Programs & Examples On #Clientaccesspolicy.xml

clientaccesspolicy.xml file enables cross-domain access in Silverlight

How to get a context in a recycler view adapter

View mView;
mView.getContext();

Parse String to Date with Different Format in Java

Take a look at SimpleDateFormat. The code goes something like this:

SimpleDateFormat fromUser = new SimpleDateFormat("dd/MM/yyyy");
SimpleDateFormat myFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd");

try {

    String reformattedStr = myFormat.format(fromUser.parse(inputString));
} catch (ParseException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}

How to SHUTDOWN Tomcat in Ubuntu?

Try

/etc/init.d/tomcat stop

(maybe you have to write something after tomcat, just press tab one time)

Edit: And you also need to do it as root.

PHP fwrite new line

Use PHP_EOL which produces \r\n or \n

$data = 'my data' . PHP_EOL . 'my data';
$fp = fopen('my_file', 'a');
fwrite($fp, $data);
fclose($fp);

// File output

my data
my data

How to enable external request in IIS Express?

The simplest and the coolest way I found was to use (it takes 2 minutes to setup):

https://ngrok.com/

It will work with anything running on localhost. Just signup, run little excutable and whatever you run on localhost gets public URL you can access from anywhere.

This is good for showing stuff to your remote team mates, no fiddling with IIS setup or firewalls. Want to stop access just terminate executable.

ngrok authtoken xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

ngrok http -host-header=localhost 89230

assuming that 89230 is your IIS Express port

You can also run multiple ports even on free plan

Java : Sort integer array without using Arrays.sort()

You can find so many different sorting algorithms in internet, but if you want to fix your own solution you can do following changes in your code:

Instead of:

 orderedNums[greater]=tenNums[indexL];

you need to do this:

while (orderedNums[greater] == tenNums[indexL]) {
     greater++;
}
orderedNums[greater] = tenNums[indexL];

This code basically checks if that particular index is occupied by a similar number, then it will try to find next free index.

Note: Since the default value in your sorted array elements is 0, you need to make sure 0 is not in your list. otherwise you need to initiate your sorted array with an especial number that you sure is not in your list e.g: Integer.MAX_VALUE

Is there a JavaScript / jQuery DOM change listener?

Another approach depending on how you are changing the div. If you are using JQuery to change a div's contents with its html() method, you can extend that method and call a registration function each time you put html into a div.

(function( $, oldHtmlMethod ){
    // Override the core html method in the jQuery object.
    $.fn.html = function(){
        // Execute the original HTML method using the
        // augmented arguments collection.

        var results = oldHtmlMethod.apply( this, arguments );
        com.invisibility.elements.findAndRegisterElements(this);
        return results;

    };
})( jQuery, jQuery.fn.html );

We just intercept the calls to html(), call a registration function with this, which in the context refers to the target element getting new content, then we pass on the call to the original jquery.html() function. Remember to return the results of the original html() method, because JQuery expects it for method chaining.

For more info on method overriding and extension, check out http://www.bennadel.com/blog/2009-Using-Self-Executing-Function-Arguments-To-Override-Core-jQuery-Methods.htm, which is where I cribbed the closure function. Also check out the plugins tutorial at JQuery's site.

Fastest way to determine if an integer's square root is an integer

I'm not sure if it would be faster, or even accurate, but you could use John Carmack's Magical Square Root, algorithm to solve the square root faster. You could probably easily test this for all possible 32 bit integers, and validate that you actually got correct results, as it's only an appoximation. However, now that I think about it, using doubles is approximating also, so I'm not sure how that would come into play.

How to split a string, but also keep the delimiters?

Another candidate solution using a regex. Retains token order, correctly matches multiple tokens of the same type in a row. The downside is that the regex is kind of nasty.

package javaapplication2;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class JavaApplication2 {

    /**
     * @param args the command line arguments
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String num = "58.5+variable-+98*78/96+a/78.7-3443*12-3";

        // Terrifying regex:
        //  (a)|(b)|(c) match a or b or c
        // where
        //   (a) is one or more digits optionally followed by a decimal point
        //       followed by one or more digits: (\d+(\.\d+)?)
        //   (b) is one of the set + * / - occurring once: ([+*/-])
        //   (c) is a sequence of one or more lowercase latin letter: ([a-z]+)
        Pattern tokenPattern = Pattern.compile("(\\d+(\\.\\d+)?)|([+*/-])|([a-z]+)");
        Matcher tokenMatcher = tokenPattern.matcher(num);

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

        while (!tokenMatcher.hitEnd()) {
            if (tokenMatcher.find()) {
                tokens.add(tokenMatcher.group());
            } else {
                // report error
                break;
            }
        }

        System.out.println(tokens);
    }
}

Sample output:

[58.5, +, variable, -, +, 98, *, 78, /, 96, +, a, /, 78.7, -, 3443, *, 12, -, 3]

How to create an empty file at the command line in Windows?

echo.|set /p=>file

echo. suppress the "Command ECHO activated"

|set /p= prevent newline (and file is now 0 byte)

ReactJS: Warning: setState(...): Cannot update during an existing state transition

I am giving a generic example for better understanding, In the following code

render(){
    return(
      <div>

        <h3>Simple Counter</h3>
        <Counter
          value={this.props.counter}
          onIncrement={this.props.increment()} <------ calling the function
          onDecrement={this.props.decrement()} <-----------
          onIncrementAsync={this.props.incrementAsync()} />
      </div>
    )
  }

When supplying props I am calling the function directly, this wold have a infinite loop execution and would give you that error, Remove the function call everything works normally.

render(){
    return(
      <div>

        <h3>Simple Counter</h3>
        <Counter
          value={this.props.counter}
          onIncrement={this.props.increment} <------ function call removed
          onDecrement={this.props.decrement} <-----------
          onIncrementAsync={this.props.incrementAsync} />
      </div>
    )
  }

PHP Change Array Keys

change array key name "group" to "children".

<?php
echo json_encode($data);

function array_change_key_name( $orig, $new, &$array ) {
    foreach ( $array as $k => $v ) {
        $res[ $k === $orig ? $new : $k ] = ( (is_array($v)||is_object($v)) ? array_change_key_name( $orig, $new, $v ) : $v );
    }
    return $res;
}

echo '<br>=====change "group" to "children"=====<br>';
$new = array_change_key_name("group" ,"children" , $data);
echo json_encode($new);
?>

result:

{"benchmark":[{"idText":"USGCB-Windows-7","title":"USGCB: Guidance for Securing Microsoft Windows 7 Systems for IT Professional","profile":[{"idText":"united_states_government_configuration_baseline_version_1.2.0.0","title":"United States Government Configuration Baseline 1.2.0.0","group":[{"idText":"security_components_overview","title":"Windows 7 Security Components Overview","group":[{"idText":"new_features","title":"New Features in Windows 7"}]},{"idText":"usgcb_security_settings","title":"USGCB Security Settings","group":[{"idText":"account_policies_group","title":"Account Policies group"}]}]}]}]}

=====change "group" to "children"=====

{"benchmark":[{"idText":"USGCB-Windows-7","title":"USGCB: Guidance for Securing Microsoft Windows 7 Systems for IT Professional","profile":[{"idText":"united_states_government_configuration_baseline_version_1.2.0.0","title":"United States Government Configuration Baseline 1.2.0.0","children":[{"idText":"security_components_overview","title":"Windows 7 Security Components Overview","children":[{"idText":"new_features","title":"New Features in Windows 7"}]},{"idText":"usgcb_security_settings","title":"USGCB Security Settings","children":[{"idText":"account_policies_group","title":"Account Policies group"}]}]}]}]}

How does lock work exactly?

The lock statement is translated by C# 3.0 to the following:

var temp = obj;

Monitor.Enter(temp);

try
{
    // body
}
finally
{
    Monitor.Exit(temp);
}

In C# 4.0 this has changed and it is now generated as follows:

bool lockWasTaken = false;
var temp = obj;
try
{
    Monitor.Enter(temp, ref lockWasTaken);
    // body
}
finally
{
    if (lockWasTaken)
    {
        Monitor.Exit(temp); 
    }
}

You can find more info about what Monitor.Enter does here. To quote MSDN:

Use Enter to acquire the Monitor on the object passed as the parameter. If another thread has executed an Enter on the object but has not yet executed the corresponding Exit, the current thread will block until the other thread releases the object. It is legal for the same thread to invoke Enter more than once without it blocking; however, an equal number of Exit calls must be invoked before other threads waiting on the object will unblock.

The Monitor.Enter method will wait infinitely; it will not time out.

Can I pass parameters by reference in Java?

Can I pass parameters by reference in Java?

No.

Why ? Java has only one mode of passing arguments to methods: by value.

Note:

For primitives this is easy to understand: you get a copy of the value.

For all other you get a copy of the reference and this is called also passing by value.

It is all in this picture:

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MySQL - Meaning of "PRIMARY KEY", "UNIQUE KEY" and "KEY" when used together while creating a table

A key is just a normal index. A way over simplification is to think of it like a card catalog at a library. It points MySQL in the right direction.

A unique key is also used for improved searching speed, but it has the constraint that there can be no duplicated items (there are no two x and y where x is not y and x == y).

The manual explains it as follows:

A UNIQUE index creates a constraint such that all values in the index must be distinct. An error occurs if you try to add a new row with a key value that matches an existing row. This constraint does not apply to NULL values except for the BDB storage engine. For other engines, a UNIQUE index permits multiple NULL values for columns that can contain NULL. If you specify a prefix value for a column in a UNIQUE index, the column values must be unique within the prefix.

A primary key is a 'special' unique key. It basically is a unique key, except that it's used to identify something.

The manual explains how indexes are used in general: here.

In MSSQL, the concepts are similar. There are indexes, unique constraints and primary keys.

Untested, but I believe the MSSQL equivalent is:

CREATE TABLE tmp (
  id int NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY IDENTITY,
  uid varchar(255) NOT NULL CONSTRAINT uid_unique UNIQUE,
  name varchar(255) NOT NULL,
  tag int NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
  description varchar(255),
);

CREATE INDEX idx_name ON tmp (name);
CREATE INDEX idx_tag ON tmp (tag);

Edit: the code above is tested to be correct; however, I suspect that there's a much better syntax for doing it. Been a while since I've used SQL server, and apparently I've forgotten quite a bit :).

Having links relative to root?

If you are creating the URL from the server side of an ASP.NET application, and deploying your website to a virtual directory (e.g. app2) in your website i.e. http://www.yourwebsite.com/app2/

then just insert

<base href="~/" />

just after the title tag.

so whenever you use root relative e.g.

<a href="/Accounts/Login"/> 

would resolve to "http://www.yourwebsite.com/app2/Accounts/Login"

This way you can always point to your files relatively-absolutely ;)

To me this is the most flexible solution.

How to return a complex JSON response with Node.js?

On express 3 you can use directly res.json({foo:bar})

res.json({ msgId: msg.fileName })

See the documentation

In c# what does 'where T : class' mean?

'T' represents a generic type. It means it can accept any type of class. The following article might help:

http://www.15seconds.com/issue/031024.htm

How to make an autocomplete address field with google maps api?

I really doubt it--google maps API is great for geocoding known addresses, but it generally return data that is suitable for autocomplete-style operations. Nevermind the challenge of not hitting the API in such a way as to eat up your geocoding query limit very quickly.

How to import data from one sheet to another

Saw this thread while looking for something else and I know it is super old, but I wanted to add my 2 cents.

NEVER USE VLOOKUP. It's one of the worst performing formulas in excel. Use index match instead. It even works without sorting data, unless you have a -1 or 1 in the end of the match formula (explained more below)

Here is a link with the appropriate formulas.

The Sheet 2 formula would be this: =IF(A2="","",INDEX(Sheet1!B:B,MATCH($A2,Sheet1!$A:$A,0)))

  • IF(A2="","", means if A2 is blank, return a blank value
  • INDEX(Sheet1!B:B, is saying INDEX B:B where B:B is the data you want to return. IE the name column.
  • Match(A2, is saying to Match A2 which is the ID you want to return the Name for.
  • Sheet1!A:A, is saying you want to match A2 to the ID column in the previous sheet
  • ,0)) is specifying you want an exact value. 0 means return an exact match to A2, -1 means return smallest value greater than or equal to A2, 1 means return the largest value that is less than or equal to A2. Keep in mind -1 and 1 have to be sorted.

More information on the Index/Match formula

Other fun facts: $ means absolute in a formula. So if you specify $B$1 when filling a formula down or over keeps that same value. If you over $B1, the B remains the same across the formula, but if you fill down, the 1 increases with the row count. Likewise, if you used B$1, filling to the right will increment the B, but keep the reference of row 1.

I also included the use of indirect in the second section. What indirect does is allow you to use the text of another cell in a formula. Since I created a named range sheet1!A:A = ID, sheet1!B:B = Name, and sheet1!C:C=Price, I can use the column name to have the exact same formula, but it uses the column heading to change the search criteria.

Good luck! Hope this helps.

Python str vs unicode types

Unicode and encodings are completely different, unrelated things.

Unicode

Assigns a numeric ID to each character:

  • 0x41 ? A
  • 0xE1 ? á
  • 0x414 ? ?

So, Unicode assigns the number 0x41 to A, 0xE1 to á, and 0x414 to ?.

Even the little arrow ? I used has its Unicode number, it's 0x2192. And even emojis have their Unicode numbers, is 0x1F602.

You can look up the Unicode numbers of all characters in this table. In particular, you can find the first three characters above here, the arrow here, and the emoji here.

These numbers assigned to all characters by Unicode are called code points.

The purpose of all this is to provide a means to unambiguously refer to a each character. For example, if I'm talking about , instead of saying "you know, this laughing emoji with tears", I can just say, Unicode code point 0x1F602. Easier, right?

Note that Unicode code points are usually formatted with a leading U+, then the hexadecimal numeric value padded to at least 4 digits. So, the above examples would be U+0041, U+00E1, U+0414, U+2192, U+1F602.

Unicode code points range from U+0000 to U+10FFFF. That is 1,114,112 numbers. 2048 of these numbers are used for surrogates, thus, there remain 1,112,064. This means, Unicode can assign a unique ID (code point) to 1,112,064 distinct characters. Not all of these code points are assigned to a character yet, and Unicode is extended continuously (for example, when new emojis are introduced).

The important thing to remember is that all Unicode does is to assign a numerical ID, called code point, to each character for easy and unambiguous reference.

Encodings

Map characters to bit patterns.

These bit patterns are used to represent the characters in computer memory or on disk.

There are many different encodings that cover different subsets of characters. In the English-speaking world, the most common encodings are the following:

ASCII

Maps 128 characters (code points U+0000 to U+007F) to bit patterns of length 7.

Example:

  • a ? 1100001 (0x61)

You can see all the mappings in this table.

ISO 8859-1 (aka Latin-1)

Maps 191 characters (code points U+0020 to U+007E and U+00A0 to U+00FF) to bit patterns of length 8.

Example:

  • a ? 01100001 (0x61)
  • á ? 11100001 (0xE1)

You can see all the mappings in this table.

UTF-8

Maps 1,112,064 characters (all existing Unicode code points) to bit patterns of either length 8, 16, 24, or 32 bits (that is, 1, 2, 3, or 4 bytes).

Example:

  • a ? 01100001 (0x61)
  • á ? 11000011 10100001 (0xC3 0xA1)
  • ? ? 11100010 10001001 10100000 (0xE2 0x89 0xA0)
  • ? 11110000 10011111 10011000 10000010 (0xF0 0x9F 0x98 0x82)

The way UTF-8 encodes characters to bit strings is very well described here.

Unicode and Encodings

Looking at the above examples, it becomes clear how Unicode is useful.

