Programs & Examples On #Changelog

A changelog is a log or record of changes made to a project.

Good ways to manage a changelog using git?

git log --oneline --no-merges `git describe --abbrev=0 --tags`..HEAD | cut -c 9- | sort

Is what I like to use. It gets all commits since the last tag. cut gets rid of the commit hash. If you use ticket numbers at the beginning of your commit messages, they are grouped with sort. Sorting also helps if you prefix certain commits with fix, typo, etc.

how to redirect to external url from c# controller

Try this:

return Redirect("http://www.website.com");

Multiple SQL joins

 SELECT
 B.Title, B.Edition, B.Year, B.Pages, B.Rating     --from Books
, C.Category                                        --from Categories
, P.Publisher                                       --from Publishers
, W.LastName                                        --from Writers

FROM Books B

JOIN Categories_Books CB ON B._ISBN = CB._Books_ISBN
JOIN Categories_Books CB ON CB.__Categories_Category_ID = C._CategoryID
JOIN Publishers P ON B.PublisherID = P._Publisherid
JOIN Writers_Books WB ON B._ISBN = WB._Books_ISBN
JOIN Writers W ON WB._Writers_WriterID = W._WriterID

Converting 'ArrayList<String> to 'String[]' in Java

Starting from Java-11, one can alternatively use the API Collection.toArray(IntFunction<T[]> generator) to achieve the same as:

List<String> list = List.of("x","y","z");
String[] arrayBeforeJDK11 = list.toArray(new String[0]);
String[] arrayAfterJDK11 = list.toArray(String[]::new); // similar to Stream.toArray

Regex: matching up to the first occurrence of a character

sample text:

"this is a test sentence; to prove this regex; that is g;iven below"

If for example we have the sample text above, the regex /(.*?\;)/ will give you everything until the first occurence of semicolon (;), including the semicolon: "this is a test sentence;"

What and where are the stack and heap?

I think many other people have given you mostly correct answers on this matter.

One detail that has been missed, however, is that the "heap" should in fact probably be called the "free store". The reason for this distinction is that the original free store was implemented with a data structure known as a "binomial heap." For that reason, allocating from early implementations of malloc()/free() was allocation from a heap. However, in this modern day, most free stores are implemented with very elaborate data structures that are not binomial heaps.

Java: object to byte[] and byte[] to object converter (for Tokyo Cabinet)

Use serialize and deserialize methods in SerializationUtils from commons-lang.

Capturing window.onbeforeunload

Yes what everybody says above.

For your immediate situation, instead of onChange, you can use onInput, new in html5. The input event is the same, but it'll fire upon every keystroke, regardless of the focus. Also works on selects and all the rest just like onChange.

Best way to do multi-row insert in Oracle?

Use SQL*Loader. It takes a little setting up, but if this isn't a one off, its worth it.

Create Table

SQL> create table ldr_test (id number(10) primary key, description varchar2(20));
Table created.
SQL>

Create CSV

oracle-2% cat ldr_test.csv
1,Apple
2,Orange
3,Pear
oracle-2% 

Create Loader Control File

oracle-2% cat ldr_test.ctl 
load data

 infile 'ldr_test.csv'
 into table ldr_test
 fields terminated by "," optionally enclosed by '"'              
 ( id, description )

oracle-2% 

Run SQL*Loader command

oracle-2% sqlldr <username> control=ldr_test.ctl
Password:

SQL*Loader: Release 9.2.0.5.0 - Production on Wed Sep 3 12:26:46 2008

Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.

Commit point reached - logical record count 3

Confirm insert

SQL> select * from ldr_test;

        ID DESCRIPTION
---------- --------------------
         1 Apple
         2 Orange
         3 Pear

SQL>

SQL*Loader has alot of options, and can take pretty much any text file as its input. You can even inline the data in your control file if you want.

Here is a page with some more details -> SQL*Loader

Editing hosts file to redirect url?

You can't. A redirect requires a webserver to accept the first request and send back the redirect. The "hosts" file just lets you set your own DNS records.

How to use wget in php?

Shellwrap is great tool for using the command-line in PHP!

Your example can be done quite easy and readable:

use MrRio\ShellWrap as sh;

$xml = (string)sh::curl(['u' => 'user:pass'], 'http://example.com/file.xml');

Error: select command denied to user '<userid>'@'<ip-address>' for table '<table-name>'

I had the exact same error message doing a database export via Sequel Pro on a mac. I was the root user so i knew it wasn't permissions. Then i tried it with mysqldump and got a different error message: Got error: 1449: The user specified as a definer ('joey'@'127.0.0.1') does not exist when using LOCK TABLES

Ahh, I had restored this database from a backup on the dev site and I hadn't created that user on this machine. "grant all on . to 'joey'@'127.0.0.1' identified by 'joeypass'; " did the trick.

hth

What's the difference between Unicode and UTF-8?

As Rasmus states in his article "The difference between UTF-8 and Unicode?":

If asked the question, "What is the difference between UTF-8 and Unicode?", would you confidently reply with a short and precise answer? In these days of internationalization all developers should be able to do that. I suspect many of us do not understand these concepts as well as we should. If you feel you belong to this group, you should read this ultra short introduction to character sets and encodings.

Actually, comparing UTF-8 and Unicode is like comparing apples and oranges:

UTF-8 is an encoding - Unicode is a character set

A character set is a list of characters with unique numbers (these numbers are sometimes referred to as "code points"). For example, in the Unicode character set, the number for A is 41.

An encoding on the other hand, is an algorithm that translates a list of numbers to binary so it can be stored on disk. For example UTF-8 would translate the number sequence 1, 2, 3, 4 like this:

00000001 00000010 00000011 00000100 

Our data is now translated into binary and can now be saved to disk.

All together now

Say an application reads the following from the disk:

1101000 1100101 1101100 1101100 1101111 

The app knows this data represent a Unicode string encoded with UTF-8 and must show this as text to the user. First step, is to convert the binary data to numbers. The app uses the UTF-8 algorithm to decode the data. In this case, the decoder returns this:

104 101 108 108 111 

Since the app knows this is a Unicode string, it can assume each number represents a character. We use the Unicode character set to translate each number to a corresponding character. The resulting string is "hello".

Conclusion

So when somebody asks you "What is the difference between UTF-8 and Unicode?", you can now confidently answer short and precise:

UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation Format) and Unicode cannot be compared. UTF-8 is an encoding used to translate numbers into binary data. Unicode is a character set used to translate characters into numbers.

Parse JSON from HttpURLConnection object

Define the following function (not mine, not sure where I found it long ago):

private static String convertStreamToString(InputStream is) {

BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

String line = null;
try {
    while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
        sb.append(line + "\n");
    }
} catch (IOException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
    try {
        is.close();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}
return sb.toString();

}

Then:

String jsonReply;
if(conn.getResponseCode()==201 || conn.getResponseCode()==200)
    {
        success = true;
        InputStream response = conn.getInputStream();
        jsonReply = convertStreamToString(response);

        // Do JSON handling here....
    }

Detach (move) subdirectory into separate Git repository

Edit: Bash script added.

The answers given here worked just partially for me; Lots of big files remained in the cache. What finally worked (after hours in #git on freenode):

git clone --no-hardlinks file:///SOURCE /tmp/blubb
cd blubb
git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter ./PATH_TO_EXTRACT  --prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat -- --all
git clone file:///tmp/blubb/ /tmp/blooh
cd /tmp/blooh
git reflog expire --expire=now --all
git repack -ad
git gc --prune=now

With the previous solutions, the repository size was around 100 MB. This one brought it down to 1.7 MB. Maybe it helps somebody :)


The following bash script automates the task:

!/bin/bash

if (( $# < 3 ))
then
    echo "Usage:   $0 </path/to/repo/> <directory/to/extract/> <newName>"
    echo
    echo "Example: $0 /Projects/42.git first/answer/ firstAnswer"
    exit 1
fi


clone=/tmp/${3}Clone
newN=/tmp/${3}

git clone --no-hardlinks file://$1 ${clone}
cd ${clone}

git filter-branch --subdirectory-filter $2  --prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat -- --all

git clone file://${clone} ${newN}
cd ${newN}

git reflog expire --expire=now --all
git repack -ad
git gc --prune=now

In Java, how do I check if a string contains a substring (ignoring case)?

If you are able to use org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils, I suggest using the following:

String container = "aBcDeFg";
String content = "dE";
boolean containerContainsContent = StringUtils.containsIgnoreCase(container, content);

How do I make a MySQL database run completely in memory?

If your database is small enough (or if you add enough memory) your database will effectively run in memory since it your data will be cached after the first request.

Changing the database table definitions to use the memory engine is probably more complicated than you need.

If you have enough memory to load the tables into memory with the MEMORY engine, you have enough to tune the innodb settings to cache everything anyway.

Is there a printf converter to print in binary format?

Here is a quick hack to demonstrate the techniques for what you want.

#include <stdio.h>   /* printf */
#include <string.h>  /* strcat */
#include <stdlib.h>  /* strtol */

const char *byte_to_binary(int x)
{
    static char b[9];
    b[0] = '\0';

    int z;
    for (z = 128; z > 0; z >>= 1) {
        strcat(b, ((x & z) == z) ? "1" : "0");
    }

    return b;
}

int main(void) {
    {
        /* binary string to int */
        char *tmp;
        char *b = "0101";
        printf("%d\n", strtol(b, &tmp, 2));
    }
    {
        /* byte to binary string */
        printf("%s\n", byte_to_binary(5));
    }
    return 0;
}

When should I use "this" in a class?

Unless you have overlapping variable names, its really just for clarity when you're reading the code.

What difference is there between WebClient and HTTPWebRequest classes in .NET?

Also WebClient doesn't have timeout property. And that's the problem, because dafault value is 100 seconds and that's too much to indicate if there's no Internet connection.

Workaround for that problem is here https://stackoverflow.com/a/3052637/1303422

CSS background-size: cover replacement for Mobile Safari

@media (max-width: @iphone-screen) {
  background-attachment:inherit;    
  background-size:cover;
  -webkit-background-size:cover;
}

System not declared in scope?

Chances are that you've not included the header file that declares system().

In order to be able to compile C++ code that uses functions which you don't (manually) declare yourself, you have to pull in the declarations. These declarations are normally stored in so-called header files that you pull into the current translation unit using the #include preprocessor directive. As the code does not #include the header file in which system() is declared, the compilation fails.

To fix this issue, find out which header file provides you with the declaration of system() and include that. As mentioned in several other answers, you most likely want to add #include <cstdlib>

Java 8 Streams: multiple filters vs. complex condition

This test shows that your second option can perform significantly better. Findings first, then the code:

one filter with predicate of form u -> exp1 && exp2, list size 10000000, averaged over 100 runs: LongSummaryStatistics{count=100, sum=4142, min=29, average=41.420000, max=82}
two filters with predicates of form u -> exp1, list size 10000000, averaged over 100 runs: LongSummaryStatistics{count=100, sum=13315, min=117, average=133.150000, max=153}
one filter with predicate of form predOne.and(pred2), list size 10000000, averaged over 100 runs: LongSummaryStatistics{count=100, sum=10320, min=82, average=103.200000, max=127}

now the code:

enum Gender {
    FEMALE,
    MALE
}

static class User {
    Gender gender;
    int age;

    public User(Gender gender, int age){
        this.gender = gender;
        this.age = age;
    }

    public Gender getGender() {
        return gender;
    }

    public void setGender(Gender gender) {
        this.gender = gender;
    }

    public int getAge() {
        return age;
    }

    public void setAge(int age) {
        this.age = age;
    }
}

static long test1(List<User> users){
    long time1 = System.currentTimeMillis();
    users.stream()
            .filter((u) -> u.getGender() == Gender.FEMALE && u.getAge() % 2 == 0)
            .allMatch(u -> true);                   // least overhead terminal function I can think of
    long time2 = System.currentTimeMillis();
    return time2 - time1;
}

static long test2(List<User> users){
    long time1 = System.currentTimeMillis();
    users.stream()
            .filter(u -> u.getGender() == Gender.FEMALE)
            .filter(u -> u.getAge() % 2 == 0)
            .allMatch(u -> true);                   // least overhead terminal function I can think of
    long time2 = System.currentTimeMillis();
    return time2 - time1;
}

static long test3(List<User> users){
    long time1 = System.currentTimeMillis();
    users.stream()
            .filter(((Predicate<User>) u -> u.getGender() == Gender.FEMALE).and(u -> u.getAge() % 2 == 0))
            .allMatch(u -> true);                   // least overhead terminal function I can think of
    long time2 = System.currentTimeMillis();
    return time2 - time1;
}

public static void main(String... args) {
    int size = 10000000;
    List<User> users =
    IntStream.range(0,size)
            .mapToObj(i -> i % 2 == 0 ? new User(Gender.MALE, i % 100) : new User(Gender.FEMALE, i % 100))
            .collect(Collectors.toCollection(()->new ArrayList<>(size)));
    repeat("one filter with predicate of form u -> exp1 && exp2", users, Temp::test1, 100);
    repeat("two filters with predicates of form u -> exp1", users, Temp::test2, 100);
    repeat("one filter with predicate of form predOne.and(pred2)", users, Temp::test3, 100);
}

private static void repeat(String name, List<User> users, ToLongFunction<List<User>> test, int iterations) {
    System.out.println(name + ", list size " + users.size() + ", averaged over " + iterations + " runs: " + IntStream.range(0, iterations)
            .mapToLong(i -> test.applyAsLong(users))
            .summaryStatistics());
}

Filter by process/PID in Wireshark

Just in case you are looking for an alternate way and the environment you use is Windows, Microsoft's Network Monitor 3.3 is a good choice. It has the process name column. You easily add it to a filter using the context menu and apply the filter.. As usual the GUI is very intuitive...

Styling an input type="file" button

ONLY CSS

Use this very simple and EASY

_x000D_
_x000D_
.choose::-webkit-file-upload-button {_x000D_
  color: white;_x000D_
  display: inline-block;_x000D_
  background: #1CB6E0;_x000D_
  border: none;_x000D_
  padding: 7px 15px;_x000D_
  font-weight: 700;_x000D_
  border-radius: 3px;_x000D_
  white-space: nowrap;_x000D_
  cursor: pointer;_x000D_
  font-size: 10pt;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<label>Attach your screenshort</label>_x000D_
<input type="file" multiple class="choose">
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

XMLHttpRequest (Ajax) Error

The problem is likely to lie with the line:

window.onload = onPageLoad();

By including the brackets you are saying onload should equal the return value of onPageLoad(). For example:

/*Example function*/
function onPageLoad()
{
    return "science";
}
/*Set on load*/
window.onload = onPageLoad()

If you print out the value of window.onload to the console it will be:

science

The solution is remove the brackets:

window.onload = onPageLoad;

So, you're using onPageLoad as a reference to the so-named function.

Finally, in order to get the response value you'll need a readystatechange listener for your XMLHttpRequest object, since it's asynchronous:

xmlDoc = xmlhttp.responseXML;
parser = new DOMParser(); // This code is untested as it doesn't run this far.

Here you add the listener:

xmlHttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
    if(this.readyState == 4) {
        // Do something
    }
}

Why does corrcoef return a matrix?

It allows you to compute correlation coefficients of >2 data sets, e.g.

>>> from numpy import *
>>> a = array([1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9])
>>> b = array([2,4,6,8,10,12,13,15])
>>> c = array([-1,-2,-2,-3,-4,-6,-7,-8])
>>> corrcoef([a,b,c])
array([[ 1.        ,  0.99535001, -0.9805214 ],
       [ 0.99535001,  1.        , -0.97172394],
       [-0.9805214 , -0.97172394,  1.        ]])

Here we can get the correlation coefficient of a,b (0.995), a,c (-0.981) and b,c (-0.972) at once. The two-data-set case is just a special case of N-data-set class. And probably it's better to keep the same return type. Since the "one value" can be obtained simply with

>>> corrcoef(a,b)[1,0]
0.99535001355530017

there's no big reason to create the special case.

Eclipse: Java was started but returned error code=13

Like Vito mentions, this error occurs after Java updates as the path:

C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath

is added to the Path environment variable, causing Eclipse to run using the wrong java version.

To fix the problem:

1) Right-click on Computer and choose Properties.

2) Click Advanced system settings

3) Click Environment Variables...

4) Find the Path variable in the System variables section.

5) Choose it and click Edit...

6) Find and delete the above mentioned path.

This fixed it for me. I should mention that I already have the path:

c:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_21\bin

in the Path variable, but the new path was added to the beginning of the Path variable and therefore resolution would use that path first.

What is the difference between `new Object()` and object literal notation?

Also, according to some of the O'Really javascript books....(quoted)

Another reason for using literals as opposed to the Object constructor is that there is no scope resolution. Because it’s possible that you have created a local constructor with the same name, the interpreter needs to look up the scope chain from the place you are calling Object() all the way up until it finds the global Object constructor.

