Programs & Examples On #Balloon

How to display count of notifications in app launcher icon

ShortcutBadger is a library that adds an abstraction layer over the device brand and current launcher and offers a great result. Works with LG, Sony, Samsung, HTC and other custom Launchers.

It even has a way to display Badge Count in Pure Android devices desktop.

Updating the Badge Count in the application icon is as easy as calling:

int badgeCount = 1;
ShortcutBadger.applyCount(context, badgeCount);

It includes a demo application that allows you to test its behavior.

Hook up Raspberry Pi via Ethernet to laptop without router?

It's a solution for Ubuntu (the idea also works for Windows or Mac) I just tried today and it works like a charm.

Material

  1. a cross-over Ethernet cable (the name is fancy but it's just a normal Ethernet cable)
  2. a laptop (ubuntu)
  3. a Raspberry Pi (I have the Pi2)

Prerequisites on your ubuntu

  1. Install network-manager

    $sudo apt-get install network-manager

  2. Install nmap

    $sudo apt-get install nmap

Edit Wired connection on your laptop (Ubuntu)

  1. Change IpV4 settings to "Share to other computers"
  2. Save the setting
  3. Reboot your laptop

Share WiFi connection of your laptop via Ethernet crossover cable

  1. Hook up your RPi with your laptop using the Ethernet cable

  2. Look up the broadcast address of the Ethernet connection (Laptop),

$/sbin/ifconfig eth1 | grep "Bcast" | awk -F: '{print $3}' | awk '{print $1}' 10.42.0.255

  1. Use this address to find out the IP address of your RPi, it's 10.42.0.96 in my case because 10.42.0.1 is my laptop

    $nmap -n -sP 10.42.0.255/24

  Starting Nmap 6.40 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2016-02-20 23:07 CET
  Nmap scan report for 10.42.0.1
  Host is up (0.00031s latency).
  Nmap scan report for 10.42.0.96
  Host is up (0.0023s latency).
  Nmap done: 256 IP addresses (2 hosts up) scanned in 2.71 seconds
  1. Login to your RPi from your laptop (-Y with X-forwarding)

    $ssh -Y [email protected]

  2. Lo and behold! Now your RPi is connected to your laptop and RPi can share the WiFi connection.

    pi@raspberrypi ~ $

Share display & keyboard of your laptop with RPi

  1. Install vncserver on Raspberry Pi

    $ sudo apt-get update

    $ sudo apt-get install tightvncserver

  2. Install vncviewer on your laptop by downloading RealVNC (it supports multiple platforms) http://www.realvnc.com/download/vnc/

  3. To be able to copy & paste from VNC server <--> VNC viewer, you need to install autocutsel on your RPi.

$sudo apt-get install autocutsel

If this site doesn't work, try to download the .deb directly from a mirror site, e.g. mirror.hmc.edu/debian/pool/main/a/autocutsel/autocutsel_0.10.0-1_armhf.deb
and install it

$sudo dpkg -i autocutsel_0.10.0-1_armhf.deb

  1. Start vncserver on your RPi (You have to restart vncserver after installing autocutsel, you can issue $vncserver -kill :1)

    $vncserver :1

  2. Add autocutsel -fork to /home/pi/.vnc/xstartup

 #!/bin/sh
 xrdb $HOME/.Xresources xsetroot -solid grey 
 autocutsel -fork
 #x-terminal-emulator -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
 #x-window-manager &
 # Fix to make GNOME work 
 export XKL_XMODMAP_DISABLE=1 
 /etc/X11/Xsession
  1. Start vncviewer on your laptop

    $vncviewer

  2. A vncviewer window will pop up and type in the IP address of your RPi (given by your laptop) followed by port 1, which is your VNC server. for example: 10.42.0.96:1 in my case.

  3. Connect it to the vncserver hosted on your RPi by typing in a password (set up a password yourself)

    12.Now you can see the desktop of RPi on your laptop, and I opened my browser to show the shared WiFi connection is working as well.

See Raspberry Pi desktop on your ubuntu

The Completest Cocos2d-x Tutorial & Guide List

Good list. The Angry Ninjas Starter Kit will have a Cocos2d-X update soon.

'tuple' object does not support item assignment

PIL pixels are tuples, and tuples are immutable. You need to construct a new tuple. So, instead of the for loop, do:

pixels = [(pixel[0] + 20, pixel[1], pixel[2]) for pixel in pixels]
image.putdata(pixels)

Also, if the pixel is already too red, adding 20 will overflow the value. You probably want something like min(pixel[0] + 20, 255) or int(255 * (pixel[0] / 255.) ** 0.9) instead of pixel[0] + 20.

And, to be able to handle images in lots of different formats, do image = image.convert("RGB") after opening the image. The convert method will ensure that the pixels are always (r, g, b) tuples.

Haversine Formula in Python (Bearing and Distance between two GPS points)

The Y in atan2 is, by default, the first parameter. Here is the documentation. You will need to switch your inputs to get the correct bearing angle.

bearing = atan2(sin(lon2-lon1)*cos(lat2), cos(lat1)*sin(lat2)in(lat1)*cos(lat2)*cos(lon2-lon1))
bearing = degrees(bearing)
bearing = (bearing + 360) % 360

Invalid URI: The format of the URI could not be determined

The issue for me was that when i got some domain name, i had:

cloudsearch-..-..-xxx.aws.cloudsearch... [WRONG]

http://cloudsearch-..-..-xxx.aws.cloudsearch... [RIGHT]

hope this does the job for you :)

What parameters should I use in a Google Maps URL to go to a lat-lon?

New Version queries have a different format

To reach a lat long by url use (e.g.)

https://www.google.com/maps/search/-15.924,-5.719

How to close a GUI when I push a JButton?

See JFrame.setDefaultCloseOperation(DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE)1. You might also use EXIT_ON_CLOSE, but it is better to explicitly clean up any running threads, then when the last GUI element becomes invisible, the EDT & JRE will end.

The 'button' to invoke this operation is already on a frame.

  1. See this answer to How to best position Swing GUIs? for a demo. of the DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE functionality.

    The JRE will end after all 3 frames are closed by clicking the X button.

Oracle SQL Where clause to find date records older than 30 days

Use:

SELECT *
  FROM YOUR_TABLE
 WHERE creation_date <= TRUNC(SYSDATE) - 30

SYSDATE returns the date & time; TRUNC resets the date to being as of midnight so you can omit it if you want the creation_date that is 30 days previous including the current time.

Depending on your needs, you could also look at using ADD_MONTHS:

SELECT *
  FROM YOUR_TABLE
 WHERE creation_date <= ADD_MONTHS(TRUNC(SYSDATE), -1)

Call another rest api from my server in Spring-Boot

Does Retrofit have any method to achieve this? If not, how I can do that?

YES

Retrofit is type-safe REST client for Android and Java. Retrofit turns your HTTP API into a Java interface.

For more information refer the following link

https://howtodoinjava.com/retrofit2/retrofit2-beginner-tutorial

Why fragments, and when to use fragments instead of activities?

Fragments are of particular use in some cases like where we want to keep a navigation drawer in all our pages. You can inflate a frame layout with whatever fragment you want and still have access to the navigation drawer.

If you had used an activity, you would have had to keep the drawer in all activities which makes for redundant code. This is one interesting use of a fragment.

I'm new to Android and still think a fragment is helpful this way.

JPA: JOIN in JPQL

Join on one-to-many relation in JPQL looks as follows:

select b.fname, b.lname from Users b JOIN b.groups c where c.groupName = :groupName 

When several properties are specified in select clause, result is returned as Object[]:

Object[] temp = (Object[]) em.createNamedQuery("...")
    .setParameter("groupName", groupName)
    .getSingleResult(); 
String fname = (String) temp[0];
String lname = (String) temp[1];

By the way, why your entities are named in plural form, it's confusing. If you want to have table names in plural, you may use @Table to specify the table name for the entity explicitly, so it doesn't interfere with reserved words:

@Entity @Table(name = "Users")     
public class User implements Serializable { ... } 

Unable to install pyodbc on Linux

I have referenced this question several times, and gone on to actually find the answer I was looking for here: pyodbc wiki

To avoid gcc error on Ubuntu Linux, I did:

sudo aptitude install g++

I also installed the following 2 packages from Synaptic:

  • python-dev

  • tdsodbc

What's the meaning of System.out.println in Java?

System is a class in java.lang package

out is a static object of PrintStream class in java.io package

println() is a method in the PrintStream class

Is it possible to get an Excel document's row count without loading the entire document into memory?

Adding on to what Hubro said, apparently get_highest_row() has been deprecated. Using the max_row and max_column properties returns the row and column count. For example:

    wb = load_workbook(path, use_iterators=True)
    sheet = wb.worksheets[0]

    row_count = sheet.max_row
    column_count = sheet.max_column

What is the easiest way to parse an INI file in Java?

The library I've used is ini4j. It is lightweight and parses the ini files with ease. Also it uses no esoteric dependencies to 10,000 other jar files, as one of the design goals was to use only the standard Java API

This is an example on how the library is used:

Ini ini = new Ini(new File(filename));
java.util.prefs.Preferences prefs = new IniPreferences(ini);
System.out.println("grumpy/homePage: " + prefs.node("grumpy").get("homePage", null));

What's the difference between jquery.js and jquery.min.js?

Jquery.min.js is nothing else but compressed version of jquery.js. You can use it the same way as jquery.js, but it's smaller, so in production you should use minified version and when you're debugging you can use normal jquery.js version. If you want to compress your own javascript file you can these compressors:

Or just read topis on StackOverflow about js compression :) :

What does "dereferencing" a pointer mean?

Code and explanation from Pointer Basics:

The dereference operation starts at the pointer and follows its arrow over to access its pointee. The goal may be to look at the pointee state or to change the pointee state. The dereference operation on a pointer only works if the pointer has a pointee -- the pointee must be allocated and the pointer must be set to point to it. The most common error in pointer code is forgetting to set up the pointee. The most common runtime crash because of that error in the code is a failed dereference operation. In Java the incorrect dereference will be flagged politely by the runtime system. In compiled languages such as C, C++, and Pascal, the incorrect dereference will sometimes crash, and other times corrupt memory in some subtle, random way. Pointer bugs in compiled languages can be difficult to track down for this reason.

void main() {   
    int*    x;  // Allocate the pointer x
    x = malloc(sizeof(int));    // Allocate an int pointee,
                            // and set x to point to it
    *x = 42;    // Dereference x to store 42 in its pointee   
}

Smart way to truncate long strings

Most modern Javascript frameworks (JQuery, Prototype, etc...) have a utility function tacked on to String that handles this.

Here's an example in Prototype:

'Some random text'.truncate(10);
// -> 'Some ra...'

This seems like one of those functions you want someone else to deal with/maintain. I'd let the framework handle it, rather than writing more code.

How to add button in ActionBar(Android)?

you have to create an entry inside res/menu,override onCreateOptionsMenu and inflate it

@Override
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
    MenuInflater inflater = getMenuInflater();
    inflater.inflate(R.menu.yourentry, menu);
    return true;
}

an entry for the menu could be:

<menu xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" >
    <item
        android:id="@+id/action_cart"
        android:icon="@drawable/cart"
        android:orderInCategory="100"
        android:showAsAction="always"/> 
</menu>

Remove x-axis label/text in chart.js

Faced this issue of removing the labels in Chartjs now. Looks like the documentation is improved. http://www.chartjs.org/docs/#getting-started-global-chart-configuration

Chart.defaults.global.legend.display = false;

this global settings prevents legends from being shown in all Charts. Since this was enough for me, I used it. I am not sure to how to avoid legends for individual charts.

python: after installing anaconda, how to import pandas

I've had the same exact problem in that I installed Anaconda because a python script I want to use relies on pandas, and that after so doing, python still returned the same comment that "pandas module is missing" or something to that effect.

When I typed "python" to see which python was being called, I found it was still accessing the older version of python 2.7, even though when I installed Anaconda the installer asked (and I agreed) that it would make its python the default python on my machine (PC running Windows 7).

I tried to find if there is a CONFIG.SYS file on the PC, but gave up after searching in various places (If anyone knows, please tell me). I got around the problem by writing a one-line batch script named python2.bat that called the Anaconda2 version of python, which then worked. However, it would clearly be better to change the CONFIG.SYS or whatever the PC uses to decide which version of python to call.

How do I compare two files using Eclipse? Is there any option provided by Eclipse?

To compare two files in Eclipse, first select them in the Project Explorer / Package Explorer / Navigator with control-click. Now right-click on one of the files, and the following context menu will appear. Select Compare With / Each Other.

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Get all child elements

Another veneration of find_elements_by_xpath(".//*") is:

from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By


find_elements(By.XPATH, ".//*")

Bootstrap full responsive navbar with logo or brand name text

I checked and it worked for me.

<div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="bs-example-navbar-collapse-1" style="margin-top:100px;"><!--style with margin-top according to your need-->
        <ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">
            <li><a href="#">About</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Services</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">Contact</a></li>
        </ul>
    </div>

How to choose an AWS profile when using boto3 to connect to CloudFront

This section of the boto3 documentation is helpful.

Here's what worked for me:

session = boto3.Session(profile_name='dev')
client = session.client('cloudfront')

How to pass a file path which is in assets folder to File(String path)?

Unless you unpack them, assets remain inside the apk. Accordingly, there isn't a path you can feed into a File. The path you've given in your question will work with/in a WebView, but I think that's a special case for WebView.

You'll need to unpack the file or use it directly.

If you have a Context, you can use context.getAssets().open("myfoldername/myfilename"); to open an InputStream on the file. With the InputStream you can use it directly, or write it out somewhere (after which you can use it with File).