For example, if I'm Latin-1 and I want to explain my encoding of á, I don't need to say:

"I encode that a with an aigu (or however you call that rising bar) as 11100001"

But I can just say:

"I encode U+00E1 as 11100001"

And if I'm UTF-8, I can say:

"Me, in turn, I encode U+00E1 as 11000011 10100001"

And it's unambiguously clear to everybody which character we mean.

Now to the often arising confusion

It's true that sometimes the bit pattern of an encoding, if you interpret it as a binary number, is the same as the Unicode code point of this character.

For example:

  • ASCII encodes a as 1100001, which you can interpret as the hexadecimal number 0x61, and the Unicode code point of a is U+0061.
  • Latin-1 encodes á as 11100001, which you can interpret as the hexadecimal number 0xE1, and the Unicode code point of á is U+00E1.

Of course, this has been arranged like this on purpose for convenience. But you should look at it as a pure coincidence. The bit pattern used to represent a character in memory is not tied in any way to the Unicode code point of this character.

Nobody even says that you have to interpret a bit string like 11100001 as a binary number. Just look at it as the sequence of bits that Latin-1 uses to encode the character á.

Back to your question

The encoding used by your Python interpreter is UTF-8.

Here's what's going on in your examples:

Example 1

The following encodes the character á in UTF-8. This results in the bit string 11000011 10100001, which is saved in the variable a.

>>> a = 'á'

When you look at the value of a, its content 11000011 10100001 is formatted as the hex number 0xC3 0xA1 and output as '\xc3\xa1':

>>> a
'\xc3\xa1'

Example 2

The following saves the Unicode code point of á, which is U+00E1, in the variable ua (we don't know which data format Python uses internally to represent the code point U+00E1 in memory, and it's unimportant to us):

>>> ua = u'á'

When you look at the value of ua, Python tells you that it contains the code point U+00E1:

>>> ua
u'\xe1'

Example 3

The following encodes Unicode code point U+00E1 (representing character á) with UTF-8, which results in the bit pattern 11000011 10100001. Again, for output this bit pattern is represented as the hex number 0xC3 0xA1:

>>> ua.encode('utf-8')
'\xc3\xa1'

Example 4

The following encodes Unicode code point U+00E1 (representing character á) with Latin-1, which results in the bit pattern 11100001. For output, this bit pattern is represented as the hex number 0xE1, which by coincidence is the same as the initial code point U+00E1:

>>> ua.encode('latin1')
'\xe1'

There's no relation between the Unicode object ua and the Latin-1 encoding. That the code point of á is U+00E1 and the Latin-1 encoding of á is 0xE1 (if you interpret the bit pattern of the encoding as a binary number) is a pure coincidence.

Filtering DataGridView without changing datasource

I have a clearer proposal on automatic search in a DataGridView

this is an example

private void searchTb_TextChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        try
        {
            (lecteurdgview.DataSource as DataTable).DefaultView.RowFilter = String.IsNullOrEmpty(searchTb.Text) ?
                "lename IS NOT NULL" :
                String.Format("lename LIKE '{0}' OR lecni LIKE '{1}' OR ledatenais LIKE '{2}' OR lelieu LIKE '{3}'", searchTb.Text, searchTb.Text, searchTb.Text, searchTb.Text);
        }
        catch (Exception ex) {
            MessageBox.Show(ex.StackTrace);
        }
    }

Property 'catch' does not exist on type 'Observable<any>'

In angular 8:

//for catch:
import { catchError } from 'rxjs/operators';

//for throw:
import { Observable, throwError } from 'rxjs';

//and code should be written like this.

getEmployees(): Observable<IEmployee[]> {
    return this.http.get<IEmployee[]>(this.url).pipe(catchError(this.erroHandler));
  }

  erroHandler(error: HttpErrorResponse) {
    return throwError(error.message || 'server Error');
  }

What's the difference between ConcurrentHashMap and Collections.synchronizedMap(Map)?

For your needs, use ConcurrentHashMap. It allows concurrent modification of the Map from several threads without the need to block them. Collections.synchronizedMap(map) creates a blocking Map which will degrade performance, albeit ensure consistency (if used properly).

Use the second option if you need to ensure data consistency, and each thread needs to have an up-to-date view of the map. Use the first if performance is critical, and each thread only inserts data to the map, with reads happening less frequently.

Bootstrap change div order with pull-right, pull-left on 3 columns

Try this...

<div class="row">
    <div class="col-xs-3">
        Menu
    </div>
    <div class="col-xs-9">
        <div class="row">
          <div class="col-sm-4 col-sm-push-8">
          Right content
          </div>
          <div class="col-sm-8 col-sm-pull-4">
          Content
          </div>
       </div>
    </div>
</div>

Bootply

Box-Shadow on the left side of the element only

This question is very, very, very old, but as a trick in the future, I recommend something like this:

.element{
    box-shadow: 0px 0px 10px #232931;
}
.container{
    height: 100px;
    width: 100px;
    overflow: hidden;
}

Basically, you have a box shadow and then wrapping the element in a div with its overflow set to hidden. You'll need to adjust the height, width, and even padding of the div to only show the left box shadow, but it works. See here for an example If you look at the example, you can see how there's no other shadows, but only a black left shadow. Edit: this is a retake of the same screen shot, in case some one thinks that I just cropped out the right. You can find it here

What is the best way to create and populate a numbers table?

For anyone looking for an Azure solution

SET NOCOUNT ON    
CREATE TABLE Numbers (n bigint PRIMARY KEY)    
GO    
DECLARE @numbers table(number int);  
WITH numbers(number) as  (   
SELECT 1 AS number   
UNION all   
SELECT number+1 FROM numbers WHERE number<10000  
)  
INSERT INTO @numbers(number)  
SELECT number FROM numbers OPTION(maxrecursion 10000)
INSERT INTO Numbers(n)  SELECT number FROM @numbers

Sourced from the sql azure team blog http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2010/09/16/create-a-numbers-table-in-sql-azure/

Increase max execution time for php

Try to set a longer max_execution_time:

<IfModule mod_php5.c>
    php_value max_execution_time 300
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_php7.c>
    php_value max_execution_time 300
</IfModule>

Regex to extract URLs from href attribute in HTML with Python

The best answer is...

Don't use a regex

The expression in the accepted answer misses many cases. Among other things, URLs can have unicode characters in them. The regex you want is here, and after looking at it, you may conclude that you don't really want it after all. The most correct version is ten-thousand characters long.

Admittedly, if you were starting with plain, unstructured text with a bunch of URLs in it, then you might need that ten-thousand-character-long regex. But if your input is structured, use the structure. Your stated aim is to "extract the url, inside the anchor tag's href." Why use a ten-thousand-character-long regex when you can do something much simpler?

Parse the HTML instead

For many tasks, using Beautiful Soup will be far faster and easier to use:

>>> from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as Soup
>>> html = Soup(s, 'html.parser')           # Soup(s, 'lxml') if lxml is installed
>>> [a['href'] for a in html.find_all('a')]
['http://example.com', 'http://example2.com']

If you prefer not to use external tools, you can also directly use Python's own built-in HTML parsing library. Here's a really simple subclass of HTMLParser that does exactly what you want:

from html.parser import HTMLParser

class MyParser(HTMLParser):
    def __init__(self, output_list=None):
        HTMLParser.__init__(self)
        if output_list is None:
            self.output_list = []
        else:
            self.output_list = output_list
    def handle_starttag(self, tag, attrs):
        if tag == 'a':
            self.output_list.append(dict(attrs).get('href'))

Test:

>>> p = MyParser()
>>> p.feed(s)
>>> p.output_list
['http://example.com', 'http://example2.com']

You could even create a new method that accepts a string, calls feed, and returns output_list. This is a vastly more powerful and extensible way than regular expressions to extract information from html.

Escaping single quotes in JavaScript string for JavaScript evaluation

Best to use JSON.stringify() to cover all your bases, like backslashes and other special characters. Here's your original function with that in place instead of modifying strInputString:

function testEscape() {
    var strResult = "";
    var strInputString = "fsdsd'4565sd";

    var strTest = "strResult = " + JSON.stringify(strInputString) + ";";
    eval(strTest);
    alert(strResult);
}

(This way your strInputString could be something like \\\'\"'"''\\abc'\ and it will still work fine.)

Note that it adds its own surrounding double-quotes, so you don't need to include single quotes anymore.

Spring @Transactional read-only propagation

Calling readOnly=false from readOnly=true doesn't work since the previous transaction continues.

In your example, the handle() method on your service layer is starting a new read-write transaction. If the handle method in turn calls service methods that annotated read-only, the read-only will take no effect as they will participate in the existing read-write transaction instead.

If it is essential for those methods to be read-only, then you can annotate them with Propagation.REQUIRES_NEW, and they will then start a new read-only transaction rather than participate in the existing read-write transaction.

Here is a worked example, CircuitStateRepository is a spring-data JPA repository.

BeanS calls a transactional=read-only Bean1, which does a lookup and calls transactional=read-write Bean2 which saves a new object.

  • Bean1 starts a read-only tx.

31 09:39:44.199 [pool-1-thread-1] DEBUG o.s.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager - Creating new transaction with name [nz.co.vodafone.wcim.business.Bean1.startSomething]: PROPAGATION_REQUIRED,ISOLATION_DEFAULT,readOnly; ''

  • Bean 2 pariticipates in it.

    31 09:39:44.230 [pool-1-thread-1] DEBUG o.s.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager - Participating in existing transaction

    Nothing is committed to the database.

Now change Bean2 @Transactional annotation to add propagation=Propagation.REQUIRES_NEW

  • Bean1 starts a read-only tx.

    31 09:31:36.418 [pool-1-thread-1] DEBUG o.s.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager - Creating new transaction with name [nz.co.vodafone.wcim.business.Bean1.startSomething]: PROPAGATION_REQUIRED,ISOLATION_DEFAULT,readOnly; ''

  • Bean2 starts a new read-write tx

    31 09:31:36.449 [pool-1-thread-1] DEBUG o.s.orm.jpa.JpaTransactionManager - Suspending current transaction, creating new transaction with name [nz.co.vodafone.wcim.business.Bean2.createSomething]

And the changes made by Bean2 are now committed to the database.

Here's the example, tested with spring-data, hibernate and oracle.

@Named
public class BeanS {    
    @Inject
    Bean1 bean1;

    @Scheduled(fixedRate = 20000)
    public void runSomething() {
        bean1.startSomething();
    }
}

@Named
@Transactional(readOnly = true)
public class Bean1 {    
    Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Bean1.class);

    @Inject
    private CircuitStateRepository csr;

    @Inject
    private Bean2 bean2;

    public void startSomething() {    
        Iterable<CircuitState> s = csr.findAll();
        CircuitState c = s.iterator().next();
        log.info("GOT CIRCUIT {}", c.getCircuitId());
        bean2.createSomething(c.getCircuitId());    
    }
}

@Named
@Transactional(readOnly = false)
public class Bean2 {    
    @Inject
    CircuitStateRepository csr;

    public void createSomething(String circuitId) {
        CircuitState c = new CircuitState(circuitId + "-New-" + new DateTime().toString("hhmmss"), new DateTime());

        csr.save(c);
     }
}

How to create a box when mouse over text in pure CSS?

You can also do it by toggling between display: block on hover and display:none without hover to produce the effect.

How to get the current date and time of your timezone in Java?

Here are some steps for finding Time for your zone:

Date now = new Date();

 DateFormat df = new SimpleDateFormat("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss");  
 df.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Europe/London"));  

 System.out.println("timeZone.......-->>>>>>"+df.format(now));  

Difference between try-catch and throw in java

  • The try block will execute a sensitive code which can throw exceptions
  • The catch block will be used whenever an exception (of the type caught) is thrown in the try block
  • The finally block is called in every case after the try/catch blocks. Even if the exception isn't caught or if your previous blocks break the execution flow.
  • The throw keyword will allow you to throw an exception (which will break the execution flow and can be caught in a catch block).
  • The throws keyword in the method prototype is used to specify that your method might throw exceptions of the specified type. It's useful when you have checked exception (exception that you have to handle) that you don't want to catch in your current method.

Resources :


On another note, you should really accept some answers. If anyone encounter the same problems as you and find your questions, he/she will be happy to directly see the right answer to the question.

JPA CriteriaBuilder - How to use "IN" comparison operator

If I understand well, you want to Join ScheduleRequest with User and apply the in clause to the userName property of the entity User.

I'd need to work a bit on this schema. But you can try with this trick, that is much more readable than the code you posted, and avoids the Join part (because it handles the Join logic outside the Criteria Query).

List<String> myList = new ArrayList<String> ();
for (User u : usersList) {
    myList.add(u.getUsername());
}
Expression<String> exp = scheduleRequest.get("createdBy");
Predicate predicate = exp.in(myList);
criteria.where(predicate);

In order to write more type-safe code you could also use Metamodel by replacing this line:

Expression<String> exp = scheduleRequest.get("createdBy");

with this:

Expression<String> exp = scheduleRequest.get(ScheduleRequest_.createdBy);

If it works, then you may try to add the Join logic into the Criteria Query. But right now I can't test it, so I prefer to see if somebody else wants to try.


Not a perfect answer though may be code snippets might help.

public <T> List<T> findListWhereInCondition(Class<T> clazz,
            String conditionColumnName, Serializable... conditionColumnValues) {
        QueryBuilder<T> queryBuilder = new QueryBuilder<T>(clazz);
        addWhereInClause(queryBuilder, conditionColumnName,
                conditionColumnValues);
        queryBuilder.select();
        return queryBuilder.getResultList();

    }


private <T> void addWhereInClause(QueryBuilder<T> queryBuilder,
            String conditionColumnName, Serializable... conditionColumnValues) {

        Path<Object> path = queryBuilder.root.get(conditionColumnName);
        In<Object> in = queryBuilder.criteriaBuilder.in(path);
        for (Serializable conditionColumnValue : conditionColumnValues) {
            in.value(conditionColumnValue);
        }
        queryBuilder.criteriaQuery.where(in);

    }

PHP isset() with multiple parameters

You just need:

if (!empty($_POST['search_term']) && !empty($_POST['postcode']))

isset && !empty is redundant.

How to remove selected commit log entries from a Git repository while keeping their changes?

I find this process much safer and easier to understand by creating another branch from the SHA1 of A and cherry-picking the desired changes so I can make sure I'm satisfied with how this new branch looks. After that, it is easy to remove the old branch and rename the new one.

git checkout <SHA1 of A>
git log #verify looks good
git checkout -b rework
git cherry-pick <SHA1 of D>
....
git log #verify looks good
git branch -D <oldbranch>
git branch -m rework <oldbranch>

How to get JSON object from Razor Model object in javascript

If You want make json object from yor model do like this :

  foreach (var item in Persons)
   {
    var jsonObj=["FirstName":"@item.FirstName"]
   }

Or Use Json.Net to make json from your model :

string json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(person);

Capture screenshot of active window?

Rectangle bounds = Screen.GetBounds(Point.Empty);
using(Bitmap bitmap = new Bitmap(bounds.Width, bounds.Height))
{
    using(Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(bitmap))
    {
         g.CopyFromScreen(Point.Empty, Point.Empty, bounds.Size);
    }
    bitmap.Save("test.jpg", ImageFormat.Jpeg);
}

for capturing current window use

 Rectangle bounds = this.Bounds;
 using (Bitmap bitmap = new Bitmap(bounds.Width, bounds.Height))
 {
    using (Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(bitmap))
    {
        g.CopyFromScreen(new Point(bounds.Left,bounds.Top), Point.Empty, bounds.Size);
    }
    bitmap.Save("C://test.jpg", ImageFormat.Jpeg);
 }

Eclipse C++: Symbol 'std' could not be resolved

The problem you are reporting seems to me caused by the following:

  1. you are trying to compile C code and the source file has .cpp extension
  2. you are trying to compile C++ code and the source file has .c extension

In such situation Eclipse cannot recognize the proper compiler to use.

