Programs & Examples On #Css friendly

CSS Friendly is a tool kit for ASP.Net that allows to modify the way that our server ASP.NET controls are shown on the browser.

CSS root directory

This problem that the "../" means step up (parent folder) link "../images/img.png" will not work because when you are using ajax like data passing to the web site from the server.

What you have to do is point the image location to root with "./" then the second folder (in this case the second folder is "images")

url("./images/img.png")

if you have folders like this

root -> content -> images

then you use url("./content/images/img.png"), remember your image will not visible in the editor window but when it passed to the browser using ajax it will display.

Bash Script : what does #!/bin/bash mean?

When the first characters in a script are #!, that is called the shebang. If your file starts with #!/path/to/something the standard is to run something and pass the rest of the file to that program as an input.

With that said, the difference between #!/bin/bash, #!/bin/sh, or even #!/bin/zsh is whether the bash, sh, or zsh programs are used to interpret the rest of the file. bash and sh are just different programs, traditionally. On some Linux systems they are two copies of the same program. On other Linux systems, sh is a link to dash, and on traditional Unix systems (Solaris, Irix, etc) bash is usually a completely different program from sh.

Of course, the rest of the line doesn't have to end in sh. It could just as well be #!/usr/bin/python, #!/usr/bin/perl, or even #!/usr/local/bin/my_own_scripting_language.

How to access your website through LAN in ASP.NET

If you use IIS Express via Visual Studio instead of the builtin ASP.net host, you can achieve this.

Binding IIS Express to an IP Address

How to get a list of user accounts using the command line in MySQL?

SELECT User FROM mysql.user;

use above query to get Mysql Users

Jenkins/Hudson - accessing the current build number?

BUILD_NUMBER is the current build number. You can use it in the command you execute for the job, or just use it in the script your job executes.

See the Jenkins documentation for the full list of available environment variables. The list is also available from within your Jenkins instance at http://hostname/jenkins/env-vars.html.

What is the difference between i++ and ++i?

Oddly it looks like the other two answers don't spell it out, and it's definitely worth saying:


i++ means 'tell me the value of i, then increment'

++i means 'increment i, then tell me the value'


They are Pre-increment, post-increment operators. In both cases the variable is incremented, but if you were to take the value of both expressions in exactly the same cases, the result will differ.

How to get browser width using JavaScript code?

var w = window.innerWidth;
var h = window.innerHeight;
var ow = window.outerWidth; //including toolbars and status bar etc.
var oh = window.outerHeight;

Both return integers and don't require jQuery. Cross-browser compatible.

I often find jQuery returns invalid values for width() and height()

Making a PowerShell POST request if a body param starts with '@'

@Frode F. gave the right answer.

By the Way Invoke-WebRequest also prints you the 200 OK and a lot of bla, bla, bla... which might be useful but I still prefer the Invoke-RestMethod which is lighter.

Also, keep in mind that you need to use | ConvertTo-Json for the body only, not the header:

$body = @{
 "UserSessionId"="12345678"
 "OptionalEmail"="[email protected]"
} | ConvertTo-Json

$header = @{
 "Accept"="application/json"
 "connectapitoken"="97fe6ab5b1a640909551e36a071ce9ed"
 "Content-Type"="application/json"
} 

Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "http://MyServer/WSVistaWebClient/RESTService.svc/member/search" -Method 'Post' -Body $body -Headers $header | ConvertTo-HTML

and you can then append a | ConvertTo-HTML at the end of the request for better readability

WooCommerce: Finding the products in database

Update 2020

Products are located mainly in the following tables:

  • wp_posts table with post_type like product (or product_variation),

  • wp_postmeta table with post_id as relational index (the product ID).

  • wp_wc_product_meta_lookup table with product_id as relational index (the post ID) | Allow fast queries on specific product data (since WooCommerce 3.7)

  • wp_wc_order_product_lookuptable with product_id as relational index (the post ID) | Allow fast queries to retrieve products on orders (since WooCommerce 3.7)

Product types, categories, subcategories, tags, attributes and all other custom taxonomies are located in the following tables:

  • wp_terms

  • wp_termmeta

  • wp_term_taxonomy

  • wp_term_relationships - column object_id as relational index (the product ID)

  • wp_woocommerce_termmeta

  • wp_woocommerce_attribute_taxonomies (for product attributes only)

  • wp_wc_category_lookup (for product categories hierarchy only since WooCommerce 3.7)


Product types are handled by custom taxonomy product_type with the following default terms:

  • simple
  • grouped
  • variable
  • external

Some other product types for Subscriptions and Bookings plugins:

  • subscription
  • variable-subscription
  • booking

Since Woocommerce 3+ a new custom taxonomy named product_visibility handle:

  • The product visibility with the terms exclude-from-search and exclude-from-catalog
  • The feature products with the term featured
  • The stock status with the term outofstock
  • The rating system with terms from rated-1 to rated-5

Particular feature: Each product attribute is a custom taxonomy…


References:

c# regex matches example

All the other responses I see are fine, but C# has support for named groups!

I'd use the following code:

const string input = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit %download%#456 amet, consectetur adipiscing %download%#3434 elit. Duis non nunc nec mauris feugiat porttitor. Sed tincidunt blandit dui a viverra%download%#298. Aenean dapibus nisl %download%#893434 id nibh auctor vel tempor velit blandit.";

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    Regex expression = new Regex(@"%download%#(?<Identifier>[0-9]*)");
    var results = expression.Matches(input);
    foreach (Match match in results)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(match.Groups["Identifier"].Value);
    }
}

The code that reads: (?<Identifier>[0-9]*) specifies that [0-9]*'s results will be part of a named group that we index as above: match.Groups["Identifier"].Value

How do I perform a JAVA callback between classes?

IMO, you should have a look at the Observer Pattern, and this is how most of the listeners work

How can I create an utility class?

According to Joshua Bloch (Effective Java), you should use private constructor which always throws exception. That will finally discourage user to create instance of util class.

Marking class abstract is not recommended because is abstract suggests reader that class is designed for inheritance.

Catching errors in Angular HttpClient

By using Interceptor you can catch error. Below is code:

@Injectable()
export class ResponseInterceptor implements HttpInterceptor {
  intercept(req: HttpRequest<any>, next: HttpHandler): Observable<HttpEvent<any>> {
    //Get Auth Token from Service which we want to pass thr service call
    const authToken: any = `Bearer ${sessionStorage.getItem('jwtToken')}`
    // Clone the service request and alter original headers with auth token.
    const authReq = req.clone({
      headers: req.headers.set('Content-Type', 'application/json').set('Authorization', authToken)
    });

    const authReq = req.clone({ setHeaders: { 'Authorization': authToken, 'Content-Type': 'application/json'} });

    // Send cloned request with header to the next handler.
    return next.handle(authReq).do((event: HttpEvent<any>) => {
      if (event instanceof HttpResponse) {
        console.log("Service Response thr Interceptor");
      }
    }, (err: any) => {
      if (err instanceof HttpErrorResponse) {
        console.log("err.status", err);
        if (err.status === 401 || err.status === 403) {
          location.href = '/login';
          console.log("Unauthorized Request - In case of Auth Token Expired");
        }
      }
    });
  }
}

You can prefer this blog..given simple example for it.

Cannot simply use PostgreSQL table name ("relation does not exist")

Easiest workaround is Just change the table name and all column names to lowercase and your issue will be resolved.

For example:

  • Change Table_Name to table_name and
  • Change ColumnName to columnname

How do function pointers in C work?

Since function pointers are often typed callbacks, you might want to have a look at type safe callbacks. The same applies to entry points, etc of functions that are not callbacks.

C is quite fickle and forgiving at the same time :)

How do I get the calling method name and type using reflection?

public class SomeClass
{
    public void SomeMethod()
    {
        StackFrame frame = new StackFrame(1);
        var method = frame.GetMethod();
        var type = method.DeclaringType;
        var name = method.Name;
    }
}

Now let's say you have another class like this:

public class Caller
{
   public void Call()
   {
      SomeClass s = new SomeClass();
      s.SomeMethod();
   }
}

name will be "Call" and type will be "Caller"

UPDATE Two years later since I'm still getting upvotes on this

In .Net 4.5 there is now a much easier way to do this. You can take advantage of the CallerMemberNameAttribute

Going with the previous example:

public class SomeClass
{
    public void SomeMethod([CallerMemberName]string memberName = "")
    {
        Console.WriteLine(memberName); //output will be name of calling method
    }
}

To find first N prime numbers in python

I am not familiar with Python so I am writing the C counter part(too lazy to write pseudo code.. :P) To find the first n prime numbers.. // prints all the primes.. not bothering to make an array and return it etc..

void find_first_n_primes(int n){
   int count = 0;
   for(int i=2;count<=n;i++){
     factFlag == 0; //flag for factor count... 
     for(int k=2;k<sqrt(n)+1;k++){
       if(i%k == 0) // factor found..
        factFlag++;
     }
      if(factFlag==0)// no factors found hence prime..
        {
         Print(i);   // prime displayed..
         count++;
        }
   }
}

How can I use Oracle SQL developer to run stored procedures?

I am not sure how to see the actual rows/records that come back.

Stored procedures do not return records. They may have a cursor as an output parameter, which is a pointer to a select statement. But it requires additional action to actually bring back rows from that cursor.

In SQL Developer, you can execute a procedure that returns a ref cursor as follows

var rc refcursor
exec proc_name(:rc)

After that, if you execute the following, it will show the results from the cursor:

print rc

How do I conditionally add attributes to React components?

From my point of view the best way to manage multiple conditional props is the props object approach from @brigand. But it can be improved in order to avoid adding one if block for each conditional prop.

The ifVal helper

rename it as you like (iv, condVal, cv, _, ...)

You can define a helper function to return a value, or another, if a condition is met:

// components-helpers.js
export const ifVal = (cond, trueValue=true, falseValue=null) => {
  return cond ? trueValue : falseValue
}

If cond is true (or truthy), the trueValue is returned - or true. If cond is false (or falsy), the falseValue is returned - or null.

These defaults (true and null) are, usually the right values to allow a prop to be passed or not to a React component. You can think to this function as an "improved React ternary operator". Please improve it if you need more control over the returned values.

Let's use it with many props.

Build the (complex) props object

// your-code.js
import { ifVal } from './components-helpers.js'

// BE SURE to replace all true/false with a real condition in you code
// this is just an example

const inputProps = {
  value: 'foo',
  enabled: ifVal(true), // true
  noProp: ifVal(false), // null - ignored by React
  aProp: ifVal(true, 'my value'), // 'my value'
  bProp: ifVal(false, 'the true text', 'the false text') // 'my false value',
  onAction: ifVal(isGuest, handleGuest, handleUser) // it depends on isGuest value
};

 <MyComponent {...inputProps} />

This approach is something similar to the popular way to conditionally manage classes using the classnames utility, but adapted to props.

Why you should use this approach

You'll have a clean and readable syntax, even with many conditional props: every new prop just add a line of code inside the object declaration.

In this way you replace the syntax noise of repeated operators (..., &&, ? :, ...), that can be very annoying when you have many props, with a plain function call.

Our top priority, as developers, is to write the most obvious code that solve a problem. Too many times we solve problems for our ego, adding complexity where it's not required. Our code should be straightforward, for us today, for us tomorrow and for our mates.

just because we can do something doesn't mean we should

I hope this late reply will help.

Function pointer as parameter

Replace void *disconnectFunc; with void (*disconnectFunc)(); to declare function pointer type variable. Or even better use a typedef:

typedef void (*func_t)(); // pointer to function with no args and void return
...
func_t fptr; // variable of pointer to function
...
void D::setDisconnectFunc( func_t func )
{
    fptr = func;
}

void D::disconnected()
{
    fptr();
    connected = false;
}

How to slice an array in Bash

See the Parameter Expansion section in the Bash man page. A[@] returns the contents of the array, :1:2 takes a slice of length 2, starting at index 1.

A=( foo bar "a  b c" 42 )
B=("${A[@]:1:2}")
C=("${A[@]:1}")       # slice to the end of the array
echo "${B[@]}"        # bar a  b c
echo "${B[1]}"        # a  b c
echo "${C[@]}"        # bar a  b c 42
echo "${C[@]: -2:2}"  # a  b c 42 # The space before the - is necesssary

Note that the fact that "a b c" is one array element (and that it contains an extra space) is preserved.

Intellij Idea: Importing Gradle project - getting JAVA_HOME not defined yet

You need to setup a SDK for Java projects, like @rizzletang said, but you don't need to create a new project, you can do it from the Welcome screen.

On the bottom right, select Configure > Project Defaults > Project Structure: enter image description here

Picking the Project tab on the left will show that you have no SDK selected:

enter image description here

Just click the New... button on the right hand side of the dropdown and point it to your JDK. After that, you can go back to the import screen and it should just show up.

Sorting a List<int>

There's no need for LINQ here, just call Sort:

list.Sort();

Example code:

List<int> list = new List<int> { 5, 7, 3 };
list.Sort();
foreach (int x in list)
{
    Console.WriteLine(x);
}

Result:

3
5
7

Convert date to datetime in Python

There are several ways, although I do believe the one you mention (and dislike) is the most readable one.

>>> t=datetime.date.today()
>>> datetime.datetime.fromordinal(t.toordinal())
datetime.datetime(2009, 12, 20, 0, 0)
>>> datetime.datetime(t.year, t.month, t.day)
datetime.datetime(2009, 12, 20, 0, 0)
>>> datetime.datetime(*t.timetuple()[:-4])
datetime.datetime(2009, 12, 20, 0, 0)

and so forth -- but basically they all hinge on appropriately extracting info from the date object and ploughing it back into the suitable ctor or classfunction for datetime.

how to get program files x86 env variable?

