Programs & Examples On #Db2 connect

How to echo out the values of this array?

The problem here is in your explode statement

//$item['date'] presumably = 20120514.  Do a print of this
$eventDate = trim($item['date']);

//This explodes on , but there is no , in $eventDate
//You also have a limit of 2 set in the below explode statement
$myarray = (explode(',', $eventDate, 2));

 //$myarray is currently = to '20'

 foreach ($myarray as $value) {
    //Now you are iterating through a string
    echo $value;
 }

Try changing your initial $item['date'] to be 2012,04,30 if that's what you're trying to do. Otherwise I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to print.

Android: how to convert whole ImageView to Bitmap?

This is a working code

imageView.setDrawingCacheEnabled(true);
imageView.buildDrawingCache();
Bitmap bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(imageView.getDrawingCache());

Reading all files in a directory, store them in objects, and send the object

Are you a lazy person like me and love npm module :D then check this out.

npm install node-dir

example for reading files:

var dir = require('node-dir');

dir.readFiles(__dirname,
    function(err, content, next) {
        if (err) throw err;
        console.log('content:', content);  // get content of files
        next();
    },
    function(err, files){
        if (err) throw err;
        console.log('finished reading files:', files); // get filepath 
   });    

how do I get a new line, after using float:left?

Another approach that's a little more semantic is to have a UL defined as your total 6 image width, each LI defined as float left and width defined - so that when LI #7 hits, it runs into the boundry of the UL, and is pushed down to the new row. You'll still have an open float that you'll want to clear after the /UL - but that can be done on the next element of the page, or as a clear div. Here's sort of the idea, you may have to mess with actual values, but this should give you the idea. The code is a little cleaner.

 <style type="text/css"> 
ul#imageSet { width: 600px; margin: 0; padding:0; }
ul#imageSet li { float: left; width: 100px;  height: 188px; margin: 0; padding:0; position: relative; list-style-type: none; }
.cornerimage { position: absolute; bottom: 0; right: 0; } 
h3.nextelement { clear: both; }
</style>


<ul id="imageSet">
    <li>
        <img border="0" height="188" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2459/3534790964_5d8bed17c0.jpg" width="100" />
        <img class="cornerimage" height="140" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3310/3514664446_08e9745681.jpg" width="50" />
    </li>
     <li>
        <img border="0" height="188" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2459/3534790964_5d8bed17c0.jpg" width="100" />
        <img class="cornerimage" height="140" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3310/3514664446_08e9745681.jpg" width="50" />
    </li>
    <li>
        <img border="0" height="188" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2459/3534790964_5d8bed17c0.jpg" width="100" />
        <img class="cornerimage" height="140" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3310/3514664446_08e9745681.jpg" width="50" />
    </li>
    <li>
        <img border="0" height="188" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2459/3534790964_5d8bed17c0.jpg" width="100" />
        <img class="cornerimage" height="140" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3310/3514664446_08e9745681.jpg" width="50" />
    </li>
    <li>
        <img border="0" height="188" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2459/3534790964_5d8bed17c0.jpg" width="100" />
        <img class="cornerimage" height="140" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3310/3514664446_08e9745681.jpg" width="50" />
    </li>
    <li>
        <img border="0" height="188" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2459/3534790964_5d8bed17c0.jpg" width="100" />
        <img class="cornerimage" height="140" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3310/3514664446_08e9745681.jpg" width="50" />
    </li>
    <li>
        <img border="0" height="188" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2459/3534790964_5d8bed17c0.jpg" width="100" />
        <img class="cornerimage" height="140" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3310/3514664446_08e9745681.jpg" width="50" />
    </li>
    <li>
        <img border="0" height="188" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2459/3534790964_5d8bed17c0.jpg" width="100" />
        <img class="cornerimage" height="140" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3310/3514664446_08e9745681.jpg" width="50" />
    </li>
</ul>


<h3 class="nextelement">Next Element in Doc</h3>

@HostBinding and @HostListener: what do they do and what are they for?

Have you checked these official docs?

HostListener - Declares a host listener. Angular will invoke the decorated method when the host element emits the specified event.

@HostListener - will listen to the event emitted by the host element that's declared with @HostListener.

HostBinding - Declares a host property binding. Angular automatically checks host property bindings during change detection. If a binding changes, it will update the host element of the directive.

@HostBinding - will bind the property to the host element, If a binding changes, HostBinding will update the host element.


NOTE: Both links have been removed recently. The "HostBinding-HostListening" portion of the style guide may be a useful alternative until the links return.


Here's a simple code example to help picture what this means:

DEMO : Here's the demo live in plunker - "A simple example about @HostListener & @HostBinding"

  • This example binds a role property -- declared with @HostBinding -- to the host's element
    • Recall that role is an attribute, since we're using attr.role.
    • <p myDir> becomes <p mydir="" role="admin"> when you view it in developer tools.
  • It then listens to the onClick event declared with @HostListener, attached to the component's host element, changing role with each click.
    • The change when the <p myDir> is clicked is that its opening tag changes from <p mydir="" role="admin"> to <p mydir="" role="guest"> and back.

directives.ts

import {Component,HostListener,Directive,HostBinding,Input} from '@angular/core';

@Directive({selector: '[myDir]'})
export class HostDirective {
  @HostBinding('attr.role') role = 'admin'; 
  @HostListener('click') onClick() {
    this.role= this.role === 'admin' ? 'guest' : 'admin';
  }
}

AppComponent.ts

import { Component,ElementRef,ViewChild } from '@angular/core';
import {HostDirective} from './directives';

@Component({
selector: 'my-app',
template:
  `
  <p myDir>Host Element 
    <br><br>

    We have a (HostListener) listening to this host's <b>click event</b> declared with @HostListener

    <br><br>

    And we have a (HostBinding) binding <b>the role property</b> to host element declared with @HostBinding 
    and checking host's property binding updates.

    If any property change is found I will update it.
  </p>

  <div>View this change in the DOM of the host element by opening developer tools,
    clicking the host element in the UI. 

    The role attribute's changes will be visible in the DOM.</div> 
    `,
  directives: [HostDirective]
})
export class AppComponent {}

CSS3 scrollbar styling on a div

The problem with the css3 scroll bars is that, interaction can only be performed on the content. we can't interact with the scroll bar on touch devices.

Swift Modal View Controller with transparent background

You can do it like this:

In your main view controller:

func showModal() {
    let modalViewController = ModalViewController()
    modalViewController.modalPresentationStyle = .overCurrentContext
    presentViewController(modalViewController, animated: true, completion: nil)
}

In your modal view controller:

class ModalViewController: UIViewController {
    override func viewDidLoad() {
        view.backgroundColor = UIColor.clearColor()
        view.opaque = false
    }
}

If you are working with a storyboard:

Just add a Storyboard Segue with Kind set to Present Modally to your modal view controller and on this view controller set the following values:

  • Background = Clear Color
  • Drawing = Uncheck the Opaque checkbox
  • Presentation = Over Current Context

As Crashalot pointed out in his comment: Make sure the segue only uses Default for both Presentation and Transition. Using Current Context for Presentation makes the modal turn black instead of remaining transparent.

Can you call ko.applyBindings to bind a partial view?

ko.applyBindings accepts a second parameter that is a DOM element to use as the root.

This would let you do something like:

<div id="one">
  <input data-bind="value: name" />
</div>

<div id="two">
  <input data-bind="value: name" />
</div>

<script type="text/javascript">
  var viewModelA = {
     name: ko.observable("Bob")
  };

  var viewModelB = {
     name: ko.observable("Ted")
  };

  ko.applyBindings(viewModelA, document.getElementById("one"));
  ko.applyBindings(viewModelB, document.getElementById("two"));
</script>

So, you can use this technique to bind a viewModel to the dynamic content that you load into your dialog. Overall, you just want to be careful not to call applyBindings multiple times on the same elements, as you will get multiple event handlers attached.

Are table names in MySQL case sensitive?

In general:

Database and table names are not case sensitive in Windows, and case sensitive in most varieties of Unix.

In MySQL, databases correspond to directories within the data directory. Each table within a database corresponds to at least one file within the database directory. Consequently, the case sensitivity of the underlying operating system plays a part in the case sensitivity of database and table names.

One can configure how tables names are stored on the disk using the system variable lower_case_table_names (in the my.cnf configuration file under [mysqld]).

Read the section: 10.2.2 Identifier Case Sensitivity for more information.

How to extract code of .apk file which is not working?

Click here this is a good tutorial for both window/ubuntu.

  1. apktool1.5.1.jar download from here.

  2. apktool-install-linux-r05-ibot download from here.

  3. dex2jar-0.0.9.15.zip download from here.

  4. jd-gui-0.3.3.linux.i686.tar.gz (java de-complier) download from here.

  5. framework-res.apk ( Located at your android device /system/framework/)

Procedure:

  1. Rename the .apk file and change the extension to .zip ,

it will become .zip.

  1. Then extract .zip.

  2. Unzip downloaded dex2jar-0.0.9.15.zip file , copy the contents and paste it to unzip folder.

  3. Open terminal and change directory to unzip “dex2jar-0.0.9.15 “

– cd – sh dex2jar.sh classes.dex (result of this command “classes.dex.dex2jar.jar” will be in your extracted folder itself).

  1. Now, create new folder and copy “classes.dex.dex2jar.jar” into it.

  2. Unzip “jd-gui-0.3.3.linux.i686.zip“ and open up the “Java Decompiler” in full screen mode.

  3. Click on open file and select “classes.dex.dex2jar.jar” into the window.

  4. “Java Decompiler” and go to file > save and save the source in a .zip file.

  5. Create “source_code” folder.

  6. Extract the saved .zip and copy the contents to “source_code” folder.

  7. This will be where we keep your source code.

  8. Extract apktool1.5.1.tar.bz2 , you get apktool.jar

  9. Now, unzip “apktool-install-linux-r05-ibot.zip”

  10. Copy “framework-res.apk” , “.apk” and apktool.jar

  11. Paste it to the unzip “apktool-install-linux-r05-ibot” folder (line no 13).

  12. Then open terminal and type:

    – cd

    – chown -R : ‘apktool.jar’

    – chown -R : ‘apktool’

    – chown -R : ‘aapt’

    – sudo chmod +x ‘apktool.jar’

    – sudo chmod +x ‘apktool’

    – sudo chmod +x ‘aapt’

    – sudo mv apktool.jar /usr/local/bin

    – sudo mv apktool /usr/local/bin

    – sudo mv aapt /usr/local/bin

    – apktool if framework-res.apk – apktool d .apk

Is there a PowerShell "string does not contain" cmdlet or syntax?

If $arrayofStringsNotInterestedIn is an [array] you should use -notcontains:

Get-Content $FileName | foreach-object { `
   if ($arrayofStringsNotInterestedIn -notcontains $_) { $) }

or better (IMO)

Get-Content $FileName | where { $arrayofStringsNotInterestedIn -notcontains $_}

SQL Server Group By Month

SELECT CONVERT(NVARCHAR(10), PaymentDate, 120) [Month], SUM(Amount) [TotalAmount]
FROM Payments
GROUP BY CONVERT(NVARCHAR(10), PaymentDate, 120)
ORDER BY [Month]

You could also try:

SELECT DATEPART(Year, PaymentDate) Year, DATEPART(Month, PaymentDate) Month, SUM(Amount) [TotalAmount]
FROM Payments
GROUP BY DATEPART(Year, PaymentDate), DATEPART(Month, PaymentDate)
ORDER BY Year, Month

How to stretch div height to fill parent div - CSS

Simply add height: 100%; onto the #B2 styling. min-height shouldn't be necessary.

Replace forward slash "/ " character in JavaScript string?

Escape it: someString.replace(/\//g, "-");

Calling async method on button click

This is what's killing you:

task.Wait();

That's blocking the UI thread until the task has completed - but the task is an async method which is going to try to get back to the UI thread after it "pauses" and awaits an async result. It can't do that, because you're blocking the UI thread...

There's nothing in your code which really looks like it needs to be on the UI thread anyway, but assuming you really do want it there, you should use:

private async void Button_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs 
{
    Task<List<MyObject>> task = GetResponse<MyObject>("my url");
    var items = await task;
    // Presumably use items here
}

Or just:

private async void Button_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs 
{
    var items = await GetResponse<MyObject>("my url");
    // Presumably use items here
}

Now instead of blocking until the task has completed, the Button_Click method will return after scheduling a continuation to fire when the task has completed. (That's how async/await works, basically.)

Note that I would also rename GetResponse to GetResponseAsync for clarity.

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

Your problem comes from the 32/64 bit version of your JDK/JRE... Your shared lib is searched for a 32 bit version.

Your default JDK is a 32 bit version. Try to install a 64 bit one by default and relaunch your `.sh file.

How to group by week in MySQL?

The accepted answer above did not work for me, because it ordered the weeks by alphabetical order, not chronological order:

2012/1
2012/10
2012/11
...
2012/19
2012/2

Here's my solution to count and group by week:

SELECT CONCAT(YEAR(date), '/', WEEK(date)) AS week_name, 
       YEAR(date), WEEK(date), COUNT(*)
FROM column_name
GROUP BY week_name
ORDER BY YEAR(DATE) ASC, WEEK(date) ASC

Generates:

YEAR/WEEK   YEAR   WEEK   COUNT
2011/51     2011    51      15
2011/52     2011    52      14
2012/1      2012    1       20
2012/2      2012    2       14
2012/3      2012    3       19
2012/4      2012    4       19

How to read data From *.CSV file using javascript?

Actually you can use a light-weight library called any-text.

  • install dependencies
npm i -D any-text
  • use custom command to read files
var reader = require('any-text');
 
reader.getText(`path-to-file`).then(function (data) {
  console.log(data);
});

or use async-await :

var reader = require('any-text');
 
const chai = require('chai');
const expect = chai.expect;
 
describe('file reader checks', () => {
  it('check csv file content', async () => {
    expect(
      await reader.getText(`${process.cwd()}/test/files/dummy.csv`)
    ).to.contains('Lorem ipsum');
  });
});

How to perform Unwind segue programmatically?

SWIFT 4:

1. Create an @IBAction with segue inside controller you want to unwind to:

    @IBAction func unwindToVC(segue: UIStoryboardSegue) {

    }

2. In the storyboard, from the controller you want to segue (unwind) from ctrl+drag from the controller sign to exit sign and choose method you created earlier:

enter image description here

3. Now you can notice that in document outline you have new line with title "Unwind segue....". Now you should click on this line and open attribute inspector to set identifier (in my case unwindSegueIdentifier).

enter image description here

4. You're almost done! Now you need to open view controller you wish to unwind from and create some method that will perform segue. For example you can add button, connect it with code with @IBAction, after that inside this IBAction add perfromSegue(withIdentifier:sender:) method:

     @IBAction func unwindToSomeVCWithSegue(_ sender: UIButton) {
         performSegue(withIdentifier: "unwindSegueIdentifier", sender: nil)
     }

So that is all you have to do!

Get top n records for each group of grouped results

Check this out:

SELECT
  p.Person,
  p.`Group`,
  p.Age
FROM
  people p
  INNER JOIN
  (
    SELECT MAX(Age) AS Age, `Group` FROM people GROUP BY `Group`
    UNION
    SELECT MAX(p3.Age) AS Age, p3.`Group` FROM people p3 INNER JOIN (SELECT MAX(Age) AS Age, `Group` FROM people GROUP BY `Group`) p4 ON p3.Age < p4.Age AND p3.`Group` = p4.`Group` GROUP BY `Group`
  ) p2 ON p.Age = p2.Age AND p.`Group` = p2.`Group`
ORDER BY
  `Group`,
  Age DESC,
  Person;

SQL Fiddle: http://sqlfiddle.com/#!2/cdbb6/15

How to automatically indent source code?

In Visual Studio 2010

Ctrl +k +d indent the complete page.

Ctrl +k +f indent the selected Code.

For more help visit : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/da5kh0wa.aspx

every thing is there.

How to retrieve an Oracle directory path?

The ALL_DIRECTORIES data dictionary view will have information about all the directories that you have access to. That includes the operating system path

SELECT owner, directory_name, directory_path
  FROM all_directories

What is the difference between char s[] and char *s?

An example to the difference:

printf("hello" + 2); //llo
char a[] = "hello" + 2; //error

In the first case pointer arithmetics are working (arrays passed to a function decay to pointers).

how to access master page control from content page

In Content page you can access the label and set the text such as

Here 'lblStatus' is the your master page label ID

Label lblMasterStatus = (Label)Master.FindControl("lblStatus");

lblMasterStatus.Text  = "Meaasage from content page";

Background image jumps when address bar hides iOS/Android/Mobile Chrome

The solution I came up with when having similar problem was to set height of element to window.innerHeight every time touchmove event was fired.

var lastHeight = '';

$(window).on('resize', function () {
    // remove height when normal resize event is fired and content redrawn
    if (lastHeight) {
        $('#bg1').height(lastHeight = '');
    }
}).on('touchmove', function () {
    // when window height changes adjust height of the div
    if (lastHeight != window.innerHeight) {
        $('#bg1').height(lastHeight = window.innerHeight);
    }
});

This makes the element span exactly 100% of the available screen at all times, no more and no less. Even during address bar hiding or showing.

Nevertheless it's a pity that we have to come up with that kind of patches, where simple position: fixed should work.

Flatten an irregular list of lists

Shamelessly taken from my own answer to another question.

This function

  • Does not use isinstance, because it's evil and breaks duck typing.
  • Uses reduce recursively. There has to be an answer using reduce.
  • Works with arbitrary nested-lists whose elements are either nested-lists, or non-nested lists of atoms, or atoms (subjected to recursion limit).
  • Does not LBYL.
  • But not with nested-lists that contain strings as atoms.

Code below:

def flattener(left, right):
    try:
        res = reduce(flattener, right, left)
    except TypeError:
        left.append(right)
        res = left
    return res


def flatten(seq):
    return reduce(flattener, seq, [])


>>> nested_list = [0, [1], [[[[2]]]],
                   [3, [], [4, 5]],
                   [6, [7, 8],
                    9, [[[]], 10,
                        []]],
                   11, [], [],
                   [12]]
>>> flatten(nested_list)
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]

How to pick just one item from a generator?

You can pick specific items using destructuring, e.g.:

>>> [first, *middle, last] = range(10)
>>> first
0
>>> middle
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]
>>> last
9

Note that this is going to consume your generator, so while highly readable, it is less efficient than something like next(), and ruinous on infinite generators:

>>> [first, *rest] = itertools.count()

What is Python Whitespace and how does it work?

Every programming language has its own way of structuring the code.
whenever you write a block of code, it has to be organised in a way to be understood by everyone.

Usually used in conditional and classes and defining the definition.
It represents the parent, child and grandchild and further.

