Programs & Examples On #Castor

Castor is an open source data binding framework.

Spring data jpa- No bean named 'entityManagerFactory' is defined; Injection of autowired dependencies failed

In your application context, change the bean with id from emf to entityManagerFactory:

<bean id="emf"
    class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
    <property name="packagesToScan" value="org.wahid.cse.entity" />
    <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />

    <property name="jpaProperties">
        <props>
            <prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">create</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</prop>
        </props>
    </property>

    <property name="persistenceProvider">
        <bean class="org.hibernate.jpa.HibernatePersistenceProvider"></bean>
    </property>

</bean>

To

<bean id="entityManagerFactory"
    class="org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean">
    <property name="packagesToScan" value="org.wahid.cse.entity" />
    <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />

    <property name="jpaProperties">
        <props>
            <prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">create</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</prop>
        </props>
    </property>

    <property name="persistenceProvider">
        <bean class="org.hibernate.jpa.HibernatePersistenceProvider"></bean>
    </property>

</bean>

How can I use jQuery to move a div across the screen

Here i have done complete bins for above query. below is demo link, i think it may help you

Demo: http://codebins.com/bin/4ldqp9b/1

HTML:

<div id="edge">
  <div class="box" style="top:20; background:#f8a2a4;">
  </div>
  <div class="box" style="top:70; background:#a2f8a4;">
  </div>
  <div class="box" style="top:120; background:#5599fd;">
  </div>
</div>
<br/>
<input type="button" id="btnAnimate" name="btnAnimate" value="Animate" />

CSS:

body{
  background:#ffffef;
}
#edge{
  width:500px;
  height:200px;
  border:1px solid #3377af;
  padding:5px;
}

.box{
  position:absolute;
  left:10;
  width:40px;
  height:40px;
  border:1px solid #a82244;
}

JQuery:

$(function() {
    $("#btnAnimate").click(function() {
        var move = "";
        if ($(".box:eq(0)").css('left') == "10px") {
            move = "+=" + ($("#edge").width() - 35);
        } else {
            move = "-=" + ($("#edge").width() - 35);
        }
        $(".box").animate({
            left: move
        }, 500, function() {
            if ($(".box:eq(0)").css('left') == "475px") {
                $(this).css('background', '#afa799');
            } else {
                $(".box:eq(0)").css('background', '#f8a2a4');
                $(".box:eq(1)").css('background', '#a2f8a4');
                $(".box:eq(2)").css('background', '#5599fd');
            }

        });
    });
});

Demo: http://codebins.com/bin/4ldqp9b/1

PHP Get name of current directory

echo basename(__DIR__); will return the current directory name only
echo basename(__FILE__); will return the current file name only

How to make a copy of an object in C#

Properties in your object are value types and you can use the shallow copy in such situation like that:

obj myobj2 = (obj)myobj.MemberwiseClone();

But in other situations, like if any members are reference types, then you need Deep Copy. You can get a deep copy of an object using Serialization and Deserialization techniques with the help of BinaryFormatter class:

public static T DeepCopy<T>(T other)
{
    using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
    {
        BinaryFormatter formatter = new BinaryFormatter();
        formatter.Context = new StreamingContext(StreamingContextStates.Clone);
        formatter.Serialize(ms, other);
        ms.Position = 0;
        return (T)formatter.Deserialize(ms);
    }
}

The purpose of setting StreamingContext: We can introduce special serialization and deserialization logic to our code with the help of either implementing ISerializable interface or using built-in attributes like OnDeserialized, OnDeserializing, OnSerializing, OnSerialized. In all cases StreamingContext will be passed as an argument to the methods(and to the special constructor in case of ISerializable interface). With setting ContextState to Clone, we are just giving hint to that method about the purpose of the serialization.

Additional Info: (you can also read this article from MSDN)

Shallow copying is creating a new object and then copying the nonstatic fields of the current object to the new object. If a field is a value type, a bit-by-bit copy of the field is performed; for a reference type, the reference is copied but the referred object is not; therefore the original object and its clone refer to the same object.

Deep copy is creating a new object and then copying the nonstatic fields of the current object to the new object. If a field is a value type, a bit-by-bit copy of the field is performed. If a field is a reference type, a new copy of the referred object is performed.

Parse string to DateTime in C#

Try the following code

Month = Date = DateTime.Now.Month.ToString();   
Year = DateTime.Now.Year.ToString(); 
ViewBag.Today = System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture.DateTimeFormat.GetMonthName(Int32.Parse(Month)) + Year;

Where does linux store my syslog?

Logging is very configurable in Linux, and you might want to look into your /etc/syslog.conf (or perhaps under /etc/rsyslog.d/). Details depend upon the logging subsystem, and the distribution.

Look also into files under /var/log/ (and perhaps run dmesg for kernel logs).

How do I point Crystal Reports at a new database

Use the Database menu and "Set Datasource Location" menu option to change the name or location of each table in a report.

This works for changing the location of a database, changing to a new database, and changing the location or name of an individual table being used in your report.

To change the datasource connection, go the Database menu and click Set Datasource Location.

  1. Change the Datasource Connection:
    1. From the Current Data Source list (the top box), click once on the datasource connection that you want to change.
    2. In the Replace with list (the bottom box), click once on the new datasource connection.
    3. Click Update.
  2. Change Individual Tables:
    1. From the Current Data Source list (the top box), expand the datasource connection that you want to change.
    2. Find the table for which you want to update the location or name.
    3. In the Replace with list (the bottom box), expand the new datasource connection.
    4. Find the new table you want to update to point to.
    5. Click Update.
    6. Note that if the table name has changed, the old table name will still appear in the Field Explorer even though it is now using the new table. (You can confirm this be looking at the Table Name of the table's properties in Current Data Source in Set Datasource Location. Screenshot http://i.imgur.com/gzGYVTZ.png) It's possible to rename the old table name to the new name from the context menu in Database Expert -> Selected Tables.
  3. Change Subreports:
    1. Repeat each of the above steps for any subreports you might have embedded in your report.
    2. Close the Set Datasource Location window.
  4. Any Commands or SQL Expressions:
    1. Go to the Database menu and click Database Expert.
    2. If the report designer used "Add Command" to write custom SQL it will be shown in the Selected Tables box on the right.
    3. Right click that command and choose "Edit Command".
    4. Check if that SQL is specifying a specific database. If so you might need to change it.
    5. Close the Database Expert window.
    6. In the Field Explorer pane on the right, right click any SQL Expressions.
    7. Check if the SQL Expressions are specifying a specific database. If so you might need to change it also.
    8. Save and close your Formula Editor window when you're done editing.

And try running the report again.

The key is to change the datasource connection first, then any tables you need to update, then the other stuff. The connection won't automatically change the tables underneath. Those tables are like goslings that've imprinted on the first large goose-like animal they see. They'll continue to bypass all reason and logic and go to where they've always gone unless you specifically manually change them.

To make it more convenient, here's a tip: You can "Show SQL Query" in the Database menu, and you'll see table names qualified with the database (like "Sales"."dbo"."Customers") for any tables that go straight to a specific database. That might make the hunting easier if you have a lot of stuff going on. When I tackled this problem I had to change each and every table to point to the new table in the new database.

Marker content (infoWindow) Google Maps

We've solved this, although we didn't think having the addListener outside of the for would make any difference, it seems to. Here's the answer:

Create a new function with your information for the infoWindow in it:

function addInfoWindow(marker, message) {

            var infoWindow = new google.maps.InfoWindow({
                content: message
            });

            google.maps.event.addListener(marker, 'click', function () {
                infoWindow.open(map, marker);
            });
        }

Then call the function with the array ID and the marker you want to create:

addInfoWindow(marker, hotels[i][3]);

How to find and replace string?

Yes: replace_all is one of the boost string algorithms:

Although it's not a standard library, it has a few things on the standard library:

  1. More natural notation based on ranges rather than iterator pairs. This is nice because you can nest string manipulations (e.g., replace_all nested inside a trim). That's a bit more involved for the standard library functions.
  2. Completeness. This isn't hard to be 'better' at; the standard library is fairly spartan. For example, the boost string algorithms give you explicit control over how string manipulations are performed (i.e., in place or through a copy).

How do I protect javascript files?

I know that this is the wrong time to be answering this question but i just thought of something

i know it might be stressful but atleast it might still work

Now the trick is to create a lot of server side encoding scripts, they have to be decodable(for example a script that replaces all vowels with numbers and add the letter 'a' to every consonant so that the word 'bat' becomes ba1ta) then create a script that will randomize between the encoding scripts and create a cookie with the name of the encoding script being used (quick tip: try not to use the actual name of the encoding script for the cookie for example if our cookie is name 'encoding_script_being_used' and the randomizing script chooses an encoding script named MD10 try not to use MD10 as the value of the cookie but 'encoding_script4567656' just to prevent guessing) then after the cookie has been created another script will check for the cookie named 'encoding_script_being_used' and get the value, then it will determine what encoding script is being used.

Now the reason for randomizing between the encoding scripts was that the server side language will randomize which script to use to decode your javascript.js and then create a session or cookie to know which encoding scripts was used then the server side language will also encode your javascript .js and put it as a cookie






so now let me summarize with an example

PHP randomizes between a list of encoding scripts and encrypts javascript.js then it create a cookie telling the client side language which encoding script was used then client side language decodes the javascript.js cookie(which is obviously encoded)

so people can't steal your code

but i would not advise this because

  1. it is a long process
  2. It is too stressful

What is Hash and Range Primary Key?

@vnr you can retrieve all the sort keys associated with a partition key by just using the query using partion key. No need of scan. The point here is partition key is compulsory in a query . Sort key are used only to get range of data

Java Hashmap: How to get key from value?

If you choose to use the Commons Collections library instead of the standard Java Collections framework, you can achieve this with ease.

The BidiMap interface in the Collections library is a bi-directional map, allowing you to map a key to a value (like normal maps), and also to map a value to a key, thus allowing you to perform lookups in both directions. Obtaining a key for a value is supported by the getKey() method.

There is a caveat though, bidi maps cannot have multiple values mapped to keys, and hence unless your data set has 1:1 mappings between keys and values, you cannot use bidi maps.


If you want to rely on the Java Collections API, you will have to ensure the 1:1 relationship between keys and values at the time of inserting the value into the map. This is easier said than done.

Once you can ensure that, use the entrySet() method to obtain the set of entries (mappings) in the Map. Once you have obtained the set whose type is Map.Entry, iterate through the entries, comparing the stored value against the expected, and obtain the corresponding key.


Support for bidi maps with generics can be found in Google Guava and the refactored Commons-Collections libraries (the latter is not an Apache project). Thanks to Esko for pointing out the missing generic support in Apache Commons Collections. Using collections with generics makes more maintainable code.


Since version 4.0 the official Apache Commons Collections™ library supports generics.

See the summary page of the "org.apache.commons.collections4.bidimap" package for the list of available implementations of the BidiMap, OrderedBidiMap and SortedBidiMap interfaces that now support Java generics.

How do I get the directory from a file's full path?

If you've definitely got an absolute path, use Path.GetDirectoryName(path).

If you might only get a relative name, use new FileInfo(path).Directory.FullName.

Note that Path and FileInfo are both found in the namespace System.IO.

Git copy changes from one branch to another

Instead of merge, as others suggested, you can rebase one branch onto another:

git checkout BranchB
git rebase BranchA

This takes BranchB and rebases it onto BranchA, which effectively looks like BranchB was branched from BranchA, not master.

How does one sum only those rows in excel not filtered out?

When you use autofilter to filter results, Excel doesn't even bother to hide them: it just sets the height of the row to zero (up to 2003 at least, not sure on 2007).

So the following custom function should give you a starter to do what you want (tested with integers, haven't played with anything else):

Function SumVis(r As Range)
    Dim cell As Excel.Range
    Dim total As Variant

    For Each cell In r.Cells
        If cell.Height <> 0 Then
            total = total + cell.Value
        End If
    Next

    SumVis = total
End Function

Edit:

You'll need to create a module in the workbook to put the function in, then you can just call it on your sheet like any other function (=SumVis(A1:A14)). If you need help setting up the module, let me know.

How to restart Activity in Android

I wonder why no one mentioned Intent.makeRestartActivityTask() which cleanly makes this exact purpose.

Make an Intent that can be used to re-launch an application's task * in its base state.

startActivity(Intent.makeRestartActivityTask(getActivity().getIntent().getComponent()));

This method sets Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TASK as default flags.

Why do we use $rootScope.$broadcast in AngularJS?

Passing data !!!

I wonder why no one mention that $broadcast accept a parameter where you can pass an Object that will be received by $on using a callback function

Example:

// the object to transfert
var myObject = {
    status : 10
}

$rootScope.$broadcast('status_updated', myObject);
$scope.$on('status_updated', function(event, obj){
    console.log(obj.status); // 10
})

How to get name of the computer in VBA?

You can do like this:

Sub Get_Environmental_Variable()

Dim sHostName As String
Dim sUserName As String

' Get Host Name / Get Computer Name    
sHostName = Environ$("computername")

' Get Current User Name    
sUserName = Environ$("username")

End Sub

Unable to establish SSL connection, how do I fix my SSL cert?

For me a DNS name of my server was added to /etc/hosts and it was mapped to 127.0.0.1 which resulted in

SL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol

Removing mapping of my real DNS name to 127.0.0.1 resolved the problem.

Add a CSS class to <%= f.submit %>

<%= f.submit 'name of button here', :class => 'submit_class_name_here' %>

This should do. If you're getting an error, chances are that you're not supplying the name.

Alternatively, you can style the button without a class:

form#form_id_here input[type=submit]

Try that, as well.

How to check if ping responded or not in a batch file

#!/bin/bash
logPath="pinglog.txt"

while(true)
      do
          # refresh the timestamp before each ping attempt
          theTime=$(date -Iseconds)

          # refresh the ping variable
          ping google.com -n 1

            if [ $? -eq 0 ] 
            then
                 echo $theTime + '| connection is up' >> $logPath
            else
                 echo $theTime + '| connection is down' >> $logPath
          fi
            Sleep 1
             echo ' '
      done

convert string date to java.sql.Date

This works for me without throwing an exception:

package com.sandbox;

import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;

public class Sandbox {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws ParseException {
        SimpleDateFormat format = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMdd");
        Date parsed = format.parse("20110210");
        java.sql.Date sql = new java.sql.Date(parsed.getTime());
    }


}

Remove all items from RecyclerView

This works great for me:

public void clear() {
    int size = data.size();
    if (size > 0) {
        for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
            data.remove(0);
        }

        notifyItemRangeRemoved(0, size);
    }
}

Source: https://github.com/mikepenz/LollipopShowcase/blob/master/app/src/main/java/com/mikepenz/lollipopshowcase/adapter/ApplicationAdapter.java

or:

public void clear() {
    int size = data.size();
    data.clear();
    notifyItemRangeRemoved(0, size);
}

For you:

@Override
protected void onRestart() {
    super.onRestart();

    // first clear the recycler view so items are not populated twice
    recyclerAdapter.clear();

    // then reload the data
    PostCall doPostCall = new PostCall(); // my AsyncTask... 
    doPostCall.execute();
}

Python locale error: unsupported locale setting

On Arch Linux I was able to fix this by running sudo locale-gen

Is Java "pass-by-reference" or "pass-by-value"?