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

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

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

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

Convert Month Number to Month Name Function in SQL

in addition to original

SELECT DATENAME(m, str(2) + '/1/2011')

you can do this

SELECT DATENAME(m, str([column_name]) + '/1/2011')

this way you get names for all rows in a table. where [column_name] represents a integer column containing numeric value 1 through 12

2 represents any integer, by contact string i created a date where i can extract the month. '/1/2011' can be any date

if you want to do this with variable

DECLARE @integer int;

SET @integer = 6;

SELECT DATENAME(m, str(@integer) + '/1/2011')

Convert character to ASCII numeric value in java

If you wanted to convert the entire string into concatenated ASCII values then you can use this -

    String str = "abc";  // or anything else

    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
    for (char c : str.toCharArray())
    sb.append((int)c);

    BigInteger mInt = new BigInteger(sb.toString());
    System.out.println(mInt);

wherein you will get 979899 as output.

Credit to this.

I just copied it here so that it would be convenient for others.

What is the cleanest way to ssh and run multiple commands in Bash?

Put all the commands on to a script and it can be run like

ssh <remote-user>@<remote-host> "bash -s" <./remote-commands.sh

Python executable not finding libpython shared library

just install python-lib. (python27-lib). It will install libpython2.7.so1.0. We don't require to manually set anything.

ORA-00904: invalid identifier

DEPARTMENT_CODE is not a column that exists in the table Team. Check the DDL of the table to find the proper column name.

Default value in Go's method

No, the powers that be at Google chose not to support that.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/-5MCaivW0qQ

JavaScript alert not working in Android WebView

webView.setWebChromeClient(new WebChromeClient() {
    @Override
    public boolean onJsAlert(WebView view, String url, String message, JsResult result) {
        return super.onJsAlert(view, url, message, result);
    }
});

Google Map API - Removing Markers

According to Google documentation they said that this is the best way to do it. First create this function to find out how many markers there are/

   function setMapOnAll(map1) {
    for (var i = 0; i < markers.length; i++) {
      markers[i].setMap(map1);
    }
  }

Next create another function to take away all these markers

 function clearMarker(){
setMapOnAll(null);
}

Then create this final function to erase all the markers when ever this function is called upon.

 function delateMarkers(){
clearMarker()
markers = []
//console.log(markers) This is just if you want to

}

Hope that helped good luck

"Use the new keyword if hiding was intended" warning

In the code below, Class A implements the interface IShow and implements its method ShowData. Class B inherits Class A. In order to use ShowData method in Class B, we have to use keyword new in the ShowData method in order to hide the base class Class A method and use override keyword in order to extend the method.

interface IShow
{
    protected void ShowData();
}

class A : IShow
{
    protected void ShowData()
    {
        Console.WriteLine("This is Class A");
    }
}

class B : A
{
    protected new void ShowData()
    {
        Console.WriteLine("This is Class B");
    }
}

Laravel migration default value

Might be a little too late to the party, but hope this helps someone with similar issue.

The reason why your default value doesnt't work is because the migration file sets up the default value in your database (MySQL or PostgreSQL or whatever), and not in your Laravel application.

Let me illustrate with an example.

This line means Laravel is generating a new Book instance, as specified in your model. The new Book object will have properties according to the table associated with the model. Up until this point, nothing is written on the database.

$book = new Book();

Now the following lines are setting up the values of each property of the Book object. Same still, nothing is written on the database yet.

$book->author = 'Test'
$book->title = 'Test'

This line is the one writing to the database. After passing on the object to the database, then the empty fields will be filled by the database (may be default value, may be null, or whatever you specify on your migration file).

$book->save();

And thus, the default value will not pop up before you save it to the database.

But, that is not enough. If you try to access $book->price, it will still be null (or 0, i'm not sure). Saving it is only adding the defaults to the record in the database, and it won't affect the Object you are carrying around.

So, to get the instance with filled-in default values, you have to re-fetch the instance. You may use the

Book::find($book->id);

Or, a more sophisticated way by refreshing the instance

$book->refresh();

And then, the next time you try to access the object, it will be filled with the default values.

Get value of div content using jquery

You can get div content using .text() in jquery

var divContent = $('#field-function_purpose').text();
console.log(divContent);

Fiddle

SMTP connect() failed PHPmailer - PHP

The solution of this problem is really very simple. actually Google start using a new authorization mechanism for its User.. you might have seen another line in debug console prompting you to log into your account using any browser.! this is because of new XOAUTH2 authentication mechanism which google start using since 2014. remember.. do not use the ssl over port 465, instead go for tls over 587. this is just because of XOAUTH2 authentication mechanism. if you use ssl over 465, your request will be bounced back.

what you really need to do is .. log into your google account and open up following address https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps and check turn on . you have to do this for letting you to connect with the google SMTP because according to new authentication mechanism google bounce back all the requests from all those applications which does not follow any standard encryption technique.. after checking turn on.. you are good to go.. here is the code which worked fine for me..

require_once 'C:\xampp\htdocs\email\vendor\autoload.php';

define ('GUSER','[email protected]');
define ('GPWD','your password');


// make a separate file and include this file in that. call this function in that file.

function smtpmailer($to, $from, $from_name, $subject, $body) { 
    global $error;
    $mail = new PHPMailer();  // create a new object
    $mail->IsSMTP(); // enable SMTP
    $mail->SMTPDebug = 2;  // debugging: 1 = errors and messages, 2 = messages only
    $mail->SMTPAuth = true;  // authentication enabled
    $mail->SMTPSecure = 'tls'; // secure transfer enabled REQUIRED for GMail
    $mail->SMTPAutoTLS = false;
    $mail->Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';
    $mail->Port = 587;

    $mail->Username = GUSER;  
    $mail->Password = GPWD;           
    $mail->SetFrom($from, $from_name);
    $mail->Subject = $subject;
    $mail->Body = $body;
    $mail->AddAddress($to);
    if(!$mail->Send()) {
        $error = 'Mail error: '.$mail->ErrorInfo; 
        return false;
    } else {
        $error = 'Message sent!';
        return true;
    }
}

LINQ: Select an object and change some properties without creating a new object

I prefer this one. It can be combined with other linq commands.

from item in list
let xyz = item.PropertyToChange = calcValue()
select item

ASP.NET Bundles how to disable minification

I combined a few answers given by others in this question to come up with another alternative solution.

Goal: To always bundle the files, to disable the JS and CSS minification in the event that <compilation debug="true" ... /> and to always apply a custom transformation to the CSS bundle.

My solution:

1) In web.config: <compilation debug="true" ... />

2) In the Global.asax Application_Start() method:

 protected void Application_Start() {
     ...
     BundleTable.EnableOptimizations = true; // Force bundling to occur

     // If the compilation node in web.config indicates debugging mode is enabled
     // then clear all transforms. I.e. disable Js and CSS minification.
     if (HttpContext.Current.IsDebuggingEnabled) {
         BundleTable.Bundles.ToList().ForEach(b => b.Transforms.Clear());
     }

      // Add a custom CSS bundle transformer. In my case the transformer replaces a
      // token in the CSS file with an AppConfig value representing the website URL
      // in the current environment. E.g. www.mydevwebsite in Dev and
      // www.myprodwebsite.com in Production.
      BundleTable.Bundles.ToList()
          .FindAll(x => x.GetType() == typeof(StyleBundle))
          .ForEach(b => b.Transforms.Add(new MyStyleBundleTransformer()));
     ...
}

Declaring a variable and setting its value from a SELECT query in Oracle

For storing a single row output into a variable from the select into query :

declare v_username varchare(20); SELECT username into v_username FROM users WHERE user_id = '7';

this will store the value of a single record into the variable v_username.


For storing multiple rows output into a variable from the select into query :

you have to use listagg function. listagg concatenate the resultant rows of a coloumn into a single coloumn and also to differentiate them you can use a special symbol. use the query as below SELECT listagg(username || ',' ) within group (order by username) into v_username FROM users;

VBA Object doesn't support this property or method

Object doesn't support this property or method.

Think of it like if anything after the dot is called on an object. It's like a chain.

An object is a class instance. A class instance supports some properties defined in that class type definition. It exposes whatever intelli-sense in VBE tells you (there are some hidden members but it's not related to this). So after each dot . you get intelli-sense (that white dropdown) trying to help you pick the correct action.

(you can start either way - front to back or back to front, once you understand how this works you'll be able to identify where the problem occurs)

Type this much anywhere in your code area

Dim a As Worksheets
a.

you get help from VBE, it's a little dropdown called Intelli-sense

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It lists all available actions that particular object exposes to any user. You can't see the .Selection member of the Worksheets() class. That's what the error tells you exactly.

Object doesn't support this property or method.

If you look at the example on MSDN

Worksheets("GRA").Activate
iAreaCount = Selection.Areas.Count

It activates the sheet first then calls the Selection... it's not connected together because Selection is not a member of Worksheets() class. Simply, you can't prefix the Selection

What about

Sub DisplayColumnCount()
    Dim iAreaCount As Integer
    Dim i As Integer

    Worksheets("GRA").Activate
    iAreaCount = Selection.Areas.Count

    If iAreaCount <= 1 Then
        MsgBox "The selection contains " & Selection.Columns.Count & " columns."
    Else
        For i = 1 To iAreaCount
        MsgBox "Area " & i & " of the selection contains " & _
        Selection.Areas(i).Columns.Count & " columns."
        Next i
    End If
End Sub

from HERE

How to draw border around a UILabel?

Here are some things you can do with UILabel and its borders.

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Here is the code for those labels:

import UIKit
class ViewController: UIViewController {

    @IBOutlet weak var label1: UILabel!
    @IBOutlet weak var label2: UILabel!
    @IBOutlet weak var label3: UILabel!
    @IBOutlet weak var label4: UILabel!
    @IBOutlet weak var label5: UILabel!
    @IBOutlet weak var label6: UILabel!

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        // label 1
        label1.layer.borderWidth = 1.0

        // label 2
        label2.layer.borderWidth = 5.0
        label2.layer.borderColor = UIColor.blue.cgColor

        // label 3
        label3.layer.borderWidth = 2.0
        label3.layer.cornerRadius = 8

        // label 4
        label4.backgroundColor = UIColor.cyan

        // label 5
        label5.backgroundColor = UIColor.red
        label5.layer.cornerRadius = 8
        label5.layer.masksToBounds = true

        // label 6
        label6.layer.borderWidth = 2.0
        label6.layer.cornerRadius = 8
        label6.backgroundColor = UIColor.yellow
        label6.layer.masksToBounds = true
    }
}

Note that in Swift there is no need to import QuartzCore.

See also

Angular2 - Focusing a textbox on component load

<input id="name" type="text" #myInput />
{{ myInput.focus() }}

this is the best and simplest way, because code "myInput.focus()" runs after input created

WARNING: this solution is acceptable only if you have single element in the form (user will be not able to select other elements)

Add disabled attribute to input element using Javascript

Just use jQuery's attr() method

$(this).closest("tr").next().show().find('.longboxsmall').attr('disabled', 'disabled');

How do I convert an enum to a list in C#?

Much easier way:

Enum.GetValues(typeof(SomeEnum))
    .Cast<SomeEnum>()
    .Select(v => v.ToString())
    .ToList();

Make HTML5 video poster be same size as video itself

<video src="videofile.webm" poster="posterimage.jpg" controls preload="metadata">
    Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos.
</video>

Cover

video{
   object-fit: cover; /*to cover all the box*/
}

Fill

video{
   object-fit: fill; /*to add black content at top and bottom*/
   object-position: 0 -14px; /* to center our image*/
}

Note that the video controls are over our image, so our image is not completly showed. If you are using object-fit cover, edit your image on a visual app as photoshop and add a margin bottom content.

TypeError : Unhashable type

TLDR:

- You can't hash a list, a set, nor a dict to put that into sets

- You can hash a tuple to put it into a set.

Example:

>>> {1, 2, [3, 4]}
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: unhashable type: 'list'

>>> {1, 2, (3, 4)}
set([1, 2, (3, 4)])

Note that hashing is somehow recursive and the above holds true for nested items:

>>> {1, 2, 3, (4, [2, 3])}
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: unhashable type: 'list'

Dict keys also are hashable, so the above holds for dict keys too.

convert:not authorized `aaaa` @ error/constitute.c/ReadImage/453

Just delete /etc/ImageMagick/policy.xml file. E.g.

rm /etc/<ImageMagick_PATH>/policy.xml

For ImageMagick 6, it's:

sudo rm /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml

Set style for TextView programmatically

You can pass a ContextThemeWrapper to the constructor like this:

TextView myText = new TextView(new ContextThemeWrapper(MyActivity.this, R.style.my_style));

Set initial focus in an Android application

You could use the requestFocus tag:

<Button ...>
  <requestFocus />
</Button>

I find it odd though that it auto-focuses one of your buttons, I haven't observed that behavior in any of my views.

Amazon S3 direct file upload from client browser - private key disclosure

You're saying you want a "serverless" solution. But that means you have no ability to put any of "your" code in the loop. (NOTE: Once you give your code to a client, it's "their" code now.) Locking down CORS is not going to help: People can easily write a non-web-based tool (or a web-based proxy) that adds the correct CORS header to abuse your system.

The big problem is that you can't differentiate between the different users. You can't allow one user to list/access his files, but prevent others from doing so. If you detect abuse, there is nothing you can do about it except change the key. (Which the attacker can presumably just get again.)

Your best bet is to create an "IAM user" with a key for your javascript client. Only give it write access to just one bucket. (but ideally, do not enable the ListBucket operation, that will make it more attractive to attackers.)

If you had a server (even a simple micro instance at $20/month), you could sign the keys on your server while monitoring/preventing abuse in realtime. Without a server, the best you can do is periodically monitor for abuse after-the-fact. Here's what I would do:

1) periodically rotate the keys for that IAM user: Every night, generate a new key for that IAM user, and replace the oldest key. Since there are 2 keys, each key will be valid for 2 days.

