheet. That is, if you have data in columns such as:

    Rory Gallagher      Guitar
    Gerry McAvoy        Bass
    Rod de'Ath          Drums
    Lou Martin          Keyboards
    Donkey Kong Sioux   Self-Appointed Semi-official Stomper
    

    Note: you might want to add "Musician" and "Instrument" in row 0 (you might have to insert a row there)

  2. Save the file as a CSV file.

  3. Copy the contents of the CSV file to the clipboard

  4. Go to http://www.convertcsv.com/csv-to-json.htm

  5. Verify that the "First row is column names" checkbox is checked

  6. Paste the CSV data into the content area

  7. Mash the "Convert CSV to JSON" button

    With the data shown above, you will now have:

    [
      {
        "MUSICIAN":"Rory Gallagher",
        "INSTRUMENT":"Guitar"
      },
      {
        "MUSICIAN":"Gerry McAvoy",
        "INSTRUMENT":"Bass"
      },
      {
        "MUSICIAN":"Rod D'Ath",
        "INSTRUMENT":"Drums"
      },
      {
        "MUSICIAN":"Lou Martin",
        "INSTRUMENT":"Keyboards"
      }
      {
        "MUSICIAN":"Donkey Kong Sioux",
        "INSTRUMENT":"Self-Appointed Semi-Official Stomper"
      }
    ]
    

    With this simple/minimalistic data, it's probably not required, but with large sets of data, it can save you time and headache in the proverbial long run by checking this data for aberrations and abnormalcy.

  8. Go here: http://jsonlint.com/

  9. Paste the JSON into the content area

  10. Pres the "Validate" button.

If the JSON is good, you will see a "Valid JSON" remark in the Results section below; if not, it will tell you where the problem[s] lie so that you can fix it/them.

How to detect scroll direction

This one deserves an update - nowadays we have the wheel event :

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 if (delta > 0) $('body').text('down');_x000D_
 else $('body').text('up');_x000D_
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 return false; // this line is only added so the whole page won't scroll in the demo_x000D_
});_x000D_
});
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  font-size: 22px;_x000D_
  text-align: center;_x000D_
  color: white;_x000D_
  background: grey;_x000D_
}
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Support has been pretty good on modern browsers for quite a while already :

  • Chrome 31+
  • Firefox 17+
  • IE9+
  • Opera 18+
  • Safari 7+

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Events/wheel

If deeper browser support is required, probably best to use mousewheel.js instead of messing about :

https://plugins.jquery.com/mousewheel/

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 else $('body').text('down');_x000D_
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 return false; // this line is only added so the whole page won't scroll in the demo_x000D_
});_x000D_
});
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  font-size: 22px;_x000D_
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}
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<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery-mousewheel/3.1.13/jquery.mousewheel.min.js"></script>
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CSS customized scroll bar in div

For people still looking for a good solution just I find out this plugin simplebar

Custom scrollbars vanilla javascript library with native scroll, done simple, lightweight, easy to use and cross-browser.

In my case, I was looking for reactJS solutions, the author also provides wrappers for react, angular, vue and next examples

How to create file execute mode permissions in Git on Windows?

There's no need to do this in two commits, you can add the file and mark it executable in a single commit:

C:\Temp\TestRepo>touch foo.sh

C:\Temp\TestRepo>git add foo.sh

C:\Temp\TestRepo>git ls-files --stage
100644 e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391 0       foo.sh

As you note, after adding, the mode is 0644 (ie, not executable). However, we can mark it as executable before committing:

C:\Temp\TestRepo>git update-index --chmod=+x foo.sh

C:\Temp\TestRepo>git ls-files --stage
100755 e69de29bb2d1d6434b8b29ae775ad8c2e48c5391 0       foo.sh

And now the file is mode 0755 (executable).

C:\Temp\TestRepo>git commit -m"Executable!"
[master (root-commit) 1f7a57a] Executable!
 1 file changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 foo.sh

And now we have a single commit with a single executable file.

OpenCV & Python - Image too big to display

Although I was expecting an automatic solution (fitting to the screen automatically), resizing solves the problem as well.

import cv2
cv2.namedWindow("output", cv2.WINDOW_NORMAL)        # Create window with freedom of dimensions
im = cv2.imread("earth.jpg")                        # Read image
imS = cv2.resize(im, (960, 540))                    # Resize image
cv2.imshow("output", imS)                            # Show image
cv2.waitKey(0)                                      # Display the image infinitely until any keypress

Steps to send a https request to a rest service in Node js

The easiest way is to use the request module.

request('https://example.com/url?a=b', function (error, response, body) {
  if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
    console.log(body);
  }
});

How to initialize a JavaScript Date to a particular time zone

You can specify a time zone offset on new Date(), for example:

new Date('Feb 28 2013 19:00:00 EST')

or

new Date('Feb 28 2013 19:00:00 GMT-0500')

Since Date store UTC time ( i.e. getTime returns in UTC ), javascript will them convert the time into UTC, and when you call things like toString javascript will convert the UTC time into browser's local timezone and return the string in local timezone, i.e. If I'm using UTC+8:

> new Date('Feb 28 2013 19:00:00 GMT-0500').toString()
< "Fri Mar 01 2013 08:00:00 GMT+0800 (CST)"

Also you can use normal getHours/Minute/Second method:

> new Date('Feb 28 2013 19:00:00 GMT-0500').getHours()
< 8

( This 8 means after the time is converted into my local time - UTC+8, the hours number is 8. )

QR Code encoding and decoding using zxing

this is my working example Java code to encode QR code using ZXing with UTF-8 encoding, please note: you will need to change the path and utf8 data to your path and language characters

package com.mypackage.qr;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.nio.CharBuffer;
import java.nio.charset.CharacterCodingException;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;
import java.nio.charset.CharsetEncoder;
import java.util.Hashtable;

import com.google.zxing.EncodeHintType;
import com.google.zxing.MultiFormatWriter;
import com.google.zxing.client.j2se.MatrixToImageWriter;
import com.google.zxing.common.*;

public class CreateQR {

public static void main(String[] args)
{
    Charset charset = Charset.forName("UTF-8");
    CharsetEncoder encoder = charset.newEncoder();
    byte[] b = null;
    try {
        // Convert a string to UTF-8 bytes in a ByteBuffer
        ByteBuffer bbuf = encoder.encode(CharBuffer.wrap("utf 8 characters - i used hebrew, but you should write some of your own language characters"));
        b = bbuf.array();
    } catch (CharacterCodingException e) {
        System.out.println(e.getMessage());
    }

    String data;
    try {
        data = new String(b, "UTF-8");
        // get a byte matrix for the data
        BitMatrix matrix = null;
        int h = 100;
        int w = 100;
        com.google.zxing.Writer writer = new MultiFormatWriter();
        try {
            Hashtable<EncodeHintType, String> hints = new Hashtable<EncodeHintType, String>(2);
            hints.put(EncodeHintType.CHARACTER_SET, "UTF-8");
            matrix = writer.encode(data,
            com.google.zxing.BarcodeFormat.QR_CODE, w, h, hints);
        } catch (com.google.zxing.WriterException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        }

        // change this path to match yours (this is my mac home folder, you can use: c:\\qr_png.png if you are on windows)
                String filePath = "/Users/shaybc/Desktop/OutlookQR/qr_png.png";
        File file = new File(filePath);
        try {
            MatrixToImageWriter.writeToFile(matrix, "PNG", file);
            System.out.println("printing to " + file.getAbsolutePath());
        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        }
    } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
        System.out.println(e.getMessage());
    }
}

}

How to calculate time difference in java?

Java 8 has a cleaner solution - Instant and Duration

Example:

import java.time.Duration;
import java.time.Instant;
...
Instant start = Instant.now();
//your code
Instant end = Instant.now();
Duration timeElapsed = Duration.between(start, end);
System.out.println("Time taken: "+ timeElapsed.toMillis() +" milliseconds");

Initializing a static std::map<int, int> in C++

For example:

const std::map<LogLevel, const char*> g_log_levels_dsc =
{
    { LogLevel::Disabled, "[---]" },
    { LogLevel::Info,     "[inf]" },
    { LogLevel::Warning,  "[wrn]" },
    { LogLevel::Error,    "[err]" },
    { LogLevel::Debug,    "[dbg]" }
};

If map is a data member of a class, you can initialize it directly in header by the following way (since C++17):

// Example

template<>
class StringConverter<CacheMode> final
{
public:
    static auto convert(CacheMode mode) -> const std::string&
    {
        // validate...
        return s_modes.at(mode);
    }

private:
    static inline const std::map<CacheMode, std::string> s_modes =
        {
            { CacheMode::All, "All" },
            { CacheMode::Selective, "Selective" },
            { CacheMode::None, "None" }
            // etc
        };
}; 

How to programmatically add controls to a form in VB.NET

To add controls dynamically to the form, do the following code. Here we are creating textbox controls to add dynamically.

