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how to convert numeric to nvarchar in sql command

declare @MyNumber float 
set @MyNumber = 123.45 
select 'My number is ' + CAST(@MyNumber as nvarchar(max))

AppFabric installation failed because installer MSI returned with error code : 1603

In my case it was: - My system account contained two words -- Name and Surname, like "Vasya Pupkin", so web platform installer saw only first "Vasya", so you need to rename system user to "VasyaPupkin" without space symbol, or install under different account. - Also I've noticed error in PowerShell env path, so check System variables PSModulePath, and remove unnecessary - symbol (") (SQL server path contains error, \PowerShell\Modules")

Troubleshooting "Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent"

I was able to solve similar Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent by just removing a space in front of the <?php tag.

It worked.

how to change the dist-folder path in angular-cli after 'ng build'

The more current way of this is to update the outDir property in .angular-cli.json.

The ng build command argument --output-path (or -op for short) is still supported also, which can be useful if you want multiple values, you can save them in your package.json as npm scripts.

Beware: The .angular-cli.json property is NOT called output-path like the currently-accepted answer by @cwill747 says. That's the ng build argument only.

It's called outDir as mentioned above, and it's a under the apps property.

.

P.S.

(December 2017)

1-year after adding this answer, someone added a new answer with essentially same information, and the Original Poster changed the accepted answer to the 1-year-late answer containing same information in the first line of this one.

What is the "__v" field in Mongoose

Well, I can't see Tony's solution...so I have to handle it myself...


If you don't need version_key, you can just:

var UserSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
    nickname: String,
    reg_time: {type: Date, default: Date.now}
}, {
    versionKey: false // You should be aware of the outcome after set to false
});

Setting the versionKey to false means the document is no longer versioned.

This is problematic if the document contains an array of subdocuments. One of the subdocuments could be deleted, reducing the size of the array. Later on, another operation could access the subdocument in the array at it's original position.

Since the array is now smaller, it may accidentally access the wrong subdocument in the array.

The versionKey solves this by associating the document with the a versionKey, used by mongoose internally to make sure it accesses the right collection version.

More information can be found at: http://aaronheckmann.blogspot.com/2012/06/mongoose-v3-part-1-versioning.html

How to reset form body in bootstrap modal box?

Just set the empty values to the input fields when modal is hiding.

$('#Modal_Id').on('hidden', function () {
   $('#Form_Id').find('input[type="text"]').val('');
});

How can I connect to MySQL on a WAMP server?

Change localhost:8080 to localhost:3306.

Is Django for the frontend or backend?

It seems you're actually talking about an MVC (Model-View-Controller) pattern, where logic is separated into various "tiers". Django, as a framework, follows MVC (loosely). You have models that contain your business logic and relate directly to tables in your database, views which in effect act like the controller, handling requests and returning responses, and finally, templates which handle presentation.

Django isn't just one of these, it is a complete framework for application development and provides all the tools you need for that purpose.

Frontend vs Backend is all semantics. You could potentially build a Django app that is entirely "backend", using its built-in admin contrib package to manage the data for an entirely separate application. Or, you could use it solely for "frontend", just using its views and templates but using something else entirely to manage the data. Most usually, it's used for both. The built-in admin (the "backend"), provides an easy way to manage your data and you build apps within Django to present that data in various ways. However, if you were so inclined, you could also create your own "backend" in Django. You're not forced to use the default admin.

How to set a default entity property value with Hibernate

The above suggestion works, but only if the annotation is used on the getter method. If the annotations is used where the member is declared, nothing will happen.

public String getStringValue(){
     return (this.stringValue == null) ? "Default" : stringValue;
}

:not(:empty) CSS selector is not working?

input:not(:invalid){
 border: 1px red solid;
}

// or 

input:not(:focus):not(:invalid){
 border: 1px red solid;
}

How do I pick randomly from an array?

Random Number of Random Items from an Array

def random_items(array)
  array.sample(1 + rand(array.count))
end

Examples of possible results:

my_array = ["one", "two", "three"]
my_array.sample(1 + rand(my_array.count))

=> ["two", "three"]
=> ["one", "three", "two"]
=> ["two"]

ReactJS SyntheticEvent stopPropagation() only works with React events?

From the React documentation: The event handlers below are triggered by an event in the bubbling phase. To register an event handler for the capture phase, append Capture. (emphasis added)

If you have a click event listener in your React code and you don't want it to bubble up, I think what you want to do is use onClickCapture instead of onClick. Then you would pass the event to the handler and do event.nativeEvent.stopPropagation() to keep the native event from bubbling up to a vanilla JS event listener (or anything that's not react).

Why does .NET foreach loop throw NullRefException when collection is null?

Another extension method to work around this:

public static void ForEach<T>(this IEnumerable<T> items, Action<T> action)
{
    if(items == null) return;
    foreach (var item in items) action(item);
}

Consume in several ways:

(1) with a method that accepts T:

returnArray.ForEach(Console.WriteLine);

(2) with an expression:

returnArray.ForEach(i => UpdateStatus(string.Format("{0}% complete", i)));

(3) with a multiline anonymous method

int toCompare = 10;
returnArray.ForEach(i =>
{
    var thisInt = i;
    var next = i++;
    if(next > 10) Console.WriteLine("Match: {0}", i);
});

How to read large text file on windows?

GnuUtils for Windows make this easy as well. In that package are standard UNIX utils like cat, ls and more. I am using cat filename | more to page through a huge file that Notepad++ can't open at all.

Make docker use IPv4 for port binding

By default, docker uses AF_INET6 sockets which can be used for both IPv4 and IPv6 connections. This causes netstat to report an IPv6 address for the listening address.

From RedHat https://access.redhat.com/solutions/3114021

node.js hash string?

Considering the thoughts from http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/the-cryptographic-doom-principle/ (in short: FIRST encrypt, THEN authenticate. Afterwards FIRST verify, THEN decrypt) I have implemented the following solution in node.js:

function encrypt(text,password){
  var cipher = crypto.createCipher(algorithm,password)
  var crypted = cipher.update(text,'utf8','hex')
  crypted += cipher.final('hex');
  return crypted;
}

function decrypt(text,password){
  var decipher = crypto.createDecipher(algorithm,password)
  var dec = decipher.update(text,'hex','utf8')
  dec += decipher.final('utf8');
  return dec;
}

function hashText(text){
    var hash = crypto.createHash('md5').update(text).digest("hex");
    //console.log(hash); 
    return hash;
}

function encryptThenAuthenticate(plainText,pw)
{
    var encryptedText = encrypt(plainText,pw);
    var hash = hashText(encryptedText);
    return encryptedText+"$"+hash;
}
function VerifyThenDecrypt(encryptedAndAuthenticatedText,pw)
{
    var encryptedAndHashArray = encryptedAndAuthenticatedText.split("$");
    var encrypted = encryptedAndHashArray[0];
    var hash = encryptedAndHashArray[1];
    var hash2Compare = hashText(encrypted);
    if (hash === hash2Compare)
    {
        return decrypt(encrypted,pw); 
    }
}

It can be tested with:

var doom = encryptThenAuthenticate("The encrypted text",user.cryptoPassword);
console.log(VerifyThenDecrypt(doom,user.cryptoPassword));

Hope this helps :-)

Storing WPF Image Resources

Yes, it's the right way. You can use images in the Resource file using a path:

<StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
    <CheckBox  Content="{Binding Nname}" IsChecked="{Binding IsChecked}"/>
    <Image Source="E:\SWorking\SharePointSecurityApps\SharePointSecurityApps\SharePointSecurityApps.WPF\Images\sitepermission.png"/>
    <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Title}"></TextBlock>
</StackPanel>

Using Mysql WHERE IN clause in codeigniter

You can use sub query way of codeigniter to do this for this purpose you will have to hack codeigniter. like this
Go to system/database/DB_active_rec.php Remove public or protected keyword from these functions

public function _compile_select($select_override = FALSE)
public function _reset_select()

Now subquery writing in available And now here is your query with active record

$this->db->select('trans_id');
$this->db->from('myTable');
$this->db->where('code','B');
$subQuery = $this->db->_compile_select();

$this->db->_reset_select();
// And now your main query
$this->db->select("*");
$this->db->where_in("$subQuery");
$this->db->where('code !=', 'B');
$this->db->get('myTable');

And the thing is done. Cheers!!!
Note : While using sub queries you must use

$this->db->from('myTable')

instead of

$this->db->get('myTable')

which runs the query.
Watch this too

How can I rewrite this SQL into CodeIgniter's Active Records?

Note : In Codeigntier 3 these functions are already public so you do not need to hack them.

How to calculate 1st and 3rd quartiles?

you can use

df.describe()

which would show the information

df.describe()

geom_smooth() what are the methods available?

The se argument from the example also isn't in the help or online documentation.

When 'se' in geom_smooth is set 'FALSE', the error shading region is not visible

JavaScript: IIF like statement

If your end goal is to add elements to your page, just manipulate the DOM directly. Don't use string concatenation to try to create HTML - what a pain! See how much more straightforward it is to just create your element, instead of the HTML that represents your element:

var x = document.createElement("option");
x.value = col;
x.text = "Very roomy";
x.selected = col == "screwdriver";

Then, later when you put the element in your page, instead of setting the innerHTML of the parent element, call appendChild():

mySelectElement.appendChild(x);

Invoke JSF managed bean action on page load

Another easy way is to use fire the method before the view is rendered. This is better than postConstruct because for sessionScope, postConstruct will fire only once every session. This will fire every time the page is loaded. This is ofcourse only for JSF 2.0 and not for JSF 1.2.

This is how to do it -

<html xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core">
      <f:metadata>
          <f:event type="preRenderView" listener="#{myController.onPageLoad}"/>
      </f:metadata>
</html>

And in the myController.java

 public void onPageLoad(){
    // Do something
 }

EDIT - Though this is not a solution for the question on this page, I add this just for people using higher versions of JSF.

JSF 2.2 has a new feature which performs this task using viewAction.

<f:metadata>
    <f:viewAction action="#{myController.onPageLoad}" />
</f:metadata>

Replace a character at a specific index in a string?

First thing I should have noticed is that charAt is a method and assigning value to it using equal sign won't do anything. If a string is immutable, charAt method, to make change to the string object must receive an argument containing the new character. Unfortunately, string is immutable. To modify the string, I needed to use StringBuilder as suggested by Mr. Petar Ivanov.

nginx 502 bad gateway

Similar setup here and looks like it was just a bug in my code. At the start of my app I looked for the offending URL and this worked: echo '<html>test</html>'; exit();

In my case, turns out the problem was an uninitialized variable that only failed under peculiar circumstances.

Command not found after npm install in zsh

In my humble opinion, first, you have to make sure you have any kind of Node version installed. For that type:

nvm ls

And if you don't get any versions it means I was right :) Then you have to type:

nvm install <node_version**>

** the actual version you can find in Node website

Then you will have Node and you will be able to use npm commands

How set the android:gravity to TextView from Java side in Android

labelTV.setGravity(Gravity.CENTER | Gravity.BOTTOM);

Kotlin version (thanks to Thommy)

labelTV.gravity = Gravity.CENTER_HORIZONTAL or Gravity.BOTTOM

Also, are you talking about gravity or about layout_gravity? The latter won't work in a RelativeLayout.

HTML input file selection event not firing upon selecting the same file

Use onClick event to clear value of target input, each time user clicks on field. This ensures that the onChange event will be triggered for the same file as well. Worked for me :)

onInputClick = (event) => {
    event.target.value = ''
}

<input type="file" onChange={onFileChanged} onClick={onInputClick} />

Using TypeScript

onInputClick = ( event: React.MouseEvent<HTMLInputElement, MouseEvent>) => {
    const element = event.target as HTMLInputElement
    element.value = ''
}

How to create custom config section in app.config?

Import namespace :

using System.Configuration;

Create ConfigurationElement Company :

public class Company : ConfigurationElement
{

        [ConfigurationProperty("name", IsRequired = true)]
        public string Name
        {
            get
            {
                return this["name"] as string;
            }
        }
            [ConfigurationProperty("code", IsRequired = true)]
        public string Code
        {
            get
            {
                return this["code"] as string;
            }
        }
}

ConfigurationElementCollection:

public class Companies
        : ConfigurationElementCollection
    {
        public Company this[int index]
        {
            get
            {
                return base.BaseGet(index) as Company ;
            }
            set
            {
                if (base.BaseGet(index) != null)
                {
                    base.BaseRemoveAt(index);
                }
                this.BaseAdd(index, value);
            }
        }

       public new Company this[string responseString]
       {
            get { return (Company) BaseGet(responseString); }
            set
            {
                if(BaseGet(responseString) != null)
                {
                    BaseRemoveAt(BaseIndexOf(BaseGet(responseString)));
                }
                BaseAdd(value);
            }
        }

        protected override System.Configuration.ConfigurationElement CreateNewElement()
        {
            return new Company();
        }

        protected override object GetElementKey(System.Configuration.ConfigurationElement element)
        {
            return ((Company)element).Name;
        }
    }

and ConfigurationSection:

public class RegisterCompaniesConfig
        : ConfigurationSection
    {

        public static RegisterCompaniesConfig GetConfig()
        {
            return (RegisterCompaniesConfig)System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.GetSection("RegisterCompanies") ?? new RegisterCompaniesConfig();
        }

        [System.Configuration.ConfigurationProperty("Companies")]
            [ConfigurationCollection(typeof(Companies), AddItemName = "Company")]
        public Companies Companies
        {
            get
            {
                object o = this["Companies"];
                return o as Companies ;
            }
        }

    }

and you must also register your new configuration section in web.config (app.config):

<configuration>       
    <configSections>
          <section name="Companies" type="blablabla.RegisterCompaniesConfig" ..>

then you load your config with

var config = RegisterCompaniesConfig.GetConfig();
foreach(var item in config.Companies)
{
   do something ..
}

How to get the first item from an associative PHP array?

Just so that we have some other options: reset($arr); good enough if you're not trying to keep the array pointer in place, and with very large arrays it incurs an minimal amount of overhead. That said, there are some problems with it:

$arr = array(1,2);
current($arr); // 1
next($arr);    // 2
current($arr); // 2
reset($arr);   // 1
current($arr); // 1 !This was 2 before! We've changed the array's pointer.

The way to do this without changing the pointer:

$arr[reset(array_keys($arr))]; // OR
reset(array_values($arr));

The benefit of $arr[reset(array_keys($arr))]; is that it raises an warning if the array is actually empty.

How to use pip on windows behind an authenticating proxy

I had the same issue on a remote windows environment. I tried many solutions found here or on other similars posts but nothing worked. Finally, the solution was quite simple. I had to set NO_PROXY with cmd :

set NO_PROXY="<domain>\<username>:<password>@<host>:<port>"
pip install <packagename>

You have to use double quotes and set NO_PROXY to upper case. You can also add NO_PROXY as an environment variable instead of setting it each time you use the console.

I hope this will help if any other solution posted here works.

shorthand If Statements: C#

Use the ternary operator

direction == 1 ? dosomething () : dosomethingelse ();

How can I modify the size of column in a MySQL table?

ALTER TABLE <tablename> CHANGE COLUMN <colname> <colname> VARCHAR(65536);

You have to list the column name twice, even if you aren't changing its name.

Note that after you make this change, the data type of the column will be MEDIUMTEXT.


Miky D is correct, the MODIFY command can do this more concisely.


Re the MEDIUMTEXT thing: a MySQL row can be only 65535 bytes (not counting BLOB/TEXT columns). If you try to change a column to be too large, making the total size of the row 65536 or greater, you may get an error. If you try to declare a column of VARCHAR(65536) then it's too large even if it's the only column in that table, so MySQL automatically converts it to a MEDIUMTEXT data type.

mysql> create table foo (str varchar(300));
mysql> alter table foo modify str varchar(65536);
mysql> show create table foo;
CREATE TABLE `foo` (
  `str` mediumtext
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

I misread your original question, you want VARCHAR(65353), which MySQL can do, as long as that column size summed with the other columns in the table doesn't exceed 65535.

mysql> create table foo (str1 varchar(300), str2 varchar(300));
mysql> alter table foo modify str2 varchar(65353);
ERROR 1118 (42000): Row size too large. 
The maximum row size for the used table type, not counting BLOBs, is 65535. 
You have to change some columns to TEXT or BLOBs

Select DISTINCT individual columns in django?

It's quite simple actually if you're using PostgreSQL, just use distinct(columns) (documentation).

Productorder.objects.all().distinct('category')

Note that this feature has been included in Django since 1.4

Facebook database design?

Keep in mind that database tables are designed to grow vertically (more rows), not horizontally (more columns)

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

The following worked for me:

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

How can I check the syntax of Python script without executing it?

for some reason ( I am a py newbie ... ) the -m call did not work ...

so here is a bash wrapper func ...

