Programs & Examples On #Automated tests

Test automation is the use of software to control the execution of tests, the comparison of actual outcomes to predicted outcomes, the setting up of test preconditions, and other test control and test reporting functions. Commonly, test automation involves automating a manual process already in place that uses a formalized testing process (wikipedia.org).

Selenium C# WebDriver: Wait until element is present

We can achieve that like this:

public static IWebElement WaitForObject(IWebDriver DriverObj, By by, int TimeOut = 30)
{
    try
    {
        WebDriverWait Wait1 = new WebDriverWait(DriverObj, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(TimeOut));
        var WaitS = Wait1.Until(SeleniumExtras.WaitHelpers.ExpectedConditions.PresenceOfAllElementsLocatedBy(by));
        return WaitS[0];
    }
    catch (NoSuchElementException)
    {
        Reports.TestStep("Wait for Element(s) with xPath was failed in current context page.");
        throw;
    }
}

Typing the Enter/Return key using Python and Selenium

When you don't want to search any locator, you can use the Robot class. For example,

Robot robot = new Robot();
robot.keyPress(KeyEvent.VK_ENTER);
robot.keyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_ENTER);

How to find specific lines in a table using Selenium?

(.//*[table-locator])[n]

where n represents the specific line.

How can I scroll a web page using selenium webdriver in python?

element=find_element_by_xpath("xpath of the li you are trying to access")

element.location_once_scrolled_into_view

this helped when I was trying to access a 'li' that was not visible.

Select a date from date picker using Selenium webdriver

Please use this code for selecting date from Two Jquery calendar like Flight Booking site.

    Hashtable h=new Hashtable();
    h.put("January",0 );
    h.put("February",1);
    h.put("March",2);
    h.put("April",3);
    h.put("May",4);
    h.put("June",5);
    h.put("July",6);
    h.put("August",7);
    h.put("September",8);
    h.put("October",9);
    h.put("November",10);
    h.put("December",11);


    int expMonth;
    int expYear;

    // Calendar Month and Year
    String calMonth = null;
    String calYear = null;
    boolean dateNotFound;
    dateNotFound = true;
    expMonth= 5;
    expYear = 2014;

    while(dateNotFound)
    {

        calMonth = driver.findElement(By.className("ui-datepicker-month")).getText(); // get the text of month
        calYear = driver.findElement(By.className("ui-datepicker-year")).getText();




        if(((Integer)h.get(calMonth))+1 == expMonth && (expYear == Integer.parseInt(calYear)))
        {
            String block="//div[@class='monthBlock first']/table/tbody/tr/td";  // THIS IS FIRST CALENDAR
            selectDate(expDate,block); 
            dateNotFound = false; 
        }
        // parseInt - Converts String to integer and indexof( It will return the index position of String)
        else if(((Integer)h.get(calMonth))+1 < expMonth && (expYear == Integer.parseInt(calYear)) || expYear > Integer.parseInt(calYear))
        {
            String block="//div[@class='monthBlock last']/table/tbody/tr/td"; // THIS IS SECOND CALENDAR


                            selectDate(expDate,block); // PASSING DATE AND CALENDAR
                            dateNotFound = false; // Otherwise it will rotate continuously 
        }
        else if((Integer)h.get(calMonth)+1 > expMonth && (expYear == Integer.parseInt(calYear)) || expYear < Integer.parseInt(calYear))
        {
            System.out.println(" Please enter the date greater than Current date");
            dateNotFound = false;

        }
    }

    }
    //Thread.sleep(3000);


    public static void selectDate(String date,String block) throws IOException
    {

                    String monthblock=block;

        List<WebElement> dateWidget = driver.findElements(By.xpath(monthblock));    

        for (WebElement cell: dateWidget)
        {
            //Selects Date
            if (cell.getText().equals(date))
            {
                cell.findElement(By.linkText(date)).click();
                break;
            }

        }

        //Doubt : How to verify the expected results and how to sort the program



        driver.findElement(By.id("SearchBtn")).submit();

        //driver.quit();
    }

Running Selenium WebDriver python bindings in chrome

For Windows' IDE:

If your path doesn't work, you can try to add the chromedriver.exe to your project, like in this project structure.

chromedriver.exe

Then you should load the chromedriver.exe in your main file. As for me, I loaded the driver.exe in driver.py.

def get_chrome_driver():
return webdriver.Chrome("..\\content\\engine\\chromedriver.exe",
                            chrome_options='--no-startup-window')

.. means driver.py's upper directory

. means the directory where the driver.py is located

Hope this will be helpful.

Debugging "Element is not clickable at point" error

I do a kind of brute force of clicks and it works for me.

try:
    elem.click()
except:
    print "failed to click"
    size = elem.size
    mid_of_y = int(size["height"])/2
    stepts_to_do_to_left = int(size["width"])
    while stepts_to_do_to_left > 0:
        try:
            print stepts_to_do_to_left, mid_of_y
            action = webdriver.common.action_chains.ActionChains(driver)
            action.move_to_element_with_offset(elem, mid_of_y, stepts_to_do_to_left)
            action.click()
            action.perform()
            print "DONE CLICK"
            break
        except:
            pass

Scroll Element into View with Selenium

In Selenium we need to take the help of a JavaScript executor to scroll to an element or scroll the page:

je.executeScript("arguments[0].scrollIntoView(true);", element);

In the above statement element is the exact element where we need to scroll. I tried the above code, and it worked for me.

I have a complete post and video on this:

http://learn-automation.com/how-to-scroll-into-view-in-selenium-webdriver/

Random "Element is no longer attached to the DOM" StaleElementReferenceException

FirefoxDriver _driver = new FirefoxDriver();

// create webdriverwait
WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(_driver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10));

// create flag/checker
bool result = false;

// wait for the element.
IWebElement elem = wait.Until(x => x.FindElement(By.Id("Element_ID")));

do
{
    try
    {
        // let the driver look for the element again.
        elem = _driver.FindElement(By.Id("Element_ID"));

        // do your actions.
        elem.SendKeys("text");

        // it will throw an exception if the element is not in the dom or not
        // found but if it didn't, our result will be changed to true.
        result = !result;
    }
    catch (Exception) { }
} while (result != true); // this will continue to look for the element until
                          // it ends throwing exception.

Get HTML source of WebElement in Selenium WebDriver using Python

It looks outdated, but let it be here anyway. The correct way to do it in your case:

elem = wd.find_element_by_css_selector('#my-id')
html = wd.execute_script("return arguments[0].innerHTML;", elem)

or

html = elem.get_attribute('innerHTML')

Both are working for me (selenium-server-standalone-2.35.0).

Message "Async callback was not invoked within the 5000 ms timeout specified by jest.setTimeout"

It should call the async/await when it is async from test.

describe("Profile Tab Exists and Clickable: /settings/user", () => {
    test(`Assert that you can click the profile tab`, async (done) => {
        await page.waitForSelector(PROFILE.TAB);
        await page.click(PROFILE.TAB);
        done();
    }, 30000);
});

laravel Eloquent ORM delete() method

Before delete , there are several methods in laravel.

User::find(1) and User::first() return an instance.

User::where('id',1)->get and User::all() return a collection of instance.

call delete on an model instance will returns true/false

$user=User::find(1);
$user->delete(); //returns true/false

call delete on a collection of instance will returns a number which represents the number of the records had been deleted

//assume you have 10 users, id from 1 to 10;
$result=User::where('id','<',11)->delete(); //returns 11 (the number of the records had been deleted)

//lets call delete again
$result2=User::where('id','<',11)->delete(); //returns 0 (we have already delete the id<11 users, so this time we delete nothing, the result should be the number of the records had been deleted(0)  ) 

Also there are other delete methods, you can call destroy as a model static method like below

$result=User::destroy(1,2,3);
$result=User::destroy([1,2,3]);
$result=User::destroy(collect([1, 2, 3]));
//these 3 statement do the same thing, delete id =1,2,3 users, returns the number of the records had been deleted

One more thing ,if you are new to laravel ,you can use php artisan tinker to see the result, which is more efficient and then dd($result) , print_r($result);

Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 43148176 bytes) in php

I had the same issue which running php in command line. Recently, I had changes the php.ini file and did a mistake while changing the php.ini

This is for php7.0

path to php.ini where I made mistake: /etc/php/7.0/cli/php.ini

I had set memory_limit = 256 (which means 256 bytes)
instead of memory_limit = 256M (which means 256 Mega bytes).

; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (128MB)
; http://php.net/memory-limit
memory_limit = 128M

Once I corrected it, my process started running fine.

How can I change my default database in SQL Server without using MS SQL Server Management Studio?

To do it the GUI way, you need to go edit your login. One of its properties is the default database used for that login. You can find the list of logins under the Logins node under the Security node. Then select your login and right-click and pick Properties. Change the default database and your life will be better!

Note that someone with sysadmin privs needs to be able to login to do this or to run the query from the previous post.

Convert Base64 string to an image file?

The problem is that data:image/png;base64, is included in the encoded contents. This will result in invalid image data when the base64 function decodes it. Remove that data in the function before decoding the string, like so.

function base64_to_jpeg($base64_string, $output_file) {
    // open the output file for writing
    $ifp = fopen( $output_file, 'wb' ); 

    // split the string on commas
    // $data[ 0 ] == "data:image/png;base64"
    // $data[ 1 ] == <actual base64 string>
    $data = explode( ',', $base64_string );

    // we could add validation here with ensuring count( $data ) > 1
    fwrite( $ifp, base64_decode( $data[ 1 ] ) );

    // clean up the file resource
    fclose( $ifp ); 

    return $output_file; 
}

Looping Over Result Sets in MySQL

Something like this should do the trick (However, read after the snippet for more info)

CREATE PROCEDURE GetFilteredData()
BEGIN
  DECLARE bDone INT;

  DECLARE var1 CHAR(16);    -- or approriate type
  DECLARE Var2 INT;
  DECLARE Var3 VARCHAR(50);

  DECLARE curs CURSOR FOR  SELECT something FROM somewhere WHERE some stuff;
  DECLARE CONTINUE HANDLER FOR NOT FOUND SET bDone = 1;

  DROP TEMPORARY TABLE IF EXISTS tblResults;
  CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE IF NOT EXISTS tblResults  (
    --Fld1 type,
    --Fld2 type,
    --...
  );

  OPEN curs;

  SET bDone = 0;
  REPEAT
    FETCH curs INTO var1,, b;

    IF whatever_filtering_desired
       -- here for whatever_transformation_may_be_desired
       INSERT INTO tblResults VALUES (var1, var2, var3 ...);
    END IF;
  UNTIL bDone END REPEAT;

  CLOSE curs;
  SELECT * FROM tblResults;
END

A few things to consider...

Concerning the snippet above:

  • may want to pass part of the query to the Stored Procedure, maybe particularly the search criteria, to make it more generic.
  • If this method is to be called by multiple sessions etc. may want to pass a Session ID of sort to create a unique temporary table name (actually unnecessary concern since different sessions do not share the same temporary file namespace; see comment by Gruber, below)
  • A few parts such as the variable declarations, the SELECT query etc. need to be properly specified

More generally: trying to avoid needing a cursor.

I purposely named the cursor variable curs[e], because cursors are a mixed blessing. They can help us implement complicated business rules that may be difficult to express in the declarative form of SQL, but it then brings us to use the procedural (imperative) form of SQL, which is a general feature of SQL which is neither very friendly/expressive, programming-wise, and often less efficient performance-wise.

Maybe you can look into expressing the transformation and filtering desired in the context of a "plain" (declarative) SQL query.

how to find array size in angularjs

You can find the number of members in a Javascript array by using its length property:

var number = $scope.names.length;

Docs - Array.prototype.length

Putting -moz-available and -webkit-fill-available in one width (css property)

I needed my ASP.NET drop down list to take up all available space, and this is all I put in the CSS and it is working in Firefox and IE11:

width: 100%

I had to add the CSS class into the asp:DropDownList element

Triggering a checkbox value changed event in DataGridView

Small update.... Make sure you use EditedFormattedValue instead of value as I tried value but it never give right status that is checked/unchecked most of the site still use value but as used in latest c# 2010 express below is one way to access..

grdJobDetails.Rows[e.RowIndex].Cells[0].EditedFormattedValue

Also _CellValueChanged event suggested or used by few must be usable for some cases but if you are looking for every check/uncheck of cell make sure you use _CellContentClick else per my notice I see not every time _CellValueChanged is fired.. that is if the same checkbox is clicked over & over again it does not fire _CellValueChanged but if you click alternately for example you have two chekbox & click one after other _CellValueChanged event will be fired but usually if looking for event to fire everytime the any cell is check/uncheck _CellValueChanged is not fired.

Html: Difference between cell spacing and cell padding

This is the simple answer I can give.

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Remove 'standalone="yes"' from generated XML

In case you are getting property exception, add the following configuration:

jaxbMarshaller.setProperty("com.sun.xml.internal.bind.xmlHeaders",
              "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>");
jaxbMarshaller.setProperty("com.sun.xml.internal.bind.xmlDeclaration", Boolean.FALSE);
jaxbMarshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FRAGMENT, Boolean.TRUE);  

Why .NET String is immutable?

Strings are passed as reference types in .NET.

Reference types place a pointer on the stack, to the actual instance that resides on the managed heap. This is different to Value types, who hold their entire instance on the stack.

When a value type is passed as a parameter, the runtime creates a copy of the value on the stack and passes that value into a method. This is why integers must be passed with a 'ref' keyword to return an updated value.

When a reference type is passed, the runtime creates a copy of the pointer on the stack. That copied pointer still points to the original instance of the reference type.

The string type has an overloaded = operator which creates a copy of itself, instead of a copy of the pointer - making it behave more like a value type. However, if only the pointer was copied, a second string operation could accidently overwrite the value of a private member of another class causing some pretty nasty results.

As other posts have mentioned, the StringBuilder class allows for the creation of strings without the GC overhead.

How to open SharePoint files in Chrome/Firefox

You can use web-based protocol handlers for the links as per https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/70178/how-does-sharepoint-2013-enable-editing-of-documents-for-chrome-and-fire-fox

Basically, just prepend ms-word:ofe|u| to the links to your SharePoint hosted Word documents.

Delete worksheet in Excel using VBA

Consider:

Sub SheetKiller()
    Dim s As Worksheet, t As String
    Dim i As Long, K As Long
    K = Sheets.Count

    For i = K To 1 Step -1
        t = Sheets(i).Name
        If t = "ID Sheet" Or t = "Summary" Then
            Application.DisplayAlerts = False
                Sheets(i).Delete
            Application.DisplayAlerts = True
        End If
    Next i
End Sub

NOTE:

Because we are deleting, we run the loop backwards.

Regex to check with starts with http://, https:// or ftp://

You need a whole input match here.

System.out.println(test.matches("^(http|https|ftp)://.*$")); 

Edit:(Based on @davidchambers's comment)

System.out.println(test.matches("^(https?|ftp)://.*$")); 

ASP.NET Background image

Use this Code in code behind

Div_Card.Style["background-image"] = Page.ResolveUrl(Session["Img_Path"].ToString());

Java: Integer equals vs. ==

The issue is that your two Integer objects are just that, objects. They do not match because you are comparing your two object references, not the values within. Obviously .equals is overridden to provide a value comparison as opposed to an object reference comparison.

Grant all on a specific schema in the db to a group role in PostgreSQL

You found the shorthand to set privileges for all existing tables in the given schema. The manual clarifies:

(but note that ALL TABLES is considered to include views and foreign tables).

Bold emphasis mine. serial columns are implemented with nextval() on a sequence as column default and, quoting the manual:

For sequences, this privilege allows the use of the currval and nextval functions.

So if there are serial columns, you'll also want to grant USAGE (or ALL PRIVILEGES) on sequences

GRANT USAGE ON ALL SEQUENCES IN SCHEMA foo TO mygrp;

Note: identity columns in Postgres 10 or later use implicit sequences that don't require additional privileges. (Consider upgrading serial columns.)

What about new objects?