On a Windows 64 bit machine, echo %programfiles(x86)% does print C:\Program Files (x86)

How to access the content of an iframe with jQuery?

You have to use the contents() method:

$("#myiframe").contents().find("#myContent")

Source: http://simple.procoding.net/2008/03/21/how-to-access-iframe-in-jquery/

API Doc: https://api.jquery.com/contents/

Interview question: Check if one string is a rotation of other string

Take each character as an amplitude and perform a discrete Fourier transform on them. If they differ only by rotation, the frequency spectra will be the same to within rounding error. Of course this is inefficient unless the length is a power of 2 so you can do an FFT :-)

How does strcmp() work?

This, from the masters themselves (K&R, 2nd ed., pg. 106):

// strcmp: return < 0 if s < t, 0 if s == t, > 0 if s > t
int strcmp(char *s, char *t) 
{
    int i;

    for (i = 0; s[i] == t[i]; i++)
        if (s[i] == '\0')
            return 0;
    return s[i] - t[i];
}

Java Comparator class to sort arrays

The answer from @aioobe is excellent. I just want to add another way for Java 8.

int[][] twoDim = { { 1, 2 }, { 3, 7 }, { 8, 9 }, { 4, 2 }, { 5, 3 } };

Arrays.sort(twoDim, (int[] o1, int[] o2) -> o2[0] - o1[0]);

System.out.println(Arrays.deepToString(twoDim));

For me it's intuitive and easy to remember with Java 8 syntax.

What does it mean when a PostgreSQL process is "idle in transaction"?

The PostgreSQL manual indicates that this means the transaction is open (inside BEGIN) and idle. It's most likely a user connected using the monitor who is thinking or typing. I have plenty of those on my system, too.

If you're using Slony for replication, however, the Slony-I FAQ suggests idle in transaction may mean that the network connection was terminated abruptly. Check out the discussion in that FAQ for more details.

How Can I Resolve:"can not open 'git-upload-pack' " error in eclipse?

I was getting the same issue "Cannot open git-upload-pack" in eclipse Juno while trying to clone ('Git Repository Exploring' perspective). https://[username]@[hostName]:[portNumber]/scm/TestRepo.git

Solution : Issue got solved after adding "-Dhttps.protocols=TLSv1" to the eclipse.ini file.

Possible Reason for Error : Some servers does not support TLSv1.2, or TLSv1.1, they might support only TLSv1.0. Java 8 default TLS protocol is 1.2 whereas it is 1.0 with Java 7. For an unknown reason, when Egit connects to the server, it does not fallback to TLSv1.1 after TLS1.2 fails to establish the connection. Don't know if it's an Egit or a Java 8 issue Courtesy : https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/1065782/

What linux shell command returns a part of a string?

expr(1) has a substr subcommand:

expr substr <string> <start-index> <length>

This may be useful if you don't have bash (perhaps embedded Linux) and you don't want the extra "echo" process you need to use cut(1).

How to detect a loop in a linked list?

Here is my solution in java

boolean detectLoop(Node head){
    Node fastRunner = head;
    Node slowRunner = head;
    while(fastRunner != null && slowRunner !=null && fastRunner.next != null){
        fastRunner = fastRunner.next.next;
        slowRunner = slowRunner.next;
        if(fastRunner == slowRunner){
            return true;
        }
    }
    return false;
}

Vagrant ssh authentication failure

I resolved the issue in the following manner. 1. Create new SSH key using Git Bash

$ ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C "vagrant@localhost"
# Creates a new ssh key, using the provided email as a label
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
  1. When you're prompted to "Enter a file in which to save the key," press Enter. This accepts the default file location.

    Enter a file in which to save the key (/Users/[you]/.ssh/id_rsa): [Press enter]

  2. At the prompt, type a secure passphrase. You can leave empty and press enter if you do not need a passphrase.

    Enter a file in which to save the key (/Users/[you]/.ssh/id_rsa): [Press enter]

  3. To connect to your Vagrant VM type following command

    ssh vagrant@localhost -p 2222

When you get following message type “yes” and press enter.

The authenticity of host 'github.com (192.30.252.1)' can't be established.
RSA key fingerprint is 16:27:ac:a5:76:28:2d:36:63:1b:56:4d:eb:df:a6:48.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?
  1. Now to establish a SSH connection type : $ vagrant ssh

  2. Copy the host public key into authorized_keys file in Vagrant VM. For that, go to “Users/[you]/.ssh” folder and copy the content in id_rsa.pub file in host machine and past into “~/.ssh/authorized_keys” file in Vagrant VM.

  3. Change permission on SSH folder and authorized_keys file in Vagrant VM
  4. Restart vagrant with : $ vagrant reload

Getting the PublicKeyToken of .Net assemblies

Open a command prompt and type one of the following lines according to your Visual Studio version and Operating System Architecture :

VS 2008 on 32bit Windows :

"%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin\sn.exe" -T <assemblyname>

VS 2008 on 64bit Windows :

"%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin\sn.exe" -T <assemblyname>

VS 2010 on 32bit Windows :

"%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\bin\sn.exe" -T <assemblyname>

VS 2010 on 64bit Windows :

"%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\bin\sn.exe" -T <assemblyname>

VS 2012 on 32bit Windows :

"%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v8.0A\bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools\sn.exe" -T <assemblyname>

VS 2012 on 64bit Windows :

"%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v8.0A\bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools\sn.exe" -T <assemblyname>

VS 2015 on 64bit Windows :

"%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v10.0A\bin\NETFX 4.6.1 Tools\sn.exe" -T <assemblyname>

Note that for the versions VS2012+, sn.exe application isn't anymore in bin but in a sub-folder. Also, note that for 64bit you need to specify (x86) folder.

If you prefer to use Visual Studio command prompt, just type :

sn -T <assembly> 

where <assemblyname> is a full file path to the assembly you're interested in, surrounded by quotes if it has spaces.

You can add this as an external tool in VS, as shown here:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/miah/archive/2008/02/19/visual-studio-tip-get-public-key-token-for-a-stong-named-assembly.aspx

Merge two rows in SQL

My case is I have a table like this

---------------------------------------------
|company_name|company_ID|CA        |   WA   |
---------------------------------------------
|Costco      |   1      |NULL      | 2      |
---------------------------------------------
|Costco      |   1      |3         |Null    |
---------------------------------------------

And I want it to be like below:

---------------------------------------------
|company_name|company_ID|CA        |   WA   |
---------------------------------------------
|Costco      |   1      |3         | 2      |
---------------------------------------------

Most code is almost the same:

SELECT
    FK,
    MAX(CA) AS CA,
    MAX(WA) AS WA
FROM
    table1
GROUP BY company_name,company_ID

The only difference is the group by, if you put two column names into it, you can group them in pairs.

Is there any option to limit mongodb memory usage?

If you are running MongoDB 3.2 or later version, you can limit the wiredTiger cache as mentioned above.

In /etc/mongod.conf add the wiredTiger part

...
# Where and how to store data.
storage:
  dbPath: /var/lib/mongodb
  journal:
    enabled: true
  wiredTiger:
    engineConfig:
        cacheSizeGB: 1
...

This will limit the cache size to 1GB, more info in Doc

This solved the issue for me, running ubuntu 16.04 and mongoDB 3.2

PS: After changing the config, restart the mongo daemon.

$ sudo service mongod restart

# check the status
$ sudo service mongod status

Spring cannot find bean xml configuration file when it does exist

I did the opposite of most. I am using Force IDE Luna Java EE and I placed my Beans.xml file within the package; however, I preceded the Beans.xml string - for the ClassPathXMLApplicationContext argument - with the relative path. So in my main application - the one which accesses the Beans.xml file - I have:

    ApplicationContext context = 
         new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("com/tutorialspoin/Beans.xml");

I also noticed that as soon as I moved the Beans.xml file into the package from the src folder, there was a Bean image at the lower left side of the XML file icon which was not there when this xml file was outside the package. That is a good indicator in letting me know that now the beans xml file is accessible by ClassPathXMLAppllicationsContext.

Python URLLib / URLLib2 POST

u = urllib2.urlopen('http://myserver/inout-tracker', data)
h.request('POST', '/inout-tracker/index.php', data, headers)

Using the path /inout-tracker without a trailing / doesn't fetch index.php. Instead the server will issue a 302 redirect to the version with the trailing /.

Doing a 302 will typically cause clients to convert a POST to a GET request.

Execute a SQL Stored Procedure and process the results

My Stored Procedure Requires 2 Parameters and I needed my function to return a datatable here is 100% working code

Please make sure that your procedure return some rows

Public Shared Function Get_BillDetails(AccountNumber As String) As DataTable
    Try
        Connection.Connect()
        debug.print("Look up account number " & AccountNumber)
        Dim DP As New SqlDataAdapter("EXEC SP_GET_ACCOUNT_PAYABLES_GROUP  '" & AccountNumber & "' , '" & 08/28/2013 &"'", connection.Con)
        Dim DST As New DataSet
        DP.Fill(DST)
        Return DST.Tables(0)      
    Catch ex As Exception
        Return Nothing
    End Try
End Function

Rails 4: List of available datatypes

You might also find it useful to know generally what these data types are used for:

There's also references used to create associations. But, I'm not sure this is an actual data type.

New Rails 4 datatypes available in PostgreSQL:

  • :hstore - storing key/value pairs within a single value (learn more about this new data type)
  • :array - an arrangement of numbers or strings in a particular row (learn more about it and see examples)
  • :cidr_address - used for IPv4 or IPv6 host addresses
  • :inet_address - used for IPv4 or IPv6 host addresses, same as cidr_address but it also accepts values with nonzero bits to the right of the netmask
  • :mac_address - used for MAC host addresses

Learn more about the address datatypes here and here.

Also, here's the official guide on migrations: http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/migrations.html

Deleting folders in python recursively

Here's another pure-pathlib solution, but without recursion:

from pathlib import Path
from typing import Union

def del_empty_dirs(base: Union[Path, str]):
    base = Path(base)
    for p in sorted(base.glob('**/*'), reverse=True):
        if p.is_dir():
            p.chmod(0o666)
            p.rmdir()
        else:
            raise RuntimeError(f'{p.parent} is not empty!')
    base.rmdir()

List passed by ref - help me explain this behaviour

You are passing a reference to the list, but your aren't passing the list variable by reference - so when you call ChangeList the value of the variable (i.e. the reference - think "pointer") is copied - and changes to the value of the parameter inside ChangeList aren't seen by TestMethod.

try:

private void ChangeList(ref List<int> myList) {...}
...
ChangeList(ref myList);

This then passes a reference to the local-variable myRef (as declared in TestMethod); now, if you reassign the parameter inside ChangeList you are also reassigning the variable inside TestMethod.

Get property value from C# dynamic object by string (reflection?)

Thought this might help someone in the future.

If you know the property name already, you can do something like the following:

[HttpPost]
[Route("myRoute")]
public object SomeApiControllerMethod([FromBody] dynamic args){
   var stringValue = args.MyPropertyName.ToString();
   //do something with the string value.  If this is an int, we can int.Parse it, or if it's a string, we can just use it directly.
   //some more code here....
   return stringValue;
}

Delete specific line from a text file?

You can actually use C# generics for this to make it real easy:

        var file = new List<string>(System.IO.File.ReadAllLines("C:\\path"));
        file.RemoveAt(12);
        File.WriteAllLines("C:\\path", file.ToArray());

How to exclude a directory from ant fileset, based on directories contents

works for me:

<target name="build2-jar" depends="compile" >
   <jar destfile="./myJjar.jar">
        <fileset dir="./WebContent/WEB-INF/lib" includes="hibernate*.jar,mysql*.jar" />
        <fileset dir="./WebContent/WEB-INF/classes" excludes="**/controlador/*.class,**/form/*.class,**/orm/*.class,**/reporting/*.class,**/org/w3/xmldsig/*.class"/>
   </jar>

How to add default signature in Outlook

Dim OutApp As Object, OutMail As Object, LogFile As String
Dim cell As Range, S As String, WMBody As String, lFile As Long

S = Environ("appdata") & "\Microsoft\Signatures\"
If Dir(S, vbDirectory) <> vbNullString Then S = S & Dir$(S & "*.htm") Else S = ""
S = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").GetFile(S).OpenAsTextStream(1,  -2).ReadAll

WMBody = "<br>Hi All,<br><br>" & _
         "Last line,<br><br>" & S 'Add the Signature to end of HTML Body

Just thought I'd share how I achieve this. Not too sure if it's correct in the defining variables sense but it's small and easy to read which is what I like.

I attach WMBody to .HTMLBody within the object Outlook.Application OLE.

Hope it helps someone.

Thanks, Wes.

How do you validate a URL with a regular expression in Python?

The regex provided should match any url of the form http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt; and does when tested in the python interpreter.

What format have the URLs you've been having trouble parsing had?

Ternary operator in AngularJS templates

While you can use the condition && if-true-part || if-false-part-syntax in older versions of angular, the usual ternary operator condition ? true-part : false-part is available in Angular 1.1.5 and later.

How to skip over an element in .map()?

Here is a updated version of the code provided by @theprtk. It is a cleaned up a little to show the generalized version whilst having an example.

