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Ant if else condition?

The if attribute does not exist for <copy>. It should be applied to the <target>.

Below is an example of how you can use the depends attribute of a target and the if and unless attributes to control execution of dependent targets. Only one of the two should execute.

<target name="prepare-copy" description="copy file based on condition"
    depends="prepare-copy-true, prepare-copy-false">
</target>

<target name="prepare-copy-true" description="copy file based on condition"
    if="copy-condition">
    <echo>Get file based on condition being true</echo>
    <copy file="${some.dir}/true" todir="." />
</target>

<target name="prepare-copy-false" description="copy file based on false condition" 
    unless="copy-condition">
    <echo>Get file based on condition being false</echo>
    <copy file="${some.dir}/false" todir="." />
</target>

If you are using ANT 1.8+, then you can use property expansion and it will evaluate the value of the property to determine the boolean value. So, you could use if="${copy-condition}" instead of if="copy-condition".

In ANT 1.7.1 and earlier, you specify the name of the property. If the property is defined and has any value (even an empty string), then it will evaluate to true.

Passing a method as a parameter in Ruby

You want a proc object:

gaussian = Proc.new do |dist, *args|
  sigma = args.first || 10.0
  ...
end

def weightedknn(data, vec1, k = 5, weightf = gaussian)
  ...
  weight = weightf.call(dist)
  ...
end

Just note that you can't set a default argument in a block declaration like that. So you need to use a splat and setup the default in the proc code itself.


Or, depending on your scope of all this, it may be easier to pass in a method name instead.

def weightedknn(data, vec1, k = 5, weightf = :gaussian)
  ...
  weight = self.send(weightf)
  ...
end

In this case you are just calling a method that is defined on an object rather than passing in a complete chunk of code. Depending on how you structure this you may need replace self.send with object_that_has_the_these_math_methods.send


Last but not least, you can hang a block off the method.

def weightedknn(data, vec1, k = 5)
  ...
  weight = 
    if block_given?
      yield(dist)
    else
      gaussian.call(dist)
    end
  end
  ...
end

weightedknn(foo, bar) do |dist|
  # square the dist
  dist * dist
end

But it sounds like you would like more reusable chunks of code here.

UITableview: How to Disable Selection for Some Rows but Not Others

You need to do something like the following to disable cell selection within the cellForRowAtIndexPath method:

[cell setSelectionStyle:UITableViewCellSelectionStyleNone];
[cell setUserInteractionEnabled:NO];

To show the cell grayed out, put the following within the tableView:WillDisplayCell:forRowAtIndexPath method:

[cell setAlpha:0.5];

One method allows you to control the interactivity, the other allows you to control the UI appearance.

how to make a specific text on TextView BOLD

Here is better solution if you want to make multiple text to bold. I've improved Eitan's code. thanks Eitan.

public static SpannableStringBuilder makeSectionOfTextBold(String text, String... textToBold) {
    SpannableStringBuilder builder = new SpannableStringBuilder(text);

    for (String textItem :
            textToBold) {
        if (textItem.length() > 0 && !textItem.trim().equals("")) {
            //for counting start/end indexes
            String testText = text.toLowerCase(Locale.US);
            String testTextToBold = textItem.toLowerCase(Locale.US);
            int startingIndex = testText.indexOf(testTextToBold);
            int endingIndex = startingIndex + testTextToBold.length();

            if (startingIndex >= 0 && endingIndex >= 0) {
                builder.setSpan(new StyleSpan(Typeface.BOLD), startingIndex, endingIndex, 0);
            }
        }
    }

    return builder;
}

Searching for file in directories recursively

You will want to move the loop for the files outside of the loop for the folders. In addition you will need to pass the data structure holding the collection of files to each call of the method. That way all files go into a single list.

public static List<string> DirSearch(string sDir, List<string> files)
{
  foreach (string f in Directory.GetFiles(sDir, "*.xml"))
  {
    string extension = Path.GetExtension(f);
    if (extension != null && (extension.Equals(".xml")))
    {
      files.Add(f);
    }
  }
  foreach (string d in Directory.GetDirectories(sDir))
  {
    DirSearch(d, files);
  }
  return files;
}

Then call it like this.

List<string> files = DirSearch("c:\foo", new List<string>());

Update:

Well unbeknownst to me, until I read the other answer anyway, there is already a builtin mechanism for doing this. I will leave my answer in case you are interested in seeing how your code needs to be modified to make it work.

JS search in object values

I have created this easy to use library that does exactly what you are looking for: ss-search

import { search } from "ss-search"

const data = [
  {
       "foo" : "bar",
       "bar" : "sit"
  },
  {
       "foo" : "lorem",
       "bar" : "ipsum"
  },
  {
       "foo" : "dolor",
       "bar" : "amet"
  }
]
const searchKeys = ["foor", "bar"] 
const searchText = "dolor"

const results = search(data, keys, searchText)
// results: [{ "foo": "dolor", "bar": "amet" }]

How do you express binary literals in Python?

For reference—future Python possibilities:
Starting with Python 2.6 you can express binary literals using the prefix 0b or 0B:

>>> 0b101111
47

You can also use the new bin function to get the binary representation of a number:

>>> bin(173)
'0b10101101'

Development version of the documentation: What's New in Python 2.6

How can I change the default Mysql connection timeout when connecting through python?

MAX_EXECUTION_TIME is also an important parameter for long running queries.Will work for MySQL 5.7 or later.

Check the current value

SELECT @@GLOBAL.MAX_EXECUTION_TIME, @@SESSION.MAX_EXECUTION_TIME;

Then set it according to your needs.

SET SESSION MAX_EXECUTION_TIME=2000;
SET GLOBAL MAX_EXECUTION_TIME=2000;

jQuery animate margin top

check this same effect with less code

$(".item").mouseover(function(){
    $('.info').animate({ marginTop: '-50px' , opacity: 0.5 }, 1000);
}); 

View recent fiddle

chart.js load totally new data

The only solution I can find so far for myself is to re-initialize the chart from scratch:

var myLineChart = new Chart(ctx).Line(data, options);

However this seems a bit hokey to me. Any better, more standard solution anybody?

phpmailer error "Could not instantiate mail function"

An old thread, but it may help someone like me. I resolved the issue by setting up SMTP server value to a legitimate value in PHP.ini

What do \t and \b do?

Backspace and tab both move the cursor position. Neither is truly a 'printable' character.

Your code says:

  1. print "foo"
  2. move the cursor back one space
  3. move the cursor forward to the next tabstop
  4. output "bar".

To get the output you expect, you need printf("foo\b \tbar"). Note the extra 'space'. That says:

  1. output "foo"
  2. move the cursor back one space
  3. output a ' ' (this replaces the second 'o').
  4. move the cursor forward to the next tabstop
  5. output "bar".

Most of the time it is inappropriate to use tabs and backspace for formatting your program output. Learn to use printf() formatting specifiers. Rendering of tabs can vary drastically depending on how the output is viewed.

This little script shows one way to alter your terminal's tab rendering. Tested on Ubuntu + gnome-terminal:

#!/bin/bash
tabs -8 
echo -e "\tnormal tabstop"
for x in `seq 2 10`; do
  tabs $x
  echo -e "\ttabstop=$x"
 done

tabs -8
echo -e "\tnormal tabstop"

Also see man setterm and regtabs.

And if you redirect your output or just write to a file, tabs will quite commonly be displayed as fewer than the standard 8 chars, especially in "programming" editors and IDEs.

So in otherwords:

printf("%-8s%s", "foo", "bar"); /* this will ALWAYS output "foo     bar" */
printf("foo\tbar"); /* who knows how this will be rendered */

IMHO, tabs in general are rarely appropriate for anything. An exception might be generating output for a program that requires tab-separated-value input files (similar to comma separated value).

Backspace '\b' is a different story... it should never be used to create a text file since it will just make a text editor spit out garbage. But it does have many applications in writing interactive command line programs that cannot be accomplished with format strings alone. If you find yourself needing it a lot, check out "ncurses", which gives you much better control over where your output goes on the terminal screen. And typically, since it's 2011 and not 1995, a GUI is usually easier to deal with for highly interactive programs. But again, there are exceptions. Like writing a telnet server or console for a new scripting language.

CSS '>' selector; what is it?

It is the CSS child selector. Example:

div > p selects all paragraphs that are direct children of div.

See this

python for increment inner loop

I read all the above answers and those are actually good.

look at this code:

for i in range(1, 4):
    print("Before change:", i)
    i = 20 # changing i variable
    print("After change:", i) # this line will always print 20

When we execute above code the output is like below,

Before Change: 1
After change: 20
Before Change: 2
After change: 20
Before Change: 3
After change: 20

in python for loop is not trying to increase i value. for loop is just assign values to i which we gave. Using range(4) what we are doing is we give the values to for loop which need assign to the i.

You can use while loop instead of for loop to do same thing what you want,

i = 0
while i < 6:
    print(i)
    j = 0
    while j < 5:
        i += 2 # to increase `i` by 2

This will give,

0
2
4

Thank you !

Python 3 print without parenthesis

Use Autohotkey to make a macro. AHK is free and dead simple to install. www.autohotkey.com

You could assign the macro to, say, alt-p:

!p::send print(){Left}

That will make alt-p put out print() and move your cursor to inside the parens.

Or, even better, to directly solve your problem, you define an autoreplace and limit its scope to when the open file has the .py extension:

#IfWinActive .py            ;;; scope limiter
:b*:print ::print(){Left}   ;;; I forget what b* does. The rest should be clear 
#IfWinActive                ;;; remove the scope limitation

This is a guaranteed, painless, transparent solution.

Using CSS how to change only the 2nd column of a table

You could designate a class for each cell in the second column.

<table>
<tr><td>Column 1</td><td class="col2">Col 2</td></tr>
<tr><td>Column 1</td><td class="col2">Col 2</td></tr>
<tr><td>Column 1</td><td class="col2">Col 2</td></tr>
<tr><td>Column 1</td><td class="col2">Col 2</td></tr>
</table>

Bin size in Matplotlib (Histogram)

I had the same issue as OP (I think!), but I couldn't get it to work in the way that Lastalda specified. I don't know if I have interpreted the question properly, but I have found another solution (it probably is a really bad way of doing it though).

This was the way that I did it:

plt.hist([1,11,21,31,41], bins=[0,10,20,30,40,50], weights=[10,1,40,33,6]);

Which creates this:

image showing histogram graph created in matplotlib

So the first parameter basically 'initialises' the bin - I'm specifically creating a number that is in between the range I set in the bins parameter.

To demonstrate this, look at the array in the first parameter ([1,11,21,31,41]) and the 'bins' array in the second parameter ([0,10,20,30,40,50]):

  • The number 1 (from the first array) falls between 0 and 10 (in the 'bins' array)
  • The number 11 (from the first array) falls between 11 and 20 (in the 'bins' array)
  • The number 21 (from the first array) falls between 21 and 30 (in the 'bins' array), etc.

Then I'm using the 'weights' parameter to define the size of each bin. This is the array used for the weights parameter: [10,1,40,33,6].

So the 0 to 10 bin is given the value 10, the 11 to 20 bin is given the value of 1, the 21 to 30 bin is given the value of 40, etc.

Removing a Fragment from the back stack

You add to the back state from the FragmentTransaction and remove from the backstack using FragmentManager pop methods:

FragmentManager manager = getActivity().getSupportFragmentManager();
FragmentTransaction trans = manager.beginTransaction();
trans.remove(myFrag);
trans.commit();
manager.popBackStack();

Sorting list based on values from another list

Also, if you don't mind using numpy arrays (or in fact already are dealing with numpy arrays...), here is another nice solution:

people = ['Jim', 'Pam', 'Micheal', 'Dwight']
ages = [27, 25, 4, 9]

import numpy
people = numpy.array(people)
ages = numpy.array(ages)
inds = ages.argsort()
sortedPeople = people[inds]

I found it here: http://scienceoss.com/sort-one-list-by-another-list/

Replace X-axis with own values

Not sure if it's what you mean, but you can do this:

plot(1:10, xaxt = "n", xlab='Some Letters')
axis(1, at=1:10, labels=letters[1:10])

which then gives you the graph:

enter image description here

WebView showing ERR_CLEARTEXT_NOT_PERMITTED although site is HTTPS

Solution:

Add the below line in your application tag:

android:usesCleartextTraffic="true"

As shown below:

<application
    ....
    android:usesCleartextTraffic="true"
    ....>

UPDATE: If you have network security config such as: android:networkSecurityConfig="@xml/network_security_config"

No Need to set clear text traffic to true as shown above, instead use the below code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<network-security-config>
    <domain-config cleartextTrafficPermitted="true">
        ....
        ....
    </domain-config>

    <base-config cleartextTrafficPermitted="false"/>
</network-security-config>  

Set the cleartextTrafficPermitted to true

Hope it helps.

RegEx to match stuff between parentheses

Use this expression:

/\(([^()]+)\)/g

e.g:

function()
{
    var mts = "something/([0-9])/([a-z])".match(/\(([^()]+)\)/g );
    alert(mts[0]);
    alert(mts[1]);
}

Oracle - How to create a readonly user

It is not strictly possible in default db due to the many public executes that each user gains automatically through public.

How to emulate GPS location in the Android Emulator?

If you're using Android Studio (1.3):

  • Click on Menu "Tools"
  • "Android"
  • "Android device monitor"
  • click on your current Emulator
  • Tab "Emulator Control"
  • go to "Location Controls" and enter Lat and Lon

How to run (not only install) an android application using .apk file?

When you start the app from the GUI, adb logcat might show you the corresponding action/category/component:

$ adb logcat
[...]
I/ActivityManager( 1607): START {act=android.intent.action.MAIN cat=[android.intent.category.LAUNCHER] flg=0x10200000 cmp=com.android.browser/.BrowserActivity} from pid 1792
[...]

How do I see the current encoding of a file in Sublime Text?

For my part, and without any plug-in, simply saving the file either from the File menu or with keyboards shortcuts

CTRL + S (Windows, Linux) or CMD + S (Mac OS)

briefly displays the current encoding - between parentheses - in the status bar, at the bottom of the editor's window. This suggestion works in Sublime Text 2 and 3.

Note that the displayed encoding to the right in the status bar of Sublime Text 3, may display the wrong encoding of the file if you have attempted to save the file with an encoding that can't represent all the characters in your file. In this case you would have seen an informational dialog and Sublime telling you it's falling back to UTF-8. This may not be the case, so be careful.

How do I modify fields inside the new PostgreSQL JSON datatype?