Long story short:

  1. Non-primitives: Java passes the Value of the Reference.
  2. Primitives: just value.

The End.

(2) is too easy. Now if you want to think of what (1) implies, imagine you have a class Apple:

class Apple {
    private double weight;
    public Apple(double weight) {
        this.weight = weight;
    }
    // getters and setters ...

}

then when you pass an instance of this class to the main method:

class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Apple apple = new Apple(3.14);
        transmogrify(apple);
        System.out.println(apple.getWeight()+ " the goose drank wine...";

    }

    private static void transmogrify(Apple apple) {
        // does something with apple ...
        apple.setWeight(apple.getWeight()+0.55);
    }
}

oh.. but you probably know that, you're interested in what happens when you do something like this:

class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Apple apple = new Apple(3.14);
        transmogrify(apple);
        System.out.println("Who ate my: "+apple.getWeight()); // will it still be 3.14? 

    }

    private static void transmogrify(Apple apple) {
        // assign a new apple to the reference passed...
        apple = new Apple(2.71);
    }


}

comparing two strings in ruby

From what you printed, it seems var2 is an array containing one string. Or actually, it appears to hold the result of running .inspect on an array containing one string. It would be helpful to show how you are initializing them.

irb(main):005:0* v1 = "test"
=> "test"
irb(main):006:0> v2 = ["test"]
=> ["test"]
irb(main):007:0> v3 = v2.inspect
=> "[\"test\"]"
irb(main):008:0> puts v1,v2,v3
test
test
["test"]

test if event handler is bound to an element in jQuery

I wrote a very tiny plugin called "once" which do that:

$.fn.once = function(a, b) {
    return this.each(function() {
        $(this).off(a).on(a,b);
    });
};

And simply:

$(element).once('click', function(){
});

Convert JsonNode into POJO

If you're using org.codehaus.jackson, this has been possible since 1.6. You can convert a JsonNode to a POJO with ObjectMapper#readValue: http://jackson.codehaus.org/1.9.4/javadoc/org/codehaus/jackson/map/ObjectMapper.html#readValue(org.codehaus.jackson.JsonNode, java.lang.Class)


    ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
    JsonParser jsonParser = mapper.getJsonFactory().createJsonParser("{\"foo\":\"bar\"}");
    JsonNode tree = jsonParser.readValueAsTree();
    // Do stuff to the tree
    mapper.readValue(tree, Foo.class);

Upgrading React version and it's dependencies by reading package.json

I highly recommend using yarn upgrade-interactive to update React, or any Node project for that matter. It lists your packages, current version, the latest version, an indication of a Minor, Major, or Patch update compared to what you have, plus a link to the respective project.

You run it with yarn upgrade-interactive --latest, check out release notes if you want, go down the list with your arrow keys, choose which packages you want to upgrade by selecting with the space bar, and hit Enter to complete.

Npm-upgrade is ok but not as slick.

Is there a way to programmatically scroll a scroll view to a specific edit text?

You can use ObjectAnimator like this:

ObjectAnimator.ofInt(yourScrollView, "scrollY", yourView.getTop()).setDuration(1500).start();

How do you manually execute SQL commands in Ruby On Rails using NuoDB

res = ActiveRecord::Base.connection_pool.with_connection { |con| con.exec_query( "SELECT 1;" ) }

The above code is an example for

  1. executing arbitrary SQL on your database-connection
  2. returning the connection back to the connection pool afterwards

Make one div visible and another invisible

You can use the display property of style. Intialy set the result section style as

style = "display:none"

Then the div will not be visible and there won't be any white space.

Once the search results are being populated change the display property using the java script like

document.getElementById("someObj").style.display = "block"

Using java script you can make the div invisible

document.getElementById("someObj").style.display = "none"

How to check if element in groovy array/hash/collection/list?

You can also use matches with regular expression like this:

boolean bool = List.matches("(?i).*SOME STRING HERE.*")

Python 3: UnboundLocalError: local variable referenced before assignment

This is because, even though Var1 exists, you're also using an assignment statement on the name Var1 inside of the function (Var1 -= 1 at the bottom line). Naturally, this creates a variable inside the function's scope called Var1 (truthfully, a -= or += will only update (reassign) an existing variable, but for reasons unknown (likely consistency in this context), Python treats it as an assignment). The Python interpreter sees this at module load time and decides (correctly so) that the global scope's Var1 should not be used inside the local scope, which leads to a problem when you try to reference the variable before it is locally assigned.

Using global variables, outside of necessity, is usually frowned upon by Python developers, because it leads to confusing and problematic code. However, if you'd like to use them to accomplish what your code is implying, you can simply add:

global Var1, Var2

inside the top of your function. This will tell Python that you don't intend to define a Var1 or Var2 variable inside the function's local scope. The Python interpreter sees this at module load time and decides (correctly so) to look up any references to the aforementioned variables in the global scope.

Some Resources

  • the Python website has a great explanation for this common issue.
  • Python 3 offers a related nonlocal statement - check that out as well.

How to use google maps without api key

Hey You can Use this insted

<iframe width="100%" height="100%" class="absolute inset-0" frameborder="0" title="map" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="https://maps.google.com/maps?width=100%&amp;height=600&amp;hl=en&amp;q=%C4%B0ikaneir+(Mumma's%20Bakery)&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=&amp;z=14&amp;iwloc=B&amp;output=embed" style="filter: scale(100) contrast(1.2) opacity(0.4);"></iframe>

Reset C int array to zero : the fastest way?

This question, although rather old, needs some benchmarks, as it asks for not the most idiomatic way, or the way that can be written in the fewest number of lines, but the fastest way. And it is silly to answer that question without some actual testing. So I compared four solutions, memset vs. std::fill vs. ZERO of AnT's answer vs a solution I made using AVX intrinsics.

Note that this solution is not generic, it only works on data of 32 or 64 bits. Please comment if this code is doing something incorrect.

#include<immintrin.h>
#define intrin_ZERO(a,n){\
size_t x = 0;\
const size_t inc = 32 / sizeof(*(a));/*size of 256 bit register over size of variable*/\
for (;x < n-inc;x+=inc)\
    _mm256_storeu_ps((float *)((a)+x),_mm256_setzero_ps());\
if(4 == sizeof(*(a))){\
    switch(n-x){\
    case 3:\
        (a)[x] = 0;x++;\
    case 2:\
        _mm_storeu_ps((float *)((a)+x),_mm_setzero_ps());break;\
    case 1:\
        (a)[x] = 0;\
        break;\
    case 0:\
        break;\
    };\
}\
else if(8 == sizeof(*(a))){\
switch(n-x){\
    case 7:\
        (a)[x] = 0;x++;\
    case 6:\
        (a)[x] = 0;x++;\
    case 5:\
        (a)[x] = 0;x++;\
    case 4:\
        _mm_storeu_ps((float *)((a)+x),_mm_setzero_ps());break;\
    case 3:\
        (a)[x] = 0;x++;\
    case 2:\
        ((long long *)(a))[x] = 0;break;\
    case 1:\
        (a)[x] = 0;\
        break;\
    case 0:\
        break;\
};\
}\
}

I will not claim that this is the fastest method, since I am not a low level optimization expert. Rather it is an example of a correct architecture dependent implementation that is faster than memset.

Now, onto the results. I calculated performance for size 100 int and long long arrays, both statically and dynamically allocated, but with the exception of msvc, which did a dead code elimination on static arrays, the results were extremely comparable, so I will show only dynamic array performance. Time markings are ms for 1 million iterations, using time.h's low precision clock function.

clang 3.8 (Using the clang-cl frontend, optimization flags= /OX /arch:AVX /Oi /Ot)

int:
memset:      99
fill:        97
ZERO:        98
intrin_ZERO: 90

long long:
memset:      285
fill:        286
ZERO:        285
intrin_ZERO: 188

gcc 5.1.0 (optimization flags: -O3 -march=native -mtune=native -mavx):

int:
memset:      268
fill:        268
ZERO:        268
intrin_ZERO: 91
long long:
memset:      402
fill:        399
ZERO:        400
intrin_ZERO: 185

msvc 2015 (optimization flags: /OX /arch:AVX /Oi /Ot):

int
memset:      196
fill:        613
ZERO:        221
intrin_ZERO: 95
long long:
memset:      273
fill:        559
ZERO:        376
intrin_ZERO: 188

There is a lot interesting going on here: llvm killing gcc, MSVC's typical spotty optimizations (it does an impressive dead code elimination on static arrays and then has awful performance for fill). Although my implementation is significantly faster, this may only be because it recognizes that bit clearing has much less overhead than any other setting operation.

Clang's implementation merits more looking at, as it is significantly faster. Some additional testing shows that its memset is in fact specialized for zero--non zero memsets for 400 byte array are much slower (~220ms) and are comparable to gcc's. However, the nonzero memsetting with an 800 byte array makes no speed difference, which is probably why in that case, their memset has worse performance than my implementation--the specialization is only for small arrays, and the cuttoff is right around 800 bytes. Also note that gcc 'fill' and 'ZERO' are not optimizing to memset (looking at generated code), gcc is simply generating code with identical performance characteristics.

Conclusion: memset is not really optimized for this task as well as people would pretend it is (otherwise gcc and msvc and llvm's memset would have the same performance). If performance matters then memset should not be a final solution, especially for these awkward medium sized arrays, because it is not specialized for bit clearing, and it is not hand optimized any better than the compiler can do on its own.

iOS 6 apps - how to deal with iPhone 5 screen size?

@interface UIDevice (Screen)
typedef enum
{
    iPhone          = 1 << 1,
    iPhoneRetina    = 1 << 2,
    iPhone5         = 1 << 3,
    iPad            = 1 << 4,
    iPadRetina      = 1 << 5

} DeviceType;

+ (DeviceType)deviceType;
@end

.m

#import "UIDevice+Screen.h"
@implementation UIDevice (Screen)

+ (DeviceType)deviceType
{
    DeviceType thisDevice = 0;
    if ([[UIDevice currentDevice] userInterfaceIdiom] == UIUserInterfaceIdiomPhone)
    {
        thisDevice |= iPhone;
        if ([[UIScreen mainScreen] respondsToSelector: @selector(scale)])
        {
            thisDevice |= iPhoneRetina;
            if ([[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds].size.height == 568)
                thisDevice |= iPhone5;
        }
    }
    else
    {
        thisDevice |= iPad;
        if ([[UIScreen mainScreen] respondsToSelector: @selector(scale)])
            thisDevice |= iPadRetina;
    }
    return thisDevice;
}

@end

This way, if you want to detect whether it is just an iPhone or iPad (regardless of screen-size), you just use:

if ([UIDevice deviceType] & iPhone) 

or

if ([UIDevice deviceType] & iPad)

If you want to detect just the iPhone 5, you can use

if ([UIDevice deviceType] & iPhone5)

As opposed to Malcoms answer where you would need to check just to figure out if it's an iPhone,

if ([UIDevice currentResolution] == UIDevice_iPhoneHiRes || 
    [UIDevice currentResolution] == UIDevice_iPhoneStandardRes || 
    [UIDevice currentResolution] == UIDevice_iPhoneTallerHiRes)`

Neither way has a major advantage over one another, it is just a personal preference.

Convert a numpy.ndarray to string(or bytes) and convert it back to numpy.ndarray

Imagine you have a numpy array of integers (it works with other types but you need some slight modification). You can do this:

a = np.array([0, 3, 5])
a_str = ','.join(str(x) for x in a) # '0,3,5'
a2 = np.array([int(x) for x in a_str.split(',')]) # np.array([0, 3, 5])

If you have an array of float, be sure to replace int by float in the last line.

You can also use the __repr__() method, which will have the advantage to work for multi-dimensional arrays:

from numpy import array
numpy.set_printoptions(threshold=numpy.nan)
a = array([[0,3,5],[2,3,4]])
a_str = a.__repr__() # 'array([[0, 3, 5],\n       [2, 3, 4]])'
a2 = eval(a_str) # array([[0, 3, 5],
                 #        [2, 3, 4]])

Current time in microseconds in java

If you're interested in Linux: If you fish out the source code to "currentTimeMillis()", you'll see that, on Linux, if you call this method, it gets a microsecond time back. However Java then truncates the microseconds and hands you back milliseconds. This is partly because Java has to be cross platform so providing methods specifically for Linux was a big no-no back in the day (remember that cruddy soft link support from 1.6 backwards?!). It's also because, whilst you clock can give you back microseconds in Linux, that doesn't necessarily mean it'll be good for checking the time. At microsecond levels, you need to know that NTP is not realigning your time and that your clock has not drifted too much during method calls.

This means, in theory, on Linux, you could write a JNI wrapper that is the same as the one in the System package, but not truncate the microseconds.

Get day of week in SQL Server 2005/2008

If you don't want to depend on @@DATEFIRST or use DATEPART(weekday, DateColumn), just calculate the day of the week yourself.

For Monday based weeks (Europe) simplest is:

SELECT DATEDIFF(day, '17530101', DateColumn) % 7 + 1 AS MondayBasedDay

For Sunday based weeks (America) use:

SELECT DATEDIFF(day, '17530107', DateColumn) % 7 + 1 AS SundayBasedDay

This return the weekday number (1 to 7) ever since January 1st respectively 7th, 1753.

iOS / Android cross platform development

In case you do not want to use a full-fledged framework for cross-platform development, take a look at C++ as an option. iOS fully supports using C++ for your application logic via Objective-C++. I don't know how well Android's support for C++ via the NDK is suited for doing your business logic in C++ rather than just some performance-critical code snippets, but in case that use case is well supported, you could give it a try.

This approach of course only makes sense if your application logic constitutes the greatest part of your project, as the user interfaces will have to be written individually for each platform.

As a matter of fact, C++ is the single most widely supported programming language (with the exception of C), and is therefore the core language of most large cross-platform applications.

Turning off auto indent when pasting text into vim

Here is a post by someone who figured out how to remap the paste event to automatically turn paste mode on and then back off. Works for me in tmux/iTerm on MacOSX.

Add values to app.config and retrieve them

To Get The Data From the App.config

Keeping in mind you have to:

  1. Added to the References -> System.Configuration
  2. and also added this using statement -> using System.Configuration;

Just Simply do this

string value1 = ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Value1"];

Alternatively, you can achieve this in one line, if you don't want to add using System.Configuration; explicitly.

string value1 = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["Value1"]

How to read and write excel file

using spring apache poi repo

if (fileName.endsWith(".xls")) {



File myFile = new File("file location" + fileName);
                FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(myFile);

                org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Workbook workbook = null;
                try {
                    workbook = WorkbookFactory.create(fis);
                } catch (InvalidFormatException e) {

                    e.printStackTrace();
                }


                org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel.Sheet sheet = workbook.getSheetAt(0);


                Iterator<Row> rowIterator = sheet.iterator();


                while (rowIterator.hasNext()) {
                    Row row = rowIterator.next();

                    Iterator<Cell> cellIterator = row.cellIterator();
                    while (cellIterator.hasNext()) {

                        Cell cell = cellIterator.next();
                        switch (cell.getCellType()) {
                        case Cell.CELL_TYPE_STRING:
                            System.out.print(cell.getStringCellValue());
                            break;
                        case Cell.CELL_TYPE_BOOLEAN:
                            System.out.print(cell.getBooleanCellValue());
                            break;
                        case Cell.CELL_TYPE_NUMERIC:
                            System.out.print(cell.getNumericCellValue());
                            break;
                        }
                        System.out.print(" - ");
                    }
                    System.out.println();
                }
            }

this in equals method

You have to look how this is called:

someObject.equals(someOtherObj); 

This invokes the equals method on the instance of someObject. Now, inside that method:

public boolean equals(Object obj) {   if (obj == this) { //is someObject equal to obj, which in this case is someOtherObj?     return true;//If so, these are the same objects, and return true   } 

You can see that this is referring to the instance of the object that equals is called on. Note that equals() is non-static, and so must be called only on objects that have been instantiated.

