Programs & Examples On #Automaton

An automaton is a mathematical object describing an abstract machine with a finite set of states and transitions between these that runs on sequences of inputs consisting of letters (or symbols) picked from an alphabet.

Fastest way of finding differences between two files in unix?

You could try..

comm -13 <(sort file1) <(sort file2) > file3

or

grep -Fxvf file1 file2 > file3

or

diff file1 file2 | grep "<" | sed 's/^<//g'  > file3

or

join -v 2 <(sort file1) <(sort file2) > file3

sh: 0: getcwd() failed: No such file or directory on cited drive

This error is usually caused by running a command from a directory that no longer exist.

Try changing your directory and re-run the command.

How to read GET data from a URL using JavaScript?

Please see this, more current solution before using a custom parsing function like below, or a 3rd party library.

The a code below works and is still useful in situations where URLSearchParams is not available, but it was written in a time when there was no native solution available in JavaScript. In modern browsers or Node.js, prefer to use the built-in functionality.


function parseURLParams(url) {
    var queryStart = url.indexOf("?") + 1,
        queryEnd   = url.indexOf("#") + 1 || url.length + 1,
        query = url.slice(queryStart, queryEnd - 1),
        pairs = query.replace(/\+/g, " ").split("&"),
        parms = {}, i, n, v, nv;

    if (query === url || query === "") return;

    for (i = 0; i < pairs.length; i++) {
        nv = pairs[i].split("=", 2);
        n = decodeURIComponent(nv[0]);
        v = decodeURIComponent(nv[1]);

        if (!parms.hasOwnProperty(n)) parms[n] = [];
        parms[n].push(nv.length === 2 ? v : null);
    }
    return parms;
}

Use as follows:

var urlString = "http://www.example.com/bar?a=a+a&b%20b=b&c=1&c=2&d#hash";
    urlParams = parseURLParams(urlString);

which returns a an object like this:

{
  "a"  : ["a a"],     /* param values are always returned as arrays */
  "b b": ["b"],       /* param names can have special chars as well */
  "c"  : ["1", "2"]   /* an URL param can occur multiple times!     */
  "d"  : [null]       /* parameters without values are set to null  */ 
} 

So

parseURLParams("www.mints.com?name=something")

gives

{name: ["something"]}

EDIT: The original version of this answer used a regex-based approach to URL-parsing. It used a shorter function, but the approach was flawed and I replaced it with a proper parser.

PHP convert string to hex and hex to string

For people that end up here and are just looking for the hex representation of a (binary) string.

bin2hex("that's all you need");
# 74686174277320616c6c20796f75206e656564

hex2bin('74686174277320616c6c20796f75206e656564');
# that's all you need

Doc: bin2hex, hex2bin.

How to use ADB Shell when Multiple Devices are connected? Fails with "error: more than one device and emulator"

Here's a shell script I made for myself:

#! /bin/sh

for device in `adb devices | awk '{print $1}'`; do
  if [ ! "$device" = "" ] && [ ! "$device" = "List" ]
  then
    echo " "
    echo "adb -s $device $@"
    echo "------------------------------------------------------"
    adb -s $device $@
  fi
done

Groovy Shell warning "Could not open/create prefs root node ..."

I was able to resolve the problem by manually creating the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\JavaSoft\Prefs

Killing a process using Java

Try it:

String command = "killall <your_proccess>";
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command);
p.destroy();

if the process is still alive, add:

p.destroyForcibly();

TCPDF output without saving file

It works with I for inline as stated, but also with O.

$pdf->Output('name.pdf', 'O');

It is perhaps easier to remember (O for Open).

biggest integer that can be stored in a double

9007199254740992 (that's 9,007,199,254,740,992) with no guarantees :)

Program

#include <math.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main(void) {
  double dbl = 0; /* I started with 9007199254000000, a little less than 2^53 */
  while (dbl + 1 != dbl) dbl++;
  printf("%.0f\n", dbl - 1);
  printf("%.0f\n", dbl);
  printf("%.0f\n", dbl + 1);
  return 0;
}

Result

9007199254740991
9007199254740992
9007199254740992

What does HTTP/1.1 302 mean exactly?

For anyone who might be curious about the naming, I'm just going to add that it's probably called "Found" because the main resource(e.g., a private web page) the user intends to receive is not available at that moment(e.g., the user has not proved their identity yet), so instead the server has found a new resource that the user can receive(which is a login page in the most common use case).

Also it's "getting lost and found" in the hide-and-seek manner, meaning a lost resource under a 302 status is only lost temporarily, it is not supposed to be lost forever(unless a player has some bad intentions;)).

Programmatically create a UIView with color gradient

SWIFT 3

To add a gradient layer on your view

  • Bind your view outlet

    @IBOutlet var YOURVIEW : UIView!
    
  • Define the CAGradientLayer()

    var gradient = CAGradientLayer()
    
  • Here is the code you have to write in your viewDidLoad

    YOURVIEW.layoutIfNeeded()

    gradient.startPoint = CGPoint(x: CGFloat(0), y: CGFloat(1)) gradient.endPoint = CGPoint(x: CGFloat(1), y: CGFloat(0)) gradient.frame = YOURVIEW.bounds gradient.colors = [UIColor.red.cgColor, UIColor.green.cgColor] gradient.colors = [ UIColor(red: 255.0/255.0, green: 56.0/255.0, blue: 224.0/255.0, alpha: 1.0).cgColor,UIColor(red: 86.0/255.0, green: 13.0/255.0, blue: 232.0/255.0, alpha: 1.0).cgColor,UIColor(red: 16.0/255.0, green: 173.0/255.0, blue: 245.0/255.0, alpha: 1.0).cgColor] gradient.locations = [0.0 ,0.6 ,1.0] YOURVIEW.layer.insertSublayer(gradient, at: 0)

Python: finding an element in a list

I use function for returning index for the matching element (Python 2.6):

def index(l, f):
     return next((i for i in xrange(len(l)) if f(l[i])), None)

Then use it via lambda function for retrieving needed element by any required equation e.g. by using element name.

element = mylist[index(mylist, lambda item: item["name"] == "my name")]

If i need to use it in several places in my code i just define specific find function e.g. for finding element by name:

def find_name(l, name):
     return l[index(l, lambda item: item["name"] == name)]

And then it is quite easy and readable:

element = find_name(mylist,"my name")

How to create local notifications?

Updated with Swift 5 Generally we use three type of Local Notifications

  1. Simple Local Notification
  2. Local Notification with Action
  3. Local Notification with Content

Where you can send simple text notification or with action button and attachment.

Using UserNotifications package in your app, the following example Request for notification permission, prepare and send notification as per user action AppDelegate itself, and use view controller listing different type of local notification test.

AppDelegate

import UIKit
import UserNotifications

@UIApplicationMain
class AppDelegate: UIResponder, UIApplicationDelegate, UNUserNotificationCenterDelegate {

    let notificationCenter = UNUserNotificationCenter.current()
    var window: UIWindow?


    func application(_ application: UIApplication, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions: [UIApplication.LaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {

        //Confirm Delegete and request for permission
        notificationCenter.delegate = self
        let options: UNAuthorizationOptions = [.alert, .sound, .badge]
        notificationCenter.requestAuthorization(options: options) {
            (didAllow, error) in
            if !didAllow {
                print("User has declined notifications")
            }
        }

        return true
    }

    func applicationWillResignActive(_ application: UIApplication) {
    }
    func applicationDidEnterBackground(_ application: UIApplication) {
    }
    func applicationWillEnterForeground(_ application: UIApplication) {
    }
    func applicationWillTerminate(_ application: UIApplication) {
    }
    func applicationDidBecomeActive(_ application: UIApplication) {
        UIApplication.shared.applicationIconBadgeNumber = 0
    }


    //MARK: Local Notification Methods Starts here

    //Prepare New Notificaion with deatils and trigger
    func scheduleNotification(notificationType: String) {

        //Compose New Notificaion
        let content = UNMutableNotificationContent()
        let categoryIdentifire = "Delete Notification Type"
        content.sound = UNNotificationSound.default
        content.body = "This is example how to send " + notificationType
        content.badge = 1
        content.categoryIdentifier = categoryIdentifire

        //Add attachment for Notification with more content
        if (notificationType == "Local Notification with Content")
        {
            let imageName = "Apple"
            guard let imageURL = Bundle.main.url(forResource: imageName, withExtension: "png") else { return }
            let attachment = try! UNNotificationAttachment(identifier: imageName, url: imageURL, options: .none)
            content.attachments = [attachment]
        }

        let trigger = UNTimeIntervalNotificationTrigger(timeInterval: 5, repeats: false)
        let identifier = "Local Notification"
        let request = UNNotificationRequest(identifier: identifier, content: content, trigger: trigger)

        notificationCenter.add(request) { (error) in
            if let error = error {
                print("Error \(error.localizedDescription)")
            }
        }

        //Add Action button the Notification
        if (notificationType == "Local Notification with Action")
        {
            let snoozeAction = UNNotificationAction(identifier: "Snooze", title: "Snooze", options: [])
            let deleteAction = UNNotificationAction(identifier: "DeleteAction", title: "Delete", options: [.destructive])
            let category = UNNotificationCategory(identifier: categoryIdentifire,
                                                  actions: [snoozeAction, deleteAction],
                                                  intentIdentifiers: [],
                                                  options: [])
            notificationCenter.setNotificationCategories([category])
        }
    }

    //Handle Notification Center Delegate methods
    func userNotificationCenter(_ center: UNUserNotificationCenter,
                                willPresent notification: UNNotification,
                                withCompletionHandler completionHandler: @escaping (UNNotificationPresentationOptions) -> Void) {
        completionHandler([.alert, .sound])
    }

    func userNotificationCenter(_ center: UNUserNotificationCenter,
                                didReceive response: UNNotificationResponse,
                                withCompletionHandler completionHandler: @escaping () -> Void) {
        if response.notification.request.identifier == "Local Notification" {
            print("Handling notifications with the Local Notification Identifier")
        }
        completionHandler()
    }
}

and ViewController

import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController, UITableViewDelegate, UITableViewDataSource {

    var appDelegate = UIApplication.shared.delegate as? AppDelegate
    let notifications = ["Simple Local Notification",
                         "Local Notification with Action",
                         "Local Notification with Content",]

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
    }

    // MARK: - Table view data source

     func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, numberOfRowsInSection section: Int) -> Int {
        return notifications.count
    }

     func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
        let cell = tableView.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "Cell", for: indexPath)
        cell.textLabel?.text = notifications[indexPath.row]
        return cell
    }

     func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, didSelectRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) {
        let notificationType = notifications[indexPath.row]
        let alert = UIAlertController(title: "",
                                      message: "After 5 seconds " + notificationType + " will appear",
                                      preferredStyle: .alert)
        let okAction = UIAlertAction(title: "Okay, I will wait", style: .default) { (action) in
            self.appDelegate?.scheduleNotification(notificationType: notificationType)
        }
        alert.addAction(okAction)
        present(alert, animated: true, completion: nil)
    }
}

getElementsByClassName not working

There are several issues:

  1. Class names (and IDs) are not allowed to start with a digit.
  2. You have to pass a class to getElementsByClassName().
  3. You have to iterate of the result set.

Example (untested):

<script type="text/javascript">
function hideTd(className){
    var elements = document.getElementsByClassName(className);
    for(var i = 0, length = elements.length; i < length; i++) {
       if( elements[i].textContent == ''){
          elements[i].style.display = 'none';
       } 
    }

  }
</script>
</head>
<body onload="hideTd('td');">
<table border="1">
  <tr>
    <td class="td">not empty</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td class="td"></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td class="td"></td>
  </tr>
</table>
</body>

Note that getElementsByClassName() is not available up to and including IE8.

Update:

Alternatively you can give the table an ID and use:

var elements = document.getElementById('tableID').getElementsByTagName('td');

to get all td elements.

To hide the parent row, use the parentNode property of the element:

elements[i].parentNode.style.display = "none";

grep without showing path/file:line

Just replace -H with -h. Check man grep for more details on options

find . -name '*.bar' -exec grep -hn FOO {} \;

Install php-zip on php 5.6 on Ubuntu

Try either

  • sudo apt-get install php-zip or
  • sudo apt-get install php5.6-zip

Then, you might have to restart your web server.

  • sudo service apache2 restart or
  • sudo service nginx restart

If you are installing on centos or fedora OS then use yum in place of apt-get. example:-

sudo yum install php-zip or sudo yum install php5.6-zip and sudo service httpd restart

Why do I get "Exception; must be caught or declared to be thrown" when I try to compile my Java code?

All your problems derive from this

byte[] encrypted = cipher.doFinal(toEncrypt.getBytes());
return encrypted;

Which are enclosed in a try, catch block, the problem is that in case the program found an exception you are not returning anything. Put it like this (modify it as your program logic stands):

public static byte[] encrypt(String toEncrypt) throws Exception{
    try{
        String plaintext = toEncrypt;
        String key = "01234567890abcde";
        String iv = "fedcba9876543210";

        SecretKeySpec keyspec = new SecretKeySpec(key.getBytes(), "AES");
        IvParameterSpec ivspec = new IvParameterSpec(iv.getBytes());

        Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("AES/CBC/NoPadding");
        cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE,keyspec,ivspec);
        byte[] encrypted = cipher.doFinal(toEncrypt.getBytes());

        return encrypted;
    } catch(Exception e){
        return null;            // Always must return something
    }
}

For the second one you must catch the Exception from the encrypt method call, like this (also modify it as your program logic stands):

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
  .
  .
  .
    try {
        byte[] encrypted = encrypt(concatURL);
        String encryptedString = bytesToHex(encrypted);
        content.removeAll();
        content.add(new JLabel("Concatenated User Input -->" + concatURL));

        content.add(encryptedTextField);
    setContentPane(content);
    } catch (Exception exc) {
        // TODO: handle exception
    }
}

The lessons you must learn from this:

  • A method with a return-type must always return an object of that type, I mean in all possible scenarios
  • All checked exceptions must always be handled

CSS background image in :after element

As AlienWebGuy said, you can use background-image. I'd suggest you use background, but it will need three more properties after the URL:

background: url("http://www.gentleface.com/i/free_toolbar_icons_16x16_black.png") 0 0 no-repeat;

Explanation: the two zeros are x and y positioning for the image; if you want to adjust where the background image displays, play around with these (you can use both positive and negative values, e.g: 1px or -1px).

No-repeat says you don't want the image to repeat across the entire background. This can also be repeat-x and repeat-y.

