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For questions about the Bing Maps API, a cloud mapping platform provided by Microsoft's Bing. This API is used to power map experiences in Microsoft and third-party applications, including web, WinForms, WPF, and UWP apps.

Current date and time as string

I wanted to use the C++11 answer, but I could not because GCC 4.9 does not support std::put_time.

std::put_time implementation status in GCC?

I ended up using some C++11 to slightly improve the non-C++11 answer. For those that can't use GCC 5, but would still like some C++11 in their date/time format:

 std::array<char, 64> buffer;
 buffer.fill(0);
 time_t rawtime;
 time(&rawtime);
 const auto timeinfo = localtime(&rawtime);
 strftime(buffer.data(), sizeof(buffer), "%d-%m-%Y %H-%M-%S", timeinfo);
 std::string timeStr(buffer.data());

csv.Error: iterator should return strings, not bytes

You open the file in text mode.

More specifically:

ifile  = open('sample.csv', "rt", encoding=<theencodingofthefile>)

Good guesses for encoding is "ascii" and "utf8". You can also leave the encoding off, and it will use the system default encoding, which tends to be UTF8, but may be something else.

SQL Server: Make all UPPER case to Proper Case/Title Case

I think you will find that the following is more efficient:

IF OBJECT_ID('dbo.ProperCase') IS NOT NULL
    DROP FUNCTION dbo.ProperCase
GO
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.PROPERCASE (
    @str VARCHAR(8000))
RETURNS VARCHAR(8000)
AS
BEGIN
    SET @str = ' ' + @str
    SET @str = REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE( @str, ' a', ' A'), ' b', ' B'), ' c', ' C'), ' d', ' D'), ' e', ' E'), ' f', ' F'), ' g', ' G'), ' h', ' H'), ' i', ' I'), ' j', ' J'), ' k', ' K'), ' l', ' L'), ' m', ' M'), ' n', ' N'), ' o', ' O'), ' p', ' P'), ' q', ' Q'), ' r', ' R'), ' s', ' S'), ' t', ' T'), ' u', ' U'), ' v', ' V'), ' w', ' W'), ' x', ' X'), ' y', ' Y'), ' z', ' Z')
    RETURN RIGHT(@str, LEN(@str) - 1)
END
GO

The replace statement could be cut and pasted directly into a SQL query. It is ultra ugly, however by replacing @str with the column you are interested in, you will not pay a price for an implicit cursor like you will with the udfs thus posted. I find that even using my UDF it is much more efficient.

Oh and instead of generating the replace statement by hand use this:

-- Code Generator for expression
DECLARE @x  INT,
    @c  CHAR(1),
    @sql    VARCHAR(8000)
SET @x = 0
SET @sql = '@str' -- actual variable/column you want to replace
WHILE @x < 26
BEGIN
    SET @c = CHAR(ASCII('a') + @x)
    SET @sql = 'REPLACE(' + @sql + ', '' ' + @c+  ''', '' ' + UPPER(@c) + ''')'
    SET @x = @x + 1
END
PRINT @sql

Anyway it depends on the number of rows. I wish you could just do s/\b([a-z])/uc $1/, but oh well we work with the tools we have.

NOTE you would have to use this as you would have to use it as....SELECT dbo.ProperCase(LOWER(column)) since the column is in uppercase. It actually works pretty fast on my table of 5,000 entries (not even one second) even with the lower.

In response to the flurry of comments regarding internationalization I present the following implementation that handles every ascii character relying only on SQL Server's Implementation of upper and lower. Remember, the variables we are using here are VARCHAR which means that they can only hold ASCII values. In order to use further international alphabets, you have to use NVARCHAR. The logic would be similar but you would need to use UNICODE and NCHAR in place of ASCII AND CHAR and the replace statement would be much more huge....

-- Code Generator for expression
DECLARE @x  INT,
    @c  CHAR(1),
    @sql    VARCHAR(8000),
    @count  INT
SEt @x = 0
SET @count = 0
SET @sql = '@str' -- actual variable you want to replace
WHILE @x < 256
BEGIN
    SET @c = CHAR(@x)
    -- Only generate replacement expression for characters where upper and lowercase differ
    IF @x = ASCII(LOWER(@c)) AND @x != ASCII(UPPER(@c))
    BEGIN
        SET @sql = 'REPLACE(' + @sql + ', '' ' + @c+  ''', '' ' + UPPER(@c) + ''')'
        SET @count = @count + 1
    END
    SET @x = @x + 1
END
PRINT @sql
PRINT 'Total characters substituted: ' + CONVERT(VARCHAR(255), @count)

Basically the premise of the my method is trading pre-computing for efficiency. The full ASCII implementation is as follows:

IF OBJECT_ID('dbo.ProperCase') IS NOT NULL
    DROP FUNCTION dbo.ProperCase
GO
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.PROPERCASE (
    @str VARCHAR(8000))
RETURNS VARCHAR(8000)
AS
BEGIN
    SET @str = ' ' + @str
SET @str =     REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(@str, ' a', ' A'), ' b', ' B'), ' c', ' C'), ' d', ' D'), ' e', ' E'), ' f', ' F'), ' g', ' G'), ' h', ' H'), ' i', ' I'), ' j', ' J'), ' k', ' K'), ' l', ' L'), ' m', ' M'), ' n', ' N'), ' o', ' O'), ' p', ' P'), ' q', ' Q'), ' r', ' R'), ' s', ' S'), ' t', ' T'), ' u', ' U'), ' v', ' V'), ' w', ' W'), ' x', ' X'), ' y', ' Y'), ' z', ' Z'), ' š', ' Š'), ' œ', ' Œ'), ' ž', ' Ž'), ' à', ' À'), ' á', ' Á'), ' â', ' Â'), ' ã', ' Ã'), ' ä', ' Ä'), ' å', ' Å'), ' æ', ' Æ'), ' ç', ' Ç'), ' è', ' È'), ' é', ' É'), ' ê', ' Ê'), ' ë', ' Ë'), ' ì', ' Ì'), ' í', ' Í'), ' î', ' Î'), ' ï', ' Ï'), ' ð', ' Ð'), ' ñ', ' Ñ'), ' ò', ' Ò'), ' ó', ' Ó'), ' ô', ' Ô'), ' õ', ' Õ'), ' ö', ' Ö'), ' ø', ' Ø'), ' ù', ' Ù'), ' ú', ' Ú'), ' û', ' Û'), ' ü', ' Ü'), ' ý', ' Ý'), ' þ', ' Þ'), ' ÿ', ' Ÿ')
    RETURN RIGHT(@str, LEN(@str) - 1)
END
GO

MySQL - Trigger for updating same table after insert

Had the same problem but had to update a column with the id that was about to enter, so you can make an update should be done BEFORE and AFTER not BEFORE had no id so I did this trick

DELIMITER $$
DROP TRIGGER IF EXISTS `codigo_video`$$
CREATE TRIGGER `codigo_video` BEFORE INSERT ON `videos` 
FOR EACH ROW BEGIN
    DECLARE ultimo_id, proximo_id INT(11);
    SELECT id INTO ultimo_id FROM videos ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1;
    SET proximo_id = ultimo_id+1;
    SET NEW.cassette = CONCAT(NEW.cassette, LPAD(proximo_id, 5, '0'));
END$$
DELIMITER ;

How to duplicate sys.stdout to a log file?

As per a request by @user5359531 in the comments under @John T's answer, here's a copy of the referenced post to the revised version of the linked discussion in that answer:

Issue of redirecting the stdout to both file and screen
Gabriel Genellina gagsl-py2 at yahoo.com.ar
Mon May 28 12:45:51 CEST 2007

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En Mon, 28 May 2007 06:17:39 -0300, ???????,???????
<kelvin.you at gmail.com> escribió:

> I wanna print the log to both the screen and file, so I simulatered a
> 'tee'
>
> class Tee(file):
>
>     def __init__(self, name, mode):
>         file.__init__(self, name, mode)
>         self.stdout = sys.stdout
>         sys.stdout = self
>
>     def __del__(self):
>         sys.stdout = self.stdout
>         self.close()
>
>     def write(self, data):
>         file.write(self, data)
>         self.stdout.write(data)
>
> Tee('logfile', 'w')
> print >>sys.stdout, 'abcdefg'
>
> I found that it only output to the file, nothing to screen. Why?
> It seems the 'write' function was not called when I *print* something.

You create a Tee instance and it is immediately garbage collected. I'd
restore sys.stdout on Tee.close, not __del__ (you forgot to call the
inherited __del__ method, btw).
Mmm, doesn't work. I think there is an optimization somewhere: if it looks
like a real file object, it uses the original file write method, not yours.
The trick would be to use an object that does NOT inherit from file:

import sys
class TeeNoFile(object):
     def __init__(self, name, mode):
         self.file = open(name, mode)
         self.stdout = sys.stdout
         sys.stdout = self
     def close(self):
         if self.stdout is not None:
             sys.stdout = self.stdout
             self.stdout = None
         if self.file is not None:
             self.file.close()
             self.file = None
     def write(self, data):
         self.file.write(data)
         self.stdout.write(data)
     def flush(self):
         self.file.flush()
         self.stdout.flush()
     def __del__(self):
         self.close()

tee=TeeNoFile('logfile', 'w')
print 'abcdefg'
print 'another line'
tee.close()
print 'screen only'
del tee # should do nothing

--
Gabriel Genellina

jQuery: Wait/Delay 1 second without executing code

delay() doesn't halt the flow of code then re-run it. There's no practical way to do that in JavaScript. Everything has to be done with functions which take callbacks such as setTimeout which others have mentioned.

The purpose of jQuery's delay() is to make an animation queue wait before executing. So for example $(element).delay(3000).fadeIn(250); will make the element fade in after 3 seconds.

React Js: Uncaught (in promise) SyntaxError: Unexpected token < in JSON at position 0

I also had the same issue when trying to fetch the data from "/src" folder. Moving the file into the "/public" solved the problem from.

Powershell command to hide user from exchange address lists

For Office 365 users or Hybrid exchange, go to using Internet Explorer or Edge, go to the exchange admin center, choose hybrid, setup, chose the right button for hybrid or exchange online.

To connect:

Connect-EXOPSSession

To see the relevant mailboxes:

Get-mailbox -filter {ExchangeUserAccountControl -eq 'AccountDisabled' -and RecipientType -eq 'UserMailbox' -and RecipientTypeDetails -ne 'SharedMailbox' }

To block based on the above idea of 0KB size:

Get-mailbox -filter {ExchangeUserAccountControl -eq 'AccountDisabled' -and RecipientTypeDetails -ne 'SharedMailbox' -and RecipientType -eq 'UserMailbox' } | Set-Mailbox -MaxReceiveSize 0KB -HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled $true

Count the number occurrences of a character in a string

As other answers said, using the string method count() is probably the simplest, but if you're doing this frequently, check out collections.Counter:

from collections import Counter
my_str = "Mary had a little lamb"
counter = Counter(my_str)
print counter['a']

html5 localStorage error with Safari: "QUOTA_EXCEEDED_ERR: DOM Exception 22: An attempt was made to add something to storage that exceeded the quota."

As mentioned in other answers, you'll always get the QuotaExceededError in Safari Private Browser Mode on both iOS and OS X when localStorage.setItem (or sessionStorage.setItem) is called.

One solution is to do a try/catch or Modernizr check in each instance of using setItem.

However if you want a shim that simply globally stops this error being thrown, to prevent the rest of your JavaScript from breaking, you can use this:

https://gist.github.com/philfreo/68ea3cd980d72383c951

// Safari, in Private Browsing Mode, looks like it supports localStorage but all calls to setItem
// throw QuotaExceededError. We're going to detect this and just silently drop any calls to setItem
// to avoid the entire page breaking, without having to do a check at each usage of Storage.
if (typeof localStorage === 'object') {
    try {
        localStorage.setItem('localStorage', 1);
        localStorage.removeItem('localStorage');
    } catch (e) {
        Storage.prototype._setItem = Storage.prototype.setItem;
        Storage.prototype.setItem = function() {};
        alert('Your web browser does not support storing settings locally. In Safari, the most common cause of this is using "Private Browsing Mode". Some settings may not save or some features may not work properly for you.');
    }
}

How to check if the user can go back in browser history or not

I came up with the following approach. It utilizes the onbeforeunload event to detect whether the browser starts leaving the page or not. If it does not in a certain timespan it'll just redirect to the fallback.

var goBack = function goBack(fallback){
    var useFallback = true;

    window.addEventListener("beforeunload", function(){
      useFallback = false;
    });

    window.history.back();

    setTimeout(function(){
        if (useFallback){ window.location.href = fallback; }
    }, 100); 
}

You can call this function using goBack("fallback.example.org").

How to display multiple notifications in android

For Kotlin.

 notificationManager.notify(Calendar.getInstance().timeInMillis.toInt(),notificationBuilder.build())

ORA-06550: line 1, column 7 (PL/SQL: Statement ignored) Error

If the value stored in PropertyLoader.RET_SECONDARY_V_ARRAY is not "V_ARRAY", then you are using different types; even if they are declared identically (e.g. both are table of number) this will not work.

You're hitting this data type compatibility restriction:

You can assign a collection to a collection variable only if they have the same data type. Having the same element type is not enough.

You're trying to call the procedure with a parameter that is a different type to the one it's expecting, which is what the error message is telling you.

calling a function from class in python - different way

class MathsOperations:
    def __init__ (self, x, y):
        self.a = x
        self.b = y
    def testAddition (self):
        return (self.a + self.b)

    def testMultiplication (self):
        return (self.a * self.b)

then

temp = MathsOperations()
print(temp.testAddition())

Easiest way to read/write a file's content in Python

Simple like that:

    f=open('myfile.txt')
    s=f.read()
    f.close()

And do whatever you want with the content "s"

how to re-format datetime string in php?

date("Y-m-d H:i:s", strtotime("2019-05-13"))

What is the logic behind the "using" keyword in C++?

In C++11, the using keyword when used for type alias is identical to typedef.

7.1.3.2

A typedef-name can also be introduced by an alias-declaration. The identifier following the using keyword becomes a typedef-name and the optional attribute-specifier-seq following the identifier appertains to that typedef-name. It has the same semantics as if it were introduced by the typedef specifier. In particular, it does not define a new type and it shall not appear in the type-id.

Bjarne Stroustrup provides a practical example:

typedef void (*PFD)(double);    // C style typedef to make `PFD` a pointer to a function returning void and accepting double
using PF = void (*)(double);    // `using`-based equivalent of the typedef above
using P = [](double)->void; // using plus suffix return type, syntax error
using P = auto(double)->void // Fixed thanks to DyP

Pre-C++11, the using keyword can bring member functions into scope. In C++11, you can now do this for constructors (another Bjarne Stroustrup example):

class Derived : public Base { 
public: 
    using Base::f;    // lift Base's f into Derived's scope -- works in C++98
    void f(char);     // provide a new f 
    void f(int);      // prefer this f to Base::f(int) 

    using Base::Base; // lift Base constructors Derived's scope -- C++11 only
    Derived(char);    // provide a new constructor 
    Derived(int);     // prefer this constructor to Base::Base(int) 
    // ...
}; 

Ben Voight provides a pretty good reason behind the rationale of not introducing a new keyword or new syntax. The standard wants to avoid breaking old code as much as possible. This is why in proposal documents you will see sections like Impact on the Standard, Design decisions, and how they might affect older code. There are situations when a proposal seems like a really good idea but might not have traction because it would be too difficult to implement, too confusing, or would contradict old code.


Here is an old paper from 2003 n1449. The rationale seems to be related to templates. Warning: there may be typos due to copying over from PDF.

First let’s consider a toy example:

template <typename T>
class MyAlloc {/*...*/};

template <typename T, class A>
class MyVector {/*...*/};

template <typename T>

struct Vec {
typedef MyVector<T, MyAlloc<T> > type;
};
Vec<int>::type p; // sample usage

The fundamental problem with this idiom, and the main motivating fact for this proposal, is that the idiom causes the template parameters to appear in non-deducible context. That is, it will not be possible to call the function foo below without explicitly specifying template arguments.

template <typename T> void foo (Vec<T>::type&);

So, the syntax is somewhat ugly. We would rather avoid the nested ::type We’d prefer something like the following:

template <typename T>
using Vec = MyVector<T, MyAlloc<T> >; //defined in section 2 below
Vec<int> p; // sample usage

Note that we specifically avoid the term “typedef template” and introduce the new syntax involving the pair “using” and “=” to help avoid confusion: we are not defining any types here, we are introducing a synonym (i.e. alias) for an abstraction of a type-id (i.e. type expression) involving template parameters. If the template parameters are used in deducible contexts in the type expression then whenever the template alias is used to form a template-id, the values of the corresponding template parameters can be deduced – more on this will follow. In any case, it is now possible to write generic functions which operate on Vec<T> in deducible context, and the syntax is improved as well. For example we could rewrite foo as:

template <typename T> void foo (Vec<T>&);

We underscore here that one of the primary reasons for proposing template aliases was so that argument deduction and the call to foo(p) will succeed.