Note that == is only checking to see if there is referential equality; that is, the reference of this and obj are pointing to the same place in memory. Such references are naturally equal:

Object a = new Object(); Object b = a; //sets the reference to b to point to the same place as a Object c = a; //same with c b.equals(c);//true, because everything is pointing to the same place 

Further note that equals() is generally used to also determine value equality. Thus, even if the object references are pointing to different places, it will check the internals to determine if those objects are the same:

FancyNumber a = new FancyNumber(2);//Internally, I set a field to 2 FancyNumber b = new FancyNumber(2);//Internally, I set a field to 2 a.equals(b);//true, because we define two FancyNumber objects to be equal if their internal field is set to the same thing. 

MySQL query to select events between start/end date

SELECT * 
FROM events 
WHERE start <= '2013-07-22' OR end >= '2013-06-13'

How to convert strings into integers in Python?

You can do this with a list comprehension:

T2 = [[int(column) for column in row] for row in T1]

The inner list comprehension ([int(column) for column in row]) builds a list of ints from a sequence of int-able objects, like decimal strings, in row. The outer list comprehension ([... for row in T1])) builds a list of the results of the inner list comprehension applied to each item in T1.

The code snippet will fail if any of the rows contain objects that can't be converted by int. You'll need a smarter function if you want to process rows containing non-decimal strings.

If you know the structure of the rows, you can replace the inner list comprehension with a call to a function of the row. Eg.

T2 = [parse_a_row_of_T1(row) for row in T1]

Create array of all integers between two numbers, inclusive, in Javascript/jQuery

Solving in underscore

data = [];
_.times( highEnd, function( n ){ data.push( lowEnd ++ ) } );

display HTML page after loading complete

put an overlay on the page

#loading-mask {
    background-color: white;
    height: 100%;
    left: 0;
    position: fixed;
    top: 0;
    width: 100%;
    z-index: 9999;
}

and then delete that element in a window.onload handler or, hide it

window.onload=function() {
    document.getElementById('loading-mask').style.display='none';
}

Of course you should use your javascript library (jquery,prototype..) specific onload handler if you are using a library.

How do I replace whitespaces with underscore?

Replacing spaces is fine, but I might suggest going a little further to handle other URL-hostile characters like question marks, apostrophes, exclamation points, etc.

Also note that the general consensus among SEO experts is that dashes are preferred to underscores in URLs.

import re

def urlify(s):

    # Remove all non-word characters (everything except numbers and letters)
    s = re.sub(r"[^\w\s]", '', s)

    # Replace all runs of whitespace with a single dash
    s = re.sub(r"\s+", '-', s)

    return s

# Prints: I-cant-get-no-satisfaction"
print(urlify("I can't get no satisfaction!"))

presentViewController and displaying navigation bar

Swift 5.*

Navigation:

guard let myVC = self.storyboard?.instantiateViewController(withIdentifier: "MyViewController") else { return }
let navController = UINavigationController(rootViewController: myVC)

self.navigationController?.present(navController, animated: true, completion: nil)

Going Back:

self.dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil)

Swift 2.0

Navigation:

let myVC = self.storyboard?.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("MyViewController");
let navController = UINavigationController(rootViewController: myVC!)

self.navigationController?.presentViewController(navController, animated: true, completion: nil)

Going Back:

self.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil)

SQL update statement in C#

If you don't want to use the SQL syntax (which you are forced to), then switch to a framework like Entity Framework or Linq-to-SQL where you don't write the SQL statements yourself.

Getting PEAR to work on XAMPP (Apache/MySQL stack on Windows)

You need to fix your include_path system variable to point to the correct location.

To fix it edit the php.ini file. In that file you will find a line that says, "include_path = ...". (You can find out what the location of php.ini by running phpinfo() on a page.) Fix the part of the line that says, "\xampplite\php\pear\PEAR" to read "C:\xampplite\php\pear". Make sure to leave the semi-colons before and/or after the line in place.

Restart PHP and you should be good to go. To restart PHP in IIS you can restart the application pool assigned to your site or, better yet, restart IIS all together.

How to highlight text using javascript

Since HTML5 you can use the <mark></mark> tags to highlight text. You can use javascript to wrap some text/keyword between these tags. Here is a little example of how to mark and unmark text.

JSFIDDLE DEMO

How can I give the Intellij compiler more heap space?

Current version:

Settings (Preferences on Mac) | Build, Execution, Deployment | Compiler | Build process heap size.

Older versions:

Settings (Preferences on Mac) | Compiler | Java Compiler | Maximum heap size.

Compiler runs in a separate JVM by default so IDEA heap settings that you set in idea.vmoptions have no effect on the compiler.

Listing all the folders subfolders and files in a directory using php

function listFolderFiles($dir){
    $ffs = scandir($dir);

    unset($ffs[array_search('.', $ffs, true)]);
    unset($ffs[array_search('..', $ffs, true)]);

    // prevent empty ordered elements
    if (count($ffs) < 1)
        return;

    echo '<ol>';
    foreach($ffs as $ff){
        echo '<li>'.$ff;
        if(is_dir($dir.'/'.$ff)) listFolderFiles($dir.'/'.$ff);
        echo '</li>';
    }
    echo '</ol>';
}

listFolderFiles('Main Dir');

Variably modified array at file scope

As it is already explained in other answers, const in C merely means that a variable is read-only. It is still a run-time value. However, you can use an enum as a real constant in C:

enum { NUM_TYPES = 4 };
static int types[NUM_TYPES] = { 
  1, 2, 3, 4
};

Get device token for push notification

NOTE: The below solution no longer works on iOS 13+ devices - it will return garbage data.

Please use following code instead:

+ (NSString *)hexadecimalStringFromData:(NSData *)data
{
  NSUInteger dataLength = data.length;
  if (dataLength == 0) {
    return nil;
  }

  const unsigned char *dataBuffer = (const unsigned char *)data.bytes;
  NSMutableString *hexString  = [NSMutableString stringWithCapacity:(dataLength * 2)];
  for (int i = 0; i < dataLength; ++i) {
    [hexString appendFormat:@"%02x", dataBuffer[i]];
  }
  return [hexString copy];
}

Solution that worked prior to iOS 13:

Objective-C

- (void)application:(UIApplication *)app didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken:(NSData *)deviceToken 
{
    NSString *token = [[deviceToken description] stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet: [NSCharacterSet characterSetWithCharactersInString:@"<>"]];
    token = [token stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@" " withString:@""];
    NSLog(@"this will return '32 bytes' in iOS 13+ rather than the token", token);
} 

Swift 3.0

func application(_ application: UIApplication, didRegisterForRemoteNotificationsWithDeviceToken deviceToken: Data)
{
    let tokenString = deviceToken.reduce("", {$0 + String(format: "%02X", $1)})
    print("this will return '32 bytes' in iOS 13+ rather than the token \(tokenString)")
}

How to pass values across the pages in ASP.net without using Session

You can pass values from one page to another by followings..

Response.Redirect
Cookies
Application Variables
HttpContext

Response.Redirect

SET :

Response.Redirect("Defaultaspx?Name=Pandian");

GET :

string Name = Request.QueryString["Name"];

Cookies

SET :

HttpCookie cookName = new HttpCookie("Name");
cookName.Value = "Pandian"; 

GET :

string name = Request.Cookies["Name"].Value;

Application Variables

SET :

Application["Name"] = "pandian";

GET :

string Name = Application["Name"].ToString();

Refer the full content here : Pass values from one to another

:: (double colon) operator in Java 8

The :: is known as method references. Lets say we want to call a calculatePrice method of class Purchase. Then we can write it as:

Purchase::calculatePrice

It can also be seen as short form of writing the lambda expression Because method references are converted into lambda expressions.

How to open a different activity on recyclerView item onclick

The problem occurs in declaring context, while using Glide for ImageView or While using intent in recyclerview for item onClick. I Found this working for me which helps me to Declare context to use in Glide or Intent or Toast.

public class NoteAdapter extends FirestoreRecyclerAdapter<Note,NoteAdapter.NoteHolder> {

Context context;

public NoteAdapter(@NonNull FirestoreRecyclerOptions<Note> options) {
    super(options);
}

@Override
protected void onBindViewHolder(@NonNull NoteHolder holder, int position, @NonNull Note model) {
    holder.r_tv.setText(model.getTitle());
    Glide.with(CategoryActivity.context).load(model.getImage()).into(holder.r_iv);

    context = holder.itemView.getContext();

    holder.itemView.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
        @Override
        public void onClick(View v) {
            Intent i = new Intent(context, SuggestActivity.class);
            context.startActivity(i);
        }
    });

}

@NonNull
@Override
public NoteHolder onCreateViewHolder(@NonNull ViewGroup parent, int viewType) {

    View v = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext()).inflate(R.layout.row_category,parent,false);

    return new NoteHolder(v);
}

public static class NoteHolder extends RecyclerView.ViewHolder
{
    TextView r_tv;
    ImageView r_iv;

    public NoteHolder(@NonNull View itemView) {
        super(itemView);

        r_tv = itemView.findViewById(R.id.r_tv);
        r_iv = itemView.findViewById(R.id.r_iv);


    }
}
}

How to set HTTP header to UTF-8 using PHP which is valid in W3C validator?

PHP sends headers automatically if set up to use internal encoding:

ini_set('default_charset', 'utf-8');

Formatting doubles for output in C#

The problem is that .NET will always round a double to 15 significant decimal digits before applying your formatting, regardless of the precision requested by your format and regardless of the exact decimal value of the binary number.

I'd guess that the Visual Studio debugger has its own format/display routines that directly access the internal binary number, hence the discrepancies between your C# code, your C code and the debugger.

There's nothing built-in that will allow you to access the exact decimal value of a double, or to enable you to format a double to a specific number of decimal places, but you could do this yourself by picking apart the internal binary number and rebuilding it as a string representation of the decimal value.

Alternatively, you could use Jon Skeet's DoubleConverter class (linked to from his "Binary floating point and .NET" article). This has a ToExactString method which returns the exact decimal value of a double. You could easily modify this to enable rounding of the output to a specific precision.

double i = 10 * 0.69;
Console.WriteLine(DoubleConverter.ToExactString(i));
Console.WriteLine(DoubleConverter.ToExactString(6.9 - i));
Console.WriteLine(DoubleConverter.ToExactString(6.9));

// 6.89999999999999946709294817992486059665679931640625
// 0.00000000000000088817841970012523233890533447265625
// 6.9000000000000003552713678800500929355621337890625

Cast Double to Integer in Java

Simply do it this way...

Double d = 13.5578;
int i = d.intValue();
System.out.println(i);

How to restore PostgreSQL dump file into Postgres databases?

By using pg_restore command you can restore postgres database

First open terminal type

sudo su postgres

Create new database

createdb [database name] -O [owner]

createdb test_db [-O openerp]

pg_restore -d [Database Name] [path of dump file]

pg_restore -d test_db /home/sagar/Download/sample_dbump

Wait for completion of database restoring.

Remember that dump file should have read, write, execute access, so for that you can apply chmod command

Apache gives me 403 Access Forbidden when DocumentRoot points to two different drives

I have fixed it with removing below code from

C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.4.9\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf file

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    DocumentRoot "c:/Apache24/docs/dummy-host.example.com"
    ServerName dummy-host.example.com
    ServerAlias www.dummy-host.example.com
    ErrorLog "logs/dummy-host.example.com-error.log"
    CustomLog "logs/dummy-host.example.com-access.log" common
 </VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin [email protected]
    DocumentRoot "c:/Apache24/docs/dummy-host2.example.com"
    ServerName dummy-host2.example.com
    ErrorLog "logs/dummy-host2.example.com-error.log"
    CustomLog "logs/dummy-host2.example.com-access.log" common
</VirtualHost>

And added

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
    DocumentRoot "c:/wamp/www"
    ServerName localhost
    ErrorLog "logs/localhost-error.log"
    CustomLog "logs/localhost-access.log" common
</VirtualHost>

And it has worked like charm

Calling a class method raises a TypeError in Python

You need to spend a little more time on some fundamentals of object-oriented programming.

This sounds harsh, but it's important.

  • Your class definition is incorrect -- although the syntax happens to be acceptable. The definition is simply wrong.

  • Your use of the class to create an object is entirely missing.

  • Your use of a class to do a calculation is inappropriate. This kind of thing can be done, but it requires the advanced concept of a @staticmehod.

Since your example code is wrong in so many ways, you can't get a tidy "fix this" answer. There are too many things to fix.

You'll need to look at better examples of class definitions. It's not clear what source material you're using to learn from, but whatever book you're reading is either wrong or incomplete.

Please discard whatever book or source you're using and find a better book. Seriously. They've mislead you on how a class definition looks and how it's used.

You might want to look at http://homepage.mac.com/s_lott/books/nonprog/htmlchunks/pt11.html for a better introduction to classes, objects and Python.

How can I get customer details from an order in WooCommerce?

WooCommerce is using this function to show billing and shipping addresses in the customer profile. So this will might help.

The user needs to be logged in to get address using this function.

wc_get_account_formatted_address( 'billing' );

or

wc_get_account_formatted_address( 'shipping' );

How to calculate time elapsed in bash script?

Here's my bash implementation (with bits taken from other SO ;-)

function countTimeDiff() {
    timeA=$1 # 09:59:35
    timeB=$2 # 17:32:55

    # feeding variables by using read and splitting with IFS
    IFS=: read ah am as <<< "$timeA"
    IFS=: read bh bm bs <<< "$timeB"

    # Convert hours to minutes.
    # The 10# is there to avoid errors with leading zeros
    # by telling bash that we use base 10
    secondsA=$((10#$ah*60*60 + 10#$am*60 + 10#$as))
    secondsB=$((10#$bh*60*60 + 10#$bm*60 + 10#$bs))
    DIFF_SEC=$((secondsB - secondsA))
    echo "The difference is $DIFF_SEC seconds.";

    SEC=$(($DIFF_SEC%60))
    MIN=$((($DIFF_SEC-$SEC)%3600/60))
    HRS=$((($DIFF_SEC-$MIN*60)/3600))
    TIME_DIFF="$HRS:$MIN:$SEC";
    echo $TIME_DIFF;
}

$ countTimeDiff 2:15:55 2:55:16
The difference is 2361 seconds.
0:39:21

Not tested, may be buggy.