# ---------------------------------------------------------
# check the python synax for all the *.py files under the
# <<product_version_dir/sfw/python
# ---------------------------------------------------------
doCheckPythonSyntax(){

    doLog "DEBUG START doCheckPythonSyntax"

    test -z "$sleep_interval" || sleep "$sleep_interval"
    cd $product_version_dir/sfw/python
    # python3 -m compileall "$product_version_dir/sfw/python"

    # foreach *.py file ...
    while read -r f ; do \

        py_name_ext=$(basename $f)
        py_name=${py_name_ext%.*}

        doLog "python3 -c \"import $py_name\""
        # doLog "python3 -m py_compile $f"

        python3 -c "import $py_name"
        # python3 -m py_compile "$f"
        test $! -ne 0 && sleep 5

    done < <(find "$product_version_dir/sfw/python" -type f -name "*.py")

    doLog "DEBUG STOP  doCheckPythonSyntax"
}
# eof func doCheckPythonSyntax

Intel HAXM installation error - This computer does not support Intel Virtualization Technology (VT-x)

  1. First of all make sure you enabled Virtualization Technology in your BIOS. After restarting your computer press F1-F12 on your keyboard and find this option.

  2. Make sure you disabled Hyper-V in your Windows 7/Windows 8. You can turn it off in Control Panel -> Programs -> Windows functions

  3. You can try to disable your antivirus program for the whole installation process. Remember to restore all antivirus services after installing HAXM.

  4. Some people recommend cold boot which is:

    1. Disabling Virtualization in your BIOS
    2. Restart computer and turn it off
    3. Enable VT in your BIOS
    4. Restart computer, turn it off
    5. It's likely that now might be allowed to install HAXM

Unfortunately this step didn't work for me

  1. Last but not least: try this workaround patch released by Intel.

http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2013/04/25/workaround-patch-for-haxm-installation-error-failed-to-configure-driver-unknown

All you have to do is to download the package, unzip it, put it together with HAXM installator file and run .cmd file included in the package - remember, start it as an Administrator.

I had a lot of problems with installing HAXM and only the last step helped me.

in querySelector: how to get the first and get the last elements? what traversal order is used in the dom?

To access the first and last elements, try.

var nodes = div.querySelectorAll('[move_id]');
var first = nodes[0];
var last = nodes[nodes.length- 1];

For robustness, add index checks.

Yes, the order of nodes is pre-order depth-first. DOM's document order is defined as,

There is an ordering, document order, defined on all the nodes in the document corresponding to the order in which the first character of the XML representation of each node occurs in the XML representation of the document after expansion of general entities. Thus, the document element node will be the first node. Element nodes occur before their children. Thus, document order orders element nodes in order of the occurrence of their start-tag in the XML (after expansion of entities). The attribute nodes of an element occur after the element and before its children. The relative order of attribute nodes is implementation-dependent.

Enums in Javascript with ES6

Here is an Enum factory that avoids realm issues by using a namespace and Symbol.for:

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const COLOR = Enum("ACME.Color", "Blue", "Red");
console.log(COLOR.Red.toString());
console.log(COLOR.Red === Symbol.for("ACME.Color.Red"));
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How to call a C# function from JavaScript?

If you're meaning to make a server call from the client, you should use Ajax - look at something like Jquery and use $.Ajax() or $.getJson() to call the server function, depending on what kind of return you're after or action you want to execute.

Access files stored on Amazon S3 through web browser

I found this related question: Directory Listing in S3 Static Website

As it turns out, if you enable public read for the whole bucket, S3 can serve directory listings. Problem is they are in XML instead of HTML, so not very user-friendly.

There are three ways you could go for generating listings:

  • Generate index.html files for each directory on your own computer, upload them to s3, and update them whenever you add new files to a directory. Very low-tech. Since you're saying you're uploading build files straight from Travis, this may not be that practical since it would require doing extra work there.

  • Use a client-side S3 browser tool.

  • Use a server-side browser tool.

    • s3browser (PHP)
    • s3index Scala. Going by the existence of a Procfile, it may be readily deployable to Heroku. Not sure since I don't have any experience with Scala.

Understanding The Modulus Operator %

lets put it in this way:
actually Modulus operator does the same division but it does not care about the answer , it DOES CARE ABOUT reminder for example if you divide 7 to 5 ,
so , lets me take you through a simple example:
think 5 is a block, then for example we going to have 3 blocks in 15 (WITH Nothing Left) , but when that loginc comes to this kinda numbers {1,3,5,7,9,11,...} , here is where the Modulus comes out , so take that logic that i said before and apply it for 7 , so the answer gonna be that we have 1 block of 5 in 7 => with 2 reminds in our hand! that is the modulus!!!
but you were asking about 5 % 7 , right ?
so take the logic that i said , how many 7 blocks do we have in 5 ???? 0
so the modulus returns 0...
that's it ...

How to trim white spaces of array values in php

If you want to trim and print one dimensional Array or the deepest dimension of multi-dimensional Array you should use:

foreach($array as $key => $value)
{
    $array[$key] = trim($value);
    print("-");
    print($array[$key]);
    print("-");
    print("<br>");
}

If you want to trim but do not want to print one dimensional Array or the deepest dimension of multi-dimensional Array you should use:

$array = array_map('trim', $array);

PostgreSQL, checking date relative to "today"

This should give you the current date minus 1 year:

select now() - interval '1 year';

SQLAlchemy: print the actual query

So building on @zzzeek's comments on @bukzor's code I came up with this to easily get a "pretty-printable" query:

def prettyprintable(statement, dialect=None, reindent=True):
    """Generate an SQL expression string with bound parameters rendered inline
    for the given SQLAlchemy statement. The function can also receive a
    `sqlalchemy.orm.Query` object instead of statement.
    can 

    WARNING: Should only be used for debugging. Inlining parameters is not
             safe when handling user created data.
    """
    import sqlparse
    import sqlalchemy.orm
    if isinstance(statement, sqlalchemy.orm.Query):
        if dialect is None:
            dialect = statement.session.get_bind().dialect
        statement = statement.statement
    compiled = statement.compile(dialect=dialect,
                                 compile_kwargs={'literal_binds': True})
    return sqlparse.format(str(compiled), reindent=reindent)

I personally have a hard time reading code which is not indented so I've used sqlparse to reindent the SQL. It can be installed with pip install sqlparse.

numbers not allowed (0-9) - Regex Expression in javascript

Like this: ^[^0-9]+$

Explanation:

  • ^ matches the beginning of the string
  • [^...] matches anything that isn't inside
  • 0-9 means any character between 0 and 9
  • + matches one or more of the previous thing
  • $ matches the end of the string

How to add pandas data to an existing csv file?

with open(filename, 'a') as f:
    df.to_csv(f, header=f.tell()==0)
  • Create file unless exists, otherwise append
  • Add header if file is being created, otherwise skip it

IIS Express Windows Authentication

I'm using visual studio 2019 develop against ASP.Net application. Here's what been worked for us:

  1. Open your Project Property Windows, Disable Anonymous Authentication and Enable Windows Authentication
  2. In your Web.Config under system.web

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And I didn't change application.config in iis express.

Submit HTML form on self page

In 2013, with all the HTML5 stuff, you can just omit the 'action' attribute to self-submit a form

<form>

Actually, the Form Submission subsection of the current HTML5 draft does not allow action="" (empty attribute). It is against the specification.

From this other Stack Overflow answer.

Android: How to overlay a bitmap and draw over a bitmap?

public static Bitmap createSingleImageFromMultipleImages(Bitmap firstImage, Bitmap secondImage, ImageView secondImageView){

    Bitmap result = Bitmap.createBitmap(firstImage.getWidth(), firstImage.getHeight(), firstImage.getConfig());
    Canvas canvas = new Canvas(result);
    canvas.drawBitmap(firstImage, 0f, 0f, null);
    canvas.drawBitmap(secondImage, secondImageView.getX(), secondImageView.getY(), null);

    return result;
}

Convert an ArrayList to an object array

TypeA[] array = (TypeA[]) a.toArray();

How to print Two-Dimensional Array like table

I'll post a solution with a bit more elaboration, in addition to code, as the initial mistake and the subsequent ones that have been demonstrated in comments are common errors in this sort of string concatenation problem.

From the initial question, as has been adequately explained by @djechlin, we see that there is the need to print a new line after each line of your table has been completed. So, we need this statement:

System.out.println();

However, printing that immediately after the first print statement gives erroneous results. What gives?

1 
2 
...
n 

This is a problem of scope. Notice that there are two loops for a reason -- one loop handles rows, while the other handles columns. Your inner loop, the "j" loop, iterates through each array element "j" for a given "i." Therefore, at the end of the j loop, you should have a single row. You can think of each iterate of this "j" loop as building the "columns" of your table. Since the inner loop builds our columns, we don't want to print our line there -- it would make a new line for each element!

Once you are out of the j loop, you need to terminate that row before moving on to the next "i" iterate. This is the correct place to handle a new line, because it is the "scope" of your table's rows, instead of your table's columns.

for(i=0;i<7;i++){
    for(j=0;j<5;j++) {
        System.out.print(twoDm[i][j]+" ");  
    }
    System.out.println();
}

And you can see that this new line will hold true, even if you change the dimensions of your table by changing the end values of your "i" and "j" loops.

How to find out the MySQL root password

Answers provided here did not seem to work for me, the trick turned out to be: ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'test';

(complete answer here: https://www.percona.com/blog/2016/03/16/change-user-password-in-mysql-5-7-with-plugin-auth_socket/)

Switch php versions on commandline ubuntu 16.04

You could use these open source PHP Switch Scripts, which were designed specifically for use in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

https://github.com/rapidwebltd/php-switch-scripts

There is a setup.sh script which installs all required dependencies for PHP 5.6, 7.0, 7.1 & 7.2. Once this is complete, you can just run one of the following switch scripts to change the PHP CLI and Apache 2 module version.

./switch-to-php-5.6.sh
./switch-to-php-7.0.sh
./switch-to-php-7.1.sh
./switch-to-php-7.2.sh

DirectX SDK (June 2010) Installation Problems: Error Code S1023

Find Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 x86/x64 Redistributable – 10.0.xxxxx in the control panel of the add or remove programs if xxxxx > 30319 renmove it

I just wanted to say that this(I also emptied my temp folder, in Computer->C:->Properties->Disk Cleanup) made the DirectX June 2010 SDK install without failure, I have Vista32bit for all it matters. Thank you Mr.Lyn! :)

Can I have an IF block in DOS batch file?

Instead of this goto mess, try using the ampersand & or double ampersand && (conditional to errorlevel 0) as command separators.

I fixed a script snippet with this trick, to summarize, I have three batch files, one which calls the other two after having found which letters the external backup drives have been assigned. I leave the first file on the primary external drive so the calls to its backup routine worked fine, but the calls to the second one required an active drive change. The code below shows how I fixed it:

for %%b in (d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z) DO (
if exist "%%b:\Backup.cmd" %%b: & CALL "%%b:\Backup.cmd"
)

What is the difference between dynamic programming and greedy approach?

Based on Wikipedia's articles.

Greedy Approach

A greedy algorithm is an algorithm that follows the problem solving heuristic of making the locally optimal choice at each stage with the hope of finding a global optimum. In many problems, a greedy strategy does not in general produce an optimal solution, but nonetheless a greedy heuristic may yield locally optimal solutions that approximate a global optimal solution in a reasonable time.

We can make whatever choice seems best at the moment and then solve the subproblems that arise later. The choice made by a greedy algorithm may depend on choices made so far but not on future choices or all the solutions to the subproblem. It iteratively makes one greedy choice after another, reducing each given problem into a smaller one.

Dynamic programming

The idea behind dynamic programming is quite simple. In general, to solve a given problem, we need to solve different parts of the problem (subproblems), then combine the solutions of the subproblems to reach an overall solution. Often when using a more naive method, many of the subproblems are generated and solved many times. The dynamic programming approach seeks to solve each subproblem only once, thus reducing the number of computations: once the solution to a given subproblem has been computed, it is stored or "memo-ized": the next time the same solution is needed, it is simply looked up. This approach is especially useful when the number of repeating subproblems grows exponentially as a function of the size of the input.

Difference

Greedy choice property

We can make whatever choice seems best at the moment and then solve the subproblems that arise later. The choice made by a greedy algorithm may depend on choices made so far but not on future choices or all the solutions to the subproblem. It iteratively makes one greedy choice after another, reducing each given problem into a smaller one. In other words, a greedy algorithm never reconsiders its choices.

This is the main difference from dynamic programming, which is exhaustive and is guaranteed to find the solution. After every stage, dynamic programming makes decisions based on all the decisions made in the previous stage, and may reconsider the previous stage's algorithmic path to solution.

For example, let's say that you have to get from point A to point B as fast as possible, in a given city, during rush hour. A dynamic programming algorithm will look into the entire traffic report, looking into all possible combinations of roads you might take, and will only then tell you which way is the fastest. Of course, you might have to wait for a while until the algorithm finishes, and only then can you start driving. The path you will take will be the fastest one (assuming that nothing changed in the external environment).

On the other hand, a greedy algorithm will start you driving immediately and will pick the road that looks the fastest at every intersection. As you can imagine, this strategy might not lead to the fastest arrival time, since you might take some "easy" streets and then find yourself hopelessly stuck in a traffic jam.

Some other details...

In mathematical optimization, greedy algorithms solve combinatorial problems having the properties of matroids.

Dynamic programming is applicable to problems exhibiting the properties of overlapping subproblems and optimal substructure.

Calculate correlation with cor(), only for numerical columns

if you have a dataframe where some columns are numeric and some are other (character or factor) and you only want to do the correlations for the numeric columns, you could do the following:

set.seed(10)

x = as.data.frame(matrix(rnorm(100), ncol = 10))
x$L1 = letters[1:10]
x$L2 = letters[11:20]

cor(x)

Error in cor(x) : 'x' must be numeric

but

cor(x[sapply(x, is.numeric)])

             V1         V2          V3          V4          V5          V6          V7
V1   1.00000000  0.3025766 -0.22473884 -0.72468776  0.18890578  0.14466161  0.05325308
V2   0.30257657  1.0000000 -0.27871430 -0.29075170  0.16095258  0.10538468 -0.15008158
V3  -0.22473884 -0.2787143  1.00000000 -0.22644156  0.07276013 -0.35725182 -0.05859479
V4  -0.72468776 -0.2907517 -0.22644156  1.00000000 -0.19305921  0.16948333 -0.01025698
V5   0.18890578  0.1609526  0.07276013 -0.19305921  1.00000000  0.07339531 -0.31837954
V6   0.14466161  0.1053847 -0.35725182  0.16948333  0.07339531  1.00000000  0.02514081
V7   0.05325308 -0.1500816 -0.05859479 -0.01025698 -0.31837954  0.02514081  1.00000000
V8   0.44705527  0.1698571  0.39970105 -0.42461411  0.63951574  0.23065830 -0.28967977
V9   0.21006372 -0.4418132 -0.18623823 -0.25272860  0.15921890  0.36182579 -0.18437981
V10  0.02326108  0.4618036 -0.25205899 -0.05117037  0.02408278  0.47630138 -0.38592733
              V8           V9         V10
V1   0.447055266  0.210063724  0.02326108
V2   0.169857120 -0.441813231  0.46180357
V3   0.399701054 -0.186238233 -0.25205899
V4  -0.424614107 -0.252728595 -0.05117037
V5   0.639515737  0.159218895  0.02408278
V6   0.230658298  0.361825786  0.47630138
V7  -0.289679766 -0.184379813 -0.38592733
V8   1.000000000  0.001023392  0.11436143
V9   0.001023392  1.000000000  0.15301699
V10  0.114361431  0.153016985  1.00000000

Python display text with font & color?

There are 2 possibilities. In either case PyGame has to be initialized by pygame.init.

import pygame
pygame.init()

Use either the pygame.font module and create a pygame.font.SysFont or pygame.font.Font object. render() a pygame.Surface with the text and blit the Surface to the screen:

my_font = pygame.font.SysFont(None, 50)
text_surface = myfont.render("Hello world!", True, (255, 0, 0))
screen.blit(text_surface, (10, 10))

Or use the pygame.freetype module. Create a pygame.freetype.SysFont() or pygame.freetype.Font object. render() a pygame.Surface with the text or directly render_to() the text to the screen:

my_ft_font = pygame.freetype.SysFont('Times New Roman', 50)
my_ft_font.render_to(screen, (10, 10), "Hello world!", (255, 0, 0))

See also Text and font


Minimal pygame.font example: repl.it/@Rabbid76/PyGame-Text

import pygame

pygame.init()
window = pygame.display.set_mode((500, 150))
clock = pygame.time.Clock()

font = pygame.font.SysFont(None, 100)
text = font.render('Hello World', True, (255, 0, 0))

background = pygame.Surface(window.get_size())
ts, w, h, c1, c2 = 50, *window.get_size(), (128, 128, 128), (64, 64, 64)
tiles = [((x*ts, y*ts, ts, ts), c1 if (x+y) % 2 == 0 else c2) for x in range((w+ts-1)//ts) for y in range((h+ts-1)//ts)]
for rect, color in tiles:
    pygame.draw.rect(background, color, rect)

run = True
while run:
    clock.tick(60)
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            run = False

    window.blit(background, (0, 0))
    window.blit(text, text.get_rect(center = window.get_rect().center))
    pygame.display.flip()

pygame.quit()
exit()

Minimal pygame.freetype example: repl.it/@Rabbid76/PyGame-FreeTypeText

import pygame
import pygame.freetype

pygame.init()
window = pygame.display.set_mode((500, 150))
clock = pygame.time.Clock()

ft_font = pygame.freetype.SysFont('Times New Roman', 80)

background = pygame.Surface(window.get_size())
ts, w, h, c1, c2 = 50, *window.get_size(), (128, 128, 128), (64, 64, 64)
tiles = [((x*ts, y*ts, ts, ts), c1 if (x+y) % 2 == 0 else c2) for x in range((w+ts-1)//ts) for y in range((h+ts-1)//ts)]
for rect, color in tiles:
    pygame.draw.rect(background, color, rect)

run = True
while run:
    clock.tick(60)
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            run = False

    window.blit(background, (0, 0))
    text_rect = ft_font.get_rect('Hello World')
    text_rect.center = window.get_rect().center
    ft_font.render_to(window, text_rect.topleft, 'Hello World', (255, 0, 0))
    pygame.display.flip()

pygame.quit()
exit()

Actual meaning of 'shell=True' in subprocess

The other answers here adequately explain the security caveats which are also mentioned in the subprocess documentation. But in addition to that, the overhead of starting a shell to start the program you want to run is often unnecessary and definitely silly for situations where you don't actually use any of the shell's functionality. Moreover, the additional hidden complexity should scare you, especially if you are not very familiar with the shell or the services it provides.

