Programs & Examples On #Azure appfabric

Azure App-fabric are part of Microsoft Azure Middleware components. The appfabric consists of Access Control, Service Bus, Caching, Integration.

What's the best way to set a single pixel in an HTML5 canvas?

It seems strange, but nonetheless HTML5 supports drawing lines, circles, rectangles and many other basic shapes, it does not have anything suitable for drawing the basic point. The only way to do so is to simulate point with whatever you have.

So basically there are 3 possible solutions:

  • draw point as a line
  • draw point as a polygon
  • draw point as a circle

Each of them has their drawbacks


Line

function point(x, y, canvas){
  canvas.beginPath();
  canvas.moveTo(x, y);
  canvas.lineTo(x+1, y+1);
  canvas.stroke();
}

Keep in mind that we are drawing to South-East direction, and if this is the edge, there can be a problem. But you can also draw in any other direction.


Rectangle

function point(x, y, canvas){
  canvas.strokeRect(x,y,1,1);
}

or in a faster way using fillRect because render engine will just fill one pixel.

function point(x, y, canvas){
  canvas.fillRect(x,y,1,1);
}

Circle


One of the problems with circles is that it is harder for an engine to render them

function point(x, y, canvas){
  canvas.beginPath();
  canvas.arc(x, y, 1, 0, 2 * Math.PI, true);
  canvas.stroke();
}

the same idea as with rectangle you can achieve with fill.

function point(x, y, canvas){
  canvas.beginPath();
  canvas.arc(x, y, 1, 0, 2 * Math.PI, true);
  canvas.fill();
}

Problems with all these solutions:

  • it is hard to keep track of all the points you are going to draw.
  • when you zoom in, it looks ugly.

If you are wondering, "What is the best way to draw a point?", I would go with filled rectangle. You can see my jsperf here with comparison tests.

endforeach in loops?

It's just a different syntax. Instead of

foreach ($a as $v) {
    # ...
}

You could write this:

foreach ($a as $v):
    # ...
endforeach;

They will function exactly the same; it's just a matter of style. (Personally I have never seen anyone use the second form.)

Easier way to create circle div than using an image?

For circle, create a div element and then enter width = 2 times of the border radius = 2 times padding. Also line-height = 0 For example, with 50px as radii of the circle, the below code works well:

width: 100px;
padding: 50px 0;
border: solid;
line-height: 0px;
border-radius: 50px;

Get last dirname/filename in a file path argument in Bash

Bash can get the last part of a path without having to call the external basename:

subdir="/path/to/whatever/${1##*/}"

Calculate distance between two points in google maps V3

Example using GPS latitude/longitude of 2 points.

var latitude1 = 39.46;
var longitude1 = -0.36;
var latitude2 = 40.40;
var longitude2 = -3.68;

var distance = google.maps.geometry.spherical.computeDistanceBetween(new google.maps.LatLng(latitude1, longitude1), new google.maps.LatLng(latitude2, longitude2));       

Install MySQL on Ubuntu without a password prompt

Another way to make it work:

echo "mysql-server-5.5 mysql-server/root_password password root" | debconf-set-selections
echo "mysql-server-5.5 mysql-server/root_password_again password root" | debconf-set-selections
apt-get -y install mysql-server-5.5

Note that this simply sets the password to "root". I could not get it to set a blank password using simple quotes '', but this solution was sufficient for me.

Based on a solution here.

tar: add all files and directories in current directory INCLUDING .svn and so on

Update: I added a fix for the OP's comment.

tar -czf workspace.tar.gz .

will indeed change the current directory, but why not place the file somewhere else?

tar -czf somewhereelse/workspace.tar.gz .
mv somewhereelse/workspace.tar.gz . # Update

How to redirect to another page using PHP

You could use ob_start(); before you send any output. This will tell to PHP to keep all the output in a buffer until the script execution ends, so you still can change the header.

Usually I don't use output buffering, for simple projects I keep all the logic on the first part of my script, then I output all HTML.

Set start value for column with autoincrement

In the Table Designer on SQL Server Management Studio you can set the where the auto increment will start. Right-click on the table in Object Explorer and choose Design, then go to the Column Properties for the relevant column:

Here the autoincrement will start at 760

Convert a positive number to negative in C#

int myNegInt = System.Math.Abs(myNumber) * (-1);

Remove non-ascii character in string

To use ASCII with accents:

var str = str.replace(/[^\x00-\xFF]/g, "");

How to use Apple's new San Francisco font on a webpage

You can not use Apple System Font served directly from a database. It's against the License, but you can use this for Mac Systems higher than High Sierra

body 
{
  font-family: -apple-system, "Helvetica Neue", "Lucida Grande";
}

Or you can use this:

font-family: 'BlinkMacSystemFont';

Collections.emptyList() returns a List<Object>?

The issue you're encountering is that even though the method emptyList() returns List<T>, you haven't provided it with the type, so it defaults to returning List<Object>. You can supply the type parameter, and have your code behave as expected, like this:

public Person(String name) {
  this(name,Collections.<String>emptyList());
}

Now when you're doing straight assignment, the compiler can figure out the generic type parameters for you. It's called type inference. For example, if you did this:

public Person(String name) {
  List<String> emptyList = Collections.emptyList();
  this(name, emptyList);
}

then the emptyList() call would correctly return a List<String>.

What is middleware exactly?

There are (at least) three different definitions I'm aware of

  • in business computing, middleware is messaging and integration software between applications and services

  • in gaming, middleware is pretty well anything that is provided by a third-party

  • in (some) embedded software systems, middleware provides services that applications use, which are composed out of the functions provided by the hardware abstraction layer - it sits between the application layer and the hardware abstraction layer.

How to edit .csproj file

There is an easier way so you don't have to unload the project. Just install this tool called EditProj in Visual Studio:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=EdMunoz.EditProj

Then right click edit you will have a new menu item Edit Project File :)
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Apache Spark: map vs mapPartitions?

What's the difference between an RDD's map and mapPartitions method?

The method map converts each element of the source RDD into a single element of the result RDD by applying a function. mapPartitions converts each partition of the source RDD into multiple elements of the result (possibly none).

And does flatMap behave like map or like mapPartitions?

Neither, flatMap works on a single element (as map) and produces multiple elements of the result (as mapPartitions).

How to log out user from web site using BASIC authentication?

I've just tested the following in Chrome (79), Firefox (71) and Edge (44) and it works fine. It applies the script solution as others noted above.

Just add a "Logout" link and when clicked return the following html

    <div>You have been logged out. Redirecting to home...</div>    

<script>
    var XHR = new XMLHttpRequest();
    XHR.open("GET", "/Home/MyProtectedPage", true, "no user", "no password");
    XHR.send();

    setTimeout(function () {
        window.location.href = "/";
    }, 3000);
</script>

MySQL: Enable LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE

All: Evidently this is working as designed. Please see new ref man dated 2019-7-23, Section 6.1.6, Security Issues with LOAD DATA LOCAL.

Change DataGrid cell colour based on values

To do this in the Code Behind (VB.NET)

Dim txtCol As New DataGridTextColumn

Dim style As New Style(GetType(TextBlock))
Dim tri As New Trigger With {.Property = TextBlock.TextProperty, .Value = "John"}
tri.Setters.Add(New Setter With {.Property = TextBlock.BackgroundProperty, .Value = Brushes.Green})
style.Triggers.Add(tri)

xtCol.ElementStyle = style

Single quotes vs. double quotes in Python

It's probably a stylistic preference more than anything. I just checked PEP 8 and didn't see any mention of single versus double quotes.

I prefer single quotes because its only one keystroke instead of two. That is, I don't have to mash the shift key to make single quote.

An "and" operator for an "if" statement in Bash

Try this:

if [ $STATUS -ne 200 -a "$STRING" != "$VALUE" ]; then

How to checkout a specific Subversion revision from the command line?

You should never use TortoiseProc.exe as a command-line Subversion client! TortoiseProc should be utilized only for automating TortoiseSVN's GUI. See the note in TortoiseSVN's Manual:

Remember that TortoiseSVN is a GUI client, and this automation guide shows you how to make the TortoiseSVN dialogs appear to collect user input. If you want to write a script which requires no input, you should use the official Subversion command line client instead.

Use the Subversion command-line svn.exe client. With the command-line client, you can

You may notice that with svn checkout and svn export you can enter REV number as --revision REV argument and as trailing @REV after URL. The first one is called operative revision, and the second one is called peg revision. Read SVNBook for more information about peg and operative revisions concept.

How to update Python?

  • Official Python .msi installers are designed to replace:

    • any previous micro release (in x.y.z, z is "micro") because they are guaranteed to be backward-compatible and binary-compatible
    • a "snapshot" (built from source) installation with any micro version
  • A snapshot installer is designed to replace any snapshot with a lower micro version.

(See responsible code for 2.x, for 3.x)

Any other versions are not necessarily compatible and are thus installed alongside the existing one. If you wish to uninstall the old version, you'll need to do that manually. And also uninstall any 3rd-party modules you had for it:

  • If you installed any modules from bdist_wininst packages (Windows .exes), uninstall them before uninstalling the version, or the uninstaller might not work correctly if it has custom logic
  • modules installed with setuptools/pip that reside in Lib\site-packages can just be deleted afterwards
  • packages that you installed per-user, if any, reside in %APPDATA%/Python/PythonXY/site-packages and can likewise be deleted

Angular Material: mat-select not selecting default

A comparison between a number and a string use to be false, so, cast you selected value to a string within ngOnInit and it will work.

I had same issue, I filled the mat-select with an enum, using

Object.keys(MyAwesomeEnum).filter(k => !isNaN(Number(k)));

and I had the enum value I wanted to select...

I spent few hours struggling my mind trying to identify why it wasn't working. And I did it just after rendering all the variables being used in the mat-select, the keys collection and the selected... if you have ["0","1","2"] and you want to select 1 (which is a number) 1=="1" is false and because of that nothing is selected.

so, the solution is to cast you selected value to a string within ngOnInit and it will work.

Transform hexadecimal information to binary using a Linux command

As @user786653 suggested, use the xxd(1) program:

xxd -r -p input.txt output.bin

How can I filter a date of a DateTimeField in Django?

As of Django 1.9, the way to do this is by using __date on a datetime object.

For example: MyObject.objects.filter(datetime_attr__date=datetime.date(2009,8,22))

What is ModelState.IsValid valid for in ASP.NET MVC in NerdDinner?

Yes , Jared and Kelly Orr are right. I use the following code like in edit exception.

foreach (var issue in dinner.GetRuleViolations())
{
    ModelState.AddModelError(issue.PropertyName, issue.ErrorMessage);
}

in stead of

ModelState.AddRuleViolations(dinner.GetRuleViolations());

How can I override the OnBeforeUnload dialog and replace it with my own?

You can't modify the default dialogue for onbeforeunload, so your best bet may be to work with it.

window.onbeforeunload = function() {
    return 'You have unsaved changes!';
}

Here's a reference to this from Microsoft:

When a string is assigned to the returnValue property of window.event, a dialog box appears that gives users the option to stay on the current page and retain the string that was assigned to it. The default statement that appears in the dialog box, "Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page? ... Press OK to continue, or Cancel to stay on the current page.", cannot be removed or altered.

The problem seems to be:

  1. When onbeforeunload is called, it will take the return value of the handler as window.event.returnValue.
  2. It will then parse the return value as a string (unless it is null).
  3. Since false is parsed as a string, the dialogue box will fire, which will then pass an appropriate true/false.

The result is, there doesn't seem to be a way of assigning false to onbeforeunload to prevent it from the default dialogue.

Additional notes on jQuery:

  • Setting the event in jQuery may be problematic, as that allows other onbeforeunload events to occur as well. If you wish only for your unload event to occur I'd stick to plain ol' JavaScript for it.
  • jQuery doesn't have a shortcut for onbeforeunload so you'd have to use the generic bind syntax.

    $(window).bind('beforeunload', function() {} );
    

Edit 09/04/2018: custom messages in onbeforeunload dialogs are deprecated since chrome-51 (cf: release note)

error: member access into incomplete type : forward declaration of

You must have the definition of class B before you use the class. How else would the compiler otherwise know that there exists such a function as B::add?

Either define class B before class A, or move the body of A::doSomething to after class B have been defined, like

class B;

class A
{
    B* b;

    void doSomething();
};

class B
{
    A* a;

    void add() {}
};

void A::doSomething()
{
    b->add();
}

How do you change the size of figures drawn with matplotlib?

The first link in Google for 'matplotlib figure size' is AdjustingImageSize (Google cache of the page).

Here's a test script from the above page. It creates test[1-3].png files of different sizes of the same image:

#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
This is a small demo file that helps teach how to adjust figure sizes
for matplotlib

"""

import matplotlib
print "using MPL version:", matplotlib.__version__
matplotlib.use("WXAgg") # do this before pylab so you don'tget the default back end.

import pylab
import numpy as np

# Generate and plot some simple data:
x = np.arange(0, 2*np.pi, 0.1)
y = np.sin(x)

pylab.plot(x,y)
F = pylab.gcf()

# Now check everything with the defaults:
DPI = F.get_dpi()
print "DPI:", DPI
DefaultSize = F.get_size_inches()
print "Default size in Inches", DefaultSize
print "Which should result in a %i x %i Image"%(DPI*DefaultSize[0], DPI*DefaultSize[1])
# the default is 100dpi for savefig:
F.savefig("test1.png")
# this gives me a 797 x 566 pixel image, which is about 100 DPI

# Now make the image twice as big, while keeping the fonts and all the
# same size
F.set_size_inches( (DefaultSize[0]*2, DefaultSize[1]*2) )
Size = F.get_size_inches()
print "Size in Inches", Size
F.savefig("test2.png")
# this results in a 1595x1132 image

# Now make the image twice as big, making all the fonts and lines
# bigger too.

F.set_size_inches( DefaultSize )# resetthe size
Size = F.get_size_inches()
print "Size in Inches", Size
F.savefig("test3.png", dpi = (200)) # change the dpi
# this also results in a 1595x1132 image, but the fonts are larger.

Output:

using MPL version: 0.98.1
DPI: 80
Default size in Inches [ 8.  6.]
Which should result in a 640 x 480 Image
Size in Inches [ 16.  12.]
Size in Inches [ 16.  12.]

Two notes:

  1. The module comments and the actual output differ.

  2. This answer allows easily to combine all three images in one image file to see the difference in sizes.

Using Position Relative/Absolute within a TD?