POST request send json data java HttpUrlConnection

the correct answer is good , but

OutputStreamWriter wr= new OutputStreamWriter(con.getOutputStream());
wr.write(parent.toString());

not work for me , instead of it , use :

byte[] outputBytes = rootJsonObject.getBytes("UTF-8");
OutputStream os = con.getOutputStream();
os.write(outputBytes);

How to set Linux environment variables with Ansible

This is the best option. As said Michal Gasek (first answer), since the pull request was merged (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/8651), we are able to set permanent environment variables easily by play level.

- hosts: all
  roles:
     - php
     - nginx
  environment:
    MY_ENV_VARIABLE: whatever_value

Spring AMQP + RabbitMQ 3.3.5 ACCESS_REFUSED - Login was refused using authentication mechanism PLAIN

I was facing this issue due to empty space at the end of the password(spring.rabbitmq.password=rabbit ) in spring boot application.properties got resolved on removing the empty space. Hope this checklist helps some one facing this issue.

Centering a div block without the width

Crappy fix, but it does work...

CSS:

#mainContent {
    position:absolute;
    width:600px;
    background:#FFFF99;
}

#sidebar {
    float:left;
    margin-left:610px;
    max-width:300;
    background:#FFCCCC;
}
#sidebar{


    text-align:center;
}

HTML:

<center>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0">
  <tr>
    <td>
<div id="mainContent">
1<br/>
<br/>
123<br/>
123<br/>
123<br/>
</div><div id="sidebar"><br/>
</div></td>
</tr>
</table>
</center>

Eventviewer eventid for lock and unlock

For Windows 10 the event ID for lock=4800 and unlock=4801.

As it says in the answer provided by Mario and User 00000, you will need to enable logging of lock and unlock events by using their method described above by running gpedit.msc and navigating to the branch they indicated:

Computer Configuration -> Windows Settings -> Security Settings -> Advanced Audit Policy Configuration -> System Audit Policies - Local Group Policy Object -> Logon/Logoff -> Audit Other Login/Logoff

Enable for both success and failure events.

After enabling logging of those events you can filter for Event ID 4800 and 4801 directly.

This method works for Windows 10 as I just used it to filter my security logs after locking and unlocking my computer.

How to convert a Java String to an ASCII byte array?

If you happen to need this in Android and want to make it work with anything older than FroYo, you can also use EncodingUtils.getAsciiBytes():

byte[] bytes = EncodingUtils.getAsciiBytes("ASCII Text");

How to check a boolean condition in EL?

You can have a look at the EL (expression language) description here.

Both your code are correct, but I prefer the second one, as comparing a boolean to true or false is redundant.

For better readibility, you can also use the not operator:

<c:if test="${not theBooleanVariable}">It's false!</c:if>

how to load CSS file into jsp

You can write like that. This is for whenever you change context path you don't need to modify your jsp file.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/css/styles.css" />

How do I trim whitespace?

#how to trim a multi line string or a file

s=""" line one
\tline two\t
line three """

#line1 starts with a space, #2 starts and ends with a tab, #3 ends with a space.

s1=s.splitlines()
print s1
[' line one', '\tline two\t', 'line three ']

print [i.strip() for i in s1]
['line one', 'line two', 'line three']




#more details:

#we could also have used a forloop from the begining:
for line in s.splitlines():
    line=line.strip()
    process(line)

#we could also be reading a file line by line.. e.g. my_file=open(filename), or with open(filename) as myfile:
for line in my_file:
    line=line.strip()
    process(line)

#moot point: note splitlines() removed the newline characters, we can keep them by passing True:
#although split() will then remove them anyway..
s2=s.splitlines(True)
print s2
[' line one\n', '\tline two\t\n', 'line three ']

How to see what privileges are granted to schema of another user

You can use these queries:

select * from all_tab_privs;
select * from dba_sys_privs;
select * from dba_role_privs;

Each of these tables have a grantee column, you can filter on that in the where criteria:

where grantee = 'A'

To query privileges on objects (e.g. tables) in other schema I propose first of all all_tab_privs, it also has a table_schema column.

If you are logged in with the same user whose privileges you want to query, you can use user_tab_privs, user_sys_privs, user_role_privs. They can be queried by a normal non-dba user.

Converting LastLogon to DateTime format

Get-ADUser -Filter {Enabled -eq $true} -Properties Name,Manager,LastLogon | 
Select-Object Name,Manager,@{n='LastLogon';e={[DateTime]::FromFileTime($_.LastLogon)}}

Get a substring of a char*

You can just use strstr() from <string.h>

$ man strstr

Disabling right click on images using jquery

A very simple way is to add the image as a background to a DIV then load an empty transparent gif set to the same size as the DIV in the foreground. that keeps the less determined out. They cant get the background without viewing the code and copying the URL and right clicking just downloads the transparent gif.

How to set column widths to a jQuery datatable?

by using css we can easily add width to the column.

here im adding first column width to 300px on header (thead)

_x000D_
_x000D_
::ng-deep  table thead tr:last-child th:nth-child(1) {_x000D_
    width: 300px!important;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

now add same width to tbody first column by,

_x000D_
_x000D_
  <table datatable class="display table ">_x000D_
            <thead>_x000D_
            <tr>_x000D_
                <th class="text-left" style="width: 300px!important;">name</th>_x000D_
            </tr>_x000D_
            </thead>_x000D_
            <tbody>_x000D_
           _x000D_
            <tr>_x000D_
                <td class="text-left" style="width: 300px!important;">jhon mathew</td>_x000D_
                _x000D_
            </tr>_x000D_
            </tbody>_x000D_
        </table>_x000D_
       
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

by this way you can easily change width by changing the order of nth child. if you want 3 column then ,add nth-child(3)

Adding days to $Date in PHP

You can also use the following format

strtotime("-3 days", time());
strtotime("+1 day", strtotime($date));

You can stack changes this way:

strtotime("+1 day", strtotime("+1 year", strtotime($date)));

Note the difference between this approach and the one in other answers: instead of concatenating the values +1 day and <timestamp>, you can just pass in the timestamp as the second parameter of strtotime.

Can't create a docker image for COPY failed: stat /var/lib/docker/tmp/docker-builder error

In your case removing ./ should solve the issue. I had another case wherein I was using a directory from the parent directory and docker can only access files present below the directory where Dockerfile is present so if I have a directory structure /root/dir and Dockerfile /root/dir/Dockerfile

I cannot copy do the following

COPY root/src /opt/src

Proxy Basic Authentication in C#: HTTP 407 error

try this

        var YourURL = "http://yourUrl/";

         HttpClientHandler handler = new HttpClientHandler() 
         { 
             Proxy = new WebProxy("http://127.0.0.1:8888"), 
             UseProxy = true, 
         }; 

         Console.WriteLine(YourURL); 

         HttpClient client = new HttpClient(handler); 

How do I check if a number is a palindrome?

Here is an Scheme version that constructs a function that will work against any base. It has a redundancy check: return false quickly if the number is a multiple of the base (ends in 0).
And it doesn't rebuild the entire reversed number, only half.
That's all we need.

(define make-palindrome-tester
   (lambda (base)
     (lambda (n)
       (cond
         ((= 0 (modulo n base)) #f)
         (else
          (letrec
              ((Q (lambda (h t)
                    (cond
                      ((< h t) #f)
                      ((= h t) #t)
                      (else
                       (let*
                           ((h2 (quotient h base))
                            (m  (- h (* h2 base))))
                         (cond
                           ((= h2 t) #t)
                           (else
                            (Q h2 (+ (* base t) m))))))))))
            (Q n 0)))))))

UPDATE with CASE and IN - Oracle

Use to_number to convert budgpost to a number:

when to_number(budgpost,99999) in (1001,1012,50055) THEN 'BP_GR_A' 

EDIT: Make sure there are enough 9's in to_number to match to largest budget post.

If there are non-numeric budget posts, you could filter them out with a where clause at then end of the query:

where regexp_like(budgpost, '^-?[[:digit:],.]+$')

Is div inside list allowed?

If I recall correctly, a div inside a li used to be invalid.

@Flower @Superstringcheese Div should semantically define a section of a document, but it has already practically lost this role. Span should however contain text.

Android intent for playing video?

Use setDataAndType on the Intent

Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
intent.setDataAndType(Uri.parse(newVideoPath), "video/mp4");
startActivity(intent);

Use "video/mp4" as MIME or use "video/*" if you don't know the type.

posting hidden value

I'm not sure what you just did there, but from what I can tell this is what you're asking for:

bookingfacilities.php

<form action="successfulbooking.php" method="post">
    <input type="hidden" name="date" value="<?php echo $date; ?>">  
    <input type="submit" value="Submit Form">
</form>

successfulbooking.php

<?php
    $date = $_POST['date'];
    // add code here
?>

Not sure what you want to do with that third page(booking_now.php) too.

Testing web application on Mac/Safari when I don't own a Mac

A) Install VirtualBox and download free MacOS High Sierra image

See tutorial here: https://www.wikigain.com/install-macos-high-sierra-virtualbox-windows/

You will get the latest Safari.

You don't need to pay for those online services!!!

Use these vbox settings to increase resolution and memory, but it is still very laggy and slow:

cd "C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\"
VBoxManage setextradata "macOS" VBoxInternal2/EfiGraphicsResolution 1920x1080
VBoxManage modifyvm "macOS" --vram 256

B) Alternatively try VMware

which seems to be much faster: youtube.com/watch?v=K7E_UqgCFbQ (video taken down) - use google ( you need VMware + MacOs ISO image)

@edit: It is significantly faster!!!

On logout, clear Activity history stack, preventing "back" button from opening logged-in-only Activities

It is possible by managing a flag in SharedPreferences or in Application Activity.

On starting of app (on Splash Screen) set the flag = false; On Logout Click event just set the flag true and in OnResume() of every activity, check if flag is true then call finish().

It works like a charm :)

Accessing UI (Main) Thread safely in WPF

The best way to go about it would be to get a SynchronizationContext from the UI thread and use it. This class abstracts marshalling calls to other threads, and makes testing easier (in contrast to using WPF's Dispatcher directly). For example:

class MyViewModel
{
    private readonly SynchronizationContext _syncContext;

    public MyViewModel()
    {
        // we assume this ctor is called from the UI thread!
        _syncContext = SynchronizationContext.Current;
    }

    // ...

    private void watcher_Changed(object sender, FileSystemEventArgs e)
    {
         _syncContext.Post(o => DGAddRow(crp.Protocol, ft), null);
    }
}

Change border color on <select> HTML form

<style>
.form-error {
        border: 2px solid #e74c3c;
    }
</style>



<div class="form-error">
                                {!! Form::select('color', $colors->prepend('Please Select Color', ''),           ,['class' => 'form-control dropselect form-error'
                                ,'tabindex' => $count++, 'id' => 'color']) !!}
                                </div>

Getting command-line password input in Python

Updating on the answer of @Ahmed ALaa

# import msvcrt
import getch

def getPass():
    passwor = ''
    while True:
        x = getch.getch()
        # x = msvcrt.getch().decode("utf-8")
        if x == '\r' or x == '\n':
            break
        print('*', end='', flush=True)
        passwor +=x
    return passwor

print("\nout=", getPass())

msvcrt us only for windows, but getch from PyPI should work for both (I only tested with linux). You can also comment/uncomment the two lines to make it work for windows.

HTML5 LocalStorage: Checking if a key exists

Quoting from the specification:

The getItem(key) method must return the current value associated with the given key. If the given key does not exist in the list associated with the object then this method must return null.

You should actually check against null.

if (localStorage.getItem("username") === null) {
  //...
}

Create listview in fragment android

you need to give:

public void onActivityCreated(Bundle savedInstanceState)    
{
  super.onActivityCreated(savedInstanceState);
}

inside fragment.

Launching a website via windows commandline

start chrome https://www.google.com/ or start firefox https://www.google.com/

post ajax data to PHP and return data

For the JS, try

data: {id: the_id}
...
success: function(data) {
        alert('the server returned ' + data;
    }

and

$the_id = intval($_POST['id']);

in PHP

Can I store images in MySQL

You can store images in MySQL as blobs. However, this is problematic for a couple of reasons:

  • The images can be harder to manipulate: you must first retrieve them from the database before bulk operations can be performed.
  • Except in very rare cases where the entire database is stored in RAM, MySQL databases are ultimately stored on disk. This means that your DB images are converted to blobs, inserted into a database, and then stored on disk; you can save a lot of overhead by simply storing them on disk.

Instead, consider updating your table to add an image_path field. For example:

ALTER TABLE `your_table`
ADD COLUMN `image_path` varchar(1024)

Then store your images on disk, and update the table with the image path. When you need to use the images, retrieve them from disk using the path specified.

An advantageous side-effect of this approach is that the images do not necessarily be stored on disk; you could just as easily store a URL instead of an image path, and retrieve images from any internet-connected location.

CSS Background image not loading

I had the same problem and after reading this found the issue, it was the slash. Windows Path: images\green_cup.png

CSS that worked: images/green_cup.png

images\green_cup.png does not work.

Phil

Difference between exit() and sys.exit() in Python

exit is a helper for the interactive shell - sys.exit is intended for use in programs.

The site module (which is imported automatically during startup, except if the -S command-line option is given) adds several constants to the built-in namespace (e.g. exit). They are useful for the interactive interpreter shell and should not be used in programs.


Technically, they do mostly the same: raising SystemExit. sys.exit does so in sysmodule.c:

static PyObject *
sys_exit(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
{
    PyObject *exit_code = 0;
    if (!PyArg_UnpackTuple(args, "exit", 0, 1, &exit_code))
        return NULL;
    /* Raise SystemExit so callers may catch it or clean up. */
    PyErr_SetObject(PyExc_SystemExit, exit_code);
   return NULL;
}

While exit is defined in site.py and _sitebuiltins.py, respectively.

class Quitter(object):
    def __init__(self, name):
        self.name = name
    def __repr__(self):
        return 'Use %s() or %s to exit' % (self.name, eof)
    def __call__(self, code=None):
        # Shells like IDLE catch the SystemExit, but listen when their
        # stdin wrapper is closed.
        try:
            sys.stdin.close()
        except:
            pass
        raise SystemExit(code)
__builtin__.quit = Quitter('quit')
__builtin__.exit = Quitter('exit')

Note that there is a third exit option, namely os._exit, which exits without calling cleanup handlers, flushing stdio buffers, etc. (and which should normally only be used in the child process after a fork()).

How do I access command line arguments in Python?

You can use sys.argv to get the arguments as a list.

If you need to access individual elements, you can use

sys.argv[i]  

where i is index, 0 will give you the python filename being executed. Any index after that are the arguments passed.

How to count the occurrence of certain item in an ndarray?

here I have something, through which you can count the number of occurrence of a particular number: according to your code

count_of_zero=list(y[y==0]).count(0)

print(count_of_zero)

// according to the match there will be boolean values and according to True value the number 0 will be return

How to retrieve raw post data from HttpServletRequest in java

The request body is available as byte stream by HttpServletRequest#getInputStream():

InputStream body = request.getInputStream();
// ...

Or as character stream by HttpServletRequest#getReader():

Reader body = request.getReader();
// ...

Note that you can read it only once. The client ain't going to resend the same request multiple times. Calling getParameter() and so on will implicitly also read it. If you need to break down parameters later on, you've got to store the body somewhere and process yourself.

