Programs & Examples On #Bitmapfactory

Create a Bitmap/Drawable from file path

you can't access your drawables via a path, so if you want a human readable interface with your drawables that you can build programatically.

declare a HashMap somewhere in your class:

private static HashMap<String, Integer> images = null;

//Then initialize it in your constructor:

public myClass() {
  if (images == null) {
    images = new HashMap<String, Integer>();
    images.put("Human1Arm", R.drawable.human_one_arm);
    // for all your images - don't worry, this is really fast and will only happen once
  }
}

Now for access -

String drawable = "wrench";
// fill in this value however you want, but in the end you want Human1Arm etc
// access is fast and easy:
Bitmap wrench = BitmapFactory.decodeResource(getResources(), images.get(drawable));
canvas.drawColor(Color .BLACK);
Log.d("OLOLOLO",Integer.toString(wrench.getHeight()));
canvas.drawBitmap(wrench, left, top, null);

How to solve java.lang.OutOfMemoryError trouble in Android

Few hints to handle such error/exception for Android Apps:

  1. Activities & Application have methods like:

    • onLowMemory
    • onTrimMemory Handle these methods to watch on memory usage.
  2. tag in Manifest can have attribute 'largeHeap' set to TRUE, which requests more heap for App sandbox.

  3. Managing in-memory caching & disk caching:

    • Images and other data could have been cached in-memory while app running, (locally in activities/fragment and globally); should be managed or removed.
  4. Use of WeakReference, SoftReference of Java instance creation , specifically to files.

  5. If so many images, use proper library/data structure which can manage memory, use samling of images loaded, handle disk-caching.

  6. Handle OutOfMemory exception

  7. Follow best practices for coding

    • Leaking of memory (Don't hold everything with strong reference)
  8. Minimize activity stack e.g. number of activities in stack (Don't hold everything on context/activty)

    • Context makes sense, those data/instances not required out of scope (activity and fragments), hold them into appropriate context instead global reference-holding.
  9. Minimize the use of statics, many more singletons.

  10. Take care of OS basic memory fundametals

    • Memory fragmentation issues
  11. Involk GC.Collect() manually sometimes when you are sure that in-memory caching no more needed.

NGINX - No input file specified. - php Fast/CGI

I solved it by replacing

fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $document_root$fastcgi_script_name;

$document_root with C:\MyWebSite\www\

fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME C:\MyWebSite\www\$fastcgi_script_name;

Try reinstalling `node-sass` on node 0.12?

You need to use the right version. Try:

nvm use 0.12

How to clean up R memory (without the need to restart my PC)?

Maybe you can try to use the function gc(). A call of gc() causes a garbage collection to take place. It can be useful to call gc() after a large object has been removed, as this may prompt R to return memory to the operating system. gc() also return a summary of the occupy memory.

C: printf a float value

printf("%9.6f", myFloat) specifies a format with 9 total characters: 2 digits before the dot, the dot itself, and six digits after the dot.

How to format a UTC date as a `YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss` string using NodeJS?

appHelper.validateDates = function (start, end) {
    var returnval = false;

    var fd = new Date(start);
    var fdms = fd.getTime();
    var ed = new Date(end);
    var edms = ed.getTime();
    var cd = new Date();
    var cdms = cd.getTime();

    if (fdms >= edms) {
        returnval = false;
        console.log("step 1");
    }
    else if (cdms >= edms) {
        returnval = false;
        console.log("step 2");
    }
    else {
        returnval = true;
        console.log("step 3");
    }
    console.log("vall", returnval)
    return returnval;
}

Create a tar.xz in one command

Use the -J compression option for xz. And remember to man tar :)

tar cfJ <archive.tar.xz> <files>

Edit 2015-08-10:

If you're passing the arguments to tar with dashes (ex: tar -cf as opposed to tar cf), then the -f option must come last, since it specifies the filename (thanks to @A-B-B for pointing that out!). In that case, the command looks like:

tar -cJf <archive.tar.xz> <files>

jquery-ui-dialog - How to hook into dialog close event

I believe you can also do it while creating the dialog (copied from a project I did):

dialog = $('#dialog').dialog({
    modal: true,
    autoOpen: false,
    width: 700,
    height: 500,
    minWidth: 700,
    minHeight: 500,
    position: ["center", 200],
    close: CloseFunction,
    overlay: {
        opacity: 0.5,
        background: "black"
    }
});

Note close: CloseFunction

How can I display the users profile pic using the facebook graph api?

You can also resize the profile picture by providing parameters as shown below.

https://graph.facebook.com/[UID]/picture?width=140&height=140

would work too.

Add attribute 'checked' on click jquery

$( this ).attr( 'checked', 'checked' )

just attr( 'checked' ) will return the value of $( this )'s checked attribute. To set it, you need that second argument. Based on <input type="checkbox" checked="checked" />

Edit:

Based on comments, a more appropriate manipulation would be:

$( this ).attr( 'checked', true )

And a straight javascript method, more appropriate and efficient:

this.checked = true;

Thanks @Andy E for that.

Javascript: best Singleton pattern

(1) UPDATE 2019: ES7 Version

class Singleton {
    static instance;

    constructor() {
        if (instance) {
            return instance;
        }

        this.instance = this;
    }

    foo() {
        // ...
    }
}

console.log(new Singleton() === new Singleton());

(2) ES6 Version

class Singleton {
    constructor() {
        const instance = this.constructor.instance;
        if (instance) {
            return instance;
        }

        this.constructor.instance = this;
    }

    foo() {
        // ...
    }
}

console.log(new Singleton() === new Singleton());

Best solution found: http://code.google.com/p/jslibs/wiki/JavascriptTips#Singleton_pattern

function MySingletonClass () {

  if (arguments.callee._singletonInstance) {
    return arguments.callee._singletonInstance;
  }

  arguments.callee._singletonInstance = this;

  this.Foo = function () {
    // ...
  };
}

var a = new MySingletonClass();
var b = MySingletonClass();
console.log( a === b ); // prints: true

For those who want the strict version:

(function (global) {
  "use strict";
  var MySingletonClass = function () {

    if (MySingletonClass.prototype._singletonInstance) {
      return MySingletonClass.prototype._singletonInstance;
    }

    MySingletonClass.prototype._singletonInstance = this;

    this.Foo = function() {
      // ...
    };
  };

var a = new MySingletonClass();
var b = MySingletonClass();
global.result = a === b;

} (window));

console.log(result);

How do I do a case-insensitive string comparison?

Using Python 2, calling .lower() on each string or Unicode object...

string1.lower() == string2.lower()

...will work most of the time, but indeed doesn't work in the situations @tchrist has described.

Assume we have a file called unicode.txt containing the two strings S?s?f?? and S?S?F?S. With Python 2:

>>> utf8_bytes = open("unicode.txt", 'r').read()
>>> print repr(utf8_bytes)
'\xce\xa3\xce\xaf\xcf\x83\xcf\x85\xcf\x86\xce\xbf\xcf\x82\n\xce\xa3\xce\x8a\xce\xa3\xce\xa5\xce\xa6\xce\x9f\xce\xa3\n'
>>> u = utf8_bytes.decode('utf8')
>>> print u
S?s?f??
S?S?F?S

>>> first, second = u.splitlines()
>>> print first.lower()
s?s?f??
>>> print second.lower()
s?s?f?s
>>> first.lower() == second.lower()
False
>>> first.upper() == second.upper()
True

The S character has two lowercase forms, ? and s, and .lower() won't help compare them case-insensitively.

However, as of Python 3, all three forms will resolve to ?, and calling lower() on both strings will work correctly:

>>> s = open('unicode.txt', encoding='utf8').read()
>>> print(s)
S?s?f??
S?S?F?S

>>> first, second = s.splitlines()
>>> print(first.lower())
s?s?f??
>>> print(second.lower())
s?s?f??
>>> first.lower() == second.lower()
True
>>> first.upper() == second.upper()
True

So if you care about edge-cases like the three sigmas in Greek, use Python 3.

(For reference, Python 2.7.3 and Python 3.3.0b1 are shown in the interpreter printouts above.)

Which tool to build a simple web front-end to my database

I think PHP is a good solution. It's simple to set up, free and there is plenty of documentation on how to create a database management app. Ruby on Rails is faster to code but a bit more difficult to set up.

Error: No default engine was specified and no extension was provided

Please replace

app.set('view engin', 'html'); 

with

app.set('view engine', 'ejs');

Populate a datagridview with sql query results

Try binding your DataGridView to the DefaultView of the DataTable:

dataGridView1.DataSource = table.DefaultView;

Decimal number regular expression, where digit after decimal is optional

^[+-]?(([1-9][0-9]*)?[0-9](\.[0-9]*)?|\.[0-9]+)$

should reflect what people usually think of as a well formed decimal number.

The digits before the decimal point can be either a single digit, in which case it can be from 0 to 9, or more than one digits, in which case it cannot start with a 0.

If there are any digits present before the decimal sign, then the decimal and the digits following it are optional. Otherwise, a decimal has to be present followed by at least one digit. Note that multiple trailing 0's are allowed after the decimal point.

grep -E '^[+-]?(([1-9][0-9]*)?[0-9](\.[0-9]*)?|\.[0-9]+)$'

correctly matches the following:

9
0
10
10.
0.
0.0
0.100
0.10
0.01
10.0
10.10
.0
.1
.00
.100
.001

as well as their signed equivalents, whereas it rejects the following:

.
00
01
00.0
01.3

and their signed equivalents, as well as the empty string.

Why does calling sumr on a stream with 50 tuples not complete

sumr is implemented in terms of foldRight:

 final def sumr(implicit A: Monoid[A]): A = F.foldRight(self, A.zero)(A.append) 

foldRight is not always tail recursive, so you can overflow the stack if the collection is too long. See Why foldRight and reduceRight are NOT tail recursive? for some more discussion of when this is or isn't true.

NodeJS / Express: what is "app.use"?

app.use applies the specified middleware to the main app middleware stack. When attaching middleware to the main app stack, the order of attachment matters; if you attach middleware A before middleware B, middleware A will always execute first. You can specify a path for which a particular middleware is applicable. In the below example, “hello world” will always be logged before “happy holidays.”

const express = require('express')
const app = express()

app.use(function(req, res, next) {
  console.log('hello world')
  next()
})

app.use(function(req, res, next) {
  console.log('happy holidays')
  next()
})

How to use JavaScript source maps (.map files)?

Just wanted to focus on the last part of the question; How source map files are created? by listing the build tools I know that can create source maps.

  1. Grunt: using plugin grunt-contrib-uglify
  2. Gulp: using plugin gulp-uglify
  3. Google closure: using parameter --create_source_map

System.Net.WebException: The remote name could not be resolved:

I had a similar issue when trying to access a service (old ASMX service). The call would work when accessing via an IP however when calling with an alias I would get the remote name could not be resolved.

Added the following to the config and it resolved the issue:

<system.net>
    <defaultProxy enabled="true">
    </defaultProxy>
</system.net>

How can I test a PDF document if it is PDF/A compliant?

A list of PDF/A validators is on the pdfa.org web site here:

verapdf

A free online PDF/A validator is available here:

http://www.validatepdfa.com/

A report on the accuracy of many of these PDF/A validators is available from PDFLib:

https://www.pdflib.com/fileadmin/pdflib/pdf/pdfa/2009-05-04-Bavaria-report-on-PDFA-validation-accuracy.pdf

Se as well:

https://www.pdflib.com/knowledge-base/pdfa/

Why can't I display a pound (£) symbol in HTML?

Use &#163;. I had the same problem and solved it using jQuery:

$(this).text('&amp;#163;');
  • If you try this and it does not work, just change the jQuery methods,
$(this).html('&amp;#163;');
  • This always work in all contexts...

How to restart VScode after editing extension's config?

Execute the workbench.action.reloadWindow command.

There are some ways to do so:

  1. Open the command palette (Ctrl + Shift + P) and execute the command:

    >Reload Window    
    
  2. Define a keybinding for the command (for example CTRL+F5) in keybindings.json:

    [
      {
        "key": "ctrl+f5",
        "command": "workbench.action.reloadWindow",
        "when": "editorTextFocus"
      }
    ]
    

How to apply a function to two columns of Pandas dataframe

If you have a huge data-set, then you can use an easy but faster(execution time) way of doing this using swifter:

import pandas as pd
import swifter

def fnc(m,x,c):
    return m*x+c

df = pd.DataFrame({"m": [1,2,3,4,5,6], "c": [1,1,1,1,1,1], "x":[5,3,6,2,6,1]})
df["y"] = df.swifter.apply(lambda x: fnc(x.m, x.x, x.c), axis=1)

SSH configuration: override the default username

There is a Ruby gem that interfaces your ssh configuration file which is called sshez.

All you have to do is sshez <alias> [email protected] -p <port-number>, and then you can connect using ssh <alias>. It is also useful since you can list your aliases using sshez list and can easily remove them using sshez remove alias.

Is it possible to remove the focus from a text input when a page loads?

use document.activeElement.blur();

example at http://jsfiddle.net/vGGdV/5/ that shows the currently focused element as well.

Keep a note though that calling blur() on the body element in IE will make the IE lose focus

How to check whether a string contains a substring in JavaScript?

There is a String.prototype.includes in ES6:

"potato".includes("to");
> true

Note that this does not work in Internet Explorer or some other old browsers with no or incomplete ES6 support. To make it work in old browsers, you may wish to use a transpiler like Babel, a shim library like es6-shim, or this polyfill from MDN:

if (!String.prototype.includes) {
  String.prototype.includes = function(search, start) {
    'use strict';
    if (typeof start !== 'number') {
      start = 0;
    }

    if (start + search.length > this.length) {
      return false;
    } else {
      return this.indexOf(search, start) !== -1;
    }
  };
}

How to preSelect an html dropdown list with php?

you can use this..

<select name="select_name">
    <option value="1"<?php echo(isset($_POST['select_name'])&&($_POST['select_name']=='1')?' selected="selected"':'');?>>Yes</option>
    <option value="2"<?php echo(isset($_POST['select_name'])&&($_POST['select_name']=='2')?' selected="selected"':'');?>>No</option>
    <option value="3"<?php echo(isset($_POST['select_name'])&&($_POST['select_name']=='3')?' selected="selected"':'');?>>Fine</option>
</select>

Add a new element to an array without specifying the index in Bash

If your array is always sequential and starts at 0, then you can do this:

array[${#array[@]}]='foo'

# gets the length of the array
${#array_name[@]}

If you inadvertently use spaces between the equal sign:

array[${#array[@]}] = 'foo'

Then you will receive an error similar to:

array_name[3]: command not found

Unable to get provider com.google.firebase.provider.FirebaseInitProvider

This should works:

Step1:

defaultConfig {
    applicationId "service.ingreens.com.gpsautoon"
    minSdkVersion 17
    targetSdkVersion 25
    versionCode 1
    versionName "1.0"
    multiDexEnabled true
    testInstrumentationRunner "android.support.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
}

Step 2:

compile 'com.android.support:multidex:1.0.1'

Step 3: Take another class

public class MyApplication extends MultiDexApplication {
}

Step 4: Add this line on manifest

<application
    android:name="android.support.multidex.MultiDexApplication">
</application>

Command for restarting all running docker containers?