2) enable S3 logging, and download the logs every hour. Set alerts on "too many uploads" and "too many downloads". You will want to check both total file size and number of files uploaded. And you will want to monitor both the global totals, and also the per-IP address totals (with a lower threshold).

These checks can be done "serverless" because you can run them on your desktop. (i.e. S3 does all the work, these processes just there to alert you to abuse of your S3 bucket so you don't get a giant AWS bill at the end of the month.)

How to show the text on a ImageButton?

ImageButton can't have text (or, at least, android:text isn't listed in its attributes).

The Trick is:

It looks like you need to use Button (and look at drawableTop or setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(int,int,int,int)).

Fixing npm path in Windows 8 and 10

Edit the System environment variables, and enter following path:

C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe;

C:\Users\{yourName}\AppData\Roaming\npm

Android Studio: Default project directory

I found an easy way:

  1. Open a new project;
  2. Change the project location name by typing and not the Browse... button;
  3. The Next button will appear now.

Base64 encoding and decoding in oracle

All the previous posts are correct. There's more than one way to skin a cat. Here is another way to do the same thing: (just replace "what_ever_you_want_to_convert" with your string and run it in Oracle:

    set serveroutput on;
    DECLARE
    v_str VARCHAR2(1000);
    BEGIN
    --Create encoded value
    v_str := utl_encode.text_encode
    ('what_ever_you_want_to_convert','WE8ISO8859P1', UTL_ENCODE.BASE64);
    dbms_output.put_line(v_str);
    --Decode the value..
    v_str := utl_encode.text_decode
    (v_str,'WE8ISO8859P1', UTL_ENCODE.BASE64);
    dbms_output.put_line(v_str);
    END;
    /

source

Are there any standard exit status codes in Linux?

8 bits of the return code and 8 bits of the number of the killing signal are mixed into a single value on the return from wait(2) & co..

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <signal.h>

int main() {
    int status;

    pid_t child = fork();
    if (child <= 0)
        exit(42);
    waitpid(child, &status, 0);
    if (WIFEXITED(status))
        printf("first child exited with %u\n", WEXITSTATUS(status));
    /* prints: "first child exited with 42" */

    child = fork();
    if (child <= 0)
        kill(getpid(), SIGSEGV);
    waitpid(child, &status, 0);
    if (WIFSIGNALED(status))
        printf("second child died with %u\n", WTERMSIG(status));
    /* prints: "second child died with 11" */
}

How are you determining the exit status? Traditionally, the shell only stores an 8-bit return code, but sets the high bit if the process was abnormally terminated.

$ sh -c 'exit 42'; echo $?
42
$ sh -c 'kill -SEGV $$'; echo $?
Segmentation fault
139
$ expr 139 - 128
11

If you're seeing anything other than this, then the program probably has a SIGSEGV signal handler which then calls exit normally, so it isn't actually getting killed by the signal. (Programs can chose to handle any signals aside from SIGKILL and SIGSTOP.)

Read JSON data in a shell script

There is jq for parsing json on the command line:

 jq '.Body'

Visit this for jq: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/

How to specify a port to run a create-react-app based project?

just run below command

PORT=3001 npm start

Submitting HTML form using Jquery AJAX

Quick Description of AJAX

AJAX is simply Asyncronous JSON or XML (in most newer situations JSON). Because we are doing an ASYNC task we will likely be providing our users with a more enjoyable UI experience. In this specific case we are doing a FORM submission using AJAX.

Really quickly there are 4 general web actions GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE; these directly correspond with SELECT/Retreiving DATA, INSERTING DATA, UPDATING/UPSERTING DATA, and DELETING DATA. A default HTML/ASP.Net webform/PHP/Python or any other form action is to "submit" which is a POST action. Because of this the below will all describe doing a POST. Sometimes however with http you might want a different action and would likely want to utilitize .ajax.

My code specifically for you (described in code comments):

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/* attach a submit handler to the form */
$("#formoid").submit(function(event) {

  /* stop form from submitting normally */
  event.preventDefault();

  /* get the action attribute from the <form action=""> element */
  var $form = $(this),
    url = $form.attr('action');

  /* Send the data using post with element id name and name2*/
  var posting = $.post(url, {
    name: $('#name').val(),
    name2: $('#name2').val()
  });

  /* Alerts the results */
  posting.done(function(data) {
    $('#result').text('success');
  });
  posting.fail(function() {
    $('#result').text('failed');
  });
});
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<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<form id="formoid" action="studentFormInsert.php" title="" method="post">
  <div>
    <label class="title">First Name</label>
    <input type="text" id="name" name="name">
  </div>
  <div>
    <label class="title">Last Name</label>
    <input type="text" id="name2" name="name2">
  </div>
  <div>
    <input type="submit" id="submitButton" name="submitButton" value="Submit">
  </div>
</form>

<div id="result"></div>
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Documentation

From jQuery website $.post documentation.

Example: Send form data using ajax requests

$.post("test.php", $("#testform").serialize());

Example: Post a form using ajax and put results in a div

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.js"></script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <form action="/" id="searchForm">
            <input type="text" name="s" placeholder="Search..." />
            <input type="submit" value="Search" />
        </form>
        <!-- the result of the search will be rendered inside this div -->
        <div id="result"></div>
        <script>
            /* attach a submit handler to the form */
            $("#searchForm").submit(function(event) {

                /* stop form from submitting normally */
                event.preventDefault();

                /* get some values from elements on the page: */
                var $form = $(this),
                    term = $form.find('input[name="s"]').val(),
                    url = $form.attr('action');

                /* Send the data using post */
                var posting = $.post(url, {
                    s: term
                });

                /* Put the results in a div */
                posting.done(function(data) {
                    var content = $(data).find('#content');
                    $("#result").empty().append(content);
                });
            });
        </script>
    </body>
</html>

Important Note

Without using OAuth or at minimum HTTPS (TLS/SSL) please don't use this method for secure data (credit card numbers, SSN, anything that is PCI, HIPAA, or login related)

How do I detect if software keyboard is visible on Android Device or not?

I used this as a basis: https://rogerkeays.com/how-to-check-if-the-software-keyboard-is-shown-in-android

/**
* To capture the result of IMM hide/show soft keyboard
*/
public class IMMResult extends ResultReceiver {
     public int result = -1;
     public IMMResult() {
         super(null);
}

@Override 
public void onReceiveResult(int r, Bundle data) {
    result = r;
}

// poll result value for up to 500 milliseconds
public int getResult() {
    try {
        int sleep = 0;
        while (result == -1 && sleep < 500) {
            Thread.sleep(100);
            sleep += 100;
        }
    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
        Log.e("IMMResult", e.getMessage());
    }
    return result;
}
}

Then wrote this method:

public boolean isSoftKeyboardShown(InputMethodManager imm, View v) {
    
    IMMResult result = new IMMResult();
    int res;
    
    imm.showSoftInput(v, 0, result);

    // if keyboard doesn't change, handle the keypress
    res = result.getResult();
    if (res == InputMethodManager.RESULT_UNCHANGED_SHOWN ||
            res == InputMethodManager.RESULT_UNCHANGED_HIDDEN) {

        return true;
    }
    else
        return false;

}

You may then use this to test all fields (EditText, AutoCompleteTextView, etc) that may have opened a softkeyboard:

    InputMethodManager imm = (InputMethodManager) getActivity().getSystemService(Context.INPUT_METHOD_SERVICE);
    if(isSoftKeyboardShown(imm, editText1) | isSoftKeyboardShown(imm, autocompletetextview1))
        //close the softkeyboard
        imm.toggleSoftInput(InputMethodManager.SHOW_FORCED, 0);

Addmittely not an ideal solution, but it gets the job done.

Use of for_each on map elements

Will it work for you ?

class MyClass;
typedef std::pair<int,MyClass> MyPair;
class MyClass
{
  private:
  void foo() const{};
public:
static void Method(MyPair const& p) 
{
    //......
        p.second.foo();
};
}; 
// ...
std::map<int, MyClass> Map;
//.....
std::for_each(Map.begin(), Map.end(), (&MyClass::Method));

dereferencing pointer to incomplete type

I saw a question the other day where someone inadvertently used an incomplete type by specifying something like

struct a {
    int q; 
}; 
struct A *x; 
x->q = 3;

The compiler knew that struct A was a struct, despite A being totally undefined, by virtue of the struct keyword.

That was in C++, where such usage of struct is atypical (and, it turns out, can lead to foot-shooting). In C if you do

typedef struct a {
    ...
} a;

then you can use a as the typename and omit the struct later. This will lead the compiler to give you an undefined identifier error later, rather than incomplete type, if you mistype the name or forget a header.

What's the difference between HEAD^ and HEAD~ in Git?

TLDR

~ is what you want most of the time, it references past commits to the current branch

^ references parents (git-merge creates a 2nd parent or more)

A~ is always the same as A^
A~~ is always the same as A^^, and so on
A~2 is not the same as A^2 however,
because ~2 is shorthand for ~~
while ^2 is not shorthand for anything, it means the 2nd parent

Looping over arrays, printing both index and value

INDEX=0
for i in $list; do 
    echo ${INDEX}_$i
    let INDEX=${INDEX}+1
done

CSV new-line character seen in unquoted field error

I realize this is an old post, but I ran into the same problem and don't see the correct answer so I will give it a try

Python Error:

_csv.Error: new-line character seen in unquoted field

Caused by trying to read Macintosh (pre OS X formatted) CSV files. These are text files that use CR for end of line. If using MS Office make sure you select either plain CSV format or CSV (MS-DOS). Do not use CSV (Macintosh) as save-as type.

My preferred EOL version would be LF (Unix/Linux/Apple), but I don't think MS Office provides the option to save in this format.

Spring Boot yaml configuration for a list of strings

In my case this was a syntax issue in the .yml file. I had:

@Value("${spring.kafka.bootstrap-servers}")
public List<String> BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS_LIST;

and the list in my .yml file:

bootstrap-servers:
  - s1.company.com:9092
  - s2.company.com:9092
  - s3.company.com:9092

was not reading into the @Value-annotated field. When I changed the syntax in the .yml file to:

bootstrap-servers >
  s1.company.com:9092
  s2.company.com:9092
  s3.company.com:9092

it worked fine.

dplyr change many data types

It's a one-liner with mutate_at:

dat %>% mutate_at("l1", factor) %>% mutate_at("l2", as.numeric)

Cannot set content-type to 'application/json' in jQuery.ajax

I recognized those screens, I'm using CodeFluentEntities, and I've got solution that worked for me as well.

I'm using that construction:

$.ajax({
   url: path,
   type: "POST",
   contentType: "text/plain",
   data: {"some":"some"}
}

as you can see, if I use

contentType: "",

or

contentType: "text/plain", //chrome

Everything works fine.

I'm not 100% sure that it's all that you need, cause I've also changed headers.

Check if year is leap year in javascript

If you're doing this in an Node.js app, you can use the leap-year package:

npm install --save leap-year

Then from your app, use the following code to verify whether the provided year or date object is a leap year:

var leapYear = require('leap-year');

leapYear(2014);
//=> false 

leapYear(2016);
//=> true 

Using a library like this has the advantage that you don't have to deal with the dirty details of getting all of the special cases right, since the library takes care of that.

Is it better in C++ to pass by value or pass by constant reference?

Sounds like you got your answer. Passing by value is expensive, but gives you a copy to work with if you need it.

Add centered text to the middle of a <hr/>-like line

<div style="text-align: center; border-top: 1px solid black">
  <div style="display: inline-block; position: relative; top: -10px; background-color: white; padding: 0px 10px">text</div>
</div>

How to connect to MySQL Database?

Another library to consider is MySqlConnector, https://mysqlconnector.net/. Mysql.Data is under a GPL license, whereas MySqlConnector is MIT.

Disable SSL fallback and use only TLS for outbound connections in .NET? (Poodle mitigation)

I found the simplest solution is to add two registry entries as follows (run this in a command prompt with admin privileges):

reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\.NETFramework\v4.0.30319 /v SchUseStrongCrypto /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /reg:32

reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\.NETFramework\v4.0.30319 /v SchUseStrongCrypto /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /reg:64

These entries seem to affect how the .NET CLR chooses a protocol when making a secure connection as a client.

There is more information about this registry entry here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/SecurityAdvisories/2015/2960358#suggested-actions

Not only is this simpler, but assuming it works for your case, far more robust than a code-based solution, which requires developers to track protocol and development and update all their relevant code. Hopefully, similar environment changes can be made for TLS 1.3 and beyond, as long as .NET remains dumb enough to not automatically choose the highest available protocol.

NOTE: Even though, according to the article above, this is only supposed to disable RC4, and one would not think this would change whether the .NET client is allowed to use TLS1.2+ or not, for some reason it does have this effect.

NOTE: As noted by @Jordan Rieger in the comments, this is not a solution for POODLE, since it does not disable the older protocols a -- it merely allows the client to work with newer protocols e.g. when a patched server has disabled the older protocols. However, with a MITM attack, obviously a compromised server will offer the client an older protocol, which the client will then happily use.

TODO: Try to disable client-side use of TLS1.0 and TLS1.1 with these registry entries, however I don't know if the .NET http client libraries respect these settings or not:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/security/tls/tls-registry-settings#tls-10

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/security/tls/tls-registry-settings#tls-11

Git push error pre-receive hook declined

I stumbled across the same error using BitBucket. I had a local Git repo I wanted to back up online, so I created a new repository from my BitBucket account (using the web interface).

After running git remote add origin [email protected]:StatMarianne/<a private repo>.git, I ran git push origin master to no avail (I typically don't use the -u option with git push because I don't mind typing up the full repo and branch names when pushing and pulling).

