Programs & Examples On #Cfadmin

How to extract an assembly from the GAC?

Think I figured out a way to look inside the GAC without modifying the registry or using the command line, powershell, or any other programs:

Create a new shortcut (to anywhere). Then modify the shortcut to have the target be:

%windir%\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System

Opening this shortcut takes you to the System folder inside the GAC (which everyone should have) and has the wonderful side effect of letting you switch to a higher directory and then browsing into any other folder you want (and see the dll files, etc)

I tested this on windows 7 and windows server 2012.

Note: It will not let you use that target when creating the shortcut but it will let you edit it.

Enjoy!

What is the purpose of class methods?

Class methods are for when you need to have methods that aren't specific to any particular instance, but still involve the class in some way. The most interesting thing about them is that they can be overridden by subclasses, something that's simply not possible in Java's static methods or Python's module-level functions.

If you have a class MyClass, and a module-level function that operates on MyClass (factory, dependency injection stub, etc), make it a classmethod. Then it'll be available to subclasses.

HTTP headers in Websockets client API

Sending Authorization header is not possible.

Attaching a token query parameter is an option. However, in some circumstances, it may be undesirable to send your main login token in plain text as a query parameter because it is more opaque than using a header and will end up being logged whoknowswhere. If this raises security concerns for you, an alternative is to use a secondary JWT token just for the web socket stuff.

Create a REST endpoint for generating this JWT, which can of course only be accessed by users authenticated with your primary login token (transmitted via header). The web socket JWT can be configured differently than your login token, e.g. with a shorter timeout, so it's safer to send around as query param of your upgrade request.

Create a separate JwtAuthHandler for the same route you register the SockJS eventbusHandler on. Make sure your auth handler is registered first, so you can check the web socket token against your database (the JWT should be somehow linked to your user in the backend).

How to make a parent div auto size to the width of its children divs

Your interior <div> elements should likely both be float:left. Divs size to 100% the size of their container width automatically. Try using display:inline-block instead of width:auto on the container div. Or possibly float:left the container and also apply overflow:auto. Depends on what you're after exactly.

Why does background-color have no effect on this DIV?

Change it to:

<div style="background-color:black; overflow:hidden;" onmouseover="this.bgColor='white'">
<div style="float:left">hello</div>
<div style="float:right">world</div>
</div>

Basically the outer div only contains floats. Floats are removed from the normal flow. As such the outer div really contains nothing and thus has no height. It really is black but you just can't see it.

The overflow:hidden property basically makes the outer div enclose the floats. The other way to do this is:

<div style="background-color:black" onmouseover="this.bgColor='white'">
<div style="float:left">hello</div>
<div style="float:right">world</div>
<div style="clear:both></div>
</div>

Oh and just for completeness, you should really prefer classes to direct CSS styles.

VS 2017 Git Local Commit DB.lock error on every commit

Just add the .vs folder to the .gitignore file.

Here is the template for Visual Studio from GitHub's collection of .gitignore templates, as an example:
https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/VisualStudio.gitignore


If you have any trouble adding the .gitignore file, just follow these steps:

  1. On the Team Explorer's window, go to Settings.

Team Explorer - Settings

  1. Then access Repository Settings.

Repository Settings

  1. Finally, click Add in the Ignore File section.

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Done. ;)
This default file already includes the .vs folder.

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How to resolve symbolic links in a shell script

Here's how one can get the actual path to the file in MacOS/Unix using an inline Perl script:

FILE=$(perl -e "use Cwd qw(abs_path); print abs_path('$0')")

Similarly, to get the directory of a symlinked file:

DIR=$(perl -e "use Cwd qw(abs_path); use File::Basename; print dirname(abs_path('$0'))")

How to use Python to execute a cURL command?

curl -d @request.json --header "Content-Type: application/json" https://www.googleapis.com/qpxExpress/v1/trips/search?key=mykeyhere

its python implementation be like

import requests

headers = {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
}

params = (
    ('key', 'mykeyhere'),
)

data = open('request.json')
response = requests.post('https://www.googleapis.com/qpxExpress/v1/trips/search', headers=headers, params=params, data=data)

#NB. Original query string below. It seems impossible to parse and
#reproduce query strings 100% accurately so the one below is given
#in case the reproduced version is not "correct".
# response = requests.post('https://www.googleapis.com/qpxExpress/v1/trips/search?key=mykeyhere', headers=headers, data=data)

check this link, it will help convert cURl command to python,php and nodejs

Angularjs - display current date

<script type="text/javascript">
var app = angular.module('sampleapp', [])
app.controller('samplecontrol', function ($scope) {
   var today = new Date();
   console.log($scope.cdate);
   var date = today.getDate();
   var month = today.getMonth();
   var year = today.getFullYear();
   var current_date = date+'/'+month+'/'+year;
   console.log(current_date);
});
</script>

How can I initialize a C# List in the same line I declare it. (IEnumerable string Collection Example)

I think this will work for int, long and string values.

List<int> list = new List<int>(new int[]{ 2, 3, 7 });


var animals = new List<string>() { "bird", "dog" };

Change a Nullable column to NOT NULL with Default Value

Try this

ALTER TABLE table_name ALTER COLUMN col_name data_type NOT NULL;

MySQL: ERROR 1227 (42000): Access denied - Cannot CREATE USER

First thing to do is run this:

SHOW GRANTS;

You will quickly see you were assigned the anonymous user to authenticate into mysql.

Instead of logging into mysql with

mysql

login like this:

mysql -uroot

By default, root@localhost has all rights and no password.

If you cannot login as root without a password, do the following:

Step 01) Add the two options in the mysqld section of my.ini:

[mysqld]
skip-grant-tables
skip-networking

Step 02) Restart mysql

net stop mysql
<wait 10 seconds>
net start mysql

Step 03) Connect to mysql

mysql

Step 04) Create a password from root@localhost

UPDATE mysql.user SET password=password('whateverpasswordyoulike')
WHERE user='root' AND host='localhost';
exit

Step 05) Restart mysql

net stop mysql
<wait 10 seconds>
net start mysql

Step 06) Login as root with password

mysql -u root -p

You should be good from there.

CAVEAT: Please remove anonymous users !!!

How to get week number in Python?

userInput = input ("Please enter project deadline date (dd/mm/yyyy/): ")

import datetime

currentDate = datetime.datetime.today()

testVar = datetime.datetime.strptime(userInput ,"%d/%b/%Y").date()

remainDays = testVar - currentDate.date()

remainWeeks = (remainDays.days / 7.0) + 1


print ("Please pay attention for deadline of project X in days and weeks are  : " ,(remainDays) , "and" ,(remainWeeks) , "Weeks ,\nSo  hurryup.............!!!") 

Checking whether the pip is installed?

You need to run pip list in bash not in python.

pip list
DEPRECATION: Python 2.6 is no longer supported by the Python core team, please upgrade your Python. A future version of pip will drop support for Python 2.6
argparse (1.4.0)
Beaker (1.3.1)
cas (0.15)
cups (1.0)
cupshelpers (1.0)
decorator (3.0.1)
distribute (0.6.10)
---and other modules

Sending and Receiving SMS and MMS in Android (pre Kit Kat Android 4.4)

I dont understand the frustrations. Why not just make a broadcastreceiver that filters for this intent:

android.provider.Telephony.MMS_RECEIVED

I checked a little further and you might need system level access to get this (rooted phone).

Cannot find firefox binary in PATH. Make sure firefox is installed

This is due to RemoteWebDriver used in code, It tries to invoke firefox browser in node machine, If you have specified firefox binary location in "PATH" environment variable of node machine, It will open firefix browser on executing it from Hub.

c# datatable insert column at position 0

    //Example to define how to do :

    DataTable dt = new DataTable();   

    dt.Columns.Add("ID");
    dt.Columns.Add("FirstName");
    dt.Columns.Add("LastName");
    dt.Columns.Add("Address");
    dt.Columns.Add("City");
           //  The table structure is:
            //ID    FirstName   LastName    Address     City

       //Now we want to add a PhoneNo column after the LastName column. For this we use the                               
             //SetOrdinal function, as iin:
        dt.Columns.Add("PhoneNo").SetOrdinal(3);

            //3 is the position number and positions start from 0.`enter code here`

               //Now the table structure will be:
              // ID      FirstName   LastName    PhoneNo    Address     City

Group list by values

I don't know about elegant, but it's certainly doable:

oldlist = [["A",0], ["B",1], ["C",0], ["D",2], ["E",2]]
# change into: list = [["A", "C"], ["B"], ["D", "E"]]

order=[]
dic=dict()
for value,key in oldlist:
  try:
    dic[key].append(value)
  except KeyError:
    order.append(key)
    dic[key]=[value]
newlist=map(dic.get, order)

print newlist

This preserves the order of the first occurence of each key, as well as the order of items for each key. It requires the key to be hashable, but does not otherwise assign meaning to it.

How do you POST to a page using the PHP header() function?

In addition to what Salaryman said, take a look at the classes in PEAR, there are HTTP request classes there that you can use even if you do not have the cURL extension installed in your PHP distribution.

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

How to find Port number of IP address?

Port numbers are defined by convention. HTTP servers generally listen on port 80, ssh servers listen on 22. But there are no requirements that they do.

VC++ fatal error LNK1168: cannot open filename.exe for writing

I also had this same issue. My console window was no longer open, but I was able to see my application running by going to processes within task manager. The process name was the name of my application. Once I ended the process I was able to build and compile my code with no issues.

Is there a minlength validation attribute in HTML5?

My solution for textarea using jQuery and combining HTML5 required validation to check the minimum length.

minlength.js

$(document).ready(function(){
  $('form textarea[minlength]').on('keyup', function(){
    e_len = $(this).val().trim().length
    e_min_len = Number($(this).attr('minlength'))
    message = e_min_len <= e_len ? '' : e_min_len + ' characters minimum'
    this.setCustomValidity(message)
  })
})

HTML

<form action="">
  <textarea name="test_min_length" id="" cols="30" rows="10" minlength="10"></textarea>
</form>

How to use concerns in Rails 4

I have been reading about using model concerns to skin-nize fat models as well as DRY up your model codes. Here is an explanation with examples:

1) DRYing up model codes

Consider a Article model, a Event model and a Comment model. An article or an event has many comments. A comment belongs to either Article or Event.

Traditionally, the models may look like this:

Comment Model:

class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :commentable, polymorphic: true
end

Article Model:

class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :comments, as: :commentable 

  def find_first_comment
    comments.first(created_at DESC)
  end

  def self.least_commented
   #return the article with least number of comments
  end
end

Event Model

class Event < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :comments, as: :commentable 

  def find_first_comment
    comments.first(created_at DESC)
  end

  def self.least_commented
   #returns the event with least number of comments
  end
end

As we can notice, there is a significant piece of code common to both Event and Article. Using concerns we can extract this common code in a separate module Commentable.

For this create a commentable.rb file in app/models/concerns.

module Commentable
  extend ActiveSupport::Concern

  included do
    has_many :comments, as: :commentable
  end

  # for the given article/event returns the first comment
  def find_first_comment
    comments.first(created_at DESC)
  end

  module ClassMethods
    def least_commented
      #returns the article/event which has the least number of comments
    end
  end
end

And now your models look like this :

Comment Model:

class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :commentable, polymorphic: true
end

Article Model:

class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
  include Commentable
end

Event Model:

class Event < ActiveRecord::Base
  include Commentable
end

2) Skin-nizing Fat Models.

Consider a Event model. A event has many attenders and comments.

Typically, the event model might look like this

class Event < ActiveRecord::Base   
  has_many :comments
  has_many :attenders


  def find_first_comment
    # for the given article/event returns the first comment
  end

  def find_comments_with_word(word)
    # for the given event returns an array of comments which contain the given word
  end 

  def self.least_commented
    # finds the event which has the least number of comments
  end

  def self.most_attended
    # returns the event with most number of attendes
  end

  def has_attendee(attendee_id)
    # returns true if the event has the mentioned attendee
  end
end

Models with many associations and otherwise have tendency to accumulate more and more code and become unmanageable. Concerns provide a way to skin-nize fat modules making them more modularized and easy to understand.

The above model can be refactored using concerns as below: Create a attendable.rb and commentable.rb file in app/models/concerns/event folder

attendable.rb

module Attendable
  extend ActiveSupport::Concern

  included do 
    has_many :attenders
  end

  def has_attender(attender_id)
    # returns true if the event has the mentioned attendee
  end

  module ClassMethods
    def most_attended
      # returns the event with most number of attendes
    end
  end
end

commentable.rb

module Commentable
  extend ActiveSupport::Concern

  included do 
    has_many :comments
  end

  def find_first_comment
    # for the given article/event returns the first comment
  end

  def find_comments_with_word(word)
    # for the given event returns an array of comments which contain the given word
  end

  module ClassMethods
    def least_commented
      # finds the event which has the least number of comments
    end
  end
end

And now using Concerns, your Event model reduces to

class Event < ActiveRecord::Base
  include Commentable
  include Attendable
end

* While using concerns its advisable to go for 'domain' based grouping rather than 'technical' grouping. Domain Based grouping is like 'Commentable', 'Photoable', 'Attendable'. Technical grouping will mean 'ValidationMethods', 'FinderMethods' etc

Understanding Popen.communicate

.communicate() writes input (there is no input in this case so it just closes subprocess' stdin to indicate to the subprocess that there is no more input), reads all output, and waits for the subprocess to exit.

The exception EOFError is raised in the child process by raw_input() (it expected data but got EOF (no data)).

p.stdout.read() hangs forever because it tries to read all output from the child at the same time as the child waits for input (raw_input()) that causes a deadlock.