Where the interactions with the shell are nontrivial, you now require the reader and maintainer of the Python script (which may or may not be your future self) to understand both Python and shell script. Remember the Python motto "explicit is better than implicit"; even when the Python code is going to be somewhat more complex than the equivalent (and often very terse) shell script, you might be better off removing the shell and replacing the functionality with native Python constructs. Minimizing the work done in an external process and keeping control within your own code as far as possible is often a good idea simply because it improves visibility and reduces the risks of -- wanted or unwanted -- side effects.

Wildcard expansion, variable interpolation, and redirection are all simple to replace with native Python constructs. A complex shell pipeline where parts or all cannot be reasonably rewritten in Python would be the one situation where perhaps you could consider using the shell. You should still make sure you understand the performance and security implications.

In the trivial case, to avoid shell=True, simply replace

subprocess.Popen("command -with -options 'like this' and\\ an\\ argument", shell=True)

with

subprocess.Popen(['command', '-with','-options', 'like this', 'and an argument'])

Notice how the first argument is a list of strings to pass to execvp(), and how quoting strings and backslash-escaping shell metacharacters is generally not necessary (or useful, or correct). Maybe see also When to wrap quotes around a shell variable?

If you don't want to figure this out yourself, the shlex.split() function can do this for you. It's part of the Python standard library, but of course, if your shell command string is static, you can just run it once, during development, and paste the result into your script.

As an aside, you very often want to avoid Popen if one of the simpler wrappers in the subprocess package does what you want. If you have a recent enough Python, you should probably use subprocess.run.

  • With check=True it will fail if the command you ran failed.
  • With stdout=subprocess.PIPE it will capture the command's output.
  • With text=True (or somewhat obscurely, with the synonym universal_newlines=True) it will decode output into a proper Unicode string (it's just bytes in the system encoding otherwise, on Python 3).

If not, for many tasks, you want check_output to obtain the output from a command, whilst checking that it succeeded, or check_call if there is no output to collect.

I'll close with a quote from David Korn: "It's easier to write a portable shell than a portable shell script." Even subprocess.run('echo "$HOME"', shell=True) is not portable to Windows.

Conditional Binding: if let error – Initializer for conditional binding must have Optional type

In a case where you are using a custom cell type, say ArticleCell, you might get an error that says :

    Initializer for conditional binding must have Optional type, not 'ArticleCell'

You will get this error if your line of code looks something like this:

    if let cell = tableView.dequeReusableCell(withIdentifier: "ArticleCell",for indexPath: indexPath) as! ArticleCell 

You can fix this error by doing the following :

    if let cell = tableView.dequeReusableCell(withIdentifier: "ArticleCell",for indexPath: indexPath) as ArticleCell?

If you check the above, you will see that the latter is using optional casting for a cell of type ArticleCell.

"The page has expired due to inactivity" - Laravel 5.5

Try all of them.

composer dump-autoload
php artisan optimize
php artisan cache:clear
php artisan config:clear
php artisan route:clear
php artisan view:clear

Bitwise operation and usage

i didnt see it mentioned, This example will show you the (-) decimal operation for 2 bit values: A-B (only if A contains B)

this operation is needed when we hold an verb in our program that represent bits. sometimes we need to add bits (like above) and sometimes we need to remove bits (if the verb contains then)

111 #decimal 7
-
100 #decimal 4
--------------
011 #decimal 3

with python: 7 & ~4 = 3 (remove from 7 the bits that represent 4)

001 #decimal 1
-
100 #decimal 4
--------------
001 #decimal 1

with python: 1 & ~4 = 1 (remove from 1 the bits that represent 4 - in this case 1 is not 'contains' 4)..

Play a Sound with Python

Definitely use Pyglet for this. It's kind of a large package, but it is pure python with no extension modules. That will definitely be the easiest for deployment. It's also got great format and codec support.

import pyglet

music = pyglet.resource.media('music.mp3')
music.play()

pyglet.app.run()

How to have comments in IntelliSense for function in Visual Studio?

use /// to begin each line of the comment and have the comment contain the appropriate xml for the meta data reader.

///<summary>
/// this method says hello
///</summary>
public void SayHello();

Although personally, I believe that these comments are usually misguided, unless you are developing classes where the code cannot be read by its consumers.

Where are environment variables stored in the Windows Registry?

Here's where they're stored on Windows XP through Windows Server 2012 R2:

User Variables

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment

System Variables

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment

Access a JavaScript variable from PHP

Well the problem with the GET is that the user is able to change the value by himself if he has some knowledges. I wrote this so that PHP is able to retrive the timezone from Javascript:

// -- index.php

<?php
  if (!isset($_COOKIE['timezone'])) {
?>
<html>
<script language="javascript">  
  var d = new Date(); 
  var timezoneOffset = d.getTimezoneOffset() / 60;
  // the cookie expired in 3 hours
  d.setTime(d.getTime()+(3*60*60*1000));
  var expires = "; expires="+d.toGMTString();
  document.cookie = "timezone=" +  timezoneOffset + expires + "; path=/";
  document.location.href="index.php"
</script>
</html>
<?php
} else {
  ?>

  <html>
  <head>
  <body>

  <?php 
  if(isset($_COOKIE['timezone'])){ 
    dump_var($_COOKIE['timezone']); 
  } 
}
?>

How to Bootstrap navbar static to fixed on scroll?

hey all everyone is over thinking this all you need to do is wrap the nav in a like below:

csscode:

#navwrap {  
    height: 100px;   (change dependant on hight of nav)
    width: 100%;
    margin: 0;
    padding-top: 5px;
}

HTML:

<div id="navwrap">
    nav code inside
</div>

Round up value to nearest whole number in SQL UPDATE

Ceiling is the command you want to use.

Unlike Round, Ceiling only takes one parameter (the value you wish to round up), therefore if you want to round to a decimal place, you will need to multiply the number by that many decimal places first and divide afterwards.

Example.

I want to round up 1.2345 to 2 decimal places.

CEILING(1.2345*100)/100 AS Cost

How to determine device screen size category (small, normal, large, xlarge) using code?

private String getDeviceDensity() {
    int density = mContext.getResources().getDisplayMetrics().densityDpi;
    switch (density)
    {
        case DisplayMetrics.DENSITY_MEDIUM:
            return "MDPI";
        case DisplayMetrics.DENSITY_HIGH:
            return "HDPI";
        case DisplayMetrics.DENSITY_LOW:
            return "LDPI";
        case DisplayMetrics.DENSITY_XHIGH:
            return "XHDPI";
        case DisplayMetrics.DENSITY_TV:
            return "TV";
        case DisplayMetrics.DENSITY_XXHIGH:
            return "XXHDPI";
        case DisplayMetrics.DENSITY_XXXHIGH:
            return "XXXHDPI";
        default:
            return "Unknown";
    }
}

How to put scroll bar only for modal-body?

If you're only supporting IE 9 or higher, you can use this CSS that will smoothly scale to the size of the window. You may need to tweak the "200px" though, depending on the height of your header or footer.

.modal-body{
    max-height: calc(100vh - 200px);
    overflow-y: auto;
}

Bash: Syntax error: redirection unexpected

On my machine, if I run a script directly, the default is bash.

If I run it with sudo, the default is sh.

That’s why I was hitting this problem when I used sudo.

Best way to check if object exists in Entity Framework?

I had to manage a scenario where the percentage of duplicates being provided in the new data records was very high, and so many thousands of database calls were being made to check for duplicates (so the CPU sent a lot of time at 100%). In the end I decided to keep the last 100,000 records cached in memory. This way I could check for duplicates against the cached records which was extremely fast when compared to a LINQ query against the SQL database, and then write any genuinely new records to the database (as well as add them to the data cache, which I also sorted and trimmed to keep its length manageable).

Note that the raw data was a CSV file that contained many individual records that had to be parsed. The records in each consecutive file (which came at a rate of about 1 every 5 minutes) overlapped considerably, hence the high percentage of duplicates.

In short, if you have timestamped raw data coming in, pretty much in order, then using a memory cache might help with the record duplication check.

Tried to Load Angular More Than Once

Another case is with Webpack which concating angular into the bundle.js, beside the angular that is loaded from index.html <script> tag.

this was because we used explicit importing of angular in many files:

define(['angular', ...], function(angular, ...){

so, webpack decided to bundle it too. cleaning all of those into:

define([...], function(...){

was fixing Tried to Load Angular More Than Once for once and all.

How to check if an environment variable exists and get its value?

All the answers worked. However, I had to add the variables that I needed to get to the sudoers files as follows:

sudo visudo
Defaults env_keep += "<var1>, <var2>, ..., <varn>"

Track a new remote branch created on GitHub

If you don't have an existing local branch, it is truly as simple as:

git fetch
git checkout <remote-branch-name>

For instance if you fetch and there is a new remote tracking branch called origin/feature/Main_Page, just do this:

git checkout feature/Main_Page

This creates a local branch with the same name as the remote branch, tracking that remote branch. If you have multiple remotes with the same branch name, you can use the less ambiguous:

git checkout -t <remote>/<remote-branch-name>

If you already made the local branch and don't want to delete it, see How do you make an existing Git branch track a remote branch?.

Update my gradle dependencies in eclipse

You have to make sure that "Dependency Management" is enabled. To do so, right click on the project name, go to the "Gradle" sub-menu and click on "Enable Dependency Management". Once you do that, Gradle should load all the dependencies for you.

How to store file name in database, with other info while uploading image to server using PHP?

Here is the answer for those of you looking like I did all over the web trying to find out how to do this task. Uploading a photo to a server with the file name stored in a mysql database and other form data you want in your Database. Please let me know if it helped.

Firstly the form you need:

    <form method="post" action="addMember.php" enctype="multipart/form-data">
    <p>
              Please Enter the Band Members Name.
            </p>
            <p>
              Band Member or Affiliates Name:
            </p>
            <input type="text" name="nameMember"/>
            <p>
              Please Enter the Band Members Position. Example:Drums.
            </p>
            <p>
              Band Position:
            </p>
            <input type="text" name="bandMember"/>
            <p>
              Please Upload a Photo of the Member in gif or jpeg format. The file name should be named after the Members name. If the same file name is uploaded twice it will be overwritten! Maxium size of File is 35kb.
            </p>
            <p>
              Photo:
            </p>
            <input type="hidden" name="size" value="350000">
            <input type="file" name="photo"> 
            <p>
              Please Enter any other information about the band member here.
            </p>
            <p>
              Other Member Information:
            </p>
<textarea rows="10" cols="35" name="aboutMember">
</textarea>
            <p>
              Please Enter any other Bands the Member has been in.
            </p>
            <p>
              Other Bands:
            </p>
            <input type="text" name="otherBands" size=30 />
            <br/>
            <br/>
            <input TYPE="submit" name="upload" title="Add data to the Database" value="Add Member"/>
          </form>

Then this code processes you data from the form:

   <?php

// This is the directory where images will be saved
$target = "your directory";
$target = $target . basename( $_FILES['photo']['name']);

// This gets all the other information from the form
$name=$_POST['nameMember'];
$bandMember=$_POST['bandMember'];
$pic=($_FILES['photo']['name']);
$about=$_POST['aboutMember'];
$bands=$_POST['otherBands'];


// Connects to your Database
mysqli_connect("yourhost", "username", "password") or die(mysqli_error()) ;
mysqli_select_db("dbName") or die(mysqli_error()) ;

// Writes the information to the database
mysqli_query("INSERT INTO tableName (nameMember,bandMember,photo,aboutMember,otherBands)
VALUES ('$name', '$bandMember', '$pic', '$about', '$bands')") ;

// Writes the photo to the server
if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['photo']['tmp_name'], $target))
{

// Tells you if its all ok
echo "The file ". basename( $_FILES['uploadedfile']['name']). " has been uploaded, and your information has been added to the directory";
}
else {

// Gives and error if its not
echo "Sorry, there was a problem uploading your file.";
}
?> 

Code edited from www.about.com

how to check which version of nltk, scikit learn installed?

For checking the version of scikit-learn in shell script, if you have pip installed, you can try this command

pip freeze | grep scikit-learn
scikit-learn==0.17.1

Hope it helps!

MySql Proccesslist filled with "Sleep" Entries leading to "Too many Connections"?

Before increasing the max_connections variable, you have to check how many non-interactive connection you have by running show processlist command.

If you have many sleep connection, you have to decrease the value of the "wait_timeout" variable to close non-interactive connection after waiting some times.

  • To show the wait_timeout value:

SHOW SESSION VARIABLES LIKE 'wait_timeout';

+---------------+-------+

| Variable_name | Value |

+---------------+-------+

| wait_timeout | 28800 |

+---------------+-------+

the value is in second, it means that non-interactive connection still up to 8 hours.

  • To change the value of "wait_timeout" variable:

SET session wait_timeout=600; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)

After 10 minutes if the sleep connection still sleeping the mysql or MariaDB drop that connection.

Laravel 4: Redirect to a given url

You can also use redirect() method like this:-

return redirect('https://stackoverflow.com/');

What exactly does a jar file contain?

A jar file is a zip file with some additional files containing metadata. (Despite the .jar extension, it is in zip format, and any utilities that deal with .zip files are also able to deal with .jar files.)

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/jar/index.html

Jar files can contain any kind of files, but they usually contain class files and supporting configuration files (properties), graphics and other data files needed by the application.

Class files contain compiled Java code, which is executable by the Java Virtual Machine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_class_file

How to display binary data as image - extjs 4

Need to convert it in base64.

JS have btoa() function for it.

For example:

var img = document.createElement('img');
img.src = 'data:image/jpeg;base64,' + btoa('your-binary-data');
document.body.appendChild(img);

But i think what your binary data in pastebin is invalid - the jpeg data must be ended on 'ffd9'.

Update:

Need to write simple hex to base64 converter:

function hexToBase64(str) {
    return btoa(String.fromCharCode.apply(null, str.replace(/\r|\n/g, "").replace(/([\da-fA-F]{2}) ?/g, "0x$1 ").replace(/ +$/, "").split(" ")));
}

And use it:

img.src = 'data:image/jpeg;base64,' + hexToBase64('your-binary-data');

See working example with your hex data on jsfiddle

Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string

I use codeignator and I got the error:

Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string.

for this post I get my result

I use in my model section

$query = $this->db->get('user', 10);
        return $query->result();

and from this post I use

$query = $this->db->get('user', 10);
        return $query->row();

and I solved my problem

Error 5 : Access Denied when starting windows service

I had this issue on a service that I was deploying, and none of the other suggestions on this question worked. In my case, it was because my .config (xml) wasn't valid. I made a copy and paste error when copying from qualif to prod.

jackson deserialization json to java-objects

Your product class needs a parameterless constructor. You can make it private, but Jackson needs the constructor.

As a side note: You should use Pascal casing for your class names. That is Product, and not product.

How to modify the nodejs request default timeout time?

For those having configuration in bin/www, just add the timeout parameter after http server creation.

var server = http.createServer(app);
/**
* Listen on provided port, on all network interfaces
*/
server.listen(port);
server.timeout=yourValueInMillisecond

PHP - Notice: Undefined index:

Before you extract values from $_POST, you should check if they exist. You could use the isset function for this (http://php.net/manual/en/function.isset.php)

How do you view ALL text from an ntext or nvarchar(max) in SSMS?

I was able to get the full text (99,208 chars) out of a NVARCHAR(MAX) column by selecting (Results To Grid) just that column and then right-clicking on it and then saving the result as a CSV file. To view the result open the CSV file with a text editor (NOT Excel). Funny enough, when I tried to run the same query, but having Results to File enabled, the output was truncated using the Results to Text limit.

The work-around that @MartinSmith described as a comment to the (currently) accepted answer didn't work for me (got an error when trying to view the full XML result complaining about "The '[' character, hexadecimal value 0x5B, cannot be included in a name").

