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Setting focus on an HTML input box on page load

You could also use:

<body onload="focusOnInput()">
    <form name="passwordForm" action="verify.php" method="post">
        <input name="passwordInput" type="password" />
    </form>
</body>

And then in your JavaScript:

function focusOnInput() {
    document.forms["passwordForm"]["passwordInput"].focus();
}

Android Bitmap to Base64 String

Try this, first scale your image to required width and height, just pass your original bitmap, required width and required height to the following method and get scaled bitmap in return:

For example: Bitmap scaledBitmap = getScaledBitmap(originalBitmap, 250, 350);

private Bitmap getScaledBitmap(Bitmap b, int reqWidth, int reqHeight)
{
    int bWidth = b.getWidth();
    int bHeight = b.getHeight();

    int nWidth = bWidth;
    int nHeight = bHeight;

    if(nWidth > reqWidth)
    {
        int ratio = bWidth / reqWidth;
        if(ratio > 0)
        {
            nWidth = reqWidth;
            nHeight = bHeight / ratio;
        }
    }

    if(nHeight > reqHeight)
    {
        int ratio = bHeight / reqHeight;
        if(ratio > 0)
        {
            nHeight = reqHeight;
            nWidth = bWidth / ratio;
        }
    }

    return Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(b, nWidth, nHeight, true);
}

Now just pass your scaled bitmap to the following method and get base64 string in return:

For example: String base64String = getBase64String(scaledBitmap);

private String getBase64String(Bitmap bitmap)
{
    ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

    bitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 100, baos);

    byte[] imageBytes = baos.toByteArray();

    String base64String = Base64.encodeToString(imageBytes, Base64.NO_WRAP);

    return base64String;
}

To decode the base64 string back to bitmap image:

byte[] decodedByteArray = Base64.decode(base64String, Base64.NO_WRAP);
Bitmap decodedBitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(decodedByteArray, 0, decodedString.length);

Bootstrap change carousel height

From Bootstrap 4

.carousel-item{
    height: 200px;
} 
.carousel-item img{
    height: 200px;
}

jQuery: find element by text

In jQuery documentation it says:

The matching text can appear directly within the selected element, in any of that element's descendants, or a combination

Therefore it is not enough that you use :contains() selector, you also need to check if the text you search for is the direct content of the element you are targeting for, something like that:

function findElementByText(text) {
    var jSpot = $("b:contains(" + text + ")")
                .filter(function() { return $(this).children().length === 0;})
                .parent();  // because you asked the parent of that element

    return jSpot;
}

WCF service startup error "This collection already contains an address with scheme http"

And in my case it was simple: I used 'Add WCF Service' wizard in Visual Studio, which automatically created corresponding sections in app.config. Then I went on reading How to: Host a WCF Service in a Managed Application. The problem was: I didn't need to specify the url to run the web service.

Replace:

using (ServiceHost host = new ServiceHost(typeof(HelloWorldService), baseAddress))

With:

using (ServiceHost host = new ServiceHost(typeof(HelloWorldService))

And the error is gone.

Generic idea: if you provide base address as a param and specify it in config, you get this error. Most probably, that's not the only way to get the error, thou.

How do I disable orientation change on Android?

In Visual Studio Xamarin:

  1. Add:

using Android.Content.PM; to you activity namespace list.

  1. Add:

[Activity(ScreenOrientation = Android.Content.PM.ScreenOrientation.Portrait)]

as an attribute to you class, like that:

[Activity(ScreenOrientation = ScreenOrientation.Portrait)]
public class MainActivity : Activity
{...}

How can I change a file's encoding with vim?

It could be useful to change the encoding just on the command line before the file is read:

rem On MicroSoft Windows
vim --cmd "set encoding=utf-8" file.ext
# In *nix shell
vim --cmd 'set encoding=utf-8' file.ext

See starting, --cmd.

How to get current timestamp in string format in Java? "yyyy.MM.dd.HH.mm.ss"

Replace 

new Timestamp();

with

new java.util.Date()

because there is no default constructor for Timestamp, or you can do it with the method:

new Timestamp(System.currentTimeMillis());

Get SELECT's value and text in jQuery

 
$("#yourdropdownid option:selected").text(); // selected option text
$("#yourdropdownid").val(); // selected option value

How can I set a custom baud rate on Linux?

I noticed the same thing about BOTHER not being defined. Like Jamey Sharp said, you can find it in <asm/termios.h>. Just a forewarning, I think I ran into problems including both it and the regular <termios.h> file at the same time.

Aside from that, I found with the glibc I have, it still didn't work because glibc's tcsetattr was doing the ioctl for the old-style version of struct termios which doesn't pay attention to the speed setting. I was able to set a custom speed by manually doing an ioctl with the new style termios2 struct, which should also be available by including <asm/termios.h>:

struct termios2 tio;

ioctl(fd, TCGETS2, &tio);
tio.c_cflag &= ~CBAUD;
tio.c_cflag |= BOTHER;
tio.c_ispeed = 12345;
tio.c_ospeed = 12345;
ioctl(fd, TCSETS2, &tio);

Executable directory where application is running from?

You can write the following:

Path.Combine(Path.GetParentDirectory(GetType(MyClass).Assembly.Location), "Images\image.jpg")

How to use vertical align in bootstrap

 
.parent {
    display: table;
    table-layout: fixed;
}

.child {
    display:table-cell;
    vertical-align:middle;
    text-align:center;
}

table-layout: fixed prevents breaking the functionality of the col-* classes.

Convert int to char in java

In java a char is an int. Your first snippet prints out the character corresponding to the value of 1 in the default character encoding scheme (which is probably Unicode). The Unicode character U+0001 is a non-printing character, which is why you don't see any output.

If you want to print out the character '1', you can look up the value of '1' in the encoding scheme you are using. In Unicode this is 49 (the same as ASCII). But this will only work for digits 0-9.

You might be better off using a String rather than a char, and using Java's built-in toString() method:

int a = 1;
String b = toString(a);
System.out.println(b);

This will work whatever your system encoding is, and will work for multi-digit numbers.

"call to undefined function" error when calling class method

You dont have a function named assign(), but a method with this name. PHP is not Java and in PHP you have to make clear, if you want to call a function

assign()

or a method

$object->assign()

In your case the call to the function resides inside another method. $this always refers to the object, in which a method exists, itself.

$this->assign()

Call PowerShell script PS1 from another PS1 script inside Powershell ISE

How do you run PowerShell built-in scripts inside of your scripts?

How do you use built-in scripts like 

Get-Location
pwd
ls
dir
split-path
::etc...

Those are ran by your computer, automatically checking the path of the script.

Similarly, I can run my custom scripts by just putting the name of the script in the script-block

::sid.ps1 is a PS script I made to find the SID of any user
::it takes one argument, that argument would be the username
echo $(sid.ps1 jowers)


(returns something like)> S-X-X-XXXXXXXX-XXXXXXXXXX-XXX-XXXX


$(sid.ps1 jowers).Replace("S","X")

(returns same as above but with X instead of S)

Go on to the powershell command line and type

> $profile

This will return the path to a file that our PowerShell command line will execute every time you open the app.

It will look like this 

C:\Users\jowers\OneDrive\Documents\WindowsPowerShell\Microsoft.PowerShellISE_profile.ps1

Go to Documents and see if you already have a WindowsPowerShell directory. I didn't, so 

> cd \Users\jowers\Documents
> mkdir WindowsPowerShell
> cd WindowsPowerShell
> type file > Microsoft.PowerShellISE_profile.ps1

We've now created the script that will launch every time we open the PowerShell App.

The reason we did that was so that we could add our own folder that holds all of our custom scripts. Let's create that folder and I'll name it "Bin" after the directories that Mac/Linux hold its scripts in.

> mkdir \Users\jowers\Bin

Now we want that directory to be added to our $env:path variable every time we open the app so go back to the WindowsPowerShell Directory and

> start Microsoft.PowerShellISE_profile.ps1

Then add this

$env:path += ";\Users\jowers\Bin"

Now the shell will automatically find your commands, as long as you save your scripts in that "Bin" directory.

Relaunch the powershell and it should be one of the first scripts that execute.

Run this on the command line after reloading to see your new directory in your path variable:

> $env:Path

Now we can call our scripts from the command line or from within another script as simply as this:

$(customScript.ps1 arg1 arg2 ...)

As you see we must call them with the .ps1 extension until we make aliases for them. If we want to get fancy.

Excel VBA - select a dynamic cell range

 
sub selectVar ()
    dim x,y as integer
    let srange = "A" & x & ":" & "m" & y
    range(srange).select
end sub

I think this is the simplest way.

Zip lists in Python

zip creates a new list, filled with tuples containing elements from the iterable arguments:

>>> zip ([1,2],[3,4])
[(1,3), (2,4)]

I expect what you try to so is create a tuple where each element is a list.

How to check variable type at runtime in Go language

quux00's answer only tells about comparing basic types.

If you need to compare types you defined, you shouldn't use reflect.TypeOf(xxx). Instead, use reflect.TypeOf(xxx).Kind().

There are two categories of types:

  • direct types (the types you defined directly)
  • basic types (int, float64, struct, ...)

Here is a full example:

type MyFloat float64
type Vertex struct {
    X, Y float64
}

type EmptyInterface interface {}

type Abser interface {
    Abs() float64
}

func (v Vertex) Abs() float64 {
    return math.Sqrt(v.X*v.X + v.Y*v.Y)
}

func (f MyFloat) Abs() float64 {
    return math.Abs(float64(f))
}

var ia, ib Abser
ia = Vertex{1, 2}
ib = MyFloat(1)
fmt.Println(reflect.TypeOf(ia))
fmt.Println(reflect.TypeOf(ia).Kind())
fmt.Println(reflect.TypeOf(ib))
fmt.Println(reflect.TypeOf(ib).Kind())

if reflect.TypeOf(ia) != reflect.TypeOf(ib) {
    fmt.Println("Not equal typeOf")
}
if reflect.TypeOf(ia).Kind() != reflect.TypeOf(ib).Kind() {
    fmt.Println("Not equal kind")
}

ib = Vertex{3, 4}
if reflect.TypeOf(ia) == reflect.TypeOf(ib) {
    fmt.Println("Equal typeOf")
}
if reflect.TypeOf(ia).Kind() == reflect.TypeOf(ib).Kind() {
    fmt.Println("Equal kind")
}

The output would be:

main.Vertex
struct
main.MyFloat
float64
Not equal typeOf
Not equal kind
Equal typeOf
Equal kind

As you can see, reflect.TypeOf(xxx) returns the direct types which you might want to use, while reflect.TypeOf(xxx).Kind() returns the basic types.

Here's the conclusion. If you need to compare with basic types, use reflect.TypeOf(xxx).Kind(); and if you need to compare with self-defined types, use reflect.TypeOf(xxx).

if reflect.TypeOf(ia) == reflect.TypeOf(Vertex{}) {
    fmt.Println("self-defined")
} else if reflect.TypeOf(ia).Kind() == reflect.Float64 {
    fmt.Println("basic types")
}

'xmlParseEntityRef: no name' warnings while loading xml into a php file

Found this here ...

Problem: An XML parser returns the error “xmlParseEntityRef: noname”

Cause: There is a stray ‘&’ (ampersand character) somewhere in the XML text eg. some text & some more text

Solution:

  • Solution 1: Remove the ampersand.
  • Solution 2: Encode the ampersand (that is replace the & character with &amp; ). Remember to Decode when reading the XML text.
  • Solution 3: Use CDATA sections (text inside a CDATA section will be ignored by the parser.) eg. <![CDATA[some text & some more text]]>

Note: ‘&’ ‘<' '>‘ will all give problems if not handled correctly.

Parsing a comma-delimited std::string

Input one number at a time, and check whether the following character is ,. If so, discard it.

#include <vector>
#include <string>
#include <sstream>
#include <iostream>

int main()
{
    std::string str = "1,2,3,4,5,6";
    std::vector<int> vect;

    std::stringstream ss(str);

    for (int i; ss >> i;) {
        vect.push_back(i);    
        if (ss.peek() == ',')
            ss.ignore();
    }

    for (std::size_t i = 0; i < vect.size(); i++)
        std::cout << vect[i] << std::endl;
}

Absolute and Flexbox in React Native

The first step would be to add

position: 'absolute',

then if you want the element full width, add 

left: 0,
right: 0,

then, if you want to put the element in the bottom, add

bottom: 0,
// don't need set top: 0

if you want to position the element at the top, replace bottom: 0 by top: 0

"Series objects are mutable and cannot be hashed" error

 
gene_name = no_headers.iloc[1:,[1]]

This creates a DataFrame because you passed a list of columns (single, but still a list). When you later do this:

gene_name[x]

you now have a Series object with a single value. You can't hash the Series.

The solution is to create Series from the start.

gene_type = no_headers.iloc[1:,0]
gene_name = no_headers.iloc[1:,1]
disease_name = no_headers.iloc[1:,2]

Also, where you have orph_dict[gene_name[x]] =+ 1, I'm guessing that's a typo and you really mean orph_dict[gene_name[x]] += 1 to increment the counter.

python numpy/scipy curve fitting

I suggest you to start with simple polynomial fit, scipy.optimize.curve_fit tries to fit a function f that you must know to a set of points.

This is a simple 3 degree polynomial fit using numpy.polyfit and poly1d, the first performs a least squares polynomial fit and the second calculates the new points:

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

points = np.array([(1, 1), (2, 4), (3, 1), (9, 3)])
# get x and y vectors
x = points[:,0]
y = points[:,1]

# calculate polynomial
z = np.polyfit(x, y, 3)
f = np.poly1d(z)

# calculate new x's and y's
x_new = np.linspace(x[0], x[-1], 50)
y_new = f(x_new)

plt.plot(x,y,'o', x_new, y_new)
plt.xlim([x[0]-1, x[-1] + 1 ])
plt.show()

enter image description here

iOS 8 UITableView separator inset 0 not working

Most answers are showing separator insets and layout margins being set over a variety of methods (i.e., viewDidLayoutSubviews, willDisplayCell, etc) for cells and tableviews, but I've found that just putting these in cellForRowAtIndexPath works great. Seems like the cleanest way.