This is because according to CSS 2.1, the effect of position: relative on table elements is undefined. Illustrative of this, position: relative has the desired effect on Chrome 13, but not on Firefox 4. Your solution here is to add a div around your content and put the position: relative on that div instead of the td. The following illustrates the results you get with the position: relative (1) on a div good), (2) on a td(no good), and finally (3) on a div inside a td (good again).

On Firefox 4

_x000D_
_x000D_
<table>_x000D_
  <tr>_x000D_
    <td>_x000D_
      <div style="position:relative;">_x000D_
        <span style="position:absolute; left:150px;">_x000D_
          Absolute span_x000D_
        </span>_x000D_
        Relative div_x000D_
      </div>_x000D_
    </td>_x000D_
  </tr>_x000D_
</table>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Global Git ignore

Before reconfiguring the global excludes file, you might want to check what it's currently configured to, using this command:

git config --get core.excludesfile

In my case, when I ran it I saw my global excludes file was configured to

~/.gitignore_global
and there were already a couple things listed there. So in the case of the given question, it might make sense to first check for an existing excludes file, and add the new file mask to it.

How to use paths in tsconfig.json?

Check this similar solutions with asterisk

  "baseUrl": ".",
  "paths": {
    "*": [
      "node_modules/*",
      "src/types/*"
    ]
  },

Vue - Deep watching an array of objects and calculating the change?

I have changed the implementation of it to get your problem solved, I made an object to track the old changes and compare it with that. You can use it to solve your issue.

Here I created a method, in which the old value will be stored in a separate variable and, which then will be used in a watch.

new Vue({
  methods: {
    setValue: function() {
      this.$data.oldPeople = _.cloneDeep(this.$data.people);
    },
  },
  mounted() {
    this.setValue();
  },
  el: '#app',
  data: {
    people: [
      {id: 0, name: 'Bob', age: 27},
      {id: 1, name: 'Frank', age: 32},
      {id: 2, name: 'Joe', age: 38}
    ],
    oldPeople: []
  },
  watch: {
    people: {
      handler: function (after, before) {
        // Return the object that changed
        var vm = this;
        let changed = after.filter( function( p, idx ) {
          return Object.keys(p).some( function( prop ) {
            return p[prop] !== vm.$data.oldPeople[idx][prop];
          })
        })
        // Log it
        vm.setValue();
        console.log(changed)
      },
      deep: true,
    }
  }
})

See the updated codepen

How to receive JSON as an MVC 5 action method parameter

You are sending a array of string

var usersRoles = [];
jQuery("#dualSelectRoles2 option").each(function () {
    usersRoles.push(jQuery(this).val());
});   

So change model type accordingly

 public ActionResult AddUser(List<string> model)
 {
 }

How to perform mouseover function in Selenium WebDriver using Java?

Check this example how we could implement this.

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public class HoverableDropdownTest {

    private WebDriver driver;
    private Actions action;

    //Edit: there may have been a typo in the '- >' expression (I don't really want to add this comment but SO insist on ">6 chars edit"...
    Consumer < By > hover = (By by) -> {
        action.moveToElement(driver.findElement(by))
              .perform();
    };

    @Test
    public void hoverTest() {
        driver.get("https://www.bootply.com/render/6FC76YQ4Nh");

        hover.accept(By.linkText("Dropdown"));
        hover.accept(By.linkText("Dropdown Link 5"));
        hover.accept(By.linkText("Dropdown Submenu Link 5.4"));
        hover.accept(By.linkText("Dropdown Submenu Link 5.4.1"));
    }

    @BeforeTest
    public void setupDriver() {
        driver = new FirefoxDriver();
        action = new Actions(driver);
    }

    @AfterTest
    public void teardownDriver() {
        driver.quit();
    }

}

For detailed answer, check here - http://www.testautomationguru.com/selenium-webdriver-automating-hoverable-multilevel-dropdowns/

ValueError: unsupported pickle protocol: 3, python2 pickle can not load the file dumped by python 3 pickle?

You should write the pickled data with a lower protocol number in Python 3. Python 3 introduced a new protocol with the number 3 (and uses it as default), so switch back to a value of 2 which can be read by Python 2.

Check the protocolparameter in pickle.dump. Your resulting code will look like this.

pickle.dump(your_object, your_file, protocol=2)

There is no protocolparameter in pickle.load because pickle can determine the protocol from the file.

How to change the color of progressbar in C# .NET 3.5?

Just in case anyone looks for another option.... you can extend a Panel, use it as background (white or whatever), add another Panel inside it for the foreground (the moving bar). Then you have total control changing the color, etc.

Non-resolvable parent POM using Maven 3.0.3 and relativePath notation

'parent.relativePath' points at wrong local POM @ myGroup:myParentArtifactId:1.0, C:\myProjectDir\parent\pom.xml

This indicates that maven did search locally for the parent pom, but found that it was not the correct pom.

  • Does pom.xml of parentpom correctly define the parent pom as the pom.xml of rootpom?
  • Does rootpom folder contain pom.xml as well as the paretpom folder?

Installing Bootstrap 3 on Rails App

Actually you don't need gem for this, here is the step to install Bootstrap 3 in RoR

  • Download Bootstrap

  • Copy:

    bootstrap-dist/css/bootstrap.css and bootstrap-dist/css/bootstrap.min.css

    To: vendor/assets/stylesheets

  • Copy:

    bootstrap-dist/js/bootstrap.js and bootstrap-dist/js/bootstrap.min.js

    To: vendor/assets/javascripts

  • Update: app/assets/stylesheets/application.css by adding:

    *= require bootstrap.min
    
  • Update: app/assets/javascripts/application.jsby adding:

    //= require bootstrap.min
    

With this you can update bootstrap any time you want, don't need to wait gem to be updated. Also with this approach assets pipeline will use minified versions in production.

How to properly ignore exceptions

When you just want to do a try catch without handling the exception, how do you do it in Python?

This will help you to print what the exception is:( i.e. try catch without handling the exception and print the exception.)

import sys
try:
    doSomething()
except:
    print "Unexpected error:", sys.exc_info()[0]

eclipse won't start - no java virtual machine was found

eclipse.ini:

--launcher.defaultAction  
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize  
256M  
-showsplash
org.eclipse.platform
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize<br/>
256m  
--launcher.defaultAction  
openFile  
-showsplash  
org.eclipse.platform
-vm
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_21\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll<br/>
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize  
256m  
--launcher.defaultAction  
openFile  
-vmargs  
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.7  

That worked for me. It doesnt have to be on the beginning, but surely it cant be at the end of the file.

Visual Studio 2017 does not have Business Intelligence Integration Services/Projects

Integration Services project templates are now available in the latest release of SSDT for Visual Studio 2017.

Note: if you have recently installed SSDT for Visual Studio 2017. You need to remove the Reporting Services and Analysis Services installations before you proceed with installing SSDT.

Reading string by char till end of line C/C++

The answer to your original question

How to read a string one char at the time, and stop when you reach end of line?

is, in C++, very simply, namely: use getline. The link shows a simple example:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
int main () {
  std::string name;
  std::cout << "Please, enter your full name: ";
  std::getline (std::cin,name);
  std::cout << "Hello, " << name << "!\n";
  return 0;
}

Do you really want to do this in C? I wouldn't! The thing is, in C, you have to allocate the memory in which to place the characters you read in? How many characters? You don't know ahead of time. If you allocate too few characters, you will have to allocate a new buffer every time to realize you reading more characters than you made room for. If you over-allocate, you are wasting space.

C is a language for low-level programming. If you are new to programming and writing simple applications for reading files line-by-line, just use C++. It does all that memory allocation for you.

Your later questions regarding "\0" and end-of-lines in general were answered by others and do apply to C as well as C++. But if you are using C, please remember that it's not just the end-of-line that matters, but memory allocation as well. And you will have to be careful not to overrun your buffer.

Difference between break and continue in PHP?

For the Record:

Note that in PHP the switch statement is considered a looping structure for the purposes of continue.

Google Play on Android 4.0 emulator

I do this in a more permanent way - instead of installing the APKs each time with adb, permanently add them to the system image that the emulator uses. You will need Yaffey on Windows, or a similar utility on other systems, to modify YAFFS2 images. Copy GoogleLoginService.apk, GoogleServicesFramework.apk, and Phonesky.apk (or Vending.apk in older versions of Android) to the /system/app folder of the system.img file of the emulator. Afterwards I can start the emulator normally, without messing with adb, and Play Store is always there.

Obtaining the Google Play app from your device

Downloading Google Apps from some Internet site may not be quite legal, but if you have a phone or tablet with a corresponding Android version, just pull them out of your device:

adb -d root
adb -d pull /system/app/GoogleLoginService.apk
adb -d pull /system/app/GoogleServicesFramework.apk
adb -d pull /system/app/Phonesky.apk

You must have root-level access (run adb root) to the device in order to pull these files from it.

Adding it to the image

Now start yaffey on Windows or a similar utility on Linux or Mac, and open system.img for the emulator image you want to modify. I modify most often the one in [...]\android-sdk\system-images\android-17\x86.

Rename the original system.img to system-original.img. Under yaffey, copy the APK files you pulled from your device to /app folder. Save your modified image as system.img in the original folder. Then start your emulator (in my case it would be Android 4.2 emulator with Intel Atom processor running under Intel HAX, super-fast on Windows machines) and you'll have Play Store there. I did not find it necessary to delete SdkSetup.apk and SdkSetup.odex - the Play Store and other services still work fine for me with these files present.

When finished with your testing, to alleviate your conscience guilty of temporarily pirating the Google Apps from your device, you may delete the modified system.img and restore the original from system-original.img.

How can I switch my signed in user in Visual Studio 2013?

You don't need to reset all your user data to switch users. Try clicking on your name in the upper right corner then click on "Account settings". There you will get an option to sign out of the IDE. Once signed out you can sign back in as another Microsoft account.

What is __init__.py for?

It used to be a required part of a package (old, pre-3.3 "regular package", not newer 3.3+ "namespace package").

Here's the documentation.

Python defines two types of packages, regular packages and namespace packages. Regular packages are traditional packages as they existed in Python 3.2 and earlier. A regular package is typically implemented as a directory containing an __init__.py file. When a regular package is imported, this __init__.py file is implicitly executed, and the objects it defines are bound to names in the package’s namespace. The __init__.py file can contain the same Python code that any other module can contain, and Python will add some additional attributes to the module when it is imported.

But just click the link, it contains an example, more information, and an explanation of namespace packages, the kind of packages without __init__.py.

How do I send email with JavaScript without opening the mail client?

There needs to be some type of backend framework to send the email. This can be done via PHP/ASP.NET, or with the local mail client. If you want the user to see nothing, the best way is to tap into those by an AJAX call to a separate send_email file.

E: gnupg, gnupg2 and gnupg1 do not seem to be installed, but one of them is required for this operation

Just install the updated versions of all of them.

apt-get install -y gnupg2 gnupg gnupg1

How can I convert a .py to .exe for Python?

I've been using Nuitka and PyInstaller with my package, PySimpleGUI.

Nuitka There were issues getting tkinter to compile with Nuikta. One of the project contributors developed a script that fixed the problem.

If you're not using tkinter it may "just work" for you. If you are using tkinter say so and I'll try to get the script and instructions published.

PyInstaller I'm running 3.6 and PyInstaller is working great! The command I use to create my exe file is:

pyinstaller -wF myfile.py

The -wF will create a single EXE file. Because all of my programs have a GUI and I do not want to command window to show, the -w option will hide the command window.

This is as close to getting what looks like a Winforms program to run that was written in Python.

[Update 20-Jul-2019]

There is PySimpleGUI GUI based solution that uses PyInstaller. It uses PySimpleGUI. It's called pysimplegui-exemaker and can be pip installed.

pip install PySimpleGUI-exemaker

To run it after installing:

python -m pysimplegui-exemaker.pysimplegui-exemaker

How does String.Index work in Swift

Create a UITextView inside of a tableViewController. I used function: textViewDidChange and then checked for return-key-input. then if it detected return-key-input, delete the input of return key and dismiss keyboard.

func textViewDidChange(_ textView: UITextView) {
    tableView.beginUpdates()
    if textView.text.contains("\n"){
        textView.text.remove(at: textView.text.index(before: textView.text.endIndex))
        textView.resignFirstResponder()
    }
    tableView.endUpdates()
}

React Router v4 - How to get current route?

I think the author's of React Router (v4) just added that withRouter HOC to appease certain users. However, I believe the better approach is to just use render prop and make a simple PropsRoute component that passes those props. This is easier to test as you it doesn't "connect" the component like withRouter does. Have a bunch of nested components wrapped in withRouter and it's not going to be fun. Another benefit is you can also use this pass through whatever props you want to the Route. Here's the simple example using render prop. (pretty much the exact example from their website https://reacttraining.com/react-router/web/api/Route/render-func) (src/components/routes/props-route)

import React from 'react';
import { Route } from 'react-router';

export const PropsRoute = ({ component: Component, ...props }) => (
  <Route
    { ...props }
    render={ renderProps => (<Component { ...renderProps } { ...props } />) }
  />
);

export default PropsRoute;

usage: (notice to get the route params (match.params) you can just use this component and those will be passed for you)

import React from 'react';
import PropsRoute from 'src/components/routes/props-route';

export const someComponent = props => (<PropsRoute component={ Profile } />);

also notice that you could pass whatever extra props you want this way too

<PropsRoute isFetching={ isFetchingProfile } title="User Profile" component={ Profile } />

How to determine one year from now in Javascript

2020

It's perfect date/time library called Moment.js with this library you can simply write:

moment().subtract(1,'year')

and call any format you wish:

moment().subtract(1,'year').toDate()
moment().subtract(1,'year').toISOString()

See full documentation here: https://momentjs.com/

How do I push a local Git branch to master branch in the remote?

Follow the below steps for push the local repo into Master branchenter code here

$git status

How to prevent gcc optimizing some statements in C?

You can use

#pragma GCC push_options
#pragma GCC optimize ("O0")

your code

#pragma GCC pop_options

to disable optimizations since GCC 4.4.

See the GCC documentation if you need more details.

I don't understand -Wl,-rpath -Wl,

The man page makes it pretty clear. If you want to pass two arguments (-rpath and .) to the linker you can write

-Wl,-rpath,.

or alternatively

-Wl,-rpath -Wl,.

The arguments -Wl,-rpath . you suggested do NOT make sense to my mind. How is gcc supposed to know that your second argument (.) is supposed to be passed to the linker instead of being interpreted normally? The only way it would be able to know that is if it had insider knowledge of all possible linker arguments so it knew that -rpath required an argument after it.