The error read:

remote: You're not allowed to write to this repository.
To bitbucket.org:StatMarianne/<a private repo>.git
 ! [remote rejected] master -> master (pre-receive hook declined)
error: failed to push some refs to '[email protected]:StatMarianne/<a private repo>.git'

But my local branch did get successfully pushed when I ran git push -u origin master (following strictly BitBucket's instructions).

I find it surprising, since -u (--set-upstream) should only "add upstream (tracking) reference..." Anyhow.

How do you stop MySQL on a Mac OS install?

This worked for me on macOS 10.13.6 with 8.0.12 MySQL

/usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server start

/usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server restart

/usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server stop

Reverse ip, find domain names on ip address

You can use ping -a <ip> or nbtstat -A <ip>

Getting all file names from a folder using C#

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.directory.getfiles.aspx

The System.IO namespace has loads of methods to help you with file operations. The

Directory.GetFiles() 

method returns an array of strings which represent the files in the target directory.

SSRS the definition of the report is invalid

I got this error on a report I copied from another project and changed the data source. I solved it by opening the properties of my dataset, going to the Parameters section, and literally just reselecting all the parameters in the right column, like I just clicked the dropdown and selected the same column. Then I hit preview, and it worked!

jquery to validate phone number

I know this is an old post, but I thought I would share my solution to help others.

This function will work if you want to valid 10 digits phone number "US number"

function getValidNumber(value)
{
    value = $.trim(value).replace(/\D/g, '');

    if (value.substring(0, 1) == '1') {
        value = value.substring(1);
    }

    if (value.length == 10) {

        return value;
    }

    return false;
}

Here how to use this method

var num = getValidNumber('(123) 456-7890');
if(num !== false){
     alert('The valid number is: ' + num);
} else {
     alert('The number you passed is not a valid US phone number');
}

Include .so library in apk in android studio

I had the same problem. Check out the comment in https://gist.github.com/khernyo/4226923#comment-812526

It says:

for gradle android plugin v0.3 use "com.android.build.gradle.tasks.PackageApplication"

That should fix your problem.

How to escape the % (percent) sign in C's printf?

you are using incorrect format specifier you should use %% for printing %. Your code should be:

printf("hello%%");  

Read more all format specifiers used in C.

Why doesn't list have safe "get" method like dictionary?

Probably because it just didn't make much sense for list semantics. However, you can easily create your own by subclassing.

class safelist(list):
    def get(self, index, default=None):
        try:
            return self.__getitem__(index)
        except IndexError:
            return default

def _test():
    l = safelist(range(10))
    print l.get(20, "oops")

if __name__ == "__main__":
    _test()

Remove columns from dataframe where ALL values are NA

Another options with purrr package:

library(dplyr)

df <- data.frame(a = NA,
                 b = seq(1:5), 
                 c = c(rep(1, 4), NA))

df %>% purrr::discard(~all(is.na(.)))
df %>% purrr::keep(~!all(is.na(.)))

How to convert integer into date object python?

import datetime

timestamp = datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(1500000000)

print(timestamp.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'))

This will give the output:

2017-07-14 08:10:00

Why is the Android emulator so slow? How can we speed up the Android emulator?

The older Android versions run a lot faster. When I'm on my netbook, I use Android 1.5 (API level 3). There are a couple of drawbacks, though--your apps need to support the older platforms (obviously), and ndk-gdb requires running Android 2.2 (API level 8) or higher. But regularly testing apps against older platforms is a good idea anyway.

Remove CSS from a Div using JQuery

I used the second solution of user147767

However, there is a typo here. It should be

curCssName.toUpperCase().indexOf(cssName.toUpperCase() + ':') < 0

not <= 0

I also changed this condition for:

!curCssName.match(new RegExp(cssName + "(-.+)?:"), "mi")

as sometimes we add a css property over jQuery, and it's added in a different way for different browsers (i.e. the border property will be added as "border" for Firefox, and "border-top", "border-bottom" etc for IE).

How to iterate through a DataTable

foreach (DataRow row in myDataTable.Rows)
{
   Console.WriteLine(row["ImagePath"]);
}

I am writing this from memory.
Hope this gives you enough hint to understand the object model.

DataTable -> DataRowCollection -> DataRow (which one can use & look for column contents for that row, either using columnName or ordinal).

-> = contains.

Calculate correlation with cor(), only for numerical columns

Another option would be to just use the excellent corrr package https://github.com/drsimonj/corrr and do

require(corrr)
require(dplyr)

myData %>% 
   select(x,y,z) %>%  # or do negative or range selections here
   correlate() %>%
   rearrange() %>%  # rearrange by correlations
   shave() # Shave off the upper triangle for a cleaner result

Steps 3 and 4 are entirely optional and are just included to demonstrate the usefulness of the package.

How do I read the contents of a Node.js stream into a string variable?

I had more luck using like that :

let string = '';
readstream
    .on('data', (buf) => string += buf.toString())
    .on('end', () => console.log(string));

I use node v9.11.1 and the readstream is the response from a http.get callback.

filtering NSArray into a new NSArray in Objective-C

Assuming that your objects are all of a similar type you could add a method as a category of their base class that calls the function you're using for your criteria. Then create an NSPredicate object that refers to that method.

In some category define your method that uses your function

@implementation BaseClass (SomeCategory)
- (BOOL)myMethod {
    return someComparisonFunction(self, whatever);
}
@end

Then wherever you'll be filtering:

- (NSArray *)myFilteredObjects {
    NSPredicate *pred = [NSPredicate predicateWithFormat:@"myMethod = TRUE"];
    return [myArray filteredArrayUsingPredicate:pred];
}

Of course, if your function only compares against properties reachable from within your class it may just be easier to convert the function's conditions to a predicate string.

Difference Between Cohesion and Coupling

Cohesion is an indication of the relative functional strength of a module.

  • A cohesive module performs a single task, requiring little interaction with other components in other parts of a program. Stated simply, a cohesive module should (ideally) do just one thing.
  • ?Conventional view:

    the “single-mindedness” of a module

  • ?OO view:

    ?cohesion implies that a component or class encapsulates only attributes and operations that are closely related to one another and to the class or component itself

  • ?Levels of cohesion

    ?Functional

    ?Layer

    ?Communicational

    ?Sequential

    ?Procedural

    ?Temporal

    ?utility

Coupling is an indication of the relative interdependence among modules.

  • Coupling depends on the interface complexity between modules, the point at which entry or reference is made to a module, and what data pass across the interface.

  • Conventional View : The degree to which a component is connected to other components and to the external world

  • OO view: a qualitative measure of the degree to which classes are connected to one another

  • Level of coupling

    ?Content

    ?Common

    ?Control

    ?Stamp

    ?Data

    ?Routine call

    ?Type use

    ?Inclusion or import

    ?External #

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.

URL to load resources from the classpath in Java

If you have tomcat on the classpath, it's as simple as:

TomcatURLStreamHandlerFactory.register();

This will register handlers for "war" and "classpath" protocols.

How do I use a regex in a shell script?

To complement the existing helpful answers:

Using Bash's own regex-matching operator, =~, is a faster alternative in this case, given that you're only matching a single value already stored in a variable:

set -- '12-34-5678' # set $1 to sample value

kREGEX_DATE='^[0-9]{2}[-/][0-9]{2}[-/][0-9]{4}$' # note use of [0-9] to avoid \d
[[ $1 =~ $kREGEX_DATE ]]
echo $? # 0 with the sample value, i.e., a successful match

Note, however, that the caveat re using flavor-specific regex constructs such as \d equally applies: While =~ supports EREs (extended regular expressions), it also supports the host platform's specific extension - it's a rare case of Bash's behavior being platform-dependent.

To remain portable (in the context of Bash), stick to the POSIX ERE specification.

Note that =~ even allows you to define capture groups (parenthesized subexpressions) whose matches you can later access through Bash's special ${BASH_REMATCH[@]} array variable.

Further notes:

  • $kREGEX_DATE is used unquoted, which is necessary for the regex to be recognized as such (quoted parts would be treated as literals).

  • While not always necessary, it is advisable to store the regex in a variable first, because Bash has trouble with regex literals containing \.

    • E.g., on Linux, where \< is supported to match word boundaries, [[ 3 =~ \<3 ]] && echo yes doesn't work, but re='\<3'; [[ 3 =~ $re ]] && echo yes does.
  • I've changed variable name REGEX_DATE to kREGEX_DATE (k signaling a (conceptual) constant), so as to ensure that the name isn't an all-uppercase name, because all-uppercase variable names should be avoided to prevent conflicts with special environment and shell variables.

Commit history on remote repository

You can only view the log on a local repository, however that can include the fetched branches of all remotes you have set-up.

So, if you clone a repo...

git clone git@gitserver:folder/repo.git

This will default to origin/master.

You can add a remote to this repo, other than origin let's add production. From within the local clone folder:

git remote add production git@production-server:folder/repo.git

If we ever want to see the log of production we will need to do:

git fetch --all 

This fetches from ALL remotes (default fetch without --all would fetch just from origin)

After fetching we can look at the log on the production remote, you'll have to specify the branch too.

git log production/master

All options will work as they do with log on local branches.

Create pandas Dataframe by appending one row at a time

If all data in your Dataframe has the same dtype you might use a numpy array. You can write rows directly into the predefined array and convert it to a dataframe at the end. Seems to be even faster than converting a list of dicts.

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
from string import ascii_uppercase

startTime = time.perf_counter()
numcols, numrows = 5, 10000
npdf = np.ones((numrows, numcols))
for row in range(numrows):
    npdf[row, 0:] = np.random.randint(0, 100, (1, numcols))
df5 = pd.DataFrame(npdf, columns=list(ascii_uppercase[:numcols]))      
print('Elapsed time: {:6.3f} seconds for {:d} rows'.format(time.perf_counter() - startTime, numOfRows))
print(df5.shape)

   

Amazon S3 boto - how to create a folder?

Tried many method above and adding forward slash / to the end of key name, to create directory didn't work for me:

client.put_object(Bucket="foo-bucket", Key="test-folder/")

You have to supply Body parameter in order to create directory:

client.put_object(Bucket='foo-bucket',Body='', Key='test-folder/')

Source: ryantuck in boto3 issue

How to check cordova android version of a cordova/phonegap project?

For getting all the info about the cordova package use this command:

npm info cordova

How to upper case every first letter of word in a string?

    String s = "java is an object oriented programming language.";      
    final StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(s.length());    
    String words[] = s.split("\\ "); // space found then split it  
    for (int i = 0; i < words.length; i++) 
         {
    if (i > 0){
    result.append(" ");
    }   
    result.append(Character.toUpperCase(words[i].charAt(0))).append(
                words[i].substring(1));   
    }  
    System.out.println(result);  

Output: Java Is An Object Oriented Programming Language.

What's the difference between size_t and int in C++?

The definition of SIZE_T is found at: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc441980.aspx and https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc230394.aspx

Pasting here the required information:

SIZE_T is a ULONG_PTR representing the maximum number of bytes to which a pointer can point.

This type is declared as follows:

typedef ULONG_PTR SIZE_T;

A ULONG_PTR is an unsigned long type used for pointer precision. It is used when casting a pointer to a long type to perform pointer arithmetic.

This type is declared as follows:

typedef unsigned __int3264 ULONG_PTR;

How can I combine multiple nested Substitute functions in Excel?

To simply combine them you can place them all together like this:

=SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(A2,"_AB","_"),"_CD","_"),"_EF","_"),"_40K",""),"_60K",""),"_S_","_"),"_","-")

(note that this may pass the older Excel limit of 7 nested statements. I'm testing in Excel 2010


Another way to do it is by utilizing Left and Right functions.

This assumes that the changing data on the end is always present and is 8 characters long

=SUBSTITUTE(LEFT(A2,LEN(A2)-8),"_","-")

This will achieve the same resulting string


If the string doesn't always end with 8 characters that you want to strip off you can search for the "_S" and get the current location. Try this:

=SUBSTITUTE(LEFT(A2,FIND("_S",A2,1)),"_","-")

How can I erase all inline styles with javascript and leave only the styles specified in the css style sheet?

I was using the $('div').attr('style', ''); technique and it wasn't working in IE8.

I outputted the style attribute using alert() and it was not stripping out inline styles.

.removeAttr ended up doing the trick in IE8.

Check if null Boolean is true results in exception

Boolean is the object wrapper class for the primitive boolean. This class, as any class, can indeed be null. For performance and memory reasons it is always best to use the primitive.

The wrapper classes in the Java API serve two primary purposes:

  1. To provide a mechanism to “wrap” primitive values in an object so that the primitives can be included in activities reserved for objects, like as being added to Collections, or returned from a method with an object return value.
  2. To provide an assortment of utility functions for primitives. Most of these functions are related to various conversions: converting primitives to and from String objects, and converting primitives and String objects to and from different bases (or radix), such as binary, octal, and hexadecimal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_wrapper_class

git commit error: pathspec 'commit' did not match any file(s) known to git

I have encounter the same problem. my syntax has no problem. What I found is that I copied and pasted git commit -m "comments" from my note. I retype it, the command execute without issue. It turns out the - and " " are the problem when I copy paste to terminal.

What is the perfect counterpart in Python for "while not EOF"

The Python idiom for opening a file and reading it line-by-line is:

with open('filename') as f:
    for line in f:
        do_something(line)

The file will be automatically closed at the end of the above code (the with construct takes care of that).

Finally, it is worth noting that line will preserve the trailing newline. This can be easily removed using:

line = line.rstrip()

How to run an EXE file in PowerShell with parameters with spaces and quotes

Cmd can handle running a quoted exe, but Powershell can't. I'm just going to deal with running the exe itself, since I don't have it. If you literally need to send doublequotes to an argument of an external command, that's another issue that's been covered elsewhere.