Note: I'd add this as a comment to his post but I don't have enough reputation yet

/**
 * @see http://clojure.com/blog/2012/05/15/anatomy-of-reducer.html
 * @description functions that transform reducing functions
 */
const transduce = {
  /** a generic map() that can take a reducing() & return another reducing() */
  map: changeInput => reducing => (acc, input) =>
    reducing(acc, changeInput(input)),
  /** a generic filter() that can take a reducing() & return */
  filter: predicate => reducing => (acc, input) =>
    predicate(input) ? reducing(acc, input) : acc,
  /**
   * a composing() that can take an infinite # transducers to operate on
   *  reducing functions to compose a computed accumulator without ever creating
   *  that intermediate array
   */
  compose: (...args) => x => {
    const fns = args;
    var i = fns.length;
    while (i--) x = fns[i].call(this, x);
    return x;
  },
};

const example = {
  data: [{ src: 'file.html' }, { src: 'file.txt' }, { src: 'file.json' }],
  /** note: `[1,2,3].reduce(concat, [])` -> `[1,2,3]` */
  concat: (acc, input) => acc.concat([input]),
  getSrc: x => x.src,
  filterJson: x => x.src.split('.').pop() !== 'json',
};

/** step 1: create a reducing() that can be passed into `reduce` */
const reduceFn = example.concat;
/** step 2: transforming your reducing function by mapping */
const mapFn = transduce.map(example.getSrc);
/** step 3: create your filter() that operates on an input */
const filterFn = transduce.filter(example.filterJson);
/** step 4: aggregate your transformations */
const composeFn = transduce.compose(
  filterFn,
  mapFn,
  transduce.map(x => x.toUpperCase() + '!'), // new mapping()
);

/**
 * Expected example output
 *  Note: each is wrapped in `example.data.reduce(x, [])`
 *  1: ['file.html', 'file.txt', 'file.json']
 *  2:  ['file.html', 'file.txt']
 *  3: ['FILE.HTML!', 'FILE.TXT!']
 */
const exampleFns = {
  transducers: [
    mapFn(reduceFn),
    filterFn(mapFn(reduceFn)),
    composeFn(reduceFn),
  ],
  raw: [
    (acc, x) => acc.concat([x.src]),
    (acc, x) => acc.concat(x.src.split('.').pop() !== 'json' ? [x.src] : []),
    (acc, x) => acc.concat(x.src.split('.').pop() !== 'json' ? [x.src.toUpperCase() + '!'] : []),
  ],
};
const execExample = (currentValue, index) =>
  console.log('Example ' + index, example.data.reduce(currentValue, []));

exampleFns.raw.forEach(execExample);
exampleFns.transducers.forEach(execExample);

How can I align all elements to the left in JPanel?

The easiest way I've found to place objects on the left is using FlowLayout.

JPanel panel = new JPanel(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.LEFT));

adding a component normally to this panel will place it on the left

Root user/sudo equivalent in Cygwin?

Based on @mat-khor's answer, I took the syswin su.exe, saved it as manufacture-syswin-su.exe, and wrote this wrapper script. It handles redirection of the command's stdout and stderr, so it can be used in a pipe, etc. Also, the script exits with the status of the given command.

Limitations:

  • The syswin-su options are currently hardcoded to use the current user. Prepending env USERNAME=... to the script invocation overrides it. If other options were needed, the script would have to distinguish between syswin-su and command arguments, e.g. splitting at the first --.
  • If the UAC prompt is cancelled or declined, the script hangs.

.

#!/bin/bash
set -e

# join command $@ into a single string with quoting (required for syswin-su)
cmd=$( ( set -x; set -- "$@"; ) 2>&1 | perl -nle 'print $1 if /\bset -- (.*)/' )

tmpDir=$(mktemp -t -d -- "$(basename "$0")_$(date '+%Y%m%dT%H%M%S')_XXX")
mkfifo -- "$tmpDir/out"
mkfifo -- "$tmpDir/err"

cat >> "$tmpDir/script" <<-SCRIPT
    #!/bin/env bash
    $cmd > '$tmpDir/out' 2> '$tmpDir/err'
    echo \$? > '$tmpDir/status'
SCRIPT

chmod 700 -- "$tmpDir/script"

manufacture-syswin-su -s bash -u "$USERNAME" -m -c "cygstart --showminimized bash -c '$tmpDir/script'" > /dev/null &
cat -- "$tmpDir/err" >&2 &
cat -- "$tmpDir/out"
wait $!
exit $(<"$tmpDir/status")

Which characters make a URL invalid?

Not really an answer to your question but validating url's is really a serious p.i.t.a You're probably just better off validating the domainname and leave query part of the url be. That is my experience. You could also resort to pinging the url and seeing if it results in a valid response but that might be too much for such a simple task.

Regular expressions to detect url's are abundant, google it :)

How to call a php script/function on a html button click

First understand that you have three languages working together.

PHP: Is only run by the server and responds to requests like clicking on a link (GET) or submitting a form (POST). HTML & Javascript: Is only run in someone's browser (excluding NodeJS) I'm assuming your file looks something like:

<?php
function the_function() {
echo 'I just ran a php function';
 }

 if (isset($_GET['hello'])) {
  the_function();
  }
   ?>
  <html>
 <a href='the_script.php?hello=true'>Run PHP Function</a>
 </html>

Because PHP only responds to requests (GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE via $_REQUEST) this is how you have to run a php function even though their in the same file. This gives you a level of security, "Should I run this script for this user or not?".

If you don't want to refresh the page you can make a request to PHP without refreshing via a method called Asynchronous Javascript and XML (AJAX).

How to start nginx via different port(other than 80)

You have to go to the /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ and if this is the default configuration, then there should be a file by name: default.

Edit that file by defining your desired port; in the snippet below, we are serving the Nginx instance on port 81.

server {
    listen 81;
}

To start the server, run the command line below;

sudo service nginx start

You may now access your application on port 81 (for localhost, http://localhost:81).

How do relative file paths work in Eclipse?

A project's build path defines which resources from your source folders are copied to your output folders. Usually this is set to Include all files.

New run configurations default to using the project directory for the working directory, though this can also be changed.

This code shows the difference between the working directory, and the location of where the class was loaded from:

public class TellMeMyWorkingDirectory {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println(new java.io.File("").getAbsolutePath());
        System.out.println(TellMeMyWorkingDirectory.class.getClassLoader().getResource("").getPath());
    }
}

The output is likely to be something like:

C:\your\project\directory
/C:/your/project/directory/bin/

MSVCP140.dll missing

Your friend's PC is missing the runtime support DLLs for your program:

How to replace a set of tokens in a Java String?

My solution for replacing ${variable} style tokens (inspired by the answers here and by the Spring UriTemplate):

public static String substituteVariables(String template, Map<String, String> variables) {
    Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("\\$\\{(.+?)\\}");
    Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(template);
    // StringBuilder cannot be used here because Matcher expects StringBuffer
    StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
    while (matcher.find()) {
        if (variables.containsKey(matcher.group(1))) {
            String replacement = variables.get(matcher.group(1));
            // quote to work properly with $ and {,} signs
            matcher.appendReplacement(buffer, replacement != null ? Matcher.quoteReplacement(replacement) : "null");
        }
    }
    matcher.appendTail(buffer);
    return buffer.toString();
}

Include an SVG (hosted on GitHub) in MarkDown

rawgit.com solves this problem nicely. For each request, it retrieves the appropriate document from GitHub and, crucially, serves it with the correct Content-Type header.

Change the default base url for axios

  1. Create .env.development, .env.production files if not exists and add there your API endpoint, for example: VUE_APP_API_ENDPOINT ='http://localtest.me:8000'
  2. In main.js file, add this line after imports: axios.defaults.baseURL = process.env.VUE_APP_API_ENDPOINT

And that's it. Axios default base Url is replaced with build mode specific API endpoint. If you need specific baseURL for specific request, do it like this:

this.$axios({ url: 'items', baseURL: 'http://new-url.com' })

List all employee's names and their managers by manager name using an inner join

There are three tables- Equities(coulmns: ID,ISIN) and Bond(coulmns: ID,ISIN). Third table Securities(coulmns: ID,ISIN) contains all data from Equities and Bond tables. Write SQL queries to validate below: (1) Securities table should contain all the data from Equities and Bonds tables. (2) Securities table should not contain any data other than present in Equities and Bonds tables

SQL Server format decimal places with commas

From a related SO question: Format a number with commas but without decimals in SQL Server 2008 R2?

SELECT CONVERT(varchar, CAST(1112 AS money), 1)

This was tested in SQL Server 2008 R2.

How to read a file in other directory in python

In case you're not in the specified directory (i.e. direct), you should use (in linux):

x_file = open('path/to/direct/filename.txt')

Note the quotes and the relative path to the directory.

This may be your problem, but you also don't have permission to access that file. Maybe you're trying to open it as another user.

How to read a .xlsx file using the pandas Library in iPython?

The following worked for me:

from pandas import read_excel
my_sheet = 'Sheet1' # change it to your sheet name, you can find your sheet name at the bottom left of your excel file
file_name = 'products_and_categories.xlsx' # change it to the name of your excel file
df = read_excel(file_name, sheet_name = my_sheet)
print(df.head()) # shows headers with top 5 rows

How to use SortedMap interface in Java?

You can use TreeMap which internally implements the SortedMap below is the example

Sorting by ascending ordering :

  Map<Float, String> ascsortedMAP = new TreeMap<Float, String>();

  ascsortedMAP.put(8f, "name8");
  ascsortedMAP.put(5f, "name5");
  ascsortedMAP.put(15f, "name15");
  ascsortedMAP.put(35f, "name35");
  ascsortedMAP.put(44f, "name44");
  ascsortedMAP.put(7f, "name7");
  ascsortedMAP.put(6f, "name6");

  for (Entry<Float, String> mapData : ascsortedMAP.entrySet()) {
    System.out.println("Key : " + mapData.getKey() + "Value : " + mapData.getValue());
  }

Sorting by descending ordering :

If you always want this create the map to use descending order in general, if you only need it once create a TreeMap with descending order and put all the data from the original map in.

  // Create the map and provide the comparator as a argument
  Map<Float, String> dscsortedMAP = new TreeMap<Float, String>(new Comparator<Float>() {
    @Override
    public int compare(Float o1, Float o2) {
      return o2.compareTo(o1);
    }
  });
  dscsortedMAP.putAll(ascsortedMAP);

for further information about SortedMAP read http://examples.javacodegeeks.com/core-java/util/treemap/java-sorted-map-example/

Pass a String from one Activity to another Activity in Android

First Activity Code :

Intent mIntent = new Intent(ActivityA.this, ActivityB.class);
mIntent.putExtra("easyPuzzle", easyPuzzle);

Second Activity Code :

String easyPuzzle = getIntent().getStringExtra("easyPuzzle");

CSS align one item right with flexbox

To align some elements (headerElement) in the center and the last element to the right (headerEnd).

.headerElement {
    margin-right: 5%;
    margin-left: 5%;
}
.headerEnd{
    margin-left: auto;
}

Can a JSON value contain a multiline string

As I could understand the question is not about how pass a string with control symbols using json but how to store and restore json in file where you can split a string with editor control symbols.

If you want to store multiline string in a file then your file will not store the valid json object. But if you use your json files in your program only, then you can store the data as you wanted and remove all newlines from file manually each time you load it to your program and then pass to json parser.

Or, alternatively, which would be better, you can have your json data source files where you edit a sting as you want and then remove all new lines with some utility to the valid json file which your program will use.

Recommended date format for REST GET API

Always use UTC:

For example I have a schedule component that takes in one parameter DATETIME. When I call this using a GET verb I use the following format where my incoming parameter name is scheduleDate.

Example:
https://localhost/api/getScheduleForDate?scheduleDate=2003-11-21T01:11:11Z

Turning off eslint rule for a specific line

You can use the following

/*eslint-disable */

//suppress all warnings between comments
alert('foo');

/*eslint-enable */

Which is slightly buried the "configuring rules" section of the docs;

To disable a warning for an entire file, you can include a comment at the top of the file e.g.

/*eslint eqeqeq:0*/

Update

ESlint has now been updated with a better way disable a single line, see @goofballLogic's excellent answer.

What's the difference between echo, print, and print_r in PHP?

they both are language constructs. echo returns void and print returns 1. echo is considered slightly faster than print.

Return a 2d array from a function

A better alternative to using pointers to pointers is to use std::vector. That takes care of the details of memory allocation and deallocation.

std::vector<std::vector<int>> create2DArray(unsigned height, unsigned width)
{
   return std::vector<std::vector<int>>(height, std::vector<int>(width, 0));
}

How to use Bash to create a folder if it doesn't already exist?

Cleaner way, exploit shortcut evaluation of shell logical operators. Right side of the operator is executed only if left side is true.

[ ! -d /home/mlzboy/b2c2/shared/db ] && mkdir -p /home/mlzboy/b2c2/shared/db

How do I properly set the Datetimeindex for a Pandas datetime object in a dataframe?

To simplify Kirubaharan's answer a bit:

df['Datetime'] = pd.to_datetime(df['date'] + ' ' + df['time'])
df = df.set_index('Datetime')

And to get rid of unwanted columns (as OP did but did not specify per se in the question):

df = df.drop(['date','time'], axis=1)

jquery how to use multiple ajax calls one after the end of the other

I consider the following to be more pragmatic since it does not sequence the ajax calls but that is surely a matter of taste.

function check_ajax_call_count()
{
    if ( window.ajax_call_count==window.ajax_calls_completed )
    {
        // do whatever needs to be done after the last ajax call finished
    }
}
window.ajax_call_count = 0;
window.ajax_calls_completed = 10;
setInterval(check_ajax_call_count,100);

Now you can iterate window.ajax_call_count inside the success part of your ajax requests until it reaches the specified number of calls send (window.ajax_calls_completed).

How do I count the number of rows and columns in a file using bash?

