Programs & Examples On #Controlbox

How to hide only the Close (x) button?

If you really want to hide it, as in "not visible", then you will probably have to create a borderless form and draw the caption components yourself. VisualStyles library has the Windows Elements available. You would also have to add back in the functionality of re-sizing the form or moving the form by grabbing the caption bar. Not to mention the system menu in the corner.

In most cases, it's hard to justify having the "close" button not available, especially when you want a modal form with minimizing capabilities. Minimizing a modal form really makes no sense.

Arithmetic overflow error converting numeric to data type numeric

check your value which you want to store in integer column. I think this is greater then range of integer. if you want to store value greater then integer range. you should use bigint datatype

Android Center text on canvas

Add these to your onDraw method:

paint.setColor(getContext().getResources().getColor(R.color.black));
paint.setTextAlign(Paint.Align.CENTER);
canvas.drawText("Text", (float) getHeight() / 2f, (float) getWidth() / 2f, paint);

Set a default font for whole iOS app?

Developing from Hugues BR answer but using method swizzling I've arrived to a solution that is successfully changing all the fonts to a desired font in my app.

An approach with Dynamic Type should be what you should look for on iOS 7. The following solution is not using Dynamic Type.


Notes:

  • the code below, in its presented state, was never submitted to Apple approval;
  • there is a shorter version of it that passed Apple submission, that is without the - initWithCoder: override. However that won't cover all the cases;
  • the following code is present in a class I use to set the style of my app which is included by my AppDelegate class thus being available everywhere and to all UIFont instances;
  • I'm using Zapfino here just to make the changes much more visible;
  • any improvement you may find to this code is welcome.

This solution uses two different methods to achieve the final result. The first is override the UIFont class methods + systemFontWithSize: and similar with ones that use my alternatives (here I use "Zapfino" to leave no doubts that the replacement was successful).

The other method is to override - initWithCoder: method on UIFont to replace any occurrence of CTFontRegularUsage and similar by my alternatives. This last method was necessary because I've found that UILabel objects encoded in NIB files don't check the + systemFontWithSize: methods to get their system font and instead encode them as UICTFontDescriptor objects. I've tried to override - awakeAfterUsingCoder: but somehow it was getting called for every encoded object in my storyboard and causing crashes. Overriding - awakeFromNib wouldn't allow me to read the NSCoder object.

#import <objc/runtime.h>

NSString *const FORegularFontName = @"Zapfino";
NSString *const FOBoldFontName = @"Zapfino";
NSString *const FOItalicFontName = @"Zapfino";

#pragma mark - UIFont category
@implementation UIFont (CustomFonts)

#pragma clang diagnostic push
#pragma clang diagnostic ignored "-Wobjc-protocol-method-implementation"
+ (void)replaceClassSelector:(SEL)originalSelector withSelector:(SEL)modifiedSelector {
    Method originalMethod = class_getClassMethod(self, originalSelector);
    Method modifiedMethod = class_getClassMethod(self, modifiedSelector);
    method_exchangeImplementations(originalMethod, modifiedMethod);
}

+ (void)replaceInstanceSelector:(SEL)originalSelector withSelector:(SEL)modifiedSelector {
    Method originalDecoderMethod = class_getInstanceMethod(self, originalSelector);
    Method modifiedDecoderMethod = class_getInstanceMethod(self, modifiedSelector);
    method_exchangeImplementations(originalDecoderMethod, modifiedDecoderMethod);
}

+ (UIFont *)regularFontWithSize:(CGFloat)size
{
    return [UIFont fontWithName:FORegularFontName size:size];
}

+ (UIFont *)boldFontWithSize:(CGFloat)size
{
    return [UIFont fontWithName:FOBoldFontName size:size];
}

+ (UIFont *)italicFontOfSize:(CGFloat)fontSize
{
    return [UIFont fontWithName:FOItalicFontName size:fontSize];
}

- (id)initCustomWithCoder:(NSCoder *)aDecoder {
    BOOL result = [aDecoder containsValueForKey:@"UIFontDescriptor"];

    if (result) {
        UIFontDescriptor *descriptor = [aDecoder decodeObjectForKey:@"UIFontDescriptor"];

        NSString *fontName;
        if ([descriptor.fontAttributes[@"NSCTFontUIUsageAttribute"] isEqualToString:@"CTFontRegularUsage"]) {
            fontName = FORegularFontName;
        }
        else if ([descriptor.fontAttributes[@"NSCTFontUIUsageAttribute"] isEqualToString:@"CTFontEmphasizedUsage"]) {
            fontName = FOBoldFontName;
        }
        else if ([descriptor.fontAttributes[@"NSCTFontUIUsageAttribute"] isEqualToString:@"CTFontObliqueUsage"]) {
            fontName = FOItalicFontName;
        }
        else {
            fontName = descriptor.fontAttributes[@"NSFontNameAttribute"];
        }

        return [UIFont fontWithName:fontName size:descriptor.pointSize];
    }

    self = [self initCustomWithCoder:aDecoder];

    return self;
}

+ (void)load
{
    [self replaceClassSelector:@selector(systemFontOfSize:) withSelector:@selector(regularFontWithSize:)];
    [self replaceClassSelector:@selector(boldSystemFontOfSize:) withSelector:@selector(boldFontWithSize:)];
    [self replaceClassSelector:@selector(italicSystemFontOfSize:) withSelector:@selector(italicFontOfSize:)];

    [self replaceInstanceSelector:@selector(initWithCoder:) withSelector:@selector(initCustomWithCoder:)];
}
#pragma clang diagnostic pop

@end

Display images in asp.net mvc

It is possible to use a handler to do this, even in MVC4. Here's an example from one i made earlier:

public class ImageHandler : IHttpHandler
{
    byte[] bytes;

    public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)
    {
        int param;
        if (int.TryParse(context.Request.QueryString["id"], out param))
        {
            using (var db = new MusicLibContext())
            {
                if (param == -1)
                {
                    bytes = File.ReadAllBytes(HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath("~/Images/add.png"));

                    context.Response.ContentType = "image/png";
                }
                else
                {
                    var data = (from x in db.Images
                                where x.ImageID == (short)param
                                select x).FirstOrDefault();

                    bytes = data.ImageData;

                    context.Response.ContentType = "image/" + data.ImageFileType;
                }

                context.Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache);
                context.Response.BinaryWrite(bytes);
                context.Response.Flush();
                context.Response.End();
            }
        }
        else
        {
            //image not found
        }
    }

    public bool IsReusable
    {
        get
        {
            return false;
        }
    }
}

In the view, i added the ID of the photo to the query string of the handler.

Pandas index column title or name

You can just get/set the index via its name property

In [7]: df.index.name
Out[7]: 'Index Title'

In [8]: df.index.name = 'foo'

In [9]: df.index.name
Out[9]: 'foo'

In [10]: df
Out[10]: 
         Column 1
foo              
Apples          1
Oranges         2
Puppies         3
Ducks           4

How are iloc and loc different?

iloc works based on integer positioning. So no matter what your row labels are, you can always, e.g., get the first row by doing

df.iloc[0]

or the last five rows by doing

df.iloc[-5:]

You can also use it on the columns. This retrieves the 3rd column:

df.iloc[:, 2]    # the : in the first position indicates all rows

You can combine them to get intersections of rows and columns:

df.iloc[:3, :3] # The upper-left 3 X 3 entries (assuming df has 3+ rows and columns)

On the other hand, .loc use named indices. Let's set up a data frame with strings as row and column labels:

df = pd.DataFrame(index=['a', 'b', 'c'], columns=['time', 'date', 'name'])

Then we can get the first row by

df.loc['a']     # equivalent to df.iloc[0]

and the second two rows of the 'date' column by

df.loc['b':, 'date']   # equivalent to df.iloc[1:, 1]

and so on. Now, it's probably worth pointing out that the default row and column indices for a DataFrame are integers from 0 and in this case iloc and loc would work in the same way. This is why your three examples are equivalent. If you had a non-numeric index such as strings or datetimes, df.loc[:5] would raise an error.

Also, you can do column retrieval just by using the data frame's __getitem__:

df['time']    # equivalent to df.loc[:, 'time']

Now suppose you want to mix position and named indexing, that is, indexing using names on rows and positions on columns (to clarify, I mean select from our data frame, rather than creating a data frame with strings in the row index and integers in the column index). This is where .ix comes in:

df.ix[:2, 'time']    # the first two rows of the 'time' column

I think it's also worth mentioning that you can pass boolean vectors to the loc method as well. For example:

 b = [True, False, True]
 df.loc[b] 

Will return the 1st and 3rd rows of df. This is equivalent to df[b] for selection, but it can also be used for assigning via boolean vectors:

df.loc[b, 'name'] = 'Mary', 'John'

Chrome - ERR_CACHE_MISS

If you are using WebView in Android developing the problem is that you didn't add uses permission

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

vba pass a group of cells as range to function

As I'm beginner for vba, I'm willing to get a deep knowledge of vba of how all excel in-built functions work form there back.

So as on the above question I have putted my basic efforts.

Function multi_add(a As Range, ParamArray b() As Variant) As Double

    Dim ele As Variant

    Dim i As Long

    For Each ele In a
        multi_add = a + ele.Value **- a**
    Next ele

    For i = LBound(b) To UBound(b)
        For Each ele In b(i)
            multi_add = multi_add + ele.Value
        Next ele
    Next i

End Function

- a: This is subtracted for above code cause a count doubles itself so what values you adds it will add first value twice.

How to initialize weights in PyTorch?

Iterate over parameters

If you cannot use apply for instance if the model does not implement Sequential directly:

Same for all

# see UNet at https://github.com/milesial/Pytorch-UNet/tree/master/unet


def init_all(model, init_func, *params, **kwargs):
    for p in model.parameters():
        init_func(p, *params, **kwargs)

model = UNet(3, 10)
init_all(model, torch.nn.init.normal_, mean=0., std=1) 
# or
init_all(model, torch.nn.init.constant_, 1.) 

Depending on shape

def init_all(model, init_funcs):
    for p in model.parameters():
        init_func = init_funcs.get(len(p.shape), init_funcs["default"])
        init_func(p)

model = UNet(3, 10)
init_funcs = {
    1: lambda x: torch.nn.init.normal_(x, mean=0., std=1.), # can be bias
    2: lambda x: torch.nn.init.xavier_normal_(x, gain=1.), # can be weight
    3: lambda x: torch.nn.init.xavier_uniform_(x, gain=1.), # can be conv1D filter
    4: lambda x: torch.nn.init.xavier_uniform_(x, gain=1.), # can be conv2D filter
    "default": lambda x: torch.nn.init.constant(x, 1.), # everything else
}

init_all(model, init_funcs)

You can try with torch.nn.init.constant_(x, len(x.shape)) to check that they are appropriately initialized:

init_funcs = {
    "default": lambda x: torch.nn.init.constant_(x, len(x.shape))
}

Getting the closest string match

I contest that choice B is closer to the test string, as it's only 4 characters(and 2 deletes) from being the original string. Whereas you see C as closer because it includes both brown and red. It would, however, have a greater edit distance.

There is an algorithm called Levenshtein Distance which measures the edit distance between two inputs.

Here is a tool for that algorithm.

  1. Rates choice A as a distance of 15.
  2. Rates choice B as a distance of 6.
  3. Rates choice C as a distance of 9.

EDIT: Sorry, I keep mixing strings in the levenshtein tool. Updated to correct answers.

Access a global variable in a PHP function

If you want, you can use the "define" function, but this function creates a constant which can't be changed once defined.

<?php
    define("GREETING", "Welcome to W3Schools.com!");

    function myTest() {
        echo GREETING;
    }

    myTest();
?>

PHP Constants

Remove all files in a directory

star is expanded by Unix shell. Your call is not accessing shell, it's merely trying to remove a file with the name ending with the star

Docker is installed but Docker Compose is not ? why?

I'm installing on a Raspberry Pi 3, with Raspbian 8. The curl method failed for me (got a line 1: Not: command not found error upon asking for docker-compose --version) and the solution of @sunapi386 seemed a little out-dated, so I tried this which worked:

First clean things up from previous efforts:

sudo rm /usr/local/bin/docker-compose
sudo pip uninstall docker-compose

Then follow this guidance re docker-compose on Rpi:

sudo apt-get -y install python-pip
sudo pip install docker-compose

For me (on 1 Nov 2017) this results in the following response to docker-compose --version:

docker-compose version 1.16.1, build 6d1ac219

How do I get LaTeX to hyphenate a word that contains a dash?

To avoid hyphenation in already hyphenated word I used non-breaking space ~ in combination with backward space \!. For example, command

3~\!\!\!\!-~\!\!\!D

used in the text, suppress hyphenation in word 3-D. Probably not the best solution, but it worked for me!

"Cannot start compilation: the output path is not specified for module..."

Two things to do:

  1. Project Settings > Project compiler output > Set it as "Project path(You actual project's path)”+”\out”.

  2. Project Settings > Module > Path > Choose "Inherit project compile path"

Maven- No plugin found for prefix 'spring-boot' in the current project and in the plugin groups

If you don't want to use

<parent>
  <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
  <version>(...)</version>
</parent>

as a parent POM, you may use the

mvn org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-maven-plugin:run

command instead.

how to achieve transfer file between client and server using java socket

Reading quickly through the source it seems that you're not far off. The following link should help (I did something similar but for FTP). For a file send from server to client, you start off with a file instance and an array of bytes. You then read the File into the byte array and write the byte array to the OutputStream which corresponds with the InputStream on the client's side.

http://www.rgagnon.com/javadetails/java-0542.html

Edit: Here's a working ultra-minimalistic file sender and receiver. Make sure you understand what the code is doing on both sides.

package filesendtest;

import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;

class TCPServer {

    private final static String fileToSend = "C:\\test1.pdf";

    public static void main(String args[]) {

        while (true) {
            ServerSocket welcomeSocket = null;
            Socket connectionSocket = null;
            BufferedOutputStream outToClient = null;

            try {
                welcomeSocket = new ServerSocket(3248);
                connectionSocket = welcomeSocket.accept();
                outToClient = new BufferedOutputStream(connectionSocket.getOutputStream());
            } catch (IOException ex) {
                // Do exception handling
            }

            if (outToClient != null) {
                File myFile = new File( fileToSend );
                byte[] mybytearray = new byte[(int) myFile.length()];

                FileInputStream fis = null;

                try {
                    fis = new FileInputStream(myFile);
                } catch (FileNotFoundException ex) {
                    // Do exception handling
                }
                BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(fis);

                try {
                    bis.read(mybytearray, 0, mybytearray.length);
                    outToClient.write(mybytearray, 0, mybytearray.length);
                    outToClient.flush();
                    outToClient.close();
                    connectionSocket.close();

                    // File sent, exit the main method
                    return;
                } catch (IOException ex) {
                    // Do exception handling
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

package filesendtest;

import java.io.*;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.net.*;

class TCPClient {

    private final static String serverIP = "127.0.0.1";
    private final static int serverPort = 3248;
    private final static String fileOutput = "C:\\testout.pdf";

    public static void main(String args[]) {
        byte[] aByte = new byte[1];
        int bytesRead;

        Socket clientSocket = null;
        InputStream is = null;

        try {
            clientSocket = new Socket( serverIP , serverPort );
            is = clientSocket.getInputStream();
        } catch (IOException ex) {
            // Do exception handling
        }

        ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

        if (is != null) {

            FileOutputStream fos = null;
            BufferedOutputStream bos = null;
            try {
                fos = new FileOutputStream( fileOutput );
                bos = new BufferedOutputStream(fos);
                bytesRead = is.read(aByte, 0, aByte.length);

                do {
                        baos.write(aByte);
                        bytesRead = is.read(aByte);
                } while (bytesRead != -1);

                bos.write(baos.toByteArray());
                bos.flush();
                bos.close();
                clientSocket.close();
            } catch (IOException ex) {
                // Do exception handling
            }
        }
    }
}

Related

Byte array of unknown length in java

Edit: The following could be used to fingerprint small files before and after transfer (use SHA if you feel it's necessary):

public static String md5String(File file) {
    try {
        InputStream fin = new FileInputStream(file);
        java.security.MessageDigest md5er = MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5");
        byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
        int read;
        do {
            read = fin.read(buffer);
            if (read > 0) {
                md5er.update(buffer, 0, read);
            }
        } while (read != -1);
        fin.close();
        byte[] digest = md5er.digest();
        if (digest == null) {
            return null;
        }
        String strDigest = "0x";
        for (int i = 0; i < digest.length; i++) {
            strDigest += Integer.toString((digest[i] & 0xff)
                    + 0x100, 16).substring(1).toUpperCase();
        }
        return strDigest;
    } catch (Exception e) {
        return null;
    }
}

XML Parser for C

How about one written in pure assembler :-) Don't forget to check out the benchmarks.

