Programs & Examples On #Client side data

Typescript : Property does not exist on type 'object'

If your object could contain any key/value pairs, you could declare an interface called keyable like :

interface keyable {
    [key: string]: any  
}

then use it as follows :

let countryProviders: keyable[];

or

let countryProviders: Array<keyable>;

Make a nav bar stick

I would recommend to use Bootstrap. http://getbootstrap.com/. This approach is very straight-forward and light weight.

<div class="navbar navbar-inverse navbar-fixed-top">
   <div class="container">
      <div class="navbar-collapse collapse">
         <ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-fixed-top">
            <li><a href="#home"> <br>BLINK</a></li>
                <li><a href="#news"><br>ADVERTISING WITH BLINK</a></li>
                <li><a href="#contact"><br>EDUCATING WITH BLINK</a></li>
                <li><a href="#about"><br>ABOUT US</a></li>
            </ul>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

You need to include the Bootstrap into your project, which will include the necessary scripts and styles. Then just call the class 'navbar-fixed-top'. This will do the trick. See above example

Fatal error compiling: invalid target release: 1.8 -> [Help 1]

Do a force Maven Update which will bring the compatible 1.8 Jar Versions and then while building, update the JRE Versions in Execute environment to 1.8 from Run Configurations and hit RUN

Android- Error:Execution failed for task ':app:transformClassesWithDexForRelease'

The best way comes from James Riordan's answer from this thread

This can be fixed by updating to Gradle 5.5

The easiest way to do this is to update the wrapper in use:

  • Open gradle/gradle-wrapper.properties

  • Find the line that looks like

distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.X.X-all.zip
  • Change the version to 5.5-all.zip

Then try running the build again.

Datetime equal or greater than today in MySQL

Answer marked is misleading. The question stated is DateTime, but stated what was needed was just CURDATE().

The shortest and correct answer to this is:

SELECT * FROM users WHERE created >= CURRENT_TIMESTAMP;

Setting up an MS-Access DB for multi-user access

Table or record locking is available in Access during data writes. You can control the Default record locking through Tools | Options | Advanced tab:

  1. No Locks
  2. All Records
  3. Edited Record

You can set this on a form's Record Locks or in your DAO/ADO code for specific needs.

Transactions shouldn't be a problem if you use them correctly.

Best practice: Separate your tables from All your other code. Give each user their own copy of the code file and then share the data file on a network server. Work on a 'test' copy of the code (and a link to a test data file) and then update user's individual code files separately. If you need to make data file changes (add tables, columns, etc), you will have to have all users get out of the application to make the changes.

See other answers for Oracle comparison.

MongoDB: How To Delete All Records Of A Collection in MongoDB Shell?

To remove all the documents in all the collections:

db.getCollectionNames().forEach( function(collection_name) { 
    if (collection_name.indexOf("system.") == -1) {
        print ( ["Removing: ", db[collection_name].count({}), " documents from ", collection_name].join('') );
        db[collection_name].remove({}); 
    }
});

htaccess Access-Control-Allow-Origin

Try this in the .htaccess of the external root folder :

<IfModule mod_headers.c>
    Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"
</IfModule>

And if it only concerns .js scripts you should wrap the above code inside this:

<FilesMatch "\.(js)$">
...
</FilesMatch>

How to sort a file, based on its numerical values for a field?

If you are sorting strings that are mixed text & numbers, for example filenames of rolling logs then sorting with sort -n doesn't work as expected:

$ ls |sort -n
output.log.1
output.log.10
output.log.11
output.log.12
output.log.13
output.log.14
output.log.15
output.log.16
output.log.17
output.log.18
output.log.19
output.log.2
output.log.20
output.log.3
output.log.4
output.log.5
output.log.6
output.log.7
output.log.8
output.log.9

In that case option -V does the trick:

$ ls |sort -V
output.log.1
output.log.2
output.log.3
output.log.4
output.log.5
output.log.6
output.log.7
output.log.8
output.log.9
output.log.10
output.log.11
output.log.12
output.log.13
output.log.14
output.log.15
output.log.16
output.log.17
output.log.18
output.log.19
output.log.20

from man page:

   -V, --version-sort
          natural sort of (version) numbers within text

$("#form1").validate is not a function

If you had a link I could look to see what the issue is but here are a couple questions and things to check:

  • Is the ID for your form named "form" in the HTML?
  • Check to see if messages are required, maybe there is some imbalance in parameters
  • You should also add the 'type="text/javascript"' attributes where you are getting jQuery from Google

Also, if you're going to use the Google CDN for getting jQuery you may as well use Microsoft's CDN for getting your validation file. Any of these URLs will work:

How to store images in mysql database using php

<!-- 
//THIS PROGRAM WILL UPLOAD IMAGE AND WILL RETRIVE FROM DATABASE. UNSING BLOB
(IF YOU HAVE ANY QUERY CONTACT:[email protected])


CREATE TABLE  `images` (
  `id` int(100) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `name` varchar(100) NOT NULL,
  `image` longblob NOT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB ;

-->
<!-- this form is user to store images-->
<form action="index.php" method="post"  enctype="multipart/form-data">
Enter the Image Name:<input type="text" name="image_name" id="" /><br />

<input name="image" id="image" accept="image/JPEG" type="file"><br /><br />
<input type="submit" value="submit" name="submit" />
</form>
<br /><br />
<!-- this form is user to display all the images-->
<form action="index.php" method="post"  enctype="multipart/form-data">
Retrive all the images:
<input type="submit" value="submit" name="retrive" />
</form>



<?php
//THIS IS INDEX.PHP PAGE
//connect to database.db name is images
        mysql_connect("", "", "") OR DIE (mysql_error());
        mysql_select_db ("") OR DIE ("Unable to select db".mysql_error());
//to retrive send the page to another page
if(isset($_POST['retrive']))
{
    header("location:search.php");

}

//to upload
if(isset($_POST['submit']))
{
if(isset($_FILES['image'])) {
        $name=$_POST['image_name'];
        $email=$_POST['mail'];
        $fp=addslashes(file_get_contents($_FILES['image']['tmp_name'])); //will store the image to fp
        }
                // our sql query
                $sql = "INSERT INTO images VALUES('null', '{$name}','{$fp}');";
                            mysql_query($sql) or die("Error in Query insert: " . mysql_error());
} 
?>



<?php
//SEARCH.PHP PAGE
    //connect to database.db name = images
         mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "") OR DIE (mysql_error());
        mysql_select_db ("image") OR DIE ("Unable to select db".mysql_error());
//display all the image present in the database

        $msg="";
        $sql="select * from images";
        if(mysql_query($sql))
        {
            $res=mysql_query($sql);
            while($row=mysql_fetch_array($res))
            {
                    $id=$row['id'];
                    $name=$row['name'];
                    $image=$row['image'];

                  $msg.= '<a href="search.php?id='.$id.'"><img src="data:image/jpeg;base64,'.base64_encode($row['image']). ' " />   </a>';

            }
        }
        else
            $msg.="Query failed";
?>
<div>
<?php
echo $msg;
?>

SPAN vs DIV (inline-block)

As others have answered… div is a “block element” (now redefined as Flow Content) and span is an “inline element” (Phrasing Content). Yes, you may change the default presentation of these elements, but there is a difference between “flow” versus “block”, and “phrasing” versus “inline”.

An element classified as flow content can only be used where flow content is expected, and an element classified as phrasing content can be used where phrasing content is expected. Since all phrasing content is flow content, a phrasing element can also be used anywhere flow content is expected. The specs provide more detailed info.

All phrasing elements, such as strong and em, can only contain other phrasing elements: you can’t put a table inside a cite for instance. Most flow content such as div and li can contain all types of flow content (as well as phrasing content), but there are a few exceptions: p, pre, and th are examples of non-phrasing flow content (“block elements”) that can only contain phrasing content (“inline elements”). And of course there are the normal element restrictions such as dl and table only being allowed to contain certain elements.

While both div and p are non-phrasing flow content, the div can contain other flow content children (including more divs and ps). On the other hand, p may only contain phrasing content children. That means you can’t put a div inside a p, even though both are non-phrasing flow elements.

Now here’s the kicker. These semantic specifications are unrelated to how the element is displayed. Thus, if you have a div inside a span, you will get a validation error even if you have span {display: block;} and div {display: inline;} in your CSS.

How to compare DateTime in C#?

//Time compare.
private int CompareTime(string t1, string t2)
{
    TimeSpan s1 = TimeSpan.Parse(t1);
    TimeSpan s2 = TimeSpan.Parse(t2);
    return s2.CompareTo(s1);
}

How do I enable NuGet Package Restore in Visual Studio?

Ivan Branets 's solution is essentially what fixed this for me, but some more details could be shared.

In my case, I was in VS 2015 using Auto Package restore and TFS. This is all pretty default stuff.

The problem was that when another developer tried to get a solution from TFS, some packages were not fully getting restored. (Why, that I'm not quite sure yet.) But the packages folder contained a folder for the reference and the NuGet package, but it wasn't getting expanded (say a lib folder containing a .dll was missing.) This half there, but not really quite right concept was preventing the package from being restored.

You'll recognize this because the reference will have a yellow exclamation point about not being resolved.

So, the solution of deleting the folder within packages removes the package restore blocking issue. Then you can right click at the top solution level to get the option to restore packages, and now it should work.

How to use XPath in Python?

libxml2 has a number of advantages:

  1. Compliance to the spec
  2. Active development and a community participation
  3. Speed. This is really a python wrapper around a C implementation.
  4. Ubiquity. The libxml2 library is pervasive and thus well tested.

Downsides include:

  1. Compliance to the spec. It's strict. Things like default namespace handling are easier in other libraries.
  2. Use of native code. This can be a pain depending on your how your application is distributed / deployed. RPMs are available that ease some of this pain.
  3. Manual resource handling. Note in the sample below the calls to freeDoc() and xpathFreeContext(). This is not very Pythonic.

If you are doing simple path selection, stick with ElementTree ( which is included in Python 2.5 ). If you need full spec compliance or raw speed and can cope with the distribution of native code, go with libxml2.

Sample of libxml2 XPath Use


import libxml2

doc = libxml2.parseFile("tst.xml")
ctxt = doc.xpathNewContext()
res = ctxt.xpathEval("//*")
if len(res) != 2:
    print "xpath query: wrong node set size"
    sys.exit(1)
if res[0].name != "doc" or res[1].name != "foo":
    print "xpath query: wrong node set value"
    sys.exit(1)
doc.freeDoc()
ctxt.xpathFreeContext()

Sample of ElementTree XPath Use


from elementtree.ElementTree import ElementTree
mydoc = ElementTree(file='tst.xml')
for e in mydoc.findall('/foo/bar'):
    print e.get('title').text

How to join three table by laravel eloquent model

With Eloquent its very easy to retrieve relational data. Checkout the following example with your scenario in Laravel 5.

We have three models:

1) Article (belongs to user and category)

2) Category (has many articles)

3) User (has many articles)


1) Article.php

<?php

namespace App\Models;
 use Eloquent;

class Article extends Eloquent{

    protected $table = 'articles';

    public function user()
    {
        return $this->belongsTo('App\Models\User');
    }

    public function category()
    {
        return $this->belongsTo('App\Models\Category');
    }

}

2) Category.php

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Eloquent;

class Category extends Eloquent
{
    protected $table = "categories";

    public function articles()
    {
        return $this->hasMany('App\Models\Article');
    }

}

3) User.php

<?php

namespace App\Models;
use Eloquent;

class User extends Eloquent
{
    protected $table = 'users';

    public function articles()
    {
        return $this->hasMany('App\Models\Article');
    }

}

You need to understand your database relation and setup in models. User has many articles. Category has many articles. Articles belong to user and category. Once you setup the relationships in Laravel, it becomes easy to retrieve the related information.

For example, if you want to retrieve an article by using the user and category, you would need to write:

$article = \App\Models\Article::with(['user','category'])->first();

and you can use this like so:

//retrieve user name 
$article->user->user_name  

//retrieve category name 
$article->category->category_name

In another case, you might need to retrieve all the articles within a category, or retrieve all of a specific user`s articles. You can write it like this:

$categories = \App\Models\Category::with('articles')->get();

$users = \App\Models\Category::with('users')->get();

You can learn more at http://laravel.com/docs/5.0/eloquent

How to compare numbers in bash?

Like this:

#!/bin/bash

a=2462620
b=2462620

if [ "$a" -eq "$b" ]; then
  echo "They're equal";
fi

Integers can be compared with these operators:

-eq # equal
-ne # not equal
-lt # less than
-le # less than or equal
-gt # greater than
-ge # greater than or equal

See this cheatsheet: https://devhints.io/bash#conditionals

Eclipse : Failed to connect to remote VM. Connection refused.

I faced the same issue. But i resolved it by changing my port numbers to different one.

JUnit Testing Exceptions

An adventage of use ExpectedException Rule (version 4.7) is that you can test exception message and not only the expected exception.

And using Matchers, you can test the part of message you are interested:

exception.expectMessage(containsString("income: -1000.0"));

What is this Javascript "require"?

Necromancing.
IMHO, the existing answers leave much to be desired.

It's very simple:
Require is simply a (non-standard) function defined at global scope.
(window in browser, global in NodeJS).

Now, as such, to answer the question "what is require", we "simply" need to know what this function does.
This is perhaps best explained with code.

Here's a simple implementation by Michele Nasti, the code you can find on his github page.

Basically, let's call our minimalisc require function myRequire:

function myRequire(name) 
{
    console.log(`Evaluating file ${name}`);
    if (!(name in myRequire.cache)) {
        console.log(`${name} is not in cache; reading from disk`);
        let code = fs.readFileSync(name, 'utf8');
        let module = { exports: {} };
        myRequire.cache[name] = module;
        let wrapper = Function("require, exports, module", code);
        wrapper(myRequire, module.exports, module);
    }
    console.log(`${name} is in cache. Returning it...`);
    return myRequire.cache[name].exports;
}
myRequire.cache = Object.create(null);
window.require = myRequire;
const stuff = window.require('./main.js');
console.log(stuff);

Now you notice, the object "fs" is used here.
For simplicity's sake, Michele just imported the NodeJS fs module:

const fs = require('fs');

Which wouldn't be necessary.
So in the browser, you could make a simple implementation of require with a SYNCHRONOUS XmlHttpRequest:

const fs = {
    file: `
    // module.exports = \"Hello World\";
        
    module.exports = function(){ return 5*3;};
    
    `
    , getFile(fileName: string, encoding: string): string
    {
        // https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/XMLHttpRequest/Synchronous_and_Asynchronous_Requests
        let client = new XMLHttpRequest();
        // client.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "text/plain;charset=UTF-8");

        // open(method, url, async)
        client.open("GET", fileName, false);
        client.send();
        if (client.status === 200)
            return client.responseText;

        return null;
    }


    , readFileSync: function (fileName: string, encoding: string): string
    {
        // this.getFile(fileName, encoding);
        return this.file; // Example, getFile would fetch this file 
    }
};

Basically, what require thus does, is download a JavaScript-file, eval it in an anonymous namespace (aka Function), with the global parameters "require", "exports" and "module", and return the exports, meaning an object's public functions and properties.

Note that this evaluation is recursive: you require files, which themselfs can require files.

This way, all "global" variables used in your module are variables in the require-wrapper-function namespace, and don't pollute the global scope with unwanted variables.

Also, this way, you can reuse code without depending on namespaces, so you get "modularity" in JavaScript. "modularity" in quotes, because this is not exactly true, though, because you can still write window.bla, and hence still pollute the global scope... Also, this establishes a separation between private and public functions, the public functions being the exports.