How to correctly get image from 'Resources' folder in NetBeans

Thanks, Valter Henrique, with your tip i managed to realise, that i simply entered incorrect path to this image. In one of my tries i use

    String pathToImageSortBy = "resources/testDataIcons/filling.png";
    ImageIcon SortByIcon = new ImageIcon(getClass().getClassLoader().getResource(pathToImageSortBy));

But correct way was use name of my project in path to resource

String pathToImageSortBy = "nameOfProject/resources/testDataIcons/filling.png";
ImageIcon SortByIcon = new ImageIcon(getClass().getClassLoader().getResource(pathToImageSortBy));

Clear android application user data

This command worked for me:

adb shell pm clear packageName

Array of PHP Objects

Although all the answers given are correct, in fact they do not completely answer the question which was about using the [] construct and more generally filling the array with objects.

A more relevant answer can be found in how to build arrays of objects in PHP without specifying an index number? which clearly shows how to solve the problem.

cannot be cast to java.lang.Comparable

  • the object which implements Comparable is Fegan.

The method compareTo you are overidding in it should have a Fegan object as a parameter whereas you are casting it to a FoodItems. Your compareTo implementation should describe how a Fegan compare to another Fegan.

  • To actually do your sorting, you might want to make your FoodItems implement Comparable aswell and copy paste your actual compareTo logic in it.

python: sys is not defined

In addition to the answers given above, check the last line of the error message in your console. In my case, the 'site-packages' path in sys.path.append('.....') was wrong.

Jquery check if element is visible in viewport

You can write a jQuery function like this to determine if an element is in the viewport.

Include this somewhere after jQuery is included:

$.fn.isInViewport = function() {
    var elementTop = $(this).offset().top;
    var elementBottom = elementTop + $(this).outerHeight();

    var viewportTop = $(window).scrollTop();
    var viewportBottom = viewportTop + $(window).height();

    return elementBottom > viewportTop && elementTop < viewportBottom;
};

Sample usage:

$(window).on('resize scroll', function() {
    if ($('#Something').isInViewport()) {
        // do something
    } else {
        // do something else
    }
});

Note that this only checks the top and bottom positions of elements, it doesn't check if an element is outside of the viewport horizontally.

How can I count all the lines of code in a directory recursively?

I do it like this:

Here is the lineCount.c file implementation:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int getLinesFromFile(const char*);

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
   int total_lines = 0;
   for(int i = 1; i < argc; ++i) {
       total_lines += getLinesFromFile(argv[i]); // *argv is a char*
   }

   printf("You have a total of %d lines in all your file(s)\n",    total_lines);
   return 0;
}


int getLinesFromFile(const char* file_name) {
    int lines = 0;
    FILE* file;
    file = fopen(file_name, "r");
    char c = ' ';
    while((c = getc(file)) != EOF)
        if(c == '\n')
            ++lines;
    fclose(file);
    return lines;
}

Now open the command line and type gcc lineCount.c. Then type ./a.out *.txt.

This will display the total lines of files ending with .txt in your directory.

What is the effect of extern "C" in C++?

When mixing C and C++ (i.e., a. calling C function from C++; and b. calling C++ function from C), the C++ name mangling causes linking problems. Technically speaking, this issue happens only when the callee functions have been already compiled into binary (most likely, a *.a library file) using the corresponding compiler.

So we need to use extern "C" to disable the name mangling in C++.

Replace multiple strings with multiple other strings

Specific Solution

You can use a function to replace each one.

var str = "I have a cat, a dog, and a goat.";
var mapObj = {
   cat:"dog",
   dog:"goat",
   goat:"cat"
};
str = str.replace(/cat|dog|goat/gi, function(matched){
  return mapObj[matched];
});

jsfiddle example

Generalizing it

If you want to dynamically maintain the regex and just add future exchanges to the map, you can do this

new RegExp(Object.keys(mapObj).join("|"),"gi"); 

to generate the regex. So then it would look like this

var mapObj = {cat:"dog",dog:"goat",goat:"cat"};

var re = new RegExp(Object.keys(mapObj).join("|"),"gi");
str = str.replace(re, function(matched){
  return mapObj[matched];
});

And to add or change any more replacements you could just edit the map. 

fiddle with dynamic regex

Making it Reusable

If you want this to be a general pattern you could pull this out to a function like this

function replaceAll(str,mapObj){
    var re = new RegExp(Object.keys(mapObj).join("|"),"gi");

    return str.replace(re, function(matched){
        return mapObj[matched.toLowerCase()];
    });
}

So then you could just pass the str and a map of the replacements you want to the function and it would return the transformed string.

fiddle with function

To ensure Object.keys works in older browsers, add a polyfill eg from MDN or Es5.

What are the differences between a pointer variable and a reference variable in C++?

Contrary to popular opinion, it is possible to have a reference that is NULL.

int * p = NULL;
int & r = *p;
r = 1;  // crash! (if you're lucky)

Granted, it is much harder to do with a reference - but if you manage it, you'll tear your hair out trying to find it. References are not inherently safe in C++!

Technically this is an invalid reference, not a null reference. C++ doesn't support null references as a concept as you might find in other languages. There are other kinds of invalid references as well. Any invalid reference raises the spectre of undefined behavior, just as using an invalid pointer would.

The actual error is in the dereferencing of the NULL pointer, prior to the assignment to a reference. But I'm not aware of any compilers that will generate any errors on that condition - the error propagates to a point further along in the code. That's what makes this problem so insidious. Most of the time, if you dereference a NULL pointer, you crash right at that spot and it doesn't take much debugging to figure it out.

My example above is short and contrived. Here's a more real-world example.

class MyClass
{
    ...
    virtual void DoSomething(int,int,int,int,int);
};

void Foo(const MyClass & bar)
{
    ...
    bar.DoSomething(i1,i2,i3,i4,i5);  // crash occurs here due to memory access violation - obvious why?
}

MyClass * GetInstance()
{
    if (somecondition)
        return NULL;
    ...
}

MyClass * p = GetInstance();
Foo(*p);

I want to reiterate that the only way to get a null reference is through malformed code, and once you have it you're getting undefined behavior. It never makes sense to check for a null reference; for example you can try if(&bar==NULL)... but the compiler might optimize the statement out of existence! A valid reference can never be NULL so from the compiler's view the comparison is always false, and it is free to eliminate the if clause as dead code - this is the essence of undefined behavior.

The proper way to stay out of trouble is to avoid dereferencing a NULL pointer to create a reference. Here's an automated way to accomplish this.

template<typename T>
T& deref(T* p)
{
    if (p == NULL)
        throw std::invalid_argument(std::string("NULL reference"));
    return *p;
}

MyClass * p = GetInstance();
Foo(deref(p));

For an older look at this problem from someone with better writing skills, see Null References from Jim Hyslop and Herb Sutter.

For another example of the dangers of dereferencing a null pointer see Exposing undefined behavior when trying to port code to another platform by Raymond Chen.

How do I get formatted JSON in .NET using C#?

You are going to have a hard time accomplishing this with JavaScriptSerializer.

Try JSON.Net.

With minor modifications from JSON.Net example

using System;
using Newtonsoft.Json;

namespace JsonPrettyPrint
{
    internal class Program
    {
        private static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            Product product = new Product
                {
                    Name = "Apple",
                    Expiry = new DateTime(2008, 12, 28),
                    Price = 3.99M,
                    Sizes = new[] { "Small", "Medium", "Large" }
                };

            string json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(product, Formatting.Indented);
            Console.WriteLine(json);

            Product deserializedProduct = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Product>(json);
        }
    }

    internal class Product
    {
        public String[] Sizes { get; set; }
        public decimal Price { get; set; }
        public DateTime Expiry { get; set; }
        public string Name { get; set; }
    }
}

Results

{
  "Sizes": [
    "Small",
    "Medium",
    "Large"
  ],
  "Price": 3.99,
  "Expiry": "\/Date(1230447600000-0700)\/",
  "Name": "Apple"
}

Documentation: Serialize an Object

Git and nasty "error: cannot lock existing info/refs fatal"

I saw this error when trying to run git filter-branch to detach many subdirectories into a new, separate repository (as in this answer).

I tried all of the above solutions and none of them worked. Eventually, I decided I didn't need to preserve my tags all that badly in the new branch and just ran:

git remote remove origin
git tag | xargs git tag -d
git gc --prune=now
git filter-branch --index-filter 'git rm --cached -qr --ignore-unmatch -- . && git reset -q $GIT_COMMIT -- apps/AAA/ libs/xxx' --prune-empty -- --all

Is there a way to instantiate a class by name in Java?

String str = (String)Class.forName("java.lang.String").newInstance();

make a phone call click on a button

Have you given the permission in the manifest file

 <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CALL_PHONE"></uses-permission>   

and inside your activity

  Intent callIntent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_CALL);
    callIntent.setData(Uri.parse("tel:123456789"));
    startActivity(callIntent);

Let me know if you find any issue.

Disable Auto Zoom in Input "Text" tag - Safari on iPhone

After a while of while trying I came up with this solution

// set font-size to 16px to prevent zoom 
input.addEventListener("mousedown", function (e) {
  e.target.style.fontSize = "16px";
});

// change font-size back to its initial value so the design will not break
input.addEventListener("focus", function (e) {
  e.target.style.fontSize = "";
});

On "mousedown" it sets font-size of input to 16px. This will prevent the zooming. On focus event it changes font-size back to initial value.

Unlike solutions posted before, this will let you set the font-size of the input to whatever you want.

How to convert a date string to different format

I assume I have import datetime before running each of the lines of code below

datetime.datetime.strptime("2013-1-25", '%Y-%m-%d').strftime('%m/%d/%y')

prints "01/25/13".

If you can't live with the leading zero, try this:

dt = datetime.datetime.strptime("2013-1-25", '%Y-%m-%d')
print '{0}/{1}/{2:02}'.format(dt.month, dt.day, dt.year % 100)

This prints "1/25/13".

EDIT: This may not work on every platform:

datetime.datetime.strptime("2013-1-25", '%Y-%m-%d').strftime('%m/%d/%y')

How to install SignTool.exe for Windows 10

to install just the signingtools from the winsdksetup.exe (available at the same url as the windows sdk iso mentioned above) this is an option to, straight from the Dockerfile i'm working in: RUN powershell Start-Process winsdksetup.exe -ArgumentList '/features OptionId.SigningTools', '/q', '/ceip off', '/norestart', -NoNewWindow -Wait

so if you're in windows then that'd be: winsdksetup.exe /features OptionId.SigningTools

winsdksetup /h gives you the options, so i won't summarise them here. I include the dockerfile snippet, as that is what i started my day looking for the solution for.

How to replace existing value of ArrayList element in Java

You must use

list.remove(indexYouWantToReplace);

first.

Your elements will become like this. [zero, one, three]

then add this

list.add(indexYouWantedToReplace, newElement)

Your elements will become like this. [zero, one, new, three]

TypeError: 'dict_keys' object does not support indexing

You're passing the result of somedict.keys() to the function. In Python 3, dict.keys doesn't return a list, but a set-like object that represents a view of the dictionary's keys and (being set-like) doesn't support indexing.

To fix the problem, use list(somedict.keys()) to collect the keys, and work with that.

How to specify jackson to only use fields - preferably globally

If you use Spring Boot, you can configure Jackson globally as follows:

import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonAutoDetect;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.PropertyAccessor;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.jackson.Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilderCustomizer;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.http.converter.json.Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder;

@Configuration
public class JacksonObjectMapperConfiguration implements Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilderCustomizer {

    @Override
    public void customize(Jackson2ObjectMapperBuilder jacksonObjectMapperBuilder) {
        jacksonObjectMapperBuilder.visibility(PropertyAccessor.ALL, JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.NONE);
        jacksonObjectMapperBuilder.visibility(PropertyAccessor.FIELD, JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.ANY);
        jacksonObjectMapperBuilder.visibility(PropertyAccessor.CREATOR, JsonAutoDetect.Visibility.ANY);
    }

}

What's alternative to angular.copy in Angular

I as well as you faced a problem of work angular.copy and angular.expect because they do not copy the object or create the object without adding some dependencies. My solution was this:

  copyFactory = (() ->
    resource = ->
      resource.__super__.constructor.apply this, arguments
      return
    this.extendTo resource
    resource
  ).call(factory)

How can I specify a display?

Please do NOT try to set $DISPLAY manually when connecting over SSH.
If you connect via SSH -X and $DISPLAY stays empty, this usually means that no encrypted channel could be established.

Most likely you are missing the package xauth or xorg-x11-xauth. Try to install it on the remote machine using:

sudo apt-get install xauth

or

sudo apt-get install xorg-x11-xauth

After that end and restart your SSH connection. Don't forget to use SSH -X so that X Window output is forwarded to your local machine.

Now try echo $DISPLAYagain to see if $DISPLAY has been set automatically by the SSH demon. It should show you a line with an IP address and a port.

Get number days in a specified month using JavaScript?

// Month here is 1-indexed (January is 1, February is 2, etc). This is
// because we're using 0 as the day so that it returns the last day
// of the last month, so you have to add 1 to the month number 
// so it returns the correct amount of days
function daysInMonth (month, year) {
    return new Date(year, month, 0).getDate();
}

// July
daysInMonth(7,2009); // 31
// February
daysInMonth(2,2009); // 28
daysInMonth(2,2008); // 29

How to install Java 8 on Mac

I just did this on my MBP, and had to use

$ brew tap homebrew/cask-versions
$ brew cask install java8

in order to get java8 to install.

Convert boolean to int in Java

int myInt = myBoolean ? 1 : 0;

^^

PS : true = 1 and false = 0

How to remove index.php from URLs?

I tried everything on the post but nothing had worked. I then changed the .htaccess snippet that ErJab put up to read:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ 'folder_name'/index.php/$1 [L]

The above line fixed it for me. where *folder_name* is the magento root folder.

Hope this helps!

Java error: Comparison method violates its general contract

I had to sort on several criterion (date, and, if same date; other things...). What was working on Eclipse with an older version of Java, did not worked any more on Android : comparison method violates contract ...

After reading on StackOverflow, I wrote a separate function that I called from compare() if the dates are the same. This function calculates the priority, according to the criteria, and returns -1, 0, or 1 to compare(). It seems to work now.

Remove gutter space for a specific div only

Update : link for TWBS 3 getbootstrap.com/customize/#grid-system


Twitter Bootstrap offers a customize form to download all or some components with custom configuration.

You can use this form to download a grid without gutters, and it will be responsive - you only need the grid component and the responsive ones concerning the width.

Demo (jsfiddle) custom grid

If you know a little about LESS, then you can include the generated CSS in a selector of your choice.

/* LESS */
.some-thing {
    /* The custom grid
      ...
    */
}

If not, you should add this selector in front of each rule (not that much anyway).


If you know LESS and use the LESS scripts to manage your styles, you might want to use directly the Grid mixins v2 (github)

Grid mixins v3 (github)

How do I get the base URL with PHP?

$http = isset($_SERVER['HTTPS']) && $_SERVER['HTTPS'] == 'on'? "https://" : "http://";

$url = $http . $_SERVER["SERVER_NAME"] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

python: order a list of numbers without built-in sort, min, max function

Since complexity doesn’t matter, I present to you...BogoSort:

from random import shuffle

def is_sorted(ls):
    for idx in range(len(ls)-1):
        if x[idx] > x[idx + 1]:
          return False
    return True

def sort(ls):
    while not is_sorted(ls):
        shuffle(ls)
    return ls


ls = list(range(5))
shuffle(ls)

print(
    "Original: ",
    ls
)

print(
    "Sorted: ",
    sorted(ls)
)

What is "android:allowBackup"?

It is privacy concern. It is recommended to disallow users to backup an app if it contains sensitive data. Having access to backup files (i.e. when android:allowBackup="true"), it is possible to modify/read the content of an app even on a non-rooted device.