Public Class Form1
    Private m_TextBoxes() As TextBox = {}

    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
                              ByVal e As System.EventArgs) _
                              Handles Button1.Click

        ' Get the index for the new control.
        Dim i As Integer = m_TextBoxes.Length

        ' Make room.
        ReDim Preserve m_TextBoxes(i)

        ' Create and initialize the control.
        m_TextBoxes(i) = New TextBox
        With m_TextBoxes(i)
            .Name = "TextBox" & i.ToString()
            If m_TextBoxes.Length < 2 Then
                ' Position the first one.
                .SetBounds(8, 8, 100, 20)
            Else
                ' Position subsequent controls.
                .Left = m_TextBoxes(i - 1).Left
                .Top = m_TextBoxes(i - 1).Top + m_TextBoxes(i - _
                    1).Height + 4
                .Size = m_TextBoxes(i - 1).Size
            End If

            ' Save the control's index in the Tag property.
            ' (Or you can get this from the Name.)
            .Tag = i
        End With

        ' Give the control an event handler.
        AddHandler m_TextBoxes(i).TextChanged, AddressOf TextBox_TextChanged

        ' Add the control to the form.
        Me.Controls.Add(m_TextBoxes(i))
    End Sub

    'When you enter text in one of the TextBoxes, the TextBox_TextChanged event
    'handler displays the control's name and its current text.
    Private Sub TextBox_TextChanged(ByVal sender As  _
    System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs)
        ' Display the current text.
        Dim txt As TextBox = DirectCast(sender, TextBox)
        Debug.WriteLine(txt.Name & ": [" & txt.Text & "]")
    End Sub
End Class

String formatting in Python 3

Here are the docs about the "new" format syntax. An example would be:

"({:d} goals, ${:d})".format(self.goals, self.penalties)

If both goals and penalties are integers (i.e. their default format is ok), it could be shortened to:

"({} goals, ${})".format(self.goals, self.penalties)

And since the parameters are fields of self, there's also a way of doing it using a single argument twice (as @Burhan Khalid noted in the comments):

"({0.goals} goals, ${0.penalties})".format(self)

Explaining:

  • {} means just the next positional argument, with default format;
  • {0} means the argument with index 0, with default format;
  • {:d} is the next positional argument, with decimal integer format;
  • {0:d} is the argument with index 0, with decimal integer format.

There are many others things you can do when selecting an argument (using named arguments instead of positional ones, accessing fields, etc) and many format options as well (padding the number, using thousands separators, showing sign or not, etc). Some other examples:

"({goals} goals, ${penalties})".format(goals=2, penalties=4)
"({goals} goals, ${penalties})".format(**self.__dict__)

"first goal: {0.goal_list[0]}".format(self)
"second goal: {.goal_list[1]}".format(self)

"conversion rate: {:.2f}".format(self.goals / self.shots) # '0.20'
"conversion rate: {:.2%}".format(self.goals / self.shots) # '20.45%'
"conversion rate: {:.0%}".format(self.goals / self.shots) # '20%'

"self: {!s}".format(self) # 'Player: Bob'
"self: {!r}".format(self) # '<__main__.Player instance at 0x00BF7260>'

"games: {:>3}".format(player1.games)  # 'games: 123'
"games: {:>3}".format(player2.games)  # 'games:   4'
"games: {:0>3}".format(player2.games) # 'games: 004'

Note: As others pointed out, the new format does not supersede the former, both are available both in Python 3 and the newer versions of Python 2 as well. Some may say it's a matter of preference, but IMHO the newer is much more expressive than the older, and should be used whenever writing new code (unless it's targeting older environments, of course).

how to sort an ArrayList in ascending order using Collections and Comparator

This might work?

Comparator mycomparator = 
    Collections.reverseOrder(Collections.reverseOrder());

Angular EXCEPTION: No provider for Http

because it was only in the comment section I repeat the answer from Eric:

I had to include HTTP_PROVIDERS

jQuery get mouse position within an element

I would suggest this:

e.pageX - this.getBoundingClientRect().left

How do I delete a Git branch locally and remotely?

Another approach is:

git push --prune origin

WARNING: This will delete all remote branches that do not exist locally. Or more comprehensively,

git push --mirror

will effectively make the remote repository look like the local copy of the repository (local heads, remotes and tags are mirrored on remote).

How to zip a file using cmd line?

tar.exe -acf out.zip in.txt

out.zip is an output folder or filename and in.txt is an input folder or filename. To use this command you should be in the file existing folder.

How can I delete using INNER JOIN with SQL Server?

Try this:

DELETE FROM WorkRecord2 
       FROM Employee 
Where EmployeeRun=EmployeeNo
      And Company = '1' 
      AND Date = '2013-05-06'

How to pause in C?

Is it a console program, running in Windows? If so, run it from a console you've already opened. i.e. run "cmd", then change to your directory that has the .exe in it (using the cd command), then type in the exe name. Your console window will stay open.

Rails: update_attribute vs update_attributes

Also worth noting is that with update_attribute, the desired attribute to be updated doesn't need to be white listed with attr_accessible to update it as opposed to the mass assignment method update_attributes which will only update attr_accessible specified attributes.

How to fix itunes could not connect to the iphone because an invalid response was received from the device?

Try resetting your network settings

Settings -> General -> Reset -> Reset Network Settings

And try deleting the contents of your mac/pc lockdown folder. Here's the link, follow the steps on "Reset the Lockdown folder".

http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2529

This one worked for me.

Google Maps API warning: NoApiKeys

A key currently still is not required ("required" in the meaning "it will not work without"), but I think there is a good reason for the warning.

But in the documentation you may read now : "All JavaScript API applications require authentication."

I'm sure that it's planned for the future , that Javascript API Applications will not work without a key(as it has been in V2).

You better use a key when you want to be sure that your application will still work in 1 or 2 years.

Build an iOS app without owning a mac?

Update Intel XDK is no longer available.

You can use Intel XDK with that you can develop and publish an app for iOS without the mac.

Click here for detail.

How to get file creation & modification date/times in Python?

>>> import os
>>> os.stat('feedparser.py').st_mtime
1136961142.0
>>> os.stat('feedparser.py').st_ctime
1222664012.233
>>> 

Making interface implementations async

Better solution is to introduce another interface for async operations. New interface must inherit from original interface.

Example:

interface IIO
{
    void DoOperation();
}

interface IIOAsync : IIO
{
    Task DoOperationAsync();
}


class ClsAsync : IIOAsync
{
    public void DoOperation()
    {
        DoOperationAsync().GetAwaiter().GetResult();
    }

    public async Task DoOperationAsync()
    {
        //just an async code demo
        await Task.Delay(1000);
    }
}


class Program
{
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        IIOAsync asAsync = new ClsAsync();
        IIO asSync = asAsync;

        Console.WriteLine(DateTime.Now.Second);

        asAsync.DoOperation();
        Console.WriteLine("After call to sync func using Async iface: {0}", 
            DateTime.Now.Second);

        asAsync.DoOperationAsync().GetAwaiter().GetResult();
        Console.WriteLine("After call to async func using Async iface: {0}", 
            DateTime.Now.Second);

        asSync.DoOperation();
        Console.WriteLine("After call to sync func using Sync iface: {0}", 
            DateTime.Now.Second);

        Console.ReadKey(true);
    }
}

P.S. Redesign your async operations so they return Task instead of void, unless you really must return void.

How to concatenate and minify multiple CSS and JavaScript files with Grunt.js (0.3.x)

I agree with above answer. But here is another way of CSS compression.

You can concat your CSS by using YUI compressor:

module.exports = function(grunt) {
  var exec = require('child_process').exec;
   grunt.registerTask('cssmin', function() {
    var cmd = 'java -jar -Xss2048k '
      + __dirname + '/../yuicompressor-2.4.7.jar --type css '
      + grunt.template.process('/css/style.css') + ' -o '
      + grunt.template.process('/css/style.min.css')
    exec(cmd, function(err, stdout, stderr) {
      if(err) throw err;
    });
  });
}; 

Java Map equivalent in C#

You can index Dictionary, you didn't need 'get'.

Dictionary<string,string> example = new Dictionary<string,string>();
...
example.Add("hello","world");
...
Console.Writeline(example["hello"]);

An efficient way to test/get values is TryGetValue (thanx to Earwicker):

if (otherExample.TryGetValue("key", out value))
{
    otherExample["key"] = value + 1;
}

With this method you can fast and exception-less get values (if present).

Resources:

Dictionary-Keys

Try Get Value

Tomcat - maxThreads vs maxConnections

Tomcat can work in 2 modes:

  • BIO – blocking I/O (one thread per connection)
  • NIOnon-blocking I/O (many more connections than threads)

Tomcat 7 is BIO by default, although consensus seems to be "don't use Bio because Nio is better in every way". You set this using the protocol parameter in the server.xml file.

  • BIO will be HTTP/1.1 or org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol
  • NIO will be org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol

If you're using BIO then I believe they should be more or less the same.

If you're using NIO then actually "maxConnections=1000" and "maxThreads=10" might even be reasonable. The defaults are maxConnections=10,000 and maxThreads=200. With NIO, each thread can serve any number of connections, switching back and forth but retaining the connection so you don't need to do all the usual handshaking which is especially time-consuming with HTTPS but even an issue with HTTP. You can adjust the "keepAlive" parameter to keep connections around for longer and this should speed everything up.

How many concurrent requests does a single Flask process receive?

Currently there is a far simpler solution than the ones already provided. When running your application you just have to pass along the threaded=True parameter to the app.run() call, like:

app.run(host="your.host", port=4321, threaded=True)

Another option as per what we can see in the werkzeug docs, is to use the processes parameter, which receives a number > 1 indicating the maximum number of concurrent processes to handle:

  • threaded – should the process handle each request in a separate thread?
  • processes – if greater than 1 then handle each request in a new process up to this maximum number of concurrent processes.

Something like:

app.run(host="your.host", port=4321, processes=3) #up to 3 processes

More info on the run() method here, and the blog post that led me to find the solution and api references.


Note: on the Flask docs on the run() methods it's indicated that using it in a Production Environment is discouraged because (quote): "While lightweight and easy to use, Flask’s built-in server is not suitable for production as it doesn’t scale well."

However, they do point to their Deployment Options page for the recommended ways to do this when going for production.