Now instead of saying

module.exports = function(){ return 5*3;};

You can also say:

function privateSomething()
{
    return 42:
}


function privateSomething2()
{
    return 21:
}


module.exports = {
      getRandomNumber: privateSomething
     ,getHalfRandomNumber: privateSomething2
};

and return an object.

Also, because your modules get evaluated in a function with parameters "require", "exports" and "module", your modules can use the undeclared variables "require", "exports" and "module", which might be startling at first. The require parameter there is of course a ByVal pointer to the require function saved into a variable.
Cool, right ?
Seen this way, require looses its magic, and becomes simple.
Now, the real require-function will do a few more checks and quirks, of course, but this is the essence of what that boils down to.

Also, in 2020, you should use the ECMA implementations instead of require:

import defaultExport from "module-name";
import * as name from "module-name";
import { export1 } from "module-name";
import { export1 as alias1 } from "module-name";
import { export1 , export2 } from "module-name";
import { foo , bar } from "module-name/path/to/specific/un-exported/file";
import { export1 , export2 as alias2 , [...] } from "module-name";
import defaultExport, { export1 [ , [...] ] } from "module-name";
import defaultExport, * as name from "module-name";
import "module-name";

And if you need a dynamic non-static import (e.g. load a polyfill based on browser-type), there is the ECMA-import function/keyword:

var promise = import("module-name");

note that import is not synchronous like require.
Instead, import is a promise, so

var something = require("something");

becomes

var something = await import("something");

because import returns a promise (asynchronous).

So basically, unlike require, import replaces fs.readFileSync with fs.readFileAsync.

async readFileAsync(fileName, encoding) 
{
    const textDecoder = new TextDecoder(encoding);
    // textDecoder.ignoreBOM = true;
    const response = await fetch(fileName);
    console.log(response.ok);
    console.log(response.status);
    console.log(response.statusText);
    // let json = await response.json();
    // let txt = await response.text();
    // let blo:Blob = response.blob();
    // let ab:ArrayBuffer = await response.arrayBuffer();
    // let fd = await response.formData()
    // Read file almost by line
    // https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/ReadableStreamDefaultReader/read#Example_2_-_handling_text_line_by_line
    let buffer = await response.arrayBuffer();
    let file = textDecoder.decode(buffer);
    return file;
} // End Function readFileAsync

This of course requires the import-function to be async as well.

"use strict";
async function myRequireAsync(name) {
    console.log(`Evaluating file ${name}`);
    if (!(name in myRequireAsync.cache)) {
        console.log(`${name} is not in cache; reading from disk`);
        let code = await fs.readFileAsync(name, 'utf8');
        let module = { exports: {} };
        myRequireAsync.cache[name] = module;
        let wrapper = Function("asyncRequire, exports, module", code);
        await wrapper(myRequireAsync, module.exports, module);
    }
    console.log(`${name} is in cache. Returning it...`);
    return myRequireAsync.cache[name].exports;
}
myRequireAsync.cache = Object.create(null);
window.asyncRequire = myRequireAsync;
async () => {
    const asyncStuff = await window.asyncRequire('./main.js');
    console.log(asyncStuff);
};

Even better, right ?
Well yea, except that there is no ECMA-way to dynamically import synchronously (without promise).

Now, to understand the repercussions, you absolutely might want to read up on promises/async-await here, if you don't know what that is.

But very simply put, if a function returns a promise, it can be "awaited":

function sleep (fn, par) 
{
  return new Promise((resolve) => {
    // wait 3s before calling fn(par)
    setTimeout(() => resolve(fn(par)), 3000)
  })
}


var fileList = await sleep(listFiles, nextPageToken)

Which is nice way to make asynchronous code look synchronous.
Note that if you want to use async await in a function, that function must be declared async.

async function doSomethingAsync()
{
    var fileList = await sleep(listFiles, nextPageToken)
}

And also please note that in JavaScript, there is no way to call an async function (blockingly) from a synchronous one (the ones you know). So if you want to use await (aka ECMA-import), all your code needs to be async, which most likely is a problem, if everything isn't already async...

An example of where this simplified implementation of require fails, is when you require a file that is not valid JavaScript, e.g. when you require css, html, txt, svg and images or other binary files.
And it's easy to see why:
If you e.g. put HTML into a JavaScript function body, you of course rightfully get

SyntaxError: Unexpected token '<'

because of Function("bla", "<doctype...")

Now, if you wanted to extend this to for example include non-modules, you could just check the downloaded file-contents with for code.indexOf("module.exports") == -1, and then e.g. eval("jquery content") instead of Func (which works fine as long as you're in the browser). Since downloads with Fetch/XmlHttpRequests are subject to the same-origin-policy, and integrity is ensured by SSL/TLS, the use of eval here is rather harmless, provided you checked the JS files before you added them to your site, but that much should be standard-operating-procedure.

Note that there are several implementations of require-like functionality:

Swift performSelector:withObject:afterDelay: is unavailable

Swift 4

DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + 0.1) {
    // your function here
}

Swift 3

DispatchQueue.main.asyncAfter(deadline: .now() + .seconds(0.1)) {
    // your function here
}

Swift 2

let dispatchTime: dispatch_time_t = dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, Int64(0.1 * Double(NSEC_PER_SEC))) 
dispatch_after(dispatchTime, dispatch_get_main_queue(), { 
    // your function here 
})

VBA changing active workbook

Use ThisWorkbook which will refer to the original workbook which holds the code.

Alternatively at code start

Dim Wb As Workbook
Set Wb = ActiveWorkbook

sample code that activates all open books before returning to ThisWorkbook

Sub Test()
Dim Wb As Workbook
Dim Wb2 As Workbook
Set Wb = ThisWorkbook
For Each Wb2 In Application.Workbooks
    Wb2.Activate
Next
Wb.Activate
End Sub

Deleting multiple elements from a list

This has been mentioned, but somehow nobody managed to actually get it right.

On O(n) solution would be:

indices = {0, 2}
somelist = [i for j, i in enumerate(somelist) if j not in indices]

This is really close to SilentGhost's version, but adds two braces.

Can I target all <H> tags with a single selector?

To tackle this with vanilla CSS look for patterns in the ancestors of the h1..h6 elements:

<section class="row">
  <header>
    <h1>AMD RX Series</h1>
    <small>These come in different brands and types</small>
  </header>
</header>

<div class="row">
  <h3>Sapphire RX460 OC 2/4GB</h3>
  <small>Available in 2GB and 4GB models</small>
</div>

If you can spot patterns you may be able to write a selector which targets what you want. Given the above example all h1..h6 elements may be targeted by combining the :first-child and :not pseudo-classes from CSS3, available in all modern browsers, like so:

.row :first-child:not(header) { /* ... */ }

In the future advanced pseudo-class selectors like :has(), and subsequent-sibling combinators (~), will provide even more control as Web standards continue to evolve over time.

Configure Apache .conf for Alias

Sorry not sure what was going on this worked in the end:

<VirtualHost *> 
    ServerName example.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html/mjp

    Alias /ncn "/var/www/html/ncn"

    <Directory "/var/www/html/ncn">
        Options None
        AllowOverride None
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Carry Flag, Auxiliary Flag and Overflow Flag in Assembly

Carry Flag

The rules for turning on the carry flag in binary/integer math are two:

  1. The carry flag is set if the addition of two numbers causes a carry out of the most significant (leftmost) bits added. 1111 + 0001 = 0000 (carry flag is turned on)

  2. The carry (borrow) flag is also set if the subtraction of two numbers requires a borrow into the most significant (leftmost) bits subtracted. 0000 - 0001 = 1111 (carry flag is turned on) Otherwise, the carry flag is turned off (zero).

    • 0111 + 0001 = 1000 (carry flag is turned off [zero])
    • 1000 - 0001 = 0111 (carry flag is turned off [zero])

In unsigned arithmetic, watch the carry flag to detect errors.

In signed arithmetic, the carry flag tells you nothing interesting.

Overflow Flag

The rules for turning on the overflow flag in binary/integer math are two:

  1. If the sum of two numbers with the sign bits off yields a result number with the sign bit on, the "overflow" flag is turned on. 0100 + 0100 = 1000 (overflow flag is turned on)

  2. If the sum of two numbers with the sign bits on yields a result number with the sign bit off, the "overflow" flag is turned on. 1000 + 1000 = 0000 (overflow flag is turned on)

Otherwise the "overflow" flag is turned off

  • 0100 + 0001 = 0101 (overflow flag is turned off)
  • 0110 + 1001 = 1111 (overflow flag turned off)
  • 1000 + 0001 = 1001 (overflow flag turned off)
  • 1100 + 1100 = 1000 (overflow flag is turned off)

Note that you only need to look at the sign bits (leftmost) of the three numbers to decide if the overflow flag is turned on or off.

If you are doing two's complement (signed) arithmetic, overflow flag on means the answer is wrong - you added two positive numbers and got a negative, or you added two negative numbers and got a positive.

If you are doing unsigned arithmetic, the overflow flag means nothing and should be ignored.

For more clarification please refer: http://teaching.idallen.com/dat2343/10f/notes/040_overflow.txt

Load image from resources area of project in C#

Code I use in several of my projects... It assumes that you store images in resource only as bitmaps not icons

    public static Bitmap GetImageByName(string imageName)
    {
        System.Reflection.Assembly asm = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
        string resourceName = asm.GetName().Name + ".Properties.Resources";
        var rm = new System.Resources.ResourceManager(resourceName, asm);
        return (Bitmap)rm.GetObject(imageName);

    }

Android REST client, Sample?

EDIT 2 (October 2017):

It is 2017. Just use Retrofit. There is almost no reason to use anything else.

EDIT:

The original answer is more than a year and a half old at the time of this edit. Although the concepts presented in original answer still hold, as other answers point out, there are now libraries out there that make this task easier for you. More importantly, some of these libraries handle device configuration changes for you.

The original answer is retained below for reference. But please also take the time to examine some of the Rest client libraries for Android to see if they fit your use cases. The following is a list of some of the libraries I've evaluated. It is by no means intended to be an exhaustive list.


Original Answer:

Presenting my approach to having REST clients on Android. I do not claim it is the best though :) Also, note that this is what I came up with in response to my requirement. You might need to have more layers/add more complexity if your use case demands it. For example, I do not have local storage at all; because my app can tolerate loss of a few REST responses.

My approach uses just AsyncTasks under the covers. In my case, I "call" these Tasks from my Activity instance; but to fully account for cases like screen rotation, you might choose to call them from a Service or such.

I consciously chose my REST client itself to be an API. This means, that the app which uses my REST client need not even be aware of the actual REST URL's and the data format used.

The client would have 2 layers:

  1. Top layer: The purpose of this layer is to provide methods which mirror the functionality of the REST API. For example, you could have one Java method corresponding to every URL in your REST API (or even two - one for GETs and one for POSTs).
    This is the entry point into the REST client API. This is the layer the app would use normally. It could be a singleton, but not necessarily.
    The response of the REST call is parsed by this layer into a POJO and returned to the app.

  2. This is the lower level AsyncTask layer, which uses HTTP client methods to actually go out and make that REST call.

In addition, I chose to use a Callback mechanism to communicate the result of the AsyncTasks back to the app.

Enough of text. Let's see some code now. Lets take a hypothetical REST API URL - http://myhypotheticalapi.com/user/profile

The top layer might look like this:

   /**
 * Entry point into the API.
 */
public class HypotheticalApi{   
    public static HypotheticalApi getInstance(){
        //Choose an appropriate creation strategy.
    }
    
    /**
     * Request a User Profile from the REST server.
     * @param userName The user name for which the profile is to be requested.
     * @param callback Callback to execute when the profile is available.
     */
    public void getUserProfile(String userName, final GetResponseCallback callback){
        String restUrl = Utils.constructRestUrlForProfile(userName);
        new GetTask(restUrl, new RestTaskCallback (){
            @Override
            public void onTaskComplete(String response){
                Profile profile = Utils.parseResponseAsProfile(response);
                callback.onDataReceived(profile);
            }
        }).execute();
    }
    
    /**
     * Submit a user profile to the server.
     * @param profile The profile to submit
     * @param callback The callback to execute when submission status is available.
     */
    public void postUserProfile(Profile profile, final PostCallback callback){
        String restUrl = Utils.constructRestUrlForProfile(profile);
        String requestBody = Utils.serializeProfileAsString(profile);
        new PostTask(restUrl, requestBody, new RestTaskCallback(){
            public void onTaskComplete(String response){
                callback.onPostSuccess();
            }
        }).execute();
    }
}


/**
 * Class definition for a callback to be invoked when the response data for the
 * GET call is available.
 */
public abstract class GetResponseCallback{
    
    /**
     * Called when the response data for the REST call is ready. <br/>
     * This method is guaranteed to execute on the UI thread.
     * 
     * @param profile The {@code Profile} that was received from the server.
     */
    abstract void onDataReceived(Profile profile);
    
    /*
     * Additional methods like onPreGet() or onFailure() can be added with default implementations.
     * This is why this has been made and abstract class rather than Interface.
     */
}

/**
 * 
 * Class definition for a callback to be invoked when the response for the data 
 * submission is available.
 * 
 */
public abstract class PostCallback{
    /**
     * Called when a POST success response is received. <br/>
     * This method is guaranteed to execute on the UI thread.
     */
    public abstract void onPostSuccess();

}

Note that the app doesn't use the JSON or XML (or whatever other format) returned by the REST API directly. Instead, the app only sees the bean Profile.

Then, the lower layer (AsyncTask layer) might look like this:

/**
 * An AsyncTask implementation for performing GETs on the Hypothetical REST APIs.
 */
public class GetTask extends AsyncTask<String, String, String>{
    
    private String mRestUrl;
    private RestTaskCallback mCallback;
    
    /**
     * Creates a new instance of GetTask with the specified URL and callback.
     * 
     * @param restUrl The URL for the REST API.
     * @param callback The callback to be invoked when the HTTP request
     *            completes.
     * 
     */
    public GetTask(String restUrl, RestTaskCallback callback){
        this.mRestUrl = restUrl;
        this.mCallback = callback;
    }
    
    @Override
    protected String doInBackground(String... params) {
        String response = null;
        //Use HTTP Client APIs to make the call.
        //Return the HTTP Response body here.
        return response;
    }
    
    @Override
    protected void onPostExecute(String result) {
        mCallback.onTaskComplete(result);
        super.onPostExecute(result);
    }
}

    /**
     * An AsyncTask implementation for performing POSTs on the Hypothetical REST APIs.
     */
    public class PostTask extends AsyncTask<String, String, String>{
        private String mRestUrl;
        private RestTaskCallback mCallback;
        private String mRequestBody;
        
        /**
         * Creates a new instance of PostTask with the specified URL, callback, and
         * request body.
         * 
         * @param restUrl The URL for the REST API.
         * @param callback The callback to be invoked when the HTTP request
         *            completes.
         * @param requestBody The body of the POST request.
         * 
         */
        public PostTask(String restUrl, String requestBody, RestTaskCallback callback){
            this.mRestUrl = restUrl;
            this.mRequestBody = requestBody;
            this.mCallback = callback;
        }
        
        @Override
        protected String doInBackground(String... arg0) {
            //Use HTTP client API's to do the POST
            //Return response.
        }
        
        @Override
        protected void onPostExecute(String result) {
            mCallback.onTaskComplete(result);
            super.onPostExecute(result);
        }
    }
    
    /**
     * Class definition for a callback to be invoked when the HTTP request
     * representing the REST API Call completes.
     */
    public abstract class RestTaskCallback{
        /**
         * Called when the HTTP request completes.
         * 
         * @param result The result of the HTTP request.
         */
        public abstract void onTaskComplete(String result);
    }

Here's how an app might use the API (in an Activity or Service):

HypotheticalApi myApi = HypotheticalApi.getInstance();
        myApi.getUserProfile("techie.curious", new GetResponseCallback() {

            @Override
            void onDataReceived(Profile profile) {
                //Use the profile to display it on screen, etc.
            }
            
        });
        
        Profile newProfile = new Profile();
        myApi.postUserProfile(newProfile, new PostCallback() {
            
            @Override
            public void onPostSuccess() {
                //Display Success
            }
        });

I hope the comments are sufficient to explain the design; but I'd be glad to provide more info.

