Programs & Examples On #Cunit

Anything related to CUnit, a unit testing framework for C programs.

The entity type <type> is not part of the model for the current context

You may try removing the table from the model and adding it again. You can do this visually by opening the .edmx file from the Solution Explorer.

Steps:

  1. Double click the .edmx file from the Solution Explorer
  2. Right click on the table head you want to remove and select "Delete from Model"
  3. Now again right click on the work area and select "Update Model from Database.."
  4. Add the table again from the table list
  5. Clean and build the solution

How to run a python script from IDLE interactive shell?

execFile('helloworld.py') does the job for me. A thing to note is to enter the complete directory name of the .py file if it isnt in the Python folder itself (atleast this is the case on Windows)

For example, execFile('C:/helloworld.py')

Get path of executable

For windows:

GetModuleFileName - returns the exe path + exe filename

To remove filename
PathRemoveFileSpec

Asynchronously load images with jQuery

If you just want to set the source of the image you can use this.

$("img").attr('src','http://somedomain.com/image.jpg');

C# Syntax - Example of a Lambda Expression - ForEach() over Generic List

public static void Each<T>(this IEnumerable<T> items, Action<T> action) {
foreach (var item in items) {
    action(item);
} }

... and call it thusly:

myList.Each(x => { x.Enabled = false; });

Can I disable a CSS :hover effect via JavaScript?

Try just setting the link color:

$("ul#mainFilter a").css('color','#000');

Edit: or better yet, use the CSS, as Christopher suggested

java - iterating a linked list

As the definition of Linkedlist says, it is a sequence and you are guaranteed to get the elements in order.

eg:

import java.util.LinkedList;

public class ForEachDemonstrater {
  public static void main(String args[]) {
    LinkedList<Character> pl = new LinkedList<Character>();
    pl.add('j');
    pl.add('a');
    pl.add('v');
    pl.add('a');
    for (char s : pl)
      System.out.print(s+"->");
  }
}

Position one element relative to another in CSS

position: absolute will position the element by coordinates, relative to the closest positioned ancestor, i.e. the closest parent which isn't position: static.

Have your four divs nested inside the target div, give the target div position: relative, and use position: absolute on the others.

Structure your HTML similar to this:

<div id="container">
  <div class="top left"></div>
  <div class="top right"></div>
  <div class="bottom left"></div>
  <div class="bottom right"></div>
</div>

And this CSS should work:

#container {
  position: relative;
}

#container > * {
  position: absolute;
}

.left {
  left: 0;
}

.right {
  right: 0;
}

.top {
  top: 0;
}

.bottom {
  bottom: 0;
}

...

How to make script execution wait until jquery is loaded

You can try onload event. It raised when all scripts has been loaded :

window.onload = function () {
   //jquery ready for use here
}

But keep in mind, that you may override others scripts where window.onload using.

Positioning background image, adding padding

There is actually a native solution to this, using the four-values to background-position

.CssClass {background-position: right 10px top 20px;}

This means 10px from right and 20px from top. you can also use three values the fourth value will be count as 0.

What are the -Xms and -Xmx parameters when starting JVM?

You can specify it in your IDE. For example, for Eclipse in Run Configurations ? VM arguments. You can enter -Xmx800m -Xms500m as

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What does it mean by select 1 from table?

The result is 1 for every record in the table. __

How to commit a change with both "message" and "description" from the command line?

There is also another straight and more clear way

git commit -m "Title" -m "Description ..........";

jQuery check/uncheck radio button onclick

This last solution is the one that worked for me. I had problem with Undefined and object object or always returning false then always returning true but this solution that works when checking and un-checking.

This code shows fields when clicked and hides fields when un-checked :

$("#new_blah").click(function(){
   if ($(this).attr('checked')) {

            $(this).removeAttr('checked');
    var radioValue = $(this).prop('checked',false);
    // alert("Your are a rb inside 1- " + radioValue);
    // hide the fields is the  radio button is no     
    $("#new_blah1").closest("tr").hide();
    $("#new_blah2").closest("tr").hide();

    } 
    else {

    var radioValue =  $(this).attr('checked', 'checked');
    // alert("Your are a rb inside 2 - " + radioValue);
    // show the fields   when radio button is set to  yes
    $("#new_blah1").closest("tr").show();
    $("#new_blah2").closest("tr").show();

}

How to implement HorizontalScrollView like Gallery?

Here is my layout:

    <HorizontalScrollView
        android:id="@+id/horizontalScrollView1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:paddingTop="@dimen/padding" >

       <LinearLayout
        android:id="@+id/shapeLayout"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginTop="10dp" >
        </LinearLayout>
    </HorizontalScrollView>

And I populate it in the code with dynamic check-boxes.

jQuery checkbox event handling

Using the new 'on' method in jQuery (1.7): http://api.jquery.com/on/

    $('#myform').on('change', 'input[type=checkbox]', function(e) {
        console.log(this.name+' '+this.value+' '+this.checked);

    });
  • the event handler will live on
  • will capture if the checkbox was changed by keyboard, not just click

How to assign a select result to a variable?

Try This

SELECT @PrimaryContactKey = c.PrimaryCntctKey
FROM tarcustomer c, tarinvoice i
WHERE i.custkey = c.custkey 
    AND i.invckey = @tmp_key

UPDATE tarinvoice SET confirmtocntctkey = @PrimaryContactKey 
WHERE invckey = @tmp_key
FETCH NEXT FROM @get_invckey INTO @tmp_key

You would declare this variable outside of your loop as just a standard TSQL variable.

I should also note that this is how you would do it for any type of select into a variable, not just when dealing with cursors.

How can I change the image of an ImageView?

if (android.os.Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 21) {
            storeViewHolder.storeNameTextView.setImageDrawable(context.getResources().getDrawable(array[position], context.getTheme()));
} else {
            storeViewHolder.storeNameTextView.setImageDrawable(context.getResources().getDrawable(array[position]));
}

CSS On hover show another element

You can use axe selectors for this.

There are two approaches:

1. Immediate Parent axe Selector (<)

#a:hover < #content + #b

This axe style rule will select #b, which is the immediate sibling of #content, which is the immediate parent of #a which has a :hover state.

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div {
display: inline-block;
margin: 30px;
font-weight: bold;
}

#content {
width: 160px;
height: 160px;
background-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);
}

#a, #b {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
line-height: 100px;
text-align: center;
}

#a {
color: rgb(255, 0, 0);
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);
cursor: pointer;
}

#b {
display: none;
color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
background-color: rgb(0, 0, 255);
}

#a:hover < #content + #b {
display: inline-block;
}
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<div id="content">
<div id="a">Hover me</div>
</div>

<div id="b">Show me</div>

<script src="https://rouninmedia.github.io/axe/axe.js"></script>
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2. Remote Element axe Selector (\)

#a:hover \ #b

This axe style rule will select #b, which is present in the same document as #a which has a :hover state.

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div {
display: inline-block;
margin: 30px;
font-weight: bold;
}

#content {
width: 160px;
height: 160px;
background-color: rgb(255, 0, 0);
}

#a, #b {
width: 100px;
height: 100px;
line-height: 100px;
text-align: center;
}

#a {
color: rgb(255, 0, 0);
background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);
cursor: pointer;
}

#b {
display: none;
color: rgb(255, 255, 255);
background-color: rgb(0, 0, 255);
}

#a:hover \ #b {
display: inline-block;
}
_x000D_
<div id="content">
<div id="a">Hover me</div>
</div>

<div id="b">Show me</div>

<script src="https://rouninmedia.github.io/axe/axe.js"></script>
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"Cannot verify access to path (C:\inetpub\wwwroot)", when adding a virtual directory

I had the same problem and couldn't figure it out for almost a day. I added IUSR and NetworkService to the folder permissions, I made sure it was running as NetworkService. I tried impersonation and even running as administrator (DO NOT DO THIS). Then someone recommended that I try running the page from inside the Windows 2008 R2 server and it pointed me to the Handler Mappings, which were all disabled.

I got it to work with this:

  • Open the Feature View of your website.
  • Go to Handler Mappings.
  • Find the path for .cshtml
  • Right Click and Click Edit Feature Permissions
  • Select Execute
  • Hit OK.

Now try refreshing your website.

How would you implement an LRU cache in Java?

LinkedHashMap is O(1), but requires synchronization. No need to reinvent the wheel there.

2 options for increasing concurrency:

1. Create multiple LinkedHashMap, and hash into them: example: LinkedHashMap[4], index 0, 1, 2, 3. On the key do key%4 (or binary OR on [key, 3]) to pick which map to do a put/get/remove.

2. You could do an 'almost' LRU by extending ConcurrentHashMap, and having a linked hash map like structure in each of the regions inside of it. Locking would occur more granularly than a LinkedHashMap that is synchronized. On a put or putIfAbsent only a lock on the head and tail of the list is needed (per region). On a remove or get the whole region needs to be locked. I'm curious if Atomic linked lists of some sort might help here -- probably so for the head of the list. Maybe for more.

The structure would not keep the total order, but only the order per region. As long as the number of entries is much larger than the number of regions, this is good enough for most caches. Each region will have to have its own entry count, this would be used rather than the global count for the eviction trigger. The default number of regions in a ConcurrentHashMap is 16, which is plenty for most servers today.

  1. would be easier to write and faster under moderate concurrency.

  2. would be more difficult to write but scale much better at very high concurrency. It would be slower for normal access (just as ConcurrentHashMap is slower than HashMap where there is no concurrency)

Laravel Carbon subtract days from current date

You can always use strtotime to minus the number of days from the current date:

$users = Users::where('status_id', 'active')
           ->where( 'created_at', '>', date('Y-m-d', strtotime("-30 days"))
           ->get();

mkdir's "-p" option

mkdir [-switch] foldername

-p is a switch which is optional, it will create subfolder and parent folder as well even parent folder doesn't exist.

From the man page:

-p, --parents no error if existing, make parent directories as needed

Example:

mkdir -p storage/framework/{sessions,views,cache}

This will create subfolder sessions,views,cache inside framework folder irrespective of 'framework' was available earlier or not.

Excel is not updating cells, options > formula > workbook calculation set to automatic

The field is formatted as 'Text', which means that formulas aren't evaluated. Change the formatting to something else, press F2 on the cell and Enter.

How to create virtual column using MySQL SELECT?

Something like:

SELECT id, email, IF(active = 1, 'enabled', 'disabled') AS account_status FROM users

This allows you to make operations and show it as columns.

EDIT:

you can also use joins and show operations as columns:

SELECT u.id, e.email, IF(c.id IS NULL, 'no selected', c.name) AS country
FROM users u LEFT JOIN countries c ON u.country_id = c.id

When to use IList and when to use List

Microsoft guidelines as checked by FxCop discourage use of List<T> in public APIs - prefer IList<T>.

Incidentally, I now almost always declare one-dimensional arrays as IList<T>, which means I can consistently use the IList<T>.Count property rather than Array.Length. For example:

public interface IMyApi
{
    IList<int> GetReadOnlyValues();
}

public class MyApiImplementation : IMyApi
{
    public IList<int> GetReadOnlyValues()
    {
        List<int> myList = new List<int>();
        ... populate list
        return myList.AsReadOnly();
    }
}
public class MyMockApiImplementationForUnitTests : IMyApi
{
    public IList<int> GetReadOnlyValues()
    {
        IList<int> testValues = new int[] { 1, 2, 3 };
        return testValues;
    }
}

pop/remove items out of a python tuple

As DSM mentions, tuple's are immutable, but even for lists, a more elegant solution is to use filter:

tupleX = filter(str.isdigit, tupleX)

or, if condition is not a function, use a comprehension:

tupleX = [x for x in tupleX if x > 5]

if you really need tupleX to be a tuple, use a generator expression and pass that to tuple:

tupleX = tuple(x for x in tupleX if condition)

How to install a plugin in Jenkins manually

The accepted answer is accurate, but make sure that you also install all necessary dependencies as well. Installing using the CLI or web seems to take care of this, but my plugins were not showing up in the browser or using java -jar jenkins-cli.jar -s http://localhost:8080 list-plugins until I also installed the dependencies.

How do I connect to my existing Git repository using Visual Studio Code?

Use the Git GUI in the Git plugin.

Clone your online repository with the URL which you have.

After cloning, make changes to the files. When you make changes, you can see the number changes. Commit those changes.

Fetch from the remote (to check if anything is updated while you are working).

If the fetch operation gives you an update about the changes in the remote repository, make a pull operation which will update your copy in Visual Studio Code. Otherwise, do not make a pull operation if there aren't any changes in the remote repository.

Push your changes to the upstream remote repository by making a push operation.

Getting time and date from timestamp with php

Optionally you can use database function for date/time formatting. For example in MySQL query use:

SELECT DATE_FORMAT(DATETIMEAPP,'%d-%m-%Y') AS date, DATE_FORMT(DATETIMEAPP,'%H:%i:%s') AS time FROM yourtable

I think that over databases provides solutions for date formatting too

How to loop through an array containing objects and access their properties

for (var j = 0; j < myArray.length; j++){
  console.log(myArray[j].x);
}

Usage of MySQL's "IF EXISTS"

You cannot use IF control block OUTSIDE of functions. So that affects both of your queries.

Turn the EXISTS clause into a subquery instead within an IF function

SELECT IF( EXISTS(
             SELECT *
             FROM gdata_calendars
             WHERE `group` =  ? AND id = ?), 1, 0)

In fact, booleans are returned as 1 or 0

SELECT EXISTS(
         SELECT *
         FROM gdata_calendars
         WHERE `group` =  ? AND id = ?)