How do I get the directory of the PowerShell script I execute?

PowerShell 3 has the $PSScriptRoot automatic variable:

Contains the directory from which a script is being run.

In Windows PowerShell 2.0, this variable is valid only in script modules (.psm1). Beginning in Windows PowerShell 3.0, it is valid in all scripts.

Don't be fooled by the poor wording. PSScriptRoot is the directory of the current file.

In PowerShell 2, you can calculate the value of $PSScriptRoot yourself:

# PowerShell v2
$PSScriptRoot = Split-Path -Parent -Path $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition

A full list of all the new/popular databases and their uses?

What about CassandraDB, Project Voldemort, TokyoCabinet?

IE6/IE7 css border on select element

i was having this same issue with ie, then i inserted this meta tag and it allowed me to edit the borders in ie

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=100" >

Can I change a column from NOT NULL to NULL without dropping it?

Sure you can.

ALTER TABLE myTable ALTER COLUMN myColumn int NULL

Just substitute int for whatever datatype your column is.

Use of *args and **kwargs

One case where *args and **kwargs are useful is when writing wrapper functions (such as decorators) that need to be able accept arbitrary arguments to pass through to the function being wrapped. For example, a simple decorator that prints the arguments and return value of the function being wrapped:

def mydecorator( f ):
   @functools.wraps( f )
   def wrapper( *args, **kwargs ):
      print "Calling f", args, kwargs
      v = f( *args, **kwargs )
      print "f returned", v
      return v
   return wrapper

jQuery date formatting

Take a look here:

https://github.com/mbitto/jquery.i18Now

This jQuery plugin helps you to format and translate date and time according to your preference.

How to change language settings in R

type this first: system("defaults write org.R-project.R force.LANG en_US.UTF-8") then you will get a index number(in my case is 127)

then type: Sys.setenv(LANG = "en") then type the number and ENTER 127

How to update Ruby with Homebrew?

open terminal

\curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable

restart terminal then

rvm install ruby-2.4.2

check ruby version it should be 2.4.2

Calling Web API from MVC controller

well, you can do it a lot of ways... one of them is to create a HttpRequest. I would advise you against calling your own webapi from your own MVC (the idea is redundant...) but, here's a end to end tutorial.

Using Notepad++ to validate XML against an XSD

  1. In Notepad++ go to Plugins > Plugin manager > Show Plugin Manager then find Xml Tools plugin. Tick the box and click Install

    enter image description here

  2. Open XML document you want to validate and click Ctrl+Shift+Alt+M (Or use Menu if this is your preference Plugins > XML Tools > Validate Now).
    Following dialog will open: enter image description here

  3. Click on .... Point to XSD file and I am pretty sure you'll be able to handle things from here.

Hope this saves you some time.

EDIT: Plugin manager was not included in some versions of Notepad++ because many users didn't like commercials that it used to show. If you want to keep an older version, however still want plugin manager, you can get it on github, and install it by extracting the archive and copying contents to plugins and updates folder.
In version 7.7.1 plugin manager is back under a different guise... Plugin Admin so now you can simply update notepad++ and have it back.

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ab load testing

Please walk me through the commands I should run to figure this out.

The simplest test you can do is to perform 1000 requests, 10 at a time (which approximately simulates 10 concurrent users getting 100 pages each - over the length of the test).

ab -n 1000 -c 10 -k -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate" http://www.example.com/

-n 1000 is the number of requests to make.

-c 10 tells AB to do 10 requests at a time, instead of 1 request at a time, to better simulate concurrent visitors (vs. sequential visitors).

-k sends the KeepAlive header, which asks the web server to not shut down the connection after each request is done, but to instead keep reusing it.

I'm also sending the extra header Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate because mod_deflate is almost always used to compress the text/html output 25%-75% - the effects of which should not be dismissed due to it's impact on the overall performance of the web server (i.e., can transfer 2x the data in the same amount of time, etc).

Results:

Benchmarking www.example.com (be patient)
Completed 100 requests
...
Finished 1000 requests


Server Software:        Apache/2.4.10
Server Hostname:        www.example.com
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /
Document Length:        428 bytes

Concurrency Level:      10
Time taken for tests:   1.420 seconds
Complete requests:      1000
Failed requests:        0
Keep-Alive requests:    995
Total transferred:      723778 bytes
HTML transferred:       428000 bytes
Requests per second:    704.23 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       14.200 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       1.420 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          497.76 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    0   0.1      0       1
Processing:     5   14   7.5     12      77
Waiting:        5   14   7.5     12      77
Total:          5   14   7.5     12      77

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%     12
  66%     14
  75%     15
  80%     16
  90%     24
  95%     29
  98%     36
  99%     41
 100%     77 (longest request)

For the simplest interpretation, ignore everything BUT this line:

Requests per second:    704.23 [#/sec] (mean)

Multiply that by 60, and you have your requests per minute.

To get real world results, you'll want to test Wordpress instead of some static HTML or index.php file because you need to know how everything performs together: including complex PHP code, and multiple MySQL queries...

For example here is the results of testing a fresh install of Wordpress on the same system and WAMP environment (I'm using WampDeveloper, but there are also Xampp, WampServer, and others)...

Requests per second:    18.68 [#/sec] (mean)

That's 37x slower now!

After the load test, there are a number of things you can do to improve the overall performance (Requests Per Second), and also make the web server more stable under greater load (e.g., increasing the -n and the -c tends to crash Apache), that you can read about here:

Load Testing Apache with AB (Apache Bench)

Quick easy way to migrate SQLite3 to MySQL?

echo ".dump" | sqlite3 /tmp/db.sqlite > db.sql

watch out for CREATE statements

Creating object with dynamic keys

You can't define an object literal with a dynamic key. Do this :

var o = {};
o[key] = value;
return o;

There's no shortcut (edit: there's one now, with ES6, see the other answer).

Altering a column to be nullable

Assuming SQL Server (based on your previous questions):

ALTER TABLE Merchant_Pending_Functions ALTER COLUMN NumberOfLocations INT NULL

Replace INT with your actual datatype.

MS Access VBA: Sending an email through Outlook

Here is email code I used in one of my databases. I just made variables for the person I wanted to send it to, CC, subject, and the body. Then you just use the DoCmd.SendObject command. I also set it to "True" after the body so you can edit the message before it automatically sends.

Public Function SendEmail2()

Dim varName As Variant          
Dim varCC As Variant            
Dim varSubject As Variant      
Dim varBody As Variant          

varName = "[email protected]"
varCC = "[email protected], [email protected]"
'separate each email by a ','

varSubject = "Hello"
'Email subject

varBody = "Let's get ice cream this week"

'Body of the email
DoCmd.SendObject , , , varName, varCC, , varSubject, varBody, True, False
'Send email command. The True after "varBody" allows user to edit email before sending.
'The False at the end will not send it as a Template File

End Function

"X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=9; IE=8; IE=7; IE=EDGE"

If you support IE, for versions of Internet Explorer 8 and above, this:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=9; IE=8; IE=7" />

Forces the browser to render as that particular version's standards. It is not supported for IE7 and below.

If you separate with semi-colon, it sets compatibility levels for different versions. For example:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7; IE=9" />

Renders IE7 and IE8 as IE7, but IE9 as IE9. It allows for different levels of backwards compatibility. In real life, though, you should only chose one of the options:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8" />

This allows for much easier testing and maintenance. Although generally the more useful version of this is using Emulate:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE8" />

For this:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge" />

It forces the browser the render at whatever the most recent version's standards are.

For more information, there is plenty to read about on MSDN,

Using android.support.v7.widget.CardView in my project (Eclipse)

Maybe it's a little bit late to add answer here. But I think this answer will help the later ones and especially those who don't want to use Android Studio.

Although the documents says that RecyclerView and CardView are part of v7 appcompat library. But as I tried and found, RecyclerView and CardView are actually depend on v7 appcompat library. So if you want to use RecyclerView or CardView, you need to add both v7 appcompat library and RecyclerView/CardView.

Referencing the link here, if you want to use CardView in your Eclipse android project, you need to import both v7 appcompat library and CardView into Eclipse workspace and make them as library projects. Then make CardView project depends on v7 appcompat library project and make your project depends on CardView project.

What are the differences in die() and exit() in PHP?

They are essentially the same, though this article suggest otherwise.

How to make a HTTP PUT request?

using(var client = new System.Net.WebClient()) {
    client.UploadData(address,"PUT",data);
}

How do I make flex box work in safari?

It works when you set the display value of your menu items from display: inline-block; to display: block;

See your updated code here:

#menu {
    clear: both;
    height: auto;
    font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana;
    font-size: 1em;
    /*padding:10px;*/
    margin: 5px;
    display: -webkit-box; /* OLD - iOS 6-, Safari 3.1-6 */
    display: -moz-box;    /* OLD - Firefox 19- (buggy but mostly works) */
    display: -ms-flexbox;  /* TWEENER - IE 10 */
    display: -webkit-flex; /* NEW - Chrome */
    display: flex;         /* NEW, Spec - Opera 12.1, Firefox 20+ */
    justify-content: center;
    -webkit-box-align: center;
    -webkit-flex-align: center;
    -ms-flex-align: center;
    -webkit-align-items: center;
    align-items: center;fffff
    font-style: normal;
    font-weight: 400px;
}

#menu a:link {
    display: block; //here you need to change the display property
    width: 100px;
    height: 50px;
    padding: 5px;
    background-color: yellow;
    /*border: 1px solid #cccccc;*/
    margin: 5px;
    display: flex;
    flex-grow: 1;
    align-items: center;
    text-align: center;
    justify-content: center;
    font-weight: bold;
    color: #1689D6;
    font-size: 85%;
}
#menu a:visited {
    //no display property here                                                                       
    width: 100px;
    height: 50px;
    padding: 5px;
    background-color: yellow;
    /*border: 1px solid #cccccc;*/
    margin: 5px;
    display: flex;
    flex-grow: 1;
    align-items: center;
    text-align: center;
    justify-content: center;
    font-weight: bold;
    color: #1689D6;
    font-size: 85%;
}
#menu a:hover {
    //no display property here                                                                               
    color: #fff;
    width: 100px;
    height: 50px;
    padding: 5px;
    background-color: red;
    /*border: 1px solid #cccccc;*/
    margin: 5px;
    display: flex;
    flex-grow: 1;
    align-items: center;
    text-align: center;
    justify-content: center;
    font-weight: bold;
    font-size: 85%;
}
#menu a:active {
    //no display property here                                                                               
    color: #fff;
    width: 100px;
    height: 50px;
    padding-top: 5px;
    padding-right: 5px;
    padding-left: 5px;
    padding-bottom: 5px;
    background-color: red;
    /*border: 1px solid #cccccc;*/
    margin: 5px;
    display: flex;
    flex-grow: 1;
    align-items: center;
    text-align: center;
    justify-content: center;
    font-style: normal;
    font-weight: bold;
    font-size: 85%;
}

Oracle 10g: Extract data (select) from XML (CLOB Type)

this query runs perfectly in my case

select xmltype(t.axi_content).extract('//Lexis-NexisFlag/text()').getStringVal() from ax_bib_entity t

How to disable horizontal scrolling of UIScrollView?

I struggled with this for some time trying unsuccessfully the various suggestions in this and other threads.

However, in another thread (not sure where) someone suggested that using a negative constraint on the UIScrollView worked for him.

So I tried various combinations of constraints with inconsistent results. What eventually worked for me was to add leading and trailing constraints of -32 to the scrollview and add an (invisible) textview with a width of 320 (and centered).

Using a cursor with dynamic SQL in a stored procedure

After recently switching from Oracle to SQL Server (employer preference), I notice cursor support in SQL Server is lagging. Cursors are not always evil, sometimes required, sometimes much faster, and sometimes cleaner than trying to tune a complex query by re-arranging or adding optimization hints. The "cursors are evil" opinion is much more prominent in the SQL Server community.

So I guess this answer is to switch to Oracle or give MS a clue.

Python unittest passing arguments

This is my solution:

# your test class
class TestingClass(unittest.TestCase):
    
    # This will only run once for all the tests within this class
    @classmethod
    def setUpClass(cls) -> None:
       if len(sys.argv) > 1:
          cls.email = sys.argv[1]

    def testEmails(self):
        assertEqual(self.email, "[email protected]")


if __name__ == "__main__":
    unittest.main()

you could have a runner.py file with something like this:

# your runner.py
loader = unittest.TestLoader()
tests = loader.discover('.') # note that this will find all your tests, you can also provide the name of the package e.g. `loader.discover('tests')
runner = unittest.TextTestRunner(verbose=3)
result = runner.run(tests


with the above code, you should be to run your tests with runner.py [email protected]

How to insert &nbsp; in XSLT

In addition to victor hugo's answer it is possible to get all known character references legal in an XSLT file, like this:

<!DOCTYPE stylesheet [
  <!ENTITY % w3centities-f PUBLIC "-//W3C//ENTITIES Combined Set//EN//XML"
      "http://www.w3.org/2003/entities/2007/w3centities-f.ent">
  %w3centities-f;
]>
...
<xsl:text>&amp; &nbsp; &ndash;</xsl:text>

There is also certain difference in the result of this approach as compared to <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"> one. The latter is going to produce string literals like &nbsp; for all kinds of output, even for <xsl:output method="text">, and this may happen to be different from what you might wish... On the contrary, getting entities defined for XSLT template via <!DOCTYPE ... <!ENTITY ... will always produce output consistent with your xsl:output settings.

And when including all character references, it may be wise to use a local entity resolver to keep the XSLT engine from fetching character entity definitions from the Internet. JAXP or explicit Xalan-J users may need a patch for Xalan-J to use the resolver correctly. See my blog XSLT, entities, Java, Xalan... for patch download and comments.

Is it possible to create a File object from InputStream

Create a temp file first.

File tempFile = File.createTempFile(prefix, suffix);
tempFile.deleteOnExit();
FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(tempFile);
IOUtils.copy(in, out);
return tempFile;

how to know status of currently running jobs

EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_sqlagent_enum_jobs 1,''

Notice the column Running, obviously 1 means that it is currently running, and [Current Step]. This returns job_id to you, so you'll need to look these up, e.g.:

SELECT top 100 *
 FROM   msdb..sysjobs
 WHERE  job_id IN (0x9DAD1B38EB345D449EAFA5C5BFDC0E45, 0xC00A0A67D109B14897DD3DFD25A50B80, 0xC92C66C66E391345AE7E731BFA68C668)

Bring a window to the front in WPF

Well I figured out a work around. I'm making the call from a keyboard hook used to implement a hotkey. The call works as expected if I put it into a BackgroundWorker with a pause. It's a kludge, but I have no idea why it wasn't working originally.

void hotkey_execute()
{
    IntPtr handle = new WindowInteropHelper(Application.Current.MainWindow).Handle;
    BackgroundWorker bg = new BackgroundWorker();
    bg.DoWork += new DoWorkEventHandler(delegate
        {
            Thread.Sleep(10);
            SwitchToThisWindow(handle, true);
        });
    bg.RunWorkerAsync();
}

Today's Date in Perl in MM/DD/YYYY format

use DateTime qw();
DateTime->now->strftime('%m/%d/%Y')   

expression returns 06/13/2012

Is there a program to decompile Delphi?