How to check for palindrome using Python logic

def is_palindrome(string):
   return string == ''.join([letter for letter in reversed(string)])

Programmatically change the src of an img tag

Give your img tag an id, then you can

document.getElementById("imageid").src="../template/save.png";

How to keep two folders automatically synchronized?

You can use inotifywait (with the modify,create,delete,move flags enabled) and rsync.

while inotifywait -r -e modify,create,delete,move /directory; do
    rsync -avz /directory /target
done

If you don't have inotifywait on your system, run sudo apt-get install inotify-tools

How to stop a setTimeout loop?

You need to use a variable to track "doneness" and then test it on every iteration of the loop. If done == true then return.

var done = false;

function setBgPosition() {
    if ( done ) return;
    var c = 0;
    var numbers = [0, -120, -240, -360, -480, -600, -720];
    function run() {
        if ( done ) return;
        Ext.get('common-spinner').setStyle('background-position', numbers[c++] + 'px 0px');
        if (c<numbers.length)
        {
            setTimeout(run, 200);
        }else
        {
            setBgPosition();
        }
    }
    setTimeout(run, 200);
}

setBgPosition(); // start the loop

setTimeout( function(){ done = true; }, 5000 ); // external event to stop loop

How to set child process' environment variable in Makefile

I would re-write the original target test, taking care the needed variable is defined IN THE SAME SUB-PROCESS as the application to launch:

test:
    ( NODE_ENV=test mocha --harmony --reporter spec test )

Row count with PDO

I tried $count = $stmt->rowCount(); with Oracle 11.2 and it did not work. I decided to used a for loop as show below.

   $count =  "";
    $stmt =  $conn->prepare($sql);
    $stmt->execute();
   echo "<table border='1'>\n";
   while($row = $stmt->fetch(PDO::FETCH_OBJ)) {
        $count++;
        echo "<tr>\n";
    foreach ($row as $item) {
    echo "<td class='td2'>".($item !== null ? htmlentities($item, ENT_QUOTES):"&nbsp;")."</td>\n";
        } //foreach ends
        }// while ends
        echo "</table>\n";
       //echo " no of rows : ". oci_num_rows($stmt);
       //equivalent in pdo::prepare statement
       echo "no.of rows :".$count;

How to check whether mod_rewrite is enable on server?

PHP's perdefined apache_get_modules() function returns a list of enabled modules. To check if mod_rewrite is enabled , you can run the following script on your server :

<?php
print_r(apache_get_modules());
?>

If the above example fails, you can verify mod-rewrite using your .htaccess file.

Create an htaccess file in the document root and add the following rewriteRule :

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^helloWorld/?$ /index.php [NC,L]

Now visit http://example.com/HelloWorld , You will be internally forwarded to /index.php page of your site. Otherwise, if mod-rewrite is disabled , you will get a 500 Internel server error.

Hope this helps.

SQL How to replace values of select return?

I got the solution

   SELECT 
   CASE status
      WHEN 'VS' THEN 'validated by subsidiary'
      WHEN 'NA' THEN 'not acceptable'
      WHEN 'D'  THEN 'delisted'
      ELSE 'validated'
   END AS STATUS
   FROM SUPP_STATUS

This is using the CASE This is another to manipulate the selected value for more that two options.

How can I add a string to the end of each line in Vim?

I think using visual block mode is a better and more versatile method for dealing with this type of thing. Here's an example:

This is the First line.  
This is the second.  
The third.

To insert " Hello world." (space + clipboard) at the end of each of these lines:

  • On a character in the first line, press Ctrl-V (or Ctrl-Q if Ctrl-V is paste).
  • Press jj to extend the visual block over three lines.
  • Press $ to extend the visual block to the end of each line. Press A then space then type Hello world. + then Esc.

The result is:

This is the First line. Hello world.  
This is the second. Hello world.  
The third. Hello world.  

(example from Vim.Wikia.com)

How to get substring of NSString?

Use this also

NSString *ChkStr = [MyString substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(5, 26)];

Note - Your NSMakeRange(start, end) should be NSMakeRange(start, end- start);

What are the differences between struct and class in C++?

One other thing to note, if you updated a legacy app that had structs to use classes you might run into the following issue:

Old code has structs, code was cleaned up and these changed to classes. A virtual function or two was then added to the new updated class.

When virtual functions are in classes then internally the compiler will add extra pointer to the class data to point to the functions.

How this would break old legacy code is if in the old code somewhere the struct was cleared using memfill to clear it all to zeros, this would stomp the extra pointer data as well.

Catching an exception while using a Python 'with' statement

Catching an exception while using a Python 'with' statement

The with statement has been available without the __future__ import since Python 2.6. You can get it as early as Python 2.5 (but at this point it's time to upgrade!) with:

from __future__ import with_statement

Here's the closest thing to correct that you have. You're almost there, but with doesn't have an except clause:

with open("a.txt") as f: 
    print(f.readlines())
except:                    # <- with doesn't have an except clause.
    print('oops')

A context manager's __exit__ method, if it returns False will reraise the error when it finishes. If it returns True, it will suppress it. The open builtin's __exit__ doesn't return True, so you just need to nest it in a try, except block:

try:
    with open("a.txt") as f:
        print(f.readlines())
except Exception as error: 
    print('oops')

And standard boilerplate: don't use a bare except: which catches BaseException and every other possible exception and warning. Be at least as specific as Exception, and for this error, perhaps catch IOError. Only catch errors you're prepared to handle.

So in this case, you'd do:

>>> try:
...     with open("a.txt") as f:
...         print(f.readlines())
... except IOError as error: 
...     print('oops')
... 
oops

how to send multiple data with $.ajax() jquery

you can use FormData

take look at my snippet from MVC

var fd = new FormData();
fd.append("ProfilePicture", $("#mydropzone")[0].files[0]);// getting value from form feleds 
d.append("id", @(((User) Session["User"]).ID));// getting value from session

$.ajax({
    url: '@Url.Action("ChangeUserPicture", "User")',
    dataType: "json",
    data: fd,//here is your data
    processData: false,
    contentType: false,
    type: 'post',
    success: function(data) {},

PHP: How do you determine every Nth iteration of a loop?

every 3 posts?

if($counter % 3 == 0){
    echo IMAGE;
}

Can I write or modify data on an RFID tag?

Some RFID chips are read-write, the majority are read-only. You can find out if your chip is read-only by checking the datasheet.

Cannot use a CONTAINS or FREETEXT predicate on table or indexed view because it is not full-text indexed

Select * from table
where CONTAINS([Column], '"A00*"')  

will act as % same as

where [Column] Like 'A00%'

Get the year from specified date php

Assuming you have the date as a string (sorry it was unclear from your question if that is the case) could split the string on the - characters like so:

$date = "2068-06-15";
$split_date = split("-", $date);
$year = $split_date[0];

Python: Convert timedelta to int in a dataframe

The simplest way to do this is by

df["DateColumn"] = (df["DateColumn"]).dt.days

Programmatically switching between tabs within Swift

If you want to do this from code that you are writing as part of a particular view controller, like in response to a button press or something, you can do this:

@IBAction func pushSearchButton(_ sender: UIButton?) {
    if let tabBarController = self.navigationController?.tabBarController  {
        tabBarController.selectedIndex = 1
    }
}

And you can also add code to handle tab switching using the UITabBarControllerDelegate methods. Using tags on the base view controllers of each tab, you can see where you are and act accordingly: For example

func tabBarController(_ tabBarController: UITabBarController, shouldSelect viewController: UIViewController) -> Bool {
    
    // if we didn't change tabs, don't do anything
    if tabBarController.selectedViewController?.tabBarItem.tag ==  viewController.tabBarItem.tag {
        return false
    }
    
    if viewController.tabBarItem.tag == 4096 { // some particular tab
        // do stuff appropriate for a transition to this particular tab
    }
    else if viewController.tabBarItem.tag == 2048 { // some other tab
        // do stuff appropriate for a transition to this other tab
    }
}

Python Tkinter clearing a frame

pack_forget and grid_forget will only remove widgets from view, it doesn't destroy them. If you don't plan on re-using the widgets, your only real choice is to destroy them with the destroy method.

To do that you have two choices: destroy each one individually, or destroy the frame which will cause all of its children to be destroyed. The latter is generally the easiest and most effective.

Since you claim you don't want to destroy the container frame, create a secondary frame. Have this secondary frame be the container for all the widgets you want to delete, and then put this one frame inside the parent you do not want to destroy. Then, it's just a matter of destroying this one frame and all of the interior widgets will be destroyed along with it.

Cast object to T

try

if (readData is T)
    return (T)(object)readData;

How to request a random row in SQL?

For SQL Server 2005 and 2008, if we want a random sample of individual rows (from Books Online):

SELECT * FROM Sales.SalesOrderDetail
WHERE 0.01 >= CAST(CHECKSUM(NEWID(), SalesOrderID) & 0x7fffffff AS float)
/ CAST (0x7fffffff AS int)

Best way to integrate Python and JavaScript?

This question is not exactly young, but there have come up some alternatives:

  • "Skulpt is an entirely in-browser implementation of Python."
  • Brython - "A Python 3 implementation for client-side web programming"
  • RapydScript - "Python-like JavaScript without the extra overhead or quirks"
  • Transcrypt - "Lean and mean Python 3.6 to JavaScript compiler with multiple inheritance, sourcemaps, static type checking and selective operator overloading." (also on Github)

How to create an array for JSON using PHP?

Best way that you should go every time for creating json in php is to first convert values in ASSOCIATIVE array.

After that just simply encode using json_encode($associativeArray). I think it is the best way to create json in php because whenever we are fetching result form sql query in php most of the time we got values using fetch_assoc function, which also return one associative array.

$associativeArray = array();
$associativeArray ['FirstValue'] = 'FirstValue';

... etc.

After that.

json_encode($associativeArray);

How do I import an existing Java keystore (.jks) file into a Java installation?

You can bulk import all aliases from one keystore to another:

keytool -importkeystore -srckeystore source.jks -destkeystore dest.jks

git clone error: RPC failed; curl 56 OpenSSL SSL_read: SSL_ERROR_SYSCALL, errno 10054

It could be an issue with your network (i.e. not an issue with any of your git configs, firewall, or any other machine settings). To confirm this, you could test the following:

  1. See if this issue persists on the same network on different machines (this was true for me).
  2. Try running the problematic git command (for me it was git pull) on a different network and see if it works. I brought my desktop over to a friend's and confirmed that the command did indeed work without any modifications. I also tested the command from my laptop on an open network nearby and the command also started suddenly working (so this was also true for me)

If you can confirm #1 and #2 above, it may be time to schedule an appointment with a technician from your ISP. I have fiber internet in a fairly newish building and when the technician arrived they went to my building's telecom room and switched my internet port. That somehow seemed to fix the issue. He also let me know that there were other issues at large going on in my building (so it could have nothing to do with your machine or things in your control!).

If that fails, maybe consider switching internet providers if that's an option for you. Else, just keep calling your ISP to send in more and more senior technicians until it gets resolved.

I'm hoping nobody actually has to resort to what I did to find the problem.

tl;dr: Give your ISP a call as the issue could be one with your network.

How to execute a bash command stored as a string with quotes and asterisk

Have you tried:

eval $cmd

For the follow-on question of how to escape * since it has special meaning when it's naked or in double quoted strings: use single quotes.

MYSQL='mysql AMORE -u username -ppassword -h localhost -e'
QUERY="SELECT "'*'" FROM amoreconfig" ;# <-- "double"'single'"double"
eval $MYSQL "'$QUERY'"

Bonus: It also reads nice: eval mysql query ;-)

c#: getter/setter

You can also use a lambda expression

public string Type
{
    get => _type;
    set => _type = value;
}

Django: List field in model?

Just use a JSON field that these third-party packages provide:

In this case, you don't need to care about the field value serialization - it'll happen under-the-hood.

Hope that helps.

Get current rowIndex of table in jQuery

Since "$(this).parent().index();" and "$(this).parent('table').index();" don't work for me, I use this code instead:

$('td').click(function(){
   var row_index = $(this).closest("tr").index();
   var col_index = $(this).index();
});

How to set Java classpath in Linux?

export CLASSPATH=/home/appnetix/LOG4J_HOME/log4j-1.2.16.jar

or, if you already have some classpath set

export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/home/appnetix/LOG4J_HOME/log4j-1.2.16.jar

and, if also you want to include current directory

export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:/home/appnetix/LOG4J_HOME/log4j-1.2.16.jar:.

Load HTML File Contents to Div [without the use of iframes]

http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/creating/include.html

this would explain how to write your own clientsideinlcude but jQuery is a lot, A LOT easier option ... plus you will gain a lot more by using jQuery anyways

How to put labels over geom_bar in R with ggplot2

To plot text on a ggplot you use the geom_text. But I find it helpful to summarise the data first using ddply

dfl <- ddply(df, .(x), summarize, y=length(x))
str(dfl)

Since the data is pre-summarized, you need to remember to change add the stat="identity" parameter to geom_bar:

ggplot(dfl, aes(x, y=y, fill=x)) + geom_bar(stat="identity") +
    geom_text(aes(label=y), vjust=0) +
    opts(axis.text.x=theme_blank(),
        axis.ticks=theme_blank(),
        axis.title.x=theme_blank(),
        legend.title=theme_blank(),
        axis.title.y=theme_blank()
)

enter image description here

asp.net: How can I remove an item from a dropdownlist?

You can use this:

myDropDown.Items.Remove(myDropDown.Items.FindByValue("TextToFind"));

How to Run a jQuery or JavaScript Before Page Start to Load

Try the unload event. The unload event is sent to the window element when the user navigates away from the page.

$( window ).unload(function() {
    //do something
});

Can I define a class name on paragraph using Markdown?

If your flavour of markdown is kramdown, then you can set css class like this:

{:.nameofclass}
paragraph is here

Then in you css file, you set the css like this:

.nameofclass{
   color: #000;
  }

Why is python setup.py saying invalid command 'bdist_wheel' on Travis CI?

in my case, the version of wheel/pip/setuptools created by venv is too old. this works:

venv/bin/pip  install --upgrade pip wheel setuptools

Truncate (not round off) decimal numbers in javascript

I thought I'd throw in an answer using | since it is simple and works well.

truncate = function(number, places) {
  var shift = Math.pow(10, places);

  return ((number * shift) | 0) / shift;
};

Confirmation dialog on ng-click - AngularJS

An angular-only solution that works alongside ng-click is possible by using compile to wrap the ng-click expression.

Directive:

.directive('confirmClick', function ($window) {
  var i = 0;
  return {
    restrict: 'A',
    priority:  1,
    compile: function (tElem, tAttrs) {
      var fn = '$$confirmClick' + i++,
          _ngClick = tAttrs.ngClick;
      tAttrs.ngClick = fn + '($event)';

      return function (scope, elem, attrs) {
        var confirmMsg = attrs.confirmClick || 'Are you sure?';

        scope[fn] = function (event) {
          if($window.confirm(confirmMsg)) {
            scope.$eval(_ngClick, {$event: event});
          }
        };
      };
    }
  };
});

HTML:

<a ng-click="doSomething()" confirm-click="Are you sure you wish to proceed?"></a>

How to check ASP.NET Version loaded on a system?