I wrote small function for myself that works recursively in Postgres 9.4. Here is the function (I hope it works well for you):

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION jsonb_update(val1 JSONB,val2 JSONB)
RETURNS JSONB AS $$
DECLARE
    result JSONB;
    v RECORD;
BEGIN
    IF jsonb_typeof(val2) = 'null'
    THEN 
        RETURN val1;
    END IF;

    result = val1;

    FOR v IN SELECT key, value FROM jsonb_each(val2) LOOP

        IF jsonb_typeof(val2->v.key) = 'object'
            THEN
                result = result || jsonb_build_object(v.key, jsonb_update(val1->v.key, val2->v.key));
            ELSE
                result = result || jsonb_build_object(v.key, v.value);
        END IF;
    END LOOP;

    RETURN result;
END;
$$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;

Here is sample use:

select jsonb_update('{"a":{"b":{"c":{"d":5,"dd":6},"cc":1}},"aaa":5}'::jsonb, '{"a":{"b":{"c":{"d":15}}},"aa":9}'::jsonb);
                            jsonb_update                             
---------------------------------------------------------------------
 {"a": {"b": {"c": {"d": 15, "dd": 6}, "cc": 1}}, "aa": 9, "aaa": 5}
(1 row)

As you can see it analyze deep down and update/add values where needed.

Email address validation using ASP.NET MVC data type attributes

Scripts are usually loaded in the end of the html page, and MVC recommends the using of bundles, just saying. So my best bet is that your jquery.validate files got altered in some way or are not updated to the latest version, since they do validate e-mail inputs.

So you could either update/refresh your nuget package or write your own function, really.

Here's an example which you would add in an extra file after jquery.validate.unobtrusive:

$.validator.addMethod(
    "email",
    function (value, element) {
        return this.optional( element ) || /^[a-zA-Z0-9.!#$%&'*+\/=?^_`{|}~-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9])?(?:\.[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9])?)*$/.test( value );
    },
    "This e-mail is not valid"
);

This is just a copy and paste of the current jquery.validate Regex, but this way you could set your custom error message/add extra methods to fields you might want to validate in the near future.

TCPDF ERROR: Some data has already been output, can't send PDF file

I had this weird error and the culprit is a white space on the beginning of the PHP open tag

even without the ob_flush and ob_end_clean

Just make sure there are no extra white spaces on or after any <?php ?> block

SQL Server: IF EXISTS ; ELSE

I know its been a while since the original post but I like using CTE's and this worked for me:

WITH cte_table_a
AS
(
    SELECT [id] [id]
    , MAX([value]) [value]
    FROM table_a
    GROUP BY [id]
)
UPDATE table_b
SET table_b.code = CASE WHEN cte_table_a.[value] IS NOT NULL THEN cte_table_a.[value] ELSE 124 END
FROM table_b
LEFT OUTER JOIN  cte_table_a
ON table_b.id = cte_table_a.id

How do I set up a private Git repository on GitHub? Is it even possible?

Since January 7th, 2019, it is possible: unlimited free private repositories on GitHub!
... But for up to three collaborators per private repository.

Nat Friedman just announced it by twitter:

Today(!) we’re thrilled to announce unlimited free private repos for all GitHub users, and a new simplified Enterprise offering:

"New year, new GitHub: Announcing unlimited free private repos and unified Enterprise offering"

For the first time, developers can use GitHub for their private projects with up to three collaborators per repository for free.

Many developers want to use private repos to apply for a job, work on a side project, or try something out in private before releasing it publicly.
Starting today, those scenarios, and many more, are possible on GitHub at no cost.

Public repositories are still free (of course—no changes there) and include unlimited collaborators.

Zoom in on a point (using scale and translate)

The better solution is to simply move the position of the viewport based on the change in the zoom. The zoom point is simply the point in the old zoom and the new zoom that you want to remain the same. Which is to say the viewport pre-zoomed and the viewport post-zoomed have the same zoompoint relative to the viewport. Given that we're scaling relative to the origin. You can adjust the viewport position accordingly:

scalechange = newscale - oldscale;
offsetX = -(zoomPointX * scalechange);
offsetY = -(zoomPointY * scalechange);

So really you can just pan over down and to the right when you zoom in, by a factor of how much you zoomed in, relative to the point you zoomed at.

enter image description here

Pythonic way to check if a list is sorted or not

If you want the fastest way for numpy arrays, use numba, which if you use conda should be already installed

The code will be fast because it will be compiled by numba

import numba
@numba.jit
def issorted(vec, ascending=True):
    if len(vec) < 2:
        return True
    if ascending:
        for i in range(1, len(vec)):
            if vec[i-1] > vec[i]:
                return False
        return True
    else:
        for i in range(1, len(vec)):
            if vec[i-1] < vec[i]:
                return False
        return True

and then:

>>> issorted(array([4,9,100]))
>>> True

How to create a custom exception type in Java?

You just need to create a class which extends Exception (for a checked exception) or any subclass of Exception, or RuntimeException (for a runtime exception) or any subclass of RuntimeException.

Then, in your code, just use

if (word.contains(" "))
    throw new MyException("some message");
}

Read the Java tutorial. This is basic stuff that every Java developer should know: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/exceptions/

How to convert QString to int?

You don't have all digit characters in your string. So you have to split by space

QString Abcd = "123.5 Kb";
Abcd.split(" ")[0].toInt();    //convert the first part to Int
Abcd.split(" ")[0].toDouble(); //convert the first part to double
Abcd.split(" ")[0].toFloat();  //convert the first part to float

Update: I am updating an old answer. That was a straight forward answer to the specific question, with a strict assumption. However as noted by @DomTomCat in comments and @Mikhail in answer, In general one should always check whether the operation is successful or not. So using a boolean flag is necessary.

bool flag;
double v = Abcd.split(" ")[0].toDouble(&flag); 
if(flag){
  // use v
}

Also if you are taking that string as user input, then you should also be doubtful about whether the string is really splitable with space. If there is a possibility that the assumption may break then a regex verifier is more preferable. A regex like the following will extract the floating point value and the prefix character of 'b'. Then you can safely convert the captured strings to double.

([0-9]*\.?[0-9]+)\s+(\w[bB])

You can have an utility function like the following

QPair<double, QString> split_size_str(const QString& str){
    QRegExp regex("([0-9]*\\.?[0-9]+)\\s+(\\w[bB])");
    int pos = regex.indexIn(str);
    QStringList captures = regex.capturedTexts();
    if(captures.count() > 1){
        double value = captures[1].toDouble(); // should succeed as regex matched
        QString unit = captures[2]; // should succeed as regex matched
        return qMakePair(value, unit);
    }
    return qMakePair(0.0f, QString());
}

Connecting to Postgresql in a docker container from outside

I already had running postgres on host machine and didn't want to allow connections from network, so I did run temporary postgres instance in container and created database in just two lines:

# Run PostgreSQL
docker run --name postgres-container -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=password -it -p 5433:5432 postgres

# Create database
docker exec -it postgres-container createdb -U postgres my-db

jQuery make global variable

You can avoid declaration of global variables by adding them directly to the global object:

(function(global) {

  ...

  global.varName = someValue;

  ...

}(this));

A disadvantage of this method is that global.varName won't exist until that specific line of code is executed, but that can be easily worked around.

You might also consider an application architecture where such globals are held in a closure common to all functions that need them, or as properties of a suitably accessible data storage object.

Generating Random Passwords

public string GenerateToken(int length)
{
    using (RNGCryptoServiceProvider cryptRNG = new RNGCryptoServiceProvider())
    {
        byte[] tokenBuffer = new byte[length];
        cryptRNG.GetBytes(tokenBuffer);
        return Convert.ToBase64String(tokenBuffer);
    }
}

(You could also have the class where this method lives implement IDisposable, hold a reference to the RNGCryptoServiceProvider, and dispose of it properly, to avoid repeatedly instantiating it.)

It's been noted that as this returns a base-64 string, the output length is always a multiple of 4, with the extra space using = as a padding character. The length parameter specifies the length of the byte buffer, not the output string (and is therefore perhaps not the best name for that parameter, now I think about it). This controls how many bytes of entropy the password will have. However, because base-64 uses a 4-character block to encode each 3 bytes of input, if you ask for a length that's not a multiple of 3, there will be some extra "space", and it'll use = to fill the extra.

If you don't like using base-64 strings for any reason, you can replace the Convert.ToBase64String() call with either a conversion to regular string, or with any of the Encoding methods; eg. Encoding.UTF8.GetString(tokenBuffer) - just make sure you pick a character set that can represent the full range of values coming out of the RNG, and that produces characters that are compatible with wherever you're sending or storing this. Using Unicode, for example, tends to give a lot of Chinese characters. Using base-64 guarantees a widely-compatible set of characters, and the characteristics of such a string shouldn't make it any less secure as long as you use a decent hashing algorithm.

How to write Unicode characters to the console?

Console.OutputEncoding Property

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.console.outputencoding

Note that successfully displaying Unicode characters to the console requires the following:

  • The console must use a TrueType font, such as Lucida Console or Consolas, to display characters.

Python: IndexError: list index out of range

Here is your code. I'm assuming you're using python 3 based on the your use of print() and input():

import random

def main():
    #random.seed() --> don't need random.seed()

    #Prompts the user to enter the number of tickets they wish to play.

    #python 3 version:
    tickets = int(input("How many lottery tickets do you want?\n"))

    #Creates the dictionaries "winning_numbers" and "guess." Also creates the variable "winnings" for total amount of money won.
    winning_numbers = []
    winnings = 0

    #Generates the winning lotto numbers.
    for i in range(tickets * 5):
        #del winning_numbers[:] what is this line for?
        randNum = random.randint(1,30)
        while randNum in winning_numbers:    
            randNum = random.randint(1,30)
        winning_numbers.append(randNum)

    print(winning_numbers)
    guess = getguess(tickets)
    nummatches = checkmatch(winning_numbers, guess)

    print("Ticket #"+str(i+1)+": The winning combination was",winning_numbers,".You matched",nummatches,"number(s).\n")

    winningRanks = [0, 0, 10, 500, 20000, 1000000]

    winnings = sum(winningRanks[:nummatches + 1])

    print("You won a total of",winnings,"with",tickets,"tickets.\n")


#Gets the guess from the user.
def getguess(tickets):
    guess = []
    for i in range(tickets):
        bubble = [int(i) for i in input("What numbers do you want to choose for ticket #"+str(i+1)+"?\n").split()]
        guess.extend(bubble)
        print(bubble)
    return guess

#Checks the user's guesses with the winning numbers.
def checkmatch(winning_numbers, guess):
    match = 0
    for i in range(5):
        if guess[i] == winning_numbers[i]:
            match += 1
    return match

main()

What is the Swift equivalent of isEqualToString in Objective-C?

For the UITextField text comparison I am using below code and working fine for me, let me know if you find any error.

if(txtUsername.text.isEmpty || txtPassword.text.isEmpty)
{
    //Do some stuff
}
else if(txtUsername.text == "****" && txtPassword.text == "****")
{
    //Do some stuff
}

git-diff to ignore ^M

Also see:

core.whitespace = cr-at-eol

or equivalently,

[core]
    whitespace = cr-at-eol

where whitespace is preceded by a tab character.

How to close the current fragment by using Button like the back button?

Button ok= view.findViewById(R.id.btSettingOK);
Fragment me=this;
ok.setOnClickListener( new View.OnClickListener(){
    public void onClick(View v){
     getActivity().getFragmentManager().beginTransaction().remove(me).commit();
    }
});

How to change status bar color in Flutter?

It can be achieved in 2 steps:

  1. Set the status bar color to match to your page background using FlutterStatusbarcolor package
  2. Set the status bar buttons' (battery, wifi etc.) colors using the AppBar.brightness property

If you have an AppBar:

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    FlutterStatusbarcolor.setStatusBarColor(Colors.white);
    return Scaffold(
      appBar: AppBar(
        brightness: Brightness.light,
        // Other AppBar properties
      ),
      body: Container()
    );
  }

If you don't want to show the app bar in the page:

  @override
  Widget build(BuildContext context) {
    FlutterStatusbarcolor.setStatusBarColor(Colors.white);
    return Scaffold(
      appBar: AppBar(
        brightness: Brightness.light,
        elevation: 0.0,
        toolbarHeight: 0.0, // Hide the AppBar
      ),
      body: Container()
  }

Toggle display:none style with JavaScript

you can do this easily by using jquery using .css property... try this one: http://api.jquery.com/css/

Combining two lists and removing duplicates, without removing duplicates in original list

This might help

def union(a,b):
    for e in b:
        if e not in a:
            a.append(e)

The union function merges the second list into first, with out duplicating an element of a, if it's already in a. Similar to set union operator. This function does not change b. If a=[1,2,3] b=[2,3,4]. After union(a,b) makes a=[1,2,3,4] and b=[2,3,4]

Smooth scrolling with just pure css

You need to use the target selector.

Here is a fiddle with another example: http://jsfiddle.net/YYPKM/3/

How can I read input from the console using the Scanner class in Java?

You can flow this code:

Scanner obj= new Scanner(System.in);
String s = obj.nextLine();

How do I use Wget to download all images into a single folder, from a URL?

According to the man page the -P flag is:

-P prefix --directory-prefix=prefix Set directory prefix to prefix. The directory prefix is the directory where all other files and subdirectories will be saved to, i.e. the top of the retrieval tree. The default is . (the current directory).

This mean that it only specifies the destination but where to save the directory tree. It does not flatten the tree into just one directory. As mentioned before the -nd flag actually does that.

@Jon in the future it would be beneficial to describe what the flag does so we understand how something works.

What's the difference between ClusterIP, NodePort and LoadBalancer service types in Kubernetes?

To clarify for anyone who is looking for what is the difference between the 3 on a simpler level. You can expose your service with minimal ClusterIp (within k8s cluster) or larger exposure with NodePort (within cluster external to k8s cluster) or LoadBalancer (external world or whatever you defined in your LB).

ClusterIp exposure < NodePort exposure < LoadBalancer exposure

  • ClusterIp
    Expose service through k8s cluster with ip/name:port
  • NodePort
    Expose service through Internal network VM's also external to k8s ip/name:port
  • LoadBalancer
    Expose service through External world or whatever you defined in your LB.

How to select Python version in PyCharm?

Go to:

Files -> Settings -> Project -> *"Your Project Name"* -> Project Interpreter

There you can see which external libraries you have installed for python2 and which for python3.

Select the required python version according to your requirements.