The follow-up paper n1489 explains why using instead of using typedef:

It has been suggested to (re)use the keyword typedef — as done in the paper [4] — to introduce template aliases:

template<class T> 
    typedef std::vector<T, MyAllocator<T> > Vec;

That notation has the advantage of using a keyword already known to introduce a type alias. However, it also displays several disavantages among which the confusion of using a keyword known to introduce an alias for a type-name in a context where the alias does not designate a type, but a template; Vec is not an alias for a type, and should not be taken for a typedef-name. The name Vec is a name for the family std::vector< [bullet] , MyAllocator< [bullet] > > – where the bullet is a placeholder for a type-name. Consequently we do not propose the “typedef” syntax. On the other hand the sentence

template<class T>
    using Vec = std::vector<T, MyAllocator<T> >;

can be read/interpreted as: from now on, I’ll be using Vec<T> as a synonym for std::vector<T, MyAllocator<T> >. With that reading, the new syntax for aliasing seems reasonably logical.

I think the important distinction is made here, aliases instead of types. Another quote from the same document:

An alias-declaration is a declaration, and not a definition. An alias- declaration introduces a name into a declarative region as an alias for the type designated by the right-hand-side of the declaration. The core of this proposal concerns itself with type name aliases, but the notation can obviously be generalized to provide alternate spellings of namespace-aliasing or naming set of overloaded functions (see ? 2.3 for further discussion). [My note: That section discusses what that syntax can look like and reasons why it isn't part of the proposal.] It may be noted that the grammar production alias-declaration is acceptable anywhere a typedef declaration or a namespace-alias-definition is acceptable.

Summary, for the role of using:

  • template aliases (or template typedefs, the former is preferred namewise)
  • namespace aliases (i.e., namespace PO = boost::program_options and using PO = ... equivalent)
  • the document says A typedef declaration can be viewed as a special case of non-template alias-declaration. It's an aesthetic change, and is considered identical in this case.
  • bringing something into scope (for example, namespace std into the global scope), member functions, inheriting constructors

It cannot be used for:

int i;
using r = i; // compile-error

Instead do:

using r = decltype(i);

Naming a set of overloads.

// bring cos into scope
using std::cos;

// invalid syntax
using std::cos(double);

// not allowed, instead use Bjarne Stroustrup function pointer alias example
using test = std::cos(double);

Convert date yyyyMMdd to system.datetime format

have at look at the static methods DateTime.Parse() and DateTime.TryParse(). They will allow you to pass in your date string and a format string, and get a DateTime object in return.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6fw7727c.aspx

How to convert a Drawable to a Bitmap?

public static Bitmap drawableToBitmap (Drawable drawable) {
    Bitmap bitmap = null;

    if (drawable instanceof BitmapDrawable) {
        BitmapDrawable bitmapDrawable = (BitmapDrawable) drawable;
        if(bitmapDrawable.getBitmap() != null) {
            return bitmapDrawable.getBitmap();
        }
    }

    if(drawable.getIntrinsicWidth() <= 0 || drawable.getIntrinsicHeight() <= 0) {
        bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(1, 1, Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888); // Single color bitmap will be created of 1x1 pixel
    } else {
        bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(drawable.getIntrinsicWidth(), drawable.getIntrinsicHeight(), Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
    }

    Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bitmap);
    drawable.setBounds(0, 0, canvas.getWidth(), canvas.getHeight());
    drawable.draw(canvas);
    return bitmap;
}

SQL state [99999]; error code [17004]; Invalid column type: 1111 With Spring SimpleJdbcCall

Finally I solve the issues using below code. This type of error will happen when there is a mismatch between In/Out parameter as declare in procedure and in java code declareParameters. Here we need to defined oracle return tab

public class ManualSaleStoredProcedureDao {

private SimpleJdbcCall getAllSytemUsers;

public List<SystemUser> getAllSytemUsers(String clientCode) {

    MapSqlParameterSource in = new MapSqlParameterSource();
    in.addValue("pi_client_code", clientCode);
    Map<String, Object> result = getAllSytemUsers.execute(in);
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    List<SystemUser> systemUsers = (List<SystemUser>) result
            .get(VSCConstants.GET_SYSTEM_USER_OUT_PARAM1);
    return systemUsers;

}

public void setDataSource(DataSource dataSource) {

    getAllSytemUsers = new SimpleJdbcCall(dataSource)
            .withSchemaName(VSCConstants.SCHEMA)
            .withProcedureName(VSCConstants.GET_SYSTEM_USER_PROC_NAME)
            .declareParameters(
                    new SqlParameter(
                            "pi_client_code",
                            OracleTypes.NUMBER,
                            "pi_client_code"),
                    new SqlInOutParameter(
                            "po_system_users",
                            OracleTypes.ARRAY,
                            "T_SYSTEM_USER_TAB",
                            new OracleSystemUser()));

}

PHP: date function to get month of the current date

As it's not specified if you mean the system's current date or the date held in a variable, I'll answer for latter with an example.

<?php
$dateAsString = "Wed, 11 Apr 2018 19:00:00 -0500";

// This converts it to a unix timestamp so that the date() function can work with it.
$dateAsUnixTimestamp = strtotime($dateAsString);

// Output it month is various formats according to http://php.net/date

echo date('M',$dateAsUnixTimestamp);
// Will output Apr

echo date('n',$dateAsUnixTimestamp);
// Will output 4

echo date('m',$dateAsUnixTimestamp);
// Will output 04
?>

JavaScript OOP in NodeJS: how?

I suggest to use the inherits helper that comes with the standard util module: http://nodejs.org/api/util.html#util_util_inherits_constructor_superconstructor

There is an example of how to use it on the linked page.

tkinter: how to use after method

You need to give a function to be called after the time delay as the second argument to after:

after(delay_ms, callback=None, *args)

Registers an alarm callback that is called after a given time.

So what you really want to do is this:

tiles_letter = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e']

def add_letter():
    rand = random.choice(tiles_letter)
    tile_frame = Label(frame, text=rand)
    tile_frame.pack()
    root.after(500, add_letter)
    tiles_letter.remove(rand)  # remove that tile from list of tiles


root.after(0, add_letter)  # add_letter will run as soon as the mainloop starts.
root.mainloop()

You also need to schedule the function to be called again by repeating the call to after inside the callback function, since after only executes the given function once. This is also noted in the documentation:

The callback is only called once for each call to this method. To keep calling the callback, you need to reregister the callback inside itself

Note that your example will throw an exception as soon as you've exhausted all the entries in tiles_letter, so you need to change your logic to handle that case whichever way you want. The simplest thing would be to add a check at the beginning of add_letter to make sure the list isn't empty, and just return if it is:

def add_letter():
    if not tiles_letter:
        return
    rand = random.choice(tiles_letter)
    tile_frame = Label(frame, text=rand)
    tile_frame.pack()
    root.after(500, add_letter)
    tiles_letter.remove(rand)  # remove that tile from list of tiles

Live-Demo: repl.it

How do you create a read-only user in PostgreSQL?

The not straightforward way of doing it would be granting select on each table of the database:

postgres=# grant select on db_name.table_name to read_only_user;

You could automate that by generating your grant statements from the database metadata.

Import python package from local directory into interpreter

If you want to run an unmodified python script so it imports libraries from a specific local directory you can set the PYTHONPATH environment variable - e.g. in bash:

export PYTHONPATH=/home/user/my_libs
python myscript.py

If you just want it to import from the current working directory use the . notation:

export PYTHONPATH=.
python myscript.py

Angular 2: Can't bind to 'ngModel' since it isn't a known property of 'input'

For some reason in Angular 6 simply importing the FormsModule did not fix my issue. What finally fixed my issue was by adding

import { CommonModule } from '@angular/common';

@NgModule({
  imports: [CommonModule],
})

export class MyClass{
}

How do I print part of a rendered HTML page in JavaScript?

You could use a print stylesheet, but this will affect all print functions.

You could try having a print stylesheet externalally, and it is included via JavaScript when a button is pressed, and then call window.print(), then after that remove it.

Cannot deserialize the current JSON array (e.g. [1,2,3]) into type

I ran into this exact same error message. I tried Aditi's example, and then I realized what the real issue was. (Because I had another apiEndpoint making a similar call that worked fine.) In this case The object in my list had not had an interface extracted from it yet. So because I apparently missed a step, when it went to do the bind to the

List<OfthisModelType>

It failed to deserialize.

If you see this issue, check to see if that could be the issue.

How do I query using fields inside the new PostgreSQL JSON datatype?

With postgres 9.3 use -> for object access. 4 example

seed.rb

se = SmartElement.new
se.data = 
{
    params:
    [
        {
            type: 1,
            code: 1,
            value: 2012,
            description: 'year of producction'
        },
        {
            type: 1,
            code: 2,
            value: 30,
            description: 'length'
        }
    ]
}

se.save

rails c

SELECT data->'params'->0 as data FROM smart_elements;

returns

                                 data
----------------------------------------------------------------------
 {"type":1,"code":1,"value":2012,"description":"year of producction"}
(1 row)

You can continue nesting

SELECT data->'params'->0->'type' as data FROM smart_elements;

return

 data
------
 1
(1 row)

DateTime.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss.fff") resulted in something like "09/14/2013 07.20.31.371"

Convert Date To String

Use name Space

using System.Globalization;

Code

string date = DateTime.ParseExact(datetext.Text, "dd-MM-yyyy", CultureInfo.InstalledUICulture).ToString("yyyy-MM-dd");

Using 24 hour time in bootstrap timepicker

if you are using bootstrap time picker. use showMeridian property to make the time picker 24 hours format.

$('.time-picker').timepicker({
            showMeridian: false     
        });

How to insert an element after another element in JavaScript without using a library?

The method node.after (doc) inserts a node after another node.

For two DOM nodes node1 and node2,

node1.after(node2) inserts node2 after node1.

This method is not available in older browsers, so usually a polyfill is needed.

Alternative to mysql_real_escape_string without connecting to DB

It is impossible to safely escape a string without a DB connection. mysql_real_escape_string() and prepared statements need a connection to the database so that they can escape the string using the appropriate character set - otherwise SQL injection attacks are still possible using multi-byte characters.

If you are only testing, then you may as well use mysql_escape_string(), it's not 100% guaranteed against SQL injection attacks, but it's impossible to build anything safer without a DB connection.

JavaScriptSerializer - JSON serialization of enum as string

Just in case anybody finds the above insufficient, I ended up settling with this overload:

JsonConvert.SerializeObject(objToSerialize, Formatting.Indented, new Newtonsoft.Json.Converters.StringEnumConverter())

Get list from pandas dataframe column or row?

If your column will only have one value something like pd.series.tolist() will produce an error. To guarantee that it will work for all cases, use the code below:

(
    df
        .filter(['column_name'])
        .values
        .reshape(1, -1)
        .ravel()
        .tolist()
)

How to validate an OAuth 2.0 access token for a resource server?

OAuth 2.0 spec doesn't define the part. But there could be couple of options:

  1. When resource server gets the token in the Authz Header then it calls the validate/introspect API on Authz server to validate the token. Here Authz server might validate it either from using DB Store or verifying the signature and certain attributes. As part of response, it decodes the token and sends the actual data of token along with remaining expiry time.

  2. Authz Server can encrpt/sign the token using private key and then publickey/cert can be given to Resource Server. When resource server gets the token, it either decrypts/verifies signature to verify the token. Takes the content out and processes the token. It then can either provide access or reject.

Copy row but with new id

THIS WORKS FOR DUPLICATING ONE ROW ONLY

  • Select your ONE row from your table
  • Fetch all associative
  • unset the ID row (Unique Index key)
  • Implode the array[0] keys into the column names
  • Implode the array[0] values into the column values
  • Run the query

The code:

 $qrystr = "SELECT * FROM mytablename  WHERE id= " . $rowid;
 $qryresult = $this->connection->query($qrystr);
 $result = $qryresult->fetchAll(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC);
 unset($result[0]['id']); //Remove ID from array
 $qrystr = " INSERT INTO mytablename";
 $qrystr .= " ( " .implode(", ",array_keys($result[0])).") ";
 $qrystr .= " VALUES ('".implode("', '",array_values($result[0])). "')";
 $result = $this->connection->query($qrystr);
 return $result;

Of course you should use PDO:bindparam and check your variables against attack, etc but gives the example

additional info

If you have a problem with handling NULL values, you can use following codes so that imploding names and values only for whose value is not NULL.

foreach ($result[0] as $index => $value) {
    if ($value === null) unset($result[0][$index]);
}

In which case do you use the JPA @JoinTable annotation?

EDIT 2017-04-29: As pointed to by some of the commenters, the JoinTable example does not need the mappedBy annotation attribute. In fact, recent versions of Hibernate refuse to start up by printing the following error:

org.hibernate.AnnotationException: 
   Associations marked as mappedBy must not define database mappings 
   like @JoinTable or @JoinColumn

Let's pretend that you have an entity named Project and another entity named Task and each project can have many tasks.

You can design the database schema for this scenario in two ways.

The first solution is to create a table named Project and another table named Task and add a foreign key column to the task table named project_id:

Project      Task
-------      ----
id           id
name         name
             project_id

This way, it will be possible to determine the project for each row in the task table. If you use this approach, in your entity classes you won't need a join table:

@Entity
public class Project {

   @OneToMany(mappedBy = "project")
   private Collection<Task> tasks;

}

@Entity
public class Task {

   @ManyToOne
   private Project project;

}

The other solution is to use a third table, e.g. Project_Tasks, and store the relationship between projects and tasks in that table:

Project      Task      Project_Tasks
-------      ----      -------------
id           id        project_id
name         name      task_id

The Project_Tasks table is called a "Join Table". To implement this second solution in JPA you need to use the @JoinTable annotation. For example, in order to implement a uni-directional one-to-many association, we can define our entities as such:

Project entity:

@Entity
public class Project {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue
    private Long pid;

    private String name;

    @JoinTable
    @OneToMany
    private List<Task> tasks;

    public Long getPid() {
        return pid;
    }

    public void setPid(Long pid) {
        this.pid = pid;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public List<Task> getTasks() {
        return tasks;
    }

    public void setTasks(List<Task> tasks) {
        this.tasks = tasks;
    }
}

Task entity:

@Entity
public class Task {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue
    private Long tid;

    private String name;

    public Long getTid() {
        return tid;
    }

    public void setTid(Long tid) {
        this.tid = tid;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

}

This will create the following database structure:

ER Diagram 1

The @JoinTable annotation also lets you customize various aspects of the join table. For example, had we annotated the tasks property like this:

@JoinTable(
        name = "MY_JT",
        joinColumns = @JoinColumn(
                name = "PROJ_ID",
                referencedColumnName = "PID"
        ),
        inverseJoinColumns = @JoinColumn(
                name = "TASK_ID",
                referencedColumnName = "TID"
        )
)
@OneToMany
private List<Task> tasks;

The resulting database would have become:

ER Diagram 2

Finally, if you want to create a schema for a many-to-many association, using a join table is the only available solution.

Properties file in python (similar to Java Properties)

Here is link to my project: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pyproperties/. It is a library with methods for working with *.properties files for Python 3.x.

But it is not based on java.util.Properties

How to merge a Series and DataFrame

Here's one way:

df.join(pd.DataFrame(s).T).fillna(method='ffill')

To break down what happens here...

pd.DataFrame(s).T creates a one-row DataFrame from s which looks like this:

   s1  s2
0   5   6

Next, join concatenates this new frame with df:

   a  b  s1  s2
0  1  3   5   6
1  2  4 NaN NaN

Lastly, the NaN values at index 1 are filled with the previous values in the column using fillna with the forward-fill (ffill) argument:

   a  b  s1  s2
0  1  3   5   6
1  2  4   5   6

To avoid using fillna, it's possible to use pd.concat to repeat the rows of the DataFrame constructed from s. In this case, the general solution is:

df.join(pd.concat([pd.DataFrame(s).T] * len(df), ignore_index=True))

Here's another solution to address the indexing challenge posed in the edited question:

df.join(pd.DataFrame(s.repeat(len(df)).values.reshape((len(df), -1), order='F'), 
        columns=s.index, 
        index=df.index))

s is transformed into a DataFrame by repeating the values and reshaping (specifying 'Fortran' order), and also passing in the appropriate column names and index. This new DataFrame is then joined to df.

ImportError: No module named PyQt4

You have to check which Python you are using. I had the same problem because the Python I was using was not the same one that brew was using. In your command line:

  1. which python
    output: /usr/bin/python
  2. which brew
    output: /usr/local/bin/brew     //so they are different
  3. cd /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages
  4. ls   //you can see PyQt4 and sip are here
  5. Now you need to add usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages to your python path.
  6. open ~/.bash_profile   //you will open your bash_profile file in your editor
  7. Add 'export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages:$PYTHONPATH' to your bash file and save it
  8. Close your terminal and restart it to reload the shell
  9. python
  10. import PyQt4    // it is ok now

Python3 project remove __pycache__ folders and .pyc files

The command I've used:

find . -type d -name "__pycache__" -exec rm -r {} +

Explains:

  1. First finds all __pycache__ folders in current directory.

  2. Execute rm -r {} + to delete each folder at step above ({} signify for placeholder and + to end the command)

Edited 1:

I'm using Linux, to reuse the command I've added the line below to the ~/.bashrc file

alias rm-pycache='find . -type d -name  "__pycache__" -exec rm -r {} +'

Edited 2: If you're using VS Code, you don't need to remove __pycache__ manually. You can add the snippet below to settings.json file. After that, VS Code will hide all __pycache__ folders for you

"files.exclude": {
     "**/__pycache__": true
}

Hope it helps !!!

