Programs & Examples On #Bduf

Big Design Up Front (BDUF) Is a software methodology of ensuring a design is complete before any implementation is done. BUDF is traditionally associated with the waterfall model.

Stripping non printable characters from a string in python

The best I've come up with now is (thanks to the python-izers above)

def filter_non_printable(str):
  return ''.join([c for c in str if ord(c) > 31 or ord(c) == 9])

This is the only way I've found out that works with Unicode characters/strings

Any better options?

How to install a specific version of a ruby gem?

You can use the -v or --version flag. For example

gem install bitclock -v '< 0.0.2'

To specify upper AND lower version boundaries you can specify the --version flag twice

gem install bitclock -v '>= 0.0.1' -v '< 0.0.2'

or use the syntax (for example)

gem install bitclock -v '>= 0.0.1, < 0.0.2'

The other way to do it is

gem install bitclock:'>= 0.0.1'

but with the last option it is not possible to specify upper and lower bounderies simultaneously.

[gem 3.0.3 and ruby 2.6.6]

CSS: styled a checkbox to look like a button, is there a hover?

Do what Kelly said...

BUT. Instead of having the input positioned absolute and top -20px (just hiding it off the page), make the input box hidden.

example:

<input type="checkbox" hidden> 

Works better and can put it anywhere on the page.

How to get an IFrame to be responsive in iOS Safari?

The problem, it seems, is that Mobile Safari will refuse to obey the width of your iFrame if the document it contains is wider than what you have specified. Example:

http://jsbin.com/hapituto/1

On a desktop browser, you will see an iFrame and a Div both set to 300px. The contents is wider so you can scroll the iFrame.

On mobile safari, however, you will notice that the iFrame is auto-expanded to the width of the content.

My guess is that this is a workaround for long-standing issues with scrolling content within a page. In the past, if you had a large scrolling iframe on a touch device, you'd get 'stuck' in the iframe as that would be scrolling instead of the page itself. It appears Apple has decided that the default behavior of an iFrame is 'no scroll' and expands to prevent it.

One option may be this workaround. Instead of assuming the iFrame will scroll, place the iframe in a DIV that you do have control over and let that scroll.

example: http://jsbin.com/zakedaja/1

Example markup:

<div style="overflow: scroll; -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; width: 300px;">
   <iframe src="http://jsbin.com/roredora/1/" style="width: 600px;"></iframe>
</div>

On mobile safari, you can now scroll the contents of the now fully-expanded iFrame via the div that is containing it.

The catch: This looks really ugly on a desktop browser, as now you have double scrollbars. So you may have to do some browser detection with JS to get around this.

EPPlus - Read Excel Table

There is no native but what if you use what I put in this post:

How to parse excel rows back to types using EPPlus

If you want to point it at a table only it will need to be modified. Something like this should do it:

public static IEnumerable<T> ConvertTableToObjects<T>(this ExcelTable table) where T : new()
{
    //DateTime Conversion
    var convertDateTime = new Func<double, DateTime>(excelDate =>
    {
        if (excelDate < 1)
            throw new ArgumentException("Excel dates cannot be smaller than 0.");

        var dateOfReference = new DateTime(1900, 1, 1);

        if (excelDate > 60d)
            excelDate = excelDate - 2;
        else
            excelDate = excelDate - 1;
        return dateOfReference.AddDays(excelDate);
    });

    //Get the properties of T
    var tprops = (new T())
        .GetType()
        .GetProperties()
        .ToList();

    //Get the cells based on the table address
    var start = table.Address.Start;
    var end = table.Address.End;
    var cells = new List<ExcelRangeBase>();

    //Have to use for loops insteadof worksheet.Cells to protect against empties
    for (var r = start.Row; r <= end.Row; r++)
        for (var c = start.Column; c <= end.Column; c++)
            cells.Add(table.WorkSheet.Cells[r, c]);

    var groups = cells
        .GroupBy(cell => cell.Start.Row)
        .ToList();

    //Assume the second row represents column data types (big assumption!)
    var types = groups
        .Skip(1)
        .First()
        .Select(rcell => rcell.Value.GetType())
        .ToList();

    //Assume first row has the column names
    var colnames = groups
        .First()
        .Select((hcell, idx) => new { Name = hcell.Value.ToString(), index = idx })
        .Where(o => tprops.Select(p => p.Name).Contains(o.Name))
        .ToList();

    //Everything after the header is data
    var rowvalues = groups
        .Skip(1) //Exclude header
        .Select(cg => cg.Select(c => c.Value).ToList());

    //Create the collection container
    var collection = rowvalues
        .Select(row =>
        {
            var tnew = new T();
            colnames.ForEach(colname =>
            {
                //This is the real wrinkle to using reflection - Excel stores all numbers as double including int
                var val = row[colname.index];
                var type = types[colname.index];
                var prop = tprops.First(p => p.Name == colname.Name);

                //If it is numeric it is a double since that is how excel stores all numbers
                if (type == typeof(double))
                {
                    if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(val?.ToString()))
                    {
                        //Unbox it
                        var unboxedVal = (double)val;

                        //FAR FROM A COMPLETE LIST!!!
                        if (prop.PropertyType == typeof(Int32))
                            prop.SetValue(tnew, (int)unboxedVal);
                        else if (prop.PropertyType == typeof(double))
                            prop.SetValue(tnew, unboxedVal);
                        else if (prop.PropertyType == typeof(DateTime))
                            prop.SetValue(tnew, convertDateTime(unboxedVal));
                        else
                            throw new NotImplementedException(String.Format("Type '{0}' not implemented yet!", prop.PropertyType.Name));
                    }
                }
                else
                {
                    //Its a string
                    prop.SetValue(tnew, val);
                }
            });

            return tnew;
        });


    //Send it back
    return collection;
}

Here is a test method:

[TestMethod]
public void Table_To_Object_Test()
{
    //Create a test file
    var fi = new FileInfo(@"c:\temp\Table_To_Object.xlsx");

    using (var package = new ExcelPackage(fi))
    {
        var workbook = package.Workbook;
        var worksheet = workbook.Worksheets.First();
        var ThatList = worksheet.Tables.First().ConvertTableToObjects<ExcelData>();
        foreach (var data in ThatList)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(data.Id + data.Name + data.Gender);
        }

        package.Save();
    }
}

Gave this in the console:

1JohnMale
2MariaFemale
3DanielUnknown

Just be careful if you Id field is an number or string in excel since the class is expecting a string.

Get folder name from full file path

Path.GetDirectoryName(@"c:\projects\roott\wsdlproj\devlop\beta2\text");

MSDN: Path.GetDirectoryName Method

How do you create a REST client for Java?

If you only wish to invoke a REST service and parse the response you can try out Rest Assured

// Make a GET request to "/lotto"
String json = get("/lotto").asString()
// Parse the JSON response
List<String> winnderIds = with(json).get("lotto.winners.winnerId");

// Make a POST request to "/shopping"
String xml = post("/shopping").andReturn().body().asString()
// Parse the XML
Node category = with(xml).get("shopping.category[0]");

How to execute a Ruby script in Terminal?

Just invoke ruby XXXXX.rb in terminal, if the interpreter is in your $PATH variable.

( this can hardly be a rails thing, until you have it running. )

Convert object to JSON string in C#

I have used Newtonsoft JSON.NET (Documentation) It allows you to create a class / object, populate the fields, and serialize as JSON.

public class ReturnData 
{
    public int totalCount { get; set; }
    public List<ExceptionReport> reports { get; set; }  
}

public class ExceptionReport
{
    public int reportId { get; set; }
    public string message { get; set; }  
}


string json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(myReturnData);

How to get the SHA-1 fingerprint certificate in Android Studio for debug mode?

I directly used the following command from my Mac using the terminal. I got SHA1 Finger. This is the command:

keytool -list -v -keystore ~/.android/debug.keystore -alias androiddebugkey -storepass android -keypass android

How do I create a self-signed certificate for code signing on Windows?

As stated in the answer, in order to use a non deprecated way to sign your own script, one should use New-SelfSignedCertificate.

  1. Generate the key:
New-SelfSignedCertificate -DnsName [email protected] -Type CodeSigning -CertStoreLocation cert:\CurrentUser\My
  1. Export the certificate without the private key:
Export-Certificate -Cert (Get-ChildItem Cert:\CurrentUser\My -CodeSigningCert)[0] -FilePath code_signing.crt

The [0] will make this work for cases when you have more than one certificate... Obviously make the index match the certificate you want to use... or use a way to filtrate (by thumprint or issuer).

  1. Import it as Trusted Publisher
Import-Certificate -FilePath .\code_signing.crt -Cert Cert:\CurrentUser\TrustedPublisher
  1. Import it as a Root certificate authority.
Import-Certificate -FilePath .\code_signing.crt -Cert Cert:\CurrentUser\Root
  1. Sign the script (assuming here it's named script.ps1, fix the path accordingly).
Set-AuthenticodeSignature .\script.ps1 -Certificate (Get-ChildItem Cert:\CurrentUser\My -CodeSigningCert)

Obviously once you have setup the key, you can simply sign any other scripts with it.
You can get more detailed information and some troubleshooting help in this article.

How to change text transparency in HTML/CSS?

What about the css opacity attribute? 0 to 1 values.

But then you probably need to use a more explicit dom element than "font". For instance:

<html><body><span style=\"opacity: 0.5;\"><font color=\"black\" face=\"arial\" size=\"4\">THIS IS MY TEXT</font></span></body></html>

As an additional information I would of course suggest you use CSS declarations outside of your html elements, but as well try to use the font css style instead of the font html tag.

For cross browser css3 styles generator, have a look at http://css3please.com/

JSON Structure for List of Objects

The second is almost correct:

{
    "foos" : [{
        "prop1":"value1",
        "prop2":"value2"
    }, {
        "prop1":"value3", 
        "prop2":"value4"
    }]
}

Typescript import/as vs import/require?

These are mostly equivalent, but import * has some restrictions that import ... = require doesn't.

import * as creates an identifier that is a module object, emphasis on object. According to the ES6 spec, this object is never callable or newable - it only has properties. If you're trying to import a function or class, you should use

import express = require('express');

or (depending on your module loader)

import express from 'express';

Attempting to use import * as express and then invoking express() is always illegal according to the ES6 spec. In some runtime+transpilation environments this might happen to work anyway, but it might break at any point in the future without warning, which will make you sad.

Is it possible to do a sparse checkout without checking out the whole repository first?

Sadly none of the above worked for me so I spent very long time trying different combination of sparse-checkout file.

In my case I wanted to skip folders with IntelliJ IDEA configs.

Here is what I did:


Run git clone https://github.com/myaccount/myrepo.git --no-checkout

Run git config core.sparsecheckout true

Created .git\info\sparse-checkout with following content

!.idea/*
!.idea_modules/*
/*

Run 'git checkout --' to get all files.


Critical thing to make it work was to add /* after folder's name.

I have git 1.9

What does the term "Tuple" Mean in Relational Databases?

Most of the answers here are on the right track. However, a row is not a tuple. Tuples* are unordered sets of known values with names. Thus, the following tuples are the same thing (I'm using an imaginary tuple syntax since a relational tuple is largely a theoretical construct):

(x=1, y=2, z=3)
(z=3, y=2, x=1)
(y=2, z=3, x=1)

...assuming of course that x, y, and z are all integers. Also note that there is no such thing as a "duplicate" tuple. Thus, not only are the above equal, they're the same thing. Lastly, tuples can only contain known values (thus, no nulls).

A row** is an ordered set of known or unknown values with names (although they may be omitted). Therefore, the following comparisons return false in SQL:

(1, 2, 3) = (3, 2, 1)
(3, 1, 2) = (2, 1, 3)

Note that there are ways to "fake it" though. For example, consider this INSERT statement:

INSERT INTO point VALUES (1, 2, 3)

Assuming that x is first, y is second, and z is third, this query may be rewritten like this:

INSERT INTO point (x, y, z) VALUES (1, 2, 3)

Or this:

INSERT INTO point (y, z, x) VALUES (2, 3, 1)

...but all we're really doing is changing the ordering rather than removing it.

And also note that there may be unknown values as well. Thus, you may have rows with unknown values:

(1, 2, NULL) = (1, 2, NULL)

...but note that this comparison will always yield UNKNOWN. After all, how can you know whether two unknown values are equal?

And lastly, rows may be duplicated. In other words, (1, 2) and (1, 2) may compare to be equal, but that doesn't necessarily mean that they're the same thing.

If this is a subject that interests you, I'd highly recommend reading SQL and Relational Theory: How to Write Accurate SQL Code by CJ Date.

* Note that I'm talking about tuples as they exist in the relational model, which is a bit different from mathematics in general.

**And just in case you're wondering, just about everything in SQL is a row or table. Therefore, (1, 2) is a row, while VALUES (1, 2) is a table (with one row).

UPDATE: I've expanded a little bit on this answer in a blog post here.

git stash and git pull

When you have changes on your working copy, from command line do:

git stash 

This will stash your changes and clear your status report

git pull

This will pull changes from upstream branch. Make sure it says fast-forward in the report. If it doesn't, you are probably doing an unintended merge

git stash pop

This will apply stashed changes back to working copy and remove the changes from stash unless you have conflicts. In the case of conflict, they will stay in stash so you can start over if needed.

if you need to see what is in your stash

git stash list

React component initialize state from props

It should be noted that it is an anti-pattern to copy properties that never change to the state (just access .props directly in that case). If you have a state variable that will change eventually but starts with a value from .props, you don't even need a constructor call - these local variables are initialized after a call to the parent's constructor:

class FirstComponent extends React.Component {
  state = {
    x: this.props.initialX,
    // You can even call functions and class methods:
    y: this.someMethod(this.props.initialY),
  };
}

This is a shorthand equivalent to the answer from @joews below. It seems to only work on more recent versions of es6 transpilers, I have had issues with it on some webpack setups. If this doesn't work for you, you can try adding the babel plugin babel-plugin-transform-class-properties, or you can use the non-shorthand version by @joews below.

invalid operands of types int and double to binary 'operator%'

Because % is only defined for integer types. That's the modulus operator.

5.6.2 of the standard:

The operands of * and / shall have arithmetic or enumeration type; the operands of % shall have integral or enumeration type. [...]

As Oli pointed out, you can use fmod(). Don't forget to include math.h.

take(1) vs first()

Tip: Only use first() if:

  • You consider zero items emitted to be an error condition (eg. completing before emitting) AND if there’s a greater than 0% chance of error you handling it gracefully
  • OR You know 100% that the source observable will emit 1+ items (so can never throw).