Eclipse add Tomcat 7 blank server name

I had same issue before: the server name was not appearing in server while configuring with eclipse

I tried all the solutions which are provided over here, but they didn't work for me.

I resolved it, by simply following these simple tips

Step1: Windows --> Preferences --> Server --> Run time Environments --> Add --> select the tomcat version which was unavailable before --> next --> browse the location of your server with same version

Step2: go to servers and select your server version --> next --> Finish

Issue resolved!!! :)

Getting Access Denied when calling the PutObject operation with bucket-level permission

I was having a similar problem. I was not using the ACL stuff, so I didn't need s3:PutObjectAcl.

In my case, I was doing (in Serverless Framework YML):

- Effect: Allow
  Action:
    - s3:PutObject
  Resource: "arn:aws:s3:::MyBucketName"

Instead of:

- Effect: Allow
  Action:
    - s3:PutObject
  Resource: "arn:aws:s3:::MyBucketName/*"

Which adds a /* to the end of the bucket ARN.

Hope this helps.

How to request Location Permission at runtime

Google has created a library for easy Permissions management. Its called EasyPermissions

Here is a simple example on requesting Location permission using this library.

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    private final int REQUEST_LOCATION_PERMISSION = 1;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        requestLocationPermission();
    }

    @Override
    public void onRequestPermissionsResult(int requestCode, String[] permissions, int[] grantResults) {
        super.onRequestPermissionsResult(requestCode, permissions, grantResults);

        // Forward results to EasyPermissions
        EasyPermissions.onRequestPermissionsResult(requestCode, permissions, grantResults, this);
    }

    @AfterPermissionGranted(REQUEST_LOCATION_PERMISSION)
    public void requestLocationPermission() {
        String[] perms = {Manifest.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION};
        if(EasyPermissions.hasPermissions(this, perms)) {
            Toast.makeText(this, "Permission already granted", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        }
        else {
            EasyPermissions.requestPermissions(this, "Please grant the location permission", REQUEST_LOCATION_PERMISSION, perms);
        }
    }
}

@AfterPermissionsGranted(REQUEST_CODE) is used to indicate the method that needs to be executed after a permission request with the request code REQUEST_CODE has been granted.

This above case, the method requestLocationPermission() method is called if the user grants the permission to access location services. So, that method acts as both a callback and a method to request the permissions.

You can implement separate callbacks for permission granted and permission denied as well. It is explained in the github page.

Android - Activity vs FragmentActivity?

If you use the Eclipse "New Android Project" wizard in a recent ADT bundle, you'll automatically get tabs implemented as a Fragments. This makes the conversion of your application to the tablet format much easier in the future.

For simple single screen layouts you may still use Activity.

Can you create nested WITH clauses for Common Table Expressions?

These answers are pretty good, but as far as getting the items to order properly, you'd be better off looking at this article http://dataeducation.com/dr-output-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-merge

Here's an example of his query.

WITH paths AS ( 
    SELECT 
        EmployeeID, 
        CONVERT(VARCHAR(900), CONCAT('.', EmployeeID, '.')) AS FullPath 
    FROM EmployeeHierarchyWide 
    WHERE ManagerID IS NULL

    UNION ALL

    SELECT 
        ehw.EmployeeID, 
        CONVERT(VARCHAR(900), CONCAT(p.FullPath, ehw.EmployeeID, '.')) AS FullPath 
    FROM paths AS p 
        JOIN EmployeeHierarchyWide AS ehw ON ehw.ManagerID = p.EmployeeID 
) 
SELECT * FROM paths order by FullPath

How to start http-server locally

When you're running npm install in the project's root, it installs all of the npm dependencies into the project's node_modules directory.

If you take a look at the project's node_modules directory, you should see a directory called http-server, which holds the http-server package, and a .bin folder, which holds the executable binaries from the installed dependencies. The .bin directory should have the http-server binary (or a link to it).

So in your case, you should be able to start the http-server by running the following from your project's root directory (instead of npm start):

./node_modules/.bin/http-server -a localhost -p 8000 -c-1

This should have the same effect as running npm start.

If you're running a Bash shell, you can simplify this by adding the ./node_modules/.bin folder to your $PATH environment variable:

export PATH=./node_modules/.bin:$PATH

This will put this folder on your path, and you should be able to simply run

http-server -a localhost -p 8000 -c-1

How to insert a newline in front of a pattern?

In vi on Red Hat, I was able to insert carriage returns using just the \r character. I believe this internally executes 'ex' instead of 'sed', but it's similar, and vi can be another way to do bulk edits such as code patches. For example. I am surrounding a search term with an if statement that insists on carriage returns after the braces:

:.,$s/\(my_function(.*)\)/if(!skip_option){\r\t\1\r\t}/

Note that I also had it insert some tabs to make things align better.

Map.Entry: How to use it?

Map.Entry is a key and its value combined into one class. This allows you to iterate over Map.entrySet() instead of having to iterate over Map.keySet(), then getting the value for each key. A better way to write what you have is:

for (Map.Entry<String, JButton> entry : listbouton.entrySet())
{
  String key = entry.getKey();
  JButton value = entry.getValue();

  this.add(value);
}

If this wasn't clear let me know and I'll amend my answer.

Uploading/Displaying Images in MVC 4

Here is a short tutorial:

Model:

namespace ImageUploadApp.Models
{
    using System;
    using System.Collections.Generic;

    public partial class Image
    {
        public int ID { get; set; }
        public string ImagePath { get; set; }
    }
}

View:

  1. Create:

    @model ImageUploadApp.Models.Image
    @{
        ViewBag.Title = "Create";
    }
    <h2>Create</h2>
    @using (Html.BeginForm("Create", "Image", null, FormMethod.Post, 
                                  new { enctype = "multipart/form-data" })) {
        @Html.AntiForgeryToken()
        @Html.ValidationSummary(true)
        <fieldset>
            <legend>Image</legend>
            <div class="editor-label">
                @Html.LabelFor(model => model.ImagePath)
            </div>
            <div class="editor-field">
                <input id="ImagePath" title="Upload a product image" 
                                      type="file" name="file" />
            </div>
            <p><input type="submit" value="Create" /></p>
        </fieldset>
    }
    <div>
        @Html.ActionLink("Back to List", "Index")
    </div>
    @section Scripts {
        @Scripts.Render("~/bundles/jqueryval")
    }
    
  2. Index (for display):

    @model IEnumerable<ImageUploadApp.Models.Image>
    
    @{
        ViewBag.Title = "Index";
    }
    
    <h2>Index</h2>
    
    <p>
        @Html.ActionLink("Create New", "Create")
    </p>
    <table>
        <tr>
            <th>
                @Html.DisplayNameFor(model => model.ImagePath)
            </th>
        </tr>
    
    @foreach (var item in Model) {
        <tr>
            <td>
                @Html.DisplayFor(modelItem => item.ImagePath)
            </td>
            <td>
                @Html.ActionLink("Edit", "Edit", new { id=item.ID }) |
                @Html.ActionLink("Details", "Details", new { id=item.ID }) |
                @Ajax.ActionLink("Delete", "Delete", new {id = item.ID} })
            </td>
        </tr>
    }
    
    </table>
    
  3. Controller (Create)

    public ActionResult Create(Image img, HttpPostedFileBase file)
    {
        if (ModelState.IsValid)
        {
            if (file != null)
            {
                file.SaveAs(HttpContext.Server.MapPath("~/Images/") 
                                                      + file.FileName);
                img.ImagePath = file.FileName;
            }  
            db.Image.Add(img);
            db.SaveChanges();
            return RedirectToAction("Index");
        }
        return View(img);
    }
    

Hope this will help :)

MomentJS getting JavaScript Date in UTC

A timestamp is a point in time. Typically this can be represented by a number of milliseconds past an epoc (the Unix Epoc of Jan 1 1970 12AM UTC). The format of that point in time depends on the time zone. While it is the same point in time, the "hours value" is not the same among time zones and one must take into account the offset from the UTC.

Here's some code to illustrate. A point is time is captured in three different ways.

var moment = require( 'moment' );

var localDate = new Date();
var localMoment = moment();
var utcMoment = moment.utc();
var utcDate = new Date( utcMoment.format() );

//These are all the same
console.log( 'localData unix = ' + localDate.valueOf() );
console.log( 'localMoment unix = ' + localMoment.valueOf() );
console.log( 'utcMoment unix = ' + utcMoment.valueOf() );

//These formats are different
console.log( 'localDate = ' + localDate );
console.log( 'localMoment string = ' + localMoment.format() );
console.log( 'utcMoment string = ' + utcMoment.format() );
console.log( 'utcDate  = ' + utcDate );

//One to show conversion
console.log( 'localDate as UTC format = ' + moment.utc( localDate ).format() );
console.log( 'localDate as UTC unix = ' + moment.utc( localDate ).valueOf() );

Which outputs this:

localData unix = 1415806206570
localMoment unix = 1415806206570
utcMoment unix = 1415806206570
localDate = Wed Nov 12 2014 10:30:06 GMT-0500 (EST)
localMoment string = 2014-11-12T10:30:06-05:00
utcMoment string = 2014-11-12T15:30:06+00:00
utcDate  = Wed Nov 12 2014 10:30:06 GMT-0500 (EST)
localDate as UTC format = 2014-11-12T15:30:06+00:00
localDate as UTC unix = 1415806206570

In terms of milliseconds, each are the same. It is the exact same point in time (though in some runs, the later millisecond is one higher).

As far as format, each can be represented in a particular timezone. And the formatting of that timezone'd string looks different, for the exact same point in time!

Are you going to compare these time values? Just convert to milliseconds. One value of milliseconds is always less than, equal to or greater than another millisecond value.

Do you want to compare specific 'hour' or 'day' values and worried they "came from" different timezones? Convert to UTC first using moment.utc( existingDate ), and then do operations. Examples of those conversions, when coming out of the DB, are the last console.log calls in the example.

c# dictionary How to add multiple values for single key?

If I understood what you want:

dictionary.Add("key", new List<string>()); 

later...

dictionary["key"].Add("string to your list");

Determining the path that a yum package installed to

yum uses RPM, so the following command will list the contents of the installed package:

$ rpm -ql package-name

intellij idea - Error: java: invalid source release 1.9

Select the project, then File > ProjectStructure > ProjectSettings > Modules -> sources You probably have the Language Level set at 9:

screenshot

Just change it to 8 (or whatever you need) and you're set to go.

Also, check the same Language Level settings mentioned above, under Project Settings > Project

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Embed a PowerPoint presentation into HTML

Try PowerPoint ActiveX 2.4. This is an ActiveX component that embeds PowerPoint into an OCX.

Since you are using just Internet Explorer 6 and Internet Explorer 7 you can embed this component into the HTML.

How do I force make/GCC to show me the commands?

Depending on your automake version, you can also use this:

make AM_DEFAULT_VERBOSITY=1

Reference: AM_DEFAULT_VERBOSITY

Note: I added this answer since V=1 did not work for me.

What is the difference between '/' and '//' when used for division?

// is floor division, it will always give you the integer floor of the result. The other is 'regular' division.

jQuery Validation plugin: validate check box

You can validate group checkbox and radio button without extra js code, see below example.

Your JS should be look like:

$("#formid").validate();

You can play with HTML tag and attributes: eg. group checkbox [minlength=2 and maxlength=4]

<fieldset class="col-md-12">
  <legend>Days</legend>
  <div class="form-row">
    <div class="col-12 col-md-12 form-group">
        <label class="checkbox-inline">
          <input type="checkbox" name="daysgroup[]" value="1" required="required" data-msg-required="This value is required." minlength="2" maxlength="4" data-msg-maxlength="Max should be 4">Monday
        </label>
        <label class="checkbox-inline">
          <input type="checkbox" name="daysgroup[]" value="2">Tuesday
        </label>
        <label class="checkbox-inline">
          <input type="checkbox" name="daysgroup[]" value="3">Wednesday
        </label>
        <label class="checkbox-inline">
          <input type="checkbox" name="daysgroup[]" value="4">Thursday
        </label>
        <label class="checkbox-inline">
          <input type="checkbox" name="daysgroup[]" value="5">Friday
        </label>
        <label class="checkbox-inline">
          <input type="checkbox" name="daysgroup[]" value="6">Saturday
        </label>
        <label class="checkbox-inline">
          <input type="checkbox" name="daysgroup[]" value="7">Sunday
        </label>
        <label for="daysgroup[]" class="error">Your error message will be display here.</label>
    </div>
  </div>
</fieldset>

You can see here first or any one input should have required, minlength="2" and maxlength="4" attributes. minlength/maxlength as per your requirement.

eg. group radio button:

<fieldset class="col-md-12">
  <legend>Gender</legend>
  <div class="form-row">
    <div class="col-12 col-md-12 form-group">
        <label class="form-check-inline">
          <input type="radio" name="gendergroup[]" value="m" required="required" data-msg-required="This value is required.">man
        </label>
        <label class="form-check-inline">
          <input type="radio" name="gendergroup[]" value="w">woman
        </label>
        <label class="form-check-inline">
          <input type="radio" name="gendergroup[]" value="o">other
        </label>
        <label for="gendergroup[]" class="error">Your error message will be display here.</label>
    </div>
  </div>
</fieldset>

You can check working example here.

  • jQuery v3.3.x
  • jQuery Validation Plugin - v1.17.0

Why am I suddenly getting a "Blocked loading mixed active content" issue in Firefox?

I found this blog post which cleared up a few things. To quote the most relevant bit:

Mixed Active Content is now blocked by default in Firefox 23!

What is Mixed Content?
When a user visits a page served over HTTP, their connection is open for eavesdropping and man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks. When a user visits a page served over HTTPS, their connection with the web server is authenticated and encrypted with SSL and hence safeguarded from eavesdroppers and MITM attacks.

However, if an HTTPS page includes HTTP content, the HTTP portion can be read or modified by attackers, even though the main page is served over HTTPS. When an HTTPS page has HTTP content, we call that content “mixed”. The webpage that the user is visiting is only partially encrypted, since some of the content is retrieved unencrypted over HTTP. The Mixed Content Blocker blocks certain HTTP requests on HTTPS pages.

The resolution, in my case, was to simply ensure the jquery includes were as follows (note the removal of the protocol):

<link rel="stylesheet" href="//code.jquery.com/ui/1.8.10/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css" type="text/css">
<script type="text/javascript" src="//ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.ui/1.8.10/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>

Note that the temporary 'fix' is to click on the 'shield' icon in the top-left corner of the address bar and select 'Disable Protection on This Page', although this is not recommended for obvious reasons.

UPDATE: This link from the Firefox (Mozilla) support pages is also useful in explaining what constitutes mixed content and, as given in the above paragraph, does actually provide details of how to display the page regardless:

Most websites will continue to work normally without any action on your part.

If you need to allow the mixed content to be displayed, you can do that easily:

Click the shield icon Mixed Content Shield in the address bar and choose Disable Protection on This Page from the dropdown menu.

The icon in the address bar will change to an orange warning triangle Warning Identity Icon to remind you that insecure content is being displayed.

To revert the previous action (re-block mixed content), just reload the page.

How to Parse a JSON Object In Android

In your JSON format, it do not have starting JSON object

Like :

{
    "info" :       <!-- this is starting JSON object -->
        {
        "caller":"getPoiById",
        "results":
        {
            "indexForPhone":0,
            "indexForEmail":"NULL",
            .
            .
         }
    }
}

Above Json starts with info as JSON object. So while executing :

JSONObject json = new JSONObject(result);    // create JSON obj from string
JSONObject json2 = json.getJSONObject("info");    // this will return correct

Now, we can access result field :

JSONObject jsonResult = json2.getJSONObject("results");
test = json2.getString("name"); // returns "Marina Rasche Werft GmbH & Co. KG"

I think this was missing and so the problem was solved while we use JSONTokener like answer of yours.

Your answer is very fine. Just i think i add this information so i answered

Thank you

Checking length of dictionary object

Count and show keys in a dictionary (run in console):

o=[];count=0; for (i in topicNames) { ++count; o.push(count+": "+ i) } o.join("\n")

Sample output:

"1: Phase-out Left-hand
2: Define All Top Level Taxonomies But Processes
3: 987
4: 16:00
5: Identify suppliers"

Simple count function:

function size_dict(d){c=0; for (i in d) ++c; return c}

Make elasticsearch only return certain fields?

A REST API GET request could be made with '_source' parameter.