Iterating over all the keys of a map

This is also an option

 for key, element := range myMap{
    fmt.Println("Key:", key, "Element:", element)
 }

jQuery hasAttr checking to see if there is an attribute on an element

You're so close it's crazy.

if($(this).attr("name"))

There's no hasAttr but hitting an attribute by name will just return undefined if it doesn't exist.

This is why the below works. If you remove the name attribute from #heading the second alert will fire.

Update: As per the comments, the below will ONLY work if the attribute is present AND is set to something not if the attribute is there but empty

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function()
{
    if ($("#heading").attr("name"))
      alert('Look, this is showing because it\'s not undefined');
    else
      alert('This would be called if it were undefined or is there but empty');
});
</script>
<h1 id="heading" name="bob">Welcome!</h1>

Overlapping elements in CSS

the easiest way is to use position:absolute on both elements. You can absolutely position relative to the page, or you can absolutely position relative to a container div by setting the container div to position:relative

<div id="container" style="position:relative;">
    <div id="div1" style="position:absolute; top:0; left:0;"></div>
    <div id="div2" style="position:absolute; top:0; left:0;"></div>
</div>

Convert string into Date type on Python

from datetime import datetime

a = datetime.strptime(f, "%Y-%m-%d")

How to insert text with single quotation sql server 2005

INSERT INTO Table1 (Column1) VALUES ('John''s')

Or you can use a stored procedure and pass the parameter as -

usp_Proc1 @Column1 = 'John''s'

If you are using an INSERT query and not a stored procedure, you'll have to escape the quote with two quotes, else its OK if you don't do it.

Run ScrollTop with offset of element by ID

No magic involved, just subtract from the offset top of the element

$('html, body').animate({scrollTop: $('#contact').offset().top -100 }, 'slow');

Converting an OpenCV Image to Black and White

Specifying CV_THRESH_OTSU causes the threshold value to be ignored. From the documentation:

Also, the special value THRESH_OTSU may be combined with one of the above values. In this case, the function determines the optimal threshold value using the Otsu’s algorithm and uses it instead of the specified thresh . The function returns the computed threshold value. Currently, the Otsu’s method is implemented only for 8-bit images.

This code reads frames from the camera and performs the binary threshold at the value 20.

#include "opencv2/core/core.hpp"
#include "opencv2/imgproc/imgproc.hpp"
#include "opencv2/highgui/highgui.hpp"

using namespace cv;

int main(int argc, const char * argv[]) {

    VideoCapture cap; 
    if(argc > 1) 
        cap.open(string(argv[1])); 
    else 
        cap.open(0); 
    Mat frame; 
    namedWindow("video", 1); 
    for(;;) {
        cap >> frame; 
        if(!frame.data) 
            break; 
        cvtColor(frame, frame, CV_BGR2GRAY);
        threshold(frame, frame, 20, 255, THRESH_BINARY);
        imshow("video", frame); 
        if(waitKey(30) >= 0) 
            break;
    }

    return 0;
}

Improving bulk insert performance in Entity framework

Using the code below you can extend the partial context class with a method that will take a collection of entity objects and bulk copy them to the database. Simply replace the name of the class from MyEntities to whatever your entity class is named and add it to your project, in the correct namespace. After that all you need to do is call the BulkInsertAll method handing over the entity objects you want to insert. Do not reuse the context class, instead create a new instance every time you use it. This is required, at least in some versions of EF, since the authentication data associated with the SQLConnection used here gets lost after having used the class once. I don't know why.

This version is for EF 5

public partial class MyEntities
{
    public void BulkInsertAll<T>(T[] entities) where T : class
    {
        var conn = (SqlConnection)Database.Connection;

        conn.Open();

        Type t = typeof(T);
        Set(t).ToString();
        var objectContext = ((IObjectContextAdapter)this).ObjectContext;
        var workspace = objectContext.MetadataWorkspace;
        var mappings = GetMappings(workspace, objectContext.DefaultContainerName, typeof(T).Name);

        var tableName = GetTableName<T>();
        var bulkCopy = new SqlBulkCopy(conn) { DestinationTableName = tableName };

        // Foreign key relations show up as virtual declared 
        // properties and we want to ignore these.
        var properties = t.GetProperties().Where(p => !p.GetGetMethod().IsVirtual).ToArray();
        var table = new DataTable();
        foreach (var property in properties)
        {
            Type propertyType = property.PropertyType;

            // Nullable properties need special treatment.
            if (propertyType.IsGenericType &&
                propertyType.GetGenericTypeDefinition() == typeof(Nullable<>))
            {
                propertyType = Nullable.GetUnderlyingType(propertyType);
            }

            // Since we cannot trust the CLR type properties to be in the same order as
            // the table columns we use the SqlBulkCopy column mappings.
            table.Columns.Add(new DataColumn(property.Name, propertyType));
            var clrPropertyName = property.Name;
            var tableColumnName = mappings[property.Name];
            bulkCopy.ColumnMappings.Add(new SqlBulkCopyColumnMapping(clrPropertyName, tableColumnName));
        }

        // Add all our entities to our data table
        foreach (var entity in entities)
        {
            var e = entity;
            table.Rows.Add(properties.Select(property => GetPropertyValue(property.GetValue(e, null))).ToArray());
        }

        // send it to the server for bulk execution
        bulkCopy.BulkCopyTimeout = 5 * 60;
        bulkCopy.WriteToServer(table);

        conn.Close();
    }

    private string GetTableName<T>() where T : class
    {
        var dbSet = Set<T>();
        var sql = dbSet.ToString();
        var regex = new Regex(@"FROM (?<table>.*) AS");
        var match = regex.Match(sql);
        return match.Groups["table"].Value;
    }

    private object GetPropertyValue(object o)
    {
        if (o == null)
            return DBNull.Value;
        return o;
    }

    private Dictionary<string, string> GetMappings(MetadataWorkspace workspace, string containerName, string entityName)
    {
        var mappings = new Dictionary<string, string>();
        var storageMapping = workspace.GetItem<GlobalItem>(containerName, DataSpace.CSSpace);
        dynamic entitySetMaps = storageMapping.GetType().InvokeMember(
            "EntitySetMaps",
            BindingFlags.GetProperty | BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance,
            null, storageMapping, null);

        foreach (var entitySetMap in entitySetMaps)
        {
            var typeMappings = GetArrayList("TypeMappings", entitySetMap);
            dynamic typeMapping = typeMappings[0];
            dynamic types = GetArrayList("Types", typeMapping);

            if (types[0].Name == entityName)
            {
                var fragments = GetArrayList("MappingFragments", typeMapping);
                var fragment = fragments[0];
                var properties = GetArrayList("AllProperties", fragment);
                foreach (var property in properties)
                {
                    var edmProperty = GetProperty("EdmProperty", property);
                    var columnProperty = GetProperty("ColumnProperty", property);
                    mappings.Add(edmProperty.Name, columnProperty.Name);
                }
            }
        }

        return mappings;
    }

    private ArrayList GetArrayList(string property, object instance)
    {
        var type = instance.GetType();
        var objects = (IEnumerable)type.InvokeMember(property, BindingFlags.GetProperty | BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance, null, instance, null);
        var list = new ArrayList();
        foreach (var o in objects)
        {
            list.Add(o);
        }
        return list;
    }

    private dynamic GetProperty(string property, object instance)
    {
        var type = instance.GetType();
        return type.InvokeMember(property, BindingFlags.GetProperty | BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance, null, instance, null);
    }
}

This version is for EF 6

public partial class CMLocalEntities
{
    public void BulkInsertAll<T>(T[] entities) where T : class
    {
        var conn = (SqlConnection)Database.Connection;

        conn.Open();

        Type t = typeof(T);
        Set(t).ToString();
        var objectContext = ((IObjectContextAdapter)this).ObjectContext;
        var workspace = objectContext.MetadataWorkspace;
        var mappings = GetMappings(workspace, objectContext.DefaultContainerName, typeof(T).Name);

        var tableName = GetTableName<T>();
        var bulkCopy = new SqlBulkCopy(conn) { DestinationTableName = tableName };

        // Foreign key relations show up as virtual declared 
        // properties and we want to ignore these.
        var properties = t.GetProperties().Where(p => !p.GetGetMethod().IsVirtual).ToArray();
        var table = new DataTable();
        foreach (var property in properties)
        {
            Type propertyType = property.PropertyType;

            // Nullable properties need special treatment.
            if (propertyType.IsGenericType &&
                propertyType.GetGenericTypeDefinition() == typeof(Nullable<>))
            {
                propertyType = Nullable.GetUnderlyingType(propertyType);
            }

            // Since we cannot trust the CLR type properties to be in the same order as
            // the table columns we use the SqlBulkCopy column mappings.
            table.Columns.Add(new DataColumn(property.Name, propertyType));
            var clrPropertyName = property.Name;
            var tableColumnName = mappings[property.Name];
            bulkCopy.ColumnMappings.Add(new SqlBulkCopyColumnMapping(clrPropertyName, tableColumnName));
        }

        // Add all our entities to our data table
        foreach (var entity in entities)
        {
            var e = entity;
            table.Rows.Add(properties.Select(property => GetPropertyValue(property.GetValue(e, null))).ToArray());
        }

        // send it to the server for bulk execution
        bulkCopy.BulkCopyTimeout = 5*60;
        bulkCopy.WriteToServer(table);

        conn.Close();
    }

    private string GetTableName<T>() where T : class
    {
        var dbSet = Set<T>();
        var sql = dbSet.ToString();
        var regex = new Regex(@"FROM (?<table>.*) AS");
        var match = regex.Match(sql);
        return match.Groups["table"].Value;
    }

    private object GetPropertyValue(object o)
    {
        if (o == null)
            return DBNull.Value;
        return o;
    }

    private Dictionary<string, string> GetMappings(MetadataWorkspace workspace, string containerName, string entityName)
    {
        var mappings = new Dictionary<string, string>();
        var storageMapping = workspace.GetItem<GlobalItem>(containerName, DataSpace.CSSpace);
        dynamic entitySetMaps = storageMapping.GetType().InvokeMember(
            "EntitySetMaps",
            BindingFlags.GetProperty | BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance,
            null, storageMapping, null);

        foreach (var entitySetMap in entitySetMaps)
        {
            var typeMappings = GetArrayList("EntityTypeMappings", entitySetMap);
            dynamic typeMapping = typeMappings[0];
            dynamic types = GetArrayList("Types", typeMapping);

            if (types[0].Name == entityName)
            {
                var fragments = GetArrayList("MappingFragments", typeMapping);
                var fragment = fragments[0];
                var properties = GetArrayList("AllProperties", fragment);
                foreach (var property in properties)
                {
                    var edmProperty = GetProperty("EdmProperty", property);
                    var columnProperty = GetProperty("ColumnProperty", property);
                    mappings.Add(edmProperty.Name, columnProperty.Name);
                }
            }
        }

        return mappings;
    }

    private ArrayList GetArrayList(string property, object instance)
    {
        var type = instance.GetType();
        var objects = (IEnumerable)type.InvokeMember(
            property, 
            BindingFlags.GetProperty | BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance, null, instance, null);
        var list = new ArrayList();
        foreach (var o in objects)
        {
            list.Add(o);
        }
        return list;
    }

    private dynamic GetProperty(string property, object instance)
    {
        var type = instance.GetType();
        return type.InvokeMember(property, BindingFlags.GetProperty | BindingFlags.Public | BindingFlags.Instance, null, instance, null);
    }

}

And finally, a little something for you Linq-To-Sql lovers.

partial class MyDataContext
{
    partial void OnCreated()
    {
        CommandTimeout = 5 * 60;
    }

    public void BulkInsertAll<T>(IEnumerable<T> entities)
    {
        entities = entities.ToArray();

        string cs = Connection.ConnectionString;
        var conn = new SqlConnection(cs);
        conn.Open();

        Type t = typeof(T);

        var tableAttribute = (TableAttribute)t.GetCustomAttributes(
            typeof(TableAttribute), false).Single();
        var bulkCopy = new SqlBulkCopy(conn) { 
            DestinationTableName = tableAttribute.Name };

        var properties = t.GetProperties().Where(EventTypeFilter).ToArray();
        var table = new DataTable();

        foreach (var property in properties)
        {
            Type propertyType = property.PropertyType;
            if (propertyType.IsGenericType &&
                propertyType.GetGenericTypeDefinition() == typeof(Nullable<>))
            {
                propertyType = Nullable.GetUnderlyingType(propertyType);
            }

            table.Columns.Add(new DataColumn(property.Name, propertyType));
        }

        foreach (var entity in entities)
        {
            table.Rows.Add(properties.Select(
              property => GetPropertyValue(
              property.GetValue(entity, null))).ToArray());
        }

        bulkCopy.WriteToServer(table);
        conn.Close();
    }

    private bool EventTypeFilter(System.Reflection.PropertyInfo p)
    {
        var attribute = Attribute.GetCustomAttribute(p, 
            typeof (AssociationAttribute)) as AssociationAttribute;

        if (attribute == null) return true;
        if (attribute.IsForeignKey == false) return true; 

        return false;
    }

    private object GetPropertyValue(object o)
    {
        if (o == null)
            return DBNull.Value;
        return o;
    }
}

Override browser form-filling and input highlighting with HTML/CSS

I've read so many threads and try so many pieces of code. After gathering all that stuff, the only way I found to cleanly empty the login and password fields and reset their background to white was the following :

$(window).load(function() {
    setTimeout(function() {
        $('input:-webkit-autofill')
            .val('')
            .css('-webkit-box-shadow', '0 0 0px 1000px white inset')
            .attr('readonly', true)
            .removeAttr('readonly')
        ;
    }, 50);
});

Feel free to comment, I'm opened to all enhancements if you find some.

MySQL Orderby a number, Nulls last

For a DATE column you can use:


NULLS last:

ORDER BY IFNULL(`myDate`, '9999-12-31') ASC

Blanks last:

ORDER BY IF(`myDate` = '', '9999-12-31', `myDate`) ASC

how to change listen port from default 7001 to something different?

Simplest option ...your can change it from AdminConsole. Login to AdminConsole--->Server-->--->Configuration--->ListenPort (Change it)!

Not Equal to This OR That in Lua

Your problem stems from a misunderstanding of the or operator that is common to people learning programming languages like this. Yes, your immediate problem can be solved by writing x ~= 0 and x ~= 1, but I'll go into a little more detail about why your attempted solution doesn't work.

When you read x ~=(0 or 1) or x ~= 0 or 1 it's natural to parse this as you would the sentence "x is not equal to zero or one". In the ordinary understanding of that statement, "x" is the subject, "is not equal to" is the predicate or verb phrase, and "zero or one" is the object, a set of possibilities joined by a conjunction. You apply the subject with the verb to each item in the set.

However, Lua does not parse this based on the rules of English grammar, it parses it in binary comparisons of two elements based on its order of operations. Each operator has a precedence which determines the order in which it will be evaluated. or has a lower precedence than ~=, just as addition in mathematics has a lower precedence than multiplication. Everything has a lower precedence than parentheses.

As a result, when evaluating x ~=(0 or 1), the interpreter will first compute 0 or 1 (because of the parentheses) and then x ~= the result of the first computation, and in the second example, it will compute x ~= 0 and then apply the result of that computation to or 1.

The logical operator or "returns its first argument if this value is different from nil and false; otherwise, or returns its second argument". The relational operator ~= is the inverse of the equality operator ==; it returns true if its arguments are different types (x is a number, right?), and otherwise compares its arguments normally.

Using these rules, x ~=(0 or 1) will decompose to x ~= 0 (after applying the or operator) and this will return 'true' if x is anything other than 0, including 1, which is undesirable. The other form, x ~= 0 or 1 will first evaluate x ~= 0 (which may return true or false, depending on the value of x). Then, it will decompose to one of false or 1 or true or 1. In the first case, the statement will return 1, and in the second case, the statement will return true. Because control structures in Lua only consider nil and false to be false, and anything else to be true, this will always enter the if statement, which is not what you want either.

There is no way that you can use binary operators like those provided in programming languages to compare a single variable to a list of values. Instead, you need to compare the variable to each value one by one. There are a few ways to do this. The simplest way is to use De Morgan's laws to express the statement 'not one or zero' (which can't be evaluated with binary operators) as 'not one and not zero', which can trivially be written with binary operators:

if x ~= 1 and x ~= 0 then
    print( "X must be equal to 1 or 0" )
    return
end

Alternatively, you can use a loop to check these values:

local x_is_ok = false
for i = 0,1 do 
    if x == i then
        x_is_ok = true
    end
end
if not x_is_ok then
    print( "X must be equal to 1 or 0" )
    return
end

Finally, you could use relational operators to check a range and then test that x was an integer in the range (you don't want 0.5, right?)

if not (x >= 0 and x <= 1 and math.floor(x) == x) then
    print( "X must be equal to 1 or 0" )
    return
end

Note that I wrote x >= 0 and x <= 1. If you understood the above explanation, you should now be able to explain why I didn't write 0 <= x <= 1, and what this erroneous expression would return!

How to initialize a nested struct?

You also could allocate using new and initialize all fields by hand

package main

type Configuration struct {
    Val   string
    Proxy struct {
        Address string
        Port    string
    }
}

func main() {
    c := new(Configuration)
    c.Val = "test"
    c.Proxy.Address = "addr"
    c.Proxy.Port = "80"
}

See in playground: https://play.golang.org/p/sFH_-HawO_M

How to install Android app on LG smart TV?