Parse date without timezone javascript

(new Date().toString()).replace(/ \w+-\d+ \(.*\)$/,"")

This will have output: Tue Jul 10 2018 19:07:11

(new Date("2005-07-08T11:22:33+0000").toString()).replace(/ \w+-\d+ \(.*\)$/,"")

This will have output: Fri Jul 08 2005 04:22:33

Note: The time returned will depend on your local timezone

using favicon with css

There is no explicit way to change the favicon globally using CSS that I know of. But you can use a simple trick to change it on the fly.

First just name, or rename, the favicon to "favicon.ico" or something similar that will be easy to remember, or is relevant for the site you're working on. Then add the link to the favicon in the head as you usually would. Then when you drop in a new favicon just make sure it's in the same directory as the old one, and that it has the same name, and there you go!

It's not a very elegant solution, and it requires some effort. But dropping in a new favicon in one place is far easier than doing a find and replace of all the links, or worse, changing them manually. At least this way doesn't involve messing with the code.

Of course dropping in a new favicon with the same name will delete the old one, so make sure to backup the old favicon in case of disaster, or if you ever want to go back to the old design.

HTML: How to make a submit button with text + image in it?

Very interesting. I have been able to get my form to work but the resulting email displays:

imageField_x: 80 imageField_y: 17

at the bottom of the email that I get.

Here's my code for the buttons.

    <tr>
      <td><input type="image" src="images/sendmessage.gif" / ></td>
      <td colspan="2"><input type="image" src="images/printmessage.gif"onclick="window.print()"></td>
    </tr>

Maybe this will help you and me as well.

:-)

How to use jQuery to get the current value of a file input field

its not .val() if you want to get file /home/user/default.png it will get with .val() just default.png

How to specify credentials when connecting to boto3 S3?

You can get a client with new session directly like below.

 s3_client = boto3.client('s3', 
                      aws_access_key_id=settings.AWS_SERVER_PUBLIC_KEY, 
                      aws_secret_access_key=settings.AWS_SERVER_SECRET_KEY, 
                      region_name=REGION_NAME
                      )

How to pass the button value into my onclick event function?

Maybe you can take a look at closure in JavaScript. Here is a working solution:

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<!DOCTYPE html>_x000D_
<html>_x000D_
    <head>_x000D_
        <meta charset="utf-8" />_x000D_
        <title>Test</title>_x000D_
    </head>_x000D_
    <body>_x000D_
        <p class="button">Button 0</p>_x000D_
        <p class="button">Button 1</p>_x000D_
        <p class="button">Button 2</p>_x000D_
        <script>_x000D_
            var buttons = document.getElementsByClassName('button');_x000D_
            for (var i=0 ; i < buttons.length ; i++){_x000D_
              (function(index){_x000D_
                buttons[index].onclick = function(){_x000D_
                  alert("I am button " + index);_x000D_
                };_x000D_
              })(i)_x000D_
            }_x000D_
        </script>_x000D_
    </body>_x000D_
</html>
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How do I convert NSMutableArray to NSArray?

An NSMutableArray is a subclass of NSArray so you won't always need to convert but if you want to make sure that the array can't be modified you can create a NSArray either of these ways depending on whether you want it autoreleased or not:

/* Not autoreleased */
NSArray *array = [[NSArray alloc] initWithArray:mutableArray];

/* Autoreleased array */
NSArray *array = [NSArray arrayWithArray:mutableArray];

EDIT: The solution provided by Georg Schölly is a better way of doing it and a lot cleaner, especially now that we have ARC and don't even have to call autorelease.

How do I check if a property exists on a dynamic anonymous type in c#?

This works also for DynamicJsonObject:

  public static bool PropertyExists(dynamic settings, string name)
  {
    if (settings is ExpandoObject)
      return ((IDictionary<string, object>)settings).ContainsKey(name);
    else if (settings is DynamicJsonObject)
      return ((DynamicJsonObject)settings).GetDynamicMemberNames().Contains(name);

    return settings.GetType().GetProperty(name) != null;
  }

How to get WordPress post featured image URL

You can also get it from post_meta like this:

echo get_post_meta($post->ID, 'featured_image', true);

How to format a numeric column as phone number in SQL

I'd generally recommend you leave the formatting up to your front-end code and just return the data as-is from SQL. However, to do it in SQL, I'd recommend you create a user-defined function to format it. Something like this:

CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[fnFormatPhoneNumber](@PhoneNo VARCHAR(20))
RETURNS VARCHAR(25)
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @Formatted VARCHAR(25)

IF (LEN(@PhoneNo) <> 10)
    SET @Formatted = @PhoneNo
ELSE
    SET @Formatted = LEFT(@PhoneNo, 3) + '-' + SUBSTRING(@PhoneNo, 4, 3) + '-' + SUBSTRING(@PhoneNo, 7, 4)

RETURN @Formatted
END
GO

Which you can then use like this:

SELECT [dbo].[fnFormatPhoneNumber](PhoneNumber) AS PhoneNumber
FROM SomeTable

It has a safeguard in, in case the phone number stored isn't the expected number of digits long, is blank, null etc - it won't error.

EDIT: Just clocked on you want to update your existing data. The main bit that's relevant from my answer then is that you need to protect against "dodgy"/incomplete data (i.e. what if some existing values are only 5 characters long)

How can I get a list of all classes within current module in Python?

I think that you can do something like this.

class custom(object):
    __custom__ = True
class Alpha(custom):
    something = 3
def GetClasses():
    return [x for x in globals() if hasattr(globals()[str(x)], '__custom__')]
print(GetClasses())`

if you need own classes

What are some reasons for jquery .focus() not working?

Only "keyboard focusable" elements can be focused with .focus(). div aren't meant to be natively focusable. You have to add tabindex="0" attributes to it to achieve that. input, button, a etc... are natively focusable.

Creating the Singleton design pattern in PHP5

All this complexity ("late static binding" ... harumph) is, to me, simply a sign of PHP's broken object/class model. If class objects were first-class objects (see Python), then "$_instance" would be a class instance variable -- a member of the class object, as opposed to a member/property of its instances, and also as opposed to shared by its descendants. In the Smalltalk world, this is the difference between a "class variable" and a "class instance variable".

In PHP, it looks to me as though we need to take to heart the guidance that patterns are a guide towards writing code -- we might perhaps think about a Singleton template, but trying to write code that inherits from an actual "Singleton" class looks misguided for PHP (though I supposed some enterprising soul could create a suitable SVN keyword).

I will continue to just code each singleton separately, using a shared template.

Notice that I'm absolutely staying OUT of the singletons-are-evil discussion, life is too short.

SQL providerName in web.config

 WebConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["YourConnectionString"].ProviderName;

Setting timezone to UTC (0) in PHP

List of entire available timezones.