Example Request

http://localhost:9200/opt_pr/_search?q=SYMBOL:ITC AND OPTION_TYPE=CE AND TRADE_DATE=2017-02-10 AND EXPIRY_DATE=2017-02-23&_source=STRIKE_PRICE

Response

{
"took": 59,
"timed_out": false,
"_shards": {
    "total": 5,
    "successful": 5,
    "failed": 0
},
"hits": {
    "total": 104,
    "max_score": 7.3908954,
    "hits": [
        {
            "_index": "opt_pr",
            "_type": "opt_pr_r",
            "_id": "AV3K4QTgNHl15Mv30uLc",
            "_score": 7.3908954,
            "_source": {
                "STRIKE_PRICE": 160
            }
        },
        {
            "_index": "opt_pr",
            "_type": "opt_pr_r",
            "_id": "AV3K4QTgNHl15Mv30uLh",
            "_score": 7.3908954,
            "_source": {
                "STRIKE_PRICE": 185
            }
        },
        {
            "_index": "opt_pr",
            "_type": "opt_pr_r",
            "_id": "AV3K4QTgNHl15Mv30uLi",
            "_score": 7.3908954,
            "_source": {
                "STRIKE_PRICE": 190
            }
        },
        {
            "_index": "opt_pr",
            "_type": "opt_pr_r",
            "_id": "AV3K4QTgNHl15Mv30uLm",
            "_score": 7.3908954,
            "_source": {
                "STRIKE_PRICE": 210
            }
        },
        {
            "_index": "opt_pr",
            "_type": "opt_pr_r",
            "_id": "AV3K4QTgNHl15Mv30uLp",
            "_score": 7.3908954,
            "_source": {
                "STRIKE_PRICE": 225
            }
        },
        {
            "_index": "opt_pr",
            "_type": "opt_pr_r",
            "_id": "AV3K4QTgNHl15Mv30uLr",
            "_score": 7.3908954,
            "_source": {
                "STRIKE_PRICE": 235
            }
        },
        {
            "_index": "opt_pr",
            "_type": "opt_pr_r",
            "_id": "AV3K4QTgNHl15Mv30uLw",
            "_score": 7.3908954,
            "_source": {
                "STRIKE_PRICE": 260
            }
        },
        {
            "_index": "opt_pr",
            "_type": "opt_pr_r",
            "_id": "AV3K4QTgNHl15Mv30uL5",
            "_score": 7.3908954,
            "_source": {
                "STRIKE_PRICE": 305
            }
        },
        {
            "_index": "opt_pr",
            "_type": "opt_pr_r",
            "_id": "AV3K4QTgNHl15Mv30uLd",
            "_score": 7.381078,
            "_source": {
                "STRIKE_PRICE": 165
            }
        },
        {
            "_index": "opt_pr",
            "_type": "opt_pr_r",
            "_id": "AV3K4QTgNHl15Mv30uLy",
            "_score": 7.381078,
            "_source": {
                "STRIKE_PRICE": 270
            }
        }
    ]
}

}

Single TextView with multiple colored text

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 24) {
     Html.fromHtml(String, flag) // for 24 API  and more
 } else {
     Html.fromHtml(String) // or for older API 
 }

for 24 API and more (flag)

public static final int FROM_HTML_MODE_COMPACT = 63;
public static final int FROM_HTML_MODE_LEGACY = 0;
public static final int FROM_HTML_OPTION_USE_CSS_COLORS = 256;
public static final int FROM_HTML_SEPARATOR_LINE_BREAK_BLOCKQUOTE = 32;
public static final int FROM_HTML_SEPARATOR_LINE_BREAK_DIV = 16;
public static final int FROM_HTML_SEPARATOR_LINE_BREAK_HEADING = 2;
public static final int FROM_HTML_SEPARATOR_LINE_BREAK_LIST = 8;
public static final int FROM_HTML_SEPARATOR_LINE_BREAK_LIST_ITEM = 4;
public static final int FROM_HTML_SEPARATOR_LINE_BREAK_PARAGRAPH = 1;
public static final int TO_HTML_PARAGRAPH_LINES_CONSECUTIVE = 0;
public static final int TO_HTML_PARAGRAPH_LINES_INDIVIDUAL = 1;

More Info

jquery.ajax Access-Control-Allow-Origin

At my work we have our restful services on a different port number and the data resides in db2 on a pair of AS400s. We typically use the $.getJSON AJAX method because it easily returns JSONP using the ?callback=? without having any issues with CORS.

data ='USER=<?echo trim($USER)?>' +
         '&QRYTYPE=' + $("input[name=QRYTYPE]:checked").val();

        //Call the REST program/method returns: JSONP 
        $.getJSON( "http://www.stackoverflow.com/rest/resttest?callback=?",data)
        .done(function( json ) {        

              //  loading...
                if ($.trim(json.ERROR) != '') {
                    $("#error-msg").text(message).show();
                }
                else{
                    $(".error").hide();
                    $("#jsonp").text(json.whatever);

                }

        })  
        .fail(function( jqXHR, textStatus, error ) {
        var err = textStatus + ", " + error;
        alert('Unable to Connect to Server.\n Try again Later.\n Request Failed: ' + err);
        });     

How to create a Jar file in Netbeans

Create a Java archive (.jar) file using NetBeans as follows:

  1. Right-click on the Project name
  2. Select Properties
  3. Click Packaging
  4. Check Build JAR after Compiling
  5. Check Compress JAR File
  6. Click OK to accept changes
  7. Right-click on a Project name
  8. Select Build or Clean and Build

Clean and Build will first delete build artifacts (such as .class files), whereas Build will retain any existing .class files, creating new versions necessary. To elucidate, imagine a project with two classes, A and B.

When built the first time, the IDE creates A.class and B.class. Now you delete B.java but don't clear out B.class. Executing Build should leave B.class in the build directory, and bundle it into the JAR. Selecting Clean and Build will delete B.class. Since B.java was deleted, no longer will B.class be bundled.

The JAR file is built. To view it inside NetBeans:

  1. Click the Files tab
  2. Expand Project name >> dist

Ensure files aren't being excluded when building the JAR file.

How do I make a https post in Node Js without any third party module?

For example, like this:

const querystring = require('querystring');
const https = require('https');

var postData = querystring.stringify({
    'msg' : 'Hello World!'
});

var options = {
  hostname: 'posttestserver.com',
  port: 443,
  path: '/post.php',
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
       'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
       'Content-Length': postData.length
     }
};

var req = https.request(options, (res) => {
  console.log('statusCode:', res.statusCode);
  console.log('headers:', res.headers);

  res.on('data', (d) => {
    process.stdout.write(d);
  });
});

req.on('error', (e) => {
  console.error(e);
});

req.write(postData);
req.end();

Python: finding lowest integer

To find the minimum value of a list, you might just as well use min:

x = min(float(s) for s in l) # min of a generator

Or, if you want the result as a string, rather than a float, use a key function:

x = min(l, key=float)

Compile c++14-code with g++

G++ does support C++14 both via -std=c++14 and -std=c++1y. The latter was the common name for the standard before it was known in which year it would be released. In older versions (including yours) only the latter is accepted as the release year wasn't known yet when those versions were released.

I used "sudo apt-get install g++" which should automatically retrieve the latest version, is that correct?

It installs the latest version available in the Ubuntu repositories, not the latest version that exists.

The latest GCC version is 5.2.

SQL, How to Concatenate results?

It depends on the database you are using. MySQL for example supports the (non-standard) group_concat function. So you could write:

SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(ModuleValue) FROM Table_X WHERE ModuleID=@ModuleID

Group-concat is not available at all database servers though.

Looping through a Scripting.Dictionary using index/item number

Adding to assylias's answer - assylias shows us D.ITEMS is a method that returns an array. Knowing that, we don't need the variant array a(i) [See caveat below]. We just need to use the proper array syntax.

For i = 0 To d.Count - 1
    s = d.Items()(i)
    Debug.Print s
Next i()

KEYS works the same way

For i = 0 To d.Count - 1
    Debug.Print d.Keys()(i), d.Items()(i)
Next i

This syntax is also useful for the SPLIT function which may help make this clearer. SPLIT also returns an array with lower bounds at 0. Thus, the following prints "C".

Debug.Print Split("A,B,C,D", ",")(2)

SPLIT is a function. Its parameters are in the first set of parentheses. Methods and Functions always use the first set of parentheses for parameters, even if no parameters are needed. In the example SPLIT returns the array {"A","B","C","D"}. Since it returns an array we can use a second set of parentheses to identify an element within the returned array just as we would any array.

Caveat: This shorter syntax may not be as efficient as using the variant array a() when iterating through the entire dictionary since the shorter syntax invokes the dictionary's Items method with each iteration. The shorter syntax is best for plucking a single item by number from a dictionary.

How to modify values of JsonObject / JsonArray directly?

Another approach would be to deserialize into a java.util.Map, and then just modify the Java Map as wanted. This separates the Java-side data handling from the data transport mechanism (JSON), which is how I prefer to organize my code: using JSON for data transport, not as a replacement data structure.

PHP check if url parameter exists

if(isset($_GET['id']))
{
    // Do something
}

You want something like that

How to programmatically set style attribute in a view

Depending on what style attributes you'd like to change you may be able to use the Paris library:

Button view = (Button) LayoutInflater.from(this).inflate(R.layout.section_button, null);
Paris.style(view).apply(R.style.YourStyle);

Many attributes like background, padding, textSize, textColor, etc. are supported.

Disclaimer: I authored the library.

What's the difference between using "let" and "var"?

let can also be used to avoid problems with closures. It binds fresh value rather than keeping an old reference as shown in examples below.

_x000D_
_x000D_
for(var i=1; i<6; i++) {_x000D_
  $("#div" + i).click(function () { console.log(i); });_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<p>Clicking on each number will log to console:</p> _x000D_
<div id="div1">1</div>_x000D_
<div id="div2">2</div>_x000D_
<div id="div3">3</div>_x000D_
<div id="div4">4</div>_x000D_
<div id="div5">5</div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Code above demonstrates a classic JavaScript closure problem. Reference to the i variable is being stored in the click handler closure, rather than the actual value of i.

Every single click handler will refer to the same object because there’s only one counter object which holds 6 so you get six on each click.

A general workaround is to wrap this in an anonymous function and pass i as an argument. Such issues can also be avoided now by using let instead var as shown in the code below.

(Tested in Chrome and Firefox 50)

_x000D_
_x000D_
for(let i=1; i<6; i++) {_x000D_
  $("#div" + i).click(function () { console.log(i); });_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<p>Clicking on each number will log to console:</p> _x000D_
<div id="div1">1</div>_x000D_
<div id="div2">2</div>_x000D_
<div id="div3">3</div>_x000D_
<div id="div4">4</div>_x000D_
<div id="div5">5</div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

How to create an alert message in jsp page after submit process is complete

in your servlet

 request.setAttribute("submitDone","done");
 return mapping.findForward("success");

In your jsp

<c:if test="${not empty submitDone}">
  <script>alert("Form submitted");
</script></c:if>

How to add results of two select commands in same query

Repeat for Multiple aggregations like:

SELECT sum(AMOUNT) AS TOTAL_AMOUNT FROM ( 
    SELECT AMOUNT FROM table_1
    UNION ALL 
    SELECT AMOUNT FROM table_2 
    UNION ALL 
    SELECT ASSURED_SUM FROM table_3
)

Oracle SQL convert date format from DD-Mon-YY to YYYYMM

As offer_date is an number, and is of lower accuracy than your real dates, this may work...
- Convert your real date to a string of format YYYYMM
- Conver that value to an INT
- Compare the result you your offer_date

SELECT
  *
FROM
  offers
WHERE
    offer_date = (SELECT CAST(to_char(create_date, 'YYYYMM') AS INT) FROM customers where id = '12345678')
AND offer_rate > 0 

Also, by doing all the manipulation on the create_date you only do the processing on one value.

Additionally, had you manipulated the offer_date you would not be able to utilise any index on that field, and so force SCANs instead of SEEKs.

JPA mapping: "QuerySyntaxException: foobar is not mapped..."

I got the same error while using other one entity, He was annotating the class wrongly by using the table name inside the @Entity annotation without using the @Table annotation

The correct format should be

@Entity //default name similar to class name 'FooBar' OR @Entity( name = "foobar" ) for differnt entity name
@Table( name = "foobar" ) // Table name 
public class FooBar{

Flask SQLAlchemy query, specify column names

You can use Model.query, because the Model (or usually its base class, especially in cases where declarative extension is used) is assigned Sesssion.query_property. In this case the Model.query is equivalent to Session.query(Model).

I am not aware of the way to modify the columns returned by the query (except by adding more using add_columns()).
So your best shot is to use the Session.query(Model.col1, Model.col2, ...) (as already shown by Salil).

How to grant remote access to MySQL for a whole subnet?

MySQL 8.0.23 onwards now support CIDR notation also.

So, basically:

-- CIDR Notation
GRANT ... TO 'user'@'192.168.1.0/24' IDENTIFIED BY ...

-- Netmask Notation
GRANT ... TO 'user'@'192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0' IDENTIFIED BY ...

Pass a String from one Activity to another Activity in Android

Post Value from

Intent ii = new Intent(this, GameStartPage.class);

// ii.putExtra("pkgName", B2MAppsPKGName);

ii.putExtra("pkgName", YourValue);
ii.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_NEW_TASK);
startActivity(ii);

Get Value from

pkgn = getIntent().getExtras().getString("pkgName");

Eclipse copy/paste entire line keyboard shortcut

Ctrl-Alt-Down: copies current line or selected lines to below

Ctrl-Alt-Up:: copies current line or selected lines to above

Ctrl-Shift-L: brings up a List of shortcut keys

See Windows/Preference->General->Keys.

How do I replace a character in a string in Java?

Just create a string that contains all of the data in question and then use String.replaceAll() like below.

String result = yourString.replaceAll("&", "&amp;");

Table fixed header and scrollable body

Late to the party (Story of my life), but since this is the first result on google, and none of the above got me working, here's my code

/*Set a min width where your table start to look like crap*/
table { min-width: 600px; }

/*The next 3 sections make the magic happen*/
thead, tbody tr {
    display: table;
    width: 100%;
    table-layout: fixed;
}

tbody {
    display: block;
    max-height: 200px;
    overflow-x: hidden;
    overflow-y: scroll;
}

td {
    overflow: hidden;
    text-overflow: ellipsis;
}

/*Use the following to make sure cols align correctly*/
table, tr, th, td {
    border: 1px solid black;
    border-collapse: collapse;
}


/*Set your columns to where you want them to be, skip the one that you can have resize to any width*/
    th:nth-child(1), td:nth-child(1) {
    width: 85px;
}
th:nth-child(2), td:nth-child(2) {
    width: 150px;
}
th:nth-child(4), td:nth-child(4) {
    width: 125px;
}
th:nth-child(5) {
    width: 102px;
}
td:nth-child(5) {
    width: 85px;
}

convert a JavaScript string variable to decimal/money

It is fairly risky to rely on javascript functions to compare and play with numbers. In javascript (0.1+0.2 == 0.3) will return false due to rounding errors. Use the math.js library.

Convert list of ASCII codes to string (byte array) in Python

I much prefer the array module to the struct module for this kind of tasks (ones involving sequences of homogeneous values):

>>> import array
>>> array.array('B', [17, 24, 121, 1, 12, 222, 34, 76]).tostring()
'\x11\x18y\x01\x0c\xde"L'

no len call, no string manipulation needed, etc -- fast, simple, direct, why prefer any other approach?!

Content is not allowed in Prolog SAXParserException

I faced the same issue. Our application running on four application servers and due to invalid schema location mentioned on one of the web service WSDL, hung threads are generated on the servers . The appliucations got down frequently. After corrected the schema Location , the issue got resolved.

Android: why setVisibility(View.GONE); or setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE); do not work

I see quite a few things wrong. For starters, you don't have your magic button defined and there is no event handler for it.

Also you shouldn't use:

dp2.setVisibility(View.GONE);
dp2.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE); 

Use only one of the two. From Android documentation:

View.GONE This view is invisible, and it doesn't take any space for layout purposes.

View.INVISIBLE This view is invisible, but it still takes up space for layout purposes.

In your example, you are overriding the View.GONE assignment with the View.INVISIBLE one.