You can see which version gets executed when you load the page with Google Chrome + developer tools (preinstalled) or Firefox + Firebug (add-on).

I use Google Chrome:

  1. Open Chrome and use Ctrl+Shift+I to open the developer tools.
  2. Go to the "Network" Tab
  3. Click on the small button at the bottom "Preserve log upon Navigation"
  4. Load any of your pages
  5. Click on the response header

It looks like this:

enter image description here

Compare two List<T> objects for equality, ignoring order

If you don't care about the number of occurrences, I would approach it like this. Using hash sets will give you better performance than simple iteration.

var set1 = new HashSet<MyType>(list1);
var set2 = new HashSet<MyType>(list2);
return set1.SetEquals(set2);

This will require that you have overridden .GetHashCode() and implemented IEquatable<MyType> on MyType.

How to install Android SDK Build Tools on the command line?

Try

1. List all packages

android list sdk --all

2. Install packages using following command

android update sdk -u -a -t package1, package2, package3 //comma seperated packages obtained using list command 

PHP: maximum execution time when importing .SQL data file

You can increase the limit:

ini_set('max_execution_time', 3000);

(Note that this script can cause high memory usage as well, so you probably have to increase that as well)

Other possible solution: Chunk your sql file, and process it as parts. I assume, it is not one big SQL query, is it?

Update: As @Isaac pointed out, this is about PHPMyAdmin. In this case set max_execution_timeout in php.ini. (The location depends on your environment)

When to use static keyword before global variables?

static before a global variable means that this variable is not accessible from outside the compilation module where it is defined.

E.g. imagine that you want to access a variable in another module:

foo.c

int var; // a global variable that can be accessed from another module
// static int var; means that var is local to the module only.
...

bar.c

extern int var; // use the variable in foo.c
...

Now if you declare var to be static you can't access it from anywhere but the module where foo.c is compiled into.

Note, that a module is the current source file, plus all included files. i.e. you have to compile those files separately, then link them together.

How to conditionally take action if FINDSTR fails to find a string

In DOS/Windows Batch most commands return an exitCode, called "errorlevel", that is a value that customarily is equal to zero if the command ends correctly, or a number greater than zero if ends because an error, with greater numbers for greater errors (hence the name).

There are a couple methods to check that value, but the original one is:

IF ERRORLEVEL value command

Previous IF test if the errorlevel returned by the previous command was GREATER THAN OR EQUAL the given value and, if this is true, execute the command. For example:

verify bad-param
if errorlevel 1 echo Errorlevel is greater than or equal 1
echo The value of errorlevel is: %ERRORLEVEL%

Findstr command return 0 if the string was found and 1 if not:

CD C:\MyFolder
findstr /c:"stringToCheck" fileToCheck.bat
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 XCOPY "C:\OtherFolder\fileToCheck.bat" "C:\MyFolder" /s /y

Previous code will copy the file if the string was NOT found in the file.

CD C:\MyFolder
findstr /c:"stringToCheck" fileToCheck.bat
IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 XCOPY "C:\OtherFolder\fileToCheck.bat" "C:\MyFolder" /s /y

Previous code copy the file if the string was found. Try this:

findstr "string" file
if errorlevel 1 (
    echo String NOT found...
) else (
    echo String found
)

AngularJS: No "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" header is present on the requested resource

This is a server side issue. You don't need to add any headers in angular for cors. You need to add header on the server side:

Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Content-Type
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST, OPTIONS
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *

First two answers here: How to enable CORS in AngularJs

Get HTML5 localStorage keys

I agree with Kevin he has the best answer but sometimes when you have different keys in your local storage with the same values for example you want your public users to see how many times they have added their items into their baskets you need to show them the number of times as well then you ca use this:

var set = localStorage.setItem('key', 'value');
var element = document.getElementById('tagId');

for ( var i = 0, len = localStorage.length; i < len; ++i ) {
  element.innerHTML =  localStorage.getItem(localStorage.key(i)) + localStorage.key(i).length;
}

Show special characters in Unix while using 'less' Command

Now, sometimes you already have less open, and you can't use cat on it. For example, you did a | less, and you can't just reopen a file, as that's actually a stream.

If all you need is to identify end of line, one easy way is to search for the last character on the line: /.$. The search will highlight the last character, even if it is a blank, making it easy to identify it.

That will only help with the end of line case. If you need other special characters, you can use the cat -vet solution above with marks and pipe:

  • mark the top of the text you're interested in: ma
  • go to the bottom of the text you're interested in and mark it, as well: mb
  • go back to the mark a: 'a
  • pipe from a to b through cat -vet and view the result in another less command: |bcat -vet | less

This will open another less process, which shows the result of running cat -vet on the text that lies between marks a and b.

If you want the whole thing, instead, do g|$cat -vet | less, to go to the first line and filter all lines through cat.

The advantage of this method over less options is that it does not mess with the output you see on the screen.

One would think that eight years after this question was originally posted, less would have that feature... But I can't even see a feature request for it on https://github.com/gwsw/less/issues

How do I format axis number format to thousands with a comma in matplotlib?

x = [10000.21, 22000.32, 10120.54]

Perhaps make a list (comprehension) for the labels, and then apply them "manually".

xlables = [f'{label:,}' for label in x]
plt.xticks(x, xlabels)

SHOW PROCESSLIST in MySQL command: sleep

I found this answer here: https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/1558. In short using the following (or within my.cnf) will remove the timeout issue.

SET GLOBAL interactive_timeout = 180; SET GLOBAL wait_timeout = 180;

This allows the connections to end if they remain in a sleep State for 3 minutes (or whatever you define).

How to implement a read only property

C# 6.0 adds readonly auto properties

public object MyProperty { get; }

So when you don't need to support older compilers you can have a truly readonly property with code that's just as concise as a readonly field.


Versioning:
I think it doesn't make much difference if you are only interested in source compatibility.
Using a property is better for binary compatibility since you can replace it by a property which has a setter without breaking compiled code depending on your library.

Convention:
You are following the convention. In cases like this where the differences between the two possibilities are relatively minor following the convention is better. One case where it might come back to bite you is reflection based code. It might only accept properties and not fields, for example a property editor/viewer.

Serialization
Changing from field to property will probably break a lot of serializers. And AFAIK XmlSerializer does only serialize public properties and not public fields.

Using an Autoproperty
Another common Variation is using an autoproperty with a private setter. While this is short and a property it doesn't enforce the readonlyness. So I prefer the other ones.

Readonly field is selfdocumenting
There is one advantage of the field though:
It makes it clear at a glance at the public interface that it's actually immutable (barring reflection). Whereas in case of a property you can only see that you cannot change it, so you'd have to refer to the documentation or implementation.

But to be honest I use the first one quite often in application code since I'm lazy. In libraries I'm typically more thorough and follow the convention.

What does 'git blame' do?

The command explains itself quite well. It's to figure out which co-worker wrote the specific line or ruined the project, so you can blame them :)

Best way to format multiple 'or' conditions in an if statement (Java)

If the set of possibilities is "compact" (i.e. largest-value - smallest-value is, say, less than 200) you might consider a lookup table. This would be especially useful if you had a structure like

if (x == 12 || x == 16 || x == 19 || ...)
else if (x==34 || x == 55 || ...)
else if (...)

Set up an array with values identifying the branch to be taken (1, 2, 3 in the example above) and then your tests become

switch(dispatchTable[x])
{
    case 1:
        ...
        break;
    case 2:
        ...
        break;
    case 3:
        ...
        break;
}

Whether or not this is appropriate depends on the semantics of the problem.

If an array isn't appropriate, you could use a Map<Integer,Integer>, or if you just want to test membership for a single statement, a Set<Integer> would do. That's a lot of firepower for a simple if statement, however, so without more context it's kind of hard to guide you in the right direction.

What does InitializeComponent() do, and how does it work in WPF?

The call to InitializeComponent() (which is usually called in the default constructor of at least Window and UserControl) is actually a method call to the partial class of the control (rather than a call up the object hierarchy as I first expected).

This method locates a URI to the XAML for the Window/UserControl that is loading, and passes it to the System.Windows.Application.LoadComponent() static method. LoadComponent() loads the XAML file that is located at the passed in URI, and converts it to an instance of the object that is specified by the root element of the XAML file.

In more detail, LoadComponent creates an instance of the XamlParser, and builds a tree of the XAML. Each node is parsed by the XamlParser.ProcessXamlNode(). This gets passed to the BamlRecordWriter class. Some time after this I get a bit lost in how the BAML is converted to objects, but this may be enough to help you on the path to enlightenment.

Note: Interestingly, the InitializeComponent is a method on the System.Windows.Markup.IComponentConnector interface, of which Window/UserControl implement in the partial generated class.

Hope this helps!

What is the difference between a field and a property?

When you want your private variable(field) to be accessible to object of your class from other classes you need to create properties for those variables.

for example if I have variables named as "id" and "name" which is private but there might be situation where this variable needed for read/write operation outside of the class. At that situation , property can help me to get that variable to read/write depending upon the get/set defined for the property. A property can be a readonly / writeonly / readwrite both.

here is the demo

class Employee
{
    // Private Fields for Employee
    private int id;
    private string name;

    //Property for id variable/field
    public int EmployeeId
    {
       get
       {
          return id;
       }
       set
       {
          id = value;
       }
    }

    //Property for name variable/field
    public string EmployeeName
    {
       get
       {
          return name;
       }
       set
       {
          name = value;
       }
   }
}

class MyMain
{
    public static void Main(string [] args)
    {
       Employee aEmployee = new Employee();
       aEmployee.EmployeeId = 101;
       aEmployee.EmployeeName = "Sundaran S";
    }
}

React: "this" is undefined inside a component function

in my case this was the solution = () => {}

methodName = (params) => {
//your code here with this.something
}

How to add anchor tags dynamically to a div in Javascript?

I recommend that you use jQuery for this, as it makes the process much easier. Here are some examples using jQuery:

$("div#id").append('<a href="' + url + '">' + text + '</a>');

If you need a list though, as in a <ul>, you can do this:

$("div#id").append('<ul>');
var ul = $("div#id > ul");

ul.append('<li><a href="' + url + '">' + text + '</a></li>');

How can I refresh c# dataGridView after update ?

I use the DataGridView's Invalidate() function. However, that will refresh the entire DataGridView. If you want to refresh a particular row, you use dgv.InvalidateRow(rowIndex). If you want to refresh a particular cell, you can use dgv.InvalidateCell(columnIndex, rowIndex). This is of course assuming you're using a binding source or data source.

Hide/Show components in react native

I would vouch for using the opacity-method if you do not want to remove the component from your page, e.g. hiding a WebView.

<WebView
   style={{opacity: 0}} // Hide component
   source={{uri: 'https://www.google.com/'}}
 />

This is useful if you need to submit a form to a 3rd party website.

Remove all HTMLtags in a string (with the jquery text() function)

var myContent = '<div id="test">Hello <span>world!</span></div>';

alert($(myContent).text());

That results in hello world. Does that answer your question?

http://jsfiddle.net/D2tEf/ for an example

Is there a simple way that I can sort characters in a string in alphabetical order

Yes; copy the string to a char array, sort the char array, then copy that back into a string.

static string SortString(string input)
{
    char[] characters = input.ToArray();
    Array.Sort(characters);
    return new string(characters);
}

How to turn off word wrapping in HTML?

If you want a HTML only solution, we can just use the pre tag. It defines "preformatted text" which means that it does not format word-wrapping. Here is a quick example to explain:

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    width: 200px;
    height: 200px;
    padding: 20px;
    background: #adf;
}
pre {
    width: 200px;
    height: 200px;
    padding: 20px;
    font: inherit;
    background: #fda;
}
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<div>Look at this, this text is very neat, isn't it? But it's not quite what we want, though, is it? This text shouldn't be here! It should be all the way over there! What can we do?</div>
<pre>The pre tag has come to the rescue! Yay! However, we apologise in advance for any horizontal scrollbars that may be caused. If you need support, please raise a support ticket.</pre>
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LDAP root query syntax to search more than one specific OU

After speaking with an LDAP expert, it's not possible this way. One query can't search more than one DC or OU.

Your options are:

  1. Run more then 1 query and parse the result.
  2. Use a filter to find the desired users/objects based off a different attribute like an AD group or by name.

How to write and save html file in python?

You can try:

colour = ["red", "red", "green", "yellow"]

with open('mypage.html', 'w') as myFile:
    myFile.write('<html>')
    myFile.write('<body>')
    myFile.write('<table>')

    s = '1234567890'
    for i in range(0, len(s), 60):
        myFile.write('<tr><td>%04d</td>' % (i+1));
    for j, k in enumerate(s[i:i+60]):
        myFile.write('<td><font style="background-color:%s;">%s<font></td>' % (colour[j %len(colour)], k));


    myFile.write('</tr>')
    myFile.write('</table>')
    myFile.write('</body>')
    myFile.write('</html>')

Reading int values from SqlDataReader

TxtFarmerSize.Text = (int)reader[3];

Adding a custom header to HTTP request using angular.js

Basic authentication using HTTP POST method:

$http({
    method: 'POST',
    url: '/API/authenticate',
    data: 'username=' + username + '&password=' + password + '&email=' + email,
    headers: {
        "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
        "X-Login-Ajax-call": 'true'
    }
}).then(function(response) {
    if (response.data == 'ok') {
        // success
    } else {
        // failed
    }
});

...and GET method call with header:

$http({
    method: 'GET',
    url: '/books',
    headers: {
        'Authorization': 'Basic d2VudHdvcnRobWFuOkNoYW5nZV9tZQ==',
        'Accept': 'application/json',
        "X-Login-Ajax-call": 'true'
    }
}).then(function(response) {
    if (response.data == 'ok') {
        // success
    } else {
        // failed
    }
});

How to select last two characters of a string

EDIT: 2020: use string.slice(-2) as others say - see below.

now 2016 just string.substr(-2) should do the trick (not substring(!))

taken from MDN

Syntax

str.substr(start[, length])

Parameters

start

Location at which to begin extracting characters. If a negative number is given, it is treated as strLength + start where strLength is the length of the string (for example, if start is -3 it is treated as strLength - 3.) length Optional. The number of characters to extract.

EDIT 2020

MDN says

Warning: Although String.prototype.substr(…) is not strictly deprecated (as in "removed from the Web standards"), it is considered a legacy function and should be avoided when possible. It is not part of the core JavaScript language and may be removed in the future.

List of Timezone IDs for use with FindTimeZoneById() in C#?

I know it's old and old question but Microsoft appears to have provided this through MSDN now.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg154758.aspx

Wait till a Function with animations is finished until running another Function

You can use the javascript Promise and async/await to implement a synchronized call of the functions.

Suppose you want to execute n number of functions in a synchronized manner that are stored in an array, here is my solution for that.