Solution - use android:allowBackup="false" in the manifest file.

You can read this post to have more information: Hacking Android Apps Using Backup Techniques

jquery getting post action url

$('#signup').on("submit", function(event) {
    $form = $(this); //wrap this in jQuery

    alert('the action is: ' + $form.attr('action'));
});

Bash script to calculate time elapsed

try using time with the elapsed seconds option:

/usr/bin/time -f%e sleep 1 under bash.

or \time -f%e sleep 1 in interactive bash.

see the time man page:

Users of the bash shell need to use an explicit path in order to run the external time command and not the shell builtin variant. On system where time is installed in /usr/bin, the first example would become /usr/bin/time wc /etc/hosts

and

FORMATTING THE OUTPUT
...
    %      A literal '%'.
    e      Elapsed  real  (wall  clock) time used by the process, in
                 seconds.

Stratified Train/Test-split in scikit-learn

#train_size is 1 - tst_size - vld_size
tst_size=0.15
vld_size=0.15

X_train_test, X_valid, y_train_test, y_valid = train_test_split(df.drop(y, axis=1), df.y, test_size = vld_size, random_state=13903) 

X_train_test_V=pd.DataFrame(X_train_test)
X_valid=pd.DataFrame(X_valid)

X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(X_train_test, y_train_test, test_size=tst_size, random_state=13903)

Why does 2 mod 4 = 2?

MOD is remainder operator. That is why 2 mod 4 gives 2 as remainder. 4*0=0 and then 2-0=2. To make it more clear try to do same with 6 mod 4 or 8 mod 3.

How do I run a Java program from the command line on Windows?

Since Java 11, java command line tool has been able to run a single-file source-code directly. e.g.

java HelloWorld.java

This was an enhancement with JEP 330: https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/330

For the details of the usage and the limitations, see the manual of your Java implementation such as one provided by Oracle: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/11/tools/java.html

html table span entire width?

Just FYI:

html should be table & width:100%. span should be margin: auto;

How do I activate a Spring Boot profile when running from IntelliJ?

Try this. Edit your build.gradle file as followed.

ext { profile = project.hasProperty('profile') ? project['profile'] : 'local' }

Set proxy through windows command line including login parameters

The best way around this is (and many other situations) in my experience, is to use cntlm which is a local no-authentication proxy which points to a remote authentication proxy. You can then just set WinHTTP to point to your local CNTLM (usually localhost:3128), and you can set CNTLM itself to point to the remote authentication proxy. CNTLM has a "magic NTLM dialect detection" option which generates password hashes to be put into the CNTLM configuration files.

Check if a string contains another string

Building on Rene's answer, you could also write a function that returned either TRUE if the substring was present, or FALSE if it wasn't:

Public Function Contains(strBaseString As String, strSearchTerm As String) As Boolean
'Purpose: Returns TRUE if one string exists within another
On Error GoTo ErrorMessage
    Contains = InStr(strBaseString, strSearchTerm)
Exit Function
ErrorMessage:
MsgBox "The database has generated an error. Please contact the database administrator, quoting the following error message: '" & Err.Description & "'", vbCritical, "Database Error"
End
End Function

Unable to install packages in latest version of RStudio and R Version.3.1.1

Most of the time @cer solution works but if in case its not working then try installing it in base R (NOT in R studio). As R studio runs base R executable in background so new package will be available in R studio as well. [my experience in macOS]

jQuery - Getting form values for ajax POST

you can use val function to collect data from inputs:

jQuery("#myInput1").val();

http://api.jquery.com/val/

Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, using more than one user name, are not allowed

In our network I have found that restarting the Workstation service on the client computer is able to resolve this problem. This has worked in cases where a reboot of the client would also fix the problem. But restarting the service is much quicker & easier [and may work when a reboot does not].

My impression is that the local Windows PC is caching some old information and this seems to clear it out.

For information on restarting a service, see this question. It boils down to running the following commands on a command line:

C:\> net stop workstation /y
C:\> net start workstation

Note - the /y flag will force the service to stop even if this will interrupt existing connections. But otherwise it will prompt the user and wait. So this may be necessary for scripting.


Be aware that on Windows Server 2016 (+ possibly others) these commands may also stop the netlogon service. If so you will have to add: net start netlogon

Change Row background color based on cell value DataTable

The equivalent syntax since DataTables 1.10+ is rowCallback

"rowCallback": function( row, data, index ) {
    if ( data[2] == "5" )
    {
        $('td', row).css('background-color', 'Red');
    }
    else if ( data[2] == "4" )
    {
        $('td', row).css('background-color', 'Orange');
    }
}

One of the previous answers mentions createdRow. That may give similar results under some conditions, but it is not the same. For example, if you use draw() after updating a row's data, createdRow will not run. It only runs once. rowCallback will run again.

How can I get column names from a table in Oracle?

Came across this question looking for access to column names on Teradata, so I'll add the answer for their 'flavour' of SQL:

SELECT ColumnName
FROM DBC.Columns
WHERE DatabaseName='DBASE_NAME'
AND TableName='TABLE_NAME';

The info is stored in the DBC dbase.

Getting data types is a little bit more involved: Get column type using teradata system tables

Excel VBA Open workbook, perform actions, save as, close

I'll try and answer several different things, however my contribution may not cover all of your questions. Maybe several of us can take different chunks out of this. However, this info should be helpful for you. Here we go..

Opening A Seperate File:

ChDir "[Path here]"                          'get into the right folder here
Workbooks.Open Filename:= "[Path here]"      'include the filename in this path

'copy data into current workbook or whatever you want here

ActiveWindow.Close                          'closes out the file

Opening A File With Specified Date If It Exists:

I'm not sure how to search your directory to see if a file exists, but in my case I wouldn't bother to search for it, I'd just try to open it and put in some error checking so that if it doesn't exist then display this message or do xyz.

Some common error checking statements:

On Error Resume Next   'if error occurs continues on to the next line (ignores it)

ChDir "[Path here]"                         
Workbooks.Open Filename:= "[Path here]"      'try to open file here

Or (better option):

if one doesn't exist then bring up either a message box or dialogue box to say "the file does not exist, would you like to create a new one?

you would most likely want to use the GoTo ErrorHandler shown below to achieve this

On Error GoTo ErrorHandler:

ChDir "[Path here]"                         
Workbooks.Open Filename:= "[Path here]"      'try to open file here

ErrorHandler:
'Display error message or any code you want to run on error here

Much more info on Error handling here: http://www.cpearson.com/excel/errorhandling.htm


Also if you want to learn more or need to know more generally in VBA I would recommend Siddharth Rout's site, he has lots of tutorials and example code here: http://www.siddharthrout.com/vb-dot-net-and-excel/

Hope this helps!


Example on how to ensure error code doesn't run EVERYtime:

if you debug through the code without the Exit Sub BEFORE the error handler you'll soon realize the error handler will be run everytime regarldess of if there is an error or not. The link below the code example shows a previous answer to this question.

  Sub Macro

    On Error GoTo ErrorHandler:

    ChDir "[Path here]"                         
    Workbooks.Open Filename:= "[Path here]"      'try to open file here

    Exit Sub      'Code will exit BEFORE ErrorHandler if everything goes smoothly
                  'Otherwise, on error, ErrorHandler will be run

    ErrorHandler:
    'Display error message or any code you want to run on error here

  End Sub

Also, look at this other question in you need more reference to how this works: goto block not working VBA


How to allow http content within an iframe on a https site

I know this is an old post, but another solution would be to use cURL, for example:

redirect.php:

<?php
if (isset($_GET['url'])) {
    $url = $_GET['url'];
    $ch = curl_init();
    $timeout = 5;
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
    $data = curl_exec($ch);
    curl_close($ch);
    echo $data;
}

then in your iframe tag, something like:

<iframe src="/redirect.php?url=http://www.example.com/"></iframe>

This is just a MINIMAL example to illustrate the idea -- it doesn't sanitize the URL, nor would it prevent someone else using the redirect.php for their own purposes. Consider these things in the context of your own site.

The upside, though, is it's more flexible. For example, you could add some validation of the curl'd $data to make sure it's really what you want before displaying it -- for example, test to make sure it's not a 404, and have alternate content of your own ready if it is.

Plus -- I'm a little weary of relying on Javascript redirects for anything important.

Cheers!

Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64 on Xcode 6.1

this setting worked for me:

  • Architectures=$(ARCHS_STANDARD_32_BIT)
  • Build Active Architecture Only:YES
  • Valid Architectures armv6 armv7 armv7s arm64

What are the special dollar sign shell variables?

  • $1, $2, $3, ... are the positional parameters.
  • "$@" is an array-like construct of all positional parameters, {$1, $2, $3 ...}.
  • "$*" is the IFS expansion of all positional parameters, $1 $2 $3 ....
  • $# is the number of positional parameters.
  • $- current options set for the shell.
  • $$ pid of the current shell (not subshell).
  • $_ most recent parameter (or the abs path of the command to start the current shell immediately after startup).
  • $IFS is the (input) field separator.
  • $? is the most recent foreground pipeline exit status.
  • $! is the PID of the most recent background command.
  • $0 is the name of the shell or shell script.

Most of the above can be found under Special Parameters in the Bash Reference Manual. There are all the environment variables set by the shell.

For a comprehensive index, please see the Reference Manual Variable Index.

JFrame in full screen Java

Values highlighted that I mean:

JFrame - Properties

Test a string for a substring

if "ABCD" in "xxxxABCDyyyy":
    # whatever

HTML image not showing in Gmail

Late to the party but here goes... I have experienced this problem as well and it was solved with the following:

  • Including the scheme in the src url (using "//" does not work - use full scheme EG: "https://")
  • Including width and height attributes
  • Including style="display:block" attribute
  • Including both alt and title attributes

EG:

<img src="https://static.mydomain.com/images/logo.png" alt="Logo" title="Logo" style="display:block" width="200" height="87" />

Convert string to nullable type (int, double, etc...)

There is a generic solution (for any type). Usability is good, but implementation should be improved: http://cleansharp.de/wordpress/2011/05/generischer-typeconverter/

This allows you to write very clean code like this:

string value = null;
int? x = value.ConvertOrDefault<int?>();

and also:

object obj = 1;  

string value = null;
int x = 5;
if (value.TryConvert(out x))
    Console.WriteLine("TryConvert example: " + x); 

bool boolean = "false".ConvertOrDefault<bool>();
bool? nullableBoolean = "".ConvertOrDefault<bool?>();
int integer = obj.ConvertOrDefault<int>();
int negativeInteger = "-12123".ConvertOrDefault<int>();
int? nullableInteger = value.ConvertOrDefault<int?>();
MyEnum enumValue = "SecondValue".ConvertOrDefault<MyEnum>();

MyObjectBase myObject = new MyObjectClassA();
MyObjectClassA myObjectClassA = myObject.ConvertOrDefault<MyObjectClassA>();

EditText non editable

android:editable="false" should work, but it is deprecated, you should be using android:inputType="none" instead.

Alternatively, if you want to do it in the code you could do this :

EditText mEdit = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.yourid);
mEdit.setEnabled(false);

This is also a viable alternative :

EditText mEdit = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.yourid);
mEdit.setKeyListener(null);

If you're going to make your EditText non-editable, may I suggest using the TextView widget instead of the EditText, since using a EditText seems kind of pointless in that case.

EDIT: Altered some information since I've found that android:editable is deprecated, and you should use android:inputType="none", but there is a bug about it on android code; So please check this.

What does API level mean?

API level is basically the Android version. Instead of using the Android version name (eg 2.0, 2.3, 3.0, etc) an integer number is used. This number is increased with each version. Android 1.6 is API Level 4, Android 2.0 is API Level 5, Android 2.0.1 is API Level 6, and so on.

AltGr key not working, instead I have to use Ctrl+AltGr

I found a solution for my problem while writing my question !

Going into my remote session i tried two key combinations, and it solved the problem on my Desktop : Alt+Enter and Ctrl+Enter (i don't know which one solved the problem though)

I tried to reproduce the problem, but i couldn't... but i'm almost sure it's one of the key combinations described in the question above (since i experienced this problem several times)

So it seems the problem comes from the use of RDP (windows7 and 8)

Update 2017: Problem occurs on Windows 10 aswell.

Getting The ASCII Value of a character in a C# string

This example might help you. by using simple casting you can get code behind urdu character.

string str = "?????";
        char ch = ' ';
        int number = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < str.Length; i++)
        {
            ch = str[i];
            number = (int)ch;
            Console.WriteLine(number);
        }

How to prevent a background process from being stopped after closing SSH client in Linux

Append this string to your command: >&- 2>&- <&- &. >&- means close stdout. 2>&- means close stderr. <&- means close stdin. & means run in the background. This works to programmatically start a job via ssh, too:

$ ssh myhost 'sleep 30 >&- 2>&- <&- &'
# ssh returns right away, and your sleep job is running remotely
$

Delete all the records

When the table is very large, it's better to delete table itself with drop table TableName and recreate it, if one has create table query; rather than deleting records one by one, using delete from statement because that can be time consuming.

pandas get rows which are NOT in other dataframe

My way of doing this involves adding a new column that is unique to one dataframe and using this to choose whether to keep an entry

df2[col3] = 1
df1 = pd.merge(df_1, df_2, on=['field_x', 'field_y'], how = 'outer')
df1['Empt'].fillna(0, inplace=True)

This makes it so every entry in df1 has a code - 0 if it is unique to df1, 1 if it is in both dataFrames. You then use this to restrict to what you want

answer = nonuni[nonuni['Empt'] == 0]

dplyr change many data types

Or mayby even more simple with convert from hablar:

library(hablar)

dat %>% 
  convert(fct(fac1, fac2, fac3),
          num(dbl1, dbl2, dbl3))

or combines with tidyselect:

dat %>% 
  convert(fct(contains("fac")),
          num(contains("dbl")))

Is there a common Java utility to break a list into batches?

Similar to OP without streams and libs, but conciser:

public <T> List<List<T>> getBatches(List<T> collection, int batchSize) {
    List<List<T>> batches = new ArrayList<>();
    for (int i = 0; i < collection.size(); i += batchSize) {
        batches.add(collection.subList(i, Math.min(i + batchSize, collection.size())));
    }
    return batches;
}

HTML5 Video autoplay on iPhone

iOs 10+ allow video autoplay inline. but you have to turn off "Low power mode" on your iPhone.

Easiest way to read from and write to files

     class Program
    { 
         public static void Main()
        { 
            //To write in a txt file
             File.WriteAllText("C:\\Users\\HP\\Desktop\\c#file.txt", "Hello and Welcome");

           //To Read from a txt file & print on console
             string  copyTxt = File.ReadAllText("C:\\Users\\HP\\Desktop\\c#file.txt");
             Console.Out.WriteLine("{0}",copyTxt);
        }      
    }

bash: npm: command not found?

Debian:

cd /tmp/
wget  https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x

echo 'deb https://deb.nodesource.com/node_8.x  stretch  main' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list

wget -qO - https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource.gpg.key | apt-key add -

apt update

apt install  nodejs

node -v

npm -v

how to stop a loop arduino

This will turn off interrupts and put the CPU into (permanent until reset/power toggled) sleep:

cli();
sleep_enable();
sleep_cpu();

See also http://arduino.land/FAQ/content/7/47/en/how-to-stop-an-arduino-sketch.html, for more details.

Text in HTML Field to disappear when clicked?

What you want to do is use the HTML5 attribute placeholder which lets you set a default value for your input box:

<input type="text" name="inputBox" placeholder="enter your text here">

This should achieve what you're looking for. However, be careful because the placeholder attribute is not supported in Internet Explorer 9 and earlier versions.

How to display raw JSON data on a HTML page

I think all you need to display the data on an HTML page is JSON.stringify.