Try replacing:

final DatePicker dp2 = new DatePicker(this)

with:

DatePicker dp2 = (DatePicker) findViewById(R.id.datePick2);  

Similarly for other widgets:

    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

        LinearLayout ll = new LinearLayout(this);
        ll.setOrientation(LinearLayout.VERTICAL);

        final DatePicker dp2 = new DatePicker(this);
        final Button btn2 = new Button(this);
        final Button magicButton = new Button(this);
        final TextView txt2 = new TextView(TestActivity.this);

        dp2.setVisibility(View.GONE);
        btn2.setVisibility(View.GONE);
        btn2.setText("set Date");

        btn2.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            public void onClick(View arg0) {
                txt2.setText("You selected "
                    + dp2.getDayOfMonth() + "/" + (dp2.getMonth() + 1) 
                    + "/" + dp2.getYear());
            }
        });

        magicButton.setText("Magic Button");
        magicButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener()    
            public void onClick(View arg0) {
                dp2.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
                btn2.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
            }
        });

    ll.addView(dp2);
    ll.addView(btn2);
    ll.addView(magicButton);
    ll.addView(txt2);

    setContentView(ll);
}

Format date and Subtract days using Moment.js

In angularjs moment="^1.3.0"

moment('15-01-1979', 'DD-MM-YYYY').subtract(1,'days').format(); //14-01-1979
or
moment('15-01-1979', 'DD-MM-YYYY').add(1,'days').format(); //16-01-1979
``



Filtering lists using LINQ

You can use the "Except" extension method (see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb337804.aspx)

In your code

var difference = people.Except(exclusions);

How to include a child object's child object in Entity Framework 5

I ended up doing the following and it works:

return DatabaseContext.Applications
     .Include("Children.ChildRelationshipType");

Create a new txt file using VB.NET

open C:\myfile.txt for append as #1
write #1, text1.text, text2.text
close()

This is the code I use in Visual Basic 6.0. It helps me to create a txt file on my drive, write two pieces of data into it, and then close the file... Give it a try...

Get just the filename from a path in a Bash script

basename and dirname solutions are more convenient. Those are alternative commands:

FILE_PATH="/opt/datastores/sda2/test.old.img"
echo "$FILE_PATH" | sed "s/.*\///"

This returns test.old.img like basename.

This is salt filename without extension:

echo "$FILE_PATH" | sed -r "s/.+\/(.+)\..+/\1/"

It returns test.old.

And following statement gives the full path like dirname command.

echo "$FILE_PATH" | sed -r "s/(.+)\/.+/\1/"

It returns /opt/datastores/sda2

Getting the name / key of a JToken with JSON.net

JObject obj = JObject.Parse(json);
var attributes = obj["parent"]["child"]...["your desired element"].ToList<JToken>(); 

foreach (JToken attribute in attributes)
{   
    JProperty jProperty = attribute.ToObject<JProperty>();
    string propertyName = jProperty.Name;
}

Binding a Button's visibility to a bool value in ViewModel

Since Windows 10 15063 upwards

Since Windows 10 build 15063, there is a new feature called "Implicit Visibility conversion" that binds Visibility to bool value natively - There is no need anymore to use a converter.

(see https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/34846.uwp-compiled-binding-windows-10-anniversary-update.aspx#Implicit_Visibility_conversion).

My code (which supposes that MVVM is used, and Template 10 as well):

<!-- In XAML -->
<StackPanel x:Name="Msg_StackPanel" Visibility="{x:Bind ViewModel.ShowInlineHelp}" Orientation="Horizontal" Margin="0,24,0,0">
    <TextBlock Text="Frosty the snowman was a jolly happy soul" Margin="0,0,8,0"/>
    <SymbolIcon Symbol="OutlineStar "/>
    <TextBlock Text="With a corncob pipe and a button nose" Margin="8,0,0,0"/>
</StackPanel>

<!-- in companion View-Model -->
public bool ShowInlineHelp // using T10 SettingsService
{ 
    get { return (_settings.ShowInlineHelp); }
    set { _settings.ShowInlineHelp = !value; base.RaisePropertyChanged(); }
}

combining results of two select statements

You can use a Union.

This will return the results of the queries in separate rows.

First you must make sure that both queries return identical columns.

Then you can do :

SELECT tableA.Id, tableA.Name, [tableB].Username AS Owner, [tableB].ImageUrl, [tableB].CompanyImageUrl, COUNT(tableD.UserId) AS Number
FROM tableD 
RIGHT OUTER JOIN [tableB] 
INNER JOIN tableA ON [tableB].Id = tableA.Owner ON tableD.tableAId = tableA.Id 
GROUP BY tableA.Name, [tableB].Username, [tableB].ImageUrl, [tableB].CompanyImageUrl

UNION

SELECT tableA.Id, tableA.Name,  '' AS Owner, '' AS ImageUrl, '' AS CompanyImageUrl, COUNT([tableC].Id) AS Number
FROM 
[tableC] 
RIGHT OUTER JOIN tableA ON [tableC].tableAId = tableA.Id GROUP BY tableA.Id, tableA.Name

As has been mentioned, both queries return quite different data. You would probably only want to do this if both queries return data that could be considered similar.

SO

You can use a Join

If there is some data that is shared between the two queries. This will put the results of both queries into a single row joined by the id, which is probably more what you want to be doing here...

You could do :

SELECT tableA.Id, tableA.Name, [tableB].Username AS Owner, [tableB].ImageUrl, [tableB].CompanyImageUrl, COUNT(tableD.UserId) AS NumberOfUsers, query2.NumberOfPlans
FROM tableD 
RIGHT OUTER JOIN [tableB] 
INNER JOIN tableA ON [tableB].Id = tableA.Owner ON tableD.tableAId = tableA.Id 


INNER JOIN 
  (SELECT tableA.Id, COUNT([tableC].Id) AS NumberOfPlans 
   FROM [tableC] 
   RIGHT OUTER JOIN tableA ON [tableC].tableAId = tableA.Id 
   GROUP BY tableA.Id, tableA.Name) AS query2 
ON query2.Id = tableA.Id

GROUP BY tableA.Name, [tableB].Username, [tableB].ImageUrl, [tableB].CompanyImageUrl

R error "sum not meaningful for factors"

The error comes when you try to call sum(x) and x is a factor.

What that means is that one of your columns, though they look like numbers are actually factors (what you are seeing is the text representation)

simple fix, convert to numeric. However, it needs an intermeidate step of converting to character first. Use the following:

family[, 1] <- as.numeric(as.character( family[, 1] ))
family[, 3] <- as.numeric(as.character( family[, 3] ))

For a detailed explanation of why the intermediate as.character step is needed, take a look at this question: How to convert a factor to integer\numeric without loss of information?

how to make a new line in a jupyter markdown cell

Just add <br> where you would like to make the new line.

$S$: a set of shops
<br>
$I$: a set of items M wants to get

Because jupyter notebook markdown cell is a superset of HTML.
http://jupyter-notebook.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/Notebook/Working%20With%20Markdown%20Cells.html

Note that newlines using <br> does not persist when exporting or saving the notebook to a pdf (using "Download as > PDF via LaTeX"). It is probably treating each <br> as a space.

convert string to char*

There are many ways. Here are at least five:

/*
 * An example of converting std::string to (const)char* using five
 * different methods. Error checking is emitted for simplicity.
 *
 * Compile and run example (using gcc on Unix-like systems):
 *
 *  $ g++ -Wall -pedantic -o test ./test.cpp
 *  $ ./test
 *  Original string (0x7fe3294039f8): hello
 *  s1 (0x7fe3294039f8): hello
 *  s2 (0x7fff5dce3a10): hello
 *  s3 (0x7fe3294000e0): hello
 *  s4 (0x7fe329403a00): hello
 *  s5 (0x7fe329403a10): hello
 */

#include <alloca.h>
#include <string>
#include <cstring>

int main()
{
    std::string s0;
    const char *s1;
    char *s2;
    char *s3;
    char *s4;
    char *s5;

    // This is the initial C++ string.
    s0 = "hello";

    // Method #1: Just use "c_str()" method to obtain a pointer to a
    // null-terminated C string stored in std::string object.
    // Be careful though because when `s0` goes out of scope, s1 points
    // to a non-valid memory.
    s1 = s0.c_str();

    // Method #2: Allocate memory on stack and copy the contents of the
    // original string. Keep in mind that once a current function returns,
    // the memory is invalidated.
    s2 = (char *)alloca(s0.size() + 1);
    memcpy(s2, s0.c_str(), s0.size() + 1);

    // Method #3: Allocate memory dynamically and copy the content of the
    // original string. The memory will be valid until you explicitly
    // release it using "free". Forgetting to release it results in memory
    // leak.
    s3 = (char *)malloc(s0.size() + 1);
    memcpy(s3, s0.c_str(), s0.size() + 1);

    // Method #4: Same as method #3, but using C++ new/delete operators.
    s4 = new char[s0.size() + 1];
    memcpy(s4, s0.c_str(), s0.size() + 1);

    // Method #5: Same as 3 but a bit less efficient..
    s5 = strdup(s0.c_str());

    // Print those strings.
    printf("Original string (%p): %s\n", s0.c_str(), s0.c_str());
    printf("s1 (%p): %s\n", s1, s1);
    printf("s2 (%p): %s\n", s2, s2);
    printf("s3 (%p): %s\n", s3, s3);
    printf("s4 (%p): %s\n", s4, s4);
    printf("s5 (%p): %s\n", s5, s5);

    // Release memory...
    free(s3);
    delete [] s4;
    free(s5);
}

JavaScript global event mechanism

You listen to the onerror event by assigning a function to window.onerror:

 window.onerror = function (msg, url, lineNo, columnNo, error) {
        var string = msg.toLowerCase();
        var substring = "script error";
        if (string.indexOf(substring) > -1){
            alert('Script Error: See Browser Console for Detail');
        } else {
            alert(msg, url, lineNo, columnNo, error);
        }   
      return false; 
  };

How do I convert date/time from 24-hour format to 12-hour AM/PM?

I think you can use date() function to achive this

$date = '19:24:15 06/13/2013'; 
echo date('h:i:s a m/d/Y', strtotime($date));

This will output

07:24:15 pm 06/13/2013

Live Sample

h is used for 12 digit time
i stands for minutes
s seconds
a will return am or pm (use in uppercase for AM PM)
m is used for months with digits
d is used for days in digit
Y uppercase is used for 4 digit year (use it lowercase for two digit)

Updated

This is with DateTime

$date = new DateTime('19:24:15 06/13/2013');
echo $date->format('h:i:s a m/d/Y') ;

Live Sample

Get a resource using getResource()

One thing to keep in mind is that the relevant path here is the path relative to the file system location of your class... in your case TestGameTable.class. It is not related to the location of the TestGameTable.java file.
I left a more detailed answer here... where is resource actually located

How/when to use ng-click to call a route?

Another solution but without using ng-click which still works even for other tags than <a>:

<tr [routerLink]="['/about']">

This way you can also pass parameters to your route: https://stackoverflow.com/a/40045556/838494

(This is my first day with angular. Gentle feedback is welcome)

Is there a way to make numbers in an ordered list bold?

Counter-increment

CSS

ol {
  margin: 0 0 1.5em;
  padding: 0;
  counter-reset: item;
}

ol > li {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0 0 0 2em;
  text-indent: -2em;
  list-style-type: none;
  counter-increment: item;
}

ol > li:before {
  display: inline-block;
  width: 1em;
  padding-right: 0.5em;
  font-weight: bold;
  text-align: right;
  content: counter(item) ".";
}

DEMO

JavaScript: How to join / combine two arrays to concatenate into one array?

var a = ['a','b','c'];
var b = ['d','e','f'];
var c = a.concat(b); //c is now an an array with: ['a','b','c','d','e','f']
console.log( c[3] ); //c[3] will be 'd'

Finding all objects that have a given property inside a collection

JFilter http://code.google.com/p/jfilter/ suites your requirement.

JFilter is a simple and high performance open source library to query collection of Java beans.

Key features

  • Support of collection (java.util.Collection, java.util.Map and Array) properties.
  • Support of collection inside collection of any depth.
  • Support of inner queries.
  • Support of parameterized queries.
  • Can filter 1 million records in few 100 ms.
  • Filter ( query) is given in simple json format, it is like Mangodb queries. Following are some examples.
    • { "id":{"$le":"10"}
      • where object id property is less than equals to 10.
    • { "id": {"$in":["0", "100"]}}
      • where object id property is 0 or 100.
    • {"lineItems":{"lineAmount":"1"}}
      • where lineItems collection property of parameterized type has lineAmount equals to 1.
    • { "$and":[{"id": "0"}, {"billingAddress":{"city":"DEL"}}]}
      • where id property is 0 and billingAddress.city property is DEL.
    • {"lineItems":{"taxes":{ "key":{"code":"GST"}, "value":{"$gt": "1.01"}}}}
      • where lineItems collection property of parameterized type which has taxes map type property of parameteriszed type has code equals to GST value greater than 1.01.
    • {'$or':[{'code':'10'},{'skus': {'$and':[{'price':{'$in':['20', '40']}}, {'code':'RedApple'}]}}]}
      • Select all products where product code is 10 or sku price in 20 and 40 and sku code is "RedApple".

In Maven how to exclude resources from the generated jar?

Another possibility is to use the Maven Shade Plugin, e.g. to exclude a logging properties file used only locally in your IDE:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>${maven-shade-plugin-version}</version>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <phase>package</phase>
            <goals>
                <goal>shade</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
                <filters>
                    <filter>
                        <artifact>*:*</artifact>
                        <excludes>
                            <exclude>log4j2.xml</exclude>
                        </excludes>
                    </filter>
                </filters>
            </configuration>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

This will however exclude the files from every artifact, so it might not be feasible in every situation.

Converting a String array into an int Array in java

Since you are trying to get an Integer[] array you could use:

Integer[] intarray = Stream.of(strings).mapToInt(Integer::parseInt).boxed().toArray(Integer[]::new);

Your code:

private void processLine(String[] strings) {
    Integer[] intarray = Stream.of(strings).mapToInt(Integer::parseInt).boxed().toArray(Integer[]::new);
}

Note, that this only works for Java 8 and higher.

SQL Server: Importing database from .mdf?

Open SQL Management Studio Express and log in to the server to which you want to attach the database. In the 'Object Explorer' window, right-click on the 'Databases' folder and select 'Attach...' The 'Attach Databases' window will open; inside that window click 'Add...' and then navigate to your .MDF file and click 'OK'. Click 'OK' once more to finish attaching the database and you are done. The database should be available for use. best regards :)

Disable back button in react navigation

ReactNavigation v 5.0 - Stack option:

options={{
headerLeft: () => { 
 return <></>; 
}
}}

@viewChild not working - cannot read property nativeElement of undefined

What happens is when these elements are called before the DOM is loaded these kind of errors come up. Always use:

 window.onload = function(){
     this.keywordsInput.nativeElement.focus();
 }

Datatables warning(table id = 'example'): cannot reinitialise data table

You are initializing datatables twice, why?

// Take this off
/*
$(document).ready(function() {
    $( '#example' ).dataTable();
} );
*/
$(document).ready( function() {
  $( '#example' ).dataTable( {
   "fnRowCallback": function( nRow, aData, iDisplayIndex, iDisplayIndexFull ) {
     // Bold the grade for all 'A' grade browsers
     if ( aData[4] == "A" )
     {
       $('td:eq(4)', nRow).html( '<b>A</b>' );
     }
   }
 } );
 } );

What is the difference between "screen" and "only screen" in media queries?

@media screen and (max-width:480px) { … } 

screen here is to set the screen size of the media query. E.g the maximum width of the display area is 480px. So it is specifying the screen as opposed to the other available media types.

@media only screen and (max-width: 480px;) { … } 

only screen here is used to prevent older browsers that do not support media queries with media features from applying the specified styles.

Why does z-index not work?

If you set position to other value than static but your element's z-index still doesn't seem to work, it may be that some parent element has z-index set.

The stacking contexts have hierarchy, and each stacking context is considered in the stacking order of the parent's stacking context.

So with following html

_x000D_
_x000D_
div { border: 2px solid #000; width: 100px; height: 30px; margin: 10px; position: relative; background-color: #FFF; }_x000D_
#el3 { background-color: #F0F; width: 100px; height: 60px; top: -50px; }
_x000D_
<div id="el1" style="z-index: 5"></div>_x000D_
<div id="el2" style="z-index: 3">_x000D_
  <div id="el3" style="z-index: 8"></div>_x000D_
</div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

no matter how big the z-index of el3 will be set, it will always be under el1 because it's parent has lower stacking context. You can imagine stacking order as levels where stacking order of el3 is actually 3.8 which is lower than 5.

If you want to check stacking contexts of parent elements, you can use this:

var el = document.getElementById("#yourElement"); // or use $0 in chrome;
do {
    var styles = window.getComputedStyle(el);
    console.log(styles.zIndex, el);
} while(el.parentElement && (el = el.parentElement));

There is a great article about stacking contexts on MDN

Checking images for similarity with OpenCV

This is a huge topic, with answers from 3 lines of code to entire research magazines.

I will outline the most common such techniques and their results.

Comparing histograms

One of the simplest & fastest methods. Proposed decades ago as a means to find picture simmilarities. The idea is that a forest will have a lot of green, and a human face a lot of pink, or whatever. So, if you compare two pictures with forests, you'll get some simmilarity between histograms, because you have a lot of green in both.

Downside: it is too simplistic. A banana and a beach will look the same, as both are yellow.