Most efficient way to check if a file is empty in Java on Windows

Why not just use:

File file = new File("test.txt");

if (file.length() == 0) {
    // file empty
} else {
    // not empty
}

Is there something wrong with it?

jQuery Validate Plugin - Trigger validation of single field

For some reason, some of the other methods don't work until the field has been focused/blured/changed, or a submit has been attempted... this works for me.

$("#formid").data('validator').element('#element').valid();

Had to dig through the jquery.validate script to find it...

How can I remove punctuation from input text in Java?

You may try this:-

Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.println("Type a sentence and press enter.");
String input = scan.nextLine();
String strippedInput = input.replaceAll("\\W", "");
System.out.println("Your string: " + strippedInput);

[^\w] matches a non-word character, so the above regular expression will match and remove all non-word characters.

C++11 reverse range-based for-loop

If not using C++14, then I find below the simplest solution.

#define METHOD(NAME, ...) auto NAME __VA_ARGS__ -> decltype(m_T.r##NAME) { return m_T.r##NAME; }
template<typename T>
struct Reverse
{
  T& m_T;

  METHOD(begin());
  METHOD(end());
  METHOD(begin(), const);
  METHOD(end(), const);
};
#undef METHOD

template<typename T>
Reverse<T> MakeReverse (T& t) { return Reverse<T>{t}; }

Demo.
It doesn't work for the containers/data-types (like array), which doesn't have begin/rbegin, end/rend functions.

What does the "static" modifier after "import" mean?

See Documentation

The static import declaration is analogous to the normal import declaration. Where the normal import declaration imports classes from packages, allowing them to be used without package qualification, the static import declaration imports static members from classes, allowing them to be used without class qualification.

So when should you use static import? Very sparingly! Only use it when you'd otherwise be tempted to declare local copies of constants, or to abuse inheritance (the Constant Interface Antipattern). In other words, use it when you require frequent access to static members from one or two classes. If you overuse the static import feature, it can make your program unreadable and unmaintainable, polluting its namespace with all the static members you import. Readers of your code (including you, a few months after you wrote it) will not know which class a static member comes from. Importing all of the static members from a class can be particularly harmful to readability; if you need only one or two members, import them individually. Used appropriately, static import can make your program more readable, by removing the boilerplate of repetition of class names.

How do you round a double in Dart to a given degree of precision AFTER the decimal point?

double value = 2.8032739273;
String formattedValue = value.toStringAsFixed(3);

Java, return if trimmed String in List contains String

Try this:

for(String str: myList) {
    if(str.trim().equals("A"))
       return true;
}
return false;

You need to use str.equals or str.equalsIgnoreCase instead of contains because contains in string works not the same as contains in List

List<String> s = Arrays.asList("BAB", "SAB", "DAS");
s.contains("A"); // false
"BAB".contains("A"); // true

Datatables Select All Checkbox

I made a simple implementation of this functionality using fontawesome, also taking advantage of the Select Extension, this covers select all, deselect some items, deselect all. https://codepen.io/pakogn/pen/jJryLo

HTML:

<table id="example" class="display" style="width:100%">
    <thead>
        <tr>
            <th>
                <button style="border: none; background: transparent; font-size: 14px;" id="MyTableCheckAllButton">
                <i class="far fa-square"></i>  
                </button>
            </th>
            <th>Name</th>
            <th>Position</th>
            <th>Office</th>
            <th>Age</th>
            <th>Salary</th>
        </tr>
    </thead>
    <tbody>
        <tr>
            <td></td>
            <td>Tiger Nixon</td>
            <td>System Architect</td>
            <td>Edinburgh</td>
            <td>61</td>
            <td>$320,800</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td></td>
            <td>Garrett Winters</td>
            <td>Accountant</td>
            <td>Tokyo</td>
            <td>63</td>
            <td>$170,750</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td></td>
            <td>Ashton Cox</td>
            <td>Junior Technical Author</td>
            <td>San Francisco</td>
            <td>66</td>
            <td>$86,000</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td></td>
            <td>Cedric Kelly</td>
            <td>Senior Javascript Developer</td>
            <td>Edinburgh</td>
            <td>22</td>
            <td>$433,060</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td></td>
            <td>Airi Satou</td>
            <td>Accountant</td>
            <td>Tokyo</td>
            <td>33</td>
            <td>$162,700</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td></td>
            <td>Brielle Williamson</td>
            <td>Integration Specialist</td>
            <td>New York</td>
            <td>61</td>
            <td>$372,000</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td></td>
            <td>Herrod Chandler</td>
            <td>Sales Assistant</td>
            <td>San Francisco</td>
            <td>59</td>
            <td>$137,500</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td></td>
            <td>Rhona Davidson</td>
            <td>Integration Specialist</td>
            <td>Tokyo</td>
            <td>55</td>
            <td>$327,900</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td></td>
            <td>Colleen Hurst</td>
            <td>Javascript Developer</td>
            <td>San Francisco</td>
            <td>39</td>
            <td>$205,500</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td></td>
            <td>Sonya Frost</td>
            <td>Software Engineer</td>
            <td>Edinburgh</td>
            <td>23</td>
            <td>$103,600</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td></td>
            <td>Jena Gaines</td>
            <td>Office Manager</td>
            <td>London</td>
            <td>30</td>
            <td>$90,560</td>
        </tr>
    </tbody>
    <tfoot>
        <tr>
            <th></th>
            <th>Name</th>
            <th>Position</th>
            <th>Office</th>
            <th>Age</th>
            <th>Salary</th>
        </tr>
    </tfoot>
</table>

Javascript:

$(document).ready(function() {
    let myTable = $('#example').DataTable({
        columnDefs: [{
            orderable: false,
            className: 'select-checkbox',
            targets: 0,
        }],
        select: {
            style: 'os', // 'single', 'multi', 'os', 'multi+shift'
            selector: 'td:first-child',
        },
        order: [
            [1, 'asc'],
        ],
    });

    $('#MyTableCheckAllButton').click(function() {
        if (myTable.rows({
                selected: true
            }).count() > 0) {
            myTable.rows().deselect();
            return;
        }

        myTable.rows().select();
    });

    myTable.on('select deselect', function(e, dt, type, indexes) {
        if (type === 'row') {
            // We may use dt instead of myTable to have the freshest data.
            if (dt.rows().count() === dt.rows({
                    selected: true
                }).count()) {
                // Deselect all items button.
                $('#MyTableCheckAllButton i').attr('class', 'far fa-check-square');
                return;
            }

            if (dt.rows({
                    selected: true
                }).count() === 0) {
                // Select all items button.
                $('#MyTableCheckAllButton i').attr('class', 'far fa-square');
                return;
            }

            // Deselect some items button.
            $('#MyTableCheckAllButton i').attr('class', 'far fa-minus-square');
        }
    });
});

Working around MySQL error "Deadlock found when trying to get lock; try restarting transaction"

The answer is correct, however the perl documentation on how to handle deadlocks is a bit sparse and perhaps confusing with PrintError, RaiseError and HandleError options. It seems that rather than going with HandleError, use on Print and Raise and then use something like Try:Tiny to wrap your code and check for errors. The below code gives an example where the db code is inside a while loop that will re-execute an errored sql statement every 3 seconds. The catch block gets $_ which is the specific err message. I pass this to a handler function "dbi_err_handler" which checks $_ against a host of errors and returns 1 if the code should continue (thereby breaking the loop) or 0 if its a deadlock and should be retried...

$sth = $dbh->prepare($strsql);
my $db_res=0;
while($db_res==0)
{
   $db_res=1;
   try{$sth->execute($param1,$param2);}
   catch
   {
       print "caught $_ in insertion to hd_item_upc for upc $upc\n";
       $db_res=dbi_err_handler($_); 
       if($db_res==0){sleep 3;}
   }
}

dbi_err_handler should have at least the following:

sub dbi_err_handler
{
    my($message) = @_;
    if($message=~ m/DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Deadlock found when trying to get lock; try restarting transaction/)
    {
       $caught=1;
       $retval=0; # we'll check this value and sleep/re-execute if necessary
    }
    return $retval;
}

You should include other errors you wish to handle and set $retval depending on whether you'd like to re-execute or continue..

Hope this helps someone -

What is the best way to add options to a select from a JavaScript object with jQuery?

Most of the other answers use the each function to iterate over the selectValues. This requires that append be called into for each element and a reflow gets triggered when each is added individually.

Updating this answer to a more idiomatic functional method (using modern JS) can be formed to call append only once, with an array of option elements created using map and an Option element constructor.

Using an Option DOM element should reduce function call overhead as the option element doesn't need to be updated after creation and jQuery's parsing logic need not run.

$('mySelect').append($.map(selectValues, (k, v) => new Option(k, v)))

This can be simplified further if you make a factory utility function that will new up an option object:

const newoption = (...args) => new Option(...args)

Then this can be provided directly to map:

$('mySelect').append($.map(selectValues, newoption))

Previous Formulation

Because append also allows passing values as a variable number of arguments, we can precreate the list of option elements map and append them as arguments in a single call by using apply.

$.fn.append.apply($('mySelect'), $.map(selectValues, (k, v) => $("<option/>").val(k).text(v)));

It looks like that in later versions of jQuery, append also accepts an array argument and this can be simplified somewhat:

$('mySelect').append($.map(selectValues, (k, v) => $("<option/>").val(k).text(v)))

Does Visual Studio Code have box select/multi-line edit?

Box Selecting

Windows & Linux: Shift + Alt + 'Mouse Left Button'

macOS: Shift + option + 'Click'

Esc to exit selection.

MacOS: Shift + Alt/Option + Command + 'arrow key'

Label points in geom_point

Instead of using the ifelse as in the above example, one can also prefilter the data prior to labeling based on some threshold values, this saves a lot of work for the plotting device:

xlimit <- 36
ylimit <- 24
ggplot(myData)+geom_point(aes(myX,myY))+
    geom_label(data=myData[myData$myX > xlimit & myData$myY> ylimit,], aes(myX,myY,myLabel))

How to Sign an Already Compiled Apk

fastest way is by signing with the debug keystore:

jarsigner -verbose -sigalg SHA1withRSA -digestalg SHA1 -keystore ~/.android/debug.keystore app.apk androiddebugkey -storepass android

or on Windows:

jarsigner -verbose -sigalg SHA1withRSA -digestalg SHA1 -keystore %USERPROFILE%/.android/debug.keystore test.apk androiddebugkey -storepass android

MySql Query Replace NULL with Empty String in Select

SELECT COALESCE(prereq, '') FROM test

Coalesce will return the first non-null argument passed to it from left to right. If all arguemnts are null, it'll return null, but we're forcing an empty string there, so no null values will be returned.

Also note that the COALESCE operator is supported in standard SQL. This is not the case of IFNULL. So it is a good practice to get use the former. Additionally, bear in mind that COALESCE supports more than 2 parameters and it will iterate over them until a non-null coincidence is found.

Target a css class inside another css class

Not certain what the HTML looks like (that would help with answers). If it's

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

then simply remove the space in your css. A la...

.testimonials.content { css here }

UPDATE:

Okay, after seeing HTML see if this works...

.testimonials .wrapper .content { css here }

or just

.testimonials .wrapper { css here }

or

.desc-container .wrapper { css here }

all 3 should work.

Curl Command to Repeat URL Request

You could use URL sequence substitution with a dummy query string (if you want to use CURL and save a few keystrokes):

curl http://www.myurl.com/?[1-20]

If you have other query strings in your URL, assign the sequence to a throwaway variable:

curl http://www.myurl.com/?myVar=111&fakeVar=[1-20]

Check out the URL section on the man page: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html

.c vs .cc vs. .cpp vs .hpp vs .h vs .cxx

I use ".hpp" for C++ headers and ".h" for C language headers. The ".hpp" reminds me that the file contains statements for the C++ language which are not valid for the C language, such as "class" declarations.

Why does writeObject throw java.io.NotSerializableException and how do I fix it?

Make the class serializable by implementing the interface java.io.Serializable.

  • java.io.Serializable - Marker Interface which does not have any methods in it.
  • Purpose of Marker Interface - to tell the ObjectOutputStream that this object is a serializable object.

html5 localStorage error with Safari: "QUOTA_EXCEEDED_ERR: DOM Exception 22: An attempt was made to add something to storage that exceeded the quota."

To expand on others' answers, here is a compact solution that doesn't expose/add any new variables. It doesn't cover all bases, but it should suit most people who just want a single page app to remain functional (despite no data persistence after reload).

(function(){
    try {
        localStorage.setItem('_storage_test', 'test');
        localStorage.removeItem('_storage_test');
    } catch (exc){
        var tmp_storage = {};
        var p = '__unique__';  // Prefix all keys to avoid matching built-ins
        Storage.prototype.setItem = function(k, v){
            tmp_storage[p + k] = v;
        };
        Storage.prototype.getItem = function(k){
            return tmp_storage[p + k] === undefined ? null : tmp_storage[p + k];
        };
        Storage.prototype.removeItem = function(k){
            delete tmp_storage[p + k];
        };
        Storage.prototype.clear = function(){
            tmp_storage = {};
        };
    }
})();

How to open a WPF Popup when another control is clicked, using XAML markup only?

I did something simple, but it works.

I used a typical ToggleButton, which I restyled as a textblock by changing its control template. Then I just bound the IsChecked property on the ToggleButton to the IsOpen property on the popup. Popup has some properties like StaysOpen that let you modify the closing behavior.

The following works in XamlPad.

 <StackPanel>
  <ToggleButton Name="button"> 
    <ToggleButton.Template>
      <ControlTemplate TargetType="ToggleButton">
        <TextBlock>Click Me Here!!</TextBlock>
      </ControlTemplate>      
    </ToggleButton.Template>
  </ToggleButton>
  <Popup IsOpen="{Binding IsChecked, ElementName=button}" StaysOpen="False">
    <Border Background="LightYellow">
      <TextBlock>I'm the popup</TextBlock>
    </Border>
  </Popup> 
 </StackPanel>

Where should I put <script> tags in HTML markup?

You can place most of <script> references at the end of <body>,
But If there are active components on your page which are using external scripts,
then their dependency (js files) should come before that (ideally in head tag).