You'll also be interested in DEFAULT PRIVILEGES for users or schemas:

ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES IN SCHEMA foo GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON TABLES TO staff;
ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES IN SCHEMA foo GRANT USAGE          ON SEQUENCES TO staff;
ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES IN SCHEMA foo REVOKE ...;

This sets privileges for objects created in the future automatically - but not for pre-existing objects.

Default privileges are only applied to objects created by the targeted user (FOR ROLE my_creating_role). If that clause is omitted, it defaults to the current user executing ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES. To be explicit:

ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES FOR ROLE my_creating_role IN SCHEMA foo GRANT ...;
ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES FOR ROLE my_creating_role IN SCHEMA foo REVOKE ...;

Note also that all versions of pgAdmin III have a subtle bug and display default privileges in the SQL pane, even if they do not apply to the current role. Be sure to adjust the FOR ROLE clause manually when copying the SQL script.

How to rename a table column in Oracle 10g

alter table table_name rename column oldColumn to newColumn;

Can anybody tell me details about hs_err_pid.log file generated when Tomcat crashes?

A very very good document regarding this topic is Troubleshooting Guide for Java from (originally) Sun. See the chapter "Troubleshooting System Crashes" for information about hs_err_pid* Files.

See Appendix C - Fatal Error Log

Per the guide, by default the file will be created in the working directory of the process if possible, or in the system temporary directory otherwise. A specific location can be chosen by passing in the -XX:ErrorFile product flag. It says:

If the -XX:ErrorFile= file flag is not specified, the system attempts to create the file in the working directory of the process. In the event that the file cannot be created in the working directory (insufficient space, permission problem, or other issue), the file is created in the temporary directory for the operating system.

How to use .htaccess in WAMP Server?

Click on Wamp icon and open Apache/httpd.conf and search "#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so". Remove # as below and save it

LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

and restart all service.

How do I find the index of a character within a string in C?

void myFunc(char* str, char c)
{
    char* ptr;
    int index;

    ptr = strchr(str, c);
    if (ptr == NULL)
    {
        printf("Character not found\n");
        return;
    }

    index = ptr - str;

    printf("The index is %d\n", index);
    ASSERT(str[index] == c);  // Verify that the character at index is the one we want.
}

This code is currently untested, but it demonstrates the proper concept.

Reading from memory stream to string

string result = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(fs.ToArray());

How to download and save a file from Internet using Java?

If you are behind a proxy, you can set the proxies in java program as below:

        Properties systemSettings = System.getProperties();
        systemSettings.put("proxySet", "true");
        systemSettings.put("https.proxyHost", "https proxy of your org");
        systemSettings.put("https.proxyPort", "8080");

If you are not behind a proxy, don't include the lines above in your code. Full working code to download a file when you are behind a proxy.

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        String url="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bpjoshi/fxservice/master/src/test/java/com/bpjoshi/fxservice/api/TradeControllerTest.java";
        OutputStream outStream=null;
        URLConnection connection=null;
        InputStream is=null;
        File targetFile=null;
        URL server=null;
        //Setting up proxies
        Properties systemSettings = System.getProperties();
            systemSettings.put("proxySet", "true");
            systemSettings.put("https.proxyHost", "https proxy of my organisation");
            systemSettings.put("https.proxyPort", "8080");
            //The same way we could also set proxy for http
            System.setProperty("java.net.useSystemProxies", "true");
            //code to fetch file
        try {
            server=new URL(url);
            connection = server.openConnection();
            is = connection.getInputStream();
            byte[] buffer = new byte[is.available()];
            is.read(buffer);

                targetFile = new File("src/main/resources/targetFile.java");
                outStream = new FileOutputStream(targetFile);
                outStream.write(buffer);
        } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
            System.out.println("THE URL IS NOT CORRECT ");
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.out.println("Io exception");
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        finally{
            if(outStream!=null) outStream.close();
        }
    }

Git merge develop into feature branch outputs "Already up-to-date" while it's not

Initially my repo said "Already up to date."

MINGW64 (feature/Issue_123) 
$ git merge develop

Output:

Already up to date.

But the code is not up to date & it is showing some differences in some files.

MINGW64 (feature/Issue_123)
$ git diff develop

Output:

diff --git 
a/src/main/database/sql/additional/pkg_etl.sql 
b/src/main/database/sql/additional/pkg_etl.sql
index ba2a257..1c219bb 100644
--- a/src/main/database/sql/additional/pkg_etl.sql
+++ b/src/main/database/sql/additional/pkg_etl.sql

However, merging fixes it.

MINGW64 (feature/Issue_123)
$ git merge origin/develop

Output:

Updating c7c0ac9..09959e3
Fast-forward
3 files changed, 157 insertions(+), 92 deletions(-)

Again I have confirmed this by using diff command.

MINGW64 (feature/Issue_123)
$ git diff develop

No differences in the code now!

Is there anything like .NET's NotImplementedException in Java?

You could do it yourself (thats what I did) - in order to not be bothered with exception handling, you simply extend the RuntimeException, your class could look something like this:

public class NotImplementedException extends RuntimeException {

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    public NotImplementedException(){}
}

You could extend it to take a message - but if you use the method as I do (that is, as a reminder, that there is still something to be implemented), then usually there is no need for additional messages.

I dare say, that I only use this method, while I am in the process of developing a system, makes it easier for me to not lose track of which methods are still not implemented properly :)

How to make sure you don't get WCF Faulted state exception?

If the transfer mode is Buffered then make sure that the values of MaxReceivedMessageSize and MaxBufferSize is same. I just resolved the faulted state issue this way after grappling with it for hours and thought i'll post it here if it helps someone.

How to scroll page in flutter

Wrap your widget tree inside a SingleChildScrollView

 body: SingleChildScrollView(
child: Stack(
    children: <Widget>[
      new Container(
        decoration: BoxDecoration(
            image: DecorationImage(...),
      new Column(children: [
        new Container(...),
        new Container(...... ),
        new Padding(
          child: SizedBox(
            child: RaisedButton(..),
        ),
....
...
 ); // Single child scroll view

Remember, SingleChildScrollView can only have one direct widget (Just like ScrollView in Android)

"Non-resolvable parent POM: Could not transfer artifact" when trying to refer to a parent pom from a child pom with ${parent.groupid}

Looks like you're trying to both inherit the groupId from the parent, and simultaneously specify the parent using an inherited groupId!

In the child pom, use something like this:

<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

<parent>
  <groupId>org.felipe</groupId>
  <artifactId>tutorial_maven</artifactId>
  <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
</parent>

<artifactId>tutorial_maven_jar</artifactId>

Using properties like ${project.groupId} won't work there. If you specify the parent in this way, then you can inherit the groupId and version in the child pom. Hence, you only need to specify the artifactId in the child pom.

Is it possible to use JavaScript to change the meta-tags of the page?

var metaTag = document.getElementsByTagName('meta');
for (var i=0; i < metaTag.length; i++) {
    if (metaTag[i].getAttribute("http-equiv")=='refresh')
        metaTag[i].content = '666';
    if (metaTag[i].getAttribute("name")=='Keywords')
        metaTag[i].content = 'js, solver';
}

How can I let a table's body scroll but keep its head fixed in place?

Sorry I haven.t read all replies to your question.

Yeah here the thing you want (I have done already)

You can use two tables, with same class name for similar styling, one only with table head and another with your rows. Now put this table inside a div having fixed height with overflow-y:auto OR scroll.

List an Array of Strings in alphabetical order

**//With the help of this code u not just sort the arrays in alphabetical order but also can take string from user or console or keyboard

import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.Arrays;
public class ReadName
{
final static int ARRAY_ELEMENTS = 3;
public static void main(String[] args)
{
String[] theNames = new String[5];
Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.println("Enter the names: ");
for (int i=0;i<theNames.length ;i++ )
{           
theNames[i] = keyboard.nextLine();
}
System.out.println("**********************");
Arrays.sort(theNames);
for (int i=0;i<theNames.length ;i++ )
{
System.out.println("Name are " + theNames[i]);
}
}
}**

How to add `style=display:"block"` to an element using jQuery?

If you need to add multiple then you can do it like this:

$('#element').css({
    'margin-left': '5px',
    'margin-bottom': '-4px',
    //... and so on
});

As a good practice I would also put the property name between quotes to allow the dash since most styles have a dash in them. If it was 'display', then quotes are optional but if you have a dash, it will not work without the quotes. Anyways, to make it simple: always enclose them in quotes.

Differences between utf8 and latin1

UTF-8 is prepared for world domination, Latin1 isn't.

If you're trying to store non-Latin characters like Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, Russian, etc using Latin1 encoding, then they will end up as mojibake. You may find the introductory text of this article useful (and even more if you know a bit Java).

Note that full 4-byte UTF-8 support was only introduced in MySQL 5.5. Before that version, it only goes up to 3 bytes per character, not 4 bytes per character. So, it supported only the BMP plane and not e.g. the Emoji plane. If you want full 4-byte UTF-8 support, upgrade MySQL to at least 5.5 or go for another RDBMS like PostgreSQL. In MySQL 5.5+ it's called utf8mb4.

Javascript / Chrome - How to copy an object from the webkit inspector as code

  1. Right-click an object in Chrome's console and select Store as Global Variable from the context menu. It will return something like temp1 as the variable name.

  2. Chrome also has a copy() method, so copy(temp1) in the console should copy that object to your clipboard.

Copy Javascript Object in Chrome DevTools

Note on Recursive Objects: If you're trying to copy a recursive object, you will get [object Object]. The way out is to copy(JSON.stringify(temp1)) , the object will be fully copied to your clipboard as a valid JSON, so you'd be able to format it as you wish, using one of many resources.

Using IS NULL or IS NOT NULL on join conditions - Theory question

Example with tables A and B:

 A (parent)       B (child)    
============    =============
 id | name        pid | name 
------------    -------------
  1 | Alex         1  | Kate
  2 | Bill         1  | Lia
  3 | Cath         3  | Mary
  4 | Dale       NULL | Pan
  5 | Evan  

If you want to find parents and their kids, you do an INNER JOIN:

SELECT id,  parent.name AS parent
     , pid, child.name  AS child

FROM
        parent  INNER JOIN  child
  ON   parent.id     =    child.pid

Result is that every match of a parent's id from the left table and a child's pid from the second table will show as a row in the result:

+----+--------+------+-------+
| id | parent | pid  | child | 
+----+--------+------+-------+
|  1 | Alex   |   1  | Kate  |
|  1 | Alex   |   1  | Lia   |
|  3 | Cath   |   3  | Mary  |
+----+--------+------+-------+

Now, the above does not show parents without kids (because their ids do not have a match in child's ids, so what do you do? You do an outer join instead. There are three types of outer joins, the left, the right and the full outer join. We need the left one as we want the "extra" rows from the left table (parent):

SELECT id,  parent.name AS parent
     , pid, child.name  AS child

FROM
        parent  LEFT JOIN  child
  ON   parent.id    =    child.pid

Result is that besides previous matches, all parents that do not have a match (read: do not have a kid) are shown too:

+----+--------+------+-------+
| id | parent | pid  | child | 
+----+--------+------+-------+
|  1 | Alex   |   1  | Kate  |
|  1 | Alex   |   1  | Lia   |
|  3 | Cath   |   3  | Mary  |
|  2 | Bill   | NULL | NULL  |
|  4 | Dale   | NULL | NULL  |
|  5 | Evan   | NULL | NULL  |
+----+--------+------+-------+

Where did all those NULL come from? Well, MySQL (or any other RDBMS you may use) will not know what to put there as these parents have no match (kid), so there is no pid nor child.name to match with those parents. So, it puts this special non-value called NULL.

My point is that these NULLs are created (in the result set) during the LEFT OUTER JOIN.


So, if we want to show only the parents that do NOT have a kid, we can add a WHERE child.pid IS NULL to the LEFT JOIN above. The WHERE clause is evaluated (checked) after the JOIN is done. So, it's clear from the above result that only the last three rows where the pid is NULL will be shown:

SELECT id,  parent.name AS parent
     , pid, child.name  AS child

FROM
        parent  LEFT JOIN  child
  ON   parent.id    =    child.pid

WHERE child.pid IS NULL

Result:

+----+--------+------+-------+
| id | parent | pid  | child | 
+----+--------+------+-------+
|  2 | Bill   | NULL | NULL  |
|  4 | Dale   | NULL | NULL  |
|  5 | Evan   | NULL | NULL  |
+----+--------+------+-------+

Now, what happens if we move that IS NULL check from the WHERE to the joining ON clause?

SELECT id,  parent.name AS parent
     , pid, child.name  AS child

FROM
        parent  LEFT JOIN  child
  ON   parent.id    =    child.pid
  AND  child.pid IS NULL

In this case the database tries to find rows from the two tables that match these conditions. That is, rows where parent.id = child.pid AND child.pid IN NULL. But it can find no such match because no child.pid can be equal to something (1, 2, 3, 4 or 5) and be NULL at the same time!

So, the condition:

ON   parent.id    =    child.pid
AND  child.pid IS NULL

is equivalent to:

ON   1 = 0

which is always False.

So, why does it return ALL rows from the left table? Because it's a LEFT JOIN! And left joins return rows that match (none in this case) and also rows from the left table that do not match the check (all in this case):

+----+--------+------+-------+
| id | parent | pid  | child | 
+----+--------+------+-------+
|  1 | Alex   | NULL | NULL  |
|  2 | Bill   | NULL | NULL  |
|  3 | Cath   | NULL | NULL  |
|  4 | Dale   | NULL | NULL  |
|  5 | Evan   | NULL | NULL  |
+----+--------+------+-------+

I hope the above explanation is clear.



Sidenote (not directly related to your question): Why on earth doesn't Pan show up in none of our JOINs? Because his pid is NULL and NULL in the (not common) logic of SQL is not equal to anything so it can't match with any of the parent ids (which are 1,2,3,4 and 5). Even if there was a NULL there, it still wouldn't match because NULL does not equal anything, not even NULL itself (it's a very strange logic, indeed!). That's why we use the special check IS NULL and not a = NULL check.

So, will Pan show up if we do a RIGHT JOIN ? Yes, it will! Because a RIGHT JOIN will show all results that match (the first INNER JOIN we did) plus all rows from the RIGHT table that don't match (which in our case is one, the (NULL, 'Pan') row.

SELECT id,  parent.name AS parent
     , pid, child.name  AS child

FROM
        parent  RIGHT JOIN  child
  ON   parent.id     =    child.pid

Result:

+------+--------+------+-------+
| id   | parent | pid  | child | 
+---------------+------+-------+
|   1  | Alex   |   1  | Kate  |
|   1  | Alex   |   1  | Lia   |
|   3  | Cath   |   3  | Mary  |
| NULL | NULL   | NULL | Pan   |
+------+--------+------+-------+

Unfortunately, MySQL does not have FULL JOIN. You can try it in other RDBMSs, and it will show:

+------+--------+------+-------+
|  id  | parent | pid  | child | 
+------+--------+------+-------+
|   1  | Alex   |   1  | Kate  |
|   1  | Alex   |   1  | Lia   |
|   3  | Cath   |   3  | Mary  |
|   2  | Bill   | NULL | NULL  |
|   4  | Dale   | NULL | NULL  |
|   5  | Evan   | NULL | NULL  |
| NULL | NULL   | NULL | Pan   |
+------+--------+------+-------+

How do I check if an object's type is a particular subclass in C++?

I disagree that you should never want to check an object's type in C++. If you can avoid it, I agree that you should. Saying you should NEVER do this under any circumstance is going too far though. You can do this in a great many languages, and it can make your life a lot easier. Howard Pinsley, for instance, showed us how in his post on C#.