Bootstrap 3 Gutter Size

Add these helper classes to the stylesheet.less (you can use http://less2css.org/ to compile them to CSS )

.row.gutter-0 {
    margin-left: 0;
    margin-right: 0;
    [class*="col-"] {
        padding-left: 0;
        padding-right: 0;
    }
}

.row.gutter-10 {
    margin-left: -5px;
    margin-right: -5px;
    [class*="col-"] {
        padding-left: 5px;
        padding-right: 5px;
    }
}

.row.gutter-20 {
    margin-left: -10px;
    margin-right: -10px;
    [class*="col-"] {
        padding-left: 10px;
        padding-right: 10px;
    }
}

And here’s how you can use it in your HTML:

<div class="row gutter-0">
    <div class="col-sm-3 col-md-3 col-lg-3">

    </div>
    <div class="col-sm-3 col-md-3 col-lg-3">

    </div>
    <div class="col-sm-3 col-md-3 col-lg-3">

    </div>
    <div class="col-sm-3 col-md-3 col-lg-3">

    </div>
</div>

<div class="row gutter-10">
    <div class="col-sm-3 col-md-3 col-lg-3">

    </div>
    <div class="col-sm-3 col-md-3 col-lg-3">

    </div>
    <div class="col-sm-3 col-md-3 col-lg-3">

    </div>
    <div class="col-sm-3 col-md-3 col-lg-3">

    </div>
</div>

<div class="row gutter-20">
    <div class="col-sm-3 col-md-3 col-lg-3">

    </div>
    <div class="col-sm-3 col-md-3 col-lg-3">

    </div>
    <div class="col-sm-3 col-md-3 col-lg-3">

    </div>
    <div class="col-sm-3 col-md-3 col-lg-3">

    </div>
</div>

Multiple condition in single IF statement

Yes it is, there have to be boolean expresion after IF. Here you have a direct link. I hope it helps. GL!

Pandas KeyError: value not in index

Use reindex to get all columns you need. It'll preserve the ones that are already there and put in empty columns otherwise.

p = p.reindex(columns=['1Sun', '2Mon', '3Tue', '4Wed', '5Thu', '6Fri', '7Sat'])

So, your entire code example should look like this:

df = pd.read_csv(CsvFileName)

p = df.pivot_table(index=['Hour'], columns='DOW', values='Changes', aggfunc=np.mean).round(0)
p.fillna(0, inplace=True)

columns = ["1Sun", "2Mon", "3Tue", "4Wed", "5Thu", "6Fri", "7Sat"]
p = p.reindex(columns=columns)
p[columns] = p[columns].astype(int)

How to verify a Text present in the loaded page through WebDriver

For Ruby programmers here is how you can assert. Have to include Minitest to get the asserts

    assert(@driver.find_element(:tag_name => "body").text.include?("Name"))

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

returns true if subject is between low and high (inclusive)

$between = function( $low, $high, $subject ) {
    if( $subject < $low ) return false;
    if( $subject > $high ) return false;
    return true;
};

if( $between( 0, 100, $givenNumber )) {
   // do whatever...
}

looks cleaner to me

Vuex - passing multiple parameters to mutation

In simple terms you need to build your payload into a key array

payload = {'key1': 'value1', 'key2': 'value2'}

Then send the payload directly to the action

this.$store.dispatch('yourAction', payload)

No change in your action

yourAction: ({commit}, payload) => {
  commit('YOUR_MUTATION',  payload )
},

In your mutation call the values with the key

'YOUR_MUTATION' (state,  payload ){
  state.state1 = payload.key1
  state.state2 =  payload.key2
},

How/when to generate Gradle wrapper files?

  1. You will generate them once, but update them if you need a new feature or something from a plugin which in turn needs a newer gradle version.

    Easiest way to update: as of Gradle 2.2 you can just download and extract the complete or binary Gradle distribution, and run:

    $ <pathToExpandedZip>/bin/gradle wrapper
    

    No need to define a task, though you probably need some kind of build.gradle file.

    This will update or create the gradlew and gradlew.bat wrapper as well as gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties and the gradle-wrapper.jar to provide the current version of gradle, wrapped.

  2. Those are all part of the wrapper.

  3. Some build.gradle files reference other files or files in subdirectories which are sub projects or modules. It gets a bit complicated, but if you have one project you basically need the one file.

  4. settings.gradle handles project, module and other kinds of names and settings, gradle.properties configures resusable variables for your gradle files if you like and you feel they would be clearer that way.

How to preview an image before and after upload?

meVeekay's answer was good and am just making it more improvised by doing 2 things.

  1. Check whether browser supports HTML5 FileReader() or not.

  2. Allow only image file to be upload by checking its extension.

HTML :

<div id="wrapper">
    <input id="fileUpload" type="file" />
    <br />
    <div id="image-holder"></div>
</div> 

jQuery :

$("#fileUpload").on('change', function () {

    var imgPath = $(this)[0].value;
    var extn = imgPath.substring(imgPath.lastIndexOf('.') + 1).toLowerCase();

    if (extn == "gif" || extn == "png" || extn == "jpg" || extn == "jpeg") {
        if (typeof (FileReader) != "undefined") {

            var image_holder = $("#image-holder");
            image_holder.empty();

            var reader = new FileReader();
            reader.onload = function (e) {
                $("<img />", {
                    "src": e.target.result,
                        "class": "thumb-image"
                }).appendTo(image_holder);

            }
            image_holder.show();
            reader.readAsDataURL($(this)[0].files[0]);
        } else {
            alert("This browser does not support FileReader.");
        }
    } else {
        alert("Pls select only images");
    }
});

For detail understanding of FileReader()

Check this Article : Using FileReader() preview image before uploading.

Android Center text on canvas

works for me to use: textPaint.textAlign = Paint.Align.CENTER with textPaint.getTextBounds

private fun drawNumber(i: Int, canvas: Canvas, translate: Float) {
            val text = "$i"
            textPaint.textAlign = Paint.Align.CENTER
            textPaint.getTextBounds(text, 0, text.length, textBound)

            canvas.drawText(
                    "$i",
                    translate + circleRadius,
                    (height / 2 + textBound.height() / 2).toFloat(),
                    textPaint
            )
        }

result is:

enter image description here

This IP, site or mobile application is not authorized to use this API key

  url = https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/directions/json?origin=19.0176147,72.8561644&destination=28.65381,77.22897&mode=driving&key=AIzaSyATaUNPUjc5rs0lVp2Z_spnJle-AvhKLHY

add only in AppDelegate like

            GMSServices.provideAPIKey("AIzaSyATaUNPUjc5rs0lVp2Z_spnJle-AvhKLHY")

and remove the key in this url.

now url is

https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/directions/json?origin=19.0176147,72.8561644&destination=28.65381,77.22897&mode=driving

The meaning of NoInitialContextException error

Specifically, I got this issue when attempting to retrieve the default (no-args) InitialContext within an embedded Tomcat7 instance, in SpringBoot.

The solution for me, was to tell Tomcat to enableNaming.

i.e.

@Bean
public TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory tomcatFactory() {
    return new TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory() {
        @Override
        protected TomcatEmbeddedServletContainer getTomcatEmbeddedServletContainer(
                Tomcat tomcat) {
            tomcat.enableNaming();
            return super.getTomcatEmbeddedServletContainer(tomcat);
        }
    };
}

Bootstrap: Position of dropdown menu relative to navbar item

Based on Bootstrap doc:

As of v3.1.0, .pull-right is deprecated on dropdown menus. use .dropdown-menu-right

eg:

<ul class="dropdown-menu dropdown-menu-right" role="menu" aria-labelledby="dLabel">

Bootstrap 3 scrollable div for table

Well one way to do it is set the height of your body to the height that you want your page to be. In this example I did 600px.

Then set your wrapper height to a percentage of the body here I did 70% This will adjust your table so that it does not fill up the whole screen but in stead just takes up a percentage of the specified page height.

body {
   padding-top: 70px;
   border:1px solid black;
   height:600px;
}

.mygrid-wrapper-div {
   border: solid red 5px;
   overflow: scroll;
   height: 70%;
}

http://jsfiddle.net/4NB2N/7/

Update How about a jQuery approach.

$(function() {  
   var window_height = $(window).height(),
   content_height = window_height - 200;
   $('.mygrid-wrapper-div').height(content_height);
});

$( window ).resize(function() {
   var window_height = $(window).height(),
   content_height = window_height - 200;
   $('.mygrid-wrapper-div').height(content_height);
});

http://jsfiddle.net/4NB2N/11/

Why do people write #!/usr/bin/env python on the first line of a Python script?

It seems to me like the files run the same without that line.

If so, then perhaps you're running the Python program on Windows? Windows doesn't use that line—instead, it uses the file-name extension to run the program associated with the file extension.

However in 2011, a "Python launcher" was developed which (to some degree) mimics this Linux behaviour for Windows. This is limited just to choosing which Python interpreter is run — e.g. to select between Python 2 and Python 3 on a system where both are installed. The launcher is optionally installed as py.exe by Python installation, and can be associated with .py files so that the launcher will check that line and in turn launch the specified Python interpreter version.

How can I pull from remote Git repository and override the changes in my local repository?

Provided that the remote repository is origin, and that you're interested in master:

git fetch origin
git reset --hard origin/master

This tells it to fetch the commits from the remote repository, and position your working copy to the tip of its master branch.

All your local commits not common to the remote will be gone.

What is the difference between required and ng-required?

I would like to make a addon for tiago's answer:

Suppose you're hiding element using ng-show and adding a required attribute on the same:

<div ng-show="false">
    <input required name="something" ng-model="name"/>
</div>

will throw an error something like :

An invalid form control with name='' is not focusable

This is because you just cannot impose required validation on hidden elements. Using ng-required makes it easier to conditionally apply required validation which is just awesome!!

How to install pywin32 module in windows 7

I disagree with the accepted answer being "the easiest", particularly if you want to use virtualenv.

You can use the Unofficial Windows Binaries instead. Download the appropriate wheel from there, and install it with pip:

pip install pywin32-219-cp27-none-win32.whl

(Make sure you pick the one for the right version and bitness of Python).

You might be able to get the URL and install it via pip without downloading it first, but they're made it a bit harder to just grab the URL. Probably better to download it and host it somewhere yourself.

Salt and hash a password in Python

passlib seems to be useful if you need to use hashes stored by an existing system. If you have control of the format, use a modern hash like bcrypt or scrypt. At this time, bcrypt seems to be much easier to use from python.

passlib supports bcrypt, and it recommends installing py-bcrypt as a backend: http://pythonhosted.org/passlib/lib/passlib.hash.bcrypt.html

You could also use py-bcrypt directly if you don't want to install passlib. The readme has examples of basic use.

see also: How to use scrypt to generate hash for password and salt in Python

How to choose multiple files using File Upload Control?

The FileUpload.AllowMultiple property in .NET 4.5 and higher will allow you the control to select multiple files.

<asp:FileUpload ID="fileImages" AllowMultiple="true" runat="server" />

.NET 4 and below

 <asp:FileUpload ID="fileImages" Multiple="Multiple" runat="server" />

On the post-back, you can then:

 Dim flImages As HttpFileCollection = Request.Files                   
 For Each key As String In flImages.Keys
    Dim flfile As HttpPostedFile = flImages(key)
    flfile.SaveAs(yourpath & flfile.FileName)
 Next

How to compute precision, recall, accuracy and f1-score for the multiclass case with scikit learn?

Posed question

Responding to the question 'what metric should be used for multi-class classification with imbalanced data': Macro-F1-measure. Macro Precision and Macro Recall can be also used, but they are not so easily interpretable as for binary classificaion, they are already incorporated into F-measure, and excess metrics complicate methods comparison, parameters tuning, and so on.

Micro averaging are sensitive to class imbalance: if your method, for example, works good for the most common labels and totally messes others, micro-averaged metrics show good results.

Weighting averaging isn't well suited for imbalanced data, because it weights by counts of labels. Moreover, it is too hardly interpretable and unpopular: for instance, there is no mention of such an averaging in the following very detailed survey I strongly recommend to look through:

Sokolova, Marina, and Guy Lapalme. "A systematic analysis of performance measures for classification tasks." Information Processing & Management 45.4 (2009): 427-437.

Application-specific question

However, returning to your task, I'd research 2 topics:

  1. metrics commonly used for your specific task - it lets (a) to compare your method with others and understand if you do something wrong, and (b) to not explore this by yourself and reuse someone else's findings;
  2. cost of different errors of your methods - for example, use-case of your application may rely on 4- and 5-star reviewes only - in this case, good metric should count only these 2 labels.

Commonly used metrics. As I can infer after looking through literature, there are 2 main evaluation metrics:

  1. Accuracy, which is used, e.g. in

Yu, April, and Daryl Chang. "Multiclass Sentiment Prediction using Yelp Business."

(link) - note that the authors work with almost the same distribution of ratings, see Figure 5.

Pang, Bo, and Lillian Lee. "Seeing stars: Exploiting class relationships for sentiment categorization with respect to rating scales." Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics. Association for Computational Linguistics, 2005.

(link)

  1. MSE (or, less often, Mean Absolute Error - MAE) - see, for example,

Lee, Moontae, and R. Grafe. "Multiclass sentiment analysis with restaurant reviews." Final Projects from CS N 224 (2010).

(link) - they explore both accuracy and MSE, considering the latter to be better

Pappas, Nikolaos, Rue Marconi, and Andrei Popescu-Belis. "Explaining the Stars: Weighted Multiple-Instance Learning for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis." Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods In Natural Language Processing. No. EPFL-CONF-200899. 2014.

(link) - they utilize scikit-learn for evaluation and baseline approaches and state that their code is available; however, I can't find it, so if you need it, write a letter to the authors, the work is pretty new and seems to be written in Python.

Cost of different errors. If you care more about avoiding gross blunders, e.g. assinging 1-star to 5-star review or something like that, look at MSE; if difference matters, but not so much, try MAE, since it doesn't square diff; otherwise stay with Accuracy.

About approaches, not metrics

Try regression approaches, e.g. SVR, since they generally outperforms Multiclass classifiers like SVC or OVA SVM.

How do I compare two Integers?

The Integer class implements Comparable<Integer>, so you could try,

x.compareTo(y) == 0

also, if rather than equality, you are looking to compare these integers, then,

x.compareTo(y) < 0 will tell you if x is less than y.

x.compareTo(y) > 0 will tell you if x is greater than y.

Of course, it would be wise, in these examples, to ensure that x is non-null before making these calls.

Fastest way to serialize and deserialize .NET objects

Yet another serializer out there that claims to be super fast is netserializer.

The data given on their site shows performance of 2x - 4x over protobuf, I have not tried this myself, but if you are evaluating various options, try this as well

Simulate CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS for PostgreSQL?

Just create the database using createdb CLI tool:

PGHOST="my.database.domain.com"
PGUSER="postgres"
PGDB="mydb"
createdb -h $PGHOST -p $PGPORT -U $PGUSER $PGDB

If the database exists, it will return an error:

createdb: database creation failed: ERROR:  database "mydb" already exists

How to code a BAT file to always run as admin mode?