Image

"The page has expired due to inactivity" - Laravel 5.5

Solution:

use incognito new tab then test it again.

reason:

in my case another user logged in with my admin panel

Save a file in json format using Notepad++

enter image description hereSave the file as *.txt and then rename the file and change the file extension to json

Using GPU from a docker container?

I would not recommend installing CUDA/cuDNN on the host if you can use docker. Since at least CUDA 8 it has been possible to "stand on the shoulders of giants" and use nvidia/cuda base images maintained by NVIDIA in their Docker Hub repo. Go for the newest and biggest one (with cuDNN if doing deep learning) if unsure which version to choose.

A starter CUDA container:

mkdir ~/cuda11
cd ~/cuda11

echo "FROM nvidia/cuda:11.0-cudnn8-devel-ubuntu18.04" > Dockerfile
echo "CMD [\"/bin/bash\"]" >> Dockerfile

docker build --tag mirekphd/cuda11 .

docker run --rm -it --gpus 1 mirekphd/cuda11 nvidia-smi

Sample output:

(if nvidia-smi is not found in the container, do not try install it there - it was already installed on thehost with NVIDIA GPU driver and should be made available from the host to the container system if docker has access to the GPU(s)):

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 450.57       Driver Version: 450.57       CUDA Version: 11.0     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                               |                      |               MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  GeForce GTX 108...  Off  | 00000000:01:00.0  On |                  N/A |
|  0%   50C    P8    17W / 280W |    409MiB / 11177MiB |      7%      Default |
|                               |                      |                  N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

Prerequisites

  1. Appropriate NVIDIA driver with the latest CUDA version support to be installed first on the host (download it from NVIDIA Driver Downloads and then mv driver-file.run driver-file.sh && chmod +x driver-file.sh && ./driver-file.sh). These are have been forward-compatible since CUDA 10.1.

  2. GPU access enabled in docker by installing sudo apt get update && sudo apt get install nvidia-container-toolkit (and then restarting docker daemon using sudo systemctl restart docker).

What is the first character in the sort order used by Windows Explorer?

Only a few characters in the Windows code page 1252 (Latin-1) are not allowed as names. Note that the Windows Explorer will strip leading spaces from names and not allow you to call a files space dot something (like ?.txt), although this is allowed in the file system! Only a space and no file extension is invalid however.

If you create files through e.g. a Python script (this is what I did), then you can easily find out what is actually allowed and in what order the characters get sorted. The sort order varies based on your locale! Below are the results of my script, run with Python 2.7.15 on a German Windows 10 Pro 64bit:

Allowed:

       32  20  SPACE
!      33  21  EXCLAMATION MARK
#      35  23  NUMBER SIGN
$      36  24  DOLLAR SIGN
%      37  25  PERCENT SIGN
&      38  26  AMPERSAND
'      39  27  APOSTROPHE
(      40  28  LEFT PARENTHESIS
)      41  29  RIGHT PARENTHESIS
+      43  2B  PLUS SIGN
,      44  2C  COMMA
-      45  2D  HYPHEN-MINUS
.      46  2E  FULL STOP
/      47  2F  SOLIDUS
0      48  30  DIGIT ZERO
1      49  31  DIGIT ONE
2      50  32  DIGIT TWO
3      51  33  DIGIT THREE
4      52  34  DIGIT FOUR
5      53  35  DIGIT FIVE
6      54  36  DIGIT SIX
7      55  37  DIGIT SEVEN
8      56  38  DIGIT EIGHT
9      57  39  DIGIT NINE
;      59  3B  SEMICOLON
=      61  3D  EQUALS SIGN
@      64  40  COMMERCIAL AT
A      65  41  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A
B      66  42  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B
C      67  43  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C
D      68  44  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D
E      69  45  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E
F      70  46  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER F
G      71  47  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G
H      72  48  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H
I      73  49  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I
J      74  4A  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J
K      75  4B  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER K
L      76  4C  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L
M      77  4D  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M
N      78  4E  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N
O      79  4F  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O
P      80  50  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P
Q      81  51  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Q
R      82  52  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R
S      83  53  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S
T      84  54  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T
U      85  55  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U
V      86  56  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER V
W      87  57  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W
X      88  58  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER X
Y      89  59  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y
Z      90  5A  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z
[      91  5B  LEFT SQUARE BRACKET
\\     92  5C  REVERSE SOLIDUS
]      93  5D  RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET
^      94  5E  CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT
_      95  5F  LOW LINE
`      96  60  GRAVE ACCENT
a      97  61  LATIN SMALL LETTER A
b      98  62  LATIN SMALL LETTER B
c      99  63  LATIN SMALL LETTER C
d     100  64  LATIN SMALL LETTER D
e     101  65  LATIN SMALL LETTER E
f     102  66  LATIN SMALL LETTER F
g     103  67  LATIN SMALL LETTER G
h     104  68  LATIN SMALL LETTER H
i     105  69  LATIN SMALL LETTER I
j     106  6A  LATIN SMALL LETTER J
k     107  6B  LATIN SMALL LETTER K
l     108  6C  LATIN SMALL LETTER L
m     109  6D  LATIN SMALL LETTER M
n     110  6E  LATIN SMALL LETTER N
o     111  6F  LATIN SMALL LETTER O
p     112  70  LATIN SMALL LETTER P
q     113  71  LATIN SMALL LETTER Q
r     114  72  LATIN SMALL LETTER R
s     115  73  LATIN SMALL LETTER S
t     116  74  LATIN SMALL LETTER T
u     117  75  LATIN SMALL LETTER U
v     118  76  LATIN SMALL LETTER V
w     119  77  LATIN SMALL LETTER W
x     120  78  LATIN SMALL LETTER X
y     121  79  LATIN SMALL LETTER Y
z     122  7A  LATIN SMALL LETTER Z
{     123  7B  LEFT CURLY BRACKET
}     125  7D  RIGHT CURLY BRACKET
~     126  7E  TILDE
\x7f  127  7F  DELETE
\x80  128  80  EURO SIGN
\x81  129  81  
\x82  130  82  SINGLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK
\x83  131  83  LATIN SMALL LETTER F WITH HOOK
\x84  132  84  DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK
\x85  133  85  HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS
\x86  134  86  DAGGER
\x87  135  87  DOUBLE DAGGER
\x88  136  88  MODIFIER LETTER CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT
\x89  137  89  PER MILLE SIGN
\x8a  138  8A  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CARON
\x8b  139  8B  SINGLE LEFT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION
\x8c  140  8C  LATIN CAPITAL LIGATURE OE
\x8d  141  8D  
\x8e  142  8E  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z WITH CARON
\x8f  143  8F  
\x90  144  90  
\x91  145  91  LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
\x92  146  92  RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
\x93  147  93  LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
\x94  148  94  RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
\x95  149  95  BULLET
\x96  150  96  EN DASH
\x97  151  97  EM DASH
\x98  152  98  SMALL TILDE
\x99  153  99  TRADE MARK SIGN
\x9a  154  9A  LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON
\x9b  155  9B  SINGLE RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
\x9c  156  9C  LATIN SMALL LIGATURE OE
\x9d  157  9D  
\x9e  158  9E  LATIN SMALL LETTER Z WITH CARON
\x9f  159  9F  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS
\xa0  160  A0  NON-BREAKING SPACE
\xa1  161  A1  INVERTED EXCLAMATION MARK
\xa2  162  A2  CENT SIGN
\xa3  163  A3  POUND SIGN
\xa4  164  A4  CURRENCY SIGN
\xa5  165  A5  YEN SIGN
\xa6  166  A6  PIPE, BROKEN VERTICAL BAR
\xa7  167  A7  SECTION SIGN
\xa8  168  A8  SPACING DIAERESIS - UMLAUT
\xa9  169  A9  COPYRIGHT SIGN
\xaa  170  AA  FEMININE ORDINAL INDICATOR
\xab  171  AB  LEFT DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTES
\xac  172  AC  NOT SIGN
\xad  173  AD  SOFT HYPHEN
\xae  174  AE  REGISTERED TRADE MARK SIGN
\xaf  175  AF  SPACING MACRON - OVERLINE
\xb0  176  B0  DEGREE SIGN
\xb1  177  B1  PLUS-OR-MINUS SIGN
\xb2  178  B2  SUPERSCRIPT TWO - SQUARED
\xb3  179  B3  SUPERSCRIPT THREE - CUBED
\xb4  180  B4  ACUTE ACCENT - SPACING ACUTE
\xb5  181  B5  MICRO SIGN
\xb6  182  B6  PILCROW SIGN - PARAGRAPH SIGN
\xb7  183  B7  MIDDLE DOT - GEORGIAN COMMA
\xb8  184  B8  SPACING CEDILLA
\xb9  185  B9  SUPERSCRIPT ONE
\xba  186  BA  MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR
\xbb  187  BB  RIGHT DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTES
\xbc  188  BC  FRACTION ONE QUARTER
\xbd  189  BD  FRACTION ONE HALF
\xbe  190  BE  FRACTION THREE QUARTERS
\xbf  191  BF  INVERTED QUESTION MARK
\xc0  192  C0  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH GRAVE
\xc1  193  C1  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
\xc2  194  C2  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
\xc3  195  C3  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH TILDE
\xc4  196  C4  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
\xc5  197  C5  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE
\xc6  198  C6  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AE
\xc7  199  C7  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA
\xc8  200  C8  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH GRAVE
\xc9  201  C9  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
\xca  202  CA  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX
\xcb  203  CB  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS
\xcc  204  CC  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH GRAVE
\xcd  205  CD  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
\xce  206  CE  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX
\xcf  207  CF  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS
\xd0  208  D0  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ETH
\xd1  209  D1  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH TILDE
\xd2  210  D2  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH GRAVE
\xd3  211  D3  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH ACUTE
\xd4  212  D4  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX
\xd5  213  D5  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH TILDE
\xd6  214  D6  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
\xd7  215  D7  MULTIPLICATION SIGN
\xd8  216  D8  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O WITH SLASH
\xd9  217  D9  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH GRAVE
\xda  218  DA  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH ACUTE
\xdb  219  DB  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX
\xdc  220  DC  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
\xdd  221  DD  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE
\xde  222  DE  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER THORN
\xdf  223  DF  LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S
\xe0  224  E0  LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH GRAVE
\xe1  225  E1  LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE
\xe2  226  E2  LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
\xe3  227  E3  LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH TILDE
\xe4  228  E4  LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS
\xe5  229  E5  LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE
\xe6  230  E6  LATIN SMALL LETTER AE
\xe7  231  E7  LATIN SMALL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA
\xe8  232  E8  LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH GRAVE
\xe9  233  E9  LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE
\xea  234  EA  LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH CIRCUMFLEX
\xeb  235  EB  LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH DIAERESIS
\xec  236  EC  LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH GRAVE
\xed  237  ED  LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH ACUTE
\xee  238  EE  LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH CIRCUMFLEX
\xef  239  EF  LATIN SMALL LETTER I WITH DIAERESIS
\xf0  240  F0  LATIN SMALL LETTER ETH
\xf1  241  F1  LATIN SMALL LETTER N WITH TILDE
\xf2  242  F2  LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH GRAVE
\xf3  243  F3  LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH ACUTE
\xf4  244  F4  LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH CIRCUMFLEX
\xf5  245  F5  LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH TILDE
\xf6  246  F6  LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS
\xf7  247  F7  DIVISION SIGN
\xf8  248  F8  LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH SLASH
\xf9  249  F9  LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH GRAVE
\xfa  250  FA  LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH ACUTE
\xfb  251  FB  LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH CIRCUMFLEX
\xfc  252  FC  LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS
\xfd  253  FD  LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE
\xfe  254  FE  LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN
\xff  255  FF  LATIN SMALL LETTER Y WITH DIAERESIS

Forbidden:

\x00    0  00  NULL CHAR
\x01    1  01  START OF HEADING
\x02    2  02  START OF TEXT
\x03    3  03  END OF TEXT
\x04    4  04  END OF TRANSMISSION
\x05    5  05  ENQUIRY
\x06    6  06  ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
\x07    7  07  BELL
\x08    8  08  BACK SPACE
\t      9  09  HORIZONTAL TAB
\n     10  0A  LINE FEED
\x0b   11  0B  VERTICAL TAB
\x0c   12  0C  FORM FEED
\r     13  0D  CARRIAGE RETURN
\x0e   14  0E  SHIFT OUT / X-ON
\x0f   15  0F  SHIFT IN / X-OFF
\x10   16  10  DATA LINE ESCAPE
\x11   17  11  DEVICE CONTROL 1 (OFT. XON)
\x12   18  12  DEVICE CONTROL 2
\x13   19  13  DEVICE CONTROL 3 (OFT. XOFF)
\x14   20  14  DEVICE CONTROL 4
\x15   21  15  NEGATIVE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
\x16   22  16  SYNCHRONOUS IDLE
\x17   23  17  END OF TRANSMIT BLOCK
\x18   24  18  CANCEL
\x19   25  19  END OF MEDIUM
\x1a   26  1A  SUBSTITUTE
\x1b   27  1B  ESCAPE
\x1c   28  1C  FILE SEPARATOR
\x1d   29  1D  GROUP SEPARATOR
\x1e   30  1E  RECORD SEPARATOR
\x1f   31  1F  UNIT SEPARATOR
"      34  22  QUOTATION MARK
*      42  2A  ASTERISK
:      58  3A  COLON
<      60  3C  LESS-THAN SIGN
>      62  3E  GREATER-THAN SIGN
?      63  3F  QUESTION MARK
|     124  7C  VERTICAL LINE

Screenshot of how Explorer sorts the files for me:

German Windows Explorer

The highlighted file with the ? white smiley face was added manually by me (Alt+1) to show where this Unicode character (U+263A) ends up, see Jimbugs' answer.

The first file has a space as name (0x20), the second is the non-breaking space (0xa0). The files in the bottom half of the third row which look like they have no name use the characters with hex codes 0x81, 0x8D, 0x8F, 0x90, 0x9D (in this order from top to bottom).

Change navbar text color Bootstrap

If you need to change the background colour of the navbar, you can do the following:

<nav class="navbar navbar-expand-lg navbar-light" style="background-color=#e3f2fd">

And to change the text:

<a class="nav-link" href="#" style="color:#ccc">

jQuery map vs. each

Jquery.map makes more sense when you are doing work on arrays as it performs very well with arrays.

Jquery.each is best used when iterating through selector items. Which is evidenced in that the map function does not use a selector.

$(selector).each(...)

$.map(arr....)

as you can see, map is not intended to be used with selectors.