I do a lot of work with the Qt Framework. In general, I model what I do after the way they do things (at least when working in their framework). The QObject class is the base class of all Qt objects. That class has the functions isWidgetType() and isWindowType() as a quick subclass check. So why not be able to check your own derived classes, which is comparable in it's nature? Here is a QObject spin off of some of these other posts:

class MyQObject : public QObject
{
public:
    MyQObject( QObject *parent = 0 ) : QObject( parent ){}
    ~MyQObject(){}

    static bool isThisType( const QObject *qObj )
    { return ( dynamic_cast<const MyQObject*>(qObj) != NULL ); }
};

And then when you are passing around a pointer to a QObject, you can check if it points to your derived class by calling the static member function:

if( MyQObject::isThisType( qObjPtr ) ) qDebug() << "This is a MyQObject!";

Switch statement fallthrough in C#?

switch (C# Reference) says

C# requires the end of switch sections, including the final one,

So you also need to add a break; to your default section, otherwise there will still will be a compiler error.

How does one parse XML files?

You can parse the XML using this library System.Xml.Linq. Below is the sample code I used to parse a XML file

public CatSubCatList GenerateCategoryListFromProductFeedXML()
{
    string path = System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath(_xmlFilePath);

    XDocument xDoc = XDocument.Load(path);

    XElement xElement = XElement.Parse(xDoc.ToString());


    List<Category> lstCategory = xElement.Elements("Product").Select(d => new Category
    {
        Code = Convert.ToString(d.Element("CategoryCode").Value),
        CategoryPath = d.Element("CategoryPath").Value,
        Name = GetCateOrSubCategory(d.Element("CategoryPath").Value, 0), // Category
        SubCategoryName = GetCateOrSubCategory(d.Element("CategoryPath").Value, 1) // Sub Category
    }).GroupBy(x => new { x.Code, x.SubCategoryName }).Select(x => x.First()).ToList();

    CatSubCatList catSubCatList = GetFinalCategoryListFromXML(lstCategory);

    return catSubCatList;
}

Bootstrap Carousel image doesn't align properly

While vekozlov's answer will work in Bootstrap 3 to center your image, it will break when the carousel is scaled down: the image retains its size instead of scaling down with the carousel.

Instead, do this on the top-level carousel div:

<div id="my-carousel" class="carousel slide"
    style="max-width: 900px; margin: 0 auto">
    ...
</div>

This will center the entire carousel and prevent it from growing beyond the width of your images (i.e. 900 px or whatever you want to set it to). However, when the carousel is scaled down the images scale down with it.

You should put this styling info in your CSS/LESS file, of course.

Delete all rows in a table based on another table

DELETE Table1
FROM Table1
INNER JOIN Table2 ON Table1.ID = Table2.ID

How to recursively list all the files in a directory in C#?

Note that in .NET 4.0 there are (supposedly) iterator-based (rather than array-based) file functions built in:

foreach (string file in Directory.EnumerateFiles(path, "*.*", SearchOption.AllDirectories))
{
    Console.WriteLine(file);
}

At the moment I'd use something like below; the inbuilt recursive method breaks too easily if you don't have access to a single sub-dir...; the Queue<string> usage avoids too much call-stack recursion, and the iterator block avoids us having a huge array.

static void Main() {
    foreach (string file in GetFiles(SOME_PATH)) {
        Console.WriteLine(file);
    }
}

static IEnumerable<string> GetFiles(string path) {
    Queue<string> queue = new Queue<string>();
    queue.Enqueue(path);
    while (queue.Count > 0) {
        path = queue.Dequeue();
        try {
            foreach (string subDir in Directory.GetDirectories(path)) {
                queue.Enqueue(subDir);
            }
        }
        catch(Exception ex) {
            Console.Error.WriteLine(ex);
        }
        string[] files = null;
        try {
            files = Directory.GetFiles(path);
        }
        catch (Exception ex) {
            Console.Error.WriteLine(ex);
        }
        if (files != null) {
            for(int i = 0 ; i < files.Length ; i++) {
                yield return files[i];
            }
        }
    }
}

How to Set RadioButtonFor() in ASp.net MVC 2 as Checked by default

You can also add labels that are tied to your radio buttons with the same ID, which then allows the user to click the radio button or label to select that item. I'm using constants here for "Male", "Female" and "Unknown", but obviously these could be strings in your model.

<%: Html.RadioButtonFor(m => m.Gender, "Male", 
    new Dictionary<string, object> { { "checked", "checked" }, { "id", "Male" } }) %>
<%: Html.Label("Male") %>

<%: Html.RadioButtonFor(m => m.Gender, "Female", 
    new Dictionary<string, object> { { "id", "Female" } }) %>
<%: Html.Label("Female")%>

<%: Html.RadioButtonFor(m => m.Gender, "Unknown",
    new Dictionary<string, object> { { "id", "Unknown" } }) %>
<%: Html.Label("Unknown")%>

Foreach in a Foreach in MVC View

Try this:

It looks like you are looping for every product each time, now this is looping for each product that has the same category ID as the current category being looped

<div id="accordion1" style="text-align:justify">
@using (Html.BeginForm())
{
    foreach (var category in Model.Categories)
    {
        <h3><u>@category.Name</u></h3>

        <div>
            <ul>    
                @foreach (var product in Model.Product.Where(m=> m.CategoryID= category.CategoryID)
                {
                    <li>
                        @product.Title
                        @if (System.Web.Security.UrlAuthorizationModule.CheckUrlAccessForPrincipal("/admin", User, "GET"))
                        {
                            @Html.Raw(" - ")  
                            @Html.ActionLink("Edit", "Edit", new { id = product.ID })
                        }
                        <ul>
                            <li>
                                @product.Description
                            </li>
                        </ul>
                    </li>
                }
            </ul>
        </div>
    }
}  

Prevent screen rotation on Android

You can follow the logic below to prevent auto rotate screen while your AsyncTask is running:

  1. Store your current screen orientation inside your activity using getRequestedOrientation().
  2. Disable auto screen orientation using setRequestedOrientation(ActivityInfo.SCREEN_ORIENTATION_NOSENSOR).
  3. Run/execute your AsyncTask.
  4. At the end of your AsyncTask restore your previous orientation status using setRequestedOrientation(oldOrientation).

Please note that there are several ways to access Activity (which runs on UI thread) properties inside an AsyncTask. You can implement your AsyncTask as an inner class or you can use message Handler that poke your Activiy class.

Is there an equivalent of 'which' on the Windows command line?

While later versions of Windows have a where command, you can also do this with Windows XP by using the environment variable modifiers, as follows:

c:\> for %i in (cmd.exe) do @echo.   %~$PATH:i
   C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe

c:\> for %i in (python.exe) do @echo.   %~$PATH:i
   C:\Python25\python.exe

You don't need any extra tools and it's not limited to PATH since you can substitute any environment variable (in the path format, of course) that you wish to use.


And, if you want one that can handle all the extensions in PATHEXT (as Windows itself does), this one does the trick:

@echo off
setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion

:: Needs an argument.

if "x%1"=="x" (
    echo Usage: which ^<progName^>
    goto :end
)

:: First try the unadorned filenmame.

set fullspec=
call :find_it %1

:: Then try all adorned filenames in order.

set mypathext=!pathext!
:loop1
    :: Stop if found or out of extensions.

    if "x!mypathext!"=="x" goto :loop1end

    :: Get the next extension and try it.

    for /f "delims=;" %%j in ("!mypathext!") do set myext=%%j
    call :find_it %1!myext!

:: Remove the extension (not overly efficient but it works).

:loop2
    if not "x!myext!"=="x" (
        set myext=!myext:~1!
        set mypathext=!mypathext:~1!
        goto :loop2
    )
    if not "x!mypathext!"=="x" set mypathext=!mypathext:~1!

    goto :loop1
:loop1end

:end
endlocal
goto :eof

:: Function to find and print a file in the path.

:find_it
    for %%i in (%1) do set fullspec=%%~$PATH:i
    if not "x!fullspec!"=="x" @echo.   !fullspec!
    goto :eof

It actually returns all possibilities but you can tweak it quite easily for specific search rules.

How to use OUTPUT parameter in Stored Procedure

You need to close the connection before you can use the output parameters. Something like this

con.Close();
MessageBox.Show(cmd.Parameters["@code"].Value.ToString());

Eclipse - "Workspace in use or cannot be created, chose a different one."

Check that you have enough rights to workspace directory. I got this error when I didn't have write permission to workspace.

Update style of a component onScroll in React.js

You should bind the listener in componentDidMount, that way it's only created once. You should be able to store the style in state, the listener was probably the cause of performance issues.

Something like this:

componentDidMount: function() {
    window.addEventListener('scroll', this.handleScroll);
},

componentWillUnmount: function() {
    window.removeEventListener('scroll', this.handleScroll);
},

handleScroll: function(event) {
    let scrollTop = event.srcElement.body.scrollTop,
        itemTranslate = Math.min(0, scrollTop/3 - 60);

    this.setState({
      transform: itemTranslate
    });
},

How to set the max size of upload file

These properties in spring boot application.properties makes the acceptable file size unlimited -

# To prevent maximum upload size limit exception
spring.servlet.multipart.max-file-size=-1
spring.servlet.multipart.max-request-size=-1

Proper way to declare custom exceptions in modern Python?

No, "message" is not forbidden. It's just deprecated. You application will work fine with using message. But you may want to get rid of the deprecation error, of course.

When you create custom Exception classes for your application, many of them do not subclass just from Exception, but from others, like ValueError or similar. Then you have to adapt to their usage of variables.

And if you have many exceptions in your application it's usually a good idea to have a common custom base class for all of them, so that users of your modules can do

try:
    ...
except NelsonsExceptions:
    ...

And in that case you can do the __init__ and __str__ needed there, so you don't have to repeat it for every exception. But simply calling the message variable something else than message does the trick.

In any case, you only need the __init__ or __str__ if you do something different from what Exception itself does. And because if the deprecation, you then need both, or you get an error. That's not a whole lot of extra code you need per class. ;)

@Resource vs @Autowired

Both @Autowired (or @Inject) and @Resource work equally well. But there is a conceptual difference or a difference in the meaning

  • @Resource means get me a known resource by name. The name is extracted from the name of the annotated setter or field, or it is taken from the name-Parameter.
  • @Inject or @Autowired try to wire in a suitable other component by type.

So, basically these are two quite distinct concepts. Unfortunately the Spring-Implementation of @Resource has a built-in fallback, which kicks in when resolution by-name fails. In this case, it falls back to the @Autowired-kind resolution by-type. While this fallback is convenient, IMHO it causes a lot of confusion, because people are unaware of the conceptual difference and tend to use @Resource for type-based autowiring.

How to see data from .RData file?

Look at the help page for load. What load returns is the names of the objects created, so you can look at the contents of isfar to see what objects were created. The fact that nothing else is showing up with ls() would indicate that maybe there was nothing stored in your file.

Also note that load will overwrite anything in your global environment that has the same name as something in the file being loaded when used with default behavior. If you mainly want to examine what is in the file, and possibly use something from that file along with other objects in your global environment then it may be better to use the attach function or create a new environment (new.env) and load the file into that environment using the envir argument to load.

Sort a list of numerical strings in ascending order

The recommended approach in this case is to sort the data in the database, adding an ORDER BY at the end of the query that fetches the results, something like this:

SELECT temperature FROM temperatures ORDER BY temperature ASC;  -- ascending order
SELECT temperature FROM temperatures ORDER BY temperature DESC; -- descending order

If for some reason that is not an option, you can change the sorting order like this in Python:

templist = [25, 50, 100, 150, 200, 250, 300, 33]
sorted(templist, key=int)               # ascending order
> [25, 33, 50, 100, 150, 200, 250, 300]
sorted(templist, key=int, reverse=True) # descending order
> [300, 250, 200, 150, 100, 50, 33, 25]

As has been pointed in the comments, the int key (or float if values with decimals are being stored) is required for correctly sorting the data if the data received is of type string, but it'd be very strange to store temperature values as strings, if that is the case, go back and fix the problem at the root, and make sure that the temperatures being stored are numbers.

How do I execute a stored procedure in a SQL Agent job?

You just need to add this line to the window there:

exec (your stored proc name) (and possibly add parameters)

What is your stored proc called, and what parameters does it expect?

Diff files present in two different directories

Diff has an option -r which is meant to do just that.

diff -r dir1 dir2

angular.min.js.map not found, what is it exactly?

Monkey is right, according to the link given by monkey

Basically it's a way to map a combined/minified file back to an unbuilt state. When you build for production, along with minifying and combining your JavaScript files, you generate a source map which holds information about your original files. When you query a certain line and column number in your generated JavaScript you can do a lookup in the source map which returns the original location.

I am not sure if it is angular's fault that no map files were generated. But you can turn off source map files by unchecking this option in chrome console setting

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How to downgrade from Internet Explorer 11 to Internet Explorer 10?

  1. Save and close all Internet Explorer windows and then, run Windows Task Manager to end the running processes in background.
  2. Go to Control Panel.
  3. Click Programs and choose the View installed updates instead.
  4. Locate the following Windows Internet Explorer 11 or you can type "Internet Explorer" for a quick search.
  5. Choose the Yes option from the following "Uninstall an update".
  6. Please wait while Windows Internet Explorer 10 is being restored and reconfigured automatically.
  7. Follow the Microsoft Windows wizard to restart your system.

Note: You can do it for as many earlier versions you want, i.e. IE9, IE8 and so on.

Android: making a fullscreen application

Simply declare in styles.xml

  <style name="AppTheme.Fullscreen" parent="AppTheme">
    <item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
    <item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
    <item name="android:windowFullscreen">true</item>
  </style>

Then use in menifest.xml

    <activity
        android:name=".activities.Splash"
        android:theme="@style/AppTheme.Fullscreen">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

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

Chill Pill :)

How to log cron jobs?

If you'd still like to check your cron jobs you should provide a valid email account when setting the Cron jobs in cPanel.

When you specify a valid email you will receive the output of the cron job that is executed. Thus you will be able to check it and make sure everything has been executed correctly. Note that you will not receive an email if there is no output from the cron job command.

Please bear in mind that you will receive an email for each of the executed cron jobs. This may flood your inbox in case your crons run too often

Does Android keep the .apk files? if so where?

  • data/app
  • system/app
  • system/priv-app
  • mnt/asec (when installed in sdcard)

You can pull the .apks from any of them:

adb pull /mnt/asec

Python "SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xe2' in file"

I had the same issue but it was because I copied and pasted the string as it is. Later when I manually typed the string as it is the error vanished.

I had the error due to the - sign. When I replaced it with manually inputting a - the error was solved.

Copied string 10 + 3 * 5/(16 - 4)

Manually typed string 10 + 3 * 5/(16 - 4)

you can clearly see there is a bit of difference between both the hyphens.

I think it's because of the different formatting used by different OS or maybe just different software.

Create a new line in Java's FileWriter

Try:

String.format("%n");

See this question for more details.

pip install fails with "connection error: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:598)"

In my case, I was running Python in the minimal alpine docker image. It was missing root CA certificates. Fix:

apk update && apk add ca-certificates

How to get parameters from the URL with JSP

Use EL (JSP Expression Language):

${param.accountID}

How do I create the small icon next to the website tab for my site?

This is for the icon in the browser (most of the sites omit the type):

<link rel="icon" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon"
     href="http://example.com/favicon.ico" />

or

<link rel="icon" type="image/png"
     href="http://example.com/image.png" />

or

<link rel="apple-touch-icon"
     href="http://example.com//apple-touch-icon.png">

for the shortcut icon:

<link rel="shortcut icon"
     href="http://example.com/favicon.ico" />

Place them in the <head></head> section.

Edit may 2019 some additional examples from MDN

How to convert Java String into byte[]?

The object your method decompressGZIP() needs is a byte[].

So the basic, technical answer to the question you have asked is:

byte[] b = string.getBytes();
byte[] b = string.getBytes(Charset.forName("UTF-8"));
byte[] b = string.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8); // Java 7+ only

However the problem you appear to be wrestling with is that this doesn't display very well. Calling toString() will just give you the default Object.toString() which is the class name + memory address. In your result [B@38ee9f13, the [B means byte[] and 38ee9f13 is the memory address, separated by an @.

For display purposes you can use:

Arrays.toString(bytes);

But this will just display as a sequence of comma-separated integers, which may or may not be what you want.