  1. My experimenting indicates that the runas command must include the admin user's domain (at least it does in my organization's environmental setup):

    runas /user:AdminDomain\AdminUserName ExampleScript.bat
    

    If you don’t already know the admin user's domain, run an instance of Command Prompt as the admin user, and enter the following command:

    echo %userdomain%
    
  2. The answers provided by both Kerrek SB and Ed Greaves will execute the target file under the admin user but, if the file is a Command script (.bat file) or VB script (.vbs file) which attempts to operate on the normal-login user’s environment (such as changing registry entries), you may not get the desired results because the environment under which the script actually runs will be that of the admin user, not the normal-login user! For example, if the file is a script that operates on the registry’s HKEY_CURRENT_USER hive, the affected “current-user” will be the admin user, not the normal-login user.

angular 2 how to return data from subscribe

You just can't return the value directly because it is an async call. An async call means it is running in the background (actually scheduled for later execution) while your code continues to execute.

You also can't have such code in the class directly. It needs to be moved into a method or the constructor.

What you can do is not to subscribe() directly but use an operator like map()

export class DataComponent{
    someMethod() {
      return this.http.get(path).map(res => {
        return res.json();
      });
    }
}

In addition, you can combine multiple .map with the same Observables as sometimes this improves code clarity and keeps things separate. Example:

validateResponse = (response) => validate(response);

parseJson = (json) => JSON.parse(json);

fetchUnits() {
    return this.http.get(requestUrl).map(this.validateResponse).map(this.parseJson);
}

This way an observable will be return the caller can subscribe to

export class DataComponent{
    someMethod() {
      return this.http.get(path).map(res => {
        return res.json();
      });
    }

    otherMethod() {
      this.someMethod().subscribe(data => this.data = data);
    }
}

The caller can also be in another class. Here it's just for brevity.

data => this.data = data

and

res => return res.json()

are arrow functions. They are similar to normal functions. These functions are passed to subscribe(...) or map(...) to be called from the observable when data arrives from the response. This is why data can't be returned directly, because when someMethod() is completed, the data wasn't received yet.

Complex nesting of partials and templates

I too was struggling with nested views in Angular.

Once I got a hold of ui-router I knew I was never going back to angular default routing functionality.

Here is an example application that uses multiple levels of views nesting

app.config(function ($stateProvider, $urlRouterProvider,$httpProvider) {
// navigate to view1 view by default
$urlRouterProvider.otherwise("/view1");

$stateProvider
    .state('view1', {
        url: '/view1',
        templateUrl: 'partials/view1.html',
        controller: 'view1.MainController'
    })
    .state('view1.nestedViews', {
        url: '/view1',
        views: {
            'childView1': { templateUrl: 'partials/view1.childView1.html' , controller: 'childView1Ctrl'},
            'childView2': { templateUrl: 'partials/view1.childView2.html', controller: 'childView2Ctrl' },
            'childView3': { templateUrl: 'partials/view1.childView3.html', controller: 'childView3Ctrl' }
        }
    })

    .state('view2', {
        url: '/view2',
    })

    .state('view3', {
        url: '/view3',
    })

    .state('view4', {
        url: '/view4',
    });
});

As it can be seen there are 4 main views (view1,view2,view3,view4) and view1 has 3 child views.

how to get data from selected row from datagridview

I was having the same issue and this works excellently.

Private Sub DataGridView17_CellFormatting(sender As Object, e As System.Windows.Forms.DataGridViewCellFormattingEventArgs) Handles DataGridView17.CellFormatting  
  'Display complete contents in tooltip even though column display cuts off part of it.   
  DataGridView17.Rows(e.RowIndex).Cells(e.ColumnIndex).ToolTipText = DataGridView17.Rows(e.RowIndex).Cells(e.ColumnIndex).Value 
End Sub

How do you display code snippets in MS Word preserving format and syntax highlighting?

If you already have the document created with plenty of code snippets in it and you are racing against time (as I unfortunately was). Save the file as a .doc as opposed to .docx and voila! Worked for me. Phew!

NOTE: Obviously your document can't have fancy features from > word 2007.

NOTE 2: File size becomes bigger if this is a concern to you.

How do you dynamically add elements to a ListView on Android?

The short answer: when you create a ListView you pass it a reference to the data. Now, whenever this data will be altered, it will affect the list view and thus add the item to it, after you'll call adapter.notifyDataSetChanged();.

If you're using a RecyclerView, update only the last element (if you've added it at the end of the list of objs) to save memory with: mAdapter.notifyItemInserted(mItems.size() - 1);

Difference between break and continue in PHP?

For the Record:

Note that in PHP the switch statement is considered a looping structure for the purposes of continue.

update package.json version automatically

npm version is probably the correct answer. Just to give an alternative I recommend grunt-bump. It is maintained by one of the guys from angular.js.

Usage:

grunt bump
>> Version bumped to 0.0.2

grunt bump:patch
>> Version bumped to 0.0.3

grunt bump:minor
>> Version bumped to 0.1.0

grunt bump
>> Version bumped to 0.1.1

grunt bump:major
>> Version bumped to 1.0.0

If you're using grunt anyway it might be the simplest solution.

How to replace part of string by position?

With the help of this post, I create following function with additional length checks

public string ReplaceStringByIndex(string original, string replaceWith, int replaceIndex)
{
    if (original.Length >= (replaceIndex + replaceWith.Length))
    {
        StringBuilder rev = new StringBuilder(original);
        rev.Remove(replaceIndex, replaceWith.Length);
        rev.Insert(replaceIndex, replaceWith);
        return rev.ToString();
    }
    else
    {
        throw new Exception("Wrong lengths for the operation");
    }
}

Get content of a cell given the row and column numbers

Try =index(ARRAY, ROW, COLUMN)

where: Array: select the whole sheet Row, Column: Your row and column references

That should be easier to understand to those looking at the formula.

Python: Assign Value if None Exists

One-liner solution here:

var1 = locals().get("var1", "default value")

Instead of having NameError, this solution will set var1 to default value if var1 hasn't been defined yet.

Here's how it looks like in Python interactive shell:

>>> var1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'var1' is not defined
>>> var1 = locals().get("var1", "default value 1")
>>> var1
'default value 1'
>>> var1 = locals().get("var1", "default value 2")
>>> var1
'default value 1'
>>>

Python interpreter error, x takes no arguments (1 given)

Python implicitly passes the object to method calls, but you need to explicitly declare the parameter for it. This is customarily named self:

def updateVelocity(self):

Position: absolute and parent height?

You can do that with a grid:

article {
    display: grid;
}

.one {
    grid-area: 1 / 1 / 2 / 2;
}

.two {
    grid-area: 1 / 1 / 2 / 2;
}

The SMTP server requires a secure connection or the client was not authenticated. The server response was: 5.5.1 Authentication Required?

Try to login in your gmail account. it gets locked if you send emails by using gmail SMTP. I don't know the limit of emails you can send before it gets locked but if you login one time then it works again from code. make sure your webconfig setting are good.

Android. WebView and loadData

I have this problem, but:

String content = "<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" /></head><body>";
content += mydata + "</body></html>";
WebView1.loadData(content, "text/html", "UTF-8");

not work in all devices. And I merge some methods:

String content = 
       "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" ?>"+
       "<html><head>"+
       "<meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />"+
       "</head><body>";

content += myContent + "</body></html>";

WebView WebView1 = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webView1);
WebView1.loadData(content, "text/html; charset=utf-8", "UTF-8");

It works.

Node.js: get path from the request

simply call req.url. that should do the work. you'll get something like /something?bla=foo

Swift: Reload a View Controller

You shouldn't call viewDidLoad method manually, Instead if you want to reload any data or any UI, you can use this:

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad();

    let myButton = UIButton()

    // When user touch myButton, we're going to call loadData method
    myButton.addTarget(self, action: #selector(self.loadData), forControlEvents: .TouchUpInside)

    // Load the data
    self.loadData();
}

func loadData() {
    // code to load data from network, and refresh the interface
    tableView.reloadData()
}

Whenever you want to reload the data and refresh the interface, you can call self.loadData()

Pipe subprocess standard output to a variable

To get the output of ls, use stdout=subprocess.PIPE.

>>> proc = subprocess.Popen('ls', stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
>>> output = proc.stdout.read()
>>> print output
bar
baz
foo

The command cdrecord --help outputs to stderr, so you need to pipe that indstead. You should also break up the command into a list of tokens as I've done below, or the alternative is to pass the shell=True argument but this fires up a fully-blown shell which can be dangerous if you don't control the contents of the command string.

>>> proc = subprocess.Popen(['cdrecord', '--help'], stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
>>> output = proc.stderr.read()
>>> print output
Usage: wodim [options] track1...trackn
Options:
    -version    print version information and exit
    dev=target  SCSI target to use as CD/DVD-Recorder
    gracetime=# set the grace time before starting to write to #.
...

If you have a command that outputs to both stdout and stderr and you want to merge them, you can do that by piping stderr to stdout and then catching stdout.

subprocess.Popen(cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)

As mentioned by Chris Morgan, you should be using proc.communicate() instead of proc.read().

>>> proc = subprocess.Popen(['cdrecord', '--help'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)
>>> out, err = proc.communicate()
>>> print 'stdout:', out
stdout: 
>>> print 'stderr:', err
stderr:Usage: wodim [options] track1...trackn
Options:
    -version    print version information and exit
    dev=target  SCSI target to use as CD/DVD-Recorder
    gracetime=# set the grace time before starting to write to #.
...

React.js: How to append a component on click?

Don't use jQuery to manipulate the DOM when you're using React. React components should render a representation of what they should look like given a certain state; what DOM that translates to is taken care of by React itself.

What you want to do is store the "state which determines what gets rendered" higher up the chain, and pass it down. If you are rendering n children, that state should be "owned" by whatever contains your component. eg:

class AppComponent extends React.Component {
  state = {
    numChildren: 0
  }

  render () {
    const children = [];

    for (var i = 0; i < this.state.numChildren; i += 1) {
      children.push(<ChildComponent key={i} number={i} />);
    };

    return (
      <ParentComponent addChild={this.onAddChild}>
        {children}
      </ParentComponent>
    );
  }

  onAddChild = () => {
    this.setState({
      numChildren: this.state.numChildren + 1
    });
  }
}

const ParentComponent = props => (
  <div className="card calculator">
    <p><a href="#" onClick={props.addChild}>Add Another Child Component</a></p>
    <div id="children-pane">
      {props.children}
    </div>
  </div>
);

const ChildComponent = props => <div>{"I am child " + props.number}</div>;

How do I make a C++ console program exit?

exit(0); // at the end of main function before closing curly braces

Force div element to stay in same place, when page is scrolled

Use position: fixed instead of position: absolute.

See here.

Is it possible to specify a different ssh port when using rsync?

Another option, in the host you run rsync from, set the port in the ssh config file, ie:

cat ~/.ssh/config
Host host
    Port 2222

Then rsync over ssh will talk to port 2222:

rsync -rvz --progress --remove-sent-files ./dir user@host:/path

How to deal with SQL column names that look like SQL keywords?

If it had been in PostgreSQL, use double quotes around the name, like:

select "from" from "table";

Note: Internally PostgreSQL automatically converts all unquoted commands and parameters to lower case. That have the effect that commands and identifiers aren't case sensitive. sEleCt * from tAblE; is interpreted as select * from table;. However, parameters inside double quotes are used as is, and therefore ARE case sensitive: select * from "table"; and select * from "Table"; gets the result from two different tables.

Print content of JavaScript object?

Javascript for all!

String.prototype.repeat = function(num) {
    if (num < 0) {
        return '';
    } else {
        return new Array(num + 1).join(this);
    }
};

function is_defined(x) {
    return typeof x !== 'undefined';
}

function is_object(x) {
    return Object.prototype.toString.call(x) === "[object Object]";
}

function is_array(x) {
    return Object.prototype.toString.call(x) === "[object Array]";
}

/**
 * Main.
 */
function xlog(v, label) {
    var tab = 0;

    var rt = function() {
        return '    '.repeat(tab);
    };

    // Log Fn
    var lg = function(x) {
        // Limit
        if (tab > 10) return '[...]';
        var r = '';
        if (!is_defined(x)) {
            r = '[VAR: UNDEFINED]';
        } else if (x === '') {
            r = '[VAR: EMPTY STRING]';
        } else if (is_array(x)) {
            r = '[\n';
            tab++;
            for (var k in x) {
                r += rt() + k + ' : ' + lg(x[k]) + ',\n';
            }
            tab--;
            r += rt() + ']';
        } else if (is_object(x)) {
            r = '{\n';
            tab++;
            for (var k in x) {
                r += rt() + k + ' : ' + lg(x[k]) + ',\n';
            }
            tab--;
            r += rt() + '}';
        } else {
            r = x;
        }
        return r;
    };

    // Space
    document.write('\n\n');

    // Log
    document.write('< ' + (is_defined(label) ? (label + ' ') : '') + Object.prototype.toString.call(v) + ' >\n' + lg(v));
};



// Demo //

var o = {
    'aaa' : 123,
    'bbb' : 'zzzz',
    'o' : {
        'obj1' : 'val1',
        'obj2' : 'val2',
        'obj3' : [1, 3, 5, 6],
        'obj4' : {
            'a' : 'aaaa',
            'b' : null
        }
    },
    'a' : [ 'asd', 123, false, true ],
    'func' : function() {
        alert('test');
    },
    'fff' : false,
    't' : true,
    'nnn' : null
};

xlog(o, 'Object'); // With label
xlog(o); // Without label

xlog(['asd', 'bbb', 123, true], 'ARRAY Title!');

var no_definido;
xlog(no_definido, 'Undefined!');

xlog(true);

xlog('', 'Empty String');

How can one display images side by side in a GitHub README.md?

If, like me, you found that @wiggin answer didn't work and images still did not appear in-line, you can use the 'align' property of the html image tag and some breaks to achieve the desired effect, for example:

# Title

<img align="left" src="./documentation/images/A.jpg" alt="Made with Angular" title="Angular" hspace="20"/>
<img align="left" src="./documentation/images/B.png" alt="Made with Bootstrap" title="Bootstrap" hspace="20"/>
<img align="left" src="./documentation/images/C.png" alt="Developed using Browsersync" title="Browsersync" hspace="20"/>
<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>

## Table of Contents...

Obviously, you have to use more breaks depending on how big the images are: awful yes, but it worked for me so I thought I'd share.

Limiting double to 3 decimal places

If your purpose in truncating the digits is for display reasons, then you just just use an appropriate formatting when you convert the double to a string.

Methods like String.Format() and Console.WriteLine() (and others) allow you to limit the number of digits of precision a value is formatted with.