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  var length = funArray.length;_x000D_
  for(var i = 0; i < length; i++) {_x000D_
    await executeFun(funArray[i]);_x000D_
  }_x000D_
};_x000D_
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function executeFun(fun) {_x000D_
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {_x000D_
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    // Execute required function here_x000D_
    _x000D_
    fun()_x000D_
      .then((data) => {_x000D_
        // do required with data _x000D_
        resolve(true);_x000D_
      })_x000D_
      .catch((error) => {_x000D_
      // handle error_x000D_
        resolve(true);_x000D_
      });_x000D_
  })_x000D_
};_x000D_
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executeActionQueue(funArray);
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HTML / CSS Popup div on text click

You can simply use jQuery UI Dialog

Example:

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  <meta charset="utf-8" />_x000D_
  <title>jQuery UI Dialog - Default functionality</title>_x000D_
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.3/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css" />_x000D_
  <script src="http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.3/jquery-ui.js"></script>_x000D_
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="/resources/demos/style.css" />_x000D_
</head>_x000D_
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  <div id="dialog" title="Basic dialog">_x000D_
    <p>This is the default dialog which is useful for displaying information. The dialog window can be moved, resized and closed with the 'x' icon.</p>_x000D_
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</html>
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Serialize Class containing Dictionary member

Dictionaries and Hashtables are not serializable with XmlSerializer. Therefore you cannot use them directly. A workaround would be to use the XmlIgnore attribute to hide those properties from the serializer and expose them via a list of serializable key-value pairs.

PS: constructing an XmlSerializer is very expensive, so always cache it if there is a chance of being able to re-use it.

Simple way to change the position of UIView?

The solution in the selected answer does not work in case of using Autolayout. If you are using Autolayout for views take a look at this answer.

jQuery .ready in a dynamically inserted iframe

Basically what others have already posted but IMHO a bit cleaner:

$('<iframe/>', {
    src: 'https://example.com/',
    load: function() {
        alert("loaded")
    }
}).appendTo('body');

MySQL select 10 random rows from 600K rows fast

All the best answers have been already posted (mainly those referencing the link http://jan.kneschke.de/projects/mysql/order-by-rand/).

I want to pinpoint another speed-up possibility - caching. Think of why you need to get random rows. Probably you want display some random post or random ad on a website. If you are getting 100 req/s, is it really needed that each visitor gets random rows? Usually it is completely fine to cache these X random rows for 1 second (or even 10 seconds). It doesn't matter if 100 unique visitors in the same 1 second get the same random posts, because the next second another 100 visitors will get different set of posts.

When using this caching you can use also some of the slower solution for getting the random data as it will be fetched from MySQL only once per second regardless of your req/s.

How can I link to a specific glibc version?

Setup 1: compile your own glibc without dedicated GCC and use it

Since it seems impossible to do just with symbol versioning hacks, let's go one step further and compile glibc ourselves.

This setup might work and is quick as it does not recompile the whole GCC toolchain, just glibc.

But it is not reliable as it uses host C runtime objects such as crt1.o, crti.o, and crtn.o provided by glibc. This is mentioned at: https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Testing/Builds?action=recall&rev=21#Compile_against_glibc_in_an_installed_location Those objects do early setup that glibc relies on, so I wouldn't be surprised if things crashed in wonderful and awesomely subtle ways.

For a more reliable setup, see Setup 2 below.

Build glibc and install locally:

export glibc_install="$(pwd)/glibc/build/install"

git clone git://sourceware.org/git/glibc.git
cd glibc
git checkout glibc-2.28
mkdir build
cd build
../configure --prefix "$glibc_install"
make -j `nproc`
make install -j `nproc`

Setup 1: verify the build

test_glibc.c

#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <assert.h>
#include <gnu/libc-version.h>
#include <stdatomic.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <threads.h>

atomic_int acnt;
int cnt;

int f(void* thr_data) {
    for(int n = 0; n < 1000; ++n) {
        ++cnt;
        ++acnt;
    }
    return 0;
}

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
    /* Basic library version check. */
    printf("gnu_get_libc_version() = %s\n", gnu_get_libc_version());

    /* Exercise thrd_create from -pthread,
     * which is not present in glibc 2.27 in Ubuntu 18.04.
     * https://stackoverflow.com/questions/56810/how-do-i-start-threads-in-plain-c/52453291#52453291 */
    thrd_t thr[10];
    for(int n = 0; n < 10; ++n)
        thrd_create(&thr[n], f, NULL);
    for(int n = 0; n < 10; ++n)
        thrd_join(thr[n], NULL);
    printf("The atomic counter is %u\n", acnt);
    printf("The non-atomic counter is %u\n", cnt);
}

Compile and run with test_glibc.sh:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -eux
gcc \
  -L "${glibc_install}/lib" \
  -I "${glibc_install}/include" \
  -Wl,--rpath="${glibc_install}/lib" \
  -Wl,--dynamic-linker="${glibc_install}/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2" \
  -std=c11 \
  -o test_glibc.out \
  -v \
  test_glibc.c \
  -pthread \
;
ldd ./test_glibc.out
./test_glibc.out

The program outputs the expected:

gnu_get_libc_version() = 2.28
The atomic counter is 10000
The non-atomic counter is 8674

Command adapted from https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Testing/Builds?action=recall&rev=21#Compile_against_glibc_in_an_installed_location but --sysroot made it fail with:

cannot find /home/ciro/glibc/build/install/lib/libc.so.6 inside /home/ciro/glibc/build/install

so I removed it.

ldd output confirms that the ldd and libraries that we've just built are actually being used as expected:

+ ldd test_glibc.out
        linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffe4bfd3000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /home/ciro/glibc/build/install/lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fc12ed92000)
        libc.so.6 => /home/ciro/glibc/build/install/lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007fc12e9dc000)
        /home/ciro/glibc/build/install/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 => /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fc12f1b3000)

The gcc compilation debug output shows that my host runtime objects were used, which is bad as mentioned previously, but I don't know how to work around it, e.g. it contains:

COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/7/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/crt1.o

Setup 1: modify glibc

Now let's modify glibc with:

diff --git a/nptl/thrd_create.c b/nptl/thrd_create.c
index 113ba0d93e..b00f088abb 100644
--- a/nptl/thrd_create.c
+++ b/nptl/thrd_create.c
@@ -16,11 +16,14 @@
    License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
    <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */

+#include <stdio.h>
+
 #include "thrd_priv.h"

 int
 thrd_create (thrd_t *thr, thrd_start_t func, void *arg)
 {
+  puts("hacked");
   _Static_assert (sizeof (thr) == sizeof (pthread_t),
                   "sizeof (thr) != sizeof (pthread_t)");

Then recompile and re-install glibc, and recompile and re-run our program:

cd glibc/build
make -j `nproc`
make -j `nproc` install
./test_glibc.sh

and we see hacked printed a few times as expected.

This further confirms that we actually used the glibc that we compiled and not the host one.

Tested on Ubuntu 18.04.

Setup 2: crosstool-NG pristine setup

This is an alternative to setup 1, and it is the most correct setup I've achieved far: everything is correct as far as I can observe, including the C runtime objects such as crt1.o, crti.o, and crtn.o.

In this setup, we will compile a full dedicated GCC toolchain that uses the glibc that we want.

The only downside to this method is that the build will take longer. But I wouldn't risk a production setup with anything less.

crosstool-NG is a set of scripts that downloads and compiles everything from source for us, including GCC, glibc and binutils.

Yes the GCC build system is so bad that we need a separate project for that.

This setup is only not perfect because crosstool-NG does not support building the executables without extra -Wl flags, which feels weird since we've built GCC itself. But everything seems to work, so this is only an inconvenience.

Get crosstool-NG and configure it:

git clone https://github.com/crosstool-ng/crosstool-ng
cd crosstool-ng
git checkout a6580b8e8b55345a5a342b5bd96e42c83e640ac5
export CT_PREFIX="$(pwd)/.build/install"
export PATH="/usr/lib/ccache:${PATH}"
./bootstrap
./configure --enable-local
make -j `nproc`
./ct-ng x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
./ct-ng menuconfig

The only mandatory option that I can see, is making it match your host kernel version to use the correct kernel headers. Find your host kernel version with:

uname -a

which shows me:

4.15.0-34-generic

so in menuconfig I do:

  • Operating System
    • Version of linux

so I select:

4.14.71

which is the first equal or older version. It has to be older since the kernel is backwards compatible.

Now you can build with:

env -u LD_LIBRARY_PATH time ./ct-ng build CT_JOBS=`nproc`

and now wait for about thirty minutes to two hours for compilation.

Setup 2: optional configurations

The .config that we generated with ./ct-ng x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu has:

CT_GLIBC_V_2_27=y

To change that, in menuconfig do:

  • C-library
  • Version of glibc

save the .config, and continue with the build.

Or, if you want to use your own glibc source, e.g. to use glibc from the latest git, proceed like this:

  • Paths and misc options
    • Try features marked as EXPERIMENTAL: set to true
  • C-library
    • Source of glibc
      • Custom location: say yes
      • Custom location
        • Custom source location: point to a directory containing your glibc source

where glibc was cloned as:

git clone git://sourceware.org/git/glibc.git
cd glibc
git checkout glibc-2.28

Setup 2: test it out

Once you have built he toolchain that you want, test it out with:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -eux
install_dir="${CT_PREFIX}/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"
PATH="${PATH}:${install_dir}/bin" \
  x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc \
  -Wl,--dynamic-linker="${install_dir}/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sysroot/lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2" \
  -Wl,--rpath="${install_dir}/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sysroot/lib" \
  -v \
  -o test_glibc.out \
  test_glibc.c \
  -pthread \
;
ldd test_glibc.out
./test_glibc.out

Everything seems to work as in Setup 1, except that now the correct runtime objects were used:

COLLECT_GCC_OPTIONS=/home/ciro/crosstool-ng/.build/install/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/bin/../x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/sysroot/usr/lib/../lib64/crt1.o

Setup 2: failed efficient glibc recompilation attempt

It does not seem possible with crosstool-NG, as explained below.

If you just re-build;

env -u LD_LIBRARY_PATH time ./ct-ng build CT_JOBS=`nproc`

then your changes to the custom glibc source location are taken into account, but it builds everything from scratch, making it unusable for iterative development.

If we do:

./ct-ng list-steps

it gives a nice overview of the build steps:

Available build steps, in order:
  - companion_tools_for_build
  - companion_libs_for_build
  - binutils_for_build
  - companion_tools_for_host
  - companion_libs_for_host
  - binutils_for_host
  - cc_core_pass_1
  - kernel_headers
  - libc_start_files
  - cc_core_pass_2
  - libc
  - cc_for_build
  - cc_for_host
  - libc_post_cc
  - companion_libs_for_target
  - binutils_for_target
  - debug
  - test_suite
  - finish
Use "<step>" as action to execute only that step.
Use "+<step>" as action to execute up to that step.
Use "<step>+" as action to execute from that step onward.

therefore, we see that there are glibc steps intertwined with several GCC steps, most notably libc_start_files comes before cc_core_pass_2, which is likely the most expensive step together with cc_core_pass_1.

In order to build just one step, you must first set the "Save intermediate steps" in .config option for the intial build:

  • Paths and misc options
    • Debug crosstool-NG
      • Save intermediate steps

and then you can try:

env -u LD_LIBRARY_PATH time ./ct-ng libc+ -j`nproc`

but unfortunately, the + required as mentioned at: https://github.com/crosstool-ng/crosstool-ng/issues/1033#issuecomment-424877536

Note however that restarting at an intermediate step resets the installation directory to the state it had during that step. I.e., you will have a rebuilt libc - but no final compiler built with this libc (and hence, no compiler libraries like libstdc++ either).

and basically still makes the rebuild too slow to be feasible for development, and I don't see how to overcome this without patching crosstool-NG.

Furthermore, starting from the libc step didn't seem to copy over the source again from Custom source location, further making this method unusable.

Bonus: stdlibc++

A bonus if you're also interested in the C++ standard library: How to edit and re-build the GCC libstdc++ C++ standard library source?

Way to get all alphabetic chars in an array in PHP?

<?php 

$array = Array();
for( $i = 65; $i < 91; $i++){
        $array[] = chr($i);
}

foreach( $array as $k => $v){
        echo "$k $v \n";
}

?>

$ php loop.php 
0 A 
1 B 
2 C 
3 D 
4 E 
5 F 
6 G 
7 H
...

Remove all of x axis labels in ggplot

You have to set to element_blank() in theme() elements you need to remove

ggplot(data = diamonds, mapping = aes(x = clarity)) + geom_bar(aes(fill = cut))+
  theme(axis.title.x=element_blank(),
        axis.text.x=element_blank(),
        axis.ticks.x=element_blank())

Subclipse svn:ignore

In case you're using TortoiseSVN and the file is already commited, go to your files project folder, right click on the file/folder you want to ignore, TortoiseSVN -> Unversion and add to ignore list. Then you delete the folder/file (click on it and then push DELETE on your keyboard), right click on your project folder, -> SVN Commit... This will delete the folder from the repository.... Now you can create your folder/file again and then it will be ignored.

Using SHA1 and RSA with java.security.Signature vs. MessageDigest and Cipher

I have a similar problem, I tested adding code and found some interesting results. With this code I add, I can deduce that depending on the "provider" to use, the firm can be different? (because the data included in the encryption is not always equal in all providers).

Results of my test.

Conclusion.- Signature Decipher= ???(trash) + DigestInfo (if we know the value of "trash", the digital signatures will be equal)

IDE Eclipse OUTPUT...

Input data: This is the message being signed

Digest: 62b0a9ef15461c82766fb5bdaae9edbe4ac2e067

DigestInfo: 3021300906052b0e03021a0500041462b0a9ef15461c82766fb5bdaae9edbe4ac2e067

Signature Decipher: 1ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff003021300906052b0e03021a0500041462b0a9ef15461c82766fb5bdaae9edbe4ac2e067

CODE

import java.security.InvalidKeyException;
import java.security.KeyPair;
import java.security.KeyPairGenerator;
import java.security.MessageDigest;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
import java.security.NoSuchProviderException;
import java.security.PrivateKey;
import java.security.PublicKey;
import java.security.Signature;
import java.security.SignatureException;
import javax.crypto.BadPaddingException;
import javax.crypto.Cipher;
import javax.crypto.IllegalBlockSizeException;
import javax.crypto.NoSuchPaddingException;
import org.bouncycastle.asn1.x509.DigestInfo;
import org.bouncycastle.asn1.DERObjectIdentifier;
import org.bouncycastle.asn1.x509.AlgorithmIdentifier;
public class prueba {
/**
* @param args
* @throws NoSuchProviderException 
* @throws NoSuchAlgorithmException 
* @throws InvalidKeyException 
* @throws SignatureException 
* @throws NoSuchPaddingException 
* @throws BadPaddingException 
* @throws IllegalBlockSizeException 
*///
public static void main(String[] args) throws NoSuchAlgorithmException, NoSuchProviderException, InvalidKeyException, SignatureException, NoSuchPaddingException, IllegalBlockSizeException, BadPaddingException {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
KeyPair keyPair = KeyPairGenerator.getInstance("RSA","BC").generateKeyPair();
PrivateKey privateKey = keyPair.getPrivate();
PublicKey puKey = keyPair.getPublic();
String plaintext = "This is the message being signed";
// Hacer la firma
Signature instance = Signature.getInstance("SHA1withRSA","BC");
instance.initSign(privateKey);
instance.update((plaintext).getBytes());
byte[] signature = instance.sign();
// En dos partes primero hago un Hash
MessageDigest digest = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA1", "BC");
byte[] hash = digest.digest((plaintext).getBytes());
// El digest es identico a  openssl dgst -sha1 texto.txt
//MessageDigest sha1 = MessageDigest.getInstance("SHA1","BC");
//byte[] digest = sha1.digest((plaintext).getBytes());
AlgorithmIdentifier digestAlgorithm = new AlgorithmIdentifier(new
DERObjectIdentifier("1.3.14.3.2.26"), null);
// create the digest info
DigestInfo di = new DigestInfo(digestAlgorithm, hash);
byte[] digestInfo = di.getDEREncoded();
//Luego cifro el hash
Cipher cipher = Cipher.getInstance("RSA","BC");
cipher.init(Cipher.ENCRYPT_MODE, privateKey);
byte[] cipherText = cipher.doFinal(digestInfo);
//byte[] cipherText = cipher.doFinal(digest2);
Cipher cipher2 = Cipher.getInstance("RSA","BC");
cipher2.init(Cipher.DECRYPT_MODE, puKey);
byte[] cipherText2 = cipher2.doFinal(signature);
System.out.println("Input data: " + plaintext);
System.out.println("Digest: " + bytes2String(hash));
System.out.println("Signature: " + bytes2String(signature));
System.out.println("Signature2: " + bytes2String(cipherText));
System.out.println("DigestInfo: " + bytes2String(digestInfo));
System.out.println("Signature Decipher: " + bytes2String(cipherText2));
}

How to search a string in multiple files and return the names of files in Powershell?