If there are zero emissions and you are not explicitly handling it (with catchError) then that error will get propagated up, possibly cause an unexpected problem somewhere else and can be quite tricky to track down - especially if it's coming from an end user.

You're safer off using take(1) for the most part provided that:

  • You're OK with take(1) not emitting anything if the source completes without an emission.
  • You don't need to use an inline predicate (eg. first(x => x > 10) )

Note: You can use a predicate with take(1) like this: .pipe( filter(x => x > 10), take(1) ). There is no error with this if nothing is ever greater than 10.

What about single()

If you want to be even stricter, and disallow two emissions you can use single() which errors if there are zero or 2+ emissions. Again you'd need to handle errors in that case.

Tip: Single can occasionally be useful if you want to ensure your observable chain isn't doing extra work like calling an http service twice and emitting two observables. Adding single to the end of the pipe will let you know if you made such a mistake. I'm using it in a 'task runner' where you pass in a task observable that should only emit one value, so I pass the response through single(), catchError() to guarantee good behavior.


Why not always use first() instead of take(1) ?

aka. How can first potentially cause more errors?

If you have an observable that takes something from a service and then pipes it through first() you should be fine most of the time. But if someone comes along to disable the service for whatever reason - and changes it to emit of(null) or NEVER then any downstream first() operators would start throwing errors.

Now I realize that might be exactly what you want - hence why this is just a tip. The operator first appealed to me because it sounded slightly less 'clumsy' than take(1) but you need to be careful about handling errors if there's ever a chance of the source not emitting. Will entirely depend on what you're doing though.


If you have a default value (constant):

Consider also .pipe(defaultIfEmpty(42), first()) if you have a default value that should be used if nothing is emitted. This would of course not raise an error because first would always receive a value.

Note that defaultIfEmpty is only triggered if the stream is empty, not if the value of what is emitted is null.

How can I force browsers to print background images in CSS?

You have very little control over a browser's printing methods. At most you can SUGGEST, but if the browser's print settings have "don't print background images", there's nothing you can do without rewriting your page to turn the background images into floating "foreground" images that happen to be behind other content.

How to iterate through SparseArray?

The answer is no because SparseArray doesn't provide it. As pst put it, this thing doesn't provide any interfaces.

You could loop from 0 - size() and skip values that return null, but that is about it.

As I state in my comment, if you need to iterate use a Map instead of a SparseArray. For example, use a TreeMap which iterates in order by the key.

TreeMap<Integer, MyType>

Convert byte[] to char[]

You must know the source encoding.

string someText = "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.";
byte[] bytes = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(someText);
char[] chars = Encoding.Unicode.GetChars(bytes);

Android: disabling highlight on listView click

If you want to disable the highlight for a single list view item, but keep the cell enabled, set the background color for that cell to disable the highlighting.

For instance, in your cell layout, set android:background="@color/white"

PHP Unset Array value effect on other indexes

This might be a little bit out of context but in unsetting values from a global array, apply the answer by Michael Berkowski above but in use with $GLOBALS instead of the the global value you declared with global $variable_name. So it will be something like:

unset($GLOBALS['variable_name']['array_key']);

Instead of:

global $variable_name; unset($variable_name['array_key']);

NB: This works only if you're using global variables.

How to check if a file exists before creating a new file

As of C++17 there is:

if (std::filesystem::exists(pathname)) {
   ...

How do I return to an older version of our code in Subversion?

Just use this line

svn update -r yourOldRevesion

You can know your current revision by using:

svn info

Move / Copy File Operations in Java

Not yet, but the New NIO (JSR 203) will have support for these common operations.

In the meantime, there are a few things to keep in mind.

File.renameTo generally works only on the same file system volume. I think of this as the equivalent to a "mv" command. Use it if you can, but for general copy and move support, you'll need to have a fallback.

When a rename doesn't work you will need to actually copy the file (deleting the original with File.delete if it's a "move" operation). To do this with the greatest efficiency, use the FileChannel.transferTo or FileChannel.transferFrom methods. The implementation is platform specific, but in general, when copying from one file to another, implementations avoid transporting data back and forth between kernel and user space, yielding a big boost in efficiency.

react router v^4.0.0 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'location' of undefined

Replace

import { Router, Route, Link, browserHistory } from 'react-router';

With

import { BrowserRouter as Router, Route } from 'react-router-dom';

It will start working. It is because react-router-dom exports BrowserRouter

Use of ~ (tilde) in R programming Language

The thing on the right of <- is a formula object. It is often used to denote a statistical model, where the thing on the left of the ~ is the response and the things on the right of the ~ are the explanatory variables. So in English you'd say something like "Species depends on Sepal Length, Sepal Width, Petal Length and Petal Width".

The myFormula <- part of that line stores the formula in an object called myFormula so you can use it in other parts of your R code.


Other common uses of formula objects in R

The lattice package uses them to specify the variables to plot.
The ggplot2 package uses them to specify panels for plotting.
The dplyr package uses them for non-standard evaulation.

What is a mutex?

Mutex: Mutex stands for Mutual Exclusion. It means only one process/thread can enter into critical section at a given time. In concurrent programming multiple threads/process updating the shared resource (any variable, shared memory etc.) may lead to some unexpected result. ( As the result depends upon the which thread/process gets the first access).

In order to avoid such an unexpected result we need some synchronization mechanism, which ensures that only one thread/process gets access to such a resource at a time.

pthread library provides support for Mutex.

typedef union
{
  struct __pthread_mutex_s
  {
    ***int __lock;***
    unsigned int __count;
    int __owner;
#ifdef __x86_64__
    unsigned int __nusers;
#endif
int __kind;
#ifdef __x86_64__
    short __spins;
    short __elision;
    __pthread_list_t __list;
# define __PTHREAD_MUTEX_HAVE_PREV      1
# define __PTHREAD_SPINS             0, 0
#else
    unsigned int __nusers;
    __extension__ union
    {
      struct
      {
        short __espins;
        short __elision;
# define __spins __elision_data.__espins
# define __elision __elision_data.__elision
# define __PTHREAD_SPINS         { 0, 0 }
      } __elision_data;
      __pthread_slist_t __list;
    };
#endif

This is the structure for mutex data type i.e pthread_mutex_t. When mutex is locked, __lock set to 1. When it is unlocked __lock set to 0.

This ensure that no two processes/threads can access the critical section at same time.

What is the purpose of backbone.js?

backbone.js is Model-View-Controller (MVC) with JavaScript but Extjs better than backbone for MVC Pattern by java script

With backbone you got freedom to do almost anything you wish for. Rather than trying to fork through the api and customize I would use Backbonejs for it's simplicity and ease of implementation. Again it is hard to say what you require out of the two one is a library another a component

Strings in C, how to get subString

I think it's easy way... but I don't know how I can pass the result variable directly then I create a local char array as temp and return it.

char* substr(char *buff, uint8_t start,uint8_t len, char* substr)
{
    strncpy(substr, buff+start, len);
    substr[len] = 0;
    return substr;
}

How to make image hover in css?

It will not work like this, put both images as background images:

.bg-img {
    background:url(images/yourImg.jpg) no-repeat 0 0;
}

.bg-img:hover {
    background:url(images/yourImg-1.jpg) no-repeat 0 0;
}

How to call external url in jquery?

JQuery and PHP

In PHP file "contenido.php":

<?php
$mURL = $_GET['url'];

echo file_get_contents($mURL);
?>

In html:

<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
    function getContent(pUrl, pDivDestino){
        var mDivDestino = $('#'+pDivDestino);

        $.ajax({
            type : 'GET',
            url : 'contenido.php',
            dataType : 'html',
            data: {
                url : pUrl
            },
            success : function(data){                                               
                mDivDestino.html(data);
            }   
        });
    }
</script>

<a href="#" onclick="javascript:getContent('http://www.google.com/', 'contenido')">Get Google</a>
<div id="contenido"></div>

jQuery Set Cursor Position in Text Area

This works for me in chrome

$('#input').focus(function() {
    setTimeout( function() {
        document.getElementById('input').selectionStart = 4;
        document.getElementById('input').selectionEnd = 4;
    }, 1);
});

Apparently you need a delay of a microsecond or more, because usually a user focusses on the text field by clicking at some position in the text field (or by hitting tab) which you want to override, so you have to wait till the position is set by the user click and then change it.

How can I merge two MySQL tables?

It depends on the semantic of the primary key. If it's just autoincrement, then use something like:

insert into table1 (all columns except pk)
select all_columns_except_pk 
from table2;

If PK means something, you need to find a way to determine which record should have priority. You could create a select query to find duplicates first (see answer by cpitis). Then eliminate the ones you don't want to keep and use the above insert to add records that remain.

Android set bitmap to Imageview

Please try this:

byte[] decodedString = Base64.decode(person_object.getPhoto(),Base64.NO_WRAP);
InputStream inputStream  = new ByteArrayInputStream(decodedString);
Bitmap bitmap  = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(inputStream);
user_image.setImageBitmap(bitmap);

How to calculate date difference in JavaScript?

I think this should do it.

let today = new Date();
let form_date=new Date('2019-10-23')
let difference=form_date>today ? form_date-today : today-form_date
let diff_days=Math.floor(difference/(1000*3600*24))

Android TextView Text not getting wrapped

For my case removing input type did the trick, i was using android:inputType="textPostalAddress" due to that my textview was sticked to one line and was not wrapping, removing this fixed the issue.

JFrame.dispose() vs System.exit()

  • If you have multiple windows open and only want to close the one that was closed use JFrame.dispose().

  • If you want to close all windows and terminate the application use System.exit()

TypeError: unhashable type: 'dict'

A possible solution might be to use the JSON dumps() method, so you can convert the dictionary to a string ---

import json

a={"a":10, "b":20}
b={"b":20, "a":10}
c = [json.dumps(a), json.dumps(b)]


set(c)
json.dumps(a) in c

Output -

set(['{"a": 10, "b": 20}'])
True

Unit testing private methods in C#

Another thought here is to extend testing to "internal" classes/methods, giving more of a white-box sense of this testing. You can use InternalsVisibleToAttribute on the assembly to expose these to separate unit testing modules.

In combination with sealed class you can approach such encapsulation that test method are visible only from unittest assembly your methods. Consider that protected method in sealed class is de facto private.

[assembly: InternalsVisibleTo("MyCode.UnitTests")]
namespace MyCode.MyWatch
{
    #pragma warning disable CS0628 //invalid because of InternalsVisibleTo
    public sealed class MyWatch
    {
        Func<DateTime> _getNow = delegate () { return DateTime.Now; };


       //construktor for testing purposes where you "can change DateTime.Now"
       internal protected MyWatch(Func<DateTime> getNow)
       {
           _getNow = getNow;
       }

       public MyWatch()
       {            
       }
   }
}

And unit test:

namespace MyCode.UnitTests
{

[TestMethod]
public void TestminuteChanged()
{
    //watch for traviling in time
    DateTime baseTime = DateTime.Now;
    DateTime nowforTesting = baseTime;
    Func<DateTime> _getNowForTesting = delegate () { return nowforTesting; };

    MyWatch myWatch= new MyWatch(_getNowForTesting );
    nowforTesting = baseTime.AddMinute(1); //skip minute
    //TODO check myWatch
}

[TestMethod]
public void TestStabilityOnFebruary29()
{
    Func<DateTime> _getNowForTesting = delegate () { return new DateTime(2024, 2, 29); };
    MyWatch myWatch= new MyWatch(_getNowForTesting );
    //component does not crash in overlap year
}
}

How to copy file from HDFS to the local file system

you can accomplish in both these ways.

1.hadoop fs -get <HDFS file path> <Local system directory path>
2.hadoop fs -copyToLocal <HDFS file path> <Local system directory path>

Ex:

My files are located in /sourcedata/mydata.txt I want to copy file to Local file system in this path /user/ravi/mydata

hadoop fs -get /sourcedata/mydata.txt /user/ravi/mydata/

elasticsearch bool query combine must with OR

  • OR is spelled should
  • AND is spelled must
  • NOR is spelled should_not

Example:

You want to see all the items that are (round AND (red OR blue)):

{
    "query": {
        "bool": {
            "must": [
                {
                    "term": {"shape": "round"}
                },
                {
                    "bool": {
                        "should": [
                            {"term": {"color": "red"}},
                            {"term": {"color": "blue"}}
                        ]
                    }
                }
            ]
        }
    }
}

You can also do more complex versions of OR, for example if you want to match at least 3 out of 5, you can specify 5 options under "should" and set a "minimum_should" of 3.

Thanks to Glen Thompson and Sebastialonso for finding where my nesting wasn't quite right before.

Thanks also to Fatmajk for pointing out that "term" becomes "match" in ElasticSearch 6.

Add newline to VBA or Visual Basic 6

Visual Basic has built-in constants for newlines:

vbCr = Chr$(13) = CR (carriage-return character) - used by Mac OS and Apple II family

vbLf = Chr$(10) = LF (line-feed character) - used by Linux and Mac OS X

vbCrLf = Chr$(13) & Chr$(10) = CRLF (carriage-return followed by line-feed) - used by Windows

vbNewLine = the same as vbCrLf

How to use the CancellationToken property?

You can create a Task with cancellation token, when you app goto background you can cancel this token.

You can do this in PCL https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/xamarin-forms/application-fundamentals/app-lifecycle

var cancelToken = new CancellationTokenSource();
Task.Factory.StartNew(async () => {
    await Task.Delay(10000);
    // call web API
}, cancelToken.Token);

//this stops the Task:
cancelToken.Cancel(false);

Anther solution is user Timer in Xamarin.Forms, stop timer when app goto background https://xamarinhelp.com/xamarin-forms-timer/

Does C# support multiple inheritance?

Like Java (which is what C# was indirectly derived from), C# does not support multiple inhertance.

Which is to say that class data (member variables and properties) can only be inherited from a single parent base class. Class behavior (member methods), on the other hand, can be inherited from multiple parent base interfaces.

Some experts, notably Bertrand Meyer (considered by some to be one of the fathers of object-oreiented programming), think that this disqualifies C# (and Java, and all the rest) from being a "true" object-oriented language.

matplotlib.pyplot will not forget previous plots - how can I flush/refresh?

I discovered that this behaviour only occurs after running a particular script, similar to the one in the question. I have no idea why it occurs.

It works (refreshes the graphs) if I put

plt.clf()
plt.cla()
plt.close()

after every plt.show()

How to get client IP address in Laravel 5+

Add namespace

use Request;

Then call the function

Request::ip();

Is a Python list guaranteed to have its elements stay in the order they are inserted in?