$time_zones = array (
  0 => 'Africa/Abidjan',
  1 => 'Africa/Accra',
  2 => 'Africa/Addis_Ababa',
  3 => 'Africa/Algiers',
  4 => 'Africa/Asmara',
  5 => 'Africa/Asmera',
  6 => 'Africa/Bamako',
  7 => 'Africa/Bangui',
  8 => 'Africa/Banjul',
  9 => 'Africa/Bissau',
  10 => 'Africa/Blantyre',
  11 => 'Africa/Brazzaville',
  12 => 'Africa/Bujumbura',
  13 => 'Africa/Cairo',
  14 => 'Africa/Casablanca',
  15 => 'Africa/Ceuta',
  16 => 'Africa/Conakry',
  17 => 'Africa/Dakar',
  18 => 'Africa/Dar_es_Salaam',
  19 => 'Africa/Djibouti',
  20 => 'Africa/Douala',
  21 => 'Africa/El_Aaiun',
  22 => 'Africa/Freetown',
  23 => 'Africa/Gaborone',
  24 => 'Africa/Harare',
  25 => 'Africa/Johannesburg',
  26 => 'Africa/Juba',
  27 => 'Africa/Kampala',
  28 => 'Africa/Khartoum',
  29 => 'Africa/Kigali',
  30 => 'Africa/Kinshasa',
  31 => 'Africa/Lagos',
  32 => 'Africa/Libreville',
  33 => 'Africa/Lome',
  34 => 'Africa/Luanda',
  35 => 'Africa/Lubumbashi',
  36 => 'Africa/Lusaka',
  37 => 'Africa/Malabo',
  38 => 'Africa/Maputo',
  39 => 'Africa/Maseru',
  40 => 'Africa/Mbabane',
  41 => 'Africa/Mogadishu',
  42 => 'Africa/Monrovia',
  43 => 'Africa/Nairobi',
  44 => 'Africa/Ndjamena',
  45 => 'Africa/Niamey',
  46 => 'Africa/Nouakchott',
  47 => 'Africa/Ouagadougou',
  48 => 'Africa/Porto-Novo',
  49 => 'Africa/Sao_Tome',
  50 => 'Africa/Timbuktu',
  51 => 'Africa/Tripoli',
  52 => 'Africa/Tunis',
  53 => 'Africa/Windhoek',
  54 => 'America/Adak',
  55 => 'America/Anchorage',
  56 => 'America/Anguilla',
  57 => 'America/Antigua',
  58 => 'America/Araguaina',
  59 => 'America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires',
  60 => 'America/Argentina/Catamarca',
  61 => 'America/Argentina/ComodRivadavia',
  62 => 'America/Argentina/Cordoba',
  63 => 'America/Argentina/Jujuy',
  64 => 'America/Argentina/La_Rioja',
  65 => 'America/Argentina/Mendoza',
  66 => 'America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos',
  67 => 'America/Argentina/Salta',
  68 => 'America/Argentina/San_Juan',
  69 => 'America/Argentina/San_Luis',
  70 => 'America/Argentina/Tucuman',
  71 => 'America/Argentina/Ushuaia',
  72 => 'America/Aruba',
  73 => 'America/Asuncion',
  74 => 'America/Atikokan',
  75 => 'America/Atka',
  76 => 'America/Bahia',
  77 => 'America/Bahia_Banderas',
  78 => 'America/Barbados',
  79 => 'America/Belem',
  80 => 'America/Belize',
  81 => 'America/Blanc-Sablon',
  82 => 'America/Boa_Vista',
  83 => 'America/Bogota',
  84 => 'America/Boise',
  85 => 'America/Buenos_Aires',
  86 => 'America/Cambridge_Bay',
  87 => 'America/Campo_Grande',
  88 => 'America/Cancun',
  89 => 'America/Caracas',
  90 => 'America/Catamarca',
  91 => 'America/Cayenne',
  92 => 'America/Cayman',
  93 => 'America/Chicago',
  94 => 'America/Chihuahua',
  95 => 'America/Coral_Harbour',
  96 => 'America/Cordoba',
  97 => 'America/Costa_Rica',
  98 => 'America/Creston',
  99 => 'America/Cuiaba',
  100 => 'America/Curacao',
  101 => 'America/Danmarkshavn',
  102 => 'America/Dawson',
  103 => 'America/Dawson_Creek',
  104 => 'America/Denver',
  105 => 'America/Detroit',
  106 => 'America/Dominica',
  107 => 'America/Edmonton',
  108 => 'America/Eirunepe',
  109 => 'America/El_Salvador',
  110 => 'America/Ensenada',
  111 => 'America/Fort_Nelson',
  112 => 'America/Fort_Wayne',
  113 => 'America/Fortaleza',
  114 => 'America/Glace_Bay',
  115 => 'America/Godthab',
  116 => 'America/Goose_Bay',
  117 => 'America/Grand_Turk',
  118 => 'America/Grenada',
  119 => 'America/Guadeloupe',
  120 => 'America/Guatemala',
  121 => 'America/Guayaquil',
  122 => 'America/Guyana',
  123 => 'America/Halifax',
  124 => 'America/Havana',
  125 => 'America/Hermosillo',
  126 => 'America/Indiana/Indianapolis',
  127 => 'America/Indiana/Knox',
  128 => 'America/Indiana/Marengo',
  129 => 'America/Indiana/Petersburg',
  130 => 'America/Indiana/Tell_City',
  131 => 'America/Indiana/Vevay',
  132 => 'America/Indiana/Vincennes',
  133 => 'America/Indiana/Winamac',
  134 => 'America/Indianapolis',
  135 => 'America/Inuvik',
  136 => 'America/Iqaluit',
  137 => 'America/Jamaica',
  138 => 'America/Jujuy',
  139 => 'America/Juneau',
  140 => 'America/Kentucky/Louisville',
  141 => 'America/Kentucky/Monticello',
  142 => 'America/Knox_IN',
  143 => 'America/Kralendijk',
  144 => 'America/La_Paz',
  145 => 'America/Lima',
  146 => 'America/Los_Angeles',
  147 => 'America/Louisville',
  148 => 'America/Lower_Princes',
  149 => 'America/Maceio',
  150 => 'America/Managua',
  151 => 'America/Manaus',
  152 => 'America/Marigot',
  153 => 'America/Martinique',
  154 => 'America/Matamoros',
  155 => 'America/Mazatlan',
  156 => 'America/Mendoza',
  157 => 'America/Menominee',
  158 => 'America/Merida',
  159 => 'America/Metlakatla',
  160 => 'America/Mexico_City',
  161 => 'America/Miquelon',
  162 => 'America/Moncton',
  163 => 'America/Monterrey',
  164 => 'America/Montevideo',
  165 => 'America/Montreal',
  166 => 'America/Montserrat',
  167 => 'America/Nassau',
  168 => 'America/New_York',
  169 => 'America/Nipigon',
  170 => 'America/Nome',
  171 => 'America/Noronha',
  172 => 'America/North_Dakota/Beulah',
  173 => 'America/North_Dakota/Center',
  174 => 'America/North_Dakota/New_Salem',
  175 => 'America/Ojinaga',
  176 => 'America/Panama',
  177 => 'America/Pangnirtung',
  178 => 'America/Paramaribo',
  179 => 'America/Phoenix',
  180 => 'America/Port-au-Prince',
  181 => 'America/Port_of_Spain',
  182 => 'America/Porto_Acre',
  183 => 'America/Porto_Velho',
  184 => 'America/Puerto_Rico',
  185 => 'America/Rainy_River',
  186 => 'America/Rankin_Inlet',
  187 => 'America/Recife',
  188 => 'America/Regina',
  189 => 'America/Resolute',
  190 => 'America/Rio_Branco',
  191 => 'America/Rosario',
  192 => 'America/Santa_Isabel',
  193 => 'America/Santarem',
  194 => 'America/Santiago',
  195 => 'America/Santo_Domingo',
  196 => 'America/Sao_Paulo',
  197 => 'America/Scoresbysund',
  198 => 'America/Shiprock',
  199 => 'America/Sitka',
  200 => 'America/St_Barthelemy',
  201 => 'America/St_Johns',
  202 => 'America/St_Kitts',
  203 => 'America/St_Lucia',
  204 => 'America/St_Thomas',
  205 => 'America/St_Vincent',
  206 => 'America/Swift_Current',
  207 => 'America/Tegucigalpa',
  208 => 'America/Thule',
  209 => 'America/Thunder_Bay',
  210 => 'America/Tijuana',
  211 => 'America/Toronto',
  212 => 'America/Tortola',
  213 => 'America/Vancouver',
  214 => 'America/Virgin',
  215 => 'America/Whitehorse',
  216 => 'America/Winnipeg',
  217 => 'America/Yakutat',
  218 => 'America/Yellowknife',
  219 => 'Antarctica/Casey',
  220 => 'Antarctica/Davis',
  221 => 'Antarctica/DumontDUrville',
  222 => 'Antarctica/Macquarie',
  223 => 'Antarctica/Mawson',
  224 => 'Antarctica/McMurdo',
  225 => 'Antarctica/Palmer',
  226 => 'Antarctica/Rothera',
  227 => 'Antarctica/South_Pole',
  228 => 'Antarctica/Syowa',
  229 => 'Antarctica/Troll',
  230 => 'Antarctica/Vostok',
  231 => 'Arctic/Longyearbyen',
  232 => 'Asia/Aden',
  233 => 'Asia/Almaty',
  234 => 'Asia/Amman',
  235 => 'Asia/Anadyr',
  236 => 'Asia/Aqtau',
  237 => 'Asia/Aqtobe',
  238 => 'Asia/Ashgabat',
  239 => 'Asia/Ashkhabad',
  240 => 'Asia/Baghdad',
  241 => 'Asia/Bahrain',
  242 => 'Asia/Baku',
  243 => 'Asia/Bangkok',
  244 => 'Asia/Beirut',
  245 => 'Asia/Bishkek',
  246 => 'Asia/Brunei',
  247 => 'Asia/Calcutta',
  248 => 'Asia/Chita',
  249 => 'Asia/Choibalsan',
  250 => 'Asia/Chongqing',
  251 => 'Asia/Chungking',
  252 => 'Asia/Colombo',
  253 => 'Asia/Dacca',
  254 => 'Asia/Damascus',
  255 => 'Asia/Dhaka',
  256 => 'Asia/Dili',
  257 => 'Asia/Dubai',
  258 => 'Asia/Dushanbe',
  259 => 'Asia/Gaza',
  260 => 'Asia/Harbin',
  261 => 'Asia/Hebron',
  262 => 'Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh',
  263 => 'Asia/Hong_Kong',
  264 => 'Asia/Hovd',
  265 => 'Asia/Irkutsk',
  266 => 'Asia/Istanbul',
  267 => 'Asia/Jakarta',
  268 => 'Asia/Jayapura',
  269 => 'Asia/Jerusalem',
  270 => 'Asia/Kabul',