Pipe the content of your

Get-ChildItem -recurse | Get-Content | Select-String -pattern "dummy"

to fl *

You will see that the path is already being returned as a property of the objects.

IF you want just the path, use select path or select -unique path to remove duplicates:

Get-ChildItem -recurse | Get-Content | Select-String -pattern "dummy" | select -unique path

How can I force clients to refresh JavaScript files?

As far as I know a common solution is to add a ?<version> to the script's src link.

For instance:

<script type="text/javascript" src="myfile.js?1500"></script>

I assume at this point that there isn't a better way than find-replace to increment these "version numbers" in all of the script tags?

You might have a version control system do that for you? Most version control systems have a way to automatically inject the revision number on check-in for instance.

It would look something like this:

<script type="text/javascript" src="myfile.js?$$REVISION$$"></script>

Of course, there are always better solutions like this one.

How to read numbers from file in Python?

To make the answer simple here is a program that reads integers from the file and sorting them

f = open("input.txt", 'r')

nums = f.readlines()
nums = [int(i) for i in nums]

After reading each line of the file converting each string to a digit

nums.sort()

Sorting the numbers

f.close()

f = open("input.txt", 'w')
for num in nums:
    f.write("%d\n" %num)

f.close()

Writing them back As easy as that, Hope this helps

php REQUEST_URI

I think that parse_str is what you're looking for, something like this should do the trick for you:

parse_str($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'], $vars);

Then the $vars array will hold all the passed arguments.

efficient way to implement paging

You can implement paging in this simple way by passing PageIndex

Declare @PageIndex INT = 1
Declare  @PageSize INT = 20

Select ROW_NUMBER() OVER ( ORDER BY Products.Name ASC )  AS RowNumber,
    Products.ID,
    Products.Name
into #Result 
From Products

SELECT @RecordCount = COUNT(*) FROM #Results 

SELECT * 
FROM #Results
WHERE RowNumber
BETWEEN
    (@PageIndex -1) * @PageSize + 1 
    AND
    (((@PageIndex -1) * @PageSize + 1) + @PageSize) - 1

"find: paths must precede expression:" How do I specify a recursive search that also finds files in the current directory?

What's happening is that the shell is expanding "*test.c" into a list of files. Try escaping the asterisk as:

find . -name \*test.c

NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'Could not load NIB in bundle: 'NSBundle

While developing the ios app i too face similar kind of issue. Simple Restart of the xcode works for me. Hope this will help some one.

Git - Won't add files?

Odd, but I fought with git all night to add a file. Turns out it was already added. Git wasn't picking up my changes, as the changes weren't being saved, as the file was inaccessible by my account, and my IDE wasn't reporting this over SSH.

In short, check to make sure you don't have it already added to the repository.

How to start a background process in Python?

Note: This answer is less current than it was when posted in 2009. Using the subprocess module shown in other answers is now recommended in the docs

(Note that the subprocess module provides more powerful facilities for spawning new processes and retrieving their results; using that module is preferable to using these functions.)


If you want your process to start in the background you can either use system() and call it in the same way your shell script did, or you can spawn it:

import os
os.spawnl(os.P_DETACH, 'some_long_running_command')

(or, alternatively, you may try the less portable os.P_NOWAIT flag).

See the documentation here.

Initializing a struct to 0

The first is easiest(involves less typing), and it is guaranteed to work, all members will be set to 0[Ref 1].
The second is more readable.

The choice depends on user preference or the one which your coding standard mandates.

[Ref 1] Reference C99 Standard 6.7.8.21:

If there are fewer initializers in a brace-enclosed list than there are elements or members of an aggregate, or fewer characters in a string literal used to initialize an array of known size than there are elements in the array, the remainder of the aggregate shall be initialized implicitly the same as objects that have static storage duration.

Good Read:
C and C++ : Partial initialization of automatic structure

check if file exists on remote host with ssh

ssh -q $HOST [[ -f $FILE_PATH ]] && echo "File exists"

The above will run the echo command on the machine you're running the ssh command from. To get the remote server to run the command:

ssh -q $HOST "[[ ! -f $FILE_PATH ]] && touch $FILE_PATH"

Hibernate - A collection with cascade=”all-delete-orphan” was no longer referenced by the owning entity instance

I am using Spring Boot and had this issue with a collection, in spite of not directly overwriting it, because I am declaring an extra field for the same collection with a custom serializer and deserializer in order to provide a more frontend-friendly representation of the data:

  public List<Attribute> getAttributes() {
    return attributes;
  }

  public void setAttributes(List<Attribute> attributes) {
    this.attributes = attributes;
  }

  @JsonSerialize(using = AttributeSerializer.class)
  public List<Attribute> getAttributesList() {
    return attributes;
  }

  @JsonDeserialize(using = AttributeDeserializer.class)
  public void setAttributesList(List<Attribute> attributes) {
    this.attributes = attributes;
  }

It seems that even though I am not overwriting the collection myself, the deserialization does it under the hood, triggering this issue all the same. The solution was to change the setter associated with the deserializer so that it would clear the list and add everything, rather than overwrite it:

  @JsonDeserialize(using = AttributeDeserializer.class)
  public void setAttributesList(List<Attribute> attributes) {
    this.attributes.clear();
    this.attributes.addAll(attributes);
  }

Do C# Timers elapse on a separate thread?

For System.Timers.Timer, on separate thread, if SynchronizingObject is not set.

    static System.Timers.Timer DummyTimer = null;

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        try
        {

            Console.WriteLine("Main Thread Id: " + System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.ManagedThreadId);

            DummyTimer = new System.Timers.Timer(1000 * 5); // 5 sec interval
            DummyTimer.Enabled = true;
            DummyTimer.Elapsed += new System.Timers.ElapsedEventHandler(OnDummyTimerFired);
            DummyTimer.AutoReset = true;

            DummyTimer.Start();

            Console.WriteLine("Hit any key to exit");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
        catch (Exception Ex)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(Ex.Message);
        }

        return;
    }

    static void OnDummyTimerFired(object Sender, System.Timers.ElapsedEventArgs e)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.ManagedThreadId);
        return;
    }

Output you'd see if DummyTimer fired on 5 seconds interval:

Main Thread Id: 9
   12
   12
   12
   12
   12
   ... 

So, as seen, OnDummyTimerFired is executed on Workers thread.

No, further complication - If you reduce interval to say 10 ms,

Main Thread Id: 9
   11
   13
   12
   22
   17
   ... 

This is because if prev execution of OnDummyTimerFired isn't done when next tick is fired, then .NET would create a new thread to do this job.

Complicating things further, "The System.Timers.Timer class provides an easy way to deal with this dilemma—it exposes a public SynchronizingObject property. Setting this property to an instance of a Windows Form (or a control on a Windows Form) will ensure that the code in your Elapsed event handler runs on the same thread on which the SynchronizingObject was instantiated."

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc164015.aspx#S2

How to make a div center align in HTML

I think that the the align="center" aligns the content, so if you wanted to use that method, you would need to use it in a 'wraper' div - a div that just wraps the rest.

text-align is doing a similar sort of thing.

left:50% is ignored unless you set the div's position to be something like relative or absolute.

The generally accepted methods is to use the following properties

width:500px; // this can be what ever unit you want, you just have to define it
margin-left:auto;
margin-right:auto;

the margins being auto means they grow/shrink to match the browser window (or parent div)

UPDATE

Thanks to Meo for poiting this out, if you wanted to you could save time and use the short hand propery for the margin.

margin:0 auto;

this defines the top and bottom as 0 (as it is zero it does not matter about lack of units) and the left and right get defined as 'auto' You can then, if you wan't override say the top margin as you would with any other CSS rules.

base64 encode in MySQL

Looks like no, though it was requested, and there’s a UDF for it.

Edit: Or there’s… this. Ugh.

HTML anchor tag with Javascript onclick event

You can even try below option:

<a href="javascript:show_more_menu();">More >>></a>

PANIC: Broken AVD system path. Check your ANDROID_SDK_ROOT value

After quite some time trying other Googled "solutions", the only thing that worked for me, after setting the ANDROID_SDK_ROOT environment variable on Windows, and also adding and removing ANDROID_HOME and ANDROID_SDK_HOME variables, was Xerox23's answer - editing the AVD's config.ini to hardcode the value of ANDROID_SDK_ROOT into the image.sysdir.1 property.

This was using Android Studio 3.0.1 and emulator 26.1.4, launching the virtual device from the AVD Manager from within Android Studio.

How can I count the number of characters in a Bash variable

${#str_var}  

where str_var is your string.

Linking to an external URL in Javadoc?

Javadocs don't offer any special tools for external links, so you should just use standard html:

See <a href="http://groversmill.com/">Grover's Mill</a> for a history of the
Martian invasion.

or

@see <a href="http://groversmill.com/">Grover's Mill</a> for a history of 
the Martian invasion.

Don't use {@link ...} or {@linkplain ...} because these are for links to the javadocs of other classes and methods.

Check synchronously if file/directory exists in Node.js

Chances are, if you want to know if a file exists, you plan to require it if it does.

function getFile(path){
    try{
        return require(path);
    }catch(e){
        return false;
    }
}

Pointer vs. Reference

You should pass a pointer if you are going to modify the value of the variable. Even though technically passing a reference or a pointer are the same, passing a pointer in your use case is more readable as it "advertises" the fact that the value will be changed by the function.

How to install a specific version of a ruby gem?

You can use the -v or --version flag. For example

gem install bitclock -v '< 0.0.2'

To specify upper AND lower version boundaries you can specify the --version flag twice

gem install bitclock -v '>= 0.0.1' -v '< 0.0.2'

or use the syntax (for example)

gem install bitclock -v '>= 0.0.1, < 0.0.2'

The other way to do it is

gem install bitclock:'>= 0.0.1'

but with the last option it is not possible to specify upper and lower bounderies simultaneously.

[gem 3.0.3 and ruby 2.6.6]

PHP convert string to hex and hex to string

Using @bill-shirley answer with a little addition

function str_to_hex($string) {
$hexstr = unpack('H*', $string);
return array_shift($hexstr);
}
function hex_to_str($string) {
return hex2bin("$string");
}

Usage:

  $str = "Go placidly amidst the noise";
  $hexstr = str_to_hex($str);// 476f20706c616369646c7920616d6964737420746865206e6f697365
  $strstr = hex_to_str($str);// Go placidly amidst the noise

SQL query to group by day

For oracle you can

group by trunc(created);

as this truncates the created datetime to the previous midnight.

Another option is to

group by to_char(created, 'DD.MM.YYYY');

which achieves the same result, but may be slower as it requires a type conversion.

Position Relative vs Absolute?

Position Relative:

If you specify position:relative, then you can use top or bottom, and left or right to move the element relative to where it would normally occur in the document.

Position Absolute:

When you specify position:absolute, the element is removed from the document and placed exactly where you tell it to go.

Here is a good tutorial http://www.barelyfitz.com/screencast/html-training/css/positioning/ with the sample usage of both position with respective to absolute and relative positioning.

Using Python, find anagrams for a list of words

If you want a solution in java,

public List<String> findAnagrams(List<String> dictionary) {

    // TODO do null check and other basic validations.
    Map<String, List<String>> wordMap = new HashMap<String, List<String>>();

    for(String word : dictionary) {

        // ignore if word is null
        char[] tempWord = word.tocharArray();
        Arrays.sort(tempWord);
        String newWord = new String(tempWord);

        if(wordMap.containsKey(newWord)) {
            wordMap.put(newWord, wordMap.get(word).add(word));
        } else {
            wordMap.put(newWord, new ArrayList<>() {word});
        }

    }

    List<String> anagrams = new ArrayList<>();

    for(String key : wordMap.keySet()) {

        if(wordMap.get(key).size() > 1) {
            anagrams.addAll(wordMap.get(key));
        }

    }

    return anagrams;
}

How to add a custom HTTP header to every WCF call?

You can specify custom headers in the MessageContract.

You can also use < endpoint> headers that are stored in the configuration file and will be copied allong in the header of all the messages sent by the client/service. This is usefull to add some static header easily.

How to add a browser tab icon (favicon) for a website?

I haven't used any others, but https://realfavicongenerator.net/ seems to be a top choice, and it hasn't been mentioned on here yet.

It supports SVGs as source images for generating favicons, and it provides helpful options to override images for different platforms. In addition, by default it doesn't generate a ton a images to be backwards-compatible with every outdated platform. Instead, it gives you options to check if you want them.

From an email the developer sent me, they also have plans to add support for generating SVG favicons, as well as SVG theme-sensitivity, I think, which is a totally awesome feature.

Should I use Python 32bit or Python 64bit

Use the 64 bit version only if you have to work with heavy amounts of data, in that scenario, the 64 bits performs better with the inconvenient that John La Rooy said; if not, stick with the 32 bits.

How do I convert an ANSI encoded file to UTF-8 with Notepad++?

Regarding this part:

When I convert it to UTF-8 without bom and close file, the file is again ANSI when I reopen.

The easiest solution is to avoid the problem entirely by properly configuring Notepad++.

Try Settings -> Preferences -> New document -> Encoding -> choose UTF-8 without BOM, and check Apply to opened ANSI files.

notepad++ UTF-8 apply to opened ANSI files

That way all the opened ANSI files will be treated as UTF-8 without BOM.

For explanation what's going on, read the comments below this answer.

To fully learn about Unicode and UTF-8, read this excellent article from Joel Spolsky.

Return array from function

neater:

function BlockID() {
  return {
    "s":"Images/Block_01.png",
    "g":"Images/Block_02.png",
    "C":"Images/Block_03.png",
    "d":"Images/Block_04.png"
   }
}

or just

var images = {
  "s":"Images/Block_01.png",
  "g":"Images/Block_02.png",
  "C":"Images/Block_03.png",
  "d":"Images/Block_04.png"
}

Update cordova plugins in one command

you cannot update ,but i wrote a batch file that removes my plugins and install again so in this case my all plugins are updated automatically, hope this solves your problem

@echo off
for %%a in (
"com.ionic.keyboard"
"com.phonegap.plugins.PushPlugin"
"cordova-instagram-plugin"
"cordova-plugin-camera"
"cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview"
"cordova-plugin-file"
"cordova-plugin-file-transfer"

) do call cordova plugin rm %%a


for %%b in (
"com.ionic.keyboard"
"com.phonegap.plugins.PushPlugin"
"cordova-instagram-plugin"
"cordova-plugin-camera"
"cordova-plugin-crosswalk-webview"
"cordova-plugin-file"
"cordova-plugin-file-transfer"


) do call cordova plugin add %%b

VB.Net: Dynamically Select Image from My.Resources

Dim resources As Object = My.Resources.ResourceManager
PictureBoxName.Image = resources.GetObject("Company_Logo")

Select N random elements from a List<T> in C#

It is a lot harder than one would think. See the great Article "Shuffling" from Jeff.