If you have docker-compose, all you need to do is:

docker-compose restart 

And you get nice print out of the container's name along with its status of the restart (done/error)

Here is the official guide for installing: https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/

Algorithm: efficient way to remove duplicate integers from an array

For someone who want to have simple solution in C++:

int* rmdup(int path[], int start, int end, int& newEnd) {
    int ret[100];
newEnd = end;
int j = start;

for (int i = start; i < end; i++) {
    if (path[i] == path[i+1]) {
    newEnd--;
        continue;
    }
    ret[j++] = path[i];
}

ret[j++] = path[end];

for(int i = start; i <= newEnd; i++)
     path[i] = ret[i];
}

Using app.config in .Net Core

It is possible to use your usual System.Configuration even in .NET Core 2.0 on Linux. Try this test example:

  1. Created a .NET Standard 2.0 Library (say MyLib.dll)
  2. Added the NuGet package System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager v4.4.0. This is needed since this package isn't covered by the meta-package NetStandard.Library v2.0.0 (I hope that changes)
  3. All your C# classes derived from ConfigurationSection or ConfigurationElement go into MyLib.dll. For example MyClass.cs derives from ConfigurationSection and MyAccount.cs derives from ConfigurationElement. Implementation details are out of scope here but Google is your friend.
  4. Create a .NET Core 2.0 app (e.g. a console app, MyApp.dll). .NET Core apps end with .dll rather than .exe in Framework.
  5. Create an app.config in MyApp with your custom configuration sections. This should obviously match your class designs in #3 above. For example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<configuration>
  <configSections>
    <section name="myCustomConfig" type="MyNamespace.MyClass, MyLib" />
  </configSections>
  <myCustomConfig>
    <myAccount id="007" />
  </myCustomConfig>
</configuration>

That's it - you'll find that the app.config is parsed properly within MyApp and your existing code within MyLib works just fine. Don't forget to run dotnet restore if you switch platforms from Windows (dev) to Linux (test).

Additional workaround for test projects

If you're finding that your App.config is not working in your test projects, you might need this snippet in your test project's .csproj (e.g. just before the ending </Project>). It basically copies App.config into your output folder as testhost.dll.config so dotnet test picks it up.

  <!-- START: This is a buildtime work around for https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/22101 -->
  <Target Name="CopyCustomContent" AfterTargets="AfterBuild">
    <Copy SourceFiles="App.config" DestinationFiles="$(OutDir)\testhost.dll.config" />
  </Target>
  <!-- END: This is a buildtime work around for https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/22101 -->

compareTo() vs. equals()

I believe equals and equalsIgnoreCase methods of String return true and false which is useful if you wanted to compare the values of the string object, But in case of implementing compareTo and compareToIgnoreCase methods returns positive, negative and zero value which will be useful in case of sorting.

shuffling/permutating a DataFrame in pandas

I know the question is for a pandas df but in the case the shuffle occurs by row (column order changed, row order unchanged), then the columns names do not matter anymore and it could be interesting to use an np.array instead, then np.apply_along_axis() will be what you are looking for.

If that is acceptable then this would be helpful, note it is easy to switch the axis along which the data is shuffled.

If you panda data frame is named df, maybe you can:

  1. get the values of the dataframe with values = df.values,
  2. create an np.array from values
  3. apply the method shown below to shuffle the np.array by row or column
  4. recreate a new (shuffled) pandas df from the shuffled np.array

Original array

a = np.array([[10, 11, 12], [20, 21, 22], [30, 31, 32],[40, 41, 42]])
print(a)
[[10 11 12]
 [20 21 22]
 [30 31 32]
 [40 41 42]]

Keep row order, shuffle colums within each row

print(np.apply_along_axis(np.random.permutation, 1, a))
[[11 12 10]
 [22 21 20]
 [31 30 32]
 [40 41 42]]

Keep colums order, shuffle rows within each column

print(np.apply_along_axis(np.random.permutation, 0, a))
[[40 41 32]
 [20 31 42]
 [10 11 12]
 [30 21 22]]

Original array is unchanged

print(a)
[[10 11 12]
 [20 21 22]
 [30 31 32]
 [40 41 42]]

How to customize the back button on ActionBar

If you are using Toolbar, you don't need those solutions. You only have to change the theme of the toolbar

app:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light"

app:theme="@style/ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar"

If you are using a dark.actionBar your back button is going to be white else if you are using light actionbar theme it is going to be black.

var self = this?

I think it actually depends on what are you going to do inside your doSomething function. If you are going to access MyObject properties using this keyword then you have to use that. But I think that the following code fragment will also work if you are not doing any special things using object(MyObject) properties.

function doSomething(){
  .........
}

$("#foobar").ready('click', function(){

});

Difference between Iterator and Listiterator?

The differences are listed in the Javadoc for ListIterator

You can

  • iterate backwards
  • obtain the iterator at any point.
  • add a new value at any point.
  • set a new value at that point.

Order data frame rows according to vector with specific order

This method is a bit different, it provided me with a bit more flexibility than the previous answer. By making it into an ordered factor, you can use it nicely in arrange and such. I used reorder.factor from the gdata package.

df <- data.frame(name=letters[1:4], value=c(rep(TRUE, 2), rep(FALSE, 2)))
target <- c("b", "c", "a", "d")

require(gdata)
df$name <- reorder.factor(df$name, new.order=target)

Next, use the fact that it is now ordered:

require(dplyr)
df %>%
  arrange(name)
    name value
1    b  TRUE
2    c FALSE
3    a  TRUE
4    d FALSE

If you want to go back to the original (alphabetic) ordering, just use as.character() to get it back to the original state.

How are booleans formatted in Strings in Python?

To update this for Python-3 you can do this

"{} {}".format(True, False)

However if you want to actually format the string (e.g. add white space), you encounter Python casting the boolean into the underlying C value (i.e. an int), e.g.

>>> "{:<8} {}".format(True, False)
'1        False'

To get around this you can cast True as a string, e.g.

>>> "{:<8} {}".format(str(True), False)
'True     False'

Better way to sort array in descending order

For in-place sorting in descending order:

int[] numbers = { 1, 2, 3 };
Array.Sort(numbers, (a, b) => b.CompareTo(a));

For out-of-place sorting (no changes to input array):

int[] numbers = { 1, 2, 3 };
var sortedNumbers = numbers.OrderByDescending(x => x).ToArray();

Excel VBA - select a dynamic cell range

I like to used this method the most, it will auto select the first column to the last column being used. However, if the last cell in the first row or the last cell in the first column are empty, this code will not calculate properly. Check the link for other methods to dynamically select cell range.

Sub DynamicRange()
'Best used when first column has value on last row and first row has a value in the last column

Dim sht As Worksheet
Dim LastRow As Long
Dim LastColumn As Long
Dim StartCell As Range

Set sht = Worksheets("Sheet1")
Set StartCell = Range("A1")

'Find Last Row and Column
  LastRow = sht.Cells(sht.Rows.Count, StartCell.Column).End(xlUp).Row
  LastColumn = sht.Cells(StartCell.Row, sht.Columns.Count).End(xlToLeft).Column

'Select Range
  sht.Range(StartCell, sht.Cells(LastRow, LastColumn)).Select

End Sub

How do I disable directory browsing?

This is not an answer, just my experience:

On my Ubuntu 12.04 apache2, didn't find Indexes in either apache2.conf or httpd.conf, luckily I found it in sites-available/default. After removing it, now it doesn't see directory listing. May have to do it for sites-available/default-ssl.

Strip first and last character from C string

Further to @pmg's answer, note that you can do both operations in one statement:

char mystr[] = "Nmy stringP";
char *p = mystr;
p++[strlen(p)-1] = 0;

This will likely work as expected but behavior is undefined in C standard.

Concatenate multiple node values in xpath

Try this expression...

string-join(//element3/(concat(element4/text(), '.', element5/text())), "&#10;")

Get viewport/window height in ReactJS

This answer is similar to Jabran Saeed's, except it handles window resizing as well. I got it from here.

constructor(props) {
  super(props);
  this.state = { width: 0, height: 0 };
  this.updateWindowDimensions = this.updateWindowDimensions.bind(this);
}

componentDidMount() {
  this.updateWindowDimensions();
  window.addEventListener('resize', this.updateWindowDimensions);
}

componentWillUnmount() {
  window.removeEventListener('resize', this.updateWindowDimensions);
}

updateWindowDimensions() {
  this.setState({ width: window.innerWidth, height: window.innerHeight });
}

Is there any pythonic way to combine two dicts (adding values for keys that appear in both)?

Definitely summing the Counter()s is the most pythonic way to go in such cases but only if it results in a positive value. Here is an example and as you can see there is no c in result after negating the c's value in B dictionary.

In [1]: from collections import Counter

In [2]: A = Counter({'a':1, 'b':2, 'c':3})

In [3]: B = Counter({'b':3, 'c':-4, 'd':5})

In [4]: A + B
Out[4]: Counter({'d': 5, 'b': 5, 'a': 1})

That's because Counters were primarily designed to work with positive integers to represent running counts (negative count is meaningless). But to help with those use cases,python documents the minimum range and type restrictions as follows:

  • The Counter class itself is a dictionary subclass with no restrictions on its keys and values. The values are intended to be numbers representing counts, but you could store anything in the value field.
  • The most_common() method requires only that the values be orderable.
  • For in-place operations such as c[key] += 1, the value type need only support addition and subtraction. So fractions, floats, and decimals would work and negative values are supported. The same is also true for update() and subtract() which allow negative and zero values for both inputs and outputs.
  • The multiset methods are designed only for use cases with positive values. The inputs may be negative or zero, but only outputs with positive values are created. There are no type restrictions, but the value type needs to support addition, subtraction, and comparison.
  • The elements() method requires integer counts. It ignores zero and negative counts.

So for getting around that problem after summing your Counter you can use Counter.update in order to get the desire output. It works like dict.update() but adds counts instead of replacing them.

In [24]: A.update(B)

In [25]: A
Out[25]: Counter({'d': 5, 'b': 5, 'a': 1, 'c': -1})

What do *args and **kwargs mean?

Also, we use them for managing inheritance.

class Super( object ):
   def __init__( self, this, that ):
       self.this = this
       self.that = that

class Sub( Super ):
   def __init__( self, myStuff, *args, **kw ):
       super( Sub, self ).__init__( *args, **kw )
       self.myStuff= myStuff

x= Super( 2.7, 3.1 )
y= Sub( "green", 7, 6 )

This way Sub doesn't really know (or care) what the superclass initialization is. Should you realize that you need to change the superclass, you can fix things without having to sweat the details in each subclass.

Python sum() function with list parameter

Have you used the variable sum anywhere else? That would explain it.

>>> sum = 1
>>> numbers = [1, 2, 3]
>>> numsum = (sum(numbers))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: 'int' object is not callable

The name sum doesn't point to the function anymore now, it points to an integer.

Solution: Don't call your variable sum, call it total or something similar.

Push eclipse project to GitHub with EGit

I have the same issue and solved it by reading this post, while solving it, I hitted a problem: auth failed.

And I finally solved it by using a ssh key way to authorize myself. I found the EGit offical guide very useful and I configured the ssh way successfully by refer to the Eclipse SSH Configuration section in the link provided.

Hope it helps.

Remove commas from the string using JavaScript

This is the simplest way to do it.

let total = parseInt(('100,000.00'.replace(',',''))) + parseInt(('500,000.00'.replace(',','')))

Remove a child with a specific attribute, in SimpleXML for PHP

This work for me:

$data = '<data>
<seg id="A1"/>
<seg id="A5"/>
<seg id="A12"/>
<seg id="A29"/>
<seg id="A30"/></data>';

$doc = new SimpleXMLElement($data);

$segarr = $doc->seg;

$count = count($segarr);

$j = 0;

for ($i = 0; $i < $count; $i++) {

    if ($segarr[$j]['id'] == 'A12') {
        unset($segarr[$j]);
        $j = $j - 1;
    }
    $j = $j + 1;
}

echo $doc->asXml();

ASP.NET Core Identity - get current user

If you are using Bearing Token Auth, the above samples do not return an Application User.

Instead, use this:

ClaimsPrincipal currentUser = this.User;
var currentUserName = currentUser.FindFirst(ClaimTypes.NameIdentifier).Value;
ApplicationUser user = await _userManager.FindByNameAsync(currentUserName);

This works in apsnetcore 2.0. Have not tried in earlier versions.

How to fill a Javascript object literal with many static key/value pairs efficiently?

It works fine with the object literal notation:

var map = { key : { "aaa", "rrr" }, 
            key2: { "bbb", "ppp" } // trailing comma leads to syntax error in IE!
          }

Btw, the common way to instantiate arrays

var array = [];
// directly with values:
var array = [ "val1", "val2", 3 /*numbers may be unquoted*/, 5, "val5" ];

and objects

var object = {};

Also you can do either:

obj.property     // this is prefered but you can also do
obj["property"]  // this is the way to go when you have the keyname stored in a var

var key = "property";
obj[key] // is the same like obj.property

Wheel file installation

You normally use a tool like pip to install wheels. Leave it to the tool to discover and download the file if this is for a project hosted on PyPI.

For this to work, you do need to install the wheel package:

pip install wheel

You can then tell pip to install the project (and it'll download the wheel if available), or the wheel file directly:

pip install project_name  # discover, download and install
pip install wheel_file.whl  # directly install the wheel

The wheel module, once installed, also is runnable from the command line, you can use this to install already-downloaded wheels:

python -m wheel install wheel_file.whl

Also see the wheel project documentation.

python location on mac osx

i found it here: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.6/bin

How can I check if a MySQL table exists with PHP?

Or you could use

show tables where Tables_in_{insert_db_name}='tablename';

HTML5 form validation pattern alphanumeric with spaces?