Following code will do the job and will allow you to specify field delimiter. This is especially useful for files containing more than 20k lines.

awk 'BEGIN { 
  FS="|"; 
  min=10000; 
}
{ 
  if( NF > max ) max = NF; 
  if( NF < min ) min = NF;
} 
END { 
  print "Max=" max; 
  print "Min=" min; 
} ' myPipeDelimitedFile.dat

Log.INFO vs. Log.DEBUG

Debug: fine-grained statements concerning program state, typically used for debugging;

Info: informational statements concerning program state, representing program events or behavior tracking;

Warn: statements that describe potentially harmful events or states in the program;

Error: statements that describe non-fatal errors in the application; this level is used quite often for logging handled exceptions;

Fatal: statements representing the most severe of error conditions, assumedly resulting in program termination.

Found on http://www.beefycode.com/post/Log4Net-Tutorial-pt-1-Getting-Started.aspx

Can't install nuget package because of "Failed to initialize the PowerShell host"

After trying various suggested fixes, it was finally solved by updating the NuGet Package Manager extension in Visual Studio.

This is done under Tools -> Extensions And Updates, then in the Extensions and Updates dialog Updated -> Visual Studio Gallery. A restart of Visual Studio may be required.

What is the difference between canonical name, simple name and class name in Java Class?

In addition to Nick Holt's observations, I ran a few cases for Array data type:

//primitive Array
int demo[] = new int[5];
Class<? extends int[]> clzz = demo.getClass();
System.out.println(clzz.getName());
System.out.println(clzz.getCanonicalName());
System.out.println(clzz.getSimpleName());       

System.out.println();


//Object Array
Integer demo[] = new Integer[5]; 
Class<? extends Integer[]> clzz = demo.getClass();
System.out.println(clzz.getName());
System.out.println(clzz.getCanonicalName());
System.out.println(clzz.getSimpleName());

Above code snippet prints:

[I
int[]
int[]

[Ljava.lang.Integer;
java.lang.Integer[]
Integer[]

How to change a dataframe column from String type to Double type in PySpark?

the solution was simple -

toDoublefunc = UserDefinedFunction(lambda x: float(x),DoubleType())
changedTypedf = joindf.withColumn("label",toDoublefunc(joindf['show']))

Using a string variable as a variable name

You can use setattr

name  = 'varname'
value = 'something'

setattr(self, name, value) #equivalent to: self.varname= 'something'

print (self.varname)
#will print 'something'

But, since you should inform an object to receive the new variable, this only works inside classes or modules.

Mail not sending with PHPMailer over SSL using SMTP

$mail->IsSMTP();
$mail->Host = "smtp.gmail.com";
$mail->SMTPAuth = true;
$mail->SMTPSecure = "ssl";
$mail->Username = "[email protected]";
$mail->Password = "**********";
$mail->Port = "465";

That is a working configuration.

try to replace what you have

calculating execution time in c++

With C++11 for measuring the execution time of a piece of code, we can use the now() function:

auto start = chrono::steady_clock::now();

//  Insert the code that will be timed

auto end = chrono::steady_clock::now();

// Store the time difference between start and end
auto diff = end - start;

If you want to print the time difference between start and end in the above code, you could use:

cout << chrono::duration <double, milli> (diff).count() << " ms" << endl;

If you prefer to use nanoseconds, you will use:

cout << chrono::duration <double, nano> (diff).count() << " ns" << endl;

The value of the diff variable can be also truncated to an integer value, for example, if you want the result expressed as:

diff_sec = chrono::duration_cast<chrono::nanoseconds>(diff);
cout << diff_sec.count() << endl;

For more info click here

Unable to begin a distributed transaction

For me, it relate to Firewall setting. Go to your firewall setting, allow DTC Service and it worked.enter image description here

Calculating distance between two geographic locations

Try This Code. here we have two longitude and latitude values and selected_location.distanceTo(near_locations) function returns the distance between those places in meters.

Location selected_location = new Location("locationA");
            selected_location.setLatitude(17.372102);
            selected_location.setLongitude(78.484196);
Location near_locations = new Location("locationB");
            near_locations.setLatitude(17.375775);
            near_locations.setLongitude(78.469218);
double distance = selected_location.distanceTo(near_locations);

here "distance" is distance between locationA & locationB (in Meters)

How to compile and run a C/C++ program on the Android system

if you have installed NDK succesfully then start with it sample application

http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/overview.html#samples

if you are interested another ways of this then may this will help

http://shareprogrammingtips.blogspot.com/2018/07/cross-compile-cc-based-programs-and-run.html

I also want to know is it possible to push the compiled binary into android device or AVD and run using the terminal of the android device or AVD?

here you can see NestedVM

NestedVM provides binary translation for Java Bytecode. This is done by having GCC compile to a MIPS binary which is then translated to a Java class file. Hence any application written in C, C++, Fortran, or any other language supported by GCC can be run in 100% pure Java with no source changes.


Example: Cross compile Hello world C program and run it on android

'module' has no attribute 'urlencode'

urllib has been split up in Python 3.

The urllib.urlencode() function is now urllib.parse.urlencode(),

the urllib.urlopen() function is now urllib.request.urlopen().

How to find all the tables in MySQL with specific column names in them?

SELECT DISTINCT TABLE_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE COLUMN_NAME LIKE '%city_id%' AND TABLE_SCHEMA='database'

Debug JavaScript in Eclipse

I'm not a 100% sure but I think Aptana let's you do that.

How to insert a new key value pair in array in php?

If you are creating new array then try this :

$arr = ['key' => 'value'];

And if array is already created then try this :

$arr['key'] = 'value';

Renaming the current file in Vim

:sav newfile | !rm #

Note that it does not remove the old file from the buffer list. If that's important to you, you can use the following instead:

:sav newfile | bd# | !rm #

How to sort a data frame by alphabetic order of a character variable in R?

The arrange function in the plyr package makes it easy to sort by multiple columns. For example, to sort DF by ID first and then decreasing by num, you can write

plyr::arrange(DF, ID, desc(num))

phpMyAdmin - Error > Incorrect format parameter?

I was able to resolve this by following the steps posted here: xampp phpmyadmin, Incorrect format parameter

Because I'm not using XAMPP, I also needed to update my php.ini.default to php.ini which finally did the trick.

Python Variable Declaration

For scoping purpose, I use:

custom_object = None

How to compile multiple java source files in command line

Try the following:

javac file1.java file2.java

How do multiple clients connect simultaneously to one port, say 80, on a server?

Normally, for every connecting client the server forks a child process that communicates with the client (TCP). The parent server hands off to the child process an established socket that communicates back to the client.

When you send the data to a socket from your child server, the TCP stack in the OS creates a packet going back to the client and sets the "from port" to 80.

What's the best UML diagramming tool?

For me it's Enterprise Architect from Sparx Systems. A very rounded UML tool for a very reasonable price.

Very strong feature list including: integrated project management, baselining, export/import (including export to html), documentation generation from the model, various templates (Zachman, TOGAF, etc.), IDE plugins, code generation (with IDE plugins available for Visual Studio, Eclipse & others), automation API - the list goes on.

Oh yeah, don't forget support for source control directly from inside the tool (SVN, CVS, TFS & SCC).

I would also stay away from Visio - you only get diagrams, not a model. Rename a class in one place in a UML modelling tool and you rename in all places. This is not the case in Visio!

PostgreSQL how to see which queries have run

PostgreSql is very advanced when related to logging techniques

Logs are stored in Installationfolder/data/pg_log folder. While log settings are placed in postgresql.conf file.

Log format is usually set as stderr. But CSV log format is recommended. In order to enable CSV format change in

log_destination = 'stderr,csvlog'   
logging_collector = on

In order to log all queries, very usefull for new installations, set min. execution time for a query

log_min_duration_statement = 0

In order to view active Queries on your database, use

SELECT * FROM pg_stat_activity

To log specific queries set query type

log_statement = 'all'           # none, ddl, mod, all

For more information on Logging queries see PostgreSql Log.

CSS blur on background image but not on content

backdrop-filter

Unfortunately Mozilla has really dropped the ball and taken it's time with the feature. I'm personally hoping it makes it in to the next Firefox ESR as that is what the next major version of Waterfox will use.

MDN (Mozilla Developer Network) article: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/backdrop-filter

Mozilla implementation: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1178765

From the MDN documentation page:

/* URL to SVG filter */
backdrop-filter: url(commonfilters.svg#filter);

/* <filter-function> values */
backdrop-filter: blur(2px);
backdrop-filter: brightness(60%);
backdrop-filter: contrast(40%);
backdrop-filter: drop-shadow(4px 4px 10px blue);
backdrop-filter: grayscale(30%);
backdrop-filter: hue-rotate(120deg);
backdrop-filter: invert(70%);
backdrop-filter: opacity(20%);
backdrop-filter: sepia(90%);
backdrop-filter: saturate(80%);

/* Multiple filters */
backdrop-filter: url(filters.svg#filter) blur(4px) saturate(150%);

nginx: [emerg] "server" directive is not allowed here

The path to the nginx.conf file which is the primary Configuration file for Nginx - which is also the file which shall INCLUDE the Path for other Nginx Config files as and when required is /etc/nginx/nginx.conf.

You may access and edit this file by typing this at the terminal

cd /etc/nginx

/etc/nginx$ sudo nano nginx.conf

Further in this file you may Include other files - which can have a SERVER directive as an independent SERVER BLOCK - which need not be within the HTTP or HTTPS blocks, as is clarified in the accepted answer above.

I repeat - if you need a SERVER BLOCK to be defined within the PRIMARY Config file itself than that SERVER BLOCK will have to be defined within an enclosing HTTP or HTTPS block in the /etc/nginx/nginx.conf file which is the primary Configuration file for Nginx.

Also note -its OK if you define , a SERVER BLOCK directly not enclosing it within a HTTP or HTTPS block , in a file located at path /etc/nginx/conf.d . Also to make this work you will need to include the path of this file in the PRIMARY Config file as seen below :-

http{
    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf; #includes all files of file type.conf
}

Further to this you may comment out from the PRIMARY Config file , the line

http{
    #include /etc/nginx/sites-available/some_file.conf; # Comment Out 
    include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf; #includes all files of file type.conf
}

and need not keep any Config Files in /etc/nginx/sites-available/ and also no need to SYMBOLIC Link them to /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ , kindly note this works for me - in case anyone think it doesnt for them or this kind of config is illegal etc etc , pls do leave a comment so that i may correct myself - thanks .

EDIT :- According to the latest version of the Official Nginx CookBook , we need not create any Configs within - /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ , this was the older practice and is DEPRECIATED now .

Thus No need for the INCLUDE DIRECTIVE include /etc/nginx/sites-available/some_file.conf; .

Quote from Nginx CookBook page - 5 .

"In some package repositories, this folder is named sites-enabled, and configuration files are linked from a folder named site-available; this convention is depre- cated."

Linq code to select one item

Just to make someone's life easier, the linq query with lambda expression

(from x in Items where x.Id == 123 select x).FirstOrDefault();

does result in an SQL query with a select top (1) in it.

Visual Studio Code pylint: Unable to import 'protorpc'

For your case, add the following code to vscode's settings.json.

"python.linting.pylintArgs": [
    "--init-hook='import sys; sys.path.append(\"~/google-cloud-sdk/platform/google_appengine/lib\")'"
]

For the other who got troubles with pip packages, you can go with

"python.linting.pylintArgs": [
    "--init-hook='import sys; sys.path.append(\"/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages\")'"
]

You should replace python3.7 above with your python version.

std::vector versus std::array in C++

std::vector is a template class that encapsulate a dynamic array1, stored in the heap, that grows and shrinks automatically if elements are added or removed. It provides all the hooks (begin(), end(), iterators, etc) that make it work fine with the rest of the STL. It also has several useful methods that let you perform operations that on a normal array would be cumbersome, like e.g. inserting elements in the middle of a vector (it handles all the work of moving the following elements behind the scenes).

Since it stores the elements in memory allocated on the heap, it has some overhead in respect to static arrays.

std::array is a template class that encapsulate a statically-sized array, stored inside the object itself, which means that, if you instantiate the class on the stack, the array itself will be on the stack. Its size has to be known at compile time (it's passed as a template parameter), and it cannot grow or shrink.

It's more limited than std::vector, but it's often more efficient, especially for small sizes, because in practice it's mostly a lightweight wrapper around a C-style array. However, it's more secure, since the implicit conversion to pointer is disabled, and it provides much of the STL-related functionality of std::vector and of the other containers, so you can use it easily with STL algorithms & co. Anyhow, for the very limitation of fixed size it's much less flexible than std::vector.

For an introduction to std::array, have a look at this article; for a quick introduction to std::vector and to the the operations that are possible on it, you may want to look at its documentation.


  1. Actually, I think that in the standard they are described in terms of maximum complexity of the different operations (e.g. random access in constant time, iteration over all the elements in linear time, add and removal of elements at the end in constant amortized time, etc), but AFAIK there's no other method of fulfilling such requirements other than using a dynamic array. As stated by @Lucretiel, the standard actually requires that the elements are stored contiguously, so it is a dynamic array, stored where the associated allocator puts it.

How to use boolean 'and' in Python

In python, use and instead of && like this:

#!/usr/bin/python
foo = True;
bar = True;
if foo and bar:
    print "both are true";

This prints:

both are true

Python and pip, list all versions of a package that's available?

I came up with dead-simple bash script. Thanks to jq's author.

#!/bin/bash
set -e

PACKAGE_JSON_URL="https://pypi.org/pypi/${1}/json"

curl -L -s "$PACKAGE_JSON_URL" | jq  -r '.releases | keys | .[]' | sort -V

Update:

  • Add sorting by version number.
  • Add -L to follow redirects.

How to reverse MD5 to get the original string?