  271 => 'Asia/Kamchatka',
  272 => 'Asia/Karachi',
  273 => 'Asia/Kashgar',
  274 => 'Asia/Kathmandu',
  275 => 'Asia/Katmandu',
  276 => 'Asia/Khandyga',
  277 => 'Asia/Kolkata',
  278 => 'Asia/Krasnoyarsk',
  279 => 'Asia/Kuala_Lumpur',
  280 => 'Asia/Kuching',
  281 => 'Asia/Kuwait',
  282 => 'Asia/Macao',
  283 => 'Asia/Macau',
  284 => 'Asia/Magadan',
  285 => 'Asia/Makassar',
  286 => 'Asia/Manila',
  287 => 'Asia/Muscat',
  288 => 'Asia/Nicosia',
  289 => 'Asia/Novokuznetsk',
  290 => 'Asia/Novosibirsk',
  291 => 'Asia/Omsk',
  292 => 'Asia/Oral',
  293 => 'Asia/Phnom_Penh',
  294 => 'Asia/Pontianak',
  295 => 'Asia/Pyongyang',
  296 => 'Asia/Qatar',
  297 => 'Asia/Qyzylorda',
  298 => 'Asia/Rangoon',
  299 => 'Asia/Riyadh',
  300 => 'Asia/Saigon',
  301 => 'Asia/Sakhalin',
  302 => 'Asia/Samarkand',
  303 => 'Asia/Seoul',
  304 => 'Asia/Shanghai',
  305 => 'Asia/Singapore',
  306 => 'Asia/Srednekolymsk',
  307 => 'Asia/Taipei',
  308 => 'Asia/Tashkent',
  309 => 'Asia/Tbilisi',
  310 => 'Asia/Tehran',
  311 => 'Asia/Tel_Aviv',
  312 => 'Asia/Thimbu',
  313 => 'Asia/Thimphu',
  314 => 'Asia/Tokyo',
  315 => 'Asia/Ujung_Pandang',
  316 => 'Asia/Ulaanbaatar',
  317 => 'Asia/Ulan_Bator',
  318 => 'Asia/Urumqi',
  319 => 'Asia/Ust-Nera',
  320 => 'Asia/Vientiane',
  321 => 'Asia/Vladivostok',
  322 => 'Asia/Yakutsk',
  323 => 'Asia/Yekaterinburg',
  324 => 'Asia/Yerevan',
  325 => 'Atlantic/Azores',
  326 => 'Atlantic/Bermuda',
  327 => 'Atlantic/Canary',
  328 => 'Atlantic/Cape_Verde',
  329 => 'Atlantic/Faeroe',
  330 => 'Atlantic/Faroe',
  331 => 'Atlantic/Jan_Mayen',
  332 => 'Atlantic/Madeira',
  333 => 'Atlantic/Reykjavik',
  334 => 'Atlantic/South_Georgia',
  335 => 'Atlantic/St_Helena',
  336 => 'Atlantic/Stanley',
  337 => 'Australia/ACT',
  338 => 'Australia/Adelaide',
  339 => 'Australia/Brisbane',
  340 => 'Australia/Broken_Hill',
  341 => 'Australia/Canberra',
  342 => 'Australia/Currie',
  343 => 'Australia/Darwin',
  344 => 'Australia/Eucla',
  345 => 'Australia/Hobart',
  346 => 'Australia/LHI',
  347 => 'Australia/Lindeman',
  348 => 'Australia/Lord_Howe',
  349 => 'Australia/Melbourne',
  350 => 'Australia/North',
  351 => 'Australia/NSW',
  352 => 'Australia/Perth',
  353 => 'Australia/Queensland',
  354 => 'Australia/South',
  355 => 'Australia/Sydney',
  356 => 'Australia/Tasmania',
  357 => 'Australia/Victoria',
  358 => 'Australia/West',
  359 => 'Australia/Yancowinna',
  360 => 'Europe/Amsterdam',
  361 => 'Europe/Andorra',
  362 => 'Europe/Athens',
  363 => 'Europe/Belfast',
  364 => 'Europe/Belgrade',
  365 => 'Europe/Berlin',
  366 => 'Europe/Bratislava',
  367 => 'Europe/Brussels',
  368 => 'Europe/Bucharest',
  369 => 'Europe/Budapest',
  370 => 'Europe/Busingen',
  371 => 'Europe/Chisinau',
  372 => 'Europe/Copenhagen',
  373 => 'Europe/Dublin',
  374 => 'Europe/Gibraltar',
  375 => 'Europe/Guernsey',
  376 => 'Europe/Helsinki',
  377 => 'Europe/Isle_of_Man',
  378 => 'Europe/Istanbul',
  379 => 'Europe/Jersey',
  380 => 'Europe/Kaliningrad',
  381 => 'Europe/Kiev',
  382 => 'Europe/Lisbon',
  383 => 'Europe/Ljubljana',
  384 => 'Europe/London',
  385 => 'Europe/Luxembourg',
  386 => 'Europe/Madrid',
  387 => 'Europe/Malta',
  388 => 'Europe/Mariehamn',
  389 => 'Europe/Minsk',
  390 => 'Europe/Monaco',
  391 => 'Europe/Moscow',
  392 => 'Europe/Nicosia',
  393 => 'Europe/Oslo',
  394 => 'Europe/Paris',
  395 => 'Europe/Podgorica',
  396 => 'Europe/Prague',
  397 => 'Europe/Riga',
  398 => 'Europe/Rome',
  399 => 'Europe/Samara',
  400 => 'Europe/San_Marino',
  401 => 'Europe/Sarajevo',
  402 => 'Europe/Simferopol',
  403 => 'Europe/Skopje',
  404 => 'Europe/Sofia',
  405 => 'Europe/Stockholm',
  406 => 'Europe/Tallinn',
  407 => 'Europe/Tirane',
  408 => 'Europe/Tiraspol',
  409 => 'Europe/Uzhgorod',
  410 => 'Europe/Vaduz',
  411 => 'Europe/Vatican',
  412 => 'Europe/Vienna',
  413 => 'Europe/Vilnius',
  414 => 'Europe/Volgograd',
  415 => 'Europe/Warsaw',
  416 => 'Europe/Zagreb',
  417 => 'Europe/Zaporozhye',
  418 => 'Europe/Zurich',
  419 => 'Indian/Antananarivo',
  420 => 'Indian/Chagos',
  421 => 'Indian/Christmas',
  422 => 'Indian/Cocos',
  423 => 'Indian/Comoro',
  424 => 'Indian/Kerguelen',
  425 => 'Indian/Mahe',
  426 => 'Indian/Maldives',
  427 => 'Indian/Mauritius',
  428 => 'Indian/Mayotte',
  429 => 'Indian/Reunion',
  430 => 'Pacific/Apia',
  431 => 'Pacific/Auckland',
  432 => 'Pacific/Bougainville',
  433 => 'Pacific/Chatham',
  434 => 'Pacific/Chuuk',
  435 => 'Pacific/Easter',
  436 => 'Pacific/Efate',
  437 => 'Pacific/Enderbury',
  438 => 'Pacific/Fakaofo',
  439 => 'Pacific/Fiji',
  440 => 'Pacific/Funafuti',
  441 => 'Pacific/Galapagos',
  442 => 'Pacific/Gambier',
  443 => 'Pacific/Guadalcanal',
  444 => 'Pacific/Guam',
  445 => 'Pacific/Honolulu',
  446 => 'Pacific/Johnston',
  447 => 'Pacific/Kiritimati',
  448 => 'Pacific/Kosrae',
  449 => 'Pacific/Kwajalein',
  450 => 'Pacific/Majuro',
  451 => 'Pacific/Marquesas',
  452 => 'Pacific/Midway',
  453 => 'Pacific/Nauru',
  454 => 'Pacific/Niue',
  455 => 'Pacific/Norfolk',
  456 => 'Pacific/Noumea',
  457 => 'Pacific/Pago_Pago',
  458 => 'Pacific/Palau',
  459 => 'Pacific/Pitcairn',
  460 => 'Pacific/Pohnpei',
  461 => 'Pacific/Ponape',
  462 => 'Pacific/Port_Moresby',
  463 => 'Pacific/Rarotonga',
  464 => 'Pacific/Saipan',
  465 => 'Pacific/Samoa',
  466 => 'Pacific/Tahiti',
  467 => 'Pacific/Tarawa',
  468 => 'Pacific/Tongatapu',
  469 => 'Pacific/Truk',
  470 => 'Pacific/Wake',
  471 => 'Pacific/Wallis',
  472 => 'Pacific/Yap',
  473 => 'Brazil/Acre',
  474 => 'Brazil/DeNoronha',
  475 => 'Brazil/East',
  476 => 'Brazil/West',
  477 => 'Canada/Atlantic',
  478 => 'Canada/Central',
  479 => 'Canada/East-Saskatchewan',
  480 => 'Canada/Eastern',
  481 => 'Canada/Mountain',
  482 => 'Canada/Newfoundland',
  483 => 'Canada/Pacific',
  484 => 'Canada/Saskatchewan',
  485 => 'Canada/Yukon',
  486 => 'CET',
  487 => 'Chile/Continental',
  488 => 'Chile/EasterIsland',
  489 => 'CST6CDT',
  490 => 'Cuba',
  491 => 'EET',
  492 => 'Egypt',
  493 => 'Eire',
  494 => 'EST',
  495 => 'EST5EDT',
  496 => 'Etc/GMT',
  497 => 'Etc/GMT+0',
  498 => 'Etc/GMT+1',
  499 => 'Etc/GMT+10',
  500 => 'Etc/GMT+11',
  501 => 'Etc/GMT+12',
  502 => 'Etc/GMT+2',
  503 => 'Etc/GMT+3',
  504 => 'Etc/GMT+4',
  505 => 'Etc/GMT+5',
  506 => 'Etc/GMT+6',
  507 => 'Etc/GMT+7',
  508 => 'Etc/GMT+8',
  509 => 'Etc/GMT+9',
  510 => 'Etc/GMT-0',
  511 => 'Etc/GMT-1',
  512 => 'Etc/GMT-10',
  513 => 'Etc/GMT-11',
  514 => 'Etc/GMT-12',
  515 => 'Etc/GMT-13',
  516 => 'Etc/GMT-14',
  517 => 'Etc/GMT-2',
  518 => 'Etc/GMT-3',
  519 => 'Etc/GMT-4',
  520 => 'Etc/GMT-5',
  521 => 'Etc/GMT-6',
  522 => 'Etc/GMT-7',
  523 => 'Etc/GMT-8',
  524 => 'Etc/GMT-9',
  525 => 'Etc/GMT0',
  526 => 'Etc/Greenwich',
  527 => 'Etc/UCT',
  528 => 'Etc/Universal',
  529 => 'Etc/UTC',
  530 => 'Etc/Zulu',
  531 => 'Factory',
  532 => 'GB',
  533 => 'GB-Eire',
  534 => 'GMT',
  535 => 'GMT+0',
  536 => 'GMT-0',
  537 => 'GMT0',
  538 => 'Greenwich',
  539 => 'Hongkong',
  540 => 'HST',
  541 => 'Iceland',
  542 => 'Iran',
  543 => 'Israel',
  544 => 'Jamaica',
  545 => 'Japan',
  546 => 'Kwajalein',
  547 => 'Libya',
  548 => 'MET',
  549 => 'Mexico/BajaNorte',
  550 => 'Mexico/BajaSur',
  551 => 'Mexico/General',
  552 => 'MST',
  553 => 'MST7MDT',
  554 => 'Navajo',
  555 => 'NZ',
  556 => 'NZ-CHAT',
  557 => 'Poland',
  558 => 'Portugal',
  559 => 'PRC',
  560 => 'PST8PDT',
  561 => 'ROC',
  562 => 'ROK',
  563 => 'Singapore',
  564 => 'Turkey',
  565 => 'UCT',
  566 => 'Universal',
  567 => 'US/Alaska',
  568 => 'US/Aleutian',
  569 => 'US/Arizona',
  570 => 'US/Central',
  571 => 'US/East-Indiana',
  572 => 'US/Eastern',
  573 => 'US/Hawaii',
  574 => 'US/Indiana-Starke',
  575 => 'US/Michigan',
  576 => 'US/Mountain',
  577 => 'US/Pacific',
  578 => 'US/Pacific-New',
  579 => 'US/Samoa',
  580 => 'UTC',
  581 => 'W-SU',
  582 => 'WET',
  583 => 'Zulu',
)