OpenCV method: compareHist()

Template matching

A good example here matchTemplate finding good match. It convolves the search image with the one being search into. It is usually used to find smaller image parts in a bigger one.

Downsides: It only returns good results with identical images, same size & orientation.

OpenCV method: matchTemplate()

Feature matching

Considered one of the most efficient ways to do image search. A number of features are extracted from an image, in a way that guarantees the same features will be recognized again even when rotated, scaled or skewed. The features extracted this way can be matched against other image feature sets. Another image that has a high proportion of the features matching the first one is considered to be depicting the same scene.

Finding the homography between the two sets of points will allow you to also find the relative difference in shooting angle between the original pictures or the amount of overlapping.

There are a number of OpenCV tutorials/samples on this, and a nice video here. A whole OpenCV module (features2d) is dedicated to it.

Downsides: It may be slow. It is not perfect.


Over on the OpenCV Q&A site I am talking about the difference between feature descriptors, which are great when comparing whole images and texture descriptors, which are used to identify objects like human faces or cars in an image.

JavaScript: Difference between .forEach() and .map()

Performance Analysis For loops performs faster than map or foreach as number of elements in a array increases.

let array = [];
for (var i = 0; i < 20000000; i++) {
  array.push(i)
}

console.time('map');
array.map(num => {
  return num * 4;
});
console.timeEnd('map');


console.time('forEach');
array.forEach((num, index) => {
  return array[index] = num * 4;
});
console.timeEnd('forEach');

console.time('for');
for (i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
  array[i] = array[i] * 2;

}
console.timeEnd('for');

String replace method is not replacing characters

You aren't doing anything with the return value of replace. You'll need to assign the result of the method, which is the new String:

sentence = sentence.replace("and", " ");

A String is immutable in java. Methods like replace return a new String.

Your contains test is unnecessary: replace will just no-op if there aren't instances of the text to replace.

Set textbox to readonly and background color to grey in jquery

As per you question this is what you can do

HTML

<textarea id='sample'>Area adskds;das;dsald da'adslda'daladhkdslasdljads</textarea>

JS/Jquery

$(function () {
    $('#sample').attr('readonly', 'true'); // mark it as read only
    $('#sample').css('background-color' , '#DEDEDE'); // change the background color
});

or add a class in you css with the required styling

$('#sample').addClass('yourclass');

DEMO

Let me know if the requirement was different

Simple UDP example to send and receive data from same socket

(I presume you are aware that using UDP(User Datagram Protocol) does not guarantee delivery, checks for duplicates and congestion control and will just answer your question).

In your server this line:

var data = udpServer.Receive(ref groupEP);

re-assigns groupEP from what you had to a the address you receive something on.

This line:

udpServer.Send(new byte[] { 1 }, 1); 

Will not work since you have not specified who to send the data to. (It works on your client because you called connect which means send will always be sent to the end point you connected to, of course we don't want that on the server as we could have many clients). I would:

UdpClient udpServer = new UdpClient(UDP_LISTEN_PORT);

while (true)
{
    var remoteEP = new IPEndPoint(IPAddress.Any, 11000);
    var data = udpServer.Receive(ref remoteEP);
    udpServer.Send(new byte[] { 1 }, 1, remoteEP); // if data is received reply letting the client know that we got his data          
}

Also if you have server and client on the same machine you should have them on different ports.

this is error ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified?

The database must have a name (example DB1), try this one:

OracleConnection con = new OracleConnection("data source=DB1;user id=fastecit;password=fastecit"); 

In case the TNS is not defined you can also try this one:

OracleConnection con = new OracleConnection("Data Source=(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS_LIST=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=localhost)(PORT=1521)))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVER=DEDICATED)(SERVICE_NAME=DB1)));
User Id=fastecit;Password=fastecit"); 

How do I find all of the symlinks in a directory tree?

Kindly find below one liner bash script command to find all broken symbolic links recursively in any linux based OS

a=$(find / -type l); for i in $(echo $a); do file $i ; done |grep -i broken 2> /dev/null

Comparing HTTP and FTP for transferring files

One advantage of FTP is that there is a standard way to list files using dir or ls. Because of this, ftp plays nice with tools such as rsync. Granted, rsync is usually done over ssh, but the option is there.

In Python, how do I loop through the dictionary and change the value if it equals something?

You could create a dict comprehension of just the elements whose values are None, and then update back into the original:

tmp = dict((k,"") for k,v in mydict.iteritems() if v is None)
mydict.update(tmp)

Update - did some performance tests

Well, after trying dicts of from 100 to 10,000 items, with varying percentage of None values, the performance of Alex's solution is across-the-board about twice as fast as this solution.

List file using ls command in Linux with full path

you just want the full path why not use the utility meant for that a combination of readlink and grep should get you what you want

grep -R  '--include=*.'{mkv,mp4} ? | cut -d ' ' -f3  | xargs readlink -e # 
the question mark should be replaced with the right pattern - this is almost right
# this is probably the best solution remove the grep part if you dont need a filter
find <dirname> | grep .mkv | xargs readlink -e |  xargs ls --color=auto # only matroska files in the dir and subdirs with nice color - also you can edit ls flags
find /mnt/mediashare/net/192.168.1.220_STORAGE_1d1b7 | grep .mkv 
find /mnt/mediashare/net/192.168.1.220_STORAGE_1d1b7 | xargs grep -R  '--include=*.'{mkv,mp4} . | cut -d ' ' -f3 # I am sure you can do more with grep 
readlink -f `ls` # in the directory or 

mysql said: Cannot connect: invalid settings. xampp

The above code fixed problem for most of the ppl but I still could not login. Finally I found this (line#9 in the above code needs to be changed)

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = true;   <--- change this
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = false;  <--- to this fixed the problem.

Note: there are other areas in localhost where you have to change the password manually. For example in "CD Collection" example. The password is hard coded there rather than picking it up from config.inc.php.

What is the meaning of ImagePullBackOff status on a Kubernetes pod?

You can specify also imagePullPolicy: Never in the container's spec:

containers:
- name: nginx
  imagePullPolicy: Never
  image: custom-nginx
  ports:
  - containerPort: 80

Deserialize JSON with Jackson into Polymorphic Types - A Complete Example is giving me a compile error

Handling polymorphism is either model-bound or requires lots of code with various custom deserializers. I'm a co-author of a JSON Dynamic Deserialization Library that allows for model-independent json deserialization library. The solution to OP's problem can be found below. Note that the rules are declared in a very brief manner.

public class SOAnswer {
    @ToString @Getter @Setter
    @AllArgsConstructor @NoArgsConstructor
    public static abstract class Animal {
        private String name;    
    }

    @ToString(callSuper = true) @Getter @Setter
    @AllArgsConstructor @NoArgsConstructor
    public static class Dog extends Animal {
        private String breed;
    }

    @ToString(callSuper = true) @Getter @Setter
    @AllArgsConstructor @NoArgsConstructor
    public static class Cat extends Animal {
        private String favoriteToy;
    }
    
    
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String json = "[{"
                + "    \"name\": \"pluto\","
                + "    \"breed\": \"dalmatian\""
                + "},{"
                + "    \"name\": \"whiskers\","
                + "    \"favoriteToy\": \"mouse\""
                + "}]";
        
        // create a deserializer instance
        DynamicObjectDeserializer deserializer = new DynamicObjectDeserializer();
        
        // runtime-configure deserialization rules; 
        // condition is bound to the existence of a field, but it could be any Predicate
        deserializer.addRule(DeserializationRuleFactory.newRule(1, 
                (e) -> e.getJsonNode().has("breed"),
                DeserializationActionFactory.objectToType(Dog.class)));
        
        deserializer.addRule(DeserializationRuleFactory.newRule(1, 
                (e) -> e.getJsonNode().has("favoriteToy"),
                DeserializationActionFactory.objectToType(Cat.class)));
        
        List<Animal> deserializedAnimals = deserializer.deserializeArray(json, Animal.class);
        
        for (Animal animal : deserializedAnimals) {
            System.out.println("Deserialized Animal Class: " + animal.getClass().getSimpleName()+";\t value: "+animal.toString());
        }
    }
}

Maven depenendency for pretius-jddl (check newest version at maven.org/jddl:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.pretius</groupId>
  <artifactId>jddl</artifactId>
  <version>1.0.0</version>
</dependency>

TypeScript error: Type 'void' is not assignable to type 'boolean'

Your code is passing a function as an argument to find. That function takes an element argument (of type Conversation) and returns void (meaning there is no return value). TypeScript describes this as (element: Conversation) => void'

What TypeScript is saying is that the find function doesn't expect to receive a function that takes a Conversation and returns void. It expects a function that takes a Conversations, a number and a Conversation array, and that this function should return a boolean.

So bottom line is that you either need to change your code to pass in the values to find correctly, or else you need to provide an overload to the definition of find in your definition file that accepts a Conversation and returns void.

jQuery - disable selected options

This seems to work:

$("#theSelect").change(function(){          
    var value = $("#theSelect option:selected").val();
    var theDiv = $(".is" + value);

    theDiv.slideDown().removeClass("hidden");
    //Add this...
    $("#theSelect option:selected").attr('disabled', 'disabled');
});


$("div a.remove").click(function () {     
    $(this).parent().slideUp(function() { $(this).addClass("hidden"); });
    //...and this.
    $("#theSelect option:disabled").removeAttr('disabled');
});

Using android.support.v7.widget.CardView in my project (Eclipse)

From: https://developer.android.com/tools/support-library/setup.html#libs-with-res

Adding libraries with resources To add a Support Library with resources (such as v7 appcompat for action bar) to your application project:

Using Eclipse

Create a library project based on the support library code:

  • Make sure you have downloaded the Android Support Library using the SDK Manager.

  • Create a library project and ensure the required JAR files are included in the project's build path:

  • Select File > Import.

  • Select Existing Android Code Into Workspace and click Next.

  • Browse to the SDK installation directory and then to the Support Library folder. For example, if you are adding the appcompat project, browse to /extras/android/support/v7/appcompat/.

  • Click Finish to import the project. For the v7 appcompat project, you should now see a new project titled android-support-v7-appcompat.

  • In the new library project, expand the libs/ folder, right-click each .jar file and select Build

  • Path > Add to Build Path. For example, when creating the the v7 appcompat project, add both the android-support-v4.jar and android-support-v7-appcompat.jar files to the build path.

  • Right-click the library project folder and select Build Path > Configure Build Path.

  • In the Order and Export tab, check the .jar files you just added to the build path, so they are available to projects that depend on this library project. For example, the appcompat project requires you to export both the android-support-v4.jar and android-support-v7-appcompat.jar files.

  • Uncheck Android Dependencies.

  • Click OK to complete the changes.

  • You now have a library project for your selected Support Library that you can use with one or more application projects.

  • Add the library to your application project:

  • In the Project Explorer, right-click your project and select Properties.

  • In the category panel on the left side of the dialog, select Android.

  • In the Library pane, click the Add button.

  • Select the library project and click OK. For example, the appcompat project should be listed as android-support-v7-appcompat.

  • In the properties window, click OK.

How to Split Image Into Multiple Pieces in Python

I tried the solutions above, but sometimes you just gotta do it yourself. Might be off by a pixel in some cases but works fine in general.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
def image_to_tiles(im, number_of_tiles = 4, plot=False):
    """
    Function that splits SINGLE channel images into tiles
    :param im: image: single channel image (NxN matrix)
    :param number_of_tiles: squared number
    :param plot:
    :return tiles:
    """
    n_slices = np.sqrt(number_of_tiles)
    assert int(n_slices + 0.5) ** 2 == number_of_tiles, "Number of tiles is not a perfect square"

    n_slices = n_slices.astype(np.int)
    [w, h] = cropped_npy.shape

    r = np.linspace(0, w, n_slices+1)
    r_tuples = [(np.int(r[i]), np.int(r[i+1])) for i in range(0, len(r)-1)]
    q = np.linspace(0, h, n_slices+1)
    q_tuples = [(np.int(q[i]), np.int(q[i+1])) for i in range(0, len(q)-1)]

    tiles = []
    for row in range(n_slices):
        for column in range(n_slices):
            [x1, y1, x2, y2] = *r_tuples[row], *q_tuples[column] 
            tiles.append(im[x1:y1, x2:y2])

    if plot:
        fig, axes = plt.subplots(n_slices, n_slices, figsize=(10,10))
        c = 0
        for row in range(n_slices):
            for column in range(n_slices):
                axes[row,column].imshow(tiles[c])
                axes[row,column].axis('off')
                c+=1

    return tiles

Hope it helps.

TSQL: How to convert local time to UTC? (SQL Server 2008)

7 years passed and...
actually there's this new SQL Server 2016 feature that does exactly what you need.
It is called AT TIME ZONE and it converts date to a specified time zone considering DST (daylight saving time) changes.
More info here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt612795.aspx

Code formatting shortcuts in Android Studio for Operation Systems

You can use the following shortcut for code formatting: Ctrl+Alt+L

Asp.Net WebApi2 Enable CORS not working with AspNet.WebApi.Cors 5.2.3

You just need to change some files. This works for me.

Global.ascx

public class WebApiApplication : System.Web.HttpApplication {
    protected void Application_Start()
    {
        WebApiConfig.Register(GlobalConfiguration.Configuration);
    } }

WebApiConfig.cs

All the requests has to call this code.

public static class WebApiConfig {
    public static void Register(HttpConfiguration config)
    {
        EnableCrossSiteRequests(config);
        AddRoutes(config);
    }

    private static void AddRoutes(HttpConfiguration config)
    {
        config.Routes.MapHttpRoute(
            name: "Default",
            routeTemplate: "api/{controller}/"
        );
    }

    private static void EnableCrossSiteRequests(HttpConfiguration config)
    {
        var cors = new EnableCorsAttribute(
            origins: "*", 
            headers: "*", 
            methods: "*");
        config.EnableCors(cors);
    } }

Some Controller

Nothing to change.

Web.config

You need to add handlers in your web.config

<configuration> 
  <system.webServer>
    <handlers>
      <remove name="ExtensionlessUrlHandler-Integrated-4.0" />
      <remove name="OPTIONSVerbHandler" />
      <remove name="TRACEVerbHandler" />
      <add name="ExtensionlessUrlHandler-Integrated-4.0" path="*." verb="*" type="System.Web.Handlers.TransferRequestHandler" preCondition="integratedMode,runtimeVersionv4.0" />
    </handlers>   
  </system.webServer> 
</configuration>

How do I read a text file of about 2 GB?

I use UltraEdit to edit large files. The maximum size I open with UltraEdit was about 2.5 GB. Also UltraEdit has a good hex editor in comparison to Notepad++.

How do I fix the Visual Studio compile error, "mismatch between processor architecture"?

In addition to David Sacks answer, you may also need to go to the Build tab of the Project Properties and set Platform Target to x86 for the project that is giving you these warnings. Though you might expect it to be, this setting does not seem to be perfectly synchronized with the setting in the configuration manager.

Maven compile with multiple src directories

Used the build-helper-maven-plugin from the post - and update src/main/generated. And mvn clean compile works on my ../common/src/main/java, or on ../common, so kept the latter. Then yes, confirming that IntelliJ IDEA (ver 10.5.2) level of the compilation failed as David Phillips mentioned. The issue was that IDEA did not add another source root to the project. Adding it manually solved the issue. It's not nice as editing anything in the project should come from maven and not from direct editing of IDEA's project options. Yet I will be able to live with it until they support build-helper-maven-plugin directly such that it will auto add the sources.

Then needed another workaround to make this work though. Since each time IDEA re-imported maven settings after a pom change me newly added source was kept on module, yet it lost it's Source Folders selections and was useless. So for IDEA - need to set these once:

  • Select - Project Settings / Maven / Importing / keep source and test folders on reimport.
  • Add - Project Structure / Project Settings / Modules / {Module} / Sources / Add Content Root.

Now keeping those folders on import is not the best practice in the world either, ..., but giving it a try.

Using Address Instead Of Longitude And Latitude With Google Maps API

Thought I'd share this code snippet that I've used before, this adds multiple addresses via Geocode and adds these addresses as Markers...

_x000D_
_x000D_
var addressesArray = [_x000D_
  'Address Str.No, Postal Area/city',_x000D_
  //follow this structure_x000D_
]_x000D_
var map = new google.maps.Map(document.getElementById('map'), {_x000D_
  center: {_x000D_
    lat: 12.7826,_x000D_
    lng: 105.0282_x000D_
  },_x000D_
  zoom: 6,_x000D_
  gestureHandling: 'cooperative'_x000D_
});_x000D_
var geocoder = new google.maps.Geocoder();_x000D_
for (i = 0; i < addressArray.length; i++) {_x000D_
  var address = addressArray[i];_x000D_
  geocoder.geocode({_x000D_
    'address': address_x000D_
  }, function(results, status) {_x000D_
    if (status === 'OK') {_x000D_
      var marker = new google.maps.Marker({_x000D_
        map: map,_x000D_
        position: results[0].geometry.location,_x000D_
        center: {_x000D_
          lat: 12.7826,_x000D_
          lng: 105.0282_x000D_
        },_x000D_
      });_x000D_
    } else {_x000D_
      alert('Geocode was not successful for the following reason: ' + status);_x000D_
    }_x000D_
  });_x000D_
}
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Is it possible to deserialize XML into List<T>?