To avoid the deadlock you need to read/write asynchronously (e.g., by using threads or select) or to know exactly when and how much to read/write, for example:

from subprocess import PIPE, Popen

p = Popen(["python", "-u", "1st.py"], stdin=PIPE, stdout=PIPE, bufsize=1)
print p.stdout.readline(), # read the first line
for i in range(10): # repeat several times to show that it works
    print >>p.stdin, i # write input
    p.stdin.flush() # not necessary in this case
    print p.stdout.readline(), # read output

print p.communicate("n\n")[0], # signal the child to exit,
                               # read the rest of the output, 
                               # wait for the child to exit

Note: it is a very fragile code if read/write are not in sync; it deadlocks.

Beware of block-buffering issue (here it is solved by using "-u" flag that turns off buffering for stdin, stdout in the child).

bufsize=1 makes the pipes line-buffered on the parent side.

Begin, Rescue and Ensure in Ruby?

This is why we need ensure:

def hoge
  begin
    raise
  rescue  
    raise # raise again
  ensure  
    puts 'ensure' # will be executed
  end  
  puts 'end of func' # never be executed
end  

How to get an object's methods?

var methods = [];
for (var key in foo.prototype) {
    if (typeof foo.prototype[key] === "function") {
         methods.push(key);
    }
}

You can simply loop over the prototype of a constructor and extract all methods.

MIPS: Integer Multiplication and Division

To multiply, use mult for signed multiplication and multu for unsigned multiplication. Note that the result of the multiplication of two 32-bit numbers yields a 64-number. If you want the result back in $v0 that means that you assume the result will fit in 32 bits.

The 32 most significant bits will be held in the HI special register (accessible by mfhi instruction) and the 32 least significant bits will be held in the LO special register (accessible by the mflo instruction):

E.g.:

li $a0, 5
li $a1, 3
mult $a0, $a1
mfhi $a2 # 32 most significant bits of multiplication to $a2
mflo $v0 # 32 least significant bits of multiplication to $v0

To divide, use div for signed division and divu for unsigned division. In this case, the HI special register will hold the remainder and the LO special register will hold the quotient of the division.

E.g.:

div $a0, $a1
mfhi $a2 # remainder to $a2
mflo $v0 # quotient to $v0

JetBrains / IntelliJ keyboard shortcut to collapse all methods

go to menu option Code > Folding to access all code folding related options and their shortcuts.

How do I wrap text in a pre tag?

I suggest forget the pre and just put it in a textarea.

Your indenting will remain and your code wont get word-wrapped in the middle of a path or something.

Easier to select text range in a text area too if you want to copy to clipboard.

The following is a php excerpt so if your not in php then the way you pack the html special chars will vary.

<textarea style="font-family:monospace;" onfocus="copyClipboard(this);"><?=htmlspecialchars($codeBlock);?></textarea>

For info on how to copy text to the clipboard in js see: How do I copy to the clipboard in JavaScript? .

However...

I just inspected the stackoverflow code blocks and they wrap in a <code> tag wrapped in <pre> tag with css ...

code {
  background-color: #EEEEEE;
  font-family: Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,Lucida Console,Liberation Mono,DejaVu Sans Mono,Bitstream Vera Sans Mono,Courier New,monospace,serif;
}
pre {
  background-color: #EEEEEE;
  font-family: Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,Lucida Console,Liberation Mono,DejaVu Sans Mono,Bitstream Vera Sans Mono,Courier New,monospace,serif;
  margin-bottom: 10px;
  max-height: 600px;
  overflow: auto;
  padding: 5px;
  width: auto;
}

Also the content of the stackoverflow code blocks is syntax highlighted using (I think) http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/ .

Its a nice setup but Im just going with textareas for now.

Apache server keeps crashing, "caught SIGTERM, shutting down"

try to disable the rewrite module in ubuntu using sudo a2dismod rewrite. This will perhaps stop your apache server to crash.

What is the most efficient/quickest way to loop through rows in VBA (excel)?

If you are just looping through 10k rows in column A, then dump the row into a variant array and then loop through that.

You can then either add the elements to a new array (while adding rows when needed) and using Transpose() to put the array onto your range in one move, or you can use your iterator variable to track which row you are on and add rows that way.

Dim i As Long
Dim varray As Variant

varray = Range("A2:A" & Cells(Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp).Row).Value

For i = 1 To UBound(varray, 1)
    ' do stuff to varray(i, 1)
Next

Here is an example of how you could add rows after evaluating each cell. This example just inserts a row after every row that has the word "foo" in column A. Not that the "+2" is added to the variable i during the insert since we are starting on A2. It would be +1 if we were starting our array with A1.

Sub test()

Dim varray As Variant
Dim i As Long

varray = Range("A2:A10").Value

'must step back or it'll be infinite loop
For i = UBound(varray, 1) To LBound(varray, 1) Step -1
    'do your logic and evaluation here
    If varray(i, 1) = "foo" Then
       'not how to offset the i variable 
       Range("A" & i + 2).EntireRow.Insert
    End If
Next

End Sub

How to check if an integer is in a given range?

This guy made a nice Range class.

Its use however will not yield nice code as it's a generic class. You'd have to type something like:

if (new Range<Integer>(0, 100).contains(i))

or (somewhat better if you implement first):

class IntRange extends Range<Integer>
....
if (new IntRange(0,100).contains(i))

Semantically both are IMHO nicer than what Java offers by default, but the memory overhead, performance degradation and more typing overall are hadly worth it. Personally, I like mdma's approach better.

Convert SVG image to PNG with PHP

$command = 'convert -density 300 ';
                        if(Input::Post('height')!='' && Input::Post('width')!=''){
                            $command.='-resize '.Input::Post('width').'x'.Input::Post('height').' ';
                        }
                        $command.=$svg.' '.$source;
                        exec($command);
                        @unlink($svg);

or using : potrace demo :Tool4dev.com

Can't connect to HTTPS site using cURL. Returns 0 length content instead. What can I do?

there might be a problem at your web hosting company from where you are testing the secure communication for gateway, that they might not allow you to do that.

also there might be a username, password that must be provided before connecting to remote host.

or your IP might need to be in the list of approved IP for the remote server for communication to initiate.

PHP parse/syntax errors; and how to solve them

Unexpected '.'

This can occur if you are trying to use the splat operator(...) in an unsupported version of PHP.

... first became available in PHP 5.6 to capture a variable number of arguments to a function:

function concatenate($transform, ...$strings) {
    $string = '';
    foreach($strings as $piece) {
        $string .= $piece;
    }
    return($transform($string));
}

echo concatenate("strtoupper", "I'd ", "like ", 4 + 2, " apples");
// This would print:
// I'D LIKE 6 APPLES

In PHP 7.4, you could use it for Array expressions.

$parts = ['apple', 'pear'];
$fruits = ['banana', 'orange', ...$parts, 'watermelon'];
// ['banana', 'orange', 'apple', 'pear', 'watermelon'];

Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name '@android:style/TextAppearance.Holo.Widget.ActionBar.Title'

Make sure you've set your target API (different from the target SDK) in the Project Properties (not the manifest) to be at least 4.0/API 14.

MySQL's now() +1 day

Try doing: INSERT INTO table(data, date) VALUES ('$data', now() + interval 1 day)

Case insensitive string compare in LINQ-to-SQL

I tried this using Lambda expression, and it worked.

List<MyList>.Any (x => (String.Equals(x.Name, name, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)) && (x.Type == qbType) );

How to style a div to have a background color for the entire width of the content, and not just for the width of the display?

It is because you set the width:100% which by definition only spans the width of the screen. You want to set the min-width:100% which sets it to the width of the screen... with the ability to grow beyond that.

Also make sure you set min-width:100% for body and html.

Weird PHP error: 'Can't use function return value in write context'

Correct syntax (you had a missing parentheses in the end):

if (isset($_POST['sms_code']) == TRUE ) {
                            ^

p.s. you dont need == TRUE part, because BOOLEAN (true/false) is returned already.

Working with a List of Lists in Java

The example provided by @tster shows how to create a list of list. I will provide an example for iterating over such a list.

Iterator<List<String>> iter = listOlist.iterator();
while(iter.hasNext()){
    Iterator<String> siter = iter.next().iterator();
    while(siter.hasNext()){
         String s = siter.next();
         System.out.println(s);
     }
}

What is the difference between CHARACTER VARYING and VARCHAR in PostgreSQL?

The only difference is that CHARACTER VARYING is more human friendly than VARCHAR

get current date from [NSDate date] but set the time to 10:00 am

this nsdate used different format:

NSDateFormatter *format = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[format setDateFormat:@"MMM dd, yyyy HH:mm"];

NSDate *now = [[NSDate alloc] init];

NSString *dateString = [format stringFromDate:now];

NSDateFormatter *inFormat = [[NSDateFormatter alloc] init];
[inFormat setDateFormat:@"MMM dd, yyyy"];

NSDate *parsed = [inFormat dateFromString:dateString]; 

How can I convert byte size into a human-readable format in Java?

Try JSR 363. Its unit extension modules like Unicode CLDR (in GitHub: uom-systems) do all that for you.

You can use MetricPrefix included in every implementation or BinaryPrefix (comparable to some of the examples above) and if you e.g. live and work in India or a nearby country, IndianPrefix (also in the common module of uom-systems) allows you to use and format "Crore Bytes" or "Lakh Bytes", too.

URL Encode a string in jQuery for an AJAX request

Better way:

encodeURIComponent escapes all characters except the following: alphabetic, decimal digits, - _ . ! ~ * ' ( )

To avoid unexpected requests to the server, you should call encodeURIComponent on any user-entered parameters that will be passed as part of a URI. For example, a user could type "Thyme &time=again" for a variable comment. Not using encodeURIComponent on this variable will give comment=Thyme%20&time=again. Note that the ampersand and the equal sign mark a new key and value pair. So instead of having a POST comment key equal to "Thyme &time=again", you have two POST keys, one equal to "Thyme " and another (time) equal to again.

For application/x-www-form-urlencoded (POST), per http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interac...m-content-type, spaces are to be replaced by '+', so one may wish to follow a encodeURIComponent replacement with an additional replacement of "%20" with "+".

If one wishes to be more stringent in adhering to RFC 3986 (which reserves !, ', (, ), and *), even though these characters have no formalized URI delimiting uses, the following can be safely used:

function fixedEncodeURIComponent (str) {
  return encodeURIComponent(str).replace(/[!'()]/g, escape).replace(/\*/g, "%2A");
}

shell script. how to extract string using regular expressions

One way would be with sed. For example:

echo $name | sed -e 's?http://www\.??'

Normally the sed regular expressions are delimited by `/', but you can use '?' since you're searching for '/'. Here's another bash trick. @DigitalTrauma's answer reminded me that I ought to suggest it. It's similar:

echo ${name#http://www.}

(DigitalTrauma also gets credit for reminding me that the "http://" needs to be handled.)

How to get index in Handlebars each helper?

This has changed in the newer versions of Ember.

For arrays:

{{#each array}}
    {{_view.contentIndex}}: {{this}}
{{/each}}

It looks like the #each block no longer works on objects. My suggestion is to roll your own helper function for it.

Thanks for this tip.

npm install from Git in a specific version

My example comment to @qubyte above got chopped, so here's something that's easier to read...

The method @surjikal described above works for branch commits, but it didn't work for a tree commit I was trying include.


The archive mode also works for commits. For example, fetch @ a2fbf83

npm:

npm install  https://github.com/github/fetch/archive/a2fbf834773b8dc20eef83bb53d081863d3fc87f.tar.gz

yarn:

yarn add  https://github.com/github/fetch/archive/a2fbf834773b8dc20eef83bb53d081863d3fc87f.tar.gz

format:

 https://github.com/<owner>/<repo>/archive/<commit-id>.tar.gz


Here's the tree commit that required the /archive/ mode:

yarn add  https://github.com/vuejs/vuex/archive/c3626f779b8ea902789dd1c4417cb7d7ef09b557.tar.gz

for the related vuex commit

Verify object attribute value with mockito

You can refer the following:

Mockito.verify(mockedObject).someMethodOnMockedObject(eq(desiredObject))

This will verify whether method of mockedObject is called with desiredObject as parameter.

Github "Updates were rejected because the remote contains work that you do not have locally."

You may refer to: How to deal with "refusing to merge unrelated histories" error:

$ git pull --allow-unrelated-histories
$ git push -f origin master

Getting attribute of element in ng-click function in angularjs

Even more simple, pass the $event object to ng-click to access the event properties. As an example:

<a ng-click="clickEvent($event)" class="exampleClass" id="exampleID" data="exampleData" href="">Click Me</a>

Within your clickEvent() = function(obj) {} function you can access the data value like this:

var dataValue = obj.target.attributes.data.value;

Which would return exampleData.

Here's a full jsFiddle.

How do I query for all dates greater than a certain date in SQL Server?

select *  
from dbo.March2010 A 
where A.Date >= Convert(datetime, '2010-04-01' )

In your query, 2010-4-01 is treated as a mathematical expression, so in essence it read

select *  
from dbo.March2010 A 
where A.Date >= 2005; 

(2010 minus 4 minus 1 is 2005 Converting it to a proper datetime, and using single quotes will fix this issue.)

Technically, the parser might allow you to get away with

select *  
from dbo.March2010 A 
where A.Date >= '2010-04-01'

it will do the conversion for you, but in my opinion it is less readable than explicitly converting to a DateTime for the maintenance programmer that will come after you.

Rebuild Docker container on file changes

Whenever changes are made in dockerfile or compose or requirements , re-Run it using docker-compose up --build . So that images get rebuild and refreshed

Django: Model Form "object has no attribute 'cleaned_data'"

At times, if we forget the

return self.cleaned_data 

in the clean function of django forms, we will not have any data though the form.is_valid() will return True.

Python - Count elements in list

Len won't yield the total number of objects in a nested list (including multidimensional lists). If you have numpy, use size(). Otherwise use list comprehensions within recursion.