Here's a list : http://delphi.about.com/od/devutilities/a/decompiling_3.htm (and this page mentions some more : http://www.program-transformation.org/Transform/DelphiDecompilers )

I've used DeDe on occasion, but it's not really all that powerfull, and it's not up-to-date with current Delphi versions (latest version it supports is Delphi 7 I believe)

rejected master -> master (non-fast-forward)

This is because you have made conflicting changes to its master. And your repository server is not able to tell you that with these words, so it gives this error because it is not a matter of him deal with these conflicts for you, so he asks you to do it by itself. As ?

1- git pull This will merge your code from your repository to your code of your site master. So conflicts are shown.

2- treat these manualemente conflicts.

3-

git push origin master

And presto, your problem has been resolved.

Linker error: "linker input file unused because linking not done", undefined reference to a function in that file

I think you are confused about how the compiler puts things together. When you use -c flag, i.e. no linking is done, the input is C++ code, and the output is object code. The .o files thus don't mix with -c, and compiler warns you about that. Symbols from object file are not moved to other object files like that.

All object files should be on the final linker invocation, which is not the case here, so linker (called via g++ front-end) complains about missing symbols.

Here's a small example (calling g++ explicitly for clarity):

PROG ?= myprog
OBJS = worker.o main.o

all: $(PROG)

.cpp.o:
        g++ -Wall -pedantic -ggdb -O2 -c -o $@ $<

$(PROG): $(OBJS)
        g++ -Wall -pedantic -ggdb -O2 -o $@ $(OBJS)

There's also makedepend utility that comes with X11 - helps a lot with source code dependencies. You might also want to look at the -M gcc option for building make rules.

raw_input function in Python

The raw_input() function reads a line from input (i.e. the user) and returns a string

Python v3.x as raw_input() was renamed to input()

PEP 3111: raw_input() was renamed to input(). That is, the new input() function reads a line from sys.stdin and returns it with the trailing newline stripped. It raises EOFError if the input is terminated prematurely. To get the old behavior of input(), use eval(input()).

Ref: Docs Python 3

Getting value from JQUERY datepicker

I needed to do this for a sales report that allows the user to choose a date range. The solution is similar to another answer, but I wanted to provide my example just to show you the practical real world use that I applied this to:

var reportHeader = `Product Sales History Report for ${$('#FromDate').val()} to ${$('#ToDate').val()}.` ;
```

AngularJS ng-if with multiple conditions

OR operator:

<div ng-repeat="k in items">
    <div ng-if="k || 'a' or k == 'b'">
        <!-- SOME CONTENT -->
    </div>
</div>

Even though it is simple enough to read, I hope as a developer you are use better names than 'a' 'k' 'b' etc..

For Example:

<div class="links-group" ng-repeat="group in groups" ng-show="!group.hidden">
    <li ng-if="user.groups.admin || group.title == 'Home Pages'"> 
        <!--Content-->
    </li>
</div>

Another OR example

<p ng-if="group.title != 'Dispatcher News' or group.title != 'Coordinator News'" style="padding: 5px;">No links in group.</p>

AND operator (For those stumbling across this stackoverflow answer looking for an AND instead of OR condition)

<div class="links-group" ng-repeat="group in groups" ng-show="!group.hidden">
    <li ng-if="user.groups.admin && group.title == 'Home Pages'"> 
        <!--Content-->
    </li>
</div>

how to play video from url

Try this:

String LINK = "type_here_the_link";
setContentView(R.layout.mediaplayer);
VideoView videoView = (VideoView) findViewById(R.id.video);
MediaController mc = new MediaController(this);
mc.setAnchorView(videoView);
mc.setMediaPlayer(videoView);
Uri video = Uri.parse(LINK);
videoView.setMediaController(mc);
videoView.setVideoURI(video);
videoView.start();

how to send an array in url request

Separate with commas:

http://localhost:8080/MovieDB/GetJson?name=Actor1,Actor2,Actor3&startDate=20120101&endDate=20120505

or:

http://localhost:8080/MovieDB/GetJson?name=Actor1&name=Actor2&name=Actor3&startDate=20120101&endDate=20120505

or:

http://localhost:8080/MovieDB/GetJson?name[0]=Actor1&name[1]=Actor2&name[2]=Actor3&startDate=20120101&endDate=20120505

Either way, your method signature needs to be:

@RequestMapping(value = "/GetJson", method = RequestMethod.GET) 
public void getJson(@RequestParam("name") String[] ticker, @RequestParam("startDate") String startDate, @RequestParam("endDate") String endDate) {
   //code to get results from db for those params.
 }

jquery Ajax call - data parameters are not being passed to MVC Controller action

In my case, if I remove the the contentType, I get the Internal Server Error.

This is what I got working after multiple attempts:

var request =  $.ajax({
    type: 'POST',
    url: '/ControllerName/ActionName' ,
    contentType: 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
    data: JSON.stringify({ projId: 1, userId:1 }), //hard-coded value used for simplicity
    dataType: 'json'
});

request.done(function(msg) {
    alert(msg);
});

request.fail(function (jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
    alert("Request failed: " + jqXHR.responseStart +"-" + textStatus + "-" + errorThrown);
});

And this is the controller code:

public JsonResult ActionName(int projId, int userId)
{
    var obj = new ClassName();

    var result = obj.MethodName(projId, userId); // variable used for readability
    return Json(result, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
}

Please note, the case of ASP.NET is little different, we have to apply JSON.stringify() to the data as mentioned in the update of this answer.

Dynamic Height Issue for UITableView Cells (Swift)

Swift 5 Enjoy

tablev.rowHeight = 100
tablev.estimatedRowHeight = UITableView.automaticDimension


func tableView(_ tableView: UITableView, cellForRowAt indexPath: IndexPath) -> UITableViewCell {
    let cell = self.tablev.dequeueReusableCell(withIdentifier: "ConferenceRoomsCell") as! ConferenceRoomsCell
    cell.lblRoomName.numberOfLines = 0
    cell.lblRoomName.lineBreakMode = .byWordWrapping
    cell.lblRoomName.text = arrNameOfRooms[indexPath.row]
    cell.lblRoomName.sizeToFit()
    return cell
}

For Restful API, can GET method use json data?

In theory, there's nothing preventing you from sending a request body in a GET request. The HTTP protocol allows it, but have no defined semantics, so it's up to you to document what exactly is going to happen when a client sends a GET payload. For instance, you have to define if parameters in a JSON body are equivalent to querystring parameters or something else entirely.

However, since there are no clearly defined semantics, you have no guarantee that implementations between your application and the client will respect it. A server or proxy might reject the whole request, or ignore the body, or anything else. The REST way to deal with broken implementations is to circumvent it in a way that's decoupled from your application, so I'd say you have two options that can be considered best practices.

The simple option is to use POST instead of GET as recommended by other answers. Since POST is not standardized by HTTP, you'll have to document how exactly that's supposed to work.

Another option, which I prefer, is to implement your application assuming the GET payload is never tampered with. Then, in case something has a broken implementation, you allow clients to override the HTTP method with the X-HTTP-Method-Override, which is a popular convention for clients to emulate HTTP methods with POST. So, if a client has a broken implementation, it can write the GET request as a POST, sending the X-HTTP-Method-Override: GET method, and you can have a middleware that's decoupled from your application implementation and rewrites the method accordingly. This is the best option if you're a purist.

Get counts of all tables in a schema

This should do it:

declare
    v_count integer;
begin

    for r in (select table_name, owner from all_tables
              where owner = 'SCHEMA_NAME') 
    loop
        execute immediate 'select count(*) from ' || r.table_name 
            into v_count;
        INSERT INTO STATS_TABLE(TABLE_NAME,SCHEMA_NAME,RECORD_COUNT,CREATED)
        VALUES (r.table_name,r.owner,v_count,SYSDATE);
    end loop;

end;

I removed various bugs from your code.

Note: For the benefit of other readers, Oracle does not provide a table called STATS_TABLE, you would need to create it.

How to match a line not containing a word

This should work:

/^((?!PART).)*$/

If you only wanted to exclude it from the beginning of the line (I know you don't, but just FYI), you could use this:

/^(?!PART)/

Edit (by request): Why this pattern works

The (?!...) syntax is a negative lookahead, which I've always found tough to explain. Basically, it means "whatever follows this point must not match the regular expression /PART/." The site I've linked explains this far better than I can, but I'll try to break this down:

^         #Start matching from the beginning of the string.    
(?!PART)  #This position must not be followed by the string "PART".
.         #Matches any character except line breaks (it will include those in single-line mode).
$         #Match all the way until the end of the string.

The ((?!xxx).)* idiom is probably hardest to understand. As we saw, (?!PART) looks at the string ahead and says that whatever comes next can't match the subpattern /PART/. So what we're doing with ((?!xxx).)* is going through the string letter by letter and applying the rule to all of them. Each character can be anything, but if you take that character and the next few characters after it, you'd better not get the word PART.

The ^ and $ anchors are there to demand that the rule be applied to the entire string, from beginning to end. Without those anchors, any piece of the string that didn't begin with PART would be a match. Even PART itself would have matches in it, because (for example) the letter A isn't followed by the exact string PART.

Since we do have ^ and $, if PART were anywhere in the string, one of the characters would match (?=PART). and the overall match would fail. Hope that's clear enough to be helpful.

Best way to concatenate List of String objects?

Assuming it's faster to just move a pointer / set a byte to null (or however Java implements StringBuilder#setLength), rather than check a condition each time through the loop to see when to append the delimiter, you could use this method:

public static String Intersperse (Collection<?> collection, String delimiter)
{
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder ();
    for (Object item : collection)
    {
        if (item == null) continue;
        sb.append (item).append (delimiter);
    }
    sb.setLength (sb.length () - delimiter.length ());
    return sb.toString ();
}

jQuery UI Slider (setting programmatically)

It's possible to manually trigger events like this:

Apply the slider behavior to the element

var s = $('#slider').slider();

...

Set the slider value

s.slider('value',10);

Trigger the slide event, passing a ui object

s.trigger('slide',{ ui: $('.ui-slider-handle', s), value: 10 });

How do I launch the Android emulator from the command line?

Nowadays asuming you have Android Studio installed (2.2) in my case and just 1 emulator you might use this one liner

export ANDROID_SDK_ROOT=~/Library/Android/sdk/ && emulator '@'`emulator -list-avds`

If you do this often, make it easier:

$ echo 'export ANDROID_SDK_ROOT=~/Library/Android/sdk/' >> ~/.profile

Add an alias to ~.aliases

alias androidup="emulator '@'`emulator -list-avds`" 

Recall to source ~/.profile ~/.aliases before testing it

Next time just $ androidup

Which characters are valid/invalid in a JSON key name?

Unicode codepoints U+D800 to U+DFFF must be avoided: they are invalid in Unicode because they are reserved for UTF-16 surrogate pairs. Some JSON encoders/decoders will replace them with U+FFFD. See for example how the Go language and its JSON library deals with them.

So avoid "\uD800" to "\uDFFF" alone (not in surrogate pairs).

SQL DATEPART(dw,date) need monday = 1 and sunday = 7

You would need to set DATEFIRST. Take a look at this article. I believe this should help.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/statements/set-datefirst-transact-sql

Is there an online application that automatically draws tree structures for phrases/sentences?

There are lots of options out there. Many of which are available as downloadable software as well as public websites. I do not think many of them expect to be used as API's unless they explicitly state that.

The one that I found effective was Enju which did not have the character limit that the Marc's Carnagie Mellon link had. Marc also mentioned a VISL scanner in comments, but that requires java in the browser, which is a non-starter for me.

Note that recently, Google has offered a new NLP Machine Learning API that providers amoung other features, a automatic sentence parser. I will likely not update this answer again, especially since the question is closed, but I suspect that the other big ML cloud stacks will soon support the same.

How to convert CSV to JSON in Node.js

I haven't tried csv package https://npmjs.org/package/csv but according to documentation it looks quality implementation http://www.adaltas.com/projects/node-csv/

In PHP how can you clear a WSDL cache?

Edit your php.ini file, search for soap.wsdl_cache_enabled and set the value to 0

[soap]
; Enables or disables WSDL caching feature.
; http://php.net/soap.wsdl-cache-enabled
soap.wsdl_cache_enabled=0

Line Break in HTML Select Option?

A bit of a hack, but this gives the effect of a multi-line select, puts in a gray bgcolor for your multi line, and if you select any of the gray text, it selects the first of the grouping. Kinda clever I'd say :) The first option also shows how you can put a title tag in for an option as well.

_x000D_
_x000D_
 function SelectFirst(SelVal) {_x000D_
   var arrSelVal = SelVal.split(",")_x000D_
   if (arrSelVal.length > 1) {_x000D_
     Valuetoselect = arrSelVal[0];_x000D_
     document.getElementById("select1").value = Valuetoselect;_x000D_
   }_x000D_
 }
_x000D_
<select name="select1" id="select1" onchange="SelectFirst(this.value)">_x000D_
  <option value="1" title="this is my long title for the yes option">Yes</option>_x000D_
  <option value="2">No</option>_x000D_
  <option value="2,1" style="background:#eeeeee">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This is my description for the no option</option>_x000D_
  <option value="2,2" style="background:#eeeeee">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This is line 2 for the no option</option>_x000D_
  <option value="3">Maybe</option>_x000D_
  <option value="3,1" style="background:#eeeeee">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This is my description for Maybe option</option>_x000D_
  <option value="3,2" style="background:#eeeeee">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This is line 2 for the Maybe option</option>_x000D_
  <option value="3,3" style="background:#eeeeee">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This is line 3 for the Maybe option</option>_x000D_
</select>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

MaxJsonLength exception in ASP.NET MVC during JavaScriptSerializer

You could also use ContentResult as suggested here instead of subclassing JsonResult.

var serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer { MaxJsonLength = Int32.MaxValue, RecursionLimit = 100 };

return new ContentResult()
{
    Content = serializer.Serialize(data),
    ContentType = "application/json",
};

Use Font Awesome icon as CSS content

Update for FontAwesome 5 Thanks to Aurelien

You need to change the font-family to Font Awesome 5 Brands OR Font Awesome 5 Free, based on the type of icon you are trying to render. Also, do not forget to declare font-weight: 900;

a:before {
   font-family: "Font Awesome 5 Free";
   content: "\f095";
   display: inline-block;
   padding-right: 3px;
   vertical-align: middle;
   font-weight: 900;
}

Demo

You can read the rest of the answer below to understand how it works and to know some workarounds for spacing between icon and the text.


FontAwesome 4 and below

That's the wrong way to use it. Open the font awesome style sheet, go to the class of the font you want to use say fa-phone, copy the content property under that class with the entity, and use it like:

a:before {
    font-family: FontAwesome;
    content: "\f095";
}

Demo

Just make sure that if you are looking to target a specific a tag, then consider using a class instead to make it more specific like:

a.class_name:before {
    font-family: FontAwesome;
    content: "\f095";
}

Using the way above will stick the icon with the remaining text of yours, so if you want to have a bit of space between the two of them, make it display: inline-block; and use some padding-right:

a:before {
    font-family: FontAwesome;
    content: "\f095";
    display: inline-block;
    padding-right: 3px;
    vertical-align: middle;
}

Extending this answer further, since many might be having a requirement to change an icon on hover, so for that, we can write a separate selector and rules for :hover action:

a:hover:before {
    content: "\f099"; /* Code of the icon you want to change on hover */
}

Demo

Now in the above example, icon nudges because of the different size and you surely don't want that, so you can set a fixed width on the base declaration like

a:before {
    /* Other properties here, look in the above code snippets */
    width: 12px; /* add some desired width here to prevent nudge */
}

Demo

Javascript select onchange='this.form.submit()'

There are a few ways this can be completed.

Elements know which form they belong to, so you don't need to wrap this in jquery, you can just call this.form which returns the form element. Then you can call submit() on a form element to submit it.

  $('select').on('change', function(e){
    this.form.submit()
  });

documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLInputElement

How to use a TRIM function in SQL Server

You are missing two closing parentheses...and I am not sure an ampersand works as a string concatenation operator. Try '+'

SELECT dbo.COL_V_Cost_GEMS_Detail.TNG_SYS_NR AS [EHP Code], 
dbo.COL_TBL_VCOURSE.TNG_NA AS [Course Title], 
LTRIM(RTRIM(FCT_TYP_CD)) + ') AND (' + LTRIM(RTRIM(DEP_TYP_ID)) + ')' AS [Course Owner]

How to generate service reference with only physical wsdl file

This may be the easiest method

  • Right click on the project and select "Add Service Reference..."
  • In the Address: box, enter the physical path (C:\test\project....) of the downloaded/Modified wsdl.
  • Hit Go

The current .NET SDK does not support targeting .NET Standard 2.0 error in Visual Studio 2017 update 15.3

make sure you download the x86 SDK instead of only the x64 SDK for visual studio.

Connect Bluestacks to Android Studio

world !

No need to do execute batch command. With the current version, just run BLUESTACKS before ANDROID STUDIO

python int( ) function

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

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

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

Write Array to Excel Range

You could put your data into a recordset and use Excel's CopyFromRecordset Method - it's much faster than populating cell-by-cell.

You can create a recordset from a dataset using this code. You will have to do some trials to see if using this method is faster than what you are currently doing.

Facebook Oauth Logout

With PHP I'm doing:

<a href="?action=logout">logout.</a>

if(isset($_GET['action']) && $_GET['action'] === 'logout'){
    $facebook->destroySession();
    header(WHERE YOU WANT TO REDIRECT TO);
    exit();
}

Works and is nice and easy am just trying to find a logout button graphic now!

List all environment variables from the command line

Simply run set from cmd.

Displays, sets, or removes environment variables. Used without parameters, set displays the current environment settings.

Split varchar into separate columns in Oracle

Simple way is to convert into column

SELECT COLUMN_VALUE FROM TABLE (SPLIT ('19869,19572,19223,18898,10155,'))

CREATE TYPE split_tbl as TABLE OF VARCHAR2(32767);

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION split (p_list VARCHAR2, p_del VARCHAR2 := ',')
   RETURN split_tbl
   PIPELINED IS
   l_idx PLS_INTEGER;
   l_list VARCHAR2 (32767) := p_list;
   l_value VARCHAR2 (32767);
BEGIN
   LOOP
      l_idx := INSTR (l_list, p_del);

      IF l_idx > 0 THEN
         PIPE ROW (SUBSTR (l_list, 1, l_idx - 1));
         l_list := SUBSTR (l_list, l_idx + LENGTH (p_del));
      ELSE
         PIPE ROW (l_list);
         EXIT;
      END IF;
   END LOOP;

   RETURN;
END split;

Android studio Error "Unsupported Modules Detected: Compilation is not supported for following modules"

In my case settings.gradle contained invalid configuration.

I changed:

include ':app'
rootProject.name='<somthing else>'

To:

include ':app'

Error is gone. So maybe check your settings.gradle for potential errors. If this won't work try to remove cache and other tips.

Download file using libcurl in C/C++

Just for those interested you can avoid writing custom function by passing NULL as last parameter (if you do not intend to do extra processing of returned data).
In this case default internal function is used.

Details
http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_easy_setopt.html#CURLOPTWRITEDATA

Example

#include <stdio.h>
#include <curl/curl.h>

int main(void)
{
    CURL *curl;
    FILE *fp;
    CURLcode res;
    char *url = "http://stackoverflow.com";
    char outfilename[FILENAME_MAX] = "page.html";
    curl = curl_easy_init();                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
    if (curl)
    {   
        fp = fopen(outfilename,"wb");
        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, url);