How to export the Html Tables data into PDF using Jspdf

Just follow these steps i can assure pdf file will be generated

    <html>
    <head>

    <title>Exporting table data to pdf Example</title>


    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.3.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="js/jspdf.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="js/from_html.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="js/split_text_to_size.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="js/standard_fonts_metrics.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="js/cell.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="js/FileSaver.js"></script>


    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(document).ready(function() {

            $("#exportpdf").click(function() {
                var pdf = new jsPDF('p', 'pt', 'ledger');
                // source can be HTML-formatted string, or a reference
                // to an actual DOM element from which the text will be scraped.
                source = $('#yourTableIdName')[0];

                // we support special element handlers. Register them with jQuery-style 
                // ID selector for either ID or node name. ("#iAmID", "div", "span" etc.)
                // There is no support for any other type of selectors 
                // (class, of compound) at this time.
                specialElementHandlers = {
                    // element with id of "bypass" - jQuery style selector
                    '#bypassme' : function(element, renderer) {
                        // true = "handled elsewhere, bypass text extraction"
                        return true
                    }
                };
                margins = {
                    top : 80,
                    bottom : 60,
                    left : 60,
                    width : 522
                };
                // all coords and widths are in jsPDF instance's declared units
                // 'inches' in this case
                pdf.fromHTML(source, // HTML string or DOM elem ref.
                margins.left, // x coord
                margins.top, { // y coord
                    'width' : margins.width, // max width of content on PDF
                    'elementHandlers' : specialElementHandlers
                },

                function(dispose) {
                    // dispose: object with X, Y of the last line add to the PDF 
                    //          this allow the insertion of new lines after html
                    pdf.save('fileNameOfGeneretedPdf.pdf');
                }, margins);
            });

        });
    </script>
    </head>
    <body>
    <div id="yourTableIdName">
        <table style="width: 1020px;font-size: 12px;" border="1">
            <thead>
                <tr align="left">
                    <th>Country</th>
                    <th>State</th>
                    <th>City</th>
                </tr>
            </thead>


            <tbody>

                <tr align="left">
                    <td>India</td>
                    <td>Telangana</td>
                    <td>Nirmal</td>
                </tr>
<tr align="left">
                    <td>India</td>
                    <td>Telangana</td>
                    <td>Nirmal</td>
                </tr><tr align="left">
                    <td>India</td>
                    <td>Telangana</td>
                    <td>Nirmal</td>
                </tr><tr align="left">
                    <td>India</td>
                    <td>Telangana</td>
                    <td>Nirmal</td>
                </tr><tr align="left">
                    <td>India</td>
                    <td>Telangana</td>
                    <td>Nirmal</td>
                </tr><tr align="left">
                    <td>India</td>
                    <td>Telangana</td>
                    <td>Nirmal</td>
                </tr><tr align="left">
                    <td>India</td>
                    <td>Telangana</td>
                    <td>Nirmal</td>
                </tr>
            </tbody>
        </table></div>

        <input type="button" id="exportpdf" value="Download PDF">


    </body>

    </html>

Output:

Html file output: html output

Pdf file output: pdf output

get the titles of all open windows

http://pinvoke.net/default.aspx/user32.EnumDesktopWindows

There is an example of using user.dll's EnumWindow in C# to list all open windows.

How to add hyperlink in JLabel?

Use a JEditorPane with a HyperlinkListener.

C# equivalent of C++ vector, with contiguous memory?

C# has a lot of reference types. Even if a container stores the references contiguously, the objects themselves may be scattered through the heap

php codeigniter count rows

Use this code:

$this->db->where(['id'=>2])->from("table name")->count_all_results();

or

$this->db->from("table name")->count_all_results();

Can't find/install libXtst.so.6?

Had that issue on Ubuntu 14.04, In my case I had also libXtst.so missing:

Could not open library 'libXtst.so': libXtst.so: cannot open shared object 
file: No such file or directory

Make sure your symbolic link is pointing to proper file, cd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu and list libXtst with:

 ll |grep libXtst                                                                                                                                                           
 lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        16 Oct  7  2016 libXtst.so.6 -> libXtst.so.6.1.0
 -rw-r--r--   1 root root     22880 Aug 16  2013 libXtst.so.6.1.0

Then just create proper symbolic link using:

sudo ln -s libXtst.so.6 libXtst.so

List again:

ll | grep libXtst
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        12 Sep 20 10:23 libXtst -> libXtst.so.6
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        12 Sep 20 10:23 libXtst.so -> libXtst.so.6
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root        16 Oct  7  2016 libXtst.so.6 -> libXtst.so.6.1.0
-rw-r--r--   1 root root     22880 Aug 16  2013 libXtst.so.6.1.0

all set!

How to take off line numbers in Vi?

From the Document "Mastering the VI editor":

number (nu)
Displays lines with line numbers on the left side.

SQL Server 2008: how do I grant privileges to a username?

If you want to give your user all read permissions, you could use:

EXEC sp_addrolemember N'db_datareader', N'your-user-name'

That adds the default db_datareader role (read permission on all tables) to that user.

There's also a db_datawriter role - which gives your user all WRITE permissions (INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE) on all tables:

EXEC sp_addrolemember N'db_datawriter', N'your-user-name'

If you need to be more granular, you can use the GRANT command:

GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE ON dbo.YourTable TO YourUserName
GRANT SELECT, INSERT ON dbo.YourTable2 TO YourUserName
GRANT SELECT, DELETE ON dbo.YourTable3 TO YourUserName

and so forth - you can granularly give SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE permission on specific tables.

This is all very well documented in the MSDN Books Online for SQL Server.

And yes, you can also do it graphically - in SSMS, go to your database, then Security > Users, right-click on that user you want to give permissions to, then Properties adn at the bottom you see "Database role memberships" where you can add the user to db roles.

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Left Outer Join using + sign in Oracle 11g

I saw some contradictions in the answers above, I just tried the following on Oracle 12c and the following is correct :

LEFT OUTER JOIN

SELECT *
FROM A, B
WHERE A.column = B.column(+)

RIGHT OUTER JOIN

SELECT *
FROM A, B
WHERE B.column(+) = A.column

How to convert "0" and "1" to false and true

If you want the conversion to always succeed, probably the best way to convert the string would be to consider "1" as true and anything else as false (as Kevin does). If you wanted the conversion to fail if anything other than "1" or "0" is returned, then the following would suffice (you could put it in a helper method):

if (returnValue == "1")
{
    return true;
}
else if (returnValue == "0")
{
    return false;
}
else
{
    throw new FormatException("The string is not a recognized as a valid boolean value.");
}

How to remove entry from $PATH on mac

If you're removing the path for Python 3 specifically, I found it in ~/.zprofile and ~/.zshrc.

How do you normalize a file path in Bash?

As Adam Liss noted realpath is not bundled with every distribution. Which is a shame, because it is the best solution. The provided source code is great, and I will probably start using it now. Here is what I have been using until now, which I share here just for completeness:

get_abs_path() {
     local PARENT_DIR=$(dirname "$1")
     cd "$PARENT_DIR"
     local ABS_PATH="$(pwd)"/"$(basename "$1")"
     cd - >/dev/null
     echo "$ABS_PATH"
} 

If you want it to resolve symlinks, just replace pwd with pwd -P.

'Found the synthetic property @panelState. Please include either "BrowserAnimationsModule" or "NoopAnimationsModule" in your application.'

--
import { BrowserAnimationsModule } from '@angular/platform-browser/animations';
---

@NgModule({
  declarations: [   --   ],
  imports: [BrowserAnimationsModule],
  providers: [],
  bootstrap: []
})

Android webview launches browser when calling loadurl

If you see an empty page, enable JavaScript.

webView.setWebViewClient(new WebViewClient());
WebSettings webSettings = webView.getSettings();
webSettings.setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
webSettings.setDomStorageEnabled(true);
webView.loadUrl(url);

Executing multi-line statements in the one-line command-line?

(answered Nov 23 '10 at 19:48) I'm not really a big Pythoner - but I found this syntax once, forgot where from, so I thought I'd document it:

if you use sys.stdout.write instead of print (the difference being, sys.stdout.write takes arguments as a function, in parenthesis - whereas print doesn't), then for a one-liner, you can get away with inverting the order of the command and the for, removing the semicolon, and enclosing the command in square brackets, i.e.:

python -c "import sys; [sys.stdout.write('rob\n') for r in range(10)]"

Have no idea how this syntax would be called in Python :)

Hope this helps,

Cheers!


(EDIT Tue Apr 9 20:57:30 2013) Well, I think I finally found what these square brackets in one-liners are about; they are "list comprehensions" (apparently); first note this in Python 2.7:

$ STR=abc
$ echo $STR | python -c "import sys,re; a=(sys.stdout.write(line) for line in sys.stdin); print a"
<generator object <genexpr> at 0xb771461c>

So the command in round brackets/parenthesis is seen as a "generator object"; if we "iterate" through it by calling next() - then the command inside the parenthesis will be executed (note the "abc" in the output):

$ echo $STR | python -c "import sys,re; a=(sys.stdout.write(line) for line in sys.stdin); a.next() ; print a"
abc
<generator object <genexpr> at 0xb777b734>

If we now use square brackets - note that we don't need to call next() to have the command execute, it executes immediately upon assignment; however, later inspection reveals that a is None:

$ echo $STR | python -c "import sys,re; a=[sys.stdout.write(line) for line in sys.stdin]; print a"
abc
[None]

This doesn't leave much info to look for, for the square brackets case - but I stumbled upon this page which I think explains:

Python Tips And Tricks – First Edition - Python Tutorials | Dream.In.Code:

If you recall, the standard format of a single line generator is a kind of one line 'for' loop inside brackets. This will produce a 'one-shot' iterable object which is an object you can iterate over in only one direction and which you can't re-use once you reach the end.

A 'list comprehension' looks almost the same as a regular one-line generator, except that the regular brackets - ( ) - are replaced by square brackets - [ ]. The major advanatge of alist comprehension is that produces a 'list', rather than a 'one-shot' iterable object, so that you can go back and forth through it, add elements, sort, etc.

And indeed it is a list - it's just its first element becomes none as soon as it is executed:

$ echo $STR | python -c "import sys,re; print [sys.stdout.write(line) for line in sys.stdin].__class__"
abc
<type 'list'>
$ echo $STR | python -c "import sys,re; print [sys.stdout.write(line) for line in sys.stdin][0]"
abc
None

List comprehensions are otherwise documented in 5. Data Structures: 5.1.4. List Comprehensions — Python v2.7.4 documentation as "List comprehensions provide a concise way to create lists"; presumably, that's where the limited "executability" of lists comes into play in one-liners.

Well, hope I'm not terribly too off the mark here ...

EDIT2: and here is a one-liner command line with two non-nested for-loops; both enclosed within "list comprehension" square brackets:

$ echo $STR | python -c "import sys,re; a=[sys.stdout.write(line) for line in sys.stdin]; b=[sys.stdout.write(str(x)) for x in range(2)] ; print a ; print b"
abc
01[None]
[None, None]

Notice that the second "list" b now has two elements, since its for loop explicitly ran twice; however, the result of sys.stdout.write() in both cases was (apparently) None.

Git: which is the default configured remote for branch?

Track the remote branch

You can specify the default remote repository for pushing and pulling using git-branch’s track option. You’d normally do this by specifying the --track option when creating your local master branch, but as it already exists we’ll just update the config manually like so:

Edit your .git/config

[branch "master"]
  remote = origin
  merge = refs/heads/master

Now you can simply git push and git pull.

[source]

Regular Expression to match valid dates

Perl 6 version

rx{
  ^

  $<month> = (\d ** 1..2)
  { $<month> <= 12 or fail }

  '/'

  $<day> = (\d ** 1..2)
  {
    given( +$<month> ){
      when 1|3|5|7|8|10|12 {
        $<day> <= 31 or fail
      }
      when 4|6|9|11 {
        $<day> <= 30 or fail
      }
      when 2 {
        $<day> <= 29 or fail
      }
      default { fail }
    }
  }

  '/'

  $<year> = (\d ** 4)

  $
}

After you use this to check the input the values are available in $/ or individually as $<month>, $<day>, $<year>. ( those are just syntax for accessing values in $/ )

No attempt has been made to check the year, or that it doesn't match the 29th of Feburary on non leap years.

How do I spool to a CSV formatted file using SQLPLUS?

With newer versions of client tools, there are multiple options to format the query output. The rest is to spool it to a file or save the output as a file depending on the client tool. Here are few of the ways:

  • SQL*Plus

Using the SQL*Plus commands you could format to get your desired output. Use SPOOL to spool the output to a file.

For example,

SQL> SET colsep ,
SQL> SET pagesize 20
SQL> SET trimspool ON
SQL> SET linesize 200
SQL> SELECT * FROM scott.emp;

     EMPNO,ENAME     ,JOB      ,       MGR,HIREDATE ,       SAL,      COMM,    DEPTNO
----------,----------,---------,----------,---------,----------,----------,----------
      7369,SMITH     ,CLERK    ,      7902,17-DEC-80,       800,          ,        20
      7499,ALLEN     ,SALESMAN ,      7698,20-FEB-81,      1600,       300,        30
      7521,WARD      ,SALESMAN ,      7698,22-FEB-81,      1250,       500,        30
      7566,JONES     ,MANAGER  ,      7839,02-APR-81,      2975,          ,        20
      7654,MARTIN    ,SALESMAN ,      7698,28-SEP-81,      1250,      1400,        30
      7698,BLAKE     ,MANAGER  ,      7839,01-MAY-81,      2850,          ,        30
      7782,CLARK     ,MANAGER  ,      7839,09-JUN-81,      2450,          ,        10
      7788,SCOTT     ,ANALYST  ,      7566,09-DEC-82,      3000,          ,        20
      7839,KING      ,PRESIDENT,          ,17-NOV-81,      5000,          ,        10
      7844,TURNER    ,SALESMAN ,      7698,08-SEP-81,      1500,          ,        30
      7876,ADAMS     ,CLERK    ,      7788,12-JAN-83,      1100,          ,        20
      7900,JAMES     ,CLERK    ,      7698,03-DEC-81,       950,          ,        30
      7902,FORD      ,ANALYST  ,      7566,03-DEC-81,      3000,          ,        20
      7934,MILLER    ,CLERK    ,      7782,23-JAN-82,      1300,          ,        10

14 rows selected.

SQL>
  • SQL Developer Version pre 4.1

Alternatively, you could use the new /*csv*/ hint in SQL Developer.

/*csv*/

For example, in my SQL Developer Version 3.2.20.10:

enter image description here

Now you could save the output into a file.

  • SQL Developer Version 4.1

New in SQL Developer version 4.1, use the following just like sqlplus command and run as script. No need of the hint in the query.

SET SQLFORMAT csv

Now you could save the output into a file.

Tomcat manager/html is not available?

In my case, the folder was _Manager. After I renamed it to Manager it worked.

Now, I see login popup and I enter credentials from conf/tomcat-users.xml, It all works fine.

How to center Font Awesome icons horizontally?

Use text-align: center; on the block container of the icon (the <td>) - text-align doesn't apply to inline elements, only block containers:

td {
    text-align: center;
}

http://jsfiddle.net/kB6Ju/2/

'pip install' fails for every package ("Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement")

Upgrade pip as follows:

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python

Note: You may need to use sudo python above if not in a virtual environment.

What's happening:

Python.org sites are stopping support for TLS versions 1.0 and 1.1. This means that Mac OS X version 10.12 (Sierra) or older will not be able to use pip unless they upgrade pip as above.