Draw on HTML5 Canvas using a mouse

Here is my very simple working canvas draw and erase.

https://jsfiddle.net/richardcwc/d2gxjdva/

_x000D_
_x000D_
//Canvas_x000D_
var canvas = document.getElementById('canvas');_x000D_
var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');_x000D_
//Variables_x000D_
var canvasx = $(canvas).offset().left;_x000D_
var canvasy = $(canvas).offset().top;_x000D_
var last_mousex = last_mousey = 0;_x000D_
var mousex = mousey = 0;_x000D_
var mousedown = false;_x000D_
var tooltype = 'draw';_x000D_
_x000D_
//Mousedown_x000D_
$(canvas).on('mousedown', function(e) {_x000D_
    last_mousex = mousex = parseInt(e.clientX-canvasx);_x000D_
 last_mousey = mousey = parseInt(e.clientY-canvasy);_x000D_
    mousedown = true;_x000D_
});_x000D_
_x000D_
//Mouseup_x000D_
$(canvas).on('mouseup', function(e) {_x000D_
    mousedown = false;_x000D_
});_x000D_
_x000D_
//Mousemove_x000D_
$(canvas).on('mousemove', function(e) {_x000D_
    mousex = parseInt(e.clientX-canvasx);_x000D_
    mousey = parseInt(e.clientY-canvasy);_x000D_
    if(mousedown) {_x000D_
        ctx.beginPath();_x000D_
        if(tooltype=='draw') {_x000D_
            ctx.globalCompositeOperation = 'source-over';_x000D_
            ctx.strokeStyle = 'black';_x000D_
            ctx.lineWidth = 3;_x000D_
        } else {_x000D_
            ctx.globalCompositeOperation = 'destination-out';_x000D_
            ctx.lineWidth = 10;_x000D_
        }_x000D_
        ctx.moveTo(last_mousex,last_mousey);_x000D_
        ctx.lineTo(mousex,mousey);_x000D_
        ctx.lineJoin = ctx.lineCap = 'round';_x000D_
        ctx.stroke();_x000D_
    }_x000D_
    last_mousex = mousex;_x000D_
    last_mousey = mousey;_x000D_
    //Output_x000D_
    $('#output').html('current: '+mousex+', '+mousey+'<br/>last: '+last_mousex+', '+last_mousey+'<br/>mousedown: '+mousedown);_x000D_
});_x000D_
_x000D_
//Use draw|erase_x000D_
use_tool = function(tool) {_x000D_
    tooltype = tool; //update_x000D_
}
_x000D_
canvas {_x000D_
    cursor: crosshair;_x000D_
    border: 1px solid #000000;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<canvas id="canvas" width="800" height="500"></canvas>_x000D_
<input type="button" value="draw" onclick="use_tool('draw');" />_x000D_
<input type="button" value="erase" onclick="use_tool('erase');" />_x000D_
<div id="output"></div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

How to redirect in a servlet filter?

I'm trying to find a method to redirect my request from filter to login page

Don't

You just invoke

chain.doFilter(request, response);

from filter and the normal flow will go ahead.

I don't know how to redirect from servlet

You can use

response.sendRedirect(url);

to redirect from servlet

Copy a git repo without history

You can limit the depth of the history while cloning:

--depth <depth>
Create a shallow clone with a history truncated to the specified 
number of revisions.

Use this if you want limited history, but still some.

Random / noise functions for GLSL

Please see below an example how to add white noise to the rendered texture. The solution is to use two textures: original and pure white noise, like this one: wiki white noise

private static final String VERTEX_SHADER =
    "uniform mat4 uMVPMatrix;\n" +
    "uniform mat4 uMVMatrix;\n" +
    "uniform mat4 uSTMatrix;\n" +
    "attribute vec4 aPosition;\n" +
    "attribute vec4 aTextureCoord;\n" +
    "varying vec2 vTextureCoord;\n" +
    "varying vec4 vInCamPosition;\n" +
    "void main() {\n" +
    "    vTextureCoord = (uSTMatrix * aTextureCoord).xy;\n" +
    "    gl_Position = uMVPMatrix * aPosition;\n" +
    "}\n";

private static final String FRAGMENT_SHADER =
        "precision mediump float;\n" +
        "uniform sampler2D sTextureUnit;\n" +
        "uniform sampler2D sNoiseTextureUnit;\n" +
        "uniform float uNoseFactor;\n" +
        "varying vec2 vTextureCoord;\n" +
        "varying vec4 vInCamPosition;\n" +
        "void main() {\n" +
                "    gl_FragColor = texture2D(sTextureUnit, vTextureCoord);\n" +
                "    vec4 vRandChosenColor = texture2D(sNoiseTextureUnit, fract(vTextureCoord + uNoseFactor));\n" +
                "    gl_FragColor.r += (0.05 * vRandChosenColor.r);\n" +
                "    gl_FragColor.g += (0.05 * vRandChosenColor.g);\n" +
                "    gl_FragColor.b += (0.05 * vRandChosenColor.b);\n" +
        "}\n";

The fragment shared contains parameter uNoiseFactor which is updated on every rendering by main application:

float noiseValue = (float)(mRand.nextInt() % 1000)/1000;
int noiseFactorUniformHandle = GLES20.glGetUniformLocation( mProgram, "sNoiseTextureUnit");
GLES20.glUniform1f(noiseFactorUniformHandle, noiseFactor);

UIDevice uniqueIdentifier deprecated - What to do now?

I would also suggest changing over from uniqueIdentifier to this open source library (2 simple categories really) that utilize the device’s MAC Address along with the App Bundle Identifier to generate a unique ID in your applications that can be used as a UDID replacement.

Keep in mind that unlike the UDID this number will be different for every app.

You simply need to import the included NSString and UIDevice categories and call [[UIDevice currentDevice] uniqueDeviceIdentifier] like so:

#import "UIDevice+IdentifierAddition.h"
#import "NSString+MD5Addition.h"
NSString *iosFiveUDID = [[UIDevice currentDevice] uniqueDeviceIdentifier]

You can find it on Github here:

UIDevice with UniqueIdentifier for iOS 5


Here are the categories (just the .m files - check the github project for the headers):

UIDevice+IdentifierAddition.m

#import "UIDevice+IdentifierAddition.h"
#import "NSString+MD5Addition.h"

#include <sys/socket.h> // Per msqr
#include <sys/sysctl.h>
#include <net/if.h>
#include <net/if_dl.h>

@interface UIDevice(Private)

- (NSString *) macaddress;

@end

@implementation UIDevice (IdentifierAddition)

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
#pragma mark -
#pragma mark Private Methods

// Return the local MAC addy
// Courtesy of FreeBSD hackers email list
// Accidentally munged during previous update. Fixed thanks to erica sadun & mlamb.
- (NSString *) macaddress{
    
    int                 mib[6];
    size_t              len;
    char                *buf;
    unsigned char       *ptr;
    struct if_msghdr    *ifm;
    struct sockaddr_dl  *sdl;
    
    mib[0] = CTL_NET;
    mib[1] = AF_ROUTE;
    mib[2] = 0;
    mib[3] = AF_LINK;
    mib[4] = NET_RT_IFLIST;
    
    if ((mib[5] = if_nametoindex("en0")) == 0) {
        printf("Error: if_nametoindex error\n");
        return NULL;
    }
    
    if (sysctl(mib, 6, NULL, &len, NULL, 0) < 0) {
        printf("Error: sysctl, take 1\n");
        return NULL;
    }
    
    if ((buf = malloc(len)) == NULL) {
        printf("Could not allocate memory. error!\n");
        return NULL;
    }
    
    if (sysctl(mib, 6, buf, &len, NULL, 0) < 0) {
        printf("Error: sysctl, take 2");
        return NULL;
    }
    
    ifm = (struct if_msghdr *)buf;
    sdl = (struct sockaddr_dl *)(ifm + 1);
    ptr = (unsigned char *)LLADDR(sdl);
    NSString *outstring = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%02X:%02X:%02X:%02X:%02X:%02X", 
                           *ptr, *(ptr+1), *(ptr+2), *(ptr+3), *(ptr+4), *(ptr+5)];
    free(buf);
    
    return outstring;
}

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
#pragma mark -
#pragma mark Public Methods

- (NSString *) uniqueDeviceIdentifier{
    NSString *macaddress = [[UIDevice currentDevice] macaddress];
    NSString *bundleIdentifier = [[NSBundle mainBundle] bundleIdentifier];  
    NSString *stringToHash = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@%@",macaddress,bundleIdentifier];
    NSString *uniqueIdentifier = [stringToHash stringFromMD5];  
    return uniqueIdentifier;
}

- (NSString *) uniqueGlobalDeviceIdentifier{
    NSString *macaddress = [[UIDevice currentDevice] macaddress];
    NSString *uniqueIdentifier = [macaddress stringFromMD5];    
    return uniqueIdentifier;
}

@end

NSString+MD5Addition.m:

#import "NSString+MD5Addition.h"
#import <CommonCrypto/CommonDigest.h>

@implementation NSString(MD5Addition)

- (NSString *) stringFromMD5{
    
    if(self == nil || [self length] == 0)
        return nil;
    
    const char *value = [self UTF8String];
    
    unsigned char outputBuffer[CC_MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH];
    CC_MD5(value, strlen(value), outputBuffer);
    
    NSMutableString *outputString = [[NSMutableString alloc] initWithCapacity:CC_MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH * 2];
    for(NSInteger count = 0; count < CC_MD5_DIGEST_LENGTH; count++){
        [outputString appendFormat:@"%02x",outputBuffer[count]];
    }
    return [outputString autorelease];
}

@end

printf formatting (%d versus %u)

%u prints unsigned integer

%d prints signed integer

to get a pointer address use %p

Other List of Formatting Escapes:

Here are the full list of formatting escapes. I am just giving a screen shot from this page

enter image description here

Onclick function based on element id

you can try these:

document.getElementById("RootNode").onclick = function(){/*do something*/};

or

$('#RootNode').click(function(){/*do something*/});

or

$(document).on("click", "#RootNode", function(){/*do something*/});

There is a point for the first two method which is, it matters where in your page DOM, you should put them, the whole DOM should be loaded, to be able to find the, which is usually it gets solved if you wrap them in a window.onload or DOMReady event, like:

//in Vanilla JavaScript
window.addEventListener("load", function(){
     document.getElementById("RootNode").onclick = function(){/*do something*/};
});
//for jQuery
$(document).ready(function(){
    $('#RootNode').click(function(){/*do something*/});
});

Add floating point value to android resources/values

There is a solution:

<resources>
    <item name="text_line_spacing" format="float" type="dimen">1.0</item>
</resources>

In this way, your float number will be under @dimen. Notice that you can use other "format" and/or "type" modifiers, where format stands for:

Format = enclosing data type:

  • float
  • boolean
  • fraction
  • integer
  • ...

and type stands for:

Type = resource type (referenced with R.XXXXX.name):

  • color
  • dimen
  • string
  • style
  • etc...

To fetch resource from code, you should use this snippet:

TypedValue outValue = new TypedValue();
getResources().getValue(R.dimen.text_line_spacing, outValue, true);
float value = outValue.getFloat();  

I know that this is confusing (you'd expect call like getResources().getDimension(R.dimen.text_line_spacing)), but Android dimensions have special treatment and pure "float" number is not valid dimension.


Additionally, there is small "hack" to put float number into dimension, but be WARNED that this is really hack, and you are risking chance to lose float range and precision.

<resources>
    <dimen name="text_line_spacing">2.025px</dimen>
</resources>

and from code, you can get that float by

float lineSpacing = getResources().getDimension(R.dimen.text_line_spacing);

in this case, value of lineSpacing is 2.024993896484375, and not 2.025 as you would expected.

Set UIButton title UILabel font size programmatically

You can use:

button.titleLabel.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:14.0];

Awaiting multiple Tasks with different results

You can use Task.WhenAll as mentioned, or Task.WaitAll, depending on whether you want the thread to wait. Take a look at the link for an explanation of both.

WaitAll vs WhenAll

TCPDF not render all CSS properties

I found this:

// Remove tag bottom and top margins

$tagvs = array( 'p' => array( 
                              0 => array('h' => 0, 'n' => 0), 
                              1 => array('h' => 0, 'n' => 0)
                             ) 
              );
$pdf->setHtmlVSpace($tagvs);

in here: https://tcpdf.org/examples/example_061/

Use it to remove 'p' tags properties (bottom and top), then position the 'p' text inside a cell.

git status shows fatal: bad object HEAD

I solved this by doing git fetch. My error was because I moved my file from my main storage to my secondary storage on windows 10.

How can I copy a Python string?

To put it a different way "id()" is not what you care about. You want to know if the variable name can be modified without harming the source variable name.

>>> a = 'hello'                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
>>> b = a[:]                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
>>> c = a                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
>>> b += ' world'                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
>>> c += ', bye'                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
>>> a                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
'hello'                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
>>> b                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
'hello world'                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
>>> c                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
'hello, bye'                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

If you're used to C, then these are like pointer variables except you can't de-reference them to modify what they point at, but id() will tell you where they currently point.

The problem for python programmers comes when you consider deeper structures like lists or dicts:

>>> o={'a': 10}                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
>>> x=o                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
>>> y=o.copy()                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         
>>> x['a'] = 20                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
>>> y['a'] = 30                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
>>> o                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
{'a': 20}                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
>>> x                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
{'a': 20}                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
>>> y                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  
{'a': 30}                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

Here o and x refer to the same dict o['a'] and x['a'], and that dict is "mutable" in the sense that you can change the value for key 'a'. That's why "y" needs to be a copy and y['a'] can refer to something else.

WebSockets protocol vs HTTP

1) Why is the WebSockets protocol better?

WebSockets is better for situations that involve low-latency communication especially for low latency for client to server messages. For server to client data you can get fairly low latency using long-held connections and chunked transfer. However, this doesn't help with client to server latency which requires a new connection to be established for each client to server message.

Your 48 byte HTTP handshake is not realistic for real-world HTTP browser connections where there is often several kilobytes of data sent as part of the request (in both directions) including many headers and cookie data. Here is an example of a request/response to using Chrome:

Example request (2800 bytes including cookie data, 490 bytes without cookie data):

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.cnn.com
Connection: keep-alive
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/24.0.1312.68 Safari/537.17
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.3
Cookie: [[[2428 byte of cookie data]]]

Example response (355 bytes):

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:56:27 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
Set-Cookie: CG=US:TX:Arlington; path=/
Last-Modified: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:55:22 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Cache-Control: max-age=60, private
Expires: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:56:54 GMT
Content-Encoding: gzip

Both HTTP and WebSockets have equivalent sized initial connection handshakes, but with a WebSocket connection the initial handshake is performed once and then small messages only have 6 bytes of overhead (2 for the header and 4 for the mask value). The latency overhead is not so much from the size of the headers, but from the logic to parse/handle/store those headers. In addition, the TCP connection setup latency is probably a bigger factor than the size or processing time for each request.

2) Why was it implemented instead of updating HTTP protocol?

There are efforts to re-engineer the HTTP protocol to achieve better performance and lower latency such as SPDY, HTTP 2.0 and QUIC. This will improve the situation for normal HTTP requests, but it is likely that WebSockets and/or WebRTC DataChannel will still have lower latency for client to server data transfer than HTTP protocol (or it will be used in a mode that looks a lot like WebSockets anyways).

Update:

Here is a framework for thinking about web protocols:

  • TCP: low-level, bi-directional, full-duplex, and guaranteed order transport layer. No browser support (except via plugin/Flash).
  • HTTP 1.0: request-response transport protocol layered on TCP. The client makes one full request, the server gives one full response, and then the connection is closed. The request methods (GET, POST, HEAD) have specific transactional meaning for resources on the server.
  • HTTP 1.1: maintains the request-response nature of HTTP 1.0, but allows the connection to stay open for multiple full requests/full responses (one response per request). Still has full headers in the request and response but the connection is re-used and not closed. HTTP 1.1 also added some additional request methods (OPTIONS, PUT, DELETE, TRACE, CONNECT) which also have specific transactional meanings. However, as noted in the introduction to the HTTP 2.0 draft proposal, HTTP 1.1 pipelining is not widely deployed so this greatly limits the utility of HTTP 1.1 to solve latency between browsers and servers.
  • Long-poll: sort of a "hack" to HTTP (either 1.0 or 1.1) where the server does not respond immediately (or only responds partially with headers) to the client request. After a server response, the client immediately sends a new request (using the same connection if over HTTP 1.1).
  • HTTP streaming: a variety of techniques (multipart/chunked response) that allow the server to send more than one response to a single client request. The W3C is standardizing this as Server-Sent Events using a text/event-stream MIME type. The browser API (which is fairly similar to the WebSocket API) is called the EventSource API.
  • Comet/server push: this is an umbrella term that includes both long-poll and HTTP streaming. Comet libraries usually support multiple techniques to try and maximize cross-browser and cross-server support.
  • WebSockets: a transport layer built-on TCP that uses an HTTP friendly Upgrade handshake. Unlike TCP, which is a streaming transport, WebSockets is a message based transport: messages are delimited on the wire and are re-assembled in-full before delivery to the application. WebSocket connections are bi-directional, full-duplex and long-lived. After the initial handshake request/response, there is no transactional semantics and there is very little per message overhead. The client and server may send messages at any time and must handle message receipt asynchronously.
  • SPDY: a Google initiated proposal to extend HTTP using a more efficient wire protocol but maintaining all HTTP semantics (request/response, cookies, encoding). SPDY introduces a new framing format (with length-prefixed frames) and specifies a way to layering HTTP request/response pairs onto the new framing layer. Headers can be compressed and new headers can be sent after the connection has been established. There are real world implementations of SPDY in browsers and servers.
  • HTTP 2.0: has similar goals to SPDY: reduce HTTP latency and overhead while preserving HTTP semantics. The current draft is derived from SPDY and defines an upgrade handshake and data framing that is very similar the the WebSocket standard for handshake and framing. An alternate HTTP 2.0 draft proposal (httpbis-speed-mobility) actually uses WebSockets for the transport layer and adds the SPDY multiplexing and HTTP mapping as an WebSocket extension (WebSocket extensions are negotiated during the handshake).
  • WebRTC/CU-WebRTC: proposals to allow peer-to-peer connectivity between browsers. This may enable lower average and maximum latency communication because as the underlying transport is SDP/datagram rather than TCP. This allows out-of-order delivery of packets/messages which avoids the TCP issue of latency spikes caused by dropped packets which delay delivery of all subsequent packets (to guarantee in-order delivery).
  • QUIC: is an experimental protocol aimed at reducing web latency over that of TCP. On the surface, QUIC is very similar to TCP+TLS+SPDY implemented on UDP. QUIC provides multiplexing and flow control equivalent to HTTP/2, security equivalent to TLS, and connection semantics, reliability, and congestion control equivalentto TCP. Because TCP is implemented in operating system kernels, and middlebox firmware, making significant changes to TCP is next to impossible. However, since QUIC is built on top of UDP, it suffers from no such limitations. QUIC is designed and optimised for HTTP/2 semantics.