To get a readable String back from a byte[], use:

String string = new String(byte[] bytes, Charset charset);

The reason the Charset version is favoured, is that all String objects in Java are stored internally as UTF-16. When converting to a byte[] you will get a different breakdown of bytes for the given glyphs of that String, depending upon the chosen charset.

Lightweight workflow engine for Java

CamundaBPM is one option. You can check here: https://camunda.com/

Select and trigger click event of a radio button in jquery

Switch the order of the code: You're calling the click event before it is attached.

$(document).ready(function() {
      $("#checkbox_div input:radio").click(function() {

           alert("clicked");

      });

      $("input:radio:first").prop("checked", true).trigger("click");

});

Multiple commands on a single line in a Windows batch file

Use:

echo %time% & dir & echo %time%

This is, from memory, equivalent to the semi-colon separator in bash and other UNIXy shells.

There's also && (or ||) which only executes the second command if the first succeeded (or failed), but the single ampersand & is what you're looking for here.


That's likely to give you the same time however since environment variables tend to be evaluated on read rather than execute.

You can get round this by turning on delayed expansion:

pax> cmd /v:on /c "echo !time! & ping 127.0.0.1 >nul: & echo !time!"
15:23:36.77
15:23:39.85

That's needed from the command line. If you're doing this inside a script, you can just use setlocal:

@setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion
@echo off
echo !time! & ping 127.0.0.1 >nul: & echo !time!
endlocal

INSERT INTO a temp table, and have an IDENTITY field created, without first declaring the temp table?

Good Question & Matt's was a good answer. To expand on the syntax a little if the oldtable has an identity a user could run the following:

SELECT col1, col2, IDENTITY( int ) AS idcol
INTO #newtable
FROM oldtable

That would be if the oldtable was scripted something as such:

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[oldtable]
(
    [oldtableID] [numeric](18, 0) IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
    [col1] [nvarchar](50) NULL,
    [col2] [numeric](18, 0) NULL,
)

Is there any way to change input type="date" format?

It's important to distinguish two different formats:

  • The RFC 3339/ISO 8601 "wire format": YYYY-MM-DD. According to the HTML5 specification, this is the format that must be used for the input's value upon form submission or when requested via the DOM API. It is locale and region independent.
  • The format displayed by the user interface control and accepted as user input. Browser vendors are encouraged to follow the user's preferences selection. For example, on Mac OS with the region "United States" selected in the Language & Text preferences pane, Chrome 20 uses the format "m/d/yy".

The HTML5 specification does not include any means of overriding or manually specifying either format.

Vue is not defined

I needed to add the script below to index.html inside the HEAD tag.

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/vue/dist/vue.js"></script>

But in your case, since you don't have index.html, just add it to your HEAD tag instead.

So it's like:

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
   <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/vue/dist/vue.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
...
</body>
</html>

Passing parameters to JavaScript files

Well, you could have the javascript file being built by any of the scripting languages, injecting your variables into the file on every request. You would have to tell your webserver to not dish out js-files statically (using mod_rewrite would suffice).

Be aware though that you lose any caching of these js-files as they are altered constantly.

Bye.

Split list into smaller lists (split in half)

This is similar to other solutions, but a little faster.

# Usage: split_half([1,2,3,4,5]) Result: ([1, 2], [3, 4, 5])

def split_half(a):
    half = len(a) >> 1
    return a[:half], a[half:]

Are PostgreSQL column names case-sensitive?

Identifiers (including column names) that are not double-quoted are folded to lower case in PostgreSQL. Column names that were created with double-quotes and thereby retained upper-case letters (and/or other syntax violations) have to be double-quoted for the rest of their life:

"first_Name"

Values (string literals / constants) are enclosed in single quotes:

'xyz'

So, yes, PostgreSQL column names are case-sensitive (when double-quoted):

SELECT * FROM persons WHERE "first_Name" = 'xyz';

Read the manual on identifiers here.

My standing advice is to use legal, lower-case names exclusively so double-quoting is not needed.

how to convert binary string to decimal?

Slightly modified conventional binary conversion algorithm utilizing some more ES6 syntax and auto-features:

  1. Convert binary sequence string to Array (assuming it wasnt already passed as array)

  2. Reverse sequence to force 0 index to start at right-most binary digit as binary is calculated right-left

  3. 'reduce' Array function traverses array, performing summation of (2^index) per binary digit [only if binary digit === 1] (0 digit always yields 0)

NOTE: Binary conversion formula:

{where d=binary digit, i=array index, n=array length-1 (starting from right)}

n
? (d * 2^i)
i=0

let decimal = Array.from(binaryString).reverse().reduce((total, val, index)=>val==="1"?total + 2**index:total, 0);  

console.log(`Converted BINARY sequence (${binaryString}) to DECIMAL (${decimal}).`);

Date validation with ASP.NET validator

A CustomValidator would also work here:

<asp:CustomValidator runat="server"
    ID="valDateRange" 
    ControlToValidate="txtDatecompleted"
    onservervalidate="valDateRange_ServerValidate" 
    ErrorMessage="enter valid date" />

Code-behind:

protected void valDateRange_ServerValidate(object source, ServerValidateEventArgs args)
{
    DateTime minDate = DateTime.Parse("1000/12/28");
    DateTime maxDate = DateTime.Parse("9999/12/28");
    DateTime dt;

    args.IsValid = (DateTime.TryParse(args.Value, out dt) 
                    && dt <= maxDate 
                    && dt >= minDate);
}

Google Maps API v3: InfoWindow not sizing correctly

Funny enough, while the following code will correct the WIDTH scroll bar:

.gm-style-iw
{
    overflow: hidden !important;
    line-height: 1.35;

}

It took this to correct the HEIGHT scroll bar:

    .gm-style-iw div
    {
        overflow: hidden !important;
    }

EDIT: Adding white-space: nowrap; to either style might correct the spacing issue that seems to linger when the scroll bars are removed. Great point Nathan.

How to split a delimited string in Ruby and convert it to an array?

For String Integer without space as String

arr = "12345"

arr.split('')

output: ["1","2","3","4","5"]

For String Integer with space as String

arr = "1 2 3 4 5"

arr.split(' ')

output: ["1","2","3","4","5"]

For String Integer without space as Integer

arr = "12345"

arr.split('').map(&:to_i)

output: [1,2,3,4,5]

For String

arr = "abc"

arr.split('')

output: ["a","b","c"]

Explanation:

  1. arr -> string which you're going to perform any action.
  2. split() -> is an method, which split the input and store it as array.
  3. '' or ' ' or ',' -> is an value, which is needed to be removed from given string.

JSON - Iterate through JSONArray

JsonArray jsonArray;
Iterator<JsonElement> it = jsonArray.iterator();
while(it.hasNext()){
    System.out.println(it.next());
}

Change column type in pandas

How about this?

a = [['a', '1.2', '4.2'], ['b', '70', '0.03'], ['x', '5', '0']]
df = pd.DataFrame(a, columns=['one', 'two', 'three'])
df
Out[16]: 
  one  two three
0   a  1.2   4.2
1   b   70  0.03
2   x    5     0

df.dtypes
Out[17]: 
one      object
two      object
three    object

df[['two', 'three']] = df[['two', 'three']].astype(float)

df.dtypes
Out[19]: 
one       object
two      float64
three    float64

How do I enable the column selection mode in Eclipse?

You can enable and disable column editing mode via the keyboard shortcut ALT-SHIFT-A.

Once enabled you can then use either the mouse to select a block of text, or the keyboard using SHIFT (like a normal keyboard select, except the selection will now be in a block).

If you've changed your default font for text editing, entering column editing mode will probably change your screen font to the default column editing font (which is probably different to your changed font. To change the font when in column editing mode, go to the menu and select Window -> Preferences, then in the tree on the left hand side, pick General -> Appearance -> Colors and Fonts, and then pick Basic -> Text Editor Block Selection Font on the right hand side tree. You can then select the font to be consistent with your "not in column editing mode" font.

What's the difference between the Window.Loaded and Window.ContentRendered events

I think there is little difference between the two events. To understand this, I created a simple example to manipulation:

XAML

<Window x:Class="LoadedAndContentRendered.MainWindow"
        xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
        xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
        Name="MyWindow"
        Title="MainWindow" Height="1000" Width="525"
        WindowStartupLocation="CenterScreen"
        ContentRendered="Window_ContentRendered"     
        Loaded="Window_Loaded">

    <Grid Name="RootGrid">        
    </Grid>
</Window>

Code behind

private void Window_ContentRendered(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    MessageBox.Show("ContentRendered");
}

private void Window_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    MessageBox.Show("Loaded");
}   

In this case the message Loaded appears the first after the message ContentRendered. This confirms the information in the documentation.

In general, in WPF the Loaded event fires if the element:

is laid out, rendered, and ready for interaction.

Since in WPF the Window is the same element, but it should be generally content that is arranged in a root panel (for example: Grid). Therefore, to monitor the content of the Window and created an ContentRendered event. Remarks from MSDN:

If the window has no content, this event is not raised.

That is, if we create a Window:

<Window x:Class="LoadedAndContentRendered.MainWindow"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    Name="MyWindow"        
    ContentRendered="Window_ContentRendered" 
    Loaded="Window_Loaded" />

It will only works Loaded event.

With regard to access to the elements in the Window, they work the same way. Let's create a Label in the main Grid of Window. In both cases we have successfully received access to Width:

private void Window_ContentRendered(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    MessageBox.Show("ContentRendered: " + SampleLabel.Width.ToString());
}

private void Window_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    MessageBox.Show("Loaded: " + SampleLabel.Width.ToString());
}   

As for the Styles and Templates, at this stage they are successfully applied, and in these events we will be able to access them.

For example, we want to add a Button:

private void Window_ContentRendered(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    MessageBox.Show("ContentRendered: " + SampleLabel.Width.ToString());

    Button b1 = new Button();
    b1.Content = "ContentRendered Button";
    RootGrid.Children.Add(b1);
    b1.Height = 25;
    b1.Width = 200;
    b1.HorizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.Right;
}

private void Window_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    MessageBox.Show("Loaded: " + SampleLabel.Width.ToString());

    Button b1 = new Button();
    b1.Content = "Loaded Button";
    RootGrid.Children.Add(b1);
    b1.Height = 25;
    b1.Width = 200;
    b1.HorizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.Left;
}

In the case of Loaded event, Button to add to Grid immediately at the appearance of the Window. In the case of ContentRendered event, Button to add to Grid after all its content will appear.

Therefore, if you want to add items or changes before load Window you must use the Loaded event. If you want to do the operations associated with the content of Window such as taking screenshots you will need to use an event ContentRendered.

make a header full screen (width) css

Remove the max-width from the body, and put it to the #container.

So, instead of:

body {
    max-width:1250px;
}

You should have:

#container {
    max-width:1250px;
}

How to create a batch file to run cmd as administrator

Make a text using notepad or any text editor of you choice. Open notepad, write this short command "cmd.exe" without the quote aand save it as cmd.bat.

Click cmd.bat and choose "run as administrator".

Javascript Debugging line by line using Google Chrome

Assuming you're running on a Windows machine...

  1. Hit the F12 key
  2. Select the Scripts, or Sources, tab in the developer tools
  3. Click the little folder icon in the top level
  4. Select your JavaScript file
  5. Add a breakpoint by clicking on the line number on the left (adds a little blue marker)
  6. Execute your JavaScript

Then during execution debugging you can do a handful of stepping motions...

  • F8 Continue: Will continue until the next breakpoint
  • F10 Step over: Steps over next function call (won't enter the library)
  • F11 Step into: Steps into the next function call (will enter the library)
  • Shift + F11 Step out: Steps out of the current function

Update

After reading your updated post; to debug your code I would recommend temporarily using the jQuery Development Source Code. Although this doesn't directly solve your problem, it will allow you to debug more easily. For what you're trying to achieve I believe you'll need to step-in to the library, so hopefully the production code should help you decipher what's happening.

length and length() in Java

Whenever an array is created, its size is specified. So length can be considered as a construction attribute. For String, it essentially a char array. Length is a property of the char array. There is no need to put length as a field, because not everything needs this field. http://www.programcreek.com/2013/11/start-from-length-length-in-java/

How can I show line numbers in Eclipse?

the eclipse changes the perferences's position

to eclipse -> perferences

How do I clone a job in Jenkins?

All the answers here are super helpful but miss one very weird bug about Jenkins. After you have edited the new job configurations, sometimes if your zoom level is too high, you may not see the save or apply button option. The button is present on the page and hidden by your zoom level, you have to zoom out until you see the button at the bottom left of your page.

Strange, I know!

Wpf DataGrid Add new row

Just simply use this Style of DataGridRow:

<DataGrid.RowStyle>
        <Style TargetType="DataGridRow">
            <Setter Property="IsEnabled" Value="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource Self},Path=IsNewItem,Mode=OneWay}" />
        </Style>
</DataGrid.RowStyle>

Storing an object in state of a React component?

Even though it can be done via immutability-helper or similar I do not wan't to add external dependencies to my code unless I really have to. When I need to do it I use Object.assign. Code:

this.setState({ abc : Object.assign({}, this.state.abc , {xyz: 'new value'})})

Can be used on HTML Event Attributes as well, example:

onChange={e => this.setState({ abc : Object.assign({}, this.state.abc, {xyz : 'new value'})})}

How to get the cookie value in asp.net website

add this function to your global.asax

protected void Application_AuthenticateRequest(Object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    string cookieName = FormsAuthentication.FormsCookieName;
    HttpCookie authCookie = Context.Request.Cookies[cookieName];

    if (authCookie == null)
    {
        return;
    }
    FormsAuthenticationTicket authTicket = null;
    try
    {
        authTicket = FormsAuthentication.Decrypt(authCookie.Value);
    }
    catch
    {
        return;
    }
    if (authTicket == null)
    {
        return;
    }
    string[] roles = authTicket.UserData.Split(new char[] { '|' });
    FormsIdentity id = new FormsIdentity(authTicket);
    GenericPrincipal principal = new GenericPrincipal(id, roles);

    Context.User = principal;
}

then you can use HttpContext.Current.User.Identity.Name to get username. hope it helps

ExtJs Gridpanel store refresh

reload the ds to refresh grid.

ds.reload();

Prevent redirect after form is submitted

You should post it with ajax, this will stop it from changing the page, and you will still get the information back.

$(function() {
    $('form').submit(function() {
        $.ajax({
            type: 'POST',
            url: 'submit.php',
            data: { username: $(this).name.value, 
                    password: $(this).password.value }
        });
        return false;
    }); 
})

See Post documentation for JQuery

This app won't run unless you update Google Play Services (via Bazaar)

I have found a nice solution which let you test your app in the emulator and also doesn't require you to revert to the older version of the library. See an answer to Stack Overflow question Running Google Maps v2 on the Android emulator.

How do I calculate a trendline for a graph?

This is the way i calculated the slope: Source: http://classroom.synonym.com/calculate-trendline-2709.html

class Program
    {
        public double CalculateTrendlineSlope(List<Point> graph)
        {
            int n = graph.Count;
            double a = 0;
            double b = 0;
            double bx = 0;
            double by = 0;
            double c = 0;
            double d = 0;
            double slope = 0;

            foreach (Point point in graph)
            {
                a += point.x * point.y;
                bx = point.x;
                by = point.y;
                c += Math.Pow(point.x, 2);
                d += point.x;
            }
            a *= n;
            b = bx * by;
            c *= n;
            d = Math.Pow(d, 2);

            slope = (a - b) / (c - d);
            return slope;
        }
    }

    class Point
    {
        public double x;
        public double y;
    }

Scroll Element into View with Selenium

Selenium can scroll to some element in the scrollbar automatically for some simple UI, but for lazy-load UI, scrollToElement is still needed.