I did write a very short article on that subject including C# code:
Return random subset of N elements of a given array

Removing elements by class name?

Yes, you have to remove from the parent:

cur_columns[i].parentNode.removeChild(cur_columns[i]);

biggest integer that can be stored in a double

It is true that, for 64-bit IEEE754 double, all integers up to 9007199254740992 == 2^53 can be exactly represented.

However, it is also worth mentioning that all representable numbers beyond 4503599627370496 == 2^52 are integers. Beyond 2^52 it becomes meaningless to test whether or not they are integers, because they are all implicitly rounded to a nearby representable value.

In the range 2^51 to 2^52, the only non-integer values are the midpoints ending with ".5", meaning any integer test after a calculation must be expected to yield at least 50% false answers.

Below 2^51 we also have ".25" and ".75", so comparing a number with its rounded counterpart in order to determine if it may be integer or not starts making some sense.

TLDR: If you want to test whether a calculated result may be integer, avoid numbers larger than 2251799813685248 == 2^51

Running a command as Administrator using PowerShell?

This behavior is by design. There are multiple layers of security since Microsoft really didn't want .ps1 files to be the latest email virus. Some people find this to be counter to the very notion of task automation, which is fair. The Vista+ security model is to "de-automate" things, thus making the user okay them.

However, I suspect if you launch powershell itself as elevated, it should be able to run batch files without requesting the password again until you close powershell.

Output single character in C

Be careful of difference between 'c' and "c"

'c' is a char suitable for formatting with %c

"c" is a char* pointing to a memory block with a length of 2 (with the null terminator).

JavaScript variable number of arguments to function

Use the arguments object when inside the function to have access to all arguments passed in.

Querying DynamoDB by date

You can have multiple identical hash keys; but only if you have a range key that varies. Think of it like file formats; you can have 2 files with the same name in the same folder as long as their format is different. If their format is the same, their name must be different. The same concept applies to DynamoDB's hash/range keys; just think of the hash as the name and the range as the format.

Also, I don't recall if they had these at the time of the OP (I don't believe they did), but they now offer Local Secondary Indexes.

My understanding of these is that it should now allow you to perform the desired queries without having to do a full scan. The downside is that these indexes have to be specified at table creation, and also (I believe) cannot be blank when creating an item. In addition, they require additional throughput (though typically not as much as a scan) and storage, so it's not a perfect solution, but a viable alternative, for some.

I do still recommend Mike Brant's answer as the preferred method of using DynamoDB, though; and use that method myself. In my case, I just have a central table with only a hash key as my ID, then secondary tables that have a hash and range that can be queried, then the item points the code to the central table's "item of interest", directly.

Additional data regarding the secondary indexes can be found in Amazon's DynamoDB documentation here for those interested.

Anyway, hopefully this will help anyone else that happens upon this thread.

How can I include a YAML file inside another?

I make some examples for your reference.

import yaml

main_yaml = """
Package:
 - !include _shape_yaml    
 - !include _path_yaml
"""

_shape_yaml = """
# Define
Rectangle: &id_Rectangle
    name: Rectangle
    width: &Rectangle_width 20
    height: &Rectangle_height 10
    area: !product [*Rectangle_width, *Rectangle_height]

Circle: &id_Circle
    name: Circle
    radius: &Circle_radius 5
    area: !product [*Circle_radius, *Circle_radius, pi]

# Setting
Shape:
    property: *id_Rectangle
    color: red
"""

_path_yaml = """
# Define
Root: &BASE /path/src/

Paths: 
    a: &id_path_a !join [*BASE, a]
    b: &id_path_b !join [*BASE, b]

# Setting
Path:
    input_file: *id_path_a
"""


# define custom tag handler
def yaml_import(loader, node):
    other_yaml_file = loader.construct_scalar(node)
    return yaml.load(eval(other_yaml_file), Loader=yaml.SafeLoader)


def yaml_product(loader, node):
    import math
    list_data = loader.construct_sequence(node)
    result = 1
    pi = math.pi
    for val in list_data:
        result *= eval(val) if isinstance(val, str) else val
    return result


def yaml_join(loader, node):
    seq = loader.construct_sequence(node)
    return ''.join([str(i) for i in seq])


def yaml_ref(loader, node):
    ref = loader.construct_sequence(node)
    return ref[0]


def yaml_dict_ref(loader: yaml.loader.SafeLoader, node):
    dict_data, key, const_value = loader.construct_sequence(node)
    return dict_data[key] + str(const_value)


def main():
    # register the tag handler
    yaml.SafeLoader.add_constructor(tag='!include', constructor=yaml_import)
    yaml.SafeLoader.add_constructor(tag='!product', constructor=yaml_product)
    yaml.SafeLoader.add_constructor(tag='!join', constructor=yaml_join)
    yaml.SafeLoader.add_constructor(tag='!ref', constructor=yaml_ref)
    yaml.SafeLoader.add_constructor(tag='!dict_ref', constructor=yaml_dict_ref)

    config = yaml.load(main_yaml, Loader=yaml.SafeLoader)

    pk_shape, pk_path = config['Package']
    pk_shape, pk_path = pk_shape['Shape'], pk_path['Path']
    print(f"shape name: {pk_shape['property']['name']}")
    print(f"shape area: {pk_shape['property']['area']}")
    print(f"shape color: {pk_shape['color']}")

    print(f"input file: {pk_path['input_file']}")


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

output

shape name: Rectangle
shape area: 200
shape color: red
input file: /path/src/a

Update 2

and you can combine it, like this

# xxx.yaml
CREATE_FONT_PICTURE:
  PROJECTS:
    SUNG: &id_SUNG
      name: SUNG
      work_dir: SUNG
      output_dir: temp
      font_pixel: 24


  DEFINE: &id_define !ref [*id_SUNG]  # you can use config['CREATE_FONT_PICTURE']['DEFINE'][name, work_dir, ... font_pixel]
  AUTO_INIT:
    basename_suffix: !dict_ref [*id_define, name, !product [5, 3, 2]]  # SUNG30

# ? This is not correct.
# basename_suffix: !dict_ref [*id_define, name, !product [5, 3, 2]]  # It will build by Deep-level. id_define is Deep-level: 2. So you must put it after 2. otherwise, it can't refer to the correct value.

How to Use Content-disposition for force a file to download to the hard drive?

With recent browsers you can use the HTML5 download attribute as well:

<a download="quot.pdf" href="../doc/quot.pdf">Click here to Download quotation</a>

It is supported by most of the recent browsers except MSIE11. You can use a polyfill, something like this (note that this is for data uri only, but it is a good start):

(function (){

    addEvent(window, "load", function (){
        if (isInternetExplorer())
            polyfillDataUriDownload();
    });

    function polyfillDataUriDownload(){
        var links = document.querySelectorAll('a[download], area[download]');
        for (var index = 0, length = links.length; index<length; ++index) {
            (function (link){
                var dataUri = link.getAttribute("href");
                var fileName = link.getAttribute("download");
                if (dataUri.slice(0,5) != "data:")
                    throw new Error("The XHR part is not implemented here.");
                addEvent(link, "click", function (event){
                    cancelEvent(event);
                    try {
                        var dataBlob = dataUriToBlob(dataUri);
                        forceBlobDownload(dataBlob, fileName);
                    } catch (e) {
                        alert(e)
                    }
                });
            })(links[index]);
        }
    }

    function forceBlobDownload(dataBlob, fileName){
        window.navigator.msSaveBlob(dataBlob, fileName);
    }

    function dataUriToBlob(dataUri) {
        if  (!(/base64/).test(dataUri))
            throw new Error("Supports only base64 encoding.");
        var parts = dataUri.split(/[:;,]/),
            type = parts[1],
            binData = atob(parts.pop()),
            mx = binData.length,
            uiArr = new Uint8Array(mx);
        for(var i = 0; i<mx; ++i)
            uiArr[i] = binData.charCodeAt(i);
        return new Blob([uiArr], {type: type});
    }

    function addEvent(subject, type, listener){
        if (window.addEventListener)
            subject.addEventListener(type, listener, false);
        else if (window.attachEvent)
            subject.attachEvent("on" + type, listener);
    }

    function cancelEvent(event){
        if (event.preventDefault)
            event.preventDefault();
        else
            event.returnValue = false;
    }

    function isInternetExplorer(){
        return /*@cc_on!@*/false || !!document.documentMode;
    }
    
})();

Groovy built-in REST/HTTP client?

The simplest one got to be:

def html = "http://google.com".toURL().text

How to add a margin to a table row <tr>

I know this is kind of old, but I just got something along the same lines to work. Couldn't you do this?

tr.highlight {
    border-top: 10px solid;
    border-bottom: 10px solid;
    border-color: transparent;
}

Hope this helps.

Saving response from Requests to file

As Peter already pointed out:

In [1]: import requests

In [2]: r = requests.get('https://api.github.com/events')

In [3]: type(r)
Out[3]: requests.models.Response

In [4]: type(r.content)
Out[4]: str

You may also want to check r.text.

Also: https://2.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/quickstart/

change <audio> src with javascript

Try this:

Replace:

audio.load();

with:

audio.play();

npm ERR! network getaddrinfo ENOTFOUND

Just unset the proxy host using :

unset HOST

This worked for me.

How can I find the current OS in Python?

import os
print os.name

This gives you the essential information you will usually need. To distinguish between, say, different editions of Windows, you will have to use a platform-specific method.

Labeling file upload button

Take a step back! Firstly, you're assuming the user is using a foreign locale on their device, which is not a sound assumption for justifying taking over the button text of the file picker, and making it say what you want it to.

It is reasonable that you want to control every item of language visible on your page. The content of the File Upload control is not part of the HTML though. There is more content behind this control, for example, in WebKit, it also says "No file chosen" next to the button.

There are very hacky workarounds that attempt this (e.g. like those mentioned in @ChristopheD's answer), but none of them truly succeed:

  • To a screen reader, the file control will still say "Browse..." or "Choose File", and a custom file upload will not be announced as a file upload control, but just a button or a text input.
  • Many of them fail to display the chosen file, or to show that the user has no longer chosen a file
  • Many of them look nothing like the native control, so might look strange on non-standard devices.
  • Keyboard support is typically poor.
  • An author-created UI component can never be as fully functional as its native equivalent (and the closer you get it to behave to suppose IE10 on Windows 7, the more it will deviate from other Browser and Operating System combinations).
  • Modern browsers support drag & drop into the native file upload control.
  • Some techniques may trigger heuristics in security software as a potential ‘click-jacking’ attempt to trick the user into uploading file.

Deviating from the native controls is always a risky thing, there is a whole host of different devices your users could be using, and whatever workaround you choose, you will not have tested it in every one of those devices.

However, there is an even bigger reason why all attempts fail from a User Experience perspective: there is even more non-localized content behind this control, the file selection dialog itself. Once the user is subject to traversing their file system or what not to select a file to upload, they will be subjected to the host Operating System locale.

Are you sure you're doing your user any justice by deviating from the native control, just to localize the text, when as soon as they click it, they're just going to get the Operating System locale anyway?

The best you can do for your users is to ensure you have adequate localised guidance surrounding your file input control. (e.g. Form field label, hint text, tooltip text).

Sorry. :-(

--

This answer is for those looking for any justification not to localise the file upload control.

How to add multiple classes to a ReactJS Component?

for more classes adding

... className={`${classes.hello} ${classes.hello1}`...

MVC razor form with multiple different submit buttons?

In case you're using pure razor, i.e. no MVC controller:

<button name="SubmitForm" value="Hello">Hello</button>
<button name="SubmitForm" value="World">World</button>
@if (IsPost)
{
    <p>@Request.Form["SubmitForm"]</p>
}

Clicking each of the buttons should render out Hello and World.

Checking character length in ruby

Verification, do not forget the to_s

 def nottolonng?(value)
   if value.to_s.length <=8
     return true
   else
     return false
   end
  end

Combine Points with lines with ggplot2

You may find that using the `group' aes will help you get the result you want. For example:

tu <- expand.grid(Land       = gl(2, 1, labels = c("DE", "BB")),
                  Altersgr   = gl(5, 1, labels = letters[1:5]),
                  Geschlecht = gl(2, 1, labels = c('m', 'w')),
                  Jahr       = 2000:2009)

set.seed(42)
tu$Wert <- unclass(tu$Altersgr) * 200 + rnorm(200, 0, 10)

ggplot(tu, aes(x = Jahr, y = Wert, color = Altersgr, group = Altersgr)) + 
  geom_point() + geom_line() + 
  facet_grid(Geschlecht ~ Land)

Which produces the plot found here:

enter image description here

When to use which design pattern?

Learn them and slowly you'll be able to reconize and figure out when to use them. Start with something simple as the singleton pattern :)

if you want to create one instance of an object and just ONE. You use the singleton pattern. Let's say you're making a program with an options object. You don't want several of those, that would be silly. Singleton makes sure that there will never be more than one. Singleton pattern is simple, used a lot, and really effective.

Error importing Seaborn module in Python

I got same issue with Seaborn. I uninstalled python, anaconda and reinstalled anaconda 4.1.1 with python 3.6. After that installed seaboarn again

conda install seaborn

And it worked. If you are still facing issue, I would recommend you doing this.

How to use the read command in Bash?

Other bash alternatives that do not involve a subshell:

read str <<END             # here-doc
hello
END

read str <<< "hello"       # here-string

read str < <(echo hello)   # process substitution

How to check for an active Internet connection on iOS or macOS?

Please try this, it will help you (Swift 4)

1) Install Reachability via CocoaPods or Carthage: Reachability

2) Import Reachability and Use in Network Class

import Reachability
class Network {

   private let internetReachability : Reachability?
   var isReachable : Bool = false

   init() {

       self.internetReachability = Reachability.init()
       do{
           try self.internetReachability?.startNotifier()
           NotificationCenter.default.addObserver(self, selector: #selector(self.handleNetworkChange), name: .reachabilityChanged, object: internetReachability)
       }
       catch {
        print("could not start reachability notifier")
       }
   }

   @objc private func handleNetworkChange(notify: Notification) {

       let reachability = notify.object as! Reachability
       if reachability.connection != .none {
           self.isReachable = true
       }
       else {
           self.isReachable = false
       }
       print("Internet Connected : \(self.isReachable)") //Print Status of Network Connection
   }
}

3) Use like Below where You need.

var networkOBJ = Network()
// Use "networkOBJ.isReachable" for Network Status
print(networkOBJ.isReachable) 

Search for "does-not-contain" on a DataFrame in pandas

I hope the answers are already posted

I am adding the framework to find multiple words and negate those from dataFrame.

Here 'word1','word2','word3','word4' = list of patterns to search

df = DataFrame

column_a = A column name from from DataFrame df

Search_for_These_values = ['word1','word2','word3','word4'] 

pattern = '|'.join(Search_for_These_values)

result = df.loc[~(df['column_a'].str.contains(pattern, case=False)]

What is the problem with shadowing names defined in outer scopes?

A good workaround in some cases may be to move the variables and code to another function:

def print_data(data):
    print data

def main():
    data = [4, 5, 6]
    print_data(data)

main()

C++ Structure Initialization

The field identifiers are indeed C initializer syntax. In C++ just give the values in the correct order without the field names. Unfortunately this means you need to give them all (actually you can omit trailing zero-valued fields and the result will be the same):

address temp_address = { 0, 0, "Hamilton", "Ontario", 0 }; 

What does %5B and %5D in POST requests stand for?