(Note that upgrading pip via pip install --upgrade pip will also not upgrade it correctly. It is a chicken-and-egg issue)

This thread explains it (thanks to this Twitter post):

Mac users who use pip and PyPI:

If you are running macOS/OS X version 10.12 or older, then you ought to upgrade to the latest pip (9.0.3) to connect to the Python Package Index securely:

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python

and we recommend you do that by April 8th.

Pip 9.0.3 supports TLSv1.2 when running under system Python on macOS < 10.13. Official release notes: https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/news/

Also, the Python status page:

Completed - The rolling brownouts are finished, and TLSv1.0 and TLSv1.1 have been disabled. Apr 11, 15:37 UTC

Update - The rolling brownouts have been upgraded to a blackout, TLSv1.0 and TLSv1.1 will be rejected with a HTTP 403 at all times. Apr 8, 15:49 UTC

Lastly, to avoid other install errors, make sure you also upgrade setuptools after doing the above:

pip install --upgrade setuptools

syntaxerror: unexpected character after line continuation character in python

You need to quote that filename:

f = open("D\\python\\HW\\2_1 - Copy.cp", "r")

Otherwise the bare backslash after the D is interpreted as a line-continuation character, and should be followed by a newline. This is used to extend long expressions over multiple lines, for readability:

print "This is a long",\
      "line of text",\
      "that I'm printing."

Also, you shouldn't have semicolons (;) at the end of your statements in Python.

How to handle-escape both single and double quotes in an SQL-Update statement

Use two single quotes to escape them in the sql statement. The double quotes should not be a problem:

SELECT 'How is my son''s school helping him learn?  "Not as good as Stack Overflow would!"'

Print:

How is my son's school helping him learn? "Not as good as Stack Overflow would!"

File loading by getClass().getResource()

The best way to access files from resource folder inside a jar is it to use the InputStream via getResourceAsStream. If you still need a the resource as a file instance you can copy the resource as a stream into a temporary file (the temp file will be deleted when the JVM exits):

public static File getResourceAsFile(String resourcePath) {
    try {
        InputStream in = ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader().getResourceAsStream(resourcePath);
        if (in == null) {
            return null;
        }

        File tempFile = File.createTempFile(String.valueOf(in.hashCode()), ".tmp");
        tempFile.deleteOnExit();

        try (FileOutputStream out = new FileOutputStream(tempFile)) {
            //copy stream
            byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
            int bytesRead;
            while ((bytesRead = in.read(buffer)) != -1) {
                out.write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);
            }
        }
        return tempFile;
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
        return null;
    }
}

Unable to negotiate with XX.XXX.XX.XX: no matching host key type found. Their offer: ssh-dss

I want to collaborate a little with the solution for the server side. So, the server is saying it does not support DSA, this is because the openssh client does not activate it by default:

OpenSSH 7.0 and greater similarly disable the ssh-dss (DSA) public key algorithm. It too is weak and we recommend against its use.

So, to fix this this in the server side I should activate other Key algorithms like RSA o ECDSA. I just had this problem with a server in a lan. I suggest the following:

Update the openssh:

yum update openssh-server

Merge new configurations in the sshd_config if there is a sshd_config.rpmnew.

Verify there are hosts keys at /etc/ssh/. If not generate new ones, see man ssh-keygen.

$ ll /etc/ssh/
total 580
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root     553185 Mar  3  2017 moduli
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root       1874 Mar  3  2017 ssh_config
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root       4096 Apr 17 17:56 ssh_config.d
-rw-------. 1 root root       3887 Mar  3  2017 sshd_config
-rw-r-----. 1 root ssh_keys    227 Aug 30 15:33 ssh_host_ecdsa_key
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root        162 Aug 30 15:33 ssh_host_ecdsa_key.pub
-rw-r-----. 1 root ssh_keys    387 Aug 30 15:33 ssh_host_ed25519_key
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root         82 Aug 30 15:33 ssh_host_ed25519_key.pub
-rw-r-----. 1 root ssh_keys   1675 Aug 30 15:33 ssh_host_rsa_key
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root        382 Aug 30 15:33 ssh_host_rsa_key.pub

Verify in the /etc/ssh/sshd_config the HostKey configuration. It should allow the configuration of RSA and ECDSA. (If all of them are commented by default it will allow too the RSA, see in man sshd_config the part of HostKey).

# HostKey for protocol version 1
#HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key
# HostKeys for protocol version 2
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
#HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key

For the client side, create a key for ssh (not a DSA like in the question) by just doing this:

ssh-keygen

After this, because there are more options than ssh-dss(DSA) the client openssh (>=v7) should connect with RSA or better algorithm.

Here another good article.

This is my first question answered, I welcome suggestions :D .

Can you create nested WITH clauses for Common Table Expressions?

Nested 'With' is not supported, but you can always use the second With as a subquery, for example:

WITH A AS (
                --WITH B AS ( SELECT COUNT(1) AS _CT FROM C ) SELECT CASE _CT WHEN 1 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END FROM B --doesn't work
                SELECT CASE WHEN count = 1 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END AS CT FROM (SELECT COUNT(1) AS count FROM dual)
                union all
                select 100 AS CT from dual
           )
              select CT FROM A

Spring Data JPA find by embedded object property

This method name should do the trick:

Page<QueuedBook> findByBookIdRegion(Region region, Pageable pageable);

More info on that in the section about query derivation of the reference docs.

PostgreSQL create table if not exists

This solution is somewhat similar to the answer by Erwin Brandstetter, but uses only the sql language.

Not all PostgreSQL installations has the plpqsql language by default, this means you may have to call CREATE LANGUAGE plpgsql before creating the function, and afterwards have to remove the language again, to leave the database in the same state as it was before (but only if the database did not have the plpgsql language to begin with). See how the complexity grows?

Adding the plpgsql may not be issue if you are running your script locally, however, if the script is used to set up schema at a customer it may not be desirable to leave changes like this in the customers database.

This solution is inspired by a post by Andreas Scherbaum.

-- Function which creates table
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION create_table () RETURNS TEXT AS $$
    CREATE TABLE table_name (
       i int
    );
    SELECT 'extended_recycle_bin created'::TEXT;
    $$
LANGUAGE 'sql';

-- Test if table exists, and if not create it
SELECT CASE WHEN (SELECT true::BOOLEAN
    FROM   pg_catalog.pg_tables 
    WHERE  schemaname = 'public'
    AND    tablename  = 'table_name'
  ) THEN (SELECT 'success'::TEXT)
  ELSE (SELECT create_table())
END;

-- Drop function
DROP FUNCTION create_table();

How to delete only the content of file in python

What could be easier than something like this:

import tempfile

for i in range(400):
    with tempfile.TemporaryFile() as tf:
        for j in range(1000):
            tf.write('Line {} of file {}'.format(j,i))

That creates 400 temp files and writes 1000 lines to each temp file. It executes in less than 1/2 second on my unremarkable machine. Each temp file of the total is created and deleted as the context manager opens and closes in this case. It is fast, secure, and cross platform.

Using tempfile is a lot better than trying to reinvent it.

How can I render Partial views in asp.net mvc 3?

<%= Html.Partial("PartialName", Model) %>

Change package name for Android in React Native

You can use react-native-rename package which will take of all the necessary changes of package name under

app/mainapplication.java

AndroidManifest.xml

but make sure to manually change the package name of all files under the java/com folder. because when i created an splash screen activity the old package name is not updated.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-native-rename

Android Studio: /dev/kvm device permission denied

Running the below command in Ubuntu 18.04 worked for me sudo chown -R /dev/kvm

C/C++ maximum stack size of program

In Visual Studio the default stack size is 1 MB i think, so with a recursion depth of 10,000 each stack frame can be at most ~100 bytes which should be sufficient for a DFS algorithm.

Most compilers including Visual Studio let you specify the stack size. On some (all?) linux flavours the stack size isn't part of the executable but an environment variable in the OS. You can then check the stack size with ulimit -s and set it to a new value with for example ulimit -s 16384.

Here's a link with default stack sizes for gcc.

DFS without recursion:

std::stack<Node> dfs;
dfs.push(start);
do {
    Node top = dfs.top();
    if (top is what we are looking for) {
       break;
    }
    dfs.pop();
    for (outgoing nodes from top) {
        dfs.push(outgoing node);
    }
} while (!dfs.empty())

oracle diff: how to compare two tables?

Below is my solution - taking into account that the diffed tables can have duplicate rows. The accepted answer does not take this into account which would give you wrong results in case of duplicates. I am taking care of duplicate rows by numbering them using row_number() and then comparing the numbered rows:

-- TEST TABLES
create table t1 (col_num number,col_date date,col_varchar varchar2(400));
create table t2 (col_num number,col_date date,col_varchar varchar2(400));  

-- TEST DATA
insert into t1 values (1,TO_DATE ('01.JAN.3000 00:00:00', 'DD.MON.YYYY HH24:MI:SS'),'I am in both');
insert into t2 values (1,TO_DATE ('01.JAN.3000 00:00:00', 'DD.MON.YYYY HH24:MI:SS'),'I am in both');

insert into t1 values (null,null,'I am in both with nulls');
insert into t2 values (null,null,'I am in both with nulls');

insert into t1 values (1,TO_DATE ('01.JAN.3000 00:00:00', 'DD.MON.YYYY HH24:MI:SS'),'I am in T1 only');
insert into t2 values (1,TO_DATE ('01.JAN.3000 00:00:00', 'DD.MON.YYYY HH24:MI:SS'),'I am in T2 only');

insert into t1 values (null,null,'I am in T1 only with nulls');
insert into t2 values (null,null,'I am in T2 only with nulls');

insert into t1 values (1,TO_DATE ('01.JAN.3000 00:00:00', 'DD.MON.YYYY HH24:MI:SS'),'I am twice in T1 but not in T2');
insert into t1 values (1,TO_DATE ('01.JAN.3000 00:00:00', 'DD.MON.YYYY HH24:MI:SS'),'I am twice in T1 but not in T2');

insert into t2 values (1,TO_DATE ('01.JAN.3000 00:00:00', 'DD.MON.YYYY HH24:MI:SS'),'I am twice in T2 but not in T1');
insert into t2 values (1,TO_DATE ('01.JAN.3000 00:00:00', 'DD.MON.YYYY HH24:MI:SS'),'I am twice in T2 but not in T1');

insert into t1 values (1,TO_DATE ('01.JAN.3000 00:00:00', 'DD.MON.YYYY HH24:MI:SS'),'I am twice in T1 and once in T2');
insert into t1 values (1,TO_DATE ('01.JAN.3000 00:00:00', 'DD.MON.YYYY HH24:MI:SS'),'I am twice in T1 and once in T2');
insert into t2 values (1,TO_DATE ('01.JAN.3000 00:00:00', 'DD.MON.YYYY HH24:MI:SS'),'I am twice in T1 and once in T2');

insert into t2 values (1,TO_DATE ('01.JAN.3000 00:00:00', 'DD.MON.YYYY HH24:MI:SS'),'I am twice in T2 and once in T1');
insert into t2 values (1,TO_DATE ('01.JAN.3000 00:00:00', 'DD.MON.YYYY HH24:MI:SS'),'I am twice in T2 and once in T1');
insert into t1 values (1,TO_DATE ('01.JAN.3000 00:00:00', 'DD.MON.YYYY HH24:MI:SS'),'I am twice in T2 and once in T1');

-- THE DIFF
-- All columns need to be named in the partition by clause, it is not possible to just say 'partition by *'
-- The column used in the order by clause does not matter in terms of functionality 
(
    select 'In T1 but not in T2' diff,s.* from (
        select row_number() over (partition by col_num,col_date,col_varchar order by col_num) rn,t.* from t1 t
        minus
        select row_number() over (partition by col_num,col_date,col_varchar order by col_num) rn,t.* from t2 t
    ) s
) union all (
    select 'In T2 but not in T1' diff,s.* from (
        select row_number() over (partition by col_num,col_date,col_varchar order by col_num) rn,t.* from t2 t
        minus
        select row_number() over (partition by col_num,col_date,col_varchar order by col_num) rn,t.* from t1 t
    ) s
);

Cannot find the object because it does not exist or you do not have permissions. Error in SQL Server

Does the user you're executing this script under even see that table??

select top 1 * from products

Do you get any output for this??

If yes: does this user have the permission to modify the table, i.e. execute DDL scripts like ALTER TABLE etc.? Typically, regular users don't have this elevated permissions.

Java socket API: How to tell if a connection has been closed?

On Linux when write()ing into a socket which the other side, unknown to you, closed will provoke a SIGPIPE signal/exception however you want to call it. However if you don't want to be caught out by the SIGPIPE you can use send() with the flag MSG_NOSIGNAL. The send() call will return with -1 and in this case you can check errno which will tell you that you tried to write a broken pipe (in this case a socket) with the value EPIPE which according to errno.h is equivalent to 32. As a reaction to the EPIPE you could double back and try to reopen the socket and try to send your information again.

How To Set Up GUI On Amazon EC2 Ubuntu server

For LXDE/Lubuntu


1. connect to your instance (local forwarding port 5901)

ssh -L 5901:localhost:5901 -i "xxx.pem" [email protected]

2. Install packages

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt-get install xorg lxde vnc4server lubuntu-desktop

3. Create /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

4. Copy and paste the following into the lightdm.conf and save

[SeatDefaults]
allow-guest=false
user-session=LXDE
#user-session=Lubuntu

5. setup vncserver (you will be asked to create a password for the vncserver)

vncserver
sudo echo "lxpanel & /usr/bin/lxsession -s LXDE &" >> ~/.vnc/xstartup

6. Restart your instance and reconnect

sudo reboot
ssh -L 5901:localhost:5901 -i "xxx.pem" [email protected]

7. Start vncserver

vncserver -geometry 1280x800

8. In your Remote Desktop Client (e.g. Remmina) set Server to localhost:5901 and protocol to VNC

Should a retrieval method return 'null' or throw an exception when it can't produce the return value?

It depends on the nature of the method and how it will be used. If it is normal behavior that the object may not be found, then return null. If it is normal behavior that the object is always found, throw an exception.

As a rule of thumb, use exceptions only for when something exceptional occurs. Don't write the code in such a way that exception throwing and catching is part of its normal operation.

When should I use git pull --rebase?

I think you should use git pull --rebase when collaborating with others on the same branch. You are in your work ? commit ? work ? commit cycle, and when you decide to push your work your push is rejected, because there's been parallel work on the same branch. At this point I always do a pull --rebase. I do not use squash (to flatten commits), but I rebase to avoid the extra merge commits.

As your Git knowledge increases you find yourself looking a lot more at history than with any other version control systems I've used. If you have a ton of small merge commits, it's easy to lose focus of the bigger picture that's happening in your history.

This is actually the only time I do rebasing(*), and the rest of my workflow is merge based. But as long as your most frequent committers do this, history looks a whole lot better in the end.

(*) While teaching a Git course, I had a student arrest me on this, since I also advocated rebasing feature branches in certain circumstances. And he had read this answer ;) Such rebasing is also possible, but it always has to be according to a pre-arranged/agreed system, and as such should not "always" be applied. And at that time I usually don't do pull --rebase either, which is what the question is about ;)

Sorting rows in a data table

try this:

DataTable DT = new DataTable();
DataTable sortedDT = DT;
sortedDT.Clear();
foreach (DataRow row in DT.Select("", "DiffTotal desc"))
{
    sortedDT.NewRow();
    sortedDT.Rows.Add(row);
}
DT = sortedDT;

How do I add a bullet symbol in TextView?

You may try BulletSpan as described in Android docs.

SpannableString string = new SpannableString("Text with\nBullet point");
string.setSpan(new BulletSpan(40, color, 20), 10, 22, Spanned.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);

Result

Is the 'as' keyword required in Oracle to define an alias?