This is my implementation in Java with JavascriptExecutor. You can find more details in Satix source code: http://www.binpress.com/app/satix-seleniumbased-automation-testing-in-xml/1958

public static void perform(WebDriver driver, String Element, String ElementBy, By by) throws Exception {
 try {
  //long start_time = System.currentTimeMillis();           
  StringBuilder js = new StringBuilder();
  String browser = "firefox";

  if (ElementBy.equals("id")) {
   js.append("var b = document.getElementById(\"" +
    Element + "\");");
  } else if (ElementBy.equals("xpath")) {
   if (!"IE".equals(browser)) {
    js.append("var b = document.evaluate(\"" +
     Element +
     "\", document, null, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext();");
   } else {
    throw new Exception("Action error: xpath is not supported in scrollToElement Action in IE");
   }
  } else if (ElementBy.equals("cssSelector")) {
   js.append("var b = document.querySelector(\"" +
    Element + "\");");
  } else {
   throw new Exception("Scroll Action error");
  }

  String getScrollHeightScript = js.toString() + "var o = new Array(); o.push(b.scrollHeight); return o;";

  js.append("b.scrollTop = b.scrollTop + b.clientHeight;");
  js.append("var tmp = b.scrollTop + b.clientHeight;");
  js.append("var o = new Array(); o.push(tmp); return o;");

  int tries = 1;
  String scrollTop = "0";
  while (tries > 0) {
   try {
    String scrollHeight = ((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript(getScrollHeightScript).toString();
    if (scrollTop.equals(scrollHeight)) {
     break;
    } else if (driver.findElement(by).isDisplayed()) {
     break;
    }
    Object o = ((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript(js.toString());
    scrollTop = o.toString();
    Thread.sleep(interval);
    tries++;
   } catch (Exception e) {
    throw new Exception("Action error:" +
     " javascript execute error : " + e.getMessage() + ", javascript : " + js.toString());
   }
  }

 } catch (Exception e) {
  try {
   ScreenshotCapturerUtil.saveScreenShot(driver, CLASSNAME);
  } catch (IOException e1) {
   throw new Exception("Save screenshot error!", e1);
  }
  throw e;
 }
}

Java: Array with loop

this is actually the summation of an arithmatic progression with common difference as 1. So this is a special case of sum of natural numbers. Its easy can be done with a single line of code.

int i = 100;
// Implement the fomrulae n*(n+1)/2
int sum = (i*(i+1))/2;
System.out.println(sum);

Which version of C# am I using

The language version is chosen based on the project's target framework by default.

Each project may use a different version of .Net framework, the best suitable C# compiler will be chosen by default by looking at the target framework. From visual studio, UI will not allow the users to changes the language version, however, we can change the language version by editing the project file with addition of new property group. But this may cause compile/run time issues in existing code.

<PropertyGroup>  
<LangVersion>8.0</LangVersion>  
</PropertyGroup>

I could see the following from Microsoft docs.

The compiler determines a default based on these rules:

Target framework  version     C# language version default
.NET Core           3.x         C# 8.0
.NET Core           2.x         C# 7.3
.NET Standard       2.1         C# 8.0
.NET Standard       2.0         C# 7.3
.NET Standard       1.x         C# 7.3
.NET Framework      all         C# 7.3

Trim last character from a string

String withoutLast = yourString.Substring(0,(yourString.Length - 1));

Undefined columns selected when subsetting data frame

You want rows where that condition is true so you need a comma:

data[data$Ozone > 14, ]

Error: fix the version conflict (google-services plugin)

as the message says go to: com.google.gms.google-services versions

And copy the last version's number . Mine was less than 3.3.1. Then in project's build.gradle put/change dependencies node as :

dependencies {
    classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.1.2' // as it was before             
    classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:3.3.1' // <-- the version change                  
        }

Then I synced the project and error went

How do I specify unique constraint for multiple columns in MySQL?

If You are creating table in mysql then use following :

create table package_template_mapping (
mapping_id  int(10) not null auto_increment  ,
template_id int(10) NOT NULL ,
package_id  int(10) NOT NULL ,
remark      varchar(100),
primary key (mapping_id) ,
UNIQUE KEY template_fun_id (template_id , package_id)
);

Could not find or load main class org.gradle.wrapper.GradleWrapperMain

On Gradle 5.x I use:

wrapper {
    gradleVersion = '5.5.1'
}

Trying to Validate URL Using JavaScript

I have found a great resource for comparing different solutions: https://mathiasbynens.be/demo/url-regex

According to that page, only solution from diegoperini passes all tests. Here is that regex:

_^(?:(?:https?|ftp)://)(?:\S+(?::\S*)?@)?(?:(?!10(?:\.\d{1,3}){3})(?!127(?:\.\d{1,3}){3})(?!169\.254(?:\.\d{1,3}){2})(?!192\.168(?:\.\d{1,3}){2})(?!172\.(?:1[6-9]|2\d|3[0-1])(?:\.\d{1,3}){2})(?:[1-9]\d?|1\d\d|2[01]\d|22[0-3])(?:\.(?:1?\d{1,2}|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])){2}(?:\.(?:[1-9]\d?|1\d\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-4]))|(?:(?:[a-z\x{00a1}-\x{ffff}0-9]+-?)*[a-z\x{00a1}-\x{ffff}0-9]+)(?:\.(?:[a-z\x{00a1}-\x{ffff}0-9]+-?)*[a-z\x{00a1}-\x{ffff}0-9]+)*(?:\.(?:[a-z\x{00a1}-\x{ffff}]{2,})))(?::\d{2,5})?(?:/[^\s]*)?$_iuS

Use multiple @font-face rules in CSS

@font-face {
    font-family: Kaffeesatz;
    src: url(YanoneKaffeesatz-Thin.otf);
    font-weight: 200;
}
@font-face {
    font-family: Kaffeesatz;
    src: url(YanoneKaffeesatz-Light.otf);
    font-weight: 300;
}
@font-face {
    font-family: Kaffeesatz;
    src: url(YanoneKaffeesatz-Regular.otf);
    font-weight: normal;
}
@font-face {
    font-family: Kaffeesatz;
    src: url(YanoneKaffeesatz-Bold.otf);
    font-weight: bold;
}
h3, h4, h5, h6 {
    font-size:2em;
    margin:0;
    padding:0;
    font-family:Kaffeesatz;
    font-weight:normal;
}
h6 { font-weight:200; }
h5 { font-weight:300; }
h4 { font-weight:normal; }
h3 { font-weight:bold; }

What is an unsigned char?

unsigned char takes only positive values....like 0 to 255

where as

signed char takes both positive and negative values....like -128 to +127

How to make use of ng-if , ng-else in angularJS

You can also try ternary operator. Something like this

{{data.id === 5 ? "it's true" : "it's false"}}

Change your html code little bit and try this hope so it will be work for you.

chart.js load totally new data

I answered this here see How to clear a chart from a canvas so that hover events cannot be triggered?

But here is the solution:

var myPieChart=null;

function drawChart(objChart,data){
    if(myPieChart!=null){
        myPieChart.destroy();
    }
    // Get the context of the canvas element we want to select
    var ctx = objChart.getContext("2d");
    myPieChart = new Chart(ctx).Pie(data, {animateScale: true});
}

Python: fastest way to create a list of n lists

To create list and list of lists use below syntax

     x = [[] for i in range(10)]

this will create 1-d list and to initialize it put number in [[number] and set length of list put length in range(length)

  • To create list of lists use below syntax.
    x = [[[0] for i in range(3)] for i in range(10)]

this will initialize list of lists with 10*3 dimension and with value 0

  • To access/manipulate element
    x[1][5]=value

I have created a table in hive, I would like to know which directory my table is created in?

If you use Hue, you can browse the table in the Metastore App and then click on 'View file location': that will open the HDFS File Browser in its directory.

Can there be an apostrophe in an email address?

Yes, according to RFC 3696 apostrophes are valid as long as they come before the @ symbol.

Laravel - htmlspecialchars() expects parameter 1 to be string, object given

You could use serialize

<input type="hidden" name="quotation[]" value="{{serialize($quotation)}}">

But best way in this case use the json_encode method in your blade and json_decode in controller.

Under what circumstances can I call findViewById with an Options Menu / Action Bar item?

I am trying to obtain a handle on one of the views in the Action Bar

I will assume that you mean something established via android:actionLayout in your <item> element of your <menu> resource.

I have tried calling findViewById(R.id.menu_item)

To retrieve the View associated with your android:actionLayout, call findItem() on the Menu to retrieve the MenuItem, then call getActionView() on the MenuItem. This can be done any time after you have inflated the menu resource.

Xcode : Adding a project as a build dependency

  1. Select your project in the navigator on left.
  2. Open up the drawer in the middle pane and select your target.
  3. Select Build Phases
  4. Target Dependencies is an option at that point.

how to customize `show processlist` in mysql?

The command

show full processlist

can be replaced by:

SELECT * FROM information_schema.processlist

but if you go with the latter version you can add WHERE clause to it:

SELECT * FROM information_schema.processlist WHERE `INFO` LIKE 'SELECT %';

For more information visit this

How do I find the mime-type of a file with php?

I haven't used it, but there's a PECL extension for getting a file's mimetype. The official documentation for it is in the manual.

Depending on your purposes, a file extension can be ok, but it's not incredibly reliable since it's so easily changed.

How do I grep recursively?

If you only want to follow actual directories, and not symbolic links,

grep -r "thingToBeFound" directory

If you want to follow symbolic links as well as actual directories (be careful of infinite recursion),

grep -R "thing to be found" directory

Since you're trying to grep recursively, the following options may also be useful to you:

-H: outputs the filename with the line

-n: outputs the line number in the file

So if you want to find all files containing Darth Vader in the current directory or any subdirectories and capture the filename and line number, but do not want the recursion to follow symbolic links, the command would be

grep -rnH "Darth Vader" .

If you want to find all mentions of the word cat in the directory

/home/adam/Desktop/TomAndJerry 

and you're currently in the directory

/home/adam/Desktop/WorldDominationPlot

and you want to capture the filename but not the line number of any instance of the string "cats", and you want the recursion to follow symbolic links if it finds them, you could run either of the following

grep -RH "cats" ../TomAndJerry                   #relative directory

grep -RH "cats" /home/adam/Desktop/TomAndJerry   #absolute directory

Source:

running "grep --help"

A short introduction to symbolic links, for anyone reading this answer and confused by my reference to them: https://www.nixtutor.com/freebsd/understanding-symbolic-links/

Best GUI designer for eclipse?

Here is a quite good but old comparison http://wiki.computerwoche.de/doku.php/programmierung/gui-builder_fuer_eclipse Window Builder Pro is now free at Google Web Toolkit

javascript how to create a validation error message without using alert

I would strongly suggest you start using jQuery. Your code would look like:

$(function() {
    $('form[name="myform"]').submit(function(e) {
        var username = $('form[name="myform"] input[name="username"]').val();
        if ( username == '') {
            e.preventDefault();
            $('#errors').text('*Please enter a username*');
        }
    });
});

Curly braces in string in PHP

I've also found it useful to access object attributes where the attribute names vary by some iterator. For example, I have used the pattern below for a set of time periods: hour, day, month.

$periods=array('hour', 'day', 'month');
foreach ($periods as $period)
{
    $this->{'value_'.$period}=1;
}

This same pattern can also be used to access class methods. Just build up the method name in the same manner, using strings and string variables.

You could easily argue to just use an array for the value storage by period. If this application were PHP only, I would agree. I use this pattern when the class attributes map to fields in a database table. While it is possible to store arrays in a database using serialization, it is inefficient, and pointless if the individual fields must be indexed. I often add an array of the field names, keyed by the iterator, for the best of both worlds.

class timevalues
{
                             // Database table values:
    public $value_hour;      // maps to values.value_hour
    public $value_day;       // maps to values.value_day
    public $value_month;     // maps to values.value_month
    public $values=array();

    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->value_hour=0;
        $this->value_day=0;
        $this->value_month=0;
        $this->values=array(
            'hour'=>$this->value_hour,
            'day'=>$this->value_day,
            'month'=>$this->value_month,
        );
    }
}

StringLength vs MaxLength attributes ASP.NET MVC with Entity Framework EF Code First

When using the attribute to restrict the maximum input length for text from a form on a webpage, the StringLength seems to generate the maxlength html attribute (at least in my test with MVC 5). The one to choose then depnds on how you want to alert the user that this is the maximum text length. With the stringlength attribute, the user will simply not be able to type beyond the allowed length. The maxlength attribute doesn't add this html attribute, instead it generates data validation attributes, meaning the user can type beyond the indicated length and that preventing longer input depends on the validation in javascript when he moves to the next field or clicks submit (or if javascript is disabled, server side validation). In this case the user can be notified of the restriction by an error message.

Use RSA private key to generate public key?

The Public Key is not stored in the PEM file as some people think. The following DER structure is present on the Private Key File:

openssl rsa -text -in mykey.pem

RSAPrivateKey ::= SEQUENCE {
  version           Version,
  modulus           INTEGER,  -- n
  publicExponent    INTEGER,  -- e
  privateExponent   INTEGER,  -- d
  prime1            INTEGER,  -- p
  prime2            INTEGER,  -- q
  exponent1         INTEGER,  -- d mod (p-1)
  exponent2         INTEGER,  -- d mod (q-1)
  coefficient       INTEGER,  -- (inverse of q) mod p
  otherPrimeInfos   OtherPrimeInfos OPTIONAL
}

So there is enough data to calculate the Public Key (modulus and public exponent), which is what openssl rsa -in mykey.pem -pubout does

HMAC-SHA256 Algorithm for signature calculation

Java simple code to generate encoded(HMAC-x) signatures. (Tried using Java-8 and Eclipse)

import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.security.InvalidKeyException;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;

import javax.crypto.Mac;
import javax.crypto.spec.SecretKeySpec;

import com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.security.utils.Base64;

/**
 * Encryption class to show how to generate encoded(HMAC-x) signatures.
 * 
 */
public class Encryption {

    public static void main(String args[]) {

        String message = "This is my message.";
        String key = "your_key";
        String algorithm = "HmacMD5";  // OPTIONS= HmacSHA512, HmacSHA256, HmacSHA1, HmacMD5

        try {

            // 1. Get an algorithm instance.
            Mac sha256_hmac = Mac.getInstance(algorithm);

            // 2. Create secret key.
            SecretKeySpec secret_key = new SecretKeySpec(key.getBytes("UTF-8"), algorithm);

            // 3. Assign secret key algorithm.
            sha256_hmac.init(secret_key);

            // 4. Generate Base64 encoded cipher string.
            String hash = Base64.encode(sha256_hmac.doFinal(message.getBytes("UTF-8")));

            // You can use any other encoding format to get hash text in that encoding.
            System.out.println(hash);

            /**
             * Here are the outputs for given algorithms:-
             * 
             * HmacMD5 = hpytHW6XebJ/hNyJeX/A2w==
             * HmacSHA1 = CZbtauhnzKs+UkBmdC1ssoEqdOw=
             * HmacSHA256 =gCZJBUrp45o+Z5REzMwyJrdbRj8Rvfoy33ULZ1bySXM=
             * HmacSHA512 = OAqi5yEbt2lkwDuFlO6/4UU6XmU2JEDuZn6+1pY4xLAq/JJGSNfSy1if499coG1K2Nqz/yyAMKPIx9C91uLj+w==
             */

        } catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {

            e.printStackTrace();

        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {

            e.printStackTrace();

        } catch (InvalidKeyException e) {

            e.printStackTrace();

        }

    }

}

NOTE: You can use any other Algorithms and can try generating HmacMD5, HmacSHA1, HmacSHA256, HmacSHA512 signatures.

Convert string to datetime

http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_parse.asp

    <script type="text/javascript">
        var d = Date.parse("Jul 8, 2005");
        document.write(d);<br>
    </script>

HTTP Error 403.14 - Forbidden - The Web server is configured to not list the contents of this directory

Empty website template creates an ASP.NET website that includes a Web.config file but no other files. Means you have not any default page to show on browse or run.

This error message simply means that you did not setup and configure the default document properly on your IIS.

Once this is configured, the error message will go away.