OS X Terminal Colors

If you are using tcsh, then edit your ~/.cshrc file to include the lines:

setenv CLICOLOR 1
setenv LSCOLORS dxfxcxdxbxegedabagacad

Where, like Martin says, LSCOLORS specifies the color scheme you want to use.

To generate the LSCOLORS you want to use, checkout this site

Check whether an array is empty

hi array is one object so it null type or blank

   <?php
        if($error!=null)
            echo "array is blank or null or not array";
    //OR
       if(!empty($error))
           echo "array is blank or null or not array";
    //OR
     if(is_array($error))
           echo "array is blank or null or not array";
   ?>

How to run an EXE file in PowerShell with parameters with spaces and quotes

In case somebody is wondering how to just run an executable file:

..... > .\file.exe

or

......> full\path\to\file.exe

Convert Java Array to Iterable

Guava provides the adapter you want as Int.asList(). There is an equivalent for each primitive type in the associated class, e.g., Booleans for boolean, etc.

int foo[] = {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0};
Iterable<Integer> fooBar = Ints.asList(foo);
for(Integer i : fooBar) {
    System.out.println(i);
}

The suggestions above to use Arrays.asList won't work, even if they compile because you get an Iterator<int[]> rather than Iterator<Integer>. What happens is that rather than creating a list backed by your array, you created a 1-element list of arrays, containing your array.

Insert string at specified position

Use the stringInsert function rather than the putinplace function. I was using the later function to parse a mysql query. Although the output looked alright, the query resulted in a error which took me a while to track down. The following is my version of the stringInsert function requiring only one parameter.

function stringInsert($str,$insertstr,$pos)
{
    $str = substr($str, 0, $pos) . $insertstr . substr($str, $pos);
    return $str;
}  

Gradle - Error Could not find method implementation() for arguments [com.android.support:appcompat-v7:26.0.0]

Your Code

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(include: ['*.jar'], dir: 'libs')

Replace it By

dependencies {
implementation fileTree(include: ['*.jar'], dir: 'libs')

Can I avoid the native fullscreen video player with HTML5 on iPhone or android?

According to this page https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariHTMLRef/Articles/Attributes.html it is only available if (Enabled only in a UIWebView with the allowsInlineMediaPlayback property set to YES.) I understand in Mobile Safari this is YES on iPad and NO on iPhone and iPod Touch.

How can I change the color of my prompt in zsh (different from normal text)?

In order to not waste space in the terminal with special characters to pieces of information, you can differentiate information using multiple colors.

Eg. in order to get this desired effect:

Desired Outcome

You can do the following to your prompt:

PROMPT='%F{magenta}${PWD/#$HOME/~} %F{green}${vcs_info_msg_0_} %F{cyan}$%F{reset_color} '

The way it works is every time you set a color using $F{myColor} the color from that point onward will stick to that. It's important to add in %{reset_color} at the end so that the input text goes back to the original color (or you could set it to something else if you'd like).

Using different Web.config in development and production environment

You can also use the extension "Configuration Transform" works the same as "SlowCheetah",

How to asynchronously call a method in Java

i don't like the idea of using Reflection for that.
Not only dangerous for missing it in some refactoring, but it can also be denied by SecurityManager.

FutureTask is a good option as the other options from the java.util.concurrent package.
My favorite for simple tasks:

    Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor().submit(task);

little bit shorter than creating a Thread (task is a Callable or a Runnable)

Convert string to int if string is a number

Cast to long or cast to int, be aware of the following.

These functions are one of the view functions in Excel VBA that are depending on the system regional settings. So if you use a comma in your double like in some countries in Europe, you will experience an error in the US.

E.g., in european excel-version 0,5 will perform well with CDbl(), but in US-version it will result in 5. So I recommend to use the following alternative:

Public Function CastLong(var As Variant)

    ' replace , by .
    var = Replace(var, ",", ".")        

    Dim l As Long
    On Error Resume Next
    l = Round(Val(var))

    ' if error occurs, l will be 0
    CastLong = l

End Function

' similar function for cast-int, you can add minimum and maximum value if you like
' to prevent that value is too high or too low.
Public Function CastInt(var As Variant)

    ' replace , by .
    var = Replace(var, ",", ".")

    Dim i As Integer
    On Error Resume Next
    i = Round(Val(var))

    ' if error occurs, i will be 0
    CastInt = i

End Function

Of course you can also think of cases where people use commas and dots, e.g., three-thousand as 3,000.00. If you require functionality for these kind of cases, then you have to check for another solution.

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

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

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

How to generate a random number between a and b in Ruby?

And here is a quick benchmark for both #sample and #rand:

irb(main):014:0* Benchmark.bm do |x|
irb(main):015:1*   x.report('sample') { 1_000_000.times { (1..100).to_a.sample } }
irb(main):016:1>   x.report('rand') { 1_000_000.times { rand(1..100) } }
irb(main):017:1> end
       user     system      total        real
sample  3.870000   0.020000   3.890000 (  3.888147)
rand  0.150000   0.000000   0.150000 (  0.153557)

So, doing rand(a..b) is the right thing

How to print variables without spaces between values

To build off what Martjin was saying. I'd use string interpolation/formatting.

In Python 2.x which seems to be what you're using due to the lack of parenthesis around the print function you do:

print 'Value is "%d"' % value

In Python 3.x you'd use the format method instead, so you're code would look like this.

message = 'Value is "{}"'
print(message.format(value))

What exactly is the meaning of an API?

In layman's terms, I've always said an API is like a translator between two people who speak different languages. In software, data can be consumed or distributed using an API (or translator) so that two different kinds of software can communicate. Good software has a strong translator (API) that follows rules and protocols for security and data cleanliness.

I"m a Marketer, not a coder. This all might not be quite right, but it's what I"ve tried to express for about 10 years now...

How to change an image on click using CSS alone?

You can use the different states of the link for different images example

You can also use the same image (css sprite) which combines all the different states and then just play with the padding and position to show only the one you want to display.

Another option would be using javascript to replace the image, that would give you more flexibility

How to check if an element does NOT have a specific class?

reading through this 6yrs later and thought I'd also take a hack at it, also in the TIMTOWTDI vein...:D, hoping it isn't incorrect 'JS etiquette'.

I usually set up a var with the condition and then refer to it later on..i.e;

// var set up globally OR locally depending on your requirements
var hC;

function(el) {
  var $this = el;
  hC = $this.hasClass("test");

  // use the variable in the conditional statement
  if (!hC) {
    //
  }
}

Although I should mention that I do this because I mainly use the conditional ternary operator and want clean code. So in this case, all i'd have is this:

hC ? '' : foo(x, n) ;
   // OR -----------
!hC ? foo(x, n) : '' ;

...instead of this:

$this.hasClass("test") ? '' : foo(x, n) ;
   // OR -----------
(!$this.hasClass("test")) ? foo(x, n) : '' ;

Apache HttpClient Interim Error: NoHttpResponseException

Same problem for me on apache http client 4.5.5 adding default header

Connection: close

resolve the problem

AngularJS: ng-show / ng-hide not working with `{{ }}` interpolation

<script src="http://code.angularjs.org/1.2.0-rc.2/angular.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
    function controller($scope) {
        $scope.data = {
            show: true,
            hide: false
        };
    }
</script>

<div ng-controller="controller">
    <div ng-show="data.show"> If true the show otherwise hide. </div>
    <div ng-hide="!(data.hide)"> If true the show otherwise hide.</div>
</div>

How to install pip for Python 3.6 on Ubuntu 16.10?

Let's suppose that you have a system running Ubuntu 16.04, 16.10, or 17.04, and you want Python 3.6 to be the default Python.

If you're using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, you'll need to use a PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/python-3.6  # (only for 16.04 LTS)

Then, run the following (this works out-of-the-box on 16.10 and 17.04):

sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3.6
sudo apt install python3.6-dev
sudo apt install python3.6-venv
wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py
sudo python3.6 get-pip.py
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python3.6 /usr/local/bin/python3
sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/pip /usr/local/bin/pip3

# Do this only if you want python3 to be the default Python
# instead of python2 (may be dangerous, esp. before 2020):
# sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python3.6 /usr/local/bin/python

When you have completed all of the above, each of the following shell commands should indicate Python 3.6.1 (or a more recent version of Python 3.6):

python --version   # (this will reflect your choice, see above)
python3 --version
$(head -1 `which pip` | tail -c +3) --version
$(head -1 `which pip3` | tail -c +3) --version

ORA-00918: column ambiguously defined in SELECT *

A query's projection can only have one instance of a given name. As your WHERE clause shows, you have several tables with a column called ID. Because you are selecting * your projection will have several columns called ID. Or it would have were it not for the compiler hurling ORA-00918.

The solution is quite simple: you will have to expand the projection to explicitly select named columns. Then you can either leave out the duplicate columns, retaining just (say) COACHES.ID or use column aliases: coaches.id as COACHES_ID.

Perhaps that strikes you as a lot of typing, but it is the only way. If it is any comfort, SELECT * is regarded as bad practice in production code: explicitly named columns are much safer.

How to add LocalDB to Visual Studio 2015 Community's SQL Server Object Explorer?

I had the same issue today recently installing VS2015 Community Edition Update 1.

I fixed the problem by just adding the "SQL Server Data Tools" from the VS2015 setup installer... When I ran the installer the first time I selected the "Custom" installation type instead of the "Default". I wanted to see what install options were available but not select anything different than what was already ticked. My assumption was that whatever was already ticked was essentially the default install. But its not.

Pytesseract : "TesseractNotFound Error: tesseract is not installed or it's not in your path", how do I fix this?

I see steps are scattered in different answers. Based on my recent experience with this pytesseract error on Windows, writing different steps in sequence to make it easier to resolve the error:

1. Install tesseract using windows installer available at: https://github.com/UB-Mannheim/tesseract/wiki

2. Note the tesseract path from the installation. Default installation path at the time of this edit was: C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Tesseract-OCR. It may change so please check the installation path.

3. pip install pytesseract

4. Set the tesseract path in the script before calling image_to_string:

pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd = r'C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Tesseract-OCR\tesseract.exe'

Inner join with count() on three tables

Your solution is nearly correct. You could add DISTINCT:

SELECT
    people.pe_name,
    COUNT(distinct orders.ord_id) AS num_orders,
    COUNT(items.item_id) AS num_items
FROM
    people
    INNER JOIN orders ON (orders.pe_id = people.pe_id)
    INNER JOIN items ON items.pe_id = people.pe_id
GROUP BY
    people.pe_id;

Missing Authentication Token while accessing API Gateway?

For the record, if you wouldn't be using credentials, this error also shows when you are setting the request validator in your POST/PUT method to "validate body, query string parameters and HEADERS", or the other option "validate query string parameters and HEADERS"....in that case it will look for the credentials on the header and reject the request. To sum it up, if you don't intend to send credentials and want to keep it open you should not set that option in request validator(set it to either NONE or to validate body)

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

Adding to the answers above -

To use in a script, use the following :-

result=`ps aux | grep -i "myscript.sh" | grep -v "grep" | wc -l`
if [ $result -ge 1 ]
   then
        echo "script is running"
   else
        echo "script is not running"
fi

Warning: mysqli_connect(): (HY000/1045): Access denied for user 'username'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

There is a typo error in define arguments, change DB_HOST into DB_SERVER and DB_USER into DB_USERNAME:

<?php

    define("DB_SERVER", "localhost");
    define("DB_USERNAME", "root");
    define("DB_PASSWORD", "");
    define("DB_DATABASE", "databasename");
    $db = mysqli_connect(DB_SERVER, DB_USERNAME, DB_PASSWORD, DB_DATABASE);

?>

org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardServer[8005]]A child container failed during start

Below solution worked for me: Navigate to Project->Clean.. Clean all the projects referenced by Tomcat server Refresh the project you're trying to run on Tomcat

Try to run the server afterwards

Passing a dictionary to a function as keyword parameters

Figured it out for myself in the end. It is simple, I was just missing the ** operator to unpack the dictionary

So my example becomes:

d = dict(p1=1, p2=2)
def f2(p1,p2):
    print p1, p2
f2(**d)

How to refer environment variable in POM.xml?

I was struggling with the same thing, running a shell script that set variables, then wanting to use the variables in the shared-pom. The goal was to have environment variables replace strings in my project files using the com.google.code.maven-replacer-plugin.

Using ${env.foo} or ${env.FOO} didn't work for me. Maven just wasn't finding the variable. What worked was passing the variable in as a command-line parameter in Maven. Here's the setup:

  1. Set the variable in the shell script. If you're launching Maven in a sub-script, make sure the variable is getting set, e.g. using source ./maven_script.sh to call it from the parent script.

  2. In shared-pom, create a command-line param that grabs the environment variable:

<plugin>
  ...
  <executions>
    <executions>
    ...
      <execution>
      ...
        <configuration>
          <param>${foo}</param> <!-- Note this is *not* ${env.foo} -->
        </configuration>
  1. In com.google.code.maven-replacer-plugin, make the replacement value ${foo}.

  2. In my shell script that calls maven, add this to the command: -Dfoo=$foo

Best way to disable button in Twitter's Bootstrap

What ever attribute is added to the button/anchor/link to disable it, bootstrap is just adding style to it and user will still be able to click it while there is still onclick event. So my simple solution is to check if it is disabled and remove/add onclick event:

if (!('#button').hasAttr('disabled'))
 $('#button').attr('onclick', 'someFunction();');
else
 $('#button').removeattr('onclick');

Callback function for JSONP with jQuery AJAX

$.ajax({
        url: 'http://url.of.my.server/submit',
        dataType: "jsonp",
        jsonp: 'callback',
        jsonpCallback: 'jsonp_callback'
    });

jsonp is the querystring parameter name that is defined to be acceptable by the server while the jsonpCallback is the javascript function name to be executed at the client.
When you use such url:

url: 'http://url.of.my.server/submit?callback=?'

the question mark ? at the end instructs jQuery to generate a random function while the predfined behavior of the autogenerated function will just invoke the callback -the sucess function in this case- passing the json data as a parameter.

$.ajax({
        url: 'http://url.of.my.server/submit?callback=?',
        success: function (data, status) {
            mySurvey.closePopup();
        },
        error: function (xOptions, textStatus) {
            mySurvey.closePopup();
        }
    });


The same goes here if you are using $.getJSON with ? placeholder it will generate a random function while the predfined behavior of the autogenerated function will just invoke the callback:

$.getJSON('http://url.of.my.server/submit?callback=?',function(data){
//process data here
});

How to return XML in ASP.NET?