No, that's not really possible, as

  • there can be more than one string giving the same MD5
  • it was designed to be hard to "reverse"

The goal of the MD5 and its family of hashing functions is

  • to get short "extracts" from long string
  • to make it hard to guess where they come from
  • to make it hard to find collisions, that is other words having the same hash (which is a very similar exigence as the second one)

Think that you can get the MD5 of any string, even very long. And the MD5 is only 16 bytes long (32 if you write it in hexa to store or distribute it more easily). If you could reverse them, you'd have a magical compacting scheme.

This being said, as there aren't so many short strings (passwords...) used in the world, you can test them from a dictionary (that's called "brute force attack") or even google for your MD5. If the word is common and wasn't salted, you have a reasonable chance to succeed...

JS. How to replace html element with another element/text, represented in string?

You would first remove the table, then add the new replacement to the table's parent object.

Look up removeChild and appendChild

http://javascript.about.com/library/bldom09.htm

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/Node.appendChild

Edit: jQuery .append allows sting-html without removing tags: http://api.jquery.com/append/

How to list AD group membership for AD users using input list?

Everything in one line:

get-aduser -filter * -Properties memberof | select name, @{ l="GroupMembership"; e={$_.memberof  -join ";"  } } | export-csv membership.csv

Singleton in Android

I put my version of Singleton below:

public class SingletonDemo {
    private static SingletonDemo instance = null;
    private static Context context;

    /**
     * To initialize the class. It must be called before call the method getInstance()
     * @param ctx The Context used

     */
    public static void initialize(Context ctx) {
     context = ctx;
    }

    /**
     * Check if the class has been initialized
     * @return true  if the class has been initialized
     *         false Otherwise
     */
    public static boolean hasBeenInitialized() {
     return context != null;

    }

    /**
    * The private constructor. Here you can use the context to initialize your variables.
    */
    private SingletonDemo() {
        // Use context to initialize the variables.
    }

    /**
    * The main method used to get the instance
    */
    public static synchronized SingletonDemo getInstance() {
     if (context == null) {
      throw new IllegalArgumentException("Impossible to get the instance. This class must be initialized before");
     }

     if (instance == null) {
      instance = new SingletonDemo();
     }

     return instance;
    }

    @Override
    protected Object clone() throws CloneNotSupportedException {
        throw new CloneNotSupportedException("Clone is not allowed.");
    }
}

Note that the method initialize could be called in the main class(Splash) and the method getInstance could be called from other classes. This will fix the problem when the caller class requires the singleton but it does not have the context.

Finally the method hasBeenInitialized is uses to check if the class has been initialized. This will avoid that different instances have different contexts.

How to handle checkboxes in ASP.NET MVC forms?

In case you're wondering WHY they put a hidden field in with the same name as the checkbox the reason is as follows :

Comment from the sourcecode MVCBetaSource\MVC\src\MvcFutures\Mvc\ButtonsAndLinkExtensions.cs

Render an additional <input type="hidden".../> for checkboxes. This addresses scenarios where unchecked checkboxes are not sent in the request. Sending a hidden input makes it possible to know that the checkbox was present on the page when the request was submitted.

I guess behind the scenes they need to know this for binding to parameters on the controller action methods. You could then have a tri-state boolean I suppose (bound to a nullable bool parameter). I've not tried it but I'm hoping thats what they did.

How can I replace text with CSS?

Well, as many said this is a hack. However, I'd like to add more up-to-date hack, which takes an advantage of flexbox and rem, i.e.

  • You don't want to manually position this text to be changed, that's why you'd like to take an advantage of flexbox
  • You don't want to use padding and/or margin to the text explicitly using px, which for different screen sizes on different devices and browsers might give different output

Here's the solution, in short flexbox makes sure that it's automatically positioned perfectly and rem is more standardized (and automated) alternative for pixels.

CodeSandbox with code below and output in a form of a screenshot, do please read a note below the code!

h1 {
  background-color: green;
  color: black;
  text-align: center;
  visibility: hidden;
}
h1:after {
  background-color: silver;
  color: yellow;
  content: "This is my great text AFTER";
  display: flex;
  justify-content: center;
  margin-top: -2.3rem;
  visibility: visible;
}
h1:before {
  color: blue;
  content: "However, this is a longer text to show this example BEFORE";
  display: flex;
  justify-content: center;
  margin-bottom: -2.3rem;
  visibility: visible;
}

Note: for different tags you might need different values of rem, this one has been justified for h1 and only on large screens. However with @media you could easily extend this to mobile devices.

A hack how to replace HTML text using CSS

How to make a JSONP request from Javascript without JQuery?

function foo(data)
{
    // do stuff with JSON
}

var script = document.createElement('script');
script.src = '//example.com/path/to/jsonp?callback=foo'

document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(script);
// or document.head.appendChild(script) in modern browsers

Label python data points on plot

I had a similar issue and ended up with this:

enter image description here

For me this has the advantage that data and annotation are not overlapping.

from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)

A = -0.75, -0.25, 0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1.0
B = 0.73, 0.97, 1.0, 0.97, 0.88, 0.73, 0.54

plt.plot(A,B)

# annotations at the side (ordered by B values)
x0,x1=ax.get_xlim()
y0,y1=ax.get_ylim()
for ii, ind in enumerate(np.argsort(B)):
    x = A[ind]
    y = B[ind]
    xPos = x1 + .02 * (x1 - x0)
    yPos = y0 + ii * (y1 - y0)/(len(B) - 1)
    ax.annotate('',#label,
          xy=(x, y), xycoords='data',
          xytext=(xPos, yPos), textcoords='data',
          arrowprops=dict(
                          connectionstyle="arc3,rad=0.",
                          shrinkA=0, shrinkB=10,
                          arrowstyle= '-|>', ls= '-', linewidth=2
                          ),
          va='bottom', ha='left', zorder=19
          )
    ax.text(xPos + .01 * (x1 - x0), yPos,
            '({:.2f}, {:.2f})'.format(x,y),
            transform=ax.transData, va='center')

plt.grid()
plt.show()

Using the text argument in .annotate ended up with unfavorable text positions. Drawing lines between a legend and the data points is a mess, as the location of the legend is hard to address.

How to add time to DateTime in SQL

Try this

SELECT DATEADD(day, DATEDIFF(day, 0, GETDATE()), '03:30:00')

Create view with primary key?

A little late to this party - but this also works well:

CREATE VIEW [ABC].[View_SomeDataUniqueKey]
AS
SELECT 
CAST(CONCAT(CAST([ID] AS VARCHAR(4)), 
        CAST(ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY [ID] ASC) as VARCHAR(4)) 
        )  AS int) AS [UniqueId]
,[ID]
FROM SOME_TABLE JOIN SOME_OTHER_TABLE
GO

In my case the join resulted in [ID] - the primary key being repeated up to 5 times (associated different unique data) The nice trick with this is that the original ID can be determined from each UniqueID effectively [ID]+RowNumber() = 11, 12, 13, 14, 21, 22, 23, 24 etc. If you add RowNumber() and [ID] back into the view - you can easily determine your original key from the data. But - this is not something that should be committed to a table because I am fairly sure that the RowNumber() of a view will never be reliably the same as the underlying data alters, even with the OVER(ORDER BY [ID] ASC) to try and help it.

Example output ( Select UniqueId, ID, ROWNR, Name from [REF].[View_Systems] ) :

UniqueId ID ROWNR Name 11 1 1 Amazon A 12 1 2 Amazon B 13 1 3 Amazon C 14 1 4 Amazon D 15 1 5 Amazon E

Table1:

[ID] [Name] 1 Amazon

Table2:

[ID] [Version] 1 A 1 B 1 C 1 D 1 E

CREATE VIEW [REF].[View_Systems]
AS    
SELECT 
CAST(CONCAT(CAST(TABA.[ID] AS VARCHAR(4)), 
        CAST(ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY TABA.[ID] ASC) as VARCHAR(4)) 
        )  AS int) AS [UniqueId]
,TABA.[ID]
,ROW_NUMBER()  OVER(ORDER BY TABA.[ID] ASC) AS ROWNR
,TABA.[Name]  
FROM  [Ref].[Table1] TABA LEFT JOIN [Ref].[Table2] TABB ON TABA.[ID] = TABB.[ID]
GO

SharePoint : How can I programmatically add items to a custom list instance

I had a similar problem and was able to solve it by following the below approach (similar to other answers but needed credentials too),

1- add Microsoft.SharePointOnline.CSOM by tools->NuGet Package Manager->Manage NuGet Packages for solution->Browse-> select and install

2- Add "using Microsoft.SharePoint.Client; "

then the below code

        string siteUrl = "https://yourcompany.sharepoint.com/sites/Yoursite";
        SecureString passWord = new SecureString();

        var password = "Your password here";
        var securePassword = new SecureString();
        foreach (char c in password)
        {
            securePassword.AppendChar(c);
        }
        ClientContext clientContext = new ClientContext(siteUrl);
        clientContext.Credentials = new SharePointOnlineCredentials("[email protected]", securePassword);/*passWord*/
        List oList = clientContext.Web.Lists.GetByTitle("The name of your list here");
        ListItemCreationInformation itemCreateInfo = new ListItemCreationInformation();
        ListItem oListItem = oList.AddItem(itemCreateInfo);
        oListItem["PK"] = "1";
        oListItem["Precinct"] = "Mangere";
        oListItem["Title"] = "Innovation";
        oListItem["Project_x005F_x0020_Name"] = "test from C#";
        oListItem["Project_x005F_x0020_ID"] = "ID_123_from C#";
        oListItem["Project_x005F_x0020_start_x005F_x0020_date"] = "2020-05-01 01:01:01";
        oListItem.Update();

        clientContext.ExecuteQuery();

Remember that your fields may be different with what you see, for example in my list I see "Project Name", while the actual value is "Project_x005F_x0020_ID". How to get these values (i.e. internal filed values)?

A few approaches:

1- Use MS flow and see them

2- https://mstechtalk.com/check-column-internal-name-sharepoint-list/ or https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/787/finding-the-internal-name-and-display-name-for-a-list-column

3- Use a C# reader and read your sharepoint list

The rest of operations (update/delete): https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/office/developer/sharepoint-2010/ee539976(v%3Doffice.14)

In Java, remove empty elements from a list of Strings

Going to drop this lil nugget in here:

Stream.of("", "Hi", null, "How", "are", "you")
  .filter(t -> !Strings.isNullOrEmpty(t))
  .collect(ImmutableList.toImmutableList());

I wish with all of my heart that Java had a filterNot.

Using .text() to retrieve only text not nested in child tags

Simple answer:

$("#listItem").contents().filter(function(){ 
  return this.nodeType == 3; 
})[0].nodeValue = "The text you want to replace with" 

How to set div's height in css and html

To write inline styling use:

<div style="height: 100px;">
asdfashdjkfhaskjdf
</div>

Inline styling serves a purpose however, it is not recommended in most situations.

The more "proper" solution, would be to make a separate CSS sheet, include it in your HTML document, and then use either an ID or a class to reference your div.

if you have the file structure:

index.html
>>/css/
>>/css/styles.css

Then in your HTML document between <head> and </head> write:

<link href="css/styles.css" rel="stylesheet" />

Then, change your div structure to be:

<div id="someidname" class="someclassname">
    asdfashdjkfhaskjdf
</div>

In css, you can reference your div from the ID or the CLASS.

To do so write:

.someclassname { height: 100px; }

OR

#someidname { height: 100px; }

Note that if you do both, the one that comes further down the file structure will be the one that actually works.

For example... If you have:

.someclassname { height: 100px; }

.someclassname { height: 150px; }

Then in this situation the height will be 150px.

EDIT:

To answer your secondary question from your edit, probably need overflow: hidden; or overflow: visible; . You could also do this:

<div class="span12">
    <div style="height:100px;">
        asdfashdjkfhaskjdf
    </div>
</div>

Proper use of the IDisposable interface

The most justifiable use case for disposal of managed resources, is preparation for the GC to reclaim resources that would otherwise never be collected.

A prime example is circular references.

Whilst it's best practice to use patterns that avoid circular references, if you do end up with (for example) a 'child' object that has a reference back to its 'parent', this can stop GC collection of the parent if you just abandon the reference and rely on GC - plus if you have implemented a finalizer, it'll never be called.

The only way round this is to manually break the circular references by setting the Parent references to null on the children.

Implementing IDisposable on parent and children is the best way to do this. When Dispose is called on the Parent, call Dispose on all Children, and in the child Dispose method, set the Parent references to null.

How to move text up using CSS when nothing is working

you can try

position: relative;
bottom: 20px;

but I don't see a problem on my browser (Google Chrome)

d3 add text to circle

Here's a way that I consider easier: The general idea is that you want to append a text element to a circle element then play around with its "dx" and "dy" attributes until you position the text at the point in the circle that you like. In my example, I used a negative number for the dx since I wanted to have text start towards the left of the centre.

const nodes = [ {id: ABC, group: 1, level: 1}, {id:XYZ, group: 2, level: 1}, ]

const nodeElems = svg.append('g')
.selectAll('circle')
.data(nodes)
.enter().append('circle')
.attr('r',radius)
.attr('fill', getNodeColor)

const textElems = svg.append('g')
.selectAll('text')
.data(nodes)
.enter().append('text')
.text(node => node.label)
.attr('font-size',8)//font size
.attr('dx', -10)//positions text towards the left of the center of the circle
.attr('dy',4)

java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 500

I had this problem i.e. works fine when pasted into browser but 505s when done through java. It was simply the spaces that needed to be escaped/encoded.

How do I scroll to an element within an overflowed Div?