"405 method not allowed" in IIS7.5 for "PUT" method

I enabled the Failed Request Tracing, and got the following info:

 <EventData>
  <Data Name="ContextId">{00000000-0000-0000-0F00-0080000000FA}</Data>
  <Data Name="ModuleName">WebDAVModule</Data>
  <Data Name="Notification">16</Data>
  <Data Name="HttpStatus">405</Data>
  <Data Name="HttpReason">Method Not Allowed</Data>
  <Data Name="HttpSubStatus">0</Data>
  <Data Name="ErrorCode">0</Data>
  <Data Name="ConfigExceptionInfo"></Data>
 </EventData>

So, I uninstalled the WebDAVModule from my IIS, everything is fine now~

The IIS tracing feature is very helpful.

how does Request.QueryString work?

The QueryString collection is used to retrieve the variable values in the HTTP query string.

The HTTP query string is specified by the values following the question mark (?), like this:

Link with a query string

The line above generates a variable named txt with the value "this is a query string test".

Query strings are also generated by form submission, or by a user typing a query into the address bar of the browser.

And see this sample : http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/5876/Passing-variables-between-pages-using-QueryString

refer this : http://www.dotnetperls.com/querystring

you can collect More details in google .

How to turn IDENTITY_INSERT on and off using SQL Server 2008?

It looks necessary to put a SET IDENTITY_INSERT Database.dbo.Baskets ON; before every SQL INSERT sending batch.

You can send several INSERT ... VALUES ... commands started with one SET IDENTITY_INSERT ... ON; string at the beginning. Just don't put any batch separator between.

I don't know why the SET IDENTITY_INSERT ... ON stops working after the sending block (for ex.: .ExecuteNonQuery() in C#). I had to put SET IDENTITY_INSERT ... ON; again at the beginning of next SQL command string.

How to find foreign key dependencies in SQL Server?

Because your question is geared towards a single table, you can use this:

EXEC sp_fkeys 'TableName'

I found it on SO here:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/12956348/652519

I found the information I needed pretty quickly. It lists the foreign key's table, column and name.

EDIT

Here's a link to the documentation that details the different parameters that can be used: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/system-stored-procedures/sp-fkeys-transact-sql

explicit casting from super class to subclass

Elaborating the answer given by Michael Berry.

Dog d = (Dog)Animal; //Compiles but fails at runtime

Here you are saying to the compiler "Trust me. I know d is really referring to a Dog object" although it's not. Remember compiler is forced to trust us when we do a downcast.

The compiler only knows about the declared reference type. The JVM at runtime knows what the object really is.

So when the JVM at the runtime figures out that the Dog d is actually referring to an Animal and not a Dog object it says. Hey... you lied to the compiler and throws a big fat ClassCastException.

So if you are downcasting you should use instanceof test to avoid screwing up.

if (animal instanceof Dog) { Dog dog = (Dog) animal; }

Now a question comes to our mind. Why the hell compiler is allowing the downcast when eventually it is going to throw a java.lang.ClassCastException?

The answer is that all the compiler can do is verify that the two types are in the same inheritance tree, so depending on whatever code might have come before the downcast, it's possible that animal is of type dog.

The compiler must allow things that might possible work at runtime.

Consider the following code snipet:

public static void main(String[] args) 
{   
    Dog d = getMeAnAnimal();// ERROR: Type mismatch: cannot convert Animal to Dog
    Dog d = (Dog)getMeAnAnimal(); // Downcast works fine. No ClassCastException :)
    d.eat();

}

private static Animal getMeAnAnimal()
{
    Animal animal = new Dog();
    return animal;
}

However, if the compiler is sure that the cast would not possible work, compilation will fail. I.E. If you try to cast objects in different inheritance hierarchies

String s = (String)d; // ERROR : cannot cast for Dog to String

Unlike downcasting, upcasting works implicitly because when you upcast you are implicitly restricting the number of method you can invoke, as opposite to downcasting, which implies that later on, you might want to invoke a more specific method.

Dog d = new Dog(); Animal animal1 = d; // Works fine with no explicit cast Animal animal2 = (Animal) d; // Works fine with n explicit cast

Both of the above upcast will work fine without any exception because a Dog IS-A Animal, anithing an Animal can do, a dog can do. But it's not true vica-versa.

Pandas timeseries plot setting x-axis major and minor ticks and labels

Both pandas and matplotlib.dates use matplotlib.units for locating the ticks.

But while matplotlib.dates has convenient ways to set the ticks manually, pandas seems to have the focus on auto formatting so far (you can have a look at the code for date conversion and formatting in pandas).

So for the moment it seems more reasonable to use matplotlib.dates (as mentioned by @BrenBarn in his comment).

import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt 
import matplotlib.dates as dates

idx = pd.date_range('2011-05-01', '2011-07-01')
s = pd.Series(np.random.randn(len(idx)), index=idx)

fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.plot_date(idx.to_pydatetime(), s, 'v-')
ax.xaxis.set_minor_locator(dates.WeekdayLocator(byweekday=(1),
                                                interval=1))
ax.xaxis.set_minor_formatter(dates.DateFormatter('%d\n%a'))
ax.xaxis.grid(True, which="minor")
ax.yaxis.grid()
ax.xaxis.set_major_locator(dates.MonthLocator())
ax.xaxis.set_major_formatter(dates.DateFormatter('\n\n\n%b\n%Y'))
plt.tight_layout()
plt.show()

pandas_like_date_fomatting

(my locale is German, so that Tuesday [Tue] becomes Dienstag [Di])

How to add anything in <head> through jquery/javascript?

Create a temporary element (e. g. DIV), assign your HTML code to its innerHTML property, and then append its child nodes to the HEAD element one by one. For example, like this:

var temp = document.createElement('div');

temp.innerHTML = '<link rel="stylesheet" href="example.css" />'
               + '<script src="foobar.js"><\/script> ';

var head = document.head;

while (temp.firstChild) {
    head.appendChild(temp.firstChild);
}

Compared with rewriting entire HEAD contents via its innerHTML, this wouldn’t affect existing child elements of the HEAD element in any way.

Note that scripts inserted this way are apparently not executed automatically, while styles are applied successfully. So if you need scripts to be executed, you should load JS files using Ajax and then execute their contents using eval().

jQuery class within class selector

is just going to look for a div with class="outer inner", is that correct?

No, '.outer .inner' will look for all elements with the .inner class that also have an element with the .outer class as an ancestor. '.outer.inner' (no space) would give the results you're thinking of.

'.outer > .inner' will look for immediate children of an element with the .outer class for elements with the .inner class.

Both '.outer .inner' and '.outer > .inner' should work for your example, although the selectors are fundamentally different and you should be wary of this.

Ignoring new fields on JSON objects using Jackson

If using a pojo class based on JSON response. If chances are there that json changes frequently declare at pojo class level:

@JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)

and at the objectMapper add this if you are converting:

objectMapper.configure(DeserializationConfig.Feature.FAIL_ON_UNKNOWN_PROPERTIES, false);

So that code will not break.

How to create timer in angular2

If you look to run a method on ngOnInit you could do something like this:

import this 2 libraries from RXJS:

import {Observable} from 'rxjs/Rx';
import {Subscription} from "rxjs";

Then declare timer and private subscription, example:

timer= Observable.timer(1000,1000); // 1 second for 2 seconds (2000,1000) etc
private subscription: Subscription;

Last but not least run method when timer stops

ngOnInit() {
  this.subscription = this.timer.subscribe(ticks=> {
    this.populatecombobox();  //example calling a method that populates a combobox
    this.subscription.unsubscribe();  //you need to unsubscribe or it will run infinite times
  });
}

That's all, Angular 5

How to decrypt the password generated by wordpress

This is one of the proposed solutions found in the article Jacob mentioned, and it worked great as a manual way to change the password without having to use the email reset.

  1. In the DB table wp_users, add a key, like abc123 to the user_activation column.
  2. Visit yoursite.com/wp-login.php?action=rp&key=abc123&login=yourusername
  3. You will be prompted to enter a new password.

Unable to start Service Intent

1) check if service declaration in manifest is nested in application tag

<application>
    <service android:name="" />
</application>

2) check if your service.java is in the same package or diff package as the activity

<application>
    <!-- service.java exists in diff package -->
    <service android:name="com.package.helper.service" /> 
</application>
<application>
    <!-- service.java exists in same package -->
    <service android:name=".service" /> 
</application>

How to Count Duplicates in List with LINQ

Slightly shorter version using methods chain:

var list = new List<string> {"a", "b", "a", "c", "a", "b"};
var q = list.GroupBy(x => x)
            .Select(g => new {Value = g.Key, Count = g.Count()})
            .OrderByDescending(x=>x.Count);

foreach (var x in q)
{
    Console.WriteLine("Value: " + x.Value + " Count: " + x.Count);
}

python - if not in list

You better do this syntax

if not (item in mylist):  
    Code inside the if

Delaying AngularJS route change until model loaded to prevent flicker

Using AngularJS 1.1.5

Updating the 'phones' function in Justen's answer using AngularJS 1.1.5 syntax.

Original:

phones: function($q, Phone) {
    var deferred = $q.defer();

    Phone.query(function(phones) {
        deferred.resolve(phones);
    });

    return deferred.promise;
}

Updated:

phones: function(Phone) {
    return Phone.query().$promise;
}

Much shorter thanks to the Angular team and contributors. :)

This is also the answer of Maximilian Hoffmann. Apparently that commit made it into 1.1.5.

Manually map column names with class properties

I do the following using dynamic and LINQ:

    var sql = @"select top 1 person_id, first_name, last_name from Person";
    using (var conn = ConnectionFactory.GetConnection())
    {
        List<Person> person = conn.Query<dynamic>(sql)
                                  .Select(item => new Person()
                                  {
                                      PersonId = item.person_id,
                                      FirstName = item.first_name,
                                      LastName = item.last_name
                                  }
                                  .ToList();

        return person;
    }

Display HTML snippets in HTML

If your goal is to show a chunk of code that you're executing elsewhere on the same page, you can use textContent (it's pure-js and well supported: http://caniuse.com/#feat=textcontent)

<div id="myCode">
    <p>
        hello world
    </p>
</div>

<div id="loadHere"></div>


document.getElementById("myCode").textContent = document.getElementById("loadHere").innerHTML;

To get multi-line formatting in the result, you need to set css style "white-space: pre;" on the target div, and write the lines individually using "\r\n" at the end of each.

Here's a demo: https://jsfiddle.net/wphps3od/

This method has an advantage over using textarea: Code wont be reformatted as it would in a textarea. (Things like &nbsp; are removed entirely in a textarea)

Import CSV to SQLite

What also is being said in the comments, SQLite sees your input as 1, 25, 62, 7. I also had a problem with , and in my case it was solved by changing "separator ," into ".mode csv". So you could try:

sqlite> create table foo(a, b);
sqlite> .mode csv
sqlite> .import test.csv foo

The first command creates the column names for the table. However, if you want the column names inherited from the csv file, you might just ignore the first line.

Call to a member function on a non-object

I realized that I wasn't passing $objPage into page_properties(). It works fine now.

How do you find out which version of GTK+ is installed on Ubuntu?

You can also just open synaptic and search for libgtk, it will show you exactly which lib is installed.

Problems using Maven and SSL behind proxy

You can use the -Dmaven.wagon.http.ssl.insecure=true option

Excel VBA Code: Compile Error in x64 Version ('PtrSafe' attribute required)

I think all you need to do for your function is just add PtrSafe: i.e. the first line of your first function should look like this:

Private Declare PtrSafe Function swe_azalt Lib "swedll32.dll" ......

How to specify a port number in SQL Server connection string?

For JDBC the proper format is slightly different and as follows:

jdbc:microsoft:sqlserver://mycomputer.test.xxx.com:49843

Note the colon instead of the comma.

How to correctly display .csv files within Excel 2013?

I know that an answer has already been accepted, but one item to check is the encoding of the CSV file. I have a Powershell script that generates CSV files. By default, it was encoding them as UCS-2 Little Endian (per Notepad++). It would open the file in a single column in Excel and I'd have to do the Text to Columns conversion to split the columns. Changing the script to encode the same output as "ASCII" (UTF-8 w/o BOM per Notepad++) allowed me to open the CSV directly with the columns split out. You can change the encoding of the CSV in Notepad++ too.

  • Menu Encoding > Convert to UTF-8 without BOM
  • Save the CSV file
  • Open in Excel, columns should be split

Laravel - Eloquent "Has", "With", "WhereHas" - What do they mean?

Document has already explain the usage. So I am using SQL to explain these methods

Example:


Assuming there is an Order (orders) has many OrderItem (order_items).

And you have already build the relationship between them.

// App\Models\Order:
public function orderItems() {
    return $this->hasMany('App\Models\OrderItem', 'order_id', 'id');
}

These three methods are all based on a relationship.

With


Result: with() return the model object and its related results.

Advantage: It is eager-loading which can prevent the N+1 problem.

When you are using the following Eloquent Builder:

Order::with('orderItems')->get();

Laravel change this code to only two SQL:

// get all orders:
SELECT * FROM orders; 

// get the order_items based on the orders' id above
SELECT * FROM order_items WHERE order_items.order_id IN (1,2,3,4...);

And then laravel merge the results of the second SQL as different from the results of the first SQL by foreign key. At last return the collection results.

So if you selected columns without the foreign_key in closure, the relationship result will be empty:

Order::with(['orderItems' => function($query) { 
           // $query->sum('quantity');
           $query->select('quantity'); // without `order_id`
       }
])->get();

#=> result:
[{  id: 1,
    code: '00001',
    orderItems: [],    // <== is empty
  },{
    id: 2,
    code: '00002',
    orderItems: [],    // <== is empty
  }...
}]

Has


Has will return the model's object that its relationship is not empty.

Order::has('orderItems')->get();

Laravel change this code to one SQL:

select * from `orders` where exists (
    select * from `order_items` where `order`.`id` = `order_item`.`order_id`
)

whereHas


whereHas and orWhereHas methods to put where conditions on your has queries. These methods allow you to add customized constraints to a relationship constraint.

Order::whereHas('orderItems', function($query) {
   $query->where('status', 1);
})->get();

Laravel change this code to one SQL:

select * from `orders` where exists (
    select * 
    from `order_items` 
    where `orders`.`id` = `order_items`.`order_id` and `status` = 1
)

Converting List<Integer> to List<String>

This is such a basic thing to do I wouldn't use an external library (it will cause a dependency in your project that you probably don't need).

We have a class of static methods specifically crafted to do these sort of jobs. Because the code for this is so simple we let Hotspot do the optimization for us. This seems to be a theme in my code recently: write very simple (straightforward) code and let Hotspot do its magic. We rarely have performance issues around code like this - when a new VM version comes along you get all the extra speed benefits etc.

As much as I love Jakarta collections, they don't support Generics and use 1.4 as the LCD. I am wary of Google Collections because they are listed as Alpha support level!

Catching an exception while using a Python 'with' statement

Differentiating between the possible origins of exceptions raised from a compound with statement

Differentiating between exceptions that occur in a with statement is tricky because they can originate in different places. Exceptions can be raised from either of the following places (or functions called therein):

  • ContextManager.__init__
  • ContextManager.__enter__
  • the body of the with
  • ContextManager.__exit__

For more details see the documentation about Context Manager Types.