How to push both key and value into an Array in Jquery

You might mean this:

var unEnumeratedArray = [];
var wtfObject = {
                 key    : 'val', 
                 0      : (undefined = 'Look, I\'m defined'),
                 'new'  : 'keyword', 
                 '{!}'  : 'use bracket syntax',
                 '        ': '8 spaces'
                };

for(var key in wtfObject){
    unEnumeratedArray[key] = wtfObject[key];
}
console.log('HAS KEYS PER VALUE NOW:', unEnumeratedArray, unEnumeratedArray[0], 
             unEnumeratedArray.key, unEnumeratedArray['new'], 
             unEnumeratedArray['{!}'], unEnumeratedArray['        ']);

You can set an enumerable for an Object like: ({})[0] = 'txt'; and you can set a key for an Array like: ([])['myKey'] = 'myVal';

Hope this helps :)

Get GPS location from the web browser

Let's use the latest fat arrow functions:

navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition((loc) => {
  console.log('The location in lat lon format is: [', loc.coords.latitude, ',', loc.coords.longitude, ']');
})

CSS styling in Django forms

If you don't want to add any code to the form (as mentioned in the comments to @shadfc's Answer), it is certainly possible, here are two options.

First, you just reference the fields individually in the HTML, rather than the entire form at once:

<form action="" method="post">
    <ul class="contactList">
        <li id="subject" class="contact">{{ form.subject }}</li>
        <li id="email" class="contact">{{ form.email }}</li>
        <li id="message" class="contact">{{ form.message }}</li>
    </ul>
    <input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

(Note that I also changed it to a unsorted list.)

Second, note in the docs on outputting forms as HTML, Django:

The Field id, is generated by prepending 'id_' to the Field name. The id attributes and tags are included in the output by default.

All of your form fields already have a unique id. So you would reference id_subject in your CSS file to style the subject field. I should note, this is how the form behaves when you take the default HTML, which requires just printing the form, not the individual fields:

<ul class="contactList">
    {{ form }}  # Will auto-generate HTML with id_subject, id_email, email_message 
    {{ form.as_ul }} # might also work, haven't tested
</ul>

See the previous link for other options when outputting forms (you can do tables, etc).

Note - I realize this isn't the same as adding a class to each element (if you added a field to the Form, you'd need to update the CSS also) - but it's easy enough to reference all of the fields by id in your CSS like this:

#id_subject, #id_email, #email_message 
{color: red;}

Warning: date_format() expects parameter 1 to be DateTime

Why don't you try it like this:

$Weddingdate = new DateTime($row2['weddingdate']);
$formattedweddingdate = date_format($Weddingdate, 'd-m-Y');

Or you can also just do it like :

$Weddingdate = new DateTime($row2['weddingdate']);
echo $Weddingdate->format('d-m-Y');

Make A List Item Clickable (HTML/CSS)

Here is a working solution - http://jsfiddle.net/STTaf/

I used simple jQuery:

$(function() {
    $('li').css('cursor', 'pointer')

    .click(function() {
        window.location = $('a', this).attr('href');
        return false;
    });
});

How to execute logic on Optional if not present?

For those of you who want to execute a side-effect only if an optional is absent

i.e. an equivalent of ifAbsent() or ifNotPresent() here is a slight modification to the great answers already provided.

myOptional.ifPresentOrElse(x -> {}, () -> {
  // logic goes here
})

How to _really_ programmatically change primary and accent color in Android Lollipop?

You can use Theme.applyStyle to modify your theme at runtime by applying another style to it.

Let's say you have these style definitions:

<style name="DefaultTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.Light">
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/md_lime_500</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/md_lime_700</item>
    <item name="colorAccent">@color/md_amber_A400</item>
</style>

<style name="OverlayPrimaryColorRed">
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/md_red_500</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/md_red_700</item>
</style>

<style name="OverlayPrimaryColorGreen">
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/md_green_500</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/md_green_700</item>
</style>

<style name="OverlayPrimaryColorBlue">
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/md_blue_500</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/md_blue_700</item>
</style>

Now you can patch your theme at runtime like so:

getTheme().applyStyle(R.style.OverlayPrimaryColorGreen, true);

The method applyStylehas to be called before the layout gets inflated! So unless you load the view manually you should apply styles to the theme before calling setContentView in your activity.

Of course this cannot be used to specify an arbitrary color, i.e. one out of 16 million (2563) colors. But if you write a small program that generates the style definitions and the Java code for you then something like one out of 512 (83) should be possible.

What makes this interesting is that you can use different style overlays for different aspects of your theme. Just add a few overlay definitions for colorAccent for example. Now you can combine different values for primary color and accent color almost arbitrarily.

You should make sure that your overlay theme definitions don't accidentally inherit a bunch of style definitions from a parent style definition. For example a style called AppTheme.OverlayRed implicitly inherits all styles defined in AppTheme and all these definitions will also be applied when you patch the master theme. So either avoid dots in the overlay theme names or use something like Overlay.Red and define Overlay as an empty style.

How to upgrade OpenSSL in CentOS 6.5 / Linux / Unix from source?

To manually compile OpenSSL, do as follows:

$ cd /usr/src

$ wget https://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-1.0.1g.tar.gz -O openssl-1.0.1g.tar.gz

$ tar -zxf openssl-1.0.1g.tar.gz

$ cd openssl-1.0.1g

$ ./config

$ make

$ make test

$ make install

$ openssl version

If it shows the old version, do the steps below.

$ mv /usr/bin/openssl /root/

$ ln -s /usr/local/ssl/bin/openssl /usr/bin/openssl
openssl version
OpenSSL 1.0.1g 7 Apr 2014

http://olaitanmayowa.com/heartbleed-how-to-upgrade-openssl-in-centos/

How can I get column names from a table in SQL Server?

Just run this command

EXEC sp_columns 'Your Table Name'

How to stretch children to fill cross-axis?

  • The children of a row-flexbox container automatically fill the container's vertical space.

  • Specify flex: 1; for a child if you want it to fill the remaining horizontal space:

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.wrapper {_x000D_
  display: flex;_x000D_
  flex-direction: row;_x000D_
  align-items: stretch;_x000D_
  width: 100%;_x000D_
  height: 5em;_x000D_
  background: #ccc;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.wrapper > .left_x000D_
{_x000D_
  background: #fcc;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.wrapper > .right_x000D_
{_x000D_
  background: #ccf;_x000D_
  flex: 1; _x000D_
}
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<div class="wrapper">_x000D_
  <div class="left">Left</div>_x000D_
  <div class="right">Right</div>_x000D_
</div>
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  • Specify flex: 1; for both children if you want them to fill equal amounts of the horizontal space:

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.wrapper {_x000D_
  display: flex;_x000D_
  flex-direction: row;_x000D_
  align-items: stretch;_x000D_
  width: 100%;_x000D_
  height: 5em;_x000D_
  background: #ccc;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.wrapper > div _x000D_
{_x000D_
  flex: 1; _x000D_
}_x000D_
.wrapper > .left_x000D_
{_x000D_
  background: #fcc;_x000D_
}_x000D_
.wrapper > .right_x000D_
{_x000D_
  background: #ccf;_x000D_
}
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<div class="wrapper">_x000D_
  <div class="left">Left</div>_x000D_
  <div class="right">Right</div>_x000D_
</div>
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React Router with optional path parameter

The edit you posted was valid for an older version of React-router (v0.13) and doesn't work anymore.


React Router v1, v2 and v3

Since version 1.0.0 you define optional parameters with:

<Route path="to/page(/:pathParam)" component={MyPage} />

and for multiple optional parameters:

<Route path="to/page(/:pathParam1)(/:pathParam2)" component={MyPage} />

You use parenthesis ( ) to wrap the optional parts of route, including the leading slash (/). Check out the Route Matching Guide page of the official documentation.

Note: The :paramName parameter matches a URL segment up to the next /, ?, or #. For more about paths and params specifically, read more here.


React Router v4 and above

React Router v4 is fundamentally different than v1-v3, and optional path parameters aren't explicitly defined in the official documentation either.

Instead, you are instructed to define a path parameter that path-to-regexp understands. This allows for much greater flexibility in defining your paths, such as repeating patterns, wildcards, etc. So to define a parameter as optional you add a trailing question-mark (?).

As such, to define an optional parameter, you do:

<Route path="/to/page/:pathParam?" component={MyPage} />

and for multiple optional parameters:

<Route path="/to/page/:pathParam1?/:pathParam2?" component={MyPage} />

Note: React Router v4 is incompatible with (read more here). Use version v3 or earlier (v2 recommended) instead.

Correct way to import lodash

If you are using babel, you should check out babel-plugin-lodash, it will cherry-pick the parts of lodash you are using for you, less hassle and a smaller bundle.

It has a few limitations:

  • You must use ES2015 imports to load Lodash
  • Babel < 6 & Node.js < 4 aren’t supported
  • Chain sequences aren’t supported. See this blog post for alternatives.
  • Modularized method packages aren’t supported

How to align absolutely positioned element to center?

If you set both left and right to zero, and left and right margins to auto you can center an absolutely positioned element.

position:absolute;
left:0;
right:0;
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;

Java Code for calculating Leap Year

easiest way ta make java leap year and more clear to understandenter code here

import  java.util.Scanner;

class que19{

public static void main(String[] args) {

    Scanner input=new Scanner(System.in);

    double a;

    System.out.println("enter the year here ");
    a=input.nextDouble();
    if ((a % 4 ==0 ) && (a%100!=0) || (a%400==0)) {
        System.out.println("leep year");

    }
    else {
        System.out.println("not a leap year");
    }
}

}

How to redirect to action from JavaScript method?

To redirect:

function DeleteJob() {
    if (confirm("Do you really want to delete selected job/s?"))
        window.location.href = "your/url";
    else
        return false;
}

Error CS1705: "which has a higher version than referenced assembly"

3 ideas for you to try:

  1. Make sure that all your dlls are compiled against the same version of Common.
  2. Check that you have project references in your solution instead of file references.
  3. Use binding redirections in your web.config. (Originally linked version at wayback machine)

What's the "average" requests per second for a production web application?

When I go to the control panel of my webhost, open up phpMyAdmin, and click on "Show MySQL runtime information", I get:

This MySQL server has been running for 53 days, 15 hours, 28 minutes and 53 seconds. It started up on Oct 24, 2008 at 04:03 AM.

Query statistics: Since its startup, 3,444,378,344 queries have been sent to the server.

Total 3,444 M
per hour 2.68 M
per minute 44.59 k
per second 743.13

That's an average of 743 mySQL queries every single second for the past 53 days!

I don't know about you, but to me that's fast! Very fast!!

Extracting jar to specified directory

Current working version as of Oct 2020, updated to use maven-antrun-plugin 3.0.0.

        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-antrun-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>3.0.0</version>
            <executions>
                <execution>
                    <id>prepare</id>
                    <phase>package</phase>
                    <configuration>
                        <target>
                            <unzip src="target/shaded-jar/shade-test.jar"
                                   dest="target/unpacked-shade/"/>
                        </target>
                    </configuration>
                    <goals>
                        <goal>run</goal>
                    </goals>
                </execution>
            </executions>
        </plugin>

What does status=canceled for a resource mean in Chrome Developer Tools?

Content Security Policy headers for me! You can quickly rule out this possibility by checking the Chrome Dev Tools Console, if it's CSP problems there will be errors showing in the console. In .Net you can fix this either by adding headers in the web.config file or in code.

Refused to send form data to 'https://www.mysite.mydomain/' because it violates the following Content Security Policy directive: "form-action 'self' *.otherdomain www.thirdparty.co.uk".

Here's the web.config fix for the above error:

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<cspConfiguration>
        <directives>
            <directive name="form-action" allowedSources="'self' *.mydomain>
            </directive>
        </directives>
</cspConfiguration>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

replace anchor text with jquery

To reference an element by id, you need to use the # qualifier.

Try:

alert($("#link1").text());

To replace it, you could use:

$("#link1").text('New text');

The .html() function would work in this case too.

How to count the frequency of the elements in an unordered list?

from collections import Counter
a=["E","D","C","G","B","A","B","F","D","D","C","A","G","A","C","B","F","C","B"]

counter=Counter(a)

kk=[list(counter.keys()),list(counter.values())]

pd.DataFrame(np.array(kk).T, columns=['Letter','Count'])

window.open target _self v window.location.href?

As others have said, the second approach is usually preferred.

The two code snippets are not exactly equivalent however: the first one actually sets window.opener to the window object itself, whereas the second will leave it as it is, at least under Firefox.

Color picker utility (color pipette) in Ubuntu

You can install the package gcolor2 for this:

sudo apt-get install gcolor2

Then:

Applications -> Graphics -> GColor2

How do I comment out a block of tags in XML?

You can use that style of comment across multiple lines (which exists also in HTML)

<detail>
    <band height="20">
    <!--
      Hello,
         I am a multi-line XML comment
         <staticText>
            <reportElement x="180" y="0" width="200" height="20"/>
            <text><![CDATA[Hello World!]]></text>
          </staticText>
      -->
     </band>
</detail>

disable textbox using jquery?

I'm guessing you probably want to bind a "click" event to a number of radio buttons, read the value of the clicked radiobutton and depending on the value, disable/enable a checkbox and or textbox.

function enableInput(class){
    $('.' + class + ':input').attr('disabled', false);
}

function disableInput(class){
    $('.' + class + ':input').attr('disabled', true);
}

$(document).ready(function(){
    $(".changeBoxes").click(function(event){
        var value = $(this).val();
        if(value == 'x'){
            enableInput('foo'); //with class foo
            enableInput('bar'); //with class bar
        }else{
            disableInput('foo'); //with class foo
            disableInput('bar'); //with class bar
        }
    });
});

Easy way to add drop down menu with 1 - 100 without doing 100 different options?

Not with pure HTML as far as I know.