My conclusion is that(Tested on 12c):

  • AS is always optional, either with or without ""; AS makes no difference (column alias only, you can not use AS preceding table alias)
  • However, with or without "" does make difference because "" lets lower case possible for an alias

thus :

SELECT {T / t} FROM (SELECT 1 AS T FROM DUAL); -- Correct
SELECT "tEST" FROM (SELECT 1 AS "tEST" FROM DUAL); -- Correct
SELECT {"TEST" / tEST} FROM (SELECT 1 AS "tEST" FROM DUAL ); -- Incorrect

SELECT test_value AS "doggy" FROM test ORDER BY "doggy"; --Correct
SELECT test_value AS "doggy" FROM test WHERE "doggy" IS NOT NULL; --You can not do this, column alias not supported in WHERE & HAVING
SELECT * FROM test "doggy" WHERE "doggy".test_value IS NOT NULL; -- Do not use AS preceding table alias

So, the reason why USING AS AND "" causes problem is NOT AS

Note: "" double quotes are required if alias contains space OR if it contains lower-case characters and MUST show-up in Result set as lower-case chars. In all other scenarios its OPTIONAL and can be ignored.

Begin, Rescue and Ensure in Ruby?

Yes, ensure ENSURES it is run every time, so you don't need the file.close in the begin block.

By the way, a good way to test is to do:

begin
  # Raise an error here
  raise "Error!!"
rescue
  #handle the error here
ensure
  p "=========inside ensure block"
end

You can test to see if "=========inside ensure block" will be printed out when there is an exception. Then you can comment out the statement that raises the error and see if the ensure statement is executed by seeing if anything gets printed out.

C# - Fill a combo box with a DataTable

Are you applying a RowFilter to your DefaultView later in the code? This could change the results returned.

I would also avoid using the string as the display member if you have a direct reference the the data column I would use the object properties:

mnuActionLanguage.ComboBox.DataSource = lTable.DefaultView;
mnuActionLanguage.ComboBox.DisplayMember = lName.ColumnName;

I have tried this with a blank form and standard combo, and seems to work for me.

How to use boolean 'and' in Python

As pointed out, "&" in python performs a bitwise and operation, just as it does in C#. and is the appropriate equivalent to the && operator.

Since we're dealing with booleans (i == 5 is True and ii == 10 is also True), you may wonder why this didn't either work anyway (True being treated as an integer quantity should still mean True & True is a True value), or throw an exception (eg. by forbidding bitwise operations on boolean types)

The reason is operator precedence. The "and" operator binds more loosely than ==, so the expression: "i==5 and ii==10" is equivalent to: "(i==5) and (ii==10)"

However, bitwise & has a higher precedence than "==" (since you wouldn't want expressions like "a & 0xff == ch" to mean "a & (0xff == ch)"), so the expression would actually be interpreted as:

if i == (5 & ii) == 10:

Which is using python's operator chaining to mean: does the valuee of ii anded with 5 equal both i and 10. Obviously this will never be true.

You would actually get (seemingly) the right answer if you had included brackets to force the precedence, so:

if (i==5) & (ii=10)

would cause the statement to be printed. It's the wrong thing to do, however - "&" has many different semantics to "and" - (precedence, short-cirtuiting, behaviour with integer arguments etc), so it's fortunate that you caught this here rather than being fooled till it produced less obvious bugs.

Managing SSH keys within Jenkins for Git

This works for me if you have config and the private key file in the /Jenkins/.ssh/ you need to chown (change owner) for these 2 files then restart jenkins in order for the jenkins instance to read these 2 files.

Paste MS Excel data to SQL Server

I have used this technique successfully in the past:

Using Excel to generate Inserts for SQL Server

(...) Skip a column (or use it for notes) and then type something like the following formula in it:

="insert into tblyourtablename (yourkeyID_pk, intmine, strval) values ("&A4&", "&B4&", N'"&C4&"')"

Now you’ve got your insert statement for a table with your primary key (PK), an integer and a unicode string. (...)

How to use a dot "." to access members of dictionary?

Use SimpleNamespace:

>>> from types import SimpleNamespace   
>>> d = dict(x=[1, 2], y=['a', 'b'])
>>> ns = SimpleNamespace(**d)
>>> ns.x
[1, 2]
>>> ns
namespace(x=[1, 2], y=['a', 'b'])

Reading from stdin

From the man read:

#include <unistd.h>
ssize_t read(int fd, void *buf, size_t count);

Input parameters:

  • int fd file descriptor is an integer and not a file pointer. The file descriptor for stdin is 0

  • void *buf pointer to buffer to store characters read by the read function

  • size_t count maximum number of characters to read

So you can read character by character with the following code:

char buf[1];

while(read(0, buf, sizeof(buf))>0) {
   // read() here read from stdin charachter by character
   // the buf[0] contains the character got by read()
   ....
}

Get value from hashmap based on key to JSTL

could you please try below code

<c:forEach var="hash" items="${map['key']}">
        <option><c:out value="${hash}"/></option>
  </c:forEach>

How to make a query with group_concat in sql server

Select
      A.maskid
    , A.maskname
    , A.schoolid
    , B.schoolname
    , STUFF((
          SELECT ',' + T.maskdetail
          FROM dbo.maskdetails T
          WHERE A.maskid = T.maskid
          FOR XML PATH('')), 1, 1, '') as maskdetail 
FROM dbo.tblmask A
JOIN dbo.school B ON B.ID = A.schoolid
Group by  A.maskid
    , A.maskname
    , A.schoolid
    , B.schoolname

Custom alert and confirm box in jquery

I made custom messagebox using jquery UI component. Here is demo http://jsfiddle.net/eraj2587/Pm5Fr/14/

You have to pass just the parameters like caption name, message, button's text. You can specify trigger function on any button click. This will helpful for you.

.autocomplete is not a function Error

You are calling the function before the page loads jQuery. It is always advisable to use jQuery inside

$(document).ready(function(){ //Your code here });

In your case:

$(document).ready(function(){
   $(function(){
      $( "#searcharea" ).autocomplete({
         source: "suggestions.php"
      });
      $( "#searchcat" ).autocomplete({
         source: "suggestions1.php"
      });
   });
});

How to upgrade PostgreSQL from version 9.6 to version 10.1 without losing data?

I think this is best link for your solution to update postgres to 9.6

https://sandymadaan.wordpress.com/2017/02/21/upgrade-postgresql9-3-9-6-in-ubuntu-retaining-the-databases/

How to bind bootstrap popover on dynamic elements

This is how I made the code so it can handle dynamically created elements using popover feature. Using this code, you can trigger the popover to show by default.

HTML:

<div rel="this-should-be-the-target">
</div>

JQuery:

$(function() {
    var targetElement = 'rel="this-should-be-the-target"';
    initPopover(targetElement, "Test Popover Content");

    // use this line if you want it to show by default
    $(targetElement).popover('show');
    
    function initPopover(target, popOverContent) {
        $(target).each(function(i, obj) {
            $(this).popover({
                placement : 'auto',
                trigger : 'hover',
                "html": true,
                content: popOverContent
            });
         });
     }
});

Why does configure say no C compiler found when GCC is installed?

Maybe gcc is not in your path? Try finding gcc using which gcc and add it to your path if it's not already there.

Unix - copy contents of one directory to another

To make an exact copy, permissions, ownership, and all use "-a" with "cp". "-r" will copy the contents of the files but not necessarily keep other things the same.

cp -av Source/* Dest/

(make sure Dest/ exists first)

If you want to repeatedly update from one to the other or make sure you also copy all dotfiles, rsync is a great help:

rsync -av --delete Source/ Dest/

This is also "recoverable" in that you can restart it if you abort it while copying. I like "-v" because it lets you watch what is going on but you can omit it.

DNS problem, nslookup works, ping doesn't

I found a little bug in windows Server 2003 R2 EE. you know that when you specify your IP address in the NIC (network connections), windows tells you that if you dont specify the preferred DNS server, it will put his own ip because it is an DNS server? well it doesn't do that...

I fixed my problem writing the dns adress manually, instead of letting windows do it for me.

JSON Array iteration in Android/Java

Unfortunately , JSONArray doesn't support foreach statements, like:

_x000D_
_x000D_
for(JSONObject someObj : someJsonArray) {_x000D_
    // do something about someObj_x000D_
    ...._x000D_
    ...._x000D_
}
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Best way to include CSS? Why use @import?

This might help a PHP developer out. The below functions will strip white space, remove comments, and concatenate of all your CSS files. Then insert it into a <style> tag in the head before page load.

The function below will strip comments and minify the passed in css. It is paired in conjunction with the next function.

<?php
function minifyCSS($string)
{
    // Minify CSS and strip comments

    # Strips Comments
    $string = preg_replace('!/\*.*?\*/!s','', $string);
    $string = preg_replace('/\n\s*\n/',"\n", $string);

    # Minifies
    $string = preg_replace('/[\n\r \t]/',' ', $string);
    $string = preg_replace('/ +/',' ', $string);
    $string = preg_replace('/ ?([,:;{}]) ?/','$1',$string);

    # Remove semicolon
    $string = preg_replace('/;}/','}',$string);

    # Return Minified CSS
    return $string;
}
?>

You will call this function in the head of your document.

<?php
function concatenateCSS($cssFiles)
{
    // Load all relevant css files

    # concatenate all relevant css files
    $css = '';
    foreach ($cssFiles as $cssFile)
    {
        $css = $css . file_get_contents("$cssFile.css");
    }

    # minify all css
    $css = minifyCSS($css);
    echo "<style>$css</style>";
}
?>

Include the function concatenateCSS() in your document head. Pass in an array with the names of your stylesheets with its path IE: css/styles.css. You are not required to add the extension .css as it is added automatically in the function above.

<head>
    <title></title>
    <?php
    $stylesheets = array(
        "bootstrap/css/bootstrap.min", 
        "css/owl-carousel.min", 
        "css/style"
        );
    concatenateCSS( $stylesheets );
    ?>
</head>

How do I find out what License has been applied to my SQL Server installation?

This shows the licence type and number of licences:

SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('LicenseType'), SERVERPROPERTY('NumLicenses')

Adding a legend to PyPlot in Matplotlib in the simplest manner possible

Add labels to each argument in your plot call corresponding to the series it is graphing, i.e. label = "series 1"

Then simply add Pyplot.legend() to the bottom of your script and the legend will display these labels.

How to read response headers in angularjs?

According the MDN custom headers are not exposed by default. The server admin need to expose them using "Access-Control-Expose-Headers" in the same fashion they deal with "access-control-allow-origin"

See this MDN link for confirmation [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Access-Control-Expose-Headers]

Error retrieving parent for item: No resource found that matches the given name after upgrading to AppCompat v23

You need to set compileSdkVersion to 23.

Since API 23 Android removed the deprecated Apache Http packages, so if you use them for server requests, you'll need to add useLibrary 'org.apache.http.legacy' to build.gradle as stated in this link:

android {
    compileSdkVersion 23
    buildToolsVersion "23.0.0"
    ...

    //only if you use Apache packages
    useLibrary 'org.apache.http.legacy'
}

application/x-www-form-urlencoded or multipart/form-data?

READ AT LEAST THE FIRST PARA HERE!

I know this is 3 years too late, but Matt's (accepted) answer is incomplete and will eventually get you into trouble. The key here is that, if you choose to use multipart/form-data, the boundary must not appear in the file data that the server eventually receives.

This is not a problem for application/x-www-form-urlencoded, because there is no boundary. x-www-form-urlencoded can also always handle binary data, by the simple expedient of turning one arbitrary byte into three 7BIT bytes. Inefficient, but it works (and note that the comment about not being able to send filenames as well as binary data is incorrect; you just send it as another key/value pair).

The problem with multipart/form-data is that the boundary separator must not be present in the file data (see RFC 2388; section 5.2 also includes a rather lame excuse for not having a proper aggregate MIME type that avoids this problem).

So, at first sight, multipart/form-data is of no value whatsoever in any file upload, binary or otherwise. If you don't choose your boundary correctly, then you will eventually have a problem, whether you're sending plain text or raw binary - the server will find a boundary in the wrong place, and your file will be truncated, or the POST will fail.

The key is to choose an encoding and a boundary such that your selected boundary characters cannot appear in the encoded output. One simple solution is to use base64 (do not use raw binary). In base64 3 arbitrary bytes are encoded into four 7-bit characters, where the output character set is [A-Za-z0-9+/=] (i.e. alphanumerics, '+', '/' or '='). = is a special case, and may only appear at the end of the encoded output, as a single = or a double ==. Now, choose your boundary as a 7-bit ASCII string which cannot appear in base64 output. Many choices you see on the net fail this test - the MDN forms docs, for example, use "blob" as a boundary when sending binary data - not good. However, something like "!blob!" will never appear in base64 output.

Android SQLite SELECT Query

Try trimming the string to make sure there is no extra white space:

Cursor c = db.rawQuery("SELECT * FROM tbl1 WHERE TRIM(name) = '"+name.trim()+"'", null);

Also use c.moveToFirst() like @thinksteep mentioned.


This is a complete code for select statements.

SQLiteDatabase db = this.getReadableDatabase();
Cursor c = db.rawQuery("SELECT column1,column2,column3 FROM table ", null);
if (c.moveToFirst()){
    do {
        // Passing values 
        String column1 = c.getString(0);
        String column2 = c.getString(1);
        String column3 = c.getString(2); 
        // Do something Here with values
    } while(c.moveToNext());
}
c.close();
db.close();

In what situations would AJAX long/short polling be preferred over HTML5 WebSockets?

XHR polling vs SSE vs WebSockets

  • XHR polling A Request is answered when the event occurs (could be straight away, or after a delay). Subsequent requests will need to made to receive further events.

    The browser makes an asynchronous request of the server, which may wait for data to be available before responding. The response can contain encoded data (typically XML or JSON) or Javascript to be executed by the client. At the end of the processing of the response, the browser creates and sends another XHR, to await the next event. Thus the browser always keeps a request outstanding with the server, to be answered as each event occurs. Wikipedia

  • Server Sent Events Client sends request to server. Server sends new data to webpage at any time.

    Traditionally, a web page has to send a request to the server to receive new data; that is, the page requests data from the server. With server-sent events, it's possible for a server to send new data to a web page at any time, by pushing messages to the web page. These incoming messages can be treated as Events + data inside the web page. Mozilla

  • WebSockets After the initial handshake (via HTTP protocol). Communication is done bidirectionally using the WebSocket protocol.

    The handshake starts with an HTTP request/response, allowing servers to handle HTTP connections as well as WebSocket connections on the same port. Once the connection is established, communication switches to a bidirectional binary protocol which does not conform to the HTTP protocol. Wikipedia

jQuery: Change button text on click

This should work for you:

    $('.SeeMore2').click(function(){
        var $this = $(this);
        $this.toggleClass('SeeMore2');
        if($this.hasClass('SeeMore2')){
            $this.text('See More');         
        } else {
            $this.text('See Less');
        }
});

How to set DataGrid's row Background, based on a property value using data bindings

Use a DataTrigger:

<DataGrid ItemsSource="{Binding YourItemsSource}">
    <DataGrid.RowStyle>
        <Style TargetType="DataGridRow"> 
            <Style.Triggers>
                <DataTrigger Binding="{Binding State}" Value="State1">
                    <Setter Property="Background" Value="Red"></Setter>
                </DataTrigger>
                <DataTrigger Binding="{Binding State}" Value="State2">
                    <Setter Property="Background" Value="Green"></Setter>
                </DataTrigger>
            </Style.Triggers>
        </Style>
    </DataGrid.RowStyle>
</DataGrid>

How to get overall CPU usage (e.g. 57%) on Linux

Try mpstat from the sysstat package

> sudo apt-get install sysstat
Linux 3.0.0-13-generic (ws025)  02/10/2012  _x86_64_    (2 CPU)  

03:33:26 PM  CPU    %usr   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft  %steal  %guest   %idle
03:33:26 PM  all    2.39    0.04    0.19    0.34    0.00    0.01    0.00    0.00   97.03

Then some cutor grepto parse the info you need:

mpstat | grep -A 5 "%idle" | tail -n 1 | awk -F " " '{print 100 -  $ 12}'a

Is null check needed before calling instanceof?