This table does not contain a unique column. Grid edit, checkbox, Edit, Copy and Delete features are not available

This for sure is an old topic but I want to add up to the voices to crop maybe new ideas. To address the WARNING issue under discussions, all you need to do is to set one of your table columns to a PRIMARY KEY constraint.

How to Lock/Unlock screen programmatically?

Use Activity.getWindow() to get the window of your activity; use Window.addFlags() to add whichever of the following flags in WindowManager.LayoutParams that you desire:

What does random.sample() method in python do?

random.sample() also works on text

example:

> text = open("textfile.txt").read() 

> random.sample(text, 5)

> ['f', 's', 'y', 'v', '\n']

\n is also seen as a character so that can also be returned

you could use random.sample() to return random words from a text file if you first use the split method

example:

> words = text.split()

> random.sample(words, 5)

> ['the', 'and', 'a', 'her', 'of']

Monad in plain English? (For the OOP programmer with no FP background)

From wikipedia:

In functional programming, a monad is a kind of abstract data type used to represent computations (instead of data in the domain model). Monads allow the programmer to chain actions together to build a pipeline, in which each action is decorated with additional processing rules provided by the monad. Programs written in functional style can make use of monads to structure procedures that include sequenced operations,1[2] or to define arbitrary control flows (like handling concurrency, continuations, or exceptions).

Formally, a monad is constructed by defining two operations (bind and return) and a type constructor M that must fulfill several properties to allow the correct composition of monadic functions (i.e. functions that use values from the monad as their arguments). The return operation takes a value from a plain type and puts it into a monadic container of type M. The bind operation performs the reverse process, extracting the original value from the container and passing it to the associated next function in the pipeline.

A programmer will compose monadic functions to define a data-processing pipeline. The monad acts as a framework, as it's a reusable behavior that decides the order in which the specific monadic functions in the pipeline are called, and manages all the undercover work required by the computation.[3] The bind and return operators interleaved in the pipeline will be executed after each monadic function returns control, and will take care of the particular aspects handled by the monad.

I believe it explains it very well.

How do I find the value of $CATALINA_HOME?

Tomcat can tell you in several ways. Here's the easiest:

 $ /path/to/catalina.sh version
Using CATALINA_BASE:   /usr/local/apache-tomcat-7.0.29
Using CATALINA_HOME:   /usr/local/apache-tomcat-7.0.29
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/local/apache-tomcat-7.0.29/temp
Using JRE_HOME:        /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/CurrentJDK/Home
Using CLASSPATH:       /usr/local/apache-tomcat-7.0.29/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/local/apache-tomcat-7.0.29/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
Server version: Apache Tomcat/7.0.29
Server built:   Jul 3 2012 11:31:52
Server number:  7.0.29.0
OS Name:        Mac OS X
OS Version:     10.7.4
Architecture:   x86_64
JVM Version:    1.6.0_33-b03-424-11M3720
JVM Vendor:     Apple Inc.

If you don't know where catalina.sh is (or it never gets called), you can usually find it via ps:

$ ps aux | grep catalina
chris            930   0.0  3.1  2987336 258328 s000  S    Wed01PM   2:29.43 /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home/bin/java -Dnop -Djava.util.logging.manager=org.apache.juli.ClassLoaderLogManager -Djava.library.path=/usr/local/apache-tomcat-7.0.29/lib -Djava.endorsed.dirs=/usr/local/apache-tomcat-7.0.29/endorsed -classpath /usr/local/apache-tomcat-7.0.29/bin/bootstrap.jar:/usr/local/apache-tomcat-7.0.29/bin/tomcat-juli.jar -Dcatalina.base=/Users/chris/blah/blah -Dcatalina.home=/usr/local/apache-tomcat-7.0.29 -Djava.io.tmpdir=/Users/chris/blah/blah/temp org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start

From the ps output, you can see both catalina.home and catalina.base. catalina.home is where the Tomcat base files are installed, and catalina.base is where the running configuration of Tomcat exists. These are often set to the same value unless you have configured your Tomcat for multiple (configuration) instances to be launched from a single Tomcat base install.

You can also interrogate the JVM directly if you can't find it in a ps listing:

$ jinfo -sysprops 930 | grep catalina
Attaching to process ID 930, please wait...
Debugger attached successfully.
Server compiler detected.
JVM version is 20.8-b03-424
catalina.base = /Users/chris/blah/blah
[...]
catalina.home = /usr/local/apache-tomcat-7.0.29

If you can't manage that, you can always try to write a JSP that dumps the values of the two system properties catalina.home and catalina.base.

pyplot axes labels for subplots

One simple way using subplots:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

fig, axes = plt.subplots(3, 4, sharex=True, sharey=True)
# add a big axes, hide frame
fig.add_subplot(111, frameon=False)
# hide tick and tick label of the big axes
plt.tick_params(labelcolor='none', top=False, bottom=False, left=False, right=False)
plt.grid(False)
plt.xlabel("common X")
plt.ylabel("common Y")

What does "select count(1) from table_name" on any database tables mean?

The parameter to the COUNT function is an expression that is to be evaluated for each row. The COUNT function returns the number of rows for which the expression evaluates to a non-null value. ( * is a special expression that is not evaluated, it simply returns the number of rows.)

There are two additional modifiers for the expression: ALL and DISTINCT. These determine whether duplicates are discarded. Since ALL is the default, your example is the same as count(ALL 1), which means that duplicates are retained.

Since the expression "1" evaluates to non-null for every row, and since you are not removing duplicates, COUNT(1) should always return the same number as COUNT(*).

Convert UTF-8 with BOM to UTF-8 with no BOM in Python

Simply use the "utf-8-sig" codec:

fp = open("file.txt")
s = fp.read()
u = s.decode("utf-8-sig")

That gives you a unicode string without the BOM. You can then use

s = u.encode("utf-8")

to get a normal UTF-8 encoded string back in s. If your files are big, then you should avoid reading them all into memory. The BOM is simply three bytes at the beginning of the file, so you can use this code to strip them out of the file:

import os, sys, codecs

BUFSIZE = 4096
BOMLEN = len(codecs.BOM_UTF8)

path = sys.argv[1]
with open(path, "r+b") as fp:
    chunk = fp.read(BUFSIZE)
    if chunk.startswith(codecs.BOM_UTF8):
        i = 0
        chunk = chunk[BOMLEN:]
        while chunk:
            fp.seek(i)
            fp.write(chunk)
            i += len(chunk)
            fp.seek(BOMLEN, os.SEEK_CUR)
            chunk = fp.read(BUFSIZE)
        fp.seek(-BOMLEN, os.SEEK_CUR)
        fp.truncate()

It opens the file, reads a chunk, and writes it out to the file 3 bytes earlier than where it read it. The file is rewritten in-place. As easier solution is to write the shorter file to a new file like newtover's answer. That would be simpler, but use twice the disk space for a short period.

As for guessing the encoding, then you can just loop through the encoding from most to least specific:

def decode(s):
    for encoding in "utf-8-sig", "utf-16":
        try:
            return s.decode(encoding)
        except UnicodeDecodeError:
            continue
    return s.decode("latin-1") # will always work

An UTF-16 encoded file wont decode as UTF-8, so we try with UTF-8 first. If that fails, then we try with UTF-16. Finally, we use Latin-1 — this will always work since all 256 bytes are legal values in Latin-1. You may want to return None instead in this case since it's really a fallback and your code might want to handle this more carefully (if it can).

How to convert float value to integer in php?

There is always intval() - Not sure if this is what you were looking for...

example: -

$floatValue = 4.5;
echo intval($floatValue);    // Returns 4

It won't round off the value to an integer, but will strip out the decimal and trailing digits, and return the integer before the decimal.

Here is some documentation for this: - http://php.net/manual/en/function.intval.php

Assigning strings to arrays of characters

1    char s[100];
2    s = "hello";

In the example you provided, s is actually initialized at line 1, not line 2. Even though you didn't assign it a value explicitly at this point, the compiler did.

At line 2, you're performing an assignment operation, and you cannot assign one array of characters to another array of characters like this. You'll have to use strcpy() or some kind of loop to assign each element of the array.

How to use jQuery to select a dropdown option?

The solution:

$("#element-id").val('the value of the option');

How to delete a whole folder and content?

I've put this one though its' paces it deletes a folder with any directory structure.

public int removeDirectory(final File folder) {

    if(folder.isDirectory() == true) {
        File[] folderContents = folder.listFiles();
        int deletedFiles = 0;

        if(folderContents.length == 0) {
            if(folder.delete()) {
                deletedFiles++;
                return deletedFiles;
            }
        }
        else if(folderContents.length > 0) {

            do {

                File lastFolder = folder;
                File[] lastFolderContents = lastFolder.listFiles();

                //This while loop finds the deepest path that does not contain any other folders
                do {

                    for(File file : lastFolderContents) {

                        if(file.isDirectory()) {
                            lastFolder = file;
                            lastFolderContents = file.listFiles();
                            break;
                        }
                        else {

                            if(file.delete()) {
                                deletedFiles++;
                            }
                            else {
                                break;
                            }

                        }//End if(file.isDirectory())

                    }//End for(File file : folderContents)

                } while(lastFolder.delete() == false);

                deletedFiles++;
                if(folder.exists() == false) {return deletedFiles;}

            } while(folder.exists());
        }
    }
    else {
        return -1;
    }

    return 0;

}

Hope this helps.

How do I write a for loop in bash

Bash 3.0+ can use this syntax:

for i in {1..10} ; do ... ; done

..which avoids spawning an external program to expand the sequence (such as seq 1 10).

Of course, this has the same problem as the for(()) solution, being tied to bash and even a particular version (if this matters to you).

Cannot hide status bar in iOS7

In order to use the legacy UIApplication method to hide/show the status bar, your app must set a plist value for iOS 7:

View-Controller Based Status Bar Appearance = NO

This value is set to YES by default. If you change it to NO, you can use the legacy methods. If you leave it set to YES, you can still hide the status bar, but it's up to each view controller subclass in your app to override: prefersStatusBarHidden to return YES.

Any time your app needs the status bar appearance or visibility to change, and View-Controller Based Status Bar Appearance is set to YES, your outermost view controller needs to call:

setNeedsStatusBarAppearanceUpdateAnimation

What is the difference between Digest and Basic Authentication?

Digest Authentication communicates credentials in an encrypted form by applying a hash function to: the username, the password, a server supplied nonce value, the HTTP method and the requested URI.

Whereas Basic Authentication uses non-encrypted base64 encoding.

Therefore, Basic Authentication should generally only be used where transport layer security is provided such as https.

See RFC-2617 for all the gory details.

How to get the version of ionic framework?

for slower machines use the browser console.

Ionic.version

It doesn't do much analysis like the terminal's

ionic info

which gathers other useful information about your ionic project.

What's an object file in C?

  1. An Object file is the compiled file itself. There is no difference between the two.

  2. An executable file is formed by linking the Object files.

  3. Object file contains low level instructions which can be understood by the CPU. That is why it is also called machine code.

  4. This low level machine code is the binary representation of the instructions which you can also write directly using assembly language and then process the assembly language code (represented in English) into machine language (represented in Hex) using an assembler.

Here's a typical high level flow for this process for code in High Level Language such as C

--> goes through pre-processor

--> to give optimized code, still in C

--> goes through compiler

--> to give assembly code

--> goes through an assembler

--> to give code in machine language which is stored in OBJECT FILES

--> goes through Linker

--> to get an executable file.

This flow can have some variations for example most compilers can directly generate the machine language code, without going through an assembler. Similarly, they can do the pre-processing for you. Still, it is nice to break up the constituents for a better understanding.

Change collations of all columns of all tables in SQL Server

Following script will work with table schema along with latest Types like (MAX), IMAGE, and etc. change your collation type according to your need on this line (SET @collate = 'DATABASE_DEFAULT';)

SQL SCRIPT HERE:

BEGIN
DECLARE @collate nvarchar(100);
declare @schema nvarchar(255);
DECLARE @table nvarchar(255);
DECLARE @column_name nvarchar(255);
DECLARE @column_id int;
DECLARE @data_type nvarchar(255);
DECLARE @max_length varchar(100);
DECLARE @row_id int;
DECLARE @sql nvarchar(max);
DECLARE @sql_column nvarchar(max);

SET @collate = 'DATABASE_DEFAULT';

DECLARE tbl_cursor CURSOR FOR SELECT (s.[name])schemaName, (o.[name])[tableName]
FROM sysobjects sy 
INNER JOIN sys.objects  o on o.name = sy.name
INNER JOIN sys.schemas s ON o.schema_id = s.schema_id
WHERE OBJECTPROPERTY(sy.id, N'IsUserTable') = 1

OPEN tbl_cursor FETCH NEXT FROM tbl_cursor INTO @schema,@table

WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
    DECLARE tbl_cursor_changed CURSOR FOR
        SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY c.column_id) AS row_id
            , c.name column_name
            , t.Name data_type
            , c.max_length
            , c.column_id
        FROM sys.columns c
        JOIN sys.types t ON c.system_type_id = t.system_type_id
        LEFT OUTER JOIN sys.index_columns ic ON ic.object_id = c.object_id AND ic.column_id = c.column_id
        LEFT OUTER JOIN sys.indexes i ON ic.object_id = i.object_id AND ic.index_id = i.index_id
    WHERE c.object_id like OBJECT_ID(@schema+'.'+@table)
    ORDER BY c.column_id


    OPEN tbl_cursor_changed 
     FETCH NEXT FROM tbl_cursor_changed
    INTO @row_id, @column_name, @data_type, @max_length, @column_id



    WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
    BEGIN
    IF (@max_length = -1) SET @max_length = 'MAX';
        IF (@data_type LIKE '%char%')
        BEGIN TRY
            SET @sql = 'ALTER TABLE ' +@schema+'.'+ @table + ' ALTER COLUMN ' + @column_name + ' ' + @data_type + '(' + CAST(@max_length AS nvarchar(100)) + ') COLLATE ' + @collate
            print @sql
            EXEC sp_executesql @sql
        END TRY
        BEGIN CATCH
          PRINT 'ERROR:'
          PRINT @sql
        END CATCH

        FETCH NEXT FROM tbl_cursor_changed
        INTO @row_id, @column_name, @data_type, @max_length, @column_id

    END

    CLOSE tbl_cursor_changed
    DEALLOCATE tbl_cursor_changed

    FETCH NEXT FROM tbl_cursor
    INTO @schema, @table

END

CLOSE tbl_cursor
DEALLOCATE tbl_cursor

PRINT 'Collation For All Tables Done!'
END

How do I do a simple 'Find and Replace" in MsSQL?