For example, if your JSON is stored like this:

var jsonVar = {
        text: "example",
        number: 1
    };

Then you need only do this to convert it to a string:

var jsonStr = JSON.stringify(jsonVar);

And then you can insert into your HTML directly, for example:

document.body.innerHTML = jsonStr;

Of course you will probably want to replace body with some other element via getElementById.

As for the CSS part of your question, you could use RegExp to manipulate the stringified object before you put it into the DOM. For example, this code (also on JSFiddle for demonstration purposes) should take care of indenting of curly braces.

var jsonVar = {
        text: "example",
        number: 1,
        obj: {
            "more text": "another example"
        },
        obj2: {
             "yet more text": "yet another example"
        }
    }, // THE RAW OBJECT
    jsonStr = JSON.stringify(jsonVar),  // THE OBJECT STRINGIFIED
    regeStr = '', // A EMPTY STRING TO EVENTUALLY HOLD THE FORMATTED STRINGIFIED OBJECT
    f = {
            brace: 0
        }; // AN OBJECT FOR TRACKING INCREMENTS/DECREMENTS,
           // IN PARTICULAR CURLY BRACES (OTHER PROPERTIES COULD BE ADDED)

regeStr = jsonStr.replace(/({|}[,]*|[^{}:]+:[^{}:,]*[,{]*)/g, function (m, p1) {
var rtnFn = function() {
        return '<div style="text-indent: ' + (f['brace'] * 20) + 'px;">' + p1 + '</div>';
    },
    rtnStr = 0;
    if (p1.lastIndexOf('{') === (p1.length - 1)) {
        rtnStr = rtnFn();
        f['brace'] += 1;
    } else if (p1.indexOf('}') === 0) {
         f['brace'] -= 1;
        rtnStr = rtnFn();
    } else {
        rtnStr = rtnFn();
    }
    return rtnStr;
});

document.body.innerHTML += regeStr; // appends the result to the body of the HTML document

This code simply looks for sections of the object within the string and separates them into divs (though you could change the HTML part of that). Every time it encounters a curly brace, however, it increments or decrements the indentation depending on whether it's an opening brace or a closing (behaviour similar to the space argument of 'JSON.stringify'). But you could this as a basis for different types of formatting.

How do I pass variables and data from PHP to JavaScript?

myPlugin.start($val); // Tried this, didn't work

It doesn't work because $val is undefined as far as JavaScript is concerned, i.e. the PHP code did not output anything for $val. Try viewing the source in your browser and here is what you'll see:

myPlugin.start(); // I tried this, and it didn't work

And

<?php myPlugin.start($val); ?> // This didn't work either

This doesn't work because PHP will try to treat myPlugin as a constant and when that fails it will try to treat it as the string 'myPlugin' which it will try to concatenate with the output of the PHP function start() and since that is undefined it will produce a fatal error.

And

 myPlugin.start(<?=$val?> // This works sometimes, but sometimes it fails

While this is most likely to work, since the PHP code is producing valid JavaScript with the expected arguments, if it fails, chances are it's because myPlugin isn't ready yet. Check your order of execution.

Also you should note that the PHP code output is insecure and should be filtered with json_encode().

EDIT

Because I didn't notice the missing parenthesis in myPlugin.start(<?=$val?> :-\

As @Second Rikudo points out, for it to work correctly $val would need to contain the closing parenthesis, for example: $val="42);"

Meaning that the PHP will now produce myPlugin.start(42); and will work as expected when executed by the JavaScript code.

best way to preserve numpy arrays on disk

savez() save data in a zip file, It may take some time to zip & unzip the file. You can use save() & load() function:

f = file("tmp.bin","wb")
np.save(f,a)
np.save(f,b)
np.save(f,c)
f.close()

f = file("tmp.bin","rb")
aa = np.load(f)
bb = np.load(f)
cc = np.load(f)
f.close()

To save multiple arrays in one file, you just need to open the file first, and then save or load the arrays in sequence.

Favorite Visual Studio keyboard shortcuts

Turn line wrapping on and off

Ctrl+E, Ctrl+W

Sometimes you want to see the flow of the code with all of your indents in place; sometimes you need to see all 50 attributes in a GridView declaration. This lets you easily switch back and forth.

Why should C++ programmers minimize use of 'new'?

Because the stack is faster and leak-proof

In C++, it takes but a single instruction to allocate space -- on the stack -- for every local scope object in a given function, and it's impossible to leak any of that memory. That comment intended (or should have intended) to say something like "use the stack and not the heap".

How do MySQL indexes work?

Take at this videos for more details about Indexing

Simple Indexing You can create a unique index on a table. A unique index means that two rows cannot have the same index value. Here is the syntax to create an Index on a table

CREATE UNIQUE INDEX index_name
ON table_name ( column1, column2,...);

You can use one or more columns to create an index. For example, we can create an index on tutorials_tbl using tutorial_author.

CREATE UNIQUE INDEX AUTHOR_INDEX
ON tutorials_tbl (tutorial_author)

You can create a simple index on a table. Just omit UNIQUE keyword from the query to create simple index. Simple index allows duplicate values in a table.

If you want to index the values in a column in descending order, you can add the reserved word DESC after the column name.

mysql> CREATE UNIQUE INDEX AUTHOR_INDEX
ON tutorials_tbl (tutorial_author DESC)

How to reset Jenkins security settings from the command line?

For one who is using macOS, the new version just can be installed by homebrew. so for resting, this command line must be using:

brew services restart jenkins-lts

List files with certain extensions with ls and grep

Why not:

ls *.{mp3,exe,mp4}

I'm not sure where I learned it - but I've been using this.

Eclipse "this compilation unit is not on the build path of a java project"

I found that I was getting this error due to having my files, including my main class, outside of the .src folder.

How to know when a web page was last updated?

In general, there is no way to know when something on another site has been changed. If the site offers an RSS feed, you should try that. If the site does not offer an RSS feed (or if the RSS feed doesn't include the information you're looking for), then you have to scrape and compare.

Converting Secret Key into a String and Vice Versa

You can convert the SecretKey to a byte array (byte[]), then Base64 encode that to a String. To convert back to a SecretKey, Base64 decode the String and use it in a SecretKeySpec to rebuild your original SecretKey.

For Java 8

SecretKey to String:

// create new key
SecretKey secretKey = KeyGenerator.getInstance("AES").generateKey();
// get base64 encoded version of the key
String encodedKey = Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(secretKey.getEncoded());

String to SecretKey:

// decode the base64 encoded string
byte[] decodedKey = Base64.getDecoder().decode(encodedKey);
// rebuild key using SecretKeySpec
SecretKey originalKey = new SecretKeySpec(decodedKey, 0, decodedKey.length, "AES"); 

For Java 7 and before (including Android):

NOTE I: you can skip the Base64 encoding/decoding part and just store the byte[] in SQLite. That said, performing Base64 encoding/decoding is not an expensive operation and you can store strings in almost any DB without issues.

NOTE II: Earlier Java versions do not include a Base64 in one of the java.lang or java.util packages. It is however possible to use codecs from Apache Commons Codec, Bouncy Castle or Guava.

SecretKey to String:

// CREATE NEW KEY
// GET ENCODED VERSION OF KEY (THIS CAN BE STORED IN A DB)

    SecretKey secretKey;
    String stringKey;

    try {secretKey = KeyGenerator.getInstance("AES").generateKey();}
    catch (NoSuchAlgorithmException e) {/* LOG YOUR EXCEPTION */}

    if (secretKey != null) {stringKey = Base64.encodeToString(secretKey.getEncoded(), Base64.DEFAULT)}

String to SecretKey:

// DECODE YOUR BASE64 STRING
// REBUILD KEY USING SecretKeySpec

    byte[] encodedKey     = Base64.decode(stringKey, Base64.DEFAULT);
    SecretKey originalKey = new SecretKeySpec(encodedKey, 0, encodedKey.length, "AES");

Sleep/Wait command in Batch

You want to use timeout. timeout 10 will sleep 10 seconds

what is the multicast doing on 224.0.0.251?

I deactivated my "Arno's Iptables Firewall" for testing, and then the messages are gone

Concat a string to SELECT * MySql

You cannot concatenate multiple fields with a string. You need to select a field instand of all (*).

How do I make an input field accept only letters in javaScript?

Use onkeyup on the text box and check the keycode of the key pressed, if its between 65 and 90, allow else empty the text box.

Twig for loop for arrays with keys

I guess you want to do the "Iterating over Keys and Values"

As the doc here says, just add "|keys" in the variable you want and it will magically happen.

{% for key, user in users %}
    <li>{{ key }}: {{ user.username|e }}</li>
{% endfor %}

It never hurts to search before asking :)

Redirect Windows cmd stdout and stderr to a single file

Background info from MSKB

While the accepted answer to this question is correct, it really doesn't do much to explain why it works, and since the syntax is not immediately clear I did a quick google to find out what was actually going on. In the hopes that this information is helpful to others, I'm posting it here.

Taken from MS Support KB 110930.


From MSKB110930

Redirecting Error Messages from Command Prompt: STDERR/STDOUT

Summary

When redirecting output from an application using the '>' symbol, error messages still print to the screen. This is because error messages are often sent to the Standard Error stream instead of the Standard Out stream.

Output from a console (Command Prompt) application or command is often sent to two separate streams. The regular output is sent to Standard Out (STDOUT) and the error messages are sent to Standard Error (STDERR). When you redirect console output using the ">" symbol, you are only redirecting STDOUT. In order to redirect STDERR you have to specify '2>' for the redirection symbol. This selects the second output stream which is STDERR.

Example

The command dir file.xxx (where file.xxx does not exist) will display the following output:

Volume in drive F is Candy Cane Volume Serial Number is 34EC-0876

File Not Found

If you redirect the output to the NUL device using dir file.xxx > nul, you will still see the error message part of the output, like this:

File Not Found

To redirect (only) the error message to NUL, use the following command:

dir file.xxx 2> nul

Or, you can redirect the output to one place, and the errors to another.

dir file.xxx > output.msg 2> output.err

You can print the errors and standard output to a single file by using the "&1" command to redirect the output for STDERR to STDOUT and then sending the output from STDOUT to a file:

dir file.xxx 1> output.msg 2>&1

HTML5 Video tag not working in Safari , iPhone and iPad

Just add a muted attribute and everything will work fine.

The source of this answer is here: https://webkit.org/blog/6784/new-video-policies-for-ios/

By default, WebKit will have the following policies:

<video autoplay> elements will now honor the autoplay attribute, for elements which meet the following conditions:

  • <video> elements will be allowed to autoplay without a user gesture if their source media contains no audio tracks.
  • <video muted> elements will also be allowed to autoplay without a user gesture.
  • If a <video> element gains an audio track or becomes un-muted without a user gesture, playback will pause.
  • <video autoplay> elements will only begin playing when visible on-screen such as when they are scrolled into the viewport, made visible through CSS, and inserted into the DOM.
  • <video autoplay> elements will pause if they become non-visible, such as by being scrolled out of the viewport.

<video> elements will now honor the play() method, for elements which meet the following conditions:

  • <video> elements will be allowed to play() without a user gesture if their source media contains no audio tracks, or if their muted property is set to true.
  • If a <video> element gains an audio track or becomes un-muted without a user gesture, playback will pause.
  • <video> elements will be allowed to play() when not visible on-screen or when out of the viewport.
  • video.play() will return a Promise, which will be rejected if any of these conditions are not met.

On iPhone, <video playsinline> elements will now be allowed to play inline, and will not automatically enter fullscreen mode when playback begins. <video> elements without playsinline attributes will continue to require fullscreen mode for playback on iPhone. When exiting fullscreen with a pinch gesture, <video> elements without playsinline will continue to play inline.

How do you set the startup page for debugging in an ASP.NET MVC application?

While you can have a default page in the MVC project, the more conventional implementation for a default view would be to use a default controller, implememented in the global.asax, through the 'RegisterRoutes(...)' method. For instance if you wanted your Public\Home controller to be your default route/view, the code would be:

    public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
    {
        routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

        routes.MapRoute(
            "Default", // Route name
            "{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
            new { controller = "Public", action = "Home", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
        );

    }

For this to be functional, you are required to have have a set Start Page in the project.

Creating a class object in c++

Example example;

Here example is an object on the stack.

Example* example=new Example();

This could be broken into:

Example* example;
....
example=new Example();

Here the first statement creates a variable example which is a "pointer to Example". When the constructor is called, memory is allocated for it on the heap (dynamic allocation). It is the programmer's responsibility to free this memory when it is no longer needed. (C++ does not have garbage collection like java).

Check a collection size with JSTL

use ${fn:length(companies) > 0} to check the size. This returns a boolean

iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Media Queries

For iPhone 5,

@media screen and (device-aspect-ratio: 40/71)

for iPhone 6,7,8

@media only screen and (min-device-width: 375px) and (max-device-width: 667px) and (orientation : portrait)

for iPhone 6+,7+,8+

@media screen and (-webkit-device-pixel-ratio: 3) and (min-device-width: 414px)

Working fine for me as of now.

How do I add a new column to a Spark DataFrame (using PySpark)?

You can define a new udf when adding a column_name:

u_f = F.udf(lambda :yourstring,StringType())
a.select(u_f().alias('column_name')

Regex replace uppercase with lowercase letters

In BBEdit works this (ex.: changing the ID values to lowercase):

Search any value: <a id="(?P<x>.*?)"></a> Replace with the same in lowercase: <a id="\L\P<x>\E"></a>

Was: <a id="VALUE"></a> Became: <a id="value"></a>

git command to move a folder inside another

I had similar problem, but in folder which I wanted to move I had files which I was not tracking.

let's say I had files

a/file1
a/untracked1
b/file2
b/untracked2

And I wanted to move only tracked files to subfolder subdir, so the goal was:

subdir/a/file1
subdir/a/untracked1
subdir/b/file2
subdir/b/untracked2

what I had done was:

  • I created new folder and moved all files that I was interested in moving: mkdir tmpdir && mv a b tmpdir
  • checked out old files git checkout a b
  • created new dir and moved clean folders (without untracked files) to new subdir: mkdir subdir && mv a b subdir
  • added all files from subdir (so Git could add only tracked previously files - it was somekind of git add --update with directory change trick): git add subdir (normally this would add even untracked files - this would require creating .gitignore file)
  • git status shows now only moved files
  • moved rest of files from tmpdir to subdir: mv tmpdir/* subdir
  • git status looks like we executed git mv :)

UL list style not applying

In IE I just use a class "normal_ol" for styling an ol list and made some modifications shown below:

previous code: ol.normal_ol { float:left; padding:0 0 0 25px; margin:0; width:500px;} ol.normal_ol li{ font:normal 13px/20px Arial; color:#4D4E53; float:left; width:100%;}

modified code: ol.normal_ol { float:left; padding:0 0 0 25px; margin:0;} ol.normal_ol li{ font:normal 13px/20px Arial; color:#4D4E53; }

Rmi connection refused with localhost

It seems to work when I replace the

Runtime.getRuntime().exec("rmiregistry 2020");

by

LocateRegistry.createRegistry(2020);

anyone an idea why? What's the difference?

How to access /storage/emulated/0/

In my case, /storage/emulated/0/ corresponds to my device's root path. For example, when i take a photo with my phone's default camera application, the images are saved automatically /store/emulated/0/DCIM/Camera/mypicname.jpeg

For example, suppose that you want to store your pictures in /Pictures directory, namely in Pictures directory which exist in root directory. So you use the below code.

File storageDir = Environment.getExternalStoragePublicDirectory( Environment.DIRECTORY_PICTURES );

If you want to save the images in DCIM or Downloads directory, give the below arguments to the Environment.getExternalStoragePublicDirectory() method shown above.