To avoid an input with only spaces, use: "[a-zA-Z0-9]+[a-zA-Z0-9 ]+".

eg: abc | abc aBc | abc 123 AbC 938234

To ensure, for example, that a first AND last name are entered, use a slight variation like

"[a-zA-Z]+[ ][a-zA-Z]+"

eg: abc def

Ansible: filter a list by its attributes

To filter a list of dicts you can use the selectattr filter together with the equalto test:

network.addresses.private_man | selectattr("type", "equalto", "fixed")

The above requires Jinja2 v2.8 or later (regardless of Ansible version).


Ansible also has the tests match and search, which take regular expressions:

match will require a complete match in the string, while search will require a match inside of the string.

network.addresses.private_man | selectattr("type", "match", "^fixed$")

To reduce the list of dicts to a list of strings, so you only get a list of the addr fields, you can use the map filter:

... | map(attribute='addr') | list

Or if you want a comma separated string:

... | map(attribute='addr') | join(',')

Combined, it would look like this.

- debug: msg={{ network.addresses.private_man | selectattr("type", "equalto", "fixed") | map(attribute='addr') | join(',') }}

MySQL with Node.js

Imo, you should try MySQL Connector/Node.js which is the official Node.js driver for MySQL. See ref-1 and ref-2 for detailed explanation. I have tried mysqljs/mysql which is available here, but I don't find detailed documentation on classes, methods, properties of this library.

So I switched to the standard MySQL Connector/Node.js with X DevAPI, since it is an asynchronous Promise-based client library and provides good documentation. Take a look at the following code snippet :

const mysqlx = require('@mysql/xdevapi');
const rows = [];

mysqlx.getSession('mysqlx://localhost:33060')
.then(session => {
    const table = session.getSchema('testSchema').getTable('testTable');

    // The criteria is defined through the expression.
    return table.update().where('name = "bar"').set('age', 50)
        .execute()
        .then(() => {
            return table.select().orderBy('name ASC')
                .execute(row => rows.push(row));
        });
})
.then(() => {
    console.log(rows);
});

Spring JDBC Template for calling Stored Procedures

There are a number of ways to call stored procedures in Spring.

If you use CallableStatementCreator to declare parameters, you will be using Java's standard interface of CallableStatement, i.e register out parameters and set them separately. Using SqlParameter abstraction will make your code cleaner.

I recommend you looking at SimpleJdbcCall. It may be used like this:

SimpleJdbcCall jdbcCall = new SimpleJdbcCall(jdbcTemplate)
    .withSchemaName(schema)
    .withCatalogName(package)
    .withProcedureName(procedure)();
...
jdbcCall.addDeclaredParameter(new SqlParameter(paramName, OracleTypes.NUMBER));
...
jdbcCall.execute(callParams);

For simple procedures you may use jdbcTemplate's update method:

jdbcTemplate.update("call SOME_PROC (?, ?)", param1, param2);

How to connect wireless network adapter to VMWare workstation?

Use a Linux Live cd/usb and boot an that to be able to directly connect to your wifi hardware or use linux as the main OS with direct access to the wifi card and then use windows as a guest os, I know that this maybe not the ideal way but it will work.

Two's Complement in Python

It's not built in, but if you want unusual length numbers then you could use the bitstring module.

>>> from bitstring import Bits
>>> a = Bits(bin='111111111111')
>>> a.int
-1

The same object can equivalently be created in several ways, including

>>> b = Bits(int=-1, length=12)

It just behaves like a string of bits of arbitrary length, and uses properties to get different interpretations:

>>> print a.int, a.uint, a.bin, a.hex, a.oct
-1 4095 111111111111 fff 7777

Regular expression \p{L} and \p{N}

\p{L} matches a single code point in the category "letter".
\p{N} matches any kind of numeric character in any script.

Source: regular-expressions.info

If you're going to work with regular expressions a lot, I'd suggest bookmarking that site, it's very useful.

get current page from url

The class you need is System.Uri

Dim url As System.Uri = Request.UrlReferrer 
Debug.WriteLine(url.AbsoluteUri)   ' => http://www.mysite.com/default.aspx
Debug.WriteLine(url.AbsolutePath)  ' => /default.aspx
Debug.WriteLine(url.Host)          ' => http:/www.mysite.com
Debug.WriteLine(url.Port)          ' => 80
Debug.WriteLine(url.IsLoopback)    ' => False

http://www.devx.com/vb2themax/Tip/18709

How to create a pivot query in sql server without aggregate function

Check this out as well: using xml path and pivot

SQLFIDDLE DEMO

| ACCOUNT | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 |
--------------------------------
|   Asset |  205 |  142 |  421 |
|  Equity |  365 |  214 |  163 |
|  Profit |  524 |  421 |  325 |

DECLARE @cols AS NVARCHAR(MAX),
    @query  AS NVARCHAR(MAX)

SET @cols = STUFF((SELECT distinct ',' + QUOTENAME(c.period) 
            FROM demo c
            FOR XML PATH(''), TYPE
            ).value('.', 'NVARCHAR(MAX)') 
        ,1,1,'')

set @query = 'SELECT account, ' + @cols + ' from 
            (
                select account
                    , value
                    , period
                from demo
           ) x
            pivot 
            (
                 max(value)
                for period in (' + @cols + ')
            ) p '


execute(@query)

Compare integer in bash, unary operator expected

Your problem arises from the fact that $i has a blank value when your statement fails. Always quote your variables when performing comparisons if there is the slightest chance that one of them may be empty, e.g.:

if [ "$i" -ge 2 ] ; then
  ...
fi

This is because of how the shell treats variables. Assume the original example,

if [ $i -ge 2 ] ; then ...

The first thing that the shell does when executing that particular line of code is substitute the value of $i, just like your favorite editor's search & replace function would. So assume that $i is empty or, even more illustrative, assume that $i is a bunch of spaces! The shell will replace $i as follows:

if [     -ge 2 ] ; then ...

Now that variable substitutions are done, the shell proceeds with the comparison and.... fails because it cannot see anything intelligible to the left of -gt. However, quoting $i:

if [ "$i" -ge 2 ] ; then ...

becomes:

if [ "    " -ge 2 ] ; then ...

The shell now sees the double-quotes, and knows that you are actually comparing four blanks to 2 and will skip the if.

You also have the option of specifying a default value for $i if $i is blank, as follows:

if [ "${i:-0}" -ge 2 ] ; then ...

This will substitute the value 0 instead of $i is $i is undefined. I still maintain the quotes because, again, if $i is a bunch of blanks then it does not count as undefined, it will not be replaced with 0, and you will run into the problem once again.

Please read this when you have the time. The shell is treated like a black box by many, but it operates with very few and very simple rules - once you are aware of what those rules are (one of them being how variables work in the shell, as explained above) the shell will have no more secrets for you.

Read int values from a text file in C

A simple solution using fscanf:

void read_ints (const char* file_name)
{
  FILE* file = fopen (file_name, "r");
  int i = 0;

  fscanf (file, "%d", &i);    
  while (!feof (file))
    {  
      printf ("%d ", i);
      fscanf (file, "%d", &i);      
    }
  fclose (file);        
}

What is define([ , function ]) in JavaScript?

define() is part of the AMD spec of js

See:

Edit: Also see Claudio's answer below. Likely the more relevant explanation.

How do I put two increment statements in a C++ 'for' loop?

I agree with squelart. Incrementing two variables is bug prone, especially if you only test for one of them.

This is the readable way to do this:

int j = 0;
for(int i = 0; i < 5; ++i) {
    do_something(i, j);
    ++j;
}

For loops are meant for cases where your loop runs on one increasing/decreasing variable. For any other variable, change it in the loop.

If you need j to be tied to i, why not leave the original variable as is and add i?

for(int i = 0; i < 5; ++i) {
    do_something(i,a+i);
}

If your logic is more complex (for example, you need to actually monitor more than one variable), I'd use a while loop.

Python's time.clock() vs. time.time() accuracy?

As of 3.3, time.clock() is deprecated, and it's suggested to use time.process_time() or time.perf_counter() instead.

Previously in 2.7, according to the time module docs:

time.clock()

On Unix, return the current processor time as a floating point number expressed in seconds. The precision, and in fact the very definition of the meaning of “processor time”, depends on that of the C function of the same name, but in any case, this is the function to use for benchmarking Python or timing algorithms.

On Windows, this function returns wall-clock seconds elapsed since the first call to this function, as a floating point number, based on the Win32 function QueryPerformanceCounter(). The resolution is typically better than one microsecond.

Additionally, there is the timeit module for benchmarking code snippets.

Which is a better way to check if an array has more than one element?

Obviously using count($arr) > 1 (sizeof is just an alias for count) is the best solution. Depending on the structure of your array, there might be tons of elements but no $array['1'] element.

How I can check if an object is null in ruby on rails 2?

In your example, you can simply replace null with `nil and it will work fine.

require 'erb'

template = <<EOS
<% if (@objectname != nil) then %>
  @objectname is not nil
<% else %>
  @objectname is nil
<% end %>
EOS

@objectname = nil
ERB.new(template, nil, '>').result # => "  @objectname is nil\n"

@objectname = 'some name'
ERB.new(template, nil, '>').result # => "  @objectname is not nil\n"

Contrary to what the other poster said, you can see above that then works fine in Ruby. It's not common, but it is fine.

#blank? and #present? have other implications. Specifically, if the object responds to #empty?, they will check whether it is empty. If you go to http://api.rubyonrails.org/ and search for "blank?", you will see what objects it is defined on and how it works. Looking at the definition on Object, we see "An object is blank if it’s false, empty, or a whitespace string. For example, “”, “ ”, nil, [], and {} are all blank." You should make sure that this is what you want.

Also, nil is considered false, and anything other than false and nil is considered true. This means you can directly place the object in the if statement, so a more canonical way of writing the above would be

require 'erb'

template = <<EOS
<% if @objectname %>
  @objectname is not nil
<% else %>
  @objectname is nil
<% end %>
EOS

@objectname = nil
ERB.new(template, nil, '>').result # => "  @objectname is nil\n"

@objectname = 'some name'
ERB.new(template, nil, '>').result # => "  @objectname is not nil\n"

If you explicitly need to check nil and not false, you can use the #nil? method, for which nil is the only object that will cause this to return true.

nil.nil?          # => true
false.nil?        # => false
Object.new.nil?   # => false

Javascript - Open a given URL in a new tab by clicking a button

My preferred method has the advantage of no JavaScript embedded in your markup:

CSS

a {
  color: inherit;
  text-decoration: none;
}

HTML

<a href="http://example.com" target="_blank"><input type="button" value="Link-button"></a>

How do I get an empty array of any size in python?

If by "array" you actually mean a Python list, you can use

a = [0] * 10

or

a = [None] * 10

Python Pip install Error: Unable to find vcvarsall.bat. Tried all solutions

Try installing this, it's a known workaround for enabling the C++ compiler for Python 2.7.

In my experience, when pip does not find vcvarsall.bat compiler, all I do is opening a Visual Studio console as it set the path variables to call vcvarsall.bat directly and then I run pip on this command line.

Working with time DURATION, not time of day

The best way I found to resolve this issue was by using a combination of the above. All my cells were entered as a Custom Format to only show "HH:MM" - if I entered in "4:06" (being 4 minutes and 6 seconds) the field would show the numbers I entered correctly - but the data itself would represent HH:MM in the background.

Fortunately time is based on factors of 60 (60 seconds = 60 minutes). So 7H:15M / 60 = 7M:15S - I hope you can see where this is going. Accordingly, if I take my 4:06 and divide by 60 when working with the data (eg. to total up my total time or average time across 100 cells I would use the normal SUM or AVERAGE formulas and then divide by 60 in the formula.

Example =(SUM(A1:A5))/60. If my data was across the 5 time tracking fields was the 4:06, 3:15, 9:12, 2:54, 7:38 (representing MM:SS for us, but the data in the background is actually HH:MM) then when I work out the sum of those 5 fields are, what I want should be 27M:05S but what shows instead is 1D:03H:05M:00S. As mentioned above, 1D:3H:5M divided by 60 = 27M:5S ... which is the sum I am looking for.

Further examples of this are: =(SUM(G:G))/60 and =(AVERAGE(B2:B90)/60) and =MIN(C:C) (this is a direct check so no /60 needed here!).

Note that your "formula" or "calculation" fields (average, total time, etc) MUST have the custom format of MM:SS once you have divided by 60 as Excel's default thinking is in HH:MM (hence this issue). Your data fields where you are entering in your times should need to be changed from "General" or "Number" format to the custom format of HH:MM.

This process is still a little bit cumbersome to use - but it does mean that your data entry is still entered in very easy and is "correctly" displayed on screen as 4:06 (which most people would view as minutes:seconds when under a "Minutes" header). Generally there will only be a couple of fields needing to be used for formulas such as "best time", "average time", "total time" etc when tracking times and they will not usually be changed once the formula is entered so this will be a "one off" process - I use this for my call tracking sheet at work to track "average call", "total call time for day".

PHP refresh window? equivalent to F5 page reload?

Adding following in the page header works for me:

<?php

if($i_wanna_reload_the_full_page_on_top == "yes")
{
$reloadneeded = "1";
}
else
{
$reloadneeded = "0";
}

if($reloadneeded > 0)
{
?>
<script type="text/javascript">
top.window.location='indexframes.php';
</script>
<?php
}else{}
?>

How to get Database Name from Connection String using SqlConnectionStringBuilder

string connectString = "Data Source=(local);" + "Integrated Security=true";

SqlConnectionStringBuilder builder = new SqlConnectionStringBuilder(connectString);

Console.WriteLine("builder.InitialCatalog = " + builder.InitialCatalog);

difference between System.out.println() and System.err.println()

this answer most probably help you it is so much easy System.err and System.out both are the same both are defined in System class as reference variable of PrintStream class as public final static PrintStream out = null; and public final static PrintStream err = null;

means both are ref. variable of PrintStream class. normally System.err is used for printing an error messages, which increase the redability for the programmer.

A minor difference comes in both when we are working with Redirection operator.

I want to multiply two columns in a pandas DataFrame and add the result into a new column

If we're willing to sacrifice the succinctness of Hayden's solution, one could also do something like this:

In [22]: orders_df['C'] = orders_df.Action.apply(
               lambda x: (1 if x == 'Sell' else -1))

In [23]: orders_df   # New column C represents the sign of the transaction
Out[23]:
   Prices  Amount Action  C
0       3      57   Sell  1
1      89      42   Sell  1
2      45      70    Buy -1
3       6      43   Sell  1
4      60      47   Sell  1
5      19      16    Buy -1
6      56      89   Sell  1
7       3      28    Buy -1
8      56      69   Sell  1
9      90      49    Buy -1

Now we have eliminated the need for the if statement. Using DataFrame.apply(), we also do away with the for loop. As Hayden noted, vectorized operations are always faster.