But with JS or PHP or another scripting language such as JSP, you can do it very easily with a for loop.

Example in PHP:

<select>
<?php
    for ($i=1; $i<=100; $i++)
    {
        ?>
            <option value="<?php echo $i;?>"><?php echo $i;?></option>
        <?php
    }
?>
</select>

Excel function to get first word from sentence in other cell

Generic solution extracting the first "n" words of refcell string into a new string of "x" number of characters

=LEFT(SUBSTITUTE(***refcell***&" "," ",REPT(" ",***x***),***n***),***x***)

Assuming A1 has text string to extract, the 1st word extracted to a 15 character result

=LEFT(SUBSTITUTE(A1&" "," ",REPT(" ",15),1),15)

This would result in "Toronto" being returned to a 15 character string. 1st 2 words extracted to a 30 character result

=LEFT(SUBSTITUTE(A1&" "," ",REPT(" ",30),2),30)

would result in "Toronto is" being returned to a 30 character string

Decode Hex String in Python 3

Something like:

>>> bytes.fromhex('4a4b4c').decode('utf-8')
'JKL'

Just put the actual encoding you are using.

How to create a library project in Android Studio and an application project that uses the library project

To create a library:

File > New Module

select Android Library

Lib

To use the library add it as a dependancy:

File > Project Structure > Modules > Dependencies

dep

Then add the module (android library) as a module dependency.

add module

Run your project. It will work.

How can I permanently enable line numbers in IntelliJ?

For InteliJ IDEA 11.0 and above
Goto File --> Settings in the Settings window Editor --> Appearance
and tick Show line numbers check box.

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How to get files in a relative path in C#

To make sure you have the application's path (and not just the current directory), use this:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.process.getcurrentprocess.aspx

Now you have a Process object that represents the process that is running.

Then use Process.MainModule.FileName:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.processmodule.filename.aspx

Finally, use Path.GetDirectoryName to get the folder containing the .exe:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.path.getdirectoryname.aspx

So this is what you want:

string folder = Path.GetDirectoryName(Process.GetCurrentProcess().MainModule.FileName) + @"\Archive\";
string filter = "*.zip";
string[] files = Directory.GetFiles(folder, filter);

(Notice that "\Archive\" from your question is now @"\Archive\": you need the @ so that the \ backslashes aren't interpreted as the start of an escape sequence)

Hope that helps!

Can't use WAMP , port 80 is used by IIS 7.5

This happens to me once: I uninstalled the IIS, and the port 80 still was used. Well the problem was that also I had the Report Service of the Sql Server 2012 installed, so I stopped that service and the problems solves.

See Stop Or Uninstall IIS for running Wamp Server (Apache) on default port (:80) question for more details.

Hope this helps some body, as it help to me.

Adding a UISegmentedControl to UITableView

   self.tableView.tableHeaderView = segmentedControl; 

If you want it to obey your width and height properly though enclose your segmentedControl in a UIView first as the tableView likes to mangle your view a bit to fit the width.

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Secure hash and salt for PHP passwords

A much shorter and safer answer - don't write your own password mechanism at all, use a tried and tested mechanism.

  • PHP 5.5 or higher: password_hash() is good quality and part of PHP core.
  • PHP 4.x (obsolete): OpenWall's phpass library is much better than most custom code - used in WordPress, Drupal, etc.

Most programmers just don't have the expertise to write crypto related code safely without introducing vulnerabilities.

Quick self-test: what is password stretching and how many iterations should you use? If you don't know the answer, you should use password_hash(), as password stretching is now a critical feature of password mechanisms due to much faster CPUs and the use of GPUs and FPGAs to crack passwords at rates of billions of guesses per second (with GPUs).

For example, you can crack all 8-character Windows passwords in 6 hours using 25 GPUs installed in 5 desktop PCs. This is brute-forcing i.e. enumerating and checking every 8-character Windows password, including special characters, and is not a dictionary attack. That was in 2012, as of 2018 you could use fewer GPUs, or crack faster with 25 GPUs.

There are also many rainbow table attacks on Windows passwords that run on ordinary CPUs and are very fast. All this is because Windows still doesn't salt or stretch its passwords, even in Windows 10 - don't make the same mistake as Microsoft did!

See also:

  • excellent answer with more about why password_hash() or phpass are the best way to go.
  • good blog article giving recommmended 'work factors' (number of iterations) for main algorithms including bcrypt, scrypt and PBKDF2.

HTML 5 Geo Location Prompt in Chrome

The easiest way is to click on the area left to the address bar and change location settings there. It allows to set location options even for file:///

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When should I use a table variable vs temporary table in sql server?

Your question shows you have succumbed to some of the common misconceptions surrounding table variables and temporary tables.

I have written quite an extensive answer on the DBA site looking at the differences between the two object types. This also addresses your question about disk vs memory (I didn't see any significant difference in behaviour between the two).

Regarding the question in the title though as to when to use a table variable vs a local temporary table you don't always have a choice. In functions, for example, it is only possible to use a table variable and if you need to write to the table in a child scope then only a #temp table will do (table-valued parameters allow readonly access).

Where you do have a choice some suggestions are below (though the most reliable method is to simply test both with your specific workload).

  1. If you need an index that cannot be created on a table variable then you will of course need a #temporary table. The details of this are version dependant however. For SQL Server 2012 and below the only indexes that could be created on table variables were those implicitly created through a UNIQUE or PRIMARY KEY constraint. SQL Server 2014 introduced inline index syntax for a subset of the options available in CREATE INDEX. This has been extended since to allow filtered index conditions. Indexes with INCLUDE-d columns or columnstore indexes are still not possible to create on table variables however.

  2. If you will be repeatedly adding and deleting large numbers of rows from the table then use a #temporary table. That supports TRUNCATE (which is more efficient than DELETE for large tables) and additionally subsequent inserts following a TRUNCATE can have better performance than those following a DELETE as illustrated here.

  3. If you will be deleting or updating a large number of rows then the temp table may well perform much better than a table variable - if it is able to use rowset sharing (see "Effects of rowset sharing" below for an example).
  4. If the optimal plan using the table will vary dependent on data then use a #temporary table. That supports creation of statistics which allows the plan to be dynamically recompiled according to the data (though for cached temporary tables in stored procedures the recompilation behaviour needs to be understood separately).
  5. If the optimal plan for the query using the table is unlikely to ever change then you may consider a table variable to skip the overhead of statistics creation and recompiles (would possibly require hints to fix the plan you want).
  6. If the source for the data inserted to the table is from a potentially expensive SELECT statement then consider that using a table variable will block the possibility of this using a parallel plan.
  7. If you need the data in the table to survive a rollback of an outer user transaction then use a table variable. A possible use case for this might be logging the progress of different steps in a long SQL batch.
  8. When using a #temp table within a user transaction locks can be held longer than for table variables (potentially until the end of transaction vs end of statement dependent on the type of lock and isolation level) and also it can prevent truncation of the tempdb transaction log until the user transaction ends. So this might favour the use of table variables.
  9. Within stored routines, both table variables and temporary tables can be cached. The metadata maintenance for cached table variables is less than that for #temporary tables. Bob Ward points out in his tempdb presentation that this can cause additional contention on system tables under conditions of high concurrency. Additionally, when dealing with small quantities of data this can make a measurable difference to performance.

Effects of rowset sharing

DECLARE @T TABLE(id INT PRIMARY KEY, Flag BIT);

CREATE TABLE #T (id INT PRIMARY KEY, Flag BIT);

INSERT INTO @T 
output inserted.* into #T
SELECT TOP 1000000 ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY @@SPID), 0
FROM master..spt_values v1, master..spt_values v2

SET STATISTICS TIME ON

/*CPU time = 7016 ms,  elapsed time = 7860 ms.*/
UPDATE @T SET Flag=1;

/*CPU time = 6234 ms,  elapsed time = 7236 ms.*/
DELETE FROM @T

/* CPU time = 828 ms,  elapsed time = 1120 ms.*/
UPDATE #T SET Flag=1;

/*CPU time = 672 ms,  elapsed time = 980 ms.*/
DELETE FROM #T

DROP TABLE #T

SQL 'LIKE' query using '%' where the search criteria contains '%'

The easiest solution is to dispense with "like" altogether:

Select * 
from table
where charindex(search_criteria, name) > 0

I prefer charindex over like. Historically, it had better performance, but I'm not sure if it makes much of difference now.

Open Jquery modal dialog on click event

Try this

    $(function() {

$('#clickMe').click(function(event) {
    var mytext = $('#myText').val();


    $('<div id="dialog">'+mytext+'</div>').appendTo('body');        
    event.preventDefault();

        $("#dialog").dialog({                   
            width: 600,
            modal: true,
            close: function(event, ui) {
                $("#dialog").remove();
                }
            });
    }); //close click
});

And in HTML

<h3 id="clickMe">Open dialog</h3>
<textarea cols="0" rows="0" id="myText" style="display:none">Some hidden text display none</textarea>

Inserting an item in a Tuple

You absolutely need to make a new tuple -- then you can rebind the name (or whatever reference[s]) from the old tuple to the new one. The += operator can help (if there was only one reference to the old tuple), e.g.:

thetup += ('1200.00',)

does the appending and rebinding in one fell swoop.

Matching an empty input box using CSS

This question might have been asked some time ago, but as I recently landed on this topic looking for client-side form validation, and as the :placeholder-shown support is getting better, I thought the following might help others.

Using Berend idea of using this CSS4 pseudo-class, I was able to create a form validation only triggered after the user is finished filling it.

Here is ademo and explanation on CodePen: https://codepen.io/johanmouchet/pen/PKNxKQ

convert an enum to another type of enum

Just cast one to int and then cast it to the other enum (considering that you want the mapping done based on value):

Gender2 gender2 = (Gender2)((int)gender1);

A cron job for rails: best practices?

script/runner and rake tasks are perfectly fine to run as cron jobs.

Here's one very important thing you must remember when running cron jobs. They probably won't be called from the root directory of your app. This means all your requires for files (as opposed to libraries) should be done with the explicit path: e.g. File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/other_file". This also means you have to know how to explicitly call them from another directory :-)

Check if your code supports being run from another directory with

# from ~
/path/to/ruby /path/to/app/script/runner -e development "MyClass.class_method"
/path/to/ruby /path/to/rake -f /path/to/app/Rakefile rake:task RAILS_ENV=development

Also, cron jobs probably don't run as you, so don't depend on any shortcut you put in .bashrc. But that's just a standard cron tip ;-)

Why are unnamed namespaces used and what are their benefits?

An anonymous namespace makes the enclosed variables, functions, classes, etc. available only inside that file. In your example it's a way to avoid global variables. There is no runtime or compile time performance difference.

There isn't so much an advantage or disadvantage aside from "do I want this variable, function, class, etc. to be public or private?"

Django URL Redirect

If you are stuck on django 1.2 like I am and RedirectView doesn't exist, another route-centric way to add the redirect mapping is using:

(r'^match_rules/$', 'django.views.generic.simple.redirect_to', {'url': '/new_url'}),  

You can also re-route everything on a match. This is useful when changing the folder of an app but wanting to preserve bookmarks:

(r'^match_folder/(?P<path>.*)', 'django.views.generic.simple.redirect_to', {'url': '/new_folder/%(path)s'}),  

This is preferable to django.shortcuts.redirect if you are only trying to modify your url routing and do not have access to .htaccess, etc (I'm on Appengine and app.yaml doesn't allow url redirection at that level like an .htaccess).

Simple way to encode a string according to a password?

So, as nothing mission critical is being encoded, and you just want to encrypt for obsfuscation.

Let me present caeser's cipher

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Caesar's cipher or Caesar shift, is one of the simplest and most widely known encryption techniques. It is a type of substitution cipher in which each letter in the plaintext is replaced by a letter some fixed number of positions down the alphabet. For example, with a left shift of 3, D would be replaced by A, E would become B, and so on.

Sample code for your reference :

def encrypt(text,s): 
        result = "" 

        # traverse text 
        for i in range(len(text)): 
            char = text[i] 

            # Encrypt uppercase characters 
            if (char.isupper()): 
                result += chr((ord(char) + s-65) % 26 + 65) 

            # Encrypt lowercase characters 
            else: 
                result += chr((ord(char) + s - 97) % 26 + 97) 

        return result 

    def decrypt(text,s): 
        result = "" 

        # traverse text 
        for i in range(len(text)): 
            char = text[i] 

            # Encrypt uppercase characters 
            if (char.isupper()): 
                result += chr((ord(char) - s-65) % 26 + 65) 

            # Encrypt lowercase characters 
            else: 
                result += chr((ord(char) - s - 97) % 26 + 97) 

        return result 

    #check the above function 
    text = "ATTACKATONCE"
    s = 4
    print("Text  : " + text) 
    print("Shift : " + str(s)) 
    print("Cipher: " + encrypt(text,s))
    print("Original text: " + decrypt(encrypt(text,s),s))

Advantages : it meets your requirements and is simple and does the encoding thing'y'.

Disadvantage : can be cracked by simple brute force algorithms (highly unlikely anyone would attempt to go through all extra results).

Delete a single record from Entity Framework?

For a generic DAO this worked:

    public void Delete(T entity)
    {
        db.Entry(entity).State = EntityState.Deleted;
        db.SaveChanges();
    }

Mosaic Grid gallery with dynamic sized images

I suggest Freewall. It is a cross-browser and responsive jQuery plugin to help you create many types of grid layouts: flexible layouts, images layouts, nested grid layouts, metro style layouts, pinterest like layouts ... with nice CSS3 animation effects and call back events. Freewall is all-in-one solution for creating dynamic grid layouts for desktop, mobile, and tablet.

Home page and document: also found here.

How to extract duration time from ffmpeg output?