I suppose one thing that may be concerning you is whether or not the entries could change, so that the 2 becomes a different number, for instance. You can put your mind at ease here, because in Python, integers are immutable, meaning they cannot change after they are created.

Not everything in Python is immutable, though. For example, lists are mutable---they can change after being created. So for example, if you had a list of lists

>>> a = [[1], [2], [3]]
>>> a[0].append(7)
>>> a
[[1, 7], [2], [3]]

Here, I changed the first entry of a (I added 7 to it). One could imagine shuffling things around, and getting unexpected things here if you are not careful (and indeed, this does happen to everyone when they start programming in Python in some way or another; just search this site for "modifying a list while looping through it" to see dozens of examples).

It's also worth pointing out that x = x + [a] and x.append(a) are not the same thing. The second one mutates x, and the first one creates a new list and assigns it to x. To see the difference, try setting y = x before adding anything to x and trying each one, and look at the difference the two make to y.

Can I run CUDA on Intel's integrated graphics processor?

Intel HD Graphics is usually the on-CPU graphics chip in newer Core i3/i5/i7 processors.

As far as I know it doesn't support CUDA (which is a proprietary NVidia technology), but OpenCL is supported by NVidia, ATi and Intel.

Using Intent in an Android application to show another activity

add the activity in your manifest file

<activity android:name=".OrderScreen" />

How to activate the Bootstrap modal-backdrop?

Just append a div with that class to body, then remove it when you're done:

// Show the backdrop
$('<div class="modal-backdrop"></div>').appendTo(document.body);

// Remove it (later)
$(".modal-backdrop").remove();

Live Example:

_x000D_
_x000D_
$("input").click(function() {_x000D_
  var bd = $('<div class="modal-backdrop"></div>');_x000D_
  bd.appendTo(document.body);_x000D_
  setTimeout(function() {_x000D_
    bd.remove();_x000D_
  }, 2000);_x000D_
});
_x000D_
<link href="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/twitter-bootstrap/2.3.2/css/bootstrap-combined.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />_x000D_
<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<script src="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/twitter-bootstrap/2.3.2/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<p>Click the button to get the backdrop for two seconds.</p>_x000D_
<input type="button" value="Click Me">
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Create an empty data.frame

You can do it without specifying column types

df = data.frame(matrix(vector(), 0, 3,
                dimnames=list(c(), c("Date", "File", "User"))),
                stringsAsFactors=F)

Find size of Git repository

If the repository is on GitHub, you can use the open source Android app Octodroid which displays the size of the repository by default.

For example, with the mptcp repository:

Size of multipath TCP repository on Octodroid

Size of the repository while cloning

Disclaimer: I didn't create Octodroid.

Convert character to Date in R

You may be overcomplicating things, is there any reason you need the stringr package?

 df <- data.frame(Date = c("10/9/2009 0:00:00", "10/15/2009 0:00:00"))
 as.Date(df$Date, "%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S")

[1] "2009-10-09" "2009-10-15"

More generally and if you need the time component as well, use strptime:

strptime(df$Date, "%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S")

I'm guessing at what your actual data might look at from the partial results you give.

Convert blob URL to normal URL

For those who came here looking for a way to download a blob url video / audio, this answer worked for me. In short, you would need to find an *.m3u8 file on the desired web page through Chrome -> Network tab and paste it into a VLC player.

Another guide shows you how to save a stream with the VLC Player.

JavaScript seconds to time string with format hh:mm:ss

s2t=function (t){
  return parseInt(t/86400)+'d '+(new Date(t%86400*1000)).toUTCString().replace(/.*(\d{2}):(\d{2}):(\d{2}).*/, "$1h $2m $3s");
}

s2t(123456);

result:

1d 10h 17m 36s

How do I display the current value of an Android Preference in the Preference summary?

Here is my solution... FWIW

package com.example.PrefTest;

import android.content.SharedPreferences;
import android.content.SharedPreferences.OnSharedPreferenceChangeListener;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.preference.EditTextPreference;
import android.preference.ListPreference;
import android.preference.Preference;
import android.preference.PreferenceActivity;
import android.preference.PreferenceGroup;
import android.preference.PreferenceManager;

public class Preferences extends PreferenceActivity implements
        OnSharedPreferenceChangeListener {

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        addPreferencesFromResource(R.xml.preferences);
        PreferenceManager.setDefaultValues(Preferences.this, R.xml.preferences,
            false);
        initSummary(getPreferenceScreen());
    }

    @Override
    protected void onResume() {
        super.onResume();
        // Set up a listener whenever a key changes
        getPreferenceScreen().getSharedPreferences()
                .registerOnSharedPreferenceChangeListener(this);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onPause() {
        super.onPause();
        // Unregister the listener whenever a key changes
        getPreferenceScreen().getSharedPreferences()
                .unregisterOnSharedPreferenceChangeListener(this);
    }

    public void onSharedPreferenceChanged(SharedPreferences sharedPreferences,
            String key) {
        updatePrefSummary(findPreference(key));
    }

    private void initSummary(Preference p) {
        if (p instanceof PreferenceGroup) {
            PreferenceGroup pGrp = (PreferenceGroup) p;
            for (int i = 0; i < pGrp.getPreferenceCount(); i++) {
                initSummary(pGrp.getPreference(i));
            }
        } else {
            updatePrefSummary(p);
        }
    }

    private void updatePrefSummary(Preference p) {
        if (p instanceof ListPreference) {
            ListPreference listPref = (ListPreference) p;
            p.setSummary(listPref.getEntry());
        }
        if (p instanceof EditTextPreference) {
            EditTextPreference editTextPref = (EditTextPreference) p;
            if (p.getTitle().toString().toLowerCase().contains("password"))
            {
                p.setSummary("******");
            } else {
                p.setSummary(editTextPref.getText());
            }
        }
        if (p instanceof MultiSelectListPreference) {
            EditTextPreference editTextPref = (EditTextPreference) p;
            p.setSummary(editTextPref.getText());
        }
    }
}

How to make a form close when pressing the escape key?

Button cancelBTN = new Button();
cancelBTN.Size = new Size(0, 0);
cancelBTN.TabStop = false;
this.Controls.Add(cancelBTN);
this.CancelButton = cancelBTN;

Loop over html table and get checked checkboxes (JQuery)

The following code snippet enables/disables a button depending on whether at least one checkbox on the page has been checked.
$('input[type=checkbox]').change(function () {
    $('#test > tbody  tr').each(function () {
        if ($('input[type=checkbox]').is(':checked')) {
            $('#btnexcellSelect').removeAttr('disabled');
        } else {
            $('#btnexcellSelect').attr('disabled', 'disabled');
        }
        if ($(this).is(':checked')){
            console.log( $(this).attr('id'));
         }else{
             console.log($(this).attr('id'));
         }
     });
});

Here is demo in JSFiddle.

Insert images to XML file

Here's some code taken from Kirk Evans Blog that demonstrates how to encode an image in C#;

//Load the picture from a file
Image picture = Image.FromFile(@"c:\temp\test.gif");

//Create an in-memory stream to hold the picture's bytes
System.IO.MemoryStream pictureAsStream = new System.IO.MemoryStream();
picture.Save(pictureAsStream, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Gif);

//Rewind the stream back to the beginning
pictureAsStream.Position = 0;
//Get the stream as an array of bytes
byte[] pictureAsBytes = pictureAsStream.ToArray();

//Create an XmlTextWriter to write the XML somewhere... here, I just chose
//to stream out to the Console output stream
System.Xml.XmlTextWriter writer = new System.Xml.XmlTextWriter(Console.Out);

//Write the root element of the XML document and the base64 encoded data
writer.WriteStartElement("w", "binData",
                         "http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2003/wordml");

writer.WriteBase64(pictureAsBytes, 0, pictureAsBytes.Length);

writer.WriteEndElement();
writer.Flush();

Revert to Eclipse default settings

I am not an expert on this, but I'll share my example with you. One guy suggested to create new eclipse preferences file or epf file using another clean install of eclipse. I made a file called clean.epf and compared it with RainbowDrops.epf (the one which messed up my highlighting and such). I noticed a huge difference between the two epf files. So, you might not want to use this method.

The whole windows --- preferences thing did not help. So, I just closed eclipse. Went to

My workspace directory/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/

and deleted the file org.eclipse.ui.editors.prefs and opened eclipse. It works. BTW, keep a back up of your .settings folders just in case.

In case you want to see some difference between rainbow and clean epf -

Rainbow -

file_export_version=3.0
/instance/ccw.core/ccw.preferences.editor_color.FUNCTION=167,236,33
/instance/ccw.core/ccw.preferences.editor_color.FUNCTION.bold=false
/instance/ccw.core/ccw.preferences.editor_color.FUNCTION.enabled=true
/instance/ccw.core/ccw.preferences.editor_color.FUNCTION.italic=false
/instance/ccw.core/ccw.preferences.editor_color.GLOBAL_VAR=141,218,248
...more here

Clean (exporting all) -

/instance/org.eclipse.jdt.ui/tabWidthPropagated=true
/instance/org.eclipse.mylyn.monitor.ui/org.eclipse.mylyn.monitor.activity.tracking.enabled.checked=true
/instance/org.eclipse.mylyn.tasks.ui/org.eclipse.mylyn.tasks.ui.filters.nonmatching.encouraged=true
@org.eclipse.mylyn.monitor.ui=3.13.0.v20140702-2155
/instance/org.eclipse.jdt.ui/useQuickDiffPrefPage=true
...more here

Clean (exporting only java) -

file_export_version=3.0
/instance/org.eclipse.jdt.ui/org.eclipse.jdt.ui.formatterprofiles.version=12
@org.eclipse.jdt.ui=3.10.100.v20140905-1343
\!/=
...end of file

So, I am not sure if this is the best way to go.

Counting number of lines, words, and characters in a text file

import java.io.*;
class wordcount
{
    public static int words=0;
    public static int lines=0;
    public static int chars=0;
    public static void wc(InputStreamReader isr)throws IOException
    {
        int c=0;
        boolean lastwhite=true;
        while((c=isr.read())!=-1)
        {
            chars++;
            if(c=='\n')
                lines++;
            if(c=='\t' || c==' ' || c=='\n')
                ++words;
            if(chars!=0)
                ++chars;
        }   
       }
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        FileReader fr;
        try
        {
            if(args.length==0)
            {
                wc(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
            }
            else
            {
                for(int i=0;i<args.length;i++)
                {
                    fr=new FileReader(args[i]);
                    wc(fr);
                }
            }

        }
        catch(IOException ie)
        {
            return;
        }
        System.out.println(lines+" "+words+" "+chars);
    }
}

Drawable-hdpi, Drawable-mdpi, Drawable-ldpi Android

I got one good solution. Here I have attached it as the image below. So try it. It may be helpful to you...!

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Can I get the name of the current controller in the view?

If you want to use all stylesheet in your app just adds this line in application.html.erb. Insert it inside <head> tag

  <%= stylesheet_link_tag  controller.controller_name , media: 'all', 'data-turbolinks-track': 'reload' %>

Also, to specify the same class CSS on a different controller
Add this line in the body of application.html.erb

  <body class="<%= controller.controller_name %>-<%= controller.action_name %>">

So, now for example I would like to change the p tag in 'home' controller and 'index' action. Inside index.scss file adds.

.nameOfController-nameOfAction <tag> { }

 .home-index p {
        color:red !important;
      }

download csv file from web api in angular js

Workable solution:

downloadCSV(data){   
 const newBlob = new Blob([decodeURIComponent(encodeURI(data))], { type: 'text/csv;charset=utf-8;' });

        // IE doesn't allow using a blob object directly as link href
        // instead it is necessary to use msSaveOrOpenBlob
        if (window.navigator && window.navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob) {
          window.navigator.msSaveOrOpenBlob(newBlob);
          return;
        }

        // For other browsers:
        // Create a link pointing to the ObjectURL containing the blob.
        const fileData = window.URL.createObjectURL(newBlob);

        const link = document.createElement('a');
        link.href = fileData;
        link.download = `Usecase-Unprocessed.csv`;
        // this is necessary as link.click() does not work on the latest firefox
        link.dispatchEvent(new MouseEvent('click', { bubbles: true, cancelable: true, view: window }));

        setTimeout(function () {
          // For Firefox it is necessary to delay revoking the ObjectURL
          window.URL.revokeObjectURL(fileData);
          link.remove();
        }, 5000);
  }

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

I found the below snippet helpful. Taken from: http://jeromeblog-jerome.blogspot.com/2007/10/how-to-unlock-record-on-oracle.html

select
owner||'.'||object_name obj ,
oracle_username||' ('||s.status||')' oruser ,
os_user_name osuser ,
machine computer ,
l.process unix ,
s.sid||','||s.serial# ss ,
r.name rs ,
to_char(s.logon_time,'yyyy/mm/dd hh24:mi:ss') time
from v$locked_object l ,
dba_objects o ,
v$session s ,
v$transaction t ,
v$rollname r
where l.object_id = o.object_id
and s.sid=l.session_id
and s.taddr=t.addr
and t.xidusn=r.usn
order by osuser, ss, obj
;

Then ran:

Alter System Kill Session '<value from ss above>'
;

To kill individual sessions.

How do I check/uncheck all checkboxes with a button using jQuery?

add this in your code block, or even click of your button

$('input:checkbox').attr('checked',false);

List of all index & index columns in SQL Server DB

The above solution is elegant, but according to MS, INDEXKEY_PROPERTY is being deprecated. See: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186773.aspx

How do I remove blank elements from an array?

Try this:

puts ["Kathmandu", "Pokhara", "", "Dharan", "Butwal"] - [""]

ASP.NET Setting width of DataBound column in GridView

I did a small demo for you. Demonstrating how to display long text.

In this example there is a column Name which may contain very long text. The boundField will display all content in a table cell and therefore the cell will expand as needed (because of the content)

The TemplateField will also be rendered as a cell BUT it contains a div which limits the width of any contet to eg 40px. So this column will have some kind of max-width!