// kill insets for iOS 8
if ([[UIDevice currentDevice].systemVersion floatValue] >= 8) {
    cell.preservesSuperviewLayoutMargins = NO;
    [cell setLayoutMargins:UIEdgeInsetsZero];
}
// iOS 7 and later
if ([cell respondsToSelector:@selector(setSeparatorInset:)])
    [cell setSeparatorInset:UIEdgeInsetsZero];

Active Directory LDAP Query by sAMAccountName and Domain

If you're using .NET, use the DirectorySearcher class. You can pass in your domain as a string into the constructor.

// if you domain is domain.com...
string username = "user"
string domain = "LDAP://DC=domain,DC=com";
DirectorySearcher search = new DirectorySearcher(domain);
search.Filter = "(SAMAccountName=" + username + ")";

How can I add a username and password to Jenkins?

Assuming you have Manage Jenkins > Configure Global Security > Enable Security and Jenkins Own User Database checked you would go to:

  • Manage Jenkins > Manage Users > Create User

In LaTeX, how can one add a header/footer in the document class Letter?

With regard to Brent.Longborough's answer (appering only on page 2 onward), perhaps you need to set the \thispagestyle{} after \begin{document}. I wonder if the letter class is setting the first page style to empty.

Embed ruby within URL : Middleman Blog

 
<%= link_to "http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=" + article_url(article, :text => article.title), :class => "btn btn-primary" do %>   <i class="fa fa-facebook">     Facebook Share    </i> <%end%>

I am assuming that current_article_url is http://0.0.0.0:4567/link_to_title

How to use Google fonts in React.js?

Had the same issue. Turns out I was using " instead of '.

use @import url('within single quotes'); like this

not @import url("within double quotes"); like this

How can I verify if a Windows Service is running

I guess something like this would work:

Add System.ServiceProcess to your project references (It's on the .NET tab).

using System.ServiceProcess;

ServiceController sc = new ServiceController(SERVICENAME);

switch (sc.Status)
{
    case ServiceControllerStatus.Running:
        return "Running";
    case ServiceControllerStatus.Stopped:
        return "Stopped";
    case ServiceControllerStatus.Paused:
        return "Paused";
    case ServiceControllerStatus.StopPending:
        return "Stopping";
    case ServiceControllerStatus.StartPending:
        return "Starting";
    default:
        return "Status Changing";
}

Edit: There is also a method sc.WaitforStatus() that takes a desired status and a timeout, never used it but it may suit your needs.

Edit: Once you get the status, to get the status again you will need to call sc.Refresh() first.

Reference: ServiceController object in .NET.

align divs to the bottom of their container

You can cheat! Say your div is 20px high, place the div at the top of the next container and set 

position: absolute;
top: -20px;

It may not be semantically clean but does scale with responsive designs

How to vertically center a container in Bootstrap?

My prefered technique :

body {
  display: table;
  position: absolute;
  height: 100%;
  width: 100%;
}

.jumbotron {
   display: table-cell;
   vertical-align: middle;
}

Demo

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  display: table;_x000D_
  position: absolute;_x000D_
  height: 100%;_x000D_
  width: 100%;_x000D_
}_x000D_
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.jumbotron {_x000D_
   display: table-cell;_x000D_
   vertical-align: middle;_x000D_
}
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css">_x000D_
<div class="jumbotron vertical-center">_x000D_
  <div class="container text-center">_x000D_
    <h1>The easiest and powerful way</h1>_x000D_
    <div class="row">_x000D_
      <div class="col-md-7">_x000D_
        <div class="top-bg">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.</div>_x000D_
      </div>_x000D_
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      <div class="col-md-5 iPhone-features">_x000D_
        <ul class="top-features">_x000D_
          <li>_x000D_
            <span><i class="fa fa-random simple_bg top-features-bg"></i></span>_x000D_
            <p><strong>Redirect</strong><br>Visitors where they converts more.</p>_x000D_
          </li>_x000D_
          <li>_x000D_
            <span><i class="fa fa-cogs simple_bg top-features-bg"></i></span>_x000D_
            <p><strong>Track</strong><br>Views, Clicks and Conversions.</p>_x000D_
          </li>_x000D_
          <li>_x000D_
            <span><i class="fa fa-check simple_bg top-features-bg"></i></span>_x000D_
            <p><strong>Check</strong><br>Constantly the status of your links.</p>_x000D_
          </li>_x000D_
          <li>_x000D_
            <span><i class="fa fa-users simple_bg top-features-bg"></i></span>_x000D_
            <p><strong>Collaborate</strong><br>With Customers, Partners and Co-Workers.</p>_x000D_
          </li>_x000D_
          <a href="pricing-and-signup.html" class="btn-primary btn h2 lightBlue get-Started-btn">GET STARTED</a>_x000D_
          <h6 class="get-Started-sub-btn">FREE VERSION AVAILABLE!</h6>_x000D_
        </ul>_x000D_
      </div>_x000D_
    </div>_x000D_
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See also this Fiddle!

Set height 100% on absolute div

try adding

position:relative

to your body styles. Whenever positioning anything absolutely, you need one of the parent containers to be positioned relative as this will make the item be positioned absolute to the parent container that is relative.

As you had no relative elements, the css will not know what the div is absolutely position to and therefore will not know what to take 100% height of

Font size relative to the user's screen resolution?

 
@media screen and (max-width : 320px)
{
  body or yourdiv element
  {
    font:<size>px/em/rm;
  }
}
@media screen and (max-width : 1204px)
{
  body or yourdiv element
  {
    font:<size>px/em/rm;
  }
}

You can give it manually according to screen size of screen.Just have a look of different screen size and add manually the font size.

Binding List<T> to DataGridView in WinForm

After adding new item to persons add:

myGrid.DataSource = null;
myGrid.DataSource = persons;

response.sendRedirect() from Servlet to JSP does not seem to work

You can use this:

response.sendRedirect(String.format("%s%s", request.getContextPath(), "/views/equipment/createEquipment.jsp"));

The last part is your path in your web-app

Angular 2 Scroll to top on Route Change

You can add the AfterViewInit lifecycle hook to your component.

ngAfterViewInit() {
   window.scrollTo(0, 0);
}

Bootstrap: Position of dropdown menu relative to navbar item

If you wants to center the dropdown, this is the solution.

<ul class="dropdown-menu" style="right:auto; left: auto;">

Is it a good practice to use an empty URL for a HTML form's action attribute? (action="")

Not including the action attribute opens the page up to iframe clickjacking attacks, which involve a few simple steps:

  • An attacker wraps your page in an iframe
  • The iframe URL includes a query param with the same name as a form field
  • When the form is submitted, the query value is inserted into the database
  • The user's identifying information (email, address, etc) has been compromised

References

Laravel requires the Mcrypt PHP extension

To those that uses XAMPP 1.7.3 and Mac

  1. Go to Terminal
  2. Enter which php
    • If it says /usr/bin/php, then proceed to 3.
  3. Enter sudo nano ~/.bash_profile (or sudo vim ~/.bash_profile if you know how to use it)
  4. Then paste this export PATH="/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin:$PATH"
  5. Ctrl+O then enter to save, then Ctrl+X to exit.
  6. Type cd ~
  7. type . .bash_profile
  8. restart terminal.
  9. Enter which php. If you did it right, it should be the same as the path in #4.

The reason for the mcrypt error is because your Mac uses its native php, you need to change it to the one xampp has.

P.S. I'd recommend using MAMP for Laravel 4 for Mac users, this issue will get resolved along with the php file info error without a sweat, and the php version of xampp is so outdated.

How to get length of a list of lists in python

This saves the data in a list of lists.

text = open("filetest.txt", "r")
data = [ ]
for line in text:
    data.append( line.strip().split() )

print "number of lines ", len(data)
print "number of columns ", len(data[0])

print "element in first row column two ", data[0][1]

Convert the values in a column into row names in an existing data frame

in one line

> samp.with.rownames <- data.frame(samp[,-1], row.names=samp[,1])

Python: What OS am I running on?

This solution works for both python and jython.

module os_identify.py:

import platform
import os

# This module contains functions to determine the basic type of
# OS we are running on.
# Contrary to the functions in the `os` and `platform` modules,
# these allow to identify the actual basic OS,
# no matter whether running on the `python` or `jython` interpreter.

def is_linux():
    try:
        platform.linux_distribution()
        return True
    except:
        return False

def is_windows():
    try:
        platform.win32_ver()
        return True
    except:
        return False

def is_mac():
    try:
        platform.mac_ver()
        return True
    except:
        return False

def name():
    if is_linux():
        return "Linux"
    elif is_windows():
        return "Windows"
    elif is_mac():
        return "Mac"
    else:
        return "<unknown>"

Use like this:

import os_identify

print "My OS: " + os_identify.name()

Automatically start forever (node) on system restart

Forever was not made to get node applications running as services. The right approach is to either create an /etc/inittab entry (old linux systems) or an upstart (newer linux systems).

Here's some documentation on how to set this up as an upstart: https://github.com/cvee/node-upstart

Is there a command line command for verifying what version of .NET is installed

you can check installed c# compilers and the printed version of the .net:

@echo off

for /r "%SystemRoot%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\" %%# in ("*csc.exe") do (
    set "l="
    for /f "skip=1 tokens=2 delims=k" %%$ in ('"%%# #"') do (
        if not defined l (
            echo Installed: %%$
            set l=%%$
        )
    )
)

echo latest installed .NET %l%

the csc.exe does not have a -version switch but it prints the .net version in its logo. You can also try with msbuild.exe but .net framework 1.* does not have msbuild.

How to render a DateTime object in a Twig template

There is a symfony2 tool to display date in the current locale:

{{ user.createdAt|localeDate }} to have a medium date and no time, in the current locale

{{ user.createdAt|localeDate('long','medium') }} to have a long date and medium time, in the current locale

https://github.com/michelsalib/BCCExtraToolsBundle

Position last flex item at the end of container

Flexible Box Layout Module - 8.1. Aligning with auto margins

Auto margins on flex items have an effect very similar to auto margins in block flow:

  • During calculations of flex bases and flexible lengths, auto margins are treated as 0.

  • Prior to alignment via justify-content and align-self, any positive free space is distributed to auto margins in that dimension.

Therefore you could use margin-top: auto to distribute the space between the other elements and the last element.

This will position the last element at the bottom.

p:last-of-type {
  margin-top: auto;
}

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.container {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  border: 1px solid #000;
  min-height: 200px;
  width: 100px;
}
p {
  height: 30px;
  background-color: blue;
  margin: 5px;
}
p:last-of-type {
  margin-top: auto;
}
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<div class="container">
  <p></p>
  <p></p>
  <p></p>
</div>
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vertical example

Likewise, you can also use margin-left: auto or margin-right: auto for the same alignment horizontally.

p:last-of-type {
  margin-left: auto;
}

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.container {
  display: flex;
  width: 100%;
  border: 1px solid #000;
}
p {
  height: 50px;
  width: 50px;
  background-color: blue;
  margin: 5px;
}
p:last-of-type {
  margin-left: auto;
}
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<div class="container">
  <p></p>
  <p></p>
  <p></p>
  <p></p>
</div>
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horizontal example

What is the standard naming convention for html/css ids and classes?

I suggest you use an underscore instead of a hyphen (-), since ...

<form name="myForm">
  <input name="myInput" id="my-Id" value="myValue"/>
</form>

<script>
  var x = document.myForm.my-Id.value;
  alert(x);
</script>

you can access the value by id easily in like that. But if you use a hyphen it will cause a syntax error.

This is an old sample, but it can work without jquery -:)

thanks to @jean_ralphio, there is work around way to avoid by 

var x = document.myForm['my-Id'].value;

Dash-style would be a google code style, but I don't really like it. I would prefer TitleCase for id and camelCase for class.

How to set 00:00:00 using moment.js

Moment.js stores dates it utc and can apply different timezones to it. By default it applies your local timezone. If you want to set time on utc date time you need to specify utc timezone.

Try the following code:

var m = moment().utcOffset(0);
m.set({hour:0,minute:0,second:0,millisecond:0})
m.toISOString()
m.format()

Generating random whole numbers in JavaScript in a specific range?

Crypto-Strong

To get crypto-strong random integer number in ragne [x,y] try

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let cs= (x,y)=>x+(y-x+1)*crypto.getRandomValues(new Uint32Array(1))[0]/2**32|0_x000D_
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console.log(cs(4,8))
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How to disable scientific notation?

You can effectively remove scientific notation in printing with this code:

options(scipen=999)

An exception of type 'System.NullReferenceException' occurred in myproject.DLL but was not handled in user code

It means you have a null reference somewhere in there. Can you debug the app and stop the debugger when it gets here and investigate? Probably img1 is null or ConfigurationManager.AppSettings.Get("Url") is returning null.

In HTML5, can the <header> and <footer> tags appear outside of the <body> tag?

According to the HTML standard, the content model of the HTML element is:

A head element followed by a body element.

You can either define the BODY element in the source code:

<html>
    <body>
        ... web-page ...
    </body>
</html>

or you can omit the BODY element:

<html>
    ... web-page ...
</html>

However, it is invalid to place the BODY element inside the web-page content (in-between other elements or text content), like so: 

<html>
    ... content ...
    <body>
        ... content ...
    </body>
    ... content ...
</html>

start/play embedded (iframe) youtube-video on click of an image

You can do this simply like this

$('#image_id').click(function() {
  $("#some_id iframe").attr('src', $("#some_id iframe", parent).attr('src') + '?autoplay=1'); 
});

where image_id is your image id you are clicking and some_id is id of div in which iframe is also you can use iframe id directly.

How to check if command line tools is installed

From a programmatic perspective the Homebrew folks have a check for the existence of various files to determine if the command line tools are installed. Currently it always checks for /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/git and will also check for /usr/include/iconv.h if the OS version is 10.13 or below.

How to add a char/int to an char array in C?