Example:

def example()
    print "name"
    print "my name"
example()

Here you can say example() is a parent and others are children.

Base64 Encoding Image

Check the following example:

// First get your image
$imgPath = 'path-to-your-picture/image.jpg';
$img = base64_encode(file_get_contents($imgPath));
echo '<img width="100" height="100" src="data:image/jpg;base64,'. $img .'" />'

How do I get the last inserted ID of a MySQL table in PHP?

Using MySQLi transaction I sometimes wasn't able to get mysqli::$insert_id, because it returned 0. Especially if I was using stored procedures, that executing INSERTs. So there is another way within transaction:

<?php

function getInsertId(mysqli &$instance, $enforceQuery = false){
    if(!$enforceQuery)return $instance->insert_id;

    $result = $instance->query('SELECT LAST_INSERT_ID();');

    if($instance->errno)return false;

    list($buffer) = $result->fetch_row();

    $result->free();

    unset($result);

    return $buffer;
}

?>

Node Version Manager install - nvm command not found

In macOS, i had to source it using source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh command to fix this problem.

After that, add these lines

export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && . "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" # This loads nvm

onto ~/.bash_profile so that nvm will be sourced automatically upon login.

Set database from SINGLE USER mode to MULTI USER

just go to database properties and change SINGLE USER mode to MULTI USER

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NOTE: if its not work for you then take Db backup and restore again and do above method again

* Single=SINGLE_USER

Multiple=MULTI_USER

Restricted=RESTRICTED_USER

Using two CSS classes on one element

If you want to apply styles only to an element which is its parents' first child, is it better to use :first-child pseudo-class

.social:first-child{
    border-bottom: dotted 1px #6d6d6d;
    padding-top: 0;
}
.social{
    border: 0;
    width: 330px;
    height: 75px;
    float: right;
    text-align: left;
    padding: 10px 0;
}

Then, the rule .social has both common styles and the last element's styles.

And .social:first-child overrides them with first element's styles.

You could also use :last-child selector, but :first-childis more supported by old browsers: see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/:first-child#Browser_compatibility and https://developer.mozilla.org/es/docs/CSS/:last-child#Browser_compatibility.

Send Outlook Email Via Python?

Other than win32, if your company had set up you web outlook, you can also try PYTHON REST API, which is officially made by Microsoft. (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/office365/api/mail-rest-operations)

Apache 2.4.6 on Ubuntu Server: Client denied by server configuration (PHP FPM) [While loading PHP file]

I had the same issue after upgrading my system. In my case, the problem was caused by the order of loading configuration files. In the /etc/httpd/httpd.confinitally it was defined as follows:

IncludeOptional conf.d/*.conf
IncludeOptional sites-enabled/*.conf

After some hours of attempts, I tried the following order:

IncludeOptional sites-enabled/*.conf
IncludeOptional conf.d/*.conf

And it works fine now.

How can I disable HREF if onclick is executed?

In my case, I had a condition when the user click the "a" element. The condition was:

If other section had more than ten items, then the user should be not redirected to other page.

If other section had less than ten items, then the user should be redirected to other page.

The functionality of the "a" elements depends of the other component. The code within click event is the follow:

var elementsOtherSection = document.querySelectorAll("#vehicle-item").length;
if (elementsOtherSection> 10){
     return true;
}else{
     event.preventDefault();
     return false;
}

how much memory can be accessed by a 32 bit machine?

What's typically meant by 32-bit or 64-bit machine is the size of the externally visible ("architected") general-purpose integer registers.

This has very little to do with how the hardware is built though. For example, let's consider the (long obsolete) Intel Pentium Pro. It's normally considered a "32-bit" processor, even though it supports up to 36-bit physical addresses, has a 64-bit wide data bus, and internally computations on all supported operand types are carried out in a single set of registers (which are therefore 80 bits wide, to support the largest floating point type).

At least in the case of Intel processors, even though larger physical addressing has been available for a long time, the largest amount of memory directly visible within the address space of any one process on a 32-bit processor is also limited to 4 gigabytes (32-bit addressing). The 36-bit physical addressing allows addressing up to 64 gigabytes of RAM, but only 4 gigabytes of that can be directly visible at any given time.

The change to 64-bit machines mostly involved changing what was made visible to the user (or to code at the assembly language level). Again, what you see is rarely identical to what's real. For example, most 64-bit code sees pointers/addresses as being 64 bits, but actual processors don't support that large of addresses. Current CPUs support 48-bit virtual addresses, and (at least as far as I've noticed) a maximum of 40 bits of physical addressing. On the other hand, they're designed so in the future, when larger memory becomes practical, they can extend the physical addressing out to 48 bits without affecting software at all. Even when they increase the 48-bit virtual addressing, in a typical case it'll only affect a small amount of the operating system kernel (normal code is unaffected, because it already assumed addresses are 64 bits).

So, no: a 64-bit machine does not really support up to 64 bits of physical addressing, but most typical 64-bit software should remain compatible with a future processor that did support directly addressing that much RAM.

How can I remove file extension from a website address?

For those who are still looking for a simple answer to this; You can remove your file extension by using .htaccessbut this solution is just saving the day maybe even not. Because when user copies the URL from address bar or tries to reload or even coming back from history, your standart Apache Router will not be able to realize what are you looking for and throw you a 404 Error. You need a dedicated Router for this purpose to make your app understand what does the URL actually means by saying something Server and File System has no idea about.

I leave here my solution for this. This is tested and used many times for my clients and for my projects too. It supports multi language and language detection too. Read Readme file is recommended. It also provides you a good structure to have a tidy project with differenciated language files (you can even have different designs for each language) and separated css,js and phpfiles even more like images or whatever you have.

Cr8Router - Simple PHP Router

WAMP error: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /phpmyadmin/ on this server

In my case, using Wampserver 3 64bit version 3.0.0, the path to the phpmyadmin4.5.2 directory in the phpmyadmin.conf file was wrong. For some reason the apps directory is inside the scripts directory. So I entered the correct paths as shown below. Then you probably need to restart Apache and reload the page.

I changed:

Alias /phpmyadmin "C:/wamp64/apps/phpmyadmin4.5.2/"

<Directory "C:/wamp64/apps/phpmyadmin4.5.2/">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
  AllowOverride all
    Require local

# To import big file you can increase values
  php_admin_value upload_max_filesize 128M
  php_admin_value post_max_size 128M
  php_admin_value max_execution_time 360
  php_admin_value max_input_time 360
</Directory>

To:

Alias /phpmyadmin "C:/wamp64/scripts/apps/phpmyadmin4.5.2/"

<Directory "C:/wamp64/scripts/apps/phpmyadmin4.5.2/">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
  AllowOverride all
    Require local

# To import big file you can increase values
  php_admin_value upload_max_filesize 128M
  php_admin_value post_max_size 128M
  php_admin_value max_execution_time 360
  php_admin_value max_input_time 360
</Directory>

Re-sign IPA (iPhone)

None of these resigning approaches were working for me, so I had to work out something else.

In my case, I had an IPA with an expired certificate. I could have rebuilt the app, but because we wanted to ensure we were distributing exactly the same version (just with a new certificate), we did not want to rebuild it.

Instead of the ways of resigning mentioned in the other answers, I turned to Xcode’s method of creating an IPA, which starts with an .xcarchive from a build.

  1. I duplicated an existing .xcarchive and started replacing the contents. (I ignored the .dSYM file.)

  2. I extracted the old app from the old IPA file (via unzipping; the app is the only thing in the Payload folder)

  3. I moved this app into the new .xcarchive, under Products/Applications replacing the app that was there.

  4. I edited Info.plist, editing

    • ApplicationProperties/ApplicationPath
    • ApplicationProperties/CFBundleIdentifier
    • ApplicationProperties/CFBundleShortVersionString
    • ApplicationProperties/CFBundleVersion
    • Name
  5. I moved the .xcarchive into Xcode’s archive folder, usually /Users/xxxx/Library/Developer/Xcode/Archives.

  6. In Xcode, I opened the Organiser window, picked this new archive and did a regular (in this case Enterprise) export.

The result was a good IPA that works.

GetType used in PowerShell, difference between variables

First of all, you lack parentheses to call GetType. What you see is the MethodInfo describing the GetType method on [DayOfWeek]. To actually call GetType, you should do:

$a.GetType();
$b.GetType();

You should see that $a is a [DayOfWeek], and $b is a custom object generated by the Select-Object cmdlet to capture only the DayOfWeek property of a data object. Hence, it's an object with a DayOfWeek property only:

C:\> $b.DayOfWeek -eq $a
True

How to get PID by process name?

To improve the Padraic's answer: when check_output returns a non-zero code, it raises a CalledProcessError. This happens when the process does not exists or is not running.

What I would do to catch this exception is:

#!/usr/bin/python

from subprocess import check_output, CalledProcessError

def getPIDs(process):
    try:
        pidlist = map(int, check_output(["pidof", process]).split())
    except  CalledProcessError:
        pidlist = []
    print 'list of PIDs = ' + ', '.join(str(e) for e in pidlist)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    getPIDs("chrome")

The output:

$ python pidproc.py
list of PIDS = 31840, 31841, 41942

How do I set a checkbox in razor view?

I did it using Razor , works for me

Razor Code

@Html.CheckBox("CashOnDelivery", CashOnDelivery) (This is a bit or bool value) Razor don't support nullable bool
@Html.CheckBox("OnlinePayment", OnlinePayment)

C# Code

 var CashOnDelivery = Convert.ToBoolean(Collection["CashOnDelivery"].Contains("true")?true:false);
 var OnlinePayment = Convert.ToBoolean(Collection["OnlinePayment"].Contains("true") ? true : false);

creating charts with angularjs

The ZingChart library has an AngularJS directive that was built in-house. Features include:

  • Full access to the entire ZingChart library (all charts, maps, and features)
  • Takes advantage of Angular's 2-way data binding, making data and chart elements easy to update
  • Support from the development team

    ...
    $scope.myJson = {
    type : 'line',
       series : [
          { values : [54,23,34,23,43] },{ values : [10,15,16,20,40] }
       ]
    };
    ...
    
    <zingchart id="myChart" zc-json="myJson" zc-height=500 zc-width=600></zingchart>
    

There is a full demo with code examples available.

Replace all non Alpha Numeric characters, New Lines, and multiple White Space with one Space

Well I think you just need to add a quantifier to each pattern. Also the carriage-return thing is a little funny:

text.replace(/[^a-z0-9]+|\s+/gmi, " ");

edit The \s thing matches \r and \n too.

Get most recent file in a directory on Linux

try this simple command

ls -ltq  <path>  | head -n 1

If you want file name - last modified, path = /ab/cd/*.log

If you want directory name - last modified, path = /ab/cd/*/

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)

Get the string value from List<String> through loop for display

List<String> al=new ArrayList<string>();
al.add("One");
al.add("Two");
al.add("Three");

for(String al1:al) //for each construct
{
System.out.println(al1);
}

O/p will be

One
Two
Three

MySQL ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE for multiple rows insert in single query

You can use Replace instead of INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE.

Remove background drawable programmatically in Android

This work for me:

yourview.setBackground(null);

Find the directory part (minus the filename) of a full path in access 97

If you are confident in your input parameters, you can use this single line of code which uses the native Split and Join functions and Excel native Application.pathSeparator.

Split(Join(Split(strPath, "."), Application.pathSeparator), Application.pathSeparator)

If you want a more extensive function, the code below is tested in Windows and should also work on Mac (though not tested). Be sure to also copy the supporting function GetPathSeparator, or modify the code to use Application.pathSeparator. Note, this is a first draft; I should really refactor it to be more concise.

Private Sub ParsePath2Test()
    'ParsePath2(DrivePathFileExt, -2) returns a multi-line string for debugging.
    Dim p As String, n As Integer

    Debug.Print String(2, vbCrLf)

    If True Then
        Debug.Print String(2, vbCrLf)
        Debug.Print ParsePath2("", -2)
        Debug.Print ParsePath2("C:", -2)
        Debug.Print ParsePath2("C:\", -2)
        Debug.Print ParsePath2("C:\Windows", -2)
        Debug.Print ParsePath2("C:\Windows\notepad.exe", -2)
        Debug.Print ParsePath2("C:\Windows\SysWOW64", -2)
        Debug.Print ParsePath2("C:\Windows\SysWOW64\", -2)
        Debug.Print ParsePath2("C:\Windows\SysWOW64\AcLayers.dll", -2)
        Debug.Print ParsePath2("C:\Windows\SysWOW64\.fakedir", -2)
        Debug.Print ParsePath2("C:\Windows\SysWOW64\fakefile.ext", -2)
    End If

    If True Then
        Debug.Print String(1, vbCrLf)
        Debug.Print ParsePath2("\Windows", -2)
        Debug.Print ParsePath2("\Windows\notepad.exe", -2)
        Debug.Print ParsePath2("\Windows\SysWOW64", -2)
        Debug.Print ParsePath2("\Windows\SysWOW64\", -2)
        Debug.Print ParsePath2("\Windows\SysWOW64\AcLayers.dll", -2)
        Debug.Print ParsePath2("\Windows\SysWOW64\.fakedir", -2)
        Debug.Print ParsePath2("\Windows\SysWOW64\fakefile.ext", -2)
    End If

    If True Then
        Debug.Print String(1, vbCrLf)
        Debug.Print ParsePath2("Windows\notepad.exe", -2)
        Debug.Print ParsePath2("Windows\SysWOW64", -2)
        Debug.Print ParsePath2("Windows\SysWOW64\", -2)
        Debug.Print ParsePath2("Windows\SysWOW64\AcLayers.dll", -2)
        Debug.Print ParsePath2("Windows\SysWOW64\.fakedir", -2)
        Debug.Print ParsePath2("Windows\SysWOW64\fakefile.ext", -2)
        Debug.Print ParsePath2(".fakedir", -2)
        Debug.Print ParsePath2("fakefile.txt", -2)
        Debug.Print ParsePath2("fakefile.onenote", -2)
        Debug.Print ParsePath2("C:\Personal\Workspace\Code\PythonVenvs\xlwings_test\.idea", -2)
        Debug.Print ParsePath2("Windows", -2)   ' Expected to raise error 52
    End If

    If True Then
        Debug.Print String(2, vbCrLf)
        Debug.Print "ParsePath2 ""\Windows\SysWOW64\fakefile.ext"" with different ReturnType values"
        Debug.Print , "{empty}", "D", ParsePath2("Windows\SysWOW64\fakefile.ext")(1)
        Debug.Print , "0", "D", ParsePath2("Windows\SysWOW64\fakefile.ext", 0)(1)
        Debug.Print , "1", "ext", ParsePath2("Windows\SysWOW64\fakefile.ext", 1)
        Debug.Print , "10", "file", ParsePath2("Windows\SysWOW64\fakefile.ext", 10)
        Debug.Print , "11", "file.ext", ParsePath2("Windows\SysWOW64\fakefile.ext", 11)
        Debug.Print , "100", "path", ParsePath2("Windows\SysWOW64\fakefile.ext", 100)
        Debug.Print , "110", "path\file", ParsePath2("Windows\SysWOW64\fakefile.ext", 110)
        Debug.Print , "111", "path\file.ext", ParsePath2("Windows\SysWOW64\fakefile.ext", 111)
        Debug.Print , "1000", "D", ParsePath2("Windows\SysWOW64\fakefile.ext", 1000)
        Debug.Print , "1100", "D:\path", ParsePath2("Windows\SysWOW64\fakefile.ext", 1100)
        Debug.Print , "1110", "D:\p\file", ParsePath2("Windows\SysWOW64\fakefile.ext", 1110)
        Debug.Print , "1111", "D:\p\f.ext", ParsePath2("Windows\SysWOW64\fakefile.ext", 1111)
        On Error GoTo EH:
        ' This is expected to presetn an error:
        p = "Windows\SysWOW64\fakefile.ext"
        n = 1010
        Debug.Print "1010", "D:\p\file.ext", ParsePath2("Windows\SysWOW64\fakefile.ext", 1010)
        On Error GoTo 0
    End If
Exit Sub
EH:
    Debug.Print , CStr(n), "Error: "; Err.Number, Err.Description
    Resume Next
End Sub
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
Public Function ParsePath2(ByVal DrivePathFileExt As String _
                         , Optional ReturnType As Integer = 0)
' Writen by Chris Advena.  You may modify and use this code provided you leave
' this credit in the code.
' Parses the input DrivePathFileExt string into individual components (drive
' letter, folders, filename and extension) and returns the portions you wish
' based on ReturnType.
' Returns either an array of strings (ReturnType = 0) or an individual string
' (all other defined ReturnType values).
'
' Parameters:
'   DrivePathFileExt: The full drive letter, path, filename and extension
'   ReturnType: -2 or a string up of to 4 ones with leading or lagging zeros
'              (e.g., 0001)
'      -2: special code for debugging use in ParsePath2Test().
'          Results in printing verbose information to the Immediate window.
'       0: default: Array(driveStr, pathStr, fileStr, extStr)
'       1: extension
'      10: filename stripped of extension
'      11: filename.extension, excluding drive and folders
'     100: folders, excluding drive letter filename and extension
'     111: folders\filename.extension, excluding drive letter
'    1000: drive leter only
'    1100: drive:\folders,  excluding filename and extension
'    1110: drive:\folders\filename, excluding extension
'    1010, 0101, 1001: invalid ReturnTypes.  Will result raise error 380, Value
'          is not valid.