    <asp:GridView ID="gvPersons" runat="server" AutoGenerateColumns="False" Width="100px">
        <Columns>
            <asp:BoundField HeaderText="ID" DataField="ID" />
            <asp:BoundField HeaderText="Name (long)" DataField="Name">
                <ItemStyle Width="40px"></ItemStyle>
            </asp:BoundField>
            <asp:TemplateField HeaderText="Name (short)">
                <ItemTemplate>
                    <div style="width: 40px; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis">
                        <%# Eval("Name") %>
                    </div>
                </ItemTemplate>
            </asp:TemplateField>
        </Columns>
    </asp:GridView>

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Here is my demo codeBehind

 public partial class gridViewLongText : System.Web.UI.Page
 {
     protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
     {
         #region init and bind data
         List<Person> list = new List<Person>();
         list.Add(new Person(1, "Sam"));
         list.Add(new Person(2, "Max"));
         list.Add(new Person(3, "Dave"));
         list.Add(new Person(4, "TabularasaVeryLongName"));
         gvPersons.DataSource = list;
         gvPersons.DataBind();
         #endregion
     }
 }

 public class Person
 {
     public int ID { get; set; }
     public string Name { get; set; }

     public Person(int _ID, string _Name)
     {
         ID = _ID;
         Name = _Name;
     }
 }

How to pass variable number of arguments to printf/sprintf

Using functions with the ellipses is not very safe. If performance is not critical for log function consider using operator overloading as in boost::format. You could write something like this:

#include <sstream>
#include <boost/format.hpp>
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

class formatted_log_t {
public:
    formatted_log_t(const char* msg ) : fmt(msg) {}
    ~formatted_log_t() { cout << fmt << endl; }

    template <typename T>
    formatted_log_t& operator %(T value) {
        fmt % value;
        return *this;
    }

protected:
    boost::format                fmt;
};

formatted_log_t log(const char* msg) { return formatted_log_t( msg ); }

// use
int main ()
{
    log("hello %s in %d-th time") % "world" % 10000000;
    return 0;
}

The following sample demonstrates possible errors with ellipses:

int x = SOME_VALUE;
double y = SOME_MORE_VALUE;
printf( "some var = %f, other one %f", y, x ); // no errors at compile time, but error at runtime. compiler do not know types you wanted
log( "some var = %f, other one %f" ) % y % x; // no errors. %f only for compatibility. you could write %1% instead.

How to click a href link using Selenium

You can use xpath as follows, try this one :

driver.findElement(By.xpath("(.//[@href='/docs/configuration'])")).click();

How do I force Kubernetes to re-pull an image?

Now, the command kubectl rollout restart deploy YOUR-DEPLOYMENT combined with a imagePullPolicy: Always policy will allow you to restart all your pods with a latest version of your image.

Editing hosts file to redirect url?

No, but you could open a web server at, for example, 127.0.0.77 and use it to check if the Request URI is "/welcome.aspx"... If yes redirect to google, if not load the original site.

127.0.0.77      mysite.com

anaconda update all possible packages?

Imagine the dependency graph of packages, when the number of packages grows large, the chance of encountering a conflict when upgrading/adding packages is much higher. To avoid this, simply create a new environment in Anaconda.

Be frugal, install only what you need. For me, I installed the following packages in my new environment:

  • pandas
  • scikit-learn
  • matplotlib
  • notebook
  • keras

And I have 84 packages in total.

PHP find difference between two datetimes

The code below will show difference for found values only, i.e., if years = 0, then it will not show years.


$diffs = [
    'years' => 'y',
    'months' => 'm',
    'days' => 'd',
    'hours' => 'h',
    'minutes' => 'i',
    'seconds' => 's'
];

$interval = $timeout->diff($timein);
$diffArr = [];
foreach ($diffs as $k => $v) {
    $d = $interval->format('%' . $v);
    if ($d > 0) {
        $diffArr[] = $d . ' ' . $k;
    }
}    
$diffStr = implode(', ', $diffArr);
echo 'Difference: ' . ($diffStr == '' ? '0' : $diffStr) . PHP_EOL;

Find row number of matching value

For your first method change ws.Range("A") to ws.Range("A:A") which will search the entirety of column a, like so:

Sub Find_Bingo()

        Dim wb As Workbook
        Dim ws As Worksheet
        Dim FoundCell As Range
        Set wb = ActiveWorkbook
        Set ws = ActiveSheet

            Const WHAT_TO_FIND As String = "Bingo"

            Set FoundCell = ws.Range("A:A").Find(What:=WHAT_TO_FIND)
            If Not FoundCell Is Nothing Then
                MsgBox (WHAT_TO_FIND & " found in row: " & FoundCell.Row)
            Else
                MsgBox (WHAT_TO_FIND & " not found")
            End If
End Sub

For your second method, you are using Bingo as a variable instead of a string literal. This is a good example of why I add Option Explicit to the top of all of my code modules, as when you try to run the code it will direct you to this "variable" which is undefined and not intended to be a variable at all.

Additionally, when you are using With...End With you need a period . before you reference Cells, so Cells should be .Cells. This mimics the normal qualifying behavior (i.e. Sheet1.Cells.Find..)

Change Bingo to "Bingo" and change Cells to .Cells

With Sheet1
        Set FoundCell = .Cells.Find(What:="Bingo", After:=.Cells(1, 1), _
        LookIn:=xlValues, lookat:=xlPart, SearchOrder:=xlByRows, _
        SearchDirection:=xlNext, MatchCase:=False, SearchFormat:=False)
    End With

If Not FoundCell Is Nothing Then
        MsgBox ("""Bingo"" found in row " & FoundCell.Row)
Else
        MsgBox ("Bingo not found")
End If

Update

In my

With Sheet1
    .....
End With

The Sheet1 refers to a worksheet's code name, not the name of the worksheet itself. For example, say I open a new blank Excel workbook. The default worksheet is just Sheet1. I can refer to that in code either with the code name of Sheet1 or I can refer to it with the index of Sheets("Sheet1"). The advantage to using a codename is that it does not change if you change the name of the worksheet.

Continuing this example, let's say I renamed Sheet1 to Data. Using Sheet1 would continue to work, as the code name doesn't change, but now using Sheets("Sheet1") would return an error and that syntax must be updated to the new name of the sheet, so it would need to be Sheets("Data").

In the VB Editor you would see something like this:

code object explorer example

Notice how, even though I changed the name to Data, there is still a Sheet1 to the left. That is what I mean by codename.

The Data worksheet can be referenced in two ways:

Debug.Print Sheet1.Name
Debug.Print Sheets("Data").Name

Both should return Data

More discussion on worksheet code names can be found here.

How can I debug javascript on Android?

You can try YConsole a js embedded console. It is lightweight and simple to use.

  • Catch logs and errors.
  • Object editor.

How to use :

<script type="text/javascript" src="js/YConsole-compiled.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" >YConsole.show();</script>

How can I resolve "Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages" error?

I solved the same issue setting 'laravel/framework' dependency version from "^8.0" to "^7.0".

After that running composer update --ignore-platform-reqs simply worked

composer.json

Java - creating a new thread

The goal was to write code to call start() and join() in one place. Parameter anonymous class is an anonymous function. new Thread(() ->{})

new Thread(() ->{
        System.out.println("Does it work?");
        Thread.sleep(1000);
        System.out.println("Nope, it doesnt...again.");       
}){{start();}}.join();

In the body of an anonymous class has instance-block that calls start(). The result is a new instance of class Thread, which is called join().

HTTP status code for update and delete?

In June 2014 RFC7231 obsoletes RFC2616. If you are doing REST over HTTP then RFC7231 describes exactly what behaviour is expected from GET, PUT, POST and DELETE

Mock a constructor with parameter

To my knowledge, you can't mock constructors with mockito, only methods. But according to the wiki on the Mockito google code page there is a way to mock the constructor behavior by creating a method in your class which return a new instance of that class. then you can mock out that method. Below is an excerpt directly from the Mockito wiki:

Pattern 1 - using one-line methods for object creation

To use pattern 1 (testing a class called MyClass), you would replace a call like

   Foo foo = new Foo( a, b, c );

with

   Foo foo = makeFoo( a, b, c );

and write a one-line method

   Foo makeFoo( A a, B b, C c ) { 
        return new Foo( a, b, c );
   }

It's important that you don't include any logic in the method; just the one line that creates the object. The reason for this is that the method itself is never going to be unit tested.

When you come to test the class, the object that you test will actually be a Mockito spy, with this method overridden, to return a mock. What you're testing is therefore not the class itself, but a very slightly modified version of it.

Your test class might contain members like

  @Mock private Foo mockFoo;
  private MyClass toTest = spy(new MyClass());

Lastly, inside your test method you mock out the call to makeFoo with a line like

  doReturn( mockFoo )
      .when( toTest )
      .makeFoo( any( A.class ), any( B.class ), any( C.class ));

You can use matchers that are more specific than any() if you want to check the arguments that are passed to the constructor.

If you're just wanting to return a mocked object of your class I think this should work for you. In any case you can read more about mocking object creation here:

http://code.google.com/p/mockito/wiki/MockingObjectCreation

Launch Image does not show up in my iOS App

I just figured this out. My launch image was not showing up, I get a white screen when launching on a device (iPhone 6, 7+) or testFlight. Fix: Renamed "Landing_screen.png" to just "Landing_screen" removing .png part. The image icon in Xcode changed to white icon and in the launch screen storyboard the image appears as a question mark now. The Launch image now appears and not the white screen. My Setup: I am using Swift 3.1 with Xcode 8.3.1. In LaunchScreen.storyboard I added a simple image view and stretched the image to fit the view controller. I set auto layout constraints Top/Bottom/Leading/Trailing space to superview to 0.

Auto Increment after delete in MySQL

I can think of plenty of scenarios where you might need to do this, particularly during a migration or development process. For instance, I just now had to create a new table by cross-joining two existing tables (as part of a complex set-up process), and then I needed to add a primary key after the event. You can drop the existing primary key column, and then do this.

ALTER TABLE my_table ADD `ID` INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT FIRST, ADD PRIMARY KEY (`ID`);

For a live system, it is not a good idea, and especially if there are other tables with foreign keys pointing to it.

FPDF utf-8 encoding (HOW-TO)

None of the above solutions are going to work.

Try this:

function filter_html($value){
    $value = mb_convert_encoding($value, 'ISO-8859-1', 'UTF-8');
    return $value;
}

Reading string from input with space character?

"%s" will read the input until whitespace is reached.

gets might be a good place to start if you want to read a line (i.e. all characters including whitespace until a newline character is reached).

How does jQuery work when there are multiple elements with the same ID value?

Everybody says "Each id value must be used only once within a document", but what we do to get the elements we need when we have a stupid page that has more than one element with same id. If we use JQuery '#duplicatedId' selector we get the first element only. To achieve selecting the other elements you can do something like this

$("[id=duplicatedId]")

You will get a collection with all elements with id=duplicatedId

Count multiple columns with group by in one query

You didn't say which database server you are using, but if temp tables are available they may be the best approach.

// table is a temp table
select ... into #table ....
SELECT COUNT(column1),column1 FROM #table GROUP BY column1  
SELECT COUNT(column2),column2 FROM #table GROUP BY column2  
SELECT COUNT(column3),column3 FROM #table GROUP BY column3  
// drop may not be required
drop table #table

Can I dynamically add HTML within a div tag from C# on load event?

You could reference controls inside the master page this way:

void Page_Load()
{
    ContentPlaceHolder cph;
    Literal lit;

    cph = (ContentPlaceHolder)Master.FindControl("ContentPlaceHolder1");

    if (cph != null) {
        lit = (Literal) cph.FindControl("Literal1");
        if (lit != null) {
            lit.Text = "Some <b>HTML</b>";
        }
    }

}

In this example you have to put a Literal control in your ContentPlaceholder.

Android camera android.hardware.Camera deprecated

Now we have to use android.hardware.camera2 as android.hardware.Camera is deprecated which will only work on API >23 FlashLight

   public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

     Button button;

     Boolean light=true;

     CameraDevice cameraDevice;

     private CameraManager cameraManager;

     private CameraCharacteristics cameraCharacteristics;

     String cameraId;

     @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        button=(Button)findViewById(R.id.button);
        cameraManager = (CameraManager) 
        getSystemService(Context.CAMERA_SERVICE);
        try {
          cameraId = cameraManager.getCameraIdList()[0];
        } catch (CameraAccessException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        button.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                if(light){
                    try {

                        cameraManager.setTorchMode(cameraId,true);
                    } catch (CameraAccessException e) {
                        e.printStackTrace();
                    }

                    light=false;}
                    else {

                    try {

                      cameraManager.setTorchMode(cameraId,false);
                    } catch (CameraAccessException e) {
                        e.printStackTrace();
                    }


                    light=true;
                    }


            }
        });
    }
}

How to find what code is run by a button or element in Chrome using Developer Tools

Alexander Pavlov's answer gets the closest to what you want.

Due to the extensiveness of jQuery's abstraction and functionality, a lot of hoops have to be jumped in order to get to the meat of the event. I have set up this jsFiddle to demonstrate the work.


1. Setting up the Event Listener Breakpoint

You were close on this one.

  1. Open the Chrome Dev Tools (F12), and go to the Sources tab.
  2. Drill down to Mouse -> Click
    Chrome Dev Tools -> Sources tab -> Mouse -> Click
    (click to zoom)

2. Click the button!

Chrome Dev Tools will pause script execution, and present you with this beautiful entanglement of minified code:

Chrome Dev Tools paused script execution (click to zoom)


3. Find the glorious code!

Now, the trick here is to not get carried away pressing the key, and keep an eye out on the screen.

  1. Press the F11 key (Step In) until desired source code appears
  2. Source code finally reached
    • In the jsFiddle sample provided above, I had to press F11 108 times before reaching the desired event handler/function
    • Your mileage may vary, depending on the version of jQuery (or framework library) used to bind the events
    • With enough dedication and time, you can find any event handler/function

Desired event handler/function


4. Explanation

I don't have the exact answer, or explanation as to why jQuery goes through the many layers of abstractions it does - all I can suggest is that it is because of the job it does to abstract away its usage from the browser executing the code.

Here is a jsFiddle with a debug version of jQuery (i.e., not minified). When you look at the code on the first (non-minified) breakpoint, you can see that the code is handling many things:

    // ...snip...

    if ( !(eventHandle = elemData.handle) ) {
        eventHandle = elemData.handle = function( e ) {
            // Discard the second event of a jQuery.event.trigger() and
            // when an event is called after a page has unloaded
            return typeof jQuery !== strundefined && jQuery.event.triggered !== e.type ?
                jQuery.event.dispatch.apply( elem, arguments ) : undefined;
        };
    }

    // ...snip...

The reason I think you missed it on your attempt when the "execution pauses and I jump line by line", is because you may have used the "Step Over" function, instead of Step In. Here is a StackOverflow answer explaining the differences.

Finally, the reason why your function is not directly bound to the click event handler is because jQuery returns a function that gets bound. jQuery's function in turn goes through some abstraction layers and checks, and somewhere in there, it executes your function.