If we want to distinguish between these different cases, just wrapping the with into a try .. except is not sufficient. Consider the following example (using ValueError as an example but of course it could be substituted with any other exception type):

try:
    with ContextManager():
        BLOCK
except ValueError as err:
    print(err)

Here the except will catch exceptions originating in all of the four different places and thus does not allow to distinguish between them. If we move the instantiation of the context manager object outside the with, we can distinguish between __init__ and BLOCK / __enter__ / __exit__:

try:
    mgr = ContextManager()
except ValueError as err:
    print('__init__ raised:', err)
else:
    try:
        with mgr:
            try:
                BLOCK
            except TypeError:  # catching another type (which we want to handle here)
                pass
    except ValueError as err:
        # At this point we still cannot distinguish between exceptions raised from
        # __enter__, BLOCK, __exit__ (also BLOCK since we didn't catch ValueError in the body)
        pass

Effectively this just helped with the __init__ part but we can add an extra sentinel variable to check whether the body of the with started to execute (i.e. differentiating between __enter__ and the others):

try:
    mgr = ContextManager()  # __init__ could raise
except ValueError as err:
    print('__init__ raised:', err)
else:
    try:
        entered_body = False
        with mgr:
            entered_body = True  # __enter__ did not raise at this point
            try:
                BLOCK
            except TypeError:  # catching another type (which we want to handle here)
                pass
    except ValueError as err:
        if not entered_body:
            print('__enter__ raised:', err)
        else:
            # At this point we know the exception came either from BLOCK or from __exit__
            pass

The tricky part is to differentiate between exceptions originating from BLOCK and __exit__ because an exception that escapes the body of the with will be passed to __exit__ which can decide how to handle it (see the docs). If however __exit__ raises itself, the original exception will be replaced by the new one. To deal with these cases we can add a general except clause in the body of the with to store any potential exception that would have otherwise escaped unnoticed and compare it with the one caught in the outermost except later on - if they are the same this means the origin was BLOCK or otherwise it was __exit__ (in case __exit__ suppresses the exception by returning a true value the outermost except will simply not be executed).

try:
    mgr = ContextManager()  # __init__ could raise
except ValueError as err:
    print('__init__ raised:', err)
else:
    entered_body = exc_escaped_from_body = False
    try:
        with mgr:
            entered_body = True  # __enter__ did not raise at this point
            try:
                BLOCK
            except TypeError:  # catching another type (which we want to handle here)
                pass
            except Exception as err:  # this exception would normally escape without notice
                # we store this exception to check in the outer `except` clause
                # whether it is the same (otherwise it comes from __exit__)
                exc_escaped_from_body = err
                raise  # re-raise since we didn't intend to handle it, just needed to store it
    except ValueError as err:
        if not entered_body:
            print('__enter__ raised:', err)
        elif err is exc_escaped_from_body:
            print('BLOCK raised:', err)
        else:
            print('__exit__ raised:', err)

Alternative approach using the equivalent form mentioned in PEP 343

PEP 343 -- The "with" Statement specifies an equivalent "non-with" version of the with statement. Here we can readily wrap the various parts with try ... except and thus differentiate between the different potential error sources:

import sys

try:
    mgr = ContextManager()
except ValueError as err:
    print('__init__ raised:', err)
else:
    try:
        value = type(mgr).__enter__(mgr)
    except ValueError as err:
        print('__enter__ raised:', err)
    else:
        exit = type(mgr).__exit__
        exc = True
        try:
            try:
                BLOCK
            except TypeError:
                pass
            except:
                exc = False
                try:
                    exit_val = exit(mgr, *sys.exc_info())
                except ValueError as err:
                    print('__exit__ raised:', err)
                else:
                    if not exit_val:
                        raise
        except ValueError as err:
            print('BLOCK raised:', err)
        finally:
            if exc:
                try:
                    exit(mgr, None, None, None)
                except ValueError as err:
                    print('__exit__ raised:', err)

Usually a simpler approach will do just fine

The need for such special exception handling should be quite rare and normally wrapping the whole with in a try ... except block will be sufficient. Especially if the various error sources are indicated by different (custom) exception types (the context managers need to be designed accordingly) we can readily distinguish between them. For example:

try:
    with ContextManager():
        BLOCK
except InitError:  # raised from __init__
    ...
except AcquireResourceError:  # raised from __enter__
    ...
except ValueError:  # raised from BLOCK
    ...
except ReleaseResourceError:  # raised from __exit__
    ...

JSON find in JavaScript

(You're not searching through "JSON", you're searching through an array -- the JSON string has already been deserialized into an object graph, in this case an array.)

Some options:

Use an Object Instead of an Array

If you're in control of the generation of this thing, does it have to be an array? Because if not, there's a much simpler way.

Say this is your original data:

[
    {"id": "one",   "pId": "foo1", "cId": "bar1"},
    {"id": "two",   "pId": "foo2", "cId": "bar2"},
    {"id": "three", "pId": "foo3", "cId": "bar3"}
]

Could you do the following instead?

{
    "one":   {"pId": "foo1", "cId": "bar1"},
    "two":   {"pId": "foo2", "cId": "bar2"},
    "three": {"pId": "foo3", "cId": "bar3"}
}

Then finding the relevant entry by ID is trivial:

id = "one"; // Or whatever
var entry = objJsonResp[id];

...as is updating it:

objJsonResp[id] = /* New value */;

...and removing it:

delete objJsonResp[id];

This takes advantage of the fact that in JavaScript, you can index into an object using a property name as a string -- and that string can be a literal, or it can come from a variable as with id above.

Putting in an ID-to-Index Map

(Dumb idea, predates the above. Kept for historical reasons.)

It looks like you need this to be an array, in which case there isn't really a better way than searching through the array unless you want to put a map on it, which you could do if you have control of the generation of the object. E.g., say you have this originally:

[
    {"id": "one",   "pId": "foo1", "cId": "bar1"},
    {"id": "two",   "pId": "foo2", "cId": "bar2"},
    {"id": "three", "pId": "foo3", "cId": "bar3"}
]

The generating code could provide an id-to-index map:

{
    "index": {
        "one": 0, "two": 1, "three": 2
    },
    "data": [
        {"id": "one",   "pId": "foo1", "cId": "bar1"},
        {"id": "two",   "pId": "foo2", "cId": "bar2"},
        {"id": "three", "pId": "foo3", "cId": "bar3"}
    ]
}

Then getting an entry for the id in the variable id is trivial:

var index = objJsonResp.index[id];
var obj = objJsonResp.data[index];

This takes advantage of the fact you can index into objects using property names.

Of course, if you do that, you have to update the map when you modify the array, which could become a maintenance problem.

But if you're not in control of the generation of the object, or updating the map of ids-to-indexes is too much code and/ora maintenance issue, then you'll have to do a brute force search.

Brute Force Search (corrected)

Somewhat OT (although you did ask if there was a better way :-) ), but your code for looping through an array is incorrect. Details here, but you can't use for..in to loop through array indexes (or rather, if you do, you have to take special pains to do so); for..in loops through the properties of an object, not the indexes of an array. Your best bet with a non-sparse array (and yours is non-sparse) is a standard old-fashioned loop:

var k;
for (k = 0; k < someArray.length; ++k) { /* ... */ }

or

var k;
for (k = someArray.length - 1; k >= 0; --k) { /* ... */ }

Whichever you prefer (the latter is not always faster in all implementations, which is counter-intuitive to me, but there we are). (With a sparse array, you might use for..in but again taking special pains to avoid pitfalls; more in the article linked above.)

Using for..in on an array seems to work in simple cases because arrays have properties for each of their indexes, and their only other default properties (length and their methods) are marked as non-enumerable. But it breaks as soon as you set (or a framework sets) any other properties on the array object (which is perfectly valid; arrays are just objects with a bit of special handling around the length property).

How to check if a stored procedure exists before creating it

I know you want to "alter a procedure if it exists and create it if it does not exist" but I believe it's simpler to just always drop the procedure and then re-create it. Here's how to drop the procedure only if it already exists:

IF OBJECT_ID('MyProcedure', 'P') IS NOT NULL
    DROP PROCEDURE MyProcedure
GO

The second parameter tells OBJECT_ID to only look for objects with object_type = 'P', which are stored procedures:

AF = Aggregate function (CLR)

C = CHECK constraint

D = DEFAULT (constraint or stand-alone)

F = FOREIGN KEY constraint

FN = SQL scalar function

FS = Assembly (CLR) scalar-function

FT = Assembly (CLR) table-valued function

IF = SQL inline table-valued function

IT = Internal table

P = SQL Stored Procedure

PC = Assembly (CLR) stored-procedure

PG = Plan guide

PK = PRIMARY KEY constraint

R = Rule (old-style, stand-alone)

RF = Replication-filter-procedure

S = System base table

SN = Synonym

SO = Sequence object

TF = SQL table-valued-function

TR = Trigger

You can get the full list of options via:

SELECT name 
FROM master..spt_values
WHERE type = 'O9T'

How to import set of icons into Android Studio project

what u need to do is icons downloaded from material design, open that folder there are lots of icons categories specified, open any of it choose any icon and go to this folder -> drawable-anydpi-v21. this folder contains xml files copy any xml file and paste it to this location -> C:\Users\Username\AndroidStudioProjects\ur project name\app\src\main\res\drawable. That's it !! now you can use the icon in ur project.

Use css gradient over background image

The accepted answer works well. Just for completeness (and since I like it's shortness), I wanted to share how to to it with compass (SCSS/SASS):

body{
  $colorStart: rgba(0,0,0,0);
  $colorEnd: rgba(0,0,0,0.8);
  @include background-image(linear-gradient(to bottom, $colorStart, $colorEnd), url("bg.jpg"));
}

Show loading gif after clicking form submit using jQuery

Better and clean example using JS only

Reference: TheDeveloperBlog.com

Step 1 - Create your java script and place it in your HTML page.

<script type="text/javascript">
    function ShowLoading(e) {
        var div = document.createElement('div');
        var img = document.createElement('img');
        img.src = 'loading_bar.GIF';
        div.innerHTML = "Loading...<br />";
        div.style.cssText = 'position: fixed; top: 5%; left: 40%; z-index: 5000; width: 422px; text-align: center; background: #EDDBB0; border: 1px solid #000';
        div.appendChild(img);
        document.body.appendChild(div);
        return true;
        // These 2 lines cancel form submission, so only use if needed.
        //window.event.cancelBubble = true;
        //e.stopPropagation();
    }
</script>

in your form call the java script function on submit event.

<form runat="server"  onsubmit="ShowLoading()">
</form>

Soon after you submit the form, it will show you the loading image.

Binding a WPF ComboBox to a custom list

I had a similar issue where the SelectedItem never got updated.

My problem was that the selected item was not the same instance as the item contained in the list. So I simply had to override the Equals() method in my MyCustomObject and compare the IDs of those two instances to tell the ComboBox that it's the same object.

public override bool Equals(object obj)
{
    return this.Id == (obj as MyCustomObject).Id;
}

How to get HttpClient to pass credentials along with the request?

You can configure HttpClient to automatically pass credentials like this:

var myClient = new HttpClient(new HttpClientHandler() { UseDefaultCredentials = true });

How to make <input type="date"> supported on all browsers? Any alternatives?

This is bit of an opinion piece, but we had great success with WebShims. It can decay cleanly to use jQuery datepicker if native is not available. Demo here

Remove Duplicates from range of cells in excel vba

To remove duplicates from a single column

 Sub removeDuplicate()
 'removeDuplicate Macro
 Columns("A:A").Select
 ActiveSheet.Range("$A$1:$A$117").RemoveDuplicates Columns:=Array(1), _ 
 Header:=xlNo 
 Range("A1").Select
 End Sub

if you have header then use Header:=xlYes

Increase your range as per your requirement.
you can make it to 1000 like this :

ActiveSheet.Range("$A$1:$A$1000")

More info here here

Setting width of spreadsheet cell using PHPExcel

Tha is because getColumnDimensionByColumn receives the column index (an integer starting from 0), not a string.

The same goes for setCellValueByColumnAndRow

Rendering raw html with reactjs

dangerouslySetInnerHTML is React’s replacement for using innerHTML in the browser DOM. In general, setting HTML from code is risky because it’s easy to inadvertently expose your users to a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack.

It is better/safer to sanitise your raw HTML (using e.g., DOMPurify) before injecting it into the DOM via dangerouslySetInnerHTML.

DOMPurify - a DOM-only, super-fast, uber-tolerant XSS sanitizer for HTML, MathML and SVG. DOMPurify works with a secure default, but offers a lot of configurability and hooks.

Example:

import React from 'react'
import createDOMPurify from 'dompurify'
import { JSDOM } from 'jsdom'

const window = (new JSDOM('')).window
const DOMPurify = createDOMPurify(window)

const rawHTML = `
<div class="dropdown">
  <button class="btn btn-default dropdown-toggle" type="button" id="dropdownMenu1" data-toggle="dropdown" aria-expanded="true">
    Dropdown
    <span class="caret"></span>
  </button>
  <ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu" aria-labelledby="dropdownMenu1">
    <li role="presentation"><a role="menuitem" tabindex="-1" href="#">Action</a></li>
    <li role="presentation"><a role="menuitem" tabindex="-1" href="#">Another action</a></li>
    <li role="presentation"><a role="menuitem" tabindex="-1" href="#">Something else here</a></li>
    <li role="presentation"><a role="menuitem" tabindex="-1" href="#">Separated link</a></li>
  </ul>
</div>
`

const YourComponent = () => (
  <div>
    { <div dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: DOMPurify.sanitize(rawHTML) }} /> }
  </div>
)

export default YourComponent

How do I specify a password to 'psql' non-interactively?

I tend to prefer passing a URL to psql:

psql "postgresql://$DB_USER:$DB_PWD@$DB_SERVER/$DB_NAME"

This gives me the freedom to name my environment variables as I wish and avoids creating unnecessary files.

This requires libpq. The documentation can be found here.

How to use Python's "easy_install" on Windows ... it's not so easy

If you are using Anaconda's Python distribution,

you can install it through pip

pip install setuptools

and then execute it as a module

python -m easy_install

CSS: Set a background color which is 50% of the width of the window

You could use the :after pseudo-selector to achieve this, though I am unsure of the backward compatibility of that selector.

body {
    background: #000000
}
body:after {
    content:'';
    position: fixed;
    height: 100%;
    width: 50%;
    left: 50%;
    background: #116699
}

I have used this to have two different gradients on a page background.

How to analyze information from a Java core dump?

Actually, VisualVM can process application core dump.

Just invoke "File/Add VM Coredump" and will add a new application in the application explorer. You can then take thread dump or heap dump of that JVM.

Creating executable files in Linux

It's really not that big of a deal. You could just make a script with the single command:

chmod a+x *.pl

And run the script after creating a perl file. Alternatively, you could open a file with a command like this:

touch filename.pl && chmod a+x filename.pl && vi filename.pl # choose your favorite editor

Transactions in .net

protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
   {


       using (SqlConnection connection1 = new SqlConnection("Data Source=.\\SQLEXPRESS;AttachDbFilename=|DataDirectory|\\Database.mdf;Integrated Security=True;User Instance=True"))
       {
           connection1.Open();

           // Start a local transaction.
           SqlTransaction sqlTran = connection1.BeginTransaction();

           // Enlist a command in the current transaction.
           SqlCommand command = connection1.CreateCommand();
           command.Transaction = sqlTran;

           try
           {
               // Execute two separate commands.
               command.CommandText =
                "insert into [doctor](drname,drspecialization,drday) values ('a','b','c')";
               command.ExecuteNonQuery();
               command.CommandText =
                "insert into [doctor](drname,drspecialization,drday) values ('x','y','z')";
               command.ExecuteNonQuery();

               // Commit the transaction.
               sqlTran.Commit();
               Label3.Text = "Both records were written to database.";
           }
           catch (Exception ex)
           {
               // Handle the exception if the transaction fails to commit.
               Label4.Text = ex.Message;


               try
               {
                   // Attempt to roll back the transaction.
                   sqlTran.Rollback();
               }
               catch (Exception exRollback)
               {
                   // Throws an InvalidOperationException if the connection 
                   // is closed or the transaction has already been rolled 
                   // back on the server.
                   Label5.Text = exRollback.Message;

               }
           }
       }


   }

How should the ViewModel close the form?

Why not just pass the window as a command parameter?

C#:

 private void Cancel( Window window )
  {
     window.Close();
  }

  private ICommand _cancelCommand;
  public ICommand CancelCommand
  {
     get
     {
        return _cancelCommand ?? ( _cancelCommand = new Command.RelayCommand<Window>(
                                                      ( window ) => Cancel( window ),
                                                      ( window ) => ( true ) ) );
     }
  }

XAML:

<Window x:Class="WPFRunApp.MainWindow"
        x:Name="_runWindow"
...
   <Button Content="Cancel"
           Command="{Binding Path=CancelCommand}"
           CommandParameter="{Binding ElementName=_runWindow}" />

What does a just-in-time (JIT) compiler do?