Suggest replacing this:

char str[1024];
char tmp = '.';

strcat(str, tmp);

with this:

char str[1024] = {'\0'}; // set array to initial all NUL bytes
char tmp[] = "."; // create a string for the call to strcat()

strcat(str, tmp); //

Gradient text color

You can achieve that effect using a combination of CSS linear-gradient and mix-blend-mode.

HTML

<p>
    Enter your message here... 
    To be or not to be, 
    that is the question...
    maybe, I think, 
    I'm not sure
    wait, you're still reading this?
    Type a good message already!
</p>

CSS

p {
    width: 300px;
    position: relative;
}

p::after {
    content: "";
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    right: 0;
    bottom: 0;
    background: linear-gradient(45deg, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple);
    mix-blend-mode: screen;
}

What this does is add a linear gradient on the paragraph's ::after pseudo-element and make it cover the whole paragraph element. But with mix-blend-mode: screen, the gradient will only show on parts where there is text.

Here's a jsfiddle to show this at work. Just modify the linear-gradient values to achieve what you want.

How do I call a SQL Server stored procedure from PowerShell?

This answer was pulled from http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/3683181

This same example can be used for any adhoc queries. Let us execute the stored procedure “sp_helpdb” as shown below.

$SqlConnection = New-Object System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection
$SqlConnection.ConnectionString = "Server=HOME\SQLEXPRESS;Database=master;Integrated Security=True"
$SqlCmd = New-Object System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand
$SqlCmd.CommandText = "sp_helpdb"
$SqlCmd.Connection = $SqlConnection
$SqlAdapter = New-Object System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataAdapter
$SqlAdapter.SelectCommand = $SqlCmd
$DataSet = New-Object System.Data.DataSet
$SqlAdapter.Fill($DataSet)
$SqlConnection.Close()
$DataSet.Tables[0]

How to change the default browser to debug with in Visual Studio 2008?
  • (In the Project Solution window) Right click a page (.aspx, or on a folder)
  • Select Browse With...
  • Choose your browser
  • Click Set as Default
  • Click Browse

context menu screenshot

Docker: Got permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket at unix:///var/run/docker.sock

I`m using the official jenkins docker image (https://hub.docker.com/r/jenkins/jenkins) but I think this solution is applicable to most use cases where we want to run Docker inside a Docker container.

The recommended way for using Docker inside a Docker container, is to use the Docker deamon of the host system. Good article regarding that: https://itnext.io/docker-in-docker-521958d34efd.

The secret to handle the permission issue, which this question is about, is to add permissions for the user of the container inside the container, not the host system. Only root user has permissions to do that by default, so

docker exec -it -u root <container-name> bash
usermod -a -G docker <username>

will do it. Remember to restart the container.

I guess the simpliest way to achive this is to create a customised Dockerfile:

# Official jenkins image
FROM jenkins/jenkins:lts
# Swith to root to be able to install Docker and modify permissions
USER root
RUN apt-get update
# Install docker
RUN curl -sSL https://get.docker.com/ | sh
# Add jenkins user to docker group
RUN usermod -a -G docker jenkins
# Switch back to default user
USER jenkins

# Bild the image:
# sudo docker build -t yourusername/imagename .
# Run the image and mount with the followin bind mount option:
# sudo docker run --name imagename -d -p8080:8080 -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock yourusername/imagename

Android java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError

Imaage

Go to Order and export from project properties and make sure you're including the required jars in the export, this did it for me

How to call Stored Procedures with EntityFramework?

This is an example of querying MySQL procedure using Entity Framework

This is the definition of my Stored Procedure in MySQL:

CREATE PROCEDURE GetUpdatedAds (
    IN curChangeTracker BIGINT
    IN PageSize INT
) 
BEGIN
   -- select some recored...
END;

And this is how I query it using Entity Framework:

 var curChangeTracker = new SqlParameter("@curChangeTracker", MySqlDbType.Int64).Value = 0;
 var pageSize = new SqlParameter("@PageSize", (MySqlDbType.Int64)).Value = 100;

 var res = _context.Database.SqlQuery<MyEntityType>($"call GetUpdatedAds({curChangeTracker}, {pageSize})");

Note that I am using C# String Interpolation to build my Query String.

Retrieve last 100 lines logs

I know this is very old, but, for whoever it may helps.

less +F my_log_file.log

that's just basic, with less you can do lot more powerful things. once you start seeing logs you can do search, go to line number, search for pattern, much more plus it is faster for large files.

its like vim for logs[totally my opinion]

original less's documentation : https://linux.die.net/man/1/less

less cheatsheet : https://gist.github.com/glnds/8862214

How to select bottom most rows?

 
SELECT
    columns
FROM
(
     SELECT TOP 200
          columns
     FROM
          My_Table
     ORDER BY
          a_column DESC
) SQ
ORDER BY
     a_column ASC

Put current changes in a new Git branch

You can simply check out a new branch, and then commit:

git checkout -b my_new_branch
git commit

Checking out the new branch will not discard your changes.

Passing Arrays to Function in C++

I just wanna add this, when you access the position of the array like

arg[n]

is the same as

*(arg + n) than means an offset of n starting from de arg address.

so arg[0] will be *arg

How to increase code font size in IntelliJ?

Change the "Color Scheme Font". and you will get what you want. I have faced the same issue and fixed it.

How to use MySQLdb with Python and Django in OSX 10.6?

How I got it working:

virtualenv -p python3.5 env/test

After sourcing my env:

pip install pymysql
pip install django

Then, I ran the startproject and inside the manage.py, I added this:

+ try:
+     import pymysql
+     pymysql.install_as_MySQLdb()
+ except:
+     pass

Also, updated this inside settings:

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
        'NAME': 'foobar_db',
        'USER': 'foobaruser',
        'PASSWORD': 'foobarpwd',
    }
}

I also have configparser==3.5.0 installed in my virtualenv, not sure if that was required or not...

Hope it helps,

How to get only filenames within a directory using c#?

You can simply use linq

Directory.EnumerateFiles(LoanFolder).Select(file => Path.GetFileName(file));

Note: EnumeratesFiles is more efficient compared to Directory.GetFiles as you can start enumerating the collection of names before the whole collection is returned.

Conda command not found

Maybe you need to execute "source ~/.bashrc"

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

Not sure you resolved this issue or not, but this is how I do it and it works on Android:

  1. Use openssl to merge client's cert(cert must be signed by a CA that accepted by server) and private key into a PCKS12 format key pair: openssl pkcs12 -export -in clientcert.pem -inkey clientkey.pem -out client.p12
  2. You may need patch your JRE to umlimited strength encryption depends on your key strength: copy the jar files fromJCE 5.0 unlimited strength Jurisdiction Policy FIles and override those in your JRE (eg.C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\lib\security)
  3. Use Portecle tool mentioned above and create a new keystore with BKS format
  4. Import PCKS12 key pair generated in step 1 and save it as BKS keystore. This keystore works with Android client authentication.
  5. If you need to do certificate chain, you can use this IBM tool:KeyMan to merge client's PCKS12 key pair with CA cert. But it only generate JKS keystore, so you again need Protecle to convert it to BKS format.

What's the difference between the atomic and nonatomic attributes?

The best way to understand the difference is using the following example.

Suppose there is an atomic string property called "name", and if you call [self setName:@"A"] from thread A, call [self setName:@"B"] from thread B, and call [self name] from thread C, then all operations on different threads will be performed serially which means if one thread is executing a setter or getter, then other threads will wait.

This makes property "name" read/write safe, but if another thread, D, calls [name release] simultaneously then this operation might produce a crash because there is no setter/getter call involved here. Which means an object is read/write safe (ATOMIC), but not thread-safe as another threads can simultaneously send any type of messages to the object. The developer should ensure thread-safety for such objects.

If the property "name" was nonatomic, then all threads in above example - A,B, C and D will execute simultaneously producing any unpredictable result. In case of atomic, either one of A, B or C will execute first, but D can still execute in parallel.

How to use 'git pull' from the command line?

One more option is to add the path of the privatekey file like this in terminal:

ssh-add "path to the privatekeyfile"

and then execute the pull command

New to unit testing, how to write great tests?

It's worth noting that retro-fitting unit tests into existing code is far more difficult than driving the creation of that code with tests in the first place. That's one of the big questions in dealing with legacy applications... how to unit test? This has been asked many times before (so you may be closed as a dupe question), and people usually end up here:

Moving existing code to Test Driven Development

I second the accepted answer's book recommendation, but beyond that there's more information linked in the answers there.

Best practices for copying files with Maven

In order to copy a file use:

        <plugin>
            <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>3.1.0</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>copy-resource-one</id>
                    <phase>install</phase>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>copy-resources</goal>
                    </goals>

                    <configuration>
                        <outputDirectory>${basedir}/destination-folder</outputDirectory>
                        <resources>
                            <resource>
                                <directory>/source-folder</directory>
                                <includes>
                                    <include>file.jar</include>
                                </includes>
                            </resource>
                        </resources>
                    </configuration>
                </execution>
           </executions>
        </plugin>

In order to copy folder with sub-folders use next configuration:

           <configuration>
              <outputDirectory>${basedir}/target-folder</outputDirectory>
              <resources>          
                <resource>
                  <directory>/source-folder</directory>
                  <filtering>true</filtering>
                </resource>
              </resources>              
            </configuration>

Drop all duplicate rows across multiple columns in Python Pandas

use groupby and filter

import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame({"A":["foo", "foo", "foo", "bar"], "B":[0,1,1,1], "C":["A","A","B","A"]})
df.groupby(["A", "C"]).filter(lambda df:df.shape[0] == 1)

What port is used by Java RMI connection?

If you can modify the client, then have it print out the remote reference and you will see what port it's using. E.g.

ServerApi server = (ServerApi) registry.lookup(ServerApi.RMI_NAME);
System.out.println("Got server handle " + server);

will produce something like:

Got server handle Proxy[ServerApi,RemoteObjectInvocationHandler[UnicastRef [liveRef: [endpoint:172.17.3.190:9001,objID:[-7c63fea8:...

where you can see the port is 9001. If the remote class is not specifying the port, then it will change across reboots. If you want to use a fixed port then you need to make sure the remote class constructor does something like:

super(rmiPort)

What exactly does the T and Z mean in timestamp?

The T doesn't really stand for anything. It is just the separator that the ISO 8601 combined date-time format requires. You can read it as an abbreviation for Time.

The Z stands for the Zero timezone, as it is offset by 0 from the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

Both characters are just static letters in the format, which is why they are not documented by the datetime.strftime() method. You could have used Q or M or Monty Python and the method would have returned them unchanged as well; the method only looks for patterns starting with % to replace those with information from the datetime object.

How to capitalize the first letter of a String in Java?

You can use the following code:

public static String capitalizeString(String string) {

    if (string == null || string.trim().isEmpty()) {
        return string;
    }
    char c[] = string.trim().toLowerCase().toCharArray();
    c[0] = Character.toUpperCase(c[0]);

    return new String(c);

}

example test with JUnit: 

@Test
public void capitalizeStringUpperCaseTest() {

    String string = "HELLO WORLD  ";

    string = capitalizeString(string);

    assertThat(string, is("Hello world"));
}

@Test
public void capitalizeStringLowerCaseTest() {

    String string = "hello world  ";

    string = capitalizeString(string);

    assertThat(string, is("Hello world"));
}

Insert data into table with result from another select query

If table_2 is empty, then try the following insert statement:

insert into table_2 (itemid,location1) 
select itemid,quantity from table_1 where locationid=1

If table_2 already contains the itemid values, then try this update statement:

update table_2 set location1=
(select quantity from table_1 where locationid=1 and table_1.itemid = table_2.itemid)

How do I make a delay in Java?

Use Thread.sleep(100);. The unit of time is milliseconds

For example:

public class SleepMessages {
    public static void main(String args[])
        throws InterruptedException {
        String importantInfo[] = {
            "Mares eat oats",
            "Does eat oats",
            "Little lambs eat ivy",
            "A kid will eat ivy too"
        };

        for (int i = 0;
             i < importantInfo.length;
             i++) {
            //Pause for 4 seconds
            Thread.sleep(4000);
            //Print a message
            System.out.println(importantInfo[i]);
        }
    }
}

Convert Object to JSON string

You can use the excellent jquery-Json plugin:

http://code.google.com/p/jquery-json/

Makes it easy to convert to and from Json objects.

crop text too long inside div

 
.crop { 
  overflow:hidden; 
  white-space:nowrap; 
  text-overflow:ellipsis; 
  width:100px; 
}?

http://jsfiddle.net/hT3YA/

Get the contents of a table row with a button click

 
function useAdress () { 
var id = $("#choose-address-table").find(".nr:first").text();
alert (id);
$("#resultas").append(id); // Testing: append the contents of the td to a div
};

then on your button: 

onclick="useAdress()"

How to check if an element does NOT have a specific class?

sdleihssirhc's answer is of course the correct one for the case in the question, but just as a reference if you need to select elements that don't have a certain class, you can use the not selector:

// select all divs that don't have class test
$( 'div' ).not( ".test" );
$( 'div:not(.test)' );  // <-- alternative

Using Java with Nvidia GPUs (CUDA)

First of all, you should be aware of the fact that CUDA will not automagically make computations faster. On the one hand, because GPU programming is an art, and it can be very, very challenging to get it right. On the other hand, because GPUs are well-suited only for certain kinds of computations.

This may sound confusing, because you can basically compute anything on the GPU. The key point is, of course, whether you will achieve a good speedup or not. The most important classification here is whether a problem is task parallel or data parallel. The first one refers, roughly speaking, to problems where several threads are working on their own tasks, more or less independently. The second one refers to problems where many threads are all doing the same - but on different parts of the data.

The latter is the kind of problem that GPUs are good at: They have many cores, and all the cores do the same, but operate on different parts of the input data.

You mentioned that you have "simple math but with huge amount of data". Although this may sound like a perfectly data-parallel problem and thus like it was well-suited for a GPU, there is another aspect to consider: GPUs are ridiculously fast in terms of theoretical computational power (FLOPS, Floating Point Operations Per Second). But they are often throttled down by the memory bandwidth.