Yes, it does deserialize to List<>. No need to keep it in an array and wrap/encapsulate it in a list.

public class UserHolder
{
    private List<User> users = null;

    public UserHolder()
    {
    }

    [XmlElement("user")]
    public List<User> Users
    {
        get { return users; }
        set { users = value; }
    }
}

Deserializing code,

XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(UserHolder));
UserHolder uh = (UserHolder)xs.Deserialize(new StringReader(str));

Detect Route Change with react-router

React Router V5

If you want the pathName as a string ('/' or 'users'), you can use the following:

  // React Hooks: React Router DOM
  let history = useHistory();
  const location = useLocation();
  const pathName = location.pathname;

String Comparison in Java

Below Algo "compare two strings lexicographically"

  1. Input two strings string 1 and string 2.

  2. for (int i = 0; i < str1.length() && i < str2.length(); i ++)

    (Loop through each character of both strings comparing them until one of the string terminates):

    a. If unicode value of both the characters is same then continue;

    b. If unicode value of character of string 1 and unicode value of string 2 is different then return (str1[i]-str2[i])

  3. if length of string 1 is less than string2

    return str2[str1.length()]

    else

    return str1[str2.length()]

    // This method compares two strings lexicographically

    public static int compareCustom(String s1, String s2) {
        for (int i = 0; i < s1.length() && i< s2.length(); i++) {
            if(s1.charAt(i) == s2.charAt(i)){
                //System.out.println("Equal");
                continue;
            }
            else{
                return s1.charAt(i) - s2.charAt(i);
            }   
        }
        if(s1.length()<s2.length()){
            return s2.length() - s1.length();
        }
        else if(s1.length()>s2.length()){
            return s1.length()-s2.length();
        }
        else{
            return 0;
        }
    }
    

if two String are equal it will return 0 otherwise return Negative or positive value

Source : - Source

How to add "required" attribute to mvc razor viewmodel text input editor

I needed the "required" HTML5 atribute, so I did something like this:

<%: Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.Name, new { @required = true })%>

How do I add an "Add to Favorites" button or link on my website?

This code is the corrected version of iambriansreed's answer:

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(function() {
        $("#bookmarkme").click(function() {
            // Mozilla Firefox Bookmark
            if ('sidebar' in window && 'addPanel' in window.sidebar) { 
                window.sidebar.addPanel(location.href,document.title,"");
            } else if( /*@cc_on!@*/false) { // IE Favorite
                window.external.AddFavorite(location.href,document.title); 
            } else { // webkit - safari/chrome
                alert('Press ' + (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf('mac') != - 1 ? 'Command/Cmd' : 'CTRL') + ' + D to bookmark this page.');
            }
        });
    });
</script>

How do I get the result of a command in a variable in windows?

To get the current directory, you can use this:

CD > tmpFile
SET /p myvar= < tmpFile
DEL tmpFile
echo test: %myvar%

It's using a temp-file though, so it's not the most pretty, but it certainly works! 'CD' puts the current directory in 'tmpFile', 'SET' loads the content of tmpFile.

Here is a solution for multiple lines with "array's":

@echo off

rem ---------
rem Obtain line numbers from the file
rem ---------

rem This is the file that is being read: You can replace this with %1 for dynamic behaviour or replace it with some command like the first example i gave with the 'CD' command.
set _readfile=test.txt

for /f "usebackq tokens=2 delims=:" %%a in (`find /c /v "" %_readfile%`) do set _max=%%a
set /a _max+=1
set _i=0
set _filename=temp.dat

rem ---------
rem Make the list
rem ---------

:makeList
find /n /v "" %_readfile% >%_filename%

rem ---------
rem Read the list
rem ---------

:readList
if %_i%==%_max% goto printList

rem ---------
rem Read the lines into the array
rem ---------
for /f "usebackq delims=] tokens=2" %%a in (`findstr /r "\[%_i%]" %_filename%`) do set _data%_i%=%%a
set /a _i+=1
goto readList

:printList
del %_filename%
set _i=1
:printMore
if %_i%==%_max% goto finished
set _data%_i%
set /a _i+=1
goto printMore

:finished

But you might want to consider moving to another more powerful shell or create an application for this stuff. It's stretching the possibilities of the batch files quite a bit.

connecting MySQL server to NetBeans

in my cases, i found my password in glassfish-recources.xml under WEB-INF

Count number of files within a directory in Linux?

this is one:

ls -l . | egrep -c '^-'

Note:

ls -1 | wc -l

Which means: ls: list files in dir

-1: (that's a ONE) only one entry per line. Change it to -1a if you want hidden files too

|: pipe output onto...

wc: "wordcount"

-l: count lines.

How to deal with certificates using Selenium?

For Firefox Python:

The Firefox Self-signed certificate bug has now been fixed: accept ssl cert with marionette firefox webdrive python splinter

"acceptSslCerts" should be replaced by "acceptInsecureCerts"

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities
from selenium.webdriver.firefox.firefox_binary import FirefoxBinary

caps = DesiredCapabilities.FIREFOX.copy()
caps['acceptInsecureCerts'] = True
ff_binary = FirefoxBinary("path to the Nightly binary")

driver = webdriver.Firefox(firefox_binary=ff_binary, capabilities=caps)
driver.get("https://expired.badssl.com")

Eclipse can't find / load main class

I read so many blogs and tried so many tricks but my problem not resolved. I was able to run the code but not able to generate the jar file. :( Sad..

But I tried something which might be very silly but worked for me and bought eclipse on trace. What I did was.. Just deleted the main method from the class. Saved it. Did undo to bring the main class back. Tada... Issue resolved... Just one think would like to say, keep your eclipse in "Build Autometically" mode.

Make the size of a heatmap bigger with seaborn

add plt.figure(figsize=(16,5)) before the sns.heatmap and play around with the figsize numbers till you get the desired size

...

plt.figure(figsize = (16,5))

ax = sns.heatmap(df1.iloc[:, 1:6:], annot=True, linewidths=.5)

C++ equivalent of StringBuffer/StringBuilder?

The std::string.append function isn't a good option because it doesn't accept many forms of data. A more useful alternative is to use std::stringstream; like so:

#include <sstream>
// ...

std::stringstream ss;

//put arbitrary formatted data into the stream
ss << 4.5 << ", " << 4 << " whatever";

//convert the stream buffer into a string
std::string str = ss.str();

Programmatically saving image to Django ImageField

I have some code that fetches an image off the web and stores it in a model. The important bits are:

from django.core.files import File  # you need this somewhere
import urllib


# The following actually resides in a method of my model

result = urllib.urlretrieve(image_url) # image_url is a URL to an image

# self.photo is the ImageField
self.photo.save(
    os.path.basename(self.url),
    File(open(result[0], 'rb'))
    )

self.save()

That's a bit confusing because it's pulled out of my model and a bit out of context, but the important parts are:

  • The image pulled from the web is not stored in the upload_to folder, it is instead stored as a tempfile by urllib.urlretrieve() and later discarded.
  • The ImageField.save() method takes a filename (the os.path.basename bit) and a django.core.files.File object.

Let me know if you have questions or need clarification.

Edit: for the sake of clarity, here is the model (minus any required import statements):

class CachedImage(models.Model):
    url = models.CharField(max_length=255, unique=True)
    photo = models.ImageField(upload_to=photo_path, blank=True)

    def cache(self):
        """Store image locally if we have a URL"""

        if self.url and not self.photo:
            result = urllib.urlretrieve(self.url)
            self.photo.save(
                    os.path.basename(self.url),
                    File(open(result[0], 'rb'))
                    )
            self.save()

How do I remove the file suffix and path portion from a path string in Bash?

Pure bash, done in two separate operations:

  1. Remove the path from a path-string:

    path=/foo/bar/bim/baz/file.gif
    
    file=${path##*/}  
    #$file is now 'file.gif'
    
  2. Remove the extension from a path-string:

    base=${file%.*}
    #${base} is now 'file'.
    

What is the difference between GitHub and gist?

GISTS The Gist is an outstanding service provided by GitHub. Using this service, you can share your work publically or privately. You can share a single file, articles, full applications or source code etc.

The GitHub is much more than just Gists. It provides immense services to group together a project or programs digital resources in a centralized location called repository and share among stakeholder. The GitHub repository will hold or maintain the multiple version of the files or history of changes and you can retrieve a specific version of a file when you want. Whereas gist will create each post as a new repository and will maintain the history of the file.

Eloquent - where not equal to

While this seems to work

Code::query()
    ->where('to_be_used_by_user_id', '!=' , 2)
    ->orWhereNull('to_be_used_by_user_id')
    ->get();

you should not use it for big tables, because as a general rule "or" in your where clause is stopping query to use index. You are going from "Key lookup" to "full table scan"

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Instead, try Union

$first = Code::whereNull('to_be_used_by_user_id');

$code = Code::where('to_be_used_by_user_id', '!=' , 2)
        ->union($first)
        ->get();

How can I create a Windows .exe (standalone executable) using Java/Eclipse?

Creating .exe distributions isn't typical for Java. While such wrappers do exist, the normal mode of operation is to create a .jar file.

To create a .jar file from a Java project in Eclipse, use file->export->java->Jar file. This will create an archive with all your classes.

On the command prompt, use invocation like the following:

java -cp myapp.jar foo.bar.MyMainClass

Change name of folder when cloning from GitHub?

git clone <Repo> <DestinationDirectory>

Clone the repository located at Repo into the folder called DestinationDirectory on the local machine.

How do I check that multiple keys are in a dict in a single pass?

>>> if 'foo' in foo and 'bar' in foo:
...     print 'yes'
... 
yes

Jason, () aren't necessary in Python.

ionic build Android | error: No installed build tools found. Please install the Android build tools

This works for me! be careful with the new java versions because they cause error, check that you have everything installed and in your specific directory,

I did not use openJDK

export JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-jdk" \
&& export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH \
&& export ANDROID_HOME=$HOME/Android/Sdk \
&& export PATH=${PATH}:${ANDROID_HOME}/tools \
&& export PATH=${PATH}:${ANDROID_HOME}/platform-tools \
&& export GRADLE_HOME=/usr/share/java/gradle/bin/gradle \
export PATH=$PATH:$GRADLE_HOME/bin

Linux 4.14.39-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed May 2 19:03:39 UTC 2018 x86_64 GNU/Linux

see the screenshot in my shell

javascript: using a condition in switch case

This works:

switch (true) {
    case liCount == 0:
        setLayoutState('start');
        var api = $('#UploadList').data('jsp');
        api.reinitialise();
        break;
    case liCount<=5 && liCount>0:
        setLayoutState('upload1Row');
        var api = $('#UploadList').data('jsp');
        api.reinitialise();
        break;
    case liCount<=10 && liCount>5:
        setLayoutState('upload2Rows');
        var api = $('#UploadList').data('jsp');
        api.reinitialise();
        break;
    case liCount>10:
        var api = $('#UploadList').data('jsp');
        api.reinitialise();
        break;                  
}

A previous version of this answer considered the parentheses to be the culprit. In truth, the parentheses are irrelevant here - the only thing necessary is switch(true){...} and for your case expressions to evaluate to booleans.

It works because, the value we give to the switch is used as the basis to compare against. Consequently, the case expressions, also evaluating to booleans will determine which case is run. Could also turn this around, and pass switch(false){..} and have the desired expressions evaluate to false instead of true.. but personally prefer dealing with conditions that evaluate to truthyness. However, it does work too, so worth keeping in mind to understand what it is doing.

Eg: if liCount is 3, the first comparison is true === (liCount == 0), meaning the first case is false. The switch then moves on to the next case true === (liCount<=5 && liCount>0). This expression evaluates to true, meaning this case is run, and terminates at the break. I've added parentheses here to make it clearer, but they are optional, depending on the complexity of your expression.

It's pretty simple, and a neat way (if it fits with what you are trying to do) of handling a long series of conditions, where perhaps a long series of ìf() ... else if() ... else if () ... might introduce a lot of visual noise or fragility.

Use with caution, because it is a non-standard pattern, despite being valid code.

Is there any way I can define a variable in LaTeX?

If you want to use \newcommand, you can also include \usepackage{xspace} and define command by \newcommand{\newCommandName}{text to insert\xspace}. This can allow you to just use \newCommandName rather than \newCommandName{}.

For more detail, http://www.math.tamu.edu/~harold.boas/courses/math696/why-macros.html

Insert Picture into SQL Server 2005 Image Field using only SQL

Create Table:

Create Table EmployeeProfile ( 
    EmpId int, 
    EmpName varchar(50) not null, 
    EmpPhoto varbinary(max) not null ) 
Go

Insert statement:

Insert EmployeeProfile 
   (EmpId, EmpName, EmpPhoto) 
   Select 1001, 'Vadivel', BulkColumn 
   from Openrowset( Bulk 'C:\Image1.jpg', Single_Blob) as EmployeePicture

This Sql Query Working Fine.

Attribute 'nowrap' is considered outdated. A newer construct is recommended. What is it?

If HTML and use bootstrap they have a helper class.

<span class="text-nowrap">1-866-566-7233</span>

jquery - check length of input field?

If you mean that you want to enable the submit after the user has typed at least one character, then you need to attach a key event that will check it for you.

Something like:

$("#fbss").keypress(function() {
    if($(this).val().length > 1) {
         // Enable submit button
    } else {
         // Disable submit button
    }
});

Unit Tests not discovered in Visual Studio 2017

Removing old .dll should help. Clearing temp files located in the %TEMP% directory at C:\Users(yourusername)\AppData\Local\Temp

Maximum length for MySQL type text

How many characters can a type text field store?

According to Documentation You can use maximum of 21,844 characters if the charset is UTF8

If a lot, would I be able to specify length in the db text type field as I would with varchar?

You dont need to specify the length. If you need more character use data types MEDIUMTEXT or LONGTEXT. With VARCHAR, specifieng length is not for Storage requirement, it is only for how the data is retrieved from data base.

How to run docker-compose up -d at system start up?

Use restart: always in your docker compose file.

Docker-compose up -d will launch container from images again. Use docker-compose start to start the stopped containers, it never launches new containers from images.

nginx:   
    restart: always   
    image: nginx   
    ports:
      - "80:80"
      - "443:443"   links:
      - other_container:other_container

Also you can write the code up in the docker file so that it gets created first, if it has the dependency of other containers.

Handling MySQL datetimes and timestamps in Java

BalusC gave a good description about the problem but it lacks a good end to end code that users can pick and test it for themselves.

Best practice is to always store date-time in UTC timezone in DB. Sql timestamp type does not have timezone info.

When writing datetime value to sql db

    //Convert the time into UTC and build Timestamp object.
    Timestamp ts = Timestamp.valueOf(LocalDateTime.now(ZoneId.of("UTC")));
    //use setTimestamp on preparedstatement
    preparedStatement.setTimestamp(1, ts);

When reading the value back from DB into java,

  1. Read it as it is in java.sql.Timestamp type.
  2. Decorate the DateTime value as time in UTC timezone using atZone method in LocalDateTime class.
  3. Then, change it to your desired timezone. Here I am changing it to Toronto timezone.

    ResultSet resultSet = preparedStatement.executeQuery();
    resultSet.next();
    Timestamp timestamp = resultSet.getTimestamp(1);
    ZonedDateTime timeInUTC = timestamp.toLocalDateTime().atZone(ZoneId.of("UTC"));
    LocalDateTime timeInToronto = LocalDateTime.ofInstant(timeInUTC.toInstant(), ZoneId.of("America/Toronto"));
    

*ngIf and *ngFor on same element causing error

This will work but the element will still in the DOM.

.hidden {
    display: none;
}

<div [class.hidden]="!show" *ngFor="let thing of stuff">
    {{log(thing)}}
    <span>{{thing.name}}</span>
</div>

Getting input values from text box

you have multiple elements with the same id. That is a big no-no. Make sure your inputs have unique ids.

<td id="pass"><label>Password</label></td>
<tr>
   <td colspan="2"><input class="textBox" id="pass" type="text" maxlength="30" required/></td>
</tr>

see, both the td and the input share the id value pass.

Java parsing XML document gives "Content not allowed in prolog." error

Check any syntax problem in the XMl file. I've found this error when working on xsl/xsp with Cocoon and I define a variable using a non-existing node or something like that. Check the whole XML.