I write these 2 functions to make my life easier:

function scrollToTop(elem, parent, speed) {
    var scrollOffset = parent.scrollTop() + elem.offset().top;
    parent.animate({scrollTop:scrollOffset}, speed);
    // parent.scrollTop(scrollOffset, speed);
}

function scrollToCenter(elem, parent, speed) {
    var elOffset = elem.offset().top;
    var elHeight = elem.height();
    var parentViewTop = parent.offset().top;
    var parentHeight = parent.innerHeight();
    var offset;

    if (elHeight >= parentHeight) {
        offset = elOffset;
    } else {
        margin = (parentHeight - elHeight)/2;
        offset = elOffset - margin;
    }

    var scrollOffset = parent.scrollTop() + offset - parentViewTop;

    parent.animate({scrollTop:scrollOffset}, speed);
    // parent.scrollTop(scrollOffset, speed);
}

And use them:

scrollToTop($innerListItem, $parentDiv, 200);
// or
scrollToCenter($innerListItem, $parentDiv, 200);

Copy Files from Windows to the Ubuntu Subsystem

You should only access Linux files system (those located in lxss folder) from inside WSL; DO NOT create/modify any files in lxss folder in Windows - it's dangerous and WSL will not see these files.

Files can be shared between WSL and Windows, though; put the file outside of lxss folder. You can access them via drvFS (/mnt) such as /mnt/c/Users/yourusername/files within WSL. These files stay synced between WSL and Windows.

For details and why, see: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2016/11/17/do-not-change-linux-files-using-windows-apps-and-tools/

Remove duplicates from a list of objects based on property in Java 8

You can get a stream from the List and put in in the TreeSet from which you provide a custom comparator that compares id uniquely.

Then if you really need a list you can put then back this collection into an ArrayList.

import static java.util.Comparator.comparingInt;
import static java.util.stream.Collectors.collectingAndThen;
import static java.util.stream.Collectors.toCollection;

...
List<Employee> unique = employee.stream()
                                .collect(collectingAndThen(toCollection(() -> new TreeSet<>(comparingInt(Employee::getId))),
                                                           ArrayList::new));

Given the example:

List<Employee> employee = Arrays.asList(new Employee(1, "John"), new Employee(1, "Bob"), new Employee(2, "Alice"));

It will output:

[Employee{id=1, name='John'}, Employee{id=2, name='Alice'}]

Another idea could be to use a wrapper that wraps an employee and have the equals and hashcode method based with its id:

class WrapperEmployee {
    private Employee e;

    public WrapperEmployee(Employee e) {
        this.e = e;
    }

    public Employee unwrap() {
        return this.e;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(Object o) {
        if (this == o) return true;
        if (o == null || getClass() != o.getClass()) return false;
        WrapperEmployee that = (WrapperEmployee) o;
        return Objects.equals(e.getId(), that.e.getId());
    }

    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
        return Objects.hash(e.getId());
    }
}

Then you wrap each instance, call distinct(), unwrap them and collect the result in a list.

List<Employee> unique = employee.stream()
                                .map(WrapperEmployee::new)
                                .distinct()
                                .map(WrapperEmployee::unwrap)
                                .collect(Collectors.toList());

In fact, I think you can make this wrapper generic by providing a function that will do the comparison:

public class Wrapper<T, U> {
    private T t;
    private Function<T, U> equalityFunction;

    public Wrapper(T t, Function<T, U> equalityFunction) {
        this.t = t;
        this.equalityFunction = equalityFunction;
    }

    public T unwrap() {
        return this.t;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean equals(Object o) {
        if (this == o) return true;
        if (o == null || getClass() != o.getClass()) return false;
        @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
        Wrapper<T, U> that = (Wrapper<T, U>) o;
        return Objects.equals(equalityFunction.apply(this.t), that.equalityFunction.apply(that.t));
    }

    @Override
    public int hashCode() {
        return Objects.hash(equalityFunction.apply(this.t));
    }
}

and the mapping will be:

.map(e -> new Wrapper<>(e, Employee::getId))

How can I upgrade NumPy?

I tried doing sudo pip uninstall numpy instead, because the rm didn't work at first.

Hopefully that helps.

Uninstalling then to install it again.

What is PostgreSQL equivalent of SYSDATE from Oracle?

SYSDATE is an Oracle only function.

The ANSI standard defines current_date or current_timestamp which is supported by Postgres and documented in the manual:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/functions-datetime.html#FUNCTIONS-DATETIME-CURRENT

(Btw: Oracle supports CURRENT_TIMESTAMP as well)

You should pay attention to the difference between current_timestamp, statement_timestamp() and clock_timestamp() (which is explained in the manual, see the above link)


This statement:

select up_time from exam where up_time like sysdate

Does not make any sense at all. Neither in Oracle nor in Postgres. If you want to get rows from "today", you need something like:

select up_time 
from exam 
where up_time = current_date

Note that in Oracle you would probably want trunc(up_time) = trunc(sysdate) to get rid of the time part that is always included in Oracle.

Matplotlib different size subplots

Another way is to use the subplots function and pass the width ratio with gridspec_kw:

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt 

# generate some data
x = np.arange(0, 10, 0.2)
y = np.sin(x)

# plot it
f, (a0, a1) = plt.subplots(1, 2, gridspec_kw={'width_ratios': [3, 1]})
a0.plot(x, y)
a1.plot(y, x)

f.tight_layout()
f.savefig('grid_figure.pdf')

Showing the stack trace from a running Python application

The suggestion to install a signal handler is a good one, and I use it a lot. For example, bzr by default installs a SIGQUIT handler that invokes pdb.set_trace() to immediately drop you into a pdb prompt. (See the bzrlib.breakin module's source for the exact details.) With pdb you can not only get the current stack trace (with the (w)here command) but also inspect variables, etc.

However, sometimes I need to debug a process that I didn't have the foresight to install the signal handler in. On linux, you can attach gdb to the process and get a python stack trace with some gdb macros. Put http://svn.python.org/projects/python/trunk/Misc/gdbinit in ~/.gdbinit, then:

  • Attach gdb: gdb -p PID
  • Get the python stack trace: pystack

It's not totally reliable unfortunately, but it works most of the time.

Finally, attaching strace can often give you a good idea what a process is doing.

How to change UIPickerView height

As mentioned above UIPickerView is now resizable. I just want to add though that if you want to change the pickerView's height in a tableView Cell, I didn't have any success with setting the height anchor to a constant. However, using lessThanOrEqualToConstant seems to work.

 class PickerViewCell: UITableViewCell {

    let pickerView = UIPickerView()

    func setup() {

        // call this from however you initialize your cell

        self.contentView.addSubview(self.pickerView)
        self.pickerView.translatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false

        let constraints: [NSLayoutConstraint] = [
            // pin the pickerView to the contentView's layoutMarginsGuide

            self.pickerView.leadingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.contentView.layoutMarginsGuide.leadingAnchor),
            self.pickerView.topAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.contentView.layoutMarginsGuide.topAnchor),
            self.pickerView.trailingAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.contentView.layoutMarginsGuide.trailingAnchor),
            self.pickerView.bottomAnchor.constraint(equalTo: self.contentView.layoutMarginsGuide.bottomAnchor),

            // set the height using lessThanOrEqualToConstant
            self.pickerView.heightAnchor.constraint(lessThanOrEqualToConstant: 100)
        ]

        NSLayoutConstraint.activate(constraints)
     }

 }

Find a file in python

If you are using Python on Ubuntu and you only want it to work on Ubuntu a substantially faster way is the use the terminal's locate program like this.

import subprocess

def find_files(file_name):
    command = ['locate', file_name]

    output = subprocess.Popen(command, stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0]
    output = output.decode()

    search_results = output.split('\n')

    return search_results

search_results is a list of the absolute file paths. This is 10,000's of times faster than the methods above and for one search I've done it was ~72,000 times faster.

ThreadStart with parameters

I propose using Task<T>instead of Thread; it allows multiple parameters and executes really fine.

Here is a working example:

    public static void Main()
    {
        List<Task> tasks = new List<Task>();

        Console.WriteLine("Awaiting threads to finished...");

        string par1 = "foo";
        string par2 = "boo";
        int par3 = 3;

        for (int i = 0; i < 1000; i++)
        {
            tasks.Add(Task.Run(() => Calculate(par1, par2, par3))); 
        }

        Task.WaitAll(tasks.ToArray());

        Console.WriteLine("All threads finished!");
    }

    static bool Calculate1(string par1, string par2, int par3)
    {
        lock(_locker)
        {
            //...
            return true;
        }
    }

    // if need to lock, use this:
    private static Object _locker = new Object();"

    static bool Calculate2(string par1, string par2, int par3)
    {
        lock(_locker)
        {
            //...
            return true;
        }
    }

Python debugging tips

It is possible to print what Python lines are executed (thanks Geo!). This has any number of applications, for example, you could modify it to check when particular functions are called or add something like ## make it only track particular lines.

code.interact takes you into a interactive console

import code; code.interact(local=locals())

If you want to be able to easily access your console history look at: "Can I have a history mechanism like in the shell?" (will have to look down for it).

Auto-complete can be enabled for the interpreter.

How do I pause my shell script for a second before continuing?

use trap to pause and check command line (in color using tput) before running it

trap 'tput setaf 1;tput bold;echo $BASH_COMMAND;read;tput init' DEBUG

press any key to continue

use with set -x to debug command line

How to install VS2015 Community Edition offline

I was unable to find the direct download detailed in davidnr's post. You can download the ISO directly from the Microsoft Download Center here: https://download.microsoft.com/download/b/e/d/bedddfc4-55f4-4748-90a8-ffe38a40e89f/vs2015.3.com_enu.iso.

What's the difference between JavaScript and Java?

Everything.

JavaScript was named this way by Netscape to confuse the unwary into thinking it had something to do with Java, the buzzword of the day, and it succeeded.

The two languages are entirely distinct.

How to convert answer into two decimal point

If you just want to print a decimal number with 2 digits after decimal point in specific format no matter of locals use something like this

dim d as double = 1.23456789
dim s as string = d.Tostring("0.##", New System.Globalization.CultureInfo("en-US"))

What is the difference between $routeProvider and $stateProvider?

Both do the same work as they are used for routing purposes in SPA(Single Page Application).

1. Angular Routing - per $routeProvider docs

URLs to controllers and views (HTML partials). It watches $location.url() and tries to map the path to an existing route definition.

HTML

<div ng-view></div>

Above tag will render the template from the $routeProvider.when() condition which you had mentioned in .config (configuration phase) of angular

Limitations:-

  • The page can only contain single ng-view on page
  • If your SPA has multiple small components on the page that you wanted to render based on some conditions, $routeProvider fails. (to achieve that, we need to use directives like ng-include, ng-switch, ng-if, ng-show, which looks bad to have them in SPA)
  • You can not relate between two routes like parent and child relationship.
  • You cannot show and hide a part of the view based on url pattern.

2. ui-router - per $stateProvider docs

AngularUI Router is a routing framework for AngularJS, which allows you to organize the parts of your interface into a state machine. UI-Router is organized around states, which may optionally have routes, as well as other behavior, attached.

Multiple & Named Views

Another great feature is the ability to have multiple ui-views in a template.

While multiple parallel views are a powerful feature, you'll often be able to manage your interfaces more effectively by nesting your views, and pairing those views with nested states.

HTML

<div ui-view>
    <div ui-view='header'></div>
    <div ui-view='content'></div>
    <div ui-view='footer'></div>
</div>

The majority of ui-router's power is it can manage nested state & views.

Pros

  • You can have multiple ui-view on single page
  • Various views can be nested in each other and maintained by defining state in routing phase.
  • We can have child & parent relationship here, simply like inheritance in state, also you could define sibling states.
  • You could change the ui-view="some" of state just by using absolute routing using @ with state name.
  • Another way you could do relative routing is by using only @ to change ui-view="some". This will replace the ui-view rather than checking if it is nested or not.
  • Here you could use ui-sref to create a href URL dynamically on the basis of URL mentioned in a state, also you could give a state params in the json format.

For more Information Angular ui-router

For better flexibility with various nested view with states, I'd prefer you to go for ui-router

Using group by on two fields and count in SQL

I think you're looking for: SELECT a, b, COUNT(a) FROM tbl GROUP BY a, b

How do I open port 22 in OS X 10.6.7

I think your port is probably open, but you don't have anything that listens on it.

The Apple Mac OS X operating system has SSH installed by default but the SSH daemon is not enabled. This means you can’t login remotely or do remote copies until you enable it.

To enable it, go to ‘System Preferences’. Under ‘Internet & Networking’ there is a ‘Sharing’ icon. Run that. In the list that appears, check the ‘Remote Login’ option. In OS X Yosemite and up, there is no longer an 'Internet & Networking' menu; it was moved to Accounts. The Sharing menu now has its own icon on the main System Preferences menu. (thx @AstroCB)

This starts the SSH daemon immediately and you can remotely login using your username. The ‘Sharing’ window shows at the bottom the name and IP address to use. You can also find this out using ‘whoami’ and ‘ifconfig’ from the Terminal application.

These instructions are copied from Enable SSH in Mac OS X, but I wanted to make sure they won't go away and to provide quick access.

How do I change the figure size with subplots?

If you already have the figure object use:

f.set_figheight(15)
f.set_figwidth(15)

But if you use the .subplots() command (as in the examples you're showing) to create a new figure you can also use:

f, axs = plt.subplots(2,2,figsize=(15,15))

Get protocol + host name from URL

This is a bit obtuse, but uses urlparse in both directions:

import urlparse
def uri2schemehostname(uri):
    urlparse.urlunparse(urlparse.urlparse(uri)[:2] + ("",) * 4)

that odd ("",) * 4 bit is because urlparse expects a sequence of exactly len(urlparse.ParseResult._fields) = 6

div inside table

While you can, as others have noted here, put a DIV inside a TD (not as a direct child of TABLE), I strongly advise against using a DIV as a child of a TD. Unless, of course, you're a fan of headaches.