Environment.DIRECTORY_DCIM
Environment.DIRECTORY_Downloads

Then specify your image name :

String imageFileName = "JPEG_" + timeStamp + "_";

Then create the file object as shown below. You specify the suffix as the 2nd argument.

File image = File.createTempFile(
            imageFileName,  // prefix
            ".jpg",         // suffix
            storageDir      // directory
);

Add a column to existing table and uniquely number them on MS SQL Server

for UNIQUEIDENTIFIER datatype in sql server try this

Alter table table_name
add ID UNIQUEIDENTIFIER not null unique default(newid())

If you want to create primary key out of that column use this

ALTER TABLE table_name
ADD CONSTRAINT PK_name PRIMARY KEY (ID);

Decode JSON with unknown structure

You really just need a single struct, and as mentioned in the comments the correct annotations on the field will yield the desired results. JSON is not some extremely variant data format, it is well defined and any piece of json, no matter how complicated and confusing it might be to you can be represented fairly easily and with 100% accuracy both by a schema and in objects in Go and most other OO programming languages. Here's an example;

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "encoding/json"
)

type Data struct {
    Votes *Votes `json:"votes"`
    Count string `json:"count,omitempty"`
}

type Votes struct {
    OptionA string `json:"option_A"`
}

func main() {
    s := `{ "votes": { "option_A": "3" } }`
    data := &Data{
        Votes: &Votes{},
    }
    err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(s), data)
    fmt.Println(err)
    fmt.Println(data.Votes)
    s2, _ := json.Marshal(data)
    fmt.Println(string(s2))
    data.Count = "2"
    s3, _ := json.Marshal(data)
    fmt.Println(string(s3))
}

https://play.golang.org/p/ScuxESTW5i

Based on your most recent comment you could address that by using an interface{} to represent data besides the count, making the count a string and having the rest of the blob shoved into the interface{} which will accept essentially anything. That being said, Go is a statically typed language with a fairly strict type system and to reiterate, your comments stating 'it can be anything' are not true. JSON cannot be anything. For any piece of JSON there is schema and a single schema can define many many variations of JSON. I advise you take the time to understand the structure of your data rather than hacking something together under the notion that it cannot be defined when it absolutely can and is probably quite easy for someone who knows what they're doing.

E: Unable to locate package npm

From the official Node.js documentation:

A Node.js package is also available in the official repo for Debian Sid (unstable), Jessie (testing) and Wheezy (wheezy-backports) as "nodejs". It only installs a nodejs binary.

So, if you only type sudo apt-get install nodejs , it does not install other goodies such as npm.

You need to type:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

Optional: install build tools

To compile and install native add-ons from npm you may also need to install build tools:

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential

More info: Docs

on change event for file input element

Use the files filelist of the element instead of val()

$("input[type=file]").on('change',function(){
    alert(this.files[0].name);
});

Generating unique random numbers (integers) between 0 and 'x'

Something like this

var limit = 10;
var amount = 3;
var nums = new Array();

for(int i = 0; i < amount; i++)
{
    var add = true;
    var n = Math.round(Math.random()*limit + 1;
    for(int j = 0; j < limit.length; j++)
    {
        if(nums[j] == n)
        {
            add = false;
        }
    }
    if(add)
    {
        nums.push(n)
    }
    else
    {
        i--;
    }
}

How to match a line not containing a word

This should work:

/^((?!PART).)*$/

If you only wanted to exclude it from the beginning of the line (I know you don't, but just FYI), you could use this:

/^(?!PART)/

Edit (by request): Why this pattern works

The (?!...) syntax is a negative lookahead, which I've always found tough to explain. Basically, it means "whatever follows this point must not match the regular expression /PART/." The site I've linked explains this far better than I can, but I'll try to break this down:

^         #Start matching from the beginning of the string.    
(?!PART)  #This position must not be followed by the string "PART".
.         #Matches any character except line breaks (it will include those in single-line mode).
$         #Match all the way until the end of the string.

The ((?!xxx).)* idiom is probably hardest to understand. As we saw, (?!PART) looks at the string ahead and says that whatever comes next can't match the subpattern /PART/. So what we're doing with ((?!xxx).)* is going through the string letter by letter and applying the rule to all of them. Each character can be anything, but if you take that character and the next few characters after it, you'd better not get the word PART.

The ^ and $ anchors are there to demand that the rule be applied to the entire string, from beginning to end. Without those anchors, any piece of the string that didn't begin with PART would be a match. Even PART itself would have matches in it, because (for example) the letter A isn't followed by the exact string PART.

Since we do have ^ and $, if PART were anywhere in the string, one of the characters would match (?=PART). and the overall match would fail. Hope that's clear enough to be helpful.

Find all files with name containing string

find $HOME -name "hello.c" -print

This will search the whole $HOME (i.e. /home/username/) system for any files named “hello.c” and display their pathnames:

/Users/user/Downloads/hello.c
/Users/user/hello.c

However, it will not match HELLO.C or HellO.C. To match is case insensitive pass the -iname option as follows:

find $HOME -iname "hello.c" -print

Sample outputs:

/Users/user/Downloads/hello.c
/Users/user/Downloads/Y/Hello.C
/Users/user/Downloads/Z/HELLO.c
/Users/user/hello.c

Pass the -type f option to only search for files:

find /dir/to/search -type f -iname "fooBar.conf.sample" -print
find $HOME -type f -iname "fooBar.conf.sample" -print

The -iname works either on GNU or BSD (including OS X) version find command. If your version of find command does not supports -iname, try the following syntax using grep command:

find $HOME | grep -i "hello.c"
find $HOME -name "*" -print | grep -i "hello.c"

OR try

find $HOME -name '[hH][eE][lL][lL][oO].[cC]' -print

Sample outputs:

/Users/user/Downloads/Z/HELLO.C
/Users/user/Downloads/Z/HEllO.c
/Users/user/Downloads/hello.c
/Users/user/hello.c

How to access elements of a JArray (or iterate over them)

Update - I verified the below works. Maybe the creation of your JArray isn't quite right.

[TestMethod]
    public void TestJson()
    {
        var jsonString = @"{""trends"": [
              {
                ""name"": ""Croke Park II"",
                ""url"": ""http://twitter.com/search?q=%22Croke+Park+II%22"",
                ""promoted_content"": null,
                ""query"": ""%22Croke+Park+II%22"",
                ""events"": null
              },
              {
                ""name"": ""Siptu"",
                ""url"": ""http://twitter.com/search?q=Siptu"",
                ""promoted_content"": null,
                ""query"": ""Siptu"",
                ""events"": null
              },
              {
                ""name"": ""#HNCJ"",
                ""url"": ""http://twitter.com/search?q=%23HNCJ"",
                ""promoted_content"": null,
                ""query"": ""%23HNCJ"",
                ""events"": null
              },
              {
                ""name"": ""Boston"",
                ""url"": ""http://twitter.com/search?q=Boston"",
                ""promoted_content"": null,
                ""query"": ""Boston"",
                ""events"": null
              },
              {
                ""name"": ""#prayforboston"",
                ""url"": ""http://twitter.com/search?q=%23prayforboston"",
                ""promoted_content"": null,
                ""query"": ""%23prayforboston"",
                ""events"": null
              },
              {
                ""name"": ""#TheMrsCarterShow"",
                ""url"": ""http://twitter.com/search?q=%23TheMrsCarterShow"",
                ""promoted_content"": null,
                ""query"": ""%23TheMrsCarterShow"",
                ""events"": null
              },
              {
                ""name"": ""#Raw"",
                ""url"": ""http://twitter.com/search?q=%23Raw"",
                ""promoted_content"": null,
                ""query"": ""%23Raw"",
                ""events"": null
              },
              {
                ""name"": ""Iran"",
                ""url"": ""http://twitter.com/search?q=Iran"",
                ""promoted_content"": null,
                ""query"": ""Iran"",
                ""events"": null
              },
              {
                ""name"": ""#gaa"",
                ""url"": ""http://twitter.com/search?q=%23gaa"",
                ""promoted_content"": null,
                ""query"": ""gaa"",
                ""events"": null
              },
              {
                ""name"": ""Facebook"",
                ""url"": ""http://twitter.com/search?q=Facebook"",
                ""promoted_content"": null,
                ""query"": ""Facebook"",
                ""events"": null
              }]}";

        var twitterObject = JToken.Parse(jsonString);
        var trendsArray = twitterObject.Children<JProperty>().FirstOrDefault(x => x.Name == "trends").Value;


        foreach (var item in trendsArray.Children())
        {
            var itemProperties = item.Children<JProperty>();
            //you could do a foreach or a linq here depending on what you need to do exactly with the value
            var myElement = itemProperties.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Name == "url");
            var myElementValue = myElement.Value; ////This is a JValue type
        }
    }

So call Children on your JArray to get each JObject in JArray. Call Children on each JObject to access the objects properties.

foreach(var item in yourJArray.Children())
{
    var itemProperties = item.Children<JProperty>();
    //you could do a foreach or a linq here depending on what you need to do exactly with the value
    var myElement = itemProperties.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Name == "url");
    var myElementValue = myElement.Value; ////This is a JValue type
}

How to margin the body of the page (html)?

Html for content, CSS for style

<body style='margin-top:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;'>

Visual Studio can't 'see' my included header files

I encountered this issue, but the solutions provided didn't directly help me, so I'm sharing how I got myself into a similar situation and temporarily resolved it.

I created a new project within an existing solution and copy & pasted the Header and CPP file from another project within that solution that I needed to include in my new project through the IDE. Intellisense displayed an error suggesting it could not resolve the reference to the header file and compiling the code failed with the same error too.

After reading the posts here, I checked the project folder with Windows File Explorer and only the main.cpp file was found. For some reason, my copy and paste of the header file and CPP file were just a reference? (I assume) and did not physically copy the file into the new project file.

I deleted the files from the Project view within Visual Studio and I used File Explorer to copy the files that I needed to the project folder/directory. I then referenced the other solutions posted here to "include files in project" by showing all files and this resolved the problem.

It boiled down to the files not being physically in the Project folder/directory even though they were shown correctly within the IDE.

Please Note I understand duplicating code is not best practice and my situation is purely a learning/hobby project. It's probably in my best interest and anyone else who ended up in a similar situation to use the IDE/project/Solution setup correctly when reusing code from other projects - I'm still learning and I'll figure this out one day!

Read a file one line at a time in node.js?

Generator based line reader: https://github.com/neurosnap/gen-readlines

var fs = require('fs');
var readlines = require('gen-readlines');

fs.open('./file.txt', 'r', function(err, fd) {
  if (err) throw err;
  fs.fstat(fd, function(err, stats) {
    if (err) throw err;

    for (var line of readlines(fd, stats.size)) {
      console.log(line.toString());
    }

  });
});

How to clear the canvas for redrawing

there are a ton of good answers here. one further note is that sometimes it's fun to only partially clear the canvas. that is, "fade out" the previous image instead of erasing it entirely. this can give nice trails effects.

it's easy. supposing your background color is white:

// assuming background color = white and "eraseAlpha" is a value from 0 to 1.
myContext.fillStyle = "rgba(255, 255, 255, " + eraseAlpha + ")";
myContext.fillRect(0, 0, w, h);

adb shell su works but adb root does not

I have a rooted Samsung Galaxy Trend Plus (GT-S7580).

Running 'adb root' gives me the same 'adbd cannot run as root in production builds' error.

For devices that have Developer Options -> Root access, choose "ADB only" to provide adb root access to the device (as suggested by NgaNguyenDuy).

Then try to run the command as per the solution at Launch a script as root through ADB. In my case, I just wanted to run the 'netcfg rndis0 dhcp' command, and I did it this way:

adb shell "su -c netcfg rndis0 dhcp"

Please check whether you are making any mistakes while running it this way.

If it still does not work, check whether you rooted the device correctly. If still no luck, try installing a custom ROM such as Cyanogen Mod in order for 'adb root' to work.

Cannot open solution file in Visual Studio Code

VSCode is a code editor, not a full IDE. Think of VSCode as a notepad on steroids with IntelliSense code completion, richer semantic code understanding of multiple languages, code refactoring, including navigation, keyboard support with customizable bindings, syntax highlighting, bracket matching, auto indentation, and snippets.

It's not meant to replace Visual Studio, but making "Visual Studio" part of the name in VSCode will of course confuse some people at first.

What determines the monitor my app runs on?

I'm fairly sure the primary monitor is the default. If the app was coded decently, when it's closed, it'll remember where it was last at and will reopen there, but -- as you've noticed -- it isn't a default behavior.

EDIT: The way I usually do it is to have the location stored in the app's settings. On load, if there is no value for them, it defaults to the center of the screen. On closing of the form, it records its position. That way, whenever it opens, it's where it was last. I don't know of a simple way to tell it to launch onto the second monitor the first time automatically, however.

-- Kevin Fairchild

remove all variables except functions

Here's a pretty convenient function I picked up somewhere and adjusted a little. Might be nice to keep in the directory.

list.objects <- function(env = .GlobalEnv) 
{
    if(!is.environment(env)){
        env <- deparse(substitute(env))
        stop(sprintf('"%s" must be an environment', env))
    }
    obj.type <- function(x) class(get(x, envir = env))
    foo <- sapply(ls(envir = env), obj.type)
    object.name <- names(foo)
    names(foo) <- seq(length(foo))
    dd <- data.frame(CLASS = foo, OBJECT = object.name, 
                     stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
    dd[order(dd$CLASS),]
}

> x <- 1:5
> d <- data.frame(x)
> list.objects()
#        CLASS       OBJECT
# 1 data.frame            d
# 2   function list.objects
# 3    integer            x 
> list.objects(env = x)
# Error in list.objects(env = x) : "x" must be an environment

How do I rename a column in a SQLite database table?

As mentioned before, there is a tool SQLite Database Browser, which does this. Lyckily, this tool keeps a log of all operations performed by the user or the application. Doing this once and looking at the application log, you will see the code involved. Copy the query and paste as required. Worked for me. Hope this helps

Get DataKey values in GridView RowCommand

I managed to get the value of the DataKeys using this code:

In the GridView I added:

DataKeyNames="ID" OnRowCommand="myRowCommand"

Then in my row command function:

protected void myRowCommand(object sender, GridViewCommandEventArgs e) 
{
    LinkButton lnkBtn = (LinkButton)e.CommandSource;    // the button
    GridViewRow myRow = (GridViewRow)lnkBtn.Parent.Parent;  // the row
    GridView myGrid = (GridView)sender; // the gridview
    string ID = myGrid.DataKeys[myRow.RowIndex].Value.ToString(); // value of the datakey 

    switch (e.CommandName)
    {
      case "cmd1":
      // do something using the ID
      break;
      case "cmd2":
      // do something else using the ID
      break;
    }
 }

.NET unique object identifier

RuntimeHelpers.GetHashCode() may help (MSDN).

Cannot install node modules that require compilation on Windows 7 x64/VS2012

After DAYS of digging, someone on IRC suggested that I try to use the

Windows 7.1 SDK Command Prompt

Shortcut (links to C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /E:ON /V:ON /T:0E /K "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Bin\SetEnv.cmd"). I think you MUST have the older 7.1 SDK (even on Windows 8.1) because the newer ones use msbuild.exe instead of vcbuild.exe which is what node-gyp wants even though it's twice as old as node at this point :/

Once in that prompt, I had to run the following to get x86 context because the compiler was throwing as error otherwise about architecture:

setenv.cmd /Release /x86

THEN I was able to successfully run npm commands that were trying to use node-gyp to recompile things.

Does Django scale?

Even-though there have been a lot of great answers here, I just feel like pointing out, that nobody have put emphasis on..

It depends on the application

If you application is light on writes, as in you are reading a lot more data from the DB than you are writing. Then scaling django should be fairly trivial, heck, it comes with some fairly decent output/view caching straight out of the box. Make use of that, and say, redis as a cache provider, put a load balancer in front of it, spin up n-instances and you should be able to deal with a VERY large amount of traffic.