    Dim driveStr As String, pathStr As String
    Dim fileStr As String, extStr As String
    Dim drivePathStr As String
    Dim pathFileExtStr As String, fileExtStr As String
    Dim s As String, cnt As Integer
    Dim i As Integer, slashStr As String
    Dim dotLoc As Integer, slashLoc As Integer, colonLoc As Integer
    Dim extLen As Integer, fileLen As Integer, pathLen As Integer
    Dim errStr As String

    DrivePathFileExt = Trim(DrivePathFileExt)

    If DrivePathFileExt = "" Then
        fileStr = ""
        extStr = ""
        fileExtStr = ""
        pathStr = ""
        pathFileExtStr = ""
        drivePathStr = ""
        GoTo ReturnResults
    End If

    ' Determine if Dos(/) or UNIX(\) slash is used
    slashStr = GetPathSeparator(DrivePathFileExt)

' Find location of colon, rightmost slash and dot.
    ' COLON: colonLoc and driveStr
    colonLoc = 0
    driveStr = ""
    If Mid(DrivePathFileExt, 2, 1) = ":" Then
        colonLoc = 2
        driveStr = Left(DrivePathFileExt, 1)
    End If
    #If Mac Then
        pathFileExtStr = DrivePathFileExt
    #Else ' Windows
        pathFileExtStr = ""
        If Len(DrivePathFileExt) > colonLoc _
        Then pathFileExtStr = Mid(DrivePathFileExt, colonLoc + 1)
    #End If

    ' SLASH: slashLoc, fileExtStr and fileStr
    ' Find the rightmost path separator (Win backslash or Mac Fwdslash).
    slashLoc = InStrRev(DrivePathFileExt, slashStr, -1, vbBinaryCompare)

    ' DOT: dotLoc and extStr
    ' Find rightmost dot.  If that dot is not part of a relative reference,
    ' then set dotLoc.  dotLoc is meant to apply to the dot before an extension,
    ' NOT relative path reference dots.  REl ref dots appear as "." or ".." at
    ' the very leftmost of the path string.
    dotLoc = InStrRev(DrivePathFileExt, ".", -1, vbTextCompare)
    If Left(DrivePathFileExt, 1) = "." And dotLoc <= 2 Then dotLoc = 0
    If slashLoc + 1 = dotLoc Then
        dotLoc = 0
        If Len(extStr) = 0 And Right(pathFileExtStr, 1) <> slashStr _
        Then pathFileExtStr = pathFileExtStr & slashStr
    End If
    #If Not Mac Then
        ' In windows, filenames cannot end with a dot (".").
        If dotLoc = Len(DrivePathFileExt) Then
            s = "Error in FileManagementMod.ParsePath2 function.  " _
                & "DrivePathFileExt " & DrivePathFileExt _
                & " cannot end iwth a dot ('.')."
            Err.Raise 52, "FileManagementMod.ParsePath2", s
        End If
    #End If

    ' extStr
    extStr = ""
    If dotLoc > 0 And (dotLoc < Len(DrivePathFileExt)) _
    Then extStr = Mid(DrivePathFileExt, dotLoc + 1)

    ' fileExtStr
    fileExtStr = ""
    If slashLoc > 0 _
    And slashLoc < Len(DrivePathFileExt) _
    And dotLoc > slashLoc Then
        fileExtStr = Mid(DrivePathFileExt, slashLoc + 1)
    End If


' Validate the input: DrivePathFileExt
    s = ""
    #If Mac Then
        If InStr(1, DrivePathFileExt, ":") > 0 Then
            s = "DrivePathFileExt ('" & DrivePathFileExt _
                & "')has invalid format.  " _
                & "UNIX/Mac filenames cannot contain a colon ('.')."
        End If
    #End If
    If Not colonLoc = 0 And slashLoc = 0 And dotLoc = 0 _
    And Left(DrivePathFileExt, 1) <> slashStr _
    And Left(DrivePathFileExt, 1) <> "." Then
        s = "DrivePathFileExt ('" & DrivePathFileExt _
            & "') has invalid format.  " _
            & "Good example: 'C:\folder\file.txt'"
    ElseIf colonLoc <> 0 And colonLoc <> 2 Then
        ' We are on Windows and there is a colon; it can only be
        ' in position 2.
        s = "DrivePathFileExt ('" & DrivePathFileExt _
            & "') has invalid format.  " _
            & "In the  Windows operating system, " _
            & "a colon (':') can only be the second character '" _
            & "of a valid file path. "
    ElseIf Left(DrivePathFileExt, 1) = ":" _
    Or InStr(3, DrivePathFileExt, ":", vbTextCompare) > 0 Then
        'If path contains a drive letter, it must contain at least one slash.
        s = "DrivePathFileExt ('" & DrivePathFileExt _
            & "') has invalid format.  " _
            & "Colon can only appear in the second character position." _
            & slashStr & "')."
    ElseIf colonLoc > 0 And slashLoc = 0 _
    And Len(DrivePathFileExt) > 2 Then
        'If path contains a drive letter, it must contain at least one slash.
        s = "DrivePathFileExt ('" & DrivePathFileExt _
            & "') has invalid format.  " _
            & "The last dot ('.') cannot be before the last file separator '" _
            & slashStr & "')."
    ElseIf colonLoc = 2 _
    And InStr(1, DrivePathFileExt, slashStr, vbTextCompare) = 0 _
    And Len(DrivePathFileExt) > 2 Then
        ' There is a colon, but no file separator (slash).  This is invalid.
        s = "DrivePathFileExt ('" & DrivePathFileExt _
            & "') has invalid format.  " _
            & "If a drive letter is included, then there must be at " _
            & "least one file separator character ('" & slashStr & "')."
    ElseIf Len(driveStr) > 0 And Len(DrivePathFileExt) > 2 And slashLoc = 0 Then
        ' If path contains a drive letter and is more than 2 character long
        ' (e.g., 'C:'), it must contain at least one slash.
        s = "DrivePathFileExt cannot contain a drive letter but no path separator."
    End If
    If Len(s) > 0 Then
    End If



' Determine if DrivePathFileExt = DrivePath
' or  = Path (with no fileStr or extStr components).
    If Right(DrivePathFileExt, 1) = slashStr _
    Or slashLoc = 0 _
    Or dotLoc = 0 _
    Or (dotLoc > 0 And dotLoc <= slashLoc + 1) Then
        ' If rightmost character is the slashStr, then no fileExt exists, just drivePath
        ' If no dot found, then no extension.  Assume a folder is after the last slashstr,
        ' not a filename.
        ' If a dot is found (extension exists),
        ' If a rightmost dot appears one-char to the right of the rightmost slash
        '    or anywhere before (left) of that, it is not a file/ext separator. Exmaple:
        '    'C:\folder1\.folder2' Then
        ' If no slashes, then no fileExt exists.  It must just be a driveletter.
        ' DrivePathFileExt contains no file or ext name.
        fileStr = ""
        extStr = ""
        fileExtStr = ""
        pathStr = pathFileExtStr
        drivePathStr = DrivePathFileExt
        GoTo ReturnResults
    Else
        ' fileStr
        fileStr = ""
        If slashLoc > 0 Then
            If Len(extStr) = 0 Then
                fileStr = fileExtStr
            Else
                ' length of filename excluding dot and extension.
                i = Len(fileExtStr) - Len(extStr) - 1
                fileStr = Left(fileExtStr, i)
            End If
        Else
                s = "Error in FileManagementMod.ParsePath2 function. " _
                    & "*** Unhandled scenario: find fileStr when slashLoc = 0. *** "
                Err.Raise 52, "FileManagementMod.ParsePath2", s
        End If

        ' pathStr
        pathStr = ""
        ' length of pathFileExtStr excluding fileExt.
        i = Len(pathFileExtStr) - Len(fileExtStr)
        pathStr = Left(pathFileExtStr, i)

        ' drivePathStr
        drivePathStr = ""
        ' length of DrivePathFileExt excluding dot and extension.
        i = Len(DrivePathFileExt) - Len(fileExtStr)
        drivePathStr = Left(DrivePathFileExt, i)
    End If

ReturnResults:
    ' ReturnType uses a 4-digit binary code: dpfe = drive path file extension,
    ' where 1 = return in array and 0 = do not return in array
    ' -2, and 0 are special cases that do not follow the code.

    ' Note: pathstr is determined with the tailing slashstr
    If Len(drivePathStr) > 0 And Right(drivePathStr, 1) <> slashStr _
    Then drivePathStr = drivePathStr & slashStr
    If Len(pathStr) > 0 And Right(pathStr, 1) <> slashStr _
    Then pathStr = pathStr & slashStr
    #If Not Mac Then
        ' Including this code add a slash to the beginnning where missing.
        ' the downside is that it would create an absolute path where a
        ' sub-path of the current folder is intended.
        'If colonLoc = 0 Then
        '    If Len(drivePathStr) > 0 And Not IsIn(Left(drivePathStr, 1), slashStr, ".") _
             Then drivePathStr = slashStr & drivePathStr
        '    If Len(pathStr) > 0 And Not IsIn(Left(pathStr, 1), slashStr, ".") _
             Then pathStr = slashStr & pathStr
        '    If Len(pathFileExtStr) > 0 And Not IsIn(Left(pathFileExtStr, 1), slashStr, ".") _
             Then pathFileExtStr = slashStr & pathFileExtStr
        'End If
    #End If
    Select Case ReturnType
        Case -2  ' used for ParsePath2Test() only.
            ParsePath2 = "DrivePathFileExt          " _
                        & CStr(Nz(DrivePathFileExt, "{empty string}")) _
                        & vbCrLf & "        " _
                        & "--------------    -----------------------------------------" _
                        & vbCrLf & "        " & "D:\Path\          " & drivePathStr _
                        & vbCrLf & "        " & "\path[\file.ext]  " & pathFileExtStr _
                        & vbCrLf & "        " & "\path\            " & pathStr _
                        & vbCrLf & "        " & "file.ext          " & fileExtStr _
                        & vbCrLf & "        " & "file              " & fileStr _
                        & vbCrLf & "        " & "ext               " & extStr _
                        & vbCrLf & "        " & "D                 " & driveStr _
                        & vbCrLf & vbCrLf
            ' My custom debug printer prints to Immediate winodw and log file.
            ' Dbg.Prnt 2, ParsePath2
            Debug.Print ParsePath2
        Case 1      '0001: ext
            ParsePath2 = extStr
        Case 10     '0010: file
            ParsePath2 = fileStr
        Case 11     '0011: file.ext
            ParsePath2 = fileExtStr
        Case 100    '0100: path
            ParsePath2 = pathStr
        Case 110    '0110: (path, file)
            ParsePath2 = pathStr & fileStr
        Case 111    '0111:
            ParsePath2 = pathFileExtStr
        Case 1000
            ParsePath2 = driveStr
        Case 1100
            ParsePath2 = drivePathStr
        Case 1110
            ParsePath2 = drivePathStr & fileStr
        Case 1111
            ParsePath2 = DrivePathFileExt
        Case 1010, 101, 1001
            s = "Error in FileManagementMod.ParsePath2 function.  " _
                & "Value of Paramter (ReturnType = " _
                & CStr(ReturnType) & ") is not valid."
            Err.Raise 380, "FileManagementMod.ParsePath2", s
        Case Else   '   default: 0
            ParsePath2 = Array(driveStr, pathStr, fileStr, extStr)
    End Select

End Function

Supporting function GetPathSeparatorTest extends the native Application.pathSeparator (or bypasses when needed) to work on Mac and Win. It can also takes an optional path string and will try to determine the path separator used in the string (favoring the OS native path separator).

Private Sub GetPathSeparatorTest()
    Dim s As String
    Debug.Print "GetPathSeparator(s):"
    Debug.Print "s not provided: ", GetPathSeparator
    s = "C:\folder1\folder2\file.ext"
    Debug.Print "s = "; s, GetPathSeparator(DrivePathFileExt:=s)
    s = "C:/folder1/folder2/file.ext"
    Debug.Print "s = "; s, GetPathSeparator(DrivePathFileExt:=s)
End Sub
Function GetPathSeparator(Optional DrivePathFileExt As String = "") As String
' by Chris Advena
' Finds the path separator from a string, DrivePathFileExt.
' If DrivePathFileExt is not provided, return the operating system path separator
' (Windows = backslash, Mac = forwardslash).
' Mac/Win compatible.

    ' Initialize
    Dim retStr As String: retStr = ""
    Dim OSSlash As String: OSSlash = ""
    Dim OSOppositeSlash As String: OSOppositeSlash = ""
        Dim PathFileExtSlash As String

    GetPathSeparator = ""
    retStr = ""

    ' Determine if OS expects fwd or back slash ("/" or "\").
    On Error GoTo EH
    OSSlash = Application.pathSeparator

    If DrivePathFileExt = "" Then
    ' Input parameter DrivePathFileExt is empty, so use OS file separator.
        retStr = OSSlash
    Else
    ' Input parameter DrivePathFileExt provided.  See if it contains / or \.
        ' Set OSOppositeSlash to the opposite slash the OS expects.
        OSOppositeSlash = "\"
        If OSSlash = "\" Then OSOppositeSlash = "/"

        ' If DrivePathFileExt does NOT contain OSSlash
        ' and DOES contain OSOppositeSlash, return OSOppositeSlash.
        ' Otherwise, assume OSSlash is correct.
        retStr = OSSlash
        If InStr(1, DrivePathFileExt, OSSlash, vbTextCompare) = 0 _
        And InStr(1, DrivePathFileExt, OSOppositeSlash, vbTextCompare) > 0 Then
            retStr = OSOppositeSlash
        End If
    End If

    GetPathSeparator = retStr
Exit Function
EH:
    ' Application.PathSeparator property does not exist in Access,
    ' so get it the slightly less easy way.
    #If Mac Then ' Application.PathSeparator doesn't seem to exist in Access...
        OSSlash = "/"
    #Else
        OSSlash = "\"
    #End If
    Resume Next
End Function

Supporting function (actually commented out, so you can skip this if you don't plan to use it).

Sub IsInTest()
' IsIn2 is case insensitive
    Dim StrToFind As String, arr As Variant
    arr = Array("Me", "You", "Dog", "Boo")

    StrToFind = "doG"
    Debug.Print "Is '" & CStr(StrToFind) & "' in list (expect True): " _
                , IsIn(StrToFind, "Me", "You", "Dog", "Boo")

    StrToFind = "Porcupine"
    Debug.Print "Is '" & CStr(StrToFind) & "' in list (expect False): " _
                , IsIn(StrToFind, "Me", "You", "Dog", "Boo")
End Sub
Function IsIn(ByVal StrToFind, ParamArray StringArgs() As Variant) As Boolean
' StrToFind: the string to find in the list of StringArgs()
' StringArgs: 1-dimensional array containing string values.
' Built for Strings, but actually works with other data types.
    Dim arr As Variant
    arr = StringArgs
    IsIn = Not IsError(Application.Match(StrToFind, arr, False))
End Function

Import CSV into SQL Server (including automatic table creation)

You can create a temp table variable and insert the data into it, then insert the data into your actual table by selecting it from the temp table.

 declare @TableVar table 
 (
    firstCol varchar(50) NOT NULL,
    secondCol varchar(50) NOT NULL
 )

BULK INSERT @TableVar FROM 'PathToCSVFile' WITH (FIELDTERMINATOR = ',', ROWTERMINATOR = '\n')
GO

INSERT INTO dbo.ExistingTable
(
    firstCol,
    secondCol
)
SELECT firstCol,
       secondCol
FROM @TableVar

GO

Background service with location listener in android

First you need to create a Service. In that Service, create a class extending LocationListener. For this, use the following code snippet of Service:

public class LocationService extends Service {
public static final String BROADCAST_ACTION = "Hello World";
private static final int TWO_MINUTES = 1000 * 60 * 2;
public LocationManager locationManager;
public MyLocationListener listener;
public Location previousBestLocation = null;

Intent intent;
int counter = 0;

@Override
public void onCreate() {
    super.onCreate();
    intent = new Intent(BROADCAST_ACTION);
}

@Override
public void onStart(Intent intent, int startId) {
    locationManager = (LocationManager) getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE);
    listener = new MyLocationListener();
    if (ActivityCompat.checkSelfPermission(this, Manifest.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION) != PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED && ActivityCompat.checkSelfPermission(this, Manifest.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION) != PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) {
        return;
    }
    locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.NETWORK_PROVIDER, 4000, 0, (LocationListener) listener);
    locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER, 4000, 0, listener);
}

@Override
public IBinder onBind(Intent intent)
{
    return null;
}

protected boolean isBetterLocation(Location location, Location currentBestLocation) {
    if (currentBestLocation == null) {
        // A new location is always better than no location
        return true;
    }

    // Check whether the new location fix is newer or older
    long timeDelta = location.getTime() - currentBestLocation.getTime();
    boolean isSignificantlyNewer = timeDelta > TWO_MINUTES;
    boolean isSignificantlyOlder = timeDelta < -TWO_MINUTES;
    boolean isNewer = timeDelta > 0;

    // If it's been more than two minutes since the current location, use the new location
    // because the user has likely moved
    if (isSignificantlyNewer) {
        return true;
        // If the new location is more than two minutes older, it must be worse
    } else if (isSignificantlyOlder) {
        return false;
    }

    // Check whether the new location fix is more or less accurate
    int accuracyDelta = (int) (location.getAccuracy() - currentBestLocation.getAccuracy());
    boolean isLessAccurate = accuracyDelta > 0;
    boolean isMoreAccurate = accuracyDelta < 0;
    boolean isSignificantlyLessAccurate = accuracyDelta > 200;

    // Check if the old and new location are from the same provider
    boolean isFromSameProvider = isSameProvider(location.getProvider(),
            currentBestLocation.getProvider());

    // Determine location quality using a combination of timeliness and accuracy
    if (isMoreAccurate) {
        return true;
    } else if (isNewer && !isLessAccurate) {
        return true;
    } else if (isNewer && !isSignificantlyLessAccurate && isFromSameProvider) {
        return true;
    }
    return false;
}



/** Checks whether two providers are the same */
private boolean isSameProvider(String provider1, String provider2) {
    if (provider1 == null) {
        return provider2 == null;
    }
    return provider1.equals(provider2);
}



@Override
public void onDestroy() {
    // handler.removeCallbacks(sendUpdatesToUI);     
    super.onDestroy();
    Log.v("STOP_SERVICE", "DONE");
    locationManager.removeUpdates(listener);
}

public static Thread performOnBackgroundThread(final Runnable runnable) {
    final Thread t = new Thread() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            try {
                runnable.run();
            } finally {

            }
        }
    };
    t.start();
    return t;
}
public class MyLocationListener implements LocationListener
{

    public void onLocationChanged(final Location loc)
    {
        Log.i("*****", "Location changed");
        if(isBetterLocation(loc, previousBestLocation)) {
            loc.getLatitude();
            loc.getLongitude();
            intent.putExtra("Latitude", loc.getLatitude());
            intent.putExtra("Longitude", loc.getLongitude());
            intent.putExtra("Provider", loc.getProvider());
            sendBroadcast(intent);

        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onStatusChanged(String provider, int status, Bundle extras) {

    }

    public void onProviderDisabled(String provider)
    {
        Toast.makeText( getApplicationContext(), "Gps Disabled", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT ).show();
    }


    public void onProviderEnabled(String provider)
    {
        Toast.makeText( getApplicationContext(), "Gps Enabled", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
    }
}

Add this Service any where in your project, the way you want! :)

How to call stopservice() method of Service class from the calling activity class

I actually used pretty much the same code as you above. My service registration in the manifest is the following

<service android:name=".service.MyService" android:enabled="true">
            <intent-filter android:label="@string/menuItemStartService" >
                <action android:name="it.unibz.bluedroid.bluetooth.service.MY_SERVICE"/>
            </intent-filter>
        </service>

In the service class I created an according constant string identifying the service name like:

public class MyService extends ForeGroundService {
    public static final String MY_SERVICE = "it.unibz.bluedroid.bluetooth.service.MY_SERVICE";
   ...
}

and from the according Activity I call it with

startService(new Intent(MyService.MY_SERVICE));

and stop it with

stopService(new Intent(MyService.MY_SERVICE));

It works perfectly. Try to check your configuration and if you don't find anything strange try to debug whether your stopService get's called properly.