References:

React Native version mismatch

I updated the SDK version in app.json to match with the react native SDK version in package.json to fix this issue

In app.json

"sdkVersion": "37.0.0",

In package.json

"react-native": "https://github.com/expo/react-native/archive/sdk-37.0.1.tar.gz",

Elasticsearch: Failed to connect to localhost port 9200 - Connection refused

For versions higher than 6.8 (7.x) you need two things.

1. change the network host to listen on the public interface.

In the configuration file elasticsearch.yml (for debian and derivatives -> /etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml).

  • set the network.host or network.bind_host to:
...
network.host: 0.0.0.0
...

Or the interface that must be reached

2. Before going to production it's necessary to set important discovery and cluster formation settings.

According to elastic.co:
v6.8 -> discovery settings that should set.
by e.g

...
# roughly means the same as 1
discovery.zen.minimum_master_nodes: -1
...

v7.x -> discovery settings that should set.
by one single node

discovery.type: single-node
#OR set discovery.seed_hosts : 127.0.0.1:9200

at least one of [discovery.seed_hosts, discovery.seed_providers, cluster.initial_master_nodes] must be configured.

How to redirect to a different domain using NGINX?

server_name supports suffix matches using .mydomain.com syntax:

server {
  server_name .mydomain.com;
  rewrite ^ http://www.adifferentdomain.com$request_uri? permanent;
}

or on any version 0.9.1 or higher:

server {
  server_name .mydomain.com;
  return 301 http://www.adifferentdomain.com$request_uri;
}

How to copy a file to a remote server in Python using SCP or SSH?

fabric could be used to upload files vis ssh:

#!/usr/bin/env python
from fabric.api import execute, put
from fabric.network import disconnect_all

if __name__=="__main__":
    import sys
    # specify hostname to connect to and the remote/local paths
    srcdir, remote_dirname, hostname = sys.argv[1:]
    try:
        s = execute(put, srcdir, remote_dirname, host=hostname)
        print(repr(s))
    finally:
        disconnect_all()

How to make a TextBox accept only alphabetic characters?

private void textBox2_KeyPress(object sender, KeyPressEventArgs e)
        {
            if (e.KeyChar >= '0' && e.KeyChar <= '9')
                e.Handled = true;
            else
                e.Handled = false;
        }

Entity Framework - Include Multiple Levels of Properties

I also had to use multiple includes and at 3rd level I needed multiple properties

(from e in context.JobCategorySet
                      where e.Id == id &&
                            e.AgencyId == agencyId
                      select e)
                      .Include(x => x.JobCategorySkillDetails)
                      .Include(x => x.Shifts.Select(r => r.Rate).Select(rt => rt.DurationType))
                      .Include(x => x.Shifts.Select(r => r.Rate).Select(rt => rt.RuleType))
                      .Include(x => x.Shifts.Select(r => r.Rate).Select(rt => rt.RateType))
                      .FirstOrDefaultAsync();

This may help someone :)

Open firewall port on CentOS 7

Firewalld is a bit non-intuitive for the iptables veteran. For those who prefer an iptables-driven firewall with iptables-like syntax in an easy configurable tree, try replacing firewalld with fwtree: https://www.linuxglobal.com/fwtree-flexible-linux-tree-based-firewall/ and then do the following:

 echo '-p tcp --dport 80 -m conntrack --cstate NEW -j ACCEPT' > /etc/fwtree.d/filter/INPUT/80-allow.rule
 systemctl reload fwtree 

How do I center an SVG in a div?

Above answers did not work for me. Adding the attribute preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMin" to the <svg> tag did the trick though. The viewBox attribute needs to be specified for this to work as well. Source: Mozilla developer network

Check if page gets reloaded or refreshed in JavaScript

if

event.currentTarget.performance.navigation.type

returns

0 => user just typed in an Url
1 => page reloaded
2 => back button clicked.

Eclipse IDE for Java - Full Dark Theme

For a Visual Studio 2013 Dark Theme:

Combine this preferences file from eclipsecolorthemes.org (an .epf) with the built-in dark theme from Eclipse Luna. I was able to do so with the following steps:

  1. Window > General > Appearance > Theme: Dark.
  2. File > Import > General > Preferences > Browse: theme-25999.epf > Finish.

An example search for more VS Dark Themes on eclipsecolorthemes.org

Which is the best Linux C/C++ debugger (or front-end to gdb) to help teaching programming?

Perhaps it is indirect to gdb (because it's an IDE), but my recommendations would be KDevelop. Being quite spoiled with Visual Studio's debugger (professionally at work for many years), I've so far felt the most comfortable debugging in KDevelop (as hobby at home, because I could not afford Visual Studio for personal use - until Express Edition came out). It does "look something similar to" Visual Studio compared to other IDE's I've experimented with (including Eclipse CDT) when it comes to debugging step-through, step-in, etc (placing break points is a bit awkward because I don't like to use mouse too much when coding, but it's not difficult).

How to escape regular expression special characters using javascript?

Use the backslash to escape a character. For example:

/\\d/

This will match \d instead of a numeric character

Why does .NET foreach loop throw NullRefException when collection is null?

There is a big difference between an empty collection and a null reference to a collection.

When you use foreach, internally, this is calling the IEnumerable's GetEnumerator() method. When the reference is null, this will raise this exception.

However, it is perfectly valid to have an empty IEnumerable or IEnumerable<T>. In this case, foreach will not "iterate" over anything (since the collection is empty), but it will also not throw, since this is a perfectly valid scenario.


Edit:

Personally, if you need to work around this, I'd recommend an extension method:

public static IEnumerable<T> AsNotNull<T>(this IEnumerable<T> original)
{
     return original ?? Enumerable.Empty<T>();
}

You can then just call:

foreach (int i in returnArray.AsNotNull())
{
    // do some more stuff
}

proper way to sudo over ssh

NOPASS in the configuration on your target machine is the solution. Continue reading at http://maestric.com/doc/unix/ubuntu_sudo_without_password

How can I adjust DIV width to contents

Try width: max-content to adjust the width of the div by it's content.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<style>
div.ex1 {
  width:500px;
  margin: auto;
  border: 3px solid #73AD21;
}

div.ex2 {
  width: max-content;
  margin: auto;
  border: 3px solid #73AD21;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>

<div class="ex1">This div element has width 500px;</div>
<br>
<div class="ex2">Width by content size</div>

</body>
</html>

How to change FontSize By JavaScript?

JavaScript is case sensitive.

So, if you want to change the font size, you have to go:

span.style.fontSize = "25px";

Writing data to a local text file with javascript

Our HTML:

<div id="addnew">
    <input type="text" id="id">
    <input type="text" id="content">
    <input type="button" value="Add" id="submit">
</div>

<div id="check">
    <input type="text" id="input">
    <input type="button" value="Search" id="search">
</div>

JS (writing to the txt file):

function writeToFile(d1, d2){
    var fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
    var fh = fso.OpenTextFile("data.txt", 8, false, 0);
    fh.WriteLine(d1 + ',' + d2);
    fh.Close();
}
var submit = document.getElementById("submit");
submit.onclick = function () {
    var id      = document.getElementById("id").value;
    var content = document.getElementById("content").value;
    writeToFile(id, content);
}

checking a particular row:

function readFile(){
    var fso = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
    var fh = fso.OpenTextFile("data.txt", 1, false, 0);
    var lines = "";
    while (!fh.AtEndOfStream) {
        lines += fh.ReadLine() + "\r";
    }
    fh.Close();
    return lines;
}
var search = document.getElementById("search");
search.onclick = function () {
    var input   = document.getElementById("input").value;
    if (input != "") {
        var text    = readFile();
        var lines   = text.split("\r");
        lines.pop();
        var result;
        for (var i = 0; i < lines.length; i++) {
            if (lines[i].match(new RegExp(input))) {
                result = "Found: " + lines[i].split(",")[1];
            }
        }
        if (result) { alert(result); }
        else { alert(input + " not found!"); }
    }
}

Put these inside a .hta file and run it. Tested on W7, IE11. It's working. Also if you want me to explain what's going on, say so.

How can I clear the Scanner buffer in Java?

Try this:

in.nextLine();

This advances the Scanner to the next line.

Shell Scripting: Using a variable to define a path

Don't use spaces...

(Incorrect)

SPTH = '/home/Foo/Documents/Programs/ShellScripts/Butler'

(Correct)

SPTH='/home/Foo/Documents/Programs/ShellScripts/Butler'

Pandas DataFrame concat vs append

Pandas concat vs append vs join vs merge

  • Concat gives the flexibility to join based on the axis( all rows or all columns)

  • Append is the specific case(axis=0, join='outer') of concat

  • Join is based on the indexes (set by set_index) on how variable =['left','right','inner','couter']

  • Merge is based on any particular column each of the two dataframes, this columns are variables on like 'left_on', 'right_on', 'on'

The type java.util.Map$Entry cannot be resolved. It is indirectly referenced from required .class files

I've seen occasional problems with Eclipse forgetting that built-in classes (including Object and String) exist. The way I've resolved them is to:

  • On the Project menu, turn off "Build Automatically"
  • Quit and restart Eclipse
  • On the Project menu, choose "Clean…" and clean all projects
  • Turn "Build Automatically" back on and let it rebuild everything.

This seems to make Eclipse forget whatever incorrect cached information it had about the available classes.

header('HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found'); not doing anything

No, it probably is actually working. It's just not readily visible. Instead of just using the header call, try doing that, then including 404.php, and then calling die.

You can test the fact that the HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found works by creating a PHP file named, say, test.php with this content:

<?php

header("HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found");
echo "PHP continues.\n";
die();
echo "Not after a die, however.\n";

Then viewing the result with curl -D /dev/stdout reveals:

HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 03:39:06 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.2
Content-Length: 14
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

PHP continues.

ASP.NET MVC Razor: How to render a Razor Partial View's HTML inside the controller action

Although adequate answers have already been given, I'd like to propose a less verbose solution, that can be used without the helper methods available in an MVC controller class. Using a third party library called "RazorEngine" you can use .Net file IO to get the contents of the razor file and call

string html = Razor.Parse(razorViewContentString, modelObject);

Get the third party library here.

Using git commit -a with vim

Try ZZ to save and close. Here is a bit more info on using vim with Git

Java ArrayList - Check if list is empty

You should use method listName.isEmpty()

Dynamic SQL - EXEC(@SQL) versus EXEC SP_EXECUTESQL(@SQL)

  1. Declare the variable
  2. Set it by your command and add dynamic parts like use parameter values of sp(here @IsMonday and @IsTuesday are sp params)
  3. execute the command

    declare  @sql varchar (100)
    set @sql ='select * from #td1'
    
    if (@IsMonday+@IsTuesday !='')
    begin
    set @sql= @sql+' where PickupDay in ('''+@IsMonday+''','''+@IsTuesday+''' )'
    end
    exec( @sql)
    

Redirecting exec output to a buffer or file

You need to decide exactly what you want to do - and preferably explain it a bit more clearly.

Option 1: File

If you know which file you want the output of the executed command to go to, then:

  1. Ensure that the parent and child agree on the name (parent decides name before forking).
  2. Parent forks - you have two processes.
  3. Child reorganizes things so that file descriptor 1 (standard output) goes to the file.
  4. Usually, you can leave standard error alone; you might redirect standard input from /dev/null.
  5. Child then execs relevant command; said command runs and any standard output goes to the file (this is the basic shell I/O redirection).
  6. Executed process then terminates.
  7. Meanwhile, the parent process can adopt one of two main strategies:
    • Open the file for reading, and keep reading until it reaches an EOF. It then needs to double check whether the child died (so there won't be any more data to read), or hang around waiting for more input from the child.
    • Wait for the child to die and then open the file for reading.
    • The advantage of the first is that the parent can do some of its work while the child is also running; the advantage of the second is that you don't have to diddle with the I/O system (repeatedly reading past EOF).

Option 2: Pipe

If you want the parent to read the output from the child, arrange for the child to pipe its output back to the parent.

  1. Use popen() to do this the easy way. It will run the process and send the output to your parent process. Note that the parent must be active while the child is generating the output since pipes have a small buffer size (often 4-5 KB) and if the child generates more data than that while the parent is not reading, the child will block until the parent reads. If the parent is waiting for the child to die, you have a deadlock.
  2. Use pipe() etc to do this the hard way. Parent calls pipe(), then forks. The child sorts out the plumbing so that the write end of the pipe is its standard output, and ensures that all other file descriptors relating to the pipe are closed. This might well use the dup2() system call. It then executes the required process, which sends its standard output down the pipe.
  3. Meanwhile, the parent also closes the unwanted ends of the pipe, and then starts reading. When it gets EOF on the pipe, it knows the child has finished and closed the pipe; it can close its end of the pipe too.

setOnItemClickListener on custom ListView

If above answers don't work maybe you didn't add return value into getItem method in the custom adapter see this question and check out first answer.

Forcing label to flow inline with input that they label

<style>
.nowrap {
    white-space: nowrap;
}
</style>

...

<label for="id1" class="nowrap">label1:
    <input type="text" id="id1"/>
</label>

Wrap your inputs within the label tag

IIS7 URL Redirection from root to sub directory

I could not get this working with the accepted answer, mainly because I did not know where to enter that code. I looked everywhere for some explanation of the URL Rewrite tool that made sense, but could not find any. I ended up using the HTTP Redirect tool in IIS.

  1. Choose your site
  2. Click HTTP Redirect in the IIS section (Make sure the Role Service is installed)
  3. Check "Redirect requests to this destination"
  4. Enter where you want to redirect. In your case "wwww.mysite.com/menu_1/MainScreen.aspx"
  5. In Redirect Behavior, I found I had to check "Only redirect requests to content in this directory (not subdirectories), or it would go into a loop. See what works for you.

Hope this helps.

SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1064 You have an error in your SQL syntax — PHP — PDO

from is a keyword in SQL. You may not used it as a column name without quoting it. In MySQL, things like column names are quoted using backticks, i.e. `from`.

Personally, I wouldn't bother; I'd just rename the column.

PS. as pointed out in the comments, to is another SQL keyword so it needs to be quoted, too. Conveniently, the folks at drupal.org maintain a list of reserved words in SQL.

Disable sorting on last column when using jQuery DataTables

This would be useful for v1.10+ of datatables. Set column number for which you want to remove sorting for e.g 1st column would be like:

columnDefs: [
   { orderable: false, targets: 0 }
]

For multiple columns(1st,second and third):

columnDefs: [
   { orderable: false, targets: [0,1,2] }
]

How to remove MySQL root password

I have also been through this problem,

First i tried setting my password of root to blank using command :

SET PASSWORD FOR root@localhost=PASSWORD('');

But don't be happy , PHPMYADMIN uses 127.0.0.1 not localhost , i know you would say both are same but that is not the case , use the command mentioned underneath and you are done.

SET PASSWORD FOR [email protected]=PASSWORD('');

Just replace localhost with 127.0.0.1 and you are done .

angular2 submit form by pressing enter without submit button

Hopefully this can help somebody: for some reason I couldn't track because of lack of time, if you have a form like:

<form (ngSubmit)="doSubmit($event)">
  <button (click)="clearForm()">Clear</button>
  <button type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>

when you hit the Enter button, the clearForm function is called, even though the expected behaviour was to call the doSubmit function. Changing the Clear button to a <a> tag solved the issue for me. I would still like to know if that's expected or not. Seems confusing to me

Eliminate space before \begin{itemize}

The "proper" LaTeX ways to do it is to use a package which allows you to specify the spacing you want. There are several such package, and these two pages link to lists of them...

Accessing a local website from another computer inside the local network in IIS 7

Control Panel >> Windows Firewall

Advanced settings >> Inbound Rules >> World Wide Web Services - Enable it All or (Domain, Private, Public) as needed.