There is little to be gained and a whole lot to be lost, as there are many cross-browser discrepancies regarding how widths, margins, borders, etc., are handled when you combine the two. I can't tell you how many times I've had to clean up that kind of markup for clients because they were having trouble getting their HTML to display correctly in this or that browser.

Then again, if you're not fussy about how things look, disregard this advice.

Freeze the top row for an html table only (Fixed Table Header Scrolling)

Using css zebra styling

Copy paste this example and see the header fixed.

       <style>
       .zebra tr:nth-child(odd){
       background:white;
       color:black;
       }

       .zebra tr:nth-child(even){
       background: grey;
       color:black;
       }

      .zebra tr:nth-child(1) {
       background:black;
       color:yellow;
       position: fixed;
       margin:-30px 0px 0px 0px;
       }
       </style>


   <DIV  id= "stripped_div"

         class= "zebra"
         style = "
            border:solid 1px red;
            height:15px;
            width:200px;
            overflow-x:none;
            overflow-y:scroll;
            padding:30px 0px 0px 0px;"
            >

                <table>
                   <tr >
                       <td>Name:</td>
                       <td>Age:</td>
                   </tr>
                    <tr >
                       <td>Peter</td>
                       <td>10</td>
                   </tr>
                </table>

    </DIV>

Notice the top padding of of 30px in the div leaves space that is utilized by the 1st row of stripped data ie tr:nth-child(1) that is "fixed position" and formatted to a margin of -30px

Best way to convert text files between character sets?

My favorite tool for this is Jedit (a java based text editor) which has two very convenient features :

  • One which enables the user to reload a text with a different encoding (and, as such, to control visually the result)
  • Another one which enables the user to explicitly choose the encoding (and end of line char) before saving

Regex to replace everything except numbers and a decimal point

Try this:

document.getElementById(target).value = newVal.replace(/^\d+(\.\d{0,2})?$/, "");

Cygwin Make bash command not found

You probably have not installed make. Restart the cygwin installer, search for make, select it and it should be installed. By default the cygwin installer does not install everything for what I remember.

The cast to value type 'Int32' failed because the materialized value is null

I have used this code and it responds correctly, only the output value is nullable.

var packesCount = await botContext.Sales.Where(s => s.CustomerId == cust.CustomerId && s.Validated)
                                .SumAsync(s => (int?)s.PackesCount);
                            if(packesCount != null)
                            {
                                // your code
                            }
                            else
                            {
                                // your code
                            }

C# windows application Event: CLR20r3 on application start

I encountered the same problem when I built an application on a Windows 7 box that had previously been maintained on an XP machine.

The program ran fine when built for Debug, but failed with this error when built for Release. I found the answer on the project's Properties page. Go to the "Build" tab and try changing the Platform Target from "Any CPU" to "x86".

Laravel Eloquent Join vs Inner Join?

I'm sure there are other ways to accomplish this, but one solution would be to use join through the Query Builder.

If you have tables set up something like this:

users
    id
    ...

friends
    id
    user_id
    friend_id
    ...

votes, comments and status_updates (3 tables)
    id
    user_id
    ....

In your User model:

class User extends Eloquent {
    public function friends()
    {
        return $this->hasMany('Friend');
    }
}

In your Friend model:

class Friend extends Eloquent {
    public function user()
    {
        return $this->belongsTo('User');
    }
}

Then, to gather all the votes for the friends of the user with the id of 1, you could run this query:

$user = User::find(1);
$friends_votes = $user->friends()
    ->with('user') // bring along details of the friend
    ->join('votes', 'votes.user_id', '=', 'friends.friend_id')
    ->get(['votes.*']); // exclude extra details from friends table

Run the same join for the comments and status_updates tables. If you would like votes, comments, and status_updates to be in one chronological list, you can merge the resulting three collections into one and then sort the merged collection.


Edit

To get votes, comments, and status updates in one query, you could build up each query and then union the results. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work if we use the Eloquent hasMany relationship (see comments for this question for a discussion of that problem) so we have to modify to queries to use where instead:

$friends_votes = 
    DB::table('friends')->where('friends.user_id','1')
    ->join('votes', 'votes.user_id', '=', 'friends.friend_id');

$friends_comments = 
    DB::table('friends')->where('friends.user_id','1')
    ->join('comments', 'comments.user_id', '=', 'friends.friend_id');

$friends_status_updates = 
    DB::table('status_updates')->where('status_updates.user_id','1')
    ->join('friends', 'status_updates.user_id', '=', 'friends.friend_id');

$friends_events = 
    $friends_votes
    ->union($friends_comments)
    ->union($friends_status_updates)
    ->get();

At this point, though, our query is getting a bit hairy, so a polymorphic relationship with and an extra table (like DefiniteIntegral suggests below) might be a better idea.

How to call a web service from jQuery

I blogged about how to consume a WCF service using jQuery:

http://yoavniran.wordpress.com/2009/08/02/creating-a-webservice-proxy-with-jquery/

The post shows how to create a service proxy straight up in javascript.

How to handle a lost KeyStore password in Android?


I faced the same problem also tried various methods to recover . Either I was wrong with "Keystore Password" or "Alice Name", or may be with ".JKS" name. So I was not sure about that, what is wrong though I tried all the methods above but unable to track back .


  • There is one technical method I found helpful is Link from Linkedin.

  • Or you can ask help from Google Playstore Support Team in case none of the methods are working i.e. : Google Playstore Help . Login with you registered email address from where you submitted your android app in Google Playstore, mention proper Developer ID, name, Project Package name as per the real, while submitting the application form through the link.


Hope anyone of the those link will be helpful for you.


How to find if a native DLL file is compiled as x64 or x86?

Apparently you can find it in the header of the portable executable. The corflags.exe utility is able to show you whether or not it targets x64. Hopefully this helps you find more information about it.

Formatting a number with leading zeros in PHP

Simple answer

$p = 1234567;
$p = sprintf("%08d",$p);

I'm not sure how to interpret the comment saying "It will never be more than 8 digits" and if it's referring to the input or the output. If it refers to the output you would have to have an additional substr() call to clip the string.

To clip the first 8 digits

$p = substr(sprintf('%08d', $p),0,8);

To clip the last 8 digits

$p = substr(sprintf('%08d', $p),-8,8);

Form Submission without page refresh

<!-- index.php -->
    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
    <head>
        <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
    </head>
    <body>
    <form id="myForm">
        <input type="text" name="fname" id="fname"/>
        <input type="submit" name="click" value="button" />
    </form>
    <script>
    $(document).ready(function(){

         $(function(){
            $("#myForm").submit(function(event){
                event.preventDefault();
                $.ajax({
                    method: 'POST',
                    url: 'submit.php',
                    dataType: "json",
                    contentType: "application/json",
                    data : $('#myForm').serialize(),
                    success: function(data){
                        alert(data);
                    },
                    error: function(xhr, desc, err){
                        console.log(err);
                    }
                });
            });
        });
    });
    </script>
    </body>
    </html>
<!-- submit.php -->
<?php
$value ="call";
header('Content-Type: application/json');
echo json_encode($value);
?>

How can I find out if an .EXE has Command-Line Options?

This is what I get from console on Windows 10:

C:\>find /?
Searches for a text string in a file or files.

FIND [/V] [/C] [/N] [/I] [/OFF[LINE]] "string" [[drive:][path]filename[ ...]]

  /V         Displays all lines NOT containing the specified string.
  /C         Displays only the count of lines containing the string.
  /N         Displays line numbers with the displayed lines.
  /I         Ignores the case of characters when searching for the string.
  /OFF[LINE] Do not skip files with offline attribute set.
  "string"   Specifies the text string to find.
  [drive:][path]filename
             Specifies a file or files to search.

If a path is not specified, FIND searches the text typed at the prompt
or piped from another command.

Zookeeper connection error

This can happen if there are too many open connections.

Try increasing the maxClientCnxns setting.

From documentation:

maxClientCnxns (No Java system property)

Limits the number of concurrent connections (at the socket level) that a single client, identified by IP address, may make to a single member of the ZooKeeper ensemble. This is used to prevent certain classes of DoS attacks, including file descriptor exhaustion. Setting this to 0 or omitting it entirely removes the limit on concurrent connections.

You can edit settings in the config file. Most likely it can be found at /etc/zookeeper/conf/zoo.cfg.

In modern ZooKeeper versions default value is 60. You can increase it by adding the maxClientCnxns=4096 line to the end of the config file.

Convert generic List/Enumerable to DataTable?

If you want to use reflection and set columns order/ include only some columns/ Exclude some columns try this:

        private static DataTable ConvertToDataTable<T>(IList<T> data, string[] fieldsToInclude = null,
string[] fieldsToExclude = null)
    {
        PropertyDescriptorCollection properties = TypeDescriptor.GetProperties(typeof(T));
        DataTable table = new DataTable();
        foreach (PropertyDescriptor prop in properties)
        {
            if ((fieldsToInclude != null && !fieldsToInclude.Contains(prop.Name)) ||
                (fieldsToExclude != null && fieldsToExclude.Contains(prop.Name)))
                continue;
            table.Columns.Add(prop.Name, Nullable.GetUnderlyingType(prop.PropertyType) ?? prop.PropertyType);
        }

        foreach (T item in data)
        {
            var atLeastOnePropertyExists = false;
            DataRow row = table.NewRow();
            foreach (PropertyDescriptor prop in properties)
            {

                if ((fieldsToInclude != null && !fieldsToInclude.Contains(prop.Name)) ||
(fieldsToExclude != null && fieldsToExclude.Contains(prop.Name)))
                    continue;

                row[prop.Name] = prop.GetValue(item) ?? DBNull.Value;
                atLeastOnePropertyExists = true;
            }

            if(atLeastOnePropertyExists) table.Rows.Add(row);
        }


        if (fieldsToInclude != null)
            SetColumnsOrder(table, fieldsToInclude);

        return table;

    }

    private static void SetColumnsOrder(DataTable table, params String[] columnNames)
    {
        int columnIndex = 0;
        foreach (var columnName in columnNames)
        {
            table.Columns[columnName].SetOrdinal(columnIndex);
            columnIndex++;
        }
    }

Git reset single file in feature branch to be the same as in master

you are almost there; you just need to give the reference to master; since you want to get the file from the master branch:

git checkout master -- filename

Note that the differences will be cached; so if you want to see the differences you obtained; use

git diff --cached

How to do a SOAP wsdl web services call from the command line

On linux command line, you can simply execute:

curl -H "Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8" -H "SOAPAction:"  -d @your_soap_request.xml -X POST https://ws.paymentech.net/PaymentechGateway

What does "\r" do in the following script?

'\r' means 'carriage return' and it is similar to '\n' which means 'line break' or more commonly 'new line'

in the old days of typewriters, you would have to move the carriage that writes back to the start of the line, and move the line down in order to write onto the next line.

in the modern computer era we still have this functionality for multiple reasons. but mostly we use only '\n' and automatically assume that we want to start writing from the start of the line, since it would not make much sense otherwise.

however, there are some times when we want to use JUST the '\r' and that would be if i want to write something to an output, and the instead of going down to a new line and writing something else, i want to write something over what i already wrote, this is how many programs in linux or in windows command line are able to have 'progress' information that changes on the same line.

nowadays most systems use only the '\n' to denote a newline. but some systems use both together.

you can see examples of this given in some of the other answers, but the most common are:

  • windows ends lines with '\r\n'
  • mac ends lines with '\r'
  • unix/linux use '\n'

and some other programs also have specific uses for them.

for more information about the history of these characters

Simple UDP example to send and receive data from same socket

here is my soln to define the remote and local port and then write out to a file the received data, put this all in a class of your choice with the correct imports

    static UdpClient sendClient = new UdpClient();
    static int localPort = 49999;
    static int remotePort = 49000;
    static IPEndPoint localEP = new IPEndPoint(IPAddress.Any, localPort);
    static IPEndPoint remoteEP = new IPEndPoint(IPAddress.Parse("127.0.0.1"), remotePort);
    static string logPath = System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + "/recvd.txt";
    static System.IO.StreamWriter fw = new System.IO.StreamWriter(logPath, true);


    private static void initStuff()
    {
      
        fw.AutoFlush = true;
        sendClient.ExclusiveAddressUse = false;
        sendClient.Client.SetSocketOption(SocketOptionLevel.Socket, SocketOptionName.ReuseAddress, true);
        sendClient.Client.Bind(localEP);
        sendClient.BeginReceive(DataReceived, sendClient);
    }

    private static void DataReceived(IAsyncResult ar)
    {
        UdpClient c = (UdpClient)ar.AsyncState;
        IPEndPoint receivedIpEndPoint = new IPEndPoint(IPAddress.Any, 0);
        Byte[] receivedBytes = c.EndReceive(ar, ref receivedIpEndPoint);
        fw.WriteLine(DateTime.Now.ToString("HH:mm:ss.ff tt") +  " (" + receivedBytes.Length + " bytes)");

        c.BeginReceive(DataReceived, ar.AsyncState);
    }


    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        initStuff();
        byte[] emptyByte = {};
        sendClient.Send(emptyByte, emptyByte.Length, remoteEP);
    }

Convert integer to string Jinja

I found the answer.

Cast integer to string:

myOldIntValue|string

Cast string to integer:

myOldStrValue|int

Kill some processes by .exe file name

You can Kill a specific instance of MS Word.

foreach (var process in Process.GetProcessesByName("WINWORD"))
{
    // Temp is a document which you need to kill.
    if (process.MainWindowTitle.Contains("Temp")) 
        process.Kill();
}

how to call javascript function in html.actionlink in asp.net mvc?