Below is an example of the correct way I think. At least it is what I use. You need to do Response.Clear to get rid of any headers that are already populated. You need to pass the correct ContentType of text/xml. That is the way you serve xml. In general you want to serve it as charset UTF-8 as that is what most parsers are expecting. But I don't think it has to be that. But if you change it make sure to change your xml document declaration and indicate the charset in there. You need to use the XmlWriter so you can actually write in UTF-8 and not whatever charset is the default. And to have it properly encode your xml data in UTF-8.

   ' -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
   ' OutputDataSetAsXML
   '
   ' Description: outputs the given dataset as xml to the response object
   '
   ' Arguments:
   '    dsSource           - source data set
   '
   ' Dependencies:
   '
   ' History
   ' 2006-05-02 - WSR : created
   '
   Private Sub OutputDataSetAsXML(ByRef dsSource As System.Data.DataSet)

      Dim xmlDoc As System.Xml.XmlDataDocument
      Dim xmlDec As System.Xml.XmlDeclaration
      Dim xmlWriter As System.Xml.XmlWriter

      ' setup response
      Me.Response.Clear()
      Me.Response.ContentType = "text/xml"
      Me.Response.Charset = "utf-8"
      xmlWriter = New System.Xml.XmlTextWriter(Me.Response.OutputStream, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8)

      ' create xml data document with xml declaration
      xmlDoc = New System.Xml.XmlDataDocument(dsSource)
      xmlDoc.DataSet.EnforceConstraints = False
      xmlDec = xmlDoc.CreateXmlDeclaration("1.0", "UTF-8", Nothing)
      xmlDoc.PrependChild(xmlDec)

      ' write xml document to response
      xmlDoc.WriteTo(xmlWriter)
      xmlWriter.Flush()
      xmlWriter.Close()
      Response.End()

   End Sub
   ' -----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Gulp error: The following tasks did not complete: Did you forget to signal async completion?

For those who are trying to use gulp for swagger local deployment, following code will help

var gulp = require("gulp");
var yaml = require("js-yaml");
var path = require("path");
var fs = require("fs");

//Converts yaml to json
gulp.task("swagger", done => {
    var doc = yaml.safeLoad(fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname,"api/swagger/swagger.yaml")));
    fs.writeFileSync(
        path.join(__dirname,"../yourjsonfile.json"),
        JSON.stringify(doc, null, " ")
        );
    done();
});

//Watches for changes    
gulp.task('watch', function() {
  gulp.watch('api/swagger/swagger.yaml', gulp.series('swagger'));  
});

Adding a user on .htpasswd

FWIW, htpasswd -n username will output the result directly to stdout, and avoid touching files altogether.

How to read string from keyboard using C?

You have no storage allocated for word - it's just a dangling pointer.

Change:

char * word;

to:

char word[256];

Note that 256 is an arbitrary choice here - the size of this buffer needs to be greater than the largest possible string that you might encounter.

Note also that fgets is a better (safer) option then scanf for reading arbitrary length strings, in that it takes a size argument, which in turn helps to prevent buffer overflows:

 fgets(word, sizeof(word), stdin);

How to use requirements.txt to install all dependencies in a python project

(Taken from my comment)

pip won't handle system level dependencies. You'll have to apt-get install libfreetype6-dev before continuing. (It even says so right in your output. Try skimming over it for such errors next time, usually build outputs are very detailed)

Creating Unicode character from its number

The code below will write the 4 unicode chars (represented by decimals) for the word "be" in Japanese. Yes, the verb "be" in Japanese has 4 chars! The value of characters is in decimal and it has been read into an array of String[] -- using split for instance. If you have Octal or Hex, parseInt take a radix as well.

// pseudo code
// 1. init the String[] containing the 4 unicodes in decima :: intsInStrs 
// 2. allocate the proper number of character pairs :: c2s
// 3. Using Integer.parseInt (... with radix or not) get the right int value
// 4. place it in the correct location of in the array of character pairs
// 5. convert c2s[] to String
// 6. print 

String[] intsInStrs = {"12354", "12426", "12414", "12377"}; // 1.
char [] c2s = new char [intsInStrs.length * 2];  // 2.  two chars per unicode

int ii = 0;
for (String intString : intsInStrs) {
    // 3. NB ii*2 because the 16 bit value of Unicode is written in 2 chars
    Character.toChars(Integer.parseInt(intsInStrs[ii]), c2s, ii * 2 ); // 3 + 4
    ++ii; // advance to the next char
}

String symbols = new String(c2s);  // 5.
System.out.println("\nLooooonger code point: " + symbols); // 6.
// I tested it in Eclipse and Java 7 and it works.  Enjoy

What does -1 mean in numpy reshape?

It is fairly easy to understand. The "-1" stands for "unknown dimension" which can should be infered from another dimension. In this case, if you set your matrix like this:

a = numpy.matrix([[1, 2, 3, 4], [5, 6, 7, 8]])

Modify your matrix like this:

b = numpy.reshape(a, -1)

It will call some deafult operations to the matrix a, which will return a 1-d numpy array/martrix.

However, I don't think it is a good idea to use code like this. Why not try:

b = a.reshape(1,-1)

It will give you the same result and it's more clear for readers to understand: Set b as another shape of a. For a, we don't how much columns it should have(set it to -1!), but we want a 1-dimension array(set the first parameter to 1!).

Is it possible to run .php files on my local computer?

Sure you just need to setup a local web server. Check out XAMPP: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

That will get you up and running in about 10 minutes.

There is now a way to run php locally without installing a server: https://stackoverflow.com/a/21872484/672229


Yes but the files need to be processed. For example you can install test servers like mamp / lamp / wamp depending on your plateform.

Basically you need apache / php running.

How to add url parameters to Django template url tag?

Simply add Templates URL:

<a href="{% url 'service_data' d.id %}">
 ...XYZ
</a>

Used in django 2.0

Clear form after submission with jQuery

Better way to reset your form with jQuery is Simply trigger a reset event on your form.

$("#btn1").click(function () {
        $("form").trigger("reset");
    });

Why does an image captured using camera intent gets rotated on some devices on Android?

Jason Robinson's answer and Sami Eltamawy answer are excelent.

Just an improvement to complete the aproach, you should use compat ExifInterface.

com.android.support:exifinterface:${lastLibVersion}

You will be able to instantiate the ExifInterface(pior API <24) with InputStream (from ContentResolver) instead of uri paths avoiding "File not found exceptions"

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2016/12/introducing-the-exifinterface-support-library.html

How to return PDF to browser in MVC?

HttpContext.Response.AddHeader("content-disposition","attachment; filename=form.pdf");

if the filename is generating dynamically then how to define filename here, it is generating through guid here.

Remove special symbols and extra spaces and replace with underscore using the replace method

If you have a text as

var sampleText ="ä_öü_ßÄ_ TESTED Ö_Ü!@#$%^&())(&&++===.XYZ"

To replace all special character (!@#$%^&())(&&++= ==.) without replacing the characters(including umlaut)

Use below regex

sampleText = sampleText.replace(/[`~!@#$%^&*()|+-=?;:'",.<>{}[]\/\s]/gi,'');

OUTPUT : sampleText = "ä_öü_ßÄ____TESTED_Ö_Ü_____________________XYZ"

This would replace all with an underscore which is provided as second argument to the replace function.You can add whatever you want as per your requirement

SQL: parse the first, middle and last name from a fullname field

I'm not sure about SQL server, but in postgres you could do something like this:

SELECT 
  SUBSTRING(fullname, '(\\w+)') as firstname,
  SUBSTRING(fullname, '\\w+\\s(\\w+)\\s\\w+') as middle,
  COALESCE(SUBSTRING(fullname, '\\w+\\s\\w+\\s(\\w+)'), SUBSTRING(fullname, '\\w+\\s(\\w+)')) as lastname
FROM 
public.person

The regex expressions could probably be a bit more concise; but you get the point. This does by the way not work for persons having two double names (in the Netherlands we have this a lot 'Jan van der Ploeg') so I'd be very careful with the results.

How to draw a filled triangle in android canvas?

private void drawArrows(Point[] point, Canvas canvas, Paint paint) {

    float [] points  = new float[8];             
    points[0] = point[0].x;      
    points[1] = point[0].y;      
    points[2] = point[1].x;      
    points[3] = point[1].y;         
    points[4] = point[2].x;      
    points[5] = point[2].y;              
    points[6] = point[0].x;      
    points[7] = point[0].y;

    canvas.drawVertices(VertexMode.TRIANGLES, 8, points, 0, null, 0, null, 0, null, 0, 0, paint);
    Path path = new Path();
    path.moveTo(point[0].x , point[0].y);
    path.lineTo(point[1].x,point[1].y);
    path.lineTo(point[2].x,point[2].y);
    canvas.drawPath(path,paint);

}

C#: How to access an Excel cell?

Try:

Excel.Application oXL;
Excel._Workbook oWB;
Excel._Worksheet oSheet;
Excel.Range oRng;

oXL = new Excel.Application();
oXL.Visible = true;
oWB = (Excel._Workbook)(oXL.Workbooks.Add(Missing.Value));

oSheet = (Excel._Worksheet)oWB.Worksheets;
oSheet.Activate();

oSheet.Cells[3, 9] = "Some Text"

Set value of hidden input with jquery

You should use val instead of value.

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
$(document).ready(function () { 
    $('input[name="testing"]').val('Work!');
});
</script>

Checking if a string is empty or null in Java

You can leverage Apache Commons StringUtils.isEmpty(str), which checks for empty strings and handles null gracefully.

Example:

System.out.println(StringUtils.isEmpty("")); // true
System.out.println(StringUtils.isEmpty(null)); // true

Google Guava also provides a similar, probably easier-to-read method: Strings.isNullOrEmpty(str).

Example:

System.out.println(Strings.isNullOrEmpty("")); // true
System.out.println(Strings.isNullOrEmpty(null)); // true

How to access static resources when mapping a global front controller servlet on /*

'Static' files in App Engine aren't directly accessible by your app. You either need to upload them twice, or serve the static files yourself, rather than using a static handler.

Problems after upgrading to Xcode 10: Build input file cannot be found

If the error says it can't find Info.plist and it's looking in the wrong path, do the following:

  1. Select your project from the navigator, then select your target
  2. Select "Build Settings" and search "plist"
  3. There should be an option called Info.plist File. Change the location to the correct one.

Cannot start GlassFish 4.1 from within Netbeans 8.0.1 Service area

I get the same error when I run Oracle XE instance on the same machine. As my database is Oracle, I preferred changing Glassfish's default port:

  1. Locate domain.xml inside Glassfish installation folders.
  2. Change the the port on the below line:

_x000D_
_x000D_
  <network-listener port="9090" protocol="http-listener-1" transport="tcp" name="http-listener-1" thread-pool="http-thread-pool"></network-listener>_x000D_
        
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

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

I read the comments about contacts app and how it use a theme for each contact.

Probably, contacts app has some predefine themes (for each material primary color from here: http://www.google.com/design/spec/style/color.html).

You can apply a theme before a the setContentView method inside onCreate method.

Then the contacts app can apply a theme randomly to each user.

This method is:

setTheme(R.style.MyRandomTheme);

But this method has a problem, for example it can change the toolbar color, the scroll effect color, the ripple color, etc, but it cant change the status bar color and the navigation bar color (if you want to change it too).

Then for solve this problem, you can use the method before and:

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 21) {
        getWindow().setNavigationBarColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.md_red_500));
        getWindow().setStatusBarColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.md_red_700));
    }

This two method change the navigation and status bar color. Remember, if you set your navigation bar translucent, you can't change its color.

This should be the final code:

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setTheme(R.style.MyRandomTheme);
    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 21) {
        getWindow().setNavigationBarColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.myrandomcolor1));
        getWindow().setStatusBarColor(getResources().getColor(R.color.myrandomcolor2));
    }
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

}

You can use a switch and generate random number to use random themes, or, like in contacts app, each contact probably has a predefine number associated.

A sample of theme:

<style name="MyRandomTheme" parent="Theme.AppCompat.NoActionBar">
    <!-- Customize your theme here. -->
    <item name="colorPrimary">@color/myrandomcolor1</item>
    <item name="colorPrimaryDark">@color/myrandomcolor2</item>
    <item name="android:navigationBarColor">@color/myrandomcolor1</item>
</style>

Sorry for my english.

How to set "value" to input web element using selenium?

As Shubham Jain stated, this is working to me: driver.findElement(By.id("invoice_supplier_id")).sendKeys("value"??, "new value");

jQuery Mobile Page refresh mechanism

function refreshPage()
{
    jQuery.mobile.changePage(window.location.href, {
        allowSamePageTransition: true,
        transition: 'none',
        reloadPage: true
    });
}

Taken from here http://scottwb.com/blog/2012/06/29/reload-the-same-page-without-blinking-on-jquery-mobile/ also tested on jQuery Mobile 1.2.0

Create Word Document using PHP in Linux

By far the easiest way to create DOC files on Linux, using PHP is with the Zend Framework component phpLiveDocx.

From the project web site:

"phpLiveDocx allows developers to generate documents by combining structured data from PHP with a template, created in a word processor. The resulting document can be saved as a PDF, DOCX, DOC or RTF file. The concept is the same as with mail-merge."

asp.net mvc @Html.CheckBoxFor

Use this code:

@for (int i = 0; i < Model.EmploymentType.Count; i++)
{
    @Html.HiddenFor(m => m.EmploymentType[i].Text)
    @Html.CheckBoxFor(m => m.EmploymentType[i].Checked, new { id = "YourId" })
}

bodyParser is deprecated express 4

I found that while adding

app.use(bodyParser.json());
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({
  extended: true
}));

helps, sometimes it's a matter of your querying that determines how express handles it.

For instance, it could be that your parameters are passed in the URL rather than in the body

In such a case, you need to capture both the body and url parameters and use whichever is available (with preference for the body parameters in the case below)

app.route('/echo')
    .all((req,res)=>{
        let pars = (Object.keys(req.body).length > 0)?req.body:req.query;
        res.send(pars);
    });

How to send 100,000 emails weekly?

People have recommended MailChimp which is a good vendor for bulk email. If you're looking for a good vendor for transactional email, I might be able to help.

Over the past 6 months, we used four different SMTP vendors with the goal of figuring out which was the best one.

Here's a summary of what we found...