Attempting to "truncate" floating point numbers is ill advised - floating point numbers don't have a precise decimal representation in many cases. Applying an approach like scaling the number up, truncating it, and then scaling it down could easily change the value to something quite different from what you'd expected for the "truncated" value.

If you need precise decimal representations of a number you should be using decimal rather than double or float.

Get driving directions using Google Maps API v2

I just release my latest library for Google Maps Direction API on Android https://github.com/akexorcist/Android-GoogleDirectionLibrary

C# Threading - How to start and stop a thread

This is how I do it...

public class ThreadA {
    public ThreadA(object[] args) {
        ...
    }
    public void Run() {
        while (true) {
            Thread.sleep(1000); // wait 1 second for something to happen.
            doStuff();
            if(conditionToExitReceived) // what im waiting for...
                break;
        }
        //perform cleanup if there is any...
    }
}

Then to run this in its own thread... ( I do it this way because I also want to send args to the thread)

private void FireThread(){
    Thread thread = new Thread(new ThreadStart(this.startThread));
    thread.start();
}
private void (startThread){
    new ThreadA(args).Run();
}

The thread is created by calling "FireThread()"

The newly created thread will run until its condition to stop is met, then it dies...

You can signal the "main" with delegates, to tell it when the thread has died.. so you can then start the second one...

Best to read through : This MSDN Article

How to position one element relative to another with jQuery?

You can use the jQuery plugin PositionCalculator

That plugin has also included collision handling (flip), so the toolbar-like menu can be placed at a visible position.

$(".placeholder").on('mouseover', function() {
    var $menu = $("#menu").show();// result for hidden element would be incorrect
    var pos = $.PositionCalculator( {
        target: this,
        targetAt: "top right",
        item: $menu,
        itemAt: "top left",
        flip: "both"
    }).calculate();

    $menu.css({
        top: parseInt($menu.css('top')) + pos.moveBy.y + "px",
        left: parseInt($menu.css('left')) + pos.moveBy.x + "px"
    });
});

for that markup:

<ul class="popup" id="menu">
    <li>Menu item</li>
    <li>Menu item</li>
    <li>Menu item</li>
</ul>

<div class="placeholder">placeholder 1</div>
<div class="placeholder">placeholder 2</div>

Here is the fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/QrrpB/1657/

How to check if a string is a valid JSON string in JavaScript without using Try/Catch

Maybe it will useful:

    function parseJson(code)
{
    try {
        return JSON.parse(code);
    } catch (e) {
        return code;
    }
}
function parseJsonJQ(code)
{
    try {
        return $.parseJSON(code);
    } catch (e) {
        return code;
    }
}

var str =  "{\"a\":1,\"b\":2,\"c\":3,\"d\":4,\"e\":5}";
alert(typeof parseJson(str));
alert(typeof parseJsonJQ(str));
var str_b  = "c";
alert(typeof parseJson(str_b));
alert(typeof parseJsonJQ(str_b));

output:

IE7: string,object,string,string

CHROME: object,object,string,string

How to get a vCard (.vcf file) into Android contacts from website

I had problems with importing a VERSION:4.0 vcard file on Android 7 (LineageOS) with the standard Contacts app.

Since this is on the top search hits for "android vcard format not supported", I just wanted to note that I was able to import them with the Simple Contacts app (Play or F-Droid).

Moment js date time comparison

var startDate = moment(startDateVal, "DD.MM.YYYY");//Date format
var endDate = moment(endDateVal, "DD.MM.YYYY");

var isAfter = moment(startDate).isAfter(endDate);

if (isAfter) {
    window.showErrorMessage("Error Message");
    $(elements.endDate).focus();
    return false;
}

How can I execute PHP code from the command line?

You can use:

 echo '<?php if(function_exists("my_func")) echo "function exists"; ' | php

The short tag "< ?=" can be helpful too:

 echo '<?= function_exists("foo") ? "yes" : "no";' | php
 echo '<?= 8+7+9 ;' | php

The closing tag "?>" is optional, but don't forget the final ";"!

Angular 2: import external js file into component

For .js files that expose more than one variable (unlike drawGauge), a better solution would be to set the Typescript compiler to process .js files.

In your tsconfig.json, set allowJs option to true:

"compilerOptions": {
     ...
    "allowJs": true,
     ...
}

Otherwise, you'll have to declare each and every variable in either your component.ts or d.ts.

generate random double numbers in c++

This solution requires C++11 (or TR1).

#include <random>

int main()
{
   double lower_bound = 0;
   double upper_bound = 10000;
   std::uniform_real_distribution<double> unif(lower_bound,upper_bound);
   std::default_random_engine re;
   double a_random_double = unif(re);

   return 0;
}

For more details see John D. Cook's "Random number generation using C++ TR1".

See also Stroustrup's "Random number generation".

reading HttpwebResponse json response, C#

First you need an object

public class MyObject {
  public string Id {get;set;}
  public string Text {get;set;}
  ...
}

Then in here

    using (var twitpicResponse = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse()) {

        using (var reader = new StreamReader(twitpicResponse.GetResponseStream())) {
            JavaScriptSerializer js = new JavaScriptSerializer();
            var objText = reader.ReadToEnd();
            MyObject myojb = (MyObject)js.Deserialize(objText,typeof(MyObject));
        }

    }

I haven't tested with the hierarchical object you have, but this should give you access to the properties you want.

JavaScriptSerializer System.Web.Script.Serialization

Jquery Smooth Scroll To DIV - Using ID value from Link

Ids are meant to be unique, and never use an id that starts with a number, use data-attributes instead to set the target like so :

<div id="searchbycharacter">
    <a class="searchbychar" href="#" data-target="numeric">0-9 |</a> 
    <a class="searchbychar" href="#" data-target="A"> A |</a> 
    <a class="searchbychar" href="#" data-target="B"> B |</a> 
    <a class="searchbychar" href="#" data-target="C"> C |</a> 
    ... Untill Z
</div>

As for the jquery :

$(document).on('click','.searchbychar', function(event) {
    event.preventDefault();
    var target = "#" + this.getAttribute('data-target');
    $('html, body').animate({
        scrollTop: $(target).offset().top
    }, 2000);
});

Best solution to protect PHP code without encryption

in my opinion is, but just in case if your php code program is written for standalone model... best solutions is c) You could wrap the php in a container like Phalanger (.NET). as everyone knows it's bind tightly to the system especially if your program is intended for windows users. you just can make your own protection algorithm in windows programming language like .NET/VB/C# or whatever you know in .NET prog.lang.family sets.

Replace text inside td using jQuery having td containing other elements

Wrap your to be deleted contents within a ptag, then you can do something like this:

$(function(){
  $("td").click(function(){ console.log($("td").find("p"));
    $("td").find("p").remove();    });
});

FIDDLE DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/y3p2F/

I just assigned a variable, but echo $variable shows something else

In addition to other issues caused by failing to quote, -n and -e can be consumed by echo as arguments. (Only the former is legal per the POSIX spec for echo, but several common implementations violate the spec and consume -e as well).

To avoid this, use printf instead of echo when details matter.

Thus:

$ vars="-e -n -a"
$ echo $vars      # breaks because -e and -n can be treated as arguments to echo
-a
$ echo "$vars"
-e -n -a

However, correct quoting won't always save you when using echo:

$ vars="-n"
$ echo $vars
$ ## not even an empty line was printed

...whereas it will save you with printf:

$ vars="-n"
$ printf '%s\n' "$vars"
-n

Can you have multiple $(document).ready(function(){ ... }); sections?

It's legal, but sometimes it cause undesired behaviour. As an Example I used the MagicSuggest library and added two MagicSuggest inputs in a page of my project and used seperate document ready functions for each initializations of inputs. The very first Input initialization worked, but not the second one and also not giving any error, Second Input didn't show up. So, I always recommend to use one Document Ready Function.

QUERY syntax using cell reference

I know this is an old thread but I had the same question as the OP and found the answer:

You are nearly there, the way you can include cell references in query language is to wrap the entire thing in speech marks. Because the whole query is written in speech marks you will need to alternate between ' and " as shown below.

What you would need is this:

=QUERY(Responses!B1:I, "Select B where G contains '"& B1 &"' ")

If you then wanted to refer to multiple cells you could add more like this

=QUERY(Responses!B1:I, "Select B where G contains '"& B1 &"' and G contains '"& B2 &"' ")

The above would filter down your results further based on the contents of B1 and B2.

Print empty line?

This is are other ways of printing empty lines in python

# using \n after the string creates an empty line after this string is passed to the the terminal.
print("We need to put about", average_passengers_per_car, "in each car. \n") 
print("\n") #prints 2 empty lines 
print() #prints 1 empty line 

How to get root view controller?

Swift way to do it, you can call this from anywhere, it returns optional so watch out about that:

/// EZSwiftExtensions - Gives you the VC on top so you can easily push your popups
var topMostVC: UIViewController? {
    var presentedVC = UIApplication.sharedApplication().keyWindow?.rootViewController
    while let pVC = presentedVC?.presentedViewController {
        presentedVC = pVC
    }

    if presentedVC == nil {
        print("EZSwiftExtensions Error: You don't have any views set. You may be calling them in viewDidLoad. Try viewDidAppear instead.")
    }
    return presentedVC
}

Its included as a standard function in:

https://github.com/goktugyil/EZSwiftExtensions

How to query as GROUP BY in django?

Django does not support free group by queries. I learned it in the very bad way. ORM is not designed to support stuff like what you want to do, without using custom SQL. You are limited to:

  • RAW sql (i.e. MyModel.objects.raw())
  • cr.execute sentences (and a hand-made parsing of the result).
  • .annotate() (the group by sentences are performed in the child model for .annotate(), in examples like aggregating lines_count=Count('lines'))).

Over a queryset qs you can call qs.query.group_by = ['field1', 'field2', ...] but it is risky if you don't know what query are you editing and have no guarantee that it will work and not break internals of the QuerySet object. Besides, it is an internal (undocumented) API you should not access directly without risking the code not being anymore compatible with future Django versions.

convert a JavaScript string variable to decimal/money

You can also use the Number constructor/function (no need for a radix and usable for both integers and floats):

Number('09'); /=> 9
Number('09.0987'); /=> 9.0987

Alternatively like Andy E said in the comments you can use + for conversion

+'09'; /=> 9
+'09.0987'; /=> 9.0987

Using atan2 to find angle between two vectors

You don't have to use atan2 to calculate the angle between two vectors. If you just want the quickest way, you can use dot(v1, v2)=|v1|*|v2|*cos A to get

A = Math.acos( dot(v1, v2)/(v1.length()*v2.length()) );

How to convert std::string to lower case?

Using range-based for loop of C++11 a simpler code would be :

#include <iostream>       // std::cout
#include <string>         // std::string
#include <locale>         // std::locale, std::tolower

int main ()
{
  std::locale loc;
  std::string str="Test String.\n";

 for(auto elem : str)
    std::cout << std::tolower(elem,loc);
}

How to implement a queue using two stacks?

Below is the solution in javascript language using ES6 syntax.

Stack.js

//stack using array
class Stack {
  constructor() {
    this.data = [];
  }

  push(data) {
    this.data.push(data);
  }

  pop() {
    return this.data.pop();
  }

  peek() {
    return this.data[this.data.length - 1];
  }

  size(){
    return this.data.length;
  }
}

export { Stack };

QueueUsingTwoStacks.js

import { Stack } from "./Stack";

class QueueUsingTwoStacks {
  constructor() {
    this.stack1 = new Stack();
    this.stack2 = new Stack();
  }

  enqueue(data) {
    this.stack1.push(data);
  }

  dequeue() {
    //if both stacks are empty, return undefined
    if (this.stack1.size() === 0 && this.stack2.size() === 0)
      return undefined;

    //if stack2 is empty, pop all elements from stack1 to stack2 till stack1 is empty
    if (this.stack2.size() === 0) {
      while (this.stack1.size() !== 0) {
        this.stack2.push(this.stack1.pop());
      }
    }

    //pop and return the element from stack 2
    return this.stack2.pop();
  }
}

export { QueueUsingTwoStacks };

Below is the usage:

index.js

import { StackUsingTwoQueues } from './StackUsingTwoQueues';

let que = new QueueUsingTwoStacks();
que.enqueue("A");
que.enqueue("B");
que.enqueue("C");

console.log(que.dequeue());  //output: "A"

What exactly is the difference between Web API and REST API in MVC?

ASP.NET Web API is a framework that makes it easy to build HTTP services that reach a broad range of clients, including browsers and mobile devices. ASP.NET Web API is an ideal platform for building RESTful applications on the .NET Framework.

REST

RESTs sweet spot is when you are exposing a public API over the internet to handle CRUD operations on data. REST is focused on accessing named resources through a single consistent interface.

SOAP

SOAP brings it’s own protocol and focuses on exposing pieces of application logic (not data) as services. SOAP exposes operations. SOAP is focused on accessing named operations, each implement some business logic through different interfaces.

Though SOAP is commonly referred to as “web services” this is a misnomer. SOAP has very little if anything to do with the Web. REST provides true “Web services” based on URIs and HTTP.

Reference: http://spf13.com/post/soap-vs-rest

And finally: What they could be referring to is REST vs. RPC See this: http://encosia.com/rest-vs-rpc-in-asp-net-web-api-who-cares-it-does-both/

How do I prevent Conda from activating the base environment by default?

To disable auto activation of conda base environment in terminal:

conda config --set auto_activate_base false

To activate conda base environment:

conda activate

Best way to pretty print a hash

require 'pp'
pp my_hash

Use pp if you need a built-in solution and just want reasonable line breaks.

Use awesome_print if you can install a gem. (Depending on your users, you may wish to use the index:false option to turn off displaying array indices.)

C++ "Access violation reading location" Error

You haven't posted the findvertex method, but Access Reading Violation with an offset like 0x00000048 means that the Vertex* f; in your getCost function is receiving null, and when trying to access the member adj in the null Vertex pointer (that is, in f), it is offsetting to adj (in this case, 72 bytes ( 0x48 bytes in decimal )), it's reading near the 0 or null memory address.

Doing a read like this violates Operating-System protected memory, and more importantly means whatever you're pointing at isn't a valid pointer. Make sure findvertex isn't returning null, or do a comparisong for null on f before using it to keep yourself sane (or use an assert):

assert( f != null ); // A good sanity check

EDIT:

If you have a map for doing something like a find, you can just use the map's find method to make sure the vertex exists:

Vertex* Graph::findvertex(string s)
{
    vmap::iterator itr = map1.find( s );
    if ( itr == map1.end() )
    {
        return NULL;
    }
    return itr->second;
}

Just make sure you're still careful to handle the error case where it does return NULL. Otherwise, you'll keep getting this access violation.