In [24]: orders_df['Value'] = orders_df.Prices * orders_df.Amount * orders_df.C

In [25]: orders_df   # The resulting dataframe
Out[25]:
   Prices  Amount Action  C  Value
0       3      57   Sell  1    171
1      89      42   Sell  1   3738
2      45      70    Buy -1  -3150
3       6      43   Sell  1    258
4      60      47   Sell  1   2820
5      19      16    Buy -1   -304
6      56      89   Sell  1   4984
7       3      28    Buy -1    -84
8      56      69   Sell  1   3864
9      90      49    Buy -1  -4410

This solution takes two lines of code instead of one, but is a bit easier to read. I suspect that the computational costs are similar as well.

Laravel PHP Command Not Found

For MAC users:

1. Open terminal

cd ~

2. Double check the $PATH

echo $PATH

3. Edit file

nano ~/.bash_profile

4. PASTE

export PATH="~/.composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"

Don't forget to put quotation marks.

5. control + X (y + enter to save the file and exit)

Now start vagrant, go to your folder and try:

laravel new yourprojectname

What is the best way to seed a database in Rails?

The best way is to use fixtures.

Note: Keep in mind that fixtures do direct inserts and don't use your model so if you have callbacks that populate data you will need to find a workaround.

Currency formatting in Python

Oh, that's an interesting beast.

I've spent considerable time of getting that right, there are three main issues that differs from locale to locale: - currency symbol and direction - thousand separator - decimal point

I've written my own rather extensive implementation of this which is part of the kiwi python framework, check out the LGPL:ed source here:

http://svn.async.com.br/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/kiwi/trunk/kiwi/currency.py?view=markup

The code is slightly Linux/Glibc specific, but shouldn't be too difficult to adopt to windows or other unixes.

Once you have that installed you can do the following:

>>> from kiwi.datatypes import currency
>>> v = currency('10.5').format()

Which will then give you:

'$10.50'

or

'10,50 kr'

Depending on the currently selected locale.

The main point this post has over the other is that it will work with older versions of python. locale.currency was introduced in python 2.5.

How do I enable --enable-soap in php on linux?

In case that you have Ubuntu in your machine, the following steps will help you:

  1. Check first in your php testing file if you have soap (client / server)or not by using phpinfo(); and check results in the browser. In case that you have it, it will seems like the following image ( If not go to step 2 ):

enter image description here

  1. Open your terminal and paste: sudo apt-get install php-soap.

  2. Restart your apache2 server in terminal : service apache2 restart.

  3. To check use your php test file again to be seems like mine in step 1.

Trying to get Laravel 5 email to work

I had the same problem as you, I just got it to work.

Firstly, you need to double check that the .env settings are set up correctly. Here are my settings:

MAIL_DRIVER=smtp
MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com
MAIL_PORT=587
MAIL_USERNAME=yourusername
MAIL_PASSWORD=yourpassword
MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls

Please make sure that your password is not between quotes :).

And in config/mail.php it has the following, without the comments.

<?php

return [

'driver' => 'smtp',
'host' => env('MAIL_HOST', 'smtp.gmail.com'),
'port' => env('MAIL_PORT', '587'),
'from' => ['address' => 'yourusername', 'name' => 'yourname'],
'encryption' => env('MAIL_ENCRYPTION','tls'),
'username' => env('MAIL_USERNAME', '[email protected]'),
'password' => env('MAIL_PASSWORD', 'password'),
'sendmail' => '/usr/sbin/sendmail -bs',

'pretend' => false,

];

Hope it works for you :)

PHP sessions that have already been started

Simply use if statement

 if(!isset($_SESSION)) 
     { 
         session_start(); 
     }

or

check the session status with session_status that Returns the current session status and if current session is already working then return with nothing else if session not working start the session


session_status() === PHP_SESSION_ACTIVE ?: session_start();

Skip first entry in for loop in python?

Based on @SvenMarnach 's Answer, but bit simpler and without using deque

>>> def skip(iterable, at_start=0, at_end=0):
    it = iter(iterable)
    it = itertools.islice(it, at_start, None)
    it, it1 = itertools.tee(it)
    it1 = itertools.islice(it1, at_end, None)
    return (next(it) for _ in it1)

>>> list(skip(range(10), at_start=2, at_end=2))
[2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
>>> list(skip(range(10), at_start=2, at_end=5))
[2, 3, 4]

Also Note, based on my timeit result, this is marginally faster than the deque solution

>>> iterable=xrange(1000)
>>> stmt1="""
def skip(iterable, at_start=0, at_end=0):
    it = iter(iterable)
    it = itertools.islice(it, at_start, None)
    it, it1 = itertools.tee(it)
    it1 = itertools.islice(it1, at_end, None)
    return (next(it) for _ in it1)
list(skip(iterable,2,2))
    """
>>> stmt2="""
def skip(iterable, at_start=0, at_end=0):
    it = iter(iterable)
    for x in itertools.islice(it, at_start):
        pass
    queue = collections.deque(itertools.islice(it, at_end))
    for x in it:
        queue.append(x)
        yield queue.popleft()
list(skip(iterable,2,2))
        """
>>> timeit.timeit(stmt = stmt1, setup='from __main__ import iterable, skip, itertools', number = 10000)
2.0313770640908047
>>> timeit.timeit(stmt = stmt2, setup='from __main__ import iterable, skip, itertools, collections', number = 10000)
2.9903135454296716

How to write dynamic variable in Ansible playbook

I am sure there is a smarter way for doing what you want but this should work:

- name         : Test var
  hosts        : all
  gather_facts : no
  vars:
    myvariable : false
  tasks:
    - name: param1
      set_fact:
        myvariable: "{{param1}}"
      when: param1 is defined

    - name: param2
      set_fact:
        myvariable: "{{ param2 if not myvariable else myvariable + ',' + param2 }}"
      when: param2 is defined

    - name: param3
      set_fact:
        myvariable: "{{ param3 if not myvariable else myvariable + ',' + param3 }}"
      when: param3 is defined

    - name: default
      set_fact:
        myvariable: "default"
      when: not myvariable

    - debug:
       var=myvariable

Hope that helps. I am not sure if you can construct variables dynamically and do this in an iterator. But you could also write a small python code or any other language and plug it into ansible

What is the '.well' equivalent class in Bootstrap 4

Sure officially version says the cards are the new replacements for Bootstrap wells. But Cards are a quite broad Bootstrap components now. In simple terms, you can also use Bootstrap Jumbotron too.

Defining constant string in Java?

simply use

final String WELCOME_MESSAGE = "Hello, welcome to the server";

the main part of this instruction is the 'final' keyword.

startActivityForResult() from a Fragment and finishing child Activity, doesn't call onActivityResult() in Fragment

We could call startActivityForResult() directly from Fragment So You should call this.startActivityForResult(i, 1); instead of getActivity().startActivityForResult(i, 1);

Intent i = new Intent(getActivity(), SecondActivity.class);
i.putExtra("helloString", helloString);
this.startActivityForResult(i, 1);

Activity will send the Activity Result to your Fragment.

VARCHAR to DECIMAL

You are missing the fact that 6.999,50 is not a valid decimal. You can't have a comma and a decimal point in a decimal value surely? What number is it supposed to be?

Assuming your locale specifies . as grouping and , as decimal separator: To remove the grouping digits:

SELECT CONVERT(decimal(11,2), REPLACE('6.999,50', '.', ''))

will yield 6999,50 as a decimal

VBA Public Array : how to?

Well, basically what I found is that you can declare the array, but when you set it vba shows you an error.

So I put an special sub to declare global variables and arrays, something like:

Global example(10) As Variant

Sub set_values()

example(1) = 1
example(2) = 1
example(3) = 1
example(4) = 1
example(5) = 1
example(6) = 1
example(7) = 1
example(8) = 1
example(9) = 1
example(10) = 1

End Sub

And whenever I want to use the array, I call the sub first, just in case

call set_values

Msgbox example(5)

Perhaps is not the most correct way, but I hope it works for you

How to use WebRequest to POST some data and read response?

Below is the code that read the data from the text file and sends it to the handler for processing and receive the response data from the handler and read it and store the data in the string builder class

 //Get the data from text file that needs to be sent.
                FileStream fileStream = new FileStream(@"G:\Papertest.txt", FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.ReadWrite);
                byte[] buffer = new byte[fileStream.Length];
                int count = fileStream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);

                //This is a handler would recieve the data and process it and sends back response.
                WebRequest myWebRequest = WebRequest.Create(@"http://localhost/Provider/ProcessorHandler.ashx");

                myWebRequest.ContentLength = buffer.Length;
                myWebRequest.ContentType = "application/octet-stream";
                myWebRequest.Method = "POST";
                // get the stream object that holds request stream.
                Stream stream = myWebRequest.GetRequestStream();
                       stream.Write(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
                       stream.Close();

                //Sends a web request and wait for response.
                try
                {
                    WebResponse webResponse = myWebRequest.GetResponse();
                    //get Stream Data from the response
                    Stream respData = webResponse.GetResponseStream();
                    //read the response from stream.
                    StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader(respData);
                    string name;
                    StringBuilder str = new StringBuilder();
                    while ((name = streamReader.ReadLine()) != null)
                    {
                        str.Append(name); // Add to stringbuider when response contains multple lines data
                   }
                }
                catch (Exception ex)
                {
                    throw ex;
                }

How to echo shell commands as they are executed

set -x will give you what you want.

Here is an example shell script to demonstrate:

#!/bin/bash
set -x #echo on

ls $PWD

This expands all variables and prints the full commands before output of the command.

Output:

+ ls /home/user/
file1.txt file2.txt

SQLSTATE[HY000] [1698] Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'

Just Create New User for MySQL do not use root. there is a problem its security issue

sudo mysql -p -u root

Login into MySQL or MariaDB with root privileges

CREATE USER 'troy121'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'mypassword123';

login and create a new user

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'magento121121'@'%' WITH GRANT OPTION;

and grant privileges to access "." and "@" "%" any location not just only 'localhost'

exit;

if you want to see your privilege table SHOW GRANTS; & Enjoy.

How to check if a file exists in Ansible?

You can use Ansible stat module to register the file, and when module to apply the condition.

- name: Register file
      stat:
        path: "/tmp/test_file"
      register: file_path

- name: Create file if it doesn't exists
      file: 
        path: "/tmp/test_file"
        state: touch
      when: file_path.stat.exists == False

Python Accessing Nested JSON Data

In your code j is Already json data and j['places'] is list not dict.

 r = requests.get('http://api.zippopotam.us/us/ma/belmont')
 j = r.json()

 print j['state']
 for each in j['places']:
    print each['latitude']

How to find the last day of the month from date?

There is also the built in PHP function cal_days_in_month()?

"This function will return the number of days in the month of year for the specified calendar." http://php.net/manual/en/function.cal-days-in-month.

echo cal_days_in_month(CAL_GREGORIAN, 11, 2009); 
// = 30

How to use google maps without api key

You can still use free with iframe in google maps share button for example enter image description here

100% width table overflowing div container

From a purely "make it fit in the div" perspective, add the following to your table class (jsfiddle):

table-layout: fixed;
width: 100%;

Set your column widths as desired; otherwise, the fixed layout algorithm will distribute the table width evenly across your columns.

For quick reference, here are the table layout algorithms, emphasis mine:

  • Fixed (source)
    With this (fast) algorithm, the horizontal layout of the table does not depend on the contents of the cells; it only depends on the table's width, the width of the columns, and borders or cell spacing.
  • Automatic (source)
    In this algorithm (which generally requires no more than two passes), the table's width is given by the width of its columns [, as determined by content] (and intervening borders).

    [...] This algorithm may be inefficient since it requires the user agent to have access to all the content in the table before determining the final layout and may demand more than one pass.

Click through to the source documentation to see the specifics for each algorithm.

How to run a command in the background and get no output?

Sorry this is a bit late but found the ideal solution for somple commands where you don't want any standard or error output (credit where it's due: http://felixmilea.com/2014/12/running-bash-commands-background-properly/)

This redirects output to null and keeps screen clear:

command &>/dev/null &

How to fill Matrix with zeros in OpenCV?

How to fill Matrix with zeros in OpenCV?

To fill a pre-existing Mat object with zeros, you can use Mat::zeros()

Mat m1 = ...;
m1 = Mat::zeros(1, 1, CV_64F);

To intialize a Mat so that it contains only zeros, you can pass a scalar with value 0 to the constructor:

Mat m1 = Mat(1,1, CV_64F, 0.0);
//                        ^^^^double literal

The reason your version failed is that passing 0 as fourth argument matches the overload taking a void* better than the one taking a scalar.

How can I add an item to a SelectList in ASP.net MVC

Okay I like clean code so I made this an extension method

static public class SelectListHelper
{
    static public SelectList Add(this SelectList list, string text, string value = "", ListPosition listPosition = ListPosition.First)
    {
        if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(value))
        {
            value = text;
        }
        var listItems = list.ToList();
        var lp = (int)listPosition;
        switch (lp)
        {
            case -1:
                lp = list.Count();
                break;
            case -2:
                lp = list.Count() / 2;
                break;
            case -3:
                var random = new Random();
                lp = random.Next(0, list.Count());
                break;
        }
        listItems.Insert(lp, new SelectListItem { Value = value, Text = text });
        list = new SelectList(listItems, "Value", "Text");
        return list;
    }

    public enum ListPosition
    {
        First = 0,
        Last = -1,
        Middle = -2,
        Random = -3
    }
}

Usage (by example):

var model = new VmRoutePicker
    {
     Routes =
     new SelectList(_dataSource.Routes.Select(r => r.RouteID).Distinct())
     };                                     
  model.Routes = model.Routes.Add("All", "All", SelectListHelper.ListPosition.Random);
//or
  model.Routes = model.Routes.Add("All");

How to prevent a double-click using jQuery?

In my case, jQuery one had some side effects (in IE8) and I ended up using the following :

$(document).ready(function(){
  $("*").dblclick(function(e){
    e.preventDefault();
  });
});

which works very nicely and looks simpler. Found it there: http://www.jquerybyexample.net/2013/01/disable-mouse-double-click-using-javascript-or-jquery.html

Reactjs convert html string to jsx

i start using npm package called react-html-parser

How to find largest objects in a SQL Server database?

This query help to find largest table in you are connection.