1) add the exe folder to your path, maybe in your $profile

$env:path += ';C:\Program Files\IIS\Microsoft Web Deploy\'
msdeploy

2) backquote the spaces:

C:\Program` Files\IIS\Microsoft` Web` Deploy\msdeploy.exe

How to add a delay for a 2 or 3 seconds

You could use Thread.Sleep() function, e.g.

int milliseconds = 2000;
Thread.Sleep(milliseconds);

that completely stops the execution of the current thread for 2 seconds.

Probably the most appropriate scenario for Thread.Sleep is when you want to delay the operations in another thread, different from the main e.g. :

 MAIN THREAD        --------------------------------------------------------->
 (UI, CONSOLE ETC.)      |                                      |
                         |                                      |
 OTHER THREAD            ----- ADD A DELAY (Thread.Sleep) ------>

For other scenarios (e.g. starting operations after some time etc.) check Cody's answer.

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

  1. Project&Targets Properties -> "Don't Code Sign" -> OK -> cmd+S(or cmd+B);
  2. Project&Targets Properties -> "Your Provision Profile"-> OK

  3. Everything works again!

Convert DateTime in C# to yyyy-MM-dd format and Store it to MySql DateTime Field

Try setting a custom CultureInfo for CurrentCulture and CurrentUICulture.

Globalization.CultureInfo customCulture = new Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US", true);

customCulture.DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern = "yyyy-MM-dd h:mm tt";

System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = customCulture;
System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = customCulture;

DateTime newDate = System.Convert.ToDateTime(DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd h:mm tt"));

Allow User to input HTML in ASP.NET MVC - ValidateInput or AllowHtml

If you need to allow html input for action-method parameter (opposed to "model property") there's no built-in way to do that but you can easily achieve this using a custom model binder:

public ActionResult AddBlogPost(int userId,
    [ModelBinder(typeof(AllowHtmlBinder))] string htmlBody)
{
    //...
}

The AllowHtmlBinder code:

public class AllowHtmlBinder : IModelBinder
{
    public object BindModel(ControllerContext controllerContext, ModelBindingContext bindingContext)
    {
        var request = controllerContext.HttpContext.Request;
        var name = bindingContext.ModelName;
        return request.Unvalidated[name]; //magic happens here
    }
}

Find the complete source code and the explanation in my blog post: https://www.jitbit.com/alexblog/273-aspnet-mvc-allowing-html-for-particular-action-parameters/

Getting data posted in between two dates

Try This:

$this->db->where('sell_date BETWEEN "'. date('Y-m-d', strtotime($start_date)). '" and "'. date('Y-m-d', strtotime($end_date)).'"');

Hope this will work

Android AudioRecord example

Here is an end to end solution I implemented for streaming Android microphone audio to a server for playback: Android AudioRecord to Server over UDP Playback Issues

Can I force a page break in HTML printing?

You can use the CSS property page-break-before (or page-break-after). Just set page-break-before: always on those block-level elements (e.g., heading, div, p, or table elements) that should start on a new line.

For example, to cause a line break before any 2nd level heading and before any element in class newpage (e.g., <div class=newpage>...), you would use

h2, .newpage { page-break-before: always }

How do you convert a byte array to a hexadecimal string in C?

For completude, you can also easily do it without calling any heavy library function (no snprintf, no strcat, not even memcpy). It can be useful, say if you are programming some microcontroller or OS kernel where libc is not available.

Nothing really fancy you can find similar code around if you google for it. Really it's not much more complicated than calling snprintf and much faster.

#include <stdio.h>

int main(){
    unsigned char buf[] = {0, 1, 10, 11};
    /* target buffer should be large enough */
    char str[12];

    unsigned char * pin = buf;
    const char * hex = "0123456789ABCDEF";
    char * pout = str;
    int i = 0;
    for(; i < sizeof(buf)-1; ++i){
        *pout++ = hex[(*pin>>4)&0xF];
        *pout++ = hex[(*pin++)&0xF];
        *pout++ = ':';
    }
    *pout++ = hex[(*pin>>4)&0xF];
    *pout++ = hex[(*pin)&0xF];
    *pout = 0;

    printf("%s\n", str);
}

Here is another slightly shorter version. It merely avoid intermediate index variable i and duplicating laste case code (but the terminating character is written two times).

#include <stdio.h>
int main(){
    unsigned char buf[] = {0, 1, 10, 11};
    /* target buffer should be large enough */
    char str[12];

    unsigned char * pin = buf;
    const char * hex = "0123456789ABCDEF";
    char * pout = str;
    for(; pin < buf+sizeof(buf); pout+=3, pin++){
        pout[0] = hex[(*pin>>4) & 0xF];
        pout[1] = hex[ *pin     & 0xF];
        pout[2] = ':';
    }
    pout[-1] = 0;

    printf("%s\n", str);
}

Below is yet another version to answer to a comment saying I used a "trick" to know the size of the input buffer. Actually it's not a trick but a necessary input knowledge (you need to know the size of the data that you are converting). I made this clearer by extracting the conversion code to a separate function. I also added boundary check code for target buffer, which is not really necessary if we know what we are doing.

#include <stdio.h>

void tohex(unsigned char * in, size_t insz, char * out, size_t outsz)
{
    unsigned char * pin = in;
    const char * hex = "0123456789ABCDEF";
    char * pout = out;
    for(; pin < in+insz; pout +=3, pin++){
        pout[0] = hex[(*pin>>4) & 0xF];
        pout[1] = hex[ *pin     & 0xF];
        pout[2] = ':';
        if (pout + 3 - out > outsz){
            /* Better to truncate output string than overflow buffer */
            /* it would be still better to either return a status */
            /* or ensure the target buffer is large enough and it never happen */
            break;
        }
    }
    pout[-1] = 0;
}

int main(){
    enum {insz = 4, outsz = 3*insz};
    unsigned char buf[] = {0, 1, 10, 11};
    char str[outsz];
    tohex(buf, insz, str, outsz);
    printf("%s\n", str);
}

Format numbers in django templates

Slightly off topic:

I found this question while looking for a way to format a number as currency, like so:

$100
($50)  # negative numbers without '-' and in parens

I ended up doing:

{% if   var >= 0 %} ${{ var|stringformat:"d" }}
{% elif var <  0 %} $({{ var|stringformat:"d"|cut:"-" }})
{% endif %}

You could also do, e.g. {{ var|stringformat:"1.2f"|cut:"-" }} to display as $50.00 (with 2 decimal places if that's what you want.

Perhaps slightly on the hacky side, but maybe someone else will find it useful.

How do I initialize the base (super) class?

How do I initialize the base (super) class?

class SuperClass(object):
    def __init__(self, x):
        self.x = x

class SubClass(SuperClass):
    def __init__(self, y):
        self.y = y

Use a super object to ensure you get the next method (as a bound method) in the method resolution order. In Python 2, you need to pass the class name and self to super to lookup the bound __init__ method:

 class SubClass(SuperClass):
      def __init__(self, y):
          super(SubClass, self).__init__('x')
          self.y = y

In Python 3, there's a little magic that makes the arguments to super unnecessary - and as a side benefit it works a little faster:

 class SubClass(SuperClass):
      def __init__(self, y):
          super().__init__('x')
          self.y = y

Hardcoding the parent like this below prevents you from using cooperative multiple inheritance:

 class SubClass(SuperClass):
      def __init__(self, y):
          SuperClass.__init__(self, 'x') # don't do this
          self.y = y

Note that __init__ may only return None - it is intended to modify the object in-place.

Something __new__

There's another way to initialize instances - and it's the only way for subclasses of immutable types in Python. So it's required if you want to subclass str or tuple or another immutable object.

You might think it's a classmethod because it gets an implicit class argument. But it's actually a staticmethod. So you need to call __new__ with cls explicitly.

We usually return the instance from __new__, so if you do, you also need to call your base's __new__ via super as well in your base class. So if you use both methods:

class SuperClass(object):
    def __new__(cls, x):
        return super(SuperClass, cls).__new__(cls)
    def __init__(self, x):
        self.x = x

class SubClass(object):
    def __new__(cls, y):
        return super(SubClass, cls).__new__(cls)

    def __init__(self, y):
        self.y = y
        super(SubClass, self).__init__('x')

Python 3 sidesteps a little of the weirdness of the super calls caused by __new__ being a static method, but you still need to pass cls to the non-bound __new__ method:

class SuperClass(object):
    def __new__(cls, x):
        return super().__new__(cls)
    def __init__(self, x):
        self.x = x

class SubClass(object):
    def __new__(cls, y):
        return super().__new__(cls)
    def __init__(self, y):
        self.y = y
        super().__init__('x')

Finding row index containing maximum value using R

See ?which.max

> which.max( matrix[,2] )
[1] 2

git stash apply version

To apply a stash and remove it from the stash list, run:

git stash pop stash@{n}

To apply a stash and keep it in the stash cache, run:

git stash apply stash@{n}

Creating composite primary key in SQL Server

How about this:

ALTER TABLE dbo.testRequest
ADD CONSTRAINT PK_TestRequest 
PRIMARY KEY (wardNo, BHTNo, TestID) 

How do I block or restrict special characters from input fields with jquery?

To replace special characters, space and convert to lower case

$(document).ready(function (){
  $(document).on("keyup", "#Id", function () {
  $("#Id").val($("#Id").val().replace(/[^a-z0-9\s]/gi, '').replace(/[_\s]/g, '').toLowerCase());
 }); 
});

With MySQL, how can I generate a column containing the record index in a table?

SELECT @i:=@i+1 AS iterator, t.*
FROM tablename t,(SELECT @i:=0) foo

In a URL, should spaces be encoded using %20 or +?

Form data (for GET or POST) is usually encoded as application/x-www-form-urlencoded: this specifies + for spaces.

URLs are encoded as RFC 1738 which specifies %20.

In theory I think you should have %20 before the ? and + after:

example.com/foo%20bar?foo+bar

How to use bluetooth to connect two iPhone?

You can connect two iPhones and transfer data via Bluetooth using either the high-level GameKit framework or the lower-level (but still easy to work with) Bonjour discovery mechanisms. Bonjour also works transparently between Bluetooth and WiFi on the iPhone under 3.0, so it's a good choice if you would like to support iPhone-to-iPhone data transfers on those two types of networks.

For more information, you can also look at the responses to these questions:

Why is this program erroneously rejected by three C++ compilers?

This program is valid -- I can find no errors.

My guess is you have a virus on your machine. It would be best if you reformat your drive, and reinstall the operating system.

Let us know how that works out, or if you need help with the reinstall.

I hate viruses.

file_get_contents() Breaks Up UTF-8 Characters

I think you simply have a double conversion of the character type there :D

It may be, because you opened an html document within a html document. So you have something that looks like this in the end

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<!DOCTYPE html> 
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Test</title>.......

The use of mb_detect_encoding therefore may lead you to other issues.

Add custom headers to WebView resource requests - android

This worked for me. Create WebViewClient like this below and set the webclient to your webview. I had to use webview.loadDataWithBaseURL as my urls (in my content) did not have the baseurl but only relative urls. You will get the url correctly only when there is a baseurl set using loadDataWithBaseURL.

public WebViewClient getWebViewClientWithCustomHeader(){
    return new WebViewClient() {
        @Override
        public WebResourceResponse shouldInterceptRequest(WebView view, String url) {
            try {
                OkHttpClient httpClient = new OkHttpClient();
                com.squareup.okhttp.Request request = new com.squareup.okhttp.Request.Builder()
                        .url(url.trim())
                        .addHeader("<your-custom-header-name>", "<your-custom-header-value>")
                        .build();
                com.squareup.okhttp.Response response = httpClient.newCall(request).execute();

                return new WebResourceResponse(
                        response.header("content-type", response.body().contentType().type()), // You can set something other as default content-type
                        response.header("content-encoding", "utf-8"),  // Again, you can set another encoding as default
                        response.body().byteStream()
                );
            } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
                //return null to tell WebView we failed to fetch it WebView should try again.
                return null;
            } catch (IOException e) {
                //return null to tell WebView we failed to fetch it WebView should try again.
                return null;
            }
        }
    };

}

CSS content property: is it possible to insert HTML instead of Text?

In CSS3 paged media this is possible using position: running() and content: element().

Example from the CSS Generated Content for Paged Media Module draft:

@top-center {
  content: element(heading); 
}

.runner { 
  position: running(heading);
}

.runner can be any element and heading is an arbitrary name for the slot.

EDIT: to clarify, there is basically no browser support so this was mostly meant to be for future reference/in addition to the 'practical answers' given already.

Image library for Python 3

You want the Pillow library, here is how to install it on Python 3:

pip3 install Pillow

If that does not work for you (it should), try normal pip:

pip install Pillow

What's the difference between ISO 8601 and RFC 3339 Date Formats?

You shouldn't have to care that much. RFC 3339, according to itself, is a set of standards derived from ISO 8601. There's quite a few minute differences though, and they're all outlined in RFC 3339. I could go through them all here, but you'd probably do better just reading the document for yourself in the event you're worried:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3339

Docker compose port mapping

If you want to bind to the redis port from your nodejs container you will have to expose that port in the redis container:

version: '2'
services:
  nodejs:
    build:
      context: .
      dockerfile: DockerFile
    ports:
      - "4000:4000"
    links:
      - redis

  redis:
    build:
      context: .
      dockerfile: Dockerfile-redis
    expose:
      - "6379"

The expose tag will let you expose ports without publishing them to the host machine, but they will be exposed to the containers networks.

https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/#expose

The ports tag will be mapping the host port with the container port HOST:CONTAINER

https://docs.docker.com/compose/compose-file/#ports

Get User Selected Range

Selection is its own object within VBA. It functions much like a Range object.

Selection and Range do not share all the same properties and methods, though, so for ease of use it might make sense just to create a range and set it equal to the Selection, then you can deal with it programmatically like any other range.