How to get back to the latest commit after checking out a previous commit?

You can use one of the following git command for this:

git checkout master
git checkout branchname

How do I filter date range in DataTables?

Following one is working fine with moments js 2.10 and above

$.fn.dataTableExt.afnFiltering.push(
        function( settings, data, dataIndex ) {
            var min  = $('#min-date').val()
            var max  = $('#max-date').val()
            var createdAt = data[0] || 0; // Our date column in the table
            //createdAt=createdAt.split(" ");
            var startDate   = moment(min, "DD/MM/YYYY");
            var endDate     = moment(max, "DD/MM/YYYY");
            var diffDate = moment(createdAt, "DD/MM/YYYY");
            //console.log(startDate);
            if (
              (min == "" || max == "") ||
              (diffDate.isBetween(startDate, endDate))


            ) {  return true;  }
            return false;

        }
    );

Prepend line to beginning of a file

Different Idea:

(1) You save the original file as a variable.

(2) You overwrite the original file with new information.

(3) You append the original file in the data below the new information.

Code:

with open(<filename>,'r') as contents:
      save = contents.read()
with open(<filename>,'w') as contents:
      contents.write(< New Information >)
with open(<filename>,'a') as contents:
      contents.write(save)

Android list view inside a scroll view

Best solution is add this android:nestedScrollingEnabled="true" attribute in child scrolling for example i have inserted this attribute in my ListView that is child of ScrollView. i hope this mathod works for you :-

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ScrollView
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">
    <LinearLayout
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:orientation="vertical"
        android:gravity="center_horizontal">
        <TextView
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:gravity="center"
            android:text="TextView"/>
        <ListView
            android:nestedScrollingEnabled="true" //add this only
            android:id="@+id/listView"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="300dp"/>
    </LinearLayout>
</ScrollView>

How do I make an HTML text box show a hint when empty?

The best way is to wire up your JavaScript events using some kind of JavaScript library like jQuery or YUI and put your code in an external .js-file.

But if you want a quick-and-dirty solution this is your inline HTML-solution:

<input type="text" id="textbox" value="Search"
    onclick="if(this.value=='Search'){this.value=''; this.style.color='#000'}" 
    onblur="if(this.value==''){this.value='Search'; this.style.color='#555'}" />

Updated: Added the requested coloring-stuff.

Escaping quotes and double quotes

Using the backtick (`) works fine for me if I put them in the following places:

$cmd="\\server\toto.exe -batch=B -param=`"sort1;parmtxt='Security ID=1234'`""

$cmd returns as:

\\server\toto.exe -batch=B -param="sort1;parmtxt='Security ID=1234'"

Is that what you were looking for?

The error PowerShell gave me referred to an unexpected token 'sort1', and that's how I determined where to put the backticks.

The @' ... '@ syntax is called a "here string" and will return exactly what is entered. You can also use them to populate variables in the following fashion:

$cmd=@'
"\\server\toto.exe -batch=B -param="sort1;parmtxt='Security ID=1234'""
'@

The opening and closing symbols must be on their own line as shown above.

How to change the color of an image on hover

Use the background-color property instead of the background property in your CSS. So your code will look like this:
.fb-icon:hover {
background: blue;
}

div with dynamic min-height based on browser window height

Just look for my solution on jsfiddle, it is based on csslayout

_x000D_
_x000D_
html,_x000D_
body {_x000D_
  margin: 0;_x000D_
  padding: 0;_x000D_
  height: 100%; /* needed for container min-height */_x000D_
}_x000D_
div#container {_x000D_
  position: relative; /* needed for footer positioning*/_x000D_
  height: auto !important; /* real browsers */_x000D_
  min-height: 100%; /* real browsers */_x000D_
}_x000D_
div#header {_x000D_
  padding: 1em;_x000D_
  background: #efe;_x000D_
}_x000D_
div#content {_x000D_
  /* padding:1em 1em 5em; *//* bottom padding for footer */_x000D_
}_x000D_
div#footer {_x000D_
  position: absolute;_x000D_
  width: 100%;_x000D_
  bottom: 0; /* stick to bottom */_x000D_
  background: #ddd;_x000D_
}
_x000D_
<div id="container">_x000D_
_x000D_
  <div id="header">header</div>_x000D_
_x000D_
  <div id="content">_x000D_
    content<br/>content<br/>content<br/>content<br/>content<br/>content<br/>content<br/>content<br/>content<br/>content<br/>content<br/>content<br/>content<br/>content<br/>content<br/>content<br/>content<br/>content<br/>_x000D_
  </div>_x000D_
_x000D_
  <div id="footer">_x000D_
    footer_x000D_
  </div>_x000D_
</div>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

Display a message in Visual Studio's output window when not debug mode?

This whole thread confused the h#$l out of me until I realized you have to be running the debugger to see ANY trace or debug output. I needed a debug output (outside of the debugger) because my WebApp runs fine when I debug it but not when the debugger isn't running (SqlDataSource is instantiated correctly when running through the debugger).

Just because debug output can be seen when you're running in release mode doesn't mean you'll see anything if you're not running the debugger. Careful reading of Writing to output window of Visual Studio? gave me DebugView as an alternative. Extremely useful!

Hopefully this helps anyone else confused by this.

How to install mysql-connector via pip

If loading via pip install mysql-connector and leads an error Unable to find Protobuf include directory then this would be useful pip install mysql-connector==2.1.4

mysql-connector is obsolete, so use pip install mysql-connector-python. Same here

List file using ls command in Linux with full path

For listing everything with full path, only in current directory

find $PWD -maxdepth 1

Same as above but only matches a particular extension, case insensitive (.sh files in this case)

find $PWD -maxdepth 1 -iregex '.+\.sh'

$PWD is for current directory, it can be replaced with any directory

mydir="/etc/sudoers.d/" ; find $mydir -maxdepth 1

maxdepth prevents find from going into subdirectories, for example you can set it to "2" for listing items in children as well. Simply remove it if you need it recursive.

To limit it to only files, can use -type f option.

find $PWD -maxdepth 1 -type f

How to achieve ripple animation using support library?

It's very simple ;-)

First you must create two drawable file one for old api version and another one for newest version, Of course! if you create the drawable file for newest api version android studio suggest you to create old one automatically. and finally set this drawable to your background view.

Sample drawable for new api version (res/drawable-v21/ripple.xml):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ripple xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:color="?android:colorControlHighlight">
    <item>
        <shape android:shape="rectangle">
            <solid android:color="@color/colorPrimary" />
            <corners android:radius="@dimen/round_corner" />
        </shape>
    </item>
</ripple>

Sample drawable for old api version (res/drawable/ripple.xml)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:shape="rectangle">
    <solid android:color="@color/colorPrimary" />
    <corners android:radius="@dimen/round_corner" />
</shape>

For more info about ripple drawable just visit this: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/drawable/RippleDrawable.html

Tensorflow installation error: not a supported wheel on this platform

The pip wheel contains the python version in its name (cp34-cp34m). If you download the whl file and rename it to say py3-none or instead, it should work. Can you try that?

The installation won't work for anaconda users that choose python 3 support because the installation procedure is asking to create a python 3.5 environment and the file is currently called cp34-cp34m. So renaming it would do the job for now.

sudo pip3 install --upgrade https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/linux/gpu/tensorflow-0.7.0-cp34-cp34m-linux_x86_64.whl

This will produced the exact error message you got above. However, when you will downloaded the file yourself and rename it to "tensorflow-0.7.0-py3-none-linux_x86_64.whl", then execute the command again with changed filename, it should work fine.

SOAP request in PHP with CURL

Tested and working!

  • with https, user & password

     <?php 
     //Data, connection, auth
     $dataFromTheForm = $_POST['fieldName']; // request data from the form
     $soapUrl = "https://connecting.website.com/soap.asmx?op=DoSomething"; // asmx URL of WSDL
     $soapUser = "username";  //  username
     $soapPassword = "password"; // password
    
     // xml post structure
    
     $xml_post_string = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
                         <soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
                           <soap:Body>
                             <GetItemPrice xmlns="http://connecting.website.com/WSDL_Service"> // xmlns value to be set to your WSDL URL
                               <PRICE>'.$dataFromTheForm.'</PRICE> 
                             </GetItemPrice >
                           </soap:Body>
                         </soap:Envelope>';   // data from the form, e.g. some ID number
    
        $headers = array(
                     "Content-type: text/xml;charset=\"utf-8\"",
                     "Accept: text/xml",
                     "Cache-Control: no-cache",
                     "Pragma: no-cache",
                     "SOAPAction: http://connecting.website.com/WSDL_Service/GetPrice", 
                     "Content-length: ".strlen($xml_post_string),
                 ); //SOAPAction: your op URL
    
         $url = $soapUrl;
    
         // PHP cURL  for https connection with auth
         $ch = curl_init();
         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 1);
         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $soapUser.":".$soapPassword); // username and password - declared at the top of the doc
         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_ANY);
         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 10);
         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $xml_post_string); // the SOAP request
         curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
    
         // converting
         $response = curl_exec($ch); 
         curl_close($ch);
    
         // converting
         $response1 = str_replace("<soap:Body>","",$response);
         $response2 = str_replace("</soap:Body>","",$response1);
    
         // convertingc to XML
         $parser = simplexml_load_string($response2);
         // user $parser to get your data out of XML response and to display it. 
     ?>
    

C#: how to get first char of a string?

Answer to your question is NO.

Correct is MyString[position of character]. For your case MyString[0], 0 is the FIRST character of any string.

A character value is designated with ' (single quote), like this x character value is written as 'x'.

A string value is designated with " ( double quote), like this x string value is written as "x".

So Substring() method is also does not return a character, Substring() method returns a string!!!

A string is an array of characters, and last character must be '\0' (null) character. Thats the difference between character array and string ( which is an array of characters with last character as "end of string marker" '\0' null.

And also notice that 'x' IS NOT EQUAL to "x". Because "x" is actually 'x'+'\0'.

Twitter Bootstrap carousel different height images cause bouncing arrows

It looks like bootstrap less/CSS forces an automatic height to avoid stretching the image when the width has to change to be responsive. I switched it around to make the width auto and fix the height.

<div class="item peopleCarouselImg">
  <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/...">
  ...
</div>

I then define img with a class peopleCarouselImg like this:

.peopleCarouselImg img {
  width: auto;
  height: 225px;
  max-height: 225px;
}

I fix my height to 225px. I let the width automatically adjust to keep the aspect ratio correct.

This seems to work for me.

What is the correct way to declare a boolean variable in Java?

In your example, You don't need to. As a standard programming practice, all variables being referred to inside some code block, say for example try{} catch(){}, and being referred to outside the block as well, you need to declare the variables outside the try block first e.g.

This is helpful when your equals method call throws some exception e.g. NullPointerException;

     boolean isMatch = false;

     try{
         isMatch = email1.equals (email2);
      }catch(NullPointerException npe){
         .....
      }
      System.out.print("Match=="+isMatch);
      if(isMatch){
        ......
      }

Wait for all promises to resolve

Recently had this problem but with unkown number of promises.Solved using jQuery.map().

function methodThatChainsPromises(args) {

    //var args = [
    //    'myArg1',
    //    'myArg2',
    //    'myArg3',
    //];

    var deferred = $q.defer();
    var chain = args.map(methodThatTakeArgAndReturnsPromise);

    $q.all(chain)
    .then(function () {
        $log.debug('All promises have been resolved.');
        deferred.resolve();
    })
    .catch(function () {
        $log.debug('One or more promises failed.');
        deferred.reject();
    });

    return deferred.promise;
}

Docker: How to use bash with an Alpine based docker image?

Try using RUN /bin/sh instead of bash.

How to check if a file exists from a url

I've just found this solution:

if(@getimagesize($remoteImageURL)){
    //image exists!
}else{
    //image does not exist.
}

Source: http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/11197-checking-if-file-exists-on-remote-server/

How do I make a div full screen?

<div id="placeholder" style="position:absolute; top:0; right:0; bottom:0; left:0;"></div>

assign function return value to some variable using javascript

AJAX requests are asynchronous. Your doSomething function is being exectued, the AJAX request is being made but it happens asynchronously; so the remainder of doSomething is executed and the value of status is undefined when it is returned.

Effectively, your code works as follows:

function doSomething(someargums) {
     return status;
}

var response = doSomething();

And then some time later, your AJAX request is completing; but it's already too late

You need to alter your code, and populate the "response" variable in the "success" callback of your AJAX request. You're going to have to delay using the response until the AJAX call has completed.

Where you previously may have had

var response = doSomething();

alert(response);

You should do:

function doSomething() {  
    $.ajax({
           url:'action.php',
           type: "POST",
           data: dataString,
           success: function (txtBack) { 
            alert(txtBack);
           })
    }); 
};

Splitting on last delimiter in Python string?

You can use rsplit

string.rsplit('delimeter',1)[1]

To get the string from reverse.

Excel - extracting data based on another list

I couldn't get the first method to work, and I know this is an old topic, but this is what I ended up doing for a solution:

=IF(ISNA(MATCH(A1,B:B,0)),"Not Matched", A1)

Basically, MATCH A1 to Column B exactly (the 0 stands for match exactly to a value in Column B). ISNA tests for #N/A response which match will return if the no match is found. Finally, if ISNA is true, write "Not Matched" to the selected cell, otherwise write the contents of the matched cell.

Access 2010 VBA query a table and iterate through results

DAO is native to Access and by far the best for general use. ADO has its place, but it is unlikely that this is it.

 Dim rs As DAO.Recordset
 Dim db As Database
 Dim strSQL as String

 Set db=CurrentDB

 strSQL = "select * from table where some condition"

 Set rs = db.OpenRecordset(strSQL)

 Do While Not rs.EOF

    rs.Edit
    rs!SomeField = "Abc"
    rs!OtherField = 2
    rs!ADate = Date()
    rs.Update

    rs.MoveNext
Loop

bower automatically update bower.json

from bower help, save option has a capital S

-S, --save  Save installed packages into the project's bower.json dependencies

show dbs gives "Not Authorized to execute command" error

Copy of answer OP posted in question:

Solution

After the update from the previous edit, I looked a bit about the connection between client and server and I found out that even when mongod.exe was not running, there was still something listening on port 27017 with netstat -a

So I tried to launch the server with a random port using

[dir]mongod.exe --port 2000

Then the shell with

[dir]mongo.exe --port 2000

And this time, the server printed a message saying there is a new connection. I typed few commands and everything was working perfectly fine, I started the basic tutorial from the documentation to check if it was ok and for now it is.

Java: Get last element after split

String str = "www.anywebsite.com/folder/subfolder/directory";
int index = str.lastIndexOf('/');
String lastString = str.substring(index +1);

Now lastString has the value "directory"

How to pass a list from Python, by Jinja2 to JavaScript

To add up on the selected answer, I have been testing a new option that is working too using jinja2 and flask:

@app.route('/')
def my_view():
    data = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
    return render_template('index.html', data=data)

The template:

<script>
    console.log( {{ data | tojson }} )
</script>

the output of the rendered template:

<script>
    console.log( [1, 2, 3, 4] )
</script>

The safe could be added but as well like {{ data | tojson | safe }} to avoid html escape but it is working without too.

IE8 css selector

There aren't any selector hacks for IE8. The best resource for this issue is http://browserhacks.com/#ie

If you want to target specific IE8 you should do comment in html

<!--[if IE 8]> Internet Explorer 8 <![endif]-->

or you could use attribute hacks like:

/* IE6, IE7, IE8, but also IE9 in some cases :( */
#diecinueve { color: blue\9; }

/* IE7, IE8 */
#veinte { color/*\**/: blue\9; }

/* IE8, IE9 */
#anotherone  {color: blue\0/;} /* must go at the END of all rules */

For more info on this one check: http://www.paulirish.com/2009/browser-specific-css-hacks/

How do I remove link underlining in my HTML email?

Use !important in the text decoration rule.

<a href="#" style="text-decoration:none !important;">BOOK NOW</a>

How to get week numbers from dates?

Actually, I think you may have discovered a bug in the week(...) function, or at least an error in the documentation. Hopefully someone will jump in and explain why I am wrong.

Looking at the code:

library(lubridate)
> week
function (x) 
yday(x)%/%7 + 1
<environment: namespace:lubridate>

The documentation states:

Weeks is the number of complete seven day periods that have occured between the date and January 1st, plus one.

But since Jan 1 is the first day of the year (not the zeroth), the first "week" will be a six day period. The code should (??) be

(yday(x)-1)%/%7 + 1

NB: You are using week(...) in the data.table package, which is the same code as lubridate::week except it coerces everything to integer rather than numeric for efficiency. So this function has the same problem (??).

Python, how to check if a result set is empty?

cursor.rowcount will usually be set to 0.

If, however, you are running a statement that would never return a result set (such as INSERT without RETURNING, or SELECT ... INTO), then you do not need to call .fetchall(); there won't be a result set for such statements. Calling .execute() is enough to run the statement.


Note that database adapters are also allowed to set the rowcount to -1 if the database adapter can't determine the exact affected count. See the PEP 249 Cursor.rowcount specification:

The attribute is -1 in case no .execute*() has been performed on the cursor or the rowcount of the last operation is cannot be determined by the interface.

The sqlite3 library is prone to doing this. In all such cases, if you must know the affected rowcount up front, execute a COUNT() select in the same transaction first.

The point of test %eax %eax

You are right, that test "and"s the two operands. But the result is discarded, the only thing that stays, and thats the important part, are the flags. They are set and thats the reason why the test instruction is used (and exist).

JE jumps not when equal (it has the meaning when the instruction before was a comparison), what it really does, it jumps when the ZF flag is set. And as it is one of the flags that is set by test, this instruction sequence (test x,x; je...) has the meaning that it is jumped when x is 0.

For questions like this (and for more details) I can just recommend a book about x86 instruction, e.g. even when it is really big, the Intel documentation is very good and precise.

How to install MySQLdb (Python data access library to MySQL) on Mac OS X?

A quick and easy way for Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion), 10.9 (Mavericks), 10.10 (Yosemite), and 10.11 (El Capitan):

I assume you have XCode, its command line tools, Python, and MySQL installed.

  1. Install PIP:

    sudo easy_install pip
    
  2. Edit ~/.profile: (Might not be necessary in Mac OS X 10.10)

    nano ~/.profile
    

    Copy and paste the following two line

    export PATH=/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH
    export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/mysql/lib/
    

    Save and exit. Afterwords execute the following command:

    source  ~/.profile
    
  3. Install MySQLdb

    sudo pip install MySQL-python
    

    To test if everything works fine just try

    python -c "import MySQLdb"
    

It worked like a charm for me. I hope it helps.