This leads to another classification of problems. Namely whether problems are memory bound or compute bound.

The first one refers to problems where the number of instructions that are done for each data element is low. For example, consider a parallel vector addition: You'll have to read two data elements, then perform a single addition, and then write the sum into the result vector. You will not see a speedup when doing this on the GPU, because the single addition does not compensate for the efforts of reading/writing the memory.

The second term, "compute bound", refers to problems where the number of instructions is high compared to the number of memory reads/writes. For example, consider a matrix multiplication: The number of instructions will be O(n^3) when n is the size of the matrix. In this case, one can expect that the GPU will outperform a CPU at a certain matrix size. Another example could be when many complex trigonometric computations (sine/cosine etc) are performed on "few" data elements.

As a rule of thumb: You can assume that reading/writing one data element from the "main" GPU memory has a latency of about 500 instructions....

Therefore, another key point for the performance of GPUs is data locality: If you have to read or write data (and in most cases, you will have to ;-)), then you should make sure that the data is kept as close as possible to the GPU cores. GPUs thus have certain memory areas (referred to as "local memory" or "shared memory") that usually is only a few KB in size, but particularly efficient for data that is about to be involved in a computation.

So to emphasize this again: GPU programming is an art, that is only remotely related to parallel programming on the CPU. Things like Threads in Java, with all the concurrency infrastructure like ThreadPoolExecutors, ForkJoinPools etc. might give the impression that you just have to split your work somehow and distribute it among several processors. On the GPU, you may encounter challenges on a much lower level: Occupancy, register pressure, shared memory pressure, memory coalescing ... just to name a few.

However, when you have a data-parallel, compute-bound problem to solve, the GPU is the way to go.

A general remark: Your specifically asked for CUDA. But I'd strongly recommend you to also have a look at OpenCL. It has several advantages. First of all, it's an vendor-independent, open industry standard, and there are implementations of OpenCL by AMD, Apple, Intel and NVIDIA. Additionally, there is a much broader support for OpenCL in the Java world. The only case where I'd rather settle for CUDA is when you want to use the CUDA runtime libraries, like CUFFT for FFT or CUBLAS for BLAS (Matrix/Vector operations). Although there are approaches for providing similar libraries for OpenCL, they can not directly be used from Java side, unless you create your own JNI bindings for these libraries.

You might also find it interesting to hear that in October 2012, the OpenJDK HotSpot group started the project "Sumatra": http://openjdk.java.net/projects/sumatra/ . The goal of this project is to provide GPU support directly in the JVM, with support from the JIT. The current status and first results can be seen in their mailing list at http://mail.openjdk.java.net/mailman/listinfo/sumatra-dev

However, a while ago, I collected some resources related to "Java on the GPU" in general. I'll summarize these again here, in no particular order.

(Disclaimer: I'm the author of http://jcuda.org/ and http://jocl.org/ )

(Byte)code translation and OpenCL code generation:

https://github.com/aparapi/aparapi : An open-source library that is created and actively maintained by AMD. In a special "Kernel" class, one can override a specific method which should be executed in parallel. The byte code of this method is loaded at runtime using an own bytecode reader. The code is translated into OpenCL code, which is then compiled using the OpenCL compiler. The result can then be executed on the OpenCL device, which may be a GPU or a CPU. If the compilation into OpenCL is not possible (or no OpenCL is available), the code will still be executed in parallel, using a Thread Pool.

https://github.com/pcpratts/rootbeer1 : An open-source library for converting parts of Java into CUDA programs. It offers dedicated interfaces that may be implemented to indicate that a certain class should be executed on the GPU. In contrast to Aparapi, it tries to automatically serialize the "relevant" data (that is, the complete relevant part of the object graph!) into a representation that is suitable for the GPU.

https://code.google.com/archive/p/java-gpu/ : A library for translating annotated Java code (with some limitations) into CUDA code, which is then compiled into a library that executes the code on the GPU. The Library was developed in the context of a PhD thesis, which contains profound background information about the translation process.

https://github.com/ochafik/ScalaCL : Scala bindings for OpenCL. Allows special Scala collections to be processed in parallel with OpenCL. The functions that are called on the elements of the collections can be usual Scala functions (with some limitations) which are then translated into OpenCL kernels.

Language extensions

http://www.ateji.com/px/index.html : A language extension for Java that allows parallel constructs (e.g. parallel for loops, OpenMP style) which are then executed on the GPU with OpenCL. Unfortunately, this very promising project is no longer maintained.

http://www.habanero.rice.edu/Publications.html (JCUDA) : A library that can translate special Java Code (called JCUDA code) into Java- and CUDA-C code, which can then be compiled and executed on the GPU. However, the library does not seem to be publicly available.

https://www2.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/EN/research/JavaOpenMP/index.html : Java language extension for for OpenMP constructs, with a CUDA backend

Java OpenCL/CUDA binding libraries

https://github.com/ochafik/JavaCL : Java bindings for OpenCL: An object-oriented OpenCL library, based on auto-generated low-level bindings

http://jogamp.org/jocl/www/ : Java bindings for OpenCL: An object-oriented OpenCL library, based on auto-generated low-level bindings

http://www.lwjgl.org/ : Java bindings for OpenCL: Auto-generated low-level bindings and object-oriented convenience classes

http://jocl.org/ : Java bindings for OpenCL: Low-level bindings that are a 1:1 mapping of the original OpenCL API

http://jcuda.org/ : Java bindings for CUDA: Low-level bindings that are a 1:1 mapping of the original CUDA API

Miscellaneous

http://sourceforge.net/projects/jopencl/ : Java bindings for OpenCL. Seem to be no longer maintained since 2010

http://www.hoopoe-cloud.com/ : Java bindings for CUDA. Seem to be no longer maintained

Convert IEnumerable to DataTable

Firstly you need to add a where T:class constraint - you can't call GetValue on value types unless they're passed by ref.

Secondly GetValue is very slow and gets called a lot.

To get round this we can create a delegate and call that instead:

MethodInfo method = property.GetGetMethod(true);
Delegate.CreateDelegate(typeof(Func<TClass, TProperty>), method );

The problem is that we don't know TProperty, but as usual on here Jon Skeet has the answer - we can use reflection to retrieve the getter delegate, but once we have it we don't need to reflect again:

public class ReflectionUtility
{
    internal static Func<object, object> GetGetter(PropertyInfo property)
    {
        // get the get method for the property
        MethodInfo method = property.GetGetMethod(true);

        // get the generic get-method generator (ReflectionUtility.GetSetterHelper<TTarget, TValue>)
        MethodInfo genericHelper = typeof(ReflectionUtility).GetMethod(
            "GetGetterHelper",
            BindingFlags.Static | BindingFlags.NonPublic);

        // reflection call to the generic get-method generator to generate the type arguments
        MethodInfo constructedHelper = genericHelper.MakeGenericMethod(
            method.DeclaringType,
            method.ReturnType);

        // now call it. The null argument is because it's a static method.
        object ret = constructedHelper.Invoke(null, new object[] { method });

        // cast the result to the action delegate and return it
        return (Func<object, object>) ret;
    }

    static Func<object, object> GetGetterHelper<TTarget, TResult>(MethodInfo method)
        where TTarget : class // target must be a class as property sets on structs need a ref param
    {
        // Convert the slow MethodInfo into a fast, strongly typed, open delegate
        Func<TTarget, TResult> func = (Func<TTarget, TResult>) Delegate.CreateDelegate(typeof(Func<TTarget, TResult>), method);

        // Now create a more weakly typed delegate which will call the strongly typed one
        Func<object, object> ret = (object target) => (TResult) func((TTarget) target);
        return ret;
    }
}

So now your method becomes:

public static DataTable ToDataTable<T>(this IEnumerable<T> items) 
    where T: class
{  
    // ... create table the same way

    var propGetters = new List<Func<T, object>>();
foreach (var prop in props)
    {
        Func<T, object> func = (Func<T, object>) ReflectionUtility.GetGetter(prop);
        propGetters.Add(func);
    }

    // Add the property values per T as rows to the datatable
    foreach (var item in items) 
    {  
        var values = new object[props.Length];  
        for (var i = 0; i < props.Length; i++) 
        {
            //values[i] = props[i].GetValue(item, null);   
            values[i] = propGetters[i](item);
        }    

        table.Rows.Add(values);  
    } 

    return table; 
}

You could further optimise it by storing the getters for each type in a static dictionary, then you will only have the reflection overhead once for each type.

Python progression path - From apprentice to guru

 
def apprentice():
  read(diveintopython)
  experiment(interpreter)
  read(python_tutorial)
  experiment(interpreter, modules/files)
  watch(pycon)

def master():
  refer(python-essential-reference)
  refer(PEPs/language reference)
  experiment()
  read(good_python_code) # Eg. twisted, other libraries
  write(basic_library)   # reinvent wheel and compare to existing wheels
  if have_interesting_ideas:
     give_talk(pycon)

def guru():
  pass # Not qualified to comment. Fix the GIL perhaps?

How to get an Instagram Access Token

go to manage clinet page in :

http://www.instagram.com/developer/

set a redirect url

then :

use this code to get access token :

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<title>tst</title>
<script src="../jq.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
       $.ajax({
            type: 'GET',
            url: 'https://api.instagram.com/oauth/authorize/?client_id=CLIENT-??ID&redirect_uri=REDI?RECT-URI&response_ty?pe=code'
            dataType: 'jsonp'}).done(function(response){
                var access = window.location.hash.substring(14);
                //you have access token in access var   
            });
</script>
</head>
<body>  
</body>
</html>

How to install an apk on the emulator in Android Studio?

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When you start Android studio Look for Profile or Debug apk.

After clicking you get the option to browse for the saved apk and you will be bale to later run it using emulator

How can I convert a stack trace to a string?

If you are developing for Android, a far easier way is to use this:

import android.util.Log;

String stackTrace = Log.getStackTraceString(exception);

The format is the same as getStacktrace, for e.g.

09-24 16:09:07.042: I/System.out(4844): java.lang.NullPointerException
09-24 16:09:07.042: I/System.out(4844):   at com.temp.ttscancel.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:43)
09-24 16:09:07.042: I/System.out(4844):   at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5248)
09-24 16:09:07.043: I/System.out(4844):   at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1110)
09-24 16:09:07.043: I/System.out(4844):   at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2162)
09-24 16:09:07.043: I/System.out(4844):   at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2257)
09-24 16:09:07.043: I/System.out(4844):   at android.app.ActivityThread.access$800(ActivityThread.java:139)
09-24 16:09:07.043: I/System.out(4844):   at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1210)
09-24 16:09:07.043: I/System.out(4844):   at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
09-24 16:09:07.043: I/System.out(4844):   at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:136)
09-24 16:09:07.044: I/System.out(4844):   at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5097)
09-24 16:09:07.044: I/System.out(4844):   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
09-24 16:09:07.044: I/System.out(4844):   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
09-24 16:09:07.044: I/System.out(4844):   at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:785)
09-24 16:09:07.044: I/System.out(4844):   at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:601)

Can I use CASE statement in a JOIN condition?

I think you need two case statements:

SELECT  *
FROM    sys.indexes i
    JOIN sys.partitions p
        ON i.index_id = p.index_id 
    JOIN sys.allocation_units a
        ON 
        -- left side of join on statement
            CASE
               WHEN a.type IN (1, 3)
                   THEN a.container_id
               WHEN a.type IN (2)
                   THEN a.container_id
            END 
        = 
        -- right side of join on statement
            CASE
               WHEN a.type IN (1, 3)
                   THEN p.hobt_id
               WHEN a.type IN (2)
                   THEN p.partition_id
            END

This is because:

  • the CASE statement returns a single value at the END
  • the ON statement compares two values
  • your CASE statement was doing the comparison inside of the CASE statement. I would guess that if you put your CASE statement in your SELECT you would get a boolean '1' or '0' indicating whether the CASE statement evaluated to True or False

Installing and Running MongoDB on OSX

additionally you may want mongo to run on another port, then paste this command on terminal,

mongod --dbpath /data/db/ --port 27018

where 27018 is the port we want mongo to run on

assumptions

  1. mongod exists in your bin i.e /usr/local/bin/ for mac ( which would be if you installed with brew), otherwise you'd need to navigate to the path where mongo is installed
  2. the folder /data/db/ exists

Append text to file from command line without using io redirection

You can use Vim in Ex mode:

ex -sc 'a|BRAVO' -cx file

  1. a append text

  2. x save and close

How to get to a particular element in a List in java?

 
CSVReader reader = new CSVReader(new FileReader(
                "myfile.csv"));
        try {
            List<String[]> myEntries = reader.readAll();
            for (String[] s : myEntries) {
               for(String ss : s) {
                   System.out.print(", " + ss);
               }

            }
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

Change private static final field using Java reflection

If your field is simply private you can do this:

MyClass myClass= new MyClass();
Field aField= myClass.getClass().getDeclaredField("someField");
aField.setAccessible(true);
aField.set(myClass, "newValueForAString");

and throw/handle NoSuchFieldException

What is thread safe or non-thread safe in PHP?

Needed background on concurrency approaches:

Different web servers implement different techniques for handling incoming HTTP requests in parallel. A pretty popular technique is using threads -- that is, the web server will create/dedicate a single thread for each incoming request. The Apache HTTP web server supports multiple models for handling requests, one of which (called the worker MPM) uses threads. But it supports another concurrency model called the prefork MPM which uses processes -- that is, the web server will create/dedicate a single process for each request.

There are also other completely different concurrency models (using Asynchronous sockets and I/O), as well as ones that mix two or even three models together. For the purpose of answering this question, we are only concerned with the two models above, and taking Apache HTTP server as an example.

Needed background on how PHP "integrates" with web servers:

PHP itself does not respond to the actual HTTP requests -- this is the job of the web server. So we configure the web server to forward requests to PHP for processing, then receive the result and send it back to the user. There are multiple ways to chain the web server with PHP. For Apache HTTP Server, the most popular is "mod_php". This module is actually PHP itself, but compiled as a module for the web server, and so it gets loaded right inside it.