What is the difference between static_cast<> and C style casting?

Since there are many different kinds of casting each with different semantics, static_cast<> allows you to say "I'm doing a legal conversion from one type to another" like from int to double. A plain C-style cast can mean a lot of things. Are you up/down casting? Are you reinterpreting a pointer?

Get current date in milliseconds

There are several ways of doing this, although my personal favorite is:

CFAbsoluteTime timeInSeconds = CFAbsoluteTimeGetCurrent();

You can read more about this method here. You can also create a NSDate object and get time by calling timeIntervalSince1970 which returns the seconds since 1/1/1970:

NSTimeInterval timeInSeconds = [[NSDate date] timeIntervalSince1970];

And in Swift:

let timeInSeconds: TimeInterval = Date().timeIntervalSince1970

Order columns through Bootstrap4

This can also be achieved with the CSS "Order" property and a media query.

Something like this:

@media only screen and (max-width: 768px) {
    #first {
        order: 2;
    }
    #second {
        order: 4;
    }
    #third {
        order: 1;
    }
    #fourth {
        order: 3;
    }
}

CodePen Link: https://codepen.io/preston206/pen/EwrXqm

Offline Speech Recognition In Android (JellyBean)

Working example is given below,

MyService.class

public class MyService extends Service implements SpeechDelegate, Speech.stopDueToDelay {

  public static SpeechDelegate delegate;

  @Override
  public int onStartCommand(Intent intent, int flags, int startId) {
    //TODO do something useful
    try {
      if (VERSION.SDK_INT >= VERSION_CODES.KITKAT) {
        ((AudioManager) Objects.requireNonNull(
          getSystemService(Context.AUDIO_SERVICE))).setStreamMute(AudioManager.STREAM_SYSTEM, true);
      }
    } catch (Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }

    Speech.init(this);
    delegate = this;
    Speech.getInstance().setListener(this);

    if (Speech.getInstance().isListening()) {
      Speech.getInstance().stopListening();
    } else {
      System.setProperty("rx.unsafe-disable", "True");
      RxPermissions.getInstance(this).request(permission.RECORD_AUDIO).subscribe(granted -> {
        if (granted) { // Always true pre-M
          try {
            Speech.getInstance().stopTextToSpeech();
            Speech.getInstance().startListening(null, this);
          } catch (SpeechRecognitionNotAvailable exc) {
            //showSpeechNotSupportedDialog();

          } catch (GoogleVoiceTypingDisabledException exc) {
            //showEnableGoogleVoiceTyping();
          }
        } else {
          Toast.makeText(this, R.string.permission_required, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        }
      });
    }
    return Service.START_STICKY;
  }

  @Override
  public IBinder onBind(Intent intent) {
    //TODO for communication return IBinder implementation
    return null;
  }

  @Override
  public void onStartOfSpeech() {
  }

  @Override
  public void onSpeechRmsChanged(float value) {

  }

  @Override
  public void onSpeechPartialResults(List<String> results) {
    for (String partial : results) {
      Log.d("Result", partial+"");
    }
  }

  @Override
  public void onSpeechResult(String result) {
    Log.d("Result", result+"");
    if (!TextUtils.isEmpty(result)) {
      Toast.makeText(this, result, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }
  }

  @Override
  public void onSpecifiedCommandPronounced(String event) {
    try {
      if (VERSION.SDK_INT >= VERSION_CODES.KITKAT) {
        ((AudioManager) Objects.requireNonNull(
          getSystemService(Context.AUDIO_SERVICE))).setStreamMute(AudioManager.STREAM_SYSTEM, true);
      }
    } catch (Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
    }
    if (Speech.getInstance().isListening()) {
      Speech.getInstance().stopListening();
    } else {
      RxPermissions.getInstance(this).request(permission.RECORD_AUDIO).subscribe(granted -> {
        if (granted) { // Always true pre-M
          try {
            Speech.getInstance().stopTextToSpeech();
            Speech.getInstance().startListening(null, this);
          } catch (SpeechRecognitionNotAvailable exc) {
            //showSpeechNotSupportedDialog();

          } catch (GoogleVoiceTypingDisabledException exc) {
            //showEnableGoogleVoiceTyping();
          }
        } else {
          Toast.makeText(this, R.string.permission_required, Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
        }
      });
    }
  }


  @Override
  public void onTaskRemoved(Intent rootIntent) {
    //Restarting the service if it is removed.
    PendingIntent service =
      PendingIntent.getService(getApplicationContext(), new Random().nextInt(),
        new Intent(getApplicationContext(), MyService.class), PendingIntent.FLAG_ONE_SHOT);

    AlarmManager alarmManager = (AlarmManager) getSystemService(Context.ALARM_SERVICE);
    assert alarmManager != null;
    alarmManager.set(AlarmManager.ELAPSED_REALTIME_WAKEUP, 1000, service);
    super.onTaskRemoved(rootIntent);
  }
}

For more details,

https://github.com/sachinvarma/Speech-Recognizer

Hope this will help someone in future.

How to copy and paste code without rich text formatting?

I usually work with Notepad2, all the text I copy from the web are pasted there and then reused, that allows me to clean it (from format and make modifications).

You can download Notepad2 here

SQL Server : Transpose rows to columns

Another option that may be suitable in this situation is using XML

The XML option to transposing rows into columns is basically an optimal version of the PIVOT in that it addresses the dynamic column limitation. 

The XML version of the script addresses this limitation by using a combination of XML Path, dynamic T-SQL and some built-in functions (i.e. STUFF, QUOTENAME).

Vertical expansion

Similar to the PIVOT and the Cursor, newly added policies are able to be retrieved in the XML version of the script without altering the original script.

Horizontal expansion

Unlike the PIVOT, newly added documents can be displayed without altering the script.

Performance breakdown

In terms of IO, the statistics of the XML version of the script is almost similar to the PIVOT – the only difference is that the XML has a second scan of dtTranspose table but this time from a logical read – data cache.

You can find some more about these solutions (including some actual T-SQL exmaples) in this article: https://www.sqlshack.com/multiple-options-to-transposing-rows-into-columns/

OVER clause in Oracle

You can use it to transform some aggregate functions into analytic:

SELECT  MAX(date)
FROM    mytable

will return 1 row with a single maximum,

SELECT  MAX(date) OVER (ORDER BY id)
FROM    mytable

will return all rows with a running maximum.

how to fix the issue "Command /bin/sh failed with exit code 1" in iphone

I had same issue got it fixed. Use below steps to resolve issue in Xcode 6.4.

  1. Click on Show project navigator in Navigator window
  2. Now Select project immediately below navigator window
  3. Select Targets
  4. Select Build Phases tab
  5. Open Run Script drop-down option
  6. Select Run script only when installing checkbox

Screenshot for steps

Now, clean your project (cmd+shift+k) and build your project.

jquery toggle slide from left to right and back

See this: Demo

$('#cat_icon,.panel_title').click(function () {
   $('#categories,#cat_icon').stop().slideToggle('slow');
});

Update : To slide from left to right: Demo2

Note: Second one uses jquery-ui also

Java error: Only a type can be imported. XYZ resolves to a package

generate .class file separate and paste it into relevant package into the workspace. Refresh Project.

Python TypeError must be str not int

Python comes with numerous ways of formatting strings:

New style .format(), which supports a rich formatting mini-language:

>>> temperature = 10
>>> print("the furnace is now {} degrees!".format(temperature))
the furnace is now 10 degrees!

Old style % format specifier:

>>> print("the furnace is now %d degrees!" % temperature)
the furnace is now 10 degrees!

In Py 3.6 using the new f"" format strings:

>>> print(f"the furnace is now {temperature} degrees!")
the furnace is now 10 degrees!

Or using print()s default separator:

>>> print("the furnace is now", temperature, "degrees!")
the furnace is now 10 degrees!

And least effectively, construct a new string by casting it to a str() and concatenating:

>>> print("the furnace is now " + str(temperature) + " degrees!")
the furnace is now 10 degrees!

Or join()ing it:

>>> print(' '.join(["the furnace is now", str(temperature), "degrees!"]))
the furnace is now 10 degrees!

How to make a form close when pressing the escape key?

Paste this code into the "On Key Down" Property of your form, also make sure you set "Key Preview" Property to "Yes".

If KeyCode = vbKeyEscape Then DoCmd.Close acForm, "YOUR FORM NAME"

How to drop a list of rows from Pandas dataframe?

Use only the Index arg to drop row:-

df.drop(index = 2, inplace = True)

For multiple rows:-

df.drop(index=[1,3], inplace = True)

Measuring Query Performance : "Execution Plan Query Cost" vs "Time Taken"

Query Execution Time:

DECLARE @EndTime datetime
DECLARE @StartTime datetime 
SELECT @StartTime=GETDATE() 


` -- Write Your Query`

SELECT @EndTime=GETDATE()
--This will return execution time of your query
SELECT DATEDIFF(MILLISECOND,@StartTime,@EndTime) AS [Duration in millisecs] 

Query Out Put Will be Like:

enter image description here

To Optimize Query Cost :

Click on your SQL Management Studio

enter image description here

Run your query and click on Execution plan beside the Messages tab of your query result. you will see like

enter image description here

How to display images from a folder using php - PHP

You have two ways to do that:

METHOD 1. The secure way.

Put the images on /www/htdocs/

<?php
    $www_root = 'http://localhost/images';
    $dir = '/var/www/images';
    $file_display = array('jpg', 'jpeg', 'png', 'gif');

    if ( file_exists( $dir ) == false ) {
       echo 'Directory \'', $dir, '\' not found!';
    } else {
       $dir_contents = scandir( $dir );

        foreach ( $dir_contents as $file ) {
           $file_type = strtolower( end( explode('.', $file ) ) );
           if ( ($file !== '.') && ($file !== '..') && (in_array( $file_type, $file_display)) ) {
              echo '<img src="', $www_root, '/', $file, '" alt="', $file, '"/>';
           break;
           }
        }
    }
?>

METHOD 2. Unsecure but more flexible.

Put the images on any directory (apache must have permission to read the file).

<?php
    $dir = '/home/user/Pictures';
    $file_display = array('jpg', 'jpeg', 'png', 'gif');

    if ( file_exists( $dir ) == false ) {
       echo 'Directory \'', $dir, '\' not found!';
    } else {
       $dir_contents = scandir( $dir );

        foreach ( $dir_contents as $file ) {
           $file_type = strtolower( end( explode('.', $file ) ) );
           if ( ($file !== '.') && ($file !== '..') && (in_array( $file_type, $file_display)) ) {
              echo '<img src="file_viewer.php?file=', base64_encode($dir . '/' . $file), '" alt="', $file, '"/>';
           break;
           }
        }
    }
?>

And create another script to read the image file.

<?php
    $filename = base64_decode($_GET['file']);
    // Check the folder location to avoid exploit
    if (dirname($filename) == '/home/user/Pictures')
        echo file_get_contents($filename);
?>

How to get URI from an asset File?

Worked for me Try this code

   uri = Uri.fromFile(new File("//assets/testdemo.txt"));
   String testfilepath = uri.getPath();
    File f = new File(testfilepath);
    if (f.exists() == true) {
    Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"valid :" + testfilepath, 2000).show();
    } else {
   Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),"invalid :" + testfilepath, 2000).show();
 }

Adding double quote delimiters into csv file

open powershell and run below command:

import-csv C:\Users\Documents\Weekly_Status.csv | export-csv C:\Users\Documents\Weekly_Status2.csv  -NoTypeInformation -Encoding UTF8

Extract filename and extension in Bash

You can use the magic of POSIX parameter expansion:

bash-3.2$ FILENAME=somefile.tar.gz
bash-3.2$ echo "${FILENAME%%.*}"
somefile
bash-3.2$ echo "${FILENAME%.*}"
somefile.tar

There's a caveat in that if your filename was of the form ./somefile.tar.gz then echo ${FILENAME%%.*} would greedily remove the longest match to the . and you'd have the empty string.

(You can work around that with a temporary variable:

FULL_FILENAME=$FILENAME
FILENAME=${FULL_FILENAME##*/}
echo ${FILENAME%%.*}

)


This site explains more.

${variable%pattern}
  Trim the shortest match from the end
${variable##pattern}
  Trim the longest match from the beginning
${variable%%pattern}
  Trim the longest match from the end
${variable#pattern}
  Trim the shortest match from the beginning

newline character in c# string

A great way of handling this is with regular expressions.

string modifiedString = Regex.Replace(originalString, @"(\r\n)|\n|\r", "<br/>");


This will replace any of the 3 legal types of newline with the html tag.

how to have two headings on the same line in html

The Css vertical-align property should help you out here:

vertical-align: bottom;

is what you need for your smaller header :)

Vertical-Align

MySQL vs MySQLi when using PHP

for me, prepared statements is a must-have feature. more exactly, parameter binding (which only works on prepared statements). it's the only really sane way to insert strings into SQL commands. i really don't trust the 'escaping' functions. the DB connection is a binary protocol, why use an ASCII-limited sub-protocol for parameters?

org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Premature end of file for *VALID* XML

If input stream is not closed properly then this exception may happen. make sure : If inputstream used is not used "Before" in some way then where you are intended to read. i.e if read 2nd time from same input stream in single operation then 2nd call will get this exception. Also make sure to close input stream in finally block or something like that.

I lose my data when the container exits

You need to commit the changes you make to the container and then run it. Try this:

sudo docker pull ubuntu

sudo docker run ubuntu apt-get install -y ping

Then get the container id using this command:

sudo docker ps -l

Commit changes to the container:

sudo docker commit <container_id> iman/ping 

Then run the container:

sudo docker run iman/ping ping www.google.com

This should work.

How to define a two-dimensional array?

You should make a list of lists, and the best way is to use nested comprehensions:

>>> matrix = [[0 for i in range(5)] for j in range(5)]
>>> pprint.pprint(matrix)
[[0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
 [0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
 [0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
 [0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
 [0, 0, 0, 0, 0]]

On your [5][5] example, you are creating a list with an integer "5" inside, and try to access its 5th item, and that naturally raises an IndexError because there is no 5th item:

>>> l = [5]
>>> l[5]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
IndexError: list index out of range

React - How to pass HTML tags in props?