LG, VIZIO, SAMSUNG and PANASONIC TVs are not android based, and you cannot run APKs off of them... You should just buy a fire stick and call it a day. The only TVs that are android-based, and you can install APKs are: SONY, PHILIPS and SHARP.
#FACTS.

Using Caps Lock as Esc in Mac OS X

It's possible.

Solution 1

From an arcticle on TrueAffection.net.

  • Download PCKeyboardHack and install it.
  • Go to PCKeyboardHack in System Preferences.
  • Enable ‘Change Caps Lock’ and set the keycode to 53.

Solution 2

This solution doesn't involve patching the keyboard driver, but gives you a Vim specific solution.

OS X supports mapping the Caps Lock key to a whole bunch of keys, but you have to do it 'by hand', editting .plist files. The process is described in this article. As addendum to that hint I suggest you first set Caps-Lock to None in the System Preferences, then you only need to change one value in the .plist file. Also, you can of course use the Property List Editor instead of going through the XML conversion steps.

The trick is to map the Caps Lock key to the Help key (code 6), which isn't on most keyboards. But if it is, it will be treated as the insert key, which you probably don't use anyway, since you ask about remapping your Caps Lock to prevent stretching your hands ;)

You can then map the Help and the Insert key to Esc in vim.

map  <Help> <Esc>
map! <Help> <Esc>
map  <Insert> <Esc>
map! <Insert> <Esc>

This will work for gvim (Vim.app). I didn't get it to work with vim in the Terminal and I haven't tested it with MacVim.

So, it's rather a complicated, half-baked solution or installing a third-party piece of hackery. Your pick ;)

Edit: Just noticed solution 3, if you're using MacVim you can use Ctrl, Option and Command as Esc. With the System Preferences it's trivial to map Caps Lock to one of those keys.

React Native version mismatch

Possible Fix:

  1. Delete the package-lock.json
  2. Run: watchman watch-del-all && rm -rf $TMPDIR/react-* && rm -rf $TMPDIR/haste-map-react-native-packager-* && rm -rf node_modules/&& npm install

If the problem persists, try to execute the project directly from the Xcode

This worked for me.

Equivalent of Super Keyword in C#

C# equivalent of your code is

  class Imagedata : PDFStreamEngine
  {
     // C# uses "base" keyword whenever Java uses "super" 
     // so instead of super(...) in Java we should call its C# equivalent (base):
     public Imagedata()
       : base(ResourceLoader.loadProperties("org/apache/pdfbox/resources/PDFTextStripper.properties", true)) 
     { }

     // Java methods are virtual by default, when C# methods aren't.
     // So we should be sure that processOperator method in base class 
     // (that is PDFStreamEngine)
     // declared as "virtual"
     protected override void processOperator(PDFOperator operations, List arguments)
     {
        base.processOperator(operations, arguments);
     }
  }

Htaccess: add/remove trailing slash from URL

To complement Jon Lin's answer, here is a no-trailing-slash technique that also works if the website is located in a directory (like example.org/blog/):

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (.+)/$
RewriteRule ^ %1 [R=301,L]


For the sake of completeness, here is an alternative emphasizing that REQUEST_URI starts with a slash (at least in .htaccess files):

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /(.*)/$
RewriteRule ^ /%1 [R=301,L] <-- added slash here too, don't forget it

Just don't use %{REQUEST_URI} (.*)/$. Because in the root directory REQUEST_URI equals /, the leading slash, and it would be misinterpreted as a trailing slash.


If you are interested in more reading:

(update: this technique is now implemented in Laravel 5.5)

Increase max_execution_time in PHP?

Theres a setting max_input_time (on Apache) for many webservers that defines how long they will wait for post data, regardless of the size. If this time runs out the connection is closed without even touching the php.

So your problem is not necessarily solvable with php only but you will need to change the server settings too.

Python circular importing?

To understand circular dependencies, you need to remember that Python is essentially a scripting language. Execution of statements outside methods occurs at compile time. Import statements are executed just like method calls, and to understand them you should think about them like method calls.

When you do an import, what happens depends on whether the file you are importing already exists in the module table. If it does, Python uses whatever is currently in the symbol table. If not, Python begins reading the module file, compiling/executing/importing whatever it finds there. Symbols referenced at compile time are found or not, depending on whether they have been seen, or are yet to be seen by the compiler.

Imagine you have two source files:

File X.py

def X1:
    return "x1"

from Y import Y2

def X2:
    return "x2"

File Y.py

def Y1:
    return "y1"

from X import X1

def Y2:
    return "y2"

Now suppose you compile file X.py. The compiler begins by defining the method X1, and then hits the import statement in X.py. This causes the compiler to pause compilation of X.py and begin compiling Y.py. Shortly thereafter the compiler hits the import statement in Y.py. Since X.py is already in the module table, Python uses the existing incomplete X.py symbol table to satisfy any references requested. Any symbols appearing before the import statement in X.py are now in the symbol table, but any symbols after are not. Since X1 now appears before the import statement, it is successfully imported. Python then resumes compiling Y.py. In doing so it defines Y2 and finishes compiling Y.py. It then resumes compilation of X.py, and finds Y2 in the Y.py symbol table. Compilation eventually completes w/o error.

Something very different happens if you attempt to compile Y.py from the command line. While compiling Y.py, the compiler hits the import statement before it defines Y2. Then it starts compiling X.py. Soon it hits the import statement in X.py that requires Y2. But Y2 is undefined, so the compile fails.

Please note that if you modify X.py to import Y1, the compile will always succeed, no matter which file you compile. However if you modify file Y.py to import symbol X2, neither file will compile.

Any time when module X, or any module imported by X might import the current module, do NOT use:

from X import Y

Any time you think there may be a circular import you should also avoid compile time references to variables in other modules. Consider the innocent looking code:

import X
z = X.Y

Suppose module X imports this module before this module imports X. Further suppose Y is defined in X after the import statement. Then Y will not be defined when this module is imported, and you will get a compile error. If this module imports Y first, you can get away with it. But when one of your co-workers innocently changes the order of definitions in a third module, the code will break.

In some cases you can resolve circular dependencies by moving an import statement down below symbol definitions needed by other modules. In the examples above, definitions before the import statement never fail. Definitions after the import statement sometimes fail, depending on the order of compilation. You can even put import statements at the end of a file, so long as none of the imported symbols are needed at compile time.

Note that moving import statements down in a module obscures what you are doing. Compensate for this with a comment at the top of your module something like the following:

#import X   (actual import moved down to avoid circular dependency)

In general this is a bad practice, but sometimes it is difficult to avoid.

How to mount host volumes into docker containers in Dockerfile during build

I think you can do what you want to do by running the build via a docker command which itself is run inside a docker container. See Docker can now run within Docker | Docker Blog. A technique like this, but which actually accessed the outer docker from with a container, was used, e.g., while exploring how to Create the smallest possible Docker container | Xebia Blog.

Another relevant article is Optimizing Docker Images | CenturyLink Labs, which explains that if you do end up downloading stuff during a build, you can avoid having space wasted by it in the final image by downloading, building and deleting the download all in one RUN step.

What's the regular expression that matches a square bracket?

If you want to match an expression starting with [ and ending with ], use \[[^\]]*\].

How to get the caller class in Java

To get caller/called class name use below code, it works fine for me.

String callerClassName = new Exception().getStackTrace()[1].getClassName();
String calleeClassName = new Exception().getStackTrace()[0].getClassName();

How can I pass variable to ansible playbook in the command line?

ansible-playbok -i <inventory> <playbook-name> -e "proc_name=sshd"

You can use the above command in below playbooks.

---
- name: Service Status
gather_facts: False
tasks:
- name: Check Service Status (Linux)
shell: pgrep "{{ proc_name }}"
register: service_status
ignore_errors: yes
debug: var=service_status.rc`

A simple explanation of Naive Bayes Classification

I realize that this is an old question, with an established answer. The reason I'm posting is that is the accepted answer has many elements of k-NN (k-nearest neighbors), a different algorithm.

Both k-NN and NaiveBayes are classification algorithms. Conceptually, k-NN uses the idea of "nearness" to classify new entities. In k-NN 'nearness' is modeled with ideas such as Euclidean Distance or Cosine Distance. By contrast, in NaiveBayes, the concept of 'probability' is used to classify new entities.

Since the question is about Naive Bayes, here's how I'd describe the ideas and steps to someone. I'll try to do it with as few equations and in plain English as much as possible.

First, Conditional Probability & Bayes' Rule

Before someone can understand and appreciate the nuances of Naive Bayes', they need to know a couple of related concepts first, namely, the idea of Conditional Probability, and Bayes' Rule. (If you are familiar with these concepts, skip to the section titled Getting to Naive Bayes')

Conditional Probability in plain English: What is the probability that something will happen, given that something else has already happened.

Let's say that there is some Outcome O. And some Evidence E. From the way these probabilities are defined: The Probability of having both the Outcome O and Evidence E is: (Probability of O occurring) multiplied by the (Prob of E given that O happened)

One Example to understand Conditional Probability:

Let say we have a collection of US Senators. Senators could be Democrats or Republicans. They are also either male or female.

If we select one senator completely randomly, what is the probability that this person is a female Democrat? Conditional Probability can help us answer that.

Probability of (Democrat and Female Senator)= Prob(Senator is Democrat) multiplied by Conditional Probability of Being Female given that they are a Democrat.

  P(Democrat & Female) = P(Democrat) * P(Female | Democrat) 

We could compute the exact same thing, the reverse way:

  P(Democrat & Female) = P(Female) * P(Democrat | Female) 

Understanding Bayes Rule

Conceptually, this is a way to go from P(Evidence| Known Outcome) to P(Outcome|Known Evidence). Often, we know how frequently some particular evidence is observed, given a known outcome. We have to use this known fact to compute the reverse, to compute the chance of that outcome happening, given the evidence.

P(Outcome given that we know some Evidence) = P(Evidence given that we know the Outcome) times Prob(Outcome), scaled by the P(Evidence)

The classic example to understand Bayes' Rule:

Probability of Disease D given Test-positive = 

               P(Test is positive|Disease) * P(Disease)
     _______________________________________________________________
     (scaled by) P(Testing Positive, with or without the disease)

Now, all this was just preamble, to get to Naive Bayes.

Getting to Naive Bayes'

So far, we have talked only about one piece of evidence. In reality, we have to predict an outcome given multiple evidence. In that case, the math gets very complicated. To get around that complication, one approach is to 'uncouple' multiple pieces of evidence, and to treat each of piece of evidence as independent. This approach is why this is called naive Bayes.

P(Outcome|Multiple Evidence) = 
P(Evidence1|Outcome) * P(Evidence2|outcome) * ... * P(EvidenceN|outcome) * P(Outcome)
scaled by P(Multiple Evidence)

Many people choose to remember this as:

                      P(Likelihood of Evidence) * Prior prob of outcome
P(outcome|evidence) = _________________________________________________
                                         P(Evidence)

Notice a few things about this equation:

  • If the Prob(evidence|outcome) is 1, then we are just multiplying by 1.
  • If the Prob(some particular evidence|outcome) is 0, then the whole prob. becomes 0. If you see contradicting evidence, we can rule out that outcome.
  • Since we divide everything by P(Evidence), we can even get away without calculating it.
  • The intuition behind multiplying by the prior is so that we give high probability to more common outcomes, and low probabilities to unlikely outcomes. These are also called base rates and they are a way to scale our predicted probabilities.

How to Apply NaiveBayes to Predict an Outcome?

Just run the formula above for each possible outcome. Since we are trying to classify, each outcome is called a class and it has a class label. Our job is to look at the evidence, to consider how likely it is to be this class or that class, and assign a label to each entity. Again, we take a very simple approach: The class that has the highest probability is declared the "winner" and that class label gets assigned to that combination of evidences.

Fruit Example

Let's try it out on an example to increase our understanding: The OP asked for a 'fruit' identification example.

Let's say that we have data on 1000 pieces of fruit. They happen to be Banana, Orange or some Other Fruit. We know 3 characteristics about each fruit:

  1. Whether it is Long
  2. Whether it is Sweet and
  3. If its color is Yellow.

This is our 'training set.' We will use this to predict the type of any new fruit we encounter.

Type           Long | Not Long || Sweet | Not Sweet || Yellow |Not Yellow|Total
             ___________________________________________________________________
Banana      |  400  |    100   || 350   |    150    ||  450   |  50      |  500
Orange      |    0  |    300   || 150   |    150    ||  300   |   0      |  300
Other Fruit |  100  |    100   || 150   |     50    ||   50   | 150      |  200
            ____________________________________________________________________
Total       |  500  |    500   || 650   |    350    ||  800   | 200      | 1000
             ___________________________________________________________________

We can pre-compute a lot of things about our fruit collection.

The so-called "Prior" probabilities. (If we didn't know any of the fruit attributes, this would be our guess.) These are our base rates.

 P(Banana)      = 0.5 (500/1000)
 P(Orange)      = 0.3
 P(Other Fruit) = 0.2

Probability of "Evidence"

p(Long)   = 0.5
P(Sweet)  = 0.65
P(Yellow) = 0.8

Probability of "Likelihood"

P(Long|Banana) = 0.8
P(Long|Orange) = 0  [Oranges are never long in all the fruit we have seen.]
 ....

P(Yellow|Other Fruit)     =  50/200 = 0.25
P(Not Yellow|Other Fruit) = 0.75

Given a Fruit, how to classify it?

Let's say that we are given the properties of an unknown fruit, and asked to classify it. We are told that the fruit is Long, Sweet and Yellow. Is it a Banana? Is it an Orange? Or Is it some Other Fruit?

We can simply run the numbers for each of the 3 outcomes, one by one. Then we choose the highest probability and 'classify' our unknown fruit as belonging to the class that had the highest probability based on our prior evidence (our 1000 fruit training set):

P(Banana|Long, Sweet and Yellow) 
      P(Long|Banana) * P(Sweet|Banana) * P(Yellow|Banana) * P(banana)
    = _______________________________________________________________
                      P(Long) * P(Sweet) * P(Yellow)
                      
    = 0.8 * 0.7 * 0.9 * 0.5 / P(evidence)

    = 0.252 / P(evidence)


P(Orange|Long, Sweet and Yellow) = 0


P(Other Fruit|Long, Sweet and Yellow)
      P(Long|Other fruit) * P(Sweet|Other fruit) * P(Yellow|Other fruit) * P(Other Fruit)
    = ____________________________________________________________________________________
                                          P(evidence)

    = (100/200 * 150/200 * 50/200 * 200/1000) / P(evidence)

    = 0.01875 / P(evidence)

By an overwhelming margin (0.252 >> 0.01875), we classify this Sweet/Long/Yellow fruit as likely to be a Banana.

Why is Bayes Classifier so popular?

Look at what it eventually comes down to. Just some counting and multiplication. We can pre-compute all these terms, and so classifying becomes easy, quick and efficient.

Let z = 1 / P(evidence). Now we quickly compute the following three quantities.

P(Banana|evidence) = z * Prob(Banana) * Prob(Evidence1|Banana) * Prob(Evidence2|Banana) ...
P(Orange|Evidence) = z * Prob(Orange) * Prob(Evidence1|Orange) * Prob(Evidence2|Orange) ...
P(Other|Evidence)  = z * Prob(Other)  * Prob(Evidence1|Other)  * Prob(Evidence2|Other)  ...

Assign the class label of whichever is the highest number, and you are done.

Despite the name, Naive Bayes turns out to be excellent in certain applications. Text classification is one area where it really shines.

Hope that helps in understanding the concepts behind the Naive Bayes algorithm.

How to get the PID of a process by giving the process name in Mac OS X ?

You can use the pgrep command like in the following example

$ pgrep Keychain\ Access
44186

How to count the number of letters in a string without the spaces?

def count_letters(word):
    return len(word) - word.count(' ')

Alternatively, if you have multiple letters to ignore, you could filter the string:

def count_letters(word):
    BAD_LETTERS = " "
    return len([letter for letter in word if letter not in BAD_LETTERS])

Get data from fs.readFile

function readContent(callback) {
    fs.readFile("./Index.html", function (err, content) {
        if (err) return callback(err)
        callback(null, content)
    })
}

readContent(function (err, content) {
    console.log(content)
})

Create an empty list in python with certain size

Here's my code for 2D list in python which would read no. of rows from the input :

empty = []
row = int(input())

for i in range(row):
    temp = list(map(int, input().split()))
    empty.append(temp)

for i in empty:
    for j in i:
        print(j, end=' ')
    print('')

ValueError: unsupported pickle protocol: 3, python2 pickle can not load the file dumped by python 3 pickle?

You should write the pickled data with a lower protocol number in Python 3. Python 3 introduced a new protocol with the number 3 (and uses it as default), so switch back to a value of 2 which can be read by Python 2.

Check the protocolparameter in pickle.dump. Your resulting code will look like this.

pickle.dump(your_object, your_file, protocol=2)

There is no protocolparameter in pickle.load because pickle can determine the protocol from the file.

When would you use the different git merge strategies?