SELECT  TOP 1 OBJECT_NAME(OBJECT_ID) TableName, st.row_count
FROM sys.dm_db_partition_stats st
WHERE index_id < 2
ORDER BY st.row_count DESC

How to use System.Net.HttpClient to post a complex type?

You should use the SendAsync method instead, this is a generic method, that serializes the input to the service

Widget widget = new Widget()
widget.Name = "test"
widget.Price = 1;

HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
client.BaseAddress = new Uri("http://localhost:44268/api/test");
client.SendAsync(new HttpRequestMessage<Widget>(widget))
    .ContinueWith((postTask) => postTask.Result.EnsureSuccessStatusCode() );

If you don't want to create the concrete class, you can make it with the FormUrlEncodedContent class

var client = new HttpClient();

// This is the postdata
var postData = new List<KeyValuePair<string, string>>();
postData.Add(new KeyValuePair<string, string>("Name", "test"));
postData.Add(new KeyValuePair<string, string>("Price ", "100"));

HttpContent content = new FormUrlEncodedContent(postData); 

client.PostAsync("http://localhost:44268/api/test", content).ContinueWith(
    (postTask) =>
    {
        postTask.Result.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();
    });

Note: you need to make your id to a nullable int (int?)

Can't install any packages in Node.js using "npm install"

This error might also occur due to proxy settings, once check that your proxy allow the access to npm commands.

It worked for me quite well.

Check for special characters in string

Your regexp use ^ and $ so it tries to match the entire string. And if you want only a boolean as the result, use test instead of match.

var format = /[!@#$%^&*()_+\-=\[\]{};':"\\|,.<>\/?]+/;

if(format.test(string)){
  return true;
} else {
  return false;
}

Testing Private method using mockito

You can't do that with Mockito but you can use Powermock to extend Mockito and mock private methods. Powermock supports Mockito. Here's an example.

Fill drop down list on selection of another drop down list

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Model:

namespace MvcApplicationrazor.Models
{
    public class CountryModel
    {
        public List<State> StateModel { get; set; }
        public SelectList FilteredCity { get; set; }
    }
    public class State
    {
        public int Id { get; set; }
        public string StateName { get; set; }
    }
    public class City
    {
        public int Id { get; set; }
        public int StateId { get; set; }
        public string CityName { get; set; }
    }
}   

Controller:

public ActionResult Index()
        {
            CountryModel objcountrymodel = new CountryModel();
            objcountrymodel.StateModel = new List<State>();
            objcountrymodel.StateModel = GetAllState();
            return View(objcountrymodel);
        }


        //Action result for ajax call
        [HttpPost]
        public ActionResult GetCityByStateId(int stateid)
        {
            List<City> objcity = new List<City>();
            objcity = GetAllCity().Where(m => m.StateId == stateid).ToList();
            SelectList obgcity = new SelectList(objcity, "Id", "CityName", 0);
            return Json(obgcity);
        }
        // Collection for state
        public List<State> GetAllState()
        {
            List<State> objstate = new List<State>();
            objstate.Add(new State { Id = 0, StateName = "Select State" });
            objstate.Add(new State { Id = 1, StateName = "State 1" });
            objstate.Add(new State { Id = 2, StateName = "State 2" });
            objstate.Add(new State { Id = 3, StateName = "State 3" });
            objstate.Add(new State { Id = 4, StateName = "State 4" });
            return objstate;
        }
        //collection for city
        public List<City> GetAllCity()
        {
            List<City> objcity = new List<City>();
            objcity.Add(new City { Id = 1, StateId = 1, CityName = "City1-1" });
            objcity.Add(new City { Id = 2, StateId = 2, CityName = "City2-1" });
            objcity.Add(new City { Id = 3, StateId = 4, CityName = "City4-1" });
            objcity.Add(new City { Id = 4, StateId = 1, CityName = "City1-2" });
            objcity.Add(new City { Id = 5, StateId = 1, CityName = "City1-3" });
            objcity.Add(new City { Id = 6, StateId = 4, CityName = "City4-2" });
            return objcity;
        }

View:

@model MvcApplicationrazor.Models.CountryModel
@{
    ViewBag.Title = "Index";
    Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml";
}

<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
    function GetCity(_stateId) {
        var procemessage = "<option value='0'> Please wait...</option>";
        $("#ddlcity").html(procemessage).show();
        var url = "/Test/GetCityByStateId/";

        $.ajax({
            url: url,
            data: { stateid: _stateId },
            cache: false,
            type: "POST",
            success: function (data) {
                var markup = "<option value='0'>Select City</option>";
                for (var x = 0; x < data.length; x++) {
                    markup += "<option value=" + data[x].Value + ">" + data[x].Text + "</option>";
                }
                $("#ddlcity").html(markup).show();
            },
            error: function (reponse) {
                alert("error : " + reponse);
            }
        });

    }
</script>
<h4>
 MVC Cascading Dropdown List Using Jquery</h4>
@using (Html.BeginForm())
{
    @Html.DropDownListFor(m => m.StateModel, new SelectList(Model.StateModel, "Id", "StateName"), new { @id = "ddlstate", @style = "width:200px;", @onchange = "javascript:GetCity(this.value);" })
    <br />
    <br />
    <select id="ddlcity" name="ddlcity" style="width: 200px">

    </select>

    <br /><br />
  }

NullInjectorError: No provider for AngularFirestore

For AngularFire2 Latest version

Install AngularFire2

$ npm install --save firebase @angular/fire

Then update app.module.ts file

    import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
    import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';

    import { AppComponent } from './app.component';
    import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms';


    import { AngularFireModule } from '@angular/fire';
    import { AngularFireDatabaseModule } from '@angular/fire/database';
    import { environment } from '../environments/environment';
    import { AngularFirestoreModule } from '@angular/fire/firestore';


    @NgModule({
      declarations: [
        AppComponent
      ],
      imports: [
        BrowserModule,
        FormsModule,

        AngularFireModule.initializeApp(environment.firebase),
        AngularFirestoreModule,
        AngularFireDatabaseModule
      ],
      providers: [],
      bootstrap: [AppComponent]
    })
    export class AppModule { }

Check FireStore CRUD operation tutorial here

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Return list using select new in LINQ

You cannot return anonymous types from a class... (Well, you can, but you have to cast them to object first and then use reflection at the other side to get the data out again) so you have to create a small class for the data to be contained within.

class ProjectNameAndId
{
    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string Id { get; set; }
}

Then in your LINQ statement:

select new ProjectNameAndId { Name = pro.ProjectName, Id = pro.ProjectId };

Where is the user's Subversion config file stored on the major operating systems?

Not sure about Win but n *nix (OS X, Linux, etc.) its in ~/.subversion

Can't access to HttpContext.Current

Have you included the System.Web assembly in the application?

using System.Web;

If not, try specifying the System.Web namespace, for example:

 System.Web.HttpContext.Current

What is the difference between Linear search and Binary search?

Think of it as two different ways of finding your way in a phonebook. A linear search is starting at the beginning, reading every name until you find what you're looking for. A binary search, on the other hand, is when you open the book (usually in the middle), look at the name on top of the page, and decide if the name you're looking for is bigger or smaller than the one you're looking for. If the name you're looking for is bigger, then you continue searching the upper part of the book in this very fashion.

How to get the first five character of a String

I have tried the above answers and the best i think is this one

@item.First_Name.Substring(0,1)

In this i could get the first letter of the string

form confirm before submit

$('.testform').submit(function() {
  if ($(this).data('first-submit')) {
    return true;
  } else {
    $(this).find('.submitbtn').val('Confirm').data('first-submit', true);
    return false;
  }
});

Editor does not contain a main type

The correct answer is: the Scala library needs to before the JRE library in the buildpath.

Go to Java Buildpath > Order and Export and move Scala library to the top

Fixing the order of facets in ggplot

There are a couple of good solutions here.

Similar to the answer from Harpal, but within the facet, so doesn't require any change to underlying data or pre-plotting manipulation:

# Change this code:
facet_grid(.~size) + 
# To this code:
facet_grid(~factor(size, levels=c('50%','100%','150%','200%')))

This is flexible, and can be implemented for any variable as you change what element is faceted, no underlying change in the data required.

How to send POST request in JSON using HTTPClient in Android?

Here is an alternative solution to @Terrance's answer. You can easly outsource the conversion. The Gson library does wonderful work converting various data structures into JSON and the other way around.

public static void execute() {
    Map<String, String> comment = new HashMap<String, String>();
    comment.put("subject", "Using the GSON library");
    comment.put("message", "Using libraries is convenient.");
    String json = new GsonBuilder().create().toJson(comment, Map.class);
    makeRequest("http://192.168.0.1:3000/post/77/comments", json);
}

public static HttpResponse makeRequest(String uri, String json) {
    try {
        HttpPost httpPost = new HttpPost(uri);
        httpPost.setEntity(new StringEntity(json));
        httpPost.setHeader("Accept", "application/json");
        httpPost.setHeader("Content-type", "application/json");
        return new DefaultHttpClient().execute(httpPost);
    } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (ClientProtocolException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return null;
}

Similar can be done by using Jackson instead of Gson. I also recommend taking a look at Retrofit which hides a lot of this boilerplate code for you. For more experienced developers I recommend trying out RxAndroid.

CSS background opacity with rgba not working in IE 8

The best solution I found so far is the one proposed by David J Marland in his blog, to support opacity in old browsers (IE 6+):

.alpha30{
    background:rgb(255,0,0); /* Fallback for web browsers that don't support RGBa nor filter */ 
    background: transparent\9; /* backslash 9 hack to prevent IE 8 from falling into the fallback */
    background:rgba(255,0,0,0.3); /* RGBa declaration for browsers that support it */
    filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr=#4cFF0000,endColorstr=#4cFF0000); /* needed for IE 6-8 */
    zoom: 1; /* needed for IE 6-8 */
}

/* 
 * CSS3 selector (not supported by IE 6 to IE 8),
 * to avoid IE more recent versions to apply opacity twice
 * (once with rgba and once with filter)
 */
.alpha30:nth-child(n) {
    filter: none;
}

How can I clone an SQL Server database on the same server in SQL Server 2008 Express?

Right-click the database to clone, click Tasks, click Copy Database.... Follow the wizard and you're done.

iPhone keyboard, Done button and resignFirstResponder

One line code for Done button:-

[yourTextField setReturnKeyType:UIReturnKeyDone];

And add action method on valueChanged of TextField and add this line-

[yourTextField resignFirstResponder];

Setting size for icon in CSS

you can change the size of an icon using the font size rather than setting the height and width of an icon. Here is how you do it:

<i class="fa fa-minus-square-o" style="font-size: 0.73em;"></i>

There are 4 ways to specify the dimensions of the icon.

px : give fixed pixels to your icon

em : dimensions with respect to your current font. Say ur current font is 12px then 1.5em will be 18px (12px + 6px).

pt : stands for points. Mostly used in print media

% : percentage. Refers to the size of the icon based on its original size.

How to set JVM parameters for Junit Unit Tests?

I agree with the others who said that there is no simple way to distribute these settings.

For Eclipse: ask your colleagues to set the following:

  • Windows Preferences / Java / Installed JREs:
  • Select the proper JRE/JDK (or do it for all of them)
  • Edit
  • Default VM arguments: -Xmx1024m
  • Finish, OK.

After that all test will run with -Xmx1024m but unfortunately you have set it in every Eclipse installation. Maybe you could create a custom Eclipse package which contains this setting and give it to you co-workers.

The following working process also could help: If the IDE cannot run a test the developer should check that Maven could run this test or not.

  • If Maven could run it the cause of the failure usually is the settings of the developer's IDE. The developer should check these settings.
  • If Maven also could not run the test the developer knows that the cause of the failure is not the IDE, so he/she could use the IDE to debug the test.

How do I run a terminal inside of Vim?

This question is rather old, but for those finding it, there's a new possible solution: Neovim contains a full-fledged, first-class terminal emulator, which does exactly what ConqueTerm tried to. Simply run :term <your command here>.

<C-\><C-n> will exit term mode back to normal-mode. If you're like me and prefer that escape still exit term mode, you can add this to your nvimrc:

tnoremap <ESC><ESC> <C-\><C-N>

And then hitting ESC twice will exit terminal mode back to normal-mode, so you can manipulate the buffer that the still-running command is writing to.

Though keep in mind, as nvim is under heavy development at the time I'm posting this answer, another way to exit terminal mode may be added. As Ctrl+\Ctrl+n switches to normal mode from almost any mode, I don't expect that this answer will become wrong, but be aware that if it doesn't work, this answer might be out of date.

https://github.com/neovim/neovim

Getting the index of a particular item in array

The previous answers will only work if you know the exact value you are searching for - the question states that only a partial value is known.

Array.FindIndex(authors, author => author.Contains("xyz"));

This will return the index of the first item containing "xyz".

Loop in Jade (currently known as "Pug") template engine

Here is a very simple jade file that have a loop in it. Jade is very sensitive about white space. After loop definition line (for) you should give an indent(tab) to stuff that want to go inside the loop. You can do this without {}:

- var arr=['one', 'two', 'three'];
- var s = 'string';
doctype html
html
    head
    body
        section= s
        - for (var i=0; i<3; i++)
            div= arr[i]

Command to get time in milliseconds

When you use GNU AWK since version 4.1, you can load the time library and do:

$ awk '@load "time"; BEGIN{printf "%.6f", gettimeofday()}'

This will print the current time in seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00 in sub second accuracy.

the_time = gettimeofday() Return the time in seconds that has elapsed since 1970-01-01 UTC as a floating-point value. If the time is unavailable on this platform, return -1 and set ERRNO. The returned time should have sub-second precision, but the actual precision may vary based on the platform. If the standard C gettimeofday() system call is available on this platform, then it simply returns the value. Otherwise, if on MS-Windows, it tries to use GetSystemTimeAsFileTime().

source: GNU awk manual

On Linux systems, the standard C function getimeofday() returns the time in microsecond accuracy.

Does Spring @Transactional attribute work on a private method?

If you need to wrap a private method inside a transaction and don't want to use aspectj, you can use TransactionTemplate.

@Service
public class MyService {

    @Autowired
    private TransactionTemplate transactionTemplate;

    private void process(){
        transactionTemplate.execute(new TransactionCallbackWithoutResult() {
            @Override
            protected void doInTransactionWithoutResult(TransactionStatus status) {
                processInTransaction();
            }
        });

    }

    private void processInTransaction(){
        //...
    }

}

Change first commit of project with Git?

As mentioned by ecdpalma below, git 1.7.12+ (August 2012) has enhanced the option --root for git rebase:

"git rebase [-i] --root $tip" can now be used to rewrite all the history leading to "$tip" down to the root commit.