AuthSMTP

  • Cheapest around
  • No analysis/reporting
  • No tracking for opens/clicks
  • Had slight hesitation on some sends

Postmark

  • Very cheap, but not as cheap as AuthSMTP
  • Beautiful cpanel but no tracking on opens/clicks
  • Send-level activity tracking so you can open a single email that was sent and look at how it looked and the delivery data.
  • Have to use API. Sending by SMTP was recently introduced but it's buggy. For instance, we noticed that quotes (") in the subject line are stripped.
  • Cannot send any attachment you want. Must be on approved list of file types and under a certain size. (10 MB I think)
  • Requires a set list of from names/addresses.

JangoSMTP

  • Expensive in relation to the others – more than 10 times in some cases
  • Ugly cpanel but great tracking on opens/clicks with email-level detail
  • Had hesitation, at times, when sending. On two occasions, sends took an hour to be delivered
  • Requires a set list of from name/addresses.

SendGrid

  • Not quite a cheap as AuthSMTP but still very cheap. Many customers can exist on 200 free sends per day.
  • Decent cpanel but no in-depth detail on open/click tracking
  • Lots of API options. Options (open/click tracking, etc) can be custom defined on an email-by-email basis. Inbound (reply) email can be posted to our HTTP end point.
  • Absolutely zero hesitation on sends. Every email sent landed in the inbox almost immediately.
  • Can send from any from name/address.

Conclusion

SendGrid was the best with Postmark coming in second place. We never saw any hesitation in send times with either of those two - in some cases we sent several hundred emails at once - and they both have the best ROI, given a solid featureset.

How to save and extract session data in codeigniter

In CodeIgniter you can store your session value as single or also in array format as below:

If you want store any user’s data in session like userId, userName, userContact etc, then you should store in array:

<?php
$this->load->library('session');
$this->session->set_userdata(array(
'userId'  => $user->userId,
'userName' => $user->userName,
'userContact '  => $user->userContact 
)); 
?>

Get in details with Example Demo :

http://devgambit.com/how-to-store-and-get-session-value-in-codeigniter/

Change NULL values in Datetime format to empty string

Try to use the function DECODE

Ex: Decode(MYDATE, NULL, ' ', MYDATE)

If date is NULL then display ' ' (BLANK) else display the date.

Text border using css (border around text)

The following will cover all browsers worth covering:

text-shadow: 0 0 2px #fff; /* Firefox 3.5+, Opera 9+, Safari 1+, Chrome, IE10 */
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Glow(Color=#ffffff,Strength=1); /* IE<10 */

How to append multiple items in one line in Python

No. The method for appending an entire sequence is list.extend().

>>> L = [1, 2]
>>> L.extend((3, 4, 5))
>>> L
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Get Hard disk serial Number

Here's some code that may help:

ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher("SELECT * FROM Win32_DiskDrive");

string serial_number="";

foreach (ManagementObject wmi_HD in searcher.Get())
{
    serial_number = wmi_HD["SerialNumber"].ToString();
}

MessageBox.Show(serial_number);

Why does Lua have no "continue" statement?

I've never used Lua before, but I Googled it and came up with this:

http://www.luafaq.org/

Check question 1.26.

This is a common complaint. The Lua authors felt that continue was only one of a number of possible new control flow mechanisms (the fact that it cannot work with the scope rules of repeat/until was a secondary factor.)

In Lua 5.2, there is a goto statement which can be easily used to do the same job.

How to determine previous page URL in Angular?

I had some struggle to access the previous url inside a guard.
Without implementing a custom solution, this one is working for me.

public constructor(private readonly router: Router) {
};

public ngOnInit() {
   this.router.getCurrentNavigation().previousNavigation.initialUrl.toString();
}

The initial url will be the previous url page.

Update a local branch with the changes from a tracked remote branch

You have set the upstream of that branch

(see:

git branch -f --track my_local_branch origin/my_remote_branch
# OR (if my_local_branch is currently checked out):
$ git branch --set-upstream-to my_local_branch origin/my_remote_branch

(git branch -f --track won't work if the branch is checked out: use the second command git branch --set-upstream-to instead, or you would get "fatal: Cannot force update the current branch.")

That means your branch is already configured with:

branch.my_local_branch.remote origin
branch.my_local_branch.merge my_remote_branch

Git already has all the necessary information.
In that case:

# if you weren't already on my_local_branch branch:
git checkout my_local_branch 
# then:
git pull

is enough.


If you hadn't establish that upstream branch relationship when it came to push your 'my_local_branch', then a simple git push -u origin my_local_branch:my_remote_branch would have been enough to push and set the upstream branch.
After that, for the subsequent pulls/pushes, git pull or git push would, again, have been enough.

How to append in a json file in Python?

Assuming you have a test.json file with the following content:

{"67790": {"1": {"kwh": 319.4}}}

Then, the code below will load the json file, update the data inside using dict.update() and dump into the test.json file:

import json

a_dict = {'new_key': 'new_value'}

with open('test.json') as f:
    data = json.load(f)

data.update(a_dict)

with open('test.json', 'w') as f:
    json.dump(data, f)

Then, in test.json, you'll have:

{"new_key": "new_value", "67790": {"1": {"kwh": 319.4}}}

Hope this is what you wanted.

App.Config change value

Thanks Jahmic for the answer. Worked properly for me.

another useful code snippet that read the values and return a string:

public static string ReadSetting(string key)
    {
        System.Configuration.Configuration cfg = ConfigurationManager.OpenExeConfiguration(ConfigurationUserLevel.None);
        System.Configuration.AppSettingsSection appSettings = (System.Configuration.AppSettingsSection)cfg.GetSection("appSettings");
        return appSettings.Settings[key].Value;

    }

Filtering a pyspark dataframe using isin by exclusion

Got a gotcha for those with their headspace in Pandas and moving to pyspark

 from pyspark import SparkConf, SparkContext
 from pyspark.sql import SQLContext

 spark_conf = SparkConf().setMaster("local").setAppName("MyAppName")
 sc = SparkContext(conf = spark_conf)
 sqlContext = SQLContext(sc)

 records = [
     {"colour": "red"},
     {"colour": "blue"},
     {"colour": None},
 ]

 pandas_df = pd.DataFrame.from_dict(records)
 pyspark_df = sqlContext.createDataFrame(records)

So if we wanted the rows that are not red:

pandas_df[~pandas_df["colour"].isin(["red"])]

As expected in Pandas

Looking good, and in our pyspark DataFrame

pyspark_df.filter(~pyspark_df["colour"].isin(["red"])).collect()

Not what I expected

So after some digging, I found this: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-20617 So to include nothingness in our results:

pyspark_df.filter(~pyspark_df["colour"].isin(["red"]) | pyspark_df["colour"].isNull()).show()

much ado about nothing

Filter df when values matches part of a string in pyspark

When filtering a DataFrame with string values, I find that the pyspark.sql.functions lower and upper come in handy, if your data could have column entries like "foo" and "Foo":

import pyspark.sql.functions as sql_fun
result = source_df.filter(sql_fun.lower(source_df.col_name).contains("foo"))

How do I create a sequence in MySQL?

Check out this article. I believe it should help you get what you are wanting. If your table already exists, and it has data in it already, the error you are getting may be due to the auto_increment trying to assign a value that already exists for other records.

In short, as others have already mentioned in comments, sequences, as they are thought of and handled in Oracle, do not exist in MySQL. However, you can likely use auto_increment to accomplish what you want.

Without additional details on the specific error, it is difficult to provide more specific help.

UPDATE

CREATE TABLE ORD (
  ORDID INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  //Rest of table code
  PRIMARY KEY (ordid)
)
AUTO_INCREMENT = 622;

This link is also helpful for describing usage of auto_increment. Setting the AUTO_INCREMENT value appears to be a table option, and not something that is specified as a column attribute specifically.

Also, per one of the links from above, you can alternatively set the auto increment start value via an alter to your table.

ALTER TABLE ORD AUTO_INCREMENT = 622;

UPDATE 2 Here is a link to a working sqlfiddle example, using auto increment.
I hope this info helps.

How can I rollback an UPDATE query in SQL server 2005?

in this example we run 2 line insert into query and if all of them true it run but if not no run anything and ROLLBACK

DECLARE @rowcount int  set @rowcount = 0 ; 
BEGIN TRANSACTION [Tran1]
BEGIN TRY 
 insert into [database].[dbo].[tbl1] (fld1) values('1') ;
    set @rowcount = (@rowcount + @@ROWCOUNT); 
 insert into [database].[dbo].[tbl2] (fld1) values('2') ;
    set @rowcount = (@rowcount + @@ROWCOUNT); 

IF @rowcount =  2
  COMMIT TRANSACTION[Tran1]
ELSE
  ROLLBACK TRANSACTION[Tran1]
END TRY
  BEGIN CATCH
  ROLLBACK TRANSACTION[Tran1]
END CATCH

Tried to Load Angular More Than Once

I have the same problem, because I have angular two times in index.html:

<script src="https://handsontable.github.io/ngHandsontable/node_modules/angular/angular.js"></script>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.5.7/angular.min.js"></script>

Note that the warning arises only when html5 mode is true, when my html5 mode was false, I did not see this warning.

So removing the first angular.js solves the problem.

jQuery Validate Required Select

An easier solution has been outlined here: Validate select box

Make the value be empty and add the required attribute

<select id="select" class="required">
<option value="">Choose an option</option> 
<option value="option1">Option1</option>
<option value="option2">Option2</option>
<option value="option3">Option3</option>
</select>

How to take the first N items from a generator or list?

Slicing a list

top5 = array[:5]
  • To slice a list, there's a simple syntax: array[start:stop:step]
  • You can omit any parameter. These are all valid: array[start:], array[:stop], array[::step]

Slicing a generator

 import itertools
 top5 = itertools.islice(my_list, 5) # grab the first five elements
  • You can't slice a generator directly in Python. itertools.islice() will wrap an object in a new slicing generator using the syntax itertools.islice(generator, start, stop, step)

  • Remember, slicing a generator will exhaust it partially. If you want to keep the entire generator intact, perhaps turn it into a tuple or list first, like: result = tuple(generator)

How to create a new instance from a class object in Python

I figured out the answer to the question I had that brought me to this page. Since no one has actually suggested the answer to my question, I thought I'd post it.

class k:
  pass

a = k()
k2 = a.__class__
a2 = k2()

At this point, a and a2 are both instances of the same class (class k).

Border around tr element doesn't show?

Add this to the stylesheet:

table {
  border-collapse: collapse;
}

JSFiddle.

The reason why it behaves this way is actually described pretty well in the specification:

There are two distinct models for setting borders on table cells in CSS. One is most suitable for so-called separated borders around individual cells, the other is suitable for borders that are continuous from one end of the table to the other.

... and later, for collapse setting:

In the collapsing border model, it is possible to specify borders that surround all or part of a cell, row, row group, column, and column group.

Python Matplotlib figure title overlaps axes label when using twiny

Just use plt.tight_layout() before plt.show(). It works well.

Capture HTML Canvas as gif/jpg/png/pdf?

HTML5 provides Canvas.toDataURL(mimetype) which is implemented in Opera, Firefox, and Safari 4 beta. There are a number of security restrictions, however (mostly to do with drawing content from another origin onto the canvas).

So you don't need an additional library.

e.g.

 <canvas id=canvas width=200 height=200></canvas>
 <script>
      window.onload = function() {
          var canvas = document.getElementById("canvas");
          var context = canvas.getContext("2d");
          context.fillStyle = "green";
          context.fillRect(50, 50, 100, 100);
          // no argument defaults to image/png; image/jpeg, etc also work on some
          // implementations -- image/png is the only one that must be supported per spec.
          window.location = canvas.toDataURL("image/png");
      }
 </script>

Theoretically this should create and then navigate to an image with a green square in the middle of it, but I haven't tested.

What is Android's file system?

Most answers here are pretty old.

In the past when un managed nand was the most popular storage technology, yaffs2 was the most common file system. This days there are few devices using un-managed nand, and those still in use are slowly migrating to ubifs.

Today most common storage is emmc (managed nand), for such devices ext4 is far more popular, but, this file system is slowly clears its way for f2fs (flash friendly fs).

Edit: f2fs will probably won't make it as the common fs for flash devices (including android)

How do I show a "Loading . . . please wait" message in Winforms for a long loading form?

I looked at most the solutions posted, but came across a different one that I prefer. It's simple, doesn't use threads, and works for what I want it to.

http://weblogs.asp.net/kennykerr/archive/2004/11/26/where-is-form-s-loaded-event.aspx

I added to the solution in the article and moved the code into a base class that all my forms inherit from. Now I just call one function: ShowWaitForm() during the frm_load() event of any form that needs a wait dialogue box while the form is loading. Here's the code:

public class MyFormBase : System.Windows.Forms.Form
{
    private MyWaitForm _waitForm;

    protected void ShowWaitForm(string message)
    {
        // don't display more than one wait form at a time
        if (_waitForm != null && !_waitForm.IsDisposed) 
        {
            return;
        }

        _waitForm = new MyWaitForm();
        _waitForm.SetMessage(message); // "Loading data. Please wait..."
        _waitForm.TopMost = true;
        _waitForm.StartPosition = FormStartPosition.CenterScreen;
        _waitForm.Show();
        _waitForm.Refresh();

        // force the wait window to display for at least 700ms so it doesn't just flash on the screen
        System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(700);         
        Application.Idle += OnLoaded;
    }

    private void OnLoaded(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Application.Idle -= OnLoaded;
        _waitForm.Close();
    }
}

MyWaitForm is the name of a form you create to look like a wait dialogue. I added a SetMessage() function to customize the text on the wait form.

How to find out client ID of component for ajax update/render? Cannot find component with expression "foo" referenced from "bar"

I know this already has a great answer by BalusC but here is a little trick I use to get the container to tell me the correct clientId.

  1. Remove the update on your component that is not working
  2. Put a temporary component with a bogus update within the component you were trying to update
  3. hit the page, the servlet exception error will tell you the correct client Id you need to reference.
  4. Remove bogus component and put correct clientId in the original update

Here is code example as my words may not describe it best.