For me It worked by passing html tag in props children

<MyComponent>This is <strong>not</strong> working.</MyComponent>


var MyComponent = React.createClass({

   render: function() {
    return (
      <div>this.props.children</div>
    );
   },

Shuffle DataFrame rows

shuffle the pandas data frame by taking a sample array in this case index and randomize its order then set the array as an index of data frame. Now sort the data frame according to index. Here goes your shuffled dataframe

import random
df = pd.DataFrame({"a":[1,2,3,4],"b":[5,6,7,8]})
index = [i for i in range(df.shape[0])]
random.shuffle(index)
df.set_index([index]).sort_index()

output

    a   b
0   2   6
1   1   5
2   3   7
3   4   8

Insert you data frame in the place of mine in above code .

reducing number of plot ticks

If you need one tick every N=3 ticks :

N = 3  # 1 tick every 3
xticks_pos, xticks_labels = plt.xticks()  # get all axis ticks
myticks = [i for i,j in enumerate(xticks_pos) if not i%N]  # index of selected ticks

(obviously you can adjust the offset with (i+offset)%N).

Note that you can get uneven ticks if you wish, e.g. myticks = [1, 3, 8].

Then you can use

plt.gca().set_xticks(myticks)  # set new X axis ticks

or if you want to replace labels as well

plt.xticks(myticks, newlabels)  # set new X axis ticks and labels

Beware that axis limits must be set after the axis ticks.

Finally, you may wish to draw only a given set of ticks :

mylabels = ['03/2018', '09/2019', '10/2020']
plt.draw()  # needed to populate xticks with actual labels
xticks_pos, xticks_labels = plt.xticks()  # get all axis ticks
myticks = [i for i,j in enumerate(b) if j.get_text() in mylabels]
plt.xticks(myticks, mylabels)

(assuming mylabels is ordered ; if it is not, then sort myticks and reorder it).

Excluding Maven dependencies

You can utilize the dependency management mechanism.

If you create entries in the <dependencyManagement> section of your pom for spring-security-web and spring-web with the desired 3.1.0 version set the managed version of the artifact will override those specified in the transitive dependency tree.

I'm not sure if that really saves you any code, but it is a cleaner solution IMO.

How to create an email form that can send email using html

As the others said, you can't. You can find good examples of HTML-php forms on the web, here's a very useful link that combines HTML with javascript for validation and php for sending the email.

Please check the full article (includes zip example) in the source: http://www.html-form-guide.com/contact-form/php-email-contact-form.html

HTML:

<form method="post" name="contact_form"
action="contact-form-handler.php">
    Your Name:
    <input type="text" name="name">
    Email Address:
    <input type="text" name="email">
    Message:
    <textarea name="message"></textarea>
    <input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

JS:

<script language="JavaScript">
var frmvalidator  = new Validator("contactform");
frmvalidator.addValidation("name","req","Please provide your name");
frmvalidator.addValidation("email","req","Please provide your email");
frmvalidator.addValidation("email","email",
  "Please enter a valid email address");
</script>

PHP:

<?php
$errors = '';
$myemail = '[email protected]';//<-----Put Your email address here.
if(empty($_POST['name'])  ||
   empty($_POST['email']) ||
   empty($_POST['message']))
{
    $errors .= "\n Error: all fields are required";
}
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email_address = $_POST['email'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
if (!preg_match(
"/^[_a-z0-9-]+(\.[_a-z0-9-]+)*@[a-z0-9-]+(\.[a-z0-9-]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,3})$/i",
$email_address))
{
    $errors .= "\n Error: Invalid email address";
}

if( empty($errors))
{
$to = $myemail;
$email_subject = "Contact form submission: $name";
$email_body = "You have received a new message. ".
" Here are the details:\n Name: $name \n ".
"Email: $email_address\n Message \n $message";
$headers = "From: $myemail\n";
$headers .= "Reply-To: $email_address";
mail($to,$email_subject,$email_body,$headers);
//redirect to the 'thank you' page
header('Location: contact-form-thank-you.html');
}
?>

Best way to remove the last character from a string built with stringbuilder

The simplest and most efficient way is to perform this command:

data.Length--;

by doing this you move the pointer (i.e. last index) back one character but you don't change the mutability of the object. In fact, clearing a StringBuilder is best done with Length as well (but do actually use the Clear() method for clarity instead because that's what its implementation looks like):

data.Length = 0;

again, because it doesn't change the allocation table. Think of it like saying, I don't want to recognize these bytes anymore. Now, even when calling ToString(), it won't recognize anything past its Length, well, it can't. It's a mutable object that allocates more space than what you provide it, it's simply built this way.

Looping through array and removing items, without breaking for loop

Deleting Parameters

        oldJson=[{firstName:'s1',lastName:'v1'},
                 {firstName:'s2',lastName:'v2'},
                 {firstName:'s3',lastName:'v3'}]
        
        newJson = oldJson.map(({...ele}) => {
          delete ele.firstName;
          return ele;
          })

it deletes and and create new array and as we are using spread operator on each objects so the original array objects are also remains unharmed

javac : command not found

Install same version javac as your JRE

yum install java-devel

The model backing the 'ApplicationDbContext' context has changed since the database was created

This error occurred to me when I made changes to my Model and did not make migration for the changes to update the database.

If you have ever made changes to your model in Code First Migration Schema

Don't forget to add migration

add-migration UpdatesToModelProperites 

The above command will read all the changes you have made in the model and will write it in the Up() and Down() methods.

Then simply update your database using the below command.

update-database

This what worked for me.

How to print an unsigned char in C?

The range of char is 127 to -128. If you assign 212, ch stores -44 (212-128-128) not 212.So if you try to print a negative number as unsigned you get (MAX value of unsigned int)-abs(number) which in this case is 4294967252

So if you want to store 212 as it is in ch the only thing you can do is declare ch as

unsigned char ch;

now the range of ch is 0 to 255.

How do I print colored output to the terminal in Python?

A side note: Windows users should run os.system('color') first, otherwise you would see some ANSI escape sequences rather than a colored output.

How to change font of UIButton with Swift

Take a look here.

You should set the font of the button's titleLabel instead.

myButton.titleLabel!.font = UIFont(name: "...", 10)

App not setup: This app is still in development mode

captain_a is right that your app needs to be public with a developer email address. But if you are still getting the error then make sure that your website is using an SSL certificate.

For more detailed information and workarounds please checkout my answer at Facebook app is Public, but gives error "App not setup" when logging in

Optional query string parameters in ASP.NET Web API

This issue has been fixed in the regular release of MVC4. Now you can do:

public string GetFindBooks(string author="", string title="", string isbn="", string  somethingelse="", DateTime? date= null) 
{
    // ...
}

and everything will work out of the box.

What's the difference between "2*2" and "2**2" in Python?

Double stars (**) are exponentiation. So "2 times 2" and "2 to the power 2" are the same. Change the numbers and you'll see a difference.

Understanding ASP.NET Eval() and Bind()

For read-only controls they are the same. For 2 way databinding, using a datasource in which you want to update, insert, etc with declarative databinding, you'll need to use Bind.

Imagine for example a GridView with a ItemTemplate and EditItemTemplate. If you use Bind or Eval in the ItemTemplate, there will be no difference. If you use Eval in the EditItemTemplate, the value will not be able to be passed to the Update method of the DataSource that the grid is bound to.


UPDATE: I've come up with this example:

<%@ Page Language="C#" %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head runat="server">
    <title>Data binding demo</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
        <asp:GridView 
            ID="grdTest" 
            runat="server" 
            AutoGenerateEditButton="true" 
            AutoGenerateColumns="false" 
            DataSourceID="mySource">
            <Columns>
                <asp:TemplateField>
                    <ItemTemplate>
                        <%# Eval("Name") %>
                    </ItemTemplate>
                    <EditItemTemplate>
                        <asp:TextBox 
                            ID="edtName" 
                            runat="server" 
                            Text='<%# Bind("Name") %>' 
                        />
                    </EditItemTemplate>
                </asp:TemplateField>
            </Columns>
        </asp:GridView>
    </form>

    <asp:ObjectDataSource 
        ID="mySource" 
        runat="server"
        SelectMethod="Select" 
        UpdateMethod="Update" 
        TypeName="MyCompany.CustomDataSource" />
</body>
</html>

And here's the definition of a custom class that serves as object data source:

public class CustomDataSource
{
    public class Model
    {
        public string Name { get; set; }
    }

    public IEnumerable<Model> Select()
    {
        return new[] 
        {
            new Model { Name = "some value" }
        };
    }

    public void Update(string Name)
    {
        // This method will be called if you used Bind for the TextBox
        // and you will be able to get the new name and update the
        // data source accordingly
    }

    public void Update()
    {
        // This method will be called if you used Eval for the TextBox
        // and you will not be able to get the new name that the user
        // entered
    }
}

How do I space out the child elements of a StackPanel?

Usually, I use Grid instead of StackPanel like this:

horizontal case

<Grid>
 <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
    <ColumnDefinition Width="auto"/>
    <ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
    <ColumnDefinition  Width="auto"/>
    <ColumnDefinition Width="*"/>
    <ColumnDefinition  Width="auto"/>
 </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
 <TextBox Height="30" Grid.Column="0">Apple</TextBox>
 <TextBox Height="80" Grid.Column="2">Banana</TextBox>
 <TextBox Height="120" Grid.Column="4">Cherry</TextBox>
</Grid>

vertical case

<Grid>
     <Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
        <RowDefinition Width="auto"/>
        <RowDefinition Width="*"/>
        <RowDefinition  Width="auto"/>
        <RowDefinition Width="*"/>
        <RowDefinition  Width="auto"/>
     </Grid.ColumnDefinitions>
     <TextBox Height="30" Grid.Row="0">Apple</TextBox>
     <TextBox Height="80" Grid.Row="2">Banana</TextBox>
     <TextBox Height="120" Grid.Row="4">Cherry</TextBox>
</Grid>

JavaScript override methods

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    var c = new C();_x000D_
 c.modify = function(){_x000D_
  c.x = 123;_x000D_
  c.y = 333;_x000D_
 }_x000D_
 c.sum();_x000D_
}_x000D_
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function B() {_x000D_
    var c = new C();_x000D_
 c.modify = function(){_x000D_
  c.x = 999;_x000D_
  c.y = 333;_x000D_
 }_x000D_
 c.sum();_x000D_
}_x000D_
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C = function () {_x000D_
   this.x = 10;_x000D_
   this.y = 20;_x000D_
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      this.x = 30;_x000D_
      this.y = 40;_x000D_
   };_x000D_
   _x000D_
   this.sum = function(){_x000D_
 this.modify();_x000D_
 console.log("The sum is: " + (this.x+this.y));_x000D_
   }_x000D_
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Changing column names of a data frame

try:

names(newprice) <- c("premium", "change", "newprice")

Android Studio AVD - Emulator: Process finished with exit code 1

Open AVD manager and click on the drop down along side with your emulator and select the show in disk and delete the file with .lock extension. After deleted, run your emulator. That works for me.

Stop handler.postDelayed()

You can use:

 Handler handler = new Handler()
 handler.postDelayed(new Runnable())

Or you can use:

 handler.removeCallbacksAndMessages(null);

Docs

public final void removeCallbacksAndMessages (Object token)

Added in API level 1 Remove any pending posts of callbacks and sent messages whose obj is token. If token is null, all callbacks and messages will be removed.

Or you could also do like the following:

Handler handler =  new Handler()
Runnable myRunnable = new Runnable() {
public void run() {
    // do something
}
};
handler.postDelayed(myRunnable,zeit_dauer2);

Then:

handler.removeCallbacks(myRunnable);

Docs

public final void removeCallbacks (Runnable r)

Added in API level 1 Remove any pending posts of Runnable r that are in the message queue.

public final void removeCallbacks (Runnable r, Object token)

Edit:

Change this:

@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
    Handler handler =  new Handler();
    Runnable myRunnable = new Runnable() {

To:

@Override
public void onClick(View v) {
    handler = new Handler();
    myRunnable = new Runnable() { /* ... */}

Because you have the below. Declared before onCreate but you re-declared and then initialized it in onClick leading to a NPE.

Handler handler; // declared before onCreate
Runnable myRunnable;

Android emulator-5554 offline

I solved this by opening my commandprompt:

adb kill-server

adb devices

After starting up, ADB now detects the device/emulator.

Browser/HTML Force download of image from src="data:image/jpeg;base64..."

Take a look at FileSaver.js. It provides a handy saveAs function which takes care of most browser specific quirks.

How to deserialize a list using GSON or another JSON library in Java?

With Gson, you'd just need to do something like:

List<Video> videos = gson.fromJson(json, new TypeToken<List<Video>>(){}.getType());

You might also need to provide a no-arg constructor on the Video class you're deserializing to.

Finding the mode of a list

Why not just

def print_mode (thelist):
  counts = {}
  for item in thelist:
    counts [item] = counts.get (item, 0) + 1
  maxcount = 0
  maxitem = None
  for k, v in counts.items ():
    if v > maxcount:
      maxitem = k
      maxcount = v
  if maxcount == 1:
    print "All values only appear once"
  elif counts.values().count (maxcount) > 1:
    print "List has multiple modes"
  else:
    print "Mode of list:", maxitem

This doesn't have a few error checks that it should have, but it will find the mode without importing any functions and will print a message if all values appear only once. It will also detect multiple items sharing the same maximum count, although it wasn't clear if you wanted that.

What are libtool's .la file for?

According to http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2008/04/14/what-about-those-la-files, they're needed to handle dependencies. But using pkg-config may be a better option:

In a perfect world, every static library needing dependencies would have its own .pc file for pkg-config, and every package trying to statically link to that library would be using pkg-config --static to get the libraries to link to.

Mongoose: CastError: Cast to ObjectId failed for value "[object Object]" at path "_id"

Short answer: use mongoose.Types.ObjectId.

Mongoose (but not mongo) can accept object Ids as strings and "cast" them properly for you, so just use:

MyClass.findById(req.params.id)

However, the caveat is if req.params.id is not a valid format for a mongo ID string, that will throw an exception which you must catch.

So the main confusing thing to understand is that mongoose.SchemaTypes has stuff you only use when defining mongoose schemas, and mongoose.Types has the stuff you use when creating data objects you want to store in the database or query objects. So mongoose.Types.ObjectId("51bb793aca2ab77a3200000d") works, will give you an object you can store in the database or use in queries, and will throw an exception if given an invalid ID string.

findOne takes a query object and passes a single model instance to the callback. And findById is literally a wrapper of findOne({_id: id}) (see source code here). Just find takes a query object and passes an array of matching model instances to the callback.