With Git 2.30 (Q1 2021), there will be a new merge strategy: ORT ("Ostensibly Recursive's Twin").

git merge -s ort

This comes from this thread from Elijah Newren:

For now, I'm calling it "Ostensibly Recursive's Twin", or "ort" for short. > At first, people shouldn't be able to notice any difference between it and the current recursive strategy, other than the fact that I think I can make it a bit faster (especially for big repos).

But it should allow me to fix some (admittedly corner case) bugs that are harder to handle in the current design, and I think that a merge that doesn't touch $GIT_WORK_TREE or $GIT_INDEX_FILE will allow for some fun new features.
That's the hope anyway.

Problem:

In the ideal world, we should:

  • ask unpack_trees() to do "read-tree -m" without "-u";

  • do all the merge-recursive computations in-core and prepare the resulting index, while keeping the current index intact;

  • compare the current in-core index and the resulting in-core index, and notice the paths that need to be added, updated or removed in the working tree, and ensure that there is no loss of information when the change is reflected to the working tree;
    E.g. the result wants to create a file where the working tree currently has a directory with non-expendable contents in it, the result wants to remove a file where the working tree file has local modification, etc.;
    And then finally

  • carry out the working tree update to make it match what the resulting in-core index says it should look like.

Result:

See commit 14c4586 (02 Nov 2020), commit fe1a21d (29 Oct 2020), and commit 47b1e89, commit 17e5574 (27 Oct 2020) by Elijah Newren (newren).
(Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit a1f9595, 18 Nov 2020)

merge-ort: barebones API of new merge strategy with empty implementation

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren

This is the beginning of a new merge strategy.

While there are some API differences, and the implementation has some differences in behavior, it is essentially meant as an eventual drop-in replacement for merge-recursive.c.

However, it is being built to exist side-by-side with merge-recursive so that we have plenty of time to find out how those differences pan out in the real world while people can still fall back to merge-recursive.
(Also, I intend to avoid modifying merge-recursive during this process, to keep it stable.)

The primary difference noticable here is that the updating of the working tree and index is not done simultaneously with the merge algorithm, but is a separate post-processing step.
The new API is designed so that one can do repeated merges (e.g. during a rebase or cherry-pick) and only update the index and working tree one time at the end instead of updating it with every intermediate result.

Also, one can perform a merge between two branches, neither of which match the index or the working tree, without clobbering the index or working tree.

And:

See commit 848a856, commit fd15863, commit 23bef2e, commit c8c35f6, commit c12d1f2, commit 727c75b, commit 489c85f, commit ef52778, commit f06481f (26 Oct 2020) by Elijah Newren (newren).
(Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit 66c62ea, 18 Nov 2020)

t6423, t6436: note improved ort handling with dirty files

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren

The "recursive" backend relies on unpack_trees() to check if unstaged changes would be overwritten by a merge, but unpack_trees() does not understand renames -- and once it returns, it has already written many updates to the working tree and index.
As such, "recursive" had to do a special 4-way merge where it would need to also treat the working copy as an extra source of differences that we had to carefully avoid overwriting and resulting in moving files to new locations to avoid conflicts.

The "ort" backend, by contrast, does the complete merge inmemory, and only updates the index and working copy as a post-processing step.
If there are dirty files in the way, it can simply abort the merge.

t6423: expect improved conflict markers labels in the ort backend

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren

Conflict markers carry an extra annotation of the form REF-OR-COMMIT:FILENAME to help distinguish where the content is coming from, with the :FILENAME piece being left off if it is the same for both sides of history (thus only renames with content conflicts carry that part of the annotation).

However, there were cases where the :FILENAME annotation was accidentally left off, due to merge-recursive's every-codepath-needs-a-copy-of-all-special-case-code format.

t6404, t6423: expect improved rename/delete handling in ort backend

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren

When a file is renamed and has content conflicts, merge-recursive does not have some stages for the old filename and some stages for the new filename in the index; instead it copies all the stages corresponding to the old filename over to the corresponding locations for the new filename, so that there are three higher order stages all corresponding to the new filename.

Doing things this way makes it easier for the user to access the different versions and to resolve the conflict (no need to manually 'git rm '(man) the old version as well as 'git add'(man) the new one).

rename/deletes should be handled similarly -- there should be two stages for the renamed file rather than just one.
We do not want to destabilize merge-recursive right now, so instead update relevant tests to have different expectations depending on whether the "recursive" or "ort" merge strategies are in use.


With Git 2.30 (Q1 2021), Preparation for a new merge strategy.

See commit 848a856, commit fd15863, commit 23bef2e, commit c8c35f6, commit c12d1f2, commit 727c75b, commit 489c85f, commit ef52778, commit f06481f (26 Oct 2020) by Elijah Newren (newren).
(Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit 66c62ea, 18 Nov 2020)

merge tests: expect improved directory/file conflict handling in ort

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren

merge-recursive.c is built on the idea of running unpack_trees() and then "doing minor touch-ups" to get the result.
Unfortunately, unpack_trees() was run in an update-as-it-goes mode, leading merge-recursive.c to follow suit and end up with an immediate evaluation and fix-it-up-as-you-go design.

Some things like directory/file conflicts are not well representable in the index data structure, and required special extra code to handle.
But then when it was discovered that rename/delete conflicts could also be involved in directory/file conflicts, the special directory/file conflict handling code had to be copied to the rename/delete codepath.
...and then it had to be copied for modify/delete, and for rename/rename(1to2) conflicts, ...and yet it still missed some.
Further, when it was discovered that there were also file/submodule conflicts and submodule/directory conflicts, we needed to copy the special submodule handling code to all the special cases throughout the codebase.

And then it was discovered that our handling of directory/file conflicts was suboptimal because it would create untracked files to store the contents of the conflicting file, which would not be cleaned up if someone were to run a 'git merge --abort'(man) or 'git rebase --abort'(man).

It was also difficult or scary to try to add or remove the index entries corresponding to these files given the directory/file conflict in the index.
But changing merge-recursive.c to handle these correctly was a royal pain because there were so many sites in the code with similar but not identical code for handling directory/file/submodule conflicts that would all need to be updated.

I have worked hard to push all directory/file/submodule conflict handling in merge-ort through a single codepath, and avoid creating untracked files for storing tracked content (it does record things at alternate paths, but makes sure they have higher-order stages in the index).


With Git 2.31 (Q1 2021), the merge backend "done right" starts to emerge.
Example:

See commit 6d37ca2 (11 Nov 2020) by Junio C Hamano (gitster).
See commit 89422d2, commit ef2b369, commit 70912f6, commit 6681ce5, commit 9fefce6, commit bb470f4, commit ee4012d, commit a9945bb, commit 8adffaa, commit 6a02dd9, commit 291f29c, commit 98bf984, commit 34e557a, commit 885f006, commit d2bc199, commit 0c0d705, commit c801717, commit e4171b1, commit 231e2dd, commit 5b59c3d (13 Dec 2020) by Elijah Newren (newren).
(Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit f9d29da, 06 Jan 2021)

merge-ort: add implementation of record_conflicted_index_entries()

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren

After checkout(), the working tree has the appropriate contents, and the index matches the working copy.
That means that all unmodified and cleanly merged files have correct index entries, but conflicted entries need to be updated.

We do this by looping over the conflicted entries, marking the existing index entry for the path with CE_REMOVE, adding new higher order staged for the path at the end of the index (ignoring normal index sort order), and then at the end of the loop removing the CE_REMOVED-marked cache entries and sorting the index.


With Git 2.31 (Q1 2021), rename detection is added to the "ORT" merge strategy.

See commit 6fcccbd, commit f1665e6, commit 35e47e3, commit 2e91ddd, commit 53e88a0, commit af1e56c (15 Dec 2020), and commit c2d267d, commit 965a7bc, commit f39d05c, commit e1a124e, commit 864075e (14 Dec 2020) by Elijah Newren (newren).
(Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit 2856089, 25 Jan 2021)

Example:

merge-ort: add implementation of normal rename handling

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren

Implement handling of normal renames.
This code replaces the following from merge-recurisve.c:

  • the code relevant to RENAME_NORMAL in process_renames()
  • the RENAME_NORMAL case of process_entry()

Also, there is some shared code from merge-recursive.c for multiple different rename cases which we will no longer need for this case (or other rename cases):

  • handle_rename_normal()
  • setup_rename_conflict_info()

The consolidation of four separate codepaths into one is made possible by a change in design: process_renames() tweaks the conflict_info entries within opt->priv->paths such that process_entry() can then handle all the non-rename conflict types (directory/file, modify/delete, etc.) orthogonally.

This means we're much less likely to miss special implementation of some kind of combination of conflict types (see commits brought in by 66c62ea ("Merge branch 'en/merge-tests'", 2020-11-18, Git v2.30.0-rc0 -- merge listed in batch #6), especially commit ef52778 ("merge tests: expect improved directory/file conflict handling in ort", 2020-10-26, Git v2.30.0-rc0 -- merge listed in batch #6) for more details).

That, together with letting worktree/index updating be handled orthogonally in the merge_switch_to_result() function, dramatically simplifies the code for various special rename cases.

(To be fair, the code for handling normal renames wasn't all that complicated beforehand, but it's still much simpler now.)

And, still with Git 2.31 (Q1 2021), With Git 2.31 (Q1 2021), oRT merge strategy learns more support for merge conflicts.

See commit 4ef88fc, commit 4204cd5, commit 70f19c7, commit c73cda7, commit f591c47, commit 62fdec1, commit 991bbdc, commit 5a1a1e8, commit 23366d2, commit 0ccfa4e (01 Jan 2021) by Elijah Newren (newren).
(Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit b65b9ff, 05 Feb 2021)

merge-ort: add handling for different types of files at same path

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren

Add some handling that explicitly considers collisions of the following types:

  • file/submodule
  • file/symlink
  • submodule/symlink> Leaving them as conflicts at the same path are hard for users to resolve, so move one or both of them aside so that they each get their own path.

Note that in the case of recursive handling (i.e.
call_depth > 0), we can just use the merge base of the two merge bases as the merge result much like we do with modify/delete conflicts, binary files, conflicting submodule values, and so on.

convert '1' to '0001' in JavaScript

This is a clever little trick (that I think I've seen on SO before):

var str = "" + 1
var pad = "0000"
var ans = pad.substring(0, pad.length - str.length) + str

JavaScript is more forgiving than some languages if the second argument to substring is negative so it will "overflow correctly" (or incorrectly depending on how it's viewed):

That is, with the above:

  • 1 -> "0001"
  • 12345 -> "12345"

Supporting negative numbers is left as an exercise ;-)

Happy coding.

Could someone explain this for me - for (int i = 0; i < 8; i++)

That's a loop that says, okay, for every time that i is smaller than 8, I'm going to do whatever is in the code block. Whenever i reaches 8, I'll stop. After each iteration of the loop, it increments i by 1 (i++), so that the loop will eventually stop when it meets the i < 8 (i becomes 8, so no longer is smaller than) condition.

For example, this:

for (int i = 0; i < 8; i++)
{
   Console.WriteLine(i);
}

Will output: 01234567

See how the code was executed 8 times?

In terms of arrays, this can be helpful when you don't know the size of the array, but you want to operate on every item of it. You can do:

Disclaimer: This following code will vary dependent upon language, but the principle remains the same

Array yourArray;

for (int i = 0; i < yourArray.Count; i++)
{
    Console.WriteLine(yourArray[i]);
}

The difference here is the number of execution times is entirely dependent on the size of the array, so it's dynamic.

Using getResources() in non-activity class

in your MainActivity :

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        if(ResourcesHelper.resources == null){
             ResourcesHelper.resources = getResources();
        }
    }
}

ResourcesHelper :

public class ResourcesHelper {
    public static Resources resources;
}

then use it everywhere

String s = ResourcesHelper.resources.getString(R.string.app_name);

MySQL date formats - difficulty Inserting a date

Looks like you've not encapsulated your string properly. Try this:

INSERT INTO custorder VALUES ('Kevin','yes'), STR_TO_DATE('1-01-2012', '%d-%m-%Y');

Alternatively, you can do the following but it is not recommended. Make sure that you use STR_TO-DATE it is because when you are developing web applications you have to explicitly convert String to Date which is annoying. Use first One.

INSERT INTO custorder VALUES ('Kevin','yes'), '2012-01-01';

I'm not confident that the above SQL is valid, however, and you may want to move the date part into the brackets. If you can provide the exact error you're getting, I might be able to more directly help with the issue.

MongoDB: How to find the exact version of installed MongoDB

To check mongodb version use the mongod command with --version option.

To check MongoDB Server version, Open the command line via your terminal program and execute the following command:

Path : C:\Program Files\MongoDB\Server\3.2\bin Open Cmd and execute the following command: mongod --version To Check MongoDB Shell version, Type:

mongo --version

Difference between return 1, return 0, return -1 and exit?

return from main() is equivalent to exit

the program terminates immediately execution with exit status set as the value passed to return or exit

return in an inner function (not main) will terminate immediately the execution of the specific function returning the given result to the calling function.

exit from anywhere on your code will terminate program execution immediately.


status 0 means the program succeeded.

status different from 0 means the program exited due to error or anomaly.

If you exit with a status different from 0 you're supposed to print an error message to stderr so instead of using printf better something like

if(errorOccurred) {
    fprintf(stderr, "meaningful message here\n");
    return -1;
}

note that (depending on the OS you're on) there are some conventions about return codes.

Google for "exit status codes" or similar and you'll find plenty of information on SO and elsewhere.


Worth mentioning that the OS itself may terminate your program with specific exit status codes if you attempt to do some invalid operations like reading memory you have no access to.

How to make <label> and <input> appear on the same line on an HTML form?

What you were missing was the float: left; here is an example just done in the HTML

<div id="form">
<form action="" method="post" name="registration" class="register">
    <fieldset>
        <label for="Student" style="float: left">Name:</label>
        <input name="Student" />
        <label for="Matric_no" style="float: left">Matric number:</label>
        <input name="Matric_no" />
        <label for="Email" style="float: left">Email:</label>
        <input name="Email" />
        <label for="Username" style="float: left">Username:</label>
        <input name="Username" />
        <label for="Password" style="float: left">Password:</label>
        <input name="Password" type="password" />
        <input name="regbutton" type="button" class="button" value="Register" />
    </fieldset>
</form>

The more efficient way to do this is to add a class to the labels and set the float: left; to the class in CSS

Why is it important to override GetHashCode when Equals method is overridden?

Just to add on above answers:

If you don't override Equals then the default behavior is that references of the objects are compared. The same applies to hashcode - the default implmentation is typically based on a memory address of the reference. Because you did override Equals it means the correct behavior is to compare whatever you implemented on Equals and not the references, so you should do the same for the hashcode.

Clients of your class will expect the hashcode to have similar logic to the equals method, for example linq methods which use a IEqualityComparer first compare the hashcodes and only if they're equal they'll compare the Equals() method which might be more expensive to run, if we didn't implement hashcode, equal object will probably have different hashcodes (because they have different memory address) and will be determined wrongly as not equal (Equals() won't even hit).

In addition, except the problem that you might not be able to find your object if you used it in a dictionary (because it was inserted by one hashcode and when you look for it the default hashcode will probably be different and again the Equals() won't even be called, like Marc Gravell explains in his answer, you also introduce a violation of the dictionary or hashset concept which should not allow identical keys - you already declared that those objects are essentially the same when you overrode Equals so you don't want both of them as different keys on a data structure which suppose to have a unique key. But because they have a different hashcode the "same" key will be inserted as different one.

Linux delete file with size 0

This will delete all the files in a directory (and below) that are size zero.

find /tmp -size  0 -print -delete

If you just want a particular file;

if [ ! -s /tmp/foo ] ; then
  rm /tmp/foo
fi

How to make a div center align in HTML

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    <title>Center</title>_x000D_
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  <body>_x000D_
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    <div style="text-align: center;">_x000D_
      <div style="width: 500px; margin: 0 auto; background: #000; color: #fff;">This DIV is centered</div>_x000D_
    </div>_x000D_
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  </body>_x000D_
</html>
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Tested and worked in IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera. I did not test IE6. The outer text-align is needed for IE. Other browsers (and IE9?) will work when you give the DIV margin (left and right) value of auto. Margin "0 auto" is a shorthand for margin "0 auto 0 auto" (top right bottom left).

Note: the text is also centered inside the inner DIV, if you want it to remain on the left side just specify text-align: left; for the inner DIV.

Edit: IE 6, 7, 8 and 9 running on the Standards Mode will work with margins set to auto.

Generate a random number in a certain range in MATLAB

ocw.mit.edu is a great resource that has helped me a bunch. randi is the best option, but if your into number fun try using the floor function with rand to get what you want.

I drew a number line and came up with

floor(rand*8) + 13

How to search for string in an array

Another option that enforces exact matching (i.e. no partial matching) would be:

Function IsInArray(stringToBeFound As String, arr As Variant) As Boolean
  IsInArray = Not IsError(Application.Match(stringToBeFound, arr, 0))
End Function

You can read more about the Match method and its arguments at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff835873(v=office.15).aspx

Using underscores in Java variables and method names

The reason people do it (in my experience) is to differentiate between member variables and function parameters. In Java you can have a class like this:

public class TestClass {
  int var1;

  public void func1(int var1) {
     System.out.println("Which one is it?: " + var1);
  }
}

If you made the member variable _var1 or m_var1, you wouldn't have the ambiguity in the function.