The following query replace each and every a character with a b character.

UPDATE 
    YourTable
SET 
    Column1 = REPLACE(Column1,'a','b')
WHERE 
    Column1 LIKE '%a%'

This will not work on SQL server 2003.

Is there a 'box-shadow-color' property?

Maybe this is new (I am also pretty crap at css3), but I have a page that uses exactly what you suggest:

-moz-box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px #384e69;
-webkit-box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px #384e69;
box-shadow: 10px 10px 5px #384e69;}

.. and it works fine for me (in Chrome at least).

How to get the fields in an Object via reflection?

Here's a quick and dirty method that does what you want in a generic way. You'll need to add exception handling and you'll probably want to cache the BeanInfo types in a weakhashmap.

public Map<String, Object> getNonNullProperties(final Object thingy) {
    final Map<String, Object> nonNullProperties = new TreeMap<String, Object>();
    try {
        final BeanInfo beanInfo = Introspector.getBeanInfo(thingy
                .getClass());
        for (final PropertyDescriptor descriptor : beanInfo
                .getPropertyDescriptors()) {
            try {
                final Object propertyValue = descriptor.getReadMethod()
                        .invoke(thingy);
                if (propertyValue != null) {
                    nonNullProperties.put(descriptor.getName(),
                            propertyValue);
                }
            } catch (final IllegalArgumentException e) {
                // handle this please
            } catch (final IllegalAccessException e) {
                // and this also
            } catch (final InvocationTargetException e) {
                // and this, too
            }
        }
    } catch (final IntrospectionException e) {
        // do something sensible here
    }
    return nonNullProperties;
}

See these references:

is there a function in lodash to replace matched item

Came across this as well and did it simply that way.

const persons = [{id: 1, name: "Person 1"}, {id:2, name:"Person 2"}];
const updatedPerson = {id: 1, name: "new Person Name"}
const updatedPersons = persons.map(person => (
  person.id === updated.id
    ? updatedPerson
    : person
))

If wanted we can generalize it

const replaceWhere = (list, predicate, replacement) => {
  return list.map(item => predicate(item) ? replacement : item)
}

replaceWhere(persons, person => person.id === updatedPerson.id, updatedPerson)

Pip freeze vs. pip list

For those looking for a solution. If you accidentally made pip requirements with pip list instead of pip freeze, and want to convert into pip freeze format. I wrote this R script to do so.

library(tidyverse)

pip_list = read_lines("requirements.txt")

pip_freeze = pip_list %>%
  str_replace_all(" \\(", "==") %>%
  str_replace_all("\\)$", "")

pip_freeze %>% write_lines("requirements.txt")

Enable IIS7 gzip

If you are also trying to gzip dynamic pages (like aspx) and it isnt working, its probably because the option is not enabled (you need to install the Dynamic Content Compression module using Windows Features):

http://support.esri.com/en/knowledgebase/techarticles/detail/38616

HTML 5 video or audio playlist

Yep, you can simply point your src tag to a .m3u playlist file. A .m3u file is easy to construct -

#hosted mp3's need absolute paths but file system links can use relative paths
http://servername.com/path/to/mp3.mp3
http://servername.com/path/to/anothermp3.mp3
/path/to/local-mp3.mp3

-----UPDATE-----

Well, it turns out playlist m3u files are supported on the iPhone, but not on much else including Safari 5 which is kind of sad. I'm not sure about Android phones but I doubt they support it either since Chrome doesn't. Sorry for the misinformation.

Find Item in ObservableCollection without using a loop

Maybe this approach would solve the problem:

int result = obsCollection.IndexOf(title);

IndexOf(T)
Searches for the specified object and returns the zero-based index of the first occurrence within the entire Collection.

(Inherited from Collection)

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.collections.objectmodel.observablecollection-1?view=netframework-4.7.2#methods

MVC 3: How to render a view without its layout page when loaded via ajax?

With ASP.NET 5 there is no Request variable available anymore. You can access it now with Context.Request

Also there is no IsAjaxRequest() Method anymore, you have to write it by yourself, for example in Extensions\HttpRequestExtensions.cs

using System;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http;

namespace Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc
{
    public static class HttpRequestExtensions
    {
        public static bool IsAjaxRequest(this HttpRequest request)
        {
            if (request == null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(request));
            }

            return (request.Headers != null) && (request.Headers["X-Requested-With"] == "XMLHttpRequest");
        }
    }
}

I searched for a while now on this and hope that will help some others too ;)

Resource: https://github.com/aspnet/AspNetCore/issues/2729

Java Desktop application: SWT vs. Swing

SWT was created as a response to the sluggishness of Swing around the turn of the century. Now that the differences in performance are becoming negligable, I think Swing is a better option for your standard applications. SWT/Eclipse has a nice framework which helps with a lot of boiler plate code.

How to get script of SQL Server data?

Check out SSMS Tool Pack. It works in Management Studio 2005 and 2008. There is an option to generate insert statements which I've found helpful moving small amounts of data from one system to another.

With this option you will have to script out the DDL separately.

When use getOne and findOne methods Spring Data JPA

The basic difference is that getOne is lazy loaded and findOne is not.

Consider the following example:

public static String NON_EXISTING_ID = -1;
...
MyEntity getEnt = myEntityRepository.getOne(NON_EXISTING_ID);
MyEntity findEnt = myEntityRepository.findOne(NON_EXISTING_ID);

if(findEnt != null) {
     findEnt.getText(); // findEnt is null - this code is not executed
}

if(getEnt != null) {
     getEnt.getText(); // Throws exception - no data found, BUT getEnt is not null!!!
}

How to improve a case statement that uses two columns

You could do it this way:

-- Notice how STATE got moved inside the condition:
CASE WHEN STATE = 2 AND RetailerProcessType IN (1, 2) THEN '"AUTHORISED"'
     WHEN STATE = 1 AND RetailerProcessType = 2 THEN '"PENDING"'
     ELSE '"DECLINED"'
END

The reason you can do an AND here is that you are not checking the CASE of STATE, but instead you are CASING Conditions.

The key part here is that the STATE condition is a part of the WHEN.

remove all variables except functions

I wrote this to remove all objects apart from functions from the current environment (Programming language used is R with IDE R-Studio):

    remove_list=c()                             # create a vector

      for(i in 1:NROW(ls())){                   # repeat over all objects in environment
        if(class(get(ls()[i]))!="function"){    # if object is *not* a function
         remove_list=c(remove_list,ls()[i])     # ..add to vector remove_list
         }    
      }

    rm(list=remove_list)                        # remove all objects named in remove_list

Notes-

The argument "list" in rm(list=) must be a character vector.

The name of an object in position i of the current environment is returned from ls()[i] and the object itself from get(ls()[i]). Therefore the class of an object is returned from class(get(ls()[i]))

adding directory to sys.path /PYTHONPATH

Temporarily changing dirs works well for importing:

cwd = os.getcwd()
os.chdir(<module_path>)
import <module>
os.chdir(cwd)

Skip certain tables with mysqldump

You can use the mysqlpump command with the

--exclude-tables=name

command. It specifies a comma-separated list of tables to exclude.

Syntax of mysqlpump is very similar to mysqldump, buts its way more performant. More information of how to use the exclude option you can read here: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/mysqlpump.html#mysqlpump-filtering

How can I change the date format in Java?

many ways to change date format

private final String dateTimeFormatPattern = "yyyy/MM/dd";
private final Date now = new Date();  

final DateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat(dateTimeFormatPattern);  
final String nowString = format.format(now);   

 final Instant instant = now.toInstant();  
 final DateTimeFormatter formatter =  
      DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern(  
         dateTimeFormatPattern).withZone(ZoneId.systemDefault());  
 final String formattedInstance = formatter.format(instant);  

  /* Java 8 needed*/
  LocalDate date = LocalDate.now();
  String text = date.format(formatter);
  LocalDate parsedDate = LocalDate.parse(text, formatter);

What is the difference between onBlur and onChange attribute in HTML?

onChange is when something within a field changes eg, you write something in a text input.

onBlur is when you take focus away from a field eg, you were writing in a text input and you have clicked off it.

So really they are almost the same thing but for onChange to behave the way onBlur does something in that input needs to change.

AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'urlopen'

Use six module to make you code compatible between python2 and python3

urllib.request.urlopen("<your-url>")```

How do you run a Python script as a service in Windows?

The simplest way is to use the: NSSM - the Non-Sucking Service Manager. Just download and unzip to a location of your choosing. It's a self-contained utility, around 300KB (much less than installing the entire pywin32 suite just for this purpose) and no "installation" is needed. The zip contains a 64-bit and a 32-bit version of the utility. Either should work well on current systems (you can use the 32-bit version to manage services on 64-bit systems).

GUI approach

1 - install the python program as a service. Open a Win prompt as admin

c:\>nssm.exe install WinService

2 - On NSSM´s GUI console:

path: C:\Python27\Python27.exe

Startup directory: C:\Python27

Arguments: c:\WinService.py

3 - check the created services on services.msc

Scripting approach (no GUI)

This is handy if your service should be part of an automated, non-interactive procedure, that may be beyond your control, such as a batch or installer script. It is assumed that the commands are executed with administrative privileges.

For convenience the commands are described here by simply referring to the utility as nssm.exe. It is advisable, however, to refer to it more explicitly in scripting with its full path c:\path\to\nssm.exe, since it's a self-contained executable that may be located in a private path that the system is not aware of.

1. Install the service

You must specify a name for the service, the path to the proper Python executable, and the path to the script:

nssm.exe install ProjectService "c:\path\to\python.exe" "c:\path\to\project\app\main.py"

More explicitly:

nssm.exe install ProjectService 
nssm.exe set ProjectService Application "c:\path\to\python.exe"
nssm.exe set ProjectService AppParameters "c:\path\to\project\app\main.py"

Alternatively you may want your Python app to be started as a Python module. One easy approach is to tell nssm that it needs to change to the proper starting directory, as you would do yourself when launching from a command shell:

nssm.exe install ProjectService "c:\path\to\python.exe" "-m app.main"
nssm.exe set ProjectService AppDirectory "c:\path\to\project"

This approach works well with virtual environments and self-contained (embedded) Python installs. Just make sure to have properly resolved any path issues in those environments with the usual methods. nssm has a way to set environment variables (e.g. PYTHONPATH) if needed, and can also launch batch scripts.

2. To start the service

nssm.exe start ProjectService 

3. To stop the service

nssm.exe stop ProjectService

4. To remove the service, specify the confirm parameter to skip the interactive confirmation.

nssm.exe remove ProjectService confirm

Javascript "Uncaught TypeError: object is not a function" associativity question

Try to have the function body before the function call in your JavaScript file.

How to center a <p> element inside a <div> container?

This solution works fine for all major browsers, except IE. So keep that in mind.

In this example, basicaly I use positioning, horizontal and vertical transform for the UI element to center it.

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        .container {_x000D_
            /* set the the position to relative */_x000D_
            position: relative;_x000D_
            width: 30rem;_x000D_
            height: 20rem;_x000D_
            background-color: #2196F3;_x000D_
        }_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_
        .paragh {_x000D_
            /* set the the position to absolute */_x000D_
            position: absolute;_x000D_
            /* set the the position of the helper container into the middle of its space */_x000D_
            top: 50%;_x000D_
            left: 50%;_x000D_
            font-size: 30px;_x000D_
            /* make sure padding and margin do not disturb the calculation of the center point */_x000D_
            padding: 0;_x000D_
            margin: 0;_x000D_
            /* using centers for the transform */_x000D_
            transform-origin: center center;_x000D_
            /* calling calc() function for the calculation to move left and up the element from the center point */_x000D_
            transform: translateX(calc((100% / 2) * (-1))) translateY(calc((100% / 2) * (-1)));_x000D_
        }
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<div class="container">_x000D_
    <p class="paragh">Text</p>_x000D_
</div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

I hope this help.

Adding Google Play services version to your app's manifest?

I was getting the same error; I had previously installed the google-play-services_lib for Google Maps (and it was working fine) but then when I later tried adding the meta-data entry to my Manifest I was getting the error. I tried all the above suggestions but nothing would link them properly; I finally removed the link from my project (project-properties-Android, remove google-play-services_lib library), then removed from Eclipse workspace, deleted the files on the disk, and finally used the SDK manager to reinstall from scratch.

That seemed to finally do the trick; now Eclipse has decided to allow me to leave the meta-data entry with no errors.

Converting Numpy Array to OpenCV Array

The simplest solution would be to use Pillow lib:

from PIL import Image

image = Image.fromarray(<your_numpy_array>.astype(np.uint8))

And you can use it as an image.

Turning off some legends in a ggplot

You can use guide=FALSE in scale_..._...() to suppress legend.

For your example you should use scale_colour_continuous() because length is continuous variable (not discrete).

(p3 <- ggplot(mov, aes(year, rating, colour = length, shape = mpaa)) +
   scale_colour_continuous(guide = FALSE) +
   geom_point()
)

Or using function guides() you should set FALSE for that element/aesthetic that you don't want to appear as legend, for example, fill, shape, colour.

p0 <- ggplot(mov, aes(year, rating, colour = length, shape = mpaa)) +
  geom_point()    
p0+guides(colour=FALSE)

UPDATE

Both provided solutions work in new ggplot2 version 2.0.0 but movies dataset is no longer present in this library. Instead you have to use new package ggplot2movies to check those solutions.

library(ggplot2movies)
data(movies)
mov <- subset(movies, length != "")

How to retrieve value from elements in array using jQuery?

jQuery collections have a built in iterator with .each:

$("input[name^='card']").each(function () {
   console.log($(this).val());
}

Loading cross-domain endpoint with AJAX

jQuery Ajax Notes

  • Due to browser security restrictions, most Ajax requests are subject to the same origin policy; the request can not successfully retrieve data from a different domain, subdomain, port, or protocol.
  • Script and JSONP requests are not subject to the same origin policy restrictions.

There are some ways to overcome the cross-domain barrier:

There are some plugins that help with cross-domain requests:

Heads up!

The best way to overcome this problem, is by creating your own proxy in the back-end, so that your proxy will point to the services in other domains, because in the back-end not exists the same origin policy restriction. But if you can't do that in back-end, then pay attention to the following tips.


Warning!

Using third-party proxies is not a secure practice, because they can keep track of your data, so it can be used with public information, but never with private data.