How can I get Android Wifi Scan Results into a list?

refer below link for getting ScanResult with redundant ssid removed from the list

duplicate SSID in scanning wifi result

HTML img onclick Javascript

I think your error was in calling the function.

In your HTML code, onclick is calling the image() function. However, in your script the function is named imgWindow(). Try changing the onclick to imgWindow().

I don't do much JavaScript so if I have missed something, please let me know.

Good Luck!

Http Basic Authentication in Java using HttpClient?

for HttpClient always use HttpRequestInterceptor for example

httclient.addRequestInterceptor(new HttpRequestInterceptor() {
    public void process(HttpRequest arg0, HttpContext context) throws HttpException, IOException {
        AuthState state = (AuthState) context.getAttribute(ClientContext.TARGET_AUTH_STATE);
        if (state.getAuthScheme() == null) {
            BasicScheme scheme = new BasicScheme();
            CredentialsProvider credentialsProvider = (CredentialsProvider) context.getAttribute(ClientContext.CREDS_PROVIDER);
            Credentials credentials = credentialsProvider.getCredentials(AuthScope.ANY);
            if (credentials == null) {
                System.out.println("Credential >>" + credentials);
                throw new HttpException();
            }
            state.setAuthScope(AuthScope.ANY);
            state.setAuthScheme(scheme);
            state.setCredentials(credentials);
        }
    }
}, 0);

How to add a file to the last commit in git?

If you didn't push the update in remote then the simple solution is remove last local commit using following command: git reset HEAD^. Then add all files and commit again.

How to implement a confirmation (yes/no) DialogPreference?

That is a simple alert dialog, Federico gave you a site where you can look things up.

Here is a short example of how an alert dialog can be built.

new AlertDialog.Builder(this)
.setTitle("Title")
.setMessage("Do you really want to whatever?")
.setIcon(android.R.drawable.ic_dialog_alert)
.setPositiveButton(android.R.string.yes, new DialogInterface.OnClickListener() {

    public void onClick(DialogInterface dialog, int whichButton) {
        Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, "Yaay", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }})
 .setNegativeButton(android.R.string.no, null).show();

Linux command to check if a shell script is running or not

The solutions above are great for interactive use, where you can eyeball the result and weed out false positives that way.

False positives can occur if the executable itself happens to match, or any arguments that are not script names match - the likelihood is greater with scripts that have no filename extensions.

Here's a more robust solution for scripting, using a shell function:

getscript() {
  pgrep -lf ".[ /]$1( |\$)"
}

Example use:

# List instance(s) of script "aa.sh" that are running.
getscript "aa.sh"  # -> (e.g.): 96112 bash /Users/jdoe/aa.sh

# Use in a test:
if getscript "aa.sh" >/dev/null; then
  echo RUNNING
fi
  • Matching is case-sensitive (on macOS, you could add -i to the pgrep call to make it case-insensitive; on Linux, that is not an option.)
  • The getscript function also works with full or partial paths that include the filename component; partial paths must not start with / and each component specified must be complete. The "fuller" the path specified, the lower the risk of false positives. Caveat: path matching will only work if the script was invoked with a path - this is generally true for scripts in the $PATH that are invoked directly.
  • Even this function cannot rule out all false positives, as paths can have embedded spaces, yet neither ps nor pgrep reflect the original quoting applied to the command line. All the function guarantees is that any match is not the first token (which is the interpreter), and that it occurs as a separate word, optionally preceded by a path.
  • Another approach to minimizing the risk of false positives could be to match the executable name (i.e., interpreter, such as bash) as well - assuming it is known; e.g.
# List instance(s) of a running *bash* script.
getbashscript() {
  pgrep -lf "(^|/)bash( | .*/)$1( |\$)"
}

If you're willing to make further assumptions - such as script-interpreter paths never containing embedded spaces - the regexes could be made more restrictive and thus further reduce the risk of false positives.

Vertical rulers in Visual Studio Code

In v1.43 is the ability to separately color the vertical rulers.

See issue Support multiple rulers with different colors - (in settings.json):

"editor.rulers": [
  {
    "column": 80,
    "color": "#ff00FF"
  },
  100,  // <- a ruler in the default color or as customized (with "editorRuler.foreground") at column 100
  {
    "column": 120,
    "color": "#ff0000"
  },
], 

How do I convert the date from one format to another date object in another format without using any deprecated classes?

    //Convert input format 19-FEB-16 01.00.00.000000000 PM to 2016-02-19 01.00.000 PM
    SimpleDateFormat inFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yy hh.mm.ss.SSSSSSSSS aaa");
    Date today = new Date();        

    Date d1 = inFormat.parse("19-FEB-16 01.00.00.000000000 PM");

    SimpleDateFormat outFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh.mm.ss.SSS aaa");

    System.out.println("Out date ="+outFormat.format(d1));

Using comma as list separator with AngularJS

You could do it this way:

<b ng-repeat="email in friend.email">{{email}}{{$last ? '' : ', '}}</b>

..But I like Philipp's answer :-)

Tomcat Server not starting with in 45 seconds

In my case I was using spring+hibernate and forgot to run my MYSQL server due to which hibernate was not getting loaded and thus was throwing error

Cursor adapter and sqlite example

Really simple example.

Here is a really simple, but very effective, example. Once you have the basics down you can easily build off of it.

There are two main parts to using a Cursor Adapter with SQLite:

  1. Create a proper Cursor from the Database.

  2. Create a custom Cursor Adapter that takes the Cursor data from the database and pairs it with the View you intend to represent the data with.

1. Create a proper Cursor from the Database.

In your Activity:

SQLiteOpenHelper sqLiteOpenHelper = new SQLiteOpenHelper( 
        context, DATABASE_NAME, null, DATABASE_VERSION);

SQLiteDatabase sqLiteDatabase = sqLiteOpenHelper.getReadableDatabase();

String query = "SELECT * FROM clients ORDER BY company_name ASC"; // No trailing ';'

Cursor cursor = sqLiteDatabase.rawQuery(query, null); 

ClientCursorAdapter adapter = new ClientCursorAdapter(
        this, R.layout.clients_listview_row, cursor, 0 );

this.setListAdapter(adapter);

2. Create a Custom Cursor Adapter.

Note: Extending from ResourceCursorAdapter assumes you use XML to create your views.

public class ClientCursorAdapter extends ResourceCursorAdapter {

    public ClientCursorAdapter(Context context, int layout, Cursor cursor, int flags) {
        super(context, layout, cursor, flags);
    }

    @Override
    public void bindView(View view, Context context, Cursor cursor) {
        TextView name = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.name);
        name.setText(cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex("name")));

        TextView phone = (TextView) view.findViewById(R.id.phone);
        phone.setText(cursor.getString(cursor.getColumnIndex("phone")));
    }
}

Why should I use a pointer rather than the object itself?

Let's say that you have class A that contain class B When you want to call some function of class B outside class A you will simply obtain a pointer to this class and you can do whatever you want and it will also change context of class B in your class A

But be careful with dynamic object

SQL Statement using Where clause with multiple values

SELECT PersonName, songName, status
FROM table
WHERE name IN ('Holly', 'Ryan')

If you are using parametrized Stored procedure:

  1. Pass in comma separated string
  2. Use special function to split comma separated string into table value variable
  3. Use INNER JOIN ON t.PersonName = newTable.PersonName using a table variable which contains passed in names

How can I check if given int exists in array?

Try this

#include <iostream>
#include <algorithm>


int main () {
  int myArray[] = { 3 ,6 ,8, 33 };
  int x = 8;

  if (std::any_of(std::begin(myArray), std::end(myArray), [=](int n){return n == x;}))   {
      std::cout << "found match/" << std::endl;
  }

  return 0;

}

AngularJS ngClass conditional

There is a simple method which you could use with html class attribute and shorthand if/else. No need to make it so complex. Just use following method.

<div class="{{expression == true ? 'class_if_expression_true' : 'class_if_expression_false' }}">Your Content</div>

Happy Coding, Nimantha Perera

Karma: Running a single test file from command line

First you need to start karma server with

karma start

Then, you can use grep to filter a specific test or describe block:

karma run -- --grep=testDescriptionFilter

Why use deflate instead of gzip for text files served by Apache?

There shouldn't be any difference in gzip & deflate for decompression. Gzip is just deflate with a few dozen byte header wrapped around it including a checksum. The checksum is the reason for the slower compression. However when you're precompressing zillions of files you want those checksums as a sanity check in your filesystem. In addition you can utilize commandline tools to get stats on the file. For our site we are precompressing a ton of static data (the entire open directory, 13,000 games, autocomplete for millions of keywords, etc.) and we are ranked 95% faster than all websites by Alexa. Faxo Search. However, we do utilize a home grown proprietary web server. Apache/mod_deflate just didn't cut it. When those files are compressed into the filesystem not only do you take a hit for your file with the minimum filesystem block size but all the unnecessary overhead in managing the file in the filesystem that the webserver could care less about. Your concerns should be total disk footprint and access/decompression time and secondarily speed in being able to get this data precompressed. The footprint is important because even though disk space is cheap you want as much as possible to fit in the cache.

ini_set("memory_limit") in PHP 5.3.3 is not working at all

Ubuntu 10.04 comes with the Suhosin patch only, which does not give you configuration options. But you can install php5-suhosin to solve this:

apt-get update
apt-get install php5-suhosin

Now you can edit /etc/php5/conf.d/suhosin.ini and set:

suhosin.memory_limit = 1G

Then using ini_set will work in a script:

ini_set('memory_limit', '256M');

Reading a column from CSV file using JAVA

If you are using Java 7+, you may want to use NIO.2, e.g.:

Code:

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

    File file = new File("test.csv");

    List<String> lines = Files.readAllLines(file.toPath(), 
            StandardCharsets.UTF_8);

    for (String line : lines) {
        String[] array = line.split(",", -1);
        System.out.println(array[0]);
    }

}

Output:

a
1RW
1RW
1RW
1RW
1RW
1RW
1R1W
1R1W
1R1W

Git undo local branch delete

Thanks, this worked.

git branch new_branch_name sha1

git checkout new_branch_name

//can see my old checked in files in my old branch

What is the convention for word separator in Java package names?

The official naming conventions aren't that strict, they don't even 'forbid' camel case notation except for prefix (com in your example).

But I personally would avoid upper case letters and hyphenations, even numbers. I'd choose com.stackoverflow.mypackage like Bragboy suggested too.

(hyphenations '-' are not legal in package names)

EDIT

Interesting - the language specification has something to say about naming conventions too.

In Chapter 7.7 Unique Package Names we see examples with package names that consist of upper case letters (so CamelCase notation would be OK) and they suggest to replace hyphonation by an underscore ("mary-lou" -> "mary_lou") and prefix java keywords with an underscore ("com.example.enum" -> "com.example._enum")

Some more examples for upper case letters in package names can be found in chapter 6.8.1 Package Names.

What is the correct way to create a single-instance WPF application?

Normally, this is the code I use for single-instance Windows Forms applications:

[STAThread]
public static void Main()
{
    String assemblyName = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Name;

    using (Mutex mutex = new Mutex(false, assemblyName))
    {
        if (!mutex.WaitOne(0, false))
        {
            Boolean shownProcess = false;
            Process currentProcess = Process.GetCurrentProcess();

            foreach (Process process in Process.GetProcessesByName(currentProcess.ProcessName))
            {
                if (!process.Id.Equals(currentProcess.Id) && process.MainModule.FileName.Equals(currentProcess.MainModule.FileName) && !process.MainWindowHandle.Equals(IntPtr.Zero))
                {
                    IntPtr windowHandle = process.MainWindowHandle;

                    if (NativeMethods.IsIconic(windowHandle))
                        NativeMethods.ShowWindow(windowHandle, ShowWindowCommand.Restore);

                    NativeMethods.SetForegroundWindow(windowHandle);

                    shownProcess = true;
                }
            }

            if (!shownProcess)
                MessageBox.Show(String.Format(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture, "An instance of {0} is already running!", assemblyName), assemblyName, MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Asterisk, MessageBoxDefaultButton.Button1, (MessageBoxOptions)0);
        }
        else
        {
            Application.EnableVisualStyles();
            Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(false);
            Application.Run(new Form());
        }
    }
}

Where native components are:

[DllImport("User32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Unicode, ExactSpelling = true, SetLastError = true)]
[return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Bool)]
internal static extern Boolean IsIconic([In] IntPtr windowHandle);

[DllImport("User32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Unicode, ExactSpelling = true, SetLastError = true)]
[return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Bool)]
internal static extern Boolean SetForegroundWindow([In] IntPtr windowHandle);

[DllImport("User32.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Unicode, ExactSpelling = true, SetLastError = true)]
[return: MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.Bool)]
internal static extern Boolean ShowWindow([In] IntPtr windowHandle, [In] ShowWindowCommand command);

public enum ShowWindowCommand : int
{
    Hide                   = 0x0,
    ShowNormal             = 0x1,
    ShowMinimized          = 0x2,
    ShowMaximized          = 0x3,
    ShowNormalNotActive    = 0x4,
    Minimize               = 0x6,
    ShowMinimizedNotActive = 0x7,
    ShowCurrentNotActive   = 0x8,
    Restore                = 0x9,
    ShowDefault            = 0xA,
    ForceMinimize          = 0xB
}

Async always WaitingForActivation

The reason is your result assigned to the returning Task which represents continuation of your method, and you have a different Task in your method which is running, if you directly assign Task like this you will get your expected results:

var task = Task.Run(() =>
        {
            for (int i = 10; i < 432543543; i++)
            {
                // just for a long job
                double d3 = Math.Sqrt((Math.Pow(i, 5) - Math.Pow(i, 2)) / Math.Sin(i * 8));
            }
           return "Foo Completed.";

        });

        while (task.Status != TaskStatus.RanToCompletion)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Thread ID: {0}, Status: {1}", Thread.CurrentThread.ManagedThreadId,task.Status);

        }

        Console.WriteLine("Result: {0}", task.Result);
        Console.WriteLine("Finished.");
        Console.ReadKey(true);

The output:

enter image description here

Consider this for better explanation: You have a Foo method,let's say it Task A, and you have a Task in it,let's say it Task B, Now the running task, is Task B, your Task A awaiting for Task B result.And you assing your result variable to your returning Task which is Task A, because Task B doesn't return a Task, it returns a string. Consider this:

If you define your result like this:

Task result = Foo(5);

You won't get any error.But if you define it like this:

string result = Foo(5);

You will get:

Cannot implicitly convert type 'System.Threading.Tasks.Task' to 'string'

But if you add an await keyword:

string result = await Foo(5);

Again you won't get any error.Because it will wait the result (string) and assign it to your result variable.So for the last thing consider this, if you add two task into your Foo Method:

private static async Task<string> Foo(int seconds)
{
    await Task.Run(() =>
        {
            for (int i = 0; i < seconds; i++)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Thread ID: {0}, second {1}.", Thread.CurrentThread.ManagedThreadId, i);
                Task.Delay(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1)).Wait();
            }

            // in here don't return anything
        });

   return await Task.Run(() =>
        {
            for (int i = 0; i < seconds; i++)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Thread ID: {0}, second {1}.", Thread.CurrentThread.ManagedThreadId, i);
                Task.Delay(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(1)).Wait();
            }

            return "Foo Completed.";
        });
}

And if you run the application, you will get the same results.(WaitingForActivation) Because now, your Task A is waiting those two tasks.

How do you access the element HTML from within an Angular attribute directive?

This is because the content of

<p myHighlight>Highlight me!</p>

has not been rendered when the constructor of the HighlightDirective is called so there is no content yet.

If you implement the AfterContentInit hook you will get the element and its content.

import { Directive, ElementRef, AfterContentInit } from '@angular/core';

@Directive({ selector: '[myHighlight]' })

export class HighlightDirective {

    constructor(private el: ElementRef) {
        //el.nativeElement.style.backgroundColor = 'yellow';
    }

    ngAfterContentInit(){
        //you can get to the element content here 
        //this.el.nativeElement
    }
}

Python: json.loads returns items prefixing with 'u'

The u prefix means that those strings are unicode rather than 8-bit strings. The best way to not show the u prefix is to switch to Python 3, where strings are unicode by default. If that's not an option, the str constructor will convert from unicode to 8-bit, so simply loop recursively over the result and convert unicode to str. However, it is probably best just to leave the strings as unicode.

How to load external scripts dynamically in Angular?

Hi you can use Renderer2 and elementRef with just a few lines of code:

constructor(private readonly elementRef: ElementRef,
          private renderer: Renderer2) {
}
ngOnInit() {
 const script = this.renderer.createElement('script');
 script.src = 'http://iknow.com/this/does/not/work/either/file.js';
 script.onload = () => {
   console.log('script loaded');
   initFile();
 };
 this.renderer.appendChild(this.elementRef.nativeElement, script);
}

the onload function can be used to call the script functions after the script is loaded, this is very useful if you have to do the calls in the ngOnInit()

VBA: Selecting range by variables

I tried using:

Range(cells(1, 1), cells(lastRow, lastColumn)).Select 

where lastRow and lastColumn are integers, but received run-time error 1004. I'm using an older VB (6.5).

What did work was to use the following:

Range(Chr(64 + firstColumn) & firstRow & ":" & Chr(64 + lastColumn) & firstColumn).Select.  