No, it's not. instanceof would return false if its first operand is null.

JQuery wait for page to finish loading before starting the slideshow?

Well the first can be achieved with the document.ready function in jquery

$(document).ready(function(){...});

The changing image can be achieved with any number of plugins

If you wish you can check if images are loaded with the complete property. I know that at least the malsup jquery cycle slideshow makes use of this function internally.

Sending XML data using HTTP POST with PHP

Another option would be file_get_contents():

// $xml_str = your xml
// $url = target url

$post_data = array('xml' => $xml_str);
$stream_options = array(
    'http' => array(
        'method'  => 'POST',
        'header'  => 'Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' . "\r\n",
        'content' =>  http_build_query($post_data)));

$context  = stream_context_create($stream_options);
$response = file_get_contents($url, null, $context);

How is the 'use strict' statement interpreted in Node.js?

"use strict";

Basically it enables the strict mode.

Strict Mode is a feature that allows you to place a program, or a function, in a "strict" operating context. In strict operating context, the method form binds this to the objects as before. The function form binds this to undefined, not the global set objects.

As per your comments you are telling some differences will be there. But it's your assumption. The Node.js code is nothing but your JavaScript code. All Node.js code are interpreted by the V8 JavaScript engine. The V8 JavaScript Engine is an open source JavaScript engine developed by Google for Chrome web browser.

So, there will be no major difference how "use strict"; is interpreted by the Chrome browser and Node.js.

Please read what is strict mode in JavaScript.

For more information:

  1. Strict mode
  2. ECMAScript 5 Strict mode support in browsers
  3. Strict mode is coming to town
  4. Compatibility table for strict mode
  5. Stack Overflow questions: what does 'use strict' do in JavaScript & what is the reasoning behind it


ECMAScript 6:

ECMAScript 6 Code & strict mode. Following is brief from the specification:

10.2.1 Strict Mode Code

An ECMAScript Script syntactic unit may be processed using either unrestricted or strict mode syntax and semantics. Code is interpreted as strict mode code in the following situations:

  • Global code is strict mode code if it begins with a Directive Prologue that contains a Use Strict Directive (see 14.1.1).
  • Module code is always strict mode code.
  • All parts of a ClassDeclaration or a ClassExpression are strict mode code.
  • Eval code is strict mode code if it begins with a Directive Prologue that contains a Use Strict Directive or if the call to eval is a direct eval (see 12.3.4.1) that is contained in strict mode code.
  • Function code is strict mode code if the associated FunctionDeclaration, FunctionExpression, GeneratorDeclaration, GeneratorExpression, MethodDefinition, or ArrowFunction is contained in strict mode code or if the code that produces the value of the function’s [[ECMAScriptCode]] internal slot begins with a Directive Prologue that contains a Use Strict Directive.
  • Function code that is supplied as the arguments to the built-in Function and Generator constructors is strict mode code if the last argument is a String that when processed is a FunctionBody that begins with a Directive Prologue that contains a Use Strict Directive.

Additionally if you are lost on what features are supported by your current version of Node.js, this node.green can help you (leverages from the same data as kangax).

Python error: "IndexError: string index out of range"

It looks like you indented so_far = new too much. Try this:

if guess in word:
    print("\nYes!", guess, "is in the word!")

    # Create a new variable (so_far) to contain the guess
    new = ""
    i = 0
    for i in range(len(word)):
        if guess == word[i]:
            new += guess
        else:
            new += so_far[i]
    so_far = new # unindented this

Batch File; List files in directory, only filenames?

You can also try this:

for %%a in (*) do echo %%a

Using a for loop, you can echo out all the file names of the current directory.

To print them directly from the console:

for %a in (*) do @echo %a

Grep only the first match and stop

-m 1 means return the first match in any given file. But it will still continue to search in other files. Also, if there are two or more matched in the same line, all of them will be displayed.

You can use head -1 to solve this problem:

grep -o -a -m 1 -h -r "Pulsanti Operietur" /path/to/dir | head -1

explanation of each grep option:

-o, --only-matching, print only the matched part of the line (instead of the entire line)
-a, --text, process a binary file as if it were text
-m 1, --max-count, stop reading a file after 1 matching line
-h, --no-filename, suppress the prefixing of file names on output
-r, --recursive, read all files under a directory recursively

How to get the index of an item in a list in a single step?

  1. Simple solution to find index for any string value in the List.

Here is code for List Of String:

int indexOfValue = myList.FindIndex(a => a.Contains("insert value from list"));
  1. Simple solution to find index for any Integer value in the List.

Here is Code for List Of Integer:

    int indexOfNumber = myList.IndexOf(/*insert number from list*/);

ExecutorService that interrupts tasks after a timeout

check if this works for you,

    public <T,S,K,V> ResponseObject<Collection<ResponseObject<T>>> runOnScheduler(ThreadPoolExecutor threadPoolExecutor,
      int parallelismLevel, TimeUnit timeUnit, int timeToCompleteEachTask, Collection<S> collection,
      Map<K,V> context, Task<T,S,K,V> someTask){
    if(threadPoolExecutor==null){
      return ResponseObject.<Collection<ResponseObject<T>>>builder().errorCode("500").errorMessage("threadPoolExecutor can not be null").build();
    }
    if(someTask==null){
      return ResponseObject.<Collection<ResponseObject<T>>>builder().errorCode("500").errorMessage("Task can not be null").build();
    }
    if(CollectionUtils.isEmpty(collection)){
      return ResponseObject.<Collection<ResponseObject<T>>>builder().errorCode("500").errorMessage("input collection can not be empty").build();
    }

    LinkedBlockingQueue<Callable<T>> callableLinkedBlockingQueue = new LinkedBlockingQueue<>(collection.size());
    collection.forEach(value -> {
      callableLinkedBlockingQueue.offer(()->someTask.perform(value,context)); //pass some values in callable. which can be anything.
    });
    LinkedBlockingQueue<Future<T>> futures = new LinkedBlockingQueue<>();

    int count = 0;

    while(count<parallelismLevel && count < callableLinkedBlockingQueue.size()){
      Future<T> f = threadPoolExecutor.submit(callableLinkedBlockingQueue.poll());
      futures.offer(f);
      count++;
    }

    Collection<ResponseObject<T>> responseCollection = new ArrayList<>();

    while(futures.size()>0){
      Future<T> future = futures.poll();
      ResponseObject<T> responseObject = null;
        try {
          T response = future.get(timeToCompleteEachTask, timeUnit);
          responseObject = ResponseObject.<T>builder().data(response).build();
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
          future.cancel(true);
        } catch (ExecutionException e) {
          future.cancel(true);
        } catch (TimeoutException e) {
          future.cancel(true);
        } finally {
          if (Objects.nonNull(responseObject)) {
            responseCollection.add(responseObject);
          }
          futures.remove(future);//remove this
          Callable<T> callable = getRemainingCallables(callableLinkedBlockingQueue);
          if(null!=callable){
            Future<T> f = threadPoolExecutor.submit(callable);
            futures.add(f);
          }
        }

    }
    return ResponseObject.<Collection<ResponseObject<T>>>builder().data(responseCollection).build();
  }

  private <T> Callable<T> getRemainingCallables(LinkedBlockingQueue<Callable<T>> callableLinkedBlockingQueue){
    if(callableLinkedBlockingQueue.size()>0){
      return callableLinkedBlockingQueue.poll();
    }
    return null;
  }

you can restrict the no of thread uses from scheduler as well as put timeout on the task.

Generate random numbers uniformly over an entire range

If you are concerned about randomness and not about speed, you should use a secure random number generation method. There are several ways to do this... The easiest one being to use OpenSSL's Random Number Generator.

You can also write your own using an encryption algorithm (like AES). By picking a seed and an IV and then continuously re-encrypting the output of the encryption function. Using OpenSSL is easier, but less manly.

How can the size of an input text box be defined in HTML?

You can set the width in pixels via inline styling:

<input type="text" name="text" style="width: 195px;">

You can also set the width with a visible character length:

<input type="text" name="text" size="35">

Calling other function in the same controller?

To call a function inside a same controller in any laravel version follow as bellow

$role = $this->sendRequest('parameter');
// sendRequest is a public function

How to check if Thread finished execution

I use IsAlive extensively, unless I want to block the current execution (of the calling thread), in which case I just call Join() without a parameter. Now, be aware that IsAlive may return false if the target thread has not actually started execution yet for any reason.

Carlos Merighe.

Firefox "ssl_error_no_cypher_overlap" error

If you review the process of SSL negotiation at Wikipedia, you will know that at the beginning ClientHello and ServerHello messages are sent between the browser and the server.

Only if the cyphers provided in ClientHello have overlapping items on the server, ServerHello message will contain a cypher that both sides support. Otherwise, SSL connection will not be initiated as there is no common cypher.

To resolve the problem, you need to install cyphers (usually at OS level), instead of trying hard on the browser (usually the browser relies on the OS). I am familiar with Windows and IE, but I know little about Linux and Firefox, so I can only point out what's wrong but cannot deliver you a solution.

Converting Dictionary to List?

Probably you just want this:

dictList = dict.items()

Your approach has two problems. For one you use key and value in quotes, which are strings with the letters "key" and "value", not related to the variables of that names. Also you keep adding elements to the "temporary" list and never get rid of old elements that are already in it from previous iterations. Make sure you have a new and empty temp list in each iteration and use the key and value variables:

for key, value in dict.iteritems():
    temp = []
    aKey = key
    aValue = value
    temp.append(aKey)
    temp.append(aValue)
    dictList.append(temp)

Also note that this could be written shorter without the temporary variables (and in Python 3 with items() instead of iteritems()):

for key, value in dict.items():
    dictList.append([key, value])

How to block users from closing a window in Javascript?

This will pop a dialog asking the user if he really wants to close or stay, with a message.

var message = "You have not filled out the form.";
window.onbeforeunload = function(event) {
    var e = e || window.event;
    if (e) {
        e.returnValue = message;
    }
    return message;
};

You can then unset it before the form gets submitted or something else with

window.onbeforeunload = null;

Keep in mind that this is extremely annoying. If you are trying to force your users to fill out a form that they don't want to fill out, then you will fail: they will find a way to close the window and never come back to your mean website.

Spring MVC Missing URI template variable

I got this error for a stupid mistake, the variable name in the @PathVariable wasn't matching the one in the @RequestMapping

For example

@RequestMapping(value = "/whatever/{**contentId**}", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public … method(@PathVariable Integer **contentID**){
}

It may help others

SQL server 2008 backup error - Operating system error 5(failed to retrieve text for this error. Reason: 15105)

I had this error. Nothing worked for me until I opened the SQLServer log file in the "MSSQL10_50" Log folder. That clearly stated which file could not be overwritten. It turned out that the .mdf file was being written into the "MSSQL10" data folder. I made sure that folder had the same SQLServer user permissions as the "MSSQL10_50" equivalent folder. Then it all worked.

The issue here is that the error detail is logged but not reported, so check the logs.

How to display a "busy" indicator with jQuery?

I did it in my project ,

make a div with back ground url as gif , which is nothing but animation gif

<div class="busyindicatorClass"> </div>

.busyindicatorClass
{
background-url///give animation here
}

in your ajax call , add this class to the div and in ajax success remove the class.

it will do the trick thatsit.

let me know if you need antthing else , i can give you more details

in the ajax success remove the class

success: function(data) {
    remove class using jquery
  }

How to specify the port an ASP.NET Core application is hosted on?

You can specify hosting URL without any changes to your app.

Create a Properties/launchSettings.json file in your project directory and fill it with something like this:

{
  "profiles": {
    "MyApp1-Dev": {
        "commandName": "Project",
        "environmentVariables": {
            "ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT": "Development"
        },
        "applicationUrl": "http://localhost:5001/"
    }
  }
}

dotnet run command should pick your launchSettings.json file and will display it in the console:

C:\ProjectPath [master =]
?  dotnet run
Using launch settings from C:\ProjectPath\Properties\launchSettings.json...
Hosting environment: Development
Content root path: C:\ProjectPath
Now listening on: http://localhost:5001
Application started. Press Ctrl+C to shut down. 

More details: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/environments

Importing csv file into R - numeric values read as characters

If you're dealing with large datasets (i.e. datasets with a high number of columns), the solution noted above can be manually cumbersome, and requires you to know which columns are numeric a priori.

Try this instead.

char_data <- read.csv(input_filename, stringsAsFactors = F)
num_data <- data.frame(data.matrix(char_data))
numeric_columns <- sapply(num_data,function(x){mean(as.numeric(is.na(x)))<0.5})
final_data <- data.frame(num_data[,numeric_columns], char_data[,!numeric_columns])

The code does the following:

  1. Imports your data as character columns.
  2. Creates an instance of your data as numeric columns.
  3. Identifies which columns from your data are numeric (assuming columns with less than 50% NAs upon converting your data to numeric are indeed numeric).
  4. Merging the numeric and character columns into a final dataset.

This essentially automates the import of your .csv file by preserving the data types of the original columns (as character and numeric).

How to return multiple values in one column (T-SQL)?

Sorry, read the question wrong the first time. You can do something like this:

declare @result varchar(max)

--must "initialize" result for this to work
select @result = ''

select @result = @result + alias
FROM aliases
WHERE username='Bob'

What is &amp used for

That's a great example. When &current is parsed into a text node it is converted to ¤t. When parsed into an attribute value, it is parsed as &current.

If you want &current in a text node, you should write &amp;current in your markup.

The gory details are in the HTML5 parsing spec - Named Character Reference State

Installing R with Homebrew

I am working MacOS 10.10. I have updated gcc to version 4.9 to make it work.

brew update
brew install gcc
brew reinstall r

Java :Add scroll into text area

Try adding these two lines to your code. I hope it will work. It worked for me :)

display.setLineWrap(true);
display.setWrapStyleWord(true);

Picture of output is shown below

enter image description here

openssl s_client -cert: Proving a client certificate was sent to the server

I know this is an old question but it does not yet appear to have an answer. I've duplicated this situation, but I'm writing the server app, so I've been able to establish what happens on the server side as well. The client sends the certificate when the server asks for it and if it has a reference to a real certificate in the s_client command line. My server application is set up to ask for a client certificate and to fail if one is not presented. Here is the command line I issue:

Yourhostname here -vvvvvvvvvv s_client -connect <hostname>:443 -cert client.pem -key cckey.pem -CAfile rootcert.pem -cipher ALL:!ADH:!LOW:!EXP:!MD5:@STRENGTH -tls1 -state

When I leave out the "-cert client.pem" part of the command the handshake fails on the server side and the s_client command fails with an error reported. I still get the report "No client certificate CA names sent" but I think that has been answered here above.

The short answer then is that the server determines whether a certificate will be sent by the client under normal operating conditions (s_client is not normal) and the failure is due to the server not recognizing the CA in the certificate presented. I'm not familiar with many situations in which two-way authentication is done although it is required for my project.