Android: How to enable/disable option menu item on button click?

simplify @Vikas version

@Override
public boolean onPrepareOptionsMenu (Menu menu) {

    menu.findItem(R.id.example_foobar).setEnabled(isFinalized);
    return true;
}

VBScript -- Using error handling

VBScript has no notion of throwing or catching exceptions, but the runtime provides a global Err object that contains the results of the last operation performed. You have to explicitly check whether the Err.Number property is non-zero after each operation.

On Error Resume Next

DoStep1

If Err.Number <> 0 Then
  WScript.Echo "Error in DoStep1: " & Err.Description
  Err.Clear
End If

DoStep2

If Err.Number <> 0 Then
  WScript.Echo "Error in DoStop2:" & Err.Description
  Err.Clear
End If

'If you no longer want to continue following an error after that block's completed,
'call this.
On Error Goto 0

The "On Error Goto [label]" syntax is supported by Visual Basic and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), but VBScript doesn't support this language feature so you have to use On Error Resume Next as described above.

Which way is best for creating an object in JavaScript? Is `var` necessary before an object property?

While many people here say there is no best way for object creation, there is a rationale as to why there are so many ways to create objects in JavaScript, as of 2019, and this has to do with the progress of JavaScript over the different iterations of EcmaScript releases dating back to 1997.

Prior to ECMAScript 5, there were only two ways of creating objects: the constructor function or the literal notation ( a better alternative to new Object()). With the constructor function notation you create an object that can be instantiated into multiple instances (with the new keyword), while the literal notation delivers a single object, like a singleton.

// constructor function
function Person() {};

// literal notation
var Person = {};

Regardless of the method you use, JavaScript objects are simply properties of key value pairs:

// Method 1: dot notation
obj.firstName = 'Bob';

// Method 2: bracket notation. With bracket notation, you can use invalid characters for a javascript identifier.
obj['lastName'] = 'Smith';

// Method 3: Object.defineProperty
Object.defineProperty(obj, 'firstName', {
    value: 'Bob',
    writable: true,
    configurable: true,
    enumerable: false
})

// Method 4: Object.defineProperties
Object.defineProperties(obj, {
  firstName: {
    value: 'Bob',
    writable: true
  },
  lastName: {
    value: 'Smith',
    writable: false
  }
});

In early versions of JavaScript, the only real way to mimic class-based inheritance was to use constructor functions. the constructor function is a special function that is invoked with the 'new' keyword. By convention, the function identifier is capitalized, albiet it is not required. Inside of the constructor, we refer to the 'this' keyword to add properties to the object that the constructor function is implicitly creating. The constructor function implicitly returns the new object with the populated properties back to the calling function implicitly, unless you explicitly use the return keyword and return something else.

function Person(firstName, lastName) {
    this.firstName = firstName;
    this.lastName = lastName;

    this.sayName = function(){
        return "My name is " + this.firstName + " " + this.lastName;
    }
} 

var bob = new Person("Bob", "Smith");
bob instanceOf Person // true

There is a problem with the sayName method. Typically, in Object-Oriented Class-based programming languages, you use classes as factories to create objects. Each object will have its own instance variables, but it will have a pointer to the methods defined in the class blueprint. Unfortunately, when using JavaScript's constructor function, every time it is called, it will define a new sayName property on the newly created object. So each object will have its own unique sayName property. This will consume more memory resources.

In addition to increased memory resources, defining methods inside of the constructor function eliminates the possibility of inheritance. Again, the method will be defined as a property on the newly created object and no other object, so inheritance cannot work like. Hence, JavaScript provides the prototype chain as a form of inheritance, making JavaScript a prototypal language.

If you have a parent and a parent shares many properties of a child, then the child should inherit those properties. Prior to ES5, it was accomplished as follows:

function Parent(eyeColor, hairColor) {
    this.eyeColor = eyeColor;
    this.hairColor = hairColor;
}

Parent.prototype.getEyeColor = function() {
  console.log('has ' + this.eyeColor);
}

Parent.prototype.getHairColor = function() {
  console.log('has ' + this.hairColor);
}

function Child(firstName, lastName) {
  Parent.call(this, arguments[2], arguments[3]);
  this.firstName = firstName;
  this.lastName = lastName;
}

Child.prototype = Parent.prototype;

var child = new Child('Bob', 'Smith', 'blue', 'blonde');
child.getEyeColor(); // has blue eyes
child.getHairColor(); // has blonde hair

The way we utilized the prototype chain above has a quirk. Since the prototype is a live link, by changing the property of one object in the prototype chain, you'd be changing same property of another object as well. Obviously, changing a child's inherited method should not change the parent's method. Object.create resolved this issue by using a polyfill. Thus, with Object.create, you can safely modify a child's property in the prototype chain without affecting the parent's same property in the prototype chain.

ECMAScript 5 introduced Object.create to solve the aforementioned bug in the constructor function for object creation. The Object.create() method CREATES a new object, using an existing object as the prototype of the newly created object. Since a new object is created, you no longer have the issue where modifying the child property in the prototype chain will modify the parent's reference to that property in the chain.

var bobSmith = {
    firstName: "Bob",
    lastName: "Smith",
    sayName: function(){
      return "My name is " + this.firstName + " " + this.lastName;
    }
}

var janeSmith = Object.create(bobSmith, {
    firstName : {  value: "Jane" }
})

console.log(bobSmith.sayName()); // My name is Bob Smith
console.log(janeSmith.sayName()); // My name is Jane Smith
janeSmith.__proto__ == bobSmith; // true
janeSmith instanceof bobSmith; // Uncaught TypeError: Right-hand side of 'instanceof' is not callable. Error occurs because bobSmith is not a constructor function.

Prior to ES6, here was a common creational pattern to utilize function constructors and Object.create:

const View = function(element){
  this.element = element;
}

View.prototype = {
  getElement: function(){
    this.element
  }
}

const SubView = function(element){
  View.call(this, element);
}

SubView.prototype = Object.create(View.prototype);

Now Object.create coupled with constructor functions have been widely used for object creation and inheritance in JavaScript. However, ES6 introduced the concept of classes, which are primarily syntactical sugar over JavaScript's existing prototype-based inheritance. The class syntax does not introduce a new object-oriented inheritance model to JavaScript. Thus, JavaScript remains a prototypal language.

ES6 classes make inheritance much easier. We no longer have to manually copy the parent class's prototype functions and reset the child class's constructor.

// create parent class
class Person {
  constructor (name) {
    this.name = name;
  }
}

// create child class and extend our parent class
class Boy extends Person {
  constructor (name, color) {
    // invoke our parent constructor function passing in any required parameters
    super(name);

    this.favoriteColor = color;
  }
}

const boy = new Boy('bob', 'blue')
boy.favoriteColor; // blue

All in all, these 5 different strategies of Object Creation in JavaScript coincided the evolution of the EcmaScript standard.

undefined reference to `std::ios_base::Init::Init()'

You can resolve this in several ways:

  • Use g++ in stead of gcc: g++ -g -o MatSim MatSim.cpp
  • Add -lstdc++: gcc -g -o MatSim MatSim.cpp -lstdc++
  • Replace <string.h> by <string>

This is a linker problem, not a compiler issue. The same problem is covered in the question iostream linker error – it explains what is going on.

Understanding slice notation

I don't think that the Python tutorial diagram (cited in various other answers) is good as this suggestion works for positive stride, but does not for a negative stride.

This is the diagram:

 +---+---+---+---+---+---+
 | P | y | t | h | o | n |
 +---+---+---+---+---+---+
 0   1   2   3   4   5   6
-6  -5  -4  -3  -2  -1

From the diagram, I expect a[-4,-6,-1] to be yP but it is ty.

>>> a = "Python"
>>> a[2:4:1] # as expected
'th'
>>> a[-4:-6:-1] # off by 1
'ty'

What always work is to think in characters or slots and use indexing as a half-open interval -- right-open if positive stride, left-open if negative stride.

This way, I can think of a[-4:-6:-1] as a(-6,-4] in interval terminology.

 +---+---+---+---+---+---+
 | P | y | t | h | o | n |
 +---+---+---+---+---+---+
   0   1   2   3   4   5  
  -6  -5  -4  -3  -2  -1

 +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
 | P | y | t | h | o | n | P | y | t | h | o | n |
 +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  -6  -5  -4  -3  -2  -1   0   1   2   3   4   5  

how to parse xml to java object?

For performing Unmarshall using JAXB:

1) Convert given XML to XSD(by yourself or by online convertor),

2) Create a JAXB project in eclipse,

3) Create XSD file and paste that converted XSD content in it,

4) Right click on **XSD file--> Generate--> JAXB Classes-->follow the instructions(this will create all nessasary .java files in src, i.e., one package-info, object factory and pojo class),

5) Create another .java file in src to operate unmarshall operation, and run it.

Happy Coding !!

Get a substring of a char*

Assuming you know the position and the length of the substring:

char *buff = "this is a test string";
printf("%.*s", 4, buff + 10);

You could achieve the same thing by copying the substring to another memory destination, but it's not reasonable since you already have it in memory.

This is a good example of avoiding unnecessary copying by using pointers.

How to get a list of all files that changed between two Git commits?

  • To list all unstaged tracked changed files:

    git diff --name-only
    
  • To list all staged tracked changed files:

    git diff --name-only --staged
    
  • To list all staged and unstaged tracked changed files:

    { git diff --name-only ; git diff --name-only --staged ; } | sort | uniq
    
  • To list all untracked files (the ones listed by git status, so not including any ignored files):

    git ls-files --other --exclude-standard
    

If you're using this in a shell script, and you want to programmatically check if these commands returned anything, you'll be interested in git diff's --exit-code option.

HTML iframe - disable scroll

Just add an iframe styled like either option below. I hope this solves the problem.

1st option:

<iframe src="https://www.skyhub.ca/featured-listing" style="position: absolute; visibility: hidden;" onload="this.style.position='static'; this.style.visibility='visible';" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" marginheight="0px" marginwidth="0px" height="400px" width="1200px" allowfullscreen></iframe>

2nd option:

<iframe src="https://www.skyhub.ca/featured-listing" style="display: none;" onload="this.style.display='block';" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" marginheight="0px" marginwidth="0px" height="400px" width="1200px" allowfullscreen></iframe>

How to convert numbers between hexadecimal and decimal

Try using BigNumber in C# - Represents an arbitrarily large signed integer.

Program

using System.Numerics;
...
var bigNumber = BigInteger.Parse("837593454735734579347547357233757342857087879423437472347757234945743");
Console.WriteLine(bigNumber.ToString("X"));

Output

4F30DC39A5B10A824134D5B18EEA3707AC854EE565414ED2E498DCFDE1A15DA5FEB6074AE248458435BD417F06F674EB29A2CFECF

Possible Exceptions,

ArgumentNullException - value is null.

FormatException - value is not in the correct format.

Conclusion

You can convert string and store a value in BigNumber without constraints about the size of the number unless the string is empty and non-analphabets

Facebook login message: "URL Blocked: This redirect failed because the redirect URI is not whitelisted in the app’s Client OAuth Settings."

This worked for me.

redierct_url = http://127.0.0.1:8080/accounts/facebook/login/callback/

I got that from my browser after clicking the Facebook button you browser will be redirected to a link for integrating with Facebook API, so where you will get that redirect. For my case the link was this from where I got the redirect_url.

https://www.facebook.com/dialog/oauth?client_id=...&scope=&response_type=code&state=...&redirect_uri=http://127.0.0.1:8080/accounts/facebook/login/callback/

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Highlight Bash/shell code in Markdown files

Bitbucket uses CodeMirror for syntax highlighting. For Bash or shell you can use sh, bash, or zsh. More information can be found at Configuring syntax highlighting for file extensions and Code mirror language modes.

What is a difference between unsigned int and signed int in C?

The C standard specifies that unsigned numbers will be stored in binary. (With optional padding bits). Signed numbers can be stored in one of three formats: Magnitude and sign; two's complement or one's complement. Interestingly that rules out certain other representations like Excess-n or Base -2.

However on most machines and compilers store signed numbers in 2's complement.

int is normally 16 or 32 bits. The standard says that int should be whatever is most efficient for the underlying processor, as long as it is >= short and <= long then it is allowed by the standard.

On some machines and OSs history has causes int not to be the best size for the current iteration of hardware however.

How to display a date as iso 8601 format with PHP

For pre PHP 5:

function iso8601($time=false) {
    if(!$time) $time=time();
    return date("Y-m-d", $time) . 'T' . date("H:i:s", $time) .'+00:00';
}

Onclick on bootstrap button

Seem no solutions fix the problem:

$(".anima-area").on('click', function (e) {
            return false; //return true;
});
$(".anima-area").on('click', function (e) {
            e.preventDefault();
});
 $(".anima-area").click(function (r) {
           e.preventDefault();
});
$(".anima-area").click(function () {
           return false; //return true;
});

Bootstrap button always maintain th pressed status and block all .click code. If i remove .click function button comeback to work good.

How does a Java HashMap handle different objects with the same hash code?

I will not get into the details of how HashMap works, but will give an example so we can remember how HashMap works by relating it to reality.

We have Key, Value ,HashCode and bucket.

For sometime, we will relate each of them with the following:

  • Bucket -> A Society
  • HashCode -> Society's address(unique always)
  • Value -> A House in the Society
  • Key -> House address.

Using Map.get(key) :

Stevie wants to get to his friend's(Josse) house who lives in a villa in a VIP society, let it be JavaLovers Society. Josse's address is his SSN(which is different for everyone). There's an index maintained in which we find out the Society's name based on SSN. This index can be considered to be an algorithm to find out the HashCode.

  • SSN Society's Name
  • 92313(Josse's) -- JavaLovers
  • 13214 -- AngularJSLovers
  • 98080 -- JavaLovers
  • 53808 -- BiologyLovers

  1. This SSN(key) first gives us a HashCode(from the index table) which is nothing but Society's name.
  2. Now, mulitple houses can be in the same society, so the HashCode can be common.
  3. Suppose, the Society is common for two houses, how are we going to identify which house we are going to, yes, by using the (SSN)key which is nothing but the House address

Using Map.put(key,Value)

This finds a suitable society for this Value by finding the HashCode and then the value is stored.

I hope this helps and this is open for modifications.