Dim myRange as Range
Set myRange = Selection

For further reading, check out the MSDN article.

Python - difference between two strings

I like the ndiff answer, but if you want to spit it all into a list of only the changes, you could do something like:

import difflib

case_a = 'afrykbnerskojezyczny'
case_b = 'afrykanerskojezycznym'

output_list = [li for li in difflib.ndiff(case_a, case_b) if li[0] != ' ']

How can you run a Java program without main method?

public class X { static {
  System.out.println("Main not required to print this");
  System.exit(0);
}}

Run from the cmdline with java X.

How to make a UILabel clickable?

Pretty easy to overlook like I did, but don't forget to use UITapGestureRecognizer rather than UIGestureRecognizer.

How to get the selected value from RadioButtonList?

radiobuttonlist.selected <value> to process with your code.

What is difference between monolithic and micro kernel?

Monolithic kernel is a single large process running entirely in a single address space. It is a single static binary file. All kernel services exist and execute in the kernel address space. The kernel can invoke functions directly. Examples of monolithic kernel based OSs: Unix, Linux.

In microkernels, the kernel is broken down into separate processes, known as servers. Some of the servers run in kernel space and some run in user-space. All servers are kept separate and run in different address spaces. Servers invoke "services" from each other by sending messages via IPC (Interprocess Communication). This separation has the advantage that if one server fails, other servers can still work efficiently. Examples of microkernel based OSs: Mac OS X and Windows NT.

Remove unused imports in Android Studio

Ctrl+Alt+O works pretty well and removes unused imports

How to check if all list items have the same value and return it, or return an “otherValue” if they don’t?

A slight variation on the above simplified approach.

var result = yyy.Distinct().Count() == yyy.Count();

Select2 doesn't work when embedded in a bootstrap modal

I had the same issue, updating z-index for .select2-container should do the trick. Make sure your modal's z-index is lower than select2's.

.select2-container {
    z-index: 99999;
}

Updated: In case above code doesn't work properly, also remove tabindexes from your modal as @breq suggested

Android and setting alpha for (image) view alpha

No, there is not, see how the "Related XML Attributes" section is missing in the ImageView.setAlpha(int) documentation. The alternative is to use View.setAlpha(float) whose XML counterpart is android:alpha. It takes a range of 0.0 to 1.0 instead of 0 to 255. Use it e.g. like

<ImageView android:alpha="0.4">

However, the latter in available only since API level 11.

Recursively list all files in a directory including files in symlink directories

find -L /var/www/ -type l

# man find
-L     Follow  symbolic links.  When find examines or prints information about files, the information used shall be taken from the

properties of the file to which the link points, not from the link itself (unless it is a broken symbolic link or find is unable to examine the file to which the link points). Use of this option implies -noleaf. If you later use the -P option, -noleaf will still be in effect. If -L is in effect and find discovers a symbolic link to a subdirectory during its search, the subdirectory pointed to by the symbolic link will be searched.

using "if" and "else" Stored Procedures MySQL

I think that this construct: if exists (select... is specific for MS SQL. In MySQL EXISTS predicate tells you whether the subquery finds any rows and it's used like this: SELECT column1 FROM t1 WHERE EXISTS (SELECT * FROM t2);

You can rewrite the above lines of code like this:

DELIMITER $$

CREATE PROCEDURE `checando`(in nombrecillo varchar(30), in contrilla varchar(30), out resultado int)

BEGIN
    DECLARE count_prim INT;
    DECLARE count_sec INT;

    SELECT COUNT(*) INTO count_prim FROM compas WHERE nombre = nombrecillo AND contrasenia = contrilla;
    SELECT COUNT(*) INTO count_sec FROM FROM compas WHERE nombre = nombrecillo;

    if (count_prim > 0) then
        set resultado = 0;
    elseif (count_sec > 0) then
        set resultado = -1;
    else 
        set resultado = -2;
    end if;
    SELECT resultado;
END

Comparing Arrays of Objects in JavaScript

Here is my attempt, using Node's assert module + npm package object-hash.

I suppose that you would like to check if two arrays contain the same objects, even if those objects are ordered differently between the two arrays.

var assert = require('assert');
var hash = require('object-hash');

var obj1 = {a: 1, b: 2, c: 333},
    obj2 = {b: 2, a: 1, c: 444},
    obj3 = {b: "AAA", c: 555},
    obj4 = {c: 555, b: "AAA"};

var array1 = [obj1, obj2, obj3, obj4];
var array2 = [obj3, obj2, obj4, obj1]; // [obj3, obj3, obj2, obj1] should work as well

// calling assert.deepEquals(array1, array2) at this point FAILS (throws an AssertionError)
// even if array1 and array2 contain the same objects in different order,
// because array1[0].c !== array2[0].c

// sort objects in arrays by their hashes, so that if the arrays are identical,
// their objects can be compared in the same order, one by one
var array1 = sortArrayOnHash(array1);
var array2 = sortArrayOnHash(array2);

// then, this should output "PASS"
try {
    assert.deepEqual(array1, array2);
    console.log("PASS");
} catch (e) {
    console.log("FAIL");
    console.log(e);
}

// You could define as well something like Array.prototype.sortOnHash()...
function sortArrayOnHash(array) {
    return array.sort(function(a, b) {
        return hash(a) > hash(b);
    });
}

JQuery get data from JSON array

try this

$.getJSON(url, function(data){
    $.each(data.response.venue.tips.groups.items, function (index, value) {
        console.log(this.text);
    });
});

Which terminal command to get just IP address and nothing else?

#!/bin/sh
# Tested on Ubuntu 18.04 and Alpine Linux 
# List IPS of following network interfaces:
# virtual host interfaces
# PCI interfaces
# USB interfaces
# ACPI interfaces
# ETH interfaces
for NETWORK_INTERFACE in $(ls /sys/class/net -al | grep -iE "(/eth[0-9]+$|vif|pci|acpi|usb)" | sed -E "s@.* ([^ ]*) ->.*@\1@"); do 
    IPV4_ADDRESSES=$(ifconfig $NETWORK_INTERFACE | grep -iE '(inet addr[: ]+|inet[: ]+)' | sed -E "s@\s*(inet addr[: ]+|inet[: ]+)([^ ]*) .*@\2@")
    IPV6_ADDRESSES=$(ifconfig $NETWORK_INTERFACE | grep -iE '(inet6 addr[: ]+|inet6[: ]+)' | sed -E "s@\s*(inet6 addr[: ]+|inet6[: ]+)([^ ]*) .*@\2@")
    if [ -n "$IPV4_ADDRESSES" ] || [ -n "$IPV6_ADDRESSES" ]; then
        echo "NETWORK INTERFACE=$NETWORK_INTERFACE"
        for IPV4_ADDRESS in $IPV4_ADDRESSES; do 
            echo "IPV4=$IPV4_ADDRESS"
        done
        for IPV6_ADDRESS in $IPV6_ADDRESSES; do 
            echo "IPV6=$IPV6_ADDRESS"
        done
    fi
done

Subtract days, months, years from a date in JavaScript

I implemented a function similar to the momentjs method subtract.

- If you use Javascript

function addDate(dt, amount, dateType) {
  switch (dateType) {
    case 'days':
      return dt.setDate(dt.getDate() + amount) && dt;
    case 'weeks':
      return dt.setDate(dt.getDate() + (7 * amount)) && dt;
    case 'months':
      return dt.setMonth(dt.getMonth() + amount) && dt;
    case 'years':
      return dt.setFullYear( dt.getFullYear() + amount) && dt;
  }
}

example:

let dt = new Date();
dt = addDate(dt, -1, 'months');// use -1 to subtract 

- If you use Typescript:

export enum dateAmountType {
  DAYS,
  WEEKS,
  MONTHS,
  YEARS,
}

export function addDate(dt: Date, amount: number, dateType: dateAmountType): Date {
  switch (dateType) {
    case dateAmountType.DAYS:
      return dt.setDate(dt.getDate() + amount) && dt;
    case dateAmountType.WEEKS:
      return dt.setDate(dt.getDate() + (7 * amount)) && dt;
    case dateAmountType.MONTHS:
      return dt.setMonth(dt.getMonth() + amount) && dt;
    case dateAmountType.YEARS:
      return dt.setFullYear( dt.getFullYear() + amount) && dt;
  }
}

example:

let dt = new Date();
dt = addDate(dt, -1, 'months'); // use -1 to subtract

Optional (unit-tests)

I also made some unit-tests for this function using Jasmine:

  it('addDate() should works properly', () => {
    for (const test of [
      { amount: 1,  dateType: dateAmountType.DAYS,   expect: '2020-04-13'},
      { amount: -1, dateType: dateAmountType.DAYS,   expect: '2020-04-11'},
      { amount: 1,  dateType: dateAmountType.WEEKS,  expect: '2020-04-19'},
      { amount: -1, dateType: dateAmountType.WEEKS,  expect: '2020-04-05'},
      { amount: 1,  dateType: dateAmountType.MONTHS, expect: '2020-05-12'},
      { amount: -1, dateType: dateAmountType.MONTHS, expect: '2020-03-12'},
      { amount: 1,  dateType: dateAmountType.YEARS,  expect: '2021-04-12'},
      { amount: -1, dateType: dateAmountType.YEARS,  expect: '2019-04-12'},
    ]) {
      expect(formatDate(addDate(new Date('2020-04-12'), test.amount, test.dateType))).toBe(test.expect);
    }

  });

To use this test you need this function:

// get format date as 'YYYY-MM-DD'
export function formatDate(date: Date): string {
  const d     = new Date(date);
  let month   = '' + (d.getMonth() + 1);
  let day     = '' + d.getDate();
  const year  = d.getFullYear();

  if (month.length < 2)  {
    month = '0' + month;
  }
  if (day.length < 2) {
    day = '0' + day;
  }

  return [year, month, day].join('-');
}

removing table border

Try giving your table an ID and then using !important to set border to none in CSS. If JavaScript is tampering with your table then that should get around it.

<table id="mytable"
...

table#mytable,
table#mytable td
{
    border: none !important;
}

HTML Input="file" Accept Attribute File Type (CSV)

I have modified the solution of @yogi. The addition is that when the file is of incorrect format I reset the input element value.

function checkFile(sender, validExts) {
    var fileExt = sender.value;
    fileExt = fileExt.substring(fileExt.lastIndexOf('.'));
    if (validExts.indexOf(fileExt) < 0 && fileExt != "") {
        alert("Invalid file selected, valid files are of " +
                 validExts.toString() + " types.");
        $(sender).val("");
        return false;
    }
    else return true;
}

I have custom verification buildin, because in open file window the user can still choose the options "All files ('*')", regardless if I explicitly set the accept attribute in input element.

How can I resolve the error: "The command [...] exited with code 1"?

Right click project -> Properties -> Build Events

Remove the text in Post-build event command line text block

VirtualBox and vmdk vmx files

Actually, for the configuration of the machine, just open the .vmx file with a text editor (e.g. notepad, gedit, etc.). You will be able to see the OS type, memsize, ethernet.connectionType, and other settings. Then when you make your machine, just look in the text editor for the corresponding settings. When it asks for the disk, select the .vmdk disk as mentioned above.

How does the communication between a browser and a web server take place?

Communication between a browser and a webserver takes place at so many levels that is close to impossible to answer this question. HTTP plays a role, but HTTP is meaningless without TCP which is meaningless without IP which is meaningless without a physical network on which it sent. Then, there are POST vs GET requests which are similar but enough different to warrant a special dicussion. Sometimes an HTTP request needs to be authenticated, sometimes, it needs not. Mime types should be mentioned. Then, a browser sends a different request if there is a proxy. And then also encodings play a role. So, I guess, the most concise answer to this kind of question is: the browser asks the server for data and the server gives the requested data to the browser.

how to show only even or odd rows in sql server 2008?

for SQL > odd:

select * from id in(select id from employee where id%2=1)

for SQL > Even:

select * from id in(select id from employee where id%2=0).....f5

Make a bucket public in Amazon S3

You can set a bucket policy as detailed in this blog post:

http://ariejan.net/2010/12/24/public-readable-amazon-s3-bucket-policy/


As per @robbyt's suggestion, create a bucket policy with the following JSON:

{
  "Version": "2008-10-17",
  "Statement": [{
    "Sid": "AllowPublicRead",
    "Effect": "Allow",
    "Principal": { "AWS": "*" },
    "Action": ["s3:GetObject"],
    "Resource": ["arn:aws:s3:::bucket/*" ]
  }]
}

Important: replace bucket in the Resource line with the name of your bucket.

How to get your Netbeans project into Eclipse

There's a very easy way if you were using a web application just follow this link.

just do in eclipse :

File > import > web > war file

Then select the war file of your app :)) very easy !!

How can I get a list of users from active directory?

Certainly the credit goes to @Harvey Kwok here, but I just wanted to add this example because in my case I wanted to get an actual List of UserPrincipals. It's probably more efficient to filter this query upfront, but in my small environment, it's just easier to pull everything and then filter as needed later from my list.

Depending on what you need, you may not need to cast to DirectoryEntry, but some properties are not available from UserPrincipal.

using (var searcher = new PrincipalSearcher(new UserPrincipal(new PrincipalContext(ContextType.Domain, Environment.UserDomainName))))
{
    List<UserPrincipal> users = searcher.FindAll().Select(u => (UserPrincipal)u).ToList();
    foreach(var u in users)
        {
            DirectoryEntry d = (DirectoryEntry)u.GetUnderlyingObject();
            Console.WriteLine(d.Properties["GivenName"]?.Value?.ToString() + d.Properties["sn"]?.Value?.ToString());
        }
}

Execute PHP function with onclick

First, understand that you have three languages working together:

  • PHP: It only runs by the server and responds to requests like clicking on a link (GET) or submitting a form (POST).