The data would probably have been posted originally from a web form looking a bit like this (but probably much more complicated):

<form action="http://example.com" method="post">

  User login    <input name="user[login]"    /><br />
  User password <input name="user[password]" /><br />

  <input type="submit" />
</form>

If the method were "get" instead of "post", clicking the submit button would take you to a URL looking a bit like this:

http://example.com/?user%5Blogin%5D=username&user%5Bpassword%5D=123456

or:

http://example.com/?user[login]=username&user[password]=123456

The web server on the other end will likely take the user[login] and user[password] parameters, and make them into a user object with login and password fields containing those values.

How to open google chrome from terminal?

on mac terminal (at least in ZSH): open stackoverflow.com (opens site in new tab in your chrome default browser)

C# Copy a file to another location with a different name

System.IO.File.Copy(oldPathAndName, newPathAndName);

How to convert ASCII code (0-255) to its corresponding character?

String.valueOf(Character.toChars(int))

Assuming the integer is, as you say, between 0 and 255, you'll get an array with a single character back from Character.toChars, which will become a single-character string when passed to String.valueOf.

Using Character.toChars is preferable to methods involving a cast from int to char (i.e. (char) i) for a number of reasons, including that Character.toChars will throw an IllegalArgumentException if you fail to properly validate the integer while the cast will swallow the error (per the narrowing primitive conversions specification), potentially giving an output other than what you intended.

Programmatically navigate to another view controller/scene

I Give you my code to make a transition. In this example the action is connecting to an UIButton. So don't forget to set it. Don't forget to set the name of your ViewController in the transition method.

Don't forget to set your storyboard too. Your need to have one view per viewController. Connect each ViewController to each view in storyBoard. You can see on the screenshoot bellow

enter image description here enter image description here

class PresentationViewController: UIViewController {
    override func viewDidLoad() {
         super.viewDidLoad()

         var playButton   = UIButton.buttonWithType(UIButtonType.System) as UIButton

         let image = UIImage(named: "YourPlayButton") as UIImage?

         playButton.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, 100, 100)
         playButton.center = CGPointMake(self.view.frame.width/2, self.view.frame.height/2)
         playButton.addTarget(self, action: "transition:", forControlEvents:  UIControlEvents.TouchUpInside)
         playButton.setBackgroundImage(image, forState: UIControlState.Normal)

         self.view.addSubview(playButton)
    }


func transition(sender:UIButton!)
{
    println("transition")
    let secondViewController = self.storyboard?.instantiateViewControllerWithIdentifier("YourSecondViewController") as UIViewController

    let window = UIApplication.sharedApplication().windows[0] as UIWindow
    UIView.transitionFromView(
        window.rootViewController!.view,
        toView: secondViewController.view,
        duration: 0.65,
        options: .TransitionCrossDissolve,
        completion: {
            finished in window.rootViewController = secondViewController
    })
}
}

PHP: How can I determine if a variable has a value that is between two distinct constant values?

if (($value > 1 && $value < 10) || ($value > 20 && $value < 40))

Enabling/Disabling Microsoft Virtual WiFi Miniport

In the device manager you can select View > Show hidden devices

Format specifier %02x

You are actually getting the correct value out.

The way your x86 (compatible) processor stores data like this, is in Little Endian order, meaning that, the MSB is last in your output.

So, given your output:

10101010

the last two hex values 10 are the Most Significant Byte (2 hex digits = 1 byte = 8 bits (for (possibly unnecessary) clarification).

So, by reversing the memory storage order of the bytes, your value is actually: 01010101.

Hope that clears it up!

Magento addFieldToFilter: Two fields, match as OR, not AND

There is a bit of confusion going on here, but let me try to clarify things:

Lets say you wanted sql that looked something like:

SELECT 
    `main_table`.*, 
    `main_table`.`email` AS `invitation_email`, 
    `main_table`.`group_id` AS `invitee_group_id` 
FROM 
    `enterprise_invitation` AS `main_table` 
WHERE (
    (status = 'new') 
    OR (customer_id = '1234')
)

In order to achieve this, your collection needs to be formatted like this:

$collection = Mage::getModel('enterprise_invitation/invitation')->getCollection();

$collection->addFieldToFilter(array('status', 'customer_id'), array(
array('status','eq'=>'new'),
array('customer_id', 'eq'=>'1234') ));

Now to see what this looks like you can always echo the query that this creates by using

echo $collection->getSelect()->__toString();

Linking dll in Visual Studio

Assume that the source file you want to compile is main.cpp and your example_dll.dll and example_dll.lib . now run cl.exe main.cpp /EHsc /link example_dll.lib now you may get main.exe

IntelliJ - show where errors are

Besides, you can choose going to next error only (ignore warning) by:

  1. Right click the Validation Side Bar.
  2. On the context menu, choose the Go to high priority problems only

it works for Intellij Idea 12

css overflow - only 1 line of text

You can use this css code:

text-overflow: ellipsis; 
overflow: hidden; 
white-space: nowrap;

The text-overflow property in CSS deals with situations where text is clipped when it overflows the element's box. It can be clipped (i.e. cut off, hidden), display an ellipsis ('…', Unicode Range Value U+2026).

Note that text-overflow only occurs when the container's overflow property has the value hidden, scroll or auto and white-space: nowrap;.

Text overflow can only happen on block or inline-block level elements, because the element needs to have a width in order to be overflow-ed. The overflow happens in the direction as determined by the direction property or related attributes.

log4net vs. Nlog

A key consideration that hasn't been much discussed is support and updates.

Log4Net hasn't been updated since version 1.2.10 was published April 19, 2006.

In contrast, NLog has been actively supported since 2006 will soon release NLog 2.0 supporting many platforms that didn't exist when log4net was last updated such as:

  • NET Framework 2.0 SP1 and above, 3.5 & 4.0 (Client and Extended profiles)
  • Silverlight 2.0, 3.0, 4.0
  • .NET Compact Framework 2.0, 3.5
  • Mono 2.x profile

Iterating over all the keys of a map

https://play.golang.org/p/JGZ7mN0-U-

for k, v := range m { 
    fmt.Printf("key[%s] value[%s]\n", k, v)
}

or

for k := range m {
    fmt.Printf("key[%s] value[%s]\n", k, m[k])
}

Go language specs for for statements specifies that the first value is the key, the second variable is the value, but doesn't have to be present.

Java RegEx meta character (.) and ordinary dot?

If you want the dot or other characters with a special meaning in regexes to be a normal character, you have to escape it with a backslash. Since regexes in Java are normal Java strings, you need to escape the backslash itself, so you need two backslashes e.g. \\.

When to use Spring Security`s antMatcher()?

Basically http.antMatcher() tells Spring to only configure HttpSecurity if the path matches this pattern.

Javascript change date into format of (dd/mm/yyyy)

This will ensure you get a two-digit day and month.

function formattedDate(d = new Date) {
  let month = String(d.getMonth() + 1);
  let day = String(d.getDate());
  const year = String(d.getFullYear());

  if (month.length < 2) month = '0' + month;
  if (day.length < 2) day = '0' + day;

  return `${day}/${month}/${year}`;
}

Or terser:

function formattedDate(d = new Date) {
  return [d.getDate(), d.getMonth()+1, d.getFullYear()]
      .map(n => n < 10 ? `0${n}` : `${n}`).join('/');
}

"Couldn't read dependencies" error with npm

Verify user account, you are working on. If any system user has no permissions for installation packages, npm particulary also is showing this message.

null check in jsf expression language

Use empty (it checks both nullness and emptiness) and group the nested ternary expression by parentheses (EL is in certain implementations/versions namely somewhat problematic with nested ternary expressions). Thus, so:

styleClass="#{empty obj.validationErrorMap ? ' ' :  
 (obj.validationErrorMap.contains('key') ? 'highlight_field' : 'highlight_row')}"

If still in vain (I would then check JBoss EL configs), use the "normal" EL approach:

styleClass="#{empty obj.validationErrorMap ? ' ' :  
 (obj.validationErrorMap['key'] ne null ? 'highlight_field' : 'highlight_row')}"

Update: as per the comments, the Map turns out to actually be a List (please work on your naming conventions). To check if a List contains an item the "normal" EL way, use JSTL fn:contains (although not explicitly documented, it works for List as well).

styleClass="#{empty obj.validationErrorMap ? ' ' :  
 (fn:contains(obj.validationErrorMap, 'key') ? 'highlight_field' : 'highlight_row')}"

Python TypeError must be str not int

you need to cast int to str before concatenating. for that use str(temperature). Or you can print the same output using , if you don't want to convert like this.

print("the furnace is now",temperature , "degrees!")

Removing duplicates from rows based on specific columns in an RDD/Spark DataFrame

I know you already accepted the other answer, but if you want to do this as a DataFrame, just use groupBy and agg. Assuming you had a DF already created (with columns named "col1", "col2", etc) you could do:

myDF.groupBy($"col1", $"col3", $"col4").agg($"col1", max($"col2"), $"col3", $"col4")

Note that in this case, I chose the Max of col2, but you could do avg, min, etc.

How can I increment a date by one day in Java?

Take a look at Joda-Time (https://www.joda.org/joda-time/).

DateTimeFormatter parser = ISODateTimeFormat.date();

DateTime date = parser.parseDateTime(dateString);

String nextDay = parser.print(date.plusDays(1));

Binding a list in @RequestParam

It wasn't obvious to me that although you can accept a Collection as a request param, but on the consumer side you still have to pass in the collection items as comma separated values.

For example if the server side api looks like this:

@PostMapping("/post-topics")
public void handleSubscriptions(@RequestParam("topics") Collection<String> topicStrings) {

    topicStrings.forEach(topic -> System.out.println(topic));
}

Directly passing in a collection to the RestTemplate as a RequestParam like below will result in data corruption

public void subscribeToTopics() {

    List<String> topics = Arrays.asList("first-topic", "second-topic", "third-topic");

    RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate();
    restTemplate.postForEntity(
            "http://localhost:8088/post-topics?topics={topics}",
            null,
            ResponseEntity.class,
            topics);
}

Instead you can use

public void subscribeToTopics() {

    List<String> topicStrings = Arrays.asList("first-topic", "second-topic", "third-topic");
    String topics = String.join(",",topicStrings);

    RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate();
    restTemplate.postForEntity(
            "http://localhost:8088/post-topics?topics={topics}",
            null,
            ResponseEntity.class,
            topics);
}

The complete example can be found here, hope it saves someone the headache :)

How can I check if character in a string is a letter? (Python)

You can use str.isalpha().

For example:

s = 'a123b'

for char in s:
    print(char, char.isalpha())

Output:

a True
1 False
2 False
3 False
b True

Fluid width with equally spaced DIVs

This worked for me with 5 images in diferent sizes.

  1. Create a container div
  2. An Unordered list for the images
  3. On css the unordened must be displayed vertically and without bullets
  4. Justify content of container div

This works because of justify-content:space-between, and it's on a list, displayed horizontally.

On CSS

 #container {
            display: flex;
            justify-content: space-between;
 }
    #container ul li{ display:inline; list-style-type:none;
}

On html

<div id="container"> 
  <ul>  
        <li><img src="box1.png"><li>
        <li><img src="box2.png"><li>
        <li><img src="box3.png"><li>
        <li><img src="box4.png"><li>
        <li><img src="box5.png"><li>
    </ul>
</div>

Subdomain on different host

You just need to add an "A" record in the DNS manager on Godaddy. In that "A" record put your IP from dreamhost.

I know this works since I'm doing the very same thing.

How can an html element fill out 100% of the remaining screen height, using css only?

For me, the next worked well:

I wrapped the header and the content on a div

<div class="main-wrapper">
    <div class="header">

    </div>
    <div class="content">

    </div>
</div>

I used this reference to fill the height with flexbox. The CSS goes like this:

.main-wrapper {
    display: flex;
    flex-direction: column;
    min-height: 100vh;
}
.header {
    flex: 1;
}
.content {
    flex: 1;
}

For more info about the flexbox technique, visit the reference

What are SP (stack) and LR in ARM?

LR is link register used to hold the return address for a function call.

SP is stack pointer. The stack is generally used to hold "automatic" variables and context/parameters across function calls. Conceptually you can think of the "stack" as a place where you "pile" your data. You keep "stacking" one piece of data over the other and the stack pointer tells you how "high" your "stack" of data is. You can remove data from the "top" of the "stack" and make it shorter.

From the ARM architecture reference:

SP, the Stack Pointer

Register R13 is used as a pointer to the active stack.

In Thumb code, most instructions cannot access SP. The only instructions that can access SP are those designed to use SP as a stack pointer. The use of SP for any purpose other than as a stack pointer is deprecated. Note Using SP for any purpose other than as a stack pointer is likely to break the requirements of operating systems, debuggers, and other software systems, causing them to malfunction.

LR, the Link Register

Register R14 is used to store the return address from a subroutine. At other times, LR can be used for other purposes.

When a BL or BLX instruction performs a subroutine call, LR is set to the subroutine return address. To perform a subroutine return, copy LR back to the program counter. This is typically done in one of two ways, after entering the subroutine with a BL or BLX instruction:

• Return with a BX LR instruction.

• On subroutine entry, store LR to the stack with an instruction of the form: PUSH {,LR} and use a matching instruction to return: POP {,PC} ...

This link gives an example of a trivial subroutine.

Here is an example of how registers are saved on the stack prior to a call and then popped back to restore their content.

PKIX path building failed in Java application

I ran into similar issues whose cause and solution turned out both to be rather simple:

Main Cause: Did not import the proper cert using keytool

NOTE: Only import root CA (or your own self-signed) certificates

NOTE: don't import an intermediate, non certificate chain root cert

Solution Example for imap.gmail.com

  1. Determine the root CA cert:

    openssl s_client -showcerts -connect imap.gmail.com:993
    

    in this case we find the root CA is Equifax Secure Certificate Authority

  2. Download root CA cert.
  3. Verify downloaded cert has proper SHA-1 and/or MD5 fingerprints by comparing with info found here
  4. Import cert for javax.net.ssl.trustStore:

    keytool -import -alias gmail_imap -file Equifax_Secure_Certificate_Authority.pem
    
  5. Run your java code

Getter and Setter?

class MyClass {
    private $firstField;
    private $secondField;
    private $thirdField;

    public function __get( $name ) {
        if( method_exists( $this , $method = ( 'get' . ucfirst( $name  ) ) ) )
            return $this->$method();
        else
            throw new Exception( 'Can\'t get property ' . $name );
    }

    public function __set( $name , $value ) {
        if( method_exists( $this , $method = ( 'set' . ucfirst( $name  ) ) ) )
            return $this->$method( $value );
        else
            throw new Exception( 'Can\'t set property ' . $name );
    }

    public function __isset( $name )
    {
        return method_exists( $this , 'get' . ucfirst( $name  ) ) 
            || method_exists( $this , 'set' . ucfirst( $name  ) );
    }

    public function getFirstField() {
        return $this->firstField;
    }

    protected function setFirstField($x) {
        $this->firstField = $x;
    }

    private function getSecondField() {
        return $this->secondField;
    }
}

$obj = new MyClass();

echo $obj->firstField; // works
$obj->firstField = 'value'; // works

echo $obj->getFirstField(); // works
$obj->setFirstField( 'value' ); // not works, method is protected

echo $obj->secondField; // works
echo $obj->getSecondField(); // not works, method is private

$obj->secondField = 'value'; // not works, setter not exists

echo $obj->thirdField; // not works, property not exists

isset( $obj->firstField ); // returns true
isset( $obj->secondField ); // returns true
isset( $obj->thirdField ); // returns false

Ready!