If you encounter an error regarding a missing library: Library not loaded: libmysqlclient.18.dylib then you have to symlink it to /usr/lib like so:

sudo ln -s /usr/local/mysql/lib/libmysqlclient.18.dylib /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.18.dylib 

Convert INT to VARCHAR SQL

You can use CAST function:

SELECT CAST(your_column_name AS varchar(10)) FROM your_table_name

SQLite add Primary Key

You can do it like this:

CREATE TABLE mytable (
field1 text,
field2 text,
field3 integer,
PRIMARY KEY (field1, field2)
);

How to take the first N items from a generator or list?

Do you mean the first N items, or the N largest items?

If you want the first:

top5 = sequence[:5]

This also works for the largest N items, assuming that your sequence is sorted in descending order. (Your LINQ example seems to assume this as well.)

If you want the largest, and it isn't sorted, the most obvious solution is to sort it first:

l = list(sequence)
l.sort(reverse=True)
top5 = l[:5]

For a more performant solution, use a min-heap (thanks Thijs):

import heapq
top5 = heapq.nlargest(5, sequence)

Editable 'Select' element

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A bit more universal <select name="env" style="width: 200px; position:absolute;" onchange="this.nextElementSibling.value=this.value">_x000D_
    <option></option>_x000D_
    <option>1</option>_x000D_
    <option>2</option>_x000D_
    <option>3</option> _x000D_
</select>_x000D_
<input style="width: 178px; margin-top: 1px; border: none; position:relative; left:1px; margin-right: 25px;" value="123456789012345678901234"/>layout ...
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Converting Epoch time into the datetime

>>> import datetime
>>> datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(1347517370).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
'2012-09-13 14:22:50' # Local time

To get UTC:

>>> datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(1347517370).strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
  '2012-09-13 06:22:50'

HTML Button Close Window

Closing a window that was opened by the user through JavaScript is considered to be a security risk, thus not all browsers will allow this (which is why all solutions are hacks/workarounds). Browsers that are steadily maintained remove these types of hacks, and solutions that work one day may be broken the next.

This was addressed here by rvighne in a similar question on the subject.

Adjust table column width to content size

If you want the table to still be 100% then set one of the columns to have a width:100%; That will extend that column to fill the extra space and allow the other columns to keep their auto width :)

Does IMDB provide an API?

Found this one

IMDbPY is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage the data of the IMDb movie database about movies, people, characters and companies.

http://imdbpy.sourceforge.net/

How can I insert a line break into a <Text> component in React Native?

You can use `` like this:

<Text>{`Hi~
this is a test message.`}</Text>

Can you call Directory.GetFiles() with multiple filters?

I had the same problem and couldn't find the right solution so I wrote a function called GetFiles:

/// <summary>
/// Get all files with a specific extension
/// </summary>
/// <param name="extensionsToCompare">string list of all the extensions</param>
/// <param name="Location">string of the location</param>
/// <returns>array of all the files with the specific extensions</returns>
public string[] GetFiles(List<string> extensionsToCompare, string Location)
{
    List<string> files = new List<string>();
    foreach (string file in Directory.GetFiles(Location))
    {
        if (extensionsToCompare.Contains(file.Substring(file.IndexOf('.')+1).ToLower())) files.Add(file);
    }
    files.Sort();
    return files.ToArray();
}

This function will call Directory.Getfiles() only one time.

For example call the function like this:

string[] images = GetFiles(new List<string>{"jpg", "png", "gif"}, "imageFolder");

EDIT: To get one file with multiple extensions use this one:

/// <summary>
    /// Get the file with a specific name and extension
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="filename">the name of the file to find</param>
    /// <param name="extensionsToCompare">string list of all the extensions</param>
    /// <param name="Location">string of the location</param>
    /// <returns>file with the requested filename</returns>
    public string GetFile( string filename, List<string> extensionsToCompare, string Location)
    {
        foreach (string file in Directory.GetFiles(Location))
        {
            if (extensionsToCompare.Contains(file.Substring(file.IndexOf('.') + 1).ToLower()) &&& file.Substring(Location.Length + 1, (file.IndexOf('.') - (Location.Length + 1))).ToLower() == filename) 
                return file;
        }
        return "";
    }

For example call the function like this:

string image = GetFile("imagename", new List<string>{"jpg", "png", "gif"}, "imageFolder");

Display DateTime value in dd/mm/yyyy format in Asp.NET MVC

You need to use html helper, and you don't need to provide date format in model class. e.x :

@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.ResgistrationhaseDate, "{0:dd/MM/yyyy}")

How do I find out what all symbols are exported from a shared object?

The cross-platform way (not only cross-platform itself, but also working, at the very least, with both *.so and *.dll) is using reverse-engineering framework radare2. E.g.:

$ rabin2 -s glew32.dll | head -n 5 
[Symbols]
vaddr=0x62afda8d paddr=0x0005ba8d ord=000 fwd=NONE sz=0 bind=GLOBAL type=FUNC name=glew32.dll___GLEW_3DFX_multisample
vaddr=0x62afda8e paddr=0x0005ba8e ord=001 fwd=NONE sz=0 bind=GLOBAL type=FUNC name=glew32.dll___GLEW_3DFX_tbuffer
vaddr=0x62afda8f paddr=0x0005ba8f ord=002 fwd=NONE sz=0 bind=GLOBAL type=FUNC name=glew32.dll___GLEW_3DFX_texture_compression_FXT1
vaddr=0x62afdab8 paddr=0x0005bab8 ord=003 fwd=NONE sz=0 bind=GLOBAL type=FUNC name=glew32.dll___GLEW_AMD_blend_minmax_factor

As a bonus, rabin2 recognizes C++ name mangling, for example (and also with .so file):

$ rabin2 -s /usr/lib/libabw-0.1.so.1.0.1 | head -n 5
[Symbols]
vaddr=0x00027590 paddr=0x00027590 ord=124 fwd=NONE sz=430 bind=GLOBAL type=FUNC name=libabw::AbiDocument::isFileFormatSupported
vaddr=0x0000a730 paddr=0x0000a730 ord=125 fwd=NONE sz=58 bind=UNKNOWN type=FUNC name=boost::exception::~exception
vaddr=0x00232680 paddr=0x00032680 ord=126 fwd=NONE sz=16 bind=UNKNOWN type=OBJECT name=typeinfoforboost::exception_detail::clone_base
vaddr=0x00027740 paddr=0x00027740 ord=127 fwd=NONE sz=235 bind=GLOBAL type=FUNC name=libabw::AbiDocument::parse

Works with object files too:

$ g++ test.cpp -c -o a.o
$ rabin2 -s a.o | head -n 5
Warning: Cannot initialize program headers
Warning: Cannot initialize dynamic strings
Warning: Cannot initialize dynamic section
[Symbols]
vaddr=0x08000149 paddr=0x00000149 ord=006 fwd=NONE sz=1 bind=LOCAL type=OBJECT name=std::piecewise_construct
vaddr=0x08000149 paddr=0x00000149 ord=007 fwd=NONE sz=1 bind=LOCAL type=OBJECT name=std::__ioinit
vaddr=0x080000eb paddr=0x000000eb ord=017 fwd=NONE sz=73 bind=LOCAL type=FUNC name=__static_initialization_and_destruction_0
vaddr=0x08000134 paddr=0x00000134 ord=018 fwd=NONE sz=21 bind=LOCAL type=FUNC name=_GLOBAL__sub_I__Z4funcP6Animal

Transparent background in JPEG image

If you’re concerned about the file size of a PNG, you can use an SVG mask to create a transparent JPEG. Here is an example I put together.

Can I get the name of the currently running function in JavaScript?

This has to go in the category of "world's ugliest hacks", but here you go.

First up, printing the name of the current function (as in the other answers) seems to have limited use to me, since you kind of already know what the function is!

However, finding out the name of the calling function could be pretty useful for a trace function. This is with a regexp, but using indexOf would be about 3x faster:

function getFunctionName() {
    var re = /function (.*?)\(/
    var s = getFunctionName.caller.toString();
    var m = re.exec( s )
    return m[1];
}

function me() {
    console.log( getFunctionName() );
}

me();

Use jquery click to handle anchor onClick()

The first time you click the link, the openSolution function is executed. That function binds the click event handler to the link, but it won't execute it. The second time you click the link, the click event handler will be executed.

What you are doing seems to kind of defeat the point of using jQuery in the first place. Why not just bind the click event to the elements in the first place:

$(document).ready(function() {
    $("#solTitle a").click(function() {
        //Do stuff when clicked
    });
});

This way you don't need onClick attributes on your elements.

It also looks like you have multiple elements with the same id value ("solTitle"), which is invalid. You would need to find some other common characteristic (class is usually a good option). If you change all occurrences of id="solTitle" to class="solTitle", you can then use a class selector:

$(".solTitle a")

Since duplicate id values is invalid, the code will not work as expected when facing multiple copies of the same id. What tends to happen is that the first occurrence of the element with that id is used, and all others are ignored.

<embed> vs. <object>

Embed is not a standard tag, though object is. Here's an article that looks like it will help you, since it seems the situation is not so simple. An example for PDF is included.

What is the native keyword in Java for?

Java native method provides a mechanism for Java code to call OS native code, either due to functional or performance reasons.

Example:

606  public native int availableProcessors();
617  public native long freeMemory();
630  public native long totalMemory();
641  public native long maxMemory();
664  public native void gc();

In the corresponding Runtime.class file in OpenJDK, located in JAVA_HOME/jmods/java.base.jmod/classes/java/lang/Runtime.class, contains these methods and tagged them with ACC_NATIVE (0x0100), and these methods do not contain the Code attribute, which means these method do not have any actual coding logic in the Runtime.class file:

  • Method 13 availableProcessors: tagged as native and no Code attribute
  • Method 14 freeMemory: tagged as native and no Code attribute
  • Method 15 totalMemory: tagged as native and no Code attribute
  • Method 16 maxMemory: tagged as native and no Code attribute
  • Method 17 gc: tagged as native and no Code attribute

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The in fact coding logic is in the corresponding Runtime.c file:

42  #include "java_lang_Runtime.h"
43
44  JNIEXPORT jlong JNICALL
45  Java_java_lang_Runtime_freeMemory(JNIEnv *env, jobject this)
46  {
47      return JVM_FreeMemory();
48  }
49
50  JNIEXPORT jlong JNICALL
51  Java_java_lang_Runtime_totalMemory(JNIEnv *env, jobject this)
52  {
53      return JVM_TotalMemory();
54  }
55
56  JNIEXPORT jlong JNICALL
57  Java_java_lang_Runtime_maxMemory(JNIEnv *env, jobject this)
58  {
59      return JVM_MaxMemory();
60  }
61
62  JNIEXPORT void JNICALL
63  Java_java_lang_Runtime_gc(JNIEnv *env, jobject this)
64  {
65      JVM_GC();
66  }
67  
68  JNIEXPORT jint JNICALL
69  Java_java_lang_Runtime_availableProcessors(JNIEnv *env, jobject this)
70  {
71      return JVM_ActiveProcessorCount();
72  }

And these C coding is compiled into the libjava.so (Linux) or libjava.dll (Windows) file, located at JAVA_HOME/jmods/java.base.jmod/lib/libjava.so:

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Reference

Break promise chain and call a function based on the step in the chain where it is broken (rejected)

Found Promise.prototype.catch() examples on MDN below very helpful.

(The accepted answer mentions then(null, onErrorHandler) which is basically the same as catch(onErrorHandler).)

Using and chaining the catch method

var p1 = new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
  resolve('Success');
});

p1.then(function(value) {
  console.log(value); // "Success!"
  throw 'oh, no!';
}).catch(function(e) {
  console.log(e); // "oh, no!"
}).then(function(){
  console.log('after a catch the chain is restored');
}, function () {
  console.log('Not fired due to the catch');
});

// The following behaves the same as above
p1.then(function(value) {
  console.log(value); // "Success!"
  return Promise.reject('oh, no!');
}).catch(function(e) {
  console.log(e); // "oh, no!"
}).then(function(){
  console.log('after a catch the chain is restored');
}, function () {
  console.log('Not fired due to the catch');
});

Gotchas when throwing errors

// Throwing an error will call the catch method most of the time
var p1 = new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
  throw 'Uh-oh!';
});

p1.catch(function(e) {
  console.log(e); // "Uh-oh!"
});

// Errors thrown inside asynchronous functions will act like uncaught errors
var p2 = new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
  setTimeout(function() {
    throw 'Uncaught Exception!';
  }, 1000);
});

p2.catch(function(e) {
  console.log(e); // This is never called
});

// Errors thrown after resolve is called will be silenced
var p3 = new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
  resolve();
  throw 'Silenced Exception!';
});

p3.catch(function(e) {
   console.log(e); // This is never called
});

If it is resolved

//Create a promise which would not call onReject
var p1 = Promise.resolve("calling next");

var p2 = p1.catch(function (reason) {
    //This is never called
    console.log("catch p1!");
    console.log(reason);
});

p2.then(function (value) {
    console.log("next promise's onFulfilled"); /* next promise's onFulfilled */
    console.log(value); /* calling next */
}, function (reason) {
    console.log("next promise's onRejected");
    console.log(reason);
});

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

After discussion posting updated answer:

Option Explicit
Sub test()

    Dim wk As String, yr As String
    Dim fname As String, fpath As String
    Dim owb As Workbook

    With Application
        .DisplayAlerts = False
        .ScreenUpdating = False
        .EnableEvents = False
    End With

    wk = ComboBox1.Value
    yr = ComboBox2.Value
    fname = yr & "W" & wk
    fpath = "C:\Documents and Settings\jammil\Desktop\AutoFinance\ProjectControl\Data"

    On Error GoTo ErrorHandler
    Set owb = Application.Workbooks.Open(fpath & "\" & fname)

    'Do Some Stuff

    With owb
        .SaveAs fpath & Format(Date, "yyyymm") & "DB" & ".xlsx", 51
        .Close
    End With

    With Application
        .DisplayAlerts = True
        .ScreenUpdating = True
        .EnableEvents = True
    End With

Exit Sub
ErrorHandler: If MsgBox("This File Does Not Exist!", vbRetryCancel) = vbCancel Then

Else: Call Clear

End Sub

Error Handling:

You could try something like this to catch a specific error:

    On Error Resume Next
    Set owb = Application.Workbooks.Open(fpath & "\" & fname)
    If Err.Number = 1004 Then
    GoTo FileNotFound
    Else
    End If

    ...
    Exit Sub
    FileNotFound: If MsgBox("This File Does Not Exist!", vbRetryCancel) = vbCancel Then

    Else: Call Clear

How to run a PowerShell script

You can run from cmd like this:

type "script_path" | powershell.exe -c -

'Connect-MsolService' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet

Following worked for me:

  1. Uninstall the previously installed ‘Microsoft Online Service Sign-in Assistant’ and ‘Windows Azure Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell’.
  2. Install 64-bit versions of ‘Microsoft Online Service Sign-in Assistant’ and ‘Windows Azure Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell’. https://littletalk.wordpress.com/2013/09/23/install-and-configure-the-office-365-powershell-cmdlets/

If you get the following error In order to install Windows Azure Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell, you must have Microsoft Online Services Sign-In Assistant version 7.0 or greater installed on this computer, then install the Microsoft Online Services Sign-In Assistant for IT Professionals BETA: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39267

  1. Copy the folders called MSOnline and MSOnline Extended from the source

C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\

to the folder

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\

https://stackoverflow.com/a/16018733/5810078.

(But I have actually copied all the possible files from

C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\

to

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\

(For copying you need to alter the security permissions of that folder))

calculating the difference in months between two dates

If you're dealing with months and years you need something that knows how many days each month has and which years are leap years.

Enter the Gregorian Calendar (and other culture-specific Calendar implementations).

While Calendar doesn't provide methods to directly calculate the difference between two points in time, it does have methods such as

DateTime AddWeeks(DateTime time, int weeks)
DateTime AddMonths(DateTime time, int months)
DateTime AddYears(DateTime time, int years)

libpng warning: iCCP: known incorrect sRGB profile

Solution

The incorrect profile could be fixed by:

  1. Opening the image with the incorrect profile using QPixmap::load
  2. Saving the image back to the disk (already with the correct profile) using QPixmap::save

Note: This solution uses the Qt Library.

Example

Here is a minimal example I have written in C++ in order to demonstrate how to implement the proposed solution:

QPixmap pixmap;
pixmap.load("badProfileImage.png");

QFile file("goodProfileImage.png");
file.open(QIODevice::WriteOnly);
pixmap.save(&file, "PNG");

The complete source code of a GUI application based on this example is available on GitHub.

UPDATE FROM 05.12.2019: The answer was and is still valid, however there was a bug in the GUI application I have shared on GitHub, causing the output image to be empty. I have just fixed it and apologise for the inconvenience!

How do I completely uninstall Node.js, and reinstall from beginning (Mac OS X)

(server: ubuntu 14)

1.) install nvm (node version manager) https://github.com/creationix/nvm

2.) nvm install node

3.) npm -v (inquire npm version => 3.8.6)

4.) node -v (inquire node version => v6.0.0)

Loop through JSON object List

Since you are using jQuery, you might as well use the each method... Also, it seems like everything is a value of the property 'd' in this JS Object [Notation].

$.each(result.d,function(i) {
    // In case there are several values in the array 'd'
    $.each(this,function(j) {
        // Apparently doesn't work...
        alert(this.EmployeeName);
        // What about this?
        alert(result.d[i][j]['EmployeeName']);
        // Or this?
        alert(result.d[i][j].EmployeeName);
    });
});

That should work. if not, then maybe you can give us a longer example of the JSON.

Edit: If none of this stuff works then I'm starting to think there might be something wrong with the syntax of your JSON.

How to copy Java Collections list

And if you are using google guava, the one line solution would be

List<String> b = Lists.newArrayList(a);

This creates a mutable array list instance.

Get line number while using grep

In order to display the results with the line numbers, you might try this

grep -nr "word to search for" /path/to/file/file 

The result should be something like this:

linenumber: other data "word to search for" other data

Where is Java Installed on Mac OS X?

Use /usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.8 command on a terminal shell to figure out where is your Java 1.8 home directory

If you just want to find out the home directory of your most recent version of Java, omit the version. e.g. /usr/libexec/java_home

How to convert int to float in C?

This should give you the result you want.

double total = 0;
int number = 0;
float percentage = number / total * 100
printf("%.2f",percentage);

Note that the first operand is a double

HTML select drop-down with an input field

You can use input text with "list" attribute, which refers to the datalist of values.