Draw path between two points using Google Maps Android API v2

Dont know whether I should put this as answer or not...

I used @Zeeshan0026's solution to draw the path...and the problem was that if I draw path once, and then I do try to draw path once again, both two paths show and this continues...paths showing even when markers were deleted... while, ideally, old paths' shouldn't be there once new path is drawn / markers are deleted..

going through some other question over SO, I had the following solution

I add the following function in Zeeshan's class

 public void clearRoute(){

         for(Polyline line1 : polylines)
         {
             line1.remove();
         }

         polylines.clear();

     }

in my map activity, before drawing the path, I called this function.. example usage as per my app is

private Route rt;

rt.clearRoute();

            if (src == null) {
                Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Please select your Source", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            }else if (Destination == null) {
                Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Please select your Destination", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            }else if (src.equals(Destination)) {
                Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Source and Destinatin can not be the same..", Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
            }else{

                rt.drawRoute(mMap, MapsMainActivity.this, src,
                        Destination, false, "en");
            }

you can use rt.clearRoute(); as per your requirements.. Hoping that it will save a few minutes of someone else and will help some beginner in solving this issue..

Complete Class Code

see on github

Edit: here is part of code from mainactivity..

case R.id.mkrbtn_set_dest:
                    Destination = selmarker.getPosition();
                    destmarker = selmarker;
                    desShape = createRouteCircle(Destination, false);

                    if (src == null) {
                        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),
                                "Please select your Source first...",
                                Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                    } else if (src.equals(Destination)) {
                        Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),
                                "Source and Destinatin can not be the same..",
                                Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                    } else {

                        if (isNetworkAvailable()) {
                            rt.drawRoute(mMap, MapsMainActivity.this, src,
                                    Destination, false, "en");
                            src = null;
                            Destination = null;

                        } else {
                            Toast.makeText(
                                    getApplicationContext(),
                                    "Internet Connection seems to be OFFLINE...!",
                                    Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();

                        }

                    }

                    break;

Edit 2 as per comments

usage :

//variables as data members
GoogleMap mMap;
private Route rt;
static LatLng src;
static LatLng Destination;
//MapsMainActivity is my activity
//false for interim stops for traffic, google
// en language for html description returned

rt.drawRoute(mMap, MapsMainActivity.this, src,
                            Destination, false, "en");

I want my android application to be only run in portrait mode?

In Android Manifest File, put attribute for your <activity> that android:screenOrientation="portrait"

A JRE or JDK must be available in order to run Eclipse. No JVM was found after searching the following locations

I just had this problem and fixed it this way. I noticed the error message has jre in it not jre6 or jre7, so i copied jre6 from program files to eclipse folder then renamed it from jre6 to jre, then it worked :p

what is the basic difference between stack and queue?

You can think of both as an ordered list of things (ordered by the time at which they were added to the list). The main difference between the two is how new elements enter the list and old elements leave the list.

For a stack, if I have a list a, b, c, and I add d, it gets tacked on the end, so I end up with a,b,c,d. If I want to pop an element of the list, I remove the last element I added, which is d. After a pop, my list is now a,b,c again

For a queue, I add new elements in the same way. a,b,c becomes a,b,c,d after adding d. But, now when I pop, I have to take an element from the front of the list, so it becomes b,c,d.

It's very simple!

public static const in TypeScript

Thank you WiredPrairie!

Just to expand on your answer a bit, here is a complete example of defining a constants class.

// CYConstants.ts

class CYConstants {
    public static get NOT_FOUND(): number    { return -1; }
    public static get EMPTY_STRING(): string { return ""; }
}

export = CYConstants;

To use

// main.ts

import CYConstants = require("./CYConstants");

console.log(CYConstants.NOT_FOUND);    // Prints -1
console.log(CYConstants.EMPTY_STRING); // Prints "" (Nothing!)

Accessing Websites through a Different Port?

You can only access a website throught the port that is bind with the http server. Example: i hava a web server and it is listening for connections on port 123, the you only can get my pages connecting to my 123 port.

Using :before and :after CSS selector to insert Html

content doesn't support HTML, only text. You should probably use javascript, jQuery or something like that.

Another problem with your code is " inside a " block. You should mix ' and " (class='headingDetail').

If content did support HTML you could end up in an infinite loop where content is added inside content.

All combinations of a list of lists

you need itertools.product:

>>> import itertools
>>> a = [[1,2,3],[4,5,6],[7,8,9,10]]
>>> list(itertools.product(*a))
[(1, 4, 7), (1, 4, 8), (1, 4, 9), (1, 4, 10), (1, 5, 7), (1, 5, 8), (1, 5, 9), (1, 5, 10), (1, 6, 7), (1, 6, 8), (1, 6, 9), (1, 6, 10), (2, 4, 7), (2, 4, 8), (2, 4, 9), (2, 4, 10), (2, 5, 7), (2, 5, 8), (2, 5, 9), (2, 5, 10), (2, 6, 7), (2, 6, 8), (2, 6, 9), (2, 6, 10), (3, 4, 7), (3, 4, 8), (3, 4, 9), (3, 4, 10), (3, 5, 7), (3, 5, 8), (3, 5, 9), (3, 5, 10), (3, 6, 7), (3, 6, 8), (3, 6, 9), (3, 6, 10)]

Invoke or BeginInvoke cannot be called on a control until the window handle has been created

What about this :


    public static bool SafeInvoke( this Control control, MethodInvoker method )
    {
        if( control != null && ! control.IsDisposed && control.IsHandleCreated && control.FindForm().IsHandleCreated )
        {
            if( control.InvokeRequired )
            {
                control.Invoke( method );
            }
            else
            {
                method();
            }
            return true;
        }
        else return false;
    }

How to change the plot line color from blue to black?

The usual way to set the line color in matplotlib is to specify it in the plot command. This can either be done by a string after the data, e.g. "r-" for a red line, or by explicitely stating the color argument.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

plt.plot([1,2,3], [2,3,1], "r-") # red line
plt.plot([1,2,3], [5,5,3], color="blue") # blue line

plt.show()

See also the plot command's documentation.

In case you already have a line with a certain color, you can change that with the lines2D.set_color() method.

line, = plt.plot([1,2,3], [4,5,3], color="blue")
line.set_color("black")


Setting the color of a line in a pandas plot is also best done at the point of creating the plot:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import pandas as pd

df = pd.DataFrame({ "x" : [1,2,3,5], "y" : [3,5,2,6]})
df.plot("x", "y", color="r") #plot red line

plt.show()

If you want to change this color later on, you can do so by

plt.gca().get_lines()[0].set_color("black")

This will get you the first (possibly the only) line of the current active axes.
In case you have more axes in the plot, you could loop through them

for ax in plt.gcf().axes:
    ax.get_lines()[0].set_color("black")

and if you have more lines you can loop over them as well.

Unresolved external symbol in object files

It looks to be missing a library or include, you can try to figure out what class of your library that have getName, getType etc ... and put that in the header file or using #include.

Also if these happen to be from an external library, make sure you reference to them on your project file. For example, if this class belongs to an abc.lib then in your Visual Studio

  1. Click on Project Properties.
  2. Go to Configuration Properties, C/C++, Generate, verify you point to the abc.lib location under Additional Include Directories. Under Linker, Input, make sure you have the abc.lib under Additional Dependencies.

Application Installation Failed in Android Studio

For those, who still having troubles with APK installing, just check your phone storage. In my case app failed to install always because I had not enough space to install the APK.

Change the project theme in Android Studio?

In the AndroidManifest.xml, under the application tag, you can set the theme of your choice. To customize the theme, press Ctrl + Click on android:theme = "@style/AppTheme" in the Android manifest file. It will open styles.xml file where you can change the parent attribute of the style tag.

At parent= in styles.xml you can browse all available styles by using auto-complete inside the "". E.g. try parent="Theme." with your cursor right after the . and then pressing Ctrl + Space.

You can also preview themes in the preview window in Android Studio.

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How do I convert from int to Long in Java?

Note that there is a difference between a cast to long and a cast to Long. If you cast to long (a primitive value) then it should be automatically boxed to a Long (the reference type that wraps it).

You could alternatively use new to create an instance of Long, initializing it with the int value.