        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, NULL);
        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, fp);
        res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
        curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
        fclose(fp);
    }   
    return 0;
}

Enable remote MySQL connection: ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user

if you are using dynamic ip just grant access to 192.168.2.% so now you dont have to worry about granting access to your ip address every time.

Why Visual Studio 2015 can't run exe file (ucrtbased.dll)?

This problem is from VS 2015 silently failing to copy ucrtbased.dll (debug) and ucrtbase.dll (release) into the appropriate system folders during the installation of Visual Studio. (Or you did not select "Common Tools for Visual C++ 2015" during installation.) This is why reinstalling may help. However, reinstalling is an extreme measure... this can be fixed without a complete reinstall.

First, if you don't really care about the underlying problem and just want to get this one project working quickly, then here is a fast solution: just copy ucrtbased.dll from C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\x86\ucrt\ucrtbased.dll (for 32bit debug) into your application's \debug directory alongside the executable. Then it WILL be found and the error will go away. But, this will only work for this one project.

A more permanent solution is to get ucrtbased.dll and ucrtbase.dll into the correct system folders. Now we could start copying these files into \Windows\System32 and \SysWOW64, and it might fix the problem. However, this isn't the best solution. There was a reason this failed in the first place, and forcing the use of specific .dll's this way could cause problems.

The best solution is to open up the control panel --> Programs and Features --> Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 --> Modify. Then uncheck and re-check "Visual C++ --> Common Tools for Visual C++ 2015". Click Next, then and click Update, and after a few minutes, it should be working.

If it still doesn't work, run the modify tool again, uncheck the "Common Tools for Visual C++ 2015", and apply to uninstall that component. Then run again, check it, and apply to reinstall. Make sure anti-virus is disabled, no other tasks are open, etc. and it should work. This is the best way to ensure that these files are copied exactly where they should be.

Note that if the modify tool gives an error code at this point, then the problem is almost certainly specific to your system. Research the error code to find what is going wrong and hopefully, how to fix it.

How to send string from one activity to another?

You can send data from one actvity to another with an Intent

Intent sendStuff = new Intent(this, TargetActivity.class);
sendStuff.putExtra(key, stringvalue);
startActivity(sendStuff);

You then can retrieve this information in the second activity by getting the intent and extracting the string extra. Do this in your onCreate() method.

Intent startingIntent = getIntent();
String whatYouSent = startingIntent.getStringExtra(key, value);

Then all you have to do is call setText on your TextView and use that string.

UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 13: ordinal not in range(128)

You can try this also:

import sys
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf8')

Laravel csrf token mismatch for ajax POST Request

For Laravel 5.8, setting the csrf meta tag for your layout and setting the request header for csrf in ajax settings won't work if you are using ajax to submit a form that already includes a _token input field generated by the Laravel blade templating engine.

You must include the already generated csrf token from the form with your ajax request because the server would be expecting it and not the one in your meta tag.

For instance, this is how the _token input field generated by Blade looks like:

<form>
    <input name="_token" type="hidden" value="cf54ty6y7yuuyyygytfggfd56667DfrSH8i">
    <input name="my_data" type="text" value="">
    <!-- other input fields -->
</form>

You then submit your form with ajax like this:

<script> 
    $(document).ready(function() { 
        let token = $('form').find('input[name="_token"]').val();
        let myData = $('form').find('input[name="my_data"]').val();
        $('form').submit(function() { 
            $.ajax({ 
                type:'POST', 
                url:'/ajax', 
                data: {_token: token, my_data: myData}
                // headers: {'X-CSRF-TOKEN': $('meta[name="csrf-token"]').attr('content')}, // unnecessary 
                // other ajax settings
            }); 
            return false;
        }); 
    }); 
</script>

The csrf token in the meta header is only useful when you are submitting a form without a Blade generated _token input field.

Reset git proxy to default configuration

You can remove that configuration with:

git config --global --unset core.gitproxy

PostgreSQL next value of the sequences?

I tried this and it works perfectly

@Entity
public class Shipwreck {
  @Id
  @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.SEQUENCE, generator = "seq")
  @Basic(optional = false)
  @SequenceGenerator(name = "seq", sequenceName = "shipwreck_seq", allocationSize = 1)
  Long id;

....

CREATE SEQUENCE public.shipwreck_seq
    INCREMENT 1
    START 110
    MINVALUE 1
    MAXVALUE 9223372036854775807
    CACHE 1;

What is Activity.finish() method doing exactly?

Various answers and notes are claiming that finish() can skip onPause() and onStop() and directly execute onDestroy(). To be fair, the Android documentation on this (http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html) notes "Activity is finishing or being destroyed by the system" which is pretty ambiguous but might suggest that finish() can jump to onDestroy().

The JavaDoc on finish() is similarly disappointing (http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Activity.html#finish()) and does not actually note what method(s) are called in response to finish().

So I wrote this mini-app below which logs each state upon entry. It includes a button which calls finish() -- so you can see the logs of which methods get fired. This experiment would suggested that finish() does indeed also call onPause() and onStop(). Here is the output I get:

2170-2170/? D/LIFECYCLE_DEMO? INSIDE: onCreate
2170-2170/? D/LIFECYCLE_DEMO? INSIDE: onStart
2170-2170/? D/LIFECYCLE_DEMO? INSIDE: onResume
2170-2170/? D/LIFECYCLE_DEMO? User just clicked button to initiate finish() 
2170-2170/? D/LIFECYCLE_DEMO? INSIDE: onPause
2170-2170/? D/LIFECYCLE_DEMO? INSIDE: onStop 
2170-2170/? D/LIFECYCLE_DEMO? INSIDE: onDestroy

package com.mvvg.apps.lifecycle;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnClickListener;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.LinearLayout;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class AndroidLifecycle extends Activity {

    private static final String TAG = "LIFECYCLE_DEMO";

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        Log.d(TAG, "INSIDE: onCreate");
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        LinearLayout layout = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.myId);
        Button button = new Button(this);
        button.setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {

            @Override
            public void onClick(View view) {
                Toast.makeText(AndroidLifecycle.this, "Initiating finish()",
                        Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                Log.d(TAG, "User just clicked button to initiate finish()");
                finish();
            }

        });

        layout.addView(button);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onStart() {
        super.onStart();
        Log.d(TAG, "INSIDE: onStart");
    }

    @Override
    protected void onStop() {
        super.onStop();
        Log.d(TAG, "INSIDE: onStop");
    }

    @Override
    protected void onDestroy() {
        super.onDestroy();
        Log.d(TAG, "INSIDE: onDestroy");
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPause() {
        super.onPause();
        Log.d(TAG, "INSIDE: onPause");
    }

    @Override
    protected void onResume() {
        super.onResume();
        Log.d(TAG, "INSIDE: onResume");
    }

}

I need to get all the cookies from the browser

You can only access cookies for a specific site. Using document.cookie you will get a list of escaped key=value pairs seperated by a semicolon.

secret=do%20not%20tell%you;last_visit=1225445171794

To simplify the access, you have to parse the string and unescape all entries:

var getCookies = function(){
  var pairs = document.cookie.split(";");
  var cookies = {};
  for (var i=0; i<pairs.length; i++){
    var pair = pairs[i].split("=");
    cookies[(pair[0]+'').trim()] = unescape(pair.slice(1).join('='));
  }
  return cookies;
}

So you might later write:

var myCookies = getCookies();
alert(myCookies.secret); // "do not tell you"

How do I POST XML data to a webservice with Postman?

Send XML requests with the raw data type, then set the Content-Type to text/xml.


  1. After creating a request, use the dropdown to change the request type to POST.

    Set request type to POST

  2. Open the Body tab and check the data type for raw.

    Setting data type to raw

  3. Open the Content-Type selection box that appears to the right and select either XML (application/xml) or XML (text/xml)

    Selecting content-type text/xml

  4. Enter your raw XML data into the input field below

    Example of XML request in Postman

  5. Click Send to submit your XML Request to the specified server.

    Clicking the Send button

Calculate rolling / moving average in C++

You simply need a circular array (circular buffer) of 1000 elements, where you add the element to the previous element and store it.

It becomes an increasing sum, where you can always get the sum between any two pairs of elements, and divide by the number of elements between them, to yield the average.

Comparing two arrays & get the values which are not common

Collection

$a = 1..5
$b = 4..8

$Yellow = $a | Where {$b -NotContains $_}

$Yellow contains all the items in $a except the ones that are in $b:

PS C:\> $Yellow
1
2
3

$Blue = $b | Where {$a -NotContains $_}

$Blue contains all the items in $b except the ones that are in $a:

PS C:\> $Blue
6
7
8

$Green = $a | Where {$b -Contains $_}

Not in question, but anyways; Green contains the items that are in both $a and $b.

PS C:\> $Green
4
5

Note: Where is an alias of Where-Object. Alias can introduce possible problems and make scripts hard to maintain.


Addendum 12 October 2019

As commented by @xtreampb and @mklement0: although not shown from the example in the question, the task that the question implies (values "not in common") is the symmetric difference between the two input sets (the union of yellow and blue).

Union

The symmetric difference between the $a and $b can be literally defined as the union of $Yellow and $Blue:

$NotGreen = $Yellow + $Blue

Which is written out:

$NotGreen = ($a | Where {$b -NotContains $_}) + ($b | Where {$a -NotContains $_})

Performance

As you might notice, there are quite some (redundant) loops in this syntax: all items in list $a iterate (using Where) through items in list $b (using -NotContains) and visa versa. Unfortunately the redundancy is difficult to avoid as it is difficult to predict the result of each side. A Hash Table is usually a good solution to improve the performance of redundant loops. For this, I like to redefine the question: Get the values that appear once in the sum of the collections ($a + $b):

$Count = @{}
$a + $b | ForEach-Object {$Count[$_] += 1}
$Count.Keys | Where-Object {$Count[$_] -eq 1}

By using the ForEach statement instead of the ForEach-Object cmdlet and the Where method instead of the Where-Object you might increase the performance by a factor 2.5:

$Count = @{}
ForEach ($Item in $a + $b) {$Count[$Item] += 1}
$Count.Keys.Where({$Count[$_] -eq 1})

LINQ

But Language Integrated Query (LINQ) will easily beat any native PowerShell and native .Net methods (see also High Performance PowerShell with LINQ and mklement0's answer for Can the following Nested foreach loop be simplified in PowerShell?:

To use LINQ you need to explicitly define the array types:

[Int[]]$a = 1..5
[Int[]]$b = 4..8

And use the [Linq.Enumerable]:: operator:

$Yellow   = [Int[]][Linq.Enumerable]::Except($a, $b)
$Blue     = [Int[]][Linq.Enumerable]::Except($b, $a)
$Green    = [Int[]][Linq.Enumerable]::Intersect($a, $b)
$NotGreen = [Int[]]([Linq.Enumerable]::Except($a, $b) + [Linq.Enumerable]::Except($b, $a))

Benchmark

Benchmark results highly depend on the sizes of the collections and how many items there are actually shared, as a "average", I am presuming that half of each collection is shared with the other.

Using             Time
Compare-Object    111,9712
NotContains       197,3792
ForEach-Object    82,8324
ForEach Statement 36,5721
LINQ              22,7091

To get a good performance comparison, caches should be cleared by e.g. starting a fresh PowerShell session.

$a = 1..1000
$b = 500..1500

(Measure-Command {
    Compare-Object -ReferenceObject $a -DifferenceObject $b  -PassThru
}).TotalMilliseconds
(Measure-Command {
    ($a | Where {$b -NotContains $_}), ($b | Where {$a -NotContains $_})
}).TotalMilliseconds
(Measure-Command {
    $Count = @{}
    $a + $b | ForEach-Object {$Count[$_] += 1}
    $Count.Keys | Where-Object {$Count[$_] -eq 1}
}).TotalMilliseconds

(Measure-Command {
    $Count = @{}
    ForEach ($Item in $a + $b) {$Count[$Item] += 1}
    $Count.Keys.Where({$Count[$_] -eq 1})
}).TotalMilliseconds

[Int[]]$a = $a
[Int[]]$b = $b
(Measure-Command {
    [Int[]]([Linq.Enumerable]::Except($a, $b) + [Linq.Enumerable]::Except($b, $a))
}).TotalMilliseconds

Why am I getting AttributeError: Object has no attribute

Your indentation is goofed, and you've mixed tabs and spaces. Run the script with python -tt to verify.

What is the best free memory leak detector for a C/C++ program and its plug-in DLLs?

As several of my friend has posted there are many free leak detectors for C++. All of that will cause overhead when running your code, approximatly 20% slower. I preffer Visual Leak Detector for Visual C++ 2008/2010/2012 , you can download the source code from - enter link description here .

How to add some non-standard font to a website?

The article Font-face in IE: Making Web Fonts Work says it works with all three major browsers.

Here is a sample I got working: http://brendanjerwin.com/test_font.html

More discussion is in Embedding Fonts.

How to get a value from a Pandas DataFrame and not the index and object type

Nobody mentioned it, but you can also simply use loc with the index and column labels.

df.loc[2, 'Letters']
# 'C'

Or, if you prefer to use "Numbers" column as reference, you can also set is as an index.

df.set_index('Numbers').loc[3, 'Letters']

Fatal error: Can't open and lock privilege tables: Table 'mysql.host' doesn't exist

My case on Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS was similar to others with my.cnf, but for me the cause was a ~/.my.cnf that was leftover from a previous installation. After deleting that file and purging/re-installing mysql-server, it worked fine.

SQL Query Multiple Columns Using Distinct on One Column Only

You must use an aggregate function on the columns against which you are not grouping. In this example, I arbitrarily picked the Min function. You are combining the rows with the same FruitType value. If I have two rows with the same FruitType value but different Fruit_Id values for example, what should the system do?

Select Min(tblFruit_id) As tblFruit_id
    , tblFruit_FruitType
From tblFruit
Group By tblFruit_FruitType

SQL Fiddle example

System.Net.WebException: The operation has timed out

I encountered the same error than adding

Task.Delay(2000);

in each request solved the problem

Rethrowing exceptions in Java without losing the stack trace

In Java, you just throw the exception you caught, so throw e rather than just throw. Java maintains the stack trace.

Creating temporary files in bash

The mktemp(1) man page explains it fairly well:

Traditionally, many shell scripts take the name of the program with the pid as a suffix and use that as a temporary file name. This kind of naming scheme is predictable and the race condition it creates is easy for an attacker to win. A safer, though still inferior, approach is to make a temporary directory using the same naming scheme. While this does allow one to guarantee that a temporary file will not be subverted, it still allows a simple denial of service attack. For these reasons it is suggested that mktemp be used instead.

In a script, I invoke mktemp something like

mydir=$(mktemp -d "${TMPDIR:-/tmp/}$(basename $0).XXXXXXXXXXXX")

which creates a temporary directory I can work in, and in which I can safely name the actual files something readable and useful.

mktemp is not standard, but it does exist on many platforms. The "X"s will generally get converted into some randomness, and more will probably be more random; however, some systems (busybox ash, for one) limit this randomness more significantly than others


By the way, safe creation of temporary files is important for more than just shell scripting. That's why python has tempfile, perl has File::Temp, ruby has Tempfile, etc…

Passing struct to function

The line function implementation should be:

void addStudent(struct student person) {

}

person is not a type but a variable, you cannot use it as the type of a function parameter.

Also, make sure your struct is defined before the prototype of the function addStudent as the prototype uses it.

Ruby send JSON request

I like this light weight http request client called `unirest'

gem install unirest

usage:

response = Unirest.post "http://httpbin.org/post", 
                        headers:{ "Accept" => "application/json" }, 
                        parameters:{ :age => 23, :foo => "bar" }

response.code # Status code
response.headers # Response headers
response.body # Parsed body
response.raw_body # Unparsed body

Setting up MySQL and importing dump within Dockerfile

The latest version of the official mysql docker image allows you to import data on startup. Here is my docker-compose.yml

data:
  build: docker/data/.
mysql:
  image: mysql
  ports:
    - "3307:3306"
  environment:
    MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: 1234
  volumes:
    - ./docker/data:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d
  volumes_from:
    - data

Here, I have my data-dump.sql under docker/data which is relative to the folder the docker-compose is running from. I am mounting that sql file into this directory /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d on the container.

If you are interested to see how this works, have a look at their docker-entrypoint.sh in GitHub. They have added this block to allow importing data

    echo
    for f in /docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/*; do
        case "$f" in
            *.sh)  echo "$0: running $f"; . "$f" ;;
            *.sql) echo "$0: running $f"; "${mysql[@]}" < "$f" && echo ;;
            *)     echo "$0: ignoring $f" ;;
        esac
        echo
    done

An additional note, if you want the data to be persisted even after the mysql container is stopped and removed, you need to have a separate data container as you see in the docker-compose.yml. The contents of the data container Dockerfile are very simple.