You seem to not be depending on "@angular/core". This is an error

I was getting the same error when I tried to run "ng serve" after that I saw some suggetions one of the techie told me to update my npm.I did that as well then I got this screen after entering "ng server"

""Versions of @angular/compiler-cli and typescript could not be determined. The most common reason for this is a broken npm install. Please make sure your package.json contains both @angular/compiler-cli and typescript in devDependencies, then delete node_module and package-lock.json(if you have one) and Run npm install again.""

After performing all the actions now its working correctly...and getting message "Compiled Successfully."

Does React Native styles support gradients?

Here is a good choice for gradients for both platforms iOS and Android:

https://github.com/react-native-community/react-native-linear-gradient

There are others approaches like expo, however react-native-linear-gradient have worked better for me.

<LinearGradient colors={['#4c669f', '#3b5998', '#192f6a']} style={styles.linearGradient}>
  <Text style={styles.buttonText}>
    Sign in with Facebook
  </Text>
</LinearGradient>

// Later on in your styles..
var styles = StyleSheet.create({
  linearGradient: {
    flex: 1,
    paddingLeft: 15,
    paddingRight: 15,
    borderRadius: 5
  },
  buttonText: {
    fontSize: 18,
    fontFamily: 'Gill Sans',
    textAlign: 'center',
    margin: 10,
    color: '#ffffff',
    backgroundColor: 'transparent',
  },
});

Core Data: Quickest way to delete all instances of an entity

in iOS 11.3 and Swift 4.1

let fetchRequest = NSFetchRequest<NSFetchRequestResult>(entityName: entityName)
        let batchDeleteRequest = NSBatchDeleteRequest(fetchRequest: fetchRequest )
        batchDeleteRequest.resultType = .resultTypeCount
        do {
            let batchDeleteResult = try dataController.viewContext.execute(batchDeleteRequest) as! NSBatchDeleteResult
            print("The batch delete request has deleted \(batchDeleteResult.result!) records.")
            dataController.viewContext.reset() // reset managed object context (need it for working)
        } catch {
            let updateError = error as NSError
            print("\(updateError), \(updateError.userInfo)")
        }

you have to call reset after you do execute. If not, it will not update on the table view.

Django 1.7 - makemigrations not detecting changes

Had the same problem Make sure whatever classes you have defined in models.py, you must have to inherit models.Model class.

class Product(models.Model):
    title = models.TextField()
    description = models.TextField()
    price = models.TextField()

comparing two strings in ruby

Comparison of strings is very easy in Ruby:

v1 = "string1"
v2 = "string2"
puts v1 == v2 # prints false
puts "hello"=="there" # prints false
v1 = "string2"
puts v1 == v2 # prints true

Make sure your var2 is not an array (which seems to be like)

Align DIV's to bottom or baseline

You need to add this:

#parentDiv {
  position: relative;
}

#parentDiv .childDiv {
  position: absolute;
  bottom: 0;
  left: 0;
}

When declaring absolute element, it is positioned according to its nearest parent that is not static (it must be absolute, relative or fixed).

Why can't I declare static methods in an interface?

It seems the static method in the interface might be supported in Java 8, well, my solution is just define them in the inner class.

interface Foo {
    // ...
    class fn {
        public static void func1(...) {
            // ...
        }
    }
}

The same technique can also be used in annotations:

public @interface Foo {
    String value();

    class fn {
        public static String getValue(Object obj) {
            Foo foo = obj.getClass().getAnnotation(Foo.class);
            return foo == null ? null : foo.value();
        }
    }
}

The inner class should always be accessed in the form of Interface.fn... instead of Class.fn..., then, you can get rid of ambiguous problem.

Understanding offsetWidth, clientWidth, scrollWidth and -Height, respectively

If you want to use scrollWidth to get the "REAL" CONTENT WIDTH/HEIGHT (as content can be BIGGER than the css-defined width/height-Box) the scrollWidth/Height is very UNRELIABLE as some browser seem to "MOVE" the paddingRIGHT & paddingBOTTOM if the content is to big. They then place the paddings at the RIGHT/BOTTOM of the "too broad/high content" (see picture below).

==> Therefore to get the REAL CONTENT WIDTH in some browsers you have to substract BOTH paddings from the scrollwidth and in some browsers you only have to substract the LEFT Padding.

I found a solution for this and wanted to add this as a comment, but was not allowed. So I took the picture and made it a bit clearer in the regard of the "moved paddings" and the "unreliable scrollWidth". In the BLUE AREA you find my solution on how to get the "REAL" CONTENT WIDTH!

Hope this helps to make things even clearer!

enter image description here

ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host under Git bash

I experienced this today and I just do a:

12345@123456 MINGW64 ~/development/workspace/test (develop)
$ git status
Refresh index: 100% (1204/1204), done.
On branch develop
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/develop'.

nothing to commit, working tree clean

12345@123456 MINGW64 ~/development/workspace/test (develop)
$ git fetch

Then all worked again.

Split string with delimiters in C

Below is my strtok() implementation from zString library. zstring_strtok() differs from standard library's strtok() in the way it treats consecutive delimiters.

Just have a look at the code below,sure that you will get an idea about how it works (I tried to use as many comments as I could)

char *zstring_strtok(char *str, const char *delim) {
    static char *static_str=0;      /* var to store last address */
    int index=0, strlength=0;       /* integers for indexes */
    int found = 0;                  /* check if delim is found */

    /* delimiter cannot be NULL
    * if no more char left, return NULL as well
    */
    if (delim==0 || (str == 0 && static_str == 0))
        return 0;

    if (str == 0)
        str = static_str;

    /* get length of string */
    while(str[strlength])
        strlength++;

    /* find the first occurance of delim */
    for (index=0;index<strlength;index++)
        if (str[index]==delim[0]) {
            found=1;
            break;
        }

    /* if delim is not contained in str, return str */
    if (!found) {
        static_str = 0;
        return str;
    }

    /* check for consecutive delimiters
    *if first char is delim, return delim
    */
    if (str[0]==delim[0]) {
        static_str = (str + 1);
        return (char *)delim;
    }

    /* terminate the string
    * this assignmetn requires char[], so str has to
    * be char[] rather than *char
    */
    str[index] = '\0';

    /* save the rest of the string */
    if ((str + index + 1)!=0)
        static_str = (str + index + 1);
    else
        static_str = 0;

        return str;
}

Below is an example usage...

  Example Usage
      char str[] = "A,B,,,C";
      printf("1 %s\n",zstring_strtok(s,","));
      printf("2 %s\n",zstring_strtok(NULL,","));
      printf("3 %s\n",zstring_strtok(NULL,","));
      printf("4 %s\n",zstring_strtok(NULL,","));
      printf("5 %s\n",zstring_strtok(NULL,","));
      printf("6 %s\n",zstring_strtok(NULL,","));

  Example Output
      1 A
      2 B
      3 ,
      4 ,
      5 C
      6 (null)

The library can be downloaded from Github https://github.com/fnoyanisi/zString

How can I nullify css property?

An initial keyword is being added in CSS3 to allow authors to explicitly specify this initial value.

Can we make unsigned byte in Java

There are no primitive unsigned bytes in Java. The usual thing is to cast it to bigger type:

int anUnsignedByte = (int) aSignedByte & 0xff;

Postman: How to make multiple requests at the same time

I guess there's no such feature in postman as to run concurrent tests.

If i were you i would consider Apache jMeter which is used exactly for such scenarios.

Regarding Postman, the only thing that could more or less meet your needs is - Postman Runner. enter image description here There you can specify the details:

  • number of iterations,
  • upload csv file with data for different test runs, etc.

The runs won't be concurrent, only consecutive.

Hope that helps. But do consider jMeter (you'll love it).

Best way to call a JSON WebService from a .NET Console

I use HttpWebRequest to GET from the web service, which returns me a JSON string. It looks something like this for a GET:

// Returns JSON string
string GET(string url) 
{
    HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
    try {
        WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();
        using (Stream responseStream = response.GetResponseStream()) {
            StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(responseStream, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8);
            return reader.ReadToEnd();
        }
    }
    catch (WebException ex) {
        WebResponse errorResponse = ex.Response;
        using (Stream responseStream = errorResponse.GetResponseStream())
        {
            StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(responseStream, System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("utf-8"));
            String errorText = reader.ReadToEnd();
            // log errorText
        }
        throw;
    }
}

I then use JSON.Net to dynamically parse the string. Alternatively, you can generate the C# class statically from sample JSON output using this codeplex tool: http://jsonclassgenerator.codeplex.com/

POST looks like this:

// POST a JSON string
void POST(string url, string jsonContent) 
{
    HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
    request.Method = "POST";

    System.Text.UTF8Encoding encoding = new System.Text.UTF8Encoding();
    Byte[] byteArray = encoding.GetBytes(jsonContent);

    request.ContentLength = byteArray.Length;
    request.ContentType = @"application/json";

    using (Stream dataStream = request.GetRequestStream()) {
        dataStream.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length);
    }
    long length = 0;
    try {
        using (HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse()) {
            length = response.ContentLength;
        }
    }
    catch (WebException ex) {
        // Log exception and throw as for GET example above
    }
}

I use code like this in automated tests of our web service.

How to find a parent with a known class in jQuery?

Pass a selector to the jQuery parents function:

d.parents('.a').attr('id')

EDIT Hmm, actually Slaks's answer is superior if you only want the closest ancestor that matches your selector.

How to create custom button in Android using XML Styles

Have you ever tried to create the background shape for any buttons?

Check this out below:

Below is the separated image from your image of a button.

enter image description here

Now, put that in your ImageButton for android:src "source" like so:

android:src="@drawable/twitter"

Now, just create shape of the ImageButton to have a black shader background.

android:background="@drawable/button_shape"

and the button_shape is the xml file in drawable resource:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<shape 
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
    <stroke 
        android:width="1dp" 
        android:color="#505050"/>
    <corners 
        android:radius="7dp" />

    <padding 
        android:left="1dp"
        android:right="1dp"
        android:top="1dp"
        android:bottom="1dp"/>

    <solid android:color="#505050"/>

</shape>

Just try to implement it with this. You might need to change the color value as per your requirement.

Let me know if it doesn't work.

How to pass data in the ajax DELETE request other than headers

deleteRequest: function (url, Id, bolDeleteReq, callback, errorCallback) {
    $.ajax({
        url: urlCall,
        type: 'DELETE',
        data: {"Id": Id, "bolDeleteReq" : bolDeleteReq},
        success: callback || $.noop,
        error: errorCallback || $.noop
    });
}

Note: the use of headers was introduced in JQuery 1.5.:

A map of additional header key/value pairs to send along with the request. This setting is set before the beforeSend function is called; therefore, any values in the headers setting can be overwritten from within the beforeSend function.

Eclipse reported "Failed to load JNI shared library"

Installing a 64-bit version of Java will solve the issue. Go to page Java Downloads for All Operating Systems

This is a problem due to the incompatibility of the Java version and the Eclipse version both should be 64 bit if you are using a 64-bit system.

Tomcat manager/html is not available?

I couldn't log in to the manager app, even though my tomcat-users.xml file was set up correctly. The problem was that tomcat was configured to get users from a database. An employee who knew how this all worked left the company so I had to track this all down.

If you have a web application with something like this in the projects web.xml:

<security-role>
    <role-name>manager</role-name>
</security-role>

You should be aware that this is using the same system for log ins as tomcat! So where ever your manager role user(s) are defined, that is where you should define your manager-gui role and user. In server.xml I found this:

 <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.JDBCRealm"
    driverName="org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver"
    connectionURL="jdbc:mysql://localhost/<DBName>?user=<DBUser>&amp;password=<DBPassword>"
    userTable="users" userNameCol="user_name" userCredCol="user_pass"
    userRoleTable="user_roles" roleNameCol="role_name" />

That tells me there is a database storing all the users and roles. This overrides the tomcat-users.xml file. Nothing in that file works unless this Realm is commented out. The solution is to add your tomcat user to the users table and your manager-gui role to the user_roles table:

insert into users (user_name, user_pass) values ('tomcat', '<changeMe>');
insert into user_roles (user_name, role_name) values ('tomcat', 'manager-gui');

You should also have a "manager-gui" rolename in the roles table. Add that if it doesn't exist. Hope this helps someone.

Select only rows if its value in a particular column is less than the value in the other column

If you use dplyr package you can do:

library(dplyr)
filter(df, aged <= laclen)

What is the difference between UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1?

My reason for researching this question was from the perspective, is in what way are they compatible. Latin1 charset (iso-8859) is 100% compatible to be stored in a utf8 datastore. All ascii & extended-ascii chars will be stored as single-byte.

Going the other way, from utf8 to Latin1 charset may or may not work. If there are any 2-byte chars (chars beyond extended-ascii 255) they will not store in a Latin1 datastore.

get basic SQL Server table structure information

Write the table name in the query editor select the name and press Alt+F1 and it will bring all the information of the table.

Allow click on twitter bootstrap dropdown toggle link?

Since there is not really an answer that works (selected answer disables dropdown), or overrides using javascript, here goes.

This is all html and css fix (uses two <a> tags):

<ul class="nav">
 <li class="dropdown dropdown-li">
    <a class="dropdown-link" href="http://google.com">Dropdown</a>
    <a class="dropdown-caret dropdown-toggle"><b class="caret"></b></a>
    <ul class="dropdown-menu">
        <li><a href="#">Link 1</a></li>
        <li><a href="#">Link 2</a></li>
    </ul>
 </li>
</ul>

Now here's the CSS you need.

.dropdown-li {
    display:inline-block !important;
}
.dropdown-link {
    display:inline-block !important; 
    padding-right:4px !important;
}
.dropdown-caret {
    display:inline-block !important; 
    padding-left:4px !important;
}

Assuming you will want the both <a> tags to highlight on hover of either one, you will also need to override bootstrap, you might play around with the following:

.nav > li:hover {
    background-color: #f67a47; /*hover background color*/
}
.nav > li:hover > a {
    color: white; /*hover text color*/
}
.nav > li:hover > ul > a {
    color: black; /*dropdown item text color*/
}

Why check both isset() and !empty()

$a = 0;
if (isset($a)) { //$a is set because it has some value ,eg:0
    echo '$a has value';
}
if (!empty($a)) { //$a is empty because it has value 0
    echo '$a is not empty';
} else {
    echo '$a is empty';
}

Error : java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.objectweb.asm.ClassWriter.<init>(I)V

I had the same error when initializing Spring on startup, using some different library versions, but everything worked when I got my versions in this order in the classpath (the other libraries in the cp were not important):

  1. asm-3.1.jar
  2. cglib-nodep-2.1_3.jar
  3. asm-attrs-1.5.3.jar

Encrypt and Decrypt text with RSA in PHP

If you are using PHP >= 7.2 consider using inbuilt sodium core extension for encrption.

It is modern and more secure. You can find more information here - http://php.net/manual/en/intro.sodium.php. and here - https://paragonie.com/book/pecl-libsodium/read/00-intro.md

Example PHP 7.2 sodium encryption class -

<?php

/**
 * Simple sodium crypto class for PHP >= 7.2
 * @author MRK
 */
class crypto {

    /**
     * 
     * @return type
     */
    static public function create_encryption_key() {
        return base64_encode(sodium_crypto_secretbox_keygen());
    }

    /**
     * Encrypt a message
     * 
     * @param string $message - message to encrypt
     * @param string $key - encryption key created using create_encryption_key()
     * @return string
     */
    static function encrypt($message, $key) {
        $key_decoded = base64_decode($key);
        $nonce = random_bytes(
                SODIUM_CRYPTO_SECRETBOX_NONCEBYTES
        );

        $cipher = base64_encode(
                $nonce .
                sodium_crypto_secretbox(
                        $message, $nonce, $key_decoded
                )
        );
        sodium_memzero($message);
        sodium_memzero($key_decoded);
        return $cipher;
    }

    /**
     * Decrypt a message
     * @param string $encrypted - message encrypted with safeEncrypt()
     * @param string $key - key used for encryption
     * @return string
     */
    static function decrypt($encrypted, $key) {
        $decoded = base64_decode($encrypted);
        $key_decoded = base64_decode($key);
        if ($decoded === false) {
            throw new Exception('Decryption error : the encoding failed');
        }
        if (mb_strlen($decoded, '8bit') < (SODIUM_CRYPTO_SECRETBOX_NONCEBYTES + SODIUM_CRYPTO_SECRETBOX_MACBYTES)) {
            throw new Exception('Decryption error : the message was truncated');
        }
        $nonce = mb_substr($decoded, 0, SODIUM_CRYPTO_SECRETBOX_NONCEBYTES, '8bit');
        $ciphertext = mb_substr($decoded, SODIUM_CRYPTO_SECRETBOX_NONCEBYTES, null, '8bit');

        $plain = sodium_crypto_secretbox_open(
                $ciphertext, $nonce, $key_decoded
        );
        if ($plain === false) {
            throw new Exception('Decryption error : the message was tampered with in transit');
        }
        sodium_memzero($ciphertext);
        sodium_memzero($key_decoded);
        return $plain;
    }

}

Sample Usage -

<?php 

$key = crypto::create_encryption_key();

$string = 'Sri Lanka is a beautiful country !';

echo $enc = crypto::encrypt($string, $key); 
echo crypto::decrypt($enc, $key);

Manipulate a url string by adding GET parameters

another improved function version. Mix of existing answers with small improvements (port support) and bugfixes (checking keys properly).