That new behavior was initially discussed here:

I personally think "git rebase -i --root" should be made to just work without requiring "--onto" and let you "edit" even the first one in the history.
It is understandable that nobody bothered, as people are a lot less often rewriting near the very beginning of the history than otherwise.

The patch followed.


(original answer, February 2010)

As mentioned in the Git FAQ (and this SO question), the idea is:

  1. Create new temporary branch
  2. Rewind it to the commit you want to change using git reset --hard
  3. Change that commit (it would be top of current HEAD, and you can modify the content of any file)
  4. Rebase branch on top of changed commit, using:

    git rebase --onto <tmp branch> <commit after changed> <branch>`
    

The trick is to be sure the information you want to remove is not reintroduced by a later commit somewhere else in your file. If you suspect that, then you have to use filter-branch --tree-filter to make sure the content of that file does not contain in any commit the sensible information.

In both cases, you end up rewriting the SHA1 of every commit, so be careful if you have already published the branch you are modifying the contents of. You probably shouldn’t do it unless your project isn’t yet public and other people haven’t based work off the commits you’re about to rewrite.

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (Internal Server Error) in Bind function

The 500 code would normally indicate an error on the server, not anything with your code. Some thoughts

  • Talk to the server developer for more info. You can't get more info directly.
  • Verify your arguments into the call (values). Look for anything you might think could cause a problem for the server process. The process should not die and should return you a better code, but bugs happen there also.
  • Could be intermittent, like if the server database goes down. May be worth trying at another time.

Laravel blade check empty foreach

This is my best solution if I understood the question well:

Use of $object->first() method to run the code inside if statement once, that is when on the first loop. The same concept is true with $object->last().

    @if($object->first())
        <div class="panel user-list">
          <table id="myCustomTable" class="table table-hover">
              <thead>
                  <tr>
                     <th class="col-email">Email</th>
                  </tr>
              </thead>
              <tbody>
    @endif

    @foreach ($object as $data)
        <tr class="gradeX">
           <td class="col-name"><strong>{{ $data->email }}</strong></td>
        </tr>
    @endforeach

    @if($object->last())
                </tbody>
            </table>
        </div>
    @endif

Value Change Listener to JTextField

The usual answer to this is "use a DocumentListener". However, I always find that interface cumbersome. Truthfully the interface is over-engineered. It has three methods, for insertion, removal, and replacement of text, when it only needs one method: replacement. (An insertion can be viewed as a replacement of no text with some text, and a removal can be viewed as a replacement of some text with no text.)

Usually all you want is to know is when the text in the box has changed, so a typical DocumentListener implementation has the three methods calling one method.

Therefore I made the following utility method, which lets you use a simpler ChangeListener rather than a DocumentListener. (It uses Java 8's lambda syntax, but you can adapt it for old Java if needed.)

/**
 * Installs a listener to receive notification when the text of any
 * {@code JTextComponent} is changed. Internally, it installs a
 * {@link DocumentListener} on the text component's {@link Document},
 * and a {@link PropertyChangeListener} on the text component to detect
 * if the {@code Document} itself is replaced.
 * 
 * @param text any text component, such as a {@link JTextField}
 *        or {@link JTextArea}
 * @param changeListener a listener to receieve {@link ChangeEvent}s
 *        when the text is changed; the source object for the events
 *        will be the text component
 * @throws NullPointerException if either parameter is null
 */
public static void addChangeListener(JTextComponent text, ChangeListener changeListener) {
    Objects.requireNonNull(text);
    Objects.requireNonNull(changeListener);
    DocumentListener dl = new DocumentListener() {
        private int lastChange = 0, lastNotifiedChange = 0;

        @Override
        public void insertUpdate(DocumentEvent e) {
            changedUpdate(e);
        }

        @Override
        public void removeUpdate(DocumentEvent e) {
            changedUpdate(e);
        }

        @Override
        public void changedUpdate(DocumentEvent e) {
            lastChange++;
            SwingUtilities.invokeLater(() -> {
                if (lastNotifiedChange != lastChange) {
                    lastNotifiedChange = lastChange;
                    changeListener.stateChanged(new ChangeEvent(text));
                }
            });
        }
    };
    text.addPropertyChangeListener("document", (PropertyChangeEvent e) -> {
        Document d1 = (Document)e.getOldValue();
        Document d2 = (Document)e.getNewValue();
        if (d1 != null) d1.removeDocumentListener(dl);
        if (d2 != null) d2.addDocumentListener(dl);
        dl.changedUpdate(null);
    });
    Document d = text.getDocument();
    if (d != null) d.addDocumentListener(dl);
}

Unlike with adding a listener directly to the document, this handles the (uncommon) case that you install a new document object on a text component. Additionally, it works around the problem mentioned in Jean-Marc Astesana's answer, where the document sometimes fires more events than it needs to.

Anyway, this method lets you replace annoying code which looks like this:

someTextBox.getDocument().addDocumentListener(new DocumentListener() {
    @Override
    public void insertUpdate(DocumentEvent e) {
        doSomething();
    }

    @Override
    public void removeUpdate(DocumentEvent e) {
        doSomething();
    }

    @Override
    public void changedUpdate(DocumentEvent e) {
        doSomething();
    }
});

With:

addChangeListener(someTextBox, e -> doSomething());

Code released to public domain. Have fun!

Excel 2013 VBA Clear All Filters macro

I found this workaround to work pretty effectively. It basically removes autofilter from the table and then re-applies it, thus removing any previous filters. From my experience this is not prone to the error handling required with the other methods mentioned here.

Set myTable = YOUR_SHEET.ListObjects("YourTableName")

myTable.ShowAutoFilter = False
myTable.ShowAutoFilter = True

HTML form with two submit buttons and two "target" attributes

This works for me:

<input type='submit' name='self' value='This window' onclick='this.form.target="_self";' />

<input type='submit' name='blank' value='New window' onclick='this.form.target="_blank";' />

Provide schema while reading csv file as a dataframe

Here's how you can work with a custom schema, a complete demo:

$> shell code,

echo "
Slingo, iOS 
Slingo, Android
" > game.csv

Scala code:

import org.apache.spark.sql.types._

val customSchema = StructType(Array(
  StructField("game_id", StringType, true),
  StructField("os_id", StringType, true)
))

val csv_df = spark.read.format("csv").schema(customSchema).load("game.csv")
csv_df.show 

csv_df.orderBy(asc("game_id"), desc("os_id")).show
csv_df.createOrReplaceTempView("game_view")
val sort_df = sql("select * from game_view order by game_id, os_id desc")
sort_df.show 

mySQL convert varchar to date

As gratitude to the timely help I got from here - a minor update to above.

$query = "UPDATE `db`.`table` SET `fieldname`=  str_to_date(  fieldname, '%d/%m/%Y')";

Convert comma separated string to array in PL/SQL

Simple Code

    create or replace function get_token(text_is varchar2, token_in number, delim_is varchar2 := ';') return varchar2 is
       text_ls varchar2(2000);
       spos_ln number;
       epos    _ln number;
    begin
       text_ls := delim_is || text_is || rpad(delim_is, token_in, delim_is);
       spos_ln := instr(text_ls, delim_is, 1, token_in);
       epos_ln := instr(text_ls, delim_is, 1, token_in+1);
       return substr(text_ls, spos_ln+1, epos_ln-spos_ln-1);
    end get_token;

Javascript to export html table to Excel

ShieldUI's export to excel functionality should already support all special chars.

Design Android EditText to show error message as described by google

TextInputLayout til = (TextInputLayout)editText.getParent();
til.setErrorEnabled(true);
til.setError("some error..");

Count number of columns in a table row

<table id="table1">
<tr>
  <td colspan=4><input type="text" value="" /></td>

</tr>
<tr>
  <td><input type="text" value="" /></td>
  <td><input type="text" value="" /></td>
  <td><input type="text" value="" /></td>
  <td><input type="text" value="" /></td>

</tr>
<table>
<script>
    var row=document.getElementById('table1').rows.length;
    for(i=0;i<row;i++){
    console.log('Row '+parseFloat(i+1)+' : '+document.getElementById('table1').rows[i].cells.length +' column');
    }
</script>

Result:

Row 1 : 1 column
Row 2 : 4 column

How do I delete an item or object from an array using ng-click?

This is a correct answer:

<a class="btn" ng-click="remove($index)">Delete</a>
$scope.remove=function($index){ 
  $scope.bdays.splice($index,1);     
}

In @charlietfl's answer. I think it's wrong since you pass $index as paramter but you use the wish instead in controller. Correct me if I'm wrong :)

Request header field Access-Control-Allow-Headers is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Headers

In my case, I'm receiving several parameters as @HeaderParam into a web service method.

These parameters MUST be declared in your CORS filter that way:

@Provider
public class CORSFilter implements ContainerResponseFilter {

    @Override
    public void filter(ContainerRequestContext requestContext, ContainerResponseContext responseContext) throws IOException {

        MultivaluedMap<String, Object> headers = responseContext.getHeaders();

        headers.add("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
        ...
        headers.add("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", 
        /*
         * name of the @HeaderParam("name") must be declared here (raw String):
         */
        "name", ...);
        headers.add("Access-Control-Allow-Credentials", "true");
        headers.add("Access-Control-Allow-Methods", "GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS, HEAD");   
    }
}

How do you specify a different port number in SQL Management Studio?

Another way is to setup an alias in Config Manager. Then simply type that alias name when you want to connect. This makes it much easier and is more prefereable when you have to manage several servers/instances and/or servers on multiple ports and/or multiple protocols. Give them friendly names and it becomes much easier to remember them.

Get event listeners attached to node using addEventListener

You can obtain all jQuery events using $._data($('[selector]')[0],'events'); change [selector] to what you need.

There is a plugin that gather all events attached by jQuery called eventsReport.

Also i write my own plugin that do this with better formatting.

But anyway it seems we can't gather events added by addEventListener method. May be we can wrap addEventListener call to store events added after our wrap call.

It seems the best way to see events added to an element with dev tools.

But you will not see delegated events there. So there we need jQuery eventsReport.

UPDATE: NOW We CAN see events added by addEventListener method SEE RIGHT ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION.

Android Material: Status bar color won't change

Make Theme.AppCompat style parent

<style name="AppTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat">
     <item name="android:colorPrimary">#005555</item>
     <item name="android:colorPrimaryDark">#003333</item>
</style>

And put getSupportActionBar().getThemedContext() in onCreate().

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_my);
        getSupportActionBar().getThemedContext();
}

subquery in codeigniter active record

For query: SELECT * FROM (SELECT id, product FROM product) as product you can use:

$sub_query_from = '(SELECT id, product FROM product ) as product';
$this->db->select();
$this->db->from($sub_query_from);
$query = $this->db->get()

Please notice, that in sub_query_from string you must use spaces between ... product ) as...

Running stages in parallel with Jenkins workflow / pipeline

As @Quartz mentioned, you can do something like

stage('Tests') {
    parallel(
        'Unit Tests': {
            container('node') {
                sh("npm test --cat=unit")
            }
        },
        'API Tests': {
            container('node') {
                sh("npm test --cat=acceptance")
            }
        }
    )
}

How to debug a bash script?

I built a Bash debugger. Just give it a try. I hope it will help https://sourceforge.net/projects/bashdebugingbash

How to convert java.sql.timestamp to LocalDate (java8) java.time?

I'll slightly expand @assylias answer to take time zone into account. There are at least two ways to get LocalDateTime for specific time zone.

You can use setDefault time zone for whole application. It should be called before any timestamp -> java.time conversion:

public static void main(String... args) {
    TimeZone utcTimeZone = TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC");
    TimeZone.setDefault(utcTimeZone);
    ...
    timestamp.toLocalDateTime().toLocalDate();
}

Or you can use toInstant.atZone chain:

timestamp.toInstant()
        .atZone(ZoneId.of("UTC"))
        .toLocalDate();

Android: java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: start Intent

I had this problem with this exact activity.

You can't start com.fsck.k9.activity.MessageList from an external activity.

I solved it with:

Intent LaunchK9 = getPackageManager().getLaunchIntentForPackage("com.fsck.k9"); this.startActivity(LaunchK9);

Using http://developer.android.com/reference/android/content/pm/PackageManager.html

How do you copy the contents of an array to a std::vector in C++ without looping?

int dataArray[] = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 };//source

unsigned dataArraySize = sizeof(dataArray) / sizeof(int);

std::vector<int> myvector (dataArraySize );//target

std::copy ( myints, myints+dataArraySize , myvector.begin() );

//myvector now has 1,2,3,...10 :-)

Convert nested Python dict to object?

class Struct(dict):
    def __getattr__(self, name):
        try:
            return self[name]
        except KeyError:
            raise AttributeError(name)

    def __setattr__(self, name, value):
        self[name] = value

    def copy(self):
        return Struct(dict.copy(self))

Usage:

points = Struct(x=1, y=2)
# Changing
points['x'] = 2
points.y = 1
# Accessing
points['x'], points.x, points.get('x') # 2 2 2
points['y'], points.y, points.get('y') # 1 1 1
# Accessing inexistent keys/attrs 
points['z'] # KeyError: z
points.z # AttributeError: z
# Copying
points_copy = points.copy()
points.x = 2
points_copy.x # 1

Iterating a JavaScript object's properties using jQuery

Note: Most modern browsers will now allow you to navigate objects in the developer console. This answer is antiquated.

This method will walk through object properties and write them to the console with increasing indent:

function enumerate(o,s){

    //if s isn't defined, set it to an empty string
    s = typeof s !== 'undefined' ? s : "";

    //if o is null, we need to output and bail
    if(typeof o == "object" && o === null){

       console.log(s+k+": null");

    } else {    

        //iterate across o, passing keys as k and values as v
        $.each(o, function(k,v){

            //if v has nested depth
           if(typeof v == "object" && v !== null){

                //write the key to the console
                console.log(s+k+": ");

                //recursively call enumerate on the nested properties
                enumerate(v,s+"  ");

            } else {

                //log the key & value
                console.log(s+k+": "+String(v));
            }
        });
    }
}

Just pass it the object you want to iterate through:

    var response = $.ajax({
        url: myurl,
        dataType: "json"
    })
    .done(function(a){
       console.log("Returned values:");
       enumerate(a);
    })
    .fail(function(){ console.log("request failed");});

How to fix error "ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python." when trying to install django-heroku using pip

You need to add the package containing the executable pg_config.

A prior answer should have details you need: pg_config executable not found

Running a cron every 30 seconds

You have */30 in the minutes specifier - that means every minute but with a step of 30 (in other words, every half hour). Since cron does not go down to sub-minute resolutions, you will need to find another way.