Jquery UI Datepicker not displaying

Had the same problem that the datepicker-DIV has been created but didnt get filled and show up on click. My fault was to give the input the class "hasDatepicker" staticly. jQuery-ui hat to set this class by its own. then it works for me.

Where does application data file actually stored on android device?

You can get if from your document_cache folder, subfolder (mine is 1946507). Once there, rename the "content" by adding .pdf to the end of the file, save, and open with any pdf reader.

Reverse a string in Java

    public static void reverseString(String s){
        System.out.println("---------");
        for(int i=s.length()-1; i>=0;i--){
            System.out.print(s.charAt(i));    
        }
        System.out.println(); 

    }

javascript regex for password containing at least 8 characters, 1 number, 1 upper and 1 lowercase

Your regular expression should look like:

/^(?=.*\d)(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])[0-9a-zA-Z]{8,}$/

Here is an explanation:

/^
  (?=.*\d)          // should contain at least one digit
  (?=.*[a-z])       // should contain at least one lower case
  (?=.*[A-Z])       // should contain at least one upper case
  [a-zA-Z0-9]{8,}   // should contain at least 8 from the mentioned characters
$/

Can you blur the content beneath/behind a div?

If you want to enable unblur, you cannot just add the blur CSS to the body, you need to blur each visible child one level directly under the body and then remove the CSS to unblur. The reason is because of the "Cascade" in CSS, you cannot undo the cascading of the CSS blur effect for a child of the body. Also, to blur the body's background image you need to use the pseudo element :before

//HTML

<div id="fullscreen-popup" style="position:absolute;top:50%;left:50%;">
    <div class="morph-button morph-button-overlay morph-button-fixed">
        <button id="user-interface" type="button">MORE INFO</button>
        <!--a id="user-interface" href="javascript:void(0)">popup</a-->
        <div class="morph-content">
            <div>
                <div class="content-style-overlay">
                    <span class="icon icon-close">Close the overlay</span>
                    <h2>About Parsley</h2>
                    <p>Gumbo beet greens corn soko endive gumbo gourd. Parsley shallot courgette tatsoi pea sprouts fava bean collard greens dandelion okra wakame tomato. Dandelion cucumber earthnut pea peanut soko zucchini.</p>
                    <p>Turnip greens yarrow ricebean rutabaga endive cauliflower sea lettuce kohlrabi amaranth water spinach avocado daikon napa cabbage asparagus winter purslane kale. Celery potato scallion desert raisin horseradish spinach carrot soko. Lotus root water spinach fennel kombu maize bamboo shoot green bean swiss chard seakale pumpkin onion chickpea gram corn pea. Brussels sprout coriander water chestnut gourd swiss chard wakame kohlrabi beetroot carrot watercress. Corn amaranth salsify bunya nuts nori azuki bean chickweed potato bell pepper artichoke.</p>
                    <p>Gumbo beet greens corn soko endive gumbo gourd. Parsley shallot courgette tatsoi pea sprouts fava bean collard greens dandelion okra wakame tomato. Dandelion cucumber earthnut pea peanut soko zucchini.</p>
                    <p>Turnip greens yarrow ricebean rutabaga endive cauliflower sea lettuce kohlrabi amaranth water spinach avocado daikon napa cabbage asparagus winter purslane kale. Celery potato scallion desert raisin horseradish spinach carrot soko. Lotus root water spinach fennel kombu maize bamboo shoot green bean swiss chard seakale pumpkin onion chickpea gram corn pea. Brussels sprout coriander water chestnut gourd swiss chard wakame kohlrabi beetroot carrot watercress. Corn amaranth salsify bunya nuts nori azuki bean chickweed potato bell pepper artichoke.</p>
                    <p>Gumbo beet greens corn soko endive gumbo gourd. Parsley shallot courgette tatsoi pea sprouts fava bean collard greens dandelion okra wakame tomato. Dandelion cucumber earthnut pea peanut soko zucchini.</p>
                    <p>Turnip greens yarrow ricebean rutabaga endive cauliflower sea lettuce kohlrabi amaranth water spinach avocado daikon napa cabbage asparagus winter purslane kale. Celery potato scallion desert raisin horseradish spinach carrot soko. Lotus root water spinach fennel kombu maize bamboo shoot green bean swiss chard seakale pumpkin onion chickpea gram corn pea. Brussels sprout coriander water chestnut gourd swiss chard wakame kohlrabi beetroot carrot watercress. Corn amaranth salsify bunya nuts nori azuki bean chickweed potato bell pepper artichoke.</p>
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

//CSS

/* Blur - doesn't work on IE */

.blur-on, .blur-element {
    -webkit-filter: blur(10px);
    -moz-filter: blur(10px);
    -o-filter: blur(10px);
    -ms-filter: blur(10px);
    filter: blur(10px);

    -webkit-transition: all 5s linear;
    transition        : all 5s linear;
    -moz-transition   : all 5s linear;
    -webkit-transition: all 5s linear;
    -o-transition     : all 5s linear;
}
.blur-off {
    -webkit-filter: blur(0px) !important;
    -moz-filter   : blur(0px) !important;
    -o-filter     : blur(0px) !important;
    -ms-filter    : blur(0px) !important;
    filter        : blur(0px) !important;
}
.blur-bgimage:before {
    content: "";
    position: absolute;
    height: 20%; width: 20%;
    background-size: cover;
    background: inherit;
    z-index: -1;

    transform: scale(5);
    transform-origin: top left;
    filter: blur(2px);       
    -moz-transform: scale(5);
    -moz-transform-origin: top left;
    -moz-filter: blur(2px);       
    -webkit-transform: scale(5);
    -webkit-transform-origin: top left;
    -webkit-filter: blur(2px);
    -o-transform: scale(5);
    -o-transform-origin: top left;
    -o-filter: blur(2px);       

    transition        : all 5s linear;
    -moz-transition   : all 5s linear;
    -webkit-transition: all 5s linear;
    -o-transition     : all 5s linear;
}


//Javascript

function blurBehindPopup() {
    if(blurredElements.length == 0) {
        for(var i=0; i < document.body.children.length; i++) {
            var element = document.body.children[i];
            if(element.id && element.id != 'fullscreen-popup' && element.isVisible == true) {
                classie.addClass( element, 'blur-element' );
                blurredElements.push(element);
            }
        }
    } else {
        for(var i=0; i < blurredElements.length; i++) {
            classie.addClass( blurredElements[i], 'blur-element' );
        }
    }
}
function unblurBehindPopup() {
    for(var i=0; i < blurredElements.length; i++) {
        classie.removeClass( blurredElements[i], 'blur-element' );
    }
}

Full Working Example Link

Get the generated SQL statement from a SqlCommand object?

Modified version of Kon's answer as it only partially works with similar named parameters. The down side of using String Replace function. Other than that, I give him full credit on the solution.

private string GetActualQuery(SqlCommand sqlcmd)
{
    string query = sqlcmd.CommandText;
    string parameters = "";
    string[] strArray = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Split(query, " VALUES ");

    //Reconstructs the second half of the SQL Command
    parameters = "(";

    int count = 0;
    foreach (SqlParameter p in sqlcmd.Parameters)
    {
        if (count == (sqlcmd.Parameters.Count - 1))
        {
            parameters += p.Value.ToString();
        }
        else
        {
            parameters += p.Value.ToString() + ", ";
        }
        count++;
    }

    parameters += ")";

    //Returns the string recombined.
    return strArray[0] + " VALUES " + parameters;
}

Get Value From Select Option in Angular 4

HTML code

    <form class="form-inline" (ngSubmit)="HelloCorp(modelName)">
        <div class="select">
            <select class="form-control col-lg-8" [(ngModel)]="modelName" required>
                <option *ngFor="let corporation of corporations" [ngValue]="corporation">
                    {{corporation.corp_name}}
                </option>    
            </select>
            <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary manage">Submit</button>
        </div> 
    </form>

Component code

HelloCorp(corporation) {
    var corporationObj = corporation.value;
}

Extract a substring using PowerShell

The -match operator tests a regex, combine it with the magic variable $matches to get your result

PS C:\> $x = "----start----Hello World----end----"
PS C:\> $x -match "----start----(?<content>.*)----end----"
True
PS C:\> $matches['content']
Hello World

Whenever in doubt about regex-y things, check out this site: http://www.regular-expressions.info

How do I display a decimal value to 2 decimal places?

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dwhawy9k%28v=vs.110%29.aspx

This link explains in detail how you can handle your problem and what you can do if you want to learn more. For simplicity purposes, what you want to do is

double whateverYouWantToChange = whateverYouWantToChange.ToString("F2");

if you want this for a currency, you can make it easier by typing "C2" instead of "F2"

Global variables in R

What about .GlobalEnv$a <- "new" ? I saw this explicit way of creating a variable in a certain environment here: http://adv-r.had.co.nz/Environments.html. It seems shorter than using the assign() function.

'Malformed UTF-8 characters, possibly incorrectly encoded' in Laravel

I know it's already an old question, but i had the same error today. For me setting the connection variable on model did the work.

/**
 * Table properties
 */
protected $connection = 'mysql-utf8';
protected $table = 'notification';
protected $primaryKey = 'id';

I don't know if the issue was with the database (probably), but the texts fields with special chars (like ~, ´ e etc) were all messed up.

---- Editing

That $connection var is used to select wich db connection your model will use. Sometimes it happens that in database.php (under /config folder) you have multiples connections and the default one is not using UTF-8 charset.

In any case, be sure to properly use charset and collation into your connection.

'connections' => [

    'mysql' => [
        'driver' => 'mysql',
        'host' => env('DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
        'port' => env('DB_PORT', '3306'),
        'database' => env('DB_DATABASE', 'your_database'),
        'username' => env('DB_USERNAME', 'root'),
        'password' => env('DB_PASSWORD', 'database_password'),
        'unix_socket' => env('DB_SOCKET', ''),
        'prefix' => '',
        'strict' => false,
        'engine' => null
    ],

    'mysql-utf8' => [
        'driver' => 'mysql',
        'host' => env('DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
        'port' => env('DB_PORT', '3306'),
        'database' => env('DB_DATABASE', 'your_database'),
        'username' => env('DB_USERNAME', 'root'),
        'password' => env('DB_PASSWORD', 'database_password'),
        'unix_socket' => env('DB_SOCKET', ''),
        'charset' => 'utf8',
        'collation' => 'utf8_unicode_ci',
        'prefix' => '',
        'strict' => false,
        'engine' => null
    ],

Is there a function to split a string in PL/SQL?

I like the look of that apex utility. However its also good to know about the standard oracle functions you can use for this: subStr and inStr http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14200/functions001.htm

Spring 3 RequestMapping: Get path value

I have a similar problem and I resolved in this way:

@RequestMapping(value = "{siteCode}/**/{fileName}.{fileExtension}")
public HttpEntity<byte[]> getResource(@PathVariable String siteCode,
        @PathVariable String fileName, @PathVariable String fileExtension,
        HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse response ) throws IOException {
    String fullPath = req.getPathInfo();
    // Calling http://localhost:8080/SiteXX/images/argentine/flag.jpg
    // fullPath conentent: /SiteXX/images/argentine/flag.jpg
}

Note that req.getPathInfo() will return the complete path (with {siteCode} and {fileName}.{fileExtension}) so you will have to process conveniently.

How to search file text for a pattern and replace it with a given value

Here an alternative to the one liner from jim, this time in a script

ARGV[0..-3].each{|f| File.write(f, File.read(f).gsub(ARGV[-2],ARGV[-1]))}

Save it in a script, eg replace.rb

You start in on the command line with

replace.rb *.txt <string_to_replace> <replacement>

*.txt can be replaced with another selection or with some filenames or paths

broken down so that I can explain what's happening but still executable

# ARGV is an array of the arguments passed to the script.
ARGV[0..-3].each do |f| # enumerate the arguments of this script from the first to the last (-1) minus 2
  File.write(f,  # open the argument (= filename) for writing
    File.read(f) # open the argument (= filename) for reading
    .gsub(ARGV[-2],ARGV[-1])) # and replace all occurances of the beforelast with the last argument (string)
end

EDIT: if you want to use a regular expression use this instead Obviously, this is only for handling relatively small text files, no Gigabyte monsters

ARGV[0..-3].each{|f| File.write(f, File.read(f).gsub(/#{ARGV[-2]}/,ARGV[-1]))}

Split array into chunks

I think this a nice recursive solution with ES6 syntax:

_x000D_
_x000D_
const chunk = function(array, size) {_x000D_
  if (!array.length) {_x000D_
    return [];_x000D_
  }_x000D_
  const head = array.slice(0, size);_x000D_
  const tail = array.slice(size);_x000D_
_x000D_
  return [head, ...chunk(tail, size)];_x000D_
};_x000D_
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console.log(chunk([1,2,3], 2));
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Add common prefix to all cells in Excel

  1. Enter the function of = CONCATENATE("X",A1) in one cell other than A say D
  2. Click the Cell D1, and drag the fill handle across the range that you want to fill.All the cells should have been added the specific prefix text.

You can see the changes made to the repective cells.

How to link 2 cell of excel sheet?

Just follow these Steps :

If you want the contents of, say, C1 to mirror the contents of cell A1, you just need to set the formula in C1 to =A1. From this point forward, anything you type in A1 will show up in C1 as well.

To Link Multiple Cells in Excel From Another Worksheet :

Step 1

Click the worksheet tab at the bottom of the screen that contains a range of precedent cells to which you want to link. A range is a block or group of adjacent cells. For example, assume you want to link a range of blank cells in “Sheet1” to a range of precedent cells in “Sheet2.” Click the “Sheet2” tab.

Step 2

Determine the precedent range’s width in columns and height in rows. In this example, assume cells A1 through A4 on “Sheet2” contain a list of numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4, respectively, which will be your precedent cells. This precedent range is one column wide by four rows high.

Step 3

Click the worksheet tab at the bottom of the screen that contains the blank cells in which you will insert a link. In this example, click the “Sheet1” tab.

Step 4

Select the range of blank cells you want to link to the precedent cells. This range must be the same size as the precedent range, but can be in a different location on the worksheet. Click and hold the mouse button on the top left cell of the range, drag the mouse cursor to the bottom right cell in the range and release the mouse button to select the range. In this example, assume you want to link cells C1 through C4 to the precedent range. Click and hold on cell C1, drag the mouse to cell C4 and release the mouse to highlight the range.

Step 5

Type “=,” the worksheet name containing the precedent cells, “!,” the top left cell of the precedent range, “:” and the bottom right cell of the precedent range. Press “Ctrl,” “Shift” and “Enter” simultaneously to complete the array formula. Each dependent cell is now linked to the cell in the precedent range that’s in the same respective location within the range. In this example, type “=Sheet2!A1:A4” and press “Ctrl,” “Shift” and “Enter” simultaneously. Cells C1 through C4 on “Sheet1” now contain the array formula “{=Sheet2!A1:A4}” surrounded by curly brackets, and show the same data as the precedent cells in “Sheet2.”

Good Luck !!!

Escaping quotation marks in PHP

Save your text not in a PHP file, but in an ordinary text file called, say, "text.txt"

Then with one simple $text1 = file_get_contents('text.txt'); command have your text with not a single problem.

How to calculate combination and permutation in R?