Now, if you have to do thousands of complex writes a second? Different story. Is Django going to be a bad choice? Well, not necessarily, depends on how you architect your solution really, and also, what your requirements are.

Just my two cents :-)

no module named urllib.parse (How should I install it?)

python3 supports urllib.parse and python2 supports urlparse

If you want both compatible then the following code can help.

import sys

if ((3, 0) <= sys.version_info <= (3, 9)):
    from urllib.parse import urlparse
elif ((2, 0) <= sys.version_info <= (2, 9)):
    from urlparse import urlparse

Update: Change if condition to support higher versions if (3, 0) <= sys.version_info:.

How to convert string to boolean php

Edited to show a possibility not mentioned here, because my original answer was far from related to the OP's question.

preg_match(); Is possible to use. However, in most applications it will be much more heavy to use than other answers here.

if (preg_match("/true/i", "true PHP is a web scripting language of choice.")) {
    echo "<br><br>Returned true";
} else {
    echo "<br><br>Returned False";
}

/(?:true)|(?:1)/i Can also be used if needed in certain situations. It will not return correctly when it evaluates a string containing both "false" and "1".

Calling a Sub and returning a value

You should be using a Property:

Private _myValue As String
Public Property MyValue As String
    Get
        Return _myValue
    End Get
    Set(value As String)
        _myValue = value
     End Set
End Property

Then use it like so:

MyValue = "Hello"
Console.write(MyValue)

Split a string into an array of strings based on a delimiter

The base of NGLG answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/8811242/6619626 you can use the following function:

type
OurArrayStr=array of string;

function SplitString(DelimeterChars:char;Str:string):OurArrayStr;
var
seg: TStringList;
i:integer;
ret:OurArrayStr;
begin
    seg := TStringList.Create;
    ExtractStrings([DelimeterChars],[], PChar(Str), seg);
    for i:=0 to seg.Count-1 do
    begin
         SetLength(ret,length(ret)+1);
         ret[length(ret)-1]:=seg.Strings[i];
    end;
    SplitString:=ret;
    seg.Free;
end;

It works in all Delphi versions.

enum Values to NSString (iOS)

If I can offer another solution that has the added benefit of type checking, warnings if you are missing an enum value in your conversion, readability, and brevity.

For your given example: typedef enum { value1, value2, value3 } myValue; you can do this:

NSString *NSStringFromMyValue(myValue type) {
    const char* c_str = 0;
#define PROCESS_VAL(p) case(p): c_str = #p; break;
    switch(type) {
            PROCESS_VAL(value1);
            PROCESS_VAL(value2);
            PROCESS_VAL(value3);
    }
#undef PROCESS_VAL

    return [NSString stringWithCString:c_str encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];
}

As a side note. It is a better approach to declare your enums as so:

typedef NS_ENUM(NSInteger, MyValue) {
    Value1 = 0,
    Value2,
    Value3
}

With this you get type-safety (NSInteger in this case), you set the expected enum offset (= 0).

Is there shorthand for returning a default value if None in Python?

return "default" if x is None else x

try the above.

Appending an id to a list if not already present in a string

There are a couple things going on with your example. You have a list containing a string of numbers and newline characters:

list = ['350882 348521 350166\r\n']

And you are trying to find a number ID within this list:

id = 348521
if id not in list:
    ...

Your first conditional is always going to pass, because it will be looking for integer 348521 in list which has one element at index list[0] with the string value of '350882 348521 350166\r\n', so integer 348521 will be added to that list, making it a list of two elements: a string and an integer, as your output shows.

To reiterate: list is searched for id, not the string in list's first element.

If you were trying to find if the string representation of '348521' was contained within the larger string contained within your list, you could do the following, noting that you would need to do this for each element in list:

if str(id) not in list[0]: # list[0]: '350882 348521 350166\r\n'
    ...                    #                  ^^^^^^

However be aware that you would need to wrap str(id) with whitespace for the search, otherwise it would also match:

2348521999
 ^^^^^^

It is unclear whether you want your "list" to be a "string of integers separated by whitespace" or if you really want a list of integers.

If all you are trying to accomplish is to have a list of IDs, and to add IDs to that list only if they are not already contained, (and if the order of the elements in the list is not important,) then a set would be the best data structure to use.

ids = set(
    [int(id) for id in '350882 348521 350166\r\n'.strip().split(' ')]
)

# Adding an ID already in the set has no effect
ids.add(348521)

If the ordering of the IDs in the string is important then I would keep your IDs in a standard list and use your conditional check:

ids = [int(id) for id in '350882 348521 350166\r\n'.strip().split(' ')]

if 348521 not in ids:
    ...

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            <p>Lots of text here...With the four tiers of grids available you're bound to run into issues where, at certain breakpoints, your columns don't clear quite right as one is taller than the other. To fix that, use a combination of a .clearfix and o</p>_x000D_
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How do I get git to default to ssh and not https for new repositories

  • GitHub

    git config --global url.ssh://[email protected]/.insteadOf https://github.com/
    
  • BitBucket

    git config --global url.ssh://[email protected]/.insteadOf https://bitbucket.org/
    

That tells git to always use SSH instead of HTTPS when connecting to GitHub/BitBucket, so you'll authenticate by certificate by default, instead of being prompted for a password.

Set keyboard caret position in html textbox

function SetCaretEnd(tID) {
    tID += "";
    if (!tID.startsWith("#")) { tID = "#" + tID; }
    $(tID).focus();
    var t = $(tID).val();
    if (t.length == 0) { return; }
    $(tID).val("");
    $(tID).val(t);
    $(tID).scrollTop($(tID)[0].scrollHeight); }

sed edit file in place

mv file.txt file.tmp && sed 's/foo/bar/g' < file.tmp > file.txt

Should preserve all hardlinks, since output is directed back to overwrite the contents of the original file, and avoids any need for a special version of sed.

How to recover closed output window in netbeans?

try Window--> Reset Windows in netbean Caution: be aware, that all your windows settings are away after that!

cursor.fetchall() vs list(cursor) in Python

A (MySQLdb/PyMySQL-specific) difference worth noting when using a DictCursor is that list(cursor) will always give you a list, while cursor.fetchall() gives you a list unless the result set is empty, in which case it gives you an empty tuple. This was the case in MySQLdb and remains the case in the newer PyMySQL, where it will not be fixed for backwards-compatibility reasons. While this isn't a violation of Python Database API Specification, it's still surprising and can easily lead to a type error caused by wrongly assuming that the result is a list, rather than just a sequence.

Given the above, I suggest always favouring list(cursor) over cursor.fetchall(), to avoid ever getting caught out by a mysterious type error in the edge case where your result set is empty.

Refreshing all the pivot tables in my excel workbook with a macro

I have use the command listed below in the recent past and it seems to work fine.

ActiveWorkbook.RefreshAll

Hope that helps.

Regex to match URL end-of-line or "/" character

To match either / or end of content, use (/|\z)

This only applies if you are not using multi-line matching (i.e. you're matching a single URL, not a newline-delimited list of URLs).


To put that with an updated version of what you had:

/(\S+?)/(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})-(\d+)(/|\z)

Note that I've changed the start to be a non-greedy match for non-whitespace ( \S+? ) rather than matching anything and everything ( .* )

How to deserialize xml to object

Your classes should look like this

[XmlRoot("StepList")]
public class StepList
{
    [XmlElement("Step")]
    public List<Step> Steps { get; set; }
}

public class Step
{
    [XmlElement("Name")]
    public string Name { get; set; }
    [XmlElement("Desc")]
    public string Desc { get; set; }
}

Here is my testcode.

string testData = @"<StepList>
                        <Step>
                            <Name>Name1</Name>
                            <Desc>Desc1</Desc>
                        </Step>
                        <Step>
                            <Name>Name2</Name>
                            <Desc>Desc2</Desc>
                        </Step>
                    </StepList>";

XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(StepList));
using (TextReader reader = new StringReader(testData))
{
    StepList result = (StepList) serializer.Deserialize(reader);
}

If you want to read a text file you should load the file into a FileStream and deserialize this.

using (FileStream fileStream = new FileStream("<PathToYourFile>", FileMode.Open)) 
{
    StepList result = (StepList) serializer.Deserialize(fileStream);
}

Find files containing a given text

find . -type f -name '*php' -o -name '*js' -o -name '*html' |\
xargs grep -liE 'document\.cookie|setcookie'

What Process is using all of my disk IO

To find out which processes in state 'D' (waiting for disk response) are currently running:

while true; do date; ps aux | awk '{if($8=="D") print $0;}'; sleep 1; done

or

watch -n1 -d "ps axu | awk '{if (\$8==\"D\") {print \$0}}'"

Wed Aug 29 13:00:46 CLT 2012
root       321  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        D    May28   4:25  \_ [jbd2/dm-0-8]
Wed Aug 29 13:00:47 CLT 2012
Wed Aug 29 13:00:48 CLT 2012
Wed Aug 29 13:00:49 CLT 2012
Wed Aug 29 13:00:50 CLT 2012
root       321  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        D    May28   4:25  \_ [jbd2/dm-0-8]
Wed Aug 29 13:00:51 CLT 2012
Wed Aug 29 13:00:52 CLT 2012
Wed Aug 29 13:00:53 CLT 2012
Wed Aug 29 13:00:55 CLT 2012
Wed Aug 29 13:00:56 CLT 2012
root       321  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        D    May28   4:25  \_ [jbd2/dm-0-8]
Wed Aug 29 13:00:57 CLT 2012
root       302  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        D    May28   3:07  \_ [kdmflush]
root       321  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        D    May28   4:25  \_ [jbd2/dm-0-8]
Wed Aug 29 13:00:58 CLT 2012
root       302  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        D    May28   3:07  \_ [kdmflush]
root       321  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        D    May28   4:25  \_ [jbd2/dm-0-8]
Wed Aug 29 13:00:59 CLT 2012
root       302  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        D    May28   3:07  \_ [kdmflush]
root       321  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        D    May28   4:25  \_ [jbd2/dm-0-8]
Wed Aug 29 13:01:00 CLT 2012
root       302  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        D    May28   3:07  \_ [kdmflush]
root       321  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        D    May28   4:25  \_ [jbd2/dm-0-8]
Wed Aug 29 13:01:01 CLT 2012
root       302  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        D    May28   3:07  \_ [kdmflush]
root       321  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        D    May28   4:25  \_ [jbd2/dm-0-8]
Wed Aug 29 13:01:02 CLT 2012
Wed Aug 29 13:01:03 CLT 2012
root       321  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        D    May28   4:25  \_ [jbd2/dm-0-8]

As you can see from the result, the jdb2/dm-0-8 (ext4 journal process), and kdmflush are constantly block your Linux.

For more details this URL could be helpful: Linux Wait-IO Problem

Reload the page after ajax success

BrixenDK is right.

.ajaxStop() callback executed when all ajax call completed. This is a best place to put your handler.

$(document).ajaxStop(function(){
    window.location.reload();
});

curl: (35) error:1408F10B:SSL routines:ssl3_get_record:wrong version number

Simple answer

If you are behind a proxy server, please set the proxy for curl. The curl is not able to connect to server so it shows wrong version number. Set proxy by opening subl ~/.curlrc or use any other text editor. Then add the following line to file: proxy= proxyserver:proxyport For e.g. proxy = 10.8.0.1:8080

If you are not behind a proxy, make sure that the curlrc file does not contain the proxy settings.

Android Notification Sound

What was missing from my previous code:

Uri alarmSound = RingtoneManager.getDefaultUri(RingtoneManager.TYPE_NOTIFICATION);
builder.setSound(alarmSound);

Regular expression for validating names and surnames?

This somewhat helps:

^[a-zA-Z]'?([a-zA-Z]|\.| |-)+$

Transform DateTime into simple Date in Ruby on Rails

Try converting the entry to a string first. As long as the database column type is a date it will be formated as a date.

self.date || self.exif_date_time_original.to_s

Accessing AppDelegate from framework?

If you're creating a framework the whole idea is to make it portable. Tying a framework to the app delegate defeats the purpose of building a framework. What is it you need the app delegate for?

how to display excel sheet in html page

Note that Office Web Components are dead, see does-office-xp-web-components-compatable-with-windows-7. OWC was discontinued from XP onward for security reasons.

Since then, and only recently, Microsoft pushes Excel Web App as alternative (a poor alternative IMHO)

As a side note: Microsoft also deprecated the other way round, i.e. embedding the webbrowser control into an excel sheet, see adding-web-browser-control-to-excel-2013. As an alternative Microsoft offers Office Apps (a very limited alternative with respect to interfacing Excel and IE)

Background images: how to fill whole div if image is small and vice versa

Rather than giving background-size:100%;
We can give background-size:contain;
Check out this for different options avaliable: http://www.css3.info/preview/background-size/

jquery: $(window).scrollTop() but no $(window).scrollBottom()

var scrolltobottom = document.documentElement.scrollHeight - $(this).outerHeight() - $(this).scrollTop();

How to dynamic new Anonymous Class?

Of cause it's possible to create dynamic classes using very cool ExpandoObject class. But recently I worked on project and faced that Expando Object is serealized in not the same format on xml as an simple Anonymous class, it was pity =( , that is why I decided to create my own class and share it with you. It's using reflection and dynamic directive , builds Assembly, Class and Instance truly dynamicly. You can add, remove and change properties that is included in your class on fly Here it is :

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Reflection.Emit;
using static YourNamespace.DynamicTypeBuilderTest;

namespace YourNamespace
{

    /// This class builds Dynamic Anonymous Classes

    public class DynamicTypeBuilderTest
    {    
        ///   
        /// Create instance based on any Source class as example based on PersonalData
        ///
        public static object CreateAnonymousDynamicInstance(PersonalData personalData, Type dynamicType, List<ClassDescriptorKeyValue> classDescriptionList)
        {
            var obj = Activator.CreateInstance(dynamicType);

            var propInfos = dynamicType.GetProperties();

            classDescriptionList.ForEach(x => SetValueToProperty(obj, propInfos, personalData, x));

            return obj;
        }

        private static void SetValueToProperty(object obj, PropertyInfo[] propInfos, PersonalData aisMessage, ClassDescriptorKeyValue description)
        {
            propInfos.SingleOrDefault(x => x.Name == description.Name)?.SetValue(obj, description.ValueGetter(aisMessage), null);
        }

        public static dynamic CreateAnonymousDynamicType(string entityName, List<ClassDescriptorKeyValue> classDescriptionList)
        {
            AssemblyName asmName = new AssemblyName();
            asmName.Name = $"{entityName}Assembly";
            AssemblyBuilder assemblyBuilder = AssemblyBuilder.DefineDynamicAssembly(asmName, AssemblyBuilderAccess.RunAndCollect);

            ModuleBuilder moduleBuilder = assemblyBuilder.DefineDynamicModule($"{asmName.Name}Module");

            TypeBuilder typeBuilder = moduleBuilder.DefineType($"{entityName}Dynamic", TypeAttributes.Public);

            classDescriptionList.ForEach(x => CreateDynamicProperty(typeBuilder, x));

            return typeBuilder.CreateTypeInfo().AsType();
        }

        private static void CreateDynamicProperty(TypeBuilder typeBuilder, ClassDescriptorKeyValue description)
        {
            CreateDynamicProperty(typeBuilder, description.Name, description.Type);
        }

        ///
        ///Creation Dynamic property (from MSDN) with some Magic
        ///
        public static void CreateDynamicProperty(TypeBuilder typeBuilder, string name, Type propType)
        {
            FieldBuilder fieldBuider = typeBuilder.DefineField($"{name.ToLower()}Field",
                                                            propType,
                                                            FieldAttributes.Private);