I know this is an old thread, but runtime optimization is another important part of JIT compilation that doesn't seemed to be discussed here. Basically, the JIT compiler can monitor the program as it runs to determine ways to improve execution. Then, it can make those changes on the fly - during runtime. Google JIT optimization (javaworld has a pretty good article about it.)

Using two values for one switch case statement

The case values are just codeless "goto" points that can share the same entry point:

case text1:
case text4: {
//Do something
break;
}

Note that the braces are redundant.

How to select option in drop down protractorjs e2e tests

If none of the answer's above worked for you, try this

works with async/await too

For selecting options by text

let textOption = "option2"
await element(by.whichever('YOUR_DROPDOWN_SELECTOR'))
  .getWebElement()
  .findElement(by.xpath(`.//option[text()="${textOption}"]`))
  .click();

or by number

let optionNumber = 2
await element(by.whichever('YOUR_DROPDOWN_SELECTOR'))
  .getWebElement()
  .findElement(by.xpath(`.//option[${optionNumber}]`))
  .click();

Of course you may need to modify the xpath of child options

Don't ask me why, but this is the only way I could automate my dropdowns, when I lost hope already

How to select distinct rows in a datatable and store into an array

To improve the above answer: The ToTable function on dataview has a "distinct" flag.

//This will filter all records to be distinct
dt = dt.DefaultView.ToTable(true);

Calling async method on button click

You're the victim of the classic deadlock. task.Wait() or task.Result is a blocking call in UI thread which causes the deadlock.

Don't block in the UI thread. Never do it. Just await it.

private async void Button_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs 
{
      var task = GetResponseAsync<MyObject>("my url");
      var items = await task;
}

Btw, why are you catching the WebException and throwing it back? It would be better if you simply don't catch it. Both are same.

Also I can see you're mixing the asynchronous code with synchronous code inside the GetResponse method. StreamReader.ReadToEnd is a blocking call --you should be using StreamReader.ReadToEndAsync.

Also use "Async" suffix to methods which returns a Task or asynchronous to follow the TAP("Task based Asynchronous Pattern") convention as Jon says.

Your method should look something like the following when you've addressed all the above concerns.

public static async Task<List<T>> GetResponseAsync<T>(string url)
{
    HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(url);
    var response = (HttpWebResponse)await Task.Factory.FromAsync<WebResponse>(request.BeginGetResponse, request.EndGetResponse, null);

    Stream stream = response.GetResponseStream();
    StreamReader strReader = new StreamReader(stream);
    string text = await strReader.ReadToEndAsync();

    return JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<List<T>>(text);
}

How to download and save an image in Android

@Droidman post is pretty comprehensive. Volley works good with small data of few kbytes. When I tried to use the 'BasicImageDownloader.java' the Android Studio gave me warning that the AsyncTask class should to be static or there could be leaks. I used Volley in another test app and that kept crashing because of leaks so I am worried about using Volley for the image downloader (images can be few 100 kB).

I used Picasso and it worked well, there is small change (probably an update on Picasso) from what is posted above. Below code worked for me:

    public static void imageDownload(Context ctx, String url){
    Picasso.get().load(yourURL)
            .into(getTarget(url));
}
private static Target getTarget(final String url){

    Target target2 = new Target() {
        @Override
        public void onBitmapLoaded(final Bitmap bitmap, Picasso.LoadedFrom from) {
            new Thread(new Runnable() {

                @Override
                public void run() {

                    File file = new File(localPath + "/"+"YourImageFile.jpg");
                    try {
                        file.createNewFile();
                        FileOutputStream ostream = new FileOutputStream(file);
                        bitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPEG, 80, ostream);
                        ostream.flush();
                        ostream.close();
                    } catch (IOException e) {
                        Log.e("IOException", e.getLocalizedMessage());
                    }
                }
            }).start();
        }

        @Override
        public void onBitmapFailed(Exception e, Drawable errorDrawable) {
        }

        @Override
        public void onPrepareLoad(Drawable placeHolderDrawable) {
        }
    };
    return target;
}

How to remove/delete a large file from commit history in Git repository?

This will remove it from your history

git filter-branch --force --index-filter 'git rm -r --cached --ignore-unmatch bigfile.txt' --prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat -- --all

Operator overloading in Java

Just use Xtend along with your Java code. It supports Operator Overloading:

    package com.example;

@SuppressWarnings("all")
public class Test {
  protected int wrapped;

  public Test(final int value) {
    this.wrapped = value;
  }

  public int operator_plus(final Test e2) {
    return (this.wrapped + e2.wrapped);
  }
}

package com.example

class Test2 {

    new() {
        val t1 = new Test(3)
        val t2 = new Test(5)
        val t3 = t1 + t2
    }

}

On the official website, there is a list of the methods to implement for each operator !

babel-loader jsx SyntaxError: Unexpected token

The following way has helped me (includes react-hot, babel loaders and es2015, react presets):

loaders: [
      {
        test: /\.jsx?$/,
        exclude: /node_modules/,
        loaders: ['react-hot', 'babel?presets[]=es2015&presets[]=react']
      }
]

jquery to loop through table rows and cells, where checkob is checked, concatenate

Try this:

function createcodes() {

    $('.authors-list tr').each(function () {
        //processing this row
        //how to process each cell(table td) where there is checkbox
        $(this).find('td input:checked').each(function () {

             // it is checked, your code here...
        });
    });
}

How to Clear Console in Java?

You can easily implement clrscr() using simple for loop printing "\b".

Change grid interval and specify tick labels in Matplotlib

There are several problems in your code.

First the big ones:

  1. You are creating a new figure and a new axes in every iteration of your loop ? put fig = plt.figure and ax = fig.add_subplot(1,1,1) outside of the loop.

  2. Don't use the Locators. Call the functions ax.set_xticks() and ax.grid() with the correct keywords.

  3. With plt.axes() you are creating a new axes again. Use ax.set_aspect('equal').

The minor things: You should not mix the MATLAB-like syntax like plt.axis() with the objective syntax. Use ax.set_xlim(a,b) and ax.set_ylim(a,b)

This should be a working minimal example:

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(1, 1, 1)

# Major ticks every 20, minor ticks every 5
major_ticks = np.arange(0, 101, 20)
minor_ticks = np.arange(0, 101, 5)

ax.set_xticks(major_ticks)
ax.set_xticks(minor_ticks, minor=True)
ax.set_yticks(major_ticks)
ax.set_yticks(minor_ticks, minor=True)

# And a corresponding grid
ax.grid(which='both')

# Or if you want different settings for the grids:
ax.grid(which='minor', alpha=0.2)
ax.grid(which='major', alpha=0.5)

plt.show()

Output is this:

result

How to use the IEqualityComparer

Just code, with implementation of GetHashCode and NULL validation:

public class Class_reglementComparer : IEqualityComparer<Class_reglement>
{
    public bool Equals(Class_reglement x, Class_reglement y)
    {
        if (x is null || y is null))
            return false;

        return x.Numf == y.Numf;
    }

    public int GetHashCode(Class_reglement product)
    {
        //Check whether the object is null 
        if (product is null) return 0;

        //Get hash code for the Numf field if it is not null. 
        int hashNumf = product.hashNumf == null ? 0 : product.hashNumf.GetHashCode();

        return hashNumf;
    }
}

Example: list of Class_reglement distinct by Numf

List<Class_reglement> items = items.Distinct(new Class_reglementComparer());

CSS opacity only to background color, not the text on it?

For Less users only:

If you don't like to set your colors using RGBA, but rather using HEX, there are solutions.

You could use a mixin like:

.transparentBackgroundColorMixin(@alpha,@color) {
  background-color: rgba(red(@color), green(@color), blue(@color), @alpha);
}

And use it like:

.myClass {
    .transparentBackgroundColorMixin(0.6,#FFFFFF);
}

Actually this is what a built-in Less function also provide:

.myClass {
    background-color: fade(#FFFFFF, 50%);
}

See How do I convert a hexadecimal color to rgba with the Less compiler?

Reading in double values with scanf in c

Use this line of code when scanning the second value: scanf(" %lf", &b); also replace all %ld with %lf.

It's a problem related with input stream buffer. You can also use fflush(stdin); after the first scanning to clear the input buffer and then the second scanf will work as expected. An alternate way is place a getch(); or getchar(); function after the first scanf line.

what is the unsigned datatype?

unsigned really is a shorthand for unsigned int, and so defined in standard C.

How to assign from a function which returns more than one value?

I put together an R package zeallot to tackle this problem. zeallot includes a multiple assignment or unpacking assignment operator, %<-%. The LHS of the operator is any number of variables to assign, built using calls to c(). The RHS of the operator is a vector, list, data frame, date object, or any custom object with an implemented destructure method (see ?zeallot::destructure).

Here are a handful of examples based on the original post,

library(zeallot)

functionReturningTwoValues <- function() { 
  return(c(1, 2)) 
}

c(a, b) %<-% functionReturningTwoValues()
a  # 1
b  # 2

functionReturningListOfValues <- function() {
  return(list(1, 2, 3))
}

c(d, e, f) %<-% functionReturningListOfValues()
d  # 1
e  # 2
f  # 3

functionReturningNestedList <- function() {
  return(list(1, list(2, 3)))
}

c(f, c(g, h)) %<-% functionReturningNestedList()
f  # 1
g  # 2
h  # 3

functionReturningTooManyValues <- function() {
  return(as.list(1:20))
}

c(i, j, ...rest) %<-% functionReturningTooManyValues()
i     # 1
j     # 2
rest  # list(3, 4, 5, ..)

Check out the package vignette for more information and examples.

How can I see the request headers made by curl when sending a request to the server?

The --trace-ascii option to curl will show the request headers, as well as the response headers and response body.

For example, the command

curl --trace-ascii curl.trace http://www.google.com/ 

produces a file curl.trace that starts as follows:

== Info: About to connect() to www.google.com port 80 (#0)
== Info:   Trying 209.85.229.104... == Info: connected
== Info: Connected to www.google.com (209.85.229.104) port 80 (#0)
=> Send header, 145 bytes (0x91)
0000: GET / HTTP/1.1
0010: User-Agent: curl/7.16.3 (powerpc-apple-darwin9.0) libcurl/7.16.3
0050:  OpenSSL/0.9.7l zlib/1.2.3
006c: Host: www.google.com
0082: Accept: */*
008f: 

It also got a response (a 302 response, to be precise but irrelevant) which was logged.


If you only want to save the response headers, use the --dump-header option:

curl -D file url
curl --dump-header file url

If you need more information about the options available, use curl --help | less (it produces a couple hundred lines of output but mentions a lot of options). Or find the manual page where there is more explanation of what the options mean.

Apache 2.4.3 (with XAMPP 1.8.1) not starting in windows 8

I had this problem and then I ran "apache_start.bat" the error in german told me there was a problem with line 51 in httpd-ssl.conf which is

SSLCipherSuite HIGH:MEDIUM:!aNULL:!MD5

What I did was comment lines 163 (ssl module) and 522 (httpd-ssl.conf include) in httpd.conf; I don't need ssl for development, so that solved it for me.

Download history stock prices automatically from yahoo finance in python

There is already a library in Python called yahoo_finance so you'll need to download the library first using the following command line:

sudo pip install yahoo_finance

Then once you've installed the yahoo_finance library, here's a sample code that will download the data you need from Yahoo Finance:

#!/usr/bin/python
import yahoo_finance
import pandas as pd

symbol = yahoo_finance.Share("GOOG")
google_data = symbol.get_historical("1999-01-01", "2016-06-30")
google_df = pd.DataFrame(google_data)

# Output data into CSV
google_df.to_csv("/home/username/google_stock_data.csv")

This should do it. Let me know if it works.

UPDATE: The yahoo_finance library is no longer supported.

How to convert char to int?

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the static method built right into System.Char...

int val = (int)Char.GetNumericValue('8');
// val == 8

Regex replace uppercase with lowercase letters

In BBEdit works this (ex.: changing the ID values to lowercase):

Search any value: <a id="(?P<x>.*?)"></a> Replace with the same in lowercase: <a id="\L\P<x>\E"></a>

Was: <a id="VALUE"></a> Became: <a id="value"></a>

List of IP Space used by Facebook

Updated list as of 6/11/2013

204.15.20.0/22
69.63.176.0/20

66.220.144.0/20
66.220.144.0/21
69.63.184.0/21
69.63.176.0/21
74.119.76.0/22
69.171.255.0/24
173.252.64.0/18
69.171.224.0/19
69.171.224.0/20
103.4.96.0/22
69.63.176.0/24
173.252.64.0/19
173.252.70.0/24
31.13.64.0/18
31.13.24.0/21
66.220.152.0/21
66.220.159.0/24
69.171.239.0/24
69.171.240.0/20
31.13.64.0/19
31.13.64.0/24
31.13.65.0/24
31.13.67.0/24
31.13.68.0/24
31.13.69.0/24
31.13.70.0/24
31.13.71.0/24
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31.13.74.0/24
31.13.75.0/24
31.13.76.0/24
31.13.77.0/24
31.13.96.0/19
31.13.66.0/24
173.252.96.0/19
69.63.178.0/24
31.13.78.0/24
31.13.79.0/24
31.13.80.0/24
31.13.82.0/24
31.13.83.0/24
31.13.84.0/24
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31.13.91.0/24
31.13.92.0/24
31.13.93.0/24
31.13.94.0/24
31.13.95.0/24
69.171.253.0/24
69.63.186.0/24
204.15.20.0/22
69.63.176.0/20
69.63.176.0/21
69.63.184.0/21
66.220.144.0/20
69.63.176.0/20

Prevent BODY from scrolling when a modal is opened

Sadly none of the answers above fixed my issues.

In my situation, the web page originally has a scroll bar. Whenever I click the modal, the scroll bar won't disappear and the header will move to right a bit.

Then I tried to add .modal-open{overflow:auto;} (which most people recommended). It indeed fixed the issues: the scroll bar appears after I open the modal. However, another side effect comes out which is that "background below the header will move to the left a bit, together with another long bar behind the modal"

Long bar behind modal

Luckily, after I add {padding-right: 0 !important;}, everything is fixed perfectly. Both the header and body background didn't move and the modal still keeps the scrollbar.

Fixed image

Hope this can help those who are still stuck with this issue. Good luck!

How to show MessageBox on asp.net?

Messagebox is for windows only. You have to use Javascript

Alert('dd'); 

How do I output an ISO 8601 formatted string in JavaScript?

The problem with toISOString is that it gives datetime only as "Z".

ISO-8601 also defines datetime with timezone difference in hours and minutes, in the forms like 2016-07-16T19:20:30+5:30 (when timezone is ahead UTC) and 2016-07-16T19:20:30-01:00 (when timezone is behind UTC).

I don't think it is a good idea to use another plugin, moment.js for such a small task, especially when you can get it with a few lines of code.



    var timezone_offset_min = new Date().getTimezoneOffset(),
        offset_hrs = parseInt(Math.abs(timezone_offset_min/60)),
        offset_min = Math.abs(timezone_offset_min%60),
        timezone_standard;

    if(offset_hrs < 10)
        offset_hrs = '0' + offset_hrs;

    if(offset_min > 10)
        offset_min = '0' + offset_min;

    // getTimezoneOffset returns an offset which is positive if the local timezone is behind UTC and vice-versa.
    // So add an opposite sign to the offset
    // If offset is 0, it means timezone is UTC
    if(timezone_offset_min < 0)
        timezone_standard = '+' + offset_hrs + ':' + offset_min;
    else if(timezone_offset_min > 0)
        timezone_standard = '-' + offset_hrs + ':' + offset_min;
    else if(timezone_offset_min == 0)
        timezone_standard = 'Z';

    // Timezone difference in hours and minutes
    // String such as +5:30 or -6:00 or Z
    console.log(timezone_standard); 


Once you have the timezone offset in hours and minutes, you can append to a datetime string.

I wrote a blog post on it : http://usefulangle.com/post/30/javascript-get-date-time-with-offset-hours-minutes