I recommend using json format, it's easier for parsing

ffprobe -i your-input-file.mp4 -v quiet -print_format json -show_format -show_streams -hide_banner

{
    "streams": [
        {
            "index": 0,
            "codec_name": "aac",
            "codec_long_name": "AAC (Advanced Audio Coding)",
            "profile": "HE-AACv2",
            "codec_type": "audio",
            "codec_time_base": "1/44100",
            "codec_tag_string": "[0][0][0][0]",
            "codec_tag": "0x0000",
            "sample_fmt": "fltp",
            "sample_rate": "44100",
            "channels": 2,
            "channel_layout": "stereo",
            "bits_per_sample": 0,
            "r_frame_rate": "0/0",
            "avg_frame_rate": "0/0",
            "time_base": "1/28224000",
            "duration_ts": 305349201,
            "duration": "10.818778",
            "bit_rate": "27734",
            "disposition": {
                "default": 0,
                "dub": 0,
                "original": 0,
                "comment": 0,
                "lyrics": 0,
                "karaoke": 0,
                "forced": 0,
                "hearing_impaired": 0,
                "visual_impaired": 0,
                "clean_effects": 0,
                "attached_pic": 0
            }
        }
    ],
    "format": {
        "filename": "your-input-file.mp4",
        "nb_streams": 1,
        "nb_programs": 0,
        "format_name": "aac",
        "format_long_name": "raw ADTS AAC (Advanced Audio Coding)",
        "duration": "10.818778",
        "size": "37506",
        "bit_rate": "27734",
        "probe_score": 51
    }
}

you can find the duration information in format section, works both for video and audio

Why can't I have abstract static methods in C#?

Here is a situation where there is definitely a need for inheritance for static fields and methods:

abstract class Animal
{
  protected static string[] legs;

  static Animal() {
    legs=new string[0];
  }

  public static void printLegs()
  {
    foreach (string leg in legs) {
      print(leg);
    }
  }
}


class Human: Animal
{
  static Human() {
    legs=new string[] {"left leg", "right leg"};
  }
}


class Dog: Animal
{
  static Dog() {
    legs=new string[] {"left foreleg", "right foreleg", "left hindleg", "right hindleg"};
  }
}


public static void main() {
  Dog.printLegs();
  Human.printLegs();
}


//what is the output?
//does each subclass get its own copy of the array "legs"?

to call onChange event after pressing Enter key

Here is a common use case using class-based components: The parent component provides a callback function, the child component renders the input box, and when the user presses Enter, we pass the user's input to the parent.

class ParentComponent extends React.Component {
  processInput(value) {
    alert('Parent got the input: '+value);
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <div>
        <ChildComponent handleInput={(value) => this.processInput(value)} />
      </div>
    )
  }
}

class ChildComponent extends React.Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.handleKeyDown = this.handleKeyDown.bind(this);
  }

  handleKeyDown(e) {
    if (e.key === 'Enter') {
      this.props.handleInput(e.target.value);
    }
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <div>
        <input onKeyDown={this.handleKeyDown} />
      </div>
    )
  }      
}

Node.js get file extension

// you can send full url here
function getExtension(filename) {
    return filename.split('.').pop();
}

If you are using express please add the following line when configuring middleware (bodyParser)

app.use(express.bodyParser({ keepExtensions: true}));

How can I merge two MySQL tables?

You could write a script to update the FK's for you.. check out this blog: http://multunus.com/2011/03/how-to-easily-merge-two-identical-mysql-databases/

They have a clever script to use the information_schema tables to get the "id" columns:

SET @db:='id_new'; 

select @max_id:=max(AUTO_INCREMENT) from information_schema.tables;

select concat('update ',table_name,' set ', column_name,' = ',column_name,'+',@max_id,' ; ') from information_schema.columns where table_schema=@db and column_name like '%id' into outfile 'update_ids.sql';

use id_new
source update_ids.sql;

How do I use TensorFlow GPU?

Follow the steps in the latest version of the documentation. Note: GPU and CPU functionality is now combined in a single tensorflow package

pip install tensorflow

# OLDER VERSIONS pip install tensorflow-gpu

https://www.tensorflow.org/install/gpu

This is a great guide for installing drivers and CUDA if needed: https://www.quantstart.com/articles/installing-tensorflow-22-on-ubuntu-1804-with-an-nvidia-gpu/

Extract text from a string

Just to add a non-regex solution:

'(' + $myString.Split('()')[1] + ')'

This splits the string at the parentheses and takes the string from the array with the program name in it.

If you don't need the parentheses, just use:

$myString.Split('()')[1]

How do I make a redirect in PHP?

The best way to redirect with PHP is the following code...

 header("Location: /index.php");

Make sure no code will work after

header("Location: /index.php");

All the code must be executed before the above line.

Suppose,

Case 1:

echo "I am a web developer";
header("Location: /index.php");

It will redirect properly to the location (index.php).

Case 2:

return $something;
header("Location: /index.php");

The above code will not redirect to the location (index.php).

When to use which design pattern?

Usually the process is the other way around. Do not go looking for situations where to use design patterns, look for code that can be optimized. When you have code that you think is not structured correctly. try to find a design pattern that will solve the problem.

Design patterns are meant to help you solve structural problems, do not go design your application just to be able to use design patterns.

How to append elements into a dictionary in Swift?

You're using NSDictionary. Unless you explicitly need it to be that type for some reason, I recommend using a Swift dictionary.

You can pass a Swift dictionary to any function expecting NSDictionary without any extra work, because Dictionary<> and NSDictionary seamlessly bridge to each other. The advantage of the native Swift way is that the dictionary uses generic types, so if you define it with Int as the key and String as the value, you cannot mistakenly use keys and values of different types. (The compiler checks the types on your behalf.)

Based on what I see in your code, your dictionary uses Int as the key and String as the value. To create an instance and add an item at a later time you can use this code:

var dict = [1: "abc", 2: "cde"] // dict is of type Dictionary<Int, String>
dict[3] = "efg"

If you later need to assign it to a variable of NSDictionary type, just do an explicit cast:

let nsDict = dict as! NSDictionary

And, as mentioned earlier, if you want to pass it to a function expecting NSDictionary, pass it as-is without any cast or conversion.

Hexadecimal string to byte array in C

Here's my version:

/* Convert a hex char digit to its integer value. */
int hexDigitToInt(char digit) {
    digit = tolower(digit);
    if ('0' <= digit && digit <= '9') //if it's decimal
        return (int)(digit - '0');
    else if ('a' <= digit && digit <= 'f') //if it's abcdef
        return (int)(digit - ('a' - 10));
    else
        return -1; //value not in [0-9][a-f] range
}

/* Decode a hex string. */
char *decodeHexString(const char *hexStr) {
    char* decoded = malloc(strlen(hexStr)/2+1);
    char* hexStrPtr = (char *)hexStr;
    char* decodedPtr = decoded;

    while (*hexStrPtr != '\0') { /* Step through hexStr, two chars at a time. */
        *decodedPtr = 16 * hexDigitToInt(*hexStrPtr) + hexDigitToInt(*(hexStrPtr+1));
        hexStrPtr += 2;
        decodedPtr++;
    }

    *decodedPtr = '\0'; /* final null char */
    return decoded;
}

HTTP Headers for File Downloads

You can try this force-download script. Even if you don't use it, it'll probably point you in the right direction:

<?php

$filename = $_GET['file'];

// required for IE, otherwise Content-disposition is ignored
if(ini_get('zlib.output_compression'))
  ini_set('zlib.output_compression', 'Off');

// addition by Jorg Weske
$file_extension = strtolower(substr(strrchr($filename,"."),1));

if( $filename == "" ) 
{
  echo "<html><title>eLouai's Download Script</title><body>ERROR: download file NOT SPECIFIED. USE force-download.php?file=filepath</body></html>";
  exit;
} elseif ( ! file_exists( $filename ) ) 
{
  echo "<html><title>eLouai's Download Script</title><body>ERROR: File not found. USE force-download.php?file=filepath</body></html>";
  exit;
};
switch( $file_extension )
{
  case "pdf": $ctype="application/pdf"; break;
  case "exe": $ctype="application/octet-stream"; break;
  case "zip": $ctype="application/zip"; break;
  case "doc": $ctype="application/msword"; break;
  case "xls": $ctype="application/vnd.ms-excel"; break;
  case "ppt": $ctype="application/vnd.ms-powerpoint"; break;
  case "gif": $ctype="image/gif"; break;
  case "png": $ctype="image/png"; break;
  case "jpeg":
  case "jpg": $ctype="image/jpg"; break;
  default: $ctype="application/octet-stream";
}
header("Pragma: public"); // required
header("Expires: 0");
header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0");
header("Cache-Control: private",false); // required for certain browsers 
header("Content-Type: $ctype");
// change, added quotes to allow spaces in filenames, by Rajkumar Singh
header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"".basename($filename)."\";" );
header("Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary");
header("Content-Length: ".filesize($filename));
readfile("$filename");
exit();

C# RSA encryption/decryption with transmission

I'll share my very simple code for sample purpose. Hope it will help someone like me searching for quick code reference. My goal was to receive rsa signature from backend, then validate against input string using public key and store locally for future periodic verifications. Here is main part used for signature verification:

        ...
        var signature = Get(url); // base64_encoded signature received from server
        var inputtext= "inputtext"; // this is main text signature was created for
        bool result = VerifySignature(inputtext, signature);
        ...

    private bool VerifySignature(string input, string signature)
    {
        var result = false;
        using (var cps=new RSACryptoServiceProvider())
        {
            // converting input and signature to Bytes Arrays to pass to VerifyData rsa method to verify inputtext was signed using privatekey corresponding to public key we have below
            byte[] inputtextBytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(input);
            byte[] signatureBytes  = Convert.FromBase64String(signature);

            cps.FromXmlString("<RSAKeyValue><Modulus>....</Modulus><Exponent>....</Exponent></RSAKeyValue>"); // xml formatted publickey
            result = cps.VerifyData(inputtextBytes , new SHA1CryptoServiceProvider(), signatureBytes  );
        }

        return result;
    }

How do I create a timer in WPF?

In WPF, you use a DispatcherTimer.

System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherTimer dispatcherTimer = new System.Windows.Threading.DispatcherTimer();
dispatcherTimer.Tick += new EventHandler(dispatcherTimer_Tick);
dispatcherTimer.Interval = new TimeSpan(0,5,0);
dispatcherTimer.Start();


private void dispatcherTimer_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
  // code goes here
}

Cleanest way to reset forms

this.<your_form>.form.markAsPristine();
this.<your_form>.form.markAsUntouched();
this.<your_form>.form.updateValueAndValidity();

can also help

How to get multiple selected values of select box in php?

Change:

<select name="select2" ...

To:

<select name="select2[]" ...

How to unmerge a Git merge?

If you haven't committed the merge, then use:

git merge --abort

HTML5 Canvas: Zooming

Canvas zoom and pan

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<html>_x000D_
<body>_x000D_
_x000D_
<canvas id="myCanvas" width="" height=""_x000D_
style="border:1px solid #d3d3d3;">_x000D_
Your browser does not support the canvas element._x000D_
</canvas>_x000D_
_x000D_
<script>_x000D_
console.log("canvas")_x000D_
var ox=0,oy=0,px=0,py=0,scx=1,scy=1;_x000D_
var canvas = document.getElementById("myCanvas");_x000D_
canvas.onmousedown=(e)=>{px=e.x;py=e.y;canvas.onmousemove=(e)=>{ox-=(e.x-px);oy-=(e.y-py);px=e.x;py=e.y;} } _x000D_
_x000D_
canvas.onmouseup=()=>{canvas.onmousemove=null;}_x000D_
canvas.onwheel =(e)=>{let bfzx,bfzy,afzx,afzy;[bfzx,bfzy]=StoW(e.x,e.y);scx-=10*scx/e.deltaY;scy-=10*scy/e.deltaY;_x000D_
[afzx,afzy]=StoW(e.x,e.y);_x000D_
ox+=(bfzx-afzx);_x000D_
oy+=(bfzy-afzy);_x000D_
}_x000D_
var ctx = canvas.getContext("2d");_x000D_
_x000D_
function draw(){_x000D_
window.requestAnimationFrame(draw);_x000D_
ctx.clearRect(0,0,canvas.width,canvas.height);_x000D_
for(let i=0;i<=100;i+=10){_x000D_
let sx=0,sy=i;_x000D_
let ex=100,ey=i;_x000D_
[sx,sy]=WtoS(sx,sy);_x000D_
[ex,ey]=WtoS(ex,ey);_x000D_
ctx.beginPath();_x000D_
ctx.moveTo(sx, sy);_x000D_
ctx.lineTo(ex, ey);_x000D_
ctx.stroke();_x000D_
}_x000D_
for(let i=0;i<=100;i+=10){_x000D_
let sx=i,sy=0;_x000D_
let ex=i,ey=100;_x000D_
[sx,sy]=WtoS(sx,sy);_x000D_
[ex,ey]=WtoS(ex,ey);_x000D_
ctx.beginPath();_x000D_
ctx.moveTo(sx, sy);_x000D_
ctx.lineTo(ex, ey);_x000D_
ctx.stroke();_x000D_
}_x000D_
}_x000D_
draw()_x000D_
function WtoS(wx,wy){_x000D_
let sx=(wx-ox)*scx;_x000D_
let sy=(wy-oy)*scy;_x000D_
return[sx,sy];_x000D_
}_x000D_
function StoW(sx,sy){_x000D_
let wx=sx/scx+ox;_x000D_
let wy=sy/scy+oy;_x000D_
return[wx,wy];_x000D_
}_x000D_
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</script>_x000D_
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</body>_x000D_
</html>
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Context.startForegroundService() did not then call Service.startForeground()

So many answer but none worked in my case.

I have started service like this.