What is the difference between visibility:hidden and display:none?

The difference goes beyond style and is reflected in how the elements behave when manipulated with JavaScript.

Effects and side effects of display: none:

  • the target element is taken out of the document flow (doesn't affect layout of other elements);
  • all descendants are affected (are not displayed either and cannot “snap out” of this inheritance);
  • measurements cannot be made for the target element nor for its descendants – they are not rendered at all, thus their clientWidth, clientHeight, offsetWidth, offsetHeight, scrollWidth, scrollHeight, getBoundingClientRect(), getComputedStyle(), all return 0s.

Effects and side-effects of visibility: hidden:

  • the target element is hidden from view, but is not taken out of the flow and affects layout, occupying its normal space;
  • innerText (but not innerHTML) of the target element and descendants returns empty string.

HashMaps and Null values?

Its a good programming practice to avoid having null values in a Map.

If you have an entry with null value, then it is not possible to tell whether an entry is present in the map or has a null value associated with it.

You can either define a constant for such cases (Example: String NOT_VALID = "#NA"), or you can have another collection storing keys which have null values.

Please check this link for more details.

Pure CSS multi-level drop-down menu

<div class="example" align="center">
    <div class="menuholder">
        <ul class="menu slide">
            <li><a href="index.php?id=1" class="blue">Home</a></li>
        <li><a href="index.php?id=14" class="blue">About Us</a></li>
            <li><a href="index.php?id=4" class="blue">Mens</a>
                <div class="subs">
                    <dl>
                        <dd><a href="index.php?id=15">Coats & Jackets</a></dd>
                        <dd><a href="index.php?id=22">Chinos</a></dd>
                        <dd><a href="index.php?id=23">Jeans</a></dd>
                        <dd><a href="index.php?id=24">Jumpers & Cardigans</a></dd>
                        <dd><a href="index.php?id=25">Linen</a></dd>
                    </dl>
                    <dl>
                        <dd><a href="index.php?id=26">Polo Shirts</a></dd>
                        <dd><a href="index.php?id=16">Shirts Casual</a></dd>
                        <dd><a href="index.php?id=27">Shirts Formal</a></dd>
                        <dd><a href="index.php?id=28">Shorts</a></dd>
                        <dd><a href="index.php?id=18">Sportswear</a></dd>
                    </dl>
                    <dl>
                        <dd><a href="index.php?id=19">Tops & T-Shirts</a></dd>
                        <dd><a href="index.php?id=20">Trousers Casual</a></dd>
                        <dd><a href="index.php?id=29">Trousers Formal</a></dd>
                        <dd><a href="index.php?id=30">Nightwear</a></dd>
                        <dd><a href="index.php?id=17">Socks</a></dd>
                    </dl>
                    <dl>
                        <dd><a href="index.php?id=21">Underwear</a></dd>
                        <dd><a href="index.php?id=31">Swimwear</a></dd>
                    </dl>
                </div>
            </li>
            <!--menu-->
                        <li><a href="index.php?id=5" class="blue">Ladie's</a>
                <div class="subs">
                    <dl>
                          <dd><a href="index.php?id=32">Coats & Jackets</a></dd>
                          <dd><a href="index.php?id=33">Dresses</a></dd>
                          <dd><a href="index.php?id=34">Jeans</a></dd>
                          <dd><a href="index.php?id=35">Jumpers & Cardigans</a></dd>
                          <dd><a href="index.php?id=36">Jumpsuits</a></dd>
                    </dl>
                    <dl>
                        <dd><a href="index.php?id=37">Leggings & Jeggings</a></dd>
                          <dd><a href="index.php?id=38">Linen</a></dd>
                          <dd><a href="index.php?id=39">Lingerie & Underwear</a></dd>
                          <dd><a href="index.php?id=40">Maternity Wear</a></dd>
                          <dd><a href="index.php?id=41">Nightwear</a></dd>
                    </dl>
                    <dl>
                     <dd><a href="index.php?id=42">Shorts</a></dd>
                          <dd><a href="index.php?id=43">Skirts</a></dd>
                          <dd><a href="index.php?id=44">Sportswear</a></dd>
                          <dd><a href="index.php?id=45">Suits & Tailoring</a></dd>
                          <dd><a href="index.php?id=46">Swimwear & Beachwear</a></dd>
                    </dl>
                    <dl>
                          <dd><a href="index.php?id=47">Thermals</a></dd>
                          <dd><a href="index.php?id=48">Tops & T-Shirts</a></dd>
                          <dd><a href="index.php?id=49">Trousers & Chinos</a></dd>
                          <dd><a href="index.php?id=50">Socks</a></dd>
                    </dl>
                </div>
            </li><!--menu end-->
                        <!--menu-->
                        <li><a href="index.php?id=7" class="blue">Girls</a>
                <div class="subs">
                    <dl>
                            <dd><a href="index.php?id=51">Coats & Jackets</a></dd>
                          <dd><a href="index.php?id=52">Dresses</a></dd>
                          <dd><a href="index.php?id=53">Jeans</a></dd>
                          <dd><a href="index.php?id=54">Joggers & Sweatshirts</a></dd>
                          <dd><a href="index.php?id=55">Jumpers & Cardigans</a></dd>
                    </dl>
                    <dl>
                                <dd><a href="index.php?id=56">Jumpsuits & Playsuits</a></dd>
                              <dd><a href="index.php?id=57">Leggings</a></dd>
                              <dd><a href="index.php?id=58">Nightwear</a></dd>
                              <dd><a href="index.php?id=59">Shorts</a></dd>
                              <dd><a href="index.php?id=60">Skirts</a></dd>
                    </dl>
                    <dl>
                              <dd><a href="index.php?id=61">Swimwear</a></dd>
                              <dd><a href="index.php?id=62">Tops & T-Shirts</a></dd>
                              <dd><a href="index.php?id=63">Trousers & Jeans</a></dd>
                              <dd><a href="index.php?id=64">Socks</a></dd>
                              <dd><a href="index.php?id=65">Underwear</a></dd>
                    </dl>
                    <dl>

                    </dl>
                </div>
            </li><!--menu end-->
                            <!--menu-->
                        <li><a href="index.php?id=8" class="blue">Boys</a>
                <div class="subs">
                    <dl>
                        <dd><a href="index.php?id=66">Coats & Jackets</a></dd>
                          <dd><a href="index.php?id=67">Jeans</a></dd>
                          <dd><a href="index.php?id=68">Joggers & Sweatshirts</a></dd>
                          <dd><a href="index.php?id=69">Jumpers & Cardigans</a></dd>
                          <dd><a href="index.php?id=70">Nightwear</a></dd>
                    </dl>
                    <dl>
                            <dd><a href="index.php?id=71">Shirts</a></dd>
                          <dd><a href="index.php?id=72">Shorts</a></dd>
                          <dd><a href="index.php?id=73">Sportswear</a></dd>
                          <dd><a href="index.php?id=74">Swimwear</a></dd>
                          <dd><a href="index.php?id=75">T-Shirts & Polo Shirts</a></dd>
                    </dl>
                    <dl>
                          <dd><a href="index.php?id=76">Trousers & Jeans</a></dd>
                          <dd><a href="index.php?id=77">Socks</a></dd>
                          <dd><a href="index.php?id=78">Underwear</a></dd>
                    </dl>
                    <dl>

                    </dl>
                </div>
            </li><!--menu end-->
            <!--menu-->
             <li><a href="index.php?id=9" class="blue">Toddlers</a>
                <div class="subs">
                    <dl>
                      <dd><a href="index.php?id=79">Newborn</a></dd>
                      <dd><a href="index.php?id=80">0-2 Years</a></dd>
                    </dl>                 
                </div>
            </li><!--menu end-->
            <!--menu-->
             <li><a href="index.php?id=10" class="blue">Accessories</a>
                <div class="subs">
                    <dl>
                          <dd><a href="index.php?id=81">Shoes</a></dd>
                          <dd><a href="index.php?id=82">Ties</a></dd>
                          <dd><a href="index.php?id=83">Caps</a></dd>
                          <dd><a href="index.php?id=84">Belts</a></dd>
                    </dl>                 
                </div>
            </li><!--menu end-->
            <li><a href="index.php?id=13" class="blue">Contact Us</a></li>
        </ul>
        <div class="back"></div>
        <div class="shadow"></div>
    </div>
    <div style="clear:both"></div>
</div>

CSS 3 Coding- Copy and Paste

<style>

body{margin:0px;}
.example {
    width:980px;
    height:40px;
    margin:0px auto;
 position:absolute;
 margin-bottom:60px;
 top:95px;
}

.menuholder {
    float:left;
    font:normal bold 11px/35px verdana, sans-serif;
    overflow:hidden;
    position:relative;
}
.menuholder .shadow {
    -moz-box-shadow:0 0 20px rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);
    -o-box-shadow:0 0 20px rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);
    -webkit-box-shadow:0 0 20px rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);
    background:#888;
    box-shadow:0 0 20px rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);
    height:10px;
    left:5%;
    position:absolute;
    top:-9px;
    width:100%;
    z-index:100;
}
.menuholder .back {
    -moz-transition-duration:.4s;
    -o-transition-duration:.4s;
    -webkit-transition-duration:.4s;
    background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.88);
    height:0;
    width:980px; /*100%*/
}
.menuholder:hover div.back {
    height:280px;
}
ul.menu {
    display:block;
    float:left;
    list-style:none;
    margin:0;
    padding:0 125px;
    position:relative;
}
ul.menu li {
    float:left;
    margin:0 10px 0 0;
}
ul.menu li > a {
    -moz-border-radius:0 0 10px 10px;
    -moz-box-shadow:2px 2px 4px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9);
    -moz-transition:all 0.3s ease-in-out;
    -o-border-radius:0 0 10px 10px;
    -o-box-shadow:2px 2px 4px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9);
    -o-transition:all 0.3s ease-in-out;
    -webkit-border-bottom-left-radius:10px;
    -webkit-border-bottom-right-radius:10px;
    -webkit-box-shadow:2px 2px 4px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9);
    -webkit-transition:all 0.3s ease-in-out;
    border-radius:0 0 10px 10px;
    box-shadow:2px 2px 4px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9);
    color:#eee;
    display:block;
    padding:0 10px;
    text-decoration:none;
    transition:all 0.3s ease-in-out;
}
ul.menu li a.red {
    background:#a00;
}
ul.menu li a.orange {
    background:#da0;
}
ul.menu li a.yellow {
    background:#aa0;
}
ul.menu li a.green {
    background:#060;
}
ul.menu li a.blue {
    background:#073263;
}
ul.menu li a.violet {
    background:#682bc2;
}
.menu li div.subs {
    left:0;
    overflow:hidden;
    position:absolute;
    top:35px;
    width:0;
}
.menu li div.subs dl {
    -moz-transition-duration:.2s;
    -o-transition-duration:.2s;
    -webkit-transition-duration:.2s;
    float:left;
    margin:0 130px 0 0;
    overflow:hidden;
    padding:40px 0 5% 2%;
    width:0;
}
.menu dt {
    color:#fc0;
    font-family:arial, sans-serif;
    font-size:12px;
    font-weight:700;
    height:20px;
    line-height:20px;
    margin:0;
    padding:0 0 0 10px;
    white-space:nowrap;
}
.menu dd {
    margin:0;
    padding:0;
    text-align:left;
}
.menu dd a {
    background:transparent;
    color:#fff;
    font-size:12px;
    height:20px;
    line-height:20px;
    padding:0 0 0 10px;
    text-align:left;
    white-space:nowrap;
    width:80px;
}
.menu dd a:hover {
    color:#fc0;
}
.menu li:hover div.subs dl {
    -moz-transition-delay:0.2s;
    -o-transition-delay:0.2s;
    -webkit-transition-delay:0.2s;
    margin-right:2%;
    width:21%;
}
ul.menu li:hover > a,ul.menu li > a:hover {
    background:#aaa;
    color:#fff;
    padding:10px 10px 0;
}
ul.menu li a.red:hover,ul.menu li:hover a.red {
    background:#c00;
}
ul.menu li a.orange:hover,ul.menu li:hover a.orange {
    background:#fc0;
}
ul.menu li a.yellow:hover,ul.menu li:hover a.yellow {
    background:#cc0;
}
ul.menu li a.green:hover,ul.menu li:hover a.green {
    background:#080;
}
ul.menu li a.blue:hover,ul.menu li:hover a.blue {
    background:#00c;
}
ul.menu li a.violet:hover,ul.menu li:hover a.violet {
background:#8a2be2;
}
.menu li:hover div.subs,.menu li a:hover div.subs {
    width:100%;
}

How to declare a Fixed length Array in TypeScript

Actually, You can achieve this with current typescript:

type Grow<T, A extends Array<T>> = ((x: T, ...xs: A) => void) extends ((...a: infer X) => void) ? X : never;
type GrowToSize<T, A extends Array<T>, N extends number> = { 0: A, 1: GrowToSize<T, Grow<T, A>, N> }[A['length'] extends N ? 0 : 1];

export type FixedArray<T, N extends number> = GrowToSize<T, [], N>;

Examples:

// OK
const fixedArr3: FixedArray<string, 3> = ['a', 'b', 'c'];

// Error:
// Type '[string, string, string]' is not assignable to type '[string, string]'.
//   Types of property 'length' are incompatible.
//     Type '3' is not assignable to type '2'.ts(2322)
const fixedArr2: FixedArray<string, 2> = ['a', 'b', 'c'];

// Error:
// Property '3' is missing in type '[string, string, string]' but required in type 
// '[string, string, string, string]'.ts(2741)
const fixedArr4: FixedArray<string, 4> = ['a', 'b', 'c'];

EDIT (after a long time)

This should handle bigger sizes (as basically it grows array exponentially until we get to closest power of two):

type Shift<A extends Array<any>> = ((...args: A) => void) extends ((...args: [A[0], ...infer R]) => void) ? R : never;

type GrowExpRev<A extends Array<any>, N extends number, P extends Array<Array<any>>> = A['length'] extends N ? A : {
  0: GrowExpRev<[...A, ...P[0]], N, P>,
  1: GrowExpRev<A, N, Shift<P>>
}[[...A, ...P[0]][N] extends undefined ? 0 : 1];

type GrowExp<A extends Array<any>, N extends number, P extends Array<Array<any>>> = A['length'] extends N ? A : {
  0: GrowExp<[...A, ...A], N, [A, ...P]>,
  1: GrowExpRev<A, N, P>
}[[...A, ...A][N] extends undefined ? 0 : 1];

export type FixedSizeArray<T, N extends number> = N extends 0 ? [] : N extends 1 ? [T] : GrowExp<[T, T], N, [[T]]>;

Calculating Page Table Size

Since we have a virtual address space of 2^32 and each page size is 2^12, we can store (2^32/2^12) = 2^20 pages. Since each entry into this page table has an address of size 4 bytes, then we have 2^20*4 = 4MB. So the page table takes up 4MB in memory.

How do I remove a single breakpoint with GDB?

You can delete all breakpoints using

del <start_breakpoint_num> - <end_breakpoint_num>

To view the start_breakpoint_num and end_breakpoint_num use:

info break

Remove all non-"word characters" from a String in Java, leaving accented characters?

You might want to remove the accents and diacritic signs first, then on each character position check if the "simplified" string is an ascii letter - if it is, the original position shall contain word characters, if not, it can be removed.

Is there any way to set environment variables in Visual Studio Code?

Could they make it any harder? Here's what I did: open system properties, click on advanced, add the environment variable, shut down visual studio and start it up again.

How can I specify a branch/tag when adding a Git submodule?

I have this in my .gitconfig file. It is still a draft, but proved useful as of now. It helps me to always reattach the submodules to their branch.

[alias]

######################
#
#Submodules aliases
#
######################


#git sm-trackbranch : places all submodules on their respective branch specified in .gitmodules
#This works if submodules are configured to track a branch, i.e if .gitmodules looks like :
#[submodule "my-submodule"]
#   path = my-submodule
#   url = [email protected]/my-submodule.git
#   branch = my-branch
sm-trackbranch = "! git submodule foreach -q --recursive 'branch=\"$(git config -f $toplevel/.gitmodules submodule.$name.branch)\"; git checkout $branch'"

#sm-pullrebase :
# - pull --rebase on the master repo
# - sm-trackbranch on every submodule
# - pull --rebase on each submodule
#
# Important note :
#- have a clean master repo and subrepos before doing this !
#- this is *not* equivalent to getting the last committed 
#  master repo + its submodules: if some submodules are tracking branches 
#  that have evolved since the last commit in the master repo,
#  they will be using those more recent commits !
#
#  (Note : On the contrary, git submodule update will stick 
#to the last committed SHA1 in the master repo)
#
sm-pullrebase = "! git pull --rebase; git submodule update; git sm-trackbranch ; git submodule foreach 'git pull --rebase' "

# git sm-diff will diff the master repo *and* its submodules
sm-diff = "! git diff && git submodule foreach 'git diff' "

#git sm-push will ask to push also submodules
sm-push = push --recurse-submodules=on-demand

#git alias : list all aliases
#useful in order to learn git syntax
alias = "!git config -l | grep alias | cut -c 7-"

How can I get the baseurl of site?