There are other methods for chaining PHP with Apache and other web servers, but mod_php is the most popular one and will also serve for answering your question.

You may not have needed to understand these details before, because hosting companies and GNU/Linux distros come with everything prepared for us.

Now, onto your question!

Since with mod_php, PHP gets loaded right into Apache, if Apache is going to handle concurrency using its Worker MPM (that is, using Threads) then PHP must be able to operate within this same multi-threaded environment -- meaning, PHP has to be thread-safe to be able to play ball correctly with Apache!

At this point, you should be thinking "OK, so if I'm using a multi-threaded web server and I'm going to embed PHP right into it, then I must use the thread-safe version of PHP". And this would be correct thinking. However, as it happens, PHP's thread-safety is highly disputed. It's a use-if-you-really-really-know-what-you-are-doing ground.

Final notes

In case you are wondering, my personal advice would be to not use PHP in a multi-threaded environment if you have the choice!

Speaking only of Unix-based environments, I'd say that fortunately, you only have to think of this if you are going to use PHP with Apache web server, in which case you are advised to go with the prefork MPM of Apache (which doesn't use threads, and therefore, PHP thread-safety doesn't matter) and all GNU/Linux distributions that I know of will take that decision for you when you are installing Apache + PHP through their package system, without even prompting you for a choice. If you are going to use other webservers such as nginx or lighttpd, you won't have the option to embed PHP into them anyway. You will be looking at using FastCGI or something equal which works in a different model where PHP is totally outside of the web server with multiple PHP processes used for answering requests through e.g. FastCGI. For such cases, thread-safety also doesn't matter. To see which version your website is using put a file containing <?php phpinfo(); ?> on your site and look for the Server API entry. This could say something like CGI/FastCGI or Apache 2.0 Handler.

If you also look at the command-line version of PHP -- thread safety does not matter.

Finally, if thread-safety doesn't matter so which version should you use -- the thread-safe or the non-thread-safe? Frankly, I don't have a scientific answer! But I'd guess that the non-thread-safe version is faster and/or less buggy, or otherwise they would have just offered the thread-safe version and not bothered to give us the choice!

Step out of current function with GDB

You can use the finish command.

finish: Continue running until just after function in the selected stack frame returns. Print the returned value (if any). This command can be abbreviated as fin.

(See 5.2 Continuing and Stepping.)

How to find time complexity of an algorithm

O(n) is big O notation used for writing time complexity of an algorithm. When you add up the number of executions in an algoritm you'll get an expression in result like 2N+2, in this expression N is the dominating term(the term having largest effect on expression if its value increases or decreases). Now O(N) is the time comlexity while N is dominating term. Example

For i= 1 to n;
  j= 0;
while(j<=n);
  j=j+1;

here total number of executions for inner loop are n+1 and total number of executions for outer loop are n(n+1)/2, so total number of executions for whole algorithm are n+1+n(n+1/2) = (n^2+3n)/2. here n^2 is the dominating term so the time complexity for this algorithm is O(n^2)

Excel: Can I create a Conditional Formula based on the Color of a Cell?

You can use this function (I found it here: http://excelribbon.tips.net/T010780_Colors_in_an_IF_Function.html):

Function GetFillColor(Rng As Range) As Long
    GetFillColor = Rng.Interior.ColorIndex
End Function

Here is an explanation, how to create user-defined functions: http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-User-Defined-Function-in-Microsoft-Excel

In your worksheet, you can use the following: =GetFillColor(B5)

Color different parts of a RichTextBox string

Selecting text as said from somebody, may the selection appear momentarily. In Windows Forms applications there is no other solutions for the problem, but today I found a bad, working, way to solve: you can put a PictureBox in overlapping to the RichtextBox with the screenshot of if, during the selection and the changing color or font, making it after reappear all, when the operation is complete.

Code is here...

//The PictureBox has to be invisible before this, at creation
//tb variable is your RichTextBox
//inputPreview variable is your PictureBox
using (Graphics g = inputPreview.CreateGraphics())
{
    Point loc = tb.PointToScreen(new Point(0, 0));
    g.CopyFromScreen(loc, loc, tb.Size);
    Point pt = tb.GetPositionFromCharIndex(tb.TextLength);
    g.FillRectangle(new SolidBrush(Color.Red), new Rectangle(pt.X, 0, 100, tb.Height));
}
inputPreview.Invalidate();
inputPreview.Show();
//Your code here (example: tb.Select(...); tb.SelectionColor = ...;)
inputPreview.Hide();

Better is to use WPF; this solution isn't perfect, but for Winform it works.

Comparing two .jar files

Create a folder and create another 2 folders inside it like old and new. add relevant jar files to the folders. then open the first folder using IntelliJ. after that click whatever 2 files do you want to compare and right-click and click compare archives.

XDocument or XmlDocument

If you're using .NET version 3.0 or lower, you have to use XmlDocument aka the classic DOM API. Likewise you'll find there are some other APIs which will expect this.

If you get the choice, however, I would thoroughly recommend using XDocument aka LINQ to XML. It's much simpler to create documents and process them. For example, it's the difference between:

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
XmlElement root = doc.CreateElement("root");
root.SetAttribute("name", "value");
XmlElement child = doc.CreateElement("child");
child.InnerText = "text node";
root.AppendChild(child);
doc.AppendChild(root);

and

XDocument doc = new XDocument(
    new XElement("root",
                 new XAttribute("name", "value"),
                 new XElement("child", "text node")));

Namespaces are pretty easy to work with in LINQ to XML, unlike any other XML API I've ever seen:

XNamespace ns = "http://somewhere.com";
XElement element = new XElement(ns + "elementName");
// etc

LINQ to XML also works really well with LINQ - its construction model allows you to build elements with sequences of sub-elements really easily:

// Customers is a List<Customer>
XElement customersElement = new XElement("customers",
    customers.Select(c => new XElement("customer",
        new XAttribute("name", c.Name),
        new XAttribute("lastSeen", c.LastOrder)
        new XElement("address",
            new XAttribute("town", c.Town),
            new XAttribute("firstline", c.Address1),
            // etc
    ));

It's all a lot more declarative, which fits in with the general LINQ style.

Now as Brannon mentioned, these are in-memory APIs rather than streaming ones (although XStreamingElement supports lazy output). XmlReader and XmlWriter are the normal ways of streaming XML in .NET, but you can mix all the APIs to some extent. For example, you can stream a large document but use LINQ to XML by positioning an XmlReader at the start of an element, reading an XElement from it and processing it, then moving on to the next element etc. There are various blog posts about this technique, here's one I found with a quick search.

Difference between one-to-many and many-to-one relationship

  • ---One to Many--- A Parent can have two or more children.

  • ---Many to one--- Those 3 children can have a single Parent

    Both are similar. This can be used according to the need. If you want to find children for a particular parent, then you can go with One-To-Many. Or else, want to find parents for twins, you may go with Many-To-One.

C# Java HashMap equivalent

Let me help you understand it with an example of "codaddict's algorithm"

'Dictionary in C#' is 'Hashmap in Java' in parallel universe.

Some implementations are different. See the example below to understand better.

Declaring Java HashMap:

Map<Integer, Integer> pairs = new HashMap<Integer, Integer>();

Declaring C# Dictionary:

Dictionary<int, int> Pairs = new Dictionary<int, int>();

Getting a value from a location:

pairs.get(input[i]); // in Java
Pairs[input[i]];     // in C#

Setting a value at location:

pairs.put(k - input[i], input[i]); // in Java
Pairs[k - input[i]] = input[i];    // in C#

An Overall Example can be observed from below Codaddict's algorithm.

codaddict's algorithm in Java:

import java.util.HashMap;

public class ArrayPairSum {

    public static void printSumPairs(int[] input, int k)
    {
        Map<Integer, Integer> pairs = new HashMap<Integer, Integer>();

        for (int i = 0; i < input.length; i++)
        {
            if (pairs.containsKey(input[i]))
                System.out.println(input[i] + ", " + pairs.get(input[i]));
            else
                pairs.put(k - input[i], input[i]);
        }

    }

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        int[] a = { 2, 45, 7, 3, 5, 1, 8, 9 };
        printSumPairs(a, 10);

    }
}

Codaddict's algorithm in C#

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

class Program
{
    static void checkPairs(int[] input, int k)
    {
        Dictionary<int, int> Pairs = new Dictionary<int, int>();

        for (int i = 0; i < input.Length; i++)
        {
            if (Pairs.ContainsKey(input[i]))
            {
                Console.WriteLine(input[i] + ", " + Pairs[input[i]]);
            }
            else
            {
                Pairs[k - input[i]] = input[i];
            }
        }
    }
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        int[] a = { 2, 45, 7, 3, 5, 1, 8, 9 };
        //method : codaddict's algorithm : O(n)
        checkPairs(a, 10);
        Console.Read();
    }
}

How do I change the background color with JavaScript?

Css approach:

If you want to see continuous colour, use this code:

body{
    background-color:black;
    animation: image 10s infinite alternate;
    animation:image 10s infinite alternate;
    animation:image 10s infinite alternate;
}

@keyframes image{
    0%{
background-color:blue;
}
25%/{
    background-color:red;
}
50%{
    background-color:green;
}
75%{

    background-color:pink;
}
100%{
    background-color:yellow;
    }
  }

If you want to see it faster or slower, change 10 second to 5 second etc.

How to use http.client in Node.js if there is basic authorization

for what it's worth I'm using node.js 0.6.7 on OSX and I couldn't get 'Authorization':auth to work with our proxy, it needed to be set to 'Proxy-Authorization':auth my test code is: 

var http = require("http");
var auth = 'Basic ' + new Buffer("username:password").toString('base64');
var options = {
    host: 'proxyserver',
    port: 80,
    method:"GET",
    path: 'http://www.google.com',
    headers:{
        "Proxy-Authorization": auth,
        Host: "www.google.com"
    } 
};
http.get(options, function(res) {
    console.log(res);
    res.pipe(process.stdout);
});

Why does modulus division (%) only work with integers?

You're looking for fmod().

I guess to more specifically answer your question, in older languages the % operator was just defined as integer modular division and in newer languages they decided to expand the definition of the operator.

EDIT: If I were to wager a guess why, I would say it's because the idea of modular arithmetic originates in number theory and deals specifically with integers.

Setting the height of a DIV dynamically

document.getElementById('myDiv').style.height = 500;

This is the very basic JS code required to adjust the height of your object dynamically. I just did this very thing where I had some auto height property, but when I add some content via XMLHttpRequest I needed to resize my parent div and this offsetheight property did the trick in IE6/7 and FF3

Convert unix time stamp to date in java

You can use SimlpeDateFormat to format your date like this:

long unixSeconds = 1372339860;
// convert seconds to milliseconds
Date date = new java.util.Date(unixSeconds*1000L); 
// the format of your date
SimpleDateFormat sdf = new java.text.SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss z"); 
// give a timezone reference for formatting (see comment at the bottom)
sdf.setTimeZone(java.util.TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT-4")); 
String formattedDate = sdf.format(date);
System.out.println(formattedDate);

The pattern that SimpleDateFormat takes if very flexible, you can check in the javadocs all the variations you can use to produce different formatting based on the patterns you write given a specific Date. http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/SimpleDateFormat.html

  • Because a Date provides a getTime() method that returns the milliseconds since EPOC, it is required that you give to SimpleDateFormat a timezone to format the date properly acording to your timezone, otherwise it will use the default timezone of the JVM (which if well configured will anyways be right)

how to display toolbox on the left side of window of Visual Studio Express for windows phone 7 development?

In Visual Studio Express 2013 for web it's hidden away in View > Other Windows > Toolbox.

More elegant "ps aux | grep -v grep"

You could use preg_split instead of explode and split on [ ]+ (one or more spaces). But I think in this case you could go with preg_match_all and capturing:

preg_match_all('/[ ]php[ ]+\S+[ ]+(\S+)/', $input, $matches);
$result = $matches[1];

The pattern matches a space, php, more spaces, a string of non-spaces (the path), more spaces, and then captures the next string of non-spaces. The first space is mostly to ensure that you don't match php as part of a user name but really only as a command.

An alternative to capturing is the "keep" feature of PCRE. If you use \K in the pattern, everything before it is discarded in the match:

preg_match_all('/[ ]php[ ]+\S+[ ]+\K\S+/', $input, $matches);
$result = $matches[0];

I would use preg_match(). I do something similar for many of my system management scripts. Here is an example:

$test = "user     12052  0.2  0.1 137184 13056 ?        Ss   10:00   0:00 php /home/user/public_html/utilities/runProcFile.php cust1 cron
user     12054  0.2  0.1 137184 13064 ?        Ss   10:00   0:00 php /home/user/public_html/utilities/runProcFile.php cust3 cron
user     12055  0.6  0.1 137844 14220 ?        Ss   10:00   0:00 php /home/user/public_html/utilities/runProcFile.php cust4 cron
user     12057  0.2  0.1 137184 13052 ?        Ss   10:00   0:00 php /home/user/public_html/utilities/runProcFile.php cust89 cron
user     12058  0.2  0.1 137184 13052 ?        Ss   10:00   0:00 php /home/user/public_html/utilities/runProcFile.php cust435 cron
user     12059  0.3  0.1 135112 13000 ?        Ss   10:00   0:00 php /home/user/public_html/utilities/runProcFile.php cust16 cron
root     12068  0.0  0.0 106088  1164 pts/1    S+   10:00   0:00 sh -c ps aux | grep utilities > /home/user/public_html/logs/dashboard/currentlyPosting.txt
root     12070  0.0  0.0 103240   828 pts/1    R+   10:00   0:00 grep utilities";

$lines = explode("\n", $test);

foreach($lines as $line){
        if(preg_match("/.php[\s+](cust[\d]+)[\s+]cron/i", $line, $matches)){
                print_r($matches);
        }

}

The above prints:

Array
(
    [0] => .php cust1 cron
    [1] => cust1
)
Array
(
    [0] => .php cust3 cron
    [1] => cust3
)
Array
(
    [0] => .php cust4 cron
    [1] => cust4
)
Array
(
    [0] => .php cust89 cron
    [1] => cust89
)
Array
(
    [0] => .php cust435 cron
    [1] => cust435
)
Array
(
    [0] => .php cust16 cron
    [1] => cust16
)

You can set $test to equal the output from exec. the values you are looking for would be in the if statement under the foreach. $matches[1] will have the custx value.