/**
 * @param string $url original url to modify - can be relative, partial etc
 * @param array $paramsOverride associative array, can be empty
 * @return string modified url
 */
protected function overrideUrlQueryParams($url, $paramsOverride){
    if (!is_array($paramsOverride)){
        return $url;
    }

    $url_parts = parse_url($url);

    if (isset($url_parts['query'])) {
        parse_str($url_parts['query'], $params);
    } else {
        $params = [];
    }

    $params = array_merge($params, $paramsOverride);

    $res = '';

    if(isset($url_parts['scheme'])) {
        $res .= $url_parts['scheme'] . ':';
    }

    if(isset($url_parts['host'])) {
        $res .= '//' . $url_parts['host'];
    }

    if(isset($url_parts['port'])) {
        $res .= ':' . $url_parts['port'];
    }

    if (isset($url_parts['path'])) {
        $res .= $url_parts['path'];
    }

    if (count($params) > 0) {
        $res .= '?' . http_build_query($params);
    }

    return $res;
}

How can I simulate an array variable in MySQL?

Isn't the point of arrays to be efficient? If you're just iterating through values, I think a cursor on a temporary (or permanent) table makes more sense than seeking commas, no? Also cleaner. Lookup "mysql DECLARE CURSOR".

For random access a temporary table with numerically indexed primary key. Unfortunately the fastest access you'll get is a hash table, not true random access.

Activate tabpage of TabControl

You can use the method SelectTab.

There are 3 versions:

public void SelectTab(int index);
public void SelectTab(string tabPageName);
public void SelectTab(TabPage tabPage);

How to parse JSON in Scala using standard Scala classes?

You can do like this! Very easy to parse JSON code :P

package org.sqkb.service.common.bean

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat

import org.json4s
import org.json4s.JValue
import org.json4s.jackson.JsonMethods._
//import org.sqkb.service.common.kit.{IsvCode}

import scala.util.Try

/**
  *
  */
case class Order(log: String) {

  implicit lazy val formats = org.json4s.DefaultFormats

  lazy val json: json4s.JValue = parse(log)

  lazy val create_time: String = (json \ "create_time").extractOrElse("1970-01-01 00:00:00")
  lazy val site_id: String = (json \ "site_id").extractOrElse("")
  lazy val alipay_total_price: Double = (json \ "alipay_total_price").extractOpt[String].filter(_.nonEmpty).getOrElse("0").toDouble
  lazy val gmv: Double = alipay_total_price
  lazy val pub_share_pre_fee: Double = (json \ "pub_share_pre_fee").extractOpt[String].filter(_.nonEmpty).getOrElse("0").toDouble
  lazy val profit: Double = pub_share_pre_fee

  lazy val trade_id: String = (json \ "trade_id").extractOrElse("")
  lazy val unid: Long = Try((json \ "unid").extractOpt[String].filter(_.nonEmpty).get.toLong).getOrElse(0L)
  lazy val cate_id1: Int = (json \ "cate_id").extractOrElse(0)
  lazy val cate_id2: Int = (json \ "subcate_id").extractOrElse(0)
  lazy val cate_id3: Int = (json \ "cate_id3").extractOrElse(0)
  lazy val cate_id4: Int = (json \ "cate_id4").extractOrElse(0)
  lazy val coupon_id: Long = (json \ "coupon_id").extractOrElse(0)

  lazy val platform: Option[String] = Order.siteMap.get(site_id)


  def time_fmt(fmt: String = "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"): String = {
    val dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss")
    val date = dateFormat.parse(this.create_time)
    new SimpleDateFormat(fmt).format(date)
  }

}

Is there any way of configuring Eclipse IDE proxy settings via an autoproxy configuration script?

In the file: $your_eclipse_installation\configuration.settings\org.eclipse.core.net.prefs

you need the option: systemProxiesEnabled=true

You can set it also by the Eclipse GUI: Go to Window -> Preferences -> General -> Network Connections Change the provider to "Native"

The first way is working even if your Eclipse is broken due to wrong configuration attempts.

Copy and paste content from one file to another file in vi

My scenario was I need to copy n number of lines in middle, n unknown, from file 1 to file 2.

:'a,'bw /name/of/output/file.txt

How to transfer some data to another Fragment?

            First Fragment Sending String To Next Fragment
            public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
                    private Button Add;
                    private EditText edt;
                    FragmentManager fragmentManager;
                    FragClass1 fragClass1;


                    @Override
                    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
                        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
                        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
                        Add= (Button) findViewById(R.id.BtnNext);
                        edt= (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText);

                        Add.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                            @Override
                            public void onClick(View v) {
                                fragClass1=new FragClass1();
                                Bundle bundle=new Bundle();

                                fragmentManager=getSupportFragmentManager();
                                fragClass1.setArguments(bundle);
                                bundle.putString("hello",edt.getText().toString());
                                FragmentTransaction fragmentTransaction=fragmentManager.beginTransaction();
                                fragmentTransaction.add(R.id.activity_main,fragClass1,"");
                                fragmentTransaction.addToBackStack(null);
                                fragmentTransaction.commit();

                            }
                        });
                    }
                }
         Next Fragment to fetch the string.
            public class FragClass1 extends Fragment {
                  EditText showFrag1;


                    @Nullable
                    @Override
                    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, @Nullable ViewGroup container, @Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) {

                        View view=inflater.inflate(R.layout.lay_frag1,null);
                        showFrag1= (EditText) view.findViewById(R.id.edtText);
                        Bundle bundle=getArguments();
                        String a=getArguments().getString("hello");//Use This or The Below Commented Code
                        showFrag1.setText(a);
                        //showFrag1.setText(String.valueOf(bundle.getString("hello")));
                        return view;
                    }
                }
    I used Frame Layout easy to use.
    Don't Forget to Add Background color or else fragment will overlap.
This is for First Fragment.
    <FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
        android:id="@+id/activity_main"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
        android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
        android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
        android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
        android:background="@color/colorPrimary"
        tools:context="com.example.sumedh.fragmentpractice1.MainActivity">

        <EditText
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:id="@+id/editText" />
        <Button
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_gravity="center"
            android:id="@+id/BtnNext"/>
    </FrameLayout>


Xml for Next Fragment.
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical" android:layout_width="match_parent"
   android:background="@color/colorAccent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">
    <EditText
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:id="@+id/edtText"/>

</LinearLayout>

Output PowerShell variables to a text file

I usually construct custom objects in these loops, and then add these objects to an array that I can easily manipulate, sort, export to CSV, etc.:

# Construct an out-array to use for data export
$OutArray = @()

# The computer loop you already have
foreach ($server in $serverlist)
    {
        # Construct an object
        $myobj = "" | Select "computer", "Speed", "Regcheck"

        # Fill the object
        $myobj.computer = $computer
        $myobj.speed = $speed
        $myobj.regcheck = $regcheck

        # Add the object to the out-array
        $outarray += $myobj

        # Wipe the object just to be sure
        $myobj = $null
    }

# After the loop, export the array to CSV
$outarray | export-csv "somefile.csv"

How to install wkhtmltopdf on a linux based (shared hosting) web server

If its ubuntu then go ahead with this, already tested.:--

first, installing dependencies

sudo aptitude install openssl build-essential xorg libssl-dev

for 64bits OS

wget http://wkhtmltopdf.googlecode.com/files/wkhtmltopdf-0.9.9-static-amd64.tar.bz2 
tar xvjf wkhtmltopdf-0.9.9-static-amd64.tar.bz2
mv wkhtmltopdf-amd64 /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf

for 32bits OS

wget http://wkhtmltopdf.googlecode.com/files/wkhtmltopdf-0.9.9-static-i386.tar.bz2 
tar xvjf wkhtmltopdf-0.9.9-static-i386.tar.bz2
 mv wkhtmltopdf-i386 /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/wkhtmltopdf

Python error "ImportError: No module named"

I had the same problem (Python 2.7 Linux), I have found the solution and i would like to share it. In my case i had the structure below:

Booklet
-> __init__.py
-> Booklet.py
-> Question.py
default
-> __init_.py
-> main.py

In 'main.py' I had tried unsuccessfully all the combinations bellow:

from Booklet import Question
from Question import Question
from Booklet.Question import Question
from Booklet.Question import *
import Booklet.Question
# and many othet various combinations ...

The solution was much more simple than I thought. I renamed the folder "Booklet" into "booklet" and that's it. Now Python can import the class Question normally by using in 'main.py' the code:

from booklet.Booklet import Booklet
from booklet.Question import Question
from booklet.Question import AnotherClass

From this I can conclude that Package-Names (folders) like 'booklet' must start from lower-case, else Python confuses it with Class names and Filenames.

Apparently, this was not your problem, but John Fouhy's answer is very good and this thread has almost anything that can cause this issue. So, this is one more thing and I hope that maybe this could help others.

How to implement a tree data-structure in Java?

I wrote a little library that handles generic trees. It's much more lightweight than the swing stuff. I also have a maven project for it.

Objects are not valid as a React child. If you meant to render a collection of children, use an array instead

I got the same error today but with a different scenario as compared to the scenario posted in this question. Hope the solution to below scenario helps someone.

The render function below is sufficient to understand my scenario and solution:

render() {
    let orderDetails = null;
    if(this.props.loading){
        orderDetails = <Spinner />;
    }
    if(this.props.orders.length == 0){
        orderDetails = null;
    }
    orderDetails = (
        <div>
            {
                this.props.orders.map(order => (
                <Order 
                    key={order.id}
                    ingredient={order.ingredients}
                    price={order.price} />
                ))
            }
        </div>
    );
    return orderDetails;
}

In above code snippet : If return orderDetails is sent as return {orderDetails} then the error posted in this question pops up despite the value of 'orderDetails' (value as <Spinner/> or null or JSX related to <Order /> component).

Error description : react-dom.development.js:57 Uncaught Invariant Violation: Objects are not valid as a React child (found: object with keys {orderDetails}). If you meant to render a collection of children, use an array instead.

We cannot return a JavaScript object from a return call inside the render() method. The reason being React expects a component or some JSX or null to render in the UI and not some JavaScript object that I am trying to render when I use return {orderDetails} and hence get the error as above.

How to call window.alert("message"); from C#?

if you are using ajax in your page that require script manager Page.ClientScript
will not work, Try this and it would do the work:

ScriptManager.RegisterClientScriptBlock(this, GetType(),
            "alertMessage", @"alert('your Message ')", true);

Using scp to copy a file to Amazon EC2 instance?

second directory is your target destination, don't use server name there. In other words, you don't need to mention machine name for the machine you're currently in.

scp -i /path/to/your/.pemkey -r /copy/from/path user@server:/copy/to/path

-r if it's a directory.

What is the difference between char, nchar, varchar, and nvarchar in SQL Server?

  • nchar is fixed-length and can hold unicode characters. it uses two bytes storage per character.

  • varchar is of variable length and cannot hold unicode characters. it uses one byte storage per character.

(13: Permission denied) while connecting to upstream:[nginx]

Had a similar problem on Centos 7. When I tried to apply the solution prescribed by Sorin, I started moving in cycles. First I had a permission {write} denied. Then when I solved that I had a permission { connectto } denied. Then back again to permission {write } denied.

Following @Sid answer above of checking the flags using getsebool -a | grep httpd and toggling them I found that in addition to the httpd_can_network_connect being off. http_anon_write was also off resulting in permission denied write and permission denied {connectto}

type=AVC msg=audit(1501830505.174:799183): avc:  
denied  { write } for  pid=12144 comm="nginx" name="myroject.sock" 
dev="dm-2" ino=134718735 scontext=system_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0 
tcontext=system_u:object_r:default_t:s0 tclass=sock_file

Obtained using sudo cat /var/log/audit/audit.log | grep nginx | grep denied as explained above.

So I solved them one at a time, toggling the flags on one at a time.

setsebool httpd_can_network_connect on -P

Then running the commands specified by @sorin and @Joseph above

sudo cat /var/log/audit/audit.log | grep nginx | grep denied | 
audit2allow -M mynginx
sudo semodule -i mynginx.pp

Basically you can check the permissions set on setsebool and correlate that with the error obtained from grepp'ing' audit.log nginx, denied

How to save public key from a certificate in .pem format

There are a couple ways to do this.

First, instead of going into openssl command prompt mode, just enter everything on one command line from the Windows prompt:

E:\> openssl x509 -pubkey -noout -in cert.pem  > pubkey.pem

If for some reason, you have to use the openssl command prompt, just enter everything up to the ">". Then OpenSSL will print out the public key info to the screen. You can then copy this and paste it into a file called pubkey.pem.

openssl> x509 -pubkey -noout -in cert.pem

Output will look something like this:

-----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----
MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAryQICCl6NZ5gDKrnSztO
3Hy8PEUcuyvg/ikC+VcIo2SFFSf18a3IMYldIugqqqZCs4/4uVW3sbdLs/6PfgdX
7O9D22ZiFWHPYA2k2N744MNiCD1UE+tJyllUhSblK48bn+v1oZHCM0nYQ2NqUkvS
j+hwUU3RiWl7x3D2s9wSdNt7XUtW05a/FXehsPSiJfKvHJJnGOX0BgTvkLnkAOTd
OrUZ/wK69Dzu4IvrN4vs9Nes8vbwPa/ddZEzGR0cQMt0JBkhk9kU/qwqUseP1QRJ
5I1jR4g8aYPL/ke9K35PxZWuDp3U0UPAZ3PjFAh+5T+fc7gzCs9dPzSHloruU+gl
FQIDAQAB
-----END PUBLIC KEY-----

Illegal pattern character 'T' when parsing a date string to java.util.Date

There are two answers above up-to-now and they are both long (and tl;dr too short IMHO), so I write summary from my experience starting to use new java.time library (applicable as noted in other answers to Java version 8+). ISO 8601 sets standard way to write dates: YYYY-MM-DD so the format of date-time is only as below (could be 0, 3, 6 or 9 digits for milliseconds) and no formatting string necessary:

import java.time.Instant;
public static void main(String[] args) {
    String date="2010-10-02T12:23:23Z";
    try {
        Instant myDate = Instant.parse(date);
    } catch (ParseException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

I did not need it, but as getting year is in code from the question, then:
it is trickier, cannot be done from Instant directly, can be done via Calendar in way of questions Get integer value of the current year in Java and Converting java.time to Calendar but IMHO as format is fixed substring is more simple to use:

myDate.toString().substring(0,4);

How to add onload event to a div element

When you load some html from server and insert it into DOM tree you can use DOMSubtreeModified however it is deprecated - so you can use MutationObserver or just detect new content inside loadElement function directly so you will don't need to wait for DOM events

_x000D_
_x000D_
var ignoreFirst=0;_x000D_
var observer = (new MutationObserver((m, ob)=>_x000D_
{_x000D_
  if(ignoreFirst++>0) {_x000D_
    console.log('Element add on', new Date());_x000D_
  }_x000D_
}_x000D_
)).observe(content, {childList: true, subtree:true });_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_
// simulate element loading_x000D_
var tmp=1;_x000D_
function loadElement(name) {  _x000D_
  setTimeout(()=>{_x000D_
    console.log(`Element ${name} loaded`)_x000D_
    content.innerHTML += `<div>My name is ${name}</div>`; _x000D_
  },1500*tmp++)_x000D_
}; _x000D_
_x000D_
loadElement('Michael');_x000D_
loadElement('Madonna');_x000D_
loadElement('Shakira');
_x000D_
<div id="content"><div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

How do I align views at the bottom of the screen?

In a ScrollView this doesn't work, as the RelativeLayout would then overlap whatever is in the ScrollView at the bottom of the page.

I fixed it using a dynamically stretching FrameLayout :

<ScrollView 
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_height="match_parent" 
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:fillViewport="true">
    <LinearLayout 
        android:id="@+id/LinearLayout01"
        android:layout_width="match_parent" 
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:orientation="vertical">

                <!-- content goes here -->

                <!-- stretching frame layout, using layout_weight -->
        <FrameLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent" 
            android:layout_height="0dp"
            android:layout_weight="1">
        </FrameLayout>

                <!-- content fixated to the bottom of the screen -->
        <LinearLayout 
            android:layout_width="match_parent" 
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:orientation="horizontal">
                                   <!-- your bottom content -->
        </LinearLayout>
    </LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>

fork and exec in bash

How about:

(sleep 5; echo "Hello World") &

How to get a function name as a string?

This function will return the caller's function name.

def func_name():
    import traceback
    return traceback.extract_stack(None, 2)[0][2]

It is like Albert Vonpupp's answer with a friendly wrapper.

Keyboard shortcuts are not active in Visual Studio with Resharper installed

I have faced same problem. I followed the approved answer. I have done but it was not working, because my keyboard format was different. It was in Bengali keyboard. But later I have changed my keyboard layout and tried in this way.

Resharper > Options > Keyboard & Menus > Apply scheme > Save.

Then it was working fine. But whenever I change my keyboard English-US to Bengali then it changes again and I need to do reconfigure.

Downloading a picture via urllib and python

import urllib
f = open('00000001.jpg','wb')
f.write(urllib.urlopen('http://www.gunnerkrigg.com//comics/00000001.jpg').read())
f.close()

MYSQL into outfile "access denied" - but my user has "ALL" access.. and the folder is CHMOD 777

I tried all the solutions but it still wasn't sufficient. After some more digging I eventually found I had also to set the 'file_priv' flag, and restart mysql.