So it's a style, and I wouldn't call it bad.

Double vs. BigDecimal?

If you write down a fractional value like 1 / 7 as decimal value you get

1/7 = 0.142857142857142857142857142857142857142857...

with an infinite sequence of 142857. Since you can only write a finite number of digits you will inevitably introduce a rounding (or truncation) error.

Numbers like 1/10 or 1/100 expressed as binary numbers with a fractional part also have an infinite number of digits after the decimal point:

1/10 = binary 0.0001100110011001100110011001100110...

Doubles store values as binary and therefore might introduce an error solely by converting a decimal number to a binary number, without even doing any arithmetic.

Decimal numbers (like BigDecimal), on the other hand, store each decimal digit as is (binary coded, but each decimal on its own). This means that a decimal type is not more precise than a binary floating point or fixed point type in a general sense (i.e. it cannot store 1/7 without loss of precision), but it is more accurate for numbers that have a finite number of decimal digits as is often the case for money calculations.

Java's BigDecimal has the additional advantage that it can have an arbitrary (but finite) number of digits on both sides of the decimal point, limited only by the available memory.

How to add parameters to HttpURLConnection using POST using NameValuePair

I use something like this:

SchemeRegistry sR = new SchemeRegistry();
sR.register(new Scheme("https", SSLSocketFactory.getSocketFactory(), 443));

HttpParams params = new BasicHttpParams();
SingleClientConnManager mgr = new SingleClientConnManager(params, sR);

HttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient(mgr, params);

HttpPost httppost = new HttpPost(url);
httppost.setEntity(new UrlEncodedFormEntity(nameValuePairs));

HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(httppost);

Java String new line

System.out.println("I\nam\na\nboy");

System.out.println("I am a boy".replaceAll("\\s+","\n"));

System.out.println("I am a boy".replaceAll("\\s+",System.getProperty("line.separator"))); // portable way

What is the cleanest way to disable CSS transition effects temporarily?

For a pure JS solution (no CSS classes), just set the transition to 'none'. To restore the transition as specified in the CSS, set the transition to an empty string.

// Remove the transition
elem.style.transition = 'none';

// Restore the transition
elem.style.transition = '';

If you're using vendor prefixes, you'll need to set those too.

elem.style.webkitTransition = 'none'

How to unpublish an app in Google Play Developer Console

TL;DR: (As of September 2020) Open the Play Console. Select an app. Select Release > Setup >Advanced settings. On the App Availability tab, select Unpublish.

Setup - Advanced settings Unpublish app dialog Verify app unpublished

From https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answer/9859350?hl=en&ref_topic=9872026:

When you unpublish an app, existing users can still use your app and receive app updates. Your app won’t be available for new users to find and download on Google Play.

Prerequisites

  • You have accepted the latest Developer Distribution Agreement.
  • Your app has no errors that need to be addressed, such as failing to fill in the content rating questionnaire or provide details about your app's target audience and content.
  • Managed publishing is not active for the app you want to unpublish.

To unpublish your app:

Open the Play Console. Select an app. Select Release > Setup > Advanced settings. On the App Availability tab, select Unpublish.

How to Disable Managed publishing

Managed publishing overview Managed publishing toggle dialog

Selecting empty text input using jQuery

There are a lot of answers here suggesting something like [value=""] but I don't think that actually works . . . or at least, the usage is not consistent. I'm trying to do something similar, selecting all inputs with ids beginning with a certain string that also have no entered value. I tried this:

$("input[id^='something'][value='']")

but it doesn't work. Nor does reversing them. See this fiddle. The only ways I found to correctly select all inputs with ids beginning with a string and without an entered value were

$("input[id^='something']").not("[value!='']")

and

$("input[id^='something']:not([value!=''])")

but obviously, the double negatives make that really confusing. Probably, Russ Cam's first answer (with a filtering function) is the most clear method.

Trying to SSH into an Amazon Ec2 instance - permission error

Well, looking at your post description I feel there were 2 mistakes done by you:-

  1. Set correct permissions for the private key. Below command should help you to set correct file permision.

    chmod 0600 mykey.pem

  2. Wrong ec2 user you are trying to login.

    Looking at your debug log I think you have spawned an Amazon linux instance. The default user for that instance type is ec2-user . If the instance would have been ubuntu then your default user would have been ubuntu .

    ssh -i privatekey.pem default_ssh_user@server_ip

Note:
   For an Amazon Linux AMI, the default user name is ec2-user.

   For a Centos AMI, the default user name is centos.

   For a Debian AMI, the default user name is admin or root.

   For a Fedora AMI, the default user name is ec2-user or fedora.

   For a RHEL AMI, the default user name is ec2-user or root.

   For a SUSE AMI, the default user name is ec2-user or root.

   For an Ubuntu AMI, the default user name is ubuntu.

   Otherwise, if ec2-user and root don't work, check with the AMI provider.

source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AccessingInstancesLinux.html

Removing Java 8 JDK from Mac

If you have installed jdk8 on your Mac but now you want to remove it, just run below command "sudo rm -rf /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0.jdk"

Best way to center a <div> on a page vertically and horizontally?

Please use following CSS properties for center align element horizontally as well as vertically. This is worked fine for me.

div {
  position: absolute;
  left: 0;
  top: 0;
  right: 0;
  bottom: 0px;
  margin: auto;
  width: 100px;
  height: 100px;
}

2D array values C++

One alternative is to represent your 2D array as a 1D array. This can make element-wise operations more efficient. You should probably wrap it in a class that would also contain width and height.

Another alternative is to represent a 2D array as an std::vector<std::vector<int> >. This will let you use STL's algorithms for array arithmetic, and the vector will also take care of memory management for you.

How do I see the current encoding of a file in Sublime Text?

Another option in case you don't wanna use a plugin:

Ctrl+` or

View -> Show Console

type on the console the following command:

view.encoding()

In case you want to something more intrusive, there's a option to create an shortcut that executes the following command:

sublime.message_dialog(view.encoding())

reducing number of plot ticks

To solve the issue of customisation and appearance of the ticks, see the Tick Locators guide on the matplotlib website

ax.xaxis.set_major_locator(plt.MaxNLocator(3))

Would set the total number of ticks in the x-axis to 3, and evenly distribute it across the axis.

There is also a nice tutorial about this

How to declare global variables in Android?

You can do this using two approaches:

  1. Using Application class
  2. Using Shared Preferences

  3. Using Application class

Example:

class SessionManager extends Application{

  String sessionKey;

  setSessionKey(String key){
    this.sessionKey=key;
  }

  String getSessisonKey(){
    return this.sessionKey;
  }
}

You can use above class to implement login in your MainActivity as below. Code will look something like this:

@override 
public void onCreate (Bundle savedInstanceState){
  // you will this key when first time login is successful.
  SessionManager session= (SessionManager)getApplicationContext();
  String key=getSessisonKey.getKey();
  //Use this key to identify whether session is alive or not.
}

This method will work for temporary storage. You really do not any idea when operating system is gonna kill the application, because of low memory. When your application is in background and user is navigating through other application which demands more memory to run, then your application will be killed since operating system given more priority to foreground processes than background. Hence your application object will be null before user logs out. Hence for this I recommend to use second method Specified above.

  1. Using shared preferences.

    String MYPREF="com.your.application.session"
    
    SharedPreferences pref= context.getSharedPreferences(MyPREF,MODE_PRIVATE);
    
    //Insert key as below:
    
    Editot editor= pref.edit();
    
    editor.putString("key","value");
    
    editor.commit();
    
    //Get key as below.
    
    SharedPreferences sharedPref = getActivity().getPreferences(Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
    
    String key= getResources().getString("key");
    

Failed to execute 'postMessage' on 'DOMWindow': https://www.youtube.com !== http://localhost:9000

In my case this had to do with lazy loading the iframe. Removing the iframe HTML attribute loading="lazy" solved the problem for me.

what do <form action="#"> and <form method="post" action="#"> do?

The # tag lets you send your data to the same file. I see it as a three step process:

  1. Query a DB to populate a from
  2. Allow the user to change data in the form
  3. Resubmit the data to the DB via the php script

With the method='#' you can do all of this in the same file.

After the submit query is executed the page will reload with the updated data from the DB.

How can I add a .npmrc file?

There are a few different points here:

  1. Where is the .npmrc file created.
  2. How can you download private packages

Running npm config ls -l will show you all the implicit settings for npm, including what it thinks is the right place to put the .npmrc. But if you have never logged in (using npm login) it will be empty. Simply log in to create it.

Another thing is #2. You can actually do that by putting a .npmrc file in the NPM package's root. It will then be used by NPM when authenticating. It also supports variable interpolation from your shell so you could do stuff like this:

; Get the auth token to use for fetching private packages from our private scope
; see http://blog.npmjs.org/post/118393368555/deploying-with-npm-private-modules
; and also https://docs.npmjs.com/files/npmrc
//registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken=${NPM_TOKEN}

Pointers

How do I drop a MongoDB database from the command line?

Drop a MongoDB database using python:

import argparse

import pymongo


if __name__ == "__main__":
    """
    Drop a Database.
    """

    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    parser.add_argument("--host", default='mongodb://localhost:27017',
                        help="mongodb URI [default: %(default)s]")
    parser.add_argument("--database", default=None,
                        help="database name: %(default)s]")

    args = parser.parse_args()

    client = pymongo.MongoClient(host=args.host)

    if args.database in client.list_database_names():
        client.drop_database(args.database)
        print(f"Dropped: '{args.database}'")
    else:
        print(f"Database '{args.database}' does not exist")

Identify duplicates in a List

public class practicese {
       public static void main(String[] args) {   

           List<Integer> listOf = new ArrayList<Integer>();
           listOf.add(3);
           listOf.add(1);
           listOf.add(2);
           listOf.add(3);
           listOf.add(3);
           listOf.add(2);
           listOf.add(1);

           List<Integer> tempList = new ArrayList<Integer>();
           for(Integer obj:listOf){
                if(!tempList.contains(obj)){
                    tempList.add(obj);

                }
            }
            System.out.println(tempList);

    }

}

DB2 SQL error: SQLCODE: -206, SQLSTATE: 42703

That only means that an undefined column or parameter name was detected. The errror that DB2 gives should point what that may be:

DB2 SQL Error: SQLCODE=-206, SQLSTATE=42703, SQLERRMC=[THE_UNDEFINED_COLUMN_OR_PARAMETER_NAME], DRIVER=4.8.87

Double check your table definition. Maybe you just missed adding something.

I also tried google-ing this problem and saw this:

http://www.coderanch.com/t/515475/JDBC/databases/sql-insert-statement-giving-sqlcode

In Matplotlib, what does the argument mean in fig.add_subplot(111)?

I think this would be best explained by the following picture:

enter image description here

To initialize the above, one would type:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
fig = plt.figure()
fig.add_subplot(221)   #top left
fig.add_subplot(222)   #top right
fig.add_subplot(223)   #bottom left
fig.add_subplot(224)   #bottom right 
plt.show()

Double precision floating values in Python?

Here is my solution. I first create random numbers with random.uniform, format them in to string with double precision and then convert them back to float. You can adjust the precision by changing '.2f' to '.3f' etc..

import random
from decimal import Decimal

GndSpeedHigh = float(format(Decimal(random.uniform(5, 25)), '.2f'))
GndSpeedLow = float(format(Decimal(random.uniform(2, GndSpeedHigh)), '.2f'))
GndSpeedMean = float(Decimal(format(GndSpeedHigh + GndSpeedLow) / 2, '.2f')))
print(GndSpeedMean)

MySQLDump one INSERT statement for each data row

In newer versions change was made to the flags: from the documentation:

--extended-insert, -e

Write INSERT statements using multiple-row syntax that includes several VALUES lists. This results in a smaller dump file and speeds up inserts when the file is reloaded.

--opt

This option, enabled by default, is shorthand for the combination of --add-drop-table --add-locks --create-options --disable-keys --extended-insert --lock-tables --quick --set-charset. It gives a fast dump operation and produces a dump file that can be reloaded into a MySQL server quickly.

Because the --opt option is enabled by default, you only specify its converse, the --skip-opt to turn off several default settings. See the discussion of mysqldump option groups for information about selectively enabling or disabling a subset of the options affected by --opt.

--skip-extended-insert

Turn off extended-insert

server certificate verification failed. CAfile: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt CRLfile: none

What worked for me when trying to git clone inside of a Dockerfile was to fetch the SSL certificate and add it to the local certificate list:

openssl s_client -showcerts -servername git.mycompany.com -connect git.mycompany.com:443 </dev/null 2>/dev/null | sed -n -e '/BEGIN\ CERTIFICATE/,/END\ CERTIFICATE/ p'  > git-mycompany-com.pem

cat git-mycompany-com.pem | sudo tee -a /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt

Credits: https://fabianlee.org/2019/01/28/git-client-error-server-certificate-verification-failed/

How to turn off INFO logging in Spark?

I you want to keep using the logging (Logging facility for Python) you can try splitting configurations for your application and for Spark:

LoggerManager()
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
loggerSpark = logging.getLogger('py4j')
loggerSpark.setLevel('WARNING')

How do I expire a PHP session after 30 minutes?

Simple way of PHP session expiry in 30 minutes.

Note : if you want to change the time, just change the 30 with your desired time and do not change * 60: this will gives the minutes.


In minutes : (30 * 60)
In days : (n * 24 * 60 * 60 ) n = no of days


Login.php

<?php
    session_start();
?>

<html>
    <form name="form1" method="post">
        <table>
            <tr>
                <td>Username</td>
                <td><input type="text" name="text"></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td>Password</td>
                <td><input type="password" name="pwd"></td>
            </tr>
            <tr>
                <td><input type="submit" value="SignIn" name="submit"></td>
            </tr>
        </table>
    </form>
</html>

<?php
    if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
        $v1 = "FirstUser";
        $v2 = "MyPassword";
        $v3 = $_POST['text'];
        $v4 = $_POST['pwd'];
        if ($v1 == $v3 && $v2 == $v4) {
            $_SESSION['luser'] = $v1;
            $_SESSION['start'] = time(); // Taking now logged in time.
            // Ending a session in 30 minutes from the starting time.
            $_SESSION['expire'] = $_SESSION['start'] + (30 * 60);
            header('Location: http://localhost/somefolder/homepage.php');
        } else {
            echo "Please enter the username or password again!";
        }
    }
?>

HomePage.php

<?php
    session_start();

    if (!isset($_SESSION['luser'])) {
        echo "Please Login again";
        echo "<a href='http://localhost/somefolder/login.php'>Click Here to Login</a>";
    }
    else {
        $now = time(); // Checking the time now when home page starts.

        if ($now > $_SESSION['expire']) {
            session_destroy();
            echo "Your session has expired! <a href='http://localhost/somefolder/login.php'>Login here</a>";
        }
        else { //Starting this else one [else1]
?>
            <!-- From here all HTML coding can be done -->
            <html>
                Welcome
                <?php
                    echo $_SESSION['luser'];
                    echo "<a href='http://localhost/somefolder/logout.php'>Log out</a>";
                ?>
            </html>
<?php
        }
    }
?>

LogOut.php

<?php
    session_start();
    session_destroy();
    header('Location: http://localhost/somefolder/login.php');
?>

How to cast Object to boolean?

If the object is actually a Boolean instance, then just cast it:

boolean di = (Boolean) someObject;

The explicit cast will do the conversion to Boolean, and then there's the auto-unboxing to the primitive value. Or you can do that explicitly:

boolean di = ((Boolean) someObject).booleanValue();

If someObject doesn't refer to a Boolean value though, what do you want the code to do?

Retrieving parameters from a URL

def getParams(url):
    params = url.split("?")[1]
    params = params.split('=')
    pairs = zip(params[0::2], params[1::2])
    answer = dict((k,v) for k,v in pairs)

Hope this helps

Hibernate: get entity by id

In getUserById you shouldn't create a new object (user1) which isn't used. Just assign it to the already (but null) initialized user. Otherwise Hibernate.initialize(user); is actually Hibernate.initialize(null);

Here's the new getUserById (I haven't tested this ;)):

public User getUserById(Long user_id) {
    Session session = null;
    Object user = null;
    try {
        session = HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory().openSession();
        user = (User)session.load(User.class, user_id);
        Hibernate.initialize(user);
    } catch (Exception e) {
       e.printStackTrace();
    } finally {
        if (session != null && session.isOpen()) {
            session.close();
        }
    }
    return user;
}

Should I learn C before learning C++?

If you decide to learn both (and as other people have mentioned, there's no explicit need to learn both), learn C first. Going from C to C++ feels like a natural progression; going the other way feels like deliberately tying one hand behind your back. :-)

Get operating system info

Took the following code from php manual for get_browser.

$browser = get_browser(null, true);
print_r($browser);

The $browser array has platform information included which gives you the specific Operating System in use.

Please make sure to see the "Notes" section in that page. This might be something (thismachine.info) is using if not something already pointed in other answers.