<p:tabView id="tabs">
    <p:tab id="search" title="Search">                        
        <h:form id="insTable">
            <p:dataTable id="table" var="lndInstrument" value="#{instrumentBean.instruments}">
                <p:column>
                    <p:commandLink id="select"

Remove the failing update within this component

 oncomplete="dlg.show()">
                        <f:setPropertyActionListener value="#{lndInstrument}" 
                                        target="#{instrumentBean.selectedInstrument}" />
                        <h:outputText value="#{lndInstrument.name}" />
                    </p:commandLink>                                    
                </p:column>
            </p:dataTable>
            <p:dialog id="dlg" modal="true" widgetVar="dlg">
                <h:panelGrid id="display">

Add a component within the component of the id you are trying to update using an update that will fail

   <p:commandButton id="BogusButton" update="BogusUpdate"></p:commandButton>

                    <h:outputText value="Name:" />
                    <h:outputText value="#{instrumentBean.selectedInstrument.name}" />
                </h:panelGrid>
            </p:dialog>                            
        </h:form>
    </p:tab>
</p:tabView>

Hit this page and view the error. The error is: javax.servlet.ServletException: Cannot find component for expression "BogusUpdate" referenced from tabs:insTable: BogusButton

So the correct clientId to use would then be the bold plus the id of the target container (display in this case)

tabs:insTable:display

CodeIgniter htaccess and URL rewrite issues

Just add this in the .htaccess file:

DirectoryIndex index.php
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|css|js|robots\.txt|favicon\.ico)
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ ./index.php?/$1 [L,QSA]

Draw a curve with css

You could use an asymmetrical border to make curves with CSS.

border-radius: 50%/100px 100px 0 0;

VIEW DEMO

_x000D_
_x000D_
.box {_x000D_
  width: 500px; _x000D_
  height: 100px;  _x000D_
  border: solid 5px #000;_x000D_
  border-color: #000 transparent transparent transparent;_x000D_
  border-radius: 50%/100px 100px 0 0;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<div class="box"></div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Python Dictionary Comprehension

>>> {i:i for i in range(1, 11)}
{1: 1, 2: 2, 3: 3, 4: 4, 5: 5, 6: 6, 7: 7, 8: 8, 9: 9, 10: 10}

How to get host name with port from a http or https request

I'm late to the party, but I had this same issue working with Java 8.

This is what worked for me, on the HttpServletRequest request object.

request.getHeader("origin");

and

request.getHeader("referer");

How I came to that conclusion:

I have a java app running on http://localhost:3000 making a Http Post to another java app I have running on http://localhost:8080.

From the Java code running on http://localhost:8080 I couldn't get the http://localhost:3000 from the HttpServletRequest using the answers above. For me using the getHeader method with the correct string input worked.

request.getHeader("origin") gave me "http://localhost:3000" which is what I wanted.

request.getHeader("referer") gave me "http://localhost:3000/xxxx" where xxxx is full URL I have from the requesting app.

JQuery $.ajax() post - data in a java servlet

Simple method to sending data using java script and ajex call.

First right your form like this

<form id="frm_details" method="post" name="frm_details">
<input  id="email" name="email" placeholder="Your Email id" type="text" />
    <button class="subscribe-box__btn" type="submit">Need Assistance</button>
</form> 

javascript logic target on form id #frm_details after sumbit

$(function(){
        $("#frm_details").on("submit", function(event) {
            event.preventDefault();

            var formData = {
                'email': $('input[name=email]').val() //for get email 
            };
            console.log(formData);

            $.ajax({
                url: "/tsmisc/api/subscribe-newsletter",
                type: "post",
                data: formData,
                success: function(d) {
                    alert(d);
                }
            });
        });
    }) 





General 
Request URL:https://test.abc
Request Method:POST
Status Code:200 
Remote Address:13.76.33.57:443

From Data
email:[email protected]

How to concatenate multiple lines of output to one line?

Piping output to xargs will concatenate each line of output to a single line with spaces:

grep pattern file | xargs

Or any command, eg. ls | xargs. The default limit of xargs output is ~4096 characters, but can be increased with eg. xargs -s 8192.

How do I mount a remote Linux folder in Windows through SSH?

Apparently the free NetDrive software from Novell can access SFTP file servers.

How to handle ETIMEDOUT error?

This is caused when your request response is not received in given time(by timeout request module option).

Basically to catch that error first, you need to register a handler on error, so the unhandled error won't be thrown anymore: out.on('error', function (err) { /* handle errors here */ }). Some more explanation here.

In the handler you can check if the error is ETIMEDOUT and apply your own logic: if (err.message.code === 'ETIMEDOUT') { /* apply logic */ }.

If you want to request for the file again, I suggest using node-retry or node-backoff modules. It makes things much simpler.

If you want to wait longer, you can set timeout option of request yourself. You can set it to 0 for no timeout.

Easiest way to loop through a filtered list with VBA?

I used the RowHeight property of a range (which means cells as well). If it's zero then it's hidden. So just loop through all rows as you would normally but in the if condition check for that property as in If myRange.RowHeight > 0 then DoStuff where DoStuff is something you want to do with the visible cells.

Make new column in Panda dataframe by adding values from other columns

You could use sum function to achieve that as @EdChum mentioned in the comment:

df['C'] =  df[['A', 'B']].sum(axis=1)

In [245]: df
Out[245]: 
   A  B   C
0  1  4   5
1  2  6   8
2  3  9  12

Using Java with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012

Java Language Support extension provides basic features for the Java programming language. Current editing features include:

  • Syntax highlighting and brace matching
  • Outlining support for quickly collapsing classes and functions
  • Dropdown bars listing classes, enums, interfaces, fields, and methods within the current document

And if you wish to contribute then the project has been moved to its own GitHub repository

AngularJS ui router passing data between states without URL

We can use params, new feature of the UI-Router:

API Reference / ui.router.state / $stateProvider

params A map which optionally configures parameters declared in the url, or defines additional non-url parameters. For each parameter being configured, add a configuration object keyed to the name of the parameter.

See the part: "...or defines additional non-url parameters..."

So the state def would be:

$stateProvider
  .state('home', {
    url: "/home",
    templateUrl: 'tpl.html',
    params: { hiddenOne: null, }
  })

Few examples form the doc mentioned above:

// define a parameter's default value
params: {
  param1: { value: "defaultValue" }
}
// shorthand default values
params: {
  param1: "defaultValue",
  param2: "param2Default"
}

// param will be array []
params: {
  param1: { array: true }
}

// handling the default value in url:
params: {
  param1: {
    value: "defaultId",
    squash: true
} }
// squash "defaultValue" to "~"
params: {
  param1: {
    value: "defaultValue",
    squash: "~"
  } }

EXTEND - working example: http://plnkr.co/edit/inFhDmP42AQyeUBmyIVl?p=info

Here is an example of a state definition:

 $stateProvider
  .state('home', {
      url: "/home",
      params : { veryLongParamHome: null, },
      ...
  })
  .state('parent', {
      url: "/parent",
      params : { veryLongParamParent: null, },
      ...
  })
  .state('parent.child', { 
      url: "/child",
      params : { veryLongParamChild: null, },
      ...
  })

This could be a call using ui-sref:

<a ui-sref="home({veryLongParamHome:'Home--f8d218ae-d998-4aa4-94ee-f27144a21238'
  })">home</a>

<a ui-sref="parent({ 
    veryLongParamParent:'Parent--2852f22c-dc85-41af-9064-d365bc4fc822'
  })">parent</a>

<a ui-sref="parent.child({
    veryLongParamParent:'Parent--0b2a585f-fcef-4462-b656-544e4575fca5',  
    veryLongParamChild:'Child--f8d218ae-d998-4aa4-94ee-f27144a61238'
  })">parent.child</a>

Check the example here

How to create a file in Ruby

You can also use constants instead of strings to specify the mode you want. The benefit is if you make a typo in a constant name, your program will raise an runtime exception.

The constants are File::RDONLY or File::WRONLY or File::CREAT. You can also combine them if you like.

Full description of file open modes on ruby-doc.org

Intercept page exit event

I have users who have not been completing all required data.

<cfset unloadCheck=0>//a ColdFusion precheck in my page generation to see if unload check is needed
var erMsg="";
$(document).ready(function(){
<cfif q.myData eq "">
    <cfset unloadCheck=1>
    $("#myInput").change(function(){
        verify(); //function elsewhere that checks all fields and populates erMsg with error messages for any fail(s)
        if(erMsg=="") window.onbeforeunload = null; //all OK so let them pass
        else window.onbeforeunload = confirmExit(); //borrowed from Jantimon above;
    });
});
<cfif unloadCheck><!--- if any are outstanding, set the error message and the unload alert --->
    verify();
    window.onbeforeunload = confirmExit;
    function confirmExit() {return "Data is incomplete for this Case:"+erMsg;}
</cfif>

How to concatenate characters in java?

I wasn't going to answer this question but there are two answers here (that are getting voted up!) that are just plain wrong. Consider these expressions:

String a = "a" + "b" + "c";
String b = System.getProperty("blah") + "b";

The first is evaluated at compile-time. The second is evaluated at run-time.

So never replace constant concatenations (of any type) with StringBuilder, StringBuffer or the like. Only use those where variables are invovled and generally only when you're appending a lot of operands or you're appending in a loop.

If the characters are constant, this is fine:

String s = "" + 'a' + 'b' + 'c';

If however they aren't, consider this:

String concat(char... chars) {
  if (chars.length == 0) {
    return "";
  }
  StringBuilder s = new StringBuilder(chars.length);
  for (char c : chars) {
    s.append(c);
  }
  return s.toString();
}

as an appropriate solution.

However some might be tempted to optimise:

String s = "Name: '" + name + "'"; // String name;

into this:

String s = new StringBuilder().append("Name: ").append(name).append("'").toString();

While this is well-intentioned, the bottom line is DON'T.

Why? As another answer correctly pointed out: the compiler does this for you. So in doing it yourself, you're not allowing the compiler to optimise the code or not depending if its a good idea, the code is harder to read and its unnecessarily complicated.

For low-level optimisation the compiler is better at optimising code than you are.

Let the compiler do its job. In this case the worst case scenario is that the compiler implicitly changes your code to exactly what you wrote. Concatenating 2-3 Strings might be more efficient than constructing a StringBuilder so it might be better to leave it as is. The compiler knows whats best in this regard.

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

Apparently, I needed to run OpenSSL as root in order for it to have permission to the seeding file.

Visual Studio 64 bit?

Is there any 64 bit Visual Studio at all?

Yes literally there is one called "Visual Studio" and is 64bit, but well,, on Mac not on Windows

Why not?

Decision making is electro-chemical reaction made in our brain and that have an activation point (Nerdest answer I can come up with, but follow). Same situation happened in history: Windows 64!...

So in order to answer this fully I want you to remember old days. Imagine reasons for "why not we see 64bit Windows" are there at the time. I think at the time for Windows64 they had exact same reasons others have enlisted here about "reasons why not 64bit VS on windows" were on "reasons why not 64bit Windows" too. Then why they did start development for Windows 64bit? Simple! If they didn't succeed in making 64bit Windows I bet M$ would have been a history nowadays. If same reasons forcing M$ making 64bit Windows starts to appear on need for 64Bit VS then I bet we will see 64bit VS, even though very same reasons everyone else here enlisted will stay same! In time the limitations of 32bit may hit VS as well, so most likely something like below start to happen:

  • Visual Studio will drop 32bit support and become 64bit,
  • Visual Studio Code will take it's place instead,
  • Visual Studio will have similar functionality like WOW64 for old extensions which is I believe unlikely to happen.

I put my bets on Visual Studio Code taking the place in time; I guess bifurcation point for it will be some CPU manufacturer X starts to compete x86_64 architecture taking its place on mainstream market for laptop and/or workstation,

How does one Display a Hyperlink in React Native App?

You can use linking property <Text style={{color: 'skyblue'}} onPress={() => Linking.openURL('http://yahoo.com')}> Yahoo

Can I add jars to maven 2 build classpath without installing them?

You may create local repository on your project

For example if you have libs folder in project structure

  • In libs folder you should create directory structure like: /groupId/artifactId/version/artifactId-version.jar

  • In your pom.xml you should register repository

    <repository>
        <id>ProjectRepo</id>
        <name>ProjectRepo</name>
        <url>file://${project.basedir}/libs</url>
    </repository>
    
  • and add dependency as usual

    <dependency>
        <groupId>groupId</groupId>
        <artifactId>artifactId</artifactId>
        <version>version</version>
    </dependency>
    

That is all.

For detailed information: How to add external libraries in Maven

Center image in table td in CSS

This fixed issues for me:

<style>
.super-centered {
    position:absolute; 
    width:100%;
    height:100%;
    text-align:center; 
    vertical-align:middle;
    z-index: 9999;
}
</style>

<table class="super-centered"><tr><td style="width:100%;height:100%;" align="center"     valign="middle" > 
<img alt="Loading ..." src="/ALHTheme/themes/html/ALHTheme/images/loading.gif">
</td></tr></table>

Cannot connect to MySQL Workbench on mac. Can't connect to MySQL server on '127.0.0.1' (61) Mac Macintosh

I ran into the same scenario

I opened "System Preferences", clicked "MySQL", then clicked "Initialize Database" button. I entered a new password and saved it in a safe place. After that i restarted the MySql Instance (in the System Preferences dialog as well). After that i opened MySqlWorkbench and opened the default connection, entered the password i set before and: Viola, i can do whatever i want :-)

List Directories and get the name of the Directory

import os
for root, dirs, files in os.walk(top, topdown=False):
    for name in dirs:
        print os.path.join(root, name)

Walk is a good built-in for what you are doing

Copy rows from one table to another, ignoring duplicates

insert into tbl2
select field1,field2,... from tbl1
where not exists 
    ( 
        select field1,field2,... 
        from person2
        where (tbl1.field1=tbl2.field1 and
        tbl1.field2=tbl2.field2 and .....)
    )

splitting a number into the integer and decimal parts

This variant allows getting desired precision:

>>> a = 1234.5678
>>> (lambda x, y: (int(x), int(x*y) % y/y))(a, 1e0)
(1234, 0.0)
>>> (lambda x, y: (int(x), int(x*y) % y/y))(a, 1e1)
(1234, 0.5)
>>> (lambda x, y: (int(x), int(x*y) % y/y))(a, 1e15)
(1234, 0.5678)

Onclick event to remove default value in a text input field

Use onclick="this.value=''":

<input name="Name" value="Enter Your Name" onclick="this.value=''">

Disable developer mode extensions pop up in Chrome

Based on Antony Hatchkins's answer:

The official way to disable the popup seems to be like this:

  1. Pack your extension (chrome://extensions/, tick at 'Developer mode', hit 'Pack extension...') and install it via drag-and-dropping the .crx file into the chrome://extensions page.

    (Since the extension is not from Chrome Web Store, it will be disabled by default.)