The code examples shown below use jQuery.get() and jQuery.getJSON(), both are shorthand methods of jQuery.ajax()


CORS Anywhere

CORS Anywhere is a node.js proxy which adds CORS headers to the proxied request.
To use the API, just prefix the URL with the API URL. (Supports https: see github repository)

If you want to automatically enable cross-domain requests when needed, use the following snippet:

$.ajaxPrefilter( function (options) {
  if (options.crossDomain && jQuery.support.cors) {
    var http = (window.location.protocol === 'http:' ? 'http:' : 'https:');
    options.url = http + '//cors-anywhere.herokuapp.com/' + options.url;
    //options.url = "http://cors.corsproxy.io/url=" + options.url;
  }
});

$.get(
    'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-origin_resource_sharing',
    function (response) {
        console.log("> ", response);
        $("#viewer").html(response);
});


Whatever Origin

Whatever Origin is a cross domain jsonp access. This is an open source alternative to anyorigin.com.

To fetch the data from google.com, you can use this snippet:

// It is good specify the charset you expect.
// You can use the charset you want instead of utf-8.
// See details for scriptCharset and contentType options: 
// http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/#jQuery-ajax-settings
$.ajaxSetup({
    scriptCharset: "utf-8", //or "ISO-8859-1"
    contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8"
});

$.getJSON('http://whateverorigin.org/get?url=' + 
    encodeURIComponent('http://google.com') + '&callback=?',
    function (data) {
        console.log("> ", data);

        //If the expected response is text/plain
        $("#viewer").html(data.contents);

        //If the expected response is JSON
        //var response = $.parseJSON(data.contents);
});


CORS Proxy

CORS Proxy is a simple node.js proxy to enable CORS request for any website. It allows javascript code on your site to access resources on other domains that would normally be blocked due to the same-origin policy.

How does it work? CORS Proxy takes advantage of Cross-Origin Resource Sharing, which is a feature that was added along with HTML 5. Servers can specify that they want browsers to allow other websites to request resources they host. CORS Proxy is simply an HTTP Proxy that adds a header to responses saying "anyone can request this".

This is another way to achieve the goal (see www.corsproxy.com). All you have to do is strip http:// and www. from the URL being proxied, and prepend the URL with www.corsproxy.com/

$.get(
    'http://www.corsproxy.com/' +
    'en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-origin_resource_sharing',
    function (response) {
        console.log("> ", response);
        $("#viewer").html(response);
});


CORS proxy browser

Recently I found this one, it involves various security oriented Cross Origin Remote Sharing utilities. But it is a black-box with Flash as backend.

You can see it in action here: CORS proxy browser
Get the source code on GitHub: koto/cors-proxy-browser

Method has the same erasure as another method in type

I bumped into this when tried to write something like: Continuable<T> callAsync(Callable<T> code) {....} and Continuable<Continuable<T>> callAsync(Callable<Continuable<T>> veryAsyncCode) {...} They become for compiler the 2 definitions of Continuable<> callAsync(Callable<> veryAsyncCode) {...}

The type erasure literally means erasing of type arguments information from generics. This is VERY annoying, but this is a limitation that will be with Java for while. For constructors case not much can be done, 2 new subclasses specialized with different parameters in constructor for example. Or use initialization methods instead... (virtual constructors?) with different names...

for similar operation methods renaming would help, like

class Test{
   void addIntegers(Set<Integer> ii){}
   void addStrings(Set<String> ss){}
}

Or with some more descriptive names, self-documenting for oyu cases, like addNames and addIndexes or such.

How can I check if a file exists in Perl?

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

$fileToLocate = '/whatever/path/for/file/you/are/searching/MyFile.txt';
if (-e $fileToLocate) {
    print "File is present";
}

How can I convert a date to GMT?

Simply use Date.getUTC*() family of methods. On my computer (CET, UTC+01:00):

new Date().toString()
//Fri Jan 20 2012 18:05:16 GMT+0100 (CET)

new Date().getHours()
//18

new Date().getUTCHours()
//17

Notice that getUTCHours() returns correct hour in UTC.

See also:

Return value in SQL Server stored procedure

You can either do 1 of the following:

Change:

SET @UserId = 0 to SELECT @UserId

This will return the value in the same way your 2nd part of the IF statement is.


Or, seeing as @UserId is set as an Output, change:

SELECT SCOPE_IDENTITY() to SET @UserId = SCOPE_IDENTITY()


It depends on how you want to access the data afterwards. If you want the value to be in your result set, use SELECT. If you want to access the new value of the @UserId parameter afterwards, then use SET @UserId


Seeing as you're accepting the 2nd condition as correct, the query you could write (without having to change anything outside of this query) is:

@EmailAddress varchar(200),
@NickName varchar(100),
@Password varchar(150),
@Sex varchar(50),
@Age int,
@EmailUpdates int,
@UserId int OUTPUT
IF 
    (SELECT COUNT(UserId) FROM RegUsers WHERE EmailAddress = @EmailAddress) > 0
    BEGIN
        SELECT 0
    END
ELSE
    BEGIN
        INSERT INTO RegUsers (EmailAddress,NickName,PassWord,Sex,Age,EmailUpdates) VALUES (@EmailAddress,@NickName,@Password,@Sex,@Age,@EmailUpdates)
        SELECT SCOPE_IDENTITY()
    END

END

Attaching click event to a JQuery object not yet added to the DOM

On event

$('#my-button').on('click', function () {
    console.log("yeahhhh!!! but this doesn't work for me :(");
});

Or add the event after append

Using LINQ to find item in a List but get "Value cannot be null. Parameter name: source"

This exception could point to the LINQ parameter that is named source:

 System.Linq.Enumerable.Select[TSource,TResult](IEnumerable`1 source, Func`2 selector)

As the source parameter in your LINQ query (var nCounts = from sale in sal) is 'sal', I suppose the list named 'sal' might be null.

How to grep for contents after pattern?

Or use regex assertions: grep -oP '(?<=potato: ).*' file.txt

jQuery ajax error function

          cache: false,
          url: "addInterview_Code.asp",
          type: "POST",
          datatype: "text",
          data: strData,
          success: function (html) {
              alert('successful : ' + html);
              $("#result").html("Successful");
          },
          error: function(data, errorThrown)
          {
              alert('request failed :'+errorThrown);
          }

JQUERY: Uncaught Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression

The "double quote" + 'single quote' combo is not needed

console.log( $('#'+d) ); // single quotes only
console.log( $("#"+d) ); // double quotes only

Your selector results like this, which is overkill with the quotes:

$('"#abc"') // -> it'll try to find  <div id='"#abc"'>

// In css, this would be the equivalent:
"#abc"{ /* Wrong */ } // instead of:
#abc{ /* Right */ }

How to subtract date/time in JavaScript?

You can use getTime() method to convert the Date to the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970. Then you can easy do any arithmetic operations with the dates. Of course you can convert the number back to the Date with setTime(). See here an example.

How do I get the full path to a Perl script that is executing?

You could use FindBin, Cwd, File::Basename, or a combination of them. They're all in the base distribution of Perl IIRC.

I used Cwd in the past:

Cwd:

use Cwd qw(abs_path);
my $path = abs_path($0);
print "$path\n";

Testing if a list of integer is odd or even

Just use the modulus

loop through the list and run the following on each item

if(num % 2 == 0)
{
  //is even
}
else
{
  //is odd
}

Alternatively if you want to know if all are even you can do something like this:

bool allAreEven = lst.All(x => x % 2 == 0);

ssh script returns 255 error

I was stumped by this. Once I got passed the 255 problem... I ended up with a mysterious error code 1. This is the foo to get that resolved:

 pssh -x '-tt' -h HOSTFILELIST -P "sudo yum -y install glibc"

-P means write the output out as you go and is optional. But the -x '-tt' trick is what forces a psuedo tty to be allocated.

You can get a clue what the error code 1 means this if you try:

ssh AHOST "sudo yum -y install glibc"

You may see:

[slc@bastion-ci ~]$ ssh MYHOST "sudo yum -y install glibc"
sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo
[slc@bastion-ci ~]$ echo $?
1

Notice the return code for this is 1, which is what pssh is reporting to you.

I found this -x -tt trick here. Also note that turning on verbose mode (pssh --verbose) for these cases does nothing to help you.

What is the difference between 0.0.0.0, 127.0.0.1 and localhost?

In current version of Jekyll, it defaults to http://127.0.0.1:4000/.
This is good, if you are connected to a network but do not want anyone else to access your application.

However it may happen that you want to see how your application runs on a mobile or from some other laptop/computer.

In that case, you can use

jekyll serve --host 0.0.0.0

This binds your application to the host & next use following to connect to it from some other host

http://host's IP adress/4000 

CMake link to external library

One more alternative, in the case you are working with the Appstore, need "Entitlements" and as such need to link with an Apple-Framework.

For Entitlements to work (e.g. GameCenter) you need to have a "Link Binary with Libraries"-buildstep and then link with "GameKit.framework". CMake "injects" the libraries on a "low level" into the commandline, hence Xcode doesn't really know about it, and as such you will not get GameKit enabled in the Capabilities screen.

One way to use CMake and have a "Link with Binaries"-buildstep is to generate the xcodeproj with CMake, and then use 'sed' to 'search & replace' and add the GameKit in the way XCode likes it...

The script looks like this (for Xcode 6.3.1).

s#\/\* Begin PBXBuildFile section \*\/#\/\* Begin PBXBuildFile section \*\/\
    26B12AA11C10544700A9A2BA \/\* GameKit.framework in Frameworks \*\/ = {isa = PBXBuildFile; fileRef = 26B12AA01C10544700A9A2BA \/\* GameKit.framework xxx\*\/; };#g

s#\/\* Begin PBXFileReference section \*\/#\/\* Begin PBXFileReference section \*\/\
    26B12AA01C10544700A9A2BA \/\* GameKit.framework xxx\*\/ = {isa = PBXFileReference; lastKnownFileType = wrapper.framework; name = GameKit.framework; path = System\/Library\/Frameworks\/GameKit.framework; sourceTree = SDKROOT; };#g

s#\/\* End PBXFileReference section \*\/#\/\* End PBXFileReference section \*\/\
\
\/\* Begin PBXFrameworksBuildPhase section \*\/\
    26B12A9F1C10543B00A9A2BA \/\* Frameworks \*\/ = {\
        isa = PBXFrameworksBuildPhase;\
        buildActionMask = 2147483647;\
        files = (\
            26B12AA11C10544700A9A2BA \/\* GameKit.framework in Frameworks xxx\*\/,\
        );\
        runOnlyForDeploymentPostprocessing = 0;\
    };\
\/\* End PBXFrameworksBuildPhase section \*\/\
#g

s#\/\* CMake PostBuild Rules \*\/,#\/\* CMake PostBuild Rules \*\/,\
            26B12A9F1C10543B00A9A2BA \/\* Frameworks xxx\*\/,#g
s#\/\* Products \*\/,#\/\* Products \*\/,\
            26B12AA01C10544700A9A2BA \/\* GameKit.framework xxx\*\/,#g

save this to "gamecenter.sed" and then "apply" it like this ( it changes your xcodeproj! )

sed -i.pbxprojbak -f gamecenter.sed myproject.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj

You might have to change the script-commands to fit your need.

Warning: it's likely to break with different Xcode-version as the project-format could change, the (hardcoded) unique number might not really by unique - and generally the solutions by other people are better - so unless you need to Support the Appstore + Entitlements (and automated builds), don't do this.

This is a CMake bug, see http://cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=14185 and http://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/issues/14185

Box shadow for bottom side only

Specify negative value to spread value. This works for me:

box-shadow: 0 2px 3px -1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);

Remove duplicates from an array of objects in JavaScript

Continuing exploring ES6 ways of removing duplicates from array of objects: setting thisArg argument of Array.prototype.filter to new Set provides a decent alternative:

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_x000D_
const things = [_x000D_
  {place:"here",name:"stuff"},_x000D_
  {place:"there",name:"morestuff"},_x000D_
  {place:"there",name:"morestuff"}_x000D_
];_x000D_
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const filtered = things.filter(function({place, name}) {_x000D_
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  const key =`${place}${name}`;_x000D_
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  return !this.has(key) && this.add(key);_x000D_
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}, new Set);_x000D_
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console.log(filtered);
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However, it will not work with arrow functions () =>, as this is bound to their lexical scope.

Validate decimal numbers in JavaScript - IsNumeric()

If you need to validate a special set of decimals y you can use this simple javascript:

http://codesheet.org/codesheet/x1kI7hAD

<input type="text" name="date" value="" pattern="[0-9]){1,2}(\.){1}([0-9]){2}" maxlength="6" placeholder="od npr.: 16.06" onchange="date(this);" />

The Javascript:

function date(inputField) {        
  var isValid = /^([0-9]){1,2}(\.){1}([0-9]){2}$/.test(inputField.value);   
  if (isValid) {
    inputField.style.backgroundColor = '#bfa';
  } else {
    inputField.style.backgroundColor = '#fba';
  }
  return isValid;
}

C++11 introduced a standardized memory model. What does it mean? And how is it going to affect C++ programming?

I will just give the analogy with which I understand memory consistency models (or memory models, for short). It is inspired by Leslie Lamport's seminal paper "Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System". The analogy is apt and has fundamental significance, but may be overkill for many people. However, I hope it provides a mental image (a pictorial representation) that facilitates reasoning about memory consistency models.

Let’s view the histories of all memory locations in a space-time diagram in which the horizontal axis represents the address space (i.e., each memory location is represented by a point on that axis) and the vertical axis represents time (we will see that, in general, there is not a universal notion of time). The history of values held by each memory location is, therefore, represented by a vertical column at that memory address. Each value change is due to one of the threads writing a new value to that location. By a memory image, we will mean the aggregate/combination of values of all memory locations observable at a particular time by a particular thread.

Quoting from "A Primer on Memory Consistency and Cache Coherence"

The intuitive (and most restrictive) memory model is sequential consistency (SC) in which a multithreaded execution should look like an interleaving of the sequential executions of each constituent thread, as if the threads were time-multiplexed on a single-core processor.

That global memory order can vary from one run of the program to another and may not be known beforehand. The characteristic feature of SC is the set of horizontal slices in the address-space-time diagram representing planes of simultaneity (i.e., memory images). On a given plane, all of its events (or memory values) are simultaneous. There is a notion of Absolute Time, in which all threads agree on which memory values are simultaneous. In SC, at every time instant, there is only one memory image shared by all threads. That's, at every instant of time, all processors agree on the memory image (i.e., the aggregate content of memory). Not only does this imply that all threads view the same sequence of values for all memory locations, but also that all processors observe the same combinations of values of all variables. This is the same as saying all memory operations (on all memory locations) are observed in the same total order by all threads.