Entity Framework Join 3 Tables

This is untested, but I believe the syntax should work for a lambda query. As you join more tables with this syntax you have to drill further down into the new objects to reach the values you want to manipulate.

var fullEntries = dbContext.tbl_EntryPoint
    .Join(
        dbContext.tbl_Entry,
        entryPoint => entryPoint.EID,
        entry => entry.EID,
        (entryPoint, entry) => new { entryPoint, entry }
    )
    .Join(
        dbContext.tbl_Title,
        combinedEntry => combinedEntry.entry.TID,
        title => title.TID,
        (combinedEntry, title) => new 
        {
            UID = combinedEntry.entry.OwnerUID,
            TID = combinedEntry.entry.TID,
            EID = combinedEntry.entryPoint.EID,
            Title = title.Title
        }
    )
    .Where(fullEntry => fullEntry.UID == user.UID)
    .Take(10);

Gradients on UIView and UILabels On iPhone

You can use Core Graphics to draw the gradient, as pointed to in Mike's response. As a more detailed example, you could create a UIView subclass to use as a background for your UILabel. In that UIView subclass, override the drawRect: method and insert code similar to the following:

- (void)drawRect:(CGRect)rect 
{
    CGContextRef currentContext = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();

    CGGradientRef glossGradient;
    CGColorSpaceRef rgbColorspace;
    size_t num_locations = 2;
    CGFloat locations[2] = { 0.0, 1.0 };
    CGFloat components[8] = { 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 0.35,  // Start color
         1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 0.06 }; // End color

    rgbColorspace = CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB();
    glossGradient = CGGradientCreateWithColorComponents(rgbColorspace, components, locations, num_locations);

    CGRect currentBounds = self.bounds;
    CGPoint topCenter = CGPointMake(CGRectGetMidX(currentBounds), 0.0f);
    CGPoint midCenter = CGPointMake(CGRectGetMidX(currentBounds), CGRectGetMidY(currentBounds));
    CGContextDrawLinearGradient(currentContext, glossGradient, topCenter, midCenter, 0);

    CGGradientRelease(glossGradient);
    CGColorSpaceRelease(rgbColorspace); 
}

This particular example creates a white, glossy-style gradient that is drawn from the top of the UIView to its vertical center. You can set the UIView's backgroundColor to whatever you like and this gloss will be drawn on top of that color. You can also draw a radial gradient using the CGContextDrawRadialGradient function.

You just need to size this UIView appropriately and add your UILabel as a subview of it to get the effect you desire.

EDIT (4/23/2009): Per St3fan's suggestion, I have replaced the view's frame with its bounds in the code. This corrects for the case when the view's origin is not (0,0).

Django {% with %} tags within {% if %} {% else %} tags?

Like this:

{% if age > 18 %}
    {% with patient as p %}
    <my html here>
    {% endwith %}
{% else %}
    {% with patient.parent as p %}
    <my html here>
    {% endwith %}
{% endif %}

If the html is too big and you don't want to repeat it, then the logic would better be placed in the view. You set this variable and pass it to the template's context:

p = (age > 18 && patient) or patient.parent

and then just use {{ p }} in the template.

How to format DateTime in Flutter , How to get current time in flutter?

there is some change since the 0.16 so here how i did,

import in the pubspec.yaml

dependencies:
      flutter:
        sdk: flutter
      intl: ^0.16.1

then use

  txdate= DateTime.now()


  DateFormat.yMMMd().format(txdate)

Getting the screen resolution using PHP

I don't think you can detect the screen size purely with PHP but you can detect the user-agent..

<?php
    if ( stristr($ua, "Mobile" )) {
        $DEVICE_TYPE="MOBILE";
    }

    if (isset($DEVICE_TYPE) and $DEVICE_TYPE=="MOBILE") {
        echo '<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/mobile.css" />'
    }
?>

Here's a link to a more detailed script: PHP Mobile Detect

localhost refused to connect Error in visual studio

I had to add https bindings in my local IIS

How to create an Array with AngularJS's ng-model

How to create an array of inputs with ng-model

Use the ng-repeat directive:

<ol>
  <li ng-repeat="n in [] | range:count">
    <input name="telephone-{{$index}}"
           ng-model="telephones[$index].value" >
  </li>
</ol>

The DEMO

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angular.module("app",[])_x000D_
.controller("ctrl",function($scope){_x000D_
  $scope.count = 3;_x000D_
  $scope.telephones = [];_x000D_
})_x000D_
.filter("range",function() {_x000D_
  return (x,n) => Array.from({length:n},(x,index)=>(index));_x000D_
})
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<script src="//unpkg.com/angular/angular.js"></script>_x000D_
<body ng-app="app" ng-controller="ctrl">_x000D_
    <button>_x000D_
      Array length_x000D_
      <input type="number" ng-model="count" _x000D_
             ng-change="telephones.length=count">_x000D_
    </button>_x000D_
    <ol>_x000D_
      <li ng-repeat="n in [] | range:count">_x000D_
        <input name="telephone-{{$index}}"_x000D_
               ng-model="telephones[$index].value" >_x000D_
      </li>_x000D_
    </ol>  _x000D_
    {{telephones}}_x000D_
</body>
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How can I count the occurrences of a string within a file?

I'm taking some guesses here, because I don't quite understand what you're asking.

I think that what you want is a count of the number of lines on which the pattern 'echo' appears in the given file.

I've pasted your sample text into a file called 6741967.

First, grep finds the matches:

james@Brindle:tmp$grep echo 6741967 
    echo "Preparing to add a new user..."
echo "1. Add user"
echo "2. Exit"
echo "Enter your choice: "

Second, use wc -l to count the lines

james@Brindle:tmp$grep echo 6741967  | wc -l
       4

In MySQL, can I copy one row to insert into the same table?

I'm assuming you want the new record to have a new primarykey? If primarykey is AUTO_INCREMENT then just do this:

INSERT INTO table (col1, col2, col3, ...)
SELECT col1, col2, col3, ... FROM table
  WHERE primarykey = 1

...where col1, col2, col3, ... is all of the columns in the table except for primarykey.

If it's not an AUTO_INCREMENT column and you want to be able to choose the new value for primarykey it's similar:

INSERT INTO table (primarykey, col2, col3, ...)
SELECT 567, col2, col3, ... FROM table
  WHERE primarykey = 1

...where 567 is the new value for primarykey.

Eclipse - Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder"

Did you update the project (right-click on the project, "Maven" > "Update project...")? Otherwise, you need to check if pom.xml contains the necessary slf4j dependencies, e.g.:

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
        <artifactId>jcl-over-slf4j</artifactId>
        <version>1.7.0</version>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
        <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
        <version>1.7.0</version>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
        <artifactId>slf4j-log4j12</artifactId>
        <version>1.7.0</version>
        <scope>runtime</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>log4j</groupId>
        <artifactId>log4j</artifactId>
        <version>1.2.14</version>
    </dependency>

Laravel Migration Error: Syntax error or access violation: 1071 Specified key was too long; max key length is 767 bytes

For anyone else who might run into this, my issue was that I was making a column of type string and trying to make it ->unsigned() when I meant for it to be an integer.

Simple PHP calculator

<?php 
$result = "";
class calculator
{
    var $a;
    var $b;

    function checkopration($oprator)
    {
        switch($oprator)
        {
            case '+':
            return $this->a + $this->b;
            break;

            case '-':
            return $this->a - $this->b;
            break;

            case '*':
            return $this->a * $this->b;
            break;

            case '/':
            return $this->a / $this->b;
            break;

            default:
            return "Sorry No command found";
        }   
    }
    function getresult($a, $b, $c)
    {
        $this->a = $a;
        $this->b = $b;
        return $this->checkopration($c);
    }
}

$cal = new calculator();
if(isset($_POST['submit']))
{   
    $result = $cal->getresult($_POST['n1'],$_POST['n2'],$_POST['op']);
}
?>

<form method="post">
<table align="center">
    <tr>
        <td><strong><?php echo $result; ?><strong></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>Enter 1st Number</td>
        <td><input type="text" name="n1"></td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td>Enter 2nd Number</td>
        <td><input type="text" name="n2"></td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td>Select Oprator</td>
        <td><select name="op">
            <option value="+">+</option>
            <option value="-">-</option>
            <option value="*">*</option>
            <option value="/">/</option>
        </select></td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td></td>
        <td><input type="submit" name="submit" value="                =                "></td>
    </tr>

</table>
</form>

How to fix "Attempted relative import in non-package" even with __init__.py

python <main module>.py does not work with relative import

The problem is relative import does not work when you run a __main__ module from the command line

python <main_module>.py

It is clearly stated in PEP 338.

The release of 2.5b1 showed a surprising (although obvious in retrospect) interaction between this PEP and PEP 328 - explicit relative imports don't work from a main module. This is due to the fact that relative imports rely on __name__ to determine the current module's position in the package hierarchy. In a main module, the value of __name__ is always '__main__', so explicit relative imports will always fail (as they only work for a module inside a package).

Cause

The issue isn't actually unique to the -m switch. The problem is that relative imports are based on __name__, and in the main module, __name__ always has the value __main__. Hence, relative imports currently can't work properly from the main module of an application, because the main module doesn't know where it really fits in the Python module namespace (this is at least fixable in theory for the main modules executed through the -m switch, but directly executed files and the interactive interpreter are completely out of luck).

To understand further, see Relative imports in Python 3 for the detailed explanation and how to get it over.

How to add users to Docker container?

You can imitate open source Dockerfile, for example:

Node: node12-github

RUN groupadd --gid 1000 node \
    && useradd --uid 1000 --gid node --shell /bin/bash --create-home node

superset: superset-github

RUN useradd --user-group --create-home --no-log-init --shell /bin/bash 
    superset

I think it's a good way to follow open source.

Copy all the lines to clipboard

If your fingers default to CTRL-A CTRL-C, then try the mappings from $VIMRUNTIME/mswin.vim.

" CTRL-C and CTRL-Insert are Copy
vnoremap <C-C> "+y

" CTRL-A is Select all
noremap <C-A> gggH<C-O>G
inoremap <C-A> <C-O>gg<C-O>gH<C-O>G
cnoremap <C-A> <C-C>gggH<C-O>G
onoremap <C-A> <C-C>gggH<C-O>G
snoremap <C-A> <C-C>gggH<C-O>G
xnoremap <C-A> <C-C>ggVG

I have them mapped to <Leader><C-a> and <Leader><C-c>.

What is the best place for storing uploaded images, SQL database or disk file system?

Absolutely, positively option A. Others have mentioned that databases generally don't deal well with BLOBs, whether they're designed to do so or not. Filesystems, on the other hand, live for this stuff. You have the option of using RAID striping, spreading images across multiple drives, even spreading them across geographically disparate servers.

Another advantage is your database backups/replication would be monstrous.

Clear and refresh jQuery Chosen dropdown list

If trigger("chosen:updated"); not working, use .trigger("liszt:updated"); of @Nhan Tran it is working fine.

Why is my element value not getting changed? Am I using the wrong function?

It's document.getElementById, not document.getElementsByID

I'm assuming you have <input id="Tue" ...> somewhere in your markup.

How do I move a file from one location to another in Java?

Try this :-

  boolean success = file.renameTo(new File(Destdir, file.getName()));

How to search for a string inside an array of strings

You can use Array.prototype.find function in javascript. Array find MDN.

So to find string in array of string, the code becomes very simple. Plus as browser implementation, it will provide good performance.

Ex.

var strs = ['abc', 'def', 'ghi', 'jkl', 'mno'];
var value = 'abc';
strs.find(
    function(str) {
        return str == value;
    }
);

or using lambda expression it will become much shorter

var strs = ['abc', 'def', 'ghi', 'jkl', 'mno'];
var value = 'abc';
strs.find((str) => str === value);

What's the difference between xsd:include and xsd:import?

Use xsd:include to bring in an XSD from the same or no namespace.

Use xsd:import to bring in an XSD from a different namespace.

HTML "overlay" which allows clicks to fall through to elements behind it

In case anyone else is running in to the same problem, the only solution I could find that satisfied me was to have the canvas cover everything and then to raise the Z-index of all clickable elements. You can't draw on them, but at least they are clickable...

How to save username and password with Mercurial?

You can make an auth section in your .hgrc or Mercurial.ini file, like so:

[auth]
bb.prefix = https://bitbucket.org/repo/path
bb.username = foo
bb.password = foo_passwd

The ‘bb’ part is an arbitrary identifier and is used to match prefix with username and password - handy for managing different username/password combos with different sites (prefix)

You can also only specify the user name, then you will just have to type your password when you push.

I would also recommend to take a look at the keyring extension. Because it stores the password in your system’s key ring instead of a plain text file, it is more secure. It is bundled with TortoiseHg on Windows, and there is currently a discussion about distributing it as a bundled extension on all platforms.

Set Encoding of File to UTF8 With BOM in Sublime Text 3

Into the Preferences > Setting - Default

You will have the next by default:

// Display file encoding in the status bar
    "show_encoding": false

You could change it or like cdesmetz said set your user settings.

In Python, how do I loop through the dictionary and change the value if it equals something?

Comprehensions are usually faster, and this has the advantage of not editing mydict during the iteration:

mydict = dict((k, v if v else '') for k, v in mydict.items())

Where does Vagrant download its .box files to?

To change the Path, you can set a new Path to an Enviroment-Variable named: VAGRANT_HOME

export VAGRANT_HOME=my/new/path/goes/here/

Thats maybe nice if you want to have those vagrant-Images on another HDD.

More Information here in the Documentations: http://docs.vagrantup.com/v2/other/environmental-variables.html

String escape into XML

George, it's simple. Always use the XML APIs to handle XML. They do all the escaping and unescaping for you.

Never create XML by appending strings.

How do operator.itemgetter() and sort() work?

#sorting first by age then profession,you can change it in function "fun".
a = []

def fun(v):
    return (v[1],v[2])

# create the table (name, age, job)
a.append(["Nick", 30, "Doctor"])
a.append(["John",  8, "Student"])
a.append(["Paul",  8,"Car Dealer"])
a.append(["Mark", 66, "Retired"])

a.sort(key=fun)


print a

Base64 length calculation?

I believe that this one is an exact answer if n%3 not zero, no ?

    (n + 3-n%3)
4 * ---------
       3

Mathematica version :

SizeB64[n_] := If[Mod[n, 3] == 0, 4 n/3, 4 (n + 3 - Mod[n, 3])/3]

Have fun

GI

PostgreSQL Exception Handling

Just want to add my two cents on this old post:

In my opinion, almost all of relational database engines include a commit transaction execution automatically after execute a DDL command even when you have autocommit=false, So you don't need to start a transaction to avoid a potential truncated object creation because It is completely unnecessary.