FROM n3ziniuka5/ubuntu-oracle-jdk:14.04-JDK8

VOLUME /var/lib/mysql

CMD ["true"]

The data container doesn't even have to be in start state for persistence.

"java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space" in Maven build

Increase the size of your perm space, of course. Use the -XX:MaxPermSize=128m option. Set the value to something appropriate.

How to ignore HTML element from tabindex?

Don't forget that, even though tabindex is all lowercase in the specs and in the HTML, in Javascript/the DOM that property is called tabIndex.

Don't lose your mind trying to figure out why your programmatically altered tab indices calling element.tabindex = -1 isn't working. Use element.tabIndex = -1.

Formatting a number with exactly two decimals in JavaScript

I don't know why can't I add a comment to a previous answer (maybe I'm hopelessly blind, I don't know), but I came up with a solution using @Miguel's answer:

function precise_round(num,decimals) {
   return Math.round(num*Math.pow(10, decimals)) / Math.pow(10, decimals);
}

And its two comments (from @bighostkim and @Imre):

  • Problem with precise_round(1.275,2) not returning 1.28
  • Problem with precise_round(6,2) not returning 6.00 (as he wanted).

My final solution is as follows:

function precise_round(num,decimals) {
    var sign = num >= 0 ? 1 : -1;
    return (Math.round((num*Math.pow(10,decimals)) + (sign*0.001)) / Math.pow(10,decimals)).toFixed(decimals);
}

As you can see I had to add a little bit of "correction" (it's not what it is, but since Math.round is lossy - you can check it on jsfiddle.net - this is the only way I knew how to "fix" it). It adds 0.001 to the already padded number, so it is adding a 1 three 0s to the right of the decimal value. So it should be safe to use.

After that I added .toFixed(decimal) to always output the number in the correct format (with the right amount of decimals).

So that's pretty much it. Use it well ;)

EDIT: added functionality to the "correction" of negative numbers.

Spring RequestMapping for controllers that produce and consume JSON

The simple answer to your question is that there is no Annotation-Inheritance in Java. However, there is a way to use the Spring annotations in a way that I think will help solve your problem.

@RequestMapping is supported at both the type level and at the method level.

When you put @RequestMapping at the type level, most of the attributes are 'inherited' for each method in that class. This is mentioned in the Spring reference documentation. Look at the api docs for details on how each attribute is handled when adding @RequestMapping to a type. I've summarized this for each attribute below:

  • name: Value at Type level is concatenated with value at method level using '#' as a separator.
  • value: Value at Type level is inherited by method.
  • path: Value at Type level is inherited by method.
  • method: Value at Type level is inherited by method.
  • params: Value at Type level is inherited by method.
  • headers: Value at Type level is inherited by method.
  • consumes: Value at Type level is overridden by method.
  • produces: Value at Type level is overridden by method.

Here is a brief example Controller that showcases how you could use this:

package com.example;

import org.springframework.http.MediaType;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.*;

@RestController
@RequestMapping(path = "/", 
        consumes = MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE, 
        produces = MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON_VALUE, 
        method = {RequestMethod.GET, RequestMethod.POST})
public class JsonProducingEndpoint {

    private FooService fooService;

    @RequestMapping(path = "/foo", method = RequestMethod.POST)
    public String postAFoo(@RequestBody ThisIsAFoo theFoo) {
        fooService.saveTheFoo(theFoo);
        return "http://myservice.com/foo/1";
    }

    @RequestMapping(path = "/foo/{id}", method = RequestMethod.GET)
    public ThisIsAFoo getAFoo(@PathVariable String id) {
        ThisIsAFoo foo = fooService.getAFoo(id);
        return foo;
    }

    @RequestMapping(path = "/foo/{id}", produces = MediaType.APPLICATION_XML_VALUE, method = RequestMethod.GET)
    public ThisIsAFooXML getAFooXml(@PathVariable String id) {
        ThisIsAFooXML foo = fooService.getAFoo(id);
        return foo;
    }
}

get and set in TypeScript

Based on example you show, you want to pass a data object and get a property of that object by get(). for this you need to use generic type, since data object is generic, can be any object.

export class Attributes<T> {
    constructor(private data: T) {}
    get = <K extends keyof T>(key: K): T[K] => {
      return this.data[key];
    };
    set = (update: T): void => {
      //   this is like spread operator. it will take this.data obj and will overwrite with the update obj
      // ins tsconfig.json change target to Es6 to be able to use Object.assign()
      Object.assign(this.data, update);
    };
    getAll(): T {
      return this.data;
    }
  }

< T > refers to generic type. let's initialize an instance

 const myAttributes=new Attributes({name:"something",age:32})

 myAttributes.get("name")="something"

Notice this syntax

<K extends keyof T>

in order to be able to use this we should be aware of 2 things:

1- in typestring strings can be a type.

2- all object properties in javascript essentially are strings.

when we use get(), type of argument that it is receiving is a property of object that passed to constructor and since object properties are strings and strings are allowed to be a type in typescript, we could use this <K extends keyof T>

CSS3 animate border color

If you need the transition to run infinitely, try the below example:

_x000D_
_x000D_
#box {_x000D_
  position: relative;_x000D_
  width: 100px;_x000D_
  height: 100px;_x000D_
  background-color: gray;_x000D_
  border: 5px solid black;_x000D_
  display: block;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
#box:hover {_x000D_
  border-color: red;_x000D_
  animation-name: flash_border;_x000D_
  animation-duration: 2s;_x000D_
  animation-timing-function: linear;_x000D_
  animation-iteration-count: infinite;_x000D_
  -webkit-animation-name: flash_border;_x000D_
  -webkit-animation-duration: 2s;_x000D_
  -webkit-animation-timing-function: linear;_x000D_
  -webkit-animation-iteration-count: infinite;_x000D_
  -moz-animation-name: flash_border;_x000D_
  -moz-animation-duration: 2s;_x000D_
  -moz-animation-timing-function: linear;_x000D_
  -moz-animation-iteration-count: infinite;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
@keyframes flash_border {_x000D_
  0% {_x000D_
    border-color: red;_x000D_
  }_x000D_
  50% {_x000D_
    border-color: black;_x000D_
  }_x000D_
  100% {_x000D_
    border-color: red;_x000D_
  }_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
@-webkit-keyframes flash_border {_x000D_
  0% {_x000D_
    border-color: red;_x000D_
  }_x000D_
  50% {_x000D_
    border-color: black;_x000D_
  }_x000D_
  100% {_x000D_
    border-color: red;_x000D_
  }_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
@-moz-keyframes flash_border {_x000D_
  0% {_x000D_
    border-color: red;_x000D_
  }_x000D_
  50% {_x000D_
    border-color: black;_x000D_
  }_x000D_
  100% {_x000D_
    border-color: red;_x000D_
  }_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<div id="box">roll over me</div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

How to create CSV Excel file C#?

If anyone would like I converted this to an extension method on IEnumerable:

public static class ListExtensions
{
    public static string ExportAsCSV<T>(this IEnumerable<T> listToExport, bool includeHeaderLine, string delimeter)
    {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

        IList<PropertyInfo> propertyInfos = typeof(T).GetProperties();

        if (includeHeaderLine)
        {
            foreach (PropertyInfo propertyInfo in propertyInfos)
            {
                sb.Append(propertyInfo.Name).Append(",");
            }
            sb.Remove(sb.Length - 1, 1).AppendLine();
        }

        foreach (T obj in listToExport)
        {
            T localObject = obj;

            var line = String.Join(delimeter, propertyInfos.Select(x => SanitizeValuesForCSV(x.GetValue(localObject, null), delimeter)));

            sb.AppendLine(line);
        }

        return sb.ToString();
    }

    private static string SanitizeValuesForCSV(object value, string delimeter)
    {
        string output;

        if (value == null) return "";

        if (value is DateTime)
        {
            output = ((DateTime)value).ToLongDateString();
        }
        else
        {
            output = value.ToString();                
        }

        if (output.Contains(delimeter) || output.Contains("\""))
            output = '"' + output.Replace("\"", "\"\"") + '"';

        output = output.Replace("\n", " ");
        output = output.Replace("\r", "");

        return output;
    }
}

How can I order a List<string>?

Other answers are correct to suggest Sort, but they seem to have missed the fact that the storage location is typed as IList<string. Sort is not part of the interface.

If you know that ListaServizi will always contain a List<string>, you can either change its declared type, or use a cast. If you're not sure, you can test the type:

if (typeof(List<string>).IsAssignableFrom(ListaServizi.GetType()))
    ((List<string>)ListaServizi).Sort();
else
{
    //... some other solution; there are a few to choose from.
}

Perhaps more idiomatic:

List<string> typeCheck = ListaServizi as List<string>;
if (typeCheck != null)
    typeCheck.Sort();
else
{
    //... some other solution; there are a few to choose from.
}

If you know that ListaServizi will sometimes hold a different implementation of IList<string>, leave a comment, and I'll add a suggestion or two for sorting it.

Set EditText cursor color

are you want specific color you must use AppCompatEditText then backround set null

works for me

<android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatEditText
    android:background="@null"
    android:textCursorDrawable="@color/cursorColor"/>

See this gist

jQuery click event not working after adding class

on document ready event there is no a tag with class tabclick. so you have to bind click event dynamically when you are adding tabclick class. please this code:

$("a.applicationdata").click(function() {
    var appid = $(this).attr("id");

   $('#gentab a').addClass("tabclick")
    .click(function() {
          var liId = $(this).parent("li").attr("id");
         alert(liId);        
      });


 $('#gentab a').attr('href', '#datacollector');

});

Xampp MySQL not starting - "Attempting to start MySQL service..."

Only for windows I have fixed the mysql startup issue by following below steps

Steps:

  1. Open CMD and copy paste the command netstat -ano | findstr 3306 If you get any result for command then the Port 3306 is active

  2. Now we want to kill the active port(3306), so now open powershell and paste the command Stop-Process -Id (Get-NetTCPConnection -LocalPort 3306).OwningProcess -Force

Where 3306 is active port. Now port will be inactive

Start Mysql service from Xampp which will work fine now

Note: This works only if the port 3306 is in active state. If you didn't get any result from step 1 this method is not applicable. There could be some other errors

For other ports change 3306 to "Required port"

Ways to open CMD and Powershell

  1. For CMD-> search for cmd from start menu
  2. For Powershell-> search for powershell from start menu

Error occurred during initialization of boot layer FindException: Module not found

I had similar issue, the problem i faced was i added the selenium-server-standalone-3.141.59.jar under modulepath instead it should be under classpath

so select classpath via (project -> Properties -> Java Bbuild Path -> Libraries) add the downloaded latest jar

After adding it must be something like this

enter image description here

And appropriate driver for browser has to be downloaded for me i checked and downloaded the same version of chrom for chrome driver and added in the C:\Program Files\Java

And following is the code that worked fine for me

    public class TestuiAautomation {

        public static void main(String[] args) {

            System.out.println("Jai Ganesha");
            try {
                System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Program Files\\Java\\chromedriver.exe");
                System.out.println(System.getProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver"));
                ChromeOptions chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions();
                chromeOptions.addArguments("no-sandbox");
                chromeOptions.addArguments("--test-type");
                chromeOptions.addArguments("disable-extensions");
                chromeOptions.addArguments("--start-maximized");
                WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(chromeOptions);
                driver.get("https://www.google.com");
                System.out.println("Google is selected");
            } catch (Exception e) {
                System.err.println(e);
            }

        }

    }

How to get JSON response from http.Get

The results from json.Unmarshal (into var data interface{}) do not directly match your Go type and variable declarations. For example,

package main

import (
    "encoding/json"
    "fmt"
    "io/ioutil"
    "net/http"
    "os"
)

type Tracks struct {
    Toptracks []Toptracks_info
}

type Toptracks_info struct {
    Track []Track_info
    Attr  []Attr_info
}

type Track_info struct {
    Name       string
    Duration   string
    Listeners  string
    Mbid       string
    Url        string
    Streamable []Streamable_info
    Artist     []Artist_info
    Attr       []Track_attr_info
}

type Attr_info struct {
    Country    string
    Page       string
    PerPage    string
    TotalPages string
    Total      string
}

type Streamable_info struct {
    Text      string
    Fulltrack string
}

type Artist_info struct {
    Name string
    Mbid string
    Url  string
}

type Track_attr_info struct {
    Rank string
}

func get_content() {
    // json data
    url := "http://ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/?method=geo.gettoptracks&api_key=c1572082105bd40d247836b5c1819623&format=json&country=Netherlands"
    url += "&limit=1" // limit data for testing
    res, err := http.Get(url)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err.Error())
    }
    body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err.Error())
    }
    var data interface{} // TopTracks
    err = json.Unmarshal(body, &data)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err.Error())
    }
    fmt.Printf("Results: %v\n", data)
    os.Exit(0)
}

func main() {
    get_content()
}

Output:

Results: map[toptracks:map[track:map[name:Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams) listeners:1863 url:http://www.last.fm/music/Daft+Punk/_/Get+Lucky+(feat.+Pharrell+Williams) artist:map[name:Daft Punk mbid:056e4f3e-d505-4dad-8ec1-d04f521cbb56 url:http://www.last.fm/music/Daft+Punk] image:[map[#text:http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/34s/88137413.png size:small] map[#text:http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/64s/88137413.png size:medium] map[#text:http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/126/88137413.png size:large] map[#text:http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/300x300/88137413.png size:extralarge]] @attr:map[rank:1] duration:369 mbid: streamable:map[#text:1 fulltrack:0]] @attr:map[country:Netherlands page:1 perPage:1 totalPages:500 total:500]]]

Bold & Non-Bold Text In A Single UILabel?

It worked for me:

CGFloat boldTextFontSize = 17.0f;

myLabel.text = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ 2012/10/14 %@",@"Updated:",@"21:59 PM"];

NSRange range1 = [myLabel.text rangeOfString:@"Updated:"];
NSRange range2 = [myLabel.text rangeOfString:@"21:59 PM"];

NSMutableAttributedString *attributedText = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:myLabel.text];

[attributedText setAttributes:@{NSFontAttributeName:[UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:boldTextFontSize]}
                        range:range1];
[attributedText setAttributes:@{NSFontAttributeName:[UIFont boldSystemFontOfSize:boldTextFontSize]}
                        range:range2];

myLabel.attributedText = attributedText;

For Swift version: See Here

Java Can't connect to X11 window server using 'localhost:10.0' as the value of the DISPLAY variable

Michael-O gave useful approach to solve the problem. Another way to solve this is by starting the server with Putty Console.

PHP cURL GET request and request's body

For those coming to this with similar problems, this request library allows you to make external http requests seemlessly within your php application. Simplified GET, POST, PATCH, DELETE and PUT requests.

A sample request would be as below

use Libraries\Request;

$data = [
  'samplekey' => 'value',
  'otherkey' => 'othervalue'
];

$headers = [
  'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
  'Content-Length' => sizeof($data)
];

$response = Request::post('https://example.com', $data, $headers);
// the $response variable contains response from the request

Documentation for the same can be found in the project's README.md

Create empty data frame with column names by assigning a string vector?

How about:

df <- data.frame(matrix(ncol = 3, nrow = 0))
x <- c("name", "age", "gender")
colnames(df) <- x

To do all these operations in one-liner:

setNames(data.frame(matrix(ncol = 3, nrow = 0)), c("name", "age", "gender"))

#[1] name   age    gender
#<0 rows> (or 0-length row.names)

Or

data.frame(matrix(ncol=3,nrow=0, dimnames=list(NULL, c("name", "age", "gender"))))

Magento - How to add/remove links on my account navigation?

Also, you need to do something like this in config.xml if you are developing a customized module

    <frontend>
        <layout>
            <updates>
                <hpcustomer>
                    <file>hpcustomer.xml</file>
                </hpcustomer>
            </updates>
        </layout>
    </frontend>

How to use youtube-dl from a python program?

If youtube-dl is a terminal program, you can use the subprocess module to access the data you want.

Check out this link for more details: Calling an external command in Python

Getting the text from a drop-down box

Does this get the correct answer?

document.getElementById("newSkill").innerHTML

Angular 4 default radio button checked by default

You can use [(ngModel)], but you'll need to update your value to [value] otherwise the value is evaluating as a string. It would look like this:

<label>This rule is true if:</label>
<label class="form-check-inline">
    <input class="form-check-input" type="radio" name="mode" [value]="true" [(ngModel)]="rule.mode">
</label>
<label class="form-check-inline">
    <input class="form-check-input" type="radio" name="mode" [value]="false" [(ngModel)]="rule.mode">
</label>

If rule.mode is true, then that radio is selected. If it's false, then the other.

The difference really comes down to the value. value="true" really evaluates to the string 'true', whereas [value]="true" evaluates to the boolean true.

How to set the java.library.path from Eclipse