Replacing Spaces with Underscores

This is part of my code which makes spaces into underscores for naming my files:

$file = basename($_FILES['upload']['name']);
$file = str_replace(' ','_',$file);

Mocking a function to raise an Exception to test an except block

Your mock is raising the exception just fine, but the error.resp.status value is missing. Rather than use return_value, just tell Mock that status is an attribute:

barMock.side_effect = HttpError(mock.Mock(status=404), 'not found')

Additional keyword arguments to Mock() are set as attributes on the resulting object.

I put your foo and bar definitions in a my_tests module, added in the HttpError class so I could use it too, and your test then can be ran to success:

>>> from my_tests import foo, HttpError
>>> import mock
>>> with mock.patch('my_tests.bar') as barMock:
...     barMock.side_effect = HttpError(mock.Mock(status=404), 'not found')
...     result = my_test.foo()
... 
404 - 
>>> result is None
True

You can even see the print '404 - %s' % error.message line run, but I think you wanted to use error.content there instead; that's the attribute HttpError() sets from the second argument, at any rate.

What is causing the error `string.split is not a function`?

run this

// you'll see that it prints Object
console.log(typeof document.location);

you want document.location.toString() or document.location.href

SQL for ordering by number - 1,2,3,4 etc instead of 1,10,11,12

I prefer doing a "PAD" to the data. MySql calls it LPAD, but you can work your way around to doing the same thing in SQL Server.

ORDER BY  REPLACE(STR(ColName, 3), SPACE(1), '0') 

This formula will provide leading zeroes based on the Column's length of 3. This functionality is very useful in other situations outside of ORDER BY, so that is why I wanted to provide this option.

Results: 1 becomes 001, and 10 becomes 010, while 100 remains the same.

how do you pass images (bitmaps) between android activities using bundles?

Activity

To pass a bitmap between Activites

Intent intent = new Intent(this, Activity.class);
intent.putExtra("bitmap", bitmap);

And in the Activity class

Bitmap bitmap = getIntent().getParcelableExtra("bitmap");

Fragment

To pass a bitmap between Fragments

SecondFragment fragment = new SecondFragment();
Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
bundle.putParcelable("bitmap", bitmap);
fragment.setArguments(bundle);

To receive inside the SecondFragment

Bitmap bitmap = getArguments().getParcelable("bitmap");

Transferring large bitmap (Compress bitmap)

If you are getting failed binder transaction, this means you are exceeding the binder transaction buffer by transferring large element from one activity to another activity.

So in that case you have to compress the bitmap as an byte's array and then uncompress it in another activity, like this

In the FirstActivity

Intent intent = new Intent(this, SecondActivity.class);

ByteArrayOutputStream stream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
bitmap.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.JPG, 100, stream);
byte[] bytes = stream.toByteArray(); 
intent.putExtra("bitmapbytes",bytes);

And in the SecondActivity

byte[] bytes = getIntent().getByteArrayExtra("bitmapbytes");
Bitmap bmp = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(bytes, 0, bytes.length);

How to examine processes in OS X's Terminal?

Try the top command. It's an interactive command that will display the running processes.

You may also use the Apple's "Activity Monitor" application (located in /Applications/Utilities/).

It provides an actually quite nice GUI. You can see all the running processes, filter them by users, get extended informations about them (CPU, memory, network, etc), monitor them, etc...

Probably your best choice, unless you want to stick with the terminal (in such a case, read the top or ps manual, as those commands have a bunch of options).

Vuex - passing multiple parameters to mutation

i think this can be as simple let as assume that you are going to pass multiple parameters to you action as you read up there actions accept only two parameters context and payload which is your data you want to pass in action so let take an example

Setting up Action

instead of

actions: {
        authenticate: ({ commit }, token, expiration) => commit('authenticate', token, expiration)
    }

do

actions: {
        authenticate: ({ commit }, {token, expiration}) => commit('authenticate', token, expiration)
    }

Calling (dispatching) Action

instead of

this.$store.dispatch({
                  type: 'authenticate',
                  token: response.body.access_token,
                  expiration: response.body.expires_in + Date.now()
              })

do

this.$store.dispatch('authenticate',{
                  token: response.body.access_token,
                  expiration: response.body.expires_in + Date.now()
              })

hope this gonna help

Why won't bundler install JSON gem?

So after a half day on this and almost immediately after posting my question I found the answer. Bundler 1.5.0 has a bug where it doesn't recognize default gems as referenced here

The solution was to update to bundler 1.5.1 using gem install bundler -v '= 1.5.1'

How do you remove a Cookie in a Java Servlet

The MaxAge of -1 signals that you want the cookie to persist for the duration of the session. You want to set MaxAge to 0 instead.

From the API documentation:

A negative value means that the cookie is not stored persistently and will be deleted when the Web browser exits. A zero value causes the cookie to be deleted.

How to add chmod permissions to file in Git?

Antwane's answer is correct, and this should be a comment but comments don't have enough space and do not allow formatting. :-) I just want to add that in Git, file permissions are recorded only1 as either 644 or 755 (spelled (100644 and 100755; the 100 part means "regular file"):

diff --git a/path b/path
new file mode 100644

The former—644—means that the file should not be executable, and the latter means that it should be executable. How that turns into actual file modes within your file system is somewhat OS-dependent. On Unix-like systems, the bits are passed through your umask setting, which would normally be 022 to remove write permission from "group" and "other", or 002 to remove write permission only from "other". It might also be 077 if you are especially concerned about privacy and wish to remove read, write, and execute permission from both "group" and "other".


1Extremely-early versions of Git saved group permissions, so that some repositories have tree entries with mode 664 in them. Modern Git does not, but since no part of any object can ever be changed, those old permissions bits still persist in old tree objects.

The change to store only 0644 or 0755 was in commit e44794706eeb57f2, which is before Git v0.99 and dated 16 April 2005.

How can I escape a double quote inside double quotes?

I don't know why this old issue popped up today in the Bash tagged listings, but just in case for future researchers, keep in mind that you can avoid escaping by using ASCII codes of the chars you need to echo.

Example:

 echo -e "This is \x22\x27\x22\x27\x22text\x22\x27\x22\x27\x22"
 This is "'"'"text"'"'"

\x22 is the ASCII code (in hex) for double quotes and \x27 for single quotes. Similarly you can echo any character.

I suppose if we try to echo the above string with backslashes, we will need a messy two rows backslashed echo... :)

For variable assignment this is the equivalent:

 $ a=$'This is \x22text\x22'
 $ echo "$a"
 This is "text"

If the variable is already set by another program, you can still apply double/single quotes with sed or similar tools.

Example:

 $ b="Just another text here"
 $ echo "$b"
 Just another text here
 $ sed 's/text/"'\0'"/' <<<"$b" #\0 is a special sed operator
 Just another "0" here #this is not what i wanted to be
 $ sed 's/text/\x22\x27\0\x27\x22/' <<<"$b"
 Just another "'text'" here #now we are talking. You would normally need a dozen of backslashes to achieve the same result in the normal way.

Can I make a phone call from HTML on Android?

I have just written an app which can make a call from a web page - I don't know if this is any use to you, but I include anyway:

in your onCreate you'll need to use a webview and assign a WebViewClient, as below:

browser = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webkit);
browser.setWebViewClient(new InternalWebViewClient());

then handle the click on a phone number like this:

private class InternalWebViewClient extends WebViewClient {

    @Override
    public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
         if (url.indexOf("tel:") > -1) {
            startActivity(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_DIAL, Uri.parse(url)));
            return true;
        } else {
            return false;
        }
    }
}

Let me know if you need more pointers.

How do I get the different parts of a Flask request's url?

another example:

request:

curl -XGET http://127.0.0.1:5000/alert/dingding/test?x=y

then:

request.method:              GET
request.url:                 http://127.0.0.1:5000/alert/dingding/test?x=y
request.base_url:            http://127.0.0.1:5000/alert/dingding/test
request.url_charset:         utf-8
request.url_root:            http://127.0.0.1:5000/
str(request.url_rule):       /alert/dingding/test
request.host_url:            http://127.0.0.1:5000/
request.host:                127.0.0.1:5000
request.script_root:
request.path:                /alert/dingding/test
request.full_path:           /alert/dingding/test?x=y

request.args:                ImmutableMultiDict([('x', 'y')])
request.args.get('x'):       y

Create a sample login page using servlet and JSP?

As I can see, you are comparing the message with the empty string using ==.

Its very hard to write the full code, but I can tell the flow of code - first, create db class & method inide that which will return the connection. second, create a servelet(ex-login.java) & import that db class onto that servlet. third, create instance of imported db class with the help of new operator & call the connection method of that db class. fourth, creaet prepared statement & execute statement & put this code in try catch block for exception handling.Use if-else condition in the try block to navigate your login page based on success or failure.

I hope, it will help you. If any problem, then please revert.

Nikhil Pahariya

Using a .php file to generate a MySQL dump

If you want to create a backup to download it via the browser, you also can do this without using a file.

The php function passthru() will directly redirect the output of mysqldump to the browser. In this example it also will be zipped.

Pro: You don't have to deal with temp files.

Con: Won't work on Windows. May have limits with huge datasets.

<?php

$DBUSER="user";
$DBPASSWD="password";
$DATABASE="user_db";

$filename = "backup-" . date("d-m-Y") . ".sql.gz";
$mime = "application/x-gzip";

header( "Content-Type: " . $mime );
header( 'Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="' . $filename . '"' );

$cmd = "mysqldump -u $DBUSER --password=$DBPASSWD $DATABASE | gzip --best";   

passthru( $cmd );

exit(0);
?>

Using python's mock patch.object to change the return value of a method called within another method

This can be done with something like this:

# foo.py
class Foo:
    def method_1():
        results = uses_some_other_method()


# testing.py
from mock import patch

@patch('Foo.uses_some_other_method', return_value="specific_value"):
def test_some_other_method(mock_some_other_method):
    foo = Foo()
    the_value = foo.method_1()
    assert the_value == "specific_value"

Here's a source that you can read: Patching in the wrong place

When to use virtual destructors?

Virtual keyword for destructor is necessary when you want different destructors should follow proper order while objects is being deleted through base class pointer. for example:

Base *myObj = new Derived();
// Some code which is using myObj object
myObj->fun();
//Now delete the object
delete myObj ; 

If your base class destructor is virtual then objects will be destructed in a order(firstly derived object then base ). If your base class destructor is NOT virtual then only base class object will get deleted(because pointer is of base class "Base *myObj"). So there will be memory leak for derived object.

Error: Local workspace file ('angular.json') could not be found

For people who have simply cloned a project and trying to run it, you need to run npm install first. I totally forgot to run this and was simply running ng serve before installing node modules.

How to write log to file

Declare up top in your global var so all your processes can access if needed.

package main

import (
    "log"
    "os"
)
var (
    outfile, _ = os.Create("path/to/my.log") // update path for your needs
    l      = log.New(outfile, "", 0)
)

func main() {
    l.Println("hello, log!!!")
}

Set disable attribute based on a condition for Html.TextBoxFor

If you don't use html helpers you may use simple ternary expression like this:

<input name="Field"
       value="@Model.Field" tabindex="0"
       @(Model.IsDisabledField ? "disabled=\"disabled\"" : "")>

What are the benefits of using C# vs F# or F# vs C#?

One of the aspects of .NET I like the most are generics. Even if you write procedural code in F#, you will still benefit from type inference. It makes writing generic code easy.

In C#, you write concrete code by default, and you have to put in some extra work to write generic code.

In F#, you write generic code by default. After spending over a year of programming in both F# and C#, I find that library code I write in F# is both more concise and more generic than the code I write in C#, and is therefore also more reusable. I miss many opportunities to write generic code in C#, probably because I'm blinded by the mandatory type annotations.

There are however situations where using C# is preferable, depending on one's taste and programming style.

  • C# does not impose an order of declaration among types, and it's not sensitive to the order in which files are compiled.
  • C# has some implicit conversions that F# cannot afford because of type inference.

What is the difference between BIT and TINYINT in MySQL?

Might be wrong but:

Tinyint is an integer between 0 and 255

bit is either 1 or 0

Therefore to me bit is the choice for booleans

"git rebase origin" vs."git rebase origin/master"

Here's a better option:

git remote set-head -a origin

From the documentation:

With -a, the remote is queried to determine its HEAD, then $GIT_DIR/remotes//HEAD is set to the same branch. e.g., if the remote HEAD is pointed at next, "git remote set-head origin -a" will set $GIT_DIR/refs/remotes/origin/HEAD to refs/remotes/origin/next. This will only work if refs/remotes/origin/next already exists; if not it must be fetched first.

This has actually been around quite a while (since v1.6.3); not sure how I missed it!

How to combine GROUP BY and ROW_NUMBER?

Undoubtly this can be simplified but the results match your expectations.

The gist of this is to

  • Calculate the maximum price in a seperate CTE for each t2ID
  • Calculate the total price in a seperate CTE for each t2ID
  • Combine the results of both CTE's

SQL Statement

;WITH MaxPrice AS ( 
    SELECT  t2ID
            , t1ID
    FROM    (       
                SELECT  t2.ID AS t2ID
                        , t1.ID AS t1ID
                        , rn = ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY t2.ID ORDER BY t1.Price DESC)
                FROM    @t1 t1
                        INNER JOIN @relation r ON r.t1ID = t1.ID        
                        INNER JOIN @t2 t2 ON t2.ID = r.t2ID
            ) maxt1
    WHERE   maxt1.rn = 1                            
)
, SumPrice AS (
    SELECT  t2ID = t2.ID
            , Price = SUM(Price)
    FROM    @t1 t1
            INNER JOIN @relation r ON r.t1ID = t1.ID
            INNER JOIN @t2 t2 ON t2.ID = r.t2ID
    GROUP BY
            t2.ID           
)           
SELECT  t2.ID
        , t2.Name
        , t2.Orders
        , mp.t1ID
        , t1.ID
        , t1.Name
        , sp.Price
FROM    @t2 t2
        INNER JOIN MaxPrice mp ON mp.t2ID = t2.ID
        INNER JOIN SumPrice sp ON sp.t2ID = t2.ID
        INNER JOIN @t1 t1 ON t1.ID = mp.t1ID

Regex to get NUMBER only from String

Either [0-9] or \d1 should suffice if you only need a single digit. Append + if you need more.


1 The semantics are slightly different as \d potentially matches any decimal digit in any script out there that uses decimal digits.

git - Server host key not cached

For those of you who are setting up MSYS Git on Windows using PuTTY via the standard command prompt, the way to add a host to PuTTY's cache is to run

> plink.exe <host>

For example:

> plink.exe codebasehq.com

The server's host key is not cached in the registry. You
have no guarantee that the server is the computer you
think it is.
The server's rsa2 key fingerprint is:
ssh-rsa 2048 2e:db:b6:22:f7:bd:48:f6:da:72:bf:59:d7:75:d7:4e
If you trust this host, enter "y" to add the key to
PuTTY's cache and carry on connecting.
If you want to carry on connecting just once, without
adding the key to the cache, enter "n".
If you do not trust this host, press Return to abandon the
connection.
Store key in cache? (y/n)

Just answer y, and then Ctrl+C the rest.

Do check the fingerprint though. This warning is there for a good reason. Fingerprints for some git services (please edit to add more):

Get the index of a certain value in an array in PHP

Try the array_keys PHP function.

$key_string1 = array_keys($list, 'string1');

How to generate unique IDs for form labels in React?

You could use a library such as node-uuid for this to make sure you get unique ids.

Install using:

npm install node-uuid --save

Then in your react component add the following:

import {default as UUID} from "node-uuid";
import {default as React} from "react";

export default class MyComponent extends React.Component {   
  componentWillMount() {
    this.id = UUID.v4();
  }, 
  render() {
    return (
      <div>
        <label htmlFor={this.id}>My label</label>
        <input id={this.id} type="text"/>
      </div>
    );
  }   
}

Can I export a variable to the environment from a bash script without sourcing it?

Another workaround that, depends on the case, it could be useful: creating another bash that inherites the exported variable. It is a particular case of @Keith Thompson answer, will all of those drawbacks.

export.bash:

# !/bin/bash
export VAR="HELLO, VARIABLE"
bash

Now:

./export.bash
echo $VAR

file_get_contents() how to fix error "Failed to open stream", "No such file"

Why don't you use cURL ?

$yourkey="your api key";
$url="https://prod.api.pvp.net/api/lol/euw/v1.1/game/by-summoner/20986461/recent?api_key=$yourkey";
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);

$auth = curl_exec($curl);
if($auth)
{
$json = json_decode($auth); 
print_r($json);
}
}

Setting HTTP headers

Never mind, I figured it out - I used the Set() method on Header() (doh!)

My handler looks like this now:

func saveHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
    // allow cross domain AJAX requests
    w.Header().Set("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*")
}

Maybe this will help someone as caffeine deprived as myself sometime :)

format a number with commas and decimals in C# (asp.net MVC3)

All that is needed is "#,0.00", c# does the rest.

Num.ToString("#,0.00"")

  • The "#,0" formats the thousand separators
  • "0.00" forces two decimal points

PHP $_FILES['file']['tmp_name']: How to preserve filename and extension?

$_FILES["file"]["tmp_name"] contains the actual copy of your file content on the server while
$_FILES["file"]["name"] contains the name of the file which you have uploaded from the client computer.