            PropertyBuilder propertyBuilder = typeBuilder.DefineProperty(name,
                                                             PropertyAttributes.HasDefault,
                                                             propType,
                                                             null);

            MethodAttributes getSetAttr =
                MethodAttributes.Public | MethodAttributes.SpecialName |
                    MethodAttributes.HideBySig;

            MethodBuilder methodGetBuilder =
                typeBuilder.DefineMethod($"get_{name}",
                                           getSetAttr,
                                           propType,
                                           Type.EmptyTypes);

            ILGenerator methodGetIL = methodGetBuilder.GetILGenerator();

            methodGetIL.Emit(OpCodes.Ldarg_0);
            methodGetIL.Emit(OpCodes.Ldfld, fieldBuider);
            methodGetIL.Emit(OpCodes.Ret);

            MethodBuilder methodSetBuilder =
                typeBuilder.DefineMethod($"set_{name}",
                                           getSetAttr,
                                           null,
                                           new Type[] { propType });

            ILGenerator methodSetIL = methodSetBuilder.GetILGenerator();

            methodSetIL.Emit(OpCodes.Ldarg_0);
            methodSetIL.Emit(OpCodes.Ldarg_1);
            methodSetIL.Emit(OpCodes.Stfld, fieldBuider);
            methodSetIL.Emit(OpCodes.Ret);

            propertyBuilder.SetGetMethod(methodGetBuilder);
            propertyBuilder.SetSetMethod(methodSetBuilder);

        }

        public class ClassDescriptorKeyValue
        {
            public ClassDescriptorKeyValue(string name, Type type, Func<PersonalData, object> valueGetter)
            {
                Name = name;
                ValueGetter = valueGetter;
                Type = type;
            }

            public string Name;
            public Type Type;
            public Func<PersonalData, object> ValueGetter;
        }

        ///
        ///Your Custom class description based on any source class for example
        /// PersonalData
        public static IEnumerable<ClassDescriptorKeyValue> GetAnonymousClassDescription(bool includeAddress, bool includeFacebook)
        {
            yield return new ClassDescriptorKeyValue("Id", typeof(string), x => x.Id);
            yield return new ClassDescriptorKeyValue("Name", typeof(string), x => x.FirstName);
            yield return new ClassDescriptorKeyValue("Surname", typeof(string), x => x.LastName);
            yield return new ClassDescriptorKeyValue("Country", typeof(string), x => x.Country);
            yield return new ClassDescriptorKeyValue("Age", typeof(int?), x => x.Age);
            yield return new ClassDescriptorKeyValue("IsChild", typeof(bool), x => x.Age < 21);

            if (includeAddress)
                yield return new ClassDescriptorKeyValue("Address", typeof(string), x => x?.Contacts["Address"]);
            if (includeFacebook)
                yield return new ClassDescriptorKeyValue("Facebook", typeof(string), x => x?.Contacts["Facebook"]);
        }

        ///
        ///Source Data Class for example
        /// of cause you can use any other class
        public class PersonalData
        { 
            public int Id { get; set; }
            public string FirstName { get; set; }
            public string LastName { get; set; }
            public string Country { get; set; }
            public int Age { get; set; }

            public Dictionary<string, string> Contacts { get; set; }
        }

    }
}

It is also very simple to use DynamicTypeBuilder, you just need put few lines like this:

    public class ExampleOfUse
    {
        private readonly bool includeAddress;
        private readonly bool includeFacebook;
        private readonly dynamic dynamicType;
        private readonly List<ClassDescriptorKeyValue> classDiscriptionList;
        public ExampleOfUse(bool includeAddress = false, bool includeFacebook = false)
        {
            this.includeAddress = includeAddress;
            this.includeFacebook = includeFacebook;
            this.classDiscriptionList = DynamicTypeBuilderTest.GetAnonymousClassDescription(includeAddress, includeFacebook).ToList();
            this.dynamicType = DynamicTypeBuilderTest.CreateAnonymousDynamicType("VeryPrivateData", this.classDiscriptionList);
        }

        public object Map(PersonalData privateInfo)
        {
            object dynamicObject = DynamicTypeBuilderTest.CreateAnonymousDynamicInstance(privateInfo, this.dynamicType, classDiscriptionList);

            return dynamicObject;
        }

    }

I hope that this code snippet help somebody =) Enjoy!

What does "Fatal error: Unexpectedly found nil while unwrapping an Optional value" mean?

This question comes up ALL THE TIME on SO. It's one of the first things that new Swift developers struggle with.

Background:

Swift uses the concept of "Optionals" to deal with values that could contain a value, or not. In other languages like C, you might store a value of 0 in a variable to indicate that it contains no value. However, what if 0 is a valid value? Then you might use -1. What if -1 is a valid value? And so on.

Swift optionals let you set up a variable of any type to contain either a valid value, or no value.

You put a question mark after the type when you declare a variable to mean (type x, or no value).

An optional is actually a container than contains either a variable of a given type, or nothing.

An optional needs to be "unwrapped" in order to fetch the value inside.

The "!" operator is a "force unwrap" operator. It says "trust me. I know what I am doing. I guarantee that when this code runs, the variable will not contain nil." If you are wrong, you crash.

Unless you really do know what you are doing, avoid the "!" force unwrap operator. It is probably the largest source of crashes for beginning Swift programmers.

How to deal with optionals:

There are lots of other ways of dealing with optionals that are safer. Here are some (not an exhaustive list)

You can use "optional binding" or "if let" to say "if this optional contains a value, save that value into a new, non-optional variable. If the optional does not contain a value, skip the body of this if statement".

Here is an example of optional binding with our foo optional:

if let newFoo = foo //If let is called optional binding. {
  print("foo is not nil")
} else {
  print("foo is nil")
}

Note that the variable you define when you use optional biding only exists (is only "in scope") in the body of the if statement.

Alternately, you could use a guard statement, which lets you exit your function if the variable is nil:

func aFunc(foo: Int?) {
  guard let newFoo = input else { return }
  //For the rest of the function newFoo is a non-optional var
}

Guard statements were added in Swift 2. Guard lets you preserve the "golden path" through your code, and avoid ever-increasing levels of nested ifs that sometimes result from using "if let" optional binding.

There is also a construct called the "nil coalescing operator". It takes the form "optional_var ?? replacement_val". It returns a non-optional variable with the same type as the data contained in the optional. If the optional contains nil, it returns the value of the expression after the "??" symbol.

So you could use code like this:

let newFoo = foo ?? "nil" // "??" is the nil coalescing operator
print("foo = \(newFoo)")

You could also use try/catch or guard error handling, but generally one of the other techniques above is cleaner.

EDIT:

Another, slightly more subtle gotcha with optionals is "implicitly unwrapped optionals. When we declare foo, we could say:

var foo: String!

In that case foo is still an optional, but you don't have to unwrap it to reference it. That means any time you try to reference foo, you crash if it's nil.

So this code:

var foo: String!


let upperFoo = foo.capitalizedString

Will crash on reference to foo's capitalizedString property even though we're not force-unwrapping foo. the print looks fine, but it's not.

Thus you want to be really careful with implicitly unwrapped optionals. (and perhaps even avoid them completely until you have a solid understanding of optionals.)

Bottom line: When you are first learning Swift, pretend the "!" character is not part of the language. It's likely to get you into trouble.

Extracting a parameter from a URL in WordPress

Why not just use the WordPress get_query_var() function? WordPress Code Reference

// Test if the query exists at the URL
if ( get_query_var('ppc') ) {

    // If so echo the value
    echo get_query_var('ppc');

}

Since get_query_var can only access query parameters available to WP_Query, in order to access a custom query var like 'ppc', you will also need to register this query variable within your plugin or functions.php by adding an action during initialization:

add_action('init','add_get_val');
function add_get_val() { 
    global $wp; 
    $wp->add_query_var('ppc'); 
}

Or by adding a hook to the query_vars filter:

function add_query_vars_filter( $vars ){
  $vars[] = "ppc";
  return $vars;
}
add_filter( 'query_vars', 'add_query_vars_filter' );

Creating PHP class instance with a string

Yes, you can!

$str = 'One';
$class = 'Class'.$str;
$object = new $class();

When using namespaces, supply the fully qualified name:

$class = '\Foo\Bar\MyClass'; 
$instance = new $class();

Other cool stuff you can do in php are:
Variable variables:

$personCount = 123;
$varname = 'personCount';
echo $$varname; // echo's 123

And variable functions & methods.

$func = 'my_function';
$func('param1'); // calls my_function('param1');

$method = 'doStuff';
$object = new MyClass();
$object->$method(); // calls the MyClass->doStuff() method. 

Using % for host when creating a MySQL user

Going to provide a slightly different answer to those provided so far.

If you have a row for an anonymous user from localhost in your users table ''@'localhost' then this will be treated as more specific than your user with wildcard'd host 'user'@'%'. This is why it is necessary to also provide 'user'@'localhost'.

You can see this explained in more detail at the bottom of this page.

How does the stack work in assembly language?

I think primarily you're getting confused between a program's stack and any old stack.

A Stack

Is an abstract data structure which consists of information in a Last In First Out system. You put arbitrary objects onto the stack and then you take them off again, much like an in/out tray, the top item is always the one that is taken off and you always put on to the top.

A Programs Stack

Is a stack, it's a section of memory that is used during execution, it generally has a static size per program and frequently used to store function parameters. You push the parameters onto the stack when you call a function and the function either address the stack directly or pops off the variables from the stack.

A programs stack isn't generally hardware (though it's kept in memory so it can be argued as such), but the Stack Pointer which points to a current area of the Stack is generally a CPU register. This makes it a bit more flexible than a LIFO stack as you can change the point at which the stack is addressing.

You should read and make sure you understand the wikipedia article as it gives a good description of the Hardware Stack which is what you are dealing with.

There is also this tutorial which explains the stack in terms of the old 16bit registers but could be helpful and another one specifically about the stack.

From Nils Pipenbrinck:

It's worthy of note that some processors do not implement all of the instructions for accessing and manipulating the stack (push, pop, stack pointer, etc) but the x86 does because of it's frequency of use. In these situations if you wanted a stack you would have to implement it yourself (some MIPS and some ARM processors are created without stacks).

For example, in MIPs a push instruction would be implemented like:

addi $sp, $sp, -4  # Decrement stack pointer by 4  
sw   $t0, ($sp)   # Save $t0 to stack  

and a Pop instruction would look like:

lw   $t0, ($sp)   # Copy from stack to $t0  
addi $sp, $sp, 4   # Increment stack pointer by 4  

How to configure log4j with a properties file

Since JVM arguments are eventually passed to your java program as system variables, you can use this code at the beginning of your execution point to edit the property and have log4j read the property you just set in system properties

try {
        System.setProperty("log4j.configuration", new File(System.getProperty("user.dir")+File.separator+"conf"+File.separator+"log4j.properties").toURI().toURL().toString());
    } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

Authenticating in PHP using LDAP through Active Directory

For those looking for a complete example check out http://www.exchangecore.com/blog/how-use-ldap-active-directory-authentication-php/.

I have tested this connecting to both Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008 R2 domain controllers from a Windows Server 2003 Web Server (IIS6) and from a windows server 2012 enterprise running IIS 8.

Installing specific package versions with pip

Since this appeared to be a breaking change introduced in version 10 of pip, I downgraded to a compatible version:

pip install 'pip<10' 

This command tells pip to install a version of the module lower than version 10. Do this in a virutalenv so you don't screw up your site installation of Python.

Return the characters after Nth character in a string

Mid(strYourString, 4) (i.e. without the optional length argument) will return the substring starting from the 4th character and going to the end of the string.

How to get primary key of table?

SELECT kcu.column_name, kcu.ordinal_position
FROM   information_schema.table_constraints tc
INNER JOIN information_schema.key_column_usage kcu
ON     tc.CONSTRAINT_CATALOG = kcu.CONSTRAINT_CATALOG
AND    tc.CONSTRAINT_SCHEMA = kcu.CONSTRAINT_SCHEMA
AND    tc.CONSTRAINT_NAME = kcu.CONSTRAINT_NAME
WHERE  tc.table_schema = schema()             -- only look in the current schema
AND    tc.constraint_type = 'PRIMARY KEY'
AND    tc.table_name = '<your-table-name>'    -- specify your table.
ORDER BY kcu.ordinal_position

Using colors with printf

This is a small program to get different color on terminal.

#include <stdio.h>

#define KNRM  "\x1B[0m"
#define KRED  "\x1B[31m"
#define KGRN  "\x1B[32m"
#define KYEL  "\x1B[33m"
#define KBLU  "\x1B[34m"
#define KMAG  "\x1B[35m"
#define KCYN  "\x1B[36m"
#define KWHT  "\x1B[37m"

int main()
{
    printf("%sred\n", KRED);
    printf("%sgreen\n", KGRN);
    printf("%syellow\n", KYEL);
    printf("%sblue\n", KBLU);
    printf("%smagenta\n", KMAG);
    printf("%scyan\n", KCYN);
    printf("%swhite\n", KWHT);
    printf("%snormal\n", KNRM);

    return 0;
}

SQL Server Insert if not exists

The INSERT command doesn't have a WHERE clause - you'll have to write it like this:

ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[EmailsRecebidosInsert]
  (@_DE nvarchar(50),
   @_ASSUNTO nvarchar(50),
   @_DATA nvarchar(30) )
AS
BEGIN
   IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM EmailsRecebidos 
                   WHERE De = @_DE
                   AND Assunto = @_ASSUNTO
                   AND Data = @_DATA)
   BEGIN
       INSERT INTO EmailsRecebidos (De, Assunto, Data)
       VALUES (@_DE, @_ASSUNTO, @_DATA)
   END
END

Correct use of flush() in JPA/Hibernate

Actually, em.flush(), do more than just sends the cached SQL commands. It tries to synchronize the persistence context to the underlying database. It can cause a lot of time consumption on your processes if your cache contains collections to be synchronized.

Caution on using it.

Update elements in a JSONObject

Hello I can suggest you universal method. use recursion.

    public static JSONObject function(JSONObject obj, String keyMain,String valueMain, String newValue) throws Exception {
    // We need to know keys of Jsonobject
    JSONObject json = new JSONObject()
    Iterator iterator = obj.keys();
    String key = null;
    while (iterator.hasNext()) {
        key = (String) iterator.next();
        // if object is just string we change value in key
        if ((obj.optJSONArray(key)==null) && (obj.optJSONObject(key)==null)) {
            if ((key.equals(keyMain)) && (obj.get(key).toString().equals(valueMain))) {
                // put new value
                obj.put(key, newValue);
                return obj;
            }
        }

        // if it's jsonobject
        if (obj.optJSONObject(key) != null) {
            function(obj.getJSONObject(key), keyMain, valueMain, newValue);
        }

        // if it's jsonarray
        if (obj.optJSONArray(key) != null) {
            JSONArray jArray = obj.getJSONArray(key);
            for (int i=0;i<jArray.length();i++) {
                    function(jArray.getJSONObject(i), keyMain, valueMain, newValue);
            }
        }
    }
    return obj;
}

It should work. If you have questions, go ahead.. I'm ready.

Converting a year from 4 digit to 2 digit and back again in C#

This should work for you:

public int Get4LetterYear(int twoLetterYear)
{
    int firstTwoDigits =
        Convert.ToInt32(DateTime.Now.Year.ToString().Substring(2, 2));
    return Get4LetterYear(twoLetterYear, firstTwoDigits);
}

public int Get4LetterYear(int twoLetterYear, int firstTwoDigits)
{
    return Convert.ToInt32(firstTwoDigits.ToString() + twoLetterYear.ToString());
}

public int Get2LetterYear(int fourLetterYear)
{
    return Convert.ToInt32(fourLetterYear.ToString().Substring(2, 2));
}

I don't think there are any special built-in stuff in .NET.

Update: It's missing some validation that you maybe should do. Validate length of inputted variables, and so on.