Launch iOS simulator from Xcode and getting a black screen, followed by Xcode hanging and unable to stop tasks

If you're using SwiftUI

If you're updating from a previous version of Xcode 11, there are some changes to the SceneDelegate willConnectTo session: options connectionOptions initialization:

The main window is now initialized using UIWindow(windowScene: windowScene), where it use to be UIWindow(frame: UIScreen.main.bounds)

On previous version:

    let window = UIWindow(frame: UIScreen.main.bounds)
    window.rootViewController = UIHostingController(rootView: ContentView())
    self.window = window
    window.makeKeyAndVisible()

In new version:

    if let windowScene = scene as? UIWindowScene {
        let window = UIWindow(windowScene: windowScene)
        window.rootViewController = UIHostingController(rootView: ContentView())
        self.window = window
        window.makeKeyAndVisible()
    }

Converting RGB to grayscale/intensity

Check out the Color FAQ for information on this. These values come from the standardization of RGB values that we use in our displays. Actually, according to the Color FAQ, the values you are using are outdated, as they are the values used for the original NTSC standard and not modern monitors.

Package php5 have no installation candidate (Ubuntu 16.04)

If you just want to install PHP no matter what version it is, try PHP7

sudo apt-get install php7.0 php7.0-mcrypt

How to create a timer using tkinter?

Python3 clock example using the frame.after() rather than the top level application. Also shows updating the label with a StringVar()

#!/usr/bin/env python3

# Display UTC.
# started with https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/tkinter.html#module-tkinter

import tkinter as tk
import time

def current_iso8601():
    """Get current date and time in ISO8601"""
    # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601
    # https://xkcd.com/1179/
    return time.strftime("%Y%m%dT%H%M%SZ", time.gmtime())

class Application(tk.Frame):
    def __init__(self, master=None):
        tk.Frame.__init__(self, master)
        self.pack()
        self.createWidgets()

    def createWidgets(self):
        self.now = tk.StringVar()
        self.time = tk.Label(self, font=('Helvetica', 24))
        self.time.pack(side="top")
        self.time["textvariable"] = self.now

        self.QUIT = tk.Button(self, text="QUIT", fg="red",
                                            command=root.destroy)
        self.QUIT.pack(side="bottom")

        # initial time display
        self.onUpdate()

    def onUpdate(self):
        # update displayed time
        self.now.set(current_iso8601())
        # schedule timer to call myself after 1 second
        self.after(1000, self.onUpdate)

root = tk.Tk()
app = Application(master=root)
root.mainloop()

HTML Agility pack - parsing tables

In my case, there is a single table which happens to be a device list from a router. If you wish to read the table using TR/TH/TD (row, header, data) instead of a matrix as mentioned above, you can do something like the following:

    List<TableRow> deviceTable = (from table in document.DocumentNode.SelectNodes(XPathQueries.SELECT_TABLE)
                                       from row in table?.SelectNodes(HtmlBody.TR)
                                       let rows = row.SelectSingleNode(HtmlBody.TR)
                                       where row.FirstChild.OriginalName != null && row.FirstChild.OriginalName.Equals(HtmlBody.T_HEADER)
                                       select new TableRow
                                       {
                                           Header = row.SelectSingleNode(HtmlBody.T_HEADER)?.InnerText,
                                           Data = row.SelectSingleNode(HtmlBody.T_DATA)?.InnerText}).ToList();
                                       }  

TableRow is just a simple object with Header and Data as properties. The approach takes care of null-ness and this case:

_x000D_
_x000D_
<tr>_x000D_
    <td width="28%">&nbsp;</td>_x000D_
</tr>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

which is row without a header. The HtmlBody object with the constants hanging off of it are probably readily deduced but I apologize for it even still. I came from the world where if you have " in your code, it should either be constant or localizable.

How to rename a file using Python

import os

# Set the path
path = 'a\\b\\c'  
# save current working directory
saved_cwd = os.getcwd()
# change your cwd to the directory which contains files
os.chdir(path)
os.rename('a.txt', 'b.klm')
# moving back to the directory you were in 
os.chdir(saved_cwd)

TypeError: 'list' object is not callable in python

Close the current interpreter using exit() command and reopen typing python to start your work. And do not name a list as list literally. Then you will be fine.

How to make String.Contains case insensitive?

bool b = list.Contains("Hello", StringComparer.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase);

[EDIT] extension code:

public static bool Contains(this string source, string cont
                                                    , StringComparison compare)
{
    return source.IndexOf(cont, compare) >= 0;
}

This could work :)

How do you make a div follow as you scroll?

the position:fixed; property should do the work, I used it on my Website and it worked fine. http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_positioning.asp

Import XXX cannot be resolved for Java SE standard classes

This is an issue relating JRE.In my case (eclipse Luna with Maven plugin, JDK 7) I solved this by making following change in pom.xml and then Maven Update Project.

from:

 <configuration>
        <source>1.8</source>
        <target>1.8</target>
</configuration>

to:

 <configuration>
        <source>1.7</source>
        <target>1.7</target>
</configuration>

Screenshot showing problem in JRE: enter image description here

Compile a DLL in C/C++, then call it from another program

The thing to watch out for when writing C++ dlls is name mangling. If you want interoperability between C and C++, you'd be better off by exporting non-mangled C-style functions from within the dll.

You have two options to use a dll

  • Either use a lib file to link the symbols -- compile time dynamic linking
  • Use LoadLibrary() or some suitable function to load the library, retrieve a function pointer (GetProcAddress) and call it -- runtime dynamic linking

Exporting classes will not work if you follow the second method though.

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

This code will count frequency and remove duplicate elements:

from collections import Counter

str1='the cat sat on the hat hat'

int_list=str1.split();

unique_list = []
for el in int_list:

    if el not in unique_list:
        unique_list.append(el)
    else:
        print "Element already in the list"

print unique_list

c=Counter(int_list)

c.values()

c.keys()

print c

How to read a config file using python

This looks like valid Python code, so if the file is on your project's classpath (and not in some other directory or in arbitrary places) one way would be just to rename the file to "abc.py" and import it as a module, using import abc. You can even update the values using the reload function later. Then access the values as abc.path1 etc.

Of course, this can be dangerous in case the file contains other code that will be executed. I would not use it in any real, professional project, but for a small script or in interactive mode this seems to be the simplest solution.

Just put the abc.py into the same directory as your script, or the directory where you open the interactive shell, and do import abc or from abc import *.

how to clear localstorage,sessionStorage and cookies in javascript? and then retrieve?

The standard Web Storage, does not say anything about the restoring any of these. So there won't be any standard way to do it. You have to go through the way the browsers implement these, or find a way to backup these before you delete them.

Get POST data in C#/ASP.NET

c.Request["AP"] will read posted values. Also you need to use a submit button to post the form:

<input type="submit" value="Submit" />

instead of

<input type=button value="Submit" />

How to get row number from selected rows in Oracle

The below query helps to get the row number in oracle,

SELECT ROWNUM AS SNO,ID,NAME,EMAIL,BRANCH FROM student WHERE NAME LIKE '%ram%';

React.js create loop through Array

As @Alexander solves, the issue is one of async data load - you're rendering immediately and you will not have participants loaded until the async ajax call resolves and populates data with participants.

The alternative to the solution they provided would be to prevent render until participants exist, something like this:

    render: function() {
        if (!this.props.data.participants) {
            return null;
        }
        return (
            <ul className="PlayerList">
            // I'm the Player List {this.props.data}
            // <Player author="The Mini John" />
            {
                this.props.data.participants.map(function(player) {
                    return <li key={player}>{player}</li>
                })
            }
            </ul>
        );
    }

Error creating bean with name 'entityManagerFactory' defined in class path resource : Invocation of init method failed

For me, it was a result of another error

org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: FATAL: password authentication failed for user

Which means you just need to review your authentication credentials

SVN undo delete before commit

What worked for me is

svn revert --depth infinity deletedDir

Rollback a Git merge

Reverting a merge commit has been exhaustively covered in other questions. When you do a fast-forward merge, the second one you describe, you can use git reset to get back to the previous state:

git reset --hard <commit_before_merge>

You can find the <commit_before_merge> with git reflog, git log, or, if you're feeling the moxy (and haven't done anything else): git reset --hard HEAD@{1}

How can I customize the tab-to-space conversion factor?

In your bottom-right corner, you have Spaces: Spaces: 2

There you can change the indentation according to your needs: Indentation Options

Get the records of last month in SQL server

Add the options which have been provided so far won't use your indexes at all.

Something like this will do the trick, and make use of an index on the table (if one exists).

DECLARE @StartDate DATETIME, @EndDate DATETIME
SET @StartDate = dateadd(mm, -1, getdate())
SET @StartDate = dateadd(dd, datepart(dd, getdate())*-1, @StartDate)
SET @EndDate = dateadd(mm, 1, @StartDate)

SELECT *
FROM Member
WHERE date_created BETWEEN @StartDate AND @EndDate

How to create a listbox in HTML without allowing multiple selection?

For Asp.Net MVC

@Html.ListBox("parameterName", ViewBag.ParameterValueList as MultiSelectList, 
 new { 
 @class = "chosen-select form-control"
 }) 

or

  @Html.ListBoxFor(model => model.parameterName,
  ViewBag.ParameterValueList as MultiSelectList,
   new{
       data_placeholder = "Select Options ",
       @class = "chosen-select form-control"
   })

what do these symbolic strings mean: %02d %01d?

Instead of Googling for %02d you should have been searching for sprintf() function.

%02d means "format the integer with 2 digits, left padding it with zeroes", so:

Format  Data   Result
%02d    1      01
%02d    11     11

How to change value of a request parameter in laravel

If you use custom requests for validation, for replace data for validation, or to set default data (for checkboxes or other) use override method prepareForValidation().

namespace App\Http\Requests\Admin\Category;
    
class CategoryRequest extends AbstractRequest
{
    protected function prepareForValidation()
    {
        if ( ! $this->get('url')) {
            $this->merge([
                'url' => $this->get('name'),
            ]);
        }
        $this->merge([
            'url'    => \Str::slug($this->get('url')),
            'active' => (int)$this->get('active'),
        ]);
    }
}

I hope this information will be useful to somebody.