What is "406-Not Acceptable Response" in HTTP?

In my case, I added:

Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

solved my problem completely.

Create a variable name with "paste" in R?

See ?assign.

> assign(paste("tra.", 1, sep = ""), 5)
> tra.1
  [1] 5

CSS background-image-opacity?

You can put a second element inside the element you wish to have a transparent background on.

<div class="container">
    <div class="container-background"></div>
    <div class="content">
         Yay, happy content!
    </div>
</div>

Then make the '.container-background' positioned absolutely to cover the parent element. At this point you'll be able to adjust the opacity of it without affecting the opacity of the content inside '.container'.

.container {
    position: relative;
}
.container .container-background {
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    right: 0;
    bottom: 0;
    left: 0;
    background: url(background.png);
    opacity: 0.5;
}
.container .content {
    position: relative;
    z-index: 1;
}

How to find the most recent file in a directory using .NET, and without looping?

I do this is a bunch of my apps and I use a statement like this:

  var inputDirectory = new DirectoryInfo("\\Directory_Path_here");
  var myFile = inputDirectory.GetFiles().OrderByDescending(f => f.LastWriteTime).First();

From here you will have the filename for the most recently saved/added/updated file in the Directory of the "inputDirectory" variable. Now you can access it and do what you want with it.

Hope that helps.

How to return 2 values from a Java method?

Return an Array Of Objects

private static Object[] f () 
{ 
     double x =1.0;  
     int y= 2 ;
     return new Object[]{Double.valueOf(x),Integer.valueOf(y)};  
}

How to inject window into a service?

This is working for me currently (2018-03, angular 5.2 with AoT, tested in angular-cli and a custom webpack build):

First, create an injectable service that provides a reference to window:

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';

// This interface is optional, showing how you can add strong typings for custom globals.
// Just use "Window" as the type if you don't have custom global stuff
export interface ICustomWindow extends Window {
    __custom_global_stuff: string;
}

function getWindow (): any {
    return window;
}

@Injectable()
export class WindowRefService {
    get nativeWindow (): ICustomWindow {
        return getWindow();
    }
}

Now, register that service with your root AppModule so it can be injected everywhere:

import { WindowRefService } from './window-ref.service';

@NgModule({        
  providers: [
    WindowRefService 
  ],
  ...
})
export class AppModule {}

and then later on where you need to inject window:

import { Component} from '@angular/core';
import { WindowRefService, ICustomWindow } from './window-ref.service';

@Component({ ... })
export default class MyCoolComponent {
    private _window: ICustomWindow;

    constructor (
        windowRef: WindowRefService
    ) {
        this._window = windowRef.nativeWindow;
    }

    public doThing (): void {
        let foo = this._window.XMLHttpRequest;
        let bar = this._window.__custom_global_stuff;
    }
...

You may also wish to add nativeDocument and other globals to this service in a similar way if you use these in your application.

edit: Updated with Truchainz suggestion. edit2: Updated for angular 2.1.2 edit3: Added AoT notes edit4: Adding any type workaround note edit5: Updated solution to use a WindowRefService which fixes an error I was getting when using previous solution with a different build edit6: adding example custom Window typing

Adding rows to tbody of a table using jQuery

use this

$("#tblEntAttributes tbody").append(newRowContent);

Target elements with multiple classes, within one rule

.border-blue.background { ... } is for one item with multiple classes.
.border-blue, .background { ... } is for multiple items each with their own class.
.border-blue .background { ... } is for one item where '.background' is the child of '.border-blue'.

See Chris' answer for a more thorough explanation.

What does "Table does not support optimize, doing recreate + analyze instead" mean?

That's really an informational message.

Likely, you're doing OPTIMIZE on an InnoDB table (table using the InnoDB storage engine, rather than the MyISAM storage engine).

InnoDB doesn't support the OPTIMIZE the way MyISAM does. It does something different. It creates an empty table, and copies all of the rows from the existing table into it, and essentially deletes the old table and renames the new table, and then runs an ANALYZE to gather statistics. That's the closest that InnoDB can get to doing an OPTIMIZE.

The message you are getting is basically MySQL server repeating what the InnoDB storage engine told MySQL server:

Table does not support optimize is the InnoDB storage engine saying...

"I (the InnoDB storage engine) don't do an OPTIMIZE operation like my friend (the MyISAM storage engine) does."

"doing recreate + analyze instead" is the InnoDB storage engine saying...

"I have decided to perform a different set of operations which will achieve an equivalent result."

Adding Apostrophe in every field in particular column for excel

I'm going to suggest the non-obvious. There is a fantastic (and often under-used) tool called the Immediate Window in Visual Basic Editor. Basically, you can write out commands in VBA and execute them on the spot, sort of like command prompt. It's perfect for cases like this.

Press ALT+F11 to open VBE, then Control+G to open the Immediate Window. Type the following and hit enter:

for each v in range("K2:K5000") : v.value = "'" & v.value : next

And boom! You are all done. No need to create a macro, declare variables, no need to drag and copy, etc. Close the window and get back to work. The only downfall is to undo it, you need to do it via code since VBA will destroy your undo stack (but that's simple).

How to preview a part of a large pandas DataFrame, in iPython notebook?

To see the first n rows of DataFrame:

df.head(n) # (n=5 by default)

To see the last n rows:

df.tail(n)

How can I get the current array index in a foreach loop?

$key is the index for the current array element, and $val is the value of that array element.

The first element has an index of 0. Therefore, to access it, use $arr[0]

To get the first element of the array, use this

$firstFound = false;
foreach($arr as $key=>$val)
{
    if (!$firstFound)
       $first = $val;
    else
       $firstFound = true;
    // do whatever you want here
}

// now ($first) has the value of the first element in the array

Converting 'ArrayList<String> to 'String[]' in Java

 
List <String> list = ...
String[] array = new String[list.size()];
int i=0;
for(String s: list){
  array[i++] = s;
}

Converting PHP result array to JSON

 
$result = mysql_query($query) or die("Data not found."); 
$rows=array(); 
while($r=mysql_fetch_assoc($result))
{ 
$rows[]=$r;
}
header("Content-type:application/json"); 
echo json_encode($rows);

how to set default main class in java?

Right-click the project node in the Projects window and choose Project Properties. then find run, there you can setup your main class,, **actually got it from netbeans default help

Fatal error: Namespace declaration statement has to be the very first statement in the script in

I have also faced the problem. In the php file, I have written following code where there was some space before php start tag 

<?php
namespace App\Controller;

when I remove that space, it solved.

Why do package names often begin with "com"

It's just a namespace definition to avoid collision of class names. The com.domain.package.Class is an established Java convention wherein the namespace is qualified with the company domain in reverse.

Cannot open include file: 'stdio.h' - Visual Studio Community 2017 - C++ Error

For CUDA:

Right Click on your project.

Go to Properties->CUDA and set "CUDA Toolkit Custom Dir" to your CUDA toolkit directory.

For me it was: C:\\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v10.0

enter image description here

difference between throw and throw new Exception()

throw; rethrows the original exception and preserves its original stack trace.

throw ex; throws the original exception but resets the stack trace, destroying all stack trace information until your catch block.


NEVER write throw ex;


throw new Exception(ex.Message); is even worse. It creates a brand new Exception instance, losing the original stack trace of the exception, as well as its type. (eg, IOException).
In addition, some exceptions hold additional information (eg, ArgumentException.ParamName).
throw new Exception(ex.Message); will destroy this information too.

In certain cases, you may want to wrap all exceptions in a custom exception object, so that you can provide additional information about what the code was doing when the exception was thrown.

To do this, define a new class that inherits Exception, add all four exception constructors, and optionally an additional constructor that takes an InnerException as well as additional information, and throw your new exception class, passing ex as the InnerException parameter. By passing the original InnerException, you preserve all of the original exception's properties, including the stack trace.

How to get the height of a body element

We were trying to avoid using the IE specific 

$window[0].document.body.clientHeight

And found that the following jQuery will not consistently yield the same value but eventually does at some point in our page load scenario which worked for us and maintained cross-browser support:

$(document).height()

Form inline inside a form horizontal in twitter bootstrap?

Don't nest <form> tags, that will not work. Just use Bootstrap classes.

Bootstrap 3

<form class="form-horizontal" role="form">
    <div class="form-group">
      <label for="inputType" class="col-md-2 control-label">Type</label>
      <div class="col-md-3">
          <input type="text" class="form-control" id="inputType" placeholder="Type">
      </div>
    </div>
    <div class="form-group">
        <span class="col-md-2 control-label">Metadata</span>
        <div class="col-md-6">
            <div class="form-group row">
                <label for="inputKey" class="col-md-1 control-label">Key</label>
                <div class="col-md-2">
                    <input type="text" class="form-control" id="inputKey" placeholder="Key">
                </div>
                <label for="inputValue" class="col-md-1 control-label">Value</label>
                <div class="col-md-2">
                    <input type="text" class="form-control" id="inputValue" placeholder="Value">
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</form>

You can achieve that behaviour in many ways, that's just an example. Test it on this bootply

Bootstrap 2

<form class="form-horizontal">
    <div class="control-group">
        <label class="control-label" for="inputType">Type</label>
        <div class="controls">
            <input type="text" id="inputType" placeholder="Type">
        </div>
    </div>
    <div class="control-group">
        <span class="control-label">Metadata</span>
        <div class="controls form-inline">
            <label for="inputKey">Key</label>
            <input type="text" class="input-small" placeholder="Key" id="inputKey">
            <label for="inputValue">Value</label>
            <input type="password" class="input-small" placeholder="Value" id="inputValue">
        </div>
    </div>
</form>

Note that I'm using .form-inline to get the propper styling inside a .controls.
You can test it on this jsfiddle

SQL Server 2008- Get table constraints

You Can Get With This Query

Unique Constraint,

Default Constraint With Value,

Foreign Key With referenced Table And Column

And Primary Key Constraint.

Select C.*, (Select definition From sys.default_constraints Where object_id = C.object_id) As dk_definition,
(Select definition From sys.check_constraints Where object_id = C.object_id) As ck_definition,
(Select name From sys.objects Where object_id = D.referenced_object_id) As fk_table,
(Select name From sys.columns Where column_id = D.parent_column_id And object_id = D.parent_object_id) As fk_col
From sys.objects As C
Left Join (Select * From sys.foreign_key_columns) As D On D.constraint_object_id = C.object_id 
Where C.parent_object_id = (Select object_id From sys.objects Where type = 'U'
And name = 'Table Name Here');

ReactJS call parent method

Pass the method from Parent component down as a prop to your Child component. ie:

export default class Parent extends Component {
  state = {
    word: ''
  }

  handleCall = () => {
    this.setState({ word: 'bar' })
  }

  render() {
    const { word } = this.state
    return <Child handler={this.handleCall} word={word} />
  }
}

const Child = ({ handler, word }) => (
<span onClick={handler}>Foo{word}</span>
)

mcrypt is deprecated, what is the alternative?

It's best practice to hash passwords so they are not decryptable. This makes things slightly more difficult for attackers that may have gained access to your database or files.

If you must encrypt your data and have it decryptable, a guide to secure encryption/decryption is available at https://paragonie.com/white-paper/2015-secure-php-data-encryption. To summarize that link:

  • Use Libsodium - A PHP extension
  • If you can't use Libsodium, use defuse/php-encryption - Straight PHP code
  • If you can't use Libsodium or defuse/php-encryption, use OpenSSL - A lot of servers will already have this installed. If not, it can be compiled with --with-openssl[=DIR]

How do I provide a username and password when running "git clone [email protected]"?

On Windows, the following steps should re-trigger the GitHub login window when git cloneing:

  • Search start menu for "Credential Manager"
  • Select "Windows Credentials"
  • Delete any credentials related to Git or GitHub

result

Is it possible to opt-out of dark mode on iOS 13?

Just simply add following key in your info.plist file :

<key>UIUserInterfaceStyle</key>
    <string>Light</string>

How to git ignore subfolders / subdirectories?

Seems this page still shows up on the top of Google search after so many years...

Modern versions of Git support nesting .gitignore files within a single repo. Just place a .gitignore file in the subdirectory that you want ignored. Use a single asterisk to match everything in that directory:

echo "*" > /path/to/bin/Debug/.gitignore
echo "*" > /path/to/bin/Release/.gitignore

If you've made previous commits, remember to remove previously tracked files:

git rm -rf /path/to/bin/Debug
git rm -rf /path/to/bin/Release

You can confirm it by doing git status to show you all the files removed from tracking.

Git: How to remove file from index without deleting files from any repository
  1. git rm --cached remove_file
  2. add file to gitignore
  3. git add .gitignore
  4. git commit -m "Excluding"
  5. Have fun ;)

Which type of folder structure should be used with Angular 2?

I think structuring the project by functionalities is a practical method. It makes the project scalable and maintainable easily. And it makes each part of the project working in a total autonomy. Let me know what you think about this structure below: ANGULAR TYPESCRIPT PROJECT STRUCTURE – ANGULAR 2

source : http://www.angulartypescript.com/angular-typescript-project-structure/

How to hide columns in an ASP.NET GridView with auto-generated columns?

I was having the same problem - need my GridView control's AutogenerateColumns to be 'true', due to it being bound by a SQL datasource, and thus I needed to hide some columns which must not be displayed in the GridView control.

The way to accomplish this is to add some code to your GridView's '_RowDataBound' event, such as this (let's assume your GridView's ID is = 'MyGridView'):

protected void MyGridView_RowDataBound(object sender, GridViewRowEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Row.RowType == DataControlRowType.DataRow)
    {
        e.Row.Cells[<index_of_cell>].Visible = false;
    }
}

That'll do the trick just fine ;-)

FirstOrDefault returns NullReferenceException if no match is found

Simply use the question mark trick for null checks:

string displayName = Dictionary.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Value.ID == long.Parse(options.ID))?.Value.DisplayName ?? "DEFINE A DEFAULT DISPLAY NAME HERE";

How do I install Keras and Theano in Anaconda Python on Windows?