  • HTML & JavaScript: It only runs in someone's browser (excluding NodeJS).

I'm assuming your file looks something like:

<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<?php
  function runMyFunction() {
    echo 'I just ran a php function';
  }

  if (isset($_GET['hello'])) {
    runMyFunction();
  }
?>

Hello there!
<a href='index.php?hello=true'>Run PHP Function</a>
</html>

Because PHP only responds to requests (GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE via $_REQUEST), this is how you have to run a PHP function even though they're in the same file. This gives you a level of security, "Should I run this script for this user or not?".

If you don't want to refresh the page, you can make a request to PHP without refreshing via a method called Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX).

That is something you can look up on YouTube though. Just search "jquery ajax"

I recommend Laravel to anyone new to start off right: http://laravel.com/

How to dynamically add elements to String array?

Arrays in Java have a defined size, you cannot change it later by adding or removing elements (you can read some basics here).

Instead, use a List:

ArrayList<String> mylist = new ArrayList<String>();
mylist.add(mystring); //this adds an element to the list.

Of course, if you know beforehand how many strings you are going to put in your array, you can create an array of that size and set the elements by using the correct position:

String[] myarray = new String[numberofstrings];
myarray[23] = string24; //this sets the 24'th (first index is 0) element to string24.

Get value from hashmap based on key to JSTL

could you please try below code

<c:forEach var="hash" items="${map['key']}">
        <option><c:out value="${hash}"/></option>
  </c:forEach>

How do I pass multiple parameter in URL?

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

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

Your parameter can be simply replaced with a script.

Have a look at this article and article

You can make it secure by using API of StringEscapeUtils

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

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

Have a look at related SE question:

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

How can I kill all sessions connecting to my oracle database?

This answer is heavily influenced by a conversation here: http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1395151&page=3

ALTER SYSTEM ENABLE RESTRICTED SESSION;

begin     
    for x in (  
            select Sid, Serial#, machine, program  
            from v$session  
            where  
                machine <> 'MyDatabaseServerName'  
        ) loop  
        execute immediate 'Alter System Kill Session '''|| x.Sid  
                     || ',' || x.Serial# || ''' IMMEDIATE';  
    end loop;  
end;

I skip killing sessions originating on the database server to avoid killing off Oracle's connections to itself.

How do I connect to a MySQL Database in Python?

As a db driver, there is also oursql. Some of the reasons listed on that link, which say why oursql is better:

  • oursql has real parameterization, sending the SQL and data to MySQL completely separately.
  • oursql allows text or binary data to be streamed into the database and streamed out of the database, instead of requiring everything to be buffered in the client.
  • oursql can both insert rows lazily and fetch rows lazily.
  • oursql has unicode support on by default.
  • oursql supports python 2.4 through 2.7 without any deprecation warnings on 2.6+ (see PEP 218) and without completely failing on 2.7 (see PEP 328).
  • oursql runs natively on python 3.x.

So how to connect to mysql with oursql?

Very similar to mysqldb:

import oursql

db_connection = oursql.connect(host='127.0.0.1',user='foo',passwd='foobar',db='db_name')
cur=db_connection.cursor()
cur.execute("SELECT * FROM `tbl_name`")
for row in cur.fetchall():
    print row[0]

The tutorial in the documentation is pretty decent.

And of course for ORM SQLAlchemy is a good choice, as already mentioned in the other answers.

How can I pass a reference to a function, with parameters?

What you are after is called partial function application.

Don't be fooled by those that don't understand the subtle difference between that and currying, they are different.

Partial function application can be used to implement, but is not currying. Here is a quote from a blog post on the difference:

Where partial application takes a function and from it builds a function which takes fewer arguments, currying builds functions which take multiple arguments by composition of functions which each take a single argument.

This has already been answered, see this question for your answer: How can I pre-set arguments in JavaScript function call?

Example:

var fr = partial(f, 1, 2, 3);

// now, when you invoke fr() it will invoke f(1,2,3)
fr();

Again, see that question for the details.

Laravel redirect back to original destination after login

Laravel 5.2

If you are using a another Middleware like Admin middleware you can set a session for url.intended by using this following:

Basically we need to set manually \Session::put('url.intended', \URL::full()); for redirect.

Example

  if (\Auth::guard($guard)->guest()) {
      if ($request->ajax() || $request->wantsJson()) {
         return response('Unauthorized.', 401);
      } else {
        \Session::put('url.intended', \URL::full());
        return redirect('login');
      }
  }

On login attempt

Make sure on login attempt use return \Redirect::intended('default_path');

Preloading CSS Images

Preloading images using HTML <link> Tag

I believe most of the visitors of this question are looking for the answer of "How can I preload an image before the page's render starts?" and the best solution for this problem is using <link> tag because <link> tag is capable to block the further rendering of the page. See preemptive

These two value options of rel (relationship between the current document and the linked document) attribute are most relevant with the issue:

  • prefetch : load the given resource while page rendering
  • preload : load the given resource before page rendering starts

So if you want to load a resource (in this case it's an image) before the rendering process of <body> tag starts, use:

<link rel="preload" as="image" href="IMAGE_URL">

and if you want to load a resource while <body> is rendering but you are planning to use it later on dynamically and don't wanna bother the user with loading time, use:

<link rel="prefetch" href="RESOURCE_URL">

jQuery DataTables Getting selected row values

You can iterate over the row data

$('#button').click(function () {
    var ids = $.map(table.rows('.selected').data(), function (item) {
        return item[0]
    });
    console.log(ids)
    alert(table.rows('.selected').data().length + ' row(s) selected');
});

Demo: Fiddle

Reasons for using the set.seed function

Fixing the seed is essential when we try to optimize a function that involves randomly generated numbers (e.g. in simulation based estimation). Loosely speaking, if we do not fix the seed, the variation due to drawing different random numbers will likely cause the optimization algorithm to fail.

Suppose that, for some reason, you want to estimate the standard deviation (sd) of a mean-zero normal distribution by simulation, given a sample. This can be achieved by running a numerical optimization around steps

  1. (Setting the seed)
  2. Given a value for sd, generate normally distributed data
  3. Evaluate the likelihood of your data given the simulated distributions

The following functions do this, once without step 1., once including it:

# without fixing the seed
simllh <- function(sd, y, Ns){
  simdist <- density(rnorm(Ns, mean = 0, sd = sd))
  llh <- sapply(y, function(x){ simdist$y[which.min((x - simdist$x)^2)] })
  return(-sum(log(llh)))
}
# same function with fixed seed
simllh.fix.seed <- function(sd,y,Ns){
  set.seed(48)
  simdist <- density(rnorm(Ns,mean=0,sd=sd))
  llh <- sapply(y,function(x){simdist$y[which.min((x-simdist$x)^2)]})
  return(-sum(log(llh)))
}

We can check the relative performance of the two functions in discovering the true parameter value with a short Monte Carlo study:

N <- 20; sd <- 2 # features of simulated data
est1 <- rep(NA,1000); est2 <- rep(NA,1000) # initialize the estimate stores
for (i in 1:1000) {
  as.numeric(Sys.time())-> t; set.seed((t - floor(t)) * 1e8 -> seed) # set the seed to random seed
  y <- rnorm(N, sd = sd) # generate the data
  est1[i] <- optim(1, simllh, y = y, Ns = 1000, lower = 0.01)$par
  est2[i] <- optim(1, simllh.fix.seed, y = y, Ns = 1000, lower = 0.01)$par
}
hist(est1)
hist(est2)

The resulting distributions of the parameter estimates are:

Histogram of parameter estimates without fixing the seed Histogram of parameter estimates fixing the seed

When we fix the seed, the numerical search ends up close to the true parameter value of 2 far more often.

sqlplus how to find details of the currently connected database session

select sys_context('USERENV','INSTANCE_NAME') from dual;

&

select instance_name from v$instance;

will give you the instance name. You can also use select * from global_name; to view the global name of the instance.

How can I alias a default import in JavaScript?

defaultMember already is an alias - it doesn't need to be the name of the exported function/thing. Just do

import alias from 'my-module';

Alternatively you can do

import {default as alias} from 'my-module';

but that's rather esoteric.

How to install and use "make" in Windows?

Download make.exe from their official site GnuWin32

  • In the Download session, click Complete package, except sources.

  • Follow the installation instructions.

  • Once finished, add the <installation directory>/bin/ to the PATH variable.

Now you will be able to use make in cmd.

In Postgresql, force unique on combination of two columns

CREATE TABLE someTable (
    id serial PRIMARY KEY,
    col1 int NOT NULL,
    col2 int NOT NULL,
    UNIQUE (col1, col2)
)

autoincrement is not postgresql. You want a serial.

If col1 and col2 make a unique and can't be null then they make a good primary key:

CREATE TABLE someTable (
    col1 int NOT NULL,
    col2 int NOT NULL,
    PRIMARY KEY (col1, col2)
)

My httpd.conf is empty

OK - what you're missing is that its designed to be more industrial and serve many sites, so the config you want is probably:

/etc/apache2/sites-available/default

which on my system is linked to from /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/

if you want to have different sites with different options, copy the file and then change those...

Go build: "Cannot find package" (even though GOPATH is set)

In the recent go versions from 1.14 onwards, we have to do go mod vendor before building or running, since by default go appends -mod=vendor to the go commands. So after doing go mod vendor, if we try to build, we won't face this issue.

Remove querystring from URL

An easy way to get this is:

function getPathFromUrl(url) {
  return url.split("?")[0];
}

For those who also wish to remove the hash (not part of the original question) when no querystring exists, that requires a little bit more:

function stripQueryStringAndHashFromPath(url) {
  return url.split("?")[0].split("#")[0];
}

EDIT

@caub (originally @crl) suggested a simpler combo that works for both query string and hash (though it uses RegExp, in case anyone has a problem with that):

function getPathFromUrl(url) {
  return url.split(/[?#]/)[0];
}

Selenium and xpath: finding a div with a class/id and verifying text inside

For class and text xpath-

//div[contains(@class,'Caption') and (text(),'Model saved')]

and

For class and id xpath-

//div[contains(@class,'gwt-HTML') and @id="alertLabel"]

Compare given date with today

Expanding on Josua's answer from w3schools:

//create objects for the dates to compare
$date1=date_create($someDate);
$date2=date_create(date("Y-m-d"));
$diff=date_diff($date1,$date2);
//now convert the $diff object to type integer
$intDiff = $diff->format("%R%a");
$intDiff = intval($intDiff);
//now compare the two dates
if ($intDiff > 0)  {echo '$date1 is in the past';}
else {echo 'date1 is today or in the future';}

I hope this helps. My first post on stackoverflow!

Error: org.testng.TestNGException: Cannot find class in classpath: EmpClass

Go to Project>Build Path>Configure Build Path>Libraries>Remove Error libraries

After Refresh project and run again program.

Android : Capturing HTTP Requests with non-rooted android device

SandroProxy seems to be better than Drony (by the same developer): You can (but do not have to) conveniently view and analyze the traffic in your PC's browser.

Should work in emulators as well.

Adding an assets folder in Android Studio

right click on app-->select

New-->Select Folder-->then click on Assets Folder

git pull aborted with error filename too long

On windows run "cmd " as administrator and execute command.

"C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\etc>"
"git config --system core.longpaths true"

or you have to chmod for the folder whereever git is installed.

or manullay update your file manually by going to path "Git\mingw64\etc"

[http]
    sslBackend = schannel
[diff "astextplain"]
    textconv = astextplain
[filter "lfs"]
    clean = git-lfs clean -- %f
    smudge = git-lfs smudge -- %f
    process = git-lfs filter-process
    required = true
[credential]
    helper = manager
**[core]
    longpaths = true**

How do I know the script file name in a Bash script?

These answers are correct for the cases they state but there is a still a problem if you run the script from another script using the 'source' keyword (so that it runs in the same shell). In this case, you get the $0 of the calling script. And in this case, I don't think it is possible to get the name of the script itself.

This is an edge case and should not be taken TOO seriously. If you run the script from another script directly (without 'source'), using $0 will work.

Shortcut key for commenting out lines of Python code in Spyder

On macOS:

Cmd + 1

On Windows, probably

Ctrl + (/) near right shift key

C++ template constructor

You can create a templated factory function:

class Foo
{
public:
    template <class T> static Foo* create() // could also return by value, or a smart pointer
    {
        return new Foo(...);
    }
...        
};

How do I kill an Activity when the Back button is pressed?

add this to your activity

@Override
public boolean onKeyDown(int keyCode, KeyEvent event)
{
    if ((keyCode == KeyEvent.KEYCODE_BACK))
    {
        finish();
    }
    return super.onKeyDown(keyCode, event);
}

How to read line by line of a text area HTML tag

This works without needing jQuery:

var textArea = document.getElementById("my-text-area");
var arrayOfLines = textArea.value.split("\n"); // arrayOfLines is array where every element is string of one line

Eclipse: How to install a plugin manually?

You can try this

click Help>Install New Software on the menu bar

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How to use index in select statement?

In general, the index will be used if the assumed cost of using the index, and then possibly having to perform further bookmark lookups is lower than the cost of just scanning the entire table.

If your query is of the form:

SELECT Name from Table where Name = 'Boris'

And 1 row out of 1000 has the name Boris, it will almost certainly be used. If everyone's name is Boris, it will probably resort to a table scan, since the index is unlikely to be a more efficient strategy to access the data.

If it's a wide table (lot's of columns) and you do:

SELECT * from Table where Name = 'Boris'

Then it may still choose to perform the table scan, if it's a reasonable assumption that it's going to take more time retrieving the other columns from the table than it will to just look up the name, or again, if it's likely to be retrieving a lot of rows anyway.