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<input type="text" name="city" list="cityname">_x000D_
    <datalist id="cityname">_x000D_
      <option value="Boston">_x000D_
      <option value="Cambridge">_x000D_
    </datalist>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

This creates a free text input field that also has a drop-down to select predefined choices. Attribution for example and more information: https://www.w3.org/wiki/HTML/Elements/datalist

Convert web page to image

You could use imagemagick and write a script that fires everytime you load a webpage.

Calculating time difference in Milliseconds

I do not know how does your PersonalizationGeoLocationServiceClientHelper works. Probably it performs some sort of caching, so requests for the same IP address may return extremely fast.

How do I sort an observable collection?

This simple extension worked beautifully for me. I just had to make sure that MyObject was IComparable. When the sort method is called on the observable collection of MyObjects, the CompareTo method on MyObject is called, which calls my Logical Sort method. While it doesn't have all the bells and whistles of the rest of the answers posted here, it's exactly what I needed.

static class Extensions
{
    public static void Sort<T>(this ObservableCollection<T> collection) where T : IComparable
    {
        List<T> sorted = collection.OrderBy(x => x).ToList();
        for (int i = 0; i < sorted.Count(); i++)
            collection.Move(collection.IndexOf(sorted[i]), i);
    }
}

public class MyObject: IComparable
{
    public int CompareTo(object o)
    {
        MyObject a = this;
        MyObject b = (MyObject)o;
        return Utils.LogicalStringCompare(a.Title, b.Title);
    }

    public string Title;

}
  .
  .
  .
myCollection = new ObservableCollection<MyObject>();
//add stuff to collection
myCollection.Sort();

Should I call Close() or Dispose() for stream objects?

A quick jump into Reflector.NET shows that the Close() method on StreamWriter is:

public override void Close()
{
    this.Dispose(true);
    GC.SuppressFinalize(this);
}

And StreamReader is:

public override void Close()
{
    this.Dispose(true);
}

The Dispose(bool disposing) override in StreamReader is:

protected override void Dispose(bool disposing)
{
    try
    {
        if ((this.Closable && disposing) && (this.stream != null))
        {
            this.stream.Close();
        }
    }
    finally
    {
        if (this.Closable && (this.stream != null))
        {
            this.stream = null;
            /* deleted for brevity */
            base.Dispose(disposing);
        }
    }
}

The StreamWriter method is similar.

So, reading the code it is clear that that you can call Close() & Dispose() on streams as often as you like and in any order. It won't change the behaviour in any way.

So it comes down to whether or not it is more readable to use Dispose(), Close() and/or using ( ... ) { ... }.

My personal preference is that using ( ... ) { ... } should always be used when possible as it helps you to "not run with scissors".

But, while this helps correctness, it does reduce readability. In C# we already have plethora of closing curly braces so how do we know which one actually performs the close on the stream?

So I think it is best to do this:

using (var stream = ...)
{
    /* code */

    stream.Close();
}

It doesn't affect the behaviour of the code, but it does aid readability.

Access Control Request Headers, is added to header in AJAX request with jQuery

From client side, I cant solve this problem. From nodejs express side, you can use cors module to handle it.

var express       = require('express');
var app           = express();
var bodyParser = require('body-parser');
var cors = require('cors');

var port = 3000; 
var ip = '127.0.0.1';

app.use('*/myapi', 
          cors(), // with this row OPTIONS has handled
          bodyParser.text({type:'text/*'}),
          function( req, res, next ){
    console.log( '\n.----------------' + req.method + '------------------------' );
        console.log( '| prot:'+req.protocol );
        console.log( '| host:'+req.get('host') );
        console.log( '| url:'+req.originalUrl );
        console.log( '| body:',req.body );
        //console.log( '| req:',req );
    console.log( '.----------------' + req.method + '------------------------' );
    next();
    });

app.listen(port, ip, function() {
    console.log('Listening to port:  ' + port );
});
 
console.log(('dir:'+__dirname ));
console.log('The server is up and running at http://'+ip+':'+port+'/');

Without cors() this OPTIONS has appears before POST.

.----------------OPTIONS------------------------
| prot:http
| host:localhost:3000
| url:/myapi
| body: {}
.----------------OPTIONS------------------------

.----------------POST------------------------
| prot:http
| host:localhost:3000
| url:/myapi
| body: <SOAP-ENV:Envelope .. P-ENV:Envelope>
.----------------POST------------------------

The ajax call:

$.ajax({
    type: 'POST',
    contentType: "text/xml; charset=utf-8",
// these does not works
    //beforeSend: function(request) { 
    //  request.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'text/xml; charset=utf-8');
    //  request.setRequestHeader('Accept', 'application/vnd.realtime247.sct-giro-v1+cms');
    //  request.setRequestHeader('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*');
    //  request.setRequestHeader('Access-Control-Allow-Methods', 'POST, GET');
    //  request.setRequestHeader('Access-Control-Allow-Headers', 'Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type');
    //},
    //headers: {
    //  'Content-Type': 'text/xml; charset=utf-8',
    //  'Accept': 'application/vnd.realtime247.sct-giro-v1+cms',
    //  'Access-Control-Allow-Origin': '*',
    //  'Access-Control-Allow-Methods': 'POST, GET',
    //  'Access-Control-Allow-Headers': 'Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type'
    //},
    url: 'http://localhost:3000/myapi',             
    data:       '<SOAP-ENV:Envelope .. P-ENV:Envelope>',                
    success: function( data ) {
      console.log(data.documentElement.innerHTML);
    },
    error: function(jqXHR, textStatus, err) {
      console.log( jqXHR,'\n', textStatus,'\n', err )
    }
  });

What is the default initialization of an array in Java?

Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen answered for most of the data types. Since there was a heated discussion about array,

Quoting from the jls spec http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se7/html/jls-4.html#jls-4.12.5 "array component is initialized with a default value when it is created"

I think irrespective of whether array is local or instance or class variable it will with default values

SQL Server 2008- Get table constraints

Here's a script to get foreign keys:

    SELECT TOP(150)
       t.[name] AS [Table],
       cols.[name] AS [Column],
       t2.[name] AS [Referenced Table],
       c2.[name] AS [Referenced Column],
       constr.[name] AS [Constraint]
  FROM sys.tables t
 INNER JOIN sys.foreign_keys constr ON constr.parent_object_id = t.object_id
 INNER JOIN sys.tables t2 ON t2.object_id = constr.referenced_object_id
 INNER JOIN sys.foreign_key_columns fkc ON fkc.constraint_object_id = constr.object_id
 INNER JOIN sys.columns cols ON cols.object_id = fkc.parent_object_id AND cols.column_id = fkc.parent_column_id
 INNER JOIN sys.columns c2 ON c2.object_id = fkc.referenced_object_id AND c2.column_id = fkc.referenced_column_id
 --WHERE t.[name] IN ('?', '?', ...)
 ORDER BY t.[Name], cols.[name]

Setting default value in select drop-down using Angularjs

You can do it with following code(track by),

<select ng-model="modelName" ng-options="data.name for data in list track by data.id" ></select>

Google Maps Api v3 - find nearest markers

First you have to add the eventlistener

google.maps.event.addListener(map, 'click', find_closest_marker);

Then create a function that loops through the array of markers and uses the haversine formula to calculate the distance of each marker from the click.

function rad(x) {return x*Math.PI/180;}
function find_closest_marker( event ) {
    var lat = event.latLng.lat();
    var lng = event.latLng.lng();
    var R = 6371; // radius of earth in km
    var distances = [];
    var closest = -1;
    for( i=0;i<map.markers.length; i++ ) {
        var mlat = map.markers[i].position.lat();
        var mlng = map.markers[i].position.lng();
        var dLat  = rad(mlat - lat);
        var dLong = rad(mlng - lng);
        var a = Math.sin(dLat/2) * Math.sin(dLat/2) +
            Math.cos(rad(lat)) * Math.cos(rad(lat)) * Math.sin(dLong/2) * Math.sin(dLong/2);
        var c = 2 * Math.atan2(Math.sqrt(a), Math.sqrt(1-a));
        var d = R * c;
        distances[i] = d;
        if ( closest == -1 || d < distances[closest] ) {
            closest = i;
        }
    }

    alert(map.markers[closest].title);
}

This keeps track of the closest markers and alerts its title.

I have my markers as an array on my map object

"Eliminate render-blocking CSS in above-the-fold content"

Consider using a package to automatically generate inline styles from your css files. A good one is Grunt Critical or Critical css for Laravel.

How to hide the border for specified rows of a table?

You can simply add these lines of codes here to hide a row,

Either you can write border:0 or border-style:hidden; border: none or it will happen the same thing

_x000D_
_x000D_
<style type="text/css">_x000D_
              table, th, td {_x000D_
               border: 1px solid;_x000D_
              }_x000D_
              _x000D_
              tr.hide_all > td, td.hide_all{_x000D_
                 border: 0;_x000D_
                _x000D_
              }_x000D_
          }_x000D_
        </style>_x000D_
    <table>_x000D_
      <tr>_x000D_
        <th>Firstname</th>_x000D_
        <th>Lastname</th>_x000D_
        <th>Savings</th>_x000D_
      </tr>_x000D_
      <tr>_x000D_
        <td>Peter</td>_x000D_
        <td>Griffin</td>_x000D_
        <td>$100</td>_x000D_
      </tr>_x000D_
      <tr class= hide_all>_x000D_
        <td>Lois</td>_x000D_
        <td>Griffin</td>_x000D_
        <td>$150</td>_x000D_
      </tr>_x000D_
      <tr>_x000D_
        <td>Joe</td>_x000D_
        <td>Swanson</td>_x000D_
        <td>$300</td>_x000D_
      </tr>_x000D_
      <tr>_x000D_
        <td>Cleveland</td>_x000D_
        <td>Brown</td>_x000D_
        <td>$250</td>_x000D_
      </tr>_x000D_
    </table>
_x000D_
_x000D_
_x000D_

running these lines of codes can solve the problem easily

ldconfig error: is not a symbolic link

Solved, at least at the point of the question.

I searched in the web before asking, an there were no conclusive solution, the reason why this error is: lib1.so and lib2.so are not OK, very probably where not compiled for a 64 PC, but for a 32 bits machine otherwise lib3.so is a 64 bits lib. At least that is my hipothesis.

VERY unfortunately ldconfig doesn't give a clean error message informing that it could not load the library, it only pumps:

ldconfig: /folder_where_the_wicked_lib_is/ is not a symbolic link

I solved this when I removed the libs not found by ldd over the binary. Now it's easier that I know where lies the problem.

My ld version: GNU ld version 2.20.51, and I don't know if a most recent version has a better message for its users.

Thanks.

Printing the last column of a line in a file

maybe this works?

grep A1 file | tail -1 | awk '{print $NF}'

Create an instance of a class from a string

I know I'm late to the game... but the solution you're looking for might be the combination of the above, and using an interface to define your objects publicly accessible aspects.

Then, if all of your classes that would be generated this way implement that interface, you can just cast as the interface type and work with the resulting object.

Excel VBA code to copy a specific string to clipboard

If you want to put a variable's value in the clipboard using the Immediate window, you can use this single line to easily put a breakpoint in your code:

Set MSForms_DataObject = CreateObject("new:{1C3B4210-F441-11CE-B9EA-00AA006B1A69}"): MSForms_DataObject.SetText VARIABLENAME: MSForms_DataObject.PutInClipboard: Set MSForms_DataObject = Nothing

Python, print all floats to 2 decimal places in output

Not directly in the way you want to write that, no. One of the design tenets of Python is "Explicit is better than implicit" (see import this). This means that it's better to describe what you want rather than having the output format depend on some global formatting setting or something. You could of course format your code differently to make it look nicer:

print         '%.2f' % var1, \
      'kg =' ,'%.2f' % var2, \
      'lb =' ,'%.2f' % var3, \
      'gal =','%.2f' % var4, \
      'l'

Allow multiple roles to access controller action

Another option is to use a single authorize filter as you posted but remove the inner quotations.

[Authorize(Roles="members,admin")]

How do we use runOnUiThread in Android?

Just wrap it as a function, then call this function from your background thread.

public void debugMsg(String msg) {
    final String str = msg;
    runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            mInfo.setText(str);
        }
    });
}

How do I git rm a file without deleting it from disk?

git rm --cached file

should do what you want.

You can read more details at git help rm

Create a list with initial capacity in Python

Python lists have no built-in pre-allocation. If you really need to make a list, and need to avoid the overhead of appending (and you should verify that you do), you can do this:

l = [None] * 1000 # Make a list of 1000 None's
for i in xrange(1000):
    # baz
    l[i] = bar
    # qux

Perhaps you could avoid the list by using a generator instead:

def my_things():
    while foo:
        #baz
        yield bar
        #qux

for thing in my_things():
    # do something with thing

This way, the list isn't every stored all in memory at all, merely generated as needed.

Best way to include CSS? Why use @import?

I'm going to play devil's advocate, because I hate it when people agree too much.

1. If you need a stylesheet that depends on another one, use @import. Do the optimization in a separate step.

There are two variables you're optimizing for at any given time - the performance of your code, and the performance of the developer. In many, if not a majority of cases, it's more important to make the developer more efficient, and only then make the code more performant.

If you have one stylesheet that depends on another, the most logical thing to do is to put them in two separate files and use @import. That will make the most logical sense to the next person who looks at the code.

(When would such a dependency happen? It's pretty rare, in my opinion - usually one stylesheet is enough. However, there are some logical places to put things in different CSS files:)

  • Theming: If you have different color schemes or themes for the same page, they may share some, but not all components.
  • Subcomponents: A contrived example - say you have a restaurant page that includes a menu. If the menu is very different from the rest of the page, it'll be easier to maintain if it's in its own file.

Usually stylesheets are independent, so it's reasonable to include them all using <link href>. However, if they are a dependent hierarchy, you should do the thing that makes the most logical sense to do.

Python uses import; C uses include; JavaScript has require. CSS has import; when you need it, use it!

2. Once you get to the point where the site needs to scale, concatenate all the CSS.

Multiple CSS requests of any kind - whether through links or through @imports - are bad practice for high performance web sites. Once you're at the point where optimization matters, all your CSS should be flowing through a minifier. Cssmin combines import statements; as @Brandon points out, grunt has multiple options for doing so as well. (See also this question).

Once you're at the minified stage, <link> is faster, as people have pointed out, so at most link to a few stylesheets and don't @import any if at all possible.

Before the site reaches production scale though, it's more important that the code is organized and logical, than that it goes slightly faster.

Fatal error: Class 'PHPMailer' not found

This is just namespacing. Look at the examples for reference - you need to either use the namespaced class or reference it absolutely, for example:

use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\PHPMailer;
use PHPMailer\PHPMailer\Exception;

//Load composer's autoloader
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

How can I copy the content of a branch to a new local branch?

git checkout old_branch
git branch new_branch

This will give you a new branch "new_branch" with the same state as "old_branch".

This command can be combined to the following:

git checkout -b new_branch old_branch

Setting and getting localStorage with jQuery

The localStorage can only store string content and you are trying to store a jQuery object since html(htmlString) returns a jQuery object.

You need to set the string content instead of an object. And use the setItem method to add data and getItem to get data.

window.localStorage.setItem('content', 'Test');
$('#test').html(window.localStorage.getItem('content'));

Tab Escape Character?

Easy one! "\t"

Edit: In fact, here's something official: Escape Sequences

Undefined Reference to

  1. Usually headers guards are for header files (i.e., .h ) not for source files ( i.e., .cpp ).
  2. Include the necessary standard headers and namespaces in source files.

LinearNode.h:

#ifndef LINEARNODE_H
#define LINEARNODE_H

class LinearNode
{
    // .....
};

#endif

LinearNode.cpp:

#include "LinearNode.h"
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
// And now the definitions

LinkedList.h:

#ifndef LINKEDLIST_H
#define LINKEDLIST_H

class LinearNode; // Forward Declaration
class LinkedList
{
    // ...
};

#endif

LinkedList.cpp

#include "LinearNode.h"
#include "LinkedList.h"
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

// Definitions

test.cpp is source file is fine. Note that header files are never compiled. Assuming all the files are in a single folder -

g++ LinearNode.cpp LinkedList.cpp test.cpp -o exe.out

SQL RANK() over PARTITION on joined tables

SELECT a.C_ID,a.QRY_ID,a.RES_ID,b.SCORE,ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY SCORE DESC) AS [RANK]
FROM CONTACTS a JOIN RSLTS b ON a.QRY_ID=b.QRY_ID AND a.RES_ID=b.RES_ID
ORDER BY a.C_ID

GitHub: How to make a fork of public repository private?

The answers are correct but don't mention how to sync code between the public repo and the fork.

Here is the full workflow (we've done this before open sourcing React Native):


First, duplicate the repo as others said (details here):

Create a new repo (let's call it private-repo) via the Github UI. Then:

git clone --bare https://github.com/exampleuser/public-repo.git
cd public-repo.git
git push --mirror https://github.com/yourname/private-repo.git
cd ..
rm -rf public-repo.git

Clone the private repo so you can work on it:

git clone https://github.com/yourname/private-repo.git
cd private-repo
make some changes
git commit
git push origin master

To pull new hotness from the public repo:

cd private-repo
git remote add public https://github.com/exampleuser/public-repo.git
git pull public master # Creates a merge commit
git push origin master

Awesome, your private repo now has the latest code from the public repo plus your changes.


Finally, to create a pull request private repo -> public repo:

Use the GitHub UI to create a fork of the public repo (the small "Fork" button at the top right of the public repo page). Then:

git clone https://github.com/yourname/the-fork.git
cd the-fork
git remote add private_repo_yourname https://github.com/yourname/private-repo.git
git checkout -b pull_request_yourname
git pull private_repo_yourname master
git push origin pull_request_yourname

Now you can create a pull request via the Github UI for public-repo, as described here.

Once project owners review your pull request, they can merge it.

Of course the whole process can be repeated (just leave out the steps where you add remotes).

javac: file not found: first.java Usage: javac <options> <source files>

Here is the way I executed the program without environment variable configured.