In relaxed memory models, each thread will slice up address-space-time in its own way, the only restriction being that slices of each thread shall not cross each other because all threads must agree on the history of every individual memory location (of course, slices of different threads may, and will, cross each other). There is no universal way to slice it up (no privileged foliation of address-space-time). Slices do not have to be planar (or linear). They can be curved and this is what can make a thread read values written by another thread out of the order they were written in. Histories of different memory locations may slide (or get stretched) arbitrarily relative to each other when viewed by any particular thread. Each thread will have a different sense of which events (or, equivalently, memory values) are simultaneous. The set of events (or memory values) that are simultaneous to one thread are not simultaneous to another. Thus, in a relaxed memory model, all threads still observe the same history (i.e., sequence of values) for each memory location. But they may observe different memory images (i.e., combinations of values of all memory locations). Even if two different memory locations are written by the same thread in sequence, the two newly written values may be observed in different order by other threads.

[Picture from Wikipedia] Picture from Wikipedia

Readers familiar with Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity will notice what I am alluding to. Translating Minkowski’s words into the memory models realm: address space and time are shadows of address-space-time. In this case, each observer (i.e., thread) will project shadows of events (i.e., memory stores/loads) onto his own world-line (i.e., his time axis) and his own plane of simultaneity (his address-space axis). Threads in the C++11 memory model correspond to observers that are moving relative to each other in special relativity. Sequential consistency corresponds to the Galilean space-time (i.e., all observers agree on one absolute order of events and a global sense of simultaneity).

The resemblance between memory models and special relativity stems from the fact that both define a partially-ordered set of events, often called a causal set. Some events (i.e., memory stores) can affect (but not be affected by) other events. A C++11 thread (or observer in physics) is no more than a chain (i.e., a totally ordered set) of events (e.g., memory loads and stores to possibly different addresses).

In relativity, some order is restored to the seemingly chaotic picture of partially ordered events, since the only temporal ordering that all observers agree on is the ordering among “timelike” events (i.e., those events that are in principle connectible by any particle going slower than the speed of light in a vacuum). Only the timelike related events are invariantly ordered. Time in Physics, Craig Callender.

In C++11 memory model, a similar mechanism (the acquire-release consistency model) is used to establish these local causality relations.

To provide a definition of memory consistency and a motivation for abandoning SC, I will quote from "A Primer on Memory Consistency and Cache Coherence"

For a shared memory machine, the memory consistency model defines the architecturally visible behavior of its memory system. The correctness criterion for a single processor core partitions behavior between “one correct result” and “many incorrect alternatives”. This is because the processor’s architecture mandates that the execution of a thread transforms a given input state into a single well-defined output state, even on an out-of-order core. Shared memory consistency models, however, concern the loads and stores of multiple threads and usually allow many correct executions while disallowing many (more) incorrect ones. The possibility of multiple correct executions is due to the ISA allowing multiple threads to execute concurrently, often with many possible legal interleavings of instructions from different threads.

Relaxed or weak memory consistency models are motivated by the fact that most memory orderings in strong models are unnecessary. If a thread updates ten data items and then a synchronization flag, programmers usually do not care if the data items are updated in order with respect to each other but only that all data items are updated before the flag is updated (usually implemented using FENCE instructions). Relaxed models seek to capture this increased ordering flexibility and preserve only the orders that programmers “require” to get both higher performance and correctness of SC. For example, in certain architectures, FIFO write buffers are used by each core to hold the results of committed (retired) stores before writing the results to the caches. This optimization enhances performance but violates SC. The write buffer hides the latency of servicing a store miss. Because stores are common, being able to avoid stalling on most of them is an important benefit. For a single-core processor, a write buffer can be made architecturally invisible by ensuring that a load to address A returns the value of the most recent store to A even if one or more stores to A are in the write buffer. This is typically done by either bypassing the value of the most recent store to A to the load from A, where “most recent” is determined by program order, or by stalling a load of A if a store to A is in the write buffer. When multiple cores are used, each will have its own bypassing write buffer. Without write buffers, the hardware is SC, but with write buffers, it is not, making write buffers architecturally visible in a multicore processor.

Store-store reordering may happen if a core has a non-FIFO write buffer that lets stores depart in a different order than the order in which they entered. This might occur if the first store misses in the cache while the second hits or if the second store can coalesce with an earlier store (i.e., before the first store). Load-load reordering may also happen on dynamically-scheduled cores that execute instructions out of program order. That can behave the same as reordering stores on another core (Can you come up with an example interleaving between two threads?). Reordering an earlier load with a later store (a load-store reordering) can cause many incorrect behaviors, such as loading a value after releasing the lock that protects it (if the store is the unlock operation). Note that store-load reorderings may also arise due to local bypassing in the commonly implemented FIFO write buffer, even with a core that executes all instructions in program order.

Because cache coherence and memory consistency are sometimes confused, it is instructive to also have this quote:

Unlike consistency, cache coherence is neither visible to software nor required. Coherence seeks to make the caches of a shared-memory system as functionally invisible as the caches in a single-core system. Correct coherence ensures that a programmer cannot determine whether and where a system has caches by analyzing the results of loads and stores. This is because correct coherence ensures that the caches never enable new or different functional behavior (programmers may still be able to infer likely cache structure using timing information). The main purpose of cache coherence protocols is maintaining the single-writer-multiple-readers (SWMR) invariant for every memory location. An important distinction between coherence and consistency is that coherence is specified on a per-memory location basis, whereas consistency is specified with respect to all memory locations.

Continuing with our mental picture, the SWMR invariant corresponds to the physical requirement that there be at most one particle located at any one location but there can be an unlimited number of observers of any location.

Convert DataTable to List<T>

thanks for all of posts.... I have done it with using Linq Query, to view this please visit the following link

http://codenicely.blogspot.com/2012/02/converting-your-datatable-into-list.html

how to use "tab space" while writing in text file

Use "\t". That's the tab space character.

You can find a list of many of the Java escape characters here: http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/data/characters.html

How to convert an Object {} to an Array [] of key-value pairs in JavaScript

I would suggest this simplest solution to use Object.entries()

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D3.js: How to get the computed width and height for an arbitrary element?

Once I faced with the issue when I did not know which the element currently stored in my variable (svg or html) but I needed to get it width and height. I created this function and want to share it:

function computeDimensions(selection) {
  var dimensions = null;
  var node = selection.node();

  if (node instanceof SVGGraphicsElement) { // check if node is svg element
    dimensions = node.getBBox();
  } else { // else is html element
    dimensions = node.getBoundingClientRect();
  }
  console.log(dimensions);
  return dimensions;
}

Little demo in the hidden snippet below. We handle click on the blue div and on the red svg circle with the same function.

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  .attr('width', 50)
  .attr('height', 50);

function computeDimensions(selection) {
    var dimensions = null;
  var node = selection.node();

  if (node instanceof SVGElement) {
    dimensions = node.getBBox();
  } else {
    dimensions = node.getBoundingClientRect();
  }
  console.clear();
  console.log(dimensions);
  return dimensions;
}

var circle = svg
    .append("circle")
    .attr("r", 20)
    .attr("cx", 30)
    .attr("cy", 30)
    .attr("fill", "red")
    .on("click", function() { computeDimensions(circle); });
    
var div = d3.selectAll("div").on("click", function() { computeDimensions(div) });
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* {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  border: 0;
}

body {
  background: #ffd;
}

.div {
  display: inline-block;
  background-color: blue;
  margin-right: 30px;
  width: 30px;
  height: 30px;
}
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  Click on blue div block or svg circle
</h3>
<svg></svg>
<div class="div"></div>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/d3/4.11.0/d3.min.js"></script>
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How do you turn a Mongoose document into a plain object?

the fast way if the property is not in the model :

document.set( key,value, { strict: false });

Clear text from textarea with selenium

In the most recent Selenium version, use:

driver.find_element_by_id('foo').clear()

How to convert PDF files to images

Using Android default libraries like AppCompat, you can convert all the PDF pages into images. This way is very fast and optimized. The below code is for getting separate images of a PDF page. It is very fast and quick.

ParcelFileDescriptor fileDescriptor = ParcelFileDescriptor.open(new File("pdfFilePath.pdf"), MODE_READ_ONLY);
    PdfRenderer renderer = new PdfRenderer(fileDescriptor);
    final int pageCount = renderer.getPageCount();
    for (int i = 0; i < pageCount; i++) {
        PdfRenderer.Page page = renderer.openPage(i);
        Bitmap bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(page.getWidth(), page.getHeight(),Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
        Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bitmap);
        canvas.drawColor(Color.WHITE);
        canvas.drawBitmap(bitmap, 0, 0, null);
        page.render(bitmap, null, null, PdfRenderer.Page.RENDER_MODE_FOR_DISPLAY);
        page.close();

        if (bitmap == null)
            return null;

        if (bitmapIsBlankOrWhite(bitmap))
            return null;

        String root = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().toString();
        File file = new File(root + filename + ".png");

        if (file.exists()) file.delete();
        try {
            FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(file);
            bitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 100, out);
            Log.v("Saved Image - ", file.getAbsolutePath());
            out.flush();
            out.close();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

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private static boolean bitmapIsBlankOrWhite(Bitmap bitmap) {
    if (bitmap == null)
        return true;

    int w = bitmap.getWidth();
    int h = bitmap.getHeight();
    for (int i =  0; i < w; i++) {
        for (int j = 0; j < h; j++) {
            int pixel =  bitmap.getPixel(i, j);
            if (pixel != Color.WHITE) {
                return false;
            }
        }
    }
    return true;
}

how to pass value from one php page to another using session

Use something like this:

page1.php

<?php
session_start();
$_SESSION['myValue']=3; // You can set the value however you like.
?>

Any other PHP page:

<?php
session_start();
echo $_SESSION['myValue'];
?>

A few notes to keep in mind though: You need to call session_start() BEFORE any output, HTML, echos - even whitespace.

You can keep changing the value in the session - but it will only be able to be used after the first page - meaning if you set it in page 1, you will not be able to use it until you get to another page or refresh the page.

The setting of the variable itself can be done in one of a number of ways:

$_SESSION['myValue']=1;
$_SESSION['myValue']=$var;
$_SESSION['myValue']=$_GET['YourFormElement'];

And if you want to check if the variable is set before getting a potential error, use something like this:

if(!empty($_SESSION['myValue'])
{
    echo $_SESSION['myValue'];
}
else
{
    echo "Session not set yet.";
}

Kubernetes pod gets recreated when deleted

I experienced a similar problem: after deleting the deployment (kubectl delete deploy <name>), the pods kept "Running" and where automatically re-created after deletion (kubectl delete po <name>).

It turned out that the associated replica set was not deleted automatically for some reason, and after deleting that (kubectl delete rs <name>), it was possible to delete the pods.

What is the "proper" way to cast Hibernate Query.list() to List<Type>?

You can avoid compiler warning with workarounds like this one:

List<?> resultRaw = query.list();
List<MyObj> result = new ArrayList<MyObj>(resultRaw.size());
for (Object o : resultRaw) {
    result.add((MyObj) o);
}

But there are some issues with this code:

  • created superfluous ArrayList
  • unnecessary loop over all elements returned from the query
  • longer code.

And the difference is only cosmetic, so using such workarounds is - in my opinion - pointless.

You have to live with these warnings or suppress them.

Getting the filenames of all files in a folder

Here's how to look in the documentation.

First, you're dealing with IO, so look in the java.io package.

There are two classes that look interesting: FileFilter and FileNameFilter. When I clicked on the first, it showed me that there was a a listFiles() method in the File class. And the documentation for that method says:

Returns an array of abstract pathnames denoting the files in the directory denoted by this abstract pathname.

Scrolling up in the File JavaDoc, I see the constructors. And that's really all I need to be able to create a File instance and call listFiles() on it. Scrolling still further, I can see some information about how files are named in different operating systems.

react-router scroll to top on every transition

I want to share my solution for those who are using react-router-dom v5 since none of these v4 solutions did the work for me.

What solved my problem was installing react-router-scroll-top and put the wrapper in the <App /> like this:

const App = () => (
  <Router>
    <ScrollToTop>
      <App/>
    </ScrollToTop>
  </Router>
)

and that's it! it worked!

How does OAuth 2 protect against things like replay attacks using the Security Token?

This is a gem:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/an-introduction-to-oauth-2

Very brief summary:

OAuth defines four roles:

  1. Resource Owner
  2. Client
  3. Resource Server
  4. Authorization Server

You (Resource Owner) have a mobile phone. You have several different email accounts, but you want all your email accounts in one app, so you don't need to keep switching. So your GMail (Client) asks for access (via Yahoo's Authorization Server) to your Yahoo emails (Resource Server) so you can read both emails on your GMail application.

The reason OAuth exists is because it is unsecure for GMail to store your Yahoo username and password.

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Write output to a text file in PowerShell

Use the Out-File cmdlet

 Compare-Object ... | Out-File C:\filename.txt

Optionally, add -Encoding utf8 to Out-File as the default encoding is not really ideal for many uses.

How can I delete a query string parameter in JavaScript?

Heres a complete function for adding and removing parameters based on this question and this github gist: https://gist.github.com/excalq/2961415

var updateQueryStringParam = function (key, value) {

    var baseUrl = [location.protocol, '//', location.host, location.pathname].join(''),
        urlQueryString = document.location.search,
        newParam = key + '=' + value,
        params = '?' + newParam;

    // If the "search" string exists, then build params from it
    if (urlQueryString) {

        updateRegex = new RegExp('([\?&])' + key + '[^&]*');
        removeRegex = new RegExp('([\?&])' + key + '=[^&;]+[&;]?');

        if( typeof value == 'undefined' || value == null || value == '' ) { // Remove param if value is empty

            params = urlQueryString.replace(removeRegex, "$1");
            params = params.replace( /[&;]$/, "" );

        } else if (urlQueryString.match(updateRegex) !== null) { // If param exists already, update it

            params = urlQueryString.replace(updateRegex, "$1" + newParam);

        } else { // Otherwise, add it to end of query string

            params = urlQueryString + '&' + newParam;

        }

    }
    window.history.replaceState({}, "", baseUrl + params);
};

You can add parameters like this:

updateQueryStringParam( 'myparam', 'true' );

And remove it like this:

updateQueryStringParam( 'myparam', null );

In this thread many said that the regex is probably not the best/stable solution ... so im not 100% sure if this thing has some flaws but as far as i tested it it works pretty fine.