You can add vm argument in your Eclipse.

Example :

-Djava.ext.dirs=cots_lib

where cots_lib is your external folder library.

iOS - Dismiss keyboard when touching outside of UITextField

Plenty of great answers here about using UITapGestureRecognizer--all of which break UITextField's clear (X) button. The solution is to suppress the gesture recognizer via its delegate:

- (BOOL)gestureRecognizer:(UIGestureRecognizer *)gestureRecognizer shouldReceiveTouch:(UITouch *)touch {
    BOOL touchViewIsButton = [touch.view isKindOfClass:[UIButton class]];
    BOOL touchSuperviewIsTextField = [[touch.view superview] isKindOfClass:[UITextField class]];
    return !(touchViewIsButton && touchSuperviewIsTextField);
}

It's not the most robust solution but it works for me.

Create a string with n characters

If you want only spaces, then how about:

String spaces = (n==0)?"":String.format("%"+n+"s", "");

which will result in abs(n) spaces;

jquery $.each() for objects

Basically you need to do two loops here. The one you are doing already is iterating each element in the 0th array element.

You have programs: [ {...}, {...} ] so programs[0] is { "name":"zonealarm", "price":"500" } So your loop is just going over that.

You could do an outer loop over the array

$.each(data.programs, function(index) {

    // then loop over the object elements
    $.each(data.programs[index], function(key, value) {
        console.log(key + ": " + value);
    }

}

How can I discard remote changes and mark a file as "resolved"?

Make sure of the conflict origin: if it is the result of a git merge, see Brian Campbell's answer.

But if is the result of a git rebase, in order to discard remote (their) changes and use local changes, you would have to do a:

git checkout --theirs -- .

See "Why is the meaning of “ours” and “theirs” reversed"" to see how ours and theirs are swapped during a rebase (because the upstream branch is checked out).

What does set -e mean in a bash script?

I believe the intention is for the script in question to fail fast.

To test this yourself, simply type set -e at a bash prompt. Now, try running ls. You'll get a directory listing. Now, type lsd. That command is not recognized and will return an error code, and so your bash prompt will close (due to set -e).

Now, to understand this in the context of a 'script', use this simple script:

#!/bin/bash 
# set -e

lsd 

ls

If you run it as is, you'll get the directory listing from the ls on the last line. If you uncomment the set -e and run again, you won't see the directory listing as bash stops processing once it encounters the error from lsd.

Mocking python function based on input arguments

If side_effect_func is a function then whatever that function returns is what calls to the mock return. The side_effect_func function is called with the same arguments as the mock. This allows you to vary the return value of the call dynamically, based on the input:

>>> def side_effect_func(value):
...     return value + 1
...
>>> m = MagicMock(side_effect=side_effect_func)
>>> m(1)
2
>>> m(2)
3
>>> m.mock_calls
[call(1), call(2)]

http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/mock/mock.html#calling

Copy a variable's value into another

The reason for this is simple. JavaScript uses refereces, so when you assign b = a you are assigning a reference to b thus when updating a you are also updating b

I found this on stackoverflow and will help prevent things like this in the future by just calling this method if you want to do a deep copy of an object.

function clone(obj) {
    // Handle the 3 simple types, and null or undefined
    if (null == obj || "object" != typeof obj) return obj;

    // Handle Date
    if (obj instanceof Date) {
        var copy = new Date();
        copy.setTime(obj.getTime());
        return copy;
    }

    // Handle Array
    if (obj instanceof Array) {
        var copy = [];
        for (var i = 0, len = obj.length; i < len; i++) {
            copy[i] = clone(obj[i]);
        }
        return copy;
    }

    // Handle Object
    if (obj instanceof Object) {
        var copy = {};
        for (var attr in obj) {
            if (obj.hasOwnProperty(attr)) copy[attr] = clone(obj[attr]);
        }
        return copy;
    }

    throw new Error("Unable to copy obj! Its type isn't supported.");
}

How to center a navigation bar with CSS or HTML?

The best way to fix it I have looked for the code or trick how to center nav menu and found the real solutions it works for all browsers and for my friends ;)

Here is how I have done:

body {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
}

div maincontainer {
    margin: 0 auto;
    width: ___px;
    text-align: center;
}

ul {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
}

ul li {
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
}

and do not forget to set doctype html5

Fast way to concatenate strings in nodeJS/JavaScript

There is not really any other way in JavaScript to concatenate strings.
You could theoretically use .concat(), but that's way slower than just +

Libraries are more often than not slower than native JavaScript, especially on basic operations like string concatenation, or numerical operations.

Simply put: + is the fastest.

How to display and hide a div with CSS?

You need

.abc,.ab {
    display: none;
}

#f:hover ~ .ab {
    display: block;
}

#s:hover ~ .abc {
    display: block;
}

#s:hover ~ .a,
#f:hover ~ .a{
    display: none;
}

Updated demo at http://jsfiddle.net/gaby/n5fzB/2/


The problem in your original CSS was that the , in css selectors starts a completely new selector. it is not combined.. so #f:hover ~ .abc,.a means #f:hover ~ .abc and .a. You set that to display:none so it was always set to be hidden for all .a elements.

CSS last-child selector: select last-element of specific class, not last child inside of parent?

I guess that the most correct answer is: Use :nth-child (or, in this specific case, its counterpart :nth-last-child). Most only know this selector by its first argument to grab a range of items based on a calculation with n, but it can also take a second argument "of [any CSS selector]".

Your scenario could be solved with this selector: .commentList .comment:nth-last-child(1 of .comment)

But being technically correct doesn't mean you can use it, though, because this selector is as of now only implemented in Safari.

For further reading:

Difference between a virtual function and a pure virtual function

A virtual function makes its class a polymorphic base class. Derived classes can override virtual functions. Virtual functions called through base class pointers/references will be resolved at run-time. That is, the dynamic type of the object is used instead of its static type:

 Derived d;
 Base& rb = d;
 // if Base::f() is virtual and Derived overrides it, Derived::f() will be called
 rb.f();  

A pure virtual function is a virtual function whose declaration ends in =0:

class Base {
  // ...
  virtual void f() = 0;
  // ...

A pure virtual function implicitly makes the class it is defined for abstract (unlike in Java where you have a keyword to explicitly declare the class abstract). Abstract classes cannot be instantiated. Derived classes need to override/implement all inherited pure virtual functions. If they do not, they too will become abstract.

An interesting 'feature' of C++ is that a class can define a pure virtual function that has an implementation. (What that's good for is debatable.)


Note that C++11 brought a new use for the delete and default keywords which looks similar to the syntax of pure virtual functions:

my_class(my_class const &) = delete;
my_class& operator=(const my_class&) = default;

See this question and this one for more info on this use of delete and default.

Is it possible to declare two variables of different types in a for loop?

Not possible, but you can do:

float f;
int i;
for (i = 0,f = 0.0; i < 5; i++)
{
  //...
}

Or, explicitly limit the scope of f and i using additional brackets:

{
    float f; 
    int i;
    for (i = 0,f = 0.0; i < 5; i++)
    {
       //...
    }
}

python pandas dataframe columns convert to dict key and value

If lakes is your DataFrame, you can do something like

area_dict = dict(zip(lakes.area, lakes.count))

Running PowerShell as another user, and launching a script

I found this worked for me.

$username = 'user'
$password = 'password'

$securePassword = ConvertTo-SecureString $password -AsPlainText -Force
$credential = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential $username, $securePassword
Start-Process Notepad.exe -Credential $credential

Updated: changed to using single quotes to avoid special character issues noted by Paddy.

remove url parameters with javascript or jquery

What am I missing?

Why not:

url.split('?')[0] 

What does "yield break;" do in C#?

The yield keyword is used together with the return keyword to provide a value to the enumerator object. yield return specifies the value, or values, returned. When the yield return statement is reached, the current location is stored. Execution is restarted from this location the next time the iterator is called.

To explain the meaning using an example:

    public IEnumerable<int> SampleNumbers()
    {
        int counter = 0;
        yield return counter;

        counter = counter + 2;

        yield return counter;

        counter = counter + 3;

        yield return counter ;
    }

Values returned when this is iterated are: 0, 2, 5.

It’s important to note that counter variable in this example is a local variable. After the second iteration which returns the value of 2, third iteration starts from where it left before, while preserving the previous value of local variable named counter which was 2.

How do I make a comment in a Dockerfile?

As others have mentioned, comments are referenced with a # and are documented here. However, unlike some languages, the # must be at the beginning of the line. If they occur part way through the line, they are interpreted as an argument and may result in unexpected behavior.

# This is a comment

COPY test_dir target_dir # This is not a comment, it is an argument to COPY

RUN echo hello world # This is an argument to RUN but the shell may ignore it

It should also be noted that parser directives have recently been added to the Dockerfile which have the same syntax as a comment. They need to appear at the top of the file, before any other comments or commands. Originally, this directive was added for changing the escape character to support Windows:

# escape=`

FROM microsoft/nanoserver
COPY testfile.txt c:\
RUN dir c:\

The first line, while it appears to be a comment, is a parser directive to change the escape character to a backtick so that the COPY and RUN commands can use the backslash in the path. A parser directive is also used with BuildKit to change the frontend parser with a syntax line. See the experimental syntax for more details on how this is being used in practice.

With a multi-line command, the commented lines are ignored, but you need to comment out every line individually:

$ cat Dockerfile
FROM busybox:latest
RUN echo first command \
# && echo second command disabled \
 && echo third command

$ docker build .
Sending build context to Docker daemon  23.04kB
Step 1/2 : FROM busybox:latest
 ---> 59788edf1f3e
Step 2/2 : RUN echo first command  && echo third command
 ---> Running in b1177e7b563d
first command
third command
Removing intermediate container b1177e7b563d
 ---> 5442cfe321ac
Successfully built 5442cfe321ac

Switch case on type c#

Here's an option that stays as true I could make it to the OP's requirement to be able to switch on type. If you squint hard enough it almost looks like a real switch statement.

The calling code looks like this:

var @switch = this.Switch(new []
{
    this.Case<WebControl>(x => { /* WebControl code here */ }),
    this.Case<TextBox>(x => { /* TextBox code here */ }),
    this.Case<ComboBox>(x => { /* ComboBox code here */ }),
});

@switch(obj);

The x in each lambda above is strongly-typed. No casting required.

And to make this magic work you need these two methods:

private Action<object> Switch(params Func<object, Action>[] tests)
{
    return o =>
    {
        var @case = tests
            .Select(f => f(o))
            .FirstOrDefault(a => a != null);

        if (@case != null)
        {
            @case();
        }
    };
}

private Func<object, Action> Case<T>(Action<T> action)
{
    return o => o is T ? (Action)(() => action((T)o)) : (Action)null;
}

Almost brings tears to your eyes, right?

Nonetheless, it works. Enjoy.

Javascript: How to generate formatted easy-to-read JSON straight from an object?

JSON.stringify takes more optional arguments.

Try:

 JSON.stringify({a:1,b:2,c:{d:1,e:[1,2]}}, null, 4); // Indented 4 spaces
 JSON.stringify({a:1,b:2,c:{d:1,e:[1,2]}}, null, "\t"); // Indented with tab

From:

How can I beautify JSON programmatically?

Should work in modern browsers, and it is included in json2.js if you need a fallback for browsers that don't support the JSON helper functions. For display purposes, put the output in a <pre> tag to get newlines to show.

How to obtain the chat_id of a private Telegram channel?

The easiest way is to invite @get_id_bot in your chat and then type:

/my_id @get_id_bot

Inside your chat

Single line if statement with 2 actions

You can write that in single line, but it's not something that someone would be able to read. Keep it like you already wrote it, it's already beautiful by itself.

If you have too much if/else constructs, you may think about using of different datastructures, like Dictionaries (to look up keys) or Collection (to run conditional LINQ queries on it)

How to use std::sort to sort an array in C++

you can use,

 std::sort(v.begin(),v.end());

Creating a .dll file in C#.Net

You need to make a class library and not a Console Application. The console application is translated into an .exe whereas the class library will then be compiled into a dll which you can reference in your windows project.

  • Right click on your Console Application -> Properties -> Change the Output type to Class Library

enter image description here

Error:java: javacTask: source release 8 requires target release 1.8

I fixed it by modify my POM file. Notice the last comment under the highest voted answer.

<plugin>
    <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>2.3.2</version>
        <configuration>
            <source>1.8</source>
            <target>1.8</target>
            <encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
        </configuration>
</plugin>

The source must matches the target.

libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile

some background info on this:

Some changes in libpng version 1.6+ cause it to issue a warning or even not work correctly with the original HP/MS sRGB profile, leading to the following stderr: libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile The old profile uses a D50 whitepoint, where D65 is standard. This profile is not uncommon, being used by Adobe Photoshop, although it was not embedded into images by default.

(source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Libpng_errors)

Error detection in some chunks has improved; in particular the iCCP chunk reader now does pretty complete validation of the basic format. Some bad profiles that were previously accepted are now rejected, in particular the very old broken Microsoft/HP sRGB profile. The PNG spec requirement that only grayscale profiles may appear in images with color type 0 or 4 and that even if the image only contains gray pixels, only RGB profiles may appear in images with color type 2, 3, or 6, is now enforced. The sRGB chunk is allowed to appear in images with any color type.

(source: https://forum.qt.io/topic/58638/solved-libpng-warning-iccp-known-incorrect-srgb-profile-drive-me-nuts/16)

How to change the button text for 'Yes' and 'No' buttons in the MessageBox.Show dialog?

I didn't think it would be that simple! go to this link: https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/18399/Localizing-System-MessageBox

Download the source. Take the MessageBoxManager.cs file, add it to your project. Now just register it once in your code (for example in the Main() method inside your Program.cs file) and it will work every time you call MessageBox.Show():

    MessageBoxManager.OK = "Alright";
    MessageBoxManager.Yes = "Yep!";
    MessageBoxManager.No = "Nope";
    MessageBoxManager.Register();

See this answer for the source code here for MessageBoxManager.cs.

Converting a factor to numeric without losing information R (as.numeric() doesn't seem to work)

First, factor consists of indices and levels. This fact is very very important when you are struggling with factor.

For example,

> z <- factor(letters[c(3, 2, 3, 4)])

# human-friendly display, but internal structure is invisible
> z
[1] c b c d
Levels: b c d

# internal structure of factor
> unclass(z)
[1] 2 1 2 3
attr(,"levels")
[1] "b" "c" "d"

here, z has 4 elements.
The index is 2, 1, 2, 3 in that order.
The level is associated with each index: 1 -> b, 2 -> c, 3 -> d.

Then, as.numeric converts simply the index part of factor into numeric.
as.character handles the index and levels, and generates character vector expressed by its level.

?as.numeric says that Factors are handled by the default method.

How do I implement onchange of <input type="text"> with jQuery?

I would suggest using the keyup event something like below:

$('elementName').keyup(function() {
 alert("Key up detected");
});

There are a few ways of achieving the same result so I guess it's down to preference and depends on how you want it to work exactly.

Update: This only works for manual input not copy and paste.

For copy and paste I would recommend the following:

$('elementName').on('input',function(e){
 // Code here
});

Replace comma with newline in sed on MacOS?

The sed on macOS Mojave was released in 2005, so one solution is to install the gnu-sed,

brew install gnu-sed

then use gsed will do as you wish,

gsed 's/,/\n/g' file

If you prefer sed, just sudo sh -c 'echo /usr/local/opt/gnu-sed/libexec/gnubin > /etc/paths.d/brew', which is suggested by brew info gnu-sed. Restart your term, then your sed in command line is gsed.

How to set recurring schedule for xlsm file using Windows Task Scheduler

I found a much easier way and I hope it works for you. (using Windows 10 and Excel 2016)

Create a new module and enter the following code: Sub auto_open() 'Macro to be run (doesn't have to be in this module, just in this workbook End Sub

Set up a task through the Task Scheduler and set the "program to be run as" Excel (found mine at C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\root\Office16). Then set the "Add arguments (optional): as the file path to the macro-enabled workbook. Remember that both the path to Excel and the path to the workbook should be in double quotes.

*See example from Rich, edited by Community, for an image of the windows scheduler screen.

How to layout multiple panels on a jFrame? (java)

You'll want to use a number of layout managers to help you achieve the basic results you want.

Check out A Visual Guide to Layout Managers for a comparision.

You could use a GridBagLayout but that's one of the most complex (and powerful) layout managers available in the JDK.

You could use a series of compound layout managers instead.

I'd place the graphics component and text area on a single JPanel, using a BorderLayout, with the graphics component in the CENTER and the text area in the SOUTH position.