This is a bit of an old post, but there is actually a way to do an onclick operator that calls a function instead of going anywhere in ASP.NET

helper.ActionLink("Choose", null, null, null, 
    new {@onclick = "Locations.Choose(" + location.Id + ")", @href="#"})

If you specify empty quotes or the like in the controller/action, it'll likely add a link to what you listed. You can do that, and do a return false in the onclick. You can read more about that at:

What's the effect of adding 'return false' to a click event listener?

If you're doing this onclick in an cshtml file, it'd be a bit cleaner to just specify the link yourself (a href...) instead of having the ActionLink handle it. If you're doing an HtmlHelper, like my example above is coming from, then I'd argue that calling ActionLink is an okay solution, or potentially better, is to use tagbuilder instead.

How to provide user name and password when connecting to a network share

If you can't create an locally valid security token, it seems like you've ruled all out every option bar Win32 API and WNetAddConnection*.

Tons of information on MSDN about WNet - PInvoke information and sample code that connects to a UNC path here:

http://www.pinvoke.net/default.aspx/mpr/WNetAddConnection2.html#

MSDN Reference here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa385391(VS.85).aspx

Instantly detect client disconnection from server socket

i had same problem , try this :

void client_handler(Socket client) // set 'KeepAlive' true
{
    while (true)
    {
        try
        {
            if (client.Connected)
            {

            }
            else
            { // client disconnected
                break;
            }
        }
        catch (Exception)
        {
            client.Poll(4000, SelectMode.SelectRead);// try to get state
        }
    }
}

Generating Fibonacci Sequence

sparkida, found an issue with your method. If you check position 10, it returns 54 and causes all subsequent values to be incorrect. You can see this appearing here: http://jsfiddle.net/createanaccount/cdrgyzdz/5/

_x000D_
_x000D_
(function() {_x000D_
  _x000D_
function fib(n) {_x000D_
    var root5 = Math.sqrt(5);_x000D_
    var val1 = (1 + root5) / 2;_x000D_
    var val2 = 1 - val1;_x000D_
    var value = (Math.pow(val1, n) - Math.pow(val2, n)) / root5;_x000D_
_x000D_
    return Math.floor(value + 0.5);_x000D_
}_x000D_
    for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++) {_x000D_
        document.getElementById("sequence").innerHTML += (0 < i ? ", " : "") + fib(i);_x000D_
    }_x000D_
_x000D_
}());
_x000D_
<div id="sequence">_x000D_
    _x000D_
</div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

INNER JOIN vs INNER JOIN (SELECT . FROM)

Seems to be identical just in case that SQL server will not try to read data which is not required for the query, the optimizer is clever enough

It can have sense when join on complex query (i.e which have joings, groupings etc itself) then, yes, it is better to specify required fields.

But there is one more point. If the query is simple there is no difference but EVERY extra action even which is supposed to improve performance makes optimizer works harder and optimizer can fail to get the best plan in time and will run not optimal query. So extras select can be a such action which can even decrease performance

How do I get currency exchange rates via an API such as Google Finance?

Here is one simple PHP Script which gets exchange rate between GBP and USD

<?php
$amount = urlencode("1");
$from_GBP0 = urlencode("GBP");
$to_usd= urlencode("USD");
$Dallor = "hl=en&q=$amount$from_GBP0%3D%3F$to_usd";
$US_Rate = file_get_contents("http://google.com/ig/calculator?".$Dallor);
$US_data = explode('"', $US_Rate);
$US_data = explode(' ', $US_data['3']);
$var_USD = $US_data['0'];
echo $to_usd;
echo $var_USD;
echo '<br/>'; 
?>

Google currency rates are not accurate google itself says ==> Google cannot guarantee the accuracy of the exchange rates used by the calculator. You should confirm current rates before making any transactions that could be affected by changes in the exchange rates. Foreign currency rates provided by Citibank N.A. are displayed under licence. Rates are for information purposes only and are subject to change without notice. Rates for actual transactions may vary and Citibank is not offering to enter into any transaction at any rate displayed.

pip install returning invalid syntax

Try running cmd as administrator (in the menu that pops up after right-clicking) and/or entering "pip" alone and then

adb not finding my device / phone (MacOS X)

Try rebooting (if it was ever detected before and stopped showing up) - the mother of all solutions!

Copying text outside of Vim with set mouse=a enabled

em... Keep pressing Shift and then click the right mouse button

Subscripts in plots in R

See ?expression

plot(1:10,main=expression("This is a subscript "[2]))

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horizontal line and right way to code it in html, css

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hr {_x000D_
    display: block;_x000D_
    height: 1px;_x000D_
    border: 0;_x000D_
    border-top: 1px solid #ccc;_x000D_
    margin: 1em 0;_x000D_
    padding: 0;_x000D_
}
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<div>Hello</div>_x000D_
<hr/>_x000D_
<div>World</div>
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Here is how html5boilerplate does it:

hr {
    display: block;
    height: 1px;
    border: 0;
    border-top: 1px solid #ccc;
    margin: 1em 0;
    padding: 0;
}

How to redirect a page using onclick event in php?

you are using onclick which is javascript event. there is two ways

Javascript

<input type="button" value="Home" class="homebutton" id="btnHome" 
onClick="window.location = 'http://google.com'" />

Or PHP

create another page as redirect.php and put

<?php header('location : google.com') ?>

and insert this link on any page within the same directory

<a href="redirect.php">google<a/>

hope this helps its simplest!!

SVN check out linux

You can use checkout or co

$ svn co http://example.com/svn/app-name directory-name

Some short codes:-

  1. checkout (co)
  2. commit (ci)
  3. copy (cp)
  4. delete (del, remove,rm)
  5. diff (di)

Rails.env vs RAILS_ENV

According to the docs, #Rails.env wraps RAILS_ENV:

    # File vendor/rails/railties/lib/initializer.rb, line 55
     def env
       @_env ||= ActiveSupport::StringInquirer.new(RAILS_ENV)
     end

But, look at specifically how it's wrapped, using ActiveSupport::StringInquirer:

Wrapping a string in this class gives you a prettier way to test for equality. The value returned by Rails.env is wrapped in a StringInquirer object so instead of calling this:

Rails.env == "production"

you can call this:

Rails.env.production?

So they aren't exactly equivalent, but they're fairly close. I haven't used Rails much yet, but I'd say #Rails.env is certainly the more visually attractive option due to using StringInquirer.

Replace and overwrite instead of appending

Using python3 pathlib library:

import re
from pathlib import Path
import shutil

shutil.copy2("/tmp/test.xml", "/tmp/test.xml.bak") # create backup
filepath = Path("/tmp/test.xml")
content = filepath.read_text()
filepath.write_text(re.sub(r"<string>ABC</string>(\s+)<string>(.*)</string>",r"<xyz>ABC</xyz>\1<xyz>\2</xyz>", content))

Similar method using different approach to backups:

from pathlib import Path

filepath = Path("/tmp/test.xml")
filepath.rename(filepath.with_suffix('.bak')) # different approach to backups
content = filepath.read_text()
filepath.write_text(re.sub(r"<string>ABC</string>(\s+)<string>(.*)</string>",r"<xyz>ABC</xyz>\1<xyz>\2</xyz>", content))

Can I set state inside a useEffect hook

Generally speaking, using setState inside useEffect will create an infinite loop that most likely you don't want to cause. There are a couple of exceptions to that rule which I will get into later.

useEffect is called after each render and when setState is used inside of it, it will cause the component to re-render which will call useEffect and so on and so on.

One of the popular cases that using useState inside of useEffect will not cause an infinite loop is when you pass an empty array as a second argument to useEffect like useEffect(() => {....}, []) which means that the effect function should be called once: after the first mount/render only. This is used widely when you're doing data fetching in a component and you want to save the request data in the component's state.

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

With Java 9 you can use IntStream.iterate() with hasNext condition. So you can simplify the code of your method to this:

public static <T> List<List<T>> getBatches(List<T> collection, int batchSize) {
    return IntStream.iterate(0, i -> i < collection.size(), i -> i + batchSize)
            .mapToObj(i -> collection.subList(i, Math.min(i + batchSize, collection.size())))
            .collect(Collectors.toList());
}

Using {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9}, the result of getBatches(numbers, 4) will be:

[[0, 1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6, 7], [8, 9]]

Converting HTML element to string in JavaScript / JQuery

You can do this:

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var $html = $('<iframe width="854" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/gYKqrjq5IjU?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>');    _x000D_
var str = $html.prop('outerHTML');_x000D_
console.log(str);
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<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
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FIDDLE DEMO

How can I export a GridView.DataSource to a datatable or dataset?

Assuming your DataSource is of type DataTable, you can just do this:

myGridView.DataSource as DataTable

How do you debug React Native?

You can use Safari to debug the iOS version of your app without having to enable "Debug JS Remotely", Just follow the following steps:

1. Enable Develop menu in Safari: Preferences ? Advanced ? Select "Show Develop menu in menu bar"
2. Select your app's JSContext: Develop ? {Your Simulator} ? Automatically Show Web Inspector for JS JSContext
3. Safari's Web Inspector should open which has a Console and a Debugger

Date only from TextBoxFor()

I use Globalize so work with many date formats so use the following:

@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.DateOfBirth, "{0:d}")

This will automatically adjust the date format to the browser's locale settings.

form confirm before submit

<body> 
    <form method="post">
        name<input type="text" name="text">
        <input type="submit" value="submit" onclick="return confirm('Are you sure you want to Save?')">
    </form>
</body>

javax.faces.application.ViewExpiredException: View could not be restored

Have you tried adding lines below to your web.xml?

<context-param>
   <param-name>com.sun.faces.enableRestoreView11Compatibility</param-name>
   <param-value>true</param-value>
</context-param>

I found this to be very effective when I encountered this issue.

Greater than less than, python

Check to make sure that both score and array[x] are numerical types. You might be comparing an integer to a string...which is heartbreakingly possible in Python 2.x.

>>> 2 < "2"
True
>>> 2 > "2"
False
>>> 2 == "2"
False

Edit

Further explanation: How does Python compare string and int?

How do I insert an image in an activity with android studio?

copy the image that you want to show in android app and paste in drawable folder. given below code

<ImageView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:src="@drawable/image"
 />

Modify a Column's Type in sqlite3

If you prefer a GUI, DB Browser for SQLite will do this with a few clicks.

  1. "File" - "Open Database"
  2. In the "Database Structure" tab, click on the table content (not table name), then "Edit" menu, "Modify table", and now you can change the data type of any column with a drop down menu. I changed a 'text' field to 'numeric' in order to retrieve data in a number range.

DB Browser for SQLite is open source and free. For Linux it is available from the repository.

Get real path from URI, Android KitKat new storage access framework

Try this:

//KITKAT
i = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_PICK,android.provider.MediaStore.Images.Media.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI);
startActivityForResult(i, CHOOSE_IMAGE_REQUEST);

Use the following in the onActivityResult:

Uri selectedImageURI = data.getData();
input = c.getContentResolver().openInputStream(selectedImageURI);
BitmapFactory.decodeStream(input , null, opts);

How to fix error with xml2-config not found when installing PHP from sources?

this solution it gonna be ok on Redhat 8.0

sudo yum install libxml2-devel

Check if int is between two numbers

COBOL allows that (I am sure some other languages do as well). Java inherited most of it's syntax from C which doesn't allow it.

C++ int to byte array

You don't need a whole function for this; a simple cast will suffice:

int x;
static_cast<char*>(static_cast<void*>(&x));

Any object in C++ can be reinterpreted as an array of bytes. If you want to actually make a copy of the bytes into a separate array, you can use std::copy:

int x;
char bytes[sizeof x];
std::copy(static_cast<const char*>(static_cast<const void*>(&x)),
          static_cast<const char*>(static_cast<const void*>(&x)) + sizeof x,
          bytes);

Neither of these methods takes byte ordering into account, but since you can reinterpret the int as an array of bytes, it is trivial to perform any necessary modifications yourself.

jquery Ajax call - data parameters are not being passed to MVC Controller action

I tried:

<input id="btnTest" type="button" value="button" />

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready( function() {
      $('#btnTest').click( function() {
        $.ajax({
          type: "POST", 
          url: "/Login/Test",
          data: { ListID: '1', ItemName: 'test' },
          dataType: "json",
          success: function(response) { alert(response); },
          error: function(xhr, ajaxOptions, thrownError) { alert(xhr.responseText); }
        });
      });
    });
</script>

and C#:

[HttpPost]
public ActionResult Test(string ListID, string ItemName)
{
    return Content(ListID + " " + ItemName);
}

It worked. Remove contentType and set data without double quotes.

What bitrate is used for each of the youtube video qualities (360p - 1080p), in regards to flowplayer?

Looking at this official google link: Youtube Live encoder settings, bitrates and resolutions they have this table:

                   240p       360p        480p        720p        1080p
Resolution      426 x 240   640 x 360   854x480     1280x720    1920x1080
Video Bitrates                   
Maximum         700 Kbps    1000 Kbps   2000 Kbps   4000 Kbps   6000 Kbps
Recommended     400 Kbps    750 Kbps    1000 Kbps   2500 Kbps   4500 Kbps
Minimum         300 Kbps    400 Kbps    500 Kbps    1500 Kbps   3000 Kbps

It would appear as though this is the case, although the numbers dont sync up to the google table above:

// the bitrates, video width and file names for this clip
      bitrates: [
        { url: "bbb-800.mp4", width: 480, bitrate: 800 }, //360p video
        { url: "bbb-1200.mp4", width: 720, bitrate: 1200 }, //480p video
        { url: "bbb-1600.mp4", width: 1080, bitrate: 1600 } //720p video
      ],

Count the number of commits on a Git branch

You can also do git log | grep commit | wc -l

and get the result back