It might be that the package "Combinations" is not updated anymore and does not work with a recent version of R (I was also unable to install it on R 2.13.1 on windows). The package "combinat" installs without problem for me and might be a solution for you depending on what exactly you're trying to do.

How to NodeJS require inside TypeScript file?

Use typings to access node functions from TypeScript:

typings install env~node --global

If you don't have typings install it:

npm install typings --global

Find the server name for an Oracle database

The query below demonstrates use of the package and some of the information you can get.

select sys_context ( 'USERENV', 'DB_NAME' ) db_name,
sys_context ( 'USERENV', 'SESSION_USER' ) user_name,
sys_context ( 'USERENV', 'SERVER_HOST' ) db_host,
sys_context ( 'USERENV', 'HOST' ) user_host
from dual

NOTE: The parameter ‘SERVER_HOST’ is available in 10G only.

Any Oracle User that can connect to the database can run a query against “dual”. No special permissions are required and SYS_CONTEXT provides a greater range of application-specific information than “sys.v$instance”.

How many bytes is unsigned long long?

The beauty of C++, like C, is that the sized of these things are implementation-defined, so there's no correct answer without your specifying the compiler you're using. Are those two the same? Yes. "long long" is a synonym for "long long int", for any compiler that will accept both.

Retrieving subfolders names in S3 bucket from boto3

The following works for me... S3 objects:

s3://bucket/
    form1/
       section11/
          file111
          file112
       section12/
          file121
    form2/
       section21/
          file211
          file112
       section22/
          file221
          file222
          ...
      ...
   ...

Using:

from boto3.session import Session
s3client = session.client('s3')
resp = s3client.list_objects(Bucket=bucket, Prefix='', Delimiter="/")
forms = [x['Prefix'] for x in resp['CommonPrefixes']] 

we get:

form1/
form2/
...

With:

resp = s3client.list_objects(Bucket=bucket, Prefix='form1/', Delimiter="/")
sections = [x['Prefix'] for x in resp['CommonPrefixes']] 

we get:

form1/section11/
form1/section12/

How to check for an empty object in an AngularJS view

Create a $scope function that check it and returns true or false, like a "isEmpty" function and use in your view on ng-if statement like

ng-if="isEmpty(object)"

Using Default Arguments in a Function

Optional arguments only work at the end of a function call. There is no way to specify a value for $y in your function without also specifying $x. Some languages support this via named parameters (VB/C# for example), but not PHP.

You can emulate this if you use an associative array for parameters instead of arguments -- i.e.

function foo(array $args = array()) {
    $x = !isset($args['x']) ? 'default x value' : $args['x'];
    $y = !isset($args['y']) ? 'default y value' : $args['y'];

    ...
}

Then call the function like so:

foo(array('y' => 'my value'));

jQuery on window resize

jQuery has a resize event handler which you can attach to the window, .resize(). So, if you put $(window).resize(function(){/* YOUR CODE HERE */}) then your code will be run every time the window is resized.

So, what you want is to run the code after the first page load and whenever the window is resized. Therefore you should pull the code into its own function and run that function in both instances.

// This function positions the footer based on window size
function positionFooter(){
    var $containerHeight = $(window).height();
    if ($containerHeight <= 818) {
        $('.footer').css({
            position: 'static',
            bottom: 'auto',
            left: 'auto'
        });
    }
    else {
        $('.footer').css({
            position: 'absolute',
            bottom: '3px',
            left: '0px'
        });
    } 
}

$(document).ready(function () {
    positionFooter();//run when page first loads
});

$(window).resize(function () {
    positionFooter();//run on every window resize
});

See: Cross-browser window resize event - JavaScript / jQuery

java.util.Date to XMLGregorianCalendar

For those that might end up here looking for the opposite conversion (from XMLGregorianCalendar to Date):

XMLGregorianCalendar xcal = <assume this is initialized>;
java.util.Date dt = xcal.toGregorianCalendar().getTime();

How to convert List<string> to List<int>?

Using Linq:

var intList = stringList.Select(s => Convert.ToInt32(s)).ToList()

Do I cast the result of malloc?

The best thing to do when programming in C whenever it is possible:

  1. Make your program compile through a C compiler with all warnings turned on -Wall and fix all errors and warnings
  2. Make sure there are no variables declared as auto
  3. Then compile it using a C++ compiler with -Wall and -std=c++11. Fix all errors and warnings.
  4. Now compile using the C compiler again. Your program should now compile without any warning and contain fewer bugs.

This procedure lets you take advantage of C++ strict type checking, thus reducing the number of bugs. In particular, this procedure forces you to include stdlib.hor you will get

malloc was not declared within this scope

and also forces you to cast the result of malloc or you will get

invalid conversion from void* to T*

or what ever your target type is.

The only benefits from writing in C instead of C++ I can find are

  1. C has a well specified ABI
  2. C++ may generate more code [exceptions, RTTI, templates, runtime polymorphism]

Notice that the second cons should in the ideal case disappear when using the subset common to C together with the static polymorphic feature.

For those that finds C++ strict rules inconvenient, we can use the C++11 feature with inferred type

auto memblock=static_cast<T*>(malloc(n*sizeof(T))); //Mult may overflow...

Check if a string is a valid Windows directory (folder) path

I actually disagree with SLaks. That solution did not work for me. Exception did not happen as expected. But this code worked for me:

if(System.IO.Directory.Exists(path))
{
    ...
}

Disable a textbox using CSS

You can't disable a textbox in CSS. Disabling it is not a presentational task, you will have to do this in the HTML markup using the disabled attribute.

You may be able to put something together by putting the textbox underneath an absolutely positioned transparent element with z-index... But that's just silly, plus you would need a second HTML element anyway.

You can, however, style disabled text boxes (if that's what you mean) in CSS using

input[disabled] { ... }

from IE7 upwards and in all other major browsers.

Setting focus to a textbox control

Private Sub Form1_Shown(sender As Object, e As EventArgs) Handles Me.Shown
    TextBox1.Select()
End Sub

Get image data url in JavaScript?

This Function takes the URL then returns the image BASE64

function getBase64FromImageUrl(url) {
    var img = new Image();

    img.setAttribute('crossOrigin', 'anonymous');

    img.onload = function () {
        var canvas = document.createElement("canvas");
        canvas.width =this.width;
        canvas.height =this.height;

        var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");
        ctx.drawImage(this, 0, 0);

        var dataURL = canvas.toDataURL("image/png");

        alert(dataURL.replace(/^data:image\/(png|jpg);base64,/, ""));
    };

    img.src = url;
}

Call it like this : getBase64FromImageUrl("images/slbltxt.png")

Is it possible to add an HTML link in the body of a MAILTO link

Section 2 of RFC 2368 says that the body field is supposed to be in text/plain format, so you can't do HTML.

However even if you use plain text it's possible that some modern mail clients would render a URL as a clickable link anyway, though.

Python Key Error=0 - Can't find Dict error in code

The error you're getting is that self.adj doesn't already have a key 0. You're trying to append to a list that doesn't exist yet.

Consider using a defaultdict instead, replacing this line (in __init__):

self.adj = {}

with this:

self.adj = defaultdict(list)

You'll need to import at the top:

from collections import defaultdict

Now rather than raise a KeyError, self.adj[0].append(edge) will create a list automatically to append to.

Merge/flatten an array of arrays

You can use Underscore:

var x = [[1], [2], [3, 4]];

_.flatten(x); // => [1, 2, 3, 4]

Running a command as Administrator using PowerShell?

Self elevating PowerShell script

Windows 8.1 / PowerShell 4.0 +

One line :)

if (!([Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal][Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()).IsInRole([Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole] "Administrator")) { Start-Process powershell.exe "-NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File `"$PSCommandPath`"" -Verb RunAs; exit }

# Your script here

PostgreSQL: insert from another table

For referential integtity :

insert into  main_tbl (col1, ref1, ref2, createdby)
values ('col1_val',
        (select ref1 from ref1_tbl where lookup_val = 'lookup1'),
        (select ref2 from ref2_tbl where lookup_val = 'lookup2'),
        'init-load'
       );

Failed to load resource 404 (Not Found) - file location error?

Looks like the path you gave doesn't have any bootstrap files in them.

href="~/lib/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css"

Make sure the files exist over there , else point the files to the correct path, which should be in your case

href="~/node_modules/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.min.css"

Run PostgreSQL queries from the command line

Open "SQL Shell (psql)" from your Applications (Mac).

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Click enter for the default settings. Enter the password when prompted.

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*) Type \? for help

*) Type \conninfo to see which user you are connected as.

*) Type \l to see the list of Databases.

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*) Connect to a database by \c <Name of DB>, for example \c GeneDB1

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You should see the key prompt change to the new DB, like so: enter image description here

*) Now that you're in a given DB, you want to know the Schemas for that DB. The best command to do this is \dn.

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Other commands that also work (but not as good) are select schema_name from information_schema.schemata; and select nspname from pg_catalog.pg_namespace;:

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-) Now that you have the Schemas, you want to know the tables in those Schemas. For that, you can use the dt command. For example \dt "GeneSchema1".*

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*) Now you can do your queries. For example:

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*) Here is what the above DB, Schema, and Tables look like in pgAdmin:

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How to create a checkbox with a clickable label?

It works too :

<form>
    <label for="male"><input type="checkbox" name="male" id="male" />Male</label><br />
    <label for="female"><input type="checkbox" name="female" id="female" />Female</label>
</form>

How to change line width in ggplot?

Whilst @Didzis has the correct answer, I will expand on a few points

Aesthetics can be set or mapped within a ggplot call.

  • An aesthetic defined within aes(...) is mapped from the data, and a legend created.

  • An aesthetic may also be set to a single value, by defining it outside aes().

As far as I can tell, what you want is to set size to a single value, not map within the call to aes()

When you call aes(size = 2) it creates a variable called `2` and uses that to create the size, mapping it from a constant value as it is within a call to aes (thus it appears in your legend).

Using size = 1 (and without reg_labeller which is perhaps defined somewhere in your script)

Figure29 +
    geom_line(aes(group=factor(tradlib)),size=1) +
    facet_grid(regionsFull~., scales="free_y") +
    scale_colour_brewer(type = "div") +
    theme(axis.text.x = element_text(
          colour = 'black', angle = 90, size = 13,
          hjust = 0.5, vjust = 0.5),axis.title.x=element_blank()) +
    ylab("FSI (%Change)") +
    theme(axis.text.y = element_text(colour = 'black', size = 12), 
          axis.title.y = element_text(size = 12, 
          hjust = 0.5, vjust = 0.2)) + 
    theme(strip.text.y = element_text(size = 11, hjust = 0.5,
          vjust =    0.5, face = 'bold'))

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and with size = 2

 Figure29 + 
     geom_line(aes(group=factor(tradlib)),size=2) +
     facet_grid(regionsFull~., scales="free_y") + 
     scale_colour_brewer(type = "div") +
     theme(axis.text.x = element_text(colour = 'black', angle = 90,
          size = 13, hjust = 0.5, vjust = 
          0.5),axis.title.x=element_blank()) + 
     ylab("FSI (%Change)") +
     theme(axis.text.y = element_text(colour = 'black', size = 12),
          axis.title.y = element_text(size = 12,
          hjust = 0.5, vjust = 0.2)) + 
      theme(strip.text.y = element_text(size = 11, hjust = 0.5,
          vjust = 0.5, face = 'bold'))

enter image description here

You can now define the size to work appropriately with the final image size and device type.

Methods vs Constructors in Java

Other instructors and teaching assistants occasionally tell me that constructors are specialized methods. I always argue that in Java constructors are NOT specialized methods.

If constructors were methods at all, I would expect them to have the same abilities as methods. That they would at least be similar in more ways than they are different.

How are constructors different than methods? Let me count the ways...

  1. Constructors must be invoked with the new operator while methods may not be invoked with the new operator. Related: Constructors may not be called by name while methods must be called by name.

  2. Constructors may not have a return type while methods must have a return type.

  3. If a method has the same name as the class, it must have a return type. Otherwise, it is a constructor. The fact that you can have two MyClass() signatures in the same class definition which are treated differently should convince all that constructors and methods are different entities:

    public class MyClass {
       public MyClass() { }                                   // constructor
       public String MyClass() { return "MyClass() method"; } // method
    }
    
  4. Constructors may initialize instance constants while methods may not.

  5. Public and protected constructors are not inherited while public and protected methods are inherited.

  6. Constructors may call the constructors of the super class or same class while methods may not call either super() or this().

So, what is similar about methods and constructors?

  1. They both have parameter lists.

  2. They both have blocks of code that will be executed when that block is either called directly (methods) or invoked via new (constructors).

As for constructors and methods having the same visibility modifiers... fields and methods have more visibility modifiers in common.

  1. Constructors may be: private, protected, public.

  2. Methods may be: private, protected, public, abstract, static, final, synchronized, native, strictfp.

  3. Data fields may be: private, protected, public, static, final, transient, volatile.

In Conclusion

In Java, the form and function of constructors is significantly different than for methods. Thus, calling them specialized methods actually makes it harder for new programmers to learn the differences. They are much more different than similar and learning them as different entities is critical in Java.

I do recognize that Java is different than other languages in this regard, namely C++, where the concept of specialized methods originates and is supported by the language rules. But, in Java, constructors are not methods at all, much less specialized methods.

Even javadoc recognizes the differences between constructors and methods outweigh the similarities; and provides a separate section for constructors.

Filter Java Stream to 1 and only 1 element

User match = users.stream().filter((user) -> user.getId()== 1).findAny().orElseThrow(()-> new IllegalArgumentException());

How do I test if a variable does not equal either of two values?

var test = $("#test").val();
if (test != 'A' && test != 'B'){
    do stuff;
}
else {
    do other stuff;
}

How to test for $null array in PowerShell

if($foo -eq $null) { "yes" } else { "no" }

help about_comparison_operators 

displays help and includes this text:

All comparison operators except the containment operators (-contains, -notcontains) and type operators (-is, -isnot) return a Boolean value when the input to the operator (the value on the left side of the operator) is a single value (a scalar). When the input is a collection of values, the containment operators and the type operators return any matching values. If there are no matches in a collection, these operators do not return anything. The containment operators and type operators always return a Boolean value.

Difference between git stash pop and git stash apply

git stash pop applies the top stashed element and removes it from the stack. git stash apply does the same, but leaves it in the stash stack.

Create a date time with month and day only, no year

There is no such thing like a DateTime without a year!

From what I gather your design is a bit strange:

I would recommend storing a "start" (DateTime including year for the FIRST occurence) and a value which designates how to calculate the next event... this could be for example a TimeSpan or some custom structure esp. since "every year" can mean that the event occurs on a specific date and would not automatically be the same as saysing that it occurs in +365 days.

After the event occurs you calculate the next and store that etc.