I'd place the text field and button on a separate JPanel using a GridBagLayout (because it's the simplest I can think of to achieve the over result you want)

I'd place these two panels onto a third, master, panel, using a BorderLayout, with the first panel in the CENTER and the second at the SOUTH position.

But that's me

Download files from server php

To read directory contents you can use readdir() and use a script, in my example download.php, to download files

if ($handle = opendir('/path/to/your/dir/')) {
    while (false !== ($entry = readdir($handle))) {
        if ($entry != "." && $entry != "..") {
            echo "<a href='download.php?file=".$entry."'>".$entry."</a>\n";
        }
    }
    closedir($handle);
}

In download.php you can force browser to send download data, and use basename() to make sure client does not pass other file name like ../config.php

$file = basename($_GET['file']);
$file = '/path/to/your/dir/'.$file;

if(!file_exists($file)){ // file does not exist
    die('file not found');
} else {
    header("Cache-Control: public");
    header("Content-Description: File Transfer");
    header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=$file");
    header("Content-Type: application/zip");
    header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");

    // read the file from disk
    readfile($file);
}

Table overflowing outside of div

overflow-x: auto;
overflow-y : hidden;

Apply the styling above to the parent div.

Bootstrap dropdown sub menu missing

@skelly solution is good but will not work on mobile devices as the hover state won't work.

I have added a little bit of JS to get the BS 2.3.2 behavior back.

PS: it will work with the CSS you get there: http://bootply.com/71520 though you can comment the following part:

CSS:

/*.dropdown-submenu:hover>.dropdown-menu{display:block;}*/

JS:

$('ul.dropdown-menu [data-toggle=dropdown]').on('click', function(event) {
  // Avoid following the href location when clicking
  event.preventDefault();
  // Avoid having the menu to close when clicking
  event.stopPropagation();
  // If a menu is already open we close it
  $('ul.dropdown-menu [data-toggle=dropdown]').parent().removeClass('open');
  // opening the one you clicked on
  $(this).parent().addClass('open');
});

The result can be found on my WordPress theme (Top of the page): http://shprinkone.julienrenaux.fr/

Android Get Application's 'Home' Data Directory

Of course, never fails. Found the solution about a minute after posting the above question... solution for those that may have had the same issue:

ContextWrapper.getFilesDir()

Found here.

jQuery: read text file from file system

You can't load a file from your local filesystem, like this, you need to put it on a a web server and load it from there. On the same site as you have the JavaScript loaded from.

EDIT: Looking at this thread, you can start chrome using option --allow-file-access-from-files, which would allow access to local files.

Where to place JavaScript in an HTML file?

The best place for it is just before you need it and no sooner.

Also, depending on your users' physical location, using a service like Amazon's S3 service may help users download it from a server physically closer to them than your server.

Is your js script a commonly used lib like jQuery or prototype? If so, there are a number of companies, like Google and Yahoo, that have tools to provide these files for you on a distributed network.

Could not install packages due to a "Environment error :[error 13]: permission denied : 'usr/local/bin/f2py'"

As a windows user, run an Admin powershell and launch :

python -m pip install --upgrade pip

ERROR 1064 (42000): You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use

This error comes when you have a column name from one of the mysql keyword, try to run your queries by putting all your column names in `` this

example: insert into test (`sno`, `order`, `category`, `samp`, `pamp`, `method`) values(1, 1, 'top', 30, 25, 'Total');

In this example column name order is a keyword in mysql, so i had to put that in `` quotes.

Simple conversion between java.util.Date and XMLGregorianCalendar

I too had this kind of headache. Got rid of of it by simply representing time fields as primitive long in my POJO. Now the generation of my WS client code handle everything correctly and no more XML-to-Java crap. And of course dealing with millis on the Java side is simple and painless. KISS principle rocks!

MAX(DATE) - SQL ORACLE

SELECT p.MEMBSHIP_ID
FROM user_payments as p
WHERE USER_ID = 1 AND PAYM_DATE = (
    SELECT MAX(p2.PAYM_DATE)
    FROM user_payments as p2
    WHERE p2.USER_ID = p.USER_ID
)

Display the current time and date in an Android application

Actually, you're best off with the TextClock widget. It handles all of the complexity for you and will respect the user's 12/24hr preferences. http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/TextClock.html

CSS width of a <span> tag

Having fixed the height and width you sholud tell the how to bahave if the text inside it overflows its area. So add in the css

overflow: auto;

Why is my method undefined for the type object?

It should be like that

public static void main(String[] args) {
        EchoServer0 e = new EchoServer0();
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        e.listen();
}

Your variable of type Object truly doesn't have such a method, but the type EchoServer0 you define above certainly has.

How to change fontFamily of TextView in Android

You set style in res/layout/value/style.xml like that:

<style name="boldText">
    <item name="android:textStyle">bold|italic</item>
    <item name="android:textColor">#FFFFFF</item>
</style>

and to use this style in main.xml file use:

style="@style/boldText"

SVN remains in conflict?

If you are using the Eclipse IDE and stumble upon this error when committing, here's an in-tool solution for you. I'm using Subclipse, but the solution for Subversive could be similar.

What you maybe didn't notice is that there is an additional symbol on the conflicting file, which marks the file indeed as "conflicted".

Right-click on the file, choose "Team" and "Edit conflicts...". Choose the appropriate action. I merged the file manually on text-level before, so I took the first option, which will take the current state of your local copy as "resolved solution". Now hit "OK" and that's it.

The conflicting symbol should have disappeared and you should be able to commit again.

MongoDB what are the default user and password?

By default mongodb has no enabled access control, so there is no default user or password.

To enable access control, use either the command line option --auth or security.authorization configuration file setting.

You can use the following procedure or refer to Enabling Auth in the MongoDB docs.

Procedure

  1. Start MongoDB without access control.

    mongod --port 27017 --dbpath /data/db1
    
  2. Connect to the instance.

    mongo --port 27017
    
  3. Create the user administrator.

    use admin
    db.createUser(
      {
        user: "myUserAdmin",
        pwd: "abc123",
        roles: [ { role: "userAdminAnyDatabase", db: "admin" } ]
      }
    )
    
  4. Re-start the MongoDB instance with access control.

    mongod --auth --port 27017 --dbpath /data/db1
    
  5. Authenticate as the user administrator.

    mongo --port 27017 -u "myUserAdmin" -p "abc123" \
      --authenticationDatabase "admin"
    

String.equals versus ==

a==b

Compares references, not values. The use of == with object references is generally limited to the following:

  1. Comparing to see if a reference is null.

  2. Comparing two enum values. This works because there is only one object for each enum constant.

  3. You want to know if two references are to the same object

"a".equals("b")

Compares values for equality. Because this method is defined in the Object class, from which all other classes are derived, it's automatically defined for every class. However, it doesn't perform an intelligent comparison for most classes unless the class overrides it. It has been defined in a meaningful way for most Java core classes. If it's not defined for a (user) class, it behaves the same as ==.

Call removeView() on the child's parent first

All you have to do is post() a Runnable that does the addView().

Symfony - generate url with parameter in controller

It's pretty simple :

public function myAction()
{
    $url = $this->generateUrl('blog_show', array('slug' => 'my-blog-post'));
}

Inside an action, $this->generateUrl is an alias that will use the router to get the wanted route, also you could do this that is the same :

$this->get('router')->generate('blog_show', array('slug' => 'my-blog-post'));

Can you have if-then-else logic in SQL?

--Similar answer as above for the most part. Code included to test

DROP TABLE table1
GO
CREATE TABLE table1 (project int, customer int, company int, product int, price money)
GO
INSERT INTO table1 VALUES (1,0,50, 100, 40),(1,0,20, 200, 55),(1,10,30,300, 75),(2,10,30,300, 75)
GO
SELECT TOP 1 WITH TIES product
        , price
        , CASE WhereFound WHEN 1 THEN 'Project'
                WHEN 2 THEN 'Customer'
                WHEN 3 THEN 'Company'
            ELSE 'No Match'
            END AS Source
FROM 
    (
     SELECT product, price, 1 as WhereFound FROM table1 where project = 11
     UNION ALL
     SELECT product, price, 2 FROM table1 where customer = 0
     UNION ALL
     SELECT product, price, 3 FROM table1 where company = 30
    ) AS tbl
ORDER BY WhereFound ASC

In HTML5, should the main navigation be inside or outside the <header> element?

It's a little unclear whether you're asking for opinions, eg. "it's common to do xxx" or an actual rule, so I'm going to lean in the direction of rules.

The examples you cite seem based upon the examples in the spec for the nav element. Remember that the spec keeps getting tweaked and the rules are sometimes convoluted, so I'd venture many people might tend to just do what's given rather than interpret. You're showing two separate examples with different behavior, so there's only so much you can read into it. Do either of those sites also have the opposing sub/nav situation, and if so how do they handle it?

Most importantly, though, there's nothing in the spec saying either is the way to do it. One of the goals with HTML5 was to be very clear[this for comparison] about semantics, requirements, etc. so the omission is worth noting. As far as I can see, the examples are independent of each other and equally valid within their own context of layout requirements, etc.

Having the nav's source position be conditional is kind of silly(another red flag). Just pick a method and go with it.

Most efficient way to concatenate strings?

The StringBuilder.Append() method is much better than using the + operator. But I've found that, when executing 1000 concatenations or less, String.Join() is even more efficient than StringBuilder.

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.Append(someString);

The only problem with String.Join is that you have to concatenate the strings with a common delimiter.

Edit: as @ryanversaw pointed out, you can make the delimiter string.Empty.

string key = String.Join("_", new String[] 
{ "Customers_Contacts", customerID, database, SessionID });

Is there a portable way to get the current username in Python?

Using only standard python libs:

from os import environ,getcwd
getUser = lambda: environ["USERNAME"] if "C:" in getcwd() else environ["USER"]
user = getUser()

Works on Windows (if you are on drive C), Mac or Linux

Alternatively, you could remove one line with an immediate invocation:

from os import environ,getcwd
user = (lambda: environ["USERNAME"] if "C:" in getcwd() else environ["USER"])()

How do I pass multiple parameter in URL?

You can pass multiple parameters as "?param1=value1&param2=value2"

But it's not secure. It's vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Attack.

Your parameter can be simply replaced with a script.

Have a look at this article and article

You can make it secure by using API of StringEscapeUtils

static String   escapeHtml(String str) 
          Escapes the characters in a String using HTML entities.

Even using https url for security without above precautions is not a good practice.

Have a look at related SE question:

Is URLEncoder.encode(string, "UTF-8") a poor validation?

LINQ - Left Join, Group By, and Count

LATE ANSWER:

You shouldn't need the left join at all if all you're doing is Count(). Note that join...into is actually translated to GroupJoin which returns groupings like new{parent,IEnumerable<child>} so you just need to call Count() on the group:

from p in context.ParentTable
join c in context.ChildTable on p.ParentId equals c.ChildParentId into g
select new { ParentId = p.Id, Count = g.Count() }

In Extension Method syntax a join into is equivalent to GroupJoin (while a join without an into is Join):

context.ParentTable
    .GroupJoin(
                   inner: context.ChildTable
        outerKeySelector: parent => parent.ParentId,
        innerKeySelector: child => child.ParentId,
          resultSelector: (parent, children) => new { parent.Id, Count = children.Count() }
    );

How to fetch all Git branches

When you clone a repository all the information of the branches is actually downloaded but the branches are hidden. With the command

$ git branch -a

you can show all the branches of the repository, and with the command

$ git checkout -b branchname origin/branchname

you can then "download" them manually one at a time.


However, there is a much cleaner and quicker way, though it's a bit complicated. You need three steps to accomplish this:

  1. First step

    create a new empty folder on your machine and clone a mirror copy of the .git folder from the repository:

    $ cd ~/Desktop && mkdir my_repo_folder && cd my_repo_folder
    $ git clone --mirror https://github.com/planetoftheweb/responsivebootstrap.git .git
    

    the local repository inside the folder my_repo_folder is still empty, there is just a hidden .git folder now that you can see with a "ls -alt" command from the terminal.

  2. Second step

    switch this repository from an empty (bare) repository to a regular repository by switching the boolean value "bare" of the git configurations to false:

    $ git config --bool core.bare false
    
  3. Third Step

    Grab everything that inside the current folder and create all the branches on the local machine, therefore making this a normal repo.

    $ git reset --hard
    

So now you can just type the command git branch and you can see that all the branches are downloaded.

This is the quick way in which you can clone a git repository with all the branches at once, but it's not something you wanna do for every single project in this way.

Intersect Two Lists in C#

From performance point of view if two lists contain number of elements that differ significantly, you can try such approach (using conditional operator ?:):

1.First you need to declare a converter:

Converter<string, int> del = delegate(string s) { return Int32.Parse(s); };

2.Then you use a conditional operator:

var r = data1.Count > data2.Count ?
 data2.ConvertAll<int>(del).Intersect(data1) :
 data1.Select(v => v.ToString()).Intersect(data2).ToList<string>().ConvertAll<int>(del);

You convert elements of shorter list to match the type of longer list. Imagine an execution speed if your first set contains 1000 elements and second only 10 (or opposite as it doesn't matter) ;-)

As you want to have a result as List, in a last line you convert the result (only result) back to int.

What is the height of Navigation Bar in iOS 7?

I got this answer from the book Programming iOS 7, section Bar Position and Bar Metrics

If a navigation bar or toolbar — or a search bar (discussed earlier in this chapter) — is to occupy the top of the screen, the iOS 7 convention is that its height should be increased to underlap the transparent status bar. To make this possible, iOS 7 introduces the notion of a bar position.

UIBarPositionTopAttached

Specifies that the bar is at the top of the screen, as well as its containing view. Bars with this position draw their background extended upwards, allowing their background content to show through the status bar. Available in iOS 7.0 and later.

Delete all records in a table of MYSQL in phpMyAdmin

Go to the Sql tab run one of the below query:

delete from tableName;

Delete: will delete all rows from your table. Next insert will take next auto increment id.

or

truncate tableName;

Truncate: will also delete the rows from your table but it will start from new row with 1.

A detailed blog with example: http://sforsuresh.in/phpmyadmin-deleting-rows-mysql-table/

JQuery create a form and add elements to it programmatically

The 2nd line should be written as:

$form.append('<input type="button" value="button">');

Adding whitespace in Java

Use the StringUtils class, it also includes null check

StringUtils.leftPad(String str, int size)
StringUtils.rightPad(String str, int size)

Auto refresh code in HTML using meta tags

Try this:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5;URL= your url">

or

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5">  

Android Call an method from another class

You should use the following code :

Class2 cls2 = new Class2();
cls2.UpdateEmployee();

In case you don't want to create a new instance to call the method, you can decalre the method as static and then you can just call Class2.UpdateEmployee().

Using varchar(MAX) vs TEXT on SQL Server

You can't search a text field without converting it from text to varchar.

declare @table table (a text)
insert into @table values ('a')
insert into @table values ('a')
insert into @table values ('b')
insert into @table values ('c')
insert into @table values ('d')


select *
from @table
where a ='a'

This give an error:

The data types text and varchar are incompatible in the equal to operator.

Wheras this does not:

declare @table table (a varchar(max))

Interestingly, LIKE still works, i.e.

where a like '%a%'

How to get integer values from a string in Python?

Here's your one-liner, without using any regular expressions, which can get expensive at times:

>>> ''.join(filter(str.isdigit, "1234GAgade5312djdl0"))

returns:

'123453120'

Is there a code obfuscator for PHP?

People will offer you obfuscators, but no amount of obfuscation can prevent someone from getting at your code. None. If your computer can run it, or in the case of movies and music if it can play it, the user can get at it. Even compiling it to machine code just makes the job a little more difficult. If you use an obfuscator, you are just fooling yourself. Worse, you're also disallowing your users from fixing bugs or making modifications.

Music and movie companies haven't quite come to terms with this yet, they still spend millions on DRM.

In interpreted languages like PHP and Perl it's trivial. Perl used to have lots of code obfuscators, then we realized you can trivially decompile them.

perl -MO=Deparse some_program

PHP has things like DeZender and Show My Code.

My advice? Write a license and get a lawyer. The only other option is to not give out the code and instead run a hosted service.

See also the perlfaq entry on the subject.

Find the differences between 2 Excel worksheets?

I think your best option is a freeware app called Compare IT! .... absolutely brilliant utility and dead easy to use. http://www.grigsoft.com/wincmp3.htm