In case you want to train CNN's with the theano backend like the Keras mnist_cnn.py example:

You better use theano bleeding edge version. Otherwise there may occur assertion errors.

  • Run Theano bleeding edge
    pip install --upgrade --no-deps git+git://github.com/Theano/Theano.git
  • Run Keras (like 1.0.8 works fine)
    pip install git+git://github.com/fchollet/keras.git

How to find keys of a hash?

You could use Underscore.js, which is a Javascript utility library.

_.keys({one : 1, two : 2, three : 3}); 
// => ["one", "two", "three"]

How can I use jQuery to make an input readonly?

These days with jQuery 1.6.1 or above it is recommended that .prop() be used when setting boolean attributes/properties.

$("#fieldName").prop("readonly", true);

Unexpected token }

You have endless loop in place:

function save() {
    var filename = id('filename').value;
    var name = id('name').value;
    var text = id('text').value;
    save(filename, name, text);
}

No idea what you're trying to accomplish with that endless loop but first of all get rid of it and see if things are working.

Can I give the col-md-1.5 in bootstrap?

Bootstrap has column offsets, so if you want columns with equal width without specifying size use this.

<div class="row">
  <div class="col">col</div>
  <div class="col">col</div>
  <div class="col">col</div>
  <div class="col">col</div>
</div>

Also check out this link https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/layout/grid/#all-breakpoints

Codesign error: Provisioning profile cannot be found after deleting expired profile

I agree with Brad's answer, that you can fix this problem by editing your target/project by hand, deleting any lines like this:

PROVISIONING_PROFILE = "487F3EAC-05FB-4A2A-9EA0-31F1F35760EB";
"PROVISIONING_PROFILE[sdk=iphoneos*]" = "487F3EAC-05FB-4A2A-9EA0-31F1F35760EB";

However, in Xcode 4.2 and later, there is a much easier way to access this text and select and delete it. In the Project Navigator on the left, select your project (the topmost line of the Project Navigator). Now simply choose View > Version Editor > Show Version Editor. This displays your project as text, and you can search for PROVISIONING and delete the troublesome line, right there in the editor pane of Xcode.

How do I translate an ISO 8601 datetime string into a Python datetime object?

aniso8601 should handle this. It also understands timezones, Python 2 and Python 3, and it has a reasonable coverage of the rest of ISO 8601, should you ever need it.

import aniso8601
aniso8601.parse_datetime('2007-03-04T21:08:12')

Finding modified date of a file/folder

Here's what worked for me:

$a = Get-ChildItem \\server\XXX\Received_Orders\*.* | Where{$_.LastWriteTime -ge (Get-Date).AddDays(-7)}
if ($a = (Get-ChildItem \\server\XXX\Received_Orders\*.* | Where{$_.LastWriteTime -gt (Get-Date).AddDays(-7)}  
#Im using the -gt switch instead of -ge
{}
Else
{
'STORE XXX HAS NOT RECEIVED ANY ORDERS IN THE PAST 7 DAYS'
}


$b = Get-ChildItem \\COMP NAME\Folder\*.* | Where{$_.LastWriteTime -ge (Get-Date).AddDays(-1)}
if ($b = (Get-ChildItem \\COMP NAME\TFolder\*.* | Where{$_.LastWriteTime -gt (Get-Date).AddDays(-1)))}
{}
Else
{
'STORE XXX DID NOT RUN ITS BACKUP LAST NIGHT'
}

Dropdown select with images

This is using ms-Dropdown : https://github.com/marghoobsuleman/ms-Dropdown

But data resource is json.

Example : http://jsfiddle.net/tcibikci/w3rdhj4s/6

HTML

<div id="byjson"></div>

Script

<script>
        var jsonData = [
            {description:'Choos your payment gateway', value:'', text:'Payment Gateway'},
            {image:'https://via.placeholder.com/50', description:'My life. My card...', value:'amex', text:'Amex'},
            {image:'https://via.placeholder.com/50', description:'It pays to Discover...', value:'Discover', text:'Discover'},
            {image:'https://via.placeholder.com/50', title:'For everything else...', description:'For everything else...', value:'Mastercard', text:'Mastercard'},
            {image:'https://via.placeholder.com/50', description:'Sorry not available...', value:'cash', text:'Cash on devlivery', disabled:true},
            {image:'https://via.placeholder.com/50', description:'All you need...', value:'Visa', text:'Visa'},
            {image:'https://via.placeholder.com/50', description:'Pay and get paid...', value:'Paypal', text:'Paypal'}
        ];
        $("#byjson").msDropDown({byJson:{data:jsonData, name:'payments2'}}).data("dd");
    }
</script>

How to Ping External IP from Java Android

I tried following code, which works for me.

private boolean executeCommand(){
        System.out.println("executeCommand");
        Runtime runtime = Runtime.getRuntime();
        try
        {
            Process  mIpAddrProcess = runtime.exec("/system/bin/ping -c 1 8.8.8.8");
            int mExitValue = mIpAddrProcess.waitFor();
            System.out.println(" mExitValue "+mExitValue);
            if(mExitValue==0){
                return true;
            }else{
                return false;
            }
        }
        catch (InterruptedException ignore)
        {
            ignore.printStackTrace();
            System.out.println(" Exception:"+ignore);
        } 
        catch (IOException e) 
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
            System.out.println(" Exception:"+e);
        }
        return false;
    }

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

For ruby or rails developers there is a nice gem available called street_address. I have been using this on one of my project and it does the work I need.

The only Issue I had was whenever an address is in this format P. O. Box 1410 Durham, NC 27702 it returned nil and therefore I had to replace "P. O. Box" with '' and after this it were able to parse it.

How permission can be checked at runtime without throwing SecurityException?

Step 1 - add permission request 

    String[] permissionArrays = new String[]{Manifest.permission.CAMERA, 
    Manifest.permission.WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE};
    int REQUEST_CODE = 101;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.M) {
            requestPermissions(permissionArrays, REQUEST_CODE );
        } else {
             // if already permition granted
            // PUT YOUR ACTION (Like Open cemara etc..)
        }
    }

Step 2 - Handle Permission result 

     @Override
public void onRequestPermissionsResult(int requestCode, String[] permissions, int[] grantResults) {
    super.onRequestPermissionsResult(requestCode, permissions, grantResults);
    boolean openActivityOnce = true;
    boolean openDialogOnce = true;
    if (requestCode == REQUEST_CODE ) {
        for (int i = 0; i < grantResults.length; i++) {
            String permission = permissions[i];

            isPermitted = grantResults[i] == PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED;

            if (grantResults[i] == PackageManager.PERMISSION_DENIED) {
                // user rejected the permission

            }else {
                //  user grant the permission
                // you can perfome your action 
            }
        }
    }
}

Programmatically set the initial view controller using Storyboards

I created a routing class to handle dynamic navigation and keep clean AppDelegate class, I hope it will help other too.

//
//  Routing.swift
// 
//
//  Created by Varun Naharia on 02/02/17.
//  Copyright © 2017 TechNaharia. All rights reserved.
//

import Foundation
import UIKit
import CoreLocation

class Routing {

    class func decideInitialViewController(window:UIWindow){
        let userDefaults = UserDefaults.standard
        if((Routing.getUserDefault("isFirstRun")) == nil)
        {
            Routing.setAnimatedAsInitialViewContoller(window: window)
        }
        else if((userDefaults.object(forKey: "User")) != nil)
        {
            Routing.setHomeAsInitialViewContoller(window: window)
        }
        else
        {
            Routing.setLoginAsInitialViewContoller(window: window)
        }

    }

    class func setAnimatedAsInitialViewContoller(window:UIWindow) {
        Routing.setUserDefault("Yes", KeyToSave: "isFirstRun")
        let mainStoryboard: UIStoryboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
        let animatedViewController: AnimatedViewController = mainStoryboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "AnimatedViewController") as! AnimatedViewController

        window.rootViewController = animatedViewController
        window.makeKeyAndVisible()
    }

    class func setHomeAsInitialViewContoller(window:UIWindow) {
        let userDefaults = UserDefaults.standard
        let decoded  = userDefaults.object(forKey: "User") as! Data
        User.currentUser = NSKeyedUnarchiver.unarchiveObject(with: decoded) as! User

        if(User.currentUser.userId != nil && User.currentUser.userId != "")
        {
            let mainStoryboard: UIStoryboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
            let homeViewController: HomeViewController = mainStoryboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "HomeViewController") as! HomeViewController
            let loginViewController: UINavigationController = mainStoryboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "LoginNavigationViewController") as! UINavigationController
            loginViewController.viewControllers.append(homeViewController)
            window.rootViewController = loginViewController
        }
        window.makeKeyAndVisible()
    }

    class func setLoginAsInitialViewContoller(window:UIWindow) {
        let mainStoryboard: UIStoryboard = UIStoryboard(name: "Main", bundle: nil)
        let loginViewController: UINavigationController = mainStoryboard.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "LoginNavigationViewController") as! UINavigationController

        window.rootViewController = loginViewController
        window.makeKeyAndVisible()
    }

  class func setUserDefault(_ ObjectToSave : Any?  , KeyToSave : String)
    {
        let defaults = UserDefaults.standard

        if (ObjectToSave != nil)
        {

            defaults.set(ObjectToSave, forKey: KeyToSave)
        }

        UserDefaults.standard.synchronize()
    }

    class func getUserDefault(_ KeyToReturnValye : String) -> Any?
    {
        let defaults = UserDefaults.standard

        if let name = defaults.value(forKey: KeyToReturnValye)
        {
            return name as Any
        }
        return nil
    }

    class func removetUserDefault(_ KeyToRemove : String)
    {
        let defaults = UserDefaults.standard
        defaults.removeObject(forKey: KeyToRemove)
        UserDefaults.standard.synchronize()
    }

}

And in your AppDelegate call this

 self.window = UIWindow(frame: UIScreen.main.bounds)
 Routing.decideInitialViewController(window: self.window!)

Converting of Uri to String

String to Uri

Uri myUri = Uri.parse("https://www.google.com");

Uri to String

Uri uri;
String stringUri = uri.toString();

Is the LIKE operator case-sensitive with MSSQL Server?

If you want to achieve a case sensitive search without changing the collation of the column / database / server, you can always use the COLLATE clause, e.g.

USE tempdb;
GO
CREATE TABLE dbo.foo(bar VARCHAR(32) COLLATE Latin1_General_CS_AS);
GO
INSERT dbo.foo VALUES('John'),('john');
GO
SELECT bar FROM dbo.foo 
  WHERE bar LIKE 'j%';
-- 1 row

SELECT bar FROM dbo.foo 
  WHERE bar COLLATE Latin1_General_CI_AS LIKE 'j%';
-- 2 rows

GO    
DROP TABLE dbo.foo;

Works the other way, too, if your column / database / server is case sensitive and you don't want a case sensitive search, e.g.

USE tempdb;
GO
CREATE TABLE dbo.foo(bar VARCHAR(32) COLLATE Latin1_General_CI_AS);
GO
INSERT dbo.foo VALUES('John'),('john');
GO
SELECT bar FROM dbo.foo 
  WHERE bar LIKE 'j%';
-- 2 rows

SELECT bar FROM dbo.foo 
  WHERE bar COLLATE Latin1_General_CS_AS LIKE 'j%';
-- 1 row

GO
DROP TABLE dbo.foo;

Explain __dict__ attribute

Basically it contains all the attributes which describe the object in question. It can be used to alter or read the attributes. Quoting from the documentation for __dict__

A dictionary or other mapping object used to store an object's (writable) attributes.

Remember, everything is an object in Python. When I say everything, I mean everything like functions, classes, objects etc (Ya you read it right, classes. Classes are also objects). For example:

def func():
    pass

func.temp = 1

print(func.__dict__)

class TempClass:
    a = 1
    def temp_function(self):
        pass

print(TempClass.__dict__)

will output

{'temp': 1}
{'__module__': '__main__', 
 'a': 1, 
 'temp_function': <function TempClass.temp_function at 0x10a3a2950>, 
 '__dict__': <attribute '__dict__' of 'TempClass' objects>, 
 '__weakref__': <attribute '__weakref__' of 'TempClass' objects>, 
 '__doc__': None}

How do I disable right click on my web page?

 
    <script>
        window.oncontextmenu = function () {
            console.log("Right Click Disabled");
            return false;
        }
    </script>

Leave menu bar fixed on top when scrolled

 
$(window).scroll(function () {

        var ControlDivTop = $('#cs_controlDivFix');

        $(window).scroll(function () {
            if ($(this).scrollTop() > 50) {
               ControlDivTop.stop().animate({ 'top': ($(this).scrollTop() - 62) + "px" }, 600);
            } else {
              ControlDivTop.stop().animate({ 'top': ($(this).scrollTop()) + "px" },600);
            }
        });
    });

How do I clone a job in Jenkins?

if you want to copy in same Jenkins but in different subfolders, create new item -> use copy from. new Job will be cloned in same directory. Then use move option to move it in desired directory

Automatically pass $event with ng-click?

Take a peek at the ng-click directive source:

...
compile: function($element, attr) {
  var fn = $parse(attr[directiveName]);
  return function(scope, element, attr) {
    element.on(lowercase(name), function(event) {
      scope.$apply(function() {
        fn(scope, {$event:event});
      });
    });
  };
}

It shows how the event object is being passed on to the ng-click expression, using $event as a name of the parameter. This is done by the $parse service, which doesn't allow for the parameters to bleed into the target scope, which means the answer is no, you can't access the $event object any other way but through the callback parameter.

Sequence contains more than one element

As @Mehmet is pointing out, if your result is returning more then 1 elerment then you need to look into you data as i suspect that its not by design that you have customers sharing a customernumber.