Just go slow. It's confusing but I can guarantee you you are getting confused and not hitting bugs in mongoose at this point. It's a pretty mature library, but it takes some time to get the hang of it.

The other suspect thing I see in your snippet is not using new when instantiating ChildClass. Beyond that, you'll need to post your schema code in order for us to help you tract down any CastErrors that remain.

How to add items to a spinner in Android?

XML file:

<Spinner
    android:id="@+id/Spinner01"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

Java file:

public class SpinnerExample extends Activity {

    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);

        String[] arraySpinner = new String[] {
            "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7"
        };
        Spinner s = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.Spinner01);
        ArrayAdapter<String> adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this,
                android.R.layout.simple_spinner_item, arraySpinner);
        adapter.setDropDownViewResource(android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
        s.setAdapter(adapter);
    }
}

See spinner example.

How to clear Facebook Sharer cache?

I found a solution to my problem. You could go to this site:

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug

...then put in the URL of the page you want to share, and click "debug". It will automatically extract all the info on your meta tags and also clear the cache.

FlutterError: Unable to load asset

I put my images in a subdirectory of the assets folder. Whenever I add new images, I restart the application and it works fine.

 assets:
    - assets/sub_folder/

I do this so that I don't have to list each asset name.

How to integrate Dart into a Rails app

If you run pub build --mode=debug the build directory contains the application without symlinks. The Dart code should be retained when --mode=debug is used.

Here is some discussion going on about this topic too Dart and it's place in Rails Assets Pipeline

Click to call html

tl;dr What to do in modern (2018) times? Assume tel: is supported, use it and forget about anything else.


The tel: URI scheme RFC5431 (as well as sms: but also feed:, maps:, youtube: and others) is handled by protocol handlers (as mailto: and http: are).

They're unrelated to HTML5 specification (it has been out there from 90s and documented first time back in 2k with RFC2806) then you can't check for their support using tools as modernizr. A protocol handler may be installed by an application (for example Skype installs a callto: protocol handler with same meaning and behaviour of tel: but it's not a standard), natively supported by browser or installed (with some limitations) by website itself.

What HTML5 added is support for installing custom web based protocol handlers (with registerProtocolHandler() and related functions) simplifying also the check for their support through isProtocolHandlerRegistered() function.

There is some easy ways to determine if there is an handler or not:" How to detect browser's protocol handlers?).

In general what I suggest is:

  1. If you're running on a mobile device then you can safely assume tel: is supported (yes, it's not true for very old devices but IMO you can ignore them).
  2. If JS isn't active then do nothing.
  3. If you're running on desktop browsers then you can use one of the techniques in the linked post to determine if it's supported.
  4. If tel: isn't supported then change links to use callto: and repeat check desctibed in 3.
  5. If tel: and callto: aren't supported (or - in a desktop browser - you can't detect their support) then simply remove that link replacing URL in href with javascript:void(0) and (if number isn't repeated in text span) putting, telephone number in title. Here HTML5 microdata won't help users (just search engines). Note that newer versions of Skype handle both callto: and tel:.

Please note that (at least on latest Windows versions) there is always a - fake - registered protocol handler called App Picker (that annoying window that let you choose with which application you want to open an unknown file). This may vanish your tests so if you don't want to handle Windows environment as a special case you can simplify this process as:

  1. If you're running on a mobile device then assume tel: is supported.
  2. If you're running on desktop then replace tel: with callto:. then drop tel: or leave it as is (assuming there are good chances Skype is installed).

Create a shortcut on Desktop

I have created a wrapper class based on Rustam Irzaev's answer with use of IWshRuntimeLibrary.

IWshRuntimeLibrary -> References -> COM > Windows Script Host Object Model

using System;
using System.IO;
using IWshRuntimeLibrary;
using File = System.IO.File;

public static class Shortcut
{
    public static void CreateShortcut(string originalFilePathAndName, string destinationSavePath)
    {
        string fileName = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(originalFilePathAndName);
        string originalFilePath = Path.GetDirectoryName(originalFilePathAndName);

        string link = destinationSavePath + Path.DirectorySeparatorChar + fileName + ".lnk";
        var shell = new WshShell();
        var shortcut = shell.CreateShortcut(link) as IWshShortcut;
        if (shortcut != null)
        {
            shortcut.TargetPath = originalFilePathAndName;
            shortcut.WorkingDirectory = originalFilePath;
            shortcut.Save();
        }
    }

    public static void CreateStartupShortcut()
    {
        CreateShortcut(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetEntryAssembly()?.Location, Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Startup));
    }

    public static void DeleteShortcut(string originalFilePathAndName, string destinationSavePath)
    {
        string fileName = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(originalFilePathAndName);
        string originalFilePath = Path.GetDirectoryName(originalFilePathAndName);

        string link = destinationSavePath + Path.DirectorySeparatorChar + fileName + ".lnk";
        if (File.Exists(link)) File.Delete(link);
    }

    public static void DeleteStartupShortcut()
    {
        DeleteShortcut(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetEntryAssembly()?.Location, Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Startup));
    }
}

How to solve java.lang.NullPointerException error?

A NullPointerException means that one of the variables you are passing is null, but the code tries to use it like it is not.

For example, If I do this:

Integer myInteger = null;
int n = myInteger.intValue();

The code tries to grab the intValue of myInteger, but since it is null, it does not have one: a null pointer exception happens.

What this means is that your getTask method is expecting something that is not a null, but you are passing a null. Figure out what getTask needs and pass what it wants!

Algorithm to compare two images

If you're willing to consider a different approach altogether to detecting illegal copies of your images, you could consider watermarking. (from 1.4)

...inserts copyright information into the digital object without the loss of quality. Whenever the copyright of a digital object is in question, this information is extracted to identify the rightful owner. It is also possible to encode the identity of the original buyer along with the identity of the copyright holder, which allows tracing of any unauthorized copies.

While it's also a complex field, there are techniques that allow the watermark information to persist through gross image alteration: (from 1.9)

... any signal transform of reasonable strength cannot remove the watermark. Hence a pirate willing to remove the watermark will not succeed unless they debase the document too much to be of commercial interest.

of course, the faq calls implementing this approach: "...very challenging" but if you succeed with it, you get a high confidence of whether the image is a copy or not, rather than a percentage likelihood.

What is the difference between explicit and implicit cursors in Oracle?

With explicit cursors, you have complete control over how to access information in the database. You decide when to OPEN the cursor, when to FETCH records from the cursor (and therefore from the table or tables in the SELECT statement of the cursor) how many records to fetch, and when to CLOSE the cursor. Information about the current state of your cursor is available through examination of the cursor attributes.

See http://www.unix.com.ua/orelly/oracle/prog2/ch06_03.htm for details.

IndentationError: unindent does not match any outer indentation level

For example:

1. def convert_distance(miles):
2.   km = miles * 1.6
3.   return km

In this code same situation occurred for me. Just delete the previous indent spaces of line 2 and 3, and then either use tab or space. Never use both. Give proper indentation while writing code in python. For Spyder goto Source > Fix Indentation. Same goes to VC Code and sublime text or any other editor. Fix the indentation.

How to bind RadioButtons to an enum?

This work for Checkbox too.

public class EnumToBoolConverter:IValueConverter
{
    private int val;
    public object Convert(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, CultureInfo culture)
    {
        int intParam = (int)parameter;
        val = (int)value;

        return ((intParam & val) != 0);
    }

    public object ConvertBack(object value, Type targetType, object parameter, CultureInfo culture)
    {
        val ^= (int)parameter;
        return Enum.Parse(targetType, val.ToString());
    }
}

Binding a single enum to multiple checkboxes.

Passing struct to function

The line function implementation should be:

void addStudent(struct student person) {

}

person is not a type but a variable, you cannot use it as the type of a function parameter.

Also, make sure your struct is defined before the prototype of the function addStudent as the prototype uses it.

Sort columns of a dataframe by column name

test = data.frame(C=c(0,2,4, 7, 8), A=c(4,2,4, 7, 8), B=c(1, 3, 8,3,2))

Using the simple following function replacement can be performed (but only if data frame does not have many columns):

test <- test[, c("A", "B", "C")]

for others:

test <- test[, c("B", "A", "C")]

Java 8 List<V> into Map<K, V>

I use this syntax

Map<Integer, List<Choice>> choiceMap = 
choices.stream().collect(Collectors.groupingBy(choice -> choice.getName()));

Increment a Integer's int value?

Integer objects are immutable. You can't change the value of the integer held by the object itself, but you can just create a new Integer object to hold the result:

Integer start = new Integer(5);
Integer end = start + 5; // end == 10;

Is it correct to use alt tag for an anchor link?

I'm surprised to see all answers stating the use of alt attribute in a tag is not valid. This is absolutely wrong.

Html does not block you using any attributes:

<a your-custom-attribute="value">Any attribute can be used</a>

If you ask if it is semantically correct to use alt attribute in a then I will say:

NO. It is used to set image description <img alt="image description" />.

It is a matter of what you'd do with the attributes. Here's an example:

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  content: attr(color); /* attr can be used as content */_x000D_
  display: block;_x000D_
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  background-color: blue;_x000D_
  background-color: attr(color); /* This won't work */_x000D_
  display: none;_x000D_
}_x000D_
a:hover::after {_x000D_
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[hidden] {_x000D_
  display: none;_x000D_
}
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Again, if you ask if it is semantically correct to use custom attribute then I will say:

No. Use data-* attributes for its semantic use.


Oops, question was asked in 2013.

Collision Detection between two images in Java

First, use the bounding boxes as described by Jonathan Holland to find if you may have a collision.

From the (multi-color) sprites, create black and white versions. You probably already have these if your sprites are transparent (i.e. there are places which are inside the bounding box but you can still see the background). These are "masks".

Use Image.getRGB() on the mask to get at the pixels. For each pixel which isn't transparent, set a bit in an integer array (playerArray and enemyArray below). The size of the array is height if width <= 32 pixels, (width+31)/32*height otherwise. The code below is for width <= 32.

If you have a collision of the bounding boxes, do this:

// Find the first line where the two sprites might overlap
int linePlayer, lineEnemy;
if (player.y <= enemy.y) {
    linePlayer = enemy.y - player.y;
    lineEnemy = 0;
} else {
    linePlayer = 0;
    lineEnemy = player.y - enemy.y;
}
int line = Math.max(linePlayer, lineEnemy);

// Get the shift between the two
x = player.x - enemy.x;
int maxLines = Math.max(player.height, enemy.height);
for ( line < maxLines; line ++) {
    // if width > 32, then you need a second loop here
    long playerMask = playerArray[linePlayer];
    long enemyMask = enemyArray[lineEnemy];
    // Reproduce the shift between the two sprites
    if (x < 0) playerMask << (-x);
    else enemyMask << x;
    // If the two masks have common bits, binary AND will return != 0
    if ((playerMask & enemyMask) != 0) {
        // Contact!
    }

}

Links: JGame, Framework for Small Java Games

Calling multiple JavaScript functions on a button click

if there are more than 2 js function then following two ways can also be implemented:

  1. if you have more than two functions you can group them in if condition

    OR

  2. you can write two different if conditions.

1 OnClientClick="var b = validateView(); if (b) ShowDiv1(); if(b) testfunction(); return b">

OR

2 OnClientClick="var b = validateView(); if(b) {

ShowDiv1();

testfunction();

} return b">

Spring - applicationContext.xml cannot be opened because it does not exist

your-module/src/applicationContext.xml

val context = ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("applicationContext.xml")

Check the directory path, the default path is /src/ and not /.

GL

Git: How to check if a local repo is up to date?

You must run git fetch before you can compare your local repository against the files on your remote server.

This command only updates your remote tracking branches and will not affect your worktree until you call git merge or git pull.

To see the difference between your local branch and your remote tracking branch once you've fetched you can use git diff or git cherry as explained here.

SQL Error: ORA-00942 table or view does not exist

Either the user doesn't have privileges needed to see the table, the table doesn't exist or you are running the query in the wrong schema

Does the table exist?

    select owner, 
           object_name 
    from dba_objects 
    where object_name = any ('CUSTOMER','customer');

What privileges did you grant?

    grant select, insert on customer to user;

Are you running the query against the owner from the first query?

Python - converting a string of numbers into a list of int

it should work

example_string = '0, 0, 0, 11, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 19, 0, 9, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 11'
example_list = [int(k) for k in example_string.split(',')]

Could not load file or assembly for Oracle.DataAccess in .NET

I was facing the same issue for a couple of days then I figure out that the Oracle.DataAccess is available in the references list of the project, but in the bin folder is missing. So I removed it from the references list and readded again.

What is the purpose of using WHERE 1=1 in SQL statements?

Yeah, it's typically because it starts out as 'where 1 = 0', to force the statement to fail.

It's a more naive way of wrapping it up in a transaction and not committing it at the end, to test your query. (This is the preferred method).

Java: Calculating the angle between two points in degrees

Why is everyone complicating this?

The only problem is Math.atan2( x , y)

The corret answer is Math.atan2( y, x)

All they did was mix the variable order for Atan2 causing it to reverse the degree of rotation.

All you had to do was look up the syntax https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.geeksforgeeks.org/java-lang-math-atan2-java/amp/

How to empty the content of a div

In jQuery it would be as simple as $('#yourDivID').empty()

See the documentation.

How to change Named Range Scope

These answers were helpful in solving a similar issue while trying to define a named range with Workbook scope. The "ah-HA!" for me is to use the Names Collection which is relative to the whole Workbook! This may be restating the obvious to many, but it wasn't clearly stated in my research, so I share for other's with similar questions.

' Local / Worksheet only scope
Worksheets("Sheet2").Names.Add Name:="a_test_rng1", RefersTo:=Range("A1:A4")

' Global / Workbook scope
ThisWorkbook.Names.Add Name:="a_test_rng2", RefersTo:=Range("B1:b4") 

If you look at your list of names when Sheet2 is active, both ranges are there, but switch to any other sheet, and "a_test_rng1" is not present.

Now I can happily generate a named range in my code with what ever scope I deem appropriate. No need mess around with the name manager or a plug in.


Aside, the name manager in Excel Mac 2011 is a mess, but I did discover that while there are no column labels to tell you what you're looking at while viewing your list of named ranges, if there is a sheet listed beside the name, that name is scoped to worksheet / local. See screenshot attached.

Excel Mac 2011 Name Manager

Full credit to this article for putting together the pieces.