LINQ's Distinct() on a particular property

In case you need a Distinct method on multiple properties, you can check out my PowerfulExtensions library. Currently it's in a very young stage, but already you can use methods like Distinct, Union, Intersect, Except on any number of properties;

This is how you use it:

using PowerfulExtensions.Linq;
...
var distinct = myArray.Distinct(x => x.A, x => x.B);

SQL-Server: Error - Exclusive access could not be obtained because the database is in use

Here's a way I am doing database restore from production to development:

NOTE: I am doing it via SSAS job to push production database to development daily:

Step1: Delete previous day backup in development:

declare @sql varchar(1024);

set @sql = 'DEL C:\ProdAEandAEXdataBACKUP\AE11.bak'
exec master..xp_cmdshell @sql

Step2: Copy production database to development:

declare @cmdstring varchar(1000)
set @cmdstring = 'copy \\Share\SQLDBBackup\AE11.bak C:\ProdAEandAEXdataBACKUP'
exec master..xp_cmdshell @cmdstring 

Step3: Restore by running .sql script

SQLCMD -E -S dev-erpdata1 -b -i "C:\ProdAEandAEXdataBACKUP\AE11_Restore.sql"

Code that is within AE11_Restore.sql file:

RESTORE DATABASE AE11
FROM DISK = N'C:\ProdAEandAEXdataBACKUP\AE11.bak'
WITH MOVE 'AE11' TO 'E:\SQL_DATA\AE11.mdf',
MOVE 'AE11_log' TO 'D:\SQL_LOGS\AE11.ldf',
RECOVERY;

How do I properly escape quotes inside HTML attributes?

Per HTML syntax, and even HTML5, the following are all valid options:

<option value="&quot;asd">test</option>
<option value="&#34;asd">test</option>
<option value='"asd'>test</option>
<option value='&quot;asd'>test</option>
<option value='&#34;asd'>test</option>
<option value=&quot;asd>test</option>
<option value=&#34;asd>test</option>

Note that if you are using XML syntax the quotes (single or double) are required.

Here's a jsfiddle showing all of the above working.

How to perform case-insensitive sorting in JavaScript?

The other answers assume that the array contains strings. My method is better, because it will work even if the array contains null, undefined, or other non-strings.

var notdefined;
var myarray = ['a', 'c', null, notdefined, 'nulk', 'BYE', 'nulm'];

myarray.sort(ignoreCase);

alert(JSON.stringify(myarray));    // show the result

function ignoreCase(a,b) {
    return (''+a).toUpperCase() < (''+b).toUpperCase() ? -1 : 1;
}

The null will be sorted between 'nulk' and 'nulm'. But the undefined will be always sorted last.

Sending a notification from a service in Android

@TargetApi(Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN)
public void PushNotification()
{
    NotificationManager nm = (NotificationManager)context.getSystemService(NOTIFICATION_SERVICE);
    Notification.Builder builder = new Notification.Builder(context);
    Intent notificationIntent = new Intent(context, MainActivity.class);
    PendingIntent contentIntent = PendingIntent.getActivity(context,0,notificationIntent,0);

    //set
    builder.setContentIntent(contentIntent);
    builder.setSmallIcon(R.drawable.cal_icon);
    builder.setContentText("Contents");
    builder.setContentTitle("title");
    builder.setAutoCancel(true);
    builder.setDefaults(Notification.DEFAULT_ALL);

    Notification notification = builder.build();
    nm.notify((int)System.currentTimeMillis(),notification);
}

Excel 2007: How to display mm:ss format not as a DateTime (e.g. 73:07)?

enter the values as 0:mm:ss and format as [m]:ss

as this is now in the mins & seconds, simple arithmetic will allow you to calculate your statistics

WebForms UnobtrusiveValidationMode requires a ScriptResourceMapping for 'jquery'. Please add a ScriptResourceMapping named jquery(case-sensitive)

There are at least three ways to disable the use of unobtrusive JavaScript for client-side validation:

  1. Add the following to the web.config file:
    <configuration>
      <appSettings>
        <add key="ValidationSettings:UnobtrusiveValidationMode" value="None" />
      </appSettings>
    </configuration>
  2. Set the value of the System.Web.UI.ValidationSettings.UnobtrusiveValidationMode static property to System.Web.UI.UnobtrusiveValidationMode.None
  3. Set the value of the System.Web.UI.Page.UnobtrusiveValidationMode instance property to System.Web.UI.UnobtrusiveValidationMode.None

To disable the functionality on a per page basis, I prefer to set the Page.UnobtrusiveValidationMode property using the page directive:

<%@ Page Language="C#" UnobtrusiveValidationMode="None" %>

How to install python developer package?

yum install python-devel will work.

If yum doesn't work then use

apt-get install python-dev

How do you fadeIn and animate at the same time?

For people still looking a couple of years later, things have changed a bit. You can now use the queue for .fadeIn() as well so that it will work like this:

$('.tooltip').fadeIn({queue: false, duration: 'slow'});
$('.tooltip').animate({ top: "-10px" }, 'slow');

This has the benefit of working on display: none elements so you don't need the extra two lines of code.

Why is there no SortedList in Java?

List iterators guarantee first and foremost that you get the list's elements in the internal order of the list (aka. insertion order). More specifically it is in the order you've inserted the elements or on how you've manipulated the list. Sorting can be seen as a manipulation of the data structure, and there are several ways to sort the list.

I'll order the ways in the order of usefulness as I personally see it:

1. Consider using Set or Bag collections instead

NOTE: I put this option at the top because this is what you normally want to do anyway.

A sorted set automatically sorts the collection at insertion, meaning that it does the sorting while you add elements into the collection. It also means you don't need to manually sort it.

Furthermore if you are sure that you don't need to worry about (or have) duplicate elements then you can use the TreeSet<T> instead. It implements SortedSet and NavigableSet interfaces and works as you'd probably expect from a list:

TreeSet<String> set = new TreeSet<String>();
set.add("lol");
set.add("cat");
// automatically sorts natural order when adding

for (String s : set) {
    System.out.println(s);
}
// Prints out "cat" and "lol"

If you don't want the natural ordering you can use the constructor parameter that takes a Comparator<T>.

Alternatively, you can use Multisets (also known as Bags), that is a Set that allows duplicate elements, instead and there are third-party implementations of them. Most notably from the Guava libraries there is a TreeMultiset, that works a lot like the TreeSet.

2. Sort your list with Collections.sort()

As mentioned above, sorting of Lists is a manipulation of the data structure. So for situations where you need "one source of truth" that will be sorted in a variety of ways then sorting it manually is the way to go.

You can sort your list with the java.util.Collections.sort() method. Here is a code sample on how:

List<String> strings = new ArrayList<String>()
strings.add("lol");
strings.add("cat");

Collections.sort(strings);
for (String s : strings) {
    System.out.println(s);
}
// Prints out "cat" and "lol"

Using comparators

One clear benefit is that you may use Comparator in the sort method. Java also provides some implementations for the Comparator such as the Collator which is useful for locale sensitive sorting strings. Here is one example:

Collator usCollator = Collator.getInstance(Locale.US);
usCollator.setStrength(Collator.PRIMARY); // ignores casing

Collections.sort(strings, usCollator);

Sorting in concurrent environments

Do note though that using the sort method is not friendly in concurrent environments, since the collection instance will be manipulated, and you should consider using immutable collections instead. This is something Guava provides in the Ordering class and is a simple one-liner:

List<string> sorted = Ordering.natural().sortedCopy(strings);

3. Wrap your list with java.util.PriorityQueue

Though there is no sorted list in Java there is however a sorted queue which would probably work just as well for you. It is the java.util.PriorityQueue class.

Nico Haase linked in the comments to a related question that also answers this.

In a sorted collection you most likely don't want to manipulate the internal data structure which is why PriorityQueue doesn't implement the List interface (because that would give you direct access to its elements).

Caveat on the PriorityQueue iterator

The PriorityQueue class implements the Iterable<E> and Collection<E> interfaces so it can be iterated as usual. However, the iterator is not guaranteed to return elements in the sorted order. Instead (as Alderath points out in the comments) you need to poll() the queue until empty.

Note that you can convert a list to a priority queue via the constructor that takes any collection:

List<String> strings = new ArrayList<String>()
strings.add("lol");
strings.add("cat");

PriorityQueue<String> sortedStrings = new PriorityQueue(strings);
while(!sortedStrings.isEmpty()) {
    System.out.println(sortedStrings.poll());
}
// Prints out "cat" and "lol"

4. Write your own SortedList class

NOTE: You shouldn't have to do this.

You can write your own List class that sorts each time you add a new element. This can get rather computation heavy depending on your implementation and is pointless, unless you want to do it as an exercise, because of two main reasons:

  1. It breaks the contract that List<E> interface has because the add methods should ensure that the element will reside in the index that the user specifies.
  2. Why reinvent the wheel? You should be using the TreeSet or Multisets instead as pointed out in the first point above.

However, if you want to do it as an exercise here is a code sample to get you started, it uses the AbstractList abstract class:

public class SortedList<E> extends AbstractList<E> {

    private ArrayList<E> internalList = new ArrayList<E>();

    // Note that add(E e) in AbstractList is calling this one
    @Override 
    public void add(int position, E e) {
        internalList.add(e);
        Collections.sort(internalList, null);
    }

    @Override
    public E get(int i) {
        return internalList.get(i);
    }

    @Override
    public int size() {
        return internalList.size();
    }

}

Note that if you haven't overridden the methods you need, then the default implementations from AbstractList will throw UnsupportedOperationExceptions.

Casting string to enum

As an extra, you can take the Enum.Parse answers already provided and put them in an easy-to-use static method in a helper class.

public static T ParseEnum<T>(string value)
{
    return (T)Enum.Parse(typeof(T), value, ignoreCase: true);
}

And use it like so:

{
   Content = ParseEnum<ContentEnum>(fileContentMessage);
};

Especially helpful if you have lots of (different) Enums to parse.

How do I get unique elements in this array?

This should work for you:

Consider Table1 has a column by the name of activity which may have the same value in more than one record. This is how you will extract ONLY the unique entries of activity field within Table1.

#An array of multiple data entries
@table1 = Table1.find(:all) 

#extracts **activity** for each entry in the array @table1, and returns only the ones which are unique 

@unique_activities = @table1.map{|t| t.activity}.uniq 

Enumerations on PHP

The most common solution that I have seen to enum's in PHP has been to create a generic enum class and then extend it. You might take a look at this.

UPDATE: Alternatively, I found this from phpclasses.org.

Enable binary mode while restoring a Database from an SQL dump

Your File should be only .sql extension, (.zip, .gz .rar) etc will not support. example: dump.sql

Enabling the OpenSSL in XAMPP

Yes, you must open php.ini and remove the semicolon to:

;extension=php_openssl.dll

If you don't have that line, check that you have the file (In my PC is on D:\xampp\php\ext) and add this to php.ini in the "Dynamic Extensions" section:

extension=php_openssl.dll

Things have changed for PHP > 7. This is what i had to do for PHP 7.2.

Step: 1: Uncomment extension=openssl

Step: 2: Uncomment extension_dir = "ext"

Step: 3: Restart xampp.

Done.

Explanation: ( From php.ini )

If you wish to have an extension loaded automatically, use the following syntax:

extension=modulename

Note : The syntax used in previous PHP versions (extension=<ext>.so and extension='php_<ext>.dll) is supported for legacy reasons and may be deprecated in a future PHP major version. So, when it is possible, please move to the new (extension=<ext>) syntax.

Special Note: Be sure to appropriately set the extension_dir directive.

Eclipse Java Missing required source folder: 'src'

Create the src folder in the project.

AngularJS ngClass conditional

Using function with ng-class is a good option when someone has to run complex logic to decide the appropriate CSS class.

http://jsfiddle.net/ms403Ly8/2/

HTML:

<div ng-app>
  <div ng-controller="testCtrl">
        <div ng-class="getCSSClass()">Testing ng-class using function</div>       
    </div>
</div>

CSS:

.testclass { Background: lightBlue}

JavaScript:

function testCtrl($scope) {
    $scope.getCSSClass = function() {
     return "testclass ";
  }     
}

Unit Testing: DateTime.Now

Mock Objects.

A mock DateTime that returns a Now that's appropriate for your test.

What is this weird colon-member (" : ") syntax in the constructor?

It's a member initialization list. You should find information about it in any good C++ book.

You should, in most cases, initialize all member objects in the member initialization list (however, do note the exceptions listed at the end of the FAQ entry).

The takeaway point from the FAQ entry is that,

All other things being equal, your code will run faster if you use initialization lists rather than assignment.

How to query DATETIME field using only date in Microsoft SQL Server?

use range, or DateDiff function

 select * from test 
 where date between '03/19/2014' and '03/19/2014 23:59:59'

or

 select * from test 
 where datediff(day, date, '03/19/2014') = 0

Other options are:

  1. If you have control over the database schema, and you don't need the time data, take it out.

  2. or, if you must keep it, add a computed column attribute that has the time portion of the date value stripped off...

Alter table Test Add DateOnly As DateAdd(day, datediff(day, 0, date), 0)

or, in more recent versions of SQL Server...

Alter table Test Add DateOnly As Cast(DateAdd(day, datediff(day, 0, date), 0) as Date)

then, you can write your query as simply:

select * from test 
where DateOnly = '03/19/2014'

String contains - ignore case

Try this

public static void main(String[] args)
{

    String original = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQ";
    String tobeChecked = "GHi";

    System.out.println(containsString(original, tobeChecked, true));        
    System.out.println(containsString(original, tobeChecked, false));

}

public static boolean containsString(String original, String tobeChecked, boolean caseSensitive)
{
    if (caseSensitive)
    {
        return original.contains(tobeChecked);

    }
    else
    {
        return original.toLowerCase().contains(tobeChecked.toLowerCase());
    }

}

How to remove "onclick" with JQuery?

Removing onclick property

Suppose you added your click event inline, like this :

<button id="myButton" onclick="alert('test')">Married</button>

Then, you can remove the event like this :

$("#myButton").prop('onclick', null); // Removes 'onclick' property if found

Removing click event listeners

Suppose you added your click event by defining an event listener, like this :

$("button").on("click", function() { alert("clicked!"); });

... or like this:

$("button").click(function() { alert("clicked!"); });

Then, you can remove the event like this :

$("#myButton").off('click');          // Removes other events if found

Removing both

If you're uncertain how your event has been added, you can combine both, like this :

$("#myButton").prop('onclick', null)  // Removes 'onclick' property if found
              .off('click');          // Removes other events if found

Pro JavaScript programmer interview questions (with answers)

Ask them how they ensure their pages continue to be usable when the user has JavaScript turned off or JavaScript isn't available.

There's no One True Answer, but you're fishing for an answer talking about some strategies for Progressive Enhancement.

Progressive Enhancement consists of the following core principles:

  • basic content should be accessible to all browsers
  • basic functionality should be accessible to all browsers
  • sparse, semantic markup contains all content
  • enhanced layout is provided by externally linked CSS
  • enhanced behavior is provided by [[Unobtrusive JavaScript|unobtrusive]], externally linked JavaScript
  • end user browser preferences are respected

How to minify php page html output?

Turn on gzip if you want to do it properly. You can also just do something like this:

$this->output = preg_replace(
    array(
        '/ {2,}/',
        '/<!--.*?-->|\t|(?:\r?\n[ \t]*)+/s'
    ),
    array(
        ' ',
        ''
    ),
    $this->output
);

This removes about 30% of the page size by turning your html into one line, no tabs, no new lines, no comments. Mileage may vary

How to disable HTML button using JavaScript?