Java file execution procedure: After you saved a file MyFirstJavaProgram.java

Enter the whole Path of "Javac" followed by java file For executing output Path of followed by comment <-cp> followed by followed by

Given below is the example of execution

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_101\bin>javac C:\Sample\MyFirstJavaProgram2.java C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_101\bin>java -cp C:\Sample MyFirstJavaProgram2 Hello World

Adding and removing style attribute from div with jquery

To completely remove the style attribute of the voltaic_holder span, do this:

$("#voltaic_holder").removeAttr("style");

To add an attribute, do this:

$("#voltaic_holder").attr("attribute you want to add", "value you want to assign to attribute");

To remove only the top style, do this:

$("#voltaic_holder").css("top", "");

Selecting last element in JavaScript array

Use JavaScript objects if this is critical to your application. You shouldn't be using raw primitives to manage critical parts of your application. As this seems to be the core of your application, you should use objects instead. I've written some code below to help get you started. The method lastLocation would return the last location.


function User(id) {
    this.id = id;

    this.locations = [];

    this.getId = function() {
        return this.id;
    };

    this.addLocation = function(latitude, longitude) {
        this.locations[this.locations.length] = new google.maps.LatLng(latitude, longitude);
    };

    this.lastLocation = function() {
        return this.locations[this.locations.length - 1];
    };

    this.removeLastLocation = function() {
        return this.locations.pop();
    };

}

function Users() {
    this.users = {};

    this.generateId = function() {
        return Math.random();
    };

    this.createUser = function() {
        var id = this.generateId();
        this.users[id] = new User(id);
        return this.users[id];
    };

    this.getUser = function(id) {
        return this.users[id];
    };

    this.removeUser = function(id) {
        var user = this.getUser(id);
        delete this.users[id];

        return user;
    };

}


var users = new Users();

var user = users.createUser();

user.addLocation(0, 0);
user.addLocation(0, 1);

Check if a string contains another string

You can also use the special word like:

Public Sub Search()
  If "My Big String with, in the middle" Like "*,*" Then
    Debug.Print ("Found ','")
  End If
End Sub

Regular expression to return text between parenthesis

If your problem is really just this simple, you don't need regex:

s[s.find("(")+1:s.find(")")]

How to prevent gcc optimizing some statements in C?

Turning off optimization fixes the problem, but it is unnecessary. A safer alternative is to make it illegal for the compiler to optimize out the store by using the volatile type qualifier.

// Assuming pageptr is unsigned char * already...
unsigned char *pageptr = ...;
((unsigned char volatile *)pageptr)[0] = pageptr[0];

The volatile type qualifier instructs the compiler to be strict about memory stores and loads. One purpose of volatile is to let the compiler know that the memory access has side effects, and therefore must be preserved. In this case, the store has the side effect of causing a page fault, and you want the compiler to preserve the page fault.

This way, the surrounding code can still be optimized, and your code is portable to other compilers which don't understand GCC's #pragma or __attribute__ syntax.

Mongoose, update values in array of objects

I had similar issues. Here is the cleanest way to do it.

    const personQuery = {
       _id: 1  
    }

    const itemID = 2;

    Person.findOne(personQuery).then(item => {
       const audioIndex = item.items.map(item => item.id).indexOf(itemID);
       item.items[audioIndex].name = 'Name value';
       item.save();
    });

Getting indices of True values in a boolean list

Use dictionary comprehension way,

x = {k:v for k,v in enumerate(states) if v == True}

Input:

states = [False, False, False, False, True, True, False, True, False, False, False, False, False, False, False, False]

Output:

{4: True, 5: True, 7: True}

Play audio as microphone input

Just as there are printer drivers that do not connect to a printer at all but rather write to a PDF file, analogously there are virtual audio drivers available that do not connect to a physical microphone at all but can pipe input from other sources such as files or other programs.

I hope I'm not breaking any rules by recommending free/donation software, but VB-Audio Virtual Cable should let you create a pair of virtual input and output audio devices. Then you could play an MP3 into the virtual output device and then set the virtual input device as your "microphone". In theory I think that should work.

If all else fails, you could always roll your own virtual audio driver. Microsoft provides some sample code but unfortunately it is not applicable to the older Windows XP audio model. There is probably sample code available for XP too.

Single TextView with multiple colored text

You can prints lines with multiple colors without HTML as:

TextView textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.mytextview01);
Spannable word = new SpannableString("Your message");        

word.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.BLUE), 0, word.length(), Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);

textView.setText(word);
Spannable wordTwo = new SpannableString("Your new message");        

wordTwo.setSpan(new ForegroundColorSpan(Color.RED), 0, wordTwo.length(), Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
textView.append(wordTwo);

Chrome / Safari not filling 100% height of flex parent

I have had a similar issue in iOS 8, 9 and 10 and the info above couldn't fix it, however I did discover a solution after a day of working on this. Granted it won't work for everyone but in my case my items were stacked in a column and had 0 height when it should have been content height. Switching the css to be row and wrap fixed the issue. This only works if you have a single item and they are stacked but since it took me a day to find this out I thought I should share my fix!

.wrapper {
    flex-direction: column; // <-- Remove this line
    flex-direction: row; // <-- replace it with
    flex-wrap: wrap; // <-- Add wrapping
}

.item {
    width: 100%;
}

document.getElementByID is not a function

It's document.getElementById() and not document.getElementByID(). Check the casing for Id.

Allow only numeric value in textbox using Javascript

Javascript For only numeric value in textbox ::

<input type="text" id="textBox" runat="server" class="form-control" onkeydown="return onlyNos(event)" tabindex="0" /> 


    <!--Only Numeric value in Textbox Script -->
        <script type="text/javascript">
            function onlyNos(e, t) {
                try {
                    if (window.event) {
                        var charCode = window.event.keyCode;
                    }
                    else if (e) {
                        var charCode = e.which;
                    }
                    else { return true; }
                    if (charCode > 31 && (charCode < 48 || charCode > 57)) {
                        return false;
                    }
                    return true;
                }
                catch (err) {
                    alert(err.Description);
                }
            }
        </script>
        <!--Only Numeric value in Textbox Script -->

No mapping found for HTTP request with URI.... in DispatcherServlet with name

I also faced the same issue, but after putting the namespace below, it works fine:

xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc" 

How do I change the background color of the ActionBar of an ActionBarActivity using XML?

This is how you can change the color of Action Bar.

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Color;
import android.graphics.drawable.ColorDrawable;
import android.os.Build;
import android.support.v4.content.ContextCompat;
import android.support.v7.app.ActionBar;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;


public class ActivityUtils {

public static void setActionBarColor(AppCompatActivity appCompatActivity, int colorId){
    ActionBar actionBar = appCompatActivity.getSupportActionBar();
    ColorDrawable colorDrawable = new ColorDrawable(getColor(appCompatActivity, colorId));
    actionBar.setBackgroundDrawable(colorDrawable);
}

public static final int getColor(Context context, int id) {
    final int version = Build.VERSION.SDK_INT;
    if (version >= 23) {
        return ContextCompat.getColor(context, id);
    } else {
        return context.getResources().getColor(id);
    }
}
}

From your MainActivity.java change the action bar color like this

    ActivityUtils.setActionBarColor(this, R.color.green_00c1c1);

Disable all table constraints in Oracle

It's not a single command, but here's how I do it. The following script has been designed to run in SQL*Plus. Note, I've purposely written this to only work within the current schema.

set heading off

spool drop_constraints.out

select
    'alter table ' || 
    owner || '.' || 
    table_name || 
    ' disable constraint ' || -- or 'drop' if you want to permanently remove
    constraint_name || ';'
from
    user_constraints;

spool off

set heading on

@drop_constraints.out

To restrict what you drop, filter add a where clause to the select statement:-

  • filter on constraint_type to drop only particular types of constraints
  • filter on table_name to do it only for one or a few tables.

To run on more than the current schema, modify the select statement to select from all_constraints rather than user_constraints.

Note - for some reason I can't get the underscore to NOT act like an italicization in the previous paragraph. If someone knows how to fix it, please feel free to edit this answer.

Jackson JSON: get node name from json-tree

Clarification Here:

While this will work:

 JsonNode rootNode = objectMapper.readTree(file);
 Iterator<Map.Entry<String, JsonNode>> fields = rootNode.fields();
 while (fields.hasNext()) {
    Map.Entry<String, JsonNode> entry = fields.next();
    log.info(entry.getKey() + ":" + entry.getValue())
 }

This will not:

JsonNode rootNode = objectMapper.readTree(file);

while (rootNode.fields().hasNext()) {
    Map.Entry<String, JsonNode> entry = rootNode.fields().next();
    log.info(entry.getKey() + ":" + entry.getValue())
}

So be careful to declare the Iterator as a variable and use that.

Be sure to use the fasterxml library rather than codehaus.

What is the best way to concatenate two vectors?

One more simple variant which was not yet mentioned:

copy(A.begin(),A.end(),std::back_inserter(AB));
copy(B.begin(),B.end(),std::back_inserter(AB));

And using merge algorithm:

#include <algorithm> #include <vector> #include <iterator> #include <iostream> #include <sstream> #include <string> template<template<typename, typename...> class Container, class T> std::string toString(const Container<T>& v) { std::stringstream ss; std::copy(v.begin(), v.end(), std::ostream_iterator<T>(ss, "")); return ss.str(); }; int main() { std::vector<int> A(10); std::vector<int> B(5); //zero filled std::vector<int> AB(15); std::for_each(A.begin(), A.end(), [](int& f)->void { f = rand() % 100; }); std::cout << "before merge: " << toString(A) << "\n"; std::cout << "before merge: " << toString(B) << "\n"; merge(B.begin(),B.end(), begin(A), end(A), AB.begin(), [](int&,int&)->bool {}); std::cout << "after merge: " << toString(AB) << "\n"; return 1; }

good postgresql client for windows?

I heartily recommended dbVis. The client runs on Mac, Windows and Linux and supports a variety of database servers, including PostgreSQL.

git stash blunder: git stash pop and ended up with merge conflicts

If, like me, what you usually want is to overwrite the contents of the working directory with that of the stashed files, and you still get a conflict, then what you want is to resolve the conflict using git checkout --theirs -- . from the root.

After that, you can git reset to bring all the changes from the index to the working directory, since apparently in case of conflict the changes to non-conflicted files stay in the index.

You may also want to run git stash drop [<stash name>] afterwards, to get rid of the stash, because git stash pop doesn't delete it in case of conflicts.

Read values into a shell variable from a pipe

if you want to read in lots of data and work on each line separately you could use something like this:

cat myFile | while read x ; do echo $x ; done

if you want to split the lines up into multiple words you can use multiple variables in place of x like this:

cat myFile | while read x y ; do echo $y $x ; done

alternatively:

while read x y ; do echo $y $x ; done < myFile

But as soon as you start to want to do anything really clever with this sort of thing you're better going for some scripting language like perl where you could try something like this:

perl -ane 'print "$F[0]\n"' < myFile

There's a fairly steep learning curve with perl (or I guess any of these languages) but you'll find it a lot easier in the long run if you want to do anything but the simplest of scripts. I'd recommend the Perl Cookbook and, of course, The Perl Programming Language by Larry Wall et al.

Deserialize JSON to ArrayList<POJO> using Jackson

This variant looks more simple and elegant.

CollectionType typeReference =
    TypeFactory.defaultInstance().constructCollectionType(List.class, Dto.class);
List<Dto> resultDto = objectMapper.readValue(content, typeReference);

What do the different readystates in XMLHttpRequest mean, and how can I use them?

onreadystatechange Stores a function (or the name of a function) to be called automatically each time the readyState property changes readyState Holds the status of the XMLHttpRequest. Changes from 0 to 4:

0: request not initialized

1: server connection established

2: request received

3: processing request

4: request finished and response is ready

status 200: "OK"

404: Page not found

Convert string to datetime in vb.net

As an alternative, if you put a space between the date and time, DateTime.Parse will recognize the format for you. That's about as simple as you can get it. (If ParseExact was still not being recognized)

To compare two elements(string type) in XSLT?

First of all, the provided long code:

    <xsl:choose>
        <xsl:when test="OU_NAME='OU_ADDR1'">   --comparing two elements coming from XML             
            <!--remove if  adrees already contain  operating unit name <xsl:value-of select="OU_NAME"/> <fo:block/>-->
            <xsl:if test="OU_ADDR1 !='' ">
                <xsl:value-of select="OU_ADDR1"/>
                <fo:block/>
            </xsl:if>
            <xsl:if test="LE_ADDR2 !='' ">
                <xsl:value-of select="OU_ADDR2"/>
                <fo:block/>
            </xsl:if>
            <xsl:if test="LE_ADDR3 !='' ">
                <xsl:value-of select="OU_ADDR3"/>
                <fo:block/>
            </xsl:if>
            <xsl:if test="OU_TOWN_CITY !=''">
                <xsl:value-of select="OU_TOWN_CITY"/>,
                <fo:leader leader-pattern="space" leader-length="2.0pt"/>
            </xsl:if>
            <xsl:value-of select="OU_REGION2"/>
            <fo:leader leader-pattern="space" leader-length="3.0pt"/>
            <xsl:value-of select="OU_POSTALCODE"/>
            <fo:block/>
            <xsl:value-of select="OU_COUNTRY"/>
        </xsl:when>
        <xsl:otherwise>
            <xsl:value-of select="OU_NAME"/>
            <fo:block/>
            <xsl:if test="OU_ADDR1 !='' ">
                <xsl:value-of select="OU_ADDR1"/>
                <fo:block/>
            </xsl:if>
            <xsl:if test="LE_ADDR2 !='' ">
                <xsl:value-of select="OU_ADDR2"/>
                <fo:block/>
            </xsl:if>
            <xsl:if test="LE_ADDR3 !='' ">
                <xsl:value-of select="OU_ADDR3"/>
                <fo:block/>
            </xsl:if>
            <xsl:if test="OU_TOWN_CITY !=''">
                <xsl:value-of select="OU_TOWN_CITY"/>,
                <fo:leader leader-pattern="space" leader-length="2.0pt"/>
            </xsl:if>
            <xsl:value-of select="OU_REGION2"/>
            <fo:leader leader-pattern="space" leader-length="3.0pt"/>
            <xsl:value-of select="OU_POSTALCODE"/>
            <fo:block/>
            <xsl:value-of select="OU_COUNTRY"/>
        </xsl:otherwise>
    </xsl:choose>

is equivalent to this, much shorter code:

<xsl:if test="not(OU_NAME='OU_ADDR1)'">
              <xsl:value-of select="OU_NAME"/>
        </xsl:if>
            <xsl:if test="OU_ADDR1 !='' ">
                <xsl:value-of select="OU_ADDR1"/>
                <fo:block/>
            </xsl:if>
            <xsl:if test="LE_ADDR2 !='' ">
                <xsl:value-of select="OU_ADDR2"/>
                <fo:block/>
            </xsl:if>
            <xsl:if test="LE_ADDR3 !='' ">
                <xsl:value-of select="OU_ADDR3"/>
                <fo:block/>
            </xsl:if>
            <xsl:if test="OU_TOWN_CITY !=''">
                <xsl:value-of select="OU_TOWN_CITY"/>,
                <fo:leader leader-pattern="space" leader-length="2.0pt"/>
            </xsl:if>
            <xsl:value-of select="OU_REGION2"/>
            <fo:leader leader-pattern="space" leader-length="3.0pt"/>
            <xsl:value-of select="OU_POSTALCODE"/>
            <fo:block/>
            <xsl:value-of select="OU_COUNTRY"/>

Now, to your question:

how to compare two elements coming from xml as string

In Xpath 1.0 strings can be compared only for equality (or inequality), using the operator = and the function not() together with the operator =.

$str1 = $str2

evaluates to true() exactly when the string $str1 is equal to the string $str2.

not($str1 = $str2)

evaluates to true() exactly when the string $str1 is not equal to the string $str2.

There is also the != operator. It generally should be avoided because it has anomalous behavior whenever one of its operands is a node-set.

Now, the rules for comparing two element nodes are similar:

$el1 = $el2

evaluates to true() exactly when the string value of $el1 is equal to the string value of $el2.

not($el1 = $el2)

evaluates to true() exactly when the string value of $el1 is not equal to the string value of $el2.

However, if one of the operands of = is a node-set, then

 $ns = $str

evaluates to true() exactly when there is at least one node in the node-set $ns1, whose string value is equal to the string $str

$ns1 = $ns2

evaluates to true() exactly when there is at least one node in the node-set $ns1, whose string value is equal to the string value of some node from $ns2

Therefore, the expression:

OU_NAME='OU_ADDR1'

evaluates to true() only when there is at least one element child of the current node that is named OU_NAME and whose string value is the string 'OU_ADDR1'.

This is obviously not what you want!

Most probably you want:

OU_NAME=OU_ADDR1

This expression evaluates to true exactly there is at least one OU_NAME child of the current node and one OU_ADDR1 child of the current node with the same string value.

Finally, in XPath 2.0, strings can be compared also using the value comparison operators lt, le, eq, gt, ge and the inherited from XPath 1.0 general comparison operator =.

Trying to evaluate a value comparison operator when one or both of its arguments is a sequence of more than one item results in error.

PHP Curl And Cookies

First create temporary cookie using tempnam() function:

$ckfile = tempnam ("/tmp", "CURLCOOKIE");

Then execute curl init witch saves the cookie as a temporary file:

$ch = curl_init ("http://uri.com/");
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEJAR, $ckfile);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$output = curl_exec ($ch);

Or visit a page using the cookie stored in the temporary file:

$ch = curl_init ("http://somedomain.com/cookiepage.php");
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $ckfile);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$output = curl_exec ($ch);

This will initialize the cookie for the page:

curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_COOKIEFILE, $ckfile);

return value after a promise

The best way to do this would be to use the promise returning function as it is, like this

lookupValue(file).then(function(res) {
    // Write the code which depends on the `res.val`, here
});

The function which invokes an asynchronous function cannot wait till the async function returns a value. Because, it just invokes the async function and executes the rest of the code in it. So, when an async function returns a value, it will not be received by the same function which invoked it.

So, the general idea is to write the code which depends on the return value of an async function, in the async function itself.

How to create EditText with cross(x) button at end of it?

This is a kotlin solution. Put this helper method in some kotlin file-

fun EditText.setupClearButtonWithAction() {

    addTextChangedListener(object : TextWatcher {
        override fun afterTextChanged(editable: Editable?) {
            val clearIcon = if (editable?.isNotEmpty() == true) R.drawable.ic_clear else 0
            setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(0, 0, clearIcon, 0)
        }

        override fun beforeTextChanged(s: CharSequence?, start: Int, count: Int, after: Int) = Unit
        override fun onTextChanged(s: CharSequence?, start: Int, before: Int, count: Int) = Unit
    })

    setOnTouchListener(View.OnTouchListener { _, event ->
        if (event.action == MotionEvent.ACTION_UP) {
            if (event.rawX >= (this.right - this.compoundPaddingRight)) {
                this.setText("")
                return@OnTouchListener true
            }
        }
        return@OnTouchListener false
    })
}

And then use it as following in the onCreate method and you should be good to go-

yourEditText.setupClearButtonWithAction()

BTW, you have to add R.drawable.ic_clear or the clear icon at first. This one is from google- https://material.io/tools/icons/?icon=clear&style=baseline

How do I vertical center text next to an image in html/css?