How can I run a PHP script inside a HTML file?

You need to make the extension as .php to run a php code BUT if you can't change the extension you could use Ajax to run the php externally and get the result

For eg:

<html>
<head>
<script src="js/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
   $.ajax({
        url:'php_File_with_php_code.php',
        type:'GET', 
        data:"parameter=some_parameter",
       success:function(data)
       {
              $("#thisdiv").html(data);
           }
    });
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="thisdiv"></div>
</body>
</html>

Here, the JQuery is loaded and as soon as the pages load, the ajax call a php file from where the data is taken, the data is then put in the div

Hope This Helps

Difference between Role and GrantedAuthority in Spring Security

Another way to understand the relationship between these concepts is to interpret a ROLE as a container of Authorities.

Authorities are fine-grained permissions targeting a specific action coupled sometimes with specific data scope or context. For instance, Read, Write, Manage, can represent various levels of permissions to a given scope of information.

Also, authorities are enforced deep in the processing flow of a request while ROLE are filtered by request filter way before reaching the Controller. Best practices prescribe implementing the authorities enforcement past the Controller in the business layer.

On the other hand, ROLES are coarse grained representation of an set of permissions. A ROLE_READER would only have Read or View authority while a ROLE_EDITOR would have both Read and Write. Roles are mainly used for a first screening at the outskirt of the request processing such as http. ... .antMatcher(...).hasRole(ROLE_MANAGER)

The Authorities being enforced deep in the request's process flow allows a finer grained application of the permission. For instance, a user may have Read Write permission to first level a resource but only Read to a sub-resource. Having a ROLE_READER would restrain his right to edit the first level resource as he needs the Write permission to edit this resource but a @PreAuthorize interceptor could block his tentative to edit the sub-resource.

Jake

Using Environment Variables with Vue.js

  1. Create two files in root folder (near by package.json) .env and .env.production
  2. Add variables to theese files with prefix VUE_APP_ eg: VUE_APP_WHATEVERYOUWANT
  3. serve uses .env and build uses .env.production
  4. In your components (vue or js), use process.env.VUE_APP_WHATEVERYOUWANT to call value
  5. Don't forget to restart serve if it is currently running
  6. Clear browser cache

Be sure you are using vue-cli version 3 or above

For more information: https://cli.vuejs.org/guide/mode-and-env.html

How to do a FULL OUTER JOIN in MySQL?

Modified shA.t's query for more clarity:

-- t1 left join t2
SELECT t1.value, t2.value
FROM t1 LEFT JOIN t2 ON t1.value = t2.value   

    UNION ALL -- include duplicates

-- t1 right exclude join t2 (records found only in t2)
SELECT t1.value, t2.value
FROM t1 RIGHT JOIN t2 ON t1.value = t2.value
WHERE t1.value IS NULL 

How to automatically convert strongly typed enum into int?

TLDR;

There are no implicit conversions from the values of a scoped enumerator [AKA: "strong enum"] to integral types, although static_cast may be used to obtain the numeric value of the enumerator.

(emphasis added)

Source: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/enum --> under the section "Scoped enumerations".

Going further

In C++ there are two types of enums:

  1. "regular", "weak", "weakly typed", or "C-style" enums, and
  2. "scoped", "strong", "strongly typed", "enum class", or "C++-style" enums.

"Scoped" enums, or "strong" enums, give two additional "features" beyond what "regular" enums give you. Scoped enums:

  1. don't allow implicit casting from the enum type to an integer type (so you can't do what you want to do implicitly!), and
  2. they "scope" the enum so that you have to access the enum through its enum type name.

Example of an enum class:

// enum class (AKA: "strong" or "scoped" enum)
enum class my_enum
{
    A = 0,
    B,
    C,
};

my_enum e = my_enum::A; // scoped through `my_enum::`
e = my_enum::B;

// NOT ALLOWED!:
//   error: cannot convert ‘my_enum’ to ‘int’ in initialization
// int i = e; 

// But this works fine:
int i = static_cast<int>(e);

The first "feature" may actually be something you don't want, in which case you just need to use a regular C-style enum instead! And the nice thing is: you can still "scope" or "namespace" the enum, as has been done in C for decades, by simply prepending its name with the enum type name, like this:

Example of a regular enum:

// regular enum (AKA: "weak" or "C-style" enum)
enum my_enum
{
    MY_ENUM_A = 0,
    MY_ENUM_B,
    MY_ENUM_C,
};

my_enum e = MY_ENUM_A; // scoped through `MY_ENUM_`
e = MY_ENUM_B;

// This works fine!
int i = e;

Notice you still get the benefit of "scoping" simply by adding the MY_ENUM_ "scope" to the front of each enum!


Test the above code here: https://onlinegdb.com/SJQ7uthcP.

Exit Shell Script Based on Process Exit Code

If you just call exit in Bash without any parameters, it will return the exit code of the last command. Combined with OR, Bash should only invoke exit, if the previous command fails. But I haven't tested this.

command1 || exit;
command2 || exit;

Bash will also store the exit code of the last command in the variable $?.

How to deal with missing src/test/java source folder in Android/Maven project?

We can add java folder from

  1. Build Path -> Source.
  2. click on Add Folder.
  3. Select main as the container.
  4. click on Create Folder.
  5. Enter Folder name as java.
  6. Click on Finish

It works fine.

How to control size of list-style-type disc in CSS?

I have always had good luck with using background images instead of trusting all browsers to interpret the bullet in exactly the same way. This would also give you tight control over the size of the bullet.

.moreLinks li {
    background: url("bullet.gif") no-repeat left 5px;
    padding-left: 1em;
}

Also, you may want to move your DIV outside of the UL. It's invalid markup as you have it now. You can use a list header LH if you must have it inside the list.

Call An Asynchronous Javascript Function Synchronously

Async functions, a feature in ES2017, make async code look sync by using promises (a particular form of async code) and the await keyword. Also notice in the code examples below the keyword async in front of the function keyword that signifies an async/await function. The await keyword won't work without being in a function pre-fixed with the async keyword. Since currently there is no exception to this that means no top level awaits will work (top level awaits meaning an await outside of any function). Though there is a proposal for top-level await.

ES2017 was ratified (i.e. finalized) as the standard for JavaScript on June 27th, 2017. Async await may already work in your browser, but if not you can still use the functionality using a javascript transpiler like babel or traceur. Chrome 55 has full support of async functions. So if you have a newer browser you may be able to try out the code below.

See kangax's es2017 compatibility table for browser compatibility.

Here's an example async await function called doAsync which takes three one second pauses and prints the time difference after each pause from the start time:

_x000D_
_x000D_
function timeoutPromise (time) {_x000D_
  return new Promise(function (resolve) {_x000D_
    setTimeout(function () {_x000D_
      resolve(Date.now());_x000D_
    }, time)_x000D_
  })_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
function doSomethingAsync () {_x000D_
  return timeoutPromise(1000);_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
async function doAsync () {_x000D_
  var start = Date.now(), time;_x000D_
  console.log(0);_x000D_
  time = await doSomethingAsync();_x000D_
  console.log(time - start);_x000D_
  time = await doSomethingAsync();_x000D_
  console.log(time - start);_x000D_
  time = await doSomethingAsync();_x000D_
  console.log(time - start);_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
doAsync();
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

When the await keyword is placed before a promise value (in this case the promise value is the value returned by the function doSomethingAsync) the await keyword will pause execution of the function call, but it won't pause any other functions and it will continue executing other code until the promise resolves. After the promise resolves it will unwrap the value of the promise and you can think of the await and promise expression as now being replaced by that unwrapped value.

So, since await just pauses waits for then unwraps a value before executing the rest of the line you can use it in for loops and inside function calls like in the below example which collects time differences awaited in an array and prints out the array.

_x000D_
_x000D_
function timeoutPromise (time) {_x000D_
  return new Promise(function (resolve) {_x000D_
    setTimeout(function () {_x000D_
      resolve(Date.now());_x000D_
    }, time)_x000D_
  })_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
function doSomethingAsync () {_x000D_
  return timeoutPromise(1000);_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
// this calls each promise returning function one after the other_x000D_
async function doAsync () {_x000D_
  var response = [];_x000D_
  var start = Date.now();_x000D_
  // each index is a promise returning function_x000D_
  var promiseFuncs= [doSomethingAsync, doSomethingAsync, doSomethingAsync];_x000D_
  for(var i = 0; i < promiseFuncs.length; ++i) {_x000D_
    var promiseFunc = promiseFuncs[i];_x000D_
    response.push(await promiseFunc() - start);_x000D_
    console.log(response);_x000D_
  }_x000D_
  // do something with response which is an array of values that were from resolved promises._x000D_
  return response_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
doAsync().then(function (response) {_x000D_
  console.log(response)_x000D_
})
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

The async function itself returns a promise so you can use that as a promise with chaining like I do above or within another async await function.

The function above would wait for each response before sending another request if you would like to send the requests concurrently you can use Promise.all.

_x000D_
_x000D_
// no change_x000D_
function timeoutPromise (time) {_x000D_
  return new Promise(function (resolve) {_x000D_
    setTimeout(function () {_x000D_
      resolve(Date.now());_x000D_
    }, time)_x000D_
  })_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
// no change_x000D_
function doSomethingAsync () {_x000D_
  return timeoutPromise(1000);_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
// this function calls the async promise returning functions all at around the same time_x000D_
async function doAsync () {_x000D_
  var start = Date.now();_x000D_
  // we are now using promise all to await all promises to settle_x000D_
  var responses = await Promise.all([doSomethingAsync(), doSomethingAsync(), doSomethingAsync()]);_x000D_
  return responses.map(x=>x-start);_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
// no change_x000D_
doAsync().then(function (response) {_x000D_
  console.log(response)_x000D_
})
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

If the promise possibly rejects you can wrap it in a try catch or skip the try catch and let the error propagate to the async/await functions catch call. You should be careful not to leave promise errors unhandled especially in Node.js. Below are some examples that show off how errors work.

_x000D_
_x000D_
function timeoutReject (time) {_x000D_
  return new Promise(function (resolve, reject) {_x000D_
    setTimeout(function () {_x000D_
      reject(new Error("OOPS well you got an error at TIMESTAMP: " + Date.now()));_x000D_
    }, time)_x000D_
  })_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
function doErrorAsync () {_x000D_
  return timeoutReject(1000);_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
var log = (...args)=>console.log(...args);_x000D_
var logErr = (...args)=>console.error(...args);_x000D_
_x000D_
async function unpropogatedError () {_x000D_
  // promise is not awaited or returned so it does not propogate the error_x000D_
  doErrorAsync();_x000D_
  return "finished unpropogatedError successfully";_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
unpropogatedError().then(log).catch(logErr)_x000D_
_x000D_
async function handledError () {_x000D_
  var start = Date.now();_x000D_
  try {_x000D_
    console.log((await doErrorAsync()) - start);_x000D_
    console.log("past error");_x000D_
  } catch (e) {_x000D_
    console.log("in catch we handled the error");_x000D_
  }_x000D_
  _x000D_
  return "finished handledError successfully";_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
handledError().then(log).catch(logErr)_x000D_
_x000D_
// example of how error propogates to chained catch method_x000D_
async function propogatedError () {_x000D_
  var start = Date.now();_x000D_
  var time = await doErrorAsync() - start;_x000D_
  console.log(time - start);_x000D_
  return "finished propogatedError successfully";_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
// this is what prints propogatedError's error._x000D_
propogatedError().then(log).catch(logErr)
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

If you go here you can see the finished proposals for upcoming ECMAScript versions.

An alternative to this that can be used with just ES2015 (ES6) is to use a special function which wraps a generator function. Generator functions have a yield keyword which may be used to replicate the await keyword with a surrounding function. The yield keyword and generator function are a lot more general purpose and can do many more things then just what the async await function does. If you want a generator function wrapper that can be used to replicate async await I would check out co.js. By the way co's function much like async await functions return a promise. Honestly though at this point browser compatibility is about the same for both generator functions and async functions so if you just want the async await functionality you should use Async functions without co.js.

Browser support is actually pretty good now for Async functions (as of 2017) in all major current browsers (Chrome, Safari, and Edge) except IE.

AngularJS - Find Element with attribute

Your use-case isn't clear. However, if you are certain that you need this to be based on the DOM, and not model-data, then this is a way for one directive to have a reference to all elements with another directive specified on them.

The way is that the child directive can require the parent directive. The parent directive can expose a method that allows direct directive to register their element with the parent directive. Through this, the parent directive can access the child element(s). So if you have a template like:

<div parent-directive>
  <div child-directive></div>
  <div child-directive></div>
</div>

Then the directives can be coded like:

app.directive('parentDirective', function($window) {
  return {
    controller: function($scope) {
      var registeredElements = [];
      this.registerElement = function(childElement) {
        registeredElements.push(childElement);
      }
    }
  };
});

app.directive('childDirective', function() {
  return {
    require: '^parentDirective',
    template: '<span>Child directive</span>',
    link: function link(scope, iElement, iAttrs, parentController) {
      parentController.registerElement(iElement);
    }
   };
});

You can see this in action at http://plnkr.co/edit/7zUgNp2MV3wMyAUYxlkz?p=preview

How do I get into a Docker container's shell?

To inspect files, run docker run -it <image> /bin/sh to get an interactive terminal. The list of images can be obtained by docker images. In contrary to docker exec this solution works also in case when an image doesn't start (or quits immediately after running).

Automating running command on Linux from Windows using PuTTY

You can do both tasks (the upload and the command execution) using WinSCP. Use WinSCP script like:

option batch abort
option confirm off
open your_session
put %1%
call script.sh
exit

Reference for the call command:
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/scriptcommand_call

Reference for the %1% syntax:
https://winscp.net/eng/docs/scripting#syntax

You can then run the script like:

winscp.exe /console /script=script_path\upload.txt /parameter file_to_upload.dat

Actually, you can put a shortcut to the above command to the Windows Explorer's Send To menu, so that you can then just right-click any file and go to the Send To > Upload using WinSCP and Execute Remote Command (=name of the shortcut).

For that, go to the folder %USERPROFILE%\SendTo and create a shortcut with the following target:

winscp_path\winscp.exe /console /script=script_path\upload.txt /parameter %1

See Creating entry in Explorer's "Send To" menu.

Ignore parent padding

If your after a way for the hr to go straight from the left side of a screen to the right this is the code to use to ensure the view width isn't effected.

hr {
position: absolute;
left: 0;
right: 0;
}