To resume :

Grant the privileges :

> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES
  ON my_database.* 
  to 'my_user'@'localhost';

> GRANT FILE ON *.* TO my_user;

> FLUSH PRIVILEGES; 

Set the flag :

> UPDATE mysql.user SET File_priv = 'Y' WHERE user='my_user' AND host='localhost';

Finally restart the mysql server:

$ sudo service mysql restart

After that, I could write into the secure_file_priv directory. For me it was /var/lib/mysql-files/, but you can check it with the following command :

> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE "secure_file_priv";

JavaScript get child element

ULs don't have a name attribute, but you can reference the ul by tag name.

Try replacing line 3 in your script with this:

var sub = cat.getElementsByTagName("UL");

Numpy: Divide each row by a vector element

JoshAdel's solution uses np.newaxis to add a dimension. An alternative is to use reshape() to align the dimensions in preparation for broadcasting.

data = np.array([[1,1,1],[2,2,2],[3,3,3]])
vector = np.array([1,2,3])

data
# array([[1, 1, 1],
#        [2, 2, 2],
#        [3, 3, 3]])
vector
# array([1, 2, 3])

data.shape
# (3, 3)
vector.shape
# (3,)

data / vector.reshape((3,1))
# array([[1, 1, 1],
#        [1, 1, 1],
#        [1, 1, 1]])

Performing the reshape() allows the dimensions to line up for broadcasting:

data:            3 x 3
vector:              3
vector reshaped: 3 x 1

Note that data/vector is ok, but it doesn't get you the answer that you want. It divides each column of array (instead of each row) by each corresponding element of vector. It's what you would get if you explicitly reshaped vector to be 1x3 instead of 3x1.

data / vector
# array([[1, 0, 0],
#        [2, 1, 0],
#        [3, 1, 1]])
data / vector.reshape((1,3))
# array([[1, 0, 0],
#        [2, 1, 0],
#        [3, 1, 1]])

tqdm in Jupyter Notebook prints new progress bars repeatedly

If the other tips here don't work and - just like me - you're using the pandas integration through progress_apply, you can let tqdm handle it:

from tqdm.autonotebook import tqdm
tqdm.pandas()

df.progress_apply(row_function, axis=1)

The main point here lies in the tqdm.autonotebook module. As stated in their instructions for use in IPython Notebooks, this makes tqdm choose between progress bar formats used in Jupyter notebooks and Jupyter consoles - for a reason still lacking further investigations on my side, the specific format chosen by tqdm.autonotebook works smoothly in pandas, while all others didn't, for progress_apply specifically.

Install IPA with iTunes 12

From iTunes 12.7 apple removes App Store, So we unable to for find App option

We have another way to install iOS app using iTunes 12.7 as below

1)drag and drop your .app file to iTunes.

2)It will create .ipa file, you can find that at ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Mobile Applications/

3)connect the device you want to install that app.

4)drag .ipa file from finder to iTunes on my Device section as shown in below section. enter image description here

Entity framework left join

adapted from MSDN, how to left join using EF 4

var query = from u in usergroups
            join p in UsergroupPrices on u.UsergroupID equals p.UsergroupID into gj
            from x in gj.DefaultIfEmpty()
            select new { 
                UsergroupID = u.UsergroupID,
                UsergroupName = u.UsergroupName,
                Price = (x == null ? String.Empty : x.Price) 
            };

Can I Set "android:layout_below" at Runtime Programmatically?

Kotlin version with infix function

infix fun View.below(view: View) {
      (this.layoutParams as? RelativeLayout.LayoutParams)?.addRule(RelativeLayout.BELOW, view.id)
}

Then you can write:

view1 below view2

Or you can call it as a normal function:

view1.below(view2)

How to detect if a string contains special characters?

SELECT * FROM tableName WHERE columnName LIKE "%#%" OR columnName LIKE "%$%" OR (etc.)

Android widget: How to change the text of a button

This is very easy

Button btn = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btn);
btn.setText("MyText");

C# importing class into another class doesn't work

using is for namespaces only - if both classes are in the same namespace just drop the using.

You have to reference the assembly created in the first step when you compile the .exe:

csc /t:library /out:MyClass.dll MyClass.cs
csc /reference:MyClass.dll /t:exe /out:MyProgram.exe MyMainClass.cs

You can make things simpler if you just compile the files together:

csc /t:exe /out:MyProgram.exe MyMainClass.cs MyClass.cs

or

csc /t:exe /out:MyProgram.exe *.cs

EDIT: Here's how the files should look like:

MyClass.cs:

namespace MyNamespace {
    public class MyClass {
        void stuff() {

        }
    }
}

MyMainClass.cs:

using System;

namespace MyNamespace {
    public class MyMainClass {
        static void Main() {
            MyClass test = new MyClass();
        }
    }
}

How do I POST with multipart form data using fetch?

You're setting the Content-Type to be multipart/form-data, but then using JSON.stringify on the body data, which returns application/json. You have a content type mismatch.

You will need to encode your data as multipart/form-data instead of json. Usually multipart/form-data is used when uploading files, and is a bit more complicated than application/x-www-form-urlencoded (which is the default for HTML forms).

The specification for multipart/form-data can be found in RFC 1867.

For a guide on how to submit that kind of data via javascript, see here.

The basic idea is to use the FormData object (not supported in IE < 10):

async function sendData(url, data) {
  const formData  = new FormData();

  for(const name in data) {
    formData.append(name, data[name]);
  }

  const response = await fetch(url, {
    method: 'POST',
    body: formData
  });

  // ...
}

Per this article make sure not to set the Content-Type header. The browser will set it for you, including the boundary parameter.

Generics in C#, using type of a variable as parameter

You can't use it in the way you describe. The point about generic types, is that although you may not know them at "coding time", the compiler needs to be able to resolve them at compile time. Why? Because under the hood, the compiler will go away and create a new type (sometimes called a closed generic type) for each different usage of the "open" generic type.

In other words, after compilation,

DoesEntityExist<int>

is a different type to

DoesEntityExist<string>

This is how the compiler is able to enfore compile-time type safety.

For the scenario you describe, you should pass the type as an argument that can be examined at run time.

The other option, as mentioned in other answers, is that of using reflection to create the closed type from the open type, although this is probably recommended in anything other than extreme niche scenarios I'd say.

What is the javascript filename naming convention?

There is no official, universal, convention for naming JavaScript files.

There are some various options:

  • scriptName.js
  • script-name.js
  • script_name.js

are all valid naming conventions, however I prefer the jQuery suggested naming convention (for jQuery plugins, although it works for any JS)

  • jquery.pluginname.js

The beauty to this naming convention is that it explicitly describes the global namespace pollution being added.

  • foo.js adds window.foo
  • foo.bar.js adds window.foo.bar

Because I left out versioning: it should come after the full name, preferably separated by a hyphen, with periods between major and minor versions:

  • foo-1.2.1.js
  • foo-1.2.2.js
  • ...
  • foo-2.1.24.js

Excel VBA function to print an array to the workbook

On the same theme as other answers, keeping it simple

Sub PrintArray(Data As Variant, Cl As Range)
    Cl.Resize(UBound(Data, 1), UBound(Data, 2)) = Data
End Sub


Sub Test()
    Dim MyArray() As Variant

    ReDim MyArray(1 To 3, 1 To 3) ' make it flexible

    ' Fill array
    '  ...

    PrintArray MyArray, ActiveWorkbook.Worksheets("Sheet1").[A1]
End Sub

ImportError: No module named dateutil.parser

None of the solutions worked for me. If you are using PIP do:

pip install pycrypto==2.6.1

Difference between Destroy and Delete

Yes there is a major difference between the two methods Use delete_all if you want records to be deleted quickly without model callbacks being called

If you care about your models callbacks then use destroy_all

From the official docs

http://apidock.com/rails/ActiveRecord/Base/destroy_all/class

destroy_all(conditions = nil) public

Destroys the records matching conditions by instantiating each record and calling its destroy method. Each object’s callbacks are executed (including :dependent association options and before_destroy/after_destroy Observer methods). Returns the collection of objects that were destroyed; each will be frozen, to reflect that no changes should be made (since they can’t be persisted).

Note: Instantiation, callback execution, and deletion of each record can be time consuming when you’re removing many records at once. It generates at least one SQL DELETE query per record (or possibly more, to enforce your callbacks). If you want to delete many rows quickly, without concern for their associations or callbacks, use delete_all instead.

how to set radio button checked in edit mode in MVC razor view

You have written like

@Html.RadioButtonFor(model => model.gender, "Male", new { @checked = true }) and
@Html.RadioButtonFor(model => model.gender, "Female", new { @checked = true })

Here you have taken gender as a Enum type and you have written the value for the radio button as a string type- change "Male" to 0 and "Female" to 1.

javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Received fatal alert: protocol_version

This seems like a protocol version mismatch, this exception normally happens when there is a mismatch between SSL protocol version used by the client and the server. your clients should use a proctocol version supported by the server.

What is the cause for "angular is not defined"

You have to put your script tag after the one that references Angular. Move it out of the head:

<script type="text/javascript" src="angular.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="main.js"></script>

The way you've set it up now, your script runs before Angular is loaded on the page.

Why must wait() always be in synchronized block

We all know that wait(), notify() and notifyAll() methods are used for inter-threaded communications. To get rid of missed signal and spurious wake up problems, waiting thread always waits on some conditions. e.g.-

boolean wasNotified = false;
while(!wasNotified) {
    wait();
}

Then notifying thread sets wasNotified variable to true and notify.

Every thread has their local cache so all the changes first get written there and then promoted to main memory gradually.

Had these methods not invoked within synchronized block, the wasNotified variable would not be flushed into main memory and would be there in thread's local cache so the waiting thread will keep waiting for the signal although it was reset by notifying thread.

To fix these types of problems, these methods are always invoked inside synchronized block which assures that when synchronized block starts then everything will be read from main memory and will be flushed into main memory before exiting the synchronized block.

synchronized(monitor) {
    boolean wasNotified = false;
    while(!wasNotified) {
        wait();
    }
}

Thanks, hope it clarifies.

Converting timestamp to time ago in PHP e.g 1 day ago, 2 days ago...

I don't know why nobody mention Carbon yet.

https://github.com/briannesbitt/Carbon

This is actually an extension to php dateTime (which was already used here) and it has: diffForHumans method. So all you need to do is:

$dt = Carbon::parse('2012-9-5 23:26:11.123789');
echo $dt->diffForHumans();

more examples: http://carbon.nesbot.com/docs/#api-humandiff

Pros of this solution:

  • it works for future dates and will return something like in 2 months etc.
  • you can use localization to get other languages and the pluralization works fine
  • if you will start using Carbon for other things working with dates will be as easy as never.

Showing data values on stacked bar chart in ggplot2

As hadley mentioned there are more effective ways of communicating your message than labels in stacked bar charts. In fact, stacked charts aren't very effective as the bars (each Category) doesn't share an axis so comparison is hard.

It's almost always better to use two graphs in these instances, sharing a common axis. In your example I'm assuming that you want to show overall total and then the proportions each Category contributed in a given year.

library(grid)
library(gridExtra)
library(plyr)

# create a new column with proportions
prop <- function(x) x/sum(x)
Data <- ddply(Data,"Year",transform,Share=prop(Frequency))

# create the component graphics
totals <- ggplot(Data,aes(Year,Frequency)) + geom_bar(fill="darkseagreen",stat="identity") + 
  xlab("") + labs(title = "Frequency totals in given Year")
proportion <- ggplot(Data, aes(x=Year,y=Share, group=Category, colour=Category)) 
+ geom_line() + scale_y_continuous(label=percent_format())+ theme(legend.position = "bottom") + 
  labs(title = "Proportion of total Frequency accounted by each Category in given Year")

# bring them together
grid.arrange(totals,proportion)

This will give you a 2 panel display like this:

Vertically stacked 2 panel graphic

If you want to add Frequency values a table is the best format.

Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA with multiple DataSources

thanks to the answers of Steve Park and Rafal Borowiec I got my code working, however, I had one issue: the DriverManagerDataSource is a "simple" implementation and does NOT give you a ConnectionPool (check http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/javadoc-api/org/springframework/jdbc/datasource/DriverManagerDataSource.html).

Hence, I replaced the functions which returns the DataSource for the secondDB to.

public DataSource <secondaryDB>DataSource() {
    // use DataSourceBuilder and NOT DriverManagerDataSource 
    // as this would NOT give you ConnectionPool
    DataSourceBuilder dataSourceBuilder = DataSourceBuilder.create();
    dataSourceBuilder.url(databaseUrl);
    dataSourceBuilder.username(username);
    dataSourceBuilder.password(password);
    dataSourceBuilder.driverClassName(driverClassName);
    return dataSourceBuilder.build();
}

Also, if do you not need the EntityManager as such, you can remove both the entityManager() and the @Bean annotation.

Plus, you may want to remove the basePackages annotation of your configuration class: maintaining it with the factoryBean.setPackagesToScan() call is sufficient.

Position an element relative to its container

If you need to position an element relative to its containing element first you need to add position: relative to the container element. The child element you want to position relatively to the parent has to have position: absolute. The way that absolute positioning works is that it is done relative to the first relatively (or absolutely) positioned parent element. In case there is no relatively positioned parent, the element will be positioned relative to the root element (directly to the HTML element).

So if you want to position your child element to the top left of the parent container, you should do this:

.parent {
  position: relative;
} 

.child {
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;  
}

You will benefit greatly from reading this article. Hope this helps!

Typescript: difference between String and string

TypeScript: String vs string

Argument of type 'String' is not assignable to parameter of type 'string'.

'string' is a primitive, but 'String' is a wrapper object.

Prefer using 'string' when possible.

demo

String Object

// error
class SVGStorageUtils {
  store: object;
  constructor(store: object) {
    this.store = store;
  }
  setData(key: String = ``, data: object) {
    sessionStorage.setItem(key, JSON.stringify(data));
  }
  getData(key: String = ``) {
    const obj = JSON.parse(sessionStorage.getItem(key));
  }
}

string primitive

// ok
class SVGStorageUtils {
  store: object;
  constructor(store: object) {
    this.store = store;
  }
  setData(key: string = ``, data: object) {
    sessionStorage.setItem(key, JSON.stringify(data));
  }
  getData(key: string = ``) {
    const obj = JSON.parse(sessionStorage.getItem(key));
  }
}

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Meaning of - <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

An XML declaration is not required in all XML documents; however XHTML document authors are strongly encouraged to use XML declarations in all their documents. Such a declaration is required when the character encoding of the document is other than the default UTF-8 or UTF-16 and no encoding was determined by a higher-level protocol. Here is an example of an XHTML document. In this example, the XML declaration is included.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <!DOCTYPE html 
 PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
  <head>
    <title>Virtual Library</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p>Moved to <a href="http://example.org/">example.org</a>.</p>
 </body>
</html>

Please refer to the W3 standards for XML.

Determine if running on a rooted device

Based on some of the answers here, I think this is a nice solution:

    @JvmStatic
    fun isProbablyRooted(): Boolean {
        return try {
            findBinary("su")
        } catch (e: Exception) {
            e.printStackTrace()
            false
        }
    }

    private fun findBinary(binaryName: String): Boolean {
        val paths = System.getenv("PATH")
        if (!paths.isNullOrBlank()) {
            val systemPlaces: List<String> = paths.split(":")
            return systemPlaces.firstOrNull { File(it, binaryName).exists() } != null
        }
        val places = arrayOf("/sbin/", "/system/bin/", "/system/xbin/", "/data/local/xbin/", "/data/local/bin/",
                "/system/sd/xbin/", "/system/bin/failsafe/", "/data/local/")
        return places.firstOrNull { File(it, binaryName).exists() } != null
    }

You can also add a check if some popular root-related apps are installed (like of Magisk Manager, which has package-name "com.topjohnwu.magisk"), but just like all solutions here, it's just a guess.

Handling data in a PHP JSON Object

You mean something like this?

<?php

$jsonurl = "http://search.twitter.com/trends.json";
$json = file_get_contents($jsonurl,0,null,null);
$json_output = json_decode($json);

foreach ( $json_output->trends as $trend )
{
    echo "{$trend->name}\n";
}

Iterating over every two elements in a list

Here we can have alt_elem method which can fit in your for loop.

def alt_elem(list, index=2):
    for i, elem in enumerate(list, start=1):
        if not i % index:
           yield tuple(list[i-index:i])


a = range(10)
for index in [2, 3, 4]:
    print("With index: {0}".format(index))
    for i in alt_elem(a, index):
       print(i)

Output:

With index: 2
(0, 1)
(2, 3)
(4, 5)
(6, 7)
(8, 9)
With index: 3
(0, 1, 2)
(3, 4, 5)
(6, 7, 8)
With index: 4
(0, 1, 2, 3)
(4, 5, 6, 7)

Note: Above solution might not be efficient considering operations performed in func.

What are the special dollar sign shell variables?

To help understand what do $#, $0 and $1, ..., $n do, I use this script:

#!/bin/bash

for ((i=0; i<=$#; i++)); do
  echo "parameter $i --> ${!i}"
done

Running it returns a representative output:

$ ./myparams.sh "hello" "how are you" "i am fine"
parameter 0 --> myparams.sh
parameter 1 --> hello
parameter 2 --> how are you
parameter 3 --> i am fine