But to the point i wanted to give you a quick overview.

//success on 0 or 1 in the list, returns dafault() of whats in the list if 0
list.SingleOrDefault();
//success on 1 and only 1 in the list
list.Single();

//success on 0-n, returns first element in the list or default() if 0 
list.FirstOrDefault();
//success 1-n, returns the first element in the list
list.First();

//success on 0-n, returns first element in the list or default() if 0 
list.LastOrDefault();
//success 1-n, returns the last element in the list
list.Last();

for more Linq expressions have a look at System.Linq.Expressions

Cannot open solution file in Visual Studio Code

VSCode is a code editor, not a full IDE. Think of VSCode as a notepad on steroids with IntelliSense code completion, richer semantic code understanding of multiple languages, code refactoring, including navigation, keyboard support with customizable bindings, syntax highlighting, bracket matching, auto indentation, and snippets.

It's not meant to replace Visual Studio, but making "Visual Studio" part of the name in VSCode will of course confuse some people at first.

What's the proper way to compare a String to an enum value?

Doing an static import of the GestureTypes and then using the valuesOf() method could make it look much cleaner:

enum GestureTypes{ROCK,PAPER,SCISSORS};

and

import static com.example.GestureTypes.*;
public class GestureFactory {

    public static Gesture getInstance(final String gesture) {
        if (ROCK == valueOf(gesture))
            //do somthing
        if (PAPER == valueOf(gesture))
            //do somthing
    }
}

How to change folder with git bash?

Right clicking a specific folder can help ease your pain than just by typing the whole directory. Right click + clicking s or Right click and then click "GIT bash here"

Hope this seems helpful

Closing Twitter Bootstrap Modal From Angular Controller

We can achieve the same without using angular-ui. This can be done using angular directives.

First add the directive to the modal.

<div class="modal fade" my-modal ....>...</div>

Create a new angular directive:

app.directive('myModal', function() {
   return {
     restrict: 'A',
     link: function(scope, element, attr) {
       scope.dismiss = function() {
           element.modal('hide');
       };
     }
   } 
});

Now call the dismiss() method from your controller.

app.controller('MyCtrl', function($scope, $http) {
    // You can call dismiss() here
    $scope.dismiss();
});

I am still in my early days with angular js. I know that we should not manipulate the DOM inside the controllers. So I have the DOM manipulation in the directive. I am not sure if this is equally bad. If I have a better alternative, I shall post it here.

The important thing to note is that we cannot simply use ng-hide or ng-show in the view to hide or show the modal. That simply hides the modal and not the modal backdrop. We have to call the modal() instance method to completely remove the modal.

Converting pfx to pem using openssl

Despite that the other answers are correct and thoroughly explained, I found some difficulties understanding them. Here is the method I used (Taken from here):

First case: To convert a PFX file to a PEM file that contains both the certificate and private key:

openssl pkcs12 -in filename.pfx -out cert.pem -nodes

Second case: To convert a PFX file to separate public and private key PEM files:

Extracts the private key form a PFX to a PEM file:

openssl pkcs12 -in filename.pfx -nocerts -out key.pem

Exports the certificate (includes the public key only):

openssl pkcs12 -in filename.pfx -clcerts -nokeys -out cert.pem

Removes the password (paraphrase) from the extracted private key (optional):

openssl rsa -in key.pem -out server.key

Bootstrap 3: Offset isn't working?

If I get you right, you want something that seems to be the opposite of what is desired normally: you want a horizontal layout for small screens and vertically stacked elements on large screens. You may achieve this in a way like this:

<div class="container">
    <div class="row">
        <div class="hidden-md hidden-lg col-xs-3 col-xs-offset-6">a</div>
        <div class="hidden-md hidden-lg col-xs-3">b</div>
    </div>
    <div class="row">
        <div class="hidden-xs hidden-sm">c</div>

    </div>
</div>

On small screens, i.e. xs and sm, this generates one row with two columns with an offset of 6. On larger screens, i.e. md and lg, it generates two vertically stacked elements in full width (12 columns).

How do I fix "Expected to return a value at the end of arrow function" warning?

A map() creates an array, so a return is expected for all code paths (if/elses).

If you don't want an array or to return data, use forEach instead.

Android: adb pull file on desktop

Judging by the desktop folder location you are using Windows. The command in Windows would be:

adb pull /sdcard/log.txt %USERPROFILE%\Desktop\

Resolving a Git conflict with binary files

This procedure is to resolve binary file conflicts after you have submitted a pull request to Github:

  1. So on Github, you found your pull request has a conflict on a binary file.
  2. Now go back to the same git branch on your local computer.
  3. You (a) re-make / re-build this binary file again, and (b) commit the resulted binary file to this same git branch.
  4. Then you push this same git branch again to Github.

On Github, on your pull request, the conflict should disappear.

Pull new updates from original GitHub repository into forked GitHub repository

To automatically sync your forked repository with the parent repository, you could use the Pull App on GitHub.

Refer to the Readme for more details.

For advanced setup where you want to preserve your changes done to the forked repository, refer to my answer on a similar question here.

using href links inside <option> tag

You cant use href tags within option tags. You will need javascript to do so.

<select name="formal" onchange="javascript:handleSelect(this)">
<option value="home">Home</option>
<option value="contact">Contact</option>
</select>

<script type="text/javascript">
  function handleSelect(elm)
  {
     window.location = elm.value+".php";
  }
</script>

javascript filter array of objects

You could utilize jQuery.filter() function to return elements from a subset of the matching elements.

_x000D_
_x000D_ 
var names = [_x000D_
    { name : "Joe", age:20, email: "[email protected]"},_x000D_
    { name : "Mike", age:50, email: "[email protected]"},_x000D_
    { name : "Joe", age:45, email: "[email protected]"}_x000D_
   ];_x000D_
   _x000D_
   _x000D_
var filteredNames = $(names).filter(function( idx ) {_x000D_
    return names[idx].name === "Joe" && names[idx].age < 30;_x000D_
}); _x000D_
_x000D_
$(filteredNames).each(function(){_x000D_
     $('#output').append(this.name);_x000D_
});
_x000D_ 
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
_x000D_
<div id="output"/>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

How can I disable selected attribute from select2() dropdown Jquery?

I'm disabling select2 with: 

$('select').select2("enable",false);

And enabling it with

$('select').select2("enable");

Decode Base64 data in Java

Specifically in Commons Codec: class Base64 to decode(byte[] array) or encode(byte[] array)

Trees in Twitter Bootstrap

Can you believe that the treeview on the image below does not use any JavaScript, but relies only on CSS3? Check out this CSS3 TreeView, which is good with Twitter BootStrap:

TreeView

You can get more info about this here http://acidmartin.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/css3-treevew-no-javascript/.

python int( ) function

Integers (int for short) are the numbers you count with 0, 1, 2, 3 ... and their negative counterparts ... -3, -2, -1 the ones without the decimal part.

So once you introduce a decimal point, your not really dealing with integers. You're dealing with rational numbers. The Python float or decimal types are what you want to represent or approximate these numbers.

You may be used to a language that automatically does this for you(Php). Python, though, has an explicit preference for forcing code to be explicit instead implicit.

Select a row from html table and send values onclick of a button

check http://jsfiddle.net/Z22NU/12/

function fnselect(){

    alert($("tr.selected td:first" ).html());
}

What is the benefit of using "SET XACT_ABORT ON" in a stored procedure?

SET XACT_ABORT ON instructs SQL Server to rollback the entire transaction and abort the batch when a run-time error occurs. It covers you in cases like a command timeout occurring on the client application rather than within SQL Server itself (which isn't covered by the default XACT_ABORT OFF setting.)

Since a query timeout will leave the transaction open, SET XACT_ABORT ON is recommended in all stored procedures with explicit transactions (unless you have a specific reason to do otherwise) as the consequences of an application performing work on a connection with an open transaction are disastrous.

There's a really great overview on Dan Guzman's Blog,

Java String new line

you can use <br> tag in your string for show in html pages

Angular2 RC5: Can't bind to 'Property X' since it isn't a known property of 'Child Component'

I ran into the same error, when I just forgot to declare my custom component in my NgModule - check there, if the others solutions won't work for you.

Embedding a media player in a website using HTML

If you are using HTML 5, there is the <audio> element.

On MDN:

The audio element is used to embed sound content in an HTML or XHTML document. The audio element was added as part of HTML5.

Update:

In order to play audio in the browser in HTML versions before 5 (including XHTML), you need to use one of the many flash audio players.

changing permission for files and folder recursively using shell command in mac

I do not have a Mac OSx machine to test this on but in bash on Linux I use something like the following to chmod only directories:

find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \+

but this also does the same thing:

chmod 755 `find . -type d`

and so does this:

chmod 755 $(find . -type d)

The last two are using different forms of subcommands. The first is using backticks (older and depreciated) and the other the $() subcommand syntax.

So I think in your case that the following will do what you want.

chmod 777 $(find "/Users/Test/Desktop/PATH")

Android: combining text & image on a Button or ImageButton

You can use drawableTop (also drawableLeft, etc) for the image and set text below the image by adding the gravity left|center_vertical

<Button
            android:id="@+id/btn_video"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
            android:layout_centerVertical="true"
            android:background="@null"
            android:drawableTop="@drawable/videos"
            android:gravity="left|center_vertical"
            android:onClick="onClickFragment"
            android:text="Videos"
            android:textColor="@color/white" />

html table span entire width?

 
<table border="1"; width=100%>

works for me.

How to convert a List<String> into a comma separated string without iterating List explicitly

Java 8 solution if it's not a collection of strings:

{Any collection}.stream()
    .collect(StringBuilder::new, StringBuilder::append, StringBuilder::append)
    .toString()

How to create unique keys for React elements?

To add the latest solution for 2021...

I found that the project nanoid provides unique string ids that can be used as key while also being fast and very small.

After installing using npm install nanoid, use as follows:

import { nanoid } from 'nanoid';

// Have the id associated with the data.
const todos = [{id: nanoid(), text: 'first todo'}];

// Then later, it can be rendered using a stable id as the key.
const todoItems = todos.map((todo) =>
  <li key={todo.id}>
    {todo.text}
  </li>
)

The matching wildcard is strict, but no declaration can be found for element 'context:component-scan

There are 'META-INF/spring.schemas' files in various Spring jars containing the mappings for the URLs that are intercepted for local resolution. If a particular xsd URL is not listed in these files (for example after switching from http to https) Spring tries to load schemas from the Internet and if the system has no Internet connection it fails and causes this error.

This can be the case with Spring Security v5.2 and up where there is no http mapping for the xsd file.

To fix it change 

xsi:schemaLocation="
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans     
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/security  
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd"

to

xsi:schemaLocation="
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans     
    https://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/security  
    https://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security.xsd"

Note that only actual xsd URL was modified from http to https (only two places above).

How to change the display name for LabelFor in razor in mvc3?

You could decorate your view model property with the [DisplayName] attribute and specify the text to be used:

[DisplayName("foo bar")]
public string SomekingStatus { get; set; }

Or use another overload of the LabelFor helper which allows you to specify the text:

@Html.LabelFor(model => model.SomekingStatus, "foo bar")

And, no, you cannot specify a class name in MVC3 as you tried to do, as the LabelFor helper doesn't support that. However, this would work in MVC4 or 5.

PHP: HTTP or HTTPS?

 
$_SERVER['HTTPS']

This will contain a 'non-empty' value if the request was sent through HTTPS

PHP Server Variables

How do I print colored output to the terminal in Python?

You can try this with python 3:

from termcolor import colored
print(colored('Hello, World!', 'green', 'on_red'))

If you are using windows operating system, the above code may not work for you. Then you can try this code:

from colorama import init
from termcolor import colored

# use Colorama to make Termcolor work on Windows too
init()

# then use Termcolor for all colored text output
print(colored('Hello, World!', 'green', 'on_red'))

Hope that helps.

Could not load file or assembly 'EntityFramework' after downgrading EF 5.0.0.0 --> 4.3.1.0

I had a similar issue running unit tests using MSTEST under Jenkins. The fix in my case was to remove "Version=6.0.0.0, " as shown below:

Old:
    <section name="entityFramework" type="System.Data.Entity.Internal.ConfigFile.EntityFrameworkSection, EntityFramework, Version=6.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=xxxx" requirePermission="false" />

New:
    <section name="entityFramework" type="System.Data.Entity.Internal.ConfigFile.EntityFrameworkSection, EntityFramework, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=xxxx" requirePermission="false" />

I had to make this change is several App.config and Web.config files in my multi-project solution.

Regex for Comma delimited list

It depends a bit on your exact requirements. I'm assuming: all numbers, any length, numbers cannot have leading zeros nor contain commas or decimal points. individual numbers always separated by a comma then a space, and the last number does NOT have a comma and space after it. Any of these being wrong would simplify the solution.

([1-9][0-9]*,[ ])*[1-9][0-9]*

Here's how I built that mentally:

[0-9]  any digit.
[1-9][0-9]*  leading non-zero digit followed by any number of digits
[1-9][0-9]*, as above, followed by a comma
[1-9][0-9]*[ ]  as above, followed by a space
([1-9][0-9]*[ ])*  as above, repeated 0 or more times
([1-9][0-9]*[ ])*[1-9][0-9]*  as above, with a final number that doesn't have a comma.

How to match letters only using java regex, matches method?

"[a-zA-Z]" matches only one character. To match multiple characters, use "[a-zA-Z]+".

Since a dot is a joker for any character, you have to mask it: "abc\." To make the dot optional, you need a question mark: "abc\.?"

If you write the Pattern as literal constant in your code, you have to mask the backslash:

System.out.println ("abc".matches ("abc\\.?"));
System.out.println ("abc.".matches ("abc\\.?"));
System.out.println ("abc..".matches ("abc\\.?"));

Combining both patterns:

System.out.println ("abc.".matches ("[a-zA-Z]+\\.?"));

Instead of a-zA-Z, \w is often more appropriate, since it captures foreign characters like äöüßø and so on:

System.out.println ("abc.".matches ("\\w+\\.?"));