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.O) {
    startForegroundService(intent);
} else {
    startService(intent);
}

And in my service in onStartCommand

    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.O) {
        Notification.Builder builder = new Notification.Builder(this, ANDROID_CHANNEL_ID)
                .setContentTitle(getString(R.string.app_name))
                .setContentText("SmartTracker Running")
                .setAutoCancel(true);
        Notification notification = builder.build();
        startForeground(NOTIFICATION_ID, notification);
    } else {
        NotificationCompat.Builder builder = new NotificationCompat.Builder(this)
                .setContentTitle(getString(R.string.app_name))
                .setContentText("SmartTracker is Running...")
                .setPriority(NotificationCompat.PRIORITY_DEFAULT)
                .setAutoCancel(true);
        Notification notification = builder.build();
        startForeground(NOTIFICATION_ID, notification);
    }

And don't forgot to set NOTIFICATION_ID non zero

private static final String ANDROID_CHANNEL_ID = "com.xxxx.Location.Channel";
private static final int NOTIFICATION_ID = 555;

SO everything was perfect but still crashing on 8.1 so cause was as below.

     if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.O) {
            stopForeground(true);
        } else {
            stopForeground(true);
        }

I have called stop foreground with remove notificaton but once notification removed service become background and background service can not run in android O from background. started after push received.

So magical word is

   stopSelf();

So far so any reason your service is crashing follow all above steps and enjoy.

YouTube iframe API: how do I control an iframe player that's already in the HTML?

My own version of Kim T's code above which combines with some jQuery and allows for targeting of specific iframes.

$(function() {
    callPlayer($('#iframe')[0], 'unMute');
});

function callPlayer(iframe, func, args) {
    if ( iframe.src.indexOf('youtube.com/embed') !== -1) {
        iframe.contentWindow.postMessage( JSON.stringify({
            'event': 'command',
            'func': func,
            'args': args || []
        } ), '*');
    }
}

Best practice for instantiating a new Android Fragment

use this code 100% fix your problem

enter this code in firstFragment

public static yourNameParentFragment newInstance() {

    Bundle args = new Bundle();
    args.putBoolean("yourKey",yourValue);
    YourFragment fragment = new YourFragment();
    fragment.setArguments(args);
    return fragment;
}

this sample send boolean data

and in SecendFragment

yourNameParentFragment name =yourNameParentFragment.newInstance();
   Bundle bundle;
   bundle=sellDiamondFragments2.getArguments();
  boolean a= bundle.getBoolean("yourKey");

must value in first fragment is static

happy code

How to jquery alert confirm box "yes" & "no"

This plugin can help you,

craftpip/jquery-confirm

Its easy to setup and has great set of features.

$.confirm({
    title: 'Confirm!',
    content: 'Simple confirm!',
    buttons: {
        confirm: function () {
            $.alert('Confirmed!');
        },
        cancel: function () {
            $.alert('Canceled!');
        },
        somethingElse: {
            text: 'Something else',
            btnClass: 'btn-blue',
            keys: ['enter', 'shift'], // trigger when enter or shift is pressed
            action: function(){
                $.alert('Something else?');
            }
        }
    }
});

Other than this you can also load your content from a remote url.

$.confirm({
    content: 'url:hugedata.html' // location of your hugedata.html.
});

Best way to do a PHP switch with multiple values per case?

Version 1 is certainly easier on the eyes, clearer as to your intentions, and easier to add case-conditions to.

I've never tried the second version. In many languages, this wouldn't even compile because each case labels has to evaluate to a constant-expression.

is it possible to add colors to python output?

If your console (like your standard ubuntu console) understands ANSI color codes, you can use those.

Here an example:

print ('This is \x1b[31mred\x1b[0m.') 

Java JTextField with input hint

You could create your own:

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.FocusEvent;
import java.awt.event.FocusListener;
import javax.swing.*;

public class Main {

  public static void main(String[] args) {

    final JFrame frame = new JFrame();

    frame.setLayout(new BorderLayout());

    final JTextField textFieldA = new HintTextField("A hint here");
    final JTextField textFieldB = new HintTextField("Another hint here");

    frame.add(textFieldA, BorderLayout.NORTH);
    frame.add(textFieldB, BorderLayout.CENTER);
    JButton btnGetText = new JButton("Get text");

    btnGetText.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
      @Override
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
        String message = String.format("textFieldA='%s', textFieldB='%s'",
            textFieldA.getText(), textFieldB.getText());
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(frame, message);
      }
    });

    frame.add(btnGetText, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
    frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    frame.setVisible(true);
    frame.pack();
  }
}

class HintTextField extends JTextField implements FocusListener {

  private final String hint;
  private boolean showingHint;

  public HintTextField(final String hint) {
    super(hint);
    this.hint = hint;
    this.showingHint = true;
    super.addFocusListener(this);
  }

  @Override
  public void focusGained(FocusEvent e) {
    if(this.getText().isEmpty()) {
      super.setText("");
      showingHint = false;
    }
  }
  @Override
  public void focusLost(FocusEvent e) {
    if(this.getText().isEmpty()) {
      super.setText(hint);
      showingHint = true;
    }
  }

  @Override
  public String getText() {
    return showingHint ? "" : super.getText();
  }
}

If you're still on Java 1.5, replace the this.getText().isEmpty() with this.getText().length() == 0.

How to display table data more clearly in oracle sqlplus

You can set the line size as per the width of the window and set wrap off using the following command.

set linesize 160;
set wrap off;

I have used 160 as per my preference you can set it to somewhere between 100 - 200 and setting wrap will not your data and it will display the data properly.

how to open a jar file in Eclipse

there is an Eclipse app called Import Jar As Project. I think it is quite simple and useful. https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/import-jar-project?mpc=true&mpc_state=

Check if an array contains duplicate values

The code given in the question can be better written as follows

function checkIfArrayIsUnique(myArray) 
    {
        for (var i = 0; i < myArray.length; i++) 
        {
            for (var j = i+1; j < myArray.length; j++) 
            {                  
                    if (myArray[i] == myArray[j]) 
                    {
                        return true; // means there are duplicate values
                    }

            }
        }
        return false; // means there are no duplicate values.
    }

ReactJS - Does render get called any time "setState" is called?

Not All Components.

the state in component looks like the source of the waterfall of state of the whole APP.

So the change happens from where the setState called. The tree of renders then get called from there. If you've used pure component, the render will be skipped.

How to get highcharts dates in the x axis?

Check this sample out from the Highcharts API.

Replace this

return Highcharts.dateFormat('%a %d %b', this.value);

With this

return Highcharts.dateFormat('%a %d %b %H:%M:%S', this.value);

Look here about the dateFormat() function.

Also see - tickInterval and pointInterval

How do I find out what keystore my JVM is using?

We encountered this issue on a Tomcat running from a jre directory that was (almost fully) removed after an automatic jre update, so that the running jre could no longer find jre.../lib/security/cacerts because it no longer existed.

Restarting Tomcat (after changing the configuration to run from the different jre location) fixed the problem.

Calculate a MD5 hash from a string

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.security.cryptography.md5?view=netframework-4.7.2

using System;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
using System.Text;

    static string GetMd5Hash(string input)
            {
                using (MD5 md5Hash = MD5.Create())
                {

                    // Convert the input string to a byte array and compute the hash.
                    byte[] data = md5Hash.ComputeHash(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(input));

                    // Create a new Stringbuilder to collect the bytes
                    // and create a string.
                    StringBuilder sBuilder = new StringBuilder();

                    // Loop through each byte of the hashed data 
                    // and format each one as a hexadecimal string.
                    for (int i = 0; i < data.Length; i++)
                    {
                        sBuilder.Append(data[i].ToString("x2"));
                    }

                    // Return the hexadecimal string.
                    return sBuilder.ToString();
                }
            }

            // Verify a hash against a string.
            static bool VerifyMd5Hash(string input, string hash)
            {
                // Hash the input.
                string hashOfInput = GetMd5Hash(input);

                // Create a StringComparer an compare the hashes.
                StringComparer comparer = StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase;

                return 0 == comparer.Compare(hashOfInput, hash);

            }

Getting a machine's external IP address with Python

If the machine is being a firewall then your solution is a very sensible one: the alternative being able to query the firewall which ends-up being very dependent on the type of firewall (if at all possible).

Test if remote TCP port is open from a shell script

Building on the most highly voted answer, here is a function to wait for two ports to be open, with a timeout as well. Note the two ports that mus be open, 8890 and 1111, as well as the max_attempts (1 per second).

function wait_for_server_to_boot()
{
    echo "Waiting for server to boot up..."
    attempts=0
    max_attempts=30
    while ( nc 127.0.0.1 8890 < /dev/null || nc 127.0.0.1 1111 < /dev/null )  && [[ $attempts < $max_attempts ]] ; do
        attempts=$((attempts+1))
        sleep 1;
        echo "waiting... (${attempts}/${max_attempts})"
    done
}

mailto using javascript

With JavaScript you can create a link 'on the fly' using something like:

var mail = document.createElement("a");
mail.href = "mailto:[email protected]";
mail.click();

This is redirected by the browser to some mail client installed on the machine without losing the content of the current window ... and you would not need any API like 'jQuery'.

AngularJS accessing DOM elements inside directive template

This answer comes a little bit late, but I just was in a similar need.

Observing the comments written by @ganaraj in the question, One use case I was in the need of is, passing a classname via a directive attribute to be added to a ng-repeat li tag in the template.

For example, use the directive like this:

<my-directive class2add="special-class" />

And get the following html:

<div>
    <ul>
       <li class="special-class">Item 1</li>
       <li class="special-class">Item 2</li>
    </ul>
</div>

The solution found here applied with templateUrl, would be:

app.directive("myDirective", function() {
    return {
        template: function(element, attrs){
            return '<div><ul><li ng-repeat="item in items" class="'+attrs.class2add+'"></ul></div>';
        },
        link: function(scope, element, attrs) {
            var list = element.find("ul");
        }
    }
});

Just tried it successfully with AngularJS 1.4.9.

Hope it helps.

Convert a String representation of a Dictionary to a dictionary?

string = "{'server1':'value','server2':'value'}"

#Now removing { and }
s = string.replace("{" ,"")
finalstring = s.replace("}" , "")

#Splitting the string based on , we get key value pairs
list = finalstring.split(",")

dictionary ={}
for i in list:
    #Get Key Value pairs separately to store in dictionary
    keyvalue = i.split(":")

    #Replacing the single quotes in the leading.
    m= keyvalue[0].strip('\'')
    m = m.replace("\"", "")
    dictionary[m] = keyvalue[1].strip('"\'')

print dictionary

What exactly is LLVM?

LLVM is a library that is used to construct, optimize and produce intermediate and/or binary machine code.

LLVM can be used as a compiler framework, where you provide the "front end" (parser and lexer) and the "back end" (code that converts LLVM's representation to actual machine code).

LLVM can also act as a JIT compiler - it has support for x86/x86_64 and PPC/PPC64 assembly generation with fast code optimizations aimed for compilation speed.

Unfortunately disabled since 2013, there was the ability to play with LLVM's machine code generated from C or C++ code at the demo page.

Getting android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: exception even when the resource is present in android

This can happen due to a different language in the phone for which your code doesn't have the asset for. For example your preference.xml is placed in xml-en and you are trying to run your app in a phone which has French selected, the app will crash.

Best way to style a TextBox in CSS

your approach is pretty good...

_x000D_
_x000D_
.myclass {_x000D_
    height: 20px;_x000D_
    position: relative;_x000D_
    border: 2px solid #cdcdcd;_x000D_
    border-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, .14);_x000D_
    background-color: AliceBlue;_x000D_
    font-size: 14px;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<input type="text" class="myclass" />
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

CSS3 transitions inside jQuery .css()

Your code can get messy fast when dealing with CSS3 transitions. I would recommend using a plugin such as jQuery Transit that handles the complexity of CSS3 animations/transitions.

Moreover, the plugin uses webkit-transform rather than webkit-transition, which allows for mobile devices to use hardware acceleration in order to give your web apps that native look and feel when the animations occur.

JS Fiddle Live Demo

Javascript:

$("#startTransition").on("click", function()
{

    if( $(".boxOne").is(":visible")) 
    {
        $(".boxOne").transition({ x: '-100%', opacity: 0.1 }, function () { $(".boxOne").hide(); });
        $(".boxTwo").css({ x: '100%' });
        $(".boxTwo").show().transition({ x: '0%', opacity: 1.0 });
        return;        
    }

    $(".boxTwo").transition({ x: '-100%', opacity: 0.1 }, function () { $(".boxTwo").hide(); });
    $(".boxOne").css({ x: '100%' });
    $(".boxOne").show().transition({ x: '0%', opacity: 1.0 });

});

Most of the hard work of getting cross-browser compatibility is done for you as well and it works like a charm on mobile devices.

I'm getting an error "invalid use of incomplete type 'class map'

Your first usage of Map is inside a function in the combat class. That happens before Map is defined, hence the error.

A forward declaration only says that a particular class will be defined later, so it's ok to reference it or have pointers to objects, etc. However a forward declaration does not say what members a class has, so as far as the compiler is concerned you can't use any of them until Map is fully declared.

The solution is to follow the C++ pattern of the class declaration in a .h file and the function bodies in a .cpp. That way all the declarations appear before the first definitions, and the compiler knows what it's working with.

Cannot read property 'style' of undefined -- Uncaught Type Error

Add your <script> to the bottom of your <body>, or add an event listener for DOMContentLoaded following this StackOverflow question.

If that script executes in the <head> section of the code, document.getElementsByClassName(...) will return an empty array because the DOM is not loaded yet.

You're getting the Type Error because you're referencing search_span[0], but search_span[0] is undefined.

This works when you execute it in Dev Tools because the DOM is already loaded.

How to deal with "data of class uneval" error from ggplot2?

when you add a new data set to a geom you need to use the data= argument. Or put the arguments in the proper order mapping=..., data=.... Take a look at the arguments for ?geom_line.