One possibility, though it's a bit of a kludge(a), is to have two jobs, one offset by 30 seconds:

# Need these to run on 30-sec boundaries, keep commands in sync.
* * * * *              /path/to/executable param1 param2
* * * * * ( sleep 30 ; /path/to/executable param1 param2 )

You'll see I've added comments and formatted to ensure it's easy to keep them synchronised.

Both cron jobs actually run every minute but the latter one will wait half a minute before executing the "meat" of the job, /path/to/executable.

For other (non-cron-based) options, see the other answers here, particularly the ones mentioning fcron and systemd. These are probably preferable assuming your system has the ability to use them (such as installing fcron or having a distro with systemd in it).


If you don't want to use the kludgy solution, you can use a loop-based solution with a small modification. You'll still have to manage keeping your process running in some form but, once that's sorted, the following script should work:

#!/bin/env bash

# Debug code to start on minute boundary and to
# gradually increase maximum payload duration to
# see what happens when the payload exceeds 30 seconds.

((maxtime = 20))
while [[ "$(date +%S)" != "00" ]]; do true; done

while true; do
    # Start a background timer BEFORE the payload runs.

    sleep 30 &

    # Execute the payload, some random duration up to the limit.
    # Extra blank line if excess payload.

    ((delay = RANDOM % maxtime + 1))
    ((maxtime += 1))
    echo "$(date) Sleeping for ${delay} seconds (max ${maxtime})."
    [[ ${delay} -gt 30 ]] && echo
    sleep ${delay}

    # Wait for timer to finish before next cycle.

    wait
done

The trick is to use a sleep 30 but to start it in the background before your payload runs. Then, after the payload is finished, just wait for the background sleep to finish.

If the payload takes n seconds (where n <= 30), the wait after the payload will then be 30 - n seconds. If it takes more than 30 seconds, then the next cycle will be delayed until the payload is finished, but no longer.

You'll see that I have debug code in there to start on a one-minute boundary to make the output initially easier to follow. I also gradually increase the maximum payload time so you'll eventually see the payload exceed the 30-second cycle time (an extra blank line is output so the effect is obvious).

A sample run follows (where cycles normally start 30 seconds after the previous cycle):

Tue May 26 20:56:00 AWST 2020 Sleeping for 9 seconds (max 21).
Tue May 26 20:56:30 AWST 2020 Sleeping for 19 seconds (max 22).
Tue May 26 20:57:00 AWST 2020 Sleeping for 9 seconds (max 23).
Tue May 26 20:57:30 AWST 2020 Sleeping for 7 seconds (max 24).
Tue May 26 20:58:00 AWST 2020 Sleeping for 2 seconds (max 25).
Tue May 26 20:58:30 AWST 2020 Sleeping for 8 seconds (max 26).
Tue May 26 20:59:00 AWST 2020 Sleeping for 20 seconds (max 27).
Tue May 26 20:59:30 AWST 2020 Sleeping for 25 seconds (max 28).
Tue May 26 21:00:00 AWST 2020 Sleeping for 5 seconds (max 29).
Tue May 26 21:00:30 AWST 2020 Sleeping for 6 seconds (max 30).
Tue May 26 21:01:00 AWST 2020 Sleeping for 27 seconds (max 31).
Tue May 26 21:01:30 AWST 2020 Sleeping for 25 seconds (max 32).
Tue May 26 21:02:00 AWST 2020 Sleeping for 15 seconds (max 33).
Tue May 26 21:02:30 AWST 2020 Sleeping for 10 seconds (max 34).
Tue May 26 21:03:00 AWST 2020 Sleeping for 5 seconds (max 35).
Tue May 26 21:03:30 AWST 2020 Sleeping for 35 seconds (max 36).

Tue May 26 21:04:05 AWST 2020 Sleeping for 2 seconds (max 37).
Tue May 26 21:04:35 AWST 2020 Sleeping for 20 seconds (max 38).
Tue May 26 21:05:05 AWST 2020 Sleeping for 22 seconds (max 39).
Tue May 26 21:05:35 AWST 2020 Sleeping for 18 seconds (max 40).
Tue May 26 21:06:05 AWST 2020 Sleeping for 33 seconds (max 41).

Tue May 26 21:06:38 AWST 2020 Sleeping for 31 seconds (max 42).

Tue May 26 21:07:09 AWST 2020 Sleeping for 6 seconds (max 43).

If you want to avoid the kludgy solution, this is probably better. You'll still need a cron job (or equivalent) to periodically detect if this script is running and, if not, start it. But the script itself then handles the timing.


(a) Some of my workmates would say that kludges are my specialty :-)

minimum double value in C/C++

Try this:

-1 * numeric_limits<double>::max()

Reference: numeric_limits

This class is specialized for each of the fundamental types, with its members returning or set to the different values that define the properties that type has in the specific platform in which it compiles.

make an html svg object also a clickable link

i tried this clean easy method and seems to work in all browsers. Inside the svg file:

_x000D_
_x000D_
<svg>_x000D_
<a id="anchor" xlink:href="http://www.google.com" target="_top">_x000D_
  _x000D_
<!--your graphic-->_x000D_
  _x000D_
</a>_x000D_
</svg>_x000D_
  
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Facebook OAuth "The domain of this URL isn't included in the app's domain"

This same Facebook error happened to me in the Production environment. The reason was I had 2 apps registered with Facebook (Local, Production) but I hardcoded the Local app ID into the source code and forgot to switch it out for the Production app ID before deployment.

Best practice dictates you shouldn't have the app ID hardcoded into the source code but if you do, do not mismatch your various Facebook app IDs like I mistakenly did.

What is __gxx_personality_v0 for?

Exception handling is included in free standing implementations.

The reason of this is that you possibly use gcc to compile your code. If you compile with the option -### you will notice it is missing the linker-option -lstdc++ when it invokes the linker process . Compiling with g++ will include that library, and thus the symbols defined in it.

How to delete object?

You can proxyfy references to your object with, for example, dictionary singleton. You may store not object, but its ID or hash and access it trought the dictionary. Then when you need to remove the object you set value for its key to null.

How to convert an image to base64 encoding?

Use also this way to represent image in base64 encode format... find PHP function file_get_content and next to use function base64_encode

and get result to prepare str as data:" . file_mime_type . " base64_encoded string. Use it in img src attribute. see following code can I help for you.

// A few settings
$img_file = 'raju.jpg';

// Read image path, convert to base64 encoding
$imgData = base64_encode(file_get_contents($img_file));

// Format the image SRC:  data:{mime};base64,{data};
$src = 'data: '.mime_content_type($img_file).';base64,'.$imgData;

// Echo out a sample image
echo '<img src="'.$src.'">';

Should Gemfile.lock be included in .gitignore?

Assuming you're not writing a rubygem, Gemfile.lock should be in your repository. It's used as a snapshot of all your required gems and their dependencies. This way bundler doesn't have to recalculate all the gem dependencies each time you deploy, etc.

From cowboycoded's comment below:

If you are working on a gem, then DO NOT check in your Gemfile.lock. If you are working on a Rails app, then DO check in your Gemfile.lock.

Here's a nice article explaining what the lock file is.

How do I make UITableViewCell's ImageView a fixed size even when the image is smaller

This solution essentially draws the image as 'aspect fit' within the given rect.

CGSize itemSize = CGSizeMake(80, 80);
UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(itemSize, NO, UIScreen.mainScreen.scale);
UIImage *image = cell.imageView.image;

CGRect imageRect;
if(image.size.height > image.size.width) {
    CGFloat width = itemSize.height * image.size.width / image.size.height;
    imageRect = CGRectMake((itemSize.width - width) / 2, 0, width, itemSize.height);
} else {
    CGFloat height = itemSize.width * image.size.height / image.size.width;
    imageRect = CGRectMake(0, (itemSize.height - height) / 2, itemSize.width, height);
}

[cell.imageView.image drawInRect:imageRect];
cell.imageView.image = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

Jquery - animate height toggle

You can use the toggle-event(docs) method to assign 2 (or more) handlers that toggle with each click.

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/SQHQ2/1/

$("#topbar").toggle(function(){
    $(this).animate({height:40},200);
},function(){
    $(this).animate({height:10},200);
});

or you could create your own toggle behavior:

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/SQHQ2/

$("#topbar").click((function() {
    var i = 0;
    return function(){
        $(this).animate({height:(++i % 2) ? 40 : 10},200);
    }
})());

Use of "this" keyword in formal parameters for static methods in C#

Scott Gu's quoted blog post explains it nicely.

For me, the answer to the question is in the following statement in that post:

Note how the static method above has a "this" keyword before the first parameter argument of type string. This tells the compiler that this particular Extension Method should be added to objects of type "string". Within the IsValidEmailAddress() method implementation I can then access all of the public properties/methods/events of the actual string instance that the method is being called on, and return true/false depending on whether it is a valid email or not.

Test class with a new() call in it with Mockito

Not that I know of, but what about doing something like this when you create an instance of TestedClass that you want to test:

TestedClass toTest = new TestedClass() {
    public LoginContext login(String user, String password) {
        //return mocked LoginContext
    }
};

Another option would be to use Mockito to create an instance of TestedClass and let the mocked instance return a LoginContext.

Integrating the ZXing library directly into my Android application

Since some of the answers are outdated, I would like to provide my own -

To integrate ZXing library into your Android app as suggested by their Wiki, you need to add 2 Java files to your project:

Then in Android Studio add the following line to build.gradle file:

dependencies {
    ....
    compile 'com.google.zxing:core:3.2.1'
}

Or if still using Eclipse with ADT-plugin add core.jar file to the libs subdirectory of your project (here fullscreen Windows and fullscreen Mac):

Windows screenshot

Finally add this code to your MainActivity.java:

public void scanQRCode(View v) {
    IntentIntegrator integrator = new IntentIntegrator(MainActivity.this);
    integrator.initiateScan(IntentIntegrator.QR_CODE_TYPES);
}

@Override
public void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent intent) {
    IntentResult result = 
        IntentIntegrator.parseActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, intent);
    if (result != null) {
        String contents = result.getContents();
        if (contents != null) {
            showDialog(R.string.result_succeeded, result.toString());
        } else {
            showDialog(R.string.result_failed,
                getString(R.string.result_failed_why));
        }
    }
}

private void showDialog(int title, CharSequence message) {
    AlertDialog.Builder builder = new AlertDialog.Builder(this);
    builder.setTitle(title);
    builder.setMessage(message);
    builder.setPositiveButton(R.string.ok_button, null);
    builder.show();
}

The resulting app will ask to install and start Barcode Scanner app by ZXing (which will return to your app automatically after scanning):

Barcode Scanner app

Additionally, if you would like to build and run the ZXing Test app as inspiration for your own app:

ZXing Test app

Then you need 4 Java files from GitHub:

  • BenchmarkActivity.java
  • BenchmarkAsyncTask.java
  • BenchmarkItem.java
  • ZXingTestActivity.java

And 3 Jar files from Maven repository:

  • core.jar
  • android-core.jar
  • android-integration.jar

(You can build the Jar files yourself with mvn package - if your check out ZXing from GitHub and install ant and maven tools at your computer).

Note: if your project does not recognize the Jar files, you might need to up the Java version in the Project Properties:

properties screenshot

Javascript - remove an array item by value

tag_story.splice(tag_story.indexOf(id_tag), 1);

How to Maximize a firefox browser window using Selenium WebDriver with node.js

driver.manage().window().maximize() ;

works perfectly and at the very beginning it maximizes the window. Does not wait to load any page.

How to get a list of programs running with nohup

When I started with $ nohup storm dev-zookeper ,

METHOD1 : using jobs,

prayagupd@prayagupd:/home/vmfest# jobs -l
[1]+ 11129 Running                 nohup ~/bin/storm/bin/storm dev-zookeeper &

METHOD2 : using ps command.

$ ps xw
PID  TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
1031 tty1     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/getty -8 38400 tty1
10582 ?        S      0:01 [kworker/0:0]
10826 ?        Sl     0:18 java -server -Dstorm.options= -Dstorm.home=/root/bin/storm -Djava.library.path=/usr/local/lib:/opt/local/lib:/usr/lib -Dsto
10853 ?        Ss     0:00 sshd: vmfest [priv] 

TTY column with ? => nohup running programs.

Description

  • TTY column = the terminal associated with the process
  • STAT column = state of a process
    • S = interruptible sleep (waiting for an event to complete)
    • l = is multi-threaded (using CLONE_THREAD, like NPTL pthreads do)

Reference

$ man ps # then search /PROCESS STATE CODES

GridView must be placed inside a form tag with runat="server" even after the GridView is within a form tag

Here is My Code

protected void btnExcel_Click(object sender, ImageClickEventArgs e)
    {
        if (gvDetail.Rows.Count > 0)
        {
            System.IO.StringWriter stringWrite1 = new System.IO.StringWriter();
            System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter htmlWrite1 = new HtmlTextWriter(stringWrite1);
            gvDetail.RenderControl(htmlWrite1);

            gvDetail.AllowPaging = false;
            Search();
            sh.ExportToExcel(gvDetail, "Report");
        }
    }

    public override void VerifyRenderingInServerForm(Control control)
    {
        /* Confirms that an HtmlForm control is rendered for the specified ASP.NET
           server control at run time. */
    }

What is C# equivalent of <map> in C++?

.NET Framework provides many collection classes too. You can use Dictionary in C#. Please find the below msdn link for details and samples http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xfhwa508.aspx

JPQL SELECT between date statement

public List<Student> findStudentByReports(Date startDate, Date endDate) {
    System.out.println("call findStudentMethd******************with this pattern"
                    + startDate
                    + endDate
                    + "*********************************************");

    return em
            .createQuery(
                    "' select attendence from Attendence attendence where attendence.admissionDate BETWEEN : startDate '' AND endDate ''"
                            + "'")
            .setParameter("startDate", startDate, TemporalType.DATE)
            .setParameter("endDate", endDate, TemporalType.DATE)
            .getResultList();

}

How to open a link in new tab (chrome) using Selenium WebDriver?

There are multiple ways to open a link in new tab in using Selenium WebDriver.