Get values from a listbox on a sheet

Take selected value:

worksheet name = ordls
form control list box name = DEPDB1

selectvalue = ordls.Shapes("DEPDB1").ControlFormat.List(ordls.Shapes("DEPDB1").ControlFormat.Value)

How do I install Python packages in Google's Colab?

lets say you want to install scipy,

Here is the code to install it

!pip install scipy

How do I compile a .c file on my Mac?

Ondrasej is the "most right" here, IMO.
There are also gui-er ways to do it, without resorting to Xcode. I like TryC.

Mac OS X includes Developer Tools, a developing environment for making Macintosh applications. However, if someone wants to study programming using C, Xcode is too big and too complicated for beginners, to write a small sample program. TryC is very suitable for beginners.

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You don't need to launch a huge Xcode application, or type unfamiliar commands in Terminal. Using TryC, you can write, compile and run a C, C++ and Ruby program just like TextEdit. It's only available to compile one source code file but it's enough for trying sample programs.

HttpWebRequest-The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request

Are you sure you should be using POST not PUT?

POST is usually used with application/x-www-urlencoded formats. If you are using a REST API, you should maybe be using PUT? If you are uploading a file you probably need to use multipart/form-data. Not always, but usually, that is the right thing to do..

Also you don't seem to be using the credentials to log in - you need to use the Credentials property of the HttpWebRequest object to send the username and password.

Angular.js: How does $eval work and why is it different from vanilla eval?

I think one of the original questions here was not answered. I believe that vanilla eval() is not used because then angular apps would not work as Chrome apps, which explicitly prevent eval() from being used for security reasons.

REST API using POST instead of GET

Just to review, REST has certain properties that a developer should follow in order to make it RESTful:

What is REST?

According to wikipedia:

The REST architectural style describes the following six constraints applied to the architecture, while leaving the implementation of the individual components free to design:

  • Client–server: Servers are not concerned with the user interface or user state, so that servers can be simpler and more scalable.
  • Stateless: The client–server communication is further constrained by no client context being stored on the server between requests.
  • Cacheable: Responses must, implicitly or explicitly, define themselves as cacheable, or not, to prevent clients reusing stale or inappropriate data in response to further requests.
  • Layered system: A client cannot ordinarily tell whether it is connected directly to the end server, or to an intermediary along the way. Intermediary servers may improve system scalability by enabling load-balancing and by providing shared caches.
  • Code on demand (optional): Servers can temporarily extend or customize the functionality of a client by the transfer of executable code.
  • Uniform interface: The uniform interface between clients and servers, discussed below, simplifies and decouples the architecture, which enables each part to evolve independently. (i.e. HTTP GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE)

What the verbs should do

SO user Daniel Vasallo did a good job of laying out the responsibilities of these methods in the question Understanding REST: Verbs, error codes, and authentication:

When dealing with a Collection URI like: http://example.com/resources/

GET: List the members of the collection, complete with their member URIs for further navigation. For example, list all the cars for sale.

PUT: Meaning defined as "replace the entire collection with another collection".

POST: Create a new entry in the collection where the ID is assigned automatically by the collection. The ID created is usually included as part of the data returned by this operation.

DELETE: Meaning defined as "delete the entire collection".

So, to answer your question:

Is it right to say that I can use it with a POST query? ...

Are these two queries the same? Can I use the second variant in any case or the documentation should explicitly say that I can use both GET and POST queries?

If you were writing a plain old RPC API call, they could technically interchangeable as long as the processing server side were no different between both calls. However, in order for the call to be RESTful, calling the endpoint via the GET method should have a distinct functionality (which is to get resource(s)) from the POST method (which is to create new resources).

Side note: there is some debate out there about whether or not POST should also be allowed to be used to update resources... though i'm not commenting on that, I'm just telling you some people have an issue with that point.

Why do you need to put #!/bin/bash at the beginning of a script file?

It is called a shebang. It consists of a number sign and an exclamation point character (#!), followed by the full path to the interpreter such as /bin/bash. All scripts under UNIX and Linux execute using the interpreter specified on a first line.

How to change a table name using an SQL query?

In MySQL :-

RENAME TABLE `Stu Table` TO `Stu Table_10`

How to downgrade php from 7.1.1 to 5.6 in xampp 7.1.1?

It is very easy to do, all you need to do is 1) download 5.6 from [1]: https://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/files/XAMPP%20Windows/5.6.36/, the run the setup and install in folder "xampp"

2) download 7.6 from [https://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/files/XAMPP%20Windows/7.4.2/xampp-portable-windows-x64-7.4.2-0-VC15-installer.exe/download][1] and run the setup in "xampp2"

NOte: after that you now have separate xampp installed in your system. all you do now is to run each xampp as a separate entity. Alway quite the 5.6 if you want to run 7.6

pull out p-values and r-squared from a linear regression

Notice that summary(fit) generates an object with all the information you need. The beta, se, t and p vectors are stored in it. Get the p-values by selecting the 4th column of the coefficients matrix (stored in the summary object):

summary(fit)$coefficients[,4] 
summary(fit)$r.squared

Try str(summary(fit)) to see all the info that this object contains.

Edit: I had misread Chase's answer which basically tells you how to get to what I give here.

How do I prevent an Android device from going to sleep programmatically?

One option is to use a wake lock. Example from the docs:

PowerManager pm = (PowerManager) getSystemService(Context.POWER_SERVICE);
PowerManager.WakeLock wl = pm.newWakeLock(PowerManager.SCREEN_DIM_WAKE_LOCK, "My Tag");
wl.acquire();

// screen and CPU will stay awake during this section

wl.release();

There's also a table on this page that describes the different kinds of wakelocks.

Be aware that some caution needs to be taken when using wake locks. Ensure that you always release() the lock when you're done with it (or not in the foreground). Otherwise your app can potentially cause some serious battery drain and CPU usage.

The documentation also contains a useful page that describes different approaches to keeping a device awake, and when you might choose to use one. If "prevent device from going to sleep" only refers to the screen (and not keeping the CPU active) then a wake lock is probably more than you need.

You also need to be sure you have the WAKE_LOCK permission set in your manifest in order to use this method.

SSRS 2008 R2 - SSRS 2012 - ReportViewer: Reports are blank in Safari and Chrome

Here is the solution I used for Report Server 2008 R2

It should work regardless of what the Report Server will output for use for in its "id" attribute of the table. I don't think you can always assume it will be "ctl31_fixedTable"

I used a mix of the suggestion above and some ways to dynamically load jquery libraries into a page from javascript file found here

On the server go to the directory: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSRS10_50.MSSQLSERVER\Reporting Services\ReportManager\js

Copy the jquery library jquery-1.6.2.min.js into the directory

Create a backup copy of the file ReportingServices.js Edit the file. And append this to the bottom of it:

var jQueryScriptOutputted = false;
function initJQuery() {

    //if the jQuery object isn't available
    if (typeof(jQuery) == 'undefined') {


        if (! jQueryScriptOutputted) {
            //only output the script once..
            jQueryScriptOutputted = true;

            //output the script 
            document.write("<scr" + "ipt type=\"text/javascript\" src=\"../js/jquery-1.6.2.min.js\"></scr" + "ipt>");
         }
        setTimeout("initJQuery()", 50);
    } else {

        $(function() {     

        // Bug-fix on Chrome and Safari etc (webkit)
        if ($.browser.webkit) {

            // Start timer to make sure overflow is set to visible
             setInterval(function () {
                var div = $('table[id*=_fixedTable] > tbody > tr:last > td:last > div')

                div.css('overflow', 'visible');
            }, 1000);
        }

        });
    }        
}

initJQuery();

Access the css ":after" selector with jQuery

You can add style for :after a like html code.
For example:

var value = 22;
body.append('<style>.wrapper:after{border-top-width: ' + value + 'px;}</style>');

Most useful NLog configurations

Logging different levels depending on whether or not there is an error

This example allows you to get more information when there is an error in your code. Basically, it buffers messages and only outputs those at a certain log level (e.g. Warn) unless a certain condition is met (e.g. there has been an error, so the log level is >= Error), then it will output more info (e.g. all messages from log levels >= Trace). Because the messages are buffered, this lets you gather trace information about what happened before an Error or ErrorException was logged - very useful!

I adapted this one from an example in the source code. I was thrown at first because I left out the AspNetBufferingWrapper (since mine isn't an ASP app) - it turns out that the PostFilteringWrapper requires some buffered target. Note that the target-ref element used in the above-linked example cannot be used in NLog 1.0 (I am using 1.0 Refresh for a .NET 4.0 app); it is necessary to put your target inside the wrapper block. Also note that the logic syntax (i.e. greater-than or less-than symbols, < and >) has to use the symbols, not the XML escapes for those symbols (i.e. &gt; and &lt;) or else NLog will error.

app.config:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
    <configSections>
        <section name="nlog" type="NLog.Config.ConfigSectionHandler, NLog"/>
    </configSections>

    <nlog xmlns="http://www.nlog-project.org/schemas/NLog.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
          throwExceptions="true" internalLogToConsole="true" internalLogLevel="Warn" internalLogFile="nlog.log">
        <variable name="appTitle" value="My app"/>
        <variable name="csvPath" value="${specialfolder:folder=Desktop:file=${appTitle} log.csv}"/>

        <targets async="true">
            <!--The following will keep the default number of log messages in a buffer and write out certain levels if there is an error and other levels if there is not. Messages that appeared before the error (in code) will be included, since they are buffered.-->
            <wrapper-target xsi:type="BufferingWrapper" name="smartLog">
                <wrapper-target xsi:type="PostFilteringWrapper">
                    <!--<target-ref name="fileAsCsv"/>-->
                    <target xsi:type="File" fileName="${csvPath}"
                    archiveAboveSize="4194304" concurrentWrites="false" maxArchiveFiles="1" archiveNumbering="Sequence"
                    >
                        <layout xsi:type="CsvLayout" delimiter="Tab" withHeader="false">
                            <column name="time" layout="${longdate}" />
                            <column name="level" layout="${level:upperCase=true}"/>
                            <column name="message" layout="${message}" />
                            <column name="callsite" layout="${callsite:includeSourcePath=true}" />
                            <column name="stacktrace" layout="${stacktrace:topFrames=10}" />
                            <column name="exception" layout="${exception:format=ToString}"/>
                            <!--<column name="logger" layout="${logger}"/>-->
                        </layout>
                    </target>

                     <!--during normal execution only log certain messages--> 
                    <defaultFilter>level >= LogLevel.Warn</defaultFilter>

                     <!--if there is at least one error, log everything from trace level--> 
                    <when exists="level >= LogLevel.Error" filter="level >= LogLevel.Trace" />
                </wrapper-target>
            </wrapper-target>

        </targets>

        <rules>
            <logger name="*" minlevel="Trace" writeTo="smartLog"/>
        </rules>
    </nlog>
</configuration>

Read a variable in bash with a default value

You can use parameter expansion, e.g.

read -p "Enter your name [Richard]: " name
name=${name:-Richard}
echo $name

Including the default value in the prompt between brackets is a fairly common convention

What does the :-Richard part do? From the bash manual:

${parameter:-word} If parameter is unset or null, the expansion of word is substituted. Otherwise, the value of parameter is substituted.

Also worth noting that...

In each of the cases below, word is subject to tilde expansion, parameter expansion, command substitution, and arithmetic expansion.

So if you use webpath=${webpath:-~/httpdocs} you will get a result of /home/user/expanded/path/httpdocs not ~/httpdocs, etc.

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

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

pip install xlrd==1.2.0

Should I use .done() and .fail() for new jQuery AJAX code instead of success and error

When we are going to migrate JQuery from 1.x to 2x or 3.x in our old existing application , then we will use .done,.fail instead of success,error as JQuery up gradation is going to be deprecated these methods.For example when we make a call to server web methods then server returns promise objects to the calling methods(Ajax methods) and this promise objects contains .done,.fail..etc methods.Hence we will the same for success and failure response. Below is the example(it is for POST request same way we can construct for request type like GET...)

 $.ajax({
            type: "POST",
            url: url,
            data: '{"name" :"sheo"}',
            contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
            async: false,
            cache: false
            }).done(function (Response) {
                  //do something when get response            })
           .fail(function (Response) {
                    //do something when any error occurs.
                });

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

A just in time compiler (JIT) is a piece of software which takes receives an non executable input and returns the appropriate machine code to be executed. For example:

Intermediate representation    JIT    Native machine code for the current CPU architecture

     Java bytecode            --->        machine code
     Javascript (run with V8) --->        machine code

The consequence of this is that for a certain CPU architecture the appropriate JIT compiler must be installed.

Difference compiler, interpreter, and JIT

Although there can be exceptions in general when we want to transform source code into machine code we can use:

  1. Compiler: Takes source code and returns a executable
  2. Interpreter: Executes the program instruction by instruction. It takes an executable segment of the source code and turns that segment into machine instructions. This process is repeated until all source code is transformed into machine instructions and executed.
  3. JIT: Many different implementations of a JIT are possible, however a JIT is usually a combination of a compliler and an interpreter. The JIT first turn intermediary data (e.g. Java bytecode) which it receives into machine language via interpretation. A JIT can often sense when a certain part of the code is executed often and the will compile this part for faster execution.

Node.js check if file exists

Edit: Since node v10.0.0we could use fs.promises.access(...)

Example async code that checks if file exists:

async function checkFileExists(file) {
  return fs.promises.access(file, fs.constants.F_OK)
           .then(() => true)
           .catch(() => false)
}

An alternative for stat might be using the new fs.access(...):

minified short promise function for checking:

s => new Promise(r=>fs.access(s, fs.constants.F_OK, e => r(!e)))

Sample usage:

let checkFileExists = s => new Promise(r=>fs.access(s, fs.constants.F_OK, e => r(!e)))
checkFileExists("Some File Location")
  .then(bool => console.log(´file exists: ${bool}´))

expanded Promise way:

// returns a promise which resolves true if file exists:
function checkFileExists(filepath){
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    fs.access(filepath, fs.constants.F_OK, error => {
      resolve(!error);
    });
  });
}

or if you wanna do it synchronously:

function checkFileExistsSync(filepath){
  let flag = true;
  try{
    fs.accessSync(filepath, fs.constants.F_OK);
  }catch(e){
    flag = false;
  }
  return flag;
}

convert json ipython notebook(.ipynb) to .py file

One way to do that would be to upload your script on Colab and download it in .py format from File -> Download .py

How to get the first element of an array?

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alert(Object.values(ary)[0]);
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how to check if object already exists in a list

Another point to mention is that you should ensure that your equality function is as you expect. You should override the equals method to set up what properties of your object have to match for two instances to be considered equal.