Python: avoiding pylint warnings about too many arguments

First, one of Perlis's epigrams:

"If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some."

Some of the 10 arguments are presumably related. Group them into an object, and pass that instead.

Making an example up, because there's not enough information in the question to answer directly:

class PersonInfo(object):
  def __init__(self, name, age, iq):
    self.name = name
    self.age = age
    self.iq = iq

Then your 10 argument function:

def f(x1, x2, name, x3, iq, x4, age, x5, x6, x7):
  ...

becomes:

def f(personinfo, x1, x2, x3, x4, x5, x6, x7):
  ...

and the caller changes to:

personinfo = PersonInfo(name, age, iq)
result = f(personinfo, x1, x2, x3, x4, x5, x6, x7)

Convert comma separated string of ints to int array

Without using a lambda function and for valid inputs only, I think it's clearer to do this:

Array.ConvertAll<string, int>(value.Split(','), Convert.ToInt32);

How to define a default value for "input type=text" without using attribute 'value'?

The value is there. The source is not updated as the values on the form change. The source is from when the page initially loaded.

Non-static variable cannot be referenced from a static context

This is bit diff to explain about static key word for all beginners.
You wil get to know it clearly when you work more with Classes and Objects.

|*| Static : Static items can be called with Class Name
If you observe in codes, Some functions are directly called with Class names like

NamCls.NamFnc();

System.out.println();

This is because NamFnc and println wil be declared using key word static before them.

|*| Non Static :Non Static items can be called with Class Variable
If its not static, you need a variable of the class,
put dot after the class variable and
then call function.

NamCls NamObjVar = new NamCls();
NamObjVar.NamFnc();


Below code explains you neatly

|*| Static and non Static function in class :

public class NamCls
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        PlsPrnFnc("Tst Txt");

        NamCls NamObjVar = new NamCls();
        NamObjVar.PrnFnc("Tst Txt");
    }

    static void PlsPrnFnc(String SrgPsgVal)
    {
        System.out.println(SrgPsgVal);
    }

    void PrnFnc(String SrgPsgVal)
    {
        System.out.println(SrgPsgVal);
    }
}


|*| Static and non Static Class inside a Class :

public class NamCls
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        NamTicCls NamTicVaj = new NamTicCls();
        NamTicVaj.PrnFnc("Tst Txt");

        NamCls NamObjVar = new NamCls();
        NamNicCls NamNicVar = NamObjVar.new NamNicCls();
        NamNicVar.PrnFnc("Tst Txt");
    }

    static class NamTicCls
    {
        void PrnFnc(String SrgPsgVal)
        {
            System.out.println(SrgPsgVal);
        }
    }

    class NamNicCls
    {
        void PrnFnc(String SrgPsgVal)
        {
            System.out.println(SrgPsgVal);
        }
    }
}

CSS root directory

I use a relative path solution,

./../../../../../images/img.png

every ../ will take you one folder up towards the root. Hope this helps..

TypeError: int() argument must be a string, a bytes-like object or a number, not 'list'

What the error is telling, is that you can't convert an entire list into an integer. You could get an index from the list and convert that into an integer:

x = ["0", "1", "2"] 
y = int(x[0]) #accessing the zeroth element

If you're trying to convert a whole list into an integer, you are going to have to convert the list into a string first:

x = ["0", "1", "2"]
y = ''.join(x) # converting list into string
z = int(y)

If your list elements are not strings, you'll have to convert them to strings before using str.join:

x = [0, 1, 2]
y = ''.join(map(str, x))
z = int(y)

Also, as stated above, make sure that you're not returning a nested list.

Regular Expression for matching parentheses

Because ( is special in regex, you should escape it \( when matching. However, depending on what language you are using, you can easily match ( with string methods like index() or other methods that enable you to find at what position the ( is in. Sometimes, there's no need to use regex.

Simple GUI Java calculator

assuming that string1 is your whole operation

use mdas

double result;
string recurAndCheck(string operation){
  if(operation.indexOf("/")){
     String leftSide = recurAndCheck(operation.split("/")[0]);
     string rightSide = recurAndCheck(operation.split("/")[1]);
     result = Double.parseDouble(leftSide)/Double.parseDouble(rightSide);

  } else if (..continue w/ *...) {
    //same as above but change / with *
  } else if (..continue w/ -) { 
    //change as above but change with -
  } else if (..continuew with +) {
    //change with add
  } else {
    return;
  }
}

REST API Best practice: How to accept list of parameter values as input

First:

I think you can do it 2 ways

http://our.api.com/Product/<id> : if you just want one record

http://our.api.com/Product : if you want all records

http://our.api.com/Product/<id1>,<id2> :as James suggested can be an option since what comes after the Product tag is a parameter

Or the one I like most is:

You can use the the Hypermedia as the engine of application state (HATEOAS) property of a RestFul WS and do a call http://our.api.com/Product that should return the equivalent urls of http://our.api.com/Product/<id> and call them after this.

Second

When you have to do queries on the url calls. I would suggest using HATEOAS again.

1) Do a get call to http://our.api.com/term/pumas/productType/clothing/color/black

2) Do a get call to http://our.api.com/term/pumas/productType/clothing,bags/color/black,red

3) (Using HATEOAS) Do a get call to `http://our.api.com/term/pumas/productType/ -> receive the urls all clothing possible urls -> call the ones you want (clothing and bags) -> receive the possible color urls -> call the ones you want

In laymans terms, what does 'static' mean in Java?

In very laymen terms the class is a mold and the object is the copy made with that mold. Static belong to the mold and can be accessed directly without making any copies, hence the example above

How do you remove a Cookie in a Java Servlet

Cookie[] cookies = request.getCookies();
if(cookies!=null)
for (int i = 0; i < cookies.length; i++) {
 cookies[i].setMaxAge(0);
}

did that not worked? This removes all cookies if response is send back.

Returning from a void function

The only reason to have a return in a void function would be to exit early due to some conditional statement:

void foo(int y)
{
    if(y == 0) return;

    // do stuff with y
}

As unwind said: when the code ends, it ends. No need for an explicit return at the end.

How to copy a file from remote server to local machine?

For example, your remote host is example.com and remote login name is user1:

scp [email protected]:/path/to/file /path/to/store/file

How to create border in UIButton?

Swift 5

button.layer.borderWidth = 2

To change the colour of the border use

button.layer.borderColor = CGColor(srgbRed: 255/255, green: 126/255, blue: 121/255, alpha: 1)

How to replace unicode characters in string with something else python?

Encode string as unicode.

>>> special = u"\u2022"
>>> abc = u'ABC•def'
>>> abc.replace(special,'X')
u'ABCXdef'

'Use of Unresolved Identifier' in Swift

Because you haven't declared it. If you want to use a variable of another class you must use

override func prepareForSegue(segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: AnyObject?) {
    var DestViewController : ViewController = segue.destinationViewController as ViewController
    DestViewController.signedIn = false
}

You have to put this code at the end of the NewClass code

Disable same origin policy in Chrome

for mac users:

open -a "Google Chrome" --args --disable-web-security --user-data-dir

and before Chrome 48, you could just use:

open -a "Google Chrome" --args --disable-web-security

Proxy with urllib2

In addition set the proxy for the command line session Open a command line where you might want to run your script

netsh winhttp set proxy YourProxySERVER:yourProxyPORT

run your script in that terminal.

Create new user in MySQL and give it full access to one database

To me this worked.

CREATE USER 'spowner'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '1234'; 
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON test.* To 'spowner'@'localhost'; 
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

where

  • spowner : user name
  • 1234 : password of spowner
  • test : database 'spowner' has access right to

What is the yield keyword used for in C#?

Here is a simple way to understand the concept: The basic idea is, if you want a collection that you can use "foreach" on, but gathering the items into the collection is expensive for some reason (like querying them out of a database), AND you will often not need the entire collection, then you create a function that builds the collection one item at a time and yields it back to the consumer (who can then terminate the collection effort early).

Think of it this way: You go to the meat counter and want to buy a pound of sliced ham. The butcher takes a 10-pound ham to the back, puts it on the slicer machine, slices the whole thing, then brings the pile of slices back to you and measures out a pound of it. (OLD way). With yield, the butcher brings the slicer machine to the counter, and starts slicing and "yielding" each slice onto the scale until it measures 1-pound, then wraps it for you and you're done. The Old Way may be better for the butcher (lets him organize his machinery the way he likes), but the New Way is clearly more efficient in most cases for the consumer.

Get index of selected option with jQuery

I have a slightly different solution based on the answer by user167517. In my function I'm using a variable for the id of the select box I'm targeting.

var vOptionSelect = "#productcodeSelect1";

The index is returned with:

$(vOptionSelect).find(":selected").index();

Failed to execute 'btoa' on 'Window': The string to be encoded contains characters outside of the Latin1 range.

Using btoa with unescape and encodeURIComponent didn't work for me. Replacing all the special characters with XML/HTML entities and then converting to the base64 representation was the only way to solve this issue for me. Some code:

base64 = btoa(str.replace(/[\u00A0-\u2666]/g, function(c) {
    return '&#' + c.charCodeAt(0) + ';';
}));

What's the difference between JavaScript and JScript?

JScript is Microsoft's equivalent of JavaScript.
Java is an Oracle product and used to be a Sun product.

Oracle bought Sun.

JavaScript + Microsoft = JScript

Warning: mysqli_connect(): (HY000/1045): Access denied for user 'username'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

Make sure that your password doesn't have special characters and just keep a plain password (for ex: 12345), it will work. This is the strangest thing that I have ever seen. I spent about 2 hours to figure this out.

Note: 12345 mentioned below is your plain password

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON dbname.* TO 'yourusername'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY '12345';