You are clearly sending a certificate. The server is clearly rejecting it.

The missing information here is the exact manner in which the certs were created and the way in which the provider loaded the cert, but that is probably all wrapped up by now.

Saving and loading objects and using pickle

You didn't open the file in binary mode.

open("Fruits.obj",'rb')

Should work.

For your second error, the file is most likely empty, which mean you inadvertently emptied it or used the wrong filename or something.

(This is assuming you really did close your session. If not, then it's because you didn't close the file between the write and the read).

I tested your code, and it works.

"unable to locate adb" using Android Studio

Check your [sdk directory]/platform-tools directory and if it does not exist, then open the SDK manager in the Android Studio (a button somewhere in the top menu, android logo with a down arrow), switch to SDK tools tab and and select/install the Android SDK Platform-tools.

Alternatively, you can try the standalone SDK Manager: Open the SDK manager and you should see a "Launch Standalone SDK manager" link somewhere at the bottom of the settings window. Click and open the standalone SDK manager, then install/update the

"Tools > Android SDK platform tools". If the above does not solve the problem, try reinstalling the tools: open the "Standalone SDK manager" and uninstall the Android SDK platform-tools, delete the [your sdk directory]/platform-tools directory completely and install it again using the SDK manager.

Hope this helps!

SQL Server SELECT INTO @variable?

you can do this:

SELECT 
    CustomerId, 
    FirstName, 
    LastName, 
    Email
INTO #tempCustomer 
FROM 
    Customer
WHERE 
    CustomerId = @CustomerId

then later

SELECT CustomerId FROM #tempCustomer

you doesn't need to declare the structure of #tempCustomer

CSS fixed width in a span

You can do it using a table, but it is not pure CSS.

<style>
ul{
    text-indent: 40px;
}

li{
    list-style-type: none;
    padding: 0;
}

span{
    color: #ff0000;
    position: relative;
    left: -40px;
}
</style>


<ul>
<span></span><li>The lazy dog.</li>
<span>AND</span><li>The lazy cat.</li>
<span>OR</span><li>The active goldfish.</li>
</ul>

Note that it doesn't display exactly like you want, because it switches line on each option. However, I hope that this helps you come closer to the answer.

installing vmware tools: location of GCC binary?

Install prerequisites VMware Tools for LinuxOS:

If you have RHEL/CentOS:

yum install perl gcc make kernel-headers kernel-devel -y

If you have Ubuntu/Debian:

sudo apt-get -y install linux-headers-server build-essential
  • build-essential, also install: dpkg-dev, g++, gcc, lib6-dev, libc-dev, make

Extracted from: http://www.sysadmit.com/2016/01/vmware-tools-linux-instalar-requisitos.html

How to change button text or link text in JavaScript?

Change .text to .textContent to get/set the text content.

Or since you're dealing with a single text node, use .firstChild.data in the same manner.

Also, let's make sensible use of a variable, and enjoy some code reduction and eliminate redundant DOM selection by caching the result of getElementById.

function toggleText(button_id) 
{
   var el = document.getElementById(button_id);
   if (el.firstChild.data == "Lock") 
   {
       el.firstChild.data = "Unlock";
   }
   else 
   {
     el.firstChild.data = "Lock";
   }
}

Or even more compact like this:

function toggleText(button_id)  {
   var text = document.getElementById(button_id).firstChild;
   text.data = text.data == "Lock" ? "Unlock" : "Lock";
}

How to programmatically click a button in WPF?

As Greg D said, I think that an alternative to Automation to click a button using the MVVM pattern (click event raised and command executed) is to call the OnClick method using reflection:

typeof(System.Windows.Controls.Primitives.ButtonBase).GetMethod("OnClick", BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic).Invoke(button, new object[0]);

How to generate XML file dynamically using PHP?

Take a look at the Tiny But Strong templating system. It's generally used for templating HTML but there's an extension that works with XML files. I use this extensively for creating reports where I can have one code file and two template files - htm and xml - and the user can then choose whether to send a report to screen or spreadsheet.

Another advantage is you don't have to code the xml from scratch, in some cases I've been wanting to export very large complex spreadsheets, and instead of having to code all the export all that is required is to save an existing spreadsheet in xml and substitute in code tags where data output is required. It's a quick and a very efficient way to work.

Using Predicate in Swift

You can use filters available in swift to filter content from an array instead of using a predicate like in Objective-C.

An example in Swift 4.0 is as follows:

var stringArray = ["foundation","coredata","coregraphics"]
stringArray = stringArray.filter { $0.contains("core") }

In the above example, since each element in the array is a string you can use the contains method to filter the array.

If the array contains custom objects, then the properties of that object can be used to filter the elements similarly.

Subset a dataframe by multiple factor levels

Try this:

> data[match(as.character(data$Code), selected, nomatch = FALSE), ]
    Code Value
1      A     1
2      B     2
1.1    A     1
1.2    A     1

find filenames NOT ending in specific extensions on Unix?

Other solutions on this page aren't desirable if you have a long list of extensions -- maintaining a long sequence of -not -name 'this' -not -name 'that' -not -name 'other' would be tedious and error-prone -- or if the search is programmatic and the list of extensions is built at runtime.

For those situations, a solution that more clearly separates data (the list of extensions) and code (the parameters to find) may be desirable. Given a directory & file structure that looks like this:

.
+-- a
    +-- 1.txt
    +-- 15.xml
    +-- 8.dll
    +-- b
    ¦   +-- 16.xml
    ¦   +-- 2.txt
    ¦   +-- 9.dll
    ¦   +-- c
    ¦       +-- 10.dll
    ¦       +-- 17.xml
    ¦       +-- 3.txt
    +-- d
    ¦   +-- 11.dll
    ¦   +-- 18.xml
    ¦   +-- 4.txt
    ¦   +-- e
    ¦       +-- 12.dll
    ¦       +-- 19.xml
    ¦       +-- 5.txt
    +-- f
        +-- 13.dll
        +-- 20.xml
        +-- 6.txt
        +-- g
            +-- 14.dll
            +-- 21.xml
            +-- 7.txt

You can do something like this:

## data section, list undesired extensions here
declare -a _BADEXT=(xml dll)

## code section, this never changes
BADEXT="$( IFS="|" ; echo "${_BADEXT[*]}" | sed 's/|/\\|/g' )"
find . -type f ! -regex ".*\.\($BADEXT\)"

Which results in:

./a/1.txt
./a/b/2.txt
./a/b/c/3.txt
./a/d/4.txt
./a/d/e/5.txt
./a/f/6.txt
./a/f/g/7.txt

You can change the extensions list without changing the code block.

NOTE doesn't work with native OSX find - use gnu find instead.

The ternary (conditional) operator in C

It's crucial for code obfuscation, like this:

Look->       See?!

No
:(
Oh, well
);

How do I wrap text in a pre tag?

The following helped me:

pre {
    white-space: normal;
    word-wrap: break-word;
}

Thanks

Rounded table corners CSS only

This is css3, only recent non-IE<9 browser will support it.

Check out here, it derives the round property for all available browsers

Developing C# on Linux

Mono Develop is what you want, if you have used visual studio you should find it simple enough to get started.

If I recall correctly you should be able to install with sudo apt-get install monodevelop

How to count lines in a document?

I've been using this:

cat myfile.txt | wc -l

I prefer it over the accepted answer because it does not print the filename, and you don't have to use awk to fix that. Accepted answer:

wc -l myfile.txt

But I think the best one is GGB667's answer:

wc -l < myfile.txt

I will probably be using that from now on. It's slightly shorter than my way. I am putting up my old way of doing it in case anyone prefers it. The output is the same with those two methods.

Visual Studio 2010 always thinks project is out of date, but nothing has changed

For me, the problem arose in a WPF project where some files had their 'Build Action' property set to 'Resource' and their 'Copy to Output Directory' set to 'Copy if newer'. The solution seemed to be to change the 'Copy to Output Directory' property to 'Do not copy'.

msbuild knows not to copy 'Resource' files to the output - but still triggers a build if they're not there. Maybe that could be considered a bug?

It's hugely helpful with the answers here hinting how to get msbuild to spill the beans on why it keeps building everything!

CSS horizontal centering of a fixed div?

It is possible to horisontally center the div this way:

html:

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

css:

.container {
    left: 0;
    right: 0;
    bottom: 0; /* or top: 0, or any needed value */
    position: fixed;
    z-index: 1000; /* or even higher to prevent guarantee overlapping */
}

.inner {
    max-width: 600px; /* just for example */
    margin: 0 auto;
}

Using this way you will have always your inner block centered, in addition it can be easily turned to true responsive (in the example it will be just fluid on smaller screens), therefore no limitation in as in the question example and in the chosen answer.

Nginx sites-enabled, sites-available: Cannot create soft-link between config files in Ubuntu 12.04

You need to start by understanding that the target of a symlink is a pathname. And it can be absolute or relative to the directory which contains the symlink

Assuming you have foo.conf in sites-available

Try

cd sites-enabled
sudo ln -s ../sites-available/foo.conf .
ls -l

Now you will have a symlink in sites-enabled called foo.conf which has a target ../sites-available/foo.conf

Just to be clear, the normal configuration for Apache is that the config files for potential sites live in sites-available and the symlinks for the enabled sites live in sites-enabled, pointing at targets in sites-available. That doesn't quite seem to be the case the way you describe your setup, but that is not your primary problem.

If you want a symlink to ALWAYS point at the same file, regardless of the where the symlink is located, then the target should be the full path.

ln -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/foo.conf mysimlink-whatever.conf

Here is (line 1 of) the output of my ls -l /etc/apache2/sites-enabled:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  26 Jun 24 21:06 000-default -> ../sites-available/default

See how the target of the symlink is relative to the directory that contains the symlink (it starts with ".." meaning go up one directory).

Hardlinks are totally different because the target of a hardlink is not a directory entry but a filing system Inode.

Dart SDK is not configured

Many answers here, but I believe most are missing the point.

You're running this command from a shell, and most if not all answers are related to running inside an IDE. There's a difference.

If you're using the shell to run your Dart / Flutter commands, make sure you've set up the environment variables necessary for the commands to know where to look for the right tools.

Personally, as I mostly work on a laptop, I've offloaded my main drive from all the space required by the development tools, moving everything to an external drive as described in this answer, so I have to tell the system where I've placed the various components.

Same goes for running commands from the command line vs. from an IDE, as an IDE can store this configuration, while the shell will not, unless you store it in the shell's startup files.

I use macOS, Homebrew and the ZShell, and I like to have the Dart SDK as a separate install, so I can track the DEV branch for Dart via Homebrew, while my Flutter install is using the BETA branch.

So, in my ~/.zprofile I have:

export HOMEBREW_PREFIX="$(brew --prefix)"

# Android / Java, Dart / Flutter related
export FLUTTER_ROOT="${SSD}/Lib/flutter" # Path to your main Flutter install
export DART_SDK="${HOMEBREW_PREFIX}/opt/dart/libexec" # Separate Dart SDK install
export JAVA_HOME="/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/adoptopenjdk-8.jdk/Contents/Home" # JDK
export ANDROID_SDK_ROOT="${SSD}/Lib/android/sdk" # Top-level Android SDK directory
export ANDROID_HOME="${SSD}/Lib/android/sdk" # Same as above, needed by other tools I use
export ANDROID_AVD_HOME="${SSD}/Lib/android/avd" # Path to the moved emulators etc

Then I make sure that the $PATH variable is set up in the right order, so when I do Dart specific commands, the up-to-date Dart DEV branch is being used, while Flutter commands will use the Flutter BETA branch.

If you're using Zsh or Bash, add the additional paths at the end of .zshrc or .bashrc respectively, as these are called for every Terminal / Shell you start after login:

# Prepending to already established PATH

export PATH="\
/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/adoptopenjdk-8.jdk/Contents/Home/bin:\
${HOME}/.pub-cache/bin:\
${HOMEBREW_PREFIX}/opt/dart/libexec/bin:\
${SSD}/Lib/flutter/.pub-cache/bin:\
${SSD}/Lib/flutter/bin:\
${SSD}/Lib/android/sdk/platform-tools:\
${SSD}/Lib/android/sdk/tools/bin:\
${SSD}/Lib/android/sdk/emulator:\
${PATH}"

# If you're using Zsh, add this to clean up duplicate entries building up from running this 
# in every Terminal you launch:
# Remove duplicates from $PATH
typeset -aU path;

# Not sure, but in Bash, to remove duplicates you could do something like:
echo -n $PATH | awk -v RS=: '!($0 in a) {a[$0]; printf("%s%s", length(a) > 1 ? ":" : "", $0)}'

Now, that was a mouthful of stuff, but this is the way I maintain the order of operations...

HTML table with fixed headers and a fixed column?

Here is a good jQuery plugin, working in all browsers!

You have a fixed header table without fixing its width.

Check it: https://github.com/benjaminleouzon/tablefixedheader

Disclaimer: I am the author of the plugin.

Pass C# ASP.NET array to Javascript array

Here is another alternative solution. You can use ClientScriptManager Page.ClientScript.RegisterArrayDeclaration. Here is an example for chart data.

var page = HttpContext.Current.CurrentHandler as Page;

_data = "[Date.UTC(2018, 9, 29, 0, 3), parseFloat(21.84)]
         ,[Date.UTC(2018, 9, 29, 0, 13), parseFloat(21.84)]
         ,[Date.UTC(2018, 9, 29, 0, 23), parseFloat(21.83)]
         ,[Date.UTC(2018, 9, 29, 0, 33), parseFloat(21.83)]";
page.ClientScript.RegisterArrayDeclaration("chartdata0", _data);

This code creates an array on the client side

var chartdata0 = new Array([Date.UTC(2018, 9, 29, 0, 3), parseFloat(21.84)]
             ,[Date.UTC(2018, 9, 29, 0, 13), parseFloat(21.84)]
             ,[Date.UTC(2018, 9, 29, 0, 23), parseFloat(21.83)]
             ,[Date.UTC(2018, 9, 29, 0, 33), parseFloat(21.83)]);

See the following article

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.web.ui.clientscriptmanager.registerarraydeclaration?view=netframework-4.8

This solution has an issue with bigger arrays on chrome 64 browser including "Version 78.0.3904.70 (Official Build) (64-bit)". You may get "Uncaught RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded". However it is working with IE11, Microsoft Edge, and FireFox.

Spool Command: Do not output SQL statement to file

set echo off
spool c:\test.csv 
select /*csv*/ username, user_id, created from all_users;
spool off;

Batch file: Find if substring is in string (not in a file)

ECHO %String%| FINDSTR /C:"%Substring%" && (Instructions)

How to get all selected values of a multiple select box?

Here is an ES6 implementation:

value = Array(...el.options).reduce((acc, option) => {
  if (option.selected === true) {
    acc.push(option.value);
  }
  return acc;
}, []);

MySQL command line client for Windows

I have similar requirement where I need a MySQL client but not server (running in a virtual machine and don't want any additional overhead) and for me the easiest thing was to install MySQL community server taking typical installation options but NOT configure the server, so it never starts, never runs. Added C:\Program Files (x86)\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\bin to system path environment variable and I'm able to use the MySQL command line client mssql.exe and mysqladmin.exe programs.

Conditional step/stage in Jenkins pipeline

According to other answers I am adding the parallel stages scenario:

pipeline {
    agent any
    stages {
        stage('some parallel stage') {
            parallel {
                stage('parallel stage 1') {
                    when {
                      expression { ENV == "something" }
                    }
                    steps {
                        echo 'something'
                    }
                }
                stage('parallel stage 2') {
                    steps {
                        echo 'something'
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Is it possible to dynamically compile and execute C# code fragments?