Then you can just do mylist.contains(item)

In Gradle, is there a better way to get Environment Variables?

In android gradle 0.4.0 you can just do:

println System.env.HOME

classpath com.android.tools.build:gradle-experimental:0.4.0

Android charting libraries

You can use MPAndroidChart.

It's native, free, easy to use, fast and reliable.

Core features, benefits:

  • LineChart, BarChart (vertical, horizontal, stacked, grouped), PieChart, ScatterChart, CandleStickChart (for financial data), RadarChart (spider web chart), BubbleChart
  • Combined Charts (e.g. lines and bars in one)
  • Scaling on both axes (with touch-gesture, axes separately or pinch-zoom)
  • Dragging / Panning (with touch-gesture)
  • Separate (dual) y-axes
  • Highlighting values (with customizeable popup-views)
  • Save chart to SD-Card (as image)
  • Predefined color templates
  • Legends (generated automatically, customizeable)
  • Customizeable Axes (both x- and y-axis)
  • Animations (build up animations, on both x- and y-axis)
  • Limit lines (providing additional information, maximums, ...)
  • Listeners for touch, gesture & selection callbacks
  • Fully customizeable (paints, typefaces, legends, colors, background, dashed lines, ...)
  • Realm.io mobile database support via MPAndroidChart-Realm library
  • Smooth rendering for up to 10.000 data points in Line- and BarChart
  • Lightweight (method count ~1.4K)
  • Available as .jar file (only 500kb in size)
  • Available as gradle dependency and via maven
  • Good documentation
  • Example Project (code for demo-application)
  • Google-PlayStore Demo Application
  • Widely used, great support on both GitHub and stackoverflow - mpandroidchart
  • Also available for iOS: Charts (API works the same way)
  • Also available for Xamarin: MPAndroidChart.Xamarin

Drawbacks:

Disclaimer: I am the developer of this library.

installing cPickle with python 3.5

cPickle comes with the standard library… in python 2.x. You are on python 3.x, so if you want cPickle, you can do this:

>>> import _pickle as cPickle

However, in 3.x, it's easier just to use pickle.

No need to install anything. If something requires cPickle in python 3.x, then that's probably a bug.

How do you delete all text above a certain line

d1G = delete to top including current line (vi)

Ignore mapping one property with Automapper

There is now (AutoMapper 2.0) an IgnoreMap attribute, which I'm going to use rather than the fluent syntax which is a bit heavy IMHO.

How can I detect Internet Explorer (IE) and Microsoft Edge using JavaScript?

If you just want to give users using a MS browser a warning or something, this code should be good.

HTML:

<p id="IE">You are not using a microsoft browser</p>

Javascript:

using_ms_browser = navigator.appName == 'Microsoft Internet Explorer' || (navigator.appName == "Netscape" && navigator.appVersion.indexOf('Edge') > -1) || (navigator.appName == "Netscape" && navigator.appVersion.indexOf('Trident') > -1);

if (using_ms_browser == true){
    document.getElementById('IE').innerHTML = "You are using a MS browser"
}

Thanks to @GavinoGrifoni

What are some alternatives to ReSharper?

I think that CodeRush has a free, limited version, too. I ended up going with ReSharper, and I still recommend it, even though some of the functionality is in Visual Studio 2010. There are just some things that make it worth it.

Keep in mind that you don't need the full ReSharper license if you only code in one language. I have the C# version, and it's cheaper.

fork() child and parent processes

It is printing twice because you are calling printf twice, once in the execution of your program and once in the fork. Try taking your fork() out of the printf call.

How to condense if/else into one line in Python?

There is the conditional expression:

a if cond else b

but this is an expression, not a statement.

In if statements, the if (or elif or else) can be written on the same line as the body of the block if the block is just one like:

if something: somefunc()
else: otherfunc()

but this is discouraged as a matter of formatting-style.

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

You can execute this in 2 simple statements:

row.names(samp) <- samp$names
samp[1] <- NULL

Understanding Bootstrap's clearfix class

When a clearfix is used in a parent container, it automatically wraps around all the child elements.

It is usually used after floating elements to clear the float layout.

When float layout is used, it will horizontally align the child elements. Clearfix clears this behaviour.

Example - Bootstrap Panels

In bootstrap, when the class panel is used, there are 3 child types: panel-header, panel-body, panel-footer. All of which have display:block layout but panel-body has a clearfix pre-applied. panel-body is a main container type whereas panel-header & panel-footer isn't intended to be a container, it is just intended to hold some basic text.

If floating elements are added, the parent container does not get wrapped around those elements because the height of floating elements is not inherited by the parent container.

So for panel-header & panel-footer, clearfix is needed to clear the float layout of elements: Clearfix class gives a visual appearance that the height of the parent container has been increased to accommodate all of its child elements.

 <div class="container">
    <div class="panel panel-default">
        <div class="panel-footer">
            <div class="col-xs-6">
                <input type="button" class="btn btn-primary"   value="Button1">
                <input type="button" class="btn btn-primary"   value="Button2">
                <input type="button" class="btn btn-primary"   value="Button3">
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>

    <div class="panel panel-default">
        <div class="panel-footer">
            <div class="col-xs-6">
                <input type="button" class="btn btn-primary"   value="Button1">
                <input type="button" class="btn btn-primary"   value="Button2">
                <input type="button" class="btn btn-primary"   value="Button3">
            </div>
            <div class="clearfix"/>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

see an example photo here

add scroll bar to table body

This is because you are adding your <tbody> tag before <td> in table you cannot print any data without <td>.

So for that you have to make a <div> say #header with position: fixed;

 header
 {
      position: fixed;
 }

make another <div> which will act as <tbody>

tbody
{
    overflow:scroll;
}

Now your header is fixed and the body will scroll. And the header will remain there.

Making LaTeX tables smaller?

There is also the singlespace environment:

\begin{singlespace}
\end{singlespace}

HTTP Error 404.3-Not Found in IIS 7.5

In windows server 2012, even after installing asp.net you might run into this issue.

Check for "Http activation" feature. This feature is present under Web services as well.

Make sure you add the above and everything should be awesome for you !!!

What is the difference between Tomcat, JBoss and Glassfish?

You should use GlassFish for Java EE enterprise applications. Some things to consider:

A web Server means: Handling HTTP requests (usually from browsers).

A Servlet Container (e.g. Tomcat) means: It can handle servlets & JSP.

An Application Server (e.g. GlassFish) means: *It can manage Java EE applications (usually both servlet/JSP and EJBs).


Tomcat - is run by Apache community - Open source and has two flavors:

  1. Tomcat - Web profile - lightweight which is only servlet container and does not support Java EE features like EJB, JMS etc.
  2. Tomcat EE - This is a certified Java EE container, this supports all Java EE technologies.

No commercial support available (only community support)

JBoss - Run by RedHat This is a full-stack support for JavaEE and it is a certified Java EE container. This includes Tomcat as web container internally. This also has two flavors:

  1. Community version called Application Server (AS) - this will have only community support.
  2. Enterprise Application Server (EAP) - For this, you can have a subscription-based license (It's based on the number of Cores you have on your servers.)

Glassfish - Run by Oracle This is also a full stack certified Java EE Container. This has its own web container (not Tomcat). This comes from Oracle itself, so all new specs will be tested and implemented with Glassfish first. So, always it would support the latest spec. I am not aware of its support models.

How to convert a char to a String?

Try this: Character.toString(aChar) or just this: aChar + ""

How to get absolute path to file in /resources folder of your project

Create the classLoader instance of the class you need, then you can access the files or resources easily. now you access path using getPath() method of that class.

 ClassLoader classLoader = getClass().getClassLoader();
 String path  = classLoader.getResource("chromedriver.exe").getPath();
 System.out.println(path);

How to read a HttpOnly cookie using JavaScript

Httponly cookies' purpose is being inaccessible by script, so you CAN NOT.

Run ScrollTop with offset of element by ID

No magic involved, just subtract from the offset top of the element

$('html, body').animate({scrollTop: $('#contact').offset().top -100 }, 'slow');

Test if registry value exists

My version:

Function Test-RegistryValue($Key, $Name)
{
    (Get-ChildItem (Split-Path -Parent -Path $Key) | Where-Object {$_.PSChildName -eq (Split-Path -Leaf $Key)}).Property -contains $Name
}

How do you import a large MS SQL .sql file?

Hope this help you!

sqlcmd -u UserName -s <ServerName\InstanceName> -i U:\<Path>\script.sql

'IF' in 'SELECT' statement - choose output value based on column values

select 
  id,
  case 
    when report_type = 'P' 
    then amount 
    when report_type = 'N' 
    then -amount 
    else null 
  end
from table

Turn a number into star rating display using jQuery and CSS

Here's my take using JSX and font awesome, limited on only .5 accuracy, though:

       <span>
          {Array(Math.floor(rating)).fill(<i className="fa fa-star"></i>)}
          {(rating) - Math.floor(rating)==0 ? ('') : (<i className="fa fa-star-half"></i>)}
       </span>

First row is for whole star and second row is for half star (if any)

Why can't I define a static method in a Java interface?

Let's suppose static methods were allowed in interfaces: * They would force all implementing classes to declare that method. * Interfaces would usually be used through objects, so the only effective methods on those would be the non-static ones. * Any class which knows a particular interface could invoke its static methods. Hence a implementing class' static method would be called underneath, but the invoker class does not know which. How to know it? It has no instantiation to guess that!

Interfaces were thought to be used when working with objects. This way, an object is instantiated from a particular class, so this last matter is solved. The invoking class need not know which particular class is because the instantiation may be done by a third class. So the invoking class knows only the interface.

If we want this to be extended to static methods, we should have the possibility to especify an implementing class before, then pass a reference to the invoking class. This could use the class through the static methods in the interface. But what is the differente between this reference and an object? We just need an object representing what it was the class. Now, the object represents the old class, and could implement a new interface including the old static methods - those are now non-static.

Metaclasses serve for this purpose. You may try the class Class of Java. But the problem is that Java is not flexible enough for this. You can not declare a method in the class object of an interface.

This is a meta issue - when you need to do ass

..blah blah

anyway you have an easy workaround - making the method non-static with the same logic. But then you would have to first create an object to call the method.

How to set null to a GUID property

you can make guid variable to accept null first using ? operator then you use Guid.Empty or typecast it to null using (Guid?)null;

eg:

 Guid? id = Guid.Empty;

or

 Guid? id =  (Guid?)null;

What does an exclamation mark before a cell reference mean?

If you use that forumla in the name manager you are creating a dynamic range which uses "this sheet" in place of a specific sheet.

As Jerry says, Sheet1!A1 refers to cell A1 on Sheet1. If you create a named range and omit the Sheet1 part you will reference cell A1 on the currently active sheet. (omitting the sheet reference and using it in a cell formula will error).

edit: my bad, I was using $A$1 which will lock it to the A1 cell as above, thanks pnuts :p

Convert timedelta to total seconds

You can use mx.DateTime module

import mx.DateTime as mt

t1 = mt.now() 
t2 = mt.now()
print int((t2-t1).seconds)

How to do multiple arguments to map function where one remains the same in python?

If you have it available, I would consider using numpy. It's very fast for these types of operations:

>>> import numpy
>>> numpy.array([1,2,3]) + 2
array([3, 4, 5])

This is assuming your real application is doing mathematical operations (that can be vectorized).

Remove 'standalone="yes"' from generated XML

jaxbMarshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FRAGMENT, Boolean.TRUE);
jaxbMarshaller.setProperty("com.sun.xml.internal.bind.xmlHeaders", "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>");

This worked for me with JDK1.7. standalone=\"no\" can be removed to get only rest of the xml part

Subset data.frame by date

The first thing you should do with date variables is confirm that R reads it as a Date. To do this, for the variable (i.e. vector/column) called Date, in the data frame called EPL2011_12, input

class(EPL2011_12$Date)

The output should read [1] "Date". If it doesn't, you should format it as a date by inputting

EPL2011_12$Date <- as.Date(EPL2011_12$Date, "%d-%m-%y")

Note that the hyphens in the date format ("%d-%m-%y") above can also be slashes ("%d/%m/%y"). Confirm that R sees it as a Date. If it doesn't, try a different formatting command

EPL2011_12$Date <- format(EPL2011_12$Date, format="%d/%m/%y")

Once you have it in Date format, you can use the subset command, or you can use brackets

WhateverYouWant <- EPL2011_12[EPL2011_12$Date > as.Date("2014-12-15"),]

Redirecting to URL in Flask

For this you can simply use the redirect function that is included in flask

from flask import Flask, redirect

app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/')
def hello():
    return redirect("https://www.exampleURL.com", code = 302)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run()

Another useful tip(as you're new to flask), is to add app.debug = True after initializing the flask object as the debugger output helps a lot while figuring out what's wrong.

CSS hide scroll bar if not needed

You can use overflow:auto;

You can also control the x or y axis individually with the overflow-x and overflow-y properties.

Example:

.content {overflow:auto;}
.content {overflow-y:auto;}
.content {overflow-x:auto;}

How to resolve the "ADB server didn't ACK" error?

For me it didn't work , it was related to a path problem happened after android studio 2.0 preview 1, I needed to update genymotion and virtual box, and apparently they tried to use same port for adb.

Solution is explained here link! Basically you just need to:

1) open genymotion settings

2) specify sdk path for the adb manually

3) adb kill-server

4) adb start-server

converting json to string in python

There are other differences. For instance, {'time': datetime.now()} cannot be serialized to JSON, but can be converted to string. You should use one of these tools depending on the purpose (i.e. will the result later be decoded).

Is there a limit to the length of a GET request?

The specification does not limit the length of an HTTP Get request but the different browsers implement their own limitations. For example Internet Explorer has a limitation implemented at 2083 characters.

How can I select the record with the 2nd highest salary in database Oracle?

You should use something like this:

SELECT *
FROM (select salary2.*, rownum rnum from
         (select * from salary ORDER BY salary_amount DESC) salary2
  where rownum <= 2 )
WHERE rnum >= 2;

How to solve a timeout error in Laravel 5

If using PHP7, I would suggest you changing the default value in the public/.htaccess

<IfModule php7_module>
   ...
   php_value max_execution_time 300
   ...
</IfModule>

How to 'foreach' a column in a DataTable using C#?

This should work:

DataTable dtTable;

MySQLProcessor.DTTable(mysqlCommand, out dtTable);

// On all tables' rows
foreach (DataRow dtRow in dtTable.Rows)
{
    // On all tables' columns
    foreach(DataColumn dc in dtTable.Columns)
    {
      var field1 = dtRow[dc].ToString();
    }
}