Validate email address textbox using JavaScript

The result in isEmailValid can be used to test whether the email's syntax is valid.

var validEmailRegEx = /^[A-Z0-9_'%=+!`#~$*?^{}&|-]+([\.][A-Z0-9_'%=+!`#~$*?^{}&|-]+)*@[A-Z0-9-]+(\.[A-Z0-9-]+)+$/i
var isEmailValid = validEmailRegEx.test("Email To Test");

How to convert a Base64 string into a Bitmap image to show it in a ImageView?

I've found this easy solution

To convert from bitmap to Base64 use this method.

private String convertBitmapToBase64(Bitmap bitmap) {
    ByteArrayOutputStream byteArrayOutputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    bitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 100, byteArrayOutputStream);
    byte[] byteArray = byteArrayOutputStream .toByteArray();
    return Base64.encodeToString(byteArray, Base64.DEFAULT);
}

To convert from Base64 to bitmap OR revert.

private Bitmap convertBase64ToBitmap(String b64) {
    byte[] imageAsBytes = Base64.decode(b64.getBytes(), Base64.DEFAULT);
    return BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(imageAsBytes, 0, imageAsBytes.length);
}

How do I manage conflicts with git submodules?

I have not seen that exact error before. But I have a guess about the trouble you are encountering. It looks like because the master and one.one branches of supery contain different refs for the subby submodule, when you merge changes from master git does not know which ref - v1.0 or v1.1 - should be kept and tracked by the one.one branch of supery.

If that is the case, then you need to select the ref that you want and commit that change to resolve the conflict. Which is exactly what you are doing with the reset command.

This is a tricky aspect of tracking different versions of a submodule in different branches of your project. But the submodule ref is just like any other component of your project. If the two different branches continue to track the same respective submodule refs after successive merges, then git should be able to work out the pattern without raising merge conflicts in future merges. On the other hand you if switch submodule refs frequently you may have to put up with a lot of conflict resolving.

HTML: How to center align a form

This will have the field take 50% of the width and be centered and resized properly


    {    
        width: 50%;
        margin-left : 25%
    }

May also use "vw" (view width) units instead of "%"

django MultiValueDictKeyError error, how do I deal with it

Use the MultiValueDict's get method. This is also present on standard dicts and is a way to fetch a value while providing a default if it does not exist.

is_private = request.POST.get('is_private', False)

Generally,

my_var = dict.get(<key>, <default>)

Reading the selected value from asp:RadioButtonList using jQuery

According to me it'll be working fine...

Just try with this

   var GetValue=$('#radiobuttonListId').find(":checked").val();

The Radiobuttonlist value to be stored on GetValue(Variable).

PyTorch: How to get the shape of a Tensor as a list of int

Previous answers got you list of torch.Size Here is how to get list of ints

listofints = [int(x) for x in tensor.shape]

Android: how to refresh ListView contents?

I too have tried invalidate(), invalidateViews(), notifyDataSetChanged(). They all might work in some particular contexts but it did not do the job in my case.

In my case, I had to add some new rows to the list and it just does not work. Creating a new adapter solved the issue.

While debugging, I realized that the data was there but just not rendered. If invalidate() or invalidateViews() does not render (which it is supposed to), I don't know what would.

Creating a new Adapter object to refresh modified data does not seem to be a bad idea. It definitely works. The only downside could be the time consumed in allocating new memory for your adapter but that should be OK assuming the Android system is smart enough and takes care of that to keep it efficient.

If you take this out of the equation, the flow is almost same as to calling notifyDataSetChanged. In the sense, the same set of adapter functions are called in either case.

So we are not losing much but gaining a lot.

How to launch Safari and open URL from iOS app

The non deprecated Objective-C version would be:

[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://apple.com"] options:@{} completionHandler:nil];

Setting user agent of a java URLConnection

Just for clarification: setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla ...") now works just fine and doesn't append java/xx at the end! At least with Java 1.6.30 and newer.

I listened on my machine with netcat(a port listener):

$ nc -l -p 8080

It simply listens on the port, so you see anything which gets requested, like raw http-headers.

And got the following http-headers without setRequestProperty:

GET /foobar HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Java/1.6.0_30
Host: localhost:8080
Accept: text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, *; q=.2, */*; q=.2
Connection: keep-alive

And WITH setRequestProperty:

GET /foobar HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.2) Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.6.2
Host: localhost:8080
Accept: text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, *; q=.2, */*; q=.2
Connection: keep-alive

As you can see the user agent was properly set.

Full example:

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;


public class TestUrlOpener {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        URL url = new URL("http://localhost:8080/foobar");
        URLConnection hc = url.openConnection();
        hc.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.2) Gecko/20100316 Firefox/3.6.2");

        System.out.println(hc.getContentType());
    }

}

Javascript array search and remove string?

const changedArray = array.filter( function(value) {
  return value !== 'B'
});

or you can use :

const changedArray = array.filter( (value) => value === 'B');

The changedArray will contain the without value 'B'

Can't compile C program on a Mac after upgrade to Mojave

@JL Peyret is right!

if you macos 10.14.6 Mojave, Xcode 11.0+

then

cd /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs

sudo ln -s MacOSX.sdk/ MacOSX10.14.sdk

Prevent WebView from displaying "web page not available"

Here I found the easiest solution. check out this..

   @Override
        public void onReceivedError(WebView view, int errorCode,
                                    String description, String failingUrl) {
//                view.loadUrl("about:blank");
            mWebView.stopLoading();
            if (!mUtils.isInterentConnection()) {
                Toast.makeText(ReportingActivity.this, "Please Check Internet Connection!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
            super.onReceivedError(view, errorCode, description, failingUrl);
        }

And here is isInterentConnection() method...

public boolean isInterentConnection() {
    ConnectivityManager manager = (ConnectivityManager) mContext
            .getSystemService(Context.CONNECTIVITY_SERVICE);
    if (manager != null) {
        NetworkInfo info[] = manager.getAllNetworkInfo();
        if (info != null) {
            for (int i = 0; i < info.length; i++) {
                if (info[i].getState() == NetworkInfo.State.CONNECTED) {
                    return true;
                }
            }
        }
    }
    return false;
}

How can I replace newlines using PowerShell?

A CRLF is two characters, of course, the CR and the LF. However, `n consists of both. For example:

PS C:\> $x = "Hello
>> World"

PS C:\> $x
Hello
World
PS C:\> $x.contains("`n")
True
PS C:\> $x.contains("`r")
False
PS C:\> $x.replace("o`nW","o There`nThe W")
Hello There
The World
PS C:\>

I think you're running into problems with the `r. I was able to remove the `r from your example, use only `n, and it worked. Of course, I don't know exactly how you generated the original string so I don't know what's in there.

Java check if boolean is null

boolean can only be true or false because it's a primitive datatype (+ a boolean variables default value is false). You can use the class Boolean instead if you want to use null values. Boolean is a reference type, that's the reason you can assign null to a Boolean "variable". Example:

Boolean testvar = null;
if (testvar == null) { ...}

How should I print types like off_t and size_t?

Looking at man 3 printf on Linux, OS X, and OpenBSD all show support for %z for size_t and %t for ptrdiff_t (for C99), but none of those mention off_t. Suggestions in the wild usually offer up the %u conversion for off_t, which is "correct enough" as far as I can tell (both unsigned int and off_t vary identically between 64-bit and 32-bit systems).

Grant SELECT on multiple tables oracle

If you want to grant to both tables and views try:

SELECT DISTINCT
    || OWNER
    || '.'
    || TABLE_NAME
    || ' to db_user;'
FROM
    ALL_TAB_COLS 
WHERE
    TABLE_NAME LIKE 'TABLE_NAME_%';

For just views try:

SELECT
    'grant select on '
    || OWNER
    || '.'
    || VIEW_NAME
    || ' to REPORT_DW;'
FROM
    ALL_VIEWS
WHERE
    VIEW_NAME LIKE 'VIEW_NAME_%';

Copy results and execute.

What does the "On Error Resume Next" statement do?

It means, when an error happens on the line, it is telling vbscript to continue execution without aborting the script. Sometimes, the On Error follows the Goto label to alter the flow of execution, something like this in a Sub code block, now you know why and how the usage of GOTO can result in spaghetti code:

Sub MySubRoutine()
   On Error Goto ErrorHandler

   REM VB code...

   REM More VB Code...

Exit_MySubRoutine:

   REM Disable the Error Handler!

   On Error Goto 0

   REM Leave....
   Exit Sub

ErrorHandler:

   REM Do something about the Error

   Goto Exit_MySubRoutine
End Sub

Html.DropDownList - Disabled/Readonly

I've create this answer after referring above all comments & answers. This will resolve the dropdown population error even it get disabled.

Step 01

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Html.DropDownList("Types", Model.Types, new {@readonly="readonly"})
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Step 02 This is css pointerevent remove code.

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<style type="text/css">_x000D_
    #Types {_x000D_
        pointer-events:none;_x000D_
    }_x000D_
</style>
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Tested & Proven

How to solve Object reference not set to an instance of an object.?

I think you just need;

List<string> list = new List<string>();
list.Add("hai");

There is a difference between

List<string> list; 

and

List<string> list = new List<string>();

When you didn't use new keyword in this case, your list didn't initialized. And when you try to add it hai, obviously you get an error.

How do I fix the multiple-step OLE DB operation errors in SSIS?

This query should identify columns that are potential problems...

SELECT * 
FROM [source].INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS src
    INNER JOIN [dest].INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS dst 
        ON dst.COLUMN_NAME = src.COLUMN_NAME
WHERE dst.CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH < src.CHARACTER_MAXIMUM_LENGTH 

How to call getResources() from a class which has no context?

It can easily be done if u had declared a class that extends from Application

This class will be like a singleton, so when u need a context u can get it just like this:

I think this is the better answer and the cleaner

Here is my code from Utilities package:

 public static String getAppNAme(){
     return MyOwnApplication.getInstance().getString(R.string.app_name);
 }

Break statement in javascript array map method

That's not possible using the built-in Array.prototype.map. However, you could use a simple for-loop instead, if you do not intend to map any values:

var hasValueLessThanTen = false;
for (var i = 0; i < myArray.length; i++) {
  if (myArray[i] < 10) {
    hasValueLessThanTen = true;
    break;
  }
}

Or, as suggested by @RobW, use Array.prototype.some to test if there exists at least one element that is less than 10. It will stop looping when some element that matches your function is found:

var hasValueLessThanTen = myArray.some(function (val) { 
  return val < 10;
});

How to execute a MySQL command from a shell script?

You forgot -p or --password= (the latter is better readable):

mysql -h "$server_name" "--user=$user" "--password=$password" "--database=$database_name" < "filename.sql"

(The quotes are unnecessary if you are sure that your credentials/names do not contain space or shell-special characters.)

Note that the manpage, too, says that providing the credentials on the command line is insecure. So follow Bill's advice about my.cnf.

Check whether an input string contains a number in javascript

You can do this using javascript. No need for Jquery or Regex

function isNumeric(n) {
  return !isNaN(parseFloat(n)) && isFinite(n);
}

While implementing

var val = $('yourinputelement').val();
if(isNumeric(val)) { alert('number'); } 
else { alert('not number'); }

Update: To check if a string has numbers in them, you can use regular expressions to do that

var matches = val.match(/\d+/g);
if (matches != null) {
    alert('number');
}

Convert hex to binary

# Python Program - Convert Hexadecimal to Binary
hexdec = input("Enter Hexadecimal string: ")
print(hexdec," in Binary = ", end="")    # end is by default "\n" which prints a new line
for _hex in hexdec:
    dec = int(_hex, 16)    # 16 means base-16 wich is hexadecimal
    print(bin(dec)[2:].rjust(4,"0"), end="")    # the [2:] skips 0b, and the 

JavaScript - cannot set property of undefined

i'd just do a simple check to see if d[a] exists and if not initialize it...

var a = "1",
    b = "hello",
    c = { "100" : "some important data" },
    d = {};

    if (d[a] === undefined) {
        d[a] = {}
    };
    d[a]["greeting"] = b;
    d[a]["data"] = c;

    console.debug (d);

ASP.NET MVC on IIS 7.5

I had used the WebDeploy IIS Extension to import my websites from IIS6 to IIS7.5, so all of the IIS settings were exactly as they had been in the production environment. After trying all the solutions provided here, none of which worked for me, I simply had to change the App Pool setting for the website from Classic to Integrated.

Lodash - difference between .extend() / .assign() and .merge()

Another difference to pay attention to is handling of undefined values:

mergeInto = { a: 1}
toMerge = {a : undefined, b:undefined}
lodash.extend({}, mergeInto, toMerge) // => {a: undefined, b:undefined}
lodash.merge({}, mergeInto, toMerge)  // => {a: 1, b:undefined}

So merge will not merge undefined values into defined values.

Does Enter key trigger a click event?

For ENTER key, why not use (keyup.enter):

@Component({
  selector: 'key-up3',
  template: `
    <input #box (keyup.enter)="values=box.value">
    <p>{{values}}</p>
  `
})
export class KeyUpComponent_v3 {
  values = '';
}

How can I get the IP address from NIC in Python?

Alternatively, if you want to get the IP address of whichever interface is used to connect to the network without having to know its name, you can use this:

import socket
def get_ip_address():
    s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
    s.connect(("8.8.8.8", 80))
    return s.getsockname()[0]

I know it's a little different than your question, but others may arrive here and find this one more useful. You do not have to have a route to 8.8.8.8 to use this. All it is doing is opening a socket, but not sending any data.

Difference between DataFrame, Dataset, and RDD in Spark

A DataFrame is an RDD that has a schema. You can think of it as a relational database table, in that each column has a name and a known type. The power of DataFrames comes from the fact that, when you create a DataFrame from a structured dataset (Json, Parquet..), Spark is able to infer a schema by making a pass over the entire (Json, Parquet..) dataset that's being loaded. Then, when calculating the execution plan, Spark, can use the schema and do substantially better computation optimizations. Note that DataFrame was called SchemaRDD before Spark v1.3.0

How to Deserialize JSON data?

Step 1: Go to json.org to find the JSON library for whatever technology you're using to call this web service. Download and link to that library.

Step 2: Let's say you're using Java. You would use JSONArray like this:

JSONArray myArray=new JSONArray(queryResponse);
for (int i=0;i<myArray.length;i++){
    JSONArray myInteriorArray=myArray.getJSONArray(i);
    if (i==0) {
        //this is the first one and is special because it holds the name of the query.
    }else{
        //do your stuff
        String stateCode=myInteriorArray.getString(0);
        String stateName=myInteriorArray.getString(1);
    }
}

How can I get CMake to find my alternative Boost installation?