To compile you could just initiate a shell call to the csc compiler. You may have a headache trying to keep your paths and switches straight but it certainly can be done.

C# Corner Shell Examples

EDIT: Or better yet, use the CodeDOM as Noldorin suggested...

How to list containers in Docker

To display only running containers

docker ps

To show all containers (includes all states)

docker ps -a

To show the latest created container (includes all states)

docker ps -l

To show n last created containers (includes all states)

docker ps -n=-1

To display total file sizes

docker ps -s

In the new version of Docker, commands are updated, and some management commands are added:

docker container ls

List all the running containers.

docker container ls -a

MessageBox with YesNoCancel - No & Cancel triggers same event

dim result as dialogresult
result = MessageBox.Show("message", "caption", MessageBoxButtons.YesNoCancel)
If result = DialogResult.Cancel Then
    MessageBox.Show("Cancel pressed")
ElseIf result = DialogResult.No Then
    MessageBox.Show("No pressed")
ElseIf result = DialogResult.Yes Then
    MessageBox.Show("Yes pressed")
End If

How to implement a tree data-structure in Java?

You can use TreeSet class in java.util.*. It is working like Binary search tree, so it is already sorted. TreeSet class implements Iterable, Collection and Set interfaces. You can traverse through the tree with iterator like a set.

TreeSet<String> treeSet = new TreeSet<String>();
Iterator<String> it  = treeSet.Iterator();
while(it.hasNext()){
...
}

You can check, Java Doc and some other .

The import com.google.android.gms cannot be resolved

Supposing that you are using ECLIPSE:

Right click PROJECT PROPERTIES ANDROID

If you have a version of ANDROID checked, you must change it to a GOOGLE API. Choose a version of GOOGLE APIS compatible with your project's target version.

Installing MySQL Python on Mac OS X

On Mojave, I ran into errors with finding the SSL libraries, here's what finally worked without having to modify mysql_config:

sudo pip install MySQL-Python --global-option=build_ext --global-option="-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include" --global-option="-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib"

Hopefully that will save someone a few hours of heartache

When and how should I use a ThreadLocal variable?

when?

When an object is not thread-safe, instead of synchronization which hampers the scalability, give one object to every thread and keep it thread scope, which is ThreadLocal. One of most often used but not thread-safe objects are database Connection and JMSConnection.

How ?

One example is Spring framework uses ThreadLocal heavily for managing transactions behind the scenes by keeping these connection objects in ThreadLocal variables. At high level, when a transaction is started it gets the connection ( and disables the auto commit ) and keeps it in ThreadLocal. on further db calls it uses same connection to communicate with db. At the end, it takes the connection from ThreadLocal and commits ( or rollback ) the transaction and releases the connection.

I think log4j also uses ThreadLocal for maintaining MDC.

Eloquent - where not equal to

Use where with a != operator in combination with whereNull

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

APK signing error : Failed to read key from keystore

Most likely that your key alias does not exist for your keystore file.

This answer should fix your signing issue ;)

Should I put input elements inside a label element?

See http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.9 for the W3 recommendations.

They say it can be done either way. They describe the two methods as explicit (using "for" with the element's id) and implicit (embedding the element in the label):

Explicit:

The for attribute associates a label with another control explicitly: the value of the for attribute must be the same as the value of the id attribute of the associated control element.

Implicit:

To associate a label with another control implicitly, the control element must be within the contents of the LABEL element. In this case, the LABEL may only contain one control element.

slideToggle JQuery right to left

Try this:

$(this).hide("slide", { direction: "left" }, 1000);

$(this).show("slide", { direction: "left" }, 1000);

Is there a Google Sheets formula to put the name of the sheet into a cell?

I have a sheet that is made to used by others and I have quite a few indirect() references around, so I need to formulaically handle a changed sheet tab name.

I used the formula from JohnP2 (below) but was having trouble because it didn't update automatically when a sheet name was changed. You need to go to the actual formula, make an arbitrary change and refresh to run it again.

=REGEXREPLACE(CELL("address",'SHEET NAME'!A1),"'?([^']+)'?!.*","$1")

I solved this by using info found in this solution on how to force a function to refresh. It may not be the most elegant solution, but it forced Sheets to pay attention to this cell and update it regularly, so that it catches an updated sheet title.

=IF(TODAY()=TODAY(), REGEXREPLACE(CELL("address",'SHEET NAME'!A1),"'?([^']+)'?!.*","$1"), "")

Using this, Sheets know to refresh this cell every time you make a change, which results in the address being updated whenever it gets renamed by a user.

Argparse optional positional arguments?

As an extension to @VinaySajip answer. There are additional nargs worth mentioning.

  1. parser.add_argument('dir', nargs=1, default=os.getcwd())

N (an integer). N arguments from the command line will be gathered together into a list

  1. parser.add_argument('dir', nargs='*', default=os.getcwd())

'*'. All command-line arguments present are gathered into a list. Note that it generally doesn't make much sense to have more than one positional argument with nargs='*', but multiple optional arguments with nargs='*' is possible.

  1. parser.add_argument('dir', nargs='+', default=os.getcwd())

'+'. Just like '*', all command-line args present are gathered into a list. Additionally, an error message will be generated if there wasn’t at least one command-line argument present.

  1. parser.add_argument('dir', nargs=argparse.REMAINDER, default=os.getcwd())

argparse.REMAINDER. All the remaining command-line arguments are gathered into a list. This is commonly useful for command line utilities that dispatch to other command line utilities

If the nargs keyword argument is not provided, the number of arguments consumed is determined by the action. Generally this means a single command-line argument will be consumed and a single item (not a list) will be produced.

Edit (copied from a comment by @Acumenus) nargs='?' The docs say: '?'. One argument will be consumed from the command line if possible and produced as a single item. If no command-line argument is present, the value from default will be produced.

Why AVD Manager options are not showing in Android Studio

On linux I have same problem - its not listed in tools.

However there is a small icon:

enter image description here

Higlighted in yellow above in the top right corner of studio. It looks like a small phone with the android logo.

Why is this error, 'Sequence contains no elements', happening?

Check again. Use debugger if must. My guess is that for some item in userResponseDetails this query finds no elements:

.Where(y => y.ResponseId.Equals(item.ResponseId))

so you can't call

.First()

on it. Maybe try

.FirstOrDefault()

if it solves the issue.

Do NOT return NULL value! This is purely so that you can see and diagnose where problem is. Handle these cases properly.

Allow multi-line in EditText view in Android?

All of these are nice but will not work in case you have your edittext inside upper level scroll view :) Perhaps most common example is "Settings" view that has so many items that the they go beyond of visible area. In this case you put them all into scroll view to make settings scrollable. In case that you need multiline scrollable edit text in your settings, its scroll will not work.

CSS Layout - Dynamic width DIV

This will do what you want. Fixed sides with 50px-width, and the content fills the remaining area.

<div style="width:100%;">
    <div style="width: 50px; float: left;">Left Side</div>
    <div style="width: 50px; float: right;">Right Side</div>
    <div style="margin-left: 50px; margin-right: 50px;">Content Goes Here</div>
</div>

How to tell whether a point is to the right or left side of a line

Assuming the points are (Ax,Ay) (Bx,By) and (Cx,Cy), you need to compute:

(Bx - Ax) * (Cy - Ay) - (By - Ay) * (Cx - Ax)

This will equal zero if the point C is on the line formed by points A and B, and will have a different sign depending on the side. Which side this is depends on the orientation of your (x,y) coordinates, but you can plug test values for A,B and C into this formula to determine whether negative values are to the left or to the right.

How to declare an array of strings in C++?

You can directly declare an array of strings like string s[100];. Then if you want to access specific elements, you can get it directly like s[2][90]. For iteration purposes, take the size of string using the s[i].size() function.

Making HTTP Requests using Chrome Developer tools

To GET requests with headers, use this format.

   fetch('http://example.com', {
      method: 'GET',
      headers: new Headers({
               'Content-Type': 'application/json',
               'someheader': 'headervalue'
               })
    })
    .then(res => res.json())
    .then(console.log)

How to place div side by side

Give the first div float: left; and a fixed width, and give the second div width: 100%; and float: left;. That should do the trick. If you want to place items below it you need a clear: both; on the item you want to place below it.

Read and write to binary files in C?

Reading and writing binary files is pretty much the same as any other file, the only difference is how you open it:

unsigned char buffer[10];
FILE *ptr;

ptr = fopen("test.bin","rb");  // r for read, b for binary

fread(buffer,sizeof(buffer),1,ptr); // read 10 bytes to our buffer

You said you can read it, but it's not outputting correctly... keep in mind that when you "output" this data, you're not reading ASCII, so it's not like printing a string to the screen:

for(int i = 0; i<10; i++)
    printf("%u ", buffer[i]); // prints a series of bytes

Writing to a file is pretty much the same, with the exception that you're using fwrite() instead of fread():

FILE *write_ptr;

write_ptr = fopen("test.bin","wb");  // w for write, b for binary

fwrite(buffer,sizeof(buffer),1,write_ptr); // write 10 bytes from our buffer

Since we're talking Linux.. there's an easy way to do a sanity check. Install hexdump on your system (if it's not already on there) and dump your file:

mike@mike-VirtualBox:~/C$ hexdump test.bin
0000000 457f 464c 0102 0001 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000010 0001 003e 0001 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
...

Now compare that to your output:

mike@mike-VirtualBox:~/C$ ./a.out 
127 69 76 70 2 1 1 0 0 0

hmm, maybe change the printf to a %x to make this a little clearer:

mike@mike-VirtualBox:~/C$ ./a.out 
7F 45 4C 46 2 1 1 0 0 0

Hey, look! The data matches up now*. Awesome, we must be reading the binary file correctly!

*Note the bytes are just swapped on the output but that data is correct, you can adjust for this sort of thing

Warning: mysqli_num_rows() expects parameter 1 to be mysqli_result, boolean given in

The problem is your query returned false meaning there was an error in your query. After your query you could do the following:

if (!$result) {
    die(mysqli_error($link));
}

Or you could combine it with your query:

$results = mysqli_query($link, $query) or die(mysqli_error($link));

That will print out your error.

Also... you need to sanitize your input. You can't just take user input and put that into a query. Try this:

$query = "SELECT * FROM shopsy_db WHERE name LIKE '%" . mysqli_real_escape_string($link, $searchTerm) . "%'";

In reply to: Table 'sookehhh_shopsy_db.sookehhh_shopsy_db' doesn't exist

Are you sure the table name is sookehhh_shopsy_db? maybe it's really like users or something.

How to find a number in a string using JavaScript?

_x000D_
_x000D_
var regex = /\d+/g;_x000D_
var string = "you can enter maximum 500 choices";_x000D_
var matches = string.match(regex);  // creates array from matches_x000D_
_x000D_
document.write(matches);
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_


References:

    http://www.regular-expressions.info/javascript.html

    https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/RegExp

IE 8: background-size fix

Also i have found another useful link. It is a background hack used like this

.selector { background-size: cover; -ms-behavior: url(/backgroundsize.min.htc); }

https://github.com/louisremi/background-size-polyfill

Hide div element when screen size is smaller than a specific size

The easiest approach I know of is using onresize() func:

   window.onresize = function(event) {
        ...
    }

Here is a fiddle for it

Does the target directory for a git clone have to match the repo name?

Yes, it is possible:

git clone https://github.com/pitosalas/st3_packages Packages 

You can specify the local root directory when using git clone.

<directory> 

The name of a new directory to clone into.
The "humanish" part of the source repository is used if no directory is explicitly given (repo for /path/to/repo.git and foo for host.xz:foo/.git).
Cloning into an existing directory is only allowed if the directory is empty.


As Chris comments, you can then rename that top directory.
Git only cares about the .git within said top folder, which you can get with various commands:

git rev-parse --show-toplevel git rev-parse --git-dir 

Android Percentage Layout Height

Just as you said, I'd recommend weights. Percentages would be incredibly useful (don't know why they aren't supported), but one way you could do it is like so:

<LinearLayout
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    >
    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_weight="1"
        >
    </LinearLayout>
    <View
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_weight="1"
    />
</LinearLayout>

The takeaway being that you have an empty View that will take up the remaining space. Not ideal, but it does what you're looking for.

Sorting a tab delimited file

Lars Haugseth answer only worked from the command line for me where it gives this error if executed from a shell script:

sort: multi-character tab ‘$\t’

The solution if it's coded in a shell script if anyone's looking is

sort -t'    '

the tab character is in between the quote.

Detecting a long press with Android

I found one solution and it does not require to define runnable or other things and it's working fine.

    var lastTouchTime: Long = 0

    // ( ViewConfiguration.#.DEFAULT_LONG_PRESS_TIMEOUT =500)
    val longPressTime = 500

    var lastTouchX = 0f
    var lastTouchY = 0f

    view.setOnTouchListener { v, event ->

        when (event.action) {
            MotionEvent.ACTION_DOWN -> {
                lastTouchTime = SystemClock.elapsedRealtime()
                lastTouchX = event.x
                lastTouchY = event.y
                return@setOnTouchListener true
            }
            MotionEvent.ACTION_UP -> {
                if (SystemClock.elapsedRealtime() - lastTouchTime > longPressTime
                        && Math.abs(event.x - lastTouchX) < 3
                        && Math.abs(event.y - lastTouchY) < 3) {
                    Log.d(TAG, "Long press")
                }
                return@setOnTouchListener true
            }
            else -> {
                return@setOnTouchListener false
            }
        }

    }

Cannot install Aptana Studio 3.6 on Windows

It seems having msysgit (Git for Windows) installed is causing the problem.

In most cases you'll have a pretty recent version of Git for Windows installed. Cited from https://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/:

There was a security issue in Git, see here. Git for Windows < 1.9.5 is affected - so you should update, TortoiseGit itself is not affected (using the default configuration; only if libgit2 is manually enabled for checkout/fetching). TortoiseGit 1.8.13.0 includes all fixes.

But it seems Aptana Studio Installer won't accept any pre-installed version of Git for Windows!

What you need to do:

  1. Uninstall Git for Windows.
  2. Install Aptana Studio.
    Apanta Studio 3.6.1 will install Git for Windows 1.8.4-preview20130916.
  3. Download latest version of Git for Windows from http://msysgit.github.io/.
  4. Install latest version of Git for Windows.
    The outdated Git for Windows 1.8.4-preview20130916 will be updated to recent version.

That's it !!!

How do I get out of 'screen' without typing 'exit'?

  • Ctrl + A, Ctrl + \ - Exit screen and terminate all programs in this screen. It is helpful, for example, if you need to close a tty connection.

  • Ctrl + D, D or - Ctrl + A, Ctrl + D - "minimize" screen and screen -r to restore it.

How would I get everything before a : in a string Python

Using index:

>>> string = "Username: How are you today?"
>>> string[:string.index(":")]
'Username'

The index will give you the position of : in string, then you can slice it.

If you want to use regex:

>>> import re
>>> re.match("(.*?):",string).group()
'Username'                       

match matches from the start of the string.

you can also use itertools.takewhile

>>> import itertools
>>> "".join(itertools.takewhile(lambda x: x!=":", string))
'Username'

Find files in a folder using Java

To elaborate on this response, Apache IO Utils might save you some time. Consider the following example that will recursively search for a file of a given name:

    File file = FileUtils.listFiles(new File("the/desired/root/path"), 
                new NameFileFilter("filename.ext"), 
                FileFilterUtils.trueFileFilter()
            ).iterator().next();

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