Does "pure HTML/CSS" exclude the use of tables? Because they will easily do what you want:

<table>
    <tr>
        <td valign="top"><img src="myImage.jpg" alt="" /></td>
        <td valign="middle">This is my text!</td>
    </tr>
</table>

Flame me all you like, but that works (and works in old, janky browsers).

REST API Login Pattern

Principled Design of the Modern Web Architecture by Roy T. Fielding and Richard N. Taylor, i.e. sequence of works from all REST terminology came from, contains definition of client-server interaction:

All REST interactions are stateless. That is, each request contains all of the information necessary for a connector to understand the request, independent of any requests that may have preceded it.

This restriction accomplishes four functions, 1st and 3rd are important in this particular case:

  • 1st: it removes any need for the connectors to retain application state between requests, thus reducing consumption of physical resources and improving scalability;
  • 3rd: it allows an intermediary to view and understand a request in isolation, which may be necessary when services are dynamically rearranged;

And now lets go back to your security case. Every single request should contains all required information, and authorization/authentication is not an exception. How to achieve this? Literally send all required information over wires with every request.

One of examples how to archeive this is hash-based message authentication code or HMAC. In practice this means adding a hash code of current message to every request. Hash code calculated by cryptographic hash function in combination with a secret cryptographic key. Cryptographic hash function is either predefined or part of code-on-demand REST conception (for example JavaScript). Secret cryptographic key should be provided by server to client as resource, and client uses it to calculate hash code for every request.

There are a lot of examples of HMAC implementations, but I'd like you to pay attention to the following three:

How it works in practice

If client knows the secret key, then it's ready to operate with resources. Otherwise he will be temporarily redirected (status code 307 Temporary Redirect) to authorize and to get secret key, and then redirected back to the original resource. In this case there is no need to know beforehand (i.e. hardcode somewhere) what the URL to authorize the client is, and it possible to adjust this schema with time.

Hope this will helps you to find the proper solution!

Tracking CPU and Memory usage per process

WMI is Windows Management Instrumentation, and it's built into all recent versions of Windows. It allows you to programmatically track things like CPU usage, disk I/O, and memory usage.

Perfmon.exe is a GUI front-end to this interface, and can monitor a process, write information to a log, and allow you to analyze the log after the fact. It's not the world's most elegant program, but it does get the job done.

Unable to update the EntitySet - because it has a DefiningQuery and no <UpdateFunction> element exist

The error may have occurred if your table doesn't have a primary key, in this case the table is "read only", and the db.SaveChanges () command will always error.

Java File - Open A File And Write To It

To expand upon Mr. Eels comment, you can do it like this:

    File file = new File("C:\\A.txt");
    FileWriter writer;
    try {
        writer = new FileWriter(file, true);
        PrintWriter printer = new PrintWriter(writer);
        printer.append("Sue");
        printer.close();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

Don't say we ain't good to ya!

How to rename a file using svn?

It can be if you created new directory at the disk BEFORE create/commit it in the SVN. All that you need is just create it in SVN and do move after:

$ svn mv etc/nagios/hosts/us0101/cs/us0101ccs001.cfg etc/nagios/hosts/us0101/ccs/
svn: E155010: Path '/home/dyr/svn/nagioscore/etc/nagios/hosts/us0101/ccs' is not a directory

$ svn status
?       etc/nagios/hosts/us0101/ccs

$ rm -rvf etc/nagios/hosts/us0101/ccs
removed directory 'etc/nagios/hosts/us0101/ccs'

$ svn mkdir etc/nagios/hosts/us0101/ccs
A         etc/nagios/hosts/us0101/ccs

$ svn move etc/nagios/hosts/us0101/cs/us0101ccs001.cfg etc/nagios/hosts/us0101/ccs/us0101accs001.cfg
A         etc/nagios/hosts/us0101/ccs/us0101accs001.cfg
D         etc/nagios/hosts/us0101/cs/us0101ccs001.cfg

$ svn status
A       etc/nagios/hosts/us0101/ccs
A  +    etc/nagios/hosts/us0101/ccs/us0101accs001.cfg
        > moved from etc/nagios/hosts/us0101/cs/us0101ccs001.cfg
D       etc/nagios/hosts/us0101/cs/us0101ccs001.cfg
        > moved to etc/nagios/hosts/us0101/ccs/us0101accs001.cfg

Where is body in a nodejs http.get response?

The body is not fully stored as part of the response, the reason for this is because the body can contain a very large amount of data, if it was to be stored on the response object, the program's memory would be consumed quite fast.

Instead, Node.js uses a mechanism called Stream. This mechanism allows holding only a small part of the data and allows the programmer to decide if to fully consume it in memory or use each part of the data as its flowing.

There are multiple ways how to fully consume the data into memory, since HTTP Response is a readable stream, all readable methods are available on the res object

  1. listening to the "data" event and saving the chunks passed to the callback

    const chunks = []
    
    res.on("data", (chunk) => {
        chunks.push(chunk)
    });
    
    res.on("end", () => {
        const body = Buffer.concat(chunks);
    });
    

When using this approach you do not interfere with the behavior of the stream and you are only gathering the data as it is available to the application.

  1. using the "readble" event and calling res.read()

    const chunks = [];
    
    res.on("readable", () => {
       let chunk;
       while(null !== (chunk = res.read())){
           chunks.push(chunk)
       }
    });
    
    res.on("end", () => {
        const body = Buffer.concat(chunks);
    });
    

When going with this approach you are fully in charge of the stream flow and until res.read is called no more data will be passed into the stream.

  1. using an async iterator

    const chunks = [];
    
    for await (const chunk of readable) {
        chunks.push(chunk);
    } 
    
    const body = Buffer.concat(chunks);
    

This approach is similar to the "data" event approach. It will just simplify the scoping and allow the entire process to happen in the same scope.

While as described, it is possible to fully consume data from the response it is always important to keep in mind if it is actually necessary to do so. In many cases, it is possible to simply direct the data to its destination without fully saving it into memory.

Node.js read streams, including HTTP response, have a built-in method for doing this, this method is called pipe. The usage is quite simple, readStream.pipe(writeStream);.

for example:

If the final destination of your data is the file system, you can simply open a write stream to the file system and then pipe the data to ts destination.

const { createWriteStream } = require("fs");
const writeStream = createWriteStream("someFile");
res.pipe(writeStream);

Python: Assign Value if None Exists

I'm also coming from Ruby so I love the syntax foo ||= 7.

This is the closest thing I can find.

foo = foo if 'foo' in vars() else 7

I've seen people do this for a dict:

try:
    foo['bar']
except KeyError:
    foo['bar'] = 7

Upadate: However, I recently found this gem:

foo['bar'] = foo.get('bar', 7)

If you like that, then for a regular variable you could do something like this:

vars()['foo'] = vars().get('foo', 7)

python mpl_toolkits installation issue

if anyone has a problem on Mac, can try this

sudo pip install --upgrade matplotlib --ignore-installed six

regex match any single character (one character only)

Match any single character

  • Use the dot . character as a wildcard to match any single character.

Example regex: a.c

abc   // match
a c   // match
azc   // match
ac    // no match
abbc  // no match

Match any specific character in a set

  • Use square brackets [] to match any characters in a set.
  • Use \w to match any single alphanumeric character: 0-9, a-z, A-Z, and _ (underscore).
  • Use \d to match any single digit.
  • Use \s to match any single whitespace character.

Example 1 regex: a[bcd]c

abc   // match
acc   // match
adc   // match
ac    // no match
abbc  // no match

Example 2 regex: a[0-7]c

a0c   // match
a3c   // match
a7c   // match
a8c   // no match
ac    // no match
a55c  // no match

Match any character except ...

Use the hat in square brackets [^] to match any single character except for any of the characters that come after the hat ^.

Example regex: a[^abc]c

aac   // no match
abc   // no match
acc   // no match
a c   // match
azc   // match
ac    // no match
azzc  // no match

(Don't confuse the ^ here in [^] with its other usage as the start of line character: ^ = line start, $ = line end.)

Match any character optionally

Use the optional character ? after any character to specify zero or one occurrence of that character. Thus, you would use .? to match any single character optionally.

Example regex: a.?c

abc   // match
a c   // match
azc   // match
ac    // match
abbc  // no match

See also

Decode Base64 data in Java

Another late answer, but my benchmarking shows that Jetty's implementation of Base64 encoder is pretty fast. Not as fast as MiGBase64 but faster than iHarder Base64.

import org.eclipse.jetty.util.B64Code;

final String decoded = B64Code.decode(encoded, "UTF-8");

I also did some benchmarks:

      library     |    encode    |    decode   
------------------+--------------+-------------
 'MiGBase64'      |  10146001.00 |  6426446.00
 'Jetty B64Code'  |   8846191.00 |  3101361.75
 'iHarder Base64' |   3259590.50 |  2505280.00
 'Commons-Codec'  |    241318.04 |   255179.96

These are runs/sec so higher is better.

How to convert string to double with proper cultureinfo

You need to define a single locale that you will use for the data stored in the database, the invariant culture is there for exactly this purpose.

When you display convert to the native type and then format for the user's culture.

E.g. to display:

string fromDb = "123.56";
string display = double.Parse(fromDb, CultureInfo.InvariantCulture).ToString(userCulture);

to store:

string fromUser = "132,56";
double value;
// Probably want to use a more specific NumberStyles selection here.
if (!double.TryParse(fromUser, NumberStyles.Any, userCulture, out value)) {
  // Error...
}
string forDB = value.ToString(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

PS. It, almost, goes without saying that using a column with a datatype that matches the data would be even better (but sometimes legacy applies).

How to update large table with millions of rows in SQL Server?

  1. You should not be updating 10k rows in a set unless you are certain that the operation is getting Page Locks (due to multiple rows per page being part of the UPDATE operation). The issue is that Lock Escalation (from either Row or Page to Table locks) occurs at 5000 locks. So it is safest to keep it just below 5000, just in case the operation is using Row Locks.

  2. You should not be using SET ROWCOUNT to limit the number of rows that will be modified. There are two issues here:

    1. It has that been deprecated since SQL Server 2005 was released (11 years ago):

      Using SET ROWCOUNT will not affect DELETE, INSERT, and UPDATE statements in a future release of SQL Server. Avoid using SET ROWCOUNT with DELETE, INSERT, and UPDATE statements in new development work, and plan to modify applications that currently use it. For a similar behavior, use the TOP syntax

    2. It can affect more than just the statement you are dealing with:

      Setting the SET ROWCOUNT option causes most Transact-SQL statements to stop processing when they have been affected by the specified number of rows. This includes triggers. The ROWCOUNT option does not affect dynamic cursors, but it does limit the rowset of keyset and insensitive cursors. This option should be used with caution.

    Instead, use the TOP () clause.

  3. There is no purpose in having an explicit transaction here. It complicates the code and you have no handling for a ROLLBACK, which isn't even needed since each statement is its own transaction (i.e. auto-commit).

  4. Assuming you find a reason to keep the explicit transaction, then you do not have a TRY / CATCH structure. Please see my answer on DBA.StackExchange for a TRY / CATCH template that handles transactions:

    Are we required to handle Transaction in C# Code as well as in Store procedure

I suspect that the real WHERE clause is not being shown in the example code in the Question, so simply relying upon what has been shown, a better model would be:

DECLARE @Rows INT,
        @BatchSize INT; -- keep below 5000 to be safe

SET @BatchSize = 2000;

SET @Rows = @BatchSize; -- initialize just to enter the loop

BEGIN TRY    
  WHILE (@Rows = @BatchSize)
  BEGIN
      UPDATE TOP (@BatchSize) tab
      SET    tab.Value = 'abc1'
      FROM  TableName tab
      WHERE tab.Parameter1 = 'abc'
      AND   tab.Parameter2 = 123
      AND   tab.Value <> 'abc1' COLLATE Latin1_General_100_BIN2;
      -- Use a binary Collation (ending in _BIN2, not _BIN) to make sure
      -- that you don't skip differences that compare the same due to
      -- insensitivity of case, accent, etc, or linguistic equivalence.

      SET @Rows = @@ROWCOUNT;
  END;
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
  RAISERROR(stuff);
  RETURN;
END CATCH;

By testing @Rows against @BatchSize, you can avoid that final UPDATE query (in most cases) because the final set is typically some number of rows less than @BatchSize, in which case we know that there are no more to process (which is what you see in the output shown in your answer). Only in those cases where the final set of rows is equal to @BatchSize will this code run a final UPDATE affecting 0 rows.

I also added a condition to the WHERE clause to prevent rows that have already been updated from being updated again.

JVM option -Xss - What does it do exactly?

If I am not mistaken, this is what tells the JVM how much successive calls it will accept before issuing a StackOverflowError. Not something you wish to change generally.

What exactly is the meaning of an API?

Searches should include Wikipedia, which is surprisingly good for a number of programming concepts/terms such as Application Programming Interface:

What is an API?

An application programming interface (API) is a particular set of rules ('code') and specifications that software programs can follow to communicate with each other. It serves as an interface between different software programs and facilitates their interaction, similar to the way the user interface facilitates interaction between humans and computers.

How is it used?

The same way any set of rules are used.

When and where is it used?

Depends upon realm and API, naturally. Consider these:

  1. The x86 (IA-32) Instruction Set (very useful ;-)
  2. A BIOS interrupt call
  3. OpenGL which is often exposed as a C library
  4. Core Windows system calls: WinAPI
  5. The Classes and Methods in Ruby's core library
  6. The Document Object Model exposed by browsers to JavaScript
  7. Web services, such as those provided by Facebook's Graph API
  8. An implementation of a protocol such as JNI in Java

Happy coding.

nginx - client_max_body_size has no effect

Someone correct me if this is bad, but I like to lock everything down as much as possible, and if you've only got one target for uploads (as it usually the case), then just target your changes to that one file. This works for me on the Ubuntu nginx-extras mainline 1.7+ package:

location = /upload.php {
    client_max_body_size 102M;
    fastcgi_param PHP_VALUE "upload_max_filesize=102M \n post_max_size=102M";
    (...)
}

Correct way to work with vector of arrays

Every element of your vector is a float[4], so when you resize every element needs to default initialized from a float[4]. I take it you tried to initialize with an int value like 0?

Try:

static float zeros[4] = {0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0};
myvector.resize(newsize, zeros);

Jquery click not working with ipad

None of the upvoted solutions worked for me. Here's what eventually worked:

I moved the code which was in $(document).ready out, if it wasn't required in document ready. If it's mandatory to have it in document ready, then you move that critical code to jQuery(window).load().

What is the Java equivalent of PHP var_dump?

I think something similar you could do is to create a simple method which prints the object you want to see. Something like this:

public static void dd(Object obj) { System.out.println(obj); }

It's not the same like var_dump(), but you can get an general idea of it, without the need to go to your debugger IDE.

What do hjust and vjust do when making a plot using ggplot?

Probably the most definitive is Figure B.1(d) of the ggplot2 book, the appendices of which are available at http://ggplot2.org/book/appendices.pdf.

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However, it is not quite that simple. hjust and vjust as described there are how it works in geom_text and theme_text (sometimes). One way to think of it is to think of a box around the text, and where the reference point is in relation to that box, in units relative to the size of the box (and thus different for texts of different size). An hjust of 0.5 and a vjust of 0.5 center the box on the reference point. Reducing hjust moves the box right by an amount of the box width times 0.5-hjust. Thus when hjust=0, the left edge of the box is at the reference point. Increasing hjust moves the box left by an amount of the box width times hjust-0.5. When hjust=1, the box is moved half a box width left from centered, which puts the right edge on the reference point. If hjust=2, the right edge of the box is a box width left of the reference point (center is 2-0.5=1.5 box widths left of the reference point. For vertical, less is up and more is down. This is effectively what that Figure B.1(d) says, but it extrapolates beyond [0,1].

But, sometimes this doesn't work. For example

DF <- data.frame(x=c("a","b","cdefghijk","l"),y=1:4)
p <- ggplot(DF, aes(x,y)) + geom_point()

p + opts(axis.text.x=theme_text(vjust=0))
p + opts(axis.text.x=theme_text(vjust=1))
p + opts(axis.text.x=theme_text(vjust=2))

The three latter plots are identical. I don't know why that is. Also, if text is rotated, then it is more complicated. Consider

p + opts(axis.text.x=theme_text(hjust=0, angle=90))
p + opts(axis.text.x=theme_text(hjust=0.5 angle=90))
p + opts(axis.text.x=theme_text(hjust=1, angle=90))
p + opts(axis.text.x=theme_text(hjust=2, angle=90))

The first has the labels left justified (against the bottom), the second has them centered in some box so their centers line up, and the third has them right justified (so their right sides line up next to the axis). The last one, well, I can't explain in a coherent way. It has something to do with the size of the text, the size of the widest text, and I'm not sure what else.

How to execute 16-bit installer on 64-bit Win7?

You can't run 16-bit applications (or components) on 64-bit versions of Windows. That emulation layer no longer exists. The 64-bit versions already have to provide a compatibility layer for 32-bit applications.

Support for 16-bit had to be dropped eventually, even in a culture where backwards-compatibility is of sacred import. The transition to 64-bit seemed like as good a time as any. It's hard to imagine anyone out there in the wild that is still using 16-bit applications and seeking to upgrade to 64-bit OSes.

What would be the best way to get round this problem?

If the component itself is 16-bit, then using a virtual machine running a 32-bit version of Windows is your only real choice. Oracle's VirtualBox is free, and a perennial favorite.

If only the installer is 16-bit (and it installs a 32-bit component), then you might be able to use a program like 7-Zip to extract the contents of the installer and install them manually. Let's just say this "solution" is high-risk and you should have few, if any, expectations.

It's high time to upgrade away from 16-bit stuff, like Turbo C++ and Sheridan controls. I've yet to come across anything that the Sheridan controls can do that the built-in controls can't do and haven't been able to do since Windows 95.

How to set the text color of TextView in code?

You can use

holder.text.setTextColor(Color.rgb(200,0,0));

You can also specify what color you want with Transparency.

holder.text.setTextColor(Color.argb(0,200,0,0));

a for Alpha (Transparent) value r-red g-green b-blue

How to merge two sorted arrays into a sorted array?

You can use ternary operators for making the code a bit more compact

public static int[] mergeArrays(int[] a1, int[] a2) {
    int[] res = new int[a1.length + a2.length];
    int i = 0, j = 0;

    while (i < a1.length && j < a2.length) {
        res[i + j] = a1[i] < a2[j] ? a1[i++] : a2[j++];
    }

    while (i < a1.length) {
        res[i + j] = a1[i++];
    }

    while (j < a2.length) {
        res[i + j] = a2[j++];
    }

    return res;
}