Thus:

p + geom_line(data=df.last, aes(HrEnd, MWh, group=factor(Date)), color="red") 

Or:

p + geom_line(aes(HrEnd, MWh, group=factor(Date)), df.last, color="red") 

How to disable the ability to select in a DataGridView?

Use the DataGridView.ReadOnly property

The code in the MSDN example illustrates the use of this property in a DataGridView control intended primarily for display. In this example, the visual appearance of the control is customized in several ways and the control is configured for limited interactivity.

Observe these settings in the sample code:

// Set property values appropriate for read-only
// display and limited interactivity
dataGridView1.AllowUserToAddRows = false;
dataGridView1.AllowUserToDeleteRows = false;
dataGridView1.AllowUserToOrderColumns = true;
dataGridView1.ReadOnly = true;
dataGridView1.SelectionMode = DataGridViewSelectionMode.FullRowSelect;
dataGridView1.MultiSelect = false;
dataGridView1.AutoSizeRowsMode = DataGridViewAutoSizeRowsMode.None;
dataGridView1.AllowUserToResizeColumns = false;
dataGridView1.ColumnHeadersHeightSizeMode = 
DataGridViewColumnHeadersHeightSizeMode.DisableResizing;
dataGridView1.AllowUserToResizeRows = false;
dataGridView1.RowHeadersWidthSizeMode = 
DataGridViewRowHeadersWidthSizeMode.DisableResizing;

See what's in a stash without applying it

From the man git-stash page:

The modifications stashed away by this command can be listed with git stash list, inspected with git stash show

show [<stash>]
       Show the changes recorded in the stash as a diff between the stashed state and
       its original parent. When no <stash> is given, shows the latest one. By default,
       the command shows the diffstat, but it will accept any format known to git diff
       (e.g., git stash show -p stash@{1} to view the second most recent stash in patch
       form).

To list the stashed modifications

git stash list

To show files changed in the last stash

git stash show

So, to view the content of the most recent stash, run

git stash show -p

To view the content of an arbitrary stash, run something like

git stash show -p stash@{1}

How do I convert speech to text?

.NET can do it with its System.Speech namespace.

You would have to convert to .wav first or capture the audio live from the mic.

Details on implementation can be found here: Transcribing Audio with .NET

Maximum size for a SQL Server Query? IN clause? Is there a Better Approach

Per batch, 65536 * Network Packet Size which is 4k so 256 MB

However, IN will stop way before that but it's not precise.

You end up with memory errors but I can't recall the exact error. A huge IN will be inefficient anyway.

Edit: Remus reminded me: the error is about "stack size"

Single-threaded apartment - cannot instantiate ActiveX control

If you used [STAThread] to the main entry of your application and still get the error you may need to make a Thread-Safe call to the control... something like below. In my case with the same problem the following solution worked!

Private void YourFunc(..)
{
    if (this.InvokeRequired)
    {
        Invoke(new MethodInvoker(delegate()
        {
           // Call your method YourFunc(..);
        }));
    }
    else
    {
        ///
    }

Border Radius of Table is not working

Just add overflow:hidden to the table with border-radius.

.tablewithradius {
  overflow:hidden ;
  border-radius: 15px;
}

How to delete an item in a list if it exists?

Eek, don't do anything that complicated : )

Just filter() your tags. bool() returns False for empty strings, so instead of

new_tag_list = f1.striplist(tag_string.split(",") + selected_tags)

you should write

new_tag_list = filter(bool, f1.striplist(tag_string.split(",") + selected_tags))

or better yet, put this logic inside striplist() so that it doesn't return empty strings in the first place.

write a shell script to ssh to a remote machine and execute commands

You can follow this approach :

  • Connect to remote machine using Expect Script. If your machine doesn't support expect you can download the same. Writing Expect script is very easy (google to get help on this)
  • Put all the action which needs to be performed on remote server in a shell script.
  • Invoke remote shell script from expect script once login is successful.

image size (drawable-hdpi/ldpi/mdpi/xhdpi)

Not just tab icons, notification and launcher lives an app. I was confused about the sizes of the other icons used for different situations in the app.

I'm using 32px mdpi (Action Bar icons) dimensions and I cannot say if it would be correct.

mdpi 32px

check if directory exists and delete in one command unix

Assuming $WORKING_DIR is set to the directory... this one-liner should do it:

if [ -d "$WORKING_DIR" ]; then rm -Rf $WORKING_DIR; fi

(otherwise just replace with your directory)

reading HttpwebResponse json response, C#

First you need an object

public class MyObject {
  public string Id {get;set;}
  public string Text {get;set;}
  ...
}

Then in here

    using (var twitpicResponse = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse()) {

        using (var reader = new StreamReader(twitpicResponse.GetResponseStream())) {
            JavaScriptSerializer js = new JavaScriptSerializer();
            var objText = reader.ReadToEnd();
            MyObject myojb = (MyObject)js.Deserialize(objText,typeof(MyObject));
        }

    }

I haven't tested with the hierarchical object you have, but this should give you access to the properties you want.

JavaScriptSerializer System.Web.Script.Serialization

How can I enter latitude and longitude in Google Maps?

for higher precision. this format:

45 11.735N,004 34.281E

and this

45 23.623, 5 38.77

How to convert CharSequence to String?

By invoking its toString() method.

Returns a string containing the characters in this sequence in the same order as this sequence. The length of the string will be the length of this sequence.

jQuery onclick toggle class name

you can use toggleClass() to toggle class it is really handy.

case:1

<div id='mydiv' class="class1"></div>

$('#mydiv').toggleClass('class1 class2');

output: <div id='mydiv' class="class2"></div>

case:2

<div id='mydiv' class="class2"></div>

$('#mydiv').toggleClass('class1 class2');

output: <div id='mydiv' class="class1"></div>

case:3

<div id='mydiv' class="class1 class2 class3"></div>

$('#mydiv').toggleClass('class1 class2');

output: <div id='mydiv' class="class3"></div>

What is the point of "final class" in Java?

If you imagine the class hierarchy as a tree (as it is in Java), abstract classes can only be branches and final classes are those that can only be leafs. Classes that fall into neither of those categories can be both branches and leafs.

There's no violation of OO principles here, final is simply providing a nice symmetry.

In practice you want to use final if you want your objects to be immutable or if you're writing an API, to signal to the users of the API that the class is just not intended for extension.

Simplest two-way encryption using PHP

Use mcrypt_encrypt() and mcrypt_decrypt() with corresponding parameters. Really easy and straight forward, and you use a battle-tested encryption package.

EDIT

5 years and 4 months after this answer, the mcrypt extension is now in the process of deprecation and eventual removal from PHP.

Java random number with given length

Generate a number in the range from 100000 to 999999.

// pseudo code
int n = 100000 + random_float() * 900000;

For more details see the documentation for Random

Algorithm for solving Sudoku

Here is my sudoku solver in python. It uses simple backtracking algorithm to solve the puzzle. For simplicity no input validations or fancy output is done. It's the bare minimum code which solves the problem.

Algorithm

  1. Find all legal values of a given cell
  2. For each legal value, Go recursively and try to solve the grid

Solution

It takes 9X9 grid partially filled with numbers. A cell with value 0 indicates that it is not filled.

Code

def findNextCellToFill(grid, i, j):
        for x in range(i,9):
                for y in range(j,9):
                        if grid[x][y] == 0:
                                return x,y
        for x in range(0,9):
                for y in range(0,9):
                        if grid[x][y] == 0:
                                return x,y
        return -1,-1

def isValid(grid, i, j, e):
        rowOk = all([e != grid[i][x] for x in range(9)])
        if rowOk:
                columnOk = all([e != grid[x][j] for x in range(9)])
                if columnOk:
                        # finding the top left x,y co-ordinates of the section containing the i,j cell
                        secTopX, secTopY = 3 *(i//3), 3 *(j//3) #floored quotient should be used here. 
                        for x in range(secTopX, secTopX+3):
                                for y in range(secTopY, secTopY+3):
                                        if grid[x][y] == e:
                                                return False
                        return True
        return False

def solveSudoku(grid, i=0, j=0):
        i,j = findNextCellToFill(grid, i, j)
        if i == -1:
                return True
        for e in range(1,10):
                if isValid(grid,i,j,e):
                        grid[i][j] = e
                        if solveSudoku(grid, i, j):
                                return True
                        # Undo the current cell for backtracking
                        grid[i][j] = 0
        return False

Testing the code


>>> input = [[5,1,7,6,0,0,0,3,4],[2,8,9,0,0,4,0,0,0],[3,4,6,2,0,5,0,9,0],[6,0,2,0,0,0,0,1,0],[0,3,8,0,0,6,0,4,7],[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0],[0,9,0,0,0,0,0,7,8],[7,0,3,4,0,0,5,6,0],[0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0]]
>>> solveSudoku(input)
True
>>> input
[[5, 1, 7, 6, 9, 8, 2, 3, 4], [2, 8, 9, 1, 3, 4, 7, 5, 6], [3, 4, 6, 2, 7, 5, 8, 9, 1], [6, 7, 2, 8, 4, 9, 3, 1, 5], [1, 3, 8, 5, 2, 6, 9, 4, 7], [9, 5, 4, 7, 1, 3, 6, 8, 2], [4, 9, 5, 3, 6, 2, 1, 7, 8], [7, 2, 3, 4, 8, 1, 5, 6, 9], [8, 6, 1, 9, 5, 7, 4, 2, 3]]

The above one is very basic backtracking algorithm which is explained at many places. But the most interesting and natural of the sudoku solving strategies I came across is this one from here

X-Frame-Options: ALLOW-FROM in firefox and chrome

ALLOW-FROM is not supported in Chrome or Safari. See MDN article: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/X-Frame-Options

You are already doing the work to make a custom header and send it with the correct data, can you not just exclude the header when you detect it is from a valid partner and add DENY to every other request? I don't see the benefit of AllowFrom when you are already dynamically building the logic up?

Appending the same string to a list of strings in Python

list2 = ['%sbar' % (x,) for x in list]

And don't use list as a name; it shadows the built-in type.

How are "mvn clean package" and "mvn clean install" different?

Well, both will clean. That means they'll remove the target folder. The real question is what's the difference between package and install?

package will compile your code and also package it. For example, if your pom says the project is a jar, it will create a jar for you when you package it and put it somewhere in the target directory (by default).

install will compile and package, but it will also put the package in your local repository. This will make it so other projects can refer to it and grab it from your local repository.

Documentation

How can I delete all cookies with JavaScript?

There is no 100% solution to delete browser cookies.

The problem is that cookies are uniquely identified by not just by their key "name" but also their "domain" and "path".

Without knowing the "domain" and "path" of a cookie, you cannot reliably delete it. This information is not available through JavaScript's document.cookie. It's not available through the HTTP Cookie header either!

However, if you know the name, path and domain of a cookie, then you can clear it by setting an empty cookie with an expiry date in the past, for example:

function clearCookie(name, domain, path){
    var domain = domain || document.domain;
    var path = path || "/";
    document.cookie = name + "=; expires=" + +new Date + "; domain=" + domain + "; path=" + path;
};

how to view the contents of a .pem certificate

Use the -printcert command like this:

keytool -printcert -file certificate.pem

How can I work with command line on synology?

I use GateOne from the synocommunity.

Go into settings in Package Center and add http://packages.synocommunity.com/ as a package source. Then you should be able to add it easily via Package Center.

Connection refused to MongoDB errno 111

For me, changing the ownership of /var/lib/mongodb and /tmp/mongodb-27017.sock to mongodb was the way to go.

Just do:

sudo chown -R mongodb:mongodb /var/lib/mongodb

and then:

sudo chown mongodb:mongodb /tmp/mongodb-27017.sock

and then start or restart the mongodb server:

sudo systemctl start mongod

or

sudo systemctl restart mongod

and check the status

sudo systemctl status mongod

Alter MySQL table to add comments on columns

The information schema isn't the place to treat these things (see DDL database commands).

When you add a comment you need to change the table structure (table comments).

From MySQL 5.6 documentation:

INFORMATION_SCHEMA is a database within each MySQL instance, the place that stores information about all the other databases that the MySQL server maintains. The INFORMATION_SCHEMA database contains several read-only tables. They are actually views, not base tables, so there are no files associated with them, and you cannot set triggers on them. Also, there is no database directory with that name.

Although you can select INFORMATION_SCHEMA as the default database with a USE statement, you can only read the contents of tables, not perform INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE operations on them.

Chapter 21 INFORMATION_SCHEMA Tables

PHP: if !empty & empty

For several cases, or even just a few cases involving a lot of criteria, consider using a switch.

switch( true ){

    case ( !empty($youtube) && !empty($link) ):{
        // Nothing is empty...
        break;
    }

    case ( !empty($youtube) && empty($link) ):{
        // One is empty...
        break;
    }

    case ( empty($youtube) && !empty($link) ):{
        // The other is empty...
        break;
    }

    case ( empty($youtube) && empty($link) ):{
        // Everything is empty
        break;
    }

    default:{
        // Even if you don't expect ever to use it, it's a good idea to ALWAYS have a default.
        // That way if you change it, or miss a case, you have some default handler.
        break;
    }

}

If you have multiple cases that require the same action, you can stack them and omit the break; to flowthrough. Just maybe put a comment like /*Flowing through*/ so you're explicit about doing it on purpose.

Note that the { } around the cases aren't required, but they are nice for readability and code folding.

More about switch: http://php.net/manual/en/control-structures.switch.php

Instantly detect client disconnection from server socket

The example code here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.sockets.socket.connected.aspx shows how to determine whether the Socket is still connected without sending any data.