Usecase A: Opening an adjacent blank tab and iterating through an iterator

  • Code Block:

    import java.util.Iterator;
    import java.util.Set;
    
    import org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptExecutor;
    import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
    import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
    import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeOptions;
    import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;
    import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;
    
    public class NewTab_blank_iterator {
    
        public static void main(String[] args) {
    
            System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","C:\\WebDrivers\\chromedriver.exe");
            ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
            options.addArguments("start-maximized");
            WebDriver driver =  new ChromeDriver(options); 
            driver.get("https://mail.google.com/");
            String firstWindowHandle = driver.getWindowHandle();
            System.out.println("First Window Handle is: "+firstWindowHandle);
            // Opening an adjacent blank tab
            ((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("window.open('','_blank');");
            new WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(ExpectedConditions.numberOfWindowsToBe(2));
            Set<String> allWindowHandles = driver.getWindowHandles();
            // Using iterator
            Iterator<String> itr = allWindowHandles.iterator();
            while(itr.hasNext()) {
                String nextWindow = itr.next();
                if(!firstWindowHandle.equalsIgnoreCase(nextWindow)) {
                    driver.switchTo().window(nextWindow);
                    System.out.println("New Tab Window Handle is: "+nextWindow);
                }
            }
        }
    }
    
  • Console Output:

    First Window Handle is: CDwindow-0D89767363ED691767000F01E6712D0B
    New Tab Window Handle is: CDwindow-7232D2058514ED22344F129D30A0CCE7
    
  • Browser Snapshot:

blank_tab


Usecase B: Opening an adjacent tab with an url and and iterating through an iterator

  • Code Block:

    import java.util.Iterator;
    import java.util.Set;
    
    import org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptExecutor;
    import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
    import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
    import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeOptions;
    import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.ExpectedConditions;
    import org.openqa.selenium.support.ui.WebDriverWait;
    
    public class NewTab_url_forLoop {
    
        public static void main(String[] args) {
    
            System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","C:\\WebDrivers\\chromedriver.exe");
            ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
            options.addArguments("start-maximized");
            WebDriver driver =  new ChromeDriver(options); 
            String url1 = "https://mail.google.com/";
            String url2 = "https://www.facebook.com/";
            driver.get(url1);
            String firstWindowHandle = driver.getWindowHandle();
            System.out.println("First Window Handle is: "+firstWindowHandle);
            // Opening Facebook in the adjacent TAB
            ((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript("window.open('" + url2 +"');");
            new WebDriverWait(driver, 10).until(ExpectedConditions.numberOfWindowsToBe(2));
            Set<String> allWindowHandles = driver.getWindowHandles();
            // Using iterator
            Iterator<String> itr = allWindowHandles.iterator();
            while(itr.hasNext()) {
                String nextWindow = itr.next();
                if(!firstWindowHandle.equalsIgnoreCase(nextWindow)) {
                    driver.switchTo().window(nextWindow);
                    System.out.println("New Tab Window Handle is: "+nextWindow);
                }
            }
        }
    }
    
  • Console Output:

    First Window Handle is: CDwindow-01F5622275A2EA2C1ABE2F0CDEB3D09B
    New Tab Window Handle is: CDwindow-9E3349B91FB2FA4D5B7D4A90D0E87BD3
    
  • Browser Snapshot:

url_tab

How to call one shell script from another shell script?

There are a couple of different ways you can do this:

  1. Make the other script executable, add the #!/bin/bash line at the top, and the path where the file is to the $PATH environment variable. Then you can call it as a normal command;

  2. Or call it with the source command (alias is .) like this: source /path/to/script;

  3. Or use the bash command to execute it: /bin/bash /path/to/script;

The first and third methods execute the script as another process, so variables and functions in the other script will not be accessible.
The second method executes the script in the first script's process, and pulls in variables and functions from the other script so they are usable from the calling script.

In the second method, if you are using exit in second script, it will exit the first script as well. Which will not happen in first and third methods.

wait until all threads finish their work in java

try this, will work.

  Thread[] threads = new Thread[10];

  List<Thread> allThreads = new ArrayList<Thread>();

  for(Thread thread : threads){

        if(null != thread){

              if(thread.isAlive()){

                    allThreads.add(thread);

              }

        }

  }

  while(!allThreads.isEmpty()){

        Iterator<Thread> ite = allThreads.iterator();

        while(ite.hasNext()){

              Thread thread = ite.next();

              if(!thread.isAlive()){

                   ite.remove();
              }

        }

   }

Download image with JavaScript

The problem is that jQuery doesn't trigger the native click event for <a> elements so that navigation doesn't happen (the normal behavior of an <a>), so you need to do that manually. For almost all other scenarios, the native DOM event is triggered (at least attempted to - it's in a try/catch).

To trigger it manually, try:

var a = $("<a>")
    .attr("href", "http://i.stack.imgur.com/L8rHf.png")
    .attr("download", "img.png")
    .appendTo("body");

a[0].click();

a.remove();

DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/HTggQ/

Relevant line in current jQuery source: https://github.com/jquery/jquery/blob/1.11.1/src/event.js#L332

if ( (!special._default || special._default.apply( eventPath.pop(), data ) === false) &&
        jQuery.acceptData( elem ) ) {

How to undo the last commit in git

Try simply to reset last commit using --soft flag

git reset --soft HEAD~1

Note :

For Windows, wrap the HEAD parts in quotes like git reset --soft "HEAD~1"

How to deal with page breaks when printing a large HTML table

I faced the same problem and search everywhere for a solution, at last, I fount something which works for me for every browsers.

html {
height: 0;
}

use this css or Instead of css you can have this javascript

$("html").height(0);

Hope this will work for you as well.

unix - count of columns in file

You could try

cat FILE | awk '{print NF}'

SQLite add Primary Key

sqlite>  create table t(id integer, col2 varchar(32), col3 varchar(8));
sqlite>  insert into t values(1, 'he', 'ha');
sqlite>
sqlite>  create table t2(id integer primary key, col2 varchar(32), col3 varchar(8));
sqlite>  insert into t2 select * from t;
sqlite> .schema
CREATE TABLE t(id integer, col2 varchar(32), col3 varchar(8));
CREATE TABLE t2(id integer primary key, col2 varchar(32), col3 varchar(8));
sqlite> drop table t;
sqlite> alter table t2 rename to t;
sqlite> .schema
CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS "t"(id integer primary key, col2 varchar(32), col3 varchar(8));

How to use JavaScript variables in jQuery selectors?

$("#" + $(this).attr("name")).hide();

How to edit hosts file via CMD?

echo 0.0.0.0 websitename.com >> %WINDIR%\System32\Drivers\Etc\Hosts

the >> appends the output of echo to the file.

Note that there are two reasons this might not work like you want it to. You may be aware of these, but I mention them just in case.

First, it won't affect a web browser, for example, that already has the current, "real" IP address resolved. So, it won't always take effect right away.

Second, it requires you to add an entry for every host name on a domain; just adding websitename.com will not block www.websitename.com, for example.

What is the correct way to start a mongod service on linux / OS X?

I did a bit of looking around on the Mac side. You may want to use the installer here as it looks like it does all the setup for you to automatically launch on Mac OS. The only downside is it looks like it's using a pretty old mongo version.

This link here also explains the setup to get mongo automatically launching as a background service on the Mac.

.NET Out Of Memory Exception - Used 1.3GB but have 16GB installed

Its worth mentioning that the default for an 'Any CPU' compile now checks the 'Prefer 32bit' check box. Being set to AnyCPU, on a 64bit OS with 16gb of RAM can still hit an out of memory exception at 2gb if this is checked.

Prefer32BitCheckBox

Updating a java map entry

Use

table.put(key, val);

to add a new key/value pair or overwrite an existing key's value.

From the Javadocs:

V put(K key, V value): Associates the specified value with the specified key in this map (optional operation). If the map previously contained a mapping for the key, the old value is replaced by the specified value. (A map m is said to contain a mapping for a key k if and only if m.containsKey(k) would return true.)

Documentation for using JavaScript code inside a PDF file

Probably you are looking for JavaScript™ for Acrobat® API Reference.

This reference should be the most complete. But, as @Orbling said, not all PDF viewers might support all of the API.

EDIT:

It turns out there are newer versions of the reference in Acrobat SDK (thanks to @jss).

Acrobat Developer Center contains links to different versions of documentation. Current version of JavaScript reference from Acrobat DC SDK is available there too.

Entity Framework Timeouts

Usually I handle my operations within a transaction. As I've experienced, it is not enough to set the context command timeout, but the transaction needs a constructor with a timeout parameter. I had to set both time out values for it to work properly.

int? prevto = uow.Context.Database.CommandTimeout;
uow.Context.Database.CommandTimeout = 900;
using (TransactionScope scope = new TransactionScope(TransactionScopeOption.Required, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(900))) {
...
}

At the end of the function I set back the command timeout to the previous value in prevto.

Using EF6

How to create a oracle sql script spool file

In order to execute a spool file in plsql Go to File->New->command window -> paste your code-> execute. Got to the directory and u will find the file.

How to style a clicked button in CSS

There are three states of button

  • Normal : You can select like this button
  • Hover : You can select like this button:hover
  • Pressed/Clicked : You can select like this button:active

Normal:

.button
 {
     //your css
 }

Active

 .button:active
{
        //your css
}

Hover

 .button:hover
{
        //your css
}

SNIPPET:

Use :active to style the active state of button.

_x000D_
_x000D_
button:active{_x000D_
   background-color:red;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<button>Click Me</button>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

How can I make a JUnit test wait?

There is a general problem: it's hard to mock time. Also, it's really bad practice to place long running/waiting code in a unit test.

So, for making a scheduling API testable, I used an interface with a real and a mock implementation like this:

public interface Clock {
    
    public long getCurrentMillis();
    
    public void sleep(long millis) throws InterruptedException;
    
}

public static class SystemClock implements Clock {

    @Override
    public long getCurrentMillis() {
        return System.currentTimeMillis();
    }

    @Override
    public void sleep(long millis) throws InterruptedException {
        Thread.sleep(millis);
    }
    
}

public static class MockClock implements Clock {

    private final AtomicLong currentTime = new AtomicLong(0);
    

    public MockClock() {
        this(System.currentTimeMillis());
    }
    
    public MockClock(long currentTime) {
        this.currentTime.set(currentTime);
    }
    

    @Override
    public long getCurrentMillis() {
        return currentTime.addAndGet(5);
    }

    @Override
    public void sleep(long millis) {
        currentTime.addAndGet(millis);
    }
    
}

With this, you could imitate time in your test:

@Test
public void testExpiration() {
    MockClock clock = new MockClock();
    SomeCacheObject sco = new SomeCacheObject();
    sco.putWithExpiration("foo", 1000);
    clock.sleep(2000) // wait for 2 seconds
    assertNull(sco.getIfNotExpired("foo"));
}

An advanced multi-threading mock for Clock is much more complex, of course, but you can make it with ThreadLocal references and a good time synchronization strategy, for example.

How to start working with GTest and CMake

Just as an update to @Patricia's comment in the accepted answer and @Fraser's comment for the original question, if you have access to CMake 3.11+ you can make use of CMake's FetchContent function.

CMake's FetchContent page uses googletest as an example!

I've provided a small modification of the accepted answer:

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.11)
project(basic_test)

set(GTEST_VERSION 1.6.0 CACHE STRING "Google test version")

################################
# GTest
################################
FetchContent_Declare(googletest
GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/google/googletest.git
GIT_TAG release-${GTEST_VERSION})

FetchContent_GetProperties(googletest)
if(NOT googletest_POPULATED)
  FetchContent_Populate(googletest)
  add_subdirectory(${googletest_SOURCE_DIR} ${googletest_BINARY_DIR})
endif()

enable_testing()

################################
# Unit Tests
################################
# Add test cpp file
add_executable(runUnitTests testgtest.cpp)

# Include directories
target_include_directories(runUnitTests 
                      $<TARGET_PROPERTY:gtest,INTERFACE_SYSTEM_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES>
                      $<TARGET_PROPERTY:gtest_main,INTERFACE_SYSTEM_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES>)

# Link test executable against gtest & gtest_main
target_link_libraries(runUnitTests gtest
                                   gtest_main)

add_test(runUnitTests runUnitTests)

You can use the INTERFACE_SYSTEM_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES target property of the gtest and gtest_main targets as they are set in the google test CMakeLists.txt script.

Check if String / Record exists in DataTable

I think that if your "item_manuf_id" is the primary key of the DataTable you could use the Find method ...

string s = "stringValue";
DataRow foundRow = dtPs.Rows.Find(s);
if(foundRow != null) {
 //You have it ...
 }

Can an Android Toast be longer than Toast.LENGTH_LONG?

I know the answer is quite late .. I had the very same issue and decided to implement my own version of bare bones Toast , after looking into android's source code for toast .

Basically you need to create a new Window manager , and show and hide the window for the desired duration duration using a handler

 //Create your handler
 Handler mHandler = new Handler();

//Custom Toast Layout
mLayout = layoutInflater.inflate(R.layout.customtoast, null);

//Initialisation 

mWindowManager = (WindowManager) context.getApplicationContext()
            .getSystemService(Context.WINDOW_SERVICE);
WindowManager.LayoutParams params = new WindowManager.LayoutParams();

params.gravity = Gravity.BOTTOM
params.height = WindowManager.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT;
params.width = WindowManager.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT;
params.flags = WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_FOCUSABLE
                | WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_NOT_TOUCHABLE
                | WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_KEEP_SCREEN_ON;
params.format = PixelFormat.TRANSLUCENT;
params.windowAnimations = android.R.style.Animation_Toast;
params.type = WindowManager.LayoutParams.TYPE_TOAST;

After initialization of the layout you can use your own hide and show methods

    public void handleShow() {
    mWindowManager.addView(mLayout, mParams);
    }

    public void handleHide() {
        if (mLayout != null) {
            if (mLayout.getParent() != null) {
                mWindowManager.removeView(mLayout);
            }
                         mLayout = null;
        }

Now all you need is to add two runnable threads which calls the handleShow() and the handleHide() which you could post to the Handler.

    Runnable toastShowRunnable = new Runnable() {
        public void run() {
            handleShow();
        }
    };

 Runnable toastHideRunnable = new Runnable() {
        public void run() {
            handleHide();
        }
    }; 

and the final part

public void show() {

    mHandler.post(toastShowRunnable);
    //The duration that you want
    mHandler.postDelayed(toastHideRunnable, mDuration);

}

This was a quick and dirty implementation .. Have not taken any performance into consideration .

Display number with leading zeros

In Python >= 3.6, you can do this succinctly with the new f-strings that were introduced by using:

f'{val:02}'

which prints the variable with name val with a fill value of 0 and a width of 2.

For your specific example you can do this nicely in a loop:

a, b, c = 1, 10, 100
for val in [a, b, c]:
    print(f'{val:02}')

which prints:

01 
10
100

For more information on f-strings, take a look at PEP 498 where they were introduced.