The official way to set the disabled attribute on an HTMLInputElement is this:

var input = document.querySelector('[name="myButton"]');
// Without querySelector API
// var input = document.getElementsByName('myButton').item(0);

// disable
input.setAttribute('disabled', true);
// enable
input.removeAttribute('disabled');

While @kaushar's answer is sufficient for enabling and disabling an HTMLInputElement, and is probably preferable for cross-browser compatibility due to IE's historically buggy setAttribute, it only works because Element properties shadow Element attributes. If a property is set, then the DOM uses the value of the property by default rather than the value of the equivalent attribute.

There is a very important difference between properties and attributes. An example of a true HTMLInputElement property is input.value, and below demonstrates how shadowing works:

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var input = document.querySelector('#test');_x000D_
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// the attribute works as expected_x000D_
console.log('old attribute:', input.getAttribute('value'));_x000D_
// the property is equal to the attribute when the property is not explicitly set_x000D_
console.log('old property:', input.value);_x000D_
_x000D_
// change the input's value property_x000D_
input.value = "My New Value";_x000D_
_x000D_
// the attribute remains there because it still exists in the DOM markup_x000D_
console.log('new attribute:', input.getAttribute('value'));_x000D_
// but the property is equal to the set value due to the shadowing effect_x000D_
console.log('new property:', input.value);
_x000D_
<input id="test" type="text" value="Hello World" />
_x000D_
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That is what it means to say that properties shadow attributes. This concept also applies to inherited properties on the prototype chain:

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  this.property = 'ParentInstance';_x000D_
}_x000D_
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Parent.prototype.property = 'ParentPrototype';_x000D_
_x000D_
// ES5 inheritance_x000D_
Child.prototype = Object.create(Parent.prototype);_x000D_
Child.prototype.constructor = Child;_x000D_
_x000D_
function Child() {_x000D_
  // ES5 super()_x000D_
  Parent.call(this);_x000D_
_x000D_
  this.property = 'ChildInstance';_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
Child.prototype.property = 'ChildPrototype';_x000D_
_x000D_
logChain('new Parent()');_x000D_
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log('-------------------------------');_x000D_
logChain('Object.create(Parent.prototype)');_x000D_
_x000D_
log('-----------');_x000D_
logChain('new Child()');_x000D_
_x000D_
log('------------------------------');_x000D_
logChain('Object.create(Child.prototype)');_x000D_
_x000D_
// below is for demonstration purposes_x000D_
// don't ever actually use document.write(), eval(), or access __proto___x000D_
function log(value) {_x000D_
  document.write(`<pre>${value}</pre>`);_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
function logChain(code) {_x000D_
  log(code);_x000D_
_x000D_
  var object = eval(code);_x000D_
_x000D_
  do {_x000D_
    log(`${object.constructor.name} ${object instanceof object.constructor ? 'instance' : 'prototype'} property: ${JSON.stringify(object.property)}`);_x000D_
    _x000D_
    object = object.__proto__;_x000D_
  } while (object !== null);_x000D_
}
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I hope this clarifies any confusion about the difference between properties and attributes.

Test if remote TCP port is open from a shell script

As pointed by B. Rhodes, nc (netcat) will do the job. A more compact way to use it:

nc -z <host> <port>

That way nc will only check if the port is open, exiting with 0 on success, 1 on failure.

For a quick interactive check (with a 5 seconds timeout):

nc -z -v -w5 <host> <port>

jQuery Validate - Enable validation for hidden fields

The validation was working for me on form submission, but it wasn't doing the reactive event driven validation on input to the chosen select lists.

To fix this I added the following to manually trigger the jquery validation event that gets added by the library:

$(".chosen-select").each(function() {
  $(this).chosen().on("change", function() {
    $(this).parents(".form-group").find("select.form-control").trigger("focusout.validate");
  });
});

jquery.validate will now add the .valid class to the underlying select list.

Caveat: This does require a consistent html pattern for your form inputs. In my case, each input filed is wrapped in a div.form-group, and each input has .form-control.

AngularJS view not updating on model change

As Ajay beniwal mentioned above you need to use Apply to start digestion.

var app = angular.module('test', []);

app.controller('TestCtrl', function ($scope) {
   $scope.testValue = 0;

    setInterval(function() {
        console.log($scope.testValue++);
        $scope.$apply() 
    }, 500);
});

ORA-12154 could not resolve the connect identifier specified

I had this error in Visual Studio 2013, with an SSIS project. I set Project, Properties, Debugging, Run64BitRuntime = false and then the SSIS package ran. However, when I deployed the package to the server I had to set the value to true (Server is 64 bit Windows 2012 / Sql 2014 ).

I think the reasoning behind this is that Visual Studio is a 32 bit application.

Twig ternary operator, Shorthand if-then-else

Support for the extended ternary operator was added in Twig 1.12.0.

  1. If foo echo yes else echo no:

    {{ foo ? 'yes' : 'no' }}
    
  2. If foo echo it, else echo no:

    {{ foo ?: 'no' }}
    

    or

    {{ foo ? foo : 'no' }}
    
  3. If foo echo yes else echo nothing:

    {{ foo ? 'yes' }}
    

    or

    {{ foo ? 'yes' : '' }}
    
  4. Returns the value of foo if it is defined and not null, no otherwise:

    {{ foo ?? 'no' }}
    
  5. Returns the value of foo if it is defined (empty values also count), no otherwise:

    {{ foo|default('no') }}
    

#pragma pack effect

Note that there are other ways of achieving data consistency that #pragma pack offers (for instance some people use #pragma pack(1) for structures that should be sent across the network). For instance, see the following code and its subsequent output:

#include <stdio.h>

struct a {
    char one;
    char two[2];
    char eight[8];
    char four[4];
};

struct b { 
    char one;
    short two;
    long int eight;
    int four;
};

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
    struct a twoa[2] = {}; 
    struct b twob[2] = {}; 
    printf("sizeof(struct a): %i, sizeof(struct b): %i\n", sizeof(struct a), sizeof(struct b));
    printf("sizeof(twoa): %i, sizeof(twob): %i\n", sizeof(twoa), sizeof(twob));
}

The output is as follows: sizeof(struct a): 15, sizeof(struct b): 24 sizeof(twoa): 30, sizeof(twob): 48

Notice how the size of struct a is exactly what the byte count is, but struct b has padding added (see this for details on the padding). By doing this as opposed to the #pragma pack you can have control of converting the "wire format" into the appropriate types. For instance, "char two[2]" into a "short int" et cetera.

C# Linq Where Date Between 2 Dates

If you have date interval filter condition and you need to select all records which falls partly into this filter range. Assumption: records has ValidFrom and ValidTo property.

DateTime intervalDateFrom = new DateTime(1990, 01, 01);
DateTime intervalDateTo = new DateTime(2000, 01, 01);

var itemsFiltered = allItems.Where(x=> 
    (x.ValidFrom >= intervalDateFrom && x.ValidFrom <= intervalDateTo) ||
    (x.ValidTo >= intervalDateFrom && x.ValidTo <= intervalDateTo) ||
    (intervalDateFrom >= x.ValidFrom && intervalDateFrom <= x.ValidTo) ||
    (intervalDateTo >= x.ValidFrom && intervalDateTo <= x.ValidTo)
);

Convert blob to base64

 var reader = new FileReader();
 reader.readAsDataURL(blob); 
 reader.onloadend = function() {
     var base64data = reader.result;                
     console.log(base64data);
 }

Form the docs readAsDataURL encodes to base64

How to run a command as a specific user in an init script?

Adding this answer as I had to lookup multiple places to achieve my use case. I had a script that runs on startup. This script runs process as a specific (passwordless) user and is running on multiple linux flavors. Here are options on different flavors: (I have taken java as target process for example)

1. RHEL / CentOS 6:

source /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
daemon --user=myUser $JAVA_HOME/bin/java

2. RHEL 7 / SUSE12 / other linux flavors where systemd is used:

In your systemd unit file add:

User=myUser

3. Suse 11:

/sbin/startproc -u myUser $JAVA_HOME/bin/java

Reading content from URL with Node.js

try using the on error event of the client to find the issue.

var http = require('http');

var options = {
    host: 'google.com',
    path: '/'
}
var request = http.request(options, function (res) {
    var data = '';
    res.on('data', function (chunk) {
        data += chunk;
    });
    res.on('end', function () {
        console.log(data);

    });
});
request.on('error', function (e) {
    console.log(e.message);
});
request.end();

How to fire an event when v-model changes?

Just to add to the correct answer above, in Vue.JS v1.0 you can write

<a v-on:click="doSomething">

So in this example it would be

 v-on:change="foo"

See: http://v1.vuejs.org/guide/syntax.html#Arguments

Simple If/Else Razor Syntax

To get rid of the if/else awkwardness you could use a using block:

@{
    var count = 0;
    foreach (var item in Model)
    {
        using(Html.TableRow(new { @class = (count++ % 2 == 0) ? "alt-row" : "" }))
        {
            <td>
                @Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.Title)
            </td>
            <td>
                @Html.Truncate(item.Details, 75)
            </td>
            <td>
                <img src="@Url.Content("~/Content/Images/Projects/")@item.Images.Where(i => i.IsMain == true).Select(i => i.Name).Single()" 
                    alt="@item.Images.Where(i => i.IsMain == true).Select(i => i.AltText).Single()" class="thumb" />
            </td>
            <td>
                @Html.ActionLink("Edit", "Edit", new { id=item.ProjectId }) |
                @Html.ActionLink("Details", "Details", new { id = item.ProjectId }) |
                @Html.ActionLink("Delete", "Delete", new { id=item.ProjectId })
            </td>
        }
    }
}

Reusable element that make it easier to add attributes:

//Block is take from http://www.codeducky.org/razor-trick-using-block/
public class TableRow : Block
{
    private object _htmlAttributes;
    private TagBuilder _tr;

    public TableRow(HtmlHelper htmlHelper, object htmlAttributes) : base(htmlHelper)
    {
        _htmlAttributes = htmlAttributes;
    }

    public override void BeginBlock()
    {
        _tr = new TagBuilder("tr");
        _tr.MergeAttributes(HtmlHelper.AnonymousObjectToHtmlAttributes(_htmlAttributes));
        this.HtmlHelper.ViewContext.Writer.Write(_tr.ToString(TagRenderMode.StartTag));
    }

    protected override void EndBlock()
    {
        this.HtmlHelper.ViewContext.Writer.Write(_tr.ToString(TagRenderMode.EndTag));
    }
}

Helper method to make razor syntax clearer:

public static TableRow TableRow(this HtmlHelper self, object htmlAttributes)
{
    var tableRow = new TableRow(self, htmlAttributes);
    tableRow.BeginBlock();
    return tableRow;
}

Batch script to find and replace a string in text file within a minute for files up to 12 MB

Give this a shot:

@echo off
setlocal

call :FindReplace "findstr" "replacestr" input.txt

exit /b 

:FindReplace <findstr> <replstr> <file>
set tmp="%temp%\tmp.txt"
If not exist %temp%\_.vbs call :MakeReplace
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('dir "%3" /s /b /a-d /on') do (
  for /f "usebackq" %%b in (`Findstr /mic:"%~1" "%%a"`) do (
    echo(&Echo Replacing "%~1" with "%~2" in file %%~nxa
    <%%a cscript //nologo %temp%\_.vbs "%~1" "%~2">%tmp%
    if exist %tmp% move /Y %tmp% "%%~dpnxa">nul
  )
)
del %temp%\_.vbs
exit /b

:MakeReplace
>%temp%\_.vbs echo with Wscript
>>%temp%\_.vbs echo set args=.arguments
>>%temp%\_.vbs echo .StdOut.Write _
>>%temp%\_.vbs echo Replace(.StdIn.ReadAll,args(0),args(1),1,-1,1)
>>%temp%\_.vbs echo end with

Retrieving a Foreign Key value with django-rest-framework serializers

Simple solution source='category.name' where category is foreign key and .name it's attribute.

from rest_framework.serializers import ModelSerializer, ReadOnlyField
from my_app.models import Item

class ItemSerializer(ModelSerializer):
    category_name = ReadOnlyField(source='category.name')

    class Meta:
        model = Item
        fields = "__all__"

python pip - install from local dir

You were looking for help on installations with pip. You can find it with the following command:

pip install --help

Running pip install -e /path/to/package installs the package in a way, that you can edit the package, and when a new import call looks for it, it will import the edited package code. This can be very useful for package development.

Bootstrap fixed header and footer with scrolling body-content area in fluid-container

Another option would be using flexbox.

While it's not supported by IE8 and IE9, you could consider:

  • Not minding about those old IE versions
  • Providing a fallback
  • Using a polyfill

Despite some additional browser-specific style prefixing would be necessary for full cross-browser support, you can see the basic usage either on this fiddle and on the following snippet:

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html {_x000D_
  height: 100%;_x000D_
}_x000D_
html body {_x000D_
  height: 100%;_x000D_
  overflow: hidden;_x000D_
  display: flex;_x000D_
  flex-direction: column;_x000D_
}_x000D_
html body .container-fluid.body-content {_x000D_
  width: 100%;_x000D_
  overflow-y: auto;_x000D_
}_x000D_
header {_x000D_
    background-color: #4C4;_x000D_
    min-height: 50px;_x000D_
    width: 100%;_x000D_
}_x000D_
footer {_x000D_
    background-color: #4C4;_x000D_
    min-height: 30px;_x000D_
    width: 100%;_x000D_
}
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<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.2/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>_x000D_
<header></header>_x000D_
<div class="container-fluid body-content">_x000D_
  Lorem Ipsum<br/>Lorem Ipsum<br/>Lorem Ipsum<br/>Lorem Ipsum<br/>Lorem Ipsum<br/>_x000D_
  Lorem Ipsum<br/>Lorem Ipsum<br/>Lorem Ipsum<br/>Lorem Ipsum<br/>Lorem Ipsum<br/>_x000D_
  Lorem Ipsum<br/>Lorem Ipsum<br/>Lorem Ipsum<br/>Lorem Ipsum<br/>Lorem Ipsum<br/>_x000D_
  Lorem Ipsum<br/>Lorem Ipsum<br/>Lorem Ipsum<br/>Lorem Ipsum<br/>Lorem Ipsum<br/>_x000D_
  Lorem Ipsum<br/>Lorem Ipsum<br/>Lorem Ipsum<br/>Lorem Ipsum<br/>Lorem Ipsum<br/>_x000D_
</div>_x000D_
<footer></footer>
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Android studio Error "Unsupported Modules Detected: Compilation is not supported for following modules"

Try this if it helps File -> Invalidate Caches / Restart.

If it still doesn't help click on the button in the image. 'Sync Project with Gradle Files'

enter image description here

Read input from a JOptionPane.showInputDialog box

Your problem is that, if the user clicks cancel, operationType is null and thus throws a NullPointerException. I would suggest that you move

if (operationType.equalsIgnoreCase("Q")) 

to the beginning of the group of if statements, and then change it to

if(operationType==null||operationType.equalsIgnoreCase("Q")). 

This will make the program exit just as if the user had selected the quit option when the cancel button is pushed.

Then, change all the rest of the ifs to else ifs. This way, once the program sees whether or not the input is null, it doesn't try to call anything else on operationType. This has the added benefit of making it more efficient - once the program sees that the input is one of the options, it won't bother checking it against the rest of them.