If you called Socket.BeginReceive() on the server program and then the client closed the connection "gracefully", your receive callback will be called and EndReceive() will return 0 bytes. These 0 bytes mean that the client "may" have disconnected. You can then use the technique shown in the MSDN example code to determine for sure whether the connection was closed.

Get current AUTO_INCREMENT value for any table

I believe you're looking for MySQL's LAST_INSERT_ID() function. If in the command line, simply run the following:

LAST_INSERT_ID();

You could also obtain this value through a SELECT query:

SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID();

.jar error - could not find or load main class

Had this problem couldn't find the answer so i went looking on other threads, I found that i was making my app with 1.8 but for some reason my jre was out dated even though i remember updating it. I downloaded the lastes jre 8 and the jar file runs perfectly. Hope this helps.

Format number to always show 2 decimal places

I do like:

var num = 12.749;
parseFloat((Math.round(num * 100) / 100).toFixed(2)); // 123.75

Round the number with 2 decimal points, then make sure to parse it with parseFloat() to return Number, not String unless you don't care if it is String or Number.

How do I connect to a SQL Server 2008 database using JDBC?

I am also using mssql server 2008 and jtds.In my case I am using the following connect string and it works.

Class.forName( "net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.Driver" );
Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection( "jdbc:jtds:sqlserver://<your server ip     
address>:1433/zacmpf", userName, password );
Statement stmt = con.createStatement();

SVN repository backup strategies

I use svnsync, which sets up a remote server as a mirror/slave. We had a server go down two weeks ago, and I was able to switch the slave into primary position quite easily (only had to reset the UUID on the slave repository to the original).

Another benefit is that the sync can be run by a middle-man, rather than as a task on either server. I've had a client to two VPNs sync a repository between them.

A method to count occurrences in a list

How about something like this ...

var l1 = new List<int>() { 1,2,3,4,5,2,2,2,4,4,4,1 };

var g = l1.GroupBy( i => i );

foreach( var grp in g )
{
  Console.WriteLine( "{0} {1}", grp.Key, grp.Count() );
}

Edit per comment: I will try and do this justice. :)

In my example, it's a Func<int, TKey> because my list is ints. So, I'm telling GroupBy how to group my items. The Func takes a int and returns the the key for my grouping. In this case, I will get an IGrouping<int,int> (a grouping of ints keyed by an int). If I changed it to (i => i.ToString() ) for example, I would be keying my grouping by a string. You can imagine a less trivial example than keying by "1", "2", "3" ... maybe I make a function that returns "one", "two", "three" to be my keys ...

private string SampleMethod( int i )
{
  // magically return "One" if i == 1, "Two" if i == 2, etc.
}

So, that's a Func that would take an int and return a string, just like ...

i =>  // magically return "One" if i == 1, "Two" if i == 2, etc. 

But, since the original question called for knowing the original list value and it's count, I just used an integer to key my integer grouping to make my example simpler.

Using OpenSSL what does "unable to write 'random state'" mean?

In practice, the most common reason for this happening seems to be that the .rnd file in your home directory is owned by root rather than your account. The quick fix:

sudo rm ~/.rnd

For more information, here's the entry from the OpenSSL FAQ:

Sometimes the openssl command line utility does not abort with a "PRNG not seeded" error message, but complains that it is "unable to write 'random state'". This message refers to the default seeding file (see previous answer). A possible reason is that no default filename is known because neither RANDFILE nor HOME is set. (Versions up to 0.9.6 used file ".rnd" in the current directory in this case, but this has changed with 0.9.6a.)

So I would check RANDFILE, HOME, and permissions to write to those places in the filesystem.

If everything seems to be in order, you could try running with strace and see what exactly is going on.

Thymeleaf: how to use conditionals to dynamically add/remove a CSS class

Yet another usage of th:class, same as @NewbLeech and @Charles have posted, but simplified to maximum if there is no "else" case:

<input th:class="${#fields.hasErrors('password')} ? formFieldHasError" />

Does not include class attribute if #fields.hasErrors('password') is false.

How to enter a formula into a cell using VBA?

You aren't building your formula right.

Worksheets("EmployeeCosts").Range("B" & var1a).Formula =  "=SUM(H5:H" & var1a & ")"

This does the same as the following lines do:

Dim myFormula As String
myFormula = "=SUM(H5:H"
myFormula = myFormula & var1a
myformula = myformula & ")"

which is what you are trying to do.

Also, you want to have the = at the beginning of the formala.

There are No resources that can be added or removed from the server

I encountered this error even though the Project Facets were set appropriately. The problem was that the "Runtime Environment" property was not set on the server:

Empty Runtime Environment for Eclipse Tomcat

It simply needed to be set to the appropriate Runtime:

Runtime Environment for Eclipse Tomcat

How do I convert a datetime to date?

you could enter this code form for (today date & Names of the Day & hour) : datetime.datetime.now().strftime('%y-%m-%d %a %H:%M:%S')

'19-09-09 Mon 17:37:56'

and enter this code for (today date simply): datetime.date.today().strftime('%y-%m-%d') '19-09-10'

for object : datetime.datetime.now().date() datetime.datetime.today().date() datetime.datetime.utcnow().date() datetime.datetime.today().time() datetime.datetime.utcnow().date() datetime.datetime.utcnow().time()

XPath - Difference between node() and text()

text() and node() are node tests, in XPath terminology (compare).

Node tests operate on a set (on an axis, to be exact) of nodes and return the ones that are of a certain type. When no axis is mentioned, the child axis is assumed by default.

There are all kinds of node tests:

  • node() matches any node (the least specific node test of them all)
  • text() matches text nodes only
  • comment() matches comment nodes
  • * matches any element node
  • foo matches any element node named "foo"
  • processing-instruction() matches PI nodes (they look like <?name value?>).
  • Side note: The * also matches attribute nodes, but only along the attribute axis. @* is a shorthand for attribute::*. Attributes are not part of the child axis, that's why a normal * does not select them.

This XML document:

<produce>
    <item>apple</item>
    <item>banana</item>
    <item>pepper</item>
</produce>

represents the following DOM (simplified):

root node
   element node (name="produce")
      text node (value="\n    ")
      element node (name="item")
         text node (value="apple")
      text node (value="\n    ")
      element node (name="item")
         text node (value="banana")
      text node (value="\n    ")
      element node (name="item")
         text node (value="pepper")
      text node (value="\n")

So with XPath:

  • / selects the root node
  • /produce selects a child element of the root node if it has the name "produce" (This is called the document element; it represents the document itself. Document element and root node are often confused, but they are not the same thing.)
  • /produce/node() selects any type of child node beneath /produce/ (i.e. all 7 children)
  • /produce/text() selects the 4 (!) whitespace-only text nodes
  • /produce/item[1] selects the first child element named "item"
  • /produce/item[1]/text() selects all child text nodes (there's only one - "apple" - in this case)

And so on.

So, your questions

  • "Select the text of all items under produce" /produce/item/text() (3 nodes selected)
  • "Select all the manager nodes in all departments" //department/manager (1 node selected)

Notes

  • The default axis in XPath is the child axis. You can change the axis by prefixing a different axis name. For example: //item/ancestor::produce
  • Element nodes have text values. When you evaluate an element node, its textual contents will be returned. In case of this example, /produce/item[1]/text() and string(/produce/item[1]) will be the same.
  • Also see this answer where I outline the individual parts of an XPath expression graphically.

Android Studio - Failed to apply plugin [id 'com.android.application']

i fixed it by upgrade to gradle-5.6.4-all.zip in project\gradle\wrapper\gradle-wrapper.properties

#Wed Mar 11 15:20:29 WAT 2020
distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
distributionPath=wrapper/dists
zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.6.4-all.zip

What methods of ‘clearfix’ can I use?

I always float the main sections of my grid and apply clear: both; to the footer. That doesn't require an extra div or class.

Uncaught TypeError: Object #<Object> has no method 'movingBoxes'

I had a such problem too because i was using IMG tag and UL tag.

Try to apply the 'corners' plugin to elements such as $('#mydiv').corner(), $('#myspan').corner(), $('#myp').corner() but NOT for $('#img').corner()! This rule is related with adding child DIVs into specified element for emulation round-corner effect. As we know IMG element couldn't have any child elements.

I've solved this by wrapping a needed element within the div and changing IMG to DIV with background: CSS property.

Good luck!

Is there a way to create xxhdpi, xhdpi, hdpi, mdpi and ldpi drawables from a large scale image?

A simple plugin in Android will help you Step 1. Go to Settings Step 2. Click on Plugin Step 3. Search for Android Drawable Importer Step 4. Install plugin and restart

How to use?

Go to File>New>Batch Drawable Import

Enjoy

Can you animate a height change on a UITableViewCell when selected?

Add a property to keep track of the selected cell

@property (nonatomic) int currentSelection;

Set it to a sentinel value in (for example) viewDidLoad, to make sure that the UITableView starts in the 'normal' position

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    [super viewDidLoad];
    // Do any additional setup after loading the view.

    //sentinel
    self.currentSelection = -1;
}

In heightForRowAtIndexPath you can set the height you want for the selected cell

- (CGFloat)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath{
    int rowHeight;
    if ([indexPath row] == self.currentSelection) {
        rowHeight = self.newCellHeight;
    } else rowHeight = 57.0f;
    return rowHeight;
}

In didSelectRowAtIndexPath you save the current selection and save a dynamic height, if required

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didSelectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {
        // do things with your cell here

        // set selection
        self.currentSelection = indexPath.row;
        // save height for full text label
        self.newCellHeight = cell.titleLbl.frame.size.height + cell.descriptionLbl.frame.size.height + 10;

        // animate
        [tableView beginUpdates];
        [tableView endUpdates];
    }
}

In didDeselectRowAtIndexPath set the selection index back to the sentinel value and animate the cell back to normal form

- (void)tableView:(UITableView *)tableView didDeselectRowAtIndexPath:(NSIndexPath *)indexPath {       
        // do things with your cell here

        // sentinel
        self.currentSelection = -1;

        // animate
        [tableView beginUpdates];
        [tableView endUpdates];
    }
}

Reflection: How to Invoke Method with parameters

The provided solution does not work for instances of types loaded from a remote assembly. To do that, here is a solution that works in all situations, which involves an explicit type re-mapping of the type returned through the CreateInstance call.

This is how I need to create my classInstance, as it was located in a remote assembly.

// sample of my CreateInstance call with an explicit assembly reference
object classInstance = Activator.CreateInstance(assemblyName, type.FullName); 

However, even with the answer provided above, you'd still get the same error. Here is how to go about:

// first, create a handle instead of the actual object
ObjectHandle classInstanceHandle = Activator.CreateInstance(assemblyName, type.FullName);
// unwrap the real slim-shady
object classInstance = classInstanceHandle.Unwrap(); 
// re-map the type to that of the object we retrieved
type = classInstace.GetType(); 

Then do as the other users mentioned here.

Get name of current class?

Within the body of a class, the class name isn't defined yet, so it is not available. Can you not simply type the name of the class? Maybe you need to say more about the problem so we can find a solution for you.

I would create a metaclass to do this work for you. It's invoked at class creation time (conceptually at the very end of the class: block), and can manipulate the class being created. I haven't tested this:

class InputAssigningMetaclass(type):
    def __new__(cls, name, bases, attrs):
        cls.input = get_input(name)
        return super(MyType, cls).__new__(cls, name, bases, newattrs)

class MyBaseFoo(object):
    __metaclass__ = InputAssigningMetaclass

class foo(MyBaseFoo):
    # etc, no need to create 'input'

class foo2(MyBaseFoo):
    # etc, no need to create 'input'

How do I make a delay in Java?

If you want to pause then use java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit:

TimeUnit.SECONDS.sleep(1);

To sleep for one second or

TimeUnit.MINUTES.sleep(1);

To sleep for a minute.

As this is a loop, this presents an inherent problem - drift. Every time you run code and then sleep you will be drifting a little bit from running, say, every second. If this is an issue then don't use sleep.

Further, sleep isn't very flexible when it comes to control.

For running a task every second or at a one second delay I would strongly recommend a ScheduledExecutorService and either scheduleAtFixedRate or scheduleWithFixedDelay.

For example, to run the method myTask every second (Java 8):

public static void main(String[] args) {
    final ScheduledExecutorService executorService = Executors.newSingleThreadScheduledExecutor();
    executorService.scheduleAtFixedRate(App::myTask, 0, 1, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
}

private static void myTask() {
    System.out.println("Running");
}

And in Java 7:

public static void main(String[] args) {
    final ScheduledExecutorService executorService = Executors.newSingleThreadScheduledExecutor();
    executorService.scheduleAtFixedRate(new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            myTask();
        }
    }, 0, 1, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
}

private static void myTask() {
    System.out.println("Running");
}

Batch file FOR /f tokens

for /f "tokens=* delims= " %%f in (myfile) do

This reads a file line-by-line, removing leading spaces (thanks, jeb).

set line=%%f

sets then the line variable to the line just read and

call :procesToken

calls a subroutine that does something with the line

:processToken

is the start of the subroutine mentioned above.

for /f "tokens=1* delims=/" %%a in ("%line%") do

will then split the line at /, but stopping tokenization after the first token.

echo Got one token: %%a

will output that first token and

set line=%%b

will set the line variable to the rest of the line.

if not "%line%" == "" goto :processToken

And if line isn't yet empty (i.e. all tokens processed), it returns to the start, continuing with the rest of the line.

Session variables not working php

I had the same issue for a while and had a very hard time figuring it out. My problem was that I had the site working for a while with the sessions working right, and then all of the sudden everything broke.

Apparently, your session_save_path(), for me it was /var/lib/php5/, needs to have correct permissions (the user running php, eg www-data needs write access to the directory). I accidentally changed it, breaking sessions completely.

Run sudo chmod -R 700 /var/lib/php5/ and then sudo chown -R www-data /var/lib/php5/ so that the php user has access to the folder.