I had a similar issue, and I could use customized Boost libraries by adding the below lines to my CMakeLists.txt file:

set(Boost_NO_SYSTEM_PATHS TRUE)
if (Boost_NO_SYSTEM_PATHS)
  set(BOOST_ROOT "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../../3p/boost")
  set(BOOST_INCLUDE_DIRS "${BOOST_ROOT}/include")
  set(BOOST_LIBRARY_DIRS "${BOOST_ROOT}/lib")
endif (Boost_NO_SYSTEM_PATHS)
find_package(Boost REQUIRED regex date_time system filesystem thread graph program_options)
include_directories(${BOOST_INCLUDE_DIRS})

How can I determine whether a 2D Point is within a Polygon?

Compute the oriented sum of angles between the point p and each of the polygon apices. If the total oriented angle is 360 degrees, the point is inside. If the total is 0, the point is outside.

I like this method better because it is more robust and less dependent on numerical precision.

Methods that compute evenness of number of intersections are limited because you can 'hit' an apex during the computation of the number of intersections.

EDIT: By The Way, this method works with concave and convex polygons.

EDIT: I recently found a whole Wikipedia article on the topic.

Is it possible to open developer tools console in Chrome on Android phone?

When you don't have a PC on hand, you could use Eruda, which is devtools for mobile browsers https://github.com/liriliri/eruda
It is provided as embeddable javascript and also a bookmarklet (pasting bookmarklet in chrome removes the javascript: prefix, so you have to type it yourself)

Openssl is not recognized as an internal or external command

For those looking for a more recent location to install a windows binary version of openssl (32bit and 64bit) you can find it here:

http://slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html

An up to date list of websites that offer binary distributions is here

http://www.openssl.org/related/binaries.html

What is the difference between JSF, Servlet and JSP?

Servlets :

The Java Servlet API enables Java developers to write server-side code for delivering dynamic Web content. Like other proprietary Web server APIs, the Java Servlet API offered improved performance over CGI; however, it has some key additional advantages. Because servlets were coded in Java, they provides an object-oriented (OO) design approach and, more important, are able to run on any platform. Thus, the same code was portable to any host that supported Java. Servlets greatly contributed to the popularity of Java, as it became a widely used technology for server-side Web application development.

JSP :

JSP is built on top of servlets and provides a simpler, page-based solution to generating large amounts of dynamic HTML content for Web user interfaces. JavaServer Pages enables Web developers and designers to simply edit HTML pages with special tags for the dynamic, Java portions. JavaServer Pages works by having a special servlet known as a JSP container, which is installed on a Web server and handles all JSP page view requests. The JSP container translates a requested JSP into servlet code that is then compiled and immediately executed. Subsequent requests to the same page simply invoke the runtime servlet for the page. If a change is made to the JSP on the server, a request to view it triggers another translation, compilation, and restart of the runtime servlet.

JSF :

JavaServer Faces is a standard Java framework for building user interfaces for Web applications. Most important, it simplifies the development of the user interface, which is often one of the more difficult and tedious parts of Web application development.
Although it is possible to build user interfaces by using foundational Java Web technologies(such as Java servlets and JavaServer Pages) without a comprehensive framework designedfor enterprise Web application development, these core technologies can often lead to avariety of development and maintenance problems. More important, by the time the developers achieve a production-quality solution, the same set of problems solved by JSF will have been solved in a nonstandard manner. JavaServer Faces is designed to simplify the development of user interfaces for Java Web applications in the following ways:
• It provides a component-centric, client-independent development approach to building Web user interfaces, thus improving developer productivity and ease of use.
• It simplifies the access and management of application data from the Web user interface.
• It automatically manages the user interface state between multiple requests and multiple clients in a simple and unobtrusive manner.
• It supplies a development framework that is friendly to a diverse developer audience with different skill sets.
• It describes a standard set of architectural patterns for a web application.

[ Source : Complete reference:JSF ]

how to append a css class to an element by javascript?

you could use setAttribute.

Example: For adding one class:

 document.getElementById('main').setAttribute("class","classOne"); 

For multiple classes:

 document.getElementById('main').setAttribute("class", "classOne classTwo"); 

Regular expression to match DNS hostname or IP Address?

AddressRegex = "^(ftp|http|https):\/\/([0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}:[0-9]{1,5})$";

HostnameRegex =  /^(ftp|http|https):\/\/([a-z0-9]+\.)?[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*((\.[a-z]{2,6})|(\.[a-z]{2,6})(\.[a-z]{2,6}))$/i

this re are used only for for this type validation

work only if http://www.kk.com http://www.kk.co.in

not works for

http://www.kk.com/ http://www.kk.co.in.kk

http://www.kk.com/dfas http://www.kk.co.in/

How to find index of an object by key and value in an javascript array

Do this way:-

var peoples = [
  { "name": "bob", "dinner": "pizza" },
  { "name": "john", "dinner": "sushi" },
  { "name": "larry", "dinner": "hummus" }
];

$.each(peoples, function(i, val) {
    $.each(val, function(key, name) {
        if (name === "john")
            alert(key + " : " + name);
    });
});

OUTPUT:

name : john

Refer LIVE DEMO

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$(document).ready not Working

I had a similar problem, but I got it solved this way:

// wait until DOM is loaded
$(document).ready(function(){

    console.log("DOM is ready");

    // wait until window is loaded (images, links etc...)
    window.onload = function() {

        console.log("window is loaded");
        var your_html_element = document.getElementById("your_html_element_ID"),

    };
});

Write Array to Excel Range

The kind of array definition seems the key: In my case it is a one dimension array of 17 items which have to convert to a two dimension array

Defintion for columns: object[,] Array = new object[17, 1];

Defintion for rows object[,] Array= new object[1,17];

The code for value2 is in both cases the same Excel.Range cell = activeWorksheet.get_Range(Range); cell.Value2 = Array;

LG Georg

How to create a .jar file or export JAR in IntelliJ IDEA (like Eclipse Java archive export)?

For Intellij IDEA version 11.0.2

File | Project Structure | Artifacts then you should press alt+insert or click the plus icon and create new artifact choose --> jar --> From modules with dependencies.

Next goto Build | Build artifacts --> choose your artifact.

source: http://blogs.jetbrains.com/idea/2010/08/quickly-create-jar-artifact/

Setting timezone to UTC (0) in PHP

In PHP DateTime (PHP >= 5.3)

$dt = new DateTime();
$dt->setTimezone(new DateTimeZone('UTC'));
echo $dt->getTimestamp();

Video streaming over websockets using JavaScript

It's definitely conceivable but I am not sure we're there yet. In the meantime, I'd recommend using something like Silverlight with IIS Smooth Streaming. Silverlight is plugin-based, but it works on Windows/OSX/Linux. Some day the HTML5 <video> element will be the way to go, but that will lack support for a little while.

Executing Shell Scripts from the OS X Dock?

In the Script Editor:

do shell script "/full/path/to/your/script -with 'all desired args'"

Save as an application bundle.

As long as all you want to do is get the effect of the script, this will work fine. You won't see STDOUT or STDERR.

How to make a list of n numbers in Python and randomly select any number?

Create the list (edited):

count_list = range(1, N+1)

Select random element:

import random
random.choice(count_list)

How do you round a number to two decimal places in C#?

Math.Floor(123456.646 * 100) / 100 Would return 123456.64

How to make a .NET Windows Service start right after the installation?

I've posted a step-by-step procedure for creating a Windows service in C# here. It sounds like you're at least to this point, and now you're wondering how to start the service once it is installed. Setting the StartType property to Automatic will cause the service to start automatically after rebooting your system, but it will not (as you've discovered) automatically start your service after installation.

I don't remember where I found it originally (perhaps Marc Gravell?), but I did find a solution online that allows you to install and start your service by actually running your service itself. Here's the step-by-step:

  1. Structure the Main() function of your service like this:

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        if (args.Length == 0) {
            // Run your service normally.
            ServiceBase[] ServicesToRun = new ServiceBase[] {new YourService()};
            ServiceBase.Run(ServicesToRun);
        } else if (args.Length == 1) {
            switch (args[0]) {
                case "-install":
                    InstallService();
                    StartService();
                    break;
                case "-uninstall":
                    StopService();
                    UninstallService();
                    break;
                default:
                    throw new NotImplementedException();
            }
        }
    }
    
  2. Here is the supporting code:

    using System.Collections;
    using System.Configuration.Install;
    using System.ServiceProcess;
    
    private static bool IsInstalled()
    {
        using (ServiceController controller = 
            new ServiceController("YourServiceName")) {
            try {
                ServiceControllerStatus status = controller.Status;
            } catch {
                return false;
            }
            return true;
        }
    }
    
    private static bool IsRunning()
    {
        using (ServiceController controller = 
            new ServiceController("YourServiceName")) {
            if (!IsInstalled()) return false;
            return (controller.Status == ServiceControllerStatus.Running);
        }
    }
    
    private static AssemblyInstaller GetInstaller()
    {
        AssemblyInstaller installer = new AssemblyInstaller(
            typeof(YourServiceType).Assembly, null);
        installer.UseNewContext = true;
        return installer;
    }
    
  3. Continuing with the supporting code...

    private static void InstallService()
    {
        if (IsInstalled()) return;
    
        try {
            using (AssemblyInstaller installer = GetInstaller()) {
                IDictionary state = new Hashtable();
                try {
                    installer.Install(state);
                    installer.Commit(state);
                } catch {
                    try {
                        installer.Rollback(state);
                    } catch { }
                    throw;
                }
            }
        } catch {
            throw;
        }
    }
    
    private static void UninstallService()
    {
        if ( !IsInstalled() ) return;
        try {
            using ( AssemblyInstaller installer = GetInstaller() ) {
                IDictionary state = new Hashtable();
                try {
                    installer.Uninstall( state );
                } catch {
                    throw;
                }
            }
        } catch {
            throw;
        }
    }
    
    private static void StartService()
    {
        if ( !IsInstalled() ) return;
    
        using (ServiceController controller = 
            new ServiceController("YourServiceName")) {
            try {
                if ( controller.Status != ServiceControllerStatus.Running ) {
                    controller.Start();
                    controller.WaitForStatus( ServiceControllerStatus.Running, 
                        TimeSpan.FromSeconds( 10 ) );
                }
            } catch {
                throw;
            }
        }
    }
    
    private static void StopService()
    {
        if ( !IsInstalled() ) return;
        using ( ServiceController controller = 
            new ServiceController("YourServiceName")) {
            try {
                if ( controller.Status != ServiceControllerStatus.Stopped ) {
                    controller.Stop();
                    controller.WaitForStatus( ServiceControllerStatus.Stopped, 
                         TimeSpan.FromSeconds( 10 ) );
                }
            } catch {
                throw;
            }
        }
    }
    
  4. At this point, after you install your service on the target machine, just run your service from the command line (like any ordinary application) with the -install command line argument to install and start your service.

I think I've covered everything, but if you find this doesn't work, please let me know so I can update the answer.

How do I programmatically "restart" an Android app?

in MainActivity call restartActivity Method:

public static void restartActivity(Activity mActivity) {
    Intent mIntent = mActivity.getIntent();
    mActivity.finish();
    mActivity.startActivity(mIntent);
}

Get Country of IP Address with PHP

Look at the GeoIP functions under "Other Basic Extensions." http://php.net/manual/en/book.geoip.php

Get position/offset of element relative to a parent container?

I did it like this in Internet Explorer.

function getWindowRelativeOffset(parentWindow, elem) {
    var offset = {
        left : 0,
        top : 0
    };
    // relative to the target field's document
    offset.left = elem.getBoundingClientRect().left;
    offset.top = elem.getBoundingClientRect().top;
    // now we will calculate according to the current document, this current
    // document might be same as the document of target field or it may be
    // parent of the document of the target field
    var childWindow = elem.document.frames.window;
    while (childWindow != parentWindow) {
        offset.left = offset.left + childWindow.frameElement.getBoundingClientRect().left;
        offset.top = offset.top + childWindow.frameElement.getBoundingClientRect().top;
        childWindow = childWindow.parent;
    }

    return offset;
};

=================== you can call it like this

getWindowRelativeOffset(top, inputElement);

I focus on IE only as per my focus but similar things can be done for other browsers.

Install sbt on ubuntu

The simplest way of installing SBT on ubuntu is the deb package provided by Typesafe.

Run the following shell commands:

  1. wget http://apt.typesafe.com/repo-deb-build-0002.deb
  2. sudo dpkg -i repo-deb-build-0002.deb
  3. sudo apt-get update
  4. sudo apt-get install sbt

And you're done !

Link to Flask static files with url_for

You have by default the static endpoint for static files. Also Flask application has the following arguments:

static_url_path: can be used to specify a different path for the static files on the web. Defaults to the name of the static_folder folder.

static_folder: the folder with static files that should be served at static_url_path. Defaults to the 'static' folder in the root path of the application.

It means that the filename argument will take a relative path to your file in static_folder and convert it to a relative path combined with static_url_default:

url_for('static', filename='path/to/file')

will convert the file path from static_folder/path/to/file to the url path static_url_default/path/to/file.

So if you want to get files from the static/bootstrap folder you use this code:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{ url_for('static', filename='bootstrap/bootstrap.min.css') }}">

Which will be converted to (using default settings):

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="static/bootstrap/bootstrap.min.css">

Also look at url_for documentation.

How to synchronize or lock upon variables in Java?

From Java 1.5 it's always a good Idea to consider java.util.concurrent package. They are the state of the art locking mechanism in java right now. The synchronize mechanism is more heavyweight that the java.util.concurrent classes.

The example would look something like this:

import java.util.concurrent.locks.Lock;
import java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantLock;

public class Sample {

    private final Lock lock = new ReentrantLock();

    private String message = null;

    public void newmsg(String msg) {
        lock.lock();
        try {
            message = msg;
        } finally {
            lock.unlock();
        }
    }

    public String getmsg() {
        lock.lock();
        try {
            String temp = message;
            message = null;
            return temp;
        } finally {
            lock.unlock();
        }
    }
}

The server is not responding (or the local MySQL server's socket is not correctly configured) in wamp server

I use XAMPP and had the same error. I used Paul Gobée solution above and it worked for me. I navigated to C:\xampp\mysql\bin\mysqld-debug.exe and upon starting the .exe my Windows Firewall popped up asking for permission. Once I allowed it, it worked fine. I would have commented under his post but I do not have that much rep yet... sry! Just wanted to let everyone know this worked for me as well.