I go with

HttpContext.Current.Request.ServerVariables["HTTP_HOST"]

see if two files have the same content in python

Yes, I think hashing the file would be the best way if you have to compare several files and store hashes for later comparison. As hash can clash, a byte-by-byte comparison may be done depending on the use case.

Generally byte-by-byte comparison would be sufficient and efficient, which filecmp module already does + other things too.

See http://docs.python.org/library/filecmp.html e.g.

>>> import filecmp
>>> filecmp.cmp('file1.txt', 'file1.txt')
True
>>> filecmp.cmp('file1.txt', 'file2.txt')
False

Speed consideration: Usually if only two files have to be compared, hashing them and comparing them would be slower instead of simple byte-by-byte comparison if done efficiently. e.g. code below tries to time hash vs byte-by-byte

Disclaimer: this is not the best way of timing or comparing two algo. and there is need for improvements but it does give rough idea. If you think it should be improved do tell me I will change it.

import random
import string
import hashlib
import time

def getRandText(N):
    return  "".join([random.choice(string.printable) for i in xrange(N)])

N=1000000
randText1 = getRandText(N)
randText2 = getRandText(N)

def cmpHash(text1, text2):
    hash1 = hashlib.md5()
    hash1.update(text1)
    hash1 = hash1.hexdigest()

    hash2 = hashlib.md5()
    hash2.update(text2)
    hash2 = hash2.hexdigest()

    return  hash1 == hash2

def cmpByteByByte(text1, text2):
    return text1 == text2

for cmpFunc in (cmpHash, cmpByteByByte):
    st = time.time()
    for i in range(10):
        cmpFunc(randText1, randText2)
    print cmpFunc.func_name,time.time()-st

and the output is

cmpHash 0.234999895096
cmpByteByByte 0.0

vertical-align: middle doesn't work

Vertical align doesn't quite work the way you want it to. See: http://phrogz.net/css/vertical-align/index.html

This isn't pretty, but it WILL do what you want: Vertical align behaves as expected only when used in a table cell.

http://jsfiddle.net/e8ESb/6/

There are other alternatives: You can declare things as tables or table cells within CSS to make them behave as desired, for example. Margins and positioning can sometimes be played with to get the same effect. None of the solutions are terrible pretty, though.

Convert a date format in PHP

You can change the format using the date() and the strtotime().

$date = '9/18/2019';

echo date('d-m-y',strtotime($date));

Result:

18-09-19

We can change the format by changing the ( d-m-y ).

How do I pass parameters into a PHP script through a webpage?

$argv[0]; // the script name
$argv[1]; // the first parameter
$argv[2]; // the second parameter

If you want to all the script to run regardless of where you call it from (command line or from the browser) you'll want something like the following:

<?php
if ($_GET) {
    $argument1 = $_GET['argument1'];
    $argument2 = $_GET['argument2'];
} else {
    $argument1 = $argv[1];
    $argument2 = $argv[2];
}
?>

To call from command line chmod 755 /var/www/webroot/index.php and use

/usr/bin/php /var/www/webroot/index.php arg1 arg2

To call from the browser, use

http://www.mydomain.com/index.php?argument1=arg1&argument2=arg2

set height of imageview as matchparent programmatically

imageView.getLayoutParams().height= ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT;

How to align the text middle of BUTTON

This is more predictable then "line-height"

_x000D_
_x000D_
.loginBtn {_x000D_
    background:url(images/loginBtn-center.jpg) repeat-x;_x000D_
    width:175px;_x000D_
    height:65px;_x000D_
    margin:20px auto;_x000D_
    border-radius:10px;_x000D_
    -webkit-border-radius:10px;_x000D_
    box-shadow:0 1px 2px #5e5d5b;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
.loginBtn span {_x000D_
    display: block;_x000D_
    padding-top: 22px;_x000D_
    text-align: center;_x000D_
    line-height: 1em;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<div id="loginBtn" class="loginBtn"><span>Log in</span></div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

EDIT (2018): use flexbox

.loginBtn {
    display: flex;
    align-items: center;
    justify-content: center;
}

Getting GET "?" variable in laravel

In laravel 5.3 $start = Input::get('start'); returns NULL

To solve this

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Input;

//then inside you controller function  use

$input = Input::all(); // $input will have all your variables,  

$start = $input['start'];
$limit = $input['limit'];

Removing duplicate values from a PowerShell array

In case you want to be fully bomb prove, this is what I would advice:

@('Apples', 'Apples ', 'APPLES', 'Banana') | 
    Sort-Object -Property @{Expression={$_.Trim()}} -Unique

Output:

Apples
Banana

This uses the Property parameter to first Trim() the strings, so extra spaces are removed and then selects only the -Unique values.

More info on Sort-Object:

Get-Help Sort-Object -ShowWindow

Postgres: How to convert a json string to text?

->> works for me.

postgres version:

<postgres.version>11.6</postgres.version>

Query:

select object_details->'valuationDate' as asofJson, object_details->>'valuationDate' as asofText from MyJsonbTable;

Output:

  asofJson       asofText
"2020-06-26"    2020-06-26
"2020-06-25"    2020-06-25
"2020-06-25"    2020-06-25
"2020-06-25"    2020-06-25

PHP: How to get referrer URL?

Underscore. Not space.

$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']

How to extract text from an existing docx file using python-docx

There are two "generations" of python-docx. The initial generation ended with the 0.2.x versions and the "new" generation started at v0.3.0. The new generation is a ground-up, object-oriented rewrite of the legacy version. It has a distinct repository located here.

The opendocx() function is part of the legacy API. The documentation is for the new version. The legacy version has no documentation to speak of.

Neither reading nor writing hyperlinks are supported in the current version. That capability is on the roadmap, and the project is under active development. It turns out to be quite a broad API because Word has so much functionality. So we'll get to it, but probably not in the next month unless someone decides to focus on that aspect and contribute it. UPDATE Hyperlink support was added subsequent to this answer.

Adding a column to a data.frame

Approach based on identifying number of groups (x in mapply) and its length (y in mapply)

mytb<-read.table(text="h_no  h_freq  h_freqsq group
1     0.09091 0.008264628 1
2     0.00000 0.000000000 1
3     0.04545 0.002065702 1
4     0.00000 0.000000000 1  
1     0.13636 0.018594050 2
2     0.00000 0.000000000 2
3     0.00000 0.000000000 2
4     0.04545 0.002065702 2
5     0.31818 0.101238512 2
6     0.00000 0.000000000 2
7     0.50000 0.250000000 2 
1     0.13636 0.018594050 3 
2     0.09091 0.008264628 3
3     0.40909 0.167354628 3
4     0.04545 0.002065702 3", header=T, stringsAsFactors=F)
mytb$group<-NULL

positionsof1s<-grep(1,mytb$h_no)

mytb$newgroup<-unlist(mapply(function(x,y) 
  rep(x,y),                      # repeat x number y times
  x= 1:length(positionsof1s),    # x is 1 to number of nth group = g1:g3
  y= c( diff(positionsof1s),     # y is number of repeats of groups g1 to penultimate (g2) = 4, 7
        nrow(mytb)-              # this line and the following gives number of repeat for last group (g3)
          (positionsof1s[length(positionsof1s )]-1 )  # number of rows - position of penultimate group (g2) 
      ) ) )
mytb

Calculate distance between 2 GPS coordinates

I guess you want it along the curvature of the earth. Your two points and the center of the earth are on a plane. The center of the earth is the center of a circle on that plane and the two points are (roughly) on the perimeter of that circle. From that you can calculate the distance by finding out what the angle from one point to the other is.

If the points are not the same heights, or if you need to take into account that the earth is not a perfect sphere it gets a little more difficult.

Changing EditText bottom line color with appcompat v7

If you are using appcompat-v7:22.1.0+ you can use the DrawableCompat to tint your widgets

    public static void tintWidget(View view, int color) {
        Drawable wrappedDrawable = DrawableCompat.wrap(view.getBackground());
        DrawableCompat.setTint(wrappedDrawable.mutate(), getResources().getColor(color));
        view.setBackgroundDrawable(wrappedDrawable);
    }

How can I put the current running linux process in background?

Suspend the process with CTRL+Z then use the command bg to resume it in background. For example:

sleep 60
^Z  #Suspend character shown after hitting CTRL+Z
[1]+  Stopped  sleep 60  #Message showing stopped process info
bg  #Resume current job (last job stopped)

More about job control and bg usage in bash manual page:

JOB CONTROL
Typing the suspend character (typically ^Z, Control-Z) while a process is running causes that process to be stopped and returns control to bash. [...] The user may then manipulate the state of this job, using the bg command to continue it in the background, [...]. A ^Z takes effect immediately, and has the additional side effect of causing pending output and typeahead to be discarded.

bg [jobspec ...]
Resume each suspended job jobspec in the background, as if it had been started with &. If jobspec is not present, the shell's notion of the current job is used.

EDIT

To start a process where you can even kill the terminal and it still carries on running

nohup [command] [-args] > [filename] 2>&1 &

e.g.

nohup /home/edheal/myprog -arg1 -arg2 > /home/edheal/output.txt 2>&1 &

To just ignore the output (not very wise) change the filename to /dev/null

To get the error message set to a different file change the &1 to a filename.

In addition: You can use the jobs command to see an indexed list of those backgrounded processes. And you can kill a backgrounded process by running kill %1 or kill %2 with the number being the index of the process.

What is setup.py?

To install a Python package you've downloaded, you extract the archive and run the setup.py script inside:

python setup.py install

To me, this has always felt odd. It would be more natural to point a package manager at the download, as one would do in Ruby and Nodejs, eg. gem install rails-4.1.1.gem

A package manager is more comfortable too, because it's familiar and reliable. On the other hand, each setup.py is novel, because it's specific to the package. It demands faith in convention "I trust this setup.py takes the same commands as others I have used in the past". That's a regrettable tax on mental willpower.

I'm not saying the setup.py workflow is less secure than a package manager (I understand Pip just runs the setup.py inside), but certainly I feel it's awkard and jarring. There's a harmony to commands all being to the same package manager application. You might even grow fond it.

DisplayName attribute from Resources?

If you open your resource file and change the access modifier to public or internal it will generate a class from your resource file which allows you to create strongly typed resource references.

Option for resource file code generation

Which means you can do something like this instead (using C# 6.0). Then you dont have to remember if firstname was lowercased or camelcased. And you can see if other properties use the same resource value with a find all references.

[Display(Name = nameof(PropertyNames.FirstName), ResourceType = typeof(PropertyNames))]
public string FirstName { get; set; }

Long press on UITableView

Answer in Swift:

Add delegate UIGestureRecognizerDelegate to your UITableViewController.

Within UITableViewController:

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()

    let longPressGesture:UILongPressGestureRecognizer = UILongPressGestureRecognizer(target: self, action: "handleLongPress:")
    longPressGesture.minimumPressDuration = 1.0 // 1 second press
    longPressGesture.delegate = self
    self.tableView.addGestureRecognizer(longPressGesture)

}

And the function:

func handleLongPress(longPressGesture:UILongPressGestureRecognizer) {

    let p = longPressGesture.locationInView(self.tableView)
    let indexPath = self.tableView.indexPathForRowAtPoint(p)

    if indexPath == nil {
        print("Long press on table view, not row.")
    }
    else if (longPressGesture.state == UIGestureRecognizerState.Began) {
        print("Long press on row, at \(indexPath!.row)")
    }

}

CSS to set A4 paper size

I looked into this a bit more and the actual problem seems to be with assigning initial to page width under the print media rule. It seems like in Chrome width: initial on the .page element results in scaling of the page content if no specific length value is defined for width on any of the parent elements (width: initial in this case resolves to width: auto ... but actually any value smaller than the size defined under the @page rule causes the same issue).

So not only the content is now too long for the page (by about 2cm), but also the page padding will be slightly more than the initial 2cm and so on (it seems to render the contents under width: auto to the width of ~196mm and then scale the whole content up to the width of 210mm ~ but strangely exactly the same scaling factor is applied to contents with any width smaller than 210mm).

To fix this problem you can simply in the print media rule assign the A4 paper width and hight to html, body or directly to .page and in this case avoid the initial keyword.

DEMO

@page {
  size: A4;
  margin: 0;
}
@media print {
  html, body {
    width: 210mm;
    height: 297mm;
  }
  /* ... the rest of the rules ... */
}

This seems to keep everything else the way it is in your original CSS and fix the problem in Chrome (tested in different versions of Chrome under Windows, OS X and Ubuntu).

How to set the JDK Netbeans runs on?

As a further useful solution for those of you on Windows 7 and above - if you use:

C:\Program Files\Java>mklink /D jdk8 jdk1.8.0_25

you get a Symbolic Link folder that can be adjusted whenever a new JDK comes out.

All you need to do then is set your

netbeans_jdkhome="C:\Program Files\Java\jdk8"

(in both locations for Netbeans 8) and you never have to edit the config again. Just tweak the symlink each time your JDK is updated.

Add and remove a class on click using jQuery?

var selector = '.classname';
$(selector).on('click', function(){
    $(selector).removeClass('classname');
    $(this).addClass('classname');
});

C++ Redefinition Header Files (winsock2.h)

#include guards are the standard way of doing this. #pragma once is not, meaning that not all compilers support it.

PHP Accessing Parent Class Variable

$bb has now become the private member of class B after extending class A where it was protected.

So you access $bb like it's an attribute of class B.

class A {
    private $aa;
    protected $bb = 'parent bb';

    function __construct($arg) {
       //do something..
    }

    private function parentmethod($arg2) {
       //do something..
    }
}

class B extends A {
    function __construct($arg) {
        parent::__construct($arg);
    }
    function childfunction() {
        echo $this->bb; 
    }
}

$test = new B($some);
$test->childfunction();

Find first and last day for previous calendar month in SQL Server Reporting Services (VB.Net)

I'm not familiar with SSRS, but you can get the beginning and end of the previous month in VB.Net using the DateTime constructor, like this:

Dim prevMonth As DateTime = yourDate.AddMonths(-1)

Dim prevMonthStart As New DateTime(prevMonth.Year, prevMonth.Month, 1)
Dim prevMonthEnd As New DateTime(prevMonth.Year, prevMonth.Month, DateTime.DaysInMonth(prevMonth.Year, prevMonth.Month))

(yourDate can be any DateTime object, such as DateTime.Today or #12/23/2003#)

How to find indices of all occurrences of one string in another in JavaScript?

You sure can do this!

//make a regular expression out of your needle
var needle = 'le'
var re = new RegExp(needle,'gi');
var haystack = 'I learned to play the Ukulele';

var results = new Array();//this is the results you want
while (re.exec(haystack)){
  results.push(re.lastIndex);
}

Edit: learn to spell RegExp

Also, I realized this isn't exactly what you want, as lastIndex tells us the end of the needle not the beginning, but it's close - you could push re.lastIndex-needle.length into the results array...

Edit: adding link

@Tim Down's answer uses the results object from RegExp.exec(), and all my Javascript resources gloss over its use (apart from giving you the matched string). So when he uses result.index, that's some sort of unnamed Match Object. In the MDC description of exec, they actually describe this object in decent detail.

Oracle: Import CSV file

SQL Loader helps load csv files into tables: SQL*Loader

If you want sqlplus only, then it gets a bit complicated. You need to locate your sqlloader script and csv file, then run the sqlldr command.

ORA-00972 identifier is too long alias column name

The error is also caused by quirky handling of quotes and single qutoes. To include single quotes inside the query, use doubled single quotes.

This won't work

select dbms_xmlgen.getxml("Select ....") XML from dual;

or this either

select dbms_xmlgen.getxml('Select .. where something='red'..') XML from dual;

but this DOES work

select dbms_xmlgen.getxml('Select .. where something=''red''..') XML from dual;

Check play state of AVPlayer

You can tell it's playing using:

AVPlayer *player = ...
if ((player.rate != 0) && (player.error == nil)) {
    // player is playing
}

Swift 3 extension:

extension AVPlayer {
    var isPlaying: Bool {
        return rate != 0 && error == nil
    }
}

Redirect to new Page in AngularJS using $location

Try entering the url inside the function

$location.url('http://www.google.com')

Read file-contents into a string in C++

There should be no \0 in text files.

#include<iostream>
#include<fstream>

using namespace std;

int main(){
  fstream f(FILENAME, fstream::in );
  string s;
  getline( f, s, '\0');

  cout << s << endl;
  f.close();
}