Appending pandas dataframes generated in a for loop

Use pd.concat to merge a list of DataFrame into a single big DataFrame.

appended_data = []
for infile in glob.glob("*.xlsx"):
    data = pandas.read_excel(infile)
    # store DataFrame in list
    appended_data.append(data)
# see pd.concat documentation for more info
appended_data = pd.concat(appended_data)
# write DataFrame to an excel sheet 
appended_data.to_excel('appended.xlsx')

ERROR Android emulator gets killed

I had same issue, the problem was there is no enough space in my disk drive.. you can see details about you specific situation in layer 'Event Log' this layer regularly is in the bottom on Android studio, it was my output Log:

"02:45 PM Emulator: emulator: ERROR: Not enough space to create userdata partition. Available: 3310.363281 MB at /home/user/.android/avd/my_Nexus_5X_API_27.avd, need 7372.800000 MB."

I had just 7 GB free, so just delete some GB's in my D.D. and it's working fine.

Transition color fade on hover?

For having a trasition effect like a highlighter just to highlight the text and fade off the bg color, we used the following:

_x000D_
_x000D_
.field-error {_x000D_
    color: #f44336;_x000D_
    padding: 2px 5px;_x000D_
    position: absolute;_x000D_
    font-size: small;_x000D_
    background-color: white;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
.highlighter {_x000D_
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    to { background-color: white; }_x000D_
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How to use __DATE__ and __TIME__ predefined macros in as two integers, then stringify?

If you can use a C++ compiler to build the object file that you want to contain your version string, then we can do exactly what you want! The only magic here is that C++ allows you to use expressions to statically initialize an array, while C doesn't. The expressions need to be fully computable at compile time, but these expressions are, so it's no problem.

We build up the version string one byte at a time, and get exactly what we want.

// source file version_num.h

#ifndef VERSION_NUM_H

#define VERSION_NUM_H


#define VERSION_MAJOR 1
#define VERSION_MINOR 4


#endif // VERSION_NUM_H

// source file build_defs.h

#ifndef BUILD_DEFS_H

#define BUILD_DEFS_H


// Example of __DATE__ string: "Jul 27 2012"
//                              01234567890

#define BUILD_YEAR_CH0 (__DATE__[ 7])
#define BUILD_YEAR_CH1 (__DATE__[ 8])
#define BUILD_YEAR_CH2 (__DATE__[ 9])
#define BUILD_YEAR_CH3 (__DATE__[10])


#define BUILD_MONTH_IS_JAN (__DATE__[0] == 'J' && __DATE__[1] == 'a' && __DATE__[2] == 'n')
#define BUILD_MONTH_IS_FEB (__DATE__[0] == 'F')
#define BUILD_MONTH_IS_MAR (__DATE__[0] == 'M' && __DATE__[1] == 'a' && __DATE__[2] == 'r')
#define BUILD_MONTH_IS_APR (__DATE__[0] == 'A' && __DATE__[1] == 'p')
#define BUILD_MONTH_IS_MAY (__DATE__[0] == 'M' && __DATE__[1] == 'a' && __DATE__[2] == 'y')
#define BUILD_MONTH_IS_JUN (__DATE__[0] == 'J' && __DATE__[1] == 'u' && __DATE__[2] == 'n')
#define BUILD_MONTH_IS_JUL (__DATE__[0] == 'J' && __DATE__[1] == 'u' && __DATE__[2] == 'l')
#define BUILD_MONTH_IS_AUG (__DATE__[0] == 'A' && __DATE__[1] == 'u')
#define BUILD_MONTH_IS_SEP (__DATE__[0] == 'S')
#define BUILD_MONTH_IS_OCT (__DATE__[0] == 'O')
#define BUILD_MONTH_IS_NOV (__DATE__[0] == 'N')
#define BUILD_MONTH_IS_DEC (__DATE__[0] == 'D')


#define BUILD_MONTH_CH0 \
    ((BUILD_MONTH_IS_OCT || BUILD_MONTH_IS_NOV || BUILD_MONTH_IS_DEC) ? '1' : '0')

#define BUILD_MONTH_CH1 \
    ( \
        (BUILD_MONTH_IS_JAN) ? '1' : \
        (BUILD_MONTH_IS_FEB) ? '2' : \
        (BUILD_MONTH_IS_MAR) ? '3' : \
        (BUILD_MONTH_IS_APR) ? '4' : \
        (BUILD_MONTH_IS_MAY) ? '5' : \
        (BUILD_MONTH_IS_JUN) ? '6' : \
        (BUILD_MONTH_IS_JUL) ? '7' : \
        (BUILD_MONTH_IS_AUG) ? '8' : \
        (BUILD_MONTH_IS_SEP) ? '9' : \
        (BUILD_MONTH_IS_OCT) ? '0' : \
        (BUILD_MONTH_IS_NOV) ? '1' : \
        (BUILD_MONTH_IS_DEC) ? '2' : \
        /* error default */    '?' \
    )

#define BUILD_DAY_CH0 ((__DATE__[4] >= '0') ? (__DATE__[4]) : '0')
#define BUILD_DAY_CH1 (__DATE__[ 5])



// Example of __TIME__ string: "21:06:19"
//                              01234567

#define BUILD_HOUR_CH0 (__TIME__[0])
#define BUILD_HOUR_CH1 (__TIME__[1])

#define BUILD_MIN_CH0 (__TIME__[3])
#define BUILD_MIN_CH1 (__TIME__[4])

#define BUILD_SEC_CH0 (__TIME__[6])
#define BUILD_SEC_CH1 (__TIME__[7])


#if VERSION_MAJOR > 100

#define VERSION_MAJOR_INIT \
    ((VERSION_MAJOR / 100) + '0'), \
    (((VERSION_MAJOR % 100) / 10) + '0'), \
    ((VERSION_MAJOR % 10) + '0')

#elif VERSION_MAJOR > 10

#define VERSION_MAJOR_INIT \
    ((VERSION_MAJOR / 10) + '0'), \
    ((VERSION_MAJOR % 10) + '0')

#else

#define VERSION_MAJOR_INIT \
    (VERSION_MAJOR + '0')

#endif

#if VERSION_MINOR > 100

#define VERSION_MINOR_INIT \
    ((VERSION_MINOR / 100) + '0'), \
    (((VERSION_MINOR % 100) / 10) + '0'), \
    ((VERSION_MINOR % 10) + '0')

#elif VERSION_MINOR > 10

#define VERSION_MINOR_INIT \
    ((VERSION_MINOR / 10) + '0'), \
    ((VERSION_MINOR % 10) + '0')

#else

#define VERSION_MINOR_INIT \
    (VERSION_MINOR + '0')

#endif



#endif // BUILD_DEFS_H

// source file main.c

#include "version_num.h"
#include "build_defs.h"

// want something like: 1.4.1432.2234

const unsigned char completeVersion[] =
{
    VERSION_MAJOR_INIT,
    '.',
    VERSION_MINOR_INIT,
    '-', 'V', '-',
    BUILD_YEAR_CH0, BUILD_YEAR_CH1, BUILD_YEAR_CH2, BUILD_YEAR_CH3,
    '-',
    BUILD_MONTH_CH0, BUILD_MONTH_CH1,
    '-',
    BUILD_DAY_CH0, BUILD_DAY_CH1,
    'T',
    BUILD_HOUR_CH0, BUILD_HOUR_CH1,
    ':',
    BUILD_MIN_CH0, BUILD_MIN_CH1,
    ':',
    BUILD_SEC_CH0, BUILD_SEC_CH1,
    '\0'
};


#include <stdio.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    printf("%s\n", completeVersion);
    // prints something similar to: 1.4-V-2013-05-09T15:34:49
}

This isn't exactly the format you asked for, but I still don't fully understand how you want days and hours mapped to an integer. I think it's pretty clear how to make this produce any desired string.

How comment a JSP expression?

Pure JSP comments look like this:

<%-- Comment --%>

So if you want to retain the "=".you could do something like:

<%--= map.size() --%>

The key thing is that <%= defines the beginning of an expression, in which you can't leave the body empty, but you could do something like this instead if the pure JSP comment doesn't appeal to you:

<% /*= map.size()*/ %>

Code Conventions for the JavaServer Pages Technology Version 1.x Language has details about the different commenting options available to you (but has a complete lack of link targets, so I can't link you directly to the relevant section - boo!)

How to mock location on device?

The solution mentioned by icyerasor and provided by Pedro at http://pedroassuncao.com/blog/2009/11/12/android-location-provider-mock/ worked very well for me. However, it does not offer support for properly starting, stopping and restarting the mock GPS provider.

I have changed his code a bit and rewritten the class to be an AsyncTask instead of a Thread. This allows us to communicate with the UI Thread, so we can restart the provider at the point where we were when we stopped it. This comes in handy when the screen orientation changes.

The code, along with a sample project for Eclipse, can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/paulhoux/Android-MockProviderGPS

All credit should go to Pedro for doing most of the hard work.

Detecting TCP Client Disconnect

The return value of receive will be -1 if connection is lost else it will be size of buffer.

void ReceiveStream(void *threadid)
{
    while(true)
    {
        while(ch==0)
        {
            char buffer[1024];
            int newData;
            newData = recv(thisSocket, buffer, sizeof(buffer), 0);
            if(newData>=0)
            {
                std::cout << buffer << std::endl;
            }
            else
            {
                std::cout << "Client disconnected" << std::endl;
                if (thisSocket)
                {
                    #ifdef WIN32
                        closesocket(thisSocket);
                        WSACleanup();
                    #endif
                    #ifdef LINUX
                        close(thisSocket);
                    #endif
                }
                break;
            }
        }
        ch = 1;
        StartSocket();
    }
}

Automatically create an Enum based on values in a database lookup table?

enum builder class

public class XEnum
{
    private EnumBuilder enumBuilder;
    private int index;
    private AssemblyBuilder _ab;
    private AssemblyName _name;
    public XEnum(string enumname)
    {
        AppDomain currentDomain = AppDomain.CurrentDomain;
        _name = new AssemblyName("MyAssembly");
        _ab = currentDomain.DefineDynamicAssembly(
            _name, AssemblyBuilderAccess.RunAndSave);

        ModuleBuilder mb = _ab.DefineDynamicModule("MyModule");

        enumBuilder = mb.DefineEnum(enumname, TypeAttributes.Public, typeof(int));


    }
    /// <summary>
    /// adding one string to enum
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="s"></param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public FieldBuilder add(string s)
    {
        FieldBuilder f = enumBuilder.DefineLiteral(s, index);
        index++;
        return f;
    }
    /// <summary>
    /// adding array to enum
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="s"></param>
    public void addRange(string[] s)
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < s.Length; i++)
        {
            enumBuilder.DefineLiteral(s[i], i);
        }
    }
    /// <summary>
    /// getting index 0
    /// </summary>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public object getEnum()
    {
        Type finished = enumBuilder.CreateType();
        _ab.Save(_name.Name + ".dll");
        Object o1 = Enum.Parse(finished, "0");
        return o1;
    }
    /// <summary>
    /// getting with index
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="i"></param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    public object getEnum(int i)
    {
        Type finished = enumBuilder.CreateType();
        _ab.Save(_name.Name + ".dll");
        Object o1 = Enum.Parse(finished, i.ToString());
        return o1;
    }
}

create an object

string[] types = { "String", "Boolean", "Int32", "Enum", "Point", "Thickness", "long", "float" };
XEnum xe = new XEnum("Enum");
        xe.addRange(types);
        return xe.getEnum();

Adding Counter in shell script

Here's how you might implement a counter:

counter=0
while true; do
  if /home/hadoop/latest/bin/hadoop fs -ls /apps/hdtech/bds/quality-rt/dt=$DATE_YEST_FORMAT2 then
       echo "Files Present" | mailx -s "File Present"  -r [email protected] [email protected]
       exit 0
  elif [[ "$counter" -gt 20 ]]; then
       echo "Counter: $counter times reached; Exiting loop!"
       exit 1
  else
       counter=$((counter+1))
       echo "Counter: $counter time(s); Sleeping for another half an hour" | mailx -s "Time to Sleep Now"  -r [email protected] [email protected]
       sleep 1800
  fi
done

Some Explanations:

  • counter=$((counter+1)) - this is how you can increment a counter. The $ for counter is optional inside the double parentheses in this case.
  • elif [[ "$counter" -gt 20 ]]; then - this checks whether $counter is not greater than 20. If so, it outputs the appropriate message and breaks out of your while loop.

Responsive width Facebook Page Plugin

Here's a dynamic resize of iframe include way, with some delayed rerender on resize event:

function _facebook() {

    var parent = document.getElementById('facebook');
    var width = (window.innerWidth > 540) ? 500 : window.innerWidth - 40;
    if (parent.firstChild && parent.firstChild.width == width) { return; }
    var url = 'https://www.facebook.com/plugins/page.php?href=YOUR_FACEBOOK_PAGE_URL&tabs=messages&width='+width+'&height=500&small_header=false&adapt_container_width=true&hide_cover=false&show_facepile=true&appId=YOUR_APP_ID';
    var i = document.createElement('iframe');
    i.src = url;
    i.width = width;
    i.height = 500;
    i.style = 'border:none;overflow:hidden';
    i.scrolling = "no";
    i.frameborder = "0";
    i.allowTransparency = "true";
    while (parent.firstChild) { parent.removeChild(parent.firstChild); }
    parent.appendChild(i);

}

_facebook();

$(window).resize(function() {
    clearTimeout(window.resizedFinished);
    window.resizedFinished = setTimeout(function(){
        _facebook();
    }, 250);
});

How to copy data from another workbook (excel)?

Would you be happy to make "my file.xls" active if it didn't affect the screen? Turning off screen updating is the way to achieve this, it also has performance improvements (significant if you are doing looping while switching around worksheets / workbooks).

The command to do this is:

    Application.ScreenUpdating = False

Don't forget to turn it back to True when your macros is finished.