Then for Windows:

  1. In Chrome, go to the Extensions page (chrome://extensions)
  2. Check the Developer Mode checkbox at the top
  3. Scroll down the list of disabled extensions and note the ID(s) of the extensions you want to enable. LogMeIn, for example, is ID: nmgnihglilniboicepgjclfiageofdfj
  4. Click Start > Run, and type regedit <ENTER>
  5. Under key HKLM\Software\Policies\Google\Chrome\ExtensionInstallWhitelist (create it if not exists), create a new string for each extension you want to enable with sequential names (indices), e.g. 1, 2, ...
  6. Enter the extension ID(s) as string values in any order. For example, there is a string with name 1 and value nmgnihglilniboicepgjclfiageofdfj
  7. Restart Chrome

That's it!

Note: When you update a whitelisted extension, you do not have to follow the same steps since the ID of the extension will not change.

Get day of week in SQL Server 2005/2008

You can use DATEPART(dw, GETDATE()) but be aware that the result will rely on SQL server setting @@DATEFIRST value which is the first day of week setting (In Europe default value 7 which is Sunday).

If you want to change the first day of week to another value, you could use SET DATEFIRST but this may affect everywhere in your query session which you do not want.

Alternative way is to explicitly specify the first day of week value as parameter and avoid depending on @@DATEFIRST setting. You can use the following formula to achieve that when need it:

(DATEPART(dw, GETDATE()) + @@DATEFIRST + 6 - @WeekStartDay) % 7 + 1

where @WeekStartDay is the first day of the week you want for your system (from 1 to 7 which means from Monday to Sunday).

I have wrapped it into below function so we can reuse it easily:

CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[GetDayInWeek](@InputDateTime DATETIME, @WeekStartDay INT)
RETURNS INT
AS
BEGIN
    --Note: @WeekStartDay is number from [1 - 7] which is from Monday to Sunday
    RETURN (DATEPART(dw, @InputDateTime) + @@DATEFIRST + 6 - @WeekStartDay) % 7 + 1 
END

Example usage: GetDayInWeek('2019-02-04 00:00:00', 1)

It is equivalent to following (but independent to SQL server DATEFIRST setting):

SET DATEFIRST 1
DATEPART(dw, '2019-02-04 00:00:00')

php Replacing multiple spaces with a single space

$output = preg_replace('/\s+/', ' ',$input);

\s is shorthand for [ \t\n\r]. Multiple spaces will be replaced with single space.

Why is PHP session_destroy() not working?

It works , but sometimes it doesn't (check the below example)

<?php
session_start();
$_SESSION['name']="shankar";
if(isset($_SESSION['name']))
{
    echo $_SESSION['name']; // Outputs shankar
}
session_destroy();
echo $_SESSION['name']; // Still outputs shankar

Weird!! Right ?


How to overcome this ?

In the above scenario , if you replace session_destroy(); with unset($_SESSION['name']); it works as expected.

But i want to destroy all variables not just a single one !

Yeah there is a fix for this too. Just unset the $_SESSION array. [Credits Ivo Pereira]

unset($_SESSION);

python pandas convert index to datetime

Doing

df.index = pd.to_datetime(df.index, errors='coerce')

the data type of the index has changed to

dataframe information

Bootstrap full-width text-input within inline-form

Try something like below to achieve your desired result

input {
    max-width: 100%;
}

Get the last insert id with doctrine 2?

If you're not using entities but Native SQL as shown here then you might want to get the last inserted id as shown below:

$entityManager->getConnection()->lastInsertId()

For databases with sequences such as PostgreSQL please note that you can provide the sequence name as the first parameter of the lastInsertId method.

$entityManager->getConnection()->lastInsertId($seqName = 'my_sequence')

For more information take a look at the code on GitHub here and here.

How to launch an EXE from Web page (asp.net)

if the applications are C#, you can use ClickOnce deployment, which is a good option if you can't guarentee the user will have the app, however you'll have to re-build the apps with deployment options and grab some boilerplate code from each project.

You can also use Javascript.

Or you can register an application to handle a new web protocol you can define. This could also be an "app selection" protocol, so each time an app is clicked it would link to a page on your new protocol, all handling of this protocol is then passed to your "selection app" which uses arguments to find and launch an app on the clients PC.

HTH

How to copy static files to build directory with Webpack?

I was stuck here too. copy-webpack-plugin worked for me.

However, 'copy-webpack-plugin' was not necessary in my case (i learned later).

webpack ignores root paths
example

<img src="/images/logo.png'>

Hence, to make this work without using 'copy-webpack-plugin' use '~' in paths

<img src="~images/logo.png'>

'~' tells webpack to consider 'images' as a module

note: you might have to add the parent directory of images directory in

resolve: {
    modules: [
        'parent-directory of images',
        'node_modules'
    ]
}

Visit https://vuejs-templates.github.io/webpack/static.html

Show loading gif after clicking form submit using jQuery

Better and clean example using JS only

Reference: TheDeveloperBlog.com

Step 1 - Create your java script and place it in your HTML page.

<script type="text/javascript">
    function ShowLoading(e) {
        var div = document.createElement('div');
        var img = document.createElement('img');
        img.src = 'loading_bar.GIF';
        div.innerHTML = "Loading...<br />";
        div.style.cssText = 'position: fixed; top: 5%; left: 40%; z-index: 5000; width: 422px; text-align: center; background: #EDDBB0; border: 1px solid #000';
        div.appendChild(img);
        document.body.appendChild(div);
        return true;
        // These 2 lines cancel form submission, so only use if needed.
        //window.event.cancelBubble = true;
        //e.stopPropagation();
    }
</script>

in your form call the java script function on submit event.

<form runat="server"  onsubmit="ShowLoading()">
</form>

Soon after you submit the form, it will show you the loading image.

How to install Openpyxl with pip

It worked for me by executing "python37 -m pip install openpyxl"

What's the difference between MyISAM and InnoDB?

MYISAM:

  1. MYISAM supports Table-level Locking
  2. MyISAM designed for need of speed
  3. MyISAM does not support foreign keys hence we call MySQL with MYISAM is DBMS
  4. MyISAM stores its tables, data and indexes in diskspace using separate three different files. (tablename.FRM, tablename.MYD, tablename.MYI)
  5. MYISAM not supports transaction. You cannot commit and rollback with MYISAM. Once you issue a command it’s done.
  6. MYISAM supports fulltext search
  7. You can use MyISAM, if the table is more static with lots of select and less update and delete.

INNODB:

  1. InnoDB supports Row-level Locking
  2. InnoDB designed for maximum performance when processing high volume of data
  3. InnoDB support foreign keys hence we call MySQL with InnoDB is RDBMS
  4. InnoDB stores its tables and indexes in a tablespace
  5. InnoDB supports transaction. You can commit and rollback with InnoDB

Correlation between two vectors?

For correlations you can just use the corr function (statistics toolbox)

corr(A_1(:), A_2(:))

Note that you can also just use

corr(A_1, A_2)

But the linear indexing guarantees that your vectors don't need to be transposed.

What is the convention in JSON for empty vs. null?

Empty array for empty collections and null for everything else.

Properly escape a double quote in CSV

If a value contains a comma, a newline character or a double quote, then the string must be enclosed in double quotes. E.g: "Newline char in this field \n".

You can use below online tool to escape "" and , operators. https://www.freeformatter.com/csv-escape.html#ad-output

What Vim command(s) can be used to quote/unquote words?

To wrap in single quotes (for example) ciw'<C-r>"'<esc> works, but repeat won't work. Try:

ciw'<C-r><C-o>"'<esc>

This puts the contents of the default register "literally". Now you can press . on any word to wrap it in quotes. To learn more see :h[elp] i_ctrl-r and more about text objects at :h text-objects

Source: http://vimcasts.org/episodes/pasting-from-insert-mode/

jQuery UI Dialog individual CSS styling

I created custom styles by just overriding jQuery classes in inline style. So on top of the page, you have the jQuery CSS linked and right after that override the classes you need to modify:

<head>
    <link href="/Content/theme/base/jquery.ui.all.css" rel="stylesheet"/>

    <style type="text/css">
        .ui-dialog .ui-dialog-content
        {
            position: relative;
            border: 0;
            padding: .5em 1em;
            background: none;
            overflow: auto;
            zoom: 1;
            background-color: #ffd;
            border: solid 1px #ea7;
        }

        .ui-dialog .ui-dialog-titlebar
        {
            display:none;
        }

        .ui-widget-content
        {
            border:none;
        }
    </style>
</head>

VBScript to send email without running Outlook

You can send email without Outlook in VBScript using the CDO.Message object. You will need to know the address of your SMTP server to use this:

Set MyEmail=CreateObject("CDO.Message")

MyEmail.Subject="Subject"
MyEmail.From="[email protected]"
MyEmail.To="[email protected]"
MyEmail.TextBody="Testing one two three."

MyEmail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing")=2

'SMTP Server
MyEmail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver")="smtp.server.com"

'SMTP Port
MyEmail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport")=25 

MyEmail.Configuration.Fields.Update
MyEmail.Send

set MyEmail=nothing

If your SMTP server requires a username and password then paste these lines in above the MyEmail.Configuration.Fields.Update line:

'SMTP Auth (For Windows Auth set this to 2)
MyEmail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpauthenticate")=1
'Username
MyEmail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusername")="username" 
'Password
MyEmail.Configuration.Fields.Item ("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendpassword")="password"

More information on using CDO to send email with VBScript can be found on the link below: http://www.paulsadowski.com/wsh/cdo.htm

How do I copy an object in Java?

You can deep copy automatically with XStream, from http://x-stream.github.io/:

XStream is a simple library to serialize objects to XML and back again.

Add it to your project (if using maven)

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.thoughtworks.xstream</groupId>
    <artifactId>xstream</artifactId>
    <version>1.3.1</version>                
</dependency>

Then

DummyBean dum = new DummyBean();
dum.setDummy("foo");
DummyBean dumCopy = (DummyBean) XSTREAM.fromXML(XSTREAM.toXML(dum));

With this you have a copy without the need to implement any cloning interface.

jQuery callback for multiple ajax calls

Not seeing the need for any object malarky myself. Simple have a variable which is an integer. When you start a request, increment the number. When one completes, decrement it. When it's zero, there are no requests in progress, so you're done.

$('#button').click(function() {
    var inProgress = 0;

    function handleBefore() {
        inProgress++;
    };

    function handleComplete() {
        if (!--inProgress) {
            // do what's in here when all requests have completed.
        }
    };

    $.ajax({
        beforeSend: handleBefore,
        complete: function () {
            // whatever
            handleComplete();
            // whatever
        }
    });
    $.ajax({
        beforeSend: handleBefore,
        complete: function () {
            // whatever
            handleComplete();
            // whatever
        }
    });
    $.ajax({
        beforeSend: handleBefore,
        complete: function () {
            // whatever
            handleComplete();
            // whatever
        }
    });
});

How can I find the dimensions of a matrix in Python?

If you are using NumPy arrays, shape can be used. For example

  >>> a = numpy.array([[[1,2,3],[1,2,3]],[[12,3,4],[2,1,3]]])
  >>> a
  array([[[ 1,  2,  3],
         [ 1,  2,  3]],

         [[12,  3,  4],
         [ 2,  1,  3]]])
 >>> a.shape
 (2, 2, 3)

How to implement and do OCR in a C# project?

Some online API's work pretty well: ocr.space and Google Cloud Vision. Both of these are free, as long as you do less than 1000 OCR's per month. You can drag & drop an image to do a quick manual test to see how they perform for your images.

I find OCR.space easier to use (no messing around with nuget libraries), but, for my purpose, Google Cloud Vision provided slightly better results than OCR.space.

Google Cloud Vision example:

GoogleCredential cred = GoogleCredential.FromJson(json);
Channel channel = new Channel(ImageAnnotatorClient.DefaultEndpoint.Host, ImageAnnotatorClient.DefaultEndpoint.Port, cred.ToChannelCredentials());
ImageAnnotatorClient client = ImageAnnotatorClient.Create(channel);
Image image = Image.FromStream(stream);

EntityAnnotation googleOcrText = client.DetectText(image).First();
Console.Write(googleOcrText.Description);

OCR.space example:

string uri = $"https://api.ocr.space/parse/imageurl?apikey=helloworld&url={imageUri}";
string responseString = WebUtilities.DoGetRequest(uri);
OcrSpaceResult result = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<OcrSpaceResult>(responseString);
if ((!result.IsErroredOnProcessing) && !String.IsNullOrEmpty(result.ParsedResults[0].ParsedText))
  return result.ParsedResults[0].ParsedText;

What's the best free C++ profiler for Windows?

I use VSPerfMon which is the StandAlone Visual Studio Profiler. I wrote a GUI tool to help me run it and look at the results.

http://code.google.com/p/vsptree/

How to set Bullet colors in UL/LI html lists via CSS without using any images or span tags

I simply solve this problem like this, which should work in all browsers:

_x000D_
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ul li {
  color: red
}

ul li span {
  color: blue;
}
_x000D_
<ul>
  <li><span>Foo</span></li>
  <li><span>Bar</span></li>
  <li><span>Bat</span></li>
</ul>
_x000D_
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_x000D_

jQuery detect if textarea is empty

This will check for empty textarea as well as will not allow only Spaces in textarea coz that looks empty too.

 var txt_msg = $("textarea").val();

 if (txt_msg.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, "").length == 0 || txt_msg=="") {
    return false;
  }

Go to first line in a file in vim?

Go to first line

  • :1

  • or Ctrl + Home

Go to last line

  • :%

  • or Ctrl + End


Go to another line (f.i. 27)

  • :27

[Works On VIM 7.4 (2016) and 8.0 (2018)]

Using CSS to insert text

The answer using jQuery that everyone seems to like has a major flaw, which is it is not scalable (at least as it is written). I think Martin Hansen has the right idea, which is to use HTML5 data-* attributes. And you can even use the apostrophe correctly:

html:

<div class="task" data-task-owner="Joe">mop kitchen</div>
<div class="task" data-task-owner="Charles" data-apos="1">vacuum hallway</div>

css:

div.task:before { content: attr(data-task-owner)"'s task - " ; }
div.task[data-apos]:before { content: attr(data-task-owner)"' task - " ; }

output:

Joe's task - mop kitchen
Charles' task - vacuum hallway

How to see indexes for a database or table in MySQL?

You could use this query to get the no of indexes as well as the index names of each table in specified database.

SELECT TABLE_NAME,
       COUNT(1) index_count,
       GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT(index_name) SEPARATOR ',\n ') indexes
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.STATISTICS
WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA = 'mydb'
      AND INDEX_NAME != 'primary'
GROUP BY TABLE_NAME
ORDER BY COUNT(1) DESC;

"Primary Filegroup is Full" in SQL Server 2008 Standard for no apparent reason

our problem was that the hard drive was down to zero space available.